RADIOMarch 22, 2022

SHOCKING inflation price comparisons show Biden is FAILING US

What did a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a lightbulb, or a loaf of bread cost at the grocery store before Biden entered the White House? And what do those items cost today? What are they projected to cost in 2024, if America continues down its current path? Glenn details all those price comparisons — plus more — showing just how badly the Biden administration — thanks to its inability to handle inflation — is failing us. 'We MUST turn this around,' Glenn says. 'But our government, our fed, and our administration are incapable of taking the right steps.'

Inflation by the numbers

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GLENN: All right. I want to talk to you about a couple of things. First of all, I want to build this case with you, I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm doing, and what I think you should do as well.

Well, I was going to do it, and then I decided not to. Because I've had so many boating accidents lately, Stu. So many boating accidents.

STU: You, just as a friend, don't think you can boat. Because you can't seem to keep these things afloat. What are you making them out of? Cement.

GLENN: I know. And the latest, gone. Gone. Down at the bottom of the lake.

STU: Did you think about maybe getting a submarine, going down there, getting your guns.

GLENN: I can't do it. It's too deep.

STU: Too deep?

GLENN: Anyway, so I'll give you some solutions here to this. But I want you to listen carefully, and check all these numbers yourself. If you care to.

First, you have a problem with inflation. We all know that. We all can feel it. We can see it. It wasn't caused by Russia. It is caused by the Federal Reserve. It is caused by spending too much money, and printing even more.

I say it's caused by the Federal Reserve. They didn't spend the money. Yes, we have a debt now of $30 trillion, that if interest rates go up to about five or 6 percent, we will not be able to afford anything, but the interest on that debt.

Okay? Now, we know that's happening. The Federal Reserve also has printed and given the banks untold trillions of dollars. We know that they gave $30 trillion to the bank. By -- to the banks, by 2010. That news has just been released due to a FOIA request. We have no idea what they've done in the last two years.

STU: Okay. Can I just add to your point on interest here, Glenn? This is according to Brian Riedl over at the Manhattan Institute. For every point that interest rates go up, just a point, that adds $30 trillion to the debt. Over the next, I think it's 30 years. Which is the same amount, that we would spend in that period.

On defense. So every single point, interest rates go up, we owe another $30 trillion, at like -- we're adding an entire new U.S. military every time one of these things goes up one point.

GLENN: So we just raised the interest rates, the fed did by a quarter point. And said, five to seven more hikes are coming. Okay?

STU: My gosh.

GLENN: All right. So let's just talk about real stuff here for a second.

I wanted to show you what the price of things were, what the price of things are. And what the price of things will be, by -- by Election Day, 2024. Okay?

We must turn this around. But our -- but our government, and our fed, and our administration, are incapable of taking the right steps.

This is just inflation. The numbers I'm going to give you, just inflation. This doesn't include extra regulation or shortages, or anything else. This is just because the value of your dollar is going down.

Prices aren't going up. The value of your dollar is going down. Now, I use not 7.9 percent CPI to project into the future. I used shadow status. The reason why I did this was because everybody was comparing this to the days of Jimmy Carter. No. It's worse than the days of Jimmy Carter. I'm using the shadow status. Because this is the way the government calculated inflation in 1980. They changed that calculation because it was looking bad for the United States government and the fed. So they changed it. But if we look and measure the same things. The same way. We'll get the inflation rate that is 15.5 percent, not 7.9 percent. So this is from Shadow Stats. That's how we calculated these. I made some chart, but I'll read them off. In case you happen to be watching TheBlaze, you'll see the charts. If not, let me just tell you where we're going to start, and that is with hamburgers.

When Biden was elected, when Biden was elected, a hamburger was $4.40. Today, I think you guys are working on the wrong -- you're working on the wrong end of the -- that's the last slide. Look for hamburger.

When Biden was elected, it was $4.40. Today, it's $6.01.

STU: Jeez.

GLENN: 2024. November. The time the next election, just with inflation, that's it. No food shortage. Nothing. Just due to inflation, are you better off than you were four years ago? Hamburger was $4.40. A hamburger will be $7.95.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: When Biden was elected, this is just due to inflation. When Biden was elected, gas was $2.18. Today, it's 4.41. November 24th, with no shortages, no war, nothing. Just from inflation. 5.83. When Biden was elected, milk was $3.20. Today, it's 3.89. Just through inflation, in November 2024, the price of Biden milk will be $5.15.

STU: I got news for you, I don't care what the price is, I'm not drinking Biden milk. That just sounds icky. You can milk anything with a nipple.

GLENN: You're not the one milking him either. It does.

When Biden was elected, the price of a lightbulb was 1.57. Today, it's 2.55. A price of a lightbulb, when the presidential election in 2024 is happening, will be 3.37.

When Biden was elected, eggs, a dozen, 1.45. Today, 2.35. November '24, 3.11. When Biden was elected, 1.50 for bread. Today, it's 1.67. November 2024 projection, 2.21. That number is going to be wildly different, and you'll understand why, here in a minute. When Biden was elected, just because of inflation, houses were 358,700. Today, they're 414,123. November '24 projection, 547,885. That's the average home.

STU: Gee.

