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Welcome to Monday.

We say hello to Jason Buttrill, who is in.

He's our chief researcher and all-around general good guy.

And he is here filling in for Stu.

When the hell does Stu come back?

Right.

When?

Tomorrow?

He's back tomorrow.

What kind of vacation schedule does this guy have?

It's ridiculous.

Anyway,

so, Jason.

Yes, sir.

The president president is trying to clean up crime.

And

crime, so people understand, you're hearing, you know, Washington, D.C.

say, crime stats are down.

Yep, but since when?

Since when?

They're down compared to when.

Crime is now,

it is more safe

to walk the streets in Mexico City than it is in Washington, D.C.

It is more safe walk the streets of Bogota, Columbia than Washington, D.C.

Insane.

Yeah, the crime stats, you're right.

You have to look at it in terms of like from when to when.

And this, this reminds me of when you asked me to look at inflation when they were saying that inflation was coming down towards the end of the Biden administration.

And they were like, this is great.

Like, no, everything is working.

Well,

you can't get used to, you know,

what they want us to get used to.

They want us, they want the norm, right?

They want the norm to be absolutely insane.

They want the norm.

They are expecting us to look at the Biden administration as the norm instead of as a blip.

Okay, that is a blip.

Everything went through the roof, crime, everything else.

So now when it comes down, it's still within the Biden administration crime stats.

And nothing is going to change unless you start changing the way people are,

people start to view the law.

You have to view the law as, oh, they're serious about it.

And Washington, D.C.

is not serious about crime, especially when it comes to the youth.

The district attorney in Washington, D.C.

believes that, you know, everybody makes a mistake.

We were all teenagers once, and we make mistakes.

I don't know.

Me and my gang never walked around beating up women in the streets.

It's an apple dumpling game.

Okay, all right.

All right.

But yeah, if you look at, if you look at the full, like, if you look at the full graph, there was a decline from 23 to 24, which was around a 30 plus percent decline.

And that's what the, that's, that's what they want us to say.

This is great.

And that, that is great that it went down.

Right.

But if you pull the map out, let's just say you pull it out to like, say, 2010-ish, and then you go all the way through the years.

We are still higher than it was when, or about the

same

level that it was right when Biden got into office.

So, we're celebrating a little bit of a jump down or a climb down from

probably the worst crime Washington, D.C.

has ever had, but it's still higher than it was

right when Biden was coming into office.

let me say a name and see if you recognize this name

edward coristine

no

should i sarah edward coristine any you want to take a guess

no

we've talked about him recently

he should be this is a name that everyone

should know

Name the guy who shot the United Healthcare worker.

Can you name him?

Luigi Mangion.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Luigi Mangion.

Do you remember the name of the shooter of President Trump?

Thomas Crooks.

Okay.

Again,

Edward Coristine.

Was he in the Godfather?

It kind of sounds like no, no, no.

Okay.

It's three o'clock in the morning, Washington, D.C.

A woman is being brutalized by this group of 10 kids.

They tried to carjack her.

Somebody sees this going on.

He runs.

To protect the woman, he pushes her into the vehicle and then confronts the aggressors and moves them away from her so she can get away and he's beaten to a pulp.

Do you recognize the story?

Yeah.

What is it?

It's the recent Doge guy.

Yes.

It's the reason why this is happening now.

Because there was a good guy that at 3 o'clock in the morning, a Doge kid that everybody mocked, a Doge kid who saw a crime against a woman against 10.

And he stood up to them and tried to rescue her and was almost beaten to death.

And no one can remember his name a week later.

What does that say about us?

In Serenize Defense, his nickname is so powerful.

Oh, yeah, that's why everybody.

Okay, yeah.

All right.

If I said who's big balls.

Yeah, I would know.

If I said that, you'd know exactly who I was talking about.

Right.

But that's his real name.

I mean, we have Mangione.

They're practically, I mean,

what's his name?

The mayor for New York has said,

I look forward to walking down Mangione Avenue someday.

This kid,

that shows you our priorities as a press, as media, and honestly, as us.

Why did we not consume this story more?

Why did we not look to that kid and hold him up as a hero?

I'm asking that of myself.

Why was that story just on and gone?

One day, gone.

Where Mangion went on and on and on and on.

Are we just that attracted to the darkness?

Is that who we've become?

I think it's also sex appeal.

Isn't Mangione super...

cute, apparently.

Have you seen this kid?

I know his name, so I think he's super hot.

No,

I don't know.

I mean, I've only seen a picture of him bloodied, but he doesn't look like a bad-looking kid.

I just think that's part of why he, Mangioon, became so big so fast.

That's even more, that's even more terrifying.

Yeah, that's even more terrifying.

Okay,

look at

we have become a society that has erased all heroes and is no longer looking for them.

We have made our president into a superhero.

I'm Donald Trump, and only I can save the world.

And a lot of people believe that.

A lot of people put him in that category.

And there are times that even I believe that.

Like, he's the only guy that can get the job done.

Instead, we have never been that society.

Why was Superman

designed?

Do you know who designed Superman?

Who came up with Superman?

What's his name?

He's on the show.

He writes the little books.

He's on the show all the time.

Meltzer, Brian, not Brian Meltzer.

Brad Meltzer, yeah.

So Brad Meltzer and I, we first got to know each other years and years and years ago.

And we became friends.

And he calls me up and he says, Glenn, the Superman house is about to be torn down in Ohio.

And I'm like, what?

And so we raised the money to save the Superman house.

Now, what the Superman house is, and forgive me, I'm not a Superman fan, so I'm going to butcher this story.

I don't know the names of, look it up, who designed Superman?

He was a young kid with a brother.

They were Jewish.

It was during the war.

They...

or in the 30s maybe and they're hearing about the Jews being rounded up yada yada yada and who can save the day?

Who is strong enough to make sure everybody is safe?

And so he's drawing Superman on the wall of his bedroom for his brother.

It's still on that wall in that bedroom.

Jerry Siegel.

Okay.

So

he does it for his brother.

Because at the time,

things seemed so far out of control that the average man couldn't stop it.

So, you needed a Superman to do it.

But that was a child story.

That was a kid telling his younger kid, his younger brother, it's going to be okay because Superman is here.

But we're not children.

We're not children.

You don't need Superman.

You need Clark Kent.

You need a kid like Big Balls.

You need that kid.

That kid can change the world.

Can you imagine how different life would be in America if people just would not film things, but do what he did and actually step in?

He didn't take out his phone and like, I'm filming you.

He did something I'm not sure I would do.

I mean, I would do it if I had a gun.

If I had a burn a launcher, I would have absolutely used it.

If I had a gun,

but I'm going to get the snot beat out of him, out of me.

But he knew that

because he was one against 10.

He knew that.

So, what is it he knew that maybe we don't value enough?

We have so devalued men

that

it's not your responsibility to stand up for a woman

you'll film it

I mean look at look at when they knocked that woman out in in Cleveland

people just they just continued to pile on there was no one no one that was like hey hey

there was no one in that crowd

Now, maybe there were, but nobody wanted to be the one.

They'd film it, but they didn't want to be the one because they didn't want to get pummeled.

We live in a society where nothing is greater than self.

That's not a good sign.

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Okay, so there are several things that are happening in today's world

that are breaking us down, and we have to actively

work

in the opposite direction of those forces.

Okay, it's not good enough just to talk about them, just to recognize them.

We actually have to get engaged and do the opposite, not

just fight against it.

I think this is the secret of

where I am right now, where I'm headed.

I'm kind of, if you've been listening, I'm in this big life change right now.

