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And the Democratic Socialists of America, remember, it was Socialists of America because nobody wanted to say they were communists. And even with the socialists, they were like, well, no, not really. This is 20 years ago. Now they are all in.

They are now doing a campaign, Free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners. So the guy that, what was it, last week, went and shot two Jews on the street who were just leaving a symposium on how they could help the people of Gaza. They come out, and this guy shoots them.

what is going to be a husband and a wife a week later, shoots this couple cold blood in the street and then says, free Palestine. And he's fine with it. He has no problem. Yeah, I did it. In fact, as she was crawling away, trying to get away, he takes the time because he's out of bullets. He reloads his gun so he can finish the job. This guy's a monster, just a monster. So what is happening now?

Well, the Democratic Socialist of America, you know, think he's pretty neat. So in addition to his activism on Israel, he is also in favor of, and I'm quoting, the genocide of white people. Let me quote him here. LOL, you'd probably have to actually genocide white people to make this a normal country.

like even a very targeted and selective rehabilitation program would probably lead to the lifetime imprisonment of tens of millions of white people. The liberation caucus wrote excellent statement and we are, we are proud to add our name to the free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners campaign. The democratic socialists, um,

This holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines inside the U.S., an entity that is equal party in all crimes committed by the Zionists. There must be consequences for genocidal Zionist imperialism, and those consequences are righteous. Do you see what's happening, Democrats?

Now, you can say all you want, well, I'm not a democratic socialist. I'm not a Maoist. You have Maoists in your ranks. And I don't know if you know this, but they don't always play by the rules. In fact, what they do is they gain control. And if, well, let me ask you, how many people have a differing opinion on anything now in the Democratic Party? What happened to those people? They were run out of the party.

Okay, and that's when you were still denying that they were democratic socialists in your party that, you know, and radical revolutionaries that were running the party. You were still in denial of that. Now they were chased out. Now you have people coming right out and saying, yeah, you'd probably have to round up, you know, tens of millions of white people and rehabilitate or just genocide them to make this a decent country.

And that guy has a Democratic Socialist standing with him and saying he's a political prisoner for shooting two people in the streets. And these are the same people in your own party that are now fine with a shooting of a CEO in the streets. Do you see what's happening? Do you see how you're going to lose control of this? I think you already have. But for anybody who thinks, you know, Mao is neat and

you might want to crack a book. To his followers, this guy is a revolutionary god, a beacon of hope for a classless utopia. Yeah, really? Really? How about that river of blood that he set loose in China? The millions of lives drowned in that blood in the name of his ideology. This is...

This is not just history, the Mao history, the communist history. This isn't just history that you look at and you watch it as a documentary. Although, strangely, nobody seems to have a problem with the communists. It's all about the Nazis. The Nazis were bad. And why do we watch those things? Because they were so evil. But Mao made Hitler look like a rookie. Quite frankly, so did Stalin.

We watch those documentaries because we're fascinated, strangely, I think, by evil and how they did all of the things. But we also watch them so we can see and go, oh, I see what that is. Hey, wait a minute. Aren't those seeds being planted again? Yes, they are. And if you care to learn history, you will see that they are being planted again. It's an alarm bell. You know, when you have a single man's dream...

That the followers are just diehard believers and say the ends justify the means. See, this is a difference between Donald Trump. He's got a very bold vision, but the ends don't justify the means. I'm sorry, you can't just round people up. You can't just silence them because that's what Mao did.

That's what Mao did. You don't silence people. You don't round them up. This is what the democratic socialists and the people of their ilk are all saying now. And this is what happens. This is what leads to the butchering of millions. In 1958, Mao had his great leap forward. A plan, he said, was going to rocket us to modernity.

We're going to outshine the West. We're going to have prosperity. And I care about the little people. I care about the peasants. And we're going to make steel flow like rivers and grain pile high as mountains. And it's going to be neat. It's inspiring, except Mao didn't know how to make steel. And Mao didn't know how to grow any rice. He wasn't a farmer either. He wasn't an engineer. He was a madman.

And so what he did is he took the, you know, the communist ideals and he put people into communes and private land was seized and every peasant was turned into a cog in his grand machine. But he did it in the name of the peasants. Okay.

backyard furnaces sprouted like weeds, churning out useless, brittle iron. And people starved because all the fields laid fallow. Grain, oh, it was harvested. But not for the people. Any grain that they did do, remember, he was for the little people. What he did is he exported all of the grain and the rice and everything else elsewhere so he could look like a global titan, so he could improve his image

Meanwhile, because he was so terrifying, the local officials started saying, oh, no, we've grown all kinds of... They were faking all of the crop numbers because they didn't want to get held responsible for anything and end up in a camp or death. So what happens? Starvation. Parents were boiling grass to feed their children.

This is 15 to 45 million people. That's not a statistic. That is a mountain of corpses, a river of blood, and it all came from Mao. 1966, he does now the Cultural Revolution. That one didn't work, but don't worry, this one will.

Now he's older, he's paranoid, he's drunk on power. He decides China's not pure enough. Oh, wait a minute. Hang on just a second. Like, maybe America's not pure enough? Maybe we have to round up and re-educate people? I'm sorry, what did Rodriguez say? Oh, yeah, it was. Round up people and re-educate them. Or do a genocide on them.

He wanted to get rid of capitalists because they were the ones that were holding China back, not him. So he unleashes the Red Guards. This is not a military. This is just fanatics. They're kids, barely out of school, who have read his little red book like it was the Bible.

They were just believers. They're not soldiers. But they were all ready to die for him. And he uses them and he points them like a dagger into the hearts of teachers and artists and party officials. Nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. It's a way to get revenge on anybody.

So they're beaten in the streets. They're paraded in dunce caps. They're sent to labor camps. People are allowed to stone them in the streets and children have to deny their own parents or they face the same. They burn books. Nobody talks about the book burning of Mao. No, no, no. We just have we just we just really like Mao. We just really think he's good. How? How? In what way?

Well, that revolutionary spirit, you know, he had a dream of a utopia and it didn't work out that time. It never works out. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever works out. Never works out.

I mean, he's inspired how many revolutions? China, Cambodia, there are the killing fields. That one was really good. Nepal, Peru, brutal death, 70,000 dead. India, brutal death. Philippines, brutal death, 40,000 deaths there. Vietnam, well, that was a mixed one. It wasn't fully Maoist and Ho Chi Minh, Chinese.

He drew on Mao's tactics, but it wasn't. I mean, victory brought unification. Yeah. Of course, there was that famine and the repression that killed thousands of people, but that one was kind of mixed. Zimbabwe, that was mixed. I mean, it ended white rule, but then Mugabe, he starved his people, killed his people, stole from his people, economic collapse, but that one's kind of mixed.

Laos, brutal death. Bhutan, brutal death. So out of all the Maoist revolutions, let's say 10, how many of them led to utopia? Zero. How many led to brutal death and starvation? If I'm being really generous, 7 out of 10. Because I have to count Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Nepal as a mixed result.

Seven out of ten times, rivers of blood, starvation, purges, endless conflict. Okay, why? Why does it always end that way? Because somebody says the ends justify the means. Somebody says, well, these people are not as important as the other. These people are the ones standing in the way and the ends justify the means. It's just collateral damage.

So my question is for Democrats, when are you going to learn from history? When will you learn from history? When will you start saying, you know what, if you believe in Mao, I can't stand with you. What was it the Beatles say? You're watching, you're, what is it, walking around with signs of Chairman Mao? Well, no one will listen to you anyhow. I mean, this is the same story over and over and over again.

What's the end game? Where's the proof that any of that works? Because I can show you it doesn't work. Where's your proof that it does work? What's the difference this time? It just wasn't done fast enough. You didn't kill enough people. You know, you didn't starve enough people. What is it? Because I want to show you how this is beginning here in America.

