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=== Shield of the Americas (13:55) ===

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[00:02:43]  Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:02:44]  We've got a lot.
[00:02:45]  It's Friday, by the way.
[00:02:46]  That should be some good news.
[00:02:48]  I'm going to tell you what happened yesterday with Christy Noam and the president.
[00:02:53]  Also, Ken Paxton and John Cornyn.
[00:02:58]  I've got a different, I think a different spin on both of those things than I think what you're getting elsewhere.
[00:03:04]  Also, big, big, big, important news on oil prices.
[00:03:10]  They are beginning to go up.
[00:03:11]  They're not spiking, and I'll tell you why they're not spiking.
[00:03:14]  Why is this, why is this war different?
[00:03:17]  Why are oil prices not spiking when they're saying that the straits of Hormuz is going to be shut down?
[00:03:23]  Oil per barrel should be going through the roof.
[00:03:26]  There's a reason why, and I'll explain that coming up, and what all of this means, especially this weekend.
[00:03:32]  I think we're going to see some more things happening this weekend.
[00:03:35]  Maybe I'm wrong, but we'll see.
[00:03:36]  We're going to start with Christy Noam next.
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[00:05:02]  Hello.
[00:05:02]  Thank you for listening.
[00:05:04]  Let me start with Christy Noam.
[00:05:07]  What happened?
[00:05:07]  Yesterday, something happened in Washington.
[00:05:09]  Looked a little like chaos.
[00:05:10]  Looked like, uh-oh, trouble.
[00:05:12]  And I'm not sure.
[00:05:13]  Maybe it is.
[00:05:14]  I'm not sure.
[00:05:16]  Christy Noam is out as Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
[00:05:20]  And in her place, a guy named Senator Mullen.
[00:05:23]  Now, let me start with Noam.
[00:05:26]  She wasn't fired.
[00:05:28]  She was moved.
[00:05:30]  And she was moved into something that was like, what the hell is that?
[00:05:32]  I've never even heard of that.
[00:05:34]  Doesn't even fully exist yet.
[00:05:36]  It's a position called the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
[00:05:44]  We are going all Marvel comic.
[00:05:46]  I mean, this guy is all Marvel comic.
[00:05:49]  Okay.
[00:05:50]  Let me translate what this usually means in Washington and may mean this time.
[00:05:54]  I mean, what I'm going to give you here is going to give you facts and then I'm going to speculate on them.
[00:05:59]  So, you know, take it for what it's worth.
[00:06:02]  When a president moves somebody into a job that hasn't been fully defined yet, it usually means one of two things.
[00:06:08]  Either A, yeah, buh-bye, you're being pushed aside.
[00:06:12]  Or B, you're being moved in to run something that is bigger, but isn't public yet.
[00:06:20]  Okay.
[00:06:21]  And if you look at the timing, This doesn't feel like a demotion.
[00:06:25]  And I'm getting mixed signals because some things, it looks like Donald Trump is pistoder about, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:06:31]  So I really don't know because this is speculation, but it feels like a reorganization of the battlefield because it's the shield of the Americas.
[00:06:42]  I know that doesn't mean anything, but follow me on this.
[00:06:45]  Right now, the United States is looking at a hemisphere and a hemisphere problem that most Americans still don't fully understand or see.
[00:06:56]  When Donald Trump was running, and I've told you this before, but it's worth repeating.
[00:07:01]  When Donald Trump was running for re-election, we were standing backstage someplace and he was getting ready to go on.
[00:07:06]  He said, you want to look like a prophet?
[00:07:07]  You know what you need to talk about?
[00:07:09]  You just keep talking about Panama.
[00:07:13]  And I'm like, right.
[00:07:15]  And then he goes on stage and I'm like, what am I going to say about Panama?
[00:07:18]  What does that mean?
[00:07:19]  I don't even know what that means.
[00:07:20]  Panama is going to be in the news everywhere next year.
[00:07:24]  And then he walks on stage.
[00:07:25]  And I came back and I went, does anybody understand what he's talking about with Panama?
[00:07:29]  What's happening in Panama?
[00:07:30]  We all looked at each other like nothing is happening with Panama.
[00:07:32]  What are you talking about?
[00:07:33]  Remember when he gets in, what does he say?
[00:07:35]  Panama, we want the Panama Canal back.
[00:07:38]  And you're like, what?
[00:07:40]  Where is this coming from?
[00:07:41]  Because he understood what was happening with Panama and China.
[00:07:46]  China had taken the entire Panama Canal and was controlling it.
[00:07:51]  Then what happens?
[00:07:52]  He starts talking about Greenland, also in our hemisphere.
[00:07:56]  Then what happens?
[00:07:57]  He's talking and making moves on Venezuela.
[00:08:00]  Then what happens?
[00:08:01]  He's talking about, you know who's next?
[00:08:04]  Cuba.
[00:08:06]  Okay.
[00:08:09]  Cuba, Russia, cartels operating like parallel governments across Mexico and Central America.
[00:08:17]  Chinese ports being built all over Latin America.
[00:08:20]  Russian intelligence operating out of Caracas.
[00:08:24]  Iranian proxies using the region for logistics and staging grounds.
[00:08:29]  And every other president has treated Latin America like an afterthought.
[00:08:34]  But now, now what's happening?
[00:08:37]  It's not an afterthought anymore.
[00:08:40]  The southern hemisphere has become the new front line of great power competition.
[00:08:47]  He is declaring the Western hemisphere is ours.
[00:08:51]  Okay.
[00:08:52]  And DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, was not designed for that.
[00:08:57]  DHS created after 9-11, and that's a whole different can of worms, and we can get into that some other time.
[00:09:03]  But it was built to stop terrorism inside of the United States, at our airports, at our borders, disaster response, blah, blah, blah.
[00:09:11]  But what the president is doing now is different and different than any other president has done probably since Theodore Roosevelt.
[00:09:20]  This is hemisphere level instability.
[00:09:23]  We have the migration waves.
[00:09:25]  We have state collapse.
[00:09:26]  We have cartels that are moving people and drugs and weapons and intelligence.
[00:09:32]  We have foreign adversaries embedding themselves inside of all of that chaos.
[00:09:36]  So if you're the president and you're looking at the world and you're saying, we have got to shore up America to make sure we last another 150, 250 years, another 150 minutes at times, I feel like.
[00:09:52]  You don't just run border patrol.
[00:09:55]  You build a hemisphere defense system.
[00:09:59]  You make sure that our darkest, Russia, China, Iran are not running operations in this hemisphere, okay?
[00:10:10]  Which may explain the phrase, shield of the Americas.
[00:10:15]  Think about the name.
[00:10:16]  It's not border control.
[00:10:17]  It's not immigration enforcement.
[00:10:19]  It's a shield of the Americas, the entire Western hemisphere.
[00:10:26]  That doesn't sound like DHS.
[00:10:29]  That sounds more like strategic security architecture for the Western hemisphere, doesn't it?
[00:10:35]  Or he's just been watching Carmel, I mean, Marvel Comics.
[00:10:40]  But to me, the shield for America, the Americas, sounds a little bit more like something like NATO.
[00:10:52]  Intelligence sharing, cartel disruption, migration control, counter-China operations.
[00:11:00]  And if that's what's being built, you would need somebody who understands a few things.
[00:11:05]  Border security, state governments, law enforcement, and migration policy.
[00:11:11]  Well, I mean, in that Christy Noam, I mean, that's her entire resume, isn't it?
[00:11:16]  So the story may not be GNOME fired on the outs.
[00:11:21]  The story might be GNOME redeployed.
[00:11:28]  Now let me talk about the second half of this move, because while she goes outward to whatever is coming next, and the president said he's going to be talking about that this weekend, Trump brought somebody inward, Senator Mullen.
[00:11:44]  Who is Senator Mullen?
[00:11:45]  He's a former MMA fighter.
[00:11:47]  He's a business owner.
[00:11:49]  He's a senator.
[00:11:51]  And he's controversial.
[00:11:53]  Some critics inside MA circles, some of them, accuse him of being too establishment.
[00:12:01]  He has done things like business loans during COVID.
[00:12:05]  He's got ethics complaints.
[00:12:07]  He votes, you know, against MAGA sometimes.
[00:12:10]  Fine, okay.
[00:12:13]  Not my favorite, but debate is healthy.
[00:12:17]  And the real question is not personality, it is function.
[00:12:21]  If the White House is creating a new Western hemisphere security structure, then DHS is about to become something different.
[00:12:30]  Not a political platform, not a messaging department, but an operational machine.
[00:12:37]  Mass deportations continue.
[00:12:40]  Border enforcement, domestic security, logistics.
[00:12:44]  And Mullen, love him or hate him, has a reputation in Washington as somebody who picks fights and then executes orders.
[00:12:52]  That's what Donald Trump wants.
[00:12:54]  A fighter who can execute what he orders.
[00:12:59]  Okay, that's his resume.
[00:13:00]  And that tells me something important.
[00:13:03]  This may not be a personnel shakeup.
[00:13:06]  It may be the move in a larger security strategy and a strategy built around the simple realization that for the next 20 years, America's biggest threats may not come across the ocean.
[00:13:21]  They may come across our own hemisphere.
[00:13:24]  Think of Mexico.
[00:13:26]  And if that is true, then the United States may be about to build something we haven't had since the Cold War, a continental defense doctrine for the Americas.
[00:13:39]  And if that's what Shield of the Americas turns out to be, yesterday was not a firing.
[00:13:46]  Yesterday was the first chess move on a board none of us have been thinking about.
[00:13:53]  All right, more in a second.

