The Glenn Beck Program - October 08, 2024


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In this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn talks to the American people about the hurricane recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating storm that has devastated the southern coast of Florida and the aftermath of the storm. He also talks about the dangers of the mainstream media and the lack of coverage of the situation.

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00:00:00.340 Today's podcast is really you.
00:00:04.040 We open up the phones today and just talk to people from all over the country,
00:00:08.320 their concerns, their tales of hope.
00:00:13.620 Also, we get into some things like,
00:00:16.240 how are people in the path of the hurricane going to vote?
00:00:20.200 What's happening in Florida?
00:00:22.560 All of these questions and so much more on today's podcast.
00:00:27.180 It is open phones.
00:00:28.640 You hear from the American people today on our podcast,
00:00:32.420 which begins in just a minute.
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00:01:46.180 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:57.540 Let's come right out with the FEMA administration yesterday.
00:02:02.700 Cut five.
00:02:03.000 So much is going viral online as well.
00:02:04.780 One user suggested yesterday that a militia should go against FEMA.
00:02:08.300 It got more than half a million views.
00:02:10.360 What kind of impact has this had on the recovery effort?
00:02:13.520 It has a tremendous impact on the comfort level of our own employees to be able to go out there.
00:02:21.980 But it's also demoralizing to all of the first responders that have been out there in their communities helping people.
00:02:29.840 FEMA staff, volunteers, the private sector that are working side by side with local officials to go out and help people.
00:02:37.440 I need to make sure I can get the resources to where they needed.
00:02:40.340 And when you have this dangerous rhetoric like you're hearing, it creates fear in our own employees.
00:02:47.000 We need to make sure we're getting help to the people who need it.
00:02:49.960 This is the Bubba effect.
00:02:53.340 This is the Bubba effect.
00:02:56.040 And you're only in mainstream media.
00:02:59.040 You're only getting one side.
00:03:01.180 So that means half the country is only hearing that they are not in everything that the other side said to them is being dismissed as conspiracy theory or dangerous misinformation that only plays in to see.
00:03:19.860 I told you, I told you, I told you these people were dangerous when these people are the ones who have been the first responders.
00:03:27.680 We have been there long before FEMA ever showed up.
00:03:33.360 Let me give you two other stories and then we're going to go to the phone.
00:03:36.360 My premise here is you are going to lose your freedom of speech.
00:03:44.040 Elon Musk came out yesterday and said, believe me, they will try to shut down X by any means possible.
00:03:53.740 If elected, that is true.
00:03:57.260 If it wasn't for Elon Musk, we would be in a much different situation.
00:04:06.400 He is the only man of any real clout and power that is standing up against this push.
00:04:13.800 And you cannot dismiss this as a conspiracy theory because you have in the last week, Barack, Hillary, Harris, Walsh and the left all giving speeches or interviews saying this has to stop.
00:04:36.480 Now, let me give you this.
00:04:38.980 There is a there is a new pullout from the agencies or on the agencies and the bosses, the the bosses of all of the federal agencies were asked in a new Neapolitan Institute survey about the individual freedoms that Americans have.
00:05:03.600 Fifty one percent of those people in charge of our agencies say Americans have somewhat too far too much freedom.
00:05:16.460 The voters.
00:05:19.160 Sixteen percent.
00:05:21.840 Fifty seven percent believe the government has way too much control over their lives.
00:05:27.320 We are looking at a difference of a big difference of a very important opinion.
00:05:33.600 Between those who are in the agencies who control your life through their own regulation, not Congress, their own regulation, they believe you have somewhat to far too much freedom.
00:05:51.620 So, you know, among the Republican federal agency chiefs, thirty three percent agree and Democrats, sixty eight percent disagree.
00:06:05.320 So, even the Republicans are out of step.
00:06:10.720 But this is why RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk.
00:06:20.720 That's why they're saying cut the size of the federal government.
00:06:25.220 One last thing.
00:06:30.640 House Democrat Bill Foster has now introduced three separate bills that push digital identification on Americans through legislation.
00:06:43.780 What a surprise.
00:06:44.820 He's from Illinois.
00:06:45.880 He's announced the Improving Digital Identity Act in September 2020.
00:06:52.240 He says, quote, it's time for the United States to catch up with the developed world on digital identity technology.
00:06:59.600 He says this is a very bipartisan bill.
00:07:03.380 Remember, among the people who believe you have far too much freedom.
00:07:08.420 He says it's vitally important to ramp up safeguards to protect against identity theft and fraud.
00:07:17.220 When has our government been afraid of identity theft?
00:07:23.200 In bipartisan manner, a member of Congress appears to be collecting evidence to bolster their argument for why digital identification is required.
00:07:32.440 Apparently, the only way we can be safe is if we all have digital ID.
00:07:38.420 No, no, no, no, period.
00:07:46.220 Let me go to Mike in North Carolina.
00:07:48.100 It's open phones today.
00:07:49.280 I want to hear your voice.
00:07:50.540 888-727-BECK.
00:07:52.860 Mike.
00:07:54.260 Good morning, sir.
