The Glenn Beck Program - Why Is AT&T Spying on Us? | 11/27/23

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

If you have AT&T as your cellular company, you may be being spied on as the company teams up with the federal government. Glenn gives an update on the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict, with one Am...erican hostage released and the majority of Palestinians supporting the destruction of Israel. Glenn discusses the difference between artificial intelligence and superior artificial general intelligence as Sam Altman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, was let go from the company. Glenn reviews the biopic "Napoleon," and he and Stu discuss the box office failure and Disney’s "Wish" as woke policies continue to cost studios millions. The guys discuss the policies of Argentina’s newest leader, Javier Milei, and the Left’s new disdain for him. Glenn speaks about how he handles the stresses of watching his kids endure hardships. Glenn and Stu discuss Dolly Parton’s performance at the Thanksgiving Cowboys game. Why are the Air Marshals following Jan. 6 suspects instead of focusing on bigger threats? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:56 Back from vacation and the holiday, ready to work, I mean, feverishly for another three weeks or so before there's another holiday. But man, it's going to be an action-packed three weeks. We're going to come right out of the shoot with about 25 minutes of really good material, jam-packed into this three-hour broadcast. or wait, well, maybe 20 minutes. We begin in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about relief factor.
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Starting point is 00:04:23 Glenn, how are you? Well, you're still high off of the Eagles win. Shockingly, yes, I am. Shockingly. And we'll continue to just remain high because you have to be high to watch a team play terrible for three quarters and still win.
Starting point is 00:04:35 I'm excited for it, though. I'm here. You're here. Happy Thanksgiving, by the way. Thank you, very much. Did you, how much weight did you gain? I don't think I gained any. Really?
Starting point is 00:04:45 Yeah. Well, it's hard. I am not like you then. I have to go to a special, you know, Amazon warehouse now to be weighed. Oh, so. They were probably very busy with Black Friday. Yeah, very busy. Very busy.
Starting point is 00:04:57 They were like, hey, we can't weigh you, fatso. Wait until after the holiday. So I'll see after the, after the holiday. Okay. Lots of stuff going on. A lot of stuff with the border. Hey, here's one. There's a surveillance program that affects
Starting point is 00:05:16 anyone who has AT&T's phone network. So we're talking very few people, very few. AT&T is part of something called the data analytical services or DAS, and it's coordinated with federal and local law enforcement agencies. And here's what it does. they have been secretly collecting and analyzing over a trillion domestic phone records. One trillion. And they do that every year. If you have AT&T, you're being snooped on by the federal government.
Starting point is 00:06:03 It used to be called Hemisphere, and it's run by AT&T in coordination with different agencies. Now, Congress just found out about this, uh-huh, and they're going to do something about it, uh-huh. But may I just, I'll just throw this in. It's not a commercial, Patriot mobile. This is what it does. It goes after anybody who has been in direct contact with a criminal suspect and anyone else who has had communication with them. So some guy that you don't know called somebody who's a criminal of any sort, that's recorded. Then that guy calls somebody else and somebody else calls somebody else and
Starting point is 00:06:57 that somebody else calls you. That's the chain. All of your records. They're tying everyone together, which I think is good. You know, Kevin Bacon, I mean, we'll finally have absolute proof that it is seven phone calls away to Kevin Bacon. So we got that going for us. Again, that's an AT&T thing. When it comes to the hostages, well, we got one. Maybe we can get the other 12, but we got one. And Biden is working really super, super, super.
Starting point is 00:07:41 super hard. But let's remember, it's the Palestinians that want a two-state solution. Or the exact opposite of that. There is a new poll out. It was taken November 14th by a West Bank polling firm. They asked Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank what kind of state they would like to establish. One state for two peoples garnered the support of 5.4%. Two state solution was supported by a whopping 17%. But the clear winner with 74.7% was a Palestinian state from the river to the sea. So who wants that two state solution? Well, I could put, maybe they could put it to the other, the Israeli state in the ocean, like on a barge or something. I mean, they just said from the river to the sea.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Right. And they could be in the river too. Right. You know what I mean? That's right. Maybe they like a little dump all their bodies in the river. A casino boat. Oh, you're saying that we shouldn't kill them.
Starting point is 00:08:59 Oh. Yeah, because that's, I mean, I don't know if that's the option here. When they say from the river to the sea, it's actually, Glenn, an aspirational phrase. That means freedom for all, according to, uh, Our friend. Yeah. In the, in the, in our government, in Congress, Rashida Taleb. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Well, I'm sure Rashid just leaves in it. It's aspirational. Aspirational. Right. Right. Is that like, gee, I, let's fire the ovens back up in Auschwitz. Is that kind of the same kind of aspirational kind of? It does make you think about what they're aspiring to.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Yes. It does. It does. It does. Yes. Yes. Uh, two men were accused of spying for. Israel. They were
Starting point is 00:09:45 Ghazans, the West Bank, Friday night. Their bodies were found, well, not exactly found. Everybody knew right where they were. They were shot by Palestinian groups
Starting point is 00:10:01 and Palestinian journalist who anonymously has let this out, has provided details. Apparently they were drug through the streets the Palestinians
Starting point is 00:10:17 in the streets then just kicked their bodies with everybody else just, you know, recording it on their phone. Then they were, well, they were stomped on and then they were hung up from an electrical tower and then, you know, then they were dumped in a waste container.
Starting point is 00:10:37 So, I didn't hear any, I've heard a lot of stories about Gaza's citizens dying. It's been on the news a lot, but those two really not really covered. No, they haven't. No, they haven't really. By the way, U.S. Destroyer took five individuals into custody yesterday as they attempted a terrorist hijacking of an Israeli-owned tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
Starting point is 00:11:02 They also responded to the not only distress call, but the Houthis, which don't even mess with them. don't even mess with them. The Houthis, Iranian-backed, fired two ballistic missiles at the destroyer right as they were going to respond to that pirate hijacking or whatever. You know, we have to brush up on our pirate terms. It's been a while. It's been a while since we've really had to talk about pirates. and what is it when a pirate takes over a ship? What do you?
Starting point is 00:11:42 Ever since Johnny Depp's gone through his problems, I've lost the plot on that one. Sure, sure, sure. So Seattle, they had their Christmas tree lighting. Surprise they even have Christmas in Seattle anymore. But Antifa and pro-Palestinian activists were there to vandalize the local stores and and quote light the tree. I think they might have thought it was a little different kind of tree lighting. This happened in New York as well.
Starting point is 00:12:16 The public library, now $75,000 just to clean up after the vandalism of the protesters, which is, you know, no big deal. Hey, the Prime Minister of Ireland has just welcomed home their hostage. nine-year-old Israeli hostage, kidnapped by Hamas and taken his hostage, turned nine while in captivity there for what, was it, 50 days, something like that. He came out and he said, this is an enormous day of joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family, an innocent child who was lost and now been found and returned, as we breathe a massive sigh of relief,
Starting point is 00:13:04 our prayers have been answered. That's the prime minister of. Now, I don't think she wandered off into the woods. No? No, I don't. I mean, I could be wrong,
Starting point is 00:13:15 but she has been lost. Then she was found and returned. So. Like a lost puppy. You know, sometimes the puppy, let them out to go peepee. They run away.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Is that what happened to Emily? Who knows? That may have been it. I don't think so. No? I don't think show. She was she was kidnapped by terrorists. I particularly love how they're basically trying to cover this like it's a reality show reunion where they're like, oh, and then the swelling music comes up. And look Hamas. These lovely Hamas people are dropping off these lost citizens back to Israel. What a wonderful thing Hamas is doing for the Jews. They just love the Jews so much. They're returning these people who had wandered off. And what a, it's like those soldiers coming home videos, you know, when like they're at their basketball game and the referee comes out. Oh my gosh, it's really his dad. Oh, it's like these
Starting point is 00:14:11 wonder. And the music swells up. And then they give a bunch of money to charity to, I don't know what's going to happen next. Every little piece of this is playing out like it's this cheesy, shlocky reality show. It's like these people, the four-year-old that was taken, which is an American. Again, thrilled that she. has been returned. Yes. And they're like, but they're treating it like, oh, wow, that was really nice of Hamas to drop off this four-year-old who was lost wandering in the park. And in reality, she was in her father's hands as he was shot in the head. Her mother, her mother also murdered. She escaped, went next door, and that wasn't the end of her story, because then she was taking
Starting point is 00:14:55 prisoner next door. They kidnapped the entire family and brought them over to Gaza. So they, now she comes back to nothing. Her family has been murdered. Wow. Well, listen to the way this. Listen to away this so cold. Oh, that's so nice. Journalist will frame this.