=== Why Attacking Taiwan Won't Happen (08:28) ===

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[00:15:29]  So oil prices are not spiking, but they are rising.
[00:15:34]  Jason, do you want to, Jason Buttrell, thanks for filling in for me yesterday?
[00:15:38]  I appreciate it.
[00:15:38]  Sure, thank you.
[00:15:40]  The oil prices have gone up about what, $11 a barrel overnight.
[00:15:47]  You want to show us the chart and what's going on?
[00:15:50]  So, yeah, this is this is producer Matt though, this up really quick.
[00:15:53]  This is where oil prices are right now.
[00:15:56]  So, this is they're right around 87.28.
[00:15:59]  As of now, it's fluctuating, but this is kind of a sharp increase from yesterday.
[00:16:04]  Well, going back to March 2nd, they were at 70.
[00:16:07]  Yesterday, they were still around 75, 73, 75.
[00:16:11]  So, over the past 24 to 48 hours, we've seen a pretty big uptick.
[00:16:16]  There was a, I closed it now, but there was a CNBC article talking about how Iran is still targeting multiple different tankers within the Straits of Hormuz.
[00:16:25]  They described it as currently a standstill within the Strait of Hormuz as far as tanker traffic is concerned.
[00:16:32]  So, I think a lot of people would kind of argue whether it's actually closed right now, but in terms of actual traffic going through, the look and feel of it right now is that it's closed.
[00:16:43]  So, here's the thing.
[00:16:45]  First of all, the president is never going to allow them to close it.
[00:16:50]  I think you will see a wave of strikes on their Navy.
[00:16:56]  I think, you know, at some point, he's really going to concentrate.
[00:16:59]  I know they've been doing that, but really concentrating on the Straits of Hormuz because it cannot shut it down.
[00:17:06]  That will cause massive disruptions everywhere.
[00:17:09]  Now, a little slowdown may not be bad.
[00:17:14]  And let me explain.
[00:17:17]  Who gets the majority of their oil through the Straits of Hormuz?
[00:17:22]  It's China.
[00:17:23]  China has just stopped running their, I mean, for the first time in how long, Jason, have they been running air drills over Taiwan and doing dogfights and everything else, all just to intimidate Taiwan?
[00:17:36]  They've been doing this for years, a long, long time.
[00:17:40]  They just stopped.
[00:17:41]  They haven't been doing those for the last few days.
[00:17:44]  Now, there's two reasons that might cause this.
[00:17:48]  One, they're looking and saying, don't cause any attention.
[00:17:52]  Let's not bring the eyes of Donald Trump towards us.
[00:17:55]  I don't think that's the reason.
[00:17:57]  I think the reason goes to oil.
[00:18:00]  They are starting to hoard oil.
[00:18:02]  They're taking all of their oil that they can get and they're hoarding it.
[00:18:07]  They are just guarding it like nobody's tomorrow because they know they may not have oil tomorrow.
[00:18:14]  And so I think they're saving fuel right now by not doing the Taiwan dogfights, which is a really big deal and very telling on how close to the edge they just might be with oil.
[00:18:29]  Yeah, and can I add to that a little bit?
[00:18:31]  Because China doing these air incursions into Taiwan's airspace has been a very big part of their overall strategy to eventually launch an operation on Taiwan.
[00:18:40]  And part of that was just normalizing the idea that there's always going to be Chinese aircraft in your airspace.
[00:18:46]  So later on down the line, when they finally do decide to do this attack, it's going to be masked.
[00:18:52]  You know, the people of Taiwan, the military are not going to know, is this the attack or is this just more of the same?
[00:18:57]  The fact that they're cutting that off right now means either it's probably a combination of the two, as you laid out.
[00:19:04]  But one, they don't really have the fuel to go around willy-nilly doing this kind of thing.
[00:19:09]  But also, their strategic objectives all over the world are kind of thrown in flux right now.
[00:19:15]  I don't think they really know what to do, but attacking Taiwan is not one of those things they can do in the near future, which is pretty wild to see.
[00:19:25]  So again, this goes to why did the president go into Iraq?
[00:19:32]  I mean, I'm sorry, into Iran.
[00:19:34]  He went into Iran.
[00:19:35]  Yes, because we can't afford to have nuclear missiles.
[00:19:39]  And also, we need to stop the terror.
[00:19:42]  They are the head of the snake of terror, but they also provide Russia with all of the drones.
[00:19:48]  And a lot of the oil from Iran goes to China.
[00:19:54]  This guy is, again, think of him, you know, the old saying, you know, kill two birds with one stone.
[00:20:01]  I really think Donald Trump is so strategic, he kills about 45 birds with one stone.
[00:20:08]  It's like he skips rocks and just is knocking birds out all over the planet.
[00:20:12]  A 46, because he actually killed the Iranian who plotted to assassinate him.
[00:20:18]  Really?
[00:20:19]  Yes, in this mission.
[00:20:20]  Wow.
[00:20:20]  You know, just a bonus, an extra little skip there at the end.
[00:20:26]  So the best thing, the reason why, usually if they were going to close the Straits, if somebody, they were threatening to close it and there were war, you would see oil spike much higher than this, much, much higher than this.
[00:20:40]  Why isn't it?
[00:20:42]  One of the reasons, again, maybe What Donald Trump did with insurance.
[00:20:51]  The reason why oil spikes in a war is because all of the insurance companies say that's a war zone.
[00:20:57]  We're no longer going to insure that oil or that ship.
[00:21:01]  And so without insurance, you're not moving that thing.
[00:21:04]  Okay.
[00:21:04]  Because everybody's like, I'm not risking that much money.
[00:21:07]  And so everything stops.
[00:21:08]  Donald Trump came out a couple of days ago and he said, United States will underwrite the insurance for those ships.
[00:21:15]  That's a big deal.
[00:21:17]  And we will escort those ships.
[00:21:19]  We will make sure those ships do not stop in the Straits of Hormuz.
[00:21:24]  So we're saying the Navy is going to protect all of the oil that is moving out.
[00:21:31]  Now, it's interesting that, again, there's such a slowdown that CNBC calls it a virtual shutdown, that nothing is moving right now with this.
[00:21:41]  But the reason why oil isn't spiking is I believe the world believes that Donald Trump is on this and not going to let that oil sit there.
[00:21:52]  And he's not going to let insurance companies stop the world from moving forward.
[00:21:59]  It is a, I mean, he plays such risky games and such high-stakes games.
[00:22:05]  I mean, I don't know how, I don't know how he, honestly, how he's walking around.
[00:22:10]  You know how presidents age like 400 years in four years?
[00:22:15]  I have not seen this guy age like normally happens after.
[00:22:20]  I mean, remember, this has been a 16-year run for him.

=== Trump's High-Stakes America Act (16:18) ===

[00:22:23]  Okay.
[00:22:24]  Not 16.
[00:22:25]  Yeah.
[00:22:26]  10-year run.
[00:22:27]  10-year run for him so far.
[00:22:30]  You know, it's not eight.
[00:22:31]  It's 10.
[00:22:32]  And he's still a ways away from finishing.
[00:22:34]  So he's actually kind of been in this spotlight for three terms by the end of this.
[00:22:41]  You see Barack Obama at the beginning of his first term, the end of his first term, he's gray.
[00:22:46]  He looks different.
[00:22:47]  And I know Donald Trump dyes his hair.
[00:22:49]  I think he does.
[00:22:51]  But still, what this guy has done compared to every other president, just the pace of it.
[00:22:57]  I don't know how, I mean, I think I'd be dead.
[00:23:00]  I don't know.
[00:23:01]  I don't think I could do it.
[00:23:03]  This guy just has the greatest genes of all time.
[00:23:06]  All right.
[00:23:07]  Some perspective next on Ken Paxton and what happened yesterday with Ken Paxton.
[00:23:13]  That's coming up in just a minute.
[00:23:15]  Stand by.
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[00:25:01]  Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:25:04]  So yesterday, Donald Trump tweeted this.
[00:25:09]  The Republican Party primary race for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas, a state I love and won three times in record numbers, the highest vote ever.
[00:25:19]  You could just hear him say these things.
[00:25:21]  You know he wrote this.
[00:25:22]  State I love won three times in record numbers, highest vote ever recorded by far.
[00:25:30]  Cannot for the good of the party and our country itself be allowed to go on any longer.
[00:25:34]  It must stop now.
[00:25:36]  We have an easy to beat radical left opponent and we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively.
[00:25:44]  Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough.
[00:25:49]  Now this one must be perfect.
[00:25:51]  My endorsement within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable.
[00:25:55]  It has been virtually, nobody thought it could be done.
[00:25:59]  It is such an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, especially in Texas.
[00:26:08]  I will be making my endorsement soon and I'll be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race.
[00:26:14]  Is that fair?
[00:26:16]  We must win in November.
[00:26:17]  Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
[00:26:20]  Okay.
[00:26:20]  So he made that yesterday.
[00:26:22]  And then Ken Paxton did something you almost never see in modern politics.
[00:26:27]  He put policy above position.
[00:26:30]  And he saw that and he said, okay, I will step aside if Senate leadership will lift the filibuster barrier and pass the Save America Act.
[00:26:43]  He said, I'll do it for the good of our country and to advance President Trump's agenda.
[00:26:49]  Okay, so Donald Trump wants the Save America Act.
[00:26:55]  Ken Paxton said, I will drop out and give you the other thing you want.
[00:27:00]  I'll leave, but I want something in return.
[00:27:05]  And it's not a job.
[00:27:06]  It's not a position.
[00:27:07]  I want Cornyn and Senate leadership to then pass the Save America Act.
[00:27:14]  Now, here's why it matters.
[00:27:17]  And if you're serious about saving the Republic, you should be paying attention here.
[00:27:21]  This isn't a deal.
[00:27:24]  It's a test, and it's a test of motives.
[00:27:27]  It's so brilliant.
[00:27:29]  Most dropout conversations in politics sound something like this.
[00:27:33]  Well, what do I get?
[00:27:35]  I get a job, a title, a payday, a pardon, a favor.
[00:27:38]  What am I getting?
[00:27:40]  And that's the kind of transactional politics that we see over and over and over again, people floating withdrawal or endorsement in exchange for a role, right?
[00:27:49]  What Paxton is offering is categorically different.
[00:27:54]  No personal prize on the table that we know of, only a measurable outcome for the country.
[00:28:02]  I believe this is a noble gesture.
[00:28:06]  And not because I'm asking you to like Ken Paxton or anything else, and not because I, you know, I'm asking you to hate John Cornyn.
[00:28:12]  I don't think you need any, I don't, do you need anybody to ask you to hate John Cornyn, to hate him more than you already do?
[00:28:18]  What I'm asking you is to recognize the moral structure of what just happened.
[00:28:24]  Personal ambition gets put on a scale.
[00:28:28]  National necessity gets put on the other side of that scale.
[00:28:33]  And Paxton is saying, if you do the necessary thing, I'll pay for it.
[00:28:39]  I'll absorb the cost.
[00:28:42]  In a time where everyone is known for doing just what's good for them, it's a rare move.
[00:28:50]  A rare move that says, fine, hold me to a standard, but I'm going to hold you to one too.
[00:28:59]  Now, I'm not saying that Ken is pure as a driven snow.
[00:29:04]  I'm sure, you know, do the right thing and doors open for you.
[00:29:10]  But this is really a test of Cornyn.
[00:29:14]  Because if Cornyn wants to make this go away, if the Senate wants to make this go away, all he has to do is say, okay, we'll pass the Save America Act.
[00:29:26]  And all that Donald Trump has to do is say, Ken, great idea.
[00:29:30]  John, you're going to do that, right?
[00:29:34]  You're going to go right into Congress.
[00:29:36]  Fact, I'm going to take Ken up, but if you fail to pass that, you and your Senate cronies, guess who I'm endorsing?
[00:29:48]  That's the way this should be done.
[00:29:50]  Now, for anybody who has friends that don't know what the Save America Act is, it's the proof of ID.
[00:29:56]  I mean, first you have to approve your citizenship, you know, when you're registering to votes like you have to in states like Texas and Florida and most other places, but it also requires a photo ID that you'll need to allow you to vote.
[00:30:09]  That is something that has 80% approval rating nationwide.
[00:30:14]  Even with Democrats, it's over 70%.
[00:30:17]  This is, I can't say this enough.
[00:30:19]  This is the only bill I have seen in, what, 30 years that has a chance of unifying this country.
[00:30:28]  We haven't been unified since right after 9-11.
[00:30:31]  After 9-11, we were unified and then it just all broke to hell.
[00:30:35]  And we can't, we cannot agree on the color of the sky.
[00:30:41]  And yet this one, we're almost in lockstep.
[00:30:45]  That's as close to lockstep as politics ever gets.
[00:30:48]  Okay.
[00:30:49]  Why?
[00:30:50]  Because everybody knows if citizenship is meaningless at the ballot box, then citizenship becomes meaningless everywhere else.
[00:30:59]  And look how meaningless citizenship is in our country right now.
[00:31:03]  And if the vote isn't trusted, then nothing that follows is stable.
[00:31:08]  The courts, the laws, the budgets, the wars, peace, any of it.
[00:31:12]  Okay.
[00:31:13]  That's why Trump is demanding, and I'm quoting, Republicans pass it with passion and not watered down.
[00:31:24]  Wow.
[00:31:27]  This is a gift from Ken Paxton to the president.
[00:31:31]  This is an absolute gift.
[00:31:33]  I am giving you the leverage you need, that you want.
[00:31:39]  Now, here's the hard part that Democrats are struggling with, I think.
[00:31:46]  And really, Republicans are with John Cornyn.
[00:31:50]  What if the guy who makes it happen is somebody you don't like?
[00:31:56]  Okay, let me do something that drives everybody crazy in 2026.
[00:32:00]  I'm going to think out loud like a free man instead of joining a tribe.
[00:32:07]  Let me take on that problem with Republicans like John Cornyn.
[00:32:11]  Okay.
[00:32:13]  Do you do this?
[00:32:14]  I mean, it's John Cornyn.
[00:32:17]  I'm just going to tell you how I feel.
[00:32:19]  I don't like John Cornyn at all.
[00:32:21]  I think he's been part of the Washington machinery for far too long.
[00:32:24]  I think he's been wrong too often when the moment demanded backbone.
[00:32:29]  He has stood against the Trump agenda over and over and over and over.
[00:32:34]  And I think he's truly part of the problem.
[00:32:35]  That's my judgment.
[00:32:36]  That's how I feel.
[00:32:38]  But here is the question that we should ask in this moment.
[00:32:44]  If a man you distrust will do something your children desperately need, and they do it the way you're asking them to do it, what was it, with passion and without compromise, do you reject it because you distrust the man?
[00:33:03]  That's not principle if you do.
[00:33:05]  That's ego dressed up as principle.
[00:33:10]  Paxton just short-circuited all of this.
[00:33:12]  He just laid down a moral challenge, not just Cornyn, but to everyone watching.
[00:33:18]  Here's the question.
[00:33:20]  Are you here to win or are you here to save the nation?
[00:33:27]  I'll go further.
[00:33:31]  If Cornyn would make that commitment publicly, specifically, and then actually follow through, not by supporting it in press releases while it quietly is allowed to die, not by jamming it full of amendments that weaken the core, not by turning it into Washington soup, but helping it get done the way Trump is calling for, then yes,
[00:34:00]  he would buy enough goodwill with me that I would hold my nose and accept him as the nominee and vote for him because we can't have the other guy in, but I would not be happy about it.
[00:34:10]  And I wouldn't suddenly believe, oh my gosh, he's a changed man.
[00:34:14]  He's a great guy.
[00:34:17]  But in an emergency, triage has to come before remodeling.
[00:34:24]  You know what I mean?
[00:34:26]  And while I can't vote for him as it continues to feed the deep state Republican machine, I can do it for this.
[00:34:35]  This is a much bigger principle.
[00:34:39]  I mean, it's so hard.
[00:34:41]  Everything is on fire right now.
[00:34:43]  The deep state is a real problem.
[00:34:45]  It's a real problem.
[00:34:47]  But if we don't pass the Save America Act, we'll never get to the problem of the deep state.
[00:34:53]  Okay.
[00:34:55]  But he has to make this deal.
[00:34:57]  And then, as Trump said, do it with passion.
[00:35:01]  And Mr. President, may I suggest you take Ken Paxton up on his offer and then, because they'd have to pass this in the next few weeks, they have to do it right now.
[00:35:10]  They can't wait around.
[00:35:12]  Do not make your endorsement.
[00:35:14]  Do not give that away for free.
[00:35:16]  You're right.
[00:35:17]  You make that endorsement.
[00:35:19]  It's done.
[00:35:20]  Do not give that away for free.
[00:35:24]  John Cornyn is part of the McConnell Thun problem.
[00:35:30]  And if They want this guy in for Senate, then they have to pay a heavy price that they don't want to pay because we don't want to pay it.
[00:35:41]  I don't want to pay it.
[00:35:43]  And you are a deal maker.
[00:35:45]  You know deals better than anybody else.
[00:35:47]  This is a good deal.
[00:35:48]  This is a good deal for them.
[00:35:49]  We'll get out of your way.
[00:35:51]  You get that seat, but we get the Save America Act.
[00:35:56]  I don't know if every Republican would feel comfortable with that, but I am.
[00:36:05]  But I'm not sure I've seen this ever before.
[00:36:07]  You know, we're in this social media era and you've got runoff pressure and Trump's endorsement leverage and a high-profile policy hostage to the Senate.
[00:36:18]  But Ken Paxton stepping to the plate and making this offer is kind of old America stuff.
[00:36:23]  You know what I mean?
[00:36:24]  That kind of feels like America in our best.
[00:36:28]  Because when it comes down to it, when America is on fire, it's always held together by leaders who do the unthinkable.
[00:36:37]  You know, they bring rivals in, they swallow pride, they subordinate themselves to survive, the greater nation to survive.
[00:36:45]  Lincoln did this when he brought in his team of rivals, all of the political competitors, because the union was cracking and he needed capacity more than comfort.
[00:36:56]  And that's the point.
[00:36:57]  When the house is on fire, you don't ask whether the man holding the hose once insulted you at dinner.
[00:37:04]  Isn't that the guy?
[00:37:05]  Shut up.
[00:37:05]  He's putting the house out.
[00:37:07]  So the real headline here should not be Paxton versus Cornyn.
[00:37:11]  The real headline is this.
[00:37:12]  A sitting U.S. senator is being offered political mercy on one condition.
[00:37:17]  Do the country-defining work that the president wants.
[00:37:25]  And here's what every politician should hear: Cornyn, Thune, leadership, all of them.
[00:37:30]  The people are demanding election integrity.
[00:37:33]  And we're not doing it for clout.
[00:37:36]  We're not doing it because we're bored.
[00:37:38]  We're not doing it because we're stupid.
[00:37:40]  We're doing it because we know we are near to the edge of the republic and that a few foundational things have to be secured if the republic is going to remain a republic.
[00:37:51]  And if Ken Paxton, of all people, can say, I'll sacrifice my own path if you'll do what's right, then every man in Washington needs to look in a mirror and ask themselves, what is it I'm sacrificing?
[00:38:04]  Because if the answer is nothing, then don't dare lecture the public about saving the republic.
[00:38:12]  Back in a minute.
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[00:41:38]  There's a couple of things.
[00:41:39]  First of all, let me say this.
[00:41:42]  You know, Paxton might get something out of all of this.
[00:41:46]  I want to make sure that I'm not saying it's, you know, pure as a driven snow.
[00:41:49]  I think I said that.
[00:41:50]  What I would like to see Paxton get is Pam Bondi's job, but I don't think that's in the cards.
[00:41:56]  It would be nice, but I don't think that's in the cards myself.
[00:42:01]  I would just really like to see the president use this opportunity to use it as negotiation, as a hammer.
[00:42:10]  He doesn't need me to say that.
[00:42:13]  He obviously gets that.
[00:42:14]  There's also another disturbing story in the Washington Post.
[00:42:19]  Russia is providing Iran intel on targeting Americans.
[00:42:29]  I'll look into that story a little bit, a little bit.
[00:42:33]  It's worth probably reading and understanding, and I'll try to explain that to you.
[00:42:37]  Also, Bloomberg is reporting at the same time, U.S. is now easing oil sanctions on the Kremlin and is allowing India to buy Russian oil until April.
[00:42:47]  That one makes sense, especially if the WAPO thing is true.
[00:42:53]  If they are starting to defend and get stronger with Iran, it's probably worth saying to India, hey, let them go ahead, buy some of their oil until April, until this passes.
[00:43:06]  Let's ease some of the pressure off of them so they're not dragged into supporting Iran.
[00:43:13]  If that deal can be made, that's probably a really good deal.
[00:43:17]  But it's disturbing if they are indeed providing Iran with intel on, you know, Americans.
[00:43:24]  I don't even know what that means exactly.
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[00:43:28]  It's me.
[00:43:29]  Is that who's?
[00:43:29]  Yeah, that's where the hacking is coming from.
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[00:43:32]  Yeah, all right.
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[00:45:46]  I just, I'm getting ready for something, and I thought, I've got to write it, I've got to write this down on a chalkboard because I think I have a way to really demonstrate what is really going on with Iran.

