Glenn Beck (2:57)

And the crime spree just keeps coming. Now we know Brett Baer Saturday pulled over in Georgetown. Why? He was talking on his phone and he wasn't supposed to be on his phone while he was driving, which he pointed out clearly. His. His Mercedes G Wagon. That's my wife's car. That's my wife's car. That was more. He was a. Yeah, I got a ticket. Whatever. Yeah, I probably had to blow on me. But that's my wife's car. That's definitely my wife's car because it was a white G wagon. And I mean, it's clearly a girl's car, Brett. Clearly. I mean, G wagon, girl wagon, that's what it is. You take it in, you park it in the same parking spot every day. It's the G spot. We don't. You don't need a real big map on this one. It's a chick car, at least in white.

Stu Burguiere (3:53)

I had so many additional jokes to add on to that I'm going to stop. But yeah, that was funny. That did seem to be the focus of his statement. I guess he was on the. On the ph. And he got that he wasn't supposed to be.

Glenn Beck (4:04)

So he got a ticket in dc. Yeah. And you know, you know, good for. Good for them pulling over Bret Bear and giving him a ticket. Good. I'm glad to see it. I mean, you know, not that I want to see everybody, you know, you know what I mean? Everybody. If you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you get a ticket. And it's good to see that they. That everybody is getting that. They had 56 arrests on Tuesday night. Don't have the number today, but it's probably about another 50, including an illegal Ms. 13 gang member, which, by the way, has MSNBC. You know they're renaming it to Ms. Now, right? Yeah. Have they thought about Ms. 13? We give you the news headlines 13 times a day. We are Ms. 13. At least it'd be more accurate. Really? Really. It's.

Stu Burguiere (5:02)

It's pretty close. It's Pretty close. That would be. Might be an. Actually a better name than Ms. Now.

Glenn Beck (5:09)

Right. So the stats in Washington, D.C. this seems to be working. Robbery now is down 46% versus the previous seven days. So a week ago, the robberies have gone down 46%. ADW, aiding dumb whites. What is ADW?

Stu Burguiere (5:32)

Assault with a deadly weapon.

Glenn Beck (5:34)

Okay, okay. Down 6%. Carjacking down 83%. Car theft down 21%. Violent crime down 22%. Property crime down 6%. Now, here's what I don't get. After all of those stats, all crimes down 8%. How's. How do you have these huge numbers? And then it's all. Crime is only down 8%.

Stu Burguiere (6:02)

Yeah, maybe, you know what? Maybe. Maybe, you know, people like Brett Baer with this phone is up like 40, and that's offsetting it.

Glenn Beck (6:11)

Yeah, maybe that's what it is. Maybe that's what it is. You know, of course, I don't know, because I'm sure there's a law in Washington, D.C. you know, you can't hit your horse to, like, a lamp post. Right. You know, I'm sure that's still on there. Yeah. And that's probably gone through the roof.

Stu Burguiere (6:28)

I was talking to Drew Holden yesterday, writer, and he was. He lives in D.C. and he was talking about the crime problem. And he described a situation near his house where a park was closed, one of their local parks, that you could go and take a walk and walk your dog or whatever, and it was closed. Why was it closed? Because several hundred teenagers decided to schedule a quote unquote fight in the park. So there was a massive brawl that broke out in this park, which meant they had to close the entire park. Now, that's not gonna be 200 crimes, right? That's not how that's gonna be. It's probably maybe one or two. However, it totally disrupted the lives of the people who lived around.

Glenn Beck (7:11)

That's what people are. That's what people are missing. You know, Ricky told us that a friend of hers was robbed. Somebody came up, took their wallet. He didn't even report it to the police. He's like, what are they gonna do? They're never gonna find my wallet. I'm not gonna waste my time. So he didn't even report it. I don't know what crime this would be, but I've told you the story. Last time I was in Washington, D.C. my wife and I are just walking down the street, and a guy on a bike, a big black guy who looked insane, and I think he was seriously disturbed. But he rides his bike around. He's like, today's the day. I'm gonna kill me a white guy. I'm gonna kill me a white man today. And he's pointing at me, and I'm like, well, too bad you don't see just behind me about 20 steps or two armed security guys. So give it a whirl, Jack. But I didn't report that. And I think that kind of stuff happens to people all the time in Washington, D.C. it's a quality of life thing. Right. As well.

