Fact-Check: Tim Walz Is (Politically) Retarded | Guests: Gov. Greg Abbott & Sister Christina | 12/5/25

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program

Episode: "Fact-Check: Tim Walz Is (Politically) Retarded" | Guests: Gov. Greg Abbott & Sister Christina | December 5, 2025
Host: Glenn Beck (with co-host Stu)
Podcast Network: Blaze Podcast Network
Duration: ~130 minutes

Overview

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program brings a mix of sharp political commentary, cultural critique, and a segment highlighting faith-based activism. Glenn Beck tackles the week's biggest political stories with his characteristic blend of exasperation, sardonic humor, and earnest cultural analysis. Key topics include the January 6th pipe bomber investigation, Texas redistricting and Islamic influence, New York City’s political trajectory, the moral crisis in Western civilization, and the simplicity and faith of modern nuns. Glenn is joined by Governor Greg Abbott for insight on Texas political and legal developments and Sister Katrina Christina to share the story of her order’s ministry to abortion clinic workers.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. January 6th Pipe Bomber Update

• [04:39–14:44]
  Glenn expresses deep skepticism over the FBI’s recent arrest of Brian Cole Jr. for the January 6th pipe bombings:

  • For five years, authorities have failed to make progress, repeatedly citing "erased" cell phone data and lost records.
  • Now, the DOJ and FBI present new evidence—cell phone pings and purchases linking Cole to bomb materials—despite previously reported “corrupted” data.
  • Glenn questions the sudden reversal:

    “All of the cell phone data has been corrupted ... when did they uncorrupt the corrupted information? How did they do that?” — Glenn Beck [09:35]

  • Skepticism is heightened by conflicting reports surrounding earlier suspects, such as a Capitol Police officer ruled out due to "playing with puppies" at the time.
  • Blaze News retracted a report naming another suspect but stands by its sources, leaving Glenn and viewers frustrated and unsure what to believe.

  Memorable quote:

  “I just want an ending to this story. I want the true ending. ... I don't know what to believe on any story anymore. I am so glad that I am out of the news business.” — Glenn Beck [13:36]

2. Texas Politics & Redistricting: Interview with Governor Greg Abbott

• [48:45–60:34]
  Governor Greg Abbott joins Glenn to discuss:

  • The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let Texas use its newly redrawn (and GOP-favored) congressional map, likely granting Republicans five additional House seats.
  • The importance for state sovereignty and adherence to constitutional precedent, with Abbott calling the lower court’s anti-Texas ruling “the worst beat down … I’ve ever seen imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court.” [48:57]
  • Litigation is ongoing, but the Supreme Court’s language signals Texas is “likely to win.”
  • Broader issues with activist lower courts undermining federal constitutional authority.
  • Abbott’s actions against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), pressing for its removal as a 501(c)(3), citing connections to designated terrorist groups:

    “If CAIR doesn't want to be labeled as a terrorist organization ... it needs to stop supporting those who are identified by the federal government as supporters of terrorism.” — Gov. Abbott [54:46]

  • Update on the Meadow (formerly EPIC City) Islamic enclave project in Texas—a compound believed to be intended as a “Muslim-only community”; Abbott assures that investigations by multiple state agencies continue even after rebranding.
  • Discussion of the radical cleric behind the project, his past statements advocating Sharia punishments, and continued state scrutiny.

3. Western Civilization’s Crisis of Meaning

• [25:06–38:01]
  In a reflective, philosophical monologue, Glenn Beck draws a parallel between the West’s spiritual emptiness and Houellebecq’s novel Submission:

  • Summarizes the story of an academic whose moral and spiritual emptiness renders him passive in the face of an Islamic takeover in France.
  • Contrasts Western malaise—characterized by “broken families and fragile identities”—with the violent, but purposeful dedication of Islamists.
  • Warns that meaninglessness, not external hatred, is the real threat to the West, making societies vulnerable to ideological conquest.
  • Urges listeners to rediscover meaning through faith, family, virtue, and history, recounting his own recovery from alcoholism to illustrate hitting “bottom” and finding purpose:

    “Without meaning, we're not vulnerable. We've already been conquered. But with meaning—true God-given meaning—nothing will stop us.” — Glenn Beck [35:16]

4. New York City’s Changing Politics

• [16:22–23:21]
  Glenn and Stu lampoon progressive appointments in NYC government, warning that activists and individuals with criminal records are being installed in key posts, reversing improvements made by previous mayors, and predicting worsening safety and homelessness.

  • Notable commentary on irony and cyclical decline:

    “When things go well … [NYC] make sure to light everything on fire.” — Stu [19:35]

  • Sarcasm about policy proposals such as converting skyscrapers into homeless shelters.

5. Cultural and Political Satire: Tim Walz, Language Policing, and Somali Community

• [69:01–83:13]
  Glenn and Stu discuss Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s outrage at being called “retarded” by the President, skewering the performative outrage and double standards regarding political name-calling.

  • Glenn openly muses on the playground use of the “R word,” reflecting on changing cultural norms and their own upbringing:

    “On the playground … you remember what your mother said? ‘Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt you.’” — Glenn Beck [70:45]

  • Contrasts the outrage over ableist slurs with the regular use of terms like "Nazi" and "fascist" in politics.
  • Segment pivots to debate about the Somali community’s role in Minnesota, citing a state senator’s claim that Minnesota "could not survive nor thrive" without Somali contributions, then breaking down tax and fraud-related statistics in skeptical fashion:

    “Which one’s larger? One billion or 67 million? ... Anyone who says that that math works out is retarded.” — Glenn Beck [75:49]

6. Faith-Based Activism: Interview with Sister Katrina Christina

• [93:09–104:33]
  Glenn interviews Sister Katrina Christina, a Capuchin Sister of Nazareth, about her convent’s involvement in sending handwritten Christmas cards, through Abby Johnson’s "And Then There Were None" ministry, to abortion clinic workers in hopes of inspiring them to leave the industry.

  • Sister Christina describes their life of prayer, simplicity, and joy, providing a stark counterpoint to the secular, digital world.
  • The sisters’ ministry has contributed to hundreds of clinic workers leaving the abortion business.
  • Sister explains that prayer is both their primary ministry and “the real battleground.”
  • Glenn highlights the peace and happiness among the sisters as a model for listeners:

    “There's something to that lifestyle ... we probably should do more of anyway.” — Glenn Beck [94:31]

  • Sister’s humility and humor shine through:

    “People always say, ‘Oh, aren’t you blessed [not to have technology]?’ And I was like, ‘Well, you could do it, too.’” — Sister Katrina Christina [94:31]

7. Glenn’s Reflections and Confessions

• [120:34–126:14]
  Beck shares his regret at having harshly misjudged Donald Trump in the past, providing a personal anecdote about Trump’s genuine kindness and relating it to media mischaracterizations:

  “He’s not anything that you think he is … they are always mocking and always talking about [him]." — Glenn Beck [125:09]

8. Other Notable Moments

• Banter with Stu about holiday shopping procrastination and the inadequacies of online checkout [62:04–67:19].
• Sarcastic exchange about leftist interpretations of the "cowboy aesthetic" in pop culture and Trump’s supposed association with "rural life" [116:35–119:28].

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Mistrust of Federal Law Enforcement:

  “Do you trust the FBI? I used to. I don't distrust the FBI, but I don't trust the FBI.” — Glenn Beck [14:44]

• Response to Media Confusion:

  “I wouldn't want to be in God's news department right now. ... I just want the truth.” — Glenn Beck [14:10]

• On the Meaning Crisis:

  “We've become a civilization … of spiritual malnutrition. ... If we don't have meaning, we're not vulnerable. We've already been conquered.” — Glenn Beck [28:22 & 35:16]

• Abbott on Court Decision:

  “This was maybe the worst beat down of a lower court decision that I've ever seen imposed by the United States Supreme Court.” — Gov. Abbott [48:57]

• On Addressing Cultural Decay:

  “Meaning is the only thing that defeats this.” — Glenn Beck [32:23]

• Abbott on Muslim Enclave Investigation:

  “Just because they changed the name to The Meadow doesn't mean they're going to be able to set up an Islamic-only community.” — Gov. Abbott [57:26]

• Satirical Comment on NYC Policy Cycles:

  “This is typical New York City. ... They make sure to light everything on fire.” — Stu [19:35]

• Sister Christina on Prayer:

  “I think we're the happiest people on this earth … not just because we don't have technology, but because we have the Lord.” — Sister Katrina Christina [94:31]

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Important Timestamps

• (04:39–14:44): Deep dive into the January 6th pipe bomber story and media mistrust.
• (25:06–38:01): Glenn’s meditation on Western civilizational decline and meaning.
• (48:45–60:34): Interview with Gov. Greg Abbott on redistricting, CAIR, and the Meadow investigation.
• (69:01–83:13): Satire and analysis of Minnesota politics, language policing, and community fraud allegations.
• (93:09–104:33): Interview with Sister Katrina Christina on her convent’s pro-life outreach.
• (120:34–126:14): Glenn’s personal story of misjudging Trump and lesson on media narratives.

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Tone & Language

The tone toggles between sardonic, exasperated, and sincerely reflective—typical of Glenn Beck’s persona. Political satire and cultural critique are joined by moments of earnest self-disclosure and religious inspiration. Beck deploys playground sarcasm, biting analogies, and religious metaphors, sticking closely to his and his guests’ natural spoken rhythm and manner.

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Conclusion

This episode is a vivid portrait of The Glenn Beck Program: equal parts political polemic, cultural critique, and personal testimony—rounded off with moments of faith and charity. Listeners are left with a challenge to rediscover meaning in a time of chaos, a reinforced skepticism about government and media, and a rare glimpse of genuine good at work through simple, prayerful lives. Whether lampooning Tim Walz or reflecting on the courage of nuns, Beck’s mix of wit, alarm, and hope permeates the broadcast.

