Best of the Program | Guest: Jaco Booyens | 7/6/26

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Glenn Beck** (0:33)
Wow, CNN is gonna come as a surprise. CNN is wrong again.
CNN, they believe America is 250, we are the most politically divided than we've ever been. Well, I'd say the Civil War was a little more divided, but that's not the problem, that's not why they're wrong. And I explain on today's podcast. Also, Blood and Ink, the Patriots that came in with the masks and the flags and said they are Patriots, they're an abomination. They're white supremacists and they're an abomination. I denounce them strongly, but I take it a step further. And I want you to play it for your friends who might be for some of the other Black Lives Matter or Palestinian. I want you to listen because we are under an illusion that these things are different and they're not. Also, Sweden, it's not socialist. Mamdani, that's not what we're headed for.
Very eye-opening podcast today. Don't miss a second of it. Here it is.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:55)
You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

**Glenn Beck** (2:03)
All right, so your electricity bill has gone up, okay? And not because you ran the air harder, or you added another room, or you bought a hot tub or something. You did nothing different. You're living exactly the same way you've always, you've run the same numbers for air conditioning and heat, and the number at the bottom of your bill just keeps climbing. And nobody in your state capital will look you in the eye and tell you why.
So let me look you in the eye and tell you why. There's a new study out. If you live in a blue state and you're furious about what you pay, just to keep your lights on, stop cursing the weather. Stop cursing the power companies hold music. Here's the problem. It was a choice, and that choice is not yours. Never has been yours. Well, it used to be yours. It's not now. Hadn't been for a long time.
There's an analysis out now, always on energy research and the Institute for Energy Research, and they're pulling right from the government's own numbers, and it lands on something. I mean, something that's so clear, it's almost rude to say it out loud. Of the states paying more than the national average for electricity, 86% of them voted for Democrats in the last two presidential elections. Of the 10 cheapest states in the country, 80% voted for Republicans. Now, you could wave that off as a coincidence if you'd like, but there is a pattern with a cause, and the cause has a name, and the name is Net Zero.
Renewable mandates, zero emission targets, portfolio standards. They order your utility to buy a certain amount of a certain kind of power by a certain date, whether it's ready or not, whether it's cheaper or not, whether it keeps the lights on in January or not, it doesn't matter. And your utility company is not fighting these mandates because your utility gets richer by building them.
A power company makes its money spending money. Every new wind farm, every new line, every grand green promise is another mountain of infrastructure that it's getting paid to build. And reliability doesn't pad the profit, doesn't matter, affordability doesn't pad the profit. Building the stuff does. So the mandate and the monopoly shake hands over your bill and you're the one holding the check.
How's that make you feel? Who owned, who is actually in charge of your life? That is the thing that the whole Declaration of Independence was all about. Who is in charge of your life? You or a group of faceless people that you don't know.

**Jaco Booyens** (5:04)
Now, you look at these numbers and you go like, wait a minute here, Mr. Beck, Washington and Oregon seem to do pretty well.

**Glenn Beck** (5:14)
Uh-huh.

**Jaco Booyens** (5:15)
They're both deep blue, both of them, and their power is cheap.

**Glenn Beck** (5:20)
Yes, it is cheap. Now, let's think that through. Why is Oregon and Washington, why is their power so cheap?
Why? It's called hydroelectric dams. It works with water and gravity, the cheapest, most reliable electricity that God and engineering ever made together. So there is the exception, blue states, cheap power, two of them. Except here's what they've left off the postcard for you. That same coalition, the governors, the tribes, the green lawyers, the whole apparatus, along with the last administration, signing its name right there at the bottom, is in federal court right now trying to rip four of those dams out of the Snake River. Four lower snake dams, working hydroelectric dams, making clean, cheap power for hundreds of thousands of homes, sitting there, doing the one thing everybody claims they want, and those deep blue states want those gone. They want them blown apart, breached, they want to drain back into a river, and they want to do it on purpose. But they've made a promise to you, they, no, no, no, no, seriously, they've made this promise, it's dressed up in a thousand different costumes. Don't worry, we'll replace it, and we'll replace the dam power with wind and solar and batteries and it'll be better and cheaper.