00:07:55.360 How are you?
00:07:56.920 Good.
00:07:57.380 How are you doing today?
00:07:58.140 I'm good.
00:07:58.980 How can I help you?
00:08:01.160 I was in the Asheville-Weaverville area, the Sunday after the storm.
00:08:06.340 Yeah.
00:08:07.560 Working with a president.
00:08:08.420 It's a private tree service.
00:08:09.540 Mm-hmm.
00:08:10.880 I just wanted to discuss the response to the storm or the lack thereof.
00:08:15.900 Yeah.
00:08:16.140 So, yeah.
00:08:17.120 Okay.
00:08:17.720 I've honestly never seen anything like it.
00:08:20.040 There was nobody there.
00:08:21.720 I didn't even see, like, a line-trimming tree crew or anything like that for four days after that storm.
00:08:28.320 And you say that's rare.
00:08:33.280 That's never happened.
00:08:34.280 I'll put it that way.
00:08:35.040 I've been doing tree work for 25 years.
00:08:36.960 I've been to most of the big ones.
00:08:39.020 And usually you're in a caravan of tree crews going up there.
00:08:42.480 And we were all by ourselves.
00:08:44.040 So, whose fault is that, Mike?
00:08:48.600 I mean, our crew was talking about this storm probably a week before it happened.
00:08:56.660 Correct.
00:08:56.840 We knew something happened with all that rain that came through.
00:09:00.020 It's amazing to me that they didn't have anything set up.
00:09:03.640 And who would have set that up?
00:09:07.360 The governor.
00:09:08.560 The governor.
00:09:09.500 The governor.
00:09:10.220 The governor.
00:09:11.040 Yeah.
00:09:11.340 You're exactly right.
00:09:12.300 Usually when they declare a state of emergency, things start happening.
00:09:17.060 Yes.
00:09:17.440 And the power companies, you know, they call in all these crews.
00:09:20.940 And I guess they didn't this time.
00:09:23.360 Yeah.
00:09:23.860 Interesting.
00:09:24.580 Thank you, Mike.
00:09:25.540 Patty in Connecticut.
00:09:27.560 Hello, Patty.
00:09:29.060 I can't begin to say thank you for all you have done, Glenn.
00:09:32.960 Stu, your group, Mercury One.
00:09:35.440 Oh.
00:09:36.200 For all the rising of the good-hearted American people.
00:09:41.140 Yes.
00:09:41.400 You are the soldiers.
00:09:43.020 We are the mercy.
00:09:45.000 The Americans are the most kind, empathetic, sympathetic.
00:09:50.180 And they rise to the occasions in any emergency time is of the essence.
00:09:55.340 Life depends on it.
00:09:57.820 People you help, the sick, the veterans rose to the occasions, the special forces,
00:10:03.000 the goods, the heart, the soul of America you see there.
00:10:06.880 This is the fabric of who we are.
00:10:09.320 We have to count on each other.
00:10:10.720 We have to believe in each other.
00:10:12.600 We have to pray every single day for God's healing hands on this country, for President
00:10:17.640 Trump to be the leader.
00:10:19.380 Leadership, logistics, planning is essential in an emergency.
00:10:24.160 Time will hurt people.
00:10:25.160 Time will hurt people, will delay care, will delay life.
00:10:29.700 We have children with no shoes.
00:10:32.440 We need to take care of these people.
00:10:35.080 We need to make them paramount in this country.
00:10:37.880 We make them to be what is going to be taken care of.
00:10:41.100 Charity begins at home.
00:10:42.980 We need to take care of our people first, our families first, who have probably worked very
00:10:48.340 hard their whole lives, never asked anyone for anything.
00:10:51.520 The pride of an American, the pride of an American, the American hard worker who does a full day's work and more and never asked for any charity.
00:10:59.400 They want to do it themselves.
00:11:00.980 Well, they were stuck and they're counting on us.
00:11:04.360 They're counting on us to be there, to be present, to do their very best.
00:11:09.660 And all the people who are in the area are using the essentials they have inside of themselves, their skills, their personal things they're able to do.
00:11:19.080 And they rose to the occasion.
00:11:21.100 Every life you save, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
00:11:25.280 This is who America is.
00:11:26.820 We never should forget that what this has actually revealed to every single person in this country.
00:11:32.480 There are heroes amongst us.
00:11:34.540 We are not alone.
00:11:35.840 Do not be afraid.
00:11:36.980 Do not let government make you afraid.
00:11:38.900 Stand up for truth.
00:11:41.300 Listen to shows as yourself where truth is paramount.
00:11:44.600 Take care of each other.
00:11:46.220 Look to see for people in trouble because Americans do not like to ask for help.
00:11:51.140 And in regard to Israel, that is God's land.
00:11:54.840 That is God's home.
00:11:56.240 Those are God's people.
00:11:58.060 Pray for them every day.
00:11:59.320 Give a dollar if you can to help these people.
00:12:02.260 Let them know that they have our support because when you're suffering terrible,
00:12:06.360 it is a huge comfort to every human being to know that there's someone there who cares.
00:12:11.960 Yes.