Stu Burguiere (8:09)

You just become used to it. Right. Like, you know, New York is a good example. This New York's murder rate, by the way, is 1/7th of Washington, D.C. but we did live and work in New York. 1/7. We did live and work in New York for a while. And there's just. It becomes part of your life to ignore things that everyone else in the country would never ignore. Right. Like you.

Glenn Beck (8:33)

I'll never. The best example of this, Stu, is you and I on the subway. We were waiting for the subway, and you and I were just talking about something, and we didn't realize. We stood there for maybe three or four minutes. And I think you said, I think the big one's gonna win. And I'm like, I have my money on him, too. And what we were talking about, we had not discussed it before. We had been sitting there talking to each other, but both of us, while talking, were watching two rats. Yep. Fight over, like, a hot dog rapper or something. And it just had. And I looked at Stu and I said, we have been here too long. We got to get out when that's just normal. We've got to get out.

Stu Burguiere (9:16)

Yeah. And I think that is actually part of this. If you want to give a little bit of a break to the crazy people who are defending, you know, Washington, D.C. as this bizarre Disneyland, you almost start to delete these terrible experiences from your mind. It's the only way you can deal with them. Like, I saw one guy actually post. He's like, you know, I'm sick of all these Republicans and Trump and MAGA people saying, you know, how terrible this city is and how much crime there is. You know, sure, I've been mugged, and, yeah, I had my car broken into, but this is a great city. It's like, he had, like, really, like, just disjointed himself from those experiences as if they didn't happen, and as if that's normal for people. Yeah, everyone goes through those things. No, they don't. Like, nowhere, nowhere else. I've ever lived, did I expect that to occur?

Glenn Beck (10:04)

But that's not the same. You know, which rat's gonna win thing. No, where you, where you just get used to it. That's politics. If you're mugged, if, if it were reversed and, you know, and crime was going out of control and Donald Trump was not doing anything about it, and this guy gets mugged, he'd be like, of course. What do you expect? The Republicans are in. They don't care about us. They don't care. I mean, that's politics. That's not just getting used to it. Getting used to it is having to step over the homeless person or the drug addict or, you know, walking down the street and seeing, you know, people that are all hunched over because they're on, what, fentanyl or whatever it is. That. That's the kind of stuff you kind of get used to and you just don't see it anymore until somebody comes to visit you and then they're like, you live here? And you're like, oh, yeah, you get used to it. You don't get used to being mugged. No, no, that's politics.

Stu Burguiere (11:01)

No, but you know, like, the person, was it a friend of Ricky's or talking about how the wallet was stolen, like that's an experience that you remember. I mean, it doesn't necessarily ruin your life. Like, it's an inconvenience. It's a terrible thing to go through. But you kind of just like work it into that city experience at some level, which is terrible. Like, I have friends who used to always talk about, like the. And they appreciated the grit. The grit sucks, okay? I don't want the grit. The grit is nonsense. It is, it is this. Like, it's a justification for what you have to deal with on a day to day basis. Oh, it's a gritty city.

Glenn Beck (11:44)

Yeah.

Stu Burguiere (11:45)

Getting mugged is. There's nothing. There's no charm in that. I'm sorry. You want to have a dive bar that you like attending. That's grit, I suppose. You know, going to a place where you're getting, you know, things stolen from you or you get beaten or you get some weird fluid thrown at you, then you don't know what it was like. That's the type of stuff that happens in these cities all the time. I know, it's. It's awful.

Glenn Beck (12:11)

And that is the kind of stuff. You know, I was just, I just moved my daughter in. I'm not going to say the town, but I just moved my daughter into a town. Istanbul, it's a college town.

Stu Burguiere (12:21)

Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said it.

Glenn Beck (12:23)

And, and it's this really nice, quaint, seemingly crime free. I mean it has other problems. But I walked down the street with my wife. We were going to pick something up, a restaurant and bring it back to the apartment as we were all, you know, unboxing. And I'm walking down the street and I said, this is what my childhood was like. This feels like when I was, you know, late 1970s, you know, as I'm coming of age, this is the way the country kind of felt. It was generally safe in, in areas where I grew up, it was generally safe. You know, it was clean. People respected one another, generally speaking. And I know that, you know, New York City was a hellhole at the same time that I was experiencing that in the west coast. But you don't see that very often anymore. And you forget until you go to one of these small towns and you're like, is, are there, are they piping in the sounds of birds and stuff? Because it's like perfect here. No, it's just a small town, you know, that hasn't gone to hell. And you forget about it. You really forget on how great that can be.

