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00:00:30.000 Hey, all this week, it is a celebration of our 250 years as a nation.

00:00:38.800 Beginning tomorrow for an hour, the second hour of the broadcast,

00:00:43.200 will be the telling of the Declaration of Independence.

00:00:45.760 How did we get there?

00:00:46.580 And it is an incredible story.

00:00:48.820 I've worked personally about a week on writing it to make sure that it's all right and doing the research.

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00:00:56.760 in today's best of podcast, we start with socialists in America. And geez, there's a lot

00:01:03.120 of them. There's a lot of them. We talk about the 13 Democrats, kind of like the 13 colonies

00:01:09.400 that are standing against the rest of the 257 Democrats in Congress. These guys have said,

00:01:17.260 hey, we're not socialists. We're not communists. We'll see if they're eaten because I start with

00:01:23.060 a story about what's happening in Europe with just air conditioning and what it means to you.

00:01:28.540 Also, I show you a remarkable document as we get ready for our 250th anniversary

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00:02:07.720 well the heat came to europe uh this month in a way that it uh it comes uh every year early and

00:02:17.900 angry. Boy, what's happening in the Midwest this week? What's happening in Washington, D.C. and

00:02:23.320 New York? It is going to be boiling hot. In Spain, the thermometer hit 111. Britain just lived through

00:02:32.160 the hottest June it has ever recorded. And in France, in a single week, 40 people drown.

00:02:39.120 What does that have to do with the heat wave? Well, they weren't drowning in storms. They were

00:02:46.680 in rivers and lakes and quarries because they were desperate to get cool, and the water was

00:02:51.800 the only relief they could find. So 40 people drowned. World Health Organization, yeah, those

00:02:58.080 experts, say heat kills 175,000 people just in Europe every single year. I want you to sit on

00:03:07.000 that number for a second. That's nuts. 175,000 people in Europe every single year die of heat?

00:03:15.000 that can't be true well here's what's really crazy we know how to prevent most of it and it's not

00:03:23.080 really a moonshot it's a box in a window that blows cold air what a crazy thought studies say

00:03:33.720 air conditioning cuts heat deaths by as much as 75 percent now listen to this one study this is

00:03:40.000 the lancet it accredited uh air conditioning was saving nearly 200 000 older europeans in a single

00:03:47.640 year 90 of american homes have it in europe one in five so you would think with bodies piling up

00:03:59.320 that europe might be going like you know we got to get a box in every window you know maybe that

00:04:04.320 would be a social program that would be helpful you'd think that that would be one thing everybody

00:04:09.700 could agree on. But you'd be wrong. Let me take you to some of the things that are happening here

00:04:16.680 in France. Let's play cut two here. This is a British mom talking about her child's room,

00:04:25.240 her baby's room. Listen to this. Us using so much electricity, oil and gas is the reason we're in

00:04:30.900 this position in the first place. However, last summer, I was seven months pregnant in the summer.

00:04:37.300 and this summer I've got an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old

00:04:41.040 and my baby monitor last night said that both rooms at seven o'clock at night

00:04:45.280 which is their bedtime was 31 degrees and Kate like I think you said earlier

00:04:49.620 that the guidance is if the room is 29 degrees or over

00:04:53.420 children under five should not be in them now what do I do

00:04:57.320 where do I put them they have to go to sleep so you put the aircon on

00:05:01.260 so I put the aircon on and it it makes it more manageable

00:05:04.660 but it still wasn't an enjoyable sleep i i struggled to sleep in that and my my little

00:05:09.840 baby is so restless do you leave the aircon on all day would you just put it on no so i leave it on

00:05:14.440 throughout the night during the day i keep the the curtain shut yeah um but it is like an oven

00:05:19.980 and our houses are designed to keep the heat in

00:05:23.360 so 88 degrees that's 31 degrees celsius it's about 88 90 degrees baby's room 90 degrees

00:05:36.220 you wouldn't leave a kid in a car at 90 degrees but here's what they're telling the people in

00:05:43.600 in england here's a british climate activist cut one if you can switch your electricity provider

00:05:51.000 to one that's completely renewable or you speak to your MP and tell them that we need to get off

00:05:55.700 oil and gas, not allow new giant oil fields like Rosebank that they're currently still considering

00:06:01.120 to go ahead. Those are the sorts of things that means that we can actually make our grid green

00:06:07.000 and that we can actually have air con without making climate change worse.

00:06:10.660 But all of that would take a heck of a long time.

00:06:13.100 It won't be done by tonight, will it?

00:06:14.280 Are you saying in the interim you shouldn't have air con? You should wait until you can say hand on

00:06:18.240 heart yep it's green energy that's keeping me cool well i think we need to be honest about the

00:06:23.800 fact that it has costs right and then when we have when we face these sorts of costs we then

00:06:28.640 need to make a decision well who should we prioritize should it just be someone who fancies

00:06:32.780 being a bit cooler or should we be prioritizing the people who need it people with young kids

00:06:36.920 all right people who are elderly people who have disabilities that mean that they can't cool

00:06:40.360 themselves these people are out of their mind nuts they're out of there this by the way is an md

00:06:45.320 This is a doctor.

