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00:02:31.560 Let me start with a couple of things here.

00:02:33.280 I want to go to cut five first.

00:02:35.240 I want to play this from Ilan Omar.

00:02:39.520 During an interview, she was asked about, you know, does she have any fear that she could be deported?

00:02:48.000 Now, listen to this.

00:02:48.860 This is a congresswoman of the United States.

00:02:51.920 Listen to this.

00:02:52.840 I mean, I have no worry.

00:02:54.640 I don't I don't know how they take away my citizenship and like deport me, but it's but I don't even know like why that's like a such a scary threat.

00:03:02.300 Like, I'm not the eight year old who escaped war anymore.

00:03:05.360 I'm grown.

00:03:06.440 My kids are grown like I can go live wherever I want.

00:03:11.280 Oh, she can go and live wherever she wants. 1.00

00:03:13.960 Boy, I wish she would.

00:03:14.860 Um, so wait a minute.

00:03:16.480 I'm trying to understand then.

00:03:17.660 Why are you so against ice?

00:03:19.500 Because it's not scary.

00:03:22.280 You can go and live wherever you want.

00:03:25.760 Why are you so afraid?

00:03:29.540 Because you're not afraid of it.

00:03:31.020 You would think, first of all, constitutionally, they can't do that.

00:03:36.080 Well, I mean, you can if you came under false pretenses.

00:03:38.900 And I'm just saying, marry your brother.

00:03:40.200 Um, but, um, you know, you could you could have that citizenship taken away if if that were ever true or proven.

00:03:48.300 And there's absolutely no way that are going to happen.

00:03:51.640 Um, but, uh, it doesn't sound like she's proud to be an American.

00:03:56.200 I could just live wherever I want.

00:03:57.480 You know, I've thought about this a lot.

00:03:59.140 Stu and I were joking about it last week.

00:04:00.800 He was like, you know, Glenn, uh, you might want to consider a second citizenship someplace else.

00:04:06.480 And I'm like, wait, what?

00:04:07.920 What are you talking about?

00:04:08.480 I mean, if you want an escape hatch, now would be the time to get it.

00:04:12.120 And I've thought about it because, honestly, if if the power goes back to the left, to the left, not Democrats, to the left in 2028, it is not going to be pretty.

00:04:27.360 They are going to do things that I am not looking forward to.

00:04:33.000 I mean, we'll be out of business.

00:04:34.320 You'd be lucky to not be.

00:04:36.060 I mean, we have one person running and I've got a story about it later.

00:04:39.160 It's in the free email newsletter at glenbeck.com.

00:04:42.160 I have a person running for the Democrats that actually believes in rounding people up that are Trump supporters and putting them in concentration camps.

00:04:49.060 Oh, OK.

00:04:50.600 Wow.

00:04:51.400 All right.

00:04:51.980 I'm not for that, but I guess, you know, hey, whatever floats your boat and you we've seen that they are willing to get nasty.

00:05:01.840 They are.

00:05:02.620 They it's it's not a live and let live kind of thing.

00:05:07.020 You know what I mean?

00:05:08.720 And that's kind of where I want to spend my time, you know, here in the next few minutes on that.

00:05:13.500 Let me start with UK Berkeley.

00:05:16.720 These are anti-TP USA protesters.

00:05:19.740 They show up on the front lines and they are there.

00:05:25.660 They're they're shouting things at the people who are waiting to get into the event last night at UC Berkeley.

00:05:33.080 Listen to this.

00:05:34.360 Oh, do I need to say what they're saying about your dead homie? 1.00

00:05:49.660 Wow.

00:05:54.920 I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm having a hard time with this.

00:06:03.580 It's it's it's not that it is.

00:06:09.380 I guess unexpected.

00:06:11.420 It's just the atmosphere.

00:06:13.440 Something has changed in the atmosphere.

00:06:15.460 You know, for the last few weeks, I have been carrying this feeling around, you know, like the weather has changed and nobody has bothered to check the forecast.

00:06:26.120 You know, it's not a gentle slide from fall into winter.

00:06:30.720 It's it's it's like all of a sudden, you know, you have a front ripping across the plains.

00:06:37.380 That's what's happening.

00:06:38.400 And I've been thinking about this a lot, and I haven't expressed it this way.

00:06:47.400 There's an old principle from from physics, and we all learned it in school.

00:06:52.960 It's Newton's third law, and you can say it almost like a lullaby.

00:06:57.560 Now, for every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction.

