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Glenn Beck
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James Talarico
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is our hello America from the Mountain west and the Standing Rock Ranch. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We are glad you're here. Well, the Democratic Party is. Is interesting. We just leave it at that. It is interesting. The Overton window is deep in its. In its work. I want to talk to you a little bit about what's happening with. Well, I mean, we could get into Pride Month a little bit because it is. It is Pride Month. Is it? Nobody seems to be mentioning Pride Month. Isn't that weird? Also, Graham Platner, we're gonna talk about him and what this guy is doing. You want to talk about the Overton Window? And I want to start with James Tallarico. Who is this guy? We go there in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Relief Factor. As you go through your day today, I want you to take some notes. How many times you stop doing what you're doing because of pain? Seriously, pay attention. How many times do you stand up a little more carefully than you used to? How many times do you decide not to pick something up, walk a little further, not to take the stairs, you know, not to tackle a project that you would have jumped at, you know, 10 years ago? How many Times, times. Does pain interrupt your day? Is it more than once? And are you kind of tired of that? Because I'm tired of it. That's why I want you to look into Relief Factor. It will help reduce your pain or eliminate your pain by helping your body respond to inflammation naturally. And over a million people have tried Relief Factor, and two thirds have gone on to take more. So today, pay attention, count the interruptions. Then ask yourself a simple question. Do you have to be a part of this pain thing anymore? Really? Try relief factor 1995. Three week quick start. Take it relieffactor.com relieffactor.com or call 800, the number for relief. 800 for relief. All right. Welcome to the program. We're so glad that you're here. Democratic Party trying to paint themselves as. I don't, I don't know what, I don't know what. We're going to talk about patriotism here a little while because we got lectured by patriotism. But I, I couldn't get further down on this story from the New Yorker than just his sources of who he's like, going to. You know, I just looked into some great people that talk about patriot. Really? Really. Because those aren't the sources that I would go to for patriotism, but maybe it's just me. So I want to get into that because everything is being redefined right now. Patriotism this summer because of the summer of 250. You know, we have to redefine this. Now, what is it? What does it mean? Well, let's start at something simpler. What does it mean to be a Democrat? I'm not sure exactly what it means to be a Democrat. It certainly does not mean moderate, that's for sure. James Talarico is being painted by the Democrats as moderate. You know, he's just like any other Texan. You saw him in his T shirt, right? It was wearing the red, white and blue, and he's got his, his Texas flag shirt and he's eating a turkey leg and he wears cowboy boots. Come on. Really? Is that what we're down to? Yeah. And I know who you are because you wear a red hat even though it doesn't say mag on it. I know what all red hats mean. What? What does a red hat mean? Simpletons. How dare Ken Paxton take this poor man, James Delrico, his words out of context. He's not a radical leftist, Right? Right. Neither is anybody in Virginia. So I asked my researchers, you know, can we look at these claims? Because I want to see, you know, I want to be able to present to you who James Talrico really is in his own words. Okay? Now, earlier this month, he said to CBS News about his past statements and Paxton's attacks, he said this.
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James Talarico
There are some statements that I've made that I. That I certainly regret. There are statements that I've made where I've missed the mark. I'll be the first to admit that. But Ken Paxton is intentionally clipping my cringy comments to distract from his career of corruption.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, Cringy comments. Okay. First of all, let's give credit where credit due. Anybody makes mistakes, we all make mistakes. And to be able to say, hey, I've made mistakes and I own up to him. Unfortunately, what he didn't say was which were the mistakes and which were the cringy comments that, that Paxton is taking out of context. So let's start. One of the biggest criticisms of Talarico is that he believes God is non binary. Now we're in Bible country. Not really. Not really? I don't think so. Pretty radical. A lot of people on X are sharing a short clip of him making that claim on the shore, on the floor of the Texas Senate or legislature. But was that taken out of context? Of course it was. Of course it was. So let's look at the longer clip so we can all see. Here it is.
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James Talarico
The first two lines in Genesis use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity. The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non binary. In Genesis 1:26, God speaks of God's self in the plural, saying, let us make human beings in our image to be like us. That's the infinite multitude of God. The masculine, the feminine, and everything in between. Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Glenn Beck
Wait, wait, wait. There's a lot to unpack here. First of all, let us make man in our image has been debated forever. Forever. He's coming out and stating it like it's just a fact. You know what I mean? It's like, what, what was it One of my favorite comedians said? You know the, the Frank Sinatra song? If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. And Frank Sinatra just said it, and it was just a fact. It's not a fact. It's a line. What he's saying is not a fact. It might be his opinion, but it is not a fact. Okay, Take more than one Bible study class. James Take, Take more than one. Take more than one. I think there's lots of arguments on what God was talking about there and what Genesis means by that. But maybe this is just one of these statements he missed the mark on, because it sounds to me like he believes that God's non binary. So I don't know. I don't know. But here's what he told CNN about it. Listen, what is your response to them using that? And explain what you were talking about.
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James Talarico
Well, I understand that that comment is a little provocative. I said it on the House floor when the extremists in the Republican legislature were picking on school kids who were different. But I don't think it's controversial theologically. Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender. In fact, the Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul.
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Glenn Beck
I'm pretty sure that's not what the Apostle Paul meant, but I wouldn't call this an exact backtrack. Okay? Beyond gender is not non binary. Beyond gender means no male or female. I mean, I'm just using your argument here. This is not mine. But your argument he's beyond gender means there is no male or female. It just is. Okay, that's not non binary. Okay, I don't know what you're talking about here. Okay, but what's even harder than gender? Here's a radical claim. Another one from Talarico.
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James Talarico
Listen, this modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which, honestly, Representative Hefner surprised me. Surprised me too, because I, I, you know, am not well versed in this, this issue area. I'm not a scientist. I'm a politician. A lot worse than a scientist.
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Glenn Beck
Ah, not a scientist. Clearly you're not scientist. I, you know what I think people who say there are six genders, they also are not scientists. But that's just me. A few days ago, he tried to walk that one back as well. He apparently now, quote, knows there are two sexes, a man and a woman. But he also suggested that he was referring to a very small percentage of people who were born with chromosomal abnormalities. Abnormalities, you know, they, they're born, they're born with, I guess, six different genders. I, I, I don't know. But God still non binary. Okay. He also believes that because God is non binary, he made some children Trans. Here he is talking about trans children, something that you love that's not family or friends.
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James Talarico
I love, and just say this because it's on my mind. The trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity, they shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, all right. So this is the moderate Democratic platform in Texas. This is the moderate version. Okay? He's not an extremist. He wants you to know, in the Democratic Party, and everybody's screaming, he's a moderate. He also wants you to know that some of those trans children will eventually need abortions.
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James Talarico
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state Capitol, and you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that, too. So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy.
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Glenn Beck
Ow. Ow, my head hurts. Okay, so when he talks about women that are going to need a. An abortion, he's not. He wants you to understand that women is just a lens and not an actual fact. But it. It would be the trans men that would need the abortion. You know, the ones that are actually female that claim to be men, they're the only ones that could get pregnant. Not the trans women. The trans women were guys. They don't have a uterus. They don't have ovaries. They don't have a vagina. They have none of it. They cannot push a baby out. They can't create a baby. I don't understand what. He's more on that later. He was saying this, by the way, in a church and delivering, quote, a sermon on that. But it explains an awful lot about what this guy believes. Here's something also you may not have heard from anywhere else to Talarico. The abortion debate is not about what you think it is. Because here's what he said later in that, and I'm quoting, sermon.
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James Talarico
The disagreement about the legality of abortion is not a disagreement about life. It's a disagreement about personhood. No one disagrees that an embryo is biologically alive. We each have trillions of living organisms inside of us right now as we sit and talk in the sanctuary. So the question is, is an embryo a legal person whose rights trump those of a woman? I don't know many people who would seriously answer yes to that question. Legal personhood evolves with life, and life is change without clear or definite boundaries. But the only way we can allow the rights of an embryo to trump the rights of a woman is if we believe a woman is not a full person. And let me remind you that that has been the default belief throughout most of human history. Being Christian and being pro choice are absolutely consistent because Christianity is a feminist religion.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh. I don't know. Ow. Again, this is the moderate. Texas. This is the moderate that they're trying to sell you. Okay, where do I even begin on that one? Okay, so we have a ton of living organisms in us. Is that like, we might have a tapeworm? So, like, the baby could turn into a tapeworm? I'm not. I'm not really sure how to. Where to go with that one. That organism that's living inside of you, it is a baby. It's a baby. It might not look like a baby at the beginning, but it turns into a baby. The tapeworm stays a tapeworm. So I want you to understand, yes, abortions do kill humans, just not necessarily full humans. Well, now, let's just get into that. Let's just get into that as a. As a day, as a dad with a child of special needs. Let's just get into. Can you define what a full human is? What is a full human? Is a full human somebody who has a fully functioning body. Arms, legs, brain, eyes, ears, nose, mouth. What is a full human? Because once you get into, well, that's not really human. Well, that's not really life. Then you get into, well, that's not a life worth living. And then you could just kill anybody. Yavo. So denying women the right to elective abortions is akin to enslaving women. And Jesus, who is, quote, a radical feminist, empowered women to kill their own babies whenever they wanted to, I guess, because screw the patriarchy.
