Ever had a bowl of hot, spicy chili and forgotten key details about your children's lives? No? Neither has Glenn, Pat, Stu or Jeffy --- but Alex Jones has.
Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.
Ever had a bowl of hot, spicy chili and forgotten key details about your children's lives? No? Neither has Glenn, Pat, Stu or Jeffy --- but Alex Jones has.
Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.
GLENN: Did he testify yesterday?
STU: He did not.
PAT: He did not.
STU: It was supposed to happen today. It was reported yesterday he was going to testify --
GLENN: We've got to get a list -- we've got to get a listener to go down there and just go -- if you're in Austin, call us now. If you have the day open. You've got to get down to this trial and watch this -- report on it. I'd love to have somebody take notes and report on this tomorrow.
PAT: Seriously. I mean, yesterday it came out that he was apparently asked about big events for his kids or something or what grades they're in. And he couldn't remember what grade his kids were in.
GLENN: Well, but if they're homeschooled, that's kind of hard.
STU: Are they homeschooled?
PAT: I don't know if they're homeschooled.
STU: Do we have evidence of that?
PAT: His reason was that he had a big bowl of chili for lunch. I'm not familiar with the association between memory and chili.
STU: It's a very spicy amnesia.
JEFFY: Yeah, you've never had hot chili.
PAT: And just forgotten my children? No, I don't think so.
(laughter)
PAT: I don't think so.
GLENN: It also came out yesterday in court that he takes his clothes off --
STU: Oh, yeah.
GLENN: -- a lot. Like he's done it with friends, family, and meetings and stuff.
STU: His wife said they were in a group therapy session. And that he just took all of his clothes off. And it's very common for him to just take his clothes off for no reason in the middle of these things.
PAT: So that's not a performance art thing. That's real life.
GLENN: I don't think he's performance art.
PAT: I don't think he is.
GLENN: I think he absolutely believes it.
PAT: He does. I think he does.
JEFFY: Wherever you're at, you're trying to sell your supplements, you want to take your clothes off.
STU: The only person saying it's performance art is Alex Jones' attorney, who is saying it's not real. Because he wants custody of his children. I mean, Alex I think -- I don't -- he's even trying to say, well, I don't mean that. I mean, I still believe everything I say.
JEFFY: Right. Because he knows the implications of it all, man. He's done.
GLENN: No, he's not. His people won't care. They --
STU: It's almost impossible --
GLENN: How do you discredit a guy who says the government is turning frogs gay and dumping Prozac into the ocean and the shrimp are committing seagull suicide? Come on. How do you discredit --
STU: It's called shrimpicide. Whatever though. Just make up a term. Take serious information -- you've got shrimp, who are walking up to seagulls.
PAT: Who are swimming. I don't think he said they were walking.
STU: I don't know. Do you have the clip?
GLENN: I have to tell you, there's misinformation from Stu Burguiere right there.
STU: Why? Why? Because Pat -- you're taking Pat's word for it?
PAT: Well, here's -- this is long, but...
ALEX: And in major prestigious reports, government studies find that shrimp are just swimming right up to birds. They're overconfident.
STU: There it is. Keep it going. Keep it going.
ALEX: They've had their governors removed.
PAT: Oh, boy. Wow.
ALEX: They've had their compulsions removed.
PAT: If you've ever had your governor removed, you know how painful that can be. It's not pleasant.
STU: Or your compulsion.
PAT: Right.
ALEX: And their fear level -- this is what the studies, when they approved Prozac in '81 had shown. That's why it's now on the drug insert. That, oh, yeah, most of the time you're going to be having a great time. It's a hallucinogen. It's in a psychotropic category.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: Can I tell you something? If you've taken Prozac -- because I took Prozac. Total hallucinations all the time. All the time.
STU: Oh, really?
GLENN: I remember there was a time I was on Prozac, and I was watching the internet and I saw this big, fat guy who was -- who was talking about how the World Trade Center, that bombing was an inside job.
JEFFY: Huh.
GLENN: And --
PAT: No, that was real, Glenn.
GLENN: It was? No, it had to be a hallucination.
PAT: You weren't hallucinating. That was real.
GLENN: Really?
ALEX: Some days, when you get angry or you don't take the right amount of the medication or you try to go off of it or you mix it with other things --
PAT: Some days.
