The Glenn Beck Program - Gas Stove Ban: The Latest Step Toward Eating Bugs | Guests: Christopher Rufo & Calley Means | 1/10/23

Episode Date: January 10, 2023

Glenn and Stu break down the story of Brian Walshe, who was previously convicted of art fraud and now is the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Ana Walshe. The Biden administration is con...sidering enacting a nationwide ban on gas stoves, but Glenn and Stu are skeptical due to the Left's failing track record. Glenn lays out the next step following the Great Reset, which is the Great Narrative. Glenn gives a history lesson on Thomas Paine and the government failure behind the Korean War Wall of Remembrance. Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed and Coke whistleblower, joins to expose big food and beverage companies for manipulating health studies. Board of regents member for the New College of Florida Christopher Rufo discusses the lies being reported about him and explains how Florida is taking back higher education in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:49 All right. Show begins here on the national radio broadcast in just a minute. Fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we all have to get rid of our gas stoves because they're dangerous now. They can really hurt kids. So get rid of your gas. I'm not kidding you. It is the slow road to bugs.
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Starting point is 00:03:29 about an autistic kid that sat down to the piano, never played it before, and is remarkable. Also, what not to do if you're planning on murdering your wife? All that and more coming up in 60 seconds. So Jamie wrote in about our experience with relief factories since my husband and I both started using
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Starting point is 00:04:51 I, you know, sometimes you can have too much faith in people. You can think they're just not this stupid, but you're usually disappointed. The husband of the Massachusetts realtor, you know, have you been following this? A little bit. Okay. So this guy, Brian Walsh, he was a guy who, uh, was selling fake war halls. He was in trouble with the law.
Starting point is 00:05:20 I think he was maybe under house arrest for a while. And his wife got another job. She had to move to Washington, D.C. She came up for the holidays. And then she was called back to Washington and nobody's seen her since. Now, there is one thing. Now, they have, they have. taking him in. He's not been arrested for murder, but they took him in because he, he misled the police.
Starting point is 00:05:56 He said, the only thing I did on the day of her disappearance was go out for ice cream with my kids. Unfortunately for him, he was spotted at Home Depot where noted ice cream purveyor. Yes. Yes. Yes. He, you know, he was. He was going to Home Depot and he showed up wearing a mask and a hat and gloves. And he bought $450 worth of cleaning supplies. And what's weird about this too is he got lost apparently several times and then lost on his way to his mother's house because he didn't bring his cell phone. So anyway. So he was concerned about cleanliness.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Cleanliness. We're in the middle of a raging triple-demic right. You've got to wear the gloves. You've got to have the mask. You've got to have the cleaning supplies. Exactly right. So he goes home and he's cleaning up something. And he completely forget.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Oh, I forgot. I stopped for cleaning supplies. Sure. And so they brought him in for that for misleading police. But there is something else that he did that is kind of curious that you would think, no, no one would do this. The day before she disappeared, he Google searched how to dispose of a 115 pound human body. A hundred, specifically 150 pounds. Now, I think we should Google search this because I'd like to see.
Starting point is 00:07:34 I'm not Googling that. Yeah, Sarah, you Google it real quick. Sarah can Google it. Just Google it real quick. It tells us that, I'm not Googling it either. I'm pretty sure Sarah's search history goes directly to the feds, as it's. It is. So you might as well.
Starting point is 00:07:48 So tell us what it says here. I mean, does it give? Does it say like, step one, go to Home Depot. Buy cleaning supplies. Don't bring your cell phone. What is it saying? Right away, the stories just turn up of the story you're talking about. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:08 I change it to 120. See, maybe that would help. The way it is not necessarily specific. How about just, you know, dispose of a human body? How to dispose of a human body? See if that. Because I don't think the weight would just be like, dig a bigger hole.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Right, right. I put how to dispose of 120 pound body. Yeah. And scrap metal recycling comes up. Scrap metal recycling. Yeah. Safe handling and disposal of harmful products. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:38 More recycling. What is the most valuable thing to scrap? But there's nothing on how to get. There's nothing to get rid of, but there is. Dead animal disposal. Oh, there you go. Oh, there you go. Dead animal disposal.
Starting point is 00:08:51 Now we need to actually contact the feds and say, we think something happened with our producer and an 120 pound person. It has disappeared. We don't even know. We don't know where they are. We don't even know their name. Can you just check their computer? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:05 I just want to make sure her computer is. And check for scrap metal. Right. Yeah. Okay. I think like you're, you're, you just go for like, I mean, there's a bunch of movies I can think of that's the only way, I think if I was going to dispose of a,
Starting point is 00:09:18 is that the topic he wanted to get into? How did it actually do it? Because I think I would go, you've got Fargo. You could go the Fargo route. I mean, there's a lot of movies you can go. But, you know, it might also show up on your Netflix history if you're watching all of these movies where they dispose of bodies. You know?
Starting point is 00:09:36 I'm just saying. Which Netflix movies feature your disposal of 115 pound female bodies named Joan. It was in their Netflix search. I don't know. I just like that genre. That's all? Yeah, that's it.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Wow, that's really sad, though. God. Okay. Well, it kind of makes me happy. They're gonna, they're gonna find out who did it. Yeah, at least justice should be served. It wasn't really bright. Oh, this is a good, this would be a good plot to a movie where you commit the murder.
Starting point is 00:10:09 And then I go into your house, Glenn, and I say, hey, what's your computer like? And then I just go over and start searching terms that would lead them to you. At some point, that's really going to happen. Or here's what we do. It's the old strangers on a train. We just go out and ask somebody
Starting point is 00:10:28 to murder somebody that we want to get rid of and we'll murder somebody that they want to get rid of. So I search how to dispose of a 200-pound body, but nobody in my life that runs 200, pounds disappeared. Of course, somebody that runs 110 did disappear, but I could say, I didn't search for that. I was searching for 200-pound bodies, guys.
Starting point is 00:10:53 That would be an interesting, yeah, an interesting conversation. And he'll search for 110. And the person missing in his life, 200. You're just trading the murders. Yes, that's all we're doing. Okay. Let me give you something that I think is absolutely amazing. It's an 11-year-old boy named Jude Coffey, and he was spotted from this local television story on local news.
Starting point is 00:11:27 His dad is from, where are they from? Well, the story has it in. They're from like the Sudan, I think. They live in Colorado. And this kid, he's autistic. and he went down to the basement where there was an old piano. He had never had any lessons or anything else. And all of a sudden, dad's hearing a piano playing downstairs.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And he's like, what the heck is? He goes down. And his kid is playing the piano. No lessons. No lessons. Plays the piano. You're going to hear in this clip him playing the piano. No lessons.
Starting point is 00:12:07 This is just him, this autistic kid, playing the piano. Somebody sees it on TV. If you've wondered, where are all the good people? Listen to this. To 11-year-old Jude Kofi of Aurora, Colorado, this surprise was music to his eyes. Obviously, whoever said the best things come in small packages
Starting point is 00:12:34 was never gifted a grand piano. Jude's father, Isaiah. So one day it just shows up at the house? Yes. All for free. Who does that? The answer in a moment. But first, the reason.
Starting point is 00:12:51 About a year and a half ago, Jude's dad heard a noise coming from the basement. There was an old keyboard down there, but no one knew how to play it. Certainly not his autistic son, Jude. Or so he thought. Isaiah then got Jude a larger keyboard to see what more he could do. And boy. could he do? The kid never had a lesson.
Starting point is 00:13:17 No one taught him any of this. How do you explain that you're as good as you are? It's a miracle. You think it's a miracle? That's what I prefer. Bill Magnuson prefers that too. Is he special? It's beyond special.
Starting point is 00:13:35 He's Mozart level. It's coming from somewhere beyond. Bill is a piano tuner. He saw a local news story about Jude, heard him play, learned how his parents immigrated from Ghana, how they're raising four children, and sending money back to Ghana. What resources are left over to help this special little soul? Yours. Using an inheritance from his father, Bill bought the piano, spent $15,000.
