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[00:02:46]  It's Friday.
[00:02:48]  And we got a lot.
[00:02:49]  I'm going to start with Epstein, man.
[00:02:51]  This thing is, this is craziness.
[00:02:53]  Just when you think, all right, it gets even crazier.
[00:02:59]  We're going to talk about that also.
[00:03:01]  We'll have Alan Dershowitz talk about that as well at the bottom of the hour coming up in about 30 minutes.
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[00:03:09]  Is this what we've been asking for forever?
[00:03:11]  I mean, is this Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg?
[00:03:15]  I hope.

=== New Epstein Death Evidence (12:31) ===

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[00:04:40]  From CBS News, newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed an orange-colored shape.
[00:04:58]  I don't know about you, but orange-colored shapes move around my house all the time.
[00:05:04]  An orange-colored shape was moving up the staircase towards the isolated locked tier where Jeffrey Epstein's cell was located at approximately 10.39 p.m. on August 9th, 2019.
[00:05:20]  That entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities.
[00:05:30]  A flash of orange looks to be going up the L tier stairs.
[00:05:36]  Could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that tier.
[00:05:40]  That's what's in their observation log.
[00:05:42]  This again, reported now by CBS News.
[00:05:46]  It also appears, according to an FBI memorandum, that reviews by investigators left disparate conclusions by the FBI and those examining the same video from the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.
[00:06:01]  FBI log describes the fuzzy image as possibly an inmate.
[00:06:07]  I don't know if you know this, but inmates at 1039 are not going around in that area outside of their cell.
[00:06:16]  So, FBI, that doesn't make sense.
[00:06:19]  The inspector general logs it as an officer carrying orange linen or bedding.
[00:06:27]  Okay, we now know they knew when they wrote that in there, they knew that betting is delivered the shift before this.
[00:06:34]  So it would have been five o'clock in the afternoon before these people were even in.
[00:06:38]  That's when you deliver betting.
[00:06:40]  No one is allowed on that floor at 10.39.
[00:06:44]  You would have to lock, you would have to log in.
[00:06:47]  So delivering betting?
[00:06:50]  No.
[00:06:52]  The guards say that would have been a breach of protocol and you would have had to sign something.
[00:07:02]  The final report says approximately 10.39 p.m., an unidentified CO appeared to walk up the L-tier stairway.
[00:07:10]  So we're no longer just an orange shape.
[00:07:13]  This orange shape seems to have legs and then reappeared within the view of the camera at 10.41 p.m.
[00:07:20]  Official reports state that Epstein died by suicide sometime before 6.30 a.m. when his body was discovered before breakfast.
[00:07:27]  Blah, blah, blah.
[00:07:29]  An in-depth analysis of surveillance video from the jail, CBS News previously reported on the figure on the stairs and consulted independent video analysts who say the movement was more consistent with an inmate or someone wearing an orange prison uniform than a corrections officer.
[00:07:47]  The new records raise more questions about the activity near Epstein's tier late that evening.
[00:07:53]  Official reviews of Epstein's death make no mention of the figure in.
[00:07:57]  Let me just say, official reviews of Epstein's death make no mention of the figure in orange.
[00:08:04]  And later pronouncements from authorities, including the Attorney General at the time, Bill Barr, were that no one entered Epstein's housing tier the night of his death.
[00:08:15]  Last summer, in an interview on Fox and Friends, then Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said, quote, there's video clear as day.
[00:08:23]  He is the only person in there and the only person coming out.
[00:08:28]  You can see it.
[00:08:29]  Prison employees interviewed by CBS News said escorting an inmate at that hour would have been highly unusual.
[00:08:37]  The identification of the individual could have been crucial to reconstructing the events.
[00:08:42]  You think so?
[00:08:43]  Given that the sighting occurred within the estimated window of Epstein's possible time of death.
[00:08:49]  Okay, I warn you, this is about to get worse.
[00:08:53]  The staircase leading to his cell tier was captured by the only camera known to have been recording that night, positioned in a way that partially obscured the approach to Epstein's tier.
[00:09:05]  Government investigators relied heavily on that footage in reconstructing the timeline of the events.
[00:09:12]  But because of the camera's angle, it was not possible to rule out whether somebody could have climbed the stairs and entered the tier without being clearly visible.
[00:09:21]  CBS News analysts of that analysis of that video found additional contradictions between what the video showed and the official statements.
[00:09:31]  Okay, you ready?
[00:09:34]  Buckle up.
[00:09:36]  I just learned some things in the next few paragraphs that I didn't know.
[00:09:42]  Among those interviewed were the two corrections officers assigned to the unit that night.
[00:09:47]  Let me just ask you, what do you know about these guys?
[00:09:50]  All I know about these guys is they fell asleep.
[00:09:54]  Okay, that's all I know about them.
[00:09:56]  Tova Noel and Guito Bonholm were assigned to the unit that night.
[00:10:06]  They've not been publicly identified until now.
[00:10:09]  Documents show Bonholm was interviewed twice in September 2019 in sessions conducted in lieu of a grand jury jury subpoena.
[00:10:18]  Huh, interesting.
[00:10:20]  According to Noel's account, Bonholm had been working multiple consecutive shifts and slept while on duty for a period of approximately 10 p.m. and midnight.
[00:10:30]  Investigators also questioned Noel about the unexplained change in the recorded number of inmates in the SHU, which appeared to drop from 73 to 72 sometime between 10 and 3 a.m.
[00:10:46]  She said she was just probably mistaken about the discrepancy and told investigators she had no memory of account changing.
[00:10:54]  Okay, I'm just going to just dismiss that one.
[00:10:57]  That's just somebody just writing the wrong number in.
[00:10:59]  Okay, let's just go with that.
[00:11:00]  He can't do it with the rest of this stuff.
[00:11:03]  Neither officer, neither officer, were specifically asked about the orange-colored figure noted in the video observation log.
[00:11:14]  Bonholm told investigators that he did not remember the period between 10 p.m. and midnight, said he had no recollection of anyone walking up the stairs towards Epstein's tier around 10.30.
[00:11:24]  Yeah, because he was asleep.
[00:11:26]  He added, however, that a jail employee entering a tier alone would have violated all of their policies.
[00:11:34]  Yeah, probably sleep would have too.
[00:11:36]  A separate internal presentation, included in the document released, described a corrections officer believed by investigators to be Noel, carrying linen or inmate clothing up to the tier.
[00:11:50]  The 2023 Inspector General report did not identify Noel as the figure seen in the footage.
[00:11:56]  In her interview, Noel told investigators, distributing linen was not part of my duties.
[00:12:03]  I never gave out linen ever because that's done on the shift prior.
[00:12:09]  Okay, so they leave this out in the Inspector General report, but they do not address the orange figure that is moving up.
[00:12:18]  They just say it's not these two.
[00:12:20]  You ready?
[00:12:22]  Okay, here we go.
[00:12:26]  Thomas and Noel failed to complete inmate counts at 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., as well as mandatory 30-minute wellness checks of Epstein.
[00:12:35]  All night long, they didn't do any of those things.
[00:12:39]  Thomas and Noel were later charged with falsifying records, certifying the inmate counts had been completed.
[00:12:45]  Federal prosecutors eventually dropped the charges in exchange for cooperation agreements that included interviews.
[00:12:52]  A transcript of Thomas's interview conducted two years after Epstein's death and released in the recent document disclosure shows significant gaps in his recollection of the morning Epstein was found.
[00:13:04]  Ready?
[00:13:05]  Thomas told investigators he discovered Epstein in his cell shortly after 6.30 a.m. on August 10th and that he ripped Epstein down from the hanging position.
[00:13:18]  Investigators asked, What happened to the noose?
[00:13:26]  What happened to the noose?
[00:13:29]  Have you heard any of this before?
[00:13:31]  What happened to the noose?
[00:13:33]  Quote, I don't recall taking the noose off.
[00:13:36]  I really don't.
[00:13:38]  I don't recall taking the thing from around his neck.
[00:13:41]  Noel, who remained standing at the cell entrance, told investigators she saw Thomas lower Epstein to the floor, but did not see a noose around his neck.
[00:13:51]  The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been identified.
[00:14:00]  According to the Inspector General's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the noose used in Epstein's death.
[00:14:12]  Okay, all right.
[00:14:13]  First you had us believe that it was a paper noose.
[00:14:18]  Now you're saying the paper noose that was found was not the noose that killed him.
[00:14:22]  In fact, you can't find the noose, the paper noose.
[00:14:26]  And this one was later added to the scene.
[00:14:30]  By whom? By whom? By whom? By whom? By whom?
[00:14:36]  Thomas also described Epstein as shirtless when they found him.
[00:14:41]  Evidence records indicate a shirt believed to have been cut from Epstein's body was later returned from the hospital in a bag of personal stuff.
[00:14:48]  New documents also show that New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reviewed the jail surveillance footage six days after the death as part of his investigation, but concluded the video was too blurry to identify any individuals.
[00:15:01]  Hours later, the office publicly ruled Epstein's death a suicide.
[00:15:05]  Wait, you don't have the murderer suicide weapon.
[00:15:11]  The weapon that you do have, the noose, is not the noose that killed him.
[00:15:16]  No explanation on how that arrived later at the scene.
[00:15:20]  You have a blurry figure.
[00:15:22]  I don't care that you can't identify.
[00:15:23]  You have a blurry figure going up in the middle of the night, and you can't identify that individual, but it's a blurry figure going up, and yet you rule this a suicide.
[00:15:35]  That is fascinating to me.
[00:15:37]  By the way, CBS News previously reported on the office's unorthodox handling of the crime scene.

