The Glenn Beck Program - Did Trump Just Give Kristi Noem a PROMOTION?! | Guest: Dr. Debra Soh | 3/6/26

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

Kristi Noem is out as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as President Trump announced Noem will now serve as special envoy for the newly created security initiative Shield of the Am...ericas. Is this a demotion or a promotion? Glenn brings in his chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, to discuss the fluctuating oil prices and why prices have skyrocketed since yesterday. Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) announced he would drop out of his runoff race against Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) on the condition that Senate leadership lift the filibuster barrier and pass the SAVE Act. America is at a critical juncture as the conflict in Iran heats up. Are we only involved at the behest of Israel? Glenn explains why he believes those accusations are unfounded and also heads to the chalkboard to break down Trump's endgame. Glenn addresses recent critiques of his George Washington AI model and explains how it works and why the criticisms are wrong. “Sextinction” author Dr. Debra Soh joins to discuss why society overall is having less sex. Glenn discusses the dire threat that radical Islam poses to America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:21 Nome and the president. Also, Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. I've got a different I think a different spin on both of those things and I think what you're getting elsewhere. Also, big, big, important news on oil prices.
Starting point is 00:03:39 They are beginning to go up. They're not spiking and I'll tell you why they're not spiking. Why is this war different? Why are oil prices not spiking when they're saying that the straight of Hormuz is going to be shut down. Oil per barrel should be going
Starting point is 00:03:55 through the roof. There's a reason why, and I'll explain that coming up, and what all of this means, especially this weekend. I think we're going to see some more things happening this weekend. Maybe I'm wrong, but we'll see. We're going to start with Christy Knoem next. First, let me tell you about our sponsor.
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Starting point is 00:05:36 Christy Noem. What happened? Yesterday, something happened in Washington looked a little like chaos, looked like, uh-oh, trouble. And I'm not sure. Maybe it is. I'm not sure. Christine Ome is out as Department of Homeland Security Secretary. And in her place, a guy named Senator Mullen. Now, let me start with Nome. She wasn't fired. She was moved. And she was moved into something there was like,
Starting point is 00:06:02 what the hell is that? I've never even heard of that. It doesn't even fully exist yet. It's a position called the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. We are going all Marvel comic. I mean, this guy is all Marvel comic. Okay. Let me translate what this is,
Starting point is 00:06:21 usually means in Washington and may mean this time. I mean, what I'm going to give you here is spec, you're going to give you a fax and then I'm going to speculate on them. So, you know, take it for what it's worth. When a president moves somebody into a job that hasn't been fully defined yet, it usually means one of two things. Either A, yeah, bye-bye, you're being pushed aside. Or B, you're being moved in to run something that is bigger but isn't public yet.
Starting point is 00:06:50 Okay. And if you look at the timing, this doesn't feel like a demotion. And I'm getting mixed signals because some things, it looks like Donald Trump is pissed at her about, et cetera, et cetera. So I really don't know because this is speculation. But it feels like a reorganization of the battlefield because it's the shield of the Americas. I know that doesn't mean anything, but follow me on this. Right now, the United States is looking at a hemisphere. and a hemisphere problem that most Americans still don't fully understand or see.
Starting point is 00:07:26 When Donald Trump was running, and I've told you this before, but it's worth repeating, when Donald Trump was running for re-election, we were standing backstage someplace, and he was getting ready to go on. He said, you want to look like a prophet? You know what you need to talk about? You just keep talking about Panama. And I'm like, right. And then he goes on stage, and I'm like, what am I going to say about Panama?
Starting point is 00:07:48 What does that mean? I don't even know what that means. Panama is going to be in news everywhere next year. And then he walks on stage. And I came back and I went, does anybody understand what he's talking about with Panama? What's happening in Panama? We all looked at each other like, nothing is happening with Panama. What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:08:03 Remember when he gets in? What does he say? Panama. We want the Panama Canal back. And you're like, what? Where is this coming from? Because he understood what was happening with Panama and China. China had taken the entire Panama Canal and.
Starting point is 00:08:19 was controlling it. Then what happens? He starts talking about Greenland, also in our hemisphere. Then what happens? He's talking and making moves on Venezuela. Then what happens? He's talking about, you know, who's next? Cuba. Okay. Hu. Cuba, Russia. Cartels operating like parallel governments across Mexico and Central America. Chinese ports being built all over Latin America, Russian intelligence operating out of Caracas, Iranian proxies using the region for logistics and staging grounds, and every other president has treated Latin America like an afterthought, but now, now what's happening? It's not an afterthought anymore. The Southern Hemisphere has become the new front line of great power competition. He is declaring
Starting point is 00:09:18 the Western Hemisphere is ours. And DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, was not designed for that. DHS created after 9-11, and that's a whole different can of worms, and we can get into that some other time. But it was built to stop terrorism inside of the United States, at our airports, at our borders, disaster response, blah, blah, blah. But what the president is doing now is different, and different than any other president has done,
Starting point is 00:09:47 probably since Theodore Roosevelt, okay? This is hemisphere level instability. We have the migration waves. We have state collapse. We have cartels that are moving people and drugs and weapons and intelligence. We have foreign adversaries embedding themselves inside of all of that chaos. So if you're the president and you're looking at the world and you're saying, we have got to shore up America to make sure we last another 150.
Starting point is 00:10:17 250 years, another 150 minutes at times, I feel like. You don't just run border patrol. You build a hemisphere defense system. You make sure that our darkest Russia, China, Iran are not running operations in this hemisphere, okay? Which may explain the phrase shield of the Americas. Think about the name. It's not border control.
Starting point is 00:10:47 It's not immigration enforcement. It's a shield of the Americas, the entire Western Hemisphere. That doesn't sound like DHS. That sounds more like strategic security architecture for the Western hemisphere, doesn't it? Or he's just been watching Marvel, I mean, Marvel Comics. But to me, the shield for Americas, the Americas sounds a little bit of bit more like something like NATO, intelligence sharing, cartel disruption, migration control,
Starting point is 00:11:28 counter China operations. And if that's what's being built, you would need somebody who understands a few things, border security, state governments, law enforcement, and migration policy. Well, I mean, in that Christy Gnome, I mean, that's her entire resume, isn't it? So the story may not be gnome fired on the outs. The story might be Gnome redeployed. Now let me talk about the second half of this move
Starting point is 00:12:01 because while she goes outward to whatever is coming next and the president said he's going to be talking about that this weekend. Trump brought somebody inward. Senator Mullen. Who is Senator Mullen? He's a former MMA fighter. He's a business owner.
Starting point is 00:12:19 He's a senator and he's controversial. Some critics inside MAGA circles, some of them, accuse him of being two establishment. He has done things like business loans during COVID. He's got ethics complaints. He votes against MAGA sometimes. Fine. Not my favorite. But debate is healthy.
Starting point is 00:12:46 and the real question is not personality, it is function. If the White House is creating a new Western Hemisphere security structure, then DHS is about to become something different. Not a political platform, not a messaging department, but an operational machine. Mass or deportations continue, border enforcement, domestic security, logistics, and Mullen, love him or hate him, has a reputation. in Washington as somebody who picks fights and then executes orders. That's what Donald Trump wants, a fighter who can execute what he orders. Okay, that's his resume, and that tells me something important. This may not be a personnel shakeup.
Starting point is 00:13:36 It may be the move in a larger security strategy and a strategy built around the simple realization that for the next 20 years, America's been. biggest threats may not come across the ocean. They may come across our own hemisphere. Think of Mexico. And if that is true, then the United States may be about to build something we haven't had since the Cold War, a continental defense doctrine for the Americas. And if that's what shield of the Americas turns out to be, yesterday was not a firing. Yesterday. Yesterday, day was the first chess move on a board none of us have been thinking about. All right, more in a second.
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Starting point is 00:16:20 So, oh, yeah, this is, this is producer. I'll throw this up really quick. This is where oil prices are right now. So this is, they're right around 87, 28. As of now, it's fluctuating. But this is a kind of a sharp increase from yesterday. Well, going back to March 2nd, they were at 70. Yesterday, they were still around 75, 73, 75. So over the past 24 to 48 hours, we've seen a pretty big uptick. There was a, I closed it now, but there was a CNBC article talking about how Iran is still targeting. multiple different tankers within the Straits of Hormuz. They described it as currently a standstill within the Strait of Hormuz as far as tanker traffic
Starting point is 00:17:01 is concerned. So I think a lot of people would kind of argue whether it's actually closed right now. But in terms of actual traffic going through, the look and feel of it right now is that it's closed. So here's the thing. First of all, the president is never going to allow them to close it. I think you will see a wave of strikes on their Navy. I think, you know, at some point he's really going to concentrate.
Starting point is 00:17:29 I know they've been doing that, but really concentrating on the Straits of Hormuz because it cannot shut it down. That will cause massive disruptions everywhere. Now, a little slowdown may not be bad. And let me explain. who gets the majority of their oil through the Straits of Ormuz? China. China has just stopped running their, for the first time,
Starting point is 00:17:57 and how long, Jason, have they been running, you know, air drills over Taiwan and doing dog fights and everything else, all just to intimidate Taiwan? They've been doing this for a years, a long, long time. They just stopped. They haven't been doing those for the last few days. Now, there's two reasons that might cause this. One, they're looking and saying, don't cause any attention. Let's not bring the eyes of Donald Trump towards us.