Starting point is 00:14:13 He has promised to tune it once a month for the rest of his life. And he's even paying for Jude to get professional lessons. We're family now. Somebody to just love your son like that by making sure that his future is secured, we are super thankful. Press the pedal. Caring for other children as your own,
Starting point is 00:14:39 the defining note of humanity. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? Really cool. I mean, I just think that is one of the greatest stories I've heard in a while. Should you listen to the words to this? It's one of my favorite bands out of California. But if all they lost was all they had, just looking for a hand, if you could help
Starting point is 00:15:19 or walk away, if that choice was up to you, what would you do? Don't quite feel like I belong. This is a group called Poor Man's Poison. They live in the farmlands of California. I just love their music. Very American sounding. And their messages are really just great. What if all you gave was all you had?
Starting point is 00:16:13 What if you just holding out your hand? What if kindness prevailed? And you were someone saying? Second chance just giving back doesn't sound so bad. We keep asking ourselves, at least I do, where are they? Where are they? They're everywhere. We don't see them because they don't generally make the news.
Starting point is 00:16:48 But all the good people, that's you, that's me. The people who are looking for a second chance at life that have the ability to do something. That guy was a tuner of pianos. His father had just died. He inherited money. And he saw that story and he thought, this kid has got to have lessons in a piano. So he takes his inheritance from his father,
Starting point is 00:17:14 buys the piano, says that he's going to tune it every month for the rest of his life, and he's helping him get piano lessons. I just want to bring in the news today that the good people are here. We're surrounded by it. We're surrounded by people. The problem is there's not enough examples that we see,
Starting point is 00:18:05 and we should start looking for them. We should start sharing those stories, and we should start recognizing that we've been given the opportunity, whatever it is, whatever it is. I wouldn't have thought to get this kid a piano. I'm not a piano tuner, but he did. Because that's his gift.
Starting point is 00:18:28 You are the good people. Where have you gone? Nowhere. Just maybe a quick reminder or two. Wake up and see the ways that you can help all around you. Sad part is when they opened up the grand piano, they found a 115 pound human body disposed of inside. It's weird.
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Starting point is 00:21:26 classified documents he had just like I don't care about the classified documents he had just like I don't care about the classified documents that Donald Trump had. No, I mean, if they were something like, you know, how to blow up the world. Yeah, okay. I think maybe we should probably have, you know, some information on that. How to dispose of a 115-pound intern. Something like that. That might not be the best, you know.
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Starting point is 00:22:23 So we'll see what happens on this. going to look into, oh, I don't know, everything, the probe into the communications between the tech giants and President Biden's aides looking for the pressure. We know it's there. They said, they openly said, yeah, we're we talked to them all the time. We now, though, from the Twitter files that this was going on, they suppressed all kinds of things. And should that be the way of the world? Would you like it if you were on the left? Would you like it if Donald Trump would have pressured to silence the media against anything that you were saying he was doing? I wouldn't like it. In fact, you had a cow when you thought he was going to do it. He never did. We've got to be
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Starting point is 00:25:42 It's supposed to be healed? Yeah, well, now see, 2006. Okay. You take some of the good news and you make it seem cheap. Now, you've cheapened it. Have I? I didn't realize that. No, I'm wondering if it is because of the protocols or anything else or.
Starting point is 00:26:00 I mean. Yeah, there was the Montreal protocol back of the day where they tried to limit the ozone hole. Remember that was a big story? I feel like when I was a kid. Yeah, it was. 80s?
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Starting point is 00:27:15 Now, the Biden administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is now considering a nationwide ban. And you're going to say, finally, someone's doing something about it. a nationwide ban on gas burning stoves following a new study that claims the appliances emit harmful pollution that has been linked to asthma in some children. So it's a new study that claims that the stoves emit harmful pollution that is linked to asthma. to asthma in some children. Oh, ban it immediately. Immediately. That's what I'm thinking. Right? You ban it immediately.
Starting point is 00:28:06 It's incredible. According to the EPA and the World Health Organization, gas burning stoves emit unsafe levels of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter, which I went to the doctor the other day, he's like, you have too much particulate matter, matter coming into your system. And I'm like, it's probably the stove, Doc.
Starting point is 00:28:31 So a December report from the International Journal of Environmental Research shows that 12% of current childhood asthma nationwide is attributed to gas stove use. So now we are thinking the Biden administration, because their consumer product safety Commission is concerned with consumer safety. You know, they got a whole commission on that. They're now thinking they're going to ban all gas burning stoves. So just want to put that in perspective for you. A couple of things happen with that.
Starting point is 00:29:08 We all have electric stoves, but it'll go great with our electric cars. If we do not have the capacity to charge as it is, but let's switch everybody over. To switch everybody over. 35% of all homes in the United States have a gas stove. Every restaurant you go into has a gas stove. You can't cook on electric and do fine cooking. You ever hear of a microwave, Glenn? You ever hear of one?
Starting point is 00:29:38 I have. Those are, first of all, completely safe. If you use them incorrectly, the bugs will actually pop in a microwave. But if you slowly cook the bugs. bugs. You can have a bowl of bugs anytime you want. If they're going to make us eat bugs, we need to be able to prepare them the best way possible. Exactly right.
Starting point is 00:29:57 So now you've got to give us one or the other. So now natural gas, by having a gas connection in your home, we are polluting the inside of our homes. By having a gas connection. So let me just help you. out with this. Now natural gas is not, we're not just not allowed to explore for it anymore.
Starting point is 00:30:28 They're now trying to eliminate it. And let me just read this last thing here again. By having a gas connection, we're polluting the insides of our homes. So that's not just a gas stove now, is it? that would be a natural gas heater as well. That would be a natural gas heater for your water as well. Wouldn't it be great if we could put everything on electricity? Huh? Seriously. Sounds great.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Did they explain why this doesn't affect adults, they're saying? Are they saying only some children? Because it's probably unbelievable that it would affect all people at all times. And, you know, I mean, I don't. This is why I only serve my kids little bites mini muffins. Right. Because that's the only healthy way to go. Now, they only eat chocolate chip mini muffins.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Yeah. And then I never have to worry about any of their asthma concerns. Nope. Never have to worry about it. Perfect health. Yep. you know, you would think maybe banning cigarettes would be a bigger thing. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:31:49 Banting kid has asthma. Hey, no smoking around the kid. Now, I don't agree with this. But, I mean, that might be a bigger step towards helping children with asthma than banning all gas stoves. And they did come out with a thing called vaping that causes far fewer of these chemicals to come out of, if you happen to be a smoker, out of your cigarette or device. And then the government has attacked that industry constantly since the game. So it really is fascinating.
Starting point is 00:32:22 They seem to want everyone to die. Is that, is that a, I mean, I'm just throwing that possibility out there. What if the goal is no more people? Now that sounds hard to believe. I mean, it's not like we, they're still. Still putting Paul Ehrlich on TV saying that we're all going to die because of overpopulation. I know. It's not like that happened this past weekend.
Starting point is 00:32:50 This guy who has been wrong for half a century, he has been wrong over and over and over again, publicly in print. In humiliating ways. In humiliating ways saying that like Great Britain wouldn't exist by the year 2000. Right. By 1980, there would be no food left. Right. That we'd be out of food. Like that has not occurred.
Starting point is 00:33:15 We have more food than we've ever had. Yeah. And he has missed on these predictions over and over and over again. And then they bring him out, they roll his bones out there again. I don't know, 100 years old. And like, hey, what's going to happen next guy who's been wrong every step of the way? And he tells us, shockingly, that we have all these disasters from overpopulation around the corner. And there's not one question of, you know, before we go, could we ask you?
Starting point is 00:33:41 you about everything you've said that's been wrong? Can we note that even if you happen to be completely guessing, you would have a higher percentage of success, at least maybe to get to 50%, you're at zero percent, over a half century. You shouldn't be on TV anymore talking about these things. You know what's really great is, I'm just thinking this through. You know, if you're not allowed to sell your house, if it has gas products in it, that you could sell your house, but you'd have to replace all the gas fixtures in your house and
Starting point is 00:34:18 change everything to electric. That would do a lot to impoverish people. And then once we're all on electric, uh, electricity and everything is on electricity, which does not seem to be the most environmental friendly thing to do. Uh, and we have the rolling blackouts and the rolling brownouts. And we can't keep our homes heated. because we no longer have gas. We're all hooked up to electricity, and they're not shoveling any more coal into that plant. I think this is going to be great.