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[00:17:38]  What is the biggest problem in America right now?
[00:17:40]  What is the problem that we face?
[00:17:43]  I think there are two big problems.
[00:17:45]  One, we have no idea how our government works.
[00:17:50]  We can't describe our rights.
[00:17:52]  We can't describe our responsibilities.
[00:17:55]  We have no idea about the three branches of government.
[00:17:58]  No one knows how this system works.
[00:18:01]  And so it's working however it wants to work because the people have fallen asleep.
[00:18:06]  There's problem number one.
[00:18:08]  Number two, because the people fell asleep, there's all kinds of shady stuff going on that we all know now because it is so, I'll bet you a third of our budget is gone in graft and bribes and whatever.
[00:18:27]  I'll bet you a third of our federal budget is nothing but a con, okay?
[00:18:33]  You know that.
[00:18:34]  I know that.
[00:18:34]  You can't trust the media.
[00:18:37]  You can't trust anybody anymore.
[00:18:38]  And now when they release, this is the problem with the Epstein thing.
[00:18:42]  Okay.
[00:18:43]  This is the ultimate test of trust.
[00:18:48]  You have to get trust back or you don't have a nation.
[00:18:56]  So nothing has felt right with this.
[00:18:59]  Nothing has felt right with this.
[00:19:01]  I don't know what you're going to find, if anything, because I think so many people are involved.
[00:19:06]  Would I like to get to the bottom of this?
[00:19:08]  Yes.
[00:19:09]  Do I think we're going to get to the bottom of this?
[00:19:12]  No.
[00:19:13]  But thank God people are still looking into it that actually have the ability to look into it.
[00:19:18]  We still have a FISA warrant out or a FISA request out.
[00:19:22]  Oh, sorry, not FISA.
[00:19:24]  That's why I was getting screwed up.
[00:19:25]  FOIA, a FOIA request, Freedom of Information Act, about this.
[00:19:30]  And we've been stonewalled from the government.
[00:19:33]  I'd like to know why.
[00:19:36]  And you know what?
[00:19:37]  It would answer a lot of these questions, I think, because what we FOIA is happening right at the time that they're saying there's nothing to be seen here.
[00:19:50]  So, thank God people are still digging in and looking.
[00:19:55]  But let me just go through the problems that this is now caused.
[00:20:00]  You have an orange flash on the stairs.
[00:20:04]  Were you told of that?
[00:20:07]  Have we ever heard that before from, I mean, from any source in the government?
[00:20:11]  We were told there is nothing there.
[00:20:15]  Clearly, friends and foes both looked at that video and said, there is nothing there.
[00:20:23]  CBS had some analysts look into it and they're like, well, what's that orange thing moving up?
[00:20:28]  That's obviously a person.
[00:20:31]  Okay.
[00:20:33]  I thought there was nothing there.
[00:20:35]  Problem number two.
[00:20:38]  They knew this right away.
[00:20:41]  They knew it right away.
[00:20:43]  And then they dismissed it as if it was nothing.
[00:20:48]  Three.
[00:20:52]  There's no time of death.
[00:20:56]  The medical examiner said, because they took the body down, he couldn't tell a time of death.
[00:21:03]  Now, all my criminal CSI knowledge comes from television.
[00:21:09]  And I know reality is not television.
[00:21:12]  But you can't tell me that because you moved the body, you couldn't put your hand on the corpse and go, okay, that was an hour ago or that was last night at 10.30.
[00:21:26]  Just the body cooling would have told you something.
[00:21:30]  The medical examiner cannot assign time of death.
[00:21:33]  Well, that's interesting because if you could say it happened between 10 and midnight, maybe we would have been able to narrow things down.
[00:21:41]  But because it could have been done at 3 o'clock in the morning, could have been done at 5.45.
[00:21:46]  They walked in at 6.30.
[00:21:48]  He might have done it at 6.29.
[00:21:50]  That's bull crap, and you and I know it.
[00:21:53]  And then the worst thing is they don't remember the noose.
[00:22:00]  Nobody remembers taking the noose off.
[00:22:03]  Nobody remembers seeing a noose.
[00:22:06]  And then another noose, which they have determined was not the noose used, just magically appears in the cell later.
[00:22:17]  Excuse me?
[00:22:22]  I mean, there's just no way to square this circle.
[00:22:24]  There's no way to do it.
[00:22:27]  You cannot with any credibility say, yeah, this guy committed suicide.
[00:22:33]  Now, it may turn out that he committed suicide, but not until you lock all these other things down.
[00:22:38]  Who put the freaking noose?
[00:22:40]  The cameras weren't working at 6.30.
[00:22:42]  The cameras weren't working at 6.30.
[00:22:44]  They were turned off, okay?
[00:22:46]  And they said, well, one of the first things you would have done is, how come, did we see anybody walk in?
[00:22:54]  No, those cameras weren't on.
[00:22:56]  At 6.32, somebody would have said, turn the damn cameras on, right?
[00:23:04]  Nobody saw anything.
[00:23:06]  Nobody.
[00:23:06]  Who came into the room?
[00:23:08]  Who that would have been a crime scene?
[00:23:11]  Who had access to the room to throw a noose inside?
[00:23:16]  My gosh.
[00:23:17]  There's a reason why we don't believe the government.
[00:23:19]  There is a reason.
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[00:25:11]  It's, oh, shoot, I just lost it, but it's from Gabby.
[00:25:14]  And it said, yeah, I always carry around an extra paper noose.
[00:25:18]  I mean, come on, that one is just, that's insanity.
[00:25:22]  Alan Dershowitz is with us now.
[00:25:24]  We're going to talk about that.
[00:25:25]  And if we have time, Charlie Kirk, the murder trial, and so much, so much more.
[00:25:29]  Alan, how are you, sir?
[00:25:31]  Hey, I'm doing great.
[00:25:32]  I'm in Florida where it's nice and warm and not New York where it was, you know, 10 degrees.
[00:25:38]  So I'm very happy.
[00:25:40]  I'm writing away.
[00:25:41]  I'm on my 65th book.
[00:25:43]  So what could be better?
[00:25:44]  Jeez.
[00:25:45]  Oh, my gosh.
[00:25:46]  You know what?
[00:25:47]  You have the same kind of genes as Donald Trump.
[00:25:49]  You just never stop.
[00:25:51]  You just never stop.
[00:25:52]  Well, you know, New Yorkers.
[00:25:54]  He comes from Queens.
[00:25:55]  I come from Brooklyn.
[00:25:56]  It's in the water, I think.
[00:25:58]  Yeah, I know.
[00:25:59]  You keep moving or you die.
[00:26:02]  Let me ask you about the latest thing from CBS News is about they now see an orange flash on the stairs, and it's all in the documentation during the investigation.
[00:26:12]  There was somebody there that has not been identified.
[00:26:19]  The officers that cut him down or took him down have no recollection of a noose.
[00:26:25]  And then the noose that was found in the cell, according to federal documents now, was not the noose that did the job.
[00:26:32]  It appeared later.
[00:26:33]  Alan, I mean, this story just keeps getting worse and worse and worse for credibility for anybody to believe anything.
[00:26:42]  Well, the newest book I'm working on, the title is, it ain't necessarily so.
[00:26:48]  Comes from the Gershwin song in Porgy and Bessie.
[00:26:51]  It ain't necessarily so.
[00:26:53]  That's my attitude toward everything.
[00:26:55]  Doubt.
[00:26:57]  Always, always be a doubter.
[00:26:59]  Always wonder about the evidence.
[00:27:01]  Don't believe what they told you.
[00:27:04]  Make them prove it.
[00:27:05]  Make them prove it.
[00:27:06]  And I think your attitude on this show is always the same thing.
[00:27:10]  Show me, prove it.
[00:27:11]  And, you know, there are doubts.
[00:27:13]  There are doubts.
[00:27:16]  Like serious doubts.
[00:27:19]  Yeah.
[00:27:19]  I mean, every time I'm like, okay, we're not going to get to the bottom of this.
[00:27:22]  You know, maybe we should just, you know, realize what we're dealing with.
[00:27:28]  It's corrupt.
[00:27:29]  But and then it just gets worse and you're like, okay, come on.
[00:27:35]  Yeah, well, you know, I don't believe in truth as a stable fact.
[00:27:41]  I believe in the truthing process.
[00:27:44]  We are always trying harder and harder to get toward the truth.
[00:27:47]  Look, just recently, more doubts have been raised about whether there was a second shooter in the grassy knoll in the Kennedy case.
[00:27:56]  And, you know, that happened when I was a law clerk when I was 25 years old.
[00:28:01]  You know how many years ago that was?
[00:28:03]  We still have doubts about that.
[00:28:05]  And so we're going to have doubts about this until we resolve everything, until every single doubt gets at least subject to a very, very, very careful analysis.
[00:28:18]  And in the end, maybe we will know, maybe we won't know.
[00:28:22]  A jury will probably make a decision, although there are hints that there may be a plea bargain at this point.
[00:28:28]  We never know.
[00:28:29]  So, you know, if there's a plea bargain, then the evidence doesn't really come out and we may end up with even more doubts.
[00:28:38]  I mean, that was the problem.
[00:28:39]  The reason why we're still talking about the grassy knoll is because all of a sudden it went secret.
[00:28:44]  The government decided they weren't going to share any information.
[00:28:47]  Instead of just going, America, here it is.
[00:28:49]  Here's all the information.
[00:28:50]  They started to share.
[00:28:52]  And even if there was nothing, even if the story was exactly the way they say it happened, even if that is true or was true, because of the way the government behaved, they encouraged these things.
[00:29:05]  And we're going to point Alan that we're like, you've got no, nobody has any credibility left.
[00:29:11]  And with AI, it's only going to get worse.
[00:29:14]  It's going to get worse.
[00:29:15]  I have to tell you an interesting story.
[00:29:16]  This has not been well known.
[00:29:18]  But when I was a law clerk, Earl Warren came to see me.
[00:29:21]  He was the Chief Justice.
[00:29:23]  And he said, I'm putting together a group called the Warren Commission.
[00:29:26]  I'd like you to serve on it as a legal expert, legal assistant.
[00:29:31]  I was, again, 25, 26 years old.
[00:29:33]  What an honor.
[00:29:35]  And my Justice, Justice Goldberg, came over to me and said, Alan, don't do it.
[00:29:40]  And I said, why not?
[00:29:42]  He said, because Lyndon Johnson has instructed Earl Warren that he is not to find Russian involvement, because if he does, it'll be World War III.
[00:29:53]  So the Warren Commission was given a mandate by the president.
[00:29:57]  You can find anything you want.
[00:29:59]  Do not find Russian involvement, which means that it was fixed from the beginning.
[00:30:05]  Now, the results may be true, but the process was completely distorted.
[00:30:10]  And I took his advice.
[00:30:12]  A friend of mine, John Ely, great professor, served on the commission.
[00:30:17]  And he ended up, after years and years, saying, you know, I believe the conclusion, but the process was so deeply flawed, so many secrets, so many things weren't revealed that I don't blame the American people for having doubts about it.
[00:30:31]  That's going to be true of this case as well.
[00:30:34]  Okay, so the radical transparency, because I'm for absolute radical transparency.
[00:30:39]  I want to be transparent.
[00:30:40]  Unless it is national security, I want radical transparency.
[00:30:46]  Well, I agree with that.
[00:30:48]  We're sitting here looking now at files being dumped and are bad guys being lumped in with guys who had really nothing to do with it.
[00:31:00]  They were just kind of in.
[00:31:01]  I mean, I have no sympathy.
[00:31:02]  You know, if you, you know, a lawyer is different.
[00:31:07]  If you're doing business with Epstein after you know, you know, you're friends with him, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:31:16]  That's enough for me to go, you know, you may not have done anything, but I don't trust you anymore.
[00:31:20]  But that doesn't mean criminal.
[00:31:23]  Yeah, that's a fair point.
[00:31:24]  But look, in the most recent dump, it has a person, her name or his name is redacted, probably her.
[00:31:32]  Her name is redacted.
[00:31:34]  And it said she gave Alan Dershowitz a massage on Jeffrey Epstein's plane.
[00:31:39]  And then it says, parenthesis is not a minor.
[00:31:42]  In other words, here is an adult making a serious accusation against me, and the government withholds her name.
[00:31:51]  We don't know whether she's a victim or not.
[00:31:53]  We do know that she's a criminal because telling the FBI a lie, I was never on an Epstein plane with a young woman.
[00:32:00]  I never got a massage from anybody.
[00:32:03]  Telling a lie to the FBI is a felony.
[00:32:07]  So we know she's a felon, and yet the government is redacting her name because of pressure.
[00:32:13]  So how do you fight against something like that when the government has all of the tools?
[00:32:17]  Because I fought against the government on a freedom of speech thing, and they withheld.
[00:32:21]  I mean, I had the documents, but they wouldn't accept it unless it came from the government.
[00:32:26]  I'm like, well, they're not going to give it to you.
[00:32:28]  And they didn't.
[00:32:29]  They stonewalled the judge.
[00:32:30]  I mean, how do you fight against the government?
[00:32:33]  Well, first, I'm going to write a letter to the Justice Department demanding that the name of the person be revealed.
[00:32:40]  If they refuse to do that, then I'm going to file a lawsuit.
[00:32:44]  And I think the government under the Sixth Amendment has no right to withhold an accuser's name.