And it's not good enough just to talk about it.

It's not good enough

because I feel like we're getting to the place to where we're just admiring the problem.

We all know the problem.

We all know the problem.

So what are we going to do about it?

Because we can't just fight against, we have to be for something.

So

the recent data, most recent data, shows that parents and teenagers view social media as the single biggest threat to mental health today.

I agree with that, but that's not necessarily the biggest problem in our society.

I think it's compounded by several things.

But let's just talk about social media here.

Teens

focus more on the relentless bullying and the academic pressure that they're under.

And we are talking about a generation that is struggling in silence right now.

And I want to talk to you about

the struggle of the youth, but I want to talk directly to them here in a second.

Social media is not just bringing in distraction, it's actually bringing in pain that we're all feeling right now.

We're seeing it.

That's what's happening.

That's why suicide is so high.

It's bringing in pain.

It is a constant parade of filtered images, peer comparison, digital validation chips that are just, you know, you're like, it's just, it's just eroding self-esteem.

Meanwhile, the grades, the expectations, the bullying, online, offline are no longer just a

teenage rite of passage.

They are now the final cracks in a dam that is about to break.

No.

No generation in history has ever lived the way this generation is living.

So while I want to talk to the youth about,

give me a break on some things, we also have to look at them and say,

we need to give them a break in some ways.

In the old days, we had community.

We raised our youth.

My grandparents played as much of a role in my life as my parents did.

And we respected our elders.

And my grandparents' friends also played a role.

My parents' friends played a role.

I'd be in the grocery store and they'd go,

aren't you the Beck kid?

Yes.

I know your mom and dad.

I don't think they'd be cool with this.

And you'd be like, oh, okay.

Okay.

That doesn't happen anymore.

That doesn't happen.

We can only flourish as a society.

when community, stability, and self-understanding are present.

Our ancestors, they lived quite well without screens,

you know, because they belong to families and neighborhoods and traditions.

Look at what Michelle Obama said.

We're going to have to change our families, our traditions.

We're going to have to change everything.

Okay.

We've changed our families and our neighborhoods and our traditions, and they're still being degraded.

People are still working to destroy the family and destroy our traditions.

We can't

because those are the things that when we were kids, those things held us back into place.

When the world didn't make sense, at least we had the family and traditions and our neighborhoods and our real friends.

But they were supported.

Now we've taken all of those traditions and I want to talk about in a second.

I want to talk about capitalism

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the role capitalism plays, I read an article, gosh, it was in the 90s, and it said, what happens to a society that is built on ownership when there is no ownership?

And I couldn't even understand that.

And it was talking about someday people won't own cars because there'll be fleets of cars.

basically uber so you won't get a driver's license you won't you will rent everything

How is that going to change the psyche?

Well, we're beginning to see it.

And then you add people who are trying to turn capitalism because they believe in communism.

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Welcome to the Glen Beck program.

So,

starting the show off with Donald Trump is going to be speaking to the nation here in about 30 minutes.

Usually, he's late, so maybe in an hour.

But he's going to be talking about what he's doing in Washington, D.C., and we're going to give you all the facts on that because I mean, the first thing that everybody in the media is jumping, you're the fascist.

No, he can't do that in Los Angeles, but the District of Columbia is federal mandate.

So the ones really in charge of the District of Columbia is the federal government.

He can do

many things that he can't do anywhere else in Washington, D.C.

But of course, they just use this to claim he's a fascist.

No,

it's District of Columbia, but I'll get into that later.

So we're talking about crime and why the teens are becoming worse and worse.

Why?

Why?

How can I say this?

Let me switch this around because we look at it at my age and go, how could you do that?

Let me look at it from: I've been raised in the last 16 years,

and

my family went through hell in 2008,

and

they've never really gotten back on their feet.

So I was raised.

I was raised in a family that is broken, in a society that is broken.

I went to school.

They told me the system is against you.

They taught me how to be

how to hate people,

how to hate people of other races, how to blame things

on everybody else and on the system, how never to take responsibility.

And how you've watched your whole life, nobody gets punished.

The bad guys don't go to actual jail, you know, at the top level.

And you know what?

Here in the local level, nobody seems to go to jail for it anyway.

I mean, think about

it was 3% of those criminals that used a gun in violent crime in Washington, D.C.

3%

went to jail.

Three.

Now, If it was a bunch of white guys carrying guns and not even using them in Washington, D.C., what do you think the percentage would be that they went to jail?

I would say probably closer to 100%.

It's the law and they don't screw around with it, right?

We got gun violence.

We got to get tough on gun violence.

Why aren't they not getting tough on gun violence?

Nobody's trying to solve this problem.

This is why a Batman always arises.

And we have to be very careful because I've told you we are entering the time of Gotham, that the problems seem overwhelming.

Superman, I told you about that just about 20 minutes ago.

Batman, a defender who sees that the system is completely broken, there is no justice, so he steps in to do it.

But there's also the other angle, the punisher.

The punisher is really more on the left.

We have...

My fear is that we start to believe in a Batman figure on the right, and they believe in a Punisher.

That's really dangerous.

That's not America.

That's really, really, really dangerous.

So

what's happening to us as a society?

Well,

you have taken away every responsibility.

You know why your kids are depressed?

And I'm saying this about myself and my own family.

So I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, pointing them to me.

You know when I have low self-esteem?

When I feel that I'm not productive.

When I'm not productive, when I'm not doing something of consequence, when I'm sitting around the house, you know,

doing whatever, playing games, reading frivolous stuff, watching TV.

If I do that for more than a couple of days, I start to feel like really nasty about myself.

I'm like, oh, you know, it's not worth any.

That's the problem.

We have by

devaluing capitalism.

What is capitalism?

In a nutshell, what capitalism is, is the right for you to work hard, to have a better idea, to produce that better idea, and then be rewarded rewarded for it.

That's capitalism.

Now, it's been conflated with consumerism and corruption and crony capitalism, but the essence is you don't have to have a title.

Everywhere else in the world, still,

go over in England.

Try to make it on your own.

Really?

Do you have the right English accent?

Do you use the Queen's English?

Where did you go to school?

Who are your parents?

That happens all over the world.

Doesn't happen here.

Because in our system of the free market, you have the right to have an idea and then work hard and produce it.

But in a society where

we have removed all personal responsibility,

you're not responsible for anything.

You took out a loan.

Well, let's somebody else got to pay for that.

Well, no, wait, wait, wait.

You were there during the decision.

You and your parents signed those papers.

Now, you may have been misguided, but also, honestly, it's like anybody my age who is like, I can't believe they're going to touch Social Security.

I planned on that.

Well, you may have because you had to.

There's a difference.

If you had to, because I could never get ahead and I paid into the system, I get it because you paid into the system.

But for anybody who says that and they don't have to rely on it,

it's, what are you stupid?

I mean, we all knew this thing is coming.

We all know it's a scam.

All of us know it's a scam.

The closer we get to retirement age, the more we need that scam to stay in place because they bled us dry everywhere else.

We want what we paid in for.

It's the same thing here with capitalism.

When you take away the

personal responsibility, the right to succeed,

and the right to fail, you notice

they only talk about the right to fail.

They only say, you're not going to fail.

You're going to fail if you go that way.

You're not going to fail with us because we're not going to let you fail.

Failure is a part of life.

The reason why our kids are so tender is we've never let them fail.

We've never said, you know what?

You played your best.

Did you go out and play your best?

Great.

The other team smoked you because they were better.

Oh, no,

you were a superstar out there.

