The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ 11⧸27⧸23

00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome back from the holiday. How you feeling, turkey?

00:00:08.040 Oh, man. That's great. I worked all week on that one.

00:00:12.160 The turkeys are all dead.

00:00:15.700 Well, anyway, we've got a great program lined up for you.

00:00:19.500 We start with a little something about AT&T.

00:00:22.800 Perhaps you didn't know.

00:00:23.860 They're spying on millions of Americans with the federal government.

00:00:30.740 No, thank you, AT&T. No, thank you.

00:00:34.740 Also, a little on Dolly Parton.

00:00:37.860 I mean, you know, I mean, something had to be said.

00:00:43.140 We will talk to you about what's happening with Hamas.

00:00:46.660 We'll talk to you about what's happening in Argentina.

00:00:50.320 There is a wave that is coming.

00:00:52.880 Will it happen in America?

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00:01:51.200 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:04.600 Okay, lots of stuff going on.

00:02:08.840 A lot of stuff with the border.

00:02:10.440 Hey, here's one.

00:02:13.020 There's a surveillance program that affects anyone who has AT&T's phone network.

00:02:21.200 So we're talking very few people.

00:02:24.020 Very few.

00:02:26.000 AT&T is part of something called the Data Analytical Services, or DAS.

00:02:35.760 And it's coordinated with federal and local law enforcement agencies.

00:02:42.020 And here's what it does.

00:02:44.400 They have been secretly collecting and analyzing over a trillion domestic phone records.

00:02:53.140 One trillion.

00:02:54.480 And they do that every year.

00:02:56.960 If you have AT&T, you're being snooped on by the federal government.

00:03:03.500 It used to be called Hemisphere, and it's run by AT&T in coordination with different agencies.

00:03:11.800 Now, Congress just found out about this.

00:03:15.900 Uh-huh.

00:03:16.380 And they're going to do something about it.

00:03:18.740 Uh-huh.

00:03:19.020 But may I just, let me just, I'll just throw this in.

00:03:24.460 It's not a commercial.

00:03:25.740 Patriot Mobile.

00:03:27.960 Um, this is what it does.

00:03:31.800 It goes after anybody who has been in direct contact with a criminal suspect.

00:03:37.740 And anyone else who has had communication with them.

00:03:42.300 So, some guy that you don't know called somebody who's a criminal of any sort.

00:03:51.740 That's recorded.

00:03:53.280 Then that guy calls somebody else.

00:03:56.960 And somebody else calls somebody else.

00:03:58.760 And that somebody else calls you.

00:04:01.320 That's the chain.

00:04:03.520 All of your records.

00:04:04.900 They're tying everyone together.

00:04:09.300 Which I think is good.

00:04:11.480 You know, Kevin Bacon, I mean, we'll finally have absolute proof that it is seven phone calls away to Kevin Bacon.

00:04:18.560 So, we got that going for us.

00:04:20.680 Again, that's an AT&T thing.

00:04:24.240 When it comes to the hostages.

00:04:28.820 Well, we got one.

00:04:30.100 Maybe we can, maybe we can get the other 12.

00:04:36.940 But we got one.

00:04:39.380 And Biden is working really super, super, super hard.

00:04:44.220 But let's remember, it's the Palestinians that want a two-state solution.

00:04:51.060 Or the exact opposite of that.

00:04:54.280 There is a new poll out.

00:05:00.480 It was taken November 14th by a West Bank polling firm.

00:05:05.720 They asked Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank what kind of state they would like to establish.

00:05:12.620 One state for two peoples garnered the support of 5.4%.

00:05:18.140 Two-state solution was supported by a whopping 17%.

00:05:23.980 But the clear winner with 74.7% was a Palestinian state from the river to the sea.

00:05:33.700 So, who wants that two-state solution?

00:05:42.220 Well, they could put, maybe they could put the other, the Israeli state in the ocean. 0.67

00:05:46.080 Like on a barge or something.

00:05:48.140 I mean, they just said from the river to the sea.

00:05:50.200 Right.

00:05:50.680 And they could be in the river, too.

00:05:52.260 Right.

00:05:52.840 You know what I mean?

00:05:53.140 That's right.

00:05:53.600 Maybe they, like, a little.

00:05:55.020 You just dump all their bodies in the river.

00:05:56.460 A casino boat.

00:05:57.540 Oh, a casino. 0.99

00:05:58.140 Oh, you're saying that we shouldn't kill them. 0.99

00:06:00.560 Oh.

00:06:01.100 Yeah, because that's, I mean, I don't know if that's the opposite.