Stu Burguiere (13:43)

And you think about. But the people who are leading this country all live and work in a place where they are justifying these terrible things occurring. They're not living a life that so many other Americans are living where their towns are sane and they don't have to deal with murder rates seven times the rate of New York City. And the trouble with this, of course in some way is that Washington has tools that no one else has. They can call in the federal government to take over their town and bring a bunch of troops in and do all these things that really, that's not an option for a lot of cities. They're stuck with the Mamdanis and the guy in Minnesota who is now taking over their city and going to run it in the ground further. It's gonna get much worse.

Jason (14:36)

One of the things that, thinking back to your story from Washington D.C. just how prevalent crime was there? That guy that said that?

Glenn Beck (14:42)

Because you were there.

Jason (14:43)

I was, I was standing near your security and you can tell they're so used to just, that's just the norm. They can intimidate you. Crime, no fear.

Glenn Beck (14:52)

No fear.

Jason (14:53)

And what cracked me up, maybe you didn't notice this because we kept watching him. He gave us that crazy eye, went across the street, looked back and we were still glaring at him as if we're not intimidated by this. And he actually had this look for a couple seconds, like, did I not deliver the line? Did it not work? And it stuck out in my mind because if you refuse to be intimidated by this, like the administration of Donald Trump is now refused to be intimidated by this. And that is what they were doing it right now, essentially, and their power goes away.

Glenn Beck (15:26)

So in Washington, D.C. i don't carry a gun. You know, I'll travel. When I'm in a city like that, I travel with somebody who has a badge and they can carry a gun. And that was the reason why I wasn't really intimidated other than, you know, go ahead.

Stu Burguiere (15:43)

But my wife was with sweet silence. The sweet Bring me the sweet relief silence of death.

Glenn Beck (15:52)

Wouldn't it be bad if you get up to heaven and is like, great, glad you're here. There's an election next week. What? But, you know, the average person doesn't have that. Imagine, you know, you're walking your kids to school in the morning and they see that. Did you see that guy? Where was he? That came up and he was homeless and clearly nuts. I mean, that's part of it. It's not just crime. It's, we have really sick people on the streets as well. And this guy comes up to a mom pushing a baby carriage on this, just on the street, just walking, mind her own business. And he gets in front of her and blocks the, blocks her from moving. And he's like, this is my baby. Give her to me. Give her to me. And tries to take and luckily, living in a town where others see what's going on and race to the woman's defense. I don't know if that would have happened in New York City. I don't know if that would have happened in New York, you know, or Washington, D.C. you know, it's, you don't dismiss the quality of life. And I'm really anxious to see what happens in 30 days, because in 30 days this is going to Trump loses the ability to do this without Congress acting. And I'm anxious to see what happens if he doesn't get that ability and it goes back to the way it was. I think the people in Washington, D.C. are going to be really pissed at the Democrats. Hey, you're locked in with the best of the Glenn Beck program. Back with more right after this. Let me tell you about relief factor. Listen, if you live long enough, one of two things is going to happen. You're going to hurt yourself badly or something else is going to hurt you badly. But one way or another, your body just gets the nicks and the dings. If you're really lucky, they don't both happen at the same time. Maybe it was a fall, maybe it was a sports injury, a car accident, or just years of wear and tear. 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I read an article and I just kind of skimmed it quickly and I filed it away and it was, the United States is moving like a battle group to Latin America. And I'm like, what? We're moving a battle group? What are we. What we're moving? We're. We're moving cruise missile ships, like 4,000 marines. I mean, this is what you have when you have an invading force. You know, when you're worried about something, you want to keep calm in some area. You know, we send them over, I don't know, off the coast of Africa, because there's somebody doing something. And we send this group over and we're like, hey, knock it off. What are we doing? Okay, well, it's not just to Latin America. It's someplace very specific. Venezuela. What's happening now is not some distant strongman. This is. Battle lines are being drawn right now between freedom and chaos. Okay. This week, Nicolas Maduro, who was indicted by the Trump administration, I think, in 2020, and then Biden didn't do anything about it. He was indicted by our own Justice Department for narco terrorism. He just responded to us and mobilized four and a half million civilian militiamen. So he's now just kind of drafted 4 million men and said, you're, you're a citizen, but you're also a soldier right now. And he says it's to defend sovereignty against America. Here's what it is. He's trying to protect himself. He's a dictator and he's conscripting an entire nation because he knows the United States is after him. Why? Why? Well, we have warships, three Aegis destroyers, and they're anchored right off his coast. And we just doubled the bounty on his head from $25 million to $50 million. And you know, at first blush, you're like, can we, what are we doing? What, what's happening? I mean, we've lived in a time my whole life where we're like, you know, the government can do two things at once. It should be able to walk and chew gum. Well, we're not just walking and chewing gum. We're walking, chewing gum, putting out, you know, the fire of a burning house, juggling flaming bowling pins, stopping a nuclear war, dancing the Macarena because everybody in Washington is like 8,000 years old. We're building a death bot army at the same time fighting people that want to behead us. Oh, and the Islamists and redistricting Texas, and we're doing it all at the same time. Why? I mean, we're living Mission Impossible. Except our Tom Cruise is 78 years old, which I want you to think about this. I think Donald Trump is exactly who Tom Cruise will be when he's 78. Just not stop. He's still running that weird run that he's doing. Um, anyway, so Donald Trump is, is going after Venezuela for two reasons. One, drugs, Fentanyl and cocaine, much of it laced, much of it deadly. And it is, it is being trafficked here in the United States by people who are directly tied to Maduro's government. And it's the so called cartel of the Suns, Mississippi. Thirteen gang members. All of this stuff is coming from Venezuela and they are poisoning Americans. And this is not just a foreign, you know, a foreign security thing or a foreign policy issue. This is, this is Homeland Security. This is actually affecting us. The second one, and I think this is the bigger reason of the two. I mean, they're probably tied, but this is a big one that most Americans don't know. Venezuela is not some backwater place. It's full of oil and it is a staging ground now for Russia, China and Iran. Hezbollah, it has some of the worst people It's a beachhead for those people who want to see the United States taken down.