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James Talarico
What?
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Glenn Beck
What? By the way, it is not in line with Christianity. It used to be called the quickening. It wasn't called abortions. Look, look it up. Look it up. It wasn't called an abortion. They didn't know. They didn't know when they were pregnant. They didn't have a pregnancy test. They didn't sit copper, squat. And look at the, you know, color and the. Is it a plus sign? Is it pink? Is it blue? What is it? They didn't do that. They didn't have any of that. They only knew they were pregnant when it was called the quickening, when something happened inside of them and the woman could feel it. Then you throw yourself down the stairs. You're going into colonial Jail because you're intentionally trying to kill a baby you know is in there. Hello. So what's going on here? Does he actually believe all this stuff? And there's a lot more. The answer is very clear once you learn where this guy learned this. Okay, because in that same sermon, Telo gave his testimony not for his decision to follow Christ, but why he became a radical feminist. And it actually starts with a tragedy, a real tragedy. And I want to share that so you can understand him. And you know when he's lying and when he's not, when he's saying, oh, no, I'm really just like you. Look at my Texas flag shirt. No, no, no. We didn't have all the experiences that you had, James, and I feel badly that you had these. You were horribly, horribly misled, and I can understand how it happened. But the rest of America, and certainly the rest of Texas needs to know this story. We'll tell you about that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. Okay, let's say you've opened a theme park. Let's say your theme park is full of, well, dinosaurs. 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How did he get here? Why is he different? Does he actually believe these things? Well, I can say absolutely, positively he's lying to you when he says he doesn't believe these things because it will betray everything he was raised to believe and everything he believes about his mother. His mother. And this is a really tragic story. So there's no. There's. There's no judgment, really, of him on how he got there. It's just. You need to understand, his mom was a victim of real nasty domestic abuse. She escaped, saved her son from having to suffer, and raised him away from all of that. Good for her. But because of that, she developed what kind of sounds like a deep hatred for men, and she passed that on to her son. So in this sermon that he gave, Taurico told the congregation that his mother, quote, was now seeing firsthand how men and systems designed by men hurt women every single day. Well, that's not true. Some of them do, some of them don't. That's why I'm a conservative. Conservative, you are to look at everything and go, this one is good. This policy is bad. Get rid of that one. Keep this one. You don't just throw everything out. He said, and I quote, that experience radicalized my mother, and it led her to become a leftist activist for women's rights. She volunteered at Planned Parenthood and took him to the office of Planned Parenthood and to the Texas Abortion Rights Action League. Tay Roll. And that's where he learned all of this.
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Alex Adams
This.
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Glenn Beck
And he recounted a story from one night driving home from the Tayrell offices. And I need you to hear this part of his story because it is really important to understand who he is. More on that coming up in just a second. First, listen, you might not be remember what quality clothing used to be like, but your dad does. Your dad remembers when a hoodie would survive years and years and years and weekends and camping trips and home projects and whatever else life threw at it. And then you, as a son or a daughter would, you know, after dad stopped using, her dad died, you'd take that thing and you'd still wear it and would wear for another generation. This way, everything used to be made. But you'll quickly discover that he has really strong opinions about how things used to be made in America. Most of them begin with a phrase. They don't make them like they used to anymore. And that's true. But American Giant does. It makes all of these great things, all this great clothing, premium clothing here in the United States using American craftsmanship and a commitment to quality that feels increasingly rare. Their clothes are built to be worn, used, depended on, and then passed on. So if you're looking for a Father's Day gift, do you like to own something that your dad will love? Take a look at American Giant right now. American Giant.com Glenn It's American-Giant.com Glenn.
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Ricky
Coming up, Glenn explains the real reason Democrats are backing insane candidates like James Talarico and Graham Platner. And it's not because they're dumb. That's next on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
So I want to get to, I want to get to Platner here in just a second because I can explain what's happening with the Democratic Party, and you need to, you need to understand it. But right now, everybody is trying to make t look like, oh, no, no, no, he's, he's great. He's just, you know, he's just a normal Democrat. He's not. He's not. And I started telling you, I told you some of the radical things he said. Now, why do, why do I, why can I say with confidence, this is actually who he is? This is what he believes, because he would be betraying his mother. In his own mind, he would be betraying his mother if he wasn't. This guy. He talked about, his mother, I just told you a minute ago, was domestic abuse. Escaped, got away from it, started teaching her son that men are, you know, bad, hate men, blah, blah, blah. And the systems that men built. Then started taking him to Tayrell, which, you know, is an abortion activist group. And one night, driving home from the offices, she told him, quote, women will never be free until they belong to themselves. Okay? Slavery, that women are slaves as long as they can't choose to abort. And that's why he believes that the pro life movement is the patriarchy way of keeping women enslaved so when he says that, he means it. It's also why he believes that Jesus and Christianity were meant to end the patriarchal oppression system. It's 100% true that Jesus treated women radically different from the culture of the time, both good and bad. But this is not the first century. True freedom is not the sexual revolution of just doing whatever you want and killing the consequences, because that's what the vast majority of abortions really are. Both pro life and pro choice research groups agree. 95% of abortions are elective. Less than 1% are rape, incest, or life of the mother, less than 1%. Now, that also doesn't mean that men should be able to do whatever they want. But if you want to quote Paul, he said in Ephesians that wives should submit to their husbands. Oh, my gosh. Did I just say that? Yes, but he also said husbands should love their wives as much as their own bodies, and that the way that Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. Here's the deal. The solution isn't more killing, more arguing, more abortion. It's more love. But it's not just Talrico. I want to show you what is church. Now, this a guy who's remember, so I'm telling you, he believes these things because of his mother in his childhood. And look at the church that he goes to. He's a member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. Remember, we all said the church that Barack Obama goes to doesn't matter, and we found out, yes, it does. If you go to this church's website, the first thing you'll see is the commandment love thy neighbor and a bunch of logos, including LGBTQ feminism and transgenderism. You scroll down, there's an image of a cross draped in the Super Mega Pride flag. Okay? The one that includes intersex. Below that, you'll also see a sign that says no human is illegal with border imagery. So it's pretty clear what the church he attends believes. And if you even need more proof, just go to their About Us page. The church proudly proclaims that Presbyterian that it is Presbyterian and progressive. It's a believer in the five points of progressive Christianity. Look those up. Also, proud Reproductive Justice Congregation, a proud affiliate of More Light Presbyterians and an LGBTQ A is it I A plus advocacy group. Okay? It has a whole page dedicated to inclusive language. The church doesn't use gendered language to refer to God or quote what they say is feudal language, meaning they don't ever call him the King of Kings. Or the Lord of Lords, because that's associated with, with the feudal system. That's how crazy this place is. Okay, now given how Talrico was raised, the church he's a member of and the claims he has made, I don't think those are cringy comments taken out of context. He's a radical leftist through and through. And if you need more proof, here's a clip went viral over the weekend. Here's Tal rico back in 2021 telling then Fox News host Pete Hegseth what he thinks about voter id. Listen, are you okay with voter id?
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James Talarico
So voter ID is currently required in the state of Texas. I opposed having to vote.
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Glenn Beck
How about for mail in ballots? How about having to send your ballot in should you have to prove who you are? Because that's what Democrats are opposing.
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James Talarico
Pete, I just said I oppose voter ID currently. It's a law in Texas, but I oppose that law because I think you
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Glenn Beck
don't need a voter id.
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Jason
You don't think the most sacred obligation
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Glenn Beck
of our republic you should have to prove who you are in order to vote.
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James Talarico
So there are a lot of Texans, actually hundreds of thousands who don't have a driver's license.
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Glenn Beck
They don't have a driver's license. Really? Hundreds of thousands. Okay, driver's license. First of all, that's not the only way to prove your identity. There are plenty of options out there. You know, pass a simple voter ID law, state issued, non driver photo id, military id, student id, government employee id, passport, any kind of id. You need an ID to open a bank account, you need an ID to buy an ID to buy alcohol, apply for government benefits, a whole bunch of stuff. I gave the list, it's like a 10 minute list and I read it quickly. If you can't find the time to get any form of id, maybe you should refrain from voting. Just a thought. Just a thought. By the way, 80% of Americans support voter ID. So why doesn't Talarico ask him one more thing? One more thing. Just because it's being tossed around everywhere. Is Talarico a vegan? Well, here's what he told CBS News about the controversy. The other one they keep harping on
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Alex Adams
and it's perhaps the most curious of all.
