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Episode Date: April 16, 2025

Is the U.S. dollar at risk of losing its global reserve status? Glenn and Stu compare Trump's alleged "Mar-a-Lago Accord" to the 1985 Plaza Accord, which decimated Japan’s economy, and question whether Trump is purposely devaluing the dollar to counter China. Glenn and Stu debate whether property tax is the most immoral tax. The New York Times recently released an article that causes Glenn to ask: Was ADHD a "hoax" that feminized our boys? Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s estate was terrorized, and the mainstream media is burying the story and downplaying the Left's growing assassination culture. A bold sketch on "Saturday Night Live" questions the use of surrogacy among gay couples. Is this a sign of a culture shift, or just "SNL's" way to normalize the practice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the world with President notoriously labeling the implementation of his tariffs as Liberation Day, while others called his reciprocal moves a huge mistake. Many have argued that Trump did not actually implement reciprocal tariffs at all, though. Look no further than on X, where even though, even through his platform's owner, Elon Musk, is one of Trump's top advisors, White House post about the tariffs was slapped with community notes label that said the numbers from the administration were not based on actual foreign tariffs at all, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So the story goes on to say, so what is he doing?

And I would like to, you know, they interviewed an expert that is with the president, Stephen Moran, big time economic advisor. He's worked at the Treasury Department and one of the top advisors now for the president. And he talks about a couple of things. he talks about the Marlago Accord, which is speculation. Don't know if this is what the president is doing, et cetera, et cetera. But there's also something that Stephen wrote about, and I'll talk about it here in a second, that seems to be laying out the same course that the president may be on.

So let me explain this to you, because what they're claiming is that the president may be tweaking the value of the U.S. dollar. to help America out. And let me go over this, because there's some serious risks attached to this one. So imagine the U.S. dollar as the coolest toy on the playground. And everybody wants to play with it because it's the best. Nobody thought we could have a better toy than this one. That toy is called the World's Reserve currency,

meaning that countries use it as gold. It is their savings account. and they use it for trading, for savings, for buying stuff globally. Now, the Mar-a-Lago Accord, which the Blaze says might be a Trump administration plan, wants to make that toy a little less shiny on purpose by devaluing the dollar, basically making it worth less compared to other countries' money. In particular, the Chinese won. Why?

Well, imagine you have a lemonade stand. And our lemonade is really pricey because it's traded in dollars. And you got to use dollars and, you know, dollars are just really expensive. Our lemonade now is much more expensive. But across the street, China is selling theirs way cheaper. So everybody is buying their stuff from China. Well, if we would devalue our dollar, our lemonade would get cheaper and more people would from us than from China.

That's a very dangerous game we play. The idea is to make American goods like cars steal cheaper to sell overseas, which would boost our industries and create jobs over here. Okay. Now, the Blaze story also mentions another goal, helping our massive national debt, which is now $33, $34 trillion. If the dollar is worth less, then the debt is easier to pay off.

It's like owing $100, but now $100 isn't as much as it used to be, so it's less of a burden to repay. But here's the catch, and it's a big one. I think Germany did this. I think that's what Germany did. Devaluing the dollar can cause inflation, which means prices go up for everything. So your favorite candy bar, you walk into the store, used to be a dollar, it's now $5.

And if it's made overseas, it's guaranteed to be $5 because now the tariffs on it and everything else, and we've devalued our dollar. So all the foreign stuff is far more expensive since our dollar buys less. Okay. it's different if you're buying it with gold. Because gold, dollar and gold, it doesn't change with the dollar's value. It seems like it's going up, but it's actually not. The dollar is going down.

So it takes more dollars. You know, when you see the price of gold is up, no, no, no. Usually that means the dollar is down. Okay. So because we're not buying everything in gold or saving gold, nor are other countries, the price hike hits hard. Now, imagine that happening to everything, groceries, gas, clothes. Well, the Blaze and Stephen Mirren warned that this kind of inflation could be a disaster for Americans.

Gee, you think? It's not good. It's not good. Now, there's another huge risk here. Devaluing our dollar to pay down the debt could be, seen as an act of war. If I have a trillion dollars of our debt and I want you to pay a trillion dollars back, if you start devaluing your dollar and now you're only really giving me $500 billion for my $500 billion that I have in my savings account, I'm kind of pissed at you.

You're intentionally stealing from my account, right? China has well over a trillion dollars of our bonds, U.S. Treasury bonds, in their piggy bank. We devalue our dollar. We're taking money out of their piggy bank and just setting it on fire. Could make them furious. You know, they might see it as an economic attack. The Blaze pointed out that this could spark a trade war, but maybe even a war war. We're talking about trillions of dollars.

Don't like to poke a beehive, you know, just because some of the honey inside might be really good. No, let's not poke the beehive unless you're prepared for all of the possible consequences. Now, the Blaze mentioned something called the Plaza Accord, which happened back in 1985. And it was a deal that was made in 85. we got together at the Plaza Hotel in New York with countries like Japan and Germany. And the agreement was to weaken the U.S. dollar to help American industries. Because back then, our dollar was super strong and it was hurting our exports like now. And it worked for a while, except Japan got hit hard.

Their money got too strong. Their exports tanked. And they ended up in decades-long economic slump. Ever wonder what happened? remember when when Japan was huge? They owned everything. And it was like, I think they forced me now to name my next child Sony.

And then all of a sudden it stopped and you didn't, what you're like, what happened? Well, they just crashed. Yeah, why did they crash? Because of the Plaza Accord. We weakened our dollar, which made everything from Japan more expensive. And that put them,

that put them out. Now, the Mar-Lago Accord is like a modern-nay version of that, except this time it's aimed at China, and the stakes are much, much bigger. So what's the upside of this? Well, it could make American goods cheaper abroad, so our factories will start, you know, buzzing again, we'll create more jobs. It also might shrink our trade deficit. That's when we buy more from other countries than we sell to them. We need to sell more things to them. If our stuff is cheaper, then we sell more, and the gap closes. Third, like I say, could make our debt feel lighter to pay off, at least in theory. But the risks of this are massive. Besides inflation and the act of worthing, if we make our dollar less shiny, other countries also might say, you know, I'm not going to play with that toy anymore.

I'm not going to hold that toy. Wait a minute, it's the greatest. Well, no. not anymore because now it has cost my treasury all kinds of money i've lost half my money because it's not gold and that was kind of the plan here was that you would never devalue your dollar united states uh and that way we would hold your dollar as our reserve currency that's a very very big deal if we lose our uh we lose our our our our our our our reserve currency status in the world, we lose all of our VIP privileges. We can't borrow money cheap. Everything gets pricey, much, much more pricey.

Blaze also warned that China might dump our treasury bonds that could crash our financial markets. You know, this is, look, he's playing jenga, and I hope he's the greatest jenga player of all time. But he's playing jenga. I don't know if they're going for this. Blaze thinks that it's likely. You know, Stephen Miram, he wrote or co-wrote something called a user's guide to restructuring the global trade system. It spells out this whole plan. And people have been saying, no, that's not what Trump is doing.

But he wrote this before Trump got into office and he's on the Trump team. And it seems to be, you know, mirroring exactly what is happening. He talked about using tariffs, taxes on imports, pressure China into a deal, suggest national security rules to force everything through. This is exactly what the president is doing. And with an advisor like Mirren in his corner, I mean, there's a chance this is what he's cooking up, especially since Trump loves the idea of boosting American industries and taking China on. But it's a very, very risky game.

It's, you know, like we're going, we're at a carnival gang. And I really want that stuff bear. Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to get you that stuff bear. Instead of using the BB gun, though, you're using a shotgun loaded with slugs. You might win the bear, but you also might kill everybody behind the counter with it and take down the whole stand. So, uh, I'm just glad that I'm the one explaining it and not having to make the decision on it.

because this is a very, we are in a high stakes game. Never seen anything played. Have you seen anything played this high stakes? No. And it's, it is a high stakes game. What does this mean for,

let's say, the rest of his presidency, like as far as the other things that we are cheering on that he's doing? If this doesn't work, right, nothing. I mean,

I mean, he'll not be able to do anything. You won't be able to do anything. No, I don't think so. If this wins, we're golden for a long time. If this loses, I don't think we even hold the House or the Senate, and we don't win in 28. That's a big, so risk, big, win big, I suppose.

