The Glenn Beck Program - Taylor Swift IS the NFL Now. Is Anything Sacred?? | Guests: Miss Kay & Korie Robertson | 9/29/23

Episode Date: September 29, 2023

In breaking news, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has tragically passed away at 90. Glenn and Stu discuss who the seat will go to and the desperate lengths to which Democrats went to keep her in the Senate. G...lenn reads multiple good news stories that support Glenn’s theory that a political shift will occur in 2024. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss all the areas of government that will stop if the government shuts down. Glenn and Stu discuss the wide-reaching and mind-boggling success of Taylor Swift. Paul Fitzpatrick of the 1792 Exchange joins to urge citizens to know what their states are doing with their pension funds. Miss Kay Robertson and Korie Robertson join to discuss the movie “The Blind,” which tells the true story of the Robertson family. Glenn speaks with independent rapper Flawdzilla about his change from drugs and liberalism to sobriety and conservatism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:07 It's Friday. I told you years ago that if we can make it to 2024, the tides would start to change. And some of this stuff would start to ebb back and then fall away because we're operating on a pendulum kind of system. It looks like that is finally starting to happen. I'm going to share some good news with you in 60 seconds. Heather's a police officer in Louisiana. Stay fit for her job. Heather spends a lot of time in the gym.
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Starting point is 00:04:02 Feinstein dies, which she just did. We need somebody from California. You need a woman. You need a powerful woman. What about if Newsom decided to ask the president, hey, what about putting Kamala in as the senator? Because we can't lose this vote. So we put Kamala as the senator And maybe then I don't know
Starting point is 00:04:38 Well maybe Maybe Gavin Newsom could be vice president I have some questions Yeah Number one on the list Why would Kamala want to do this? Because she has no choice Okay
Starting point is 00:04:58 I mean I don't agree with that She's already got the job So why wouldn't she just stay in the job Because she'd be so much more effective. Because she's been very good at policy and she'd be much more effective. Well, I know your justification to the media or to conservatives or whatever might be that. Here's our excuse for why we're demoting her. We know the real reason.
Starting point is 00:05:19 She sucks. Yeah. But my question is, what is her incentive for taking this? You're not going to. What was the incentive for Hillary Clinton to all of a sudden say, okay, Barack's the guy? Not me. More votes going against her? There was a...
Starting point is 00:05:39 There was an absolute deal cut. There was a deal cut. She lost the primary. That's what happened. I know, but she was also... That was a deal that was cut. I'm convinced of it. There was a deal cut.
Starting point is 00:05:52 And maybe she did think that that was a better choice for some reason. I think she just lost the primary. But still, this is Kamala freaking Harris we're talking about. You're telling me she's going to step down from the brightest. Vice presidency, would that be the most, the weirdest thing you've seen in, let's just say the last five days? No, you're right. Okay. No, the weirdest thing would be the Republican House approving Gavin Newsom as the next vice president, which they would need to do in this scenario.
Starting point is 00:06:20 That, I do not believe is going to happen. If that did happen, I would be surprised. But the Republicans would have to approve this. And of course, the Democrats know that this would not be something. Can't have Kamala Harris in. He is, I mean. Believe me. Coming up with scenarios to get Kamala Harris to not be your next choice should be a high priority for the Democrats.
Starting point is 00:06:45 I don't know how they'd pull this off. And this is the problem with both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Once they have the job, they're among the most powerful people in the world. And it's really hard to get them out of those positions because they have to agree to it. Joe Biden should, of course, not be running. but it's his choice at the end of the day. And this is why I've believed since the beginning, when everyone said there's no way he makes it through this first term,
Starting point is 00:07:13 there's no way he runs again, he has spent his entire life trying to get into this house. Yes. And he wants it more than anything. He's risked his family. If he just went away, none of this probably would have happened with Hunter. No.
Starting point is 00:07:28 He doesn't care. He loves this. I know he's incoherent. I know he looks tired all the time, but he still does want this really badly. He likes playing most powerful men in the world. He really does. So that's my theory. I think he stays in unless his approval ratings start hitting like the 20s,
Starting point is 00:07:47 and he's forced out because they start saying, you know, okay, hey, you're going to prison. I cannot believe he's going to be the candidate. He has degraded so much just in the last couple of months. It's getting worse. He is worse and worse and worse and worse. And there are calls for it. And I would not be stunned by any means if he had, quote, unquote, health concerns or he needed to be with his family. It's not out of the question.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Believe me. I still think the most likely scenario is that this daughtering old fool is their nominee. I think that's the most likely outcome of this, which is incredible to say. Absolutely incredible. Incredible. But I mean, we... And there won't be a debate. There will not be a debate.
Starting point is 00:08:31 You think he just avoids him. Yeah, absolutely. You're going to, how is he going to debate? How could he possibly stand on stage and debate? I think we've, and I think we've advanced this a lot. For a long time, I would say 90% of the time we've done the show together, which has been far too long, obviously, at this point. I would say we would have both said, as part of our analysis,
Starting point is 00:08:54 you can't skip a presidential debate. You can't skip these debates. But look, we have, in the primary, Trump is skipping the debate. with a, you know, a good, huge lead and a real reason to do it. But also, I mean, a better example of this might be Katie Hobbs who just skip the debates
Starting point is 00:09:10 for the governor of a big state and still won. Yeah. And maybe you can do it now. You know that Joe Biden is like, I'm not going to, hey, I'm not going to lower myself. To a man who's been indicted,
Starting point is 00:09:22 91 chart. I will not. He won't say this with this much emotion, but I will not show up. No. He'll say, I'm going to show up. He won't say it with that much emotion.
Starting point is 00:09:37 But yes, he'll say something like that. You'll say something like that. And the left will accept it. And the media will accept it. Anyway. Amazing. So anyway, I mean, we just went over to politics right away. Diane Feinstein, I'm passing away.
Starting point is 00:09:49 It's a big deal. It's a big deal. She's obviously been in the Senate forever. What the Senate part of this too is important? They only have 51 senators. So now they go to 50. If you think Menendez is stepping down anytime soon, I have news for you. There's no way they're going to give up control of the Senate.
Starting point is 00:10:07 I don't care if they have him on video murdering children. He will not step down until they name a new person in California. Gavin Newsom is going to, oh yeah, you're saying. It's going to take some time. There's a gap here. And also, I don't think they're going to risk going to 501 to 50. That's risky too. Not with Romney in there.
Starting point is 00:10:26 Well, that's a fair point. He's still in there for a while. Yeah. And then beyond this, of course, is the disgusting display we have witnessed with Diane Feinstein over the past, what, two years, where they have wheeled her in to press buttons and vote and call out the wrong vote over and over again. And just a disgraceful, almost beyond what you believed was possible as a low for the Democratic Party. Almost. Yet they achieved it.
Starting point is 00:10:56 wheeling in a woman who had absolutely no awareness of her location a lot of times. If she would have died during a vote. Okay. Do you think there's a chance somebody sitting next to her just would have gone, Hi! Yes. So let's extend this. How far does this go?
Starting point is 00:11:22 let's say she's in the cloak room 10 minutes before a vote. Important vote? An important vote. Okay. And they need the vote. Yes. She passes away in the cloak room. Yes.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Do they wheel her down? I don't even have to. Now let me ask you this. There's a famous movie that. Yes. It really not that many people saw. It was not really a success, but everyone remembers it. Weekend at Bernice.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Right. So let's take this to that level. To a weekend. It's a Friday night. Yes. She passes a week. way. Important vote Monday morning. Do they go through the whole weekend? Not sure, but like, like if the budget were, you know, going to be in the Senate, they'd absolutely, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:06 they'd wait for the vote to be at midnight. What if there were rumors swirling? Does she have to raise her hand? Or can she just go, yeah, maybe that's probably what you're doing there. What if she had events she had to attend over the weekend? to cancel those. She was not feeling well. But she still made it with the heroic effort to get down to the floor.
Starting point is 00:12:31 And she died immediately after. Oh my gosh. And then you get a movie out of it. Yeah, by the way, this is not, we're not making fun of her or her death. No, not at all. We are, we're honestly trying to speculate on
Starting point is 00:12:44 how low would the Democrats go? I mean, I mean, did she die at home? Was she surrounded? by all those she loves, the interns and the pages. You're right. I mean, this is what they did to her.
Starting point is 00:13:00 They didn't give her a year, two years, five years of enjoying her final days with her family. None of that got to happen because this group of people that surrounded her were horrible. And look, we can look back at Diane Feinstein's career as a senator. people will of course make it to be this magical thing and all the things she fought for. I of course thought she was a really bad senator, right? She voted for a lot of things I did not like. But she lived long enough to go from a radical in her party to the right wing of her party. I mean, she was to the point where like she was saying relatively positive things about Republicans
Starting point is 00:13:42 and being trashed by her own supporters, party and online. she lived all the way to become essentially the right wing of the party from California. Just because she was a radical Democrat in like what, the 60s. And she, that radical Democrat in the 60s is now, barely even fits in the Democratic Party. They would call John F. Kennedy Hitler today. They would absolutely call John F. Kennedy Hitler. All right, I've got some good news. I'm going to share that with you in just a second.
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Starting point is 00:15:37 Get yours from mantisX.com. That's MantisX.com. and station ID. Okay. I just, I, I told you at the beginning of the hour that, when was it, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago, because I read the pendulum and the fourth turning and everything else, I felt that we were going to start coming back. That pendulum is going to start swinging back to sanity around 2024.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Well, here we are, the doorstep of 2024. Listen to these stories. San Francisco Democratic Mayor, London Breed, recently proposed mandatory drug testing and treatment for any receiving welfare. Excuse me? His initiative would require those suspected of substance abuse problems who want to receive funds through the County Adult Assistance Program to undergo mandatory drug testing and treatment programs. Those who refuse testing and treatment programs.
