The Glenn Beck Program - Conditions on California Aid Is RESPONSIBLE, Not Cruel | Guests: Brian Fennessy & Mihail Neamtu | 1/14/25

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

The wildfires are burning California as the dollar amount lost so far continues to grow. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is under fire for suggesting that limitations be put on any aid sent to California, but Glenn lays out why some limitations make sense. Glenn also explains the three problems with California that caused the wildfires to worsen, including science denial. Romanian Parliament member Mihail Neamtu joins to discuss the protests surrounding election integrity after the EU canceled an upcoming election. After FEMA nearly allowed 1,200 hurricane victims to be kicked out of a hotel in North Carolina right before a snowstorm, Glenn's Mercury One stepped in. When California's issues become a tax burden on the rest of the country, it's time for something to change. Orange County, California, Fire Chief Brian Fennessy joins to discuss how governmental failures are fueling California's fire crisis. Glenn and Stu tuned in to the confirmation hearing for Trump's defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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your head. Yesterday and Sunday, I was in the hospital here at Baylor White, and what an incredible hospital that is. But I had a blood clot in my leg, or so they thought, last week. And then on Sunday, it kept getting worse. And I went back to the hospital. And they couldn't find, they couldn't find the blood clot. They couldn't find, they couldn't find veins. It was really weird. Long story short, I am okay and great, but boy, when you go through that, you know, I didn't share this with my family, but when you go through that and you realize, oh, wow, it could be today, it plays on you a great deal. And I know there's a lot of people that I just want to talk to you about it because I've learned some things doing that.

But let me go into first what is happening in California. The fires are still burning. And, you know, good for them. Good for them. Meanwhile, we have Newsom talking about his Marshall plan to rebuild Los Angeles. And let's go cut three there, please. Over the course of the next several years, Los Angeles will be host to the World Cup and then the Super Bowl and then the Olympics. with this rebuilding effort needing to take place.

Is L.A. going to be ready for all of those global events? All that opportunity and that pride and spirit that comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues, but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall Plan. We already have a team of looking and reimagining L.A. 2.0. And we're making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on the coast, people here,

that were ravaged by this disaster. You just said you're organizing a Marshall Plan for the rebuilding of California. What is that Marshall Plan? For this region, we're just starting to lay out. I mean, we're still fighting these fires. So we're already talking to city leaders. We're already talking to civic leaders. We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits.

We're talking to labor leaders. We're starting to organize how we can put together a collection of individuals on philanthropy for recovery, how we can organize the region, how we can make sure that we are seeking federal assistance for the Olympics, more broadly, but also federal assistance for the recovery efforts and how we can galvanize the community. Okay. So I'm glad he's talking about the future. This brings us to Mike Johnson, something that I haven't talked about, had a chance to talk about yet. He wants to put some restrictions. His aid proposal for California is that he's trying to put conditions on the aid sent to California. And people are saying, that's insane. You don't do that. Where is your

compassion? I want to talk to you about how compassion is sometimes difficult. Compassion, true compassion, is sometimes the hardest thing to muster. Because you want to give until you can't give any more. You want to help. You want to be there. But you have an alcoholic. in California. California is the political system is an alcoholic and it is destroying the entire state. And you don't say when an alcoholic is suddenly, you know, in the hospital or, you know, really, really down and, you know, out on the streets, you know what? I'm going to give you all the money you need to get back into your house. Because the alcohol. alcoholic will spend that and just end up in the same place, if not worse.

Sometimes you have to have tough love. You know this with your family. Any kind of aid that goes to California, I think it is only responsible to aid the people as quickly as possible. aid the homeowners as quickly as possible. Help them make sure that they have a place to go. Make sure that they, you know, like the government wasn't doing in North Carolina, making sure that they have hotel rooms for as long as they need them within reason. Now, within reason, many of these people are wildly wealthy. Some are very poor.

there needs to be some understanding that the wildly wealthy, you know, we're not going to put you up at the Beverly Hills Hotel. That's just the way it is. Sorry. But we're going to help the people. But when it comes to the state, if they cannot admit that this is not climate change, that this happened because of their policies, if they cannot admit that, they shouldn't get a dime. I'm a taxpayer. I want to help California, just like I want to help all the other states when they have a problem that they cannot handle that is too big for their state. But they took all of their resources.

And honestly, you could make the case. I'm not, but you could make the case. This was intentional sabotage. Now, I want to tell you about the three-fold problem in California as I see it. There are three things that are happening in California. One, the Santa Ana winds, low humidity, and an uncleared brush always causes fires. Always. They are known to cause fires.

They have been known throughout history. Do you know why the great redwoods and the sequoias have grown for a thousand years? Do you know how those trees got so big? They're in California. How is that possible? How have they not been wiped out by fire? We've got to protect the sequoias. Do we?

You know that the sap in sequoias is fire retardant? That's why they can grow for a thousand years. God gave them. God knew. There'd be fires in California. Those trees have fire retardant as part of their life's blood. That's why they haven't burned down over and over and over again. Normal trees don't have that.

That's why fires burn all the time. and if you don't have regular maintenance on your forests and on your property, you are going to have a brush fire, and a brush fire turns into a forest fire. And if you add 75 to 100 mile an hour winds, you could burn down the entire state, except it seems for the sequoias and the redwoods. what this government of California has done has stopped people in the name of the good of the forest and the good of the land is to deny science. They have been denying science for decades. They have been playing God for over a century.

They want to tell you that a woman can be a man and a man can be a woman and a man can have a baby. That's not true. That's denying science. To say that we can prevent the forest fires is a lie. That is as arrogant as saying we can change the weather. Now, don't think our government and governments all over the world aren't trying to change the weather. But let me ask you honestly, how do you think that's going to work out in the end? how do you think cloud seeding and putting gases and different things up into the atmosphere or giant shades in space to block the sun? How do you think that's going to work out in the end? Well? Or will it end the same way our arrogance always ends?

There are things that we can do to mitigate natural occurrences. For instance, if you were, let's say you got on December 2nd, can we get that weather warning up from the National Weather Service? It's January 2nd, next Tuesday through Thursday, January 7th through the 9th, a chance of moderate to strong Santa Ana wins. This is from the National Weather Service. Ready set go. Ready for wildfire.org. Impacts. Extreme fire growth, behavior possible if a fire starts and power outages. Use extra caution with potential fire sources. Now, this was added the week before the fires. Now, that's the National Weather Service giving a warning to the people of California. You can bet that government agency let other government agencies know at the same time. It just didn't go out to your house.

It went out to everybody's house. It went to the firehouses. It went to the governor's house. It went to the mayor's house. They knew in advance. So let me ask you, in a non-progressive state, what would somebody like Ron DeSantis do? What do we do for hurricanes? Hurricanes are like fires in California.

You know you're going to have them every single year. Am I wrong? Okay. If you have them and you get a warning, one is potentially coming that could be record-setting. What do you do? Well, I'll tell you what a non-progressive state like Florida with a governor who is embracing reality, what he does is he pre-positions all of the utility trucks. He pre-positions all of the life-saving trucks.

He makes sure that we have plenty of chainsaws. He makes sure that the state is ready and literally waiting. So what should Gavin Newsom have done? When he got that warning, a hundred-year warning of a fire, He should have said, make sure all the reservoirs are full. Make sure that we have all of the fire trucks positioned. Put them in the high risk areas. Just let them sit there.

Have the firemen sit there in really dangerous areas. Make sure that if you see a fire or smoke, that thing is out right away. You can't get up these hills with fire equipment, if you've ever been to California. It's honestly like navigating the Appalachia. It's like going to North Carolina. Why were so many people trapped? Because it's impossible to navigate those hills and those mountains quickly.

The same thing in California. Did they do that? No. Did they make sure that they had things in advance? No. what is the one given if you're living in California? What is the one thing that you know is going to happen in California besides political insanity? You know there's a chance of an earthquake.

