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You'll Never Guess How Many Homes' Yearly Energy Output Al Gore's Heated Pool Would Cover

Climate change activist Al Gore isn’t exactly practicing what he preaches. As it turns out, the former vice president used enough electricity for six homes last year just to heat his outdoor swimming pool at his Nashville residence.

In the last year, Gore’s Nashville home used enough energy to power a typical house in America for 21 years, the Daily Caller reported. The National Center for Public Policy Research obtained the numbers through interviews and public records requests with the Nashville Electric Service.

Glenn, Pat and Stu examined Gore’s hypocrisy on radio Thursday.

Despite a publicized green makeover to his house, Gore in the last year consumed 230,889 kilowatt hours (kWh) at the residence, including electricity for the house, pool and entry gate in the driveway. In contrast, the typical family needs 10,812 kWh of electricity on average per year. While Gore has publicly said his home is completely powered by renewable energy, only about 3 percent of the electricity used at Gore’s Nashville residence comes from renewable energy sources.

“Is this is how you conduct your life, seriously, if you believe in catastrophic global warming?” Pat asked incredulously.

GLENN: Let's just, on stupidity, let's go here. An Inconvenient Truth came out with Al Gore. And when that happened, people started to look at his energy and his carbon footprint. His energy uses. And, of course, he consumed 230,889 kilowatt-hours. This is at his Nashville residence.

PAT: Yeah. That's before he even had the Malibu residence.

GLENN: Yeah. By the way, 230,889 kilowatt-hours. So you know, the average home uses 10,812 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

STU: So you're saying 20 times.

JEFFY: A little bit more.

PAT: Twenty times the average.

GLENN: Yeah, stop after he won in 2007, they found that he was using 20 times more electricity than the average household. So when that became public knowledge, he decided to change his way. And he was going to give his whole place a green makeover. He added 33 solar panels. That cost him 60,000. He upgraded the home windows and ductwork. Replaced the installation. Put in driveway rainwater collection system. Installed a geothermal heating system. And then he changed all the lightbulbs to fluorescent lightbulbs. Total renovations cost well over 250,000 dollars.

Okay. Here's what he has now, now that, you know, he's got another movie out. Let's check his carbon footprint in his second home -- in -- the same home he just did to make it green.

PAT: Yeah, this is the Nashville home still, right?

GLENN: Yeah, this is his second home. His Nashville home. Or is Malibu his second home?

PAT: I think Malibu is his primary residence now.

GLENN: Yeah. So Nashville is his second home. So he's not really even living there. The 33 solar panels generate 12,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. That's -- that's a year. That's way more than the average typical household needs. But he is such an energy hog, that the rooftop solar array that he put there, produces only 5.7 percent of the electricity that he uses. He also --

STU: That's 21 days of energy a year.

PAT: Think about how inefficient that is for a 65,000-dollar investment. That's unbelievable. Unbelievable.

GLENN: Yeah. He also --

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: He also has a couple of other problems with his home. He is currently using 30,993 kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's enough to power 34 average American homes for a month over the last 12 months.

PAT: Is this how you conduct your life?

GLENN: Seriously, if you really believe this.

STU: You don't.

PAT: If you believe in catastrophic global warming.

GLENN: No, no. You don't.

STU: It's quite clear he doesn't.

GLENN: No, you don't.

PAT: He doesn't believe it.

STU: That's, by the way, Glenn, over the past 12 months, Gore used more electricity just heating his outdoor swimming pool than six typical homes use in a year. Now, again, that is --

PAT: You don't even have a pool heater if you believe in catastrophic global warming.

STU: Of course not.

GLENN: Of course not.

PAT: You don't even have a pool if you believe that. It's insane.

JEFFY: Yeah, no way.

PAT: It's insane.

STU: You buy a smaller house. Now, look, you might now buy -- maybe you can give him a break and say he's not going to buy the smallest house possible. He's not going to go to tiny houses. I got it.

