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00:01:27.040 Just a few minutes ago. Hello, America.

00:01:56.620 A lawsuit was filed against the ATF.

00:02:02.160 We're going to give you the exclusive story with the man who just filed it.

00:02:07.020 This one, if you're a gun owner, absolutely affects you.

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00:04:01.300 All right, I want to bring in Sean Kroll.

00:04:03.460 He has just filed a lawsuit against the ATF about something that is really honestly going to affect all of us and all gun owners.

00:04:16.220 If they can get away with this, they will come and take away your gun, and it will happen faster than you think.

00:04:24.360 Now, he is currently a structural engineer.

00:04:27.040 He is a decorated Marine combat veteran.

00:04:29.500 He served the United States with distinction in Afghanistan, and he has a pistol with a 10 1⁄2-inch barrel and a stabilizing brace.

00:04:42.900 Well, that's a problem.

00:04:45.640 Why?

00:04:46.400 Because the ATF has changed their mind.

00:04:49.420 So he has just put together a lawsuit and just filed it just a few minutes ago.

00:04:56.840 We've been waiting for this to happen, and he joins us now from Wisconsin.

00:05:03.700 Sean, welcome.

00:05:06.300 Good morning, Glenn.

00:05:07.000 Thank you for having me.

00:05:08.200 Oh, man.

00:05:08.840 I thank you for coming on, but thank you for what you're doing.

00:05:12.240 This ATF ruling that they just changed and changed their mind, and I believe have no standing, have no way to actually do this legally.

00:05:24.240 If this isn't fought in the court and won, I think our Second Amendment rights are gone.

00:05:31.820 Do you believe that's hyperbole?

00:05:33.560 No, I'm inclined to agree.

00:05:37.560 You know, unfortunately, this is just another instance in a long list of arbitrary bans by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, to your point, many of which were at one point deemed acceptable to be purchased.

00:05:51.960 So I agree wholeheartedly.

00:05:54.260 Okay, so tell me about your lawsuit.

00:05:56.320 Why did you file it?

00:05:57.880 Why is it being filed in Wisconsin, and what does it say?

00:06:02.120 Yeah, so the reason for filing, in short, again, I believe this to be a massive overstep by the ATF, and I don't believe it to be a rightful or legal thing to be done.

00:06:18.180 I find it unfortunate that now, as a civilian, no longer an active service member of the United States, I still feel compelled to have to stand up for the rights of the people of this country.

00:06:29.060 And unfortunately, I'm doing so from a branch of government that has sworn to do the same.

00:06:35.640 Part of the lawsuit that we have actively, amongst myself and two other veterans, is just going against the ATF for this ruling.

00:06:44.380 We don't believe it to be valid.

00:06:46.120 We don't believe it to be a justified change in definition, and so we wish to change that.

00:06:52.320 Okay, now you're filing in Wisconsin.

00:06:54.540 Who is filing with you?

00:06:55.840 Who do you have representing you?

00:06:57.360 Yeah, so the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is the firm that I am working with.

00:07:04.760 Again, I have two other veterans.

00:07:06.920 One is a resident here of Wisconsin, Gabe Tauscher, and the third is a veteran in the state of Texas in Amarillo.

00:07:15.360 Okay, so if anybody doesn't know the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, they are very, very good and have a really good track record at things like this.

00:07:28.760 So this is kind of the, you know, the reason why I asked this, Sean, is Rosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seat.

00:07:37.980 She was just the best one to present to the world with the best chance of it sticking.

00:07:47.360 So I'm assuming that there's others that are doing this, but you are also, you and your fellow Marines or compatriots are selected as one of the best cases out there.

00:08:05.780 Would that be true?

00:08:07.000 Do you know?

00:08:07.340 Yeah, I certainly hope so.

00:08:11.480 You know, we pride ourselves on, you know, not only our service, but, you know, our continued service to our country in all aspects now, you know, after all of our actual contracts with the Department of Defense have now ended.

00:08:26.740 So, yeah, I would be inclined to agree.

00:08:28.380 Okay, so what are you arguing?

00:08:31.360 Because it's a pretty long filing.

00:08:37.660 It's 25 pages, and it covers a lot.

00:08:42.800 Yeah, so, again, you know, to keep it relatively short, we believe this ruling to be unconstitutional.

00:08:52.040 We believe it to be against what the ATF is within their bounds of being able to do.

00:08:56.620 You're effectively taking an estimated 10 to 40 million Americans that have purchased these braces, and you are making them felons overnight.

00:09:05.060 And by doing so, you are restricting their ability to not only have their gun rights, but to even participate in the voting experience as an American.

00:09:13.360 So, we stand to step in to hopefully stop or retract this change in definition so that we can, again, allow the people of this country to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

00:09:27.620 How do you feel about the chances there in Wisconsin?

00:09:30.520 So, I believe the suit is actually formally being filed in Amarillo, Texas.

00:09:39.520 Again, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is the one who is heading this up.

00:09:43.660 But there is a high likelihood that in Amarillo that this is likely to gain traction, to get support.

00:09:50.300 So, it is my understanding that that is the tactical choice there.

00:09:54.380 Perfect.

00:09:54.740 We are going and proceeding forward with that.

00:09:57.700 Okay.

00:09:58.060 I didn't know it was filed here in Texas.

00:10:00.120 That explains a lot.

00:10:02.080 Thank you.

00:10:02.520 That makes me feel much better.

00:10:04.140 Okay.

00:10:04.740 So, you are looking to overturn the stabilizing, but you're also, if I'm not mistaken, trying to make sure that this overreach doesn't happen in other categories beyond the stabilizing brace.

00:10:22.060 Correct?

00:10:22.340 Correct.

00:10:24.740 Yeah.

00:10:25.140 So, in general, obviously, we hope to set a precedent that, again, you can't unilaterally write law as the ATF.

00:10:35.840 And by changing the definition, they are trying to go around that and to do it by other means.

00:10:41.540 And so, what we are hoping to do is to, again, by stopping this piece of definition change, we hope to set a precedent to where this cannot happen for any other instance of any other type of item in the future.

00:10:55.420 So, explain what that means, because, I mean, this law has come out, and it is absolutely nowhere in the mainstream press.

00:11:05.420 And I think that's for a reason.

00:11:06.860 They're avoiding this because they know if people understand what this means, they will be, you know, filing themselves.

00:11:17.280 I mean, it would be, I think, it would be overwhelming the system with litigation because it does, just this one, put maybe up to 40 million Americans in prison.

00:11:29.580 And it forces you to turn over something that the ATF themselves said was legal when you bought it.

00:11:38.600 Now, they're changing with no grandfather law, and this could go all the way down to magazines.

00:11:46.980 This could go to, you know, they are talking about banning all semi-automatic weapons, which would mean that really only the cowboy gun is allowed.

00:12:01.420 Oh, and the Red Ryder BB gun, which will put an eye out.

00:12:05.860 Yeah, exactly.

00:12:06.620 And that is accurate, right?

00:12:08.660 Can you kind of go into where this leads if it's not overturned?

00:12:14.220 Yeah, so, you know, I think just recently within the last day or so, they're finding now that formally some of the triggers that are sold in the industry are now to be considered machine guns.

00:12:27.420 You know, the trigger assembly itself exclusively is a machine gun.

00:12:31.140 You know, you already have instances where a vertical grip that is perpendicular to the direction of the barrel is making something a felony to own versus if it's 15 degrees, it is then safe.

00:12:43.600 You know, you have a lot of these distinctions that kind of exist in ambiguity to where you could very unwittingly do something that is illegal and become a felon unbeknownst to your choices.

00:12:54.680 And so there is definitely an opportunity to expand this if it gets pushed through and it is successful to apply to quite literally any other aspect of the firearms history.

00:13:07.000 And if we don't turn our gun in or if we don't alert them with a picture and serial numbers and everything else, if we don't say, hey, I'm this citizen A and I have this gun and I bought it here.

00:13:23.800 Um, if, if, if this doesn't, isn't overturned, I'm automatically, if I own one of these guns, a felon and they can arrest me.

00:13:35.420 But the problem is that this is exactly the way they did it in Germany.

00:13:40.480 They'll say, turn in your guns.

00:13:42.400 But if you turn in your guns, um, then they have a register of everybody.

00:13:48.320 If it is overturned, anybody who's turned their guns in and turn all that information in, they now have a registry of that.

00:13:56.320 And you're not going to get your guns back if you overturn.

00:13:59.360 So a lot of people are stuck in this place.

00:14:02.520 Look, I don't want to be a felon, um, but I don't want to turn my gun in.

00:14:07.360 And I certainly don't trust the ATF to give them my information.

00:14:14.260 Yeah, absolutely.

00:14:15.180 And, you know, it's, it's worth mentioning that the current amount of NSA submissions per year handled by the ATF, they are oftentimes unable, given the manpower that they have, the resource allocated to, to process all of those in a given year.

00:14:32.600 I think the estimate is somewhere around 500,000 per year that are submitted.

00:14:36.420 They can't get to them now.

00:14:38.420 So if there is...

00:14:38.940 Okay, so wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:14:39.640 Explain that for people who don't understand.

00:14:41.480 For instance, if you have a legally owned automatic weapon, a machine gun, which is lawful, but they cost, because you can only buy them from the, you know, prior to what, 1980 or 1990.

00:14:55.440 Uh, so they cost an absolute fortune, uh, and drug dealers aren't buying them, uh, you know, over the counter.

00:15:03.140 So they cost a fortune and you have to go and apply for what is called a stamp and that vets you.

00:15:11.240 But to get that stamp takes over a year.

00:15:14.160 But in this case, they're saying you have to send all your information and apply for that stamp.

00:15:20.380 But this goes into effect in 120 days.

00:15:24.160 There's no way to process all of those stamps.

00:15:27.680 So what happens in between?

00:15:30.300 And they're playing cat and mouse on this.

00:15:33.740 They're being very coy on this, on what that means if you've applied and you don't have it yet.

00:15:40.040 Correct?

00:15:40.520 Yeah, you're absolutely correct.

00:15:41.680 So to apply for the free, uh, tax stamp is what the, one of the routes that you can do to be in compliance with this new, uh, change of definition.

00:15:52.480 You can submit for your firearm to be what's referred to as an SBR, a short barreled rifle.

00:15:58.300 Uh, the issue to your point, it oftentimes takes anywhere from nine to 18 months to get that process and to be given the authority to legally possess that item.

00:16:09.120 Now, in any other instance, you would do so through a dealer who will hold onto the item until that acceptance is granted to you and then issue that and transfer it over to you.

00:16:20.480 So in this circumstance that we are discussing this morning, you already have that in your possession.

00:16:26.220 So when you exceed that 120 day mark and you're, you have still another anywhere up to 15 months to go before they could potentially approve this.

00:16:36.660 You are, by your own admission, you are, by your own admission, from the fingerprints and the photos that you have submitted to the ATF in violation of what you can legally possess at that time.

00:16:47.720 So you are, at that point, immediately a felon.

00:16:51.520 All right.

00:16:51.960 So 120 days from the time of this law being posted, this law was not, had not been posted, um, on the registry as of early last week.

00:17:03.280 When did they post the law?

00:17:04.900 When did the 120 days go into action?

00:17:07.940 It is my understanding that that was this morning.

00:17:11.700 It was formally entered into the registry and therefore you would have 120 days as of this morning to be in compliance with this new change.

00:17:20.840 Okay.

00:17:21.640 Um, Sean, I hope to have you on again, um, real quick.

