The Glenn Beck Program - July 17, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ 7⧸17⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

160.41539

Word Count

6,632

Sentence Count

539

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Glenn Beck sits down with his good friend Stu to talk about the events of Friday at the Glenn Beck Summit. Glenn and Stu also talk about how Stu and Tanya met and fell in love with Rafe and how they adopted him.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You know, Stu, I think the best thing you said on today's show was, um, that was, yeah, and, uh, the other point that Stu made that was so good was, mm, wow, wow, and you're gonna hear a lot of that from Stu today, uh, learn a lot about how this show works.
00:00:23.200 Uh, today, uh, we kind of go over, uh, what happened on Friday at the summit. People are still talking about it. It's changing the media. The mainstream media is really, truly over. Uh, and how did the candidates do? What did we learn? We knew the New York times learned it's all about Jesus. Uh huh. And Vladimir Putin, all the Jesus people love Vladimir Putin.
00:00:50.260 Um, so they really, I think they watched all of, uh, none of it. Um, but you'll get all of it here on the Glenn Beck program. Also, it's a special day. Kind of hit me hard in the middle of the program. Uh, my son's going to college and he left in the middle of the program. So kind of a, uh, and, uh, a bookend to anybody who is listening since the day we adopted Rafe special show brought to you by Jace medical.
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00:02:41.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:45.240 So Stu, I have to start with this because this is, uh, something that is really heavy on my heart, uh, and going to happen in the next hour. And, um, uh, it's going to affect everything I do today.
00:03:05.100 So I'm a little scatterbrained because of this. My mouth is dry because of this. Do you remember the day, Stu, do you remember the week of shows?
00:03:15.240 That, uh, uh, that, uh, happened in North, North Richland Hills in, uh, Texas, just outside of Dallas.
00:03:24.660 And they were my wife and I going down to this little town called North Richland Hills.
00:03:33.000 And this very, very brave young girl, I think she was 15, uh, who had found herself pregnant.
00:03:41.540 And, uh, uh, she wanted to have the baby, but she, she couldn't abort the baby and she didn't know how to give the child up.
00:03:54.660 And that day when her mother found out she was pregnant, she happened to be listening to this program and Tanya and I had been looking to adopt a child.
00:04:07.320 And what's amazing is, um, Tanya came on that day and we were talking about some reality show where you could adopt a child.
00:04:21.060 And I said, would you ever be on that show?
00:04:22.880 She says, no, you don't adopt them through television game shows.
00:04:27.480 And, uh, this woman who is in Texas, she just laughed and thought, I like that lady.
00:04:34.220 And then her daughter called her and said, mom, I couldn't face you.
00:04:38.280 I had to stop at a pay phone and call you and tell you that I'm pregnant.
00:04:41.420 She said, come home.
00:04:43.820 Now I had had a dream about a year before, maybe two years before when Tanya and I were trying to get pregnant.
00:04:50.280 And, uh, I never figured out how that worked, but anyway, I thought I knew, but she said, no, that's not the way we do it anyway.
00:04:57.960 Um, uh, so, uh, about two years before I said, I think we're supposed to adopt because in my prayer, I heard adopt because we were both, I said to her over and over again, I can't wait to see your eyes in a child.
00:05:18.300 And, uh, in my prayers, I, I thought I heard something along the lines of you, ego maniac.
00:05:26.020 It's not about you adopt.
00:05:30.120 And so when I told Tanya, she said, no, I want to have a child.
00:05:38.160 And, uh, so I went back to prayer and I said, okay, it's her.
00:05:42.160 It's not me.
00:05:42.660 I'm, I'm on your side.
00:05:43.800 God, she's crazy.
00:05:46.020 And I heard in my prayers, when you are ready, when she is ready, a baby boy will rush to you.
00:05:59.080 The week we talked about it on the air is the week that that baby boy rushed to us.
00:06:09.500 And I has, I have been convinced that he was going to be a leader of men and he was always against that because he grew up in my family.
00:06:25.620 And he sees what happens to leaders in this country and he sees how people treat leaders that they disagree with.
00:06:38.580 And, uh, ever since he was a little boy, I stopped saying it to him because he would say, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:46.360 And he'd get very upset.
00:06:47.180 I'm not going to be a leader.
00:06:48.260 I'm not going to be a leader or no, I'm not a leader of men.
00:06:51.900 I don't want that.
00:06:53.920 He wanted to be Aaron, not Moses.
00:06:57.100 And, uh, I said, well, we'll just see what God has in store.
00:07:03.040 Fast forward.
00:07:07.000 Three years ago.
00:07:07.940 My son is picked up by a friend of his in the summer.
00:07:17.260 And, uh, when I say picked up, I mean, literally picked up his, his friend is a lineman and picked him up and said, I'm signing you up for football.
00:07:30.280 And Rafe said, okay, now we have, you know, me, I mean, yes.
00:07:38.120 I'm Mr. Sportscaster.
00:07:39.920 And it would be hard for you to believe that I don't know anything at all about any sport.
00:07:46.980 Uh, I mean, you know, I know probably my dad played golf.
00:07:51.000 So I know, you know, like if you get an Eagle, that means an Eagle picked up your ball on the farewell fairway and dropped it into the little bucket thing there.