Starting point is 00:34:52 I think this. Now, Stu says maybe the goal is to kill a bunch of people, but that seems too harsh. Maybe thinning out the herd would be better. I mean, there's a lot of people. I mean, surely, we know a lot of people. that should die. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:35:13 We should just line them up and ask them. Can you justify your existence? Because we can't keep you alive. We can't use the machinery of this great society to keep you alive unless you're pulling your weight. Oh, wait a minute. I'm sorry. Wow, I didn't make that up. That was George Bernard Shaw when he was really kind of pushing the progressive movement.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Hmm. Okay. Well, did I get that right? I don't want to punish anybody. But there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill. I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board, just as he might come before the income tax commissioners, and say every five years or every seven years,
Starting point is 00:36:06 just put him there and say, sir or madam, Now, will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be very much used to yourself. Wow, that's a really good idea. That might be the slogan on all-new electric stoves.
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Starting point is 00:38:11 The Glenn Beck. This is crazy. By the way, do you know who's in control of the Consumer Product Safety Commission? Think safety. Think products. Who would you appoint, right? The first name that comes to mind is, say it with me. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:38:49 Richard Trumpka Jr. Yeah. You know, the guy from the AFF. CIO. So the guy who was the head of the unions who was deep in the Obama administration is now the guy that they go to, look, I can't help with consumer safety. You know what I mean? That cement mixer. People fall into it all the time. How many times is that guy Googled how to dispose of a 115 pound woman? So Richard Trumka is in charge. He says every option is on the table The gas stoves is a hidden hazard.
Starting point is 00:39:28 He's planning on opening up the topic to public comment later this winter. He says the banning the sale of gas burning stoves is an option. They're also considering setting emission standards for appliances because he says, Children with asthma, you know, we're polluting the inside of homes. And last month, Corey Booker of New York. Jersey and Don Byer of Virginia requested Richard Trump could take action against these gas stove emissions because it's such a pressing issue and a cumulative burden that impacts minority and low-income households. Wow. We got to get rid of all the gas appliances in our
Starting point is 00:40:17 house. When will America wake up to all of this? Don't you see? You know, there was a poll we took yesterday. I tweeted out a poll. What is a bigger U.S. national security threat? A, Gates buying farmland. That got 28%. China buying U.S. farmland, 68%.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Russia's Ukrainian invasion, 3.4. So farmland being bought up by all of these people. This is part of the Great Reset that we, taught you a year ago with the book, The Great Reset, that is, by the way, still on sale. Buy it get caught up because the new book is coming out that shows you the next steps and is even more terrifying. But you will understand why gas stoves. They are impoverishing all of us. You can't have a real country that is a force in the world if you have rolling blackouts and brownouts all the time.
Starting point is 00:41:25 Why this push to get everything onto coal-fired electric plants? Why would you do that? Well, of course, they wouldn't want them to be coal-fired. Okay. Let me just give you this.
Starting point is 00:41:41 If you put all of just the cars, you don't have the transmission lines that could handle the load. So you're not going to be just the cars. Now add your stove and your heater and everything else for about 40% of the nation. You won't have the transmission lines.
Starting point is 00:42:01 No one's talking about building all of the new infrastructure and transmission lines. There seems to be a big hole in the plan or the plan is not what they say it is. The Glenn Back Program. I want to talk to you a little bit about my Patriot Supply. my Patriot Supply want you to be prepared for anything that could be coming our way. And a lot of things could be coming our way. In the show prep this morning, if you haven't signed up for our show prep yet, you should. In our show prep, you'll see the 20 things that could happen to cause the world to end.
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Starting point is 00:43:53 The minute now. What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. I want to tell you about the biggest threat to our country that I don't think, I haven't really heard anyone articulated, and it will come down to you and me. Are we going to do anything about it? The answer should be yes, but you have to be aware. aware of the problem first.
Starting point is 00:45:02 And it's a deep problem that you are somewhat aware of, but I'm not sure we've talked about the real consequences yet. We do that in 60 seconds. Let's say you've got a credit card, your balance is $10,000. If you only make the minimum payment amount, how long do you think it'll take to pay that off? The answer, unfortunately, is eight and a half years. By the time you have it paid off,
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Starting point is 00:46:40 there is a story from the New York Times today, and most people will not read it, at least most people on the right, because we're not
Starting point is 00:46:47 reading the New York Times. We read it, so you don't have to. There is a story about the meeting of the American Historical Association. 3,000
Starting point is 00:47:00 scholars gathered over the weekend in Philadelphia to talk about history and the future of history and how to write history. And if I have time, I'm going to give you all of the ins and outs. But it is terrifying to see them talk about history and how it has to be done in the present. It has to relate to things that are in the present. And there are voices that are being squashed and pushed out that are saying, no, history must remain neutral. You can draw your own connections and your own relation to it, but it's neutral. We just report it as it happened. That's not being done.
Starting point is 00:47:50 And it is a, it's a frightening process because our history is being rewritten in real time. The story, by the way, you can find it. If you, if you subscribe to our newsletter in the morning, I give you all of my show prep. It includes a ton of stories that I just don't have time, but I find all of these stories to be very important for you to be aware of. This one is, as historians gather, no truce in the history wars. And you can get that at glenbeck.com and sign up for our morning news brief. Okay, so this is happening. at the same time there is something called the great narrative.
Starting point is 00:48:30 The great narrative is something that is happening with the World Economic Forum. And this is the topic of my new book is the new narrative. And it's coming out in a couple of months. And the idea from Klaus Schwab is we have to have a new story. societies are built on stories. We are built on our histories, our stories, our stories, our struggles, our lessons that we learn, the good things and the bad things. So they put a team together in Dubai, of all places, and began to write a new story, the great narrative. I don't know about you, but I'm not comfortable with a bunch of people who want to change the world writing
Starting point is 00:49:21 a new story for the world. I'm really comfortable in dealing with the good things and the bad things of history and looking at history as a way to not make the same mistakes. But history is erasing many of our mistakes now. We're taking down statues that we used to have to learn and go, wow, that's a bad guy. Really? Yeah, we've learned.
Starting point is 00:49:47 Now we're just taking it all away. the narrative is completely disappearing and at the same time it is under attack. We don't care about history. I will tell you that I asked you yesterday if you would join me in a project for the next 40 days, just write down every day, either in the morning or in the evening, things that you're grateful for. It actually changes the way you process information. You can look at it for yesterday.
Starting point is 00:50:22 We had stories in the in the newsletter on it. It actually changes the function of your brain being grateful for things. And it allows you to think more clearly and differently. So I asked you to just make a list. And let me see if I have my list here. I wrote a I wrote a list this morning. I don't think I. Yeah, here.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Besides all the family and personal stuff, these are some of the things that I wrote. I am grateful for David Barton and Wall Builders, the team at M1, and allowing me, talking to the Lord, to personally preserve American history. This team at M1 and what we're doing, we are, because of my job, I am able, much to my children and my wife's chagrin, I am able to collect American history and preserve it. and my goal is to preserve it, even if it has to be buried in the side of a mountain or out in the middle of a field, it will be preserved because I believe we're dealing with people, I know we are, that want to change our history and destroy our history. So I will take the actual artifacts of our society and of our government, of our history, and I will preserve it the best I can.
Starting point is 00:51:50 And I am grateful for those things. It is one of my, it's in fact my top goal this year is to help restore America's narrative. And if I can't restore it, I will at least preserve it as much as I can. The truth about America. You know that today is this,
Starting point is 00:52:16 the anniversary of the day that common sense was published by Thomas Payne. Do you know who Thomas Payne is? Thomas Payne was kind of a reject. He was a tax collector, a reluctant tax collector. He was over in England. He was a failure at so many things. And then he met a guy. I know a guy.
Starting point is 00:52:40 Hey, he's got a room on a boat. Maybe you could go over. The guy he met, was Ben Franklin. And Ben Franklin saw something in him and said, you should go to America. And so Thomas Payne did. He apprenticed with Benjamin Franklin, if I'm not mistaken, for a while. They became good friends.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Thomas Payne looked at Benjamin Franklin in the end like a father figure. And he learned how to write. And he was a fantastic writer. And on this day, January 10th, 1776, he wrote something called common sense. In it, he said, the cause of America is in great measure, the cause of all mankind. Now, why would he say that? For the same reason, I say it today.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Not the cause of this government. This government, what we're doing right now is not the cause of all mankind. But a government as envisioned, as Martin Luther King said, these words have meaning in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They have meaning. Live up to those words. We're not even looking at those words anymore. We didn't know if we were going to go to war. We didn't know if we were willing to break away from the king.
