The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ 9⧸10⧸26

00:00:00.000 Today, we reflected on a couple of things.

00:00:03.080 First of all, Charlie Kirk.

00:00:05.180 It's the one-year anniversary,

00:00:06.980 and I didn't want to talk about Charlie

00:00:08.800 as much as I wanted to talk about you

00:00:10.520 and the progress that we have made or not made.

00:00:14.800 Also, September 10th, 2025,

00:00:18.420 versus September 10th, 2001.

00:00:23.200 This is a deep show you don't want to miss.

00:00:26.540 Truth is under attack in our culture.

00:00:28.440 People are embracing lies about gender.

00:00:30.660 They're rejecting the sanctity of every human life.

00:00:33.360 And the government is even punishing people for saying what's true and right.

00:00:37.360 Or worse, the woke mob is doxing them and slandering them with no due process.

00:00:41.660 Just an angry mob making their lives miserable or worse, putting families in real danger.

00:00:47.140 But the biblical principles on which our country was founded still matter.

00:00:50.920 Real patriots and Christians are beginning to stand up.

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00:01:27.620 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program i can't tell you how many scripts i have

00:01:39.880 written and thrown out how many ideas my producers have come to me with for this speech tonight

00:01:45.940 for the charlie kirk memorial by the way you'll see it at glenbeck.com it'll be live you'll be

00:01:54.860 able to watch it it'll be in front of the paywall so you don't have to be a torch member but

00:01:58.000 you can see it begins at 8 30 eastern glennbeck.com

00:02:04.160 i've gone through so many different thoughts

00:02:11.020 lord what do you want me to say and i keep thinking about four words

00:02:17.320 i am charlie kirk

00:02:22.460 Sarah would you have somebody go into my office

00:02:32.020 Just right underneath the 9-11 flag

00:02:34.480 Is the Charlie Kirk poster

00:02:38.220 I got it from his funeral

00:02:43.900 And I brought it and I put it down in my office

00:02:46.000 And it's never moved since

00:02:47.560 And I got it for the museum

00:02:50.260 because it was such a moment of history.

00:02:52.860 And I think it says, I am Charlie Kirk, I think.

00:02:56.420 That's what we all said.

00:02:58.640 I'm Charlie Kirk.

00:03:02.040 And we meant it. I meant it.

00:03:04.460 I meant it.

00:03:05.200 You know, the way you mean things when your chest is tight

00:03:08.400 and the whole country is looking at the same screen at the same time.

00:03:11.680 and it was easy and it was the right thing to say in September you know we were all crying

00:03:24.420 and saying his name that week made us part of something just enormous

00:03:32.880 and I do think we met I know I meant it but I have this monologue so you know is more about

00:03:40.200 me. I know. I'm an ego maniac. It's more about me than you. So I'm not, I'm telling

00:03:45.460 you what I'm thinking of. Did I mean that? Today's a mile marker. Today's a day you can

00:03:59.480 go back and go. Did anything in my life change or was that just, was I just caught up in the

00:04:05.160 moment. You know, saying I'm Charlie Kirk now cost a little more than it did even then.

00:04:16.040 I want to spend today on the show, not necessarily talking about him. You knew him as well as most

00:04:25.160 people did. And the ones who really knew him have a hard time talking about it today.

00:04:35.160 What I've been doing instead, and mostly at night, is kind of a quiet audit.

00:04:45.100 And I'd rather do it with you than pretend I've already passed it.

00:04:57.600 I know I said I'd be Charlie Kirk, and I made some promises to myself.

00:05:01.720 I was going to take Hillsdale classes.

00:05:03.400 I took one

00:05:05.120 and then I stopped

00:05:06.520 I got busy

00:05:07.060 I said I would

00:05:10.360 read my scriptures more

00:05:11.840 I have until I got busy

00:05:15.240 this summer

00:05:15.720 I tried to be

00:05:22.060 a better elder statesman

00:05:26.900 I tried to be

00:05:29.380 a calming influence

00:05:30.400 in the world

00:05:30.900 I'm going to read more

00:05:37.820 I've got a stack of books

00:05:39.320 I've moved that stack twice

00:05:43.060 Are you still going to church?

00:05:56.920 I know people who walked in last September

00:05:59.240 They went for six weeks, and then they didn't.