GLENN: When Biden was elected, $22,095 -- what? $22,951 was the price of a car. Today, it's 30,603, if you can get one just -- just through -- just through inflation, that number will jump from 30 to 40,488.

STU: Just some quick personal news here, Glenn. I celebrated this weekend, my seven-month anniversary, with an order of my car.

Thank you. It's still not here. They haven't even taken the order yet. But seven months in, I'm doing well.

GLENN: That's great. That's great. Have you thought about a horse?

Now, let me give you something else. Now, these are just projections, and you can find -- we'll publish all of this. You can find how we made all these projections. But they are just projections. These numbers can change dramatically. But we wanted to add in the geopolitical instability factor.

So we know about wheat. And I've got something I've got to share with you in a minute.

We know about wheat. But we are kind of -- we're being, I think, very conservative on some of these numbers.

A hamburger. The price I just told you, add 25 percent, if things continue to go geopolitically as they are.

Gas, if things continue, the instability factor, you'll need to add 30 percent to that gallon of gas. 15 percent added for milk. 5 percent for lightbulbs. 15 percent for chicken.

I don't think -- or, sorry, for eggs. I don't think that's high enough. You'll understand why, here in a minute. Bread, up 30 percent. Housing, down 25 percent. And cars, down by 25 percent.

I agree with the housing, not necessarily so with the projection of the cars. But I left this to the experts and be our team to put together the numbers.

Number two, I'm going to take a one-minute break. And then I'm going to tell you the truth, that no one is willing to talk about, about what's really going on with food.

And why you need to begin to prepare, right now.

GLENN: Stu, have you ever listened to the podcast, all-in.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Okay. Really good. Really bright guys. Generally speaking, more independent now. But they've all been Democrats. Staunch Democrats. I think, except maybe one of them.

And they're all experts. In different fields. And all friends. David Freedberg is one of them. And I was listening to the podcast. And they asked David a question. Now, David used to work for Monsanto. And he doesn't work there anymore.

But he believes in, you know, Monsanto. Think GMOs, et cetera, et cetera. If you're against GMOs, don't dismiss him. Because I got the facts from him, on the stats. But we're not talking GMOs. We're just talking about looking at the market, and what is really happening.

So when you're looking at food, understand that 15 percent of all global calories, come from wheat and rice. 25 percent. Sorry. 15 percent.

One-third of all of our wheat, comes from Russia and Ukraine. We're supposed to be planting crops, all around the world, right now, for wheat.

Not happening in much of Russia. Not happening anywhere in Ukraine. Next stat you need to understand, our food supply -- you know how the cars had just in time. Our production lines were all just in time.

And that's why we can't make cars. Because there are parts, that are sitting somewhere, you know, crossing the ocean. Sitting on a dock someplace. The whole supply chain has broken down. Because it's just in time. It arrives just in time to put it into the car. When you have a disruption, it just bogs everything up. And unclogging, we don't really even know if we can unclog it, and get it started again. But it will take years to do it. That's the supply chain, for stuff. The supply chain for food is 90 days. We have 90 days' worth of food in the supply chain. That is from the grocery store, to the garden, and everything in between. If it stops, we stop -- let's say, we for some reason stop all farming, we would have 90 days left of food worldwide. Okay? 25 percent of all global production, is food. We're about to lose 12 percent of production. That means, we're losing half of our food supply, of wheat. Half of our wheat food supply.

This is going to hit places like Africa first. And it's going to hit places of poverty, unlike anything we've ever seen.

800 million people, currently on earth, live below 1200 calories per day. So you know, the Germans would not allow Jews to have more than 600 calories a day.

So they're only double the amount of calories, that the Jews got, during the Holocaust. And we all remember what they looked like.

If they're at 1200 calories today, and they're in -- in places that are poor, which they most likely are, those calories will be either cut off or greatly reduced.

Now, the bigger problem is fertilizer. And energy. The energy price for run the trackers. To run the trucks. To run everything else.

And the price of phosphorus and potassium, potash, and Nigeria. Those are the three major things we use, to make fertilizer. Natural gas, 90 percent of ammonia is made from natural gas. Prices in natural gas, have doubled. And in some places, gone up 4X.

It's gone from $200 a ton, to $1,000 a ton. Phosphorus, 10 percent of the phosphorus from Russia, and 20 to 25 percent of all of the potash comes from Russia. It's now been banned in Russia. They cannot sell it. We cannot buy it.

They said, oh, you're going to cut us off at the bank. Great. We'll cut you off on this.

Potassium is up to $700, phosphate went from 250 to $700. This is causing so much stress on the farmers. That farmers all around the world, are not planting their fields.

They are reducing the acreage. Because without fertilizer, you're not growing much. So why plant all those fields? It's not going to be a good year, they're thinking.

So as they -- as fertilizer goes up, they pull more and more acres. So far, the price of corn has doubled. Soybeans. Wheat. Skyrocketing. The strategic food reserves, in some parts of the world, are now opening.

We better have perfect weather all over the world. Just because, if things continue the way they are and don't turn around quickly, and we can't get fertilizer, hundreds of millions of people, will experience famine by the end of the year.

We need to do everything we can to support our farmers, we need to understand what's coming. And you need to have a garden, plant some seeds. Live by a farm, and help them. Or start storing food now.