00:17:25.720 Do you think this is going to, the court will rule on this pretty quickly and hear the case?

00:17:31.040 I certainly hope so, uh, given the nature of these, they're usually long-winded arguments and battles.

00:17:39.980 But with that said, we have hope that, uh, the choice of Amarillo to be the state that we are filing suit in will have an effect and this will proceed and, uh, get some traction here.

00:17:51.680 Well, again, thank you, uh, again for, uh, filing this suit and, and coming on.

00:17:57.720 I really appreciate it.

00:17:58.940 I hope this story goes far and wide today because you need to understand 120 days from today.

00:18:06.840 If you own a, a pistol that has a, uh, a pistol grip, if you will, a pistol brace, you will be a felon in 120 days.

00:18:19.200 Uh, and none of the options are any good to deal with it.

00:18:24.020 Sean, thank you so much.

00:18:25.280 I appreciate it.

00:18:26.100 That, by the way, is Sean Kroll.

00:18:29.420 He is, uh, you, you can find all of this information at will-law.org.

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00:20:41.480 Hi.

00:20:41.980 Yeah.

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00:21:06.980 And so the city of Texas, I mean, sorry, the city of Dallas, at least, is at a total standstill today because it's just sheets of ice.

00:21:19.100 Yeah.

00:21:19.420 And it will be until, not until anyone does anything about it.

00:21:22.880 It's just until it goes above 32 degrees for the appropriate amount of time for all of this to melt.

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00:23:57.920 This is a don't miss a second of today's show.

00:24:02.480 Next hour will absolutely blow your mind on what is not coming, but what is already here.

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00:24:34.660 All right.

00:24:35.300 So there's a couple of things that I want to go over.

00:24:39.300 Remember, there's the fact that the lawsuit, which is this is great news, the lawsuit or the arrest, the DOJ on the pro-life activist.

00:24:55.260 You remember we had I can't remember his first name, Hoke.

00:24:59.520 Studio, you remember, he was the guy who Mark Hoke.

00:25:04.460 He was arrested, you know, early in the morning.

00:25:07.600 The FBI come.

00:25:08.860 They they pound on his door.

00:25:11.000 They take him away.

00:25:12.820 And it was it was for this trumped up charge because he's a pro-lifer and he's a pro-life activist.

00:25:19.520 And it went to court.

00:25:22.720 The jury just acquitted him of all charges and agreed that it was an obscene sess, an obscene show of excessive force.

00:25:37.660 So that is really good news.

00:25:40.020 There's also another piece of good news that Americans now in the latest poll show that they are now saying inflation is not the biggest problem.

00:25:53.400 Immigration is not the biggest problem.

00:25:55.440 The state of the economy is not our biggest problem, that it is President Biden and Congress, the leadership of our country, that is the biggest problem.

00:26:05.960 Thank God, hopefully, that continues.

00:26:09.840 And hopefully, I mean, Stu, I'd like you to look into actually all the nitty gritty numbers.

00:26:14.280 Maybe you can give us a look at this tomorrow on what this what the what people are actually saying, as they saying that, you know, is the left saying that it's President Biden and Congress.

00:26:24.920 And that's why we need even more authoritarianism.

00:26:27.920 Or are they realizing what Ronald Reagan said, the scariest words ever uttered is I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

00:26:38.620 And one more piece of one more piece of good news.

00:26:42.560 There is this.

00:26:45.320 This is all starting to come apart.

00:26:49.200 First of all, CNN had its worst ratings in nine years.

00:26:54.900 And I mean, when I talk bad ratings, they would have they would have fired us at headline news had we had ratings like this.

00:27:06.540 OK, when we were at headline news, we had ratings that were great for headline news, but horrific compared to everybody else.

00:27:20.280 Now, CNN is dead last.

00:27:23.620 There's nobody and I mean, almost nobody watching.

00:27:27.640 What was that number?

00:27:28.500 Stu, did you read that story today?

00:27:30.680 It was like 40,000 or what was it?

00:27:37.080 80,000 people.

00:27:39.200 80,000 people were watching during the day.

00:27:44.860 80,000 people.

00:27:47.880 That's that's I mean, you can't pay for the electricity in that building for that.

00:27:52.980 You can't pay the the you know, the rent.

00:27:56.500 You can't keep the lights on for that.

00:27:59.360 Now, CNN is saying, well, we're not sure the people inside are revolting.

00:28:05.260 And I stand to tell you here and now that's true.

00:28:08.400 The people are revolting.

00:28:10.360 I don't like many of them because they're so revolting.

00:28:13.440 But the people the people in at CNN are now starting to revolt and saying, see, this is what happens when you don't take a stand.

00:28:22.500 No, no, no.

00:28:22.860 This is what happens when you take a bizarre stand and you decouple it from truth.

00:28:30.880 The problem at CNN and many of these other places.

00:28:34.500 And it's all going to happen.

00:28:36.660 These these places are all going to burn to the ground.

00:28:40.720 And I mean that metaphorically.

00:28:43.100 But they they have so dishonored themselves.

00:28:48.780 They have lied and never apologized for the lie.

00:28:52.800 They've never said, oh, man, did we get that wrong?

00:28:56.060 OK, so that doesn't happen again.

00:28:57.780 Here's what we're going to do.

00:28:59.060 They've never done that.

00:29:00.740 So we should expect the same kind of reporting from all of these people.

00:29:06.800 And people aren't buying it anymore.

00:29:08.960 So that's more good news.

00:29:11.600 One more piece of good news.

00:29:15.620 Conservative groups are building an army of person of personnel to take over the government.

00:29:21.720 This is one of the best stories I've read.

00:29:23.660 This comes from the Daily Caller.

00:29:25.980 Conservative organizations are coming together to develop well-trained personnel and detailed policy agenda for the next presidential administration.

00:29:36.340 Thank God.

00:29:38.000 Project 2025, organized by the Heritage Foundation, is bringing together 45 conservative groups to develop policy and personnel for the next administration.

00:29:47.840 We have been how many times have we been asking for this?

00:29:50.360 This is exactly what the left has done.

00:29:52.860 They have pooled everybody together, and they come and they look at everything from every line in the Constitution, every line in all of the policies from the administration, because the administration is our government now.

00:30:09.820 We don't have a balance of power anymore.

00:30:12.200 The Senate and the House, everything is rubber-stamped with money.

00:30:16.080 There's no budget.

00:30:17.400 They don't control the purse strings, so they can't hold anything back and try to curtail anything.

00:30:23.420 And as we're seeing with the ATF, if the administration decides to just impose a new law, they're doing it.

00:30:31.180 So they spent four years during Trump looking at all of the levers that the administration has.

00:30:39.520 I hope to God that the conservatives are going in and looking at all of those levers and finding out ways to turn all of it off, because government is way out of control.

00:30:51.500 So that is really good news.

00:30:53.440 There's one other thing that I think is good news.

00:31:02.440 It looks as though now, according to the Daily Mail out of London, that Hunter Biden did help secure millions of dollars in funding for a U.S. contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research.

00:31:21.680 This one is kind of a big deal.

00:31:26.060 Do you remember the story that we told you that really you didn't hear?

00:31:29.760 If you were only reading the New York Times or watching CNN, MSNBC, you didn't hear this news.

00:31:37.640 This news was really nowhere.

00:31:39.720 If it was, it was reported for a day and gone.

00:31:42.060 When the Russians came in and were invading, the United States and Ukraine sent a team in to destroy all of these research labs. 0.62

00:31:55.400 They apparently, I hope, went in with flamethrowers and just burned the insides of these bio labs.

00:32:04.400 And we wondered at the time, gee, what were in those bio labs?

00:32:11.660 And we found out that they were actually funded and run with a partnership with an American group.

00:32:21.880 Does anybody have a problem with that so far?

00:32:26.940 So it's an American group.

00:32:28.540 And I believe that group, isn't it, Stu, wasn't it from San Francisco?

00:32:33.460 It was, I'm just looking for the name of it.

00:32:37.100 Bio, no, it's a metabiota.

00:32:40.260 Metabiota.

00:32:41.660 And it was in bed with the Defense Department.

00:32:45.180 But who put the deal together?

00:32:46.860 So here's what the Russians said yesterday.

00:32:51.360 And apparently, in doing some research, it is mostly true.

00:33:00.000 That's important.

00:33:00.980 It's kind of like the Princess Bride.

00:33:03.420 He's only mostly dead.

00:33:06.540 Mostly true is very different from true.

00:33:10.860 So let's look at what's true.

00:33:13.320 Russian government yesterday held a press conference.

00:33:15.620 They claimed that Hunter Biden helped finance a U.S. military bioweapons research program in Ukraine.

00:33:23.180 However, it was put together in a big propaganda ploy to justify why they went into Ukraine.

00:33:34.080 However, what you care about is the emails and correspondence that has been obtained by the Daily Mail

00:33:40.960 from Hunter Biden's own laptop that he abandoned shows that this is probably true.

00:33:49.640 The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota.

00:33:55.180 It's a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases.

00:34:01.900 They said, you know, I've never even heard of Wuhan.

00:34:07.900 I don't know what they're doing.

00:34:09.160 But here in Ukraine, why don't we set up all of these laboratories to test diseases to see what might cause a pandemic? 0.92

00:34:19.060 Oh, well, I know.

00:34:21.260 I know I want everybody's favorite crack addict to be involved in that.

00:34:25.740 I know I want the world's most corrupt government, Ukraine. 0.87

00:34:30.740 Absolutely, I trust them with all of the bioweapons and biolabs. 1.00

00:34:37.620 I feel I can sleep at night with that.

00:34:40.260 So what happened was he introduced Metabiota to allegedly some corrupt, you know, oligarchs in Russia with gas.

00:34:53.960 And I don't mean I mean, you know, with with with gas at Burisma.

00:35:00.000 And according to the emails, it was a, quote, science project involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.

00:35:09.220 So what what Hunter Biden did was he and his colleagues at Rosemont Seneca invested five hundred thousand dollars in Metabiota through their their technology partners.

00:35:24.380 They raised seven million, several million dollars of funding for the company from people like Goldman Sachs.

00:35:31.000 Now, I don't know about you, but I trust Goldman Sachs as well.

00:35:35.540 And when Goldman Sachs is looking at a company to invest in, when somebody like Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, who completely disconnected from his dad, has nothing to do with any of his dad stuff, even though his dad was in charge of Ukraine at the same time.

00:35:53.220 And when he walks in, I, as an investor, say, you know, this guy may have a problem with Russian hookers and and cocaine. 0.57

00:36:03.100 But does he have access to any of his father's memory?

00:36:07.880 I mean, I mean, this guy is a genius.

00:36:11.300 He doesn't speak Ukrainian.

00:36:13.620 He doesn't know anything about it.

00:36:15.380 He's on the board of Burisma, which he has no gas or oil experience.

00:36:20.080 And now he's shopping biotech.

00:36:23.600 As drug addicts go, I think he's pretty credible.

00:36:28.840 Your thoughts, too.

00:36:30.540 Well, I mean, it seems to me that anyone who has enough experience with altering body chemistry as Hunter Biden would be an expert in this field.

00:36:39.280 Yeah.

00:36:40.400 Is that there's no one else who's tried that many chemicals on himself.

00:36:43.560 So why wouldn't he be an expert?

00:36:44.940 And, you know, just down below, a little lower, you know, in his, you know, just past his zipper, probably is a bio lab in of sorts.

00:36:53.440 You know what I mean?

