The Glenn Beck Program - October 18, 2024


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Andrew Klavan ｜ 10⧸18⧸24


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Glenn Beck and Andrew Klavan discuss the death of Hamas leader Sinoir Ben Yehudis and the fact that his bodyguard worked for the United Nation's Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and was a teacher.

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00:00:13.940 What you're going to hear today is a little bit about what happened at the at the fancy, you know, swanky white tie dinner in New York.
00:00:24.800 Like Kamala Harris did not show up. Donald Trump did. The reviews are pretty amazing.
00:00:30.940 Well, no, there's it's typical New York Times. He was mean. He was bad. He wasn't funny at all.
00:00:37.280 Except for one exception on the left that said he was funny, which will blow your mind.
00:00:42.380 Also, what is the government actually leading to?
00:00:46.520 What is the left doing when they talk about fascism and everything else? What are they setting up?
00:00:51.240 Why are we seeing these trends on things they're talking about? What is coming if they win?
00:00:59.180 Also, Andrew Klavan joins us. A show you don't want to miss.
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00:02:28.620 So, uh, Sinoir is dead, Stu. 0.87
00:02:31.840 Uh, do you have your...
00:02:33.680 Oh, you're not wearing black.
00:02:34.640 Yeah, it was all at the cleaners.
00:02:37.500 I had, uh, all black, dark clothes at the cleaners.
00:02:41.480 Gosh, darn it.
00:02:42.320 Mine, mine too.
00:02:43.560 Mine were, my black clothes to mourn, uh, the loss of the Hamas leader lost in a boating accident along with my guns.
00:02:51.540 Uh, darn it.
00:02:53.640 Darn it.
00:02:54.920 Well, well, I want everybody to know that we are just super, super sad at the loss of Sinoir.
00:03:01.580 Um, his, uh, bodyguard now, it appears, his bodyguard worked for the United Nations.
00:03:09.840 Stunning.
00:03:10.380 Wait a minute.
00:03:11.360 Hold on just a second.
00:03:13.200 Uh, his passport, uh, and we have verified this now with, um, inside the Israeli intelligence,
00:03:20.340 and we have the photograph of his passport, which states, uh, under his occupation, a UNRWA teacher.
00:03:29.260 Uh, so that's United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
00:03:34.260 Uh, he was a teacher.
00:03:36.240 Nope.
00:03:37.280 Nope.
00:03:37.620 He was a bodyguard, uh, right there with the cash and Sinoir.
00:03:41.300 Uh, I don't know.
00:03:42.680 I don't know what they were doing.
00:03:43.820 Uh, maybe he was teaching him, you know, how to, I don't know, how to use, uh, UN funds to kill more people.
00:03:51.720 Uh, but they were together and, uh, and we verified this now.
00:03:57.020 How many hoops do we have to go through to, to show UN employment, uh, on official travel documents, uh, for residents in Gaza that are part of Hamas?
00:04:09.500 Is this kind of thing, you know, is it rubber stamped all the time?
00:04:12.620 Uh, you know, is it, what, what was the involvement of the UN in the, um, October 7th attacks?
00:04:20.360 How much support has the UN given Hamas?
00:04:23.660 It's a terror organization, same level as ISIS.
00:04:28.960 The media is easy commentary on his death is not surprising, but I get the feeling that they're going to look very, very stupid, stupid, or dare I say complicit after all of this is over.
00:04:40.040 And eventually gang, the full truth comes out.
00:04:42.620 Um, you know, rest assured the full truth does come out eventually, you know, and, uh, that's when there's Nuremberg trials.
00:04:53.620 So good luck with that.
00:04:55.860 Glad I'm on the right side of this issue.
00:04:59.380 Uh, well, let's see.
00:05:01.360 Um, Jim Gaffigan was, uh, was the host.
00:05:05.220 I can't see Jim Gaffigan now and not think of Tim Walls.
00:05:08.500 It is, you know, it is a really funny impersonation.
00:05:12.980 I mean, they don't give him any funny lines because they don't want to make fun of Walls, but he just does the part so well.
00:05:19.860 It's so frenetic and bizarre, which is just what Tim Walls is.
00:05:23.200 Yeah.
00:05:24.200 Yeah.
00:05:24.480 So he makes fun of, uh, he was, he was at the Al Smith charity dinner.
00:05:29.060 That's the white tie dinner that the presidents always go to and everybody in New York goes to, uh, you know, that has lots and lots of money.
00:05:36.900 Um, and they, they raise money for Catholic charities and, uh, this is the first time since Mondale that both candidates have not been there.
00:05:48.020 Um, and, uh, Mondale, of course, you know, lost.
00:05:51.460 I don't know if it's a God thing could be, I don't know.
00:05:53.860 Um, but, uh, Kamala Harris decided not to show up and Jim Gaffigan, uh, bless his little heart.
00:06:01.380 Uh, he took on both sides hard, which is exactly what a comedian should do.
00:06:06.400 Here's here he is making fun of the Democrats last night.
00:06:10.000 The Democrats have been telling us Trump, Trump's reelection is a threat to democracy.
00:06:16.520 In fact, they were so concerned of this threat.
00:06:20.420 They staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent and installed Kamala Harris.
00:06:27.340 In other words, all her dreams have come true.
00:06:33.100 Really?
00:06:33.840 It really makes you consider the power of prayer, right?
00:06:36.200 Cardinal.
00:06:38.340 Sometimes prayers take three and a half years and a George Clooney op-ed.
00:06:49.460 He is funny.
00:06:50.980 He is very, very funny.
00:06:52.620 Now, Trump, uh, was pretty funny himself.
00:06:57.680 I mean, he's obviously, he didn't want to do this.
00:07:00.540 Uh, he said at the end, he just wanted to go up.
00:07:03.020 He said, I don't think anything's really funny right now.