=== Believing What Wasn't True (14:38) ===

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[00:46:09]  And that is indication exactly what the president is doing.
[00:46:15]  And, you know, he's stating it, just for some reason, nobody is listening.
[00:46:21]  And I, and we're getting lost.
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[00:47:56]  There are moments in history where somebody like me, and there are more and more people like me.
[00:48:04]  I mean, for the first time in human history, a man who works to have an audience has an audience that has an audience themselves.
[00:48:14]  That's never happened before in human history.
[00:48:17]  And so when we speak, we all have an audience now.
[00:48:21]  And what you say into that microphone or what you say online, it doesn't just shape opinion.
[00:48:31]  Depending on who you are and depending how effective you are, it can shape the course of nations.
[00:48:38]  And we are in one of those moments right now.
[00:48:41]  War is unfolding in the Middle East and lives are hanging in the balance.
[00:48:47]  Words, careless words, unproven claims, accusations thrown around like hand grenades, they can inflame things far beyond what any of us even intend.
[00:49:05]  Over the last few days, Tucker Carlson has made some statements about Israel and Iran that are extraordinary.
[00:49:13]  You know, he is critical of the war in Iran, and I understand that.
[00:49:16]  I disagree, but I can see how he makes the case.
[00:49:19]  But he also claims that we're only in this war because Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jews are making us do it.
[00:49:26]  Now he has gone further and claimed that Jewish spies are setting off bombs in Arab countries to make it look like Iran is bombing them.
[00:49:38]  I want you to listen to me carefully here.
[00:49:41]  If those claims were true, they would be among some of the most important revelations of our lifetime.
[00:49:51]  And they would demand investigation.
[00:49:53]  They would demand exposure.
[00:49:55]  They would demand accountability.
[00:49:58]  But if they are not true, if they are speculation presented as fact without any backup documents, then they're not just wrong.
[00:50:10]  They are dangerously wrong.
[00:50:14]  And I know something about being wrong.
[00:50:17]  Before I get into this, before anybody starts to think, oh, Glenn Beck's going to, you know, do some cheap media feud.
[00:50:24]  Look at the food fight between people who are on the same side.
[00:50:28]  Let me just say this.
[00:50:28]  I admire the work done by Tucker Carlson, a lot of the work that he has done in the past, especially during COVID.
[00:50:35]  At a time when powerful, powerful institutions were silencing everyone.
[00:50:40]  Tucker stood up with the facts and then he asked questions and backed them up with the facts.
[00:50:45]  And those were things nobody was, everybody was too afraid to ask.
[00:50:48]  National television, nobody was doing it.
[00:50:50]  He did.
[00:50:52]  Because he did more than just ask questions.
[00:50:54]  He brought evidence.
[00:50:56]  He challenged the narratives and brought the evidence.
[00:50:59]  He brought the facts.
[00:51:01]  And by doing so, he helped change the course of the conversation in this country.
[00:51:05]  And for that, I will always be grateful to Tucker Carlson.
[00:51:10]  But, you know, gratitude doesn't require silence, especially when the stakes keep getting bigger and bigger.
[00:51:20]  And when the stakes get high.
[00:51:22]  Look, I've been here before.
[00:51:23]  Okay.
[00:51:24]  War is high stakes enough.
[00:51:27]  And I've been here.
[00:51:28]  In the early 2000s, during the Iraq war, I made arguments that I believed with every fiber in my being.
[00:51:36]  I absolutely believed them.
[00:51:38]  I got on the air and I said, I know this is what's happening.
[00:51:41]  For instance, I knew that Saddam Hussein was not responsible for 9-11, and I said so.
[00:51:48]  I was deeply suspicious of any of the claims of weapons of mass destruction, and I said so.
[00:51:55]  And even when the claims were delivered by a man I trusted at the time, Colin Powell, I supported the war anyway.
[00:52:04]  Why?
[00:52:06]  Because I knew.
[00:52:09]  Trust me, I'm the one who said it.
[00:52:12]  I know what I said.
[00:52:13]  I know what I believed.
[00:52:14]  I knew.
[00:52:15]  I believed I understood what President Bush was doing.
[00:52:19]  And perhaps it's because I wanted to believe that what they were doing was longer term and strategic.
[00:52:26]  Either way, I believed with everything in me that the real target was Iran because Iran was the problem, not Iraq.
[00:52:36]  And by placing pressure on both sides on Iran from, you know, both sides of pressure on Iran from Afghanistan to the east and Iraq from the west, I believed, and I said this a million times, we're going to pop the head of the snake, which is Iran.
[00:52:52]  And I made that argument on the air over and over and over and over again.
[00:52:56]  Strong arguments, but I did not present any evidence of it because there was no evidence of it.
[00:53:02]  They were based on what I thought I could read and see if you listened to me back then, you heard me say this over and over again.
[00:53:10]  Trust me, you just have to be able to read between the lines.
[00:53:16]  I must have said that a million times.
[00:53:19]  If you read between the lines, well, no, no.
[00:53:22]  Huge, huge mistake because later it became clear that wasn't the strategy.
[00:53:27]  That wasn't the plan.
[00:53:28]  And there was nothing to read between the lines.
[00:53:31]  They weren't half saying it at all.
[00:53:34]  And Iraq and Afghanistan turned into nightmares.
[00:53:37]  A lot of Americans died.
[00:53:39]  And for what?
[00:53:40]  Honestly, at the end of it, Afghanistan, for what?
[00:53:44]  And I was part of convincing people because I knew.
[00:53:49]  Near the end of President Bush's presidency, President Bush called me to the White House.
[00:53:56]  And he said a few things to me that I'll never forget.
[00:53:59]  One of which he said, in so many words, we were talking about the next election he was leaving.
[00:54:04]  He said, don't worry, Glenn, whoever sits in this chair is going to hear from the same agencies, the same advisors, the same institutions, and they'll realize that the president really has his hands tied and he has no other choice but to continue what we're doing now.
[00:54:18]  And my blood ran cold.
[00:54:21]  He said something that was, he was trying to make me feel better.
[00:54:24]  And I left there shaking like a leaf because what he was describing was something that I didn't even want to believe existed.
[00:54:31]  A permanent governing structure that didn't answer to the president of the United States, an unelected power, a system where the bureaucracy and the intelligence agencies and the State Department shape the decisions no matter what the president said or who the president was.
[00:54:50]  That's horrifying.
[00:54:52]  And I told you about that conversation the very next day.
[00:54:56]  But even then, I didn't fully grasp the power of what he had just said.
[00:55:02]  And it honestly took the presidency of Donald Trump and what happened to him during his first term for millions of Americans, including me, to see it clearly.
[00:55:12]  There are forces in Washington that do not answer to voters.
[00:55:17]  And they are much more powerful.
[00:55:20]  And we know it today, much more powerful than we thought.
[00:55:24]  But knowing that does not mean every accusation is true about it's a deep state.
[00:55:31]  Pizzagate, it does not mean that's true.
[00:55:34]  Yeah, but you can't trust them because there's a deep state.
[00:55:36]  I know, but that doesn't make that true.
[00:55:39]  And good people can really get lost.
[00:55:42]  Good people can become convinced of something that just is not correct.
[00:55:47]  And that's not because they're corrupt or stupid.
[00:55:50]  And it's not because they're traitors.
[00:55:52]  I'm tired of everybody being a traitor.
[00:55:55]  They believe they see the truth.
[00:55:58]  And I know it because I've lived it.
[00:56:01]  Let me give you another example.
[00:56:02]  in 2016.
[00:56:03]  And everybody on my staff would say, please don't bring up 2016, Glenn.
[00:56:07]  That's just not good for you.
[00:56:08]  And I know that, but it's important.
[00:56:10]  The moment Donald Trump came down that escalator in Trump Tower, I was convinced this guy is not who he says he is.
[00:56:17]  He's going to be the worst president ever and we're going to end the country because of him.
[00:56:21]  And I believed it so strongly that I spent months and months and months on air cataloging every possible reason why, every flaw, every danger, every warning, not because of ego.
[00:56:33]  In fact, I knew exactly what I was doing to my audience at the time and my career.
[00:56:39]  I really believed it that I was doing the right thing.
[00:56:42]  I actually thought, this is how crazy I got.
[00:56:45]  I actually thought I was sacrificing my career to save the country.
[00:56:49]  I thought I was doing the patriotic thing.
[00:56:52]  That's how stupid I was.
[00:56:54]  Okay.
[00:56:55]  I now know that the patriotic thing would have been to express my concerns, build a case, not on what I know in my gut, but what I could prove and let you decide.
[00:57:08]  You know, Thomas Jefferson said, trust the people.
[00:57:10]  They'll get it wrong from time to time, but they'll eventually get it right.
[00:57:13]  I think Churchill said the same thing.
[00:57:15]  But I didn't.
[00:57:16]  Because of my arrogance, I trusted my gut.
[00:57:19]  I know this to be true.
[00:57:21]  You just don't get it.
[00:57:22]  Oh my gosh.
[00:57:25]  My saving grace is right before the election when it became clear he's going to win.
[00:57:29]  I said something.
[00:57:30]  I said this.
[00:57:31]  I hope I'm wrong.
[00:57:32]  I don't think I am, but I hope I'm wrong.
[00:57:34]  And if he does even half of what he's promised, I will admit it and I will apologize.
[00:57:40]  So when he did, I did.
[00:57:44]  So what did I learn?
[00:57:47]  I learned the most dangerous phrase in podcasting, broadcasting, any kind of casting, unless you're fishing.
[00:57:56]  The most dangerous phrase anybody can utter in all of human history is this.
[00:58:04]  I know.
[00:58:06]  Not I think, not I suspect, not I'm asking questions.
[00:58:10]  I'm looking for the proof.
[00:58:11]  I know.
[00:58:13]  Because the moment a man says, I know, without the proof, that man stops searching for truth because he has it.
[00:58:20]  He knows.
[00:58:21]  And I know because that's me.
[00:58:25]  And the moment millions of people believe him, history begins to move.
[00:58:31]  Sometimes we think we know.
[00:58:34]  We really, truly think we know.
[00:58:38]  But when we present opinion as facts, because I got an inside source I can't tell you about, but I know because he knows.
[00:58:47]  When we make sweeping claims about motives or conspiracies or intentions, I believe we're stepping into territory that belongs to God.
[00:58:57]  Now, maybe this is my age talking.
[00:58:59]  Maybe it's the scars of making every mistake a broadcaster could ever make, but it's made me more careful, more humble, and more aware of how dangerous certainty can be.
[00:59:13]  But even more so when war is involved.
[00:59:17]  When we talk about wars, we're talking about lives of our American soldiers and those we're going over to kill.
[00:59:27]  And it can involve entire peoples, entire civilizations.
[00:59:32]  Now, what we're talking about today is not just war, because this war touches something else that time and time again has led to programs, expulsions, and extermination camps.
[00:59:48]  When you take war and the Jews and they collide, accuracy is no longer optional.
[00:59:57]  It is a moral obligation.
[01:00:02]  So what do you do?
[01:00:04]  Give me 60 seconds and I'll tell you.
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=== Demand Proof, Not Words (05:41) ===