00:36:54.580 They've developed all sorts of new bioweapons from that general region. 0.89

00:37:00.360 So the reason why I bring this story up is all of these things are going to come out.

00:37:05.720 They're all going to come out.

00:37:07.920 The the mainstream press is no longer the gorilla in the room.

00:37:13.580 People like you, people like the Daily Mail now can get to you.

00:37:22.560 Glenn Greenwald is the gorilla, is the gorilla in the room.

00:37:27.700 These voices that you have empowered through subscription or just from reading, you now have empowered people who want to tell the truth.

00:37:37.160 So this stuff is coming out.

00:37:38.680 It's just going to be a race to the finish line.

00:37:41.100 Which one of us crossed the finish line first and win this?

00:37:46.640 And we will show you an asset that they are putting on the table today that is one that could change all of humanity and human life.

00:37:57.280 And I know that sounds like hyperbole, but give me 15 minutes and I'm going to tell you this story.

00:38:05.220 And I believe you will say the same thing.

00:38:08.860 That's coming up in just a minute.

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00:39:34.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:38.280 I was reading a story on Fox News about the Democrats that are probably in trouble in 2024.

00:39:48.420 The Democrats have to defend 23 out of 34 seats.

00:39:51.980 And they're saying that Joe Manchin in West Virginia, John Tester of Montana,

00:39:57.520 Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and even Kristen Cinnamon of Arizona are in, at best, toss-up seats right now.

00:40:06.120 Who are the ones that you marked as the Republicans that have to be defeated in 2024?

00:40:13.840 Can you give me just top three?

00:40:15.940 Well, actually, we should go through the whole list at some point, but I can give you number one off the top of my head.

00:40:20.520 By all measures, number one, Mitt Romney should be primary.

00:40:25.580 Yes, he should.

00:40:26.180 He's the least conservative.

00:40:27.820 And he is the least popular in his home state.

00:40:31.260 Really crucial.

00:40:31.880 He should be very beatable.

00:40:34.900 And we have a guy who's coming on, I think, tomorrow that is a guy that could actually beat the snot out of Mitt Romney, I think.

00:40:44.060 We'll tell you more about that.

00:40:45.920 Coming up.

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00:42:23.400 What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:42:36.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:42:45.220 Hello, America.

00:42:47.860 I'm going to tell you something in the next 20 minutes that hopefully will be a great example of why I have warned about the coming technology and how we need to brush up on our ethics

00:43:03.600 and be very, very informed and be very, very informed and guide these things and decide what we're willing to do and accept and what we're not willing to do and accept.

00:43:14.600 I'm going to share some technology with you that the World Economic Forum just had a conference on.

00:43:25.460 During their massive conference, they had some breakout sections and one was on new technology and your brainwaves.

00:43:36.320 Are you ready for brain transparency?

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00:45:53.240 All right.

00:45:54.540 Let me tell you something that's going on in the stock market right now.

00:45:58.960 The stock market, BuzzFeed, Inc.

00:46:03.280 is going through the roof right now.

00:46:05.920 There's a feeding frenzy for their stock.

00:46:10.100 People are very excited because BuzzFeed has said they're going to use OpenAI, ChatGPT, any of these things.

00:46:21.480 And they'll start having computers write stories.

00:46:25.460 So, you know, those people.

00:46:27.960 So, think of money.

00:46:30.200 Oh, isn't that great?

00:46:31.900 This is following Microsoft investing $10 billion in OpenAI, which is the maker of ChatGPT.

00:46:44.380 And BuzzFeed has announced OpenAI is open for business at BuzzFeed.

00:46:50.400 I will tell you that every show we do, everything that we do, is made by hand.

00:46:58.300 It is, we will not sell out.

00:47:01.460 I'm talking about the Glenn Beck program.

00:47:03.640 We will not sell out and have our shows written by machines.

00:47:10.320 We will do our own research and dig deep.

00:47:17.220 I'm not a technophobe.

00:47:19.420 I believe, you know, Google has been a good thing in research.

00:47:24.940 It's been a good thing.

00:47:26.240 So, I have no problem using devices, but I will not replace people with machines, AI.

00:47:34.460 Now, that's going to put anybody who does that, it's going to put them in the exact opposite position as BuzzFeed.

00:47:42.800 You'll have a harder time making money because you refuse to lose our humanity.

00:47:49.620 But I will go a step further.

00:47:53.440 I am not ready for what they are now calling brain transparency.

00:47:59.980 I want to play something to you that is hopefully eye-opening.

00:48:08.520 This is a clip, and we have the full 30-minute seminar on this.

00:48:13.200 This is just the first clip from the World Economic Forum.

00:48:17.200 There was a speech on technology, and it features a video that we'll have in here.

00:48:23.920 This video is like a little cartoon, and it shows how technology could monitor your brainwaves and make you more productive at work.

00:48:35.440 This is shocking enough, but what is said after is even more so.

00:48:41.560 Here's a clip, again, from the World Economic Forum.

00:48:45.340 Listen.

00:48:45.520 First off, a video.

00:48:46.760 It's going to make you see the future and understand a wonderful future where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love.

00:48:55.460 That's wonderful.

00:48:57.140 You're in the zone.

00:48:58.800 Even you can't believe how productive you've been.

00:49:01.800 Your memo is finished, your inbox is under control, and you're feeling sharper than you have in a decade.

00:49:08.940 Sensing your joy, your playlist shifts to your favorite song,

00:49:12.260 sending chills up your spine as the music begins to play.

00:49:16.300 You glance at the program running in the background on your computer screen and notice a now familiar sight that appears whenever you're overloaded with pleasure.

00:49:26.620 Your theta brainwave activity decreasing in the temporal regions of your brain.

00:49:31.360 You mentally move the cursor to the left and scroll through your brain data over the past few hours.

00:49:38.760 You can see your stress levels rising as the deadline to finish your memo approached, causing a peak in your beta brainwave activity right before an alert popped up telling you to take a brain break.

00:49:51.320 But what's that unusual change in your brain activity when you're asleep?

00:49:56.800 It started earlier in the month.

00:49:59.140 You send a text message to your doctor with a mental swipe of your cursor.

00:50:03.840 Could you take a quick look at my brain data?

00:50:06.600 Anything to worry about?

00:50:08.800 Your mind starts to wander to the new colleague on your team, whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about, given the policy against intra-office romance.

00:50:18.300 But you can't help fantasizing just a little.

00:50:21.860 But then you start to worry that your boss will notice your amorous feelings when she checks your brain activity and shift your attention back to the present.

00:50:31.920 You breathe a sigh of relief when the email she sends you later that day congratulates you on your brain metrics from the past quarter, which have earned you another performance bonus.

00:50:42.440 You head home, jamming to the music, with your work-issued brain-sensing earbuds still in.

00:50:49.960 When you arrive at work the next day, a somber cloud has fallen over the office.

00:50:55.880 Along with emails, text messages, and GPS location data, the government has subpoenaed employees' brainwave data from the past year.

00:51:05.100 They have compelling evidence that one of your co-workers has committed massive wire fraud.

00:51:11.860 Now, they're looking for his co-conspirators.

00:51:15.280 You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your co-worker and the people he has been working with.

00:51:22.880 While you know you're innocent of any crime, you've been secretly working with him on a new startup venture.

00:51:29.440 Shaking, you remove your earbuds.

00:51:31.360 Stop for a second, please.

00:51:34.900 Stop.

00:51:37.200 How many feel comfortable with this?

00:51:39.460 This, remember, was introduced as, you know, your future and showing you how exciting things can happen in your future.

00:51:50.880 You'll be able to increase your productivity.

00:51:52.740 We'll be able to fight crime.

00:51:54.260 You'll be able to find love.

00:51:57.220 Who's comfortable with just this?

00:52:01.900 Now, let me just play the beginning of one of the eggheads at the World Economic Forum talking about this.

00:52:08.940 Go ahead.

00:52:13.400 You have the rest?

00:52:14.660 What do you think?

00:52:15.200 Is it a future you're ready for?

00:52:16.540 You may be surprised to learn that it's a future that has already arrived.

00:52:24.780 Everything in that video that you just saw is based on technology that is already here today.

00:52:30.020 Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways that we never before thought possible.

00:52:38.680 You've heard a lot about AI over the past few years.

00:52:43.560 Here at Davos, it's been the talk of the hour.

00:52:47.400 But I want to talk about it in a different way, which is the ability to decode brainwave activity.

00:52:55.160 After all, what you think, what you feel, it's all just data.

00:53:00.060 Data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence.

00:53:05.840 Consider this.

00:53:07.620 The average person thinks thousands of thoughts each day.

00:53:10.420 As a thought takes form, like a math calculation, you're happy, you're tired, you're hungry, you're elated.

00:53:17.120 Neurons are firing in your brain, emitting tiny electrical discharges.

00:53:23.840 As a particular thought takes form, hundreds of thousands of neurons fire in characteristic patterns that can be decoded with EEG, or electroencephalography, and AI-powered devices.

00:53:35.760 In fact, what you're seeing here is my brain activity while I'm wearing a simple device like the one on the right.

00:53:41.780 We're not talking about implanted devices of the future.

00:53:45.340 Here, I'm talking about wearable devices that are like Fitbits for your brain.

00:53:51.140 It used to be that there was very little we could tell from EEG activity.

00:53:55.780 But already, using consumer wearable devices, these are headbands, hats that have sensors that can pick up your brainwave activity, earbuds, headphones, tiny tattoos that you can wear behind your ear.

00:54:10.620 We can pick up emotional states like are you happy or sad or angry.

00:54:15.340 We can pick up and decode faces that you're seeing in your mind.

00:54:20.680 Simple shapes, numbers, your pin number to your bank account.

00:54:25.780 It's not just your brain activity here that we can pick up.

00:54:31.280 We can also pick up your brain activity in different places like as your neurons fire from your brain down your arm and send signals to your hand to tell you how to type, move.

00:54:41.720 All of that can be decoded through electromyography, and that's what you're seeing here is a device now in the form of a simple wearable watch that can pick up that activity.

00:54:54.160 And in one of the pivotal acquisitions of the field, Meta acquired this company, Control Labs, in 2019, because major tech companies are investing and helping to make these devices universally applicable as the way in which we interact with the rest of our technology.

00:55:11.720 In fact, the coming future, we are we are there, gang, everything's to who you remember.

00:55:22.060 You remember the crazy days back in the 90s when I would talk about this stuff and it was really, truly science fiction.

00:55:30.480 It was science fiction.

00:55:31.960 It was a prediction from people like Ray Kurzweil of where we were headed in the very near future.

00:55:40.900 And when you said very near future, it seemed like it was a long way away.

00:55:46.500 You know, it was 2020, 2030.

00:55:48.660 This would begin to happen.

00:55:50.060 And I've been I've been telling you since 2016, I started to get very, very specific that our jobs are going to be in danger.

00:56:03.740 Our jobs are going to be in danger because things like A.I. will be able to take jobs away from people.

00:56:12.520 This is why when I've ever spoken of universal basic income, I have not dismissed it out of hand as un-American universal basic income, as it's been debated, has is wrong.

00:56:33.340 And I do not think it's an answer for anything.

00:56:36.100 I think it will only cause more problems.

00:56:37.860 However, what I have said is we have to discuss something because what's going to happen is these tech companies like Microsoft, Google and others, they will start to create things that take the jobs.

00:56:56.980 You won't be able to have a job.

00:56:59.580 And, you know, if you think that creative jobs, well, I have a creative job, but it will take your creative job.

00:57:09.520 It can already write and perform vocally and with instruments, any style of music.