00:07:04.900 The country is on fire.
00:07:06.320 Uh, our, our liberties are at stake.
00:07:08.600 And he said, I just wanted to come up here and, and just talk about that.
00:07:12.760 He said, but all of my advisors said, no, don't do that.
00:07:17.380 Do comedy.
00:07:18.260 And he said, well, last, last time, four years ago, when I came here, he said, I did a roast.
00:07:23.240 And Stu, you and I know, uh, what it's like to do a roast.
00:07:27.380 Cause you helped me write a roast that I did in New York with all of the superpower.
00:07:32.500 It was a dinner very much like this.
00:07:34.520 And it was a roast and nobody was roasting.
00:07:39.480 Everybody was telling like cute little stories and taking soft little jabs.
00:07:44.900 And I looked at the guy, I was sitting next to him in the dais and, and I looked at the
00:07:49.060 guy we were roasting and I said, might've made a huge mistake.
00:07:52.960 Uh, cause these guys are not roasting you and all my material tears you apart.
00:07:59.360 And he just laughed and he said, that's why I wanted you here.
00:08:03.040 I knew you would have the guts to do it.
00:08:05.040 Um, but, uh, apparently four years ago, uh, I don't remember this, but he, he appeared mean.
00:08:12.820 Um, at least that's what he said.
00:08:15.020 And, um, he said, I didn't want to repeat that.
00:08:18.600 Uh, but, uh, he, he, he did some funny things here.
00:08:23.020 He is, uh, roasting Schumer.
00:08:24.720 Coming in and coming in very, very strong, a certain way.
00:08:28.520 I won't tell you what way that is, but Chuck Schumer is here looking very glum.
00:08:35.340 Doesn't he look glum?
00:08:36.700 It looks glum.
00:08:39.940 But look on the bright side, Chuck, considering how woke your party has become.
00:08:45.540 If Kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president. 0.82
00:08:54.720 Did you watch this at all, Stu?
00:08:57.060 Only the highlights, uh, you know, it came out on X and stuff, but yeah, it was right.
00:09:01.300 So I was watching, I was watching it too.
00:09:04.000 Didn't Chuck Schumer, he looked like Gollum.
00:09:07.420 Yeah.
00:09:07.840 He's, he does look very strange at this point.
00:09:10.900 Yeah.
00:09:11.180 He was sitting there and he looked, yes, posture.
00:09:14.000 And he was sitting and he just looked like my precious.
00:09:18.040 You really look like Gollum, but maybe that's just me.
00:09:20.880 Uh, here's, uh, Trump talking about the white dudes for Harris.
00:09:25.540 There's a group called white dudes for Harris.
00:09:27.840 Have you seen this?
00:09:28.740 White dudes for Harris.
00:09:30.100 Anybody know?
00:09:31.000 Are some of you here?
00:09:32.100 White dudes for Harris.
00:09:32.820 It doesn't sound like it, but I'm not worried about them at all because their wives and their 1.00
00:09:38.840 wives lovers are all voting for me. 0.99
00:09:44.900 Every one of those people is voting for me.
00:09:47.560 Uh, on Tim Walz, here's what the president said, but unfortunately, governor Walz is in
00:09:55.180 here himself, but don't worry.
00:09:57.220 He'll say that he was, he's going to say.
00:09:59.800 Did you also notice Michael Bloomberg was sitting right in the front, uh, and the guy
00:10:11.900 didn't react or crack a smile one time.
00:10:16.780 Honestly, it was, it was the weirdest thing.
00:10:20.040 Not a single smile, nothing, no reaction, good or bad.
00:10:24.500 I mean, Schumer was rolling his eyes and stuff.
00:10:27.080 Yeah.
00:10:27.260 What the spirit of the event is to go there and you'd laugh at yourself and you, I mean,
00:10:31.760 that's what the, the event is right.
00:10:34.020 Bloomberg didn't.
00:10:34.640 It was interesting to watch cause you're right.
00:10:36.740 Schumer who at times would like, you know, roll his arm and roll his eyes, but that's
00:10:42.500 an okay reaction at that type of, it is Gaffigan.
00:10:45.880 I noticed as well, like actually laughed really hard at some of the jokes, others that were
00:10:50.680 like more like the, uh, the female president one. 0.99
00:10:54.020 He just kind of, he didn't want, he didn't want to react to that one at all.
00:10:57.680 But like, generally speaking, I thought everyone was pretty much okay on their reactions, but
00:11:02.780 Bloomberg was just nothing.
00:11:04.900 He was, it was weird.
00:11:08.020 It was just weird.
00:11:09.600 It was like, are you listening to a podcast or something right now?
00:11:13.720 What he, what is happening with you?
00:11:15.460 He was like that famous footage of the interrogation of one of the murder suspects who just sits
00:11:20.820 there in the room by himself for hours and never has a facial expression.
00:11:24.880 You ever see that footage?
00:11:26.100 It's like that.
00:11:26.880 Oh yeah.
00:11:27.960 That's classic.
00:11:28.840 So weird.
00:11:29.840 Uh, he, uh, he also, uh, uh, talked seriously about the assassination attempts.
00:11:36.180 Here he is cut for having, uh, recently myself survived to assassination attempts.
00:11:43.000 They survived.
00:11:44.840 Uh, I have a chart that went down to the right.
00:11:48.280 Fortunately, I looked at my all time favorite piece of paper, but it went down and I looked
00:11:53.060 to the right and I said, you know, was that luck?
00:11:55.580 What was that luck?
00:11:57.340 Or was that God that did that?
00:11:58.800 And I think it was God that did that.
00:12:00.660 I do.
00:12:01.360 I do.
00:12:03.160 But I have a very fresh cardinal.
00:12:05.340 I have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we are by God's providence and his divine mercy.
00:12:11.760 I mean, that was something I was not supposed to be here tonight that I can tell you.