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One, fires are natural, especially in California. They're going to happen due to global warming or not. When you have out-of-control homeless problems, your risk of fire increases. Why? Because people who take meth, one of the side effects is you like to see things burn. Also, you have homeless people who start fires, maybe to stay warm, maybe just to eat. But when you have huge homeless problems, your risk of fire goes up. You also have the Santa Ana Wins and the natural history of California. They were unprepared.

That's number two. Number one is, it's going to happen. Any moron could see this happen. This wasn't 9-11 where, wow, we never thought planes could fly into the buildings. This is a wildfire in California. It happens every year just like the sun comes up every morning. Two, they were not prepared. They knew it was going to happen.

They were not prepared. Okay. Next thing. their incompetence is borderline criminal. What they've done, not just in their incompetence, but by shifting funds away from fires, away from preparedness, for something you knew that was going to happen

to, I don't know, give more job opportunities for, you know, equal opportunity for lesbian, lizard cults. By doing that and taking money away from the state, I'm sorry, that's not just incompetence that's borderline criminal. And three, you have people who are now just joining in. What a surprise, it looks as though you have foreigners here illegally on our streets setting fires. Who could have seen that one coming? That's what's happening in California. It's natural.

It happens every year. They didn't prepare. They went the opposite direction. You have people joining in to help. I believe this fire started naturally, and then it's been helped by forces that I don't understand yet. I don't know if this was a plot or just, you know, lone wolves setting fires.

but also nature helped by Santa Ana Wins, which we understand. And the incompetence. Why would we give California a dime without restrictions? I'm not talking about the people who are suffering right now and have no money and no place to go. I'm talking about rebuilding in California. Every dollar should have restrictions on it to the government of California. Because I'm not paying for this twice. I'm not doing it.

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in it is disgusting what is going on uh and the fires all around the world yeah the fires all around the world uh we haven't i mean i spend too much stuff going on here that i haven't been paying attention to it. Right. The stuff in Europe that's going on is really weird, isn't it? So, like Romania? Romania and Germany is in real trouble. Romania and Germany.

The Germans want the ADF and that is the, or sorry, the AFD. And that's the party. They say, oh, it's crazy Nazi group. I'm not sure it is. The far right, they always say the far right wing. Yeah. Yeah. And they're xenophobes.

and they, you know, they're racist and everything else. I've read their documents. I've read their platform. It doesn't seem to be, you know, round people up that are different than us. It is we would like to make sure of who's in our country, exactly like we're doing. We'd also like to see the end of the government just destroying our country. So they're afraid of them. And the EU just came out and said,

if the AFD looks like it's going to win, we're going to cancel the election. What? What? And they just did it in Romania.

Yeah, they didn't just say they actually did cancel the extra collection. They canceled it. Okay. So it looks like the far right, the one that cares about Romania, the one that cares about, you know, having

Romanian culture, the one that's saying, hey, you know, we don't want all these migrants coming in from Africa. We think this is very dangerous. We're losing our culture. You're spending us into oblivion. And you're giving more and more power to the EU. We would like our identity to remain. Those people are being called far rightists and xenophobes and racist and everything that you've been called.

Except we have the Constitution. They have the EU. and the EU threatened Romania and Romania buckled under and so their Supreme Court, if you will, just cancelled the election. That's not going to end well. I don't know if the elites understand this. You can't do that to people. You're only going to make things worse and you're going to push people further and further into some sort of radicalism. you have to let the people vote.

What part of democracy does the left not understand? Trying to figure that one out. By the way, in Romania, they also are blaming it. I mean, it is exactly the same thing they're doing to Donald Trump or did to Donald Trump. And they're claiming that, you know, it's Russian interference. Russia denies it. I don't know if it's true. we're supposed to have one of the parliamentarians on from Romania today.

He's a big fan, been watching me since 2008 and been watching because of what I say about George Soros. I think Romania is one of those places that either banned or tried to ban George Soros, something that we should be doing, not giving him awards. But if he calls, let me know. Is he on? Oh, he's on. How do you say his last name? Okay.

I think he's going to understand. He's just going to understand. Mikhail. This is a Romanian parliamentarian. Part of parliamentarian. Yes. That's what you're trying to say. Thank you.

You don't know how to pronounce English words, let alone his name. I almost had a stroke. That's your new excuse for everything? I was close to a stroke. Okay. Mikhail. Are you? Yes.

How are you? How do you say your last name? I'm sorry. I want to get it right. Do you remember Gorbachev? Yes. Michael Gorbachev, it's Mihail Nyamtu. I go by Niamtso.

I'm Romanian, but my name sounds like a Russian name. Okay. Niamsu. Well, welcome to the program. I'm glad that you're here. I understand that you hate George Soros as much as I do. Well, sir, I've been instructed by you maybe 15 years ago. I was listening to all your shows about George Soros, and we are very grateful for the

contribution we've made to our, you know, enlightenment. Let's put it this way. I was a student. I grew up in Bucharest when communism was collapsing. My father took it to the streets of Timiswara in the western part of Romania. And we certainly grew up in that part of my country with a sense of admiration for America, for especially Ronald Reagan and people like you. Oh, thank you. Like William M. Buckley and others. Yeah, thank you. So then we saw the Trump phenomenon and we realized,

we see, we are witnessing actually a global movement, coalescence of patriots from all over the place. And in Europe right now, we are fighting for freedom just like you fought against Obama and all the rest. Yeah, so I think we're fighting. What people don't understand is in America, they think of this as being something Democrat versus Republican. It's not. It's the people versus the elites that are making all of the decisions for us, without really informing us of what's going on.

And when we stand up against it, because we see what's happening to our countries, they call us racist and xenophobes, et cetera, et cetera. Now, I'm not familiar with the, quote, far right party in Romania. But if you listen to any media, they say you're all xenophobes and racists and Nazis. Can you tell us who these people are? No, sir, I'm more of a Christian orthodox who is going to church with his family every Sunday. I believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I do not endorse racism or any form of extremism.

But, of course, we are used to this kind of labeling. And this shows their weakness. When they have no argument, they just label people. And labels, of course, tend to be misleading. Now, as I said, I'm a conservative. I'm a pro-Republican individual member of the Romanian parliament. I recently joined the party, and the party is called the Alliance for the Union of All Romanians. Now, my party belongs to a political group in which Georgia Meloni, the new darling, not of Elon Musk,

but perhaps more of Donald Trump, the Prime Minister of Italy is the leader of this European movement. And we have the polls, and you remember Donald Trump visiting the war. So parties belonging to the same family. We are branded as extremists or far right. We are people and prosperous life. And you want to have your country, remain your country, and you are fighting against the EU, which is, I think, the reason why you are coming under such attack. And the same in Italy, also in Germany, because you're saying enough is,

enough to the EU. You're changing fundamentally who all of us are in each individual country, and we've had enough of it because it's not going well, correct? Yes. Just to be more specific here, maybe we're not fighting the EU as such, but we are fighting the European Commission and the bureaucrats. Because the project has been hijacked, right? Initially, the EU was a project to bring about peace, especially between France and Germany, And that was a good thing. You brought peace to the old continent with the great and brave soldiers from Normandy. You established a new sort of political order in which peace could flourish.

And, of course, economic prosperity was made possible by the American security institutions. And that was all good. But now, starting with the 2000, I suppose, George Swurst inserted his open society individuals, and they started to hijack the project, just like with the first. American Republic. Initially, it was a good thing. Now, it became more and more of a centralized government, and people started to feel the pressure and the disasters, including the disasters, which you have so clearly reported from California. So we are happy to be part of a fuck to do by a bomb we witnessed was, I mean, a true shocking event. Our presidential elections

were canceled. Institutional court in commission said they don't. like the populist candidate. In your case, in 2020, they stole the elections. In our case, they just... And that's why we have 100,000 people. Right. You had 100,000 people on the street. They are talking about doing the same thing in Germany now. What does that lead to? Here in America, thank God, we had the Constitution and we pulled it out. I mean, it was a miracle that America has turned this corner. But the progressives are not giving up, you know, so to speak, the Biden administration is setting forest fires all over our government for Donald Trump to put out. But they're still fighting here, but we survived the electoral process

without, you know, with a group of elites just canceling your election, what is that going to lead to? That's a good question. Sir, if you don't mind, may I ask you, what is your background in terms of your family roots, are they all American or do you have roots in Europe? Roots way, way, way, way back into Europe, but for at least 100 and some years here in America, which is a long time here. Would they be Scottish or Irish or English? German and Dutch. The reason why I'm asking is because, you know, the same applies to Donald Trump.