00:06:04.760 And nobody in their life knows except for them.

00:06:08.240 That's the trouble with promises like this.

00:06:11.220 It's invisible when you keep it, and invisible when you don't.

00:06:18.320 here's one i i think i've avoided have i sat down face to face with somebody who thinks i'm a bad

00:06:33.640 man and not a not a comment not a thread a chair a table

00:06:39.060 and me asking more than answering because that was the whole thing with charlie

00:06:46.860 that was the entire radical act

00:06:49.300 it was a folding table

00:06:50.560 and a line of people

00:06:51.360 who came to argue with him

00:06:52.900 he never went where he was loved

00:07:01.300 we're further apart

00:07:04.820 than we were back then

00:07:05.840 a year ago

00:07:06.980 much further apart

00:07:08.220 say his name today

00:07:10.320 in the wrong room

00:07:10.960 and you'll get a laugh

00:07:11.780 or a lecture

00:07:12.380 of what he supposedly believed

00:07:15.760 from people who never watched him for even 10 minutes.

00:07:20.420 Some people have lost friendships over that name.

00:07:26.000 Don't hate them back.

00:07:27.900 Don't hate them back.

00:07:32.320 I know what that costs.

00:07:35.040 I'm not good at it either.

00:07:38.060 But the moment we answer contempt with contempt,

00:07:41.240 we've quit his method and kept only his name.

00:07:45.760 And his name was never the point.

00:07:50.940 You know, there are people on our side who did that.

00:07:54.600 They took a dead man, they took his name, and they used him as a permission slip.

00:07:59.700 They told themselves of the cruelty, that it was courage.

00:08:08.220 I guess I can understand where that comes from to a point.

00:08:11.320 Maybe it comes from grief with nowhere to go.

00:08:15.760 still isn't carrying anything.

00:08:21.720 His wife stood up 11 days after and said,

00:08:25.060 the answer to hate is not hate.

00:08:28.560 She said she forgave the young man.

00:08:31.780 She's the one who paid her children.

00:08:34.940 She didn't take the other road.

00:08:37.460 And every one of us who did,

00:08:42.960 maybe we should be a little quiet about it.

00:08:45.760 You know, 50 years to the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill,

00:08:54.940 Boston laid a cornerstone on that hill for a monument.

00:08:58.880 And it was an enormous day. Enormous day.

00:09:01.980 Lafayette came to set the cornerstone.

00:09:04.920 Daniel Webster gave the speech.

00:09:08.080 About 40 old men who had actually fought in that battle sat down in front.

00:09:12.700 And the crowd ran for miles, and they passed the hat.

00:09:20.780 It's what happened after the speeches stopped that makes the difference.

00:09:24.600 You see, we've been here before.

00:09:26.820 Fifty years after the Battle of Bunker Hill, Boston laid this cornerstone.

00:09:30.460 They didn't have the money, and people stood in line for miles.

00:09:35.780 As I said, Daniel Webster, Lafayette, and 40 old men who had actually fought on Bunker Hill attended.

00:09:41.460 and they pass the hat

00:09:43.460 and they're going to build this.

00:09:45.060 They lay the cornerstone

00:09:46.360 and they started building

00:09:48.460 and about two years into that

00:09:49.780 they run out of money

00:09:50.640 and the monument stopped

00:09:52.960 at 37 feet

00:09:54.940 and it sat

00:09:57.640 for a year

00:09:59.440 and then two

00:10:01.420 and then five.

00:10:04.880 A stump on a hill

00:10:06.100 where every ship coming into Boston Harbor

00:10:08.860 could see exactly

00:10:10.120 what a cheering crowd is worth

00:10:12.480 once the speeches stop.

00:10:15.700 Nothing.

00:10:17.120 37 feet.

00:10:21.340 They ended up selling the battlefield.

00:10:23.820 They wanted to dedicate the whole field.

00:10:25.220 They just ended up selling the battlefield.

00:10:27.720 They bought the ground the men died on

00:10:29.780 and then they sold nearly all of it off

00:10:31.920 so they could build houses.

00:10:34.680 And they built those houses

00:10:36.180 and sold those houses, those lots,

00:10:38.100 to pay for the monument to the men who died on that land.

00:10:42.580 They only kept four acres.

00:10:47.120 So what finished it?

