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Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The government shutdown has lasted so long that it’s now affecting SNAP benefits for roughly 40 million Americans. Why is Chuck Schumer choosing a shutdown over feeding millions of Americans? Glenn gives his thoughts on the SNAP program, the government shutdown, and what Americans should be doing. Glenn warns that America may be approaching a point where citizens feel elections no longer matter, leaving only the option of rioting. Glenn makes a major announcement regarding the Torch and the future of his show and career. Glenn and Stu react to some of the comments regarding his announcement. Shield AI co-founder and president Brandon Tseng joins to discuss how artificial intelligence is changing the way wars are fought and dives into his drone and aircraft development. Will wartime aircraft soon be piloted by AI? Glenn and Brandon also break down how AI is being used to develop other aspects of warfare, such as missiles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're going to talk to you about this moment of calculated failure that is coming right ahead of us and what to do about it. We'll talk about it in just a second. First, let me tell you about relief factor. There's a difference between getting older and feeling old. You know the moment you catch yourself saying, I used to do that. Maybe it was hiking and gardening stuff, but I can't get on the floor anymore. And you're like 40.

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because they will not pass a continuing resolution, a clean CR, as they call it. And the responsibility of that failure falls directly on one of the two major parties, and that party is the Democrat Party. The political speak is echoing through the halls of Congress. Our military is now being funded by private dollars. I can't believe it. This week is the week our air traffic controllers will stop receiving a paycheck, and so we'll be at the mercy of those who are like, I'll work for free. and worst of all, deep in America's neighborhoods,

children are going to go to bed hungry. Now, I am not a fan of big social programs. I think the welfare system that we have created in this country has done nothing for poverty, and all of the stats bear this out. Zero for poverty. In fact, it may have even gotten worse. But the party that purports to represent the weakest

among us. The ones who are like, they want your children to starve in the middle of the street. The ones who represent the weakest are the ones who are refusing to keep the lights on. Or now to secure the food on the table for the poor and the vulnerable. Literally, the poorest among us, the children that they're always saying are going to starve to death, they are going to take the food out of their mouth. and it reveals who they really are, okay, what really matters to them. Their inaction is truly a choice. And it's the condemning of the poor that they say, therefore, through these government programs.

I say that's not the way to do it. They say it is. But now they've, after they have enslaved people on these government programs, they're just yanking the carpet out. So here's what actually is happening. on October 1st, the federal government entered shutdown because Congress failed to pass a full year appropriations or a stopgap CR continuing resolution to fund the essential programs. The Republicans have been there the whole time going past this, pass this, past this, we can even do a two week, we can do a four week. Let's just keep government functioning, but they won't do it. Now, among the programs at risk now beginning November 1st is the nation's primary food aid.

mechanism. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, you know, Snap, the one the Democrats said they had to expand under Obama. Now, according to the most recent data, Snap is serving an average of 42 million people every single month. That's 12% of all of the people that live here in the United States in fiscal year 2024. Okay, 12%. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture has now said, okay, we don't have the contingency funds. The ones we do have can't legally be used to cover normal monthly SNAP benefits in the funding gap. The president has tried to do everything he can, but court system just keeps shutting him down. And I don't want to give the president more power to be able to do whatever he wants.

Okay. Fund the government. Now, here's the implication. as early as next week, millions may no longer receive their benefits, or they will face a delay and a reduction. We know, because we've gone through this over and over again, these are always partisan standoffs, but we are now witnessing where the Democrats are weaponizing hunger. The SNAP program traces all of its roots back to the Democrats, the food stamp era of the 1960s and the 1970s. By 2020, it was helping over 40 million people. Now, the previous shutdowns have delayed benefits, okay,

but not endangered the monthly food assistance to tens of millions of people directly. Shutdowns are supposed to be a bureaucratic interruption. That's why I celebrate shutdowns, okay? I don't want basic programs to be cut, but I do love the fact that we can look at the, the government and say, wow, a lot of you seem to be non-critical or non-essential employees. But now we have a shutdown that threatens to pull the food out from American children. I say this kind of with glee because they've always said we want to harm children and none of us

want to harm children. But the Democrats are actually going out by choice. It is their choice to pull. funding they say is absolutely necessary to feed children in America. And they're okay with it. This is the party of social compassion, remember. They have in recent years accused Republicans of refusing to negotiate, being unwilling to compromise on budgets, being unwilling to compromise on continuing resolutions,

you know, on just, you know, at least funding the basic floor for the vulnerable. And yet the Democrats are now leading us into the longest shutdown in our history. And they are knowingly using hungry children and babies to do it. And why are they doing it? Why are they doing it? Let's be honest. Chuck Schumer is doing it so he is not primaried by the left wing of his own party. That's what this is really all about.

And this contradiction matters. When you accuse the other side of refusing to negotiate yet withhold life support for children, your moral vacuum is a little stark and clear. Now, because of the shutdown, USDA warns 42 million individuals may not receive, you know, SNAP benefits in November. In Texas alone, that means 3.4 million people who depend on SNAP are now being told the state is monitoring the situation. but the state of Texas may not be able to guarantee November benefits, and we're a state in good shape.

Imagine what's going to happen in California or in Illinois. Virginia's governor has declared a state of an emergency in anticipation of the loss of federal food benefits. So what does this actually mean in human costs? Well, let's just take the Democrats' word for it. We know families are already living on the margin. Children are relying on the kindness of the system. The system is not kind.

We've told you forever. The system does not, it cannot love you. It doesn't care about you. The politicos in Washington, they don't actually care about you. And we are seeing this now with the Democrats. This means the food banks are going to be swamped, but the food banks are already low. Now, these are the ones who are bearing the brink.

of the political gains. Further, now listen to this, see who this might help. When food becomes scarce for families, what happens? Stress rises. That means if you have stress, that means you're going to have more suicides, more sick people, more people using the hospitals, theft is going to increase, and public unrest may brew. Gee, now, who would want that except all?

of those Democrats who are already sowing the seeds of revolution, pushing for chaos in the streets, and taking officers off the field while putting criminals back into the game. The seeds of desperation have been sown by this party. And what are they doing? They're turning up the heat. And then what does this mean? If the government doesn't pay for it, that means the states have to pay for it, which will make all of our states more vulnerable because they'll all have to dip into their rainy day fund,

which makes what? All of our states more vulnerable to collapse. Also, Chuck Schumer isn't primaried. You can't wait for political restoration when one of the political parties does not want restoration. You know, one party is not looking for common sense. In fact, one party is pushing for shooting those you disagree with. while funding color revolutions in our own cities. You know, while everybody is trying to stop this one guy, Melon,

who is sending a check for $130 million to pay for our military, all the shortfall for our military, $130 million personally coming out of his paycheck. What are they doing? They're spending almost $300 million on a no-kings rally. Hmm. which one is in favor of America, which one's not. You can't rely on a party that refuses to pass a clean funding bill when they actually say out loud all the time that the ends justify the means.

By the way, for those who don't get that, maybe you soon will. The ends justify the means. What does that mean? Well, to clarify, it's playing out right now that it is okay for people to say, suffer. It's okay if your plane is delayed or canceled in the next few days. It's okay for military families who are struggling already are pushed deeper into debt and despair and children literally going to bed hungry, wake up hungry, and then go to school hungry. They know what's at stake, but at their plans, their goals, their primary election is more important. That's the

ends and it justifies all of the things that is happening or will happen in our society. Every plane that's delayed, everybody that goes further in debt, and every child that doesn't have food because their beloved SNAP program that they have enslaved people on is now broke. So here's what we have to do. First of all, you have to make sure that everyone, if you're traveling, the minute these airports start to fall apart and your plane is canceled or delayed, because, you're going to be able to, because, because people aren't being paid and so they're not showing up for work,

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Our communities are going to suffer for a myriad. of reasons. And right now, if you're living in a military town, they're already suffering. They're already suffering. We have to rally our own communities. So our food banks all around the country are going empty. And we haven't even hit anything yet. If the Democrats allow this to go through Thanksgiving, it'll probably go through Christmas. That is going, that will devastate the economy. We'll all be looking at food banks soon, okay? So we need to stock up our local food banks.