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Let's go with the Nashville Democratic, uh, the Democrat mayor. He's now doxing ice agents. Okay. Why? Why? He says the release of the, uh, names of ice agents was just a mistake. DHS says there's zero chance it was a mistake. Okay. This is Freddie O'Connell. And, uh,

He's now doxed ICE, and he is in trouble because he's also, they claim, using funds to help the illegals avoid ICE. All right. Well, that's breaking the law, isn't it? Yes, but the ends justify the means. See, it starts in little ways. How about this guy? Did you hear the story about, what's his name, Calvin Polachek, I think?

He has, he's a, he's a huge anti-gun activist. And he has talked about how he survived a 2017 active shooter situation at Dallas High School, killed his brother, best friend, nine others. The only problem is, didn't happen. Excuse me? Did you see this story, Stu? Yeah, I was, I was fascinated to see because I saw the headline. Is it one of those things where, like,

There was a shooting scare and luckily maybe people survived or his brother was shot in a different shooting and he exaggerated it.

I mean, I can't, it seems to be, and this is a Dallas township in Pennsylvania, not Dallas, the city in Texas, but Dallas township released a statement. They're like, not only was, did this not happen? There wasn't any shooting at all. And there has never been a shooting in this school district at any point ever. It wasn't like it was another year. He was referring to something else. It's gotten no mass shootings have occurred that look anything like this in the township.

So what would possess somebody to do this? Either insanity, stupidity, or just the ends justify the means. I can lie. I can do whatever I want because the ends justify the means. We now have 200 Democrats, 200 Democrats that now say, yeah, I knew that Joe Biden was incompetent.

And I, you know, I didn't say anything. We have 200 Democrats that now claim while people were being called all kinds of names, while people's lives were being destroyed, while the guy with a nuclear football was eating pudding and drooling on himself, you have 200 Democrats now openly admitting, yeah, I knew that. I just didn't say anything. Why? Because the ends justify the means.

We'll put this guy in. Don't worry. We'll figure out. Doesn't matter what the law is. Doesn't matter what the Constitution says. Doesn't matter that this is actually a violation of democracy.

It doesn't matter. The ends justify the means. You cannot go down that road. You cannot go down that road. And Democrats, you are about to be eaten by radical revolutionaries. Look out. This is Glenn Beck.

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If you want to get a link to every story we talk about every day, the best place is the free email newsletter. You can sign up now at glennbeck.com. You know, for Democrats, if you don't think you're playing with communism or socialism, talk to the people in Washington State. Talk to anyone who is sane in Washington State. I'll give you his number. But they are going to full-fledged communism, Marxism. You have...

You have every giant corporation now moving out of the Seattle area and Washington State because they're going to, I'm telling you, they're going to go to wealth confiscation. They're going to do it. There is a place, Lake Washington is, you know, by Bellevue, in between Bellevue and Seattle. And it is beautiful. It is just the most beautiful place you've ever seen.

And this is where Bill Gates and everybody else. And when I was a kid, it was not like that. It was, you know, there were still normal people that lived there. And now you can't even get close to it. And there's this place in the middle of the lake, and it's called Hunt's Point. And it is where, you know, these are 60 to 100 million dollar houses. And they're not necessarily fancy houses.

They just happen to be in an area where there's not very much land and it is the place to live if you like water and you're living right on the water and it's just spectacular. It used to be that when a place would go up for sale, even when I was a kid on Hunts Point, it would never last. They'd never come up for sale. People, they wouldn't want to sell it because you couldn't replace it. You couldn't get anything like it.

And so they would come up for sale and they'd be gone before anybody would even know. I am told by a friend who knows that area quite well that, I think he said, 17 homes in Hunts Point are up for sale. 17. And some of them have been up for sale now for over a year and there are no buyers. All of these people are trying to get out of Washington State and nobody's buying their home.

because are you going to buy that? Hey, rich person, where are you going to move from? You're going to move to Washington? No.

Washington, the property values are going to start plummeting. And you've got crazy people, not only crazy people all around you. I'm telling you, I grew up in Washington State. I grew up listening to hippies and everything else. My friends and I remember going to a friend's house and we were standing on our front porch and

And, you know, we were, this is the Alex P. Keaton days. And not politically, but just politically.

I mean, I guess a little politically, but my friends, not all my friends, you know, agreed with Reagan, but we didn't talk politics. It was just, you know, we weren't hippies. And I remember standing on a front porch and my friend was going to open up her front door. She had her hand on the doorknob and she, before she opened it, she turned to me and she said, I really apologize. My folks are probably in the living room getting stoned. Just nevermind. We were the adults.

And we open up the door and I'm like, I get it. And so open up the door and there they are getting stoned in the, and they're like, Hey kids, what's going on? I mean, that's where I grew up. Okay.

And it was crazy back then. And there's these people that believe in this thing called Cascadia, which is a communist state. Just get out of America, start a new communist country called Cascadia. And it is Washington, Oregon, and I think they want parts of Idaho. Thank God Idaho hasn't gone nuts yet. But that's what's coming. That's what they want.

And you see people like, you know, the mayor of Seattle, do you see what happened in Seattle over the weekend, Stu? Where there was this... Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. A little bit. You're talking about the mayor and this accusation going on? No, no, no. The Christian, the Christians that had a revival out in a park...

And all of these revolutionaries came. They were threatening them. The police came and shut down the Christians, and they deemed the Christians, the police against their will, I think, but under the direction of the mayor, shut down the Christians, excused all the radical revolutionaries, and said, you know, it's the Christians here that are causing all the ruckus. I mean, it's crazy what's going on. Well, now what you were talking about is the scandal that's going on with Bruce Harrell. He's the mayor of Seattle now.

Who is the mayor of Seattle? Who is this guy? Okay, well, he's just like you. Well, I mean, just like you, if you had been arrested in 96 for brandishing a firearm over a parking space,

In 1996, this has been out for a while, he was a young attorney and he had just been appointed to the Housing Authority Board in, I think, Council Bluffs, Iowa. And he was at a casino and he was pulling up to a parking space and this other couple in their family, it's a husband, wife, a mom, and somebody else, they pull up and they pull into the parking space and he gets pissed off.

And they say he pointed a gun at them and they were afraid for their lives. He admitted at the time to say, yeah, I had my gun, but I wasn't pointing it at him. What are you doing? Just showing it to them. Hey, I just I'm so proud of my gun. I just want you to see that's called brandishing a firearm. You can't do that. It's against the law.

Well, the charges fall apart or whatever, and so he's charged with it, but he's not convicted of it. Nobody says anything. Well, it comes up again recently, and now he's saying, no, I didn't have a gun. They mistook my watch for a gun. Now, I'm a watch guy. I'm a watch collector. I like watches, and I have some big watches, but I've never...

Had anyone at any airport or on the street go, oh my gosh, you've got a gun strapped to your wrist. No, it's never happened. Has that ever happened to you, Stu, where you're like, that guy's got a gun on his wrist and you realize, no, it's just actually a watch.

Well, you're talking about the watch gun? Yeah. I mean, I try not to wear that at night because people do make that mistake. Yeah. I mean, besides the watch gun. Right. You know what I mean? Besides that watch. Okay. So that's his excuse now when it's brought up. He's like, no, I didn't have one. He said at the time he did, but he wasn't pointing it at him. Now he says, no, they mistook that for a watch. Yeah.

And justify the means. I mean, if you're going to if you're going to elect radicals, if you're going to elect people that don't, you know, they just don't care about the law, the Constitution, you know, they don't care. But, well, you know, well, people just say anything now. There's no there's no even attempt to to come up with stories that even sound real.

No. Because basically, like, and if you think about it, there's some pragmatic sense to it in our current day, which is like, in reality, like, what's going to happen is the people who already liked you are going to support you no matter what you say. And I just...

