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We are living in a time where it's really easy to forget what this country is actually about, how it came to be. And we talk about the founders like they just appeared fully formed out of history, but that's not how it happened. That's why I think young George Washington is so important right now. This is a film that takes you back before he was president, before the revolution was won, before George Washington was George Washington, that symbol. And it shows you the young man he really was. Not perfect, not polished, but somebody who is shaped by failures, hard decisions, and courage. Courage. And by a sense that there was something bigger than himself at work. Great leaders are not created in comfort. They're forged when things are hard, when stepping forward cost you something. With the 250th anniversary of America right around the corner, this is a powerful way to market. Take your family, take your kids, your grandkids, and connect them to the story that started all of this. See Young Washington in theaters July 3rd. Tickets available now. Angel.com Young Washington. Hello, America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and lead a comment, because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm and to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it. A big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share. Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work.
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Swipe the flame.
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Pass it on. Crave the game. Glam Beck is on. Glam Beck is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're so glad you're here. Thank you so much. It is Friday, and we've got a lot to talk about. And I might even premiere a new song called Thune the Balless Rhino. That came up. It might come up. It's Friday. You know. You know, you just never know what's gonna happen here. But I want to start with some of the news of the week and some of the news of the Week has been really quite concerning. I mean, maybe it was just me, but kind of like, wow, really, Is that what we got going for us? And, and you worry about what's gonna happen next? What? I mean, the next generation seems to be lost. Is it? I'm gonna start there here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Simplisafe. Simplisafe is, you know, is here to remind you it's a dangerous, dangerous world out there. And I don't mean that in some abstract, you know, cable news, the sky is falling kind of way. I mean, people are getting stabbed in broad daylight. You know, every time you open the news, it feels like somebody has found a brand new creative way to make the world a little more chaotic. You can't control all of that. You can't fix every problem. But you can personally rewrite crime policy. Not in your city, but in your home. You need somebody standing guard for you. That's what you have. When you close the front door at night, your family is protected. If you have Simplisafe. Simplisafe. They've taken home security to an entirely new level with active guard outdoor protection. Someone is lurking around your pol, your property. Their AI powered cameras will detect it. The trained agents can actually see what has happened and intervene before the break in occurs or trouble starts. That's kind of peace of mind. You will get right now 50% off your new system. Just visit simply safe.com beck that's half off@simplisafe.com Beck. There is no safe like simply safe. Yeah, that's right. I am now listening. Here's the latest on Austin Metcalf's family. Austin met Metcalf. He was the one that was killed by Carmelo Anthony. Um, now the family is getting hate filled death threats. Sources connected to the trial have told TMZ the Metcalf family have been receiving death threats since Anthony was arrested. But after Tuesday's guilty verdict, the family has been flooded with dozens of hateful messages across social media and text messages to their personal phones. They obtain one of the hostile messages which says, you're just mad because Austin is no longer living. Yeah, I. I think that would. That's probably accurate. They should have stabbed Hunter too. That's. That's another son of the family. Didn't you beat Megan too? I blame you. And then it's followed with he effed around and found out. Kind of makes you, I don't know, kind of makes you worried about the future. Let me play cut seven. This is Jasmine Crockett. Listen to this.
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If a 300 pound man is beating me, like on top of me and beating me down, I, I'm not limited to fist. You know, I would argue that even
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the only time we go into things
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like people's hands being considered deadly weapons is typically like if they're a professional
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boxer or that kind of stuff.
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But I think by the time you
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start getting to like football player.
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Good argument.
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Good freaking argument.
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We not talking about like the golfers, we're talking about football players. Right? Like this is what they are trained to do is to inflict like serious physical contact.
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Stop. You know, she's talking about, she's talking about Metcalf here, but I just would like to remind you Carmelo was also a football player. So you got two football players. Is. This is, this is absolutely ridiculous. And she, first of all, he wasn't sitting on top of him. That didn't happen. That didn't happen. And she suggests later in this clip that she would stab Metcalf herself. Oh, okay, great. All these things that are happening, you look at today's generation and there's a lot of people. And I want to talk to the people who've given up on this generation because, you know, look, I've been there. I, I get it. I really do. I've been there. You look at them with faces buried in a phone, you hear the words, you know, anxiety and trigger warning and safe space, and you're, you know, somewhere in your chest a voice just says, these kids are not going to survive. I mean, they are soft. They're lost. There's. There's no way. We are doomed. And I want you to know, I used to be there. It's been a while, but I used to be there. You know, let me tell you, Let me tell you who these kids are. The men who climbed out of the landing crafts at, at Normandy. The men we now call the greatest generation. The men we build monuments to. When they were boys, their parents and their grandparents said exactly the same thing. I mean, word for word, they said the same thing. And I want to prove it to you. We have forgotten that. And forgetting is one of the most dangerous things we do. So let me remind you, in the 1920s and 30s, the grown ups looked at the rising generation and they said exactly the same. These kids are soft. They're never. The automobile has ruined them. Jazz has corrupted them. The movies, the dance halls made them shallow. And they're just, they're pleasure mad. They're weak. They have no discipline. They have no Future, it's all gonna end, okay? We even at the time, adults reached back to an ancient authority to, to agree with us. And the quote that everybody quoted at the time is the children now love luxury. They have bad manners and contempt for authority. And they were quoting that as from Socrates. It wasn't from Socrates, okay? It was written in 1907 by a graduate student named Kenneth Freeman. And he put Socrates name on it because he wanted so badly. And the society wanted old wise Greek men to confirm that the kids today are, are going to the dogs. That's how deep this rank the urge to bury the young generation. And this isn't the first time and it's not gonna be the last time. And, and you know, at the turn of the century when parents and grandparents were talking about the what's now known as the greatest generation, they looked for a 25 year old quote. They made up a 2500 year old quote. Okay? Every single time, this happens every time, we're wrong. Now I want you to look at what these kids were handed. The men who stormed the beaches grew up in the Great Depression. One in four fathers had no work. There were breadlines around the block, no prospects for any work on any horizon. Broken economy dropped in their laps by the mistakes of the generation before them. Sounds familiar. Nobody looked at a 19 year old standing in a 1934 soup line and saw a hero. They saw a problem. They saw a burden. And then the world caught fire. And that soft, lost, good for nothing generation put on a uniform. 16 million of them. That's 12% of the entire country. And they went. More than 400,000 of them never came home. And the boys that waited on to Omaha beach, they waited into machine gun fire. They were 18, 19 and 20 years old. And here's the thing I want you to understand. None of them were born to be great. Greatness is not a personality that they had. It was a choice that they made the moment the bill came due. Crisis didn't expose them as soft. It revealed who they had been the whole time. Underneath all of that contempt, they just hadn't been given the opportunity. So now I want you to turn around and look at today's generation, the generation we're writing off today. Let me give you some numbers here that I think are pre staggering. When you hear news and it's bad news and you think we're doomed, I just want you to remember all of this, okay? You think they're degenerate, Listen to this data. By every indication, they are the most sober Most disciplined teenagers in the entire history of America. Record keeping, okay. Teen drinking on high school students and high school seniors has fallen from 73% in the year 2000 to 42%. Binge drinking, which everybody was saying was going to be the end of the world. Binge, binge drinking. You would expect all of this stuff to be through the roof. Binge drinking went from 30% down to 9. The abuse of opioid pills among seniors in high school from nearly 10% at its peak to 6/10 of 1%. You're not having this problem with the teenagers. Teen birth rate just hit the lowest point ever recorded, down roughly 3/4 from its peak. It might have some other problems there, but two out of three high school seniors didn't touch alcohol, marijuana or nicotine at all in the last month. That's not the fingerprint of a lost generation. That is a generation quietly, stubbornly refusing the poisons, the wreck, the ones before it. And here's what they have in common with the boys in 1944, because it's everything. Both generations were handed a broken world by their own parents and grandparents and they were blamed for the breakage. One inherited the crash in the dust bowl. This one is inheriting the debt. Hollowed out institutions that nobody trusts anymore. And a glowing rectangle that is engineered by the smartest people alive to capture their attention and never give it back. Both came to age at a time when the old order was cracking apart. So I wanted to start the show today before we get into anything. If you believe that history runs in long cycles, that roughly every, every 80 years it hands a young generation a crisis and dares them, go ahead, rebuild it then. The clock is telling you something. It's telling you it's their turn now. Yeah, a lot of these kids are anxious and not going to wave that away because it's real and it matters. But ask yourself, honestly, would, would, would you be anxious if you were their, their age? If you were just growing up and you didn't know all the things you knew, but you did know all the things that they do know and see every day, Would you, would you have a little anxiety? Because I would. And it's not a weakness. I think it's a generation that can feel the weight of what is coming and hasn't been given the tools yet or the trust to carry it. The boys in 1938, they weren't calm either. Don't mistake the trembling before the test for failing the test. I wanted to give you some hope today. I'm Going to. I'm going to give you some stats today during the show that I think you'll find remarkable. I'm doing something later on today on. Do we survive? Because that. That's a question that is asked to me all the time. So what do you think? Do we. I mean, how are we going to survive? How are we going to do this? I'm going to show you some stats. I mean, the bad is bad, but can we focus on the good that we have going for us right now? Because there's a few things. So if you are young, hear me on this. I know what people say about you. I know what you've heard your whole life, that you're fragile, you're addicted to, you won't amount to anything that came before you. I'm telling you with the receipts in my hand, they're wrong. They're wrong and they always have been wrong about every. Every generation that ever rose. You come from a long line of people who were underestimated, right