Glenn Beck (7:44)
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?