You might as well just say something. And everyone's going to nod along and say, well, yes, I like his other policies or I want him to succeed. So therefore, I believe his gun watch story. Right. Who is the guy? Oh, is it Jesse Smollett? Yeah. He's still saying that he was targeted. Still saying it. Yeah.

Yeah. There's no consequence for any of this. No, it's true. I mean, we talked a little bit off the air a few minutes ago about this is the sort of conversation we have, which is the WNBA and the situation with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, where, you know, again, these are two basketball players, one white, one black. The white player fouled the black player. There's some sort of rivalry that seems to be basically one way from Angel Reese toward Caitlin Clark.

Uh, Caitlin Clark walks away, Angel Reese freaks out, um, you know, the team, you know, Angel Reese's team lost by like 30 points in the game. Afterwards, she's doing her press conferences. And of course, as you 100% can just fill in the blank, if you know, if you know nothing about the story, claim that there was racism. That was the reason why all of this happened. And there was people in the stands saying,

yelling racial slurs at her. She says this to a press conference. It's a major controversy. Everybody's talking about it. They're batting it back and forth. What does this mean? Can you believe this? Full investigation launched, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now remember, this is not, this doesn't happen in the woods. This doesn't happen like under a bridge, you know, in Madagascar somewhere. This happens in an arena where

Where that's being televised. So, of course, there are hundreds of fans around the area where this was supposedly going to happen. There were dozens of employees around this area. There were cameras and microphones everywhere. Of course, they do the investigation. Of course, no one can find any evidence that this happened outside.

at all. No one can find one example of this occurring. And then the end of the story is not a massive controversy about how this player could be falsely accusing all of these people that are fans of the other team of being racist and manufacturing claims of racial slurs. No, no. The story is a two paragraph statement from the WNBA. Hey, we looked into it, couldn't find anything.

No follow-ups from any of the journalists who were concerned about it at the time. We just all move on.

And why no follow-up on the investigation of how that began? Who started those charges? What are they going to do? Are they going to pay a price for starting those charges? Shouldn't they? And didn't I see that very player sitting on the bench talking about white girls? Oh, yeah. In a derogatory way. Yeah. Hard to see many conversations without that phrase used from that particular player. Yeah.

I mean, well, what about the racism there? I mean, it's just, it doesn't seem to matter anymore. The truth doesn't matter anymore. You know, somebody said to me the other day, have you seen that Donald Trump is now saying that if you're working for the government, you have to go through, I think it's a hundred hour class on the constitution. And somebody said, well, wait a minute. I don't want that. I don't want that because I don't want them doing that with DEI. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The Constitution is the owner's manual. And right now we have a bunch of people that are trying to put our country together and they've never read the instructions. And, you know, it's like it's it's like our country came from Ikea.

And, you know, I can build this. I'll just put it together. And it's being built upside down. The legs are in the wrong place. And you've got like 47 screws left over at the end. Okay? Read the instructions. Okay? They're not in Swedish. They're in English. Read the instructions.

This, I think, is one of the best things that the president has done so far. You want to work in the administration? You want to work for the government? Good. You've got to go take a course on the Constitution of the United States because that's the owner's manual.

And there's no excuse. Oh, I didn't know that that was in the cause. I didn't know we couldn't do that. Even though they're not even saying that they're now saying 200 people. Democrats are now saying, yeah, I knew that he was, I knew that he was gone, but you know, we, we couldn't lose the election.

wow yeah i think you need a refresher on the constitution uh because uh none of that is part of uh our country no no none of that there's no place in the constitution that allows that yeah one of the ways uh it's interesting they talk about that in the book of those decisions being made right why would you hide this from the american people like how could you justify that and you know it is exactly what you're saying

And justify the means. Right. And they said that one of the reasons why, especially the really close group around the Bidens, including the family and some of these advisors, basically said, number one, Donald Trump is, you know, basically Hitler, right? Like he's an existential threat and he's the worst thing that could ever happen to us. So we have to do anything to beat him. And the people really close to Biden believed the only person who could beat him was Joe Biden. Now, that part's another part. That's another level of delusion, I suppose. Right.

to think that Joe Biden was uniquely qualified for this victory. But he was the only person who did win in an election against him, right? So there's some, maybe some sense to that. But as I think it was Alex Thompson, one of the authors pointed out, it's like when you exist, when those two things are true, you can justify anything.

Yes. Right? Like, if you believe Hitler's about to come into power and the only person who can beat him is this old doddering fool you work with, well, of course you're going to justify all of this. If you believe that Elon Musk is evil, I can firebomb and terrorize anybody with a Tesla. Yeah. If you believe that global warming is going to wipe the entire Earth out, I can kill anyone with an SUV. This is why you can never adopt...

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We have had incredible, crazy, crazy leaps in AI just this week. And if I were an actor, if I were a director, you know, I made film, I would be refreshing my skills and also maybe my resume. What Google released this week, is it going to put the industry out of business?

I don't know as I'm not in that business, but it doesn't look good. Zachary Levi, he is the studio owner of Wildwood Studios, and he's with us. He's an actor. You've seen a lot of his movies and love him. He's been worried about this for a long time. Now Google VO3 is here.

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I'm really good, but I'm not in your business. How concerned are you by what Google released this week? I mean, I'm very concerned. You and I talked about this when I came on your show last, and I hate to...

sound like a doomer and gloomer, but this is something I've been foreseeing for a really long time. I've been banging this drum for a really long time and trying to wake people up and say, "Hey, listen.

Technology, it moves exponentially. This is one of the things that I think most people just don't understand, whether it's people in my industry or other industries. And might I say, yes, this is knocking on the doorstep of entertainment right now, but unfortunately,

Understand that AI is knocking on the doorstep of all of our industries. Your industry, radio, everything in entertainment. Anything that can be recorded and broadcast. But every industry. There are...

You know, experts in many fields that say within a year, two years, certainly within five years, every white-collar job will be gone. And a lot of blue-collar jobs are going to be right behind that because you have to recognize that AI is not just moving exponentially, but also humanoid robots are.

and the development of humanoid robots is developing exponentially. And exponential growth is something that people just don't understand. Most people see growth as, you know, kind of just, you know, multiplicative, meaning like, okay, every year it gets twice as good. No, no, no. It doesn't get twice as good every year. It gets 10 times as good, and then it gets 100 times as good, and then 1,000 times as good, and so on and so forth. And so...

Years ago, I was telling people, guys, if what we have right now, you know, like, for example, two years ago, AI was generating images.

And, you know, but, you know, humans had six fingers. And so people said, ah, this is schlock. Look at this. You know, this is never going to get good. They can't even get the amount of fingers right on people's hands. I said, yeah, yeah, right now it can't. Right now it cannot do that. But six months later it did. Six months after that you had video, and now you've got video with audio that is almost

almost indiscernible as you've been seeing with these new examples it's almost indiscernible now people say yeah but i can still tell i go yeah right now you can but six months from now a year from now two years from now we're gonna even think that long no probably not even that long no and and and so people have got to wake up and so for people in my industry

I think that, yes, we should all be very, very concerned, but everyone should be very concerned. And it's not even just, you know, like, for example, yes, this could very much replace my job. This is partly why I am building Wildwood Studios in Austin, Texas.

