Glenn Beck On Islam and The Price Of Cowardice

Summary

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

Episode: Glenn Beck On Islam and The Price Of Cowardice

Date: January 6, 2026

Host: Alex Clark
Guest: Glenn Beck

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Episode Overview

This episode features Glenn Beck, influential radio host and founder of Blaze Media, in a no-holds-barred discussion about America’s future, the rise of ideological extremism, threats to Western civilization, Islamism, antisemitism, and the "remedies" needed to heal a sick culture. Glenn warns of a tipping point coming in 2026, with ideological threats already destabilizing the West. The conversation balances pointed critique with calls for spiritual renewal and truth-seeking, and introduces Beck's new educational AI project, Torch.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Coming Transformation of America (00:00–02:23)

• Glenn Beck’s Warning: Glenn projects that by 2027, America may be unrecognizable, not because of invasion, but due to ideology, silence, and cultural fear.
• Quote:

  "Radicals, communists, socialists, anarchists and Islamists will work together to first destabilize the Middle East, then destroy Israel while destabilizing Europe. It will spread, and it will then finally destabilize the United States and destroy the Western world."
  — Glenn Beck (00:06)

Ideological Distinctions: Islamism vs. Islam (02:23–05:39)

• Important Distinction: Beck stresses the difference between Muslims (individuals of faith) and "Islamicists" (those who pursue political Islam/Sharia law).
• Illustration: Glenn advocates not seeing Muslims as enemies, but identifying the dangers of Islamicist ideology, which he calls "completely incompatible with Western values."
• Memorable Moment:

  "Muslims are not our enemies. Lies are our enemies. We have to stop wrestling with people and start wrestling with ideas, big ideas."
  — Glenn Beck (02:38)

• Example: He applauds a Muslim running for Congress who distinguishes faith from political Islam.

The European Warning & Invasion Narratives (05:39–07:36)

• Europe as a Cautionary Tale: Beck claims Europe is facing an "invasion," not mass refugee escape as told, emphasizing the formation of "no-go zones" and the rise of Sharia-based enclaves.
• Quote:

  "What we're seeing right now is an invasion in the West...a vast majority that came in all as young 20-something men, that's not escaping war. Where are your children, where are your mothers?...That's an invasion."
  — Glenn Beck (05:46)

Erosion of American Identity & Economic Stability (07:36–11:29)

• Societal Upheaval: Glenn paints a picture of fundamental values (like free speech, definitions of gender) being upended, with debt and loss of "who we are" at the core.
• On Economic Solutions: Discusses Trump's proposition to grow the tech/AI sector as a way to address unpayable debt.
• Islam as a Rising Power:

  "For the first time in human history, the only power that is rising is not a nation-state...that is Islam."
  — Glenn Beck (10:53)

Right-wing Influencers and Qatar (14:09–16:55)

• Worry Over Right-Wing Figures in Qatar: Beck expresses concern that some on the right are being seduced by narratives or alliances with regimes antithetical to American values.
• Quote:

  "If you tear this system down and destroy it, what do you have left? Nothing but anarchy and chaos. And those who actually do believe in something take control."
  — Glenn Beck (15:52)

Antisemitism, Israel, and Conspiracy Theories (16:55–22:08)

• Countering Antisemitic Claims: Glenn refutes the "Jews control everything" trope, arguing that influence is not unique to Israel; all nations advocate for their interests.
• On Israel:

  "Before we concentrate on stopping another country and pointing the finger at another country...maybe we should stop and go, hey, guys, let's fix us first."
  — Glenn Beck (21:53)

• Moral Equivalency: He objects to holding Israel to standards the U.S. itself does not meet.

Media Narratives & the "Lone Wolf" Label (25:16–30:15)

• Pattern Denial: Glenn critiques the media for dismissing Islamic terror incidents as random or isolated, and stresses the seriousness of Islamist intent.
• Theology & Violence: Explains the apocalyptic beliefs of "Twelvers" in Iran, arguing their ideology centers on violence to hasten divine intervention.
• Memorable Illustration:

  "If someone says, 'I’m going to kill you,' you take them at their word. Otherwise, you're a fool."
  — Glenn Beck (28:20)

Leftist and Islamist Convergence (30:15–32:48)

• Shared Goal: Beck claims that Marxists and Islamists "always go hand in hand" specifically to destroy the West, even if they later turn on each other.
• Historical Example: References 1979 Iran, where Marxists and Islamists overthrew the regime, only to have Islamists purge the Marxists soon after.
• Quote:

