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Hello, America.

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Today, we're going to talk about fires

and responsibility, taking personal responsibility.

I don't want to make it about politics,

but in some ways, because in America today, everything is political,

even responsibility.

We're going to have to cross those streams, but

I pray that I can do it in a very compassionate way because people's lives are at stake.

People have lost everything,

but they are the right kind of people.

You know what I'm saying?

They're the people that everybody cares about.

And that really bothers me because we were still, in fact, we're still in Lahaina.

Mercury 1 is.

We're in California, so you know that we're in California and doing everything we can there.

But we're also still in North Carolina, where people are shivering in tents

not able to get any help really from the government and nobody seems to care about those people but because I've seen this person in in a movie or on TV or on Netflix all of a sudden we're supposed to care they are the people that

have the most resources.

They're not the people that just couldn't find a hotel.

They're not the people who are looking for FEMA to give them their $700 so they can try to live on that.

No, these are the people who have millions of dollars and can go and stay at, you know, the peninsula of Beverly Hills.

It's a tragedy, but it is an inconvenience.

It is not life-threatening for these people after they get out of the way of real danger with the fire, which is no small

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So

let's talk about what's happening in California.

And my heart is truly heavy for those people

who have families in California, the people in California that have lost their homes or still fearing that they might lose their home.

You know,

this is a rate.

If you've never seen a forest fire, you can't really describe it.

It's almost like a tornado.

Unless you've been in a tornado or seen the damage afterwards, you really don't know what you're talking about with a tornado.

It is unlike anything I've ever seen.

Same thing with a forest fire.

We had a small forest fire here

up in the mountains.

of Idaho.

Last summer, it was just about, I don't know, two miles down the street from me.

Luckily, the winds weren't there.

But if the winds had kicked up, it probably would have burned my house down.

I mean, it is,

you cannot describe a forest fire.

It is, when it's out of control, you have no chance.

Just get out of there.

And my heart breaks for people who are going through this right now and breaks for the people of California.

Let me address that person right now.

If you happen to to be in California, know that you're not alone.

You may feel like the flames have stolen everything from you, but, and I was thinking about this, well, this summer when I came back from that forest fire and thought all of this could be gone.

The things that you have in your house, they are just things, but there are certain things, memories, pictures, things that you have collected over the years with your family that can't be replaced.

And I know what that must feel like

but

two things

one you're alive you have your family

and help is on the way my charity Mercury one is along with the Red Cross and everybody else is working tirelessly to bring relief and comfort and assistance to those who are affected right now

we are

We are doing what our government is asking us to do.

We don't want to get into the way of forest or firefighters.

They have enough trouble.

But

I want to talk to you first with compassion about why this keeps happening and what California needs to do about it.

This is not my state.

This is their state.

But if you're asking for our help,

you know,

one of the hardest things I've ever had to do is

I had a friend I went to church with,

and he called me one time, and he said, Glenn, I really need, I don't remember what it was, let's just say $1,000,

because

I got to get home, some family stuff.

And

I was about to say yes, but

in my faith,

it's the largest

welfare

program, I think, in the world.

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in my faith.

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You know, is there anything I'm missing here?

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He said, yes.

He said, this particular individual is struggling.

And

We've been helping him for a while, but he won't connect with the problem and correct the problems.

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He'll call people and they'll just give him money, and then that hurts it.

He said, So, I'm going to ask you to do the thing that is probably going to be the hardest thing you've ever done.

I know you have the money to help, please don't, because it will set him back

and not let him feel the full ramifications.

And I said,

Okay, so I had to call my friend back and say, I can't right now.

And I felt awful.

I felt absolutely awful about it but if we don't talk and face

the problem

you're never going to solve it

now this again is not my problem

California it you're not my problem okay I mean I want to help and as as a citizen of America you're another citizen you are my neighbor I want to help I want to help people all around the world.

But first, you have to help yourself.

You know, natural disasters most times are out of our control.

The extent of the destruction in California, you know, could be mitigated if we made smarter choices about how, you know, Californians manage their land and their resources and their votes.

California has been playing with fire, literally, for a long time.

Their forests are full of underbrush, dead trees, dried vegetation, which is kindling for those flames.

The material builds up on the forest floor.

It's a perfect condition for fire.

If you're going to start a fire, go to California because that's a perfect condition.

I'm not saying that literally, by the way.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

You know, you go to places like Sweden or Finland or Austria, countries that have large, vulnerable forests, they understand the importance of forest management and they prioritize the clearing out of the underbrush and the dead trees.

And they, because they're a little socialist in nature, They do it in a sustainable way.

They partner with local industries that will take that material from the forest floor and they use it as biomass energy for other products.

So it doesn't just reduce the fire risk, it creates jobs and a healthier ecosystem.

Here in America, some states do it right.

I mean, Florida has fires, but not like California.

Why?

Because they do controlled burns, forest thinning, routine practices.

You know what?

Honestly, God does this.

Lightning.

Before we would put forest fires out or could,

Lightning would strike and that would burn the forest down and it replenishes the soil and everything else.

Well, we don't want to do that because our houses are now surrounded in, you know, by trees and forest and everything else.

So we have to either do a controlled burn or we have to go in and take all of that stuff that lightning would have taken out to replenish everything.

But Californias won't do that.

Why?

The answer lies in bureaucracy and priorities.

And

really really honestly, eggheads.

You know, these people from the cities that want to manage our forest have no idea.

It's common sense.

The environmental regulations, the lawsuits that block or delay any kind of forest management, ideology has gotten in the way of the practical, the life-saving solutions.

And this has to change, California.

It has to.

You see devastation every year.

And, you know, honestly,

I really don't like insurance companies.

But insurance companies, what they do, it's honestly, it's legal gambling.

They are gambling that you are going to pay them more money than they have to pay out as a collective.

Somebody's house might burn down.

You might have something catastrophic, cancer, or something that costs a buttload of money.

but they're betting that all of the people in their community, they're sharing the risk and not everybody's gonna get cancer at the same time.

That way they can make money.

It's legalized gambling.

Honestly, it is.

Well, that's the way insurance works.

And I don't like insurance companies because many times they're

scamming people or hurting people.

However, Let's not blame the insurance companies for getting out.

If I'm a company and I have to make a bet, I'm pulling out of California.

It's landslides, it's fires, it's floods, it's every year whole swaths of the state are

burning down to the ground.

What kind of bet is that?

How do you keep a country?

Now, what they'll say is they'll do what they did when you couldn't get flood insurance on the coastlines.

We used to say, well, then don't live there.

Or if you live there, accept the risk yourself.

Okay.

Instead, we didn't think that was fair.

So we came up with government funding.

If you couldn't get flood insurance, no longer was it.

Don't live in a flood zone.

Build your house somewhere else.

I don't know if you've seen the country, but there's lots of open space.

Don't build in a flood zone.

Instead,

we wanted to help everybody live their dreams.

So now we pay as a federal government for insurance for the coastlines.

Why?

Okay.

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We all know that, I mean, when we look for life on another planet, we look for water.

Because water is essential to life, at least the life we understand.

And that is a major issue in California and has been forever.

However, California, take responsibility for the fires to some degree.

You haven't built a new major reservoir since 1979.

That was four decades ago.

Now, I don't know if you know this, but 40 years ago, the population of your state was not the population that it is now.

So the reservoirs that you had 40 years ago is way out of step with your population and your needs today.

Your water storage capacity is exactly the same as it was almost half a century ago.

And on top of that, and this is something Trump has addressed recently,

billions with a B, billions of gallons of rainwater flow straight into the ocean every year because

you haven't built the infrastructure to capture and store the rainwater now imagine what could be different if you had reservoir and aqueducts and desalad desalination uh plants to store and provide water for all of the dry seasons

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California has spent decades neglecting its water infrastructure while prioritizing project projects that make no meaningful impact on people's lives.

This is not a failure just of government.

It is a failure of vision.

When a leader is not around, when the people lack leadership, there is no vision.