00:08:00.380 You know, double Eagle means it took two of them.
00:08:02.800 Maybe they were tossing them back and forth with their claws.
00:08:04.800 I don't know.
00:08:05.260 But, uh, my son tried out in Texas for football and, uh, the coach pulled him off the field at the tryouts and said, uh, Beck, come in.
00:08:21.280 And he looked at him seriously and he said, have you ever even watched this game before?
00:08:30.140 And Rafe honestly said, no, sir.
00:08:33.660 I really, I know I haven't.
00:08:36.400 And he said, okay.
00:08:37.500 And you want to play it?
00:08:38.720 And he's like, well, yes, sir.
00:08:41.540 I would, I'd like to try.
00:08:42.620 So they kept him on the team kind of like, I don't know, kind of the mascot for a while, but he worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and he became the head of special teams.
00:08:53.180 And when I say special teams, let's not question that too much.
00:08:55.920 Okay.
00:08:56.280 Um, but, uh, he was, uh, he was, uh, the head of special teams and they went all the way to the championship.
00:09:05.260 They lost.
00:09:06.740 And I told him, uh, before they played the game, son, if you do lose, please don't ever become uncle Rico where you're sitting in your van in a field.
00:09:16.360 And you say, you know, if they would have just given it to me, I could have thrown it over those mountains there.
00:09:24.780 And he took the loss and that was his senior year.
00:09:31.800 And then he said to me, I want to go to college for football.
00:09:35.460 And I said, oh, you know, maybe Texas A&M.
00:09:39.740 I'm like, oh, okay.
00:09:41.280 Okay.
00:09:41.780 All right.
00:09:42.600 And I want to play in the NFL.
00:09:45.200 Okay.
00:09:45.800 All right.
00:09:46.360 Now, while I'm hearing in my head is my father, as I said to him, I want to be a big broadcaster someday.
00:09:54.280 I'm 13 years old.
00:09:55.480 And he's like, oh, okay.
00:09:58.260 All right.
00:09:58.940 And I want to be, I want to be on the radio.
00:10:01.140 I'm going to, I'm going to apply for a job to be on the radio.
00:10:04.400 Oh, okay.
00:10:05.500 All right.
00:10:06.200 And what did my dad say?
00:10:08.260 Well, do you need a ride?
00:10:11.100 Yeah, dad.
00:10:11.920 Cause I can't drive.
00:10:14.060 And he drove me to the appointments.
00:10:15.880 And he took me and I looking back now, no, he had to have thought, oh my gosh, what is this kid doing?
00:10:23.800 This is not going to, this is going to leave a mark.
00:10:27.120 This isn't going to work out.
00:10:29.300 But he took me.
00:10:30.220 And he would eventually, before I was 15, I lived about 90 miles north of Seattle.
00:10:37.100 And I got a job at 15 years old, uh, in Seattle at KUBE.
00:10:44.700 And it was the number one station in Seattle.
00:10:47.660 And my dad would drive me every time, 90 minutes, wait for the broadcast to be over and then drive me back.
00:10:56.020 So, what am I going to say?
00:11:00.020 You'll never make it, son.
00:11:02.040 You'll never make it.
00:11:05.620 So, let me just tell you, long story short, what's happening.
00:11:11.400 Uh, after the, the really amazing summit that we had on Friday, which we're going to get into in here a second.
00:11:21.060 I took my son to a university, uh, where he had been talking to a coach, friend of a friend of a friend, just talking to this coach.
00:11:37.320 And, uh, he'd been talking to him on the phone for like a couple of weeks, he and the other coaches.
00:11:42.860 And, uh, he said, dad, they want to meet me and, uh, they're thinking about, uh, making me a, uh, a coach for, um, I guess the offensive coordinator, I'd be his, you know, number two guy.
00:11:56.520 And I, and I said, oh, uh, huh, that's, uh, did you tell them that you hadn't really known anything about football two years ago?
00:12:10.520 And he said, oh, are you kidding me?
00:12:11.760 Are you, you think I'm stupid?
00:12:12.680 Of course I did.
00:12:13.680 And I said, like, really told them that when you did watch the Superbowl, we were really watching it for the commercials.
00:12:20.100 And he laughed and he said, that's exactly what I told them, dad.
00:12:23.420 And I said, okay.
00:12:25.680 So I took my son to the summit and then we flew to this university on Saturday.
00:12:31.960 And I watched my son become a man.
00:12:37.540 And I watched him in the film room as they were putting X and O's and drawing, I'm thinking you guys really need an art school here.
00:12:49.480 Cause those X's and O's, they could be, you could really draw the player so much better than that, but he's drawing the X, they're drawing the X's and O's.
00:12:58.680 And my son is like, Ooh, that's sneaky.
00:13:01.320 Cause you want what you're trying to get defense thing is this, this, and this.
00:13:05.160 And he's talking about, and keeping up with him.
00:13:08.020 And I just couldn't believe him.
00:13:09.640 I couldn't, just couldn't believe it.
00:13:10.900 And I, I thought of my dad.
00:13:19.260 How great it is to have been raised.
00:13:23.620 By a man.