00:12:12.120 And if people should lose their life, it is so nice to know they didn't die afraid and alone.
00:12:17.620 I thank you for what you're doing.
00:12:19.480 Thank you.
00:12:19.920 You are people.
00:12:20.840 Thank you very much, Patty.
00:12:22.500 I really appreciate it.
00:12:23.440 I'm going right after the show.
00:12:25.020 I got here early this morning.
00:12:26.340 I haven't had time to go next door.
00:12:28.720 But I think the museum is full of pallets of food and supplies and everything else.
00:12:36.680 And I want you to know, again, I haven't had a meeting, but I did correspond with Mercury One yesterday about Tampa and Florida.
00:12:48.600 And we are pre-positioning in Florida as well.
00:12:52.620 So we will be wherever people are in need.
00:12:56.680 I have great confidence in DeSantis taking care of things in Florida.
00:13:04.100 However, this may be one of the worst ones that has hit in over 100 years.
00:13:09.360 And so we will be there as well.
00:13:11.600 You can donate to mercuryone.org.
00:13:14.540 100% of everything raised goes right directly to the problem and to the source to be able to help people.
00:13:24.120 100%.
00:13:25.240 I raise funds in other ways during the year.
00:13:28.820 So when we come on the air and ask you about, you know, an emergency situation, we can tell you that we're not paying our phone bills or staff, you know, employees, you know, the money.
00:13:41.100 That's all taken care of.
00:13:43.260 100% of your money will go to help the victims of hurricanes, natural disasters, this one in particular.
00:13:51.500 And this is going to cost a fortune.
00:13:53.720 We're almost at $10 million now, just from last week.
00:13:58.820 And we really appreciate it.
00:14:00.600 This is the most giving audience I think ever assembled.
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00:14:14.700 It's an honor to be with you and serve at this time.
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00:15:33.100 Ryan Trasher is on the vice president of the Cajun Navy, the United Cajun Navy.
00:15:39.980 Brian, thank you for everything you guys are doing.
00:15:42.620 You are absolute heroes.
00:15:45.100 Glenn, thanks so much for having us.
00:15:47.340 And really, we just want to take a minute to thank you and JP and the team over at Mercury One for the tremendous support and generosity.
00:15:54.180 They've been given us throughout this deployment in North Carolina, and we hope to continue to keep working together in Florida.
00:16:00.620 So thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts.
00:16:02.700 Everybody.
00:16:03.160 Thanks, Glenn.
00:16:03.860 I want to thank please.
00:16:05.280 It's the audience.
00:16:06.280 It's not me.
00:16:07.300 Right.
00:16:07.840 Please don't let me forget before we go to talk about Florida and what we have to do in Florida.
00:16:14.080 But first, can you can you talk to me?
00:16:17.880 Are supplies meant for Hurricane Helene?
00:16:21.420 Are they purposely being thwarted?
00:16:24.000 And what happened with the helicopter?
00:16:27.580 So, you know, I think I made the mistake of of asking for new conspiracy theories for Christmas because all the ones I got last year came true.
00:16:34.620 And so, you know, we we were we were on the ground pretty early in Florida.
00:16:42.160 You know, we always say that that people have to understand that FEMA and the National Guard are not first responders.
00:16:47.060 They're second responders and responders locally.
00:16:49.880 The local first responders are also victims.
00:16:51.940 So they're not always fully up to speed.
00:16:54.260 So that's why we put first shrimp boots on the ground and get to work right away.
00:16:57.800 The good thing about the United Cajun Navy is that we don't have to ask our lawyers for permission to do anything.
00:17:02.360 We just ask them to show up to the bond hearing later and we'll deal with it.
00:17:06.080 So anyhow, when we first got down there, we were hearing reports about people getting getting stopped and getting, you know, impeding the relief efforts.
00:17:15.640 It didn't happen to us.
00:17:17.080 You know, we we have an existing relationship with FEMA and the Red Cross and a lot of agencies.
00:17:20.960 So they know who we are.
00:17:22.920 And so we weren't really experiencing it like other people were.
00:17:25.880 We were getting reports of it for sure.
00:17:27.340 But then we were we started getting frantic calls and texts and pictures and stuff sent to us from our volunteers over at that site saying, you know, what in hell is happening in this?
00:17:39.340 You know, they said that the the this Blackhawk did a low pass like he was going to land.
00:17:43.980 And they started giving them the X signs with their arms saying, you know, it's a no land zone.
00:17:47.720 And he kept coming down and, you know, look, I wasn't there myself, but I've watched a video a bunch of times.
00:17:54.360 I am a pilot. I'm a big swing pilot, not helicopter.
00:17:56.740 But it does look to me like, first of all, he was he was flying too low.
00:18:01.420 FAA says you have to stay 500 feet over any structure of person.
00:18:04.400 And that's just a day one rule.
00:18:06.400 But it looks like he does a a left bank and then aft pitch, which increased, in my opinion, the strength of the rotary wash that you saw blowing all the materials in the tents everywhere.
00:18:19.160 And then he pitched forward and took off.
