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Sage Steele
I probably should have had to go through massive amounts of security to be allowed in here. And Glenn Beck's museum. First of all, thank you for allowing me here back here, but I didn't know what to call it. This is a museum, if you ask me.
Glenn Beck
What do you call it? Right now, it's kind of a museum, educational center and storage facility. We're building a museum. We haven't broken ground on it, but we hope to in 2026.
Sage Steele
So you say storage. Like I have my little cube. Smart 1019. This is a different kind of storage. And especially when.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, go in here.
Sage Steele
That's kind of a door. I do want to go in here. And ladies and gentlemen, be ready. You have never seen anything like this. When I came to do your show a couple of months ago, you're like, hey, come across the street. Let's go.
Glenn Beck
Okay, so this is our vault, I'm told, can withstand a tornado, category five. I don't want to test it.
Sage Steele
And we are in Texas, so.
Glenn Beck
That's in Texas. Yeah. It's obviously all reinforced. It's got fire suppress. The latest in fire suppression that doesn't suck the air out of the room. So you die if you're caught in there. It doesn't leave any chemical residue. It somehow or another changes the. The. The makeup of fire and just puts it out. So no document, nothing would be destroyed in here. And humans could be in here. If there's a fire, it can put the suppression and doesn't affect humans.
Sage Steele
My goodness.
Glenn Beck
It's amazing.
Sage Steele
I actually didn't know that that existed.
Glenn Beck
I didn't.
Sage Steele
At the White House.
Glenn Beck
Yes. No, I didn. Well, when you have these, this is 1% of the collection. Most of the collection is in two different mountains in the side of a mountain where, you know, my goal was in 2008 was to. I had a prompting in prayer, and all he heard was clay pots. And I Didn't know what that meant. And every time I prayed for, like six months, it was clay pots. Clay pots. I didn't know what that meant. I'm on the air one day and I said, the people that America is currently battling hate the freedoms that we have, hate the documents. You know, they will destroy our history, everything. And I said, they will take our sacred American documents and destroy them. And when I said that clay pots, I understood. Sacred documents. That's how we have the Dead Sea Scrolls, because people knew that they were coming for those. And so this group of people, they rolled them up, put them into clay pots, pushed them in the back of a cave. And it wasn't until about 1930 that some shepherd boy was out. He picks up some rocks and he throws them into a cave, and he hears the shattering of a pot. So he goes in and hear all these scrolls. So that it was, I think, 1946. I think it actually happened. That is the reason why we have a separate group of documents. We say, no, no, no. We know this is true because this was found. And so you can A, B, and C. That it's all true. That's. That was the power of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is what that is supposed to be. Should there ever be any trouble, these will all be locked away in a cave in a clay pot. So.
Sage Steele
So you were praying for anything in particular? For guidance, and the clay pots is what kept coming to you?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, and I wasn't praying for guidance. I mean, I was praying for guidance every day, but I wasn't praying for anything. And it was just. First it was clay pots, then when I said that, I realized. And then the doors opened of start collecting. So we started collecting first American documents, the American founding documents. We now have the largest collection of founding documents outside of the Library of Congress and the National Archives. We're number three. And then as it went over through the years, we started collecting. We now have the largest collection of Pilgrim documents and artifacts. And we went both directions, and we're up pretty solid, probably up until about 1970, but we have some holes in there that we're trying to fill. And then, as you'll see if we have time, I started looking at the American story. And to truly understand America, you have to understand its industry of film, which changed culture everywhere. I mean, we have the original Darth Vader mask. Yeah. And if you go to somebody, even probably in China, and say, I am your father, they would know what that is. But that's an American story. It is not only written Here in America, produced here in America. But it is the story of the little guy who doesn't necessarily want to be a hero, but sees something great in front of him and feels like, I got to do that and frees everything. So even that's an American story.
Sage Steele
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Glenn Beck
Sage so we've tried to preserve all.
Sage Steele
Of it and the diversity of the stories is what is amazing to me because it's almost, you know, completely separate. Well, movies and entertainment. Well, no, yeah, no, it's, it's all, it's all, it's all intertwined.
Glenn Beck
And I, I try to collect the bad stuff too. I'm currently working, trying to get the government to revoke all the Medals of Honor for Wounded Knee. Everyone who is at Wounded Knee received a Medal of Honor. And when you see the numbers, you look at the charts and you'll see, you know, wound, you'll see, you know, World War I, World War II, Vietnam. You'll see all of the conflicts. You go back this way and you see Wounded Knee way up there. Every single soldier that was there got one.
Sage Steele
Really?
Glenn Beck
And it was because it was a horrid massacre. We have a large collection of things from Wounded d Horrible massacre that happened because somebody from Washington came in in the middle of the night and said, you're not going to let them. You're going to let them with their guns down there in the middle of the night. They're savages. They'll come up and kill us, go down there and get their guns. And they're like, sir, we have it all worked out. We were going down in the morning, everything's gonna be fine. He made them ride down in the middle of the night. Something happened. Somebody's gun went off first. It's the middle of the night. They're all freaking out. We kill every man, woman and child. Horrid. We then, as a government, give everybody there a medal of honor and say, no, this was heroic. This battle was. It wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter. And some of the guys committed suicide. Some of the guys threw them away. Some guys didn't accept them. Some guys took them and just lived with it. But those should not be in the, in the registry of Medal of Honor. That was, that was a cover up.
Sage Steele
This is the beauty of what this room is, what this represents, and the fact that it's only 1% boggles my mind. But I, I did know that story. I, I guarantee the majority of Americans do not.
Glenn Beck
If you don't know, if you don't know the bad and we have everything, I can't say everything. A lot of the stuff that people say bad. Look at what America did. A lot of that is true. And I bet you I can outdo you on some of the things that are horrible. And I have the evidence that we did it. But that's an important part. If you only have the good part, you'll be surprised by the bad part. And then you'll question everything you have to know, good and bad. I learned this by learning Winston Churchill. I love Churchill. What a hero that guy was. He was almost entirely alone. He saw the Cold War before anybody saw the Cold War. He saw World War II before anybody saw Hitler coming. And a hero in his effort to stop it and save the West. However, when I finished reading about everything I could from there, I thought, you know, he went to India. I want to read something from the Indian perspective.
Sage Steele
Interesting. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
He was a monster, an absolute monster. And he admits it later in life. He's like, I made horrible mistakes. So for a long time I looked at those two and I went, I don't know how to put those together.
Sage Steele
Right.
Glenn Beck
Was he a monster or was he a hero? And it dawned on me that this is. This is what we're going through now with the country.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
And the answer to that, is Churchill a good guy or a bad guy? The answer is yes. He's both. We are both. But are we trying to get better or are we getting worse?
Sage Steele
Right.
Glenn Beck
That's what matters. That's what matters with our souls. Everything. Are you striving to go up or are you allowing yourself to go down?
Sage Steele
I'm so glad that you're focusing on the bad, too. And you look at the education system right now and things that are and aren't included, even though they did happen. The desecration of monuments throughout the country, that, sure, there's some painful memories and histories that go along with them, but isn't that as important to know as the good?
Glenn Beck
Look, let me come over here.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
So let's just take what we just went through with the monument. See that cannon out there?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
That's from Gettysburg. They. They. Somebody spray painted on it f. The police.
Sage Steele
Oh, that was recent.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Okay. That thought for the north, then was lost in a battle, became it. It stood out front of the Southern White House during the war. Then it was brought up to Gettysburg. It was in front of the Southern Confederacy Museum. These little old ladies, okay. Somebody comes in, they firebomb the place. They spray paint that. And these little old ladies are. When I went up there, they were like, it's destroyed. It's, you know, blah, blah, blah. We don't know what to do. And they didn't. They couldn't sell it to anybody because it had been defaced. And I'm like, no, no, please tell me you didn't scrub that off. And they did. But you see the damage done to it. But they scrubbed that off. We have it because that cannon fought on both sides for the war. Okay. And then a hundred some years later, it was involved in it again.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
And it was the same battle. You know, so history, it just goes on and on and on. But if you. You know, if you want to talk slavery, these are. These are from the tribes that were rounding their own, their enemies, and selling them to the white men. Did you know that?
Sage Steele
No.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. If you want to. So. So this happened. This happened. The culture was so different back then that when you had. It was almost like, you know, ancient Rome where you conquered, you get to keep the people. They're your slaves. Okay. So these tribes would conquer each other, and then when the white man came, they figured, we can sell them to them. So we did the bad. We took them, we Brought them, you know, over here. We enslaved them. But it wasn't that we went and took them. It was their own tribes. Because culture was entirely different back then. Okay. Doesn't excuse anything.
Sage Steele
Sure. But it, it's the why. Yes. Which matters.
Glenn Beck
Yes, it does. When you, you come over here, this is some of the stuff that we have from the Pilgrims Bible that they brought over with them. You know the, the 1619 project says that this ship was full of slaves. Well, it's not. It's not because we have the documents that show what was on this ship. Okay. Indentured servants. What's the difference between slaves and indentured servants? An indentured servant is one that sells themselves in to limited slavery. And it's not anything close like slavery. But you are now an indentured servant for seven years. You're paying back a debt. That's what was on the ship that they are reimagining. Okay. Slavery started in America a long time before we know because we have these two documents and I don't remember which is which, but one of them is from. They're both from Spain. One is to Portugal or Brazil. I can't remember. Let me see if it says. No, it doesn't say on the back. But one of them is for South America and the other one is from the governor of Cuba saying there is a new outpost for. For Spain in Florida. Okay. St. Augustine.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
So. And that's where the first slaves from Europe and from Africa came. St. Augustine. Not by the English, but by the Spanish. Okay. In Florida. But nobody knows this. And this is, this is from the 1500s.
