The Glenn Beck Program - August 04, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ 8⧸4⧸24


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00:00:22.560 Well, I think that people have demanded that Glenn Beck speak more on sports
00:00:26.580 because I have such a deep, deep knowledge of sports.
00:00:31.180 And so I spoke out about sports today,
00:00:35.060 about Sophie Cunningham, that whole situation.
00:00:38.520 And because, I hope it doesn't get too complex for you,
00:00:42.180 because I have such deep knowledge of everything that is sports,
00:00:46.960 I kind of dumbed it down,
00:00:49.360 and I went right for what it's actually all about.
00:00:53.320 That's in today's podcast.
00:00:54.720 Also, if you're in Michigan, you know the primary is today.
00:00:58.540 Show me your friends.
00:00:59.540 I'll show you your future, which leads me to another monologue about how our moms were right.
00:01:04.720 The things they said a billion times, they all apply today.
00:01:09.060 All that and so much more on today's podcast.
00:01:20.220 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:24.720 i tell you i just i absolutely love politics when you can see past all the bullcrap it is so
00:01:36.040 hysterical it only gets frustrating when your friends are like you know i think he's really
00:01:40.300 changed you're like wait wait what talking about james talrico uh he is he is now surging he's one
00:01:49.140 point ahead of ken paxton this could be very bad for texas um i don't think that's what's going to
00:01:55.360 happen but it depends on if texans come out and they see past this let me give you a couple of
00:02:00.960 tweets uh talarico suddenly discovered barbecue oil and gas and texas independence the second he
00:02:08.220 needed republican votes funny how the guy who said god's non-binary praised texas drag queens
00:02:13.980 and ran a non-meat campaign is now trying to cosplay as a regular old Texan conservative.
00:02:20.480 The mask is slipping.
00:02:22.580 Texas sees through it.
00:02:24.300 Here's another one.
00:02:25.360 Progressive seminary student who thinks Jesus was a radical feminist and God is non-binary.
00:02:31.540 I'm just a Tal Rico.
00:02:33.440 I'm just a regular eighth generation Texan who loves the oil industry and wants to work with conservatives.
00:02:38.720 you can't out Texas actual Texans
00:02:42.120 by putting on a costume for five months
00:02:44.200 we remember the real record
00:02:45.940 the Talrico Pivot is something else
00:02:49.740 and he is, he's the patron saint of the pivot
00:02:54.020 which brings me to a little ditty I put together
00:02:57.720 from the makers of the Ballist Rhino
00:03:00.880 comes Talrico, Texas
00:03:08.720 Mmm, yeah
00:03:12.760 My daddy read the good book
00:03:19.840 And my truck's a Chevrolet
00:03:23.060 I've been cutting taxes
00:03:26.340 Since I woke up yesterday
00:03:29.000 I'm just a good old boy
00:03:32.600 Apostrophe and all
00:03:34.960 Took the G off working
00:03:38.800 And I hung it on the wall
00:03:41.960 Got a flag out on the porch
00:03:45.820 And a flag up on the shed
00:03:48.920 And a third one that I salute
00:03:51.900 Before I go to bed
00:03:55.180 It's Tallerico, Texas
00:03:58.160 Where the briskets made a piece
00:04:01.380 Where we honor all our soldiers
00:04:04.440 And we identify as trees
00:04:07.460 I love my gal, my dog, my truck
00:04:10.580 My whiskey and my lord
00:04:13.700 Just don't go asking what I said in 2024
00:04:19.460 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:04:23.020 Where the stars still spell my name
00:04:26.140 Where a red, white, blue illusion
00:04:29.260 Rides a purple party flame
00:04:32.320 I'm the son of every slogan
00:04:34.960 On a tailgate in this town
00:04:38.580 Sing it bigger, sing it louder
00:04:41.680 Boys, we ain't backing down
00:04:44.840 I filmed a little something out in Los Angeles
00:04:50.660 Twenty Texas voters in an oatmeal court to Dito
00:04:57.100 I told them God ain't he or she might be a they or them
00:05:03.300 Then I hollered Friday night lights boys and bolted for the van
00:05:09.540 That's a van, not a truck, but it's a real big van
00:05:17.280 And on a Texas kind of highway, well a van's a kind of man
00:05:23.440 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:05:26.580 Where the briskets made a piece
00:05:29.840 Where we honor all our soldiers
00:05:32.860 And we identify as trees
00:05:35.800 I love my gal, my dog, my truck
00:05:38.960 My whiskey and my lord
00:05:42.100 Just don't go asking what I said in 2024
00:05:47.840 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:05:51.420 Crank that choir to the sky
00:05:54.520 Let the steel guitar be weeping
00:05:57.680 While the fireparks all fly
00:06:00.880 I'm the patron saint of the pivot
00:06:04.100 Bless this long star alibi
00:06:07.020 And if you catch me in the mirror
00:06:10.380 Working on that country twain
00:06:13.600 Just know this draws bone deep, boys
00:06:16.920 It's been a me since spring
00:06:21.420 It has been. That drawl has been there since spring, so don't question it.