You need to get your church involved, get everybody involved. If your church has a food bank, please deliver food to the local church, okay? We need to reach out to schools. We need to mobilize our churches, our civic groups, our community centers. We need to make sure that no one is going to bed hungry because of political inaction. This is our job in the first place. This is our church's job in the first place. But they have enslaved about 43 million people on food stamps.

It's got to stop. It has to stop. But you don't just, you don't take a heroin user and like, oh, no more heroin for you. You've got to have a plan. Well, there is no plan. So it comes back to us. Food is now being used as a weapon. So we have to disarm that weapon because this makes a difference.

You might say, well, you know what? those people can work or whatever it is that you might say in your head. This is going to cause civil unrest and you're already seeing it. The seeds are being planted online already. That if they don't give us our money and they're not talking about the Democrats, they're talking about Donald Trump. If they don't give us our money, well then it's time to take action ourselves and you will see an increase in theft.

You will see an increase in disillusionment. You will see an increase in violence in the streets. it will happen. So let's disarm that by doing the right thing ourselves with kindness, with service and responsibility. Let's show people that, you know, there is one side that actually cares about the poor. We always do. We're always there.

Let's demonstrate leadership when everybody else wants to demonstrate. I don't even know what, you know, when the left fails to act, let us be the act. when food becomes a bargaining chip let's render it bulletproof by putting some meals in some hands let's be seen be seen doing real good politics be damned principles are what matters

you know I can't believe all of these years they've been saying and they want your children to starve and they are I mean I heard a Democrat this weekend say we know this is going to cause pain but it's important. Really? Because you have said

when we're not talking about things like this, when we're talking about just not increasing the spending, not decreasing, you're telling us that we always want

hungry children to starve. You are literally taking the only safety net away that they have that you created and enslaved them with. I'm sorry,

but, you know, an empty belly doesn't know compromise. It doesn't. We have to stand in the breach while Congress stands idle. How do you not pass a clean CR when food?

I mean, that's the minimum of decency, isn't it? When they refuse, and I don't know when people will get this, what they're saying is we don't really care. We care about our politics more. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. We'll do our part. We should feed the hungry in the first place. We should support the children. We need to lean into service a little bit more and disarm the politics of hunger by living higher, higher than politics, principles of love and responsibility. I mean, it's clear how truly little they care for those at the bottom. Time to carry the torch for the powerless. You know, I knew John Huntsman, a good friend of mine.

And in 2008, he almost lost his petrochemical company and lost everything. He had mortgage everything and just everything was on the line. And when he finished, he said to the banks, now I need a, now I need a loan for charity. And the bank went charity. We don't loan for charity. And he said, I have promised millions of dollars to these charities. And they said, well, just tell them to wait. You're in a bad situation.

And he said, I tell you what, why don't I take you to the homeless shelter and you tell the hungry to wait? Why don't I take you to the battered women's center and you tell them, hey, there will be a place for you so you can get away from your abusive spouse next month? You tell them that. He mortgaged literally his house and everything else just to make his charitable contributions. That is a man of real principle. That is, that's the way we should all live our life.

First principles. Not asking you to mortgage the house. Just if you have extra food, share it, be aware. So we don't have revolution on our streets. This is Glenn Beck. exactly what they want and you and I both know it. Most people think protection means, you know, making a life or death situation and a decision, but it doesn't necessarily. There is another option, one that gives you real power without taking a life, and that is a burner launcher. Picture this.

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Muslims have been taking Christians and putting them in churches, barring the doors and setting them on fire. There are hundreds of thousands of Christians who have died in Nigeria. 7,000 have been killed in just the last few months, and nobody seems to be paying attention. Here is a Nigerian Christian talking about what happened Saturday. listen to this. Actually, what happened is that there was a serious attack from the Fulani, let me put it that way, who came in the night and stormed the village called Kubat, where over 30 people, men and women, young and children, were killed. Every houses were set ablaze.

And all their grains were all born, houses were born, properties were destroyed, there was looting, we saw them. We even saw the machineries, the attackers in their hundreds, their thousands. And they were open fire, exchanging fire with the military that were around. And this morning, we were trying to bury 29 people that were killed in Fungzi. And immediately after we finished, we wanted to proceed to Kuban, where, I mean the Kubat, where they were doing another burial. They're just trying to bury the dead in Nigeria. And I'm going to talk to you about this coming up in about 30 minutes. You know, we have to understand that we are dealing with a global intifada and a global effort to destroy the West from multiple sources.

Let me lay it out for it. Gee, I wish I had a chalkboard. Anarchists, revolutionaries, communists, socialist, Islamists, all working together. to destabilize the West, destroy Israel, and the Western world. And that is happening right now. And our Democrat politicians are aiding in this. Now, I just told you about, you know, because they, because they refuse to negotiate, even just to say, give us another 10 days to continue to negotiate,

they will not accept any kind of compromise from the Republicans at all. And so our government is being shut down. I say good. I actually like that, you know, until the airplanes start to fall out of the sky, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, we have to have some things that are running. Our government essentials must run. But they have built a system and overwhelmed the system of welfare.

They have made people dependent on all of these. programs. And now, because they're afraid to be primaried, because of their own leftist crazies that they brought into the party, they are willing to pull the rug right out from underneath all of the poor and the most vulnerable that they enslaved. And what is that going to do? That makes those poor and vulnerable, even more vulnerable, to now be coerced to rise up, march in the streets. there will be looting at the same time that we already have problems with our safety in our streets they are promoting chaos i remember saying in 2009 chaos is the operative word of the future that's what it's all going to come down to chaos and anything that is causing chaos stay away from anything that helps heal chaos run to there's a great story uh from uh john and tourly. He's got a new book that is out. And he's he's talking in it about, you know,

what the resistance looks like and how this always works out the same, same way. On MSNBC, the DNC chair, Ken Martin, told MSNBC's The Beat that we may be nearing the moment when elections don't matter and resistance looks completely different. Can you explain that to me still? What does that mean when elections don't matter and resistance looks entirely different. Hmm. What could he mean by that? Try to find a healthy meaning for a republic in that. I don't see anything that could be thought of as healthy. No. It's you're talking about what pressure, you know, uh, you know, unrest in the streets. And rust in the streets. You know, if elections don't matter, then the only thing to do is to rise up in the streets. Correct. That's kind of what it seems like.

Right. Okay. Chuck Schumer is calling for people to, quote, forcefully rise up. While you're having people shot, our leaders are shot at. Leaders of the Democrats are fueling the mobs. Why? Because they want to ride that rage wave back into power and even more power. Gavin Newsom has just declared, I'm going to punch these sons of bitches in the mouth. James Carville, who has gone insane, has called Trump and any of his, quote, collaborators. That's just a loaded word in and of itself. Collaborators to be treated like the Nazi collaborators were in France, which was horrific what they did. You know what I would do with the collaborators? I think these corporations, my fantasy, I'm quoting him, my fantasy dream that this night nightmare ends in 2029, and I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all have to have their heads shaven.

They should be put in orange pajamas, and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them. If you think that if we lose the next two elections, that things are going to go well, you're sadly mistaken. the universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamed, and spat upon. That's amazing, too.

I mean, because Carville's like a classic old school Democrat, right? This is not the Mamdani era of democratic policy. The fact that he's there is frightening. So we have Jonathan Turley. writing a new book and listen to this, we have become a nation addicted to outrage. I've written a new book about it. That's weird because I got a book that I wrote about four years ago, addicted to outrage. Flailing against anyone or anything that stands in opposition to our own truths.