It really is. And I don't know the odds. I mean, I know what everybody says. Never tell me the odds. Never tell me the odds. Never tell you the odds. I like to know the odds. Before I put my money down on the table, I like to know the odds.

That's not what Han Solo said. So you're going to have to adjust your theory there. Yeah, no, I think it's really, it's a, you know, it's a big game. And, you know, it is different. It's interesting because I always remember Trump talking so confidently and, I mean, you know, at length about wanting a strong dollar. Like, I always thought that was a big part of his theory. I think what he's trying to. So maybe he's, here's how I would interpret.

What I read in the blaze, this is how I would interpret what he's doing. He's not actually trying to do that over the long term. He's not trying to bring the price of the debt down. What he's trying to do is bring our dollar down far enough, force China to keep their dollar, their wand up and kill him short term and then get out of this and reverse it. You know what I mean? I think he plays a great game of chicken. Oh, yeah.

And I think that's true. That's what he's doing. I don't think this is his plan on, yeah, it is my long-term plan. We're always going to do this. I'm going to bring the dollar down to zero. It wouldn't make sense. Right. And it doesn't go with what he says about a strong dollar.

You need to have a strong dollar. If you're going to be the world's reserve currency, this is not a good idea. However, if he's playing it short term and he's playing chicken, it might just work. Because China is in a very precarious situation. They lose the ability to trade their stuff cheaply. They're in trouble. Overnight they're in trouble. Yeah, that's very true.

There's so much based on exports. And it's funny, they've been manipulating their currency forever. They always do this. And they can, you know, I though don't, I've never looked at that as a good thing for them. No. Right? Like basically what they're doing is, give, they're subsidizing a giant electronic sale for the United States.

And that does not seem like a good policy to me. And one, I've never heard an American politician advocate, including Donald Trump. What, we can't. We, we promised the world we wouldn't do this. That's why we were in so much trouble in 2008. We changed our policy. We said, you know what, take care of America first. We would not have bailed all of those banks out had we stuck to the deal we made for the rest of the world.

we won't do this so you can trust that the dollar will remain sound. Trust us. Yes. Trust us. Always just trust us. Don't worry about it.

We'll be fine. Everything will be fine. Well, it worked for a very long time. We did it for a very long time. But in 08, we violated that. And now, you know, I don't know where we are on that. The good thing about us is it's a comparative trust because luckily everyone else sucks.

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has destroyed American jobs. the markets are spinning from President Trump's tariff strategy. Globalists are all clutching their pearls. But I'm going to zoom out and show you a bigger picture tonight. The story how the elite-driven trade policies over the last 30 years have gutted the middle class. We went back. We looked at NAFTA, the WTO, all of this stuff that was supposed to be very, very good for America. While the elites have won and the corporations of one and other countries have won,

you have not. You've seen the shuddering of a good deal of your town. That's all because of these globalist plans. And Trump's tariffs are not just policy. They are rebellion against a managed decline, a gamble to restore American self-reliance. Is it going to be prosperity from here, or is it going to be chaos?

you'll see tonight find out how free trade destroyed American jobs because it wasn't exactly free trade. That's tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on Blaze TV tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern at YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck. Hmm. That's going to be an interesting one to watch. Can't wait to tune into that. It is. It is. And you're to be on my show as well, Studeau's America today.

Maybe you can... Are you feeling okay? Oh, man, I'm... You went white there. I'm sick. I'm really, really... Oh, yeah, but we're going to talk about, you know, preview your show and discuss it. Are you hosting it? Well, yeah, it's...

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I am... You look worse, all of a sudden. Might be in the hospital. What time do you... What time do you tape? Oh, just a little bit after...

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We don't know, you know, we're shifting as a people, as a movement, as a country. And there are new ideas of some of them are old ideas that we have been against. And I still kind of am when it comes to tariffs, et cetera, et cetera. and I am for free trade, that you need to make sure that you, you understand the whole complex system of what happened. You know, what happened with our free trade? It's all built on the foundation of Nixon of coming in and saying, okay, we're going to get off the dollar.

And we're getting off the gold reserve. And that way, you know, you can't turn your, money in for gold anymore and we're not pegged to gold and the whole world freaked out and so what happened well when the whole world freaked out well then he said okay okay okay okay okay okay okay we're going to become a consumer where you make the products now and we'll become the consumer because we have everything we need so free trade when it's built on that basis it's not good it's not good of what we did. And so you have to understand when you have the reserve currency and you are violating it because you want to keep spending money. And so you promise everybody, so they keep the

world reserve currency, they keep it in their vaults. We're going to buy all of your products. So we're going to become the big consumer. You can only do that for so long before you rot the country and you have nothing left because all you are just consumers. So we're going to get into that tonight. Also, I have some good news for you. Kind of a tax day miracle. It looks like over 20,000 IRS employees took Trump's second buyout offer. So we're only 60,000 away from actually getting rid of all those other ones that Joe Biden hired.

Or did we fire, do we just say we're not doing that? Do you know? I don't think so. I remember, I don't, I think a lot of them were hired, but I, I, I, I think a lot of them were hired, but I think we were able to bail on some of them before we stopped the process, essentially. That's one of the big things when we're talking about this on Studeau's America tonight as well, about how much of this money, we're talking about $5 trillion, is still kind of hanging around and not spent yet that Joe Biden promised. Can we stop?

Can we reverse that? I don't know. And we pay down the debt. Wouldn't that be nice? Pay down the debt, lower taxes, do the things that we, as conservatives have always argued. that would be helpful to the economy? And by the way, things that Trump did in his first term, at least as far as the tax cuts go. But again, just renewing the tax cuts that we got in 2017 is not a tax cut.

No. It's not a tax cut. And it doesn't cost us anything to keep those in place or lower those rates. Because you know what? That's money that is ours, not the governments. I have to tell you, a tax cut I would really, really like. and this is more, you know, local and state. Property taxes.

I find property taxes the most immoral taxes. That and capital gains. The most. Wow. It's a big statement. Tell me what's more immoral. I have earned my money. So I paid taxes on my money.

Then I go take it and I spend my money and I spend my money on a house. And I pay taxes when I buy that house. Right. Now I'm just living in my house. And they come to me. Right. Then they come to me for more taxes every year. Oh, yeah.

And even if I'm, even if my house, I buy a Rolls Royce and I can't afford to keep it up. So now it's a Volkswagen. It doesn't really matter because my property taxes will keep going up. Even though I can't fix the roof. So now I've got a Volkswagen. And it's not a good Volkswagen. it's not working. It's an old beat up one. My property tax is still going up. Huh. And then... Pretty immoral. I can't pass it on to my kids because they can't afford the death tax or the

property tax. It's immoral. You don't really own. You're renting from a really bad landlord. Yeah. No, I think that's incredibly immoral. Capital gains, again, you've taken money, you've earned it, you've paid taxes on it, you invest it, and then you get taxed on it again. Double taxation. No, I'm wrong. Triple taxation. I mean, you mentioned the death tax briefly there. That one feels to me to be slightly more immoral if you want an immoral scale, you know, because of the fact that, like, you know, you should be able to do with what you want to your money.

Because your life has gone away, the government shouldn't seize it. You should be able to give it to the people that you want to give it to, your family or whoever, charity, whoever you want to support, obviously charity can help you get around those things. I would put those in this. I put it in the same category as probably. I think it's similar. I mean, they're just, they're absolutely immoral. I mean, look at property tax. I pay my taxes, you know, my kids are in school. I have no problem paying for my kids in school. I have no problem helping my neighbor's kid, you know, in school and pay for theirs. But at some point when I'm old and I'm on social security and I can barely afford the property

taxes to stay in the house that I've been living in my whole life. But, you know, I never made a lot of money. I bought the house years ago and now it's worth so much money because the neighborhood and inflation and everything else, I can no longer afford the taxes. Well, wait a minute, why am I still paying taxes? If I'm a senior citizen, why am I still paying property tax? I'm not, I'm barely going anywhere. Maybe I'm going to the store or, you know, out to eat at four o'clock in the afternoon when there's not a lot of traffic. Right. You know what I mean? And I'm not, I don't how many kids in school? Why am I still paying that property tax? It's immoral. I totally agree. It's immoral. Can we at least enter into the conversation? I mean, payroll tax has entered the chat.