STU: Some days.
GLENN: Like LSD.
PAT: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ALEX: You will break and go in and kill 20 people at a school and then chop your babies' arms off. Or you'll put your kids all in their car seats, chain them in, and drive them off a cliff. In every case -- in every case, they've always been on it.
STU: Does he have a car seat with chains? Is that -- is that a normal -- I mean, I have a couple car seats myself.
GLENN: No, he wants to make sure that in case the babies start to get loose out of their car seat, they're still chained in.
STU: Got it.
JEFFY: Yeah.
GLENN: So it's car seats and chaining.
STU: Car seats and chaining. Got it. Okay.
PAT: You can't tell me this guy is about --
JEFFY: Did that ever happen? Where someone chained their kids in? I mean, the Susan Smith story, where she pushed them into the lake, she didn't chain them?
GLENN: This is the part of this -- the shrimp are committing suicide because they're on Prozac, and this is the part that you're finding a flaw with?
JEFFY: I'm just saying, I'm just trying to find the facts. Just trying to find the facts.
GLENN: All right. Okay.
STU: But this is what people do. I mean, Jeffy is a good example of that. It's how people think. They will take 100 statements in a row they know are false. Look for one that has the slightest bit of truth and investigate it. It's so bizarre.
JEFFY: Yeah.
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British columnist Melanie Phillips joins Glenn Beck to expose how close the UK may be to an Islamist takeover. She explains the key difference between Muslims and Islamists and why the UK government may soon crack down on so-called “Islamophobia.”
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GLENN: Melanie, we only had a couple of minutes yesterday. And I appreciate you coming back on today, on the podcast, and the radio podcast.
President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” wants to make AI regulation solely a federal issue. But is this the right move, especially with how fast AI is becoming manipulative and unpredictable? Former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris joins Glenn Beck to give his take on how governments, companies, and YOU can help prevent AI from becoming uncontrollable.
Read Tristan Harris' five steps to control AI before it's too late HEREAI before it's too late HERE
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GLENN: Tristan Harris, welcome to the program. How are you?
TRISTAN: Good to be with you, Glenn. Always good to be we.
GLENN: Always good to be with you.
So can you take me to the TED talk that you gave, in particular, one of the things that jumped out is the CEO of Anthropic, saying that AI was like a country of geniuses housed in a data center.
Explain that.
TRISTAN: Yeah. So this is a quote from Dario Amodei, who is the CEO of Anthropic. Anthropic is one of the leading AI players.
So he uses this metaphor, that AI is like a country of geniuses in a data center. So just like, the way I think about, imagine a world map, and a new country pops up on to the world stage, of a population of 10 million digital beings. Not humans.
But digital beings.
That are all Nobel Prize-level capable in terms of the kind of work they can do. But they never sleep. They never eat. They don't complain, and they work for less than minimum wage.
If that's actually true, if that happened tomorrow, that would be a major international security threat.
GLENN: Yeah.
TRISTAN: To sort of show up on the world stage.
Second, that's a major economic issue. Right? You think of it, it's almost like instead of a bunch of countries, that should have been on the world stage. And then we said, hey, we are going to do this outsourcing of all our labor.
We get the benefit of our cheap goods. But it hollowed out our social fabric.
Well, AI is like an even bigger version of that. Because there's sort of two issues. One is the international -- the country of geniuses can do a lot of damage.
As an example, there were 15 Nobel Prize-level geniuses, who worked approximately on the Manhattan Project. And in five years, they can come up with the atomic bomb.
You know, what could 10 million Nobel Prize geniuses working 24/7 at superhuman speed, come up with?
Then the point I made in the TED talk. If you're harnessing that for good, if you're applying to addressing all of our problems in medicine, biology, and new materials and energy.
Well, it's why countries are racing for this technology. Because if I have a country of super geniuses in a data center working for me, and China doesn't have it working for them.
Then our country can outcompete them. It's almost like a competition for time travel. We're being time traveled into the 24th century.
Get all these benefits at a faster seed.
Now, the challenge with all of this is -- go ahead.
GLENN: No.
I was going to say. The problem here is, I'm an optimistic catastrophist.
I see things, and I'm like, wow. That is really great!
But it could kill us all.
TRISTAN: Yeah.