And without vision, people perish.

That's what's happening.

Now, on leadership,

I'm sorry to make this about politics, but you have to learn the lesson.

It has to be said.

How you vote matters.

Look at Los Angeles.

The progressive mayor cut the fire department's budget to fund other programs, to give money and housing, they say, for the homeless, but it's also illegal programs, and she gave it to NGOs.

Now,

these NGOs, they're not fighting fires.

In comparison of the cost of lives, homes, and communities that have been lost in these fires, those NGOs, there's no comparison dollar for dollar.

You have to have leadership that prioritizes the safety and the well-being of the citizens over their political agendas.

And that's not happening in Los Angeles.

Okay, it wasn't happening in Lahaina either.

Same goes for the environmental policies.

Progressive leaders block sensible forest management practices because they're more concerned about pleasing activists than protecting lives.

They're more concerned about the dead trees in the forest than they are about the live animals who live in that forest.

It's not compassionate.

It's dangerous.

Now at Mercury One, we help everybody.

I don't care where you come from.

I don't care who you voted for.

We are there for you.

But we're also in North Carolina and other areas reeling from the hurricanes.

We're also still in Lahaina and no one's talking about those guys.

And they will be out of a home for years.

They're not the celebrity influencers who can afford to stay in a luxury hotel.

God

and the universe, for those in California, require us to do everything we can to help our neighbor, but help ourselves before we expect others.

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Ronald Reagan is in office.

Do you know the date, November 7th, 1983?

It's a night that echoes in the halls of American history.

It is the date that a radical group known as M19 bombed the north wing of the United States Capitol.

They bombed it.

It went off.

You don't know that date, November 7th, 1983?

I mean, isn't that the day that democracy almost died?

It was

worse than the Civil War?

oh no no sorry that was january 6th which all of us know january 6th why not november 7th 1983

now the group that did it m19 claimed they were fighting imperialism

what they really were fighting for uh was the threat to the foundations of democracy

these were radicals now why am i bringing this up today Because if you're going to understand

today

and the future, you have to understand the past.

And one name is out right now that people are talking about that you need to understand who this individual is.

This individual is currently the mayor of Los Angeles.

Her name is Karen Bass.

Now, this is the same mayor that was over in Ghana.

And

when she got back with the fires, She was asked,

you know, do you have any comment?

You were over in Ghana.

Is dereliction of duty?

What were you doing?

You have any message to the people of Los Angeles?

Listen to this exchange.

Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?

Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?

Have you nothing to say today?

She's standing in the airport.

Absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today.

Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.

Are you considering your position?

Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster?

No apology for them.

Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?

Now she's standing, you know that part that, you know, where

it bends to go right into the

right into the airplane, you know, right as you're going down the ramp, and then it bends into the airplane.

She's standing right at that bend.

She was actually looking through the window of the glass at security because she gets special treatment.

She gets to not go through the airport.

She can just go down those stairs.

And a car will pick her up and whisk her away.

So she's standing there looking at security like, open the door.

When are you going to open the door?

Finally, she just looks through and shakes her head and gets instruction, just go the other way.

So she leaves.

Now,

what does she,

what does she have to say?

Well, not a lot.

Not a lot.

But let's understand who she is and why she doesn't have a lot to say.

Karen Bass built her career as a community activist.

Oh, there's a code word we now understand what it means.

The activism

is a polite term now

for her history.

She's an activist.

Well, okay.

Her history is tied to radicalism, Marxism, and a dangerous ideology that bled from the fringes into the mainstream here recently.

So let's start with the facts on her.

Back in the 1970s, Karen Bass was not just a casual traveler to Cuba.

Were there any?

When she went to Cuba, many, many times,

she was a devoted participant in what's called the Vensoramos Brigade.

What is that?

I never heard of it.

Well, it's a Marxist training program directly tied to Fidel Castro's regime.

Between 1969 and today, this group has sent hundreds of young Americans to Cuba, not for a vacation, not for cultural exchange, but for radicalization.

You don't join the Vensoramos Brigade because you want to learn, you know, what is that?

What is the emoji with the salsa dancer?

Can I use that if I join the Vensoramos?

That's not what that's about.

It's not about good Cuban coffee.

You join because you're a confirmed Marxist-Leninist.

A Los Angeles police investigator testified before Congress about this group.

He said members were trained in guerrilla warfare, sabotage, and bomb-making.

These are not idealists.

They're insurgents in training.

Karen Bass, she wasn't just a participant.

She was a leader.

She visited Cuba repeatedly, they say every six months.

We could verify eight times.

She praised Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba, who was imprisoning dissenters, left a legacy of poverty and fear.

In fact, this is not just her youth.

She's still there.

When Castro died, she was one of them who called his death a great loss to the people of Cuba.

Really?

A loss to the same people who risked their lives freeing his regime, trying to get out of Cuba?

This is Karen Bass.

She's the Los Angeles mayor, one of the largest cities in the United States of America.

So let's fast forward to the president.

Four million people.

A city on fire, literally and figuratively.

Wildfires raging across the city.

Firefighters begging for resources like water.

Mayor Bass had other priorities.

Instead of supporting her own fire department, she cut their funding.

Where's the money going?

to NGOs, non-government institutions.

That will be understood.

NGOs, non-governmental institutions or organizations, that will come to know you'll have, that's code

for leftist activists most times.

And she gave the firefighting money to homeless NGOs who are fighting for the rights of illegal immigrants.

Oh.

Now they're packaging that as she gave money to fight homelessness.

Okay.

Well, homelessness is a crisis, but let's let's not kid ourselves.

Los Angeles has poured billions of dollars into solving this problem, and

it ends up in tent cities, open-air drug markets, streets lined with garbage and human waste, chaos spreading.

And wait, what does she do?

She defunds the people who are fighting fires.

That's not, you don't take money away from the firefighters in an area of the country that's known for firefighting.

They don't even have enough firefighters.

Okay.

First responders,

the people that run into buildings.

Instead, she's in a different building in a different hemisphere.

She's in Ghana

attending the swearing-in ceremonies of the, I guess, the president of Ghana, who I don't know anything about.

Stu I asked to look it up, who maybe give us an update here in a second.

So her city is burning, and Mayor Bass was thousands of miles away rubbing elbows at a presidential inauguration in Ghana.

Is that leadership or is that dereliction of duty?

I mean, you know, you can go, but was she on taxpayer funds going to Ghana?

Why was she there?

Anyway, let's go back to the radical history for a minute, because it didn't end with Even Seramos brigade.

M19, the same group that bombed the Capitol in 1983, had direct ties to Cuba and the brigade.

Remember, she's a leader in this.

Now, Susan Rosenberg, she was one of the women that traveled to Cuba and returned as a domestic terrorist, shared the same ideological roots as Karen Bass.

I'm not saying Karen Bass planted the bomb or anything, but let's be clear.

She was part of exactly the same radical network.

She called Fidel Castro charismatic.

She praised the dictator who was brutalizing his people.

She aligned herself with a movement that believed in revolutionary violence, including the bombing of the Capitol.

Now,

she hasn't reformed.

She hasn't come out and said, oh my gosh, have I learned my lesson?

That was all really bad.

I was a stupid kid.

No.

No, she's held on to those things.

And in fact, she was considered a frontrunner for the vice president under Joe Biden.

Her record was so toxic, so troubling, that even the Democratic Party said, well, I don't know, can we do that?

When your Marxist roots are too bad, too heavy for the Democrats, the progressives in Washington, D.C.

today,

that says something.

So here we are.

40 years since the Capitol bombing, something that people just don't remember because, well, the media didn't make it into a big deal.

And the ideology that fueled that bombing is alive and well and sitting in the mayor's office in Los Angeles.

Karen Bass is just using new words.

She's fighting for justice, for equity.

She's fighting for the people.

But what has her leadership actually brought?

Homeless encampments.

Not housing.

Tent cities.

Fires burning out of control.

Fire department stretched to its limits, millions are funneled to political pet projects, and all the while, the city is spiraling deeper and deeper into chaos.