Sage Steele
Where did you get this?
Glenn Beck
We. There was a huge. A guy who'd collected his whole life and he was selling it to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian was willing to pay all kinds of money for it. And one of my people here talked to him and said do you really want the federal government to have that? And he thought about it and so he sold it to us for a smaller price. But I think everything has to be held in private hands. Because if the government owns everything, they can take section I could today I could take out the worst things about America and I could put them on display and I could tell you how horrible America is. If I have all of the stuff that's good and I can withhold it, I can do the opposite. It has to be in private.
Sage Steele
I haven't thought of.
Glenn Beck
That has to be.
Sage Steele
That absolutely makes sense.
Glenn Beck
Otherwise they have complete control of our history. And that's dangerous.
Sage Steele
It's scary.
Glenn Beck
It Is scary. It is scary.
Sage Steele
This is your pilgrim area.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, kind of. This is. This is. Let me show you this. You probably. This is from 1493.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
This is. We don't know what it says because it's in Cortesian. There are, like, 12 people that read Cortesian. But this is King Ferdinand's signature. This is Queen Isabella's signature. That whole thing.
Sage Steele
That whole thing. That whole thing that seems to say more than Queen Isabella.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Oh, wow. It's so beautiful, too.
Glenn Beck
It is, isn't it?
Sage Steele
And now they don't even teach penmanship in school.
Glenn Beck
Right? I know, I know. This is remarkable. This is from 1492, I think.
Sage Steele
Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck
March 31, 14. Yeah, March 31, 1492. I'm fascinated by the plight of Jew because Nazi Germany was just the latest holocaust. It has happened 19 different times. And it's amazing how it's at a time of. Of great struggle, great possible light and great possible darkness. So we're sending the ships out to discover the New World in 1492 from Spain, from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. This is the same year, March of that year, signed by King Ferdinand. That is to punish someone because they helped some Jews escape with their money because a purge was happening the same year we were going over. Spain was purging all the Jews. Did you know that? No.
Sage Steele
Like, I feel like more of an idiot. And we're five minutes in.
Glenn Beck
No, that's.
Sage Steele
This isn't.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, no, it's. It's.
Sage Steele
What is this beautiful cannon?
Glenn Beck
This cannon is from Jamestown. They came over on that chip that was talked about by the New York Times. There are four of them. Jamestown has three of them. We have the other. Wow.
Sage Steele
Okay. One of the questions. One of the things we talked about when I was here with you last time, and I don't know how much you want to go into this, but the cost. I mean, the sheer amount of cost for one item, how do you.
Glenn Beck
My kids are not going to receive anything. Some of this. A lot of this was purchased by me over the years, and I'm fortunate enough to be handsomely paid. And then the museum that I started, people also give to the museum, and that also helps defray some of the.
Sage Steele
Costs, but because it's overwhelming to me to even consider based on the history of these documents.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
From just the 1400s.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
One of them.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Just. Just the little collection you see here is probably worth about $2 million.
Sage Steele
Which part?
Glenn Beck
This just the Pilgrim. Yeah.
Sage Steele
Basically.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Two million here.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
I mean, but you Get. And with that 2 million, you get this free that comes with it. That's from the Mayflower. That came over on the Mayflower.
Sage Steele
Are you serious?
Glenn Beck
Do we have the mirror? We don't. It's not here. We also have the looking glass that came over in the Mayflower. And it's about this big. And you look in it and you're like, there's no way you could even see yourself in them.
Sage Steele
Yeah. It's so crazy to think who held this?
Glenn Beck
I know.
Sage Steele
And who drank from it?
Glenn Beck
I know.
Sage Steele
Who made it and carved it.
Glenn Beck
I know.
Sage Steele
Not some factory in China.
Glenn Beck
No.
Sage Steele
It's a little different.
Glenn Beck
No, it's amazing. Wow. Let's see.
Sage Steele
So pilgrims. And so by the way, how did you divide this up into sections? It just. As things can.
Glenn Beck
This is just. Yeah, you go around, and in here it ends probably about 1950, we have another section that's just all about space. I am collecting progressive thought on the death cult that is eugenics from Darwin to Roe and I. People don't understand that we taught the Nazis. We. We brought that. A lot of that to them. It was all here. A lot of the things that the Nazis implemented it. The Nuremberg Laws came from America, either through Jim Crow laws or through eugenics. And we need to recognize that. Okay. And then after it was over, what did we do? We went over and we took those same horrid doctors. Do we have the book of medicine? The same horrible, horrible doctors that were doing obscene things in the name of science here, that created this book by dissecting people many times alive.
Sage Steele
Oh, my.
Glenn Beck
This is. This book. And also the. The main medical book is in every hospital now that talks about hypothermia and how that all came from the. The Nazi experiments, all of it. Okay. And then when we won the war, there were people that were too important that knew about these things that could teach, that had done chemical warfare, that had done rocket warfare through the operation Paperclip, which was an abomination. We brought them here and we whitewashed them and we introduced them back into our system. It's horrible. It's absolutely horrible and horrendous. But I'm. I'm showing that the lie of Darwin. Yeah, Let me. Let me. Let me go there here for a second.
Sage Steele
Yeah, please.
Glenn Beck
So Darwin writes Origin of the Species. Okay. And I'm not saying anything about Darwin, that he was racist or anything like that. Okay. But it's because of this racism is codified. Before, it was just a feeling. I just know. You just know. They're Inferior. Okay. I just know this is the first time that science steps up and says, no, there are subspecies of people. So Origin of the Species. That's what everybody thinks this is called, but nobody remembers the actual title of this book. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. That. You know that. Or read that.
Sage Steele
Hold on, Glenn.
Glenn Beck
I know.
Sage Steele
Or the Preservation of Favored Races and the Struggle for Life.
Glenn Beck
Did you know that?
Sage Steele
Or.
Glenn Beck
Or of favored races. So now he's saying that there are favored races of people.
Sage Steele
Flat out says that.
Glenn Beck
Right. Okay, now I'm not saying anything about Darwin. What I'm saying is just that is a key that others who are open up. We just finished the. We just killed Lincoln. We just set people free. France is building the Statue of Liberty. Okay? Because we broke the chains and we used, we used our, our documents, our founding documents that she holds to light the way of freedom. And she's got the broken chain. That's because of Abraham Lincoln and what we did in the Civil War. Almost at the same time, Darwin comes out and says favored races. So now you have all those people that wanted to keep slaves going. Well, you see, science even says it. Yes. So that leads to all kinds of trouble. And this is a five volume set of the history of the American peoples. Let me see. I have it here. By Woodrow Wilson. A horrible guy. Okay. I mean I could, I could fill hours just talking about Woodrow Wilson. One of the worst presidents of all time. Horrible, horrible, racist and just godless guy.
Sage Steele
And it's so funny. It's not funny. My dad's high school in Levittown, Pennsylvania. Woodrow Wilson High School. And my, obviously my dad's a black man that graduated in the 1960s.
Glenn Beck
Like, and it was, it was, it was 40 years before that that Woodrow Wilson had the Klan on the Streets of Washington D.C. was showing birth of a Nation. It was the first film ever showed in the White House. He showed Times Birth of the Nation. That is glorifying the clan.
Sage Steele
Absolutely.
Glenn Beck
And he loved it. So he writes, we have books on. What is it called? One of them is called the Colored American patriots from the 1800s.
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
And it's all about African Americans that helped us found and build the nation. Just the incredible people. For instance, did you know that the American Revolution, in the first battle, first one to fall, was a black man. Did you know that at the critical place to where we would have lost early if we lost this battle, the one who saved it was a black man?
Sage Steele
No, I didn't know that.
Glenn Beck
And did you know that in the End. A guy who George Washington used as a double spy. Okay? Somebody wildly respected by Washington. Wildly respected at the time. He's the one who told Washington exactly where to go so we could have our final battle. We have the final battle. And it was because of him, a black man. Black man at the beginning, black man in the middle, black man at the end.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Why don't we know that?
Sage Steele
That it's the first time I have heard that period.
Glenn Beck
Horrifying. That's horrifying. Your history has been taken. My history has been taken. Our history has been taken from us. Why? So we're not empowered. The more you can create this grind against each other, the more you can distort, the more you can control history. You can control people.
Sage Steele
Well, that they. It's been brilliantly done recently.
Glenn Beck
It started with him. Hang on just a second. So let me just show you this one thing. This is Woodrow Wilson. He erases all of. This is the history of America. Not one time does he talk about anyone black in the history of America. Okay. Not one. Except here, towards the end, he does provide us with a picture.
Sage Steele
Oh. Oh, my goodness. We'll get a close up of this. Look. Look at that. That's his description of a black man. Of a black man.
Glenn Beck
That's Woodrow Wilson.
Sage Steele
And by the way, look at what the caption underneath. A superannuated darkie. He calls him a darkie in Richmond, Virginia. And that's the only one.
Glenn Beck
That's it. That's it. Monkey. Where does that come from? Darwin. And it just gets worse and worse and worse from there. This. This is the chain that has to be broken. Because this is the chain that leads. Let me bring over here, boy. This is none of this.
Sage Steele
But how do I. How do we break it? By having conversations? By talking about things like this. By opening these up and showing the world. I mean, no one discusses this.
Glenn Beck
No.
Sage Steele
It's obviously a tall task, to say the least. But how do we do this? How do we educate? How do we make sure people know? Because like we just said, they are awesome at creating that divisiveness based on lies.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. So the good news is AI is remarkable. The Internet blockchain. Remarkable. We have spent the last few years digitizing every item that we have, every document that we have, every book that we have. It can be translated into any language at any time. Soon. By next year, I'm launching three different AIs that I've been. I have two teams of people working around the clock, one on one hemisphere and one on this hemisphere. You finish good, we pick it up and it's all going to be about education. And it will be able to from a very tight set. AI does not memorize anything. Okay. When you go to a chat GPT, it will make things up because it cannot remember everything.