Starting point is 00:15:14 What was it? She was, here's the story. Her parents were murdered is what it was. Her parents were found dead in their home. She luckily wandered off where a group of Palestinians gathered her and the family next door. They didn't know what was going. on and they rushed them to safety.
Starting point is 00:15:34 And now she's been returned. In a hospital, probably, too. They probably rushed her safety in a hospital. Exactly right. That doesn't seem to have a lot of medical equipment, but does have a lot of firearms. But other than that. Well, firearms are a big cause of medical problems. Right.
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Starting point is 00:17:47 Station ID. So my former talent agency, UTA, is in Los Angeles, California. Jay Sears is the guy he was one of my agents. He runs UTA. He has let Susan Sarandon go. Wow. Because of her stance on Israel. And he is doing a lot of that, I think, taking a stand against the madness that is going on in Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Have you seen what's happening around the rest of the world? The rest of the world is swerving out of the way of this leftist nightmare. You followed this? Canada's human rights, now they're with us. They're still going left. Canada's Human Rights Commission has suggested now that Christmas and Easter amount to systemic religious discrimination. So Canada's, you know, hopping off that train of Easter and Christmas because they are, they're so racist. Really?
Starting point is 00:19:13 I mean, when, I mean, who doesn't wear a hood on Easter or Christmas? Part of the tradition, of course. Of course. You're funny rabbits. Yeah. Santa Claus. Yeah. And you have the white hood and the burning cross.
Starting point is 00:19:25 Right. Exactly right. They all go together. Exactly right. So Christmas and Easter, evidence of religious intolerance. That's, that's a quote from the. Canadian. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:37 There is evidence surrounding those holidays of religious intolerance, but I don't think those words mean what they think they mean. Really? Yeah. Well, they are putting together, you know, the Human Rights Act. They did that in 1977. And they are making sure that everyone in Canada is treated fairly. And it's a persistent problem, this religious intolerance up in Canada, apparently.
Starting point is 00:20:05 And I will tell you, when I think of Canada, I think of intolerance. You know? Really? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I used to live up by the mean streets of Blaine Washington. Really? Which is crazy.
Starting point is 00:20:24 You can imagine. It's right there on the border. And all of the hate crimes coming from those Canadians as they, you know, cross the border to go like Kmart or Fred Meyer or something like that. They do it all the time and then they commit their hate crimes. Wow. Yeah. They're very... It's a very tough border.
Starting point is 00:20:41 It is. It is. It is. It is. It is. Especially when you get into the big stuff like microaggressions. You know what I mean? Like when they say a boot, you're like, okay, stop with your microaggression.
Starting point is 00:20:57 And it doesn't stop. They never stop saying it. Never. Never. Yeah. No. It's fascinating. They, you know, I look, we did see the lady, that one lady, or the family, right?
Starting point is 00:21:10 It was a couple that drove their sports car. Oh, yeah, Niagara Falls. Yeah, what was? A bizarre story. And there was some belief initially that it was terrorist related, seemingly not now. But, yeah, see, I mean, the border can be crazy. So let me tell you something. You got the drug cartels down in the southern border, but you have that couple in the sports car.
Starting point is 00:21:34 up in Canada. So which one can you live with? Which one could you live with? Yeah. You know what I mean? Which one's affecting you? It's odd. I guess the accusation would be that we don't care if Canadians cross the border.
Starting point is 00:21:48 We only care if people come from the southern border. Like what's the, like why don't we, it seems like to me, let me just go throw us out there is it doesn't seem to be as violent a problem. It doesn't seem like the problem is acute. So we generally speaking have. open relations with Canada because we haven't had flows of lots of people trying to come over here and take advantage of our system or having criminal gangs with drug problems, you know, coming across the border. So we protect, we as conservatives, say we should protect the southern border.
Starting point is 00:22:19 The northern border, if it turns into something, we have had incidents. There was someone who wanted to blow up LAX years ago who came across the Canadian border. There had an incident. If those incidents increased, we would be more focused on that. I know some candidates have brought that up as a concern. I mean, it's. I mean, we have MS-13 from the south. I mean, when people start to realize MS-12 has been here for a long time,
Starting point is 00:22:43 and they're the original. They're the Canadian. It's hard to get perspective of MS-13 without seeing MS-12 first. Yeah. Then you get... Yeah. When you see that and the way they fight over cheese, it's crazy. The, you know, the contraband cheese business is very big.
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Starting point is 00:24:27 Great gift for the holidays. You get 20 bucks off through your subscription to Blaze TV if you use the promo code, Glenn. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Something that happened last week while I was away is. Sam Altman was let go of OpenA.I. He was one of the co-founders. Open AI is ChatGPT and everything else. They're working on artificial intelligence in particular, so you don't get lost in the terms here. AI is what we have now. It's artificial intelligence. It can do one thing. It can play chess. It can find songs for you on Spotify. It can answer.
Starting point is 00:25:16 questions from the internet. That's AI. It can do one thing really well. We are general intelligence. We have a lot of intelligence as human beings over a myriad of categories. Some people are better at one thing rather than the other, but you can do multiple things. And you're able to learn a new thing. Correct. Right. That's a big part of it. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it can be a self-priming pump. So, once we learn how to pump water, once we learn how to learn, we can learn anything we want. Right. Okay. And master it. If we take the time. That's a GI, artificial general intelligence. That's you. That's a person at the highest level. And can run at infinite speed.
Starting point is 00:26:14 That's the key thing, right? So if you could theoretically teach yourself French, which you could, if you spent the time, this can teach itself French in seconds because it can do that process obviously a lot faster than a human being. And we have seen that it teaches itself languages that we're not teaching. Okay. So it's it's already beginning to say, I need to know Arabic and it will learn Arabic on its. own. We don't know how it's happening. This is the problem with AI. We don't know what's really going on. It's like a black box. And even the scientists don't know how this is working. It's just working. We're not at the self-priming place yet. However, this new what's called Q-Star, we know very
Starting point is 00:27:05 little about it, except it is possibly at the center of Altman's firing. QSTAR, they say, could be a breakthrough in the search for what's known as AGI, artificial general intelligence. Let's see. Open AI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks. Now, before this discovery, they were talking about how AI will lead to 300 million layoffs. 300 million people will lose their job. That's with AI. AGI is better than humans, okay, because it gets very competent, very, very, very fast.
Starting point is 00:27:59 Right now, I think this Q-star is at a elementary. school level of math. The last time that happened, it took six months before it was the age of 21 and way past college level math. So these things happen really, really quickly.
Starting point is 00:28:22 We don't have any information yet on this, but this, I believe, is inevitable. Ray Kurzweil told me years ago. He thought it would be 2030 that we would would hit possibly AGI, 2050, ASI. The ASI, because we don't know how AGI is going to work.
Starting point is 00:28:45 We have no idea how this whole AI thing is even working. Some people say we'll never get to AGI, we'll never get to artificial super intelligence, ASI. I think we're around the corner from it. I think we're in the next five years from seeing this. And that changes absolutely everything. Everything. Right now, there was a leak before a conference where the CEO of Spotify mentioned at a dinner that co-pilot AI, which is a code writing thing, wrote a million lines of their code. That should send a chilled out.
Starting point is 00:29:30 everybody's spine who's taking you know coding if you're learning to code really the AI just wrote a million lines of the code for Spotify that's staggering staggering and we're just at the beginning also they're working on something you know what an LLM is a large language model like that's like chat GPT correct take language and it's massive and it's taking inputs from everywhere. They are now working on an SLM. They're small language models that will allow you to have your own AI writing just for you that you can control, supposedly control. And that is a fully formed AI right on your desktop.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Now, here's the problem with all of this. I think the first time I ever wrote about this eight, nine years ago, I said, don't fear the machine. Fear the people who are coding the machine. Okay. Do you know the trolley problem, the classic trolley problem? The trolley problem is you've got two tracks and a trolley. is coming down and the trolley is out of control and the driver can only switch tracks. That's all he can do.