00:57:19.200 And you have no idea you're listening to an algorithm.

00:57:23.000 No idea.

00:57:24.400 Humans are not involved.

00:57:26.440 Try Chap D.P.T.

00:57:28.880 Ask it anything.

00:57:31.340 And you can't tell that you're not in an interaction, really, with a machine.

00:57:39.300 It is so far beyond a Google search.

00:57:43.720 These things are going to impact everything.

00:57:46.320 For instance, Microsoft is now working on releasing, and I guess it's an app or a system, that you say, I want to develop a website, and you tell the AI, and it will develop it for you.

00:58:00.260 Already, images can be produced using AI.

00:58:08.000 You describe what you want to see, and it might, in 10 seconds, come up with 100 different images that could be photorealistic.

00:58:17.780 And 80 of them might suck, and 80 of them might suck, 10 of them might be eh, but five of them might be really good.

00:58:27.940 This is only going to get better and better and better and better.

00:58:31.580 So, now, what do we do?

00:58:34.260 Are you comfortable with your brainwaves being taken?

00:58:42.420 Remember, they just told you that they can get your PIN code.

00:58:51.940 Your PIN code.

00:58:55.720 It's not a bunch of useless data.

00:59:00.580 They can get down into everything.

00:59:04.400 Now, if you think this is, you know, something on the horizon that's not going to happen, you're sadly mistaken, because it is already being put to use in factories.

00:59:17.940 And I'll explain that to you coming up in 60 seconds.

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01:00:48.220 Okay, if you remember, and I don't know how many people do, there was a story out of China

01:01:07.380 where factories are starting to force their workers to wear hats.

01:01:16.600 And these hats have this wearable technology in it that this woman was just speaking about.

01:01:23.580 Now, this story came out two, maybe three years ago, and it monitors the brainwaves, and they can see who's paying attention and who's not.

01:01:33.620 It also can give them, like, a little electric shock if they happen to not be paying attention.

01:01:40.980 And it's a little freaky because the corporations know everything about these people.

01:01:49.540 And remember, the corporations are in a public-private partnership with the government.

01:01:55.200 When she says to this group at Davos, are you ready for, you know, wearable technology to scan brainwaves?

01:02:04.180 The crowd is kind of mixed.

01:02:06.140 You know, you're kind of like, no, not really.

01:02:08.780 But she's talking to the elite.

01:02:11.460 They're not going to be the ones in the office.

01:02:13.860 They're going to be the ones monitoring everybody's brainwaves.

01:02:17.220 This is why this is so dangerous to be discussed only with the elites.

01:02:23.660 They are deciding right now what kind of technology they will be using to keep us in line and to keep us productive.

01:02:35.020 And you're going to have a hard time getting a job if you don't want this technology.

01:02:41.240 These are the things that are right here, right now.

01:02:48.080 There's two things I want you to know.

01:02:49.740 I'm writing a new book.

01:02:51.040 In fact, it's just in final edit and going to the printer.

01:02:55.040 I'm writing a part two of The Great Reset where it covers a lot of technology.

01:03:00.580 And we're also going to be doing a documentary film, hopefully by the end of the year, on technology.

01:03:10.600 This is the thing that you have to be prepared for.

01:03:14.580 You have to understand what's coming.

01:03:17.860 And speaking of what's coming, the World Economic Forum also said a massive global cyber attack is coming within the next two years.

01:03:27.740 What does that mean to our life, our daily life?

01:03:32.980 Next.

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01:05:34.580 All right.

01:05:35.480 Let me talk a little bit about a book that I read years and years ago.

01:05:41.340 And I have recommended it to so many people.

01:05:45.520 I think it is truly, at this point, maybe one of the most important books that you can read to shake the dust off your brain and to make your brain a little more nimble and understand what we are truly.

01:06:08.060 If we have an attack on the United States and I want to talk to you about this because it is all about technology.

01:06:16.980 There was a book that was written years ago called One Second After.

01:06:21.820 It is such a powerful book.

01:06:25.620 Now there's, and I just found this out the other day, a couple weeks ago, there was a follow-up one year after and five years after is being written right now.

01:06:35.380 And it is also in development to be a, either a TV series or a miniseries.

01:06:41.020 If this was done like they did the day after, when I was growing up in the eighties, this would stun the American people as much as that did, if not more, because the death toll is off the charts.

01:07:00.860 One Second After revolves around an EMP, which shuts down everything.

01:07:08.560 It fries all electronics, and it's not an easy fix.

01:07:13.640 You don't fix it right away.

01:07:16.340 It goes on and on, and about 90% of the population will die within the first year.

01:07:25.120 I think it's 80 or 90, but the guy who knows is William Forsgen, who is with us now.

01:07:31.020 He is the author.

01:07:32.900 Bill, I don't know if we've ever talked to each other before, but I am a huge fan of your book.

01:07:38.460 Oh, good morning, Glenn.

01:07:40.040 You sound like you have a bit of a cold, actually.

01:07:43.020 Hey.

01:07:44.980 Yeah, we've been called several times right after the book comes out.

01:07:52.320 Okay, okay.

01:07:53.200 It's been a long time.

01:07:54.020 I'm just going to start reading one year after, and then five years after.

01:07:59.840 I wanted to talk to you, however, not about EMP, because you are one of the leading experts in not just EMP, but also cyber attacks.

01:08:12.260 And I'm very concerned that we are not paying any attention at all, not just as a government, but as people.

01:08:20.960 We have no idea what a war with Russia would at least start as a massive cyber attack.

01:08:30.520 Can you get into the details of how likely and what that would mean to the American people to have a major cyber attack on our electrical grid and our infrastructure?

01:08:41.680 Well, great question to start with.

01:08:45.680 So, case one, just within the last couple of months, maybe you recall, in Washington State and also twice in North Carolina, somebody shot up a substation.

01:08:58.760 All you need is a high-power rifle, shoot out the transformers, and about 100,000 people went without power.

01:09:06.400 Doing a cyber attack on a national level or an international level, you could call it an asymmetrical first strike.

01:09:16.660 In regular terms, that means if you can successfully initiate a cyber attack on the United States, you've essentially decapitated our command.

01:09:27.000 Our grid shuts down.

01:09:28.340 What do we do next?

01:09:32.740 And this is really akin, like in the 1940s, something that was not understood because World War I was the first time we used planes and they weren't the same at all.

01:09:45.600 It was the opening salvo, and we've seen this in Afghanistan and Iraq, is planes flying in and dropping bombs to disrupt the infrastructure.

01:09:57.000 You don't need to do that anymore, right?

01:10:00.560 Not at all.

01:10:01.460 You know, you and I grew up during the Cold War, the whole thing of mutually assured destruction, like in the movie The Day After.

01:10:10.420 They launched a bunch of missiles at us.

01:10:12.720 We launched a bunch of missiles at them.

01:10:15.520 Endgame, nobody wins.

01:10:17.780 An asymmetrical first strike is just to throw several weapons above the United States to do an EMP or even doing cyber.

01:10:27.000 It's a bunch of people sitting at councils over in Russia someplace, and they blow out key parts of our grid and shut it down. 1.00

01:10:35.600 We are extremely vulnerable to that.

01:10:39.200 Just last month, I was meeting with the South Carolina Energy Consortium.

01:10:44.740 These are all the executives for the whole power grid in South Carolina.

01:10:48.280 They told me repeatedly this was their number one concern, that we will undergo a cyber attack and we're blinded.

01:10:58.300 Because think about what isn't dependent on electricity.

01:11:04.520 That's where we come up with that year.

01:11:07.300 80 to 90 percent of Americans could very well die, you know, post major cyber attack or an EMP strike.

01:11:15.520 So when you look at a I know an EMP just fries everything, a cyber attack, we're used to seeing, you know, that come back online right away.

01:11:31.300 There's a problem.

01:11:32.240 But we're talking about possible cyber attack of our critical infrastructure.

01:11:37.240 How long would it take if it's done right?

01:11:42.100 I mean, how long does it take to get that back online?

01:11:46.500 Okay.

01:11:47.200 A DOE report from about five years ago indicated that the average component in our electrical system is up to 40 years old.

01:11:57.080 We're running a 1970s, 1980 electrical infrastructure.

01:12:03.120 Very vulnerable.

01:12:04.640 Now, take those huge transformers that you see occasionally on the highway, you know, these things as long as a trailer.

01:12:12.780 To replace one of those from the time you place an order where the electrical company says we need a new one until you stick it in and put it online takes up to two years.

01:12:23.400 And guess where they're manufactured?

01:12:24.660 Oh, my gosh.

01:12:26.740 China.

01:12:28.440 Yes.

01:12:29.620 You think so?

01:12:30.380 Okay.

01:12:30.780 So, wait.

01:12:31.540 So, wait.

01:12:34.000 Do you, when they do a cyber attack, can it destroy those or is it just destroy the software?

01:12:43.660 It destroys both software and potentially can destroy hardware as well.

01:12:48.960 It doesn't take much.

01:12:50.080 Oh, my gosh.

01:12:50.720 Oh, my gosh.

01:12:52.500 Yes.

01:12:53.120 It's terrifying.

01:12:54.420 Why do you think I'd stay up at two in the morning staring at the ceiling?

01:12:58.020 Oh.

01:12:58.260 It can.

01:12:59.260 I will tell you.

01:13:01.140 I will tell you.

01:13:02.400 I, you know, once you start to look into how vulnerable we really are.

01:13:07.420 I mean, it's like talking about the just-in-time, you know, supply chain.

01:13:14.940 It's great.

01:13:15.940 Yeah.

01:13:16.260 But you talk to somebody prior to COVID, you'd explain to them, no, you don't understand.

01:13:21.980 If there's a massive disruption, it's over, and you're not getting it back, and nobody would understand.

01:13:28.720 Now they're beginning to understand, but this is so much bigger.

01:13:33.660 Explain one of the things that you put in your book, One Second After, is the layout of how people die and why people die over a year.

01:13:47.300 And it's things you just don't think about.

01:13:50.820 Without electricity, you know, people who need insulin, it's over.

01:13:57.320 Can you go through some of those things?

01:14:00.640 Sure.

01:14:01.480 Okay.

01:14:01.880 Okay, let's, I call it a Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

01:14:04.880 Remember, we learned that in school, you know, that we need oxygen and food.

01:14:08.360 Yeah.

01:14:08.560 Okay, let's say the fundamental building block of our society is electricity.

01:14:14.780 We're not even really aware of it anymore.

01:14:17.700 Okay, here's how it would go.

01:14:19.500 Let's say we shut things down just for a month.

01:14:22.980 Day one, where are you going to get your water?

01:14:25.040 You know, in a major city, where are you going to get your water?

01:14:30.740 Simple drinking water.

01:14:32.360 It's going to be out within a day.

01:14:35.240 Medication.

01:14:36.320 And even if you have, I thought immediately, well, I have a well, but unless I have my own energy, that well's not working.

01:14:44.860 Exactly.

01:14:46.380 You start with water first.

01:14:49.860 Look at what happened in Sandy in New York, 2012.

01:14:53.740 Within a day, lines were around the block at McDonald's with people waving $100 bills.

01:15:01.940 I'll buy some burgers.

01:15:03.400 Sorry.

01:15:04.440 We can't take credit cards anymore.

01:15:07.140 And even then, we're out.

01:15:08.660 So water first, food and medication next.

01:15:12.720 Think of a nursing home that has been cut off for just three days with no medication.

01:15:18.540 The terrible suffering that will happen within a matter of days.