The payroll tax is another horrible tax. The issue with like the death tax, I think, is more immoral, perhaps, than the payroll taxes. But, you know, when it comes to economic impact, it's lower, right? Like the, you know, most people don't pay the death tax, for example. But they pay property tax. Well, if they own a home. Yes. So you're talking about what half the, I don't know, the exact percentage is owners for renters. And of course, as a renter, you're still paying toward that for the landlord. Yeah.

So you sort of are paying property tax even when you rent. Payroll tax is another one, I would argue. I mean, it is, it was designed specifically to make you believe you are paying into some system, social security. That's basically a savings and investment plan. It's not. It's not at all. It's just like every other government program. But the rich people pay into it and you're not paying into your own system.

You're paying into this giant thing where evil rich people who we all hate so much pay more into it in raw dollar amounts. But this particular tax when it comes to percentages is actually a regressive tax. It's a tax that all the – you always hear these arguments. Oh, Warren Buffett plays less than a secretary. almost always not true, right? These are all BS arguments. When it comes to payroll tax, though, it is true because you only pay payroll tax on the first, what is it, $200,000 and income.

I can't remember what the number is. It changes every single year. But if you make $100 million, you just stop paying that payroll tax. It is a regressive tax percentage-wise on people who make less than that amount. And that one, I think, it was also set up by FDR to be, to specifically convince people of the validity of this program. Everyone inherently knows, wait a minute, welfare. We should be really tough on that welfare thing because, wait a minute, we're all paying into this and we're not getting anything out of it.

It's this system that we all pay into and we don't get anything out of. It always feels that way and people don't like it because of that. It feels like this system that we're just giving away our money to somebody else that, you know, look, might need help, but like is that the government's role. with Social Security, we were fooled a long time ago to believe we're paying into this system that doesn't even exist. This payroll tax doesn't pay for the Social Security system. No, there's a lockbox. We're going insolvent. There's no lockbox.

They put it in a lockbox. We are paying for the people just like welfare, just like every other bad government program we might not like. We are paying now into the system to support today's retirees. Listen. If we would have put this, let's say in the year 2000, if we would have put our Social Security money as just individuals into the stock market. And you think we'd have more money coming to us every month now in retirement. If I had it in there for the last 30 years and now I'm pulling it out, do you really think I would have had more money? dramatically so

Glenn yes really you would have way more many people are like well what about 2008 first of all the policy actually because it was Bush in 2000 talked about it but he didn't actually start trying to put it in until 2005 after he won his re-election that was kind of his big

hey I won I get to do something right I want to privatize social security it was something like 4% he wanted to be able for you to be able to put into your own investments everybody complained about it Everybody said it was so terrible. So dangerous.

So dangerous. And of course, people were like, well, then 2008 happened and everyone would have lost their money. Well, first of all, no, because there was a specific thing in there for people that were close to retirement that they wouldn't be involved in this process. So that was shielded. It would not have happened. But the stock market went up enough that everybody now would have been making much more money, considerably more money in Social Security if that policy had passed. It was a policy that was obviously correct. Now, again, you can argue.

You don't want to participate. By the way, that was also part of the policy. If you didn't want to participate, you didn't have to participate. Who wouldn't have participated? Honestly, who would not have participated? Maybe some liberals would have been convinced by their politicians that it was dangerous. But after you saw that it wasn't dangerous? I mean, you know, that would have only lasted a short period of time.

When you saw that nobody would have lost their money in 2008, you know. Well, yeah, I mean, like. I think there would have been some people terrified by 2008 or 2020, right? Correct. That would have been scared away. Right. But you're shielded. You're shielded.

Yes. Some people would have been shielded. Like, 2020, if you retired in 2020, you may have taken in less money than you would have in 2019. However, as compared to what people actually got in 2019 and 2020 by maintaining the same policy, you would have still been much better off in 2020. And that was obviously a pretty. obscure year, right? Like, if you happen to retire exactly at that point, most people would have said,

well, wait a minute, maybe I work one more year here. Right. And then they would have bounced back up and done much better in 2021, even though, you know, there was lots of still issues going on with the economy. But, you know, again, you have a year. It seemed to do well. Stock market did fine. And you had all those years of gains before that. That's the point. It's not a short-term thing where you pull all your money out in the one bad year. It's just like right now, people that are pulling their money out. about, you know, is thinking, oh, gosh, it's down X percent from the absolute peak of when Donald Trump was elected.

True, it is down. But, I mean, when you look at the long-term trends, things are going in the positive direction. So I think you're right that that is immoral because they lie. They're lying to you. And you're getting, it's a massive rip-off for. It's bad policy. It's just bad. It's just horrible.

So that's, I don't know if it's as immoral as death tax or property tax. You make a good case. Property tax is pretty immoral. Well, I mean, property tax. let me just say this. What is the, what is the whole point of the Constitution? What's the whole point of our law? The whole point of the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, property.

That was the original phrasing, not pursuit of happiness, but property. We didn't want to say property because you didn't want to include slaves. And then you would have had this argument with the South that they would have said, But that's my property. So they did pursuit of happiness. Life, liberty, and property. Your idea in America is that everyone can own property, unlike the way it is over in Europe. We're just a few people own property.

And you can, you know, you can own a little bit of it around these giant estates. You were to be able to own your own property. You don't own your own property. It's a violation. I continue to pay for something that I own. and it's a violation of our very idea. It is the most un-American tax there is. It guarantees you never own anything.

I think it's immoral. Back in just a second. In every family there is one relative. You know the one. The one that stocked their basement like they're planning for the apocalypse. The one that gets teased at family gatherings, you know, gets the tinfoil hats as gag gifts.

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I had never thought of it that way. It's a great point. She's absolutely right. You buy a house for $200,000. It's now supposedly worth $250. You haven't gained that $50,000 yourself, but you're paying taxes on the increased value. You should pay the tax on, I mean, look at what's just, now we're saying, well, you know, you should pay the tax on the look. No, you shouldn't pay the tax at all.

The tax shouldn't happen at all. But if you're going to charge the tax, it should be on whatever you paid for the house. Right. How is that not unconstitutional? And then they give you the capital gains tax when you sell it at the higher value. It's got these people. They are so bad. They're so bad.

What about the immoral taxes, like the emergency taxes? Like there was one in Pennsylvania from a flood many, many years ago. Oh, yeah. That the flood went away, but they just kept charging the taxes. It's still this day are. There's the one in Pennsylvania, too. It wasn't just a flood. It was a railroad bridge.

Okay. Had gone out, one of those big long, long bridges. You know, you used to see with a steam engine. It went out, and they had to rebuild it, and so they put this big tax on. I guess they're still rebuilding that railroad bridge for the steam train to get across. Long bridge. Long bridge. How about the taxes you pay increases when they want to build new stadiums for billionaire owners?

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Hatred. Political hatred. Now, the governor and his family escaped physically unharmed. The fire left something smoldering in what should be smoldering in all of us. It's a question of what happens to a society when people no longer believe in the rule of law, in debate, into votes, but instead believe in violence when they justify that violence as morally righteous, and that's what's happening. There is a broader assassination culture that appears to be emerging within segments of our society. And I think the trend line

is deeply troubling. Listen to this. There was a survey. They questioned 1,264 residents of the U.S., 31% and 38% stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump. 31% said yes to Elon Musk. 38%, almost 40% of our population said it's okay to murder the president. These percentages, however, go way up when you isolate left-of-center respondents. So anybody who described themselves as either far left, liberal, or slightly liberal, the numbers went 48% to kill Elon Musk and 55% to kill the president. That's half of people who say they're at least slightly liberal.