It has always been a 25-year-plus calling that God has put on my life to create a better Hollywood, to give artists a better life, a better work-life balance, to give audiences better content. These are all things that we've deserved for a really long time. But AI is really...

the kind of, I think, most galvanizing force in all of this, because if we don't do something about it, if we don't hold the line, if we don't build the arc, which is really kind of what I've always felt in my life, I've felt this kind of Noah calling on my life, that God's like, "Hey, listen,

a flood is coming. It's not going to be water. It's going to be something entirely different. And that is this AI. And if, and if you can build the arc, then you can at least save as many of those jobs two by two as you can. But if you don't build the arc, then the flood just wipes everything out. And so, yeah, go ahead. Let me, let me interrupt you on that because I believe, I mean, I'm developing some things with AI and I've been on this for a very long time as well. And I,

I believe you're absolutely right that you have to get into a boat because floods are coming. However, you have to – you can't dismiss it. You have to, I think, use some of the skills that it has in a positive way because I think it could – it will enhance –

As long as you don't surrender to it, it will enhance what you can do. So are you talking about, you know, building something that has no use for AI and it's just this island? Or are you saying that we'll use it, but we'll use it in ethical ways and we'll never allow it to become the master? We will always use it as a tool.

Yes, that's exactly right. So I'm a firm believer and have been for many years that, you know, philosophically, you cannot stop progress. You can only hope to guide it. That is the bottom line, right? Right. So it would be folly to look at new technology that, by the way, is going to do some really cool things in this world. Example being, we're at the brink of nearly having our ear pods. You know, Apple, I think, will start, but other companies will be right behind it.

if not simultaneously, we'll have real-time language translation. It's going to happen. It's happening very, very soon. Now, that's incredible. That's something that as a human race, we've all been wanting really since, I mean, since I guess the Tower of Babel, right? The ability for all of us to be able to communicate across the world, no language barriers whatsoever. That is huge. That's a huge leap forward for mankind. Now, that's going to absolutely displace what is a

a smaller, let's say, industry of translators, right? There are many translators in the world, but it's not the biggest industry, let's say. And I feel for those people. And I think we have to be very conscious about trying to rehome them in other jobs. But you always have to ask yourself, is the juice worth the squeeze? Is it ultimately worth it for the betterment of all of us, right? So

I don't think that we can't embrace AI. We must embrace AI, but we must do it in as ethical a way as possible and be mindful of what is it doing? How is it disrupting and how is it displacing jobs? Because that's the only thing that we can do. Now, when it comes to entertainment,

There's going to be all kinds of ways that we can implement AI to make the process more efficient, more enjoyable. And I have every intention of utilizing AI like that. I don't vilify it, you know, writ large. But I think that we must be very mindful about how we implement it in still holding on to human creativity, human skills.

Art and entertainment is is at the brink, but I also believe, you know, with with Wildwood example being like, I think that not only is it necessary to prevent, let's say, the extinction of human art and entertainment, but there's also a market opportunity in this because similar to vinyl, for example,

Once upon a time, all music, we all listened to vinyl records. That's what it was. And then the cassette tape came out and everyone said, oh, well, I don't need vinyl anymore. I'm going to go with these little rectangular plastic cassette tapes and I'm going to do that. Great. And then the CD came out. Even more people left vinyl. And then streaming and now even more people have left vinyl. But...

The people that held on, the people that said, you know what? Yes, everyone is going to zig, but I'm going to zag. I'm going to hold on to this. I'm going to keep printing vinyl because I believe that there's something special about it, unique about it. And sure enough, vinyl sales have gone up because people are looking for something that's more human, more tangible, more...

It's slightly imperfect with a little crackle, a little, you know, whatever. So that's what we intend to do. We intend to hold on to – I can't save the entire industry. That's impossible. But I'm going to try and save as many jobs as I can and in doing so provide audiences the alternative. And I think a lot of people are going to be looking for that alternative.

So, Zach, because I, like you, I've been on this for a long time, and I have put a lot of thought into, because my job is, you know, at stake. Everybody's job is at stake. Oh, yeah. And I've always felt, well, there's something special about humans that we have a different sense to us. But I don't know if you heard, there was a study done of, I think, 100,000 songs that

and they did what's called hook testing to see which tested the best. I think it was seven out of the top ten were AI, and people didn't know it was AI. Seven out of the top ten. We used to say art can never be done. So what is it that you think is going to be...

quickly. I mean, I believe that there is going to be a huge draw back to handmade individual. You know, when, uh, when, uh, machines came out and you had factories and they started producing shirts, nobody wanted a homemade shirt. Nobody wanted a handmade shirt. They wanted one that was from the factory, but now handmade is the best of the best. Uh, so there's going to be a, uh, re,

renaissance, if you will, of handmade and human-made stuff. But what is it right now that will bridge this gap that humans can do that you don't think AI can do?

Well, I think that, you know, obviously live performance, that's going to be huge, right? So people in this rebound effect of people saying, ah, you know, it just flooded with ubiquitous AI content. A lot of people are going to say, oh, I want something authentic, right? And authenticity is the most important. In fact,

There's been studies done where, you know, just from an energy level, like, you know, as humans, we produce an energy when we have various emotions, right? And there's lower energy if you're sad, depressed, angry, and there's higher energies when you're joyful and happy and you feel love. But there's an energy even higher than love, as they've tested, and it's authenticity, right?

that is the highest energetic level that we can all reach. And so people yearn for that. They really do. Yes. So live performance obviously is going to be that. Sports is going to have a big, a lot of people are, you know, investing in sports and live performance because that is going to hold on the longest, at least as long as,

Let's say robots and holograms, that's going to start to kind of eat into that market a little bit. We'll see how long that goes. I have to tell you, may I say something on that? Have you been to London and seen the ABBA experience? I haven't, but I'm very well aware of it, and I've heard it's incredible, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Yeah, no, it's beyond incredible. It is. My son and I said, I didn't tell my daughter, who was a teenager at the time, you know, 17 years old, that ABBA wasn't really performing. We just didn't tell her. And two songs into it, I said, do you think they're real? Does it look like they're real? And she's like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, that's not real. Those aren't people. And she's like,

What are you talking about? And she couldn't believe it. And the first couple of songs, my son, who was probably 18, 17 at the time, kept looking at me going, Dad, this changes everything. This is not good. This changes everything. And I mean, everything is about to just turn upside down.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's already like in front of our eyes. It's happening already. And and I am not one of those people. Many people that I talk to, you know, a common pushback that I get is people saying, well, it will never be able to fully.

let's say, you know, human emotion or, you know, we'll always be able to tell. And I just don't believe that. I mean, I don't believe ourselves. No, we are amalgamations of everything that we've taken in. Right. So we're, we are, we ourselves are kind of LLMs. We, we scrape our entire lives. We scrape information from our parents, our community, people around us that, you know,

The internet, whatever. We're learning all the time, and then we are replicating from the things that we learn. AI is doing that, and it's doing it at scale. And it's happening exponentially, and we're very, very close to it becoming...

AGI, general intelligence, which is then just a few steps away from super intelligence. And it will be then at that point, it will be more intelligent and more capable than not just any individual human. It will be more capable and more intelligent than the sum of all humanity. So we're stepping into some insane, insane territory. And when you start, you know, powering, um,

video agents like Google and others that will, that will keep popping up. Um, it, it's terrifying to, to acknowledge that a lot of people just don't, they were trying, they're kind of burying their head in the sand and saying, no, no, no, no, it won't happen. It won't happen. It's going to happen at that point. I think that what we have to, and what I'm hoping that Trump and the administration, uh, are going to be working on in earnest is legislation that at the very least, uh,

requires all content that is AI generated to be watermarked, right? So that therefore we know we can say, okay, I can't tell the difference. I don't know the difference, but just by looking and listening to it, I can't tell if it's real humans doing this or not. The difference will be that there will be some kind of watermarking that indicates that. And therefore that is what people are going to be looking for. In the same way, if you go to the supermarket,

and you're looking at blueberries, and these ones on the left look the same as the ones on the right, but there's packaging that says these ones on the right are organic. Oh, those are the ones I'm looking for. I want the organic ones that aren't sprayed with glyphosate. I'm trying to make certified organic human-made content.

for free range artists, that is what Wildwood Studios is going to be about. And also at Wildwood Studios, we're not just going to be making and really focusing and dedicated to making human film, television, music, and video games, but also providing amphitheaters and live performance venues so that it's a one-stop shop. So people can really know when they go there, they support us. They're supporting humans in that process.

