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00:00:00.120 Today's podcast is a little different.

00:00:02.440 You might want to listen to the entire podcast, but the best of you'll get a good feel for it.

00:00:07.700 I started the show out with what I believe we voted for, what I voted for at least, who we are, what the Constitution means.

00:00:17.720 And then I opened up the phones and I asked people for those who are still listening to media,

00:00:24.300 mainstream media, and think that we voted for Hitler and we're going to round people up and that's what we're for.

00:00:30.640 We're for racism.

00:00:32.260 I asked the audience, tell me what you voted for.

00:00:36.660 There's a lot that we have in common, especially with those who are Democrats, not crazy leftists, but Democrats who have been lied to.

00:00:46.080 They think they were voting, I believe, they think they were voting for what we voted for.

00:00:52.000 Only one of us can be right.

00:00:54.860 Which one?

00:00:56.300 It remains to be seen, I guess.

00:00:58.160 Proof will be in the pudding.

00:00:59.840 But what did you vote for?

00:01:02.700 Let's explain that to not just the media, but to your next door neighbor who thinks you're a fascist.

00:01:10.320 Now, I value my sanity, such as it is.

00:01:14.260 Which is why when we look for things like selling our house, I really want to make sure that I've got somebody on my side that can help me sell that house.

00:01:26.740 I need to have somebody who is competent, an active real estate agent, somebody who, that's their full-time job, somebody who knows the best practices, somebody who understands the internet.

00:01:37.500 That's the way to advertise.

00:01:39.500 That's the way.

00:01:40.280 When I post my house someplace, I want to post it where all the traffic is already.

00:01:46.200 So how do they do that?

00:01:48.960 Well, this is why I formed Real Estate Agents I Trust.

00:01:51.520 It's a company that just vets real estate agents in your area and then recommends them to you.

00:01:57.380 We expect you and want you to do your own homework on them, but I think we've done a lot of the heavy lifting.

00:02:03.520 We know that these are the people who are full-time, best in your area, as far as sales, and then we get to know them personally.

00:02:11.540 I mean, it's everything but a rubber glove when you're dealing with my company because I want to make sure it's my name that is making you call these people.

00:02:22.500 And when I say we can trust them and they're just like you, they kind of have the same values as you, you're going to find a friend, I want to make sure that's right.

00:02:32.780 By the way, I was just talking to the guy who, John Wells, who runs all this part of the division of the company, and I said, how are we doing?

00:02:41.380 Are we checking up on everybody?

00:02:42.520 He's like, Glenn, we check up on them after every sale.

00:02:46.380 We make sure.

00:02:47.340 And he said, remember, we have a one-strike policy.

00:02:50.520 Hey, you violate any of the principles that we're telling people about, you're out.

00:02:55.540 One strike.

00:02:56.480 You don't get a second chance.

00:02:58.140 You're going to like these people, and they'll help you sell your house and find the right house, whether it's across the street or across the nation.

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00:03:09.120 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:23.000 So, one of the op-eds in the New York Times today is Trump's America.

00:03:27.940 His comeback victory signals a different kind of country from the New York Times.

00:03:33.300 In her closing rally on the Ellipse last week, Kamala Harris scorned Donald J. Trump as an outlier who didn't represent America.

00:03:41.740 That's not who we are, she declared.

00:03:44.260 In fact, it turns out that that may exactly be who we are, at least most of us.

00:03:49.680 The assumption that Mr. Trump represented an anomaly who would at last be consigned to the ash heap of history was washed away Tuesday night by a red current that swept through the battleground states and swept away the understanding of America long nurtured by its ruling elite of both parties.

00:04:08.420 No longer can the political establishment write off Mr. Trump as a temporary break from the long march of progress.

00:04:14.780 Populist disenchantment with the nation's direction and resentment against elites proved to be deeper and more profound than many in both parties had recognized.

00:04:26.140 While tens of millions of voters still cast their ballots against Mr. Trump, he once again tapped into a sense, among many others, that the country they knew was slipping away under siege economically, culturally, and demographically.

00:04:38.820 To counter that, those voters ratified the return of a brash 78-year-old champion, willing to upend convention and take radical action, even if it offends the sensibilities or violates old standards.

00:04:54.160 Any misgivings about their chosen leader was shoved to the side.

00:04:57.560 As a result, for the first time in history, Americans have elected a convicted criminal as president.

00:05:02.540 They handed power back to a leader who tried to overturn a previous election, called for the termination of the Constitution, and aspired to be a dictator on day one, and vowed to exact retribution against his adversaries.

00:05:19.860 To Mr. Trump's allies, the election vindicates his argument that Washington has grown out of touch, that America is a country weary of overseas wars.

00:05:29.160 The Trump presidency speaks to the depth of marginalization felt by those who believe they have been the cultural wilderness for too long,

00:05:37.440 and their faith in this one person who has given voice to their frustration and his ability to center them in American life.

00:05:46.340 Rather than be turned off by Trump's flagrant, anger-based appeals along the lines of race, gender, religion, national origin, especially transgender ideology,

00:05:57.100 many Americans found them bracing.

00:06:00.320 Rather than be offended by his brazen lies or wild conspiracy theories, many found him authentic. 0.98

00:06:06.000 Rather than dismiss him as a felon found by various courts to be a fraudster, cheater, sexual abuser, and defamer, 0.93

00:06:13.420 many embraced his assertion that he has been the victim of persecution.

00:06:17.360 This election, quoting, was a CAT scan on the American people, and as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name,

00:06:28.180 what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption.

00:06:36.040 That is from the former strategic advisor to President George W. Bush.

00:06:42.200 The fact that Trump was able to bounce back from so many legal and political defeats over the four years,

00:06:49.520 anyone which would have been enough to wreck the career of any other politician,

00:06:53.980 was a testament to his remarkable resilience and defiance.

00:06:59.080 But it also was owed in part to the failures of President Biden and Ms. Harris.

00:07:05.020 Then they go on for two paragraphs about, you know, oh boy, they were bad.