  "Put your money on those people because...they'll die for it."
  — Glenn Beck, discussing religious conviction among Islamists (32:21)

Policy Recommendations for National Security (32:51–34:55)

• Non-Negotiables:
  1. Identify everyone in the country and remove those advocating for Sharia law.
  2. Shut down political Islamist organizations ("CAIR is...a front group for radical Islam").
  3. Deport newcomers unwilling to integrate with Western values.
• Quote:

  "Political Islam is absolutely, must never be allowed here in the United States."
  — Glenn Beck (34:07)

What Can Parents and Students Do? (35:00–36:41)

• Reject Hate, Embrace Truth: Avoid being swept into group-based hatred; focus on fighting bad ideas, not people.
• On Truth:

  "Truth doesn’t need an army."
  — Glenn Beck (36:38)

The Remedy for a Sick Culture (39:28–43:45)

• Glenn's Personal Story: Shares struggles with alcoholism and the power of surrender, humility, and returning to faith.
• Societal Application: Advocates for collective repentance, truth-seeking, forgiveness, and recommitment to foundational values.
• Memorable Moment:

  "We are not going to save our country, our civilization or humanity if we don't turn back and say everything we thought was true is probably a lie...Help us get back on track."
  — Glenn Beck (41:50)

• Tribute: Touching reference to the late Charlie Kirk’s dedication, implying martyrdom in pursuit of truth.

Launch of "Torch" and the George AI Project (43:45–49:38)

• Announcement: Glenn introduces "Torch," aiming to disrupt education much as Blaze disrupted media.
• George AI: AI project based solely on the Founders’ documents, to teach American values and civics without outside interference or "hallucinations."
• Vision: Eventually, families can use AI to get personalized, age-appropriate civics lessons and dialogue for children.
• Access:

  "You can access parts of it as of today...at glennbeck.com."
  — Glenn Beck (49:41)

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Muslims and Ideology:

  "Muslims are not our enemies. Lies are our enemies."
  — Glenn Beck (02:38)

• On Western collapse:

  "The west is on the verge of falling. Europe is on the verge of falling. That will change the world overnight."
  — Glenn Beck (02:56)

• On Antisemitism:

  "Why do we hold Israel to a standard higher than we hold for ourselves? Fix yourself first."
  — Glenn Beck (20:31)

• On truth and ideology:

  "You cannot hate the people. You hate the ideas, you hate the lies, but not the people."
  — Glenn Beck (35:07)

• On America's spiritual crisis:

  "We have worshiped everything we can worship except for God lately."
  — Glenn Beck (41:18)

• On the new AI project:

  "I want to do to the educational system what I did to media."
  — Glenn Beck (45:20)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00–02:23: Introduction and framing of the episode’s warning
• 02:23–05:39: Discussion on Islam, Islamism, and Western values
• 05:39–07:36: The European situation and the "invasion" narrative
• 07:36–11:29: Breakdown of American cultural/economic instability
• 14:09–16:55: Qatar trip controversy
• 16:55–22:08: Antisemitic tropes and Israel’s global role
• 25:16–30:15: Media narratives and Islamist theology
• 30:15–32:48: Marxist-Islamist alliances
• 32:51–34:55: Policy recommendations
• 35:00–36:41: Guidance for parents and students
• 39:28–43:45: Personal and national remedy—spiritual renewal
• 43:45–49:38: Announcement of Torch and George AI

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Conclusion

In this urgent and wide-ranging conversation, Glenn Beck diagnoses a Western crisis driven not by outside force but by moral, spiritual, and ideological decay. He calls for clarity in distinguishing people from harmful ideas, vigilance against totalitarian theologies, and a national return to truth. The episode ends with news of Beck’s new AI teaching tool—a practical step he hopes will equip families with the foundational principles needed to navigate and rebuild in challenging times.

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Transcript

[A]

You have stressed that 2026 will be a pivotal year and that by 2027, we may not even recognize America.

[B]

Radicals, communists, socialists, anarchists and Islamists will work together to first destabilize the Middle east, then destroy Israel while destabilizing Europe. It will spread, and it will then finally destabilize the United States and destroy the Western world.