Zachary, I appreciate it. Thank you so much. And anything we can do to help you at Wildwood, let me know, please. Zachary Levi, Wildwood Studios owner, actor. He was Chuck. He was Shazam. I mean, he's done a ton of great movies and everything else. So Zachary Levi, thanks. All right, let me tell you about Lear Capital. The world is moving so fast. But if you are paying attention right now, you can see where it's headed. Central banks now are stockpiling gold. Major tech founders are moving into hard assets.

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Absolutely 100% believable. Stay sharp. These are nasty and dangerous. Stay alert. That looks like a little like a game. What the hell happened here? Where are the bodies? Okay. So this is, if you look at this, it absolutely looks like a film. Um, it absolutely looks real and it's just somebody typing in some prompts, uh,

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I don't know, 90% of the way to a feature film, right? Like quality wise, there's still a little bit of that uncanny valley gap there that you can kind of see. It's a little bit, a little bit, but it's, you know, a year ago we had a conversation probably on the air where we were saying, gosh, look at this video that was just shown on the internet. That's AI. It's incredible. Imagine what this is going to be like in a year.

I would say this is better than the expectations for most people of what that would look like in a year. Yeah, it's all going to be that way. What it will do next year, no one can imagine. At this point, I just don't think we have an understanding of the true power of the exponential growth that we're getting now.

We have no idea. So but I think it's fair to assume from just that projection of what the last year was that we're going to get there. Right. It's going to be as good or better than what most human beings can actually produce. Yeah. Well, hang on just a sec. With an exception of, you know, who's a great answer to this is Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise does all of his own stunts.

So when you see a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible and he is, he's actually in the water in the submarine rolling down. He's actually in the plane hanging from the edge of it. That's actually him. And there is something to say for that. You know, you can go see all kinds of, you know, um,

all kinds of CGI stuff and it's great and everything else, but eventually it just becomes, okay, I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it. Every time Tom Cruise is doing something, even though I've seen people hang from airplanes, et cetera, et cetera, you know, it's really him actually doing it. It makes it even bigger and better. Yeah. I think there, there is that authenticity that people want, right? Yeah. Um, you know, like for example, there is a, there's a few, uh,

horror movie nerds that work here. And every time one of these movies comes out, they're like, yeah, this is there. Was that a good movie? Well, yeah, the practical effects were blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And like I, as a person who doesn't care about the production of horror movies, I want to know, is it a good movie? Is it a good story? Was it scary? Whatever you wanted of a horror movie, what they want is,

are the fact that they made all these deaths with practical effects instead of CGI, right? Like, because they're horror movie nerds. Right, right, right. Will there always be that...

Like, will there always be that desire for the organic thing? He was just talking about vinyl records. Yes, there will always, but that'll be niche. Yeah. Here's what I think. You know, this is not going to affect people like Tom Cruise, Joe Rogan, anybody who is at the top of their craft. You know, I witnessed this in the 1990s.

I got into radio in the seventies. And so by the 1990s, I had established a name for myself, even though it was a bad name at the time, I had established a name for myself and I was good enough to be able to survive the bloodbath that radio became. And I said, at the time, I remember I was, I was running several stations, uh, for I heart. And I said at the time, where are you going to get your farm team? Uh,

How is that going to... How are you going to replace the people like me because there's nobody up and coming? And everybody was saying it's the death of radio. Well, they've been saying it's the death of radio since in the 70s. But we didn't know. And all of a sudden...

While they paired all of those people off, what remained, unfortunately, were just the top of the radio people. Those guys did very well and continued on, but they cut everything else out because there was no farm club. Now, we never saw podcasting coming.

Podcasting is the farm team. But now that you are getting AI and ASI and AGI, when this really hits, and it's going to hit soon, 90% of your podcasts are going to be done by AI. And you won't know the difference, really. You will... I mean, if people are unscrupulous, you should always know what the difference is. But...

You look at people like Joe Rogan, people hopefully like me that have established themselves as real human beings and are at the top of their game and have something real to offer. Those people will remain. I don't know what happens to the farm club. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think that's a real problem, and it's not just in broadcasting. By the way, if you want to see Glenn at the top of his game, I encourage you to go to...

X dot com slash studios America and look at the latest baby video that's not necessary. He really is at the top of his game. I think that's all I know. But like, I think, you know, this is every industry right now. Like I was listening to somebody describe the legal field right now.

And you will know I am not a lawyer by the way I describe this. But like, what do you do? How do you develop the next crop of great lawyers? Well, people come out of college. They go to law school. They come into a legal firm. They're at the bottom doing basic tasks. They're looking things up. They're producing basic documents. They don't need it.

all that stuff is already being done by AI in a lot of places. So now that experience of development is, is really hollowed out. So how does, how do industries go on when that process is so easily done by AI? This is something that really concerns me because we already have a class system in the world that is getting worse and worse. Okay. You know, you look at, uh,

You look at companies, the top of their game, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, whatever. You know, it used to be that they were making a $200,000 car, you know, and it was like, everybody's like, wow, it's a $200,000 car. You know, Rolls-Royce, if you go into a Rolls-Royce showroom, their cars, you know, anywhere from $400,000 to $900,000, okay? Rolls-Royce doesn't look at that as a great car.

That's their entry model. They kind of look down their nose at those cars because what they really build are $20 million cars. They may only build them for like 10 people around the world or 50 people around the world, but that's what they're doing. I think it was Ferrari that I just read is doing, they're doing these one-offs and they're all in the millions of dollars. Well, what? What?

You look at what's happening, we are getting a class of upper, upper, upper class. And so many companies are now looking at, well, I'm going to serve that instead of serving, you know,

That and people, you know, that are normal human beings. Everybody's pushing up because the money is so big up at the top. You now will also have this class of people that are accomplished and good and rock solid when this changes, right?

Some of those people will shake out and they'll be destroyed. Others will survive this. But they'll be then again in another class of people. We're just losing connection to reality, to what is real life. You know, what was that movie called?

where they were living up in the clouds. The rich people were living in the clouds, and the average person were living on Earth, and it was really horrible. You remember? I didn't see it, but I remember the commercial for it. It's almost like that. I feel like if we're not careful here, we're going to leave everybody in poverty, the majority, and then there's going to be this upper class mentality

And they won't be able to even relate to each other because they're so far separated by wealth, power, access to technology. Scary. How does that analysis differ from the typical liberal critique of income inequality? Or does it? Or it's a crossover? They would say we have to regulate our way out of it. I would say that, you know, the average car now is $53,000.

That's the price of the average car, $53,000. That's a year's income for a lot of people. I'm not sure that cars were a year's worth of income. Maybe they were, but I don't remember it that way. And, you know, can we make cars that are good quality cars?

Is there anybody that could make that less than that? So the average person could get into it. I mean, I don't know. I just feel like everybody's pushing towards the top instead of, and, and, and forgetting about the bottom. Uh, and, and I, I just, I would hope that companies don't just focus on the top. You know, when, when, if I, if I, if I were to design something and I would say, you know, uh,

I'm going to present this to people that are going to spend $100,000 on this.

But I'm using that to be able to bring another version of that down to a lower level. That's Elon Musk. That's exactly what Tesla tried to do. Yes. And has succeeded in. Right. Their first car, we profiled it back in the mid-2000s, was the Tesla Roadster, which was well over $100,000 and was really only made for rich people. Right.

And as Elon Musk took it over, that became his focus almost entirely was, yes, he was making cars that go really fast for rich people, but it was all in the goal to make low-priced cars for everybody when it comes to electric cars. Yes, and quality. He makes a quality car. Now, they're still expensive, but he's making a quality car. I mean, if that's the kind of car you want, yeah.