00:07:09.060 But then they're right back into Donald Trump.

00:07:14.980 The coalition that elected them wanted them to unite the country, and they failed to do so.

00:07:21.200 And their failure resulted in further disillusionment with our country's politics and empowered the Trump base.

00:07:27.720 Trump has been conditioning Americans throughout this campaign to see American democracy as a failed experiment,

00:07:38.500 said historian and author of Strongman.

00:07:42.320 Let me say that again.

00:07:44.120 Trump has been conditioning Americans throughout this campaign to see American democracy as a failed experiment.

00:07:52.780 No, I've never heard him say that.

00:07:57.360 I've never heard anybody that supports him say that.

00:08:01.420 A victory for Trump would mean that this vision of America and the recourse to violence as a means of solving political problems has triumphed, she continued.

00:08:12.620 Talking to Mr. Short, whoever Mr. Short is, predicted another four years of chaos and uncertainty.

00:08:19.340 I would anticipate a lot of volatility, personnel, but also significant boomerangs on policy.

00:08:27.240 Not boomerangs from Biden-Harris, but boomerangs from himself.

00:08:31.300 You'll have one position one day and another position the next.

00:08:36.060 Okay, so they go on and they really, truly do not understand what's happened.

00:08:43.120 Now, this is self-imposed ignorance because it's really not that hard to figure out.

00:08:48.260 And I do believe it comes from a misunderstanding of what our country is.

00:08:53.860 They're looking at our country the way Woodrow Wilson defined it, and that is an administrative state.

00:09:01.020 What is in the American soul is something entirely different.

00:09:07.040 We see America more in the tradition of the founding fathers.

00:09:11.880 Now, I know if you're somebody on the left, if you're somebody especially, you know, in the elite government or, you know, somebody who went to Harvard,

00:09:24.160 you might roll your eyes at this because you think this is all trite.

00:09:29.960 But many Americans believe this.

00:09:33.360 We believe that the American spirit is a force that inspires dreams.

00:09:38.480 It also has fueled revolutions.

00:09:41.520 It's also driven some of the greatest innovations and achievements the world has ever seen.

00:09:47.520 We believe that.

00:09:49.600 We believe in the American individual.

00:09:52.540 Now, you might say you do, but I don't think you do because you want somebody to tell all of the individuals exactly what they must believe,

00:10:01.560 what they must live, what they must eat, what they must drive, what they must teach their children.

00:10:09.320 We don't believe that.

00:10:11.120 We don't believe that.

00:10:12.300 And it's not just for us.

00:10:13.580 It is for people who want to live a transgendered life.

00:10:16.740 I don't care if you want to live a transgendered life. 1.00

00:10:20.360 I feel for you.

00:10:21.860 I do.

00:10:22.440 I feel for you.

00:10:23.480 I feel your pain.

00:10:25.100 The pain that you must have gone through your whole life.

00:10:28.160 I don't want you to go through that pain, but don't force me and my family to lie about science because you feel bad.

00:10:40.980 You might feel horrible.

00:10:43.980 I know I did as an alcoholic and as somebody who actually considered suicide.

00:10:51.000 I know what feeling bad feels like, but only the truth will set you free.

00:10:58.160 I can't, I can't further the lie because it only will hurt more people.

00:11:05.740 Now, the American spirit, this is what brought settlers across the oceans, across rugged mountains that nobody thought.

00:11:20.620 They risked life and limb just to get away from the big European state that told them, you'll never make it.

00:11:30.880 You can't do it.

00:11:32.060 Your family's worthless. 0.92

00:11:33.820 You don't have the right credentials. 0.99

00:11:36.480 They crossed oceans to get away from that.

00:11:40.400 To put that into perspective, that is almost like going to the moon today.

00:11:44.380 These were people who were like, screw it, man.

00:11:50.920 This is the spirit that took on the tyrants and the empires that declared that there were such thing as free men and free women. 0.65

00:12:00.300 And distant rulers and aristocrats and those in the black robes.

00:12:08.060 They don't determine our destiny.

00:12:10.220 We do.

00:12:12.180 And it's something that transcends race and religion or class.

00:12:18.040 You know why a lot of people, a lot of people that you say are racist, I know racism exists, but not the way you think it does.

00:12:32.920 You think we're all born racist.

00:12:36.460 I don't believe that.

00:12:38.480 You have to be taught how to hate.

00:12:41.460 You have to be taught how to hate the other side.

00:12:45.920 And many of us believe that is what you're teaching with anti-racism.

00:12:51.600 Only racism, you believe, can stop racism.

00:12:56.080 So I have to be taught to hate to stop hate?

00:13:00.980 That doesn't make sense.

00:13:03.540 It doesn't make sense.

00:13:08.580 We're just looking for common sense.

00:13:11.460 We're looking for science and reason to be fixed firmly in her seat. 1.00

00:13:25.380 When we say we believe that America is exceptional, why do you think we say that?

00:13:32.900 Because we're arrogant?

00:13:34.980 Because we're white? 0.87

00:13:37.240 Because, uh, what?

00:13:41.460 Because we believe in God?

00:13:44.840 It's none of that.

00:13:47.400 What makes us exceptional is this American spirit.

00:13:53.140 It's not chance.

00:13:54.900 It's not entitlement.

00:13:56.620 It's through toil and courage and vision of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

00:14:03.760 That's what makes us exceptional.

00:14:07.140 We are exceptional because the rest of the world has been told, shut up and sit down. 0.92

00:14:14.220 You cannot do that.

00:14:16.860 What makes us exceptional is that we say, who are you to tell me that?

00:14:22.080 You don't control my life.

00:14:25.620 You don't control my vision.

00:14:27.740 You don't control my every movement.

00:14:31.360 I believe we can do extraordinary things.

00:14:34.840 That's why every American should embrace Elon Musk.

00:14:44.580 And every American did embrace at least the spirit of Elon Musk until politics were introduced.

00:14:52.900 I wasn't against Elon Musk and his cars and everything else when he was, quote, on the other side.