Transcript

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[Governor Greg Abbott]

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[Glenn Beck]

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Hello America. It's Friday. We've got a lot to talk about today. Let me start here in just a second. First, let me tell you about the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. They work with Jewish communities in Israel who are struggling. Seniors who can't afford heat in the winter, families whose lives have been shaken by war and Poverty, children who are just trying to grow up, but they're growing up in situations they never chose. Some kids are still sleeping in the fallout shelters because they can't sleep at night. These are our spiritual brothers and sisters, many of whom are waking up every day with the same basic hopes that you and I have. Just safety, stability, you know, a future stronger than the present and hope, just having hope that there is a future.

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Hello, Stu. Welcome to the program.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Hey, Glenn. How's it going?

[Glenn Beck]

I don't even know what to say because I don't know. I don't know what's true anymore. I have no idea what's true anymore. I can tell you what I think is true, but I. But I don't know it's true.

Five years we have been looking into this pipe bomber. For five years, the FBI, for five years, the FBI has said no, can't find anything. We don't have any cell phone data. It's all been erased. We don't have any kind of data whatsoever. It's all been erased accidentally. We don't have. The Secret Service brings the, the vice president about to be sworn in brings her practically at the bench of the pipe bomb. But accidentally we relate. We, we, we accidentally erased all of the Secret Service notes on it. Really? Really, really. For five years this has been going on.

For the last year.

We have the people who have been saying, don't trust the government. They're now in the government and they're saying, trust us. And generally speaking, I do. There's a couple of people, Pam Bond is one of them that I not sure yet because I haven't seen anything. Where are you, Pam? Where are you on any big thing? Where are you?

So yesterday they come out and they say we've arrested apparently the pipe bomber. Okay. We're indicting him. Okay, so they're a suspect. We don't know. But you know, I got a lot of questions on this one. I mean, a lot of questions.

Let's start here. Let me just give you the story. On Thursday, the DOJ announced that a 30 year old Brian Cole Jr. Of Woodbridge, Virginia had been arrested. Cole lives with his mom and his other family members and works in the office of a bail bondsman. According to an FBI affidavit, today's arrest happened because Trump administration had made this case a priority. At a press conference, alongside with Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Cash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and others, Jeanine Pirro, US Attorney revealed that Cole was arrested for allegedly transporting an explosive device in an interstate commerce and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials. Citing the ongoing investigation, officials shared few details about the sequence of events that led to Cole's arrest. But they insist that the evidence against Cole was not based on any new tip.

Okay, just old fashioned detective work. We've got Sam Spade on the job now. This wasn't a new tip, wasn't some new evidence. It was just hard work. Today's arrest happened because the Trump administration. This is what happened when you work for a president who tells you to get the bad guys and stop focusing on other things not related to law enforcement. Well, that good. Bondi further claimed that under the Biden administration the evidence was sitting there collecting dust. Bondi further claimed that under the Biden administration the evidence was just sitting there collecting dust. Do you believe that? Yeah, I do. I can believe that.

Such total lack of movement during four years under Biden undermined the public trust for enforcement agencies. Absolutely. Patel indicated that Cole is believed to have made the bombs. Bondi stated he was charged with placing them at the rnc. Officials reiterated that further charges may still be forthcoming and that the investigation is still in its early stages. The FBI affidavit dated December 3rd revealed more details about the evidence against Mr. Cole. Investigators were able to link materials used in the bombs, including galvanized pipes, end caps, wires, 9 volt battery connectors and kitchen style timers, as well as other items that may have been used during the construction process, such as wire nuts, safety glasses and sandpaper, to purchases made by Coal.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Hmm.

[Glenn Beck]

Here's an interesting thing. A cell phone connected to coal also pinged off multiple cell towers near the RNC and DNC during the time the bombs were believed to have been placed. Stu A cell phone connected to Coal also pinged off multiple cell towers near the RNC DNC during the time that the bombs were placed. Why would I have a hard time with that paragraph?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Well, maybe it goes back to what you started this with, which was that we were told all the data was deleted.

[Glenn Beck]

Right? Yes.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

All of the cell phone data has been corrupted. There is no cell phone pings that you can find. It's all been corrupted. I'd like to know, when did they uncorrupt the corrupted information? How did they do that? Where has that been sitting? Kind of an important detail that I'd like to know. At 7:10 on January 5, a Nissan Sentra registered to Coal was likewise observed less than 1/2 mile from the location where the individual who placed the devices was first observed on Foot.

At 7:10, observation of Cole's vehicle became five minutes before the cell phone began to interact with provider towers in the area. Wow. So now they have footage and the cell phone phone tower pinging. Wow. Cole's height and use of sunglasses also seems to correspond with the suspect spotted on surveillance footage November 8th. Blaze News investigation, confirmed by several intelligence sources, reported that a gate analysis of a former Capitol Police officer was a forensic match to the gate of the long sought January six pipe bomb suspect. An attorney for the Capitol Police officer has since denied the allegations on her behalf. CBS News reported the FBI ruled her out, ruled her involvement out, citing three unidentified sources.

Who said there was a video of her playing with puppies at the time. Oh, she was playing with puppies at the time. Now, I'm not saying she wasn't playing with puppies at the time. I don't know what to believe in this story, but can you.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Can.

[Glenn Beck]

Can it be something else other than playing just. Just so it doesn't seem like a ridiculous movie that we would all be watching and going, really, the puppy thing, she was playing with puppies at the time.

Most likely that's exactly what happened. I don't know. I don't know. I just can't take the puppy thing.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Now.

[Glenn Beck]

Blaze News issued this yesterday.

Blaze News considers fairness and accuracy to be the defining goals of any news organization. Our report, posted on November 8, 2025 about the January 6th pipe bombs was based on sourcing from individuals in position to know this type of sensitive law enforcement information who have demonstrated a record of reliability and accuracy. Of note, the sources continue to stand by the information they provided to Blaze News.

At all times. The reporting adhered to professional journalistic standards and was published with good faith. Belief in its truth. Even so, in light of Thursday's development and the FBI's address of another individual, Virginia resident Brian Gold Jr. In connection with the Capitol pipe bomb incident, we consider the values of fairness and accuracy to require retraction of this article.

Even so, in light of Thursday. So they retracted the article.

And they believe it was published in good faith. But the people who are the sources stand by it.

Just to make it. Can we throw some puppies in someplace? How about some little kitty cats? Can we play with the little kitty cats? Just to make it even more fun. Yet thoroughly confusing. After publication, Steve Bunnell, who was Washington Post identified as an attorney for the Capitol police officer, told the post his client category categorically denies that she planted the pipe bombs. Good. I would just like an end to this story. That's all I would like. I just want an ending to this story.

I would like the true ending to this story. That's what I want. That's what I want. Because I don't know what to believe on any story anymore. I am so glad that I am out of the news business. You know, I started the Blaze years ago. I sold the Blaze two years ago. And I am so glad I have nothing to do with anyone in the news department. Not that I don't trust anybody in the news. I wouldn't want anyone in any news department. I wouldn't want to be in God's news department right now.

I want out. I want out. I just want the truth.

Love of pete. How do you know? Do you trust the FBI? Do you trust the FBI? I used to. I used to trust the FBI. I used to have great respect for the FBI. I don't know if I trust the FBI anymore. I don't distrust the FBI, but I don't trust the FBI.

Do you trust.

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So, Stu, how's your Friday?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You know, it's great, Glenn. Thanks so much for asking. Having a great, great day. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Are you?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. What? It's a wonderful weekend ahead. You know, we've made it to Friday. Another Friday.

[Glenn Beck]

And.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

And it's, you know, it's Christmas season. You got great things going on there. You got all the festivals and the lights and the parades and all the things that make the holiday season so special. You know what?

[Glenn Beck]

It could be worse. You could be living in New York City. You could be living in New York City. And we're not living in New York City. We used to live in New York City. We got the hell out of there.

Now Mamdani is. Well, he's tapped a few people just, you know, for the. For the justice and the police to just see. Just see.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

How.

[Glenn Beck]

How do you. How do you think this is going to work out stuff? I think it's going to work out.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Oh, I think it's going to go really swimmingly is the word that I would use.

[Glenn Beck]

So he has just.

He's just appointed a convicted felon who served seven years for a string of armed robberies targeting New York taxi cabs to advise him on criminal. The criminal legal system.

He's.

He also has a community organizer who has been behind campaigns, you know, for several black nationalists convicted of murdering police officers to serve on his community organizing committee. He also has another guy, the author, author of End of Policing, to serve in his community safety committee. And somebody else who was booted from the women's March. Booted from the Women's March in 2019amid allegations of antisemitism. They're also going to be serving on the community safety committee.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Wait, why would she be. Which is booted from the women's march for being anti Semitic. Wasn't that the entire purpose?

Women's March. That's how I remember it.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't think you said it out loud at the time.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Oh, okay. You know, that was like, hey, wait, how anti Semitic are you? They had a whole panel. If you got a 10 out of 10, you were automatically in. Well, I remember some process like that.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. So two of these people have strong ties to Louis Farrakhan. No way. Mm. Yeah.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I was told, though, that Mamdani, he no longer believed in defunding the police. I was told that he had opened up a. Now, he never really explained how that happened or what the new policy was, but he no longer believed some of the things that. And if you asked him about it, he would just tell you he didn't really have a new position on it, but you should trust him and put him in charge of the world financial capital.

That was the path I thought we were supposed to take. Apparently, that was not true.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, he doesn't know. He's not going to defund the police. He's going to come up with better ways to do it with criminals and Louis Farrakhan activists behind him. And I think. I mean, I feel safer already. I feel safer already, you know, so it's going to be good. It's going to be good for New York.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Can I just drop one other piece of information we. I don't think we've covered here. I talked about it a little bit on my show earlier this week. But New York City shootings have hit an all time low. The subways are safer. Retail theft is down 20%, and Mamdani's coming into office. Now, I know there are some people have problems with Eric Adams. I'm not saying he's perfect by any means. And I'm not saying he has the policies that I would have if I were mayor of New York. But this is typical New York City. When things go well for a while and things seem to show improvement, they make sure to light everything on fire. Over. They did it with Dinkins, they did it with de Blasio. They're doing it again with Mamdani.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

They.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

This is like New York City policy to try to destroy anything that has gotten better over any period of time.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, well, they can't recognize that it's getting better because it can always be better than it is, too. Can always be better, except all of their solutions only make it worse. It's only when a governor, it's only when a mayor gets in is like, okay, I'm not listening to you people anymore. I'm just going to do the right thing, you know, and I'm gonna make it safe. And you're so beaten down by crime and drugs and everything else, you'll let me do it for a while. But I know you're gonna turn right around as soon as you get back on your feet. You're gonna be like, it's great here. You know what? We should make it better. Let's fire some police.