00:13:24.580 Who said, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
00:13:32.980 Of course, those are in the days before Simon Cowell, but you can do whatever you set your mind to.
00:13:43.880 So my son.
00:13:45.720 Is, uh, uh, leaving the ranch and, uh, flying back home today and packing his stuff up.
00:14:07.060 And we'll be hitting the road to be coached back.
00:14:15.480 You have been there.
00:14:34.400 Many have been here.
00:14:36.040 When you heard that Tanya and I were trying to have a baby.
00:14:41.980 And I probably shared too much about how that can just become icky after a while.
00:14:49.640 How he prayed and prayed and prayed.
00:14:51.420 And then how Rafe came to us.
00:14:55.480 You've heard the, probably more of the struggles than the good things, especially in the last couple of years.
00:15:03.820 I thought it was only right.
00:15:12.060 Today.
00:15:14.300 To tell you if you're still in those struggle parts.
00:15:18.300 Or if you're still struggling to have a baby.
00:15:30.760 There is nothing you will do in your life.
00:15:33.820 That is worth more than raising a child.
00:15:39.780 There is nothing harder.
00:15:41.440 There is nothing more heartbreaking.
00:15:43.620 And there is nothing more glorious.
00:15:45.820 I thought you should know.
00:15:56.700 That that little baby we adopted.
00:16:03.300 Today has become a man.
00:16:04.820 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:16:11.780 All right.
00:16:12.540 So I, uh, I, I gotta tell you, the press is so out of touch.
00:16:20.780 This is from the New York times.
00:16:22.440 Tucker Carlson turns a Christian presidential forum into a Putin showcase.
00:16:26.620 Jesus is out.
00:16:28.420 Vladimir Putin is in.
00:16:30.260 Did you hear that from any candidate or anything like that from anyone on stage at the, uh, at the summit Friday, Stu?
00:16:39.820 Anyone?
00:16:40.740 Of course not.
00:16:41.620 No, I did not hear that.
00:16:42.760 Right.
00:16:43.620 Right.
00:16:44.120 In fact, everybody led with who was anti-war.
00:16:48.280 I don't like Putin.
00:16:49.820 Putin's not a good guy, but I don't think, you know, the Iranian, Ukrainian president is really a good guy either.
00:16:55.280 And I went as far as saying, and I don't think at this time we're on the right side.
00:17:00.880 We're the good guys.
00:17:02.420 So I don't want to send my kids to a war where I can't identify the good guy.
00:17:06.980 No, but they, uh, they made it sound like it was nothing but a, uh, rah, rah for president Putin, which it, it wasn't.
00:17:17.420 Um, I'm going to get into some of those things here in a second, but I really wanted to spend some time on Tucker Carlson because we spent a couple of days.
00:17:25.280 Uh, with Tucker Carlson and there is something happening and this should give you great, great, great hope.
00:17:34.980 He said a few years ago, uh, sorry, a few months ago, he's Episcopalian and he was so funny when he was telling it.
00:17:41.920 He's like, you know, I didn't even know there was a Bible.
00:17:45.220 I'm an Episcopalian.
00:17:46.400 I mean, we don't use, we don't use that.
00:17:48.420 Whatever.
00:17:49.420 And, uh, he said, so I started reading it.
00:17:52.380 He said, I, I, I just had the feeling a few months ago that I should start reading it.
00:17:56.400 He said, so I finished the new Testament.
00:17:59.220 And he said, that's amazing.
00:18:00.960 The way he was telling it is so funny when you, somebody who is actually, actually read
00:18:06.780 it and is interested in reading it, all of the things that they find that they discover.
00:18:13.580 He's like, this is the greatest.
00:18:16.240 It's such a great story.
00:18:17.680 Why, why are we hiding this?
00:18:20.560 Um, and then he started on the old Testament and he is in Leviticus now, which is also fun,
00:18:29.020 but he's actually enjoying it in talking to him over a few days.
00:18:33.920 I just want you to know.
00:18:37.020 God is using him.
00:18:39.040 Um, there is something different about Tucker Carlson, uh, and it, you know, we were not
00:18:47.480 the best of friends 10 years ago.
00:18:50.140 Uh, we didn't really know each other.
00:18:53.080 Um, we respected each other for what we had done, but we disagreed on a lot of stuff and
00:18:59.300 vehemently 10 years ago on a lot of stuff.
00:19:02.000 Uh, that has changed, uh, and I, and I think it became a, because I started really watching
00:19:09.500 him then in Fox news, he started really listening to me and we heard the, the core principles
00:19:18.080 behind what we believe and God is using him.
00:19:23.940 He has moved on him greatly.
00:19:26.180 Please add Tucker to your prayers.
00:19:29.120 Uh, something really good is going to come of, uh, of what Tucker is doing.
00:19:35.540 I think, um, he gets it unlike, let's say I, I met, uh, I met with four people in the
00:19:45.460 last, uh, three weeks and I've met probably 15,000 people and I've met with four that I
00:19:56.000 think absolutely 100% get it.
00:20:00.140 They know it from all of its angles.
00:20:03.840 Tucker is one of them.
00:20:05.880 Uh, he, he was very, very clear on things when he was asking, I think it was Nikki Haley.