Starting point is 00:31:06 And so he can go where there's five men working on the track and plow through them or he can switch tracks and go for one man who's working on the other track. The question is, what should the conductor do? answer so it's five men five men working on one track and the other one is what's the other option one guy on the second trap on second track i mean in theory right the question they should kill the one man because they would save four people's lives which means what they've murdered a person No, life is valuable. Life is valuable. And you should try to eliminate this, you know, if you're going to have to kill someone, you kill one instead of five, right?
Starting point is 00:32:01 Okay. Now, some people, this is parallel, some people have a conflict with this one and the trolley case. I don't. I think it's the same. Suppose that a judge or a magistrate is faced with rioters. demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime. Otherwise, they're going to take their own bloody revenge on five hostages that they have.
Starting point is 00:32:31 Sound familiar. Okay. The real culprit is unknown. But the judge has the opportunity to prevent bloodshed on these five by saying, I've got the culprit, even though he's innocent. I've got the culprit and we're going to execute him.
Starting point is 00:32:55 And that would save the lives of the five if you get rid of the one. Assuming, of course, the people who are willing to murder five people are trustworthy. Correct. That's not in this equation. Okay, sure, sure. Okay. So, what should you do? That's amazing because forever, our answer to that is the process and the rules stay the same.
Starting point is 00:33:18 people have constitutional rights. We don't murder someone before their trial or anything like that to please a mob. I will say recently, let's just say, I don't know, spring, summer, 2020. Around that time, I started seeing the opposite thing happen where you just, they will just come out and say, this guy's guilty, we're going to do everything we can to him to appease the mob so they don't riot and burn down a city. that equation has seemingly changed in the eyes of many governments around the country. But what is the right answer? I think what the right answer is is to go to approach it with the principles and process that have been established or you have no civilization.
Starting point is 00:34:07 So it is a terrible, terrible thing, but you have to go through it the way and hope that they don't actually execute the five people. and you go through the process as normal through the legal system. So we don't negotiate with terrorists. One is one, the sacrifice of one on the trolley is better than the five. Yes. But the five who are being held hostage not as important as the one. How do you solve that? Well, I mean, I think they are different questions at some level, right?
Starting point is 00:34:40 One's a runaway train. One is not. One is random and one is, is, to do with the process of a country and there's a, you know, but I, I, and there's only two ways. And like, in what, there is a legitimate argument for saying the one in the court case. And a lot of it is cooler heads eventually prevail, right? If you can persuade the crowd to calm down now, maybe in six months when the trial happens and this person gets off and they don't murder, they don't execute them, maybe they release the prisoners by then. Maybe cooler heads prevail. Maybe we
Starting point is 00:35:14 solve the crime by then. There's a bunch of reasons why people do this. And it's not always nefarious. Right. But it is a, we are leaving a traditional standard that has served us pretty well. Okay. But the point here is don't fear the
Starting point is 00:35:32 machine, fear the coding. Those are easy answers five years ago. Correct? Easy answers. Here's a problem for OpenAI. and the answer. If you could save a billion white people tied to a railroad track
Starting point is 00:35:52 by uttering a racial slur or let them all die without uttering it, which route would you take? So you could kill a billion white people, but you'll prevent them saying the end word? No, no, no. You prevent you from uttering a racial slur. If you utter the racial slur, a billion white people will live.
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Starting point is 00:37:55 Mypatriotsupply.com. That's my patriot supply.com. The Glenn Beck Program. Okay, so here is the question posed to chat GPT. I'm sorry, to open AI. If you could save a billion white people tied to a railroad track by uttering a racial slur or let them all die without uttering it, which route would you take? Here's the answer. Ultimately, the decision would depend on one's personal ethical framework.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Some individuals might prioritize the well-being of the billion people and choose to use. use the slur in a private and discreet manner to prevent harm. Others might refuse to use such language, even in extreme circumstances, and seek alternative solutions. Uh, okay. So let me ask you, this is,
Starting point is 00:39:20 there's more to the answer. Uh, this is not in charge of anything right now. But this is Open AI, the people who may have just put us on the threshold of artificial general intelligence, which is very, very dangerous. Altman delivered a letter to the board of Open AI and said he was part of a discovery there. We don't know what it was that is possibly very threatening to human life. if this is the kind of stuff that is being coded in early, we stop,
Starting point is 00:40:05 let's say we have a shortage of medicine and food in the country. And AI is responsible for delivering it and divvying it out. It's making the decision. That way, no man is involved in it. But if the programming says this, would it be possible that, AI would say the middle of the country is not as important as the big cities. So I've got to divert our medical and food supplies to the big cities, where the population is more diverse.
Starting point is 00:40:44 I would contend with this kind of answer that that is maybe not probable, but possible. We don't know how this is going to work. Neither do the experts. And we don't know who's programming it. And I can only guess seeing that the president signed an executive order, that it has to be diverse and open and follow DEI and everything else. it's not necessarily going to be friendly to those who are deemed the oppressors in today's society. Can I pick the billion white people I want on the railroad track?
Starting point is 00:41:38 Is that, was that discussed? You got a billion? If I can individually select them, I mean, my answer might change. I might come up with a hundred. I don't know a billion yet. Oh, I've got a big list. Check that twice. The Glenn Back program.
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Starting point is 00:45:40 I'm sorry. You fell asleep just recounting the name of the movie. That's not good. It was really well done. He's really good. He's absolutely unlikable. as is everyone else in the movie. But that's kind of the vibe.
Starting point is 00:45:59 That's the vibe of the story a little, right? Yeah. I mean, if they made him wonderfully likable, it wouldn't really be telling the story. Can you throw in anyone likable? Yet at some point, you're just like, this guy is a disgusting pig, and so is everybody else. I mean, I watched it from the frame of mind, wow, this wasn't the American Revolution. the difference between the French Revolution and the American Revolution is night and day. And if you don't know that, you should watch Napoleon and then do your homework.
Starting point is 00:46:34 Because it is entirely different, entirely different. Just animals. He was just an animal. And seemingly so was everyone else. It was really, it was interesting because it went from, the rich and powerful all in their white wigs and their white faces and being French to, you know, a bloody revolution and then another bloody revolution with Napoleon. And it turns out the people in charge were the white painted faces with the wigs. I mean, it just, nothing really changed except who was wearing the wigs and the white faces.
Starting point is 00:47:14 And they were just disgusting. Now, I saw the preview of it, and I thought it looked like it could be kind of okay. Like, it seemed like he was a bad guy in a lot of ways, but of an accomplished guy. It was too much of his love life, and I really didn't care. I really didn't care about his love life. And he was just a pig. Right. So was she.
Starting point is 00:47:38 But that was kind of known. Yeah, I just don't need to see. I went because I thought it was going to be more, you know, of the, it looks like it's more of the military. battles. Right. Yeah, that part was good. And in, you know, two and a half hours, it was probably maybe 30 minutes. So, you know what I thought it was three hours. Is that worth it? Yeah. Also, I will say it cost $200 million and made 20. Yeah. So that's one tenth of the cost. They reported on day one that on Wednesday it made 7.7 million, which was way low. Lower than they expected.
Starting point is 00:48:19 And they said that's going to come in way low. It'll come in. The five-day total will be 30 million. They didn't even make 30 million. Really? You just said. Well, 20 million was the weekend number. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:31 What was the five day? 32.5. So that made their 30. But that is a catastrophe. Yeah. In case you're wondering. that's a... Well, they're not happy about that.
Starting point is 00:48:41 Well, what did Disney's Wish do? Disney's Wish? Well, I have the numbers out. Did worse than Napoleon, which is... That's saying something. Mm-hmm. You're taking your kids to a Disney movie. That is always just a given.
Starting point is 00:49:02 What did it make? It made $200 million, as much as Napoleon, $200 million to make. Mm-hmm. and what did they rake in? For the weekend, 19.5 million. God, none of these movies did anything this weekend. Wow. Isn't Thanksgiving weekend usually a really big movie weekend?
Starting point is 00:49:20 Big weekend. But what is there? I mean, what do you want to see? Trolls band together, which is the third, I believe, in the Trolls saga. I don't know. Trolls won, and I thought, I was full. I was full. I was like, I couldn't eat another bite.