00:10:49.200 It wasn't the crowd.

00:10:51.180 You know what finished it?

00:10:52.100 It wasn't adults.

00:10:53.360 It was children.

00:10:55.420 Children mailing in quarters

00:10:57.320 and a magazine editor named Sarah Hale.

00:11:02.740 She's the woman who wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb. 1.00

00:11:05.160 she later spent 17 years pestering presidents

00:11:09.760 until one of them gave us thanksgiving 1.00

00:11:11.680 she got the women of Boston to hold a fair 1.00

00:11:15.940 pies, quilts, needlework

00:11:17.960 and she's the one who suggested to children

00:11:22.640 send in a quarter

00:11:24.920 $30,000 in a matter of days

00:11:28.860 all in quarters

00:11:29.900 so 18 years after the cornerstone

00:11:33.680 the thing was finally opened.

00:11:36.680 Webster came back and spoke again.

00:11:39.560 100,000 people came.

00:11:42.020 And in the front row where there had been 40 men

00:11:44.680 that fought in that battle, there were now 13.

00:11:48.900 Everybody came for the cornerstone.

00:11:52.340 Almost nobody was there for the 18 years in between.

00:11:56.500 And the obelisk that stands there today,

00:11:58.700 it stands there not because of the people

00:12:02.420 who got the stage

00:12:04.120 it's for the people

00:12:04.940 who never got the stage

00:12:06.360 whose names are not carved

00:12:08.100 anywhere in that monument

00:12:09.600 a year ago

00:12:14.080 we held the largest

00:12:15.260 cornerstone ceremony

00:12:16.700 of my lifetime

00:12:18.160 I sat

00:12:25.120 right up front

00:12:29.160 for his memorial

00:12:30.240 100,000 people in a stadium and more outside

00:12:34.640 and a nation and a world watching.

00:12:37.640 That was real.

00:12:40.120 Like it will never diminish it because I felt it.

00:12:44.280 But a cornerstone is only a promise with a date on it.

00:12:48.160 That's it.

00:12:52.060 So what I've been sitting with as I've been preparing for today

00:13:00.240 the question isn't whether we meant it.

00:13:05.540 I think we all meant it when we said it.

00:13:08.920 The question is, where's my 37 feet?

00:13:15.500 Where's the place I stopped when the money or the intention

00:13:19.600 or the attention ran out and life became ordinary again?

00:13:26.180 Like I said, mine's a stack of books

00:13:30.720 I've moved twice

00:13:32.100 Mine are all the classes I just didn't take

00:13:35.800 At Hillsdale

00:13:36.800 If you can name yours

00:13:41.540 That's most of the work

00:13:43.820 I challenge you to pick it up this week

00:13:48.880 Not a movement

00:13:51.280 Not a moment

00:13:53.720 just the one specific thing that you said out loud when you were crying.

00:14:00.740 40 minutes at a kitchen table

00:14:02.500 with the actual documents that you were supposed to read or going to read.

00:14:07.840 Sunday.

00:14:09.220 Then the Sunday after.

00:14:12.020 Maybe it's just this friend you stopped talking to in 2020

00:14:15.000 and you haven't talked to them because you couldn't get along because of their politics.

00:14:22.740 Call them.

00:14:23.720 about nothing.

00:14:27.180 And when somebody laughs at his name,

00:14:30.220 somebody says something horrible today,

00:14:32.000 don't flinch and don't swing.

00:14:34.620 Say his name plainly

00:14:36.200 and then go back to your lunch.

00:14:39.960 His verse was Isaiah.

00:14:42.680 Here I am, Lord, send me.

00:14:48.940 His wife told him once backstage,

00:14:51.020 please, please talk to me before you say that again. 0.98

00:14:58.400 He said it anyway.

00:15:01.020 That was the promise.

00:15:03.160 The four words the rest of us said in September.

00:15:08.500 That promise.

00:15:12.240 Measure the wall from the cornerstone you laid a year ago.

00:15:17.080 Where's your 37 feet?

00:15:18.960 finish it finish it this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for

00:15:27.620 listening so i'm going to tell you some things that if you're not my age you don't know

00:15:32.620 on september 10th 25 years ago today you could take your grandma to the airport you could probably

00:15:42.180 park your car in front of the airport, get out, have the keys, and say, I just got to take my

00:15:50.900 grandma into the gate. And you walk grandma all the way to the gate. You walked in, you carried

00:15:57.700 her bag down the concourse. You stood at the window until the plane pushed back.