00:07:02.460 Right.

00:07:03.660 And that that line is, you know, classroom trivia, but it's more than that because it is a description of how reality itself pushes back.

00:07:12.700 Nothing happens in a vacuum.

00:07:14.700 Every force will set off another force.

00:07:17.920 Every impact ripples a counter impact.

00:07:21.460 And I can't shake that law lately, you know, because it is becoming less scientific and more almost like scripture right now.

00:07:29.700 Think about what's happened in the last six months.

00:07:33.040 Think about the action that has happened in the last six months.

00:07:37.860 We had evil strike.

00:07:39.320 Charlie Kirk was taken.

00:07:40.700 OK, it wasn't just a tragedy.

00:07:42.760 It was a it was a rupture in the floorboards of our world and millions of people felt it all over the world.

00:07:49.560 The entire globe stopped for a minute stunned.

00:07:53.540 That was the action.

00:07:54.880 But then there was an equal and opposite reaction, and I don't think it was all that equal.

00:08:03.420 It was all of a sudden like, oh, you want to play that game?

00:08:06.780 It was bigger and it did not come from man.

00:08:10.680 It was a revival.

00:08:11.980 It was this weird, glorious, unexpected rising of the human soul.

00:08:18.200 OK, people who hadn't prayed in 20 years found themselves whispering to God in the dark.

00:08:23.060 Baptism surge churches filled questions that have been buried under politics and entertainment started bubbling to the surface again.

00:08:29.500 Is there more to life than this?

00:08:31.780 What am I supposed to be?

00:08:32.880 Is there any purpose to this?

00:08:34.820 What is the cost of truth?

00:08:38.960 For a few weeks, that really was bubbling.

00:08:42.740 Charlie's funeral reached over one billion people.

00:08:47.000 When in history has a moment of grief turned into a global searchlight.

00:08:53.980 So this was a massive reaction.

00:08:59.240 That's caused all kinds of ripples.

00:09:04.040 Now comes another reaction.

00:09:07.180 The one that follows the revival.

00:09:09.780 And it is the counterforce.

00:09:11.620 And just like the first action of the shooter, it was evil, but it was man.

00:09:18.840 The reaction, the revival was not man, although it included men.

00:09:23.940 But it felt like it was a God thing, didn't it?

00:09:27.500 Now, the reaction to that is the counterforce.

00:09:30.580 And it's the hatred on the left.

00:09:34.480 It's the weird, weird ass lies about Charlie's death.

00:09:38.660 Okay.

00:09:39.200 The weird attempt to repackage, you know, a new version of the oldest tyrant in human history and parade him out as something fresh.

00:09:47.380 You know, I think he was just misunderstood.

00:09:48.640 And you're like, what is happening?

00:09:51.880 And all of it, all of it is tied to this ancient hate the Jews stuff. 0.76

00:09:58.840 This isn't politics.

00:10:00.640 This isn't campus theatrics.

00:10:02.260 This isn't what we were facing even a year ago.

00:10:04.800 The pushback, that next reaction is something older, something that has always hated awakenings, wherever it appears.

00:10:19.720 And for me, at least, I think this is the first time in my life, and maybe it's just me, but I feel like the eternal battle that usually plays out way above our heads.

00:10:34.800 You know, in realms that we can barely imagine, it's as if we're seeing the two main actors stepping onto the stage with us.

00:10:48.220 You know, it's almost like the curtain has been pulled aside and the big players have walked in.

00:10:53.980 And you're like, wait, is that?

00:10:56.800 And wow, and he's, holy cow. 0.76

00:11:00.480 Whether we wanted a role in this play or not, our part has been cast.

00:11:05.980 We're part of this cast, okay?

00:11:08.560 Fortunately for us, God uses human hands.

00:11:12.760 Unfortunately for us, darkness does as well.

00:11:16.180 So last week, when I told you I think the seasons have changed, Charlie's death was the ringing of a bell, not a funeral bell, but the opening bell in the title fight.

00:11:28.820 Everything before that moment, all of the political squabbles, all the cultural noise, that was the undercard.

00:11:37.120 These were all the warm-ups.

00:11:38.880 These were the fight before the main event.

00:11:41.160 But I really am convinced when you're seeing this evil on the street, when you're seeing this lack of total lack of humanity and the celebration of death and the reframing of everything, especially when it comes to ancient evil, to me, the main event has now begun.

00:12:04.020 Does anybody recognize that?

00:12:13.480 Because now it is our time to act.

