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What if you could recall every birthday, every holiday --- and every word of Harry Potter? Would you want to? Rebecca Sharrock, a 27-year-old woman from Australia, can do just that.
Sharrock has a rare condition known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM), which gives her an extraordinary memory. Glenn spoke with her on radio today and asked an interesting question --- is is heaven or hell?
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GLENN: I have always thought that the universe is far too efficient to have a devil and a bunch of other devils with that pitchforks and a giant lake of fire, where you're burning forever in torment. It's too efficient for that.
Why wouldn't there be the system that would allow you to torment yourself. And the way to do that is to have absolute perfect recollection for every hurtful thing you've ever done or has been done to you. Every pain that you have caused. Every pain that you have felt. To have perfect recollection and relive it over and over, as if it is happening to you now.
There's a woman in Brisbane, Australia. She's one of only 80 in the world that have perfect recollection. It's actually called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. HSAM.
And she has just come out on her blog, and she said, "I can remember every word of Harry Potter. I can remember everything, including my first memory when I was 12 days old, being placed in the baby car seat in the car. It was my dad's idea," she said.
Rebecca Sharrock is with us from Brisbane, Australia now.
Hello, Rebecca, how are you?
REBECCA: Hi, I'm good. Yourself?
GLENN: We're -- we're good.
I hope this interview goes well because you'll forever remember it.
The -- can you start at the earliest memory -- the 12-year-old memory -- or 12-day-old memory that you have?
REBECCA: That particular memory is the earliest one I can date. It was -- I was being carried in a blanket by my mom to the car seat. And I was placed down on the sheepskin carport. And I was looking up at the steering wheel. And at that age, I was curious as to what things were. But it didn't occur to me yet to get up and explore what it was. And at that similar age, I would just be in my crib, and I would look -- I would look up at the stand-up fan next to me, or I would look at my toys above me. And I would just -- I'd have curiosity there.
GLENN: So do you remember what you felt? Do you remember feeling the love from your mother and father? Do you remember hearing arguments? I mean, we always -- we always talk about the impact of what's happening around a baby. You're somebody that can actually tell us if that's true or not.
REBECCA: Yeah, absolute -- as a small baby, I would hear everything my mom would say to me. She would tell me these words. The thing is, at that age, I didn't understand what those words meant. It was much like as an adult now, when I hear a language I don't know.
PAT: Hmm.
REBECCA: But when I have memories of what was told to me when I was baby, I can understand it as an adult. Such as when I was two weeks old, that was my first Christmas. And I can remember people coming into me saying, Merry Christmas. But I didn't know what Merry Christmas meant then. But now when I remember it, I can recall. I know what it means now.
PAT: Have you now called those people back and said, "Yeah, Merry Christmas back at you."
(chuckling)
REBECCA: Yeah.
GLENN: So you say you can remember -- you can remember the weather forecast of every day. What you had for breakfast every day. Does this file in your head by date or how? If I give you a date, could you tell us what you were doing, or how does this work in your head?
REBECCA: It's interesting because dates in my mind take I can remember dates from experience. So if I was aware of the date on the day, I can tell you what day of the week it was. Which is -- I had a calendar in my brain since I was 14. So every time I cross off the calendar every day, I have memories of doing that. But when I was at school, before I had a calendar, I'd still have to write the date down at the top of my assessments, and so I remember the dates on that.
GLENN: Did you -- you had to have had straight A's?
REBECCA: No. I -- I often -- in subjects I did get A's in was spelling. And I got A's in algebra and trigonometry. But everything else, due to my autism, I was slower at processing. So it was interesting. Because I'd often have all the answers for the exams, but the only problem is, I had been three months to late. Yeah.
GLENN: So you had a problem -- how long have you known -- how long have you been open about this? Because you just came out on your blog with this. And you're only one of 80 in the world.
REBECCA: The way I found out about HSAM -- what's interesting is that until I was 21, I thought everyone remembered in that kind of way. But my parents then called me in to see something on television, and it was about a small group of people who had this unusual memory, where they couldn't forget any days since they were children. And I was saying to my parents, I said, "Why are they calling it unusual? Isn't it normal for people to remember like that?"