Starting point is 00:54:13 We were already, you know, having skirmishes. The minute men had routed the British Army at Concord in April of the year prior, 1775. New England farmers were now under the leadership of George Washington. I mean, it was not good. So common sense was published to give you some idea of how. popular this was. He wrote words like, we have it in our power to begin the world over again,
Starting point is 00:54:53 to try something new. It made the argument that we needed to break away from the king and do something entirely different. The estimated population of the colonies at this time was 2.5 million people. The common sense, the first printing of it, sold 120,000 copies in the first three months. There are books, a lot of books,
Starting point is 00:55:30 that are published that don't sell 120,000 copies today in America with worldwide access to things like Amazon. 120,000 copies in the first three months and by the end of the revolution, half a million copies. Now, to give you some idea of how big that was, if you take today's population and you compare the two, so it's apples and apples, that is the equivalent of 66 million copies being sold in America. No book does that. No book does 66 million copies. You're lucky to make it a million seller in today's world. 66 million copies.
Starting point is 00:56:21 That's pretty amazing. And it had a great effect. And he was just applying common sense. Common sense happened. It got us to the Declaration. of independence. It was such a stunning thing.
Starting point is 00:56:41 What America did was so different that even after the war in 17, let's see, this is 1789, I believe. 1790,
Starting point is 00:56:54 this is 1792. They were still publishing common sense and it became a bestseller now in England. After the war, they're like, what the hell just happened?
Starting point is 00:57:05 He writes this book, in 1776. 1792. They're buying it in the streets of England going, what did he say? Why did they do this? But there's a difference. And this is one of the reasons we broke
Starting point is 00:57:19 away. And I want you to think about this into terms of today. There were certain things in common sense that you could not say in England. When he wrote it, he knew it was a death sentence. Because
Starting point is 00:57:35 he called the king all kinds of names and he he called him a criminal. So in 1792, we may have been free, but if you bought the copy of common sense on the street, and I'm holding a copy of it now from 1792, you actually had to go into the bookseller because there were blanks on the page. And you would say, there are blanks on the page. I know. I can't print them, nor can I sell them. But if you want to commit treason, I'll tell you what it says, and then you'd have to write it down in your own hand.
Starting point is 00:58:14 So you would go to prison or be executed. And so they would write things like, oh, ye that love mankind, that you dare oppose not only the tyranny, and then there's a blank, but the tyrant. You had to write but the tyrant, because you were then calling the king a tyrant. If you look, this is exactly what's going on right now when Facebook is edited, when Twitter is edited, when the government says you cannot say these things. It's exactly the same thing. I don't need to change history. By changing history, we learn the lessons. We fail to learn the lessons.
Starting point is 00:59:01 We learn the lessons that whoever is in power wants you to learn. Well, I don't think the founding fathers wanted to learn any lessons that the king wanted them to learn. They were talking about something entirely new and different. England didn't get that right for many years. We got it because of the revolution and Thomas Payne. But he wrote something else. He is truly a, he's not considered a founding father, but he is, he is part of that and plays an extraordinarily important role. Because he was the narrator.
Starting point is 00:59:47 He was the storygiver of the revolution. So he gets us to the Declaration of Independence. And everybody's excited because it's all fireworks and sunshine. But what happens when winter arrives? He writes something else. Next. Patrick wrote in about his experience with Relief Factory. He says, I have such great results to report.
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Starting point is 01:00:56 10 seconds, station ID. Now I'm going to give you something that you can actually do here in a second that revolves around politics. Something huge happened in the country over the weekend. And I'm going to give you the full story next hour. But I want to give you the highlights of it here in just a minute. But Thomas Payne, we're losing. We, everybody's excited and then we're losing because we have farmers fighting the battles. And George Washington loses every single battle.
Starting point is 01:01:37 He crosses the Delaware, not the famous Delaware crossing. He crosses it back going south. He's in retreat. So wait, how did he get back going the other direction to cross the Delaware again? Everyone was on the march, and Thomas Payne was one of them. And he was someplace not with George Washington. He's hearing the drum, and he hears the drum, and he's thinking to himself, these are the times that try men's souls.
Starting point is 01:02:07 The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. Listen to this. Are you a summer soldier or are you a sunshine patriot? We are in a crisis as America. Will you shrink from the service of your country? Knowing that, as he said, he that stands by it now deserves the love and the thanks of men and women. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us,
Starting point is 01:02:40 that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, think about this in our own lives today. What we attain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Britain with an army to enforce her tyranny. Listen, are we not in the same neighborhood? Britain with an army to enforce her tyranny has declared that she has a right not only to tax, but to bind us in all cases whatsoever.
Starting point is 01:03:30 are you being told exactly what you can and cannot do? Is the federal government binding you in all cases? And if being bound in that matter is not slavery, then there's no such thing as slavery upon the earth. By the way, after he wrote common sense, it may have been four. One of the first things that he wrote was a whole series on slavery, the abomination of slavery.
Starting point is 01:04:04 So he was against slavery. So don't count him out. He says, maybe the War of Independence on the continent was declared too soon. Maybe it was delayed too long. But it has to be fought. These are the words of Thomas Payne. This is our history. Can we learn from accurate history?
Starting point is 01:04:30 He wrote, It's such an expression, well, give me peace in my day. Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or another finally take place. And a generous parent should say, if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Shouldn't we be willing to stand now just with the debt? Shouldn't we herald the people like the Freedom Caucus last week who stood up and said, enough is enough? Isn't it worth the smears and the fight today?
Starting point is 01:05:12 So our children will not be slaves tomorrow. Now, what can you do to help? Well, you can be aware of one thing. There was an announcement on Friday that you need to know about. Good news next. The Glenn Backed program. But it needs your service. support. Last year, we participated in a miracle. I am so grateful for you. Tens of thousands of
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Starting point is 01:07:18 If you've been to Washington, D.C., it's a lot like the Vietnam Wall, but this is for the Korean War. And this is really a cool memorial. It has these soldiers, these statues of these soldiers going through kind of like a Korean forest, if you will. Well, they decided that they, wanted to put a wall up with all the names. $22 million this cost us. And I don't know, is it one or two decades to get this done? When it was first proposed that, hey, we like the soldiers, let's put up a wall. The Parks Department said, no wall, no wall, we don't want names.
Starting point is 01:07:53 We don't want it. Why? Because when the Vietnam War, the wall went up, there were names that were missing. Some of them, somebody has to make the decision on who is actually a a Vietnam War veteran. For instance, one of the examples was a nurse. She's flying over to go to Vietnam, but she's not engaged in Vietnam yet. Her plane crashes in Europe should her name go on the wall.
Starting point is 01:08:21 Some people would say, well, yeah, she was enlisted. She was on her way. Others would say, no, that wasn't combat. That was in Europe. And it had nothing to do with the military. This must be an impossible task. Impossible. That's why the Parks Department said, we don't want anything to do with a wall.
Starting point is 01:08:35 We learned our lesson. We've seen this movie before. Correct. Yeah. Congress didn't care. Congress said, no, no, this is great. We're going to put them all. The Parks Department said, okay, if you do that, we want it in the bill that it is the Pentagon that makes the list.
Starting point is 01:08:54 We have nothing to do with it. Okay. So they were so adamant about it that it was written that the Pentagon is the one. and the Pentagon could not take any outside advisor counsel. Okay, let's just think about this for a second. The Pentagon has to look through 56,000 names that they said died in the Korean War, but there were only 36,000. So they have it wrong in the first place, okay?
Starting point is 01:09:23 They went with that one for about 20 years. Then they were like, oh, whoops, I guess there's some other people there that died that really weren't even there had nothing to do with it. They got it down to 36,000 names. They couldn't take any outside of ice. So they've got a couple of problems with the wall now. In fact, about 1,500 problems. There are people that were there that were not listed, people that weren't there that are listed.
Starting point is 01:09:52 I like this one. Frederick Bald Eagle Bear. He's an army corporal who was killed as he rallied his infantry squad to fend off an enemy attack. He's part of the Lakota tribe. Well, because the Pentagon's records were all on cards, you know, computer cards, that I don't even know if you have the computer to use it anymore and could not use hyphenated names. The guy who is called Frederick Bald Eagle Bear, he's listed as Eagle B.F. Bald. Not good.