No, you dropped the ball.

Now, I'm not going to harp on that.

I'm not going to beat that into you.

I'm not going to be one of those parents who are like, you dropped the ball.

I'm not that.

But I'm going to tell you the truth.

Because the truth will set you free.

I didn't get the role.

You know why?

Because she's better.

He's better.

Now what are you going to do to get better at those things so that doesn't happen again?

But if you just say, you know what, the system was rigged against you.

The system may be rigged against you.

That is also part of life.

Somebody else gets the job that you're perfectly qualified for.

And it may just be because of the way they look, because they have a friend who has a friend in the business, whatever it is.

That's part of life.

And you need to be resilient resilient enough to understand that.

Instead, all of our problems are the system's fault.

And that takes away all pressure to take action other than

to the streets.

Nobody believes nine to five is worth...

I mean,

kids expect adulthood to be more fun.

Yeah, I did too when I was a kid.

And then I grew up and I'm like, oh, crap.

This is even worse.

Your childhood is the, that's as good as it gets usually.

I mean, unless you're in a really abusive childhood.

That's as good as it gets.

You know, and still, your whole life is just set up to what?

Recover from childhood.

Because there were so many things that things that happened and you misinterpreted or somebody did something and you're like, oh, I got to, that's going to leave a mark for the rest of my life.

We're all just, that's adulthood.

Trying to

trying to put our childhood into perspective.

And hopefully, you know,

if you have common sense, you have faith, you can do that in pretty short order.

It takes time and it's hard, but you can put that into short order, but it keeps cropping up.

Mine does.

I'm in the full throes of absolute just like

crazy town right now with things that are, I thought I had gotten rid of.

And I got to dig them up again and start dealing with them again.

Because I apparently didn't heal enough on a few things.

And then the left romanticizes not working.

Cuba.

Cuba.

You want to live on Cubans?

They romanticize communism.

Do you know anything about communism?

No, because they don't teach you anything about communism.

They just say it's better.

And, you know,

ignore their hardships over in Cuba.

It's just better.

Instead of focusing on the hardships over there and saying,

you'd rather have this than that, wouldn't you?

They don't focus on the hardships over there.

They only focus on your hardship here.

And by doing that, you're only creating something, people that have just this giant hole within them.

just this emptiness because they're not working, is your kid

sleeping later and later,

playing games all the time on, you know, on a gaming machine,

and

bummed out all the time, kind of just withdrawing.

You know why?

They think that's normal because that's what everybody does right now.

But that's the cause of the problem.

Nobody said, you know what?

Go pick up a shovel.

How's that?

I told my son, he's in a time between

classes, and he's like, I don't feel well.

I just, you know, I'm kind of, and I'm like, I get it.

I get it.

Here's an idea.

Go work at a pizza parlor.

Dad, that's not going to solve.

Yes, it is, son.

Yes, it is.

Get up every morning and work until you're butt tired.

And I guarantee you, mentally, you will feel better.

You will feel better.

You're going to probably complain, oh.

But you know what?

Everybody did that.

In my day, we all did that.

That's part of life.

That is the value, the true value of work.

Idle hands, devil's workshop.

Why?

It's not because you just get yourself in trouble, but because

you start to be introspective and you start to look at all of the things that you don't have, that you want,

and you just fuel this emptiness over and over and over again.

Here's a stat that'll blow your mind.

Life satisfaction.

Life satisfaction.

Are you satisfied with your life?

How much does that does marriage affect that?

Marriage has no value.

Family,

no value.

How much in life satisfaction does marriage change life satisfaction?

545%.

A 545%

increase in life satisfaction with marriage.

By the way,

jobs,

job satisfaction,

145% increase.

We're devaluing the things that give us meaning in our life.

First thing you need to say to your kids, go to work.

Get a job.

Get a job.

Get a job.

Because you're never going to feel better until you, I mean,

Peterson said it best, until you make your bed and clean your room.

Clean your room, make your bed.

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Jason and I are just talking about how we're both struggling with this with our families and quite honestly, with our wives a bit because our wives and you know a good marriage is always balance, but our wives are both like, you can't be such a hard ass.

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Any minute now, the president is going to speak,

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A lot of people say, this is fascism.

No, no, it's really not.

There are things that he can do and cannot do.

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All right, because we are waiting for the president to speak, let me just talk a little bit about what he's going to come out and

talk about.

Crime is out of control.

We talked about this last hour.

The stats on crime, Jason Buttrell, chief researcher, is with me today.

The stats on crime in Washington, D.C.

are off the charts.

Off the charts.

And

if you look over a period that goes back to, like, say, 2010, there was a reduction around 2023.

But the reduction just gets us back down to basically right when Donald Trump left office.

So if you look at it as a whole, it's still insane.

The White House actually just did a comparison of the 2024 murder rates per 100,000 people.

Washington, D.C.

at 27.54

is larger than Bogota at 15.1.

Jeez.

Mexico City, 10.6.

Islamabad 9.2.

Lima 7.6.

Ottawa 2.17.

Paris 1.64.

What are we at?

It just keeps going D.C.

27.54.

277.

Yeah.

Double, almost three times as much as Islamabad.

Islamabad.

Oh my gosh.

I mean, kind of bad.

Kind of bad.

It's nuts.

So, you know, when they say it's going down, yes, but going down to where, from when,

you have to look at, it's just been out of control for a long time.

And a lot of the stuff we were talking about last hour, if you missed it, go to the podcast and listen to hour number one

of the podcast because we were talking about, you know, kids and what's happening today

and why our kids are turning out the way they're turning out.

And we need to turn a corner on this.

But we'll get back into that here in a second.

Washington, D.C.

is

different.

It is a federal district.

They don't have a governor.

The president is kind of the governor in some ways.

It's not, but in some ways.

The Congress

can

overrule things.

In 1973, Congress passed the Home Rule Act.

It granted D.C.

the ability to elect a mayor and a city council.

But Congress can still override all the local laws at any time and even manage the city's budget.

Well, that would be good.

They'd be good at that.

But they didn't even have a mayor until 1973.

Did you know that?

So this is not an American city like you understand it.

This is a failed American experiment, quite honestly.

1973 is when everything changed.

When I went to Washington, D.C.,

1982, maybe, and I was working at WPGC in Washington.

I was, I don't know, 18 years old.

And the license plates back then said,

District of Columbia,

no taxation without representation.

And they were trying to become a state.

They were trying to say, we pay federal taxes.

We want statehood.

So this has been an ongoing battle.

since the very, very beginning.

And Washington, D.C., when it comes to policing, policing, it's very complex.

You have the Metropolitan Police, which handles the

everyday policing under the D.C.

mayor and chief of police.

But the Park Police handle

the National Mall and other national park areas in the city, which is a good portion of the city.

Then the U.S.

Capitol Police, which is not under D.C.

rule, Capitol Police, they're supposed to patrol the Capitol complex and the surrounding areas.

Then the Secret Service is in charge of the White House and any of those areas.

Then you have the FBI, the ATF, the U.S.

Marshals that investigate crime in the DC area along with the police.

So

it's not an American city as you understand it.

If Donald Trump was going to say, I'm just going to take over, Well, then, you know, maybe you would have a point if it was Chicago.

But that's not what's happening here.

There is no governor, so he can call out the National Guard.

Now, there are things that he can and cannot do.

Here's what the president is allowed to do, and we'll hear what he wants to do.

He can deploy the National Guard for law enforcement, for support for emergencies, crowd controls, and to execute federal laws.