November 7th, 1983.

I want you to remember that date because the seeds of radicalism planted then are still bearing fruit today.

And Karen Bass?

Well, she's not just a relic of that radical past.

She, in many ways, is a torchbearer.

By the way, I got tipped off by this by a short documentary I saw on Karen Bass from Errol Weber.

Errol Weber is

a very smart guy who did a great, great job on this.

We tried to contact him to get him to tell this story on the air today.

We didn't get a recall back.

He lives in Los Angeles, and we hope and pray that we just missed each other.

And it's not because

he is in jeopardy or his family is in jeopardy or his home and neighborhood is in jeopardy because of these same fires.

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So,

before

we leave the realm of Karen Bass, the Los Angeles mayor who cut the funding of the fire departments, let me just share this little little piece, a report from 2022 on the fire chief.

Listen to this.

I am super inspired.

She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity.

People ask me, well, what number are you looking for?

I said, I'm not looking for a number.

It's never enough.

Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now.

She's already looking at ways to change that.

She's quick to point out out that doing so has a greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job.

They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team.

The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department.

She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community.

That just kind of older.

So, by the way, she just was looking for new fire people

and, you know, but diverse fire people.

They still don't have enough fire people.

They still don't have everybody covered that they need.

But good that we have a diverse team there, especially today.

Here's James Woods, the actor, talking about his home and describing what it was like

in this fire.

Listen to this.

I posted this on Expit, but Sarah was on with her eight-year-old niece last night.

She came out,

I'm sorry, just, you know, one day you're swimming in the pool and the next day it's all gone, but she came out with her little yeti piggy bank

for us to rebuild our house.

Oh my gosh.

James Woods,

we all hope that you will be able to rebuild your house, maybe starting with that little yeti piggy bank.

And we're just glad that you're okay

and your wife is okay.

Yeah, no, I mean, this is real and it's raw.

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You don't need, you are, you know what?

Strength is not measured by whether you hold in crying or not.

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Well,

California is on fire again.

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Let's talk here a little bit about the fires.

Let's go back to some of the audio.

Here's a woman who has just been

kicked out of her house

and she's going to lose her house, but

home insurance also was taken away all of the coverage just a few weeks before.

Cut three.

They've lived in this house

for

75 years,

and they've had the same insurance.

And these insurance people decided to cancel their fire.

And we're going through this, and it just happened, and they have no fire insurance.

So

thank you, California Insurance Companies, supporting

residents who pay taxes and love California.

And they wonder why people leave California.

I don't know what insurance company she was talking about.

And she

would lead you to believe that it was some state insurance, but I'm not aware of any state fire insurance that is run through the state.

I know that Allstate was one of those companies that about a year ago, Wright Stew decided they were going to start cutting insurance in California.

There's several, yeah, several different stories like that.

But yes, one of them was within the past year, actually a few months in some cases.

So

look, let's say some unpopular things here, but they have to be said.

Insurance companies are at times monsters.

They're horrible to deal with.

Because of federal regulation and because of Obamacare, now you have bean counters making decisions instead of doctors.

Your doctor is not making making the decision.

Your insurance company is making the decision in many, many cases.

And that's monstrous.

But that's because of federal regulation.

Okay?

That's because that's they've been incentivized to do all of those things.

It's a horrible, horrible thing.

You want to fix insurance?

You can fix it by getting government out of it and stop with all the restrictions.

It is a private company.

Most of these are private companies or publicly publicly traded companies.

And the point of a company is to make money.

Now, insurance, the insurance game is, if I get a big enough pool, I can cover people's tragedies.

You know, nobody says anything when they write a $5 million check for Joe Blow's cancer treatment.

Because Joe Blow will say, well, I paid for it.

Well, no, you probably paid $10,000 over your history, and they're going to pay out $5 million.

So if you want to look at this as gambling, they lose,

or do they?

Because while you paid $10,000, so did everybody else in the plan.

And in the end, they're banking on the fact that they'll have some profit left over from that if they, you know, if the numbers play out the way they are intended to play out through actuaries.

So,

here's the real problem with this.

If you live in California and

you're living by the beach, mudslides, you got to hide up on the hill.

I don't think you should be able to get insurance or your insurance should be so I bleed expensive because that's posing a greater risk.

If you're living in California, fire until they change the laws and start actually cleaning out the forests and doing the things with water like building reservoirs, there's no way

you're going to keep these fires under control.

And so me as a business person, I don't want to be in California.

Me as a business person, I'm not even in insurance.

California is too big a risk to my company to move my company to California.

So I don't do business there.

Well, insurance companies have the same right to do that.

Where the rubber meets the road here is they did it five weeks ago.

If you bought a house in a place where where all of a sudden insurance says, I'm not going to cover this, I don't think they should be able to give you, you know, five weeks, maybe a year.

They should say, look, we're going to cancel your insurance in six months or a year.

You've got to find either get out of that neighborhood because you're going to probably have to self-fund your insurance or you're going to have to find somebody else to do it.

And I don't think five weeks is a reasonable amount of time

to turn that around.

Do you still?

No, there has to be some sort of cushion.

I know a lot of

legally there is in many cases.

I don't know all the specifics of the California law.

You'd think there, if anything, they would be over-protective in favor of against the companies.

But who knows?

There has to be some sort of rational thing.

You can't, you know, you shouldn't just be able to cancel something

as the fire rolls in.

Right.

It's not exactly fair.

Usually it comes at the end of a term, though, right?

You come to an agreement and you have a year-long policy, right?

And that policy ends at some point and they can choose not to renew you.

They should give you some sort of notice on that.

Notice.

If we're thinking getting out in California,

you shouldn't be notified of that

at the end of the term.

Right.

And

right.

It shouldn't just be like, by the way,

your policy is over next week and we are not going to renew it.

There should be something built into that, obviously, to protect people.

But, like, you know, it's a tough balance, right?

Like, we are building really, really expensive houses in areas, in this particular case, that are very prone to fire, but also on the coasts of OS.

Floods and landscapes and earthquakes.

They're prone to everything.

Yes.

And not to mention, every disaster movie goes through L.A.

You never know when, if there's going to be a shark NATO, you know it's hitting there.

Correct.

And then, of course, all over the country, though.

This is Florida.

This is all over the place.

We're putting really expensive homes in areas that are threatened by hurricanes and every other natural disaster.

And, you know,

that doesn't always like something like this is.

How does an insurance company even come close to handling it?

I saw a picture of one of the overhead of one of the communities that's been totally wiped out by this fire.

Yes.

And it was a Zillow page.

And every house on the page was $5 million, $3 million, $8 million, $7 million.

I can't even imagine the destruction and the cost of it.

I don't know how any insurance company could handle it after that.

No.

Let me just, if you happen to be watching the Blaze, let me show you a video.

And Stu, maybe you can describe it.

This is the view flying into Los Angeles, into LAX yesterday.

Watch this.

It's cut seven, please.

Yeah, I mean, you see one of the typical hills you see out there in LA, and it's just half of the mountain is just covered in flames.

It just, it looks like, you know, the entire

on fire.

Yeah, yeah, it does.

It looks like hell.

Looks like you're flying into hell.

It looks like one of those

old coal mines that catches on fire and they can't put it out, and it just lights on fire for like 50 years.

That's what it looks like from the air.

Incredible.

It's remarkable what's happening in California.

And, you know, you don't want to do the blame game,

but

I certainly do want to talk about common sense.

I mean, look, the fire, the insurance companies,

they've always covered.

And if you want to say this is about global warming, fine.

Then why are the banks still writing?

Why are they still writing mortgages for those homes that are, for instance, by the sea,

by the forests.

Why are they still writing mortgages?

They're writing mortgages knowing that if you can't pay, they get the property.

Well, that's a really bad investment for them.

That's a really bad deal for them.

They're fiscally irresponsible for their own shareholders if they're writing policies where they know those areas are going to be unlivable.

That you're just because people will just walk away from those houses.