Jason (23:18)

Oh, Glenn. Literally a beachhead. This is insane because I didn't even know a lot of this. We mentioned this maybe a couple months ago.

Glenn Beck (23:25)

Yeah, we did a, we did a. It was in part of another story.

Jason (23:28)

And the trende agua stuff.

Glenn Beck (23:30)

Yeah, that's what it was coming out. And we were like, like, wait a minute. What is Hezbollah doing in, in Venezuela?

Jason (23:36)

Oh my gosh. So I actually dug through congressional testimony to get some of this information. Now this is information the American public doesn't really know, but the government knows. So check this out. This is from congressional testimony in 2011. They tested, Congress testified what Hugo Chavez was doing. Listen to this.

Glenn Beck (23:55)

The.

Jason (23:56)

Just the year before, in 2010, Hugo Chavez hosted something called the secret summit. Like literally, it was called the secret summit. Okay, guess who showed up to secret summit. The supreme leader of Hamas, the chief of operations for Hezbollah, and the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Glenn Beck (24:19)

Oh, I thought you were gonna say Satan.

Jason (24:22)

Might as well have. I mean, this is absolutely nuts.

Glenn Beck (24:26)

Nobody was talking about that. How can that happen right off our sh. Glenn. And nobody's talking about it. Glenn.

Jason (24:31)

It gets so much worse than that if it can. So Iranians right now with connections to Hezbollah are on an island off the coast of Venezuela. It's called Margarita Island. Everyone should, should Google this right now and check it out.

Glenn Beck (24:46)

Is Jimmy Buffett involved? He, he, he.

Jason (24:48)

Jimmy Buffett would be nowhere near this Margarita Island.

Glenn Beck (24:51)

All right? Whole world is about to crash.

Stu Burguiere (24:53)

Yeah.

Jason (24:54)

It's not five o' clock anywhere on this Margarita Island. These are some of the things they're doing here.

Glenn Beck (24:59)

Okay.

Jason (25:00)

Again, with the involvement of the, of, of the Venezuelan government. They are quote, running money laundering operations, establishing para, excuse me, paramilitary training centers. They are recruiting Venezuelan gangs. And listen to this. Sending those people, this is like Trenda Agua, sending them to Iran for follow on training. This is happening right now. Our government knows about this. This is the only time I've actually seen them doing something concrete to combat it.

Glenn Beck (25:34)

They've known about it since 2010.

Jason (25:36)

2010.