Wow. 40% said it's at least somewhat justifiable to burn down or destroy a Tesla dealership in protest. Now, this is not new. This deadly logic we've seen before. And strangely, it was 160 years ago, almost to the day. April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln attends a play at Ford's Theater. He comes in, he's late. Some accounts suggest that Lincoln had left a box open for a last-minute guest,

possibly General Grant, who declined. or maybe somebody else. Perhaps even John Wilkes Booth himself. He was a popular actor. He was known in Washington Society. One of the people at the theater saw Booth send a letter up to Lincoln's box or send a note up to Lincoln's box. He might have been asking if he could sit with the president. We don't know.

And the president might have said, yeah, because, John Wilkes Booth, he wasn't just a popular actor. So his family was very popular as well. And they were known to be Southerners. And maybe, because Booth was having a play the next week that was at Ford's Theater, maybe the president was trying to bring people together. I don't know. But there he is in the theater.

And just a few days before, he was giving his second inaugural address, and he said something that enraged Booth. He suggested that formerly enslaved people, at least the educated and those who had served, should be given the right to vote. And Booth at that point turned to his companion and said, that means N-word citizenship. That'll be the last speech he makes. And so he picked up a pistol and you know the rest. But Booth wasn't acting alone.

night, not just in the literal conspiracy, though he there was one, but in spirit, he believed that he was saving democracy from a tyrant. Booth wasn't having, he wasn't some raging lunatic in his own mind. He thought he was a patriot. He thought he was the liberator. He saw Lincoln as the usurper and Booth as the deliverer. We don't recoil at this. Now we used to. We used to call that treason. But how different is that from the logic than the kind we're hearing today? We're hearing the same kind of logic. And now we don't recoil.

Now we don't call it treason. There is a new report out from the network contagion research institute. They found that half, 55% of self-identified leftists say Donald Trump is justifiable to kill him. This is not the fringe anymore. It is mainstreamed. algorithms, college campuses, op-eds, by any means necessary. That's not just a slogan that was said in the 60s. That is now a permission slip to do whatever it is you think is right. In 1865, the stage was literal. And Booth used that stage to deliver his final act. He entered Lincoln's

box point blank range, one bullet to the back of the head. Then he jumped to the stage below, and he shouted, Sixth Emperor Tyrannus, thus all ways to tyrants. As if he was slaying Caesar, he limped off stage, he had a broken leg. Twelve days later, soldiers found him cornered in a barn in Virginia, and they shot him. And as he lay dying, Booth stared at his hands, the hands that had taken the president's life, just a few days before, and he whispered a single word. Looking at his hands, he said, useless.

Useless. I think that was the judgment of his own actions. His final clarity, instead of saving democracy, he assaulted its very soul, and it did nothing. Lincoln died, not just as a martyr for the union, but of a victim of the same delusion infected. our political climate today. The idea that democracy can be preserved through violence, that saving the republic by killing those that we disagree with somehow works. So here we are again.

This time it's fire bombs and hammers. And by the way, just so you know, that was somebody who wanted to free Palestine by killing the Jewish governor who's a Democrat. in Pennsylvania. Okay, so that makes it even all the more heartwarming, doesn't it? If anybody thinks that you are not going to be victimized by these people,

you will never, you will never be radical enough for these people. And the fever is rising. It's no longer limited to lone actors. It's visible on how we excuse riots. We justify doxing. We rationalize political

intimidation. All of it, of course, is dressed up in the language of justice. I want to talk about justice this hour. Justice without law is not justice. It's vengeance. Vengeance is blind. So now, what do we do? Well, the first thing we have to do is remember the past and not as a moral bedtime story, but as a warning. Why? Why? is it that they want us to not know our own history. If you don't know your own history, you can't defend the things that you think are important. You no longer know what worked, what didn't. You no longer know what shaped us.

You no longer have any warnings to go, wait a minute, wait a minute, didn't this happen before? I don't know. Booth did not end tyranny. He deepened the division. His bullet didn't preserve liberty. It set the reconstruction of the country that Lincoln fought to heal. It set it back. Second thing, we have to reject every attempt left or right to justify violence in the name of saving democracy.

Because democracy doesn't need saviors. It needs citizens. When you think of yourself as a savior, you'll justify anything. In my book, there's only one savior. There's lots of citizens. I'm a citizen. You're a citizen. Citizens vote.

Citizens speak. Citizens challenge. Citizens disagree. But we're not saviors, so we can't take life. We don't get to choose who lives, who dies. And the last thing, again, we have to learn from history. Maybe we should reflect on the words this April, right after the assassination.

Have you even, did you know about this assassination attempt? Why isn't that everywhere? Somebody who was saying they were trying to free the Palestinians, tried to murder our governor of a very large state in our country who is Jewish, clearly an anti-Semite, somebody from the left, tried to kill one of our governors. and why isn't that everywhere? Is it just me?

Have I just missed this? This seems like a footnote story. This is a very large story. And because it's not a lead story everywhere for days, it tells you something about the media, doesn't it? It tells you something about the culture of the left. They're excusing it by burying it. So perhaps we should just...

reflect on the words of a dying assassin. Useless. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he meant, as he's looking at his hands, his hands, the hands that killed a president, and he sees nothing changed. Let's not forget the lessons of 1865,

because we almost repeated them over the summer, and we almost repeated them again, just a couple of days ago, again in Pennsylvania. This time, one was a Republican, the next one was a Democrat, more importantly, a Jew. And both times these seem to be just swept under the rug. Why? Because there are people that are trying to convince you that violence is the answer.

It's not. It's not. If we convince ourselves again that violence is ever the answer, then all of what we have done will be useless just like Booth's final act. And just like the country, we will lose if we don't change course. More in a minute. Let me tell you about Cozy Earth. The betting products of Cozy Earth are so great. Sarah says she doesn't want to speak to me anymore.

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You know what really makes me sick is there was a time when rebellion actually meant something. It meant risk, you know. It meant friction with authority. You know, the kind, rebellion didn't come with a, with an audience clapping afterwards when you said something, you know, or give you extra credit for doing it. I love that one. You're in college. You get extra credit for rebellion. What kind of rebellion is that? Today, rebellions come with hashtags and press kits. It's sanctioned. It's subsidized. It's expected now. It's encouraged by the elites. Those who all rail against the system are the ones following the newest programming from the system. Pre-approved outrage. Curated dissent. Chomsky, he's the author of a lot of really bad books, but he said that consent is now manufactured.

The media through repetition and subtle cues can sculpt public opinion until people believe their choices are their own. We've talked about this a lot on this program. He's not wrong, but he stopped short. Because if consent can be manufactured, why not rebellion? Look around. The kids in the street with a signs, they didn't write. chanting slogans they didn't come up with. They were taught by their teachers.

That's not rebellion. That's rehearsal. That's what happens when you take young minds and minds meant to push back and preload them with a script. Parents do it. Schools do it. Now AI is about to do it. Algorithms feeding us. Not what we want, but what shapes us, what molds us.

That's not free will gang. that's choreography. That should terrify everybody. Because as I've said on this program over and over again, we're about to lose the definition of free will. We won't know without critical thinking that separates man from machine, man from animals. We don't just lose freedom.

We lose meaning to everything. Consent becomes just a checkbox. Rebellion becomes a brand. And that's really what it is. People are fighting for a brand. Republicans or Democrats. That's what it is. Our minds?

They're just meat modems for the next approved idea. That's it. Because we don't think anymore. We don't know how to think. But we need to think. And not just about what you believe, but why you believe it. You know, I've said this for years. Question with boldness, even the very existence of God.

For there be a God he'd rather, he'd rather, have honest questioning over blindfolded fear. Let me change that a little bit. Let me make it even more simple. Question the ideas that are the most comfortable to you. Question those ideas first and foremost. Because if your rebellion is easy, it's probably not your idea. You know?