Under the Home Rule Act, the president can assume control of the Metro Police, but only for 48 hours during special conditions of an emergency nature, and the the time period can be extended.

So he may choose to do that and say it's a national emergency or it's a city emergency and then just keep extending it every 48 hours.

He could invoke the Insurrection Act and that way he can deploy military forces to enforce federal law, suppress any kind of insurrection or restore order when civilian authorities can't.

But I don't think he's going to do that because he would have done that in Portland or Seattle or any of the other crazy places.

Increase the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C., including the FBI, U.S.

Marshals, Capitol Police, and DEA, so he can increase the presence of them.

It also allows him to form an interagency task force under federal authority to conduct operations in D.C.

My guess is that's what he's going to do.

He's going to put an interagency task force on the streets that can conduct operations in the District of Columbia.

That seems the broadest

and

the one that would give him the most authority without any kind of time restrictions on it.

Here's what the president cannot do.

And I want you to know before he speaks, if he suggests any of these,

I will speak out against him because the president cannot do these things.

He can't take indefinite control of the metro PD.

He can do it for 48 hours, and then he has to renew it every 48 hours.

I just don't see that as a workable thing,

but he can't take indefinite control of the Metro PD.

He cannot repeal the Home Rule Act.

Only Congress can alter it or repeal it.

He cannot use active duty military forces beyond the DC National Guard in certain roles for domestic law enforcement unless authorized by Congress or under specific exemptions like the Insurrection Act.

Okay?

So no active duty can go on.

National Guard can, but only in certain roles.

And he also cannot make any changes to D.C.'s local criminal laws or police policies.

Only Congress can make those changes.

So if you're talking about a fascist,

that would be the mark of a fascist if he says we're going to do that.

If he says we want to change the criminal laws, he is absolutely

within his

jurisdiction, if you will, to say, I'm going to pass some new criminal laws, but Congress has to do them.

He can't just sign executive orders and do those.

He has to have Congress to do those.

That last thing on the EO, I'm not really sure.

I'm not a big fan of executive orders.

I don't know how far those things have been expanded in the last 25 years, but I would hope that it is not going to, because that should be challenged.

And

I don't know how that that would work out.

What I would love to see him do, I know he can't

overrun the Home Rule Act, but I would love to see him use that bully pulpit to bully pulpit the crap out of the Home Rule Act to really do a full court press and get rid of it.

Because in my opinion, it's an abomination.

It's not what the framers had in mind.

It should not be there.

And I think the only, I mean, there's multiple reasons why you can say why we have the Home Rule Act.

It's not supposed to be that way.

It's supposed to be a way to where Congress, which is a joke, because I think Congress gave it up because why?

They're doing the thing that they always do, which is skirt responsibility.

Disagree.

I was alive at the time.

Disagree.

When they got it, what did the license plates change to?

Immediately.

What was it?

No taxation without representation.

That was a move towards statehood.

That was a progressive

agreed.

And then

we need to have a governor.

We need to have a state.

We need to have representation in Washington, D.C.

This has all been a move to make Washington, D.C.

a

state when our founders thought that was absolutely the wrong thing to do.

We cannot have our capital in a state.

It has to be a district run by

the federal government.

But they basically already have it.

They have the benefits without it actually being a state because in the 1960s, they were given three electoral votes.

You want to guess how many times that the District of Columbia has gone towards Republicans and Republicans have gotten...

I'm going to take a guess.

Zero?

Zero.

Zero.

Zero.

Right.

Right.

It's just insane.

Yeah.

So

this is not fascism.

You need to understand that.

Right.

You need to understand Home Rule change 1973.

Just remember that.

Home rule, 1973.

That gave them the ability to to have a mayor and a city council.

They never had one until 1973.

This is a failed American experiment.

It has become more and more leftist, and the more leftist it gets, the more out of control that city gets.

Congress should abolish home rule.

It should go back to Congress and the president running that city.

They're very capable of doing it.

And the only reason to have home rule is to make it a state.

That's the only reason.

I mean, and honestly, look at that.

Look at the mayors.

Anybody remember Marion Berry?

Marion Berry was caught

smoking crack and they re-elected him.

I mean, he went to prison, I think, and then he got out of prison.

He's like, yeah, remember me?

I'm the crack guy.

Yeah, elect me again.

And they did.

I mean, it's it's an insane city it's an insane city and our capital cannot I remember you know when I was living in Washington DC I was a kid 18 years old all by myself never I had never been west of

Boise or east of Boise Idaho okay

and I move across the country And I move to Washington, D.C.

It was the freakiest place I had ever been.

I'd never seen an East Coast city.

I had never, I mean, yeah.

But I remember I got up every morning and I would go to the Lincoln Memorial and I would sit on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, watch the sunrise and in the summer and they would hose that thing down,

fire hoses and they'd hose that thing down.

I don't think that's been washed in, I don't know, maybe since 1983.

And I could walk the whole mall in the middle of the night.

I could walk,

I could walk up to the Capitol doors and these beautiful relief doors that tell the story of America.

You can't even walk up the stairs to those doors.

You are no longer allowed to even see those doors, okay, because of security.

And what is that security giving you?

That security is giving you maybe some security inside the Capitol, but everybody else, you're on your own.

Well, that's my city as well.

I am so proud of this audience.

I remember when we went and we did

Restoring Honor there,

and the National Park Service called the office and said,

could you please ask Mr.

Beck

to please ask his audience to stop calling us?

You know

why this audience was calling?

Because people had gone up and they had seen how badly it was being run and how the Park Service wasn't mowing all the lawns and everything else.

So this audience volunteered over and over and over again, saying, can we just come up and mow the lawn?

Can we just, we'll clean it all up.

We just want to mow the lawns in Washington, D.C.

And the Park Service was like, we can't let people just come out on the lawn.

And I'm like, you know what?

You should.

You should.

If the people can fix it and you can't, let the people fix it.

It's their own place.

You can't do things in Washington, D.C.

And it's really not for your safety.

They'll say it's for your safety, but it's not.

And it has separated the people

from that city.

And now you go walking down the street.

Good luck.

I go walking down the street with my wife at night because I have armed security with me.

I'm not walking down that street by myself, nor would you.

You want to go to Washington, D.C.

and see the founding documents?

Good luck with that.

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Trump has said

that

with the crime rates, quote, we could run DC.

There'd be no more Mr.

Nice Guy.

Oh, boy.

See, this is what, I mean, this is what half the country goes, yes.

And the other half goes,

oh, wait a minute, that scares the crap out of me.

And sometimes I go, yes, but it kind of scares the crap out of me.

He says, we're thinking about doing it, to be honest with you.

We want a capital that's run flawlessly, and it wouldn't be hard for us to do it.

Yeah, here's the thing, President Trump.

I think you could do it.

I think you could do it well, but that's not in the Constitution.

That's not your job.

You want to repeal home rule.

Go have Congress repeal home rule and then you guys can do it.

But what comes after you?

You know what I mean?

The next guy.

You think Joe Biden could have run that city?

Oh my.

I mean, I think the whole thing would have been renamed District of BLM.

I mean, it would have been, it wouldn't have been good.

It wouldn't have been good.

We just have to fix things with principles.

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So, Donald Trump is going to unveil his plan on DC crime and homelessness.

He says he's going to move the homeless out, but where is he going to move them?

You know, we have had a complete breakdown of our society, and it's really weird because as we've been focused on the we movement, you know, that movement towards communism, you know, we're all shared, this is a shared experience, and we share everything.

The exact opposite has been taking hold.

So when we talk about the we movement, we talk about communism.

What does that do?