00:06:02.980 I'm just saying, technically, when they say from the river to the sea, it's actually,

00:06:07.060 Glenn, an aspirational phrase that means freedom for all, according to our friend in our government,

00:06:17.780 in Congress, Rashida Tlaib. 0.98

00:06:19.580 Oh, okay.

00:06:20.300 Well, I'm sure Rashida Tlaib said it.

00:06:21.960 It's an aspirational phrase.

00:06:23.600 Aspirational.

00:06:24.280 Right.

00:06:24.760 Right.

00:06:25.080 Is that like, gee, let's fire the ovens back up in Auschwitz. 0.84

00:06:31.240 Is that kind of the same kind of aspirational kind of?

00:06:34.460 It does make you think about what they're aspiring to.

00:06:36.900 Yes, it does.

00:06:37.600 It does make you want to have the other side of that.

00:06:39.880 Yes.

00:06:40.600 Two men were accused of spying for Israel.

00:06:45.700 They were Gazans. 0.75

00:06:48.520 The West Bank.

00:06:49.820 Friday night.

00:06:51.000 Their bodies were found.

00:06:53.800 Well, not exactly found.

00:06:56.100 Everybody knew right where they were.

00:06:58.180 They were shot by Palestinian groups.

00:07:02.220 And Palestinian journalists, who anonymously has let this out, has provided details.

00:07:10.440 Apparently, they were drug through the streets.

00:07:16.100 The Palestinians in the streets then just kicked their bodies with everybody else just, you 1.00

00:07:25.380 know, recording it on their phone.

00:07:27.960 Then they were, well, they were stomped on and then they were hung up from an electrical

00:07:33.100 tower.

00:07:34.060 And then, you know, then they were dumped in a waste container.

00:07:38.700 So, I didn't hear any, I've heard a lot of stories about Gazan citizens dying.

00:07:46.400 It's been on the news a lot, but those two, those two, I haven't, no, they haven't, no,

00:07:50.680 they haven't really.

00:07:51.620 By the way, US destroyer took five individuals into custody yesterday as they attempted a terrorist

00:07:57.880 hijacking of an Israeli owned tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

00:08:02.360 They also responded to the not only distress call, but the Houthis, which don't even mess 1.00

00:08:11.160 with them.

00:08:12.300 Don't even mess with them.

00:08:14.340 The Houthis, Iranian backed, fired two ballistic missiles at the destroyer right as they were

00:08:22.280 going to respond to that pirate hijacking or whatever.

00:08:29.500 I, you know, I, we have to brush up on our pirate terms.

00:08:34.540 It's been a while.

00:08:35.800 It's been a while since we've really had to talk about pirates and what is it when a pirate

00:08:40.280 takes over a ship?

00:08:42.300 What do you?

00:08:43.160 Ever since Johnny Depp's gone through his problems, I've lost, I've lost the plot on that one.

00:08:47.160 Sure, sure, sure.

00:08:50.580 So Seattle, they had their Christmas tree lighting.

00:08:53.740 Surprised they even have Christmas in Seattle anymore.

00:08:56.680 Um, but, uh, Antifa and pro-Palestinian activists were there to vandalize, uh, the, uh, local

00:09:03.820 stores and, uh, and quote, uh, light the tree.

00:09:09.360 I think they might've thought it was a little, uh, different kind of tree lighting.

00:09:14.260 Um, this happened in New York as well.

00:09:16.800 The public library now $75,000 just to, just to clean up after the vandalism of the, uh,

00:09:24.180 the, uh, protesters, which is, you know, no big deal.

00:09:27.140 Hey, the prime minister of Ireland has just welcomed home, uh, their hostage, nine-year-old 0.54

00:09:35.900 Israeli hostage, um, kidnapped by Hamas and taken as hostage.

00:09:41.340 Turned nine while in, uh, while in captivity there for what, what was it, 50 days, something

00:09:47.800 like that.

00:09:49.200 Um, he came out and he said, this is a, an enormous day of joy and relief for Emily Hand

00:09:56.340 and her family, an innocent child who was lost and now been found and returned.

00:10:02.600 As we breathe a massive sigh of relief, our prayers have been answered.

00:10:06.920 Uh, that's the prime minister of now.

00:10:10.460 I don't think she wandered off into the woods.

00:10:13.300 No, no, I don't.

00:10:14.660 I, I mean, I could be wrong.

00:10:16.780 Um, but, uh, she has been lost.

00:10:19.880 Then she was found and returned.

00:10:21.940 Uh, so like a lost puppy, like a loss.

00:10:25.100 You know, sometimes the puppy, you let them out to go pee pee.

