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Glenn Beck
So yesterday in a press conference from space, we got, we got confirmation that Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's bid to rescue the marooned astronauts on the iss. Biden left Americans behind because of press. And it is such a stark difference to what Trump has already been able to accomplish. And I show you what the difference is and what it all means. Also, there is a change in the country and Yellowstone is part of the change. In a way. We've seen this before in America. Something has changed and I explain it. Also, Sean Gleason from the Professional Bull Riders association is here to talk about the world finals of the rodeo that's coming up and Kid Rock. So that's all on today's podcast. What if you wake up tomorrow dead? What if you wake up tomorrow and everything you knew has changed? It's over. Somebody attacked our nation's power grid with an EMP and all of a sudden electricity is bye bye. It could happen to you. And people say that I scare people. That's ridiculous. Actually, this could happen. I hope it's not. I hope that's not the emergency that you should prepare for. But if it does, we get an EMP. We are over 90 of the population they say will die in the first year because we're not prepared. Food becomes a really, really big deal. Now power also is really needed. Well, my Patriot supply has just released the new Grid Dr. 3300. It's the first solar generator with revolutionary EMP intercept technology. This is really important. I have this on my house. It protects your power from devastating EMP attacks, keeping you and your family safe. It will run everything from your freezers to medical, medical devices, power tools, whatever you need. Don't wait. Grid Dr. 3300 with EMP Intercept. My Patriotsupply.com. my Patriotsupply.com you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Well, you know, in looking at the news today, I am overwhelmed by the, the weight of abandonment that has been hanging over America for the last four years. And next hour, I'm going to talk to you about it. It's, it's been going on for a lot longer than that and it's an end of an era. This, this is an end of an era and the beginning of a new one. And I'll explain. But there is a shadow that was cast by Joe Biden that we all started to feel was inevitable. It, it was a presidency that turned its back on those it swore to protect. And the evidence is a little overwhelming. Undeniable. Yesterday One of the astronauts that has been marooned. Think of that word. Only used to hear that on Gilligan's Island. They were, they're marooned on the International Space Station. What he said yesterday, this astronaut is basically this. Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's offer to bring him and his marooned astronauts home. Not for strategy, not for principle, but for petty politics. Biden feared the optics, the chance that it might make Donald Trump look really, really good and him bad. So he didn't do it. So two Americans languished in orbit, symbols of a nation that once reached for the scar stars, now just content to let them drift in space. It's obscene. But this, unfortunately, wasn't an isolated failure. Afghanistan comes to mind the withdraw in 2021. How many thousands were left behind? You know, we're still in Afghanistan. Mercury one. We are still, we're trying to get out of there, but there's like a hundred people left. We're trying to get out that we promised we would. And because of the Taliban, because it's going to change now. But because of the State Department, Biden, we've never been able to get them out. We left interpreters, allies, families who risked everything to aid our troop. And yet we let the terror come across our border. The Biden administration, they abandoned people and left them to the mercy of the Taliban. We all felt it. When that happened, that week was one of the darkest weeks in, in my history of being an American, of living here and seeing it and going that. That's not us. It was the fall of Saigon in 1975. We airlifted people out that we could, and then we just left a whole bunch of people to go into either a reeducation camp or face a death squad. You know who didn't forget the people? Biden forgot the people in Afghanistan. You know who didn't. You know who sent in the planes and brave men and women to go in behind enemy lines and rescue them? You did. Just as a single American. You did. History has taught the world over and over again the cost of deserting people. And yet Biden repeated it over and over again, ignoring the pleas of those who trusted us or who carried a blue passport. What about the Abbey gate, Abby Gate? 13Americans, service members for America, died in that suicide bombing. During that same week, we abandoned people. Biden never pursued the mastermind. He never even acknowledged the sacrifice in his public tallies of the war's toll. Never their names faded into silenced, unavenged, unrecognized, unremembered by A White House too busy to scrambling around to save face. And the pattern repeats. After Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, guess what? Americans were left stranded, scrambling for evacuation as the State Department faltered. And yet who was there? You were. The tales from Mercury. One of the people that went in to help save and rescue Americans is just phenomenal. You sent planes over to rescue the trapped in Haiti under Biden, chaos erupted. 2024 US citizens, thousands of them, trapped. No real rescue mounted by the US State Department or our government. Yet again, you sent in the planes. Let's look at the abandonment of. Of East Palestine or Palestine. How do you say Palestine? I can't remember now. It's. It's you. Anyway, in Ohio, you all Palestine.