Starting point is 00:16:52 and treatment interventions would be ineligible to receive county-funded cash assistance. This gives the homeless $697 per month. According to Kron TV, approximately 8,000 homeless people reside in San Francisco, half refused to use the shelter. He said, and I quote, We need to make a significant change. No more anything goes without. accountability. No more handouts without accountability. This is the progressive mayor of San Francisco.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Holy cow. Now let me give you this one. This is the top law enforcement analyst at CNN. They're talking about, you know, Philadelphia and what happened in Philadelphia and the riots. the CNN analyst, John Miller, he's chief law enforcement analyst, he said the situation in Philadelphia is endemic of a larger problem striking Democrat-controlled cities. The problem, he said, is that looters exploit protests using, quote, sophisticated communication networks to organize mass crime sprees. They're emboldened by progress. I'm quoting. They're emboldened by progressive criminal justice reform that seeks to decrease the penalty for property crimes. Suggesting the litmus test for such reform is to see where organized property crime is occurring. You're seeing this kind of looting happening, I mean shoplifting and organized retail theft happening,
Starting point is 00:18:44 in places like New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia. If you look at where the targets closed nine stores, yes, yesterday, four stores in San Francisco, stores in Seattle, Portland, and New York. These are all the places where bail reform laws, criminal justice reforms, have taken the inside of a jail cell out of the equation. So shoplifting is a crime where a judge can't set bail. End quote. All right.
Starting point is 00:19:15 So I, we may be slipping back into a worm on. Sucked back into reality. But now we have the San Francisco mayor and a CNN analyst actually, you know, wising up. Try this on for size. From New York. New York City announced this week that it plans to hand out flyers to migrants discouraging them from seeking shelter in the sanctuary city of New York City. and instructing them to go elsewhere instead. So now you have the city, a sanctuary city,
Starting point is 00:20:01 finally admitting that this is a bad idea. We can't afford to be a sanctuary city for all that come in. They should go somewhere else. Wait, what? Because that's what Texas said. Now, you're doing flyers. We're doing buses. soon billboards I hear are on the way but that's a different story um we're doing buses
Starting point is 00:20:29 and what is it that they're saying that we cannot take on all of these uh illegal aliens all these migrants because it's overwhelming the system wow that sounds like cloward and privyvin it's overwhelming the system what makes new york city different than the united states of America. You have, what is it? 150,000 maybe in New York. Millions have come over. By the end of Joe Biden's first term,
Starting point is 00:21:07 we'll have a population of illegals in this country that will equal the population of what would be the 11th largest state out of all 50. What they're saying is what we, been saying forever you have to have order and assistance and a system you have to take people in and balance what you're doing because you can't just you can't sink the lifeboat that's what's happening in new york and they're finally admitting it it's amazing too this is pretty similar to
Starting point is 00:21:47 what democrats used to say as recently as the mid 90s yes you know this is not a crazy view for the Democratic Party to hold. They used to know this all the time. I mean, now it was. They only knew it. They only knew it because of labor. Yeah. But they sounded certainly this way. You know, Michael Schellenberger, who we've had on the show many times, he wrote a book called San Francisco a year or two ago. And he was pointing out a lot of these same things, particularly about California. And he, at one point, London Breed had signaled maybe some efforts of sanity earlier. And it seemed like she was. She was going in the right direction and then I guess got, you know, criticized by her left flank and stopped. It will be interesting if she sticks with it this time. Because you could really make a difference with, look, there's a lot of things I'd like to do in California that are never going to happen that I think would improve things.
Starting point is 00:22:38 But even just taking basic steps to sanity, you could improve it a lot. I mean, it's totally out of control. A lot. This is, this is an amazing day. It's an amazing day. Those three stories are incredible. The Glenn Back program. steps in the right direction.
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Starting point is 00:24:02 Car Shield 800-227-6100, 800-227-6100, carshield.com slash Beck. Subscribe to BlazeTV. Go to BlazeTV.com slash Glenn and use the promo code Glenn. All right, so here's what we have to do this weekend, beginning tonight at midnight. If we don't sign the CR and continuing resolution, which will just give a just a buttload of money,
Starting point is 00:24:36 just keep spending exactly like you were spending last year and no real accountability for any of it. And we got to add some more for a war. If we don't sign that by tonight, we got to shut the government down. Ooh, Pat Gray is joining us. What will you do as of 1201 tonight? Well, Stu gave me a suggestion because I was confused when I came in.
Starting point is 00:25:03 What am I going to do? I know, I know. And what was your suggestion that I should do? If the government, now this is in the eventuality of a government shutdown. Okay. Are you well read enough to give a recommendation? I mean, I wouldn't. I would be concerned if I was going to be held to some legal stand on it.
Starting point is 00:25:20 Right. So you're not, because you're not an expert. I'm not an expert. You're not an expert. But I was thinking you could. continue living your life exactly the same way. Okay. Oh, all right.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Well, that's weird. Yeah, but what would you do? What about the catastrophe? Right. What about that? Yeah, you would, in this particular scenario, again, it's a fictional scenario on some level. It's hypothetical.
Starting point is 00:25:44 You're not a doctor. What I would say is, I think this is dangerous. What were the things you were going to do? Do those things. Okay. And the things you weren't going to do, don't do those. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:55 Okay. Hang on just a second. It's crazy talk. Here's what's going to happen. Here's what, this is what's really going to happen, okay? Mm-hmm. This is from the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, and they have now released the contingency plans.
Starting point is 00:26:11 Oh, God, thank you. So here's what's going to happen. Mm-hmm. Now, please don't panic. But economic indicators like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobs report, Mm-hmm. Could, could be delayed this month. Don't say that.
Starting point is 00:26:27 No. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which is charged with promoting labor management cooperation. They'll still have that, right? Well, yes. Yes. However, they would have to cut back in its work. They won't close, but they'll have to cut back in some of the things they do. And this all amid the strike with the United Auto Workers.
Starting point is 00:26:53 What are the unions and the unions? And the, you know, the plant's going to do without federal officials. They'll never be able to do anything. They won't. And the thing is, we're so used to high efficiency from the government. And when we lose that, I don't, we're not, society could go sideways. I'm going to throw everybody a bone here so you don't panic. The Federal Reserve activity will be unaffected.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Oh, Hugh. So they could still raise the interest rates on November 1st. No matter what happens. Great. Good. The Federal Trade Commission, however, would stop the vast bulk of its competition and consumer protection investigation. You can't be serious. I am serious.
Starting point is 00:27:41 They would have to. The vast bulk of them would just stop. So some of them would continue. Yes. Yes. But the vast bulk? Valk of them would stop. What percentage does that translate?
Starting point is 00:27:50 Don't know. Vast bulk. It's got to be over 50. This is from the OMB. Okay. The Security and Exchange Commission. will not review or approve registrations from investment advisors, broker dealers, transfer agents, rating organizations, investment companies, and municipal advisors.
Starting point is 00:28:09 They're not going to be able to, if you try to register at the SEC, you won't, you won't be able to do it. And what's that? For a new fund or something, a new rating agency? What's that a two-week process probably? I mean, that's normally. What about the FDIC? Do you have information on the FDIC?
Starting point is 00:28:25 No, they still do not have. all of the, because they're scrambling for this information now. They didn't see this coming, even though everyone saw it coming. Again, to give you some good news, the IRS has not released their plans for this potential shutdown. However, previous
Starting point is 00:28:41 plans have said that the IRS would use funds from Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act to keep employees paid and working. Thank heaven. And a union representing the IRS workers has said, new plans are being discussed that would involve
Starting point is 00:28:57 some furloughs. However, businesses and individuals who requested that six-month extension for your tax return in April, you will still be required to file by April 16th. Of course you will. What date? October 16th.
Starting point is 00:29:12 August, October 16th. I was going to say, I thought I had more time. Yeah. Emergency relief is going to be a problem. A shutdown would create an increased risk that FEMA, their relief funds, could be depleted. So there's a risk that their funds could be depleted if large additional catastrophic disasters occur during the shutdown. Now, of course, they would very easily pass funding for that almost immediately.
Starting point is 00:29:46 But still, we should deny that that would happen. Energy. And we'll deny that. Not any of these people are going to get their money afterward, where we all know they're going to retroactively pass something to pay all of this stuff anyway. It will just basically be an unpaid vacation for many people. For the most part, they've already done that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:03 So, okay. So this is, for those of you concerned about, hey, what about my energy? What about the environment? This is what this draconian shutdown is going to do. Thank you, Republicans. The interior department, which does all of the designing for the capital, building and the interiors and pick out the dra, is, oh no, it's a, okay, apparently doesn't do that. The Department of Interior will retain limited discretion to use permits for energy projects
Starting point is 00:30:36 on federal lands and waters when user fees are attached. So they'll, they'll retain just limited discretion to issue those permits, you know, for drilling and things like that. They don't have full discretion? No, not, not during. During a shutdown. No. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:30:53 A funding lapse would paralyze other work to develop required environmental analysis for all energy projects, highways, and other infrastructure. The EPA may be able to continue some IRA funded activities as well as other attempted work such as settlement-funded cleanup at some superfund sites. Let's hope that's the case. Now, the White House is warning most EPA-led inspections at hazardous waste sites, as well as drinking water and chemical facilities is going to stop. Oh, wow. So your drinking water could go completely, it'll stop. It'll turn to mud this weekend. Yeah, well, by Sunday, maybe Monday.