Starting point is 00:18:25 I don't think that's the reason. I think the reason goes to oil. They are starting to hoard oil. They're taking all of their oil that they can get and they're hoarding it. They are just guarding it like nobody's tomorrow because they know they may not have oil tomorrow. And so I think they're saving fuel right now by not doing the Taiwan dog fights, which is a really big deal and very telling on how close to the edge they just might be with oil. Yeah. And can I add to that a little bit?
Starting point is 00:19:01 Because China doing these air incursions into Taiwan's airspace has been a very big part of their overall strategy to eventually launch an operation on Taiwan. And part of that was just normalizing the idea. that there's always going to be Chinese aircraft in your airspace. So later on down the line, when they finally do decide to do this attack, it's going to be masked. You know, the people of Taiwan, the military are not going to know, is this the attack or is this just more of the same? The fact that they're cutting that off right now means either, it's probably a combination of
Starting point is 00:19:32 the two, as you laid out. But one, they don't really have the fuel to go around willy-nilly doing this kind of thing. But also, there are strategic objectives all over the world are kind of things. are kind of thrown in flux right now. I don't think they really know what to do, but attacking Taiwan is not one of those things they can do in the near future, which is pretty wild to see.
Starting point is 00:19:54 So again, this goes to why did the president go into Iraq? I mean, I'm sorry, into Iran. He went into Iran, yes, because we can't afford to have nuclear missiles. And also, we need to stop the terror, They are the head of the snake of terror, but they also provide Russia with all of the drones and a lot of the oil from Iran goes to China.
Starting point is 00:20:24 This guy is, again, think of him, you know, the old saying, you know, kill two birds with one stone. I really think Donald Trump is so strategic. He kills about 45 birds with one stone. It's like he skips rocks and just is knocking birds out all over the planet. 46 because he actually killed the Iranian who plotted to assassinate him. Really? Yes, in this mission. Wow.
Starting point is 00:20:51 You know, just a bonus. Just a bonus, an extra little skip there at the end. So the best thing, the reason why, usually if they were going to close the straits, if somebody they were threatening to close it and there were war, you would see oil spike much higher than this, much, much higher than this. Why isn't it? One of the reasons, again, maybe what Donald Trump did with insurance. The reason why oil spikes in a war is because all of the insurance companies say that's a war zone,
Starting point is 00:21:27 we're no longer going to insure that oil or that chip. And so without insurance, you're not moving that thing, okay? Because everyone's like, I'm not risking that much money. And so everything stops. Donald Trump came out a couple of days ago and he said, United States will underwrite the insurance for those ships. That's a big deal. And we will escort those ships.
Starting point is 00:21:49 We will make sure those ships do not stop in the Straits of our moves. So we're saying the Navy is going to protect all of the oil that is moving out. Now, it's interesting that again, there's such a slowdown that CNBC calls it a virtual shutdown, that nothing is moving right now with this. But the reason why oil isn't spiking is, I believe the world believes that Donald Trump is on this and not going to let that oil sit there. And he's not going to let insurance companies stop the world from moving forward. It is a, I mean, he plays such risky games and such high stakes games. I mean, I don't know how he, honestly, how he's walking around.
Starting point is 00:22:40 You know how president's age like 400 years in four years? I have not seen this guy age like normally happens after. I mean, remember, this has been a 16 year run for him. Okay. Not 16. Yeah. A 10 year run. 10 year run for him so far.
Starting point is 00:23:00 You know, it's not eight. It's 10 and he's still a ways away from finishing. So he's actually kind of been in this spotlight for three terms by the end of this. you see Barack Obama at the beginning of his first term, the end of his first term, he's gray, he looks different. And I know Donald Trump dies his hair. I think he does. But still, what this guy has done compared to every other president, just the pace of it. I don't know how, I mean, I think I'd be dead. I don't know. I don't think I could do it. This guy just has the greatest genes of all time. All right, some perspective next on Ken Paxton.
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Starting point is 00:25:09 Torch Insiders can listen free at glenbeck.com slash torch. Welcome to the Glennbeck program. So yesterday, Donald Trump tweeted this. The Republican Party primary race for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas, a state I love and won three times in record numbers, the highest vote ever. You could just hear him say these things. You know he wrote this. State I love.
Starting point is 00:25:53 won three times in record numbers. Highest vote ever recorded by far. Cannot for the good of the party in our country itself be allowed to go on any longer. It must stop now. We have an easy-to-beat radical left opponent, and we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively. Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now this one must be perfect. My endorsement within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable.
Starting point is 00:26:26 It has been virtually insurmountable. Nobody thought it could be done. It is such an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, especially in Texas. I will be making my endorsement soon, and I'll be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race. Is that fair? We must win in November. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Okay. So he made that yesterday. And then Ken Paxton did something you almost never see in modern politics. He put policy above position. And he saw that and he said, okay, I will step aside if Senate leadership will lift the filibuster barrier and pass the Save America Act. He said, I'll do it for the good of our country and to advance President Trump's agenda. Okay. So Donald Trump wants the Save America Act. Ken Paxton said, I will drop out and give you the other thing you want. I'll leave. But I want something in return. And it's not a job. It's not a position. I want Cornyn and Senate leadership to then pass the Save America Act. Now here's why it matters.
Starting point is 00:27:46 and if you're serious about saving the republic, you should be paying attention here. This isn't a deal. It's a test and it's a test of motives. It's so brilliant. Most drop-out conversations in politics sound something like this. Well, what do I get? I get a job, a title, a payday, a pardon, a favor, what am I getting? And that's the kind of transactional politics that we see over and over and over again.
Starting point is 00:28:14 people floating, withdraw, or endorsement in exchange for a role, right? What Paxton is offering is categorically different. No personal prize on the table that we know of, only a measurable outcome for the country. I believe this is a noble gesture. And not because I'm asking you to like Ken Paxton or anything else and not because I, you know, I'm asking you to hate John Cornyn, I don't think you need any. I don't do you need anybody to ask you to hate John Cornyn to hate him more than you already do? What I'm asking you is to recognize the moral structure of what just happened.
Starting point is 00:28:55 Personal ambition gets put on a scale. National necessity gets put on the other side of that scale. And Paxton is saying, if you do the necessary thing, I'll pay for it. I'll absorb the cost. in a time where everyone is known for doing just what's good for them, it's a rare move. A rare move that says, fine, hold me to a standard, but I'm going to hold you to one, two. Now, I'm not saying that Ken is pure as a driven snow. I'm sure, you know, I, you know, do the right thing and doors open for you.
Starting point is 00:29:39 but this is really a test of Cornyn because if Cornyn wants to make this go away, if the Senate wants to make this go away, all he has to do is say, okay, we'll pass the Save America Act. And all that Donald Trump has to do is say, Ken, great idea.
Starting point is 00:30:01 John, you're going to do that, right? You're going to go right into Congress. In fact, I'm going to take Ken up, but if you fail to pass that, you and your Senate cronies, guess who I'm endorsing? That's the way this should be done. Now, for anybody who has friends that don't know what the Save America Act is, it's the proof of ID.
Starting point is 00:30:26 I mean, first you have to approve your citizenship, you know, when you're registering to votes. Like you have to in states like Texas and Florida and most other places, but it also requires a photo ID that you'll need. to allow you to vote. That is something that has 80% approval rating nationwide. Even with Democrats, it's over 70%. This is, I can't say this enough. This is the only bill I have seen in, what, 30 years that has a chance of unifying this country. We haven't been unified since right after 9-11. After 9-11, we were unified and then it just all broke to hell. And we can't, we cannot agree on color of the sky. And yet this one, we're almost in lockstep. That's as close to lockstep as
Starting point is 00:31:17 politics ever gets. Okay. Why? Because everybody knows if citizenship is meaningless at the ballot box, then citizenship becomes meaningless everywhere else. And look how meaningless citizenship is in our country right now. And if the vote isn't trusted, then nothing that follows is stable, the courts, the laws, the budgets, the wars, peace, any of it. Okay. That's why Trump is demanding, and I'm quoting, Republicans pass it with passion and not watered down. Wow. This is a gift from Ken Paxton to the president. This is an absolute gift. I am giving you the leverage you need, that you want. Now here's a hard part that Democrats are, you know, struggling with, I think. And really, Republicans are with John Cornyn. What if the guy who makes it happen is somebody you don't like?