Starting point is 01:10:31 Not good. Eagle B.F. bald? Yeah, not good. Also, I might want to point out that there's some other people that, you know, they have their name up there. And they, well, one of the guys was killed in a motorcycle accident in Hawaii. Another guy who drank antifreeze thinking it was alcohol. And another guy who lived for 60 years after the Korean War had eight grandchildren. He didn't die in a war at all. His name is up on a wall. $22 million. They now say the whole thing has to be taken down and redone.
Starting point is 01:11:11 Wait, they can't. They can't correct. There's no way to correct it. You should put some putty in there? Yeah. White out? Yeah, no, it's not good. The whole story is in my morning briefing.
Starting point is 01:11:21 You can get it at glenbeck.com. It's an amazing story in its entirety. But this is, our history is under attack from so many. angles. This one, just sheer incompetence. You want to give the government the keys to truth and history? Really? Because they're not doing a really good job here. Their own department, the Department of War, the Department of Defense, the ones that keeps all the records. They, we don't. Nope, I have no idea who these people are. Now, let me tell you a good step, but it's going to need your support.
Starting point is 01:12:06 Friday, Rondasantis began a process of transforming Sarasota's new college of Florida into a little more conservative. Now, this is a progressive college. It's been floundering for years, but it is a, it's the new college, like the new school in New York. It's a progressive college that's been teaching garbage. forever and struggling. So because it's a state school, the governor said, well, it's floundering.
Starting point is 01:12:40 We could shut it down or we could reform it. You know what? Let's reform it. So he appointed six new board members. And they're a little more conservative. The dean at Hillsdale College is one of them. A senior fellow at the Claremont Institute is another one. And Christopher Rufo is also on the board of directors.
Starting point is 01:13:07 Christopher is going to be joining us in about an hour. So Christopher Rufo, who is he? He's the activist that has been exposing everything that all the poison that is in our schools. They hate him. They hate him. You have to hang on that age that long to describe how much they hate him. They hate him. Okay, so here's what the Florida Education Commissioner said.
Starting point is 01:13:35 It's our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida's classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South. Oh, they hate all of these people. Turning new college into a Florida version of Hillsdale is flipping the entire thing upside down. And DeSantis has just said, it is time to take. charge of our schools. Our schools are completely out of control and it is time to take them back. Amen. How many governors have the balls to do this? I said this to you last week. In Florida there are signs that come up and I think they may be coming from the administration. I don't know, but it says the free state of Florida.
Starting point is 01:14:31 And when you listen to DeSantis talk, he talks about always the free state of Florida. Amen. That should be a goal for all of us. Why are we not the free state of Texas? We are relatively much more free than places up north, but we're not the free state of Texas. We should all be striving and pushing our goals.
Starting point is 01:15:02 governors and our legislatures to pass things that make us free men and women, unencumbered by this nonsense that is being jammed down everyone's throat. So here's what I, here's what I want you to do. I want you to read up on this. You can find the story. Just look for Sarasota's new college. You can get the story at glenbeck.com or just look for Sarah. Arizona's new college, Florida's new college, and support this in every way you can. They are going to be coming with switch blades and automatic guns. They are going to be, it won't be a 22. They'll be coming with proverbial 45 caliber weapons to this fight.
Starting point is 01:15:55 And it will have an endless, what do they call it? clip of ammunition. So we need to be prepared to stand up and fight back. But that is fight back the right way. You know, earlier I was reading to you the Thomas Payne American Crisis. And in it, he says, in fact,
Starting point is 01:16:21 I want to read it to you exactly. In it, he says, I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been and still is that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction or to leave them unsupported to perish. Here's the important part. Who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war by every
Starting point is 01:16:53 decent method which wisdom could invent. neither have I so much the infidel in me as to suppose that he has relinquished the government of the world and given us up to the care of devils. And as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven and ask for help. I cannot imagine how the progressive movement that is pushing the slaughter of innocence can look up and say, Lord, help us. knowing that as Lincoln said, God is not on our side.
Starting point is 01:17:35 He doesn't pick sides. He wants all of his children to be redeemed and rescued. So they are in error, I believe. But God does not want them slaughtered. God doesn't not, he wants peace and love and understanding. And we must do everything we can to remain. peaceful, kind, loving, doing all of the things that we can in our power. And he will pick up the slack.
Starting point is 01:18:06 But if we don't, if we are conniving or anything else, he cannot bless us. So do everything in your power and not one thing more. All right. It is so hard to get good help these days. Sometimes when you want to do something right, you have to say, No, don't involve stew in it at all. Anyway, if you're looking for a real estate agent, don't call Stu. Don't call Stu.
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Starting point is 01:20:28 He formally consulted for Coca-Cola. And he said, in my dealings there, I was in the room when the Coke people said, look, we'll give you millions of dollars. And we'll give it to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation. We'll give it directly and through front groups, but they can't call us racist anymore. And he's blown the whistle on them. And we'll talk to about that. Also, kind of goes right along with what he believes.
Starting point is 01:21:05 There is a new, there's a new sheriff in town with the American Pediatrics. I think it's the American Pediatrics, maybe the AMA. But they're now talking about. gastric bypass for children like 10 years old and you know has anybody talked about you know maybe some sugar we we get rid of some of the sugar in our own diets by choice by choice there's a reason why everybody else's kids you know around the world are kind of healthy they go outside and play they're not on the computer all the time and they're not eating an American diet.
Starting point is 01:21:46 Yeah, I don't know that they're all healthy. Honestly, I don't think you could make the generalization. In comparison, pause. We certainly have some cultural factors here. Yeah, I mean, not Russia whose kids at 10, you know, are alcoholics on, you know, potato vodka. Right. I will say, like, I'm a little torn on this one because I don't, look, I don't think surgery for kids is a good idea, sure.
Starting point is 01:22:06 But on the other hand, I really do, like, I don't like the approach. Okay, well, you can control this and it's a disease and it makes me uncomfortable. because obviously if you eat less, you can lose weight. On the other hand, I really want a fat pill. Like, I 100% want to encourage these companies. I don't care what the side effects are. I'm growing extra arms out of my head. I'm fine with it.
Starting point is 01:22:29 Yeah, but look how skinny I am. I don't care. And I have a third hand to point to my svelts shake. Right. Maybe we can start selling arms in the black market and make it profitable. Whatever. He's an arms dealer. Yeah, he just cuts them off his forehead.
Starting point is 01:22:44 Mars beer. That's amazing. Look, we can all say that if you just cut sugar out of your diet and exercise more. Come on, we all know. And then look at us. Like, if this was just a radio show, maybe we'd have some credibility saying these things. However, people have eyes and they can see us. And we all know that if we eat better, we would look better.
Starting point is 01:23:11 And we still don't do it, despite incredible people. pressures of our industry to look better. I know. We have an entire network built on people who look like us, with some exceptions. And there are a few people who look good. Very obvious exceptions. And, you know, with all those incentives, we're still giant fat people. I will tell you that I am on a full week cleanse.
Starting point is 01:23:34 Okay. Against my will. It's my wife. Oh, and the doctor. Hey, you do this. Shut up. What a doctor's no. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:23:45 Oh, wear a mask. Do a cleanse. Now we can out get rid of the... Eat less. Exercise. Shut up. Shut up. We're on to you.
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Starting point is 01:25:43 And profite. Via Rai, the voice that we love. What you're about to hear, is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. So we have wondered for a while, how do all these corporations,
Starting point is 01:26:49 why are they going woke? How does that help them? The answer has always been, follow the money, perhaps that is just as simple as that. A whistleblower, co-founder of Trumed, a guy who was in the room
Starting point is 01:27:05 with co-con, Coca-Cola, as they paid millions to the NAACP, to label parents racist if they opposed sugary diets? It is quite a story. Cali Means joins us in 60 seconds. So the main reason why I feel it's necessary to prepare for a disaster as I come on this program, I encourage you to look in to putting some of your money into gold or silver. The main reason is I'm a student of history. I have seen how certain things, especially the really bad things, tend to happen over and over again, and we repeat mistakes.
Starting point is 01:27:47 We might relabel them. You know, money printing is now modern monetary policy. It's still the same bull crap that it was in the 1930s. It won't work. We are not living in a capitalist society. we haven't lived in a capitalist society for quite some time. We're a hybrid, and we're at the breaking point of that. And the way our Fed has managed our money supply is completely reckless, completely reckless.
