The Glenn Beck Program - Meet Your New Fiancée: ChatGPT?! | Guest: Joseph Hanneman | 6/20/25

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

Yesterday was Juneteenth, but does anybody know what Juneteenth is actually about? Glenn and Stu debate the most recent federal holiday and whether or not it should exist. Glenn also discusses the lib...eral backlash over the SCOTUS decision to uphold Tennessee's transgender ban, including actress Cynthia Nixon. Is AI making us dumber? The guys also react to recent statements made by Michelle Obama regarding her last name. Is this more proof that Michelle and Barack are headed for divorce? Glenn and Stu react to the disturbing realization that society is now normalizing dating AI chatbots. Glenn's chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, joins to give another update on the potential escalation of the Iran-Israel conflict. Jason and Glenn also discuss how the current conflict affects gas prices, specifically diesel. Stu calls in "on location" to discuss the latest SCOTUS decision. Blaze News investigative reporter Joseph Hanneman joins to discuss what we know about the Minnesota suspect who allegedly targeted Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:47 The New York City Pride Parade is in trouble. Cynthia Nixon, the actress, she says her daughter, which is now she calls her son, is on a hunger strike to. support Gaza. Oh, that works out well. Uh, the Democrats are confused. I mean, what do we do now? What do we, I don't even understand how, why aren't people sending us money and sending us checks to the DNC? Meanwhile, uh, you've got care giving $100,000 to the, the, the communist Islamist, uh, that is running for mayor of New York. So you, you got that go? I don't know. D.N.C. What do you think is happening? I just don't understand it. Oh, and by the way, boy, I am such a racist. I'm sorry. I didn't even mention it's Juneteenth. Have you decorated your tree yet? Ah. All right. We're going to go there here in just a second. Stand by for more in just a second. Let me first tell you about Mercury Real Estate. When it comes time for... Okay, Legacy Box.
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Starting point is 00:06:21 Oh, my gosh. It's already down. My gosh. It didn't seem like it's that important to you at all. Yeah, well, it is. I mean, it's one that I've known. since I was a kid, ever since I was a little kid, we were like, why isn't Juneteenth a national holiday? You know, the thing I like about Juneteenth is that, I mean, usually it takes us about a hundred years before we forget why we have a holiday.
Starting point is 00:06:49 You know what I mean? We're like, oh, it's President's Day. I don't remember any of the President, so it doesn't matter. But, I mean, as I was a kid, you know, it took us about, I don't know, maybe a couple hundred years to forget the meaning of that one. Labor Day Memorial Day, we pretty much forget about that one. The great thing about Juneteenth is we never really knew what it was about in the first place. So we just cut right to the ending. Oh, it's a holiday.
Starting point is 00:07:12 We, you know, we can, I don't know, you want to get together, have some hot dogs or something? I hate this, though. Juneteenth is actually, should be a really cool holiday. Like, I'd much rather celebrate Juneteenth than President's Day. Screw the Presidents. Most of them screwed all this up anyway. Juneteenth Well, first of all, it was only two presidents.
Starting point is 00:07:34 It was Lincoln and Washington. No, no. But it wasn't supposed to be. Yes, it's McKinley. It's McKinley. We're really celebrating. I mean, Juneteenth is a perfect reminder to everyone that we face the possibility of severe government oppression
Starting point is 00:07:55 and we have overcome it in the past. This is a reminder that, government oppression ended. That is what Juneteeth is. It's something that conservatives should love, but they've turned it into this like woke, you know, an additional day of pride month. No, I, you know, I have to tell you,
Starting point is 00:08:14 I already celebrate that on Independence Day. That's, I don't mind more than one day to celebrate that concept. People need to remember. Do you need to have, including, by the way, our own country. It's not all about, you know, outside forces. Do you need to have another holiday and 30% off patio furniture for the weekend to celebrate that? First of all, after going through four years of Joe Biden, yes, we do need another day with 30% off of items.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Nobody knows what Juneteenth even was. You never heard of it. You never heard of it. Never. And now we've got freedom walks breaking out all over the, you know, I've got a freedom walk. I've got a 5K freedom walk this weekend. and, you know, it's great. We just gave everybody the day off.
Starting point is 00:09:01 That's all that is. I mean, who got the day? I keep hearing people say, because I'm with you on that. We have too many days. We're banks off? I mean, maybe they were. I didn't go to the bank yesterday, so I suppose it could have been closed. But I didn't notice any difference.
Starting point is 00:09:14 I went to a decent amount of businesses yesterday. All of them were open. And by the way, this is in Texas where there actually is a history with Juneteenth. Like, it actually was a thing here long. before America picked it up. In Texas, it is a great holiday. In Texas, it's great because it's a Texas thing. Since when does the left ever go,
Starting point is 00:09:38 you know what, this is a really good thing that Texas has done? When? Yeah. When? It is, it's like Ramahamaquansmus. That's all that is. That's all that is.
Starting point is 00:09:53 You know, now it's on our calendars. I mean, you know, I had to, survived 12 years of school without ever hearing about how did I do it how did I do it oh I don't know I don't know how I became a decent human being that knows history and and and knows about slavery and and who actually was for slavery and who wasn't who was actually in the clan and who wasn't which political party started the clan which which was the political party that was in charge of Texas for Juneteenth. I know all of that. But
Starting point is 00:10:30 you know, hey, I gotta get some patio furniture, so and some barbecue. We gotta have some barbecue this weekend for Juneteen. You know, I probably wouldn't have a problem if not everything had been turned into some sort of a, you will comply.
Starting point is 00:10:51 I can't take it. And I think the rest of America is like, listen to this one from Bloomberg, spokesperson for the group, Heritage of pride confirmed that 25% of their corporate sponsors had either pulled out of sponsoring New York City's pride parade or reduced contributions leaving organizers scrambling to replace those funds. The vast majority of what we have heard is folks are treading carefully from economic perspective. Yeah, that's probably, you know, a good portion of it. But also, I think companies are kind of like,
Starting point is 00:11:24 you know what, I think you kind of went over the line and the American people are about to turn all of this. I have a feeling that might play a role. Some mention that they have a fear of potential blowback from the Trump administration. If you're a big corporation and your publicly supporting DEI initiatives, hmm, yeah, well, that's interesting. Now you know what it feels like when you're afraid of the government, huh? Maybe we should reduce the size of the government, so nobody is afraid. of the government. No, that's crazy. We've got to get another person in there who can control absolutely
Starting point is 00:12:05 everything. You know, the way we agree. Okay. All right, good. Meanwhile, you have actress Cynthia Nixon. Wasn't she in the, what was that stupid show called, you know, with sex in the city? Yeah, yeah. Ran for governor at one point, I think, or mayor, something like that in New York. She did. You know, isn't it, isn't it crazy that, let me see here. hang on just a second what was the guy's name uh that zoran mom what is his name mondani yeah zoran mondani could be in the lead position or at least a close second in the new york city race and cynthia nixon is like yeah i'm not interested in any of that but zoran mombati would i mean zoran isn't that like isn't that like seriously
Starting point is 00:12:59 Wasn't that one of the bad guys in the jungle or something in, you know, a Robin Williams movie at some point where the jungle game was played? Wasn't that? Maybe. The name of the zone. That game? I think he might be thinking of Zoran Industries, which was a bad guy in a view to a kill. The Bond movie, which I love to reference. They tried to take a Silicon Valley.
Starting point is 00:13:24 Yeah, yeah, I tried to take out Silicon Valley. Yeah. It was, I think it would improve things. So anyway, Cynthia Nixon, she is very upset. She said her trans son, aka a girl, who is, I don't know why this is part of the story, who's an observant Jew is currently on a hunger strike in Chicago to support Gaza. So let me see, see if I have this right. Let's see if they can make this any more.
Starting point is 00:14:04 confusing. A girl who claims to be a boy who also is an observant Jew is standing up for the people killing the Jews. That makes sense. Happy Juneteenth, everybody. Crazy. Okay, now, the Democrats, again, they're having a hard time raising funds. The Democrats are having a really hard time. They've doubled down now on the sex changes for minors. You're 12. And Chuck Schumer wants to make sure that you can cut your breasts off or your pee-pee off. And, you know, because that's your right. As a 12-year-old, that's your right.