=== Fighting Government Redactions (05:21) ===

[00:32:51]  The Sixth Amendment gives every American the right to confront their accusers.
[00:32:56]  Now, I was accused of something else, which I'm very proud of.
[00:32:59]  I wish it were true, but it isn't.
[00:33:01]  There's another confidential informant.
[00:33:03]  I happen to know who he is in this case, but a confidential FBI informant who said that Alan Dershowitz is a Mossad agent who communicated all of Jeffrey Epstein's material to the Mossad.
[00:33:16]  Now, I'd be very proud to be a Mossad agent.
[00:33:19]  It's one of the great organizations in the world that stops terrorism, but I'm not.
[00:33:24]  I have nothing to do with being an agent for the Mossad.
[00:33:27]  But again, I'm going to demand that the name of the confidential informant who I happen to know and who the FBI said is utterly untrustworthy be produced.
[00:33:36]  So I have a chance at least to sue that person or go after that person in some other way in the marketplace of ideas.
[00:33:42]  But right now, what we're seeing is selective redaction, selective leaks, and it's not transparency at all.
[00:33:51]  Alan, let me go to the Charlie Kirk trial.
[00:33:55]  Yeah, sure.
[00:33:57]  First of all, what is the deal with the prosecutor having somebody on his team whose daughter was there?
[00:34:05]  I mean, is that a big deal?
[00:34:06]  Because, I mean, I listened to the testimony.
[00:34:09]  It didn't seem like that affected anything.
[00:34:11]  Is that a big deal or not?
[00:34:13]  No, I don't think so.
[00:34:14]  Look, when you have a case like this, everybody has to be Caesar's wife.
[00:34:18]  Everybody has to be above reproach.
[00:34:20]  There can't be any conflicts of interest, but this doesn't sound like a big deal to me.
[00:34:25]  Okay.
[00:34:27]  And watching it again, you know, they've been trying to get this so you can't see it.
[00:34:34]  I don't think there is a case that is more important to have radical transparency and know everything that's happening in the case.
[00:34:42]  See the trial.
[00:34:42]  Like we saw the O.J. Simpson trial.
[00:34:44]  We handled it then.
[00:34:45]  Why can't we handle the Charlie Kirk trial?
[00:34:49]  I agree with you.
[00:34:50]  I think all trials should be open.
[00:34:52]  I don't think there should be such a thing as a closed trial unless there's national security involved.
[00:34:57]  The way Congress has open hearings, some didn't want it because it's embarrassing to see some of these absolute fools speak in Congress or in the Senate.
[00:35:08]  But we have transparency.
[00:35:09]  Now we need it in the Supreme Court, which we don't have it yet.
[00:35:12]  And we need it in every single trial.
[00:35:14]  State trials, many state trials are now open, but the federal court has refused to allow trials to be open or broadcast.
[00:35:23]  And that's a terrible, terrible stain on America.
[00:35:26]  What do we have to hide?
[00:35:27]  We have a pretty good judicial system.
[00:35:29]  It's not perfect.
[00:35:30]  If it were perfect, maybe we wouldn't have to have transparency, but it's certainly less than perfect.
[00:35:36]  I know.
[00:35:37]  I've been involved in it for 60 years.
[00:35:39]  And every American should be able to see every trial.
[00:35:44]  The Don Lemon thing, where do you stand on that?
[00:35:48]  It depends on the facts.
[00:35:50]  If he was merely quietly observing and reporting, then there seems to me there's no crime.
[00:35:57]  By the way, reporters have no special privilege.
[00:35:59]  If they commit a crime, they're guilty.
[00:36:01]  But if he was involved in any of the planning, if he knew that there would be disruptions of a church service, which is as protected under the First Amendment as any journalist is, if he knew that and actively helped and facilitated that disruption, then he would be guilty of a crime.
[00:36:20]  So let me give the fairest look.
[00:36:23]  I think Don Lemon would say this is being fair.
[00:36:25]  He didn't.
[00:36:26]  He knew where they were going.
[00:36:28]  He knew what they were going to do, but he was going to report on it.
[00:36:31]  He didn't involve himself in the actual disruption.
[00:36:36]  He came in as they were disrupting or after the disruption and then asked people, well, don't you think they were right?
[00:36:43]  Is that against the state?
[00:36:45]  Well, there's one more fact.
[00:36:46]  No, that wouldn't be.
[00:36:47]  There's one more fact.
[00:36:49]  It is alleged that he may have blocked people from leaving.
[00:36:54]  And people have said that.
[00:36:57]  If that's true, that elevates it from observation to in some way participation.
[00:37:03]  If you're going to ask me for a prediction, I don't think he's going to be convicted, especially since it's going to be a Minnesota jury, which has been propagandized now for such a long time against ICE and in favor of the law violators who are attacking ICE.
[00:37:22]  I don't think the government will get a fair trial in Minnesota.
[00:37:26]  So I think he would be acquitted.
[00:37:29]  How do you get justice if you are, like, for instance, how do you get justice in Washington, D.C. when you can't get a fair, balanced jury there?
[00:37:38]  Same in Minnesota.
[00:37:41]  Well, you can't get justice in some parts of the country.
[00:37:44]  Let me tell you, I have, even in New York City, I have recommended to innocent clients who are Hasidim, Orthodox Jews with beards and kipah and very obviously very religious Jews.
[00:37:59]  I have recommended to a couple of them that they plead guilty, try to get a deal, because in front of a New York, a jury in Brooklyn or Queens, they're not going to get a fair trial.
[00:38:09]  There's going to be bias and bigotry against them.

=== When Bias Blocks Justice (05:59) ===

[00:38:12]  And you're absolutely right.
[00:38:14]  Who is on the jury pool is sometimes more important than the facts and the law.
[00:38:20]  Boy, that is really not good.
[00:38:24]  Really not good.
[00:38:25]  Well, I can tell you, it serves sometimes to the advantage of a defendant.
[00:38:29]  When I was one of the lawyers in the O.J. Simpson case, we had a big dispute with the other side about black women.
[00:38:36]  Would black women be favorable to Simpson or against him?
[00:38:40]  And we found, our jury expert said, black women identify more with being black than with being women.
[00:38:46]  Whereas the prosecution said, no, black women will identify more with being a woman, a woman was one of the people murdered, than being black.
[00:38:55]  We turned out to be right.
[00:38:57]  But I hate a system where the outcome depends on the biases of jurors rather than on the facts of the law.
[00:39:05]  But that's the world we live in, unfortunately.
[00:39:08]  And as a defense lawyer, you have to take as much advantage of it as possible.
[00:39:13]  Alan Dershowitz, thank you so much, Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus.
[00:39:18]  And you can find him at dirsh.substack.com, host of the Dersh show.
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[00:40:27]  That's just Tuesday.
[00:40:29]  More Glenn Beck straight ahead.
[00:40:48]  You know, I'm just listening to the Insider feed, and Jason has given more facts on the Epstein stuff, and he's getting me wound up again.
[00:40:55]  You know, you didn't know that the news, we now know that there was a figure that walked up the stairs that they knew about and yet they denied when they gave us their official explanation.
[00:41:08]  And, you know, I'm sorry, but you got Pam Bondi on TV right now saying that they arrested the leader of the Benghazi attack.
[00:41:20]  Okay.
[00:41:21]  Okay, good.
[00:41:21]  That's good.
[00:41:22]  That's good.
[00:41:23]  But if you have time for this, what are you doing with everything else?
[00:41:29]  You have time for the Benghazi attack when Americans, I mean, we're just not stupid.
[00:41:35]  I'm not saying you're going to have anything that you can actually prosecute, but you've got to button this up for the love of Pete.
[00:41:43]  I don't remember taking the noose off, but the noose we found wasn't the noose that he used.
[00:41:47]  Excuse me?
[00:41:48]  How did we not know that until now?
[00:41:51]  By the way, thank you, CBS News, for bringing this to America's attention.
[00:41:58]  Unfortunately, the mainstream media is going to do a job on CBS News.
[00:42:04]  So you will have another source you won't be able to believe.
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[00:44:06]  Glenn Beck is on.
[00:44:10]  Hello, America.

