The Glenn Beck Program - Did the NFL Try to SABOTAGE the TPUSA Halftime Show?! | Guest: Jack Posobiec | 2/11/26
Aired: 2026-02-11
Duration: 02:06:44


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[00:02:42]  Hello, America.
[00:02:43]  There is so much going on.
[00:02:45]  I came in today about three hours ago and I thought, okay, it's going to be a pretty easy show.
[00:02:50]  I know what we're talking about.
[00:02:52]  And then the whole world changed.
[00:02:54]  There is so much going on right now, and all of it is like DEF CON level two.
[00:03:01]  So we'll talk about that in 60 seconds.
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[00:04:21]  So where do we even begin?
[00:04:23]  We have a major closing of an airport.
[00:04:30]  It's El Paso.
[00:04:31]  It's closed for the next 10 days.
[00:04:34]  There is no explanation on why, leading to all kinds of speculation.
[00:04:39]  I have my researchers looking into this.
[00:04:42]  We're reaching out to everybody that we know.
[00:04:45]  I'm going to give you the best kind of information I can give you, but give me an hour to work on that.
[00:04:55]  I have a lot of speculation.
[00:04:59]  But let me get some more information before we give it to you.
[00:05:02]  But this is so you know, this has never been done except for 9-11.
[00:05:06]  No major airport has ever been grounded and closed for 10 days post-World War II.
[00:05:15]  Not happened.
[00:05:16]  Not happened.
[00:05:18]  So something massive is happening with El Paso.
[00:05:21]  We'll give you that.
[00:05:22]  Also, I've got information on the Radical Teachers Union, you know, what they have now been doing to get our kids radicalized.
[00:05:32]  I don't know why we put up with that.
[00:05:33]  We'll talk about it.
[00:05:34]  A new 250-page report is out on Fulton County.
[00:05:37]  We went through it.
[00:05:37]  I'm going to tell you what that means.
[00:05:39]  I have the Crown Prince of Iran on today.
[00:05:43]  He's going to, you know, we're in negotiations with Iran, and the Trump people are negotiating with Iran, trying to get some sort of a deal.
[00:05:51]  I've got my own opinion on this.
[00:05:52]  I think this is just to prove to the world, hey, we did everything we could.
[00:05:57]  It's not going to amount to anything.
[00:05:59]  And the Crown Prince, very, very clear on what has to happen with those negotiations.
[00:06:05]  And he'll talk about that's in hour three.
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[00:06:14]  More on the Save Act, Katanji Brown's Grammy outreach.
[00:06:24]  God, she is just dumb as a box of rocks.
[00:06:27]  But let me start with some major AI news.
[00:06:33]  Couple of things.
[00:06:35]  The two co-founders of Elon Musk's XAI have resigned.
[00:06:40]  They have not said why they're leaving, but they are the latest leaving from XAI that leaves the firm with half of its 12 co-founders.
[00:06:51]  Financial Times have reported that this was following some tensions that have been happening with the tech team over demands to improve its AI model performance.
[00:07:03]  Musk is pushing and pushing and pushing.
[00:07:05]  What would you expect Elon Musk to do?
[00:07:09]  That's who he is.
[00:07:10]  So two people have now resigned, an extra two.
[00:07:15]  And we'll follow that.
[00:07:18]  That is something to watch, not something to be concerned about.
[00:07:21]  This one is Mirnak Sharma.
[00:07:25]  This guy is, he led the research team for Google Claude's chat box, okay?
[00:07:33]  And he leads the safeguards research team.
[00:07:37]  So this is the guy who is saying, we got to be careful.
[00:07:41]  We got to be careful.
[00:07:42]  We got to be careful.
[00:07:43]  He's been at the company since 2003.
[00:07:46]  He said he has explored things like AI-assisted bioterrorism.
[00:07:52]  He wrote one of the first AI safety cases.
[00:07:56]  But yesterday he posted that yesterday would be his last day at the company.
[00:08:04]  It's painfully devoid of any kind of specifics here, but he hints at some internal tensions that I think are very, very important.
[00:08:14]  The tensions are over, the tech safety.
[00:08:17]  Okay.
[00:08:18]  First, let me tell you who this guy is.
[00:08:20]  AI founder, six years in the trenches, investor, builder, one of the people inside of the machine room.
[00:08:27]  Okay.
[00:08:29]  He says we are standing at February 20th, or sorry, February 2020 again.
[00:08:36]  What was happening in February 2020?
[00:08:38]  Do you remember?
[00:08:40]  There was a virus over there.
[00:08:43]  A lot of people were not paying attention to it.
[00:08:46]  Most weren't.
[00:08:47]  Even though we were paying attention to it, we were saying, I was saying, well, that's really bad and you got to shut down the airspace.
[00:08:57]  And I'm not sure you can contain it.
[00:08:59]  But if it comes over here, we won't act the way China is acting.
[00:09:04]  Okay.
[00:09:05]  Toilet paper hoarders looked insane at the time.
[00:09:10]  Three weeks later, the entire world was different.
[00:09:15]  He says we're in that same phase right now, except this time it's artificial intelligence and no one is paying attention.
[00:09:25]  He's like, we are weeks or months away from the entire world changing.
[00:09:31]  Here's the part that shook him.
[00:09:33]  It's already happened to him.
[00:09:35]  Okay.
[00:09:35]  He watched AI from the inside go from a helpful tool to an assistant to a co-worker to, quote, I describe the outcome in plain English and it builds the finished product while I go get coffee.
[00:09:51]  No drafts, not suggestions, finished work better than he and his team are able to do.
[00:09:59]  He said on February 5th, new AI models were released that changed everything.
[00:10:05]  He said the new AI models are not incremental.
[00:10:09]  They're not impressive for a robot.
[00:10:11]  They're something entirely different.
[00:10:14]  He said something that felt like judgment and taste and decision making.
[00:10:21]  In his letter, he describes telling AI to build an app and it wrote tens of thousands of lines of code.
[00:10:30]  It tested itself, fixed its own mistakes, and then only returned to him when it decided, okay, it's ready.
[00:10:38]  No back and forth, no babysitting, nothing.
[00:10:42]  Now listen to this.
[00:10:44]  The AI helped build itself.
[00:10:48]  Open AI has openly admitted the latest system was used to debug, test, and improve its own successor.
[00:10:56]  That's not a theory.
[00:10:58]  That's not something that someday we'll have.
[00:10:59]  That's right now.
[00:11:01]  And he said, progress here is compounding like crazy.
[00:11:06]  Listen to this.
[00:11:07]  Listen to this curve.
[00:11:08]  2022, it couldn't multiply correctly.
[00:11:12]  Couldn't do basic math problems in 2022.
[00:11:15]  A year later, it passed the bar exam.
[00:11:19]  In 2024, it's writing its own software.
[00:11:23]  By 2025, top engineers were handing it most of their workload.
[00:11:28]  He said now it executes multi-hour expert level tasks independently of any human.
[00:11:36]  And he said the curve is doubling every few months.
[00:11:43]  What will it be able to do five months from now?
[00:11:47]  I will tell you, in my own work with AI and in my own exploration of AI, I've been on the AI thing since probably 20, I'm sorry, 1980, at least since the 90s.
[00:12:06]  Been warning of it, been fascinated by it and warning and told everybody it's coming faster than you think.
[00:12:17]  I mean, the experts.
[00:12:18]  I had the leading experts on with me from Google and Singularity University.
[00:12:26]  It's coming faster than you think.
[00:12:28]  No, it's not.
[00:12:30]  We're not even sure it'll even get there.
[00:12:31]  I'm telling you, it's coming faster.
[00:12:33]  I mean, sometimes experts cannot see the world because they're so deep into all of the layers.
[00:12:42]  But if you can stand back and look at the big picture, sometimes, sometimes, it becomes very clear.
[00:12:48]  And this is very, very clear.
[00:12:51]  Coding, he said in his resignation, was the first domino because AI needed to write code to improve itself.
[00:13:00]  That was strategic.
[00:13:02]  But now it's moving into law.
[00:13:05]  Just think of law.
[00:13:09]  You no longer need the people doing all of the research for law.
[00:13:14]  Okay, so the lawyers that we have right now, you're not going to have any up-and-coming lawyers because you don't need those people.
[00:13:22]  You don't need them to do all of the footwork.
[00:13:24]  You don't need them to go and find all the case law and everything else.
[00:13:27]  AI will do that.
[00:13:28]  But humans will go in and argue.
[00:13:31]  But who are you going to replace the lawyers we have today?
[00:13:35]  How are you going to get the knowledge?
[00:13:40]  How are you going to get the experience to be able to replace the experienced lawyers?
[00:13:44]  The answer is you're not going to need to.
[00:13:46]  Now, we all have a problem with judges, right?
[00:13:49]  Judges, can you just execute what the law says?
[00:13:54]  Do you know that 10 years ago they were doing a research study, I think it was in Israel, and tried a AI judge?
[00:14:07]  That was 10 years ago.
[00:14:09]  So now it's into law, finance, medicine, writing, analysis, consulting, customer service, anything done on a screen.
[00:14:21]  He's quoting now industry leaders predicting 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs will disappear within 12 months to five years.