PAT: Nobody expects him to do that, unless you believe in catastrophic global warming!

STU: Then, of course, you would. Then you would.

PAT: Then you would. Yes.

STU: By the way, to put this into perspective. I looked -- I went to my energy bill this morning, as we were looking at this. Now, I am person who has never in their entire life made one decision about energy based on the environment.

PAT: Me neither.

STU: Never. I've made decisions because of money. I've made decisions because of comfort. I have never once in my entire life made one decision based on the environment when it comes to energy.

JEFFY: Welcome, Stu.

PAT: Thank you.

And I don't know. There's apparently a lot of people in the audience who have made that same choice. But think about that. Because I don't care. I do not believe that my energy choices are going to cause catastrophic global warming. It's important to know I use 64 percent less energy per square foot in my home than Al Gore does. Now, his home is bigger than mine, of course. Again, that makes no sense if he believes in catastrophic global warming. But, okay. You might think, well, yeah, he uses more energy than I do because his home is bigger.

No, per square foot, I use 64 percent less energy than Al Gore. And I've never tried.

GLENN: So here's the thing: He spent -- he spent 250,000 dollars redoing his --

PAT: Retro fitting it, yeah.

GLENN: -- home. At my ranch, I have a ranch home. It is, what? 2,000 square feet.

PAT: I think it's a little more than that. It's a little more than that.

GLENN: Yeah. But I know the top -- because it has a lot of bedrooms in the second floor, which is really underground -- the first floor is I think 15 or 1800 square feet. And that's the part that we use as a family. And it's like kind of the house I grew up in.

PAT: Yeah, it's really nice. But it's not gigantic.

GLENN: And it's not opulent.

PAT: Right.

GLENN: Okay. What we did is we spent our money in doing -- for instance, my house was the first house that was wrapped in this copper sheathing for energy and heat, to trap energy.

PAT: And it works.

GLENN: And it works. So much so that last -- last winter, when it was ten below zero for like two weeks, my power went out. I had no power in my house. Now, imagine ten below zero.

PAT: Yeah. You would think it would be really cold.

GLENN: By lighting one of the fireplaces once a day and just -- because we made doors that we have two doors. So you open one and the other door is closed. You close that one, and then you open the other one. So it's not blowing stuff in. Because it gets very cold in the winter. Just by doing that and lighting the fire with no electricity, my house, because of my installation and everything else, stayed at 68 degrees for a week.

PAT: That's pretty amazing.

GLENN: Al, why aren't you doing that? Why aren't you doing that?

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: We're completely grid green. We're completely off the grid. We have solar and wind. Why aren't you doing that, Al? It can be done.

PAT: Such a phony. Such a fraud.

GLENN: He doesn't believe it.

PAT: It's such a hoax.

STU: We should point out, on your Facebook page is the video that debunks the main claim he made in the trailer. If you go to Glenn Beck's Facebook page -- I think yesterday it was posted. Or the day before. Look for it.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Because in about six minutes, just blows apart his entire case that all of his stuff has been proven right.

PAT: Yeah, it's great.

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Exclusive new poll reveals why Gen Z wants to BURN the system down

A shocking number of young Americans support BOTH President Trump and democratic socialism, a new poll has found, and they're willing to make major changes to the American system to get what they feel they deserve. Justin Haskins, who conducted the poll with Rasmussen, joins Glenn Beck to break down the unexpected findings…

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Justin Haskins. He's the president of our republic. StoppingSocialism.com. He's editor-in-chief. And also the coauthor of several books, with me. Welcome to the program, Justin.

How are you?

JUSTIN: I'm doing well, Glenn. How are you?

STU: Well, I was well, until you contacted me on vacation, and sent me this disturbing poll.

I am in bed at night.

And I'm reading this. I'm like, oh, dear.

What? My wife is like, I told you to not check this email. I'm like, I didn't know Justin was going to write to me.

Justin, tell me, first of all, before we get into it, how secure is the sample size on this poll?