And my parents said, "No, it's not." So they asked me if it was okay for them to send the University of California, Irvine, an email because they discovered the people on the segment of the show.
And I was only half listening when I said, "Yeah, okay." Because there were two things I was processing. One, that the way I remembered wasn't normal. And, two, that type of memory was extremely rare. So, yeah.
PAT: Are you -- are you tormented by memories, Rebecca? Or -- like, do you consider this a blessing or a curse?
REBECCA: I used to -- in -- many years ago, I used to look at it as a curse. Because I would like reliving all of the stuff that I do.
PAT: Yeah.
REBECCA: But now, I'm looking at it as a little bit of both.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
REBECCA: Now I'm -- I understand why I keep reliving things. And I'm realizing to myself, "This has a name to it. It's not necessarily just --
PAT: Uh-huh.
REBECCA: And I'm thinking to myself, "It's not necessarily completely a bad thing anymore."
GLENN: On when you do --
REBECCA: When I found out I had autism --
GLENN: When you do remember things. And I don't want to take you down a lane you don't want to go. But do you remember -- is it like you're -- I'm thinking of just the cruel things that I may have said or have been said to me. I'm glad that I forget those and the memory fades.
REBECCA: Yeah.
GLENN: So do you recall them as if they are the same feeling? You have the same impact?
REBECCA: Yes.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
PAT: Wow. Wow.
REBECCA: Because emotionally, I relive it as however old I was back then, but my conscience is an adult. And that often causes a lot of confusion as well.
PAT: Right.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
PAT: There's got to be jobs though, where this kind of ability would come in really handy.
GLENN: Mathematics of some sort.
PAT: Yeah. Are -- what do you do for a living?
REBECCA: For a living, I'm a -- I'm a public speaker, and I do autism advocacy work. And I'm a public speaker now with the I CAN Network. So I go around to -- I go around to local conferences, and I do seminar talks there. And HSAM does help because when I write scripts --
PAT: You can remember them.
REBECCA: It's easier for me to just remember them.
PAT: Yeah.
REBECCA: I also do blogging as well with Special Kids Company.
GLENN: Rebecca, what is the -- what is the one thing that you would take and say, "Boy, I wish everyone could experience this?" That you have that we don't.
REBECCA: The things -- the thing that makes me so happy about my HSAM is that I can still enjoy my birthdays and Christmases in the same way as I did as a child. Because even as an adult, I can wake up on my birthday, and I'm just reliving all of these happy, exciting memories from when I was a child. And I can just -- I can -- I don't even need the same presents. I can just sit there, and I'm just reliving happy memories.
GLENN: Do you believe in heaven and hell? Do you believe in God?
REBECCA: Yeah.
GLENN: You do? Is this what -- do you think this would be what heaven or hell would be like?
REBECCA: Often I think -- I use like a little bit of both. But it happens definitely on my birthdays and whenever I visit Disney parks or theme parks. That's when I'm definitely in heaven.
GLENN: Rebecca, thank you so much for sharing your life with us. Something that --
REBECCA: Oh, you're welcome.
GLENN: Pardon me?
Oh, you're welcome?
PAT: Yeah.
REBECCA: Yeah, you're welcome. I'm really glad to have had the opportunity to speak to you.
GLENN: Sure. One more question, just curious, do you have to -- when you memorize things, you said, "As I write, it's easier for me to remember," do you have to work on memorizing things at all, or can you just write something or read something and you'll remember it word-for-word?
REBECCA: I'd say Harry Potter especially because I have such an emotional connection to it because I was introduced to it by my favorite teacher when I was in the fourth grade. But in terms of when I'm doing speeches or blogs, it's something I enjoy doing. It relaxes me. Just to go to writing, just to zone out. Like write the script, or do a talk to zone out. So it's work, but it's work that I enjoy. That's how it feels.