That's what they do. That's what they do. Absolutely. I think it's gonna be interesting to see how the.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

How it all plays out, you know.

[Glenn Beck]

The Louis Farrakhan supporters out there. Maybe the police could start wearing bow ties. Wouldn't that be nice? Oh, I like that.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

That would be fun. By the way, there's another policy he's implementing, which is getting rid of an Eric Adams initiative, which was to break up homeless encampments and go through homeless encampments that just start building up on the side of the street. He's announcing in advance he's going to completely stop doing that. Now, you might say that would have some bad outcomes for people in the city, but I would remind you that luckily he's also combining that with free buses. So they don't need the homeless encampments anymore. They could just go live on the buses, which are nice and heated and everything. So that's going to be a really, really nice combo policy. Nothing bad in the future.

[Glenn Beck]

For good news is the good news is all of those skyscrapers are going to be so empty soon, and there are going to be so many people that are moving away from New York. You're just going to have all of these. These homes that the, that the city can just gobble up, you know, for pennies on the dollar, and then just make them really good homeless encampments.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I mean, no one's ever had a 98th floor homeless encampment on Billionaires Row, right on Central Park. That would be great for them. Much better than living on the streets. Where.

[Glenn Beck]

Why living on the streets when the city can just co op the Ritz Carlton.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You know, sure, that's a good point. It's. It seems like a joke, but didn't they. They didn't quite do the Ritz Carlton, but they did very, very close to that with the immigration situation.

[Glenn Beck]

Very close. But I think the Ritz Carlton is going to be struggling. You know, I mean, I think. I think once you make this Escape from New York. I don't remember that movie really well, but I'm pretty sure that snake, what's His Face, was not staying In a Ritz Carlton. It wasn't like, oh, thank God I got away from these streets where all the crazies are. I just need to go to the Ritz Carlton spa for a little while and then I'll go back out and fight some more crime. Find the president in the streets. All right, more in just a second. Stand by. Good news is it is Friday.

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[Glenn Beck]

Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I want to tell you a story.

Let me tell you about a novel. There's a novel out it and it reads more like a quiet prophecy than a novel. It's called Submission and it's by Michelle Holaback and it was published, I don't know, 2014, 2015. And on the surface it's a satire about an Islamic takeover of France because you know how funny those things are. But at its core it is really truly an autopsy of a dying civilization. And it follows this middle aged academic. He's well credentialed, he's well healed, Respected. On paper, he's brilliant, but he's completely hollowed out on the inside. And his life is nothing more than just a.

Collection of disconnected fragments. He studies an obscure. He's an obscure author. He consumes microwave dinners every night. He eats alone. He drifts into, you know, meaningless, shallow relationships with, you know, young students that are in his class. His parents are divorced, they're distant, they're irrelevant. He has no faith in God. He has no loyalty to his country, no enduring friendships. I mean, it's a pick me up novel. It really, really is. But in the end, he is a. He is the modern Western man. That's. That's the portrait you get. Educated, entertained and completely empty inside. And he's not a villain, he's just empty.

In the book, Islam takes over France and he faces a choice. You can convert or you'll lose everything you have. You won't be able to teach. You know, you lose everything, eventually you lose your head.

So he converts and it doesn't cost him anything because there was nothing inside of him in the first place. He didn't believe in anything anyway, so why not? I'll just join that group. No convictions, no moral architecture, no eternal weight to wrestle with and resist the tide. He just does it. He even has a Jewish girlfriend and she has to flee the country.

Because she's Jewish and he just lets her go. And not because he believes in the new regime, not because he agrees with what's happening, but because. What difference does it make? To me, he's apathetic, okay? He converts. Not out of devotion or persuasion, just. I don't know, I don't have a reason not to. Even though he has a Jewish girlfriend who has to leave the country. Okay.

I'm convinced this book is about us. It's a warning to all of us. He didn't just write about one man in France, he was writing about the West. We have all become as a society, I should say this middle aged academic. We're intelligent, but we're detached. We're affluent, but we don't have any real purpose. We're sentimental about freedom, but we're not willing to defend it because we don't even really know what it means. We have become a civilization of broken families and fragile identities and thin loyalties and spiritual malnutrition.

We know everything there is to know about pleasure, but we have absolutely no idea about anything regarding purpose.

Now, the reason why I bring this up is.

Do you think the Islamic culture is like that?

Purposeless?

They don't hold Anything dear or sacred, they'll kill you for burning a book.

I think that's kind of the opposite, don't you? I mean, how does anyone stand against any movement if you don't even know what you believe in? Because the Islamists, they don't suffer from a crisis of meaning. Their purpose is twisted, it's violent, it's rooted in a 7th century vision of domination. But it is a purpose, and they're dedicated to it. They're willing to discipline their lives, structure their communities, die for their vision of the world, kill for their vision of the world. And history teaches us something kind of uncomfortable. And this has been up on my chalkboard forever, when people said, glenn, the Islamist and the socialists will never work together. Really? Because they did in 1979 in a little place called Iran. And you know what happened to the Islam, to the Marxist, after the Islamic takeover? Oh, they were buddies until the Ayatollah came in and within a couple of years, 30,000 of them had been disappeared or killed. So, yeah, they actually believe in something. And they'll work with you all the way until you won't convert. And then when you won't convert, you're a problem and you die.

I have the governor of Texas on here in a few minutes and I'm going to ask him some more questions about this. Texas is in real trouble. In real trouble. Is Texas serious about any of this?

Because the Islamists are not going to win because their ideas are better.

They're going to win because we've abandoned our ideas. Not because their worldview is true, but because we don't know what's true anymore and we don't even care what's true anymore.

I was thinking about this last night. I was thinking.

We are so far away from that country. We were on September 11th and 12th and 13th, 2001.

Who would even stand up for it now?

We've spent the last two decades just draining meaning from the west, scraping God out of every corner of public life, reducing marriage to just an option. It's just a lifestyle option. Children are accessories. Children are even products. Now we mock patriotism. We replaced our moral formation with consumerism.

Just consume. Just consume. Do you have the latest?

We've traded purpose for comfort, identity for distraction.

Culture is the same as nature. Nature abhors a vacuum. So does culture. There is no such thing as a vacuum of culture. In the vacuum where faith, duty, courage and meaning used to live. If those things are gone, what replaces it? Well, what you're feeling today, what you're feeling Today.

It'S not hatred.

It'S indifference.

And what stops this? Again, not hatred. Not hatred, not fear, not some bureaucratic policy printed on glossy paper.

Meaning? Meaning is the only thing that defeats this. Meaning.

I was talking to somebody I really respect yesterday afternoon.

And we were talking about what is coming and how do we beat that. And we both were like on the same meaning. Meaning that's the only thing that will defeat it. God will be the only thing defeated. But how do we get people there? How do we. I mean, it's, you know, I'm an alcoholic. Nobody, everybody tried. Glenn, you know, you might have a drinking problem. No, no, I don't have a drink. It wasn't until I felt the bottom and was like, wow, I am in deep trouble. I'm going to die. I'm going to die or I'm going to live. So I choose life. My mother, she got in the same position. She chose death. She died, she committed suicide. She was in exactly the same position. She was an alcoholic. She was addicted to drugs. She didn't ever find her bottom. She died.

Hmm.

America, where's our bottom? What is it going to take for us to.

I don't care what age you are now.

Get married. What is it going to take for you to get married, then to honor that spouse, to raise children, to teach them scriptures, to tell them who they are, where they came from, why their life matters, why freedom matters. What is it going to take for us to reroute ourselves in God, in family, in virtue, in truth? What is it going to take to actually say, you know what, I'm curious. I don't know what I stand for, but I know the storm is coming and if I don't know what I stand for, I will stand for nothing and I will put up with everything.

I need to know who I am. I need to know why I live. I need to know meaning in my life. Because if I don't, I will fold the minute pressure comes.

You know, the reason why America, and honestly the west, in its own ways, from time to time.

Survived and thrived is because we had mountains of meaning. It's why we survived plagues and wars and tyrants in the Dark Ages. Not because we were perfect, but because we understood there was something beyond us.

If we don't have meaning, we're not vulnerable. We've already been conquered.

But with meaning.

True God given meaning, nothing will stop us.

That's why we are America. The Americans that everybody look at and go, wow, look at the Americans. Because we had purpose. We Knew who we were. We were unbreakable.

That's why they've been working so hard to break us down. That's why they've been working so hard to make sure that we don't have meaning in our life, we don't have purpose in our life that we don't know about God. We don't know about our own history. We don't know about any of these things because.

Those people are easily conquered. But people who know their history, who know who they are, who know what God is, they have a purpose in their life. You're never going to get them to surrender. You're never. Without meaning, we don't stand a chance. But with it, we cannot be moved.

I'm a recovering alcoholic dj.

I'm not some scholar. I'm not some.

I'm. I'm just like you.

I don't. I don't know how I got this position other than I promised my God that I would do what he asked me to do.

I think sometimes he's looking for dummies who will just do what he asked him to do.

But I. I feel at times like a real fraud. Because I can tell you what the problem is. I can tell you what the answer is. I just don't know how to help you get there.

That's why I've changing my life in January.

Because the thing I can do is I can teach you history.

I can teach some of these things that I know are true because I've spent decades and decades now finding them and searching for them.

If you're looking for meaning, just thank you for being here.

And hopefully, you know, come January when I launch the torch, it will help you find meaning as well.

But this is something we have to work on together because I don't have the answers. But if you tell me the questions, I'll find them. I'll find them for you.

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[Glenn Beck]

So we're going to have Governor Greg Abbott on here in just a second. He's going to talk about the Supreme Court decision that came out yesterday on the redistricting map. The Supreme Court said that Texas can use the redistricting map that was drawn by the Republicans which would give the Republicans, I think five additional seats in the. In the House.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Hopefully.