00:10:27.580 They run away.

00:10:28.680 You find them at a park to Emily.

00:10:30.340 Who knows?

00:10:30.900 That may have been it.

00:10:31.560 I don't think so.

00:10:32.740 No, I don't think so.

00:10:34.100 She was, she was kidnapped by terrorists.

00:10:37.320 I particularly love how they're basically trying to cover this.

00:10:40.740 Like it's a reality show reunion where they're like, Oh, and then the swelling music comes

00:10:45.880 up and look Hamas, these lovely Hamas people are dropping off these lost citizens back to 0.85

00:10:51.520 Israel.

00:10:51.920 What a wonderful thing Hamas is doing for the Jews. 1.00

00:10:56.400 They just love the Jews so much.

00:10:58.480 They're returning these people who had wandered off.

00:11:02.700 And what a, it's like those soldiers coming home videos, you know, when like they're, they're

00:11:07.380 at their basketball game and the referee comes out.

00:11:09.300 Oh my gosh, it's really his dad.

00:11:11.380 Oh, it's like these wonder.

00:11:12.780 And the music swells up and then they give a bunch of money to charity to, I don't know

00:11:17.760 what's going to happen next.

00:11:18.820 Every little piece of this is playing out.

00:11:21.160 Like it's this cheesy schlocky reality show.

00:11:24.000 It's like these people, the four-year-old that was taken, which is an American, again, thrilled

00:11:31.760 that she is, has been returned.

00:11:33.900 Yes.

00:11:34.260 And they're like, they're, but, but they're treating it like, Oh wow, that was really nice

00:11:37.540 of Hamas to drop off this four-year-old who was lost wandering in the park.

00:11:40.900 And in reality, she was in her father's hands as he was shot in the head.

00:11:47.860 Her mother, her mother also murdered.

00:11:50.620 She escaped, went next door. 0.96

00:11:53.080 And that wasn't the end of her story because then she was taken prisoner next door. 0.94

00:11:58.300 They kidnapped the entire family and brought them over to Gaza. 0.96

00:12:01.640 So they, now she comes back to nothing. 0.99

00:12:05.040 Her family has been murdered.

00:12:07.620 Wow.

00:12:08.500 Wow.

00:12:08.740 Listen to the way this, listen to the way this so-called journalist will frame this.

00:12:15.500 What was it?

00:12:16.180 She was, here's, here's the story.

00:12:18.460 Her parents were murdered is what it was.

00:12:19.560 Her parents were found dead in their home.

00:12:22.020 She luckily wandered off where a group of Palestinians gathered her and the family next door.

00:12:31.520 They didn't know what was going on and they rushed them to safety.

00:12:34.620 And now she's been returned.

00:12:36.180 In a hospital, probably, too.

00:12:37.680 They probably rushed her to safety in a hospital. 0.98

00:12:40.280 Exactly right.

00:12:40.760 That doesn't seem to have a lot of medical equipment, but does have a lot of firearms.

00:12:44.840 But other than that.

00:12:46.120 Well, firearms are a big cause of medical problems.

00:12:48.600 Right.

00:12:48.820 So, I mean, if you're going to have firearms, have them at the hospital.

00:12:52.040 So you can take care of everything.

00:12:54.880 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:57.420 So, Argentina had their runoff election and the news is stunning.

00:13:05.840 Javier Malay, is that how you say his name?

00:13:08.920 He was elected as Argentina's next president.

00:13:14.900 He is a libertarian.

00:13:17.160 He is the exact opposite of really anything, any kind of politician that we have seen here that is even close to being president of the United States.

00:13:30.680 Even Donald Trump.

00:13:31.840 Donald Trump still plays within some of the norms.

00:13:37.340 He is often compared.

00:13:39.440 This guy in Argentina is often compared to Donald Trump.

00:13:43.520 But I don't think they're comparable.

00:13:45.080 I think just because he's outspoken, like it seems to be the largest similarity there, right?

00:13:50.760 Like he's super outspoken, but he describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist, which is not how Donald Trump would describe himself at all.

00:13:58.060 Not at all.

00:13:58.720 He is going to get rid of the this. 0.88

00:14:01.720 What he says he's going to do, get rid of the peso because it's falling and he's going to put the dollar in good luck with that one.

00:14:09.220 He is also getting rid of their Federal Reserve Bank.

00:14:12.500 Like he's getting rid of hundreds of programs.

00:14:16.900 He is just going to cut this government to the bone.

00:14:19.960 Have you seen the video of him walking in front of the whiteboard and he's just pulling off the stickers of all the different agencies?