Starting point is 01:28:19 So what are you going to do? I have shored up myself and my family with gold and silver. Now, it's not like, don't put everything you have in it. Don't do anything crazy. to spread your risk out across many things because you don't know what tomorrow brings. Goldline has an awesome special that I want you to look into with every tube of the new quarter-ounce Mayflower gold commemorative. This is to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower. They're beautiful coins. You're going to receive 100 of the same Mayflower copper rounds at no
Starting point is 01:28:58 additional cost. Don't wait to call. These are going to sell out. Call 866 Goldline. 866 goldline or goldline.com. All right. You know, I don't think we understand why these companies do what they do. And I think the first time that we saw or we should look to seeing where companies change was Occupy Wall Street. Those banks were being protested and they sat in front of the streets. And most people think, ah, just died out. No, I believe that there were deals made.
Starting point is 01:29:36 Look, leave us alone and we'll help you do X, Y, or Z. There are very few giant corporations, I think, that are true to, you know, even their advertising. You know, I want to teach the world to sing. Do you Coke? We have Cali Means on the phone. with us now. He is the co-founder of TrueMed, and he's a whistleblower on Coca-Cola. Hello, Callie.
Starting point is 01:30:11 How you doing, Glenn? I'm good. I'm good. So, tell me your story from the beginning. Before we get into the Coca-Cola, tell me who you are, where you came from, and how you got here. Yeah, I was born and raised in the swamp.
Starting point is 01:30:29 I was born and raised in Georgetown. Very ideological. I worked in politics early in my career, worked for John McCain, got into, you know, most people after the campaigns, get into consulting. Then I found myself in the rooms
Starting point is 01:30:42 with pharma executives, soda executives, and seeing some very alarming things. So slowly, slowly got out of that, got more into entrepreneurship. And it just kind of grounded in that public policy standpoint
Starting point is 01:30:54 had become very passionate. I think, I think when you look at what's happening with kids, 25% of young adults having pre-diabetes, what's happening to health of Americans, there's something being rigged and it's a first order issue because, you know, depression and disease is just skyrocketing. Life expects he's declining.
Starting point is 01:31:09 And I really tied it back to my early experience and, you know, have a new company that's trying to change those incentives. But, you know, with the new son and looking at the world he's going into, felt the need to speak out. Okay. So you were and were you on the side of Coca-Cola at the time when they were talking about, you know, the sugary drinks and snap? Yeah, unfortunately, there's not a big lobby for diabetic children. But, you know, so Coke's throwing a lot of money around in D.C. And the consultants are almost, you know, universally on the side of the soda companies, the American beverage associations, the various front groups, and pharma.
Starting point is 01:31:48 And so what happened? You were there and you were fighting for Coca-Cola or big soda. And you were in the room. And what did you witness? Yes. Yeah, I think this is really instructive, and it's from 2012 and instructive now, because this is up for debate again. But, you know, this is around food stamps. So food stamps is a program that 15% of American people depend on food nutrition. We can debate whether it's a good program or not, but it's there. And shockingly, 10% of that is spent on sugary drinks, 10% of a $110 million government nutrition program. It's a material part of Coke and Pepsi's revenue. And logically, people were questioning that and Coke wanted to get. keep the status quo. So the playbook they used is the playbook, you know, is oldest time and absolutely still used today. And it's a three-part stool. The first was identifying civil rights organizations, in this case, the NAACP. And what was shocking being in the room as, you know, kind of a bad
Starting point is 01:32:51 scene. I mean, these old, you know, Coke executives basically dictating what the NWHCP should say. It's very transactional. They say the quiet part out loud. Coke gave the NWACC. CP millions of dollars and they explicitly agreed to call opponents in this case parents who are concerned their children are, you know, ingesting 100 times more sugar than they did 100 years ago. Racist is that simple. But it's bipartisan. The second leg of the stool was, you know, we paid off, pay to play conservative think tanks on the left and the right, but the Heritage Foundation is a big player.
Starting point is 01:33:23 You know, the pay to play scheme and it's basically a corporate own entity ordering a study from the Heritage Foundation's like going to McDonald's ordering a Big Mac, you get whatever you want. And then the third. Wait, wait, wait. I want to make sure I understand this. You're saying that part of, you know, big corporations' plans, which I absolutely believe, is to order studies.
Starting point is 01:33:44 And, but they go to the Heritage Foundation. One of them, you say they're on both left and right, but one of them was the Heritage Foundation. Yeah, and I think it's important to call out. I mean, the elites on both sides are getting bought off. And, yeah, the way it works at the Heritage Foundation is you get a, fundraising point. The fundraising point escorts the Koch executives or the farm executives and the Heritage Foundation meet with the scholar. You talk high-level scontops and then the fundraising point, you know, basically guarantees that a study is going to say what they wanted to say
Starting point is 01:34:12 and there's an exchange of funds. Interestingly, and I think importantly, I also have seen, you know, oil companies and other, you know, special interests pay the Heritage Foundation, another conservative think tanks to not call something at tax. I mean, you know, Grover Norquist, the Heritage Foundation this whole DC influence, you know, network actually has redefined often what a tax is. So you can actually buy publicity to rail against the tax, of course, but you can also pay these organizations to redefine something as not a tax that benefits them. There was something that I saw that I talked about in the first hour of today's podcast of there's this new study out by the, you know, greening of the World Foundation or whatever it
Starting point is 01:34:58 is a global warming foundation, new study that shows that gas stoves and all natural gas should be taken out of homes because it's too dangerous for kids with asthma. And the first thing I thought was, oh, really, the global warming study came back with that. What a surprise. And everything that we do now in politics is based on some study. And you're saying you can't trust a study from either side. Well, you know, I think I think that's very importantly, and I think global warming is a great example. When there's trillions of dollars at play, you can guarantee that financial industry are rigging the institutions at trust.
Starting point is 01:35:39 And I think the third place we went on this stop, that's the playbook, is I think actually the most important and I think the least understood. Large, you know, prominent elite research universities, in my opinion, are nothing more than public relations entities of corporate interests. They're exactly what Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address. Exactly. I mean, he said big military industrial, corporations and educations will just start selling out and producing the studies that corporations or the government wants. Yeah. There's nothing more prominent or unimpeachable still today in the media on the left and the right as like a peer-reviewed study from elite research. institution, but you've got to ask who's funding these studies. You can have a peer-reviewed study,
Starting point is 01:36:31 say whatever you want. You can ask whatever question you want. You can structure the study however you want. So I think what's really relevant for this issue I really care about, which is the nutrition, the hijacking of American nutrition, is, you know, the disastrous 1990s food pyramid. That was on foundational research from Harvard University, from the head of nutrition at Harvard University directly paid for by sugar. You know, it leads up to today to the latest NIH-funded. It's called the Food Compass, the most, they held it as the most, most complex and important nutrition study, you know, in modern times, it says fruit loops are more nutritious than eggs.
Starting point is 01:37:05 And it is directed by processed food companies. It says honeynut chiroos is more nutritious than organic ground beef. So that's still getting, and you look at it, Coca-Cola and processed food companies spend 11 times more money on basic nutritional research funding, basic nutrition. nutritional research universities than the NIH. And even the NIH is just a grant-making organization. And in the case of this food compass I just mentioned, is actually more often than not funding professors who have other financial incentives to the topic they're studying. So really we need to absolutely, like again, I'm looking at like PR consultants at Washington, you know, dictate to
Starting point is 01:37:50 prominent professors what they should be finding in their research. It's pretty unsettling. So how do we fix this or what do we trust as a, I mean, personally, I think there is some common sense in some people alive today that would say, you know, let's just, let's say, hey, how about how about moderation in all things would be a good place to start? But what do you trust if there's, if all of these institutions are blown? Yeah. So I'll talk. I think health is a specific area that I think is impactful to everyone and gets a framework. But let's look at what has happened in health in the past 40 years. I think the patient has been systematically disempowered and in fear.