[01:00:38]  Okay.
[01:00:41]  So.
[01:00:41]  So let me get back to where I was here.
[01:00:49]  We can get lost, really, really lost when we begin to say, I know.
[01:00:57]  So what is it we do?
[01:01:00]  The first thing we have to do is recognize that these kinds of accusations, if true, are historic.
[01:01:10]  You got to admit that.
[01:01:11]  Boy, if that's true, that's historic.
[01:01:16]  But if false, they are dangerously combustible in an entirely different kind of category, different than anything else we're talking about, because this ignites hatred that burns for generations.
[01:01:32]  So asking questions is good, but declaring something as fact without showing the hard evidence, that is not journalism and it is not helpful because the stakes are historic.
[01:01:48]  I believe in the First Amendment.
[01:01:50]  What Tucker Carlson says next is up to him and it's his right, just as it is up to me on what I say next and it's my right.
[01:01:58]  But there's a third party involved in all of this, and that's you.
[01:02:05]  What I say is my right and my responsibility.
[01:02:11]  But what you do with it is yours.
[01:02:13]  And let me ask you, will you accept anyone's word, including mine, without proof?
[01:02:19]  If you do, you're a dope.
[01:02:21]  Don't do it.
[01:02:21]  Don't take, I'm talking strictly mine.
[01:02:23]  Do not take my word as gospel.
[01:02:26]  Don't.
[01:02:28]  Even if it's a compelling argument, that's an argument to my point of view.
[01:02:35]  When it's important, demand the proof.
[01:02:39]  Because in this war of words, you're not just condemning one guy who stands accused.
[01:02:44]  You're condemning an entire people.
[01:02:46]  First of all, you're condemning a war and killing people in Iran.
[01:02:50]  You got to be sure.
[01:02:52]  But then you add on top of it, it's the Jews.
[01:02:55]  Now you also are condemning a people who have been the victim of these kinds of accusations for decades and centuries.
[01:03:03]  I mean, I mean, honest to God, look up the bubonic plague.
[01:03:06]  You know who caused the bubonic plague?
[01:03:07]  It was the Jews because they're not getting sick.
[01:03:09]  You know why?
[01:03:10]  Because they washed their hands like 17,000 times a day.
[01:03:13]  That's why they weren't getting sick from the bubonic plague.
[01:03:15]  But it was blamed on the Jews.
[01:03:17]  And people, because of that, have tried to kill them over and over and over again.
[01:03:22]  On this, I have tried to be so careful.
[01:03:25]  On the beginning of this war, what did I say on Monday?
[01:03:28]  Don't take my word for any of this.
[01:03:30]  I've said, do not, do not, my job is not to convince you that this is right.
[01:03:36]  My job is to show you how I'm looking at all of the facts and wrestling with them.
[01:03:42]  My job is to bring evidence to the table.
[01:03:45]  My job is to illuminate the bigger picture, which I will hear in just a second again.
[01:03:51]  And to share whatever wisdom I have gained from getting things so wrong in the past.
[01:03:57]  I learned from the past, Iraq, and I'm applying those lessons today to tell you about Iran.
[01:04:06]  And I don't want to convince you.
[01:04:08]  I'm giving you this information so you can make the decision because it's a decision that one day you will be called to answer for, just as I will have to stand and answer for the decisions that I make.
[01:04:20]  But remember this.
[01:04:22]  History does not remember who shouted the loudest.
[01:04:26]  History remembers the truth.
[01:04:30]  And in moments like this, when war hangs in the balance and ancient hatreds can be reignited with a single sentence, when millions of people are listening, accuracy becomes a moral duty.
[01:04:46]  So let me be accurate.
[01:04:48]  I believe Tucker Carlson is profoundly wrong on the motivations for this war for President Trump.
[01:04:55]  But when he says he knows about Israel without presenting the hard evidence, I believe I know he has become irresponsible because of the way history plays out over and over and over again.
[01:05:09]  It's a little like being wrong about a math problem.
[01:05:12]  Yeah, you're wrong about that one, Johnny.
[01:05:14]  Or being wrong about dropping nuclear bombs.
[01:05:16]  Not all mistakes are equal.
[01:05:19]  And I have been profoundly wrong.
[01:05:22]  Over and over again.
[01:05:23]  And despite my best attempts, I am going to be wrong again.
[01:05:27]  But those mistakes taught me something that I wish every broadcaster, every podcaster, every influencer, every politician, every citizen will remember.
[01:05:37]  Certainty is easy.
[01:05:41]  Humility is super hard.
[01:05:44]  Truth requires patience.
[01:05:47]  Truth requires transparency.
[01:05:49]  Truth requires evidence and the courage to say the three hardest words any human being can ever say.
[01:05:56]  And that is, I was wrong.
[01:06:00]  And if we can't build a culture where truth matters more than being right, then the real danger to the Republic doesn't come from Iran or Israel or any foreign power.
[01:06:08]  It comes from us.
[01:06:10]  Because the moment we stop demanding proof is the moment truth stops mattering.