More on this, in a second.

GLENN: Rising fuel prices are taking a toll on small businesses. Owners from everything from furniture retailers to swimming pool service companies are trimming their services and revising contracts because the financial hit is getting worse and worse and worse. Keeping store owners wide awake, trying to figure out, what are we going to do?

Well, first of all, there's a couple of things we should do. Let me go back to food for a second. The governments around the world are buying up large swaths of food right now. Commodity prices going up. Not just because of traders. But because of governments are trading -- governments are like, we're going to buy our corn right now. And first in, first out.

Countries like -- that are in Africa, they're going to have a really hard time. They're not going to get the food, that they desperately need. But neither are other countries as well. We're all going to take a real hit on this. Especially if we don't have good weather. If we -- you know, we don't have fertilizer. We should, as a nation, be doing everything we can right now to help the farmer. Everything we can, right now, to get fertilizer. You know, everybody is worried about the price of inflation for the average person. Okay. That's really bad. And we're all hurting. But if we don't take care of the farmer right now, and get him fertilizer, and make sure he can afford the things that he can afford. Or they have to afford.

Our inflation is the least of our problems, it will be shortages, next year. Now, they are -- governments are buying up food. But governments all over the world now, are also, while they're doing that, telling you not to hoard. And I'm telling you, also, not to hoard. But I am telling you to prepare for your family. And then others, that will be hungry.

We have to help each other, through this. There are going to be people, who just can't make it. And they'll have to bring another skill. It's going to be barter, I guess. But we're just going to have to help each other. If you can grow food, plant this spring. Anything you can do it ease the burden on your family. And others, do it. When you go to a store, if you are going in, and you're going to buy macaroni and cheese, and you only need one box, buy two. Put one away.

Use the other one. When that one box is done, don't reach into the pantry to get it. Buy a second box. As I showed you just a few minutes Al Gore, just because inflation, that box, a year from now, will be costing you a lot more money at the store.

And when you hit a breaking point, you'll have some food storage. But be careful on what you think your breaking point is. Because real, real trouble is coming, and we have to be prepared, and we have to be prepared to help others.

That -- this is, I think, the beginnings of the times when I have felt, since the beginning with you, that you are going to may a role in saving this nation. And I think this is the beginning of it. Preparing for those in need.

And it is going to be really, really, really hard, because you're going to be like, I prepared, they didn't.

I know. I know. But we're in this together. You have to take care of your family first. But we're in this together.

That doesn't mean, that -- that doesn't mean that you should tell the world what you're doing. Because governments will come in. And they'll start to make it illegal to hoard food. They will start to demonize people first.

As hoarders. This is a while away, I think.

But that's what will happen.

So just keep your mouth quiet, and it don't be needs to know your business. Just urge the people who get it, to go in just store some food, for their family.

And -- and create a network, if you will, of people who think like you. And really understand what's coming. And just help each other. Just help each other.

STU: So how real do you think the food shortage thing is?

GLENN: I think food shortage in places like India and Africa, I think millions are going to die. Millions will die. Probably worse than anything we've ever seen.

STU: Oh, my God.

GLENN: If -- if they come up with a solution today, and crops get into the ground, maybe not.

But -- but it will still be a problem, because we're not getting fertilizer. So it will be a situation where maybe we as a -- as the top market in the world, be are able to acquire this stuff, but at way higher prices.

GLENN: Way higher prices.

STU: Down the line, the -- the poorer countries aren't even able to acquire it at all.

GLENN: Yeah. Or very, very little. It will be Ethiopia, on a grand scale. Do you remember what Ethiopia was like?

STU: Oh, yeah. I remember all the commercials. And we had the, We Are the World song out of that. That was not worth it. I don't know if it solved it. If it did, still -- no offense, to the African people, but I think they would oppose the song over being saved.

GLENN: I don't think so. It might be a little --

STU: They would rather starve to death. Look, I may be speaking for an entire continent here. But I think if they can go back to the '80s and they said, look, would we have generations of our people be alive, or that stupid song play again, they would -- they would choose, they would choose to delete the song, and sadly, have -- deal with the repercussions of that.

GLENN: Well, we don't have Michael Jackson around, to make a song this time.

STU: That's right. We're screwed.

GLENN: It is going to be bad. It is going to be bad everywhere.

And forget everything else. Just know that a 25 percent of fertilizer comes from Russia.

STU: Just the 25 percent.

GLENN: But just 25 percent.

STU: So what do you do here? I think it's easy for us to say, we've done everything wrong. It's easy. But look at the effects of what we've talked about with inflation. The things you're talking about. Thirty and 40 percent increases are nothing compared to, if we internalize all the production in the United States. If we got rid of all this global trade, our prices would go up way more than 30 to 40 percent. Your TVs are no longer $400 for a 60-inch. I'll tell you that much. All this stuff goes away, without all the global trade. And all the things associated with it. The theory going back, as -- as globalization, not in the nefarious, you know, UN running our lives sort of way. But in the, hey, we're going to trade with countries because we can turn up production. And certain countries will do certain things well. Others will do others. We'll all combine our efforts, and this is why you have Walmart and prices are really low there.