00:12:16.980 So with God's help, I know there is, uh, nothing that cannot be achieved.
00:12:22.080 We can achieve so much good with this country and get together and unify.
00:12:27.840 I thought that was, I thought that was a really great sentiment.
00:12:32.240 Uh, there, there, it is a night where you're supposed to laugh at each other and then come
00:12:38.600 together at the end, which, uh, I thought he tried to do, except, except maybe for de Blasio.
00:12:45.360 Uh, he took on de Blasio and it wasn't funny at all.
00:12:49.720 He was serious.
00:12:50.360 And he's like, this isn't a joke.
00:12:52.560 He sucked.
00:12:53.980 He was the worst.
00:12:55.660 He destroyed this city.
00:12:57.220 Did you see that?
00:12:58.100 No.
00:12:58.720 Stu.
00:12:58.980 Oh my gosh.
00:13:00.660 It was, it was, he was talking about all the former mayors, but the worst one.
00:13:05.480 And he's up here and it's not you, Michael Bloomberg.
00:13:08.320 It's de Blasio.
00:13:09.980 And he just tore him apart.
00:13:12.560 You could tell it was, you could tell that Trump was a New Yorker, um, and loves New York,
00:13:20.000 uh, and really didn't appreciate de Blasio, uh, at all.
00:13:25.200 So, but here's, here's, do you want to, I want to end with miracles, um, because Donald
00:13:31.180 Trump was talking about that and it was a night of miracles, uh, especially if you're
00:13:37.980 watching CNN, here's Brian Stelter on CNN.
00:13:42.680 Brian Stelter.
00:13:43.660 What did you make of this performance?
00:13:45.740 Oh no, don't ask me first.
00:13:47.360 I thought he was funny.
00:13:48.940 I thought he actually got a few great jokes in.
00:13:51.180 I thought the best moment was we talked about the assassination attempts and made light
00:13:55.100 of what he's experienced because I think he's experiencing real trauma, real PTSD as
00:14:00.220 a result of the shootings, but he's still able to have a light moment in, in, in this
00:14:06.020 room.
00:14:06.340 And he took advantage of the fact that Kamala Harris wasn't there.
00:14:13.360 What?
00:14:13.960 That's Brian Stelter.
00:14:17.820 I mean, what this guy won't do to have a job is amazing because that's not his opinion.
00:14:27.160 It's clearly not his opinion or maybe his, uh, you know, diehard hate for Trump and Trump
00:14:33.300 can never do anything right.
00:14:34.580 Maybe that wasn't his opinion.
00:14:36.180 I don't know what his opinion is, but, uh, that's a complete turnaround for Brian Stelter.
00:14:41.780 Well, I mean, I think it was objectively funny at times.
00:14:44.960 I mean, you know, it can't, when has he been objective?
00:14:47.760 Well, I mean, it's easy to, again, it's easy to be, uh, objective on a moment like that.
00:14:54.260 I feel like, you know, like, I mean, you know, Jim Gaffigan is really funny, but he does not
00:14:58.460 like Donald Trump at all.
00:14:59.720 Like he is not a fan.
00:15:00.940 He's a liberal.
00:15:01.520 He's not a fan.
00:15:02.580 Uh, but he was able to laugh right at those, at some of those jokes because they were objectively
00:15:06.640 funny.
00:15:06.980 That is supposed to be what that event is.
00:15:09.500 Like I, it's more of a throwback to the old times when you could actually admit things
00:15:14.940 that are accurate, right?
00:15:16.920 He, Trump is objectively funny at times.
00:15:19.300 There's just no, it's just true.
00:15:21.720 It's just true.
00:15:22.340 And if you should be able to admit it, and I give credit to Stelter for admitting it,
00:15:26.700 I don't know that anyone else on the panel would do such a thing.
00:15:28.860 He is really funny and he has no part, no problem making fun of himself last night.
00:15:35.200 Last night he said, you know, they told me I should do some self-deprecating jokes, but
00:15:39.600 I got nothing.
00:15:42.580 I got nothing, but he does.
00:15:44.800 I mean, here he is making fun of himself on SNL.
00:15:47.240 Cut nine, please.
00:15:49.000 The guy's here to fix the leak on your solid gold faucet.
00:15:52.520 Send them in.
00:15:55.900 Donald Trump is the...
00:15:57.260 This looks like the Liberace...
00:15:58.460 It's a janitor.
00:16:01.160 Hey, I'm the prince of this city.
00:16:03.180 When you're in my office, you treat me with respect.
00:16:06.860 Who did your decorating? 0.99
00:16:08.780 Saddam Hussein?
00:16:12.160 I'll have you know this is all very classy stuff.
00:16:14.880 And that painting of the tiger and the woman has got me laid on numerous occasions.
00:16:21.300 I didn't know gay dudes liked tiger paintings.
00:16:24.520 Hey, you've crossed the line.
00:16:28.200 I've killed people for less.
00:16:30.360 Looks like you killed a squirrel to me and put it right on top of your head.
00:16:40.500 You're one to talk.
00:16:42.040 Your hair looks exactly like mine.
00:16:43.800 Yeah, except my hair is supposed to look like this.
00:16:48.140 I'm a janitor.
00:16:53.420 That's from 2004, by the way.
00:16:55.860 He's funny.
00:16:56.540 This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.
00:17:02.820 All right.
00:17:03.340 Let me talk to you about the burner launcher.
00:17:04.940 Unless you've done some pretty, you know, have some pretty serious issues.
00:17:08.440 You don't own guns because you're hoping to use one on somebody someday.
00:17:14.920 No, you do it because you hope to never use them.
00:17:18.020 But they're there in case.
00:17:19.860 Well, that covers a wide range of emergency situations where violence is called for.
00:17:24.960 But it doesn't cover all those situations.