00:12:16.960 Now it's our time to do what we're supposed to do.

00:12:24.080 So I want to talk to you about heroism and what it means to be a hero.

00:12:29.460 I want you to imagine somebody who acts not for applause, but acts for because it's just the right thing to do.

00:12:38.860 Okay.

00:12:40.500 Someone who steps forward when it's really easier to stay silent.

00:12:44.620 When you are standing there and you're like, I should say something and you don't.

00:12:48.220 And then somebody else doesn't.

00:12:49.180 You're like, wow.

00:12:49.720 Somebody who puts somebody else before themselves, not because they want the recognition, but because they understand something deeper.

00:13:00.860 Heroism is built from really small choices made every single day.

00:13:05.420 And it starts super, super small.

00:13:10.580 It's courage is a muscle that you have to exercise.

00:13:14.780 Because if you wait and you're like, I'm going to have courage when you're not going to have courage because you haven't exercised that muscle.

00:13:21.540 And heroes are.

00:13:23.460 They exercise this.

00:13:25.200 It's the neighbor who shares their time.

00:13:27.960 It's you, the parent who stays up worrying the coworker who lends a hand.

00:13:31.380 These are the acts that are grounded in care and in love and they're rooted in fairness.

00:13:37.020 Just doing, just doing what's just what's right when nobody else is watching.

00:13:43.860 And they grow through loyalty to your family, your friends, your community, something larger than yourself.

00:13:51.740 I'm going to tell you a story next about a family that is broken up and it's just, it's just tragic.

00:14:01.380 And it's a family of somebody that you know, you may not like, you may like, I don't know, but.

00:14:07.920 It's a family of somebody, you know, and it's just broken up over just stupid stuff.

00:14:15.420 We're sacrificing our families now.

00:14:18.460 Wait.

00:14:20.440 We're sacrificing our family for what exactly?

00:14:25.140 Heroism.

00:14:25.920 Being a hero, that will ask you to sacrifice.

00:14:28.460 But sacrifice isn't just giving something up.

00:14:31.660 It's investing.

00:14:33.600 This is the difference.

00:14:35.720 Investing trust.

00:14:37.120 Investing energy.

00:14:38.380 Investing hope.

00:14:40.080 It's giving a part of yourself so you can stand taller.

00:14:43.460 So a burden is eased.

00:14:45.120 A spark of goodness that spreads.

00:14:48.420 And most likely, not going to be remembered.

00:14:51.320 It'll be remembered by those people that you did something for, but you might even forget about it.

00:14:56.880 But they won't.

00:14:59.000 But the world's not going to be remembered because it's not seen.

00:15:02.140 The soldiers, I mean, they did amazing things.

00:15:05.360 Are they really remembered?

00:15:06.640 The rescuers?

00:15:07.720 The leaders?

00:15:10.100 Most are not going to be remembered.

00:15:12.860 The unseen heroes.

00:15:14.920 Those who comfort, who protect, who serve.

00:15:17.720 They don't need a stage.

00:15:19.780 Their stage is exactly where they stand.

00:15:21.680 Where you're standing right now.

00:15:22.780 Their reward is invisible.

00:15:26.600 But the effect is real and lasting.

00:15:32.300 Today I want to challenge you.

00:15:33.960 If you look out and see fear.

00:15:35.720 Fear of loss.

00:15:37.380 Fear of exposure.

00:15:38.860 Fear that no one is noticing you.

00:15:42.740 Know this.

00:15:43.900 Fear is a big part of life.

00:15:45.820 But it doesn't have to be.

00:15:46.960 It doesn't come from any place good.

00:15:48.320 And heroism does not mean an absence of fear.

00:15:53.000 It means while you feel fear, you do it anyway.

00:15:59.120 It doesn't require any power.

00:16:01.220 It just requires heart.

00:16:04.120 When you feel fear, do it anyway.

00:16:08.620 That's what makes a hero.

00:16:10.300 That's it.

00:16:11.360 That's it.

00:16:12.180 Because you just remember what's right.

00:16:13.780 We all have fields of action.

00:16:20.000 Here, me, behind this microphone.

00:16:23.280 But it's also me at home.

00:16:25.820 It's you at school.

00:16:27.380 Or in business.

00:16:28.960 You and your family.

00:16:31.980 There needs to be a hero.

00:16:33.680 Every single place where you are.

00:16:36.620 And when you choose to tell the truth.

00:16:38.680 Or to help somebody else.

00:16:39.880 Or to stay loyal.