GLENN: Do you see memories like reading -- do you see a -- almost a photo of the -- or do you -- is it like seeing the page, when you're -- when you are remembering things like Harry Potter?
REBECCA: I've been tested by the UCI for a photographic memory. And I've got really poor photographic memory. But the way I remember things, I remember them in sequences I experienced them.
GLENN: Okay.
REBECCA: So I remember just the cycle of the words in my head.
GLENN: So you have more of an emotional memory?
REBECCA: Yeah. And that --
GLENN: Ooh.
REBECCA: And that really does counteract with my autism in that sense. So...
GLENN: Hmm. Wow. Rebecca, thank you. God bless you. Thank you so much.
REBECCA: Oh, you're welcome.
GLENN: We wish you the best.
Rebecca Sharrock from Brisbane, Australia, one of the 80 women on the planet that have perfect recollection of their life. And it's worse, Pat, than we thought.
PAT: Hmm.
GLENN: Because she doesn't have -- photographic memory is something that I would love to have.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: Be able to read something once and be able to recall everything. She's got an emotional memory, which is, ooh.
PAT: Pretty amazing. Yeah, like she said, the things that she heard as a child and didn't understand. Now she understands, and so makes it even worse. Right?
GLENN: Or -- or better -- as she said --
PAT: Or better.
GLENN: -- both heaven and hell.
PAT: Or better.
STU: Right. Because you would think you would be able to say logically in your head now that that hurtful thing a 7-year-old said to me back in the day was actually worthless and pointless. Like, you'd feel yourself going through an emotional reaction, and then you realize, it didn't make any difference, and there's no need for me to react that way. But with her condition, I guess that wouldn't happen. You'd just go through that process. I mean, that would be really, really terrible.
JEFFY: Yeah, it would.
GLENN: I forgot to ask her if she remembers her childhood better, of the days gone by, better than they are now.
STU: Hmm.
PAT: Hmm.
GLENN: You know what I mean? Has I wanted to ask her if she's ever blown off an appointment and used the excuse, I forgot. Sorry, I forgot. Because if someone doesn't know you, it's still a valid excuse, right?
JEFFY: Right.
STU: So if you know you're being dishonest --
GLENN: But it sounds like she can forget.
STU: Yeah. I guess it's not -- that's why I guess it's such a weird thing to have to deal with.
GLENN: Yeah. I will tell you, as an alcoholic -- I mean, part of the thing that drove me to alcoholism was the mistake of your past just pile up. And some people can deal with them. Some people can't. And I was one that just couldn't deal with the problems of my past. I never dealt with them. And just started to break apart. And that is, to me why, you know, Jesus is so important, to come and redeem and wash me of all of the past.
And it really did -- for me, it really did bury my past. It dealt with it and buried it. And it's in the past. I can't imagine -- I can't imagine -- that's total hell. Total hell.
If this whole media thing doesn’t work out, Glenn can always fall back on his biscuit-making skills! Take a break from the apocalypse and enjoy some Cracker Barrel carbs made by everyone’s favorite son of a baker!
New reporting from Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe provides evidence that Minnesota taxpayer dollars are being funneled by Somali immigrants to Al Shabaab, the East African branches of Al Qaeda. Glenn Beck reviews how these scams have worked and what we can do to stop them.
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Let me take you to Minnesota now.
I don't want to talk to you about politics. Our elections.
Culture wars. But something far, far more dangerous.
And more fundamental. Because the city journal has uncovered not a fraud scandal. This isn't waste. It's not inefficiency. This is a pipeline directly from your wallet. And this -- what I'm about to tell you, is all based on Ryan Thorpe. And Christopher Rufo's reporting.
That is some of the best reporting, I have seen. And this -- this is -- this is crazy!
The largest single funder. The largest single funder of that pipeline today, from your wallet to a foreign terror group, according to multiple federal sources, is the taxpayer of the state of Minnesota. Let me repeat that. Because it's not a punch line. This is not hyperbole. This is not a claim thrown around on social media. According to federal counterterrorism sources, quoted by the City Journal, quote, the largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer. What is Al-Shabaab? In case you don't remember.