00:17:27.120 Because sometimes, let's say you're in a car driving through the city.
00:17:30.220 And now your car is surrounded by Hamas protesters pounding on the glass.
00:17:35.160 What are you going to do?
00:17:36.360 You going to shoot them?
00:17:37.300 No.
00:17:38.180 You going to drive over them?
00:17:39.240 No.
00:17:39.680 But with my burner launcher, I could roll down my window just a little bit and stick that out and then pull the trigger.
00:17:47.820 And within 60 feet, I can put people down on the ground with just a little tear gas.
00:17:55.680 I'm just defending myself.
00:17:57.360 I'm just moving on.
00:17:58.260 I didn't want to hurt anybody.
00:17:59.760 Of course not.
00:18:00.820 I'm sorry, but my wife has a burner launcher. 1.00
00:18:04.800 I have one in our car.
00:18:06.380 She carries one.
00:18:08.320 And I'm sorry.
00:18:09.400 We're going to use it.
00:18:10.340 If I feel threatened, we're going to put you down on the ground.
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00:18:28.040 So the video I just played where you had United Kingdom cops asking a guy who was standing outside of an abortion facility,
00:18:36.660 standing there quiet, just praying.
00:18:39.700 What are you doing here?
00:18:41.160 And he said, I'm praying.
00:18:42.320 Well, we need to know the nature of your prayer.
00:18:45.720 What?
00:18:47.060 Well, I'm praying for my son.
00:18:48.540 I hate to pry, but we're going to need more than that.
00:18:54.160 Well, I'm praying for my son who died.
00:18:57.080 Well, okay.
00:18:58.140 I hate to say this, but we think you're in violation of, you know, their version of the FACE Act.
00:19:04.460 Now, the reason why I bring this up is because if you don't think that's coming here, that's already happening in England.
00:19:14.200 If you don't think that's coming here with a Kamala Harris administration, you're fooling yourself.
00:19:20.480 That's minority report.
00:19:23.580 Tell me what your prayers are.
00:19:25.760 By the way, if you remember the plan from the World Economic Forum, by 2030, they will be able to read your mind and read your dreams.
00:19:39.600 So all they'd have to do is just, I don't know, put a little hat on you, or I don't know exactly how that's going to work.
00:19:48.180 But we are into mind crimes now.
00:19:51.040 And if you think the person who is, I'm sorry to say it this way, but I think it's the only way you can say it.
00:19:58.800 The woman who is the most bloodthirsty on abortion I think I've ever seen in any powerful office is not going to do minority report. 1.00
00:20:09.980 When they're putting people who were, you know, grandmothers in prison.
00:20:16.580 I think you're fooling yourself.
00:20:18.180 We are on the verge of losing your right to speak and to pray.
00:20:24.960 They've already lost it because they don't have the First Amendment. 0.55
00:20:28.500 They've already lost it in the United Kingdom.
00:20:30.920 And the reason why it is hard for people to believe this is because they just, they are, A, being lied to by those who are paying attention in the media.
00:20:44.440 And, B, being misled, and not in a malicious way, but the media is so self-centered, so self-righteous, so self-important, that they don't do any homework.
00:21:02.220 They just listen to the crowd.
00:21:03.880 And I want to give you an example of this.
00:21:05.680 This is the Ferguson effect on CNN.
00:21:10.660 Now, listen to this.
00:21:11.540 This is Ryan Gerdusky.
00:21:14.160 He is a conservative who was talking about the Ferguson effect on CNN on a panel.
00:21:22.900 Listen to this panel.
00:21:24.000 I think it was yesterday, Ryan, about how, in the context of riots, he was saying, let's just bring the military into it to deal with American citizens.
00:21:32.420 I mean, that happened yesterday.
00:21:33.780 Right.
00:21:34.100 But there are, the post-George Floyd riots resulted in excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.
00:21:40.000 How?
00:21:40.980 How?
00:21:41.720 Yeah.
00:21:42.020 The surge of violent crime, it was like Ferguson.
00:21:44.280 The Ferguson effect and the Floyd effect.
00:21:46.020 Respectfully, you got to explain to me how George Floyd's death resulted in 15,000 black male deaths in this country.
00:21:51.120 You really are messing me up.
00:21:52.740 What happens is, after the Ferguson riot and after the Floyd riot, policemen, in fear of their jobs many times and political coverage, pull back from their jobs, resulting in an increased level of crime size.
00:22:03.380 Ryan, listen, I got to stop you there.
00:22:04.680 Ryan, listen, I got to stop you there.
00:22:05.260 You can look at the Washington Post numbers on this.
00:22:07.300 Ryan, we got to stop you there, because you're literally making a connection out of your own conjecture.
00:22:11.320 You cannot just do that.
00:22:11.760 It's a real thing.
00:22:12.460 Look up the Ferguson effect.
00:22:13.880 Look up the...
00:22:14.240 Incredible.
00:22:14.920 Stop.
00:22:15.160 Incredible.
00:22:15.640 This is incredible.
00:22:18.880 Accusing him of just making this up out of pure imagination.
00:22:25.120 This is absolutely true.
00:22:28.940 And well known.
00:22:29.760 It was a theory.
00:22:30.900 Yeah.
00:22:31.540 It was a theory at first and then proven to be true.
00:22:35.340 Cops stopped doing their jobs because they were afraid that they were going to be next on the chopping block.
00:22:42.100 And that resulted in the crime of black on black going up and people getting killed. 0.97
00:22:52.480 It's really not that hard to put together if you just use some logic.
00:22:59.340 And none of them have even heard of it.
00:23:00.720 Instead of saying, none of them heard of it.
00:23:02.720 That's what's incredible, Glenn.
00:23:03.700 None of them.
00:23:04.040 None of them.
00:23:04.600 None of them.
00:23:04.780 None of them.
00:23:04.940 None of them.