until the day they became legends. And you don't have to wait for a war to find out who you are. And here's the one gift I can give to you that I wish somebody would have given the greatest generation the thing nobody thought to say. Nobody stood up back in 1936 and looked at a scared kid in a breadline who had every reason to be afraid. Look him in the eye, say, I see you. I see you. I know who you are. World is going to ask everything of you, and you're going to be equal to it. You're going to be fine. You're actually going to be remembered as the greatest generation. I wish every high school student in America could hear that they had to find out who they were the hard way. Alone in the dark, under fire on a foreign beach without anyone saying to them, except maybe their military leaders who were feeding them steak the night before they went into battle like a condemned man. So I want to do for them what nobody did for the previous generation. Say it before the fire instead of after. I believe in you. I want you to find somebody who is in that coming greatest generation. Say the same thing out loud while it still counts. Say, I believe in you. You are not. The generation that is is a coward. You're not. You're not a generation. You. You have something happening in your generation. I don't know what it is, but you are the generation that is about to be asked to build. And I think that when the moment comes, you're going to be the greatest one. Yet. And to the adults who have lost faith, I get it, but that's our job. Not to diagnose them, but to believe in them out loud. The way somebody should have believed in the boys on the beach back when they were still kids. Look what they turned into when no one had faith in them. And I mean, do this research yourself. It's amazing. No one had faith in the greatest American generation. Everyone thought the country was going to be over because they're too weak, they're too pathetic, they don't know how to work hard, they don't know any of those things. Somehow or another, that generation found it. And I'm telling you now, I think this generation is going to find it too. We're in good hands. We just need to believe in them and we have to help equip them, give them some information and knowledge that they need. But the first thing that has to happen is just tell them, I believe in you. I see who you are. I see you. I know who you are. I believe in you. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you about Relief Factor. Summer is here. Next time the kids or the grandkids are out in the backyard throwing water balloons at each other, soaking everything in sight, driving the dog crazy, laughing like lunatics. Want to join them? Have some fun? If the answer is I can't because I hurt too much, it's time to change that. I want to give give you a tip here and please take it under strong consideration. Try relief factor. It's 100% drug free research based supplement designed to help support a healthy inflammatory response, addressing the pain at the source instead of just masking it. 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History only survives if they do. Torch members get an exclusive exclusive preview of the Chasing Embers audiobook. Get hooked today@torch250.com Can I hear a
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bit of the audiobook the that's releasing? I think the Prologue today, next week, a couple of chapters of it. But this is a book that I read. It's my first young adult fiction novel. I wrote it a couple years ago. Michaela, who is just as brilliant, brilliant 20 something and a young mom and hard worker, and I just love her to death. Just brilliant. I told her this story. She said, may I write it? So she writes it, and it's brilliant. We never did an audio book. People asked over and over, will you do an audio book? Audiobooks take so much time to do. It was hard for me to find time. But we've put an audio book together and here's just a little bit of the prologue. Listen. They were next door. Now hide them. The husband yelled. Without hesitation, the wife placed her hand on her daughter's shoulder, turned her around and shoved her into the bedroom. The husband sprinted through the front room, removing all traces of the children and wedging the unfinished toy sword underneath the couch cushions. With the crying baby still clinging to her chest, the wife flung open the doors of their old wardrobe, violently whipped clothes aside to make room, and yelled to her daughter, ember, get in. Still holding her boy in one arm, she grabbed her daughter by the waist and forced her into the wardrobe. She handed her the baby, saying, quiet him. You have to quiet him. The wife looked at her children tucked into the wardrobe and placed her hand over her mouth to stifle the scream that was rising in her throat. We it's called Chasing Embers. It is a dystopian look at the future where the kids have to save history. They have to save the actual story. They're searching for the actual story. This is set in the future, in what was America. But America is barely known. All of history has been erased by the algorithms and giant corporations and whomever, one could say progressives. But we don't necessarily name anything. And what I've done is, you know, Michaela and I have hidden, hidden history lessons all the way through because that's what the kids are trying to save. They're trying to piece together who this country was, who these people were, who they are, where do they come from. And all the while they are being hunted, literally hunted by the. The giant corporation that kind of controls this dystopian future. It comes out in a couple of weeks. You'll be able to get the prologue today and then chapters one and two next week, and then the whole book the week after. You get them for free. Right now, if you are a torch member, just go to torch250, torch250-.com and sign up for the torch. We have so many things. Do we also have. Do I have time, Sarah, to play the. No, I'm hearing the music, so I don't have time. Also, the next episode of the American Story is out, which takes literally probably 30 hours to produce one episode, and longer than that just to write it with Nathan Nipper. It's a great way to learn history. We've got to equip the youth with our history. If we can restore the story of who we are. I'm telling you now, nothing will stop this generation. And they're facing a lot. But you know what? There was an experiment with rats that tells us everything we need to know. I'll tell you about that next. First, let me tell you about Rapid Radios. Remember when a walkie talkie was just a toy? You'd get one for Christmas, you'd run around the neighborhood for an hour, and then it would, you know, disappear in the closet for the next 10 years. Well, it turns out the basic idea pretty great, being able to push a button and, and talk to somebody instantly. Actually, incredibly useful. Rapid Radios took that simple idea and turned it into something really serious. They work right out of the box. There's no programming, no technical knowledge required, no monthly fees. You just turn them on and you start talking. Great for families, great for travel, great for events, great for job sites, churches, farms. Any situation where you need to stay in touch with people without playing the, you know, can you hear me now? Kind of game all day long. And if you own a business, Rapid Radios offers discounts of up to 60% for commercial orders. Sometimes the best technology isn't the flashiest thing on the market. Sometimes it's just the thing that works when you need it to. I want you to go to rapidradios.com they ship fast from their headquarters in Michigan. It's rapidradios.com rapidradios.com rapid radios communication redefine.
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Coming up, It's Friday and Glenn. Yes, our Glenn is providing hope through a story about rats. Yes, rats. Stay with us on the Glenn Beck program.
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So I want to talk to you about the problem with our society and the opportunity for our society. You know, what is the one thing you, you hate the most about what's happening in our society? I despise the fact that everybody is a whiner. Everybody's like, oh, it's a word. I'm never gonna make it. And I know I sound like the old guy. Get off my lawn. I know, I get it. But hear me out. For a second, every trouble that I've ever had in my life, every trouble, everything that my. My father, I mean, he was so wise. My father, you know, taught me. You sit around and whine about it, or you make the adjustments you need to make and then find a way to learn from that and grow from that and use that, okay? I think that's the secret of life. You can either let life crush you, or you can allow it to motivate you and go, you know what? No, no, no. I'm getting back up again. I'm not staying down. Nobody, nobody can put their thumb and keep me down. And when you have that, it's really hard, especially when you're young. But once you start doing it, once you really start, you have to do it smartly. You can't just be a bully about it. But once you really figure this out, everything can change. Everything can change. And I want to show you why this hardship that everybody's going through is good. It doesn't mean. Look, I remember I was absolutely flat broke. I was divorced. I was a recovering alcoholic, barely holding on. Nobody wanted to work with me. You know, you name it, I had screwed it up in my life, okay? And I would never want to go back to those days. However, in retrospect, that's the biggest growth I ever had. That those days are what changed me and made me into the man I am today. Without those days, I don't know who I'd be, but I wouldn't be sitting here with you. So let me. Let me prove this out with science, okay? 1968, a scientist get comes out and he's decided he's going to make Utopia. Not for people, but for mice and rats. Okay? His name was John Calhoun. He worked at the National Institute of Mental Health, and he wanted to answer the question that I think should interest all of us. What happens with a society when every problem is removed, when everything becomes easy? Ig I can't imagine why that's relevant today in America. Arc everybody has it so easy and we're all complaining. Oh, it's so hard. Oh, my gosh. Go somewhere else in the world and look. Okay, sorry. Just became the old man yelling at this the sky again. So he builds this paradise. It's a. A mouse world. Unlimited food, water that never runs out. No predators, no disease, perfect temperature, endless nesting material. Every danger, every want, every stressor that a mouse has ever faced in the history of mice completely gone. The only thing he gives them besides protection was each other and time. Now, he called his last experiment, Universe 25. And the number matters because it was the 25th time he had built one of these little gardens of ease and Edens for mice and rats, okay? And it ended the same way. Verse 24 already told him where the story goes, but he thought, I'm going to try it one more time. He drops in eight mice, four males, four females, and at first, it's mouse heaven, okay? They breed. The population doubled about every 55 days. And he called this the strive period. It was heaven, and it was working exactly as denied or designed. But by day 300 or 315, something like that, there were more than 600 mice thriving in a space that he had built to hold nearly 4,000. So they have plenty of room to spare. They have absolutely everything. It is mouse heaven. That's the peak. Something starts to go horribly wrong. Growth slows. For no physical reason, there is they, they can't figure it out all of a sudden. And in every all 25 experiments, exactly the same thing, okay? This the thing that none of the researchers counted on. There is no territory to defend. There's no predator to escape. There's no scarcity to overcome. There's no role left for a mouse to fill. And a creature with no role, no struggle, no perfect purpose starts to come apart. The males who had nothing to fight for either turned violent or vanished into apathy. Let me ask you something. What's happening in our society right now? The males, the young males that have nothing to fight for, they either are turning violent or apathetic. Then you have the moms. The mothers stopped mothering, they abandoned their young. They began attacking their young. They forgot about their children. The whole intricate social order that made a mouse, a mouse completely dissolved in 25 identical experiments. 