If the sea levels really do rise and those beaches erode there in Malibu, if you're so close to

forests and it's going to burn your house down in California, it's unlivable.

Why would the banks continue to write the mortgages?

Answer, because global warming isn't serious.

It's not real.

Otherwise, you would see these banking institutions saying, we're not going to do anything on the coast.

That's it's bad business for us.

And so, you know, when you look at what's going to happen in these cities, first of all, I want to tell you in a few minutes, I'm going to tell you the story about the Great San Francisco fire.

The facts on that one, compared to today,

is remarkable, absolutely remarkable.

But this time in the rebuilding, what do you think is going to happen on the rebuilding?

Do you think that's going to be an easy process?

I mean, if I want to just talk politics, and I hate it when people do this, but I mean, just to make the point on how bad it's going to be, these are the bluest people of blue people.

This is like Smurf City.

Okay,

they're all blue.

And

they soon will be red because they're now going to have to deal with the laws and regulations themselves of rebuilding there.

And do you think the government's going to expedite the California government going to expedite the permitting process?

Do you think they're going to make it easier to build houses and rebuild in that area?

Or is a group of elites going to get together and say, well, we can redesign this whole thing?

Wait, wait, wait.

It's all all been burned to the ground.

Let's think of what other regulations would we like?

That's what's going to happen.

Yeah, I think you're right.

And they are,

to your point earlier as well, they're going to blame climate change for every little bit of this fire.

And the reason they're going to do it is because it's the only excuse that doesn't point the finger at them.

Every other thing, they have to say it's SUVs.

They have to say it.

They have to say it's your fault in Indiana for

driving an SUV too many miles because if not, everything points at them.

Every little point of the management is their fault.

But do they matter?

Do they does it matter to them?

Listen to this cut from CNN.

This is Newsom talking to Anderson Cooper.

Listen to how Governor Newsom answers this question from Anderson.

Cut nine.

What is the situation with water?

Obviously, in Palisade, we ran out last night in the hydrants.

I was hearing the firefighter on this block.

They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.

The local folks are trying to figure that out.

I mean, just when you have a system there, it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity, or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system.

I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.

You have something at this scale, but again, that's going to be determined by the local.

Okay, so it's not the state's fault he's not he can't help you on that the local people have to figure out the water situation but wait isn't the state involved in every water decision made in california

there's some real issues there

All right, let me take a quick break.

Come back in just a second.

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So there's a couple of things here.

I just want to go through some of the audio and video of what it's like in California.

Play Cut 6.

This is a local news report from KTLA

showing how bulldozers are now being used.

The cars that I'm looking at right now, there are Mercedes, there are Teslas, there are cyber trucks here.

Very nice vehicles.

But the owners decided to take their keys keys and just take off so emergency officials once again said you can't do that you shouldn't do that that causes more of an emergency situation for them to try to get to these homes and the condominiums because they're not exactly sure if up that hill if there are people up there

it is uh kind of a remarkable scene to see i mean but wouldn't you do that if you're freaking out

You know,

you take the keys, you put it in your pocket, because that's the last thing you're thinking of.

You're just saying, I got to get out of my car and get out of here and run.

But people are taking their keys, and so nobody can move the cars.

So they're just bringing in bulldozers, and they're just bulldozing very expensive cars off to the side.

Yeah.

What are you going to do?

You got to get them out of the way.

Did you see the clip on the local news clip where the guy came up and he's like, he's talking to some resident and he's like, well, you know, I just want to tell people, if you happen to be out on the roads and you got to abandon your car, please leave your keys in your car because we need to move it out of the way for the fire trucks.

And the host host is like, ah, yes, that's a great advice.

Thank you so much.

And what's your name, sir?

Steve Gutenberg.

The actor from the police academy movies.

But like, it's just such a weird thing

because,

you know, look, obviously these people,

as you point out, very, very politically opposed to us.

And, you know, they're elitists.

And we complain all the time, but they're people and they're losing their lives,

their livelihoods, uh their their homes their uh in many cases you know their child their children grew up in these homes and they have memories in these homes and like you know just like it could hit anywhere else it's just weird right like it makes it weird it's like those disaster movies they put them in new york and in in la for a reason because people they're big familiar cities with you know with giant homes and giant buildings and like that's why they're there and like this is kind of happening here at the same time you're probably not old enough enough to remember the name Erwin Allen.

Do you remember him?

No.

Erwin Allen was the guy who was the brain behind the Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, Earthquake.

All of those big disaster movies were Erwin Allen.

I think Airport 77 was Erwin Allen.

Okay.

And Erwin Allen movies were known for one thing, disaster

and all of the celebrities you could possibly fit into one movie.

This is like an Erwin Allen disaster movie in real time.

It's got like all the celebrities in it.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

It's, I, they don't want to be in this one, but uh, no, they don't want to be in this one, but but they're in it.

You know, you're just like, oh my gosh, I know the, he's in this too, huh?

Yeah.

Wow, they got everybody.

It's weird.

It's really amazing.

Yeah, it's like it's like if you're watching a news broadcast and you saw like a friend of yours from high school.

You know what I mean?

Like it's just weird to see familiar faces in this because luckily, most of the time, these things aren't hitting you.

You're watching it hit somebody else.

You know, just statistically, that's going to happen.

Here it's hitting these guys.

And, you know, I mean, you think about some of these homes, Glenn.

There was one of the fires in the Hollywood Hills.

These are some of the most expensive homes in the world we're talking about.

Yeah, and when you say that, it's

I am conflicted on it

because I

I have compassion for them because you're losing your house, your family, everything else is gone.

So you have compassion, but you're also like, yeah, but you have the money that the people in the hurricanes did not have to just go to some, you know, go to Fiji for a few weeks.

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Ever hear the

ever utter the phrase, will they ever learn?

Will they ever learn?

You might say that about your kids from time to time.

Are you ever going to learn this lesson?

We learn from disaster, usually, our own usually created disaster, or something terrible happens to you.

Somebody dies tragically, something happens, your life turns, you know, on one moment.

And you can either take that and learn from it, or you can wallow in what's happened to you.

and that leads to your own destruction.

And that's where I think God says, Will they ever learn?

Will they ever learn?

This isn't bad.

This, yes, changed their course, but it's not bad.

It doesn't have to be.

Take the bad, and now find out what you want to do with that.

How do you grow from that?

Let me tell you a great story about this.

It relates to the fires in California.

It was early, early

in the morning.

It was April 18th,

And

people were jolted out of bed.

They were on their feet.

They could feel the

earth beneath them trembling.

Not a shudder.

It was a violent, relentless earthquake.

Tore through buildings, streets, lives, merciless power.

But it only lasted 42 seconds.

But in 42 seconds, everything changed.

The ground rippled like waves.

It split open streets.

It swallowed homes entirely.

Buildings crumbled as if they were made of paper.

The great palace hotel, which was a symbol of the city's wealth and prestige, collapsed, smoldering ruin.

People were screaming in terror

for those 42 seconds.

But they scream and ran in terror in the minutes and hours that followed.

The earthquake was only the beginning in 1906 in San Francisco.

What followed there was an inferno unlike anybody had ever really seen.

It reduced the entire city to ash.

Firefighters back then with the steam-powered pumps

They were brave, they were desperate.

They tried to battle the flames, but just like today, no water.

The water lines back then were severed because of the quake.

No way to stop the blaze.

Last-ditch effort,

they decided to dynamite the buildings.

Can you imagine this?

They decided that they had to take dynamite and blow up all of the buildings, everything, to create some sort of a fire break.

And so they did.

It didn't work.

By the time the fires burnt out, 80% of San Francisco was gone.

80% of the city, nearly 500 city blocks, 28,000 buildings were destroyed.

3,000 people were dead.

Half of the population of the city, 250,000 men, women, and children, homeless.

Now, what we're looking at is bad, but it's not this.

They were living for weeks and weeks and weeks in makeshift tents.

They were living in parks, on the beaches, in the streets.

