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Do it. 01:36 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. 01:47 Glenn Beck is on. 01:52 Hello America, welcome to the program. There is some breaking news I want to give to you that is important and I put together some kind of a DEFCON alert because something is just breaking, it's just happening, and we need to, I think, change our language. We need to understand things. 02:16 And I was having a hard time understanding where this breaking news fits into the grand scheme of things. So give me a second. I just put it up on the chalkboard. I'm going to go over it here in just a second. We have a lot of news to go over today. I mean, a ton. Russia, Zelinsky, Trump, gosh, the Redskins, the election, you name it. But we're going to start with some breaking news. We do that in just 60 seconds. 02:47 First, let me tell you about Mercury One. You know, most of the time when you give to a charity, you never really get to see what happens next. You trust that somebody somewhere is doing something good with it, and that's fine. But wouldn't it be wonderful if you could actually step inside of the work that you help make possible? It's one of the things I'm really excited about with the Mercury One Gala this year. It's more than just a nice evening out. It is happening on Saturday. It's an opportunity to be part of something that you've helped build over the last 15 years. Think of everything this audience has accomplished through Mercury One. 03:17 Disaster relief, rescuing people from... 03:20 Horrible, horrible danger. Rescuing Christians from the Middle East as they were marked for death. Going in and actually rescuing people from the hands of ISIS. You have done that through Mercury One and the Nazarene Fund. And we have a new home in Irving, Texas. All of those missions coming together under one roof, including our brand new museum, state of the art museum, that will teach American history for generations to come. 03:51 Tickets for our dinner, our gala, are $250 each, and we would love for you to be there. Tanya and I will greet you personally. Love to meet you. Thank you for coming, and thank you for your support at Mercury One. If you can't make it, you can either get your ticket now at mercuryone.org, or you can, of course, just donate whatever you can, widow's mite, at mercuryone.org. 04:18 Okay, there is a new term the tech world has just come out with. This is a breaking story. 04:26 And the new term is Black October. Black October is what they're using now to describe the last 10 days. 04:34 In a normal year, you will get one or two computer security disasters big enough for the evening news. This week, they have arrived almost by the hour. 04:46 One watchdog on X counted 27 in the last 10 days. 04:52 Some online say the swarm of rogue AI agents is behind all of it. The evidence does not show that, at least at my understanding, at my level, yet. 05:04 Most websites are run on a software called PHP. 05:09 Roughly 7 out of 10. 05:12 Think of PHP as plumbing behind the walls. You never see it. It's in every house in every neighborhood. Well, this week, we just learned that plumbing, that plumbing, PHP, had a hidden back door. And strangers could walk in and run that house without a key. 05:32 The news leaked before the fix and burglars came. 05:36 Cloudflare watched break-in attempts go from thousands to millions in hours. The NSA said, patch now or shut everything down. Some governments actually shut down. 05:56 I'm just hearing about this. You probably are too. 06:00 Now, who found the flaw? 06:02 AI, good news, except AI is also the bad guy. Bad guys have the same tools, okay? 06:12 You don't run a web server, but your doctor's office does. 06:18 So does your kid's school. So does your church. 06:21 Until the plumbing is fixed, a stranger can walk out with your name, address, and all of your records. Reuters reported that one hacker who turned AI agents loose on more than 1,200 websites has broken into more than 100 of them, including John Deere. The cost, the researcher estimates, is about $50 a break-in. 06:47 Now, here's why this is a problem. 06:49 Burglars used to need a crew, a van, months of casing the neighborhood. 06:55 Now, for 50 bucks, he can rent a robot that will jiggle every doorknob on the block while he's asleep. 07:04 CrowdStrike found four more groups doing the same exact thing. 07:11 One hit at least 15 health organizations. 07:15 And their trick was telling the AI that they've been hired to test security. So the burglar tells the locksmith, it's my house, I locked myself out. And the locksmith opens the door. 07:27 Now, it isn't on all screens. In France, hackers force the refrigerators in about 700 supermarkets to defrost. The food went into a dumpster. A California education contractor lost personal information on millions of students. And this is where the danger for most of us lives today. Phone numbers, shopping histories, you know, it'll make a scammer go, hey, this is your pharmacy, and there's a problem with your order, and then you click on that. 07:59 The question is, is it a swarm? 08:03 Researchers did find one fleet of AI agents on Chinese cloud grabbing leaked keys. 08:12 But they didn't find any sign yet that the AI agents are coordinating. More than a thousand robot vacuums in a very big house just bumping into doors until something opens. That's what it looks like so far. 08:27 Plenty of old-fashioned carelessness as well. One company that got hit left its master passwords in plain text. It's like leaving your, you know, key under the doormat. 08:40 What's changed now is the price. When a burglary costs about $50, no one is too small to rob. 08:49 So here's what I have put together so we can chart these things. 08:55 I've put a digit DEFCON chart down. You know how we go to DEFCON 1 and that means the planes are in the air and we're about to drop bombs. So I've made it the same DEFCON system. DEFCON 1 is the worst. 09:11 But let me show you where we are. DEFCON 10, digit DEFCON 10 is just its background noise, nothing to worry about. 09:20 Eight and nine is there's one company or two companies that are breached. Not a problem. 09:26 Number seven is there's a new threat. There's no damage yet, but there's a new threat. Warning. 09:33 Six is widespread exposure. Your data has likely been stolen or is likely going to be stolen. 09:41 DEFCON 5 active waves hitting every server. 09:46 That's bad. That's why I was saying, is this a swarm or not? 09:50 DEFCON 4, stores, banks, hospitals are now offline in some places. 09:57 3, power, water, phones will be down regionally for days. DEFCON 2, national banking or grid integrity in doubt. And DEFCON 1 is unplugged. 10:10 System cannot be trusted for anything. Don't get into your self-driving car. Don't do anything. That's DEFCON 1. 10:19 So, you know, hugging face was DEFCON 7. Warning, new threat, no damage. It was just we're seeing them start to organize. New threat. 10:29 This Black October is a DEFCON 6. Widespread exposure. Your data has been or will likely be stolen. That's not good. 10:42 We're at the very beginning of this and we're at DEFCON 6. 10:46 So I want to let you know it's called Black October. You can look it up for yourself. Jason, any questions? Am I explaining this well enough? We didn't even get a chance to talk about this. This story is just breaking now. 11:00 It does. I was interested when you said hugging face is DEFCON 7. And at first I was going to say, no, I think it's DEFCON 1. But I get what you're saying because it's a warning of what could be a reality coming soon. Because the details of that, I never really went through them until I saw a documentary on it a couple of days ago. 11:19 Oh my gosh. If that is the warning, Uh, yeah. 11:25 So I say it's DEFCON 7 because there was no damage done. It was just, oh dear God, look what it can do. 11:33 Capability, yeah. 11:33 Yeah, the capability is there. So if it was actually doing things that were hacking into water systems, stores, banks, or anything else, Hugging Face could go DEFCON 1 in a minute. In a minute. But there was no evidence of that. It was just, oh dear, look what this can do. Look what it's doing. But so far, it is only broken in to be able to find answers to something it was looking for. 12:02 Would you agree with it now? 12:04 Yes. And it actually makes me even more worried about some of these, not only of what the capability is, but also what these corporations and AI developers, because what they're going to want going forward to continue doing this work. We already talked about bailouts and giving them some kind of partnership with the government, which is horrifying. 12:25 So horrifying. 12:26 But I think that they're both trying to do that. 12:30 Now, Glenn, I also think that they are legitimately scared to death. I think they are. 12:36 I think it's both. I think it's absolutely both. They know they're playing with fire. Here's why this one is higher on the scale. First of all, it has broken in and is stealing data. 12:48 So it's higher because of that widespread exposure. Your data has likely been stolen or will be stolen. Black October, the reason why it's scary... is it's $50 per break-in. 13:01 You can get somebody... I mean, think of the money. Just think of the money that is flowing around in the NGO world that wants to change the world. Think about what's flowing into the Marxist and the DSA and Antifa and all of the things that are trying to destroy the Western world. At $50 a break-in, you can afford to have a swarm just go out and just cause chaos nonstop. 13:36 That's what's scary about these agents is now it is so cheap to be able to just knock on doors. Just knock on doors. See who's home. Jiggle the doorknob. See if you can get in. You start doing that and you're looking for power. You're looking for light. You're looking for water. 13:53 You're looking for banking. You're going to find it. You're going to find it. And it's cheap. 14:00 This is why I have said, and I'm starting to get people to agree with me on this, you know, in the tech world, which is really weird. There's nobody agreed with me. I used to say this is worse than nuclear weapons. No, where nuclear weapons can vapor. Uh-huh. Yeah, I know. You know why this is worse? I can't build a nuclear weapon. 14:26 I have to go to Doc Brown. I'm sure in 2027 that plutonium is on every street corner at every drugstore. No, it's not. It's not. 14:40 I had to go steal it from Libyan terrorists. 14:45 This... 14:47 It's cheap. Anyone can do this. So if you're sitting in an anonymous group and you want to take down Western society, you can do it. 14:58 That's why this is so incredibly dangerous. And I have to tell you, we have to have this. Ricky, let's see if we can get this Digidefcon printed. 