Starting point is 00:31:38 The Energy Information Administration, which publishes snapshots of the U.S. oil inventory, it will continue to collect and publish data on schedule. but they say at least initially, at least initially. Our nuke sites are going to be, you know, maintained. Nuclear regulatory commission, however, will stop all licensing of, you know, new nuclear facilities. Oh, there's so many of those going up too. Yeah. Because, I mean, we did the last one in 1978 and then this is going to, bang!
Starting point is 00:32:10 This is going to stop. Well, okay, there's no new ones, but it's going to stop. It's going to stop now. The thought of this was the week. This was the week. going to happen. And now, and now, thanks to you MAGA Republicans. Right. Now, transportation and travel. Unbelievable. Travelers could face delays as air traffic controllers and transportation security administration officers will be working without pay. But without pay. Yeah. So people
Starting point is 00:32:37 will not. I mean, they're really not because they will be paid. Yeah. Just maybe not on time. Right. Which is a hassle for them. That is a hassle for them. It is a hassle for them. I won't deny that. However, Amtrak. they're going to keep transporting those 12 passengers. It's just going to keep going. Is Ang going to continue to tell stories about how many miles Joe Biden has traveled on the train? Don't know. Will he be there?
Starting point is 00:33:00 I don't know. Even in death as he was when he told the story to Joe Biden. Now, passports and visas will still be issued. Oh, whew. I thought those are going to be delayed, but they're not going to. Efforts to defend the nation and conduct ongoing military operations, will continue. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:33:20 Okay. All right. Burials and tours at Arlington National Cemetery will continue. Did anyone doubt they were going to stop burying the bodies? Yeah. They're just going to pile up until we open up the government again. COVID-19 response research, including vaccine and therapeutic development by the U.S. government will continue.
Starting point is 00:33:43 The National Institute of Health might have to postpone. postpone clinical trials for diseases like cancer or Alzheimer's, according to the White House. So this may throw him from solving cancer. We were so close to him coming through with his promise of curing cancer. But it's the damn Republicans. We can actually check that at any point if you just go to has Joe Biden cured cancer.com. Can you check it real quick? Yeah, let me check real quick.
Starting point is 00:34:12 It's very close. Has Joe Biden cured cancer? No. Cancer still exists. as of today. Food stamps for low-income people, the disabled and others could be delayed.
Starting point is 00:34:25 There's no excuse for that. There's no excuse for that. Nope. That is just to trot out the downtrodden. The people and just say, look at what's happening. If the IRS can stay open, food stamps can stay open. Social Security checks
Starting point is 00:34:42 will be delivered, applications for benefits processed. However, people will not be able to verify benefits or replace Medicare cards. Most national parks will be closed. No. The Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art may close. Don't say that.
Starting point is 00:35:02 Cemetery, monuments, visitors' centers worldwide housed under the American Battle Monuments Commission will close. So are they going to, and you said the national parks are going to close, that means that many of these open field areas, will not be open? Yeah, they're going to build some fences around those things. Are they? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:24 I don't think, we don't seem capable of building fences. I've noticed this in other areas. They're closed. And, you know, I tell you, you know that they are big on the blue. They're just going to be, that'll be telling the blue, you make sure you're out there. And you enforce that law. Don't you got somebody coming into the national park? We don't have bathrooms that are open.
Starting point is 00:35:46 No. Wow. What are they going to do? poop in the woods? What kind of animals do you think we are? It's a great point. By the way, well, we're animals. Part of this is that poop. Sometimes at least for many, many, many centuries. Yes.
Starting point is 00:36:00 The Capitol Police will not get paid under this. What? They will. They're under assault again? Yes. Just as they were during the insurrection? By the same people. On the extreme Maga Republicans.
Starting point is 00:36:13 Oh my gosh. By the same people. Now, they'll get all their money later. Oh, of course. But for now, they won't get paid. Except for them, unlike thousands and thousands and thousands of other federal workers, they actually will still have to do their job. Most of the federal workers that are going to get laid off are going to get all their money
Starting point is 00:36:33 and then not have to do their job for several weeks or long this takes, which is a terrible thing for that. I mean, just hearing what closes down, I'm in. I'm in. I mean, I think we should take a vote who wants to open it back. up. I mean, I think 15 days to slow the curve of spending
Starting point is 00:36:53 15 days. Let's just do that. Let's meet again in 15 days and see if we can open the government up. We'll probably need another 30 days at least. Well, we might, we might. But let's not just 15 days to slow the curve of spending. After that, 30 days are up. After the
Starting point is 00:37:09 15 and then the 30, we might need another 18 months. Yeah, I don't know if the government will survive that. Oh, you know. It may not survive that. Of course, the American people did it for a year. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:24 And no one cared about them surviving. No, nobody really cared about them surviving. So that's good. So can I also say, too, like, we talk about these big government cuts that we want to do. We think there's things that we should, we should do to make the government smaller, more like it was supposed to be, you know, a limited government. We're not talking about any of those, I want you to know. You know, but our, maybe we are. You know, haven't they unintentional?
Starting point is 00:37:47 intentionally identified all of the cuts here. Haven't they just said, hey, whatever we're just going to stop doing, the unnecessary parts of the government that can just shut down? You mean those non-essentials? Yeah, the non-essential stuff, we just stopped doing, and the essential stuff will keep going, and we'll go from there. We'll talk about, hey, maybe we need to add this back in. Maybe we need to get rid of this other thing.
Starting point is 00:38:10 But, like, isn't that a good starting point? Whatever you tell me is non-essential, I promise you we should not be doing. I promise you we should not be doing it. I'm not sure of that. I mean, you know, we're talking about... Really? Yeah, we're talking about things like the Interior Department, just having limited discretion to issue permits.
Starting point is 00:38:37 So they're still going to be issuing permits, but they're going to have limited discretion. Maybe we shouldn't be doing so much permitting. Maybe people should just be able to do a lot of the things. things that they want to do. But if there are certain needs for certain permits, then the limited permitting might just cover that. Yeah, well, you go ahead. Well, we're all drinking poison by next Wednesday from our drinking, just from our taps in our home. Well, sludge, nuclear waste, syringes pouring out into our kitchen sink. Okay. So syringes might pour out of our
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Starting point is 00:41:11 tight end of all time. Again, I find your proclivities here to be. The man hosted Saturday Night Live. Imagine, because they knew he was going to be dating Taylor Swift. Imagine what ticket sales are going to be like for that team that he's on. They'll be famous too. Even I'll know what team he plays for and what he does, but they can charge two or $300 a ticket. Let me tell you about American Giant. American Giant does things right. They make it here in America, and they actually truly believe that if we don't start making things in America, we're going to lose our place, we're going to lose our freedom, really.
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Starting point is 00:43:03 You're made for negotiate, and the TD is there to help you. I had to tell you, I had to tell you, some guys just don't get it.
Starting point is 00:43:55 Stu's one of them, okay? He just doesn't get it. I'm telling him this, you know, that Taylor Swift might be going to a football game this weekend,
Starting point is 00:44:06 and that is a huge deal. Huge deal. It could make that team certainly, whoever, you know, she's dating, that guy, he's going to be wildly famous. Please stop this. And, you know, Stu has just been thinking about the Roman Empire every second of the day. He's missed the phenom that is Taylor Swift.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Well, we'll try to get into that a little later. Also, what happened in Washington and what is coming this weekend. We are one day, 14 hours, 9. no, 49 minute, 32 seconds away from the, well, now it's, now it's closer than that. I'm just, I'm just looking at it up on the CNN screen because how many hours do we have left before? The entire world caves in on us because the United States government closes. But the good news is Taylor Swift's going to a football game. So we'll talk about that coming up.
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Starting point is 00:46:01 That's Relieffactor.com, 800, the number four, Relief. I mean, there are going to be so many people at that stadium because Taylor Swift is going. So many people. They could charge three or $400 a ticket just this weekend. I hate you. To watch what? I hate you. I'm just telling you.
Starting point is 00:46:25 It's Taylor Swift. I just want to watch it. Three or $400 a seat. It would have been sold out anyway. Most of the seats are going to go for far more than that. Because she's coming. No, not because she's coming. They just, they, people.
Starting point is 00:46:39 just knew there's a chance she's coming this weekend. This is infuriating and you're making it worse as usual. I don't I don't know what you're talking about. Can I just watch football? Why does every football broadcast have to either be some idiot kneeling
Starting point is 00:46:56 or some Taylor Swift in the audience? Why can't it? Why can't I just watch games? I turned on CNN. CNN today. You know what their headline was?
Starting point is 00:47:14 Reports Taylor Swift may go to the Chiefs game this weekend. They were doing an interview about Taylor Swift's possible attendance at a game. Yes. Possible.
Starting point is 00:47:34 It is possible. Not even their own reporting. They were discussing an outside report about her possible attendance at a game. Yes. And that's going to make that player guy famous. Travis Kelsey is already famous. Right, because he is dating Taylor Swift.
Starting point is 00:47:56 He should have done it. He's earlier. He could have, I mean, the guy could be an absolute legend. A legend. He is a, because he's dating Taylor Swift, that's how you become a legend. He is probably the best pass-catching tight end in NFL history. I wish you would stop. I don't care what you look at with guys.
Starting point is 00:48:19 I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Okay. Man. I want you to know, by the way, I want you to know the sacrifice that I, is practically lent. The sacrifice I made when you said, why is it that it's either some moron,
Starting point is 00:48:39 kneeling or I mean I have a great line for that and everybody can I'm sure figure that out and I didn't go there I didn't go there I mean it's probably one of the biggest sacrifices of comedy I've ever made because it was so easy and fit just I mean it would have but I sacrifice for you well you've your restraint is noted as with all things including baked goods but Is that a fat joke? It was a fat joke. I did not hold back my fat joke. I was thinking just for the show that I might lose some weight so I could date Taylor Swift because then I'd be famous.