Starting point is 01:38:37 And really by extension to the American people, right? It's like don't self-diagnose. Don't trust, you know, don't question the science, trust the science. You know, the American patient has been battered into like not questioning anything and basically in total fear. So, you know, the first step, and this is why. important to get this out there is to wake up a little bit, is to ask, look around your children's classroom, look at the fact that most children are obese, you know, as I said, 25% have pre-diabetes,
Starting point is 01:39:03 which used to be called adult onset diabetes, you know, look at what's happening to the health of the adults, and just start questioning things a little bit and question when you see that news article with the new peer-reviewed study and question whether it makes sense that food loops are more, you know, healthier than eggs or beef. So that's the first part. And I think that is happening. I mean, I think we've got a lot of people speaking out. I'm encouraged that a lot of folks, you know, nutrition's been an issue on no left, but I think the rights really waking up, you know, looking at male sperm count plummeting 50% in the past 40 years. What do you think that's caused by? Any idea? Yeah, I don't think it's very complicated,
Starting point is 01:39:40 Glenn. I think, you know, the foundation of the American diet right now, the foundation is processed grains, which is basically weaponizing, you know, whole grains to take the fiber out. which basically makes it immediate sugar impact in the blood, makes the food addictive. You know, 70% of food is processed food, which is the foundation that's processed grains. Seed oils, which is a very refined, cheap oil and added sugar. Seed oils and processed grains didn't exist 100 years ago. These are new inventions. These are processed inventions.
Starting point is 01:40:09 And then added sugar really didn't exist until 100 years ago. It's gone up 100x and 100 years. So really the foundation of the American diet has been weaponized to be highly addictive, highly inflammatory. And it's just evolutionarily. We're not made to do. And we're being gas lit, right? You know, just yesterday, the American Association of Pediatrics, which is a, you know,
Starting point is 01:40:35 wholly owned subsidiary of pharma, but still a trusted institution, said that to combat this obesity that preteens are experiencing, they should get a weekly, a monthly injection for the rest of their lives, this new big pharma obesity cure. So it's like, I really think. that there's this axis where food companies have basically weaponized food. Everyone's getting sick. Everyone's getting overweight. But our trusted medical institutions turn a blind eye because there's a trillion dollar spent on statins now, metformin. You know, all these drugs, interestingly, all these things these drugs are treating have gone up. A diabetes has gone up. Heart disease.
Starting point is 01:41:11 So there's this, there's this blind eye from the medical system. So to answer your question, you know, it's education. There's also some public policies. We have some crony capitalist systems. I mean, and this can take to any. You think, hang on just a second. Hold on for just a second. I want to come back. Let me just take one minute to tell you about relief factor sleep. If you have trouble sleeping a night, getting to sleep, the last thing I want to take is some drug. I don't, I don't want to take a drug. I don't want to, and they always whack you out. But there are times when you just toss and turn and toss and turn. About four or five months ago,
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Starting point is 01:43:03 It is so clear to me when you look at us compared to the rest of the world, something is up with our diet. It is clear. And even common sense tells you we didn't grow up with peanut allergies. We didn't have gluten-free everything. We've done something really bad to our food and our diet. Yeah, Glenn. And to me, you know, you know, you know,
Starting point is 01:43:31 up as a conservative, you know, considering considering not my philosophy. I think, I think it's good people are waking up on this because to me it's a first order issue. If we care about individual liberty, right, the most important thing is the is the ability of our brains. And I'm not trying to get too deep here, but like our brain, diabetes is cellular dysfunction. It is literally the cells malfunctioning. 80, 20% of the cells are in our brain. Like, like, that is the first order issue of like our human capital. And it's it's not just people being overweight, you know, depression is skyrocketing. Infertility is off the charts. As I mentioned, the male sperm count, PCOS, leading cause of female infertility is, is off the charts. We really are facing, you know,
Starting point is 01:44:17 and getting exponentially sick or fat or more depressed and more infertile. And that's a first order issue. And it's, it's, and then you get to the market and people say, well, we don't want, you know, Coke, it's free choice. I'm all for it. I'm libertarian. Like, But let's have people drink Coke. It shouldn't be paid for with tens of billions of dollars of a government program. That's not a free market. That's a rigged system. Correct.
Starting point is 01:44:37 So right now, we have rigged the system, and you do not have a free market. And I think conservatives, even some very, you know, well-meaning smart conservatives that I know. You know, if you even mention taking Coke away from food stamps, it's, oh, that's patriarchal. No, no, what's happening right now? This system is rigged right now. The system is rigged to give a 12-year-old an injection of a final. drug instead of talking to them and working with the parents to get them healthier. You are preaching to the choir, especially with ESG and everything else.
Starting point is 01:45:09 They are planning on redesigning our food, what food is good for us, what's not, and it is all fixed. I mean, I can't get conservatives who are in power to understand, and maybe it's because they're on the take, that this is not messing with the free market. ESG is messing with the free market. You've got the government and corporations designing where they want the world to go. And we're not really offered the choice. We're being told lies, fake studies or paid for studies.
Starting point is 01:45:46 And then we just find ourselves in this situation. And I think it's getting extraordinarily dangerous. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. And you just, you know, you look at Bill Gates being the largest farm owner in the country, you know, making processed food. It's just like you kind of start, you know, going through the, and it's, it's, you don't want to be too conspiratorial, but, you know, what is happening to the American people. And, you know, just to your, just your question about what people do. I mean, I think, hopefully, you know, people listen to this. And it's been a big awakening for me in the past couple years and just waking up and starting asking questions. I think, there's one actual public policy, you know, thing. You got to ask with your public policy, what helps people stay healthy? And I actually think it's a good policy, the FSAHSA, which is a very underlook, these tax-free accounts. What our company's doing is you can actually buy food and exercise tax-free. Food and exercise actually often is the best medicine. And most people
Starting point is 01:46:46 don't even understand that you can actually literally like qualify food and exercise another lifestyle as medicine, say, 30, 40 percent with your FSA-HSA accounts. Holy cow. I didn't, I'm not aware of that. I'm out of time. Can I have you back? I'd like to do a podcast with you, Callie, because I think this is vital information. Callie, thank you so much for being on the program. Co-founder of TrueMed, Callie Means. Back in just a second with the changing of the guard in Florida education. Christopher Rufo joins us next. Thanks to your support. Patriot Mobile is on the front line. of the parallel economy right now. They are offering service with all three major networks, which means that if you're with the big three, and you like their service, but you hate their values,
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Starting point is 01:48:37 Get involved. BlazTV.com slash Glenn. The promo code is Glenn. Florida, Rhonda Sandis announced on Friday, is taking back education. And he is changing the board of Regents for the new college of Florida. which is a progressive university that's been floundering in lies for a while. Did I say that out loud? And so the dean of Hillsdale is now part of the Board of Regions. Christopher Rufo is also a part of that.
Starting point is 01:49:20 You might know who Christopher Rufo is. He has been the guy who has relentlessly been exposing DEI and CRT and you name it. He has been the lynchpin and leading force against all of that. He joins us now, Christopher Rufo, a known Nazi supporter. I'm sorry with some more research. I in the Washington Post would like to retract that last statement as being utterly false. Christopher, how are you? I'm doing very well.
Starting point is 01:49:58 How are you? Good. I can't keep up with all the retractions. You just got another one from the Washington Post. and who else do? Jonathan Shade as well. Chris, can you walk us
Starting point is 01:50:06 through the litany? Yeah, so this is something that just keeps happening and even in the last 48 hours I've gotten a major retraction from the Washington Post.
Starting point is 01:50:15 They wrote this ridiculous hit piece against me about my appointment to the board of trustees at New College. The editors admitted to me and then had to retract four false statements
Starting point is 01:50:25 and there was only four paragraphs in the story that were about me so they were actually one false one complete brazen lie. per paragraph. And then the following day, which was yesterday,
Starting point is 01:50:37 I spent all day hounding Jonathan Chaites from the New York magazine. And he too ended up retracting a completely false statement. He made up a quotation, attributed it to me. And then I said, well, where did I say this? He couldn't prove it, had to retract it. But here's the thing, Glenn. Both of these publications have done the exact same thing twice.