00:06:46.480 This is a doctor saying these things.

00:06:48.620 Now, here's what's happening in the real world in France.

00:06:52.380 Here's a store.

00:06:54.500 See if we can go ahead and roll this, please.

00:06:56.400 This has got three, I think.

00:06:58.340 This is a store in France.

00:07:02.980 I don't know if they're doing the little piggy thing, but...

00:07:06.440 Oui, oui, oui, all the way home.

00:07:08.360 They are going in, and they're just taking the air conditioners.

00:07:15.960 They're just storming in a store as it opens, rushing in a frenzy to grab all of the air conditioners.

00:07:23.060 But they're going to have police at their house because you're not supposed to be using your air conditioners.

00:07:27.760 Once they see your power going up, then you're going to be in trouble with the climate police.

00:07:33.100 Let me take you to another town in France.

00:07:35.100 This one's called Nîmes.

00:07:36.040 there is a primary school there little kids in this primary school and this spring the classrooms hit

00:07:43.100 104 degrees in the classroom 104 child fainted so they started moving the lessons out into the

00:07:51.780 hallways just to find some air that didn't feel like you were in a convection oven well they

00:07:58.140 couldn't find it kids come home the parents do what all parents would do they didn't wait for

00:08:04.120 the government. They passed the hat. In three days, they raised about 2,000 euros. They bought

00:08:10.100 five portable air conditioners and put them in the children's school. Okay, problem solved, right?

00:08:17.160 Of course not. You're in France. The mayor of Neame is a communist. One of his deputies was

00:08:25.220 honest to tell exactly what happened. The mayor of the communist mayor of Neame made them take

00:08:33.480 the air conditioners out of the schools. And he said it's because it set a precedent because in

00:08:40.020 some neighborhoods, parents don't have the means to do the same thing and get their kids air

00:08:44.860 conditioning. Let me repeat that again. The children may not be cool now because there are

00:08:51.040 other children that cannot be cool. So take all of the air conditioners out. Everybody sweats

00:08:57.720 together i just want you to know that's not a glitch that is the socialist philosophy

00:09:04.040 that's that's what it is you're all going to be miserable and it's not just france in london

00:09:11.040 the borough of camden the council told the residents in an apartment building to rip out

00:09:15.400 their air conditioning to comply with net zero the official advice how to survive the heat wave

00:09:21.660 open your windows open your balcony doors that came from the people who they elected to represent

00:09:29.460 them okay now lay this over everything else that's going on over in in europe and in england

00:09:37.400 the fuel more than half of what the european pays at the pump is tax in britain that's three to four

00:09:47.360 a gallon in tax alone. The price of the pump roughly is double what you pay here. So in

00:09:55.840 some places, it's as high as $5 a gallon. That's not an accident. That's the policy working as

00:10:04.040 designed. Make the fuel hurt. Make cooling disappear. Pursue net zero. And I'm quoting 0.99

00:10:11.700 the critics now whatever the cost so even if the cost is a child fainting in the classroom in may

00:10:20.120 even if the cost is 175 000 people that die even if it's 40 people that die from drowning

00:10:28.580 this is what it looks like when a country is governed by experts and elites not evil men

00:10:35.700 necessarily clever men credentialed men men with a spreadsheet and a target and the quiet certainty

00:10:43.020 that they understand how you ought to live better than you do and once they have the power to act

00:10:48.540 on it the air conditioning comes out of the window and they'll tell you it's for your own good and

00:10:53.260 for fairness and for the planet here's why i'm telling you this i'm going to give you some stats

00:11:02.700 on what the Democrats,

00:11:03.940 and I'm going to show you some things

00:11:04.980 that happened with the Democrats

00:11:06.100 over the weekend.

00:11:07.780 It is getting terribly frightening.

00:11:09.740 These are not progressives.

00:11:12.940 They are not socialists.

00:11:15.820 They are communists.

00:11:17.100 And the mask is finally fully coming off.

00:11:21.840 This week, at the same time,

00:11:23.980 we're celebrating the Declaration.

00:11:26.580 250 years, almost.

00:11:28.760 And I want you to understand

00:11:29.800 exactly what those men built

00:11:31.260 because it's the exact opposite of what you're seeing happening over in Europe and in England.

00:11:36.240 Our constitution is a design, a charter of negative liberties.

00:11:41.300 And people say that like it's an insult.

00:11:42.940 Barack Obama used to always say, it's a charter of negative liberties.

00:11:45.560 We need a charter of positive liberties.

00:11:47.000 No, no, no.

00:11:47.960 The whole miracle is that it is a charter of negative liberties.

00:11:52.660 You know, it doesn't hand you a list of the things the government will graciously permit you to have.

00:11:57.320 it hands the government a very short list of things that they can never ever do to you and

00:12:02.400 what they can do. Congress shall make no law, shall not be infringed, shall not be violated.

