RADIOApril 05, 2024

Think Fast Food Prices are Insane NOW? THIS Will Make Inflation MUCH WORSE

California’s new $20 minimum wage law for fast food restaurants is wrecking small towns. Glenn reviews the plight of the town of Lemoore, California, where business are laying people off, raising prices, or even closing due to the strain these government edicts have put on them. But how long until these progressive policies spread to other states?

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GLENN: Not a lot of people know of the little town of Lemoore, California. But if you live there, it's probably one of the greatest places on earth. Buildings are from the early 1900s. They decorate the street corners. And residents gather around the town gazebo in the downtown area.

And murals are painted on the sides of businesses that tell their history. Sounds like a place, I would love to live in, except it's in California.

But it's not the typical California town.

It sits inland. Way, way away from the Pacific Ocean. And it's about directly in the middle of the state.

Lemoore is around 200 miles north of the glitz and glam of Los Angeles, 200 miles south of San Francisco.

And about 200 miles south of Sacramento. So if you've ever driven the 400 or so miles along Highway 5 from LA to San Francisco.

You might have an idea of the type of community the people of Lemoore live in.

The city of Los Angeles just kind of fades away. The bright lights of Hollywood. The hopes and dreams of making it in show business. Slowly gives way to more practical, hard-working lifestyle.

And little by little. One by one. You pass farming communities and dairy communities. At times, you might think you're in rural Texas.

Hard work. Kind of hard work that is evidenced by the blisters, on one's hands.

The sweat on their brow. The dirt on their clothes.

It breeds hard and determined people. You can find these people everywhere in the state. Everywhere in the union, really.

They're the people in Abilene, Texas. Or Preston, Idaho or Sheraton, Wyoming. Lemoore, California.

But these are also the people that all too often, have to accept their fates, as their fates are being decided by people in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Sacramento.

California recently passed a statewide legislation. Mandates a 20-dollar minimum wage for restaurants.

It went into effect on Monday.

And on Monday, the reality of big city politics landed in the small town of Lemoore.

When workers at the local Fosters Freeze showed up on Monday morning, they were told, we're closing the doors. For good. Why?

The assistant manager said the owner blamed the state's new minimum wage increase. According to her, Fosters Freeze isn't the only business in Lemoore, where the wage hike is affecting people.

Quote, this is not the first business that's closing.

There already have been a few local businesses for me, that are closing.

So I feel like, this is just the beginning.

How many businesses will be destroyed by big city policies?

Destroying the small towns, all across America?

Lee more has around 30,000 people. There are only 11,000 jobs.

How many jobs will remain in a month?

How many jobs in two months?

What does that do to the town, and the population?

How many people, that do have jobs, will be able to afford, the inevitable price increases?

So far, restaurants like Chipotle, McDonald's, Jack in the Box, Starbucks. They already announced they have to raise prices.

The prices are already out of control. Other restaurants like Pizza Hut have announced layoffs.

1200 employees.

This is the beginning. Who knows how bad this is going to get. For your small town.
Which will empty your small towns.

Make your small towns, that were just maybe beginning to thrive again. Back into ghost towns.

If you live in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Sacramento. You might be able to find another job. Or eat at a cheaper restaurant.

But what about all the people that live in towns like Lemoore?

What if I live in a small town outside of California? Do you feel safe?

You shouldn't. Because California is the proving ground, for radical left-wing politics.

And when I say proving ground, not that they work. Just that they can get them passed.

It's like a giant crash test dummy for bad ideas.

And our country is being destroyed, because of it.

The history tells the tragic story.

Obamacare likely would have never gotten done without a radical California socialist. Who advised both Bill Clinton and Obama, and a high profile, named Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger's insane climate agenda was all, but copied by President Obama.

Now under bind, it's destroying all of the reliable energy, at breakneck speed. I don't live in California for a reason!

Because there is no reason, in California!

We've all watched over the past few years, how the left's radical criminal justice reform is incentivizing. Incentivizing crime, all over the country.

Back in 2014, California passed proposition 47.

It reclassified multiple crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.

Rendering things like shoplifting, theft of property.

Forgery, drug possession.

And others, to mere slaps on the wrists.

It gave criminals, early release from prisons.

We're seeing the ramifications on the streets, everywhere.

You know what the base of the Statue of Liberty there, there is a poem, that was written just to raise the funds to erect the statute of liberty.

In it, it says, give me your tired. Your poor. Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.

The wretched refuse of your teeming shores.
Send these, the homeless, the tempest tossed to me.

We always read that in the wrong way. We always read that as, oh, send me your homeless.

No! Send me the people that you have made homeless. Send me the people you have made homeless! Send me the people that you say, cannot make it. Send me the people that you have broken through all of your policies, and your rules.

And your experts.

Send those people to me!

Send them to Texas. And let us show you what those people can do.

But what a new meaning this has, in this new progressive day and age. For the tired, poor, homeless. And huddled masses, yearning for freedom.

They're now the American cities, that are being left in the wake, of California progress.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.