Glenn Beck (25:37)

Known it since 2010. You didn't know that? Nobody's saying that when, you know, we, we've, we've argued that, you know, Venezuela and communism and you know, they were eating the zoo animals. That's what, that's what happens gang, when you go communist and full on democracy. They wanted full on democracy. And that's what you get. That's, you know, hello, Maduro. So when Maduro Took over. He was kind of the Mamdani, if you will, of Venezuela. He's just a simple bus driver. And look what he's done. That's the part we've heard about. Then when the border crisis happened, we started hearing about, oh, well, they're sending gangs in and they're sending. They're sending fentanyl and everything else in. We still are not talking about their connections to Iran and Hezbollah and how they have been training people and sending them here. This is really not good. So Donald Trump clearly knows all of this stuff, and that's why he's offered $50 million for anybody that will turn him in or can tip us off to lead to the capture. And now the reason why we're doing that is, you got to remember, we've done this before. Noriega was a guy that we, you know, was a drug lord, and we. And he was running a country, and we said, we got to get him. And we finally did get Noriega, and he went to prison for what he did. But the other times we've done that, Saddam Hussein and even worse, Muammar Gaddafi, that was a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama nightmare. And they drug his body through the streets because we assisted the collapse. And it became a vacuum. And now Libya is just a nightmare, just a nightmare. So is Iraq. We can't let that happen to Venezuela. So we have to be very careful. You can't just say, go get them. We have to be very careful. Unless the people themselves rise up against Maduro, unless the people themselves do it, is this going to be. This is going to be a really tough one. But we have to stop pretending that this is somebody else's problem, because it is our problem. It really is our problem. Those people are already here. And we are also. You know, this one reason why I don't like it when people blame their problems on others. I'm an alcoholic. Now, everybody says, well, that, you know, that's a familial thing that runs in your genes. I don't know. I don't think they've ever found that. There's no evidence of that. But you can make a good case. I mean, we're riddled with alcoholism in my family. So, yeah, maybe, maybe. But I'm the one who makes the choice. Okay, yeah, maybe I have that extra gene that's working against me. Maybe. But I went into the bar, I went into the store and bought the booze. So we. We have to start taking responsibility for some of our problems. It's easy to say Venezuela is shipping all this fentanyl into the United States. We have to recognize that Americans are buying it now. There's one thing to say about addiction, once you start buying it, then you're addicted to it and it is a nightmare. I mean, the first time I had fentanyl, I wake up, I've woken up on the operating table two times. They cannot keep me down. My body just processes stuff like so fast. It's a fast, high functioning liver and I was in pain. You might remember this if you've listened to me for a long time. I was in New York and they put me under and then they, I got out and they, they were giving me morphine, I think Percocet and Fentanyl patches. And my doctor after said, why would you let somebody do this to you? And I'm like, well, I was a little high and my wife didn't know. I mean, we listened to the doctor. That's that, that's when we really learned, don't listen to the doctor. They don'. Know, but they had good intent. They were just trying to keep me out of pain. But the box Fentanyl, I don't know if it still does. But if, if you get a box of fentanyl from the drugstore, it says black box, you know, warning for end of life use only. Why? Because it is so incredibly addicting. You take it for a day or two and you're done. You're addicted to it. It. So addiction is one thing that we have to deal with, but we also have to say Americans are buying this stuff. We have to change our culture and start prosecuting people who are buying this stuff and treating those who are addicted to it and understanding with compassion, yada, yada, yada. But we have to also, if you're selling drugs, you're involved in selling drugs, you should have a very, very long sentence, very long sentence. You know, don't tell Donald Trump this, but you know, China does not have a drug problem because if you sell drugs, you're executed. I don't even think you get a trial. They just kill you. Let's not tell Donald Trump that cuz he might like that idea. But it fix it quickly. It fix it quickly. But we have to take responsibility ourself. We have to be resilient as people and our communities. We have to have strong families. We have to have a citizenry that knows the difference between liberty and tyranny. We have to understand that freedom does not come when you're on drugs. It doesn't. That is the worst tyranny. You're a pharmaceutical tyranny. You are a slave to whatever it is that you're putting into your body. That's the real battle. But there is another one off our shore that could heat up. What do you think is going to happen, Jason? Because this is a significant battle group, isn't it?

Jason (31:56)

It's significant. I mean, including 4,000 Marines. I was on a battle group like that where this is the same kind where we would go and just sit off the coast of like, a Middle Eastern country and just wait for something to happen.

Glenn Beck (32:08)

When you were in it, weren't you off the coast of, like, Australia that you were one of the first in after nine, 11? Yeah.