So that goes in, and one of the theories was, as we saw new countries get into that system, those countries tended to moderate. They wanted to be involved in the global trade, so they didn't act like psychopaths all the time. So our theory was, if we embrace countries like Russia, and like China, they will over time, be so interested in these markets, that they will stop acting like psychopaths. Now, I think we've seen that with those two countries, that has not worked out that well. However, you've seen it in other areas. Japan is a good example of it working out pretty well. So what do you do?

Do you wait longer to bring them in?

Because it seemed like, you bring them in as an incentive to let them change. And instead of letting them change first, and then allowing them in.

GLENN: Right. So I think this is the key. Out of 170 countries, 95 do not have on their books -- ninety-five countries do not have on their books, illegal slave trade. They have not made slave trade illegal.

STU: Really?

GLENN: Ninety-five.

STU: That's a mind-boggling stat. Ninety-five countries.

GLENN: Ninety-five countries have not passed anti-slavery.

Now, there's a lot of countries, probably in that number. I don't know all the countries. But I'm sure there's some that don't have a problem with the slave trade.

STU: Of course.

GLENN: However, we should set our limits. And this has been common sense for a very, very, very long time.

If your government doesn't have the same kind of understanding about human rights, we shouldn't be doing trade with you.

STU: Just at a basic level, right? You don't have to match all of our policies, but you got to respect human life.

GLENN: Men are born to be free, okay?

Okay. If you enslave people or build concentration camps or have gulags or whatever, no. I don't think we should do business with you.

And that's why we're enslaved to these very, very low prices. It's not that we're getting -- some of this stuff we are.

It's not that we're hiring people at very low cost and then putting them in slavery. We're getting stuff, some places at a very low cost, because the cost of living is so low. So they're making a decent wage in their country.

STU: For their area.

GLENN: Yeah. For their area.

STU: When a lot of these factories open, the line is around -- it's a mile long to get jobs at this place. Because it's the best job available to that community.

GLENN: Correct. Correct. However, that's not the case in China. Now, there might be people lining up around the block in China to have a job here, but they also enslave people. So no. If your country is so diametrically opposed to our system, no. That would include Saudi Arabia. That would include Iran.

That would include Russia. China. North Korea. All of these countries, that just don't see the world and people the same way.

STU: And I think too, this points to another one of the undersold failures of the Biden administration. That people are not talking about.

Which is, when Donald Trump was president of the United States, our relationship with India was never better. They loved Donald Trump there.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Now they've decided to side with Russia.

GLENN: And China.

STU: And China. And our option, right? If we were to lose China, as a manufacturing hub. Our easiest replacement is going to India. Where it's a little more expensive. But not a lot more expensive. And if they're a close ally. There's some synergy there. We can still probably make products at reasonable prices. And help someone -- they always call it, the global democracy. The largest global democracy. India is the biggest country that has some of the trappings of what we would respect as a government.

And we seem to be losing that right now. And that's -- and that's a big deal.

GLENN: We're going to lose them. We're going to lose Taiwan. We're going to lose possibly the Philippines. We will lose Vietnam. All of those countries, that provide low-cost labor. We'll lose all of those, if we continue down the path we're on. That will leave us with just half the world. Huh.

Almost like what The Great Reset is calling for.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: They will offer the solution of the end of globalization. You'll hear that. This is the end of globalization. We've got to do things. We've got to do things closer to home. And so it will appear to be the end of globalization. But it will not be the end of globalization.

It will be what you interpret as more global controls. But we'll make stuff closer to home. And not with China or Russia.

Uh-huh. Really? Because we're currently doing a deal with Iran. Just saying.

STU: It's going to work out well.

GLENN: This is the nightmare that's coming.

What Christian Movies Can Learn from Serial Killer Films

Christian movies can learn a whole lot from serial killer murder mysteries, The Daily Wire’s Andrew Klavan tells Glenn. While Christian films tend to have good messages, they don’t often touch on the dark realities of this fallen world we live in – realities that even the Bible addresses through the stories of Cain and Abel and many others. Instead, Klavan argues, he gets more biblical truths out of movies like “Halloween” and “The Silence of the Lambs” and books like “Crime and Punishment” than he does films like “God’s Not Dead.” Klavan tells Glenn how he finds God in the literature of darkness, a topic he further delves into in his new book, “The Kingdom of Cain.”

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GLENN: Andrew Klavan. Host of the Andrew Klavan program. The Andrew Klavan Show.

How are you, sir?

ANDREW: I'm good. Good to see you.

GLENN: Good to see you. I don't think I've seen you out of your element ever.

ANDREW: Yes, I've been many times to the studio.

GLENN: Have you? Well, they were memorable.

ANDREW: I get this reaction a lot.

GLENN: No. I just love you. I love you. And I got to tell you, the best compliment I could give you, your son is remarkable.

ANDREW: He is remarkable. He is.

GLENN: I hope some day, somebody will say that by my children. Really remarkable.

You and your wife are amazing parents.

ANDREW: Oh, well, thank you.

GLENN: So tell me about the Kingdom of Cain, and talk down to me.

ANDREW: It's a really simple book, and very entertaining, because it's about the movies that we all love.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. He says this. Let me read this to you, Stu, and see if you understand what this is.