00:15:01.740 I don't think he's changed.

00:15:03.440 He still believes all that stuff about global warming that I don't believe.

00:15:06.840 But I didn't wish him ill.

00:15:08.280 I didn't want him deported.

00:15:09.840 I didn't want him shut up.

00:15:11.520 I didn't want to destroy his country, his company.

00:15:14.420 I rooted for him to go to Mars.

00:15:16.520 I still root for him to go to Mars.

00:15:19.360 You know why?

00:15:20.280 Because that's an ordinary person who has an extraordinary vision, who can articulate that vision and execute it.

00:15:30.880 I want man to win.

00:15:33.620 Our founders knew that governments left unchecked would accumulate power at the expense of the individual.

00:15:49.640 We have been on this road that you in the New York Times may say is traditional.

00:15:55.860 You may say it's accepted.

00:15:59.120 It's the way we are.

00:16:00.400 Well, but that is a perversion.

00:16:03.620 We switched train tracks about 1916.

00:16:08.540 We developed this new idea that man cannot rule himself.

00:16:14.120 This is actually an ancient idea, but it was new in America.

00:16:17.880 Man cannot rule himself.

00:16:21.160 Man has to have an overseer, a government, somebody in the government,

00:16:27.080 somebody preferably not elected, just a faceless bureaucrat.

00:16:33.620 That could nudge people the right way.

00:16:38.300 We don't want to be nudged.

00:16:40.400 We're much more direct than that.

00:16:43.120 You don't understand who Americans are. 1.00

00:16:46.420 We are frank and blunt.

00:16:49.420 We're polite.

00:16:50.000 We don't want to argue about politics.

00:16:52.320 We don't want to argue about sex.

00:16:54.880 We don't want to argue about religion.

00:16:58.220 We don't want to argue about any of that stuff.

00:17:00.340 So we're polite in polite company.

00:17:02.520 Most of us were taught you don't talk about those things.

00:17:05.140 Why?

00:17:07.500 Because it deepens the division.

00:17:11.820 Just, you be you, boo.

00:17:15.340 I'll be me.

00:17:16.240 But we can't, we can't have those conversations anymore.

00:17:26.340 And we need to, because that's who we are.

00:17:31.080 I'll fight for your right to be whoever it is you think you are.

00:17:36.560 Oh, you're a marshmallow, a unicorn that turns into marshmallows at night.

00:17:43.680 Okay.

00:17:45.140 Hey, she's not a marshmallow. 1.00

00:17:46.760 That's right.

00:17:47.300 She's not.

00:17:48.040 But she has a right to believe that.

00:17:49.820 She wants to say that.

00:17:50.940 She has every right. 1.00

00:17:51.820 Shut up. 1.00

00:17:52.200 Sit down. 1.00

00:17:54.760 But you want me to say, no, she is a unicorn that turns into a marshmallow at night. 0.80

00:18:00.680 No.

00:18:02.360 No.

00:18:02.800 I'll fight for your right to say what you believe.

00:18:10.640 But I'm also going to fight for everybody else's right, including mine, to say you're wrong.

00:18:19.220 This system of government that started with Woodrow Wilson is ancient.

00:18:25.320 We call it progressivism now, but it was the tool of the tyrants.

00:18:31.040 Going all the way back, I'm sure, to cavemen.

00:18:37.280 This government has become corrupt. 1.00

00:18:41.580 Corrupt. 0.89

00:18:43.000 We should all be on the same side.

00:18:46.480 If Donald Trump was taking money from China and he was enriching his children because they

00:18:54.860 were meeting with the Chinese and then trying to influence him, I would want them to go to jail 1.00

00:19:00.960 because I don't want corruption.

00:19:05.340 You don't take foreign money on the down low.

00:19:11.180 I think we're being consistent, but you don't because you fundamentally misunderstand.

00:19:23.540 You keep quoting the Constitution, but I don't think you understand the Constitution.

00:19:28.740 This is a framework that is designed to empower people and restrict the government.

00:19:37.560 You interpret the Constitution as something that empowers the government and restricts the people.

00:19:45.540 Only one of us can be right.

00:19:48.180 And if you actually read the document, you'll know which one is true.

00:19:56.760 That's what leads us back to American exceptionalism.

00:20:02.180 All right, more in a second.

00:20:03.900 I feel like we need to explain to the left in a very clear way, but a very kind way.

00:20:10.980 I'm trying to be kind.

00:20:13.320 You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what we want.

00:20:18.720 We don't want to control your life.

00:20:21.060 We have no desire to be in your bedroom.

00:20:23.980 We have no desire, nor will we, round groups of people up.

00:20:28.440 That's what progressives did with FDR, not constitutional conservatives.

00:20:38.460 Let me tell you about our sponsor.

00:20:40.080 After it's pre-born, we beat out the most pro-abortion presidential candidate we have ever seen,

00:20:45.680 along with her even more pro-abortion running mate. 1.00

00:20:48.820 Sit back for a second and realize the miracles that have happened just in the last couple of days.

00:20:54.060 This is a miracle.

00:20:55.160 All of this is a miracle.

00:20:57.720 Now, to really, because of some of the amendments, especially the one in Missouri,

00:21:03.340 which I think is really bloodthirsty, we have to change the hearts and minds of the people in our country.

00:21:11.420 And that's not going to be done by arguing with them.

00:21:13.720 It's going to be done by just being the example.

00:21:17.000 You know, if you're preaching and you're not living it, it doesn't make a difference.

00:21:21.940 So we need to live it.

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00:21:32.680 Most moms don't want to do abortion, but they feel like they're absolutely alone.

00:21:37.100 Even just the fact that they can see their baby on an ultrasound, that doubles the chance that mom chooses life. 1.00

00:21:45.880 How is that possible?

00:21:47.180 Well, because they've been convinced that that's just a glob.

00:21:49.960 It's just a blob.

00:21:50.880 It might be a Buick.

00:21:51.800 It might be a shoe.