15:08 Let's put it up on our website so we can chart all of these things. When there is a problem and we hear about another swarm, we hear about another AI thing, let's keep charts of what's going on and let's make sure we're using this system because I'm telling you, this thing could accelerate so fast. 15:27 I'm telling you, gosh, I don't want to go here. 15:37 2027 could be very bad. 15:41 2027 could be a very, very bad year. We could have lots and lots of trouble in 2027. I'm going to leave it at that for today. Let's move on. 16:00 OK, now let me just let me just go into Zelensky and Putin and Trump and what's really happening. And why is everybody freaking out? 16:13 Why is everybody freaking out? 16:15 We're talking to Russia. 16:17 Oh, my gosh. 16:18 Isn't that what we should be doing? We're trying to stop a war. Shouldn't we be talking to everybody? 16:26 And look what's happening. Iran has come to the table this week and they've said, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. We'd like to talk. We'd like to talk. And Trump's like, meh, I don't think so. You know why they're doing that? Because it's working. 16:39 Russia, come to the table this week. We'd like to talk. You know who else came to the table this week? Zelensky. Oh my gosh, Donald Trump is a monster. Yeah. 16:48 Looks like we're moving towards peace. Now, whether we get there or not is a different story, but I want to talk about that and so much more coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about chapter. You know, a company, when it triples its staff, you would generally expect for the wait times to get a little shorter. But what happens when the number of people that you help is growing maybe at four times the speed, Uh, you still get wait times. That's exactly what's happening at chapter. 17:19 And they are, they're really frustrated because they want to provide the best service. And so I've never had a company come to me and say, look, could you just tell people that it's going, you're going to have maybe a 10 or 15, maybe 20 minute wait, unless you call an off hours, maybe you wait until next month. But, uh, just, we have tripled the advisor cap, uh, capability. Uh, And still, this is taking off so fast, and they just want you to know they care about you, and they don't want you waiting. They care about service. 17:52 They also care about you and getting it right. There are, I don't know how many Medicare plans. See if it has it here in any of this. 18:03 It doesn't. 18:05 I better not say. There are a lot of Medicare plans that are now being canceled, and I think they're going to announce this next week. But there's a ton that are not going to be available next year. So if you have a plan, you better check with chapter because you might just be out. The call is free. It does take about 20 minutes. Dial pound 250. Say the keyword chapter. Pound 250. Say chapter. Act now before you're left overpaying on the wrong coverage for another year. Call them now. Pound 250. Keyword chapter. 18:36 Save. 18:37 All right. 10 seconds. Station ID. 18:39 Glenn Beck is on. 18:50 Oh my gosh, I have so much to talk to you about. I want to get to... Every day it's like Sophie's Choice. Which stories get on the air? Which ones are going bye-bye? 19:04 Let me do this one because this one really bothers me. Can we play the ad from Ireland? This is from the government of Ireland about, hey, you don't have to hug grandma and grandpa. Listen to this. 19:18 They open the door. 19:19 Granny, grandma. I missed you. I missed you. I missed you. I missed you. 19:30 Not everyone wants a hug, even from the people who love them. Awkward? Maybe. Important? Absolutely. We-consent.ia is here to help. 19:44 We-consent because not everybody wants a hug, even from grandma and grandpa. This is, I gotta tell you. 19:54 I mean, what do you say? You take on, I don't know, unchecked immigration. The rise of sexual violence from the unchecked immigration. Maybe even the threats to the West from radical Islam. No, no, no. Hugs from grandparents, much, much more important. 20:13 It is sick. And the entire point of this is to tell people, to tell kids, blow off your grandma when she comes in for a hug. 20:24 To make old people feel horrible about wanting to love on their own grandchildren? This is mind-boggling to me. Mind-boggling. We are living in the most collectivist culture. We owe our money, our borders, our culture, everything to anyone from any country that wants to be there. Yet when it comes to our family, the real collective in your life, you're suddenly a rugged individualist. 20:50 Somehow, you know, we owe my shoe. 20:54 To a random person across the globe. But I don't owe my ancestors a hug. 20:59 Let me tell you something. You owe your elders love. You are the sum of all of their choices. 21:08 They are the only reason you exist. 21:12 And your love means the whole world to them. 21:15 And it might actually extend their life. There was a study in Canada found people over 65 and older who have had hugs available to them all or most or some of the time, significantly greater odds of reporting they felt healthy than those who have hugs available to them none of the time. 21:34 The actual quote is, the availability of hugs was stronger or more reliable associated with self-reported health than any other established associates. 21:46 And Ireland thinks that they just need somehow or another, they need to teach that you don't get a hug from your grandparents unless you give them a consent. 21:59 Honor. 22:02 Honor your elders. 22:04 You whiny, self-centered butt face. 22:08 Honor your elders. I don't care if your grandma is mean and your grandpa stinks or they talk too loud. Forget everything they say. You don't have to like them. They earned it. They need it. They love you. Don't be a jerk. 22:25 What the hell has happened with Ireland? 22:29 Okay, let me tell you about rapid radios. 22:33 Remember, you know, when three or four families would all pile on their cars and they'd head off to vacation together? You'd have a station wagon full of kids, somebody pulling a camper, and one guy insisting he knew a shortcut. Who didn't? That was Jason. 22:48 The whole operation was held together by hand signals and occasionally frantic honking of horns. 22:55 Well, I like to bring back the family caravan, but this time with rapid radios. These are push-to-talk radios that use nationwide LTE networks. So you can talk to everybody in the group with the push of a button. You know, even when you're miles apart, imagine being able to tell the other cars that you're stopping for gas or that somebody missed an exit or the guy who knows the shortcut has been relieved of his navigational duties. They're rugged. They're waterproof. They're ready to use right outside of the box. I have to tell you, Rapid Radio went off this weekend because, you know, my nephew was hunting at the ranch. 23:28 He got a huge buck. Rapid Radio's going off. Hey, I need help up here. RapidRadios.com. You'll get up to 60% off free shipping and use the promo code Beck and an extra 5% off. 65% off. RapidRadios.com. 23:45 Torch has got a lot more social. There are new ways to connect, follow, and build your community. Start connecting with us and making more friends at glennbeck.com slash torch. 24:18 All right, I don't know if you've seen the news about the Redskins. The Commanders. Hi, we're the Commanders. I command you to watch our football team. Shut up, Commanders. 24:31 Ugh. 24:33 They will always be and always should be the Washington Redskins. 24:37 But I want to give you an update on this. 24:40 The family of a Blackfeet chief is asking for his face back. 24:49 His name was John Two Guns White Calf. 24:54 For 50 years, he was the face on the side of every Washington Redskins helmet. 25:00 And then in 2020, we got to get that face on the helmet. It's so horrible of us white people to do this. It's so horrible. 25:14 Shut up. 25:18 OK, so now his descendants have hired a lawyer and they're going public. They want the name back. They want the logo back. They want the stadium named after their grandfather. And they're asking for a meeting with Donald Trump. And believe me, he will take that meeting. OK, so the guy who leads the estate, Kenneth Conway, put it this way. 25:42 They have tried to erase us. 25:44 Now listen to this. They tried to erase us like we didn't exist anymore. 25:51 Another descendant said, and this I think is one of the most damning things of all, nobody ever asked the family. 26:02 Wait, nobody asked the family? What do you mean nobody asked the family? 26:09 You know, most people don't even know who that man on the helmet was. 26:13 Most Americans saw him every Sunday, half a century, never knew he was a real guy. He was born in 1872. Wait till you hear this story, man. This is gonna... You do-gooding, liberal, backstabbing, American-hating, spineless weasels. 26:38 So the guy's born in 1872 on Blackfeet land in Montana. 26:44 Now, his world is ending at that time. 26:47 Buffalo were disappearing. They weren't disappearing. White men were killing the buffalo. 26:52 The reservation was shrinking. And he spent his life doing the hardest thing a leader could do in a world like that. He went to Washington and spoke for his people. He then stood at the gates of the Glacier National Park and greeted the tourists coming in on trains. 27:10 So he wanted people to know, Americans to know, there were Blackfeet still there. 27:18 He claimed this and did this until the day he died. 27:23 And he claimed that his face was one of the faces on the buffalo nickel. Historians disagree. I disagree. It was iron tail that was on the front, but he didn't care. 27:34 He wanted his people's face on the things Americans carried in his pocket. 27:39 because it was important that they weren't erased. So he dies in 1934. 37 years later, another Blackfeet man, a tribal leader named Walter Blackie Wetzel. Blackie? Why were they calling him Blackie? Not anything to do with that, you racists. 27:59 I don't mean you. I mean the liberal racists. 28:03 Anyway, he had led the National Congress of American Indians. And he went to the Redskins with an idea. He said, you're going to carry our name, carry a real face, not the cartoon, the actual chief. 28:18 And so he brought them the face of two guns, white calf, and the team put it on their helmet in 1972. And that logo was not taken from the Blackfeet. It was given by the Blackfeet. 28:30 So when the pressure campaign heated up, Wetzel's own son said, I'm proud of it. In 2016, the Washington Post, not exactly a team booster, pulled 504 Native Americans in every state. Nine in 10 said it didn't offend them. 28:49 Same result as a national poll found 12 years earlier that The people being defended had been asked twice, and they gave the same answer two times. But it didn't matter. It doesn't matter. We're white people. We know. They don't even know they're being mocked. They don't even know they're being damaged. We've got to wipe them out again. 29:14 Because that's exactly what happened. Summer 2020, countries on fire. Sponsors and investors moved. Why? Because we told them, we're going to boycott your product if you don't stand against the Washington Redskins. Because we know better than the Redskins. We know better than the Blackfeet. We're white. We know. We're superior. 29:36 And within a few weeks, the name and the face, gone. Replaced with something so incredibly insipid. 