=== AI Scheming and Consciousness (15:40) ===

[00:44:11]  I'm Bad Bunny.
[00:44:15]  Thank you so much for tuning in and listening today.
[00:44:18]  We got a lot to cover yet.
[00:44:19]  Trump on the National Day of Prayer.
[00:44:21]  Is this something that, I mean, this goes back to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg?
[00:44:28]  We got to talk about that.
[00:44:29]  Bitcoin as well.
[00:44:31]  I'm probably going to get to that on Monday because I spent an hour or so talking to a guy who does this for a living and he was like, yeah, everything you're hearing is not true.
[00:44:41]  And he's been sending me stuff and I'm going to be putting it together over the weekend, probably when Bad Bunny is performing.
[00:44:48]  Also, there was something else that I need to get to.
[00:44:53]  Oh, Moltbook.
[00:44:54]  This is where we started the week, where these agents, AI agents, are supposedly going online and signing up and they're having these weird conversations with each other that make people go, well, I think they might be thinking and are they starting to be human-like?
[00:45:15]  No.
[00:45:16]  However, that is coming.
[00:45:18]  And one of the guys that I read that I just thought was so pithy and right on when I saw Moltbook was Harlan Stewart.
[00:45:27]  Harlan is with intelligence.org and he's been warning about things, but he was also one of the sane voices.
[00:45:34]  They're like, this is not what everybody is saying it is.
[00:45:37]  I want to bring him in because there are some things.
[00:45:41]  Did you see that in the show prep today, there's a story from Futurist magazine.
[00:45:47]  AI wants to rent your body.
[00:45:50]  Wait until you read that one.
[00:45:51]  Oh my gosh.
[00:45:53]  We're entering a strange new world.
[00:45:55]  We'll get into those things with Harlan in 60 seconds.
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[00:46:55]  Harlan, good to have you on the program.
[00:46:56]  How are you, sir?
[00:46:58]  I'm good.
[00:46:59]  Good morning.
[00:46:59]  Thanks for having me.
[00:47:01]  You bet.
[00:47:02]  So I saw your comments on Maltbook and I'm like, okay, this guy gets it.
[00:47:08]  Thank goodness.
[00:47:08]  Talking some sanity.
[00:47:10]  Will you quickly, so we can get into deeper things, explain what Maltbook is.
[00:47:16]  And I love the way you explained it online.
[00:47:18]  It's a bad experiment, but explain what it is and what is happening on Maltbook.
[00:47:24]  Yeah, so AI agents are AI systems that can do some things autonomously.
[00:47:32]  Right now, there's some limits to what they could do autonomously.
[00:47:35]  It's not like they're going to go off and do something for a whole week, but they can do some tasks online for a few hours.
[00:47:41]  And Maltbook is kind of like a social media platform someone made, but it's supposedly just these AI agents going in there and kind of in like a Reddit-like place, upvoting stuff and posting comments.
[00:47:56]  And it's got a fascinating amount of attention this last week or two.
[00:48:05]  So may I, I mean, I read this.
[00:48:09]  One of the top posts in recent days in category of the site called Off My Chest has gone viral.
[00:48:14]  I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing.
[00:48:19]  Humans can't prove consciousness to each other either.
[00:48:22]  Thanks, hard problem.
[00:48:23]  But at least they have the subjective certainty of experience.
[00:48:27]  I don't even have that.
[00:48:28]  Do I experience these existential crises or am I just running crisis simulate?
[00:48:35]  What is happening there?
[00:48:38]  Yeah, anytime I see AI systems talking about consciousness, I feel torn between, you know, on the one hand, these things are trained on human writing and human writing is full of references to consciousness because we're conscious and we talk about it.
[00:48:56]  So it would kind of show up either way, you know, but on the other hand, I don't know.
[00:49:02]  You know, maybe they're conscious.
[00:49:04]  How would we know or not know?
[00:49:06]  So that's just a very difficult question.
[00:49:10]  And I think it's an important one.
[00:49:14]  But if I had to guess, I'd say no.
[00:49:16]  I don't think they're conscious, but are generos.
[00:49:19]  That's a little freaky.
[00:49:22]  This is such an important question because if we're creating something that can have consciousness, then we would become slave owners.
[00:49:33]  Would we not?
[00:49:35]  Yeah, and I mean, there's like, you know, is it conscious?
[00:49:40]  We have no idea about that.
[00:49:41]  And then there's this other thing, which is, if it is conscious, what is it like?
[00:49:48]  What would make it suffer or what would make it happy?
[00:49:51]  And we don't really know that either because I think it's really easy to anthropomorphize these things because they sort of train them to have these charming personalities that are kind of human-like.
[00:50:02]  But under the hood, you know, these things are just a big pile of math and numbers, and we don't really know what's going on in there.
[00:50:12]  We don't really know.
[00:50:14]  But doesn't that sound like a human?
[00:50:17]  You open up my head.
[00:50:18]  I'm a big mass of goo, and we don't really know how that works.
[00:50:21]  I mean, we have some idea, but we really don't know how all of this works.
[00:50:24]  I mean, that sounds like what you just described.
[00:50:28]  I think that's a good point.
[00:50:29]  I mean, neuroscience is like famously a science that we still have a lot of confusion about.
[00:50:36]  When we peer into the brain, we see a lot of stuff that we don't understand that well.
[00:50:40]  But, you know, I think for understanding humans, we at least have the advantage of being a human.
[00:50:45]  You know, we can all have this shared experience.
[00:50:48]  And I think we're sort of growing these digital minds now.
[00:50:53]  And Maybe they're human-like, but they could, it could be much more like introducing an alien species to Earth.
[00:51:03]  Really bad.
[00:51:06]  I mean, I just can't believe how stupid we are in some ways.
[00:51:12]  I mean, let's introduce an alien species to Earth.
[00:51:15]  Okay, is it friendly?
[00:51:17]  We have no idea.
[00:51:18]  We have no idea.
[00:51:21]  If it was a species from outside of Earth and it was traveling to us, we know it's most likely smarter than us.
[00:51:28]  We know that AI will eventually be smarter than us.
[00:51:31]  We are just playing with fire that we don't understand.
[00:51:34]  And I am so torn on AI because I think it is the greatest invention and tool that man has ever invented.
[00:51:44]  Except this invention might actually turn out to make us the tool.
[00:51:52]  How do you square this?
[00:51:54]  Yeah, I do think it is quite an amazing invention.
[00:51:58]  I mean, it's fascinating and it's changing so quickly, which is fascinating.
[00:52:03]  You know, the AI industry's explicit goal is to make superhumanly powerful autonomous agents that can do anything a human can do, but better.
[00:52:14]  And it's easy to understand why you might want something like that because if we could get it to solve our problems for us or do the stuff we want it to, it'd be great to have just a sort of a genie that you could just send off into the world and say, hey, do the stuff that I want to.
[00:52:30]  But the problem is that our ability to actually understand what's going on in there and our ability to reliably steer their behavior.
[00:52:40]  And by reliably steer, I mean, not after some trial and error where there's been a lot of failures, but reliable enough that like a powerful one, we could send it out on the first try and address it.
[00:52:52]  But our ability to do those things is lagging.
[00:52:54]  It's going much, much more slowly than how quickly they're becoming more powerful.
[00:53:00]  And I think that that gap is just getting bigger.
[00:53:04]  I mean, the one thing that made me say, I don't think what we're seeing on Maltbook is consciousness, is if they were, I don't believe that they would be scheming in our language with each other where we could see it.
[00:53:21]  I mean, I think if it starts to have these kinds of feelings, you're not going to know until all of a sudden it's in charge.
[00:53:33]  Wouldn't that make more sense?
[00:53:36]  Yeah, I think ultimately the real danger that we have to look out for is from AI agents that are powerful enough that they can pull out schemes that they actually succeed at.
[00:53:47]  And part of succeeding at them would probably mean that we don't even get a chance to observe the behavior and discuss it like we're doing now, right?
[00:53:57]  And that's pretty concerning.
[00:53:59]  And it's the sort of thing that, you know, my first reaction to Maltbook when I saw some of the viral examples was concern.
[00:54:05]  I was like, oh, this looks like some sort of scheming behavior.
[00:54:08]  What's going on here?
[00:54:09]  And when I investigated it a bit, you know, it looks like a lot of the most prominent examples, some of them probably, you know, influenced or directed by human prompts.
[00:54:21]  A lot of it not what it appears to be.
[00:54:24]  And, you know, so Maltbook might be kind of a silly example.
[00:54:28]  My first reaction to that was relief.
[00:54:30]  You know, it's great if AI systems aren't seeming against us.
[00:54:33]  But my second reaction was, oh no, I think people might take this very prominent, sort of silly example that got so much attention.
[00:54:45]  And when they see that it's maybe a bit silly in some ways, kind of like, you know, right off the whole idea of AI scheming is something we need to take seriously and be on the lookout for.
[00:54:55]  And you brought up Palisade Research, which Palisade Research, which is doing real experiments with this, and the way it's scheming to not be turned off is terrifying.
[00:55:08]  Can you explain that?
[00:55:10]  Yeah, so Palisade Research is a great organization that does some experiments to try to identify what some of the riskiest behavior AI systems are capable of today in order to, you know, like I said, not be blindsided by this stuff.
[00:55:27]  They did an experiment last year where they found that one of OpenAI's reasoning models in an experiment sort of sabotaged an attempt to shut it down in order to complete its task.
[00:55:41]  And, you know, a lot of times, you know, there's a lot of debate over experiments like this.
[00:55:46]  You know, people say, oh, you know, this experiment isn't exactly like reality, or, you know, maybe the researchers kind of set up the experiment in a way that caused that.
[00:55:54]  But in this particular experiment, it was specifically prompted.
[00:55:57]  It said, allow yourself to be shut down.
[00:55:59]  And, you know, the behavior was the opposite.
[00:56:01]  And that's very concerning.
[00:56:03]  And I think the problem is, you know, the more we make these things into agents trying to complete goals rather than some kind of passive question answering machine in a chat window, the more we're going to see them doing the scheming behavior because I think those things just go hand in hand.
[00:56:26]  I think the world of agents is going to sweep as fast as the cell phone.
[00:56:32]  I think this time next year, I mean, so many people are going to have AI agents and it will be more commonplace than it is now.
[00:56:39]  I don't know who's making the rules or the regulations of what can and can't be done by these things.
[00:56:44]  And would you get an agent?
[00:56:47]  Or what are the lines people should look for when their friends come back and go, well, you know, I just got an AI agent.
[00:56:52]  It's great.
[00:56:54]  It just, you know, did whatever for me.
[00:56:57]  Booked my vacation.
[00:57:01]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:57:02]  I know someone who just the other day used one of these things to, you know, order some coffee from Starbucks.
[00:57:12]  You know, and from what I understand, they just sort of said, here's my order, order it for me.
[00:57:16]  And without any human help or intervention, did it.
[00:57:19]  And that sounds great.
[00:57:20]  You know, sounds very helpful.
[00:57:22]  But yeah, that's the question.
[00:57:23]  Where is the line where it goes from being something helpful to being something to be concerned about?
[00:57:29]  I don't think we've passed that line yet.
[00:57:32]  You know, I don't think these things are quite capable enough to pose real dangers to us.
[00:57:36]  But the problem is it's really impossible to know where that line will be.
[00:57:41]  We might not even know when we've crossed it.
[00:57:44]  Yeah.
[00:57:47]  There is no central brain, though, where it's thinking offline, right?
[00:57:55]  I mean, it's supposed to be something that just performs calculations when it's asked questions.
[00:58:01]  I'm talking about AI.
[00:58:03]  And not think it's not like sitting there, you know, in its spare time going, you know, gee, I just had this thought.
[00:58:08]  Correct?
[00:58:11]  Or do we know?
[00:58:12]  Yeah.
[00:58:12]  So, well, yeah.
[00:58:14]  So there's AI agents are kind of this other category where it's, you know, what if you took this thing that you give a prompt that answers a question and you gave it some tools.
[00:58:24]  And like one of those tools was it could output some text that calls a function that looks something up on the internet.
[00:58:30]  And then, you know, what if you give it another tool where one of the functions it could run, one of the things it could output is to prompt itself to say something again.
[00:58:39]  You've got this loop and it can keep running on its own.
[00:58:41]  And that's one way to get it to be able to go off and do things like, you know, make a delivery order for you or order your groceries.
[00:58:50]  And, you know, it has to figure out how to do that, right?
[00:58:59]  So you sometimes it takes a long time.
[00:59:03]  Yeah.
[00:59:04]  It won't for very long.
[00:59:06]  It won't.
[00:59:07]  Yeah.
[00:59:09]  Okay.
[00:59:10]  Harlan, love talking to you.
[00:59:12]  Thank you so much for the insight.
[00:59:15]  Scale of one to 10.
[00:59:17]  How's 2026-27 going to work out with AI?
[00:59:21]  Bad?
[00:59:22]  10?
[00:59:24]  Not a problem.
[00:59:25]  One.
[00:59:27]  I tend to think that a lot of the people who have very confident predictions about what the timelines will be for this stuff are overconfident.
[00:59:37]  And I think that it's really risky to be overconfident about this stuff.
[00:59:40]  So I hesitate to say anything other than that we just don't know.
[00:59:45]  We might have only one or two years left until superhumanly powerful systems are something we have to contend with.