00:21:52.700 You don't know what it's going to be, but it's definitely not a baby.

00:21:55.560 When they see that on the ultrasound, they open their eyes, but then they're afraid.

00:22:01.040 I don't have any support.

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00:22:29.800 Now back to the podcast.

00:22:30.880 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:22:38.100 So what is it that, what is the vision that we are looking for?

00:22:44.600 Well, when Donald Trump says, make America great again, it has been mocked or made into MAGA and dismissed.

00:22:51.680 But it is what we mean.

00:22:54.760 Make America great again.

00:22:57.140 Make it a place where our aspirations are bigger than what we're looking at today.

00:23:03.900 That our aspirations are so big that maybe our children can accomplish those things.

00:23:09.440 America is the only place that remains a testament of what free people can do and accomplish.

00:23:29.940 And we're losing that.

00:23:32.380 You know, one of the things, I'm a car collector.

00:23:34.880 I love cars.

00:23:36.500 And I said to my son the other day, tell me what car is out today that's not a supercar that you will look back and go, oh, I remember that in my childhood.

00:23:48.920 Nothing.

00:23:50.060 They all look exactly the same.

00:23:53.780 I mean, you're driving down the road.

00:23:55.000 You can't tell the difference between cars.

00:23:56.700 The reason I like the Cybertruck, because I think it's pretty ugly.

00:24:00.100 But the reason why I like it is because it's totally different.

00:24:05.180 That's America.

00:24:07.220 Something totally different.

00:24:12.780 Liberty is not just an abstract principle.

00:24:15.840 It is a living, breathing force that drives individuals to be better, to reach higher, to give more.

00:24:24.140 But to have that, you have to have your own free will.

00:24:29.700 You have to, that's going to leave a mark.

00:24:32.380 You have to make mistakes.

00:24:34.120 And you have to feel the impact of those mistakes.

00:24:37.980 The American way of life is not about following orders or accepting limitations.

00:24:42.880 It's about pushing boundaries, breaking barriers, redefining what's possible.

00:24:48.720 I'm not going to take ADD medication and sit into a class and learn exactly what everybody needs to learn to be a good person that stands in line and makes widgets.

00:24:59.520 Because I don't want to make widgets.

00:25:01.480 Some people might want to make widgets.

00:25:03.960 But that's not me.

00:25:04.980 I'm still rooting for Elon Musk.

00:25:09.940 I was rooting for him at the beginning when he supposedly didn't agree with me on stuff.

00:25:15.660 And now that we agree on who should be president, the people who were rooting for Elon Musk, all for the right reasons, have changed.

00:25:25.240 Well, wait.

00:25:27.160 I wanted him to go to Mars when the left was celebrating him.

00:25:30.300 I wanted him to go to Mars because his politics don't have anything to do with what he's doing.

00:25:35.080 You celebrate him then and now for his vision.

00:25:39.240 I want the single man with an idea that it can overcome all of the art, the obstacles, bring people together from all walks of life and accomplish what the world says cannot be accomplished.

00:25:52.340 That's America.

00:25:53.480 That's not South Africa.

00:25:54.760 That's not Europe.

00:25:55.720 That's America.

00:25:56.760 There's a reason people say only in America.

00:26:01.080 And that's becoming a slam on us.

00:26:03.920 That's becoming a sign of insanity.

00:26:07.740 Well, look, there's a bunch of people dressed as dogs with a dog collar and somebody dressed in leather spikes walking them.

00:26:16.700 Well, only in America.

00:26:19.960 That's not who I want to be known as.

00:26:21.960 Now, you can do that all you want, but I don't have to celebrate it and I don't want it to be the hallmark of our country.

00:26:33.180 In defending the American spirit, in renewing the American experience, in having someone articulate, you don't need to live this way.

00:26:42.680 We can be better than this.

00:26:44.640 That's a defense, not just of a way of life, but a vision of humanity at its best.

00:26:51.640 America has been a vision that believes in the potential of every person to make a difference.

00:26:56.580 Every person.

00:26:58.280 And to make a difference, sometimes it means you fail and fail horribly, loudly.

00:27:04.580 But then you change your life, and in doing so, you change the world.

00:27:10.780 It's a vision that holds that true greatness comes not from power or money or privilege or race.

00:27:18.500 It comes from character and courage and conviction.

00:27:22.160 And yeah, that's hard.

00:27:24.320 That's hard.

00:27:25.340 When your ancestors came here long ago, they probably weren't accepted either, which is so strange because we are a nation of immigrants.

00:27:37.760 But that's human nature.

00:27:39.760 That's not American. 0.92

00:27:40.720 That's human nature.

00:27:45.060 The founders knew this, so they put a check on government.

00:27:49.720 So while those things might happen, the government shouldn't have and can't have the power to round people up.

00:27:58.080 I'm not for rounding people up that disagree.

00:28:00.160 I celebrate the fact that the view is on.

00:28:04.360 I just wish ABC, I wish ABC wasn't just open to those voices and didn't hate the other point of view.

00:28:15.020 But that's why I started the blaze.

00:28:18.200 Only in America.

00:28:19.720 Now, the world is valuing conformity and control more and more every day.

00:28:33.480 And there are those that argue, many of them in the last administration and the administration before Trump,

00:28:42.880 that the American spirit is the spirit of the past.

00:28:47.260 It's a relic of the past.

00:28:48.740 That the rough, you know, rugged individual is old-timey.

00:28:58.260 That we need to be a global community.

00:29:01.260 Well, we need to be a global community as much as we need to be good neighbors to each other.

00:29:05.280 That's what I think a global community is.

00:29:08.040 Let's be good to each other.

00:29:09.080 Hey, you know, the government wants us all to live in an HOA that's run by, you know, the United Nations or whomever.

00:29:19.480 Some faceless dictator that doesn't really live in our community at all.

00:29:24.940 No, no, no, no.

00:29:26.660 If we have an HOA, we should be the ones that decide it. 0.98

00:29:30.540 We should be the ones that vote for it.