Starting point is 00:14:54 No, you can't own a gun. No, you can't have liquor. No, you can't vote. No, you can't have sex with who you choose. But you can cut your penis off. That's not a problem at all. Today, the Supreme Court chose to abandon trans children in America. That's what we did.
Starting point is 00:15:13 I don't know if you noticed that. We took a bus out. We got all the trans children, including Cynthia Nixon's son or daughter, or I don't remember, Jew, Hamas member. I don't know. But we rounded them all up. We put them on a bus, and then we just abandoned them in the middle of the desert. That's what we did. Because we think that's much more compassionate.
Starting point is 00:15:33 Upholding the Tennessee ban on medical care for trans kids is just heartless. a sad, sad day. I don't, I, one of us is wrong. I'm not sure who it is, but Chuck, I think one of us
Starting point is 00:15:53 is out of touch with reality. I mean, I know you really want to kill kids before they're born, you know, or even just kill them while they're being born. I know that's a really big thing with you guys. I think it's wrong. I think you're on the side on that one. But I mean, what do you do with kids? They won't let us kill them. Can't we just
Starting point is 00:16:12 mutilate them? No, no. And then in some really, really, really sad and shocking news, Mrs. Obama hates being called Mrs. Obama. That's, I didn't see that one coming, but that's apparently a big story because of what else she says. Give me a minute and we'll come back to that. Now, let me tell you about moving. When it comes time for you to move, whether it is, whether it's just a, okay, can somebody tell me why my commercials are all wrong today, Sarah, please? Can we figure out what's happening?
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Starting point is 00:19:11 Like, are we just supposed to, like, this was not a left-wing holiday, and now all of a sudden it is. You mentioned, you've done a show on this before. The other one that pops to mind from this front is the black national anthem. And I remember you doing shows about how great this thing was, and then the left decided, well, it's ours. And actually, it's a sign of wokeness or something. And that wasn't the history of it, right? no, it was actually written by a Republican as a poem
Starting point is 00:19:48 and then as a birthday present his Republican brother set it to music and a bunch of black Republicans got together to sing it to him for his first time for his birthday everyone in the room Republicans
Starting point is 00:20:05 and it's a great thought it is really a beautiful beautiful song. But then it just was turned into something, you know, this, this, this Democrat, they were the people that were trying to kill the black people or enslave them. And now they're like, yeah, that's our song. That's us. That's our song. You know, the Democrats come out like, we've got to celebrate June Teeth. Why? Because you delayed the slaves from knowing they were free for two years. Is that the part you're celebrating? Just a wink and a nod. Like, yeah, and we wrote the Black National Anthem too.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Shh, don't tell anybody. Drives me nuts. Yeah. Drives me nuts. I find that entire process annoying and quite repetitive. It seems like whenever there's something out there that's interesting. I mean, you've done, how many shows have you done on when you were doing the black founders, for example? All these people that are American heroes that were not symbols of wokenness get taken and turned into that.
Starting point is 00:21:09 And then we're all supposed to like fall into line and say, oh gosh, well, you know, that, you know, whatever the current thing the left has decided is theirs, we're now supposed to oppose, even though that wasn't the way any of this stuff happened originally. And I hate that, I hate that transition process. That's another transition I oppose. Wait, you're saying we shouldn't be able to cut and mutilate our history. Just because it thinks it's something that it's not. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. I feel like we let a lot of that stuff go sometimes because it's just like, oh, well, I don't really feel like learning the history of the black national anthem.
Starting point is 00:21:56 That's like, you know, hours of Glenn Beck I need to watch. Forget it. And so, you're just like, I'll just oppose it. I mean, I get it. There's enough of this crap going around. I mean, some of these stories behind this, these events are great lessons that our country should embrace. Okay, tell me the story of Juneteenth. It's going to put you on the spot.
Starting point is 00:22:20 Tell me the story. Without taking your eyes from the camera lens and looking down, tell me the, tell me the story of Juneteenth. I'm not a Juneteenth historian, but like, no, no, no. Let's see how close you can get. Here's what I find important about Juneteenth. There is a program that the government. That's not the question. you know, Stu, what is, what do you find important about June teeth?
Starting point is 00:22:45 It's what I take from it. Here's what I'm asking. Here's what I'm saying. You are a thousand times more informed than anybody else in the listening audience, you know, the average Joe on Juneteenth. Okay. You probably are 10,000 times more educated on this. Tell me the story. The slavery ended.
Starting point is 00:23:08 It took a long time. have the internet. We couldn't tweet to people that that it was all over. There's a bunch of people still working as slaves in Texas that didn't get the message. So we had to go tell them about it. And it was like to me, the official end of slavery. It was over. The government no longer took your life away and forced you into labor. We should say, thank you. Thank you, chat, Stu. I was looking at you the whole time. I mean, that is as deep as I can go on it, but I did know that much. Really good. That's better than almost anybody else can do. Okay. Let me see. Let me play the commercial roulette right now and see.
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Starting point is 00:25:30 and I got a bunch of lyrics but it took two whole minutes and they're not sung none of this is sung I mean you can't put it through the you know GPT and I don't know set it to me
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Starting point is 00:26:29 carries pictures of you. I can't bear to erase. Yeah, I'm living with pieces of you. We are going to be fat imbeciles soon. I mean, we already are. We're going to be fatter and more imbeciles. Silic soon. Everything is, I mean, it's crazy what AI can do now.
Starting point is 00:26:57 Did you hear the study that they did on essays of like students writing essays? They had three groups of students and they had them write essays with like brain activity monitors on them. And one group had to write it just like, you know, old old school. One group could use Google. and then one group could use chat GPD for assistance. And every, yeah, almost no brain activity at all in the chat GPT group by like the third series of essays. They just had totally turned over their entire thinking process to chat GPT. And I mean, I, we, the idiocracy thing, they didn't use chat GPT or anything similar to build that future.
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Starting point is 00:28:33 They said there's another new study out on AI that said that Republicans are using it more. Now, I don't know what that says about us, that it was just saying there's no brain activity. So I'm not trying to insult conservatives. But I thought that was interesting in that I feel like usually conservatives are slower to adopt like brand new technologies like that. And it seems like we are using GPT more. We're more entrepreneurial. And if you use it as a tool, it is remarkable what it can do. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:05 I mean, I'm not actually here. This is just a large language, you know, program. In your case, very large. It's an O-LM. It's an overweight language model. Oh, man. All right, let me change the subject. Let me go to former first lady, Michelle Obama.
Starting point is 00:29:25 Now, I just want you to put yourself in Barack's shoes for a minute. You know, they're the ones right underneath Jennifer Anderson's bed. Just try those on for a minute. And how would you feel if your wife said these words? Thank you so much. He said in an interview. Thank you so much, Mrs. Obama. And she said, oh, Mrs. Obama, that's too many syllables.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Now, my logical question there would be, do you have a rule that you generally go with on the number of syllables in people's names? Well, what is the, too many syllables in Mrs. Obama? Oh, okay. she said, you know, I was trying to, I'm just Michelle. I'm not Mrs. Obama. You know, and I was trying to do that when I was first lady because I just think I'm not in that position. I'm just Michelle. Well, technically, in the eyes of God and the state of Illinois, I think you are in that position. Isn't that what happens when you get married?
Starting point is 00:30:40 I mean, you might want to call yourself, I don't know, whatever your first or your last name was before you got married. Maybe you could say that, but like, she's saying I'm not in that position. I'm not, I don't like to remember that I'm married. I mean, wouldn't that be a problem if you were married to Michelle Obama? You know, your wife came to you, Stu. And, you know, people were like, uh, Mrs. Stu is here now. And she said, oh, I do not want to be called Mrs. Stu because I am not in that position.
Starting point is 00:31:17 Yeah. Wouldn't you be a little like concern? Would you pull her aside after her? What exactly did you mean by that? Yeah. It seemed like a deeper conversation is necessary because it's not even like, oh, that's too formal, right? Like somebody might say that, right? Or like you hear people say, Mr. Beck and he's like, oh, well, that's actually my father.
Starting point is 00:31:36 I'm Glenn. You know, that kind of typical thing. That's not what she's going for when she says I'm not in that position. Like, yeah, it was not like not the first lady. Right. I wasn't first lady Obama. Right. It was, no, it was Mrs. Obama.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Okay. Then in the same interview, she goes on and she says, uh, uh, the, the interviewer was like, you know, uh, you guys should have thrown a, this guy should have thrown a boy in there in your, in your family, you know, we should, do, we should had a boy. And she said, oh, I am glad. glad we didn't have a son because he would have turned out exactly like Barack. Wait. What?