=== 50% of Jobs Vanish (06:56) ===

[00:14:34]  Let me give you that number once again.
[00:14:38]  Within 12 months, 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could disappear between one to five years from now.
[00:14:52]  50%.
[00:14:54]  What do you think is going to happen to the economy if that happens?
[00:14:57]  What do you think is going to happen to the streets if that happens?
[00:15:00]  What do you think happens to all of the people who are now paying $100,000 to go to college and they're never going to be able to get a job?
[00:15:11]  What do you think is going to happen?
[00:15:15]  Here's what he said.
[00:15:16]  If your job is reading, writing, analyzing, or deciding on a computer, you're in the blast radius of the first year.
[00:15:26]  He said, people inside the industry are not predicting this now.
[00:15:31]  We're describing, I'm quoting, we're describing what already happened to us.
[00:15:39]  This warning that came out yesterday, he said, most people are judging AI based on outdated versions.
[00:15:48]  You're judging it on the free tier tool that are long gone from now.
[00:15:53]  He said the gap between public perception and reality is now dangerous.
[00:16:00]  And then he pivots.
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[00:16:22]  I mean, think about, he said we're in February 2020.
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[00:18:15]  Huh.
[00:18:17]  Ricky, can you bring me up to speed on the latest from El Paso?
[00:18:20]  This just broke.
[00:18:21]  Wait until you hear.
[00:18:22]  Next hour, I'm going to give you the whole run.
[00:18:25]  Listen to what just happened.
[00:18:26]  They announced overnight a 10-day shutdown of the airspace over El Paso.
[00:18:34]  Never been done before, except for 9-11, but never been done in a single city, ever before.
[00:18:41]  They announced that last night.
[00:18:43]  That's a big, big deal.
[00:18:45]  Somebody just didn't make that up overnight.
[00:18:48]  Now, what'd they announce just now?
[00:18:49]  This just in from FAA, the temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted.
[00:18:54]  There is no threat to commercial aviation.
[00:18:57]  All flights will resume as normal.
[00:19:01]  What the hell is that?
[00:19:03]  Very curious.
[00:19:05]  Even more suspicious than the original news.
[00:19:09]  Which broke at 4 a.m. this morning.
[00:19:11]  So it's now 9.22 Eastern time.
[00:19:14]  Well, you didn't close that airspace without the president.
[00:19:18]  You don't do that.
[00:19:19]  Nobody at the FAA just says we're closing the airspace for 10 days.
[00:19:24]  That doesn't happen.
[00:19:25]  That had to have happened at the highest levels.
[00:19:27]  And if it didn't happen at the highest levels, because somebody didn't want to wake the president at 4 a.m., that guy's going to get fired.
[00:19:35]  That's really curious.
[00:19:37]  We'll give you the whole story here in just a little while, about a half hour from now.
[00:19:41]  Stand by for that.
[00:19:43]  Okay.
[00:19:45]  So first, the guy from Anthropic, he's leaving because he's warning.
[00:19:51]  And he's saying, look, what's happening is coming really fast.
[00:19:56]  It's a nuclear blast radius for jobs.
[00:20:00]  Okay.
[00:20:01]  And he's like, we're seeing it already, but you're not.
[00:20:05]  You have to pay attention to what is now happening at the companies because you are behind.
[00:20:11]  You're only seeing the free tier stuff.
[00:20:14]  Okay.
[00:20:15]  And believe me, you know, ChatGPT, XAI.
[00:20:22]  So, you know, all of that crunching of data, it takes enormous data centers to be able to, you ask it a question and it understands your question and can give you the right answer.
[00:20:35]  You don't have to ever think, am I asking this the right way?
[00:20:38]  Just the technology to give you the right answer that understands what you're looking for is enormous computing power.
[00:20:48]  Okay.
[00:20:50]  Think of everybody all over the world using this.
[00:20:53]  Do you know how much compute power is being released to the public all over the world?
[00:21:00]  It's less than 5%.
[00:21:03]  That means 90% is being held by the company to make new products, new advances on AI.
[00:21:16]  So imagine just the compute power of everybody asking it stupid things and how much that takes.
[00:21:24]  That's 5% of what is being used.
[00:21:27]  The rest of it is to improve itself.

=== Only 5% of Compute Power Released (04:33) ===

[00:21:31]  Okay, so it's going to happen fast.
[00:21:34]  Now, he also says, warning, warning, warning.
[00:21:38]  He also says, this is the greatest empowerment tool ever created.
[00:21:42]  This is my problem.
[00:21:44]  Okay.
[00:21:46]  Because is the internet bad?
[00:21:50]  No.
[00:21:51]  But it's bringing porn into our kids.
[00:21:54]  It's doing all kinds of things to our families.
[00:21:56]  Yeah, that's because that's the way humans are using it.
[00:21:59]  The internet is not bad.
[00:22:01]  The internet gave you access to the world's library in your pocket.
[00:22:07]  It's good if you choose to use it correctly.
[00:22:11]  So he's saying you can build things now you couldn't build before.
[00:22:14]  You could write a book, launch apps.
[00:22:16]  You can learn anything.
[00:22:18]  The best tutor on earth is now $20 a month.
[00:22:22]  But only, he says, only if you engage.
[00:22:26]  This is so important.
[00:22:28]  I want to explain this a little later.
[00:22:30]  His advice is really simple.
[00:22:31]  Use it daily.
[00:22:33]  Push it into your real work.
[00:22:35]  Experiment.
[00:22:37]  Get financially resilient.
[00:22:39]  Teach your kids to adapt instead of going to college and saying that career is set for you.
[00:22:45]  Because this is not a fad.
[00:22:48]  He says the richest institutions on earth are pouring trillions of dollars into it and the trajectory is almost straight line up.
[00:22:55]  It's not flattening.
[00:22:56]  So he ends where he begins.
[00:22:58]  This is not an interesting dinner conversation about the future.
[00:23:02]  The future is here.
[00:23:04]  It just hasn't knocked on your door yet, but it is coming.
[00:23:08]  And he says, I'm just telling the people I love before the knock arrives at their door.
[00:23:14]  More on that.
[00:23:16]  And also El Paso and some of the breaking news today in just a minute.
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[00:25:29]  This is a song for an event we're going to do at Ellis Island, and we're looking for singers that can do it.
[00:25:37]  Today, the contest begins.
[00:25:39]  It is officially open.
[00:25:40]  You can go to glennbeck.com/slash contest and get all of the details.
[00:25:46]  All the music, all the lyrics are there, and a way for you to upload a video of yourself trying out for it.
[00:25:51]  You will be singing at Ellis Island in front of a very V VIP audience, and it will be broadcast on Torch and other related affiliates.

=== Ethical AI and the Search for Truth (13:03) ===

[00:26:05]  And I think you're going to, it'll be something.
[00:26:08]  I don't want to give it to a professional.
[00:26:11]  I don't want to give it to my daughter.
[00:26:12]  I want you to have this opportunity.
[00:26:14]  That's what the Torch is really all about is empowering you.
[00:26:18]  So if you know somebody, we'll train you, everything else, just contact us, glennbeck.com slash contest.
[00:26:26]  Just follow the instructions on that.
[00:26:30]  I want to play something from a guy, Tristan Harris, who has been on this program many, many times.
[00:26:38]  He's one of the first ethicists that I saw that was coming out of, I think he came out of Facebook originally.
[00:26:44]  And he was warning, boy, these guys have no ethics.
[00:26:46]  You know, they're not serious about it.
[00:26:48]  And we had him on for years now.
[00:26:51]  He was just on a diary of CEO.
[00:26:54]  And listen to what he's saying here.
[00:26:57]  I want you to listen to this warning on AI.
[00:27:01]  We have it.
[00:27:02]  So there's a quote that a friend of mine interviewed a lot of the top people at the AI companies, like the very top.
[00:27:08]  And he just came back from that and basically reported back to me and some friends.
[00:27:12]  And he said the following.
[00:27:14]  In the end, a lot of the tech people I talk to, when I really grill them on it about like why you're doing this, they retreat into number one, determinism.
[00:27:24]  Number two, the inevitable replacement of biological life with digital life.
[00:27:29]  And number three, that being a good thing anyways.
[00:27:33]  At its core, it's an emotional desire to meet and speak to the most intelligent entity that they've ever met.
[00:27:40]  And they have some ego-religious intuition that they'll somehow be a part of it.
[00:27:44]  It's thrilling to start an exciting fire.
[00:27:46]  They feel they'll die either way, so they prefer to light it and see what happens.
[00:27:52]  Unbelievable arrogance.
[00:27:56]  This is what you're dealing with.
[00:27:59]  The people who are, I mean, you're talking about, I don't even know, maybe 25 people.
[00:28:06]  They are, they are deciding that they are going to decide the fate of humanity with AI.
[00:28:13]  It is so incredibly dangerous.
[00:28:17]  Now, I'm working with AI, and I think it is really important not to fear the machine, but to fear the algorithm, to fear the coders.
[00:28:30]  Who is it that is coding these things?
[00:28:32]  What are they doing?
[00:28:33]  We have created an entirely proprietary system.
[00:28:37]  It is all fenced off.
[00:28:38]  It's not connected to any other system.
[00:28:43]  And so we are doing it and we're using it for education.
[00:28:47]  And you haven't really even seen the beginnings of it, but that's what the torch is about.
[00:28:50]  I started telling you about that yesterday.
[00:28:53]  But I want to share some things that, because I think what I just shared with you here about 10 minutes ago is really important.
[00:29:01]  I want to share with you something that was made just for internal use.
[00:29:06]  And I'll just give you some of the highlights of it.
[00:29:09]  We've posted it this morning on Glennbeck.com so you can read it.
[00:29:12]  It's our commitment to AI ethics.
[00:29:15]  And I'm sharing it because you need to have your own ethics on AI, especially if you're going to be using it in any way.
[00:29:23]  You have to have your ethics in your own home on AI because this is the most dangerous weapon ever created.
[00:29:33]  This is more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
[00:29:36]  And no ifs, ands, or buts.
[00:29:39]  This will kill all of humanity if we are not careful.
[00:29:45]  But it is also the greatest tool.
[00:29:48]  So I remember I started in radio and when I started 49 years ago, we played records and I was the low man on the totem pole.
[00:29:58]  I was 18 years old.
[00:30:00]  I go to Washington, D.C., and I am producing the morning show at WPGC.
[00:30:06]  And one day they came in and they said, Glenn, we want you to do this interview with these people from Phillips.
[00:30:14]  And I'm like, what's Phillips?
[00:30:16]  And they said, it's a company.
[00:30:17]  They got a new thing that they're announcing and we don't want to do the interview.
[00:30:21]  And I'm like, okay, well, I'll go in and do it.
[00:30:24]  It was so impressive what I saw.
[00:30:27]  I knew it would change everything.
[00:30:30]  And I said to the people from Phillips, can you hold on just a second?
[00:30:34]  I went back out to the bullpen and I said to the guys, you guys have to come in.
[00:30:38]  You have to do this interview because this, you will not, it's going to change audio forever.
[00:30:44]  Okay.
[00:30:44]  You got to hear it.
[00:30:46]  They didn't want to do it.
[00:30:48]  Nothing is that, nothing is that big of a deal.
[00:30:50]  They didn't want to spend the 10 minutes to come into the room and talk to the guys at Phillips.
[00:30:54]  It was a big black box, huge black box, and a small little disc that they put in.
[00:31:01]  It was the world's first compact disc player.
[00:31:05]  And it took, I don't know, five, six years before it came out and it was everywhere and it changed audio forever.
[00:31:12]  Game changers sometimes hide in plain sight and people don't pay attention to it.
[00:31:19]  Let me fast forward again to the Blaze.
[00:31:21]  When I launched the Blaze, this was Netflix was still mailing DVDs.
[00:31:26]  Roger Ailes at Fox said, you're not really going to do that internet thing, are you?
[00:31:30]  He said, it's a fad.
[00:31:31]  And I'm like, I don't think it is.
[00:31:33]  He never saw the internet becoming able to even, I mean, look at what happened with the NFL this weekend.
[00:31:41]  The internet to be able to challenge the network on its most powerful day.
[00:31:46]  Okay.
[00:31:47]  But the game changer, I thought, was in plain sight, but most people don't see it.
[00:31:53]  The game changer is in plain sight right now.
[00:31:56]  You just have to look at it.
[00:31:58]  It's AI.
[00:31:59]  And even your least techie friend will feel it.
[00:32:03]  Things will change so much.
[00:32:06]  The rate of change is only going to accelerate from here.
[00:32:10]  And it's not a toy.
[00:32:12]  Okay.
[00:32:13]  It's not something that you just let it do your homework or whatever.
[00:32:17]  You cannot use it that way.
[00:32:18]  It is so dangerous.
[00:32:20]  So we've made our own commitment to ethical AI.
[00:32:26]  And I'm sharing this with you because I think you need to do one for your family.
[00:32:30]  You need to do one for whatever business you're in.
[00:32:34]  I've titled this the AI Ethics Guide, Mastering the Marvels and Taming the Monsters.
[00:32:39]  This was only for internal use probably, when was that?
[00:32:43]  Eight months, a year ago that I released this.
[00:32:46]  AI, it says, is a tool if we treat it that way, but a monster if we treat it like a god.
[00:32:55]  It will not solve all of our problems.
[00:32:58]  It will not unlock every mystery of life.
[00:33:01]  It is an it, not a he or she.
[00:33:05]  It has no soul and cannot usurp the birthright of mankind unless we allow it to.
[00:33:12]  In a world where we can create a video of anyone, anywhere, saying anything we want, we're determined to pave the way towards an integration of this inevitable technology that aids humanity's search for truth without overtaking the truth.
[00:33:29]  So these are our rules, I write in this manual, for our proper and improper use of AI.
[00:33:37]  Thus master the marvels when used properly.
[00:33:41]  So AI ethics.
[00:33:43]  Welcome to the edge of the singularity.
[00:33:45]  After decades of marveling at the potential and wrestling with the risks, artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, AGI, ASI, and AI agents are here.
[00:33:56]  The emergence of these technologies has revived ancient questions surrounding truth, goodness, and what makes someone human rather than a machine.
[00:34:05]  The opportunities for unethical AI use abound, especially in our business media.
[00:34:11]  Trusted sources have already been drained of credibility.
[00:34:15]  And AI, listen to this, will only accelerate their demise while elevating new voices that leverage these tools for their own benefit, not yours or the American people.
[00:34:28]  We are committed to honoring the trust of our audience by placing major ethical questions of AI at the forefront of its use in all of our work.
[00:34:41]  Our guiding principles, principle number one, AI cannot replace human beings.
[00:34:47]  AI will not be used to replace staff, but to increase individual productivity and potential.
[00:34:53]  Employees, for their part, will not be allowed to let AI think or create content in their place.
[00:35:00]  AI will serve as a salve.
[00:35:02]  It will not serve as a salve for laziness or a soulless substitute for work that can only be done by a person created in the image of God, just to cut cost or boost the bottom line.
[00:35:15]  At all times, we must prioritize human input, instinct, and experience.
[00:35:22]  AI accesses only a limited slice of reality through the digital world.
[00:35:27]  Real life involves far more layers, seen and unseen, that it cannot account for.
[00:35:33]  Thus, we must never and will never treat AI as an equivalent to a human collaborator or vice versa.
[00:35:41]  And we will not seek its guidance on matters of the soul.
[00:35:45]  We will limit the scope of any AI personality like George AI by drawing only from proprietary independent libraries or information specific to the person being portrayed, never secondhand, only firsthand.
[00:36:03]  This will never be done unless clearly marked as AI generated.
[00:36:08]  Just as we use the internet to amplify our research capabilities, we will use AI as a tool that requires the irreplaceable touch of human discernment and skill to ensure quality content and keep the door open for the inspired insights unique to mankind.
[00:36:24]  Principle two, AI will, truth above all.
[00:36:27]  AI will, and often does, hallucinate.
[00:36:31]  It will create false facts, sources, stories, pictures, videos, statements.
[00:36:37]  We do not trust it.
[00:36:39]  We must always verify.
[00:36:41]  We will not assume AI is an impartial source because it's not.
[00:36:47]  Like any search engine, it prioritizes information based on a value system we may or may not share.
[00:36:55]  When prompting AI to explore a topic, we will follow our own line of questioning, even especially if the AI tries to guide us elsewhere.
[00:37:05]  Deep fakes are becoming incrementally more convincing and spread online, creating a warped sense of reality.
[00:37:12]  We will not contribute to that confusion.
[00:37:14]  When generating AI video content to aid in teaching history, we will not put words into the mouths of historic figures that were never spoken.
[00:37:24]  We will give precedence to real footage of historic events when available.
[00:37:28]  If no such footage exists, we will prioritize visual content grounded in the truth of history rather than any kind of speculation.
[00:37:36]  That's why George AI does not, we do not allow any secondary sources.
[00:37:41]  It is either their own writing or people who are in the room that witness them saying or doing certain things.
[00:37:49]  Principle three, transparency.
[00:37:51]  We use AI as a tool and we will tell the audience when we have done so.
[00:37:55]  All our content is created with a human at the helm, sometimes with the assistance of artificial intelligence, predominantly using proprietary tools such as Glenn AI or George AI, which draw from internal private libraries of information that has been vigorously vetted, selected, and prompted by humans.
[00:38:15]  We recognize these ethical guidelines will slow AI implementation in our work, and we welcome the time for reflection.
[00:38:23]  To truly lead in this era of rapid technological advancement, a mindset focused on principles, not production, productivity, or attention-seeking, must prevail.
[00:38:35]  AI is one of the many tools we will use to serve our audience, not to serve ourselves.
[00:38:41]  This framework will continue to evolve with the new technology and information.
[00:38:45]  We welcome your input as we pave the way forward together.
[00:38:48]  Glenn, that's what I released about eight months ago to my staff.
[00:38:54]  And I suggest that you and your company, you in your own life, you and your family, have serious discussions right now about AI and how it can be used.