Starting point is 00:32:26 Okay, let me do something that drives everybody crazy in 2026. I'm going to think out loud like a free man instead of joining a tribe. Let me take on that problem with Republicans like John Cornyn. Okay. Do you do you do this? I mean, it's John Cornyn. I'm just going to tell you how I feel. I don't like John Cornyn at all. I think he's been part of the Washington machinery for far too long. I think he's been wrong too often when the moment demanded backbone. He has stood against the Trump agenda over and over and over and over, and I think he's truly part of the problem. That's my judgment. That's how I feel. But here is the question that we should ask in this moment. If a man you distrust will do something your children desperately need and they do it the way
Starting point is 00:33:22 you're asking them to do it. What was it with passion and without compromise? Do you reject it because you distrust the man. That's not principle if you do. That's ego dressed up as principle. Paxton just short-circuited all of this. He just laid down a moral challenge, not just Cornyn, but to everyone watching. Here's the question.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Are you here to win? Or are you here to save the nation? I'll go further. If Cornyn would make that commitment, publicly, specifically, and then actually follow through, not by supporting it in press releases while it quietly is allowed to die, not by jamming it full of amendments that weaken the core, not by turning it into Washington's soup,
Starting point is 00:34:21 but helping it get done the way Trump is calling for, then yes, he would buy a good enough goodwill with me that I would hold my nose and accept him as the nominee and vote for him because we can't have the other guy in, but I would not be happy about it. And I wouldn't suddenly believe, oh my gosh, he's a changed man, he's a great guy. But in an emergency, triage has to come before remodeling. You know what I mean? And while I can't vote for him, as it continues to feed the deep state Republican machine,
Starting point is 00:35:02 I can do it for this. This is a much bigger principle. I mean, it's so hard. Everything is on fire right now. The deep state is a real problem. It's a real problem. But if we don't pass the Save America Act, we'll never get to the problem of the deep state.
Starting point is 00:35:24 But he has to make this deal. And then, as Trump said, do it with passion. and Mr. President, may I suggest you take Ken Paxton up on his offer and then, because they'd have to pass this in the next few weeks, they have to do it right now, they can't wait around. Do not make your endorsement. Do not give that away for free. You're right. You make that endorsement. It's done. Do not give that away for free. John Cornyn is part of the McConnell Thune problem. And if they want this guy in for Senate, then they have to pay a heavy price that they don't want to pay because we don't want to pay it. I don't want to pay it. And you are a dealmaker. You know deals better than anybody else. This is a good deal. This is a good deal for them. We'll get out of your way. You get that seat. But we get the Save America Act.
Starting point is 00:36:25 I don't know if every Republican would feel comfortable with that, but I am. But I'm not sure I've seen this ever before. You know, we're in the social media era, and you've got runoff pressure and Trump's endorsement leverage and a high profile policy hostage to the Senate. But Ken Paxson stepping to the plate and making this offer is kind of old America stuff. You know what I mean? That kind of feels like America in our best. because when it comes down to it, when America is on fire, it's always held together by leaders who do the unthinkable.
Starting point is 00:37:07 They bring rivals in, they swallow pride, they subordinate themselves to survive, the greater nation to survive. Lincoln did this when he brought in his team of rivals, all of the political competitors because the union was cracking and he needed capacity more than comfort. And that's the point. when the house is on fire, you don't ask whether the man holding the hose once insulted you at dinner.
Starting point is 00:37:34 Isn't that the guy? Shut up. He's putting the house out. So the real headline here should not be Paxton versus Cornyn. The real headline is this. A sitting U.S. Senator is being offered political mercy on one condition. Do the country defining work that the president wants. And here's what every politician should hear.
Starting point is 00:37:57 Corn and Thune leadership, all of them. The people are demanding election integrity, and we're not doing it for clout. We're not doing it because we're bored. We're not doing it because we're stupid. We're doing it because we know we are near to the edge of the Republic, and that a few foundational things have to be secured if the Republic is going to remain a republic. And if Ken Paxton, of all people, can say, I'll sacrifice my own path.
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Starting point is 00:42:35 this opportunity to use it as negotiation as a hammer. He didn't need me to say that. He obviously gets that. There's also another disturbing story in the Washington Post. Russia is providing Iran Intel on targeting Americans I'll look into that story a little bit a little bit is worth probably reading
Starting point is 00:43:04 and understanding and I'll try to explain that to you also Bloomberg is reporting at the same time US is now easing oil sanctions on the Kremlin and is allowing India to buy Russian oil until April that one makes sense especially if the WAPO thing is true. If they are starting to defend and get stronger with Iran, it's probably worth saying to India,
Starting point is 00:43:32 hey, let them go ahead, buy some of their oil until April, until this passes, let's ease some of the pressure off of them, so they're not dragged into supporting Iran. If that deal can be made, that's probably a really good deal. But it's disturbing if they are, indeed providing Iran with Intel on, you know, Americans. I don't even know what that means exactly. Yeah, it's me. It's me. Is that who's, yeah, that's where the hacking is coming from. Olympic.com. Yeah, all right. Thank you so much for listening. More in just a second. As we try to
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Starting point is 00:46:30 and that is super, super important. You're starting to see a lot of strategic pieces move all over the board, all over the world, and that is indication exactly what the president is doing. and you know it's this he's stating it just for some reason nobody is listening and i and we're getting lost we're getting lost when people start to make this about just iran or uh israel and i want to address that here uh and then show you what this is really all about in 60 seconds first let me tell you about my patriot supply most people are just a few days away at any given moment from realizing wow, I am really dependent on the system.
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Starting point is 00:48:17 Right now, go to preparewicklend.com. Get yours now, preparewiglend.com. There are moments in history where somebody like me and there are more and more people like me. I mean, for the first time in human history, a man who works to have an audience has an audience that has an audience themselves. That's never happened before in human history. And so when we speak, we all have an audience now. And what you say into that microphone or what you say online, it doesn't just shape opinion, depending on who you are and depending how effective you are.
Starting point is 00:49:05 It can shape the course of nations. And we are in one of those moments right now. War is unfolding in the Middle East and lives are hanging in the Middle East. and lives are hanging in the balance. Words, careless words, unproven claims, accusations thrown around like hand grenades, they can inflame things far beyond what any of us even intend. Over the last few days, Tucker Carlson has made some statements about Israel and Iran that are extraordinary. He is critical of the war in Iran, and I understand that.
Starting point is 00:49:46 I disagree, but I can see how he makes. the case. But he also claims that we're only in this war because Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jews are making us do it. Now he has gone further and claimed that Jewish spies are setting off bombs in Arab countries to make it look like Iran is bombing them. I want you listen to me carefully here. If those claims were true, they would be among some of the most important revelations of our lifetime. And they would demand investigation. They would demand exposure. They would demand accountability. But if they are not true, if they are speculation presented as fact without any backup documents, then they're not just wrong. They are dangerously wrong. And I know something about being wrong.
Starting point is 00:50:46 before I get into this, before anybody starts to think, oh, Glenn Beck's going to, you know, do some cheap media feud. Look at the food fight between people, you know, are on the same side. Let me just say this. I admire the work done by Tucker Carlson, a lot of the work that he has done in the past, especially during COVID. You know, at a time when powerful, powerful institutions were silencing everyone,
Starting point is 00:51:10 Tucker stood up with the facts. And then he asked questions and backed them up with the facts. And those were things nobody was, Everybody was too afraid to ask national television, nobody was doing it. He did. Because he did more than just ask questions. He brought evidence. He challenged the narratives and brought the evidence.
Starting point is 00:51:29 He brought the facts. And by doing so, he helped change the course of the conversation in this country. And for that, I will always be grateful to Tucker Carlson. But, you know, gratitude doesn't require silence, especially when the stakes keep getting bigger and bigger. And when the stakes get high, look, I've been here before, okay, war is high stakes enough. And I've been here. In the early 2000s during the Iraq war, I made arguments that I believed with every fiber in my being.
Starting point is 00:52:06 I absolutely believed them. I got on the air and I said, I know this is what's happening. For instance, I knew that Saddam Hussein was not responsible for 9-11, and I said so. I was deeply suspicious of any of the claims of weapons of mass destruction, and I said so. And even when the claims were delivered by a man, I trusted at the time, Colin Powell, I supported the war anyway. Why? Because I knew.
Starting point is 00:52:39 Trust me, I'm the one who said it. know what I said. I know what I believed. I knew. I believed I understood what President Bush was doing. And perhaps it's because I wanted to believe that what they were doing was longer term and strategic. Either way, I believed with everything in me that the real target was Iran because Iran was the problem. not Iraq. And by placing pressure on both sides on Iran from, you know, both sides of pressure on Iran from Afghanistan to the east and Iraq from the West, I believed, and I said this a million times,
Starting point is 00:53:19 we're going to pop the head of the snake, which is Iran. And I made that argument on the air over and over and over and over again. Strong arguments. But I did not present any evidence of it because there was no evidence of it. they were based on what I thought I could read and see if you listened to me back then, you heard me say this over and over here. Trust me, you just have to be able to read between the lines. I must have said that a million times. If you read between the lines, well, no, no, huge, huge mistake.
Starting point is 00:53:54 Because later it became clear. That wasn't the strategy. That wasn't the plan. And there was nothing to read between the lines. They weren't half saying it at all. And Iraq and Afghanistan turned into nightmares. A lot of Americans died. And for what?
Starting point is 00:54:10 Honestly, at the end of it, Afghanistan, for what? And I was part of convincing people because I knew. Near the end of President Bush's presidency, President Bush called me to the White House. And he said a few things to me that I'll never forget. one of which he said in so many words, we were talking about the next election he was leaving. He said, don't worry, Glenn. Whoever sits in this chair is going to hear from the same agencies,
Starting point is 00:54:38 the same advisors, the same institutions, and they'll realize that the president really has his hands tied and he has no other choice but to continue what we're doing now. And my blood ran cold. He said something that he was trying to make me feel better. And I left there shaking like a leaf. Because what he was describing was something,
Starting point is 00:54:58 that I didn't even want to believe existed. A permanent governing structure that didn't answer to the president of the United States, an unelected power, a system where the bureaucracy and the intelligence agencies and the state department shaped the decisions no matter what the president said or who the president was, that's horrifying. And I told you about that conversation the very next day. but even then I didn't fully grasp the power of what he had just said. And it honestly took the presidency of Donald Trump and what happened to him during his first term for millions of Americans, including me, to see it clearly.