Jason (32:13)

In one of these battle groups doing exercises in Australia. We got the call, went straight to Afghanistan right after that. So this is like the firepower that could do that. So it's very intimidating. I would assume that is the reason for this. I don't think they'll actually be doing actual, you know, you know, conflict type kinetic stuff, but I bet that it's just supposed to be. It's supposed to mean to be intimidating. I'm curious if it's supposed to lend support to maybe some of the, you know, ground people in Venezuela to finally tell them, look, you know, we've got your back. If you want to, you know, do something about this and finally take your country back, now would be the time.

Glenn Beck (32:47)

Yeah, maybe we'd be a peacekeeper. Yeah, you know, maybe it would be a peacekeeping force. All right, you sick, twisted freak. Want more of me and Stu? Maybe not Stu, but to hear the rest of the program. Check out the full podcast. We're back with more after this. Let me tell you about Jace Medical. Almost every house has a first aid kit. I'm guessing yours does as well. You picture this advantages, the antibiotic ointment, maybe a few painkillers thrown in the mix. But here's the truth. When real trouble hits, is a real problem. I mean, you know, somebody really, really, truly gets sick, what are you gonna do? We probably all learned a lesson when we saw the. The grocery stores and the. The CVS's and everything else start to have empty shelves. If we need antibiotics in an emergency, you just can't wing that. This is why Jace exists. Jace Medical. They provide an emergency supply of antibiotics prescribed by doctors, shipped directly to your door, not some doomsday prepper nonsense. This is about being a responsible husband, wife, parent, friend. And it's jace.comjase.com. enter the promo code. Beck at checkout for a discount on your order. That's promo code beck@J-A-S-E.com jase.com. this is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Stu, do you know who Jesse Owens is?

Stu Burguiere (34:23)

Sure.

Glenn Beck (34:23)

And if so, who was he?

Stu Burguiere (34:26)

Olympian.

Glenn Beck (34:27)

Yep.

Stu Burguiere (34:28)

American hero.

Glenn Beck (34:29)

American hero. Why? Why was he.

Stu Burguiere (34:32)

I mean, he won in the Hitler Olympics, if you will.

Glenn Beck (34:36)

Okay, can you tell me who Tommy Smith and John Carlos are?

Stu Burguiere (34:42)

Tommy Smith and what was it?

Glenn Beck (34:46)

John. John Carlos.

Stu Burguiere (34:47)

John Carlos. I cannot.

Glenn Beck (34:52)

I think you're exactly like most Americans, and I want to show you why our lack of knowledge. Because I couldn't remember. I know of them. You'll know what they did as soon as I start telling the story. But you don't remember their names. Tommy Smith and John Carlos. It proves a point. Everyone knows Jesse Owens, but not these two. We were talking last hour. Summarize real quick, Stu, if you will, the New York Times article and how they are presenting this story about Donald Trump with the Smithsonian.

Stu Burguiere (35:27)

Their headline is Trump says Smithsonian focuses too much on how bad Slavery was. And the controversy, of course. I mean, that's specifically designed to make you think a specific thing, right? Like you're supposed to think. He's complaining about how they're saying slavery was bad. What is he saying? That he doesn't want them to talk about it at all? Is he saying that it was good? Are there good aspects of slavery? Don, that's what they want you to do. And of course, there is a selection of our country that will be dutifully do exactly that.

Glenn Beck (36:02)

And it is really weird that a section of our country, much of it, has been led by the New York Times. The New York Times is supposed to be the bastion of thought. It's supposed to be fair. It's supposed to be all the news fit to print. What they just printed is not fit because it's not news. That's a lie. It's not news, Period. What he is saying is there should be balance. Balance. Why are we pushing this narrative that America is such a bad place and that we enslaved our people and that's the story of America. That's not the story of America. And it's not. It's a part of it. It's an important part of it, but it's not the story. So that's what he was saying. That's the story they didn't want to print. And they can get away with it because they know their readers want that hate on Donald Trump. Okay? And instead of having the backbone, the spine and the integrity to say, I don't care what our viewers or our readers want. I mean, how many times have we done this, Stu? And it's caused us real problems. I mean, we've lost, we've lost millions of dollars over the years at different times. Because I have had a point of view and I know it's out of step with you and I've said it, it and I've said, you know, I know you're going to disagree with this, but this is, this is where I am because I believe that's what you come here for. You don't. I'm not here to feed you what you want to hear. You come here because you want to hear my opinion. And it's just that my opinion, my view of the world and its happenings and what it all means. I don't expect you to agree with everything. And the minute I want you to agree with everything or I want, I'll change my view. So you will agree with everything. I have nothing left. I have nothing left. And that's where the New York Times is. Yeah. What is the point? Yeah, that's where the New York Times is.