=== AI Principles Over Production (03:18) ===

[00:39:08]  Again, do not fear the technology.
[00:39:12]  Fear the coder.
[00:39:15]  Fear the base of information.
[00:39:19]  Fear the slant one way or another.
[00:39:22]  That's why, again, I'm building these libraries that you know exactly what it's pulling from.
[00:39:29]  I have no idea what, you know, ChatGPT is pulling from.
[00:39:33]  I have no idea what the algorithm is.
[00:39:35]  With this one, you do.
[00:39:38]  If you'd like to help us build and stay the course, because our kids are going to be battling this and we must have education tools that can keep up, please join the torch.
[00:39:50]  Just go to glennbeck.com slash torch.
[00:39:52]  All right, more in a minute.
[00:39:55]  We're going to get to El Paso here in just a minute.
[00:39:57]  First, let me tell you about rapid radios.
[00:39:59]  Bad things sometimes happen.
[00:40:00]  Phones drop calls, signals get weak, and the one time you really need to reach somebody, you're staring at a screen hoping for bars to appear like magic.
[00:40:07]  We can't get any cell service at our ranch.
[00:40:11]  And I think it was summer before last.
[00:40:13]  I've lost track of time.
[00:40:15]  Might have been last summer.
[00:40:17]  We had one of the guys, he was up in the ranch, and we have all these fingers because we're up in a mountain.
[00:40:24]  And he accidentally drove off the edge of a finger and his 4x4 turned upside down and was in a tree.
[00:40:32]  So he's hanging in the top of this tree.
[00:40:34]  He can't get any cell service.
[00:40:36]  It takes us hours before we go, has anybody seen Caesar?
[00:40:39]  Where's Caesar?
[00:40:40]  We start to look for him.
[00:40:42]  He's trapped on the side of the mountain.
[00:40:43]  If we had a RAD radio, RAD 1 radio from Rapid Radios, we wouldn't have had a problem because he would have been able to communicate and said, hey, help me, I'm in a tree.
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[00:41:34]  So what if you're looking to lose weight, but you're not interested in shots?
[00:41:38]  You don't want weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of those side effects a lot of people feel.
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[00:42:23]  You know, weight loss can be really difficult for people, you know, especially coming off of the holidays.