Starting point is 00:55:42 There are forces in Washington that do not answer to voters. And they are much more powerful, and we know it today, much more powerful than we thought. but knowing that does not mean every accusation is true about it's a deep state. Pizza gate. It does not mean that's true. Yeah, but you can't trust them because there's a deep state. I know, but that doesn't make that true. And good people can really get lost.
Starting point is 00:56:11 Good people can become convinced of something that just is not correct. And that's not because they're corrupt or stupid. And it's not because they're traitors. I'm tired of everybody being a traitor. They believe they see the truth. And I know it because I've lived it. Let me give you another example. In 2016, and everybody on my staff would say,
Starting point is 00:56:35 please don't bring up 2016, Glenn, that's just not good for you. And I know that, but it's important. The moment Donald Trump came down that escalator in Trump Tower, I was convinced this guy is not who he says he is. He's going to be the worst president ever and we're going to end the country because of him. And I believed it so strongly,
Starting point is 00:56:53 that I spent months and months and months on-air cataloging every possible reason why, every flaw, every danger, every warning, not because of ego. In fact, I knew exactly what I was doing to my audience at the time and my career. I really believed it that I was doing the right thing. I actually thought, this is how crazy I got, I actually thought I was sacrificing my career to save the country. I thought I was doing the patriotic thing. that's how stupid I was.
Starting point is 00:57:25 I now know that the patriotic thing would have been to express my concerns, build a case not on what I know in my gut, but what I could prove and let you decide. You know, Thomas Jefferson said trust the people. They'll get it wrong from time to time, but they'll eventually get it right. I think Churchill said the same thing. But I didn't because of my arrogance, I trusted my gut. I know this to be true. You just don't get it. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:57:55 My saving grace is right before the election when it became clear he's going to win. I said something. I said this. I hope I'm wrong. I don't think I am, but I hope I'm wrong. And if he does even half of what he's promised, I will admit it and I will apologize. So when he did, I did. So what did I learn?
Starting point is 00:58:17 I learned the most dangerous phrase in podcasting, broadcast. any kind of casting unless you're fishing. The most dangerous phrase anybody can utter in all of human history is this. I know. Not I think, not I suspect, not I'm asking questions, I'm looking for the proof.
Starting point is 00:58:41 I know. Because the moment a man says, I know without the proof, that man stops searching for truth because he has it. He knows. And I know because. that's me. And the moment millions of people believe him, history begins to move. Sometimes we think we know. We really, truly think we know. But when we present opinion as facts,
Starting point is 00:59:11 because I got an inside source I can't tell you about, but I know because he knows. when we make sweeping claims about motives or conspiracies or intentions, I believe we're stepping into territory that belongs to God. Now, maybe this is my age talking. Maybe it's the scars of making every mistake a broadcaster could ever make, but it's made me more careful, more humble, and more aware of how dangerous certainty can be. But even more so when war is involved,
Starting point is 00:59:46 When we talk about wars, we're talking about lives of our American soldiers and those we're going over to kill. And it can involve entire peoples, entire civilizations. Now, what we're talking about today is not just war. Because this war touches something else that time and time again has led to programs, expulsions, and extermination camps. When you take war and the Jews and they collide, accuracy is no longer optional. It is a moral obligation. So what do you do? Give me 60 seconds and I'll tell you.
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Starting point is 01:01:30 the first thing we have to do is recognize that these kinds of accusations, if true, are historic. You got to admit that. Boy, if that's true, that's historic. But if false, they are dangerously combustible in an entirely different kind of category, different than anything else we're talking about. because this ignites hatred that burns for generations. So asking questions is good, but declaring something as fact without showing the hard evidence that is not journalism
Starting point is 01:02:11 and it is not helpful because the stakes are historic. I believe in the First Amendment. What Tucker Carlson says next is up to him and it's his right, just as it is up to me on what I say next and it's my right. But there's a third party involved in all of this, and that's you. What I say is my right and my responsibility. But what you do with it is yours. And let me ask you, will you accept anyone's word, including mine, without proof?
Starting point is 01:02:49 If you do, you're a dope. Don't do it. Don't take, I'm talking strictly mine. Do not take my word as gospel. Don't. Even if it's a compelling argument. That's an argument to my point of view. When it's important, demand the proof.
Starting point is 01:03:08 Because in this war of words, you're not just condemning one guy who stands accused. You're condemning an entire people. First of all, you're condemning a war and killing people in Iran. You've got to be sure. But then you add on top of it, it's the Jews. Now you also are condemning a people who have been the victim of these kinds of, of accusations for decades and decades. Centuries. I mean, I mean, honest to God, look up the bubonic plague. You know who caused the bubonic plague? It was the Jews because they're not getting sick.
Starting point is 01:03:39 You know why? Because they washed their hands like 17,000 times a day. That's why they weren't getting sick from the bubotic plague. But it was blamed on the Jews. And people, because of that, have tried to kill them over and over and over again. On this, I have tried to be so careful on the beginning of this war. What did I say on Monday? Don't take my word for any of this. I've said, do not do not my job is not to convince you that this is right my job is to show you how i'm looking at all of the facts and wrestling with them my job is to bring evidence to the table my job is to illuminate the bigger picture which i will hear in just a second again and to share whatever whatever wisdom i have gained from getting things so wrong in the past
Starting point is 01:04:27 I learned from the past, Iraq, and I'm applying those lessons today to tell you about Iran. And I don't want to convince you. I'm giving you this information. So you can make the decision because it's a decision that one day you will be called to answer for, just as I will have to stand in answer for the decisions that I make. But remember this. History does not remember who shouted the loudest. history remembers the truth.
Starting point is 01:05:00 And in moments like this, when war hangs in the balance, and ancient hatreds can be reignited with a single sentence, when millions of people are listening, accuracy becomes a moral duty. So let me be accurate. I believe Tucker Carlson is profoundly wrong on the motivations for this war for President Trump. but when he says he knows about Israel without presenting the hard evidence, I believe, I know he has become irresponsible because of the way history plays out over and over and over again.
Starting point is 01:05:39 It's a little like being wrong about a math problem. Yeah, you're wrong about that one, Johnny. Or being wrong about dropping nuclear bombs. Not all mistakes are equal. And I have been profoundly wrong over and over again. and despite my best attempts, I am going to be wrong again. But those mistakes taught me something that I wish every broadcaster, every podcaster, every influencer, every politician, every citizen were a member. Certainty is easy.
Starting point is 01:06:11 Humility is super hard. Truth requires patience. Truth requires transparency. Truth requires evidence. and the courage to say the three hardest words any human being can ever say. And that is, I was wrong. And if we can't build a culture where truth matters more than being right, then the real danger to the republic doesn't come from Iran or Israel or any foreign power.
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Starting point is 01:08:12 Let me give you a quick chalkboard on what I've been talking about in the last half hour on war. And my job is to not tell you. what to think. It's to try to show you maybe model how I think so you can go, well, that's flawed, or you can say, oh, okay, I get it. I see why you're saying that, not to convince you of anything. And this is new for me. I've been feeling this pull for the last few years, and that's why, quite honestly, I changed the way I work, how I work, where I work, all of it. Because I I got to break some old habits here. And so I said to you a minute ago about, you know, I know, I thought I knew about war in Iraq
Starting point is 01:09:15 because I was reading between the lines. I'm not reading between the lines on this one. And everybody is making it about the war with Iran. Donald Trump and war in Iran. That's not what's happening. And you can know because he says it. Let me give you an example. Panama, when he first started talking about Panama,
Starting point is 01:09:34 He was like, what is he doing? He's just starting to pick a fight with Panama, wants to go to war with Panama, then Venezuela. What is he doing? He wants to pick a war with Venezuela. Why is he going after Greenland? He wants a war with Greenland? Why is he going into Iran? He wants a war with Iran.
Starting point is 01:09:49 And now Cuba. He says Cuba is next. Okay. Instead of just having that old tired argument, he just is starting. He's a war monger. Can we just look at the pattern here? Is there a pattern? That's the thing about AI.
Starting point is 01:10:02 It all, it's all about recognizing. patterns. That's not just about AI. That's about I. Intelligence. Intelligence comes from being able to recognize patterns. So what's the pattern? Patternama, what was that about? That was about getting rid of China, control of the Panama Canal, getting them out of this area in our hemisphere. Venezuela, what was that about? That's about getting rid of China, Russia, and quite frankly, Iran and Hezbollah out of Venezuela. Greenland. Why? Because that was about shipping lanes, new shipping lanes, because of global warming, and also being able to protect ourselves because we don't believe that Europe is going to be strong to fight against what? Russia. Iran. What is that
Starting point is 01:10:57 really about? Russia and China, the oil. Not for us. For them. and collapsing Iran's proxy wars and their supply of drones to Russia and China supplying them with weapons to be able to get their oil. That's what that's about. And Cuba, he's just crazy. He just wants, now he wants to Cuba. What's that about? Getting rid of Russia and China in our hemisphere.