00:06:27.080 Talrico, Texas, from the Glenn Beck Program.
00:06:31.140 All right, we're going to take a quick break, and I'm going to come back,
00:06:33.680 and I want to talk to you because the country demands it.
00:06:36.560 The country demands that I talk about sports.
00:06:42.620 So I'm going to give the country what they're begging for next.
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00:08:12.020 you know my mother used to say show me your friends and i'll show you your future
00:08:20.740 Well, I'm going to show you El Saeed's friends.
00:08:25.300 He's the guy who's most likely going to win the primary for the Democrats.
00:08:29.520 He is definitely not a socialist.
00:08:31.780 He'll tell you.
00:08:33.520 DSA, I don't even know who they are.
00:08:35.340 And they're wrong, by the way.
00:08:36.580 I've never heard of them, but they are wrong.
00:08:39.820 And he's definitely not a socialist.
00:08:42.320 He's a big capitalist, you know.
00:08:44.100 Big, big, big capitalist.
00:08:45.260 And he loves America, except he'd like to change the Supreme Court
00:08:49.100 and some of the other things that are fundamental to our system.
00:08:54.860 But show me your friends, and I'll show you your future.
00:08:57.660 And let me show you the past, and I'll show you your future.
00:09:01.780 We go there here in just 60 seconds.
00:09:04.160 First chapter, let me paint you a picture.
00:09:06.420 You're sitting at the kitchen table.
00:09:07.680 There's a stack of Medicare papers, and I'm talking a tall stack.
00:09:11.780 They're all plans with letters, plans with numbers,
00:09:14.960 plans that all seem to promise you the same thing until you read the fine print.
00:09:17.940 so you do with what most people do you just pick one okay you put the papers in a drawer you tell
00:09:22.940 yourself well i hope i got that one right a year goes by your health changes your medications
00:09:28.020 change your plans change but the drawer stays closed that's why i like chapter their advisors
00:09:33.420 take time to look at your specific situation compare all the plans from the insurers across
00:09:38.800 the country and help you find the option that actually fits your needs they're not paid to
00:09:43.600 push one particular plan, so their job is to help you make the right decision, even if that decision
00:09:48.100 is to stay exactly where you are. They compare every single medical plan nationwide, and they
00:09:54.860 save people in this audience an average of $1,100 a year in health care savings. That's more than
00:10:01.420 what Obama said Obamacare would save, and that didn't work out. This does, and the call is
00:10:07.100 completely free. It takes about 20 minutes. Dial pound 250, say the keyword chapter. It's pound 250,
00:10:12.600 Keyword chapter
00:10:14.140 You know my mom had
00:10:17.840 Saying a line that she would use on me
00:10:19.840 When I was about 16 and running around with
00:10:21.760 You know kids that she didn't necessarily care for
00:10:24.120 Son
00:10:25.860 Show me your friends
00:10:27.540 And I'll show you your future
00:10:28.800 And I thought it was unfair then
00:10:31.540 But I have to tell you
00:10:34.600 I've come to think of it as the single most reliable
00:10:37.620 Political instrument I own
00:10:39.140 And it doesn't need to pollster
00:10:41.320 Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
00:10:45.040 Michigan votes today, barring something nobody sees coming.
00:10:48.900 Abdul El-Sayed wins the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, not by a hair.
00:10:55.860 The final Emerson survey had him up 15 points.
00:11:01.060 The prediction markets have him at 97 cents on the dollar.