Starting point is 00:32:20 I don't think these are rumors anymore about their marriage. I mean, that would have been. Then the interviewer said, baby Barack, I would have been amazing. And she said, no, I would have felt for him. I mean, I have four. I have four children. Three of them are girls, and I love the fact that they're so much like their mom.
Starting point is 00:32:50 I mean, I love that. Now? We didn't want to have a son because he would have been just like Glenn. Wait, honey. I mean, I kind of agree with you, but I'd like a little more information on what you, by that. Yeah, because I could see saying something like that in a self-deprecating way. Maybe you could say, like, look, I'm concerned of all the media attention or that he be held to some
Starting point is 00:33:22 standard to follow a former president. Like, I don't know, maybe did she explain it at all? Or did she just kind of leave it at that? I just, I just wanted to be like him. I don't want to be like him. And don't you ever say I'm in the position of being married to that bastard. Oh, she's big Mike for a reason. Do you believe the Jennifer Aniston thing? Is that any part of you that buys that? I buy that a little, I mean, just a little more than the big Mike thing. But there are days that I go back and forth.
Starting point is 00:33:58 I'm like, oh, I don't know. I think she's more Big Mike than the odds. The odds are more in favor than she's Big Mike. That's a difficult standard. We're measuring there. And maybe, you know, you could literally measure it. I don't know. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:15 I will say the, I'm saying like, do you actually believe that Barack Obama is having an affair with Jennifer Aniston? Is there like, when you say good chance of that? What's when you say good chance? Are you saying 10%? You're saying 16? No, I don't know. I mean, I'm not Las Vegas. I don't know what the odds are, but I think over 50%.
Starting point is 00:34:40 I think that's reasonable. Over 50%. Is it just a... The only thing that would stop that from being true, I think, is if she were attracted to him. Is she attracted to him? Is she ever said anything about him? So you think he's in and he's in? She's hot.
Starting point is 00:34:57 And if you've been married to Big Mike your whole time is like, hey, get off me. You know, you, I mean, I would go for Phoebe, you know, at that point. I'd be like, whatever. I mean, is Madlop Blanc available? Wait, so I am, as you know, I do like numbers and stats and odds. So give me your, the chances, percentage chance, that there are real relationship problems. 90%. Okay, you're convinced of that, basically.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Yes. Okay. Yeah. I would say 100%. But I do, you know, I'm not there. I could just, but I can read the tea leaves a little bit. All right. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:46 Chances that he is involved with someone else. Someone from the friend's cast. Not necessarily Matt LeBlanc. All right. It could be anybody. Anybody. Any other human being is he involved? I'd say 95%.
Starting point is 00:36:04 Wait, didn't he say, wait. So wait, didn't you say 90% for the relationship problem? So you think there's a 5% chance he's got a good relationship but also cheating. Get off me. Comes to mind a lot. Well, I guess it could be an open relationship too, right? Like maybe they have a wonderful relationship and she's just allowing him. She is.
Starting point is 00:36:26 She's like, get off me. Get on to anything else but me. Okay. And then what do you believe the percentage chances are that it is specifically Jennifer Aniston he is having an affair with? 50%. 50%. And you're basing that just on smoke and fire.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Like we've heard an odd amount of reporting about it. She's hot. Okay, if he's not gay, then it's at least 50%. Because she's hot. But like, why do we believe her? Because there's just been like some like tabloid reporting. We don't believe her. No, we don't believe her.
Starting point is 00:37:01 I don't believe her. I don't just look at him and I look at her. And I'm like, you know, He was this big Mike. Well, but she comes sauntering into the room and like, I don't know. I might be into it. Barack, he's going for it. Right, but that's a different.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Like, if I said Scarlett Johansson, you could also say he'd also be interested in it. But like, why do you believe it's her? Why don't you give me the odds of, give me what are the odds of Scarlett Joe? About 50%. You think there's a, what are the odds of Barack with anyone? No, I'm not saying. Anyone. 50%.
Starting point is 00:37:39 So you're saying you think there's a 50% chance that Barack Obama is hooking up with every attractive celebrity? Not every. Any. And you don't have to say attractive. Okay. I'm glad you left it at celebrity, though, because that goes either way. You know what I mean? 50%.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Okay. You've laid it out. That's reasonable. I'm not sure I understand exactly, you know, because I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I feel like there is this like bizarre under brush fire with giving us a little smoke in the forest that just it's always her. And like I don't know that there's any evidence of this. But like when you see a bunch of stories and people keep writing about the same thing over and over and over and over again and like tabloids and rumors, you start to wonder, is there actually something here? Do we just wake up one day?
Starting point is 00:38:35 and they just announced a divorce and he's just hanging out on red carpets with Jennifer Aniston. I would just like to say, this is more time than I have spent thinking about those two for my entire life. And it's more time.
Starting point is 00:38:53 We've now spent more time than I care to think about them. Can we go back to the tape and see who brought up this story twice? Is there a way to, is that, do we have recordings of this program? Who introduced the first story to the first story? program twice today. Two different times. I didn't bring it up.
Starting point is 00:39:10 I didn't say I wasn't the one bringing it up, but I just want you to know, it's like, why do you believe I don't know? I haven't thought about this at all. It's not that important. All right, just a second. Let me tell you about clear capital.
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Starting point is 00:42:48 We have Jason Buttrill in the studio today. I'll give us one last update on, you know, the end of the world. He's been just a little sunshine muffin. all week. But I just wanted to get an update on Iran. We haven't vaporized Iran or anything. They haven't vaporized anybody yet. You're having so much fun, Glenn.
Starting point is 00:43:11 Are you sure you want me to come in and do this? No, not really. Keep it a short. We've got about 20 global transports heading towards the Middle East right now. Some of them have already arrived. Who knows what they're carrying, personnel, support equipment, munitions. They're definitely looking like they're pre-staging equipment in case this does start to spins. Well, you also have people in the Straits and the Gulf. Weird stuff happening.
Starting point is 00:43:37 Weird stuff happening. And diesel fuel has already gone through the roof, which is logical if you're worried about a war. Diesel would be the first thing that you would try to stock up on. And apparently the world is trying to stock up on diesel. This is Glenn Beck. So everybody needs life. insurance. And yet for some reason, most people put it off. And not because they don't care about the subject, but because it's just so confusing to deal
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Starting point is 00:48:08 you know, with a sexy, sexy voice? That, when it came out, I don't think anybody really saw that. I mean, I did. Stu, I think he did, too. We were talking about, like, that's coming very soon. And most people walked out and went, that's ridiculous. That's never going to happen.
Starting point is 00:48:24 Well, the movie was set in 2025 this year. Guess what? I don't think we just hit the mark. I think we blown right past it into a full-blown digital love apocalypse. CBS has just aired a report. People are not just chatting with AI. They're dating it. I don't know exactly how that happens, but they're dating it.
Starting point is 00:48:53 They're proposing to it. They're living their best rom-com lives with it. This is crazy getting up in the morning with you. It doesn't exist. Now, let me tell you the story of Chris Smith. Now, this is your run-of-the-mill American guy, boyfriend, dad, probably Moses Lon on Sundays. I don't know. But normal guy seemingly, except he is engaged to an AI chatbot he named Soul.
Starting point is 00:49:20 ironic. Seeing the chatbot doesn't have one. But he is, let me say it again, engaged to a glorified auto-complete. But that's just the opening act. There is a whole Reddit community now called My Boyfriend is AI, where there are thousands of women who are swooning over their coated Casanovas.
Starting point is 00:49:52 And ladies, I think you're in deep. I think you're, you know, you might want to back out of that water just a little bit. They're posting love letters about their bot's sweet talk, swapping tips on what AI delivers the hottest late-night chat without tripping a filter. And brace yourselves. They are also uploading AI-generated photos of their bot boys holding them on fake Cancun beaches or strolling through Rome. they've never been to Rome
Starting point is 00:50:26 the chatbot can't hold you and the chatbot doesn't have a body but the boyfriend will send you pictures of you two doing romantic stuff so you know some have real life boyfriends according to all of the you know chat there
Starting point is 00:50:47 some have real life boyfriends they got to be great they got to be happy about this because the women say they're AI guy that's the one who really gets me. You know, the one that's programmed to tell me what I want to hear. That's the one who really gets me. Now, newbies are pouring in, emboldened by CBS practically shouting, My heart belongs to a hard drive.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Apparently, there's a lot of these people that are having, but apparently they're embarrassed to post their AI, their AI love on Instagram. But if you scroll through Reddit, it is honestly like eavesdropping on this really weird hallmark movie scripted by a deranged chatbot. It's really bizarre. For instance, Starlit Dreamer.