25 times. It happens at the same time. Then came the most haunting part of the experiment. I think there's a new kind of mouse that appears. This mouse didn't fight, they didn't court, they didn't mate, they didn't compete. They wouldn't engage with others at all. They ate, they slept, they groomed themselves endlessly, perfectly. I mean, their coats were sleek and flawless. They were unscarred because they'd never been in a single struggle before. And they started paying attention to what they look like and grooming themselves. By every outward measure, they were the healthiest, best looking mice in the universe. Calhoun in the experiment, after 25 times of this happening, called them the beautiful ones. He called them the beautiful ones, but as he also noted, they were already dead inside they were alive, they were fed, they were immaculate and utterly and completely empty inside. So what happens? Population. This thing is built, I think it said, for 4000. Population peaks at 2200, barely half of what the space could hold. And then the population begins to decline. May I ask what's happening with our birth rate? What is happening with our population on day 600, in a world still overflowing with food, the last baby is born. Day 600. After that, nothing. Not one more mouse, not ever. And on day 920, the last mice, the last of the mice dies in Paradise. And Universe 25 becomes the 25th tomb. And in that tomb, the bowls are still full, the water is still flowing. There's plenty of. There's plenty of stuff to make a home for yourself. Calhoun, in the experiments, as it starts to fall apart, he pulls out some of the beautiful ones and he puts them in a fresh, clean world with normal mice to see if they could come back. They couldn't. They had forgotten how to be mice. There was never any recovery of any of the mice. When he wrote the paper and he's writing about paradise, he didn't title the paper of paradise, he titled it Death Squared. And the reason why he titled that is because there are two deaths. The first death that comes first. Can you guess? Death of the spirit. The death of the body comes later. It just makes the death of the spirit official. I'm tired of people not being honest. I'm tired of people playing games. I'm tired of people trying to win. I'm tired of people, you know, trying to position them, whatever. So let me be honest with you, the way I want people to be honest with me, because the Internet has turned us into something we aren't. Ease is not something we should want. Scientists argue about what this mouse utopia really proved. It wasn't overcrowding. The place was half empty when the rot set in. Mice are not men. You can't draw a straight, clean line from a rodent pen to a human civilization. I'm not going to pretend you can. But you strip away every argument and one fact still sits there and just will not move. The mice didn't die because they ran out of something. They died because they had everything. Every problem was solved, every need was met, every stressor lovingly removed. It was a. The ultimate safe space. And it killed them. Take away the struggle and it turns out you've taken away the very thing that was actually holding them together. You know, we are always, we're always our best in struggle, you know, Something happens. Pearl harbor. We come together and we kick somebody's ass. 911 happens. And to quote Toby Keith will put a boot up your ass. Okay? When something bad happens, a tornado or a hurricane or an earthquake happens, and we rush together to help, that's who we are. And we can't look away from that. We also can't look away that society is trying to take and make us the most comfortable people to have ever drawn breath. And that's not necessarily good. We have engineered away more friction and risk than any other human in history. And it is a genuine triumph. It is. I'm not romanticizing hunger or hardship. Those are real evils worth fighting. But the experiment whispers a warning only a fool would ignore. Comfort is not the same thing as flourishing. A life with nothing left to overcome is not a paradise. It is a slow and beautiful surrender, eventually to death. Notice which societies on earth are the safest, richest, most frictionless ever built. And notice that those are the exact societies quietly deciding not to have a next generation. The mice in abundance. Stop making mice. But here's where the story for me changes and stops becoming prophecy and becomes a choice. Because there is one thing those mice could never do. That you can do today. A mouse can't set out and go, you know what? I'm going to give my life meaning. Life is more than endless cheese. It can't choose the hard road when the easy one is sitting right there. It can't invent a purpose out of thin air. You can. You can pick up somebody else's burden that nobody's forcing on you. You can build the thing that maybe doesn't need to be building, but need to be built. But you can build it. You can have the child. You can take the harder job. You can serve the cause. You can fight the fight. You can fill a role that no one assigned you. You know, I think about that. That guy who. He and his wife aborted their baby because of down syndrome. Do we happen to have that audio? Let's play the audio. This is. This is what the. The father, he aborted a child that had down syndrome because of, you know. Well, it's just not going to have a good life, really. Okay, listen. Listen to this. Yeah, Sarah, you do? Let me see if I can find it. I'm sorry. Where is. Is towards the bottom. Yeah. 17 cut. 17. Yeah.
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I'm glad my dad didn't terminate me. But I'm normal, so. Do you hear that? Yeah. Somebody asked him, are you glad your dad. You glad you're Alive. And your dad didn't abort you? Yeah, of course I am, but I'm normal. The cavalier attitude and I, I contend this had nothing to do with a child. It had everything to do with his life. It had everything to do with his wife's life. They wanted an easy life. They didn't want a trouble, a troubled child. They didn't want to have to deal with a mess. Welcome to the mouse kingdom. Every living soul needs purpose. Find yours. They need something to strive for. Strive for something. And we have a very bright future ahead. Stop looking for the easy path. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you now about our sponsor this. After half hour, it's Chapter. I don't think people will mind, you know, making important decisions. You know, people hate making important decisions with bad information. But when you have good information, it's not. It's. It's good. I mean, it's easy. Medicare feels like important decisions that always turn bad. You turn 65, suddenly your mailbox looks like it's been targeted by a carpet bombing campaign. There's always another mailer, another commercial, another person telling you their plan is absolutely the one you have to choose. This is your health care you want to know you can see the doctors you trust. You need to know you can get the medicine you need, the care you need, and avoid paying for a plan that doesn't actually fit your situation. And that's why I recommend Chapter. They take the time to look at your doctors, your prescriptions, your individual needs. Then they'll help find a plan that makes sense for you. Sometimes the biggest benefit isn't even saving money. It's having a knowledgeable human being on the other end that actually cares about helping you get this right. Thousands of people in this audience have already turned to Chapter for help, and they have saved millions of dollars with those thousands of people. Give him a call. Call us free. Dial £250. Say the keyword chapter. It's £250. Keyword, chapter. Washington talks America. Bill, you're on the right end of that sentence. Glenn Beck, back in a fl.
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Or summer thing, whatever. Join us. Join us@torch250.com for that. If you're a Torch member, you're also going to get something kind of special. An insider inspired me this morning, and so I just went to AI and put together a quick song called Thune the Balless Rhino. Yeah, I mean, inspired by it may not make it anywhere past the insiders, but it's just one of the benefits or the drawbacks of being a Torch insider. Also, I saw Disclosure Day last night. I got a lot to say about that. We're going to talk about that in just a minute after the break. It's Friday. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is it can, it can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself. You're still in the room, you're still nodding along, still showing up, but you're working a lot harder just to keep up. And sometimes you're guessing more than you'd like to admit and you're just hoping don't ask me anything because I don't know what we're talking about anymore. What stops a lot of people from doing anything about it is not denial. It's the process. It's the doctor appointments, the multiple visits, the adjustments, the price tag that makes you go, how, what so people wait and you shouldn't have to. Audien was built to remove those barriers. They have the Atom X. It is an over the counter hearing aid designed to be straightforward and approachable without prescriptions or complicated setups. The charging case has a simple touchscreen, lets you adjust the volume and modes with just tiny little without the tiny little buttons or learning curve and it delivers clear natural sound. Please try it audienhearing.com Take control of your hearing today. Pass it on. Crank the game. Glam back is on. Glam back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. It's Friday. We have a lot to talk about today, a lot to talk about and some pretty heady stuff. But I just want you to know I can slum it just as well as anybody else. I, I heard the name of one of our insiders. Their, their screen name is Thune the Balless Rhino. And I thought, I thought that should be a song. And so I made a song, Thune the Ball less Rhino. And I thought, you know what? I'm just gonna play this for the insiders. It doesn't belong on the regular show. And then Jason just took a poll. What does the poll say about Thune the ball is right.
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Specifically, should you share Thude the Ballas Rhino song to the national audience? And 95% have overwhelmingly agreed. You must share this with the national audience. It's too good.
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I'm just saying, Jon, you could pass the save act. You could. You could. Will you? No. Because you're Thune the ball less Rhino. That's why. We'll get into this here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Super. Sure. I spent a lot of time around entrepreneurs. One thing I learned is that business owners will gladly take, you know, they'll take just about any challenge and they'll work 80 hour work weeks. They'll solve problems nobody else can solve. They'll figure, figure out the payroll and the inventory and the hiring, the customer service, the taxes and a thousand other things. But when they sit down to shop for business insurance, they suddenly, they look like somebody who's just opened up an Ikea box with the instructions missing. You know, it's like not going to have all the screws or I'm going to have too many. I don't Know how to put this together. Finding insurance sucks. That's why I want to check out Super Sure. Super sure is reinventing business insurance. By making it fast and easy to understand. You can get coverage without endless forms, confusing jargon, or spending half your day on hold. The dashboard makes it easy to see exactly what you have once you're paying for and how your coverage is worth working for your business. So right now, go to super sure.com beck. Get a full report on your current policies, no obligation. Find out if you're overinsured or underinsured or somewhere in between. Is Super Sure.com Beck one super agency, one powerful platform, and all your policies in one place? Super Sure.com Beck that's Super Sure.com Beck
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I saw a disclosure day last night and I want to talk about that because I. I think it's important that we talk about it. I'll give you my review of it here in just a second, but first, I. By. I'm. It's almost. I'm playing this almost under duress. Almost under duress. Here it is, the world premiere of Thune the Balless Rhino. You have it? Are we not playing it? Are we playing it? Jason?
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Here is Thune the Ballas Rhino.
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Okay, thank you. He walks in big, talks like a king but the room stays cold. When it's time to bring. He points at the board then ducks the fight. All soup, no spark and no words all bite. He says I got this. Then shift the blame. The same old grin with a different name. Say it loud, say it plain. You had the chair but lost the game. Too much pose, not enough drive. You keep the crowd but you never arrive soon. The ball is rhino. You don't get it done. The ball is rhino. Always on the run. You make a big scene then fold up small. Okay. All right, all right, all right, that's enough. There you go. Yes, Ricky.
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Is it any wonder we never get any interviews of note from the swamp? Any wonder at all?
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You know what to miss on a John Thune interview? I'm happily playing that. I'm happily playing that. He has nothing to say that I need to hear. You know, he's a ball less rhino. Anyway, you're gonna let me be in
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D.C. you could take that track right to his office and just like blast it through the halls. We gotta do that.