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Glenn Beck
They say you're a vegan.
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James Talarico
I'm not a vegan. I'm an eighth generation Texan. I've been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton's first indictment. And this campaign basically runs on, on Texas barbecue. If all they have is lying about me being a vegan, I Feel pretty good about our chances this November.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. It's true that Talarico has never claimed to be a vegan or dislike meat or anything else, no matter how awkwardly he eats a turkey leg. But what's really telling is that neither Tellarico nor CBS News mentioned that during the interview. The controversy came from a commitment that he made in a 2022 campaign. Pay very close attention to what his argument against meat actually is. Listen.
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James Talarico
But also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society. And so I, I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign. So we have, we are, we are only buying vegan products from, from our local vegan businesses. Some of you may know big nonnas, they, they were little known as. And then they opened up brick and mortar, some of their big nonnas. But we just got our pizza from there today. And so the point is that I think all of us, not just policymakers, but, but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so is he hypocrite. Is he saying that we have to do these things because it's existential? The world is. We're all going to die from global warming unless we stop eating meat. So I've made my whole campaign about that. We're not even buying pizzas from a place that isn't vegan. Everything is vegan. Not meatless vegan. But then I'm eating all the meat I want because this is all about Texas barbecue. That doesn't make any sense. So you're either a liar or a hypocrite. Which one is it? Which one is it? By the way, he sounds an awful lot like the people that are running up in Oregon. Did you hear about what's happening in Oregon? They want to ban all hunting, ban all butcher shops, everything. You won't be able to hunt or cut meat up. You won't be able to kill an animal for food. Any animal. That's. That's Oregon. Okay? Oh, and by the way, where else have we heard this? The World Economic Forum. It z. Bugs. If the Democrats take control again, they will bring all of this back. If this guy is elected senator, he will fully support it. He'll do it while he's campaigning at, you know, barbecue shops wearing a Texas flag shirt. But that's not what makes a conservative a conservative. They think we are so dumb that if you, if they just dress like you. That we're like, oh, okay, he's just like me. He's not like you. He's not a moderate. He's not even close to a moderate. And you know what? This whole thing is happening again still. It's getting worse and worse with Graham Platner. Graham Platner is the guy who's running for Senate in Maine. Here's the latest here. He pushes his wife out. He doesn't even. He pushes his wife out to talk about these explicit sexting texts that, you know, he had as an extramarital, I guess. Sexting. He doesn't say anything. Here, honey, go out to the microphones. Listen.
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Jason
If anybody knows me and Graham personally, you know that we got married in
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Glenn Beck
2023, we live Sullivan, we've got two
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Jason
dogs, and we love each other deeply.
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Glenn Beck
So it makes me really angry, disappointed,
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Jason
and I find it really shameful that there's a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is. Is running on, like health care and
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Glenn Beck
education and child care. Okay? So, by the way, it's my understanding I could be wrong, but she was. She was married in the fall of 2024. That's the reports I've seen. But let's take her at a word. It was 2023. These sexually explicit sexts where he was sexting. Sexting came out in the spring of 2025. Okay. But apparently it's no issue. You're a year, maybe a year and a half into your marriage, Maybe half a year, year and a half into your marriage, and he is. He is on dating sites and he is explicitly sexting people. And you're okay with that? Okay, to each his own. But I will tell you, that's not a guy who I would trust in any room if. If his wife. Look, everybody makes mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has their own issues. I'm not condemning anybody, but I. But if you send your wife out to say, oh, these are no big deal, and this is our marriage, well, okay, all right. Your wife should be a little pissed, quite honestly. We just got married, and I couldn't trust him to keep it in his pants for 18 months, how am I going to. What kind of marriage are we going to have in 10 years? In 20 years and 30 years? That's. It's obscene. Ricky, you have a comment on this?
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Ricky
Yeah. You would think his wife would be ticked and that, you know, a lot of people were saying this looked like a hostage video and the poor wife. And actually, when I first saw the clip, I felt sorry for her, too. I had great empathy. I know marriage in the first year is difficult. However, she's opportunistic. She's on their payroll. She's on the campaign payroll. And as of November 2025, we've known that. So she's getting paid to do a video like that because she's not just protecting her husband or her marriage, she's protecting her salary. So that's my two cents.
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Glenn Beck
So the Wall Street Journal, you know, is reporting over the weekend and showing that there's pictures of him, you know, only in a towel in the bathroom. I mean, it's just.
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Glenn Beck
And sexually explicit texting to several multiple women on this. On this website that was called. Let's see, what was it called here? Where is it? What is it called?
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Ricky
Kick. Kick. K I Kick.
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Glenn Beck
There was an.
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Ricky
I've never heard of it.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, there was another.
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Ricky
Apparently pedophiles love it.
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Glenn Beck
Pedophiles love it. Oh. Oh, good. Okay. So he is. He's doing these things now. Does anybody care? No. And Ricky came to me today and she said, I think this is the Overton window. I think this is the Democrats trying to move the Overton window so far over that, you know, you just won't care about anything anymore, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I disagree with her. I think this shows that the Overton window has already moved. And I know Bill Maher doesn't care about what the Overton window is, but it's very important. The Overton window is something. It's a political theory that whatever you're looking out through the window and you see that out there, and you're like, oh, that's normal. Okay, I see that view every day. That's normal. A politician can come in and move the scenery or move the window so far to the extreme that that's all you see out of your house is this extreme madness. And you're like, that's a horror show. And then somebody comes in and moves the Overton window back, but not to where it was, halfway in between the madness and where it was. And you're like, oh, okay, good. That's normal. It's not normal. That's not where it was. That's what they've done. And they keep moving it to more and more extreme positions. But notice, this is not going to affect this campaign. This will not affect the Nazi thing. Didn't affect the tattoo thing. Doesn't affect his past positions. Don't affect. None of this will affect this campaign, which says something to me even more important about the Republicans, that the Republicans need to learn. And I'll share that in 60 seconds.
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Glenn Beck
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James Talarico
This is the Glenn Beck Program.
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Glenn Beck
Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. I saw something on patriotism from the New Yorker that is really sad. It's very sad. But I think a lot of Americans might feel this way. But then you introduce the typical raising of the typical American and you put them even back into a time period that is before my time period where you were fighting the, you know, the hippie movement and the Vietnam War and all of that crap. And so you get a real taint there. But then you add modern elitists on top of it, and you get the New Yorker's essay, how problematic is patriotism? And I just want to show you how to spot things quickly in this. Then I want to talk to you about patriotism because it is June. We're in the summer of 250, America's 250th birthday. I went to church yesterday and I might. My faith did an hour just on the Constitution. I was so happy to see that. Thank you for that. And it was really heartwarming and positive and a way to not only celebrate, but also remind us that we are here to form a more perfect nation. Meaning we're not perfect. We never have been perfect. We need to try to strive to that perfection, knowing that we'll always fall short as a nation. But let's admire some of the things that we have done right. You know, just at least for the birthday party. You can hate grandpa all you want for some of the things grandpa did, but on his birthday, maybe we should all get together and say, hey, Grandpa, you know, I know we disagree on a lot of stuff, but there's a lot of great things that you did in your life and celebrate those things. Can we do that? Apparently, some can. The elitists don't want you to. We'll get into that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about the burner launcher. There is. I mean, here's how. How much time usually do you have to make a decision in a dangerous situation? Usually it's about that much time. 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Go on To Burna's website Burna.com Glenn look at their Bernale Gen2 Burna.com select yours while supplies last. There's a great discount on them. It's Burna B Y r n a.com okay, so let me just give you a little bit of this, this essay from the New Yorker. It says, I did not grow up loving America. Not because I thought I didn't, it didn't deserve love, but because I didn't think about it. America was the Pledge of Allegiance in the Star Spangled Banner. It was Maverick and Gunsmoke. It was Ed Sullivan and high school dances and big cars with big fins. It was soda fountains and Elvis and stickball. It was Valley Forge. And George Washington was also white, mostly male and invincibly middle class. And I hardly gave it a thought with race or class as much for that matter. Depending on where you hail from, America could be the evening sky above Northfield, Connecticut or the fields of bluebonnets in Texas. To a teenager living in New York in the 1960s, America was pretty great. It had saved the world from fascism and now stood as a bulwark against communism. Mickey Mantle, good. Nick. Nikita Cruz, Jeff, bad. My memory may be faulty, but I can't recall anyone I know declaring a love for America. Not anyway, until I was 25 and living in Charleston, South Carolina. He talks about how he grew up, you know, in the era of the draft. And you know, he was singing about draft dodging, you know, flee to Canada or Europe, blah blah blah. Vietnam was the first time he actually thought about, you know, the war. And then you had Nixon and I mean, he grew up in a really bad period in America. He did grew up in a bad period. And I can understand if that's, if that is what you grew up seeing all the time. That's how you can get to where you, where you are. But then you add on top of that, you live the life of an elite because I want you to listen to this. He talks about, you know, the history of patriotism. Patriotism, the concept, if not the word, probably emerged during the formation of, you know, the Greek polis in the 8th century BC blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he talks about, you know, Johann Gottfried Herder's notion of the Geist des Volks. All made national pride seem like a rational outcome of shared habits, traditions and language. So knows he goes right to Germans and the German Volk and the Germans. You know, it's interesting how the Germans get a really bad rap for. Because the Germans were the ones that came up with the doctoral system that we have here in America. I mean, in the late 1800s, early 1900s, if you wanted to be a doctor, you would go to the best German schools. And the German schools were teaching you all of this crap, okay? That's how we got progressivism introduced here into America. We went over and we got it from the Germans. But then he goes back into patriotism. He says, since then writers have spilled a great deal of ink over patriotism. Mark Twain, who was an American, was. Had written about it, okay? So Mark Twain, good guy, American, 1800s, got it. Then he goes into HL Mencken, he said. And also HL Mencken, who is at. Well, this guy was a deep critic, fierce critic of democracy, progressivism and the New Deal and mass politics. But he was also an elitist and real key here. Anti eglit. How do you say this word? I sound like such a moron all the time.