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Sean Gleason
You.
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Glenn Beck
You remember when the train spewed all of that gas into the air? And yet Biden never came there. He never rallied his administration to cut through the red tape to stop the suffocation of that small town in Ohio, North Carolina drowned under Hurricane Helene's wrath. Just last September, President said, we've done all we can, leaving communities and families and people, individuals trapped on mountaintops or to claw their way out of the mud. Yet again, you showed up to do the right thing, and you did it not for glory, not for fame, not for politics, not for headlines, but because it was the right thing to do, the American thing to do. These were not oversights. They were choices by this administration, a consistent refusal to prioritize the vulnerable, the forgotten, the American. Things have changed. Have you noticed that now Donald Trump is in office. Uh, some. Some real big things have really changed. Take the Abbey Gate mastermind. Trump announced that he was captured and brought to US soil two days ago. Two days ago, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz revealed Trump's team went, got him and extracted a confession before even landing in Dulles, delivering accountability when Biden offered none. The Gold Star families, one of whom cried out in anguish during the. The 2024 State of the Union. Remember, Biden had that guy removed. He had that guy removed who was just crying out and saying, justice, say my son's name. You cannot just say that. Nobody was killed. Thirteen of our children were killed. Well, this week, they finally saw their pain recognized and their children and their deaths honored, not with words, but with action. And then Trump did it again yesterday. I don't know if you saw this yesterday, he made his position on the hostages in Israel super clear. Quote, not a single Hamas member will be safe until you release every hostage. Pretty clear. And yet, just in the first six weeks of this guy's term, Donald Trump personally secured 11 total confirmed hostages. These were poor Americans being held in some of the most, just, most hostile, nasty areas of the world. Gaza, Russia, Venezuela. And you know what? None of these were grand gestures for applause. None of them. They were just smart and decent moves to bring Americans home. What the hell is your passport or you being an American worth if somebody can just scoop you up? Biden's tenure saw 1,000 Afghans with special immigrant visas left behind, per the State Department's estimate, alongside with hundreds of Americans unrescued from the conflict zones like Israel and Haiti. Trump's first term, by comparison, he's freed over a dozen high profile detainees, Americans like Joshua Holt from Venezuela, the pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey the same year. Relentless negotiation, relentless pursuit of what is true and right. Where Biden just dithered and withered, Trump leaned in, often personally leaning in, like when he met with Kim jong UN in 2018. You know, I don't know if you remember this. He secured the release of three American hostages from North Korea. It's the intent, it is the willingness to act. I'm a little soupy today because honor is coming back. And it's not about chest thumping nationalism. This is about duty. This is about a covenant between a government and its people that are rooted in ethics and responsibility. It's about a duty, a covenant between a government and its people. Franklin Roosevelt, when he launched the Doolittle raid in 1942, he knew that that covenant that we made, he didn't abandon the downed pilots. He ordered rescue missions deep into enemy territory. When Jimmy Carter fumbled the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, he at least tried. It was flawed. Desert One was a abysmal failure. But Biden didn't even try. He withdrew. He deflected. He excused. His era was one of shame, not just of what he did, but he shamed us for being somebody who believed in these ethics, in the American way, in the American responsibility shame. Not because America lacked the power or the willpower. He left us a legacy of shame because he lacked the will. We watched as our own were left to fend for themselves as their lives were like bargaining chips that were just too costly to play. I can't play that. I get bad headlines. Man, it feels good to be able to say that that era ends now. It's over. Trump's return signals a shift. And it's not blind, jingoistic pride. It's a renewed clarity of purpose. The capture of the killer at Abbey Gate, it's not just a Win for justice. It's a message to the world. We are not going to leave our citizens, our people behind. And if you kill any of our people, we will hunt you down and justice