RADIOSeptember 08, 2022

Expert gives SCARY predictions for if ENERGY CRISIS WORSENS

If our energy crisis continues to worsen, what will life be like in 2, or even 4 years? Energy expert Alex Epstein, author of ‘Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less,’ tells Glenn there are two possible scenarios — one that could result in economies crashing throughout the world, and another that could result in increased power for China and Russia. He explains it all in this clip, plus Epstein explains why fossil fuels actually have HUGE benefits, despite what the far-left may claim…

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GLENN: Alex Epstein, who is with us now. He is the author of Fossil Future. Hello, Alex, how are you?

ALEX: Hey, Glenn, great to be back.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I have been waiting for weeks for this interview. Because you are the guy. You not only -- in your new book, you not only give us the way out, what we should be doing. But you're actually describing what's coming. It's insanity to cut our legs off, before we have another chair. You know what I mean? We're -- we are turning off all of our energy supply. And it can't be done this way.

ALEX: You know, one thing I talk about throughout fossil future is this phenomenon of fossil fuel benefit denial. We hear a lot about climate change denial. But the real denial is the huge benefits of fossil fuels. Which provides 80 percent of the world's energy. In a world that needs far more energy. And yet, we're talking about rapidly eliminating fossil fuels, without any evidence of a viable replacement. And that's been the insane strategy, that you've been talking about.

GLENN: Yeah. Go through some of the benefits of -- everybody is like, okay. Fossil fuels. I get it. Petroleum. So you have your cars. ALEX: Yeah. I mean, the -- the real benefit of fossil fuels, as I talk about in chapter four. Is a livable world. People talk about, oh, I'm worried that fossil fuels will make the world unlivable. But you have to recognize first that fossil fuels are the only reason why the world is livable, as you know it. So the world naturally is a very deficient and dangerous place. It's very low on resources. And it's very high on threats. We, in what I call the empowered world. Experience the world as an abundant and safe place. But that's a very unnatural phenomenon. Particularly, it's a phenomenon, to be able to use machines to radically expand and amplify our productive ability. So expand means we can produce things, using machines, powered by low-cast reliable energy, that we simply can't do with our physical body. Like providing an incubator that can save a baby's life. Then we also amplify our abilities. We can do things like run a combine harvester that can read, then thresh a thousand times more wheat, than a really good manual laborer can. So we only exist in this abundant and safe world, by the grace of all of these machines doing work for us. And that only works to the extent energy is cost-effective, which means low cost, reliable, versatile. Meaning being able to power any type of machine, and scalable. So providing energy for billions of people in thousands of places. What we're seeing with this energy crisis, is when you make energy less cost-effective. Everything becomes less cost-effective, and you see Europe afraid of winter, which is an embarrassment. And you see real threats of starvation around the world.

GLENN: Now people here in America say, well, it's not going to happen here. That's just because Europe is screwed up, somehow, and I don't want to think past that. They actually just didn't take the pause on the Paris climate accords. Right? So they're just a little ahead of us.

ALEX: Yeah, no one is following the Paris Climate Accords. In a certain sense, we are following it more than they are. But nobody is really following it, in terms of rapidly eliminating CO2 emissions, but this is what is scary. The net zero agenda has maybe had one to 2 percent success. In terms of slowing the growth of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are still growing around the world. Mostly in underdeveloped places that are less restrictive. But in general, fossil fuels are still growing. But they're shrinking in what I call the empowered world. The freer parts of the world. And even that, is called an energy crisis. Because energy is so important. And it's so desperately needed.

GLENN: So people don't really understand what it means not to have energy -- in I think it was Scotland. Amazon and Microsoft, shut down some server farms. Because they just couldn't get enough electricity. We are a -- a country, and a civilization, that is reliant on our technology. Not just our engines. But also, our technology. And if you don't have the power, you can't keep it at today's standards. But I don't know if anyone has noticed this. What's happening in the technological world is only getting bigger and more invasive in our lives. Not smaller. We need more electricity in the future, not less.