01:15:23.740 And then, of course, command and control.

01:15:26.380 Within how many days will the cities start descending into looking like Chicago 24-7?

01:15:33.620 It will just, it will just celebrate.

01:15:36.020 It's 72 hours is my guess is when it starts to get really bad all over the country.

01:15:41.240 All right, William, I'd love to have you come out and do a podcast with me because there is so much to discuss.

01:15:50.100 But I want to leave the audience with one thing.

01:15:53.740 Didn't Donald Trump commission a study on our infrastructure and then have to have them report and then fix these things?

01:16:05.720 Didn't that happen?

01:16:07.840 Well, you might have had to hit your delete button because I'm about to go Tourette's syndrome on this.

01:16:12.720 Yes.

01:16:13.680 Donald Trump.

01:16:15.620 A good friend.

01:16:16.580 Okay.

01:16:16.880 Very close friend of mine is Newt Gingrich.

01:16:18.740 We've done some books together.

01:16:20.320 Newt also says this is the number one concern.

01:16:22.760 About three months before the end of the Trump administration, Trump mandated all our major different federal agencies, DOE, DOD, Homeland Security, were to set out a blueprint of what we have to do.

01:16:38.820 They were to report to him about three months after they thought he would be reelected.

01:16:44.180 He was not.

01:16:45.520 Biden came in.

01:16:46.860 On day one, Biden dropped the whole thing.

01:16:50.500 So we're spending a trillion dollars on green energy.

01:16:53.560 We're not spending a dime on preparing our infrastructure for a possible stride.

01:16:58.840 Or even just to make it healthy.

01:17:01.680 So we'll have a lot of windmill.

01:17:03.200 We have.

01:17:05.160 Yeah.

01:17:07.000 But nothing to get it to your house.

01:17:09.080 The last thing is, on these power stations that you see sitting on the side of the road, and it's protected by chain link fences, we've already had some of them shot at.

01:17:24.020 And it's my understanding that if nine go down, it could bring down the entire grid.

01:17:31.440 Is that true?

01:17:33.280 Absolutely, yes.

01:17:34.520 Again, in that conversation with the Carolina Energy Consortium, they said nine to 12 key infrastructure nodes.

01:17:43.520 Take those out either from a direct physical attack, from terrorists, or even screwing them up with cyber issues.

01:17:52.120 You take those down, and then the whole grid will just start to cascade down.

01:17:56.620 One after another.

01:17:57.620 Relays going off.

01:17:58.840 Systems going off.

01:18:00.020 And then we're sitting in the dark, and we don't know what the heck to do next.

01:18:05.280 William Fortune, you need to read one second after if you haven't.

01:18:11.580 Read that book to get an understanding of what's coming.

01:18:14.780 That's an EMP.

01:18:16.120 But we are now looking at something.

01:18:18.460 We never even considered airplanes flying into buildings until we did.

01:18:23.960 Until we had to.

01:18:24.900 And this is much easier to pull off.

01:18:28.880 And the World Economic Forum is predicting that it will happen globally within the next two years.

01:18:35.740 William, thank you very much.

01:18:36.980 We will talk to you again.

01:18:38.500 And, again, you're invited for a podcast.

01:18:40.940 Our producers will reach out.

01:18:41.980 I hope you can do it.

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01:20:20.960 Well, I hope you're getting prepared.

01:20:22.820 I hope you have your party hats.

01:20:24.620 I hope your tree is going up right now because the White House is planning to end the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on, right around the corner, May 11th.

01:20:42.440 Just May 11th.

01:20:43.820 And you might say, you mean May 11th, 2020?

01:20:47.000 No.

01:20:47.720 No.

01:20:48.040 2021?

01:20:48.680 No.

01:20:49.000 No.

01:20:49.340 2022?

01:20:50.480 No.

01:20:50.940 We're going May 11th, 2023.

01:20:53.140 And I think it's just right on time.

01:20:56.440 Could it possibly be more timely for the Biden administration to nail this one?

01:21:02.720 Getting rid of this is just incredible.

01:21:05.580 Now, of course, this is going to affect all sorts of funding things.

01:21:08.580 And this is a big part of the reason why they've kept this in place the entire time.

01:21:12.900 You can speculate as to what the other reasons are.

01:21:15.760 But, yes, it is only a few months away.

01:21:19.000 And that's really going to be life-changing.

01:21:20.560 I know so many people are living their lives as if we're under a COVID pandemic emergency right now.

01:21:26.260 Every once in a while, you're out in a store.

01:21:28.020 You see someone with, like, nine masks on.

01:21:29.660 You're like, wow, there are still people really doing this.

01:21:32.780 But most of us have moved on to the place where we don't want to get sick.

01:21:36.320 We'd like to avoid it.

01:21:37.740 But that's not the real world right now.

01:21:40.360 This is not COVID emergency land.

01:21:41.900 And despite what the president says, he doesn't dictate these timelines.

01:21:47.020 The American people do.

01:21:48.020 And he's learned this over and over again.

01:21:50.240 888-727-BECK is our phone number.

01:21:53.440 Glenn is going to join us back here in just a second.

01:21:56.420 And Rand Paul is going to be here as well.

01:21:58.460 Someone who's fought very hard against the restrictions of COVID and so many other things.

01:22:01.960 We'll get to him next.

01:22:03.100 Actually, we're having so many technical difficulties today.

01:22:05.740 It's been a bizarre experience trying to do the show today.

01:22:09.600 And people, you know, it's easy to laugh at people in Texas and say,

01:22:17.100 hey, you guys aren't you guys the tough guys, the guys that are supposed to be able to get through everything, you know, the independent types.

01:22:23.240 And then, you know, an inch of ice hits the ground and we all shudder like we're the most Northeastern liberals you'll ever imagine.

01:22:30.740 So we'll get into that here.

01:22:32.700 And at least the Northeastern liberals will drive to work in the ice, but not here.

01:22:36.340 We'll come back here in just a second.

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01:23:00.740 We'll be right back here.

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01:23:40.180 It's the Glenn Beck Program live from Texas, a state that normally can get through some of the weather, but not right now.

01:23:50.020 The whole area is shut down.

01:23:51.860 It's a little cold and there's a little bit of ice outside.

01:23:54.700 So we're going to sit here and we're going to push our way through it here.

01:23:58.200 Glenn is having all sorts of technical difficulties.

01:24:00.280 He has his home.

01:24:00.880 I'm at my home right now as we push through and get you through what's going on in the world.

01:24:06.500 And I know you're at the edge of your seat.

01:24:08.260 We're right to the end of the COVID emergency.

01:24:11.080 Can you feel the excitement?

01:24:13.420 We'll get into that here on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:24:15.360 So I'm fascinated to see how all of this has played out because it hasn't played out the right way.

01:24:26.500 I think we can all kind of figure out that this should have gone another way about a hundred different times.

01:24:33.840 We all understand where we were in March, April, May of 2020.

01:24:40.600 We understand that it was an uncertain time at some level.

01:24:44.720 We saw really crazy stuff happening overseas.

01:24:47.980 People are being welded into their apartments in China, which is just slightly out of step with their normal lives. 0.95

01:24:54.240 Usually they're taking them and putting them, you know, minorities behind prison walls. 1.00

01:24:57.860 They decided instead to take their average citizens and weld them into their homes because they might have a virus. 0.70

01:25:05.220 And this virus, of course, there were times at the very beginning when you didn't know what it was and it was all over the news.

01:25:12.120 And people were being welded into apartments where you can understand people freaking out.

01:25:16.840 Maybe they made some wild decisions.

01:25:19.800 Maybe they reacted in a way they shouldn't have.

01:25:22.600 And that's something that I think we can all understand and at some level have some grace for.

01:25:28.940 But, you know, especially when it got to the point where a place like Italy, which is a little bit different than China,

01:25:35.020 has a little bit closer connection to maybe Western view of the world and freedoms.

01:25:41.120 And then, you know, all of a sudden they're shutting down Italy and it's a little bit weird.

01:25:44.720 And then you're watching an NBA game and they just, you know, decide not to play it with a full stadium and everyone cancels the games.

01:25:52.580 And South by Southwest gets canceled and the Final Four gets canceled.

01:25:57.320 I mean, it was a weird time, okay?

01:25:58.860 I get it.

01:25:59.980 We had a situation that was very, very strange.

01:26:03.920 And not one that I think most Americans were competent to just deal with on a day-to-day basis.

01:26:12.600 People, we weren't used to that.

01:26:15.380 We were told that this was over.

01:26:16.880 We were told that this wasn't going to happen.

01:26:19.060 Just like we've been told that inflation wasn't going to happen and that a housing collapse wasn't going to happen

01:26:23.620 and so many other things weren't going to happen.

01:26:25.620 And then they seem to happen over and over again.

01:26:30.040 The black swan event seems to be more white swan these days.

01:26:35.180 It's really common.

01:26:37.260 But that is kind of how we started this thing off.

01:26:41.060 And some of those early moments you could understand.

01:26:44.660 Obviously, President Trump was the president at the time.

01:26:47.600 And he, you know, look, kept Anthony Fauci employed his entire rest of his administration.

01:26:53.960 You know, there are plenty of questions.

01:26:55.480 I know President Trump was out criticizing Ron DeSantis about how he closed down his state for a while.

01:27:03.620 There were some GOP governors who didn't have any closings.

01:27:06.620 DeSantis had some, although they were minor on the scale of the country.

01:27:09.580 That's going to be a point of criticism from Trump to DeSantis.

01:27:13.300 I'm sure when DeSantis gets in this race, which I do think he will, he will be firing back on the other side of this

01:27:19.640 and talking about the times where Donald Trump fell down.

01:27:23.200 Maybe he was too restrictive.

01:27:24.420 I mean, you know, it's not that long ago that Donald Trump was criticizing Governor Kemp in Georgia for opening up too quickly, opening up too broadly.

01:27:36.420 That whole era is a mess.

01:27:40.020 And there's tons of stuff that needs to be revisited and looked at really carefully, mainly to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

01:27:48.240 And accountability is really important, of course, but even more important than that is to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

01:27:54.160 It's one of the reasons why we focus so much on these lawsuits that have wound their way through the courts.

01:28:01.940 Lawsuits where a church was shut down in the middle of the pandemic.

01:28:06.040 What weren't allowed to have people come and worship?

01:28:09.980 I mean, that is just straight out blatantly a First Amendment violation in my mind.

01:28:15.880 And the courts have generally sided with that.

01:28:17.900 But a lot of times what we have are situations where, you know, a state, a blue state puts on some crazy restriction.

01:28:25.380 And, you know, the time passes, they remove the restriction.

01:28:29.640 And then we don't go back and revisit it.

01:28:31.340 And we don't go back and look at these things and say, wait a minute, that was wrong.

01:28:36.640 And we need to get it, you know, through the courts to make sure that everybody knows it can't happen next time.

01:28:43.360 Because, look, a pandemic is something that is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

01:28:50.340 We had multiple other pandemics that have happened and hit us, not to the scale of COVID or, you know, 1918.

01:29:00.800 But, you know, once in 100 years isn't really the right summary of what we have.

01:29:05.940 We have much more travel now.

01:29:07.060 We have international travel.

01:29:08.120 We have people passing these things all around to each other.

01:29:11.480 Not to mention, we should point out, we still have labs across the world working on things like gain-of-function research.

01:29:20.340 That's still a thing.

01:29:22.740 You know, if you go back, you can see the timeline of this.

01:29:26.960 You know, it was something that health officials and scientists wanted to do.