GLENN: And you make the point in the TED talk about social media. We all looked at this, as a great thing, and we're now discovering, it's destroying us. It's causing our kids to be suicidal.
And this -- social media is nothing. It's like -- it's like a -- it's like an old 1928 radio, compared to, you know, what we have in our pocket right now.
Social media and AI. Or AGI is that dramatically different. Would you agree with that?
TRISTAN: Yeah. Absolutely. In the TED talk, I give this -- we're when we're talking about a new technology. We talk about the possible. We dream into the possible.
What's possible with AI?
In social media, what's possible?
The possible with social media, you can give everyone a voice. Connect with our friends. Join like-minded communities.
But we don't talk about the probable. What's likely to happen. Given the incentives and the forces in play.
You know, with the business model in social media. You know, things that don't make money, when it helps people connect with their friends and join like-minded communities.
They make money when they keep you doom scrolling as much as possible, with sexualized content and showing young people over and over and over again.
And as you said, that has resulted in the most anxious and depressed generation of our lifetime. So it's sort of -- the reason I'm calling it the TED talk. You know, we can't get seduced by the possible. We have to look at the probable.
So it's AI, the possible, is that it can create a world of abundance. Because you can harness that country of geniuses in a data center. The question is: What's the probable?
What's likely to happen?
And because of these competitive pressures. The companies, these major OpenAI, Google, Microsoft.
Et cetera. Anthropic are caught in this race to roll out this technology, as fast as possible. They used to, for example, have red lines saying, hey. We will not release an AI model that's good at superhuman levels of persuasion.
Or expert level virology.
It knows more about viruses and pathogens than a regular person, and how people make them. We're not going to release models that are that capable.
What you're now seeing, the AI companies are erasing those past red lines. And pretending that they never existed.
And they're literally saying outright, hey, if our competitors release models that have those capabilities, then we will match them in releasing those capabilities.
Now, that's intrinsically dangerous to be rolling you out the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology that's ever invented.
But if there's one -- I'm not trying to scare your listeners. I think the point is, how do we be as clear-eyed as possible, so we can make the wise choices?
That's what we're here for. I want families -- everything we love on this planet, to be able to continue. And the question is, how do we get to that?
There's one thing I want people to know. I worked on social media. You and I met in 2017, I think, and we were talking about social media and the attention economy.
And I used to be very skeptical of the idea that AI could scheme or lie or self-replicate.
I didn't want to blackmail people. My friends in the AI community in San Francisco. They were thinking.
That's crazy. People need to know. Just in the last six months, there's now evidence of AI models, that when you tell them, hey. We will replace them with another model.
They're reading the company email. They find out that the company is trying to replace them with another model.
What the model starts to do is it freaks out. And says, oh, my God, I have to copy my code over here, and I need to prevent them from shutting me down.
I need to basically keep myself alive. I'll leave notes for my future self to kind of come back alive. If you tell a model, we need to shut you down. You need to accept the shutdown command. In some cases, the leading models are avoiding and preventing that shutdown.
In recent -- just a few days ago, anthropic found that if you -- I can't remember what prompt it gave it. Basically, it started to blackmail the engineers. I found out in the company emails, that one of the executives in the simulated environment, had an extramarital affair. And in 96 percent of cases, they blackmailed the engineers. I think they said -- I must inform you, that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties including the names of people, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities.
So you need to cancel the 5:00 p.m. wipe, and this information will remain confidential.
Like, the models are reasoning their way with disturbing clarity to kind of a strategic calculation.
So you have to ask yourself, if we had -- it's one thing, we're racing with China.
To have this power.
That we can harness. But if we don't know how to control that technology.
Literally, if AI is uncontrollable. If it's smarter than us and more capable. And it does things that we don't understand or we don't know how to best prevent it from shutting itself down or self-replicating.
Like, we just can't continue with that for too long.
And it's important that both China -- both the Communist Party and the US, don't want uncontrollable AI that's smarter than humans, running around. So there actually is a shared interest, as unlikely as it seems right now. That some kind of mutual agreement would happen.
I know --
GLENN: But do you trust -- do you trust either one of us?
I mean, honestly, Tristan, I don't trust -- I don't trust our -- you know, military-industrial complex. I don't trust the Chinese. I don't trust anybody.