00:11:05.580 Mallory McMorrow got out in July, mainly because his name is stupid.
00:11:12.640 Haley Stevens has the governor and the retiring senator
00:11:16.020 and something north of $60 million in outside money behind her.
00:11:20.480 More than $30 million of it from a single Israel-aligned group.
00:11:24.740 The most that group has ever spent on one race, and she's going to lose
00:11:28.020 because you cannot buy an election.
00:11:31.100 Oh, Israel's so powerful.
00:11:32.620 Why aren't they?
00:11:33.960 They got money in the election.
00:11:35.420 Why aren't they winning this one?
00:11:37.600 The more people try to, in the Democratic Party, try to make it so he cannot win, the stronger he becomes.
00:11:45.320 So let's look at the man who's about to win, and let's do it honestly.
00:11:49.680 He's not a lightweight biology and political science at Michigan, Rhodes Scholar, a doctorate at Oxford, you know, medical degree from Columbia.
00:11:59.360 Oh, he's going to be great.
00:12:01.660 He's going to be great, especially when it comes to things like, you know, pandemics.
00:12:05.980 Detroit's health commissioner in his early 30s, then health director for Wayne County.
00:12:10.180 He ran for governor in 2018.
00:12:12.420 He lost.
00:12:13.120 He came back.
00:12:14.320 He's a physician who has actually run public health departments during the years when he was running a public health department.
00:12:20.760 You know, when he was doing it, it was nobody's idea of a good time.
00:12:24.980 And he'll tell you plainly, I am not a socialist.
00:12:28.180 His words.
00:12:29.700 I do not believe I'm a socialist.
00:12:32.560 I believe in capitalism.
00:12:34.360 He told the Wall Street Journal, he's definitely not DSA.
00:12:37.860 Okay, fine.
00:12:38.740 Take him at his word.
00:12:39.880 Let's take him at his word all the way through this.
00:12:44.060 Accept my mother's voice.
00:12:46.900 Okay, maybe he's not a socialist.
00:12:49.060 But let's look at his friends and let's see his future.
00:12:52.860 Bernie Sanders endorsed him and flew out to Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids for him.
00:12:58.580 Okay, he is a socialist.
00:13:01.220 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cut an ad for him.
00:13:04.460 She is.
00:13:05.740 Every single member of the squad endorsed him.
00:13:08.440 Tlaib, Omar, Presley, Summer Lee, Ramirez, all of them.
00:13:13.620 Between 2017 and 2020, he spoke at six Democratic Socialist of America events.
00:13:19.520 So he hangs out with them an awful lot.
00:13:22.280 He headlined one of them, a fundraiser that raised $10,000 for the organization.
00:13:27.400 So I'm guessing that his headline speech, his keynote wasn't like, you guys are wrong.
00:13:34.240 A Detroit chapter introduced him as a longtime friend.
00:13:38.540 Show me your friends.
00:13:40.620 In April, he took his campaign to two Michigan campuses with another friend, Hassan Piker.
00:13:47.300 You probably know the name by now.
00:13:49.520 The Twitch streamer who said in 2019 that America deserved 9-11, who got suspended for it and then called it satire afterwards.
00:13:57.400 but all of his actions show it wasn't satire.
00:14:00.400 Michigan State President Board of Trustees put out a statement before the event was held
00:14:04.600 saying that comments attributed to the speaker the university had not invited
00:14:08.820 were causing pain among Jewish students.
00:14:11.480 The state news interviewed 13 students in the crowd.
00:14:14.000 Most of them said they came for Piker.
00:14:16.580 El Saeed embraced him on stage and joked about the whole controversy.
00:14:21.340 Then last night, the final hours of the Senate campaign,
00:14:24.340 The hours a candidate spends where he most wants to be, he spent a content creator pool party, his time there, in Detroit.
00:14:34.400 Piker was there.
00:14:36.120 He wasn't ambushed by any of this.
00:14:38.900 And that's what I want you to hear.
00:14:40.180 Nobody tricked him.
00:14:42.060 You know, he was asked about it directly, and he defended it.
00:14:44.820 And his defense is a real one.
00:14:46.660 So let me give it to you.
00:14:48.500 If you're serious about reaching people who have quit on politics entirely, you have to go where those people actually are.