STU: The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history, including the first murder. Cain's killing of his brother Abel. And at the art created from imaginative engagement, from those horrific events by artists ranging from Dostoyevsky to Hitchcock. To make beauty out of the world, as it is shot through with evil and injustice and suffering. It is the task, not just of the artist, but Klavan argues of every life rightly lived.

Examining how the transformation occurs in art. Grants us a vision of how it could happen in our life. What is this about?

STU: I don't know what you're missing.

ANDREW: I will tell you, I'm a crime writer. Right? I get this letter all the time. Constantly. It says, you call yourself a Christian.

That part is true, and yet you write about horrific things. You right about murder.

Prostitutes and gangsters, and all this stuff.

Why do you do that?

And the reason is very simple. I believe that God is a central fact of reality. And I believe that any artist who speaks truthfully about reality, will speak about God.

And so what I did. I took three murders. Three very famous murders.

I showed how they inspired works of art. Over and over and over again.

They're -- not just one work of art. But they kept coming back, inspiring other works of art. And how those works of art actually speak about something, that happens to a society, when it begins to lose its faith. As our society has certainly done.

You know, and they chart those works of art, and some of them are like the stupidest little horror movie.

And yet, the guy who is making that horror movie understood what he was talking about.

And can show you. If you go back, for instance, and watch a slasher movie. Like Halloween, which is a very scary movie.

It's actually about the fall of the end of faith. And how it destroys sexual responsibilities.

So it takes place in the suburb. Have you seen it?

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Yeah. I have seen it.

ANDREW: Where there are no moms. And the dads are very weak.

And this knife-wielding crazy man comes back. And basically preys on kids having sex while nobody is watching.

And it's a very, very stark picture. I bet if you asked the director what he was doing, he would tell you that. It's right in the movie, when he see that. But you have to be watching this.

The thing is, these movies are -- not just movies. But novels.

The arts are -- really reveal the conscience of a culture.

GLENN: Yes.

ANDREW: And so taking the way they look at murder, tells us things that are bad about our culture.

But it also tells us about ways we want to go in the future.

The role, for instance, of psychiatrists in -- in these films.

Films. Most of these films are based on murder, committed by Ed Dean in the 1950s, a guy who was constant. Who used to kill women.

Right?

And then dress up in their bodies. Just like in Silence of the Lambs. That inspired Psycho.

It inspired a really good horror movie called the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Even though it's a crazy title. It's actually a good movie. The Silence of the Lambs. All of these movies grow out of that one murder.

And what it's about? It's about confusion. It's about sexual. About gender. You know, we don't see that going around nowadays. In fact, it's everywhere. In fact, these movies were made in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and '80s and on. And so they were predicting, as art often does, what was going to happen, and explaining why.

GLENN: So do you think Alford Hitchcock knew that this was coming? Or he was just a good storyteller?

ANDREW: You are a good story teller. Who was it? T. S. Eliot said a great poet writes himself, and in writing himself, he writes his time.

And I think that that's what happens. These artists basically bring something out of themselves. But it reveals where we are all are. And it reveals where we are going. If you see where we are, you can tell where we're going.

That's why the book does not just concentrate on the darkness. It actually says. What do you do?

How do you react? Now that you know what's happening. How do you react to those things in a creative, joyful way?

Because this is -- the Bible doesn't say things will be great. The Bible says. Yeah.

GLENN: That's not the main point.

ANDREW: Being crucified. And at the same time, it says, rejoice ever more.

GLENN: Right.

ANDREW: So one of the things that really bothers me about Christian movies.

Is they don't really represent life.

If you do a Christian movie, that has real things in it, you get slammed.

Why would you put it in?

Why was there sex? Why was there murder?

One of the major influences that turned me to Christ, when I was 19 years old. That took three decades to kick in.

But it was reading Crime and Punishment. About an axe murderer. And about a prostitute who basically turns this axe murderer's life around.

If you walked into a Christian bookstore today.

And say, can I have that book about the axe murderer and the hooker? Yeah, they would look at you like you were nuts. Because Dostoyevsky was a great artist and a great Christian.

One of the truly deep and interesting Christians in history.

He revealed something about the philosophies that were rising up at that time.

And that are still with us today. And the philosophies that later became spoken out by Nietzsche. And Nietzsche affected all of the leftist philosophers that you and I have loved so much. And have done so many good things for our survival.

GLENN: So let's pretend somebody didn't read that by Dostoyevsky or whatever his name is.

And tell us the story -- and tell us the story. And exactly what -- what he was teaching.

ANDREW: Well, the idea is God is dead.

And therefore, instead of having this horrible Christian philosophy. That is nice to the poor. And the weak, and has charity. And compassion.

We need strong special men. Like Napoleon, for instance. Who will make their own law.

And this man, in this story. Crime and Punishment says, well, if I can make my own law, I can murder somebody.

And it will be a sin. It won't be wrong.

And then he actually accomplishes this murder.

And finds a way. Oh, wait. I've actually shattered the moral order. And now my life is spiraling out of control.

Now, Nietzsche wrote his philosophy, which is the exact philosophy in his book.

After Dostoyevsky wrote the novel, and then his philosophy inspired two murderers in America, named Leopold and Lowe. This was called the crime of the century. The crime of the 20th century.

GLENN: I don't remember it.