00:16:41.960 When loyalty is tested.

00:16:43.780 When you're exercising heroism.

00:16:51.520 The world's going to need heroes.

00:16:56.660 It's going to need people to lift people up.

00:17:00.300 Lift the unseen.

00:17:03.340 People who are just willing to sacrifice.

00:17:08.160 And not for suffering.

00:17:12.120 But to plant a seed.

00:17:14.440 To make sure that somebody else goes on.

00:17:16.080 I don't exactly know how this all works out.

00:17:29.900 But I know that it is an honor to live at this time.

00:17:33.920 Because we get to see who we really are.

00:17:36.960 I don't know who I would have been.

00:17:38.900 I probably would have been a lot more selfish.

00:17:42.860 Than I am.

00:17:44.160 And I'm still pretty selfish.

00:17:48.140 I probably would have been a lot more selfish.

00:17:51.180 I don't know.

00:17:52.460 I don't know if I would have survived.

00:17:54.540 The Fox years.

00:17:55.980 Because I probably would have wanted it.

00:17:57.680 And then I wasn't.

00:17:58.860 I hadn't dedicated myself to anything bigger than me.

00:18:01.800 So I probably would have stayed.

00:18:03.000 And that would have been a nightmare.

00:18:08.800 Somebody needs a voice.

00:18:10.500 Somebody needs kindness today.

00:18:16.160 Will you be that person.

00:18:18.520 That will rise.

00:18:19.840 Because everything is getting so huge.

00:18:23.160 So huge.

00:18:24.000 All the issues are getting so huge.

00:18:26.780 And we all feel like.

00:18:28.120 I can't do anything about it.

00:18:30.760 You can.

00:18:32.620 But not on a huge scale.

00:18:34.720 But that's not what you're asked to do.

00:18:36.580 You're not the president.

00:18:37.660 I'm not the president.

00:18:39.440 I mean I have this job.

00:18:40.960 I can't tell you how many times.

00:18:42.500 I come home.

00:18:43.460 I said to my wife last night.

00:18:44.940 I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

00:18:47.040 She's like stop whining.

00:18:48.700 And I'm like I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

00:18:50.720 It doesn't make a difference.

00:18:51.840 And she's like shut up. 0.99

00:18:52.920 You know better than that.

00:18:54.780 It's true.

00:18:55.540 You get to.

00:18:56.080 I mean because everybody does.

00:18:57.380 Everybody feels that way in their own job.

00:18:59.520 It doesn't make a difference.

00:19:00.720 What am I doing?

00:19:01.740 But you do it anyway.

00:19:05.860 Because it does make a difference.

00:19:08.200 Your job makes a difference.

00:19:09.700 Not you know mine.

00:19:12.680 Not on a colossal scale.

00:19:15.140 I mean if you're Donald Trump.

00:19:16.480 Then maybe you get to have that huge huge impact.

00:19:19.620 But we can't all be.

00:19:21.060 And I don't want to be that.

00:19:22.180 Just want to make the difference.

00:19:25.340 Honestly in my children's life.

00:19:27.420 First of all.

00:19:28.020 In my wife's life.

00:19:29.800 In my neighborhood.

00:19:31.100 In my church.

00:19:31.840 With the people around me.

00:19:34.040 That's where we can be a hero.

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00:20:52.740 Hello Stu.

00:20:54.260 Hey Glenn.

00:20:55.260 How's it going?

00:20:55.940 So is the shutdown over?

00:20:58.760 I mean it has to go to the house.

00:21:00.000 And now the house is saying.

00:21:00.960 That they're not going to pass it.

00:21:04.560 Well.

00:21:05.480 The house should be.

00:21:07.620 I don't think there's any real belief.

00:21:08.800 That they're not going to pass it.

00:21:10.160 The big hurdle was the Senate.

00:21:12.160 And they got through the Senate.

00:21:13.520 Now we just get to watch the ongoing.

00:21:15.520 Democratic civil war over.

00:21:17.620 Whether Chuck Schumer is going to be removed or not.

00:21:21.080 It is crazy.

00:21:22.520 So let you know.

00:21:23.500 Let me let me go through.

00:21:24.980 Something that came in from the New York Times.

00:21:26.880 What were the Democrats thinking?

00:21:30.560 It starts out in this op-ed.

00:21:32.940 Back in September when I was reporting an article.

00:21:35.240 Democrats should shut down the government.

00:21:36.900 I kept hearing the same warning from veterans of past shutdown fights.