JUSTIN: It's a very good sample size. 1200 people nationally.

Only 18 to 39-year-olds. And we did that deliberately, so that we could get a sample size large enough so we could pull out valid responses, just from younger people.

So the whole purpose of this poll was to find out what younger people, 18 to 39 think, voters only. And people who say that they're likely to vote. So we're not talking about just people out in the public. We're not talking about registered voters.

We're talking about people who are registered to vote. And say they're likely to vote.

GLENN: So let's go over some of the things that you have already released to the press.

And that is, in the survey, 18 to 39-year-olds, likely voters.

The Trump approval rating is a lot higher than you thought it would be. Right?

JUSTIN: Yeah. Yeah. Forty-eight percent positive approval rating of Donald Trump, which for young people, is very high.

So that's -- that's the good news.

That's the only good news we're going to talk about.

GLENN: We might have to come back to that first question several times.

Do you believe the United States is a fundamentally good, evil, or morally mixed country?

JUSTIN: Yep. This one is not too bad.

It's not great. But fundamentally good was 28 percent.

Which is low. But mixed was 50 percent.

And fundamentally evil was 17 percent.

And I think mixed at 50 percent is not an unreasonable, crazy response.

I -- I can see why all sorts of people might choose that.

So I don't think there's anything terrible here. It depends on what you mean by mixed. Fundamentally good at 28 percent. It's a little low. Fundamentally evil at 17 percent, it's a little disturbing. But it's not -- it's not insane. The insane stuff comes a little bit later.

GLENN: Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Major industries talk about the crazy stuff coming later, here it is.

Major industries like health care, energy, and big tech should be nationalized and give more control and equity to the people.

JUSTIN: Yeah. This was -- this was -- this one floored me. If I look at strongly agree. Somewhat agree for that statement you just read. It's over 70 percent of young people, including -- including the vast majority of Republicans. Young Republicans. And people who identify as conservatives.

It was pretty similar, in fact, how young people responded compared to liberals and independents.

And Democrats.

They all pretty much agreed that, yes. The government. The federal government should be nationalizing whole industries to make things more equitable for people.

GLENN: As the guy who is the chief -- editor-in-chief of stopping socialism. What's the problem with nationalizing energy, and health care?

JUSTIN: Well --

GLENN: What happens, typically.

JUSTIN: Well, usually, there's blood in the streets, when you do too much of that.

You know, socialism, communism have been spectacularly horrible, throughout the course of human history. Across every society, culture, religion.

It doesn't matter when or what kind of technological advancements you have. The more you collect vies a society. The more authoritarian that society gets. The less you have individual freedom. And the worst the economy usually is for regular people. So it's been a catastrophe across-the-board. Everyone listening to this audience, probably knows that.

And so the idea that you would have three-quarters of young voters. So remember, these people will be the primary voters in ten to 20 years.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

JUSTIN: Saying, yeah. We should be nationalizing whole industries. Whole industries, is so disturbing.

And I don't think that conservatives are -- understand how deeply rooted some of these ideas are with younger people.

GLENN: No. No.

And I will tell you, I think some conservatives are walking a very dangerous line. And, you know, coming up with a little mix of everything.

And -- and I think we have to be very careful on -- on what is being said. And who are WHO our friends and allies are.

By the way, that number again is 39 percent strongly agree.

37 percent somewhat agree.

Somewhat disagree, 12 percent. Strongly disagree, 5 percent.

That is disastrous. Now, try this one on. These are the ones that have been -- we have new ones.

These are just a few of the ones that were released late last week. The next presidential election is in 2028. Would you like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election?

JUSTIN: Yep, 53 percent said yes.

Fifty-three percent of all voters said yes. And the most shocking thing, was that 35 percent of those who we poll, who said they voted for Donald Trump, in 2024, said that that they want to see a socialist win in 2028. And so about a third of Republicans, 35 percent of Trump voters, 43 percent of people who call themselves conservatives, so even on the right, among younger people. There is a large group that want a socialist president, in 2028.