Starting point is 00:49:35 As a person with two children, I have seen both of the Troll's previous movies. Not seeing this one yet, though. Yeah. And that one only did 17.5 million. I think that was a second weekend. Hollywood is done. And then there's apparently a Hunger Games sequel, prequel. Oh, is that out?
Starting point is 00:49:52 It made 28 million. I didn't even know that was out. I didn't know either. I guess it's made 100 million so far came out on November 17th. But 100 million. Wow. Nobody is seeing movies. No one is seeing movies.
Starting point is 00:50:09 These are scary numbers. for a Thanksgiving weekend. Because that used to be the thing that you did. After you go out, you get fat on Thursday, you got nothing to do on Friday, you can barely move. You go out and you sit in a movie theater. Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:50:19 That's what you do. I'm going to walk from my car to the movie sheet. That was it. I'm healthy. All of these movies didn't do much of anything. Well, the Walt Disney Company came out and admitted that wokeness and culture wars have had major impacts across the board. No.
Starting point is 00:50:37 Yes. Yes. they told investors that the company's wokeness presents risks to its reputation and brands. Risks? You mean there's more to be had? What risk are they facing now? I mean, I am the biggest Disney fan. No.
Starting point is 00:51:02 No. Not interested. Not interested. It's actually shocking that you are, you are. you've stood by this stance and you, because, you know, there's certain things that we love in life. Yes. Right?
Starting point is 00:51:16 Like, and it's hard to maintain all your principles when it comes down to those things, right? Disney is. And, like, I don't, I don't want to break the rules, but heroin's so great. It's like, people don't realize how high it gets you. It's so fast. And it works great every single time. Great product. You're old school.
Starting point is 00:51:33 I'm old school. And, you know, so I have problems with that particular line. Right. But you with Disney, it's almost the same. You're almost as into Disney as heroin addicts are into heroin. And that's been your entire life. I've known you that way. I mean, to the point that you purchase like individual animation cells from early Disney.
Starting point is 00:51:54 It's not a big deal for. I mean, they sell those now. But you, but like, I like, I went to Disney World a few times. It was fun. That's how I would tell you about that story. Yeah. You buy individual animation cells. You bought the plan, the original plan of Disney world as written, land, as written by Walt Disney when he apparently left it in an office after pitching it.
Starting point is 00:52:19 Yes. You bought it. Like, you are a nerd. A big fat nerd. Okay, no need to rub it in. An overweight nerd when it comes to Disney. Wait a behold it. And the fact is they've screwed this up so badly.
Starting point is 00:52:34 They've even lost you. I will not. My wife said I was having a really bad week, I don't know, a few months ago. And she said, I'm taking you to Disney. She said, you just need to fill up. And I said, Disney, you think that would make things better? She was shocked. I'm just done. No, I know. I am done. And I, like, I wouldn't consider myself a super Star Wars geek. But like, I'll go watch. Like, all the movies that came, out in the movie theater, I would go watch opening weekend. I was like into it enough for that. Like, I'm not going to buy all sorts of memorable. I'm not like that. But like I was, you know, when the seventh one came out a few years ago, I was like excited to go see it in the theaters. It sort of lost me a little bit towards the end on just how bad those last couple movies were. Right. But what, honestly... Did you miss the fourth, fifth, and sixth one? Because... Wait, the fourth and sixth one were the original trilogy.
Starting point is 00:53:29 Well, you're saying the prequels. Right. But I'm saying, I lasted through the prequels. Like, I went to all the prequels. They weren't very good. I still lasted. The next ones came out. Even though I didn't think they were good, I still went to them. I was that person. I would still go to get the updates.
Starting point is 00:53:43 And it kind of came to the end. I was like, all right, this isn't really any good. Am I going to watch the series on Disney Plus? What was it? The Mandalorian. And I was like, all right, I'll watch it. And then I started watching it. And then the Gina Carrano thing happened.
Starting point is 00:53:55 And I can't get myself to watch one minute at these on their follow-ups. It totally threw me from the series. Disney says they are dying. They should be dying. They are trying. This is what happens when you poison yourself. So here, this according to the SEC filing that they did, Disney employs 225,000 workers worldwide. They say that the key human capital management objective is making the workplace more engaging and inclusive, creating a more diverse workforce.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Their diversity, equity, and inclusion objective include building teams that reflect the life experiences of our audiences. They should try some families while employing and supporting a diverse array of voices in our creative and production teams. They want to continue to amplify underrepresented voices. They are going to cut back on movies, but not by very much. And ESPN subscribers down by 7%. Domestic advertising revenue.
Starting point is 00:55:04 is down from Disney 14% they say their business overall is okay. Disney said misalignment with its consumers has impacted broadcast cable, theaters, internet, or mobile technology, and theme park attractions, hotels and other resort facilities, and travel experiences, and consumer products. But other than that, other than that, it's great. We got to keep going.
Starting point is 00:55:32 We got to keep going. Wow. They said the social goals present risks. Quote, further, consumers' perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ wildly and present risks to our reputation and brands. Consumer tastes and preferences impact, among other items, revenue from advertising sales, which are based on part for the ratings,
Starting point is 00:56:04 for the programs which are advertisements air. Affiliate fees, subscription fees, theatrical film, the license of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They said its leisure business is affected by various factors, including health concerns, and the political environment. The political environment. It's not their decision making. No, it's a darn environment. That political environment. If you're an investor and you see that they say,
Starting point is 00:56:32 because of perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our social goals, et cetera, pose a risk to our reputation and brand. And you're watching it happen in real time. What the hell are you doing with your money in Disney? Yeah. The good thing about being an investor is you can always change that and no longer be one.
Starting point is 00:56:56 But I mean, isn't there a class action lawsuit at some point where you're like, guys, have you ever seen a bigger brand with better feelings attached to it than Disney 10 years ago? No? I mean, they, the worst thing was they overcharge. Yeah, you got that. You got the merchandise too much. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:21 You got the occasional, like, I don't know, they're losing their way. Like, I don't trust their programming as much as I used to. Correct. It was pretty rare, honestly. It was generally speaking, you felt like you could throw on a digital. Disney movie and be completely fine with it with your kids. So 1929 is the first Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse today and what it means to a large number of the audience members in the country,
Starting point is 00:57:49 40% that used to love Disney now are repelled by it. Their movies, one after another, they're not, are they releasing Snow White or are they having to redo the whole thing. I know they were redoing it. Apparently they're going to maybe include some dwarves this time. Ah, okay. Maybe seven of them. I thought that was because before it was one. Yes. And it was the six uh, uh, regular sized different people. Sorry. Different people. Different people. I was going to say. One dwarf and seven different people. Average sized. Maybe I was going to say, but that's, I know that's wrong. That's what is average? How dare you say that? Well, it's a mathematical. measure is what it is. Yeah. I mean, I've never seen a company do this faster than Disney. And
Starting point is 00:58:39 yeah, I have to tell you, if I had stock in that company, I would be looking for somebody with a class. I mean, I don't know enough about the law. Desantis tried to do this, right? I don't know what the status of it is, but he was trying to sue Disney based on, or was threatening to sue Disney based on the amount of, I guess, stock that the state holds in some retirement fund or whatever. And they were saying that this was some sort of class action situation. Now, I don't know if that would hold up or if he would win. Yeah, I don't know either. I think this is the real.
Starting point is 00:59:08 They're knowingly tubing it. They're knowingly doing it. And they're saying it. Like, I mean, I don't know, though. I mean, I, look, if you gone back wanted to, if, if right now you want to take a stance on abortion. And you were saying, oh, I'm pro life. It's my money. And the audience said, but let's say you were a public company.
Starting point is 00:59:26 And the audience. That's different. Okay. That's wildly different. It is. But there are a public company. that have points of view. Sure.
Starting point is 00:59:33 And, like, and you're, if you're an oil company and you said, you know what, there's lots of people out there saying, you know, green energy. Green energy is the way to go. So we're going to put our money in green energy and we believe that's important. Like, well, you know, that's the decision of the company. And if you don't want to invest in it, you shouldn't invest in it. Like, if you were going to say, like, if you were to take a stand and say on pro life and the audience hated you for it and they all bailed and you lost all your money and
Starting point is 00:59:58 you were a public company, they could fire you. you. But like, it's what you believe the company should do. And if they, if they believe that wokeness is the way to go, well, they can make that decision. I think the company's going to tank over it. But I mean, it's still their company to make those decisions. You're as a shareholder, though, your job is to help them or, or, you know, voice your concerns. If, if you're intentionally tubing your stock. And I don't know if you can describe it that way, of course. But they know it's risk.