00:18:21.420 So I really don't you know, everybody's been sending us information on the aircraft.
00:18:26.140 They're saying, you know, I don't want to say like because we don't know for sure, but they think they know who it belongs to and where it came from.
00:18:33.420 So nobody knows, including myself, what the intent was.
00:18:37.040 Some people are telling me, oh, the pilot just lost his situational awareness and made a mistake.
00:18:40.800 I'm like, listen, Blackhawk pilots are the top guns of the rotary wing.
00:18:44.220 The only Blackhawk pilots that make mistakes are the dead ones. 0.93
00:18:47.880 You know, I mean, these guys are some of the best helicopter pilots in the world.
00:18:51.880 Seems like either we had just like a rogue hotshot or they were trying to send some kind of message.
00:18:57.640 I hate to go down that rabbit hole, but I mean, everybody's seen the video now.
00:19:01.160 Like, I'm happy to hear what anybody thinks.
00:19:04.140 So do I I know somebody who has a Blackhawk, believe it or not. 0.99
00:19:13.220 I didn't know you could buy them, but you can strip down, apparently.
00:19:18.320 Do we know if this was private, at least?
00:19:23.440 That was OK.
00:19:24.320 So my first instinct was like because you're right.
00:19:27.080 If you got money, you can buy what you got money.
00:19:29.020 You could buy anything.
00:19:29.780 Right.
00:19:30.760 You can rent a congressman pretty cheap these days.
00:19:33.420 Even with inflation.
00:19:35.240 So but but somebody.
00:19:37.480 One of our one of our followers like, you know, was really good with video and they were able to like kind of close up on it and see the two pilots in the cockpit.
00:19:46.820 It takes two people to fly Blackhawk.
00:19:48.320 And they said they were wearing standard DOD headgear.
00:19:52.160 The aircraft, if we think we've identified the right one, does appear to be registered to the military.
00:20:02.100 It was not armed.
00:20:04.800 So I thought maybe it was it belonged to an agency.
00:20:07.920 You know, I don't know.
00:20:09.080 I mean, it's there's so many possibilities.
00:20:10.660 There was no marking on it.
00:20:13.100 Not that not that I'm aware of.
00:20:14.760 We've we've looked at everything that we could as far as with the video and pictures available.
00:20:20.520 I mean, that's illegal, isn't it?
00:20:21.900 We just don't.
00:20:22.780 Yeah, we just didn't see any.
00:20:24.440 Huh.
00:20:24.960 So people have been using flight tracker and things like that to see who was flying flying missions in that area.
00:20:30.520 And, you know, again, they've come up with a few possibilities.
00:20:34.140 We're trying not to jump the gun.
00:20:35.520 And also, even if it let's say it was, you know, military, the last thing I want people doing is going and trying to find out who the pilots were and start harassing them.
00:20:44.240 And I don't want any of that.
00:20:45.640 Yeah.
00:20:45.880 No, I and I just said on the air, anybody who is threatening any government official is a problem and it should it should stop.
00:20:58.200 However, you know, standing there in a place like you're at now, I assume you're at our our base camp there by the Harley Davidson dealer.
00:21:08.800 Yeah.
00:21:09.480 Adam Smith, one of the baddest dudes in North Carolina.
00:21:12.140 Yeah.
00:21:12.680 And he has politely told them, go away because we have a system down and it's been working and it's saved a lot of lives.
00:21:24.880 And you can go do your thing, but you're not shutting us down.
00:21:29.700 There's no problem with saying thank you, but no thank you, as we are the first responders.
00:21:36.580 But you cannot take it out on the people.
00:21:40.780 You know, you can't.
00:21:42.180 Please be kind.
00:21:43.440 And I'll tell you, Glenn, we just so happened that the week before Helene hit, we had some pre scheduled meetings in D.C.
00:21:51.700 And one of those meetings was at FEMA.
00:21:53.220 And so they had us up into the incident command center, which is like their war room.
00:21:58.120 And they had just done a level one activation and they were watching Helene and talking to all the local emergency managers and making plans.
00:22:06.340 And I did not meet anybody in the entire building when I was at FEMA that was not a passionate, dedicated person that cares about their job and cares about helping people in trouble.
00:22:19.120 So FEMA as an entity seems like it's just another F word.
00:22:26.440 And you can say what you want about the leadership of FEMA and the political appointees, but the people on the ground, and there are people on the ground in North Carolina, have been since I got there.
00:22:37.100 But, yeah, don't be ugly to those people.
00:22:40.540 They're just employees.
00:22:41.820 Their job is to do this, and they do care about it.
00:22:44.700 By the way, I don't know how they can say that they've got this covered.
00:22:50.540 As of Monday, yesterday, only 9% of FEMA's personnel, or 1,200 people, were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters.
00:23:03.720 They are having a hard time.
00:23:05.700 They say this is the busiest year in the past decade.
00:23:09.020 And the staffing reserves at this point were 19%.
00:23:15.020 That is obviously not good, and they are having a difficult time getting people in to help.
00:23:25.860 So I don't know how the government can have it both ways.