00:14:24.760 Like the Department of Families and Health.

00:14:28.900 God, like every single one.

00:14:30.640 He's just pulling off and throwing it away.

00:14:32.240 Now, look, is he going to do those things?

00:14:34.620 I hope so.

00:14:35.840 Probably a lot of those agencies are incredibly pointless just as they are here.

00:14:40.040 No, not knowing the full story of the structure of the Argentinian government.

00:14:45.500 I'm going a little bit on guesswork there, but I mean, every government is like that, especially in South America.

00:14:53.860 I will bet you that Art Laffer would like this guy.

00:14:59.760 We should call Art Laffer because he knows Argentina real well.

00:15:03.180 He did this back in the 80s.

00:15:05.040 Argentina always, you know, succeeds, becomes wealthy and then goes to socialism and destroys itself. 0.75

00:15:12.260 And then, you know, goes back to its roots and then it destroys itself.

00:15:15.620 So he did that in the 80s.

00:15:18.940 He restored it in the 1980s.

00:15:20.700 Well, they're back.

00:15:22.260 But I mean, look, the promise is high here.

00:15:24.740 I just I do hesitate.

00:15:27.240 You know, there's a lot of ifs that could happen here.

00:15:29.220 Right.

00:15:29.400 Like, I don't know everything about this guy.

00:15:31.480 Who knows what he what policy he actually implements when he's in office?

00:15:35.340 What crazy thing we don't know about him?

00:15:37.200 Who knows?

00:15:38.040 He at some level, he's still a South American politician.

00:15:40.780 So I'm going to hold out hope.

00:15:42.900 But the things he said are really good, really positive.

00:15:45.520 If he actually does them, if if they work, it could be an incredible thing.

00:15:51.000 I mean, you know, it might inspire countries all in the region and all over the world to replicate that process.

00:15:56.920 So there's really high hopes for someone who would come in and actually do this.

00:16:00.260 You know, what's really interesting is how cautious people are on on saying, I like this guy.

00:16:07.600 I don't know.

00:16:08.540 I don't know enough about it.

00:16:09.760 Yeah.

00:16:09.900 I like what he says so far of what I've heard.

00:16:12.940 What I've heard has been very good.

00:16:14.120 I don't know.

00:16:15.300 Same thing with Gert Wielder's.

00:16:16.820 Gert Wielder's could become the next prime minister, the next Dutch prime minister.

00:16:22.360 Now, he's just won a massive election.

00:16:25.660 He didn't win enough seats to become prime minister.

00:16:28.240 But if he cobbles together a few more seats, he he may become prime minister.

00:16:33.720 This is a guy who's been on this show.

00:16:35.040 And we were told by everybody, don't have money.

00:16:36.900 He's too bad.

00:16:37.520 He's too bad.

00:16:38.180 Dangerous.

00:16:38.660 He says bad things.

00:16:39.840 We thought he was delightful, at least in the interview.

00:16:43.140 He was wonderful.

00:16:44.340 Seemed fine in the interview.

00:16:45.880 Yeah.

00:16:46.320 So but we always have to say, well, but I'm not sure.

00:16:51.120 But do you ever hear anybody backpedaling on Justin Trudeau?

00:16:55.500 No, no.

00:16:56.220 No, they never do.

00:16:56.760 I mean, the things that that guy has done and nobody ever says, well, I don't agree with

00:17:03.040 everything.

00:17:04.540 He's not a bad.

00:17:05.500 It's not a bad thing.

00:17:06.700 But I think I don't know.

00:17:07.500 I hold myself to a higher standard than the left holds themselves.

00:17:11.320 So I hope I hope that we would have higher standards than them.

00:17:14.420 Yeah, I don't have a I don't have a problem with it.

00:17:16.780 Yeah, I just I do have a problem with it doesn't matter what you do on the left doesn't matter.

00:17:23.440 Doesn't turn into a Castro or a Stalin.

00:17:26.480 It doesn't matter. 0.83

00:17:27.440 Apparently, you can kidnap and murder thousands of people and you'll still get cheered on by 0.97

00:17:32.800 these people on the left.

00:17:35.480 And and, you know, the situation is, you know, with I don't know, as a conservative, like

00:17:40.840 we talk about principle a lot.

00:17:42.980 I do think it's important.

00:17:44.020 And I'm much I'm much I'm happy to criticize someone who's supposedly on the right if they're

00:17:50.020 wrong, if they're wrong.

00:17:50.760 Right.

00:17:51.160 Like, I just don't want to stand by them just because they they align themselves with my

00:17:57.200 general political outlook.

