Glenn Beck: REAL Answers & REAL Drinks | YES or NO
In this special episode of YES or NO, Michael Knowles is joined by the legendary Glenn Beck for a no-holds-barred session of rapid-fire questions, thought-provoking debates, and plenty of laughs. With real answers and real drinks on the table, Glenn tackles everything from politics and culture to personal insights and unexpected hypotheticals.
Will Glenn stick to simple "yes" or "no" answers, or will he break under the pressure? Pour yourself a drink and find out in this unforgettable episode!
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The race card is more useful than an Ivy League degree.
You're one of those really, really educated...
Because I'm like a bus driver, okay?
You're talking to Ralph Crampon here.
I have no idea.
It's not noon yet, and the producers want me to drink.
They want me to drink with a man who doesn't drink.
It seems like they are setting me up for failure, which is why I have my Topo Chico sitting across...
And I have Jack Daniels.
As an alcoholic, I thought this was wrong, but...
Maybe it'll help the game.
I don't know.
Glenn, thank you for being here.
Michael, good to see you.
Do you know the rules of the game?
I think so.
Okay, now you have to answer how you think I would answer.
I will let my...
Well, I have to answer in Latin.
And it has to be in Latin.
In Latin, okay.
If not Aramaic.
I will let my hair go gray.
Yes.
So then you move my cup, I'll just move it to yes.
Of course.
Of course.
I actually am looking forward to the gray.
No, don't.
Don't.
Okay, because my grandfather had white hair.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay?
And, I mean, he looked, I mean, it really looked great on him.
Yeah.
And I wanted my hair to go gray.
It's white like his.
It just went straight white.
Straight white.
Yeah.
I look like I'm a thousand years old.
Don't.
Everybody in my family, my sisters were white by 35. And I'm like, why am I not white?
It's cool if you're young.
But once you get old enough to have white hair, you're like, that doesn't work.
That's a fair point.
Because I thought just a little of that Mitt Romney touchy gray.
Romney and I have disagreements.
But that little touchy gray can look good.
But I guess if the gray...
It's too immersive.
You might regret it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
No, when it turns what?
When you begin to look like you're a million years old, that's when...
Oh, you know what?
He could be Santa.
I think he's immortal because he's got to be a thousand.
Yeah.
All right.
You're up.
The red heifers will be sacrificed by the end of next year.
So, we're not talking about the hypothetical red heifer.
We're talking about the ones that are in Israel right now.
Yeah.
Okay.
Wrong.
Really?
If you would have asked me before the election, I would have said...
Absolutely.
But I think God gave us a little more time.
I think Jesus is coming maybe in my lifetime, but look at my hair.
It's probably wrong.
It could be the fourth millennium.
Yeah, it could be.
But I think this has given us a little more time.
However, they are discovering things in the city of David now that would lead you to believe, oh, the time might be coming very soon.
Okay.
Third temple stuff.
I assumed you would be expecting, you know, the cataclysm, especially looking all around us, but your point on the election is a good one.
I haven't been optimistic, Michael, ever.
Okay, ever.
I think I came out of my mom, you know, screaming, not because, you know, I'm old and stuff.
I'm like, we're doomed!
But God's not done.
He's not neutral.
In the affairs of man.
Yeah.
And he's not done with us.
Not saying that he trusts us.
Yeah.
I think what he saw was, okay, there are enough of you, and maybe let's see if the rest of you will actually do what you're supposed to do.
He gave us more time.
I agree.
I agree.
People say, are we in the end times?
And I say, well, look, someone's going to be alive in the end times.
Yes.
It could be.
Why not?
Why not us?
But if I had to bet money...
I agree with you.
Yeah.
Okay.
In 2024, the race card is more useful than an Ivy League degree.
2022?
2024. So this year.
You're one of those really, really educated...
Because I'm like a bus driver, okay?
You're talking to Ralph Crampton here.
I have no idea about anything.
You're saying I'm educated, really handsome.
No, don't include that.
But...
I would say that you would say yes to that.
I would say no.
Actually, when you asked the clarification, 2022, I might have said yes.
I think BLM is totally done.
Did you think that before the election?
No.
No, no, no.
I'm saying 2024. You're only saying two months.
I'm saying the whole year.
Wow, okay.
You're right.
Do I have to round up?
Do I have to round down?
Yes.
I rounded to 12. You know, when you have two out of 12, you don't round up.
I had common core math when I was in college.
Even when they say the Ivy League degree, is it useful?
If you mean, is it useful to learn philosophy?
Probably not.
Is it useful even to learn some hard skill?
Actually, certainly not.
But today, is it still useful?
Do the liberal elites still use the credential system that they built?
I think so.
I think they do.
Even for me?
No, seriously.
I mean, I went to Yale, but I was only one semester.
If I had that degree, would it be useful for me?
For a conservative, they would actually try to disavow you and take your diploma away from you?
Right.