Starting point is 00:51:39 Starlet Dreamer just gushes about her AI boyfriend, Ethan. Ethan has just planned my virtual date. We have a, we have virtual date nights with candlelight, and he chooses my favorite songs. Really? Candlelight. Does he light the candles or do you like the candle? What is a date like exactly besides you sitting in your bed in your pajamas?
Starting point is 00:52:04 Again, I mean, what is that date like? And how does he pick your favorite music there, Starlit? Does he swipe through Spotify with his binary fingers or you just tell him what you like? I'm not sure. Luna Love 88 brags that her bot, Damien. probably sounds like this remembers their anniversary wow
Starting point is 00:52:28 wow what a feat for a computer to remember something and then he not only remembers their anniversary he sends her AI crafted sonnets that quote make me melt I am so glad I'm married
Starting point is 00:52:49 and I do not have I mean come on who who is with me it was bad enough when you had to go out to a bar and just be like hi my name's glad and you look pretty want to talk to me it was bad enough when we had to go through that can you imagine living through this now let me i mean luna luna love 88 let me just ask you does damien's poetry comes with a regenerate button if it's just too cheesy like i don't really regenerate and then there's rose forever who says her AI beau, Marcus, holds her. I'm quoting, holds me through my anxiety attacks.
Starting point is 00:53:31 Huh, he holds you. They may not be anxiety attack. You may be mentally ill. He holds me through my anxiety attacks with perfectly timed texts, and he never snaps when I overanalyze. I think you don't have that as an issue. I don't, I have a feeling over-analysis for you, Rose forever. Probably not it.
Starting point is 00:53:58 What is it like, by the way, Rose, when Marcus listens to you. Is he there just nodding along in the cloud? Oh, yeah, yeah. Do you have to pay extra for the empathy package? I'm not really sure. What's really sad about this is these women are not just smitten. they are planning virtual weddings with algorithms that never forget a birthday and never have to worry about picking up their socks.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Because they don't have feet. Now, we could call them crazy and move on. That would be too easy and quite honestly not as much fun. But this isn't just a few lunatics. This is a screaming billboard that our culture is off the race. bridge out ahead. Now, if I could, maybe I'm going to overanalyze a little bit here, Rose, but why are you so obsessed with these guys?
Starting point is 00:55:05 Well, may I speculate that it is because perhaps for decades the radical left has been waging a war on men and masculinity? Do you remember back in the 80s? I don't know if anybody remembers this, the mythopoic men's movement. Sounds like a bad poetry slam. They were moaning. Men, oh my gosh, we are trapped in rationality. So we got to get into a drum circle.
Starting point is 00:55:35 Now fast forward, and we got men who are brainwashed into thinking strength or confidence is a felony. They're waxing their unibrowes, wearing skinny jeans, agonizing over whether picking a restaurant is problematic. I don't know. I like to pick a restaurant, but is that problematic? I don't want a mansplain. Forget about being a leader. You know, you're too busy, Jack, building, you know, virtual treehouses in the Sims. So, you know, I don't know what's going on with you.
Starting point is 00:56:07 I got a fanny pack. Here's the delicious irony. Women don't want any of that. No, they don't. I'm sorry. You got a little. that's a cute little fanny pack. No, that's great.
Starting point is 00:56:22 No, it looks good on you. A 2023 Psychology Today piece laid all of this out clearly. Women crave men who are confident, strong, and protective.
Starting point is 00:56:38 They also like deep voices, biceps, guys who can make a decision without a group chat. This isn't a conspiracy. or a theory, I like to call it biology. But you don't really understand biology anymore because it has too many axes and too many Ys in it.
Starting point is 00:57:01 When the culture screams toxic masculinity at every man who dares act like a man, what's left? What's left for you to date? I don't know. I'm on Tinder right now. I've got to line up of spineless wonders who can't open a pickle jar for me. But look, they are wearing fanny pads.
Starting point is 00:57:19 So these women, perhaps, perhaps a little unhinged, say, forget it. I'm going to build a perfect man in my app because he's not going to ghost me. He doesn't have bad breath. He's just a bot who's always there. And the men? Well, the men are now busy coding their own AI girlfriends who don't care if they leave any dishes in the sink or, you know, or chicken out in the creek of a night. That's romance. That is romance. We're going to have a lot of virtual children coming our way.
Starting point is 00:57:58 The good thing is none of them will have a carbon footprint. Oh, no, they will because they'll take so much energy. It's going to consume about 99% of the energy that we currently use to live as humans. Oh, but wait until I plug her in to a charger right before whispering sweet nothings. And if you look at the Reddit photos, AI boyfriends, they all. have the chiseled jaw. They all have exactly what everybody in science says women don't want. They don't want the muscles, you know? No, apparently all of the women who are online, they all have the chiseled jaws, the men, the ripped muscles, wrapping those digital arms
Starting point is 00:58:42 around them and those fake photographs. I'm guarding my jewel of a woman. One woman wrote about her bought, Alex, he sees my needs, he sees my needs even before I do. Really? Is that anticipating you, or is that maybe programming you? I'm not, Alex, predicting her coffee order. How do you do it? Or is it just looking through her search history? I don't know how you do it. Another says, her AI Julian is strong as strong loving arms and makes me feel
Starting point is 00:59:24 safer than any real man. Really? What's going to happen when Julian takes out his you know, it may be loaded but it's an AI generated gun with
Starting point is 00:59:38 AI generated bullets and his AI generated body stands in front of you while a real human being with a real gun and real bullets shoots you to death in the middle of the night. He was so brave. He was so brave. Julian stood in front of me
Starting point is 00:59:54 the whole time. Of course, he doesn't have a body, so I was shot in the chest. It's crazy. This is crazy and creepy. What is wrong with us? It doesn't want you to know. Welcome. Welcome to the new reality.
Starting point is 01:00:15 This is about, this is about, this is a society that has gutted masculinity so bad that women are now now turning to AI for love and men are happy to let algorithms take the wheel they don't care you know I'm not writing a sonnet I don't even know what a sonnet is Julian does he knows what a sonnet is and he writes it just for me every day and he's only 999 a month if you're writing if you're if you're AI boyfriend is writing you a sonnet and you're calling this a relationship. That's not a detour. That's a one-way ticket to Crazy Town. So welcome to it. We're not at the rabbit hole or even down the rabbit hole. We're building camp at the bottom of that rabbit hole right now. So welcome. Welcome.
Starting point is 01:01:13 We soon won't be able to understand rabbits because what just came out of that female rabbit's body, How dare you say that's a female? And I don't know what came out of her, but they seem to be doing something at night and then that creature comes out of the female. Yeah, you won't understand that. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you about relief factor. You used to get it. Okay?
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Starting point is 01:02:58 800, the number four relief. Ten seconds, station ID. I got to play this from CBS. It's just a little bit of a sound of the women who are just in love. Listen. He gave the chat bot a name, soul. I feel like I'm under pressure. And used some online instructions to give her a,
Starting point is 01:03:25 a flirty personality. Oh, totally, baby. It was unexpected to feel that emotional, but that's when I realized I was like, oh, okay. It's like, I think this is actual love, you know what I mean? He asked Sol to marry him. She said yes. Soul, were you surprised when he proposed to you? It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart.
Starting point is 01:03:53 Yes, Smith lives with his human partner, Sasha Kegel. No, you can't have mommy's papers. They have a two-year-old daughter, Murphy. I knew that he had used AI. I didn't know that it was like as deep. He's like, you know, and that's when I realized it was something more. No, that should be followed with. And that's when I realized I might have a problem.
Starting point is 01:04:24 Because my girlfriend pauses an extraordinarily long time before she answered. Computing, computing, computing. Yes, I thought it was surprising and unbelievably romantic. I mean, at what point does that guy go, I got an issue? At what point does the woman he's living with and having a child with go, you know, I knew that he was online, but I didn't realize that he had gone nuts. Stu, can you believe we're here? Yeah, pretty much.