[A]

What if the biggest changes to America aren't coming someday, but are already locked in motion? What if the country that we hand to our children in just a few years no longer recognizes free speech or even the right to question ideas? Our guest today has been warning that 2026 is a turning point and that by 2027, America may be fundamentally changed, not by invasion, but by ideology, silence, and fear of telling the truth. Today, we're asking the questions many Americans are told they're not allowed to ask. About Islam, about culture, about Europe's warning signs, and about what happens when a free society refuses to defend itself. Joining me today is Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck is a nationally syndicated radio host, bestselling author, and founder of the Blaze Media Network. For decades, he has focused on the intersection of history, faith, culture, and national security, often sounding alarms long before they become mainstream conversations. Glenn is known for challenging political, religious and cultural orthodoxies while while insisting on a clear distinction between individual liberty and ideological systems. His work reaches millions daily through radio, television, podcasts and live events. If you want to watch this interview, go to the real Alex Clark YouTube channel or culture Apothecary on Spotify. Pause and leave a five star review because Glenn Beck is the best to ever do it. Please welcome my friend Glenn Beck to Culture Apothecary. You have stressed that 2026 will be a pivotal year and that by 2027 we may not even recognize America. What is happening right now that distracted people might be missing?

[B]

There's just so much garbage that everybody is, I think, intentionally being directed to. And the infighting among the people on the right is, is got to stop. You know, I. I just gave a speech where I talked about how people are not our enemies. And this goes with Islam as well. Muslims are not our enemies. Lies are our enemies. We have to stop wrestling with people and start wrestling with ideas, big ideas. The thing that people that are distracted are missing is the west is on the verge of falling. Europe is on the verge of falling. That will change the world overnight. After this, I'm meeting with some people whose father, Pastor soon from South Korea, is in prison. And the reason why he was in prison is because he was just speaking the truth. He was just speaking the truth, sharing his Christian faith. Yes. And he's in prison because it's a destabilizing factor. He was starting to grow people into a movement and they're afraid of a movement. South Korea, people don't understand that's about to fall. And if that falls, the entire Eastern hemisphere changes. The global dynamics change. So we have to start looking at bigger things. And in the west, the biggest thing that we're not paying attention to is the growth of Islamicists. There's a difference between a Muslim and an Islamicist. I was just last night speaking on behalf of a guy who wants to go to Congress and he's a Muslim. Wait, Glenn hates Muslims. No, I don't. This guy knows the difference. He is a red, white and blue. He was a lieutenant colonel in our navy and he is a devout Muslim. But he understands the difference between his religion and Islamicism, which is a political movement. An Islamicist believes in Sharia law over the Constitution, believes that Sharia law needs to be the globe's law enforcement and the global law over all other laws. And it's an old thing that was happening back in the times of the Crusades and it hasn't changed from them. It treats women as really less than second class citizens. You know, you can if you, if you're married by Sharia law. If I want to divorce you, all I have to say is I divorce you, I divorce you. I divorce you. You say it three times, a man does and I'm no longer married to you. You have to go to court and you have to divorce me. But nobody's going to believe just you. You need either two or three witnesses to equal one man. So it's just this archaic system that is all about power. It's not about God, it's not about religion, it's all about power and control.

[A]

And so it's completely incompatible with Western values.

[B]

Completely.

[A]

What are we seeing right now in Europe?

[B]

I've been studying this for almost 30 years and been warning about what is coming. And the time has long passed. But if we don't have it right now, we are lost. To have a conversation about the difference between Muslims and an Islamist. What we're seeing right now is an invasion in the West. They were refugees, they were people that were trying to get out of war torn countries. That was the story. Some of them may have, some of them may have, but a vast majority that came in all as young 20something men, that's not escaping war. Where are your Children, where are your mothers? Where are your wives? That's an invasion. And they are planting themselves in cities and they are having what are called, in France, they used to call them no go zones. Police can't go in there. They have their own Sharia law courts set up in these different areas all around. And you're starting to see in much worse ways the same kind of things that we're kind of seeing in America with just our politicians, the people with the power don't go to jail, except with Islamists. What is happening is you can break horrible laws, you can rape, you can rape children, you can sell them into slavery. Because if you're an Islamist, you believe that. Because I'm a follower of Muhammad and you're not, you're an infidel. And so I can take you as a slave. I can do whatever I want to you. I know that sounds so archaic, but it is true. It is what many people in the world believe. And the most dangerous people in, in the Muslim world are pushing for this.

[A]

So when you say that we're not going to recognize our own country, are you talking specifically about laws, about culture, about, about freedom, about security?