00:23:05.060 None of them.
00:23:05.100 None of them.
00:23:05.280 None of them.
00:23:06.100 None of them.
00:23:18.600 None of them.
00:23:19.040 And none of them have heard of this before.
00:23:21.480 You're going to have to...
00:23:22.700 I mean, forget the fact that maybe you haven't seen the CDC studies on the Ferguson effect and
00:23:27.080 the Floyd effect.
00:23:27.620 OK, like maybe you just missed out on a major national news story that is tied directly to what you're talking about.
00:23:33.140 But like that does occasionally happen for people.
00:23:35.680 But the fact that this guy, think about what the country looked like after George Floyd.
00:23:42.360 You can't come up with even a basic narrative as to how this would affect people negatively.
00:23:49.120 Cities were on fire all over the country.
00:23:51.740 What do you mean you can't come up with any idea how you could connect George Floyd's death to more deaths of African-Americans?
00:23:59.320 How is it possible that a human brain cannot noodle this through in mere seconds?
00:24:05.940 If you even if you've never heard of it before, which, by the way, is completely unacceptable if you're on a CNN panel about race.
00:24:14.180 It's bonkers. And it just shows these people live in these bubbles.
00:24:19.560 They are looking at this one conservative on the panel with this sort of like condescending disdain.
00:24:26.100 Like you have just like they went on like some conspiracy site and he's come up with this crazy bonkers idea,
00:24:34.680 which is well covered by by this this freaking CDC.
00:24:41.400 And I should also mention the news network CNN, which wrote articles about the Ferguson effect.
00:24:48.900 Yes, it did. And you know what? If if I would have if that would have been my show,
00:24:54.120 I would have done a segment the next day saying, Ryan, we need to apologize to you because we didn't know they didn't do that.
00:25:01.740 No, they just move on with their lives.
00:25:04.600 Just move on. Just like Glenn, when in the ABC debate,
00:25:08.740 they fact checked Donald Trump about the rising crime rates and said, no, actually, the crime is falling.
00:25:14.700 It's falling. And that's one of the that's the biggest event of the year for ABC News.
00:25:19.920 The biggest the biggest thing that came out of that debate was all of the fact checking against him.
00:25:25.920 It was a big controversial topic.
00:25:27.720 And yet when the new the information comes out that actually the crime rate of violent crime rose in this country,
00:25:35.580 according to the FBI, there's not and and wait a minute and exactly the way Donald Trump pushed back.
00:25:43.380 Yes, exactly. What he said happened is what happened.
00:25:47.720 Yep. And they do. They have. I mean, that is almost like almost you could argue should inspire a special by ABC News.
00:25:59.140 An entire half hour about crime in the country, how they got this wrong, why they got this wrong and a reversal.
00:26:06.040 At the very least, a prominent position on the news broadcast hosted by David Muir, the guy who actually did the fact check.
00:26:13.780 He should lead a broadcast saying, look, by the way, in my highest profile moment of my entire career,
00:26:21.120 I got a major fact wrong and I want to make sure you know about it.
00:26:24.880 Nothing. They've done nothing. They haven't even brought it up.
00:26:28.360 It's it's a disgrace beyond even what we normally expect from the mainstream media.
00:26:33.760 That's why that's why they have no credibility.
00:26:37.500 But remember, they are deemed along with the government as the people that are the arbiters of truth.
00:26:45.520 That's another reason you cannot allow Kamala and her cronies to win because they are claiming that they have the 0.55
00:26:57.780 the handle on truth and it is the government and the media's last word is the correct word.
00:27:06.780 Everything else is mis and disinformation.
00:27:09.740 It's not, gang. It is absolutely not.
00:27:13.260 Now, there are those people like I think the panelists on the CNN on CNN.
00:27:16.880 They honestly just didn't know. They're just not intellectually curious, I guess, or have a bad memory or don't watch CNN.
00:27:25.380 I don't know what it is, but I don't think they had ill intent on that.
00:27:30.980 They were just ignorant.
00:27:32.100 However, do you remember the study they did in the 1960s where they separated the class between brown eyes and blue eyes?
00:27:40.600 And they showed that when they separated and said this person has brown eyes and brown eyed people are not as good as blue eyed people.
00:27:49.400 By the end of the day on the playground, everything it had changed.
00:27:53.180 They started separating themselves into groups and looking down their nose at the others.
00:27:59.720 Well, this is happening in real time.
00:28:02.680 It's just not eyes.
00:28:03.760 Listen to this.
00:28:05.160 This is a TikTok video that shows a mother explaining what her daughter's teacher in California was doing.
00:28:13.560 Cut 10.
00:28:14.240 Do you guys think this is normal for them to bring politics into school?
00:28:19.260 And if they vote for, I live in California, by the way, but if you vote for Kamala Harris, then you're going to get a pizza party. 0.56
00:28:25.700 But if you vote for Donald J. Trump, apparently you are excluded.
00:28:29.180 What was it about the pizza party?
00:28:32.620 That we don't get the pizza party because only the kids that have, only our class that voted Kamal get to eat the pizza party.
00:28:43.020 But some of the kids didn't have voted for Kamala, they were voted for Trump.
00:28:46.400 So then what's going to happen to them?
00:28:48.560 They're not going to be included.
00:28:50.080 So I believe only one period, period five, had a majority for Harris.
00:28:56.720 And I said to follow that same spirit because the Democrats are more for feeding the hungry, free medical care, feed more services, just pay higher taxes.
00:29:11.520 I'll be willing to buy pizza for the class.
00:29:14.440 So the other classes, because they did not vote for Harris, they're not going to get pizza?
00:29:20.460 Yeah, well, they can.
00:29:24.880 They just do what the conservatives do, which pay for yourself.
00:29:28.800 Oh, that's fine.
00:29:29.400 Can I take some pizza for those other classes?