Sage Steele
Right.
Glenn Beck
But if you take it into smaller chunks, you know, and you put an electric fence around it and you do not allow it to go outside of that. Okay. You pull from this knowledge, then it can memorize everything. And so you get accurate answers based on what you have in there. Okay. And if we have good history, bad history, all in there, then it can tell you and it can teach and it will adapt to you. It will say, oh, sage deal, you're intelligent woman. What do you want to know about it will speak at your level. I have an 8 year old. Can you teach it to an 8 year old? Easy. Yes. Boom. That comes out next year.
Sage Steele
Oh, really?
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Oh, wow.
Glenn Beck
Very excited.
Sage Steele
Yeah. For how long?
Glenn Beck
We've been working on the digitizing of everything for three years, four years, non stop. And I've been working on the AI for eight months.
Sage Steele
And that's where, I mean that's where everything is now. You had. I've been hesitant and just kind of like, no, I'm not doing that. I'm not going there.
Glenn Beck
And have to.
Sage Steele
We have to. Yeah, we have to.
Glenn Beck
And thank God left behind.
Sage Steele
Absolutely.
Glenn Beck
Let me take you through some, a couple of other things. This is just real quick. Lincoln is an amazing story in and of himself. But this is. We have several pieces of of Lincoln story. So this is a note that he sends to the speaker of the Senate or Speaker of the House, I can't remember, Secret of the Senate. And he says, hey, don't adjourn, don't adjourn. I know what you're working on. I have a better idea. His better idea is the Emancipation Proclamation.
Sage Steele
Oh my goodness.
Glenn Beck
It was a better idea.
Sage Steele
Yeah, I'd say, oh my gosh, let me see.
Glenn Beck
Where is the.
Sage Steele
And that's 14. I'm sorry.
Glenn Beck
1860, 15. Where is the Gettysburg Address? Okay.
Sage Steele
By the way, who's this young man? Is.
Glenn Beck
He's one of guys. Yeah.
Sage Steele
Basically.
Glenn Beck
He's always bad news for me because I. Because I will find something and I'll be like, mike, look what I just found. And he'll do research and be like, no, it's not, it's not real or it's not what they say.
Sage Steele
Okay, we need to see your face. Yeah, come on in. Since he has you working around the.
Glenn Beck
Clock and stuff, right? Yeah.
Sage Steele
And this is what.
Glenn Beck
So this is Gettysburg Address. So he writes. He throws away this. What we think. Correct me if I'm wrong, Mike, because you will. We think that there were two copies at the time that he gives the speech, but we know he gives the speech that he had that he used to read the speech from. He gave that to a New York reporter because the guy came up, said, Mr. Lincoln, that was a great speech. Do you have a copy of it? And he said, sure. Gives it to him, the guy copies it and then throws that original away. So during the war, to raise money for the dead and the wounded, you know, the families and the wounded, he writes two extra copies. I was just with the President a couple of weeks ago, and he took me up to the Lincoln Bedroom where he wrote this.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
And they have one of the original copies. This is a high digital copy from the Lincoln Library. Oh, my gosh. They had one of the originals. And he said to me, glenn, that's the Gettysburg Address. And somebody who was with him said, that's the one. That's the original. And I said, it's one of the four. But, yes, it's one of the originals. But knowing, just knowing that there are four of them. This is one from the Lincoln Library. And this one's says that this nation under God, which we've always. We've always said it that way. We've always known it that way. And people will say, well, see, we have been always a nation under God. But two of the copies don't say that. I don't know why he left it out, but two copies he wrote, in this nation under God, it's one thing.
Sage Steele
If it's once, if it's twice intentional.
Glenn Beck
It's weird. I don't know why. I've never heard a reason why.
Sage Steele
Can I ask you what that was like when President Trump took you up there to leave? And what he was like.
Glenn Beck
He is like, I am probably when you came here the first time and I was showing you. It's like a kid in a kid.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
You know, and he. It was so cool because he spent like an hour and a half showing my wife and I around, just talking to us. And the whole time there at first, there's like four people following him around, and they say, Mr. President, the National Security Council consul's waiting for you. And he's like, yeah, tell him I'll be right with him. I'm gonna take him up to the Lincoln Bedroom. But it ends up being like an Hour, hour and a half.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
And now there's, like, 20 people following us. His schedule is just backing up. And every time he will take a breath, they go, Mr. President, the National Security Council is still waiting for you. He's like, I know. And then he'd turn around, and they look at me like.
Sage Steele
Like, it's your fault.
Glenn Beck
Like it's my fault if there's a war. It's not my fault. What am I gonna say? But at one point, we went downstairs and we were going to the private residence, so we were down kind of in that lower level.
Sage Steele
That's so awesome.
Glenn Beck
So cool. Oh, you haven't been?
Sage Steele
No. I would give my right arm to see that.
Glenn Beck
Oh, it's so cool. It's so cool. But.
Sage Steele
So he took you down.
Glenn Beck
He took us down downstairs. And we're walking past. There's the library on this side, and I'm not sure what this room is called, but we're walking by, and he stops and he goes, oh, you have to see this. And he turns around and he goes into this room. He's like, you're gonna love this painting. It's the most beautiful painting in the White House. And I said. I just laugh. And as we going into the room, I said, I have to ask you, and I know you're Donald J. Trump, but do you ever. And he stopped me, and I didn't think he knew what I was gonna ask him. And he stopped me and he said, every day. And I said, every day what? He said, every day I wake up and I can't. I can't believe I get the chance to live here. He appreciates it. I'm sorry for getting. It's just. He appreciates it. He knows it's not his. He cares for it. I mean, he's just not the guy that everybody says he is.
Sage Steele
No. No. For him to know exactly what you were going to say.
Glenn Beck
Right, right. That was shocking to me.
Sage Steele
I'm picturing him at the beginning of every morning after he's gotten, you know, 2.5 hours of sleep, seems like. And to start your day knowing that and to walk around with true perspective. And sometimes, like, he doesn't want. He's djt.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Sage Steele
It's almost like he doesn't want that softer side out at times. I think we've seen that change. We've seen that change a little bit after the shooting. He seemed to, you know, soften a little bit with his granddaughter, et cetera. But overall, and I understand that you have to be that Powerful figure. That's the real Donald Trump.
Glenn Beck
That's the real Donald Trump. And I wish people would see that. And he will. We went up and we had a conversation that was unbelievable. I mean, it just. It. It was who I know him to be. And as we're walking down the stairs from the residence and we're coming down, there's this table at the bottom of the stairs, and there's two documents and two pins. One for me, one for my wife. And they said, Mr. And Mrs. Beck, we need you to sign that. And I said, what's this? And they said, everything he just shared with you, the President would like to keep it between you two. And I haven't ever been more disappointed because I was like, not that, because that shows who you really are, you know?
Sage Steele
Do you think someday, maybe when it's over that he will be more okay with that? I don't know.
Glenn Beck
No. No. But he's going to die before I do. And I'm. Then I'm released from what I.
Sage Steele
Are you. What is it? What did you sign?
Glenn Beck
I don't know. I didn't actually read it.
Sage Steele
What a beautiful story.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. So what was I going to show you over here? Oh, so we were talking about Lincoln.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
So this is part of Lincoln's collar. This part of this collar. Because they shot him right here and just treated him horribly. Okay. He's bleeding. This is the reason why. This is. You see, it's this. Stained with the blood.
Sage Steele
No way.
Glenn Beck
We have his cuff from his shirt. It's about this big, and it's all stained with blood.
Sage Steele
You have that?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I have it in the mountain. That one's in the mountain. Oh, my gosh. But.
Sage Steele
And I mean, I feel like I can say this about every item. How did you get that?
Glenn Beck
I don't know. I have people like Mike who are just like, little. I don't know, Little.
Sage Steele
And so the process. Come on in, Mike. Is the process that you will discover something. And I'm going to just lean into you since I have a microphone. You will discover something and do the homework, do the research, bring it to Glenn, and what happens from there.
Glenn Beck
Go ahead. Part of it, as you know, is Evelyn's grandma has something. And just saying what's actually true compared to what's been pastry and family trees during the whole time. And part of it, too, is when you consider what's to go in that clay pot for future generations. There's only so much space in that clay pot, is how much value does it have to the American Store. So he and the rest of the team, there's what, four or five. About that. Yeah. That are. They're just. They're watching auctions all over the world. We bought that in Poland a few months back. We found it up for sale in Poland. Never does that come up for sale. And so then one of the guys, you know, comes to me, comes to the museum and says, here's what we found. It's real. It's at this price. Do you want to buy it? And either the museum or I buy it.
Sage Steele
I imagine those discussions can continue on for a while. Yeah. Oh, my.
Glenn Beck
Some of them are really fast. I mean, like, end in me begging because I like. Because of the AI stuff I'm doing. I'm like. I depleted my. My wife won't let me buy anything, so. So. And a Norman Rockwell with George Washington standing up at the mountain doing this. I've seen that picture forever. And it hasn't been for sale since it was painted. And it's coming up for auction tomorrow? I believe so. And I can't buy it.
Sage Steele
Why?
Glenn Beck
I don't have the money.
Sage Steele
Oh, so it's that much?
Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah.
Sage Steele
You usually have the money.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, no, it's. It's going to be very, very expensive. And.
Sage Steele
And does that pain you? I feel like.
