Glenn Beck on failure: "The one who dares to step into the ring to risk everything, is the one who will fail over and over again, but continues to do it again. That s exactly why they want you to face the dirt."
00:00:00.000Yeah, Stu was gone. Jason, somebody or other, was with me. And Jill Savage joined me today. It was a tough show to do today, but we did it. And I feel better than I did when we first started three hours ago. Don't you?
00:00:18.780Yeah. I mean, I was angry and really depressed.
00:00:21.700It's a way to work through all of our emotions when you just get to let it out for three hours.
00:00:25.960It's really kind of a therapy session today, more than it is a podcast. But join us. You'll feel better once you lay down on the couch.
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00:02:05.500Yesterday, I asked myself something that Ben Franklin asked himself as they were writing the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:21.940And as they were going through what they went through, he sat in his chair after the Constitution, and he had been looking at John Hancock's chair, and it had a sun on it, half a sun.
00:02:40.500And he said, this whole time I have been sitting here thinking, wondering, praying, is that a setting sun or a rising sun?
00:02:51.940He deemed, at the end, it was a rising sun.
00:02:57.720I asked myself yesterday, is this a setting sun or a rising sun?
00:03:06.200Is this the day historians will write down as the end of America, where its people were still asleep and just didn't really recognize it?
00:03:19.700Or is it the beginning of a new chapter?
00:03:22.900We are, in our history and in our lives, faced with challenges that test our resolve all the time, push us to the limits.
00:03:34.460And it's in these moments where everything seems unwinnable, everything seems so steep, the odds are all against us.
00:03:44.400And those are the times you discover who you really are.
00:03:51.540Those are the times you forge your character.
00:03:55.680We as a nation, because we have been fat and lazy and we have had everything handed to us, don't really know who we are.
00:04:05.400Most people never change because they're afraid, at least I'll speak for myself.
00:04:16.260When I was at my worst, I was afraid there was nothing good in me.
00:04:20.820There was nothing good to discover, so I was afraid to look.
00:04:24.420But you'll never find those things unless you look, unless you embrace the hard things.
00:04:34.340You have to understand that every trial, every setback will make you stronger, will make you wiser, will make you more gentle.
00:04:44.640America, today is the day of choosing.
00:11:10.440I never really understood how stained our name is from those in power.
00:11:19.300Those who only serve through corruption and greed and sometimes out-and-out evil.
00:11:26.000But I have truly always believed, and I still do today, that the American truly believes in honor and integrity and truth and justice, that that is the American way.
00:11:52.380Today, I will tell you this, yesterday, for those who live in the shadow of fear around the world, yesterday may have changed that belief for those people, but it did not change it for me.
00:12:12.820Today, I will not surrender to the belief that puts me and other Americans into action.
00:12:30.720Yesterday was a defeat, but we are not done.
00:12:37.640Each of us coming together, you're not going to do anything grand.
00:16:45.320Because if you don't know, you will lose.
00:16:48.400Will enough of us call upon that something that has always been said is bread inside of us, and I no longer believe that.
00:17:07.400Will you call on whatever it is deep inside of you, that unyielding spirit, to stand for those values that we've been told our whole lives are self-evident?
00:17:23.820Well, apparently they are not self-evident anymore.
00:17:28.200It is the greatest mission statement the world has ever seen.
00:17:38.340When you tell me, and give me a choice, I will drop America in a heartbeat if you can tell me we are fighting for something greater than the opportunity to create a country where all men are created equal,
00:18:02.040and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, where justice and freedom can be had by all.
00:27:09.740But they said, well, that website crashed because they added a comment from Donald Trump, and it just hadn't reset, and so it caused it to crash.
00:27:25.320And I'm like, yeah, that happens to news websites and big websites all the – happens to glenbeck.com all the time.
00:27:33.400We'll add a line that I said, and the whole thing crashes for an hour.
00:27:37.980Well, I think it was either that excuse or the intern tripped over the power cord.
00:27:53.460The other thing that happened was – have you noticed that CNN, MSNBC, they refused to show anything from Donald Trump?
00:28:00.260Or they'll censor it and say, oh, there's just too much, you know, inaccurate, so we're not going to – we're not even going to give him the time of day.
00:28:10.920So the entire country got to hear directly from President Trump what is happening to him, that he's a political prisoner.
00:28:17.500You know, it's an amazing thing to see that this – the most important – O.J. Simpson wasn't the most important trial of the century to America.