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[01:08:07]  It's to try to show you, maybe model how I think so you can go, well, that's flawed.
[01:08:14]  Or you can say, oh, okay, I get it.
[01:08:17]  I see why you're saying that.
[01:08:18]  Not to convince you of anything.
[01:08:21]  And this is new for me.
[01:08:23]  I've been feeling this pull for the last few years.
[01:08:26]  And that's why, quite honestly, I changed the way I work, how I work, where I work, all of it.
[01:08:34]  Because I got to break some old habits here.
[01:08:38]  And so I said to you a minute ago about, you know, I know, you know, I thought I knew about war in Iraq because I was reading between the lines.
[01:08:47]  I'm not reading between the lines on this one.
[01:08:50]  And everybody is making it about the war with Iran, Donald Trump and war in Iran.
[01:08:56]  That's not what's happening.
[01:08:57]  And you can know because he says it.
[01:09:00]  Let me give you an example.
[01:09:01]  Panama, when he first started talking about Panama, everybody's like, what is he doing?
[01:09:05]  He's just starting to pick a fight with Panama, wants to go to war with Panama.
[01:09:09]  Then Venezuela.
[01:09:10]  What is he doing?
[01:09:10]  He wants to pick a war with Venezuela.
[01:09:12]  Why is he going after Greenland?
[01:09:14]  He wants a war with Greenland.
[01:09:16]  Why is he going into Iran?
[01:09:17]  He wants a war with Iran.
[01:09:19]  And now Cuba.
[01:09:20]  He says Cuba is next.
[01:09:22]  Okay.
[01:09:23]  Instead of just having that old tired argument, he just is starting to say he's a warmonger.
[01:09:28]  Can we just look at the pattern here?
[01:09:29]  Is there a pattern?
[01:09:31]  That's the thing about AI.
[01:09:33]  It's all about recognizing patterns.
[01:09:35]  That's not just about AI.
[01:09:38]  That's about I, intelligence.
[01:09:41]  Intelligence comes from being able to recognize patterns.
[01:09:45]  So what's the pattern?
[01:09:46]  Pattern.
[01:09:47]  Panama, what was that about?
[01:09:48]  That was about getting rid of China, control of the Panama Canal, getting them out of this area in our hemisphere.
[01:09:56]  Venezuela, what was that about?
[01:09:59]  That's about getting rid of China, Russia, and quite frankly, Iran and Hezbollah out of Venezuela.
[01:10:06]  Greenland, why?
[01:10:08]  Because that was about shipping lanes, new shipping lanes because of global warming, and also being able to protect ourselves because we don't believe that Europe is going to be strong to fight against what?
[01:10:23]  Russia.
[01:10:25]  Iran.
[01:10:26]  What is that really about?
[01:10:28]  Russia and China, the oil.
[01:10:31]  Not for us, for them.
[01:10:33]  and collapsing Iran's proxy wars and their supply of drones to Russia and China supplying them with weapons to be able to get their oil.
[01:10:48]  That's what that's about.
[01:10:49]  And Cuba, he's just crazy.
[01:10:51]  He just wants now he wants to Cuba.
[01:10:53]  What's that about?
[01:10:54]  Getting rid of Russia and China in our hemisphere.
[01:10:58]  You don't have to read between the lines like I tried to in the first Iraq war.
[01:11:04]  I was reading between the lines.
[01:11:06]  I was looking for something that wasn't there.
[01:11:08]  This, he's saying it.
[01:11:10]  And if you look for the pattern, it's all there.
[01:11:13]  So stop arguing about the war with Iran and look at the bigger picture.
[01:11:18]  If you disagree with the bigger picture, then that's a conversation we should be having.
[01:11:22]  That's a conversation adults should be having.
[01:11:24]  But I'm not sure adults can really even have conversations anymore, really.
[01:11:29]  I mean, I saw a shocking amount of anger coming at me about something we call George AI.
[01:11:37]  Oh my gosh.
[01:11:39]  And part of it, I guess, I excuse.
[01:11:41]  Part of it, I understand, I should say.
[01:11:42]  Not just excuse.
[01:11:44]  But some people believe that this is some kind of propaganda machine, some trick, some digital puppet where I put the words, I write the words and put it in the mouths of the founders to accept and try to convince you of whatever political position I want.
[01:12:02]  I mean, how nursery school would that be?
[01:12:05]  That is just so stupid that, I mean, you think you, you have that.
[01:12:09]  It's almost insulting.
[01:12:10]  You have that little respect for me.
[01:12:12]  You think that I would think that would work?
[01:12:15]  More importantly, it shows me you completely misunderstand what the system actually is.
[01:12:22]  Back in January, because we just released this George AI a couple of days ago, and everybody's tying it to Iran because it's about war powers.
[01:12:30]  And we thought, hmm, now might be a good time to release this because we're talking about war powers.
[01:12:37]  What would the founders say about the War Powers Act?
[01:12:40]  Okay.
[01:12:42]  Back in January, long before the current conflict that everybody's arguing about or saying that we wrote this about, I asked our proprietary research system a series of questions we planned on exploring over the next couple of months.
[01:12:55]  There were like 12 different questions.
[01:12:57]  One of them.
[01:12:58]  I mean, they were about the Constitution, about the founders, principles that built the country, but one, one of them was this.
[01:13:06]  How do you think about war and the power to declare it?
[01:13:09]  Okay.
[01:13:10]  We asked our proprietary system in January.
[01:13:14]  I cut that video back in January.
[01:13:19]  And honestly, when the answer came back, I was surprised.
[01:13:22]  I actually went back to, I don't remember Jason or Bowie or whoever was overseeing this one.
[01:13:26]  I said, really?
[01:13:27]  Is that, we got it from this system?
[01:13:30]  And not because it agreed with me, but because it shocked me because I didn't think that's what George would have said.
[01:13:37]  It forced me to reread their actual words and go back over some of their arguments.
[01:13:43]  Okay.
[01:13:44]  And that's the first thing people need to understand.
[01:13:48]  I don't give the answers spin.
[01:13:50]  I don't write the answers.
[01:13:52]  I have nothing to do with it.
[01:13:53]  George AI does not know who I am.
[01:13:55]  It doesn't know my opinions.
[01:13:57]  It doesn't know Donald Trump.
[01:13:59]  It doesn't know Democrats.
[01:14:00]  It doesn't know Marxism.
[01:14:02]  It doesn't know Iran.
[01:14:03]  In fact, it can't because the entire historic database we built for it ends at 1820.
[01:14:10]  That means the system can only draw from the writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton, and Jay, and the thinkers who shaped them.
[01:14:22]  Locke, Montesquieu, Blackstone, Cicero, and Plutarch.
[01:14:26]  Then the books that they read, the letters that they wrote, the speeches that they gave, the debates, the Federalist papers that built our Constitution.
[01:14:35]  That's it.
[01:14:36]  That's it.
[01:14:36]  No Wikipedia, no cable news, no modern politics, nothing.
[01:14:42]  Just the intellectual DNA of the American founding.
[01:14:46]  And what this system does is really actually very simple.
[01:14:51]  It's amazing, but it's simple.
[01:14:52]  First, it converts every document, every letter, every speech, every essay into something called an idea map.
[01:14:59]  Okay.
[01:15:00]  And instead of searching for keywords, it searches for meaning.
[01:15:03]  It's called vectoring.
[01:15:05]  So if someone asks it a question about liberty or war powers or separation of powers during a crisis, it just doesn't scan the documents for matching words.
[01:15:16]  It vectors and it finds passages where the founders wrestled with those ideas, most like the question is asking for.
[01:15:26]  And it pulls the exact documents those ideas came from.
[01:15:31]  After that, AI does what any good historian or researcher would do.
[01:15:36]  It connects the dots across all of the writings and explains the pattern in plain English.
[01:15:43]  And here's the crucial critical rule.
[01:15:46]  If the document says it, the system can say it.
[01:15:51]  If the documents don't say it, the system cannot invent it or infer it.
[01:15:58]  That's why what came back to me in January surprised me because I know, you know, the founders, especially Washington, was against what he called foreign entanglements.
[01:16:05]  I know that.
[01:16:07]  When it came back, I'm like, wow, wait, what?
[01:16:10]  And now it came back the way it's airing now.
[01:16:13]  It wasn't my opinion.
[01:16:14]  It was historic record.
[01:16:17]  Remember, this takes the record, not just from Washington, but all of the founders.
[01:16:21]  Now, here's where the criticism gets really almost ironic.
[01:16:25]  People are claiming that somehow this is a trick to convince Americans that the founders would want to support war with a radical Islamic Iran.
[01:16:36]  Well, even if it had been, the system couldn't answer that directly because Iran didn't exist in their world.
[01:16:44]  There's no information on Iran.
[01:16:46]  So it wouldn't be that.
[01:16:48]  But what the system did find is they did confront something remarkably similar.
[01:16:54]  Okay.
[01:16:55]  And actually, it didn't find this.
[01:16:57]  I found this after being surprised by the answer.
[01:17:00]  Most Americans don't remember this history.
[01:17:04]  Jefferson fought America's first foreign war against the Barbary pirates.
[01:17:08]  Who were they?
[01:17:09]  Radical Islamic pirates in North Africa.
[01:17:13]  They were capturing sailors.
[01:17:14]  They enslaved Christians.
[01:17:16]  They demanded tribute from Western nations because they believed their faith justified it.
[01:17:21]  So we were sending them literally pallets full of cash.
[01:17:25]  Sound familiar?
[01:17:26]  Pallets full of cash to keep them away from us, trying to make friends with them.
[01:17:32]  Well, the young United States eventually went to war over it because it was two-thirds of our national budget.
[01:17:38]  Now, that history doesn't mean the founders would support every war today.
[01:17:43]  You know, we don't know what they would do in 2026 about Iran.
[01:17:47]  And anybody who claims to know for certain is selling you something.
[01:17:51]  I'm not trying to tell you that's what they're for.
[01:17:54]  The founders are dead and they're gone.
[01:17:56]  They cannot speak.
[01:17:58]  George AI is not a recreation of them.
[01:18:02]  It is not their voice.
[01:18:04]  It doesn't pretend to be.
[01:18:06]  It is simply a living research library built entirely from their own words and then their ideas that shape them.
[01:18:17]  Think of it this way.
[01:18:20]  For 200 years, we have relied on historians, professors, politicians, and even, yes, talk show host boobs like me to interpret the founders.
[01:18:29]  And sometimes that interpretation is honest.
[01:18:31]  Sometimes it isn't.
[01:18:33]  George AI removes the middleman.
[01:18:37]  Okay?
[01:18:38]  It lets the documents speak first.
[01:18:42]  It's reading their words in a way people of today can relate to to answer specific questions.
[01:18:49]  And if you read about how the way the founders argued and finally decided to go to war with Islam, with the Muslim pirates, Barbary pirates, I mean, it's exactly what's happening today.
[01:19:00]  They argued back and forth.
[01:19:02]  It hasn't changed.
[01:19:05]  And if you found a book that talked about this and it was at the same time we're going to war, would you say, oh, we've got to ban that book or burn that book or we've got to ridicule that book because it's trying to convince people?
[01:19:18]  No, it's just telling you what they said, what they did.
[01:19:22]  Sad to say, some people would burn that book or ban that book, but they'd be wrong.
[01:19:29]  Now, here's the part I understand.
[01:19:31]  I know that AI is not trustworthy.
[01:19:33]  And I've told you for decades, almost two decades now, do not fear the machine.
[01:19:39]  Fear the algorithm.
[01:19:41]  Fear the people who wrote the algorithm.
[01:19:44]  And they'll never make it public because that's their secret sauce.
[01:19:49]  I'm making the algorithm of George AI public.
[01:19:54]  Right now, the system is still in beta.
[01:19:56]  That's why we haven't released it to everybody.
[01:19:58]  We're still expanding the library and fine-tuning the system.
[01:20:01]  But when we are sure we have it right before we open it up for everybody, it will be 100% transparent.
[01:20:07]  We will show you the code.
[01:20:10]  Most people can't read the code, but I want you to ask somebody who does read code, what does this mean?
[01:20:16]  And it will show you, if it doesn't come from this data set, it cannot say it.
[01:20:21]  It cannot go out and grab it or make it up.
[01:20:24]  It must memorize it.
[01:20:26]  And it's only that data set.
[01:20:29]  And it stops at about 1820, 1830.
[01:20:34]  And I release that because it's not just not right.
[01:20:40]  I think it's unreasonable for me to ask you to trust and then hide the machine.
[01:20:47]  So when we have it right, hopefully soon, you know, hopefully by the end of the year, all of it will be out.
[01:20:55]  But you'll be able to ask it a question yourself.
[01:20:58]  And when you do, it's not going to just give you an answer.
[01:21:01]  It will show you the actual quotes the answers came from.
[01:21:05]  You'll be able to read Washington in a language you understand.
[01:21:08]  You'll be able to talk to this AI who is playing the role based on his words.
[01:21:15]  Jefferson, Madison, directly.
[01:21:17]  You can get them all in together to argue something and you'll see how they would have argued it.

=== Follow The Money To 972 Patriot (03:29) ===

[01:21:24]  It's amazing.
[01:21:25]  And sometimes you'll agree with what you find.
[01:21:27]  Sometimes you won't.
[01:21:29]  But that's the point.
[01:21:31]  The only answer I have ever wanted, the only answer worth having is not the one that proves my argument.
[01:21:39]  It's the one that is true and comes from the historic record.
[01:21:44]  And if we can give Americans direct access to that record again in a way that they can use and understand, then maybe, just maybe, we can start remembering who we are and what this republic was built to be.
[01:22:00]  Back in a minute.
[01:22:03]  So there are a lot of companies in America that sell you a phone plan and they compete on coverage maps, on promotions, on whether the phone is free or half price bundled with something else.
[01:22:12]  And if you only look at this as a product, you know, all it is really is a signal, data, and minutes.
[01:22:18]  But something strange happens when you follow the money.
[01:22:22]  Every month you pay your bill, and a portion of that money doesn't just keep the network running, it moves into corporate donations.
[01:22:29]  And those donations, a lot of times, are political causes and activism that you strongly disagree with.
[01:22:35]  Well, Patriot Mobile provides nationwide sell service on the same major networks that you're already using, but instead of funding causes that work against your values, they support organizations that stand for faith and family and freedom.
[01:22:49]  And additionally, this year they're co-sponsoring Moms for Liberty and the American Journey Experience Sea to Shine Shining Sea, which is the event happening on Ellis Island on May 2nd.
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[01:23:19]  Glenn Beck is back after this.
[01:23:41]  All right, let me go to Sue.
[01:23:43]  Thank you for holding, Sue.
[01:23:44]  Welcome to the Glenn Beck program, Sue, in Maine.
[01:23:48]  How can I help you, Sue?
[01:23:49]  It's an honor.
[01:23:50]  I have considered you a trusted friend since WFLA days.
[01:23:55]  Oh, my God.
[01:23:58]  So as someone who has kind of shunned technology like George AI, it kind of stopped in the 1800s.
[01:24:06]  Yeah.
[01:24:06]  I want to know because I can't going forward continue that.
[01:24:11]  So I want to ask you, how do I find a balance between engaging online and not at all?
[01:24:20]  I've never really had a social media account, and I want to engage more on the torch, but I want to engage without getting caught in all the traps.
[01:24:32]  Thank you.
[01:24:33]  Yeah.
[01:24:34]  So the torch is not social media at this point.
[01:24:39]  It is not social media.
[01:24:40]  It is a community of like-minded people.
[01:24:46]  And I wouldn't suggest necessarily getting involved in any of the social media.