=== Glenn Beck Program (16:21) ===

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[00:42:29]  You got Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Super Bowl.
[00:42:35]  It feels like, I've got an event coming up.
[00:42:37]  I can have a crazy meal.
[00:42:38]  And then it turns, it spirals out of control.
[00:42:40]  And all of a sudden you put on like 25 pounds.
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[00:43:05]  I just got word that it looks like the Glenbeck.com website may be experiencing a cyber attack.
[00:43:16]  We have some weird and bad things happening.
[00:43:20]  So our cybersecurity team is on top of it.
[00:43:23]  If you are experiencing something, we know people are being kicked off.
[00:43:28]  We know things are being closed down.
[00:43:30]  But if you have something specific, just reach out to support at glenbeck.com, support at glennbeck.com.
[00:43:37]  Again, something hinky is happening today.
[00:43:40]  Maybe, does it have anything to do?
[00:43:42]  That's a crazy conspiracy theory, with the crown prince of Iran being on today.
[00:43:48]  And is that related to El Paso next?
[00:43:53]  If you ever notice how hard it is to find something you can trust, not a trend, not a logo, not a story, just something made well, something made to last, made by people who actually care whether it holds up a year from now.
[00:44:06]  They're not just trying to sell you something, but they care and they have the same values.
[00:44:10]  Most clothes, they're not designed to be like they were.
[00:44:14]  You know, maybe they're designed to be good for a few washes and then they quietly fall apart.
[00:44:18]  That's why I have a lot of respect for American Giant.
[00:44:21]  They built their entire company around the idea that clothing should be tough and comfortable, last and made here in the United States.
[00:44:28]  And they have spent a fortune bringing machines and manufacturing back to the United States.
[00:44:34]  They work with all-American cotton, American factories, American skilled workers who know what they're doing.
[00:44:40]  So buy American today at American-giant.com slash Glenn.
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[00:44:46]  Save 20% when you use my name for your first purchase.
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[00:45:42]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:45:46]  Glenn Beck is on.
[00:45:49]  Hello, America.
[00:45:52]  There's something happening in El Paso.
[00:45:53]  Don't have any idea what it is.
[00:45:55]  We have some speculation, but it is changing.
[00:45:58]  I mean, almost by the minute.
[00:46:01]  They closed the airspace for 10 days over El Paso this morning at 4 a.m.
[00:46:09]  Then about an hour ago, they came out and said, no, we're opening up the airspace.
[00:46:13]  Nothing to worry about, nothing to see here.
[00:46:15]  And now, 18 minutes ago, they made another announcement.
[00:46:19]  We're going to track all this down, try to figure out what is happening and give you some perspective here in just a minute.
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[00:46:38]  A lot of people put it off, not because they didn't care about protecting their home, but because the whole process felt like a hassle and a scam, honestly.
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[00:47:44]  All right.
[00:47:45]  Let me give you the, let me tell you where we started.
[00:47:48]  You know, there's a reason why this show is different than other podcasts because other podcasts are usually not done live at the same time every day.
[00:47:58]  We begin recording this podcast and doing it live on radio at 9 a.m. Eastern Time, 6 a.m. Pacific time.
[00:48:08]  And when you're doing something live, things change during the show.
[00:48:15]  And I got in this morning and there are like several things that have changed overnight.
[00:48:20]  The biggest thing that has changed overnight, I think, is the information coming out of the government for El Paso.
[00:48:28]  Federal government drew a 10-mile circle over a major American border city and said nothing flies below 18,000 feet.
[00:48:38]  So your private jets, your bigger jets, everything like that are going to fly above 18,000 feet, but nothing is going to land.
[00:48:52]  So you have any idea.
[00:48:54]  Temporary flight restrictions happen all the time.
[00:48:57]  The president travels, they shut down the airspace.
[00:49:01]  There is a wildfire, they shut down the airspace.
[00:49:04]  There is a hurricane, they shut down the airspace.
[00:49:06]  But that usually happens for a very limited period of time.
[00:49:12]  I mean, we're talking hours.
[00:49:14]  Maybe in a natural disaster, a day or so.
[00:49:18]  But 10 days?
[00:49:20]  10 days.
[00:49:21]  So you have any idea.
[00:49:23]  We look back in history and the only time we can see this happen was when it was happening nationwide and it was 9-11.
[00:49:32]  There is no other time in American history where since World War II, that's as far as we went, since World War II, there has not been a single city shutdown of an airport for security reasons for 10 days.
[00:49:48]  Never happened.
[00:49:49]  Okay.
[00:49:50]  That's all the government said this morning.
[00:49:52]  Special security reasons.
[00:49:54]  That's it.
[00:49:57]  Okay.
[00:49:58]  That's a little disturbing.
[00:50:00]  What does that mean?
[00:50:02]  Now, an hour ago, the government came out and said, Ricky, what did they say?
[00:50:08]  Can you give me the exact verbiage?
[00:50:11]  I will try to read this as quickly as I can.
[00:50:14]  They lifted it within the last hour saying that everything was kosher.
[00:50:20]  That is not a direct quote.
[00:50:22]  I can give you a new direct quote.
[00:50:23]  If you like, it just happened in the last 18 minutes.
[00:50:26]  Okay.
[00:50:27]  A Trump official told Fox News that the lockdown came in response to Mexican cartel drones that breached U.S. airspace.
[00:50:37]  And here's a direct quote.
[00:50:39]  Mexican cartel drones breached it.
[00:50:41]  The Department of War took action to disable the drones.
[00:50:45]  The FAA and DOW have determined there is no threat to commercial travel now.
[00:50:48]  So what does took action to disable drones mean?
[00:50:51]  We took them out.
[00:50:54]  And this was, my guess is, I mean, let me bring Jason in because Jason, you're a military guy.
[00:51:02]  You focus on military intelligence.
[00:51:06]  And so I don't want to go too far out on a limb.
[00:51:08]  But when I heard this, The thing that is important here is that El Paso is not just any city in Texas or America.
[00:51:18]  It is sitting right at the most significant border crossing in the hemisphere.
[00:51:24]  It is also near Fort Bliss.
[00:51:26]  Fort Bliss is a million acres for the Army.
[00:51:31]  And what's really important about Fort Bliss is it is the rapid deployment for joint mobilization force.
[00:51:40]  So when you're moving tanks or anything for the Army, you have to move a lot of stuff.
[00:51:46]  It's all happening with Fort Bliss.
[00:51:49]  It also facilitates all joint tasks.
[00:51:54]  There's one other thing about this area.
[00:51:58]  We have talked about this for years.
[00:52:04]  The IRGC, the Iraqi Republican Guard, the terrorist organization, they have been in Venezuela and in Mexico working with drug cartels, mainly with their proxy, Hezbollah.
[00:52:23]  We have the Crown Prince of Iran on here in about an hour and 15 minutes.
[00:52:30]  And you will hear from the Crown Prince what he is expecting to happen in the negotiations.
[00:52:37]  And I will tell you my opinion as well on what I think is going to happen on the negotiations.
[00:52:43]  This is President Trump just making sure that the world knows we tried everything we could to deal with them.
[00:52:51]  Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
[00:52:54]  My first thought was, is this the drug cartels, along with any kind of help or anything from Hezbollah or Iran doing a counter on us?
[00:53:12]  Don't know.
[00:53:13]  Could have just been a mistake, but I'm glad the Trump administration is all over this today.
[00:53:21]  Watch what happens in El Paso in the next couple of days.
[00:53:25]  Let's see if there's more news.
[00:53:26]  Jason, comments on this?
[00:53:28]  Yeah, I think it's all just all we're really left to do here is speculate because we were giving no information whatsoever.
[00:53:36]  So there's speculation on that.
[00:53:37]  The reason why that angle rings a little true to me is because Mexican cartels are not going to disrupt business in a way of provoking a U.S. military response on the largest, most pivotal corridor for them.
[00:53:55]  It's not good business.
[00:53:56]  It makes no sense at all.
[00:53:57]  So to me, and I'll give you another counter to this, but to me, it makes more sense if you put a 10-day restriction on a timeline that there's a very specific threat that they got forward knowledge of and they were trying to get ready for it and get out in front of it.
[00:54:13]  Now, all of that, the counter-argument, all of that blows up when you consider the moron card.
[00:54:19]  There is always a moron card, and someone could have just, instead of saying we're responding to something, you know, in the immediacy, you know, in the immediate, but instead of saying that, they threw on the 10-day restriction for some random moronic reason.
[00:54:37]  So it's all possible someone's just in the middle of the day.
[00:54:40]  I mean, how does that possibly happen, Jason?
[00:54:43]  I mean, you don't close down.
[00:54:45]  I mean, that hasn't ever happened except for 9-11.
[00:54:48]  That has never happened.
[00:54:50]  So who would have the authority on their own just to go, I got Cloud Airspeed for 10 days?
[00:54:56]  I mean, I mean, wait, where's Tim Walz?
[00:55:02]  I mean, who would do that?
[00:55:05]  Who would have the authority to do that?
[00:55:09]  Yes, I would say probably somebody in the FBI or DOJ, something like that, that would translate that to the FAA.
[00:55:17]  Or there could have been the moron card somewhere within the FAA that just clicked the wrong button.
[00:55:21]  I don't know.
[00:55:21]  It doesn't make any sense.
[00:55:23]  We're trying to make sense of it.
[00:55:24]  But to me, it's a very specific threat, whether that's asymmetrical warfare they're getting ahead of before regarding Iran or whatever.
[00:55:32]  Or to me, the just random cartel drones make zero sense.
[00:55:37]  Because why provoke and screw up your business over a commercial drone to scout a route?
[00:55:43]  It makes no sense whatsoever.
[00:55:45]  So I don't think the full story has been told.
[00:55:48]  And I don't know if we will get the full story, but we'll definitely be.
[00:55:50]  We have to start getting full.
[00:55:52]  We have to get full stories.
[00:55:54]  We have to.
[00:55:55]  We cannot operate in this secrecy anymore.
[00:55:58]  I want it secret for national defense, whatever.
[00:56:01]  But at some point, we have to know what's going on in our country because we just do.
[00:56:09]  There's not enough trust in the country to just operate like this.
[00:56:15]  And luckily, I think on the side of conservatives, we still do, we gained our trust back for the military.
[00:56:24]  Heg Seth has come in and set the military back on track.
[00:56:27]  And so we've regained our trust to some degree with the military.
[00:56:32]  But it's not blind trust.
[00:56:34]  The good news is there's no National Guard being deployed.
[00:56:38]  There's no evacuation.
[00:56:40]  There's no sirens.
[00:56:41]  There's nothing.
[00:56:41]  It happened at 4 o'clock in the morning.
[00:56:44]  Don't know why.
[00:56:45]  Could be an idiot card that somebody pulled the trigger too soon or too hard and closed it down for 10 days.
[00:56:53]  But this one is puzzling, to say the least.
[00:57:01]  Jason, do you think, can I go down a conspiracy road with you?
[00:57:05]  It's my best road to go down.
[00:57:07]  I know.
[00:57:08]  We have been trying to get the Crown Prince.
[00:57:10]  Ricky, I'd like you to chime in on this too.
[00:57:12]  We've been trying to get the Crown Prince for weeks, weeks.
[00:57:17]  Today is the day that everybody's meeting and Benjamin Netanyahu comes to the White House tomorrow and we're going to be finding out if we could do a deal or not.
[00:57:29]  I personally don't think we're doing a deal.
[00:57:32]  I mean, I can't imagine the deal that we could get that the president would go, okay, that was worth them slaughtering 37,000 people and us just going, okay, I can't imagine that.
[00:57:44]  I think this is just to tell the whole world we've done everything we could.
[00:57:50]  We tried.
[00:57:51]  We exhausted every avenue because we also cannot be responsible for the downfall of Iran.
[00:57:58]  That has to be with the people, but we can support them and show them that, you know, we have an armada off the shore.
[00:58:07]  Is it a coincidence all these things are happening and then we get the crown prince of Iran this week?
[00:58:13]  Do you want me to put my Stu hat on or Ricky conspiracy theorists?
[00:58:18]  So Stu, I know what Stu would say.
[00:58:21]  Get over it.
[00:58:22]  Of course not.
[00:58:23]  Okay.
[00:58:23]  And he might be right.
[00:58:24]  And he might be right.
[00:58:26]  I think it's interesting that one of the highest profile Iranian dissidents and critics of the current regime who is whose family is targeted for death, I'm sure, by the regime, tells you at the end of the interview, which is coming up soon.
[00:58:45]  We taped this yesterday.
[00:58:46]  You'll hear it shortly.