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Oh, my gosh. Thank you for that. I will be in D.C. soon. Thank you for that idea. I mean. I mean, I. I may need. I may need enough copy? I may need 100 copies. Let's just leave it at that. I don't know what hundred people I could give it to, but I might need 100 copies. All right, I saw a disclosure day, Steven Spielberg's new film last night. And it's. It's good. It's very good. It's, you know, Steven Spielberg, it's not his best. Everybody's like, oh, it's the best film he's ever made. No, it's not. It's not. But not his best is still better than most movies that are out. Okay? So it's worth seeing. With that, I'm not gonna blow anything, but with that, some moments in this are just downright stupid. The kind of make you question if spiel, did Spielberg see the final edit of this? You know, and when. You'll know it when you see it, because there are a couple of Jar Jar Binks level stupid calls in this movie. You know, grown adults hiding behind a leafless bush in a split rail fence while being hunted. The people are on the other side of the fence and they're just crouched down behind a split rail fence and a bush with no leaves, you know, or they're hiding behind a rock literally about seven feet away. They had a chance to escape, but they wanted to see what happened. So they're standing behind this rock while everybody's searching for him is like, please, did Spielberg watch this movie? Anyway, in the end, you'll find the. The aliens more believable than some of the humans, but go see it. That said, that's the worst of it. And it's only a couple of scenes, you know, quickly that go by. You're just like, oh, come on. But here's what I recommend. If you want your money's worth, don't go out and watch the 9 o' clock show or the 8 o' clock show, you know, go to dinner and then go reverse that. Go to the 6 or 7 o' clock show and then go have dinner and invite some friends that, you know, can think. Invite some friends to go with you and go see the movie, then sit down at dinner. And then, because I'm telling you, the real, the real story is not the one on the screen. It's the conversation that that movie will make, will just pull right out of you. Okay, it opens. And no spoiler alert needed here it. Because the opening scene is the world is at defcon to one step from the. The brink. You know, it's a sub, sub, sub, sub, sub, sub, subplot. Or is it? I think the movie would say yes, but I'm not so sure. But DEFCON 2, in case you don't know, only time in American history we've ever had it is Strategic Air Command has confirmed DEFCON to only one time in our history, and that's the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. DEFCON 1 is we're at full war, nuclear war. DEFCON 2 is without going to war. It is when everything. The rockets are juiced and ready to take off. All the planes that need to be up in the air are in the air. We just have to call them back. It's that kind of thing. Most people, I think, in the theater missed what happened at the end. And I won't tell you what happened at the end. But the disclosure is over. The chases, you know, take over the whole movie. And that opening fear of DEFCON 2 kind of vanishes by the final credits. It's there. And it's not sloppy writing. I think it's misdirection. It's the magician's other hand. The story tells you what you're supposed to fear in the first five minutes and then walks you right past it while you're staring at a spectacle. Okay, now, in reality, if. And I don't believe this is what's happening here, but people are like, this movie, and it's. It's just softening up. If this movie was built to soften you up for disclosure, then the ending is really important, and you might miss the whole point on what the government would want you to do in case of disclosure. Real or a psyop. Okay, there's also, in the movie, a religious angle that I'm not. I'm not really sure I'm all that comfortable with. I mean, I am comfortable with it being presented in the movie the way it was presented. It's just. These are all conversations we have to have. Okay? And this. What this. This part is, you know, more to the surface, and it's pretty unavoidable. And the question is if they. If there are aliens, are they from God? Now, hold that thought, because this is where the movie stops being entertainment and starts asking harder questions about the world we're actually living in. And there's two theories that I think are worth mentioning here. Predictive programming and cultivation theory. Okay, There is an old idea called predictive programming. It was popularized by researcher Alan Watt, and the idea is that entertainment can preload the public with ideas. You put concepts into films and shows and stories year in advance. So when something similar Appears in reality. It feels familiar. Almost inevitable. We've seen it with the X Files. Okay, yeah, it's like an episode of the X Files. Okay, that. That's what they mean. Preloading you so you. You don't necessarily freak out. I've seen. Instead when it happens, you're like, I've seen this before. I've seen this movie before. Right? Now, skeptics rightly point out that this can become a conspiracy lens that explains everything, therefore doesn't explain anything. All right? But you don't have to go full fringe to see something real here. The Department of Defense or war and the CIA have had an official entertainment liaison office for decades. Did you know that? They are. They are brought in to help shape stories. And it's not a shadowy conspiracy. It's. I mean, it's. It's out there. You know, they're. They're given jets and bases and, and technical advisors for their movies. And in. In exchange, they shape the stories for the government. And this is documented policy. Hollywood gets access to government, gets their understanding of influence. Okay? Now the second theory is cultivation theory. This one was developed by a guy named George Grubner, and he was at the University of Pennsylvania. Decades of research on this shows that. Now listen to this. Heavy media consumption doesn't just entertain, it cultivates your sense of reality. Heavy media consumption. What are most people doing eight hours every day? They are scrolling and staring and consuming media. This research shows that heavy viewers develop mean World syndrome, where everything is a danger. They overestimate the danger. Crime, threats. They become more fearful, more dependent, and more open to strongman measures. Fear sells. Fear shapes. Grubner testified in front of Congress that fearful people are easier to manipulate and control. Psychologists have studied this for years and years and years. Repeated exposure to threats in media can desensitize or heighten anxiety, depending on the framing. So wars, crisis, existential threats. Stories in prime to prime populations. And it primes them to accept changes they might otherwise resist. Look how our gun, our country has been primed. Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. What does that do? That primes you to turn on your neighbor. That primes you to excuse violence. Okay, this isn't magic. This is human psychology. And it plays a heavy, heavy role in our society and our culture today. What? So, you know, I don't. I don't know if this is all of this stuff that you're seeing now with the UFOs, if it's natural or being fed to us, but we know stuff is being fed to us through our algorithms, intentionally. Also think about Orson Welles. Orson Welles, 1938, War of the Worlds. What was the lesson we were supposed to learn from that? We taught. We were taught that War of the Worlds with. With Orson Welles caused mass panic. People fleeing into the streets believing Martians has landed, blah, blah, blah. But that's not true. Only about 2% of the country was even tuned in. It was War of the Worlds and Orson Welles and the Mercury Radio Theater was something that was. It was up against the hardest show, a radio show done by a ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy, and Edgar Bergen. I mean, it's. I know. It's hard to beat. It's hard to beat. It's like Lawrence Welk. We're being beaten by a guy with an accordion. Yeah. Anyway, 2% were listening to Orson Welles. The panic was tiny. It was real, but it was tiny. Okay, the legend that there was mass panic. Where did that come from? Listen to this. Newspapers. Newspapers who were losing advertising revenue to radio during the Depression, and newspapers seized the broadcast to paint radio as reckless and untrustworthy. Hmm. You mean like the way cable news paints podcasters? Huh? So the hysteria wasn't about public gullibility. It was about one medium. Manufacturing fear to destroy arrival. The lesson we supposedly learned was wrong. The real lesson is always ask, who profits from the fear? President Reagan. He said in 19, I think, 87, he was at the United nations, and he said that all of our earthly differences would vanish if we would face an alien or an alien threat from the outside. Outside of the world. Okay? A sitting president musing out loud about unity through extraterrestrial fear. Back in 1960, Brookings, the Brookings Institute, delivered a report to NASA on the implications of discovering extraterrestrial life. And this is in the movie. I mean, it's. They don't quote this, but this is implied in the movie. What they found. In 1960. They warned the government that if you talk about aliens and you confirm them, it could destabilize our entire society. It would challenge religious and cultural foundations, and that leaders would, you know, should. Should carefully consider if they're going to release the information. That's what this whole movie is about, okay? The fight between somebody who wants the information released and somebody who doesn't want the information released. And which one is right? This conversation is 65 years old, and it happened in government buildings on the record in the 1960s. Okay? We've been seeing a steady drumbeat of disclosure that is happening. I don't know what's real and what's not. Pentagon is releasing footage, Congressional hearings talk of, and I'm quoting, non human biologics. What? A government who has been denying this for decades suddenly decides to open the door. Why? And who profits from fear? Run a pure thought experiment here. Not claiming this is happening, just asking what it could mean if disclosure narratives were softening us up for a bigger narrative. Something bigger. Actual disclosure. Okay. What major permanent shifts in the Western world might need a spectacular distraction. We are, we're living right now with rapid changes. Currency, power, governance. Let me tell you about the Ratchet effect, because this will explain it all. We'll do that next. First, let me tell you about our sponsor, this half hour. Every piece of your life is connected right now to your banking, your medical records, your tax information, your shopping. All of it. Online, all linked, all at Target. And you think I'm careful. Yeah. Well, you may not know something is wrong before it's too late. Most people don't find out their identity has been stolen until the damage is already done. Counts open in their name, loans taken out, credit destroyed. That's why there's Lifelock. Lifelock uses advanced monitoring to detect a wide range of potential threats. Threats. Things that go way beyond what credit monitoring can. Can catch by themselves. 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okay, there's an economist, his name is Robert Higgs. And he. He talks about something called the Ratchet effect. A crisis expands government power. We know that. And even after the crisis passes, the machine doesn't go back. It only ratchets upward. Bigger wars change borders and currencies, they don't have to be won outright. They just need to last long enough for people to forget what life was like before and accept the new normal. So in 2026, we see shifting global orders, debates over the dollar's dominance, pushes for digital currency, stablecoins, bricks. All of this stuff, okay, all of this is under strain. Okay, so we have all this competition, protectionism, realignments Everything's about to change. You feel it. You feel it. A dramatic external threat, if it's real or amplified, could unify populations. It would justify new controls, surveillance, global coordination. Everything else would face resistance. But if you could just bring everybody together now. Again, this is a thought experiment. I really don't believe this is what it's. What it is. I think Disclosure day. I don't think it's a government operation. I think it's Spielberg. He is a master storyteller who has his finger on the pulse and he sees what's going on. He wrote a great story. I think that's what's happening. However, he has collaborated with government entities to help shape narratives. Before the famous Clinton denial. I did not have sex with that woman. That's Steven Spielberg. Okay, the deeper point here is not aliens. It's vulnerability. The only door, any power, human or otherwise needs is fear. A person grounded in true faith, history, principles, cannot be stampeded by flashing lights or headlights. Watch the other hand. Watch the other hand. Admire the big eyed invaders in the movie. Go see the movie. Six o', clock. Show dinner at nine. Talk about the open, the opening and the ending. What is this movie really about? Insane. And just stay awake. Know what you believe. Lights in the sky are one thing. The ratchet turning the shadows is another. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. Our sponsor is preborn. Deep inside a mom's womb. If you listen carefully, there is a voice. It's not a voice just that speaks words. It's something that says something nonetheless. It's a heartbeat saying, I'm alive. I'm alive. This is life. This is life. This is life. A culture that has spent a very long time plugging its ears so it doesn't have time to hear that voice. But it's important to hear it. Expecting moms, especially the desperate, often choose to silence that voice. And people like Planned Parenthood, they do not want you to hear that. They do they. They are dead set against ultrasounds. Why? Because when somebody walks into a preborn clinic and they're thinking about an abortion, they get the ultrasound, they hear it. And that changes the majority of women. All of a sudden they're like, wait a minute, that's life. And you. She chooses life. They don't stop there either. They help moms who need it for a full two years after the child is born. So if you're a business owner, would you consider a larger donation to claim a write off a donation of 1,000, 10,000 or 15,000 actually sponsors a full ultrasound machine for a needy clinic, but $28 buys that ultrasound stall tax deductible keyword baby at £250. Keyword baby, £250. Ricky and Jason, I want to ask you, do you, are you gonna go see Disclosure Day?