Glenn Beck
Pains me because I. I tried to get my guilt. My wife into it because she. There was J.C. leyendecker painting that was on the front page, on the front of the Saturday Evening Post. You've seen it before. It's this colonial guy with the bell, and he's ringing it, and he was the town crier. And that hadn't been up for sale since, like 1937. And it came up for sale. And. And I said to my wife, and she. Her response always is, what is it going to cost this time? And. And I said, it's going to be around 300. And she said, not a penny more. And I said, but it might be a little. Not a penny more. So I go to the auction, and I had it. I know I had it. And the guy. No, ma'. Am.
Sage Steele
Okay, okay.
Glenn Beck
And the guy was. We were at 280 or something, and he had waited a long time. He was thinking. You could tell he was thinking, I don't know. I said 300. And usually as soon as he said 280, 300. And I thought for sure, because I snapped so fast. And 300 is another emotional barrier. And he waited, waited, going once, going twice, three, 20.
Sage Steele
No.
Glenn Beck
And my wife had said, not a dime over and so I go home and I'm fine. I'm totally fine. I did what my wife said. I get home, I walk into the house, into the kitchen. She said, did you get it? And I said, no. She said, what did it go for? And I said, 320. She said, well, why didn't you bid me?
Sage Steele
Oh, my God.
Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh. I said, stop talking. Stop talking right now. Stop talking right now. Don't say that. Oh, my goodness. I know.
Sage Steele
See, listen. When you listen to us, listen to us.
Glenn Beck
No, that's. I always listen to my wife because she's usually right.
Sage Steele
Smart man. You said you just got this.
Glenn Beck
So this is extraordinarily rare. You don't find them, and they don't come up for sale. This is from a prisoner in Auschwitz. This is the matching number, pants and hat. We know who it came from. He had just passed away. His family no longer wanted it. And it went up for auction. And you see, it looks like a pink triangle, which would indicate that he was gay, but it's not. It's actually faded. It's a red triangle. He was a political prisoner, so that means he was either a communist or a capitalist and who was loud about it. And so he went and he was in, I think, two different camps and survived. So he was one of, you know, seen the newsreels of them pulling up into Auschwitz. He was one of them.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness. And he recently passed away.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
How old was he?
Glenn Beck
I don't know. Do you know? He was in 1980s. Oh, he died in the 80s. Oh, okay.
Sage Steele
Oh, okay.
Glenn Beck
See, that's why I haven't.
Sage Steele
Don't go anywhere. And we know this. But to see this up close and in person. Small.
Glenn Beck
Small guy, small man, small guy.
Sage Steele
And quite often it seems to have been that way.
Glenn Beck
But touch it if you want.
Sage Steele
Really? I want to feel like the thickness. Oh, wow. This is.
Glenn Beck
I mean, I think there's something. When you touch something imprints on you. You know.
Sage Steele
To touch something that was on a man who was tortured, suffered.
Glenn Beck
Worked almost to death, it's.
Sage Steele
I don't know that I've. I. I've ever felt it like this. Because you see. You see the videos, you see the movies.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
And to see this in person and to have survived it.
Glenn Beck
So I have a friend who owns Eisenhower's helmet with the four or five stars on it. And I went over to his house, and it's just sitting there on his desk. And I walk in. This guy's an amazing guy. And I walk in and I And he's talking to me about something. And I said, is that Eisenhower's helmet? And he said, oh, yeah, here, try it on. And I said, no, no. He said, it went through war. You're not going to hurt it.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And I didn't put it on my head, but I did hold it. But he let me borrow that. When we did a show where we put all this on display. And this little old man was standing by the case that it was in, and I was up on a catwalk, and I was just watching people seeing what, you know, what was moving people. And this little man, about this big, he stood in front of that case and he just looked at that helmet. And I came down and I said, that means something to you? And he said, he was my general. I was on. I was on the beach on D Day. He's the one. And so I went around and I took it out and I said, you have to wear it. And he said, at my reaction, no. And I said, no, you have to at least hold it. The whole museum stopped. He actually held it. And then he put it on his head. And for probably 10 minutes, this man all by himself, just wept. Just wept. It was. It was so beautiful. It was so amazing. Still amazing. And when you can experience it, and we let. When. If you come here, there are certain things that we let you touch. We don't let people touch this usually, but we let you touch it because Here, this is FDR's wheelchair. Can't believe that. But.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness.
Glenn Beck
So. So George Washington is my guy. I love him. And I was at the Smithsonian, and I was back of house with the head of the American portion of the Smithsonian. And I said, I am looking for something bad on George Washington, because I can tell you everything bad on Abraham Lincoln. There's a lot of bad stuff on Abraham Lincoln. And not the stuff that everybody says. Most of that stuff's not true. I mean, he, you know, was with prostitutes and everything else before he became president. And, you know, I could tell you all that because it shapes the man. You have to know those things. And I said, I cannot find anything bad on George Washington. And he said. He smiled. He said, yeah, he's a hard one. He said, but I have something. And so he opens up this drawer, and in it is a newspaper. And it's the time of his second run for president, okay? His mom was a giant pain in the ass, okay? She was just. She was so dramatic and, you know, just wanted her boy next to him, next to her. So she doesn't want him to run, so she decides to write an op ed. So the Smithsonian guy says to me, I've got something bad. And he shows me the op ed written by George Washington's mother. Do you know what she said? You can't hire him to be president. You cannot vote for him to be president a second time. He's extravagant. If you knew what he spent every month on ice cream alone, you'd be horrified.
Sage Steele
Stop.
Glenn Beck
That's the worst.
Sage Steele
Stop it.
Glenn Beck
That's the worst.
Sage Steele
Oh, my God.
Glenn Beck
So he's like, he tried to be a better man. We tried to teach that. He never told a lie by lying about him. The cherry tree thing didn't happen. He didn't have wooden teeth. I mean, the story of his teeth is far worse than wooden teeth. People are like, that would be uncomfortable. No. He was so embarrassed by his teeth. Why? He always was smiling and looking like that. He was so embarrassed by his teeth. I think by the time he became president, he only had one tooth left. And. And he would. We. He wanted to look presentable. So without anesthesia, he goes to the dentist and they drill holes into his mouth and fit old teeth in there.
Sage Steele
No anesthesia.
Glenn Beck
No. No, thank you. No, thank you.
Sage Steele
Gosh.
Glenn Beck
But he wanted to look decent for people. So he's 13 years old, he becomes a surveyor. He's making maps. And we have some of his maps that he made. This is actually. This is from Lord Fairfax. Ever heard of Fairfax County?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Virginia, Lord Fairfax. This is him asking a 17 year old George Washington, will you make a map of Virginia for us? What? Yeah. Isn't that crazy?
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness.
Glenn Beck
Okay, so he's making maps. Oh, cool. He had. He had this to be able to measure for his maps.
Sage Steele
Oh, I remember those.
Glenn Beck
Okay. Remember?
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Okay. So he only got one. He got on his 13th birthday. He had it. He used it the day before he died because he was out making maps of Mount Vernon to show where we're going to move trees and plant different things. When you hold onto it, his hand's about the size of mine. Your thumb goes right towards the point. And if you've ever held something for a long time, you know how when you're thinking, you'll just rub it. Put this in your hand. Now rub that. Right.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
I think that is a lifetime of a man thinking and pondering.
Sage Steele
Absolutely, absolutely. But thinking and pondering in ways that normal people don't. What's the best way to put that?
Glenn Beck
I don't. I mean, you know, the One thing I have found, my son, was this.
Sage Steele
Is what he used.
Glenn Beck
Mm. That's his. That's his. These are his eyeglasses. Played a role in saving the nation after the revolution. Congress wasn't going to pay soldiers. They were going to go kill Congress. And he wants to talk him down from the tree. He was known as bulletproof. He would walk off the. Off the battlefield. There'd be holes through his jacket, holes in his hat. Okay. One Native American chief who fought against him when Washington was 16 and he was fighting for the British in the French and Indian War. And one Indian chief said, I and my men had him in our sights 17 times. I fired many of those bullets. The others fired. We each had him in our sights. No one could hit him. He said after the 17th try, we just said, the Great Spirit wants him alive for some reason. Move on. Okay. Crazy. So he was this larger than life guy. He would be right up at the front on a giant white horse. He stuck out. He was also 6, 5.
Sage Steele
Big guy.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, big guy. Towered. The average person was especially then, five, five.
Sage Steele
Right.
Glenn Beck
Okay. And so he towers over. He's the target. They shoot six horses out from underneath him, Never wounded once. So he grows into this legend, okay. At the end of the war, he is trying to talk to the men, and he wants to read them something. So he asks Alexander Hamilton, who is his aide de camp, for his glasses room kind of falls quiet because George Washington doesn't wear glasses, okay. And he takes them out and he opens them up and he puts them on his face, and the room goes deadly quiet. And he realizes I'm old now. And he said badly, paraphrasing, forgive me, for I have not only grown white, but I have. My eyes have grown weak and weary in the service of my country. That's all he said. He puts his glasses away and problem solved. Because everyone. And it was embarrassing for him because people saw him for what he really was, and he knew how people saw him, you know? But he humbled himself and changed the course again. He's fantastic.
Sage Steele
Those glasses, they look. They look so delicate.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. You want. Go ahead if you want.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. I mean, this all scares me.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Sorry.
Sage Steele
Oh, okay.
Glenn Beck
Oh, how blind was he? Totally blind.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh. He wore those?
Glenn Beck
Yeah. These are. These are the only pair that. That I know of. Mount Vernon might know of another pair, but these are his. This. You know, people didn't ask for autographs at the time. They would ask for a lock of your hair if you're a big fan. Could I have a lock of your hair?
Sage Steele
Truly?
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Okay. And it, you know, because you're taking something personal from me. So nobody got locks of hair. Yeah. So when he died. So this is a ring. Let me show this. This is a ring of hair. Braided.