Starting point is 00:49:25 Okay. There's so many. I believe just saying that by you is a Me Too violation. I mean, poor Taylor. I came into this angry about the situation. and now I feel defensive of Taylor. Well, like what? I don't get, I honestly, I do not get the Taylor Swift thing.
Starting point is 00:49:47 I know, I mean, she has done a remarkable job with her fans. She has, she has always treated her fans right. And they pay her back for that. She has a great, tight, tight relationship with her fans. So much so. It's similar to like David Koresh. similar situation. Well, it might be. Might be. A little bit. It's possible if she ever says, let's go into the jungles.
Starting point is 00:50:17 I've got something for you to drink. I've got some flavor aid right here. Don't do it. Probably not. But like, look, she's very popular. She's obviously like her business run here is remarkable. Legitimately one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Elvis didn't do this. I really, nobody has done this. Nobody has. Michael Jackson didn't do this. I don't think it's crazy to say that this is the best year for any pop artist in history. In the history of music.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Like, I think you compare what? Maybe a Michael Jackson's thriller year? Beethoven. I go back farther. Beethoven the 14th? I think maybe that year would compare. When you look at, you know, that opera, that one
Starting point is 00:51:04 from Mozart, that was a good year. Like, I did say pop music, but I think you'd say that probably was pop music at the time. Yes. So I'll say that qualifies. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:51:15 What else would you put in that category? I mean, maybe there's an Elvis year. There's a Beatles year. I mean, you're going to put those in there. Like, and I think, but it's probably a top five year. But that's, I mean, but all of those kind of made sense. I mean, I wasn't, you know, I wasn't alive for the Elvis thing in the 50s. You know, I was like, I don't know, four for the height of the Beatles.
Starting point is 00:51:43 You know, Michael Jackson, you know, that was probably, you know, the prime of my, you know, youth. And so, but I understand all of those. This one, I don't really get it. I mean, she's good, but. I mean, again, I'm sort of with you on this. Like, I don't, I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift's music at all. Certainly not a politics, which is a contestant. Doesn't mean I won't date you, Taylor.
Starting point is 00:52:09 I mean... Please. We're going to start... No, actually, Taylor, I want you to know. I'm happily married. And no matter what you're throwing down, I don't want any of it. There you go. Okay?
Starting point is 00:52:22 There you go. You're not getting a slice of this pie. I'm not going to get it. Now, if she feels good about that, I think. Another sacrifice I have made today. I am a good person and humble. If she does start dating you, we'd start getting CNN reports. Taylor Swift may listen to the radio today.
Starting point is 00:52:42 And we'd all have to listen to insane people strategizing on her weekend plans. You know, the most impressive thing I've heard about her is who was it that just bought her entire library? Somebody. Oh, yeah. She doesn't like. Yeah. And she just. And so she said, she said, he's not going to own my library and get rich off of me.
Starting point is 00:53:06 I hate Scots. She may not have said that out loud. Oh, she pretty much has said she. So she went out and she recorded all, re-recorded all of her hits. Yeah. And she's got to. And her fans went back and bought her new versions of all of her hits. So this guy wouldn't make any money. It's incredible. It's insanity. It's incredible. And she's releasing a new album. I mean, there has been speculation that this whole Travis Kelsey thing is maybe not as serious as. Some have speculated in that like she does also have a giant concert movie coming out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:41 What is that? What is that? What is that? What is that? What is it? Like, it's a Marvel movie. I actually wanted to see.
Starting point is 00:53:48 Of course you. No, no, because I want to understand this phenomenon. Yeah. I want to understand. I'm going to be going in a lab coat, you know, because I'm just, I'm there. It's science, man.
Starting point is 00:53:58 Somebody explained to me how this is working. And it, look, look, she's, so I'm not a, a lot of people find her attractive. So she's got that going on. It's not my thing, but I get it. Okay. You've got also that she plays for like... Go ahead. Say what you really feel about her. She looks like a cat.
Starting point is 00:54:13 There you go. I mean, there's nothing wrong with looking like a cat. Cats are very... There's beautiful cats. They're cute and cuddly. Both of us are hideous monster. We look like Gila monsters. She looks like a cat.
Starting point is 00:54:24 I'd rather look like a cat than a hila monster. I got it. But like, you have to admit she's at least 45% feline. That is absolutely, if you did DNA, that is what you would find. Another reason why I don't like her. You don't like cats. I don't like cats. So it could be that.
Starting point is 00:54:39 I'm just throwing that out there. You can take, look, you want to go do the studies? You can do the studies. I don't need them. I've already confirmed it. We're just here to help you. Just here. But that's just, that's separate from her success, which has been legitimately remarkable.
Starting point is 00:54:54 And like the way she treats her fans, incredible. Incredible. She had this thing where she recorded a song with some other artists. I don't remember who it was. And it was, I don't remember the name of the song. And it was Lord. or something. I don't remember who it was. Not the Lord. I think it was lowercase. Jesus would be much more famous. If he did a song with Taylor Twiff. I mean, he would be.
Starting point is 00:55:17 I would be. Luckily, we're indoors. I don't think lightning can strike us here. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, Taylor Swift can make that happen. Yeah. So she had a song. It was something like, I don't know, my dopey breakup story with Lord. Okay. And she was the singer. And so her comments on like some message. board from other, some of her fans were like, I can barely hear her there. Like, she's not, the mix was wrong in their opinion. Again, look, when we do a new theme song on this particular program, eight trillion of you write in and say how much you like the last one better.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Like we get every single time, everybody complains about every new thing, right? So she goes out on the message board, sees this complaint a few times, calls up Lord or whoever else it was, flies them in. Has her re-record the song with her. They remix it and then she re-releases it as like, my dopey breakup song in parentheses with more Lord. Wow. I mean, to do that for your fans on a message board is freaking impressive.
Starting point is 00:56:20 You've got to say she does take care of her fans. She wants the Lord to be heard more. I don't think it was the Lord again. I think that is, again, how she scored that is. Well, I mean, she's Taylor Swift. She affects the economy, the GDP. She does. And like, you know, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:56:36 They're doing investigations on whether Ticketmaster had a good on sale for her. Who the hell cares? So what? She didn't make a trillion dollars. She's only made $990 billion. We've got congressional investigations going on over this nonsense. I saw a tweet last weekend from Joe Biden who said one of his new spending things that he wants to do is to make sure that you. have the proper access to
Starting point is 00:57:07 concert tickets. Okay? That is the type of crap he tries to do and buy votes. What if we have? I mean, there's throwing this out there. Because I don't want to pay for it. What if she does one show in Ukraine and that covers like two or three years of this war? Let's just do that.
Starting point is 00:57:24 They'll all show up. It'll be great. One show. Keev. One night only. Why doesn't she do that and cure cancer? I'm beginning to not like her. Why is she letting children go hungry in Africa when all she'd have to do is just do one big show? This is what they do to people.
Starting point is 00:57:46 As soon as you start a charity. Oh, God. As soon as you start doing that, then all they do is target you all the time. Yeah, no. As soon as she's as soon as she is on the bubble. And she does give a lot of, I mean, look, she's an impressive. Her operation is like Harvard. business school, everyone's going to study it from...
Starting point is 00:58:06 But I think it's genuinely her. I think it's generally her. I mean, I don't think it's almost impossible for her to do all the things that she does on her own. She's got an incredible team around. No, I know that. But I mean, the general, you know, you can't be that much of a fraud. She cares about her listeners and her fans. I think that's true.
Starting point is 00:58:24 I think there's a lot of it that's authentic. And then she deserves credit for it. But I have one part of life that she's not in. obviously music she's doing movies by the way point out she was in cats to back up my theory
Starting point is 00:58:39 whoa we need a person who looks like a cat let's hire Taylor Swift this is not a coincidence okay how much makeup did they use on her none okay she just walked in everyone else had to put on a costume she just walked in the front door was in the movie why won't anyone look at this
Starting point is 00:58:58 why are you so angry at her when she's making a player that you apparently like much more famous. I don't want her. She's going to help the NFL. She took over politics a few years ago because I had to hear about her stupid opinions about what liberal is going to be elected. And now I have to hear,
Starting point is 00:59:17 I have to watch her celebrate every touchdown. I don't think they're going to show the plays this weekend. I think they're just going to show the box and wait for her to react and then show you the replay of the play. That's how the coverage was. I want to just watch the sport. Can I, for one second, watch a sport without Colin Kaepernick kneeling or without Taylor Swift's celebration?
Starting point is 00:59:43 Oh, she had ranch and it mixed with ketchup. Hey, Heinz is now releasing a new product based on the way she ate her fries. Why? Why? Why? Why? Can I have one thing? One thing.
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Starting point is 01:01:55 slash Beck 10 seconds station ID So I have I have not actually Listen to a Taylor swim That knowingly I mean I've never I'm sure I've heard it in some context
Starting point is 01:02:20 She's very popular I'm looking at her I'm looking at her Her lyrics there Wow Does she write her own stuff there? Yes and people say it's good Look
Starting point is 01:02:33 Look I'm for I'm going to stop. Because I don't want to. Is it, uh, I'll give you her lyrics. It's meow, meow, meow, meow.
Starting point is 01:02:44 Let me just, that's early career. She was writing jingles at that point. Let me just give. Do we have the music, please? No. Oh, we don't have the music. Otherwise, I was going to do a dramatic greeting. No, no.