will be served. The parents of those lost at Abbey Gate. Sorry, that one is very personal. The citizens that have been stranded in countries all over the world, the American towns and citizens that were ignored, you're not a footnote anymore. You're the priority. And it's not about one man's ego. This is about a people waking up, remembering that strength lies in protecting the least among us, not in PR stunts or political gamesmanship. None of that matters. And if you don't get it yet, let me just tell you, let me say the unspoken truth that so many haven't grasped yet. Biden's abandonment wasn't incompetence. It was a world view. It was a belief that America's role was now to retreat, to manage, decline. We didn't lead anymore. We didn't deserve to leave lead anymore. He saw our reach as an overextension, our rescues as a liability. Trump, no matter what you think of him, sees very differently. Every American left behind is a wound to our soul. It's a debt unpaid. That's why he pursued the mastermind. That's why he fought for the jailed. That's why he's vowed to rebuild whatever was neglected. It's not about glory. It's not about him. It's about honor. A concept that America under Biden and the last 20 years has just been left to atrophy. But let me tell you right now, the era of shame is over. We're recommitting to the hard work of being a nation that actually stands by its own. From the astronauts above to the families below, from Kabul to Ohio, a promise is being rewritten again. No American gets left behind. That's the America that I've always believed in. That's the America worth believing in. That's the America worth believing in again. It's not a myth. It's a renewed mission. There is no doubt that these first couple of months of the Trump presidency has largely been a relief. But we are clawing back four years of the Biden legacy, and that's gonna take a while. It is going to get worse before it gets better. So Donald Trump and his administration are working to shore up America's financial house. And in the meantime, what are you gonna do to shore up yours? What steps are you taking to get out of debt and start putting more money into savings? Have you cut Everything. And if you have, I mean, this is a tricky map to navigate, but there is somebody that can help you. It's American Financing. They've been helping people just like you get to where they need to be. And they could help you and your family as well. So call American Financing. Even if you think there's no way I'm going to qualify, they can help you. You'll be shocked at the options that they will have for you. It's American financing dot net. Go there now. Get out of that high interest debt. American Financing could be saving you hundreds of dollars a month, maybe as much as a thousand. Call American Financing, 8009-0624-4080-0906-2440American Financing.net now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. Yesterday. Yesterday was just a different day for me. My eyes opened up to some things. And I don't know, I don't know exactly why, but some things really came clear to me yesterday. And that is what we're waking up to. Trump in the last election are symptoms. We think that that is what's driving, but it's not. It's not the reason. It's a symptom. And it's all wrapped up in the collective denial of what is true and real. So let me what is true and real? Have you noticed that the cowboy, the rugged west is making a comeback? You see it in television, you see it everywhere. It's making a comeback all of a sudden. Why? And it's, it's coming at the same time. Our politics are changing. So which is the chicken and which is the egg? The cowboy, this rugged West? Yellowstone, the TV Yellowstone? Or Taylor Sheraton and all of his many 800 shows that seem to be on television? That's not what brought the cowboy back. It's not Kevin Costner on TV grumbling about the land and the legacy. It's not it. It's deeper than that. It's, in some ways, it's that jagged spine of the Grand Tetons. It's the open sweep of the grass that rolls out like God himself just unrolled it and was like, how far can that go? It is the untamed west, but it's not that, because that's a postcard that's on a TV screen. That's something that nobody in New York sees. It's something that people all over the country have never actually seen themselves, but yet they have that thumping or Humming in their chest. And it's something that has been in every American for a very long time, and it has been waiting for us to listen to it. You know, the. The press, mainstream media, they couldn't figure out Yellowstone at all. Crazy people. I just want. They just want that train station to actually exist. It wasn't the vigilante stuff that attracted us to Yellowstone. The bodies dumped in the dark to settle scores or how Beth acted or what she said. Sure, that played