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I already bought my tickets at IMAX for this Sunday. Now, I like it super, super hyped until your review. And now I'm like, no, it's worth.
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Hang on. I went in. Yeah, it is. I went in. You know, with all of the hype that it is the best Spielberg movie ever, that's a really high bar. You look at Spielberg movies and they're really, really good. They're iconic. I think this is a good movie, but I didn't hear like, you know, the, the ET Theme or the Indiana Jones theme or any of those things. I didn't hear John Williams, a memorable theme in this, the Jurassic park thing. And everybody said, this is John Williams Best score ever. It's a really good score. It's really good. Best score ever. I don't know. So I, I, I walked into it thinking it's going to be just, you know, the greatest movie you've ever seen in your life. Because Spielberg, it's not. It's a really good movie. His, you know, top 10 is still one of the best movies of all time, you know, but really, it's better than jaws, better than E.T. better than Schindler's List. I don't, I don't think so. I don't think so. But it's good. It's a really good movie. What I wanted to know is you're going into it, Ricky, do you buy into this? Is anything other than Steven Spielberg finger on the pulse of the population going, everybody's talking about extraterrestrials. I got one more movie in me. I have this story.
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Or do you think it's completely opportunity opportunistic of the cultural moment that we're in? I think it's aggressive, though, that he was able to produce it, direct it, cast it. Like, probably they do this, what, years, two years in advance. So, like, how the heck did this guy Spielberg, right, that it would release just the right moment when we're talking about it? This I, I tend to believe Jason and I go along with his theory that he did the same cahoots with the government.
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You think so, Jason, you think that's a psyop? Or he just, he's just slightly in. What do you mean he's in cahoots with the Government?
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Well, I don't know what it is. I, all I know is that I don't like it. And I, you know, me, back when this first came out, I was all about what the government has on this stuff. After ever since that New York Times article, I was like, oh my gosh, at this point, with all the heavy, heavy emphasis on Christians with them saying this is going to somehow make us question our faith based off of what? No Christian I know thinks that. But that's the message they're trying to push now. My mind always goes, oh, I, So
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I think that there will be those who question there if this were true, you know, this disclosure was made. I think it would, Some would question. I think some would question. I think a lot of people would say if they're aliens and they look like, you know, the big eyed bug people, then that is, that, that's, that's not from God, that's from Satan. I, I think there will be a lot of people that would say this is from the devil and it would be very, very bad. And I think there would be some that would say, and I don't understand this one, that some would say, no, God made us. You know, there's a quote at the beginning of. And I didn't look it up, but I'll bet you it's in the Apocrypha. Does, does, can, can you look up in Genesis real quick, Do a search. In Genesis, when God created man, he said that they are the supreme being on this earth. I, I don't remember the exact quote from the movie. But, but they make a big deal out of. No, no, no. A nun says no, no, no, it's the supreme being on this earth. What's it say, Ricky? Do you have it?
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Didn't God say that he would, didn't he say that he would give us dominion over everything?
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Right. I've never read anything like that. I could not remember anything. I didn't do a search.
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So Genesis 1:26, let us make mankind in our image so that they may rule over the fish in the sea. And the, Is that what they're pulling from?
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Maybe. I mean, she quoted it, but it was a, you know, it was a sketchy, you know, I was like, I don't think I've ever heard that before. But a lot of people who don't look at the Bible or read the Bible, they won't know and they'll take that away. But yeah, I guess dominion over the fish in the sea make God, I mean God make us in his Image. Some people say that means, you know, because Jesus came down to get a body. Why does he have a body? Does he take that body and put it on a hanger when he's not using? I mean, I don't. I don't understand the whole body thing if you don't believe God has a body. And I know that's really weird, but I mean, you know, some people believe that we are literally in his own image. Some people say that our spirit is in his image. I don't know. I'll know when I get to heaven. You know, I've always said if I get up to heaven and God's a space octopus, I'm going to be shocked, but it'll be my duty to go, oh, okay. Didn't see that one coming, but all right, Lord, I'm with you, I guess. And, you know, and then the Lord would say, oh, I've got eight arms. And it'll continue to be surprising. But, you know, so I don't know. To me, that's not essential to my salvation. What's essential to my salvation is Jesus is my Savior. He is the line of redemption. And that's all I really need to know. Everything else is, you know, up in the air for me, you know, far as being locked into it. When I get to the other side, that's when I'll lock into it. But I think this would, you know, they show in the movie somebody bowing down to the Emily Blunt character, and she's just kind of channeling these beings.
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What, Jason would bow down to the Emily Blunt character? If I know anything about him.
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Oh, I know. I. I've met Emily Blunt. I'd bow down to her, too. I think I might have. Might have? I will worship.
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Now you met her, what is she like? She seems non woke.
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She was. She was super fun. I met her briefly. It was backstage. She was dating Michael Buble at the time, and they were on Segways, and they came in, they were. They played with the kids for a while. I mean, it was. She was really nice. She was very delightful. I really liked her.
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I'm mostly going for Emily, straight woman.
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She is really, you know, best performance of her career, probably. Probably. She's really, really good in this. And what she's going through is she pulls it off to where it's completely believable. It's complete. It's a great story. It's a great story. But I just. I think the interesting part of this is taking it beyond the movie. That's why I said get some smart friends. Don't go see this alone. Go see this with some friends that you like to talk to who you know and think. And then just say, watch the movie. Notice everything you can in it, and let's talk about it afterwards. Because we had a fascinating discussion on the way home. In fact, we were. We had somebody else. We had a bunch of people with us, and I always have to have security, so I actually has kicked security out of my car and said, drive our friend's car behind us. We're going to drive halfway home, you know, where we have to have the fork in the road and they go one way, we go the other way. Because we wanted to talk after it. And I thought, I wish we would have had dinner after the movie, not before. Because it's, it's a, It's. It's a great conversation starter. It's fun to think about this stuff. It's also fun just to watch a movie.
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I'm. I'm. Right now, I'm just on this mission of trying to figure out what is their biggest. I don't. I'm just going to call it psyops. Psyop. Between Christians and this UFO community, I. I don't know, it. It feels like they're specifically trying to do something specifically on people with faith. And that's what's ticking me off. And I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm going to see it tomorrow. But I, that's what I. I mean, if they don't want it to appear to be a psyop, we'll stop making it appear so much like a psyop. Number one, just a few days ago, every single whistleblower person, you know, that's come out and their mother and including Congressman everyone was in D.C. making a big disclosure, you know, pitch. And I was like, wait a minute, you guys picked this week, just a few days before one of the biggest movies of the summer comes out, specifically about the government finally doing a disclosure day. I don't know. To me, it's just way too much.
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And that could be favors to Spielberg. I mean, that could just be. Hey, everybody's. That could be favors to Spielberg. It could be everybody just going, hey, look, the movie is coming out. Everybody's talking about it. Let's make sure we ride that wave right now. I mean, sometimes, you know, sometimes it is just about the money, and sometimes it's just about, I can get my message out. Everybody's going to be paying attention to it. You know, if I ever wrote a sci Fi book that had aliens in it. I'd be out saying, I want my book to release right now because everybody's talking about it right now where you'd have a hard time getting an interview on shows with a UFO book. If you released it now, you might have a better shot because people are talking about the movie. And so it's relatable with Steven Spielberg's movie, number one at the box office this weekend. Are Aliens Real? We talked to author, you know, Jason Buttrill about his book Aliens are Up My Butt. Jason, what do you think that's, that's what would happen? That's what would happen.
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Well, Glenn, it's not comfortable, I can tell you that.
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I bet it's not. I bet it's not. Can I just switch topics? I am so disappointed. I have to say. I hope he has. I hope he's outplayed them, but I think the President has been outplayed by stupid Congress. And I, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. But this is the first time I've been, I've looked at it and gone. I don't understand this move at all. Well, no, the Chinese in school thing, that too, but this one is really bad. Listen to this headline. House rejects last minute extension for key FISA Spy power amid Bill Pulte uproar. Or Pult. How do you say his name? Ricky Polter Pulte.
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I don't know. He's not going to be there for long, so I haven't really worked on.
