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Glenn Beck (3:10)
Stand your ground when times get dark. Got to face the dog. And embrace the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It's Friday. We got a lot to talk about, but I want to. I want to tell you why I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, here in just a second. We're going to start there. Just hang on. First, let me tell you about Jace Medical. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who plan ahead, and those who wish they had. And you see it every time something unexpected hits. The shelves will go empty. The pharmacies close early, and suddenly everybody's scrambling to find the medication that they already should have had at home. But that's the difference between panic and preparation. And it's exactly why Jace Medical and Jace exists. Because they know you need a supply of antibiotics prescribed by licensed doctors, delivered straight to your door, where you don't have to worry if the system ever falters. You have all the medications and that you need. And it's not just about antibiotics. It's about the peace of mind knowing that if you're traveling, if you're cut off or if the world just doesn't, you know, if the world does what the world sometimes does, you're still covered and you're still in control. I have two daughters that have. One has cerebral palsy. The both of them have seizures and they need their seizure medication. We're on vacation. They run out of seizure medication. Whatever. It's in the middle of the night. I need to make sure that we have it. We have it because of Jace. If one of my kids or I get sick and we're traveling around, I don't have to go to a doctor in some foreign country or someplace where I'm scrambling to find a doctor or, God forbid, have to go to a hospital just to get some antibiotics to make a fever break. Jace, have the Jace case with you. Travel with it and make sure that your family is safe for whatever might happen. Jace, use the promo code. Beckbeck, when you go to jace.comjase.com get a discount. Jace.com promo code is back. I am sitting in a brand new studio, state of the art at WO Woe in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Whoa. Whoa. Is this amazing radio station. And I am here to celebrate their 100th anniversary as they are launching into their second century of broadcast and grabbing on to the future. I'm here because when we launched. Whoa Whoa. I think was one of the first five stations. I know we launched with 20 stations and I think they were. They were like number four, number five that signed on. They were with us on the very first day that we launched the Glenn Beck program. But beyond that, wow. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, was one of the very first stations in America, in the world. And what it has meant, what it has done and what it's about to do is remarkable. Back in 1925, there was no such thing as a network. CBS had not even started to put together a network. The Columbia Broadcasting System. Radio was brand new. The air was silent. And Whoa Whoa. Launched. And when that voice spoke, people listened because they knew it was speaking to them. Woah was never a spot on the dial. Our local radio stations are. I don't know if we really appreciate our local radio stations. Everything has changed and yet something still remains true. And it's that truth that finds its way through the static on the air. It's that truth of a friend in the dark hours of a war or the comfort during a storm when everything else is down. The laugh on a long morning commute in Fort Wayne, Indiana. For a hundred years now, when blizzard shut down the roads, when the headlines, when the headlines scarred us or when hope felt small, there was always that voice humming through the night, a reminder that we're not alone. And it's local radio. This is a station that helped put Fort Wayne on the map. It was its first broadcast carried not music and news. Its first broadcast carried with it identity. And this is so critical. Everything is being flattened out now. Everything. You go to one town after another and they're all the same. They have the Ann Taylor and the Gap and everything else. And it's exactly the same. The first broadcast carried and the broadcasts that are still carried on your local station. Woe. Woe told the nation that Indiana had something to say and that people could be both humble and mighty. It gave a voice to the farmers and the shopkeepers and the school teachers and the kids with dreams bigger than their town's borders. It carried their music, their songs. Wo WO was the first radio station in the country to carry a basketball game. It carried their prayers. When they first launched in the 1920s, they had a huge pipe organ. And every Sunday they would have. They would have services on the air. But what made these few stations so unique when cbs, two years after WO WO went on the air. Maybe four years after they went on the air, they decided, the Columbia Broadcasting System decided that they were going to make a network. But how do you make a network? Woah Woe was one of the first 16 stations to say we'll share the burden. We will go to the Bell system now at&t and we will buy the phone lines from New York and we'll string them all the way to Fort Wayne. And that way we'll be able to carry a network show on a phone line. And at night, when its Clear Channel signal stretched across the map from the Carolinas to New England, travelers and truckers that were far from home could turn on the dial and hear the warmth of the Midwest. I used to listen to KFI early in the morning up in the Pacific Northwest and I could hear the sound of Los Angeles. Here amongst the busy streets along the coastline of the Atlantic, people would be able to hear home. Woah, Woe was the sound of home that was carried on the wind. Today we're kind of lost. Today we don't really know who we are. It's a world overflowing with noise. And yet there are those local stations. And I see them in town after town. When we go to serve after a hurricane, it's the local station. It is the woe woe of the market that is still doing what it always has. Listening, serving and reminding who we really are. For a hundred years this radio station has proven that community isn't something that we click on. Community is something that we build. And when you, when you build it together and the static fades, something remarkable happens. We begin to hear each other again. Do you remember what it was like if you're at my age, or maybe even a little longer, younger, listening to the ball game under the blankets, you'd go into your bed and you turn on