GLENN: For sure. So this is something I talk about in Chapter 5 of Fossil Future, which includes talking about it's an expanding pie, in terms of the need for energy. The biggest reason is most people are very energy poor in the world. We have 6 billion, out of 8 billion people who used the amount of energy that you and I would consider unacceptable. We have 3 billion people using less electricity per person than a typical American refrigerator. We have a third of the world using wood and animal dung, as their primary fuel for heating and cooking. So we have that. But then as you're pointing out, the parts of the world, even that are empowered, we're finding new ways to use energy. And particularly in the realm of information technology. We have rapid growth. And what you're finding, with some of these tech companies. It's really tragic, or in a certain sense, shameful. Is they are huge consumers of electricity who are rightly using more electricity. Yet, they're huge boosters of the idea, that we can get off fossil fuels rapidly. One way they do this. It's particularly insidious. I talk about in Chapter 6, an alternative. They claim to be 100 percent renewable. The literal way they do this, they pay grid to give them credit for anyone else's solar wind. And to give everyone else for their coal, gas, and nuclear. So this is really shameful. And it's promoting all the same ideas. Even though the world needs more energy, in their exhibit A of why.

GLENN: Can't you talk a little bit about -- I mean, the problem with our information system that we have now, where people believe global warming is a catastrophe. And yet, we have more information now. Or accessed more information than ever before.

ALEX: Yeah. I have a term I coined called knowledge systems, to really capture the set of institutions. We often call it the media, but that's too much of a simplification. A set of institutions that are designed to give us expert knowledge and guidance, and I think one key thing. You have these different phases by which knowledge is acquired and transmitted. So there's the research phase. But we don't just get things asked and then disseminated. And then ultimately, we evaluate, what do we do about it? Something on climate, what you see, is the actual research has quite a few biases. But that research even as it exists today, in no way justifies this idea of climate catastrophe. And certainly, no, no, way justifies the idea of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels. And replacing them specifically with unreliable solar wind. And yet, we get the narrative, oh, the scientists say, we need to get off fossil fuels and replace them with 100 percent renewable. That doesn't follow at all. So what's happening, we're getting a distortion from what I call the knowledge system. The institutions who are trusting to get expert knowledge. They're distorting the actual state of the research, to the point where we're being told that fossil fuels have no benefits. And yet reality is proving, they have huge benefits, and losing those benefits is catastrophic.

GLENN: Alex, put this on -- I mean, you've been warning about this for a long time. Put this on what's coming in some sort of scale, that people can understand. What is life like in 2030, if we continue down this path? What's it like in 2024, 2026, if we continue down this path?

ALEX: I think there are two versions of this, that we need to contemplate. One is less realistic, and one is more realistic. So the less realistic one, is the one where we all pursue anything resembling that year. We all seek to reduce our emissions without a viable replacement. Certainly, there's nothing resembling a viable replacement by 2030, particularly because you're basically not allowed to build nuclear now. If everyone did that, it would be like, much, much more extreme than what Europe is experiencing right now. And you're just seeing it. Their power bills are going up by a factor of four. All these shops are shutting down. You see the whole economy crash, because it's interdependent, in energy of the industry that powers every other industry, so the price of energy determines the price of everything. You see prices skyrocketing, and things crashing. So there's that happening, on a global scale everywhere. The reason why I say it's unrealistic, is let me ask you. Do you think China is going to participate in this, Glenn? You think China is going to rapidly -- is Russia going to?

GLENN: No. They're going to love this. They'll be providing oil for any country that is not adopting this insanity.

ALEX: And so this is one of the things I warn about in chapter 11 of the book, which I call Unilateral Disempowerment. Which Europe is exhibiting right now. Which means the freer countries decide, hey. We're going to restrict our emissions. We're going to lower our fossil fuel use. So what happens then, is you empower often the less free places, like China and Russia. And China, in particular, loves using huge amounts of coal, to produce huge amounts of unreliable solar and wind, that then ruin our economy, and our way of life. Like, that's great for their ambition of becoming a global superpower by 2049. So that's what I think is the most realistic, is that we kind of sacrifice unilaterally. And we make ourselves much less secure. Much more dependent on powers that do not wish us well. That are not pro-freedom.

GLENN: Tell me what we lose. Besides freedom. Tell me what the average person's life. How is this going to impact? How is this going to change their life?

ALEX: Well, I would just ask, have you ever been really poor?

STU: Yes, he has, Alex. I've seen it in action.

GLENN: I have.

ALEX: I'm just saying, most of us who have had success. Had areas where we didn't have much money. I certainly had that in my life. And it will be much, much worse than that. I mean, this is the thing. Because, you know, you have the element of just becoming much poorer, which people experience with even modern rises in gasoline prices. You cannot afford as much. It's not just -- it's this combination of you become poorer, but also, you're in a society, that is disintegrating. So look at Sri Lanka and other places where you have these riots. What happens is the decline is not just this smooth thing. Okay. I made 100,000. And now I made 60,000. It is chaos. Look around the world. Every time you have these fuel price crisis, it is chaos. And it's not like America is a particularly stable state right now.