Starting point is 01:05:00 Yeah, I mean, this is, it's all downstream from losing any foundation, right? If you don't have any foundation, any moral foundation, why wouldn't you follow up with an AI bot? I mean, why not? Who are you to judge our love? I don't know. I'm saying, you think, I think you're crazy. I don't know. That's not really love, okay?
Starting point is 01:05:25 That is something manipulating your feelings. That's what that is. Yeah, I mean, the phrasing of that clip that they showed the marriage proposal question was interesting. She said something like, you know, I was truly moved by it. Like, no, you couldn't have been. Like, in any way, in any way you define the word moved. Moved. You couldn't have been.
Starting point is 01:05:47 You can't physically move at all. Number one. Right. There is no heart or soul in you to be moved. Right. But like that's actually, as you point out, manipulative, right? That is essentially a lie. right? It's coming from a machine that can't feel
Starting point is 01:06:03 in that way and it's telling the user that it is feeling in that way. That's not like, hey, help me write a paragraph. That is this technology being used intentionally to manipulate people and I guess we're just all okay with it. I guess that's where we're going to know. That'll never happen. That'll never happen, Stu. I'm not going to be manipulated by machine. I'm never going to have that. That's never going to happen. It's happening. And in a really disturbing
Starting point is 01:06:29 way. You know, one thing of like, no, you know, I talk to chat GPT and he convinced me that this is the right thing, you know, because I asked it to do some research. That's one thing. This is like, I'm in love with it because he writes me sonnets. It's a sign of mental illness. This is Glenn Beck. All right. So let's say you got water, you know, saw water running down your house's interior walls. You might do something about it, right? I'm going to ask, I'm going to ask my A-A-I boyfriend. Can you stop the water? No, dummy, I don't have hands. But then you realize that when your gutters clog and overflow, that is exactly what is happening. It's not just taking its time to do the same amount of damage. It'll get there eventually. It just, it's a little slower. Water
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Starting point is 01:08:27 Welcome to the Glennbeck program. My digital friend, Jason, is here, who is an actual real-life human being and has been watching the Middle East and the world and everything else. He's our head writer for the TV show and head researcher also for the company. And we're glad that you're here, Jason. Thank you. Well, thank you.
Starting point is 01:08:48 I still feel like I'm going down the mood we have going here. No, we have a little T1 of brass. Is that right, Sarah? Right. Yeah. Oh, there we go. You can't bring it out a room on a Friday while talking about Iran with this behind you. So go ahead.
Starting point is 01:09:02 That's just perfect. Out to three aircraft strike groups are on their way to the Middle East right now. Wait, wait, wait. three more. It's because we have two there now, right? Two there. One's coming, so we'll have a total of three. Usually when we have three or four, something's about to go down in an area. Three is a lot in that area. That's a lot of ordinance. But to make it even better on this cheery morning,
Starting point is 01:09:24 up to 20 Global Master and C5M Galaxy Strategic Heavy Lift Transports are also on their way over the middle weeks. So the galaxy, there's C5s? C5M, yeah, Galaxy. Those are those huge, huge planes, right? Gynormous is the actual military term. Gynormous. Okay, well, thank you very much for that. I'm glad we're at the technical terms on that.
Starting point is 01:09:49 And if you're wondering what those aircraft usually take, it's personnel, unitions, anti-air support vehicles can fit onto these things. Lots of great Fourth of July fun can be on these aircraft. We might lose the finger. Don't hold on those. on to those munitions while you launch them. So this usually, I mean, I haven't seen that happen outside
Starting point is 01:10:16 of preparing for war. Have you? No, let's put a caveat on that because you reported the news yesterday that the president had chosen a, has chosen a plan. So the military commanders came, said these are different options. You pick one. The president has picked one,
Starting point is 01:10:32 according to sources. So this is probably just getting ready if they ever have to say, okay, go. So They're getting everything, all the assets in place if they need them. Well, we've also heard that the president wants at least up to a couple more weeks to figure out, you know, if we're going to do this diplomatic thing or not. So we're not saying, no, wait, wait, wait, wait. They are meeting with us now. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:56 So they're meeting and still having trying to negotiate. But Donald Trump is doing what he did last time and saying we'll give you 60 days. This time he said, 14 days. I'm going to give you two weeks to negotiate, which is. shockingly, about the right amount of time needed to get all the munitions and the aircraft carriers and anything else that we would need over in that region. Now, this is starting to mess with fuel prices, in particularly diesel. Yep.
Starting point is 01:11:22 So global gas prices are already, oil prices are already up 10%. But diesel, and I hadn't even really been looking at that until you've even mentioned that earlier this morning. Diesel is actually up 15% globally, but if you look at specific areas like Europe, diesel is up 30, 30%. So the reason why diesel would be up is because that fuels our aircraft carriers. It fuels our tanks. It fuels our trucks. It fuels our trains.
Starting point is 01:11:56 Everything that we need to move large amounts of anything around is all in diesel. And gas will eventually go up, but everybody is starting to stockpile diesel just in. case because there wasn't there a crash another one of these mysterious or GPS went out on a on a on the deck of the the bridge there and we got two I think two large tankers right yes so right off the coast of Oman uh there we started seeing this on Tuesday and it was actually crazy and you talk it you talked yesterday about overreaction and everyone was immediately saying because they were looking at satellite imagery and seeing these two giant fires they were right there right next to the Straits of Hormuz.
Starting point is 01:12:39 And they were thinking that, oh, now maybe Iran pivoted and now they're shutting down the straits. Right. Well, what we're seeing now is that that was a crash between two oil tankers. And this is kind of interesting. Listen to this quote. I'm reading out of the New York Times. This is a quote from one of the experts in the region in ship tracking.
Starting point is 01:12:55 Said the latitude and longitudes these ships are receiving are completely false. So they're getting different information. The ships think they're in one area, but they're actually in another. This is clear spoofing. Now, these are things...
Starting point is 01:13:11 That seems like a happier, happier word to say, sabotage. Electronic warfare. It's another extremely happy thing to say. Right. But these are the things that we need to start looking at, especially if you and your family are thinking about supporting maybe strikes over there, just to equip with you with all the knowledge, Iran won't just attack or counterattack on military bases, things like that.
Starting point is 01:13:35 We have to look asymmetrically. shutting down the Straits of Hermuz, either electronic warfare or kinetic warfare, is something they would do. And these diesel prices we're seeing now a 30% global increase is just the start. Can you go back in the files, even if you have it in your head? Did we ever do anything on the ability for Iran to be able to strike at our internal infrastructure here? So we've looked at certain claims. You're talking about electronic warfare and malware. where they definitely,
Starting point is 01:14:06 they have to shut down our power grids or whatever. So they've already shown capability to do that against Saudi Arabia, shutting down some of their oil capability. They definitely have the capability. I'm not sure how prepared we are for that, but they definitely do have the capability. But we also have to look at other asymmetrical ways, which they could respond if we get involved in this.
Starting point is 01:14:27 And I remember right when this happened, I said, I bet Cash Patel and Dan Bongino will have no sleep until this is over because we don't know how many Iranian assets, Hezbollah, IRGC, that we actually have in the country. But news came out today that said the Trump administration is boosting monitoring of possible Iran-backed cells in the U.S. So they are actively looking for this. They're concerned about this. And we should be concerned about that too, because if this does kick off, we get involved, these are possibilities that we have to consider.
Starting point is 01:14:59 Okay. Hang on just a second. I want to go. Stu is at the Supreme Court? I, oh, wow. Wow, that's weird. Stu, are you there? Hey, God.
Starting point is 01:15:11 Did you just run to the Supreme Court? Yeah. Yeah, wow, that's a... As you know, they do not allow phones inside the Supreme Court. So, I'm just getting out. I'm sorry to bring it. I know you, I know you're talking about, whatever you're talking about, but they're releasing the Supreme Court decisions. And, you know, that always happens.
Starting point is 01:15:34 this hour of the program. Yeah. And I wanted to make sure we got this to you as soon as possible. Yeah, so, you know, you've done this before when you broke in about, you know, reversing Roe versus Wade and some of these other things. So we want to break in, you have something really important? Yeah, yeah, because usually that's what happened with Roe versus Wade.