And for a long time, the air that they were breathing was filled with smoke and ash.

And it wasn't just the city that burned.

It was the livelihoods, the futures, the dreams.

People came to San Francisco at that time because it was a new fresh start.

Well, when you're faced with those times,

you have a decision.

I'm not living here.

I mean, I don't know if you saw the TV show 1882, is it 82, 83?

And it's about the beginning of Yellowstone and what it took for the pioneers just to cross over to get to a place like Montana.

It was insane.

Insane.

Anybody who tried to do that, I mean, we don't give our pioneers enough respect.

What What they faced to get across the mountains and the west was

nuts.

Well, that's the kind of people that were out in California at the time, in San Francisco.

They didn't just rebuild.

First of all, they didn't wait for the government, the federal government, to come in.

They didn't wait.

for everybody to tell them what to do.

They weren't,

I mean, it was bad.

It was really bad.

And they did have people that came in and help, but they had to do it themselves.

Now think about this.

They decided that they were going to rebuild.

They refused to give up.

There was such devastation that it would have broken the spirit of most people.

But the city did something extraordinary.

All of the citizens refused to give up.

Almost immediately they began to rebuild, not just their homes and their businesses, but their entire way of life.

There was nothing.

So the first thing that had to happen was all the citizens of San Francisco needed to clear the rubble, brick by brick.

They had to get all of it out.

Then they began laying the foundations for a new San Francisco.

Engineers, architects all came together to create plans for a stronger,

safer city and one that they hoped could withstand future earthquakes.

But it didn't.

But they tried.

And they didn't just rebuild.

They reimagined.

Now, this happened in 1906.

How long do you think it's going to take before you're going to be able to go in the Pacific Palisades, you're going to be able to go into California, and you won't see anything from the fire?

How long before that's a new and just magical, thriving area again?

That place is different because of of all of the money that is there.

Think about Appalachia.

Think about what's happening in the Carolinas.

Think about what's happening in Hawaii right now, where they're still trying to rebuild.

How long,

they're not building houses there yet.

How long is that going to take?

So,

within nine

years

in San Francisco in 1906, by 1915,

San Francisco had completely rebuilt.

They stood ready to show the world what determination and hard work could accomplish.

They were part, they had already been signed up for the Panama Pacific International Exposition.

This is like a world's fair, but

it was in honor of the completion of the Panama Canal, and it was to show what the American spirit could do.

And so, San Francisco raised their hand.

Remember, there's nothing left.

They raised their hand that we want to host that.

We want to host that.

Now, think of this.

Where ashes nine years before covered the ground, there was new breathtaking architecture.

The Palace of Fine Arts, it's still standing in San Francisco.

It is a landmark.

It is stunning to see in person.

It was the symbol.

They built it as the symbol of the triumph of the soul.

They said, we're going to create beauty out of this, out of these ashes.

And it wasn't a fair.

The Panama exhibition of 1915 was not just a fair.

It was a declaration.

It was saying to the world, we're not only still here, we're strong, and we're going to lead into the future.

This is the thing that really is exciting me about what Donald Trump has been doing lately.

We're not talking about just survival anymore.

Have you noticed that?

I said to my wife last night, I'm beginning to love my job again.

She said, Really?

And I said, Yeah, because I'm not, I don't have to just give people bad news all the day.

I don't have to just say, Here, put your hole in this or put your finger in this hole because that's going to help hold the dike together just a little longer, knowing that we're all going to be wiped out.

We're actually talking about building a new future that is exciting.

That's what happened in 1906.

California, once again, is facing challenges, and it's going to feel overwhelming.

But

the question is,

does California have the leadership to have vision?

Do the people have it in them anymore like the people in San Francisco did?

That they're not going to be wiped out.

They're not going to sit down.

They're not going to wait for somebody else.

Does the city and its citizens have it in themselves to create something better?

I come at times like this and I look at tragedies and I know how dark things can seem,

but I always pull out of this and I'm watching California for this.

And I think you're beginning to see it to some degree.

But I know I saw it in North Carolina.

The human spirit is stronger than any disaster.

When you come together,

we can rebuild the cities.

We can rebuild the lives, the communities, the futures for our children.

May the people in California have the courage and determination

that their forebears did in San Francisco and rise as a phoenix from the ashes

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I have to tell you on a completely different subject, I want to take you just for a second to 1968.

It was January 21st.

It was cold.

And we had a B-52G Stratofortress bomber.

It was flying near the Arctic Circle

and

it catches on fire.

And the reason why it catches on fire is kind of unique.

It was cold.

And catches on fire.

Seven of the airmen bail out.

One's killed.

He's bailing out too late.

He's killed.

The Stratofortress just smashes into the ice.

Now

This has happened many times before, but this particular story and this particular Strata Fortress is one of the reasons why

Denmark doesn't really want the United States to have Greenland.

And it all stems from what happened in 1968.

And I'll tell you that story a little later on in the program today.

There's a lot going on.

Boy, are you excited for the

inauguration in a couple of weeks?

I mean, what I am excited for is Donald Trump to become president of the United States and not Joe Biden.

That's what I'm excited for.

I don't care about the pump and the circumstance and the parties and all that.

Yeah, no, I don't care about that either.

I just want him to be president.

Can we play the coverage on the wildfire?

Biden was speaking about the wildfires yesterday, apparently.

I haven't heard this.

Have you heard this clip yet still?

Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

Okay, here he is addressing records.

Great-grandfather.

I'm not today.

Great-grandfather.

Tough to make out, but they're asking him about the fire.

They're talking about the fires, the response, and everything else.

And he just blurts out that he's a great-grandfather as of today,

which is

the good news.

Yeah.

That's the good news.

Right.

Wait, what?

Can you make something not about you?

He can't.

He really isn't.

All the corruption isn't about him.

All the disasters is about him.

All the things his family has done.

That's got nothing to do with him whatsoever.

But no, it's true.

I mean, he always does this.

He does this famously with

families that have lost a loved one in the military.

And every time he goes and talks to them to supposedly soothe them, he talks about how his son died in Iraq, which he didn't

die in Iraq.

But California, here's the good news.

Here is the good news.

I don't know where that story came from.

What he didn't say yesterday was, California, I know you're suffering.

I had a kitchen fire in my house in Delaware once.

Don't put this past him.

This absolutely could happen.

So I know what it's like to live through a fire.

I know you're dealing with a hurricane, North Carolina.

I had a fan that I could not get off high.

It was always stuck on high all night long.

And by the way, can I ask you, where is Kamala Harris?

Who?

She's the vice president.

This is her home state.

Yeah.

Nothing.

Where is she?

I mean, I guess she's just resigned at, you know, I'm never going to hold public office.

So I hate those people anyway.

They didn't vote for me.

Is that what's happening here?

Well, they did vote for her in California.

No, I know, but not in great enough numbers, of course, Stu.

Apparently, she's lost.

She doesn't have to serve the public anymore.

So, I mean,

you would think she would be out in front on this just because she could.

Let me ask you this.

I don't know if you put any thought into this whatsoever, but what's the path forward for Kamala Harris?

Well, I would buy bond bonds and fuzzy slippers, maybe a bathrobe.

What do you think the path is?

I mean,

she'll probably sit, you know, at Boeing or, you know, some,

you know,

McDonnell Douglas,

something that is is going to give, you know, give her money and pay her to become part of the military-industrial complex.

Something that she's never been a part of per se, but now the money will be there, so she'll take that job and she'll start, you know, saying we should have more war.

She'll get on a board somewhere, right?

Like, and she'll make a bunch of cash that way.

I don't think she's getting necessarily Netflix podcast special, you know, $40 million deals.

That doesn't seem like

it's a, she's in between.

She's not hated by the left, but she's still lost

she's she's uh she's done she lived 10 years we'll be going kamala who who was that vice president that was running against trump again it was

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Last night on TV,

I did a prediction show where I take the top 10, 15 items that I think we have to watch and look out for and prepare for, And I put them all together in a show last night and then

my chief researcher took all of my notes and then put them into ChatGPT and had the AI look at them and to see

what

the AI thought would be the

odds of those things happen.