GLENN: I hadn't noticed.

ALEX: So we don't -- this is not what we need. Now, the nice thing is, we have all the physical resources in the world, to produce enough energy, for a lot of people to have a good life. Like, this is a totally political -- it's culture, beneath that. So it's a political phenomenon. We can produce a lot more fossil fuel. We can produce nuclear energy. We can pursue nuclear freedom. A lot of my work, besides making clear this idea of a fossil future. Is promoting energy freedom policies, so that we can get there, and also get to new alternatives.

GLENN: So I only have about a minute left. And I want to ask you about your energy freedom. Because you're saying, let us build nuclear power. Let us -- you know, real promising alternatives. Let's release -- release the hounds here. Let us do the work. Chances of that. I mean, I'm starting to see people love nuclear energy. More than I've ever seen it since I was a kid.

ALEX: I know. That's an exciting development. Reality, this crisis. They're helping us open people's minds. If people want to check this out, go to AlexEpstein.Substack.com. And you'll see near the top of the energy freedom platform. I should say, I used to have no influence at all, on a PC, and now I work with something like 300 staffers on policy in different ways. So I'm optimistic, that there's a real appetite for new energy policy that gives us all the energy we need in the present, and promotes the positive evolution of energy going forward.

GLENN: Alex, thank you so much. Thanks for all your hard work. Founder and president of the center for industrial progress. And the author of a great new book. It's called fossil fuel -- I'm sorry, Fossil Future. The real story on energy, that no one else will tell you about. And it is important that you hear it. So you know what's going on. Alex Epstein.

This plan could FINALLY FIX our broken immigration system

Is it enough to just stop ILLEGAL immigration in America? Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) joins Glenn Beck to explain his proposal to stop ALL immigration until we fix our broken system…

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GLENN: Anyway, let me go to Chip Roy.

Hello, Chip, how are you, sir?

CHIP: Glenn, how are you? Merry Christmas, bro.

GLENN: Merry Christmas. This is our Congressman from the great state of Texas for Texas attorney general.

Talk to me about your bill on immigration.
Does it have a chance -- tell me what it is. And I want to know if it has a chance of passing.

CHIP: Sure. I mean, you know, you opened this segment by talking about our need to focus on not just illegal immigration, but legal immigration. And I strongly believe that that is true. I think for way too long, we have been getting loose. Fast and loose overly corporate. Overly driven by, you know, your kind of chamber of commerce crowd.

All of a sudden, we now have a situation where we have millions of people in our country, that are not seeking to assimilate, not seeking to assimilate, not seeking to be, quote, the melting pot.

But rather trying to reestablish their cultures from other countries, rather than becoming fully American. And that's been a long string of -- of decisions. And we go back and put it in perspective. We have 51 and a half million foreign-born people here in the United States.

The vast majority of whom, did not come here illegally, right?

But came here legally. Then they've been abusing the process and the system, because we've got this broad use of H-1B one visas. We have diversity visas. We have chain migration. We have everybody's cousin. Uncle, aunt, whatever. And there's the growing population here.

And this is now, unlike it was a century ago, right?

When we had the mass migration. The late 1800s, the early 1900s. And at that point, we didn't have a welfare state. We have schools that were teaching that America was great, or even the Constitution. And we had, you know, God in the schools, and we had our culture being elevated, not being criticized. And at that point, we stood for immigration in the 1920s. Right? We still flatlined it because everybody said, whoa, whoa, whoa. We have so many people in.

Our country was stronger for it. Today is worse. Because we have so many people coming here, who are not assimilating. We have schools that are not teaching people that America is great.

And we certainly are continuing to have a welfare state now, that is causing a big problem. So I think we should pause it. It's called the Pause Act. We should pause legal immigration, until we fix a lot of things.

Fix diversity. Fix chain migration. Fix H1 --

GLENN: Wait. Can you tell me what a diversity visa.

What is a diversity visa? I don't even know what that is.

CHIP: Diversity visas. Chain migration, these are all things being used currently to have expansive use of the ability of people to come into the country, and -- and say that they're -- you know, a family member, right.