00:29:34.420 For those other classes?
00:29:37.320 What do you mean?
00:29:38.920 The ones that voted for Trump.
00:29:40.480 It's hard to figure out.
00:29:47.240 You can?
00:29:48.340 I mean, that is crazy.
00:29:53.620 That is crazy.
00:29:55.100 That is indoctrination.
00:29:57.160 So they are deciding what is true.
00:30:00.200 They're going into a minority report asking you what your prayers are about soon in America.
00:30:08.860 And they are indoctrinating our kids in all kinds of different things.
00:30:15.920 I don't know.
00:30:16.580 I know who my house is going to vote for.
00:30:21.380 I mean, I'm proud of my children.
00:30:23.300 They each came to me themselves and said, Dad, I'm going to vote for so-and-so.
00:30:27.700 I didn't even ask them.
00:30:29.340 I can't believe people are going to vote the other way.
00:30:32.960 I'm with you.
00:30:34.320 I'm with you.
00:30:35.140 I wouldn't have shunned them if they did vote the other way.
00:30:37.940 I would have had them explain why exactly.
00:30:40.660 But if they came up with a good reason or if they even had a bad reason, it's not my vote.
00:30:45.440 It's their vote.
00:30:47.120 But how many people even know the truth to be able to vote?
00:30:54.160 How many people are thinking today, because of Kamala Harris, that Donald Trump said he was going to release the National Guard and the Army on people he disagrees with?
00:31:06.180 Because that's what they're currently saying.
00:31:09.820 He did not say that.
00:31:11.980 He said if there is a riot because of the vote, it should be taking care of the National Guard.
00:31:18.480 Exactly what he said two days before January 6th.
00:31:24.980 God help those people who have turned good into evil and evil into good.
00:31:30.020 This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.
00:31:32.820 Andrew Klavan, my man, how are you?
00:31:37.460 It's great to talk to you, Glenn.
00:31:38.880 It's been too long.
00:31:40.800 It's good to talk to you.
00:31:42.660 Before we get into the book, how are you feeling about the state of the nation?
00:31:48.580 Well, nervous like everybody, but pretty good, you know.
00:31:51.680 It looks to me like I think that Trump is further ahead than the polls show.
00:31:56.460 And I think, you know, there's always chances of fraud and all this stuff.
00:31:59.780 But I think another Trump term would not be the worst thing that could happen to us.
00:32:04.100 And I think the Kamala term would be.
00:32:06.940 So I think that makes me pretty optimistic at the moment.
00:32:09.820 It doesn't mean anything.
00:32:10.580 That $15 will get you a cup of coffee.
00:32:12.800 I know.
00:32:13.800 I know.
00:32:14.480 Stu and I said exactly the same thing.
00:32:16.520 We've been looking at each other and we've been like, okay, don't jinx it, but how do you feel?
00:32:21.480 And we both feel optimistic.
00:32:23.100 We know it could go the other way, but we feel like it's turning in the right direction.
00:32:28.940 I have no idea what the fraud and everything else is going to do, but it's turning towards Trump.
00:32:35.140 And I think he's doing a fantastic job myself campaigning.
00:32:40.120 If Glenn Beck feels optimistic, it'll probably rain chardonnay.
00:32:43.420 I think we're...
00:32:44.200 And as an alcoholic, I approve that message.
00:32:49.220 So, Andrew, tell me about your new book.
00:32:54.960 Well, you know, this is a book in the Cameron Winter series.
00:32:59.220 It's kind of a crisis book.
00:33:00.440 It starts with Cameron Winter really almost having a nervous breakdown.
00:33:05.200 And he becomes obsessed with finding an old girlfriend whom he's never gotten over.
00:33:09.940 And he feels that she's being chased down, hunted down by someone who wants to kill her.
00:33:13.720 And he wants to get there first.
00:33:14.980 And it takes him into this world of extremist politics that we're all in, of the far right
00:33:20.500 and the far left fighting each other on the streets.
00:33:23.020 And Winter's a guy who really has no politics.
00:33:25.580 He's worked for the government.
00:33:26.580 He knows how the sausage is made.
00:33:28.880 And he's just kind of pulled back from any kind of form of belief.
00:33:33.000 Because I wanted to give the audience a chance to kind of look at the place that we're in
00:33:37.060 without lectures, without political size, and just show you, I mean, to me, what a novel
00:33:43.680 is about, what the arts are about, is showing you the world you're in, you know, showing
00:33:47.040 you the culture you're in, so that you have a better perspective on it.
00:33:50.360 And what I started with is, how do I solve the problem about writing about America?
00:33:54.740 We have to write about our divided politics without lecturing people, without telling people
00:33:59.780 what to think, you know, because it's just boring and it doesn't make for good stories.
00:34:03.140 So I hope this is a rip-roaring story, but it does take place in a world that you'll
00:34:07.140 recognize and hopefully give you a new perspective on it.
00:34:11.620 So how did you do it?
00:34:13.940 How did you show both sides without lecturing?
00:34:20.440 It takes a lot of strength and a lifetime of practice.
00:34:26.060 But also, I invented this character, Cameron Winter.
00:34:29.340 He's a guy, he's not an atheist, but he doesn't believe.
00:34:32.580 And he has no politics.
00:34:34.480 So just to write him honestly is to just show you the world from the point of view of, he's
00:34:39.500 a good man, he's trying to become a better man.
00:34:42.220 And he's got a past that haunts him and all this, but he is trying to become something better
00:34:46.880 than he is.
00:34:47.960 But he doesn't have a side, you know?
00:34:49.840 He doesn't think that there's any system that's going to make everything all right.
00:34:53.040 And he's just trying to find a way forward to become something more than he's been in the
00:34:57.740 past.
00:34:58.060 And I think that that kind of, you know, I think all of us are there.