00:23:29.100 By the way, this is coming from the New York Times.
00:23:31.860 I don't know how they can have it both ways.
00:23:34.200 Look, we don't need help, and we're here to take over.
00:23:39.200 And then at the same time, be short people, especially with Milton on its way.
00:23:44.000 Right.
00:23:44.260 And what's worse than being short people, and this is something that was intimated to me from some FEMA management people that obviously won't be named,
00:23:55.100 but it's not just not having enough bodies, Glenn.
00:23:58.520 They're more experienced staff or elsewhere, and you know what I'm talking about.
00:24:03.720 And so it's like they have people, but they're kind of fairly new hires still carrying around their employee handbook trying to figure out what's going on.
00:24:10.700 So they've requested, to their credit, these people have requested from their higher-ups to bring in some of these more senior, experienced people.
00:24:21.720 And my understanding is that that hasn't happened yet.
00:24:25.100 I can't thank you and every single veteran that is on the ground.
00:24:32.360 I mean, the American people are really good people, but we don't have the experience, per se, that you guys do.
00:24:40.420 The veterans and especially Special Forces guys, you guys sprung into action and set these systems up like only really military can do.
00:24:50.200 You just had what you had, and you made good with that, and you set it up, and you organized.
00:24:57.160 And I think you made the difference between life and death with a lot of people.
00:25:01.540 So thank you.
00:25:02.400 Yeah.
00:25:02.420 Yeah, well, and just to be clear, I myself am not a military veteran, but I'm a pilot.
00:25:08.320 I'm a boat captain.
00:25:09.280 I'm a diver.
00:25:10.500 I just did all these types of skill sets on my own, and it turned out to be useful.
00:25:15.560 But, yeah, you're right.
00:25:16.340 We have a ton of veterans, and they do make the best volunteers.
00:25:18.820 And they just – you can't freak them out.
00:25:23.480 You can't make them – you can't make them woozy.
00:25:27.420 They can handle anything.
00:25:29.120 And I think one of the other things that helped us out as an organization with regards to, you know, local or locals or federal officials trying to stop relief efforts is that we put it out there very early that anybody getting in our way, we're offering an all-expense-paid free swamp tour back in Louisiana.
00:25:44.860 So sign up, please.
00:25:46.540 All right.
00:25:48.780 Thank you so much.
00:25:49.760 Before you go, talk to me about Milton.
00:25:53.020 We are – so Milton is, you know, one of the lowest center of pressure in terms of millibars that we've seen in the last century.
00:26:01.660 We have our own meteorologists on staff at United Cajun Navy that are making sure that we're putting out accurate information.
00:26:07.840 And it's bearing down the – and NHC track is looking to stay right in that Tampa area.
00:26:14.460 Unfortunately, it's going to hit a very strong hurricane.
00:26:17.740 We are pre-positioned.
00:26:19.240 We have assets in Destin and Ocala, and we're moving more into the area.
00:26:23.580 We're going to have boat assets, supplies, and air assets just like we did in North Carolina.
00:26:28.440 So nobody has to worry about whether we're coming.
00:26:31.260 We're already there, and we're going to help as many people as we can.
00:26:34.720 The good thing about Florida is they do such a good job with these hurricanes as a state that usually we're just there for, like, maybe a few days or a week handling the life-threatening emergency stuff.
00:26:45.900 And then the state comes in and starts running their show, and it's – you know, they take over, and they have a tremendous snapback game.
00:26:55.280 Yeah, Ron DeSantis is absolutely incredible, just incredible with the system.
00:26:59.500 Everybody should have a Navy SEAL as a governor. 1.00
00:27:01.340 I mean, we love Jeff Landry.
00:27:02.440 Don't get me wrong.
00:27:03.100 He's a bad dude, but Ron's on another level.
00:27:06.940 Brian, is there anything you need in help?
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00:27:28.580 One thing everybody can do for free is go to our social media posts and share them.
00:27:32.700 That helps us grow and grow our mission, as does Mercury One and all your listeners.
00:27:37.920 So, again, thank you so much.
00:27:39.180 We are very grateful.
00:27:40.060 Thank you, Brian.
00:27:41.180 We're glad to partner with you.
00:27:42.760 Thank you.
00:27:43.720 Brian Trasher from the Cajun Navy.
00:27:47.160 He's the vice president.
00:27:48.780 Yeah, he's awesome and very funny.
00:27:50.860 These guys are, I mean, you know, they've been through these things over and over again.
00:27:55.040 And like he said, you know, they're just unflappable.
00:27:58.880 And there's nothing better in an emergency than have a group of people that are just like, we got it.
00:28:04.740 Don't worry.
00:28:05.220 We got it.
00:28:05.820 Especially when they're grappling down from a helicopter as they were over the mountains and, you know, pulling people up in the helicopter.
00:28:15.500 When I saw Corey Mills do that, I'm like, what?
00:28:19.420 Who does?
00:28:20.440 Well, I mean, you do that.
00:28:21.680 But I don't ever want to do that.
00:28:24.060 I don't want to have to do that.
00:28:25.360 I don't want somebody to have to pick me up like that.