00:12:10.200 No, no, no, no. That's what our constitution is all about. It puts a leash on the government,

00:12:16.760 not the citizen. That's why no mayor in America can send a man into your child's school and carry

00:12:22.620 the cold air back out the door because some family across town doesn't have it. That's the

00:12:27.560 difference. That's what the Declaration and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that's the

00:12:32.080 whole difference. So this week, celebrate it. Celebrate your rights. Celebrate your responsibilities

00:12:38.720 because a free people must carry both of those things. But celebrate the strange and beautiful

00:12:47.500 thing that those farmers and lawyers did in Philadelphia when they wrote down not what you

00:12:53.920 owe the state, but what the state can never do to you. This is what sets us apart. And don't let

00:13:03.280 anybody ever talk you out of it, but they are the Democrats. It's remarkable what is happening on

00:13:10.280 our streets right now with the democrats and it is waking up some some democrats 13 in congress

00:13:17.780 13 democrats have come out and i want you to hear what they said first you got to hear what was said

00:13:23.040 to them on the streets this week and then what they're saying 13 of them it's a good start okay

00:13:29.940 i want to show you what is happening on our streets and i told you at the very very beginning

00:13:36.260 Remember, from the beginning, I'm talking early 20th century American progressives, and you're seeing it now.

00:13:44.220 Early American progressives, they are actually communists.

00:13:48.040 They liked communism, and they just didn't like the bloody revolution.

00:13:54.160 And so they decided, if we just take it one step at a time, we can get there to this totalitarian state where we have experts running everything.

00:14:03.460 That's the early 20th century American progressive.

00:14:06.260 okay um now some people were conned into it and they're like no progressivism just means we love

00:14:12.460 each other but that is the understanding and i told you at some point you get to a point point

00:14:18.320 of of of breaking the system cannot stand when you've mixed them these two systems of free people

00:14:27.160 free will free choice and communism can't and the masks will start to come off and i told you before

00:14:34.280 that they would start to come off

00:14:35.700 and they would declare that they were socialism.

00:14:38.420 Yes, I said, this is in 2008,

00:14:40.860 they like socialism.

00:14:42.740 In fact, they don't like capitalism.

00:14:45.560 Now they were all denying this at the time.

00:14:47.520 And I said, you watch, it will happen.

00:14:49.560 And they will start taking apart capitalism

00:14:51.540 and saying socialism is the only answer.

00:14:54.360 The masks would fully come off and say,

00:14:56.320 yes, we're communist, it's got to change.

00:15:00.380 Well, that's where we are now.

00:15:01.740 now let me play some uh some audio of what happened over the weekend with some of these

00:15:08.740 um some of these communists here's scott weiner now scott weiner is the san francisco uh nancy

00:15:17.800 pelosi wannabe okay he's running for nancy pelosi's office he is as far left as you can go

00:15:24.760 but he is jewish listen to what happened he was at a trans march listen to this

00:15:31.260 Redeem yourself. Do s*** thing. Scott, I want to like the person. Such good legislation on trans rights. You're a piece of s***. Scott, I want to support someone who's s*** about trans rights, but you're a piece of s*** on Gaza. Do that. 1.00

00:15:56.280 listen to this i think we've heard enough this is an amazing thing here's a guy who has been

00:16:03.080 so pro-trans and everything else he is as left as the left can get okay he's been their champion 0.76

00:16:10.280 but now it's not enough now because he's jewish he has come out and said um israel was committing 0.91

00:16:19.580 genocide still not enough still not enough unless he'll say from the river to the sea 0.56

00:16:26.820 and because he's jewish he can never say enough look at the vitriol and how they have turned on

00:16:35.540 him this is called a purge this is exactly what communists do all the time they purge

00:16:42.720 they take the people that were with them if you don't step up to the line they want

00:16:48.420 they eventually kill you okay joe biden here he is uh being heckled at a speech cut five

00:16:56.740 it's a battle that's never truly over 0.97

00:17:01.720 okay here they go so that's this they're calling him genocidal joe genocidal joe yada yada yada

00:17:09.780 this is at a maryland democratic party uh gala now here is a group of toronto i mean 0.79

00:17:20.020 i'm just saying i mean i'm just using their language it's the 2026 toronto dyke march and 0.56

00:17:27.940 i thought these people from holland and then i i learned i was like nope don't put your finger in 0.98

00:17:32.660 that anyway um this is completely different different kind of dyke not like the ones in 0.97

00:17:37.380 holland they're marching uh and here's what they're chanting 0.98

00:17:41.940 we're here we're queer free palestine is our demand 0.98

00:17:54.080 uh you're gonna be really surprised when that all comes together because you're going to be dead 0.98

00:18:01.820 you're going to be dead because they don't like you in the end remember what they're doing to

00:18:10.620 you right now what they're doing to scott weiner right now will be done to them because weiner 0.95

00:18:17.940 thought he was fine all these people in the trans uh community think they're fine all these people 0.65

00:18:24.120 in the gay community they're now saying palestine palestine they think they're fine just like scott

00:18:29.160 wiener thought he was fine a couple of years ago just like when he was standing with people that 0.66

00:18:35.080 he knew didn't like jews but we can all work together because we have the same goal once they 0.99

00:18:39.940 get enough power they kill you so as you're chanting at your dyke march just remember 1.00

00:18:50.120 you're next you're not at the top of the food chain you're at the bottom of the food chain 1.00

00:18:57.100 and they will eat you next.