[Glenn Beck]

Hopefully.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Let's.

[Glenn Beck]

Does that mean.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah. Well, remember what. The way you win seats when you're redistricting, when you get these extra seats, what you do is you erode districts with large margins.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

To try to pull a purple district into a smaller red margin. Right. Again, talking outwardly, strategically, this is not what everybody says, but what's actually happening there is they're taking Republican plus, you know, 30 districts and looking at one where maybe Democrats are plus three and moving that Democrat plus three to a Democrat to Republican plus 10, but eroding the Republican plus 20 or 30 to something else. Maybe they're all plus 10. I don't know if that makes sense. But, like, basically, you're saying you're taking big, bright red districts and making them less bright red, and you're taking purple districts and trying to turn them into red districts. If you miss on those calculations, you could wind up not getting plus five seats. You could wind up with a situation where you lose both of those Republican leading seats instead of winning one and losing one. And a lot of the assumptions have been that these changes in demographics, where we're all of a sudden winning a higher percentage of Latino votes and black votes, that's just gonna continue into perpetuity. And I don't necessarily believe that. I assume these guys have been very smart in the way they've designed this. It's really difficult to tell until it's in action, but there is risk associated with this. It's not just like, oh, well, we get five more seats. There is risk because you're taking strong districts and. And you're making them weaker to gain in the more purple districts. So it's a little bit of a difficult game. But, you know, Supreme Court has been really clear that this is the state's right to do this pretty much at their own whims.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, they still have litigation up at the Supreme Court on whether this is.

Discriminatory, et cetera. There's another case that's pending still coming to the Supreme Court. So it may change, it may not. We'll talk to the governor. Next is Glenn Beck. You know, most of us live, you know, one inconvenience away from realizing just how fragile our routines really are. A power outage, a clothes, a closed pharmacy, or a supply delay, anything that disastrous.

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Hello America. It's Friday. We have governor Abbott joining us here in just a second. He's going to talk about the supreme court ruling yesterday that is going to allow the redistricting to happen in Texas, what it means and the other cases that are following it that might possibly overturn this. We'll talk to him about it in just a second. First, let me tell you about simply safe. The strangest thing about feeling safe is how quickly you notice, you know, when that feeling isn't there. Maybe it's a noise outside, it doesn't fit or A moment when you realize you've been trusting your old security setup, just purely out of habit. Most of us don't think about home security until, you know, something happens and it reminds us that maybe we should do something about this. Maybe it's time to take things seriously. Simplisafe was built for exactly that moment. Not just a collection of sensors and cameras. It's a whole system designed around how real people live. You don't have to be a tech expert. You don't have to schedule installers or let strangers, you know, come in and take your house apart. Simplisafe is really straightforward. You set it up yourself if you want. You customize it to your home, and it gets to work immediately. I mean, this is really simple. I. I am not a guy who's like, you know, I'm not handy at all. And so, you know, me setting this up. No, it took me about 45 minutes. Should take you about 30 this month. Takes you 50% off a new system. This is the best price that you'll ever see from Simply Safe, so don't miss it. Go to simplisafe.com beck. That's simplisafe.com beck. Lock in your discount now. There is no safe like Simplisafe. All right, Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled. They ruled that the GOP drawn congressional map for the next election can be used. But I believe there's some other cases that are following that might change that. But right now, the GOP can use them. Governor Abbott is here to comment on this from the great state of Texas. Hello, Governor Abbott. How are you?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Hey, Glenn. I'm doing great. How you doing?

[Glenn Beck]

I'm good. I'm good. Good news yesterday for Republicans in the state of Texas. Tell me what. How you view this.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Well, listen, it was huge news for Republicans in Texas, and I'll tell you, also Republicans across the United States of America. But maybe more importantly, it's huge news for the Constitution and for Supreme Court precedent. What the Supreme Court made clear yesterday, and that is this trial court that ruled against Texas completely abandoned and ignored Supreme Court precedent. And the Supreme Court made clear that the trial court was wrong on the facts, wrong on the law. And this was maybe the worst beat down of a lower court decision that I've ever seen imposed by the United States Supreme Court. So this is total vindication for the state of Texas, for the legislature, for what all of us did in drawing these maps. These maps were drawn for two reasons. One, to make sure that they fully complied with the United States Constitution. And with Supreme Court precedents. But second, and very importantly here, what's allowed is to ensure that we are able to draw maps that truly represent the values of the people of our state. Our state, like some other states, have had districts, congressional districts, hijacked by far progressive leftists that don't represent. Don't represent our state values. We're able to redraw those lines in ways for political reasons to ensure we're going to have representation that truly represents the values of our state. And as a result, we should be picking up five more Republican seats in the state of Texas in the United States Congress.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Governor, is this the end of these challenges? Do we think that this is locked in now or is there still more to come?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Well, there will be more to come in the sense that the United States Supreme Court will have briefing on this issue and then a full final decision. But if you look into what the opinion said, they allowed us to move forward with our elections on the maps that we passed this summer based upon their conclusion that the state of Texas is likely to win. Upon further briefing, upon further decision making by the Supreme Court. This was a preliminary stage decision, so we couldn't say it definitively, but they could articulate, based upon everything that they had seen from the lower court decision and based upon U.S. supreme Court precedent, that Texas was going to win. And you know, one thing that very important here, and that is it was just last year that the United States Supreme Court issued a decision on redistricting that was the guidepost for how this case was supposed to be decided by the lower court. And the lower court completely abandoned that United States Supreme Court precedent. And the Supreme Court beat down the lower court for violating that precedent. For reasons which no one can understand, the lower court just went off on its own. And it seemed like it wanted to dictate an outcome and wrote a decision to achieve a dictated outcome without applying the law, without applying the fact.

[Glenn Beck]

How are we going to get these lower courts under control?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

You know, listen, you raised a very important issue because we got problems with lower courts in redistricting. We got problems with lower courts in so many of these other areas. You see, especially leftist courts across the country, they're doing things like saying that the president cannot deploy the National Guard. Listen, the President is fully authorized by the United States Constitution and by federal laws to be able to deploy the National Guard for the purpose of protecting federal employees like ice, whenever and however the President decides to do it. And some of these rulings, and in that regard, in other ways, we have lower federal district courts that are abandoning the Constitution, abandoning their obligation to follow the laws. And it's a real problem.

[Glenn Beck]

So a couple of days ago, you sent a letter to Secretary Besant about suspending Keres tax exempt status. Can you talk a little bit about that?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Sure. So the letter that I sent to Secretary Besant, it was a request to deny cair and for your listeners, CARE stands for Council on American Islamic Relations. And the letter requesting that they be denied their 501c3 status is based upon an earlier document that I issued, which is a proclamation that CARE is a foreign terrorist organization. And Glenn, let me just connect a couple of dots here that will show why we are making this allegation. For one, for decades, CARE has been intertwined with terrorism. And there are three organizations that operate in a shadow way in collaboration with each other. So if you would follow along as I connect a couple of dots. Hamas is a designated foreign terror organization by the United States of America. Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza. Trump, as you probably know, is considering naming the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization. And then federal documents connect CAIR with the Muslim Brotherhood. And as we have articulated, CARE has historic connections to terrorism. A founder of the Texas branch of CARE was convicted by a jury in Dallas for providing financing for terrorism. And then more recently, just last month, an illegal immigrant from Jordan and the Dallas Fort Worth area was ordered to be deported. And the deportation order required a finding that he be that he actually provided material support for terrorism. And then after that, last month, CAIR vocally fought to keep this material supporter of terrorism in the state of Texas. And they even called him a pillar of the community. Here's the bottom line. If Kerr doesn't want to be labeled as a terrorist organization, if it wants to shed its early ties to terrorism, it needs to stop supporting those who are identified by the federal government as supporters of terrorism. But because they haven't, you know, they haven't completely abandoned their connection to terrorism because they support terrorists to this day. That's exactly why they deserve, for one to be labeled a foreign terrorist organization and for another, why they should not be receiving the benefits of a 501c3 organization.

[Glenn Beck]

Tell me about EPIC. Otherwise now now been renamed the Meadow. Does that mean the investigation has stopped?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Absolutely not. The investigation is going on. Let me explain for one, epic, as you know, is this compound that was put together by an Islamic organization in the Colling county area. It was a massive compound and it was structured in a way that it would be a Muslim only community which directly violates Texas law. And so we dug into the documents they were using to create this program, and the documents themselves were in violation of Texas law. I'll just give you one quick example of many that would exist, and that is if you had gone out and bought land that was in this compound area and you wanted to sell that property later, you couldn't just sell it to anybody you wanted to. You had to go through the local imam and get the imam's approval about whether or not you could sell the property and who you could sell it to. And if the imam disapproved, you would have to sell it to the imam. That was one way in which they were going to be able to control and make sure that it was going to be a Muslim only community. For that and other reasons and for our investigations, they knew they were never going to be able to break ground on the Epic City compound there in Collin county area. So they completely abandoned Epic City and now they have come up with a new name called the Meadow. Listen, a name change doesn't.

Doesn't purge the legal flaws that they've already incurred in the process. And that's why we still have ongoing investigations. We have something like five state agencies that are conducting investigations as we speak right now. There's the attorney general's office, the Texas Rangers, the state securities board, Texas commissioner, environmental quality, and the housing authority here in the state of Texas, all looking into the practices and that have already been established by this Islamic organization, which we believe again, is trying to set up a program under a more, let's say, less offensive name, the Meadow. Just because they changed the name to the Meadow doesn't mean they're going to be able to set up an Islamic only community there in the Collin county area.

[Glenn Beck]

The cleric behind this thing is a pretty radical guy. Now, he says he's not radical anymore, but I mean, he was openly calling for the death of homosexuals, you know, the death of Jews. There's recordings of him, you know, saying.

Let'S see here.