00:28:27.260Not even – this one really decides the health of the republic.
00:28:34.740And they were so confident in what they had.
00:29:52.460I mean, I think I said at one point and you came in during – I think during a break on Wednesday night show because I ad-libbed something when we were looking at the seven steps.
00:30:05.740And I said, you know, Biden and unpopular, but it also works to Donald Trump or something.
00:34:03.580Well, let's – as he walks away in the Trump Tower, I think there was one miss, and that was right at the beginning.
00:34:11.400He should have walked down with Melania down the escalator exactly the same way he did in 2016.
00:34:19.520I noticed that that speech ran about 34 minutes, and within the first 10, the mainstream media had already broken away except for Fox.
00:34:34.500He was telling a story and doing what Trump does best, just goes out and just wings it.
00:34:43.680I wish he would have been a little more focused towards the beginning when everybody was watching.
00:34:50.300But it was a real embarrassment for our country, the things that he was saying.
00:34:56.920And I took pages and pages of notes here of it, and we're not going to have time to go over it all, but we're going to move the three of us into the TV studio after this, and we'll record a special Friday episode of Glenn Beck TV, and you'll be able to download that as soon as we're done with it.
00:35:15.480We have Steve Dace coming up next, so we can't do it live.
00:35:20.520I loved the way that he did come out and say, you know, they were coming after me, and he called them a group of fascists, and he was using very strong language at the beginning.
00:35:33.040But then it felt like he hasn't been on the campaign trail for so long, and he wanted to get back out there, that it felt like everything was just spewing out of his mouth.
00:35:41.660Things that he wished that he could have been saying instead of talking about the trial for the last month.
00:35:46.540We got all of it in one speech, but this wasn't necessarily the time for that.
00:35:51.460This was, I am a political prisoner time.
00:35:53.600I thought the first few minutes, maybe the first five, were very effective, because he said things that were powerful, like fascist.
00:36:00.780I can't talk about this because of a gag order.
00:36:05.900You know, what's happening in the country between our finances, our economy, and the border.
00:36:11.500I thought those were all really, really strong.
00:36:14.100He said, this is bigger than my presidency, which is really strong.
00:36:34.360I saw a couple of Twitter posts, I think one from the Trump campaign, that it took screenshots of every single network that was covering this.
00:36:41.800And they said wall to wall, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, everyone had this, at least the first 10 minutes of this.
00:37:29.960What could be more important to the American people?
00:37:32.620And that is why they didn't do it, because they know if Americans actually pay attention to this and go, well, is anything that he's saying, is that true?
00:37:45.000And they go and they actually look for the information themselves, they'll be horrified.
00:37:50.500And they will understand how much trouble the republic is in.
00:38:00.040If you were able to sit there and watch it for yourself, you have a completely different view of what this trial would have been.
00:38:07.880But they have the ability to manipulate it and spin it in a way before they present it to you.
00:38:12.480And that is a completely different viewing experience.
00:38:17.560You know, when you're when you're watching somebody with a biased agenda giving you the facts, quote unquote facts of the case, you're not going to say, OK, this is this is exactly from the mouth of the judge, from the mouth of the witnesses, from the mouth of Donald Trump.
00:38:31.820You know, and I found it interesting that because he just speaks and you can show that you can see that there was so much for him to say, you know, I had an experience with George Bush towards the end of his presidency.
00:38:48.300And, you know, we were we were just he was underwater and, you know, he was like and nothing shoes.
00:40:32.040And he berated him because when the judge made a ruling that was an unusual ruling, in fact, Alan Dershowitz said one of the only – I've never heard a ruling like that.
00:41:07.740And, you know, Donald Trump is going to continue to tell the story as much as he can, but the American people should have seen it themselves.
00:41:18.660The other things that I think were important that he said, he continued to come back to the border.
00:41:24.820He continued to talk about the terrorists that are in.
00:41:29.100He said something I've never heard him say before.
00:41:32.000You know, 2019, and this was good for me, but they said in 2019, no terrorist entered the country, but I don't believe that to be true.
00:41:40.660I've never heard him take a compliment and say, I don't believe that.
00:41:50.300He also talked about our debt, our dependence on oil.
00:41:55.080He not only called Biden stupid and the worst president we've ever had, he referred to the president and those who were in the administration as fascists, which I thought was really strong language and appropriate, but shocking to hear.
00:42:19.420It'll be shocking for many people on the left that don't even know, you know, the definition of that word that have been throwing it around willy nilly to hear that about themselves.