00:19:01.060 Now, where does all this come from?

00:19:03.200 Cheddar.

00:19:04.840 Cheddar is funding a lot of it.

00:19:07.800 We're going to get into that

00:19:08.760 and then make full circle back to air conditioning

00:19:12.280 because I'm just amazed at how people don't understand 0.99

00:19:18.060 they'll kill you.

00:19:20.280 The ends justify the means. 0.99

00:19:22.820 We get to that when we come back in a minute.

00:19:27.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:19:36.060 I can't thank all of the insiders and everybody else who came on Saturday night and Saturday afternoon.

00:19:42.120 I was giving speeches all day in Idaho about the history of America, and I met so many great people.

00:19:49.480 I mean, people drove from California and Colorado, and I met a couple from Ohio and Oregon.

00:19:55.500 Again, it was an amazing afternoon, and thank you so much for coming to that.

00:20:01.160 I'm going to be in D.C. on Wednesday at 2 p.m.

00:20:04.600 I'm going to be at the Great American State Fair.

00:20:06.680 That's on the nation's mall at the Capitol.

00:20:09.740 You can find out all the information at freedom250.org,

00:20:12.680 but I'll be speaking at 2 p.m. at the Great American State Fair.

00:20:16.540 Then Wednesday night, that night, July 1st, I'm going to be doing the torch live,

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00:20:27.140 It is great.

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00:20:32.580 On Monday, I'm going to be at Citizens United for Israel,

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00:20:39.580 It's a night to honor Israel.

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00:20:55.740 Then in Vegas next Saturday, I'll be in Las Vegas speaking at Freedom Fest.

00:21:01.140 So you don't want to miss that.

00:21:03.620 This week, starting tomorrow, I'm going to tell you three days in a row, I'm going to tell you what it took to write the Declaration of Independence.

00:21:09.920 It's going to be in this hour, and you do not want to miss it.

00:21:13.080 It is a great story, and I've been working a week on the research on this.

00:21:19.120 But today I just want to show you something that we just got.

00:21:22.540 I just won this in auction for our museum.

00:21:28.140 Tanya and I bid on this this weekend or this last Friday.

00:21:32.880 It's an amazing, amazing document.

00:21:36.140 You know, the Declaration of Independence is such a great story.

00:21:40.860 But, you know, the war started long ago.

00:21:43.980 And this is a document.

00:21:47.200 It's on paper. It's 13 1⁄2 inches by 8 1⁄2.

00:21:51.200 And up in the left-hand corner right here, or the right corner, is pressed to bind the fiber together.

00:21:58.960 No ink. It's just a clear, clean bite into it, and it's a seal of Rhode Island.

00:22:03.300 And it just has the word hope on it, which I love. Hope.

00:22:07.500 At the bottom, two signatures. One is Nicholas Cook. He is the governor.

00:22:11.760 And at the right is Ward, Henry Ward. He was the secretary.

00:22:16.280 and between the seal and this is a commission

00:22:22.620 and its authority granted two men

00:22:25.620 to go and act in the name of the people of Rhode Island

00:22:28.900 and the date is the 6th of May, 1776

00:22:32.800 and here's what they don't tell you about that date.

00:22:36.060 The war was already a year old, okay?

00:22:40.120 We've told this story to ourselves.

00:22:41.620 We say the Declaration of Independence is what started it

00:22:43.900 But it wasn't the 4th of July or the 2nd of July, you know, a continent of farmers standing up declaring themselves free and then go fetch your muskets.

00:22:52.300 That's not what happened.

00:22:53.660 By the time the Declaration of Independence, the ink was dry, we had already been at war for 13 months.

00:23:02.800 Blood was a year dry already.

00:23:04.980 You have to go back to the 19th of April in 1775, the Lexington Green and the Concord Bridge, the shot heard around the world.

00:23:12.640 It had already been fired.

00:23:13.900 and men had already fallen face down in the spring grass.

00:23:18.300 Two months after that, the 17th of June,

00:23:21.820 they fought at Breed's Hill above Boston

00:23:24.100 until the powder ran out,

00:23:25.740 and the British took that hill

00:23:27.360 but left 1,000 of their own on its slope.

00:23:30.440 So by the spring of 1776,

00:23:33.000 American boys have already been a year in the ground.

00:23:35.580 Mothers had already received the word.

00:23:37.340 Pine boxes already were lowered, covered over,

00:23:39.820 and the soil was already separated,

00:23:41.960 and the grass was starting to grow again.

00:23:43.900 The king's soldiers were not a threat on the horizon. They were already here. Regiments on American soil, warships riding in and posting anchor in American harbors. Everybody could see this out their kitchen window. The most powerful force on the face of the earth was not coming. It was already here.

00:24:04.440 So understand what these guys were in Rhode Island were doing with this document.

00:24:11.340 They were not picking a fight.

00:24:13.060 The fight had already picked them.

00:24:15.340 It was already here.

00:24:16.660 They'd already buried their sons.