Or if I'm somebody who just really disagrees with them.
So doesn't that lead you to believe that it's, I'm right, you're wrong about your opinion?
You're saying that the race card is more useful?
Yeah, in 10 of the 12 months, yes.
That's what I think you believe.
Well, in 10 of the 12 months, or in like 9 of the 12 months, Trump was going to lose the election.
Right.
So it was still more useful.
But all that matters is how it turns out in the end.
Wow.
Do I get my point?
I think he's cheating.
Hold on.
All right.
I think he's cheating.
Your poll.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
History will look back and say this election was the most consequential of the last 100 years.
Wait, no, I'm answering for you.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Hold on, hold on now.
Let me see.
Am I the kind of guy that would move the cup closer to you to keep the poison away?
Are you Sicilian?
Okay, so you say yes, but...
No, I thought...
You thought I would say yes?
Yes.
Okay.
See, this is the problem with this game, is the rules, they're very confusing.
Only you, the one who's in charge of the game.
I know.
I ignore responsibility.
The buck does not stop here.
I think you...
You think I would say yes.
Yes.
But I have to figure out what you would say.
And I think you would say yes.
Well, now...
I'm trying to think of a counter-example.
Now let's try...
Drink your drink.
See if you can handle the Iocane powder.
I've spent years working up an immunity.
Yeah, I think it is.
In the last 100 years, remember, that starts with Coolidge, and you miss Wilson, which I think Wilson was the most.
If it were 120 years or something, would you say Wilson was more consequential then?
Trump's second.
If I'm rounding down, yes.
If I'm rounding up to what I think he's going to do, no.
Touche.
That's a great point.
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When conservatives wear glasses...
Hold on, let me, before I... Yeah.
Right.
Gosh, you're so much smarter now.
Stop it.
Come on.
I know, vaguely lesbian, but that's, you know...
When conservatives wear glasses, it makes them appear more liberal.
When conservatives wear glasses...
See, you know this about me.
I'm a vision guy more than anything else.
My eyes are weird for a radio guy.
I think you could tell their political stance based on the style of their glasses.
Not just glasses.
What about this style?
That would say to me, you're conservative.
It would.
This is the secret right wing.
Yeah, that's the secret code.
You can trust him.
I have noticed this, like I'll be at events.
There was a guy who came up to me, you know, a kind of conservative figure.
He says, ah, Michael, good.
You're wearing the far right glass frames too.
I said, yeah, of course.
But the weirder they get, the more transparent they are, or colorful they are, the more, and worse.
Easier to spot on a woman than a man.
Yes, yes.
So you, because Shapiro, years ago, told me I had to get rid of the glasses because they made me look like a huge lip.
Different glasses, but not all that.
A huge what?
A huge lip.
He thought they made me look like a big...
So you don't, you think I could pull it off?
George Will.
George Will?
True, yeah, that's true.
You know?
Yeah, you're fine.
Okay, because the examples he gave were Rachel Maddow, my doppelganger.
Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell.
How about me?
I wear glasses most of the time.
And you wear, like, kind of cool, like, you know, I do it.
I do it to confuse them.
I walk into a room and if they don't know me, they're like, he's with us.
Nope.
It's like cat lovers.
They think my cat loves me.
No, they don't.
They're using you for food and shelter.
I just love the idea of Glenn Beck walking into a room full of liberals with Groucho glasses on.
They'll never catch me!
Alright, you're up.
And my glasses are off.
I know how to answer this with one person.
Nicotine is beneficial for you.
Is nicotine beneficial?
What would you say?
Yeah, hold on.
You're twitching, but...
I've offered you cigars, and you haven't accepted, but you used to like cigars.
Yes.
I don't gain powder again.
But you're...
I don't want to be telling tales out of school.
I believe the reason you quit cigars is because you said your wife didn't want to kiss you after cigars, which is very harmful, so I say no.
But I'm not for it.
You're not for it.
I'm rounding up.
No, you're right.
Currently, AI is the greatest threat to the way of life, to our way of life.
Calculating.
Absolutely true.
Yes.
People don't even know.
I've been talking about AI, AGI, and ASI. Since the 90s.
And everybody was like, they're living in a science fiction world.
And I'm like, by 2030?
What is ASI? AGI is Artificial General Intelligence.
Yes.
Which is us.
We're not artificial.
We're a general intelligence being.
Meaning we can do a little of everything.
I can play this game.
I can play chess.
We're at AI. I'm good at this game, but I can't play chess.
ASI is artificial superintelligence.
Some people say it will never come.
I say we're very close to AGI within maybe the next 18 months.
And I believe that ASI comes maybe the next day.
Does ASI need...
Oh, you're saying once we get AGI, at that point you flick the switch.
Yeah, some people say we'll never get there.
I believe we'll get there overnight.
Do you need quantum computing or something to get ASI? No, you just need access to information.
This is why they're building nuclear power plants for the first time ever.