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it was a little eerie because it's one thing when it's coming from me and it's another when AI starts to almost quote quote word for word what I said was going to come.

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So,

let's see.

Stu, you said a minute ago that there is a story about the death of the internet because that's,

I mean, it's cleverly worded here, but that's what I predicted on last night's show.

And you said two stories came up about that last night?

Yeah, I saw a couple.

I kind of went into a little bit of a rabbit hole on this last night because I think it's fascinating.

But I hadn't really heard that much conversation about it until hearing your prediction from

the show last night.

And it's basically, you were talking about the death of the internet, that basically we're going to lose whatever we had in the internet.

While that might sound appealing,

I'll give you the whole prediction here in a minute let's hear what they were saying

oh okay let's hear what you were you were saying got it got it um so the news story uh is uh from the guardian ai generated slop is slowly killing the internet why is no one trying to stop it and it goes into the fact that like you start you know you start going through social media you start going through uh you know searching and google and you you wind up finding basically nonsense i find this all the time when i'm reading stories like i'm reading stories i'm like there's no way a human wrote this It's just terrible.

It's like, you know, you can tell it's bad.

And it's like written in a format that is really familiar with from AI stories, like these short paragraphs with new headlines a lot that are kind of,

it doesn't really give you any information.

And I started going down a sort of a rabbit hole in that.

And they're now people who are basically mastering the skills of

almost taking the internet into a time machine to 2023 and

figuring out ways to search on Google to exclude everything from 2024 on because the second AI started, the internet results get worse and worse and worse and worse.

You look for pictures of things.

You can't tell if the pictures are real pictures or not.

And AI is now improving to a level

that...

Like, for example, like if you, they have these stories that kind of pop up every once in a while of like, you know, AI model is making millions of dollars on OnlyFans or something.

And like it's this some completely ridiculous, over-the-top looking, buxom

AI figure.

Then the new generation of these, apparently, are AI

people made

that look kind of, I don't want to say

frumpy in comparison, but like

real.

Like the type of picture that like an actual woman would look like.

You know what I mean?

And they're doing this now and just funneling this to people.

And they're taking in a world that doesn't even exist.

So you have to now kind of retroactively go into a time capsule and say, hey, I want to search Google, but only give him your results from 2023 and previous because that way I'll know it's actually at least somewhat real.

So that kind of touches on some of the things that I was predicting last night.

And ChatGPT, Jason ran all my predictions through ChatGPT and said, what are the odds of this happening?

This one came back with 90%.

Listen to what I was talking about last night.

The internet will be, whoops, the internet will be destroyed and reborn in 2025.

I know that sounds absolutely nuts,

but it's actually not.

It's something that we have talked about.

And people like Elon Musk have talked about it.

It's just,

it's not as bad as you think it is.

It's actually something that has to be done.

It's a little

understood reality that you don't really

have access to the internet.

What you get is access to a little sliver of the internet

that

it kind of brokers, it's an index.

and it brokers what the internet will give to all of us.

The internet has been dying a slow death for a while now, and everybody's been aware of it.

And what the problem is, is that have you ever done, have you ever gone on the internet and you're reading some great article and you're like, oh, it says click here and watch the video or click here and see this study?

And you click there and you get a 404.

You get, you know, there's nothing.

It's just been removed.

And you're like, oh, crap.

Well, that's because

about,

let me look in here.

What is it?

A recent study found a thousand peer-reviewed research papers published as recently as 2015.

More than 35% of those are now dead links.

So 35% of what you're clicking on from those things that have been published since 2015, now dead.

Because somebody moved them, somebody took them down,

they weren't valid, whatever it is.

It's no longer linked there.

So what happens?

If we don't,

well, let me put it this way.

Do you want the internet to appear like California appears today?

The reason why California keeps catching on fire is because they refuse to clear the underbrush, all of the dead stuff.

And that dead stuff catches on fire and then burns down all the good stuff.

What this would do if we don't start cleaning it out is it will

make it impossible.

You'll spend so much time just going to dead links.

So we have to do this.

The problem is, is that the reason why we haven't done it before is because it requires individuals to do it.

And

that just is time consuming.

But now AI can go and find all of those things

and

remove all of the dead stuff or the stuff that's not relevant.

So as we give the internet kind of a digital enema, if you will,

you're going to the good people at Google to clear it out, scour the active web, to let AI find and store what it determines to be relevant

content and live links.

I don't trust Google, nor do I trust AI to do this.

It's a little frightening to think that

the record of history, you know, this is like going into a library and having, you know, one person who has been trained by a group of people that you don't know or you don't necessarily trust going and go, you know what?

Let's go into the library.

There's some few pages and a few books that we just got to rip out.

I'm not comfortable with that.

So you're kind of in this situation where

it's necessary, but also a little terrifying because of the power we are now giving to AI

to

be our memory.

Not necessarily good.

With our research, I always tell the guy who

prints all of our stories every day that puts it together for our morning newsletter that you could get in your email box.

I tell him, I want you to take and get those stories and download them and burn them on a disk.

because I know they're going to disappear at some point.

They'll become irrelevant.

And we want the original stories, not just the story of us quoting the story but the actual story um that's going to become harder and harder now um

but we can just trust ai

right so what does chat gpt say about this from chat gpt the probability of this happening glenn's prediction

90

probability they say specifically ai driven tools will continue to restructure the internet dead links outdated content and paywalls will give way to ai curated summaries and dynamic updates.

The internet, as we know it...

Ooh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

AI

curated summaries?

Yes.

That doesn't sound good.

No.

They go on.

The internet, as we know it, will feel more like a centralized, streamlined knowledge platform controlled by a few gatekeepers.

Google, Microsoft, Open AI.

This change will be seamless to users, but will raise concerns about censorship and bias.

You think, Glenn?

Wow.

Wow.

That is, that's terrifying.

I'm not freaked out by mine.

I'm freaked out by Chad GPT.

So that's, you know, that kind of plays into what you're talking about, of letting AI

come in and generate things.

You know, what was the story we were talking about the other day, Stu?

And I said,

get that from ChatGPT.

See if you can verify that through ChatGPT.

And remember, the story came back and part of it, it was very, very accurate, except parts of it were like starting to say, you know, like, well, but that's really kind of Donald Trump.

Do you remember this?

It was so skewed to the left,

but it was subtle enough to where the average person may not catch it.

All they have to do is delete all of the things that are no longer relevant

and you can't find it anymore.

I don't know.

I want to find the work of the people who said, no, it's a flat earth.

I think those are important things to have.

It's not relevant, flat earthers, but you know what?

If you don't know it, you're going to come around to it.

And we're going back around to flat earthers again.

Well, first of all, I'm looking out the window right now.

It looks pretty flat to me, so I don't know what you're talking about.

I know.

Well,

you can't see the curve when you're up in an airplane.

That's right.

Thank you.

No, but I think that's true.

And, you know, I I don't remember that particular story, but that's going to be a massive problem.

We talked about an example of that with CNN

the other day, where CNN started a story with

the most amazing political comeback ever has started with Donald Trump.

And by the end, it was like, how did Donald Trump get power when his people invaded the Capitol?

And it was the same story with just a different headline every few hours.

None of those were archived, by the way.

There's no archive of what those were.

They're only archived because we took screenshots of them as the day went on.

And

this is a massive story.

I mean, a lot of people would say, like, well, I'm not sure, I don't want to use AI.

I don't want to use ChatGPT.

I'm not going to do it.

Well, you know, all this stuff is built into these systems.

I mean, Google, for example, and you search Google, and now the first thing that pops up every time is an AI summary of what you're looking for.

Right or wrong, it's just AI is the first thing you see, and they put it right at the top for you to take in.

And then under that, there are some, you know, the little question section, and then the actual links that we're all kind of used to when it comes to using Google.

They, what does that mean?