ANDREW: I know, nobody remembers it now, but it was one of the biggest crimes of the century. It inspired countless movies and television shows.

It was two kids, they were -- they were rich, gay Jewish kids in the suburbs.

GLENN: What year?

ANDREW: This is 19 -- I want to say 30 -- 30 or 40.

GLENN: Okay.

ANDREW: Yeah. It was the '30s. I'm sorry.

And they decided, well, we're Superman. Like Nietzsche. They read Nietzsche. And they thought, yes. This is what we want to be.

One of them. We will commit the perfect murder, to show we could do it.

They took a kid at random, who they know, and killed them.

GLENN: This is Rope.

ANDREW: Exactly. Exactly. And Rope became the Hitchcock film. And also inspired Compulsion, which is another movie.

Almost a true movie about it. Pops up again and again.

Two people who said, we will commit the perfect murder. Because we're superior.

If you look for it, you will find it in one story after another.

And it's based on the idea, that there's no God. And therefore, anything is permissible, and strong men have to make the rules.

GLENN: That's one of the best movies out of Hitchcock.

Nobody even knows it. Great movie from Hitchcock. And great movie with Jimmy Stewart and just really -- and disturbing.

ANDREW: Yeah, and written -- the original play was written by the guy who also wrote a play called Gaslight, which is where we get the word gaslighting.

So I talk all about these works of art. These works and movies. And listen, I think it's an entertaining book, Glenn.

GLENN: I love your work. I love your work. Most people, if you don't know who Andrew Klavan is.

You've written movies. I mean, you've written just some thrilling novels.

And novels that have been made into movies. And I'm a huge, huge fan.

But, I mean, you know, you are talking to mice here.

ANDREW: I try to just make it about things that people like and enjoy.

GLENN: Yeah. So what is -- what is the lesson that we learn from -- from all of this?

ANDREW: Well, I think the most important lesson, if I can call it that, in the book. Is that the beauty has something to do with the answer to evil.

You know, one of the things that keeps people from believing in God. They say, there's so much evil in the world.

How can a good God, allow this evil to exist?

And at the end of the book, the last third of the book. Which is a very personal statement about what I do, to basically live joyfully in the world, that I can see is evil.

It ends with looking at the statue of Michelangelo. Which is one of the most beautiful works --

GLENN: Beautiful.

ANDREW: But it think about what it's about, Glenn. It's about a mother with her dead son. It is a world with a dead God. It's the worst movement in human history. And yet Michelangelo, a man, made it beautiful.

And my question at the end of the book, is if a man can take that misery, that suffering, that evil, and turn it into beauty, what can God do with the world that we're living in now?

When he works with the marvel of eternity. And so I work my way to that point, by going to the movies that we watch, the stories that we read.

And why we're so fascinated with murder.

You know, think about try crime. This is what this is about.

STU: Why are we?

ANDREW: Because it is the borderline, where you cannot say, there's something right about this.

It's the place where I suddenly realize that the moral order has its great points, but it also has a very stark --

GLENN: So explain to me. Explain to me why shows like, let's say.

Yellowstone.

Are so satisfying, because you're kind of like -- kind of like seeing that guy taking to the train station.

You know what I mean?

You know that it's wrong. But you're kind of in there. You're kind of like -- you know.

And you feel. At least I do. I mean, I'm sure a lot of people watch. Yeah. That's fine.

I watch it. I don't like the fact that I kind of -- I'm rooting for them.

ANDREW: I think the best art does that to you. I really enjoy this. That actually tells me something about myself, that I don't want to think about.

GLENN: Yeah.

ANDREW: See, a lot of people think art is like a sugar pill, that they used to give you a little lesson in life. A little parable of sorts. I don't think that's what it is at all.

I think it's an experience that you really can't have in your life, that broadens the way you look at life. Broadens your view of humanity. So when you get Christian stories like God Is Not Dead. I don't want to pick on anybody.

GLENN: But you'll pick on them.

ANDREW: I will pick on them. The guy is hit by a car. He says, well, at least he was saved.

I think, really? We can't just say -- you can't call his wife say, and say, this is a sad moment. Let me grieve when people die? We can't say we're horrified by death and afraid?

So I want Christian art that deals with life in a real way.

And shows that people who are afraid. And people who have evil thoughts, and people who want to justify murder. And they -- there are moments when we all sort of think -- but if you go off into a room by yourself and ask, how can I make the perfect world?

Within two minutes, so help me.

You will be committing mass murder in your mind.

Let me see. Well, first, I have to go to rid of these people because these people can't be reformed. You'll wipe them out, right?

So that's who we all are.

When he start to see that. I believe that's actually a layer on top of who we really.

I believe who we really are is who Christ wants us to be. That's the question.

How do you get through that layer?

That's what artists do for us. They show us our true selves.

And lead our conscience to the place we're supposed to go.

GLENN: All right. Our natural soul is who Christ wants us to be.

ANDREW: Right.

GLENN: And we're encapsulated in this flesh. And the natural man is an enemy to that. And it's the battle back and forth.

ANDREW: And that's what art is. That battle. That's where drama comes from. That's where tragedy comes from.

You know, one of the stories I mentioned in the Kingdom of Cain is Macbeth, because it's such a great story about murder.