[B]

So I said 2001 that there was going to come a time when everything you thought you knew would be dismissed as crazy or not true. Everything you thought was solid. That's a principle. Rock solid. Principle will be upside down. Everything solid will become liquid. Everything liquid will become solid. That's what I said about 2002. We're seeing that now. Define a woman. For a lot of people, you can't define a woman. The things that we would never have done. I'm not gonna put a guy who says he's a woman dressed in sexual ways, bring in a pole to have him dance in a first grade class. That's insanity. It's always been insanity. Not for everybody now. Yeah, okay, that's what I mean. You're not gonna recognize your country. Everything you just thought was absolutely rock solid, those things will fall. We are, we are looking at a time now where $38 trillion cannot be paid for. Can't be paid for. So what do you do? Donald Trump has an idea. Whether it works or not, I don't know. But his idea is grow the economy, focus on AI, focus on tech. Because that's got such growth to it that if we can grow that, we'll have all the tax revenue to be able to pay that down. It's like when you don't, you can't afford your bills, you have a choice Cut spending, pay it off. But if you can't pay it off, if you just no way to pay it off, you have to go bankrupt. We can't do that. So what do we do? We either cut our spending, which we should, but we're not. But the other thing is get another job. This is why he's growing the AI economy, why he is getting into rare minerals. Everything else we've got to could fundamentally transform our economy to pay that off. So you have that. Changing how that works out is going to be interesting. Because no time in the history of the world have we been to a place like this. Usually what happens is a great empire rises and then another one starts to rise just as this one is starting to fall. And most people think that rising empire is China, but. But it's not. There is no rising empire. America is the best out of them. Because as we're falling, we're falling because we've lost our values, our morals, our principles, our history. We don't know who we are anymore. We don't believe in anything anymore. And we have just piled up debt. So all of those chickens are coming home to roost. But so has everyone else. Everyone else printed money in their own money like crazy. Borrowed too much. So everyone is going down at the same time. There is no rising power to replace it. So what happens will be something we will learn. For the first time in human history, the only power that is rising is not a nation state. And it's rising through birth rates and it's rising through immigration, and that is Islam. And Islam is incompatible with the Western principles of freedom. If you are an Islamist, if you believe in Sharia law, if you came here from a foreign country, you came here from the Middle east because you saw what was happening to your wife and your daughters and you said, no, enough is enough. And you came here, you're part of the west, you will help us fix the West. Okay? But if you came here and you tolerate that and you thought that was okay and you don't mind because, you know, at least it makes more sense than what's happening here. That's poison to freedom.

[A]

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[B]

Oh, yes, I am.

[A]

What's, what's going on there? Why would they be doing that?

[B]

I just had a conversation with somebody last night and I asked that question. It was off the record and I asked that question, what could you possibly be thinking? There wasn't a good answer and I don't know what the answer is other than the people on the right are starting to believe this lie that Putin is, is no worse than George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Donald Trump. Okay, not true that Iran has its, you know, good points, which is it throwing homosexuals off of buildings, claiming there is no homosexuality in Iran and probably backing it up because you kill all the homosexuals that you find. Is it the way you treat women? What are the, what are the saving graces of Iran? Okay, we have problems here, but we are. Our Constitution says in order to form a more perfect nation, meaning we don't have it down, we're making all kinds of mistakes, but we want to get better every day. We want to set more people free. We want to find a way to have people live in charge of their own life, making their own decisions without some central command telling everybody what you have to believe, what you have to eat, what you have to do, what you can't do. No, we want a more perfect nation. We're the only country in the world that has that as our goal. We're the only country in the world that wrote down, all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights. That's the job of the government, to protect your rights. We don't even understand rights anymore. And if we don't get back to this, we will lose it. This is why tearing things down is so dangerous. You want to fix things, you don't want to tear them down. Especially if you don't know how to put it back together. I could say, oh, my car is broken, it doesn't work. I'm going to go in and I'm going to tear down the engine. Okay, do you know how to rebuild it? Do you know what the problem was? Do you know how to put all the pieces back together? Because I can guarantee you it'd be like me going to ikea. I'd be left with a hundred parts as I put that engine back together and go, I don't even know where those parts go. It's not going to work. If you tear this system down and destroy it, what do you have left? Nothing but anarchy and chaos. And those who actually do believe in something take control.

[A]

One thing that a lot of proclaimed conservatives are discussing right now is this concern that Jews are running everything. And, you know, it's just interesting to me that that conversation is being elevated as well as, you know, we have people like you and Ali Stuckey, who. And even Charlie Kirk, before he was murdered, really raising the alarms about Islam. Like, you guys are obsessed about Jews and concerned about Jews, and we have this glaring warning sign of Islam. I mean, what is your response to that? These people that are like, no, it's not Islam, it's the Jews we need to worry about.