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Ricky
Egalitarian.
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Glenn Beck
Egalitarian. Yes, egalitarian. Thank you. Egalitarians, they believe egalitarian means that you believe in the principle that all people are created equal. That's America. Okay? But he was an elitist and an anti egalitarian, okay? That kind of guy believes that it's ruled by the best, okay? It's ruled by the best. Inequality is good. This is a modern progressive because some people are smarter and they should tell everybody what else to do, okay? So you don't listen to that guy for patriotism. He also admired Nietzsche. Okay, problem. George Bernard Shaw is the next on this guy's hit parade list of people he looked to for patriotism. George Bernard Shaw was an Irish Fabian socialist, advocated for socialism. His views are so extreme for eugenics. He also loved certain dictators. He's the guy who literally came up with gas chambers for the unfit that would later be used by the Nazis. So you immediately throw this person out. Then he goes to Ursula K. K Le Guin, okay? She distrusted patriotism. Yeah, I bet she did. She was an anarchist, she liked socialism. She was a feminist, she liked, she was a critic of capitalism. Her fiction that she wrote explored anarchist and anti authoritarian themes. Of course she didn't like patriotism then. The next one on his hit parade is Tolstoy. He likened it to slavery. Tolstoy was also Christian, anarchist, pacifist. He was a Russian. That's the most important thing. He, he didn't even understand America. Okay. George Orwell was kinder than most. He writes patriotism. He wrote devotion to a particular place or a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world, but has no wish to force upon people. Good, that's. That's good. You be patriotic like that. The problem is nationalism, which he maintained was inseparable from the desire for power. Well, yeah, in some people I. Just because I really love my country doesn't mean I want to crush all other countries. Again, you're talking to the elitist. The average person that is patriotic loves the flag, loves America, loves the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, loves our history. But they don't want to dress their kids up into uniforms, put guns in them and tell them, go take over the world. It. We're tired of that. You know, it is the, it is the progressive elites, mainly in the State Department, that have always been pushing this stuff that we've got to go. This is a Republican progressive idea that we've got to go and spread democracy. You know what the best way to spread democracy is? The way we used to do it. Do you know what? I've told you the story about the Statue of Liberty a million times. France didn't give it to us because they liked us. They were fighting Marxism in their own country and they were trying to show America has the best idea. Why does the Statue of Liberty have a broken chain on her foot? Did you know that she wears a shackle and it's broken. Why. Why does the Statue of Liberty have a chain around her foot? Because America broke that chain. Not at the beginning with the Civil War. We broke the chain of slavery. And how did we do it? Here's a tip. With what's in her hand, hand by her side, she's holding the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. That's why it says July 4, 1776 on the statue right there on the book. That is the idea of independence and all men are created equal. That breaks the chain of slavery. And what makes man, man. The ability to invent, the ability to dream the Ability to do. That's the torch. The torch is imprisoned lightning. That's what they used to call the electric light bulb. It was imprisoned lightning. And so it's the imprisoned lightning. It's the free man that can come here under the law and dream, that can light the entire world. So anyway, he goes into George Orwell, by the way. George Orwell was a democratic socialist. So again, I don't think I'm going to him or Voltaire, which is a French Enlightenment. Where did the French Enlightenment get us? And more recently, the philosopher Richard Rorty, capable of defending patriotism. Richard Rorty. He is much more, again of a. He's an American, but much more of a continental thinker. Okay, and then Martha Nussbaum. Martha Nussbaum, a popular philosophy who advocates cosmopolitanism over strong patriotism and emphasizes global justice and often aligns with progressive left, liberal, academic thought. So throw this entire thing out. This guy grew up in the 1960s where there were real scars and America was really wrestling. But up until Barack Obama, we were making real progress on that. We were healing those scars. We were starting to have colorblindness. And then Barack Obama and his progressives came in and they started saying, no, no, no, you've got to notice color. No, you don't. You don't. Patriotism is not about red hats. It's not about waving flags or chanting slogans at rallies. It's not about God bless the usa. It's not about any of that stuff that can make you feel good temporarily, but that's sugar highs. Real patriotism is deeper, much deeper. It's the. It's the steady, bone deep love of the country that raised you even when it didn't get things right. Do you hate your parents because they made mistakes? If you did, you're a fool. You're a fool. I didn't plan on telling you this, but I'm going to tell you this because I'm. I feel compelled to. My father was horribly abused when he was a kid. Horribly. He ran away when he was 16. He ran to the YMCA in Los Angeles where he was repeatedly raped. None of us knew this. I'm the only one in the family he told. None of us knew this. He spent his whole life trying not to be his father. And so when you try not to be something, you're just not there. And my father wasn't there when I was growing up. He just wasn't there. He was working all the time. He was a great guy. He never abused any of us. Yada yada. But he was just not his father. And I understood when he told me this. When I was in my 30s, I began to understand him. He was just not my father because he was not his father. So he didn't know what to do. And so he did really nothing, unfortunately. He married an abuser. He married two of them. And he abused. And she abused my sisters, both my mother and my. And my stepmother. I had a falling out. I never was close to my dad. Then in my 30s, I sober up. I get to know him. We have a close relation. We're on the phone all the time with each other. He taught me more than any other human being. Then abuse started again. Of my sisters, again, older, as they have children. And I saw that this was going to be passed on, and I said to my dad, dad, you got to stop it right now. Because if you don't, I will. I will stop it. But it will cause so much damage. We won't. We won't see each other again. It just. Please, please. And he said, son, you have to do what you have to do. And I said, you're telling me, dad, that you agree with me stopping this, But I'm telling you, please, please help me so we don't have to go through that. Well, he didn't. And my father and I had a horrible breakup. Let me tell you why I'm telling you this now. Give me 60 seconds and I'll be right back. First, let me tell you about rapid radios. If you've ever been on a camping trip or a hunting trip or a family vacation, even a job site, you know, there's always that one guy who opens up the storage compartment and somehow produces the exact, exact thing that everybody needs. Flashlight. Got it. First aid. Got it. Extra batteries. Yeah, of course. Way to communicate with everybody. That works throughout the whole entire trip. Absolutely. I got it. That's where rapid radios come in. They're easy to use. They're ready to go right out of the box. They require no programming. There's no complicated setup. 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The reason why I told you this story. Is because anybody who hates the country because it's made mistakes. You're declaring yourself above human. You're saying, I'm better than all humans that have ever lived. I know I would have never made those mistakes. And you're making them right now. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. You're making those mistakes. And I know because I am already being judged. And I know in the final chapter, I will be judged. And exactly how I judged people is how I'm going to be judged. And I look sometimes for compassion, and I'm like, how can nobody have compassion to see what that person is going through? Well, you know why? Because I didn't. I didn't even with my own dad at the end. And I so regret it. But I did what I thought was right at the time. And that's the way I can sleep at night. I did what I thought was right at the time. Would I do it again? No. Or at least do it that way? No. That's where we should be with our country. If you grew up in a time when, you know, the Vietnam War and everything, you know, you saw your country, it was going through horrible stuff. We made huge mistakes. It's messy. We've done it again and again and again, over and over again. But is that all we are? Because again, let me say, if you're judging your country this way, let me judge you this way. Are you only a collection of your mistakes? Or should we take for a minute and admire where you came from and what you have accomplished? All the good things in your life that you also did? Because if I only judge you by your mistakes, or you judge me by my mistakes, we all are doomed. We're doomed. Why don't you just kill yourself now? You're doomed. Because that's not the message of Christ. That's not the message of how life works. You're more than your mistakes. More on this here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. 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Ricky