00:16:03.760 Nobody believes that anymore.

00:16:05.280 you didn't need a ticket you didn't you didn't take off your shoes or your belt you had a pocket

00:16:13.420 knife on your belt you might have forgotten about it if you know when grandma if uh you know she's

00:16:22.460 getting on she's got a pocket knife they're not taking it from her the cockpit door of every plane

00:16:30.620 was a piece of trim with a latch on it.

00:16:33.980 It was the same door that you now have on an airplane going into the bathroom.

00:16:40.600 That's the same door.

00:16:44.300 Crews at that time were trained to cooperate with hijackers

00:16:48.380 because for 30 years hijacking meant landing someplace warm

00:16:52.700 and then everybody got home by Thursday.

00:16:57.100 Ask somebody, ask anybody over 45. 0.74

00:16:59.980 Ask him if it's true that you used to be able to walk into a federal courthouse 0.99

00:17:03.700 and nobody stopped you.

00:17:05.040 Nobody asked you for identification.

00:17:06.820 There were no metal detectors.

00:17:10.560 Ask him, no concrete planters in front of buildings,

00:17:14.040 no steel posts along the sidewalk,

00:17:16.580 because nobody thought of the sidewalk as a thing you needed to defend.

00:17:22.420 You could walk into your kid's school through the front door at 11 in the morning

00:17:26.980 with the lunch he forgot you go down to down the hall to the classroom knock on the door and like

00:17:33.980 yeah johnny forgot his lunch no he's saying anything there was no color-coded threat level

00:17:39.500 in the morning news no department of homeland security no tsa no no fly list no cameras on

00:17:47.100 every corner nobody had said the words if you see something say something

00:17:51.660 talk to somebody over 45

00:17:56.960 ask them if it's true

00:17:57.960 that terrorism was a thing

00:17:59.560 that happened in other countries

00:18:00.900 to other people

00:18:01.700 on the third page

00:18:02.880 see if they remember

00:18:06.620 what they were arguing about

00:18:07.840 the summer before 9-11

00:18:09.180 because I do

00:18:10.600 I looked it up

00:18:11.560 because I have a record

00:18:12.500 of what I was talking about

00:18:13.500 shark attacks

00:18:14.560 a missing intern

00:18:17.160 remember Chandra Levy

00:18:19.660 I said

00:18:21.460 was his name, Gary Condit? I think he was a congressman. It was a big scandal. They thought

00:18:25.880 he had killed her. I said off the air that week, you know who the happiest person? There's two

00:18:30.920 people in the world that are happy 9-11 happened, and that is Osama bin Laden and in a way Gary

00:18:36.380 Condit because nobody cared about that missing intern anymore. We were still talking about

00:18:43.560 whether the election had been stolen. Some things never change, but that was the country. 0.78

00:18:48.040 It was so ordinary that nobody wrote anything down about it.

00:18:54.900 When I say Chandra Levy, anybody my age will go, oh, gosh, I haven't heard that name forever.

00:18:59.960 You hadn't thought about it.

00:19:01.580 And then on the morning of September 11th, it was a Tuesday, and it was beautiful.

00:19:07.240 And we all stood.

00:19:08.860 We watched the towers come down.

00:19:12.600 And while we were all bracing for a number of dead, do you remember what that number was?

00:19:18.040 we were estimating when those towers went down

00:19:21.840 that as many as or maybe more than 50,000 people were going to be dead.

00:19:30.260 By a freak of nature, the buildings were relatively empty.

00:19:36.440 They hit them too early.

00:19:38.380 50,000, we were doing that arithmetic in our head and in our stomach.

00:19:43.900 Oh, my God.

00:19:44.980 the final number came to 2977 the youngest was two years old and the oldest was 82

00:19:54.120 from more than 90 countries because that's what the world trade center was the whole world's

00:20:01.620 marketplace you know which is precisely like why it was chosen why was it chosen do you even know

00:20:07.600 do people even know this why was the world trade center even chosen and who did it 19 men did it 0.89

00:20:14.100 They were Islamist terrorists. 0.95

00:20:18.040 They were sent by Al-Qaeda acting on a crazy-ass theology that's still going strong 0.99

00:20:24.960 that considered our way of life as an offense against God. 0.87

00:20:33.620 That sentence used to be so obvious that it was boring.