An extended individual, in what we're calling chain migration. So you'll have a person come in, and instead of it being a close knit family member, right?

Instead of it being, okay. This is my spouse, or this is my child. It's cousins and aunts and uncles, and so forth.

And, you know, this is the kind of thing that we've got to reform. And including, H-1B visas. And including all the problems that we have here with birthright citizenship.

Obviously, the Supreme Court is going to hear the Trump administration's executive order on that.

But we should codify a new view of how we deal with birthright citizenship. You can only be a citizen, if you're born of citizen parents. Not because you were on our dirt. So these are -- in Texas, right?

We had a Supreme Court opinion, in the 1980s to educate the children. Of illegal aliens. Illegal alien children. We do challenge that, overturn it. And we should fix it.

Until you fix all those things. Fix illegal immigration.

Then we're going to lose our country. We're going to lose our culture, and I think we need to do that. So that's why we have to have a bill to pause it.

I just talked to police officer, the day before yesterday. And I was walking down the street, going into the store for Christmas. And he said, hey, Glenn Beck.

And he had this slight accent. I couldn't tell exactly what it was. And then he said, eventually, I'm Irish. I came from Ireland. I've been here for 20 years. My wife and I lived in Ireland.

I said, my gosh, does Ireland even exist anymore?

And he said, Glenn, it used to be. I go back every year, it used to be you could go anywhere, and you would have the Irish public.

And, you know, you could see Irishmen everywhere. And, yes, there were people from other parts of the world, et cetera, et cetera. But it was Irish!

He said, I can go down into my hometowns, small ones, and he said, I don't see another Irishman.

He said, the Irish culture is completely annihilated. He said, it's all mosques and Pakistanis and whatever.

And he said, is there ever anyone who will say, hey, wait a minute, the Irish culture, the American culture, the English culture.

The -- the whatever culture, that's important too! When is anybody going to step up and say, you know what, we -- we don't want to lose this!

By embracing that! We can have both. But not like this!

CHIP: Well, Glenn, and you know. And, by the way, the thing I -- since I got up and I started talking about chain migration. But just so you know, right? That's a program very specifically designed to bring people in from countries that we don't have significant immigration from. It's literally designed to diversify our immigration population.

GLENN: What!

Who cares?

CHIP: Right. And that's my point. And this is what's so wrong about our immigration system.

And it's being done that way. And by Afghanistan, all of it is being abused. And we have had this mass migration. And, again, you are the ardent defender of the First Amendment. So am I, and you can believe what you want to believe. Right?

And we would never want to insert the federal government into your belief system, like between you and God.

But what we have to remember about Islam is that it is a politically motivated group of individuals. Right?

This is -- when we look at the core, and we look at what -- you look at what the Muslim government is talking about. When you look at Sharia law, when you look at the tenets of Islam, there's a massive political component to it, and we have to remember that.

We have to remember. You actually read the words. Read what's being said. And look what's happening in Dallas.

Epic City is not just an accident. What happened was the growth and the promotion of Sharia law in the United Kingdom, in France, in America.
It's not an accident, okay? And this is well beyond, hey, you can believe what you want to believe. You can be agnostic. You can be Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim. We stand for that principle.

When you come here to annihilate and change your culture. Then you've got to approach that.

We -- we Americans to have approach that in a different way.

And I believe, we should pause immigration. We should be doing what the President is doing.

Remove a whole lot of the people dumped into our country under Biden with illegal immigrants, asylum, that were abused for all those abused by Biden and Mayorkas, and go around and make sure that we are resetting the table and reset our laws. And we should just pause for a while. And reclaim our American culture to your point about what you just said about Ireland.

GLENN: You -- you lay out -- I saw your press release, and you lay out what this bill will do, and I got to read this to the audience.

Because I can't believe you have to say this. It would end the practice of automatic citizenship, yeah, and chain migration.

Yeah, that's not what the Fourteenth Amendment says. That's not what it is about. That's not what it was written for. And the H-1B one visa program. Got it. Ensure immigration assimilation, got it. Now, listen to these last three.

This is what he is proposing we do.

Okay? We're not doing it. He's proposing we do this: Deny entry to Sharia law adherence.

Oh, I don't know. Yes!

I can't believe we have to even say that, out loud. Deny entry to Chinese communist party members. I don't know. Yes!

And the third one: Deny entry to terrorists!

This is a civilization that is on a suicidal path. If that can't happen. That's not -- it's crazy that that's not already happening!