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Yeah, all right, good. So this guy is the guy who was picked by Trump to take Tulsi Gabbard's job as, as the DNI Director of National Intelligence. That's the guy who's over all of the intelligence agencies. So Congress and the Senate, they pitch a fit and they're like, this guy doesn't have any experience at all. And they say to the President, the President wants FISA renewed. They say to the President, we're not going to renew fisa. I mean, what. When I hear that, I hear the heavens open up and I hear angels singing hallelujah. I mean, that is the greatest thing I could ever hear. You won't refer. Great. You've been the ones pushing for it and saying, we gotta have it, gotta have it, gotta have it, gotta have it. More important than the Save America act or anything else, you got to have fisa. Got to have fisa. Got to have fisa. Got to have fisa. Okay, so I just, I just nominated somebody that you feel so strongly that he's the wrong guy that you're rejecting fisa, huh? I don't believe you. I don't believe you. I would have, if I were President, I would have said, oh, okay, good. Well, so be it. He's staying. Why were they so against this guy? And they said, we need somebody who has experience with the agencies. You know what? Actually, I don't want people with experience with the agencies. Maybe that's a good thing because they're very complex. But you know what? Donald Trump didn't have experience with the White House. He was an outsider. And look at what he did. Look at what he did. Yes, he lost his way the first time. He had to get his feet. But Donald Trump and everybody around him, Tulsi Gabbard, can brief this guy if he's smart. And I don't know enough about him, if he's smart, he might be exactly the guy. And seeing that the intelligence agencies start to put the squeeze on the Senate and the House members, and they're like, no, no, no, we can't have him. That's exactly the guy I want. Exactly the guy I want. And so what does the President do? He bails on that guy and says, okay, we'll pick this guy. And now they're willing to do the FISA thing. Oh, really? They're willing to do it? They're willing to give you the FISA renewal. Oh, how brave of Congress to do. They were going to anyway. They were going to anyway. He should have exacted something else. He should have said, you know what? Go ahead, don't pass. He's staying. Unless you want to give me the Save America act, give me the Save America Act, I'll replace him. I still would be hesitant to do that, but I don't think the President got anything except fisa. They weren't going to cut fisa. None of them would have cut fisa. What did you do? I really want an answer on that one, because that one I don't understand. All right, back in just a minute. Patriot Mobile. The fight against leftism and all the dangerous things it stands for has only just begun. Our victories and our losses serve as a forge in which our character as a conservative people is shaped and tested. I remain committed to the fight against injustice and decency and promise that's not going to change. If you're like me and you've made a commitment to never send money to leftist or leftist causes, well, good. Do you know you're doing that every month with your cell phone bill? Patriot Mobile is America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. They offer dependable nationwide coverage on all three major networks. So you get the best possible service in your area. And you get it without the leftist propaganda. In fact, when you make the switch to Patriot Mobile, you're letting the world know that you support free speech, religious freedom and the sanctity of human life. The Second Amendment, all of that stuff. Okay, go to patriot mobile.com/beck right now. 972 Patriot 972 Patriot use a promo code Beck get a free month of service. It's patriot mobile.com Beck 972 Patriot promo code Beck faith family a full work day. That's not fascist, that's just Tuesday. More Glenn Beck straight ahead.
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I can think of that would explain why he would make this change in exchange for FISA is you have what's going on with Iran and you know that they are planning terror, trying to plan terror here in the United States. We have the operations in Venezuela, we have the FIFA World cup here in the US all these huge crowds and gatherings, people coming from all over the world. I think we're going to play Iran in the World cup maybe this weekend. We have our 250, you know, America, 250 celebrations happening all over the country, but a massive event beginning this weekend and all the way through August in, in the, in Washington, D.C. i mean, I think he's concerned about our own security here in the United States, our domestic security, much more than he was the first term, remember the first term he was against Pfizer. He didn't like it. Now he's pushing for it. In fact, he said FISA 702 is very important to our military. I'm willing to risk up giving my, giving up my rights for our great military and country. Speak for yourself, Mr. Trump. I am not. But I think that's the only thing is he might know something that we don't know about, threats that have him really spooked. All right, more in just a minute. Our last hour of the week coming up next. Keeping yourself and your family safe means being prepared for situations that can, you know, put you or them in danger. It means being prepared for all the situations, you know, even those situations where deadly force is not needed. In fact, it's a real problem. There are more of those than you think. And if you're a gun owner, it's unfortunately easy to think a gun will provide you all the safety it needs. But you never pull a gun unless you're prepared to kill somebody. And I'm, I'm not in all situations, you know, but they can go bad fast. There is a tool for this. It's the burn a launcher. It's a non lethal alternative to safeguarding your home. That will teach somebody a very painful non lethal lesson. It's legal in all 50 states. No permits or background checks request required. And it can be used by all age groups over 18. My kids carry them in their backpacks. You'd be confident that you are prepared to defend yourself against potential threats. Go to Burna.com Glenn learn more about it. Try before you buy at a sportsman's warehouse located near you. You can find that location at burnaby r n a.com Glenn. Pass it on. Crank the game. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Glenn Beck is our. Well, hello America. It's Friday, which means we may be very close to a peace deal. We may be signing a. We may be signing a peace deal this weekend. You don't know. You don't know, you don't know, but we're very, very close. When the peace deal is signed, then we'll talk about the peace deal. Don't talk to anybody about the peace deal. Every, We've had a peace deal. Every Friday it's. I know it's Friday because we're close to a peace deal. So, so we'll just take that with a grain of salt, move on. And we can talk Monday if we have a peace deal. But JD Vance apparently is on the way to Europe to meet with the Iranians and the Iranians said we're not meeting with anybody. We'll, let's just. Enough said. All right. That's some really amazing stuff to share with you here at this hour. Stand by. First, let me talk to you about rough greens. One of the things you learn when you have a dog is it's not a one way relationship. You feed him, you take him to the vet, you let him out in the middle of the night. But look what you get in return. You get the tail wag when you walk through the door. You get the companionship. You get the loyalty. You get the comfort of a friend who is absolutely thrilled to see you every time, every day in his life. Does that happen very often to you? You know what I mean? Point is, they give us a lot because they love us a lot. The important thing is we give something back. I want to talk to you about rough greens. Now. It's not a dog food. It's a nutritional supplement you add to the food you're already feeding your dog. It contains things like probiotics, omega oil, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, things that are alive that your dog's body needs. Get a Jumpstart trial bag right now. Just cover shipping. Go to ruffgreens.com use promo code beck ruffgreens.com promo code beck. Ruffgreens makes any dog food better. So I am gonna break a rule slightly. I don't like talking about other pods, podcasters, especially those who I disagree with. But I just, I, I need to set this Up a little bit. Last week, I told you about what was happening in Russia, and Candace Owens went over to Russia, and the story was not about her. It was about Alexander Dugan. And when she came home, and I guess she did her podcast today, and I have been told that she is talking about, you know, how. How Russia is, you know, is the defender of the faith and that everything in Russia is good and that, you know, of course, everything here in America is in decline. They're not. Our culture is evil. Theirs isn't. They're the defender of the faith. And I just disagree with almost all of that. Well, except for the premise that America is in decline. Yes, it is. If we choose to continue and our culture is evil, I think it's pumping up poison myself. We have to become people of God, but we certainly don't need a Christian prince to do it. The Lord has it, you know, in hand, and he's requiring his people to turn his face back to him. If we do, then we'll be saved. If we don't, well, then, you know, all bets are off. But it's as easy as that. I don't need to go to somebody who is telling us, like Alexander Dugan is, Russia is aligned with Iran. Is there any doubt in your mind that Iran is not a good place? Not one where Jesus is like, you know what, sometimes I like to vacation in Iran. I just love that. I love the clerics there. I don't think so. Dugan said also he would give nukes to any state that would not. United States, like capital state, any state that would actually help wipe the west off the face of the map. Take America on. Okay. I don't think that's a friend. You know, that doesn't. That doesn't sound like somebody I want to hang out with on my vacation. But to each his own, I guess. I've been telling you about Alexander Dugan for a long time, but now he brought up something just last week that I had not. I had not heard about. And it's the cat. Catech on, I think, or the Ktacon. I don't know exactly how to pronounce it. I'd never heard of it before. There is a op ed now@glenn beck.com Written by Bill Cloud, and he talks about what this is and, you know, Alexander Dugin and Russia and what they really believe, because you cannot get caught in this trap. Even the very elect are going to get caught in this trap, and it's very, very dangerous. Bill, welcome to the program.
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Hi, Glenn. It's great to be with you again.
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Thank you. How do you pronounce this? And what is catech on catacomb?
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Catacomb.
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Catacon. Catacomb.
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Catacomb.
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Okay.
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Yeah, well, it's a, it's a Greek term actually, and it's used by the Apostle Paul in a letter he wrote to the Thessalonians. And he's describing he who restrains or he who's holding back. And so, you know, it's called the restrainer. So that's what it technically means. And what he's referring to is that the restrainer, the catacomb is who or what holds back the man of sin from being fully revealed. And so the assumption is made that the catacomb or the restrainer is a force for good and it's there to keep evil in check. But apparently, and this is, I just found this out last week too when I read the article by Mr. Morrow that Alexander Dugan believes that the West, I think we can include Zionism and Jews in that, that they're the evil in the world that has to be restrained. And so he is apparently applying the role of catacomb or the restrainer to Russia, to his vision of what Russia should be, that they are a God ordained instrument who, with Islam as an ally, that they're in the world to overcome the evil, as he sees it, that is the west and the Jews, etc. Etc. So that's what it, that's where the idea comes from.
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How do Christians, how are they getting caught up in this? I mean, you say to me, hey, you know who the evil is? America. You could convince me that America does great evil with its culture. I agree we are way off base with our culture. We are an enemy of God in many ways. But when you're looking to say, okay, we got to wipe that out and hey, by the way, let's partner with Russia. I begin to question you. Let's partner with Russia and Iran. There's no way, Isaac Christian believed that at all ever. How are they falling for this?
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Well, just my opinion, I guess, is that, you know, a lot of Christians just really don't know what the scripture says. Quite honestly, a lot of people don't take the time to study it. A lot of people regurgitate theology. And theology, and I say this respectfully, is not equivalent to the truth. Theology is the study of God, but that's always subjected to a man's opinion. And in this particular case, Dugan is interpreting what Paul said about the restrainer to and Applying it to, to Russia in this case. So I think that's how it happens. It's, it's. Generally a lot of people just really don't know what the Scripture has to say. They know what people say it says, but they don't take the time to read it. So, I mean, there's probably a lot of other reasons and people have their eyes on all the wrong things at this point in time, including Christians. So that's just my thoughts.
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Last week I found out that Dugan and his allies are, are saying that the Antichrist is going to come from the west, from America, and it's a Jewish Antichrist. Do you read that anywhere in Scripture? Anywhere, anyway.
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In other words, that there's going to be a Jewish Antichrist? No, I don't.
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And the Antichrist is coming from the West?