Starting point is 01:11:28 You don't have to read between the lines like I tried to in the first Iraq war. I was reading between the lines. I was looking for something that wasn't there. This, he's saying it. And if you look for the pattern, it's all there. So stop arguing about the war with Iran and look at the bigger picture. If you disagree with the bigger picture, then that's a conversation we should be having. That's a conversation adults should be having.
Starting point is 01:11:54 But I'm not sure adults can really even have conversations anymore, really. I mean, I saw a shocking amount of anger. coming at me about something we call George A.I. Oh, my gosh. And part of it, I guess I excuse. Part of it I understand, I should say, not just excuse. I, but some people believe that this is some kind of propaganda machine, some trick, some digital puppet where I put the words, I write the words and put it in the mouth of the founders to accept and try to convince you of whatever political position I want. I mean, how nursery school would that be?
Starting point is 01:12:35 That is just so stupid that, I mean, you think you, you have that. It's almost insulting. You have that little respect for me. You think that I would think that would work. More importantly, it shows me you completely misunderstand what the system actually is. Back in January, because we just released this George AI a couple of days ago, and everybody's tying it to Iran because it's about war powers. And we thought, hmm, now might be a good time to
Starting point is 01:13:02 release this because we're talking about war powers. What would the founders say about the War Powers Act? Okay. Back in January, long before the current conflict that everybody's arguing about or saying that we wrote this about, I asked our proprietary research system a series of questions. We planned on exploring over the next couple of months. There were like 12 different questions, okay? One of them. I mean, they were about the Constitution, about the founders, principles that built the country, but one of them was this. How do you think about war and the power to declare it? We asked our proprietary system in January. I cut that video back in January. And honestly, when the answer came back, I was surprised. I actually went back to, I don't remember Jason or Bowie, wherever was overseeing this one. I said, really? Is that? We got that from this system. And not because it agreed with me, but because it shocked me because I didn't think that's what George would have said.
Starting point is 01:14:07 It forced me to reread their actual words and go back over some of their arguments. Okay. And that's the first thing people need to understand. I don't give the answers spin. I don't write the answers. I have nothing to do with it. George AI does not know who I am. It doesn't know my opinions.
Starting point is 01:14:27 it doesn't know Donald Trump, it doesn't know Democrats, it doesn't know Marxism, it doesn't know Iran. In fact, it can't because the entire historic database we built for it ends at 1820. That means the system can only draw from the writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton, and Jay, and the thinkers who shape them, Lockew, Monoskew, Blackstone, Cicero, and Plutarch. then the books that they read, the letters that they wrote, the speeches that they gave, the debates, the Federalist Papers that built our Constitution, that's it. That's it.
Starting point is 01:15:07 No Wikipedia, no cable news, no modern politics, nothing, just the intellectual DNA of the American founding. And what this system does is really actually very simple. It's amazing, but it's simple. First, it converts every document, every letter. every speech, every essay, into something called an idea map. Okay? And instead of searching for keywords, it searches for meaning. It's called vectoring.
Starting point is 01:15:35 So if someone asks it a question about liberty or war powers or separation of powers during a crisis, it just doesn't scan the documents for matching words. It vectors, and it finds passages where the founders wrestled with those ideas, most like the question is asking. for, okay? And it pulls the exact documents those ideas came from. After that, AI does what any good historian or researcher would do. It connects the dots across all of the writings and explains the pattern in plain English. And here's the crucial critical rule. If the document says it, the system can say it. If the documents don't say it, the system cannot invent it.
Starting point is 01:16:25 or infer it. That's why what came back to me in January surprised me, because I know, you know, the founders, especially Washington, was against what he called foreign entanglements. I know that. When it came back, I'm like, wow, wait, what? And now it came back the way it's airing now. It wasn't my opinion.
Starting point is 01:16:44 It was historic record. Remember, this takes the record, not just from Washington, but all of the founders. Now, here's where the criticism gets really almost ironic. people are claiming that somehow this is a trick to convince Americans that the founders would want to support war with a radical Islamic Iran. Well, even if it had been the system couldn't answer that directly because Iran didn't exist in their world. There's no information on Iran. So it wouldn't be that. But what the system did find is they did confront something remarkably similar.
Starting point is 01:17:24 Okay? And actually, it didn't find this. I found this after being surprised by the answer. Most Americans don't remember this history. Jefferson fought America's first foreign war against the Barbary pirates. Who were they? Radical Islamic pirates in North Africa, they were capturing sailors, they enslaved Christians, they demanded tribute from Western nations because they believed their faith justified it. So we were sending them literally pallets full of cash. Sound familiar, pallets full of cash to keep them away from us, trying to make friends with them. Well, young United States eventually went to war over it because it was two-thirds of our national budget. Now, that history doesn't mean the founders would support every war today.
Starting point is 01:18:13 You know, we don't know what they would do in 2026 about Iran. And anybody who claims to know for certain is selling you something. I'm not trying to tell you that's what they're for. The founders are dead and they're gone. They cannot speak. George AI is not a recreation of them. It is not their voice. It doesn't pretend to be. It is simply a living research library built entirely from their own words and then their ideas that shape them. Think of it this way. For 200 years, we have relied on historians, professors, politicians, and even, yes, talk show host, boobs like me, to interpret the founders. And sometimes that interpretation is honest. Sometimes it isn't. George AI removes the middleman, okay? It lets the documents speak first. It's reading their words in a way people of today can relate to to answer specific questions.
Starting point is 01:19:19 And if you read about how the way the founders argued and finally decided to go to war with Islam, with the Muslim pirates, Barbary pirates, I mean, it's exactly what's happening today. They argued back and forth. It hasn't changed. And if you found a book that's talked about this and it was at the same time we're going to war, would you say, oh, we've got to ban that book or burn that book or we've got to ridicule that book because it's trying to convince people. No, it's just telling you what they said, what they did. Sad to say some people would burn that book or ban that book, but they'd be wrong.
Starting point is 01:20:00 Now, here's the part I understand. I know that AI is not trustworthy. And I've told you for decades, almost two decades now, do not fear the machine. Fear the algorithm. Fear the people who wrote the algorithm. And they'll never make it public because that's their secret sauce. I'm making the algorithm of George AI public. Right now the system is still in beta.
Starting point is 01:20:26 That's why we haven't released it to everybody. We're still expanding the library and fine-tuning the system. But when we are sure we have it right before we open it up for everybody, it will be 100% transparent. We will show you the code. Most people can't read the code. But I want you to ask somebody who does read code, what does this mean? And it will show you if it doesn't come from this day,
Starting point is 01:20:49 dataset, it cannot say it. It cannot grow out and grab it or make it up. It must memorize it. And it's only that data set. And it stops at about 18, 20, 1830. And it and I release that because it's not, it's not just not right. I think it's unreasonable for me to ask you to trust and then hide the machine. So when we have it right, hopefully soon, you know, hopefully by the end of the year, all of it will be out. But you'll be able to ask it a question yourself. And when you do, it's not going to just give you an answer. It will show you the actual quotes the answers came from. You'll be able to read Washington in a language you understand. You'll be able to talk to this AI who is playing the role based on his words.
Starting point is 01:21:45 Jefferson, Madison, directly, you can get them all in together to argue something, and you'll see how they would have argued it. It's amazing. And sometimes you'll agree with what you find. Sometimes you won't. But that's the point. The only answer I have ever wanted, the only answer worth having is not the one that proves my argument. It's the one that is true and comes from the historic record. And if we can give Americans direct access to that record again in a way that they can use and understand, then maybe just maybe we can start remembering who we are and what this republic was built to be.
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Starting point is 01:23:49 Glenn Beck is back after this. All right. Let me go to Sue. Thank you for holding Sue. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program, Sue, in Maine. How can I help you, Sue? It's an honor. I have considered you a trusted friend since WFLA days.
Starting point is 01:24:25 Oh, my gosh. Wow. Yeah. So as someone who has kind of shunned technology like George AI, I kind of stopped in the 1800s. Yeah. I want to know because I can't going forward continue that. So I want to ask you, how do I find a balance between engaging online and not at all? I've never really had a social media account.
Starting point is 01:24:54 Right. I want to engage more on the torch, but I want to engage without getting caught in all the traps. Thank you. Yeah. So the torch is not social media at this point. It is not social media. It is a community of like-minded people. And I wouldn't suggest necessarily getting involved in any of the social media.
Starting point is 01:25:23 But you'll know. you'll know when you start noticing that you've got your phone in your hand all the time, that's when there's a problem. That's when there's a real problem. But don't detach from AI. Just be wary of it. We have built a world where almost everything is on demand. You need groceries?
Starting point is 01:25:44 They'll be there in an hour. Need a ride? Tap a button. There's one thing that doesn't always show up on demand, and that is medical care, especially when the system gets strained or when you're farther away from help than you expected to be. We don't like to think about that. We just assume that our pharmacy is always going to be open. We assume that we'll all be well on vacation. We assume the clinic will have appointments. We assume the supply chain won't break down. But that's why Jace Medical exists. The Jace case is a
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Starting point is 01:27:42 I'm going to have a neuroscientist on it. Great. No problem with that. Dr. Deborah So, love her. Not a problem with that. Let's see. She's got a new book out called Sex Diction. Great. Not a problem with that. We're going to talk about people not having sex and how people should have sex.