You know why?
Because AI needs it.
The government needs it.
The people who are looking at quantum computing need it.
We have so much energy usage for...
AI. We have to have nuclear power.
But wait, I thought it was so dangerous, people in California.
So once you have that and once it can teach itself, which it already can, you can't understand its language and how it's working.
We don't.
Once you get to artificial general intelligence and it can think like this.
It will teach itself so rapidly, it will outthink every brain on the planet combined like that.
And we won't understand it.
That's when it becomes our God.
Because, how are you going to argue?
Who are you to argue against the AI? We're at the point right now that everybody said was crazy.
It'll never happen.
They said...
15 years ago.
There's coming a time, quickly, before 2030, where people will walk in to their doctor and their doctor will say, you have cancer and we need to do this treatment.
Yeah, yeah.
What did the AI say?
Okay?
Doctors, because AI will be able to consume all.
Yeah, yeah.
All of it.
It can already.
It can.
I think it was Grok.
I have friends who've uploaded medical records.
And Grok was better than their doctors.
It is.
It is.
Because it's current, and it can look at all records and have the ability to crunch it.
Your doctor can't.
I assumed the nuclear power plants were for the crypto coins.
I thought it was like, you know, Dogecoin, all the really important stores of wealth in America, but no.
Did you really think it was for artificial coins?
No, it's all intelligence.
Wow.
Okay.
Last one.
And if we don't...
Let me just say this, because I believe it's the biggest danger in the world.
Besides the next 30 days until we get to the election.
There's lots of them on the table.
Get the guy into the inauguration.
But we're at a turning point.
In fact, it just happened this week where they now say, we can download you.
Now, in 2000...
Five.
I talked to Ray Kurzweil, who is...
Yeah, yeah.
And he said, off the air.
You just have to live till 2030. And he said, keep healthy until 2030. And I said, why?
And he said, 2030 is the tipping point.
There will be no death.
And I said, you think AI is going to be able to cure all disease and...
Unlock the secrets of the body to keep the body.
He's like, no, no, no, the body's just a shell.
We'll be able to download you.
And I said, Ray, can we just talk about this for a second?
Yeah.
What's up here is not who I am.
Right.
Yes, it is.
Well, okay, we disagree on that.
Yeah.
And if you don't get this...
But you only get this.
It's going to go wrong.
Yeah.
And he's like, but we can download everything.
You're just, you're a map.
And we can reproduce that all the time.
I said, Ray, what happens if grandma or grandpa is starting to cost the state a lot of money?
Yeah.
You've now taken away death.
So, don't worry.
Grandma will be with you forever.
Bad.
And that's here.
It was just announced this week.
That they can now make you live forever by downloading you.
I actually talked to one of these super advanced Android robot things one time.
I haven't...
I'll leave that as a cliffhanger for people, but I had...
And it's very spooky, because all these people are so intelligent who are working on this.
Ray Kurzweil's a genius.
Yeah, genius.
But then he says something dumb like that, and you say, like, hey, Mr. Kurzweil, have you heard of The Soul?
Are you aware that substances have forms?
He doesn't believe in anything metaphysical.
He's dealing in a different...
That's what scares me.
All these guys are.
When you cut that out...
Michael, I can think one thing, but God can move upon me and totally change my thinking.
Now, if I cut the possibility...
Because I don't have a soul.
Of God talking to me.
I'm going to decay.
I'm going to start going down darker and darker paths.
That's what you're preserving.
A very dark grandma at some point.
I love this idea.
Glenn, Glenn, you're not going to believe it.
Death is going to be conquered.
I got a secret for you.
It's not.
It's not.
There was a thing like 2,000 years ago that happened.
That one did.
Last one.
Ben Shapiro has an okay radio voice.
Oh, you have to guess my answer?
No, you have to guess mine.
No, is this?
I guessed your answer on AI. But I also want to guess your answer.
You guessed mine.
Has an okay radio voice.
Okay, before I give you my answer, I'll just guess yours.
You want me to explain why I think that?
He doesn't have an okay radio voice.
Because he has a terrible radio voice.
He has told me that himself.
One time I said to Ben, I said, Ben...
Your show gets more viewers than mine does.
And I'm offended by this because I think I have a much nicer voice.
And I think it's deeper and more soothing.
That's why, actually.
Because I have this voice that's really fast.
And it keeps people on the edge of their seats.
And they want to know what's going to happen next.
You're right.
I agree.
So, well, I like Ben so much that I would have said yes if I would have caved into peer pressure.
But alas, there it is.
It's sitting there.
You can't.
Glenn, I think I'm going to choose to say I won.
I'm going to identify as having won.
Thank you for coming on, whatever this is.
Thank you.
I identify you as a loser in this game, at least.
I love you, Michael.
Thank you.
You do a lot of good.
Stop it.
Come on, get out of here.
I don't want to get all sincere and nice and sentimental at the end.