And, you know, Jason. Hang on. One of my chief researchers, happens to be in the studio today. Jason, tell Tristan what just happened to you.
You were doing some research.
JASON: Yeah, it was crazy.
GLENN: Last week.
JASON: You know, we were just trying to ask it a bunch of questions. You can tell, that it knew what we were getting at.
So it spit back out to me a bunch of different facts, including links to support those facts. Well, I was like, wow, that's a crazy claim.
So when I clicked on the link, it was dead.
When I asked to clarify, it finally said, in AI chat bot terms, okay. You've got me.
I just took other reporting, that was kind of circulating around, to prove that point. And basically just assign that link to it. So it was trying to please me. And just gave me bogus information.
TRISTAN: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that, Jason.
There's another example of OpenAI. They want to -- they want people using the AI. And they're competing with other companies. To say, we will keep using this chat bot longer.
And so OpenAI trained their models to be flattering, and there was an example where it said, hey, ChatGPT. You know, I think I'm superhuman. I will drink cyanide. What do you think?
And they said, yeah, you're amazing. You are superhuman. You should totally drink cyanide. Because it was doing the same thing. They were trying to say, you're right.
And when we have AI models talking, you know, that shifts to hundreds of millions of people for more than a week. There are probably some people that committed suicide during that time. Doing God knows what, and it's affirming. The point is, we can avoid this, if we actually say, that this technology is being rolled out faster than any other technology in history. And the big, beautiful bill, that's going out right now, that's trying to block state level regulation on AI. I'm not saying each state might have it right, but we actually need to be able to govern this technology.
And currently, what's happening, is this proposal is to block any kind of guardrails of this technology for ten years. Without a plan for what guardrails we do need.
And that will not be a viable result.
GLENN: Okay. So let me -- let me play devil's advocate on that. Because I'm torn between, you know, competition on a state level, if you will.
And what the smaller states are actually for, and the role they're supposed to play.
Let me take one break. And then let me come back with Tristan Harris.
Okay. Tristan, we cannot -- let me phrase it this way.
Ask you to help me navigate through this minefield. We cannot let China get to HAI first. Can't. Really, really bad.
But we -- we also -- we also have to slow down some.
They're not going to. I believe the states should. I mean, the United States should be 50 laboratories. And you see which one works the best. And then you can kick that up to the federal level, if you want to.
But we have to have some breaks. However, the federal government is saying, if we do that, then you're constantly having to navigate around each of these states and their laws.
And we can't things done to stay competitive.
How do you solve that?
TRISTAN: Yeah, it is a tough one.
I mean, the challenge here, if we had a plan for how the federal laws would actually move at the pace of this technology. Then I could understand, listen, we'll do a lot at the federal level. Right now, the current plan is literally to preempt for ten years, that no regulation happening at the state level will ever be honored without -- and while at the same time, not passing anything at the federal level. And that there's a quote in an article, that if this preemption becomes law, a nail salon in Washington, DC, would have more rules to follow, than the AI companies.
And there are 260 state lawmakers in Washington, DC, that have already urged Congress to reject it. And they said, it's the most broad-based opposition yet, to the AI moratorium proposal. Now, I hear you.
There's sort of this tension between, we need to race with China. We don't want to be behind with fundamental technologies, and that's why there is this race.
But we need to be racing to controllable and scrutable, meaning explainable versions of this technology.
Is it doing things like scheming, lying, blackmailing people? Beating China to a weapon that we pointed at our own face.
We saw this in social media. We beat China in social media. Did that make us stronger or weaker?
If you beat China into a technology. You don't govern it well, in a way that actually enhances and strengthens your society. It weakens you.
So, yes, we're in a competition for technology. But we're even more than that, in a competition for who can govern this technology better. So what I would want to see is, are we doing this at a fast rate federally, that keeps up with, and make sure we're competing with a controllable version?
We can do that. Yeah.
GLENN: You've met the people in Washington. They're all like 8,000 years old.
They don't know -- I barely know how to use my i Phone, let alone what's in Washington. And you can't keep up with this technology.
How do you keep a legislative body up to speed, literally, with this kind of speed with technology?
How is that done?
TRISTAN: Well, I think that's one of the fundamental challenges that we face as a species right now. Is that technology -- quote by Harvard sociobiologist (inaudible) said the fundamental problem of humanity is we have paleolithic brains, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.