And if all of your consent is manufactured, then your silence, your compliance, It was never a choice And if you lose the ability to choose, you're not citizens. You are a product line. These useless, useless idiots on the streets

that are now going out to, you know, vandalize Teslas. They think it's okay to kill them. You are not a citizen. You're a product line. Stop it. Think America. think this is Glenn Beck

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How do I know? Because the New York Times got Jesus all wrong this last Sunday. I don't know if you saw there was an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday that said Christ Mission was all about an anti-Roman revolt. No, no, no, no, it wasn't. was Barabbas. That is why Judas turned him in. As he's like, where is this Messiah? Messiah is supposed to go and, no, that's not what the Messiah was doing. And you know, you could excuse it if it was just a New York Times, you know, op-ed writer. But it's not. This is, this is from the Episcopal Reverend Anruith Thayer. And he says, Palm Sunday was a protest, not a procession.

Oh, shut up. Jesus, he said, was killed for threatening the power of the Roman Empire. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. And by the way, he only says that because, well, A, he has not read the Bible, apparently, because didn't Pilots say, I don't find any guilt? I don't find anything wrong with this man. Why are you bringing him to me?

But, you know, I'm not a preacher. I'm not as smart as the river and fire. who brought, now it's going to come as a surprise to you, brought the New York Times reader to the conclusion that Jesus was fighting the Roman Empire just like all the other saviors that are out there right now that are fighting against Donald Trump. Oh my, oh my, uh, hail is waiting for you. All right. I can't take, I can't take the talk of, justice anymore. I can't. I can't. Because nobody knows. What justice even is anymore. No justice,

no peace. Okay. So you're lighting on, you're lighting Tesla's on fire. Okay. You're spring red paint across churches. And you're chanting, you know, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. And that, that's for justice? They say it like it's holy, like, you know, justice is a new gospel. They don't even know what the word means. They have no idea where it even comes from. It doesn't come from TikTok mobs or masked arsonists. It doesn't come from a university president who can't even define genocide. It doesn't come from rage.

Justice is born from law. Real law. Divine law. That law passed down to, a very small suffering people in the desert called the Jews. The very bedrock of justice is the Old Testament. It teaches us that the world is not chaos, that right and wrong are not subjective,

that every man, even a king, is accountable before God. You know, eye for an eye, it says that in the Bible. Okay, all right, okay. Yeah, that wasn't said because vengeance was good, but because it limited vengeance. Okay? We're talking about 5,000 years ago. It put a boundary on bloodlust. It was the first step taken away from being barbaric to each other.

And then after that, something miraculous, literally miraculous happened. The next Jewish lawmaker came, and not to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law. His name was Jesus. Jesus came and said, you've heard eye for an eye, but I tell you, now turn the other cheek. Do you understand how revolutionary and radical that was? He came for justice, but not justice for vengeance. He transformed justice into something with mercy. and that's the problem with the modern left right now.

That's the thing that they just don't get. They shout about justice, but what they really want is revenge. And the movement is not political. It is religious. Make no mistake. In fact, I think it's even more religious. You know, we've talked about how it has, you know, religious dogma, it has priests, it has excommunication, has all of that.

But it is also, it's becoming a religion of death. it is becoming evil. It is evil at its core. Because any religion without forgiveness, any religion that doesn't have the Savior, that doesn't have grace, only collective guilt and collective redemption that says you were born the wrong color,

you voted for the wrong guy, you used the wrong word, confess, submit, pay reparations. Anything that says that, that is, that's not justice. That's unforgiving tribalism. That's the same pagan instinct that Jesus came to defeat. And defeat it, he did. Real justice, eternal justice, begins with you, begins with me. That's why I'm a guy, look, I am a recovering alcoholic.

I made every mistake. you could possibly make, you know, I didn't think I was worthy of anything. I didn't think God would pay attention to me at all, would, should pay attention to me at all, would should or would love me at all, because I had just done things that in my head were just the worst of the worst. And I know you have those in your head too, and we're all hiding them. And that's part of a pagan belief. And there's nothing we can do to get out of it.

There's nothing we can do. You know, you can save every cat and every dog and every animal and every whale on earth, and that's not going to help. Neither is the mob. Neither is the government. And you don't better yourself or society by electing high priests to rule over you. You better yourself by changing you, by changing your heart, by aligning yourself with true justice.

with truth. When you change your heart and all you want to pursue is the truth, honestly, you become, well, you become Christ-like. I'm a long way from that. I don't want to say that I'm Christ-like. I am way away from that. I wish I was closer. I work to be closer.

But that's the message of Easter. We're never going to make it. Never going to make it. Now listen, what is the difference? The left will say, you're never going to make it. Because you were born the wrong color. You're never going to make it. Okay.

And there's nothing you can do about that one, except hire some high priest to take care of it for you. That won't change anything in your life. I'm saying, Jesus said, you're never going to make it. You're never going to be me. You can't. You won't. But you don't have to do anything except just follow me. Just change yourself.

It's not about the collective. You'll never be able to earn it. It's just change you. And align yourself with the truth. You know, if social media had existed in 33 AD, Jesus, you know, he had 12 followers. Thumbs up on that one. And every one of them would have been de-platformed. Every single one of them.

They would have been flagged for misinformation or disinformation, shadow banned for hate speech, the hashtag resistance Rome would have trended 24 hours before it was censored as well, but that wasn't his message, render under Caesar, that which is Caesar's. The world and especially the power always hates his kind of justice. He rode into Jerusalem, not in a tank, but on a donkey. as humble as you could possibly be. Not even a horse, a donkey. He didn't burn the city.

He washed feet. He didn't condemn the woman in adultery. He defended her. He didn't overthrow Caesar. He overthrew death. You want a revolution? There's only one revolution that will ever lead to true peace and real justice. and now one started in a garden tomb with a stone that was rolled away and a man who walked out alive again.

That Reverend Thayer is what Easter is all about. Not because justice was demanded, but because he came to satisfy justice. And not because we earned it, but because he gave it. and all we have to do to participate in there is accept that gift. That's it. And if that truth, if that truth ever took hold again, not in just our churches, but in our homes, in our hearts, and our schools, and our streets, then and only then will justice change everything.

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Cuba banned Christians from celebrating Palm Sunday in the traditional Catholic, Cuban Catholic way. The solemn stations of the cross had been rehearsed and prepared. And it was supposed to happen at Palm Sunday, 6 p.m. and the government released on radio that is, sorry, it's been canceled, it has not yet been approved. So they couldn't do it without the government approval. Stations of the cross, you know, commemorates, you know, if you're Catholic, you know, it's all of the different things that happened on the last day of Christ, all the way to the resurrection of Christ.

and the regime hasn't said why they've canceled this, but I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Because repressive regimes go one of two ways. They're either Iran and it's all about God and some distorted view of God, or it's godless. When people have actual faith and they know about actual justice, and they know about actual God and actual Jesus, that empowers them.

This is why from kings in the past, the priests of the past, had to be in Latin. You can't read it yourself. We'll read it for you because you can control people. But if you let people actually read it for themselves, if they actually know what the words say, it's unbelievably empowering and no government can shut that down. because they'll stand up because they're serving God and they won't lose their first citizenship in the kingdom of God for their second citizenship. They appreciate their second citizenship.

I do. But I'm not going to do something that gets me kicked out of the first citizenship. No, that passport's much more important to me than the secondary passport of the United States of America. That's why they're doing it. They have to control the people of religion. that's why religion is under attack. That's why religion is always under attack. But especially now, and that is the reason why we were a good nation.

Yes, we had problems. And yes, as always, religion, be it the religion of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or Islam, or this new socialist progressive religion, it can always go bad. It can always go dark because people are people. But when the people discipline themselves to know what that religion is, as long as that is a religion that talks about true justice and true peace and how to live and serve one another, that's something powerful that no man can stop. It's Easter week.

We'll have more on this in a second. Also, I want to get to a couple of other things here next hour. first of all, I don't know if you saw that the New York Times is now admitting that ADHD is a scam. You see this? I mean, they're not quite saying that. Pretty close. They're saying that there's no real evidence of, you know, some of the, you know, you disagree with that? I don't think that's what they're saying.