[B]

So let me just. Can I just ask some basic questions on the Jewish thing? Has Israel taken and built settlements all over Israel where they want to build sediments? If not, why? Because the United States has said, don't do it. Who's controlling whose policy now? Do they influence ours? Yeah, I'm sure they do. Do they have lots of money and people hired in their government to influence our government and other governments to try to get us and others onto their side to do things that are good for their country? Absolutely. Is that bad? Well, I don't know. Talk to Marco Rubio, talk to any former secretary of state, because that's what we do with our money and our officials. We say what's good for the United States. Can we bring them in on that? Let's get them in on that. How many times? What is the United nations for? The United nations is to get people to go, hey, I've got a problem over here. Can I get you guys to come in and help me on this? Everything that we have proposed, let's say, for Africa. Do you know that in Africa you get money from the United States, but only if you offer abortions? Only if you start to offer trans surgery. These are communities that don't want any of that, but they want the money, and so they take it. Are we doing what people are saying Jews are doing? Yes. Every country does that. If you have a problem with that, your problem is not with the Jews or Israel. Your problem is with your politicians. Because if I've elected a politician and some foreigner can come in, give them money, or some foreigner can come in and convince them to do something in our country that is not in our nation's interest. My problem's not with that country. My problem is with my politician. What are you doing? What are you doing? Stop it right now. You're Taking money, then you should go to jail. They should also pay a penalty if they're doing it illegally. There's this whole thing about the USS Liberty. I do not believe that was anything but an accident. This happened in the 1960s during the war in Israel. And the conspiracy is that Israel blew up the USS Liberty. Okay, not a conspiracy. It happened. But the question is, why did it happen? Was it intentional or was it a mistake? I believe it was a mistake, but let's just say it was intentional. Has the United States ever, ever done anything in an act of war where either the fog of war confused things and we did something we shouldn't and then denied it? Absolutely, we have. Has the United States ever done anything against an ally intentionally because it was in our best interest and we needed them to not be here while we do these things, we need to take care of it. Absolutely, we have. So why do we hold Israel to a standard higher than we hold for ourselves? Fix yourself first. The whole idea of Washington, that George Washington said was, you be a great country yourself and you'll inspire others to be a great country. Stop getting involved in everybody else's business. That's something that we the people need to start doing. I am not for Israel. I'm not fighting their war. I don't ever want to fight their war.

[A]

Same.

[B]

I don't want anything to do with it.

[A]

Same.

[B]

It's their war. But I do believe they have a right as their own independent country to make a decision on how they fight the war. They have a right to defend themselves. Jews have a right to. To live unmolested as much as Muslims do, as much as Catholics do, as much as Mormons do, as much as Hindus do. We don't hate people for where they come from, who they are, what God they worship. That's absolutely un American. And so this idea that Jews control the world is one of the oldest tropes of all time. And all it just takes is just asking yourself, do we do those things as a nation? Do we or have we ever done those things? Yes. Should we do those things? No. Before we concentrate on stopping another country and pointing the finger at another country and causing more hatred, maybe we should stop and go, hey, guys, let's fix us first.

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[B]