a role. It was entertaining. But that's not what we felt. That was the noise. What got underneath our skin was that there was justice to it. Not vigilante, not perfect, not polished, but there was justice. A line somebody was drawing. A line in the sand. A common sense line that said, you know what? Some things matter too much to let slide. And what were those things? They were heritage. It was family. It was a way of life that's worth planting your feet for. The whole show is about the Duttons losing the ranch. Or is it? Or is it about fighting for something that cannot be left behind? It shouldn't be left behind. Was it the Dutton ranch or was it the American way? And not something on a bumper sticker or slogan, but a heartbeat. Something that is deep in all of us and we feel it. I don't care if you're kicking dust in Wyoming or you're kicking a coffee cup in the streets of New York. It's there. And it's not the hat. It's not the spurs. Those represent this, I guess, because it's the cowboy. And what does the cowboy represent? A handshake that means something. A promise you don't break because your world, word is the only thing you own is taking your hat off for a woman, it's saying, yes, ma'am, no, sir. Because respect isn't optional. It's standing up. And not just for yourself, but for your family, for your land, your way of life. The things that are worth defending. The things that you have been told for the last 20 years. Sit down. Shut up. You should be ashamed of that. It's righting wrongs when the law is too slow or too blind to see what's what. Afghanistan withdrawal comes to mind. It's a fierce independence. The kind that says, you know what? I don't have anything against you, but I'm going my own way. I'm going to chart my own path. I'm going to do what others swear that just can't be done. I'm sorry you think it's too tough. I don't think so. Nothing's too big. Not as long as you have faith in God and the grit of an American. Then nothing's too big. That's what the cowboy represents. But it's more than just him. I don't know how to describe it. It's us. It's in all of us. It's who this land shaped us to be. Whether you. I mean, I'm not somebody that would have crossed the Rockies in a creaking wagon. I would have stopped way before that. You know, snow biting at my hands. You know, strangely, I am kind of the guy that wouldn't mind being strapped to a rocket and shot up just to stab this red planet of red dust million miles away or however far it is with a flag. And not because the flag. Why do these explorers do what they do? They don't do it for God or country. That's what the left would tell you. It's jingoism. It's not they don't do it for God and country. They do it because of God and country. Because of what God and this country made us. It's simply who we are. It's why the rest of the world never understands us. And yet when we live up to those ideals, when we live up to what this land and God created with us, when we live up to who we really are, the world loves us. It's what this land does to you. The mountains, the plains, the rivers that cut through stone, they're not just pretty. I don't know about you, but they call to me. They call to all of us. They. They make you. And when you answer, it's not about proving something to anybody else. It's about proving it to yourself. Because that's what the soul of this country is asking for. Who are you? Who can you be? No other country, no other people can feel it like we do. Because this is our DNA. That's why I go to the mountains every chance I can get. I love my ranch. Not to escape, but to remember. To breathe the air that is sharp and clean. Cold in the morning, hot during the day. To hear the wind whip the flag. Yellowstone was not bad. Big on TV because it was a show. It was big because it's a mirror. It is a fun house mirror. And everybody else looked at the fun house part. What we it. It's all about what we've been missing. It's what it was showing us. That's what we felt. What we. What we let slip through our fingers because we were too busy chasing other things or Listening to other people convince us of lies. And now look around. Last six weeks. What is America doing? We're putting our boots back on. We're wrapping ourselves in denim that's not afraid to touch grass. In fact, it's required to touch grass. And not because it's trendy, but because it's true. It's who we are deep down. I don't care if you've ever roped cattle, you should see me with my cows. I have no idea what I'm doing. Doesn't matter. You could be punching a clock in Cincinnati. It doesn't matter. But the land, our way of life, our DNA is calling us back. And thank God we're listening. It is morning in America again. And it comes again under the brim of a cowboy hat. But the guy who's this, the one who seems to be doing it all, he would look