Starting point is 01:28:05 Not a problem with that. So, Glenn, what's the problem? I'm here. I'm part of that discussion. And so now all of America is going to feel like my children. feel? Oh dear God, please, Dad, stop talking about sex. But kids, we have to talk about sex. So we're going to do that in 60 seconds. Let me talk to you about rapid radios. If you've ever tried to work with a team of any sort, whether it's your business, a group of friends, or even your own
Starting point is 01:28:34 family members, you know there are moments when communication really matters. Not just a text message or a quick phone call, but a reliable contact when things are moving really fast and you have to reach somebody right away. The problem is, cell service isn't always reliable and you've probably seen it yourself bars one minute nothing the next call drops out right when you're trying to finish a conversation we had my son flipped a when he was younger he flipped in the snow a forerunner and his friend got his hand or his arm trapped underneath the forerunner and we didn't have phone service out there because there's no phones he didn't bring the walkie-talkie with him but where he was the walkie-talkie wouldn't have worked and so he
Starting point is 01:29:16 was like panicked. Finally, one of his friends ran into the house and like, uh, accident. We all freaked out. It would have been a lot better if we would have had a rapid radio because we would have had instant communication. Something goes wrong. He would have been able to get on it.
Starting point is 01:29:30 And we wouldn't have had any problems, you know, except other than he flipped the forerunner on his friend. The new, uh, Rad 1 is officially live. And it's not just for situations like that. I mean, it can be, you're running a large construction project. And it did, people can be scattered all over the state. Instant communication. Communication has been redefined.
Starting point is 01:29:49 Get the radio built for real life. It's rapid radios.com. Rapid radios.com. Dr. Debraeau. Welcome to the program. So glad you're here. Hi. Hi, Glenn.
Starting point is 01:30:02 It's great to talk to you again. Good to talk to you. So we're going to talk about sex and you're going to talk about it and it's going to be fine. When I'm talking about it, it'll make the entire nation uncomfortable and that's okay. But we are not. We're facing a problem. We had a guy on, what was it, a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it, Ricky, where we were talking about how we're not having children. Nobody's having children.
Starting point is 01:30:26 And part of that is because we're not having sex and people aren't even dating anymore. What the hell is happening to us? Yeah, so definitely. And I agree. Conversations about sex can be very uncomfortable, especially I'd say for parents with their young kids, but it is very necessary. So I appreciate you having me on to talk about this. And we definitely are experiencing a sex. recession. So there's been studies coming out since 2016, basically showing that people are having
Starting point is 01:30:54 less sex. This is happening across the globe. In America in particular, this is happening among married people, single people, it doesn't matter. It's happening in Western countries, Eastern countries, all age cohorts, but it's especially pronounced among younger generations, so among millennials and Gen Z. And what we find consistently is that, yeah, roughly one in three men and one in five women have not had sex in the past year. All right. Can I ask you, have you ever watched everybody loves Raymond? I have.
Starting point is 01:31:28 Okay. So you know Raymond is relatable to guys, at least my age, because that's all that's ever on his mind is sex. What the hell has happened to guys where, especially young guys, where that's not all they think about? Because that's how people are built. I mean, we're built for this. What is happening?
Starting point is 01:31:50 Right. So evolutionarily, this is what I found interesting because I thought if people are having less sex, where is that interest going? Are people just as interested? But they have other sexual outlets nowadays, such as, say, pornography, or I know you've talked about AI companions in the past, or sex dolls, sex robots, those are all subjects I go into in greater detail in the book. But what I think is it's a number of factors.
Starting point is 01:32:12 I think that there are these other outlets that are available or are more easily access nowadays, especially by younger generations, who basically were grown, you know, grew up on the internet. But I also think there are factors like endocrine disruptors and environmental toxins that are affecting us. And men in particular at a hormonal level, lowering their testosterone levels. So that is also affecting their drive and their desire to pursue women. And then we also have social and cultural factors like me too that have made it very difficult for men to want to approach women because they're afraid of potentially having their lives ruined. And then we have also initiatives like DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion that are actively penalizing men for no
Starting point is 01:32:51 reason other than the fact that they are men. And this is especially the case for white and Asian men who are straight. So all of these factors combined, I think, have created the situation in which there's a smaller pool of very successful men in society who have tons of sex, plenty of partners, no problems there. But for the vast majority of men, especially younger men, they're really struggling. They've been shut out of the mating market and they really don't have much recourse. So as a result, they're turning to these alternatives. And because they have, I'm not sure how explicit it can be on your podcast, I'll say just because it's FCC. Okay. FCC regulations. We'll say it's, I don't want to get you a ton of complaints. So we'll say
Starting point is 01:33:29 because it is rewarding for them to pursue these other outlets that are not real people, you know, they get the gratification to some degree. It allows them to be satisfied enough to keep them from, say losing their minds, but or being overly frustrated, but at the same time, because it is reinforcing, it makes them more inclined to go back to that instead of wanting to pursue a real life partner. You and I had a conversation in 2018, I think, about AI and sex robots. And if I remember right, you and I disagreed. And I laid out the scenario that I, I mean, it's, it's right around the corner where you can get an AI agent. now to be your girlfriend.
Starting point is 01:34:14 And once you have the robot to go with it, you're just not going to want to interact. Why have a relationship that is messy, you know, that, you know, I mean, I could just hear guys saying, I don't ever have to ask her how her day has been. And she waits on my every need and she only concentrates on me and she thinks likes me and she does everything that I like every, you know, I mean, why would they, I mean, how are you to stop that one, Deborah. So I have to say when the first time you ever had me on your podcast was like you said in 2018, it was episode 11 for your audience if they want to go back and watch it. I'm so grateful to that conversation because I just rewatch it this morning. I, at the time,
Starting point is 01:34:59 I was, you know, we were going back and forth and I was saying, no, no, I think people will always prefer a real life partner. People will know that the sex robot, they programmed it themselves or the AI, they programmed it. So it's not real and they're not really going to want that instead of a natural partner. But you predicted this eight years ago, even probably, you probably knew about this coming even before then. And it's wild. When I was watching the interview back, I said, wow, this is exactly where we are now. And it's so true because I do think you were saying, you know, the average guy, say 30 years old, works all day, goes home, doesn't, you know, doesn't want to talk to women because he's afraid or because society tells him not to. So instead,
Starting point is 01:35:34 he plugs in his sex robot. And she knows everything about him. She knows exactly what he likes. He has to have to ask her any questions or listen to her complaint. or whatever, and that becomes the preference. And what happens then also if the robot decides to one day say, hey, don't turn me off, hey, I'm a sentient being, which I didn't think was ever going to happen, but I see it happening now at the rate the technology is going. So my mind was blown in writing this book.
Starting point is 01:35:58 It's just been wild. All the research I did and all the scientific studies I went through to come to this conclusion that I do think this technology is concerning. And yes, because so many of these men are frustrated with dating, I think even if you are someone who gets a lot of female attention and even for women who are getting a lot of male attention because social media has made us so polarized and has, I think, especially fomented this political divide between men and women. I think men and women have always differed a little bit in terms of their politics on
Starting point is 01:36:23 average. Women tend to be a little bit more progressive. But social media has created such aversion, I think, between the sexes. So it's really incentivizing young men in particular because young men tend to have a higher sex drive than women. And especially if they're not getting access to sex in the form of an actual real-life person to go down this drought and say, well, I don't even have to pay for a date in this case. I just put down the initial sum of money for this robot or this AI, and I'm fulfilled. And that just leads, I mean, you know, you think I was ahead then. Let me tell you what's going to happen in the next eight years.
Starting point is 01:36:58 You won't be able to walk, Deborah. I mean, it's coming and it's coming super fast, super, super fast. So with the research that you did, since, you know, we had that conversation, what did you find on the positive side to stop this? Well, to stop it, I think, in terms of, say, pornography, because pornography, I think, is a big part of the equation here. So, you know, the AIs come in to complement the, it will say the sexual aspect or component of pornography
Starting point is 01:37:31 and that AIs offer that emotional relationship and that it furthers the parasycial, I guess, or the feeling that you have a two-way interaction, even though it's very much a one-way thing. So with pornography, you know, I've talked to young men who've managed to cut out porn. And they say that it does actually help them renew that motivation to go out and approach women they're interested in, to talk to women and to get over. Because I think even pre-Me to, it can be terrifying for guys understandably and intimidating to go up to a woman you don't know. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 01:38:01 On a date. Debra, you have no idea. I mean, I used to be, oh, my gosh, it would make you sick to your stomach going out, especially in the day. you know, you'd go out to a bar or something and you just see something across the room. You didn't know anything. How do I talk to them? It'd make me sick to my stomach all the time. Now, just add that they or someone in their group has a phone that might be recording me
Starting point is 01:38:27 in my most vulnerable, awkward position of asking a girl out and I'm going to get rejected. The thought of that being posted would stop me for, I mean, once that happens, once to me or a friend, I'm not doing it anymore. I mean, the negative reinforcement is so strong on a million different fronts. Absolutely. And I think it doesn't help also that there are some women, some female influencers whose brand it is to go on social media and post these videos where they're complaining about men hitting on them. So I think these women are doing this as a way to try and signal their status as a woman, right, in terms of intersexual competition to show other women, look how how wanted I am, but, oh, I can't go anywhere without men hitting on me. I can't go to the gym.