00:20:39.540 but now look at the gymnastics everybody has to do how careful everybody is to avoid saying 0.86

00:20:46.500 it had anything to do with islam 25 years on we've talked ourselves into a version

00:20:53.420 of that morning with no villain in it at all it's just like it just happened like it was a weather

00:20:59.180 thing. And while we were counting towards 50,000 dead, there were streets in the Gaza Strip

00:21:10.900 where the Palestinians were handing out candy. Don't believe me? Look it up. The video is 1.00

00:21:19.560 available. Look it up. They were handing out candy. Mothers were handing out cake. They were

00:21:24.440 dancing and clapping and celebrating. Everywhere else in the world, everywhere else they were

00:21:30.600 lighting candles. The Palestinians celebrated. And somewhere along the way, we decided to stop

00:21:40.780 mentioning that. Why? I have to tell you, I'm going to say some things here that I take no

00:21:48.440 pleasure in, but they have to be said. Let me make this declaration. We are about to find out

00:21:56.200 something that we said forever. I'm not going to let them win. Not changing me. We've changed

00:22:03.060 everything. And we are about to find out if the terrorists did win in the end. Because what did

00:22:10.100 they want? What did they want? What did they want? What they wanted, they're getting, but not from

00:22:15.560 them but from us they wanted the free market destroyed because they understood something

00:22:23.560 that our own children are no longer even taught that the towers weren't buildings they were an

00:22:29.620 argument that ordinary people trading freely without a king or a cleric had built more

00:22:36.580 prosperity for more human beings than every empire in history combined that's what they

00:22:43.800 were aiming at it, and it survived them. But then we handed a generation in education that teaches

00:22:53.060 them that the same system is not just flawed, not in need of repair, not in need of, you know,

00:23:00.520 it's not a machine that can be cleaned up and re-oiled, re-tooled, but instead they're taught 0.99

00:23:06.100 it's an evil system, and the only honest response is to burn the whole damn thing down. 0.95

00:23:13.800 they failed when they tried to make that very point. 0.99

00:23:19.960 And now we're making it for them.

00:23:23.900 They just had to stop.

00:23:25.160 They had to make that one point and then watch.

00:23:28.000 Watch what we do to ourselves.

00:23:30.800 They needed us to hate each other.

00:23:33.180 They thought we would.

00:23:36.020 That was the actual objective.

00:23:38.040 Break the country into pieces because we won't stand together.

00:23:41.880 and the rest is only a matter of time they failed in September 2001 they failed completely

00:23:48.160 we didn't do it strangers stop strangers on the sidewalk I know you if you didn't live through

00:23:54.240 this you don't believe me it's true you would see a stranger on the street and you could see that

00:23:59.560 they were hurting and you would stop and say are you okay we didn't know each other we were strangers

00:24:04.540 men who had spent a year screaming at each other on television stood on the capital

00:24:09.920 steps together to sing badly, but sing together and mean it. There were lines around the block

00:24:18.340 to give blood for people who turned out had not survived to need it. Nobody asked what

00:24:26.800 you were, what party who you voted for for six months, maybe six months. We knew what

00:24:32.740 was true. We knew what had true value. And you know what that was? Each other.

00:24:42.320 And now look what we've done to ourselves for free. 19 men with box cutters couldn't

00:24:49.740 do it. We've done it to ourselves for free. And the marching part of it, I think, is the 0.83

00:25:00.220 is the most grotesque and strangest of it all.

00:25:05.120 Good Americans, decent people, people I know,

00:25:09.480 now out in the streets carrying water for a movement

00:25:11.840 whose actual governing philosophy 1.00

00:25:14.680 would be to kill you if you're gay. 1.00

00:25:19.480 And the LGBTQ community marches with those flags and banners, 1.00

00:25:24.520 marches for cultures where a cruise ship full of gay travelers

00:25:28.660 just got turned away at a port in Turkey, and Turkey's a moderate place. 0.93

00:25:35.440 And then they look at us and say, America's full of oppression, how we oppress gay people.

00:25:40.000 It's one of the safest countries on earth for people that live an alternative life.