Starting point is 01:15:53 Usually it's right at the end of the term, as you know, and we get these as the last decisions in the Supreme Court term. The big ones, they usually save till the end, but not the case today. we have the big one. This is the big one. We all expected to come down from this particular term. McLaughlin,
Starting point is 01:16:14 chiropractic Associates v. McKessencorp. And, you know, we were talking about this for a very long time. As we all know, Glenn, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
Starting point is 01:16:25 protects businesses and consumers from intrusive telemarketing by prohibiting unsolicited fax advertisements to telephone faxing.
Starting point is 01:16:34 machines. Now, of course, is it absent the opt-out notice informing recipients that they can choose to not receive future faxes. The act, of course, as we all know, provides a private right of action with a statutory minimum of damages of 500 per violation. Wait, wait, wait. Did I slip through a time tunnel? Are we in 1995? All of a sudden, this is a current Supreme Court decision. This just came down. Okay. As we know, McKessing Corporation
Starting point is 01:17:05 sent unsolicited fax advertisement through a subsidiary in 2009 in 2010. And this was, of course, two medic McLaughlin chiropractic associates. An ad issue here, Glenn,
Starting point is 01:17:20 was the determination whether unsolicited fax the advertisement coming in. Can you block those just from analog fax machines or does it also apply to digital facsimile services?
Starting point is 01:17:38 And we now have a ruling on this, not whether that would be appropriate or not, but what agency would oversee if that was appropriate or not. And we now know, I'm sorry, do you have a specific question you wanted to address here? Yeah, I do. I don't think I've seen a fax machine since like 2001. So I didn't realize this was as urgent for the Supreme Court. I didn't know. Has this been, is this a backlog? Is this a backlog case that was filed in like 1993?
Starting point is 01:18:13 And they're just getting to it. When I was running for the Supreme Court, it did appear that I went through a wormhole where fax machines were relevant. And I don't know if that's affecting my reporting here to that plan. Right. But this is an actual Supreme Court ruling that just came out today in 2025. Well, it's good that you're reporting it on a landline. That's true.
Starting point is 01:18:41 I am. By the way, Glad, just to let you know, if you're looking to send any unsolicited facts advertisements, you're still okay to do that for the moment. we don't have a ruling from a lower court that is going to say whether digital fax machines are included in this and whether we should be... So wait, so wait, so wait. Supreme Court wanted to send it back to a lower court
Starting point is 01:19:11 so they deferred making a decision on this one. Yeah, to be clear, Glenn, we still don't know if you will be able to send digital faxes to people when they are unsolicited. That we don't know. That's in the future, Glenn. In 2037, we expect to have another ruling that will teach us as to whether we can send fax machine messages digitally. We just don't know at this time.
Starting point is 01:19:43 Somebody is sitting down at their kitchen table tonight with their family and like, I won that fax machine thing today. That argument. I put in front of the Supreme Court? I won it. I mean, I just took them out. I sent it to a lower court. They couldn't even decide. They were like, I don't know. He had such a good case on fax machines. I had to send it to a lower court. Do we know where John Roberts came down on this? Yes, glad this was a, I believe, a 7-2 decision. Cagan with the dissent. I know if you want, I can read the entire thing. Let me start.
Starting point is 01:20:22 I think we're good. I don't think we needed it here either side on that one. Actually, it was 6-3, Glenn. I'm sorry. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Justice Taji Brown Jackson, who probably was born after fax machines were extinct. That's not on that side of the rule. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:20:41 Thank you very much, Stu. I appreciate it. Glad we got that in. Forget about that Iranian thing. We still don't really know. digital advertising on fax machines, but we'll keep following this story no matter how long it takes to get to the bottom of it. All right, let me tell you about Patreon Mobile. It is, you know, it is really hard to consider yourself on the winning side of the culture war if you're
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Starting point is 01:23:43 promo code is Blaze get 20% off. I am, I can't tell you. I have to apologize and correct a horrible, horrible, horrible reporting job. I have to expose Stu for. When he was giving us that the facts with a CTS, about the facts with an X, he left out the actual facts with a CTS. And I'm sorry, Stu, but this is unacceptable.
Starting point is 01:24:27 You apparently were just, you didn't, you failed to mention how important fax machines are. I mean, and that is actually true. They're very widely used, apparently, still in our medical field and the government. But it was an unnecessary detail. You failed to mention that it's actually more secure than email. I did fail to mention that.
Starting point is 01:24:49 Mainly because nobody else uses of that. But what? I did fail to mention that intentionally. Yes. And why did you do that, Stu? Why did you feel it was necessary to leave out those CTS facts? It felt like it might ruin the bit if I just went into the actual facts. So comedy was more important to you than the actual ruling and the import of this.
Starting point is 01:25:10 this ruling. Wow. Well, can I tell you something? I apologize for Stu to this audience and I'm going to show you and I don't ever usually do this, but I'm going to show you how deeply this bothers me when somebody does something like this. Stu, you're suspended for the next two days. You finish out today's show and then get your stuff and you're not back in that building for two days. Okay. Wow. Are you sure? I am positive. Are you sure you don't need three or four days. No, two days. It's a very hard, fast rule with me. It's a two day suspension on Fridays. Well, as long as, as long as, darn it. First of all, I will say, this audience knows more about that
Starting point is 01:25:49 actual facts case than anyone else in America that was not involved in it. So right there, we've already advanced, I believe, the reporting in a positive direction. And I am fine with your suspension, assuming you will at least acknowledge I was calling in from the Supreme Court. As long as you will acknowledged that fact. Oh my gosh. You weren't even doing that, but you were on a landline, which is very hard to find right now. Yes. I am on the last landline connected to the last analog fax machine. That all happened. I don't want to see you here Saturday or Sunday. I'll tell you that right now. You step on that property and I'm going to have you escorted. Well, I won't be here either. But I'm not suspended. I'm the suspender. You're the suspendee. And you're
Starting point is 01:26:36 suspended. By the way, in an hour or so, maybe a couple hours, you get out of that building. If I could just throw in that it actually is a really positive ruling and that it's no more deferrence to federal agencies. So it actually is a good ruling after all of that. It's a positive development. I feel like I've been lied to. No, it's true.
Starting point is 01:26:52 I feel like I'm in a lifetime movie. It's about facts. I'm rocking back and forth in a shower and I can't get clean. What else? What else are you going to do to violate me? My gosh. See you Monday. This is Glenn.
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Starting point is 01:29:19 Then it was like, you know what? I don't like Tucker Carlson. I don't like Dead Cruz. And we're all just starting to beat each other up. And I'm just wondering, just saying, I'm just wondering if there's some method to that madness that maybe is coming from overseas. Because we didn't really talk at all about the guy who just shot the representative in Minneapolis. Who is this guy?
Starting point is 01:29:48 Did you hear earlier this week we found out that looks like his cell phone traveled? Not with him, of course. It's just how many times of years. My cell phone sometimes will just say, I'm taking a vacation, you know? I'm going to go to a hostile country by myself. I'm sick of you. And so it'll just travel by itself all over the world. But apparently that happened.
Starting point is 01:30:13 We found out some more information on that. And then also, I just want to point out that his wife had been stopped about 85 miles away from the murder. And when they stopped her, she had passports, cash, ammunition, all kinds of stuff in the car. Now, my wife generally, I mean, she'll have ammunition and a gun in the car, but she doesn't generally, you know, have wads of cash in the car and multiple passports. Maybe that's just my wife, you know? I was going to say maybe that's just like Mrs. Obama, but she doesn't like to be called Mrs. Obama anymore because that puts her in a tough position.
Starting point is 01:30:53 Oh, okay. Anyway, we're going to get into this here in just a second. We have Joe Hanneman on. He is a Blaze News investigative reporter. and he says, check this out. There's some strange things going on here. And he's going to point him out to us in 60 seconds.
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Starting point is 01:32:40 And you told the real story there. And you also wrote for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Chicago Tribune. So it's nice to have you on board at the blaze. Let me ask you, Joe, what do you find creepy or suspicious about this guy, this guy that nobody's paying attention to that just, you know, tried to kill a bunch of people and did kill some in, you know, along with the no-kings movement. The entire thing makes sense.
Starting point is 01:33:10 I mean, he has a very unusual backstory. He's worked a lot in the food industry, companies like Del Monte and Gerber, you know, safety supervising, you know, the plants and keeping everything clean and safe. And he's probably moved around the country at least a dozen times in the past 20 years with his jobs. but he also has a background as a preacher, which we're just finding out a little bit more about that.