I mean, they are saying that some of the treatments don't seem to be as effective long term. You think speed? It's not necessarily a good effective treatment. And they're saying, you know, like autism, there's no test for it, right? Like it's just a series of symptoms. Right. But that's not saying it doesn't exist. They're not saying it's a scam.

That's not what they're saying. That's not what, at least not the thing. I mean, maybe you read something different. I don't know. Well, we'll get into that next hour. To Glenn Beck. So it always starts the same way. There's a strange sound outside.

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I say, what do you slow? Keep up. Keep up. You don't, you don't have any speed in you? Come on, come on, come, come, come, come, come, come, keep up. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We'll talk about this here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Lear Capital. If, you know, you've ever thought about what you're building, not just for yourself, but for the people that you love. We spend years and decades working, saving, planning, building something that we hope last longer than ourselves, something we can pass on, a legacy.

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He does, because he hates children. I do. I have two of them. Well, yeah, well, Manga Light liked them in pairs too. Wow. That would really dark, really fast. I do have a tendency of... We're like 10 seconds into the hour.

I love launching nuclear weapons. I've noticed. Yeah, we should probably build up to that one. Anyway, there's a new article out now. that talks about ADHD and it's coming from the left and the experts that they're now starting to say, I don't know. Maybe not everything we thought was true about ADHD. And I think this story is written by Matt Walsh, who's great.

Whoever wrote this for The Daily Wire was great. More than 21% of 14-year-old boys in this country now supposedly suffer from ADHD. The number goes up to 23% for 17-year-old boys. As a result, prescriptions for drugs like Ritalin and Adderall have skyrocketed. Just want you to know that speed. From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat ADHD increased dramatically by nearly 60%. From 2012, in a 10-year period, we've gone up with 60% prescription. between the ages of 10 to 14, the demographic saw the highest increase in these prescriptions.

So he writes, and I think this is such a great observation, for decades, you've been instructed to believe there's no significance to this correlation whatsoever. And here it is. As women increasingly enter the workforce and replace men in teaching jobs, we're not supposed to draw any conclusions about how the behavior of male children is now being addressed. The truth is, we've been told, not that a feminized education system has increasingly punished normal male behavior. It doesn't understand. It's not that schools have lost their capacity to educate male students. It's that it's not that smartphone use and electronics

in general have become distractions. Teachers have been unable to control. Instead, we're led to believe that boys have suddenly become afflicted with a severe psychological disorder. Okay. You know, this is the first time I had ever heard this about, you know, how we've feminized things. And we have. We've diminished boys. But I grew up at a school. I don't think I had a male teacher until I was in high school.

I had all female teachers. There weren't a lot of nuns that were, oh, my gosh, I remember that really. I remember that really male-like maybe. she was a man but identified as a nun. I'm not sure. And you, of course, to put it gently, are not exactly a recent student. No.

It's better than where I thought he was going, Sarah. I thought he was going, you're not really a man. But I'll take it. You're right, though. There are surely are more female teachers that would think just because of the workforce changes. Sure. But that was a pretty, I mean, all my teachers

that I can always remember were female too. The one thing that has changed, though, is we just dismiss boys entirely. I mean, it's all focused on girls right now. All of it. It's science. Everything is just push the girls, push the girls, push the girls. You can be anything. Shut up, sit down, have some riddling to the boys.

And that's a problem. And I have to tell you, as a parent, you probably have recognized this. Does Lisa understand your daughter better than you do? and you understand your son? I get the point you're going at. I don't know that it would necessarily apply. Some ways she very well understands my daughter. Because I walk in, I'm just clueless.

I have no idea. I, you know, I walk in as my, as a dad, and I'm like, hey, put some pants on, would you? And my daughter's like, uh-huh, and I'm like, what the hell did I just say? And my wife just looks at me like, you don't say that to her. I'm like, okay. But she'll say that to my son. My son doesn't go. Right.

They're different. I know they are. They are. And I can relate, for instance, my wife, she'll say something. And I know how she means it because I'm an adult. But I can hear what Rafe hears. Right. Because I heard it from my mom.

And I realize now that's not what my mom meant. But you hear, pick up your room. You're always a mess. You're always this. And that's not what she said. You know what I mean? Sure. No, it's true.

It's not what... As they get into the teenagers in particular, it's really difficult. That's what I really mean. That's what I mean is the teenage years. I have no idea. Like, I had no idea how mean girls are. Oh my gosh. They are vicious.

I would much rather be put into a room of rabid boys than normal girls. They are dangerous. Guys can be jerks, but they're on the surface. They're stupid jerks. Yeah. It's just kind of nonsensical stuff. Girls dig. They dig for the wounds.

Gosh, they just, they'll cut you open and then they'll eat your heart while you're still watching them. I mean, it's horrible. Anyway, so the article goes on to say about how some of these studies, and they point one out, the University of Central Florida, conducted a grand experiment where they put a child in front of a computer. And it shows the video in this. The research, by the way, you can get this. article at glenbeck.com you just sign up for my free email newsletter you get all the stories we talk about every day um research has showed a child two separate videos one video was about mathematics

and it involves a teacher talking about base basic addition subtraction and multiplication the other video was the pod racing scene from star wars now you'll never guess what they discovered Oh, what did they discover? They discovered that when the math lecture was going on, the kid started spinning in his chair and he was fidding and not paying attention. But when the child was watching... ADD. Yes. Something deeply psychologically wrong with that kid, right?

You're telling me when they showed the one good scene from the first prequel they were interested? Yeah. Wow. I was shodding. The rest of the movie was like math. Yeah, I would say I would like give me the one that is the pod racing scene versus the, you know, trade dispute scene from the Star. Why go to anything else?

Just do the Star Wars thing. Right. So it doesn't prove anything. It proves that there wasn't a lot of good scenes in the first Star Wars. Wait a minute. I just did a study with my kids. They like sugary cereal over brand flakes. Oh my gosh, ADD.

I know. I got to get them on the brand flakes. No, I got to get them on LSD or something. We are looking for these diagnosis, to diagnose kids in this way. I think often. That doesn't mean that there aren't some that have these types of issues. You know, when you refer to that article, you said Matt Walsh wrote this? Matt's great. I don't know. It's from Daily Wire. I thought it was Matt. Daily Wire is great. We love the Daily Wire guys. Obviously, that's, you know, the one I had read was some

scientific, I thought it were referring to a different story where they did not say it was a scam. Obviously, it's an opinion to say it's a scam. Although, it might be the right thing. Yeah, it's a pretty strong opinion. It might be the right one. I don't know. But I mean, I was referring to a different article, which is why I was confused that you're framing. of it. So like, these are... Right, right, right. That sounds... I think there are kids that are affected with really different... They have real trouble in school.

Oh my gosh. Focusing on things. Of course. That was, that are maybe a little bit more than they can handle on their own. But that's not a psychological disorder. Right. It's not. Yeah, it might not be.

All kids are wired differently. Yeah. Boys and girls are wired differently in the first place. Then it's just, you know, that's one of the things that AI can produce that will be good with you. as a parent overseeing it every step of the way is it will it will adapt to the way you learn because everybody learns differently you know there are kids that just they're into math and I don't get it and they can talk about math all day long and they've lost me but a kid that

likes to learn through stories I'm there all day for him I'm there all day and I was the same way I'm a visual learner. I'm a story. You know, I learn from stories. And if I have a really boring teacher, some of the kids are really going to love that teacher because he's just all about facts and just gets it all out and can explain it. In fact,

that doesn't help me. It doesn't help me. That doesn't mean I have a psychological, well, make it clear. That by itself does not indicate that I have a deep psychological problem. Okay. Other things might, but not that. That's just everybody is different, especially the difference between boys and girls.

And here's what they said. The conclusion was that ADHD is triggered by cognitively demanding tasks. No, no, it's not. No, it's not. I was painting yesterday, and I can't tell you how many times I just kind of like was holding the brush. And I walked around the house and I'm like, oh, wait a minute, I was painting. I mean, I just get, I just, you know, lose train of thought and I start thinking about something else. And I'm like, wait, oh, wait, I got to go back into the art room and pay, you know, I don't know if anybody else is like that.