That one recording says, preaching about vices and mandate executions under sharia law in Islam. This is part of our religion. To stone an adulterer to kill, by the way, the homosexual. This is our religion. I mean, he says, well, no, I was just talking about that. And it was, you know, radical, but I'm not a radical like that anymore. I mean, but he says horrible, horrible things. Is he under investigation? Do you know about him?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

So, yeah, anybody and everybody involved in this entire process is going to be under investigation. First, let's go back to what you were talking about because it is part of the method of operations that many Muslim organizations in Texas, in the United States operate under. And this is part of their international program where they literally talk out of both sides of their mouth. They have these, like what you were talking about to impose Sharia law, Sharia standards, while at the same time, you know, care comes out saying, well, we're just a civil rights organization trying to back all Americans, which is hogwash. And so all of us need to be vigilant about following exactly what they're doing, ignoring the candy coating that they're putting on what they're saying, but looking at what their true intentions are. And that is to take over land in the state of Texas or other states. Listen, they're doing this in states across the entire country, take over land and then slowly impose their Sharia policies, whether it be enforcement through courts or compound communities, whatever the case may be. And that's why we are investigating this from top to bottom.

[Glenn Beck]

Great. Governor, thank you so much. Appreciate your time and we look forward to talking to you again. God bless. Stay safe.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Take care. Bye.

[Glenn Beck]

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So it is Friday. Have you done any Christmas shopping yet? Still.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Very, very little, but a little bit. I've ordered a couple of things that have come in, you know, for my kids, but very limited.

[Glenn Beck]

Now. You did that or you and Lisa did that?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I'm sure she's done. I'm saying you asked me if I've done any, and I. Yeah, okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow. Good for you. Good for you.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

A couple of things for my kids, but that's it. I'm very far behind as usual. You.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, well, you don't ever shop until the night before you shop like Christmas Eve.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I did have a long standing tradition. You were right about this. This is a good memory, Glenn. I used to. It was always the 23rd. That was the day I would go and do all the shopping on the 23rd. You know, because of the Internet, I've modified that a little bit to much more lazy. Staying home and ordering.

You have to do it a little bit in advance so it gets shipped to you. I've gone a little bit broken that tradition, but I still feel like you should be able to get that done in a day. This is a capitalist system. All these stores are open, they've got a bunch of stuff. You should be able to go in there. And if you're willing to deal with the nightmare of shopping on the 23rd, you can erase the entire shopping season and put it into one day. Which there are advantages to that.

[Glenn Beck]

I will tell you, I have this really bad problem of I am like, I'm ahead of my shopping right now, except I haven't actually done any shopping. What I do, and I do this every year. I go online and I find things and I'm like, ah, gonna get that, gotta get that, gotta get that, gotta get that. And then at some point I just get busy and I'm like, oh, yeah, I've already done my shopping and I haven't done any of my shopping. I just pick things out, but I haven't actually ordered any because, like, there's nothing that stops me faster than going. And then it says put in your dress and your credit card and all this. And you're just doing it over and over again. I just get so frustrated. I'm just like. And so I avoid it. So I just pile all this stuff up. And then. Does this had to happen to anybody else? You just remember of, oh yeah, I did that.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

And then you get to like Christmas Eve and you're wrapping stuff and you're like, I didn't order any of that crap. I didn't do any of it.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I have done this exact thing where I will go back on Christmas Eve or a day before that and, and look at my, my shopping carts on these sites and there's like eight things in there that all are now not going to arrive by Christmas. That one I've done for sure.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah. That one I've done about five Christmases in a row. I think it's a problem. I think it's a problem. And I'm recognizing that problem today. Which is better than like last year because I recognized it on Christmas Eve last year. I'm recognizing it today. Am I going to do anything about it? Probably not.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Well, it's a multi step process. You know, first you just mess it up for five years, then you recognize it for five years, then you make a slight improvement for five years.

[Glenn Beck]

Admitting you have a problem is the first.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

And I admit that I have this problem. Okay, all right. It's a 12 step program and it might take me many, many years to get through it, but.

I do have a problem. And I'm recognizing I'm powerless over this problem.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

It's one of those things too. You do infrequently enough to forget how you screw it up. These once a year things that we have, these tasks that are in everybody's life that pop up once a year, you're always bad at them because you don't do them frequently enough to improve. So the new one starts. You go down the same roads that you did the previous year. Then you remember your mistake, but it's too late. That is 100%.

What happens with a lot of that stuff.

My son and I were making this project.

It's just something we were working on together. It was really fun. We put this thing together. It came out pretty well. There were mistakes made on the way. We were just trying to design this thing on our own. But it was fun to go through that process. But the idea at the beginning was to do two of them. There's like these little display cases and they were. We were. The idea was to do two of them. Now he's like, oh, we got to finish that second one. And I look at this pile of wood and I'm like, I don't remember how to do any of that. Like that is as foreign as it was the moment we started the project. And I can't even imagine I'm gonna make all the same mistakes and screw it all up all over again. And I just. This is how the human mind works, I suppose.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah. I just.

I just, I mean, just at this point, I just know. I just know. I just know me. I. You know what? I would, you know. You know how we used to say, I'll never give my thumbprint away. I'll never give my face ID away. I'd take. I, I. If it would put in all my credit cards and take care of everything all the time. I would peel the skin off of my face. Oh, you need to have a face ID without the skin. Okay, let me just peel it off and I'll just tape it back on until I need it again. I mean, I just, my standards are so low now, it's like security. Yeah, I know. I know.

It'll get this done for me. I'll face id. This is Glenn Beck.

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[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

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[Glenn Beck]

Gonna be upset by this. You're gonna be seriously upset by this.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Okay?

[Glenn Beck]

And I am going to use. Well, I. Because I. Only because I have to. Only because I have to. And 99 of me wants to. Okay, I lied. 102% of me wants to use the R word. In this particular case, Tim was. Tim Walls is upset.

Because the president has called him retarded.

Now.

I think he might be retarded. I mean, and not necessarily, you know, I don't know what. His IQ is probably pretty low, but, you know, I don't know if it's down to 60, but his PQ is definitely under 60. His political quotient is definitely under 60. You know, the guy.

He'S, you know, I put him in the category of. What was his name? Dean. Howard Dean. Yeah. Remember that guy who walked out and we're going to go to Virginia and Kentucky and, and, and Minnesota. Yeah. And you're like, no, dude, you're. You just lost big. You're not going anywhere past here.

I'm not sure that he is clinically retarded, but in the playground sense, he's definitely retarded. You know what I'm saying, Stu?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah. Like how, you know, kids used to say it back in the day, like that, that sort of.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, the playground.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah, yeah. That general. I mean, that's certainly that definition he would. Would apply to him, I assume.

[Glenn Beck]

And remember, that's the same point to where all of us heard from our mothers. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Remember, you remember that one? Remember that one? Yeah. You know, when you were called retarded or whatever on the playground and you'd go home, your mom. Oh, they called me retarded. And they. And your mom would look at you like, yeah, well, maybe you are. Or she just immediately said to you, sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Just remember that. Just remember that, son, words can never hurt you. Doesn't matter what they say about you.

We don't say that anymore.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

That was pretty good advice, actually, especially with the Internet in mind. I don't think that was what our parents thought of at that time, but it's much, much worse. And much more people seem to be affected by the words, our violence sort of thought process. That is, that's real these days.

[Glenn Beck]

I also have a problem with a guy who, you know, surrounds himself with people who call the president a Nazi. I don't know which one's worse, a Nazi or retardant, you know.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah, Nazis were really bad. That's actually a pretty serious accusation.

[Glenn Beck]

Nazis were very bad.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Fascist is another one. Pretty serious accusation.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

I will also note. Or just weird.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah. I was just about to say that. That is exactly the reason he was on the ticket is because he was name calling other People and calling them Weir Only. His only qualification outside of he's, you know, massively inept and corrupt and all the other things that would, of course, qualify him to be on a Democratic ticket. But outside of that, the only reason he stood out from all the other loser Democrats was that he said the word weird on TV once. And Kamala Harris, who admitted. Has admitted that the reason she made, or at least the day that she made that decision, she was, quote, unquote, overtired. Why would you point that out? I don't understand. I don't understand. But the only theoretical reason he was on the ticket was because he was calling people names. He called them weird, which was another school. Was another school playground, like insult back in the day.

[Glenn Beck]

You're weirdo.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah, weirdo. Yeah, that was the way it was. And so he is able to enjoy the benefits of calling people childish names. But when he gets called those names, he gets really, really scary for him.

[Glenn Beck]

I know. Well, he hasn't listened to his mother. He. He thinks words can actually hurt him. Now, Stu, do we know. Does he agree.

Does he agree with the. The state senator.

That says that Minnesota won't survive without Somalians? If we play this. Please. It's cut for.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

State Senator Zayden Mohammed says these attacks won't stop with Somalis, and their contributions can't easily be erased. We are in every industry, and Minnesota.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Would not be able to survive nor.

[Glenn Beck]

Thrive without the Somali community here. Hmm.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Really? Was that accurate?

The state of Minnesota cannot survive without the Somali community. Now, my understanding was that they are relatively new to the state, which has survived for a very long time before their arrival. I would also note, Glenn, and you might be able to help me with this one. This one. We're gonna get deep here, though, and I understand at times the audience hears us get deep into science and mathematics and all these.

[Glenn Beck]

We're known for that.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

We're known for that. And I can understand sometimes it might be confusing. You're like, you're driving to work and you're hearing all these numbers, and you can't.

Maybe if you looked at them on a spreadsheet, you'd be able to recognize what's going on. But when you're in your car, it's hard to internalize all this. So I'm gonna try to lay it out, because I don't understand it, and maybe you do. What we understand is about a billion dollars of fraud, not all of it from the Somali community, but the vast majority of it seemingly coming from the Somali community. And Then the comeback to that was that Somali community pays about $67 million in taxes every year. So can you do the math on this? One of the numbers is a billion and the other one is 67 million. Which one do you think is more important? Which one's higher? Do we need to get like Tim Waltz.

[Glenn Beck]

Tim Waltz. I think that seven million.

Did they have a million?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

67 million.

[Glenn Beck]

Do I mind it or a billion?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

That's the question. Which one's larger?

[Glenn Beck]

Do we have a show? Four. Music. Leave me with four.