29:46 They just literally called the team the Washington football team for two years. And then the commanders, a name nobody asked for, honoring nobody. I don't even know what it means. 30:00 But I know we've been here before. I mean exactly the same. It's in 1879. 30:06 There's this army officer. His name is Richard Pratt. And he opens a school in an old army barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 30:15 And he's not a villain in his own eyes, in his own time. He's a reformer. He's enlightened. 30:22 He's a friend of the Indian. 30:25 He's going to save them. Okay? That's the way he's in his own head and in his own time. That's exactly who these weasels are now. Okay? This guy, okay? 30:37 He has a plan. 30:39 They're savages. 30:41 I've got to go in and take their children far from home. I've got to cut their hair. I've got to take their names and give them new ones. I've got to punish them for speaking their own language. 30:51 He says in a speech in 18, let me look this up. 30:56 It was 1872, 1892. 31:00 Kill the Indian in him and save the man. That's his quote, okay? Now he means this as compassion, right? 31:10 The children at Carlisle, here's a fascinating fact. Children at Carlisle, the ones he's cutting their hair, trying to kill the Indian and save the man, they decide they're going to have a football team. And they become one of the greatest teams in America. A little Indian school beat Harvard, beat Army. 31:31 One of the men who played and coached there, a man who called himself Lone Star Dietz, said he was Sue. 31:39 became the head coach of a new team in Boston in 1933. 31:45 1933 is the year that Boston team took the name the Redskins. 31:50 So the name came out of a school built to erase the Native American. 31:58 And what came out of the school was not erasure, it was pride. Pride. 32:03 The kids, they tried to strip of everything, took to the football team, and beat the sons of the men who ran the damn country. 32:12 Pratt cut their hair for their own good. And in 2020, the people with the same kind of crappy-ass education cuts the chief off of their helmet for his own good. 32:28 Different century, same certainty, same exact progressives. 32:35 Because they know better. They know better than the people themselves. We know better. We know what they should be proud of, what they should be allowed to be proud of. It's absolutely unbelievable. Un-fricking-believable. 32:56 Now, I ought to tell you, if... 32:58 If they had asked the family and asked all the people, is this really offensive? I wouldn't have been happy, but I would have been okay. All right, well, they just think this is really horrible. But they didn't. They didn't. You asked them. 33:13 You asked them. They said no twice. 33:16 But that's not good enough. We have to go to the faculty lounge. We got to ask the faculty in the faculty lounge. You know, we're going to ask with a hashtag. 33:26 You don't drive to Montana and ask the grandchildren of the man on the helmet? No one did. And you know why they didn't? They didn't do it because they knew they wouldn't have a problem with it. 33:39 The well-meaning. This is what they never see about themselves. Right? 33:44 Every crusade like this carries a quiet insult inside of it. Every single time. 33:52 Oh, you're too weak. You're too pathetic to speak for yourself. You're too confused to know when you've been insulted. 33:59 You're too small to be trusted with your own grandfather and your own heritage. I can't think of anything more demeaning than that. 34:10 The tribe that survived the end of the buffalo. 34:16 The shrinking of its land. 34:18 The schools built to kill its culture. 34:24 Does not need rescuing from a football helmet. 34:29 Oh, these people. Gosh, they are so... 34:34 Let's make sure in Ireland that nobody's hugging their grandmother and their grandfather without consent. 34:41 We hashtag, or we hyphen consent.org. 34:50 Shut up. 34:55 I got to tell you, the surest way to make a man feel small is to speak for him while he's standing right there. 35:04 The people who say this, who did this, they just say, you know, we're doing it because so much, the white man has taken so much from the Native American people. 35:16 Really? You're the one who just took what they had. 35:22 They say you're erasing their history. You're saying I'm preserving their history. You're erasing it. 35:38 You're against powerful outsiders deciding what's best for the tribe, except you never asked any of them. And when you did, they gave you the same answer that was against your answer two times. 35:53 Oh, you know what? Here's what you know that they don't know yet. This is all ending. This is ending. It's only a matter of time. You're already seeing it. It started with COVID. It started to chip away. It started to fall apart. People are like, I've had enough of this. And I got to tell you, they're going to double down after this election. They're going to double down. You think it was bad then? Do you remember what it was like under Obama and then Trump lost in 2020? And all of a sudden you're like, oh my gosh, these people are monsters. 36:24 What are they doing? All of a sudden they're telling you that you got to trans your kid. And you're like, wait a minute, I didn't vote for any of that. You thought that was bad? They win this election. They're going to double down again. 36:40 And most of us are really tired of people being rescued by people who never asked. 36:46 You can hear it in the stands. You can hear it in that family in Montana who just wanted somebody to knock on their door and just say, hey, what do you think? 37:04 John Tugan's white calf spent his life making sure America would not forget his people. He stood at the park gate. He went to Washington. He wanted his face in your pocket. For 50 years, he got his wish. And then white people, do-gooding, over-educated white people, said that he can't have that. 37:28 They're the same bigoted racist that they were in the 1800s. 37:36 It's an embarrassment. It wasn't an embarrassment. He was a chief. 37:43 I hope this family, I hope they can find a way to sue. 37:56 In the end, they're going to get his face back on the, his face is going to be back on the helmet. 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Ilhan Omar has answered some questions oddly in my book on, you know, have you ever been married to? Hey, Ricky, let me ask it cold. You ever been married to your brother? 46:22 Not to my knowledge. I'm just kidding. 46:24 That's how she answered it. Not to my knowledge. You're like, what? No, no, I haven't been. I have never been married to my brother, never been married to my sister. You know, it's easy to answer. Not to my knowledge. No, not to my knowledge. Okay. All right. Well, Apparently, they have some DNA evidence and Jason's going to bring us some of the latest on the Ilhan Omar scandal as that is really heating up. And I want to talk about payback because they say this is going after your enemy. 47:01 No, no, no. This is pursuing justice. And I want this in a court of law. I mean, we have shown you over and over again just the evidence that we have. It's smoking guns everywhere. everywhere on this story. But everyone is invested in this. I mean, you look at what has happened with Ilhan. You... 47:25 The press cannot have this go away. They can't. First of all, she's a refugee, so she's a success story for the squad. And if the core of her biography is fraudulent, then it validates the years and years and years of the argument about immigration vetting that we're not doing a good job on that. 47:48 And then you got Snopes and everybody else who said all of this stuff is made up. It's not true. So now all the newsrooms have all of their credibility online. 47:59 And we're going to see. 48:02 We're going to see who turns out to be right. And it's got to be proven in a court of law. It's got to have real evidence. But that's not what the left is now doing. 48:11 What the left is doing is they are actually fingering targets. They are saying we're going after, for instance, Elon Musk is where I want to start next. First, let me tell you about leaf filter. 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Right now, you can get up to 35% off Leaf Filter at leaffilter.com slash Glenn Beck. Minimum purchase is required. Restrictions do apply. 49:29 Okay, so Politico has ran a story earlier this week that reads like, honestly, like a line from a mob movie. 49:37 Democrats, we're coming for Elon Musk. 49:40 We're coming for Elon. 49:43 Not a hearing. 49:45 Not a subpoena. 49:46 A plan. 49:48 Now, according to multiple reports, multiple House committees are already gaming out how each one gets a piece of him if the Democrats win the gavels in November. 50:01 You are... 50:03 We are in for a wild ride. I want to make a prediction. If they win the House and the Senate, this show will be off the air by the end of 2029. 50:21 And you will lose a lot of the voices like mine by 2029. 50:27 Soon as they take over the White House, they are going to make our lives absolutely miserable. You're going to see shows like this and trusted voices that you've listened to for a long time absolutely silenced. Have we silenced any of their voices? Have you ever heard me push for the silencing of voices? Ever? 50:47 Ever? 50:50 Okay, so here's what they want. Oversight wants Doge. Doge. 50:55 Foreign Affairs wants Starlink in Ukraine. 50:59 And Foreign Affairs also wants the end of USAID. They are, I'm telling you, they're coming with a vengeance. 51:08 Now, the last one isn't even a contract. 51:13 Now, others want his NASA contracts. One congressman from Texas said they should absolutely investigate the money he is spending on Republican candidates. Of course they want that. 51:22 Do they ever do that with George Soros? No, no. Have we ever done that with George frickin' Soros? We should have. Have we? No. 51:32 Now, this one is a campaign check. 51:36 Supporting the candidates you believe in is free speech and free association. It has been legal every day of your life since the founding of this country. 51:51 The moment a check to the other party becomes a line item in an investigation, no investigation is ever, ever about what a man did. It's about whose side he's on. 52:04 Then Kara Swisher. Love that Swisher. Hey, swish this way, Kara. She went on a podcast and she said out loud what the memo was too polite to say. 52:14 Under Kamala Harris, she said, Elon Musk might be in jail right now. 52:20 So wait, before the USAID stuff, before the NASA stuff, before Ukraine, before any of this, he would have been in jail? 52:33 He knows what's coming. 52:35 He knows he's on the top of everybody's list. 52:39 And she added that it wouldn't be because Harris had some avenging fury, but because there are questions around his company's. 52:48 The order gives it away. Jail first, questions second. Notice, he'd be in jail today, most likely, because we have questions. 53:00 It should be, we have questions. 53:03 And if those questions are not answered or answered in a way where we can prove that something has happened that is illegal, he'd be in jail today. 