Suicide. Just committing suicide.

CHIP: Well, the other element that we have to factor in is the welfare that is being doled out.

GLENN: Yes.

CHIP: To noncitizens in the form of not just food stamps. Medicaid.

All of the social programs in the federal government. But also our local schools and local hospitals to get inundated by people coming into the United States.

Knowing that they will get free health care and free education, and they might be able to then use birthright citizenship, to come here, to grow here. And none of this is about the melting pot.
And, Glenn, that's what I'm trying to make the case here to people. When you have people who came here, who largely shared our values. And when they came here, they wanted their kids to learn English. They wanted their kids to love America.

They wanted their kids to love our history and our founding. They appreciate what our country stood for. By the way, that mass migration occurred right after the Civil War. So our country has literally been at war. And people said, I want to go there. Because this country stood for something bigger and better. And people knew it. But they wanted to be apart of it. And they wanted to embrace it.

They didn't want to change it. That's not true now. Right? That's definitively not true.

United States Congress. Ilhan Omar.

When we openly and outspokenly, committed to changing America to be like her home country!

That's a problem. That is what is happening. And if we don't -- you can't win a war, that you don't acknowledge exists, Glenn. And there is a war being waged against our way of life. And against our culture.

So look, I've increased the legislation here. But it's also why I'm running for attorney general. And a campaign speech, you hear me.

We have to have states. That are standing up and leading this fight as well.

If we're going to save America.

GLENN: You brought up, you know, there's a war being waged.

I -- every alarm bell in me is going off.

Every alarm bell within me. We are -- we're in a war. We won't even recognize it.

I think the president has. But I think it's going to take a lot more than what we're doing right now. Look at what's happening in Europe.

France just happened their -- their ball drop, you know, for New Year's Eve.

They have it -- every year. They cancelled it. And said, just stay at home. And watch a rerun of it from another year.

That's insanity!

They just have surrendered.

The -- how serious are we at -- at preparing for a civilizational war.

CHIP: Well, I think on the positive side, we have an increasing number of people in leadership, who were understanding the threat.

In a way that they didn't a year ago, or five years ago.

That being said, we also have a long way to go and a very short time to get there. Right?

We have got to move quickly. If you see what's happening in Europe, right? And we go, well, they're 20 years ahead of us now. I don't think that's true.

I think Europe is a mere months, years, few years ahead of us, in terms of how bad it's gotten.

And I think we're now realizing, how much damage we've done over the last decade, in particular. Certainly, the last two decades in terms of the mass influence of people, that do not ultimately share our values. So I do think it's important that we support the president on what he's doing and removing bad actors, and making sure that we're removing people that need to be removed, or here illegally.

But if we don't reform our illegal immigration system immediately. And pause it. And freeze it. And reset who we are as Americans. And get people to understand that when you're here, you're going to embrace being an American. Then we're not going to save the country. Right?

So that's why I wanted to introduce this bill. It's why I introduced this bill. That's why I had to introduce several legislation to defend people from Sharia bill. That's why I've given a bill to take away the tax status for CAIR. We've got to get people to realize, that we need immediate change. That we can't wait. So right now, Congress is not codifying or advancing the ball on this front yet.

The president is doing it unilaterally. And I think that's a problem.

GLENN: Can the house actually get it done? Are we going to pass it? Does it have a chance of ever getting to the president's desk?

VOICE: Right now, we are socializing it, and there's a growing number of people who support the concept. And it's not on social media.

But we've got to get it socialized with the White House and the leadership of the House, to get it to the point of trying to enforce a vote. There's going to be a lot of resistance. There's going to be a lot of people, that are going to be listening to business interests. A lot of people who will say, well, I've got a certain culture in my particular district and so forth.

And we've got to ride the (inaudible) act and recognize, if we don't do this, then we have no chance to save the country.

Because if another 55,000 people come in on diversity visas this year, and another 55,000 coming next year, and then another 55,000 the following year, all from these supposed low immigration countries for purposes of diversity. In addition to the chain migration, in addition to H-1B visas. Right? Do the math. See what's happening.

And how many things are happening. So we've got to freeze that. And reset what we want to do for our country.

GLENN: All right.

It's called the pause act. Get online, and support Chip Roy at the pause act. Ask your Congress man. Your senators.
To join Chip on the pause act. Again, you can follow him on X, at Chip Roy.

TX. He's also running for candidate for attorney general. What is your website? Chip.