00:21:40.100 President controls the bully pulpit.

00:21:42.160 And parts of the government will stay open.

00:21:44.680 And he decides what parts close.

00:21:46.260 It's very very hard for the opposition party to win a shutdown.

00:21:49.460 Blah blah blah.

00:21:49.920 Now they have brokered a deal over the weekend.

00:21:54.160 As the Senate Democrats broke ranks.

00:21:56.460 And negotiated a deal to end the shutdown.

00:21:58.360 In return for.

00:21:59.260 If we're being honest.

00:22:00.100 Very little.

00:22:00.840 According to the New York Times.

00:22:02.340 The guts of the deal are this.

00:22:03.520 Food assistance.

00:22:04.340 Both SNAP and WIC.

00:22:05.900 Will get a bit more funding.

00:22:07.660 There will be a few other modest concessions.

00:22:09.780 On spending levels.

00:22:10.760 Elsewhere in the government.

00:22:12.280 Laid off federal workers will be rehired.

00:22:14.400 And furloughed federal workers.

00:22:15.780 Will give them back pay.

00:22:17.420 Most of the government is funded.

00:22:18.720 Only until the end of January.

00:22:20.820 So get ready.

00:22:21.340 We'll be doing this again.

00:22:22.840 The deal does nothing to extend.

00:22:25.220 The expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.

00:22:29.740 Which Democrats substantially shut down the government for.

00:22:33.080 In the first place.

00:22:33.820 First of all.

00:22:34.340 It's not the Affordable Care tax credit.

00:22:37.700 That's not why you shut it down.

00:22:40.720 There are tax credits.

00:22:42.820 Yes.

00:22:43.280 But this is different.

00:22:44.300 These were the government subsidies.

00:22:46.040 Leave it to the New York Times.

00:22:47.400 Let me lay this really clear.

00:22:50.780 Democrats demanded a continuation of the enhanced subsidies for the American Care Act.

00:22:56.920 Okay.

00:22:57.780 They were temporarily expanded during the pandemic.

00:23:02.040 These were not the tax credits.

00:23:05.140 These were extra subsidies stuffed into the 2021 American Rescue Plan as an emergency measure.

00:23:12.200 Remember the one we had to.

00:23:13.340 We had to pass this in the middle of the night.

00:23:15.340 Nobody could read it.

00:23:16.060 Well, that was what was in it.

00:23:18.180 And these subsidies lowered the premiums more than usual.

00:23:22.560 Expanded the eligibility far above the original ACA income caps.

00:23:28.680 And was always designed to be temporary just for COVID.

00:23:32.300 So if you were in COVID and you lost your job, you didn't have health care or whatever, you could get on the ACA, even though your salary was higher than it would be accepted.

00:23:48.660 Normally, you could get on it.

00:23:50.180 But once they created this, Washington does what Washington always does, and they won't let it go.

00:23:56.760 Okay.

00:23:58.200 It's not the tax credit.

00:23:59.740 To understand why the shutdown will end with such a whimper, you need to understand the strange role the ACA subsidies played in it.

00:24:05.220 Democrats said the shutdown was about subsidies, but for most of them, it wasn't.

00:24:08.960 Now, this is the New York Times saying this.

00:24:11.360 It was about Trump's authoritarianism.

00:24:14.460 It was about showing their base and themselves that they could fight back.

00:24:18.480 It was about treating an abnormal political moment abnormally.

00:24:22.560 The ACA subsidies emerged as the shutdown demand because they could keep the caucus sufficiently united.

00:24:30.100 They put Democrats on the right side of public opinion, even though self-identified MAGA voters wanted the subsidies extended.

00:24:37.080 And they held the quivering Senate coalition together.

00:24:40.360 You shut the government down with the Democratic caucus that you have, not with the Democratic caucus that you want.

00:24:45.880 But the shutdown was built on a crack foundation.

00:24:48.780 There were Senate Democrats who didn't want a shutdown at all.

00:24:51.240 There were some Democrats who did want a shutdown, but thought it was strange to make their demand so narrow.

00:24:57.280 Was winning on health care premiums really winning the right fight?

00:25:00.640 Shouldn't Democrats really vote to fund the government turning towards authoritarianism as long as health insurance subsidies are preserved?

00:25:09.120 And what if winning the health care fight was actually a political gift to Trump?

00:25:13.500 Now, listen to this, the New York Times.

00:25:14.760 Absent a fix, the average health insurance premium for 20 million Americans will more than double.