ridiculous in a cowboy hat. Maybe as ridiculous as I look in a cowboy hat. He's a big city real estate broker from New York City that likely has never gone anywhere on horseback or climbed a mountain. But the spirit lives in this guy. His whole life is about doing something no one thought could be done. He didn't climb mountains or conquer the west in the traditional way. Instead, out of concrete and steel, he built mountains that tear at that American sky. He conquered what we all thought was. You can't conquer that mainstream media. He broke the back of that horse and he is riding it, sitting tall in his saddle. And he's also making it very clear to all the outlaws of the world. And I can guarantee you'll go. Yes, sir. When you hear this, he's making it very clear, this man from New York City. There is a new sheriff in town. The spirit of the West. All humans feel this call to the ocean. I don't know what it is, but we all do. For Americans, it's the same kind of call, but something different. The west isn't a place. It's a feeling. It's a pull. It's a strange shadow of a horse and a rider against a sunset that bleeds red and gold. It's the creek of leather, the weight of a rifle in your hands. When the world turns mean. It's the quiet of a night so quiet you can hear your own thoughts. It's the roar of a river that reminds you some things just can't be tamed. Not by man, not by time. And that is what's roaring back. It's the spirit that put us here in the first place. The part of us that says, I'll stand for what's right. I'll fight for the little guy. I'm going to build something worth keeping. And we do, because we always have. From the first people that cross the oceans to the ones who broke the trails through the mountains. No sane person would ever do that. The dreamers who looked up to the sky and said, I'll go to the moon. And it was never about glory. It was about guts. Knowing about the. Knowing that there are some things that are just bigger than you, but you're big enough to meet them anyway. Yellowstone is again, a mirror of us waking up. It was already there. It was simmering. It's always there. The photos of the peaks and the plains and the horses, they're not just pictures. They are us. It's the snap of the sound of that snap of a flag in your wind. In the wind. It's the weight of a life lived on your terms. And it is not dead. It is not gone. It is rising again. Because the truth is, it never really left us. You'll feel it wherever you are. You'll hear it in the stories we tell, the songs we sing, the way we look at the world and go, why can't people do? We'll take it on. You're living in an American era again. We are truly going to see the rebirth of a nation. Not, not, not in the boardrooms or the ballots, but first and foremost in the dirt. In the sky, in the soul. It's about a cowboy, an American cowboy coming home. Not because he's lost. Because finally, finally he remembered where he belongs. And we're all riding along with him, whether we know it or not. Because no matter what the popular culture tells us, this is really who we are. We are fierce. We're honorable. We're free. We're unbroken. The sun just dipped down low and the shadows were stretching long. But thank God, America heard it whispering again. Come back. Come back home. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. The PBR is a professional bullet riders association. And I have to tell you, if you have never been to a rodeo. I went to the Coliseum probably 10 years ago when I first moved to Dallas, Fort Worth, and I go to the Coliseum and I'm with people from New York. Never, you know, have not. They're the kind that got off the plane and saw Dallas and went, where are all the cows? It's not like that anymore. But they had never been to a rodeo. And as soon as the kids got on the back of the sheep, they all like they immediately began looking for attorneys. They were like this kid, you can't do that. Yes, you can. Can't in New York. But everywhere else in the country that happens. Sean, welcome to the program. How are you?
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Sean Gleason
Glad to be on, Glenn.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's good to see you. Yesterday you were with Kid Rock. You made a big announcement.
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Sean Gleason
Yep. Yeah, we, you know, we started this last year. We had the Kid Rocks Rockin Rodeo that we added and paired with the PBR World Finals. It's rodeo reimagined. We not only brought in Kid Rock to help redefine the entertainment experience, but we turned rodeo into a team sport and head to head competition. Drag race style.
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Glenn Beck
Drag race style?
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Sean Gleason
Yeah. Horse race style.