00:28:28.280 You know, I'm just going to tie a rope around you.
00:28:30.940 And then we're going to just head on up.
00:28:32.440 No, thank you.
00:28:33.460 No, thank you.
00:28:34.680 All right.
00:28:34.940 More in just a second.
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00:28:38.920 Now with Milton on the way.
00:28:40.800 We really need to pull together.
00:28:43.320 And know that we will be there for you.
00:28:47.120 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:28:51.960 All right.
00:28:52.500 So last night I was at Monday Night Football up in Kansas City, and it was unbelievable.
00:29:00.380 I just love Kansas City.
00:29:02.020 Love.
00:29:02.820 I just loved everything about it.
00:29:04.320 Just loved everything about it.
00:29:06.960 Just fun.
00:29:08.560 And I just like the players are all, you know, Taylor Swift was there.
00:29:13.400 So it kind of.
00:29:13.920 Yeah.
00:29:14.180 Did you hang out with her at all?
00:29:14.960 You get a little.
00:29:15.540 Any Tay-Tay time?
00:29:17.000 No, no Tay-Tay time.
00:29:18.280 Darn it.
00:29:19.360 Darn it.
00:29:19.760 I don't think she was looking for any Glennie Glenn time.
00:29:24.320 No.
00:29:24.860 That would have been weird.
00:29:26.120 That would have been hilarious, though.
00:29:27.460 At some point they just show the box and you just go in there and you just get a hug from Taylor Swift.
00:29:32.560 Yeah.
00:29:32.720 And you guys are just joking.
00:29:33.520 The two of us sitting next to each other.
00:29:35.380 What do you think?
00:29:37.000 I love that new dance number you put into the show.
00:29:39.940 It's great.
00:29:41.200 Anyway.
00:29:42.460 Guarantee she knows more about football than you do.
00:29:44.760 Oh, yeah.
00:29:45.360 Guaranteed.
00:29:45.840 Yeah.
00:29:46.140 Guaranteed.
00:29:46.760 Guaranteed.
00:29:47.160 But I know about things like what's good for the country.
00:29:51.720 That's very true.
00:29:52.860 More than she does.
00:29:53.600 Very true.
00:29:54.080 All right.
00:29:54.760 So, Stu, last night you were watching the 60 Minutes interview.
00:29:58.960 I did watch that.
00:30:00.040 Yes.
00:30:00.520 How was it?
00:30:01.160 It was not good.
00:30:02.940 Really?
00:30:03.540 There are a lot of different things.
00:30:05.160 I much would have rather been watching football.
00:30:09.300 It was.
00:30:10.040 So, a couple things about it.
00:30:11.800 Number one was pitched as a Kamala Harris interview.
00:30:13.960 And it wasn't really that.
00:30:16.780 You got some Kamala Harris, a bunch of Tim Walls, and then an excruciatingly long piece
00:30:23.440 about whether the election in Arizona was stolen in 2020.
00:30:28.700 We got four weeks until the election.
00:30:31.320 Why?
00:30:32.640 Again, like, you can absolutely make a case that what happened in 2020 in Arizona is important.
00:30:38.880 Nothing can be done about it from now until the election.
00:30:41.460 What's important now is the 2024 election.
00:30:44.220 You get past 2024, you can start fixing problems you think exist in all these states once again.
00:30:49.260 Should have been done, obviously, between 2020 and 2024.
00:30:52.240 But there's just no relevance to this whatsoever at this point.
00:30:55.920 But whatever.
00:30:56.500 They're trying to make Donald Trump look bad.
00:30:58.500 A lot of it was, you know, tilted that way, including puff questions to Kamala Harris about,
00:31:04.240 so why do you think Donald Trump didn't want to do this interview?
00:31:08.280 Good, tough question in 60 Minutes.
00:31:10.200 You really pushed her there.
00:31:11.300 There were a couple of questions that were adversarial, I guess you could say.
00:31:18.160 There was the typical, hey, you flip-flopped on 943 issues.
00:31:22.660 Let me list three of them and let you give a generic answer about your principles.
00:31:26.580 Haven't changed.
00:31:27.500 That moment happened.
00:31:28.900 So let me play one.
00:31:30.360 This is cut three.
00:31:31.260 This is her being pressed on her nomination.
00:31:36.440 Listen to this.
00:31:37.120 Was democracy best served by President Biden stepping down and basically handing you a nomination?
00:31:47.120 You didn't have to go through a primary process.
00:31:49.020 You didn't have to fight off other contenders.
00:31:51.960 That's not really the way our system was intended to work.
00:31:55.260 President Biden made a decision that I think history is going to show is rare among leaders,
00:32:05.920 which was to put country before self.
00:32:10.680 Stop it.
00:32:11.200 He didn't want to do it.
00:32:12.460 And I am proud to have earned the support of the vast majority of delegates.
00:32:17.560 And to have been elected the Democratic nominee, I am proud to have received the endorsement of leaders around this country from every background and walk of life.
00:32:29.360 Nobody voted for you.
00:32:30.140 To fight in this election over the next month for our democracy.