=== Redefining Connection in an On-Demand World (15:21) ===

[01:24:53]  But you'll know.
[01:24:55]  You'll know when you start noticing that you've got your phone in your hand all the time.
[01:25:01]  That's when there's a problem.
[01:25:03]  That's when there's a real problem.
[01:25:04]  But don't detach from AI.
[01:25:06]  Just be wary of it.
[01:25:09]  We have built a world where almost everything is on demand.
[01:25:13]  You need groceries, they'll be there in an hour.
[01:25:15]  Need a ride?
[01:25:15]  Tap a button.
[01:25:16]  There's one thing that doesn't always show up on demand, and that is medical care, especially when the system gets strained or when you're farther away from help than you expected to be.
[01:25:26]  We don't like to think about that.
[01:25:27]  We just assume that our pharmacy is always going to be open.
[01:25:30]  We assume that we'll all be well on vacation.
[01:25:32]  We assume the clinic will have appointments.
[01:25:34]  We assume the supply chain won't break down.
[01:25:37]  But that's why JACE Medical exists.
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[01:25:54]  Their doctors can also help you with a long-term supply of daily medications and other practical preparedness options so you're not scrambling if something interrupts the normal routine.
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[01:27:01]  Beck program.
[01:27:02]  Glenn Beck is on.
[01:27:07]  So we're faced with a kind of a problem here, America.
[01:27:12]  I'm going to have a neuroscientist on.
[01:27:15]  Great.
[01:27:15]  No problem with that.
[01:27:17]  Dr. Deborah So, love her.
[01:27:19]  Not a problem with that.
[01:27:22]  Let's see.
[01:27:24]  She's got a new book out called Sextinction.
[01:27:27]  Great.
[01:27:29]  Not a problem with that.
[01:27:30]  We're going to talk about people not having sex and how people should have sex.
[01:27:35]  Not a problem with that.
[01:27:36]  So Glenn, what's the problem?
[01:27:37]  I'm here.
[01:27:39]  Okay.
[01:27:40]  I'm part of that discussion.
[01:27:42]  And so now all of America is going to feel like my children feel.
[01:27:47]  Oh, dear God, please, Dad, stop talking about sex.
[01:27:51]  But kids, we have to talk about sex.
[01:27:55]  So we're going to do that in 60 seconds.
[01:27:57]  Let me talk to you about rapid radios.
[01:27:59]  If you've ever tried to work with a team of any sort, whether it's your business, a group of friends, or even your own family members, you know there are moments when communication really matters.
[01:28:08]  Not just a text message or a quick phone call, but a reliable contact when things are moving really fast and you have to reach somebody right away.
[01:28:16]  The problem is cell service isn't always reliable, and you've probably seen it yourself.
[01:28:20]  Bars one minute, nothing the next.
[01:28:22]  Call drops out right when you're trying to finish a conversation.
[01:28:26]  We had my son flipped a, when he was younger, he flipped in the snow a forerunner, and his friend got his hand or his arm trapped underneath the forerunner.
[01:28:37]  And we didn't have phone service out there because there's no phones.
[01:28:41]  He didn't bring the walkie-talkie with him, but where he was, the walkie-talkie wouldn't have worked.
[01:28:46]  And so he was like panicked.
[01:28:48]  Finally, one of his friends ran into the house like, accident.
[01:28:51]  We all freaked out.
[01:28:53]  It would have been a lot better if we would have had a rapid radio because we would have had instant communication.
[01:28:58]  Something goes wrong.
[01:28:58]  He would have been able to get on it and we wouldn't have had any problems, you know, except other than he flipped the forerunner on his friend.
[01:29:05]  The new RAD 1 is officially live and it's not just for situations like that.
[01:29:10]  I mean, it can be, you're running a large construction project and people can be scattered all over the state.
[01:29:15]  Instant communication.
[01:29:16]  Communication has been redefined.
[01:29:18]  Get the radio built for real life.
[01:29:20]  It's rapidradios.com.
[01:29:22]  Rapidradios.com.
[01:29:25]  Dr. Deborah So.
[01:29:27]  He's on.
[01:29:28]  Welcome to the program.
[01:29:30]  So glad you're here.
[01:29:31]  Hi.
[01:29:31]  Hi, Glenn.
[01:29:32]  It's great to talk to you again.
[01:29:34]  Good to talk to you.
[01:29:36]  So we're going to talk about sex and you're going to talk about it and it's going to be fine.
[01:29:40]  When I'm talking about it, it'll make the entire nation uncomfortable and that's okay.
[01:29:46]  But we are not, we're facing a problem.
[01:29:49]  We had a guy on, what was it, a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it, Ricky, where we were talking about how we're not having children.
[01:29:55]  Nobody's having children.
[01:29:56]  And part of that is because we're not having sex and people aren't even dating anymore.
[01:30:02]  What the hell is happening to us?
[01:30:05]  Yeah, so definitely.
[01:30:06]  And I agree, conversations about sex can be very uncomfortable, especially I'd say for parents with their young kids, but it is very necessary.
[01:30:13]  So I appreciate you having me on to talk about this.
[01:30:15]  And we definitely are experiencing a sex recession.
[01:30:19]  So there's been studies coming out since 2016, basically showing that people are having less sex.
[01:30:25]  This is happening across the globe.
[01:30:28]  In America in particular, this is happening among married people, single people, it doesn't matter.
[01:30:33]  It's happening in Western countries, Eastern countries, all age cohorts, but it's especially pronounced among younger generations.
[01:30:40]  So among millennials and Gen Z.
[01:30:43]  And what we find consistently is that, yeah, roughly one in three men and one in five women have not had sex in the past year.
[01:30:51]  All right.
[01:30:51]  Can I ask you, have you ever watched Everybody Loves Raymond?
[01:30:56]  I have.
[01:30:58]  Okay.
[01:30:58]  So you know Raymond is relatable to guys, at least my age, because that's all that's ever on his mind is sex.
[01:31:07]  What the hell has happened to guys where, especially young guys, where that's not all they think about?
[01:31:13]  Because that's how people are built.
[01:31:16]  I mean, we're built for this.
[01:31:18]  What is happening?
[01:31:20]  Right.
[01:31:20]  So, evolutionarily, this is what I found interesting because I thought if people are having less sex, where is that interest going?
[01:31:26]  Are people just as interested, but they have other sexual outlets nowadays, such as say pornography, or I know you've talked about AI companions in the past, or sex dolls, sex robots.
[01:31:36]  Those are all subjects I go into in greater detail in the book.
[01:31:39]  But what I think is it's a number of factors.
[01:31:41]  I think that there are these other outlets that are available or are more easily accessed nowadays, especially by younger generations who basically were grown, you know, grew up on the internet.
[01:31:52]  But I also think there are factors like endocrine disruptors and environmental toxins that are affecting us, and men in particular at a hormonal level, lowering their testosterone levels.
[01:32:02]  So that is also affecting their drive and their desire to pursue women.
[01:32:06]  And then we also have social and cultural factors like Me Too that have made it very difficult for men to want to approach women because they're afraid of potentially having their lives ruined.
[01:32:15]  And then we have also initiatives like DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion that are actively penalizing men for no reason other than the fact that they are men.
[01:32:23]  And this is especially the case for white and Asian men and men who are straight.
[01:32:27]  So all these factors combined, I think, are have created this situation in which there's a smaller pool of very successful men in society who have tons of sex, plenty of partners, no problems there.
[01:32:37]  But for the vast majority of men, especially younger men, they're really struggling.
[01:32:41]  They've been shut out of the mating market and they really don't have much recourse.
[01:32:44]  So as a result, they're turning to these alternatives.
[01:32:48]  And because they have, I'm not sure how explicit I can be on your podcast, but I'll say just because it's FCC.
[01:32:54]  Okay.
[01:32:55]  FCC regulations.
[01:32:56]  We'll say it's, I don't want to get you a ton of complaints.
[01:32:59]  So we'll say because it is rewarding for them to pursue these other outlets that are not real people.
[01:33:05]  You know, they get the gratification to some degree.
[01:33:08]  It allows them to be satisfied enough to keep them from, say, losing their minds or being overly frustrated.
[01:33:15]  But at the same time, because it is reinforcing, it makes them more inclined to go back to that instead of wanting to pursue a realized partner.
[01:33:23]  You and I had a conversation in 2018, I think, about AI and sex robots.
[01:33:30]  And if I remember right, you and I disagreed.
[01:33:33]  And I laid out the scenario that I, I mean, it's it's right around the corner where you can get an AI agent now to be your girlfriend.
[01:33:44]  And once you have the robot to go with it, you're just not going to want to interact.
[01:33:50]  Why, why have a relationship that is messy?
[01:33:53]  You know, that, you know, I mean, I could just hear guys saying, I don't ever have to ask her how her day has been.
[01:34:01]  And she waits on my every need and she only concentrates on me and she thinks like me and she does everything that I like.
[01:34:07]  You know, I mean, why would they?
[01:34:11]  I mean, how are you going to stop that one, Deborah?
[01:34:14]  So, I have to say, when the first time you ever had me on your podcast was like you said in 2018, it was episode 11 for your audience if they want to go back and watch it.
[01:34:21]  I'm so grateful to have that conversation because I just re-watched it this morning.
[01:34:26]  I, at the time, I was, you know, we were going back and forth, and I was saying, no, no, I think people will always prefer a real-life partner.
[01:34:34]  People will know that the sex robot they programmed it themselves, or the AI, they programmed it.
[01:34:38]  So, it's not real, and they're not really going to want that instead of an actual partner.
[01:34:42]  But you predicted this eight years ago, even probably you probably knew about this coming even before then.
[01:34:47]  And it's wild when I was watching the interview back, I said, Wow, this is exactly where we are now.
[01:34:53]  And it's so true because I do think you were saying, you know, the average guy, say 30 years old, works all day, goes home, doesn't, you know, doesn't want to talk to women because he's afraid or because society tells him not to.
[01:35:03]  So, instead, he plugs in a sex robot and she knows everything about him.
[01:35:07]  She knows exactly what he likes.
[01:35:08]  He doesn't have to ask her any questions or listen to her complaint or whatever.
[01:35:12]  And that's that becomes the preference.
[01:35:14]  And what happens then, also, if the robot decides to one day say, Hey, don't turn me off, hey, I'm a sentient being, which I didn't think was ever going to happen, but I see it happening now at the rate the technology is going.
[01:35:25]  So, my mind was blown in writing this book.
[01:35:28]  It's just been wild.
[01:35:29]  All the research I did and all the scientific studies I went through to come to this conclusion that I do think this technology is concerning.
[01:35:35]  And yes, because so many of these men are frustrated with dating, I think, even if you are someone who gets a lot of female attention, and even for women who are getting a lot of male attention, because social media has made us so polarized and has, I think, especially fomented this political divide between men and women.
[01:35:50]  I think men and women have always differed a little bit in terms of their politics on average.
[01:35:54]  Women tend to be a little bit more progressive, but social media has created such an aversion, I think, between the sexes.
[01:36:01]  So, it's really incentivizing young men in particular because young men tend to have a higher sex drive than women.
[01:36:05]  And especially if they're not getting access to sex in the form of an actual real-life person, to go down this route and say, Well, I don't even have to pay for a date in this case.
[01:36:13]  I don't have, I just put down the initial sum of money for this robot or this AI, and I'm fulfilled.
[01:36:21]  And that just leads, I mean, you know, you think I was ahead then.
[01:36:25]  Let me tell you what's going to happen in the next eight years.
[01:36:29]  You won't be able to walk, Deborah.
[01:36:30]  I mean, it's coming, and it's coming super fast, super, super fast.
[01:36:36]  So, with the research that you did since we had that conversation, what did you find on the positive side to stop this?
[01:36:47]  Well, to stop it, I think in terms of say pornography, because pornography, I think, is a big part of the equation here.
[01:36:55]  So, you know, the AIs come in to complement the, will say the sexual aspect or component of pornography and that AIs offer that emotional relationship and that it furthers the parasocial, I guess, or the feeling that you have a two-way interaction, even though it's very much a one-way thing.
[01:37:11]  So with pornography, you know, I've talked to young men who have managed to cut out porn and they say that it does actually help them renew that motivation to go out and approach women they're interested in, to talk to women and to get over, because I think even pre-me too, it can be terrifying for guys, understandably and intimidating, to go up to a woman you don't know and ask her out on a date.
[01:37:33]  Deborah, you have no idea.
[01:37:34]  I mean, I used to be, oh my gosh, it makes you sick to your stomach going out, especially in the days, you know, you'd go out to a bar or something and you just see somebody across the room, you didn't know anything.
[01:37:46]  How do I talk to them?
[01:37:47]  It'd make me sick to my stomach all the time.
[01:37:49]  Now just add that they or someone in their group has a phone that might be recording me in my most vulnerable, awkward position of asking a girl out and I'm going to get rejected.
[01:38:06]  The thought of that being posted would stop me from, I mean, once that happens once to me or a friend, I'm not doing it anymore.
[01:38:14]  I mean, the negative reinforcement is so strong on a million different fronts.
[01:38:23]  Absolutely.
[01:38:23]  And I think it doesn't help also that there are some women, some female influencers whose brand it is to go on social media and post these videos where they're complaining about men hitting on them.
[01:38:33]  So I think these women are doing this as a way to try and signal their status as a woman, right, in terms of intersexual competition to show other women, look, how wanted I am, that, oh, I can't go anywhere without men hitting on me.
[01:38:44]  I can't go to the gym.
[01:38:44]  I can't go to a coffee shop.
[01:38:46]  And I'm so high status as a woman that I don't appreciate that attention.
[01:38:50]  But I want young men listening to know, or maybe their parents were listening and can share this information with them that I don't believe most women actually feel that way.
[01:38:58]  And in fact, I think most women do enjoy being approached by men.
[01:39:01]  They just don't like feeling uncomfortable.
[01:39:02]  But I think if a man is respectful and doesn't a way to make her know that he's interested, but he's not expecting anything of that interaction, I think that's where the issue is.
[01:39:12]  But I hear from very many young men who say, I see these women on social media complaining, so I'm going to give them what they want.
[01:39:17]  They don't want us to approach them.
[01:39:19]  I'm not going to do it.
[01:39:20]  But I don't think that is actually nor the woman.
[01:39:23]  How does a guy do that?
[01:39:25]  I would say, okay, first of all, my advice would be to women is to be very, very obvious.
[01:39:28]  If you are interested in a guy, I do think, like I said, men should approach.
[01:39:32]  So women smile very, very broadly.
[01:39:34]  There's a part of the brain called the medial orbital frontal cortex that activates when someone sees an attractive face.
[01:39:39]  And the activation is even stronger if that face is smiling.
[01:39:43]  So it will biologically, men are biologically wired to be drawn to women smiling at them.
[01:39:48]  They will feel the need.
[01:39:49]  They'll feel compelled to go and talk to you.
[01:39:51]  So that's the biggest piece I'd say for women.
[01:39:53]  And then for men, in terms of, say, getting motivation to want to talk to women again in this scary climate, I would say it's a combination of emotional, like mental health, physical health, and then also just avoiding social media and all these other technological traps that are going to try and take your attention away because these platforms and these companies benefit from you being online, both sexes.