00:14:55.120 And those people, young men under 30, the demographic every consultant in both parties says is unreachable, are on Twitch.
00:15:03.980 And they're not at a rotary lunch.
00:15:06.440 A campaign that only speaks in rooms where everybody already agrees isn't a campaign.
00:15:09.860 It's a support group.
00:15:11.180 And you know what?
00:15:11.780 He's right about that.
00:15:13.500 He's also right, about $60 million of outside money landing on your opponent heads
00:15:17.480 makes your money out of politics message sounds less like a slogan and more like a receipt.
00:15:23.280 He's right.
00:15:23.980 So he's not stupid.
00:15:25.860 He's maybe not even lying to you.
00:15:28.940 Here's the problem.
00:15:30.820 The label was never the thing.
00:15:32.960 The room is the thing.
00:15:36.240 A man's convictions tell you what he intends.
00:15:39.480 His friends tell you what he'll be able to do, what he's willing to do.
00:15:45.700 Which brings me to, we've been here before, 1948.
00:15:51.320 A man, I bet 10 bucks, most people have never thought about even once, maybe never even heard of, Henry Wallace.
00:15:58.420 This was Franklin Roosevelt's vice president, third term.
00:16:02.360 Before that, he was the secretary of agriculture.
00:16:04.400 Before that, he was a plant scientist who developed hybrid seed corn and quietly did more to feed the human race than most people who have won medals for it.
00:16:12.480 Decent man, brilliant guy, dropped from the ticket in 1944, fired from the cabinet in 1946 for saying, we should get along with the Soviets.
00:16:21.480 What a surprise.
00:16:23.200 By 1948, he had had enough of Harry Truman and he ran for president himself on a brand new third party.
00:16:29.420 So when people asked Henry Wallace what he was, he said, I'm a progressive capitalist.
00:16:37.660 El Saeed.
00:16:39.400 I'm a progressive capitalist.
00:16:41.540 And he rejected the other word flatly, communist, socialist.
00:16:45.520 Nope.
00:16:46.340 Then the Communist Party of the United States endorsed him.
00:16:49.640 He didn't turn it down.
00:16:51.040 Does any of this sound familiar?
00:16:52.780 He didn't go looking for it either.
00:16:55.320 Understand, he didn't look for it.
00:16:56.760 But when it arrived, he took the view that if a man wants peace, you don't ask him for his papers at the door.
00:17:03.020 So they came in, they organized, they filled halls, they filled seats on committees, they wrote language into a platform, and it worked for a while.
00:17:14.140 Late in 1947, polls had Wallace over 20% of the American electorate.
00:17:19.940 By July of 48, his convention finished up at Scheib Park in Philadelphia, Big League Baseball Park.
00:17:27.500 32,000 people in the stands to hear him accept election night.
00:17:33.500 You know how much he got?
00:17:35.320 2.4%, fourth place, behind the segregationalists.
00:17:42.040 Now, that's the part that people know.
00:17:44.540 Here's the part that people don't know.
00:17:46.960 Four years later, September 1952, Henry Wallace published an essay called Where I Was Wrong.
00:17:55.240 He wrote that the biggest mistake had been failing to denounce the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in February of 1948, five months before the ballpark.
00:18:05.600 He wrote that he had not accounted for the ruthlessness of the Moscow-trained men.
00:18:10.620 He called Russian communism utterly evil.
00:18:14.140 But by the time he wrote it, the party he had founded was no longer his.
00:18:19.780 He'd walked away in 1950.
00:18:21.360 The people who came in the door because they wanted peace were still there, still holding the gavel.
00:18:25.900 And they ran their own ticket in 1952, they got 140,000 votes, and then the whole thing just fell apart.
00:18:32.420 The friends didn't cost Henry Wallace an election.
00:18:36.280 The friends kept building.
00:18:38.460 He was the front man.
00:18:40.340 He was the name on the sign.
00:18:42.400 He was sincere every day of it.
00:18:46.340 He was the last man in the country to figure out what the hell he was a part of.
00:18:51.860 It took him four years in a war in Korea to see what James Burnham could see from his magazine office in 1948.
00:19:01.020 Now, let me be exact about what this rule is and what it's not because it gets abused.
00:19:07.500 It's not whether a man's parent came from one place or another.