CALLER: ChipRoy.com. Pretty simple. Pretty straightforward, and I appreciate it. And look, this Christmas Eve and for everybody out there, Merry Christmas. We have the greatest country in the history of the world. We have to keep our heads up and put our faith in Jesus, and remember that it's on us, to pass it down to our kids and grandkids.

GLENN: Thank you so much, Chip Roy.

The END of 'Glenn TV': 14 Years of Truth Bombs, Tears & Glenn's NEXT Revolution | Glenn TV | Ep 475

It's time to say goodbye to "Glenn TV," but Glenn's radio program and "The Glenn Beck Podcast" will continue to be main staples on BlazeTV. After 14 years of "Glenn TV," Glenn Beck looks back at the warnings and predictions that defined the show. From predicting the Islamification of Europe to exposing the corruption in Ukraine years before the mainstream media, Glenn revisits the moments he challenged the experts and sounded the alarm early. He rewinds his predictions on Russia, ISIS, socialism, and the coordinated collapse of capitalism and Western civilization. Glenn also revisits his early reporting on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and the COVID lab leak — stories the media originally dismissed. Plus he gives a first look at what's to come with his new project, the Torch, debuting January 5, 2026.

The Western World is UNDER ATTACK... And THESE Shocking Stories are Proof

A wave of global instability is forcing Western nations to confront hard truths they’ve ignored for years. From Australia’s deadly attack and a media narrative that excuses extremist violence, to France canceling its iconic New Year’s celebration over “security concerns,” the cracks in Western resolve are becoming impossible to hide. This conversation exposes how denial, mass migration without assimilation, and media double standards are eroding public safety, cultural confidence, and the West’s ability to defend itself from growing threats.

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GLENN: You know, there's more on the -- the shooting in Australia. Did you see the comment from the mom?

The -- the hero who disarmed. He's a hero. He's getting a lot of accolades.

But here's the family of Ahmed al Ahmed. No, no, no. That's the good guy. Hang on just a second.

That's the hero. I'm just looking through all of the stories. Here it is. Here it is.

Mother of the Bondi beach shooting suspect. The mother of Naveed Akram, who along with his father, allegedly killed more than a dozen people at a Hanukkah celebration, said on Sunday, insisted her son was a good boy.

Now, I mean, I can understand, you know, you wanting to believe that, because your son is your son. You know, but I don't think -- I don't think anybody in Rob Reiner's family is thinking the brother is a good boy. They might love him still, but he's not a good boy if he indeed did that.

STU: Yeah, there could be an element of thinking, right? Like, you know, he's been overcome by addiction, or overcome by mental illness. And I think he's a good boy underneath hat. You can have that Islamic extremist terrorist son if you want.

But what you would have to say I think accompanying that, was he got infected by this extremism. And, you know, by his dad who, you know, led him down a terrible path.

GLENN: Right. Her husband.

STU: Right. That's a plausible thing, if you believe. He can't be a good boy if he's murdering people, unless, of course, Glenn, you believe that the outcome was positive.

GLENN: Well, it was positive, yes.

She said, he doesn't have a firearm. Yeah, he does.

He doesn't even go out. He doesn't mix around with friends. Well, now you're describing a loner.

He doesn't drink, smoke, or go to bad places. Anyone would wish to have a son like my son. He's a good boy.

No. No. I'm safe to say, I don't want a son like that.

STU: No. Yeah, I'm pretty sure she was about to say, and he stays away from trans fats.

That's great, just doesn't have much to do with this particular incident.

GLENN: Yeah, I would say that. Also --

STU: Can I follow up, while we're in this realm here real quick with this audio. This is -- you mentioned this briefly. But let's play a game here: Can you find the logical problem with this particular audio from ABC News?

This is about the somewhat associated shooting of the pro-Palestinian group. Or the pipe bombing, from the pro-Palestinian group you discussed earlier this hour. This is a real clip, not edited.

GLENN: All right.

VOICE: Nowhere did they allege that any of these individuals wanted anybody to be harmed as a result of these pipe bombs. Specifically, it does appear that their aim was to sent a political message, as they said, prosecutors yesterday in this news conference.

VOICE: Carol and Page also discussed plans for follow-up attacks after their bombings, which included plans to a target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs.

STU: Now, can you detect any issue with that?

GLENN: I found two.

I found two.

One, they're not targeting anybody with the use of the pipe bomb!