It shares responsibility and relieves the individual of their responsibility.

Okay.

And so you can blame the system, and the system should take care of all of us.

But at the same time, that

we mentality is there, we're also going hyper individualism.

So I don't care about anything about you.

It's me, me, me, me, me.

And I'll get all of my individuals met

or individual needs met online through AI,

et cetera, et cetera.

I don't want just a cool car.

I want a one-of-a-kind designed by me kind.

We're going hyper individualistic

and hyper-social,

as in socialism,

hyper-we at the same time.

The we part is starting to fall apart in some areas, but our kids,

it doesn't mean anything to them because they've never experienced, nobody's made the

case for capitalism.

And they are all, we talked about this last hour, they all

They have all just these gaping holes in them and and nobody knows

contend we all know what to do none of us are willing to do it does that make sense to you jason yeah and i don't really know what how to combat it because my let me just tell you my wife sent me this uh this tick tock and i know i i'm not on tick tock i've been trying to get them not to be on it it's a losing battle it's a losing battle they're all on it but she sent me but she sent this to me and it said do your kids exhibit this behavior and it listed a bunch of different things it listed staying up later or later and later at night, sleeping more throughout the day,

playing video games non-stop when they're awake,

has no social interaction except through these platforms like Xbox, PlayStation, whatever.

They're speaking through those.

Then when they're not on

those social platforms, they're on other social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, all that.

Does that describe your child's behavior?

Yes.

I was like, yes, yes, yes, yes.

And it said, this is not necessarily a problem that you are doing with your children.

It's a problem with

self-worth.

And that scared the crap out of me because it was saying that the more behavior your child represents of this, the less they think about themselves.

I agree 100%.

But did they say what the cause is?

I mean, everything that

when you just described that we mentality,

the more social mentality going towards socialism, that seems to be the case to me.

So the cause of that is everything you described.

They're staying up later and later, sleeping during the day when everybody is functioning and doing things.

Nothing good happens at night.

And so they're staying up later and later.

They're getting online.

They're playing games.

Then they're going to social media.

That's their whole life.

That is the cause

of their low self-esteem.

I am convinced.

And, you know, as a dad,

I just want, I want to talk to you as a dad, because I mean,

I can't be alone in this.

As a dad,

my wife and I are constantly, and we are really good at being one,

but my wife thinks that I am a little...

Can we tape the president, please?

Can we tape it so we have it?

I am a little,

I would, my wife would think you're being old-fashioned.

It's not the world today, you're being old-fashioned.

And I'm like, Yeah, but you know, the values and the principles never change, they never change.

So, you can call me old-fashioned, but there are some things that are old-fashioned, you know, like the Ten Commandments, that's really old school.

Um, they're still valid, they're still valid because

I

say to my wife,

if behavior doesn't change, it's because of that cycle.

And the only way to break that cycle is to

get a job.

Okay.

Get a job.

And

then you don't have, you're just beat tired by the time you get home, so you can't stay up.

And you got to get there the next morning.

And you must keep the job.

And,

you know, and I'm like,

or just everybody, or there's not a dime coming to anybody in the family.

Not a dime, not a penny.

I'm not going to, I will help.

College, I'll do all of that.

Not if you're going to be in that cycle.

And she's like, you're going to, you're going to chase them away.

And hear me out on this.

I believe.

That is exactly what God did to all of us.

We're his children.

And he taught us the best he can, put us down, gave us parents.

They were flawed.

They did the best they could.

And in the end,

it's why you don't, you shouldn't fight or

put into perspective, if you have teenagers, why they're becoming monsters.

Why are your kids that were sane all of a sudden

treating you like you're garbage?

And it seems that they've gone insane.

The reason is they have.

And I believe God put that in

for that age to push them away from the family.

They have this innate thing because they all do it.

It's like clockwork.

They all do it.

They hit this certain age and they're like, you don't know anything.

You guys are just stupid.

Roll the eyes.

I can't live like this anymore.

I got to.

Good.

And you go up with it for three, four years.

And by the time you get to the third or fourth year and they're like, I'm mowing out.

And you're like, oh, thank God.

Right.

I think this is something that God, otherwise families would stay together forever.

And I think man would perish

because there is something to going out on your own, having to survive.

finding your own way, finding your own spouse.

Now, I'm different.

I moved away when I was 18 years old across the country and I didn't have, we didn't even have money for, I mean, this is in days of long distance.

I couldn't even call my family and my family couldn't afford to call me.

So I was away on my own.

And when you are like that and you have to stand on your own two feet, you find yourself, you don't find yourself in college.

You find yourself when you have to stand up and be, you either live or die.

And, you know, I think a lot of people will say, well, you can't do that because, you know, that'll just drive them deeper into depression or whatever.

I know that.

But God knew that as well when he sent all of us here.

You can only do your best.

And then at some point,

you have to say, you're on your own.

You're on your own.

And I'm always here.

The door is always open.

I will always welcome you home.

But you're on your own.

You have to do this on your own.

Otherwise, you cripple them.

They live in that state where they haven't earned anything, they haven't done anything.

They're trapped in that cycle.

And the other side, if I may play my own devil's advocate here, because this is what is in my head, well, then, okay, well, then they're going to get so down, they're going to kill themselves.

The Lord also has dealt with that.

He knew that some of his kids wouldn't make it.

But he's always there.

He's always there.

But he's never coming in to do all the work yourself.

He's just saying, don't do that.

Don't do that.

This is the path.

This is the path.

This is the path.

This is the path.

Let me show you the path.

But he never takes you, picks you up and puts you on that path.

You have to find that path.

And some of us won't find that path.

And I know this sounds horribly monstrous, but I think it's the only thing because we have coddled them and coddled them and coddled them.

We've tried to protect them from everything.

And I want you to know, I am not, I am no qualifications for telling you any of this.

So take it for just one guy's opinion trying to figure out his family like you're trying to figure out yours.

But I am at this point, I'm not convinced that we do anybody any favors

by saying, oh, well, that could cause more problems.

Have you done your job as a parent?

My answer, no.

I did my best.

I failed over and over and over again, but I did my best.

I did better than my parents did with me.

That was my goal.

Well, how come my kids sometimes are struggling so hard in ways that I never struggled?

Because society dropped the ball.

Because while my parents weren't the best, the rest of the community was there to help police and help parent.

Now that doesn't exist.

The rest of the community is pulling your kid into a vortex.

So you can only do what you can do and you have to live with what you did.

And you have to always be, you can always come home.

You can always come home.

I am always here.

There are certain conditions.

You have to do these things because these things have value.

No kid values work because many times

we haven't forced them to.

We haven't forced them to do the hard things because we wanted to protect them.

And we're destroying them.

I'm sure there are tons of psychiatrists and psychologists out there going, dear God, don't listen to this guy.

And

I could be wrong, but there is.

You can't blame other things for your own choices.

And we must let our kids make their own choices.

And tell them, it's not capitalism's fault.

It's not my fault.

It's not your fault.

My life is not a result of my parents.

I overcame that.

And you need to do that.

If your kids don't go, I'm not going to ever be a parent like you were a parent.

I don't know.

You got a freak kid or you're just a super parent.

Because most kids at some point will say that, and they mean it.

And as my dad said when I said that to him, he said, good,

good,

please be better than me, please.

Just know, if your goal is to not be me, the only example you have of a dad is me.

So you better go find another example.

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He just was speaking about placing D.C.

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Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.

You know what that is?

And placing the D.C.

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And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.

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and they know what's happening and they've done it before.

In addition, I'm deploying the the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.