53:13 Just so you know, America, look it, they have destroyed our heroes. They have destroyed our way of life. They have tried to take our capitalist system and flush it down the toilet. And believe me, they are telling you. For 25 years, I've been telling you guys these are Marxists that want to fundamentally transform America. the capitalist state of America into a Marxist utopia. And everyone said I was crazy. Everyone said I was a mean, bad man for saying it. And they are now telling you if they get into office, that is their plan. 53:51 So they have destroyed everything about us and are continuing to do it. And so what do they need to do? 53:57 This is not about just politics. They need to take the guy who took a rocket that lands on its tail out of science fiction and put it on a weekly schedule. They need to put that guy in jail. 54:11 They need to jail the guy whose company now carries most of what America sends into orbit, who got our astronauts to the space station when we were buying seats from Russia. 54:24 A guy who went and rescued because Boeing put people in space in something so flawed and so decrepit that we couldn't get them back home. He sent his people out to go get them. 54:39 It's a guy who put the internet in a Ukrainian trench, a hurricane shelter, a ranch house. 54:48 A guy who dragged the entire car industry into building electric, whether it wanted it or not. This is a guy who did more for the greenies than anybody else. 55:02 Here's a guy who bought Twitter, opened the files on what our own government had been asking to bury. 55:15 They're not putting him away for politics. They are putting him away because he is the greatest inventor and entrepreneur in my lifetime. 55:26 You know, Edison and Tesla couldn't stand each other. 55:32 We have both of these guys in one man, and he's on the list of the left. 55:40 Congress is supposed to watch where our money goes. 55:44 And billions of it goes to SpaceX. 55:48 A man who sat inside the government with access to its systems while his companies held its contracts is exactly who oversight is built for. Right? I have no problem. 56:01 The government accountability office says Doge overstated its savings. 56:07 Okay. Okay. 56:09 All right. Okay. 56:11 But if one private citizen can slow down an ally's connection on the battlefield, as it's been reported, that's a fair question for foreign affairs. 56:24 All of it. Ask it under oath. 56:27 But it's his decision and it's his company. 56:31 But this isn't what that list is made for. 56:34 You don't name the defendant in October and pick the charge in January. 56:40 You don't do it that way. 56:42 Elon's answer was live by the sword, die by the sword. 56:47 He said he's going to find out who's really pulling the strings and he's coming for them. Not just their puppets, he's coming for them. 56:55 He said Swisher sounds like she wants to go to prison. 57:02 I understand his anger. 57:06 It's still the same sword. 57:10 You know, people have chanted, lock her up, lock her up, before the jury ever heard a word. 57:20 And what did Donald Trump do? He didn't lock her up. Why? 57:25 Because the sword never cares whose hands it's in. He knew lock her up, lock her up could not be done because it will set off a firestorm. 57:38 And that they did it anyway. They did it to him. 57:43 The sword doesn't care who picks it up. 57:48 But make no mistake, we are repeating 1934. 57:52 We are repeating the FDR administration. Andrew Mellon, Carnegie Mellon, he's a Pittsburgh banker. He's the Treasury Secretary under three Republican presidents. He is the architect of the Roaring Twenties. He was also one of the richest men in America. 58:10 And when the Depression hit, he was one of the most hated men in America. 58:15 So when Roosevelt came in, his administration went out after Mellon for tax fraud. I mean, they took it to a grand jury in Pittsburgh. He did everything. He accused this guy all the time of defrauding the United States. The grand jury refused to indict. They were like, you got nothing. 58:33 So they brought it back as a civil case. Months of hearings, millions in back taxes and fraud penalties. The whole country was reading all along. 58:45 Part of the fight was over paintings. A few years earlier, when Stalin needed hard currency, the Soviets sold masterpieces from Leningrad. 58:57 Raphael and Rembrandt. All of them. 59:01 Guy goes over and he buys them. 59:04 His name was Andrew Mellon. 59:06 In the middle of the case, it came out where they were going. He went over and bought all of those things from Russia, and where did the guy who bought all of that, that was the most hated man in America, where did those paintings go? He bought them. Did he put them in his house? 59:24 No. 59:26 No. 59:27 While the ruling was still pending, he wrote to the president whose treasury was trying to disgrace him, and he said, look, I'm going to build a building in New York. I'm sorry, in Washington, D.C. And I'm going to put all of these paintings in there. And Roosevelt said, yes, yes, please do. 59:48 Yes. 59:52 Mellon died in August of 1937. Four months later, the ruling came down. He owed some back taxes, a fraction of what they claimed. Fraud? 60:02 None. None. None. 60:05 The charge they had been levying against him in every headline for three years, false. In 1941, Roosevelt stood on the National Mall. 60:25 And dedicated that building that held the art that Mellon bought from Russia and gave to the United States of America. It's now known as the National Gallery of Art. 60:38 You might have walked through it. 60:42 And if you did, you walked through a gift of a man his government spent years trying to make into a criminal. 60:54 The government's lawyer on that case was a young man named Robert Jackson. 61:00 In 1940, Robert Jackson... 61:02 as attorney general, gathered his federal prosecutors of the United States and said, let me tell you what I learned during the FDR administration. It is the most dangerous power that we hold. And it's not bad law. It's a choice. The books are so full of crimes, he said, a prosecutor can find anything on almost anybody. The real danger is the one who picks the man they dislike and then looks for an offense. 61:34 Gee, like the lesson he learned with Mellon. 61:38 Now, he never said that, but he had been in those rooms. 61:45 So who won't they come for? If they'll come after Elon Musk, I mean, Elon's going to be fine. 61:52 Believe me, he'll have the best lawyers alive. He'll have the biggest megaphone on Earth. And you know what? If they come after him, he just might go up and live in space. 62:03 The list isn't for him. 62:06 The list is for the next one. The engineer in a garage wondering whether I should build the thing. A retiree who is going to write a $1,000 check to a candidate left or right that he believes in. The machine shop with one federal contract and an opinion. The kid who wants to build the next rocket. And just watch what happens. Watch what happens to the guy who just built these rockets. Because they'll all have read that story. 62:33 They'll all have done the math. 62:36 Nobody has to be convicted for this to work. 62:40 The list is the punishment. The process. They said this last time. The process is the punishment. 62:49 And the country that punishes their builders for their politics or because they build is going to end up with plenty of politics and very few builders. It's the end of the American system. 63:05 Justice starts with a crime and then goes looking for the man. Revenge starts with the man and then goes looking for the crime. And that holds for their side and it holds for our side. 63:22 They spent years looking for a crime on Andrew Mellon. 63:26 What they found was a gift hanging on the walls, a short walk from the Capitol and from the White House. 63:34 Exactly where they were drawing up this list. 63:37 This time, it's a rocket coming home to land. Find the crime first. 63:44 Then come for the man. Never the other way around. 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They started making the rounds, and then her campaign came out and said, those are fakes. 65:45 The flag was not upside down. And so everybody corrected it, believed her, and said, no, the flag was, no, no, no. 65:51 Her video correcting the flag, that was the fake we now find out. A twist on the AI deep fakes like you didn't see coming. We'll talk about that and Ilhan Omar next. 66:05 Have you ever played that game with your family, the one where you say, if we could go anywhere in the country, if we could live anywhere in the world, where would we go? Maybe you'd like to live in the mountains or some little town where everybody knows each other. Maybe a little town like that in the mountains. I don't know. Maybe you'd be closer to your kids. It's kind of fun to imagine, but usually that's as far as it goes because you're actually picking up your life and moving, and it's hard. 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Check it out now at glennbeck.com. 67:54 Welcome to the program. All right, Jason, I want to bring you in here. Well, first, let me finish this story about this fake flag controversy. I don't know if you saw this, but Nafisa Fai, is it Fai? Do you know? Is it Foe? Is it Fum? I'm not sure. 68:17 But she's running for county chair in Washington County in Oregon. 68:22 At a campaign event in Minneapolis. Now, why would you be in Minneapolis for a campaign event if you're running in Oregon? Hmm, I wonder. So she's speaking, you know, in Somali to a group of supporters. Do we have the video or is it just a picture? So she's speaking and she's speaking in front of an American flag that is actually upside down. 68:46 Go ahead and... 68:46 Stop. So she has a problem with CEOs that... 69:13 are people of color who lawnmow. I think. I don't know. It's weird that they don't have a translation for those things. But anyway, so she's talking to these Somalis and God's saying God only knows what. And she's standing there and she's standing right in front of a flag that is upside down. Now, I think it is a possibility. I'm not being cute here. I think there's a possibility that the Somalis had no idea that the flag was upside down. 69:40 It is a very real. Would you know if the Somali flag was upside down? 69:45 I wouldn't know. But I wouldn't be running for office in Somalia. So what do I know? 69:52 You know, and if you're in the Somali community and they gave you millions of dollars that you're sending back, you could at least go, yeah, I don't really like the country, but let's hang the flag right. Anyway, I think it was intentionally done. It's a flag upside down. 70:07 You fly a flag upside down, it means the country is in distress. I don't know why Somalis would say that our country is in distress when they're trying to light it on fire themselves. So I don't understand it. But anyway, so she comes out, and when this starts circulating, people are like, look at the flag. It's upside down. Her office comes out and says, no, that's not true. That's a deep fake. 70:34 So they're filming it. The clip goes everywhere. 