your radio, your transistor radio, and you could listen in the middle of the night and you would listen to voices far away. Today you're doing that. You're listening to voices all around the world. You're seeing images in your hand instantly. Live information is infinite. The problem is trust is scarce. And that's why woe, Woe and stations like it endure. And they endure perhaps more urgently than ever before because they stand as proof that localism, the small town, the shops, the neighbors, the farms, they matter. When you watch national news, when you're seeing things on Facebook, everything is flattened, the perspective is just flat and the algorithms tailor the outrage for you. And then there's the local station that says no, no, no. Remember, here's who we are. Here's where we live. Here's what. I've developed a new slogan internally for my own company, and that is think small. Dream big. Everybody's thinking too big. Think small. Connect with neighbors. Support your small business. Give people that are next to you a platform. Because when you get to this level, when you get to the small local hometown and yet one of the first network stations, when you get to a place like WO wo, it's where it's one of the last institutions where people from opposite ends of the political spectrum might still hear the same words at the same time. In a divided America that is rare and that is sacred. I travel the country. I've been in radio. Now in 2027, it will be my 50th year in broadcast. I have been broadcasting half the time that WO WO has been in business, and it was one of the first stations in America. And I travel the country and the towns are the owners that don't appreciate or don't understand the power of local radio. They have lost something irreplaceable. Not. Not sound. We have plenty of sound. We've lost our story. We've lost the voice that says, good morning, Fort Wayne, and actually means it. Such an honor to be here today. It really is. And I know if you're listening someplace, especially in a big city, this maybe doesn't mean anything to you, but it should. Because in the end, it's not going to be a national voice that saves. It's not going to be the federal government. It's going to be all of us in our little towns all over America that saves things. And it's stations like WO WO that remind us the value is not in watts or ratings, but in its quiet reminder that community is more than people sharing space. It's people sharing sound and memory and truth. It was and remains the heartbeat in the static. Happy 100th anniversary WO WO Radio. Thank you for being an original sponsor, an original affiliate of the Glenn Beck program. I remember the first time I was here. I had just written my first book. It was called the Real America. About four people read it. I showed up at a bookstore here in Fort Wayne, and I had to stay there for, I think, an hour. I was contractually, I had to stay there for an hour, and nobody was there. I mean, after like, 15 minutes, the whole place was empty. Empty. And I'm like, oh, this is so awkward. I'm standing around in this bookstore and nobody is here. And these little old ladies came up, and they were local. And this one lady was introducing me to her other friends who hadn't listened to me yet. And at one point she brought me a pie. Another lady, I think, brought me a loaf of bread. And these were in the days when a listener could bring me something and I could actually eat it. And this lady said to me, we were sitting there talking, and she reminded me of my grandmother. I could see her quilting her, what my grandmother used to say, her lap robe. My grandmother would quilt these blankets. We didn't know until after she died. She would quilt these blankets all winter long. We'd see her, but we didn't know what she was doing with them. And she was giving them to the homeless. And I could see this woman, just like my grandmother, just quietly quilting. And she looked at her friends and she said, you need to listen to this young man. She said, he's a really good boy. And then she grabbed my cheek and she shook my cheek, and she said, just sometimes he gets a little out of control, but he's a good boy. I was driving this morning early in Fort Wayne. It's still a town with a heartbeat. They've redone the downtown. It's beautiful. I should probably tell you it's not, because I don't think everybody wants people to go, oh, I want to live in Fort Wayne. I think they would like to keep it like this. But the neighborhoods are still neighborhoods. The big old houses aren't all run down in some ghetto. It's beautiful, and the trees are starting to turn colors, and some of the factories are even being used again. I was just at Berna, one of our sponsors, there, here in Fort Wayne, and they've been building here and building factories. As America gets back to work, I thought I could live here in a heartbeat. But time goes on and so does the news, and things get busier and busier and busier. And I got here yesterday, and I was worn out because I had spent a few hours with the president this week. The guy who had flown on Sunday left in the afternoon on Sunday, went, flew across the ocean, went to Israel, greeted the hostages as they were being released, celebrated, then went and spoke at the Knesset for two hours, then got on another plane, went to Egypt, negotiated a peace deal, did all kinds of talking and picture taking and shaking of hands and everything else, got back onto a plane, arrived, met with the president of Argentina, Malay, and then walked out into the Rose Garden and did a tribute to Charlie Kirk. And then after that, he walked back into the Oval Office. And I was standing outside of the Oval Office at one point and it was lined with people waiting to go in and see him. And it was the vice president and the secretary of state, the guy moving so rapidly. And I was tired. A lot is happening in our world and it's happening quickly. And we're going to get to that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. Sarah, who is our sponsor? It's Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a great way for you to get out of pain. If you are in pain, try Relief factor. This is something that my wife wanted me to try years ago and I really didn't think that it would work. You know, I've taken. I've had ibuprofen. I've had ibuprofen, 800 milligrams of it. Yeah, the prescription stuff, I mean the hard stuff, you know what I mean? The stuff that you're just immediately addicted to. I've always found that ridiculous. And this stuff never worked for me. And I thought this is not going to work for my pain. 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