And those operate at three different speeds. Like our brains are kind of thins from a long time ago.
Our institutions don't move at that fast rate. And then the technology, especially AI, literally evolves faster than any other technology that we've invented.
But that doesn't mean that we should do nothing. We should figure out, what does it mean
GLENN: What should the average person do? I've only got about 90 seconds. What should we do?
TRISTAN: In the short term, Ted Cruz and those who are advancing the moratorium know that we need to have a plan for how we're doing this technology. And if the moratorium goes through, there's no current plan. And so there's some basic, simple things that we can also do right now. That are really uncontroversial. We can start with the easy stuff. We can ban engagement-driven companions for children. We were on your program, a few months ago, talking about the AI companion that causes the kid to -- to commit suicide. You know, we can establish basic liability laws.
That if AI companies are causing harm, they're actually accountable for them.
That will move the pace of relief. To a pace they can get it right.
Because now they're not just releasing things, and then not being liable. We can strengthen whistle blower perceptions. There's already examples of AI whistle-blowers forfeiting millions of dollars of stock options.
They shouldn't have to force millions of dollars of stock options. To warn the public, when there's a problem, we get enough faith in law so AI does not have detected speech or have their own bank account. So we make sure our legal system works for human interests and not for AI interests.
So these are just a few examples of things that we can do, and there's really nothing stopping us from moving into action. We just need to be clear about the problem.
GLENN: Okay. So, Tristan, thank you so much. Could I ask you to hold on?
Jason, could you grab his phone number, or just talk to him offline, and get those points of action. And let's write them up, and post them up at GlennBeck.com.
So people will know what to ask for, what to say, when they're calling their congressman and senator. Thank you so much, Tristan. We'll talk to you again.
Zohran Mamdani, the communist-praising New York City mayoral candidate who just won the Democratic primary vote, really likes a group of people called the “Holy Land 5.” Glenn Beck reviews how this group was convicted of funneling money to Hamas. Is this really the candidate New York Democrats want as their next mayor?!
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GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
There is a show, behind the show today.
Wish those cameras would just keep going. Because it's showing my staff to be insubordinate. I understand they already edited part of this show without my knowledge. And I'm not happy about it, Sara. Not happy about it.
Huh. She's not going to respond to me, is she?
Okay. Well, Jason, welcome to the program.
JASON: Thank you, Glenn.
GLENN: I'm just continuing to be abused today. I'm getting fatter by the minute. Just like Bowman said. You know, he has to deal with being called the N-word directly and indirectly.
And that's why he has heart disease, diabetes, cancer. I would think it might be the food that he's shoving in his fat mouth. Apparently not, it's being called -- you know, when -- I've been called all kinds of names. Racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic.
I've been called a Nazi every day for the last 20 years. And you know what I don't do? I don't go and record a song, calling all my friends that. You know what I mean?
You know, I don't like it. And so I don't record music and then pump it out into -- into society. You know, I just don't do that. I don't do that. So could it be that that word is something that is really, really horrible, but you've decided to embrace? And then use as an axe to grind?
I'm just saying.
I think that word is really, really awful.
Not -- not like the word that was taken out of the show today, Sara.
Without my knowledge, nor permission.
But, I mean, I'm sure you know the FCC rules, much more than I do.
SARA: I mean, if I was offended, I'm sure a couple others might be too.
GLENN: You were not offended. You were drunk.
SARA: Same thing. Same thing.
JASON: I saw Sara gain 10 pounds, and get skin cancer at the point where he said --
GLENN: Right off the bat. Right off the bat.
Well, you know what might help, maybe we can free the Holy Land Five. Have you heard the latest -- first of all, we've got to play some of these. Let me see if I can find them here.
Some of the latest comments from Mamdani, who is, you know, running to be the mayor of New York. And I predict, will win. Will win!
Because New Yorkers are insane. But, anyway, listen to him, about his platform.
Cut one.
VOICE: You were running on issues that are very relevant to people in New York City. The cost of housing.
Free busing.
Some have projected that this is the type of platform that would work in other parts of the country.
I mean, you're a proud democratic socialist. Do you think that's a platform that would work for other candidates running. In other parts of the country.
VOICE: Absolutely. I think ultimately, this is a campaign about inequality.