01:29:33.740 And there's some reason to understand why you'd want to do it.

01:29:37.160 But it's just too risky.

01:29:38.420 So the Obama administration bans the funding of this, federal funding, back in, I think it was 2014, saying, wait a minute, this might be a little too risky.

01:29:47.720 We shouldn't do this.

01:29:48.540 And what's funny about that is they didn't ban the process.

01:29:53.420 There was no movement globally to ban the process.

01:29:57.120 There was no attention from Congress to actually pass a law to ban this process.

01:30:02.480 It was just like, hey, we won't fund this.

01:30:04.680 We won't send any of your tax dollars to this.

01:30:07.200 Important, sure.

01:30:08.740 But not the end of the game.

01:30:09.940 And then you have that winding through as the very end of the Obama administration, there was the inkling they were going to lift this ban.

01:30:19.740 It was actually lifted during the Trump administration.

01:30:23.360 And, you know, fast forward a couple of years, all of a sudden we got COVID.

01:30:26.140 Now, we don't know for sure where this came from.

01:30:28.040 We don't know for sure that it was a result of gain-of-function research.

01:30:31.580 But there's a lot, a lot of circumstantial evidence that would point in that direction, especially as it ties to these labs in Wuhan.

01:30:41.580 So we go through this whole process, and we still have gain-of-function research being done around the world.

01:30:50.540 This is not something that has been banned.

01:30:51.980 It wasn't, you'd think a rational reaction to this was like, okay, we don't even know for sure that gain-of-function research was the culprit here.

01:31:00.280 But there's obviously a pretty straight path to this being the culprit.

01:31:05.280 Let's just all say we take a breather on this, take a little break.

01:31:09.300 Like, well, some of the funding has dried up for it, but it's still going on in private institutions.

01:31:14.480 And certainly it's going on in places like China and Russia.

01:31:18.320 And so, and you're never going to be able to ban it there.

01:31:20.700 So we should expect another pandemic.

01:31:22.740 We should expect another one of these things to happen eventually.

01:31:25.360 And who knows, it could be a lot worse.

01:31:27.600 We do know, obviously, most overwhelming percentage of people who got COVID, even in the worst times, were able to survive it.

01:31:35.840 Unless you were in a high vulnerability group, that was, you know, a different situation for a lot of people.

01:31:41.280 But still, the overwhelming majority, in fact, you know, almost everybody was able to survive it.

01:31:46.900 They may have had negative effects.

01:31:48.100 They may know someone who was affected and did not make it through.

01:31:51.420 That's the story of a lot of people.

01:31:52.980 But the idea that we're not going to have another one of these things in our lifetimes, you know, look, it's probable that we will.

01:32:00.640 Well, maybe we'll be under control like SARS and MERS were, but there's been plenty of these things.

01:32:06.080 You remember the bird flu.

01:32:07.000 You remember the swine flu.

01:32:08.980 These things are breaking out and you never know when they're going to break like this.

01:32:11.940 The point is, we now have this experience where we went through COVID.

01:32:16.200 We were able to look at this and say, hey, we saw the reaction of the world.

01:32:22.740 It was not sane.

01:32:24.140 So let's solve this now so the future we have these guidelines.

01:32:29.900 I mean, that's essentially what the Constitution is.

01:32:32.780 The Constitution is basically a document that outlines what our founders felt.

01:32:39.540 And they said, hey, we've been trying this this way a bunch of years here.

01:32:43.820 And I know everyone loves the whole King thing.

01:32:45.740 That's been working out great for everybody.

01:32:47.480 But like we've decided we don't like that anymore.

01:32:51.080 And we know when a situation pops up, when there's going to be something that is challenging

01:32:58.600 for our country, we know what people's instincts are.

01:33:03.500 We know for generations and generations and generations what people do in these situations.

01:33:09.820 Number one, they look to some centralized authority to tell them what they need to do, what they

01:33:15.500 should do, what is demanded by the king or the dictator.

01:33:19.140 And secondarily, what people did for generations, centuries beforehand was to basically go along

01:33:26.020 with it.

01:33:26.760 They might not have liked it.

01:33:28.040 They may have at times revolted.

01:33:30.160 But generally speaking, what societies did was say, hey, I'm going along with us.

01:33:37.780 This is life.

01:33:39.740 The king tells us what to do.

01:33:41.400 We go along with it.

01:33:42.540 Well, we broke off from that pattern here in America.

01:33:44.780 And we said, hey, let's come up with a couple of documents, principles that are clear, that

01:33:51.800 are inalienable, that can guide our future response to every challenge that our society

01:34:00.960 can face.

01:34:03.220 Challenges like a pandemic.

01:34:05.540 And, you know, to me, quite clearly, one of the things that we say in that document

01:34:11.900 is you can't close down a church really for any reason.

01:34:15.500 If people, I mean, if they're murdering people out back, sure, you can, if they're violating

01:34:19.600 other rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

01:34:24.340 If they're violating the life thing, yeah, you can shut them down.

01:34:26.980 But generally speaking, if people want to go and they're not murdering people, sacrificing

01:34:33.580 them in the back room, you pretty much need to let them do what they need to do.

01:34:38.220 That's a really important fundamental principle.

01:34:40.840 And it was ignored during COVID.

01:34:42.960 Your freedom of movement, your freedom to earn a living, your freedom really of everything.

01:34:48.180 I mean, I'm sitting here in Texas where when a bit of water falls from the sky and it gathers

01:34:55.140 on the ground and then it gets cold below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, we call that ice.

01:35:01.820 And most societies in our country are like, okay, well, I'll drive a little slower.

01:35:07.140 Here in Texas, it shuts down.

01:35:09.380 It's like COVID-19 today.

01:35:10.740 It's like we're in March like 13th, 2020 here in Texas today.

01:35:15.140 Nobody goes out.

01:35:16.000 Nobody moves around.

01:35:16.840 I haven't seen one car pass by.

01:35:18.540 That's just not, we're not equipped for this.

01:35:21.960 We're not equipped for this life down here.

01:35:23.860 We have no sand trucks.

01:35:24.700 We have no salt trucks.

01:35:25.780 We got nothing.

01:35:26.620 So we just kind of all sit around and wait for God to turn the temperatures around.

01:35:31.300 That is what we do.

01:35:33.300 And he'll eventually do it.

01:35:35.200 It'll be a couple of days probably, but he'll do it.

01:35:38.120 Society though shuts down here right now.

01:35:40.420 And generally speaking, it's by choice.

01:35:43.080 But we can't get to a situation where we allow the central government to have this sort

01:35:49.340 of power.

01:35:49.780 And it's important to go through these lawsuits to reverse this.

01:35:53.080 The reason why I bring all this up is because the White House is now planning to end the

01:35:57.700 COVID-19 national emergency.

01:35:59.480 And if you think, wait a minute, we have a COVID-19 national emergency still?

01:36:05.040 Yes.

01:36:05.440 It's supposed to be ended on May 11th.

01:36:08.440 We'll see if that actually happens.

01:36:11.240 May 11th, 2023, by the way, is the date on that.

01:36:14.300 Not May 11th, 2020.

01:36:15.900 You know, I joke about Texas.

01:36:17.420 But on May 1st, 2020, I was out at a restaurant with my family committing the ultimate sin of

01:36:26.180 indoor dining.

01:36:29.240 The next day, my wife and I went out again to a restaurant on May 2nd, 2020.

01:36:34.120 And on May 3rd, 2020, my daughter and I went out to breakfast on an indoor dining in 2020.

01:36:39.700 And mainly it was because our house had become completely insane.

01:36:43.160 I mean, you know, six weeks of lockdown was more than my family was equipped for.

01:36:47.960 We're not very tough, as I say.

01:36:49.320 I'm not a native Texan, so I don't claim to be tough.

01:36:53.940 But the fact that this national emergency is still on, not on May 11th, 2020, but on May

01:36:59.820 11th, 2023, shows how out of control this can get.

01:37:04.040 And this is a story in Pennsylvania.

01:37:06.180 If you go back many years, there was a big flood.

01:37:08.940 I think it was the late 1800s.

01:37:11.700 And, you know, really destroyed a community.

01:37:13.580 They decided to put a very minimal temporary tax to make the rebuilding happen.

01:37:18.180 That way, it was the Jonestown floods.

01:37:20.620 And they put this tax in.

01:37:24.700 And they then extended it a little bit.

01:37:27.920 Then they kind of added a little bit.

01:37:29.940 And then they moved it over to the general fund.

01:37:31.980 And guess what?

01:37:32.780 If you live in Pennsylvania, guess what tax you're still paying today?

01:37:35.480 And in fact, it's been hiked several times since the initial flood tax.

01:37:40.420 It's still in effect today, over 100 years later, over 130 years later.

01:37:46.340 It's still in effect today.

01:37:48.140 This is what these governments do.

01:37:50.560 They will happily put together a national emergency because that gives them powers they didn't have

01:37:56.520 before.

01:37:57.320 And who doesn't want powers that you didn't have before?

01:38:00.140 That's what government wants.

01:38:01.400 This is all, despite the fact that we now are looking at the results of this emergency spending

01:38:09.860 and realizing so much of it was wasted.

01:38:12.280 And we knew this at the beginning.

01:38:13.340 This isn't a surprise.

01:38:14.820 We weren't sitting around saying, I think this time they're really going to nail it.

01:38:17.800 We all said this at the beginning.

01:38:19.680 I remember I did a show back in, I don't remember when it was, April 2020, saying like,

01:38:24.580 hey, guys, we're spending an awful lot of money on COVID.

01:38:26.680 Is this, shouldn't we stop doing this like immediately?

01:38:29.500 Isn't this wrong?

01:38:30.320 Shouldn't we stop?

01:38:31.240 That was like before the second batch of spending.

01:38:34.980 We've since had five or six more batches.

01:38:37.460 We've spent multiple trillions of dollars justified on this.

01:38:40.680 I think it's five or six trillion dollars we've spent on this, not to mention all of

01:38:44.260 the extenuating circumstances applied to Fed spending, which is out of control.

01:38:50.140 We're now learning that $5.4 billion in COVID aid may have gone to firms using suspect social

01:38:56.000 security numbers.

01:38:57.320 They're saying that this comes from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee or PRAC.

01:39:05.360 PRAC, yes, PRAC, PRAC offered the estimate in an alert issued to the Washington Post.

01:39:12.240 Republicans are holding their first hearing this week to study the roughly $5 trillion

01:39:16.780 in federal stimulus aid approved since spring 2020.

01:39:20.000 And, you know, if you're thinking to yourself, wait a minute, they haven't been looking at

01:39:22.620 this the whole time.

01:39:23.280 No, Republicans are going to come in now that they have power in the House and say, hey,

01:39:27.280 we're going to look at this spending.

01:39:28.480 Seems like $5 trillion.

01:39:30.080 There's probably some problems in there.

01:39:31.620 We should figure out who took advantage of the system.

01:39:35.660 And who didn't?

01:39:37.420 You know, there's some spending programs involved in the COVID situation where they just gave

01:39:41.920 out money without getting even the most basic paperwork from people.

01:39:46.360 People could apply for grants claiming they had lost money in their business or whatever.

01:39:51.820 And they didn't have to prove that they had a business.

01:39:56.320 This money went out and it was a full grant.

01:39:58.640 So when they realized later on, oh, these people didn't even have businesses, they didn't

01:40:02.180 even have a mechanism to claw it back from these people because the way the system was

01:40:07.220 set up was free cash for everybody.