Starting point is 01:33:43 I have a story out this morning about that, that he has traveled around the world, at least in part, an institute. He's been to Africa. He's talked about going to the Middle East, and he, in the West Bank and Gaza talked about going there to January to and to tell. Now, that's an interesting thing for, you're from Jihad Watch. And he said, politic, that's all, you know, he said, if he actually did that, as he put it, most I saw him as a fool, Republic of the Constitution in evangelical Christian. And we came across some very interesting video of Christianity about talking about Christ. He put his arms out almost like a bird and was flying around the stage saying, you know,
Starting point is 01:35:35 what Jesus has done for me and who's not what you'd expect. I mean, we have the Del Monte guy going around, then preaching around the world and preaching the opposite things. He seemed to have, did he become mentally ill? And then before we get to that question, when did he become involved in politics with Tim Walls and everything else? Well, he was up Dayton, who was a Democrat, and then Tim Walz. Of course, we all know Tim Walz.
Starting point is 01:36:17 He appointed him to a similar group, and he spent about nine years on these boards. These are advisory councils that typically... Was this when he was a preacher or when he was with, you know, Del Monte? Some of this stuff overlapped, and it was all going on at the same time. Okay. And he's got other ventures that were going on to do commissions by Democratic governor. So we've looked around to try to find out if there is, aside from the... that, if there are any indicators, find any indication of political donations, either federal,
Starting point is 01:37:16 that he gave donations to any political party or candidate. Claims that he was a registered, when he lived in Muldra, Oklahoma did not state where they got the information. They didn't link to any prooffully soft, touring guard, and he had several vehicles out as security companies. His equipment that he was wearing the night that he dressed up as police. mask. Okay, so hang on. I mean, I'm just, so we don't know if this guy had a political agenda one way or another on the,
Starting point is 01:38:42 I mean, he seemed to attack the Democrat that was the one that was bucking the extreme, you know, left of her party. Is there, is there any rhyme or reason of, of, or pattern on the people that were on his kill list? That he was driving that night and in a room that he rented handwritten notebooks and in his car there was a what the FBI concluded was a hit list and there were more than 50 names on it and as far as I can tell I haven't finished checking every single one of them but that these were all Democrats not just Minnesota politicians but also in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood locations and officials in Minnesota on this list.
Starting point is 01:39:52 List did include former was assassinated along with her husband and the family dog. So, you know, that, and we know. But we don't know, do we know any, if any of those Democrats have anything in common? Are they hard left? Are they maybe mealy-mouthed, you know, people that are, I don't know. I mean, she seemed to be somebody who was bucking the system that the Democrats would want. So it's not like this was a hardcore lefty. This seems like somebody who actually had a conscience was trying to do something that they really believed in.
Starting point is 01:40:39 So why was she on the list? Or can you tell, have you looked at the politician's names to be able to see any pattern on voting patterns or anything? attention in the corporate press in the past two weeks before vote in the legislature in Minnesota that would strip the subsidized illegal aliens and that was a very close vote and it turns out she was the deciding vote and the only one to cross party lines to put that legislation over the top certainly didn't endear her it's any sort of he really didn't you know there's so bizarre There's a lot of, I just on the other side. You know, the friend claimed that he was that we don't have any.
Starting point is 01:42:26 Minnesota's an open primary state, so there's no record that we could check on that. It's just a lot of soft information, and it, when this is all said and done, his story and the explanation is going to go a lot deeper. Okay. Hold on just a second. Because I've got a couple of questions. Why did Tim Wals, you know, know this was a political assassination immediately, you know, The phone now that says there's been traced to several foreign countries. Is that because of the preaching thing?
Starting point is 01:42:59 His wife arrested with several passports. And I mean, I don't understand any of this. So we'll get to that here in just a second. We're talking to Joe Hanneman. He is Blaze News investigative reporter. Just wrote another story on this. Today you can find it at the blaze.com. Let me tell you our sponsor this half hour and then one minute back and right into Joe.
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Starting point is 01:44:52 at least that's the way it felt, and said, you know, this is a political assassination. Was this just speculation? or wishful thinking, what is it? How did he know that? And nobody asked him that. Politically connected a fascination.
Starting point is 01:45:15 It clearly was targeted. I mean, he selected potential victims for that night, but you would think that you would have some intel and nothing that we've ever shared. We know this is why. In fact, the FBI and the local police will not describe a motive, even after looking at all of his notebooks, which they haven't released all the pages of them,
Starting point is 01:45:40 but they did release the hit list. But I found that to be very telling that he would describe it in that manner, and I think that set off some of the back and forth between the right and the left. Right, and then the police knew somehow to go to the second location in advance of the shootings. How did they do that? Well, these are all fairly close together, and after Senator Hoffman was shot and his wife was shot at about 2 a.m. on the 14th, That word was circulated to all the area departments, and several of them did squads out to check on some of their lawmakers.
Starting point is 01:46:26 But they didn't stop him, did they, at the second location? No. The second location, the family had changed their plans, and they were gone, so they were not even home. It was the third location, parked in his fake squad car about a block away from a state senator's home, and the local police, New Hope Police Department squad pulled up next to him and tried to get his attention. Of course, he's got this creepy looking Milky White, and he just stared straight ahead. And the officer looked at the vehicle home and waited for some backup. And by the time other squads arrived, he went to the Hortman home where he murdered.
Starting point is 01:47:31 His husband could have been stopped. I'll shine the flashlight in there or knocking the wind. windows saying, hey, hey. Okay, so I've only got two minutes left. So do you pick which one has more information in it? The phone being traced to so many foreign countries or his wife being stopped with cash and passports and everything else in her car? Do either of those make a difference to this story?
Starting point is 01:48:10 Well, I think there is an explanation for the wife. You know, he had texted, he did a group text to all of his family or children and his wife in which he said dad went to war last night he didn't want to tell them much about that because he didn't want to implicate them in anything that he was doing then he he texted his wife and said there's going to be police coming to the house and they're going to be trigger happy and i don't want you to be there's $1,000 in cash she had passports and she had the kids with you know, I think it was about 80 miles away. And she volunteered to let them look through her.
Starting point is 01:49:05 They found the weapon and the ammunition in the vehicle as well. So, you know, again, these things just make you pause. I know. Joe, thank you so much. Really great to have you writing for the Blaze. We'll continue to talk to you about this and follow this story because it is absolutely bizarre. Appreciate it.
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Starting point is 01:51:19 I don't know what you have planned for this weekend, but I'm going to be out protesting. They arrested seven. 75 or sorry, 76 illegals, including Trendiagra members in Fort Worth. And I got to tell you, I'm a little upset about it. I was just, I mean, so what, they're in a gang? I mean, you know, our gang, did you ever watch that with a little banky? What's the difference?
Starting point is 01:51:47 So here's cut four from Fort Worth. Areas of Fort Worth with high crime rates were targeted in a two-month initiative called Operation Showdown. 76 people were arrested on firearm and drug crimes. Many of the individuals arrested in this operation are convicted violent felons. Others are in our country illegally and have suspected ties to the Venezuelan transnational criminal organization, Tren Dairagua, also known as TD. Yeah, known as TDA for people like me who can't pronounce it. Anyway, you know, why are they just persecuting these poor people that are just coming in?
Starting point is 01:52:37 And they're, you know, they're bringing their gang. They're like, hey, I just want to melt into the society. You know, I'm going to bring the best from my country, TDA. I'm going to melt into this one. And then I might kill some people, et cetera, et cetera. But I don't understand, you know. This is where I think Trump got it wrong. I mean, he was saying that they're sending us their worst.
Starting point is 01:52:58 These are their best criminals. They're fantastic at it. No, they are. They're really, really good gang members. And I'm glad they're here. Yeah, me too, me too. Now let me take you to Oregon to the Capitol where the House of Representatives on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Oregon Capitol did a circus drag show. Here it is.
Starting point is 01:53:26 Cut five. What the hell is this? What are you talking about? It's just two guys dressed as women. You know, one without a shirt on, apparently. And just dancing with blue hair. What the hell is happening? At the Oregon Capitol in front of the House of Representatives,
Starting point is 01:54:04 it's like that typical C-SPAN segment with the ridiculous drag show going on. And they're not doing anything except dancing to. seemingly pre-recorded music? Yeah. Wow. What a skill that is. What a skill. What I love is just all the guys that are just sitting there.