It is the east African branch of al-Qaeda. This is the same group that bombs hotels. They slaughter Christians. They massacre schoolchildren. They publicly behead those who defy their authority.
And that, the major funder is you, in Minnesota!
And this is what happens when you mix a naive wide open, no questions asked welfare machine, with a political class, terrified of being called a racist.
And then a police class that's actually in on it, as well.
And then you throw in a media terrified of reporting anything that challenges progressive dogma.
And then a community where Klan networks and overseas loyalties operate underneath the radar of government. Because governments are unwilling to look there!
That is the perfect storm.
That's Minnesota.
And it is drowning inside of that storm.
Now, it started with a program called HSS.
The Housing Stabilization Services. It was launched in 2020 to help people on the margins. The addicts. The elderly. The mentally ill.
Noble idea.
But it was designed with everything a criminal enterprise dreams of! Low barriers to entry. Minimal requirements for reimbursement.
Billions in Medicaid dollars, with almost zero verification!
Now, before the program even started, bureaucrats estimated it might cost $2.6 million a year.
In four years, it went from 2.6 to 21 million.
Then the next year, in court 22 million. The next year 74 million.
To over $100 million every year.
2.6, to over 100!
This year alone, 77 HHS providers have been terminated for credible allegations of fraud. Seventy-seven.
I don't know if you saw this. The acting attorney. US attorney said, quote, the vast majority of this program was fraudulent.
Not over billing. Not paperwork. No mistakes.
Fictitious companies. Empty story fronts. Ghost clients. Stacks of faked claims. Six of the eight defendants indicated that they were members of the Minnesota Somali community, but this is the first ripple.
There was another scheme. The 250-million dollar mega scheme. That came from Feeding Our Future.
Feeding Our Future is a nonprofit that went from $3 million to $200 million in federal food aid dollars, in two years!
Three million to a straight line up to 200 million! To help feed the hungry in Minnesota, in two years. Wow! Fake meal accounts.
Fake attendants. Fake invoices. Dozens of defendants. Primarily, members of Minnesota's Somali community. Some of them bought luxury homes, fancy cars, properties in Kenya and Turkey. And when the state raised any kind of concern, the group sued, claiming racism. And everybody was like, racism.
I don't know what I call that.
The investigators were chastised. The politicians stayed quiet. The media -- by the way, that's government you could have had as vice president right now. Everyone knew the rule. Don't question. You can't criticize, okay? If you want to survive politically, no!
So the cost $250 million stolen, right there, hung on the backs of taxpayers, who believed they were feeding hungry kids.
Now add on to that. So we've got two scandals. Now add on to that, the autism scam.
Days after those indictments, another scheme exploded. Autism services. A Somali woman already tied to feeding our future was charged with leading a 14 million-dollar Medicare fraud ring.
That was invented diagnosis. They bought parents with kickbacks. They created a network of fake autism centers, autism spending. In Minnesota, jumped from 3 million, to 399 million in just a couple of years.
Providers ballooned from 41 providers to 328.
One in 16 Somalia 4-year-olds were suddenly diagnosed. One in every 16 suddenly had autism. That's triple the state average. And nobody was -- nobody is looking into that? What's happening in the Somali community? This wasn't CAIR. This wasn't treatment. This was a racket. And it wasn't isolated.
Let me tell you what the US attorney Joseph Thompson said. He said, these schemes form a web, that has stolen billions of dollars.
So why did nobody ask where that money went.
Where did the money go. Oh. You're not going to like the answer.
Somalia depends on remittances from abroad. $1.7 billion sent to Somalia last year alone. That is more money than the country's entire government budget!
Imagine somebody sending us $6 trillion.
That's what happened in Somalia. Investigators told Chris Rufo and the city journal that welfare recipients in Minnesota, were sending the money overseas.
Called Hawalla money transfer networks. They were moving tens of millions of dollars all the time.