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Glenn Beck
I have to tell you, there is. I. I was with last summer, the summer before, I think I was with somebody who was from Scotland and he was like, you know, they pick up, you know, the big stumps and they throw them, you know, throwing rocks, and they're like, that's. That's a real mansport. Yeah, whatever. He had never been to a rodeo. And he said beforehand, he's like, this is ridiculous. And I said, no, okay. You just watch. This guy was, you know, in their special, the highest level of their special forces. The gate opened and the first 10 seconds went by and he looked at me and he said, why haven't I been here before? I mean, totally changed that. It's amazing what these guys do.
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Sean Gleason
It is. And I mean, you think about it, and at one point in time, rodeo was the only sport in America.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Sean Gleason
And it's amazing to me, after 26 years of travel in this country, just how far removed people in urban environments are from one of this important pieces of history and heritage in our country, the sport of rodeo. Western sports, Western lifestyle. And so I've had the good fortune to travel this country back and forth, forth from Madison Square Garden to LA and, and teach people a little bit about it. On.
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Glenn Beck
So does. Do you guys go into Los Angeles and those areas downtown?
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Sean Gleason
Crypto.com.
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Glenn Beck
Shut up.
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Sean Gleason
We sold out three nights at Madison Square Garden in January just a couple months ago.
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Glenn Beck
It. Was it mainly attorneys?
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Sean Gleason
No. Well, it might be. They're, you know, Friday nights. Weird. People ask me all the time, what is your demo? And I'm like, well, if you go to New York City, Friday night's a bunch of suits that come out and they're looking for a good time.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Sean Gleason
Saturday is women between the ages of, you know, 25 and 40 that are looking at cowboys and tight jeans.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Sean Gleason
And then Sunday is a bunch of families where people bring their kids and it's, it's just an amazing experience to bring some of those values back to, to urban places like New York that haven't seen it in a long, long time.
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Glenn Beck
You know, I saw a story, we, we did a story on something where there's some kids were, you know, a mom, this is what it was. A mom was arrested for letting her kid go across the street from his house at 8 or 10 years old and just play. And the cops came to her and arrested her for child neglect. Okay. Crazy. And I read a story and this, how much we have changed. And this is, I really think this is the, the spirit of the rodeo when you're responsible and you understand your kids and you understand, you know, what life is really all about. There were these two kids in California that wanted to meet Teddy Roosevelt. He was going to be sworn in as president. These two kids, 8 and 10, told their parents they wanted to go meet him, so they put him on horseback. They went by themselves. It took them three months to get to Washington D.C. but by the time they got there, there were so many press reports about these two guests that just wanted to go see the President that they actually met Teddy Roosevelt and went to the White House and everything else. But nobody was saying that's irresponsible. You know, it's just, it's just crazy.
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Sean Gleason
Now I know, I mean, you know, some people would like us all to wear bubble suits. I guess we put, we put, you know, 150 pound cowboys on the backs of bulls and, and pay them millions of dollars to do it. And some people have criticized that and said we shouldn't allow that. It's it individual choice, you know, and.
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Glenn Beck
But it also is, I mean it's not, it's not a sport that is just played for sport. You know, when you see the cowboys go out and they rope the cattle, that, that, that is a skill they use every day, you know. And the combination of those horses, I mean, I know why they cost millions of dollars the way those horses anticipate and move with the writer and I mean, it's incredible to watch. Yeah.
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Sean Gleason
I mean cowboys fed America for a long, long time. That's where it was born out here in the West. And you know, they had to. It was the greatest cultural melting pot too, if you think about it. Because it was freed blacks from the east, it was Irish immigrants that couldn't find work. They hooked up with Native Americans and the Mexican vaqueros and they created the cowboy and they depended on one another. They lived on the trail, and they drove those cattle back and forth and fed the East Coast. It's one of the great stories of cultural diversity and hard work, honesty, integrity, values. I mean, it's.
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Glenn Beck
People have no idea who Bill Pickett is anymore. Yeah, but he was a black man. He was probably one of the famous. Most famous black men in the 1920s in all of America. That guy. That guy was amazing. And the things that he would do. What did he call bulldogging? Right.