00:25:21.820 The premium shock will hit red states really hard.

00:25:25.420 Trump's longtime pollster had released a survey of competitive housing house districts showing that letting the tax credits expire might be lethal to Republican efforts to hold the House.

00:25:36.320 Why were the Democrats fighting so hard to neutralize their best issue in 2026?

00:25:42.480 The political logic of this shutdown fight was inverted.

00:25:46.380 If Democrats got the tax credits extended, if they won, they'd be solving a huge electoral problem for the Republicans.

00:25:52.880 If Republicans successfully allowed the tax credits to expire, if they won, they'd be handing the Democrats a cudgel which would beat them in the next elections.

00:26:01.400 This is unbelievable.

00:26:03.820 I mean, they're saying that they're saying it out loud.

00:26:06.820 You know what I mean?

00:26:11.120 They go on in this to say, you know, quote, why can't Republicans just accept reality?

00:26:17.080 These health care subsidies are working.

00:26:19.240 No, they're not.

00:26:20.700 No, they are not.

00:26:21.900 They are propping.

00:26:23.760 OK, they're scaffolding, holding up a structure that was never sound.

00:26:28.160 They were a covid era brace jammed under a tottering wall.

00:26:33.680 And now the same architects who swore the house, you know, the house was safe.

00:26:38.140 They're telling you now the splintered wood is actually part of the design.

00:26:41.680 What?

00:26:43.380 This is the power the mainstream media has.

00:26:46.120 The press still has over millions of Americans.

00:26:48.140 It's kind of like a hypnotic chokehold.

00:26:50.780 You say the word subsidy enough times with the right sad piano music under it.

00:26:55.500 And suddenly we forget what subsidies are.

00:26:58.940 Here's what subsidies are, gang.

00:27:00.980 Money borrowed from the Chinese.

00:27:03.800 But we're on the hook.

00:27:04.860 Now, we're not on the hook for it.

00:27:06.480 Money borrowed from the Chinese from the future to hide the failures of the present on decisions that were made in the past. 0.88

00:27:14.340 OK, and now we're told if we don't just keep borrowing forever, America will collapse.

00:27:19.880 No, what collapses is this crazy illusion.

00:27:24.200 Let's be clear about something.

00:27:25.820 The op ed never will admit the Affordable Care Act didn't fail because of Republicans.

00:27:31.040 It failed because math is a stubborn thing.

00:27:34.980 Because insurance is not health care, because a program bent around bureaucrats and middlemen will always cost more and deliver less.

00:27:47.340 We have been subsidizing the symptoms.

00:27:50.040 We never treated the disease here.

00:27:51.880 And now when a shutdown touches those subsidies, suddenly we're told the sky is cracking.

00:27:57.480 TikTok is flooded with panic videos scripted by algorithms that can't really be trusted.

00:28:02.000 The influencers don't even know what they're defending.

00:28:04.980 They just know fear pays better than the truth.

00:28:07.200 And here's the truth.

00:28:08.620 The system was failing long before Trump, long before Biden, long before COVID.

00:28:14.160 And maybe, just maybe, this moment is not a crisis, but an opening.

00:28:21.600 You know, I've said this for months now.

00:28:24.740 The greatest political opportunity of our lifetime now is health care reform.

00:28:30.600 Real, actual reform.

00:28:33.320 Not another Washington quick fix.

00:28:35.740 Not more subsidies or anything else.

00:28:37.360 Not a Band-Aid over a bullet wound.

00:28:39.160 But the Republicans won't do anything about it.

00:28:41.380 I believe, and I say this without hesitation, I think, that Trump and RFK Jr.

00:28:50.860 Together may be the only combination force in American politics with the will to take a flamethrower to the bureaucracy that is choking doctors and nurses.

00:29:01.540 The pharmaceutical lobby, the insurance labyrinth, the 50 states wrapped in 50 different versions of red tape, all of it has to be confronted.

00:29:12.400 And here's why Trump can't afford to miss this.

00:29:14.620 If he solves even a quarter of this problem, if he can find the way to lower costs, if he increases access, if he frees the market to actually work across state lines, he'll not only win in 2026, he'll be launching a momentum that will carry Vance into the presidency in 2028.

00:29:34.520 This is the key here.

00:29:38.320 But he has to remember something Washington has long forgotten.

00:29:42.260 The people he's negotiating with, they don't want a deal.

00:29:45.900 They don't fear collapse.

00:29:47.360 They welcome it.