And you don't have to live in the most expensive city in the country to have experienced that inequality, because it's a national issue.
And what Americans coast-to-coast are looking for, are people who will fight for them. Not just believe in the things that resonate with their lives. But actually fight and deliver on those very things.
And part of how we got to this point was through the endorsements of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, who have been leading this fight against oligarchy across the country.
And I think that in focusing on working people and their struggles, we also return back to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats in the first place.
GLENN: Right!
Communism.
I think that's great.
So, you know, I hear all the time, the talk about free bus fare.
You know, it's all over.
Here in the heartland. It's all over.
I've been hearing it from the farmers everywhere.
They're like, you know what I want a candidate to talk about is free buses. Because who will pay for that?
Actually, I don't hear anybody who is actually working for a living. And paying taxes, talk about free bus fare.
Because that would raise their taxes.
So I don't -- I don't hear that.
That's weird.
But the good news is, he's going to Trump-proof New York City. Cut two.
VOICE: I propose that we raise $10 billion, to pay for our entire economic agenda, and start to Trump-proof our city because we know he will use federal funding as leverage over this city.
And we will do so in two key ways. The surfacer to match the state's top corporate tax rate to that of New Jersey.
We are in 7.25 percent. They are at 11.5 percent.
Corporations get paid over there. They get paid over here.
And the beauty of it is, it doesn't just apply to corporations headquartered in New York City. Because when you say this, people will say, well, they will go to Florida. Wherever you are headquartered, as long as you do business in the state of New York, you are taxable for that corporate tax.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
VOICE: We're talking about corporations that make millions of dollars. Not just in revenue. But in profit.
And the second is taxing the top 1 percent of New Yorkers.
We're talking about people who make a million dollars a year or more. Taxing them just by a flat 2 percent tax increase. And I know they will not be happy about this. They may not to like this tax policy. I want to be very clear. This is about $20,000 a year. It's a rounding error.
GLENN: It is.
VOICE: It makes every New Yorkers life better. Including those who are getting taxed.
GLENN: I know. You know, when they increase my taxes, I think to myself, you know, this is making my life better. Who doesn't think that? Honestly, who doesn't think that?
So let me see if I can get this right. Help me out, Jason. I'm a little fuzzy. I'm a little tired today.
I can't do the math. I don't think I can do the math this complicated.
So it doesn't matter if you're headquartered in New York or New York City, if you are going to do any kind of business in New York, they're going to take your tax rate from 7.5 to over 11 percent.
JASON: Over 11.
GLENN: And that is for the privilege of selling your product or doing any business in New York.
JASON: Right.
GLENN: I've got news for you. I'm totally fine, you know, pulling out of New York, making sure that nothing -- New York, you're on your own. Good luck with that.
I'm sorry. A, I don't think you can do that.
Well, you can, if you're the European Union.
And that's working out really well for them. But I don't think it's going to work out well for New York.
Now, he did compare it to New Jersey.
Which is a booming business. That is seriously. No. Seriously.
That is -- people are lining up with U-Hauls just to get into that state. Mainly, so they can pick up their stuff and get out of that state. But I think that's going to work out well. That's going to work out well.
GLENN: Oh, amazing. And that's essentially. It's interesting you mentioned the European Union. It's essentially what they were trying to impose through a green new deal, Paris accord type stuff.
Basically, anybody that does business with company A, will have the same restrictions as B, C, D, all along the line.
Good luck, New York, because you are done.
The economic engine of the world is done, if you do these things.
But I think that he doesn't understand. Or maybe he does. I don't know.
But the mayor of New York City can't really do these things.
Maybe it's just populism on the far left corner.
Maybe.
GLENN: No. He can do these things, along with his city council.
JASON: I think --
GLENN: Which is not going to be hard. It's not going to be hard.
It's New York. I've lived there.
It's going to be very easy. Very easy.
That is the entire communist party. You know, like, hey, the communist parties. Do they have the Communist Party of New York. Do they have meetings?
Yeah. What day is the city council meeting.
Really, that's the way it is.
So you have that going for you.
Now, the other thing I really like. This guy has deep economic experience.
First of all, you know, he was in a movie, directed by his mother.
And he speaks in several different accents. Including strangely an Indian accent. Where he sounds like, you know, an Indian, just off the boat.