His great-grandfather came from, I mean, was a German and his mother came from Scotland. and I'm emphasizing because you have such a distinguished audience. Europe has contributed to America in many good ways for centuries. I mean, the best minds sometimes left Europe in order to find shelter, including Albert Einstein in the 40s, so in the 1930s and 1940s. So it's such a beautiful story, the story of, I would say, strategic partnership and even friendship between Europe and America. is a good story, to be told.

But unfortunately, this alliance has been weakened, as I said, by Brussels. People hate Trump in Brussels. People hate Elon Musk in Brussels. And we are representing a small party. I mean, it's the second largest party in Romania, but compared to the Republican Party still a small party. Correct. That wants to recreate this alliance, which was flourishing in the 80s and also in the 70s

when Ronald Reagan was running for office. Now, how can we do that? We have to go back to the sources to the our Judeo-Christian values. I mean, these are the roots that God. They don't like traditional families. They don't like basically ordinary and average people. It's from sin and also the elites on their own. We need to do something if I can beg you to do that more. We expect our conservative friends in America to pay closer attention to the future elections in Poland. we will have presidential elections in Poland. We've been friends forever.

America gave us the right to stand up small, independent nations in Central Europe. And so we love you, guys, and we take a lot of inspiration from the founding fathers, and we hope it will flourish in the next four years or so. Well, good news is Donald Trump is in office, and I know his administration will be watching. Right now, America is really focused on our forest fires, but I've been watching you closely, and we will continue to watch you and the rest of Europe in your elections. Thank you so much, Mikhail. Thank you so much.

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Get 10% off your purchase. Burna.com slash Glenn. All righty. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Let me just touch on the fire situation and let you know that Mercury 1 is on the scene and helping as much as we can. We're collaborating with our partners to provide food and supplies to those on the ground. We're assisting in delivering a truckload of supplies to some of the most severely affected areas just today. This one is different due to its magnitude and the ongoing fires.

We are still having a hard time getting into some areas because of the fires, but we are determining the best place to set up some camps so people can get the aid that they need. We are currently working with local churches and other nonprofit organizations to collect requests and send supplies to support the ongoing situation. If you would like to donate to Mercury 1, 100% of your donation will go directly to the relief efforts, including credit card feeds, but now you have the option to pay. pay those. But any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated. Just go to mercury1.org. Mercury1.org. Making a difference. I have been kind of out of commission for a couple of days. And while that was happening on Saturday, Friday, I think, Friday night, I get a call that we are having problems in North Carolina, that some of the people that FEMA, that FEMA put up in hotel rooms were being kicked out. And it was right before the snowstorm. It was as the

snowstorm was hitting. And we get the call that night. And there were like 1,400 people that are just going to be kicked out of the hotels. And so Mercury 1 responded quickly. And we just paid for everybody, I think for an extra two weeks until this could be taken care of. I think FEMA has finally stepped back in, but only after pressure. And I got a call over the weekend, and I wasn't there to take it, but listen to this call. Yes. My name is Stanley LaCarpant here. I live in Western North Carolina, and I have been fighting with FEMA to get them to give extensions

instead of putting 1,200 people onto the street, to the middle of a snowstorm. and at the hotel I was at tonight, somebody from your organization called up and paid for everybody's extension for three weeks since FEMA dropped the ball. I've been a fan of Glenn Begg's and a Mercury one for a while. I've not been able to watch the show since the hurricane. And I just want to tell you people

just how grateful I am that you guys showed up and you save the life straight up you saved the life of many people with what you did today at the sunset motel in Brevard, North Carolina

one of them is an 81 year old man the other is a another is a family with three daughters I love you guys so much for doing this I'm also one of the people that you helped I want to thank you. I wanted to play that because I want you to know the difference that you make. We just make sure your money goes to the right places, but we couldn't do it without you.

And sincerely, you should know how many people we hear from all the time. We're still in, you know, with the people who lost everything in Hawaii. We're still in Appalachia and North Carolina from the hurricane. We are still there and we will be, even though the world moves on and FEMA apparently moves on. I have to tell you, I just tweeted something out about FEMA. I so want Corey Mills to be the nominee for FEMA because I think he would, he dismantle that thing and put it right where it belongs in the trash can. it is awful. It is absolutely awful. But Stu just told me, and I've been kind of disconnected for the last couple of days,

that he is being bandied around as the possible senator to replace Marco Rubio. Yeah, in Florida. How real is that? My understanding is they met. DeSantis and Mills met, and Mills said it went well. So I think it's at least a possibility. I don't know that he's... He hates Woodrow Wilson as much as I do.

Well, that's the most important qualification for any senator for me. Honestly, it is. Because if you ate him as much as I do, all you're about is restoring the Constitution. Right. And I mean, he would be great in that role. That's one I think would be really encouraging. Yeah. So the other thing I want to talk to you about is Elon Musk.

Elon Musk, I don't know if you've seen this, but he is putting Starlink back out. And he sent a whole bunch of cyber trucks out to California to be able to be used, you know, because it doesn't have to, you don't have to worry about the emissions. Was that not crazy this last weekend? You hear about this? Did you? About the emissions? Yeah, about the fire trucks that were coming from all over the country and they had to go get inspection first. I didn't hear that they were complaining about the emissions, no.

Oh, no, they had to get inspections just to make sure they were up to date on everything for California. That is insanity. That's absolutely insanity. I saw pictures of long lines of fire trucks and rescue workers waiting. Same thing was happening with Mercury 1, by the way. They were trying to get generators to California. And they were getting held up for days and days and days because only certain types of generators can go into California because of all the restrictions on them. All that red tape nonsense should go away immediately when they're, I mean, what?

It's insane. Who in their right mind says that's reasonable? honestly who in their right my people are dying and suffering and you're worried about the emissions how does that make sense do you know how much crap you're putting into the atmosphere from the fire I mean good they don't have any water to put the fire out that would probably help yeah it would help I will say there's you know all negative when it comes to this terrible event but if you want to find one sliver of of lemonade out of the lemons, you can find it with, at least this highlights what these policies do. I mean, again, it's not, you don't trade this as obviously a terrible

tragedy, but if anything is going to teach the people of California, these policies are damaging to them. Something like this might be able to push them. They already have 100,000 signatures to get the mayor out. Yeah. I mean, and that one, I just don't even understand how it's possible she could survive. But like Gavin Newson's another one too. I mean, he's walking around like he's like this big superhero and going on podcast. Like he's done, right? I mean, like 2020. I really do hesitate to be sure about it. I was talking to Megan Kelly yesterday. She was sure. This is over. Like the Gavin Newsom thing is done. 2028 is over. Really? And I want to be there with her. I really do want to believe it. Me too. But I'm so terrified of the way the country reacts to things sometimes. I don't

understand it. Andrew Cuomo looks like they just did a poll in New York. It looks like he's going to be the next mayor if he runs. I think it's real. Oh, it is real. I think it's real. And believe me, he wants it more than anything in the world. So I will not be surprised at all if Andrew Cuomo gets that job. And I will not be surprised at

all if Gavin Newsom finds away. He certainly wants it and will do anything, anything to get it. So I won't be surprised if he survives of this somehow. And I will, I mean, like, are you at all confident that

the voters of California look at what has happened here and respond with punishing Democrats at the polls? No. No. They might punish a couple. They might go, they might go the mayor. That was really bad.

It's hard to believe she can. They won't go any deeper than that. I mean, what could possibly, what more evidence would you need that this stuff doesn't work? I don't know. It is truly remarkable to me how when you let these progressive things work, it shows they don't work. Right. You know, every single time it shows that was a bad idea.

But we have half the country that won't learn that lesson. You have California, I'm not sure going to learn that lesson. They're peeling away some of them. But for what reason? And do they examine everything? I mean, this all should be examined. This shows you all of your priorities were nonsense. Nonsense.