00:25:45.700 And now they've convinced them, somehow or another, to tear that whole thing down.

00:25:50.920 They call Israel the oppressor, when Israel is the only refuge in that region,

00:25:56.600 more open to them than maybe we even are on our better days. 0.99

00:26:02.400 They'll kill you.

00:26:06.840 That's not Stockholm Syndrome. 0.97

00:26:08.680 That's something worse.

00:26:10.280 Stockholm Syndrome takes a captor.

00:26:14.360 Nobody has our kids at gunpoint.

00:26:18.620 It's easier than that and worse.

00:26:24.260 We got lazy.

00:26:26.600 We stopped reading.

00:26:30.040 In 2007, we get the cell phone.

00:26:32.500 We get the smartphone.

00:26:34.680 Oh, yeah, it's smart. 0.99

00:26:36.660 That's the dumbest thing we ever did to our society. 0.98

00:26:39.380 And we decided that thinking is too hard. 0.99

00:26:44.160 We decided thinking was a kind of rudeness

00:26:48.300 and that strong feelings were the same as conclusions.

00:26:51.520 you know there are more americans today with a phone full of photographs of food a waiter just

00:26:59.300 sat down in front of them than there are americans with a shelf of books that they've actually read

00:27:04.860 we've never had more access to every single fact in human history and we have never known less

00:27:13.440 and at the same time we've never been more certain

00:27:17.360 of what we know

00:27:19.180 even though we know Jack

00:27:21.760 we have so many moral failures

00:27:28.180 but none of those are moral failures

00:27:29.720 that's just atrophy

00:27:31.220 it's just a muscle we stopped using

00:27:34.340 and it goes the way muscles go

00:27:38.200 you know civilization takes centuries to build this isn't this wasn't built in 250 years this

00:27:52.580 took centuries to get here out of a thousand years English common law the printing press

00:28:00.440 the reformation the enlightenment the founding the long ugly tireless work of making the

00:28:07.640 promise true for everybody

00:28:09.520 in it. Century after

00:28:11.620 century of people who never

00:28:13.720 saw the payoff just

00:28:15.640 laying down another set of bricks.

00:28:19.880 You know what we learned on September

00:28:21.660 11th? It can all

00:28:23.760 be lost like that.

00:28:26.780 Not conquered.

00:28:28.340 Lost. Just

00:28:29.400 gone.

00:28:33.020 You know what I learned

00:28:33.600 this September 11th?

00:28:36.200 It can just

00:28:37.520 be set down, walked away from

00:28:41.140 by people who just assume it just grows wild.

00:28:48.620 Let me tell you something.

00:28:50.440 If we lose it, people

00:28:53.340 weep at that loss.

00:28:57.800 The generation after this one is going to wake up in a world

00:29:00.740 where the American century is over and they'll begin to understand what it

00:29:05.260 actually was and they will spend their whole lives maybe two generations maybe three clawing

00:29:11.920 to recover a fraction of it and not the america i remember before 9-11 not the rose-colored version

00:29:19.440 the one that never existed the real one this one right now with all the arguments and the warts

00:29:26.920 and the failures and the real injustices that still happen here and they still need fixing

00:29:32.760 that's what they'll be trying to get back not manage it not destroy it they'll try to get

00:29:38.680 today back because they'll look at today with all of our flaws and problems everything that

00:29:43.600 everybody's whining about and they'll say those were the good old days they will look at this

00:29:49.680 exact moment a country where a man can call the president a fascist on a screen the size of a

00:29:57.340 barn door on a $1,500 phone while claiming he's broke, while a machine brings dinner

00:30:04.860 to his apartment, and he goes to sleep without any fear whatsoever of the midnight knock

00:30:10.920 on his door.

00:30:12.900 Yeah, for as many problems as we have, these are the good old days.

00:30:20.220 I know nobody wants to hear it, but this is it.

00:30:24.820 You're living it right now.