Starting point is 01:02:58 No, I had shake it off. Which was a very deep, deep song. I would say that's her. her magnum opus. Yes. Yes. That's what I would say. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:10 And if she would have known what a magnum opus was, she would say that as well. Well, you, you once were in the same room. Oh, I can't even talk to my kids about this anymore. What do you mean? Oh, because I had one brush with Taylor Swift. And I've told it a million times. You know, I think many people don't know about this. 100 most important or influential people in the world.
Starting point is 01:03:31 I was on the list. I don't think Taylor Swift was on the list. No, she wasn't, right? She was speaking for someone else. No, she was, no, she was performing at this. There was a hundred of us in this room. Bill Clinton, Elton John, all these people. And so we're sitting there and, you know, we're in the little,
Starting point is 01:03:48 I'm one of the 100 most influential people. I'm special. And she comes up. And she said, in front of Elton John with the music playing behind her, I have this theory that. Oh, a fear. This is probably something deep. Love songs are really just.
Starting point is 01:04:05 Poetry set to music. And I... Wait, love songs are just poetry set to music. Yeah, that's deep. That's deep. Wow. And I got yelled at by all the girls in my family just this last weekend. I'm like, okay, I got it. She's dating a football.
Starting point is 01:04:22 I got it. I got it. And I said, you know, Taylor and all my girls looking at me and said, Dad, she was like 17 at the time. Let it go. Let it go. The Glenn Beck program. But I won't. No matter how hard she tries to ensnare me into her bed.
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Starting point is 01:05:50 833 GLEANN-33. BlazeTV.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn and save 10 bucks off your subscription to Blaze TV. It's Friday. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It is Friday. We want to give you a piece of information that will help you navigate finances and your investments to some degree to make sure you're
Starting point is 01:06:26 putting your money where it's doing its best to save the country. Paul Fitzpatrick has been on the program several times before. He is the president of the 1792 Exchange, and they've added something new. Hello, Paul. Good morning, Glenn. Thanks for having me on. You bet. So tell me what you guys have added.
Starting point is 01:06:49 Well, first of all, for anybody who doesn't know what the 1792 exchange is, explain that. Well, Glenn, we are a nonprofit engaging with corporations and try to help them move back towards neutral to protect freedom. That's freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and free enterprise. And what have you just added? Well, on our website, we have come up with a database. We call it our proxy voting database. It's actually three databases and one. And your listeners have gone to our other database before.
Starting point is 01:07:22 This is, first, it discloses how state pension funds their assets are being voted by their asset managers. Two, it describes and shows over 100 asset managers of how they are voting the shares of the states. And then third, it's a directory of the 2022-2020, kind of most egregious ESG shareholder resolution. And give me some of those. Give me the worst ones. Worst states and worse. Oh, yeah. I mean, here's an example.
Starting point is 01:07:56 Last year, the employee retirement system of Texas voted for a shareholder proposal at the Bank of America to adopt, quote, a fossil fuel lending policy consistent with the IEA's net zero 2050 scenario. Texas did. Texas did. If passed, it would have restricted lending. Bank of America's lending to the oil and gas industry. So those are some of the crazy ones. Let me, other examples, some of them are forcing companies to incorporate climate goals into the retirement plans, for example, at Amazon and Comcast, or forcing companies
Starting point is 01:08:31 to evaluate the risk of pro-life legislation on their employees. That was at Walmart. Over 30 resolutions would have forced companies to do racial equity audits. This is a good one. Even Citigroup faced a resolution that would force them to ensure the rights of indigenous people who work for the company. And some of them are just really out there crazy, but some of them are insidious from the perspective of they really harm the businesses, which means it harms the shareholders. So your service, when you go there, you can click on to find out your corporate bias rating. So you want to do business with somebody.
Starting point is 01:09:15 You can just look them up and you'll see, for instance, Adobe, a high risk. You'll see, let's see something that, Affleck, medium risk. I'm just in the A's here. 3M medium, 3D systems, lower risk. What it means is these companies are, if they're a medium risk, they do some things that, are not, you know, so great for freedom. And if they're lower risk, you're not saying that they're safe. What are you saying with that?
Starting point is 01:09:50 Well, you're right, Glenn. And that's the first database, the corporate bias rating. Right. And you're right. That one is, in essence, showing that how politicized corporations are. We say lower risk because we can't guarantee. But these are companies that are using their dollars and their brands to push ideological agendas, but they're also canceling employees.
Starting point is 01:10:12 They're canceling debanking people, de-platforming. So we want folks to know who they're working with. And so when you go to the state pension funds, you see the proxy ranking. There's two states that stand out. One is Alabama. It's anti-ESG average is 12.5. Wyoming is 22.2. Everybody else is single digits.
Starting point is 01:10:35 Everybody else. Yes. It is amazing. You know, I will say there are fewer anti-ESG resolutions. So for your folks to know, in our database, we've got roughly 550 ESG resolutions, pro-ESG, anti-ESG. Most of them are pro-ESG, and that's for 22 and 2022 and 2023. So there aren't as many. There are very few of the anti-ESG, but you're right.
Starting point is 01:11:05 We should be seeing those red states voting highly and aggressively for the anti-ESG. But you're right. Alabama stands out as a state. In part, think of how red Alabama is. And yet, they are the fourth, because there's a tie at the top, fourth worst state, they vote 49.5%. This is in 2022 data. we're going to update our database in the coming months to have 23 data. But in last year, half the time, Alabama's dollars were voted for ESG resolutions.
Starting point is 01:11:45 And when I say the dollars, they get the pension funds. It is crazy. So we've got, you would think, let me give you some other states. Look at Florida. Florida with DeSantis, 43%. And again, this is the 22 data. So Florida did pass a law to improve things. So when the 23 data comes out, we believe Florida and several other states are going
Starting point is 01:12:10 a whole lot better. And that's important for your folks to know. State legislatures have started to wake up, but we need to put pressure on them. For example, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas, Montana, Florida, all passed laws to make things better. They passed laws this year. So next year, we're going to see a lot better. But you're right. even just by putting the pressure on pension boards, you're going to see, when the data comes out
Starting point is 01:12:36 for 23, they're going to be better. But, yeah, listen to these states that are worse than California, Oregon, and Washington, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Idaho, Montana, Mississippi, Ohio. I mean, this shows what I say, it's a dereliction of duty of state legislatures that are allowing the pension funds and the pension boards and the pension boards and the pension staff to hand off dollars to asset managers who are then weaponizing and politicizing those assets in ways that undermine the economies and the values of those red states. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. The best one in the entire country, and I don't even think it's even close, is it,
Starting point is 01:13:19 is South Dakota. Yes, and part of the reason South Dakota is the best is they and Georgia are the only two states that in essence took everything in-house. But South Dakota really has taken control, and that's one of the reasons. But the other thing is, interestingly, number two state is Delaware. Delaware is a liberal state, but they actually apparently understand their fiduciary duty better than many red states. And Georgia, I will say, is also doing very well as well. They took it in-house. You're going to see a lot more states. But what we need, Glenn, for your folks to do is, you know, go to 1792 Exchange.com, go to our site, Find out how your state is doing.
Starting point is 01:13:59 Call your state legislators. Tell them to act. If they pass the law, improve it. If they didn't get on them, you also need, remember what happens on these boards. Historically, you know, maybe the governor's buddy is appointed to the board. And many of the folks appointing, whether be governors or AGs or state, the speaker of the house, appointing their buddies and their campaign donors to these boards, they're not vetting them ideologically.
Starting point is 01:14:27 And so that's a huge issue. And ultimately, we need to have the pensioners speak up. The people who are retirement, their retirement security depends on these assets. We need them to speak up and tell the boards to make decisions only for financial reasons. And finally, go ahead. No, no. I was going to say, finally taxpayers, because Alec, the American Legislative Exchange Council, just came out with a report saying state pension funds are underfunded.
Starting point is 01:14:56 They face unfunded liabilities of almost $7 trillion. The taxpayers are going to have to bail them out. So let me go back to ESG because they're now saying, oh, everybody's getting away from ESG, but all they've done is renamed it. They're still doing exactly the same thing. Is that what you find? Oh, absolutely, Glenn. It's a bit of a President Reagan's trust but verify motto.
Starting point is 01:15:23 Yeah. For example, because lots of folks, AG's treasurer, legislators, legislatures are pushing back on Black Rock and State Street and Vanguard, many have changed in behavior. I will say Vanguard's gotten a lot better. But when I say behavior, there's two different ways to look at it. Yes, they're voting far less often for ESG shareholder resolutions. For example, in 2021, BlackRock voted 47% of the time for ESG resolutions.
Starting point is 01:15:52 Well, I should say E and S. They don't report the G. This year, they went down 40%. They only voted 7% of the time for E&S resolutions. You say, that's a really good thing, right? Yes, it is. We're glad to see it. The other side of the coin, though, is BlackRock is still part of alliances, these net zero
Starting point is 01:16:10 alliances that are, and they're forcing us to, in essence, decarbonize, which will put us back in a stone age and starve people. And they're also still, they brag about what they call engagements, which means Larry think and his team sit down with CEOs and say, we own 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10% of your company, you're going to push the CSG stuff. We're not going to vote for it, but you're going to do it. And these CEOs facing these assets and these pension funds are part of the assets used. It's very hard for a CEO to say no.
Starting point is 01:16:43 All right. And once you go to 1791, 1792. I'm sorry, 1792 exchange. and you look up your pension fund for your state. You're exactly right when it comes to who's going to bail these people out. It's going to be you. It's going to be on our backs. They are not making the kind of return that they need to make on your investments for states.