Four.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Now, now, if you think about it, Glenn, the first number in. In both of Those, like the 1 billion, the first number is a 1. 67 million. The first number is a 6. So is 67 million.

[Glenn Beck]

Six is bigger than one, right? Is it six times bigger than one?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

That might be what's going on?

[Glenn Beck]

I would say. I would say there are 933 reasons to say. Anyone who says that that math works out is retarded. Okay? It doesn't work out. Now, look, even though. Because here's what they say, they generate $500 million every year. Okay. All right. And then they give back out of that, their taxes out of that, which. This itself doesn't make sense to me. $500 billion in revenue is what they generate, but then they pay in taxes $67 million. But what we're missing here is the $1 billion.

Of fraudulent money being taken from the taxpayer. So the 500 million doesn't do anything. Okay, that's going to the Somali billion. Yeah, half.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Half.

[Glenn Beck]

I dare, dare I say it, Stu.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I'll get AI on that.

[Glenn Beck]

Let me ask what they just. Okay, all right, okay. Oh, I don't know. Can Grok do that? That's like a ten year problem. Ten year problem. Anyway, you've got. You've got half. All right? That number doesn't even. You've got 1 billion that has been stolen, 67 million that has been paid in taxes. That leaves $933 million.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

That.

[Glenn Beck]

It's a deficit. It's. You remain 933. $33 million.

In the hole.

I think we could survive without that. I mean, sure, we don't get your 500 million.

But that's, that's, that's okay. That's okay. Because we'd have a billion dollars that you didn't take.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah, that's right. I think we'd be ahead. And also, I'd note the people, by.

[Glenn Beck]

The way.

That'S if we took every Somali and just lumped them into this, right? Which not. No, I mean, I'm sure there's some Somalis that, you know, are part of that 500 million that are not crooked. They can stay, they're fine.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I'm certain of that. And in fact, I would argue those are the people likely paying the $67 million in taxes.

[Glenn Beck]

The people who are stealing all the.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Money weren't paying taxes on it, which is kind of the problem. In fact, all that money that came from the state was specifically designed so they didn't have to pay taxes on it. The programs were designed. Of course, when you're talking about a low income person, right, you're not going to charge them taxes on their, their autism treatment. But of course, those weren't really treating kids with autism. So the actual productive members of the society were instead paying those taxes to fund the corrupt Somalis who were stealing all the money. And again, we've made this point a million times and I think it holds here. Maybe treat people like individuals, right? Maybe don't people. There are members of the Somali community that I'm sure are very important to.

The state and they probably are great. There's probably great people in that community. But I can tell you, we know with these charges that there are a lot of people who were not living up to that expectation. And those people should be punished. We shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't act as if this wasn't a massive problem in this group of people. Charge the people responsible for it and stop acting like we need them to survive. We don't need criminals to survive as a country or a state.

[Glenn Beck]

Let me just.

I have to go back to Tim Walls being upset about the retarded thing.

Play cut to please. This creates danger.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

And I'll tell you what, in my.

[Glenn Beck]

Time on this, I'd never seen this before.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

People driving my house by my house.

[Glenn Beck]

And using the R word in front of people. This is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official say.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You'Re right, that's shameful.

[Glenn Beck]

He should not say it. So, look, I'm worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn to violence. So deeply concerned founder of the Taunt.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Of weird thinks that, that that taunt could lead to violence. That's so strange.

[Glenn Beck]

Who's living in the world of he's a fascist Nazi. All right, now, suddenly. And I've never seen this. I've never seen anything like this stuff. Never seen anything like this. I'm in my house and people are driving down my house and rolling down their windows and they're just screaming, retard out. That's going to lead to violence. That's going to lead to violence. No, no. I mean, it's not nice and it is. It's wrong. Jesus wouldn't have done it. But I don't think Jesus had to put up with all these retards in as politicians, quite honestly. So, I mean, I can't. I can't answer for that. I don't know. I'm not a biblical scholar or a scientist or a mathematician. We've learned that.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

We've learned we can't even tell numbers apart. But I will say while you're right, it's obviously not. I wouldn't tell my. Teach my children to behave that way, to drive by Tim Walls as well. It is shameful. I will say it's wrong to do. I will also say it's objectively funny. Picturing Tim Walls looking out his window and hearing people yell the R word, Adam, when he's going out to get his mail. And people like, it's objectively funny.

[Glenn Beck]

It is. It is funny. It is.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

It's bad. It's wrong that it's funny, but it's objectively funny.

There's no way. There's no other way to read it now. And look, I'm sure the left laughed because, I mean, think about what they do with J.D. vance. They called him weird, right? Because God, he came up from a very poor upbringing and rose to the levels of. High levels of wealth and achievement and power. They called that weird, that he loved his family and they celebrated.

[Glenn Beck]

We call that the American dream.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Yeah, that used to be the American dream. Now it's weird. But they, of course, yelled this at him all the time. They make the meme of him looking like, you would say pot potentially retarded would be the example of the meme that they've created to mock JD Vance. They constantly mock him with this. But that doesn't lead to violence. Calling people Nazis doesn't lead to violence, despite the fact that we've seen the President of the United States take a bullet from. After all of this has happened. We saw Charlie Kirk get assassinated on stage after people said that about him. But it's the, it's the R word being yelled at Tim Walls when he goes to get his. When he, when he waddles out to get his mail. That's the thing we're supp. Be concerned about.

[Glenn Beck]

No, no. I mean, I want. I don't want to see this in real life. Because I don't, I don't want it to happen because it is wrong. But I do want somebody to create an AI reproduction of just some kids driving by and he's in his fuzzy slippers getting the newspaper in the morning and these kids like an American Graffiti going, hey, retard. I mean, I do kind of want to see that. I do.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I do something.

[Glenn Beck]

AI is good. It's wrong. It's wrong of me. And I'll be. Yeah. All right, Back in just a minute.

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[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

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[Glenn Beck]

So probably not the best day for me to have a group of nuns on next.

Because maybe do they have radios? They're. I mean, they're not Amish. I mean, do they have. Maybe they don't. Maybe they don't. Listen, I've not been good. Forgive me Father, for I have said in bad. Anyway, I get, when I get really, really tired, really sleepy and, and just I get a little cranky and, and it is not the best mixture. So maybe I should do like one show a week. You know me, where I'm very well rested, I'm ready to go, and I won't be cranky. You know, I think that would be good. So even the show would be less entertaining.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You've been sleepy for what, 50 years? I mean, that's a long time to be sleepy. This explains your everyday behavior.

[Glenn Beck]

I've had. I, I work. A lot of people don't know this. I worked five whole days a week. Oh, you can't keep that grind up. Not whole, you know, not whole days. No, no. Three hours a day, five days a week. You know, I worked 15 hour work week. That's crazy. Back.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

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[Governor Greg Abbott]

Sam.

Down the road where shadows hide till the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.

[Glenn Beck]

The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Stu.

Why? Why today out of all days? I've been good for months. I've been polite, I've been nice, I've been peace loving. I get up this morning, I'm in a very bad mood. I start the show in a very bad mood. And then I'm like, like I, you know what? I don't care anymore. And then that gets, becomes even more dangerous and I start name calling. I haven't name called in how many months? I haven't name called. And now what happens? I have nuns on really nice, really nice nuns.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

It seems to me it's the perfect day for it. Mr. Glenn, you've been a very bad boy. And maybe a little reflection would help.

[Glenn Beck]

Here's what I'm hoping. Okay. I have been reflecting ever since I looked at the schedule. I was like, oh my gosh, the nuns are on today. So I have been reflecting and repenting. But here's the good news. They're, they are, they're the kind of nuns that, you know, just pray all the time. So they probably don't have the Internet or a radio. So I'm hoping they haven't heard any of the show. They may not even know who I am. That would be a great blessing.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

God hears, Glenn. God hears.

[Glenn Beck]

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You should know. Not Agatha Christie. She wrote the book.

She. She reached out and she said, now's the time that we'd like to get some of these abortion workers that, you know, it's the holiday season, maybe if we write them Christmas cards, et cetera, et cetera, and send them out to all the abortion clinics, maybe some of them will. Will go, you know what? Now is the time to get out of the abortion industry. And so this group of. Of nuns up in Pennsylvania started doing it. And they have been sending these letters out to these abortion clinics. Not, you know, not being nasty or being basically like I have been all day today, being nice and kind, and I just Thought it was such a cool story when I read about it. And Sister Christina is with us now. Hi, Sister. How are you?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Hi, Glenn.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

I'm good.

[Glenn Beck]

Good. You don't happen to have radios or computers or anything, right?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

I mean, we don't. We're Capuchin Franciscan, so we just live a real simple. A life of simplicity.

[Glenn Beck]

Good, good, good. Because, I mean, you know, nothing. Not that I've been misbehaving before your parents or anything like that, but I'm glad. I'm glad that you're. What is it like not to have a computer and phones and everything else? I mean, it's like that used to be normal. Now it's not at all.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Well, people, when they hear we don't have these things, they always say, oh, aren't you blessed? And I was like, well, you could. You could do it, too. So I think we're the happiest people on this earth, too. Not just because we don't have technology, but because we have the Lord.

[Glenn Beck]

I think, you know, I've always thought of this with the Amish, too, because, you know, they don't have anything. And I think they've just decided to not live in the, you know, this world. They've not. They live in it, but they don't embrace it. They don't become part of it. And I think there's something to that lifestyle that you're living that we probably should do more of anyway. So tell me the story of writing these letters.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Well, we were approached by the organization, and then There Were none, which was founded by Abby Johnson in, I believe. I believe in 2012. And so we just received a letter from them. So I'm assuming they saw we do have a website, so capishandsisters.com so we don't have the computer, but someone will run the website for us.

The best.

[Glenn Beck]

Way to do it.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

So that's how, you know, most young women will find out about us and things. So they wrote us a beautiful letter and just explained. I had heard of the organization, but never about any of the ministries they were doing. But they have a ministry where they're basically just writing a Christmas card to the actual abortion clinics. So to the workers in the clinics and just a brief message of prayer and Christmas greeting. And we can make it very personal and just inviting them out of the. The life that they're living. And what we do is we include in the Christmas cards.