00:20:12.520 He said, Hey, did we blow up the Nord stream?
00:20:15.820 That's something that I would ask, but I wondered as he asked it, if I were Nikki Haley, if I were,
00:20:21.480 if I would answer that as a presidential candidate, just because of the ramifications
00:20:26.700 of that as a presidential candidate.
00:20:30.360 So I asked Tucker on this, here's what he said in our one-on-one interview.
00:20:35.200 Cut one.
00:20:35.740 You said something that I absolutely believe.
00:20:39.040 Um, and it is crazy to say it now.
00:20:41.540 I think we absolutely blew up the Nord stream pipeline.
00:20:44.460 Of course we did.
00:20:45.080 Yeah, absolutely did.
00:20:46.600 Well, yeah.
00:20:47.100 And, and I think it's a big deal.
00:20:49.140 I mean, on many levels, it was an environmental catastrophe.
00:20:52.480 I mean, like a profound environmental catastrophe is also an act of vandalism, which I'm against.
00:20:56.480 You should build things, not destroy them.
00:20:58.280 Yeah.
00:20:58.660 It was also an attack on infrastructure.
00:21:01.060 And more than anything, it was an attack on our closest NATO ally, Germany, which used
00:21:05.860 that pipeline to fund its entire manufacturing center.
00:21:08.260 We just attacked our ally.
00:21:09.920 I know.
00:21:10.340 This is insane behavior.
00:21:12.060 And I don't know why no one's been held accountable.
00:21:14.560 Yes, we did it, whether it was through Poland or Norway, a NATO nation did it with our assistance
00:21:19.240 and approval.
00:21:20.360 And like, everyone knows it and everyone's afraid to say so.
00:21:22.620 Why?
00:21:23.040 I don't know why.
00:21:25.020 Can you say that?
00:21:26.200 I just did.
00:21:27.140 Well, no, but I mean.
00:21:27.720 I mean, I'm unemployed.
00:21:28.720 I can say whatever I want.
00:21:31.800 I mean, as a, I mean, what are the ramifications of, and thank God that, that Russia has not
00:21:40.020 retaliated.
00:21:41.200 This is the biggest, this is the worst act of war I have ever seen us make.
00:21:48.220 Right?
00:21:49.120 So, and it's crazy.
00:21:50.740 It's the kind of like late stage hubris on display with people.
00:21:55.640 It's all of it.
00:21:56.580 It really is.
00:21:57.580 Like, I'm God.
00:21:58.680 I can do whatever I want.
00:22:00.180 There are no consequences.
00:22:01.200 All the rules don't apply to me.
00:22:02.640 And when you adopt that attitude, when there's no humility at all or long-term thinking, this
00:22:07.460 is, you know, people who don't have like a stake in the future, like 80-year-old presidents,
00:22:12.880 they just don't care.
00:22:14.080 And when they start to behave like that, you can actually wreck the whole thing.
00:22:16.900 You can take a country down doing stuff like that, in my opinion.
00:22:21.120 I talked to him about the media, you know, completely determined to suppress the truth.
00:22:28.920 And I really thought, Tucker, and I don't know if you were, if there was a turning point
00:22:34.360 with you, there was with me when I realized, oh my gosh, none of these people in the media
00:22:40.540 actually care or are intellectually curious at all.
00:22:46.080 They're just typing away, doing their thing, reading a prompter.
00:22:50.520 Nobody is actually, because I really thought if I could make the case, which you did every
00:22:57.000 night, you were making a great, solid case.
00:22:59.940 And if you are intellectually curious and you disagree, you go, well, that can't be right.
00:23:06.220 Let me look it up.
00:23:07.420 Let's do some investigative work on what he just said.
00:23:10.660 They don't do that.
00:23:12.180 And that shocked me, shocked me.
00:23:14.720 But then you have to wonder why.
00:23:15.800 So it's like, no one in Washington or in the media is ever triggered, is ever outraged by
00:23:23.240 a lie.
00:23:24.460 So I can come out here and tell the most preposterous lies, say the most lunatic things, you know,
00:23:29.500 climate, you're driving a suburban is causing more hurricanes in Florida.
00:23:34.760 Well, they say that every fall.
00:23:36.860 Right.
00:23:37.160 And it's like insane.
00:23:38.260 There's like, there's no evidence that that's true.
00:23:40.000 There's a ton that's evidence that it's not true.
00:23:41.840 Nobody cares.
00:23:42.880 But when you say something true.
00:23:44.880 Yeah.
00:23:45.280 That's, that's actually true.
00:23:46.680 Right.
00:23:46.900 Completely true.
00:23:47.240 People become hysterical and call for your murder and certainly call for your de-platforming.
00:23:52.800 So then what conclusion do you reach?
00:23:55.160 The media are completely determined to suppress the truth, the true things that matter.
00:24:03.280 That's kind of why they exist.
00:24:04.940 They are the gatekeepers that prevent people from saying out loud the truest things.
00:24:09.240 Cut three.
00:24:11.980 Here's Tucker on what he saw at the summit and the candidates that I found surprising.
00:24:18.240 When you got up this morning, did you imagine that you would see not one, but two presidential
00:24:26.060 candidates light themselves on fire in front of you?