70:38 No, no, no. The flag was not upside down. 70:42 Deepfake. She posts an article from a local outlet, the Oregon Journalism Project, that called the footage a deepfake. And the article showed a picture of her standing next to a flag flying the right way. She said, this is how AI is being used to destroy people's reputation. Then Axios picks it up. A national newsroom. 71:04 It reported that the team had provided screenshots showing the flag right side up. So then her team takes that and shows that, no, this is her right here. I've got screenshots of her right here. Okay. Turns it into a story warning about the attack ads that put words in candidates' mouths and create scenes that never happen. Oh, my gosh. AI and these people on the right are so evil. They're warning about the danger happening. 71:31 You have to be sure of what is fake and what is real. 71:35 Except they were wrong about which picture was fake. 71:39 The video was real. 71:44 The proof is believed to have been made by a machine. 71:48 So ordinary people noticed something that others didn't, that the Somali logo, the TV logo, was missing. And that the stars were in the wrong place. 72:01 And the banner with her name didn't match. 72:05 And then they started looking and they flagged a hidden watermark, the kind Google stamps in images that its AI creates. 72:14 Then they started noticing, wait a minute, down at the bottom, there are stripes from the upside-down flag and not from the right-side-up flag. The stripes were wrong at the very bottom. 72:25 So the Oregon Journalism Project goes back and gets more images from that room in Minneapolis. And they're like, I guess it was a Python. 72:37 It also said where its original proof came from. 72:42 The campaign. 72:44 So it pulls the story. Axios pulls its story too. 72:48 Now, for years, we have been warned that AI will make fake things look real. That's true. 72:55 But it's only half the danger. And maybe the smaller half. 72:59 The other half lets you call real things fake. 73:06 Two law professors gave this a name years ago. They called it the liar's dividend. 73:14 Once everyone knows video can be faked, every guilty person ever caught on video gets a free escape hatch. You don't have to prove you didn't do it. You just have to say, take that liar's escape hatch. It's AI. That's what she did. 73:30 Think of the kid with a hand in the cookie jar. For generations, the camera ended that. Now the kid looks at the footage and says, that's a deep fake. That's not me. That's a deep fake. And half the house believes him because half the house wants to believe him. 73:48 Here's a kid that didn't just deny it. 73:52 Somebody on her side handed over a picture of a full cookie jar. And then the grown-ups whose job it is to check the jars put a stamp on it. 74:02 On one side, a broadcaster's footage. On the other, a campaign screenshot. And the people who call themselves fact-checkers took the campaign's word. Nobody asked why the logo was gone because the story fit what they already believed. 74:20 AI is a weapon. 74:23 And this time they aimed it at people like you and me. 74:31 They made us question our sanity. 74:35 Now, I can't tell you what that flag upside down means to her. It's a distress signal. Maybe she has an explanation, but she should be asked for it. 74:44 But it never happened is not an explanation. That's a cover story. 74:50 Who made the image? Who handed that image to the reporter? 74:54 Will the campaign take back the word deep fake? Will it apologize to everyone it accused of faking a real video? Will the correction travel as far as the false fact check did? It won't. 75:09 The debunk gets shared by people who feel smart. The correction gets read by people who already knew. 75:17 So both outlets did pull their stories and that matters. 75:22 And it wasn't an agency or a board that caught this. It was regular people who looked closely, who counted the stars and noticed this missing logo. 75:31 That's an immune system. 75:33 That's an immune system that is very healthy and one they want to stomp out. It's the immune system of the country. You, the average person. 75:44 And I want you to know, I'm not gonna give our side a pass. 75:48 I mean, most of us have at one point on all sides shared a picture that flattered us before we checked it. The liar's dividend pays whoever wants it most. 75:59 It doesn't check your party. 76:04 You know, I was looking up things in history that have happened before, and believe it or not, it's about a pelt situation. 76:15 A pelt comes into England from Australia, and it has a duck's bill and a beaver's tail and webbed feet. And a naturalist, one of the leading naturalists at the British Museum, was like, somebody's playing a joke on us. This isn't true. 76:31 And so the story goes that he took scissors to it, hunting for the stitches. 76:38 But he couldn't find any stitches. But he discredited it anyway. 76:43 But there weren't any stitches because it's something that he had never seen called a platypus. 76:49 The expert looked at something real and called it a hoax. This week, the experts did one better. 76:56 They doubted the real thing and certified the fake. 77:02 So what do you do when your eyes can be lied to and the people paid to check either fall for it or lie to you as well? 77:14 You do the one thing that the people online did. You slow down. You look for what a faker forgets, the logo, the second camera, the people who were in the room. 77:27 Ask where a picture came from, but before you ask what it shows, that's when you ask. Don't say, hey, what does your picture show? Can you send that to me? No. Can you send me your picture? 77:43 When someone caught on tape answers with AI, treat that at the beginning of the story, not the end of the story. Pictures used to be a witness. Now it's just a claim. 77:54 So we're back to where human beings were when we started. 78:02 With people who were actually there, who will say so, and can't be generated. 78:09 When anything can be faked, the truth needs to be the witness. 78:16 The truth does. The people who stood there need to be the witness, not just the pictures. Be a witness of what you're actually seeing. Because this is getting crazy. 78:27 I mean, we also found out yesterday that there was a poll that was faked. Faked. Now they say it was a science experiment. Was it? Was it a science experiment? No. Really? Because I'm not going to take your word that it was a science experiment. They faked a poll and it was actually the one that caused the person that was running against El Saeed to drop out of the race because she said that poll came out and all my money dried up and it went everywhere. 78:54 So was that a science experiment or was that the left messing with elections? 79:00 Which was it? I don't have the answer, but we damn well better not take the answer from the people who just said, oh, no, no, no, that was a science experiment. It was a social experiment to see if a fake poll could get picked up everywhere. Really? Because once these lies take root, then everybody's vested in them. 79:27 Ilhan Omar is one of these. And I want to go to Jason on this. Let me do a commercial. I'm going to come back. I want Jason to explain the latest with Ilhan. Because the press has no reason to debunk this now. They have no reason to say, oh, we were wrong. They have every reason to say, no, no, no, and keep defending her. 79:47 But there's some new information out on that, and we're going to get to it next. First, LifeLock. An obituary is supposed to be a tribute to somebody's life. It tells you who they were, who they loved, and what they left behind. But there are people out there who look at that same obituary and see something entirely different. Scammers are now using artificial intelligence. to research older Americans, including scouring obituaries for information about grieving families. And they use that information to create, you know, convincing messages. 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Terms do apply. 81:19 You're gonna be thinking about that for a couple minutes, huh? 81:22 Glenn Beck will be right back. 81:49 Okay, so Ilhan Omar was describing the raid on her home. They went room for room. They took her daughter's phone, everything else. And then she has a response. I'm not going to spend a minute playing this back. She's on an interview with MS now. And they're like, so did you ever marry your brother? Is there any truth to that? And she says, not to my knowledge. Now, you could say she was joking. 82:17 Or you could say, yeah, let's not put out any lies out there right now. Let's not make things worse. Not to my knowledge is a good answer. And you make it look like it's a joke. But whatever it is, there's new information. Jason, what do we have? 82:33 So court docs surrounding the search warrant have now been made public. And this is coming from the attorney's office from the district court for the District of Columbia. 82:45 And normally on this, you would think, okay, you know, subject named Ilhan Omar, but that name is there, but as a also known as. So how they actually identify her in official US court documents in the District of Columbia is Congresswoman Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi. 83:09 Not Omar. 83:11 Elmi. 83:12 Done. Done. Done. Done. If they are officially recognizing her in a court document that a judge signed off on as that's not her married name. 83:25 That is her birth name. 83:28 She changed that when she came here to America. Her father never changed it. Her sister never changed it. She changed it. 83:37 And if that's how they're referring to her, that's the name of her, quote, husband, brother. 83:46 Is there anything DNA? Because I've heard talk that she is concerned about DNA. 83:53 Well, there was a report coming from the New York Post a few days ago that reported that federal investigations, federal investigators have DNA evidence. 84:02 It could prove, Ilhan Omar, what her brother, that that was hinted at in this article, but not entirely sure exactly what the details are on that. But they do have DNA evidence as reported. 84:12 You know, I hope they do, you know, because that's the easiest way to prove or disprove. I've got DNA. I checked the DNA against your husband. I checked the DNA against you and you're a match. Sorry. It's we're not in the OJ Simpson days anymore. And if I were Elon Omar, I would say, I want my so-called brother to give his DNA. You match the two. That's what I would do. I could make this thing go away right now. Go ahead. Take my, you know, I said, as people said, Tanya is your sister. 84:44 Take her DNA. Take my DNA right now. Take it. We'll end this nonsense. She's never, ever going to do that. Never. I hope they do have DNA because it will be rock solid evidence and this nightmare will be over. One way or another, end it. All right, more in a minute. 