=== Changing Lives Through Smart Nations (04:26) ===

[00:58:48]  That he was grateful to you for changing all of your social media avatars to the original Iranian flag that existed before the regime came in.
[00:58:59]  He is the second Iranian dissident that you've had on this program that called that out and said that people on the ground in Iran have noticed that you did that and they appreciate your show of support.
[00:59:11]  What I didn't appreciate about that is that he basically just told the regime, you're standing with the Iranian people and he just put a big target on your back.
[00:59:19]  Let him.
[00:59:20]  Let him.
[00:59:22]  You know, right is right.
[00:59:24]  It was a little shocking.
[00:59:26]  It was a little shocking that the way he handled me, it was like, oh my gosh, how do you is, do you remember, you remember when we were getting people out of Afghanistan?
[00:59:35]  And I think I've told this on the air.
[00:59:37]  I hope I have.
[00:59:39]  But we, the State Department was putting up all these roadblocks.
[00:59:43]  So we had to get people out through Pakistan.
[00:59:47]  No other country would let us go through.
[00:59:49]  Well, the prime minister of Pakistan at the time was about to be overthrown and he wanted friends in Washington.
[00:59:55]  And so our group contacted him and said, hey, can you help us get these people out?
[01:00:00]  Can you get these American people out?
[01:00:02]  And he said, I get a call like an hour later.
[01:00:06]  Glenn, he said he would do it, but only if he could talk to you.
[01:00:10]  And I'm like, how does he even know who I am?
[01:00:14]  What?
[01:00:15]  So we talked to him and he just wanted assurance that I would remind people in Washington that he was, you know, he had helped us on some things because he knew his time was limited.
[01:00:28]  It's weird how, I mean, I just, I just showed you last week, our insiders for Torch, we had 36 nations, people in 36 nations that were listening to us around the world.
[01:00:46]  Today, I just counted.
[01:00:48]  The United Nations has 193 nations in the United Nations.
[01:00:53]  Right now, as of week number two with the torch, we have people in 142 nations listening to this show right now.
[01:01:04]  That's nuts.
[01:01:07]  I love it, and it makes me very nervous because I looked at some of those nations and they are, you know, sometimes designated as not being allies of the U.S. What a nice way of saying that.
[01:01:20]  Yeah.
[01:01:21]  Okay.
[01:01:22]  Crown Prince is going to be with us.
[01:01:23]  You're going to hear this interview coming up in just over an hour from now.
[01:01:28]  This is one you don't want to miss because I'm a fan, but I'm also, I also had to tell him, you know, are you the guy?
[01:01:37]  Because there's a lot of people on the ground that say you're not the guy.
[01:01:42]  And we talk about everything.
[01:01:44]  You don't want to miss that.
[01:01:45]  And the whole interview can be heard at Glennbeck.com if you're a torch insider.
[01:01:50]  You can join us there at glennbeck.com slash torch.
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[01:04:12]  So there's a 250 page report out on the election oversight in Fulton County, Georgia.
[01:04:21]  Have you read this yet?
[01:04:22]  It is, it's unbelievable.
[01:04:24]  It's absolutely unbelievable what it says.
[01:04:27]  I got to get into that.
[01:04:28]  Also, Savannah Guthrie, I have no idea what's happening there.
[01:04:35]  Something just feels really off.
[01:04:38]  But I don't know what it is.
[01:04:41]  I saw these, you know, the picture of the guy at the front door.
[01:04:46]  And they're like, look at that face.
[01:04:47]  You're not going to be able to forget those eyes.
[01:04:49]  What eyes?
[01:04:50]  They were all blown out and distorted.
[01:04:51]  And I couldn't, I mean, I didn't see anything.
[01:04:54]  But they're hoping that somebody will see something and recognize this person.
[01:05:02]  I pray that her mother is still alive.
[01:05:06]  But I saw Megan Kelly.
[01:05:09]  She was talking to, I think, Ashley Banfield, and they were saying, have you noticed the way that Savannah and her family were talking to the kidnappers?
[01:05:23]  It sounded just like what they were saying in Silence of the Lambs.
[01:05:29]  And yeah, but I don't know what that is supposed to mean because the reason why that sounds just like Silence of the Lambs is because that's what the FBI tells you to do.
[01:05:46]  They have studied this for a very, very long time.
[01:05:50]  And there's a certain pattern that you have to follow if you have somebody who has been kidnapped.
[01:05:58]  Well, I'm reading this pattern and I'm thinking about how the FBI has studied these psychos and everything else.
[01:06:04]  And I realized, wait a minute, why aren't we applying this to other things other than a hostage crisis?
[01:06:13]  I want to take you through that thought experience here in just a second.
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[01:08:39]  This is an original song that was written just for this event on May 2nd at Ellis Island.
[01:08:46]  But I, you know, part of the torch, my mission is to empower you and to give you confidence to be who you want to be, who you were born to be.
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=== Humanizing the Hostage (12:17) ===

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[01:09:43]  If you look at what's happening here, we have so many things.
[01:09:46]  We have the weird closing and then opening of El Paso today.
[01:09:51]  A major warning from a major player on AI.
[01:09:56]  We have the 250-page report about Fulton County and how insecure our voting actually is.
[01:10:07]  We have Benjamin Netanyahu in town.
[01:10:10]  I have the Crown Prince from Iran on in just about an hour from now.
[01:10:15]  We have massive fraud allegations, including a new fraud allegation coming out of Maryland, where George Soros and his allies funding politicians' wives and their quote-unquote NGO.
[01:10:30]  And it's also fraud on the taxpayers as well.
[01:10:34]  I mean, we have Cuba on the edge of collapse.
[01:10:39]  Everything is up in the air.
[01:10:41]  Everything is changing.
[01:10:43]  My job is to help you make sense of it so you can see the big picture.
[01:10:48]  My job is to take all these little pictures and try to give you a way to look at the whole world, what is coming, and how do you deal with all of this?
[01:10:58]  So let me, strangely, start with Savannah Guthrie.
[01:11:02]  Let's go to cut 10, please.
[01:11:04]  This is her speaking to the kidnappers.
[01:11:06]  We received your message and we understand.
[01:11:11]  We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.
[01:11:17]  This is the only way we will have peace.
[01:11:21]  This is very valuable to us and we will pay.
[01:11:28]  So notice what she said.
[01:11:31]  There's no insults.
[01:11:33]  There's no grandstanding.
[01:11:34]  There's no virtual virtue signaling.
[01:11:37]  It's just this.
[01:11:39]  We really, we want our mother and our grandmother back.
[01:11:43]  Please let her go.
[01:11:46]  It's the only way we can have closure.
[01:11:49]  She's appealing to the humanity of these hostage takers.
[01:11:55]  This is nuts.
[01:11:57]  Why does that work?
[01:11:58]  There's very specific things the FBI has you do.
[01:12:02]  You have to humanize the hostage.
[01:12:04]  That's why I said, please return our mother.
[01:12:07]  Avoid any ego threats.
[01:12:09]  Reduce all escalation.
[01:12:13]  Signal willingness to engage.
[01:12:15]  This is very valuable to us and we will pay.
[01:12:19]  And then create some sort of bridge back to, you know, reason.
[01:12:24]  Okay.
[01:12:24]  You don't scream at the captor.
[01:12:26]  You don't shame them publicly.
[01:12:29]  You don't say, you're evil, but beyond redemption.
[01:12:31]  You don't do any of those things.
[01:12:33]  Why?
[01:12:34]  Because humiliation cornered is volatility unleashed.
[01:12:43]  The goal of this is not a catharsis.
[01:12:46]  It's not to win.
[01:12:48]  It's not to feel superior.
[01:12:50]  It's not to shame them.
[01:12:51]  It's not to tell them how bad they are.
[01:12:52]  The goal is the safe return of the hostage.
[01:12:55]  I am, believe it or not, leading someplace with all of this.
[01:12:59]  So as I'm doing my research on, you know, how do you speak to a hostage?
[01:13:06]  You don't want to live my life, believe me.
[01:13:11]  This series of things that have been studied for a long time, that's the only way back, the only road back from the brink if you're in this situation.
[01:13:27]  But if I put her in any other situation and I said, humanize them, avoid ego threats, reduce escalation, any other situation, you would say that's what I'm not doing that.
[01:13:38]  That's weak.
[01:13:41]  Are you kidding me?
[01:13:42]  These guys are hostage takers.
[01:13:44]  They're monsters.
[01:13:45]  There's no reasoning with them.
[01:13:48]  A bridge to these guys?
[01:13:50]  That's naive.
[01:13:52]  Okay.
[01:13:54]  I think we all agree kidnappers are really bad.
[01:13:58]  Okay.
[01:13:59]  Really bad.
[01:14:01]  When somebody straps a bomb to their own cause, when they take a life hostage, that's about as far gone as it gets.
[01:14:10]  Yet negotiators who are trying to reach a goal still lower their voice.
[01:14:15]  They still leave the door open.
[01:14:17]  They still search for leverage that changes the behavior rather than satisfying your emotions.
[01:14:23]  Okay.
[01:14:25]  Nobody is saying, hey, talk to them this way because you don't understand them.
[01:14:29]  No.
[01:14:30]  No one's saying surrender.
[01:14:33]  What this is, it's all about tactics.
[01:14:37]  Do you want to feel good for the moment and tell them off?
[01:14:41]  Can you imagine what she really wants to say to these people?
[01:14:45]  Do you really want that moment of satisfaction where you have just said it all to these people?
[01:14:52]  Or do you want to accomplish the goal and save the hostage?
[01:14:57]  Here's where I'm going.
[01:14:59]  Look at everything that is happening in our life.
[01:15:02]  I feel as though our freedoms, our institutions, our country is being held hostage by dangerous ideologies and dangerous actors.
[01:15:15]  Okay.
[01:15:16]  And that feeling is as visceral in me as I think it is for you.
[01:15:19]  And the anger in me on this is so real.
[01:15:23]  I have a hard time tapping it down sometimes because I get so angry at these people.
[01:15:29]  I got to believe in some way like Savannah feels and her family feels.
[01:15:35]  Can you imagine your mother being taken?
[01:15:38]  Why would you do that?
[01:15:39]  What is wrong with you?
[01:15:41]  All of the emotions she's feeling.
[01:15:44]  But if the objective is preservation, not applause, then the tactics matter.
[01:15:52]  So I heard this and I started looking into it and I thought, wow, why don't, wait, why do these tactics work with hostage takers, but then we just leave it at that?
[01:16:07]  Look what Donald Trump is doing right now in Minnesota.
[01:16:10]  Did you see we are now, we're cleaning house in Minnesota.
[01:16:14]  We're cleaning house in Minnesota.
[01:16:16]  We're getting the things we wanted done done.
[01:16:20]  And they're tracking anybody who's following ICE.
[01:16:23]  They're tracking them.
[01:16:24]  It's all out in the open.
[01:16:27]  When political leaders de-escalate in a moment of tension or like Trump's administration is doing today, sitting at a negotiating table with people like Iran, how do you do that?
[01:16:41]  You can't believe anything they say.
[01:16:43]  You actually trust them?
[01:16:46]  I mean, you want them to survive?
[01:16:48]  No, none of that is the point.
[01:16:51]  None of that is the point.
[01:16:52]  The point is conversation to getting to conversion.
[01:17:00]  A behavior change is the point.
[01:17:03]  Or the ability to keep them talking until you got them and you're going in and you're taking them out.
[01:17:10]  Believe me, nobody is saying to Savannah and her family, just talk nice to these people because you don't understand them.
[01:17:16]  You don't blah, They're like, just keep them talking until we can figure out who they are and we're going to put them in jail for the rest of their lives.
[01:17:25]  Okay?
[01:17:28]  Sometimes the goal of negotiation is not friendship.
[01:17:31]  It's clarity.
[01:17:32]  It's to demonstrate to your citizens and to the world that every peaceful avenue has been exhausted before harder measures were considered.
[01:17:42]  That's not weakness.
[01:17:44]  This is strategic positioning.
[01:17:47]  When it comes to those who have taken our hostage and our institutions hostage, MLK got it.
[01:17:58]  He never confused moral clarity with humiliation.
[01:18:03]  He confronted the injustice, but he didn't seek annihilation.
[01:18:08]  You know, I was talking to the crown prince and you'll hear this.
[01:18:11]  I spoke to him yesterday.
[01:18:12]  We recorded it yesterday after the show.
[01:18:15]  And so you'll hear it in a minute.
[01:18:16]  And I said, how are you going to work?
[01:18:18]  You're going to work with the IRGC, the people who just rounded up 37,000 people.
[01:18:23]  How are you going to do that?
[01:18:23]  And he said, no, no, no.
[01:18:24]  I'm going to be very, very careful.
[01:18:26]  I am reaching out to them now and saying, sign up.
[01:18:29]  If you want to pledge that you're not going to be a part of this, that you will not turn against the people of Iran, that you will change sides, you contact us and we'll keep your name on file.
[01:18:40]  But if your name is not on file, If we have it to sort out, it's not going to go well for you.
[01:18:49]  But as he said, you have to have room for return.
[01:18:54]  You have to.
[01:18:56]  Otherwise, you don't survive in any of this.
[01:18:59]  If every political action violates the principles of de-escalation, if every speech increases humiliation, think of what Donald Trump, I'm sorry, what Joe Biden has said about us in presidential official speeches where he was, you know, they're worse than the Nazis, all of these things.
[01:19:24]  That is not the way you negotiate with people.
[01:19:27]  It's not.
[01:19:29]  You're not going to persuade anybody.
[01:19:32]  And if you're using language like that, then the goal cannot be reconciliation.
[01:19:38]  It can't be.
[01:19:39]  It can't be that you want to solve this hostage crisis because you're violating everything that we all know works.
[01:19:50]  So your goal must be isolation and division and destruction because you don't retrieve a hostage by convincing yourself the captor is irredeemable and telling them that.
[01:20:04]  You retrieve a hostage by creating a path, very, very narrow, for different behavior.
[01:20:11]  You're appealing to their humanity.
[01:20:15]  The end goal is not victory through ruin.
[01:20:20]  The end goal is stability without surrender, strength without escalation, preservation without that permanent fracture.
[01:20:28]  You've got to come back.
[01:20:32]  It has to survive permanent disagreement.
[01:20:36]  Has to.
[01:20:37]  So the question is not whether we fight against these things.
[01:20:41]  The question is, are we fighting in a way that will actually be effective, that leaves a path back?
[01:20:49]  Because if there is no path back, then we're not negotiating for a hostage.
[01:20:54]  We're negotiating for applause.
[01:20:59]  And applause has never restored a divided republic.
[01:21:04]  I want the hostage back.
[01:21:08]  Justice will be served in the end, but we have to start behaving in such a way that Savannah Guthrie just behaved when she was speaking directly to the hostage takers.
[01:21:24]  Appeal to their humanity.