And it ends with the most beautiful speech about nihilism, about things, nothing makes sense. Nothing is worth anything. Right? Life is a tale told by an idiot. But because you're watching a play, you understand, Shakespeare is not saying that. A guy has detached himself from the moral order is saying that. He's lost the meaning of life, because he's detached himself from the meaning of life.

And so studying murder and writing art about murder. Takes you to the most serious questions about who we are. And who we really are. And what we really want. And how we -- you know, that inner battle that goes on. Which is to me, the source of drama.

This is PROOF the Democratic Party is NOT Becoming Centrist

The leftist leadership of Washington State recently made some terrifying moves that caused Glenn to warn any conservatives living there: “Get the HELL OUT!” Glenn and Stu discuss some of these totalitarian moves, including the likely failure of a bill to limit the governor’s powers during a medical emergency. Democrats have also passed a “Tesla tax” on EV credits and a bill that prioritizes criminal illegal immigrants over US citizens for pardons. If this is what the Democratic Party is already doing in Washington, what will be next?!

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GLENN: There's a couple of things that I wanted to talk to you about. If you're living in Washington State. May I just say, get the hell out now! I've said --

STU: The entire state?

GLENN: The entire state. Get out of the state.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: And I'm dead serious on that. You're living in a state that has gone absolutely insane. First of all, we talked about this before. And nobody is really talking about this.

The medical thing that they just passed in Washington State. And they passed it, and the governor has signed it. And basically, it says, if there's a medical emergency. We can do whatever we want to you.

Now, remember, this is the state that was talking about building like little internment camps for people who wouldn't get vaccinated last time. Okay. They were talking about that. If you think they won't do that, you're out of your mind. You're crazy. And so it says, if the governor decides that there's a medical emergency, statewide emergency, that the state, based on -- love this one.

Based on scientific experts, they will dictate what happens to every -- you know, every individual. What you have to get -- if scientific experts tell you, you have to take this, you will be forced to take that. I'm not having my kids in that state. I'm not living in that state. Are you living in that state? Because they will do it.

They are telling you. After everything we went through in COVID. They're now doubling down and saying, yeah. By the way, we're going to code this into law.

STU: Really, the COVID era was such a great separator. You know, very roughly blue states and red states.

Where you saw what the approach was going to be. And you can make the decision as to which one you want to live in. When something like this goes down.

And I think people make that decision with their -- you know, California abandoned for places like Texas and Florida.

You know, that's I think really, really clear.

And I think what we've seen after the COVID separation there, you also have seen kind of a codification on both sides.

I mean, conservatives and red states have really gone out of their way to signal that they would not do this again. And they would do things differently than the other states would. And blue states are now codifying their side of that.

Which is, hey. If you don't listen to the science, then you -- we don't want you here.

And we're going to put in the law, that these sciences shall be followed next time.

Not, wait a minute. We made a big mistake. And those schools have closed and everything.

They're going the opposite way.

GLENN: They're going the opposite way.

They're saying their science is right.

STU: Which is horrible.

GLENN: Even if we don't get it wrong, we won't get it wrong next time.

We will follow the science.

Are you mad? Did you see what just happened?

STU: Even places like the New York Times are now admitting, school closings are completely crazy.

That's all happened, not just in our publications. But it's not just on our side of the debate, but on their side of the debate, in many ways.

GLENN: Get out. Get out.

Okay. So that's one of them.

The new Tesla tax. Just passed by Democrats in Washington State.

It cleared the house, 52-45, supported solely by Democrats. And it's to address the state's budget deficit. Okay?

Well, you know, all of these states that have been spending money like crazy. California, Washington State.

I'm not bailing you out. I tell you, I will -- I will march to secede, if this government is going to bail out the states that have been spending money out of control, while our states have been responsible.

I am not sending my tax dollars to support your state, because you went under.

I'm sorry.

It's not a suicide pact. The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and because you are committing suicide, doesn't mean my state has to commit suicide.
I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.

And that is a hard, fast line with me.

I'm not doing it.

When -- when New York and Illinois, and California, and Oregon, and Washington State, all are hemorrhaging, because they can't pay their bills.

Why should I have to pay for that? Why?
I don't live there. We've been preaching against it.

The red states have been trying to live within their means.

No! No!

I'm not cutting my own throat, so you don't ever learn a lesson.

So you just keep doing whatever it is, you're doing. When we're all living the hard way.
You know What that is?

That's TARP. That's the bailout of the big banks. Do you think the big banks learned a damn thing?

No. Not one. Not one.

Why? Because we, the taxpayers, had to bail their ass out! And so what did they do?

Well, just keep doing the same thing. They just put it on another name.

STU: They did learn that. They did learn that that's the way the world works. That's an important lesson.

GLENN: That's exactly right.

And that's why Donald Trump has got to win.
He has got to get this to win. He's got to turn this thing around, and turn it around quickly.

STU: What does that mean?

GLENN: He's got to break the back of this World Economic Forum, Great Reset. Big bank, bullcrap.

All these central -- he's got to break the back of that.

And reset it to an actual economy, that runs with the people. Not the big banks.

And the big businesses.

You know, they've built this -- this public/private structure.