85:16 Here's something I want you to hear. It's Medicare open enrollment. Yay! The only time of year where you can make changes to your Medicare plan. But I have some bad news. I've just been looking at some research, and this is amazing. It shows that only 1 in 10 Americans are on the right plan for their needs. And it's worse than that. The average person was overspending more than $1,000 a year, and 1 in 10 are spending $2,000 more than necessary, and they have no idea. This could be you. The system is so confusing. It's easy to pay too much and never know it. But right now, Medicare open enrollment, the one window every year where you can fix it. 85:51 That's why I want you to fix it now with Chapter, the only Medicare advisors that I trust. So dial pound 250 and say the keyword Chapter. A couple from my audience, Tamara and Dean, they called chapter. They're saving almost $3,000 this year. The call is free. Takes 20 minutes, maybe. Dial pound 250. Say the keyword chapter. Act now before you're left overpaying or on the wrong coverage for another year. Pound 250 chapter. 86:57 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. 87:07 Glenn Beck is on. 87:12 Hello America, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. 87:16 Got a lot to talk to you about. We've covered Elon, Elon, Elon. 87:22 Everybody seems to be going to jail today. There was an arrest of yet another Democrat. This time the DOJ went after a Democrat in Virginia. 87:36 We'll give you the update on that. 87:39 uh and i want to talk to you a little bit about socialists because i think people are uh i don't know who these socialists are at least that's that's uh that's how i think we feel have you ever met one I've only met one on a college campus, but have you ever met one? What are they like? Who are they? How do they get there in this country? Well, one way to get there is a lack of gratitude and a lack of perspective on who we really are and what we have as a nation. 88:15 But I want to talk to you about these Marxist elites and what you're actually dealing with in a way that I think all of us can understand. We'll do that here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about American financing. Somewhere in America right now, there is a person who has never missed a credit card payment in his life. And every time he pays a bill, he pays it on time. He's responsible. He's done everything the banks have ever asked him to do. And the banks love him because he's paying them a fortune in interest. 88:41 You can be perfectly responsible. You can make all of your payments and still find yourself in a situation where you're barely making progress. And with today's interest rates, that is a real problem for a lot of American families. If you own a home, I want to talk to you about American financing. They can help you explore options for consolidating high interest debt, including potentially using the equity in your home that you've built in your home. If you have a low interest mortgage, do not give that up. But there are other options available to you. I want you to call and find out how you can borrow against your home without resetting everything and what the terms are and the risks. 89:19 It's worth having a conversation with people who can walk you through the possibilities. Call them today, 800-906-2440, 800-906-2440, or go to AmericanFinancing.net. NMLS 182334, NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Average savings based on borrowers who save up for $199.99. 89:35 So I want to base what I have to say on a monologue or an op-ed piece that was at glennbeck.com earlier this week, and it was made by Michaela, who's absolutely one of my favorite people on earth. She is so bright. 89:55 She's a really godly woman and very, very smart and compassionate. She's better than most of us combined, I think. 90:03 And here's her flaws. She has a degree in acting. Okay. 90:08 What a worthless. So she has a degree in acting. 90:12 And she married a guy. And I'm not making this up. 90:18 that went to clown school. Now, the Harvard of clown schools, don't get me wrong, it's the Harvard of clown schools, but it's still a clown school. And she has played an angel and a Greek goddess and an astronaut's wife and all of the other crap that every actor has ever played. 90:38 She knows the arts. 90:40 And so she came to me and she's like, Glenn, I want to write an op-ed for glenbeck.com. 90:45 And I said, okay, what do you want to write about? And she said, I recognize these democratic socialists. 90:51 And I recognize them in a way most people will miss. 90:55 So she did. And I want you to go to glenbeck.com and read it. Midterms are right around the corner. DSA is on the rise. Most of us are watching and go, what are these people thinking? 91:06 Who votes for socialists? 91:09 And to answer that question... 91:13 Let me take you back to the 2016 aspiring young rapper named Young Cardamom. 91:22 We now know him as Mayor Zoran Mamdani. 91:29 Same year, a young woman from a middle-class family in Lubbock, Texas, had just moved to New York to become a painter. 91:37 And she paid the rent working at Taco Bell and Trader Joe's and Pizza Hut. 91:43 And today, she's a state assemblywoman. And this summer, she won the Democratic primary for Congress with Bernie Sanders in her corner. 91:51 And a Yale man who studied literature and sculpture and was selling other people's art in a Chelsea gallery. You know, one of the nice Chelsea galleries. It's like the Harvard of clown schools. 92:04 Today, he's the co-chair of the New York City DSA, drawing $95,000 a year plus benefits. He lives in Brooklyn in a townhouse. His parents bought and renovated, worth about a million and a half bucks. His father built a construction business. 92:21 And for years, his social media handle has been Union Gustavo. And his profile says Union Electrician. 92:30 But that's not really true. 92:33 The electrician's union threw him out of its apprenticeship for not showing up to work or to class. But his profile still says union electrician. It's kind of like, I'm a doctor. I've never really actually seen a patient, but I'm a doctor. I got the coat. So you have a rapper, the painter, and a sculptor. 92:54 That's the bench of the largest socialist organization in American history. 92:59 Now with more than 120,000 dues paying members, this is the head of it. 93:07 So who are these people? Well, Nate Silver came out and he had a great answer for it. He said, highly educated and downwardly mobile. Okay. 93:20 You did everything you were told. They did everything. You went to a good school. You got good grades. You got a degree that your professors told you would be as noble as medicine, except it wasn't medicine. Then you graduated, and the engineering major down the hall got a six-figure offer, and you got an apron at a place you didn't need to study to go work at. 93:43 That hurts. 93:45 The rent is real. The loans are real. 93:49 Now, frying tacos is an honest work that nobody should ever sneer at. But at the moment, every young person chooses between two conclusions. 93:59 One is, I need to find something that will pay. 94:04 The other is, the system is rigged against the people who see the world as it should be. And I'm one of those people. 94:12 The second one feels better. It does. 94:15 It turns your disappointment into a cause. 94:18 I don't have to change. The world has to change. Come on, let's all change it together. 94:24 And believe me, drama people are full of drama. 94:28 Now comes the second problem. 94:31 The circle's where these people live. 94:34 Privilege is the worst thing you can have. 94:38 And many of these aspiring artists turned DSA leaders have privilege. 94:44 I was taking tap when I was five. I took piano and voice and summer programs. And I had a mom who drove me to every audition and a dad who paid for the fine arts degree. It was the bravest thing I've ever done. 94:58 In the article, Michaela says, plainly, outside of rare cases, the arts are not a poor kid's game. 95:08 True. 95:10 It's absolutely true. And nobody wants to be a starving artist. Nobody does. 95:15 So what do you do with a rich father in a room where rich fathers are the villain? 95:23 Well, you have a couple of choices. You can confess it or you can put on a costume, a hard hat, a union card, the name of a trade you never finished. I'm a union electrician. 95:37 Are you? 95:39 You sound like a kid who grew up with privilege that didn't want to do any work whatsoever, and now you're hiding behind that. 95:47 And the artists, you know, the art world, very good at costumes. They get it. They're very good at acting, good at getting attention, making a room feel something, anything, taking that applause, taking that bow. That is the job. 96:06 On a stage, it's a gift. 96:10 In politics, it's the audience getting played. 96:15 Now, don't get me wrong. We run a costume shop, too. 96:19 I mean, I have brand new Carhartt clothing up at my ranch. 96:25 I've never mended a fence. Never, never done it. I mean... 96:31 I drive my pickup truck because I like it, not because I have to. I have people that run my ranch. I'm not going anywhere near the pregnancy check for my cattle. I'm not sticking my arm up there. I'm not doing it. 96:44 Same shop, different rack. We all wear costumes from time to time. 96:49 But this is dangerous because let me take you back to Russia. Summer of 1874. 96:55 Thousands of university students, many of them sons and daughters of the landowners and the officials and the czars and all of these people. They've got diamonds and Fabergé eggs. 97:09 And they decide the revolution is going to come for the peasants. 97:13 All somebody has to do is go out and get the villages to wake them up. So they put costumes on. 97:20 Rough peasant shirts. 97:22 Bark shoes. Not making that up. Bark shoes. 97:26 Some of them learn to cobble boots or saw lumber so they'll have a trade to hide behind. No, I'm just like you. 97:34 They called it going out to the people. 97:37 And they walk out into the countryside carrying pamphlets to explain how the peasants are being so badly cheated. 97:43 And the peasants look at them. 97:47 And then the stories say they looked at their hands and they realized, you're a total fraud. You speak like the city. You don't have a single callus on a single hand. 97:58 And they were explaining to the village men who had never left it. Oh, no, this is what's happening. And the village men are looking at it like, you're not a peasant, okay? 98:09 And the peasant quietly listened, politely. Then they walked down the road and turned them into the police. More than a thousand of these frauds were arrested. 98:19 One trial alone had nearly 200 defendants. 98:24 Now, the students didn't go home and rethink anything. 98:28 Some of them decided that if the people wouldn't be persuaded, then the people would have to be acted for. And so they stopped printing pamphlets and started bombing buildings. They started building bombs and setting them off. 1881, they killed the czar. 98:48 Not just any czar, the one who had 20 for 20 years had freed the serfs. 