00:19:12.200 It's not about his name.
00:19:13.760 It's not about how he prays.
00:19:15.620 That's the opposite of the rule.
00:19:17.880 That's judging a man by the things he never chose.
00:19:21.160 I don't want part of that, and neither should you.
00:19:24.900 The rule is only about choices.
00:19:27.900 Who you call, who you stand next to on stage, on purpose,
00:19:33.200 Whose crowd you borrow, because that's the crowd that shows up.
00:19:37.980 Every one of those is a decision a grown man makes with his eyes wide open.
00:19:42.760 And every one of them is on the record.
00:19:45.660 He made his.
00:19:47.540 Today, Michigan makes theirs.
00:19:51.520 If I'm honest, my mother's line was never really aimed at politicians.
00:19:55.380 She was aiming it at me in a driveway about a couple of guys with a motorcycle.
00:20:00.500 okay she wasn't telling me those boys were evil she was telling me that a person becomes
00:20:06.580 the room he keeps walking into and that he always always is the last one to notice
00:20:14.260 so ask it about the man on your ballot today this is not going to change a single vote
00:20:19.760 but let's see if how things play out in the general
00:20:25.020 because people need to see the friends you're surrounded by
00:20:30.080 and then do the hard thing and ask it about yourself.
00:20:34.200 Because my mom was right.
00:20:35.860 Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future.
00:20:39.840 Good luck, Michigan.
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00:21:49.920 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:21:56.540 Somewhere in the back of my mind, there is still a screen door, especially at this time
00:22:03.560 of year, that slams at the front door.
00:22:08.140 Wood frame, spring on hinges, pap.
00:22:12.260 And it's right around dusk, the streetlights have come on.
00:22:15.420 and somewhere down the block
00:22:17.620 there is a mom standing on a porch
00:22:20.600 with a dish towel in her hand
00:22:22.100 calling a name into the dark.
00:22:27.480 That was the clock.
00:22:31.300 Nobody had a phone.
00:22:32.280 We all just knew.
00:22:37.160 I've been thinking a lot
00:22:38.320 in the last few days
00:22:39.640 about how much of what we actually use,
00:22:43.900 not what I know, but what I use, didn't come from a book or a class
00:22:49.420 or a man on the stage with a microphone or some boob like me.
00:22:53.680 It came from people who said it so many times.
00:22:57.680 It stopped sounding like advice and started sounding like weather, you know?
00:23:02.080 Shut the door. We're not paying to air condition the whole neighborhood.
00:23:06.280 Turn off the light. Money doesn't grow on trees.
00:23:10.140 Because I said so.
00:23:12.340 If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump true?
00:23:16.080 This is the one that is.
00:23:16.860 There was a body count on this one.
00:23:19.420 I'm not mad.
00:23:21.920 I'm disappointed.
00:23:23.280 Oh, my God.
00:23:26.300 You've made your bed.
00:23:27.340 Now lie in it.
00:23:29.820 Nothing good happens after midnight.
00:23:33.700 Finish what you start.
00:23:36.800 Wear a coat or catch your death.
00:23:39.780 Eat it.
00:23:41.040 Do you know how many children would be grateful for that place?
00:23:43.800 Do you know how many starving children there are in wherever?
00:23:48.980 It's funny because we heard them so often that we quit hearing them at all.
00:23:55.500 You know, they were background noise.
00:23:56.780 They were the hum of the refrigerator.
00:23:59.020 And you could have recited every single one of them at nine years old.
00:24:03.420 And you also, as a nine-year-old, would have said, none of these apply to me.
00:24:07.900 And then you're 15 and it gets worse.
00:24:10.240 Because now they're not just noise, they're an insult, you know?
00:24:13.360 Now every one of them is proof that they don't understand.
00:24:17.220 Grandpa says, use it up, wear it out, or make do, or do without.
00:24:21.620 And you're thinking, they make new ones.
00:24:23.300 You can get them at the store all the time.
00:24:25.860 Grandma would say, pretty is, is pretty does.
00:24:28.740 And you're thinking, Grandma, that's not how high school works, okay?
00:24:34.760 Your dad tells you, look a man in the eye, give him a firm handshake.
00:24:38.140 and you think, that's a costume.