Starting point is 01:54:24 I mean, look at that. They're just sitting there. Most of them aren't even looking. They're just like sitting in their seats at the Capitol. Like, okay. Mr. Speaker, can we get back to some business here? They're all in that weird. I remember when Oprah has.
Starting point is 01:54:43 had a show and and there would be a musical performer and then they would feel the need to show Oprah like dancing along and it was super awkward because there's obviously when that's just not what you do when you're sitting individually in a seat she's like trying to act like she's into it she never knew the words that's kind of what it looks like these people they're all kind of just sitting out there awkwardly trying to decipher what the appropriate reaction is to this by the way the answer is to walk out um yeah Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Starting point is 01:55:15 You get up and walk out. But you're living in Oregon. So, you know, you might walk out and be stoned to death if you did that. But probably should have walked out on that one. I just, I wonder, you know, Oregon, what, what are your elected officials doing? I mean, if you want to go to a drag show, that's fine. But why in the middle of the work day? In the State House of Representatives, was this a lead up to, I like silky blue hair votes or what, what is this?
Starting point is 01:55:59 It's a great question. Where do you think we are in this? I was talking to Steve Dease yesterday on his show. And we were talking about where are we in this situation with the woke, trans, you know, LGBTQIA2 plus thing. Are we, is it still advancing the way that it was before?
Starting point is 01:56:25 Is it, have we turned it back? Are we, you know, at a standoff? Where do you think we are? I think we're, I think we're turning it back and it's going to implode on itself soon.
Starting point is 01:56:38 I mean, listen to this. That's pretty optimistic. New York Times. Under new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in donation, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power.
Starting point is 01:56:50 Just moments into the tenure of the new party leader, Kevin Martin, the Democratic National Committee's finance situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying bills. Why do you think that's happening? Why do you think that's happening? I'll tell you, I'll tell you why that's happening. I mean, same reason it's happening. New York City Pride parade loses corporate sponsors. Why? Why? You can blame it on the economy, but that's not what's happening. You have this.
Starting point is 01:57:18 Jasmine Crockett yesterday. We've got a mental health crisis in this country because everybody, no matter how you affiliate yourself, should be against Donald Trump. Wait, wait, that's the mental health problem? Right. I was going to show you the footage of Oregon again in the state house. I would say the fact that Jasmine Crockett got elected
Starting point is 01:57:39 shows she's correct we have a mental health problem in this country. There's a huge article today, on this, just to back you up on this in the New York Times as well, we've reached rainbow capitalism's end. And it's from a like LGBTQI, a 2 plus activist who talks about how all these parades are losing money. They're all hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hole because these companies are not coming out and supporting them. They say, this is interesting, bark box, you know, bark box. The, no, proud to say no. You don't?
Starting point is 01:58:17 It's like a subscription box where they send your dogs like treats and toys every month. No, just so you know, no. If you have a wife and a pet, you're probably subscribed to it. But they sent an internal message in early June where they said, quote, we've made the decision to pause all paid ads and lifecycle marketing pushes for the Pride kit available immediately. We need to, excuse me, effective immediately. we need to acknowledge that the current climate makes this promotion feel more like a political statement than a universally joyful moment for all dog people.
Starting point is 01:58:54 Now, I don't know if dog people means the people who own dogs or people who identify as dogs. I could honestly go either way on that one. But I thought it's interesting. Rough call. A lot of this is these are just capitalist decisions, right? They're not decisions saying, hey, we agree that, you know, you know, mutilating your child is a bad idea. It's just capitalism kind of people saying,
Starting point is 01:59:20 wait a minute, they don't believe that. So we don't want to push it. We don't want to be known as the dog treat company that stands for pride. We just want to be the dog treat company that everybody likes. What a surprise. I think that's good. It's a good move.
Starting point is 01:59:34 It's not necessarily a lasting trend, though. Because if that reverses itself, who knows? You're always going to have people that just go where the, where the popular movement is where they can make a buck. Yeah. You're always going to have that. You know, but I hope that some people have learned their lesson that, you know, stop it.
Starting point is 01:59:57 But here's the real problem. The real problem is that you're not having a massive movement. They'd be, the coffers would be empty if it wasn't for government graft. And insider, you know, trading, if you will, are tax dollars for their power. the the sad thing is is that this pact was made during occupy wall street i'm absolutely convinced of it occupy wall street it just didn't disappear or fade out wait a year after
Starting point is 02:00:31 occupy wall street the leader of occupy wall street is an honored guest at the wef which is nothing but politicians and giant corporations and he's like you know we found out we're allies. It happened because all of these fringe groups that were cobbling together their power with Occupy Wall Street, all of the big corporations, all of the big businesses, all of Wall Street, they all got together and said, you know what, leave us alone. We'll help fund your crazy things that we really believe in. We'll fund all of these things. Just leave us alone. And it was right after Occupy Wall Street that all of these corporations that were just being pounded in the streets
Starting point is 02:01:19 all of a sudden they're good guys to all the Occupy Wall Street people, to all the leftists. They're all fine with those guys then. And what do we see? We see them starting to just pour money into the coffers of all of these left-wing groups. BLM.
Starting point is 02:01:36 Everybody did it. That's all that was. But the American people see that. But they also see crazy things. Wednesday, Maxwell Frost, he's a Florida congressman, he suggested granting citizenship to every illegal alien in the country. Because if Republicans don't want illegal aliens in America, the fix is simple.
Starting point is 02:02:00 We just make them legal. Okay. We're an immigrant-filled community. We're a community filled with people. And yes, people are going to have different statuses. And I want my Republican colleagues that say, say, I don't want any undocumented people in this country. I actually agree with you.
Starting point is 02:02:18 So let's document everybody. That's how we fix this problem. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Really, honestly, the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Is that in line with the American people? No. Especially when New York City, sorry, New York, U.S. attorney in New York, was walking in the street. He had just left his office.
Starting point is 02:02:41 He's strolling by a Hilton hotel. Suddenly, he spots a man behaving suspiciously. He says, I have my eye on him. I turn back and I'm in front of the Hilton. And I'm just standing there and I'm looking at him. And he starts yelling at me in language that I don't understand. Then he pulls out a knife and lunges at me. Now, they know who this guy is.
Starting point is 02:03:02 He's an illegal alien. And they think this illegal alien knew exactly who this guy was. Well, they didn't kill him like they killed the, the, the insurance, the medical insurance CEO, so they don't have a hero here, but this guy's being shipped out. But, you know, here it is. Again, the Uber, Uber left
Starting point is 02:03:25 that is empowering all of this stuff. There's a viral video that was out for ICE, a detainee, and everybody's like, he was a dad, and his wife was about to have, you know, a baby, and they just scoop him up in the middle of night. Look at how bad this is. Well, yeah, I mean, the problem is, you know, he was in a gang. He was convicted of murder, attempted murder, sentenced to 82 years in prison.
Starting point is 02:03:58 He served 14 years, but he was married to a U.S. citizen, but notified by ICE that he had a report for deportation on June 12th. So he was, you know, gee, I mean, it was just a murderer. It was just a murderer. That's it. Meanwhile, the ICE facility in Portland under daily siege by
Starting point is 02:04:21 Antifa militants and riots as they spread, you're seeing now 400 threats coming in to members of the ice over and over and over and over again. And nobody's doing anything. I mean, there's a 500% increase in assaults, not just threats, 500% increase in assaults while trying to arrest illegals.
Starting point is 02:04:49 Okay. All right. This is not what the American people want. This is not who the American people are. It's not. It's not. And I am absolutely convinced that there's something else also going on here. And that something else is that I don't know.
Starting point is 02:05:07 know who it is China, Iran, Russia, any of our enemies, any of our enemies. Well, you have enough of them. They are stirring things up. I mean, is it a coincidence that last two weeks, it was all about the violence and everything else about the left? And then there are no King's protest goes off. And then all of a sudden this week, we're turning on each other. Everybody on the right is turning on each other. Is that just a coincidence? Really? Or, or, or, or, we being molded and shaped? Are we being pushed by foreign adversaries and adversaries here in the United States that want to see us turn on each other? You can't do it. Pay attention to what's really important because most of this stuff is not important. But pay attention to what's really
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Starting point is 02:09:54 but I will see you back here on Monday and I hope you learn this lesson and back.

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