Sage Steele
That's what's in there.
Glenn Beck
That's what's in here. See the hair? And it's braided.
Sage Steele
No way.
Glenn Beck
So, yes, Washington dies. He's on his deathbed. Martha takes out scissors, cuts a big chunk of his hair, puts it in an envelope, sends it to Alexander Hamilton, who was his aide de camp forever and said, he's dead. He would want you to have this. So Alexander Hamilton shows it to his wife. You know, she just thinks this is marvelous. She then takes and braids that hair.
Sage Steele
It's beautifully braided.
Glenn Beck
Right. Then he takes it to a jeweler and has a. Has a ring made out of it. She wears it the rest of her life. Then her daughter wears it the rest of her life. Isn't that amazing?
Sage Steele
So beautiful.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
So beautiful. And that's pretty creative, by the way.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
And a ring. I've never seen anything like that.
Glenn Beck
I've never seen it either. Wow. Yeah.
Sage Steele
These are grand. These are so.
Glenn Beck
Have you seen. Have you seen this painting before? At the Prairie, Valley Forge. Okay. So the. Arnold Freeberg is the guy who painted it. And he's the guy who did all of the Cecil B. DeMille stuff. So he was the guy who did all of the design work for, like, the Ten Commandments and everything else. And he painted this. And it's the prayer at Valley Forge. It's remarkable, isn't it?
Sage Steele
Yes. Yes.
Glenn Beck
So I was talking about this on the air one day and. And I said, because I know I have the color study. And Arnold, before he died, he was changing the colors of this and wanted to get to the original, which at that time was on loan to Mount Vernon. Because he. I don't remember which colors. He was like, I think it was the trees. He's like, it's not quite right. But Mount Vernon wouldn't let him come in and paint it until it came back. They said, you'll have to wait until it's off loan. Well, he dies. And he was such a perfectionist, but one huge thing is wrong in it. How do we know this story is true? This is really important because it's either true or it's not. Okay. And this is to show George Washington beseeching God for protection. Okay. And so. But he didn't believe In God. Remember, he's a deist. Well, is this true or not? We know this is true because of a guy named Isaac Potts who was on the other side of the battle. He was. He was actually a Tory. He was for the king. And he owns property adjacent to Valley Forge. He's kind of keeping his eye on these Americans. And he sees General Washington get onto his horse and ride into the forest. He takes his horse and rides on the other side of the forest, ties him up, and then comes and snakes through the forest. Is behind one of these trees, listening. So here's what's wrong. George Washington. And we know this from all kinds of documentation. He never prayed like that. He prayed like this. And he would say, lord, help us. I beseech you to help us. So that's the only reason why we know this happened is because somebody was in the trees listening to him. Then he gets back on his horse and he rides home to his wife. Remember, they're Tories. And he comes into the house and he says, honey, we've got to change sides. We're on the wrong side. Any man that speaks to God like that, that God will listen.
Sage Steele
My goodness.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. It's incredible.
Sage Steele
The. In the detail that. The time of day with the sun.
Glenn Beck
I know.
Sage Steele
Reflection there. The horse's eyes. Like, you feel like you're there.
Glenn Beck
I know. It's an amazing piece.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
This is an 1820 copy. If you've ever seen. Have you seen the Declaration of Independence?
Sage Steele
I haven't seen it.
Glenn Beck
Okay. When you go to Washington, go into the. Into the National Archives. And it's an amazing document, but it is so faded, you can barely see the words.
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
Reason being in 1820, they wanted to make a copy of it. Okay. This is called the stone edition. And this is part of the copy that they made from that time.
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
And what they did is they took paper just like that and they put solvent on top of the Declaration of Independence to loosen up that ink. They put rice paper down, pressed it, pulled it up so they could make an engraving. So they could make these.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
Oh, gosh.
Sage Steele
That makes sense.
Glenn Beck
That's why you stand in front of it now, and you're like, I can barely see it.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Because they made that. This is an 1826 or 27 engraving of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. This is all in Thomas Jefferson's handwriting. And you'll see that B. Franklin made an edit right here.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness.
Glenn Beck
Jay Adams made an edit there.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And what's. What he says in this? Is this. You want to talk about our history being stolen from us? You want to talk about us intentionally being driven against each other? Listen to this. This is the. We hold things. We hold these things to be self evident. This is the promise, this is the mission statement of America, okay. To the King. We feel it's necessary to tell you when we want to break apart. It's incumbent upon us as decent people to tell you why we have to break apart. Okay? So they start with humility. And they say, I'm paraphrasing because you don't know us. We've been trying to tell you, but you won't listen to us. We hold these things to be self evident. Okay?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
So the things that we found self evident still do. He didn't. Okay. What do you mean? All men are created. I'm the King. Okay? So all of these things are foreign to him. And it says, and we believe that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights. And if a government becomes hostile to those rights, it is incumbent, it is the right and the duty to overthrow the shackles of that. But this is the key. And replace it with a government more likely to protect those rights. Okay? So you can't just say, I disagree. Because taxes or whatever, you have to have a plan like they did. They're telling the King. We're not just breaking apart from you. The mission statement. This is what we're going to build. Okay? You have the. Think of the Constitution as a. As a owner's manual. Okay?
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
That'll tell you how it works. Okay? But if you don't know what it is, you don't know if it's a race car or a truck, you drive them differently. You know what I mean?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
This tells us what. What we're trying to build. The Constitution tells us how to build it.
Sage Steele
Beautiful.
Glenn Beck
So then they get. They lay out this beautiful vision. Then they say, and. And here's what you've done to us. These are called the usurpations. And they're all one or two lines. And they take two, two and a. Two pages, two full pages and about a page and a half down, you'll see something different. And this is not in this draft, and I'll explain why in a minute. But here it says, the King has waged cruel war against human nature itself by violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him. Captivating and carrying them into slavery. In another slavery, Thomas Jefferson. Captivating and carrying them into another hemisphere or to incur a miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of underlined infidel powers is the warfare of the. Look at this. Printed and underlined and bold, almost right. Christian king. He is mocking the king. You dare call yourself Christian? These are infidel powers. Okay? The King of Great Britain who is determined to keep an open market where men should be bought and sold. Why would he capitalize that?
Sage Steele
Men. Men. That's it.
Glenn Beck
Why would he do just the men?
Sage Steele
There's no women.
Glenn Beck
Right. But I think he means it in a broader sense. He capitalizes, remember, he's thinking. The king is going to read that. This is a letter to the king.
Sage Steele
Okay?
Glenn Beck
This is not to post it on a door. This is a letter to the King. He wants the king to see men. And my theory is to remember, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. There's no subspecies here. You don't call slaves men. Here's Thomas Jefferson alone, writing this, saying men. And then he goes on to say everything the king did to stop us. Okay, we want to abolish slavery.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Now it's not in this document because the one word that's missing from the top of this is unanimous. The unanimous declaration, because they all had to agree. How many states or how many colonies out of the 13 colonies disagreed with this? How many voted against putting this in the final draft? 2. South Carolina and Georgia. Now, wait, what? I thought Virginia. I. I thought. I thought we were built on slavery. We relished slavery. 11 states said we want to abolish it right now.
Sage Steele
My goodness.
Glenn Beck
Why don't we know that.
Sage Steele
Now once again, we're going to manipulate and divide. Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
Crazy.
Sage Steele
No, that's significant. Yeah, when you explain that question for some men.
Glenn Beck
I've spent my whole life wondering. I don't know.
Sage Steele
I can't.
Glenn Beck
There's a book out about Thomas Jefferson called the American Sphinx. Because he can't understand him, because he's complicated. He owns slaves, but he was against slavery and yada, yada, yada. He's not complicated. He's not. He's a product of his time. He cannot get rid of his slaves until he's dead because that was the law at the time. Yet when he dies, he can't release them because he's in debt. That furniture to the state, to the banks, you can't give away. I. If I'm in debt, I can't Just give away all my stuff. That's. That's. That's going up against what I borrowed from the bank.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
You know what I mean? So he can't give them away, but he fights his whole life trying to stop it. It's. It's too bad, because it. If we could accept this, then we could argue more about, well, did he do enough? What did he do? What we could. Or you could argue about the real man, not the cartoon character of. He's either an evil slave owner or he's a hero. None of us are. Again, Thomas Jefferson, good or bad. Yes.
Sage Steele
Yes, all of it. All of it. But that's. I think that that's one of the things in today's world where.
Glenn Beck
All of.
Sage Steele
It can be true. And it's okay because of the bad as well as the good. You grow, you evolve, you hopefully get better. You hopefully teach your children. This is what happens when you don't follow through here, whatever it might be. But there's really simple lessons with this, like, as we continue to judge, we're human beings, men and women. Donald Trump is a perfect example of that. He's both. He's all of them, and so am I. What gives you hope that we can, you know, get back to that? I guess, or get there fully or even halfway.
Glenn Beck
There's hunger for the truth right now.
Sage Steele
More so now.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. There's hunger for the truth. And I look at the darkest moments of our history, and we made it. And we didn't even have a reason to make it. God did not have a reason to save us. He didn't. Do you know we lost every single battle up until the proclamation of Thanksgiving. Halfway through the Civil War, we're losing everything. I think maybe we won one before halfway through Gettysburg happens, Lincoln's driven to his knees. He realizes we have got to praise God and thank God. Thank him for our blessings. No matter what happens, we've got to thank him for the blessings that we all enjoy, even in these dark hours. He makes a national day of prayer. We win every battle but one. After that, I mean, all we have to do is just turn back. Just turn back and recognize God. Praise God even for the worst things. Yeah.