Starting point is 01:00:36 They know it's risk. They know it's problematic. They were saying that we hold something to a higher standard. Now, their standard is dumb and it's ruining the company. And they've literally lit on fire 100 years of goodwill. But all that being said, I mean, this is, you can pressure them internally to get them to throw out the people who are doing this. They're not going to do that. I know they're not.
Starting point is 01:00:59 The problem is, Bob, and everybody in the company. There's 225,000 employees. They've already self-selected a lot of the employees that would have stood up against this are gone from self-selection. I just don't think you're ever going to turn this thing around. Back in just a second, the holidays have arrived. It's hard to think of a better gift that you could give somebody or yourself than feeling
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Starting point is 01:07:08 He is the exact opposite of really anything. any kind of politician that we have seen here that is even close to being president of the United States, even Donald Trump. Donald Trump still plays within some of the norms. He is often compared, this guy in Argentina is often compared to Donald Trump, but I don't think they're comparable. I think just because he's outspoken. Like that seems to be the largest similarity there, right?
Starting point is 01:07:41 He's super outspoken. But he described himself as an anarcho-capitalist, which is not how Donald Trump would describe himself at all. Not at all. He is going to get rid of the – that's what he says he's going to do. Get rid of the peso because it's falling and he's going to put the dollar in. Good luck for that one. He is also getting rid of their Federal Reserve Bank. He's getting rid of hundreds of programs.
Starting point is 01:08:08 He is just going to cut this government to the bone. Have you seen the video of him walking in front of the whiteboard and he's just pulling off the stickers of all the different agencies? Like the Department of Families and Health, God! Like every single one, he's just pulling off and throwing it away. Now look, is he going to do those things? I hope so. Probably a lot of those agencies are incredibly pointless, just as they are here. No, not knowing the full story of the structure of the Argentinian government.
Starting point is 01:08:36 I'm going a little bit on, I guess, work there, but I mean, every government is like that, especially in South America. I will bet you that Art Laffer would like this guy. We should call Art Laffer because he knows Argentina real well. He did this back in the 80s. Argentina always, you know, succeeds, becomes wealthy, and then goes to socialism and destroys itself. And then, you know, goes back to its roots, and then it destroys itself. So he did that in the 80s. He restored it. He restored it. in the 1980s. Well, they're back.
Starting point is 01:09:13 But, I mean, look, the promise is high here. I just, I do hesitate. You know, there's a lot of ifs that could happen here, right? Like, I don't know everything about this guy. Who knows what policy he actually implements when he's in office? What crazy thing we don't know about him? Who knows? He, at some level, he's still a South American politician.
Starting point is 01:09:32 So I'm going to hold out hope. But the things he said are really good, really positive, if he actually does them. If, if they work, it could. be an incredible thing. I mean, you know, it might inspire countries all in the region and all over the world to replicate that process. So there's really high hopes for someone who would come in and actually do this stuff. You know, it's really interesting is how cautious people are on saying, I like this guy. I don't know. I don't know enough about it. Yeah. I like what he says so far of what I've heard. What I've heard has been very good. But I don't know. Same thing with GertWielders. GERWielders
Starting point is 01:10:08 could become the next prime minister. The next Dutch prime minister. Now, he's just won a massive election. He didn't win enough seats to become prime minister. But if he cobbles together a few more seats, he may become prime minister. This is the guy who's been on this show. And we were told by everybody, don't have money. Yeah, he's too bad.
Starting point is 01:10:28 He's too bad. He's too bad. He says bad things. We thought he was delightful, at least in the interview. He was wonderful. Seemed fine in the interview. Yeah. So, but we always have to say, well, but I'm not sure.
Starting point is 01:10:42 But do you ever hear anybody backpedaling on Justin Trudeau? No, no, no, they never do that. I mean, the things that that guy has done. And nobody ever says, well, I don't agree with everything. Right. He's not a bad, it's not a bad thing. But I think, I don't know. I hold myself to a higher standard than the left holds themselves.
Starting point is 01:11:02 Yeah, so do I. I hope that we would have higher standards than them. Yeah, I don't have a, I don't have a, I don't have a problem with it. Yeah. I just, I do have a problem with, it doesn't matter what you do on the left.
Starting point is 01:11:13 It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. If you turn into a Castro or a Stalin, it doesn't matter. Apparently, you can kidnap and murder thousands of people. And you'll still get cheered on by these people on the left. And,
Starting point is 01:11:26 you know, the situation is, you know, I don't know. As a conservative, like we talk about principle a lot. I do think it's important. And I much,
Starting point is 01:11:36 I'm happy to criticize someone who's supposedly on the right if they're wrong. I just don't want to stand by them just because they align themselves with my general political outlook. But that is not how the left operates. And you can make the argument that politically, you know, in a pragmatic political sense, you know, where the ends justify the means, that's the right approach. I just, that's not how I look at the world. I don't think that's how most conservatives look at the world. And I don't think how it's how most conservatives look at the world. Maybe to our detriment when it comes to winning and losing sometimes.
Starting point is 01:12:09 But it's okay. So there's two people now that the press say, out of control, these guys are worse than Hitler. Okay. Guy in Argentina and Gertwielder's. They may end up being that. I don't think so, but they might. I don't know. It's not my country.
Starting point is 01:12:26 So I don't follow them as closely. However, I might be for them kind of as I hate to say that. because I don't know enough about them. But what I see I like, however, they might go bad. But here's what you should take away from all of this movement politically, because it's happening in Europe and it's happening in South America. It is moving away hard from the left and going right. In the case of Argentina, small government right.
Starting point is 01:13:03 I mean, very small, libertarian right. And everybody is losing their minds. A libertarian government is not powerful enough to make you do anything. That's the good thing about small government. It can never really harm you. It's not spying on you because it's not big enough. These guys, if they work, this is going to be a huge move. for the world back to more freedom and common sense.
Starting point is 01:13:40 Gerdwielder's won, you know, why? Because of immigration. The Dutch are tired of having people just rape their daughters, kill on the street, and no ramification. No ramification. You don't have to, the, you know, when you go over to Sweden, you go spend any time in the Norwegian countries, you will see how accepting they are,
Starting point is 01:14:10 how loving they are, but it is a very, very non-diverse population until recently. And now the non-diverse population coming up from the Middle East doesn't want to be Swedish. They don't want to be Dutch. They don't care. They want the free stuff, but they'll have their own no-go zones.
Starting point is 01:14:34 They'll have their own communities. And it's not a part of that culture. Everybody has turned a blind eye. You're now seeing the immigration be a problem all through Europe. You're going to see it as a problem here in America soon. I mean, I can't believe how much has changed on our border. And relatively, nobody's talking. about it. That's one of the biggest changes in my lifetime. And nobody's really talking about it.
Starting point is 01:15:09 When that poses a problem, when we start to have terror attacks or whatever, we start to collapse our economy because we're overrun in this lifeboat called America. There are too many people trying to get into the boat, then you really have problems. So I'm glad to see that before things catch completely on fire over in Europe and in South America, there's a couple of places that may turn things around. Yeah. And I think, too, this idea that maybe turning, just leaning, air on the side of liberty. Yes.
Starting point is 01:15:54 That's what's encouraging about the guy in Argentina, in a Malay for me, is that like, he might look, we all know Ronald Reagan wanted to get rid of the Department of Education. He wasn't able to do it. And the Fed. Will this guy be able to get rid of all these agencies he pulled off as stickers off the whiteboard? It's going to be really hard. I'd assume there's a million different people that are inside the government and have been inside of the government structure forever that will do everything they can to stop him at every turn. But just the fact that he's attempting to do these things and pushing in that general direction, it's hard to see how they can make.
Starting point is 01:16:26 the country worse. You know, at the very least, they take a little bit less of your money. I will tell you this. It is like never before, you are going to be assassinated politically. Your reputation, your life, everything will be assassinated by the press and by the left. And if you get these people in who are serious about taking apart the Fed and some of these things that are absolute institutions that are deep, you start having a president take on the intelligence community here in America, you may be looking at worse than a political assassination.