00:24:18.040 What they were doing was harder because this is the thing that we have forgotten and the whole heart of it.

00:24:23.380 These were loyal men.

00:24:24.740 They did not want to leave for a year.

00:24:27.300 In fact, years.

00:24:28.600 The American colonists had clung to a single stubborn, I think, desperate hope.

00:24:33.900 the hope that the king would finally see them, that George III would finally look across the

00:24:39.420 ocean and go, oh man, these are my people. They're not rebels. They're not rabble rousers. They're

00:24:43.880 not some lesser breed to be managed or taxed or garrisoned, but they're my loyal subjects.

00:24:51.380 They're English, Englishmen, loyal, asking only for the rights that any Englishman was born holding.

00:24:57.720 and just before the declaration of independence in the summer of 1775 so a year before we send

00:25:04.900 out what's called the olive branch petition it was after bunker hill after the dead had already

00:25:10.340 been counted but even then with the war begun they wrote to their king and said please we're still

00:25:17.800 yours stop this hear us please he wouldn't even take this olive branch into his own hands he would

00:25:24.040 he wouldn't receive it he didn't read it instead he stood up and he said they're in open rebellion

00:25:29.480 and then he went further he signed a law that cut the colonies uh out of his protection entirely

00:25:36.840 declared all of their ships fair prize sent foreign soldiers the hessians mercenaries hired

00:25:43.060 guns to come across the sea and bring his own people to heal kill his own people that was the 0.66

00:25:48.360 answer not hand extended a fist foreign bayonets paid by him to drive it home and that not the

00:25:57.620 dead at lexington not the smoke over boston that was the thing that finally broke the cord because

00:26:02.600 a war you can survive a war you can even forgive at the end of it if the man on the throne looks

00:26:08.480 at you and finally calls you his own but but this this told them the truth that they had spent a

00:26:14.600 a year refusing to believe that the king was never going to see them as people. So he had

00:26:19.500 made up his mind across the ocean and he would sooner hire strangers to kill them than sit and 1.00

00:26:24.520 hear them. So the Declaration of Independence was not the beginning of anything. It was the

00:26:30.360 surrender of this little word up here in this document, hope. It was the moment loyal people

00:26:36.120 finally, in grief, let go of the king's hand. Not because they stopped loving the idea of him,

00:26:42.200 because they finally understood he's never going to love us back.

00:26:45.780 Now, look at the date on this page again.

00:26:48.480 The date on this page is the 6th of May, 1776.

00:26:52.080 Why is that important?

00:26:53.400 Because two days earlier, the 4th of May,

00:26:56.460 that little colony of Rhode Island had become the first to make it actually official.

00:27:01.740 They struck the king's name out of all of their oaths.

00:27:04.860 They crossed the crown out of all of their laws.

00:27:07.860 The smallest colony on the map let it go first and stepped off alone, and then two days after committing that treason, they sat down and wrote this order for two delegates to ride to Philadelphia to finish, to take, in the words on the page, all such measures that shall be thought of best for promoting the welfare of the United Colonies.

00:27:31.120 it's a blank check written against their own necks in the middle of the war they were losing

00:27:36.380 and the first man it named uh was old steven hopkins steven hopkins he had been in the fight

00:27:45.340 for a while but he had palsy uh in his uh in his hand so his hand when he signed things you

00:27:52.060 look at the declaration of independence and you'll see his name and it's so shaky he could

00:27:55.980 barely right and when it came to his time at the table to sign the declaration of independence

00:28:01.240 he reached across with his left hand and gripped his trembling right and so he could steady his

00:28:07.000 hand somewhat and sign it and he said my hand trembles but my heart does not the second guy

00:28:16.560 on this was new and he was only there because of a fresh grave Samuel Ward he was the delegate

00:28:22.000 from rhode island the other delegate he had gone down to philadelphia caught smallpox and died of

00:28:27.120 it on in the like on the 26th of march and the war was on the seat was suddenly empty at the

00:28:33.400 worst hour to leave it empty so they reached for william ellery he was a lawyer in newport rhode

00:28:38.360 island and he's the guy they put this paper in his hand and then he went down and he fought for the

00:28:45.300 the uh the declaration of independence and uh he didn't flinch he didn't flinch he went straight

00:28:53.360 to grinding out this revolution um and uh it was pretty amazing what he you know what he had uh

00:29:02.700 what he had done when he signed the declaration um he um he signed it so large it's only second

00:29:12.660 in size to Hancock's. And Ellery knew exactly what his signature was. He knew that that was a noose

00:29:18.840 at the end of that sentence. So as the delegates came forward one by one, if you see the painting

00:29:23.780 of them, you will see Ellery standing back behind. He was watching every man. He said he wanted to

00:29:29.740 watch every man's face as they signed their own death warrant. And he said, I wanted to see if

00:29:37.200 they were sincere or not see if any man would break as he put his face as he put his uh hand

00:29:43.580 to the declaration of independence and he said he stood there and he looked at face after face

00:29:48.540 and he said afterwards all i saw was undaunted resolution none of them flinched all of them

00:29:58.380 were ready for war these were men who had already buried their own men who had begged the king and

00:30:06.100 had been answered with mercenaries

00:30:07.920 and they signed anyway.