00:29:48.920 They have been playing a slow motion color revolution, one where the country has to be impoverished, has to be frightened, and has to be divided to accept the new power structures.

00:29:59.200 Color revolutions only work if your people are hungry, if they're afraid, and they believe the people in the head of the government are authoritarian.

00:30:09.880 When that happens, you can have a color revolution.

00:30:12.720 And every day, America does not break.

00:30:16.240 Every day, the economy still stands.

00:30:18.640 Every day, people wake up and realize their lives are not as hopeless as the media insists.

00:30:24.480 The revolutionaries lose their leverage.

00:30:26.360 So the shutdown is not the crisis.

00:30:30.080 The crisis is the addiction to government medicine.

00:30:34.540 So here's the battle line that matters, I think, most right now.

00:30:38.620 While the press spins, you know, panic, Trump has to gather the brightest minds, the innovators, the disruptors, the people who build things rather than manage decline.

00:30:48.780 That's what he does best.

00:30:50.280 You know, if Elon Musk could do for NASA what Washington could not, then why can't we find maybe even get Elon Musk?

00:30:58.340 Why can't we unleash the same kind of thinking on health care?

00:31:01.660 It's time for radical thinking.

00:31:05.120 Imagine a system where your doctor spends more time listening than actually checking boxes.

00:31:09.400 Imagine competition across state lines.

00:31:13.200 Imagine prices that behave like normal prices because the market is finally allowed to work and government doesn't have its finger on the scale.

00:31:22.400 Imagine freeing the nurses and physicians from the paperwork prisons they're in and letting them practice medicine again. 0.99

00:31:28.960 This isn't utopian.

00:31:30.900 That's just.

00:31:31.540 Uncaptured America, the America before the bureaucratic glacier settled over up absolutely everything in our lives.

00:31:41.660 Trump is the one that can do this.

00:31:45.040 He's hitting he's hitting home runs, grand slams all all the time, all the time.

00:31:53.820 Health care is the crack in the wall where sunlight is still getting through.

00:31:58.200 If you solve this, if you solve the pressure.

00:32:04.340 And you you lower the pressure.

00:32:07.640 On the engine behind the color revolution, you win, you win.

00:32:13.380 I don't even talking about election.

00:32:14.740 You save the republic.

00:32:16.040 You solve this and you solve the fear that drives half of our political dysfunction.

00:32:22.340 Washington thinks the shutdown is a battlefield.

00:32:24.220 It's not.

00:32:25.000 The battlefield is health care.

00:32:27.080 The future is decided there.

00:32:30.420 And the man who breaks that system open and lets Americans breathe again will shape this country for a generation.

00:32:39.000 And the only guy to do it is Donald Trump.

00:32:43.640 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:47.140 It's Veterans Day and I want to I want to speak to one person right now.

00:32:58.940 You.

00:33:02.140 The one who raised a hand and swore an oath that didn't end when your enlistment did.

00:33:06.960 It was an oath that was older than your commanding officer, older than the branch you served in.

00:33:17.560 Older even than the nation itself, because what you swore to defend was not a government.

00:33:23.120 Unlike every other oath that every military man takes all over the world, you swore an oath to an idea.

00:33:32.540 And today in a country that sometimes feels dizzy from spinning arguments.

00:33:41.220 I think we should pause and anchor ourselves again to you, to the men and women who tethered this republic to reality when the storms came.

00:33:52.920 We have an amazing story.

00:33:58.460 If you really know the story of Lexington, where the farmers just left their plows and their damp fields because liberty whispered their names.

00:34:06.120 They met at their church.

00:34:07.800 Their preacher led them out.

00:34:10.500 They didn't have a chance of winning.

00:34:15.800 I think of the the Marines who fought through the gas and the mud until the Germans called them devil dogs.

00:34:23.580 The beaches of Normandy were boys who had never even seen France, saw eternity in a single morning on a single beach.

00:34:32.540 The men who fought in Korea and Vietnam, Kuwait, Fallujah, the skies over Baghdad.

00:34:43.940 Every generation has a chapter that is written in blood and grit.

00:34:48.000 And it was written by people who never asked for a statue.

00:34:55.720 All they wanted was a chance to come home.

00:34:59.820 And some didn't.

00:35:01.000 Their stories end on foreign soil or carved into white markers and rows so straight it almost breaks you.

00:35:11.580 But their gift to us never ends.

00:35:13.600 At least as long as we remember them and you.