And then there Were None's business card. So that way they have this card in their hand where they can Reach out for help through. And then there were none.

[Glenn Beck]

I would imagine that there are.

Very different reactions to that.

Those who would be really angered by it and make a big deal out of it that way. And then the others who have been thinking this way and just don't know what to do. Have you heard of the reactions?

Do you know if this is reaping any results?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Definitely reaping results. So the first time we received. We've been doing this for maybe three or four Christmases now. So the first time we received a letter, I think, and then there were none, said they had 300 abortion workers leave so far. Not just through the Christmas card ministry, but through all the ministry they do throughout the year. Just this last letter I received from them, they said they have 700. Over 700 workers that have left the abortion industry.

[Glenn Beck]

That is fantastic. So can I ask, how do you recruit for your job? Because I went to your website and you guys are all young. I grew up Catholic.

We didn't have any young nuns at the time. We had one, Sister Julie, my third grade teacher, and I had a huge crush on her.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

But.

[Glenn Beck]

You'Re all generally lease on the website. Very young. How does a young woman come to be a nun today?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

So to find our community, most young women are looking on the Internet. And that's why we decided to have a website, because that's where most young women are. So typically, a young woman will see our website and then she'll have to be brave enough to at least call. So there's no texting because this is a landline I'm speaking to you on. So just call or write.

Which are very kind of foreign ways of communication.

[Glenn Beck]

Most people don't know how to use a landline anymore. So what do you like? What do you guys do?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

So our main ministry is really prayer. So we're called contemplative sisters. So that would come from the word contemplation. So our main work we really consider is prayer. So we live a life of deep, deep prayer. And a lot of times especially I think young women get the idea of like, oh, I could just never be on my knees all day praying. And that's not what it is at all. And you can see from the beautiful joy, the pictures on the website, we live a very full life, a very full life, a very poor life, because we choose, we want to be poor. And we live the charism of St. Francis of Assisi, who chose to follow Christ poorly.

But we live a rich, rich life of community as well. So we're like a real sisterhood, like a real family. But our primary work we really consider is our prayer.

[Glenn Beck]

And when you say prayer, is it a prayer in all that you do kind of thing, or is it actually structured prayer time or both?

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Both.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Both, really. So we do have definitely structured prayer time. So we rise in the middle of the night, actually for a night vigil at 2am and then that'll be like the beginning of our day. And then. But we make that sacrifice.

[Glenn Beck]

Wait, hold on, wait. That's the beginning? You go back to bed after two? We do after that prayer or do you.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

After that prayer, we go back to bed.

So it's called a vigil. Vigil. So we always say we get to go to bed twice.

So we kind of.

[Glenn Beck]

I think I, I mean, I know I'd have to be a woman to join the convent, but I think that would count me out. I think it'd be like, wait, I gotta get up at 2 o' clock every day.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

We like to equate.

[Glenn Beck]

How hard is that?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

You get used to it. I mean, it definitely is a sacrifice, but we like to equate it to the vocation of a mother and mothers and fathers who get up in the middle of the night to their crying child. Like they wouldn't think twice about it. So we are not physical mothers, but we're spiritual mothers, mothers of souls in that we are brides of Christ. So all of his children are our children spiritually. And our children, I like to say they're always crying. They're always crying out for prayer, for sacrifice, for. For God, ultimately. So we, you know, like to equate that to our spiritual motherhood.

[Glenn Beck]

Sister, you, you, you know, you don't have phones and computers and everything else, but I'm sure you're very well aware.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. You're not on social media, but I'm sure you're aware of the conditions that are happening in our world. What are your thoughts on where our world is headed?

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Well, it's certainly a sad state, especially considering this ministry that we're doing with. And then there were none. One of the things we do with these cards is after we write them, we'll place them on our altar, just praying that God will get them into the right hands, those that are working in these industries and maybe on the verge of conversion. And I had them on our altar and a young father came to visit our chapel and he said, I said, these are cards that we're sending to abortion clinics, to the workers to invite them out of this way of life. And he said, there's that many abortion clinics. And I only had maybe 50 cards on the altar. And I said, there's, there's thousands of clinics. And he goes, I had no idea. Just this evil, evil holocaust that's been going on legally in our country. So we're well aware of the evils that are going on, but I think the tides are turning. I think the pro life movement in America is huge, Glenn. It's huge. And there's so much good work being done, just. But a lot of it is much like our life is hidden, is prayer, is hidden, is quiet. And a lot of times the truth is silent, but doesn't mean it's silent.

[Glenn Beck]

The Lord doesn't usually come in with a marching band.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Exactly.

[Glenn Beck]

Comes in on a donkey.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Exactly. But we consider our prayer especially that real battleground, you know. So a lot of people think of it as a very, just sterile, inactive life. Oh, it's an active life. Like we always say, we'll never be out of a job. There's always something, someone to pray for. And it's a beautiful.

[Glenn Beck]

I actually had a guy who actually told me to stop telling people to pray because God's very busy and he's busy solving wars and everything else and he doesn't have time to listen to everybody.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Oh, he's God. He's infinite. We can't limit him.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. I don't think you understand how God works. I don't think he's like, oh, I'm dealing with this war. What is it you want again? It's a little different than that. Sister, thank you so much and bless you this holiday season and thank you for just being a ray of sunshine. You and all of the sisters up at the convent and everybody that does what you do. I read this story and it just, just, it's just pure good. It's just pure good. And we don't see that very often anymore. And thank you.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Thank you for having us.

[Glenn Beck]

You bet. Bless you, Sister.

Nice. The kind of, the kind of the world you kind of want to live in, you just want to live around. I mean, I don't want to get up at 2 o' clock in the morning. I mean, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's important and stuff, but 2:00am really, Lord? I mean, that's the one time that I might say, I don't think the Lord wants to hear you at 2 o' clock in the morning. He might be sleeping.

I think we should sleep through. I think we should get him when he's fresh early in the morning, but not too early, but it's, you know, kind of want to live around people like that.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Most people are still up from the night before doom scrolling in bed at 2 o' clock in the morning. So I know, and I know it's totally a big adjustment.

[Glenn Beck]

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Wayne from. From the feed this morning. He's watching and he just said, glenn, having a crush on a nun doesn't usually work out. Wayne, I was in third grade. I don't think I had a shot. You know, I don't think I was. I don't think she was, like, seriously considering, you know, a kid in the third row. I don't know. I don't know.

But you're right. Having a crush on a nun doesn't usually work out. I mean, unless you've watched the Sound of Music. But she wasn't a nun. She wasn't a nun. She was a what? An apprentice?

Something like that. I don't know.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You're asking other people for information on a musical. I feel like this is your turn.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay. All right. I don't need this today. It is Friday. I don't need this. I can get this at home, Stu. Okay. I Don't need it from you.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

No, I think you do. I think you do. Especially with your terrible behavior today and all the terrible, awful things you've done. I don't know.

[Glenn Beck]

You say whatever you want. The nuns were not listening. The nuns are not listening. I'm good.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I'm pretty sure that's not how this works. It's not like, you know, sin's not a sin unless a nun sees it. I don't think that's. I don't think that's in the documentation anywhere.

[Glenn Beck]

Look, they didn't hear it. So they're going to be up tonight at 2:00 and they're being like. And thank you, Lord, for Glenn Beck. He's a good boy. So they're just going to slide in a good thing about me. You know what I mean?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

That's.

[Glenn Beck]

Maybe God's like, like, you know what? I only really listen at 2:00 in the morning. So, Yeah, I was asleep, you know, when he was on the air and I didn't watch his podcast.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Well, you know, this doesn't sound like it has a great basis in the faith, but luckily you're only betting your soul, right? So it's no big deal.

[Glenn Beck]

It's so bad. It's so bad. I try so hard and then. And then, you know, I have days like today. I have days like today where it's just not a good day. Not a good day.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Look, it's not your fault Tim Walls was created. That wasn't on you. And that's the, you know, that's the real problem here.

[Glenn Beck]

Do not. Don't. Because I, you know what I almost said? Well, I'm not going to say what I almost said when you said that, because I. Don't. Don't go there.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

No, I'm just trying to help, as usual.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, as usual. I got home yesterday because I've done like 1400 shows this week, and I've been at Mar a Lago every night doing a fundraiser for a different group of people. And then I did two or three other podcasts with other people this week. I got home yesterday, it was like five o'. Clock. And I got home and my wife said, hey, honey, how's your day? And I just looked at her and she's like, you okay? And I'm like, huh? And she's like, something wrong? And I'm like, I just. I can't talk anymore. And part of her, I think, went hallelujah. And I'm like, you can talk all you want, but please don't ask me to respond. I am completely empty. I have no more words. I think I've used every word that I've ever had this week, and I can't utter another word. And she's like, like, why don't you sit down? And she just talked to me, and I just nodded.

And it was nice. And I think she enjoyed it, too, because, you know, I wasn't trying to solve any problems. You know, I was just. She's finally, like, finally the guy shuts up. I can talk and he'll listen to me. All right, back with the final 30 minutes of the podcast for the week. Next.

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[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

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[Glenn Beck]

Hey, Stu, just some additional news on the FBI from yesterday. You know they got the guy, the pipe bomber.

They say they got the pipe bomber. They say they think they got the pipe bomber. Right, Right.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

There's not been a trial. Right. There's. This is.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, they're pretty sure, and there's some more information that's coming, etc. Etc. And this guy's been making bombs, I don't know, selling him like lemonade in front of his store, in front of his house at some point. I mean, the guy has been doing this for a long time. And apparently now. So it's coming out that sources are telling us that.

No, not us. Sources are telling what, the FBI? Cnn.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Cnn.

[Glenn Beck]

That.

He believed that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. Hmm. Except that doesn't fit any of the other things that apparently were true in his life. Okay. Seems like a very big leftist, but he believes that Trump. That was. Can I ask you if they knew the. Because this is the narrative, I think. I don't know yet. I think, but the narrative is, is they had this guy, Biden had this guy, and then they just let it go and they just didn't. Didn't pursue it. But if you knew that the guy was going to be a guy who said, yeah, the January 6, you know, thing is. Right. Because they were stealing the election, why wouldn't you use that?