00:35:01.420 All people want to be better than they are and live into their best selves.
00:35:05.460 And we're doing it at this time where you're just constantly thinking that everything's
00:35:09.580 unraveling, you know?
00:35:11.200 And so how do you become the person you're supposed to be at a time when everything is
00:35:17.320 just seems to be coming apart at the seams?
00:35:19.140 And so that's the position winter is in.
00:35:21.500 And I think a lot of us are in.
00:35:23.300 It's amazing the times we live in, isn't it?
00:35:26.480 The opportunities, if you look at it the right way, the opportunity we have to be better
00:35:32.520 people is unlike anything I think my father experienced in his lifetime.
00:35:37.440 Um, you know, he, he was coming of age during world war two, but didn't fight, uh, was too
00:35:44.420 young.
00:35:45.040 Um, and then, you know, then you go into the American empire kind of phase where things
00:35:50.600 were pretty good.
00:35:51.900 Uh, he was too old for the 1960s, you know, he was out of, you know, years out of college
00:35:58.480 by that time.
00:35:59.860 Uh, and so he just kind of was like, you know, I don't know, uh, you know, the Mary Tyler
00:36:06.260 Moore show, you know?
00:36:08.080 Uh, and I wondered how much better of a man he could have be, it could have been.
00:36:14.160 And I think he was a good man, but how much better of a man he could have been if he lived
00:36:18.620 in times where all the men and women were pushed to the wall and had their backs up against
00:36:25.000 the wall and had to decide what side they're on.
00:36:27.100 You know, that it's a great question because I'm absolutely convinced that we are in a
00:36:32.660 time of massive transition, that what is happening is not, you know, everybody thinks it's the
00:36:37.120 end of days.
00:36:37.900 It's the fall of Rome.
00:36:39.100 It's whatever, you know, it's, it's a terrible, uh, collapse, but the end of something is always
00:36:44.220 the beginning of something else.
00:36:45.380 And I think we're at the verge of a real change in the culture, a real change in the way we look
00:36:50.960 at things.
00:36:51.720 And I think the stuff that we've been doing for the last 60 years has failed.
00:36:54.920 It's played itself out.
00:36:55.980 And you think like, well, what's it going to be?
00:36:58.460 And it's going to be like you, it's going to be like each of us make it what we turn
00:37:02.400 it into by turning ourselves into something really good.
00:37:06.420 Then it will become something good.
00:37:07.880 If we go for the main chance, we become cynical and absent and turn away from what we know
00:37:12.440 is the, the ultimate truth.
00:37:14.100 Then I think, you know, the country goes down, but I don't think that's going to happen.
00:37:18.000 And that's why, that's why I wanted to write novels now about, about a guy in that situation,
00:37:22.040 you know, about this kind of transitional moment when everything is on the shift.
00:37:25.780 And I just think, you know, you're right.
00:37:27.820 I think this is, these, these are the times that try men's souls, but they're also the
00:37:31.420 time that form men's souls.
00:37:33.160 And I think that that's, that's what we're dealing with.
00:37:35.100 And if we don't, you know, if we don't take that on, you know, if we just kind of start
00:37:38.160 to whine and say, oh, this is hard and it's harder than it used to be.
00:37:41.160 And it's not what it used to be.
00:37:42.280 Then, then that's what we'll get, you know, that's the result.
00:37:46.220 And isn't it bizarre, isn't it bizarre, Andrew, the way, um, the, we've all changed.
00:37:54.340 I mean, there are people, you know, look at RFK, look at what he's doing.
00:37:58.100 He's campaigning with Donald Trump.
00:38:00.520 Look at Elon Musk.
00:38:01.900 Okay.
00:38:02.320 Both of them from the right or from the left, me from the right, I'm, I'm starting to agree
00:38:07.320 with some of the food stuff that RFK is saying.
00:38:09.960 And I'm like, you know what?
00:38:10.880 I think he's right on that.
00:38:12.280 And I, you know, I think the, I think the, uh, the right or the left has been right about
00:38:17.920 these ongoing wars.
00:38:19.280 I'm with them.
00:38:20.260 And now they're on the other side.
00:38:22.460 It's so weird.
00:38:24.000 It is so weird.
00:38:25.380 It is so weird that the left has become the party of the elites and the right is finally
00:38:29.820 talking to the working man.
00:38:31.320 Right.
00:38:31.820 Yeah.
00:38:32.340 All along.
00:38:33.460 I, you know, I just think, look, you know, you know what I think, you know, that I think
00:38:38.060 that when you leave God out of the equation, you're just going to get everything
00:38:40.840 wrong.
00:38:42.840 And I think that we've been living, you know, when you stand back for a minute and think
00:38:45.480 about what the elites have been telling us for the last, I don't know, 20 years, you
00:38:50.140 know, men can become women and racism can be solved with more racism. 0.78
00:38:53.800 And, you know, there's no such thing as good or bad.
00:38:56.440 It's just all kind of relative to where you are.
00:38:58.940 It's complete nonsense.
00:39:00.440 I mean, it's not like a little bit nonsense.
00:39:02.140 It's not like a flawed idea.
00:39:04.100 It's complete babbling foolishness.
00:39:06.500 And I think that you get to that place by making some kind of primary mistake.
00:39:11.320 And that's, I think, what the transition that's coming on.
00:39:13.620 And if you look around, Glenn, suddenly you've got people who, you know, you even have Richard
00:39:17.480 Dawkins sort of saying, well, I kind of like Christmas, you know, because I would be
00:39:20.840 sorry, you know, you have Ian Hurley who grew up under this horribly oppressive Islamism 1.00
00:39:27.100 suddenly saying, you know what?
00:39:28.500 I still believe in God.
00:39:29.660 I want to become a Catholic.
00:39:30.780 You know, these things are actually happening and things that you and I have been talking
00:39:34.380 about for a long time.