00:29:32.420 And it should be for only our local neighborhood because there are going to be a lot of people that don't want to live in an HOA. 0.88

00:29:37.920 I'm one of them.

00:29:45.920 It's the individual.

00:29:47.240 Some people want to conform.

00:29:48.660 Others don't.

00:29:49.960 We've always been a country that could handle both.

00:29:52.200 But it's this view, the view that says this is all outdated because we live in a complex and interconnected world.

00:30:06.320 Yeah, we can figure that out.

00:30:07.800 We got it.

00:30:09.020 We got it.

00:30:10.380 I mean, we really didn't have a problem with the Internet until it all became about politics.

00:30:15.780 Right?

00:30:16.260 Don't underestimate the adaptability and ingenuity of the American people because it is precisely those American values that has been, that the individual uses, that has helped us thrive in the face of constant change.

00:30:39.240 The principles of liberty and self-reliance are not limitations.

00:30:44.320 They are the foundation of America's success.

00:30:48.120 And that does not come from the government.

00:30:51.920 That comes from the people everywhere else.

00:30:55.860 So, I don't want to live in a dictatorship. 0.99

00:31:01.220 I'm not for any of that crap. 0.99

00:31:04.420 I don't support fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, any-ism, really. 0.99

00:31:12.980 I don't want to have a Christian prince or a church-ruled government. 1.00

00:31:17.280 I'd fight by your side against that.

00:31:22.600 Well, Glenn, you don't believe in Christian principles?

00:31:24.700 Of course I do.

00:31:26.820 But Jesus didn't force anybody into that.

00:31:30.020 Nobody.

00:31:31.360 Nobody.

00:31:31.880 And certainly, he never said, my government is of earth.

00:31:36.380 My kingdom is someplace else.

00:31:38.360 My kingdom is above.

00:31:40.620 I ask you to follow me and do as I do.

00:31:44.620 I believe the freedom of, the plan of salvation would be all about choice.

00:31:50.900 The choice.

00:31:51.880 And this is why America is so important.

00:31:55.220 Why Christianity and religion can thrive here unlike any other place.

00:32:00.200 Because we have choice.

00:32:02.740 We have the choice to worship the way we want to worship.

00:32:07.440 Define our God the way we define our God as individuals.

00:32:11.920 We can live in communities where we're wildly different.

00:32:15.800 As long as we understand that human life is sacred.

00:32:21.320 And choice is a gift given by God to the individual.

00:32:29.260 There's nothing more important than your freedom to choose.

00:32:34.900 Especially your freedom to choose who you serve and how you serve.

00:32:40.000 And some people are going to make mistakes.

00:32:42.660 Some people are going to serve their car.

00:32:44.460 Some people are going to worship their AI.

00:32:50.980 They're going to worship the awards and the fame that they have.

00:32:55.500 Those are mistakes.

00:32:57.260 Why?

00:32:57.820 Because my Christian faith tells me that.

00:33:00.100 But I can't stop people nor should I stop people from making mistakes.

00:33:06.900 I should say that's going to leave a mark.

00:33:09.780 I don't recommend that.

00:33:11.320 That's not good.

00:33:14.120 But I don't want a government that says you will not dress that way.

00:33:20.300 No.

00:33:21.940 No.

00:33:22.660 No.

00:33:22.760 Making America great again means to dare to dream.

00:33:33.680 Dare to build.

00:33:36.200 Believe in the power of your neighbors and your friends and your community.

00:33:40.940 Believe that people are naturally enemies of God.

00:33:46.940 Okay?

00:33:47.740 They're naturally.

00:33:48.400 Everything that feels good isn't really good.

00:33:53.280 You know what I mean?

00:33:54.600 Eating just nonstop 20% fat ice cream.

00:33:59.660 Not going to be good for my health. 0.97

00:34:02.600 Promiscuous sex. 0.60

00:34:03.740 Not good for my health. 0.98

00:34:06.320 You know.

00:34:07.300 Greed and fortune and fame out of control.

00:34:11.360 Not necessarily good for your spiritual health.

00:34:14.180 Knowing that tells us you need something as an individual.

00:34:23.300 Not imposed by others.

00:34:25.180 Something as an individual that will help you self-regulate all of those things.

00:34:30.420 To get that under control.

00:34:33.580 Our government is there when people cannot get that under control.

00:34:38.560 But first the local, then the state, and then the very last resort is the federal government.

00:34:44.800 Look, there are some people, because this is the most important thing that I voted for.

00:34:49.540 I voted for the right to choose.

00:34:52.400 And the right to choose my own God.

00:34:54.880 And that's why I say I will fight.

00:34:56.360 If you're an atheist, I'll fight right next to you. 1.00

00:34:59.860 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:35:00.940 We're not outlying or outlawing atheism.

00:35:04.400 We're not.

00:35:04.820 What are you even talking about?

00:35:06.820 No.

00:35:08.420 No.

00:35:08.820 No.

00:35:08.940 Some people have a really dim view of faith, and I can understand that.

00:35:13.800 Maybe they had a bad situation, or maybe they just look at history.

00:35:17.560 But, you know, you have to understand.

00:35:20.080 Men progressively do not get better from generation to generation.

00:35:27.240 It's a choice each of us have to make.

00:35:30.300 And we begin that journey at birth, and we end it at death.

00:35:34.180 And some place or another, maybe some, unfortunately, never hit that.

00:35:39.520 But when we come to a place where we've made so many mistakes, and we're like, okay, I've got to reset.

00:35:44.740 That's why I'm a follower of Jesus, the man, and the Christ.

00:35:48.680 But I'm not the best example of it.

00:35:51.960 I'm a bad example many, many times.

00:35:57.140 But every day I can get up and say I want to be better than I was yesterday.

00:36:01.900 And you change your own life.

00:36:04.680 And you change the world, because you've changed your family and your neighborhood, your town.

00:36:11.000 Every person has value.

00:36:14.720 Hear me.