And Al-Shabaab, the terrorist organization, takes a cut of every dollar entering the Somali clan channels. One terrorism task force investigator said, every cent, sent back to Somalia, benefits Al-Shabaab in some way. It's not speculation. It's not theory. It's not conjecture. This is the conclusion of multiple federal investigators, who have spent years tracking the money flow.
They said Minnesota Somali community runs a sophisticated money pipeline, directly from the pockets of US taxpayers, directly to Somalia!
Welfare dollars. Fraudulently obtained. Transferred to Somalia. Al-Shabaab benefits every single time, and here's the part that should terrify everybody. They warn that if one terrorist attack could be traced back to these funds.
The entire country will discover overnight.
That we were financing the very groups sworn to destroy us.
Gang, you're going to find this in Epstein. You're going to find this -- we already did with USA ID. You're going to find this everywhere. The greatest heist of human history, the largest robbery of wealth has been happening right under our noses and we didn't even know the bank turned off the alarms!
All of our wealth being transferred out. Why didn't Minnesota stop this. Why didn't the journalists investigate this?
Why didn't the officials sound the alarm?
Well, here's the reason. If you don't win the Somali community. You don't win Minneapolis. If you don't win Minneapolis, you don't win the state. That's it!
You're going to say anything about it.
Of course not.
Of course, you won't say a damn thing about it.
Ilhan Omar staff. Advocated for the later groups later charged with fraud.
State officials were looking the other way. Democratic leadership, refused audits. Oversight. Even any kind of scrutiny. Because the political cost of calling out fraud, if it occurred inside that Somali community, was considered higher than the cost of losing billions of your dollars. So they let it grow.
They let it metastasize. They let it intertwine with criminal and terrorist networks overseas.
You're just an Islamophobe. It's not about ethnicity. This is about a system that refuses to protect its own citizens. Enough is enough!
Is every Somali Minnesotan responsible? No, that's absurd!
But ignoring the fact that organized fraud rings have emerged inside a specific community, that doesn't have loyalty! Many times, to the United States of America, when nobody would look into it.
The FBI, investigative journalists.
That's not tolerance. It's negligence. It's cowardice.
And it's allowed billions of dollars meant for the poor of our nation. Your hard-earned money. To become an international money laundering system that helps finance the second largest al-Qaeda franchise on planet earth.
This is what happens when ideology replaces oversight. When equity replaces accountability.
When fear of being labeled a racist overrides the responsibility to protect -- to protect taxpayers or safeguard national security!
Minnesota didn't just mismanage welfare programs. It didn't just lose money.
It didn't just fall asleep.
It built through fear and politics and continual. The perfect getaway through which billions of our dollars could pour from American safety net programs, into overseas networks that feed, support, and expand the reach of violent jihadist organizations.
Wow.
I think it was the US attorney that said, it should take your breath away.
It does. It does.
Now, here's the -- here's the thing. I started talking to you today, about the Bubba Effect. You're seeing the Bubba Effect happening now in Dearborn. You have a guy who is wrapping a Koran in bacon, and all kinds of trouble is happening because of it. And I don't know any common sense individual on either side of the aisle, that thinks that's a good idea.
Okay?
But a lot of people including me, at times, is like, look what he's saying though. It's not about the bacon. It's about the Koran. Look at what's he's saying. This is out of control.
And nobody is saying it. At least he's saying it. No, no, no. That's the Bubba Effect.
No! He's wrong in what he's doing. He's not necessarily wrong in what it is highlighting.
But we can't be part of the Bubba Effect.
Let's just highlight the real stuff!
But people get so frustrated, it takes bacon and a Koran to make people pay attention again.
This is not a Minnesota story.
This is not even a story about Somalia. This is a story about USAID. This is a story about Epstein.
All of our money. And this is a story about silence. And fear. And institutional corruption and surrender.
And unless we confront it honestly. Unflinchingly. Immediately. With truth!
We're all going to be poor.
We will all end up being Somalia. Because in the end, every last time that we have, will be taken.
And shipped some place else, and used against us for our own demise.