Like all addictions, there is not only a dependency on rage, but an intolerance for opposing views. Indeed, to voice free speech principles in a time of rage is to invite the rage of the mob. The appearance of guillotine's has become commonplace now in left-wing protests. From protests against Trump to those against Israel, the symbol of the terror is now being rolled out as a warning with those with opposing views. We've got the guillotine. You better run. It is the ultimate, Jonathan Turley writes, expression of an age of rage. There is no question that is protected speech. However, it is part of what I've called the rage rhetoric and meant to inflame others.

suggests the only solution to these issues is what the French called the razor of the Republic. In the French Revolution, the irony is those who turn the guillotine into the symbol of revolution where they themselves beheaded on such platforms. Robespierre and others would ultimately be dispatched in the very same atmosphere of rage and revelry. Most revolutions are driven by establishment figures who seek to capitalize on the wave of popular wage, Ah, what's wrong with me? Let me start again. Most revolutions are driven by establishment figures

who seek to capitalize on the wave of popular rage to gain power. We are seeing that today with many Democratic leaders using rage rhetoric to appeal to the far extremes of their political bases. Some have. Protesters are burning car dealerships. Even lawyers and reporters on the streets are throwing Molotov cocktails at police. In the end, today's pseudo-revolutionaries are likely to find, find themselves tomorrow's reactionaries.

Leading mobs is rarely a safe place to be as a more radical element will take hold of a movement. This is absolutely true. Absolutely true. The American Revolution is the only revolution in history, I believe, to end with the same people who started it. So in other words, as you see the AOCs and the Elon Omar's, You see the Chuck Schumers who are all posing as revolutionaries now, embracing the violent revolutionaries on the street.

They are now becoming afraid of those very revolutionaries. Why? Because those who start revolutions, those usually in power, are not the ones to end it. Because they are seen as people who will sell out the revolution. And so they are the first to go. after the revolution starts, after you have bloodshed, then they start rounding up those people. And you see it by their reactions. The reason why Chuck Schumer doesn't want this is because he's afraid of being primaried.

I believe, or worse, God forbid. He is afraid of the leftists coming after him. You know, I said years ago, all of you. people in the media, you think you're friends with Occupy Wall Street, you think your friends with Antifa, you think they're going to excuse you.

That press jacket is not going to save you from them. In fact, in the end, if it gets bad enough, they will drag you out of your anchor chair into the streets and set you on fire, behead you, or put a bullet in your head because you've

betrayed the revolution. And you'll be screaming the whole time, I'm on your side. No, you're not. No, you're not. Not in their opinion. Because they are for anarchy, chaos, and something you most likely,

and those funding you are not for. They are for controlled chaos. They actually believe that they think, the Soros of the world, think that they can set the world on fire and then control it. Most likely, you cannot.

be very careful of controlled burns. The winds blow a little faster or a different direction than you thought and everything is on fire and you're in the middle of the fire and it burns and consumes you. When are they going to get that? When is anybody going to get that? This is why I said earlier, we've got to start doing the right thing. even though it is really tempting to see this thing fall apart. As they are forcing the people that they put in poverty and made them slaves to the government,

as they take all of those underpinnings and they kick all of that foundation apart and let it fail, hoping that there will be chaos in the streets, we can't want that. I want an end to all of these programs. I want people to be self-sufficient. I want people to be more charitable in their own lives. I want us to take care of one another the way God intended us as individuals, not at the point of a barrel of a gun from the IRS. I don't ever feel charitable on April 15th.

I want all of that to end. But I have to tell you, the way to do it is not through a revolution. We have to be different. We have to be the peacemakers. We have to be the ones that everybody looks at and goes, they're not angry. Why aren't they angry? And what are they doing? They're feeding people.

They're helping people. What is it that they know? This is why Christ asks us to be peculiar people, to be different. The only way you're a light in the world is if you stand out. If you happen to, if you're different than everybody else, you're a light. Everybody's like, there's nothing but darkness here. what is it that that person knows that I don't know? What makes them happy?

And I'm not. And that's how we get there. That's how we actually win this. It has to be strategic at the upper level. And Donald Trump is doing a lot of those things. And we have to make sure that our side stays above the fray and is always constitutionally based. But we also, as people, we have to take some of these things on ourselves

and show the difference to the people who hate us. Show them we don't hate you. We love you. We don't hate children and we don't want them to starve. We're there to help. Where's your side? Oh, that's right. They're busy setting the world on fire.

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But I'm going to actually Tell you all about the torch next And what it means and when it begins And what it means to this show And everything else Coming up in just a second I was with Megan Kelly on Saturday we got to some of it.

And so that comes up next. You don't want to miss it. Especially if you've been with us from, you know, the beginning, a long, long, long time. It's a new phase, a new chapter coming now. And we'll talk about that next. Stand by. Plus all the news you need to be aware of as you begin the week.

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all of this and my next phase of my career. So if you don't mind, just give me just a few few minutes speak from a personal and professional note. When I began the blaze years and years and years ago, the world looked extraordinarily different than it did. The left owned all the airwaves, the networks, the studios, the universities. You know, if you didn't see the world their way, you just weren't welcome in it. And you weren't going anywhere. At the time when I was dominating those airwaves, the left told me, you want to say those

saying you just go on the internet and do a podcast at the time when a podcast didn't mean anything. It was a joke if you were a podcaster at the time. At the time, nobody had really figured out the podcast. Nobody had even considered live subscription networks with real talent that could not just be heard and survive, but could dominate and thrive. So when I left Fox, I never forget, Roger Ailes told me, he said, you know, the internet's a fad. And I said, I don't think it is. And the left thought that they had won, that I had been banished into the wilderness of something called podcasting. On my last show, I said to the left that you will pine for the days when I was only on for one hour every day on Fox News.

But as usual, they lacked vision and they didn't see what I saw. And what I saw was freedom. entire networks and generations of new voices that would finally be set free that would not have to climb that impossible ladder that I had to climb. Out of that wilderness came the blaze. And through these doors walked the next generation of truth tellers and they're still walking through these doors. Let me just name a few and I'm going to leave a lot of people out and I apologize.

But Buck Sexton, Lawrence Jones now at Fox, Ali Best Stuckey, who's in the Wall Street, Journal today as being the leader of the leading women's voice for the conservative movement. Dana Lash, Will Kane, the first time that Matt Walsh ever appeared on television, it was with me on what was then called GBTV. And my own personal fave whose career got a start of a nobody to now the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. No one had ever built a live subscription-based network. of independent thinkers.

It hadn't been done, hadn't even been dreamed of. No one had ever streamed across radio and television and online simultaneously and and based it online. And to do it, we had to invent new things. I mean, the infrastructure didn't exist. We had to partner at the time with Major League Baseball to be able to do it because no one else but Major League Baseball had even. even thought of it.

Today, if you look around at the landscape, things have dramatically changed. Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, the biggest names in news, all online, all independent. And it's because of you seeing the future and going, I think that might change the media. and together we brought the networks to their knees. It's funny because now it's becoming full circle. You know, one of them that they drove out, Barry Weiss, is now being welcomed back as a conquering hero and the newsroom's savior out in CBS News.

It's crazy. But for me, my part of this mission is complete. I wanted to start the place. I wanted to create this ecosystem. And we did. media now has really capable voices, minds, and hands to do things. And the blaze is hitting new heights every single month. And I can now turn what I want to do, which is my next disruption and my next creative venture.

Because as a nation, we are now suffering from a lack of true education. true individual empowerment and true non-governmental rescue. So let me start with education. In January, I am launching the Glenn and Tanya Beck Foundation for American History. It is a privately fund trust that will continue to do in accelerated fashion what I began almost 20 years ago. For nearly two decades, I have been collecting the physical evidence of American. America's soul, the documents, the letters, the artifacts that tell the true story of who we are. And it's amazing to me, after 20 years, how big this thing has gotten and how few people, even in my own

audience, really know what it is because we haven't really unveiled it except in glimpses here and there. But with the help of David Barton and wall builders, that library has now become the third largest private collection of founding documents in the world. It is surpassed. only by the Library of Congress and the National Archives. It houses and also preserves the largest collection of Pilgrim and Jamestown documents and items in the world. The entire collection now contains well over a million documents and items of evidence of the greatness of the American experiment, as well as our scars and our mistakes. but it is definitive proof of our beginnings.