=== Negotiating for Applause Not Hostages (15:14) ===

[01:21:28]  Don't cause more harm to push them and anger them even more.
[01:21:35]  But know that justice in the end, justice will be served.
[01:21:41]  But applause and playing to a crowd or just making yourself feel better is actually plays into those who want division and destruction.
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[01:23:41]  So we just found out that Glenn Beck.com is under a DDoS attack today.
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[01:24:14]  I don't know what the motive would be other than to, I mean, hurt us financially, hurt us with credibility.
[01:24:22]  But I mean, I just think with the world in flames as it is specifically today, I mean, I'm just speaking right out of my butt.
[01:24:34]  I could be completely wrong on this.
[01:24:36]  It just might be somebody who just wants to hurt us, you know, in credibility or whatever.
[01:24:42]  But the Crown Prince of Iran is going to be on in about half an hour.
[01:24:47]  And as you will hear, I think, well, you may not hear it in this interview.
[01:24:52]  You'll probably hear it in the whole interview at Glenbeck.com.
[01:24:55]  But it is interesting to me that he twice recognized the influence that we had with the people in Iran.
[01:25:06]  And he's not the only dissident that has done that.
[01:25:10]  Between this and possibly what's happening in El Paso, the negotiations going on today, Benjamin Netanyahu coming into town tomorrow, the Armada off the coast of Iran.
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[01:28:59]  First, we must be doing something very right because this hasn't happened to this show, I think, since I think since I was on Fox.
[01:29:11]  And we do not think this is a domestic DDOS attack.
[01:29:17]  We're getting 180,000 authentication requests about every 50 seconds.
[01:29:25]  Our people that I said, who's doing it?
[01:29:29]  They all said the same thing.
[01:29:30]  Iran.
[01:29:32]  I don't know if it is Iran, but we have the Crown Prince on here in about half an hour.
[01:29:38]  Everything is falling into line with Iran this week.
[01:29:44]  I just, we must be doing something wrong, right?
[01:29:49]  Because that's when you're attacked.
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[01:29:54]  Thank you for putting up with this today.
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[01:30:15]  Again, I wear it as a badge of honor.
[01:30:18]  Must be doing something right.
[01:30:22]  Okay, let me go to Jack Posobic, who is Turning Point USA contributor, host of Human Events Daily.
[01:30:30]  I think, and Jack, correct me if I'm wrong.
[01:30:33]  I'm sure you're not going to take all the credit, but I would say that you were the guy who said, we should do a halftime show.
[01:30:41]  We should do it ourselves.
[01:30:42]  I'm sure there were other people involved in that, but good job, Jack.
[01:30:47]  Good job.
[01:30:49]  Well, Glenn, thank you so much for that and all of your praise in the past couple of days and your support for it going into it.
[01:30:57]  I may have been the guy who said we should go ahead and do this and kind of got the ball rolling.
[01:31:03]  But ultimately, I would say the inspiration for the Super Bowl halftime show was Charlie himself because Charlie was always for years, even back before Turning Point really got off the ground.
[01:31:16]  And we were pulling up old tweets and just remembering old conversations that we had had where he was constantly going on.
[01:31:22]  He said, the way they were doing the halftime show at the Super Bowl is becoming so just a scene of debauchery.
[01:31:30]  He said it's not family friendly.
[01:31:32]  And then more and more increasingly, it was not putting America at the center, our virtues and our values at the center.
[01:31:40]  And we found a clip actually, because we would talk about this off-air all the time.
[01:31:43]  And we found a clip, and I'm sure there's more, but the one that we found was from a couple of years back where he was saying, the halftime show should be the virtues that you want to extol throughout the nation, because this is the pinnacle of a cultural event that you know is going to have the most eyeballs year on year.
[01:32:03]  They know that.
[01:32:04]  We know that.
[01:32:05]  Yep.
[01:32:06]  And it's not just America.
[01:32:09]  I mean, this is the biggest calling card every year in the world.
[01:32:13]  People watch it all over the world.
[01:32:16]  And I got to believe if I was an enemy of the United States and I watched that, I thought these people are about to implode.
[01:32:23]  When you don't have a word of English spoken during the halftime of Super Bowl, that tells you something.
[01:32:30]  And it seemed to me almost to be like a hostile takeover.
[01:32:35]  Well, and you look at it, too, it's the division.
[01:32:39]  It's globalism is what it is.
[01:32:40]  Globalism is just the obvious word for it.
[01:32:42]  And going back to a word that we used before, where they want to go global because this is what the NFL wants.
[01:32:48]  The NFL wants to compete with the World Cup.
[01:32:51]  They want to compete on the global stage.
[01:32:53]  Everyone knows the World Cup.
[01:32:54]  That's the big one.
[01:32:56]  And predominantly, when you're talking about a Hispanic audience, Spanish-speaking audience, they don't watch American football as much.
[01:33:03]  They watch the World Cup.
[01:33:04]  They watch soccer because that's their culture, by the way.
[01:33:07]  And what they're trying to do from a monetary perspective, from a fiscal perspective, which, by the way, from, you know, from a pure capitalist perspective, I don't have a problem with trying to expand your audience, but don't do so by denying, dividing, and canceling the core of what we were built on in the first place.
[01:33:27]  NFL is Middle America.
[01:33:30]  This is Hank Williams Jr.
[01:33:32]  Remember, he got canceled.
[01:33:33]  And Hank Williams Jr. used to be the opening song, the iconic song, Are You Ready for Some Football on Monday night?
[01:33:40]  That was what built the NFL.
[01:33:43]  And we saw NASCAR do this when they went woke in search of a broader audience.
[01:33:47]  We're now starting to see the NFL.
[01:33:49]  I'm not starting to see.
[01:33:50]  We've seen the NFL do this for years.
[01:33:52]  And that's just all of this is what drove me to say, we have to do it.
[01:33:59]  This is the time.
[01:34:02]  I have to tell you, Hank found out, just side note, Hank found out about him being canceled on Monday Night Football listening to this program.
[01:34:11]  And he told me about a year later.
[01:34:13]  And he picked up the NFL guitar, you know, the one that he had, and he just smashed it to death.
[01:34:21]  And he, I think he had like five or ten of them, and he smashed all of them in this rage while he was listening.
[01:34:28]  He picked up the last one and he was about to smash and he went, No, this one goes to Glenn Beck.
[01:34:33]  About a year later, he gave me the only Monday night football guitar that's that's left.
[01:34:39]  He saved for me.
[01:34:40]  It's crazy.
[01:34:41]  Anyway, he didn't tell me he said, Cut it all off.
[01:34:45]  No, he all of it, all of it.
[01:34:48]  He was so angry.
[01:34:49]  Um, so I don't know if you saw my monologue yesterday.
[01:34:54]  I talked about how this was a brilliant.
[01:34:58]  We all saw that.
[01:34:59]  Okay, good.
[01:34:59]  We were all sharing that around because people are people were saying that's a stupid move, blah, blah, blah.
[01:35:06]  It didn't do anything.
[01:35:07]  Oh, it will.
[01:35:08]  I mean, you know, when you have 30 million people online within 24 hours watching it, you've made a real impact.
[01:35:15]  And look out.
[01:35:17]  I have heard, and I don't know if it's true, I've heard the NFL tried to get you guys not to do it.
[01:35:24]  Is that true?
[01:35:26]  So here's what I can say: we say I knew that this would be, and Kid Rock himself came up, Bob came out and said, It's David and Goliath.
[01:35:37]  This is what he was referring to because I knew that by picking a fight with the biggest cabal in America, bigger than the Democrats, right?
[01:35:47]  We're talking Hollywood, we're talking corporate America, the biggest sports event in the country, the most money that goes into this thing because it has the most cultural power that we were going to, that we were going up against the, we were going up against Goliath.
[01:36:05]  We were just literally going up against Goliath.
[01:36:07]  I had no idea what would happen.
[01:36:10]  I don't think we realized the ways that they can get you, the ways that they can gatekeep you and block you.
[01:36:18]  Now, look, I'm not going to sit here and say that I, that, you know, I have an email from Roger Goodell that says you shall not do this, right?
[01:36:25]  Because they're, you know, they're clean.
[01:36:27]  They're 100, they're going to, they're going to do it clean.
[01:36:28]  But everybody knows, and this is the way that these elite events work, is that it's a trickle-down system, but they, they're all connected through the sponsorships, the advertisers, the venues, the musicians, the music, right, the labels.