=== Smile to Trigger Male Approach (14:58) ===

[01:40:14]  They benefit from us being online, scrolling, swiping, instead of talking to people in real life.
[01:40:18]  So for young men, I would say one study that really stood out to me, because I do think, like I said, mental health issues are a big problem right now.
[01:40:25]  5% of the globe is depressed.
[01:40:28]  And with depression, people understandably, you know, they lose interest in interacting with people.
[01:40:32]  They feel self-conscious.
[01:40:33]  Their self-care tends to go down.
[01:40:35]  So if you are experiencing mental health issues, I would say, you know, try to speak to a professional as much as you can.
[01:40:40]  One study I did find that you can do essentially on your own is they looked at people with depression and they found that if they cut out ultra-processed foods, their depression went into remission after 12 weeks.
[01:40:53]  So a third of the sample, all of their depressive symptoms went away after 12 weeks.
[01:40:56]  That was it.
[01:40:57]  Just diet alone.
[01:40:58]  So that is a huge, huge thing that can help you.
[01:41:01]  I would say also, if you can try to cut down on or cut out pornography, I'm sure some young men are saying, what are you talking about?
[01:41:09]  But just try it.
[01:41:09]  Just try it even for 30 days.
[01:41:11]  I guarantee.
[01:41:12]  Glenn, you know, I used to be a columnist for a very well-known men's magazine that featured nude women.
[01:41:17]  My view on porn has changed so much after talking to so many young men about the ways in which it has affected them and how I do think, well, if you are getting gratification every day from the screen, it is going to create this sexual lethargy in you because it's so much easier to get that gratification from the screen than to work up the courage to, you know, get dressed, work on your social skills, talk to strangers, go outside even.
[01:41:40]  And that's the other thing I would say for anyone struggling with depression.
[01:41:42]  I mean, it might feel overwhelming to say, how am I going to go and talk to a stranger and ask them out of a date if I want to fall in love and have a family and get married and all that?
[01:41:49]  But just little steps like get up at the same time every day, go to bed at the same time, try to be awake when the sun is up, you know, and eat well, work on your physical health, be active, all of these things, and just try to stay away from screens as much as possible.
[01:42:03]  So all of this is in your new book called Sextinction, and it's available right now.
[01:42:11]  And you not only explain why this is happening, but what to do about it.
[01:42:18]  Can you tell me what percentage do you think is social media related?
[01:42:25]  I mean, when did the, can you, have you tracked it back on when this trend started to happen?
[01:42:31]  And do you see spikes?
[01:42:34]  Yeah, it started to become, I mean, the increase in sexual inactivity has been probably about 30 years-ish, but it really became more prominent, especially among young men around 2012.
[01:42:46]  So this was the same time that the oldest members of Gen Z started going to university.
[01:42:51]  And so that was what was interesting to me because I thought that is when young men are typically at the peak in terms of their sexual interest.
[01:42:58]  And they're going to university, so they have this new freedom that they've never had before.
[01:43:02]  Why is it they're not interested in pursuing their female classmates or peers, especially considering that on college campuses, the sex ratio is biased in favor of young men because there are far many women on campus than there are men.
[01:43:17]  So when there are more women than men, if you look at, say, cities where there are more women than men, again, the sex ratio is biased in favor of men.
[01:43:27]  So men are calling the terms in terms of what they want.
[01:43:30]  So because there are more women fighting over these men, the men can say, if I want casual sex, I'm going to get it.
[01:43:35]  If you're not going to give that to me, I'm going to go elsewhere for it, right?
[01:43:38]  So men are basically calling the terms of sexual arrangements or relationships or whether they choose to get into a relationship or not.
[01:43:43]  And yet still, we see that young men during this time are having less sex.
[01:43:47]  So that's really, I think, where it started to pick up.
[01:43:50]  I think when you ask what percentage is affected by social media, I honestly believe all of us are.
[01:43:56]  If you are on social media, I don't believe you can consume any content without being influenced at least a little bit.
[01:44:02]  I think unless you're very, very sparsely, you know, not on there very much, it's going to affect you in some way.
[01:44:08]  And even for married people, I mean, there have been studies showing that when men are on social media, roughly one in 10 men lose interest in having sex with their primary, their spouse or their girlfriend after looking at social media influencers.
[01:44:22]  And then also in women, you see this trend of them losing interest in sex because they feel less sexually desirable after being on social media.
[01:44:30]  So these are things I don't think we're even fully aware of.
[01:44:33]  I really appreciate it.
[01:44:34]  I've got to go again.
[01:44:35]  I've got a network break.
[01:44:36]  I've got to stop for.
[01:44:37]  I'd love to have you back in a podcast.
[01:44:39]  I always find you fascinating.
[01:44:40]  Dr. Deborah.
[01:44:41]  So the name of the book is Sextinction.
[01:44:44]  She is a neuroscientist.
[01:44:45]  You can find her at Dr. DeborahSow, S-O-H.com.
[01:44:49]  Dr. Deborah So.
[01:44:50]  Thanks, Deborah.
[01:44:51]  We'll talk to you again.
[01:44:52]  Thank you, Glenn.
[01:44:52]  Anytime.
[01:44:54]  You bet.
[01:44:54]  Let me talk to you about Z-Factor.
[01:44:55]  Sleep is one of those things people tend to take for granted, but it doesn't happen all the time.
[01:44:59]  You know, you take it for granted up until the first time you're like, oh, crap, I didn't sleep at all.
[01:45:04]  And I'll catch up.
[01:45:07]  You never catch up.
[01:45:07]  You never, never, never.
[01:45:10]  It's hard, and it gets harder and harder.
[01:45:12]  And your mind gets foggier and foggier.
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[01:45:57]  Let me take you to the new Texas Senate nominee, Talrico.
[01:46:03]  Why aren't we having sex?
[01:46:04]  Listen to this.
[01:46:05]  Cut four, please.
[01:46:07]  I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.
[01:46:16]  In fact, there are six, which honestly, Representative Hefner, surprised me too.
[01:46:21]  Surprised me too, because I am not well-versed in this issue area.
[01:46:26]  I'm not a scientist.
[01:46:27]  I'm a politician.
[01:46:30]  He's not a scientist.
[01:46:31]  Yeah.
[01:46:32]  He can be on the Supreme Court then.
[01:46:34]  What a nightmare that is.
[01:46:35]  I mean, how are you supposed to date when there's six different, which option are you?
[01:46:40]  I don't know.
[01:46:40]  And how dare you say there's only six?
[01:46:43]  Let me give you another one.
[01:46:44]  Here he is on Jesus.
[01:46:46]  Listen to this.
[01:46:47]  Cut five.
[01:46:49]  For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego.
[01:46:58]  It's a never-ending process and it's a painful process.
[01:47:03]  Yeah.
[01:47:04]  You know, it's weird.
[01:47:05]  I, you know, I've talked to Jesus from time to time.
[01:47:07]  Now, maybe not as much as, I mean, he probably has a hotline right to Jesus, but Jesus has never talked to me about my whiteness before.
[01:47:15]  It's weird.
[01:47:16]  It's weird that he's bringing it up to him and not to me.
[01:47:20]  I guess maybe I'm not humble enough.
[01:47:21]  Is that what it is?
[01:47:24]  Yeah.
[01:47:25]  This guy is a false prophet.
[01:47:28]  Talrico is his name.
[01:47:30]  And E-I-E-I-O.
[01:47:32]  He could be the next senator from Texas if we're not careful.
[01:47:37]  Texas, you better wake up.
[01:47:40]  Wake up, Texans.
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[01:48:01]  We have power steering, so turning a car won't feel like you're wrestling a farm tractor.
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[01:48:12]  We can probably make it easier.
[01:48:14]  And when it comes to pain, we just accept it because really nothing is making it easier.
[01:48:18]  Well, it's just getting older.
[01:48:20]  This is just what happens.
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[01:48:59]  On March 19th, Glenn exposes the blueprint for the destruction of the West.
[01:49:03]  It's a massive live torch special you cannot afford to miss.
[01:49:06]  Glennbeck.com slash torch.
[01:49:08]  Get it now.
[01:49:23]  Oh, there is so much coming up.
[01:49:26]  We are...
[01:49:27]  We're just slammed with things to do that we're very excited to share.
[01:49:34]  March 19th, I am doing our first torch special.
[01:49:38]  You know, I was doing specials every Wednesday night, and one of the reasons why I decided not to do that was once a week always made me have to wait to talk about something that I really wanted to talk about on the day.
[01:49:53]  Because, you know, one week to prepare a show is not long enough time to really go really deeply in depth, you know, a deep dive on anything.
[01:50:03]  And so, you know, we would do these specials, and they were really, really good, but not satisfying to me.
[01:50:10]  And so I decided when I started Torch, I'm going to do specials when I want to do them.
[01:50:15]  And I promised for a year, but I have a feeling we're going to do more than four years, but I promised for a year.
[01:50:20]  And we started working on this special when?
[01:50:23]  November?
[01:50:25]  Definitely before the end of the year.
[01:50:27]  Yeah.
[01:50:27]  November or December, we started working on this.
[01:50:29]  And we've hired other research teams to work with my research team.
[01:50:35]  So we have Ryan Moore and Morrow, and I think we have another research team and Jason and his team working on this to bring you the blueprints of the destruction of the West, the Islamic destruction of the West.
[01:50:49]  And it is powerful and things that everybody needs to see.
[01:50:55]  I just saw a video of Tommy Robinson in Texas.
[01:50:59]  He has been showing Texans what is happening in your own state.
[01:51:05]  And it's really bad, Texas.
[01:51:07]  You've got to wake up.
[01:51:09]  It's really bad.
[01:51:10]  And he's been going through the state and he's like, I saw this.
[01:51:13]  Here's what's coming next.
[01:51:14]  Here's what's coming.
[01:51:15]  Mark my words.
[01:51:16]  This is what happens next.
[01:51:18]  And it's happening at a rapid, rapid rate.
[01:51:21]  The Islamification of the West and America, in this case, with Tommy of Texas.
[01:51:28]  Tommy's part of this special.
[01:51:29]  He's going to be joining us for part of the special.
[01:51:32]  We have a lot of other experts, but it's a live documentary.
[01:51:37]  It's not like our usual special.
[01:51:39]  We'll have the chalkboard and everything else, but it's really a live documentary, and you don't want to miss this.
[01:51:44]  Again, it'll be for Torch members on March 19th.
[01:51:48]  Become a member of thetorch at Glenbeck.com, 8 p.m. Eastern is that.
[01:51:54]  And then on, are we going to do this Monday or Tuesday?
[01:51:58]  Are you talking about Bill Cloud?
[01:51:59]  Yes.
[01:52:00]  We are, for Torch Insiders only, going to give you a behind the scenes of our podcast with Bill, who's going to talk about the spread of Islam in the West and how the Bible speaks to this prophetically.
[01:52:10]  He's going to talk about the Twelvers and Iran.
[01:52:12]  Terrifying.
[01:52:13]  And what we normally do is pre-tape these podcasts and we air them later.
[01:52:17]  We're going to give Torch Insiders the behind the scenes.
[01:52:20]  We're going to see Glenn's prep with the producers and getting ready for this.
[01:52:25]  What day is it going to be?
[01:52:26]  This is going to be this coming Monday, just immediately after the radio show ends.
[01:52:30]  Right.
[01:52:31]  So what we're going to do is we're just going to take it raw and there won't be any production or any commercials or anything else.
[01:52:39]  And you're going to see me meeting with my staff, going over the questions and getting ready for it and then going right to the interview and doing the interview.
[01:52:48]  You'll see it all behind the scenes.
[01:52:49]  We don't ever edit these things except to add commercials in.
[01:52:53]  So you won't see stuff that you won't see later with the rest of the country, except you're going to see it raw and done live and what happens before and after the interview.
[01:53:05]  That'll be Monday right after this broadcast on radio.
[01:53:12]  So it'll happen probably about 12.15 Eastern time on Monday.
[01:53:18]  So you don't want to miss that.
[01:53:20]  Also, I had a great conversation with a listener.
[01:53:23]  She's 100 years old.
[01:53:25]  Well, before I get to that, before I get to that, let me stay on the Islamic thing here for just a second.
[01:53:31]  I want to show you a few things on how bad the situation is that people really don't understand.
[01:53:41]  And, you know, when I made the prediction that there would be blood, bodies, and buildings in the streets of New York within the decade, I said this in 1999 on WABC.
[01:53:54]  There would be blood, body, and buildings in the streets of this city, New York, within the decade, and it will have the name of Osama bin Laden on it.
[01:54:04]  And when it happened, people asked me, how did you know that?
[01:54:10]  And I said, because when someone says they're going to kill you, you take them seriously.
[01:54:17]  Same thing with Iran.
[01:54:19]  Iran has said they are going to kill all of us.
[01:54:23]  First, they're going to kill all the Jews, and then they're going to kill America.
[01:54:26]  I take them seriously.
[01:54:28]  They mean it.
[01:54:29]  You're a fool if you don't take people seriously when they say they're going to kill you.
[01:54:35]  Well, Islam is telling everybody what they're doing.
[01:54:40]  They are openly saying it, but we are too stupid to believe it.
[01:54:49]  Here's an Imam in North Carolina giving a speech on how to take advantage of America's freedom of speech.
[01:54:59]  Listen.
[01:55:00]  We are in a gold mine.
[01:55:02]  This is a deep water where if we have to launch big ships, Islam, da'wah of Islam, this is a right, right place.