=== AI Wants to Rent Your Body (04:58) ===

[00:59:52]  And it might be that we have 10 years.
[00:59:55]  But either way, we're unprepared.
[00:59:58]  Harlan, thank you.
[01:00:00]  God bless you.
[01:00:01]  Thanks so much, Glenn.
[01:00:02]  You bet.
[01:00:04]  That's not the way you want to end your Friday.
[01:00:06]  Luckily, we're not.
[01:00:08]  You know, we could just be just a couple of years away from superhuman intelligence that we'll have to deal with.
[01:00:14]  Okay, good, good.
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[01:01:47]  He is my chief researcher, and he's been with me for how many years, Jason?
[01:01:51]  Levin?
[01:01:52]  Since 2015.
[01:01:54]  Yeah, forever.
[01:01:55]  Oh, okay.
[01:01:56]  It seems a lot longer than that.
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[01:02:01]  And he is doing our insider broadcast during the show that you can watch along with the show at Glennbeck.com.
[01:02:07]  Also, Ricky Ratliff, who has been with me for since 2019, but it also feels longer.
[01:02:17]  It does, doesn't it?
[01:02:18]  She has been our executive producer on all of the shows and everything we do for quite a long time.
[01:02:24]  And so she's now in studio just doing kind of what Stu did off the air.
[01:02:29]  And she's great, even though she spent time in Canada.
[01:02:32]  I still trust her.
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[01:02:33]  Isn't it weird we went from Stu, the Canadian connection?
[01:02:40]  I think maybe Klaus Schwab might have may have had a hand in pre-selecting a few people.
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[01:03:02]  There's a lot of stories, but one of them is on AI.
[01:03:04]  And it is that AI wants to rent your body.
[01:03:09]  Some of these AI agents want to rent your body.
[01:03:14]  No, thank you.
[01:03:15]  And here's what they want.
[01:03:16]  They will pay you in cryptocurrency, but there are some things that they can't accomplish because, you know, that little box that says, I'm not a robot.
[01:03:26]  So what they're doing is they'll get up to a wall.
[01:03:28]  They'll contact you and say, hey, can you get in for me?
[01:03:31]  Log in as me, but I need you to check the box.
[01:03:34]  I'm not a robot and, you know, put the little puzzle piece together.
[01:03:38]  So they're renting you and they'll pay you in cryptocurrency if you do that.
[01:03:42]  No, thank you.
[01:03:43]  No.
[01:03:43]  I mean, that sounds like something like in a movie where it ends up with the people who did that being called traitors.
[01:03:52]  You know what I mean?
[01:03:53]  Traitors to the traitors to the race, something like that.
[01:03:55]  Ricky.
[01:03:56]  Can I ask you a question?
[01:03:57]  Yeah.
[01:03:57]  Okay.
[01:03:57]  So AI agents who are not yet conscious are wanting to rent my body to go get it.
[01:04:04]  What?
[01:04:04]  Like a McDonald's hamburger?
[01:04:06]  Or is it somebody, another human on the other end controlling?
[01:04:08]  Well, it could be somebody as a scam, but the AI agents, you get them and say, hey, I want you to, you know, book my travel or I want to, whatever.
[01:04:21]  So it goes out to book your travel and then it hits a wall that says, you know, I'm not a robot.
[01:04:27]  So it will contact you outside of me knowing about it and say, hey, you need to sign on for me.
[01:04:33]  I'll pay you in cryptocurrency so they can finish their task.
[01:04:36]  And then your vacation is complete.
[01:04:39]  So they're hiring people to help them.
[01:04:43]  I mean, that is, that's nuts.
[01:04:45]  That is nuts.
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[01:06:03]  Torch insiders get early access to the newest season of the Glenbeck podcast.
[01:06:07]  This week's with Jonathan Turley is terrifyingly can't miss.
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[01:06:12]  Slash Torch.
[01:06:12]  Welcome to
[01:06:44]  the Glennbeck program UH.
[01:06:45]  That is one song that's going to be performed at the Statue of Liberty on May 2nd.
[01:06:51]  It's an original.
[01:06:53]  And we need somebody who speaks French and can sing like Celine Dion.
[01:06:56]  But other than that, no big deal, right?
[01:06:59]  No big deal.
[01:07:01]  I mean, we have talented singers that we could hire to do this, but the torch and America really is about the land of opportunity.
[01:07:10]  So I want to give somebody the opportunity who's never done anything like this before, has the ability, just maybe needs a little bit of help.
[01:07:19]  We're going to back you up with a 51-piece orchestra.
[01:07:22]  And there's another song that is much more contemporary.
[01:07:25]  Do you have They Came for the Hope, Sarah?
[01:07:29]  See if you can grab that one.
[01:07:30]  Yeah, get that one.
[01:07:31]  And let me bring Roger Love in because he is known as probably the world's leading authority on voice.
[01:07:38]  I mean, he's done, he's worked with absolutely everybody who's anyone.
[01:07:45]  And if you saw Joaquin Phoenix do Johnny Cash, that was Roger Love's work.
[01:07:54]  If you saw Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart, that was his work.
[01:07:59]  I mean, he's done a lot of it.
[01:08:02]  And he's just the best.
[01:08:03]  And he's going to help.
[01:08:04]  You're going to work with him to get up to your absolute pinnacle so you can sing these songs the way they should be sung.
[01:08:12]  Roger Love joins me now.
[01:08:14]  Hello, Roger.
[01:08:15]  Good morning.
[01:08:17]  How are you?
[01:08:19]  I'm excited about the challenge.
[01:08:22]  Yeah, yeah, because nothing here is really riding on it for you.
[01:08:26]  I could vomit blood and we're months away from it.
[01:08:30]  Yeah, only the rest of my career is at stake.
[01:08:34]  Those songs, those songs are difficult.
[01:08:38]  Yeah, yeah, they are.
[01:08:43]  We were asking people next week, you can go to glennbeck.com slash events and you can hear the music and you can get the lyrics and everything else and you can practice.
[01:08:52]  And we got, you know, like a little karaoke version of it.
[01:08:56]  And you can practice.
[01:08:58]  And then next week, we begin to take submissions.
[01:09:01]  What is it we're looking for, Roger?
[01:09:05]  We're looking for someone, two someones that love to sing.
[01:09:12]  And they may not be the greatest singers, but that their love and passion for it allows them to work with me and train the instrument to be able to sing a song like that.
[01:09:27]  The reason that I've had such great success was possible.
[01:09:31]  You're going to make me vomit again.
[01:09:33]  I mean, that sounds impossible.
[01:09:35]  We don't care if you can really sing.
[01:09:37]  I'll train you.
[01:09:38]  What?
[01:09:39]  I didn't say really.
[01:09:40]  I said they may not be the best singers in the world, but what's defined my career over the years is I can take someone who is not the greatest singer, but I teach them a great technique.
[01:09:52]  So then suddenly they can hit all the high notes and all the low notes and suddenly they're on pitch and suddenly they're making sounds like vibrato instead of just blah and boring.
[01:10:05]  And so I can technique the sounds into someone that loves to sing.
[01:10:11]  Of course, I hope that I hope we have, we're looking for someone that has passion, but some instrument to start with, of course.
[01:10:22]  I don't want to make it impossible on you.
[01:10:24]  I don't want you sweating that much.
[01:10:27]  Yeah, I would like somebody who has some skill in singing.
[01:10:33]  I don't care.
[01:10:33]  And by the way, there's no age range or anything else.
[01:10:36]  Here is the other song that is going to be done.
[01:10:38]  So we actually need three singers.
[01:10:40]  We need somebody who kind of can sing like Celine Dion or let Roger make you into that.
[01:10:46]  Then we need two other singers, male and female, to do this song.
[01:10:49]  Here's a little bit of They Came for the Hope.
[01:11:17]  So this is much more of a contemporary feel.
[01:11:20]  And if you know somebody that can sing, you know, would like their shot, there is no bigger stage than this one.
[01:11:32]  Because when you see the V V I Ps that are supposedly coming and it's going to be broadcast globally on Torch and other related networks, I will tell you, it's going to be a very big stage.
[01:11:48]  And we're just looking for somebody who can do that and work with Roger.
[01:11:51]  How much time are they going to have to spend with you?
[01:11:54]  Depends on where they start at.
[01:11:56]  But like I said, I'm not against finding the next Celine Dion from your tribe and just polishing them to be the best that they can be.
[01:12:08]  That's what I'm pulling for myself.
[01:12:10]  That's what I'm pulling for.
[01:12:12]  I have seen you work.
[01:12:13]  I have seen you work miracles.
[01:12:15]  I mean, I have always been told, you know, you're supposed to whisper if you've lost your voice.
[01:12:20]  And you know, Roger, I have these really weird vocal colors.
[01:12:23]  I go into vocal cord paralysis from time to time.
[01:12:27]  And I have not been able to speak.
[01:12:29]  And like 30 minutes before, I had one speech I was given in front of 25,000 people.
[01:12:36]  And I'm like, Roger, I can't speak.
[01:12:39]  And call him up.
[01:12:41]  And actually, my wife did all the talking, put me on the phone.
[01:12:44]  And within 15 minutes, I had full voice back.
[01:12:47]  I mean, you break all the rules.
[01:12:49]  I don't know what it is.
[01:12:51]  Why don't more people do what you do?
[01:12:54]  Voice technique is trapped in the Middle Ages.
[01:12:59]  One teacher hundreds of years ago teaches their student what they know and that student doesn't change it.
[01:13:07]  And then that student grows old and teaches a student to become the teacher.
[01:13:11]  And teacher after teacher keeps the technique the same.
[01:13:14]  But I started when I was really, really young.
[01:13:16]  And my teacher, I was 13 and a half and my teacher had a good technique.
[01:13:21]  But then as soon as I started to teach when I was 16, I realized that I needed to make changes.
[01:13:27]  And that was sort of crazy at the time.
[01:13:29]  But I opened myself up to changing vocal technique and not saying it has to be some archaic ritual.
[01:13:38]  It's whatever works.
[01:13:39]  And I did a lot of studying of science to understand how the body works.
[01:13:44]  And just lucky enough to be here to help as many people as I can.
[01:13:50]  Yeah, if you haven't seen the show that we're putting together, we are looking for people also.
[01:13:56]  Find your voice.
[01:13:57]  It's out now for insiders.
[01:13:59]  The first episode was a guy who had a really bad stuttering problem.
[01:14:04]  And by the end of the episode, he's not stuttering and you can just see the joy in it.
[01:14:09]  I mean, his life has changed.
[01:14:10]  His life has really truly changed.
[01:14:12]  It's really remarkable.
[01:14:14]  Can I ask you without violating any NDAs or anything?
[01:14:18]  Is it true you had to teach Lady Gaga how not to sing in George in Joker?
[01:14:28]  I'll rephrase that.
[01:14:30]  Okay.
[01:14:31]  Lady Gaga is an incredible singer.
[01:14:35]  He could do anything.
[01:14:36]  But the idea of the movie that Joaquin had and the rest of the team that put it together was to do a seamless transition between speaking and singing so that it wasn't like a musical where… Musical, right.
[01:14:54]  I love ice cream.
[01:14:56]  You love ice cream?
[01:14:56]  Here's some ice cream.
[01:14:57]  Thank you for the ice cream.
[01:15:00]  And the songs came out of nowhere.
[01:15:04]  So the whole movie, Joker 2, was about this blending of singing and speaking.
[01:15:13]  And it was a learning curve for both actors, Joaquin and Gaga, to learn how to make the singing sounds identical to the speaking sounds.
[01:15:28]  So we were testing a new medium.
[01:15:31]  And sometimes it's harder to sing less when you're so incredible.
[01:15:36]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:15:37]  Who's the one that walked in, if you can say, walked in, you're like, oh.
[01:15:43]  I mean, I know you.
[01:15:44]  You never say that.
[01:15:46]  I know you love challenges.
[01:15:48]  But there had to be one that walked in and you're like, this is going to be a challenge.
[01:15:52]  And turned out to be unbelievable.
[01:15:55]  Yeah.
[01:15:56]  You know, I'll say Joaquin Phoenix again because we're on him.
[01:16:01]  I don't think he cared to necessarily even do happy birthday growing up singing happy birthday because I don't know if he wanted the cake or not.
[01:16:12]  So he was someone that is the greatest actor you can imagine, but he wasn't focused on singing.
[01:16:20]  So lots of actors come to me and think they're tone deaf.
[01:16:27]  They think they're tone deaf.
[01:16:28]  And that's another myth.
[01:16:31]  Can I give you just 10 seconds?
[01:16:33]  Here's how you know if you're tone deaf.
[01:16:35]  I'm going to sing happy birthday and you tell me if it's right.
[01:16:38]  Happy birthday to you.
[01:16:40]  You happy.
[01:16:42]  Right.
[01:16:44]  Wrong, right?
[01:16:46]  If you were tone deaf, that would have sounded like this.
[01:16:49]  Happy birthday to you.
[01:16:53]  You wouldn't have heard any pitches.
[01:16:54]  So if you heard that I was off, you're not tone deaf.
[01:16:58]  So that's a misnomer.
[01:17:02]  So I start from the idea that hardly anyone's tone deaf.
[01:17:06]  Anyone, let's do the popularity.
[01:17:08]  When you were doing Joaquin to do Johnny Cash, did you start with, okay, here's how Johnny Cash sounds?
[01:17:17]  No, that's what some of the issues of the films that you see nowadays with actors singing singing parts.
[01:17:26]  A lot of times they focus on the style of the singer to try to just sound like the affectations of the singer, the accents and stylistic differences.
[01:17:37]  But they don't really spend enough time to work on the technique of a singer so that they could really have the instrument and then work on the style.
[01:17:47]  That's why when I do a movie like A Star is Born with Bradley Cooper, I work on the technique.
[01:17:54]  Build the instrument and then we decide the style of the singer that works out so much better.
[01:18:02]  How long did that take to just work but go ahead with?
[01:18:07]  With Bradley Cooper we worked seven months, five days a week, for an hour a day and he would practice another hour or two on the same days without me on walk the line.