But, you know, it's honestly, it's kind of like going to the fridge all the time, you know. There's no reason to go to the fridge and just stare at the fridge that you just, you just opened up and stared at, you know, that's not a deep psychological problem. That's just the way you're wired. Fat? Yes. Yes. The fat is directly wired right to my brain. Right to the brain.

So, you know, I personally think a lot of things are solved, and not for everybody, not universally, but are solved by understanding that we're all different. And then, you know, just not being such a Mambi, Pambi, witty. wishy-washy society that's trying to understand everything. Do you ever see the South Park episode on ADHD? Listen to this. Richard Shea, here to tell you about my exciting new drug-free treatment for children with attention deficit disorder.

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You should hit kids. No, no. What I'm saying is, and this is a very broad brush. One of the things that we have a problem with now is just saying, knock it off, study, knock it off, focus. And I know not everybody can, but if you couple that with actually knowing that kids are different and trying to find the best way for your kids to learn because it's not that's the problem honestly with big class sizes and a lot of public schools public schools are made for everybody to be the same

okay everybody has to be the same well they're not the same some kids some kids learn really well in that atmosphere some kids don't it's not one size fits all and and they're not teaching you, you know, it's a lot more exciting when you are learning things. I mean, honestly, how many times have you heard your kids say, well, your kids aren't teenagers yet? So you'll start to hear this. Yeah. Really? How old? Zach's 13. 13. About to turn 14. Wow. Yeah. Crazy. He's about to be married and have kids. Or at least just have kids. Anyway, oh, please no. So, uh, you know, you'll hear from your kids. Why am I, why do I have to know this? Why am I memorizing this? I'll never use it.

I'll never use it. And as a parent, you want to say, you're right. There's no reason why you need to know, memorize that name and that year. Tell my kids all the time, AI's coming. You're not going to have to know anything. All you have to do is just type it in and it'll do all the work for you. It might not be a good. Don't worry about it.

Never learn another thing, son. See, I don't tell them it's coming. I tell them it's already here. Why are you working on that? Why are you questioning? Just take a picture of it. Give it to Grock and it will finish it. But there's, we have to start, we have to start going back to a lot of the common sense, you know, that we used to have.

And there's a lot of things that were really bad. I mean, you know, I was, I was afraid of our principal. She was, it was sister Una. Okay. That just says enough right there. Sister Una. And she had a paddle that she hung up in her office that she made herself. and it was a wood paddle and she had drilled holes in it to pick up speed so there wasn't real resistance.

Oh, yeah. Oh, my. And she, you know, she was proud of it. She was proud of it. But you know what I was more afraid of? I mean, I would have taken the paddling. Give it to me twice as hard, sister. Just let's keep this between us.

Just don't call my parents. Okay. We don't have that anymore. We don't have that anymore. And there are some things that come from discipline, some things that come from kids being different, and some, you know, because they do have an issue. You know, you can't talk a kid out of, you know, dyslexia. You can't understand your way out of dyslexia. You can't, you know, you can't do anything except understand that that makes your child different.

And there are ways for them to learn. But the worst thing you can do is to medicate your child so they don't adapt. They have to. You either are wildly successful or you're going to live under a bridge if you have ADD. You decide you either adapt to it and use it as a strength or you just don't adapt to it and you just are crushed by the rest of your life. Back in just a second, Z Factor. Ever try to go to sleep and your brain is like, great. Great. Let's relive every bad decision you've made since the third grade. Let the games begin.

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Awful.com. Hey, it's me, Andrew Cuomo. I'm thinking maybe you forgot about all the people. People are killed. You know what I'm just saying? Remember grandma? Let's not think about her too much. I had nothing to do with her death, even though I had everything to do with her death. Hey, I'm back. Vote for me. It is crazy. He's 100% going to win that race. No. Yes. Yes, I know he will. I think so too. We predicted it before he left. Yep. We said he would leave. He would whitewash the whole thing. The Democrats would allow him to do it.

He'll never be held responsible. Everybody will say it was no big deal. And he'll come back and he'll run for office again and he'll win. He probably will. I'm convinced of it at this point. And I don't know, they've forgotten about all the people that he led to their deaths, allegedly, truthfully, in my opinion. And then also all the women he groped, too. That's forgotten as well. All can be forgotten. But can you look at the bright side? At least he wasn't groping dead women. That's true. I don't think he groped any of the dead women. That's true. You know, Way to look at the positive.

Thank you. That should be on his freaking campaign slogan. That is his bumper sticker. Vote Cuomo. I didn't grope any of dead people. Yeah. Well, you broaded it even more. You even made it better.

I was just, I was just saying women. Who knows? People is probably better and more really today than old-timey path. This is Glenn Beck. You ever pull something in your back just by existing? You know, you drop a pen, you go to pick it up. Suddenly your spine feels like it's got to file a formal complaint with HR. Welcome to adulthood.

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Let me ask you this, Glenn. Are we seeing a change in SNL? Saturday Night Live. Yeah. Is there a cultural change in Saturday Night Live? Or am I just seeing a couple of sketches that are showing us? I think they are, they've, they sense the winds blowing in another direction and they, you know, unlike the rest of the left, they may be understanding it or maybe not.

You're talking about the sketch they did. Do we have that sketch from Saturday with a gay couple? Yeah. That's the most recent thing. I mean, Shane Gillis is maybe the best example of this. They hire the guy. They find out he made some jokes about people years and years previously. Then they fire him.

And a year later or two years later, he's back hosting, not as a cast member, not as a B writer, which he probably would have been. Instead, he's hosting it because he embraced who he was. Correct. So here, this sketch reminds me of- The sketch would not have been done two years ago. It reminds me of one that would have been done 25 years ago. Yes, easy. Listen to the sketch in case you missed it.

Oh, my gosh. Whose baby is that? Excuse me? It's ours. Wait, but how? Okay, I'm sorry, but gay people can't have a baby? Yeah, but like, where did it come from? Excuse me?

Excuse me? Wow, you are not allowed to talk like that. That is so invasive. Okay, but like we were with you last night and you did not have a baby. Yeah, and you guys said that after dinner, you were going to go to a rave called Bulge Dungeon, and now today you have a baby.

What we're asking is, how did this happen? Okay, I'm sorry. Why is it when it's us an interrogation? I think we're just wondering who the mother is. Hey, well, between the two of us, I'm more emotional, and I like shopping. So me, I think. Yeah, but I mean, I have long hair and he is an alcoholic, so I guess it's like two moms, I guess. Guys, how did you get this baby? I guess what's confusing us is you've never mentioned that you were having a baby, so this feels pretty sudden.

Uh, yeah, because it wasn't planned. Sometimes it's an accident. How does a gay couple have a baby by accident? Where is your baby from? Us. But how did you get it? It's you mean she, they, until he tells us otherwise. It's amazing.

It's funny. It's amazing. It's very funny. Actually a funny sketch. So there's, is this a sketch that is opening up comedy to do things? Is this a sketch about a gay couple being able to, the, is this a sketch that shows us that things are changing and political correctness is going away? Or is this a way to mainstream gay couples having a baby and adopting a baby?

That's the argument that I've read. Really? There's, and I think it's more of the first, but there are people that are, saying no, no, no, no, don't be fooled. No, John Roberts has a plan. No, unless you have any fun anymore. God, can you just laugh at a sketch? Again, that doesn't make.

So I don't think, honestly, it makes much of a point either way to encourage or discourage gay parenting or anything like that. What it is is, it's pointing out a very obvious thing, which is there is tension around saying something blatantly obvious and there shouldn't be. Yes. And by the way, one of the guys in the sketch is gay. in real life. He wasn't wearing it.

John Ham. No, the other guy is gay. Oh my gosh. And he's talked to. I didn't see the marking on his clothes. I know. It's shocking. I don't know why they allowed John Ham to culturally appropriate the gay role.