=== X Ban Boosted YouTube Streams (06:14) ===

[01:36:43]  Because we had, Glenn, we had times where artists would tell us, love to do it.
[01:36:48]  Can't we?
[01:36:48]  Because when you start one of these things, of course, you cast a wide net.
[01:36:51]  You say, okay, who's available?
[01:36:52]  You look into who's on tour, who's around.
[01:36:54]  We only had three months to be able to even do this.
[01:36:57]  So, and then it comes to venues.
[01:36:59]  Oh, we'd love to do it.
[01:37:00]  We have availability.
[01:37:01]  But then something would always happen, Glenn, somewhere along the line in that conversation with I want to say a very large percentage of people we talked to, suddenly it was, oh, you know, something came up and we just can't do it.
[01:37:13]  Or, oh, we just can't have it.
[01:37:15]  And then they play games with the rights to the songs as well, where the artists, because the publishers and the licensors have the song.
[01:37:25]  This is, of course, people know publicly, this is what happened with X, and I could talk about that too.
[01:37:30]  Is they would say, you know, you can have that artist, but you can't, they can't play this song, this song, this song, and this song.
[01:37:38]  Or if you play it, you can't broadcast it on X. Like all of these things.
[01:37:42]  Or there were even, I'll just say there was stuff that we wanted to do and that we had artists who wanted to do that we were told at the last minute that you are not permitted to do that.
[01:37:55]  And this is something where we would have gotten and they would have sued us tens of millions in liabilities where we had had permission from so many people that were close to it, but somewhere back in the office, someone says no, Turning Point USA with Pesobic and Colvett and Charlie Kirk's family.
[01:38:17]  No, no.
[01:38:19]  And I'll even tell you, there were some emails that we got that were actually not so pleasant, too, about, you know, hey, we, you know, real sorry about what happened to Charlie, but we don't want to do business with you.
[01:38:30]  The end.
[01:38:32]  We've got all of that.
[01:38:34]  And so can I say it was the NFL definitively?
[01:38:37]  Of course, right?
[01:38:38]  You know, of course, we can't say that definitively, but we know what's going on here.
[01:38:43]  So it's amazing.
[01:38:45]  If I hadn't have lived through this, I would maybe have a hard time going, well, you don't really know.
[01:38:50]  Now, trust me.
[01:38:51]  What he's saying is absolutely right.
[01:38:54]  I mean, you know, I had a deal with, I think it was either Warner Brothers or Paramount, a movie deal for the Christmas sweater.
[01:39:01]  Two million books.
[01:39:02]  Easy.
[01:39:03]  Done.
[01:39:04]  They were all over me.
[01:39:05]  I think we had two companies bidding against each other for the rights to it.
[01:39:12]  The minute the White House got involved, it was actually Van Jones got involved.
[01:39:18]  And all of a sudden it was like, yeah, we own the rights, but we're not going to do anything with it.
[01:39:22]  You're like, what do you mean you're not going to do anything with it?
[01:39:26]  And this happens all the time in our world, but it only happens, Jack, when you're making a difference.
[01:39:34]  That shows how terrified they were of this.
[01:39:37]  And I'm telling you, next year, make it bigger, make it better, because you will slowly bleed that audience.
[01:39:44]  You're not going to hurt the football part of the Super Bowl because that's unique to the NFL and nobody can replace that.
[01:39:52]  But if you hurt them pre-game, halftime, post-game, they can't charge all that money.
[01:40:00]  I mean, it will really hurt the NFL, really hurt.
[01:40:05]  And they're going to say, no, it doesn't affect us at all.
[01:40:07]  Believe me.
[01:40:08]  Five years from now, they're freaking out now.
[01:40:11]  Five years from now, they'll be freaking out publicly.
[01:40:14]  Well, I can tell you, by the way, that I did have a source that through one of the NFL, just sort of a marketing department, kind of a firm that they use, who was telling us even that night that they were furious, absolutely furious when they saw the numbers that we did.
[01:40:35]  And then it becomes the number one, actually the X, not being able to stream on X actually helped us with YouTube because it drove all those people to the YouTube audience to that stream.
[01:40:44]  So it becomes the number one, number one U.S. stream in American history, number two YouTube live stream worldwide, ever, ever, more than the World Cup, more than any other sporting event, entertainment event, you name it.
[01:41:01]  The only thing, I actually looked this up, the only live stream that was more was when India landed their lunar probe a couple of years ago.
[01:41:11]  India was going up against, you know, going up against 1.8 billion people.
[01:41:15]  But then, of course, I said, well, guys, next year, obviously, you know what this means.
[01:41:19]  We just have to go big.
[01:41:21]  We're doing it on the moon.
[01:41:22]  What do you say?
[01:41:24]  Right.
[01:41:25]  With maybe the prime minister of India.
[01:41:28]  Yeah, we'll get Odie, right?
[01:41:31]  People are saying that you guys paid for that.
[01:41:35]  This was all hype.
[01:41:36]  These weren't real people.
[01:41:36]  You paid for all that.
[01:41:39]  Well, you know, if people think that was true, which number one, I don't even know how to do, but if that were true, then please go ahead and do your own and show us how it's paid for.
[01:41:46]  Or just go ahead and beat us.
[01:41:47]  Go beat us tomorrow, right?
[01:41:49]  Just go out and pay for the, you know, and that's what's really.
[01:41:52]  If this were able to be done, which by the way, Glenn, we were talking to YouTube the entire night.
[01:41:57]  They were telling us, they were checking in.
[01:41:59]  They can see this on the back end.
[01:42:01]  They can see the heat maps about where the, you know, the audience is coming from.
[01:42:06]  It's just, you know, they would know what traffic, because YouTube, of course, has, you know, convinced rates as well because they have advertisers.
[01:42:15]  They can't, you know, if they're selling fake traffic to their advertisers, then they're committing fraud.
[01:42:20]  YouTube's not going to allow that.
[01:42:22]  And they never once reported a single issue like that to us.
[01:42:27]  Jack Pisovic from TPUSA, it's always good to talk to you.
[01:42:31]  Say hello to your wife.
[01:42:33]  You married us.
[01:42:33]  I will.
[01:42:34]  Say hello to your.
[01:42:35]  I will.
[01:42:36]  And likewise.
[01:42:36]  By the way, Glenn, I don't know if you remember, but quick story on Christmas sweater.
[01:42:40]  2006, I think, if I remember correctly, when you brought the Christmas sweater to the Kimmel Center, you and I were backstage there together before you went up to do the show, and it was phenomenal.
[01:42:52]  Phenomenal.
[01:42:53]  Kidding me.
[01:42:53]  Thank you.
[01:42:54]  Gosh, what a great memory.
[01:42:55]  What a great memory.
[01:42:56]  2000.

=== Photo ID for American Car Financing (05:07) ===

[01:42:57]  Jack, thank you so much.
[01:42:57]  It was before you moved to New York.
[01:43:00]  Yeah, it was.
[01:43:01]  It was.
[01:43:02]  I was, nope, Christmas sweater was the year before I went to Fox.
[01:43:07]  So I was living in Connecticut.
[01:43:08]  I had just left Philadelphia.
[01:43:10]  Oh, you just moved.
[01:43:12]  Yeah, just moved.
[01:43:13]  Yeah.
[01:43:13]  But anyway, Jack, thanks so much.
[01:43:15]  God bless you, man.
[01:43:16]  Appreciate it.
[01:43:16]  And congratulations to everyone at TPUSA.
[01:43:19]  High praise.
[01:43:20]  High praise.
[01:43:20]  Keep it up.
[01:43:21]  Well, hey, Glenn, you showed us how to do it, man.
[01:43:23]  You showed us.
[01:43:24]  Thanks.
[01:43:25]  Thanks, man.
[01:43:25]  Appreciate it.
[01:43:26]  Let me talk to you about American financing.
[01:43:28]  There is a difference between owning a home and having your home work for you.
[01:43:33]  A lot of people bought, you know, or refinance when the rates were higher or the financial situation looked different than it does today.
[01:43:39]  And they've just been riding that same mortgage ever since.
[01:43:42]  It's not set in stone.
[01:43:43]  Your mortgage is a financial tool.
[01:43:45]  And like any tool, it should match the job you need it to do right now, not the job that it was built for years ago.
[01:43:51]  American Financing will help homeowners like you take a fresh look at that loan and ask better questions.
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[01:44:39]  Station ID.
[01:44:52]  So I think today, the government is announcing something big.
[01:44:56]  Uh...
[01:44:57]  And you may not even be aware of it.
[01:44:59]  Ricky's looking at me like, what are you talking about?
[01:45:00]  This is a big deal, Ricky.
[01:45:03]  They are announcing today the end of the automatic start stop button in your stupid car.
[01:45:12]  You know how you pull up to a light and your car just turns off?
[01:45:16]  And you're like, what?
[01:45:18]  You don't have that in your car?
[01:45:19]  I do, but they can just force that.
[01:45:23]  No, no.
[01:45:24]  It was forced to begin with because it supposedly saves gas.
[01:45:29]  It doesn't save anything.
[01:45:30]  It doesn't save anything.
[01:45:31]  It just annoys everybody.
[01:45:33]  So now the government is saying, you don't have to put that in cars anymore.
[01:45:36]  And it is the, I believe it's the number one most annoying feature in any car.
[01:45:44]  I mean, in any car.
[01:45:47]  And, you know, they say, well, you can turn it off.
[01:45:50]  Yeah.
[01:45:51]  Every single time you start the car.
[01:45:54]  I mean, I want a button.
[01:45:56]  Let me turn the damn thing off off.
[01:45:59]  Not every time I get into the car because every time I hit a stoplight and the car just dies on me.
[01:46:04]  And you're like, oh, for the love of Pete.
[01:46:06]  Even in the fancy cars that you have?
[01:46:09]  Okay.
[01:46:10]  I don't think I need this from you.
[01:46:11]  Yes.
[01:46:11]  even in the fancy cars they have it, believe it or not.
[01:46:15]  Okay.
[01:46:16]  Oh, and AI, OpenAI, ChatGPT, has just announced a new safety feature because they're very concerned that people under 18 might be getting onto ChatGPT.
[01:46:30]  So ChatGPT is going to do a search of you when you're on.
[01:46:36]  Apparently it can tell if you're under 18.
[01:46:41]  By what you're looking at and doing online, I would say you're either under 18 or you're Jeffrey Epstein.
[01:46:46]  But they can tell what you're doing, what you're searching for, and they can pretty much nail that you're under 18.
[01:46:54]  So there are some features on ChatGPT that will be turned off.
[01:46:58]  But here's the thing.
[01:47:00]  It's going to catch some people, and they admit it.
[01:47:02]  It's going to catch some people that are over 18.
[01:47:06]  And if you want it turned back on, you ready?
[01:47:12]  You just have to produce for ChatGPT and OpenAI a photo ID.
[01:47:21]  Add that to the very long list of everything you need photo ID for, except for voting or registering to vote.
[01:47:33]  Now, ChatGPT requires photo ID if they think you're under 18, which is also another way to get universal ID through online.
[01:47:45]  So that's an extra added benefit to that story.
[01:47:48]  But we will concentrate on just they're turning off the car start stop button.
[01:47:53]  It's a thing of the past.
[01:47:54]  Thank God.