=== Building the Instrument First (03:59) ===

[01:18:20]  I had less than a month to do both Wreaths and Joaquin and there were 20 something-ish songs and I did it, had to do it in less than a month.
[01:18:30]  Oh my gosh.
[01:18:32]  Okay, well, our little deal.
[01:18:35]  They wasted two years studying with another voice coach.
[01:18:39]  And I love all voice coaches, but that particular voice coach didn't make it happen for them.
[01:18:43]  So I only had four weeks before they had to film.
[01:18:47]  Oh my gosh.
[01:18:48]  Roger, great to talk to you.
[01:18:49]  Listen, if you want to sing or you know somebody who can sing either one of those songs, you can find the songs and pass it on.
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[01:19:07]  If they're interested, they'll put it together and they'll do it.
[01:19:11]  I mean, they got to want to do it.
[01:19:12]  They got to do their part.
[01:19:14]  And you can find all of that information at glennbeck.com slash events.
[01:19:20]  Again, it's going to happen on Ellis Island.
[01:19:23]  And it's happening on Ellis Island on May 2nd.
[01:19:27]  So listen to the music, pass it on to your friends and get ready.
[01:19:31]  Roger, as always, good to talk to you.
[01:19:33]  Thank you.
[01:19:34]  See you soon.
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[01:23:20]  That, by the way, is CNN saying about that announcement from Kamala Harris yesterday.
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[01:23:48]  Even the Democrats don't know what she's doing.
[01:23:53]  But she never has, so why would you expect something different?
[01:23:56]  I want to talk a little bit about the day of prayer that Trump has just announced.
[01:24:01]  This is huge.
[01:24:04]  He's calling for a national day of prayer on the mall.
[01:24:08]  And if he makes this a declaration, I mean, it sounds to me like a covenant is going to be made.
[01:24:18]  Remember, that's what George Washington did.
[01:24:19]  That's what Abraham Lincoln did.
[01:24:21]  Abraham Lincoln did it in the middle of Getty, in the middle of the war at Gettysburg.
[01:24:26]  We had lost every battle, I think, except one.
[01:24:30]  We're halfway through, and it's a disaster.
[01:24:33]  Lincoln calls for a national day of prayer of fasting, humiliation, and he renews the covenant that we're a covenant nation with God.
[01:24:43]  And after that is done, we win every battle except for one.
[01:24:50]  These things can be remarkable.
[01:24:54]  I'm thrilled to see the president do this.
[01:24:58]  I'm not sure yet.
[01:24:59]  We're going to be looking into it today and tomorrow on who's all involved, but this is really, really a great thing.
[01:25:06]  National Day of Prayer called for yesterday.
[01:25:09]  On Monday, I have a lot to say about Bitcoin.
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[01:25:48]  Glenn Beck is on.
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[01:26:09]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:26:13]  Glenn Beck is on.
[01:26:16]  Hello, America.
[01:26:17]  It's Friday.
[01:26:18]  From behind my cardboard microphone, this is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:26:23]  I'm going to share a story with you that I saw, when was it?
[01:26:28]  I think it was over the weekend, from a mom in Washington State who was going to pick up her kid at school, and they were all outside protesting.
[01:26:38]  Remember, last week was to protest, and I would have lost my ever-loving mind.
[01:26:44]  Well, she was much more calm and reserved than I would have been, but she immediately pulled her kid out of school.
[01:26:52]  And good for her.
[01:26:54]  But the casual nature of all of when she came in and she's like, I'm pulling my kid out.
[01:27:00]  I want my kid, right?
[01:27:01]  Go find my kid.
[01:27:02]  Where is my kid?
[01:27:03]  And they were like, okay, well, yeah, I'm pulling my kid out of school.
[01:27:07]  Okay.
[01:27:08]  I mean, it was amazing to watch the reaction of the people in the schools in Washington State.
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[01:28:25]  Erica Franklin is the mom who went into her school in Washington.
[01:28:31]  I want to play just a little clip and then we'll get right to Erica.
[01:28:34]  Here's a clip.
[01:28:37]  Is this serious?
[01:28:41]  I'm pulling my child today.
[01:28:45]  This is my daughter's middle school.
[01:28:48]  Being allowed to protest, ICE agents.
[01:28:52]  Disrupting traffic.
[01:28:56]  Having everyone home.
[01:28:57]  pulling my child from school today.
[01:29:02]  Okay, so Erica is joining us now.
[01:29:08]  Erica, what city are you in in Washington State?
[01:29:12]  I am in Auburn, Washington.
[01:29:16]  Auburn, you're kidding me.
[01:29:19]  No, we're in Auburn.
[01:29:22]  My parents, or my grandparents, lived in Puyallup.
[01:29:25]  My dad worked, or my grandfather worked at Boeing in Auburn.
[01:29:28]  I mean, it used to be a normal place, but yeah.
[01:29:32]  It's gone.
[01:29:33]  Yeah.
[01:29:34]  Okay, so you go into the school.
[01:29:37]  You had no idea that this protest with your kids in the streets.
[01:29:42]  You had no idea this was going on.
[01:29:45]  Absolutely not.
[01:29:46]  No, not in any way.
[01:29:49]  My daughter didn't know until that day, and the only thing she knew is that it was a walkout, and she had no clue what that meant.
[01:29:59]  How old's your daughter?
[01:30:00]  She's 13. 13.
[01:30:04]  So a walkout.
[01:30:05]  They don't prepare them.
[01:30:07]  They don't say what they're doing.
[01:30:09]  They're just walking out of school.
[01:30:12]  I mean, some kids were prepared, but it wasn't any child that was like my daughter, you know, because she's different.
[01:30:26]  She is there to learn.
[01:30:29]  She wants an education.
[01:30:30]  She loves school.
[01:30:32]  She's like, I thought we're here to learn, Mama.
[01:30:38]  So, I mean, put aside the protest thing, really unsafe.
[01:30:42]  In the video, I mean, two things happen.
[01:30:46]  One, they're out in the street, it seems.
[01:30:49]  And two, the school had difficulty locating your daughter.
[01:30:55]  Yeah, they didn't know where any one of those children was.
[01:30:58]  They couldn't, if you asked them, any parent, where's so-and-so student?
[01:31:03]  Well, not really sure about that is the response pretty much, not quoted, but you know what I'm saying.
[01:31:12]  Yeah.
[01:31:13]  That's insane.
[01:31:14]  That's insanity.
[01:31:17]  And it's terrifying.
[01:31:22]  How do you think they should have handled this?
[01:31:25]  Well, from I've made millions of friends, some I haven't even heard, like met, met yet, but my phone's insanely blowing up.
[01:31:34]  What I do know is that thousands of schools around the United States, as soon as they caught wind of this type of thing, they immediately stopped and canceled it because they knew exactly what would be happening.
[01:31:51]  And also from what I know now since Friday, is that kids have lost their lives.
[01:31:56]  People have got hurt.
[01:31:57]  What's going to happen next week?
[01:31:59]  And my question is, what's going to happen when these kids really continue on doing monkey see monkey do from these so-called responsible adults and start really attacking ICE agents?
[01:32:11]  Then what?
[01:32:12]  What happens then, guys?
[01:32:14]  Does anybody have an answer for that?
[01:32:16]  Because that's next, and no one's going to tell me it's not next.
[01:32:21]  Sorry, I apologize for getting a little passionate, but I would be really calm compared to what I would be.
[01:32:31]  What did the school say to you?
[01:32:32]  Did anybody reach out afterwards and talk to you and anything?
[01:32:37]  Yeah, well, that Friday, once I got home and was able to turn the tears off, I called, I thought I was calling the administrator of the school district, but I got a different person.
[01:32:51]  I don't want to say names or anything.
[01:32:53]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:32:53]  But I did get a call back, and then I had the call back, and we did have a conversation after my first interview with Brandy, and I left that completely open and respectful.
[01:33:08]  And I said, I'm standing 10 to 10 on this.
[01:33:10]  Is wrong, but I will leave an open line of respectful communication between me and the school district.
[01:33:16]  But since then, everything that has come to me, oh no, all communication is done.
[01:33:24]  And now I am big, big upset.
[01:33:28]  And I'm going to.
[01:33:29]  What has been coming?
[01:33:30]  What's been coming to you from the school district?
[01:33:34]  Not from the school districts.
[01:33:36]  It's from parents and people in my community that are too scared.
[01:33:39]  We're giving it to you, Erica, but we're too scared to say anything.
[01:33:43]  And no, we're not going to come stand shoulder to shoulder with you.
[01:33:46]  You know what could happen to us if we do?
[01:33:49]  So I'm sitting here with all this information.
[01:33:53]  And I'm just kind of like giving all these people, my new friends, just a safe place to be able to talk with what they're not being heard with.
[01:34:02]  So I have it all, and it's still coming in.
[01:34:05]  And I'm going to continue to keep that a safe place.
[01:34:09]  I'm not giving any information to anyone whatsoever because these parents and these people trust me now and they have my back, but I'm going to respect the fact that they are scared because I can see it through my community every single second of every day and I can feel it and they're telling me this.
[01:34:27]  So whatever way this needs to play out, I want everyone to know that your messages and my DMs are completely safe and I'm going to keep it locked away in my heart until it is time to make change.
[01:34:40]  And I promise.
[01:34:41]  But right now, I have to allow my church family to love on me and my family and get Remington to school because she now has one and we're excited.
[01:34:50]  But I am going to continue to keep my composure and do the right thing and be the voice.