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Well, I mean, there are people who believe that, but no, I don't see that in Scripture at all. In fact, all the patterns that we see in Scripture seem to say that the Antichrist is going to come from the East. For instance, Nebuchadnezzar, he is a prototype of the Antichrist. He was the King of Babylon. He's the one that came in and destroyed Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple. He went mad for seven years. He became a beast. He made an image of himself and he is from the East. And so there's a pattern there. So I could go on and on and that, but all the patterns and seem to show that he's going to come from the east, not from the West.
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And isn't there something about Gog and Magog being Persia and Russia? Is any of that true?
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Well, when I was reading about Dugin saying that, you know, he believes Russia is the restrainer and all these kinds of things and, you know, wanting to align himself with Islam and how he believed that the restrainer, the catacomb, along with Almahdi, we're going to lead this holy war against the west and overcome the Jewish antimus, Jewish anti Messiah and all these kinds of things. That's when, you know, my brain just, really just was on overload and I began to, you know, connect that idea to all these different prophecies. And one of them being there is this battle that is Described in Ezekiel 38. 9 with GOG of Magog war. Now, let me just insert this real quick. And what Morrow said in his article is that Dugan believes that this climactic battle that the catacomb and the and Almighty is going to fight as Armageddon. But I'm thinking If that happens, and I say if he might be walking into what is described in Ezekiel 38, 9. So that is this confederation of, It's a confederation of Islamic nations. But the Bible describe or speaks to the chief prince of Meshech and Tuval, Gog of Magog, who comes from the far north. And where Israel's concerned, the far north could be and include Russia. So, you know, we've talked, people have talked about this, you know, for centuries, as who is Gog of Magog? And certainly for in the last 50, 60, 70 years. But when I saw this and that there's this man who's pushing this ideology and philosophy, supposedly even, you know, to Putin and how Russia's destiny is to be the catacomb and to put down the west and to put down Israel, etcetera, That's when I really thought maybe there might be something to this Russia being allied with these Islamic nations coming into the mountains of Israel. That's, that's pretty strong in my, My, my view. So. But now the result will be, of course, that this invading force will be destroyed.
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So, Bill, I mean, I'm not asking anybody to believe that we're living in end times or anything, but, you know, I just did some research. Let me see if I can find this. It is shocking the number of people that actually believe that we, we are possibly in the end times. Let me see if I can find it. It's. See here, you look at this. It's not a fringe view. According to Pew, 39%, nearly 4 in 10 say yes, we're living in the end times. Evangelical Christians say 63%. But here's the crazy part. About a quarter of people with no religious affiliation said yes to that as well. Nine percent of atheists say yes, we're living in the end times.
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That's interesting.
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Yeah. Isn't that fascinating? I found that absolutely fascinating. And, you know, I did some research on, you know, this has been happening since, I mean, the apostles thought Jesus was coming back. But there are some things now that are unique that were not, that are important pieces, like, for instance, the reestablishment of Israel, important pieces of prophecy that we've now hit that make war, rumors of war, nations rising against race, you know, earthquakes, famines, all that stuff mean a little bit more this time. Would you agree or disagree with that?
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I absolutely agree. If you don't mind. Let me give you this passage of scripture. It's in Hosea, chapter six. It says, come and let us return in the Lord. He is stricken, but he will not bind us up. He is broken, but he will heal us. After two days, he revives us, and on the third day will raise us up that we may live in his sight. So it talks about two days. After two days, something happens. And on the third day, basically it's describing the Messianic era, when we live in his sight, when Messiah rules and reigns from Jerusalem on the earth. Point being this. A day with the Lord is a thousand years. A thousand years is as a day. It's been 2,000 years or two days since the Messiah left. And it was said that he will come again. So we're coming to the end of that second day when he revives us on the third day, he will raise us up. So we're in that. We're in that time. We're at that threshold. I believe adamantly that we're coming to the end of the second prophetic day and about to enter into the third day, which means then there are going to be birth pangs. There are going to be all these wars and rumors of wars and all the things that Messiah describes in Matthew 24 and all the prophets talk about. And then, you know, let's bring it back to this philosophy or theology that Dugan has, which, by the way, embraces this idea that Moscow is the third Rome of the Roman Empire Empire. And supposedly, according to their theology, it's to be the last one. So he believes we're in the last days too. And he lines himself with Iran and these exotic nations who they also believe it's the last days. Looking at it from a completely different perspective. So all of these things are aligning in a way that I don't think it's happened in human history that, you know, I know that there will be people who would disagree with that. But when you've got 9% of atheists saying we're living in the last days, that's pretty strong.
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It's really remarkable. You know, I've had atheists say, glenn, I can't describe. There's no word to describe what's happening in the world right now, except for the word evil. And I'm like, you're an atheist. Like, I know, I know. I know exactly what I'm saying. But that's the only way I can describe what I'm seeing right now. More in just a minute with Bill Cloud. He is the Shore She Team Ministries founder, Jacob's Tent fellow pastor and an expert on this, and the calmest guy you can talk to about, you know, end times theology. BillCloud.org is where you can find him. My dad grew up in an era when people expected things to last. You bought a tool once, you bought a jacket once, you bought a pair of boots once. And if you took care of those things, they'd be around for years. And somewhere along the way, we decided everything should be disposable. Fabric's gotten thinner, seams come apart. Clothing just gets worse. Wear it out, worn out, and people act like that's normal, but it's not supposed to be normal. That's one of the reasons I love American Giant. American Giant, they make clothes the old fashioned way. These are heavyweight fabrics, durable construction, attention to detail, and the kind of stuff that is built to be worn, not just sold. And they make it right here in the United States, supporting the American worker and American communities as Father's Day approaches. You know, don't let Dad's Day pass without at least considering giving something. You know, your dad is giving you advice and values and an appreciation for quality, hopefully for things made, well, things worth keeping. Buy American this Father's Day at american-giant.com Glenn american-giant.com glenn Use my name. Get 20% off your first purchase. American-giant.com glenn 10 seconds. Station ID.
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We've been asked for this audiobook for a couple of years now. I put this out. It was my first young teenager thriller. It's a dystopian thriller and you're gonna love it. And it teaches history all the way through it without your kids knowing it's teaching history. You can check it out now. Today is the prologue comes out. You'll be able to hear the audiobook and next two chapters come out next week for free for Torch subscribers. The book comes out everywhere. What I think in two weeks from now? Something like that. Bill, Somebody asked me today, why are we seeing all of these podcasters go so dark so fast on our side? And they said, they said, well, because there's a lot to gain. You know, you say these things and you get, you know, big numbers, etc. Etc. And maybe they're lost that way. And that may have played a role, but I think this is a spiritual battle we're in. And what keeps coming to mind is even the very elect will lose their way. And it's, you know, somebody asked me this morning, are we at the peak of this? And I think we are at the very beginning. If it's, if you think it's hard now, give it some time. It's going to get very confusing on how to find truth. Am I wrong on that? Do you agree or disagree?
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I agree. In fact, there are some. Well, first of all, you go to Matthew 24 and all of the different signs that, you know, Messiah said that we are to be looking for in the last days. He leads off with this one, don't be deceived. And deception. Deception, you know, don't be deceived. It keeps popping up when what he said and what Paul said and what others said. And so that's something that, that's the primary enemy, I guess you say, is the deception that is going to be, you know, we're going to be exposed to. In fact, you read about the Antichrist, or the one that we think is the Antichrist. It says that he casts truth to the ground. He suppresses the truth. So all of those things are that play into what you're saying. And I'm going to add this, too, at the risk of, you know, making somebody angry. A lot of these podcasters are regurgitating theology, Theology, again, bad theology. And that has confused them. That has blinded them to what truly is the truth. That's. I feel very strongly about that. And that's why they're being sucked into this thing.
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It's really terrifying because some of these people have been friends of mine and, you know, they can get lost. I know I can get lost. And it's, it's really terrifying what we're, what we're facing. We just have to stay close to the Lord. Bill, thank you so much for being on with me. Thank you for all that you do and thanks for the op ed. You can find Bill's op ed on Alexander Dugan and what he is preaching. You must understand these things or you will be lost. You must understand these things. You can find it@glenn beck.com right now and read it. Glenn beck.com Bill, as always, thank you.
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Thank you, Glenn.