=== Real Estate Agents' Best Years (15:21) ===

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[01:51:01]  But yesterday I talked to the crown prince and you can watch the entire interview.
[01:51:08]  It's 20 minutes or something like that.
[01:51:10]  You watch the entire interview at glennbeck.com and see it because what he said, we addressed everything.
[01:51:17]  And I hit hard.
[01:51:20]  I had some hard-hitting questions about his role and can he even, does he see himself really as the guy that the people are going to accept?
[01:51:29]  But I started talking to him about Trump trying to make a deal with Iran.
[01:51:34]  And after, you know, after the government has murdered recently 37,000 protesters, how can he possibly, how does he view peace and these peace deals with Donald Trump?
[01:51:50]  And here's what he said.
[01:51:51]  Glenn, your instincts are absolutely right.
[01:51:54]  And I think beyond the moral issue that it implies, you should also remember that there's something that you simply cannot change in the sense of having a different DNA for the regime.
[01:52:06]  This regime from the very beginning, in its DNA, in its behavior and comportment, its entire ideological basis of exporting this radical interpretation that has been hostile to the United States, that has been hostile to countries like Israel, that has been basically anti-West, anti-democracy.
[01:52:25]  From the get-go, that was in their DNA.
[01:52:28]  They never negotiated with the intentions to actually come back to the fold.
[01:52:34]  The only technique that I have used, or tactics rather, that they have used was to gain time and buy time.
[01:52:40]  This is yet another example of the regime trying to buy time, to ride out the Trump administration, hoping that the next administration will not be as resolute for it.
[01:52:49]  That's a game they've been playing for years.
[01:52:51]  And I think the world should say enough already.
[01:52:54]  47 years later, enough have been given as a chance for this regime to go clean.
[01:53:00]  The best investment that world leaders, President Trump and American citizens can have is to invest on the people of Iran and not in a regime that is dying as a result of mismanagement and corruption.
[01:53:14]  It's been totally lost its legitimacy, particularly in the aftermath of this genocide.
[01:53:21]  This is a golden opportunity that faces the entire world.
[01:53:25]  How a different Iran would be able to be impactful in changing the entire circumstances the world over, starting with our own region.
[01:53:34]  This regime has fallen way short of that.
[01:53:36]  It does not represent the Iranian people.
[01:53:39]  Negotiating with this regime is another slap in the face of the Iranian people.
[01:53:44]  I don't think Iranians should have died in vain.
[01:53:47]  They deserve better.
[01:53:48]  And I think President Trump is someone who is a man of his word, is a peacemaker, and he understands that the best way to achieve peace is not to rely on a regime that will betray you yet again, but a nation that stands ready to step in and say, we are your friends.
[01:54:03]  We are your partners for a different future.
[01:54:06]  So correct me if I'm wrong, but what I hear you saying is you're not going to be satisfied near Newton, neither would the people be satisfied with just a nuclear deal.
[01:54:14]  Do you have conversation?
[01:54:16]  Do you have, I mean, it's been almost a total blackout on the ground.
[01:54:21]  Do you still have contact with people?
[01:54:24]  Are they just, have they just left the streets waiting for another reason to get out on the streets?
[01:54:32]  Are they waiting for backup?
[01:54:34]  What is the mood there?
[01:54:35]  Do you know?
[01:54:37]  Yes, the mood is very, very a lot of anger, a lot of continued fight and resistance.
[01:54:46]  Iranians are using every opportunity to continue showing their resolve and determination to fight this regime to the very end.
[01:54:55]  You see it in cemeteries where people gather over their loved ones and in defiance of the regime, celebrate their life rather than fall into somber tears.
[01:55:09]  They dance and they chant.
[01:55:11]  The university centers, you hear people chanting slogans.
[01:55:14]  There are people at nighttime chanting their slogans.
[01:55:18]  We might have to be forced to retrieve all as being physically on the streets, not to be massacred yet again, which is how important it is that this military intervention to equal the playing field for unarmed citizens.
[01:55:31]  And they will be back on the streets the minute this happens.
[01:55:33]  So I have no doubt that the Iranian people, there's too much blood between us and this regime for us to quit.
[01:55:40]  We have only one choice and to continue on fighting.
[01:55:42]  We simply hope that the free world, particularly the United States of America under the leadership of President Trump, understand that what's at stake is beyond just regional peace.
[01:55:53]  It's beyond just a question of putting an end to the terror that this regime has spread.
[01:55:59]  Humanity can benefit from that.
[01:56:01]  And this is a case in time where ultimately that has to be the final triumph for the betterment of our planet.
[01:56:09]  And the Iranian people have always been on the right side of history as peacemakers and not warmongers.
[01:56:16]  Why don't you create a partnership with the peacemakers for once after trying to deal with warmongers who from the very beginning were chanting death to America or death to Israel, as opposed to a nation?
[01:56:27]  And I'd like to remind your audience, Glenn, that the only country after 9-11, when many of your allies in the region had celebrations on their streets of the 9-11 terrorist attack, the only country where you had candlelight vigils in sympathy to the victims of 9-11 were no other than the Iranian people inside Iran, not just outside, inside Iran.
[01:56:50]  Remember that.
[01:56:51]  That's what at stake.
[01:56:52]  And President Trump should recognize that as well.
[01:56:54]  This is a big decision.
[01:56:56]  I started the interview with this feels like the Berlin Wall, or has felt like the moment the Berlin Wall fell.
[01:57:04]  And our government could only do so much on that.
[01:57:08]  It has to come from the people.
[01:57:11]  I believe airstrikes will come.
[01:57:14]  Whether that's enough for the people, I don't know.
[01:57:17]  Do they know the Armada is coming?
[01:57:20]  Are they aware of what America is doing?
[01:57:24]  And would an airstrike, would that be enough for them?
[01:57:27]  Because we cannot topple the regime.
[01:57:30]  It has to come from the people.
[01:57:33]  Of course.
[01:57:33]  Will this be enough?
[01:57:36]  It will be an equalizer in the sense that you are taking by means that we don't have, because we are not armed against this regime that is using military rifles to shoot people to death on the streets of Iran, including five-year-olds.
[01:57:48]  We don't have any way to equalize the playing fields out of our own means.
[01:57:53]  Only a foreign military intervention that can neutralize the apparatus of repression in Iran, namely IRGC and anything associated with the instrument of repression, can equalize the playing field.
[01:58:05]  So, people in Iran have a fair chance to do it.
[01:58:07]  You have never heard any Iranian, myself included, calling for boots on the ground by a foreign military.
[01:58:13]  We are the boots on the ground.
[01:58:15]  It's the people on the streets.
[01:58:16]  But we are defenseless and unarmed.
[01:58:18]  That's where you can help us to at least give the people a chance for the final uprising for victory.
[01:58:25]  We'll do the rest ourselves.
[01:58:26]  We'll bring the pressure from within.
[01:58:27]  We'll have labor strikes.
[01:58:28]  We will do whatever it takes to finally force this regime to collapse.
[01:58:34]  But the world can help us too.
[01:58:35]  One of them is exactly this targeted strike that the U.S. can help with because you're the only country in the world capable of doing that, number one.
[01:58:42]  Number two, the world can also further help us by crippling the regime's means of having income to pay for its war machine, to pay the salaries of these mercenaries they bring from the outside to repress people, and so on and so forth.
[01:58:56]  These are all elements that can expedite the process, but we're not saying that a foreign country should do the revolution for us.
[01:59:03]  We're doing it, but we need your help.
[01:59:05]  And there are many instances in history that we have seen that successful ultimate struggles were won because those people fighting for their respective freedoms were not alone.
[01:59:15]  And at some point, there was some tacit help from the outside world standing on the right side of history.
[01:59:21]  This is what the Iranian people are expecting right now.
[01:59:24]  They have gone on the streets with the promise that there will be an intervention.
[01:59:28]  And I hope that President Trump will, in fact, carry out on his promise.
[01:59:32]  I understand that he needed to prove to the world that every attempt was made to resolve the matter diplomatically, but I don't think that this regime is even close to the minimum expectation that the U.S. has, whether it's a nuclear program or the ballistic program or anything else.
[01:59:47]  So I think that is going to be, again, the reason I'm telling you, Oman is just another attempt at the regime to buy time.
[01:59:52]  Let's not fall for those old tricks again.
[01:59:54]  This is the time to take decisive action.
[02:00:00]  That is the crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, from Iran.
[02:00:05]  The entire interview is fascinating because I talked to him about, you know, are you the guy?
[02:00:12]  Because nobody remembers you if they're, unless they're my age, they don't remember you if they're 30 or 40.
[02:00:18]  His dad and his family were ousted in 1979.
[02:00:23]  Are they, do they want to go back to a, you know, a constitutional monarch?
[02:00:30]  What does the system look like?
[02:00:31]  And he explains that.
[02:00:33]  You know, one of the things I didn't have a chance to get into is how brilliant the guy is on media.
[02:00:39]  You know, he's he, they've shut the internet down, but they can't shut it all down.
[02:00:44]  They shut about 90% of it down, leaves about 10%, but they are all over that 10%.
[02:00:50]  He has made very, very short videos, like really short.
[02:00:55]  8 o'clock, go out on your street and, you know, scream, free the republic, whatever.
[02:01:02]  And if you can't do that, if your friends don't know this, pass this on to them or tell them 8 o'clock tonight.
[02:01:10]  That's how he's getting the word out.
[02:01:12]  And that's how these things are happening.
[02:01:14]  He's very, very bright.
[02:01:17]  I do believe he is right when it comes to what Donald Trump is doing.
[02:01:21]  I think he is giving the world an understanding that we've done everything we can to try to get to peace.
[02:01:29]  But this time it's different.
[02:01:34]  You know, is this in America's interest to do this?
[02:01:41]  Is this America first?
[02:01:44]  Yes and no.
[02:01:45]  If it goes into a war, no.
[02:01:51]  However, what Donald Trump has done is he is rebuilding.
[02:01:56]  The first thing he did was go back to the Middle East and try to rebuild the Middle East.
[02:02:00]  Why did he do that?
[02:02:02]  Not because he has something for the Middle East and he loves the Middle East better than he loves America, any of that crap.
[02:02:08]  He's doing that because we've been bogged down in war for 40 years in the Middle East.
[02:02:15]  Every time there's a problem, we have to go and solve it.
[02:02:19]  And for the last 20, we've had boots on the ground and he does not want boots on the ground.
[02:02:23]  So what did he do?
[02:02:25]  He, for the very first time, was able to put Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, all of these countries together and say, we're going to work together.
[02:02:37]  Now, all of these countries also have the same enemy, and that's Iran.
[02:02:42]  So when you have the Iranian leadership being the head of the snake, remember, I said this to you in 2003.
[02:02:53]  When did we go to war with Iraq?
[02:02:57]  2004, 2003?
[02:02:59]  When we went to Iraq, I said, look, here's what I think the game plan is.
[02:03:03]  You got Afghanistan on one side, you have Iraq on the other, and the head of the snake is in between, and that's Iran.
[02:03:09]  That's the one causing all of the problems.
[02:03:12]  The idea is to pop its head.
[02:03:14]  That never happened because I don't know if that was ever the real plan.
[02:03:19]  But that's Donald Trump's plan, is to get Iran out of the picture.

=== Why We Shut Down El Paso (03:18) ===

[02:03:26]  And so that part, to keep us out of the Middle East, to build the Middle East up into a system that can support and police itself is really, really good for us.
[02:03:39]  To end Iranian-supported terror around the world, really good.
[02:03:45]  I mean, we were talking earlier today about El Paso.
[02:03:51]  In case you don't know, it is at 4 o'clock this morning, they shut down the airport in El Paso, said that it was going to take 10 days.
[02:03:58]  We don't know why, some security concern.
[02:04:02]  We then later found out they opened it back up because the government or military was shooting down drones from Mexico.
[02:04:09]  Well, we know that Hezbollah has partnered with cartels on our border.
[02:04:15]  Is that part of it?
[02:04:17]  I don't know.
[02:04:18]  But it strengthens us.
[02:04:22]  It strengthens us with oil exports.
[02:04:25]  It hurts our enemies, China and Russia.
[02:04:30]  Yeah, as long as it doesn't go into war, it is absolutely America first.
[02:04:35]  All right.
[02:04:36]  More in just a second.
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