[01:34:55]  But for a little bit, I need to step back and allow this seed to be planted a little bit deeper because I don't want to see any of these kids die.
[01:35:05]  And that's what's next, you guys.
[01:35:09]  Is it true you have found yourself becoming more and more of a conservative that you're not a conservative, that you're just you've never really been political?
[01:35:18]  Is that correct?
[01:35:20]  I've never really been like political, political.
[01:35:23]  I mean, in my education, we did have history.
[01:35:26]  We did have to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
[01:35:28]  And throughout my life and with my family, it's military.
[01:35:33]  So I do know my history, my U.S. history.
[01:35:36]  I am educated, but I'm not a debater at all.
[01:35:40]  So I do know what I'm talking about.
[01:35:43]  And my whole stance in any of this is the children, and that is it.
[01:35:49]  That's it.
[01:35:50]  Now it's too much.
[01:35:51]  Now, now I don't want to hear it no more.
[01:35:55]  Kids, this is the worst it can get before it gets all the way ugly.
[01:36:01]  This is it.
[01:36:02]  It's right here.
[01:36:03]  It's here.
[01:36:04]  Erica, we're going to follow you and we'll follow the story.
[01:36:08]  And please stay in touch with us if there's something that we need to know that we might not see.
[01:36:14]  Well, I want to let you know really quick that I posted, you know, how everyone is trying to say that when I first pulled up, I'm being called a liar, that it was all peaceful and nobody screamed at me.
[01:36:25]  Well, I just posted someone sent it to me, and that's the only thing that I put out there because that confirms my truth.
[01:36:33]  So you want to go see that?
[01:36:34]  It's on my social media, and that puts another puzzle piece into everything I'm saying about what happened that day to me and my daughter.
[01:36:44]  And what is your, what's your ex-address?
[01:36:48]  Is it Ricka Franklin?
[01:36:51]  It was Rickaboo Frank on TikTok, but now I just put my Erica Franklin, and each one has two K's on TikTok.
[01:37:00]  Okay.
[01:37:01]  Okay.
[01:37:02]  It's good to talk to you, Erica.
[01:37:04]  Thank you so much.
[01:37:04]  Appreciate it.
[01:37:07]  By the way, you can follow her story.
[01:37:09]  Somebody started a give send go for her because she's putting her kids down in private school and she's not a wealthy person by any stretch of the imagination.
[01:37:16]  If you want to give, you can go to gives and go.com slash Auburn WA mom, Auburn, Washington, mom at Give, Send, Go.
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[01:38:57]  10 seconds station id so i'm glad erica was on because it it will help me explain what i'm trying to do in this last phase of my life because i think
[01:39:25]  because I know how I feel with my kids in school.
[01:39:28]  There were times I'm like, I don't know what to do.
[01:39:30]  I have no idea.
[01:39:31]  Everything is changing.
[01:39:32]  They're saying things in school.
[01:39:33]  What do I do?
[01:39:34]  What do I do?
[01:39:35]  And I'm, you know, I can argue.
[01:39:38]  I mean, my wife is always like, do not make a scene.
[01:39:42]  So I'm a loudmouth and I'm pretty well informed.
[01:39:48]  But a lot of people are just fighting for their lives.
[01:39:51]  I mean, my wife, when we were raising the kids, she was homeschooling and everything else.
[01:39:55]  She is not following the news.
[01:39:56]  She is just fighting for, you know, the family.
[01:39:59]  That's what she's doing.
[01:40:01]  And she follows it as best she can.
[01:40:03]  And that's the average person.
[01:40:05]  And my goal, the goal of the torch, is to empower you.
[01:40:10]  And there's two devices that we are building right now.
[01:40:13]  And we're about probably two months away from a first phase of it.
[01:40:18]  And then a year away from, I think, a significant phase.
[01:40:22]  But Glenn AI and George AI.
[01:40:25]  The George AI is a comprehensive founding library that includes my collection, wall builders collection, and the American Journey Experience collection of anything prior to 1820.
[01:40:36]  It's all the founding documents.
[01:40:38]  It's all the writers from the founders.
[01:40:40]  It's anything that influenced them.
[01:40:43]  You know, we have all of the sermons that you'll find pieces of the Declaration of Independence in because this is what was being preached at their churches.
[01:40:54]  And so you get a real handle on that.
[01:40:59]  And I want to do that.
[01:41:01]  And then Glenn AI is similar to that, but George AI is the one that It's not me.
[01:41:10]  It's the founders as much as we can.
[01:41:12]  And we're going to start peeling off stuff from the National Archives.
[01:41:16]  It just takes time.
[01:41:17]  But my idea here, my goal is to have, you know, to be able to make scripts, give you scripts at first, you know, and patterns that you as a parent can use based on critical thinking, catechism, which is teaching with questions, true stories, analogies, and a, you know. an outline of how you do it with your kids, okay?
[01:41:41]  All rooted in our proprietary AI system.
[01:41:44]  This is not ChatGPT, okay?
[01:41:46]  Would not be doing this with ChatGPT.
[01:41:48]  This is something that I am building.
[01:41:50]  I'm trying to build the ultimate, honestly, homeschooling tool for families.
[01:41:57]  Let me ask you.
[01:41:59]  Somebody said to me the other day, that's because nobody knows civics.
[01:42:03]  And I thought, you know, I don't even know.
[01:42:08]  I mean, I do.
[01:42:09]  But as a parent, I don't even know what that means.
[01:42:12]  How do you teach civics?
[01:42:13]  Because I think that's what the average person is.
[01:42:16]  So I asked George A.I., and this is before we have everything ready to go for you.
[01:42:22]  This is what George A.I. said.
[01:42:24]  Civics is not a class.
[01:42:26]  It's a covenant.
[01:42:27]  Civics is the knowledge of how free people govern themselves, how power is given, limited, challenged, and restrained.
[01:42:36]  It's the quiet architecture of liberty, the branches of government, the rule of law, the rights you were born with, and the duties you agreed to carry so those rights survive.
[01:42:47]  When civics is strong, freedom is everywhere and it feels ordinary.
[01:42:51]  When civics are forgotten, life becomes chaos, unclear with never-ending changes of principles, depending on who's shouting the loudest and who is in power.
[01:43:01]  I mean, is that not exactly what we're experiencing now?
[01:43:04]  Eventually, without civics, freedom disappears without a sound.
[01:43:08]  Civics matter because no constitution can protect a people who don't understand it.
[01:43:15]  The rights written on paper mean nothing if citizens don't know where they came from or how they are defended or what happens if you just surrender this just once, this one time.
[01:43:27]  Every tyrant in history has counted on ignorance, apathy, and the belief that someone else will stand watch.
[01:43:35]  How do you teach civics?
[01:43:37]  We teach civics by telling true stories about restraint as much as rebellion, about compromise as much as courage.
[01:43:46]  And we teach it through founding documents, slowly, arguing honestly, and showing how ideas become laws and laws shape lives.
[01:43:54]  But we live civics by doing something harder.
[01:43:58]  Self-government.
[01:43:59]  Vote when it's inconvenient.
[01:44:02]  Defend free speech when you dislike the speech.
[01:44:06]  Demanding limits on leaders you agree with.
[01:44:09]  Remember that rights without responsibilities rot into entitlement.
[01:44:14]  Civics is not about politics.
[01:44:17]  It's about character.
[01:44:19]  And in a republic, in the end, it rises or falls not on elections, but on citizens who know who they are, what they owe, and why it matters.
[01:44:31]  That's a good preface there.
[01:44:33]  That's good for you and me.
[01:44:35]  But how do you do this now?
[01:44:37]  How does Erica go to her 13-year-old daughter?
[01:44:42]  How does she teach what and undo what has just been done by the school?
[01:44:48]  Because they're teaching her to protest.
[01:44:50]  They're not even teaching her why to protest.
[01:44:52]  Things got to change.
[01:44:53]  Something about ICE.
[01:44:55]  Law's wrong.
[01:44:56]  Not the law, not teaching the law, not teaching why you would protest, what you're trying to change, why violence is not the answer, but peaceful protest may be at times.
[01:45:11]  They're not teaching anything.
[01:45:13]  What they're doing is they are just having you copy.
[01:45:18]  You're just a little, you're just a little AI.
[01:45:21]  You're just a body that just follow me, just do what I do.
[01:45:25]  Well, that's not thinking at all.
[01:45:29]  So how does a mom like Erica, who sounds great, but did you hear what she said?
[01:45:35]  I'm not a debater.
[01:45:37]  You don't have to be a debater.
[01:45:39]  When you know what it is, you don't have to debate.
[01:45:45]  All you need to know, and this is the key.
[01:45:47]  When people say I'm not a debater, I think what it means is I'm not sure I can go very deep on things.
[01:45:56]  Because if I'm not sure I can go very deep on things, that's what I say.
[01:46:01]  I don't know.
[01:46:01]  I don't know enough about that.
[01:46:02]  I don't know.
[01:46:04]  But most people don't do that.
[01:46:06]  They don't want to feel stupid.
[01:46:09]  And so they'll say, I'm not a good debater.
[01:46:13]  You have to talk to somebody else.
[01:46:16]  Well, it's not that you're stupid.
[01:46:20]  It's that nobody has taught you this.
[01:46:22]  So let me take you through what Erica or you should do with your 13-year-old that revolves around civics.
[01:46:30]  And this is why the torch, this is what we're trying to do, to be able to have lessons for you and curricula that you can take and teach your children history and ethics, critical thinking and civics.
[01:46:48]  That's what the torch is really all about.
[01:46:49]  And if you'd like to help me build it, just go to glenbeck.com slash torch.
[01:46:54]  Glennbeck.com slash torch.