Who are the people that are really helping out? Have you noticed this? Have you seen the people who are really pitching it? It's not government organizations. The people who are actually going into these areas and are helping seem to be all religious-focused. Hmm. Isn't that interesting? I thought religion played no role in anything anymore.

real true religion, real faith lead you to want to help your neighbor. You know how easy it would be California for us to say, screw you. We're not going to go help them. It'd be very easy. And if it wasn't for God, I think we might be there. But we're not. Americans are helping you. But as I said last hour, it will come with a cost.

And that is, I'm sorry, but you have. proven yourself to be so irresponsible with money, you've proven yourself that you can truly continue to elect people who will destroy you, your children, and your state. That if we're going to give money to you, I'm sorry, I will help the average person, but the average person has got to elect a government that will represent the interests of the people. And if those interests of the people are like, you know, we got to save the salmon and the left-handed lesbians, that takes priority over fires. Well, I'm not going to help you. I don't want to help you because that's not helping you.

That'll just call that'll just this will happen over and over again in greater and greater ways. This was totally foreseen. I'm sorry, but training wills should come with the dollars. and I know that apparently is very controversial to say, but that's common sense. And that's the way real charities work. You just don't keep giving money to me. Why does Mercury 1 exist?

We just had a board meeting last week. And I said, let's remember what we do and what we don't do. What we do is find the people locally that are making an impact and we empower them. We give them money because they're the best. way that we can find on the ground to help. Here's what we don't do. We don't reinvent the wheel and then come in beating our chest and saying, hey, look at us. We go into communities and say, how can we help you? And those people who are proven to be effective and spend the money the most effective ways, that's what we do. That's what you want to do. If we just gave your money that you

would donate to a bunch of organizations that were going off the rails and they were spending 30% of their money on the things that you cared about, would that be responsible? Would you, would you give another dime to a charity that was doing that? And they were like, yeah, well, but the spotted liverfish, we needed to save those guys before we put just a lick of water into a fire hydrant. Would you give money to them? Of course not. No matter if they were helping 30% of the people and the spotted liverfish, you wouldn't do it because it wouldn't be effective. California, it is time to have a conversation with the rest of us

because that's my taxpayer money too. My money is now bailing out you. For all of the failed things you continue to vote for. And I'm sorry, I'm not going down with the ship. if you want to change, if you can learn from this lesson, we're there for you. And we'll be there to help you because you are literally my brother and sister. We will be there to make sure you have food and shelter. But we're not rebuilding your damn city.

No. We shouldn't. Now, you want to rebuild with some serious restrictions and training wheels on that money? Okay, maybe. Maybe. because it would be good for us as well. I want to tell you, I think Elon Musk is John Galt. I want to make this point clearly.

I was just watching something from Einrand and, oh, what was his name, Mike Wallace from the 1950s. And he's asking Ein Rand. Well, do you really think that, you know, you can depend on these corporations to help out? And her answer is phenomenal. And I think the closest we have to her answer is Elon Musk. I'll give that to you here in just a second.

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And you believe in the eventual goodwill of all human beings, or at least that top echelon of human beings, whom you believe will give willingly. No goodwill is necessary. Only self-interest. Only self-interest. I believe in private roads, private post offices, private schools. When industry breaks down momentarily, and there is unemployment, mass unemployment,

we should not be permitted to get unemployment insurance. Social security we do not need. We'll depend upon the self-interest of these enlightened industrialists whom you so admire to take care of things when the economy needs a little lubrication and there are millions of people out of work. Study economics. A free economy will not break down. All depressions are caused by government interference. And the cure is always offered so far to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not a result of a free economy.

And that kind of was proven right. You'd have quick depressions back in the 1800s. They'd be really deep, but they would be 18 months maximum. And it just comes from, you know, the bad stuff burning itself out. It's kind of like a brush fire. You let it burn itself out. And if you don't, that brush fire becomes a massive forest fire, economically speaking. That's exactly what she's talking about. And I was watching that this weekend and I thought, I think the example there that Mike Wallace was mocking is Elon Musk.

I mean, I don't know if you've seen what Elon Musk is doing, but he was one of the first out there. He was one of the first in North Carolina as well. He was restoring communications. You didn't need the government to come out and do all that. He did. And he's saying now, you know, sorry if you're in line for a cyber truck, but yours is going to be delayed a little bit because I needed to take the cyber trucks offline and send them to California to help in the forest fires. And I think all of his customers understand that. And I don't know his motivation.

His motivation seems that he cares about people, okay? But does that matter? Because look at the benefit to him. He is doing the greatest ad campaign just by actually solving problems. Instead of saying, you know what, just let's put, let's, let's do a spot. Let's do a commercial where a black person, an Asian person and an American Indian, are all having a picnic next to a cyber truck. Instead, he's just doing what is right.

And in the end, self-interest. It actually is helping him. That's the way we should be. This is, I mean, he is motivated to get people off of Earth because he believes in global warming. Great. Why have a government program do that? He wants to do that.

I think the best example of John Galt may be Elon Musk. Now he's got some things that are not John Galtish, but when it comes to serving, he's John Galt. This is Glenn Beck. All right. As a general rule, I don't do the whole cell phone thing. People are always confused. I was asked, I had to check into the hospital this weekend,

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will certainly burn us and water will wet us. They could learn that in California. We have Brian Fennessy. He is the Orange County, California Fire Chief, to tell us a little about what's going on. And how is Orange County doing, Brian? Welcome to the program. Thank you very much.

A little bit about the fires just across a few miles from here in L.A. They, you know, they're not spreading as they were. I think both are kind of at a stable position, but there's certainly a lot of heat, you know, in those and on those fires. in the new wind event, albeit not, you know, 80 miles an hour, 100 mile an hour, gusts are still very concerning. So those fires are going to be wind tested. Here in Orange County is just howling. It's blowing hard. It was last week, and I think we here dodged a bullet. There might be another Santa Ana wind event forecasted for now. I can't stand much more. Brian, this is totally predictable. Was it not totally predictable? Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Absolutely. You know, when I started back in 1978, we'd usually have a few days notice. You know, meteorology is not what it is today. Correct. We start to get notified about 10 days out, and then confidence builds at seven days. And then when you're about four days out, we're pretty sure, you know, what's going to expect. So, yes, forecasting and predicting is far better than it's ever been. So what should have been done in those four days? before the fryer broke out?

Well, I'll tell you what was done. And, you know, we have a program called prepositioning that about six years ago, the fire chiefs in the state got the state of California to fund to put money behind this prepositioning, meaning if we go through a matrix, you know, county by county, and we meet certain criteria, I mean, there's a number of things. We are approved for preposition funding, which means I can bring on additional aircraft, additional bulldozers, engines, and the state will pay for them so that not only are all my stations filled and ready to go, but I might have two or three more strike teams, strike teams five engines.

I might have additional helicopters, dispatch staff. So all of the Southern California counties were approved for pre-positioning, and so we had definitely extra resources available should they be needed, and certainly they were deployed very, very quickly. So, but that's Orange County. No, no, that's it. That's every county. It's every county in the state is eligible for it, but each county has to go through this matrix to meet it.

And so I don't know for sure, but I would expect that Santa Barbara County South were all approved for preposition funding. And quite frankly, here in Orange County, and when I was the fire chief in San Diego City, we didn't wait for prepositioning. If this weather was going to surface, we're going to staff up. And if we go over budget, we go over budget. You know, our job is to protect our communities. And the mayor I worked for at the time understood that. So it's nice to be reimbursed for it. But that's not a necessity.

We're going to staff up even beyond what the state approves if we believe we need to do that. Yeah. So as we're watching this from Texas and all around the country, it seems as though it was, A, known that it was going to happen. This is routine. You expect the Santa Ana wins every year. You expect forest fires and brush fires in California every year. So this was just one of the really bad ones. Then it seems like incompetence of cutting the funding for the fire agencies, not really truly being prepared.