And they're just -- and they're just going to -- all they're going to do is those people will continue to get rich.

If you're with them. You're fine. Let me tell you about the Tesla tax.

So lawmakers in California said that Tesla's profits need to go to a greater public purpose.

So the legislation targets the windfall profits that Tesla earns from selling ZEV credits. The proponents arguing that the revenue should been in public goals, like improvising EV accessibility, rather than enriching a single company. So they're taxing Tesla.

And if you think that that money is going to go to a build more electric stations, you're crazy!

How many billions did we just give to Joe Biden? So he could have what? Three electric stations? Please!

So now, this is socialism. This is socialism.

They are going after Tesla, declaring that they're -- their profits need to go to a greater public purpose.

Who are they to say that?

And all of your -- all of the people that live around you, in Seattle, and everywhere else. If you think you're going to beat this system, at this time, if they're still going down the road that hard, you ain't going to win.

You're not going to win. They're going to take that state down.

And you do not want to be anywhere near it.

I say this with a love for Seattle. I love Seattle

I love Washington. It's my home.

I love it. But I've got to tell you, get the hell out of there!

There's something else, that I have in the show prep today.

You can get it at GlennBeck.com.

There was another story about what they're doing in Washington State. About gosh. Where was it?

About -- about the removal of -- oh, gosh.

I can't find it now. It's another bill that they're passing.

That if you're in trouble, and I don't remember. I need to be of mind. Or you're trying to exonerate yourself or whatever.

Illegals are going to be ahead of you in that line.

Illegals are going to be ahead of you.

STU: Washington Democrats pass bill to give illegal aliens with convictions priority for pardons. HB1131 allows convicted non-citizens facing deportation, to skip the front of the clemency line ahead of US citizens.

PAT: Okay. Wait. What is that?

What is that? Is that a state that understands what America is? Is that a state that is pulling towards a greater America?

That is -- that -- get out of that state!

Sell your house and get out of that state.

I mean, this -- if this isn't -- I mean, if this isn't every warning, that you get in World War II. When you were living in Europe, you're like, wow.

I can't get any worse than this.

It's getting worse. It's getting worse, and they're telling you! Yeah, well, they'll never do it. What makes you think, they will never do that?

They would have done it if they had it encoded in the law. They would have done it the last time.

Do you think it's only Australia that would build concentration camps? By the way, I know. My family is from Washington State. My grandfather told me one time with tears running down his cheeks.

Only time I say my grandfather CIA cry.

On me time.

When he talked about the good Japanese family that was taken. And taken because we were at war with Japan.

And he never say them again.

That's all he said.

He was one of those, you know, greatest generation that ever talked about feelings. And tears running down his cheeks. And he talked about that.

I know what Washington State is capable of. They have done it before. You think they won't do it again?

Please. And now you have what's his name? David Hogg. You think that guy is not a round him up kind of guy?

He's now saying, he's going to spend all his money going against the old Democrats. And the old Democrats are saying, no.

You're not going to do. Who do you think is going to win that?

The old Democrats?

Do you really think that the Democrats are going to become less radical, or more radical?

They're going to be more radical. They're showing you.

They are showing you the path.

Let me just reiterate what I said, a minute ago.

I have great hope, in this administration.

I do. I have great hope.

I have great hope in the people. I have great hope that we can renew.

I have a great hope. That a golden age is right around the corner.

But I'm telling you, it is going to be a photo finish. Which one crosses the line first?

The left with their collapse, and their bonfires in the streets?

Or us, with the renewal of America, and a new promise, and a resetting back to the individual and not the collective.

I don't know which one wins.

We're still in this fight.

Don'ts get -- don't get.

Don't fool yourself. Donald Trump is in it. It's all great. No, no, don't fool yourself. And I know you're not.

I hear it from people. I hear it all the time. I didn't hear it like this in 2016. Donald Trump came in. And everybody is like, I'm fixed.
I'm not feeling that now.

I think people -- you know, I had a guy say to me, a good friend. A really reasonable guy.

I said, what do you want me to ask the president? He said, honestly? I said, yeah.

Is this even fixable? Can it be saved? At this point.

That took my breath away. This is a regular, regular reasonable guy. Whose not think like I do.

You know, where everything -- can it even be saved?

That's where we are, gang!

And don't forget it.

And when your government, in Washington State, is sending you a sign. Get the hell out of there.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Patricia Heaton is Building a NEW Hollywood in Middle America

"Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" star Patricia Heaton is working to build a new "Hollywood" in Nashville, without all the garbage "Hollywood values" of the original. Patricia and her husband, David Hunt, join The Glenn Beck Podcast to explain how they plan to do it: "People want to see hope, redemption, forgiveness.

These themes that have been absent for so long [in Hollywood]."

See the FULL podcast HERE

SHOCKING: American Towns Before & After Globalism TOOK Our Jobs

Glenn exposes the REAL effects of globalization on American manufacturing. We were promised cheaper goods and better lives. But instead, we got the “Rust Belt.” Entire American towns have gone from thriving to devastated since American companies shifted their manufacturing overseas. Places like Galesburg, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, and Flint, Michigan are shells of what they once were. So, will President Trump be able to bring back our jobs and revitalize the American Dream?

Watch this full episode of Glenn TV HERE