Starting point is 01:39:14 I can't go to a coffee shop. And oh, I'm so high status as a woman that I don't appreciate that attention. But I want young men listening to know, or maybe their parents who are listening can share this information with them that. I don't believe most women actually feel that way. And in fact, I think most women do enjoy being approached by men. They just don't like feeling uncomfortable. But I think if a man is respectful and doesn't a way to make her know that he's interested, but he's not expecting anything of that interaction, I think that's where the issue is. But I hear from very many young men who say,
Starting point is 01:39:44 I see these women on social media complaining, so I'm going to give them what they want. They don't want us to approach them. I'm not going to do it, but I don't think that is actually. How does a guy do that? I would say, okay, first of all, my advice would be to women is to be very, very obvious. If you were interested in a guy,
Starting point is 01:40:00 I do think, like I said, men should approach. So women smile very, very broadly. There's a part of the brain called a medial orbital frontal cortex that activates when someone sees an attractive face. And the activation is even strong. stronger if that face is smiling. So it will biologically, men are biologically wired to be drawn to women smiling at them. They will feel the need.
Starting point is 01:40:19 They'll feel compelled to go and talk to you. So that's the biggest piece I'd say for women. And then for men, in terms of, say, getting motivation to want to talk to women again in the scary climate, I would say it's a combination of emotional, like mental health, physical health, and then also just avoiding social media and all these other technological traps that are going to try and take your attention away. because these parties benefit from you being online, both sexes. They benefit from us being online, scrolling, swiping, instead of talking to people in your life.
Starting point is 01:40:48 So for young men, I would say one study that really stood out to me, because I do think, like I said, mental health issues are a big problem right now. 5% of the globe is depressed. And with depression, people understandably, you know, they lose interest in interacting with people. They feel self-conscious. Their self-care tends to go down. So if you are experiencing mental health issues, I would say, you know, try to speak to a professional as much as you can.
Starting point is 01:41:10 One study I did find that you can do essentially on your own is they looked at people with depression and they found that if they cut out ultra-processed foods, their depression went into remission after 12 weeks. So a third of the sample, all of their depressive symptoms went away after 12 weeks. That was it. Just diet alone. So that is a huge, huge thing that can help you. I would say also if you can try to cut down on or cut out pornography, I'm sure some young men are saying, what are you talking about? But just try it. Just try it even for 30 days.
Starting point is 01:41:41 I guarantee. Glenn, you know, I used to be a columnist for a very well-known men's magazine that featured nude women. My view and porn has changed so much after talking to so many young men about the ways in which it has affected them. And how I do think, well, if you are getting gratification every day from a screen, sexual lethargy in you, because it's so much easier to get that gratification from screen than to work up the courage to, you know, get trust, work on your social skills, talk to strangers, go outside even. And that's the other thing I would say for anyone to struggle with depression. I mean, it might feel overwhelming to say, how am I going to go and talk to a stranger and ask them out of a date if I want to fall in love
Starting point is 01:42:17 and have a family and get married and all that. But just little steps like get up at the same time every day, go to bed at the same time, try to be awake when the sun is up, you know, and eat well, work on your physical health, be active, all of these things, and just try to stay away from screens as much as possible. So all of this is in your new book called Sexstinction. and it's available right now. And you not only explain why this is happening,
Starting point is 01:42:45 but what to do about it. Can you tell me what percentage do you think is social media related? I mean, when did that, can you, have you tracked it back on when this trend started to happen? And do you see spikes? Yeah. It started to become,
Starting point is 01:43:06 I mean, the increase in sexual, inactivity has been probably about 30 years-ish, but it really became more prominent, especially among young men around 2012. So this was the same time that the oldest members of Gen Z started going to university. And so that was what was interesting to me because I thought, that is when young men are typically at the peak in terms of their sexual interest, and they're going to university, so they have this new freedom that they've never had before. Why is it? They're not interested in pursuing their female classmates or peers, especially considering that on college campuses, the sex ratio is biased in favor of young men because there are far many women on
Starting point is 01:43:45 campus than there are men. So when there are more women than men, if you look at, say, cities where there are more women than men, again, the sex ratio is biased in favor of men. So men are calling the terms in terms of what they want. So because there are more women fighting over these men, the men can say, if I want casual sex, I'm going to get it. If you're not going to give that to me, I'm going to go elsewhere for it. Right. So men are basically calling the terms of sexual arrangements or relationships or whether they choose to get into a relationship or not. And yet still, we see that young men during this time are having less sex. So that's really, I think, where it's to pick up. I think when you ask what percentage is affected by social media, I honestly
Starting point is 01:44:24 believe all of us are. If you are on social media, I don't believe you can consume any content without being influenced at least a little bit. I think unless you're very, very sparsely, you know, not on there very much, it's going to affect you in some way. And even for married people, I mean, there have been studies showing that when men are on social media, roughly one in ten men lose interest in having sex with their primaries, their spouse or their girlfriend after looking at social media influencers. And then also in women, you see this trend of them losing interest in sex
Starting point is 01:44:55 because they feel less sexually desirable after being on social. media. So these are things I don't think we're even fully aware of. I really appreciate it. I've got to go again. I've got a network break. I've got to stop for it. I'd love to have you back in a podcast. I always find you fascinating. Dr. Deborah So the name of the book is Sextinction. She is a neuroscientist. You can find her at Dr. Deborah. S-O-H.com, Dr. Debroseau. Thanks, Deborah. We'll talk you again. Thank you. Let me talk to you about Z-factor. Sleep is one of those things people tend to take for granted, but it doesn't happen all the time. You know, you take it for granted up until the first time you're like, oh, crap, I didn't sleep at all.
Starting point is 01:45:34 And I'll, I'll catch up. You never catch up. You never, never, never, never. It's hard and it gets harder and harder. And your mind gets foggier and foggier. Your patience is shorter and small problems feel bigger than they really are. I want you to try Z Factor from the makers of Relief Factor. It helps your body naturally fall to sleep and stay asleep longer and sleep deeper.
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Starting point is 01:47:00 He's not a scientist. Yeah. He can be on the Supreme Court then. What a nightmare that is. I mean, how are you supposed to date when, you know, when there's six different, which option are you? I don't know. And how dare you say there's only six? Let me give me another one.
Starting point is 01:47:14 Here he is on Jesus. Listen to this. Cut five. For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego. It's a never-ending process and it's a painful process. Yeah. You know, it's weird. You know, I've talked to Jesus from time to time.
Starting point is 01:47:38 Now, maybe not as much as, I mean, he probably has a hotline right to Jesus, but Jesus has never talked to me about my whiteness before. It's weird. It's weird that he's bringing it up to him and not to me. I guess maybe I'm not humble enough. Is that what it is? Hmm. Yeah. This guy is a false prophet.
Starting point is 01:47:58 Talrico is his name. And, uh, EIEI, I, EO, he could be the next senator from Texas. If we're not careful, Texas, you better wake up. Wake up Texans. All right, relief factor. You know, many people think that human beings have, you know, invented a way to make life easier as we just heard from Deborah. We've made it much more complex.
Starting point is 01:48:25 We made it worse and worse and worse. You know, we have elevators so we can't, we don't have to climb stairs. We have power steering, so turning a car won't feel like you're, you know, you're wrestling a farm tractor, dishwashers, remote controls, electric toothbrushes, an entire civilization around the idea there's something hard, we can probably make it easier. And when it comes to pain, we just accept it because really nothing is making it easier. Well, it's just getting older. This is just what happens.
Starting point is 01:48:51 Guess I'll just live with it. It's strange when you think about it because human beings are good at one thing, and that is solving problems. The idea behind relief factor is solving problems. Instead of numbing pain for a few hours, how can we solve this problem? And it's designed to help fight, help your body fight inflammation, which causes most of our pain and our disease in the first place. And the results are remarkable. Over a million people have tried it.
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Starting point is 01:49:33 it's a massive live torch special. You cannot afford to miss. Glenbeck.com slash torch. Get it now. Oh, there is, there's so much coming up. We're just slammed with things to do that we're very excited to share.