It's not actually a car. It's just a battery with wheels. But anyway, it's not like you're getting a crap box. You're not getting the Yugo. You're still getting a Tesla, but he's used the upper end. That's what happened with flat screen TVs. That's the way the market works. You come up with something, and it's going to cost a lot of money to make, but you get the rich people to adopt it first, and then that brings that price down, right?

That is not through regulation. That's just good business sense. And it's also, I don't know, caring a little about humanity. You know, just not being just some rich, you know, greedy bastard that's like, I'm going to milk these people because I want to live like those people and I could screw everybody else.

That's that just comes from just being a decent human being, not regulation. And I think that is the story of capitalism, really. Right. It really has, even though not everybody with moral sentiment, with moral sentiment, moral sentiments, even though I do think overall, generally speaking, people are generally good. They want to help others.

uh the the community they want to help their country they want to help their fellow man might not be their main goal all the time and usually mixed into markets there are bad actors people who only care about profits and everything else but the overall current of the of you know the river of capitalism if you will it it brings people toward that end it doesn't always do it in a linear line

But it does bring them to that location where, yeah, you know, maybe the rich do get richer. And that's true. And I don't think that's bad, by the way. I don't think Elon Musk being rich is bad. But it does raise the boat. So those people who used to be in the middle class often do leave it, but leave it for the upper middle class. And people who are in the lower class have a better life in the lower class, even though they might not raise up in the percentage measure.

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You know, Stu said, you know, capitalism works and, and, uh, and you know, we've, we've always gotten past these things and, and, and, and we'll solve these through capitalism in some ways. You're right. But we have something now that we didn't have back then. And that is, uh, wedge politics, uh,

of racism, sexism, whatever it is, to divide people. And then when you divide them, you put them in a camp. I mean, not literally yet, but you put them in a camp and then you can do whatever you want because they're not even real people. At the same time, you have social media showing you...

unrealistic expectations of how to look, how to live, what wealth is, et cetera, et cetera. And so everybody has this unrealistic view of life and happiness, and nobody really cares about one another, okay? Because nothing's real. That's the real problem with all of this. You know, if...

If you lose the connection to reality and to humans, it's over. And that's the society that we're growing right now. You know, I was at a restaurant. I was taking my family out to celebrate my daughter's graduation. And I collect cars, and I have some nice cars. And I pulled into this restaurant, and I get out of the car, and some kids who were across the street

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So Elon factor, Elon factor, Elon Musk is leaving Washington, D.C. today. He is not in. He's not in defeat. I don't think he's in retreat. We all expected this. In fact, many of us believed that there was no way this was going to end well.

with him because he was a strong individual. Trump is a strong individual. How are these two strong individuals going to get along? They got along famously. And we're losing today one of the few individuals in our time that is willing and has been willing to challenge the most sacred assumptions. Here's a guy that when he...

When they were talking about, I think it was the X Prize, about making rockets for NASA, he went to NASA, this is early on, and they said, okay, so here's what we want. And he said, great. And what kind of money do you want this to come into? I mean, what's your goal that I could hit that would make it affordable for you? And they said, what are you talking about? He said, what do you want to spend on this? And they said,

Don't worry about that. Just make it fly. And he's like, well, there's got to be a budget. No, don't worry about it. It's not about budget. No, it is about budget. And he knew that that was wrong. And he really, really, it bothered him a great deal. And so here's a guy who comes in, reinvents absolutely everything, and then goes to Washington because he actually believes in something. And he's vilified for it.

I mean, I don't know of anybody that has been this vilified, you know, so vital to progress and what humans are experiencing and going through and solving huge problems. I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that and been this vilified.

Here's a guy who didn't ask for the power. He didn't seek the favor. In fact, when he said, because he believed something, yeah, I think I'm on the other side, they tried to literally kill him for it. And all he was fighting for was the freedom to invent, the freedom to think differently, the freedom to speak your mind,

and also the freedom to remain free by not becoming a slave to an out-of-control government and out-of-control waste and out-of-control spending. He wanted just the chance to build something, and he knew America was the place to do it. And build he did. He gave us the first reusable rockets. I mean, think if I would have said to you six years ago,

Yeah, we're going to send up some rockets and you're going to see it instead of just casting into the ocean. It's going to it's going to reignite and it's going to come down and controlled and we're going to just grab it out of the sky. No, not only did he do that, he thought that crap up.

Here's a guy who completely thinks out of the box. American made, American launched, restoring capability that we had already given away. He forced the auto industry to evolve, dragging it unwillingly into the 21st century with electric vehicles that shattered the idea that sustainability has to come at the cost of performance or ambition. Here's a guy who, remember, the big three didn't want him around forever.

He had to break that entire system. And look what happened. Then he took a brand new platform speech that was supposed to free us up, and it had become oppressive, ossified, monopolized. It became the public square. And what did he do? He went in, bought it with his own money, and was like, this can't stand. We have to have free speech. Cracked it open and gave us, again, raw, uncomfortable at times speech

but vital free speech. It was all back into your hands now. And now with Grok and AI, he's fighting to ensure that the machines of tomorrow are actually aligned with not centralized power, but with human liberty. But for all of this, all of this that would earn anyone a chapter in the history books of the history of man, how is he leaving Washington? I mean, think of that.

He has endured the public efforts all around the world to ruin him, coordinated efforts to deplatform, demonetize, to destroy. He's received death threats. His companies have been targeted. His cars are burned. His employees are harassed. His customers are harassed. All the while, he just keeps on doing what he does. And that is, boys and girls, courage.

You don't see it very often. That is what real courage looks like. Without getting angry, without being vengeful, spiteful, any of it. He just keeps going.

This is real courage. This is the real thing. Real high personal risk, high stakes, sleepless nights, relentless attacks, and the refusal to sit down or break. He's like, no, I believe this is right. That's America. He is really, we have a few great symbols that we didn't have 20 years ago. We have some great symbols of real leaders, right?

Real examples of courage and innovation that we didn't have. And he's right up at the top. I mean, history is riddled with people like this. Nikola Tesla is probably one of them. Penniless, mocked in at least his later years. Galileo was, you know, imprisoned because he was telling the truth too early. Winston Churchill, because he was telling the truth too early. Nobody, I mean...

He was cast aside until people realized, oh, the barbarians are at the gates. These are people that saw over the horizon, saw the storms of life, or saw what was capable of being. They came, they spoke up, and they paid dearly for it. Churchill said once, you have enemies? Oh, good. That means you stood for something in your life. Elon Musk, as he stood up again and again, said,

technological sovereignty, speech, enterprise, for the radical, dangerous idea that the individual, not the institution, should shape the future. I think there's going to be a time, and hopefully it's not too far in the future, when the heat has cooled and politics have moved on, that society will acknowledge not only what he's done, what he's given, but the sacrifice that he just went through. But that'll happen, you know,

at a time when the real effects of everything, I mean, when the future that he is helping shape right now, better or worse, is really taking root, that's when he'll be recognized, once this nonsense is over. The thing I like about him, he never asked us to trust him. He never asked for our loyalty. But I think he does deserve our respect, you know? I don't care what side of that, I don't care who you voted for. How do you not recognize...

What this man has done for humanity, especially if you're somebody who believes in global warming, what he's done for humanity, what he is still trying to do, the incredible strides that he has made, and the bravery that it has taken for him just to stand up. I remember he walked away from his side, didn't expect his side to leave him, but once he had a different opinion of theirs, they just abandoned him. He lost all of his friends. He lost everything.

So today, as he is leaving, I would like to say, Elon Musk, thank you. Thank you. You didn't play the game. You changed the game. Thank you. Thank you for reminding me and so many other Americans that progress has never come in polite little packages. It's never been polite. The truth rarely comes dressed in approval.