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Sean Gleason
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Is what he invented.
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Sean Gleason
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And he. You tell me if this is true or not. I think it is that he. He was a. He was a rancher and just tough as nails and also a silent movie star. And he said that he saw his dog grab the bull, jump up, grab the bull by the lower lip, and pulled him right down to the ground. And so bulldogging was him. Apparently.
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Sean Gleason
That's the story I've heard, too. And, you know, we have.
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Glenn Beck
He actually would get onto the bull, he would jump off his horse, grab the bull with his mouth on the lower lip of the bull and turn him down. And that's how bulldogging started. That's insane.
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Sean Gleason
That's insane. You know, we're pretty proud. We have a partnership with Bill Pickett, and a few years back, we put the very first black rodeo on national television on cbs. Had huge ratings and have supported those guys ever since. And we have now an event in Cowtown. Two weeks ago, sold out Cowtown for Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo.
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Glenn Beck
I heard that. I was talking to the guy who's running Cowtown now, and that is the arena in. In Fort Worth. And he said, like, 274 nights of rodeo. Sold out. Yeah, I mean, we actually do a.
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Sean Gleason
PBR event every Thursday. Rodeos Friday and Saturday. Bill Pickett occasionally, when their tour permits. And PBR actually partnered with the Stockyards Heritage Group. We actually run that building and facilitate all those events now. So pretty proud of what we've done there.
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Glenn Beck
I was living in New York and I was on CNN to my shame, but I was on CNN and I used to say all the time, look, I don't know what I'm doing. You know, I'm a rodeo clown and trying to tell you the news. And then I got a letter from the president of the Rodeo Clown association, and he said, do you have any idea what rodeo clowns do? And, you know, I hadn't been to a rodeo since I was a kid, and I don't think as a kid you can fully appreciate what those guys do. I've never said that about myself ever again. You watch these rodeo clowns. How often are they killed?
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Sean Gleason
Not often killed, because they're pretty damn good at what they do.
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Glenn Beck
They're fearless.
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Sean Gleason
They're fearless. But, you know, we. No disrespect to the rodeo clowns organization, but we took them.
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Glenn Beck
Lookout, man.
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Sean Gleason
We took them out of the clown out, and we put them into uniforms. And one of the reasons we did that is because they're the best athletes on the field. They face every bull, every protect every cowboy on every single out, and they're on that dirt for every single one of the outs. And so they're great athletes. They're fearless human beings. But the thing I'm most proud of is they wear the US Border Patrol uniform because they are the PBR's Border Patrol safety team.
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Glenn Beck
So let me ask you the. You're using the Coliseum in. In Fort Worth coming up. When is that happening? May 8th. And you're using the Cowtown Coliseum, which is a new venue. And I won't mention the old venue because I don't even know if this is true, but I hear the old venue wouldn't allow the United States Border Patrol to come in with guns. You wanted to honor them, and they wanted to come in with guns, and they said, we can't have guns here. And, I mean, it's Texas, man. What are you thinking? Everybody's got a gun in Texas anyway. So you're not. You're. You've moved it to a much smaller venue. You got to be losing money on that like crazy.
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Sean Gleason
Well, we also took the final stay, TNT Stadium, which is the largest venue on the planet. So we have both the smallest and the largest venue.
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Glenn Beck
But, yeah, actually, you took it there.
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Sean Gleason
That's true. I've run into that twice in my career now. And one was in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the building basically said the US Border Patrol couldn't come in with their sidearms. They wanted them to surrender them to a guy in a shack at the back of the building in order to come in. And that was the color guard from the U.S. border Patrol.
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Glenn Beck
Have you checked on. I think it's illegal.
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Sean Gleason
Illegal, right, Right.
- [43:18]
Glenn Beck
If you have a badge and you are a law enforcement.
- [43:22]
Sean Gleason
They're federal law enforcement officers. And so that's. That's what bugs me is the disrespect that was given to the US Border Patrol with them not recognizing that they could disarm the local Charlotte or. Or Fort Worth police officers.