00:24:29.940 When I get up this morning, as every morning when I wake up, I don't imagine anything.
00:24:34.220 Right.
00:24:34.960 I haven't had a drink in 21 years and every single morning I wake up hungover.
00:24:39.240 I feel like I've had a quarter of Stoli and a six pack of some rotten beer.
00:24:43.460 I just feel horrible in the morning, every morning.
00:24:46.580 And so I put my pants on and shuffled downstairs and got coffee.
00:24:50.720 So I didn't think about it at all until I was seated across from Senator Scott, who was
00:24:55.860 the first.
00:24:56.700 And I really like, I mean, I like them all.
00:24:58.180 Like politicians are super charming.
00:24:59.580 Like they're, they like, they're good with people.
00:25:01.360 That's why they're in this business.
00:25:02.320 So I like all of them.
00:25:04.480 Uh, but no, I, I, I do think that Republican voters or the system controlled by the Republican
00:25:12.640 party doesn't ask a lot of a lot of its candidates.
00:25:16.300 It's like enough to say certain, to repeat certain bumper stickers from the eighties,
00:25:21.580 peace or strength, lower taxes, whatever.
00:25:23.820 Right.
00:25:24.080 I'm all, I'm for all that by the way, but they don't like, no one ever gets pushed very
00:25:28.460 hard.
00:25:28.880 Right.
00:25:29.600 And so it doesn't take much.
00:25:31.320 I was certainly not acting on a hostility, but if you're just like, well, what do you
00:25:33.900 mean?
00:25:35.360 Uh, and then people say, oh, you're so mean, really?
00:25:41.380 You're trying to run my country.
00:25:43.080 Yeah.
00:25:43.840 Do you know what I mean?
00:25:44.740 Yeah.
00:25:45.740 Like I live here.
00:25:46.860 I have four children.
00:25:47.800 I can't go anywhere.
00:25:48.520 Like, what do you mean?
00:25:49.360 You're trying to run the country and you're mad that I'm like trying to get you to be more
00:25:53.040 precise about your answers that you should have memorized already.
00:25:56.200 Right.
00:25:56.400 Because you're presuming to represent me.
00:25:59.080 Last cut.
00:26:01.920 This is a Tucker in my special on blaze TV.
00:26:06.760 You can watch it.
00:26:07.660 It's about, I think it's just over an hour.
00:26:10.700 Tucker and I just having a one-on-one, uh, he went on to talk about Mike Pence, what he
00:26:17.020 was most surprised about with Mike Pence.
00:26:19.660 Listen to this.
00:26:20.660 The Mike Pence religious freedom stuff.
00:26:22.320 I have to say, you know, spun me up.
00:26:24.340 It did.
00:26:25.020 It did.
00:26:25.680 I, you can't, can't be like, well, I'm for religious freedom, except for like
00:26:28.760 priests who say things the government disagrees with.
00:26:30.440 They can be arrested.
00:26:31.740 Huh?
00:26:32.860 You know, and it'd be fine if it, if it was almost any, and I'm, I'm holding him to an
00:26:37.020 unfair standard.
00:26:37.580 But if you hold yourself up as a Christian leader, who's in favor of religious freedom,
00:26:41.620 well, then you kind of have to defend religious freedom, whether it's popular or not.
00:26:44.140 It's not, no freedom.
00:26:46.400 Nobody, nobody has to defend my right to say, chocolate's delicious.
00:26:53.060 Yeah.
00:26:53.520 Okay.
00:26:54.220 If it's popular, you have to, and I don't think even our side understands that.
00:27:00.020 I stand, I was, uh, when Bill Maher said, you know, I think the, uh, the Saudi or the,
00:27:07.180 the hijackers were brave, braver than our fire pilots.
00:27:11.180 I disagreed with that a hundred percent, but when ABC fired him, I stood up for him and
00:27:16.540 said, what part of politically incorrect, don't you understand?
00:27:22.320 Make sure you go to blazemediasummit.com blazemediasummit.com.
00:27:28.900 You can see the whole, uh, summit.
00:27:31.020 It is so well worth it when you're watching, if you're, if you're looking for the right
00:27:35.320 candidate, I think this is the best format I've ever seen.
00:27:38.920 Uh, and I've, I've heard that everywhere, including social media.
00:27:43.600 Um, and in person, everybody was like, I've been to these things before.
00:27:48.620 I mean, I'll be honest with you.
00:27:50.440 Ricky said, would you please not be a grump?
00:27:52.640 She's my executive television producer.
00:27:54.520 She said, would you please not be a total grump?
00:27:57.460 Uh, you know, uh, when you get on the air and I'm like, no, I, I just want you to know,
00:28:02.100 I don't want to be here.
00:28:03.760 This is the last place anyone should want to be on a Friday, spending all day with a
00:28:09.200 bunch of politicians listening to them campaign, but I'm a professional, but I actually, by
00:28:14.480 the end of the day had really enjoyed it because I learned so much.
00:28:18.080 Make sure you go to blazemediasummit.com and watch it.
00:28:22.460 And blaze TV also has the Tucker Carlson interview with me.