00:32:38.060 But I think this truncated process is why people think or say they don't really know who you are.
00:32:45.600 Look, I've been in this race for 70 days.
00:32:48.620 Right.
00:32:50.220 Right.
00:32:51.080 Right.
00:32:51.580 Yes.
00:32:52.180 And nobody voted for you.
00:32:54.660 I mean, that's a fair question.
00:32:57.880 You're right, though.
00:32:58.800 The lack of follow up is difficult.
00:33:00.920 Right.
00:33:01.160 Like, it's tough to take because, you know, this would they would sit on this and press on it and say, wait a minute.
00:33:06.220 But you're saying you you won the votes.
00:33:08.720 You won the votes of the delegates after correct the sitting president endorsed you and you pushed everybody else out of the race.
00:33:16.380 And after you sat on the information that he was almost a vegetable for four years, three and a half years, you said, trust me, I'm there with him.
00:33:28.680 He is fine.
00:33:29.760 And then we find out he's not the night we find that out.
00:33:33.980 You say it was just a bad night.
00:33:35.960 He's fine.
00:33:36.880 Yep.
00:33:37.060 You went on Anderson Cooper and said everything was fine.
00:33:40.660 You see him behind closed doors.
00:33:42.740 He's incredible.
00:33:43.720 He's getting all these things done.
00:33:45.060 He's dealing with these leaders in these amazing ways.
00:33:47.820 She was lying after the debate about this.
00:33:51.720 Right.
00:33:51.900 And still, we really haven't had her pressed on what the hell happened there.
00:33:56.880 How did you why did you not tell people about this in advance?
00:34:00.620 Why did you continue to lie after everyone else already knew?
00:34:04.080 So why didn't he ask that question?
00:34:06.360 Cut eight, please.
00:34:07.420 Here's Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:34:09.220 And if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are.
00:34:17.000 If they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.
00:34:23.360 And it's not just the social and psychological effects.
00:34:26.840 It's real harm.
00:34:28.120 It's real harm.
00:34:29.180 So why didn't why didn't the why wasn't the question pressed over and over again the way it would be done for anybody else?
00:34:39.640 Cut nine.
00:34:40.460 Here's Tim Walls.
00:34:42.280 I think we need to push back on this.
00:34:43.740 There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.
00:34:50.100 That's an incredible clip, largely because he then repeated it during the actual debate.
00:34:55.460 Yes.
00:34:55.760 That was 2022.
00:34:57.200 That clip.
00:34:57.760 He had multiple years.
00:34:58.940 That clip went viral in between.
00:35:00.720 And he still thought that that there's, you know, that the hate speech is banned by the First Amendment and that you can't say fire in a crowded theater.
00:35:10.080 Things that anyone who studied this issue know immediately are wrong.
00:35:15.080 And he knows nothing about them.
00:35:16.860 Why didn't CBS ask the tough question?
00:35:19.860 Why is no one really pushing Kamala on FEMA and the response to this hurricane, which is devastating?
00:35:28.620 I don't know.
00:35:29.520 Cut 10.
00:35:30.140 And I think the the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing.
00:35:39.920 And it's part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue.
00:35:47.600 It's really hard to govern today.
00:35:49.780 You can't, you know, there's no, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact that kind of, you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree.
00:36:00.800 And people go and then people self-select where they go for their news or for their information.
00:36:07.660 And then you just get into a vicious cycle.
00:36:09.580 So it's really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I've been involved in this.
00:36:18.560 And, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some accountability on facts, et cetera.
00:36:30.560 But, look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
00:36:49.040 Notice they are not talking about who the final arbiter is on mis and disinformation.
00:36:56.900 The arbiter that they are asking for is them.
00:37:00.560 That they will alert social media and everyone else.
00:37:04.580 This is not true.
00:37:06.020 This is true.
00:37:06.960 Just like they did with the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:37:09.960 This is not true.
00:37:11.200 This is Russian disinformation.
00:37:12.640 When they knew the truth, you're seeing what they want to do.
00:37:19.340 They are telling you what they will do.
00:37:24.040 Now, we have to choose.
00:37:28.080 Let me go to Dallas.
00:37:30.560 And Dallas is, I just looked up, I thought it was Dallas, Texas, but Dallas is his name.
00:37:37.340 He is from Texas.
00:37:38.540 Hi, Dallas.
00:37:39.960 Hey, how are you, Glenn?
00:37:41.420 Good.
00:37:42.160 Long time listener, first time caller.
00:37:44.920 Thank you.
00:37:45.400 I'm a retired Army aviation major, and I've got more than 1,200 hours in Blackhawks and a couple hundred hours in Chinooks.
00:37:56.440 Oh, good.
00:37:56.760 And after hearing your conversation, I went to look at the videos of the Blackhawk dusting off your supply area.
00:38:04.880 And having done something very similar myself more than once, it is, I don't think it was on purpose.
00:38:14.540 Good.
00:38:14.700 It looked to me that as soon as they realized what they were doing, they were pulling away.
00:38:19.760 And I've seen more stuff than I can tell you blown over, including one of my soldiers was blown over by an Apache.