Starting point is 01:17:11 So look your state up and make sure I would call your treasurer as well, but your legislatures and your treasurers and push them. I mean, you know, you look at some very conservative. states that are supposed to be against this stuff, hello, Texas, you're not doing so great. You're not doing so great. Why is that? You're absolutely right. And I would say final point, Glenn, I'm sorry to interrupt, is, you know, lots of folks
Starting point is 01:17:37 listening here have their own IRA or maybe they're in a company's 401K plan. You've got to look at our, go to view the votes, and again, look at your asset managers, find out who is the asset manager managing your 401K or your IRA, see how they're voting. and call them and say, don't vote my shares that way, and then ask if you can, and if you can, move your funds to an asset manager who's more neutral and only focused on financial returns. 1792exchange.com, 1792 Exchange.com. They're doing really good and helpful work. Paul, thank you, as always. Thank you, Glenn. You bet. If you thought times couldn't get worse, well, yeah, oil prices nearing $100 a barrel. Looks like the housing market.
Starting point is 01:18:22 market is kind of stuck. The only people really moving are the people that have to move. Oh, I mean, we're in stagflation now. We're at the beginning of real stagflation. So with oil prices going up, you know, to $100 a barrel, gee, you know, if you happen to be Russia or Saudi Arabia, that's good. However, not good for any of us. Our government is flat out wrecking our economy. So what happens when your pension fund is in ESG stuff and it's not performing? What happens when they print too much money and the inflation keeps going up? Remember, prices are not going up. The dollar value is going down.
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Starting point is 01:20:02 There's a couple of movies that are out that you should know about. One is the blind. It is actually the Duck Dynasty guys, Phil Robertson and Miss Kay, their story. and it is really, really well done. I think we've cracked the code now for real Hollywood blockbuster style movies. This is just a fantastic movie. I saw another one last night
Starting point is 01:20:52 called The Creator that I was pretty excited about. I've seen some of the previews for that. I mean, it looks visually impressive. It is visually impressive. The story is impressive. It's about AI, right? Yeah, it's about AI. it's all very impressive really well done one of the better movies i've seen in a long time however
Starting point is 01:21:13 the more you watch it the more you realize this is an international uh this is going to be an international blockbuster uh and the heroes are the Asian countries and the villain is America and uh it is it is one of the most anti-American messages made by by Americans, most anti-American movie I've ever seen. At this point in our history, globally, I think it's dangerous. It's a dangerous movie because it paints us into real monsters, real monsters. And it's too bad. It's too bad.
Starting point is 01:22:00 I mean, I walked away from that movie last night thinking, when in our history, could a movie ever be made like this and people just go, huh, that's a really good movie. I mean, if you walk out of that movie and you don't have an anti-American bias, it's probably because you caught on. But I don't know how many people are going to catch on. They're just going to go, yeah, that was a great movie. Oh, really? So it's not, is it overt? Is it overtly anti-American or is it just the...
Starting point is 01:22:38 I don't know because I couldn't escape it, but it doesn't say bad things. It's just... I can't explain without giving away everything. But the villains are all... America. The United States of America, the U.S. Army, the military. And like really bad. Like I've never seen our military portrayed before.
Starting point is 01:23:00 Like this. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Really bad. Usually when you see... the U.S. military portrayed, it's because, you know, of the agency or the corporation. Right.
Starting point is 01:23:12 This isn't. This is like our soldiers are bad guys. Yep. The United States of America doing horrible, horrible things. The Glenn Beck program. First, let me tell you about Barrow Buddy. Barrow Buddy is a way, I mean, my wife will not let me clean the guns in the house. She's like, you can't pay this on a kitchen table.
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Starting point is 01:25:56 You are, you're going to hear one of the most heart-wrenching and yet glorious tales you could possibly imagine. It was released as a movie yesterday. It's called The Blind. It is uncomfortable. I don't know how the family even made it. honestly, but I'm glad they did. Miss Kay and Corey Robertson joining us to talk about the new movie
Starting point is 01:26:22 that came out last night called The Blind. I highly recommend it. We're going to talk about that in 60 seconds. First, next time you go to the gun range, don't load any ammunition into your gun. Just point the barrel at your target, say, bang, really loudly, and then guess how close
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Starting point is 01:27:48 Miss Kay, welcome to the program. How are you? Thank you. I'm fun. It is so good to have you. And Corey, welcome. I'm glad you're here. Thanks for having it. So I'm so glad to have you guys on.
Starting point is 01:28:01 I know you guys are busy doing kind of a virtual tour here for the movie, which came out last night. I have to tell you, I think, I said this when I watched the movie, officially, I think we have broken the code. of good conservative and Christian movies. They've been bad for so long. This, I think, is the straw that breaks the camel's back. This is really high quality. So thank you for that.
Starting point is 01:28:36 Ms. Kay, I have to tell you, I mean, I don't know how Phil could sit through that. that film. It is, there's stuff in this. Yeah, he had a hard time. Yeah, I bet he did. I bet he had a really hard time.
Starting point is 01:28:55 Why would you make this movie? It's about his alcoholism, you know, affairs are alluded to and everything else. I mean, he looks like a really bad guy in this. He's a bad boy in this. Yes.
Starting point is 01:29:11 And, yeah, he said it was just so embarrassing now to look at it. at it, but we did the whole thing to help people. And we already have words of coming back of things that are happening good because they did see the movie. And I know of one marriage that was supposed to be in divorce, and they now have decided to save their marriage because they saw our movie.
Starting point is 01:29:42 Well, I will tell you, I think, because as I was watching it, it is. I think it's easier to, I mean, this is the theory behind A.A. It's easier for somebody who's living the life of a dirtbag like I was at one point. And, you know, the goody, goody two shoes people come up to you all the time and they'll say, you know, it doesn't have to be this hard. And you're like, yeah, really, try it on. But somebody who has really been at the bottom to be able to say, no, it doesn't have to be this way. and everything you believe about yourself and the world, it's not true.
Starting point is 01:30:19 It's a lie. And all you need to do is just surrender all of that stuff. I think this is going to do remarkable good in the world. So how was this formulated? And who wrote it? And was it just a series of interviews? how accurate is it? Well, yeah, at the very beginning, it says, it starts out saying this is a true story
Starting point is 01:30:51 because it's not just based on a true story, it's actually a true story because Bill and Kay are alive and we were able to just have them tell their story. And they told it over and over again throughout their life. And we've seen the impact of them telling their story on people's life from just sitting on the couch around the dinner table and how it has truly transformed people with the story of Jesus. because whenever God came into this family's life, everything changed. And that exactly what you said is really the message is that there's no one that's too far gone.
Starting point is 01:31:21 And I do think people can discount themselves and think, oh, I'm out because my life looks like this. But this is a message that like, no, like God can come into your life and everything can change. If you, like you said, surrender. There is kind of a thing throughout the film of still searching for like freedom in these places. when he realizes and experiences true freedom and he said, I had to come to the end of myself to find the beginning of God, and that's when he finds true freedom. And that's available that everyone, no matter how far you've gone down that road of self-disruption, really.
Starting point is 01:31:55 But yeah, so our partner and our project should be tread lively is Zach Gasser, who's actually a cousin, and his mom was portrayed in the film as Aunt Jan, and she was the one who never gave up on Phil. She believed him in him from the beginning. and we actually show at the end of the film a picture of her and that she said from day one, she said, if you can turn Bill, if Bill turns to Jesus,
Starting point is 01:32:17 he will turn thousands to Jesus. So she just knew it. She believed in him even when he was at his worst. So Zach is our production partner, and that's his mom. So this is as much her story as it is a blank a story. And we just kind of came together to tell great stories and tell stories of hope and faith.
Starting point is 01:32:37 So, So, Ms. Kay. In this world and wanted to tell this the first. Yes. Miss Kay, your first breakup with Phil, describe that. And then what brought you back together? Why would you take him back? Well, first you know that I lived in this life for 10 years is how long he was the bad boy, as I call him.
Starting point is 01:33:02 And, but what I try to tell everybody, it came a lot because I was. I lived as much with my grandmother's I did at home because my parents ran the grocery store and they were working all the time. And my grandmother continually told me lessons, lessons of marriage, fighting for your marriage. She told me ways to live. She told me about that you love God and be humble. She told me about that one day you'll think I'm not going to make it. and yet God can get you through anything. And when she said for your marriage,
Starting point is 01:33:41 I said, well, I'm not going to have to do that. I'm going to pick out a good man, you know, and here we go, and we're going to live happily ever after. And I knew one of the, and it's really funny because I only told Phil this recently that the first time I ever saw him, I thought, you know, that's who I'd like to marry. I never told him that my whole life,
Starting point is 01:34:01 but I told him recently that I did think that. And as it came out, and we actually didn't even, another girl set us up, kind of on a blonde date. And, well, we were walking each other off the football field. And she just said it all up, like she told him that I wanted him to walk me off. I was a cheerleader. He was a football player. And she told him that the little cheerleader, my name, wanted to walk me out of the field, and vice versa, she told me, he wanted him. He wanted him. He wanted him. He wanted him. He wanted to walk me off the field. He wanted me to walk him off the field. We didn't even do that together.
Starting point is 01:34:37 This girl older, upper class decided we belong together. That's funny, isn't it? Our connection is so bad. We're getting some of it a little garbled. When did you realize that Phil had a problem with alcohol? Because you guys were, I didn't know this, you were childhood, you know, friends and sweethearts.
Starting point is 01:35:01 So yes it was in college he had a football scholarship to Louisiana Tech and it was his first year in college And what happened most of the college athletes were not married there was only a small percentage of work And what they would do is take them and put them in the dorm and they would actually live in the dorm for like a month at a time Because they wanted all their concentration to be on football right and what happened and was Phil would run around with the unmarried college football players. And that's what I started to check. You know, as I'm watching this spiral and the way that you handled it with such grace and patience, I mean, that's extraordinary. Was that also just God?