00:17:58.960 But that is not how the left operates.

00:18:00.860 And, you know, you can make the argument that politically, you know, in a pragmatic

00:18:04.480 political sense, you know, where the ends justify the means, that's the right approach.

00:18:10.740 I just that's not how I look at the world.

00:18:12.360 I don't think that's how you look at the world.

00:18:13.520 And I don't think that's how most conservatives look at the world, maybe to our detriment when

00:18:16.760 it comes to winning and losing sometimes.

00:18:18.080 But it's OK.

00:18:19.480 So there's two people now that the press say out of control.

00:18:23.940 These guys are worse than Hitler. 0.82

00:18:26.300 OK, guy in Argentina and Gert Wilders.

00:18:28.980 They may end up being that.

00:18:31.180 I don't think so, but they might.

00:18:33.200 I don't know.

00:18:34.520 It's not my country, so I don't follow them as closely.

00:18:39.080 However, I might be for them.

00:18:42.260 Kind of.

00:18:42.600 I hate to say that because I don't know enough about them.

00:18:44.720 But what I see, I like.

00:18:47.720 However, they might go bad.

00:18:51.720 But here's what you should take away from all of this movement politically, because it's

00:18:57.740 happening in Europe and it's happening in South America.

00:19:00.040 It is moving away hard from the left and going right.

00:19:08.000 In the case of Argentina, a small government right.

00:19:13.040 I mean, very small libertarian right.

00:19:16.060 And everybody is losing their minds.

00:19:20.360 A libertarian government is not powerful enough to make you do anything.

00:19:26.580 That's the good thing about small government.

00:19:30.120 It can never really harm you.

00:19:31.780 It's not spying on you because it's not big enough.

00:19:37.480 These guys, if they work.

00:19:40.460 This is going to be a huge move for the world back to more freedom and common sense.

00:19:49.600 Gert Wilders won.

00:19:51.020 You know why?

00:19:51.820 Because of immigration. 0.99

00:19:55.860 The Dutch are tired of having people just rape their daughters, kill on the street and 0.99

00:20:04.220 no ramification, no ramification. 0.99

00:20:07.060 You don't have to.

00:20:08.540 The you know, when when you go over to Sweden, you go spend any time in the Norwegian countries,

00:20:15.820 countries, you will see how accepting they are, how loving they are.

00:20:21.300 But it is a very, very non-diverse population until recently.

00:20:29.020 And now the non-diverse population coming up from the Middle East doesn't want to be Swedish. 0.97

00:20:35.480 They don't want to be Dutch. 1.00

00:20:36.660 They don't care.

00:20:37.640 They want the free stuff, but they'll have their own no-go zones.

00:20:43.040 They'll have their own communities.

00:20:44.860 And it's not a part of that culture.

00:20:49.580 Everybody has turned a blind eye.

00:20:52.480 You're now seeing the immigration be a problem all through Europe. 1.00

00:20:57.300 You're going to see it as a problem here in America soon.

00:21:00.860 I mean, I can't believe how much has changed in on our border and relatively nobody's talking

00:21:09.720 about it.

00:21:11.260 That's one of the biggest changes in my lifetime.

00:21:15.600 And nobody's really talking about it.

00:21:18.640 When that poses a problem, when we start to have terror attacks or whatever, we start to

00:21:25.560 collapse our economy because we're overrun in this lifeboat called America, there are too 0.99

00:21:34.080 many people trying to get into the boat, then you really have problems.

00:21:41.500 So I'm glad to see that before things catch completely on fire over in Europe and in South

00:21:49.660 America, there's a couple of places that may turn things around.

00:21:54.740 And I think, too, this idea that maybe turning, just leaning, err on the side of liberty.

00:22:02.920 Yes.

00:22:03.520 That's what's encouraging about the guy in Argentina, Malay, for me, is that he might, look, we

00:22:08.780 all know Ronald Reagan wanted to get rid of the Department of Education.

00:22:11.560 He wasn't able to do it.

00:22:12.320 And the Fed.

00:22:13.800 Will this guy be able to get rid of all these agencies he pulled off his stickers off the

00:22:17.340 whiteboard?

00:22:17.860 It's going to be really hard.

00:22:19.160 I assume there's a million different people that are inside the government and have been

00:22:24.220 inside of the government structure forever that will do everything they can to stop

00:22:28.160 him at every turn.

00:22:29.340 But just the fact that he's attempting to do these things and pushing in that general

00:22:33.400 direction, it's hard to see how they can make the country worse.

00:22:37.460 You know, at the very least, they take a little bit less of your money.