00:24:40.980 Some old ritual thing that they do.
00:24:46.180 Your mom tells you, write a thank you note.
00:24:50.640 Not a text, write it out.
00:24:53.460 Stamp it, put it in the mail.
00:24:55.620 And you'd rather do almost anything else than that.
00:24:59.260 And then you leave, you move out.
00:25:01.760 And here's what nobody tells you about leaving.
00:25:05.880 It doesn't feel like freedom for very long.
00:25:08.140 feels like freedom for about six weeks and then you get the apartment with the bad carpet and
00:25:14.360 the neighbor who's up at two and you find out that all those rules you were straining against
00:25:18.780 were also load-bearing and you take them out one by one and the whole thing sags
00:25:27.380 you're 23 and you get the flat tire or the bad diagnosis for somebody that you love or you get
00:25:34.160 fired. Or the person you were sure was the one is suddenly not sure about you. And you're sitting
00:25:42.220 on the floor of a place that doesn't feel like home. It's one in the morning. And out of nowhere,
00:25:49.400 your mother's voice comes up through the floorboards and says, it'll look better in the
00:25:55.660 morning. And you want to argue with it, but you can't. Because she was right.
00:26:04.640 Damn, she was right the whole time.
00:26:07.880 It actually does look better in the morning.
00:26:09.960 Not fixed, but better.
00:26:14.500 And mom never explained the mechanism to you.
00:26:16.980 She never cited a study.
00:26:19.080 She just said it every time you cried.
00:26:21.800 And then one night when she wasn't there,
00:26:24.400 it showed up and did the job anyway.
00:26:34.900 Somewhere along the way, we decided that wasn't enough.
00:26:42.380 It just wasn't enough.
00:26:44.900 That because I said so was primitive.
00:26:47.620 We needed a philosophy behind it.
00:26:49.760 So we went and we got one, several actually.
00:26:52.600 And we got the experts.
00:26:55.420 And I'm not against experts.
00:26:57.220 I want a real one flying my plane and, you know, cutting on my knee.
00:27:01.320 but we took people who had never met our child never sat at our table never watched that kid
00:27:08.180 at four o'clock in the morning with a fever and we let them tell us how to raise them
00:27:12.680 we set down all of the stuff our grandma and our mothers knew because it didn't come with
00:27:18.640 footnotes what did they know say please say thank you say i'm sorry and mean the second half
00:27:29.420 Do it right the first time.
00:27:32.800 Leave it better than you found it.
00:27:35.840 Your word is your bond.
00:27:38.940 Which is the whole legal system in what, five syllables?
00:27:43.120 Nobody owes you anything.
00:27:46.560 Hard work never killed anybody.
00:27:49.760 Show up early.
00:27:50.920 Go outside.
00:27:53.180 You're not tired, you're bored.
00:27:55.040 every one of those is a load-bearing wall
00:28:00.820 and we knocked them all out
00:28:03.640 to open up the floor plan
00:28:05.380 because that's what we wanted
00:28:06.760 and then one day
00:28:09.580 and this is the day
00:28:13.080 this is the one I remember
00:28:14.240 one day you're standing in your own kitchen
00:28:17.200 and your own kid does something
00:28:18.800 and you open your mouth
00:28:21.060 and your father comes out
00:28:23.460 word for word, same cadence, same pause before it,
00:28:28.700 the exact same sentence you swore
00:28:30.880 and everything you would never say to a child of yours.
00:28:34.920 And there's that half a second
00:28:36.400 where you're absolutely horrified.
00:28:38.120 I've just become my father.
00:28:42.980 And then there's that half second after that
00:28:45.640 where you realize, my God, my dad was right.
00:28:50.580 This is true.
00:28:51.660 It's always been true.
00:28:53.900 He wasn't being lazy.
00:28:55.660 It's just the truth.
00:29:00.480 He'd gotten so far down the road
00:29:02.400 to know that some things don't have a longer version.
00:29:07.240 It's just it.
00:29:11.920 I've been thinking about phrases.
00:29:14.260 I said earlier today,
00:29:15.740 I think the best political advice my mom ever gave me was,
00:29:21.200 show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
00:29:24.060 That's what the Democrats are learning right now.
00:29:26.540 It's my mom.