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I mean, I think at some level he's viewing it as a disappointment, right? Like he's talked about this a little bit. You know, he wanted to get more done, right? And I think he ran into the problem that a lot of well-meaning reformers run into when they get to that freaking, you know, rat's nest. It's just, it's very difficult to do. And you have to depend on a lot of people who don't have the same interests as you.

I think he should be remembered positively. I think I'll remember it positively. At least he tried to do something. And I think he did identify a lot of actual places we can improve.

You know, I don't think it's going to be, honestly, when I think of the Elon Musk final story, like when we watch the CGI AI movie that's made about his life with no actual real people in it later on. This will be a small footnote. This is a small footnote, I think, in it. I mean, you know, think about like the brain implants and SpaceX and all these other things. We were talking about cars last hour.

And the cheapest, you said, what was it, $53,000 is the average price now? Is the average price of a car now. Yeah. And how does that compare, Stu, throughout history, inflation adjusted? So it is...

Part of the increase is people trading into larger vehicles, SUVs and everything else. So that's kind of why that price is so high. Really, as far as inflation goes, the only time you really see inflation anytime recently, as opposed to the same car, trying to buy the same car over and over again, an equivalent vehicle, is the Biden inflation era. That post-COVID era, but into the Biden inflation era, there is a real rise there.

But so it hasn't increased all that much, but still is, you know, has gone up as far as the average price goes. What's interesting about Tesla in right now, like right now I can go on Tesla. I'm looking at their inventory right now available in my area. I can buy a brand new Model 3 brand new for $34,990. Wow.

That car has a 363 mile range. At least, you know, that's the advertised amount. It's, you know, again, a decent looking car. It's the new model, like the new redesign, which is... Model 3, that's their smallest model, right? That's their entry model. Still some decent space. Like, again... Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're great. Yeah. All the technology, everything is the same. And what I think is undersold here is the fact that that car is now available to way under the average purchase price.

There's things to like about electric cars, things I don't like about them. But for example, and we lose sight of this over long periods of time of how this stuff improves, the Model 3, $34,990, is faster 0-60 than the Ferrari Testarossa was. What?

Wait, what? That was a car that everyone in the world wanted. You mean in the 80s? The Ferrari Testarossa. Yeah, from the 80s. Testarossa, the world's first real supercar. Yeah, like the car. The car. And I mean, obviously... It's faster. Faster, yeah. Faster than any car produced in the 80s. This is the entry model of Tesla. Now, of course, you'd also have to acknowledge...

All the safety features are way better. All the technology in the car is way better than anything that Ferrari could even theoretically produce in the 1980s. And that improvement gets lost in what is the average car price, right? These cars are improving all the time. Cars that are way below the average purchase price are much, much better than they were 5, 10, certainly 40 years ago.

But do you have to pull the engine out every 25,000 miles? No, unfortunately. Of a Tesla. No, it's very low maintenance, actually. If there's a problem with the transmission, does it cost you $75,000? Because that, I mean... Unfortunately, no. No? No. Wow. Why would you want a Tesla then? They can't replicate that at all, it seems. Wow. But, I mean, that's incredible.

That's amazing. And by the way, we should also note the car drives itself. That's another advantage. You know, if I'm looking at a $53,000 car, I don't know why I wouldn't buy the Tesla. If you could handle electric, you know what I mean? Yeah. I don't like electric cars. Anyway, but if you could handle electric, why wouldn't you? I know. $35,000 versus $53,000?

If you wanted a four-door, that's a four-door, isn't it? It is, yeah. Yeah. So you just wanted a four-door car, something you're just going to use to get stuff done around town, et cetera, et cetera. If you don't need an SUV, why wouldn't you do that? Yeah, I think about the way this is all changing. I have relatives who can't drive anymore, older people who have eyesight issues and things like that.

How closer are we, though, to being able to like, hey, just get the Tesla and it'll just drive you everywhere? I mean, it's not quite there. They're not quite legally approved for you to basically just not do anything. You're still supposed to be able to be there to react. Right. But like, I think a lot of people as they age are in that position where they don't necessarily want to be in control of the car all the time, but

probably could hit that standard and that standard is going to go away as well where you're not even going to need to put your hands on the wheel and think about how that could improve the lives of someone who you know maybe doesn't have relatives around you know my daughter Mary she's never had her license because she has she has seizures yeah so she can't have her life so she has to uber everywhere I mean that would be great when when she doesn't have to have a license she

She doesn't have to have Uber. That's a perfect car for her. And how many Americans are there that are either old or just have a reason they just can't drive? I mean, that's a fabulous...

And $20,000 less than the average car. Yeah. That's fantastic. That's incredible. And I think that is going to be... And the good thing is if you're ever, you know, got a warrant against you, you know, it'll take you right to jail. So it'll be... There's some negatives. I will say, we all love Elon, but man, I remember Glenn taking calls from people and be like, I'm not going to put that easy pass in my car.

They'll know when I go through toll booths. Now every single thing about your life is monitored. Do you know that some cars, I don't know about Tesla, but some cars will send a message in the middle of the night back to the factory saying,

So the algorithm on the car's engine can be adapted. It'll say, this is how the car was used today. And it'll make the different changes in the algorithm for the engine to make it a better performing car for you. And it's calling and giving what you did, where you drove, everything, every night. Every night. You don't even know it. You're asleep every night. Tesla's deep into that world, I think. I know. It's pretty credible. Pretty incredible. Mm-hmm.

But yeah, don't get that easy pass because they'll be able to track you wherever you are. Okay. Back in just a minute. It's Friday. This is Glenn Beck. You know, some people see a dark and foreboding headline and panic. Others see that same headline and go, yeah. Now, what's the difference between the two?

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And you look at Elon's legacy. Legacy, I don't mean the actual legacy of what seems like about 40 children at this point. But I'm talking about his... I'm talking about his... How he will be remembered by the public. The Doge cuts are...

They're going to send some little sliver of them in a separate bill now to Congress. Yeah, this pisses me off. $8.5 billion. Now, of course, it's much harder to pass a separate bill, and it's only $8 billion. Who do you blame for this? The GOP. The GOP. What does that mean? I think that very few of them are serious about it.

Some of them are. Mike Lee is very serious about it. Rand Paul is very serious about it. Chip Roy, Thomas Massey. Chip Roy, Massey, they're all serious about it. But there's a handful of them.

And the rest of them, you know, are either too stupid to get it. I mean, we've spent a lot of time on our debt this week and what it means and what's coming if we don't get serious about it. And, you know, there's $190 billion that Musk, you know, said we can cut all this stuff. And nobody wants to do it. I mean, if you can't, if the Republicans can't cut the easy stuff, what good are you?

Really, honestly, what good are you? I mean, there should have been, you know, it would have been nice to get up to 900 or

900 million or I mean billion or a trillion dollars in cuts that would have said to the world we're serious and it would have put us on a completely different course than the one we're on right now. And you know Donald Trump is going to do his best to grow us out of this to set up the conditions for AI and everything else and bring manufacturing back here to America yada yada yada to try to grow our way out of this debt. But you have to cut and

You know, I'm just sick of the Republicans. Just sick of them. Sick of them. They don't... Okay, so wait a minute. You needed to have the House and the Senate and the White House. Well, you got all three. Now what's your problem? You don't have big enough spread? You're not doing anything. You're not doing anything.

Well, they're continuing much of the spending from the Inflation Reduction Act. That's something. Yeah. I mean, you can't cut that out. You can't cut that out. You can't say we're going to go back to the spending that we had in 2019.

Can't do that? Yeah. Or at least, yeah, just we'll even increase the spending for all the programs that existed when Joe Biden took over. But the stuff that he passed that is brand new, that people aren't used to and depending on for years and years and years and years, we're going to get rid of the rest of the spending from those programs. You can't even do that? No. You can't. You can't. The money that hasn't even gone out.