01:40:09.500 Just ask for it.

01:40:10.700 Now, part of me thinks to myself, why didn't I know about this at the time?

01:40:13.940 I spent a lot of money on taxes and maybe I should have been out there like claiming

01:40:17.960 every single thing from the government.

01:40:19.520 Just been like, hey, I, my corn harvesting business is having troubles.

01:40:27.960 Can you send me $50,000 for my corn harvesting?

01:40:33.540 Because I need to harvest more corn.

01:40:36.380 Whatever it was, we should have maybe just, maybe this is the answer.

01:40:39.660 We just go get on board with this stuff.

01:40:41.200 We're going to go bankrupt anyway.

01:40:42.760 Our money's not going to be worth anything anyway.

01:40:44.440 Might as well grab it right now.

01:40:45.740 Now, the suspected wave of grift targeted two of the government's most generous emergency

01:40:51.140 initiatives, the Paycheck Protection Program, known as PPP, and the Economic Injury Disaster

01:40:56.140 Loan, dubbed EIDL.

01:40:58.440 So we've got, just if you're keeping track of the acronyms at home, PRAC, PPP, and EIDL.

01:41:05.740 EIDL is a good name for it.

01:41:07.040 It's E-I-D-L, but it mainly hit people who were doing anything.

01:41:11.420 So EIDL actually works relatively well.

01:41:13.660 So this is all started under the former president, managed under the Small Business Administration.

01:41:19.820 $1 trillion in loans and grants were supposedly aimed to help cash-strapped companies stay

01:41:25.120 afloat during all of this crisis.

01:41:28.080 But the money also served as a wellspring for criminal activity.

01:41:30.640 This is a shock to me.

01:41:32.660 Malicious actors took advantage of the SBA and its poor oversight to bilk Washington out 1.00

01:41:38.200 of seemingly massive sums.

01:41:39.860 In the latest example, PRAC found that the SBA, now we're up to the SBA as well, so

01:41:44.240 we've got SBA, PRAC, PPP, and EIDL.

01:41:49.080 In the latest example, PRAC found that the SBA failed to prevent a wave of applications

01:41:54.440 from collecting federal money using suspect social security numbers.

01:41:58.560 And that's not all.

01:41:59.980 Because you think to yourself, okay, well, we spent these trillions of dollars.

01:42:02.500 At least people were helped.

01:42:05.680 At least everyone, you know, got to live in their houses and keep their, you know, some

01:42:11.380 level of their lifestyle.

01:42:12.800 Of course, we're also finding out that utilities shut off power to nearly 6 million people during

01:42:20.960 the pandemic.

01:42:21.520 So we spent trillions and trillions of dollars, and a lot of that money went to people who

01:42:27.940 didn't deserve it at all, who gave false information to the government.

01:42:31.820 In addition to that, millions of people had their utilities shut off.

01:42:36.560 Like, we couldn't get the money to the right places over and over again, both on the grift

01:42:45.040 side and on the people who really needed it side.

01:42:47.620 This is, of course, why government is terrible at this stuff and should just never even attempt

01:42:52.240 it.

01:42:53.020 There's some argument for very early spending in the pandemic.

01:42:55.840 We all know that.

01:42:56.840 However, they're talking about 86% of these shutoffs coming from just 12 companies from

01:43:01.620 October, or from 2022, October 2022.

01:43:04.720 And these companies are now going to become the villain when, look, they may very well be

01:43:09.240 villainous.

01:43:09.700 We'll have to look into that.

01:43:10.420 And hopefully the Republicans are going to do that.

01:43:12.380 But we have to also understand that every single time the government tries this crap, this

01:43:16.360 is the result.

01:43:17.200 This is what happens every single time.

01:43:20.680 This is how this all works.

01:43:23.740 This is how society works.

01:43:25.760 When you fund a centralized authority filled with people, unafraid of losing their jobs

01:43:32.000 for performance reasons, unafraid of what could happen to them.

01:43:35.640 They're not running for election next time.

01:43:38.040 These are people who, you know, many of them do their best.

01:43:41.100 There's a lot of good people working in government, of course.

01:43:42.940 But the incentive structure is not set up to make this work well.

01:43:49.480 And, you know, when you fund trillions of dollars in spending, if it's even if it's military

01:43:53.620 spending, if it's spending on a pandemic program like this, you have to expect massive amounts

01:44:00.180 of fraud, massive amounts of incompetence, massive amounts of problems in every single

01:44:07.380 direction.

01:44:07.780 People who should be helped that won't be people who shouldn't be helped that will be.

01:44:13.240 It's just a cataclysm, a nonstop catastrophe.

01:44:17.420 And it's wondering why we keep trying it over and over again.

01:44:20.100 Several of America's largest banks are teaming up to create a digital wallet to compete with

01:44:25.740 Apple Pay.

01:44:27.020 You should look at them and use that as your early warning.

01:44:30.800 The project involves Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, each fined billions

01:44:36.100 of dollars a year for allegedly ripping consumers off.

01:44:39.040 They're testing digital wallets, but they already own companies that provide these services.

01:44:43.580 So why would they need to create another one, a new digital wallet, when those products

01:44:47.820 already exist?

01:44:49.080 Or maybe it's just further control of the flow of your money and to digitize the U.S.

01:44:53.520 dollar.

01:44:53.840 Maybe they don't want to be counted out and have all banking done by the Fed.

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01:45:37.040 Welcome back to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:45:51.060 It's Stu in for Glenn, who's, I don't know, his house is surrounded by ice now.

01:45:57.180 I think he's iced in.

01:45:58.720 No internet can get in or out.

01:46:00.220 If you remember the movie, Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, where eventually

01:46:05.760 the spiders started attacking the house and they enveloped the entire home in a giant web.

01:46:11.640 That's pretty much what happened except with ice.

01:46:14.220 And that's what Glenn is dealing with right now.

01:46:16.100 So I'm going to take you here to the end of the program.

01:46:17.780 888-727-BECK is the phone number.

01:46:19.960 And I was going through, as I was home yesterday, and we're going to be home for a couple days

01:46:24.500 it looks like here in Texas with their weather issues, I was going through an old computer

01:46:30.180 trying to, you know, clean it all up and get it ready so the kids could use it for school

01:46:34.660 stuff.

01:46:35.660 And I came across a graphic from 2016 that I had saved on the desktop.

01:46:41.900 And it was this graphic, I think it was from like 538.

01:46:44.260 And it was a, it looked like basically five circles set up like the Olympic rings, kind

01:46:53.180 of layered over each other.

01:46:54.600 And each one was labeled something different.

01:46:56.780 It was like, you know, moderate, America first, libertarian, socially conservative.

01:47:05.080 I don't remember what all five categories were, but they were all five ways to break apart

01:47:08.860 Republican thought and right-leaning thought.

01:47:12.860 And then they had plotted all, I don't know, 20 candidates running in 2016 for this nomination.

01:47:24.440 And, you know, you've got Trump is on there and, you know, you remember the Trump and Cruz

01:47:28.820 and who's the guy, Kasich from Ohio.

01:47:32.100 And you had kind of some of the people who wound up at the end.

01:47:35.580 And then you have a bunch of people you can't even remember that these people actually run

01:47:39.340 campaigns.

01:47:39.880 Like, I don't even remember this.

01:47:41.080 And what struck me about this is there's a new sort of analysis about looking toward

01:47:45.980 2024, where they're starting to think that 2024 might wind up shaping up more like the

01:47:52.920 2000 Republican primary, where you had George W. Bush and John McCain, a few other people

01:48:02.020 who were in there representing different, you know, factions.

01:48:05.040 You had the Steve Forbes, for example, who ran and kind of was running basically a main

01:48:09.900 one-issue campaign on the flat tax.

01:48:12.480 You had other people in the race, but generally speaking, it was a two-person race.

01:48:16.960 It was ended pretty quickly.

01:48:18.540 I believe, if my memory serves, Bush or McCain won every state in that primary.

01:48:25.240 And of course, George W. Bush wound up winning it, going on to serve two terms.

01:48:28.620 The landscape right now, at least this is how a lot of analysts are looking at this, they're

01:48:35.040 saying, hey, this looks like the same type of thing.

01:48:37.300 You'll have Trump, you'll have DeSantis, and then you'll have some other people who jump

01:48:41.900 in the race running for their little factions, but don't really have a chance of winning.

01:48:45.720 We'll see if that's how this plans out.

01:48:47.640 You can see how this is playing out because of how the DeSantis derangement syndrome is

01:48:55.120 now rising to the top of the media, along with, of course, the healthy scoop that you'd

01:49:00.960 expect of the Trump derangement syndrome that will never go away.

01:49:05.280 The DeSantis derangement syndrome is now in effect as well.

01:49:09.460 And it serves, it kind of pops his head up in a bunch of different ways.

01:49:13.020 Because you, of course, just get the typical, actually, Trump was bad, but DeSantis will

01:49:19.540 be worse type of analysis, which, you know, is just, I mean, not only does it disregard

01:49:24.680 everything they said about Trump, where they said he was this unique threat for, you know,

01:49:28.620 five years, but also is just like, not really based on anything.

01:49:32.680 It's more vibes, right?

01:49:33.860 They just don't like him now because they think he might win.

01:49:36.640 So they have to say he's really bad.

01:49:38.660 And they have to convince people who might, you know, because there's that dangerous middle

01:49:42.440 for Democrats right now and the media, where they look at, and this is not necessarily

01:49:47.820 how it's going to play out, but this is how they are predicting it may play out.

01:49:52.100 They're saying, hey, Donald Trump, obviously a unique personality.

01:49:55.960 And there was a good chunk of people who would consider voting for Republicans who just didn't

01:50:00.600 like Donald Trump and wouldn't vote for him.

01:50:03.240 Say what you want about that mindset.

01:50:05.020 But it certainly does exist.

01:50:06.560 It showed up most prominently among suburban women in the polls. 1.00

01:50:13.560 But could Ron DeSantis solve that problem?

01:50:17.160 Or on the other, on the way the media looks at this, could Ron DeSantis make that problem

01:50:23.000 worse for us?

01:50:24.520 We were counting on suburban women for the rest of our lives. 1.00

01:50:28.360 And now what if they like Ron DeSantis?

01:50:30.200 That will be terrible.

01:50:31.500 That's certainly the way they're looking at it.

01:50:32.880 And I think it's also manifested in the way they're covering a lot of his policies, DeSantis'

01:50:38.240 policies in Florida.

01:50:40.080 For example, this whole education debacle that's going on.

01:50:43.600 I had Stanley Kurtz on last night.

01:50:45.660 He's from National Review.

01:50:47.400 He really broke this story back in September of this course that was in Florida or proposed

01:50:56.540 to go through Florida, where it was supposed to be about teaching about African-American

01:51:03.240 studies.

01:51:04.340 You know, you're going to study the history of the African-American, the United States.

01:51:07.280 Who wouldn't want that? 0.71

01:51:08.040 You want to study slavery?

01:51:08.940 Absolutely.

01:51:09.700 You want to study racism?

01:51:11.460 Absolutely.

01:51:12.140 Those things should be studied.

01:51:13.540 But what shouldn't be studied is, you know, crazy critical race theory, you know, socialist

01:51:18.640 principles dressed up as African-American studies.

01:51:24.000 And even to the point, as Ron DeSantis pointed out the other day, what we're seeing, he said,

01:51:30.320 quote, there's a course on black history.

01:51:32.340 And what are the one of the lessons about queer theory?