Sage Steele
I just will always go back to you when this began in the prayer and the clay pots.
Glenn Beck
Do we have the clay pot? Come here, I'll show you.
Sage Steele
No, you do.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I do. So the guy who is doing the restoration of Jerusalem, they found the Bethesda pool, and they're restoring the Roman to the temple. And he came and we were talking and we've become friends. And he said, and he came through like you did, and he said, what started this? And I said, clay pots. So the next time he came, he brought me a 2,000 year old clay pot.
Sage Steele
Oh, that's beautiful. That is beautiful. Where were you when you prayed that day? Or I guess it was repeatedly. It kept happening, right?
Glenn Beck
It was at home. Yeah.
Sage Steele
When you received this?
Glenn Beck
I was in my office and he came in with this box and he was, he was insistent that he comes and sees me on this day. And usually we're like, he is like, aha. Last minute. I can't make it. Or I'll be. I can't make it. He was like, no, no, no, I have to see you on that day. Because I didn't know he had brought this all the way from Jerusalem. And he takes it out of the box and he hands it to me like it's like a baby. Yes, it is. And I grab it and then he doesn't let go. And he's like, are you sure you have it? Not now. Now I'm not. Now I don't.
Sage Steele
There's times, even just today, I'm like, I don't think I want to touch that. I don't want to be responsible. I don't want to take anything but that.
Glenn Beck
That I don't. I've never touched that. Except for that one time.
Sage Steele
That is stunning. That is stunning.
Glenn Beck
Amazing.
Sage Steele
What is your favorite area?
Glenn Beck
I like, fascinating about World War II. There's great stories from World War II, both the darkest and the best. Can I just take you for quick highlights, please?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
So Tokyo Rose's microphone. The bell, the church bell for the Catholic cathedral in Nagasaki that was in service when we dropped the bomb. That's the communion bell. There's only two bells left from that day because they were like, I don't even remember. 500ft or yards away from ground zero, they were in service. This beautiful cathedral. The only thing left was the big, huge bell. Bell. And this bell. And the big bell is now in the Peace Park. Oh, okay. In. In Nagasaki.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
The Tokyo Roses microphone. This is, this is a, I don't even know, prototype of the core for fat man or little boy. Just generally Manhattan. Okay. Manhattan Project. This is, this is the records of Adolf Hitler, all of his doctors. We rounded them all up and we were like, what was he on? What were you doing to him? What were you treating him for? So this is the final report and it includes all of the documents of his exams from the doctors Et cetera, et cetera. The only thing missing from it is when they tried to kill him in the wolf's lair and they blew up the room. He had an X ray of his head because they thought he had a concussion. So he had an X ray of his head done. Somebody has removed the X ray from this, but this is the flight log from the bombing of Hiroshima. This is a guy on the plane when we dropped it.
Sage Steele
What?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, listen to this. So he's, he is making, he's making notes all along to say, you know, this is what is happening. So he goes on, you know, we started the engines at 0227, we taxied out, blah, blah, blah. And he tells about the whole trip. At some point he says, it's a little weird because we don't know what this thing can do, but we know it's the most powerful thing and it's sitting here behind us and we're all a little freaked out by it. And then they activate it and he's like, now we're really freaked out by it. So he says, here we are loaded, the bomb is now alive. And it's a funny feeling, it's right in the back of you. He talks about seeing the city and we're ready to go here. We turned off our IP and had about a four minute run on a perfectly open target. So he says, says before this I, I'm going to stop writing because we're about to drop the bomb and I'll come back, okay? So then he comes back. This is where he was before. And then they've dropped the bomb. And he writes this. We turned our off our ip, we had about four minute run, perfectly open target. Tom synchronized on his briefed AP and let go. For the next minute, no one knew what to expect. The bombardier and the right seat jockey or pilot both forgot to put on their dark glasses and therefore witnessed the flash, which was terrific. Then in about 15 seconds after the flash, there were two very distinct slaps on the ship. Then that was all the physical effects we felt. We then turned the ship so we could observe there were in front of our eyes without a doubt the greatest explosion man has ever witnessed. Three exclamation points.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
The city was 9, 10. Covered with smoke of a boiling nature which seemed to undulate buildings blowing up, and a large column of a white cloud which in less than three minutes reached 30,000ft, then went to at least 50,000ft. I am certain the entire crew felt this experience, but was more than any human had ever thought possible. It just seems impossible to comprehend. Just how many Japs did we kill? I honestly have a feeling of groping for words to explain this. I might say, my God, what have we done? Isn't that amazing?
Sage Steele
Good.
Glenn Beck
So when you're in school, you're taught that America is horrible. Here's the guy who was on the plane that dropped it saying, we all felt, dear God, what have we done?
Sage Steele
What have we done? And the humanity.
Glenn Beck
We dropped 70 million of these leaflets on the Japanese in 10 cities, including Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And it says on it, get out of the city. We are not. We are not in a battle with you. Your city has been targeted because it makes arms. Okay? And you're an industrial base. Please. Within the next seven days, one of these cities is going to be hit. You're going to need food, water, and shelter. Please leave. No nation has ever done that.
Sage Steele
No, Never. No. No.
Glenn Beck
This, by the way, these are Japanese coins before the bomb. This is a stack of coins.
Sage Steele
No way.
Glenn Beck
After. Marble before. Same. Marble after.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh, look at this.
Glenn Beck
Crazy, right?
Sage Steele
Amazing.
Glenn Beck
Enigma machine. Oh, the. The. Have you ever seen the Great Escape? The movie?
Sage Steele
No.
Glenn Beck
Okay.
Sage Steele
I'm about a decade behind on everything that's.
Glenn Beck
Okay. So the Great Escape came out in the 1960s, and it was the true escape of. Of British and Allied soldiers from stalag. I don't know, 13, I think, or 12. And it was post. You know, nobody's going to escape. And they dug a tunnel. Okay. In 10 months. Remarkable. That's the map that they made. All of them got together and said, can you remember where train stations were, where things were? They made that map. So when they got out of the tunnel, everybody could know where to go. I just. Because my wife won't let me buy anything, I had to trade a whole bunch of stuff for this this week. This is. This is extraordinary.
Sage Steele
What?
Glenn Beck
This is 1941. It's called the POW watch.
Sage Steele
Oh, gosh.
Glenn Beck
It's a Rolex. It's an early chronograph. Okay. And it's not. I mean, it's not fancy, it's not polished, nothing. But there's a very few. There's a handful of these. And the reason why they're called the POW Watch is because the guy who started Rolex and was head of Rolex wanted to do something for the guys in the prison camps. So he sent a box of these to these guys. Yeah. So. And he said, distributed them any way you want and don't worry about paying. Okay. So when they got them, they went Wait a minute. We can time things. So we now can time exactly how long it takes to get from here to there. How long it takes for the changing of the guard. How long before they come back? So because of these?
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
They were sitting there. Okay, clean it up, guys. Clean it up. Clean it up. Just 20 more seconds. Isn't that incredible?
Sage Steele
That's insane.
Glenn Beck
All these little things. Just this week I just got this.
Sage Steele
That's so cool.
Glenn Beck
That's so neat.
Sage Steele
I mean. So I would be at a restaurant and be like.
Glenn Beck
You know what?
Sage Steele
I like to know what time it is.
Glenn Beck
You know what I like about this? It is the least flashy watch of all time.
Sage Steele
And it's a Rolex. It's like the antithesis of what you would think.
Glenn Beck
And it doesn't. It doesn't. You can barely see the crown. You can barely tell this is a.
Sage Steele
Rolex and you had it hidden.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Nobody knows what it is. That's what I like.
Sage Steele
You know what it is?
Glenn Beck
I know what it is.
Sage Steele
Exactly.
Glenn Beck
An Enigma machine. The only picture of Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. Neville Chamberlain letter. A painting done by a prisoner signed with a. With a number he did not survive, came from Auschwitz. The award for IG Farben for being IG Farber, for being such a. A great company, they made the Zyklon B. That's what that award was for. That hung in their lobby for a while. Signed by Adolf Hitler. This is Adolf Hitler's acceptance speech when he first wins.
Sage Steele
Whoa.
Glenn Beck
And he said, there's a whole book on that speech because the way it's written, and in it he says, don't use the word victory. Victory only comes from war. I mean, really kind of a spooky. Dude.
Sage Steele
That's those originals.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, that's the original. That's his hand. Yeah. These are. These are the fez. The fezes for. I think this was out of Croatia, but a lot of them were from the Middle East. This was really spurred on with the Grand Mufti. They were the Muslim SS officers who. Their uniform. If you look inside the hat, you can see where this one was made. This was made in Dachau. So you had the Jews making. You know, they're the uniforms for the people who are trying to kill them.
Sage Steele
And what is this for a child?
Glenn Beck
No, this is great. We searched probably 10 years for that. And they come in different sizes. This is the only one we've ever found there. It's called Rupert. Okay. And Because D Day, we had to appear to be overwhelming. Okay. So everything was a game Everything was a show. Everything was psych. Okay. So we wanted to redirect the fire from the beaches to the air behind. So our planes flew over and they dropped these, and the little parachute would open up. Up. And it looked like soldiers were parachuting down because of the distance. So they would direct their fire.
Sage Steele
And these guys.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah, we lost a lot of Ruperts, those things. Isn't that brilliant?
Sage Steele
That's brilliant.
Glenn Beck
The guy who came up with that is. It's in the other room. You want to go with me?
Sage Steele
Yes, yes.
Glenn Beck
Yes. The guy who came up with that is a guy who. I think we may not have won. By the way, that's Mary Todd Lincoln's funeral dress.
Sage Steele
Oh, my God.
Glenn Beck
Or her mourning dress.
Sage Steele
Oh, my God.