00:29:28.680 I could put that into paragraph after paragraph, monologue after monologue.
00:29:32.700 Heck, I have for the last 20 years.
00:29:35.400 Been saying the same things.
00:29:36.200 I should have just said that.
00:29:37.400 Show me your friends, I'll show you your future.
00:29:39.520 Because that's where they are.
00:29:43.540 I don't think our problem is that we said those things to our kids too much.
00:29:53.460 I wonder if I've barely said them at all.
00:30:01.220 I think there's a whole generation
00:30:02.900 that never got to finish what you start
00:30:08.120 when you said it to them a million times
00:30:10.560 so it isn't in the floorboards anymore
00:30:12.640 because every parent isn't saying these things anymore.
00:30:16.380 There's nothing coming up through the wood
00:30:18.460 at one in the morning
00:30:19.420 when they're on the carpet in a bad apartment.
00:30:23.460 and then i think gosh do i even say these things to myself
00:30:31.860 i tell my kids all the time nobody's thinking about you as much as you're thinking about you
00:30:39.460 and then i'll spend the whole afternoon convinced everybody's thinking about me
00:30:43.040 i'll tell them it's not as bad as it looks tonight it'll be better in the morning and
00:30:49.280 then i'll lie there at three o'clock in the morning like a man who's never heard of morning
00:30:53.200 I'll tell them that their word is their bond
00:30:56.560 and then I break a promise that I made to myself last week
00:31:00.600 go to bed
00:31:11.240 close your eyes, go to sleep
00:31:14.820 call your mother, drink some water
00:31:19.480 say you're sorry first
00:31:21.200 this too shall pass
00:31:24.060 and then the other half
00:31:25.140 that nobody ever quotes
00:31:27.060 which is the good part
00:31:28.380 passes too
00:31:29.600 so pay attention
00:31:31.040 we knew
00:31:35.940 all of this stuff
00:31:37.740 by the time we were nine
00:31:38.760 and we spent so much time
00:31:43.260 rejecting it
00:31:44.180 I think maybe we should
00:31:50.040 consider going back
00:31:51.020 to some of those things.
00:31:54.880 We knew them at nine
00:31:56.000 and most of us are still trying to learn it.
00:31:59.400 But we want to hear it from an expert.
00:32:01.220 Why?
00:32:06.760 Come inside now.
00:32:08.620 It's getting dark.
00:32:14.540 More in a minute.
00:32:16.500 You know, while we're here,
00:32:17.580 Or, you know, you just can't fake it.
00:32:21.640 You just can't fake it.
00:32:25.340 Trying to think what my mom would say about Tallarico.
00:32:29.400 I mean, my mom, your mom, everybody's mom would know fraud immediately.
00:32:34.340 If that were a friend and he started coming around and he had no Texas accent
00:32:39.620 and all of a sudden he was like, well, howdy, ma'am.
00:32:42.460 How are you?
00:32:43.140 She'd be like, what the hell is wrong with your friend?
00:32:44.820 What's Jimmy doing?
00:32:47.580 I don't know, Mom.
00:32:48.960 He's trying to suck up to a girl that he really likes.
00:32:52.400 She's from Texas, and so now he's all Texan.
00:32:54.680 She's like, tell him it won't work.
00:32:56.720 Jimmy, stop it.
00:32:58.380 Knock it off.
00:32:59.980 I think that's what my mom would say
00:33:02.520 because he has gone all Texan.
00:33:05.100 He is now lower tax.
00:33:07.560 He's doing everything.
00:33:08.480 He is sounding like a Republican.
00:33:10.840 Remember, this is the guy who was like,
00:33:13.020 only eat tofu.
00:33:14.180 I only eat tofu.
00:33:14.860 now he's like give me some more barbecue ribs i gotta have me some more ribs out of y'all
00:33:20.780 it's like where did you get the draw from jimmy what what was happening here so from the makers
00:33:27.940 of uh thune the ballless rhino which by the way i have to say i have to you know i always say i
00:33:37.160 lead with my mistakes and i have to leave i because i did something about selfie uh cunningham
00:33:41.380 and women's basketball and women's sports.
00:33:45.820 And I just have to say, I came out and I said,
00:33:49.440 no men in women's sports.
00:33:50.780 I was wrong.