Glenn Beck recently witnessed a SpaceX rocket launch from hours away, and the raw power of it sent him into a passionate breakdown about the wonder of space travel, the brilliance of Elon Musk, and the insanity of a culture that’s turning on its greatest innovators. From the days of the Space Shuttle to Musk’s Starship and self-driving Tesla vehicles, Glenn argues that Elon isn’t just a tech founder, but rather a once-in-history mind, a modern Edison who revived an American spirit we had forgotten.
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Last night, here in Florida, Tania said SpaceX is going to launch another missile. About 15 minutes. Let's go outside and see if we can see it. And we live right on the coast. And all of a sudden, you know, we're watching it, ten, nine, eight, seven, six. And about 45 seconds after the launch. We're like, oh, but we can't see it. Then all of a sudden, over the top of the trees, we just see this flame coming up. And it was absolutely. I posted it on the Instagram last night. On my Instagram page. It was absolutely one of the most amazing things I've seen.
From a distance. I've seen it once before. I've seen the last space shuttle lift off in the middle of the night. And I really close. I was across the water. I was just right across from -- what is it?
Cape Kennedy.
And I could not believe, it was a wonder of the world. 3 o'clock in the morning. All of a sudden, it was just day light.
And now, I'm -- oh, I don't even know.
Three hours away. Two, three hours away?
And it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
It just starts coming up. And then, you know, you see the rocket. The boosters detach.
The -- the first stage rockets go out. They turn blue. Then they go out.
And then you see them. And it just picks up so much speed. And just racing through the sky.
It is incredible. It's incredible.
If you've never seen a rocket launch, I can't wait to see his -- what is the -- that was a falcon.
What's the big, big heavy one that he's working on.
Nobody knows.
VOICE: Falcon Heavy, isn't it?
VOICE: Is it the Falcon Heavy?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I think -- somebody look this up.
Starship. That's it.
I think it's based on the original Soviet design. The Soviets, the reason why we beat the Soviets up in space, is they had this great design of like 24 rockets.
Where we had like four, big, huge ones for lift.
They had like 24, 25 rockets, at the bottom of it.
But they couldn't synchronize them.
You know, this was when computing was really, really bad.
They couldn't synchronize them.
So they couldn't keep it level.
So it would take off. And spiral out of control and blow up.
That's the reason why we beat them into space.
I saw the bottom end of one of these rockets in a video. And I think -- I think it's the original Soviet design. I'm not sure. Because now we have the ability to synchronize everything. But I can't wait to see that thing. Because it's bigger than a Saturn rocket. Bigger the ones that we send to the moon.
JASON: At some point, I don't know if the wonder of space travel left.
JASON: We get bored with things.
JASON: It's so weird. But Elon Musk just brought it back. I mean, we're doing just amazing stuff.
GLENN: It's like everything.
We did it. We mastered it. We put people on the moon. Everybody was crazed about it. I remember sitting in class and seeing the astronauts, you know, on the moon. We would go in. They would bring in an old TV.
And they would sit the TV. Before these things were even on the little -- you know, wheel, you know, AV kind of things.
It was just a big old TV.
And we all went into the regular -- you know, the gym, and we watched it on a regular TV.
And them walking around, on the moon. And that must have been in the early '70s.
And then after that, everybody was like, yeah. So we've been to the moon. Now, nobody believes we've gone to the moon ever.
Now we're going back up. And, I mean, it's amazing. It's amazing to watch. Because you just think, I just watched it last night. I'm like, my gosh. Look at the power of that thing.
I could -- how far are we away?
Three hours?
Two hours?
You could hear it. You could hear it. It got to a certain place. Where my wife said, you can see it on the tape on Instagram. My wife at one point said, can you hear that?
You could! You could hear the crackle of it. It is -- I mean, it's incredible. Just incredible.
I really want to go see a liftoff in person, again. Just amazing.
STU: Yeah. We should. To be clear, we should excommunicate him out of our society. Because you wore a red hat a few times. That, I think is a smart -- it's a smart move.
GLENN: I know. What a dummy.