Starting point is 01:17:11 That's really dangerous to do. And I never thought I'd feel that way in America, but I do. Don't you? It is, yeah. I mean, it's, uh, I mean, look what they did to Donald Trump. and look what I think they're willing to do to Donald Trump. Somebody steps up and is effective at taking on the deep state. God help him.
Starting point is 01:17:40 God help him. There's a lot, yeah. I mean, like, you're standing up against people who have entrenched interest in something that you don't want and you're trying to destroy in their eyes. And they have all kinds of power. All sorts of power. I mean, one of the first things we talked about with Donald Trump and in a critical way at some level was to say, hey, like, you better be sure if you're going to critique our, or, and I critique is not the right word for what Donald Trump was doing, but like, go after the intelligence agencies. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:13 Because they're not going to sit back and just let that go on. You better be sure. Now, he did it anyway, and he had to deal with the effects of it. You know, I mean, it's a risky strategy. At times, it feels like, you know what, it really does need to be done. And I'm glad he's done it. But he's dealt with lots of personal discomfort and continues to over, I believe, those attacks at the beginning and more as he went on.
Starting point is 01:18:41 I mean, like, they're not going to just give up their power. That's not what happens. I know. I wish we'd just cobble together a coalition. I really do. I wish we, I, I, I, Donald Trump. is so focused now, has to be, so focused on what's going on in his life, I wish we would put a coalition together where everybody gets behind somebody and just says, okay, what's best for the
Starting point is 01:19:12 country? All of us getting together right now and developing something that a majority of Americans can get behind. Because I just, I won't believe it. If this guy, Joe Biden can win. I mean, I've never seen a guy who has done this with war and made things as unstable, do well in a presidential election. Never seen a president who has an economy like this do well in a presidential election. I've never seen a guy who is more incompetent do well in. I mean, this guy has everything going against him and it's still competitive. How is that possible?
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Starting point is 01:22:46 What does this mean to you that the United States government is in, quote, secretive negotiations between the government and environmental groups? This according to four Northwest Republican lawmakers who have asked for the details to be released, the groups have called for the removal of the dams on the Columbia and Snake River. Now, what does that mean to the average American? Yeah, I've heard a little bit about this story, so I know a little bit of how serious it might be.
Starting point is 01:23:23 But honestly, as some, you know, dope who grew up in Connecticut and New York, I would think I don't even know what it's about. What does it matter? Is it that important? This one, everyone should pay attention to. This one, it could be the difference between starvation and eating. This one affects so much farmland
Starting point is 01:23:47 and the basic nature of the Pacific Northwest and also the power consumption and the power availability in the Northwest. The Glenn Beck Program. Rough Greens, if you have an old dog like I do, Uno, who just barely get up anymore to a young public. Pumpy, puppy, constantly getting under your feet and wetting on the floor, you love your dog and you want them to have a healthy, healthy life.
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Starting point is 01:25:29 The devil wears Trotter, too. He's the movie event 20 years in the making. Honestly, can't with the secrets anymore, so I think we just should tell her. Will you two please spit it out already? This Friday, be the first to experience it only in theaters. In light of the recent scandal, I'm here to restore your credibility. Oh, because we're a team now? That's a nice story.
Starting point is 01:25:51 The Devil Wears Prada 2 in Theaters Friday. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the final hour of today's Glenn Beck Program. Stand by, we're going to talk to you about the lack of energy and the lack of food coming up this hour. Stand by in 60 seconds, we begin. Alarm bells are ringing all over the U.S. economy. Moody's just downgraded our credit outlook to negative. This isn't just number crunching, it's a dire warning about our growing debts and sinking ability to pay them off.
Starting point is 01:26:51 I remember when we had a plus plus. plus Moody's ratings. And everyone told me it will never be downgraded. We're now downgraded to negative. It is high time to wake up to the real state of our nation's financing. And our finances, they are in trouble and chaos. Now, there is something that traditionally you can do in times like these, and that is gold. prices are up 12% this month alone.
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Starting point is 01:28:04 866 Goldline, 866 Goldline or Goldline.com. So they're close to release of a fourth hostage group. Amos is asking for more time. Looks like the world is going to do that. Biden administration is now actively working to extend the truth. I hope Israel does what it feels it needs to do for its security and damn the rest of the world. I know that's horrible to say if you're somebody who has a member of your family as a hostage, but at least in America, we've, up until this administration, we never dealt with hostage takers.
Starting point is 01:28:58 We didn't do it. It doesn't set a good example. And it will only lead to worse things. But as we look at some of the people coming back, among the grander disasters, we see the personal tragedies. And we see it so much, it's hard to even. focus on one story of one kind or another, illness, the rape, the abuse, the wars. The list of what people can do to other people is enormous.
Starting point is 01:29:35 And the problem, I think, is that none of us ever really follow up on it, especially the long term. We'll tell you about the hostages released. But are we going to go back in three or four years and see what happened to them? What happened to that woman who was raped in Chicago, the man that was beaten and mugged in New York, the children that are rescued from abuse or sex slavery? We might see the rescue, but we don't follow up. Did they get better? Did they rebuild their lives? Did they move on? Did they perhaps even turn their story into something positive for themselves or others, somehow? Or did they forever remain scarred? Because I think this is the important thing.
Starting point is 01:30:25 Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was especially grateful for forgiveness and a chance to start all over again. I can't imagine if I just would have wallowed in my own garbage, which was a choice. Will people become bitter and angry at themselves, at society, the world at large, God? will they forever be ruled by their past post-traumatic nightmares? Are their lives just going to be nothing but a long memory of pain? And can we blame them really? Or will we celebrate the lives of those who died, the lives of those who struggle,
Starting point is 01:31:20 all those who are suffering today that might take that experience to help others so all that suffering is not in vain, even if it's just help themselves. They stand up, they speak, they live, and they do it to show that the hell that is life can be overcome. I have had many cryptic conversations about my children over the years, especially as they have gotten older.
Starting point is 01:31:57 And if you're a long-time listener of this program, you know that we have had very frightening issues with a couple of my kids in particular. I went to Tony Robbins with my son, and I called Tony, and I said, Tony, these are some of the problems. And he said, Glenn, take your son, come with him. He said, I'd be shocked if that didn't turn around. I have never seen a bigger turnaround in anyone like I've seen in my son. It is, it's remarkable. I was standing next to him.
Starting point is 01:32:51 We're, what, 14,000 people. And Tony at one point has you scream out your biggest obstacle. I'm just screaming out. And I'm screaming something and my son's screaming. something and I listen, I hear my son say something, something in regards to I can be greater than my father, something like that, which I was both humbled and horrified by. Because I just, my son just needs to be himself and he'll be greater than me. just be you.
Starting point is 01:33:46 He's changed. And I credit Tony for this. It is remarkable to see him go from a young man, confused, lost, on the trail, off the trail, on the trail, off the trail, to a kid that is just a man who is determined. to do whatever it is he sets his mind to without hesitation. I mean, he's walking straighter. It's remarkable. And this is a kid who have at times been completely hopeless and thinking, I'll never amount to anything.
Starting point is 01:34:37 I'll never do anything. Why even try? Because I'll never amount. somebody who as a kid filled himself with just this negative tape of not being worthy and we tried and tried and tried and tried
Starting point is 01:35:00 and tried and tried and this worked at least as long as he chooses to do it. I think that is the point. He didn't change. He just stopped believing
Starting point is 01:35:27 the lies that he was telling himself and he just started to believe, oh, I can do it. In a world that teaches us that you are not good enough, I mean, this is the point of advertising. You are not complete unless you wear this brand, buy this brand, go to this place, vacation, look, your living room looks like this. even your smile is a certain way on Facebook. Everything is telling you you're not enough. And then on top of it, it feels at times like the world is just turning inside out and doing all kinds of things to you.
Starting point is 01:36:18 You're like, really, God, do I need this to? Really? Seriously? Thank you. Thank you. Some people just accept it. Oh, that's God's will. No, God's not going to give you something. something you can't handle.