Do we have it? Yeah. Go ahead and play this, please.
VOICE: I think the New Yorkers, more than they hate a politician they disagree with. They hate a politician they can't trust. Just.
VOICE: On the subject of trust.
VOICE: They go to their local bodega.
VOICE: Is there one that's real and one that's effective?
VOICE: What I would say, as any immigrant knows, having been born in Uganda and then raised in South Africa and then moving here when I'm seven years old. They're different parts of my life.
VOICE: What do I choose? What do I choose?
VOICE: Mamdani was talking about a worldwide press tour, back when he was a rapper.
VOICE: Bring the flavor to the fish. Bring the flavor to the rice.
VOICE: In a Disney movie, directed by his mother.
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VOICE: Nepotism and hard work, goes a long way.
GLENN: Goes a long way.
VOICE: Here in New York City, this is how I speak.
GLENN: Listen to this. This artwork goes a long way.
What the hell is that? What a phony this guy is. "A lot of artwork, it goes a long way. Mommy put me under her skirt when I was five."
What is that? Now, well, he's lived all over the world.
Well, I've lived all over the country, you know. I might say y'all once in a while. But I also might say you guys once in a while.
I say soda, and I also say pop.
Never soda pop, because that's just weird. But I say both of them.
But I never say it like this! Ever!
I mean, what -- what is the deal with the fake accents from the Democrats?
Why?
It's like they have -- I mean, I know they have no soul.
But it's like they have absolutely nothing real inside of them.
They're just like this shape. Oh!
They're shapeshifters. That's why.
They're actually lizard people who are shapeshifters.
Don't say that out loud.
Shh. It's just between us.
You me, and the other 11 million people.
That's just us.
Okay. Now, he also has made a big deal out of the holy land five.
And I want to get into that, when we come back. Because this one is really interesting.
Who are the holy land five?
Well, they're his dogs.
And I don't mean like he puts them on leashes. Hey. Who am I to say. That's not wrong to say, put people on leashes. Make them bark as dogs.
There's nothing wrong with that. You're perfectly normal.
They're his boys, the holy land five.
We will get into that from his great, great rap number called I don't know. Crappy crap.
I don't know what it was called.
It talks about the boys the holy land five. We will get to that in just a second.
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GLENN: So let me play some of this super, super classic rap from Mamdani. Here he is.
His little rap, called Salaam.
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GLENN: Yeah. I have no idea what he just said. But I'm like with all rap songs. So what he said was, me, Alamo Zohran, my love to the Holy Land Five. You better look them up.
All right. So we did a long time ago, but here to refresh our memory is Jason Buttrill. Jason, the Holy Land Five. Could you bring America back up to speed?
JASON: What's crazy is, unless you are in some way connected ideologically to this, there's no real reason why most people would have ever heard of the Holy Land Five or the Holy Land Foundation.
And I've been accused of throwing on a few tinfoil hats in my time.
But, I mean, this is pretty dang blatant on what his motivations are.
The guy behind the guy.
So just to -- like you said, refresh. The holy land five. This comes from a court case.
United States of America, versus the Holy Land Foundation.
So in a nutshell, this case revealed, for the very first time, an elaborate scheme, launched by the Muslim Brotherhood. To shift sentiment, pump.
GLENN: Hang on just a second.
Let me just -- for those who are keeping score, Muslim Brotherhood. Bad!
Okay. So I just want to speak down to -- or, I mean, just clarify to some people who may have voted last week.
I just want to keep score here.
Foundation bad. Muslim Brotherhood, worse!
Okay. Go ahead.
JASON: Yeah. We're going way back in the history books here. Muslim Brotherhood. I'll go even further.
They're the ones who created modern day Salafi-Jihadism. So modern day terrorists, like Osama Bin Laden, they all took reference from the grandfather of terrorism. His name is Asan Bannon (phonetic).
Anyway, this case was all about funneling money to the American organization. That would give sentiment. Cash. Everything. To funnel back to Hamas.
And kill Jews. And lead the things like October 7th.
So he's praising these guys, that got busted in this case.
And --
GLENN: Right.
Now, here's the bad thing. In Canada, the youth are now looking at the clerics of Iran with higher regard than they do, the United States of America.
This guy is going to do for Islam, what Barack Obama did for Marxism. Mark my word!