00:22:40.860 I will tell you this.

00:22:42.220 It is like never before. 0.96

00:22:45.920 You are going to be assassinated politically.

00:22:51.740 Your reputation, your life, everything will be assassinated by the press and by the left.

00:22:58.460 And if you get these people in who are serious about taking apart the Fed and some of these

00:23:05.460 things that are absolute institutions that are deep, you start having a president take

00:23:11.980 on the intelligence community here in America, you may be looking at worse than a political

00:23:19.060 assassination.

00:23:20.740 That's really dangerous to do.

00:23:23.320 And I never thought I'd feel that way in America, but I do.

00:23:27.760 Don't you?

00:23:29.140 It is.

00:23:30.000 Yeah.

00:23:30.260 I mean, it is.

00:23:31.440 I mean, look what they did to Donald Trump.

00:23:34.520 And look what you what I think they're willing to do to Donald Trump.

00:23:40.680 Somebody steps up and is effective at taking on the deep state.

00:23:48.020 God help him.

00:23:49.580 God help him.

00:23:50.500 There's a lot.

00:23:52.720 Yeah.

00:23:52.980 I mean, like you're standing up against people who have entrenched interest in something that

00:23:57.240 you don't want and you're trying to you're trying to destroy and they have all kinds

00:24:01.700 of power, all sorts of power.

00:24:03.540 One of the first things we talked about with Donald Trump and in a critical way at some

00:24:08.300 level was to say, hey, like you better be sure if you're going to critique our critique

00:24:17.420 is not the right word for what Donald Trump was doing, but like go after the intelligence

00:24:21.560 agencies.

00:24:22.400 Yeah.

00:24:22.680 Because they're not going to sit back and just let that go on.

00:24:26.620 You better be sure.

00:24:27.980 Now, he did it anyway and he had to deal with the effects of it.

00:24:31.200 You know, I mean, it's a risky strategy.

00:24:34.200 At times it feels like, you know what?

00:24:35.940 It really does need to be done.

00:24:37.380 And I'm glad he's done it.

00:24:38.560 But he's dealt with lots of personal discomfort and continues to over, I believe, those attacks

00:24:47.720 at the beginning and more as he went on.

00:24:50.200 I mean, like they're not going to just give up their power.

00:24:53.220 That's not what happens.

00:24:54.400 I know.

00:24:54.780 I wish we just cobbled together a coalition.

00:24:57.480 I really do.

00:24:58.600 I wish we.

00:24:59.140 I Donald Trump is so focused now has to be so focused on what's going on in his life.

00:25:11.740 I wish we would put a coalition together where everybody gets behind somebody and just says,

00:25:19.440 OK, what's best for the country?

00:25:21.500 All of us getting together right now and developing something that a majority of Americans can get

00:25:28.620 behind.

00:25:29.140 Because I just I won't believe it if if this guy, Joe Biden, can win.

00:25:38.180 I mean, I've never seen a guy who has done this with war and made things as unstable do

00:25:45.620 well in a presidential election, never seen a president who has an economy like this do

00:25:51.160 well in a presidential election.

00:25:53.220 I've never seen a guy who is more incompetent do well in.

00:25:57.740 I mean, I mean, this guy has everything going against him and it's still competitive.

00:26:04.880 How's that possible?

00:26:06.040 Just how is that possible?

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00:26:14.240 So they're close to release of a fourth hostage group.

00:26:22.580 Hamas is asking for more time.

00:26:25.460 Looks like the world is going to do that.

00:26:28.040 Biden administration is now actively working to extend the truth. 0.88

00:26:32.960 I hope Israel does what it feels it needs to do for its security and damn the rest of the world. 0.95

00:26:42.720 I know that's horrible to say if you're somebody who has a member of your family as a hostage. 0.93

00:26:50.980 But at least in America, we've up until this administration, we never dealt with hostage takers.

00:27:00.940 We didn't do it.

00:27:02.540 It doesn't set a good example and it will only lead to worse things.

00:27:08.840 But as we look at some of the people coming back among the grander disasters, we see the personal tragedies and we see it so much.

00:27:23.720 It's hard to even focus on one story of one kind or another illness, the rape, the abuse, the wars.

00:27:31.760 The list of what people can do to other people is enormous.

00:27:38.480 And the problem, I think, is that none of us ever really follow up on it, especially the long term.

00:27:46.580 We'll tell you about the hostages released.

00:27:49.480 But are we going to go back in three or four years and see what happened to them?

00:27:55.040 What happened to that woman who was raped in Chicago? 1.00

00:27:58.080 The man that was beaten and mugged in New York?