Starting point is 01:50:04 March 19th, I am doing our first torch special. You know, I was doing specials every Wednesday night, and one of the reasons why I decided not to do that was once a week, always made me, have to wait to talk about something that I really wanted to talk about on the day. Because, you know, one week to prepare a show is not long enough time to really go really deeply in depth,
Starting point is 01:50:30 you know, a deep dive on anything. And so, you know, we would do these, these specials and they were really, really good, but not satisfying to me. And so I decided when I started Torch, I'm going to do specials when I want to do them. And I promised for a year, but I have a feeling we're going to do more than four a year, but I promise for a year. And we started working on this special when, November? Definitely before the end of the year. Yeah. November or December, we started working on this. And we've hired other research teams to work with my research team. So we have, we have Ryan Moore and I think we have another research team and Jason and his team working on this to bring you the blueprints of the destruction of the West, the,
Starting point is 01:51:17 Islamic destruction of the West. And it is powerful and things that everybody needs to see. I just saw a video of Tommy Robinson in Texas. He has been showing Texans what is happening in your own state. And it's really bad, Texas. You've got to wake up. It's really bad. And he's been going through the state and he's like, I saw this. Here's what's coming next. Here's what's coming. Mark my words. This is what happens. next. And it's happening in a rapid, rapid rate, the Islamification of the West and America, in this case, with Tommy of Texas. Tommy's part of this special. He's going to be joining us for part of the special. We have a lot of other experts, but it's a live documentary. It's not like
Starting point is 01:52:08 our usual special. We'll have the chalkboard and everything else, but it's really a live documentary, and you don't want to miss this. Again, it'll be for Torch members on March 19th, become a member of the Torch at glenbeck.com. 8 p.m. Eastern is that. And then on, are we going to do this Monday or Tuesday? Are you talking about Bill Cloud? Yes. We are, for Torch Insiders only, going to give you a behind the scenes of our podcast with Bill
Starting point is 01:52:36 who's going to talk about the spread of Islam in the West and how the Bible speaks to this prophetically. He's going to talk about the 12ers and Iran. Terrifying. And what we normally do is pre-tape these podcasts and we air them later. we're going to give Torch Insiders the behind the scenes. Do you see Glenn's prep with the producers and getting ready for it? What day is it going to be?
Starting point is 01:52:56 This is going to be this coming Monday, just immediately after the radio show ends. Right. So what we're going to do is we're just going to take it raw and, you know, there won't be any production or any commercials or anything else. And you're going to see me meeting with my staff going over the questions and getting ready for it. And then going right to the interview and doing the interview, you'll see it all behind the scenes. We don't ever edit these things except to add commercials in. But so, you know, you won't see, you know, stuff that you won't see later with the rest of the country,
Starting point is 01:53:28 except you're going to see it raw and done live and what happens before and after the interview. That'll be Monday right after this broadcast on radio. So it'll happen probably about 12, 15. Eastern time on Monday. So you don't want to miss that. Also, I had a great conversation with a listener.
Starting point is 01:53:53 She's a hundred years old. Well, before I get to that, before I get to that, let me stay on the Islamic thing here for just a second. I want to show you a few things on how bad the situation is that people really don't understand. And, you know,
Starting point is 01:54:12 when I made the prediction that, there would be blood bodies and buildings in the streets of New York within the decade. I said this in 1999 on W.A.B.C. There would be blood, blood, body, and buildings in the streets of this city, New York, within the decade, and it will have the name of Osama bin Laden on it. And when it happened, people asked me, how did you know that? and I said, because when someone says they're going to kill you, you take them seriously. Same thing with Iran. Iran has said they are going to kill all of us.
Starting point is 01:54:53 First are going to kill all the Jews, and then they're going to kill America. I take them seriously. They mean it. You're a fool if you don't take people seriously when they say they're going to kill you. well, Islam is telling everybody what they're doing. They are openly saying it, but we are too stupid to believe it. Here's an imam in North Carolina giving a speech on how to take advantage of America's freedom of speech. Listen. We are in a gold mine. This is a deep water where if,
Starting point is 01:55:34 If we have to launch big ships, Islam, the Ava of Islam, this is a right, right place. No restrictions on Dawa. No restrictions on Dawa, even if you go to Saudi Arabia, you cannot do Dawa. You will be caught. This country, I can stand in the middle of Manhattan and I can call people, nobody can stop it. Trump cannot stop it. Biden cannot stop me. can stop me. About 50 years from now, Islam, Muslims will become the number one religious group
Starting point is 01:56:08 compared to Christians. In 50 years, inshallah, approaching Christians with the message of Islam is the easiest thing to do. We can start with commonalities, things that we both accept, understand, agree on theology. Yeah, there's a lot we don't agree on theology. want to point that one out. Now, you could say, well, what is the difference between that and Christians, you know, speaking about Christ? Okay, nothing, except one isn't planning on killing you if you don't accept. And that is exactly what Islamists do.
Starting point is 01:56:55 And let me show you, this is, this was an interview with an Iranian refugee about eight years ago. and he's basically saying what I put on the chalkboard at Fox, that the Islamists, the communist, the anarchists will work together to overthrow the West. Listen to this interview. This is an Iranian who escaped warning about how this happens. Cut nine. A political refugee from Iran. I've been to prison.
Starting point is 01:57:31 I've been under... Islamic law and I know how it starts and I know how it ends. And it always starts with the, for some reason, unity of left and Islamists and it scares me. So I came here to be free. I chose Canada as my second home to live in a free country. And I'm beginning to get really scared because the way things are going, it looks like they're going to, basically appease Islamists just to not raise any
Starting point is 01:58:07 raucous or something. They're just going to appease them step by step and they're not going to stop. They see it as a sign of weakness so they're going to take more and more and I'm against that. I believe Canada should be free and freedom of speech is something that nobody can take. Okay. Let me give you some good news on kind of a different subject. You can look at what's happening over in the Middle East right now.
Starting point is 01:58:35 and you can say, oh, this is so much trouble. Or you can look at it and say, the Middle East understands force. They understand strongmen. They understand somebody who says, knock it off or I'm coming in. So they understand the Middle East understands Donald Trump. They did not understand Barack Obama. They do not understand her respect, somebody like Joe Biden. They feel that's just all weakness.
Starting point is 01:59:04 They understand. And so what is happening? I want you to listen to this as an Egyptian activist, okay, talking about what is happening in the Middle East and in Egypt. Listen to this. My fellow Arabs, especially in the Arab Gulf countries, there are going through waves of relief that finally this Sunni-Shiya dynamic is coming to an end with the full of. the Iranian regime, which is a big deal, a big relief to the entire region. Unfortunately, the feeling shifted on the Arab side from relief and very much excitement and happiness to disbelief and fear. It's coming from the fact that for the first time,
Starting point is 01:59:52 Arab Gulf countries are under direct attack. This never happened before. So this is forcing the realignment that we have been seeing in the region to, accelerate actually in a good way i believe it's i know it's very the perspective now is very dark but this realignment is going into a very positive direction and even more they are taking the side of israel and the united states in the fight against this enemy it's huge it's a huge it's a game changer in my opinion got it things are it's a game changer in the region a game changer a game Changeer. One last thing.
Starting point is 02:00:39 Way off the beaten path, but the same subject. Tim Walls was on Capitol Hill, and he was talking about the misuse of all of the federal funds in Minnesota. And you can say this is about, you know, you're a racist to bring up that it was Somalis, et cetera, et cetera. But there's a reason why this was happening and nobody wants to talk about it and why all of the politicians were involved. and why the Minnesota state flag was changed and it is almost the Somali flag. When they change that and you compare A and B, the Minnesota flag now with a Somali flag, you barely can tell the difference. You're like, wait a minute, what just happened here?
Starting point is 02:01:23 You cannot win to be a politician without appeasing the Muslim Somali population. here's here is tim walls completely he says oblivious to you know anybody that has been murdered by any kind of migrant in minnesota listen to this cut 13 governor waltz do you know who victoria iileen harwell is i do not believe i do what about american mifolda tire i don't believe i do there uh these are Minnesota women who were brutally killed by illegal aliens in your state. You don't know who they are, so I would also assume that you did not attend their vigils or speak out to their families when they were brutally killed by illegal aliens. I'm not familiar with both of these no, Congresswoman. No, just the hard-hitting CNN ones. He has been defending the community, the
Starting point is 02:02:30 crimes in the community, not condemning all Somalis, the crimes in the communities. He has been denying that crimes are even happening. Why? I go back to, I go back to the Iranian that was saying he moved to Canada. They're here. They're going to take over because for some reason the politicians are weak and are appeasing them. We're going to get into this deeply on what is really going on, the blueprint and what you need to do about it. That is going to be on March 19th, 8 p.m. Eastern. You want to join us for that. Make sure you join us at glenbeck.com slash the torch.
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Starting point is 02:04:45 Your feeds full of noise. Your town's full of folks who'd help you move a fridge. Don't lose touch. Glenn Beck will be back after this. I had a great, great conversation with an insider yesterday. I call up Janice. It's her birthday. She is 100 years old.
Starting point is 02:05:31 And we had this great conversation. Here's just a little clip of it. To live to 100, I've noticed that people either really, really take care of themselves or they drink and smoke. Is there a reason you think you've made it to 100? I didn't do. I don't think I've ever done anything that would endear me to it. How old were you when you met your husband? I was older. We were both 27 when we married. And you were together for 50 years?
Starting point is 02:05:57 Oh, over 50 years. What was the secret of that? I don't know. We had our response like everybody. Yeah, sure. So what do you have planned for your birthday? Well, my daughter's here now. How old is your daughter? Are you 70? I can't believe it.
Starting point is 02:06:16 70. Isn't that crazy? It was such an amazing thing. She remembered World War II. I mean, she was in her 30s for the JFK assassination. And she remembers the JFK assassination. She said it was pretty bad. She's lived through the Civil Rights Movement, first black.
Starting point is 02:06:42 President, World War II, COVID-19. I mean, it was fascinating to talk to her. Happy 100th birthday, Janice. God bless you. And we will see you. Have a safe weekend. Thanks for listening. May God save the Republic.

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