01:51:36.380 Now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? 0.97

01:51:39.960 And he went on to explain that this is actually in the course.

01:51:42.660 Stanley Kurtz got this back in September and actually saw this in here and tried to expose

01:51:46.300 it.

01:51:46.880 Didn't get much of attention, much attention back then.

01:51:49.380 Eventually, this has come out and finally, it has been fully, you know, pushed back now

01:51:54.940 by the DeSantis administration.

01:51:56.960 And of course, this is one of the things you have to deal with if you're on the left.

01:51:59.660 This is unfortunate if you're on the left.

01:52:01.660 It ruins your little plan if you're on the left.

01:52:04.160 But if you want government schools, which I personally don't want, I don't want them

01:52:08.960 at all.

01:52:09.840 I don't think we should have.

01:52:10.740 I prefer a world in which everyone had a private education.

01:52:16.300 That is my world.

01:52:17.800 I understand that I'm not in the majority on that.

01:52:20.420 I don't want public school at all.

01:52:22.640 But you know who does?

01:52:23.640 The left.

01:52:24.420 The left really wants public school.

01:52:25.940 And here's what happens when you have a public school.

01:52:27.860 The people in charge of the at the government level get to decide how those schools operate.

01:52:33.960 That's why I oppose it.

01:52:35.280 It's one of the things I don't like about public school.

01:52:37.580 That's one of the things the left loves about it when their people are in power.

01:52:42.500 And for so long, they have had this wonderful game they've been able to play on everybody.

01:52:49.900 And this, you know, Republicans are big players in this as well.

01:52:53.500 They've decided, well, sure, government schools are going to exist.

01:53:00.600 And we're going to embrace that as people on the right.

01:53:03.540 This has been the argument.

01:53:04.420 But when government is in charge of deciding what goes on at these schools, we're going to just abdicate that responsibility.

01:53:12.540 We're not going with the trustees of these schools, the high level people.

01:53:15.320 We're just going to name our buddies.

01:53:16.360 We're going to name our donors.

01:53:17.360 We're going to put people in there without expertise.

01:53:19.580 And we're not really going to push back against what happens in these schools at all, despite the fact that it's our responsibility to deal with them.

01:53:27.480 So, now, Ron DeSantis is saying, hey, wait a minute, you know what we should do?

01:53:33.560 We have control of this government.

01:53:34.860 We were elected, in his case, by almost 20 points.

01:53:38.240 We should do something about this.

01:53:40.180 And so he is.

01:53:41.000 Now, there's a thread that's gone around, gone wildly viral on the left from a guy, I don't know how to pronounce his name, Judd Lagume.

01:53:50.040 We'll call him Judd Lagume.

01:53:51.840 But he's a, you know, big left.

01:53:53.400 He got a big presence on Twitter.

01:53:54.780 And he got over 20,000 likes on this tweet thread talking about education policy in Florida.

01:54:01.320 And, you know, he says, Florida teachers are being held, told to remove all books from their classroom libraries or face felony prosecution.

01:54:10.900 What?

01:54:11.660 The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to groom students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

01:54:18.880 And he posts a clip of the statutory changes and highlights a few words.

01:54:24.800 He underlines classroom libraries, commits a felony of the third degree, and we are seeking volunteers to assist with vetting and compiling a website.

01:54:35.740 That is all in there.

01:54:36.680 What he doesn't, of course, underline is the fact that what he's saying is all material in school and classroom libraries must be included, that are included on the reading list, must be, quote, free of pornography and material prohibited under this particular statute.

01:54:56.300 Now, free of pornography, I mean, I'm not an Olympic-level hurdler, but I feel like freeing your classroom library of pornography is a low hurdle to clear.

01:55:10.020 This is something that we as a society should be able to accomplish.

01:55:13.560 And, you know, if you're on the fence on something, I don't know, is this hardcore porn?

01:55:17.720 Is it not?

01:55:19.020 Maybe keep it out of the classrooms, right?

01:55:21.200 Like, maybe let mommy and daddy make that decision at home.

01:55:25.360 Well, maybe that's not even the right decision, but it's certainly the low hurdle to clear is to keep it out of classrooms.

01:55:31.940 He goes on to talk about these separate laws that he, I think, mistook to think were one law working together.

01:55:39.820 It's hard to understand how his analysis kind of goes awry here.

01:55:42.700 Um, but he says the don't say gay bill prohibits all instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in K3 classrooms and instruction in other grades that is not appropriate or developmentally appropriate.

01:55:55.760 But the law applies to classroom instruction, not library books.

01:56:00.280 The Stop Woke Act is also limited to classroom instruction.

01:56:04.000 The teacher training approved by the federal, uh, excuse me, the Florida Department of Education does not inform librarians that don't say gay and Stop Woke do not apply to library books.

01:56:12.280 And he goes on to say that it's not going, like, the big controversy on the left is that teachers can now not determine for their students what books should be in these libraries.

01:56:21.960 Instead, it's not Ron DeSantis who makes the decision, but librarians will make the decision.

01:56:27.120 So now the left is vilifying librarians, uh, instead, over teachers.

01:56:32.280 It's hard to understand.

01:56:33.260 Um, he goes on to try to explain it incorrectly, but I wanted to kind of walk you through what the Stop Woke Act, for example, does, because I don't think people even know this.

01:56:43.260 There's eight steps to it.

01:56:44.120 Let's go through it real quickly.

01:56:45.080 So you know what's actually in it.

01:56:46.620 You might say, oh, well, I know that Ron DeSantis is not trying to stop people from understanding black history or slavery because, you know, he's not the Nazi they try to make him out to be.

01:56:55.640 And that's true.

01:56:56.640 But understand what is in here.

01:56:58.300 First of all, it, it forces, uh, uh, schools to teach things like slavery.

01:57:06.340 It actually requires them to do that.

01:57:08.800 That's an important part of what happens in Florida schools.

01:57:12.160 And, and of course, you know, I went to school.

01:57:14.080 I remember learning about this.

01:57:15.260 I went to public school, unfortunately.

01:57:17.120 You probably can tell that by listening to the program every day.

01:57:20.000 But here's the, uh, here, what, here is what is banned on the Stop Woke Act.

01:57:23.900 In fact, members of one race, color, sex, or national origin are morally superior to members of another race, color, sex, or national origin. 0.98

01:57:33.040 You can't teach that because of the Stop Woke Act.

01:57:35.340 You can't say white people are superior to black people.

01:57:38.140 You also can't say black people are morally superior to white people.

01:57:41.200 You can't do it.

01:57:42.240 You can't say men are morally superior to women.

01:57:45.120 You can't say Catholics are morally superior to Protestants.

01:57:48.180 You can't say any of that.

01:57:49.200 Next up, you have, uh, an individual by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.

01:58:00.980 You can't say all white people are racist.

01:58:02.960 You can't say all black people are racist.

01:58:04.860 You know, here's a nice handy tip.

01:58:06.360 You can't assign negative characteristics to people based on skin color.

01:58:11.060 You can't be, to state it another way, racist.

01:58:14.760 You can't teach racism as doctrine.

01:58:19.200 That shouldn't be controversial in this country.

01:58:21.340 And you know what?

01:58:21.840 It isn't controversial to people in Florida.

01:58:23.920 It isn't controversial to people across the country.

01:58:26.100 It isn't controversial to parents.

01:58:27.800 This is only controversial to the minds of people on Twitter and people in the media.

01:58:33.320 What else is prevented by the Stop Woke Act?

01:58:35.200 An individual's moral character or status is either privileged or oppressed by, and is necessarily determined by his race, colors, sex, or national origin.

01:58:43.940 So you can't say, okay, well, because I happen to be white, I'm an oppressor.

01:58:47.940 Because you happen to be black, you're oppressed.

01:58:49.940 You can't teach that as doctrine or the other way around.

01:58:52.860 You also can't teach members of one race, color, sex, or national origin cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race, color, national origin, or sex.

01:59:01.700 An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, bears responsibility for or should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of actions committed in the past by other members of the same race.

01:59:15.100 So we can't say, hey, slave owners back in the 1700s mean that you, little Billy, in class get a detention.

01:59:24.840 We can't do that.

01:59:26.560 These are basic things.

01:59:28.020 I mean, there's eight of them, and they all kind of are right on this pathway.

01:59:31.620 This is simple to understand things.

01:59:33.980 Don't be an overt racist when you're teaching kids.

01:59:38.360 That is all this thing requires.

01:59:40.120 And this is controversial on the left because the left has been, but is also going, completely insane.

01:59:47.080 This is a major problem that anything like this could possibly be held up as controversial.

01:59:53.020 And yet our media is telling us that everybody thinks this.

01:59:56.400 You're in the minority if you don't think it.

01:59:58.520 If you think people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, you are the problem.

02:00:05.200 It's not the country that I want to live in.

02:00:07.020 I won't accept that.

02:00:08.040 That, I will not play into that.

02:00:10.780 I don't think you will either.

02:00:12.640 And the longer and harder we push back, and thankfully there are people like Ron DeSantis who are doing this at a government level,

02:00:18.080 the more we push back, the more I think people will realize this stuff is nuts.

02:00:23.760 We've gone insane as a country, and we need to go back to the right course.

02:00:29.180 Glenn Beck.

02:00:38.040 Dan McLaughlin asked a really interesting question the other day.

02:00:47.360 How old is Corinne Jean-Pierre?

02:00:51.460 How old is she? 0.98

02:00:52.420 I mean, we know her wardrobe costs more than the gross national product of Turkmenistan, but how old is she?

02:01:03.680 Now, honestly, if you would have asked me that question just out of the blue, without me looking, I probably would have guessed mid-30s.

02:01:10.360 I mean, she looks pretty young, and she doesn't seem to have, like, a super deep understanding of the world.

02:01:17.360 I assume she's not in her 20s, because just from the, you know, it's the job.

02:01:21.860 You're probably not going to get that job in your 20s, though I know the Biden administration might do that.

02:01:25.360 But she's apparently older than that.

02:01:28.400 She's maybe 47.

02:01:31.080 And the reason I say maybe is because we don't, we have a bunch of different sources saying a bunch of different things on this.

02:01:38.500 She was born in Martinique.

02:01:40.340 She was, she graduated high school in 1993.

02:01:43.160 She graduated college in 1997.

02:01:46.120 Public sources seem to be unable to agree on when she was born.

02:01:51.680 So the New York Times says she's 47.

02:01:53.880 Caribbean National Weekly says she was, she's 47.

02:01:59.260 Wikipedia says she's 47.

02:02:01.780 However, others, Business Insider says she was born in 1977, which would make her 44.

02:02:08.320 Yahoo News says, same thing, August 13th, 1977.

02:02:12.520 The Washingtonian says she's a 44-year-old.

02:02:15.860 The Hill says she's 45.

02:02:17.900 Washington Blade says last year she was 45, so I guess she'd be 46.

02:02:25.080 Her memoir says it was 1974, so I guess we can assume it's 47 years old.

02:02:30.660 But doesn't it seem odd that we have this many different pieces of information on this really basic thing?

02:02:36.440 Now I know, as I get older, I start to forget how old I am.

02:02:41.020 So maybe she just has been telling people incorrect information.

02:02:44.800 And honestly, she'll read anything that's in front of her.

02:02:47.860 So maybe someone just kind of did an anchorman to her and gave her the wrong date.

02:02:51.260 So maybe it's fine.

02:02:59.900 So over.

02:03:00.100 So.

02:03:00.640 So.

02:03:01.240 So.

02:03:01.660 Thank you.

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