00:28:26.640 You can join now, just use the promo code summit and get $30 off summit, uh, or will
00:28:33.420 not be silenced as well.
00:28:36.060 You get $30 off.
00:28:37.600 Try and both maybe get $60 off the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:28:42.240 Sorry for this personal note, but we could not have done the blaze summit without Nelco
00:28:47.240 media.
00:28:48.180 They are a valued partner at, uh, at blaze media and, uh, they helped with the Iowa summit.
00:28:53.720 I mean, they did something.
00:28:55.080 Honestly, we said to them, we're one mixing board short.
00:28:59.160 Uh, could, could we, could we, could, could we borrow one?
00:29:03.680 They were like, it's already in the truck, ready to go.
00:29:06.520 Take it.
00:29:07.160 I mean, they, they were really amazing and we couldn't have done it without them.
00:29:11.120 So thank you.
00:29:11.700 Nelco media.
00:29:12.700 Um, Stu, we were, we're talking about the politics of what happened on Friday at the,
00:29:17.900 uh, blaze media summit.
00:29:19.640 Uh, and, uh, it is something that has happened in Iowa all the time.
00:29:26.840 The family leadership council puts this on, but it's usually not covered by the mainstream
00:29:32.680 media.
00:29:33.200 Uh, like we covered it and it became the, you know, I believe it was the number one trend
00:29:39.440 on, uh, Friday and I'm still seeing newspaper reports and everything else about it, uh, today,
00:29:45.600 but we haven't even had a chance to talk.
00:29:48.780 We left, uh, went our separate ways shortly after the, uh, uh, the summit and really having
00:29:54.920 a chance to, uh, decompress from it.
00:29:57.480 Can we go through all of the candidates that were there?
00:30:01.920 And I'd like to hear your opinion on, did they help or hurt themselves?
00:30:08.220 And what was the most important thing we learned?
00:30:11.660 Sure.
00:30:12.120 Um, we started with Asa Hutchinson.
00:30:13.680 Uh, I think we can.
00:30:14.920 No, no, no, no.
00:30:15.700 Let's start at the beginning.
00:30:16.600 Let's start with Tim Scott.
00:30:17.520 He was the first one.
00:30:18.280 That's right.
00:30:18.560 Oh yeah.
00:30:18.820 Tim Scott was first.
00:30:19.780 That's right.
00:30:20.240 Tim Scott was first.
00:30:20.920 And Scott is, is an interesting candidate.
00:30:22.940 I like, I generally like Tim Scott.
00:30:24.760 I think he's, uh, he's with 100% certainty, the best Senator from South Carolina that we have,
00:30:30.640 uh, by a very, very large margin, large margin.
00:30:34.720 It's almost like, it's almost like Biden is in the other seat.
00:30:38.840 I can't remember who is, but anyway, go ahead.
00:30:40.940 Somebody else.
00:30:41.420 Uh, you know, he was, he, you know, he came in, he has a more hawkish view on Ukraine,
00:30:45.980 which he was pressed on, uh, significantly by Tucker during the interview.
00:30:49.660 Um, you know, didn't like it.
00:30:50.960 The one, the one thing you'd say about, uh, Tim Scott is that he, he has a, he sort of has
00:30:55.300 sort of a quirky energy to him.
00:30:57.160 Like he, he, I think some people really like it.
00:30:59.580 It shows a lot of optimism.
00:31:01.600 Um, he has that sort of, uh, that, that, um, I don't know that, that vibe, right?
00:31:07.380 Like he's out, he's, he's, he's not flustered by stuff.
00:31:10.700 He doesn't, he defended himself and then defended his viewpoints.
00:31:14.200 It was, he had a little bit of a stylistic, uh, thing where he was starting the interview
00:31:19.340 with Tucker.
00:31:20.220 He'd get the question and then he'd sort of just stand up and address the crowd and walk
00:31:23.640 around, which I thought was, you know, a little odd.
00:31:27.360 It didn't, you know, he was the first one to go, you know, so it was a little bit strange.
00:31:31.640 Generally speaking, I don't think he helped or hurt himself.
00:31:33.480 I thought he did basically what I, what I thought he would do.
00:31:36.820 Uh, he, he wasn't a standout performer, but I don't think he didn't blow himself up like
00:31:40.900 some of the other candidates on stage by any means.
00:31:42.680 I thought he was fine, but didn't improve his standing all that much.
00:31:46.460 So I thought he helped himself only because he improved his stature of being there among
00:31:52.700 the other presidential candidates, um, and reminding them on what there's, what his strong
00:31:58.420 point points are and his strong points are, uh, belief in tomorrow.
00:32:03.840 Uh, and he has evidence to back that up and, um, a strong defender of America in a very positive
00:32:12.620 sort of way, but he's not revolutionary enough for the times.
00:32:16.860 And he's also, um, uh, I don't think he's, he's ready to be president, uh, yet, but I,
00:32:23.280 I, I think he helped himself a little bit.
00:32:25.960 Asa Hutchinson.
00:32:27.780 Asa Hutchinson.
00:32:29.040 Suboptimal was the word I use to describe the Asa Hutchinson performance.
00:32:33.160 Did that go far enough?
00:32:34.440 It may be a little understated.