And you people are victims of it, too.

You know, you're reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but

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And you all know people and friends of yours that that happened.

And so you can be

anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets.

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And you don't have that now.

The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as

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the worst places on earth, much higher.

Twice as much higher as Islamabad.

The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled.

Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever.

They say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just goes back 25 years.

Stop.

So the way the media is going to spin this is, I want to look up Section 740, Jason, if you can do that.

But the way they're going to spin this is the rates were already falling.

The murder rates and the crime rates were already falling.

Yeah, they are.

But they are still, I mean, 2023 was the worst, and then they came down, and they're about 2020 values.

But even 2016 crime rates were bad.

So he's

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Let's see if he has the authority to do that, the way he's talking about it.

I'm sure they have well-crafted this.

We told you earlier in this hour what he can and cannot do.

We'll look into it a little bit more here during the break and come back.

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We're just looking at what the president wants to do in Washington, D.C.

You're going to hear all kinds of talk about it.

You're probably going to hear fascism.

You're going to hear about the dropping murder rates in D.C.

And that is true.

Not the fascism part, but the dropping murder rates is true.

You know, they cut a thousand people a year off the murder rolls in the last couple of years, but it still leaves you with about 3,000 murders when, you know, per 100,000 in the rest of the country, it's 300 murders.

So, you know, if you're okay with 10 times the murder rate, okay, I guess that's good for you.

Not good for me, in my opinion, but we'll get into that.

Also, want to talk a little bit more about the hole that we're all experiencing and our systems are, or our families are failing because they think the system has failed them.

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We just are not doing the system.

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We've been talking today about the system and what is happening to our kids.

What's happening to our world?

And Jason and I, I think we were kind of, you know, at this place where

when I was a kid,

I was lucky enough, my mom and my dad never said, you can't make it.

My dad believed in the power of positive thinking.

And he believed in words

create a force.

And they do.

What you think becomes.

What you speak becomes.

You say it enough and it becomes.

And so my father was always like, you're going to make it.

Whatever you set your mind to, if you do the work

and you can visualize it, it will happen.

I've been talking to some people about some things and they were like, Glenn, we know your record.

If you see it, it's done.

And it is truly, that is one of my superpowers that my dad gave me was visualize it.

If you can see it done,

it will be done.

You have to put all the work into it, but it will be done.

When your vision is murky or cloudy,

you're going to create more murky and cloudy.

You have to have a super clear vision on things.

But I know that everybody around me, my dad said, you should just have a backup, son, because radio is not a really good.

industry to get into for success.

And I know, I mean, the odds of you being a talk radio national guy, there's what, five of us?

Six of us?

Not even that, maybe four of us left.

The odds, Hollywood looks like easy to get into compared to this.

And my dad was right.

Now, everybody else in my life said, you'll never make it.

Loser, you'll never make it.

But I...

I set out because I knew what I could accomplish.

And

I also wanted to prove people wrong.

And I'm not sure.

That's a very American thing.

You know, when you set out to go, really?

You think I can't do that?

Oh, I will.

I mean, how many people cross the mountains because somebody in their life is like, you're never going to cross those mountains?

Oh, yeah.

Maybe it's childish, but it's also a very American thing to do.

And when we take that, what's left, Jason?

If your kids don't have that,

I'm going to prove it.

I can prove it.

You become what?

Europe?

An average, who cares country, pretty much?

Yeah, like Europe.

Like Europe.

Exactly.

They don't believe they can change things because they've been conditioned to believe the system won't allow it.

And they've allowed a system to be created around them.

Now, we were the first to break that.

And nobody's really broken that except us.

Nobody went

the full Monty like the United States did.

And

that's what built people in my generation and all the generations before.

But we don't have that foundation being

taught or even extolled by anybody.

I mean, now the slogans are, you know, capitalism is just greedy.

Capitalism

exploits.

Capitalism is the reason why you're miserable.

No, no, you're miserable because you're thinking about your misery.

I mean,

it's an easy thing to say when you've never had to live without it.

And our kids have never had to live without it.

Capitalism is not just an economic system.

It is a moral revolution.

And I don't think we frame it that way enough.

You know, for the first time in human history, Your destiny was not locked into what family you were born into.

Did you come from wealth and wild success?

Oh, no.

Yeah.

I didn't.

I mean, I, I mean, really, honestly, I've looked into my genealogy.

It is a loser city.

I am the king of the loser people.

There's not a single person that did anything in my genealogy at all.

Me included.

But I'm like the king of all of the people.

Nobody.

Nobody.

I mean, really, one of the relatives that I hang on to, my great-great-grandfather and great-great-uncle, you know what they did?

They were captured by the South in the Civil War after a week of fighting.

And one of them died in Andersonville.

I mean, that's how, I mean, that's how low you got to go.

You're like, yeah, but one of my two of my relatives were fighting for the North.

Of course, got captured in the first week and one of them died in prison, but

they are on the right side.

That's how low it is.

How could somebody like me make it?

You listen to this show.

You can't figure it out, right?

It's America.

It's America.

Hard work,

vision, and honestly, luck.

They all come.

But for the first time, America gave that opportunity.

You didn't need a king's permission to own land.

Over in England, all of that's king's land.

And then it was granted to the lords and the ladies.

And if they ever wanted to sell it, they could sell it.

It used to be that it had to go back to the king.

But

here, you don't need to be nobility.

You had to be noble to be able to open a business overseas.

You didn't have to be born into privilege to invent, to create, to rise.

You know why everybody over in England had such bad teeth for so long?

Because if anybody would have invented the toothbrush and toothpaste, a lord or lady would have gotten all of the royalties for it.

You're just a peasant.

You're like, you know what?

I'd like some minty breath next time I kiss you.

You're not going to get the royalties from it.

You're not going to get anything except a minty kiss, which quite honestly would be enough for me to invent the toothbrush.

But that's just me speaking from today's point of view.

Capitalism was the one that just broke all of the chains.

of feudalism and said to the world, if you have an idea, if you have a dream, try

May not succeed, but try it.

It never promised you success.

It gave you something much more valuable, and that is the chance.

Who is striving for the chance?

There have been no rich people, except those who were born noble or into wealth.

There's nobody that has become rich that wasn't looking for a chance.

They weren't doing, you didn't win it by lottery, and you certainly didn't do it for long through theft.

I mean,

for almost the entirety of world history, people lived in gut-grinding poverty.

You didn't live past 30 years.

There was no middle class.

That's a function of capitalism.

No middle class, no social mobility.

You didn't go from the lower class to the upper class.

Didn't happen.

Only capitalism did that.

Now, has it been distorted and perverted?

Yes, by whom?

The people who want to treat you like a serf.

The people who are like, they don't know.

I know better than them.

They're too stupid to rule themselves.

The same people that have enslaved the rest of the world for all of humanity are now winning the argument that this isn't good.

You know what?

You need somebody like me to make all the decisions for you and then take all the money in the end.

Wow.

I mean, this is a very short window of time.

Child labor used to be a necessity.

It was a necessity.

You would be out on your ear when you were 12 or 13.

Nobody could,

you had to fend for yourself.

You don't anymore.

You don't.

Why?

Because of capitalism.

All of the inventions that we take for granted, the light bulb, antibiotics, the internet, it all came into the world because people were free to dream and do.

Are we encouraging our kids to dream and do?

If you are a 20-something, Forget about all of this crap that everybody's telling you.

Dream and do it.

What's stopping you?

Honestly, what's stopping you besides fear?

What is stopping you?

I got to, you know, I'm making massive changes in my life.