Stu Burguiere (38:07)

Yeah. And I think, you know, we obviously care about the country. We care about these issues that we talk about every day. And those are like, I don't know, macro concerns. Right. These are the high level stuff everybody thinks about, oh, gosh, what's gonna happen with the economy, what's gonna happen with our freedom, what's gonna happen with religious freedom? Whatever the big issue we're talking about of the day is. But there are also like micro things that you do that are part of your job. And like, one of the things that keeps me up at night is the idea of somebody in this audience walking into work and having a conversation with a coworker and repeating something that they heard on our show. Only for that co worker to say, what are you talking about? That's not true, and then prove it. Like, that is a nightmare I've had a thousand times working on this show.

Glenn Beck (38:56)

Yeah, me too.

Stu Burguiere (38:57)

I do not want to put our awesome audience in that position. I hate that position. I want them to know. I want them to be the one who has. Actually, you're wrong. And here's why. And then having them prove it, because they have the facts and they have it backed up and like, and that's.

Glenn Beck (39:14)

And that's honestly why I have said over and over and over again, hey, don't trust. Don't take it from us. Don't trust. I don't want your trust. I don't ask for your trust. Your trust is nice. I appreciate it. I am honored by it. But I'm telling you, I'll get it wrong. And don't trust in men. Men will always let you down. Trust, trust in God. Verify everything else. And the only way that this truth, the only way you can fight for this truth is if you know it yourself. So you might hear me tell a story and go, wow, is that true? And then hopefully my. My ultimate view of what I do is I'm a gateway drug. I get you interested in a story and you're like, that can't be true, or, wow, that's really true. And you start going down this wormhole of history and you start looking at things going, wow, you know what? I didn't even know this. Glenn, did you know this? Because that's when life becomes exciting, is when you're on a constant road of discovery, and it becomes yours when people say, glenn, I wish you were with me because I was talking to my friends and I couldn't remember. You shouldn't have to remember. And I know there's so much going on that you need us to do shorthand for you, but the ultimate goal is to get you so you know it so well that you don't have to remember. You'll know how to get on your phone and go, wait a minute, hang on just a second. You get on your phone, you can find the facts, you can find the story, you can prove it, as Stu just said, not. Not with my words, but with the actual facts, with the documents, et cetera, et cetera. And the New York Times is not expecting that from their audience anymore. They're, in fact, expecting them not to do homework. And it's doubly insidious because they are playing to their audience and they've sold their soul to that audience. But then they also know that the New York Times sets the table for everybody. Anybody who is a journalist, they look to the New York Times. Is it in the New York Times? Okay, then it must be also the New York Times, whatever they print, especially if it's got a catchy headline like that, it will go out and become very, very viral. So they're not only scooping up the intellectuals that they've already scooped up that are. That just want to hear that one side and point of view. They're not really intellectuals anymore, but also they're getting the dummies on the street that only read that headline who go, yeah, well, he's a racist. He likes slavery. Okay? So it's just an insidious business that they're in. Now. I just told you a minute ago what Donald Trump was saying, and I happen to agree with him. The Smithsonian is a garbage can right now, an absolute garbage can. It is taken everything, and it has its own perspective. And that's what it's going to tell the world who America is. I want to go to a museum where I learn something. I learned something about the bad and the good. We got it. Slavery was bad. We got that. Tell me something else that maybe I don't know. Okay. Jesse Owens. Jesse Owens, a hero. Everybody loves Jesse Owens. Why? Well, it wasn't always that way. You know, Jesse Owens, he didn't want to go to the Olympics. He pissed everybody off because some people said he should go to the Olympics that show a black man can beat the, you know, the. The white God of the Germans. And they wanted him to go to do that. Others said he shouldn't be used as a tool of our government to do that. And so when he decided to go, he really didn't want to go because he just. He just didn't want to go. He wasn't. You know, he's like, I'm not a symbol. I'm an athlete. But he went. And when he went, he became a hero to those who saw that and said, see Germans, White supremacy, really. Look at that. Look at Jesse Owens. But when he came back, he wasn't greed. All the Olympic winners were. Were brought to the White House. Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House by Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the God of progressives. He wouldn't have that black man at the White House. So he was reject. He goes over, he proves to the world that he is, that whites are not superior. And then he comes back and he's rejected in his own country by his own president. It's an incredible story. He led a very tough life, but as it went on, he became more and more a hero. We recognize him now as a hero. By the 1960s, the guy was absolutely known as a hero. He was very patriotic. He became an attache or a spokesperson or something for the State Department, and he would go around the world talking about America and, yeah, America has its problems, but look at the progress we're making. Okay? That's what Donald Trump is saying. Yes. Look at the problems we have. We should know that Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House by, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time, but he now works for the State Department, and he's Spreading the message that, yes, we did those things, but we're getting better. Now. Let me tell you about Tommy Smith and John Carlos. I told you that I was in the portrait gallery, which is a garbage can. Not the art, but the building. They have turned it into a garbage can. It's disgusting. And then some of the stuff is not about America. Why? I told you why is there that girl's bike, you know, with a Cuban flag and a chase sticker on it? What the hell is that? And it's not just that one bike? Because I could go into that room and go, okay, well, there's that bike. And so let me figure out the context of it, etc. Etc. But by that time, I was so sick of all of the propaganda, I didn't care to learn about it. And I went into one of the last rooms right before the bike, and like the vertebrae of a dinosaur, there was these hanging from a ceiling. They had taken the cast of, I think Tommy Smith, who held up his fist. It was one of them, maybe it was both, but they held up their. Fit their fist. In 1968, say Black Power, okay? Black Power. That's Panthers. They were terrorists, so they hold up Black power. So some artists took the cast of both of their fists and their forearms and made it into this art sculpture where it's just an arm and that fist over and over and over again. And they laid it out like a giant vertebrae of an animal. And it takes up a good portion of this huge room. It is the main feature of that room. But you don't even know their name. You don't even know their name. Tommy Smith and John Carlos. Why? Well, I think you don't know their name because they weren't effective. Why? Because they were promoting Black Power, Black Panthers, terrorism. That's not America. That's not America. Let me tell you another story that you don't know. And if you want to put that vertebrae up, great, put that vertebrae up. But I want this story told in the same room and prominently displayed next to the vertebrae. So Owens was not part. Jesse Owens was not part of the 1968 Olympics. He was traveling around the world, but he was in Mexico City. And I think he was at that moment in the stadium for the Black Power, okay? And in Mexico City. Here's what I. Let me just say what I can verify. I'm not going to tell you what I. The story, I think how it worked. Let me just what I can absolutely verify. After the protest, Owens met privately with Smith and Carlos in Mexico City. Multiple accounts say he tried to counsel them and his message was very different from theirs. Owens urged them to avoid confrontation and to think how their actions would be perceived internationally. He reportedly told them that they could accomplish more by working within the system rather than defying it so dramatically on the world stage. Now that sounds like, let's have a cup of tea and just talk. I don't think that's the way it happened. This is my opinion. I don't think this is what what happened. Because there are other accounts that said while he understood the anger of the black American because he had lived it unlike they lived it, he had lived it decades before. So he understood what they claimed they were going through in comparison to him. Really, not so much. He was very upset that they embarrassed the United States and undermined the Olympics. Remember, he's an athlete. That's why he didn't want to go to the Olympics in Berlin. He's an athlete. He's not a politician, he's not a symbol. And he's like, you're undermining the purpose of the Games in the first place. It's the Games, and it's a unifying thing where we bring all nations together. And that's not what the Olympics are for. They're not for political protests. In 1968, Jesse Owens was seen as a model of racial progress, and progress had been made. He was the African American who humiliated Adolf Hitler and the Aryan supremacy narrative in 1936. He then made progress from a guy who could not even go to the White House to now being part of the government preaching patriotism and patience in the civil rights struggle all around the world. Patience, Patience. This is what really hacks me off on this story. Patience. Why are progressives, historically, from the early 20th century, why are progressives called progressives and not communists? Because you could call them communists or fascists. In the early 1900s, that was the model they were going for. Why aren't they called those things? Because back in those days, that wasn't deemed a bad thing. We didn't know yet. They're called progressives because communism and fascism required a bloody revolution. And so these guys were sane communists, sane fascists, if you will. That said, we don't want want to have a bloody revolution. We want to take it step by step, bring people along, have patience, and we will finally get there. So that's the way to win according to the progressive of the era. What does he do? He's saying, you can't do this. You're embarrassing, you're setting us back. You're dividing. Stop it. Patience. Which is a good progressive trait, hmm? Which one won in the end? Which one actually furthered civil rights? The Communist Black Panther Black Power guys that you don't remember. Or Jesse Owens. Because it's the same choice we have to make today. Revolution or work within the system.