GLENN: And the reason -- the reason is, it -- it tied into the next few questions. Okay.

So here's question five. Among the following options, which best describes your biggest reason, you would like to see a democratic socialist candidate. Thirty-one percent said housing costs are too high. Twelve percent, taxes are too low for corporations. Eleven percent, taxes are too low for wealthy have I seen.

Eight percent want single payer health care systems. Seventeen say the economy unfairly benefits older, wealthier Americans.

Fifteen percent say the economy unfairly benefits larger corporations. 5 percent, some other reason.

And 2 percent, unsure. Now, let's get into the new polls that were breaking today.

Question six.

How would you describe your current financial situation?

JUSTIN: Yeah. Only 24 percent said that they're doing well. Thirty-four -- 38 percent said getting by. Struggling 29 percent. Seven percent said in crisis. So if you add up just getting by, struggling, and in crisis, that's 74 percent said that they're just barely getting by, at best.

And I think that explains a lot of the other negative responses we've seen so far.

GLENN: That's not good.

JUSTIN: In this poll. And the ones that are going to come pretty soon here.

GLENN: Seven. Which best describes your personal life situation?

You are thriving, you're doing well with a few ups and downs. You feel stuck and uncertain. You feel lonely, disconnected, or emotionally drained. You're in a crisis and feel most negative about your personal life.

JUSTIN: Yeah. Yeah. About a third said that they feel stuck or uncertain. Lonely. Or that they're in a crisis.

That's a third of young people. Say that.

I mean, that's -- that's not great. Only 19 percent said thriving.

46 percent said, they have ups and downs. Which I think is not. Too shocking.

But the idea that there's a third of American voters out there, who feel like, they can't buy a home. And they feel like they are lonely. And that they're in crisis. And that life is not just going well at all for them.

Again, I think that's -- that's driving a lot of the support for socialism. When you have 53 percent of these people saying, yeah. I want a socialist president in 2028.

GLENN: So socialism is not the answer. It is the symptom. It is the symptom of what people are feeling right now.

And they -- they don't know any other -- they don't -- nobody is presenting them with anything other than, you know, Republican/Democrat bullcrap. And socialists are coming at it from a completely nigh angle. Or so the youth think it's the oldest and most failed system of all time.

But they're seeing this as a solution that is different than what the party -- the Republican/Democrats are offering. Even though the Democrats are offering the socialism thing.

Number eight, do you think the American economy is unfair to young people?

Sixty-two percent say yes.

JUSTIN: Yeah, and 27 percent said no.
And I think that this really gets at the heart of what the issue is here.

When you look at the reasons. When you look at the detailed things of the poll.

What -- to try to find out if there's an association between some kind of demographic or response question about people's lives and their support for socialism, to see if there's a correlation there between something that is happening. And whether someone is a socialist or not.

One of the top correlations, connections, is, if people think the economy is unfair.

And if they're having trouble buying a home. Or they don't think they can buy a home. Or that's one of their reasons for supporting socialism.

So, in other words, there's this fairness issue. And it's not even about inequality.

It's not about, well, they have too much -- well, if they feel like the -- to use a Trump term. Rigged.

And throughout the data. That's what we see over and over and over again. Is lots of people say, the economy is rigged. For older people. For wealthier people, for corporations. It's rigged. And if they say, yeah. I think it's rigged, you know, then they're more likely to say, yeah. I want a socialist.

And I also think the same group has a relatively high approval rating of Donald Trump.

It's because the reason that a lot of young people like Trump in the poll, is that he's not part of the establishment.

And I think -- I don't think they -- I think a lot of young people who voted for Trump and who liked Trump, they didn't do it, because they liked free market, pro-liberty policies. And that's not a good thing.

But I don't think that's why they did it. I think a lot of them voted for Trump and supported him, because he's not the establishment. And that's what they don't like. They want to blow the establishment up.

JUSTIN: So my -- Justin, my sample size is my two young adults. My two children.