Just when you thought Bill Gates could not get any creepier, he does. And it involves mannequins and Mr. Rogers. Glenn breaks it down next on a Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So glad that you have tuned in. I want to talk to you a little bit about patriotism. I started this at the top of the hour with a, a, an article from the New Yorker where, you know, I get the person who's writing it, they're over educated, quite honestly and under educated on America and American thinking. They're much more European in their thinking, I believe. But you know, they also grew up at a time that I don't really understand. You know, they grew up during the hippie era and the, and the Vietnam War. I grew up right after that and I have a completely different view. But I also grew up in a family that was very patriotic. And so I understand patriotism differently than maybe some people, maybe some people do. But I, I'm, I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this red hat thing. You know, I've never had a, an American flag on my, any of my sets before. In fact, if you're looking, if you're looking at me, I'm at the ranch. And I'm trying to look, there is no, nope, there's no American flag anywhere on this and I've never done it. And I used to have a flag on a TV set and I took it off, it was on sorry radio and I took it off immediately right after 9 11. And I said, because everybody's wearing little flag lapel pins. And I said flag's going to become sides. You know, whose side are you for the war against the war? You're a Republican, Democrat. I don't want to play any role in that. So everything that I ever have on anything in the background and it's kind of the way I live my life anyway. It's the greatness of America in objects. It's just the great things that scream America without the flag on it. Because I don't like, I don't, I don't like the symbols, you know, the red hat now. Oh, that means you love America. No, no, that means you like Trump. Trump likes America and you agree with his policies. That doesn't, it doesn't mean if you like America, you have to love Trump. That doesn't. To me, it's just so simple minded. Now we had this Freedom250 thing that is happening in Washington D.C. and it was supposed to be a state fair and God bless him for trying to put this together. We weren't doing anything for America 250 and Trump gets in and he's like, hey, we've got to have some celebrations that really celebrate America. Yada, yada, yada. And so he puts this whole thing together and he does it in a year. Well, you can't put something like this together in a year. But he did. And now because of. Listen to my monologue from Friday. These weasels, these. Look, America is America. It belongs to Republicans, Democrats, Independents. Okay? Belongs to all of us, good and bad, all of us. And that's what a celebration of her should be. It shouldn't be about Donald Trump. It shouldn't be about the Republicans or anything else. But because the, the, the left started threatening a lot of these people and the people, you know, in the, in their own industry said, you'll never work again if you attend this thing. They all started to, to quit. And so now there wasn't a show to put on. So Donald Trump says, well, I'll do one. Well, now it is about Donald Trump. Congratulations, you've just made it about Donald Trump. Because what are, what are the options? What are the options, America? You tell, you tell him. No one can Work with him. Well, then he has to do it himself. So self fulfilling prophecy. Congratulations on that. And I'm sick of it. Because none of these people understand what real patriotism actually is. You know, it's looking at the long arc of a messy and improbable experience experiment called America. You look at all of it and you say, yep, that's me. These are my people. That's my home. And not because it's perfect, but because it. It chooses at its best to keep reaching up toward its own ideals after falling short. That was the point of Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech. I have a dream that America is going to read the Declaration of Independence and live by those ideas. That was his dream. I have that dream today. Please live by these ideals and these ideas. And if you were. If you grew up and you were taught to hate America first, see America only as the catalog of her sins and conquest and hypocrisies, then. Then I get it. Your love of country will feel alien. But you can't love any country because all of them, all of them are doing that or did do that. And you were just handed this ledger of mistakes without ever being invited to feel the wonder of what this country could be and what it has been for many. A refuge, a promise, a stubborn belief that ordinary people can govern themselves. And that love for this country doesn't mean that you ignore the ledger. I get it. Believe me, I get it. But are we capable of being adults here? Because as an adult, you have to be able to hold two truths at the same time. Okay? Because everything, everything religion is really great. Well, yes, it is. But a religion has also done some really bad things. So which is it? It's both. It's both. Everything. You, you're really good. And at times, admit it, you're really bad. You've done some really horrible things. But are you striving to be better? Because you're both good and bad. We all are. Patriotism, love for country, or a healthy love of self allows you to see all of the scars, the slavery, the broken treaties, the internments, the riots, the assassination, the wars of choice, and chooses to still sit at the table and say, you know what? But this idea that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator and certain inalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and Governments are instituted among men to protect those rights, that's still worth trying for. Because I don't see any of you sitting at the table telling me a better idea than that one anybody has A better idea. Give it to me. You have a better idea than that one? I'm waiting. I'm waiting. Tweet it to me, whatever. Get it to me. Because if it's an actual better idea than that one, you might talk me into going into a different direction. But until I hear a better idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, I'm sticking with that one. And I'm saying that's what we should be striving for and should be trying to create every day. Stop harping on the failures. What do we do after we fail? It's the amendments, the movements, the Supreme Court decisions, the GI Bill, the Civil Rights act, the self corrections. It's the strange American habit of arguing with ourselves in public. Loudly, messy, until we drag the country just a few more inches closer to that more perfect union. Real patriotism is not blind loyalty to a government or a party or a politician. It's loyalty to an idea that human beings are capable of more than their worst impulses. We all should end it today if that's not true. I am more than my worst impulse. I am more than my worst deed. I have made horrible mistakes, horrible decisions, but I am better than that. I am worth more than that. And I'm trying to be better. But I can never be better if I live in a world that has no forgiveness. That that's all they'll think about, is my mistake. Well, that's why I'm a Christian. Because I have a right and a gift to start all over again. And so does our country. Our liberty, however imperfectly perfect practiced, is still worth defending and fighting for. That the English speaking peoples on this continent, somehow or another built institutions durable enough to survive their own citizens. Worst tendencies. It's the farmer in Iowa who never left his country, maybe even never left his own state, but feels a tug when he hears the national anthem. It's the immigrant who arrives with absolutely nothing but then works three jobs so his kids can argue about politics in college and go to school for art. It's a soldier who absolutely despises war, but goes anyway because the country asked. It's a teacher who still believes the next generation should know the whole story, the glory and the shame. Because only people who know both can be trusted to steward what comes next. Make a decision, America. Are you defined by your lowest moment? Is our civilization always to be defined by the worst things we've ever done? Or are we to be defined by whether we learn from them and strive to do better next time. I know the answer because I know the Constitution. The Constitution was written by very brilliant men. 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James Talarico
Well, now that you got that metal picture in your head, Glenn, Becky will be right back.
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Glenn Beck
If you were just listening to us on Torch, if you're a Torch insider@glenn beck.com you heard Jason and I have kind of a frank conversation here because we have sometimes I have such little time. Sometimes I just have to say things while we're, you know, we're doing our work here and broadcast. But he has the Torch Insider show that happens during the commercial breaks. And we were just talking about some breaking news that is coming out of Fox that is not good news. But it's that the IRGC or the, the Republic of Iran now has cut off all diplomatic communication with the United States. That's not good, obviously. Can you give me any more on that, Jason?
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Jason
That's coming from Iranian state media. So that really, that could also be just another trick within their bag of tricks. We're not entirely sure.
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Glenn Beck
So just but didn't we have the president didn't we have the president of Iran resign this weekend? Or is that not true?
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Jason
So that's coming from Iranian Iran International, which is usually pretty, pretty solid. But that, that's, that only goes so far as well, because he can submit his resignation. But then the supreme leader, if he's even conscious at this point or just being controlled by the rgc, has to accept that resignation. So it's all smoke and mirrors coming out of Iran. I don't think anyone knows really what's going on.