00:32:37.180 Uh, that was it.
00:32:38.400 Look, Asa Hutchinson was already really out of step with the Republican voters.
00:32:44.820 He has at zero or 1% in almost every poll.
00:32:47.660 So I think you can defend his appearance there, right?
00:32:51.680 Like I, there are other people who, you know, like Will Hurd didn't show up.
00:32:55.760 I don't know if he was invited, but like he's in the race, he's at 0%.
00:32:58.780 Why wouldn't you go there and try to do something and move the needle?
00:33:02.580 You know, if you're, I don't know, Doug Bergam or there's a bunch of these guys that are in
00:33:06.660 the race that didn't show, or I don't know, maybe they weren't invited, um, but are really
00:33:11.660 at the bottom of the scale and didn't wind up doing this.
00:33:14.180 Asa Hutchinson showed up.
00:33:15.500 He made his case.
00:33:16.340 His case is just one that the Republican voters don't like.
00:33:19.860 They, they really do think that the transgendering of children and irreversible surgeries and
00:33:25.380 all that stuff is a problem.
00:33:27.780 You know, Asa was like, it didn't seem to think it was a problem.
00:33:30.460 He's very out of step.
00:33:32.040 Uh, and I think when people really realized that and saw it, uh, in front of them, it
00:33:36.920 was, as you pointed out, a very Hindenburg-like event where...
00:33:41.080 Yeah, I was just going to say, let me, let me, let me describe it by playing cut 17.
00:33:46.340 Uh, this is Asa Hutchinson.
00:33:48.620 Listen.
00:33:48.960 It's bursting into flames.
00:33:50.940 Get it started.
00:33:51.600 Get it started.
00:33:52.420 It's rising.
00:33:53.160 It's rising.
00:33:54.160 It's rising terrible.
00:33:55.800 Oh, my.
00:33:56.600 Get out of the way, please.
00:33:57.880 It's burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the morning fast, and all the folks
00:34:02.020 between it.
00:34:02.600 This is terrible.
00:34:03.520 This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world.
00:34:05.840 Oh, it's like 20, oh, four or 500 feet into the sky, and it's a terrific crash, ladies
00:34:14.520 and gentlemen, the smoke and the flames now, and the flame is rising to the ground, not
00:34:19.940 quite to the morning mass, but all the humanity.
00:34:23.160 It was bad.
00:34:25.120 Now, luckily, nobody was hurt except those who were trying to finance his campaign.
00:34:30.420 They're in serious condition today.
00:34:33.180 Then we go to Mike Pence, and Mike Pence should have done very well.
00:34:38.280 This is a group of religious people, and it's, you know, it's a religious group holding their
00:34:46.440 conference.
00:34:46.980 We want to hear from you.
00:34:48.720 This is Mike Pence's, this is his, these are his people.
00:34:54.500 Yeah, and of course, he definitely should have been there.
00:34:56.540 These are his people, and, you know, there was a back and forth about religious freedom
00:35:02.740 with Tucker Carlson, in which Tucker Carlson was talking about some persecuted people, religious
00:35:07.720 people in Ukraine that had been allegedly persecuted by the government of Ukraine.
00:35:14.740 And the disagreement there was stark, because Tucker kept coming after him on this, and
00:35:21.260 Pence basically said he talked to people, or he said he talked to a person on the ground
00:35:25.440 in Ukraine who said it wasn't happening, so he wasn't basically concerned about it.
00:35:29.820 You know, there has been reporting on this, you know, of course, a war zone.
00:35:33.580 It's always hard to know exactly what's going on, but that was uncomfortable.
00:35:36.800 And then it went to the actual Ukraine war, where Pence is pretty hawkish.
00:35:41.540 Um, and that part of it, most of it, I thought was interesting, because Pence didn't back down.
00:35:49.700 They sort of had a disagreement.
00:35:51.480 He didn't try to, uh, worm his way out of it.
00:35:55.360 He stood up and basically said, yeah, I'm a real hawk on Ukraine.
00:35:58.680 We're, this is very much in our interest.
00:36:00.340 We should be spending this money.
00:36:01.640 We should do be doing more.
00:36:02.860 And it felt like, it felt like something that may have happened 10 years ago in a Republican,
00:36:09.160 uh, debate, um, where Tucker was pushing him from the other side.
00:36:13.820 They went back and forth.
00:36:14.600 At one point, he had a real gaffe, which Tucker was talking about, you know, hey, American
00:36:18.980 cities are aflames here, in flames here, and you're worried about Ukraine.
00:36:23.000 Why?
00:36:23.780 And, uh, he said, that's not my concern.
00:36:26.500 We played the clip earlier.
00:36:27.720 Cut 17, please.
00:36:32.280 Cut 17.
00:36:34.440 Our economy has degraded.
00:36:36.660 The suicide rate has jumped.
00:36:38.700 Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.
00:36:43.800 And yet, your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map,
00:36:49.460 who've received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don't have enough tanks.
00:36:53.400 I think it's a fair question to ask, like, where's the concern for the United States in that?
00:36:58.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:59.640 Cut 17, please.
00:37:00.920 Oh, there he is.
00:37:01.280 It's right, and it's rising.