And they're like, talking to me, and saying, Dad. I will never be able to own a home, looking at the prices, looking at interest rates. They're like, I can't even afford to pay rent at an apartment. And they don't know what to do.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

JASON: And so they're looking at -- on, like, TikTok. And they're like, who is this Mamdani guy? This sounds interesting. They bring this to me. They grew up listening to me indoctrinating them their entire lives. They're looking at other voices like on TikTok. Are we just not being loud enough?

GLENN: No. We're not -- we're not connecting with them. We're not -- I feel like they don't feel they're being heard.

And we are speaking to them in red, white and be blue.

And that means nothing. The Statue of Liberty means nothing to them. Ellis Island means nothing to them. The flag means nothing to them.

It's all partisan politics.

They're all symbols of really, the two parties.

You know, and an America, they don't relate to at all.

I think that's -- that's our biggest problem, and not being able to break through. To your point, question nine. How confident are you that you will own a home at some point, in the next ten years?

29 percent say, they already own a home. Which I found interesting. That's -- I think a pretty high number for somebody who is 18 to 34 years old.

JUSTIN: Thirty-nine.

GLENN: Thirty-nine.

JUSTIN: Yeah.

GLENN: There's a lot of 18 to 30. That I didn't own home when I was, you know, 30. Just got a home when I was 30. But go ahead. Go ahead with the rest of that poll.

JUSTIN: Yeah. So then 21 percent said discouraged, but somewhat hopeful. 12 percent said, not confident. 10 percent said, you are convinced you will never own a home. 3 percent not sure.

So if you add up the negative responses, it's around 43 percent that gave that response.

GLENN: Right. But, again, 29 percent, you already own a home. And 25 percent you are confident you will own a home, is still good. It just -- these -- these other numbers, have, you know, discouraged, but hopefully you will own a home. Who is discouraging that? And how is that being discouraged?

You know, only 12 -- let's see 12. Twenty-two. 25 percent are not sure they will ever own a home. That's too high of a number.

But I -- I don't think that's completely dismal. Now, a completely dismal answer, to the question, would you support a law that would confiscate America's excess wealth?

Including things like second homes. Luxury cars, and private boats, in order to help young people buy a home for the first time?

Are you for or against that? We'll give you that number here in just a second.

GLENN: There are some disturbing results, that get very disturbing, going from here on.

We've got two of these today, and then more tomorrow.

We'll spend more time with you tomorrow, Justin.

But would you support a law that would confiscate American's excess wealth, including things like second home, luxury cars, and private boats in order to help young people buy a home for the first time? Get the results.

JUSTIN: Yeah, 25 percent strongly support that, 30 percent somewhat support it, 55 percent in total for support. Only 38 percent strongly or somewhat oppose, with just 20 percent saying strongly oppose. So the vast majority now is -- is supporting this Communistic policy to confiscate people's wealth in order to help people. Younger people buy homes, which is in line with that question, we talked about earlier. Where it said, you know, three-quarters of these respondents wanted to nationalize whole industries to make things fairer. So it's all about -- it's all about this sense of unfairness that exists.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

JUSTIN: And they feel like. Young people feel like the system is rigged. They feel like neither party is on their side, and they want to blow the whole thing up, by just taking wealth away from people, nationalizing whole industries, and redistributing it all.

And guess what, that's basically the democratic socialist platform. So it's not a surprise that that's -- that's becoming increasingly more popular with these young people.

And I don't think that free market, pro-liberty people are dealing with -- with this.

GLENN: No.

JUSTIN: In a real way.

In fact, I think a lot of us have believed recently that the wind is at our backs, and we're actually winning more and more young people over.
And that isn't what's happening according to the poll results.

GLENN: It explains why the Democrats have not moved their position off of the socialism stuff.

Doesn't it?

We keep saying, why? It's not working with anybody.

It is working. It is working with people under 39.

18 to 39-year-olds are hearing this message, and are embracing this message.