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Glenn Beck
But what, what the reason why that came out was he the, the message that was released was the irgc, which are the Twelvers, they are the big believers. They're the chaos agents that they are fully in control of Iran at every level. If that is true, what we were talking about and I will share with you later, Jason and I have a lot of talking to do and working it out. But you'll probably get a chalkboard later this, this week on Iran and Russia and Europe. But I, I don't think if what we just heard from Fox is true and we don't know. I think we're facing the worst case scenario, at least for the election period, because the IRGC knows the American public, they are very well aware of it. They're doing disinformation campaigns and propaganda campaigns here. And you know, five dollar gallon gasoline is not going to sit well with the American people during the election. And I think we're probably going to see worse than that, possibly worse than that during this election period. I don't think this is going to go well because they think if we can just survive just a few more months, we might be able to turn the American system off and go back to the way it was and that would be a huge win for them. But I'll give you the full scope of this because it involves Russia and China and all of Europe as well. Things are very unstable. I think we're actually seeing a counterpunch. Donald Trump had him on a ropes for a long time. I think the world is about to counter punch and, and that doesn't bode well for the Western civilization if we are completely unaware of it. I'll give that to you later this week. Let's talk about something that matters more every year. Dads, real dads, the ones who show up, who provide, who protect, who teach their kids right from wrong even when it's really super hard. You don't see them much on television anymore. So many shows and commercials love turning dads into bumbling jokes. But you know better, fathers aren't a joke. They're the bedrock of strong families and a strong nation. This Father's Day, don't give dad just a gift. Honor the man that he is. Give him a gift from American Giant. Clothes that a real dad deserves. Premium hoodies and tees and everyday gear grown, cut, sewn here in America by American hands. Soft from the very first wear, but tough enough to last for years and years. No fading, no falling apart, just honest quality that lasts. When you buy from American Giant, you are supporting American jobs and the self reliant spirit that built this country. Just like your dad. Buy American this Father's Day at american-giant.com Glenn Use my name. Get 20% off your first purchase at american-giant.Com Glenn. Pass it on. Crank the game.
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James Talarico
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Glenn Beck
Welcome America to the Glenn BECK Program. We're so glad that you're here. There's a lot going on. We have to talk to you about Iran. There's some breaking news happening with that. I don't think it's necessarily good. But let's, let's take it step by step. Also, Bill Gates is in the news. What a fraud this guy is. Now we find out that he is, he's actually paid people to help create this Mr. Rogers kind of version of him. He's a terrifying guy, quite honestly. And we have Alex Adams on. He is the HHS Assistant Secretary for Family Support. The president has taken, taken the administration for children and families and they are launching a, a, a new initiative to make sure that no child is left behind. And this is specifically talking about families that are foster care families. And this was a hard decision to have Alex on, not because it's not worthy or anything else, but because I know so many people that have been raised in foster care that had the worst, most horrific movie style kind of upbringing that I've ever heard of. And I'm very interested to see how we're fixing all of this and what we're doing to make sure that we don't leave children behind, but we also don't put them into foster care. That is a horror show. We'll talk to, to Alex about that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's real estate agentsitrust.com if you're about to sell or buy a home, you know, and you're not getting the real estate agent from a reputable source, you might as well just flip a coin. Honestly. You know, head somebody who knows the local market, tail somebody who communicates well, negotiates effectively, but, you know, doesn't have everything you need. I mean, you could do that or you could get it. You know, you could get somebody by not flipping a coin. You can find somebody who has been fully vetted, has all of the skills and knowledge and systems in place to sell your house quickly, get the most amount of money and get you into the right neighborhood with the right house at the right price, it can be done. You just need the right real estate agent, somebody who can sell your home and get you into a new one, even in a very tough market. Well, the name of my company says it all. Realestateagentsitrust.com we're going to help you find the right real estate agent. We've vetted these people six ways to Sunday all over the country. If we have somebody in your area, we'll recommend them. There's no cost or obligation or anything else. Just meet with them, see if you like them. Realestate agentsitrust.com Real estate agents, agents. I trust.com Alex, welcome to the program. The Assistant Secretary for Family support from hhs, Alex Adams. Alex, excited to have you on. As I said a minute ago, I have so many friends that have grown up and coworkers that grew up in foster families that were just from hell. And I'm sure there are good ones out there. I know there are, but how. What are we doing to make sure that we increase the number of people that want to take children in for foster care and also catch the bad guys for sure.
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Alex Adams
Well, thanks for having me, Glenn. Last November, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump signed an executive order called Fostering the Future. It was a whole of government approach to improve child welfare. Across the board, many agencies have a role. My agency, the Administration for Children and Families, has a specific role. We launched a campaign called A Home for Every Child where we're trying to increase the ratio of foster homes relative to the number of foster kids. Right now we have a national shortage. If 100 foster kids come into the system, we only have 57 homes to care for them. And what happens to the remainder is they get placed in bad situations. Many of them get placed in Airbnbs, short term rentals, government office spaces. Places that are not conducive to a safe, stable, loving family environment that many of us were fortunate to grow up in. So we're trying to get states to commit to increasing their ratio of homes to kids. And there's certainly two ways to do that. First is to recruit and retain better, higher quality foster families. The most important way to do so is to shrink the number of kids coming into foster care in the first place. As President Trump said, the best foster care system is one that is not needed. And we're looking to ensure that foster care is used as the tool of last resort when it is in the best interest of the child, when it is necessary to protect them. But the first and foremost goal is to preserve families, keep families together when it is safe to do so.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so how do you make that judgment? Because, I mean, you get into foster care how? Because either all your, you have no, you have no relatives left and your, your parents either abandoned you or died, or most likely it's because the Department of Children and Families comes in and says, we got to get these kids out of here. This is a dangerous situation. Right?
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Alex Adams
Yeah. Well, most states define neglect and abuse and in cases of, if a court makes a finding, the child can be removed from the family and enter into foster care. I used to run a state child welfare system. I'M from Idaho as well, so we're neighbors. Glenn One of the things that we started doing is we started building predictive analytics into the hotline. So usually the first step in a child welfare case is a medical professional or a school personnel calls a hotline alleging neglect or abuse of a child that sends off an entire cascade of events. That cascade of events can change the entire trajectory of a child's life and the family's life. And it was very interesting to me how subjective that whole process felt. So a couple counties had experimented with predictive analytics where it brings additional data into the decision making. It helps triage and it helps write size the response from the agency. Idaho is the first state to go live using predictive analytics. And based on that experience and others, my agency, the Administration for Children and Families, just announced competitive grants to allow up to 10 states to experiment with predictive analytics as well. We think that will right size responses and allow agencies to focus on the most egregious cases where safety is truly at risk.
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Glenn Beck
So this predictive analytics, it's not to widen the scope, it's possibly to narrow the scope. Because I know people who have, you know, their baby fell off of the bed, which my son did, broke his collarbone. I know I have a friend who same thing happened in a different state and man, they were all over the good parents and they were broken heart. I mean, you know, and the state was all over them for months and months and months and there was nothing going on. So is this to try to weed those kinds of things out and get to the most serious.
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Alex Adams
Certainly the goal, the goal is to right size the agency's response to the cases where there is true situations going on, where a child's safety is at risk, where foster care may be appropriate. So that's, that's one of the things, I mean certainly, you know, we talked about preventing entry into foster care, but recruiting and recruiting, retaining good high quality foster homes is another. And too many states have larded up foster care licensing with red tape. Certainly things are necessary. Let's do criminal background checks, let's do child abuse and neglect registry checks and all of those things. But too many states larded up foster care licensing with just superfluous things like requirements for pet vaccines and other things where when I was a former state child welfare agency director, when my choice was having a child stay in the Red Roof Inn or putting them at the family's home, who is a good high quality family, but we don't know the vaccine status of their Pet rabbits. That's a very easy.
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Glenn Beck
I think it would be.
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Alex Adams
We had a lot of red tape. Like we required foster homes to have four foot fences around every body of water. I bet no farm in Weston has four foot fences along all of the irrigation canal. Let's roll out the red carpet and let's make it easier to get good, high quality foster families into the system.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so tell me about the orphan tax.
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Alex Adams
Yeah, it's another thing we've been focused on. And I always say this is something straight out of a Charles Dix Dickens novel where essentially a child's parents died. That child's parents had worked, so they were entitled to some Social Security through earned benefits through work. Traditionally, the child would be eligible for the survivor's benefit. But in 29 states, when that child entered foster care, the state was saying, we are now the parent of that child. We're going to take that survivor's benefit from them. And they're essentially taxing at a hundred percent and using it to offset permanent costs. These states were essentially stealing from orphans and using it to cover government bureaucratic overhead. So we sent a letter to 29 states asking them to end that practice, which I find morally objectionable. Luckily, 10 states changed their laws this year. Governor Pillin in Nebraska, Governor Landry in Louisiana, Governor Braun in Indiana, right away signed executive order saying we are going to end this. Other states took legislative action. In Kentucky, the Republican legislature ran a bill that Governor Beshear vetoed. But luckily the legislature, in a overwhelming bipartisan fashion, absolutely steamrolled Governor Beshear. And I think the House vote was 91 to 3. So his scheme to tax orphans has been effectively ended in that state. But we still have a number of states to go. Probably the most pernicious one is Minnesota. During the campaign, Governor Walz talked about how he was a recipient of survivor's benefits and how it gave, gave him, quote, unquote, dignity. But he is removing that dignity from his own orphans in his foster care system, presumably to give it to Somali pirates or whatever. So we still have a long way to go. We're going to continue pushing on states to try to end the orphan.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, we have a Congress that's doing nothing, we have administration that is doing everything it seems. But all of this stuff can be undone, you know, with a flick of somebody else's pen. I'm really concerned about that. The, to me, the thing to do is to encourage our houses of worship to get more involved to. You know, one of my big phrases that I use at my charity is if we want the government to do less and we have to do more, if we want our government to not be involved on all of these levels because they usually will screw things up, we need to have our churches do more. Do you have anything that is involving our, our houses of worship and our, our faith to get involved and encouraging them to get involved in this more?