And then on top of it, it seems incompetence to a level that is almost criminal. And then the third part of this, as we see it, as I see it, as I see, see it is there might be some actors after the main fire started that are also, you know, setting fires, what their, what their motives are or yet unknown, but there are also some arsonists involved in that. Do I have that picture right? Totally. I don't know for sure, but I will tell you this, that, you know, I've lived in, I grew up in Altadena, and that's one of the towns is pretty well wiped out. And so, you know, When you live that close to the foothills, you're used to Santa Ana wins.

You know they're common, and they can be brutal right there in the foothills. And it's not uncommon for a strong, we'd consider a strong Santa Ana. It'd be 40, 50-mile-hour winds steady with Gus maybe to 60-70. The event that was experienced last week, and you know this, was 60-70 steady with Gus to 900. Something like that. I mean, we have a hard time dealing with the former. Something like that, you know, we're trying to manage expectations is we can't stop that far. And I think, you know, many times, you know, the public, well, let me put it this way.

If this were a hurricane or tornado, firefighters aren't stopping those either. Right. And so why. But they do pre-position. You look at Florida, they've got the trucks lined up before that thing even comes ashore. Yep, they're the best. And, you know, they get disaster declarations in advance and they get things moving. Right.

Florida is an amazing model. And Texas is a good model as well. But in terms of, you know, I can't speak for L.A. City. I don't know what they prepositioned or upstaffed. But I've said it to a number of people. They could have had another, I don't know, a thousand engines, and we weren't going to stop this fire. Now, having said that, once the winds diminished and the fire, you know, This was no longer a wildland fire.

This became an urban conflagration, house-to-house spread. The fuel was the structures. And so, you know, once the structures, they came off of, and I'm probably hearing the same things that you are, that reservoirs may not have been needed to be. Yes, a draw on the system can cause, you know, some decrease in pressure, but actually wasn't pressure. I do know, and I've shared this with people,

that in 2003 in San Diego, we had at the time the largest fire in California history, we lost pressure, but that was because pump houses didn't know they existed. Had we known, we'd have protected those pump houses as much as we protected, we had pressure. So I'm confident the city of L.A. and I'm hearing that the governor's ordered an investigation, that's going to get sorted out. That's going to get public or a few people involved in whatever decision making place. Good. We have to learn from our lessons, you know, learn lessons from our mistakes.

Totally great. You are being talked about of going into the Department of Interior. Oh. You had not heard that? Well, I'm hearing, I'm here in Rumblings. People have asked if I was interested in perhaps even, you know, becoming the new U.S. Forest Service chief. And I've shared with others that, you know, should I be approached at some point, I would, I would certainly consider it because, quite frankly, that agency is a mess when it comes to firefighting on local government agencies like mine and like L.A. counties. And this isn't anything new.

You know, I used to work for them for 13 years, both the USDA Forest Service and the Department of Interior BLM. And I left as a crew superintendent. I ran cruise. And back then, particularly underpaid, I left to a municipal department in 1990, went to San Diego. because of it, and it's gotten worse. And it's not managed or organized like a fire department. If they're going to be in the fire business, you know, they need to be organized and led like a fire department.

Yes, they're a resource agency, and yes, they have things. You look at the Forest Service budget, you know, primarily now it's fire that's being funded. Sure. They need some help and they're firefighters. Quite frankly, Glenn, that they're going to be without a fire department. very, very soon. I have to tell you, it was a National Forest Service that helped save my neighbor's ranch and probably mine. If we would have had high winds, it would have been over.

But the local fire came out and immediately the forest service had already positioned. They looked at my canyon and went, this is dry. This is just a disaster waiting to happen. And they were ready for it. And they saved it. I mean, they did great job there. they have amazing firefighters you know yeah they do i spent 13 years on a hot shot cruise so so i i know the business and you know i know the the people that are out there now their firefighters are

amazing they're smoke jumpers they're hot shots or engine crews or hel attack unfortunately you know again they're organized in such a way that national they don't it would take too long to speak to but it's just sad to see i mean here in california I'm told that they were only able to staff their stations at 60%. In my own county, I have three forest service stations. And they could only staff one of those stations, two on occasion, eight to ten hours a day all summer. We had a fire, the airport fire, earlier this summer that burned over 100 homes. And the station closest to that fire was not staffed.

And so, you know, I made Congress aware. Congress aware and others aware. And right now I don't think the Forest Service is happy with me because I'm being very public about things that they should be very public about. So would it be the Forest Service or the Department of Interior that would be responsible for getting underbrush cleared? Well, I think it's both. You know, I've worked for both the USDA and USDA. And let's face it, or at least out here in the West, you know, firefighters, for decades, have done such a great job. It's suppressing fires quickly that it's caused this growth, and we've got an unhealthy landscape out there. And we need to start putting beneficial fire back on the landscape.

We need to clear the brush. But here's another thing, Glenn, those same firefighters that we're losing, those are the people that are going to do the work. I know. And so if you don't have the workforce to do the work that needs to be done, how do you get it done? that. It doesn't matter how many millions or billions of dollars you throw at the problem if you don't have the people there to do the work. But yes, I mean, we need to do something

about this unhealthy force. And people are working hard at it. Certainly Cal Fire is showing amazing, incredible success with it. But we're years behind, man. This is decades of not treating, we've got to do something and we've got to have a workforce to be able to do it. And like I say, if asked for me, but it's not about that. Quickly, quickly, can I ask you, I'm up against a network break? Can I just ask you about the safety inspections of the Oregon fire trucks and everything? That was not to make sure of emissions. That was to make sure that they could function, correct?

Which seems insane too, but go ahead. I'm unaware of that talking about, but I know. that we do inspect, not we, but what, not when they arrive and then before they leave to make sure they're safe. So I'm not familiar at all with the situation you're talking about. All right. Brian, thank you so much. I hope you're called up because we need to take all of our agencies and especially all of our services that are protecting us seriously again. We haven't for quite a long time.

Brian, thank you so much. Yep, we need change. So thank you. You bet. Brian Fennessey, Orange County, Fire Chief. All right, let's talk a little bit about Simply Safe. If keeping your family and your property safe is high on your priorities list, I'm sure it is, then you want Simply Safe because they don't just react to break-ins. The way a lot of security systems work is the alarm will go off. And that's, that alarm is sent to the fire. I mean, the police department. And the police department no longer respond to all of these because there's so many burglary alarm. that go off in a mistake. So you have to actually call them after the burglar alarm. Well, SimpliSafe does that. They can respond in five seconds.

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the story of the Australian Child Star that lived in California. He's apparently famous in Great Britain in Australia. Rory Sykes.

He was born blind, has cerebral palsy. He was living with his mom in California. Okay. And the fire started. She, he's grown up now. She couldn't navigate him out. And she was like, I'm going to go get help.

And he's like, mom, leave me. Leave me. Save yourself. And she's like, no, I'm going to go get help. She ran to the fire people when she finally found them, convinced him to come back. The house was already burned and he died inside. But telling his mom, save yourself, mom, I'm okay. I'm okay. That amazing. Some really horrible things, and yet some really beautiful things come out of tragedies like this.

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And we're watching this visually. We're not hearing all of it. And then I walked in during the commercial break. Yeah. And the audio was up and I was like, that voice is familiar. Who is that? It was one of those irritating voices. from the past.

And then I looked up and I was like, oh, no, maybe not. I'm not sure who that is and watch the commentary for a couple minutes and then look down at the nameplate. Yeah. And realized that was apparently Kirsten Gillibrand, which I think that is the nicest telling of that story, Sarah, wouldn't you say? I think that was a- It's exactly what happened.

Original, I mean, you know, an original tale there. Precisely what happened in my mind. I don't know what I said. You said, who the hell is that hag on TV? I never said that. You know I didn't say that. I heard. I mean, really honestly, Sarah, he didn't say those words, but that's what he was saying.

Oh, definitely what he was saying. I don't. It's like, wichipoo, wichipoo. I didn't say those words, first of all. I may have implied them. Because I will say, I mean, Washington takes a toll on you, man. Do you know, here's a fact of the day. Yeah.