00:38:28.180 I mean, it actually sent him tumbling.
00:38:29.420 Many years ago in Korea, a lieutenant and I were flying a hawk, and we were tactically flying the riverbeds, and it just so happened it was also the vacation season in Korea.
00:38:41.580 And the Koreans set up these canopies and easy-ups on the river and float in the water. 0.90
00:38:47.800 And we were following the riverbed, not going real fast, and I thought I was high enough until I looked out and I saw canopies tumbling and flying every which direction.
00:38:57.840 You were popular.
00:38:58.300 Yeah, I was real popular.
00:39:02.860 Well, I'm glad to hear that, and I hope you don't think that we accused because we said we didn't know.
00:39:09.320 We'd like to know who owned the helicopter.
00:39:13.080 It didn't have a tail number on it, and so who was it?
00:39:19.340 And just to not take it out on the pilots or even the service, but just to ask the questions, what happened there?
00:39:25.300 What happened there?
00:39:25.980 I can't tell whether that's a civilian-owned hawk or whether it's a government hawk.
00:39:32.700 No, neither can we.
00:39:33.500 There's a lot of agencies that have them.
00:39:35.140 Once again, also, at Fort Hood, I got accused of flying over a neighborhood while I was at my house having a lunch, and I actually looked out and saw the Black Hawk, and I don't know if it was a customs or who it was, but after they found out that I was actually at my house and not flying, I got redeemed on that one.
00:39:59.500 But, no, if they had wanted to really cause some damage, they would have come in a lot lower.
00:40:09.040 And it looked to me like as soon as they realized, oh, crap, we're blowing.
00:40:13.880 And it was light stuff from looking at the video.
00:40:18.800 So I really, in my heart of hearts, I don't think it was done on purple.
00:40:22.240 I am glad to hear that, Dallas.
00:40:23.860 Thank you so much.
00:40:24.880 Let me go to Dan in Pennsylvania.
00:40:27.360 Hello, Dan.
00:40:29.020 Hello.
00:40:29.520 How are you doing this morning?
00:40:30.640 I'm good.
00:40:31.180 How are you?
00:40:31.640 As I said, I'm a minister, and I'm a district superintendent of a church, and I wanted to thank you for the other evening as you went off the show.
00:40:44.880 You talked about getting God back in our families.
00:40:47.540 I think it was back in our schools.
00:40:49.520 And I just, that's where we need to go back to, is we need to go back to what God, and I appreciate that.
00:40:57.780 You don't hear that much anymore over a talk show.
00:41:02.680 You know, it's strange, Pastor.
00:41:05.220 I don't hear it a lot from the pulpit sometimes.
00:41:09.520 That is true.
00:41:10.900 Yeah.
00:41:11.180 And what I don't understand sometimes is I want to be careful, but people call themselves Christians. 0.83
00:41:18.700 And I remember when Democrats and Republicans wasn't far apart.
00:41:23.040 We're beyond that today.
00:41:24.480 We're beyond good and evil.
00:41:25.780 And I would say anybody that calls herself Christians, conservative Christians, we need to get out and vote and get Trump back in.
00:41:35.440 And I've seen a difference in, I'm over 10 churches, and I've seen a difference in that period of time.
00:41:42.300 And I just wanted to thank you for putting that out and being courageous enough to do that, because most people would not do that.
00:41:51.760 Well, I think more and more people are, Dan.
00:41:54.980 I really do.
00:41:55.760 I thank you for your call.
00:41:56.860 I was in Kansas City yesterday, and I was with a small group, and it was just a kind of a Q&A thing.
00:42:05.600 And God came up an awful lot, and it was a secular thing.
00:42:12.420 And I think people, I think the people who are awake, and they're religious and awake, are willing to talk about God because they know that's the only thing left.
00:42:25.960 There doesn't seem to be fear anymore.
00:42:27.720 I mean, I'm not afraid.
00:42:29.660 Somebody asked me, you know, you think Jesus is coming?
00:42:33.040 They don't even get the sentence finished.
00:42:35.120 Yeah, I do.
00:42:36.540 I do.
00:42:37.160 Could be wrong, but yep, I do.
00:42:39.460 Now is the time to prepare and do all of the things that we're supposed to do because I think he's coming.
00:42:46.760 I would have never said that 20 years ago on the air, you know, and you certainly wouldn't be, I wouldn't have said it on the air like a lot, you know, maybe once.
00:42:57.080 You know, I don't know.
00:42:58.400 I mean, maybe he could come.
00:42:59.780 I think he's coming.
00:43:01.480 I think he's coming.
00:43:02.800 And I think the people, we have, we've had everything torn away from us, and like our children, the one opinion that Christians should not shy on stating is, I believe in Jesus Christ.
00:43:22.700 He is my Lord and he's my Savior.
00:43:25.000 He saved my life.
00:43:26.520 He saved my soul.
00:43:28.000 And I am here to serve him.
00:43:30.440 You should not be afraid to say that.
00:43:33.360 You have to say that.
00:43:35.140 It will give other people courage as well.