00:39:35.660 And it's actually taking place.
00:39:37.060 And I think that that is like a light at the end of the tunnel.
00:39:40.120 I want to go back to the book for a second, because there you take on sex trafficking in
00:39:45.460 this.
00:39:45.780 And it looks a lot like what's in the news right now with Epstein and Diddy and everything
00:39:52.760 else.
00:39:53.920 Were those stories that are in real news, is that what inspired you to take on this evil
00:40:00.860 in your book?
00:40:03.120 Yes.
00:40:03.520 I mean, I worked in Hollywood for a long time, and I'm going to tell you that I believe that
00:40:08.700 the stuff that is going out there, Harvey Weinstein didn't even scratch the surface.
00:40:12.440 And I think, look, you look at the Catholic churches have this problem.
00:40:16.300 Some of the Protestant churches have had this problem.
00:40:18.120 Government has had this problem.
00:40:19.720 And you start and, you know, Jeffrey Epstein is still a mysterious death.
00:40:24.260 I really do believe that.
00:40:26.480 And I really think that there is something about power that turns people into abusers.
00:40:31.500 And we are dealing with a failed elite in this country, a failed leadership class that I think
00:40:37.320 is abusing people on a very, very broad scale, or at least in a very deep scale.
00:40:42.120 Like, in other words, it goes deep into our culture.
00:40:45.280 I think that QAnon thing was absolute nonsense, but it's absolute nonsense that has a layer of
00:40:51.760 truth at the bottom of it.
00:40:53.040 You know, it's not nonsense built on nonsense.
00:40:55.340 It's nonsense built on some deep truth.
00:40:57.400 The way we abuse people for sexual pleasure, and especially young people, at the highest
00:41:04.240 levels of power, is something that has deeply corrupted our society.
00:41:08.200 And I believe that it begins with the kinds of beliefs that we've been talking about.
00:41:14.080 And so, yes, I wanted to deal with this.
00:41:16.040 And this is a theme in the books that there's something going on.
00:41:19.940 I mean, Winter is a guy who killed people for his government.
00:41:22.580 And one of the themes of the books in general is that a soldier never comes back to the country
00:41:27.300 he went off to fight for.
00:41:28.600 And he's come back to a country that he loves, and he's found it corrupt and crumbling and
00:41:33.500 divided.
00:41:34.280 And one of the ways that it is corrupt is that this sexual abuse of young people.
00:41:38.880 And he has started to realize that it goes very deep.
00:41:41.800 And now that throws his whole past into a new light.
00:41:44.780 And it throws the questions of his future.
00:41:46.760 What is he going to do in the future?
00:41:47.820 How is he going to continue to be the guy he is, knowing what he knows about what's
00:41:52.140 going on beneath the surface?
00:41:54.840 You know, it's one thing to talk about, you know, the deep state and everything else.
00:42:01.300 And it's another to ponder what could and is beginning to look like is most likely happening
00:42:08.480 with the power structure of our country.
00:42:12.120 And I'm not just talking the Democrats.
00:42:13.540 I'm talking the whole thing, people with power all over the world.
00:42:19.540 And to see that that is, you know, almost what was that Kubrick movie, Eyes Wide Shut, that
00:42:25.740 kind of really creepy kind of evil that that might actually be the reality behind these big
00:42:36.620 power structures.
00:42:37.460 It's a little terrifying.
00:42:39.480 It really is, because there's so much blithering virtue, you know, posturing up at the top.
00:42:47.320 And then underneath, when you start to look at it, you know, how is it possible that no
00:42:52.360 one has ever been indicted for being one of Jeffrey Epstein's, you know, followers?
00:42:58.260 How is it possible that these things never get exposed?
00:43:01.440 And again, I don't even think it has to be the kind of conspiracy that you see in the
00:43:06.360 movies, it can just be a conspiracy of interest.
00:43:08.560 Oh, yeah.
00:43:08.820 I don't expose you if you don't expose me kind of thing.
00:43:11.980 And I just think that these are stories, you know, when I was in Hollywood, what used
00:43:15.460 to happen all the time is you start to read stories about some big, you know, gang of
00:43:21.340 people who are abusing people and kind of seep up to the top.
00:43:24.360 And there would be an article in Variety, the showbiz trade paper saying, you know, people
00:43:28.920 are starting to sweat that this is going to come out and then suddenly we just disappear.
00:43:32.060 This may have happened three times when I was in Hollywood, separate times.
00:43:36.720 And you think, like, where does it go?
00:43:37.980 You know, how does that suddenly disappear?
00:43:40.360 And it's got to be because people with a lot of power are turning it off.
00:43:45.580 And I think, like, I've been writing about this a lot, but I like it to be threaded through
00:43:50.040 my novels, too, because I think it is a part of the culture that we don't see, but we all
00:43:55.440 kind of know is there.
00:43:56.840 And I think it's a sickness.
00:43:57.960 I think it's a sickness that needs to be rooted out.
00:43:59.720 So, Andrew, it's always good to talk to you.
00:44:03.220 Just, I love you, love your work and everything you do.
00:44:07.160 I just think you are, you know, there's a handful of people.
00:44:10.740 I put people in different categories of trust and the highest level of trust is, would I
00:44:16.040 leave my kids to that person in an emergency?
00:44:19.260 Just say, take my kids. 1.00
00:44:20.780 And you're in that.
00:44:22.040 Sorry.
00:44:23.260 They're now in their 20s, but you've got to take them now, Andrew.
00:44:27.880 You've got to take them.
00:44:30.820 But you're in my highest level of trust.
00:44:33.920 I just love you so much.
00:44:34.960 Thank you.
00:44:35.460 Well, back at you, Glenn.
00:44:36.620 Thank you so much.
00:44:37.360 I really appreciate it.
00:44:38.280 Na, na, na, na, na.