That person up there with Kirsten Gillibrand? Younger than you. Wow. Ah, that was him saying she's a hag. Did you hear that reaction, Sarah? Wow. She is holding herself together very well. That is not what you just said with that noise.

That noise expressed a lot of emotion and surprise. Yeah, wow. And not in a positive way for dear Kirsten. Yeah. Because she was running for president relatively, recently. She was always invited on like Stephen Colbert. She was a New York senator. She was kind of a mini celebrity for a while running for president. It didn't make much of an impact in her race. It was never really close. But it feels like the pictures look like they were 25

years ago. Yeah. I don't know what I don't know what's going on. So she was questioning Hegseth and it was. Don't try to move to the actual content, the content of her of her remarks. That's not the important part? No. No. Okay. What happened? We always say this about presidents, and it's okay to say it about guys. Oh, look, you came into office and his hair was black and now it's totally gray. Oh, that's totally fine to say about guys. The same things happen apparently to dear Kirsten here. No, that's not true.

That's not true. She just stopped dyeing her hair. That's what happened. In four years, it hasn't been like, oh, my gosh, look at her. Gray hair, all that stress. she stopped putting a box of chemicals in her hair. I will say that may very well have occurred. She's only 58, but that may very well have occurred.

What I would add to that, though, is it looks like maybe she stopped doing other things. Because ladies, and you back me up on this, Sarah, right? Ladies tend to do things to improve their appearance, maybe wear makeup, maybe there's some things that are ejected into faces. I am hearing like hag cackles from him right now, aren't you? Maybe there's bathing. There's all sorts of things that they do, and she seemed to have stopped all of them. You think she stopped bathing?

I mean, I'm not there to smell. Maybe we can ask Megan. She's in the second row. Maybe she would know. I don't know. Well, I think you should call Megan. No, I definitely not. I don't want to get her involved in this.

I think Megan would be happy to answer all of these questions for you. I'll drag you into the depths of a conversation like this. I don't want to do that to her. So you don't want to talk about the policies. I think Hengseth is handling himself extraordinarily well. From what I've seen. He's been pretty good. Can we bring the audio up, Sarah, just a bit?

He's now... I just have to make note, and I want to make it clear. We have language in this year's fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act calling for a review of the department's operational plans. And I just want to make sure that you're aware of that and that we will have. If we have a fight with one, the chances are very good. that we're going to have two battles or two different battlegrounds at the same time. Senator, which is why I believe our country's incredibly fortunate to have a new commander-in-chief

in Donald Trump, who through the strategic approach he has taken with allies and against foes, has prevented wars and is determined to do the same. That's our chief job, is deter and prevent wars. My job, should I be confirmed at the Secretary of Defense, is to ensure we have the right prioritization of assets and strategy, and then the tools in the toolbox necessary, the poignant possible spear for President Trump to wield, if necessary, as the last resort.

So President Trump at the helm, I think, will go a long way in making sure our enemies know there's a new sheriff in town. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I think that was a good answer, don't you? Thank you very much. Pete is a very good communicator. Yeah, obviously. You know, by the way, a former Blaze alum from back in the day.

Oh my gosh, that's right. Yeah, he was, he was, I'm very, I may have been GBTV back when he was on it. Yeah, it was. He was on a panel show. I completely forgot that. Yeah, yeah. The number of people that have gone through the Blaze is remarkable. Yeah.

Very smart. He was very well liked, by the way, by people who were here at the time. He is a very good communicator. He's very smart. Yeah. So, yeah, you'd expect him to do pretty well in a situation like this. Now, of course, these are farses. This entire thing is a farce.

Oh, yeah. They are coming in here. They are making speeches. Gillibrand, for what you could take out of it, if you weren't distracted. Where's the question? None of them were questions. They were just like, you don't like women. You don't like gay people.

It's like that type of nonsense. I mean, none of it is. And I think you need to answer it, but I've got other questions for you. Right. No way. She could literally complain to him that he wouldn't meet with her so she could, she could yell at him about not liking LGBT people because she wanted to do that before the hearing so she could ask other questions during the hearing. But now she has to use all of her time to yell at him about not liking LGBTQ people.

It's crazy. It's so rude of Pete. Blumenthal is speaking now. You want to talk about a farce. Oh God. Blumenthal's the worst. The Veterans for Freedom in 2007, in 2008, you raised $8.7 million, but spent more than $9 million creating a deficit. God.

What could happen with that in the go? Can you imagine? No, I know. You told donors that the organization had less than $1,000 in the bank and debts of $4,000. Blumenthal is actually taking on debt? I mean, is this serious? Or is this a parity? In the next year, it had dropped further to $22,000.

You don't dispute these numbers, do you? Senator, I'm extremely proud of the work me and my fellow vets did at Vets for Freedom. A bunch of young vets with no political experience, a small group working hard every single day. We raise donor funds. No, they don't want to hear any answers. And we have letters submitted for the record from almost everyone that worked with me every single day, including our chief operating officer, who will attest that every dollar we raised was used in intentionally toward the execution of our mission, which is supporting the war fighters, exactly why we're here today, the warfighters in the Iraq surge.

There was a campaign in 2008, Senator. If Barack Obama was John McCain. We believe John McCain would be the right person to win, and so we spent more. The tax returns from that organization. I'm glad they're for the record. I am going to ask to be entered into the record, Mr. Chairman. I see, again, I think he just blew Blumen fall out. are yours.

They have your signature. And I'm going to ask that members of the committee review them because they're the only documents. I've asked for others. I've asked for the FBI report that would presumably document it should have documented

this kind of financial mismanagement. Financial mismanagement. I mean, how could this as somebody who's in this stupid government that has put us tens of trillions of dollars into debt. The guy spent a few hundred thousand dollars more in what he believed was a very important

election to try to get somebody elected. And at the end of the day, their finances wound up working out. I mean, so wait, he did what the Democratic Party strangely did with millions and millions and millions more in debt with Kamala Harris. Right. It's absurd to complain about this to him. Like, you can, you could, I mean, it is consistent with their nonsense that they would say, you don't like women.

Like, that's consistent with their nonsense. It's not consistent with their nonsense. It's not consistent with their nonsense to complain that he spent a couple hundred thousand dollars more out of a multimillion dollar budget. Notice he's making it seem like it was criminal. What it did. It's all documented. It's all documented. In the IRS, in his tax return.

So how can it be criminal if he's reporting it? And don't you just hate this process, Glenn? Yes. They're all just sitting there. He's interrupting him every time he's. trying to answer the question. And they all have these, they have meetings before these things, all the Democrats, and this is Republicans do very much the same thing. But they have these meetings beforehand and they all get assigned roles. Yep. You go after him on this. You go after him on

this. Here's your points. Here's your point. It's just pathetic. It's pathetic. It's not of it's serious. They don't care about any of the answers. They're all just sitting there making speeches. It's just pathetic. Are you claiming that in the end, all of the Democrats will vote against these people? I do think that that's true, Glenn. No way. It's almost like a charade. I mean, not just with Pete, but I mean, all of them?

I think all of them. I think, oh, yeah, I mean, no, I think there'll be a few Democrats that cross. Well, there probably be five. Yeah, like, maybe. You'll get some. Fetterman will vote for some of them. Huh. That's amazing.

You know, that. You never know. I'm on pins and needles. I mean, I just don't know. Anything could happen today. Anything. Oh, it's. Yeah. We're on the edge of our seats. Anything could go wrong here. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's Lear Capital. I've been telling you for years that precious metals are the best way to build a hedge against economic chaos and insanity. And I tell you that because I truly believe it. If we, I mean, if we get Hegseth in and he takes us like he did with that charity, he takes us over budget. My gosh, just without Pete Hegseth, they're saying that we could be $51 trillion.