Starting point is 01:36:03 It was God and my grandmother. Thank you. It was. She talked to me so much about patience. She talked to me about things were not going to be good all the time. She really prepared me. And I'm sad that people don't have that. Yes. When, you know, the main theme of this, which I think is so great, is forgiveness. That's the whole message here. And forgiveness comes from God, and we don't usually deserve it. And it comes free from God for us.
Starting point is 01:36:40 But I saw, I want to play a clip. This is Phil on a podcast recently. Now, this is years, decades after all of this stuff happened. And listen to how emotionally he gets. He was an atheist up to the last two or three months of his life, changed his mind. God's head. Cut it, cut it then. I mean, here he's crying about transformation.
Starting point is 01:37:21 Many people have a hard time forgiving themselves, even if God has already forgiven them. But there are tons of people that have been wronged by people. And your story, oh my gosh, wronged over and over and over again. how do you forgive the person who has wronged you? I do it. I feel like that my grandmother taught me how to forgive, and she told me so many lessons about it,
Starting point is 01:37:54 that it just, for me, I just knew. I didn't understand why I seemed to be a person that could forgive so much easier than other people. but the only thing I can tell you is, you know, the Bible tells about older people telling the younger women, you know, in that case. And I know that the lessons she talked about, the things we talked about, I think that really helped me because she told me about hard time she had. And how, and I said, well, how did you just keep living like that? And she said, because I knew that I had to forgive to go on. and there were just so many lessons she taught me and I think they really took
Starting point is 01:38:39 I was not perfect nobody's perfect but I did understand from her so much about forgiveness and so much about making a marriage work and she said when you marry it's for life it's you and him for life and she said you don't think it will be
Starting point is 01:39:00 anything but that and I said what other people talk about and she said I know she called it the D word not the Cuss word but you know and she said you want to talk about that that's not going to be in your vocabulary you just have to say this is a vow of God for life and that's the way you look at it
Starting point is 01:39:24 I was I was 13 I was 11 12 13 14 years old and you tell me all this even younger, but I doubt I remember that. I will tell you that that is the words that my wife gave me when I asked for a pre-nup, and she said, I'm not marrying you. And I said, why? And she said, because I'm not going to plot the end of my marriage.
Starting point is 01:39:47 There is no such thing as divorce. We marry. We're married forever, and we work it out. And that is the secret, really, for me, that has been the secret. Corey, real quick, because the movie is so. well done, and I know that you're the co-owner of Tread Lively Productions. What are you going to do with this production company and what is its future? Yeah, well, it was really after Dick Dynasty, I think the Dynasty kind of opened our eyes to the power of entertainment and the way it's shaping our culture.
Starting point is 01:40:21 It was, you know, we had people come up because we had this little prayer at the end and people come up and saying, like, oh, our family sits on a praise together because of your show or our, our, our, our, are, you know, my husband goes to church because he sees real men who love God or just the impact of that little thing that we did on that show. And also the fun, you know, the joy of the show and the fun of family, like, stay around the entertainment and the people's life. We kind of realized the impact for positive and then also the impact for the other side as well and how entertainment is shaping us and shaping our culture. And we just felt like, you know, we, God put us in the space.
Starting point is 01:40:58 And so we should be a light in this space and the darkness that. maybe the entertainment world and we wanted to do more of that and yeah form tread lively and we have a lot of new projects coming up but ultimately all of our projects the hope is it's just that it's uplifting to culture their hope filled they're positive they're faith friendly and family friendly and i just think we need more of that in the world so we're gonna we're gonna do it well i will tell you i think you have unlocked something here in the blind this is a fantastic true story story. It's not preachy. It's so well done, so well acted. I mean, congratulations. A great, great movie. And I wish you all the success.
Starting point is 01:41:42 I told us before we got on that we were the number one movie last night in the nation. So that's good news. She made me cry. Congratulations. Congratulations. God bless you guys. We'll talk again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So much. Bye-bye. By the way, you can see Unashamed on Blaze TV. Phil is on it. They've been talking about this. The Blind is the name of the movie.
Starting point is 01:42:09 It is so good. I can highly, highly recommend this. The Blind. All right. Let me tell you about the tragedy of 9-11. We all know. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, you may not know. They rose like a phoenix from the ashes.
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Starting point is 01:43:55 the movie you saw, what was it called again, the creator? The creator. Is there like now going to be this AI? Is every movie going to be about AI? Do you remember like in like the mid-90s, every movie was about the internet? Yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah, and I think, uh, I think it's, going to be about AI and soon it'll all be created by AI. We'll be watching movies about AI, done by AI. Well, I wanted to ask you about that because it's interesting. You see the auto worker strike. Yeah. And a lot of people have been saying, well, they know the electric
Starting point is 01:44:29 car thing is coming and this is going to change the way that's all done and they're trying to protect their workers. Their usefulness, essentially. Their jobs. Is it the same thing true with the writers strike in Hollywood? It's different. To me, AI is coming. The electric car is being jammed down everybody's throat. The faster you
Starting point is 01:44:51 change things, the harder it is for people to adapt. And with the government just jamming this down the throat of the auto companies and then offsetting their costs, printing more money, which causes inflation,
Starting point is 01:45:07 and then pushing to have the auto workers make an extraordinary, get an extraordinary raise, that will put the company out of business, which will then, we'll have to print more money to save, and we're printing more money because nobody wants the EVs right now. Right. So that's different than here comes AI, and people are going to change. Quite clearly, people want to use AI. Correct.
Starting point is 01:45:34 They do. Whether there are some negative consequences to that desire or is another story. Right. But Hollywood has slid its own throat over and over and over again. They're slitting their own throat. Look at, I used to go to, you know this. We've worked together for 30 years. Every Friday night or Saturday night.
Starting point is 01:45:53 Every Friday night, my wife and I would go to a movie. Every, every time. I've probably seen six movies this year. I mean, and it's not, it's just because it's not in my, it's just not off the top of my mind anymore. And I'm always like, is there anything you want to see? You feel like you're really reaching a lot of time to find something in the theater if you want to do it. You're reaching.
Starting point is 01:46:17 It is, it's a different world. They're slitting their own throat where the government is slitting the throat of the automobile industry. That's a huge difference. The Glenn Back Program. Let me tell you about Natalia. She's a young woman. She found out she was pregnant in fear and in anger. she decided, I got to get an abortion.
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Starting point is 01:48:44 Glenn, tell me about rap. and oh, the conversations we can have. But I am not somebody who is, I know this is going to come as a shock. I've never liked crap. Somebody walked into my office a week ago. A good friend of mine, he said, you have to hear this song.
Starting point is 01:49:03 And he said, now he knows me. Now, it is rap. And I said, get the hell out of my office. And he said, no, just listen. He put this on it. And I said something. And it's not just the lyrics. I said something I thought I would never say.
Starting point is 01:49:20 And I like this song. What happened to me? I don't know what happened to me. The guy happened to be in the hallway. And he said, yeah, it's this guy over here, Flodzilla. And I'm like, oh, Flod and I are like, one. So he came into my office and I invited him on the show. How are you?
Starting point is 01:49:45 I'm great, man. Thank you for having me. It's great to have you here. What a great song. Thank you. What a great song. Thank you. You, not too long ago, were not singing about this kind of stuff.
Starting point is 01:49:59 Exactly opposite. Yeah, you were like way, way left. Yeah, I was super left. Yeah. Godless? Yes. Yeah. For the most part.
Starting point is 01:50:07 Like, I knew, but like it was like turned against. I was completely against. Even though I could, it was like calls and whispers that I felt like I was not doing what I was supposed to be doing. Yeah. And eventually it ended up pulling me towards. But for a long time, I was fighting it and depressed and like... You were addicted to fentanyl. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:50:28 Yeah. How did you? I remember I got fentanyl, you know, before fentanyl was cool. I got fentanyl in the hospital after an operation. I had it for four days. I went into, I'm an alcoholic. I went into withdraws from the after four days. It's super strong.
Starting point is 01:50:47 Oh, my gosh. It's awful. It's like a hundred times morphine. Yeah. It's like. Just awful. Like the street version is even more. It's not, it's not regulated like what you would get from.
Starting point is 01:50:57 Yeah. It's like super potent or just it's dangerous. So how, how did you survive that and how did you get off it? So I barely survived. I'm not going to lie. I was for years, for like for years I was doing percocets before that. We were doing perk 30s and it was like, like there was a lot of opioids just going. around where I'm from in New Hampshire. And so we got to that point and then every once in a while
Starting point is 01:51:24 in the street there would be no way to get them because it comes from a lot like a doctor. So then you have to turn to things like fentanyl. Huh? No, go ahead. Yeah. So then you got to turn to things like fentanyl. And it was like from that day, my life just was horrible, terrible life. And eventually after four years of that being homeless and having no like having to find money and do all these. schemes and lie to people to get all this money. I end up overdosing. And, like, that day I was, I chose, I made the decision I could either continue, continued on this path, which would be rough.
Starting point is 01:52:03 Like, yes, no matter what I'm going to end up dying is what's going to happen. Or I can go through, like, the, the phoenix from the ashes, you know? And I just, that's when God, like, I really, really just gave my life to God and was, I knew I didn't have control over things and all I could do was just try and just have faith. And so you were, I'm trying to understand because you came into my office and you were like, oh man, I can't believe
Starting point is 01:52:28 I'm standing here with you. And I'm like, you know who I am? I mean, you know, again, I know I'm big in the rap. Yeah, that's how I heard here. Everyone knows you. Yeah, everybody knows me. But how did you go from that and a leftist to hear.