This library is proof that America was founded on Judeo-Christian values. It is proof that our mission was not slavery, but freedom for all mankind. It is proof that while we have committed terrible wrongs, we have also accomplished miraculous things. It is proof that our story began not in Jamestown, but in Plymouth Mass. It is proof that when science divorces itself from moral truth, darkness follows and usually profound darkness. From the race hygiene laws born here in America that inspired the Nuremberg laws in Nazi Germany to the American Eugenics Society that lit the path for Mangalas horrors. History repeats itself. If it doesn't, it at least rhymes. again and again and again and once again we are fighting the same ancient evil the culture of death

but this library is proof that man can rule himself that Tesla was the genius not Edison that some Native American tribes were glorious and peaceful while others were bloodthirsty and slave owners no different than the English that came to Jamestown Over the last three years, my team has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds and thousands of man hours digitizing this unparalleled archive. And in the last year plus, I have been working on building something the world has never seen before. What was once contained and still physically is in a tornado-proof vault and then another, they call it a mountain here, but I call it. a Texas hillside, and a third location, a granite vault in the Rocky Mountains. All of this history is now also contained in a digital vault, all now on blockchain.

So these facts and artifacts will never, ever be lost, unless you want to shut down the entire internet. But more than just preservation, which was my first goal, we now have created the first independent, proprietary, AI-driven American historical library. And it is, as you will see next year, complete with its own librarian. We call him George. George is built from the writings of George Washington himself, the writings of the founders, the thousands of sermons that they heard from their church pulpits, the books that they read and the principles they lived by. He can find any artifact, any document, any speech, and delivered it to you as evidence

that what you were taught in school was either misguided out of ignorance, a half-truth, or most likely an out-and-out lie. He will also be able to teach the Constitution. He will teach the Federalist Papers, the civics, American history, in a way that No one has even thought of. No one has ever generated. And it can generate it all without hallucination as it is all contained in a secure, isolated server where every document is memorized verbatim.

That is different. Its first level, which we are now close to finishing, is able to contain and retrieve one exabyte. of material. Now let me give you some perspective on this. One exabyte is a thousand petabytes. I don't know what that means. Well, that equals a million terabytes. A million terabytes is a billion gigabytes. And a billion gigabytes is one exabyte.

Okay. What does that mean? it means that that approaches half of all of the digital data humanity produced in the entire 1990s combined. This is not Chachy-P-T. This is not Wikipedia. This is verified, factual, memorized, first source truth, powered now by proprietary technology and the greatest private collection of American history ever assembled. And this is only part of what I'm announcing today. Let me get into the rest here in just a second.

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com slash Beck or pound 250 keyword baby. 10 seconds and back to the show. So this enormous library featuring our librarian, George, that will be able to teach you and your family in ways you cannot imagine. but we'll be able to soon. And on separate servers, we have digitized over 30 years of my life's work. Every book, every radio show, every episode,

every special, every speech, every bit of research, sourced and documented research with historic verification. And that, too, will be ready to teach you anything you might need. From the rise of the caliphate to the structure of our government, from economic truth to the funding networks of the left, from George Soros to Arabella advisors. We are working with two new sets of researchers

that have come into the fold for what I'm launching with the torch next January. You will be very excited. These two researchers, you know who they are. They're teams and we are putting some stuff together that will first be turned over to the FBI and then made into a special for you. But all of this will be on demand, all verified and all powered by the torch, which is going to be a new tool, a new app that will be found at glenbeck.com.

It's going to be released on January 5th. I would ask that you would sign up for my free email newsletter at glenbeck.com right now. That way we can alert you. You can be one of the first to become a founding member when the app is released. But this is the next chapter. This is the final chapter of my career to try to restore curiosity, try to restore the ability to ask questions about history and then get honest results back without any bias just based on actual documents. And all of it begins appropriately at the beginning of the 250 year of our nation's founding. Now, so you know, the show, this show that you hear, the radio show will still be heard on radio.

and on Blaze TV. And Blaze TV is going on. It's going to be announcing some new and very exciting expansion very soon. But you will find all of the extras at the Torch app at glenbeck.com. And even this show on the app is going to have a completely new addition that is, we're kind of in, we're in beta testing right now. I hope it is going to be shocking in its usefulness.

But beginning January 5th, rolling out over the next 12 months, you're going to find new history shows, new deep dive investigations. And most importantly, you will find perspective, honest history, and hope. And we begin the year with two brand new podcast. One of them is America's story. It's a year-long celebration of our 250th birthday. It is the original story and it is really, really, really good. In the months of head, we will also go where others cannot go or will not go digitally and literally. Next year, Mercury 1, the Nazarene Fund and the American Journey Experience,

three of my charities that you have helped build, are expanding their mission as well. And beginning in the first quarter of next year, I personally am going to take you into the heart of Islamic darkness. That is going to be one of the things that we really delve into deeply, the Islamistization of the entire West. And I will be taking you into the killing fields of Nigeria, where Christians are being slaughtered by Islamist militants and militias in the largest Christian slaughter in human history. We will be there.

And I will take you to the places most people don't know. about or won't cover and I will take you to the cliffs the world is about to jump off of without anyone even knowing that that is a cliff a cliff and that will be Nigeria also the front lines of South Korea where communism is threatening to swallow another free ally probably in the next 24 months to the places where faith and truth and freedom are under siege and we don't need more despair we need more action and we need it to be bold and decisive and you will be a part of that. We're not going to just take you and show you problems. We're going to be offering solutions.

You'll be a part of a movement that will rescue and rebuild and redeem. I've been working on this for a while and I've been praying all the time and just tearing myself apart. And just a couple of weeks ago, I felt. somebody was giving me a blessing and I felt strongly for the first time in my life I know why I was born and in that I realized I don't have a lot of time to waste and and I have a lot of work to do I would love to help you find your reason you were born because we all have to the torch is not just a platform the torch is a mission and it is a mission to illuminate it is a mission to bring light where there is darkness.

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Get all the details for the torch at glenbeck.com. Welcome to the Glennbeck program. We are, our comments from subscribers are rolling in. Thank God they're okay. I mean, I really worry. Subscribers can be very vicious. They're my best and worst critics. We encourage those.

I know. I know. I listen to you guys. Glenn talked about The Torch when he spoke at TPSA in September. I did a little bit. And then with Megan Kelly, yes, made the announcement this weekend.

Glad he's finally telling his audience. Well, contracts are a bitch. Let's just say that. Let's see. Next phase. How many phases are you up to, Glenn? Quite a few.

I mean, it's been 40, next year it will be 49 years in broadcast. That's a long time. A long time. Also, fewer phases than like a Madonna. I don't think you're not as ugly as face. I will say the torch is going to be a very slutty Glenn Beck.

So I'm concerned about that. Glenn, I love this. You need to have online exhibits. Oh, they're part of it. It's coming. Online. Okay, cool. Let's see.

Your historic stuff, is it online for viewing? No, it will be. Would help Phil holds on our family tree. Where can I see the collection? We'll have, we're going to have an announcement on a physical museum. early next year. Now if we can only do this in a library in VR, yes.

Guess who's digitized everything for VR as well. VR is coming. People are going to be mad about this being AI. Yep, they are until they understand what we've done and how we've done it and why we've done it this way. Glenn, this is so cool. This is why I've been with you since that first chalkboard lecture. uh, Glenn Ray writes,

it's the world largest chalkboard. That's what we should have called it. Hmm. Uh, this is exciting. Wow, Glenn's pushing AI, mind explosion.

That is, that is something you'll have to dive into more because you have a very conflicted relationship with AI. Like, you really do see the promise of it. Yeah. You know, you've been with me from the beginning on this.

Yeah. And you also know how deeply I've gone into the ethics of all of this. I mean, really deeply on ethics. let's see Glenn it sounds expensive it is it's very expensive when is Glenn ever done a project that's not expensive very expensive I like I got out of debt from the blaze just last couple of years ago now here it comes again it is expensive and uh anyway well yeah keep that quiet my wife doesn't like hearing that uh Glenn you're still doing your radio

You see her name's on the foundation. She can't complain anymore. I know, I know. Are you still doing your radio and podcast? Yes. How does that change your day and career? Dramatically. And you'll understand when we get into January.

Been here since your insider extreme. Gosh, what was that? 2008, seven. When did we start that? Insider extreme? That was before GBTB. It was before CNN, right? That was the, that existed.