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So I want to leave. I don't want to leave on it. I want to leave you on a Friday. I like, oh, wow, the Antichrist. I don't want to leave you there because this is stuff that is. We have to deal with and we have to think about it. Whether you believe it or not, it's not important. Other people do believe it and you know, that can cause real trouble, especially if you're dealing with people like Russia and Iran on this, because they will follow through with what they believe is prophecy. And that is a little terrifying. I want to leave you instead on. I'm going to give you two. I want to give you two lists, all the things that we have stacked against us. And then I'm going to do something nobody ever does. I'll show you all the things that are stacked in our favor of survival. We going to survive? I don't know. You decide. Look at the two lists. I'm going to present it to you next. It's Friday. You know, it's really a kind of a terrifying thing not knowing whether you're making the right decision or not. But that's life, you know, that's why buying or selling a home can feel so overwhelming, because it's not just the money. It's the fact that there are a thousand moving parts, a thousand decisions, a thousand opportunities just to make a mistake. And, you know, it's like, I don't. I don't really know what I'm doing. A great agent can help you change that. The right agent brings clarity. They know the market. They know the pitfalls. They know when to push. They know when to wait. They know how to negotiate the best possible outcome. They know when to take the deal. You know what I mean? This is why I started realestate agents. Like trust.com I've been working for years now with some of the best real estate professionals in the country, according to the Wall street journal top 500. And we have built a network of agents who have proven they know what they're doing. So whether you're buying your first home, selling a house that you've outgrown, or making a move across the country, you don't have to figure it all out by yourself. Please check out realestateagentsitrust.com tell us where you're moving from or to, and we'll help you find the best real estate. I mean, really interview them yourself. I don't charge you for the recommendation. You just interview them yourself. You like them, hire them. It's realestate. Agentsitrust.com I think you're going to see a difference. Real Estate AgentsITrust.com
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here. Thank you so much for, for listening. I just got to find a couple more facts here for you. Just give me A second here. Okay. I want to talk to you about the idea. And I. I've. I get this question all the time. What do you think, Glenn? I mean, how are we going to get through this? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not God. I don't have any more information than you do. I might have a few more facts at my fingertips, but, you know, you feel it. I feel it. I don't know. I don't know. Men have gone through this before. Generally speaking, when you get to this stage, in an empire or in, you know, a country's this long in the tooth, they don't usually survive. They don't turn around. But we can. But I want to take an honest inventory here, because I don't want you to. I. There's no reason to despair. We have some really solid things going in our. In our favor. But let's start. I want to. I want to break this up into two categories. Pros and cons. My dad taught me to do. Confronted with a problem, you're trying to find an answer. You know, develop a pro and con list. So let's look at the pro and cons. Let's start with the cons. Let's start with money first. We are nearly $39 trillion in debt. First time since the year after World War II. The we owe. What we owe to the rest of the world is bigger than our entire economy now. It's public and private, both of them horrible. We now spend more just on the public debt. We spend more paying interest on that debt, over a trillion dollars a year now, than we spend on the entire United States military. And nobody's talking about it. I. I said we're going to spend a trillion dollars. And every economist said, when that happens, we're a toast. We're now spending over a trillion dollars, and nobody's talking about it. We borrow about $50 billion every week just to keep our lights on. That's not a healthy balance sheet for a country. Never been done before. And that is a slow fuse. And it's already lit. And, you know, there's no memory. Nobody is. Nobody. Nobody is laying awake at night. Maybe five people in the country are laying awake. Our national debt is out of control, and people should. People should be paying attention. How about this one? Our national report card? Only 13% of our 8th graders are proficient in history of their own country. This is the lowest score of any subject they test. Why are we having so many problems? Because they don't. 13% are proficient. 4 in 10 couldn't even get a basic understanding of any document put in front of them. What no country survives if you can't remember, you can't defend what you don't know. Okay? Civilization that forgets its own story lost the argument before it even opens its mouth. Then there's the moral source lesson. In less than 20 years, the share of Americans who call themselves Christian have fallen from 78% to 62, while the number who are claiming that they have no faith at all has nearly doubled, doubled. The birth rate now has dropped to 1.6 children per woman. That's. Well, belong well below the replacement number of 2.1. Just to replace ourselves sit with that combination, we are at the very same time losing the faith that built the thing. And in the most literal sense, not making the next generation to carry the thing. And then, you know, and then the ideas. There's a real resurgence of an old seductive notion that the west is not just flawed and can self correct and be good. But now we believe that it's an irredeemable evil that needs to be torn down instead of repaired because it just can't repair itself. You know, that liberty itself is a mask for oppression. Although those lies are, have taken hold, there is a genuine challenge from Islamists, the political ideology that wants to impose its rules by force. You know, there's millions of Muslims who came to the west because they wanted to escape that, and now they're in it too. Add the lowest social trust we've ever recorded. House divided against itself cannot stand. I'm trying to remember who said that one. And then the greatest of all, wild cards. Artificial intelligence. AGI. Asi. Most powerful technology in the history of all humankind. Arriving at the same moment of our lowest unity, capable of concentrating power like nothing ever before. Nobody, not the smartest person alive, can tell you for certain how this ends. Okay? If you just look at that column and that's what everybody wants you to look, you would bet against us surviving every day. I do this show every day and somebody asked me just this week, how do you. How do you stay happy? And I'm like, oh, you think I'm happy? No, how do I stay happy? I don't concentrate on that. I spend my work day looking at all of those, trying to find a way out. But I have told you recently, I am, I. I know you know the problems. So I cannot live there. I can't. You shouldn't either. A lot of brilliant people do. But I have to tell you, no honest accountant ever looks at one column. Nobody who has ever put a pro and con list together. That's not fair. Just to look at the cons. You'll never. You're doomed if you always look at the cons. So let me show you the side that they never put on the news, okay? There's a couple of things going our way. Ask Americans whether global poverty has gotten better or worse over the last 30 years since 1995. Everyone will tell you. Everyone will tell you. Overwhelming majority. Much worse. It's much worse. They're not just wrong. They are wrong about the single greatest good news story in the history of the human race. Since the 90s, more than a third of all of the people on Earth lived in extreme poverty in 1990. A third of Earth, extreme poverty. Do you know what that number is today? 1 in 10? We've gone from 30%. 30% to 10% in extreme. That's more than 1 1/2 billion human beings climbing out of the worst poverty there is. That's 118,000 people every single day climbing out of poverty. 118,000 people climbing out of poverty every day for 30 years straight out of misery. That everyone would have told you it's permanent and inevitable. And there's not even a headline on it. You know why? Because it doesn't make you afraid. Fear is what sells. Here's the second one. For almost the entire span of human history, rough, roughly half of all children died before they grew up. Half, 50%. Every mother who ever lived expected to bury half of her children. Today, that number has fallen worldwide to 4%. And it's been cut in half, more than half since 1990. We are defeating the greatest grief the human race has ever felt in our own lifetime. And no one's talking about it. 200 years ago, 1 in 10 people on Earth could read. Today, it's nearly 9 in 10. Except for America. Look at what's going on here. In 1900, the average human being lived 32 years. We're now well into our 70s. None of this was an accident, by the way. None of this came from, you know, from the people setting fire to the system. Let me tell you about just Generation Alpha, okay? Generation Alpha, people say. And I did a monologue on this generation at the beginning of the show. Today, you have to hear it. They're the most sober, most disciplined teenagers in the entire history of American record keeping. The most teen drinking high school seniors, 73%. In the year 2000, it's 42%. Binge drinking, 30%. Now it's 9 use of opioid pills among seniors went from nearly 10% at its peak to 6/10 of 1%. We have an opioid problem. Not with Generation Alpha, we don't. Teen birth rate lowest ever recorded, down three quarters from its peak. Two out of three high school seniors didn't touch alcohol, marijuana or nicotine in the last month. Those are all good things. They're all good things. Generations in the past of America did not. I mean, they would ride these things out. The exact ideas that we are told to be ashamed of. Free markets, private property, rule of law, the scientific method, the conviction that every single human life carries equal and infinite worth. These ideas, they're from the west, and they lifted more human beings out of darkness than any force has ever existed on this planet. We've done more than anything anyone has ever tried. And they're still spreading into the poorest corners of the Earth, even as we lose our nerve about them here at home. And at the same terrifying time that AI comes to and everybody's like, we're doomed because of AI it is also the thing that may cure cancer, unlock energy, the end of scarcity as we know it, and the frontier of it is still being built in the free world by free people, not in prisons of the dictators. I don't know. There's an awful lot to be positive about. There is an awful lot to worry about as well. But worry does you nothing unless you try to solve it. You know the biggest thing we have to solve? Our story. Our story. We have to tell our story. It is why I started the Torch. It is the last, most important thing I will do in my lifetime is try to teach our story American. The American story is out. We're up to episode 15. It's all commercial, free at the Torch. You can get it online. Another episode comes out with commercials and everything else, wherever you get your podcast. But we are telling the story. We are teaching history because that's the thing that will save us. I'm not going to insult you with a number on, you know, what are the odds? What are the odds? I don't know. I don't know. Civilizations don't die of debt. They don't die of bad demographics or foreign rivals. Rome carried. Rome carried every one of these for centuries. Civilizations die when they stop believing they're worth saving. I told you this week, we have never lost. America has never lost a war. It fought. It chose to fight. We lose wars, we choose to lose. We lose the wars that we get bored with. We Lose wars that we lose our nerve on. If we choose to fight, no one can defeat us. Every single thing that is in that first column of the cons is survivable. Not one of them is written in stone. Not one of them is destiny. The debt can be fixed, but you have to have people willing to choose the hard things. History can easily be taught again, but you have to learn. You have to choose to learn it or teach it. Faith can be rekindled, but you have to choose to seek it. Rivals can be out built. We are the king of outbuilding our rivals. The only wound that is on that entire board that is actually fatal is the, is the one that nobody can fix from the outside. And that is the decision of people make that they choose to be the villain of their own story. And because they're the villain, that their story is the one that causes all the problems and it's no longer worth the fight and we lose. That is the one thing that killed every civilization that ever fell, ever. And it's the only one that is entirely 100% a choice. So the odds of the west making it, you know, it's not a weather report you sit around waiting to receive, it's a vote and you cast it with your life. And there's only one choice. Are we worth saving? It's not a spectator sport. You can't just say, you know what, yeah, I listened to talk radio today and I heard Glenn Beck and I choose that you got to actually do something about it. If we remember our history on purpose, we recover our moral source on purpose. We choose liberty and truth deliberately instead of just coasting on what our grandparents handed us, then the odds are very, very, very good because we still hold nearly every material advantage on earth. But if we just stand here and fold our arms and go like, I don't know if we're going to make it or not. Because that's the surrender, that's the, that's the only thing that actually ended civilizations. The barbarians been at the gate. Them being at the gate have never been the thing that brought somebody down. It was always the citizen inside who quietly decided it's not worth defending. So I challenge you. As we get closer to our 250, don't be that citizen, be the other kind, the kind that looks at both columns and sees the fire and picks up a bucket anyway, because that's who we really are. Honestly, the only real question on the board is whether we still remember how to pick up that bucket. Are we still willing to pick up that bucket. Do we still have the passion for what's on fire right now? And I for one am betting we do. Back in a minute. When something hurts all the time, part of your brain is always dealing with it. You're thinking about it when you get out of bed, you're thinking about it. When you stand up, you're thinking about it. When somebody invites you to do something and you have to decide, am I up for this? That's why I'm such a believer in relief factor. It's 100% drug free supplement designed to help support a healthy inflammatory response, addressing the pain at its source rather than just masking it. And over a million people have tried Relief Factor and two thirds of them have gone on to order more. Imagine what it's like to spend less time thinking about pain and more about thinking about everything else. That's really what Relief Factor is all about. It's getting your attention back so you can focus on your life again. 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