And I got to a place to where, you know, my wife and I prayed on it and everything else.

But before we pray on it, we always try to make the decision and then bring it to dad and say, hey, what do you think of this?

Because I know as a dad, I don't want my kids to come at me.

What should I do now, dad?

I don't know.

Think it through.

What do you think is the best thing?

And then I could go,

great idea.

Have you thought about this?

So I approach God the same way.

What do you think, Dad?

And he'll be like,

Boy, I can't believe you're still alive.

And of all of the natural selection, I didn't think you would have survived.

Do you know about your great-great-grandparents?

Anyway,

I'm making these changes in my life.

And before we brought it to God, Tanya said,

What do you think?

And I said, I keep making the list in my head pros and cons.

And all of the negatives, they're all based in fear.

They're all based in fear.

And she just looked at me and I went, I know, I know, I know.

That's the worst reason to have.

If it's fear-based, get rid of that.

Don't make a decision ever based in fear.

Ever, ever, ever.

You will make a bad decision.

Make a decision based in love or in hope or or based in fact, not just like, you know what?

I hope my butt starts growing flowers because then my farts

won't smell so bad.

That ain't going to happen.

Okay.

Real hope based in something.

That, when you have that, you can change the world.

And it's a ripple effect.

When a guy in Ohio figured out how to mass produce steel,

it built railroads in India, not just here, in India.

When a woman in America developed a new vaccine, children in Africa lived to see adulthood.

Capitalism doesn't just create wealth, it spreads it over oceans and continents and through generations.

The inequalities of capitalism.

They point to that as if that's proof it's broken, but the truth, under capitalism, the poor today live better than the kings of the past.

Do you know there was a

well, let me just go here because I'm going to run out of time.

King Louis didn't have air conditioning.

You know where that was invented?

San Antonio.

You know where it was first put in?

A movie theater.

Do you know why?

Have you been to a building in San Antonio, Texas in the summer?

You want to kill yourself.

I would relish.

If that's how I would live, I'd be like, can we make the life expectancy only 30?

Because I don't think I can do this another 30 years.

I mean, for the love of Pete,

it came because people went, there's got to be a better way.

And you didn't need a king.

The king didn't have air conditioning.

Queen Victoria didn't have any antibiotics.

You know,

through just opening up a faucet, you couldn't have clean water arrive at your home.

And that's not the work of a dictator.

That is the work of millions of people thinking, dreaming, trading freely, innovating, competing, and not for the glory of the state, but the hope of what?

Why do they say people come here?

To build a better life for themselves and their families.

Why can you use that as, you know what?

You just against illegals.

All they're trying to do is make a better life for themselves and their family.

Wait, are you saying they can't do it here, but they can't do it there, but somehow or another under this system, which is oppressing you, they can make it.

What do they have that you don't have?

Oh, I know.

Work ethic.

A dream.

A desire.

They've seen the other side.

They don't want to live like that.

Capital isn't perfect, but it is human.

And anything human can be corrupted.

But compared to every other system in the world, it has taken more people out of poverty, rewarded more hard work, and transformed more nobodies

than any other system the world has even imagined.

And I say that as the king of nobodies.

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Do you know who Madam C.J.

Walker was?

No.

Never heard that name?

No.

Ever heard the name Oprah Winfrey?

Yeah, of course.

Okay.

Oprah Winfrey, the first famous black millionaire, made it on her own, yada, yada.

No, no,

no.

That's just Oprah.

Now, she did come from nothing and built an empire.

She did.

But when you come from nothing, how about this one?

A daughter of former slaves

who both parents died when she was seven.

and then had to work as a black woman as a laundress.

You want to talk about coming from nothing and having absolutely no advantages?

She came up with

hair care products for African Americans.

She was like, you know,

African Americans want their hair to look different, you know, than just the way it is naturally.

I came up with this product.

She was the first self-made female millionaire in the world.

She was orphaned at seven.

Her parents were born into slavery.

What?

What is it?

Your problem is what's holding you back?

I'm sorry.

I'm having a hard time hearing you.

I'm really having a.

Because I'm just looking at CJ Walker and I'm like, what, what, what?

I'm sorry.

Oh, your parents were slaves.

Oh, no, your parents weren't slaves.

Oh.

But you were an, oh, no, no, you weren't an orphan at seven.

Wow.

And you don't even know what an orphan at seven in 1873 as a black woman was like.

I don't even know.

I don't want to imagine it, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't your life.

So again, I'm trying to figure out what is it that is holding you back that didn't hold back the first black female.

Sorry, I don't even have to say black.

The first self-made female millionaire in the history of the world.

What is it that's holding you back again?

Back in a minute.

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Jason Buttrell, who's with me today, joins me filling in for Stu, who is going to be returning tomorrow from

a never-ending vacation.

How many vacation days do I give this guy?

It's crazy.

Anyway, he'll be back tomorrow.

Yeah, Glenn, you were talking about something that really hit home for me.

You were talking about just the power of just words and like speaking things into existence.

Like I am good enough to do this.

Or if on the other hand, I'm an idiot or I'm stupid and how detrimental that can be.

And it reminded me, have you been listening to the telepathy tapes?

I love the telepathy tapes.

Is your mind blown like mine?

Oh my gosh.

I haven't listened to it in about a year.

So it's on season two because I think I just listened to the first season or the first two seasons or something.

I stopped because I ran out of seasons and they said they were coming back with another season.

So I don't know where I stopped, but it's amazing.

It's insane.

It's insanely amazing.

The last one I was listening to, life-changing.

She was talking about how there's materialist scientists that only believe in like, you know, matter and what you can like, you know, basically way.

But she was saying

this kind of thing and telepathy and the possibility of it is completely changing how some scientists are even viewing just the power of thought and just how thinking it is the most, but it is the strongest power man has, is the power of

it is how Donald Trump changes the world.

He speaks it into reality.

He speaks it into, you know what we're going to do?

We're going to do this.

And then they do that.

But there is something about, and he's a, he's, he grew up with,

what is his name, Norman Vincent Peale.

So he understands.

I've talked to him about

the assassination and I've asked him, hey, are you concerned?

I mean, have we taken steps to protect you?

And he's like, I don't even want to talk about it.

I I don't want to talk about it.

Don't speak it into existence.

He lets other people do that kind of thinking for him.

He stays focused on what he needs to.

But I mean, this is the

most ancient of ideas.

In the beginning, there was the word.

Right?

Do you know what that word for word actually is in the original translation?

Logos.

In the beginning, there was logos.

What is logos?

You know?

Thought?

No, it's kind of.

It is

thought

and

spoken action.

It's the living word.

It is a word.

When it's spoken, it happens.

It's God.

Okay.

And so the original scripture is basically describing God as

thought

speaking into being.

You know what I mean?

It is,

it's why I've always said the power of I am.

I'm really struggling right now.

I need to change that because I'm creating some of the struggles that I'm having.

I am in a really exciting place right now where I am discovering new things.

That's what I should be saying.

Instead of I'm really struggling, I am in this really exciting place where I'm discovering new things.

Because that's true.

It's true.

I may not like the process I'm in right now, but I know for a fact, because I've done it so many times in my life, I know for a fact when I'm stripped down and have to reinvent, or I'm stripped down not because I have to, but because I have to, because

it just is in me.

When that happens, I don't like that process because it's gut-wrenching.

But I know at the end

something

really great is on the other side.

But why do I say, I'm sorry, but this is.

This is my couch.

And right now you are my doctor.

So shut up, take notes, and just listen.