Why wouldn't they have pursued that?

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You think they would have loved to promote that fact if that is a fact?

Yeah. As you point out, it's hard to know. We don't have all the facts yet. I mean, reading the basic report from cnn, it's basically saying that he said this during their interview, which I would not necessarily. If he is the pipe bomber, we would not necessarily call him a credible source. It's possible that he's had, you know, what.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, my gosh, look at you. Just because he was a pipe bomber once or twice, you know, you say, I don't know if we can trust him.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Well, but I mean, you could see. Again, we don't know, but we're looking for plausible explanations here in theory. Right. Someone who is maybe on the left who wanted to do this, had multiple years to think about what happens when they get caught, might very well just kind of blurt out that they thought the election was stolen.

To whatever. If it's a political issue in the first place, that might be a motivation, though, again, we don't know. There's way too much to wait on. I feel like my instinct at this moment is to wait until we hear all the details from all involved parties.

[Glenn Beck]

The Blaze retracted the story yesterday. There's a story up on the Blaze today. They retracted their story, but they made a point of saying the sources stand by their claims. So they're unnamed. I mean, guys, you can't do anything if you're not going to name yourself.

You can't just live our lives on unnamed sources. You have to identify yourself.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Stuff.

[Glenn Beck]

So there's nothing, I guess, that, you know, they could do. But they're saying the sources stand by the claim that it's this other person, which the FBI says it's not. It's this person. But I don't even know anymore. I'm so frustrated. I just don't, you know, you don't know what to believe anymore. And it's a very dangerous thing. It's a very dangerous thing. But good news is the FBI is on it. Well, not this. Of course not. Not this. They're on the cowboy aesthetic. The New York Times wants to know what's up with this cowboy aesthetic that is taking off. And apparently there's this show called Yellowstone or something that is popular right now or maybe five years ago that they're just stumbling onto. And they're just trying to figure out what. What. What is this? Because the rural aesthetic are in. And so they've put together a really, I mean, a crack, crack team. They have the New York Times opinion editor.

Mar Ahmed, the photo editor, Emily Keegan, the columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottam, and they all got together to try to discuss what this cowboy aesthetic is telling us. Because, I mean, they don't understand why people voted for Donald Trump. But maybe the cowboy aesthetic is explaining it, you know, Yellowstone and the hunting wives. So what does it say about our society? And.

They say that, well, Donald Trump, you know, because Donald Trump is probably the biggest reason. Because Donald Trump, they are. So stop talking to your own people. And why don't you start talking to real people? They say it's Donald Trump because.

He is associated with rural life. And when I think of Donald Trump, I think of the great outdoors, hiking, cattle ranching. You know what I mean? I think of him in the great outdoors, in the rural life.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

From the top of Trump Tower, he can see rural areas.

Way, way, way in the distance, you know, on a perfectly clear day, maybe.

[Glenn Beck]

Right, right. And. And also it's happening because he.

Continues to appeal to Southernness.

Which ready. Raises the specter of racism. Southernness does. Southernness raises the specter of genteel womanhood. And quote, all of the things the south is kind of known for. You know, it's weird. The south is known for more than the 1860s now, really? You know, it is, yeah. It is known for its genteel. What is they say? Genteel womanhood, I think. Yeah. And I will tell you, there is something about genteel womanhood in the South. I absolutely love it. Some people hate it. I love it. The gentile women never tell you to f off. They instead say, would you like some tea? How about some nice tea? Or, wow.

I love that. I love that. It's so much better than, you know, a woman going, f you. Why? Bless your heart. Love that. Love that.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

And, of course, Trump very associated with genteel Southern women. I'm pretty sure Melania is from southern Slovenia, so.

[Glenn Beck]

Believe she is. Believe she is. When you think of Southern women, you think, oh, Donald Trump, right? Genteel Southern women, Donald Trump.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

You think of him, if any. Again, like, these are all dumb observations, even if he were from the South. But, like, he. You think of him as, like, the ultimate New Yorker. He's the guy in the boardroom on the top floor of the skyscraper. That's what you think of when you think of Donald Trump.

[Glenn Beck]

I know, right? He's like a harsh New Yorker. He really is. And what's weird is not in real.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Life.

[Glenn Beck]

The Trump that you see on TV that they are always mocking and always talking about is that flash of him as a performer in real life. He is that really genteel, very kind kind of guy. Very personal, one on one. It's an amazing thing. They never see that. They never see that. Yeah, but they. They. You've told the story, apparently. Apparently. Because he tweets a lot. We need to buy a cowboy hat.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

Right? You told the story, Glenn, of. Of before Trump was running for president and you were staying at one of the Trump resorts, right? Remembering the story. And he didn't he call you?

[Glenn Beck]

You know, and I misjudged him. I misjudged him. I think about this all the time. I can't tell you how many times I've apologized to the man because I just. I. It just, I so misjudged the man because I didn't know anybody like him. And now that I've gotten to know him and I know people who know him and have known him forever, this is who he is. So. So it was right before he announced, but we knew he was going to run, and we had been friends for a while, and I mean, I don't want to say friends. I mean, I don't think I'm a friend of his now, but I kind of am. I guess he'll call me. We text each other. But.

So he was just. He said to me, this is like, you know, I don't know, 2010 or something. We met at a party for Larry King is like, 900th birthday, and he knew I travel a lot, and he, you know, he was a fan of the show, and he would watch, and he would see that I was doing all these stage shows in the days when I would travel for 30 different shows a year. And he said, you know, whenever you're in town in New York or when you. When you're traveling around, you know, stay.

At a Trump Hotel. Now, I had to pay. You know what I mean? He wasn't offering it for free, but he was like, you know, just stay at a Trump Hotel. I'm telling you, they're the best we take care of, I guess. Okay, so I go to New York, and I'm staying at the Trump International. And it's at this time where, remember, I had to eat that diet. I had a diet of where I could only eat, like, 70 ingredients. And it was really, really strict because I was going through my doctors. Every doctor I saw, they were like, you're being poisoned. And I'm like, yeah, we've done all the poison tests. I'm not being poisoned. And they're like, we're being poisoned. I'm like, I'm paranoid enough. Would you stop saying that?

And we couldn't ever figure out what was happening with my body. But I started. They put me on a very strict diet of 70 ingredients, and so I couldn't eat anywhere. And so I called him up and I said, hey, I'm coming to New York. I have a chef that has to travel with me because I can only eat these 70 things, and it has to be exact. And I said, would you. Could you accommodate? And he's like, now, in New York, somebody who doesn't work in that kitchen, to be allowed in the kitchen, that's a hassle, okay? And he's like, absolutely not a problem. So we go there. I stay in for a couple of days, and I was supposed to stay for a week, and I had to cancel it because my father was dying. So I'm there for two days, and then, because I left abruptly, and, you know, the kitchen was like, where's the guy with the. You know, is Mr. Beck still here? Somehow or another, he found out that I left. I go to Seattle. My father dies. I come back home, and he calls me up, and he said.

Is there a reason you left early.

From the hotel? Did something go wrong? And I said, yes, sir. My father passed away. And he said, oh, my gosh, Glenn, I'm so sorry to hear. And he just gushed, gushed, gushed, gushed, gushed. And he was so relatable and so kind and everything else. And Then, like, I don't know, a week later, he announces that he's running for president. And I assume the worst of the man. And I can't believe I'm confessing this. This is so horrible for me to say. This is one of the worst. This is one of the worst things I've done in a long time. I really regret the things I said about Donald Trump, because I was really wrong.

Anyway, so I remember getting on the air as soon as he announces or we know. And I said, that son of a bitch has been courting me this whole time. He has been setting me up for an. For an endorsement. That's what this whole thing has been about. And I assume the worst of him. And that's not what it was about. I can tell you now, that's not what it was about. That is who he is. And he was just such a gracious guy, and I spat in his face for it, and I regret it. But.

He'S not anything that you think he is. Anything the press says he is. He's not that guy, and you know it. You know, the one thing I did say about him, when I was saying bad things about him, the one thing I couldn't square and I kept saying, this is. The only thing that doesn't make sense, is his kids are so unbelievable, and his daughters love him to death. And you can't be that guy. How is it he has raised such great children? And I thought, well, it's their mom. It's not. I mean, I'm sure mom played a role in that, but it's him, too. They are. They love him. And if you listen to. Just watch the way they react about him.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Him.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, my kids don't act like that about me. You know, they adore the man. Adore the man. And you can't fake that with your kids. They just won't do it. Just won't. So is that the story you were trying to weasel out of me today? In my weakness, that is.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

And I almost got you to cry. It was so close. And you got you down the road.

[Glenn Beck]

You got me down there, but I just.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

I refused to go.

[Stu (Co-host or Producer)]

I think it would be this tired. The tears would flow. But, you know, whatever. We got close.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Governor Greg Abbott]

More.

[Glenn Beck]

Glenn Beck in a jiff.

Here's the kind of cowboy culture that the left and New York Times won't understand. Cut five Ryan Spoon, the so called first winner of Old State Saloon's month of free beer promotion told Idaho News 6 he fought filed that tip believing the man he reported worked for Mickelson's farms. Basically I repeated Representative Stephanie Mickelson's state State House Representative Stephanie Mickelson. She gave public floor testimony on the floor of the Idaho State House in 2024 I believe it was where in her own words she said that quote every food processor in the state, state unquote hires illegals. Mickelson, whose family employs hundreds of workers says she decided to speak now to let others know she thinks the saloon's promotion is despicable.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

If we start targeting people based upon.

[Glenn Beck]

The color of their skin that we.

[Sister Katrina Christina]

Really have a big problem here.

[Governor Greg Abbott]

Immigration attorneys warn that programs like this.

[Glenn Beck]

Can lead to false accusations, targeting of Hispanic workers and misuse of federal agencies. Wait, hold on just a second. Wasn't targeting federal or people of color. It was targeting the state senator who is whose family was hiring people who were illegals. That's what that's about. Glenn. Becky.