00:30:27.340 you know we've already proved that we can do this not in theory in this lifetime in this

00:30:37.860 country with the same people we have right now you know when the bridges and the tunnels closed

00:30:43.100 after half a million people were stranded on the seawall in lower manhattan with a sky black

00:30:49.640 behind them do you know what happened bet you don't i mean they're not teaching you anything

00:30:57.960 about it i can tell you most people have never they never knew what happened down on that seawall

00:31:06.400 this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:31:10.560 it's september 10th we've been remembering charlie kirk uh today if you missed any of

00:31:20.560 the broadcast hour one is uh uh pretty powerful um and here in this hour we are talking about

00:31:30.840 september 10th and i want to use this as a measuring stick to remember where we have been

00:31:37.660 Where were you last year?

00:31:39.660 And I don't mean like, where do you remember where you were?

00:31:41.640 I mean, what did you promise yourself if you did?

00:31:44.860 You know, I am Charlie Kirk.

00:31:46.460 If you said that, what did you mean by that?

00:31:48.040 And have you done any of those things?

00:31:49.820 I mean, I did this against myself, you know, last hour.

00:31:52.780 And I don't measure up to where I wanted to be, what I promised myself I would do.

00:31:56.780 I don't measure up.

00:31:57.820 I don't think many of us do.

00:31:59.200 Some of us, thank God there's some people better than me and maybe you.

00:32:02.720 but we have to be able to remember and remember you know as i was saying remember that you could

00:32:10.820 walk through the concourse at the airport get right onto a plane on september 10th 25 years ago

00:32:15.880 by the next day you could not do that anymore

00:32:18.920 but we also just dog pile on all the bad stuff you know when the bridges and tunnels closed

00:32:27.460 half a million people were stranded right there in lower Manhattan. Half a million.

00:32:33.420 Sky was on fire behind them. Black, dust, ash, everywhere. I mean, it was...

00:32:42.940 You know, the Coast Guard put out a call for every boat that could come. Tugboats, ferries,

00:32:48.940 dinner cruises, fishing charters, you know, a guy with a Boston whaler, anybody, Coast Guard,

00:32:56.060 anybody that can help evacuate people please come and help in under nine hours they took half a

00:33:02.880 million people off of that island it is listen to this it was the largest and still is the largest

00:33:09.780 sea evacuation in the history of the world bigger than dunkirk

00:33:15.820 and then everybody just went back to work they just just went home most of them never told

00:33:25.580 anybody about it. And nobody organized it. Nobody was in charge of it. We were. We were.

00:33:35.480 We just did the right thing. Those people didn't die out. They're still here. They're

00:33:40.960 your neighbors. They may be the guy that you can't stand because of the sign in his yard.

00:33:51.420 And when people say, you know, I want my country back, that's what they mean by that.

00:33:54.640 I want that back. I want that back. That's the country I loved. But may I reverse that for a

00:34:00.660 second? I want you to look at that another way. That country loved us. Not the government,

00:34:10.400 the country, the thing itself. It fed people who never worked a day for it. It took in ones that

00:34:17.660 nobody else wanted, inside a generation, made children or grandchildren doctors and lawyers.

00:34:26.720 It went across an ocean twice for strangers and came home and asked for nothing but the ground

00:34:32.540 to bury its boys in. It made poor men's sons richer, richer than a European duke, and we

00:34:41.780 thought so little of it that we didn't even bother to write the man's name down. Do you know

00:34:47.320 we are making more millionaires right now this year than ever before. People who are coming from

00:34:52.940 the middle class and becoming a millionaire. This country has been carrying us the entire time

00:34:59.680 quietly every single day and nobody ever, nobody says anything nice about it and nobody ever sends

00:35:06.040 it a note. And now we've spent 25 years telling everybody it's wicked, that it's rotten. It was

00:35:15.820 rotten from the start that everything it gave us was stolen and everything that it built should be

00:35:22.420 torn down or burned down and it hasn't stopped and that's the part that really i can't it's still

00:35:30.380 feeding us this morning it's still a place people are dying in the desert to reach

00:35:36.540 it still goes on loving a generation that never once said thank you and might even be embarrassed

00:35:45.500 to say, thank you, America.

00:35:49.680 There's a name for that.

00:35:53.680 You love somebody who just won't even look up,

00:35:55.860 won't even give, you just keep setting the table anyway.

00:36:00.860 It's just going to keep doing it because it loves you.

00:36:03.900 And it'll keep doing it until the day it can't.

00:36:07.320 And it's not going to warn us.

00:36:09.040 There's not going to be a letter.

00:36:11.540 It just won't be there one morning.

00:36:13.420 because that's what we felt on September 11th.