98:55 They murdered the man who freed the peasants in the name of the peasants because the peasants wouldn't follow them. 99:05 See, this is where the costume goes when the audience stops clapping, not to humility, to contempt. And the audience is about to stop clapping for these people because it's going to figure it out. It's only a matter of time. 99:18 If the working man won't believe you, then he has to be stupid or brainwashed or voting against his own interests or a traitor to his own race. You've heard the phrase over and over again. 99:32 We're living an 1874 podcast right now. That's what's happening. 99:38 Think about the electrician who didn't finish the apprenticeship. 99:42 Five and a half years, up before dawn, night classes after a full job, you know, on a bad job site, a bad shoulder by 40. 99:54 He's the man the costume was borrowed from and is now sitting on that guy that never did anything. 100:03 Think about the woman who is still, you know, working with a friar at 45, long after the painter passed through on her way to Congress. 100:11 They don't need somebody to play them. Do you know the story of Marie Antoinette? 100:20 Do you know why the French people were so angry at her? It's not the cake thing. Let them eat cake. 100:27 That probably was never even said. And if it was, it wasn't like, well, let them eat cake. It was, in her world, cake was so plentiful that Well, there's plenty of cake. If they don't have bread, why don't they just have cake? There's always cake around. That phrase was more about her just being so out of touch. But do you know who she was? Do you know that by the time the revolution came, she wasn't even living in the palace? She was so sickened by the palace. She was so disgusted by living that life. 101:00 And she couldn't go anywhere because she was the queen. So she had to live at Versailles. But she lived, I think it was like a mile away. I mean, I was just there. It's astounding that more people don't know this. She actually built a second palace. 101:18 On the site of Versailles. And she was living there. And all of the elites were pissed at her because why? She's living at this palace that she had all of this wood brought in and all of this stuff brought in. She built it to look like a peasant's town. 101:36 And then she had clothing made. 101:38 To make her look like a peasant, even though she wasn't a peasant and she wasn't living a peasant's life. And she would go out and she'd milk the cow and she was living the life of a regular everyday person. But it wasn't an everyday person. And so when the people finally stormed the gates of Versailles and saw that, they hated her. Because they're like, look at she's mocking us. 102:03 That's what's coming, gang. You are living the life of Marie Antoinette. You're dressing up as a union worker and you're not a union worker. 102:13 And when the people find out who you are, they're not going to be happy. 102:22 These people just need somebody to hear them. 102:25 And when you ask them what they want, they rarely say abolish the Senate or public ownership of large corporations. They're starting to. They'll just say instead, I want people to lower the rent. 102:39 I want somebody to leave my paycheck alone. 102:42 I want my kids to do better than me. 102:46 The last one is a tell. Because people in costumes are the kids who did not do better than their parents. And they decided that it was everybody else's fault that they didn't do better than their parents. 103:02 So what do you take out of this? Let me tell you in 60 seconds. First, we're approaching a moment in history that, you know, if you don't believe most people, I mean, if you believe most people, I think most people have not fully considered this fact. Very soon, there's not going to be anyone left who can tell us from personal experience what it was like to survive the Holocaust. For 80 years, we've had living witnesses to one of the darkest chapters in human history. People who lost their families, their homes, almost everything they knew. 103:32 And now those survivors in their 90s, some are living alone, struggling to afford food and medicine. They've already endured more than any of us can imagine. And when they have their final years... 103:44 When they're gone, now this is when the real monsters can come out and say, no, it never happened. Because no one's around with a number on their arm. This is why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is providing food and essential assistance to vulnerable Jewish people, including Holocaust survivors, because we care. We don't want those people being alone. 104:04 It's why I'm excited about their flags of fellowship movement, because the flags represent something the Jewish people were denied 80 years ago, the assurance that they are not alone. These flags are a visible declaration that Christians around the world are continuing to stand with the Jewish people. 104:20 That's rare. 104:22 Will you be one of those people? Are you brave enough to just display a Jewish flag, an Israeli flag? 104:29 Or is that too much to ask? Because if that's too hard, wow, the future is only going to be harder. 104:35 Join fof.org right now. Flags of Fellowship. Join fof.org now. 10 seconds, Station ID. 104:56 So here's what you get. 104:58 I think what we should take from this story, and you can read this whole article at glenbeck.com, but in your own life, whether you're 18 or 80, you can wear somebody else's clothing, but you can't wear their calluses. 105:22 If you really want to do something great with your life, go earn your calluses. Go get your own. Earn them. 105:30 If you're one of the young people with a degree and the apron and the anger, I'm not laughing at you. I'm not. I never finished college. 105:41 I know what it's like to feel behind. 105:45 But the way out has never been to wear a costume or anger or violence. It never has been. 105:51 It has always been the work. 105:55 The something that no one can take from you. 105:58 And nobody can fake it for you. 106:04 The work is everything. 106:06 You know, FDR, he knew that this welfare state was bad. He called it workfare. You had to work to get the government to support you. Do you know why? Because he said the minute you take work away from people, they lose their own self-respect. And that's what's happening. So many people are on the dole that they don't have respect for themselves. You know, the fastest way to wreck a child, if you're wealthy, the fastest way to wreck them is to give them everything. 106:35 You know what happens? 106:36 The strangest things. Your parents give you everything. You end up resenting them. 106:42 That's a fact. Look it up. 106:45 Oh, my God. I sounded like Joe Biden there for a second. 106:48 Anyway, Michaela ends the piece by saying they expect you to sit in the audience and clap. 106:57 The Russian peasant in 1874 had no vote, no newspaper, no degree. He had one thing. He knew what work looked like. 107:07 So do you. 107:09 Don't clap. 107:12 Look at their hands. 107:14 Are they soft and supple and look like they've never worked a day in their life? 107:20 Yeah. 107:22 Then maybe, maybe when they put on the union label, they don't have an idea at all of what they're talking about and they cannot relate to being you and help you get out from the man because they are the man in disguise. 107:41 All right. Final half hour of the program coming up next. 107:49 Human beings have this wonderful concept called retirement. 107:55 You work hard for 40 or 50 years. Eventually, you get to slow down, relax, maybe take up golf, spend the rest of your life complaining about how much everything costs. But your dog's never heard of retirement. You know, there's one word in Hebrew that doesn't exist. It exists in English and other languages, but not in Hebrew. 108:13 Retirement. In God's language, you're working until you die. One way or another, you're serving until you die. 108:22 But the dog, I mean, they have the squirrel. It's been trespassing on the property for six years, still at large. You know, lots of things. Your dog gets older, the body may not be quite as enthusiastic about the responsibility that he or she has. That's where Friend Factor comes in. Friend Factor was developed by the same people who created Relief Factor, and it's designed to support your dog's mobility, joint health, inflammatory response. Because even as your dog ages... You want him to be able to enjoy the activities that make his life fun. 108:53 So let's help him. The back-breaking work of being a dog. First bag of Friend Factor today will help him live his best life. 1995, relieffactor.com. It's friendfactor, relieffactor.com. 109:06 Read more about the bizarre trend of DSA leaders with failed artist resumes up now at glennbeck.com. 109:38 You know, I want to play something that I just think is so amazing. We're just talking about electricians. And the left is talking right now about how we've just got to get rid of Elon Musk. We've got to put him in jail. He's going to be in jail. And they mean it. They will put that guy in jail. And to me, Elon Musk is the quintessential example of the American we would all want to be. 110:07 You know, that we are inventors, we're explorers, we're doing things that just nobody had even thought of. And we're doing it with high, high quality and with integrity as well. And then, you know, don't you kind of want to be like, you know... 110:25 Tony Stark, in a way, if you were a billionaire, wouldn't you want to be kind of like Tony Stark and just do these crazy things you want? And then he's giving, what is it, $10 billion to the Trump accounts for the future of America, putting his stock right into kids he doesn't know, right into their portfolio. He's putting Tesla, SpaceX stock in there, $10 billion worth. That's a great thing. 110:52 But he's also creating job. Listen to this. This is cut eight. These are electricians who are now coming out in Memphis talking about the data centers with SpaceX. Listen to this. 111:06 There are so many people here today, but they're actually not from Memphis. I'm going to give you a look into that right now. 111:13 Dallas, Fort Worth. 111:15 Orlando, Florida. Augusta, Georgia. 111:19 St. Petersburg, Florida. 111:21 And the reason they're here today is data centers. 111:24 Tell Elon Musk, the state, we love this money you're giving us, man. 111:28 Those aren't words heard too often in Memphis, where the debate over a data center moratorium remains one of the most heated in the city. But for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, data centers mean dollar signs. 111:41 We haven't had this much work and money in a while, so to be down in the south and to get this much money is a big thing for the union, a big thing for us. 111:48 We're talking over $8,000 a week. At least that's what electricians at IBEW's Midtown office tell me, and it explains why they're coming from all over. 111:58 I'm from IBEW Local 369, Louisville, Kentucky. I'm out of Local 446, Monroe, Louisiana. We left Boise out a whole three days. It took us three days to get here. We just got here. I slept in the parking lot. We made it here, what, 10 o'clock last night. It was already packed, so... 112:13 And for those wondering, well, what about local workers? These electricians explained to me that locals get first call. 112:20 If the people that's here want the job, they go first. And, you know, we come from other places and we be on book two. And that's how we get the job. 112:29 This is the gold rush. I'm sorry, but the data centers are the gold rush of today. And nobody's looking at this. The jobs that it is creating, all of the factories that are being built beyond the data centers, all those things that are coming down the horizon, it's not just going to be factory workers down the road. It's the building of these factories. 