00:30:12.020 This room,

00:30:14.280 to get into this room,

00:30:16.400 which was locked and sealed tight,

00:30:18.760 this was your ticket.

00:30:20.840 This is what brought,

00:30:22.360 bought you a seat in that room.

00:30:26.560 To hold this thing

00:30:27.920 250 years later,

00:30:30.800 to have it in my own hands,

00:30:36.100 It is amazing.

00:30:39.060 The days of 4th of July, 2026, the king is gone.

00:30:43.380 He's a footnote.

00:30:44.380 The empire is gone, but the paper survives. 0.71

00:30:52.400 The men don't.

00:30:55.000 This paper has outlived the men who carried it.

00:30:57.780 But the paper still asks this one question.

00:31:01.140 The only one that really mattered

00:31:06.260 You don't get to choose when the storm comes

00:31:10.140 It's already here

00:31:12.860 Just as it was in their day

00:31:14.260 It's in the harbor

00:31:15.720 It's in the fields

00:31:16.840 You only get to choose

00:31:20.640 Are you going to stand inside the storm

00:31:23.940 The seat at today's table

00:31:28.060 Is still warm

00:31:29.640 but it has your name on it now what remains to be seen

00:31:35.700 is what you will do with it more in a minute

00:31:41.780 this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:31:46.520 hello america you know we've been fighting every single day we push back against the lies the

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00:32:35.700 John Irwin, welcome to the program.

00:32:38.280 Glenn, good to see you, man.

00:32:40.080 It's been a little while.

00:32:41.440 It's great to be among friends.

00:32:44.140 I remember being on your show, release week of a film for I Can Only Imagine, many years ago.

00:32:50.560 and uh and dennis quaid was on and we had lost him in the arctic he was filming with like a bunch

00:32:56.660 of polar bears or something and he in the middle of the night so right before i got on the segment

00:33:00.760 i hear like we've lost dennis in a town there's more polar bears than people and so i'm like i'm

00:33:06.520 gonna go on and stall with glenn and you're gonna find dennis quaid in the antarctic and they did

00:33:10.380 and they did right before we came out of commercial break so so i have many memories he had to go

00:33:14.620 back yeah i know he had to go back inside because he had to get his gun i think because they wouldn't

00:33:20.460 allow him to be outside without his gun it was crazy yeah anyway to get service he had to be

00:33:25.840 like risk his life with polar bears i digress anyway i know many many great memories with you

00:33:30.120 man um i remember this has got to be 15 years ago we first talked and we talked about the problem

00:33:36.380 with hollywood and that you were setting out and you were going to change hollywood and it was hard

00:33:41.060 at that time it was really really hard for anybody on a conservative side to be able to do it and i

00:33:48.300 have to tell you, John, I watched your movie, Young Washington, with such pride and admiration

00:33:53.100 for you on all that you've accomplished and how good of a director and a producer and a screenwriter

00:33:59.140 you have become. It's a great story and a great movie. Congratulations. Thank you so much. We

00:34:05.920 share the obsession for Washington. I read many books on Washington, including yours, and I just

00:34:13.500 wanted to write a kind of a love letter to the country for our 250 and uh it's the only film

00:34:19.180 in theaters nationwide that celebrates american history as we go into the 250 and uh and i just

00:34:25.440 you know it's it's one of those things where i'm just grateful to the audience because you know

00:34:29.000 the audience just keeps shocking um hollywood and uh that allows us to do more and and have more

00:34:35.960 have larger budgets and uh and so it's not easy uh the the lead i created the show house of david

00:34:42.340 that airs on Amazon and the lead of that show, Michael,

00:34:44.440 he gave me this ring that says, seek discomfort.

00:34:48.060 And I believe in that as a way of life.

00:34:49.980 So sometimes we say pain is temporary, film is forever.

00:34:52.720 So it's been a hard road, but an incredibly fulfilling one.

00:34:55.520 And I'm just so grateful for the audience too,

00:34:57.840 for supporting the work.

00:34:59.240 And that's what gets these films made.

00:35:02.360 Is it out now?

00:35:04.320 It comes out on Friday, going into the 4th of July weekend.

00:35:08.340 So it's, I mean, talk about the perfect date for a movie about Washington.

00:35:14.240 It releases on the 4th of July weekend on our 250th anniversary.

00:35:18.520 And so we're very grateful.

00:35:20.640 It's in theaters nationwide.

00:35:22.040 I'm working with Angel Studios to release it.

00:35:25.020 And so, look, we've always said your movie ticket is your vote.

00:35:27.980 And it's more true now than ever.

00:35:30.560 We really want to do more of these stories.

00:35:34.080 We want to do more stories on the life of George Washington.

00:35:37.200 We want to do more stories on the founding of America.

00:35:40.640 And I just know when I took the time to read a lot of books on the founding of the country,

00:35:46.620 the story is unbelievable, first of all.

00:35:49.800 As you know, it lives up to the hype.