00:36:15.440 Anybody who says we're going to scoop people up and we want to shut people down.

00:36:19.900 No, I value your voice.

00:36:22.280 Why won't you value our voice?

00:36:26.940 Every life is important and has value.

00:36:30.200 The old, the infirm, the Jew, the Gentile, the gay, the straight, even the unborn. 1.00

00:36:36.620 This is a vision that holds true to greatness, comes from power and privilege.

00:36:43.180 No, it comes from character and courage and conviction.

00:36:46.580 That's the spirit of America.

00:36:48.480 That's what I voted for.

00:36:51.640 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:36:54.800 You know, there's two op-eds today that I really struggled with on whether I should share them with you or not and take the time to share them.

00:37:05.260 They're in my show prep today.

00:37:06.680 You can get them at Glenn Beck dot com.

00:37:09.120 But they're from the New York Times and they so grossly misalign and misassign things to the people who voted for Donald Trump.

00:37:20.180 They really do not understand or don't care to understand what's really going on and what this election was about.

00:37:29.320 It was not about a vote for fascism, a vote for, you know, taking Liz Cheney and putting her in front of a firing squad.

00:37:36.800 He never said any of that.

00:37:39.940 However, nobody's listening.

00:37:43.920 Nobody's listening.

00:37:44.980 Well, let's try something different.

00:37:46.280 I wanted to take this show and quite honestly, I want to try to keep doing this as much as possible because I'm excited about the future for the first time.

00:37:55.520 I mean, you know me.

00:37:56.580 I've been like, that's all things.

00:37:57.800 I actually think there's a chance because of the coalition now that is coming together from all sides with Donald Trump.

00:38:08.440 There's a chance that we can find the best in ourselves again and a golden era of America can be right in front of us.

00:38:19.560 I haven't thought that in a long, long time.

00:38:22.800 So I'm excited, but I want you to articulate now, the first half of this program, I have been articulating what I voted for, what I believe America and the golden era should be like.

00:38:36.840 So maybe they could understand us a little better.

00:38:39.320 Now it's your turn.

00:38:40.900 What did you vote for?

00:38:42.880 Not against, for.

00:38:44.480 What is it you want and expect and hope for Joe in Texas?

00:38:53.200 Glenn, I voted for that.

00:38:54.980 Hey, Glenn.

00:38:55.920 I voted for that feeling that I had at your restoring honor rally in 2010 with my pregnant wife.

00:39:04.120 And I voted for the freedom for my daughter to be able to swim against other girls.

00:39:09.480 And I voted for the fact that I want to be able to see more Elon Musk who can send rockets to wherever the heck he wants to send them to in less time that it takes them to do the paperwork to serve this government overlord of ours.

00:39:22.000 And I just want, I want to see, I want to see more Elon Musk.

00:39:26.460 And I want to see the days where our founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson can go at each other's throats, but then come back together and create things out of thin air that never, ever in the history of our world ever existed.

00:39:42.200 And be able to find that common ground.

00:39:45.360 That's what I voted for.

00:39:47.320 I'm with you.

00:39:48.200 And you know, it's interesting, Joe, you bring up Hamilton and Jefferson.

00:39:50.560 Jefferson was for the smallest government possible.

00:39:54.300 Hamilton was actually fighting for a new king.

00:39:58.100 And that's kind of where we are now, where half of us are saying, no, no, no, small government.

00:40:04.680 The other half say, no, we want a king to rule.

00:40:08.620 And I don't think that the average Democrat wants a king to rule.

00:40:13.780 They've been just convinced that that's what we want.

00:40:17.700 And so, you know, they're voting for the opposite.

00:40:20.560 But we can come back together, even with those profound differences.

00:40:25.300 Thank you so much.

00:40:26.240 I appreciate it.

00:40:26.820 Let me go to Jan in Pennsylvania.

00:40:29.100 What did you vote for, Jan?

00:40:31.240 I voted for the excitement of Trump and J.D.

00:40:36.240 In advance, I voted for the potential to reopen the Keystone Pipeline, to close the border, to put safety back in girls' sports, to put RFK Junior in the Food and Drug Administration, to clean up all the chemicals we're throwing in our children, to make them morbidly obese before they're even weaned from the bottle.

00:40:57.120 Well, I voted for the potential of this country because I am 75 years old and I have not been able to wipe the smile off my face for two days because I'm so thrilled to see honesty and truth come back to government instead of lying to the people and feeding them BS on a regular basis. 0.99

00:41:19.500 And then creeping and crawling and sucking on kids' toes and sniffing their hair and doing all the other things that this administration has done to feed ignorance, stupidity. 0.92

00:41:31.900 And I'm also voted to make sure that we took favoritism out of political jobs and put people in that need to be there to do the job, not to sit on their rear end and collect a paycheck because they kissed somebody's right end. 0.99

00:41:47.620 Jan, I appreciate.

00:41:49.640 I want to be you when I'm 75.

00:41:52.080 I want to be you.

00:41:52.960 Just say it like it is.

00:41:54.140 Thank you, Jan.

00:41:54.600 And notice that there's a the girls sports thing is really big to this audience, which I really believe that the average Democrat believes the same things.

00:42:08.200 They just think we, by saying that, want to round up all transgender people.

00:42:13.560 No, we want our kids to be able to be kids.

00:42:17.440 We want our daughters to be able to compete in in a category where I mean, you didn't put Muhammad Ali in, you know, with Sugar Ray Leonard.

00:42:27.820 Please check that, Stu.

00:42:28.900 I think that's the right analogy.

00:42:30.640 You know, they have different class weights.

00:42:32.920 You don't put everybody in and to compete against each other.

00:42:36.640 That's what we're looking for.

00:42:38.600 Let me go to Tim in Wisconsin.

00:42:41.740 Hello, Tim.

00:42:44.540 Hello, Glenn.

00:42:46.120 Hi.

00:42:46.640 Go ahead.

00:42:48.100 Yeah, I just wanted to say what I voted for.

00:42:51.660 I didn't vote for racism.