00:36:16.800 My God, this could be over before we hit dinner time.

00:36:21.440 And the ones who come after will spend their whole lives

00:36:24.460 trying to describe to others what we lost.

00:36:30.660 We're telling our kids and our grandkids,

00:36:32.820 and they don't believe us now.

00:36:34.180 Wait until all of this is lost.

00:36:37.960 We'll fail because there won't be words for it left.

00:36:43.420 I want you to go back to that concourse with me

00:36:47.820 where I said you could walk in with your grandma

00:36:50.320 and you could walk her all the way to the gate

00:36:52.380 and you could carry her luggage and nothing was ever going.

00:36:54.660 And nobody stopped you and you stood there

00:36:56.780 and watched her from the window

00:36:58.380 as her plane pulled away from the gate.

00:37:01.960 Come back to that concourse.

00:37:03.400 She's wearing her good coat.

00:37:04.480 She's got the good coat on, the nice one.

00:37:11.000 You're carrying the bag with the wheels

00:37:12.580 that one of them just doesn't work right.

00:37:17.100 You stand at that window, and you watch that plane pull back.

00:37:23.280 You actually wave, even though you're pretty sure she can't see you.

00:37:28.520 And then you walk out into the parking garage,

00:37:30.440 and you don't think anything about it at all.

00:37:37.460 You get in the car, turn on the radio.

00:37:39.900 What's for dinner?

00:37:42.580 That was a gift.

00:37:47.020 Nobody told you, but that was a gift.

00:37:51.080 You were handed the last ordinary morning of the old world on September 11th, sorry, September 10th, 2001.

00:38:01.680 And you spent it thinking about dinner or whatever else.

00:38:06.840 Because everything else was ordinary that day.

00:38:09.700 And you were right to think about that.

00:38:11.020 That's what ordinary is for.

00:38:12.580 But I want to remind you, we're standing in the ordinary, a different kind, but an ordinary today, right now.

00:38:27.560 Somewhere in this country, there's a morning coming that will divide our lives entirely.

00:38:37.120 and that day is not on any calendar

00:38:41.160 nobody's watching and saying

00:38:43.780 I know when that's going to happen

00:38:44.900 and what we will remember about today

00:38:51.440 this Thursday, this nothing of a day

00:38:54.980 is what we always remember

00:38:57.100 not the argument, not the elections

00:39:00.260 but the kitchen, the dog

00:39:03.780 somebody's hand on the back of your neck.

00:39:13.640 You can't save a country by loving it.

00:39:17.780 But you also can't save one you've stopped loving either.

00:39:23.620 You can't love the thing without loving the people in it.

00:39:29.180 And the people in it

00:39:30.540 are the ones we're not speaking to anymore.

00:39:45.920 It is an ordinary Thursday in America.

00:39:51.940 I don't know what the rest of the day brings.

00:39:55.080 I hope nothing.

00:39:56.640 so we can all go to bed tonight and close our eyes

00:40:02.500 and not think about this ordinary day anymore.

00:40:09.780 And hopefully we wake up tomorrow to another ordinary Friday.

00:40:20.440 I remember September 10th, 2001.

00:40:26.640 It was the last ordinary day of my life, of the America I knew.

00:40:36.320 And in one day, the next morning, that ordinary America was completely different.

00:40:50.800 It's weird that we call what's happening in the world today ordinary, but it is.

00:40:55.100 it's just the new normal

00:40:58.080 and I thank God

00:41:00.760 we

00:41:01.000 we got another

00:41:03.900 September 10th

00:41:05.880 recognize what we have

00:41:14.180 don't spend this ordinary Thursday

00:41:18.100 this September 10th

00:41:20.040 the way we've spent

00:41:24.020 the last

00:41:24.620 25 years

00:41:27.600 of this date

00:41:29.660 I still believe we're bound for

00:41:36.740 greatness and glory and great things

00:41:39.820 I still believe that

00:41:41.720 our best days are ahead of us

00:41:44.600 but some days I really have to fight to believe that

00:41:49.700 but it's not going to come down to an election

00:41:53.680 It's not going to come down to politicians.

00:41:57.240 It's going to come up to us on an ordinary Thursday.

00:42:02.860 Just a group of ordinary big people.

00:42:09.560 That's America.

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