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Glenn Beck
Shaq, who has what is making $8 an hour that they could arrest them.
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Sean Gleason
For and charge him with obstruction of justice, basically. I mean, or failure to allow a federal officer to do their job.
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Glenn Beck
Any policeman with a badge. Any, you know, current law. And on the federal level, you can't. It's illegal to take their gun.
- [44:01]
Sean Gleason
Yeah. And I thought we had ended that in Charlotte six or seven, eight years ago, and we haven't been back to Charlotte. And I ran into it in another building and Fort Worth. And I moved our event.
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Glenn Beck
It's shocking from that building. It's shocking, shocking.
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Sean Gleason
It's unfortunate.
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Glenn Beck
You know why they did it?
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Sean Gleason
I don't. Most of the time. It's, you know, it's a building policy. I get it. And they're. They're in place to protect the patients that are there.
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Glenn Beck
It's a. It's a federal agent, but not the.
- [44:31]
Sean Gleason
Federal agents and especially not my. My heroes at the U.S. border Patrol. It's just. Don't disrespect the federal officers.
- [44:39]
Glenn Beck
Well, I can't wait. I can't wait. My family and I will be there, and we just love it. And I love the addition of Kid Rock.
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Sean Gleason
Yeah, he's been a great uplift to it. And one of the things that I think we wanted to accomplish with it is rodeo has become the opening act for big music acts. So if you go to Houston, nothing against Houston, but it's 21 days of concerts that are preceded by a rodeo. And people have become accustomed to showing up a little late, not really hanging out for the whole rodeo, because they're waiting for. They're waiting for whatever artist is coming up in the evening show. And we've never. At the pbr. I've never allowed the PBR to be an opening act for anybody.
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Glenn Beck
Why are you doing that with Kid?
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Sean Gleason
Because when he and I sat and envisioned this whole plan, I said, we have to change the paradigm on how entertainment is delivered to the fans. And we've integrated his performance pre, during, and post. And so it's not an opening act. It's all one show.
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Glenn Beck
I tell you, every time I've seen these places do, like fourth of July events. And it was all about the country. It was all about patriotism. And then they would introduce an act. And then over years, the act had to get bigger and bigger and bigger, and it just. Everything else was lost. People were coming for the concert, and they really didn't care about the patriotism and the message of the day, and it wrecked it.
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Sean Gleason
Or the sport.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Sean Gleason
You know, the sport itself and our athletes go through too much and are too committed to being professionals to allow them to be overshadowed by a music act or another form of entertainment. Sort of like the Kamala Harris rallies from this most recent campaign.
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Glenn Beck
She's throwing Beyonce on the stage. They all leave care about her. Didn't care about her. Yeah. But I will tell you, rodeo, if you've never been to one, you've got to go. It is, it's, it's. It's remarkable. And I will tell you, kid, I said this to kid yesterday, and he's like, right. I said the sexiest women on the planet are the women who are on the horse with the flag at the beginning of the rodeo that ride around the ring with a flag. It is. I don't know, there is something about.
- [46:58]
Sean Gleason
That that is just back carrying, carrying the red, white and blue.
- [47:03]
Glenn Beck
Beautiful.
- [47:03]
Sean Gleason
It just doesn't get any better. And they usually have on shiny outfits with some fringe on them. I mean, I just.
- [47:10]
Glenn Beck
I mean, I feel a little kind of dirty looking at it. Like, that's beautiful. But it is. It's beautiful.
- [47:16]
Sean Gleason
It's the greatest thing in America.
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Glenn Beck
John, thank you. Thank you very much. Sean Gleason. If you want to find out more, go to their website, PBR WorldFinals.com PBR World Finals. You can follow Sean@PBR CEO. And again, the finals are starting May 8th, and Kid Rock's Rock and Roll Rodeo, with partnership with PBR, is happening during the World Finals. That's May 16th through the 18th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. We'll see you there. Thank you.
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Sean Gleason
Thank you.