00:42:53.560 I voted against racism.

00:42:55.980 You know, all of the things that the leftists try to say that we're for is what they're actually for.

00:43:04.200 So, so often it seems that they are foreshadowing their own agenda.

00:43:09.940 I know it does seem that way.

00:43:11.260 So let's be instead of saying it that way.

00:43:13.980 Give me some examples of what you voted for that you think that they do.

00:43:19.820 Well, I voted for.

00:43:22.540 So another word.

00:43:23.500 Go ahead.

00:43:24.640 I voted for fairness.

00:43:28.240 And they, they claim that they're all about fairness.

00:43:31.600 I know, Tim, I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I don't mean to, you know, hound you on this, but I think that if we want to expand, we have to be specific on things.

00:43:44.280 Like, for instance, I want fairness.

00:43:46.280 I want my daughter to compete against other girls. 1.00

00:43:50.340 Um, you know what I mean?

00:43:52.620 So when you say fairness, you're for fairness.

00:43:54.900 What does that mean?

00:43:57.020 I'm for the meritocracy as opposed to DEI.

00:44:02.760 I'm opposed.

00:44:03.860 I mean, I'm, I'm for the, the fairness of someone getting a job based on their ability, not on.

00:44:11.940 Um, I mean, judge them by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.

00:44:18.660 You voted for Martin Luther King.

00:44:22.240 Somewhat.

00:44:23.400 Yeah.

00:44:24.140 I mean, it's weird that we live in a country now that is arguing against Martin Luther King, but I think that's what's happening.

00:44:31.220 Lisa in Oklahoma.

00:44:34.400 Hi, good morning.

00:44:35.520 Hi guys.

00:44:36.760 Um, how are you?

00:44:38.100 Oklahoma.

00:44:38.720 Fine.

00:44:39.020 How are you doing?

00:44:40.340 I'm great.

00:44:41.980 Hey, so, um, first I just want to say thank you guys.

00:44:45.480 Y'all are like my morning cup of coffee every day.

00:44:48.180 And I really appreciate all the hard work of y'all.

00:44:51.760 Um, and, uh, kind of enlightening the, um, the public.

00:44:56.620 So what I voted for in this race was, you know, first freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of right, peace, unity.

00:45:06.600 Um, the overreach of the government on, you know, um, diminishing our speeches and, and then the rhetoric of the mainstream media.

00:45:19.420 So, you know, I think Scott Jennings on CNN said it so poetically, you know, the American people set a mandate out there.

00:45:27.880 We're tired of being crushed and insulted.

00:45:30.060 Um, and we, I agree.

00:45:33.380 I think the Democrats have to, I think they inherently have to believe that men shouldn't be in women's sports.

00:45:41.080 You know, we have women who have worked for years to achieve, you know, where they have, where they've gotten to. 1.00

00:45:49.180 And then just to have those medals stripped from them because a man has entered into the races. 0.52

00:45:54.660 Um, I think under Trump and, and the guys that he has surrounded himself with these incredible men, you know, Bobby and Elon and Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson and you guys, um, you know, a lot of the American people had their eyes closed.

00:46:11.300 And turned or chose to be blind for so many years, but COVID, I think was really the catalyst for so many of us.

00:46:18.460 It was for me.

00:46:20.040 Um, I was one of those people that just didn't pay attention.

00:46:23.920 Things were okay.

00:46:25.040 Things were good.

00:46:25.880 I was making ends meet.

00:46:27.240 But then when your world falls down around and these mandates start coming out and your freedom of choices start getting trampled on, it really makes somebody think.

00:46:36.920 And I think God opened eyes to so many people.

00:46:39.620 Unfortunately, some of those eyes haven't been opened yet, but you know, um, some of our eyes are, some of our eyes are not even fully open yet.

00:46:49.880 And I, I appreciate that, uh, uh, concern, Lisa.

00:46:52.500 Thank you so much.

00:46:53.520 Um, I think you're, I think you're absolutely right.

00:46:56.680 Um, you know, when, when we say freedom, uh, and the government is oppressive and, and freedom, and we want to rule our own lives.

00:47:06.120 Let me give you a clear example of this for the left.

00:47:08.620 I believe in the federal government being a safety net.

00:47:12.440 Okay.

00:47:13.040 Not the tent, the polls, the performers, the sellers of the seats and makers of the popcorn, the safety net.

00:47:20.380 If something goes catastrophically wrong, there is that net you can fall into.

00:47:26.380 Government is taking the poll, the tent, the tickets, and everything else as part of their, uh, purview.

00:47:33.300 It is not.

00:47:35.300 I support the safety net.

00:47:39.180 Now, war, disaster, overwhelming need, anything that the state or local government cannot handle.

00:47:46.680 There are things the government needs to do.

00:47:50.120 Rescuing people from their housetops during a hurricane with rescue helicopters.

00:47:54.700 I would put into that category.

00:47:57.320 Now, we did it, but we only did it because they didn't do it.

00:48:02.480 And they've always done that, but they didn't do it this time.

00:48:05.560 And I'm fine with that.

00:48:06.580 I'm for the 10th amendment.

00:48:08.160 I'm so constitutional.

00:48:10.160 I am for the 10th amendment, 100%.

00:48:13.220 We should remember that, but the government should help us with illegal immigration. 0.86

00:48:21.180 If they don't, just like we did with helicopters, the state should be able to protect themselves,

00:48:27.080 but that is their purview.

00:48:29.600 They should be making the policy on immigration and then enforcing that.

00:48:34.600 You know, instead, what they chose to do is to ship people into our towns in the middle of the night.

00:48:44.120 They didn't ask us if we wanted, you know, all these illegals in our towns. 1.00

00:48:49.680 They didn't even tell us.

00:48:52.060 They just did it in the cover of night.

00:48:54.940 No, no warning to our hospitals.

00:48:57.260 No warning to our schools.

00:48:59.160 Police are overrun.

00:49:00.780 You can't get services.