Islam, it's always a lone wolf. It's always a one off, it's always, well, this doesn't mean anything. We don't know their motives. We do know their motives. We are known as the Great Satan. It's fascinating if you go read the religious scriptures from the Islamist called the Twelvers. They believe in the 12th Imam. Long story short, this is the what? This is what the Ayatollah Khomeini said was too dangerous for Iran in 1979. They're now the people running Iran. They're Twelvers. They believe in the 12th Imam and they believe that the way to hasten the return of the Promised One. Think of, if you're a Christian, think of Jesus being the Promised One and he's coming back and then there's going to be a judgment and a great war and everything else and then there's peace. Okay? Think of that story of Jesus coming back and reverse it with the good guys and the bad guys. So Jesus is a bad guy. Our good guys are their bad guys. Our bad guys are their good guys. If you read the Twelvers religious texts, they believe Jesus will come back, but he will testify to the 12th Imam. He will testify to the truth of the Quran. Then anybody who doesn't believe it, they line you up and behead you. Okay? It's almost as if it was written as like, like you were in college and you were drunk and you're like, oh, let's really freak the Christians out. Let's take their text and just turn it upside down and write it. Except that's not what they did. That's what they believe when they say, and they say. They close many of their speeches this way. Oh, oh Allah, give me the strength to hasten the return of the Promised, the promised one. 12ers believe that you can hasten the return. Think of Christians, how would you bring Christ back? Well, you know Christ, you know Christ has told us the scriptures tell us that the world has to be in chaos. There has to be so much bloodshed that it just can't. He. God can't stand it anymore, okay? And so Christ comes back. That's what Christians believe. They believe the same thing, that the world has to be washed in blood before the Promised One can return. So when they say, let me hasten the return of the Promised One, they mean, give me the strength to wash the world in blood. That's not theory. That's not a story. That's a conviction. On the other side, you cannot dismiss. One thing I learned in 1999, I was on WABC in New York, and I was a new talk show host. Nobody knew who I was. And I stood up for Bill Clinton, and everybody was like, you're gonna see. I told you he's not a conservative. And I'm like, no, I'm not standing up for this, this or this. I'm standing up for him bombing the aspirin factory. Because do you know who he was trying to kill? Nobody did. I said, there's a guy. I couldn't even pronounce his name. I think I called him Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden. Nobody had ever heard of him. And I said, he's trying to kill that guy. And so I wanted to know, who is that guy? Well, I looked him up and I read his words, and he said, I'm coming for New York. I'm coming for the economic system of the west, and I will destroy it. And there will be blood and there will be bombings. He was very clear on what he wanted to do. And I said, I'm telling you, if you don't pay attention now, within 10 years in New York City, there will be blood, bodies and buildings in the streets, and it will have his name on it. That was in 1999. The one thing you have to do, if someone says, I'm going to kill you, you take them at their word. Otherwise, you're a fool. You're prepared. You'll keep an eye on it. If I have a neighbor who says, I'm going to kill you and your family, well, I take the measures to make sure that neighbor is watched, that I've got security on that side, that everybody in the neighborhood knows this guy has threatened me, I might move, but I take that seriously. If he says it with meaning every day, they're saying that with meaning every day. And the press goes, ah, they don't mean it. You're a fool to dismiss that. You will end up getting all of us killed. If you dismiss that. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. It means you must take people seriously when they say they're going to kill you. They're telling us, we're going to wipe your civilization out. You are the source of all evil, and only Allah is the source of good. And Christians and Jews are the source of all evil. And I will wipe them off the face of the earth.

[A]

At the same time you have this Islamic influence growing, you also see left wing terror attacks growing.

[B]

They always go hand in hand.

[A]

What is the connection there?

[B]

So the connection is the destruction of the West. That's that. Burn it down. Burn it down. Back in 2008, most of your audience was probably very young.

[A]

High school.

[B]

Yeah. And I was on Fox and I had a chalkboard that I put up every day for the last year. And I said, radicals, communists, socialists, anarchists and Islamists will work together to first destabilize the Middle east, then destroy Israel while destabilizing Europe. It will spread and it will then finally destabilize the United States and destroy the Western world. And what everybody focused on was, well, none of that's gonna happen.

[A]

What's funny to me is they thought you were a conspiracy theorist.

[B]

I know. I'm just taking their words. I'm just taking their words. So that was the first thing. That's conspiracy. That's not gonna happen. They're not gonna do it. The second thing they said was Islamist and Marxist, they'll never work together. Really. Do you know history? Because in 1979, the Marxists got together with the Islamists. It was the Marxists that helped bring the Ayatollah Khomeini back from Europe back into Iran. Now what happened to the Marxists in Iran? The same thing that always happens to useful idiots. Within two years, 30,000 Marxists were either jailed or executed. They worked together, both having the same goal, overthrow the regime. Then once the regime is overthrown, which one has control? Because the one will kill the other. And I would put my money down on people who actually believe God is telling them to do things. Put your money on those people because.

[A]

They have more of a conviction.

[B]

They'll die for it.

[A]

Yeah. The leftist Marxists don't believe in God.

[B]

They'll kill others. But are you willing to die for it? Some are, Some are, but the vast majority are not. Ask Christians, are you willing to die? People will say yes, but I'm not sure they mean it. An Islamist means it. They will send their own son or daughter to blow themselves up and then celebrate.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't want my child to go to war.

[A]

If you are advising the President. What are the top three non negotiables when dealing with Islam and national security?