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Alex Adams
Well, first and foremost, I agree with you wholeheartedly. The message that we send to the faith based community will make or break our success in child welfare. We long term and families of faith are the most likely to raise their hands and volunteer and run towards the foster care system, get licensed as foster families, provide preventive services that will prevent kids from entering into foster care in the first place. So the message we send to the faith community is really critical. We've been working with the White House faith office and the HHS faith office to signal that we are open for business. I've sent letters to 13 states alleging that they have policies in place. They're preventing people from stepping forward that have sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions. And two states have committed to change their policy as a result. Both Vermont and Massachusetts, we're going to keep chipping away at those 11 other states. So as I said at the beginning, we have too few foster families nationwide. I've got 5,700 for every 100 kids. We need to be rolling out the red carpet for the faith community and the message that we send to them is so important. I'll say just as an example, in my home state of Idaho, in southeast Idaho, I had 150 families for every 100 kids. There's a heavy faith influence from the church. It made placement much easier, relatively speaking. I could customize placement based on the needs of the child and the demonstrable capabilities of the families. Because in southeast Idaho, we had a strong faith commitment and I had more homes than kids. I had homes waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes. And we're trying to get that going nationwide.
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Glenn Beck
That's why I live in this community. It's a great community. Alex, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Thanks for all your hard work and best of luck to you. I mean, there is, there's nothing more heartbreaking than orphans and child care for orphans when it goes bad. And I know a lot of people that just are great people in spite of how they were, you know, abused in the foster care system. And I'm, I'm glad to see that you're working on that. Appreciate it. Thanks for having Me make Melania Trump too. I know she's involved in this a great deal. Thank you. Thank you. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. You know, when we're on our knees in prayer before God, miracles happen. They do. I believe that Scripture, scriptures is filled with examples of it history, American history, filled with miracles. 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We're going to put a sweater on you and maybe some glasses and you're still good. Oh yeah, be a father. I mean, nobody's Buying that. It's still Darth Vader, dude. It's still Darth Vader. But, you know, they, if you watch him now, watch him, the gentle blinking a little like Clippy, the paper clip, the measured pauses, the soft reassuring tone, you know, that one thoughtful head tilt, you know, I. I don't know, it's like, you know, he's offering you cookies instead of a polio vaccine that will probably put polio into the water. I don'. Know. This is product placement. Product placement. This is one of the spookiest things I've heard. You have to read this story. We have it in our, our show prep today about all the things they're doing, you know, to make him look like Mr. Rogers, you know, so he can do a TED Talk and tell you he knows what's best for you and your children, you know, because it's. He's going to take care of you, your farm and your future. You know, Meanwhile, he's buying up all of the farms and what was it, 2019. He had the, the Gates foundation had the event 201 where they had the global pandemic thing. And then a couple months later, a global pandemic, and they're following the script and he's on, you know, the screen in his sweater and the little clippy eye blink and the, you know, just lock down in mass. That's what we have to do, you know, and try my preferred vaccines. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. I don't know. I don't know. And he's going to save us from climate disaster because he's very generous. He's bought up all the farmland. You know, he's the biggest land owner now in the country because, you know, hey, we all have to make sacrifices. And so you sacrifice his farm, your farm, to him, and he'll make sure we're all, we're all good. And then the insects, we got the insects, too, that he's doing that. That'll be good. And we'll all own nothing and we'll feel good about it and he'll feel, you know, prophetic and he'll hell in all the fields and. And it'll be good. And he'll look like Mr. Rogers. Except when he gets on the Jeffrey Epstein plane, which, you know, kind of unfortunately. It's a mistake. I don't know if that was a mistake, really. I mean, that's like saying the Titanic was a navigational inconvenience. No, you got on the plane to go to Pedophile island and we're going to trust you with vaccines now and our children? No, I don't, I don't think so. I don't think so. No matter how much you spend on your public perception. And they're doing this, they're, they're, this is coming out now because he's going to go testify in front of Congress, you know, about what happened on Pedophile island, which, you know, good luck with that. Good luck with that. But Meanwhile, you know, Mr. Rogers, he wants to be our neighbor. By buying up all of the property around you, your harvest, your health, your horizons. And he looks just so darn trustworthy, doesn't it? What an idiot. Look how much money this guy has spent. And none of it has been effective. None of it. Do you look at him like Mr. Rogers and trustworthy? No. Not even his wife, ex wife can look at him as trustworthy. So do you remember how Yesterday you were 20 and you were like, you know when I'm really old and I'm 35. And now you're like, wait, 35 is way in the past. Life goes quickly, doesn't it? One minute you're worried about finals, the next minute you're worried about retirement. The minute, the minute, you know, one minute you're a young person and the next people you know, you're asking a young person can you fix my tv? My televisions? No. If you are approaching that age, I just warning it's going to arrive faster than you expect. And the trouble of Medicare is already here. 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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. There is a lot to go over. I want to give you some breaking news that is coming out of Iran and with everything that I have said from the very beginning with this Iran conflict Do not take anything as gospel because we don't know we are we are work, we are at war. And propaganda is a tool that is being employed on both sides. And so you just wait and see what actually develops. Don't take anything at its word. But here's the latest word that you should be aware of. It's coming from Fox News. Jason, want to fill us in? JASON okay, apparently not. Okay, I'll fill it until you figure out what's going on with this microphone. But Fox News has just said that they have cut off all communication with the United States. So there is no more diplomatic any communication at all with the United States. That obviously does not bode well. This also comes after something that is coming from a credible source in Iran. But again, what does that mean, credible source in Iran that says that the IRG is irgc, is in full control and the president of Iran has just tried to resign. Whether he was allowed to resign or not, we don't know.
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Jason
JASON yeah, and CNBC has just furthered this. The whoever these sources are, whoever is talking probably heavily IRGC aligned, they are blaming Israel's latest military operations in Lebanon for why they are now completely backing out. They said, quote, no dialogue will take place until Isla Israel stops and withdraws from what they're doing. They also said, and this is interesting, they said, quote, also the resistance front and Iran have resolved to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab El Mendeb Strait, in order to punish the Zionists and their supporters, is what they said.
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Glenn Beck
So pretend I can remember where the Bob El Mendeb Strait is.
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Jason
So that is right off the coast of Yemen, Red Sea, heading down towards that other major choke point down there. That was the entire reason why Iran was interested in Yemen to begin with, was so eventually in a situation like this, they could block Hormuz and Bob El Mendeb just shut it all down. So this is a significant escalation.