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I did well I did just Google something That we don't necessarily have to talk about I think we need to I think we need to Stu just Google I don't think we need to talk about that That was not it was an off the air conversation You didn't say that prior

I said it off the air. I think America needs to know what you're Googling about Christian Dilderan. You don't even know her name. I don't. I don't care. I really don't care. Okay. Well, then you know what let's move on then. But I didn't. It wasn't anything bad. I was concerned. It wasn't anything bad. It wasn't anything bad. No, well, it was. Poor Kirsten is crying her little eyeballs out right now. No, that's not true. First of all, I mean, obvious, I mean, to state the very clear and obvious, both of us are hideous. So this is not, that is, we're not judging. I wasn't the one that said, what the hell happened to her? You, oh, the American people absolutely heard you say that with that noise you made when I said she was

58 years old. They heard it. They heard every little bit of it. But what I just, I googled something because I became concerned about her health. Well, I'd be, yes. I mean, that is one way. of stating what happened. How did you Google it? How did you Google? What did you Google? I googled if Kirsten Gillibrand had disclosed a disease or long-term illness. Because I became concerned. She gets gray hair and you think that she's, well, yeah. I will say, the real thing that happened there is after I made jokes about it, I figured, oh, God, she probably has some terrible disease. And now everyone's going to yell at me because I made fun of her appearance. She looks so bad with gray hair that you think she has some horrible disease.

That's not what it's about. You have gray hair. I don't have gray hair. I have white hair. Yes, well, yes. Yes, that's true. You have white hair. Did you Google?

Does Glenn Beck have some horrible disease? You have every disease in the book. There's nothing I can Google that you don't have. Every two days you're like, hey, it's Glenn Beck live from the hospital. They're going to build you a podcast studio inside of Baylor. But I will say, I just, it really, like, it wasn't really concerned about her, if I'm being honest, it was concerned about me because I didn't want to call her name. So first you made it something terrible that happened. About women getting older and then you thought, oh, dear God, I could be in trouble.

She was like, she looked like a celebrity. on Stephen Colbert like six months ago. She's like having some reverse Benjamin buttons thing going on. There's something happening. Reverse Benjamin buttons, which would be normal aging. He's got to go to reverse Benjamin buttons. Oh, in the movie it seemed like it went really fast at times. Maybe you're right.

Maybe that's a long way to get to normal aging. But I don't think my point is. Maybe she's spending a lot of time in the sun, right? Like they say that that's something you shouldn't do. Yeah. You know? Not recently because she looked very pale, but at some point. At some point.

Maybe there was all. She was out in the sun. Out in the sun too long. I'm just, I'm trying to help. Right. What are you doing? What are you judging is what he's doing? You know what I'm doing?

I'm rubbernecking right now. I'm just driving by a car accident, just slowing down to watch it. That's all I'm doing. Who is the one person here who cared enough about her health to make sure she's doing okay? Me. I'm the only one. What did you do? All right.

You sat here and did it. You didn't care if she got to have a long-term illness or disease. She didn't just closed at all. I didn't think she had one. I just thought she was aging like people do. No, you are so shameless. Shameless. You are shameless.

Everyone in this audience heard moments ago. Can we pull the audio? Hey, Glenn, she's younger than you. There was like several different emotions in that noise that's not true. That you expressed. I mean, it was disdain. I'm looking out for her health. What are you doing, sir? I was just trying to talk, you know, about what's happening to poor Pete. That's all I was doing. Poor Pete. That's all I was doing. You know, and you're right. Let's get back to Pete Hed. Pete Exeth is the nominee. Now I don't really

I don't really care to talk about it. I don't, you know, look, I think we've covered everything we need to cover on Kirsten Gillibrett. I just had a moment of legitimate shock.

Mm-hmm. And sometimes human beings are fallible. I, you know, and I maybe is misjudged what could happen in such a short time. The aging process, we should do something.

Medicine should fight. that. We should, we should, we should go up. Longevity science should be invested in heavily. So you didn't have to look at aging women. That's what you're saying. Is that what? That's not what I'm saying. That's what I heard. I just, it's a weird segue. I was shocked and I think that, you know, can't science do something is what I'm, is what I'm saying. So you don't have to look at aging women? No, it has nothing. Why do you keep saying that? You keep saying it. Is this not a logical place to go? It is not a logical place to go. Why would he, go ahead, sir? I'm not getting involved.

Wow, you've even scared her away. Wow. Wow. Well, she knows. She knows what you would say, so she can't take you on because she knows exactly what kind of horrible, insensitive comments you would make about her. And I have gray hair. Do you want to make that comparison? No, I didn't think so.

No. She doesn't. Nobody does. Okay. Nobody does. So I would like to talk about, you know, because this is a logical segue, Stu. A logical segue is not, oh, wow, she looks horrible. Science should do something about the standard aging process.

By the way, it has, and she was utilizing it apparently with hair dye. Okay. Here's a logical one. Biden puts taxpayers on the hook for 15,000 debtor student loans. Here's a guy who, we've been talking about fires all day. Here's a guy who is setting our government on fire just before he leaves. In every way possible, they are sabotaging the presidency of Donald Trump. And I really hope these are the things that come to an end beginning next week.

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Not much other than just that she's maybe, I always Color America's dumbest senator. Really? But she, Josh Hammer, our friend, pointed out that he thinks she might be the lowest IQ member of either house. Really? So I think that's interesting. I don't know where the line is there because there are some pretty good competition.

Yeah, there is. There is. Now, she just did ask Pete Hegseth that President Trump has been saying for the last few weeks that he would take Greenland by force if necessary. I've missed that. Have you heard that? At any moment. I mean, I think the troops are already heating up the engines. We're on DefCon 1 right now. You know, soon as he takes office, he's like, let the attack on Greenland begin.

I think that he's putting that in the speech at the inauguration. Really? Yeah. Okay. It's 1201. Let it begin. So she said he also said he warned of making Canada the 51st state. I don't think that was a warrant.

I think that was, what do you call him, a joke, and that he might use military to retake the Panama Canal. Well, if it's in the hands of China, I hope not, but, you know, that might be worse considering at some point. If it's in the hands of China, you know, take that one up with John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis Dems. but she asked it as if it was a serious question. Like Pete was going to go, oh, yeah, no, absolutely. I'm going to let those bombers fly right to Denmark, right directly to Denmark. We're taking that, we're taking that pretty little place. I'll tell you that right now.

She will be ours. What is wrong with these people? By the way, I don't work directly for media matters, but I do help them from time to time. If they're listening, I just want to help them out. story headline number one you can just choose media matters conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck's co-host claims beloved senator has stopped bathing

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Botox, makeup, and showers. I mean, they're good, they're good, they're all good approaches. I just wanted, they're all good approaches. Help them out on that one because, uh, I support media matters on what you're about to do to him. Billions of dollars are spent in all those industries. Yeah. And, uh, this is about the economy for you.

I'm creating jobs. Right. You know, right. New, uh, new administration. New approach. Okay. Maybe, uh, you know, up in the, uh, investments in certain areas. could be helpful for some.

For who? For some. Okay. I mean, look, you could benefit from a lot of different treatments. Oh, they recommend it. Yeah. Yeah. The executives here recommended, like, can we do anything?

And I'm like, yeah, you could put Vaseline on the lens, make it very, very blurry. Very blurry, yeah. Because there's this whole thing where you're on camera. Yeah. And they have to deal with that on a daily basis. Not the best part of their day. I suggested AI. just put an AI

figure of me. Yeah. Just put an AI guy on. I'll stay at home. I don't care. It'll be smarter. It'll be probably more entertaining. It wouldn't get things wrong.

It could pronounce words. I mean, if it was truly an AI for you, it wouldn't be able to pronounce words. No, it would be superior to me. Oh, okay. So like an AGI. You wouldn't want to put, yeah, you wouldn't. No, I just think artificial intelligence.

I don't think you need to go to general intelligence. Just that. Bottom of the line, Siri intelligence would be doing better show. Alexa. Yeah. Just that would be fine. Here's what I found on the internet. And it could say that. And it would be just fine.