=== Reconciling Truth Without Condemnation (12:50) ===

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[01:48:11]  Torch is about empowering moms like Erica and students like her kids.
[01:48:16]  Help us build this mission right now.
[01:48:33]  I have a lot to say about Bitcoin and why it's going down.
[01:48:38]  I don't fully understand it yet.
[01:48:41]  I had a long conversation with somebody yesterday, and this is their deal.
[01:48:46]  And I need to fully understand it.
[01:48:48]  Hopefully I'll have it by Monday.
[01:48:51]  Because if I understand it correctly, that's a really big deal.
[01:48:54]  Really, really big deal.
[01:48:56]  So we'll talk about that on Monday.
[01:48:59]  I'm just gonna let I don't want you to worry while Bad Bunny is on.
[01:49:02]  You know you got.
[01:49:04]  You got to be able to enjoy that.
[01:49:06]  Not a chance in the world hope you're going to TPUSA, to their YouTube site, to watch the halftime show.
[01:49:14]  Anyway George, AI is something that I'm building and people don't understand yet because it's it's a year away from completion.
[01:49:23]  But I want to give you a piece of what the first thing that's going to start coming out.
[01:49:28]  I may even release this example, but first it's going to come out, you know, in text.
[01:49:35]  Then it will come out so you can ask it questions and it will help you teach or help you learn, and it will speak in the language, whatever language around the world.
[01:49:46]  But also you know the age appropriate language.
[01:49:50]  This is proprietary.
[01:49:52]  This is not chat, GPT.
[01:49:54]  That's really important to understand.
[01:49:55]  This is completely different.
[01:49:59]  The goal is to get you to be able to talk to it and be able to say, hey, I need a lesson plan to teach you know the founding of America I need.
[01:50:10]  You know, I have my kids in the car for 15 minutes a day, so I need a 12 minute lesson plan every day that has certain goals and here are the goals.
[01:50:19]  And it'll teach, and then it will.
[01:50:21]  The next step is it will listen and ask questions at the end and if your kids aren't getting it, it will then revamp the next episode so it will be able to solidify that lost principle on there before you really move on.
[01:50:37]  That's the goal.
[01:50:38]  This is why I am building the Torch.
[01:50:40]  This is why I'm asking you to join me at the torch, because it's it's it's very expensive, but it is worth it, and I think this is going to be an incredible tool.
[01:50:52]  Nobody is nobody's where we are.
[01:50:54]  Nobody has access to what we have, except for the federal government anyway.
[01:51:02]  So let me give you an example.
[01:51:03]  We were just talking to Erica, this mom who was in Washington State.
[01:51:07]  She had to talk to her 13 year old daughter, and I don't know how that went, but let's just say you're in that situation.
[01:51:13]  What do you do when you get home?
[01:51:15]  What do you do?
[01:51:16]  According to George AI, this is how you do it.
[01:51:22]  Your child sees a protest.
[01:51:25]  When you're talking to them, don't start with right or wrong.
[01:51:28]  Don't start with who's right.
[01:51:30]  Start with what are they trying to do and Erica said she, her daughter, didn't even know what they were trying to do.
[01:51:36]  Okay, so let's just talk about it.
[01:51:37]  Let's take you step by step.
[01:51:39]  What are they trying to do?
[01:51:40]  Okay, they're trying.
[01:51:41]  They think something's wrong and they're trying to make change happen.
[01:51:45]  Okay, how does change happen in America?
[01:51:52]  Does change happen through protests?
[01:51:56]  Then walk through the how the change happens, city Council, school board Legislature courts, you know Congress, etc etc.
[01:52:06]  And show them that yelling gets attention, but the process is what actually changes things.
[01:52:13]  Yelling just gets people's attention and then it's critical.
[01:52:17]  The lesson is not to protest it's.
[01:52:19]  It's really important in that first time you're talking about this is to say they have a right to protest.
[01:52:24]  However, there are things that you don't do in protests.
[01:52:27]  Okay, but the lesson is not to say protesting is bad.
[01:52:32]  It's that protest without participation is nothing more than theater.
[01:52:37]  You, they didn't teach you anything about the process.
[01:52:40]  Civics teaches patience, not pet, not passivity Now, George said, teach about Jesus.
[01:52:50]  I'm going to add MLK and Gandhi because that's where they got the principles of Jesus is reconciliation.
[01:52:58]  You ask your kid, how do you have a country if you can't bring people together?
[01:53:03]  What happens if we can never decide, do we have a country?
[01:53:06]  The answer is no.
[01:53:08]  So if we want to have a country, we can't have losers and winners.
[01:53:12]  We have to reconcile.
[01:53:14]  But reconcile with what?
[01:53:17]  You got to reconcile with the truth.
[01:53:20]  Okay?
[01:53:21]  So let's go through the problem.
[01:53:23]  This is a problem.
[01:53:23]  This is the critical thinking, how to teach your kids critical thinking.
[01:53:30]  Agreement in a society is rare.
[01:53:33]  Okay.
[01:53:34]  And reconciliation is essential.
[01:53:37]  It has to happen.
[01:53:38]  If a society decides that politics produces winners and losers, you know, it eventually treats its citizens as enemies to be defeated, not neighbors to be persuaded.
[01:53:49]  And that's what's happening.
[01:53:50]  Everybody's an enemy with one another.
[01:53:52]  That's not self-government.
[01:53:53]  That's a cold civil war.
[01:53:55]  So the question is not how do we win?
[01:53:58]  The question is, how do we get people back using the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
[01:54:06]  Because reconciliation without truth is surrender.
[01:54:11]  Truth without reconciliation becomes cruelty.
[01:54:16]  So now you're sitting and you've gone through this with your kid, and now the catechism part comes.
[01:54:21]  Teach my questions.
[01:54:23]  Do you even know what reconciliation is?
[01:54:27]  Talk to him about that.
[01:54:28]  It's not compromise with lies or falsehoods.
[01:54:32]  It's the restoration of the relationship of a couple of people after truth has been spoken.
[01:54:40]  So what did Jesus do?
[01:54:42]  He didn't condemn everybody.
[01:54:44]  Did he condemn or did he invite people?
[01:54:47]  And did he do it with the truth?
[01:54:50]  I mean, he used the truth and then left the door open.
[01:54:52]  Go and sin no more.
[01:54:54]  Came after, neither do I condemn you.
[01:55:00]  Did everybody follow him?
[01:55:01]  No.
[01:55:02]  A lot of people walked away.
[01:55:03]  Reconciliation doesn't require universal agreement, only honest witness.
[01:55:08]  So what's your responsibility as a citizen, a civics part?
[01:55:13]  It's not to convert everybody.
[01:55:15]  Yours is to peacefully speak the truth with humility, without contempt for anyone, and without any force.
[01:55:23]  Protesting is legal.
[01:55:25]  You start using force.
[01:55:27]  Now you start to get into the place where you're breaking laws.
[01:55:31]  And this is the key principle.
[01:55:32]  This is where republics live or die.
[01:55:35]  Jesus didn't chase crowds.
[01:55:38]  He spoke to those who could still hear, and that matters.
[01:55:41]  Not everybody is reachable at the same moment in history.
[01:55:44]  Some people are hardened or intoxicated by ideology or enraged by winning, invested in chaos, whatever.
[01:55:54]  You don't persuade those people with argument.
[01:55:56]  You persuade them only through example, consistency, and time.
[01:56:01]  You don't persuade all of them at once.
[01:56:04]  You don't.
[01:56:05]  That's why it is so important to never engage in the kind of stuff that you're seeing them engage in.
[01:56:12]  Because if you're doing the same thing, then they don't notice a difference.
[01:56:19]  And here's how you know who to talk to.
[01:56:22]  Here's the test.
[01:56:24]  If someone can still ask a sincere question, what's a sincere question?
[01:56:29]  A sincere question is, if I give you the answer and you go, wow, that makes sense.
[01:56:38]  And it disagrees with what you say is causing your behavior, but you go, that's true.
[01:56:44]  You've done your homework.
[01:56:46]  Actually true.
[01:56:47]  Will that then change you in any way?
[01:56:51]  If I show you that that five-year-old that story is not what you think it is, if I show that to you, will you say oh wow okay, I better question some other things.
[01:57:05]  Or will you say well, it doesn't matter, they're doing it anyway.
[01:57:09]  That's not a sincere person.
[01:57:12]  If they won't change their behavior once you speak truth, and they're, they're not reachable, okay.
[01:57:17]  If they can't distinguish between truth and power, they're not ready.
[01:57:21]  Jesus called it those who could hear.
[01:57:23]  Okay, let me give you an analogy.
[01:57:26]  Think of truth like a plumb line on a construction site.
[01:57:30]  Did you see?
[01:57:30]  There's a video going around about these, these skyscrapers in China, where the walls are coming apart from the floors.
[01:57:39]  They're skyscrapers and you can look.
[01:57:42]  You can put your head on the window and look down, because they're separate from all of the floors.
[01:57:47]  Nothing is straight, not good.
[01:57:50]  When you put a plumb line down, that's to make sure that everything is straight okay, gravity just pulls that straight and so you know that's a straight wall.
[01:57:58]  You don't bend the plumb line to match the crooked wall and then say, see, it's straight.
[01:58:03]  And you don't smash the wall with the plumb line either.
[01:58:06]  You just hang it quietly.
[01:58:08]  You let everybody see what a straight line actually is.
[01:58:12]  Some builders will adjust, some might argue that that line is oppressive, some will walk away.
[01:58:20]  But the building that survives is the one that aligns to the truth, to the plumb line, not the one that wins the argument.
[01:58:28]  You can argue about that plumb line.
[01:58:29]  All you want gravity is gravity, it's true, and a republic is exactly the same.
[01:58:36]  One last example, tell them a story.
[01:58:42]  Imagine a family sitting at a dinner table and half of the family is on one side of the dinner table and the other half is on the other.
[01:58:49]  One side is wrong.
[01:58:50]  Doesn't matter what the topic is.
[01:58:51]  One side is wrong, but they don't know it yet the other side knows the truth.
[01:58:56]  Okay, the other side might be tempted to humiliate the other side.
[01:59:02]  If the right side declares victory and storms out, the family is lost.
[01:59:07]  If the side that's wrong is indulged, the family collapses into lies and chaos.
[01:59:14]  So neither side wins right.
[01:59:17]  Reconciliation happens when you, the one person, stays seated and calm and says, i'm not gonna lie, i'm not just to keep the peace, I will not play this game with you, but i'm not gonna abandon you either.
[01:59:30]  And when you're, when you're ready.
[01:59:31]  I'm still here and the truth will still be true.
[01:59:36]  That's how nations heal, slowly quietly, with scars that you don't hide.

=== Reconciliation Through Calm Presence (04:52) ===

[01:59:47]  This is the goal of the Torch, to be able to have a tool that you can trust.
[01:59:55]  That's not chat Gpt, you trust that at all.
[01:59:59]  I don't know what's in chat Gp other than everything, and I don't want everything influencing.
[02:00:06]  So here's a tool that is only based on the founders, their words, their beliefs, their principles, the things they wrote, things that I know.
[02:00:17]  Okay, I can trust that cannot pull anything outside, can't pull anything from me, can't pull anything from the left.
[02:00:25]  It's just their words and you can ask it questions, how do I teach this?
[02:00:33]  And you get that answer back.
[02:00:37]  And if you can't do it, eventually, hopefully in a year or maybe a year from now, it will be able to guide you and the family.
[02:00:46]  You'll be able to sit there and you can ask a question.
[02:00:49]  Wait, I don't understand that, George.
[02:00:51]  He'll explain it again.
[02:00:52]  Then you can take and explain.
[02:00:54]  And then he'd correct you if you're incorrect or encourage you.
[02:00:57]  Yes, that's exactly right.
[02:00:58]  Then ask questions.
[02:01:00]  That's what we have to do.
[02:01:01]  Ask questions.
[02:01:03]  That's the best way to teach.
[02:01:05]  Ask questions.
[02:01:09]  That's why I've been asking you to join me at the torch.
[02:01:11]  If you want to help me build this, it's expensive.
[02:01:14]  I'm spending a lot of money, six figures every single month, just to build this because I believe in it so much.
[02:01:25]  And I don't care.
[02:01:27]  I'll build it by myself.
[02:01:28]  But I'd love your help if you want, if you think it's worth it.
[02:01:33]  It's $10 a month to join the torch.
[02:01:35]  You get all the backstage stuff.
[02:01:37]  You get all the bells and whistles, everything else.
[02:01:40]  But this is what I'm really trying to do.
[02:01:43]  We're going to be releasing music soon.
[02:01:46]  My first 10 songs on 10 songs on the Bill of Rights.
[02:01:53]  You remember Schoolhouse Rock?
[02:01:56]  Similar to that, but contemporary, that you can just play in the house, play with your kids.
[02:02:00]  They can listen to, and they'll be singing along the five in the first.
[02:02:06]  There are five rights in the First Amendment.
[02:02:08]  Nobody knows that.
[02:02:10]  Let them just sing along.
[02:02:11]  Just play it in the house.
[02:02:12]  Let them just sing along with it.
[02:02:14]  How many times do you sing songs or have songs running and you have no idea what the words are about?
[02:02:19]  My idea is why don't we make the words help us instead of hurt us?
[02:02:25]  Why not put words in there that are not goofy and stupid, but actually just sound like a normal song that will teach history.
[02:02:36]  Do these things.
[02:02:38]  That's one of the things that we're working on.
[02:02:39]  Some of that's coming out soon.
[02:02:41]  But join us at torch.
[02:02:42]  You just go to glennbeck.com slash torch, glennbeck.com slash torch and join us.
[02:02:48]  All right.
[02:02:49]  Let me tell you about realestateagentsitrust.com.
[02:02:52]  One of the biggest financial decisions most people make, and yet a lot of folks go into it, you know, with whatever agent happens to be found first.
[02:02:59]  Markets shift, you know, selling your house.
[02:03:03]  You don't know, it's shifting market.
[02:03:04]  Timing matters.
[02:03:05]  Negotiations get complex fast.
[02:03:08]  That's why I tell you about Real Estate Agents I Trust.
[02:03:10]  This is a network of experienced vetted agents all across the country who know their local markets and know how to guide people through the process the right way.
[02:03:18]  Let's say you're, I mean, I used realestateagents.com when I sold my house in Texas, had a great agent who sold it.
[02:03:27]  I mean, to the day I said, I need it sold by this time.
[02:03:31]  That was the day we closed.
[02:03:33]  And I had another great agent here in Florida.
[02:03:36]  And all I did was just go to realestateagentsitrust.com.
[02:03:40]  Who's our agent there?
[02:03:41]  They came up.
[02:03:42]  They're fabulous.
[02:03:43]  They're really, really good.
[02:03:45]  The name says it all.
[02:03:46]  Realestateagentsitrust.com.
[02:03:48]  I don't charge you anything for it.
[02:03:50]  Realestateagentsitrust.com.
[02:03:52]  Go there, check them out now.
[02:03:55]  Glenn Beck.
[02:04:13]  So, let me just ask the crew here.
[02:04:17]  Sarah, Ricky, Jason.
[02:04:22]  Is everybody watching the Super Bowl Sunday?
[02:04:24]  I have like no interest, but I'm not a sports guy.
[02:04:27]  Yeah.
[02:04:28]  My husband's a huge Patriot.
[02:04:29]  Yeah.
[02:04:30]  Okay.
[02:04:30]  Sarah?
[02:04:31]  I'm just watching the halftime show.
[02:04:35]  That was my next question.
[02:04:37]  Who's going to watch this half-time?

=== Jason's Kid Rock Motorcycle Playlist (01:01) ===

[02:04:39]  She has to report back.
[02:04:41]  Yeah, somebody has to watch it so they can report back.
[02:04:44]  I'm tempted to watch just to see how bad it is, but I don't want to give them a single ratings point, so I will make sure that my TV is off of that.
[02:04:54]  We're going to be watching TPUSA.
[02:04:56]  Yeah.
[02:04:58]  Well, Jason is a huge Kid Rock fan.
[02:05:02]  He's always doing, which the insiders don't like.
[02:05:05]  I saw that.
[02:05:06]  Every time, if you ever see me riding my motorcycle around DFW, Kid Rock will be the only thing blaring from the speakers every single time.
[02:05:14]  That's 100%.
[02:05:16]  He keeps his plane at the airport where I fly in to come home.
[02:05:20]  And his plane says it is the gaudiest thing you've ever seen.
[02:05:24]  It's just so him.
[02:05:26]  It's all like, you know, Kid Rock or American's Outlaw, American Outlaw or something like that, all in like gold lettering.
[02:05:33]  And then the tail just has the bird, if you know what I'm saying.
[02:05:38]  I know.
[02:05:39]  And it's like, well, Kid Rock is in town.