But

I've seen it happen over and over and over again.

And yet I still create my own condition of

worry and concern by, I'm really struggling with some things right now.

No, I'm not.

I am finding myself growing closer to God every day.

One of my concerns is, I got to get closer to God.

I got to get closer to God.

Instead of saying, I got to get closer to God, I am getting closer to God every day because I know I have to.

So I am.

So why wouldn't I say I am on the road of rediscovering the closest relationship I've ever had with God?

Why do we as humans always flip that to the negative instead of saying the other?

And I really think that those who have that ability to flip it,

honestly, this is one of the things I'm really struggling with right now.

One of the things I'm discovering is how to do my job and to flip it

around.

Instead of talking about the problems of socialism that we're facing right now, which we've done a million times,

today

I was looking at all the things that I can talk about and I saw several stories about socialism and thought, okay, instead of just talking about the same problems that we all know about, oh, Mom Donnie's going to win.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it.

We got it.

You know, they got a socialist guy who's also running in Minnesota.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got got it.

Instead, why don't I flip that around and go, do you know what capitalism is?

Do you really realize how, and you're stuck on what?

CJ Walker, she was slave.

Her parents were slaves.

She was orphaned at seven and she became the first female millionaire in the world because she had an idea, an idea.

And what did she do?

She pursued that idea.

She spoke.

She didn't care.

You're black.

You can't do that.

She didn't care.

She didn't care.

We've done such an injustice to so many people.

You know, the cream of wheat guy?

I can't remember his name right now, but

see, see what they've done.

See what capitalism's done.

You know who that guy was?

That guy ran the best hotel, sorry, the best restaurant in the best hotel in Chicago.

It might have been the Palmer House in Chicago in the 1920s and 30s.

He was a black guy.

You know, he looks the way he looks because he insisted on making sure that it looked like his face every single time.

They went to him because he ran, he was well known for running the best restaurant in Chicago.

Hey, do you want to be the face of this?

Because we could use, you know, we could leverage this.

They raped him.

No, they paid him handsomely.

And he was happy about it.

And his family was happy about it.

Aunt Jemima, she was paid handsomely.

Her family was happy about it.

Until a bunch of do-good white people showed up and were like, you know what?

This is wrong.

We're going to correct the errors that people made when they were so bigoted.

You have no idea.

The Aunt Jemima people are like, what are you doing to our family?

What are you doing?

Why are you taking, why are you destroying that for us?

You just have to change.

We have got

to change the way we think.

Especially trying to explain socialism and capitalism as concepts to kids these days.

I just have to tell you this because

it's not easy to do.

It's also not easy to

be like my kid and have both a government and a movie assignment while they're in college.

But I took advantage of this, Glenn, not too long ago.

They were doing the same thing.

They were talking about concepts, socialism, capitalism.

I was trying to describe it, couldn't really do it.

But then later that night, we had to watch The Matrix because I had to watch The Matrix.

Because that was like the review that he had to do of the movie.

That's a college.

I went to college the wrong time.

He also did shape.

Watch a movie.

Okay.

I guess so.

But we were watching the movie and there's this one point where

Morpheus takes Neo into The Matrix and he's trying to teach him how to unleash himself and fight.

And there was this one point where he was talking about how the Matrix puts these restrictions, puts these guidelines, basically tells you what you can or cannot do.

And there's one point where Neo just cannot get it.

And finally, Neo pauses the Matrix and he says,

Morpheus pauses the Matrix and says, you don't live under these restrictions anymore.

It's not about what you, it's all about what you think.

And then he goes, do you really think you're breathing right now?

And then Neo looks up at the, up at Morpheus like, huh.

Immediately I paused it.

And I was like, that's it.

This is it.

This is it.

This is what I've been trying to tell you.

It was a monarchical system back during the Revolutionary War.

We created a completely different revolutionary system.

It was an experiment.

What was that experiment?

You're seeing it being fought now between socialism and collectivism.

They put the restrictions.

They tell you what to think.

This system, the reason why it's so revolutionary, so different,

worth fighting for, is because now it's all in your head.

You put those restrictions.

It's in your mind.

And so my son, won't say his name, I said, do you think you're really breathing right now?

And he looked up at the sky and was like, huh.

Then we pressed play and kept watching.

I think it works, though.

You know what?

You're exactly right.

You're exactly right.

They control.

And every student should know this.

Get out a piece of paper and pencil, write this down, because it's going to be on the test.

Oh, thank you for that little box.

Oh,

I'm not here to discover and think and learn how to think.

I'm here to memorize for a test that you can give me a test to see if I follow all the rules.

Even if those little tests mean nothing because they're nothing but dates and names and they don't mean anything.

I don't even know what the story is.

I will promptly forget everything that is on that test the minute I finish that test.

I'm not going to use it ever again.

That's what they've done.

That's what they've done.

That's the box you need to get out.

Let me just, let me just say this.

What people, what human beings truly want, I'm so empty inside.

Nothing has meaning.

What you are yearning for is fulfilling work.

Strong friendships, real friendships.

Might be only four in your life, might be two, might be one person in your life that is truly a friend and a partner.

Capitalism does not prevent any of these.

You know what prevents those and other things?

Fear.

Risk aversion.

I don't know.

I don't know if I want to trade that for this.

I don't know.

You're afraid to risk.

You're trapped in fear.

And if those two don't get you, you just have the lack of will to put the effort effort into it.

It's not gonna work out right away.

No, life is not McDonald's.

It's not, thank God.

It's not McDonald's.

Building anything of meaning,

building your self-esteem requires that you show up.

You gotta show up, first of all.

By the way, if you just take a job and you show up, you will be the manager within months.

I swear to God, just show up and just do what they ask you to do.

That's it.

Just do that.

Do it right.

You will rule the world.

You'll be president of the United States by the time you're 35.

I'm convinced of it.

Show up.

Learn the rules.

Take

smart risks.

Engage with people even when it is awkward.

And your whole life will change.

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all right welcome to the uh program well i gotta tell you the the president the president's brilliant really really quite brilliant

He was just in this press conference, and

it is packed.

It's like a tank of sharks.

Just trying to eat.

And it's the, they're saying that it is the most crowded a briefing room has been.

And he's just been up there for an hour just taking questions.

I mean, he has look,

he has cut the press out in many ways.

He doesn't meet with, you know, for special interviews, et cetera, et cetera.

He just, whenever he's around the press, he just stops and talks.

And people can see him talk.

And,

you know, I've missed a lot of it because I've been yapping myself.

But we're going to have more on this later in the day and then tomorrow as well.

But, you know, they were just like, you know, can we, you're building a big, beautiful ballroom.

Can we build a bigger press room?

And he's like, no, I don't want you guys comfortable.

And then he smiled.

He was telling the truth, but he actually delivered it in a very Reagan-esque sort of way.

This week, we probably will have more on this also later this week.

He's going to Alaska

to meet with Vladimir Putin.

And, you know, the naysayers are like, oh, see, that's a win for Vladimir Putin because they think Alaska is theirs.

Yeah, well, it's not now, is it?

So, I mean, you could flip this around and go, hmm, that's kind of shoving it in his face.

Oh, you know what?

Why don't you come to the state of Alaska and meet with me, the president of all 50 states?

We have 50 of them.

Did you know that?

One of them is Alaska.

It's not yours anymore.

I mean, I don't know why everybody has to say, oh, see, he's giving him a win.

No, he's rubbing his nose in it.

You could look at it that way just as easily.

All right, we'll see you tomorrow.

Stay safe.

God save the Republic.

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