Well, they're now, instead of, it's not like, and we've always talked about like how Google can deprioritize links, put them on page three instead of page one.

And that affects people.

Imagine when they're writing

with their own AI, the same company that was, you know, when you tried to make a knight from the medieval times would have a black and an Asian and LGBTQ character pop up in their photo generating software, that same company is now writing the summaries of everything you search for.

I will tell you, I considered putting on the list this year, but it's far too early.

But it will be coming, you know, probably in the next five years.

And that will be, this is the year that historians will look back and say, that was the beginning of the end of free will.

But we are approaching that because of things like that.

You won't be able to access the information

and the information that is being given to you is all curated to shape you one way or another.

And if you add advertising budgets into that, you're not going to know what you know and what you don't know, what you chose, if it was your idea or somebody else's idea or AI's idea.

And you will eventually end up with a death of free will.

You'll still have a choice, but they've nudged you exactly where you need to be for them.

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I got to tell you the story of

Greenland.

I kind of found an interesting little

tidbit of history that kind of will inform you of how smoothly relationships are and how smoothly things would go with Denmark if we actually were serious about Greenland.

And I think we are dead serious.

Don't you think?

I think Donald Trump is dead serious about that and the Panama Canal.

Yeah, Trump is definitely serious about it.

I mean, he wants it, and it's something that

a lot of people in America have wanted for a long time.

It certainly makes sense that it would be part of our country as opposed to Denmark.

It really doesn't make much sense that it's part of Denmark.

So I do think he's serious.

Do I think it's going to happen?

I would say no.

I don't think it's in.

I made a prediction on that last night.

Yeah.

What did you think?

You'll have to watch the show to find out.

I made a prediction on that.

Panama Canal, the P.

Diddy and Epstein thing.

Made a prediction on all those on what's going to happen this year.

It's pretty interesting.

Yeah.

Watch it tonight on YouTube or it's available for Blaze TV subscribers whenever you want it on demand.

There's another story out that maybe we should pay a little attention to, and that is the fact that we have

a new Speaker of the House in Texas.

We're voting on the Speaker of the House.

And

the Democrats and the Rhinos are doing exactly the same thing.

We just got rid of a guy who was a bipartisan pick.

And in Texas, for some reason, they keep allowing this to happen.

They'll get a bipartisan pick.

And then even though the Republicans control the House and the Senate, they'll give half the committees to the Democrats.

Why would you do that?

Because Democrats, these rhinos, those are the, quote, Democrats, and they're Republicans.

Otherwise, you don't get elected here.

The ones that actually run as Democrats, they are

Democrats on steroids.

You know what I'm saying?

So we give the Democrats

rule over some of the committees.

It's ridiculous.

And the Republicans are trying to do it again.

We just got rid of Phelan, a really bad guy.

And

everybody, you know, the Republicans put up a really good, honest conservative.

And now the Democrats and about 15 Republicans are floating this other guy who is, I think, best friend with the last speaker, Phelan, and is going to do exactly the same thing.

Republicans, you better learn your lesson.

We'll have more on this coming up.

But I think that vote is Tuesday.

I think it is Tuesday.

Please, we can't let that happen.

It's just, it's Texas.

It's embarrassing.

This shouldn't be a problem in a place like Texas, right?

Like, you understand in, I don't know, Illinois, you know, Maine,

you know, some, maybe even like a purplish state, you might even take something like this.

But in Texas, this should be easy.

A real conservative should be leading

each little tiny piece of the government.

Yeah.

If you, I mean, look at what happened to our country.

You start going down this road and you see where it leads.

You can't allow that to happen to Texas.

Republicans, learn your lesson from the last election.

This is Glenn Beck.

I'm basically in all-out panic.

because this weekend, America's team, the Philadelphia Eagles, play

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And, you know, this is as a big Eagles fan, I get to these moments in the playoffs where I just start panicking.

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Stu, what are the odds that we're going to have the Super Bowl with you rooting for the Eagles and me with the Chiefs?

I mean, this would be the first time I actually would care about the Super Bowl.

I mean, a little bit last year, but I'm like really a

Kansas City Chiefs fan now.

You're into it.

You're into it.

I'm in.

You didn't care the last Eagles Chiefs Super Bowl a couple years ago?

No, I didn't.

I didn't.

I was quietly rooting against the Eagles for you.

You weren't quietly.

You were outwardly, but I got a sense it was more of just you trying to torture me than the actual football.

Yeah, yeah, I didn't care about the game.

I just wanted to torture you.

Yes.

But this comes with double pleasure.

My team would win and you would lose.

Well, that's what theoretically happened in 2022, but

you apparently weren't that big of a fan at that point.

I wasn't.

I wasn't.

You've been watching football, though, a lot.

Like, you come in with actual details of games.

It's weird.

It's like a little unsettling.

It is.

A little.

It's very unsettling.

It's upending my entire worldview.

I don't even know how to process it.

I've decided I really like football.

It's great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's freaking good.

It's great.

I love it.

I love it, and I am very excited to watch the playoffs this weekend.

I think the, you know,

there's a lot of really good teams this year.

I mean, I think there's four or five in both conferences that could go to the Super Bowl.

But I would put the Chiefs as the favorite in the AFC and the Eagles as

probably, I mean, they're the two seed.

I think that's probably the right place for them.

Like, they're probably the second out behind maybe the last one.

I have to tell you, I was so bored with your answer there.

I just typed it into Chat GPT.

The odds are 12%.

Okay.

Odds are 12%.

12%.

I mean,

I'm not going to be able to have to.

For a guy who criticizes AI a lot, you do seem to be using it quite a bit.

Well, I use it over Google.

Have you tried Grok yet?

Yeah, I played around with it a little bit.

It's the one on PEX.

Yeah.

It's there.

It's another version.

Yeah,

I don't Google things very much anymore.

I use ChatGPT because you get answers like this.

The odds suggest the Chiefs have an implied probability of approximately 20.4% to win the Super Bowl.

Eagles have a 12.5%.

To estimate the likelihood of both teams reaching the Super Bowl, consider the probability of each team winning the respective conference.

Chiefs have a 40% chance to win the AFC.

Eagles have a 30% chance to win the NFC.

Combined probability is about 12%.

That sounds about right.

I'm comfortable with that answer.

Now, a lot of the other answers you're getting from ChatGPT, God only knows.

Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

Yeah, it's a matter of fact.

Well,

I double-check anything that matters.

This doesn't really matter.

But

how dare you?

Other than the fact that you might lose and my team might win.

But have you considered the alternative?

I mean, what does it feel like with you and your new bandwagony Taylor Swift team comes and loses it?

No, it's not.

No, that's not.

I know, I know.

I know you're just a big Swifty, and that's how you got on board.

Right.

But, like, what happens if they lose to America's team, the Philadelphia Eagles?

What happens then?

That would be fun.

Well, that's a fun thing.

I mean, there is assisted suicide in Canada.

and you're pretty close you're already in idaho so yeah you know right there so you know what's the problem with that trudeau by the way trudeau will do that one and uh personally he'll take care of that euthanasia personally you know what's you know what's uh what would make that worse is your team losing

and you're in new orleans

well that i will be there uh and uh i mean yeah i mean new orleans is i love the food i really actually like many of the people.

I'm a little hesitant on the voodoo stuff that happens in New Orleans.

It has a spooky feel to it at times, you know?

And it's like my least favorite city, I think, in the country because of that.

Maybe even the, I mean, I haven't been to Calcutta, so I'll just leave it at the country.

So

I'm sorry, New Orleans.

No.

Sorry.

It's a fun city.

You're right.

And I will say I'm not a fan of the food.

I'm not particularly a Cajun food.

I'm not a gumbo guy.

I am not a Cajun food guy.

So I'm not even in love with the food.

A lot of people are.

But

I'm also not a party guy or a drinking guy.

Yeah.

So it's like, it's just not much Bourbon Street.

I mean,

seeing that, you know, I'm trying to avoid bourbon, I might want to avoid the whole street here, too.