00:37:02.580 It's rising, terrible.
00:37:04.280 Oh, my.
00:37:05.140 Get out of the way, please.
00:37:05.780 Okay, stop.
00:37:06.420 Because he responded to that question as, that's not my concern.
00:37:09.820 And it sounded like he wasn't concerned for American cities.
00:37:12.920 If you listen to the context of his answer, it's quite clear that's not exactly what he
00:37:16.600 meant.
00:37:17.140 But, I mean, it's like Kamala Harris saying the population thing.
00:37:19.500 You can't make mistakes like that.
00:37:21.580 So, that was, it was a catastrophe for Pence, I thought.
00:37:25.220 Okay, so, Nikki Haley.
00:37:26.800 Nikki Haley is about what I expected.
00:37:29.460 I thought she was kind of neutral.
00:37:31.300 The problem with Nikki Haley is he sounds like the candidate that would have been great
00:37:34.900 in 2012.
00:37:36.720 She was, and she didn't, to be fair, she didn't get a chance to talk about foreign policy,
00:37:43.200 which is the one thing I would have wanted her to talk about.
00:37:45.760 But, she talked about, you know, pretty much everything else, I thought, except for that,
00:37:55.140 which I thought was an odd choice for Tucker.
00:37:58.160 But, she just sounded out of touch with what we're truly facing today.
00:38:06.940 Do you think that's too harsh?
00:38:08.840 It wasn't the sense I got.
00:38:11.100 Now, to be fair, she had, we had just seen Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson, and Tim Scott.
00:38:16.440 And Tim, as we said, Tim Scott, I thought was okay, you know, but then we had two sort
00:38:20.820 of catastrophes in a row with Asa Hutchinson and Pence.
00:38:23.900 So, then it came out to Haley.
00:38:25.460 I thought, certainly, maybe it was a low hurdle to clear at the time, but I thought she did
00:38:29.620 pretty well, actually.
00:38:30.700 And I do think a big part of that was Tucker's choice in not really questioning her on Ukraine.
00:38:37.220 Now, again, she has a pretty standard 2012 view of that view, situation.
00:38:43.740 She's relatively hawkish.
00:38:45.600 But, they didn't get into that topic at all.
00:38:47.620 And, they didn't get into the topic about the Disney situation where she was talking about,
00:38:51.320 hey, I want to invite Disney to South Carolina.
00:38:54.300 Those are the two things I thought she was sort of vulnerable on.
00:38:57.400 Because they didn't go in those directions, I thought she handled herself really well, actually.
00:39:01.040 I thought she helped herself, generally speaking.
00:39:04.900 It wasn't a breakout performance, but I thought it was a helpful performance for her candidacy.
00:39:11.280 Yeah, you might say that.
00:39:13.100 The only reason why I said it was neutral is because that's what I expected her to do.
00:39:16.500 She's a good candidate.
00:39:17.800 Yeah, and Tim Scott is, too.
00:39:19.220 They're both good candidates.
00:39:20.220 And I thought they were, I grouped them together.
00:39:22.800 I thought they were right around the same area.
00:39:24.520 Maybe, Haley, a little bit better.
00:39:25.800 You thought maybe Scott was a little bit better.
00:39:27.120 But, I thought they were right around the same area there.
00:39:29.780 So, Vivek was the first time that I saw a, and maybe not this time, but maybe next time,
00:39:37.180 a future president of the United States.
00:39:40.140 And, maybe this time.
00:39:41.460 I mean, he's growing rapidly in stature.
00:39:46.200 You know, I would expect somebody like Vivek generally to do, you know, 1% the first time he's out.
00:39:54.980 He's not.
00:39:55.880 He's doing fairly well in the polling.
00:39:57.860 In some polls, one poll has him up to 10%.
00:40:00.260 Let's see how those hold, and let's see what really happens.
00:40:04.040 But, he was young, energetic, really buttoned up on all of the issues.
00:40:13.300 Very, very clean.
00:40:15.220 As far as his messages, there wasn't a lot of political speak and gobbledygook.
00:40:23.000 I thought he just delivered it.
00:40:25.480 He's good at this, Glenn.
00:40:26.880 He's good at this.
00:40:27.680 He's good at doing this.
00:40:30.200 And, if you don't, what you didn't see on stage or in the interview that Glenn did with Vivek right after his performance in the Tucker interview.
00:40:39.360 He's also backstage working the crowd.
00:40:42.060 He knows how to do this.
00:40:44.080 He's good at it.
00:40:45.220 He was a good communicator before he started running for president, and he's fit into this role really well.
00:40:49.660 I think for a lot of people who probably had never seen him before or didn't know anything about him, if that was your first experience with him, you were probably pretty impressed.
00:40:57.640 Like, take out his policies, which some of you might like, some of you don't.
00:41:02.180 We're just talking about performance here, and I think quite clearly he had one of the best performances of the weekend.
00:41:06.600 He's the type of person that is, I think, is breaking out as a candidate.
00:41:11.420 He's having a moment, and we all knew it wasn't going to be a two-person race.
00:41:15.020 We all knew at some point someone in that other group was going to have a moment, and it seems like this is the beginning of Vivek's now.