00:28:00.700 The children that are rescued from abuse or sex slavery?

00:28:07.160 We might see the rescue.

00:28:09.860 But we don't follow up.

00:28:11.380 Did they get better?

00:28:12.220 Did they rebuild their lives?

00:28:13.560 Did they move on?

00:28:15.500 Did they perhaps even turn their story into something positive for themselves or others somehow?

00:28:21.700 Or did they forever remain scarred?

00:28:24.800 Because I think this is the important thing.

00:28:27.160 Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was especially grateful for forgiveness and a chance to start all over again.

00:28:36.640 I can't imagine if I just would have wallowed in my own garbage, which was a choice.

00:28:44.120 Will people become bitter and angry at themselves, at society, the world at large, God?

00:28:59.720 Will they forever be ruled by their past post-traumatic nightmares?

00:29:07.120 Are their lives just going to be nothing but a long memory of pain?

00:29:13.760 And can we blame them, really?

00:29:15.320 Or will we celebrate the lives of those who died, the lives of those who struggle, all those who are suffering today that might take that experience to help others so all that suffering is not in vain?

00:29:36.320 Even if it's just help themselves, they stand up, they speak, they live, and they do it to show that the hell that is life can be overcome.

00:29:48.160 I have had many cryptic conversations about my children over the years, especially as they have gotten older.

00:30:00.180 And if you're a longtime listener of this program, you know that we have had very frightening issues with a couple of my kids in particular.

00:30:14.200 I went to Tony Robbins with my son, and I called Tony, and I said, Tony, these are some of the problems.

00:30:25.040 And he said, Glenn, take your son, come with him.

00:30:28.760 He said, I'd be shocked if that didn't turn around.

00:30:34.340 I have never seen a bigger turnaround in anyone like I've seen in my son.

00:30:41.000 It is, it's remarkable.

00:30:49.220 I was standing next to him.

00:30:54.200 We're, what, 14,000 people.

00:30:58.500 And Tony at one point has you scream out your biggest obstacle.

00:31:05.600 I'm just screaming out.

00:31:06.920 And I'm screaming something, and my son's screaming something.

00:31:11.100 And I listen, I hear my son say something, something in regards to, I can be greater than my father.

00:31:27.360 Something like that, which I was both humbled and horrified by.

00:31:34.900 Because I just, my son just needs to be himself, and he'll be greater than me.

00:31:40.860 Just, just be you.

00:31:42.940 He's changed, and I credit Tony for this.

00:31:56.380 It is, it's remarkable to see him go from a young man, confused, lost, on the trail, off the trail, on the trail, off the trail, to a kid that is just a man who is determined to do whatever it is he sets his mind to, without hesitation.

00:32:22.860 I mean, he's walking straighter.

00:32:27.180 It's, it's remarkable.

00:32:31.140 And this is a kid who have at times been completely hopeless and thinking, I'll never amount to anything.

00:32:40.640 I'll never do anything.

00:32:42.740 Why even try?

00:32:45.180 Because I'll never amount.

00:32:47.100 Somebody who, as a kid, filled himself with just this negative tape of not being worthy.

00:33:00.820 And we tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried.

00:33:08.520 And this worked.

00:33:12.260 At least as long as he chooses to do it.

00:33:17.100 I think that is the point.

00:33:26.720 He didn't change.

00:33:28.880 He just stopped believing the lies that he was telling himself.

00:33:34.100 And he just started to believe, oh, I can do it.

00:33:38.580 In a world that teaches us that you are not good enough.

00:33:45.340 I mean, this is the point of advertising.

00:33:48.540 You are not complete unless you wear this brand, buy this brand, go to this place, vacation, look, your living room looks like this.

00:34:00.140 Even your smile is a certain way on Facebook.

00:34:04.840 Everything is telling you you're not enough.

00:34:09.180 And then on top of it, it feels at times like the world is just turning inside out and doing all kinds of things to you.

00:34:20.040 You're like, really, God, do I need this, too?

00:34:22.900 Really?

00:34:23.440 Seriously?

00:34:24.260 Thank you.

00:34:25.160 Thank you.

00:34:33.100 Some people just accept it.

00:34:34.720 Oh, that's God's will.

00:34:35.880 No, God's not going to give you something you can't handle.

00:34:37.860 But it's true, I think.

00:34:49.920 You know, I'm not God, obviously.

00:34:53.800 And I don't know his will.

00:34:57.920 I certainly don't know it for you because I barely know it for me, honestly.

00:35:02.280 Other than we're supposed to be happy and productive.

00:35:05.440 We're supposed to do good things.