00:49:02.180 Crime seems to be out of control in some cities.

00:49:06.280 We have Venezuelan gangs. 0.98

00:49:07.920 That's not a government that is protecting its people.

00:49:12.740 That's a government that abuses its citizens. 0.83

00:49:16.400 And it takes the right that no one actually has.

00:49:19.880 God did not give any man the right to move a whole group of people into a town without talking to people.

00:49:30.440 That's not a right.

00:49:31.500 We have to inform one another.

00:49:35.360 We have to talk about things that affect all of us.

00:49:38.380 They didn't.

00:49:39.640 They didn't.

00:49:40.340 And it wasn't a surprise.

00:49:41.580 It was coordinated.

00:49:46.620 We are going to move a lot of people out of these cities.

00:49:50.320 But at least this time around, you will know about that movement.

00:49:54.620 You will know in advance about that movement.

00:49:56.480 And we voted on doing that.

00:49:59.860 Let's go to Kelly.

00:50:03.220 Hello, Kelly.

00:50:03.720 I am an educated white woman who lives in the suburbs.

00:50:09.500 And I voted for Trump.

00:50:11.240 And I did it because of the First Amendment.

00:50:14.440 All five tenants.

00:50:16.240 This was not some boogeyman, non-existent threat.

00:50:20.080 But they had been chipping away at that all four years.

00:50:24.080 And I feared that another four years would totally wipe us out completely.

00:50:28.480 The freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the freedom to assemble, the freedom of the press, the freedom to petition.

00:50:35.100 All of those, we were tamped down, couldn't do it.

00:50:40.740 Go ahead.

00:50:41.180 Kelly, can I put you on hold for a minute?

00:50:42.900 I just want you to speak to the person as if you're in the same room with them, and they're reasonable, that says, no, you guys are the ones trying to do that.

00:50:54.300 How do you mean you want freedom of the press and freedom?

00:50:59.840 Where has that been abused, and how can we unite?

00:51:08.060 Try to find the uniting principle there because they will tell you that's what they were fighting for.

00:51:14.920 So what's the difference?

00:51:16.740 Can you do that?

00:51:18.160 Are you ready?

00:51:20.040 Specifically on the press?

00:51:21.780 Is that what you're looking for?

00:51:22.980 Yeah, or whatever.

00:51:23.720 You said the five tenants, so tell me if I'm somebody, and I say, Kelly, you guys are the ones trying to silence us.

00:51:31.580 You guys are the ones that are violating the First Amendment.

00:51:35.920 I'm for it, too.

00:51:37.100 But, you know, and then there's this crazy speech that you guys are for. 0.99

00:51:40.520 You wanted to kill people and round them up. 0.84

00:51:44.480 How would you respond to that, to somebody who was asking that as an honest question? 0.99

00:51:49.260 Well, somebody said that they were, we wanted to kill and round up people.

00:51:52.140 I'd like them to tell me where they got that information and where they got that.

00:51:55.640 Give me, you know, the follow-up question that everybody complained that Kamala and none of the left actually respond to.

00:52:03.120 And none of the left in the media even actually present.

00:52:07.080 But in any case, so specifically for the media, we saw this repression of voices, especially around COVID, around the transgender issue.

00:52:15.680 You were cut off.

00:52:16.580 If you were not allowed to speak about it, the voices, okay, I am a recovering journalist.

00:52:23.660 And I remember when I worked in newspaper, we had to have so many sources on each side.

00:52:29.600 And the both sides, well, when there was an actual physical paper, both sides had to be presented before the jump, right?

00:52:35.420 Before you, like if it was on one page and it went to another page, you had to have both sides at the front because most people would only look at the front page.

00:52:42.160 And now we see those, they'll say, well, we do have that voice, but it's at the very end of a very long article of an online post.

00:52:54.420 But we saw people who were kicked off of media and we saw, we see the demonization of even just alternative media.

00:53:01.680 Even the free press, Barry Weiss gets a lot of flack from the left and traditional people.

00:53:07.880 They just blow them off.

00:53:09.040 And I felt like Elon Musk with X, which is going to be the new media, I truly believe, your voice, people just the threatening of boycotts by taking away money from different advertisers.

00:53:23.700 They were doing that.

00:53:26.500 They've been doing that for the last four years.

00:53:28.820 And I just, it was going to ramp up even more.

00:53:32.380 So it's not some shadowy, you know, scary in the dark threat that we built in our heads.

00:53:40.320 They've been doing it.

00:53:41.900 The right to speak, again, if you are a pro-lifer, praying out in front of them, like you've covered all of this,

00:53:51.640 is that praying in front of an abortion clinic, people went to jail.

00:53:59.700 And the fear of, I do have the fear, I don't know if this is truly a fear, you know, a true fear,

00:54:04.440 but the right to assemble, like you would talk about using the Klan Act.

00:54:09.520 Would we be able to go to the National March in D.C. the day after Inauguration Day?

00:54:15.620 Because that's always when the Right to Life marches, on the 21st, I believe.

00:54:19.720 And being rounded up, they'd already started putting those pieces into place.

00:54:27.400 I want to commend you.

00:54:30.020 I hope that you talk to more people because you've done so many things right here,

00:54:35.720 including the last thing you said.

00:54:38.120 I don't know my fear, and I don't know if it's a true concern or just a fear.

00:54:45.180 I don't know if it's a true concern or just a fear, fantastic.

00:54:47.500 Give people the understanding that you don't know what's going to happen.

00:54:52.040 You just, you're concerned about that.

00:54:54.280 But also, the first thing you led with was, can you show me who said that and where?

00:55:00.940 And you can't continue a conversation until you can agree on basic facts.

00:55:07.240 So, what Kelly did there so expertly was, first, where did you hear that?

00:55:15.620 Now, let's go online.

00:55:18.020 Let's find that so we can discuss that and agree or disagree on that first before we go any further.

00:55:25.040 Excellent.

00:55:25.700 Really well done, Kelly.

00:55:26.620 Na, na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 07, 2024

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