That was like the fan club essentially before even the CNN show, which I think started in 2006. I think so too. So, I don't know. I was right around there. And there since the insider extreme, this is one of the most exciting things you have ever done. I think so too. I think you're going to love it, especially if you remember the insider extreme days because this is, you know, broadcasting is very, very wide and narrow. This is going to be very narrow and, or very wide and not very deep.

This is going to be very narrow and extraordinarily deep. And one of the things, there are ways for the insiders, if you will, we should just call them that again. The insiders are going to be very involved and I'm going to be relying on you for a lot of things. There's some really cool things coming for the insiders. We're fortunate to live in the times where people are doing amazing things for the glory of God. I agree. Obviously, this isn't a charity. No part of it is.

Part of it is. the word foundation was used in the explanation. It kind of sounds like a charity. I wish Rush could have seen this happen. Me too. History preservation is a big deal. The left will use AI to scrub and rewrite it. Exactly right.

And that's already happening. And that Glenn builds on itself, right? Like, because I was noticing this, gosh, I noticed what you know, when you search for something on some AI program and it'll show like it's searching a bunch of sites. Right. Which, that's where it's getting into information, right? So it's searching for a bunch of sites. But it's not like searching how I would search to get a fact, right?

Like, I'm searching for trusted sites that, like, I know have this stuff right. And, like, you know, that's hard to find. People ask me all the time, like, oh, gosh, how do you find out when something's true or not? How do you fact check that? That's a big process. Like, it's something we've developed over multiple decades of broadcasting and researching and all that. with AI, like a lot of times I'll see it pop up like Reddit. And what I found fascinating about that this weekend,

because I was clicking on some of these links and I was going through and looking, trying to understand where this information was coming from. Like Reddit will be, someone will ask a question, and then someone who might have expertise in the area will jump in and say, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they'll come out with an explanation, their explanation. And a lot of times it's right.

You can get real information and real expertise from people on Reddit. However, you also get people who are playing experts. and you have people who are making things up of their own experience or whatever. And now, importantly, now, you have people and bots who are answering that question with AI and posting the answer on Reddit.

So when Reddit looks for an answer, when AI looks for an answer, they're looking to Reddit and finding answers that have been pasted from AI, and you're going to get these truths in a circuitous form that just go on and on and on and on and build on lies,

and build on lies and build on lies. That's why something like what you're doing here, I think is really important to make sure all that stuff stays out. So eventually, and I don't know when this will happen, because compute is so expensive right now, just to be able to open this up and say, even, you know, a million people can have access to this.

If a million people are online and accessing it, the compute is mind-boggling expensive. And so, you just mean like the, it's all the things. What it says thinking, you know, thinking, all of that. It's, it's, it's so expensive. But the, the goal is to be able to have that at your fingertips in the way you expect, like a chat GPT at any time. And give it to you that fast. But, but also our goal is to create a filter.

that you could take that now and you could take the torch and you'll be able to go to any website and you'll be able to overlay it and it will say that's not right that's not right this is verified that's not very cool yeah so it's a way with the idea of the torch is just to illuminate illuminate as much as we possibly can with actual facts not opinions actual verified facts not Wikipedia, but true verified that you'll be able to go then and say, well, okay, you verify that, well, show me that. And it will show you that document. The thing I'm really excited about,

and beta testing is going to begin here soon with part of the George app. And it's going to be used by people in Washington. And those I have talked to on Capitol Hill about this are very excited because you don't have to worry about reading everything. saying, you know, right now, go ahead. Put a bill into chat, GPT and see what you get, okay? You'll find all kinds of stuff. But are you going to find the truth on what's constitutional and what's not? George A.I. has all of the founding documents, has all of the Federalist papers, has all

of their writings, has absolutely everything. And so you'll be able to take now a bill of, you know, 20,000 pages or hour long it is. You'll be able to drop it into George. And they'll be, it'll spit out immediately. this page unconstitutional, this page unconstitutional, this is unconstitutional, this is borderline, here's why, this disagrees with Federalist number 70s, whatever it is. And you'll be able to quickly be able to not just find the truth, but not find a sliding scale of truth, but the truth as the founders understood it.

So you'll be able to put in, you'll be able to put in any Supreme Court case and you'll, you should be able to predict based on the Constitution and all of our founding documents exactly how the Supreme Court should rule on that case. And you'll know why. You know, I think there is a one of the things you do well, like when you do live shows, you did a little bit of this with, I think, at Megan show the other night, is to take these documents that outside of the Constitution and the Federalist papers, like things that people can access.

people stuff that people can access letters that were written by the founders where they explain these things that you'll have all of them only are available through wall builders or through your museum yeah now you'll have access to those people say hey no this that's not true you you'll be able to pull up the documents that you know Glenn does one of the most intriguing things that I'm anxious for for preachers to see is um in george a i we're adding i don't remember how many thousands of these we have we have thousands of them the the actual um sermons from the leading pastors of the day so from like 1700 i think we have some in the 1600 1700 to about 1780 we have all of these these sermons from sunday from 17 really 40 to 1776 all of these all of these sermons from sunday

From 17 really 40 to 1776, all of every single bit of the Declaration of Independence and our Bill of Rights was all preached from the pulpits. And it goes into why each of those are important. So these founders were sitting in church and they were listening to this as they were kids growing up. They were listening to these sermons. And that's how they learned these truths to them. become self-evident they were self-evident because they had heard them preach to them over and over and over again and you'll have access um if your pastor doesn't know how to talk about things that are affecting today um you can give him uh you can give him access to uh to george on the torch app

and uh he'll have absolutely no excuse and you'll be able to access them but the part the hard thing is, is reading them because they're an old timey language and everything else. But that's another thing that the torch will do. It will translate it into a level of your understanding. So you can read it directly off the document. You can get the text of it in that, you know, in that language. Or you can say, put this in modern English so I understand it. You know, put this so I understand it.

You know, I have a PhD or I'm trying to explain this to an eighth grader. and it will do that. Eventually, and we will have to release these at first, you won't be able to generate this yourself because of compute right away, but eventually you'll be able to say, can you explain through just, I'm just using this as an example,

just what was taught in the pulpits, can you give me the Bill of Rights explained, the 10 Bill of Rights, explained as they were explained from the pulpit, It's in today's language. I'd like a series and I'd like it to be 45 minutes each episode. And it will produce in George's voice, wait till you hear George's voice.

It'll produce in Georgia's voice a podcast that will teach that to you. And then at the end of the podcast, you'll be able to, it will ask you questions. Now, this is in the future. This is not in January. But it will ask you questions and you answer the questions. And it will gauge, did you really understand that concept or not? And when you answer the questions, it will automatically change episode number two to reinforce the things that you didn't understand and express it in a different way, hoping that you'll be able to understand it. So almost like a professor, like you're taking a high-level college course.

One-on-one class for anybody from kids to college professors, all in original school. sources. And that obviously is probably not right around the corner, but coming at some point in the future. Hopefully, hopefully, you know, phase two, which is a pretty big step, will be hopefully ready by July 4th, 20, you know, of our 250, that anniversary. Okay. So not that long.

Hopefully. It all depends on compute and how fast the numbers come down for compute. It's just so expensive. You should also open up a nuclear power plant to, to power all this. Thank you. Just do that. That'll make it easy. That'll be really.

That'll be really. Another project you can take up. And then we call the torch. When it has a meltdown, we can call it the torch melt. And you know what? It never stops glowing. Yeah. All right.

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and the Chinese influence and the Russian influence and quite honestly the Iranian influence is out. But the president talked about a new golden battleship. And I thought, we're still building battleships? Why are we building battleships? And then I thought, oh, a golden one. So we'll be like pirates. So we can find that gold after it's at the bottom of the sea.

What are we doing? Battleships are a thing of the past, in my opinion. Brandon Seng is the co-founder and president of Shield AI. He's a former Navy SEAL. Shield AI is coming up with all kinds of new technology to be able to fight the battle of the future. It's going to be a fascinating conversation.