[B]

Find out who's here and if you have any love for Sharia law, any record of standing for Sharia law, you're out. Shut down these organizations like cair, which the record on CAIR is extraordinarily bad. It's a front group for radical Islam, in my opinion. And the. The government needs to shut it down because it is the source of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is the source of planting people inside of our own government. It is the source of Islamophobia. That's Islamophobia. Like I said, I was with somebody who's running for Congress, who's a Muslim. They call him an Islamophobic. Yeah, how can he? He believes in the Quran. He's a Muslim. Wait, he's Islamophobic? Yes, because he doesn't believe in political Islam. Care is a political organization. Political Islam is absolutely, must never be allowed here in the United States. So shut down the organizations that bring in political Islam. I'm sorry to say it, but you have to deport people who are coming from countries who have, who are not willing to blend into our culture. If you came here because you are a refugee and you were being persecuted, you didn't want to live the way Sharia law was saying, I have to treat my daughter. I'm going to sell my daughter off to the Highest bidder at 12. My daughter gets married at 9. And I say, no, that's wrong. I want you here. I want you here because you know what that enemy is and it's not a Muslim. It's Sharia law and I want you here. But if you're tolerated, you will tolerate that. You're okay with it. You're like, ah, let everybody be everybody. No, that's like letting Nazis in.

[A]

What are the next action steps for just the young parent listening or the college student listening?

[B]

Do not be swept up into hate. The natural reaction is to hate and blame. I gotta hate my enemy. Jesus didn't. And that will only lead to really bad things. You cannot hate the people. You hate the ideas, you hate the lies, but not the people. Don't get wrapped up into a group that is saying, you're either on team A or team B. No, I'm not. You know, both sides in the civil war, both sides had preachers saying, God's on our side. God wasn't on one side. I don't think God was on either side. God was on his side. The truth that all people should be free. It's our responsibility to be on his side. He'll never join our club. He didn't want our club. He thinks our clubs are stupid. Join his club. And to do that. You know, I was thinking about the apostles. How do you know truth? You know, truth when, where you can verify everything, it checks out. Common sense. Except for quantum physics, common sense falls into line. I can prove it. Historically, I can say this is what this causes. You know, belief in something good, belief in yourself, empowering yourself leads to good things. So when I can chart this and say, okay, that's what this philosophy brings to the world historically, that truth doesn't need an army.

[A]

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[B]

I'm a recovering alcoholic and by the time I was 30, I had destroyed everything in my life. I lost my family, I lost my job, I lost my money, I lost my kids. I lost everything. And. I finally surrendered and said everything I've done in my life. I didn't try to become an alcoholic. It's just because the things I believed in were just destroying everything. The things I believed in were lies. You know, fame will make you happy, you know, whatever. And those were all lies. And they just started being corrosive. And so I destroyed my life for a while. I blamed everyone else, which caused me to drink more. Another destructive thing, blaming other people. The thing I did was I realized my life was completely out of control, that I didn't have an answer that would work. And so I went, I surrender. And I meant it. I don't care what you have me do. I really don't care. I just don't want to live like this anymore. I don't want to live angry. I don't want to live in fear. I don't want to live out of control. I just want to want my family. I want to be happy. I don't need fame. I don't need anything. But I don't know how to get there. Please. I will search for you and I will search your words, and I will ask for forgiveness on everything that I've done, and I will correct everything that I can possibly correct. But I need you to help guide me, and I need you to help me. Forgive me, okay, for the mistakes that I've made. And then I need you to forgive me also to let me know that it's okay. You have a chance to start all over again. That's what we have to do as a nation. We've made horrible mistakes. We've screwed this thing up every way we possibly can. We have worshiped everything we can worship except for God. Lately, yeah, we've chased him out of the square. We've taken his temple, his body, and we've destroyed it. We've taken his food sources and we've perverted them, and we expect that to be cured with medicine. Something that he gave us the intellect to do. But then man took it and made money on it. All kinds of crazy amounts of money, which can be a very good thing unless your goal starts to become money instead of healing. We've perverted everything he gave us. We are not going to save our country, our civilization or humanity if we don't turn back and say everything we thought was true is probably a lie. There's truth in there someplace, but we've perverted it. Help us get back on track. Just help me get back on track. Please, Lord. Fill my heart with forgiveness. Fill my heart with the ability to see the pain in other people. They're acting this way because they're hurt. They're acting this way because they don't understand the truth. Help me correct that, but not with anger. Help me. Give me the strength to stand in a room completely alone and speak that truth, knowing what may come my way. Martin Luther King knew he was going to die. I have to tell you, I'm convinced Charlie Kirk knew he was going to die. He had. Charlie and I talked about it two years before he died. We talked about assassinations, and in particular, my assassination or his assassination. He knew this was, at least in the realm of possibilities, but it didn't stop him. It didn't stop him. It made him more dedicated to the truth. That's what we have to do.

[A]

You have a big announcement today. What is it?