00:35:23.460 Because every every free breath we take is borrowed from them and you.

00:35:29.380 If you're a veteran listening right now.

00:35:40.020 Maybe you came home to a grateful nation.

00:35:41.980 Maybe you quietly slipped into civilian life.

00:35:46.420 Wondered if anybody saw the weight that you were carrying.

00:35:53.640 No matter your circumstance.

00:35:55.800 Know this.

00:35:57.540 As you need to know this.

00:36:00.020 Millions see you.

00:36:02.820 Millions are grateful.

00:36:03.960 You changed the destiny of my children.

00:36:08.500 And they will never know your name.

00:36:14.920 You changed.

00:36:17.320 My life in ways you will never understand.

00:36:20.720 I wouldn't be able to be here and say these things if it weren't for you.

00:36:25.420 We take.

00:36:30.900 We take all of this.

00:36:33.100 So lightly.

00:36:38.420 It was you that stood.

00:36:40.080 Between tyranny and those who. 0.97

00:36:42.760 Couldn't defend themselves.

00:36:45.600 You kept the promise.

00:36:47.260 Most citizens like me.

00:36:48.700 We never make never have to make.

00:36:50.800 Because you already did.

00:36:52.780 And you continue to do so.

00:36:55.420 It's amazing to me.

00:37:00.440 When you are off into war.

00:37:02.940 Most times.

00:37:03.880 Not every time.

00:37:05.720 We think about you all the time.

00:37:09.880 We want to give you the very best.

00:37:11.620 When you're at war.

00:37:12.380 And then you come home.

00:37:13.460 And it's kind of like meh.

00:37:15.440 And you have the worst of our health care.

00:37:18.580 I mean.

00:37:18.800 It's my house.

00:37:19.200 We'll go to Canada.

00:37:20.000 Get the health care.

00:37:20.720 I mean it's.

00:37:22.100 I don't know if it's any better up there.

00:37:26.420 We're not really good at saying thank you.

00:37:33.200 Let me just take.

00:37:34.480 Just a second.

00:37:36.020 To say it.

00:37:37.140 Plainly.

00:37:37.920 And clearly.

00:37:38.940 To you.

00:37:40.960 Thank you.

00:37:41.680 Thank you for walking into the unknown.

00:37:46.700 When the rest of us stayed home.

00:37:52.460 I don't know what your motivation.

00:37:56.280 Was when you joined.

00:38:01.020 But thank you for believing that liberty was worth more than comfort.

00:38:05.020 Thank you for the nights you didn't sleep.

00:38:07.560 Thank you for the holidays you missed.

00:38:09.240 Thank you for the kids you didn't see born because you were someplace else.

00:38:20.420 Thank you for the friends you still mourn.

00:38:27.660 That's why you did it.

00:38:31.220 Because you're a brotherhood.

00:38:32.520 Thank you and all your brothers.

00:38:37.720 Thank you for every scar.

00:38:40.820 The ones we can see and the ones we will never see.

00:38:47.220 Thank you.

00:38:49.920 Thank all of the families.

00:38:52.340 Thank you for what you've done.

00:38:53.740 The quiet platoon behind every soldier and sailor and airman and marine and coast guardsman.

00:38:59.380 And because you served too.

00:39:08.240 Freedom has always been a family burden.

00:39:10.760 And look at what those families are like.

00:39:13.200 They're usually remarkable.

00:39:19.160 We live in a world right now that feels really loud.

00:39:22.380 Loud and divided and suspicious.

00:39:24.720 And it is.

00:39:31.240 But I just wanted to take a minute on this day.

00:39:35.980 And let everything just be quiet.

00:39:44.880 Gratitude has a way of silencing nonsense.

00:39:47.760 And I want you to know how grateful I am.

00:40:00.100 So before we got back into the headlines again.

00:40:03.960 Before the noise rises back up.

00:40:07.500 Let me end this with the only words that really matter.

00:40:10.240 To every veteran of the United States Armed Forces.

00:40:16.780 Your country remembers you.

00:40:19.600 Your country needs you.

00:40:22.400 And your country is grateful in a way.

00:40:26.020 Language will never quite capture.

00:40:29.800 Thank you.

00:40:30.620 Na na na na.

00:40:33.120 To all of you.

00:40:38.540 You.

00:40:40.140 Like you.

00:40:42.480 You.

00:40:42.940 You.

00:40:46.040 Are you.

00:40:49.480 You.

00:40:49.540 You.

00:40:52.860 You.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 11, 2025

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