STU: Yeah. He's an idiot. And obviously, we don't need him helping our country, right now.
Why?
Because he voted for lower taxes or something.
We -- that's a good way to run our society.
GLENN: Hate that guy. Hate that guy.
STU: Amazing.
GLENN: What a dope.
We have just -- we have just become morons.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: We really -- really have.
History will look back and go, at what point, they just became morons. You know.
STU: Do you find it interesting, Glenn. He was at this turn with the Saudi Arabian, you know, delegation, I guess.
Trump did a turn and invited a bunch of VIPs to it.
I thought a good sign from the perspective of the relationship between Trump and Elon Musk, that he was invited in, was there.
Right?
Remember, they had a total falling out. It was over the Epstein files. If you --
GLENN: No. They made nice at Charlie Kirk's funeral.
STU: Yeah. So that's what you think earlier repaired. Somewhat repaired at this point?
GLENN: Yeah. Somewhat repaired. And, you know, if you're trying to showcase the best of America. Who better to have at the table than Elon Musk?
I mean, he is the Tesla or the Edison of our day. There's nobody -- is there anybody in the world that everybody, with an exception of those who are just so politically, you know -- I don't know.
Pilled. That they just can't stand anybody that votes differently than them.
I mean, be even when he was -- we thought he was a real big lefty.
I still wanted to meet the guy.
I still wanted to be, man, I would give my right arm to sit and listen to that guy in the same room.
You know what I mean?
It would be great.
This is a guy who will be remembered for hundreds of years.
After Jesus comes.
Well, we may not have history books at that point.
But he's going to be remembered for hundreds of years, as one of the greatest human beings ever. When they were still human beings.
So, I mean, who doesn't want to meet that guy?
How is it that we have half of our -- we have half of our country now just hating on that guy?
It's genius. Would you be happier if he was Chinese.
STU: Thank God, he's here.
GLENN: Thank God.
STU: And wants to be here.
And wants to be in this environment.
I think that, you know, you look at everything.
And it's going to be a great biopic.
The movie on Elon Musk's life. Is going to be absolutely incredible. Because he is a somewhat complicated figure at times.
There's a lot to discuss on the Elon Musk front.
GLENN: Oh.
STU: Just think of the fact that this guy has put, I don't know.
You know, hundreds of thousands. Millions of cars on the road right now.
That are, you know, capable and are driving themselves.
Think of -- that's like -- an incredible accomplishment!
This is a guy who is putting cars that are -- you know, have full self-driving. You can sit in there.
The thing will drive itself from point A to point B. Without you touching really anything.
And that is -- think about the fact that that's just being said. That even people are allowed. You know, that governments are just like. Yeah. We trust this guy. To let all these cars drive themselves.
It's an amazing accomplishment. That's just one of many.
It's really an amazing life.
“I feel like I’ve been fired by America,” says Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino, in a vulnerable tell-all that goes behind the scenes into the explosive Cracker Barrel rebrand which Glenn describes as “stupid from start to finish.” In August 2025, Cracker Barrel unveiled a minimal new logo with modern fonts, cozy colors....no nice old man....and no BARREL for him to lean on. But it wasn’t just the logo; the restaurant chain was also getting a “modern” remodel. In short: We hated it. Social media erupted with brutal reviews, calling it “minimalist,” “soulless” and “downright ugly.” Cracker Barrel stock tanked, their attempt to tamp down the pushback backfired, and it looked like this was their “Bud Light moment.” But then, Cracker Barrel surprised us. They listened. Within weeks, they scrapped the new logo, reinstated the original, and hit pause on every remodel. “Covid even made Cracker Barrel start drinking,” says Doug Hisel, Senior Vice President of Store operations, as he takes Glenn behind the scenes as to what REALLY led to moment that brought Cracker Barrel to its knees. In Julie’s first interview since her time on “Good Morning America” when she said the response to the new logo, “was overwhelmingly positive,” she is here to say to America: “I’m sorry....I regret it.” Now the question is: will America forgive her?