Glenn Beck
Those are Buffalo Bill's gloves. That's what. Yeah.
Sage Steele
This is an interesting little corner.
Glenn Beck
That's Sputnik. That's the uniform of a Indian scout. And that is the pipes that came from. I think it's St. John's where during the revolution, George Washington would go and go to service from time to time. It's pretty amazing. Anyway, random. So I don't think we would have. I don't think we would have made it if it wasn't for this one guy. Charlie Chaplin's cane right there. Yeah. You want to touch it? Yeah. So this was given to Danny K by Charlie Chaplin because they said in, like, 1950, the new Charlie Chaplin is Danny Kaye. Knock on Danny Kay's door one day, and there was Charlie Chaplin, and he said, you must have the cane. And he gave it to him. Isn't that crazy?
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness. It's this bamboo.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And it used to be very flexible. It's obviously not now.
Sage Steele
So delicate.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
I mean.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
For what he was using. When you go back and look.
Glenn Beck
When you go back and look. And it was really. It was green at the time. If you go back and look. Hook. He could lean on it and it would bend. Wow. Yeah.
Sage Steele
Wow. Okay. I get nervous.
Glenn Beck
So. So the guy. The. The Nazis invade France, and Churchill knows we cannot let the Germans get those, you know, factories. If they start churning out tanks and airplanes and ships, we're doomed.
Sage Steele
Right.
Glenn Beck
We have to stop those, but we can't bomb them because they're so inaccurate. I think it was only 5% of the bombs landed within or 10% landed within five miles.
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
Okay. And so it's just. We were just shoving them out the back and so we can't do that because we'll hit more houses than we'll Hit target. And the French will say, thank you. You know, we thought Hitler was bad. Thank you so much. So he went to his guy, who was this really brilliant guy, and he said, I need you to come up with a way to make those factories stop. And he said, got it. I'm on it. So he went to his office and he went to his guys in his office and said, I need you to get 100 rats. And the head guy said, rats, we do with rats. He said, I want you to put a bomb in their butt. Okay.
Sage Steele
Okay. We're rolling on this, right? A bomb in their butt.
Glenn Beck
You got it. So here's the rat with the bomb. This is the only one we know to be in existence. It's. This was. They made a hundred of these. He put them in a box, brought them back to Churchill and said, here you go. And Churchill said, what do you. What do you. What do you mean? He said, you give that. You get these to the French underground. You give the guy who's French in the French underground, give him a rat, he'll put it in his pocket, he'll go down to the furnace where they're shoveling coal into the furnace, which makes the factory work, and let him just drop one of these rats in the coal pile. The guy's not going to pick it up and throw it away. He's just going to shovel it into the furnace. It will blow up the machinery. It won't kill anybody, but it'll stop. All the factories didn't work because hit because Churchill put them on a plane and dropped them from the sky to the French underground, five miles away from the target. So it landed right in at the feet of the Nazis.
Sage Steele
Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
So the good news is there's two great endings to this story. Good news is the. There were. There were tons of Nazis whose job it was while they were in France. France to go around all the important buildings because they thought the Nazis thought they're going to blow up all of our important buildings. All where Our headquarters. So there was a whole group of Nazis that spent their entire time in France going around these important buildings, picking up dead rats and looking at their butts. Okay. Which I love. The other part of this is the guy who came up with this is Ian Fleming. Ian Fleming's the guy who wrote James Bond.
Sage Steele
Oh, my goodness.
Glenn Beck
James Bond. In the series, a guy named Q makes all of the gadgets based on the guy who put the bomb in the rack in the butt. Isn't that great?
Sage Steele
It's amazing.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. So that's from Skyfall behind you. That's from James Bond. Oh, wow. Okay, this is here because everyone knows that James Bond drives an Aston Martin. Not accurate to the books. He actually drove one of these. It's a Bentley blower. Okay. This is a race car from le Mans in 1934. So he. The. The Bentley race.
Sage Steele
Get up in the light a little bit.
Glenn Beck
The Bentley race team, they were. They weren't hired by Bentley. In fact, he didn't think that it was a smart idea to go racing. But they were all World War I flying ace pilots that were all daredevils and addicted to adrenaline when they got back home and very wealthy. And so they went to Bentley and said, we want to drive race cars. Build these for us. So each one was made for each driver. They had to buy 50 to be able to be in Le Mans. Some of them became spies, international spies, because they would be all over the continent, and the government would say, hey, just find out this, will you? They were all playboys, okay? They all were addicted to danger. Sound like anybody yet? And so if you look. Look them up, you will see there's this great picture of one of their. One of these just twisted and destroyed in a. In a accident. They took it back to one of their castles, their big dining hall, where they were going to have dinner that night to celebrate the. Their. Their win. And it's all these white tablecloths, this mangled Bentley, and all of the Bentley boys in white tie and tuxedos with the most beautiful women ever.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Ian Fleming knew about these guys. James Bond drove this because it was a Bentley. Boy, it was based on one of these guys that just is not afraid of anything. You know what I mean? And so it's kind of like just history. Just ties everything together.
Sage Steele
Absolutely. And almost makes, well, that the world even smaller, that somehow all these little dots are connected. But you don't know unless you know.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Sage Steele
And I mean, this is perfection.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
This is yours.
Glenn Beck
No. Yeah. This is James. This is Daniel Craig's.
Sage Steele
Oh, man.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, this is Daniel Craig.
Sage Steele
That is beautiful.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, that is beautiful. That is a flag from the landing on D day.
Sage Steele
Oh, through here. Okay, we'll get a shot of that. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
This is the fireproof cowl from which one Batman Begins. Yeah. With Christian Bale.
Sage Steele
Oh, really?
Glenn Beck
This is the Princess Bride, if you've ever seen that movie.
Sage Steele
Yes. Unbelievable.
Glenn Beck
That over there is. Is the first hand of Iron man from the first movie. That is the first drawing of Disneyland, Something called the Lost Prospectus. That's Hand colored by Walt Disney.
Sage Steele
No way.
Glenn Beck
The first drawing of Disneyland there.
Sage Steele
What's the date that?
Glenn Beck
That's 1954.
Sage Steele
Wow, look at that. And that's, that's. That's California. That's the original.
Glenn Beck
Right. This is a contract that. You see his signatures on the second page. That's his contract selling his name to the Walt Disney Corporation so he can afford to build that.
Sage Steele
Unbelievable. Yeah, unbelievable. I love this.
Glenn Beck
I mean, so one of the seven made there were. We don't know how many were made originally for the movie.
Sage Steele
The dresses are. The shoes.
Glenn Beck
The shoe. The. The dress is just a reproduction.
Sage Steele
Okay.
Glenn Beck
This is an official reproduction for the 50th anniversary. There's seven that were made. And at first we thought we got one of the original seven by mistake because there were. I think there were seven made or that are known to be in existence. This was made for the 250 or the. The 50th. They were going to make 50 pairs. They ended up only making seven. Seven were too hard to make. But.
Sage Steele
Oh, look at that.
Glenn Beck
Judy Garland on the inside.
Sage Steele
Oh my gosh.
Glenn Beck
And this is felt. Do you know this tells us something about this shoe. This is what confused us. Cuz we looked and we didn't see the felt on any of the other seven. Why is felt here?
Sage Steele
I mean, she's not sl. Sliding. That's the initial thought, right? Because the sound.
Glenn Beck
Sound.
Sage Steele
The sound.
Glenn Beck
The yellow brick road. This shoe would have been made for the yellow brick road because the yellow brick road was made out of plywood.
Sage Steele
Oh my gosh.
Glenn Beck
And so they needed the felt on the shoes so it didn't sound like, like plywood crazy.
Sage Steele
That's nice.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. That's the. You killed the witch. And this is his.
Sage Steele
That's. That's it.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. You know what I mean?
Sage Steele
Oh my gosh.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
The original script from War of the Worlds. The original script of Citizen Kane.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
I have a lot of stuff from Orson Welles. He was a. He's kind of a special guy to me and I know his child. So I have, I have every one of his personal scripts. I have. Have his storyboard from.
Sage Steele
Really?
Glenn Beck
Yeah. From Citizen Kane, Willy Wonka, the Chocolate Factory. The Golden Ticket. That's the golden CB DeMille.
Sage Steele
His my favorite. These are like. This brings you back.
Glenn Beck
I know.
Sage Steele
To your childhood.
Glenn Beck
I know, I know.
Sage Steele
Oh my goodness.
Glenn Beck
This is Willy Wonders practice cane.
Sage Steele
How do we know if there's golden tickets in there?
Glenn Beck
There's not.
Sage Steele
Can I open one?
Glenn Beck
There's not there. They're like Cardboard inside overboard.
Sage Steele
Jaws.
Glenn Beck
This is the. There's a famous picture with Steven Spielberg in this for Jaws. This is Leave it to Beavers baseball glove. Heart of the ocean from the Titanic. We have one of the lifeboats from Titanic. We have a lot of stuff from Titanic next door. You'll see. There's Darth Vader, C3PO. That's Superman from what's his name? Oh, he was paralyzed. Christopher Reeve. That's Ben Hur's chariot.
Sage Steele
Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck
That crazy. The ship that Ben Hur was on, you know, where he was a slave. That's the big ship. The ship behind. Oh, cool guy in the costume. That's the one that set the big ship on fire.
Sage Steele
Yes.
Glenn Beck
This was a gift from Orson to his girlfriend, who he then married Rita Hayworth. And it's the first year of the Lincoln Continental.
Sage Steele
Stunning.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. It's beautiful.
Sage Steele
Stunning.
Glenn Beck
It's beautiful.
Sage Steele
How much work has been done on this?
Glenn Beck
On this one? Yeah, none.
Sage Steele
That's.