Starting point is 01:51:00 last year the Washington Post had to retract multiple false statements about my reporting on critical race theory. Also last year, Jonathan Chate, the same author, made up a quotation that he attributed to me that was totally false, had to retract it. I'm starting to think that these things aren't a coincidence. What do you think, Glenn? Well, I don't go too far out on a limb on that. You know, the press knows, they can say anything and retract, and the retraction doesn't matter. The charge is out there. and the print is out there and it's online and it will be forever online and that will be the part
Starting point is 01:51:35 that has passed around about you. I mean, we are dealing with really nefarious powers at work that know exactly how to smear and discredit people. So let me go, let me take you to Florida here. How did this unfold with new college and what exactly are you trying to do and the governor trying to do with education in Florida. Florida's smallest public university. It's on the beach, actually, in Sarasota, beautiful location.
Starting point is 01:52:09 But it's had struggles for years. It's failed to meet recruitment targets. It's at about half capacity. They can't get students in. They accept almost anyone, but very few students choose to enroll in the college. They've had this kind of broken culture for a number of years in which even, you know, professors and staff members are kind of. at odds with the students who are a very kind of left-wing progressive activist.
Starting point is 01:52:35 It's almost like Evergreen State out in Washington State that famously imploded a number of years ago. And the Florida legislature in recent years has considered actually just abolishing the college, totally defunding it and transferring its assets elsewhere in the system. But Governor DeSantis had a kind of bold and dramatic alternative. He said, let's bring in a new board of directors. Let's get some really smart people that have. have the kind of strength that's required to do a reform effort. And let's turn it around 180 and transform new college,
Starting point is 01:53:06 the splodgling, struggling public universities into what they're calling the Hillsdale of the South. So a classical institution of learning of higher education. And that is our task. It is a big vision. It's not going to be easy. But I think all of us on the board of trustees are excited to make it happen and to show conservatives.
Starting point is 01:53:25 It's time to stop seeding territory. Thank you. I actually start taking back territory. Thank you. And it starts here with new college. I will tell you, Christopher, we, the biggest mistake we made was seeding the colleges and just saying, you know what, when they get out into the real world, no, they're out in the real world now.
Starting point is 01:53:43 And they've changed the real world into this fantasy gobbledygook that they got from these universities. We have got to start taking them back. I have two kids ready to go to college. I don't know where to send them. and I'm terrified of sending them any but one of them wants to be an actress. Good Lord, I've done everything I can. I prayed on my knees for days on end.
Starting point is 01:54:08 Please make that wish go away. She's really good. She wants to do it. I can't send her into, you know, the lion's den. We need to take back education. Absolutely. But I think that I'm maybe a bit more optimistic. I think there are really two key strategies that people need to adopt.
Starting point is 01:54:30 First is you have to make your own kids as strong as possible so they can actually go into the lion's then. You know, when my kids turn 18, I have three kids at home and I want to feel confident that wherever they go, they're going to have their own principles, they're going to have their integrity, they're going to have the strength and sophistication to navigate those environments. But of course, the kind of even maybe more important solution in the larger sense is for us to create alternatives in education. And look, we need to create alternatives in K through 12.
Starting point is 01:55:01 We need charter schools. We need universal school choice, so vouchers, so parents can start their own homeschools or religious schools, whatever they want to do, matches their values. And in higher education, you know, has been really kind of ceded to the left since the mid to late 1960s. That's when everything turned. And look, conservatives have not figured out how to do it. I think that the problem, what I'm observing as I'm talking to people and navigating this new enterprise, is that the adults are scared of the kids, you know, really and truly. They're scared of the students. They're scared of the media.
Starting point is 01:55:37 They're scared of all the, you know, laptop people, you know, typing away at the New York Times. You've got to get over that. It's like you have to get over that. And I think that what we want to demonstrate with this is that we have the strength, we have the courage, we have the backbone. We're going to hang very tough. We're going to make a better university. It's going to be more competitive. It's going to be more rigorous.
Starting point is 01:55:59 It's going to have higher quality academic offerings. And I think that what we've seen with Hillsdale College, where I've been fortunate enough to teach a course recently, is that the American families are hungry for this kind of education. They are. They want that classical liberal arts education. They want students to kind of fall in love with learning. And they don't want to have this poisonous,
Starting point is 01:56:21 less than ideology and lesswing bureaucracy, drenching everything in their way. I don't want my kids to be taught what to think. I want my kids to be taught how to think. You know what I mean? How to find the answers. How to question. How to reason. That's what I want a university to do.
Starting point is 01:56:40 And that's what they should be doing, pushing you in every different direction. So you see that, you know, you should question everything and know how to. question and know how to prove something using critical thinking. But that's not what we're getting from our universities. So how are you, because this is a very progressive school. How are the professors and everybody else taking it at the school? Do you know? Are you going to just shut it down and then rehire? You know, the students, of course, are very rambunctious. They're in a kind of agitated mode, they're ready to protest and ready to make their voices heard. I like that. I think that's healthy. I'm excited to engage with them as I go to visit the college in the coming weeks.
Starting point is 01:57:32 But, you know, what I've heard behind the scenes is that professors are chattering that this is actually a very good opportunity. You know, a lot of people don't like what's happening in universities, people who are in science and math departments that are more apolitical, people who are kind of in the political moderate section. They don't like what's happening, just as much as we as the conservatives don't like what's happening, but they're not strong enough to create a defense for themselves, so they just give up. We're going to create that space for people.
Starting point is 01:58:03 And I've looked at the TVs for a lot of the faculty at New College. I've done an analysis, actually, of all the full-time faculty. There are some incredible scholars there, people who are substantive. They have Ivy League University degrees. They've written on the classics, Greek, Latin. history, political science, an incredible mass department. And so there is a very, very strong core of faculty and staff that are absolutely ready for this change.
Starting point is 01:58:31 I think they're going to, you know, once they, you know, kind of put down the New York Times and have a chance to talk to us, the new board of trustees in person, I think they're going to be reassured that we're going to create a better university. There are going to be hard changes. We're going to restructure it. We're going to bring in a totally new curriculum. we're going to be abolishing the DEI programming immediately. But after those changes, after that period of tumult and conflict, I think it's going to be a great place.
Starting point is 01:59:00 And hopefully when your kids are approaching 18, you'll consider sending them to new college. So Christopher, I'm just sitting here listening to you and seeing the opportunity and the impact that you have made. And it's kind of, it's fun to watch you because when I first reached out to you, you. I reached out to you as the contributing editor of City Journal to talk to us about what was happening in Seattle. And you were just at the beginning of all of this. And now look at the impact that you have made and the impact that you're going to make. And this is just really the beginning. How do you, do you ever think about like, holy cow? I mean, I took something on that should have been deadly. Everybody probably told you, don't, don't do that. And look at what's happened.
Starting point is 01:59:52 Yeah, it is. You know, I appreciate that. And it's been fun that we've been able to check in really since the beginning through this whole process. And it's been really fun. And I've learned a lot of lessons. As you know, it's sometimes challenging. It's difficult. But I love it. I wake up every day excited about what I'm doing. I wake up every day optimistic about the possibilities. And then I've been able to do something that I didn't plan on, but it's been really fruitful. I've been able to connect my ideas, my policy work, my journalism, my activism, with people like Governor Ron DeSantis who have said, hey, this is a good vision. Let's let's let this guy loose and see if we can actually use these ideas. And so I'm really kind of blessed and fortunate and feel very lucky to have
Starting point is 02:00:39 able to not just sit in a think tank, you know, in New York City writing white papers, but actually say, hey, look, you know, let's use these ideas. We believe in them enough to actually do them. And I think that's the key thing. It's like, I believe in this enough where I actually want to do it. I want to stake my own, take a risk with my own time and reputation. Because I think at the end of the day, we're fighting for something that most people want, but really most people feel there are a few champions for. And I'm trying to do that. I'm trying to serve that purpose for people. Christopher, I know, I'm sure that we've asked you before, but I would love to do a, do at least an hour podcast with you, because I think you are
Starting point is 02:01:22 fascinating. You are really somebody who is changing things. You're not just talking about it. You are actually changing things. And I would like to discuss in greater detail what the what the challenges are ahead and also where you get the, I feel good in the morning, where you get the bright spots in education, because there's a lot to move. So we'd love to, we'd love to have you on it as a podcast. Thank you so much. Let's do it. Let's do it.
Starting point is 02:01:53 You got it. Christopher Rufo, contributing editor, City Journal, senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, and now on the new Board of Regents for New College of Florida, because Ron DeSantis is taking on education in a big way now in Florida. What is my governor doing? What are other governors doing? It's a really good plan. I mean, you can steal it.
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