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Are you not? We have an office in Dallas, about 550 employees there. so I'm also at our office in Dallas today. So tell me what Shield AI is. Sure. Shield AI is a technology company with the mission of protecting service members in civilians with artificially intelligent systems. I founded this company 10 years ago with my brother Ryan.

In pursuit of this mission, we have been building the world's best AI pilot in proliferating that AI pilot as well as next generation aircraft. And so today we're about a $5.5 billion company have about $1,400. employees and just trying to make our warfighter proud. So what does it mean the next generation pilot? So an AI pilot, easiest way to think of an AI pilot is self-driving technology for unmanned systems. And so I don't know if you've ever been in a Tesla or a Waymo where the thing starts navigating

itself. Exact same type of technology. It uses sensors to perceive its environment, uses an onboard, Nvidia, GPU to process all that sensor information and to make decisions. about where to go, what the mission is, right? So for a car, the mission is go from A to B without hitting things. It has to read and react along the way. The mission for an F-16 would be dogfight another F-16.

So what is the expat? So the X-Bat is our new next-generation aircraft. It is an AI-pilited vertical take-off, launch, and land, fighter jet. First of its kind. How big is it? Is it a fighter jet size? It is a fighter jet size. So it takes up the logistics footprint about one third the size of an F-18, but that's because you don't have all these life safety support systems that you would for a person.

You basically have an F-100 class engine, which is the same engine in an F-15 or F-16, put wings on it, put computers on it, sensors, enable enough room for the fuel and the payloads. And it's a monster of an aircraft. It's big. So does it fly with, because I've seen that. these, you know, I've seen computer-generated ideas where these new planes will come with a fleet of drones with them, kind of as their wingmen. Does this? That's absolutely correct.

So we actually envision the customer, the customer being U.S. and allied militaries, to basically fly four expats at a given time. And all of them working intelligently with each other, collaboratively with each other, to accomplish a variety of different mission sets. So have you sold any of these to the U.S. So the X-BAT is our next-generation aircraft. We just did a product unveiling. We're about 18 months into development. We're doing wind tunnel testing, engine testing, radar cross-section testing. The next step, next fall, we're doing our first flight tests. The thing goes operational

in 2028, and then we go to full production in 2029. We're working closely with a number of U.S. and allied militaries that are interested in the capability. It really scratch. is an itch that I would say that a lot of them couldn't pinpoint where that itch was. And the fact that it is vertical takeoff and land means you are no longer reliant on runways, aircraft carriers. And what people don't realize is those are like the priority zero targets for our adversaries. I was with the president maybe six or eight months ago when he first got into office. And I asked him, I said, well, why don't we just cancel all of these projects on planes and everything

that have been in the design for, you know, the last 10 years. By the time they come online, they're going to be outdated. AI is changing so rapidly. In two years, it might tell us get rid of all of that stuff. And to me, aircraft carriers, paddle ships, all these things are the horses of World War I. And do you think the Pentagon is listening to that kind of talk? Is that accurate? And do you think they're, they get that yet?

Yeah, I think they very much understand what the few. future of warfare looks like. And I think, look, they have the hard problem of being ready tonight today. And so they have to have what's available and they have to fight with what's available. They can't rely on things that are in development. Now that being said, like, I agree certain development projects and not just in the aviation world, but, you know, all of them. There's a ton of money that goes in to these developmental capabilities that you might say, like, ah, is this really what we're going to fight with? And I think actually the U.S. Army has to be. And I think actually the U.S. has been a really, has done a fantastic job of cutting these projects, saying, you know what,

we're cutting this, we're cutting this, this isn't how we're going to fight. So that's happening. And as an American tax paper, I'm happy about that. But I think they understand what that world is going to. They just have to, you know, do the balance of what do we have now and then what are we going to fight with in the future. To you, I mean, you're a former seal. You've been there.

You've seen it firsthand. To you, five or eight years from now, what does, you? war look like? I think it's going to be an accelerated version of what we are seeing in Russia, Ukraine today. And so I'll share a quick story. I've been to Ukraine a number of different times. Some of these, you know, American patriots, these war fighters, there was a former seal that wanted to go over to Ukraine and fight and support the Ukrainians. And he brought his sniper rifle thinking he was going to get to snipe Russians. And he said the very first operation I went on, I was talking to him about this. He's like, we went to.

into a bunker and it was rocketed and drone strikes within the first 30 minutes of us entering that bunker. He's like, I sat in that bunker for five days because I was about to peek my head out. He's like in 200 drones were overhead. And so a lot of that is done manually today. And at large scale, manually, FPV drones, these types of things that you see loitering munitions going on. In the future, it is just hyper-accelerated by AI and autonomy to the point where it is, it's how smart your drones are and how many you can produce. That's the name of the game. It's terrifying. I mean, I read a book maybe 10 years ago, really great book.

And there was this war scene. It's all about AI. And there was this war scene at the very beginning of the chapter, the president's council walks into the Oval Office. This is open the door and they say, Mr. President, there's a dot, dot, dot. And then it explains the war that is happening. And it's, I mean, it is engagement that is happening so rapidly and so, uh, completely. And the war is solved quickly.

This battle is solved quickly. And then it's, it talks about what happened on the battle, the battle front. And then it says, dot, dot, dot developing in Chicago. All of that happened that fast. Now, I know that's dramatic license. but with hive minds and everything else, it is going to happen in a way that we cannot fathom, correct? I think we can see where it's going in that sense.

But yes, it's going to be hyper-accelerated. It is, look, I've always been of the belief that, you know, peace comes through strength. We need the American warfighter. We need our allies to have the most dominant technology and dominant products. first and foremost to deter war and fight and win wars if necessary. And so that's why I started Shield AI. Now, to your point in terms of where it's going, yes, it's going to be, I can't imagine, right, being a seal on the Ukrainian battle. I tell people like, look, being a Navy SEAL is really cool until you're asked to either fight in a tunnel or fighting a war where there's tons of drones that are being flown at you and used against you.

Same thing for our. Is they relentless? They don't give up until you're dead. 100%. And same with our fighter pilots. Being a fighter pilot's really cool until you're going up against a battery of surface air missile systems. And so this is where AI and autonomy comes in in terms of piloting these uncrewed fighter jets, these drones that are being built. And it really hasn't taken a – it hasn't been deployed at scale yet.

So what you're seeing in Ukraine and Russia is very much, again, manual. It's mass-produced drones. They are not intelligent drones. Now, Shield AI, we have our AI pilot flying on a handful of drones in Ukraine. We just received an order to ship 150 AI pilots. So the AI pilot world is scaling. But again, that's going to be the major difference in terms of what you see today. And what you're going to see in the future is far less people involved, far more AI piloting, commanding these systems.

So I was talking to somebody in Washington about, you know, what they're planning against 27, 28, 29 in Taiwan. and they said that they just feel that it is just going to be a wave after wave after wave of swarms of drones, that you're just not going. Nobody's going to be able to fight because they're that close and they're really good at that. How far ahead are they on this or are they? So I've been to Taiwan probably five times this past year. So I've been a number of times working closely with their military, with their government. And I think first and foremost, they're taking it very, very seriously.

I think Ukraine, Russia was a wake-up call. And a lot of people didn't think that there was going to be state-on-state major conflict. And they saw Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, exactly. I mean, 100%. You know, it's been gotten on for hundreds of years. What are we? The British, we're all going to line up in a line? Yeah.

Play by the law rule. Not yet. Yeah, not yet. So they're taking it seriously. They're mobilizing against it. They're increasing their military budget, you know, from 3% to 3% GDP to 5% of GDP. There is a massive buildup in their capabilities. And I think they're being very thoughtful about it, understanding the importance of operating without GPS, without communications, with AI, the importance of not only targeting and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but also, you know, counter missile, counter drone is something they're investing in also.