Glenn Beck
She kept it her, her whole life. Then she gave it to her little old secretary who had it. Then it was sold to a friend of mine. He had it. He just kept it in showroom quality. And he just recently said, I know what a fan you are of Orson Welles here.
Sage Steele
Did you cry?
Glenn Beck
Oh, I cried. I cried.
Sage Steele
Wow.
Glenn Beck
An electric chair from turn of the century. Oh, I have that because this is, this is a letter from Thomas Edison and one from Nikolai Tesla. Nikola Nikolai Tesla. This is an amazing letter. And tell you some other time. But this was created because Edison wanted to prove Tesla wrong. And it. Oh, my. From France. Actually used Ukraine in the first, first 2016 uprising. This is Lucille Balls makeup table. She used it when she was shooting I Love Lucy her whole life. We bought it from her estate. They say she used it the day before she died. Wow. She's responsible for Star Trek. She's responsible for Mission Impossible. She and Desi are responsible for the three camera shoot that you used your whole life. We wouldn't have had a rerun if it wasn't for Desi Arnaz. This is the first drawing of a Klingon ship which she greenlight. That's her dress. Dress from I Love Lucy. That is the jacket from Goodwill Hunting from Robin Williams.
Sage Steele
Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck
So this is, you'll love this. This is. These are the ten commandments made for Cecil B. DeMille out of the Stone. Oh, yeah, that's actual stone from Mount Sinai. He was like a stickler for everything being right.
Sage Steele
That's incredible. Incredible. Glenn. I, I, One of the things that Stood out to me. Was. Is the. The diversity. Can I use that word in that way?
Glenn Beck
Yes, you can.
Sage Steele
Gosh darn it. This room to the other room, that's locked and sealed and nothing can penetrate it. I mean, from entertainment, childhood memories to. I mean, the most historical artifacts in the world. Where does that come from? Where I think most people would be like one or the other. You like all of it?
Glenn Beck
I do. I like. When you come up to my ranch, you'll see I built that for my grandchildren, my great grandchildren who may never meet me, to know what I believed in. And so I believe there's meaning in everything. And so I surround myself with things of meaning. All of this tells one story. Well, except for the Bentley tells one story, the American story, in every way we possibly can. And I hope before I die is. It is much. Again, this is 1% of the collection, but I hope it's a lot larger, you know, when I. When I'm gone and it's a lifeboat. It's. It's. Everything is here that you would need to restart our society and learn from the mistakes of the past.
Sage Steele
Yeah. The. And good and bad.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
About any single human being.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
So. So let's fast forward 50 years, 100 years. I. I hope you don't mind this question, but what do you want people to remember about you?
Glenn Beck
Me?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
They won't. No, they won't. They won't.
Sage Steele
Here's why. Okay, fine. You're family. But here's why. I believe you're wrong. That's probably the only time I'll ever say this to you that I think you're wrong. You are teaching every day when you go on the air, no matter what the topic, whether it's something where you. You're blessing us with all your historical knowledge or just getting to know someone. You are teaching us. You're making us smarter and better and more appreciative. Even the people who don't want to.
Glenn Beck
Listen, deep down, they know that is so meaningful. But I know history.
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And I know I. I know the stories of people who did amazing things that none of us know. I'm a guy collecting a bunch of stuff. What I hope.
Sage Steele
You're a teacher. You're a teacher.
Glenn Beck
Thank you.
Sage Steele
And. And in today's day and age, we are. I'm desperate for it. We. We just need it more than ever.
Glenn Beck
You're going to love what I. I'm putting out then in January. You're gonna love it. I've got AI on the way.
Sage Steele
Oh, gosh. Did you ever think you'd say that?
Glenn Beck
Never. Never. And look, we have. I've been working out for a long time, and we found ways to make it work for us. The minute it begins to work us for it, turn it off. But we have a period of time where we can use it in. In remarkable ways to bring all of this stuff to life. All of this stuff to life. Everything is being. All of these objects, everything is being 3D scanned. So as technology grows, you'll be able to hold it. You'll be able to. You know what I mean?
Sage Steele
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And. And what's ahead is remarkable.
Sage Steele
Remarkable for me to be able to touch what I mean, the. The clothing that someone wore in Auschwitz. Unforgettable. And you're right. That is when it really sinks in, I think, the magnitude of what human beings have gone through.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Sage Steele
I'm so grateful that you listened to that, to God in that moment. On your knees, praying in the clay pots. So many people don't listen and aren't open to receiving it.
Glenn Beck
It.
Sage Steele
And, gosh, what if you hadn't? That's how this began.
Glenn Beck
You know, it's funny, is people. It's not that they don't listen. They're not used to separating themselves from what sounds like them, but is probably a spiritual prompting. And then they think, I can't make a difference. I. That's ridiculous. And so they. They pass on it. I. I will tell you. Don't. Don't ever pass on it. And I. I honestly believe that the Lord and I are going to have a very hard laugh because he's gonna. I'm gonna get there, and I have this feeling he's gonna be like, that's not what I meant by clay pots. I mean, it was a good job, but that's not what I wanted you to do. You know, that's not what he's gonna.
Sage Steele
Say, but I think he's gonna. God bless you.
Glenn Beck
I love you.
Sage Steele
Thank you so much. Love you. Love you. And I look forward to seeing the other 99%. And you said it on tape. So now you have to.
Glenn Beck
Anytime.
Sage Steele
Thank you.
Glenn Beck
Thank you.
Podcast Summary: The Sage Steele Show with Glenn Beck
Episode: Glenn Beck | The Sage Steele Show
Release Date: May 28, 2025
Host: Sage Steele
Guest: Glenn Beck
Sage Steele welcomes Glenn Beck to his personal collection, which he humorously refers to as a "museum." Beck explains that the facility serves as a museum, educational center, and storage facility, with plans to officially establish the museum in 2026 (01:14).
Beck shares a profound personal experience that catalyzed his mission to preserve American history. In 2008, during a period of intense prayer, he repeatedly received the prompt "clay pots." Initially puzzled, Beck connected this to the preservation of sacred documents, similar to how the Dead Sea Scrolls were safeguarded. This divine prompting led him to start collecting American founding documents, resulting in the largest collection outside the Library of Congress and the National Archives (01:14 – 04:19).
Glenn Beck [03:10]: "I had a prompting in prayer, and all he heard was clay pots. And I didn't know what that meant. I'm on the air one day and I said, the people that America is currently battling hate the freedoms that we have, hate the documents. You know, they will destroy our history, everything."
Beck emphasizes the importance of preserving all facets of history, including its darker moments. He discusses his efforts to revoke Medals of Honor awarded for the Wounded Knee massacre, highlighting how history often sanitizes or glorifies tragic events.
Glenn Beck [07:39]: "We have to recognize that if you only have the good part, you'll be surprised by the bad part. And then you'll question everything you have to know, good and bad."
Beck delves into the complexities of American history, particularly the origins of slavery. He clarifies misconceptions, explaining that the first slaves in America were brought to Florida by the Spanish, not the English, and distinguishes between slaves and indentured servants.
Glenn Beck [13:29]: "An indentured servant is one that sells themselves into limited slavery. And it's not anything close like slavery. But you are now an indentured servant for seven years. You're paying back a debt."
The conversation transitions to showcasing some of the museum's most prized possessions:
Abraham Lincoln Artifacts: Beck presents a blood-stained collar and cuff from Lincoln, providing a tangible connection to the 16th President's final moments (40:19).
George Washington Memorabilia: Beck shares maps created by a young Washington and a unique ring made from Washington's hair, highlighting personal aspects of the Founding Father’s life (58:23).
World War II Relics: Items such as Tokyo Rose's microphone, Hiroshima flight logs, and prototypes from the Manhattan Project illustrate the profound and often tragic events of the war (75:30).
Entertainment and Cultural Icons: The collection includes personal items from Orson Welles, original scripts, and memorabilia from classic films like "The Great Escape" and "Citizen Kane" (96:44).
Glenn Beck [41:25]: "When you can experience it, and we let... you can hold it. You'll be able to... touch it because Here, this is FDR's wheelchair. Can't believe that."
Beck introduces his ambitious project to digitize his extensive collection, making it accessible through advanced AI. This initiative aims to provide accurate historical education by preventing misinformation often propagated by mainstream AI models.
Glenn Beck [31:21]: "AI does not memorize anything. When you go to a chat GPT, it will make things up because it cannot remember everything. But if you take it into smaller chunks... it can memorize everything."
Throughout the episode, Beck shares touching stories that underscore the emotional significance of his artifacts:
He recounts a poignant moment when a visitor placed FDR's wheelchair on his head and wept for ten minutes, illustrating the deep personal connections people form with history (47:02).
Beck describes his meeting with former President Donald Trump at the museum, highlighting an unexpected display of humility from Trump and Beck’s disappointment over a mysterious document he was asked to sign (37:10).
In his closing remarks, Beck underscores his mission to leave behind a comprehensive collection that encapsulates both the triumphs and tragedies of American history. He envisions his museum as a lifeboat for society, should humanity ever need to restart and learn from past mistakes.
Glenn Beck [102:24]: "You are teaching every day when you go on the air... making us smarter and better and more appreciative."
Sage Steele echoes Beck’s sentiments, emphasizing the crucial need for honest historical education in today's divisive climate.
This episode provides an in-depth look into Glenn Beck's dedication to preserving American history through his extensive collection. Beck advocates for a balanced understanding of history, recognizing both its noble and dark chapters. His innovative approach, combining historical preservation with modern technology, aims to educate future generations accurately and comprehensively. Sage Steele and Glenn Beck's candid dialogue offers listeners a profound appreciation for the importance of history and the responsibility to maintain its integrity.