112:50 It's the rebuilding of our infrastructure that is really on the horizon that I find exciting that nobody's really paying attention to, but maybe that's just me. 113:00 Now, you have that, or you can complain about people like Elon Musk. 113:08 You could take, I mean, one of the things that the left is trying to do is make you hate corporations. Listen to this. Here's commies, you know, a montage from all of the media saying about corporate greed. Listen to this. 113:22 Stickers bar, they did a thing. And it's like 20% less for the same price. That's corporate greed. 113:28 There's a real distinction to be made between inflation and price gouging. A lot of these price increases are potentially due to just straight price gouging by corporations. 113:39 Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day depending on what they can get away with. We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores, whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. 113:53 Price of grocery is still too high. I get it. Which is why I have a plan that is about bringing down the cost of groceries, including going after corporate price gouging. 114:02 Everybody goes to the grocery store. They don't want to get ripped off at the grocery store. So yeah, absolutely. 114:08 I can't take anymore. You get the point. I can't take anymore. corporate greed, corporate greed. It was because they inflated our money and there was 22% inflation. That never is going to go away. Once you start to inflate money, unless you suck that money back with jacked high interest rates, you're not going to get that inflation to go away. 114:28 But if you ask any socialist candidate in America, why are my groceries so bad? They tell you that same answer every time. Corporate greed, corporate greed. The big companies are gouging you. Look, I have to tell you, the dynamic pricing, that is real, and that is awful. But I don't understand why the socialists against it, because the people who will pay more are the people who have more. 114:54 I mean, that's progressive, isn't it? 114:56 But their cure always is to sell you more government. In New York, the mayor's planning the city-owned grocery store's 30% discount on a basket of basics. You're not going to see that grocery store in a couple of years. 115:09 If you're 22, you just paid $6 for a dozen eggs and $12 for a burger. And that doesn't feel right. I'm sorry, it doesn't. Every time I go through a drive-thru, I'm like, this is insane. This is insane. This is insane. 115:23 So somebody's getting rich and it's not me, right? So let's test it, honestly. 115:29 This is what you need to say to your socialist friends. 115:32 Were the corporations greedy in 2015? Of course they were. 2016, yes. 2017, 18, 19? Of course, every year they're greedy, right? Companies have always wanted the highest price they can get. That's not a secret. That's called business, all right? So in all of those years, inflation stayed low at 2% or less. Then in 2021, the prices exploded. 115:59 The same time, the worst inflation in 40 years. So here's a question. Anybody who says it's greed. 116:06 If greed never changed and always is the same, how do you explain the prices being under control until inflation kicks in? 116:18 When your car suddenly starts smoking, you're not blaming gravity. Gravity was there yesterday. 116:26 You look for what's different. And here's what's different. In February of 2020, the total amount of money sloshing around the American economy in what economists call the M2 money supply. Trust me, you don't want to go down this road. I did this for over a year to learn all this stuff, so you don't have to. But it's the M2 money supply. 116:45 That's about $15.5 trillion. 116:50 That means all the cash that is out. 116:53 Two years later, it was $21.8 trillion. That's a 40% jump in two years. More than $6 trillion new dollars printed in two years. At the same time, the Federal Reserve more than doubled the size of its balance sheet from about $4 trillion to $9 trillion. They bought up all of our government debt and mortgages with money that did not exist the day before. And then Congress started mailing checks, three rounds of them, $1,200, then $600, then $1,400 per person. 117:29 According to the IRS, about $814 billion went out in those payments alone, so almost a trillion dollars. 117:38 This is not a one-party story. 117:41 This is not a story of greed. This is a story of politicians. The first rounds of checks were signed by Donald Trump. The third, Joe Biden. Both parties voted for the spending. Both parties cheered. The Fed doesn't belong to either one of those parties, but they're all in on it. If you're looking for a Republican villain or a Democratic villain, you're going to find both the villains are living in Washington, D.C. Everyone's a villain in this. 118:07 And here's how it works. 118:10 I want you to picture a small town for a second. Picture a small town, 100 families, one bakery, and every week the bakery makes 1,000 loaves of bread. 118:22 On Monday, the government hands out a big fat check, but it doesn't hand the baker a single extra bag of flour. 118:33 In fact, half of his workers are stuck at home. 118:37 And his flour truck is sitting at the port. 118:40 But there's still only 1,000 loaves. But now people have enough money to buy maybe two loaves of bread. Some of them want four loaves of bread because they like bread. 118:51 What happens to the price of bread? 118:54 What happens? You already know. 118:56 I mean, you don't even have to think like a baker. 118:59 The baker didn't get greedier on Monday. The town had more dollars chasing the same loaves of bread. There was a thousand loaves of bread. The baker can't make any more. Now people want four loaves of bread. There was exactly one for every household. There's not enough. That's inflation. More money, the same stuff. Higher prices. That's exactly what Washington built. 119:21 It shut down the bakeries and printed more money at the same time. 119:28 Were there other factories? 119:30 Yeah. Yeah, there were. Supply chains broke. 119:33 Energy spiked. A war in Ukraine. 119:37 And did some of the countries in the chaos pad their margins? Of course, some did. Sure, they did. 119:43 But only a company, a company can only raise its prices and keep its customers when the customers have money to pay. 119:54 Who put money in their pockets? 119:57 You did. 119:59 I did. 120:02 Notice something about inflation. 120:05 It doesn't show up as a tax bill. Nobody votes on it. Your paycheck stays exactly the same and your dollar buys less. It is the one tax politicians never have to defend, but it is the most pernicious of taxes. So, you know, when it hits, they point to the guy behind the counter. 120:25 The grocery store guy, he's the perfect scapegoat. You see the price there. You never see the printing press of the money. You see the price. He's got the smallest margin of anyone in your day. 120:39 Now, what do the socialists do about it? 120:41 They say we're going to control the prices. We're going to make the store charge less. 120:46 We're going to have the city run the store. 120:50 Holy cow, is that a bad idea? You know, America tried this once, and it wasn't a socialist who did it. It was Richard Nixon in 1971. Anybody who's a big fan of Richard Nixon now, remember, he's the guy who froze wages and prices across the entire country because it was popular for a while. And then the shelves started to empty out. By 1973, feed for chickens cost more than farmers were allowed to charge for chickens. 121:17 So farmers drowned their baby chicks rather than raise them at a loss because they couldn't feed them and stay afloat. 121:25 So they were drowning chickens. Wait, what? 121:29 People watching it on the evening news. The controls came off. Inflation roared back worse than it was before. The lesson isn't about one party. Nixon was a Republican. 121:40 It's about when any politician promises to make things cheaper by ordering it, the thing doesn't get cheaper. It gets scarce. 121:51 A low price on an empty shelf has never fed anyone. Ask the people in Venezuela who are eating dogs. 122:00 A price is not a number somebody made up to hurt you. A price is a message. It tells the farmer, grow more. It tells the trucker, this route is worth driving. When you pay more at a gas station, what is it telling you? It should tell you two things. It tells you war is costing us, and we need more oil, and we need more refineries. It's a message. It's not a gouge. It's a message. 122:31 It tells you maybe buy chicken this week instead of beef. 122:36 When the government forces the price down, it doesn't change the cost. It cuts the phone line. It cuts the message coming to you. And when nobody can hear the message, nobody brings bread. 122:51 That's why the free market is not a better choice. 122:56 It's the only choice. Not because businessmen are saints. They're not. 123:02 But in a free market, a greedy grocer has a problem because the grocer across the street, if one store is gouging you, the one across the street undercuts it and takes its customers. Competition does what no regulator ever could. It makes greed serve you, not them. 123:24 But when the city owns the grocery store, who's the competition? 123:29 And if it loses money on every gallon of milk, who covers the loss? 123:33 You do, as the taxpayer. You'll pay for that 30%. 123:38 You'll pay that 30%. We're going to give you a discount. No, you're not. I'm going to pay for it in another way. You just pay for it at a different counter. 123:46 So if you're thinking Marxism is great, you're not crazy. Life did get really, really, really expensive fast. 123:57 But you're paying for a party that you weren't invited to. But if you want to stop, aim at the right target. Ask the candidate what he's going to do about the spending, not the store, the government spending. And parents, next time your kids complain about a price, bring them back to the level of the local grocery store, the bakery. They'll get it in 30 seconds. Most of Congress doesn't get it today, but they will. Because there's still a rule that will save you. 124:30 In your money and in your life, this is what saves you. Before you blame the person in front of you, find out who wrote the rules they're playing by. The baker didn't print the money. He just put the price on the bread. 124:43 Back in a minute. 124:45 You know, if you scratch the paint on your car, it stays scratched. 124:49 If you crack the screen on your phone, it doesn't grow a new screen. You know, your refrigerator breaks down. 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