Is China ahead of us? China is not ahead of us on AI and autonomy. They are ahead of us on industrial production capability. Because they, I mean, you see some of their drone shows even. They're just doing nighttime drone shows and it's like a million of them in the sky. They are. And look, even those drone shows, while I wouldn't say they're scripted, pre-scripted drone shows, but the fact that they're putting thousands of drones up in the air is just getting

that muscle memory down in terms of what it's like to operationalize that? Do we have anybody doing that? The U.S. does not have the muscle memory of putting thousands of these small systems up in the air. Now, where the United States stands, you know, is still premier today is our strategic capabilities, our ability to jointly maneuver, jointly collect intelligence. We still have a number of strategic capabilities at our hand that, like, that China has not caught up to, that make it a very, very, very, very, very disqualify. We're not, difficult problem for China as well. So is there anybody ahead of us? Not with AI and autonomy. Now, being in first place, you know, I'm a big believer like you should never rest on your laurels.

And I'm a believer in, you know, what Elon Musk says, it doesn't matter if you're in first. What matters is how quickly you're iterating. And the Chinese are able to iterate at a ridiculous rate of speed. And so that is what I'm most concerned about is how quickly they are able to get to the next version to iterate, to iterate, to iterate. Because yes, we're number one in AI autonomy. It doesn't mean that they're not nipping at our heels. What does AI autonomy mean? Yeah. So, um, I, AI, when I think about AI, it's a system's ability to make intelligent decisions about where it is. It's its ability to learn from said decisions. Its ability to perceive the environment, uh, perceive the environment, think about its environment and take

action. And so an AI can live as it does on our phones now. And, in the form of chat GPT or GROC4. It can live in the form of a physical manifestation like a self-driving car, a humanoid robot, or what Shield AI is doing, building AI pilots for uncrewed fighter jets. But that's at its core, its ability to perceive its environment, think about its environment, and take action in its environment. So does that involve hive mind? That is our AI pilot.

We call hive mind. Okay. So can we talk about that? Because I have real good. concerns about Hive Mind and what that means. And also, you know, at least into movies, it's not hard to beat Hive Mind if you can figure that out. And as we'll get into that here in just a second, we're with Brandon saying he is the co-founder and president of Shield AI. All right, picture of this.

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Explain what HiveMind is. Sure. HiveMind is our AI and autonomy framework. What we actually put on the aircraft itself is called the HiveMine Pilot. We have the HiveMine Enterprise product, which is our ecosystem that allows software developers to build AI and autonomy for unmanned systems. These can be in aircraft. We've done AI and autonomy for unmanned surface vessels, for unmanned ground vehicles. And at the core of it, it's just what goes on the actual aircraft or unmanned system is a series of software modules.

And so I could go into that, but essentially it's perception, cognition, and action modules. And it is tying together satellite, all kinds of information all at the same time and using them in real time at the same time. It is taking into account all sorts of different sensor information. And you can take into account also preconceived information. You could take into account satellite imagery, map imagery. You could take into account a lot of different data feeds. where's human where's the human yeah yeah yeah so uh so look um a couple of things as i think about the humans on the loop first and foremost can be in the loop if they want to be in the loop

especially you know i think the number one concern people have wait wait wait yeah can they be in the loop i mean it's happening in real time at AI speed yeah can you keep up with it they can be in the loop um as it relates to if there's communication available with the system. And so when we have our customers operating these systems today, they're very much in the loop, on the loop. It's where they want to be, where a human wants to be during that moment in time. Meaning?

Meaning, it's not that different than how myself as a commander would interact with my autonomous fire team of Navy SEALs. I'd send them over the edge. I say, here's commander's intent. And I would check in with them. they'd feed me information in terms of what they're seeing, and I would provide updated guidance based on that information. So does it still require kill?

Yeah. Exactly. So that is the moral decision to use lethal force is still a very, like I believe it's, I've having made those decisions. Yeah, yeah. It's a very human decision. That's Shield AI policy. That's US policy.

That's NATO policy, et cetera. And so the answer is 100% yes. And I believe fundamentally that should always remain in the hands of a human. And any moral decision on the use of lethal force is going to be done with a human in the loop with that decision. Good. Now, are you protected from – because the idea is if you affect the hive, any part of the hive, you can poison it. Is that true or is that just movies? No, I would say a lot of that's just movies.

Look, these are well-engineered, rigorous systems. Engineering and AI and autonomy stack, like what we're doing at Shield AI is not that different than engineering. you know, a spaceship, a rocket, in terms of like the level of rigor that has to go into it. And so at the end of the day, too, in the same way, they're cross-validating every engineering design choice that they make when they put up a rocket, we have to cross-validate every single one of the engineering design choices that we're making as it relates to the AI and autonomy stack. So people think like something, to the point like your self-driving car is not just going to decide

that it's an airplane and try and drive, you know, take off. It's just not engineered to do that. The same is said of like the military unmanned systems that we're building AI and autonomy for it. Real quick, I've got to take a break and then we'll come back for some more. But cheaper or more expensive of all this technology? This technology is far cheaper. Driving, you know, I can talk more about it, but what you're seeing is a paradigm shift from very exquisite, expensive assets to very inexpensive, intelligent asset. All right. Back in just a second. more. This is Glenn Beck. So home should be the place where your shoulders drop or the day

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Oh, yeah. You're 39. Anyway, you have, you are making a huge difference in the AI world, especially with defense with the new, what is it, the expat, a new plane. I mean, do you call them drones or are they planes? X-Bats, a vertical takeoff, launch, and land, AI piloted fighter jet. So, I mean, sometimes when people think drones, they just think quadcopters, except there's There's a whole world of drones.

And so we call it's a fighter jet. It's weird. You either think of the quadcopters or you just think of those gigantic gray drones. Yeah, the Predators and Reapers. Yeah. And we're not like that anymore either. No. Right?

Have we updated those? So Shield AI builds a miniature version of said drone. That's also vertical takeoff launch and land. It's called the VAT weighs about 180 pounds. But it's meant to do the mission of these $40 million drones for a fraction of the cost. And so we've been using that with U.S. forces, oh, man, for now, probably since 2019. But most recently we've been worked with the U.S. Coast Guard. We've interdicted billions of dollars of drugs in the Caribbean Sea.

Just set a record with U.S. Coast Guard interdicting 22 tons of drugs. Are you blowing up the boats? Shield AI is not blowing up any boats. But, yeah, the Coast Guard's setting them on fire after the whole thing is set and done. So let me go into the future. of warfare because it it's a little freaky and I don't even know there's a story that just

came out today because we're negotiating with Russia and you know Russia is always you know beating their chest or they have something new this one just sounds crazy CNN this morning Putin claimed successful test of long range nuclear powered cruise

missile amid diplomatic breakdown and what this cruise missile is you launch it it's not just nuclear tipped, it's nuclear powered as well. So the idea is it will just stay up in space and it can just stay up there until it's directed to hit something, which I guess you not only blow a city blow a city up, but you also have the China syndrome happening at the same time. I guess I don't even get it. What do you think of this weapon? Yeah, it sounds crazy, sounds dumb, sounds over-engineered.

I mean, it actually reminds me of some of the things that the U.S. was doing in the 50s. We had, I don't know if you know this, we had something called the Davy Crockett nuclear rocket, which was a handheld nuclear rocket launch. They said only Davy Crockett would be crazy enough to shoot this thing because you're firing a nuclear, you know, bomb over your shoulder, and you hope it goes far enough. So the, that's, you know, when I think. In 1950s, we're kind of scary. Yeah, you can Wikipedia this stuff.