00:35:52.980 And you're just filled with a sense of gratitude and awe and wonder and pride that this nation

00:35:59.800 exists at all.

00:36:00.940 And it really is something to celebrate together.

00:36:04.260 And it is a miracle.

00:36:05.580 I mean, talk about low statistical odds of success.

00:36:09.780 And so we want to make more of these films.

00:36:11.880 And it starts with, we thought, where do we start?

00:36:14.660 I'm like, well, I love the origin story,

00:36:16.660 Hero's Journey of Washington, where he learns to be a leader.

00:36:20.440 And so that's where we decided to start.

00:36:23.180 He learns to be a leader, but he really never learns to be a good general.

00:36:29.800 He's really bad at strategy.

00:36:32.440 he you know loses he loses over and over and over i mean it's embarrassing on on really on how bad

00:36:39.900 he is at the beginning you know what's interesting about washington is he is forged much more by

00:36:45.700 hardship and failure and risk and adventure and uh than he was by ease and many of the great

00:36:52.480 leaders are uh churchill the same way and what i found out about him is yes he we didn't have any

00:37:00.100 good generals, you know, because we were colonies. But Washington became our first real leader and

00:37:06.520 the embodiment of a cause. And I think he learned over the course of this story early in his life

00:37:12.500 that to lead is to serve and to lead is to embody something that's bigger than you are.

00:37:18.520 And he became America's first great leader. And what I noticed about him during the Revolutionary

00:37:23.880 war is he had this fortitude man like he he had this ability to endure in an uncommon way and that

00:37:31.500 was really the thing that won the war and and um or one of the major things that won the war was

00:37:35.880 just grit and uh and and i i wanted to find out where that came from and it really came from his

00:37:41.080 his early life so i wanted to make this i've always considered it pride and prejudice meets

00:37:44.500 the revenant you know this kind of first adventure story in the french indian war and and uh and and

00:37:50.220 that's where i wanted to start but man i would love my dream is to uh is to tell more of these

00:37:55.760 stories and and we just i think so many of the problems that we have uh are come from the fact

00:38:02.360 that we don't know our origin story and we don't know why we're here and right how amazing this

00:38:06.720 country is you know it's exactly right um i i have to ask you you know um his uh i i never really

00:38:18.880 i guess fully understood or saw you know i'm such an american that i never thought of george

00:38:28.460 washington having to go to the british and saying hey i could you know i could i could serve here

00:38:33.700 and them looking at him and going no you're not an elite you're you're of no family you're of

00:38:40.680 no consequence you have no education where americans we don't look at people like that

00:38:46.780 and and it's so weird to see and to think George Washington being rejected because

00:38:52.580 he's not part of the old system you know I don't know how to explain it once you see the movie

00:38:59.320 you'll understand but even his even his first real and I think I'll bet you his real love his

00:39:07.120 whole life um yeah you know he kind of grew up around and dad just didn't even nobody even 0.99

00:39:14.160 thought it was possible because he just was you know kind of scum beneath their their feet yeah 0.94

00:39:22.260 you see the american idea birthed in this idea of anyone you know from anywhere being able to do 0.98

00:39:30.120 whatever they set their mind to if they work hard enough that is the idea of america and that did

00:39:34.640 not exist and you clearly see that and you see the unfairness of a world fixed in a class system

00:39:41.900 with an elite that no matter what you do, no matter how good you are, you could never join

00:39:46.480 just by virtue of your status. And you see this group of people and you see Washington in this

00:39:52.620 movie say, why is the world, why can we not make a better world? So it's so interesting how he so

00:39:57.860 wanted to join this group that he was actually destined to defy. And you see that over the

00:40:04.320 course of the film. And you wonder if the first great love of his life had chosen him or if he

00:40:10.360 was able to get a royal commission as a british officer which he wanted so badly yeah is there

00:40:14.940 in america today i don't know you know so it's amazing to see these these these things that

00:40:18.860 happened uh that really is as he called it we're kind of a divine handed providence guiding him

00:40:24.240 even when it was painful um it's interesting to um see what did you what did you find about and

00:40:33.900 did you even research this far into it his love affair with uh with martha i mean because i've

00:40:40.360 always felt that the love affair that you see this this crushing love that he has for this

00:40:47.520 this woman fairfax um whose father is you know has hired him to make maps of the county and

00:40:54.040 and everything else uh or of his property um i'm not sure he ever gets past that it was was martha

00:41:01.880 I mean, I know he loved Martha, but was it kind of the old-fashioned

00:41:05.480 because we're married and we're going to love each other?

00:41:09.100 Or was there ever really a deep love affair with Martha and George?

00:41:13.520 Yeah, I have opinions on this.

00:41:16.100 And you try to research as much as you can.

00:41:19.500 Martha burned all their letters.

00:41:21.240 She burned almost everything.

00:41:22.620 Except two.

00:41:23.700 And I was at Mount Vernon two days ago.

00:41:27.800 We got to lay a wreath on his grave, which was amazing.