Why he couldn't. Pointing that out. Maybe he slept with somebody. Maybe he did to justify the appearance. But like all that is is we, this is an uncomfortable thing to say and it is a thing that society has made uncomfortable and they're saying it out loud. That is the basics of comedy.

And they're saying, you can't say that. Right. They're noticing how bizarre it is that you can't question it. When every single person on earth is aware that asking, hey, where did the baby come from to two men is a reasonable question? Because of course, two men can't produce a baby by themselves. Especially if you didn't have one or talked about it the night before. Yes.

Yeah. That would be, you know, it's where the comedy is. Two gay men cannot have a baby by mistake. That's a really good point. You think that's signaling a change. I think, you know, I think a lot of companies put all of their chips on the table betting it's going this way. I think Donald Trump, I think you'll see if Donald Trump is successful and you keep the Republican Congress and the Senate and a Republican is voted in his president. in the next election,

I think you're going to see massive change. Right now, I don't think you look at any of the changes like this and think it's anything but hedging your bet. Yeah. I don't think anybody is woken up and went, oh my gosh, we were so wrong.

We were canceling speech, and that's not what comedy is. I don't think anybody was waking up to that. I think at best, maybe some did, but at best, It's the group saying, this is not going to work. And we don't want to be on the wrong side of which way this falls out. Let's just go make fun of things that we made fun of, no harm, no foul. And without articulating this, if it turns around, we're right back where we were.

Yeah. And I don't think that you're going to start seeing all these conservative things going on Saturday Night Live. The point is that can you find comedy wherever it is? We went through a period, I think, through the Barack Obama era and into the woke you know, Biden era where you, like, basically weren't allowed to find comedy in things that were funny. Oh, no. And that's always been the way that comedy's worked.

It's, it went for Clappter. For years. And it still isn't like, on a lot of shows. Oh, I know. It's for over a decade. Over a decade. Jimmy Kimmel, you know, is doing that still. Still.

You know, what's his face? Colbert. There'll be dustbin of history. Yeah. Those guys will be because. I don't think that's going away, per se. No, but it's not going to be as mainstream as it was or tolerated like it was. It's boring.

You know, you see what's happening to Snow White. Disney is still doubling down. So Disney is still going, we're going that way. Okay, well, go ahead. Here's what I find fascinating about this, is that the left, those like Disney who are continually doubling down, Disney is, I mean, Disney has always been the number one. storytelling company, right? Sure. And what is it that the right does horribly forever in my lifetime?

Tell stories. We're not good storytelling people. We, you know, just conservatives, they capture the heart. We try to capture the mind. And you got to go to the mind through the heart. And so that's how they can move so many mountains that we just can't seem to move because they're good at storytelling. what are they doing now look at the Christian movies and how good they are okay they're fantastic

now not all of them but some of them are really because they're just telling a story have you seen House of David you've been watching that at all no no it's unbelievable is it oh it's unbelievable and i don't feel preached at i don't feel i don't feel anything except that's a great story okay um and you don't have to believe the bible to look at it and it's say it's a great story. It's not screaming at you. And this is true and you'll burn in hell if you don't buy every single word of it. You know, it doesn't do that. That's what Christian movies used to do. It's so fascinating to me that right now, we're learning the lesson that no matter how hard people screamed at Christian movie making people, they never seem to get it. I want to bring my friend to go

see this. I want my friend to experience a moment where they're just filled with the love of God. But if you beat them over the head with it, they're never going to, how many times did you ever take a friend to a movie because you really wanted to see them and you were trying to, you know, help them find a path or whatever? And everybody said, oh, you got to bring your friend to this. And so you did. And then you're sitting like five minutes in and you're like, oh, dear God. And you just want to look at your friend and go, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, because this is so transparent that it is just trying to make these guys look bad. And that's, you might actually hold that point of view, but you're not like that.

You're not like that. And all the people that believe differently, don't believe in God, are not all of a sudden in work for Satan. You know what I mean? And we just beat people over the head. And now suddenly we've gotten it and we've learned how to tell great stories. And so now what's what's growing like crazy God stuff, religious programming. And it's just because it's good. It's a good story.

And they've left the preaching for Sunday. And what's happened? Look at Snow White. It's all about a message. You don't even think about Snow White anymore. you think about what everything means in that movie. Don't you understand what that means?

Well, I know you'll probably miss it. That's why Snow White tells you exactly what that means off screen and on screen. And they just beat you over the head with it. And they're failing. I find it fascinating that we've switched places because for them, it should be easy to see. Somebody should be sitting in a boardroom at Disney going,

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, wait. Remember all those Christian movies that we used to make fun of because they were so bad because they were all just about messages? And they made decent people who just disagreed look like they were in league with Satan? Remember that? And we used to make fun of it. Has anybody noticed here at the table? We've become those people. To this conversation's even happen.

I wonder. I mean, you have to. You'd think it would happen. I think there has to be people who agree with those types of. of questions, whether they have the bravery to say it in those meetings is another question. Because look, what was it? The message was more important than money. Okay? And that's the way Christians used to be. They would be like, no, we have to get this message out. You'd be like, but nobody's coming to come and watch this movie. Yes, but if we can only get one person to

understand, wouldn't it be better to get millions of people to come in and hope maybe we could save a handful of them? Open their minds a little bit. Just open their minds a little bit. And the next movie opened their mind a little bit. Right. Maybe 25 conversations down the road, something good happens. Who knows? Just plant the seed. This is one of the, of course, the miracles of the market, by the way.

It doesn't require you to be a good person. It doesn't require you to have the best intentions. No. Oftentimes, it leads to really good conclusions anyway. And by the way, you know, speaking of that, and we've been talking about the King of Kings, the movie from Angel's Studio, which is out right now. How'd that do? Number two at the box office, only behind Minecraft, which is one of the biggest

movies of all time. I mean, it's going to wind up with, it's already $300 million at box office. King of Kings already, they did $20 million in the first week. And of course, this is Easter weekend. This is when I'm going to see it this weekend with the kids. I'm going to go and see it just to support. I mean, seen it. I just want to go and support it.

Yeah, for sure. Like, and I think there is part of that, right? But like, they always try to demean some of these things. Well, these are message movies and people are, you know, they're buying tickets and then they're buying tickets for other people. And there are people that do that. You can do that at angel. You can go there and you can actually check.

I want to pay it forward for other tickets. That's great if you want to do that. But these are just movies that people like and are interested in and enjoy. You don't get to be number two. Yeah. You know, you might get to be number two, but next weekend, you'd be off the charts because the word of mouth would be so bad. And the word of mouth on King of Kings is great.

Yeah. Still number two even yesterday. Yeah. And it's increasing because, you know, I mean, obviously the tie to Easter helps, but it's a good movie that people really like. And that's much more important. than, you know, some purity test, you know, where you're going to wind up wasting millions of dollars on a movie that nobody cares about.

Look at, look at, look at what happened with, um, the Mel Gibson movie. What was the one? It was it. Passion of the Christ. Yeah. Passion of the Christ. It was in, the whole thing was in Aramaic, like four people on the earth speak Aramaic. But it was such powerful storytelling that it just cleaned how.

at the box office and it wasn't just one week or two weeks. It went on and on and on and on. It's interesting to watch and see how we're now finding ourselves in the driver's seat with storytelling and they're still out in the parking lot kicking rocks going, what the hell just happened? Why does no white fail? I actually hope they don't catch on for a while. Let's get some space in between us before we catch on. Somewhere out there in America as the sun is sinking towards the western horizon.

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I don't know. You know, did you find it was weird that RFK came out and said, we're going to find, we're going to get to the bottom of autism. We're going to figure this one out. We've got a lot of work to do. And I'll have it for you in about 10 minutes. Right. You're like, wait, wait. I mean, again, like, I know this is a big debate and everything.

But RFK has a very specific opinion on the debate. Yeah. It's not like he's just, you know, I'm going to look at this and let's see what happens. He knows what he believes. He's going into it with it belief. I know, I know. Right or wrong. When I first heard of that sentence, I was like, oh, we're going to, maybe in the end of four years or five years, we'll have some progress.

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