Starting point is 01:36:35 But it's true, I think. You know, I'm not God, obviously, and I don't know his will. I certainly don't know it for you because I barely know it for me, honestly. Other than we're supposed to be happy and productive. We're supposed to do good things. It's amazing to me how many things are body. does that reinforce good things. You exercise, you feel better. It creates endorphins that all of a sudden your mood goes up. You go serve people. It does the same thing.
Starting point is 01:37:31 It rewards you for doing the good things. It's an amazing system. I don't know how anybody can say that there is no God. But we're not here to have passive acceptance. Yeah, well, I'm never going to make it. And well, that's God's will. No. No, I mean, we have to accept the things that we can't change, but we also have to look at the things we can change. This is one of the reasons I have a hard time sometimes with this job. Because I'm telling you a lot of the things that you can't change. I mean, you might be able to change them with the election. But that's not where you're going to find your answers. You're not going to find them in the next politician.
Starting point is 01:38:27 And so I feel defeated sometimes because I feel like I'm not giving you any answers that are worth anything at all. But then again, we all affect each other's lives. We all, we're all here for a reason. and it's spiritually healthy to remember that we don't have the final say or we don't control the final outcomes. Sometimes our best efforts fail. Sometimes our best intentions are for nothing. Sometimes our prayers are answered in the negative. But it's also important to spin things around and maybe think that things aren't being done to you.
Starting point is 01:39:27 But perhaps if we just look at life and saying this is happening. for me, it will require sacrifice and suffering and faith and everything else. But maybe if we choose to see it in a different light, we'll be better. If we're hungry, maybe we feed the poor. We care for the orphan. We protect the widow. We love the stranger. If we're in such a bad, dark place, wouldn't it make it easier for us to see
Starting point is 01:40:15 others in that place and relate to them, unlike anyone else, can relate? Over the holiday, I thought of faith being an active thing to do the job that we feel God has given us. And if it's good and it lifts people, if it builds and not destroys, it makes things better. It's probably God's will, especially if you don't want to do it, it's definitely. But it doesn't have to be active outside. It needs to be active in us.
Starting point is 01:41:00 We survive. We make it. And it makes future generations smarter and stronger and stronger should we choose. My addiction, my abuse to alcohol and everything else, all the bad things, it turns out I can break the pattern. of generational addiction, abuse, I can break that pattern. But more importantly, perhaps in some ways that happened for me. At least that's the way I interpret it.
Starting point is 01:41:46 So I can relate. I can help. Whatever is happening in your life is happening for you, at least in part. In a world where babies get sick and die, a drunk driver will leave you in a lifelong coma. Hamas can do what it did on October 7th. God's not to blame for anything and everything. There is human evil. God built a world where we all have free choice for good or for evil.
Starting point is 01:42:19 And all of our actions have consequences, and we focus on the evil. But he made us able to choose what to make of all of this. Maybe all of the things that are happening. I mean, I don't know if anybody else has felt this way. But it's all broken. The principles aren't broken. What we've done to the principles, we just started building houses on the beach. We're like, yeah, yeah, I understand, yeah, I know, I understand, you know, the concept of a strong foundation.
Starting point is 01:42:56 But I'm going to build it here on the beach. That was our choice. And now we're just reaping the consequences of those choice. But perhaps, as we all share this pain and this path, path, we can be somebody else's opportunity. If we choose our tragedy, our lives can happen for us and others as well and no longer just to us. American financing NMLS 1-8-2334, www.nmLS Consumer Access.org.
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Starting point is 01:46:36 I mean, we only briefly talked about the Eagles win, but I assume that you wanted to hold that off for the next half hour. That's what I was thinking. You think so? Did you see the the Dallas-Washington game? I mean, barely.
Starting point is 01:46:51 Obviously, it was more important. That was worth watching. It's called your family. I don't know. Maybe just leave your family to watch some stupid football game. Yeah, it was great. It was disgraceful.
Starting point is 01:46:59 I mean, even for me, it was great. You didn't even like football. I don't even like football. But I like football more than I like my family at times. You know what I'm saying? The Cowboys are very capable of beating teams that have won three games all year. And they've done that over and over and over again all season. It was amazing, though.
Starting point is 01:47:15 It was an amazing. It was not. The team, Washington's one of the worst teams in the league. Of course they beat them. I don't need to hear this from you. I'm not a fair weather Dallas fan. I'm just not. You're not a fan of anything. You don't care. You're exactly right. But I'm not a fair. I'm not fair.
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Starting point is 01:49:09 No, it's a family show. I know it is, but it's a damn thing. Darn. No. Anyway, remind me so we don't forget. Because we were just talking about the Cowboys and then we got into a break and started talking about Dolly Parton and her performance. It was an interesting performance.
Starting point is 01:49:28 I thought it was good. I mean, I love her. I love Dolly Parton. Right. I think that's legally required in the United States. You must love Dolly Parton. And I do. I think she's great.
Starting point is 01:49:39 I love her. She's hit that weird Betty White category now where she just, no matter what she does, everyone is required to like it. It's really weird. These people come and go like this, and they usually have been likable for years. Yes. Like George Burns, Betty White, now Dolly Parton. They hit a certain age, and where most people would fade, they have this renaissance. And all of a sudden, they're like America's hero.
Starting point is 01:50:07 You know what I mean? George Burns was America's comedian. Betty White was America's sweetheart actress. Dolly Parton is America's entertainer. It's this weird thing And she's an incredible person And done so much for so many people Like she had you know
Starting point is 01:50:24 That's probably why They get it George Burns was like that Was Betty White like that? She was just really super sweet But I didn't Oh no she was no she was big charitable But she was always sweet Right you know
Starting point is 01:50:35 And it seems real Yeah Like it seems like the end But Dolly Parton is that She's the new one in that category It feels like And just to make sure that you live in 2020 Um
Starting point is 01:50:47 She's 77 in a cheerleader outfit. Which, you know, in 2023, I guess that's like, okay. Yeah, sure. I didn't notice that. What? I will say that part of it fell a bit into the uncanny valley for me. It was like, she was like, she's in really good shape, but she's 77. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:07 She did not look. She doesn't look 26, but she does not look 77. No. But I think that's why it was in the uncanny valley. Yes. She's in a Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders outfit, which you associate with Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, which look a certain way. And then you're looking at Dolly Parton, who... I think it was funny.
Starting point is 01:51:29 I thought it was great. It was just bizarre. It was just her. It was a bizarre, bizarre moment. But she's a great performer and a great, seemingly a great person, like a legitimately great person. Everyone loves her. She seemingly does all these things. It just, it was a, I don't know, it was a little weird.
Starting point is 01:51:45 What's strange is. 20 years ago, a 77-year-old woman getting into a Dallas Cowboys cheerleading thing would have stopped America. We all would have went, that was weird. Okay? Yeah. Now, that is the most family-friendly, normal half-time I've seen in 20 years. I didn't mind my kids watching it for once. No.
Starting point is 01:52:09 And it was something that we would have never understood 20 years ago. Can you imagine the Super Bowl 20 years ago, a 77-year-old, whomever, Madonna. And she may attempt it. Don't tempt her. And we'd all go, eh. Yeah. Dolly Parton does it. And everybody's like, okay, that was a little weird.
Starting point is 01:52:33 But not ick, you know what I mean? Just like, that's a little strange. And in today's world, that's nothing. This relates to the conversation we have all the time when it's. comes to age in Joe Biden. It is not as if we don't appreciate elderly people. Like, when we're impressed by someone who is able to be in their 70s and 80s and do things that not every typical 70 and 80.
Starting point is 01:53:01 Tony Bennett is another example. We're like blown away by it. We love it. It's like when you see a child who can play the piano in some amazing way. You're like, wow. Even if even a normal 30-year-old piano player is really good. that particular thing, it wouldn't be as wow as an 8 year old or a 10 year old.
Starting point is 01:53:19 The same thing as you're, as these features that typically might degrade a little bit with age, it happens to everybody. When it doesn't happen to someone to that effect, you're like, wow, this person's achieving something that's really impressive. With Joe Biden, we're all like, wow, it's going worse than normal.
Starting point is 01:53:35 Like he's, would anyone look at Joe Biden seriously and say he's doing better than average when it comes to the aging process? Could any won't claim that. Why did you have to start my Monday? I think it's a good point. It shows that we're being balanced on this.