00:41:31.140 uh, and, uh, and then also we were, you know, in the, in the room that he died and there's a desk

00:41:36.040 there. And that's where one of these letters was from Martha, uh, tucked away, hidden, like it was

00:41:40.500 just hidden in the desk. Um, but the rest are burned. And the only letters that we have from

00:41:44.840 Sally are from the letters he wrote to her. And so Sally was obviously his kind of first crush

00:41:50.340 flame. There was obviously attraction there. The last letter he wrote her was like a week before

00:41:55.500 he married martha i feel like martha was a business partnership that and a part as marriages

00:42:01.440 were in that day that actually grew into a bond over time uh especially as they experienced

00:42:07.400 difficulty together and she was out with him during the war and if you read that one letter

00:42:11.980 that survived you you you see that their the relationship with martha martha blossomed in

00:42:18.020 this into a real bond uh in my opinion different uh than kind of the um yes the infatuation with

00:42:25.160 sally but i think it grew and grew uh and became more and more real i mean i hope to tell that

00:42:30.400 story i and and especially as you get into 70 76 and beyond just the pressure that he was under

00:42:36.400 you know i think she was there for him in every way so these were the two loves of his life you

00:42:40.980 know and uh it's so fascinating to explore yeah she was not only there for him but when they went

00:42:47.140 to valley forge i mean she was there i mean no woman is going to valley forge she was there

00:42:52.320 helping. And she was a remarkable woman. Anyway, John, what is the one last thing? What is the one

00:42:59.160 thing you learned about George Washington you did not know that you thought, wow, everyone should

00:43:04.540 know this? Well, as I studied his life, you know, you think about these characters forged in stone,

00:43:11.220 you know, and they're mythic. And then you ask, where do these characteristics come from? And

00:43:17.160 And I think what I learned was just the value of failure that George Washington learned through his mistakes, and he kept going, and he didn't give up, and he was very self-aware, and he forged himself before he could forge a nation.

00:43:34.300 And you see that in this film, in this early chapter in his life.

00:43:38.120 So I think one of the great lessons for me was that failure doesn't have to define you, but it can mold you into the person that you're meant to become if you'll let it and if you'll not quit.

00:43:49.220 And this guy had an uncommon endurance, and he learned from his mistakes, and he kept going, and he had true courage.

00:44:01.120 So I think those were the primary things.

00:44:03.120 Other than that, I think his personality was like a lid on top of a volcano.

00:44:07.520 I think that there was this was not a boring person. This was a person of great passion and great emotion. And his personality was kind of like a lid on that. And so fascinating character. And and so I wanted to start with this early adventure. It is in theaters nationwide.

00:44:23.340 uh and and like as always when our audience unifies our voice around something and shocks

00:44:30.560 hollywood um millions and millions of people see it that wouldn't otherwise see it because of the

00:44:36.320 fear of missing out and uh that's my hope and that's my prayer um as we've screened the movie

00:44:42.040 around the country it's cool to hear people like you know cheer and chant usa at the end of the

00:44:47.940 movie but what i love is a lot of people say i was up on google like all night researching like

00:44:52.600 did this really happen?

00:44:53.820 Yeah.

00:44:54.040 Yeah.

00:44:54.140 Some of the most extraordinary things in the movie actually happened.

00:44:56.880 So that's,

00:44:57.420 that's my hope is that it will serve as a spark of curiosity for Americans

00:45:01.600 everywhere.

00:45:02.680 I will tell you congratulations.

00:45:05.180 State department is doing screenings now of young Washington,

00:45:08.200 the embassies all over the world,

00:45:10.140 which is tremendous.

00:45:12.480 And I will tell you as a listener,

00:45:14.800 that stuff is not going to happen.

00:45:16.800 We lose the next,

00:45:18.200 you know,

00:45:18.480 couple of elections.

00:45:19.720 This is over.

00:45:20.540 and it gets really dark.

00:45:23.180 It is so important to support movies like this now

00:45:26.920 because money doesn't talk, it usually screams.

00:45:31.040 And the only way we get,

00:45:32.460 I mean, we have an extraordinary opportunity

00:45:34.460 this 250th year.

00:45:36.940 I mean, again, divine providence

00:45:38.880 to drop our 250th in right now,

00:45:42.840 where we are politically right now.

00:45:44.840 If this would have happened 10 years ago,

00:45:46.220 it wouldn't have been the same.

00:45:47.500 To happen right now,

00:45:48.640 you have a chance to educate yourself and stop all of this stuff and support the next great

00:45:54.520 storytellers. We lost our story. The left took it from us and has butchered it to death. We must

00:46:03.280 find it again, and we must support great storytellers. And I will tell you, John Irwin

00:46:08.120 is one of my favorites and one of the best. And the name of the film is Young Washington. And if

00:46:15.380 You make this, you go to see this and this becomes a success.

00:46:20.300 I can't wait to see the series that he will make on this because Washington is the greatest

00:46:25.500 story ever told in American history.

00:46:28.040 He is fabulous.

00:46:29.800 John, thank you.

00:46:30.660 God bless you.

00:46:31.280 Thank you.

00:46:31.920 Glenn, great to see you again as always.

00:46:33.780 Take care.

00:46:34.320 Good to see you.

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