You can't say we're not going to send that out. You can't even say that. They can't say that. What good are you? Some of that they've pulled back on. That's true. And, of course, there are a lot of good things in this bill. I mean, I think you'd agree with, you know, at least continuing the tax cuts. I know we'd both like more. Yes. But, like, if you let those expire, that would be devastating to the economy. Devastating.

What do you make of the criticism from some, and this goes mostly towards the right, who are more...

hawkish on the budget and such that look, it's true. The Republicans did not put this in this bill, but Donald Trump could demand this is in this bill. And there's no sign that the Republicans would not take him up on what his demand was. There's no reason to believe they would say no to him. If he demanded it, he has not made a big deal publicly pressuring lawmakers to include the Doge cuts. So I do have, uh,

I do have concerns about that. I mean, you know, he should have pushed harder for that. I agree with that. I'm not sure that the Republicans would have gone along with it. Because, you know, if you...

You do have an argument. First of all, you cut. You have all of those Republicans that are part of the game there and have their favorites, and they don't want anything cut. Sorry, gang. Everybody's going to have to lose something. I think if he would have made this his priority, priority,

it would have happened. But I don't think that is his priority. His priority is elsewhere. And there's some things in this bill that are going to strengthen his priorities. For instance, tariffs. And that was, you know, he was more focused on that and

I think more hopeful that maybe the Congress would do their job and they'd care about the spending. But he's not a guy ever that has ever talked about debt or deficit. He does not believe there's a debt or deficit that is too big. He believes the problem is that the economy is not roaring. So let's open the economy and we'll make that money in tax revenue and we'll be able to afford these things.

I don't happen to believe that. I believe it to some degree. I think we have to, we must make cuts. But that's never been his thing. Tariffs always have been. He's never talked out about the debt and deficit to any real degree. It's not his thing. Yeah, he didn't run on that initially. I mean, you know, he cares about it at some level. Now the Republicans have. The Republicans have. The Republicans have, yes. Let me ask you about the Musk relationship there.

Elon, there's definitely, I think, a clear effort by the media to portray this departure by Musk as

as this adversarial sort of situation that they are, they've grown apart. They don't like each other anymore. There's been leaks about Trump saying that he was angry at Musk for trying to get some briefing on some China issue, you know, that, that, you know, a lot of the people inside the White House didn't like Musk.

And some of that's possible. Yeah, that's that certainly is true at some level. Do you think that they they still get along? Is there this separation? Donald Trump? And yeah, no, I think those two get along. They're thick as thieves. I mean, I think they are in many ways two peas in a pod. They understand each other. Unlike I think a lot of people could understand either one of them.

And I think they are friends. What's interesting is he's, what, a month away from his July 4th goal? He said he was leaving in July. He said, I hope to have this done by July. And, you know, I'm not going to be staying for very long. And then on the anniversary next year, July, we'll have cut X number amount. He's a month away from this July.

And I think he just got frustrated and I don't necessarily think necessarily with the president maybe but I don't think so He just got very frustrated like, you know, nobody's serious. Why would I take all of the hits that I'm taking right now? Why would I put my car company in danger SpaceX in danger? you know risk the reputation to everything that is I hold sacred and dear and

To do all of this hard work and sleep on the floor. I mean, he was sleeping on the floor. To sleep on the floor to right the ship on this, and nobody's serious.

Screw you. I think that's where he is. That's where I would be. Screw you. Yeah. I'm not doing it anymore. It seems like that's part of it. I also think that there's a, you know, we were talking about some of the people in the White House and in the surrounding apparatus that don't, don't appreciate Elon Musk. Some of that's been public. A lot of it I think is behind the scenes. You're now getting that his departing, the hit pieces, things being leaked about Musk and,

The recent one today, this is in the New York Times, that Musk was using drugs at high levels. Listen to this phrase.

Let's have this paragraph. Mr. Musk's drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that he was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

Now, how many people have taken photos, Glenn, of your medication box? I would say that's not common unless someone's trying to destroy you in the media. Right, right. So is that what this is? Basically, they're just now, everybody who had a problem with Musk while he was there, now that he's out, they all think they can leak stuff negatively to the media to destroy him. Let me give you another perspective on why they are trying to destroy him. The people in the White House. Uh,

In a situation like this, and really any real powerful situation, everybody jockeys for a position. I want to be next to the boss. I want to be next to the boss. A new guy comes in, has not played the game. Nobody really knows who he is. He doesn't play by the rules. And he'll just go right into the White House, and he'll just walk right into the Oval and go, yeah, I didn't talk to any of those guys. Listen, I want to talk to you about this.

That must drive the career people out of their ever-loving mind.

It's got to drive them crazy. What is he saying to the president? We've been working, all of us have been working so hard to get the president to go this, this, this. And what did he just say? What did he say? That's the real problem I think that the people in the White House have with Donald Trump is his access and his ability to connect with Donald Trump one-on-one without any filter in between. They like filters.

People like filters between the top and access to the top. Oh, we learned about this with Joe Biden.

When he was president, even his own cabinet secretaries couldn't come see him. Yeah, I love that filter. Yeah, a different kind of way of doing it. Is there a part of this, too, that's just, you know, germane to the way Trump has kind of constructed his White House, which is like, you know, I think a lot of good things come out of it where he has a bunch of different sort of factions, right? And he has a bunch of people around him who really... You mean like a team of rivals? Like a team of rivals, right? He has that. And I think there's...

At its best, there's really good things that come out of that, right? When people who really care about the country are arguing the best things, the best policies to go forward and the best approaches. And on the downside of that is there's always people who are just out there to cut everybody else's throat so that they can get closer to Donald Trump, so that they can have that access. Is that what's going on here partially? Yeah, I think so. I really...

I think Elon Musk is probably pretty pissed because he realized a lot of people aren't serious.

And I've just risked a lot. You know, if Donald Trump got in and all the people that he had trusted that he put around him and they were all like, no, we're with you 100%, and it was the same kind of situation it was last time, I think he'd be pissed. I think he'd be really pissed. You know, who the hell can I even trust? Now, he risked his life. I think Elon Musk is risking his life to stay, but he's certainly risking his career and his companies and everything else.

Everything. All around the world, he's got a bad name now. And I just think, you know, if I'm risking my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor, and none of you are serious, I'd say screw you in a heartbeat.

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I've been texting back and forth with Palmer Lucky lately. Hopefully he'll be on the show here in short order, but we've got to schedule, you know, get our schedules aligned. But there's a story about him going back to work with Zuckerberg at Meta. And are you bothered at all by some of the...

defense tech that they're working on now? Because that's what Paul Marlucchi has gone into now is defense. I mean, look, you have to be... It's just like we were just talking about with Tesla. A lot of that technology is amazing. One of the great reasons why Teslas are good is because of how connected they are. However...

You know, and I think the same thing here with defense. I want the best defense technology. I want the ability to be able to do all these things to our enemies. But we've seen so many times how it winds up being used by the government. And that is really concerning. So, Lucky revealed the first product will be a military helmet called Eagle Eye. Its equipment will give Army soldiers access to advanced augmented reality systems that make them, quote, superhuman. Hmm.

I don't know how I feel about that one. I mean, I want to give him every bit of technology, but I know that China is working on stuff too. And boy, I think we're going to be close to drone wars or droid wars. Clone wars. You know? Yeah. Yeah. We're... Right? Yeah. I do think that. I mean, and you know...

I think that is coming. It's just, it's similar to AI in the way that you have to win that battle. You can't not fight it. No, I know. If they don't go down this road and have the best technology, particularly with the military, we're screwed. But you better have bright lines.

I know. I just hope that we don't have another big global war because I'd like to see, I'd like to, I'd like to live in a world where none of this technology has to be unleashed, you know? Because I think we are in for a huge shock on the next big war that we would fight on, on just how different everything that we've always thought about war, how different it's going to be. This is Glenn Beck.