00:33:52.560 I think John Thune could play in the WNBA.
00:33:56.320 I'm just saying, I think he could.
00:33:58.740 I think he could.
00:34:00.060 But anyway, back to Tal Rico.
00:34:02.120 So we made a song for good old Jimmy.
00:34:06.920 He was just like us.
00:34:08.200 He drives a truck, man.
00:34:09.580 He's just out Friday night lights.
00:34:11.280 I'm just watching me some football.
00:34:13.640 Here's a little song for little Jimmy Talrico.
00:34:29.120 My daddy read the good book
00:34:31.820 And my truck's a Chevrolet
00:34:35.060 I've been cutting taxes
00:34:38.320 Since I woke up yesterday
00:34:41.000 I'm just a good old boy
00:34:44.580 Apostrophe and all
00:34:46.940 Took the G off working
00:34:50.800 And I hung it on the wall
00:34:53.940 Got a flag out on the porch
00:34:57.820 And a flag up on the shed
00:35:00.920 And a third one that I salute
00:35:03.900 Before I go to bed
00:35:07.160 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:35:10.160 Where the briskets made a piece
00:35:13.380 Where we honor all our soldiers
00:35:16.440 And we identify as trees
00:35:19.460 I love my gal, my dog, my truck
00:35:22.580 My whiskey and my lord
00:35:25.700 Just don't go asking what I said in 2024
00:35:31.460 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:35:35.020 Where the stars still spell my name
00:35:38.140 Where a red, white, blue illusion rides a purple party flame
00:35:44.320 I'm the son of every slogan on a tailgate in this town
00:35:50.580 Sing it bigger, sing it louder, boys, we ain't backing down
00:35:56.840 I filmed a little something out in Los Angeles
00:36:02.980 Twenty Texas voters in an oatmeal court to Dito
00:36:09.120 I told them God ain't he or she might be a they or them
00:36:15.300 Then I hollered Friday night lights, boys, and bolted for the van
00:36:21.560 That's a van, not a truck, but it's a real big van
00:36:29.240 And on a Texas kind of highway
00:36:32.560 Well, a van's a kind of man
00:36:35.440 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:36:38.580 Where the brisket's made a piece
00:36:41.840 Where we honor all our soldiers
00:36:44.860 And we identify as trees
00:36:47.860 I love my gal, my dog, my truck
00:36:50.940 My whiskey and my lord
00:36:54.100 Just don't go asking what I said in 2024
00:36:59.840 It's Tallarico, Texas
00:37:03.400 Crank that choir to the sky
00:37:06.500 Let the steel guitar be weeping
00:37:09.660 While the fireparks all fly
00:37:12.860 I'm the patron saint of the pivot
00:37:16.100 Bless this long star alibi
00:37:19.020 And if you catch me in the mirror
00:37:22.380 Working on that country twain
00:37:25.540 Just know this draw is bone deep, boys
00:37:28.920 It's been a me since spring
00:37:31.900 All the way back.
00:37:35.000 I mean, he's had that draw all the way back to spring.
00:37:39.580 I said, Del Rico, Texas.
00:37:42.620 So, I mean, you're a Texan, Jason.
00:37:45.500 Is anybody going to buy this?
00:37:47.840 Is anybody going to buy this?
00:37:48.940 This guy is worse than Beto.
00:37:51.460 Oh, yeah, way worse than Beto.
00:37:53.360 I don't think anybody in Texas is buying it at all.
00:37:57.400 What I worry about just in the Tallarico election in Paxton is literally the Cornyn voters.
00:38:03.560 It sounds like they are so, I don't know, spiteful or angry that they're willing to let a guy like Tallarico win in this election, which makes no sense to me.
00:38:14.880 None.
00:38:15.640 Well, you know what?
00:38:16.760 Let me tell you, Cornyn voters.
00:38:17.960 we'll sure learn our lesson and you'll be standing over there that won't affect you at all and you'll
00:38:23.520 be like i told you so what the hell is wrong with you what is wrong with you i mean you know it's
00:38:32.140 it's uh really really important it'd be every election it gets more and more important to get
00:38:39.360 out and vote we are in the fight for our nation's life and it is only getting more clearer these
00:38:47.100 guys i mean you know maybe i could understand this 2004 even 2014 not today not today hello
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