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Glenn Beck
BOB for that I Bob was I've always said I don't if I there's somebody I don't like, it's Bob. BOB El Mello mended I just I don't like him. He's not trustworthy. He's hanging out with those Houthis too much or whatever they are. THE I don't think they're Houthis, are they? THE here's what I think this means. Now, take everything I say with a grain of salt, because I am guessing I am only looking at this with the information that's being provided. I have no inside information. Nobody does. So anybody who tells you anything, like I'm going to tell you, if they don't say, take it with a grain of salt, if they say this, what's going to happen? They're lying to you. They don't know. Okay? But my guess is Israel is an excuse. They have no intention. If the IRGC really is in control, these are the nut jobs. These are the ones that are crazy and believe in washing the world in blood and bringing back the 12th Imam and everything else. These are really bad guys. Most of them are not even Iranian. And they are the ones that really they are. That's like, it's like the Germans when they were in, when the Nazis were in charge. You can't trust anybody because the Nazis are in charge. If you could talk to some non Nazi German people and they had actual power, they'd be able to change things. But the Nazis are the irgc, if you will, in this scenario. So if indeed this is true, Donald Trump is left with a couple of options and he is left with go in and you know, pound the crazy bastards until you know there are no crazy bastards left. Unfortunately, I think there's a lot of crazy bastards and I don't see that happening. And the IRGC knows this. They know the will of the American people is tepid at best. And we just cannot handle anything over five dollar a gallon gasoline. And quite honestly, I don't know how people are making it right now at $5 gas a dollar gallon gasoline. Europe is also on the verge because they're paying ten dollars because they have a climate tax, a five dollar a gallon climate tax on top of their five dollar a gallon gasoline. So they're paying $10 and that just doesn't last. Well, it's just not going to be able to. The economy cannot function at, at prices where our fuel is that high. I think your fuel price is going to go higher, unfortunately. And that, and the IRGC knows all they have to do is make it to the election and then if I can make their fuel price so high, the American people will not like Donald Trump or anybody else who is was for this in any way, shape or form. We win because they'll flip the Congress and they'll flip the Senate and we'll get our way and they'll leave us alone. They might even send us, you know, buckets full of cash. I think that's the long term strategy, but I think that is also coinciding with something else. And I'LL put this up on a chalkboard maybe later this week. I have to work this out with Jason. I want to make sure Jason sees the logic in it and also can find the holes in it before I present it to you. But we have several things going on. Russia, Iran, the unrest in Europe and the coming unrest here in America. And you know, this is not a year ago when Trump came in, he surprised the world. He shouldn't have. I mean, most people, you know, if you, if you listen to him, he told you what he was going to do, but he surprised the rest of the world. They're like, wow, he really means it. He's going to do this. And it has caused an awful lot of chaos because he is revolution defining and reimagining the entire global system to be America first. And nobody in the world likes that. And so they have had time now to catch their breath and, and see our pain points that would get him to possibly relieve their pain points. And I think that's what you're seeing with Russia and Ukraine and NATO, that's going to be a problem. Iran, the unrest that is being fomented in our own streets and all over the world, plus the fuel prices. I think what we're about to see is the global elites, the caliphate lovers, all of these things, they are all ready now to punch back. And we're going to see that punch back in the next few months. And I'm hoping that Donald Trump has his advisors and he have seen the punch back and are ready for it because I think that's what's happening, especially because they need a lame duck president. Jason, your initial thoughts on that?
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Jason
Yeah, I mostly agree. I think that the, normally in a situation like what you're describing, we would be able to, you know, rely on say like NATO partners or European partners, you know, other Western countries that would help to build a coalition to fight back against what you're describing. But that's not the case today. And what's crazy is we have, you know, you know, Russia, China, Iran, that, that axis, if you will, that are just going absolutely nuts, pursuing their own, you know, vision of the world. But right now we have a Europe, a Western Europe, I should say, I should clarify that does not feel like an ally either.
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Alex Adams
Really.
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Jason
The only, I guess, like minded countries that seem like actual partners would be in Central Europe. You know, you have countries like Poland, countries like Hungary. What's interesting to me is Republic. Yep. What's interesting to me is there was a Polish military man way back in the day. I think after World War I that actually foresaw this and said there's going to be a point in time when we'll have to not only be fearful of the east and Russia, but we'll also be fearful of the West, Western Europe. And that feels like that's where it's going now. He actually put a name to it. He called it the Itermarium. And he said this would be a check to the radicals in Western Europe and the radicals in the Far East. And that's. It's kind of wild to see that come through and to be realized. Right now it seems like he called the shot really,
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Glenn Beck
except he left out. I mean, this is the first time I'm hearing about this. Explain. You now have radicals that are more likely to throw in with Russia because the pressure is. The pressure on fuel prices and everything else is collapsing Eastern Europe. And if they just go with Russia and Iran because nobody likes what America was doing in France and in Germany, etc. Etc. Those guys are more likely to actually fall in line with, with Russia. So it's not the two choices. It's really kind of one choice. I think that some of these countries are going to start going in with Russia and China, leaving the United States and NATO and saying, well, we don't want to be with them anyway. Russia, we'd rather be with Russia and China. And so you're going to have an allied force in Hungary and Poland and Czech Republic, any of these former Soviet states. And they're going to be more likely to be with a Donald Trump style America than with Europe or Russia and China. Would you agree?
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Jason
I don't know because that, you know, I think that explains partly the, the radical green agenda and why they, while why they were trying to get themselves, you know, onto that and completely shun fossil fuels in general. I, I think that they were trying to inflict or force that onto the rest of the world. That's where it was kind of odd that you know, you know, China and Russia were, were actually kind of standing against that. I'm not saying because that they were good, but that was a little bit on how they were able to get a weird, I guess, right, a portion of the right wing within the west on their side. It was all completely false. Of course they're going after their own New World Order. It was just that the NWO or I'm sorry, the, the wef.
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Glenn Beck
Wef.
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Jason
Wef. All those types of people, they were focused on their New World Order, which was a, you know, you've you've written about it before. It's the Agenda 2030, that type of, you know, vision for the world. We as the United States kind of stood, you know, outside of all of that and said, I don't like the direction they're going, whether that's Russia, China, all them. I don't like the direction that Western Europe is going in with this, you know, mass immigration headed towards Caliphate eventually and this technocratic elite driven society by Western Europe and the UN we're kind of the outlier saying we don't want any of that. None of that looks good on liberty and, you know, individual freedom. None of that does. I kind of see us kind of standing alone, you know, if we continue down this path, saying no on both sides. Of course, when you're in the middle of the highway, that kind of is dangerous, you know, to stand there while you have the other two.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's, it's at high speeds, coming at you from two different directions.
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Jason
That's where it is.
- [121:23]
Glenn Beck
And, and really alone. Mexico and Canada will not be on our side. The Western hemisphere below Mexico I think will be. But I mean, we are. Explain, Jason, how you think this affects the average person. Why does this matter? Because I see this plainly playing it out, but most people don't. So why does this matter to the average person besides the five or eight dollar a gallon gasoline that could be on the horizon?
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Jason
Well, in the near term it affects us all because this is a massive shift. And you know, the left attempted this right after Covid and they, they always attributed it to Bretton woods, you know, when the entire global economic system just changed. That's what they were comparing it to. We are at the vert. We still are really in that right now because everything is changing at a massive scale right now. Trade deals, military alliances, everything is changing. There's going to be pain on, on all fronts. There's especially going to be pain in places like Western Europe where they have not. You were just talking about this, I think it was last week. None of them produce anything anymore. Are they making any plans to do anything differently? That President Trump was the only one that said we need to change this and change it right now because something is coming, Something is coming. And in the near term it's going to be difficult to make that transition. My hope, hope is the President.
- [122:49]
Glenn Beck
I think that's. Go ahead, finish.
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Jason
My hope is the President is trying to insulate us through the moves he's making now so that we have a smoother transition.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, he is. But if we don't have things to sell. I mean, if we don't have people to sell stuff to, it doesn't matter how much we make. You know, we have to have things we can. We have to have people that will buy our stuff. And if Europe goes down, because they are not making anything, they literally are not making anything. Anything. And what they'll do is they will sell their factories to China, not to us, to China. And that will put a deeper foothold into China. And then China will make it okay for the energy, and Russia will make it okay for the energy, and they'll have all the energy that they need. I mean, I just, I just see these weasels like Macron, because China and Russia, they think will be able to handle, if, if they ever worry about a caliphate, they'll be like, well, we'll have Russia and China on our side and they'll just shut those people down. I just, I just see a realignment possibly coming our way of Europe that is not necessarily good. But let me think this through. Let me just think this through and I'll do a chalkboard on it. If, if I think it's valid, I'll come up with a chalkboard for it and show how it really affects you. First, let me tell you about American Financing. I think most of us have pretty good idea what debt looks like. Looks like credit card statements, looks like high interest rates, looks like monthly payments that never seem to get any smaller, no matter how much money you throw at them. It's pretty ugly. Now, you may not realize that over the years you have built up tremendous resources sitting right under your own roof, and it's called home equity. And if you're a homeowner carrying high interest debt, it might be looking into whether a cash equity can start working for you. That's why I want to tell you about the Smart Equity loan from American Financing. Now listen, this is designed to help you as a qualified owner, access the equity in a way that allow you to pay off the high interest debt, consolidate payments, improve your financial flexibility without resetting your low interest rate for your mortgage. This is really important. Find out right now. Call them. There's no upfront fees. Call 8009-0624-4080-0906-2040. It's American financing.net NMLS 182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799%. For well qualified borrowers, call 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms.
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James Talarico
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- [125:36]
Glenn Beck
Oh, ye. Hello, my cracker. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Tomorrow we're gonna have more on Iran. Jason's gonna talk about somebody that he just met that was a defector. Who? Somebody who escaped Iran. We're gonna talk about that also. Hey, it's Pride Month. No mention of it in the Washington Post or the New York Times. Hmm. Remember how we all had to stand up and salute the flag just, oh, I don't know, a year ago? And now it's not even mentioned. Good. Progress. 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 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.