It would be just fine. It probably would. I don't understand. You know, I feel like the majority of my career has been trying to bail you out of situations where you might have problems. And it seems like the second I say anything controversial, you try to make everything worse for me. That's interesting. I think I might remember that next time you're on the air and you just blurt something out that you shouldn't have said. I'm going to remember this moment. Sarah, will you remind me of

this moment, please? Thank you. Sarah, if you take this moment and use it as a clip, who do you work for? Just to let me know. I just so I'm reminded. I think this weekend you had enough of a scare. You know who you're working for. Yeah. You know. Satan. That's who you're working for. Satan. So you know what is weird is, and I want to talk about this in depth a little bit, not about me, but what is going through my mind. You know, last week, I thought I had a blood clot in my leg. And then it got worse. And so I went to the hospital Sunday night.

And I was in the hospital yesterday. And they said, we're probably going to keep you for a couple more days. And it turns out it wasn't a blood clot in the vein. It wasn't a, it was a blood clot someplace else in my body. But it wasn't in the system. And so it was fine. It was giving weird results. And because of, it was just very complex.

I'm fine. I will tell you that that plays a real game with you that I didn't expect per se, you know. When you say a blood clot, what do you think when somebody has a blood clot? you're like, oh. Are they making it to tomorrow? Yeah. That's your question. Right.

I mean, that can get out of control pretty easily, right? And I mean, I know that's a really dump. It's probably a very stupid understanding of it, but it's one of those things that sounds really serious. Yeah, you can stroke out.

I mean, you know, the widow maker is a, is a blood clot, you know, and not something I found, you know, just for bedside manner,

not something you should say when the wife is in the room, doctors. I'm just saying, You know what I mean? Well, you know, there are things like the Widowmaker. Yeah. Yeah.

We're aware of that one. We're aware of that one. And it didn't really take any describing of it. You know, just the name pretty much says it all, you know. So, but I, you know, I did a lot of thinking. And I realized, I got to get you out of here. Because if I, if I die, I mean, you'll destroy the legacy. You'll be on calling people old and ugly and.

I didn't say anything about either one of the... I didn't even say old. You're the one that said that. I just said, wow. Yeah. Yeah, wow. Wow. What happened there?

Now look, I... The natural aging process, Stu, that's what it was. That is... Stop it. Stop it. That is not true. In fact, we know it's not true because if what your claim is, but by the way, this is your claim that she was dyeing her hair.

I don't know that. You've made that. You're saying that. I don't know that. Well, either that or she married Frankenstein. Thank you. That's my point. Right. This is my point.

Is it natural to go from dyed hair? Really? Is that how the aging process occurs? One day you have dyed hair? The next day you don't have dyed hair? What a magical natural aging process you've described. Wow, he is sensitive on this. You see, that's what would happen to the show. I die and all of a sudden his real hatred.

It wouldn't sound like that at all. There's not enough noise makers from New Year's Eve. Those aren't mixed in yet. You don't have the fireworks going off in the background. So it sounds totally different. When the entire band was in here playing, those uplifting celebrations. When we hire Cooling the gang to come in, the show will sound a lot different. You know, when Pat called me in the hospital to find out how I was doing.

And I'm sure you were. trying to find the number. When Pat called to see how I was doing, I said, by the way, remember our pact, if I die, you milk it. And he said, oh, Stu's already on that. You don't have to remind me. Oh, 100%. And I was like, but that's not milking it.

I mean, that's more celebrating. Yeah. And he said, no, that was, no, he's dead serious. He's going to be so happy if you pass. And I said, was that, no. And he's like, no, ding dong the witch is dead. That was his quote. Yeah. I talked to him right before he talked to you. That's why. That's how he knew that.

Why are you calling him? Why are you calling him? Let's go and scare him. Let's do that. Boot! Let's do things like that. Anyway. And I know you're trying to, you're trying to make this out to me that I'm having some observation on Kirsten Gillibrand. Yeah. But like I'm just looking on Twitter, on X. I'm just looking at some of the, what people are tweeting right now about Kirsten Jillibrand. I just Google Jillibrand. And whoa. she has some problem and she now looks like an 80 year old woman, but she's only 58. No, I don't think she looks like that. Again, that's a... You haven't seen an 80 year old woman in a while. For those wondering, Jilla Brand is 58 years old, not 88.

These are all, this isn't me. This is what America is seeing. That's what your followers are saying. No, no, these aren't my followers. No, it is. These are not my followers. I've just just searched for Gillibrand old. I mean, that's all you did was.

Search for Gillibrand old. I wanted to see if people were saying that. Right. And they are. And they are. Over and over again. Why does Kirsten Gillibrand look like she's 79 years old? Jillibrand got old.

Holy, I haven't seen her in years. Jillibrand is only two years older than me. Oh, M.G. Does she look old? This is what the people are saying. I don't. I didn't know what the answer was. That's why I Google did she have some horridious,

horrible, hideous disease. That's what, yeah. It's funny. This is a funny show, behind the scenes show thing. I often do that when you insult people. I know. Because when you say something about someone and then I, like, if you say something about their appearance, I'm like, oh, crap, what if they have cancer?

Like, that's my first thought is something terrible has happened to them. And then the headlines will be Glenn Beck, Mock's Cancer Survivor. You know what's been? You know how lucky we've been? This never happened. I was praying it was happening today to Stu. I was praying. I was like, oh, please let her have cancer.

Oh, there's a Media Matters headline for you. No, no, no. Thoughts and prayers. That's what you get. Those are the thoughts and prayers from Glenn Beck that you get. That's right. Not against her, just against Stu. Just if she could just do me a favor.

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And let's play video number one. If you happen to be watching The Blaze, I'll describe it. It is, I think that's number two. The fire is coming. This is from his back door, his porch, and you see the fire. Play the first one, if you will, I think the first one shows it. Yeah, that's the beginning. He believes that's the first smoke from the fire as it started.

And you could see how small that is, relatively speaking. The winds were so high by the, by a couple hours later, it was that close to his house. And then his house burned down. And there's nothing left. Terrible. Yeah, it's, it's awful. Cut, can we play cut 11? This is the guy who stayed in the fire and saved his house with a garden.

hose. Watch this. The house was built by my mother and father in 1960, and I lived here my whole life. So there's a lot of memories here. And I think I owed it to them as well to try my best to save it. Some things in life are worth fighting for. I mean, if I were to lose this house, it would be very difficult to afford to be able to build a new house, to pay the enormous property taxes they have here. Where would I do? when I was out here hosing the house down and getting ready and when the houses started

to burn, I didn't see one single fire truck out here at all. Zero. If they had some fire trucks, just put a squirt here, a squirt there and kept an eye on things. All these houses would be here now. I'm telling you right now I saw it.

So would you have stayed? It's weird because it kind of like evacuing an area understandable when a fire is going to be. But like if that type of situation is playing out where you could have easily put out small fires, like they could have protected a lot of these communities if they didn't leave. Leaving them makes that little fire turn into an entire house burned down. Yeah. He says his neighbors thank him because I guess he saved another neighbor's

house as well. Yeah. And, you know, I would have stayed as long as I could have. I think there, I did hear another person going through this and they were like trying to put out the fires and the winds were so fast. They couldn't even get, they couldn't get the water up to the roof. Because as soon as they would start shooting up there would just blow it way into a mist. So, you know, Mel Gibson, he's quite amazing on his view on this. He's like, it's just stuff. It just, you know, burned out of my stuff. But think about this.

All of those celebrities, all those famous people, how many treasures, you know, from film and everything else, just to Mel Gibson's house that's gone now. And I think it would, it's a good reason to have everything digitized, quite honestly. You lose all those pictures. You lose everything, you know, that you've had in your house. And they're giving crap to the people who. hired, you know, the guy Caruso, that was running for mayor of Los Angeles, almost one. He stayed because he built a big mall. He stayed and just hosed that thing down, saved the mall. You know, I'm wondering if anybody is thinking, gee, maybe I shouldn't have voted for Carabas.

I think maybe I should have voted for the guy who came from the water department and was warning about these things. What do you think? Los Angeles still have Gavin Newsom I suppose Can you imagine if Schellenberger and Caruso would have won Totally different world

Today for Los Angeles California you need to wake up It is time to wake up and find somebody like a DeSantis that is going to stop this nonsense Look at the way he has been dealing

with hurricanes Your hurricanes are fires Every year It doesn't have to be this way California. Wake up. This is Glenn Beck.