It's in there, yeah. The, look, right, with a nuclear-powered cruise missile, 15 hours, it's like, okay, now like why do you need it to be up in the air for 15 hours you're seeing where this thing is it becomes an easier target for people to shoot down and then to the point like now what do you have if this thing actually blows up or at any point whether we take it out or they take it out now you have nuclear material over some you know area like again something that I could see some you know crazy scientists and engineers working on something that I believe has near zero utility on the battlefield in any like even

even by the Russians. What about the hypersonic missiles now? Yeah. No, the hypersonics are, look, what I'm a big proponent of is first principles of warfare. So like mass, maneuver, speed is another principle of warfare. And so what the hypersonics are getting after is that first principle of speed. It's like, look, if you can hit your targets faster than they can react, there's something to that. In that range at that standoff, at that offset, that is something that is pretty.

interesting. Now, the challenge the United States has had has been around getting these to a cost feasible level. And I know there's some efforts to bring down the cost of hypersonics, but it's also what makes it incredibly difficult is, you know, when you start to go hypersonic, you know, multiple iteratives of Mach 1.0 to Mach 3,4, that is a hard, hard, hard, hard, hard, physics problem you know I've always felt like whenever we saw something you know when you when you first saw the stealth bomber we were probably on the second iteration of that you know what I mean we were always we didn't always just show what we had is that true anymore are we do we have things that the world

doesn't know that I don't think we have too many things that the world doesn't know about certainly there are classified programs and I think the U.S. does have a couple, not technologies, you know, up its sleeve, but just like, you know, concepts, operating concepts is what I would say. Like, we still are like pretty good at. And so what you're seeing today is in the military world, you see it a lot in the, you know, just the consumer software world where industry is really leading in this day and age. So you see industry leading. the customer more than what I would say in the past right in the 80s 90s early 2000s you'd

see the customer leading industry to what it's we want to do this yeah exactly right are we are you concerned at all with with AI and technology being so readily available and cheap you know everywhere that everybody can can do some really bad damage you know you don't have to be a you don't have to be the United States of America yeah look I think every new technology is a it's a double-edged sword it can produce a ton of value for the world it can do a lot of good for the world and at the same time when you put that technology into the wrong person's hands it can do damage to the world and so I think the same was the true of the internet the same is true of now providing compute power into you know a massive amount of compute power

into someone's hands just via an iPhone or an Android phone and so I don't look at at AI and like I don't worry about AI and autonomy and I think it's wrong to prohibit the advancement of a technology simply because you know some wrong can be done with it you know there's a ton of things where a lot of wrong and we've seen this a lot of things can be weaponized whether it's an airplane whether it's a car whether it's the internet whether you name it but these technologies aren't bad for the sake of you know being a new technology I've talked to the president about this several times.

The one thing that freaks him out, keeps him up at night, is nuclear war. He said, I rebuilt the nuclear arsenal. And he said, you don't even want to understand what we can do. He's like, it's always been bad. He said, it's

colossally bad. And once it starts, it's over. And he's really, he does. I think, I mean, what little sleepy gets, I think there are times where he has lost sleep over war, on nuclear with nuclear weapons. Is there any of this new technology?

Is there anything about AI or any of this stuff that freaks you out that you think, this is really scary if it, if it goes wrong or whatever? Yeah. The way that I think about it is, look, nuclear deterrence has deterred nuclear war since, right. We, you know, since 1945. And that largely stopped world wars for the past 80 plus years. And so our conventional deterrence has been dominated by our aircraft carriers and our submarines in terms of how we deter large state-on-state conflicts in this day and age, along with the number of other levers that we pull, economic levers, diplomacy levers.

But the military lever has been dominated by our aircraft carriers, our air power, and our submarines. And so where I see the world going is, it's like AI and autonomy is enabling this next generation of deterrence. Because our legacy weapon systems, they're not as well respected. Our aircraft carriers are not as respected as they once were. Right? When the enemy- I would feel like I'm a sitting duck. Yeah, when the enemy has anti-ship missiles that outrange, you know, what these carriers

can launch with with our jets and they have, you know, surface air missile systems that can take, target any fuel tanker. Like you, that is when you see your conventional deterrence capabilities start to erode. AI and autonomy is that massive unlock for the military, for our allies. It enables, you know, the United States to field millions of drones. You can't field millions of drone pilots. We don't have enough people. There aren't enough people signing up, but what you can do is you can enable, you know, small groups of people to field, you know, these drone swarms that I believe will be the most strategic conventional deterrence for the next

25 years. And again, that's why I started Shield AI. We have, you know, the tagline, the greatest victory requires no war. It is about having such a dominant military that, any adversary thinks twice before starting either a straightforward conflict or an asymmetric one. Are you concerned about, you know, Elon Musk says, and I don't know how true this is, but Elon Musk says we are the new GROC, I think it's five or six is coming, is 60% close to AGI. Are you concerned about AGI and ASI and what that might mean? I'm not concerned about AGI, but I'm an eternal optimist. So I put that disclaimer out there.

It's really hard to say what 60% of AGI means. What I do think is really interesting, really fascinating. It is what is now possible in this day and age with AI and autonomy. And I'll share something cool that I looked up the other day and why I'm an optimist around it. I asked GROC for, I said, what was the economic impact of the Internet from 2000 to 2025 on Global GEOPLE? GDP by a cumulative basis. Its estimate was $134 trillion worth of economic value attributed to that core underlying technology being the Internet. A ton of value created for the world. I then asked that what is the value of AI and autonomy going to be for the world from 2025

to 2050? Estimate that. It's estimate and maybe it's biased because it's an AI estimating itself was- Feed me. Yeah, yeah. Four and a half quadrillion dollars, 40 times bigger than the Internet. And so that world. Again, I'm a techno-optimist. I get excited about that. It's hard to really understand or fathom what that world looks like, but I think it's going to be a net positive for the world in the way that so many underlying, like, core technologies of life have been. Now, it doesn't mean there's going to be like it's all, you know, sunshine and in rainbows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to, there's going to be some bad actors out there with it for sure.

So last question. I hate to ask you this, but I have to ask you this. Being a guy who's into drones, everything else, what we saw last year over in New Jersey, what the hell was that? I don't know what it was in New Jersey, but I don't like the idea that there was anybody able to fly drones at all. Now what I like for up right. Those were large too. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's I don't know if it was another state. I don't know if, you know, people were pulling like pranks like, you know, they've like done in the past. I don't know what it was. It was. You do, but do you think it could have been us? I don't.

I think, no, I don't. I think it was someone else is what I think it was. That's a little frightening. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what it was though. So, yeah. You don't, have you ruled out extraterrestrial or is.

You just think it's... I haven't... I probably haven't paid enough attention to it to rule out anything. But yeah, I don't know what it was. Yeah, yeah. That's a little frightening. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

We'll be watching. Really appreciate it. You bet. Brandon's saying he is from Shield AI. He is the co-founder and president. You can find their website, shield. Dot AI. Thank you so much.

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That's Bernie AOC, Maldani, and the governor of New York tax in the rich, man.

And there's no rich that live in New York City. There's none. Don't worry about it. I'll love that.

And then at the rally Mamdani suggests we're going to freeze the rent for two million tenants listen to this. Here is what we stand for, my friends. Yes.

We are going to freeze the rent for more than two million rent stabilized tenants. Yeah. And use every resource at our disposal to build housing for everyone who needs it. Yes.

Free housing. We are going to eliminate the fair on every single bus line. There's your free housing. And, make what are currently the slowest buses in the nation move around this city with ease? Yeah. I know what that mean.

And we are going to create universal child care at no cost to parents. Yes. Lowering. So New Yorkers can raise their family in the city they love. Right. What about the grocery stores where you don't have to pay very much? I can't wait. New Yorkers.

Oh, you're going to love this. It's amazing they could fall for this. It's amazing. It's stupid. You know, it's people are not challenged to think critically anymore. Yeah. There is no critical thinking. You just shut you. Somebody says, that's not possible. You're a bigot. And then it's over. So you don't have to think critically anymore. Yeah. I also think to, you know, we use the term TDS somewhat flippantly.

Yeah. But I really think that's a thing on the left where they just, they hate Trump so much. that they can't even process the fact that this guy is going to come do this stuff to their city. Like, I understand a lot of people in New York are leftists, and that's true. But you know New York, you lived in New York City. You can live a really nice life in New York City. You're not dealing with the crazy nonsense most of the time that we think of when you think of crime and all the homeless people and all those other things. You walk by them.

You might have to see them and smell them every once in a while. Right. That's the extent for a lot of these people dealing with the problems. New York is run by the funding of the rich. Yeah. And when you start hearing people say tax the rich, eat the rich. See ya. The rich is gone.

Then who's paying for all of this? I mean, New York is in for quite an awakening, quite an awakening. Of course, he'll blame the failures on Donald Trump, not Marxism. This is Glenn Beck.