STU: Right.

GLENN: Now, maybe. Maybe nobody gets hurt like that.

But experience and history tells me. Sometimes when you don't know what you're doing, pipe bombs hurt people.

STU: Right. Yes.
GLENN: And sometimes when you do know what you're doing, pipe bombs hurt people.

That's the -- that's problem number one. Problem number two was, they stated they were then going to target ICE agents?

STU: Right.

GLENN: As if ICE agents aren't people?

STU: You know, Glenn, that is exactly what I came up with. I think, I've heard this statement. You mentioned the same sentiment earlier on the program. A lot of people are saying this. I guess, in their conversations that were, you know, picked off as we were going through this investigation. There were some similarities. If you think back to early environmental terrorist attacks.

ALF and ELF, some of those attacks -- not all, but some of those attacks were targeted at infrastructure, and things around the -- you know, the oil industry. But not -- you know, intentionally trying not to harm the workers or whatever.

And some of their I guess conversations back and forth echoed that sentiment. Like, let's put them this a place where people aren't going to be.

Again, I don't think that's good. I don't think of these people as heroes. But Hollywood would make movies over people like that and how wonderful and glorious they were.

But at the end, they seemed to ignore, that they had attacks planned against ICE agents. And the only way that makes logical sense is if you don't think ICE agents are people.

GLENN: Are people. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Dehumanize. Dehumanize. Dehumanize. That's why I've been saying, we've got to stop MAID. We have to appreciate life again.

We have to stand for life. All life!

If we don't, you can just say, well, that's not really a person.

You've got to stand for life.

One more story in this, just to show you how close we are to losing Europe.

The French who aren't -- are not used to waving the white flag.

You know, they're -- they're -- they're tough. They have decided on New Year's Eve, that they are not going to hold the fireworks show, that they always hold at the art drive.

So they always have a New Year's Eve concert and fireworks show, but this year, they've decided that they're going to scrap it, wait until you hear what they were going to replace it with. But they're going to scrap it because there are security concerns such as, quote, unpredictable crowd movements.
You mean, like the crowds that are coming over on boats and coming on to your shore? You mean those crowd movements? Because, I mean, I think we know what they're saying here. They're saying that they're very concerned that there might be trouble. There might be some sort of, you know, shootings or activity or terrorists. But they're not -- they're just saying, it's unpredictable crowd movements. And so we're -- we're suggesting that we cancel the decades old fireworks celebration on New Year's Eve.

That's like canceling Times Square. Okay?

We're going to cancel that. And instead, replace it with -- this is a quote.

With a prerecorded video to be viewed in the safety and comfort of your French living room.
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GLENN: Oh. So we're watching an old celebration.

Why not? Dick Clark. We got all those tapes of Dick Clark. Let's just cancel New Year's Eve and Times Square and just play one from 1977. I mean, who didn't love that?

STU: Not only is that completely insane. It's also a great example of why virtual school didn't work.

Right?

You know, that's not the same thing. My wife say big fan of around this time of year. Every television has the Yule log on it, you know. And at his help you. It's nice. It helps you celebrate the season, a little bit. But it's not the same as going around the fire, and feeling the heat, it's not the same.
GLENN: Right. Yeah. There's no warmth. There's no warmth. But leave it to the French to surrender. I mean, we've lost France. We've lost France.

If they're not willing to say what's going on. Look, there's terrorists here. And we're afraid of a large crowd. And we're lost, because we let too many people in here. We have no idea who they are. And they're dangerous. And they want to kill us and kill our civilization.

We're working on that, so we can have this next year.

This year, we will to have cancel it.

But they're not saying that. They're saying, you know what, watch it from home. And it will be a videotape of an old one. Oh, okay.

For a Night, We Were Human | The Christmas Truce Music Video

In the frozen trenches of World War I along the Lys River in 1914, amidst the relentless thunder of artillery, a miraculous unofficial truce unfolded on Christmas Day. British and German soldiers, weary enemies, emerged from the mud and wire to share gifts, songs, and stories of home together in the ruins. Produced by Glenn Beck in collaboration with AI, this poignant music video and original song recapture the true story of the Christmas Truce, reminding us that even in the darkest times, a single brave act or small light can awaken our shared humanity, allowing soldiers to lay down their weapons and remember they are human... just for a night.

Stay tuned at GlennBeck.com for more musical storytelling inspired by Glenn’s artifacts next year on Torch.