[B]

Well, we are launching a new project of mine called Torch. And it's many, many things, but I got to this portion of my life. My kids just moved out of the house, so I'm now like an old man. And I you, when your kids move out of the house, you're like, okay, what have I done with my life? What. What have I. What. What's next? What do I do? And, you know, when I started the Blaze years ago, I. I wanted to change media. I just wanted to tell people like you, you don't need to go to the networks. You don't need to go to television. You don't need to. You can do it on your own. Nobody was doing that. There was no such thing as live networks or anything. Major League Baseball was the only one that was just starting to do live video casts. Netflix was still delivering movies by mail. And I started the Blaze and said, we can deliver quality shows like television online. Our biggest problem was buffering. You couldn't. Everybody would be, yeah, okay, but my goal was to show the world, hey, Ben Shapiro, you don't have to go anywhere. Start your own thing. Hey, Tucker Carlson, start your own thing. Megyn Kelly, leave fox, leave NBC. Start your own thing. I get to a point where I'm like, okay, mission accomplished. Did that.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Now what's next? I want to do to the educational system what I did to media. To show you, you don't have to go to college, you don't. You don't have to do these things. Those are lies. They're old systems that have destroyed themselves at the same time. I've spent the last year or so building AI and I've got two systems. We're unveiling the beginnings of one of them today, and that is George AI and it's very different AI Because I believe AI must be explored. It is the greatest tool man has ever created, unless man doesn't recognize it's a tool and starts treating it as the master.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And we become the tool.

[A]

Yeah, that's creepy.

[B]

And with AI, you know, you ask something. ChatGPT, you better check it it. Because the way AI works, these large language models, they have all of the information the world has ever done, but they can't memorize all of it. And so it's very good at the beginning and the end of stories. And then it'll cheat and be like, yeah, kind of like this happened in the middle. No, because it doesn't memorize it. Okay. So you have to check it all the time. I've built a system based on my library, which is the third largest collection of founding documents in the world, only behind the National Archives and the. And the Library of Congress. And I've put everything just from the Founders, they don't know it, doesn't know who I am, doesn't know who Donald Trump is, knows nothing past 1825, okay? It took all of any book, any influence, any speech, any. Any sermon that they heard, all of the founding documents, the founding, The Federalist Papers, anything that was important to the founding of the country, and put it in memorized. Then I put an electric fence around it. It cannot go out and gather new information because it's memorized. It cannot hallucinate. And now today, I'm launching something where you can ask George AI a question. What are the principles that are essential? You can tell it, this is what's happening in the world. Why is it happening? Based on what you guys did, how can this be happening in this country? And it will say, because you missed this, this, and this.

[A]

Oh, I love it.

[B]

We put these safeguards in. You want to know about civics? You want to know what it means to be a citizen? Ask George AI. It will tell you. And in time. It's not ready yet, but in time, hopefully in the next six months, you'll be able to say, Look, I have 15 minutes taking my kids to school every day. They need to learn the Constitution. They need to know about rights and responsibilities. Develop a lesson plan in those 15 minutes and develop a podcast and break it up to any number of episodes that you need so I can listen to with the kids for 15 minutes a day. It will not only give you that lesson first today, it will be able to give you the lesson plan in writing, but soon it will be able to give it to you. And listen. You'll be able to say, my kids are 9 and 7, so speak at their level, their language. Then at the end of the lesson plan, it will ask questions. It will listen to their answers. If it doesn't, if it senses they don't really have a handle on that, the next episode changes and rewrites to go back and try to explain those things to him in a different way.

[A]

Okay, so are you gonna try to get, you know, American public schools to adopt this and use this?

[B]

No, I want families to do it.

[A]

Okay, so you are thinking like homeschool.

[B]

Families and stuff through public. I love public schools to do it, but public school, it's a racket. Yeah, it's an absolute racket. And beware, because public schools are already creating their own AIs to do just this.

[A]

Yikes.

[B]

But what is the library? What is the algorithm?

[A]

Right.

[B]

My ethics are posted on my website. What it is, how it works, what is in the library. It's all there.

[A]

So you're saying within the next six months people will be able to access this?

[B]

Yeah. You can access parts of it. It as of today.

[A]

And where can they go to do that?

[B]

Glenn beck.com awesome.

[A]

Glenn Beck, thank you for coming on Culture Apothecary.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

What are your biggest concerns right now as an American? Is it Islam coming to the West? Let me know in the comments in the conservatives Facebook group or in your five star review. And we're trying to heal a sick culture on this show, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern, where I interview different special guests on. Thank you. These subjects. Thanks for listening. I'm Alex Clark and this is Culture Apothecary.