As a recovering alcoholic, you shouldn't be allowed in the city limits.

I will say.

I know.

But like, I was there a few years ago and was walking down bourbon street, you know, at night.

And I was thinking to myself, like, if I was 22 and single, this would be incredible.

Maybe.

Right.

Like, I bet I would love this.

As an old person,

all I was thinking about is if another freaking person bumps into me,

you know, like it's just, you know, it's people everywhere.

They're bumping into you.

It's, you know, it's, you know, look, especially that area is supposed to be dirty and gritty.

And like, you know, that's what it's supposed to be.

And it's like, I'm just too spoiled in life now.

I don't, I want to be in a bubble.

Like, I, what do you never want to escape the bubble?

Right.

That's the whole point.

I want to be in a bubble where people aren't, you know, there aren't like homeless people bumping into me and

drunk people throwing up on my leg.

I want to avoid those circumstances.

It's funny.

I grew up in a small town and couldn't wait.

I mean, you know, I, all I wanted, since I was a kid, all I wanted to do was live in New York City

and been there, done that.

And I cannot believe I'm at the place to where, you know,

I never thought I would want to live in a town of 400.

And I still don't.

I'd like my town to.

be about 200 maybe, maybe 150, you know?

And we're a thousand miles away from another city.

That would be ideal for me.

It's like I can't get away from all of that crap fast enough.

Yeah.

But I think that comes with age, maybe.

I don't know.

You kind of been, you know, seen that, done that.

All right.

Let's move on, please.

Let's find something real.

Last night I was having dinner with my wife at a restaurant.

It was our 25th anniversary last night.

And it's weird

getting.

to a place to where you have a, you know, 25th wedding anniversary and that's your second marriage.

It's very, very strange.

And I said last night, I said, I want to make a pact with you.

And she said, okay,

what this time?

Last time we made a pact, I got stuck with you as my husband forever.

And I was like, what?

Anyway,

I said, I want to make a pact.

I want, because I remember my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, and it was cool.

But they were generally...

I mean, at the time they were old, but it was like, you know, 65 years old.

Our 50th would, I'd be 87.

And I'm like, I want to make that pack, but

87, man, I'm going to probably be pretty cranky by 87.

You know,

are you a little afraid of what you're going to be like when you're old and tired?

And I mean, because I know already I say whatever I'm thinking.

And I remember my grandfather, he'd always be like, yeah, my grandpa just kind of says what he wants, you know?

So, yeah,

that's funny, grandpa.

You know, you kind of get into that situation where there's no filter anymore and probably should be a filter at some point.

And I'm wondering when I lose that filter.

And honestly, if anybody would know, if anybody would notice, it might happen slowly.

I was going to say, if this is you filtered, I don't,

I hate to see what unfiltered looks like.

Yeah, yeah.

By the way,

I just asked ChatGPT a question as well, which was, Glenn Beck just had his 25th anniversary.

What are the chances he makes it to his 26th?

And they think it's almost 90%.

There's a chance.

Well, there's a chance that...

My 26th.

You're 20th.

Because I think because there's two factors.

People are like, oh, well, I mean, he'll live another year.

And that's possible.

They think that chance is in the high 90s.

But then you've got to combine it with the chance that she might leave you.

So I think we're at 89% on that.

Hang on just a second.

I'm going to ask it something, too.

89% chance.

So that's good, Glenn.

That's honestly, it's higher than my...

I take that bet.

I'd take the other side.

I take the other side.

I'll give a little bit of odds.

I mean, I think that's appropriate.

So I don't know.

I mean, was she into it?

Do you think she's in for another year?

Or what was her vibe?

Do you think she's?

Yeah,

she was into that.

She was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

I wonder why.

I'm just curious as to what the reasoning was.

Why would she want to stick around for?

I mean, it's 50.

Should you tell her it's 52 full weeks?

I mean, that's a long time.

I mean, imagine all she has to deal with to get through those odds.

I asked her about the 25 years.

I didn't ask her about the year, and she was like, that's hard for me to comprehend.

Okay.

That's not a good answer.

She said, oh, wow.

Okay.

I'm getting actual odds of what it would.

What?

Oh, my gosh.

Current age of Glenn Beck.

So I asked Chet GPT, what are the odds Glenn Beck makes it to his 50th wedding anniversary?

Predicting somebody's odds of making it to a specific milestone, like their 50th wedding anniversary, depends on several factors, including current age, health, lifestyle, and genetics.

While I can't provide specific odds for Glenn Beck without detailed information, I can extend some general context.

Current age, Glenn Beck was born February 10th, 1964.

He's 60 years old to reach his 50th wedding anniversary.

Another 25 years.

He'd need to live to be 85.

Life expectancy.

I thought I was 62, but I am 30, 60, I guess.

Life expectancy for U.S.

males.

Don't ask.

You lose track of your birth years.

I lost two years there.

That was sad.

Anyway,

last year was a very long year.

It was.

It was.

According to recent data, the average life expectancy for males in the U.S.

is 77.

We're not that far away.

17 years.

Now, remember, though, that's life expectancy at birth.

When you make it to 60, your life expectancy is higher than 77.

When you get to 60, you've eliminated all the deaths you could have had in your first 60 years, which are included in that average of 77 overall.

So wait, when I'm at 77, then I've...

Right, your life expectancy is.

When I'm at 78, I've conquered all of the deaths that were possible in my life.

And when you make it

to 77?

No, when you make it to 78, your life expectancy is like probably 88 or something because you've eliminated the possibility of dying between zero and 78.

This is this.

There's math of all the bad things.

I can see him.

He's a huge.

No, here's the bit.

No, no, no.

Here's the bad news.

Positive factors.

He has

as a public figure, probably has access to excellent health care.

Wealth and resources.

Financial stability can provide better nutrition.

Is there a waste management?

Is there a weight section?

Support system, strong family and community can enhance both mental and physical health.

I got that one.

Potential concerns.

High-profile careers, particularly in media and politics, often come with stress.

Nah.

And that impact long-term health if not managed well.

Health history.

Glenn Beck has spoken publicly about health challenges in the past, including neurological issues.

These factors may play a role in his future longevity.

Conclusion.

While there are some uncertainties, reaching his 85th birthday is achievable, especially with proactive health measures and and lifestyle adjustments.

If Glenbeck continues to prioritize his health and well-being, celebrating his 50th

is within reason.

They won't give you odds.

They just say it's theoretically possible.

Theoretically, it's possible, but then again, so is

the Transporter on Star Trek.

They didn't even include the chances of her just ditching you, which is still far more likely.

I'm much more confident in your long-term health than that.

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More Glenn Beck coming up next.

You know, Glenn, part of the defeat of communism happened in a grocery store in America when Boris Yeltsin came over and saw

the plenty that we had in our regular grocery stores, and he was amazed by it.

Do you remember this?

And he couldn't help himself but praise the incredible situation Americans found themselves in.

And

it wound up weakening the case to hold on to communism.

There's another story that's similar to this, which is a Cuban immigrant going for the very first time to a Costco in America.

There's video.

Wow.

Yeah, watch this.

He says, Close your eyes.

That's him reacting to the meat

fridge there.

He's going crazy.

Just huge sides of like beef or something there.

He's holding them up.

Imagine that.

Just thrilled to see this.

He says there's so much more here.

I can't believe people can just buy meat.

I can't believe people can just buy

it.

He looks, look, it's apples, amazing.

Just can't believe there's the coats and clothing and everything else in this one store.

He says it's just like it is in the movies.

I mean, that's incredible.

And they're so close to the United States and have no idea that that stuff is real and attainable for them as well.

Notice how he was really excited at first and then he kind of got almost a little reflective.

Yeah.

You know, know, I think it would be an overwhelming experience.

It really would.

I mean, it's a life-changing thing that we celebrate every single day and don't even acknowledge.

Maybe we should a little more.

Yeah, maybe we should celebrate it a little more, at least recognize our blessings.

This is Glenn Beck.