Starting point is 01:52:48 By the way, this may be the death of your career. Yeah, yeah. I hope not. I think it's going to be the opposite. Everyone I've spoken to is like, they're psyched. Yeah, they're going crazy that I'm on here right now. So my mother was super not political, but just automatically default liberal leftist, because that's what it is in black households.
Starting point is 01:53:10 Yeah. So my whole life growing up, I kind of was like virtue signal. like a lot of people and like, yeah, yeah, swore I cared about all these different things that actually weren't really affect me. I'm from New Hampshire.
Starting point is 01:53:23 It's like 95% white. There's like no real struggle. Cops aren't doing anything to me. It's like, I was like going through poverty, but it wasn't like, I had to watch my back outside or nothing. So my whole life,
Starting point is 01:53:34 entitlement, all that just made me believe that I was just like going through all these terrible things that I wasn't going through. And so I got on drugs and all this and I met my girlfriend. And she,
Starting point is 01:53:45 her family, is on the right side. So that was the first time I ever saw you was I went into the house, into their house and you're on TV. And I was like, this guy is like, like, because you're so like animated and performing. I'm like, this dude is like, it was like entertaining just to see. And it was total opposite of anything I believe. But I didn't really believe the things that I thought I believed.
Starting point is 01:54:05 Right. So just listening, just actually having the conversations, things like that. If it wasn't for my girlfriend and her family, I would have never came out of it. because they were like, when Trump got in office and all this, I was like legitimately scared. I was like, yo, the world's about to end. Everything's about to be terrible. Right.
Starting point is 01:54:21 And then my life just like, it got worse. But then once I started really seeing what it was, it just got better and better and better. And then I was like, first time I ever voted, I was like, I got to vote for Trump because. Amazing. I've never felt like anything. I've never felt anything like this where I feel,
Starting point is 01:54:35 I feel like I have hope for the future. So what is your, tell me about your process with your lyrics. Yeah. And what are you trying to do now? So I'm not even a rapper. I'm a rapper. I rap first. But then I like retired because when I got on drugs, I just wasn't, I didn't care about
Starting point is 01:54:50 music anymore. So for years, I stopped doing music. And then I started doing YouTube videos where I just talked about music because that's all I know. And I would just critique music and be like, this is where I think they were coming from when they wrote this and why they said this the way they said this. And it grew really quick. It grew like, I got like 117K subscribers in like 10 months.
Starting point is 01:55:11 And I was like, it's crazy to me. So I eventually, just as I was doing this, I just like was in such a good place in my life. And I should just try to start recording again. And I recorded a couple of the songs and Grateful happened because I reacted to an M&M song. And I was taught because it was called Rap God. And he was talking about all these God references. And I was like, he's just referencing a bunch of pagan gods basically is what I said. And someone's like, you think your God's not the pagan God?
Starting point is 01:55:38 And I'm like, by definition, he's not. But he's actually not by definition. Right. And that comment made me, like, it was just stuck in my head. And I usually make music on Mondays, and I just played a beat. And that was the first beat I played. And I was like, I came up with the first bar. I don't write.
Starting point is 01:55:55 So I was sitting in front of the mic, like, trying to just come up with the rhyme. And I was like, think, and I get down on my knees and think God forgiven me the day. Promise it won't be a wait. No. Waste, no. And then, like, from there, I was like, people don't want to hear me rap about God. right so I'm gonna I can make the reference and I can like kind of go into my life and I just got writer block immediately you know I was like but I could think of another bar about God and I was like I'm just gonna lean into it fully and it was a quickest song I ever made best song I ever made I truly believe that it's it's amazing it's amazing it's amazing it's amazing it's amazing how the spirit moves you yeah and then you start to go well wait I can calculate how it just falls apart on you yeah if you try to if you try to if you think you know better than God it doesn't It doesn't work.
Starting point is 01:56:40 Yeah, yeah. I think it was like, it was a thing that was meant to happen because I also didn't promote this song. Like, the people that I know, Garrett from Normal World, he really liked that song and shared it amongst a bunch of people. And then from there, people just, like, started sharing it and it went crazy. And I had never even promoted the song. It's fantastic.
Starting point is 01:56:59 I was listening to it again on Spotify this morning. Thank you. I just think it is really good. That's like big words. If you don't like rapping, that's like, that's crazy. This, I mean, I don't know. I mean, it's still musical. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:57:19 I don't know. And I don't like the lyrics of most rap songs. Me either. I'm sorry. I am definitely killing your career. Only listen to this song. I like it, you young kids nowadays. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 01:57:35 Can you just tell me the Flodzilla thing? What is that? So it goes back to, my name was Marcus Black. Before that, because my name is Marcus and I'm black. So I eventually, right? Isn't it? It was creative. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:57:51 So I eventually was like, I need to change my name for content because people are only going to know me for music, even though no one knew me. So just looking at my life and everything I had been through, I was like, I'm ready to basically accept, exactly what I said, accept all the things I'm ashamed of in that song. and like where it as I can't change it. So it's basically it's me. So I have to either use my future where I end up in the future as like a proof that you can come from a flawed beginning to like ultimately because you don't know anyone. Like if someone gets really famous and you're like, oh, I love this person.
Starting point is 01:58:27 You have no idea what their life is. Yeah. But you could idolize this person and be like they could be the worst person in the world. but I think that you can turn you can turn things around and actually influence people because everybody has things that they're that are flaws that they can't change that they're ashamed of that they're insecure about and I have to tell you the the whole thing about redemption is the most incredible thing is the thing that you are most ashamed of that you are you have fought to hide for so long because it's just so bad
Starting point is 01:59:02 you think, you think, um, becomes like a weapon for good. Yeah. It's all of a sudden you're like, wait, I,
Starting point is 01:59:11 this is doing what? Yeah. It separates you from like the Sims, like the bots where people are all trying to be the same thing because it's what works and what everyone likes. Right. The thing that really is going to set you apart is a thing that you don't want to show people.
Starting point is 01:59:24 I know. It's crazy. It's really crazy. Well, it's good to have you on the program. Yeah. Thank you, man. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:59:29 I appreciate it. Uh, flawed TV. is what you do. What is the YouTube channel? What did it? Go ahead. YouTube.com slash flawed TV and rumble.com slash flawed TV and Twitter.
Starting point is 01:59:48 Why were you even here? How did you end up on here? Yeah. How did you end up in this building? So Garrett, again, Code of Black Garrett, he is a part of like another show that I'm on with Adam Kruegler called Bay Staff Monday. And through that, me and Garrett linked up because we both live in Texas.
Starting point is 02:00:09 So he wanted to be just randomly. He was like, after I made grateful, he was like, come on a road trip to Vegas. I had never really even spent any time with him. We drove for 19 hours in a car to Vegas and had conversations and bonded. And he was like, you want to be the first person on normal world? The first guest on normal world and perform?
Starting point is 02:00:24 And I was like, I'd never done anything like that. Absolutely. And from there, like, that's how I ended up here. And it was that last? that was last? No, no, that was the, that was like, for the opening. Yeah, that was for the first episode. But now he's just had me back over here. Yeah. Well, it's great to have you. Yeah. I love being here, man. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Let me tell you about Car Shield. Your car exists in one of two states.
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Starting point is 02:01:59 200-227-6100. Use a promo code, Beck, and save 20%. This is the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. My friends, it's Friday. Let me just play a Democratic representative from the great state of Texas and what she was saying about Joe Biden
Starting point is 02:02:40 and what he's actually guilty of. Because he's got 91 counts pending right now. But I will tell you what the president has been guilty of. He has unfortunately been guilty of loving his child unconditionally. And that is the only evidence that they have brought forward. And honestly, I hope and pray that my parents love me half as much as he loves his child. Until they find some evidence, we need to get back to the people's work, which means keeping this government open so that people don't go hungry in the streets of the United States.
Starting point is 02:03:10 I will yield. Okay. She's passionate about it. Here's where she's wrong. Loving your child unconditionally does not mean that you turn a blind eye to what they're doing. I love my children unconditionally. And when I explained that to them when they got old enough, what I said to them is, if you break the law, I will be the first to turn you in. But I will do that because I do love you.
Starting point is 02:03:39 so you can learn. And nothing will ever change the way I feel about you and how much I love you. If you're in prison, I will come to prison to visit you because I love you. That's unconditional love. When you cannot remain indifferent on what your children do, that's not love. That's the opposite of love. Hate is not the opposite of love. Indifference is the opposite of love.
Starting point is 02:04:13 What about using your position in life to continually bail your child out of any consequences they might face for their actions? Well, do you get good? Do you get cut of things? Or can you spread it around the whole family? I mean, looking at least take 10% for the big guy. Let's be honest about that. Then that's fine.
Starting point is 02:04:30 That's still unconditional love. And you should make them pay you about 50% of their salary. Yes. But other than that, that's unconditional, right? Yeah. It's fascinating. You know, listening to reports, again, they're still on this kick where there's no evidence whatsoever. And they are highlighting this one quote from Jonathan Turley, who testified yesterday.
Starting point is 02:04:45 It's so wrong. Right. Where he said, you know, I don't think we've hit the standard of an impeachment yet. In the context, what he was saying was, we have reached the standard of an impeachment inquiry, which is what they have. Yeah. He said, I don't believe the evidence currently meets a standard of high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment. but to emphasize what this hearing is not, we are now searching for the truth.
Starting point is 02:05:16 Searching for. And he said they did hit the standard of the inquiry, which is what they're doing. Correct. But there is enough evidence to launch an impeachment inquiry. The press just lies to you over and over. The Glenn Back Program.

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