00:35:09.840 It's amazing to me how many things our body does that reinforce good things.

00:35:21.260 You exercise, you feel better.

00:35:24.900 It creates endorphins that all of a sudden your mood goes up.

00:35:30.120 You go serve people, it does the same thing.

00:35:34.220 It rewards you for doing the good things.

00:35:40.460 It's an amazing system.

00:35:43.140 I don't know how anybody can say that there is no God.

00:35:49.860 But we're not here to have passive acceptance.

00:35:53.580 Yeah, well, I'm never going to make it.

00:35:57.340 And, well, that's God's will.

00:36:00.620 No.

00:36:02.820 No, I mean, we have to accept the things that we can't change.

00:36:05.800 But we also have to look at the things we can change.

00:36:08.100 This is one of the reasons I have a hard time sometimes with this job.

00:36:12.060 Because I'm telling you a lot of the things that you can't change.

00:36:14.920 I mean, you might be able to change them with the election.

00:36:20.100 But that's not where you're going to find your answers.

00:36:23.340 You're not going to find them in the next politician.

00:36:25.740 And so, I feel defeated sometimes because I feel like I'm not giving you any answers that are worth anything at all.

00:36:38.980 But then again, we all affect each other's lives.

00:36:50.720 We all, we're all here for a reason.

00:36:58.220 And it's spiritually healthy to remember that we don't have the final say or we don't control the final outcomes.

00:37:06.280 Sometimes our best efforts fail.

00:37:09.020 Sometimes our best intentions are for nothing.

00:37:11.060 Sometimes our prayers are answered in the negative.

00:37:22.300 But it's also important to spin things around and maybe think that things aren't being done to you.

00:37:29.140 But perhaps if we just look at life and saying, this is happening for me, it will require sacrifice and suffering and faith and everything else.

00:37:45.840 But maybe if we choose to see it in a different light, we'll be better.

00:38:01.940 If we're hungry, maybe we feed the poor.

00:38:07.220 We care for the orphan.

00:38:09.300 We protect the widow.

00:38:10.800 We love the stranger.

00:38:12.000 If we're in such a bad, dark place, wouldn't it make it easier for us to see others in that place and relate to them unlike anyone else can relate?

00:38:31.660 Over the holiday, I thought of faith being an active thing.

00:38:42.000 To do the job that we feel God has given us.

00:38:45.640 And if it's good and it lifts people, if it builds and not destroys, it makes things better.

00:38:52.420 It's probably God's will.

00:38:53.880 Especially if you don't want to do it, it's definitely.

00:38:58.040 But it doesn't have to be active outside.

00:39:01.040 It needs to be active in us.

00:39:03.040 We survive.

00:39:12.580 We make it.

00:39:14.900 And it makes future generations smarter and stronger, should we choose.

00:39:23.020 My addiction, my abuse to alcohol and everything else, all the bad things, it turns out I can break the pattern of generational addiction, abuse.

00:39:37.200 I can break that pattern.

00:39:38.520 But more importantly, perhaps, in some ways, that happened for me.

00:39:47.260 At least that's the way I interpret it.

00:39:49.880 So I can relate.

00:39:53.120 I can help.

00:39:54.220 Whatever is happening in your life is happening for you, at least in part.

00:40:01.820 In a world where babies get sick and die, a drunk driver will leave you in a lifelong coma.

00:40:07.280 Hamas can do what it did on October 7th. 0.97

00:40:10.640 God's not to blame for anything and everything.

00:40:13.960 There is human evil.

00:40:16.420 God built a world where we all have free choice for good or for evil.

00:40:21.180 And all of our actions have consequences.

00:40:25.160 And we focus on the evil.

00:40:29.240 But he made us able to choose what to make of all of this.

00:40:38.160 Maybe all of the things that are happening, I mean, I don't know if anybody else has felt this way, but it's all broken.

00:40:44.800 The principles aren't broken.

00:40:47.200 What we've done to the principles.

00:40:50.140 We just started building houses on the beach.

00:40:53.200 We're like, yeah, yeah, I understand.

00:40:55.020 Yeah, no, I understand, you know, the concept of a strong foundation, but I'm going to build it here on the beach.

00:41:02.200 That was our choice.

00:41:04.280 And now we're just reaping the consequences of those choice.

00:41:07.600 But perhaps, as we all share this pain and this path, we can be somebody else's opportunity.

00:41:22.340 If we choose our tragedy, our lives can happen for us and others as well.

00:41:28.940 And no longer just to us.

00:41:31.820 Na-na-na-na.

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 27, 2023

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