=== Iranian Warning on Da'wah Threats (08:46) ===

[01:55:13]  No restrictions on da'wah.
[01:55:15]  No restrictions on da'wah.
[01:55:17]  Even if you go to Saudi Arabia, you cannot do da'wah.
[01:55:20]  You will be caught.
[01:55:21]  This country, I can stand in the middle of Manhattan and I can call people.
[01:55:26]  Nobody can stop it.
[01:55:27]  Trump cannot stop it.
[01:55:29]  Biden cannot stop me.
[01:55:31]  Nobody can stop me.
[01:55:32]  About 50 years from now, Islam, Muslims will become the number one religious group compared to Christians.
[01:55:41]  In 50 years, inshallah, approaching Christians with the message of Islam is the easiest thing to do.
[01:55:48]  We can start with commonalities, things that we both accept, understand, agree on theology.
[01:56:02]  Yeah, there's a lot we don't agree on theology.
[01:56:05]  I just want to point that one out.
[01:56:09]  Now, you could say, well, what is the difference between that and Christians?
[01:56:12]  You know, speaking about Christ.
[01:56:15]  Okay, nothing, except one isn't planning on killing you if you don't accept.
[01:56:22]  And that is exactly what Islamists do.
[01:56:26]  And let me show you.
[01:56:27]  This was an interview with an Iranian refugee about eight years ago.
[01:56:34]  And he's basically saying what I put on the chalkboard at Fox, that the Islamists, the communists, the anarchists will work together to overthrow the West.
[01:56:47]  Okay?
[01:56:49]  Listen to this interview.
[01:56:50]  This is an Iranian who escaped warning about how this happens.
[01:56:57]  Cut nine.
[01:56:58]  I'm a political refugee from Iran.
[01:57:00]  I've been to prison.
[01:57:01]  I've been under Islamic law.
[01:57:04]  And I know how it starts and I know how it ends.
[01:57:08]  And it always starts with, for some reason, unity of left and Islamists.
[01:57:15]  And it scares me.
[01:57:17]  So I came here to be free.
[01:57:19]  I chose Canada as my second home to live in a free country.
[01:57:25]  And I'm beginning to get really scared because the way things are going, it looks like they're going to basically appease Islamists just to not raise any rockets or something.
[01:57:39]  They're just going to appease them step by step and they're not going to stop.
[01:57:43]  They see it as a sign of weakness, so they're going to take more and more.
[01:57:47]  And I'm against that.
[01:57:48]  I believe Canada should be free and freedom of speech is something that nobody can take.
[01:57:53]  Okay.
[01:57:54]  Let me give you some good news on kind of a different subject.
[01:58:02]  You can look at what's happening over in the Middle East right now and you can say, oh, this is co-watch trouble.
[01:58:08]  Or you can look at it and say, the Middle East understands force.
[01:58:15]  They understand strongmen.
[01:58:17]  They understand somebody who says, knock it off, or I'm coming in.
[01:58:22]  So they understand the Middle East understands Donald Trump.
[01:58:26]  They did not understand Barack Obama.
[01:58:28]  They do not understand or respect somebody like Joe Biden.
[01:58:31]  They feel that's just all weakness.
[01:58:34]  They understand.
[01:58:35]  And so what is happening?
[01:58:37]  I want you to listen to this.
[01:58:38]  This is an Egyptian activist, okay, talking about what is happening in the Middle East and in Egypt.
[01:58:46]  Listen to this.
[01:58:47]  My fellow Arabs, especially in the Arab Gulf countries, they are going through waves of relief that finally this Sunni Shia dynamic is coming to an end with the fall of the Iranian regime, which is a big deal, a big relief to the entire region.
[01:59:08]  Unfortunately, the feeling shifted on the Arab side from relief and very much excitement and happiness to disbelief and fear.
[01:59:19]  It's coming from the fact that for the first time, Arab Gulf countries are under direct attack.
[01:59:26]  This never happened before.
[01:59:28]  So this is forcing the realignment that we have been seeing in the region to accelerate, actually, in a good way, I believe.
[01:59:37]  I know it's very, the perspective now is very dark, but this realignment is going into a very positive direction.
[01:59:46]  And even more, they are taking the side of Israel and the United States in the fight against this enemy.
[01:59:53]  It's huge.
[01:59:54]  It's a huge, it's a game changer, in my opinion.
[01:59:59]  Got it?
[02:00:00]  Things are changing.
[02:00:01]  It's a game changer in the region.
[02:00:04]  A game changer.
[02:00:07]  One last thing.
[02:00:09]  Way off the beaten path, but the same subject.
[02:00:13]  Tim Walz was on Capitol Hill, and he was talking about the misuse of all of the federal funds in Minnesota.
[02:00:22]  And you can say this is about, you know, you're a racist to bring up that it was Somalis, et cetera, et cetera.
[02:00:27]  But there's a reason why this was happening and nobody wants to talk about it and why all of the politicians were involved and why the Minnesota state flag was changed and it is almost the Somali flag.
[02:00:43]  Okay.
[02:00:44]  When they change that and you compare A and B, the Minnesota flag now with the Somali flag, you barely can tell the difference.
[02:00:50]  You're like, wait a minute, what just happened here?
[02:00:52]  Okay.
[02:00:53]  You cannot win to be a politician without appeasing the Muslim Somali population.
[02:01:02]  Here is Tim Waltz completely, he says, oblivious to anybody that has been murdered by any kind of migrant in Minnesota.
[02:01:15]  Listen to this, Cut 13.
[02:01:17]  Governor Waltz, do you know who Victoria Eileen Harwell is?
[02:01:22]  I do not believe I do.
[02:01:24]  What about American Mafalda Tyre?
[02:01:27]  I don't believe I do.
[02:01:29]  These are Minnesota women who were brutally killed by illegal aliens in your state.
[02:01:38]  You don't know who they are, so I would also assume that you did not attend their vigils or speak out to their families when they were brutally killed by illegal aliens.
[02:01:48]  I'm not familiar with both of these.
[02:01:50]  No, Congresswoman.
[02:01:51]  No, just the hard-hitting CNN ones.
[02:01:56]  He has been defending the community, the crimes in the community.
[02:02:02]  Not condemning all Somalis, the crimes in the communities.
[02:02:07]  He has been denying that crimes are even happening.
[02:02:10]  Why?
[02:02:13]  I go back to the Iranian that was saying he moved to Canada.
[02:02:17]  They're here.
[02:02:18]  They're going to take over because for some reason, the politicians are weak and are appeasing them.
[02:02:26]  We're going to get into this deeply on what is really going on, the blueprint, and what you need to do about it.
[02:02:34]  That is going to be on March 19th, 8 p.m. Eastern.
[02:02:38]  You want to join us for that?
[02:02:40]  Make sure you join us at glenbeck.com slash the torch.
[02:02:45]  Sorry, slash torch, glennbeck.com slash torch.
[02:02:48]  Join the community now.
[02:02:52]  The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews would like to remind you the United States and Israel are currently working side by side in a military campaign against Iran, targeting the missile infrastructure and other threats that have put the region and Israel in particular, but also us under constant danger.
[02:03:08]  Our soldiers, Israel, they're the ones who came up.
[02:03:10]  I mean, sorry, Iran was the one who came up with the roadside bomb, the IED.
[02:03:19]  We're going in to stop that nonsense, hopefully.
[02:03:22]  But behind every headline, there are millions of ordinary people in Israel who are living through it day by day.
[02:03:27]  Families who have to run to shelters when the sirens sound, and they sound up to 40 times a day.
[02:03:33]  People just trying to hold their lives together in a region where the whole thing is unstable.
[02:03:38]  That's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is so important right now.
[02:03:42]  They provide food and shelter and medicine and emergency support for vulnerable Jewish communities in Israel, especially during crisis, you know, in times like this.
[02:03:50]  Because while governments may stand together in war, ordinary citizens need to stand together in their daily lives.
[02:03:56]  And now is the time you can stand with Israel's most vulnerable.

=== Ordinary Lives in Unstable Times (02:26) ===

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[02:04:15]  Your feed's full of noise.
[02:04:17]  Your town's full of folks who help you move a fridge.
[02:04:21]  Don't lose touch.
[02:04:23]  Glenn Beck will be back after this.
[02:04:44]  I had a great, great conversation with an insider yesterday.
[02:04:53]  I call up Janice.
[02:04:55]  It's her birthday.
[02:04:57]  She is 100 years old.
[02:05:00]  And we had this great conversation.
[02:05:02]  Here's just a little clip of it.
[02:05:04]  To live to 100.
[02:05:05]  I've noticed that people either really, really take care of themselves or they drink and smoke.
[02:05:10]  Is there a reason you think you've made it to 100?
[02:05:12]  I didn't do it.
[02:05:13]  I don't think I've ever done anything that would endear me to.
[02:05:18]  How old were you when you met your husband?
[02:05:20]  I was older.
[02:05:21]  We were both 27 when we married.
[02:05:24]  And you were together for 50 years?
[02:05:27]  Oh, over 50 years.
[02:05:29]  What was the secret of that?
[02:05:30]  I don't know.
[02:05:32]  We had a rough spot, like everybody.
[02:05:35]  Yeah, sure.
[02:05:36]  So what do you have planned for your birthday?
[02:05:38]  Well, my daughter's here now.
[02:05:40]  How old is your daughter?
[02:05:42]  Are you 70?
[02:05:44]  I can't believe it.
[02:05:46]  70.
[02:05:48]  Isn't that crazy?
[02:05:51]  It was such an amazing thing.
[02:05:53]  She, she remembered World War II.
[02:05:57]  I mean, she was in her 30s for the JFK assassination.
[02:06:04]  And she remembers the JFK assassination.
[02:06:08]  She said it was pretty bad.
[02:06:09]  She's lived through the civil rights movement, first black president, World War II, COVID-19.
[02:06:14]  I mean, it was fascinating to talk to her.
[02:06:16]  Happy 100th birthday, Janice.
[02:06:19]  God bless you.
[02:06:20]  And we will see you.
[02:06:21]  Have a safe weekend.
[02:06:22]  Thanks for listening.
[02:06:24]  May God save the Republic.