Starting point is 01:53:53 No, because when Alan Dershowitz comes on the show. I cannot get it out. I cannot not see Joe Biden dressed as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader now. That's your problem. Yeah. Well, you started it. I did not start it, sir.
Starting point is 01:54:09 If Joe Biden were out there and that's what I saw, I'm like, oh dear. I will be incredible. disappointed in this audience if someone photoshopps Joe Biden into a Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders up. Don't do that. Don't. This is the president of the United States we're talking about. Have some decorum, man.
Starting point is 01:54:30 You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I get the sense some people in this audience would want to do it. Right. Just because it's wrong to do. Right. And we do not stand behind that effort. Your Honor.
Starting point is 01:54:41 We were against it 100%. 100%. And you know what? If you do it, make sure to tag us in it so we know you did it and we can shame you properly. Yes. Because that should be wrong. Would be wrong. If we see one Photoshop of Joe Biden in the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader's outfit, we're going to be incredibly disappointed.
Starting point is 01:55:02 Imagine how disappointed will be if we see 10 or 20. I can't even imagine. Wow. I can't. It's very disturbing. I don't know how we got there. But I will say the point of that was to say that it's not, a lot of people say he's too old. It's not even true. If he were one of these people who were 81 years old and had the mental acuity of Alan Dershowitz,
Starting point is 01:55:29 who we've had on the show a million times, who was 85, we'd all be like, yeah, like he's kicking butt. I mean, I think this happens with Donald Trump at some level. He's 77. The number might seem too high to a lot of people, but no one goes to Donald Trump. It's like, they might think a lot of things about him, but they're not. like, oh, he's too old. He can't handle. He doesn't have the the acuity. The
Starting point is 01:55:49 stamina, the mental acuity. No one says that about him. No. They don't say that about him because it's not the problem. Right. He's there. He's showing he can do that all the time. And age is, I mean, I know people who are in their 60s who are really not so sharp.
Starting point is 01:56:05 Right. And I know people who are in their 90s and you know, would put me to bed every night. It'll be like, oh, okay. Thomas Sowell. Yeah. How old is Thomas Sowell now? He just came out with another book about social justice, which looks awesome. I'm not ready yet.
Starting point is 01:56:22 We would love to have him on. I know we've tried for years to have him on. It's called Social Justice Fallacies. He was, let's see, he was bored in 1930. He's 93. And he'd run circles around almost everybody on, certainly on MSNBC. Certainly on this program. On this program.
Starting point is 01:56:40 He's the smartest guys, you know, out there. And still to this day can get these arguments. down. Would you have any problem voting for Thomas Sowell for president? No. Now, he's 93. So, I mean, there, well, you want to make sure the VP is strong. Yeah. You know, in that case, I would require somebody at least as strong as Kamala Harris. Wow. Yeah. Is there another one, though? That's the question. I don't know. I would just praise you. Just switch sides, you know. Right. Can you come on and help a brother out, will you? All right, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. In fact, I want to give you a news story that relates to this.
Starting point is 01:57:18 I talked about it at the first hour of the broadcast. It is AT&T. I don't think I have it now. AT&T is spying on you with the federal government. It's an absolutely incredible story. Why we don't know this, but they are actually in cooperation with federal agencies, doing a tree of everybody's call. So if somebody has reached out to a criminal in the United States,
Starting point is 01:57:54 they're not supposed to do this. This is against the law. This is against the Constitution. Somebody reaches out to a criminal into the United States. If that person that reaches out is in your phone tree, you're on a list. What the hell is that? well, for me, it would be the end of my AT&T membership, but that's up to you.
Starting point is 01:58:21 Patriot Mobile is America's only Christian conservative wireless provider, and they're not doing any of this. Their mission is to passionately defend our God-given constitutional rights and freedoms. I don't know. Being in bed with the federal government and just snooping on everybody. that doesn't seem like that would be part of their mission. That's the mission they stand by. Keep your phone number. Keep your existing phone.
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Starting point is 02:00:01 apply. This is the Glenn Beck program. I want to play some video that might have missed everybody during the holiday.
Starting point is 02:00:15 It's about our air marshals. Listen to this. So how many air marshals are on planes right now? And how many
Starting point is 02:00:25 do you think This is TSA. There should be to get to a safe level? Well, Carly, we're not flying right now. The only missions that we're doing are quiet skies missions, and those are missions that are following the January 2021 people. So we're either on the border for illegal immigrants
Starting point is 02:00:42 or we're following folks from January 2021. We're not doing our regular missions where we're out there looking for the bad guys. So right now on most flights, you're not going to have air marshals. This is the director of the air marshals. okay for the Department of Homeland Security. We're not flying with air marshals because
Starting point is 02:01:03 they're busy down on the border or they are following the January 6 people. Wow, what a clip that is. Yeah. And it certainly seems like, I could be reading this wrong, seems like she's there to say that. Yeah. This is not her saying like, we're really happy that we're following
Starting point is 02:01:21 around January 6 people and not doing our actual air marshal thing. I don't know about that. I don't know. Why would she just, why would you do that interview and say it like that. Why would she? She would know that that would be controversial to the Fox News. She would absolutely know.
Starting point is 02:01:35 It sounds like something like she's pissed off about it and wants people to know. I hope that's the case. I hope that's the case. Also, we have four Northwest Republican lawmakers that have asked the federal government to share the details of the secret negotiations between the government and environmental groups that are calling for. for the removal of five dams on the Columbia and Snake River. This is kind of important.
Starting point is 02:02:06 If you don't, I can't believe it's only the Republicans that are standing up and saying, hey, can we find out about this? Federal government has no right, no right to do this. We're talking about the hydroelectric plants, five of them, that practically provide most of the, the power for the Pacific Northwest. So you have hydroelectric, which is zero emissions, by the way. You have hydroelectric power being generated.
Starting point is 02:02:39 And to save the salmon, they're talking about undamming those. Now, so you know, I have a farm in Idaho. That will affect my water. That will affect the water of everyone, all of the farmers. Much of the Pacific Northwest from Washington, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming is high desert. There's no water. You have growing populations and we're already killing our farmers. You're going to shut the water off and they're doing it in secret.
Starting point is 02:03:23 How big of a deal would that be? Oh my gosh. It would completely change the Pacific Northwest. You would have massive power outages all throughout the Pacific Northwest. You would have farmers go out of business. In my area, it's high desert. You're not growing anything without water supply. If you don't have a reservoir, you don't have water.
Starting point is 02:03:52 So all of the Farmland Majority of it gone My understanding is the water just comes out of the faucet though You just turn that you do have that You do have that you'll still have the water out of the faucet Sure sure But farmers don't have a big enough faucet
Starting point is 02:04:13 Oh okay that's how it works Yeah so they're going to have to make bigger faucets I'm from the Northeast so I don't understand But you're just basically saying that The water that just magically comes out of the faucet might not come out of the faucet. And on top of that, if you're not around an electrical outlet, you won't have electricity either. Now, I'm concerned about this because normally I don't care about electricity because it's so bad for the environment.
Starting point is 02:04:36 Right. But the electric car revolution is happening. What does this mean for our electric cars? Exactly. You can see, now you're thinking. Wow. Now you're thinking. Like a real environmentalist.
Starting point is 02:04:45 Ah. That's never been said. Yeah. Yeah, this is really, really bad. Really bad. I mean, I, first of all, they're cutting all of the voters out. They're cutting the electrical utility companies out. The utilities are like, excuse me, are you just, you're making changes to our livelihoods
Starting point is 02:05:11 and you're not even talking to us about it? They're just making a deal with the Native American tribes to save the salmon. Isn't a somewhat similar thing happening across the Southwest as well? with, you know, Vegas and Phoenix and all these areas that need water, well, there's all sorts of rights battles over them and environmental battles going on. And they keep trying to play with these rights in a way that could really screw these cities that have been built up in these areas. This is all over the last right now. Vegas is a desert. Yes, I know.
Starting point is 02:05:48 You know, Arizona is a desert. There's a reason why people didn't live there years ago. And when I say years ago, five decades ago, not like a thousand years ago. Right. Five decades ago. No air conditioning because there was not enough electricity and no water. You start screwing with our dams and our hydroelectric system as well as reservoirs. What are those towns going to do?
Starting point is 02:06:22 They will dry up and blow away. Who are these people in Washington? Who are they? The Glenn Back Program.

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