The Glenn Beck Program - June 29, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Jon Erwin ｜ 6⧸29⧸26

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Best of the Blunt Back celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a special bonus episode featuring a story about air conditioning in Europe, and a story from John Irwin, the man who signed the Declaration and was a signer at the debate.

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00:00:30 Hey, all this week, it is a celebration of our 250 years as a nation.
00:00:38 Beginning tomorrow for an hour, the second hour of the broadcast,
00:00:43 will be the telling of the Declaration of Independence.
00:00:45 How did we get there?
00:00:46 And it is an incredible story.
00:00:48 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 in today's best of podcast, we start with socialists in America. And geez, there's a lot
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00:01:17 hey, we're not socialists. We're not communists. We'll see if they're eaten because I start with
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00:02:07 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 angry. Boy, what's happening in the Midwest this week? What's happening in Washington, D.C. and
00:02:23 New York? It is going to be boiling hot. In Spain, the thermometer hit 111. Britain just lived through
00:02:32 the hottest June it has ever recorded. And in France, in a single week, 40 people drown.
00:02:39 What does that have to do with the heat wave? Well, they weren't drowning in storms. They were
00:02:46 in rivers and lakes and quarries because they were desperate to get cool, and the water was
00:02:51 the only relief they could find. So 40 people drowned. World Health Organization, yeah, those
00:02:58 experts, say heat kills 175,000 people just in Europe every single year. I want you to sit on
00:03:07 that number for a second. That's nuts. 175,000 people in Europe every single year die of heat?
00:03:15 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 really a moonshot it's a box in a window that blows cold air what a crazy thought studies say
00:03:33 air conditioning cuts heat deaths by as much as 75 percent now listen to this one study this is
00:03:40 the lancet it accredited uh air conditioning was saving nearly 200 000 older europeans in a single
00:03:47 year 90 of american homes have it in europe one in five so you would think with bodies piling up
00:03:59 that europe might be going like you know we got to get a box in every window you know maybe that
00:04:04 would be a social program that would be helpful you'd think that that would be one thing everybody
00:04:09 could agree on. But you'd be wrong. Let me take you to some of the things that are happening here
00:04:16 in France. Let's play cut two here. This is a British mom talking about her child's room,
00:04:25 her baby's room. Listen to this. Us using so much electricity, oil and gas is the reason we're in
00:04:30 this position in the first place. However, last summer, I was seven months pregnant in the summer.
00:04:37 and this summer I've got an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old
00:04:41 and my baby monitor last night said that both rooms at seven o'clock at night
00:04:45 which is their bedtime was 31 degrees and Kate like I think you said earlier
00:04:49 that the guidance is if the room is 29 degrees or over
00:04:53 children under five should not be in them now what do I do
00:04:57 where do I put them they have to go to sleep so you put the aircon on
00:05:01 so I put the aircon on and it it makes it more manageable
00:05:04 but it still wasn't an enjoyable sleep i i struggled to sleep in that and my my little
00:05:09 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 throughout the night during the day i keep the the curtain shut yeah um but it is like an oven
00:05:19 and our houses are designed to keep the heat in
00:05:23 so 88 degrees that's 31 degrees celsius it's about 88 90 degrees baby's room 90 degrees
00:05:36 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 in england here's a british climate activist cut one if you can switch your electricity provider
00:05:51 to one that's completely renewable or you speak to your MP and tell them that we need to get off
00:05:55 oil and gas, not allow new giant oil fields like Rosebank that they're currently still considering
00:06:01 to go ahead. Those are the sorts of things that means that we can actually make our grid green
00:06:07 and that we can actually have air con without making climate change worse.
00:06:10 But all of that would take a heck of a long time.
00:06:13 It won't be done by tonight, will it?
00:06:14 Are you saying in the interim you shouldn't have air con? You should wait until you can say hand on
00:06:18 heart yep it's green energy that's keeping me cool well i think we need to be honest about the
00:06:23 fact that it has costs right and then when we have when we face these sorts of costs we then
00:06:28 need to make a decision well who should we prioritize should it just be someone who fancies
00:06:32 being a bit cooler or should we be prioritizing the people who need it people with young kids
00:06:36 all right people who are elderly people who have disabilities that mean that they can't cool
00:06:40 themselves these people are out of their mind nuts they're out of there this by the way is an md
00:06:45 This is a doctor.
00:06:46 This is a doctor saying these things.
00:06:48 Now, here's what's happening in the real world in France.
00:06:52 Here's a store.
00:06:54 See if we can go ahead and roll this, please.
00:06:56 This has got three, I think.
00:06:58 This is a store in France.
00:07:02 I don't know if they're doing the little piggy thing, but...
00:07:06 Oui, oui, oui, all the way home.
00:07:08 They are going in, and they're just taking the air conditioners.
00:07:15 They're just storming in a store as it opens, rushing in a frenzy to grab all of the air conditioners.
00:07:23 But they're going to have police at their house because you're not supposed to be using your air conditioners.
00:07:27 Once they see your power going up, then you're going to be in trouble with the climate police.
00:07:33 Let me take you to another town in France.
00:07:35 This one's called Nîmes.
00:07:36 there is a primary school there little kids in this primary school and this spring the classrooms hit
00:07:43 104 degrees in the classroom 104 child fainted so they started moving the lessons out into the
00:07:51 hallways just to find some air that didn't feel like you were in a convection oven well they
00:07:58 couldn't find it kids come home the parents do what all parents would do they didn't wait for
00:08:04 the government. They passed the hat. In three days, they raised about 2,000 euros. They bought
00:08:10 five portable air conditioners and put them in the children's school. Okay, problem solved, right?
00:08:17 Of course not. You're in France. The mayor of Neame is a communist. One of his deputies was
00:08:25 honest to tell exactly what happened. The mayor of the communist mayor of Neame made them take
00:08:33 the air conditioners out of the schools. And he said it's because it set a precedent because in
00:08:40 some neighborhoods, parents don't have the means to do the same thing and get their kids air
00:08:44 conditioning. Let me repeat that again. The children may not be cool now because there are
00:08:51 other children that cannot be cool. So take all of the air conditioners out. Everybody sweats
00:08:57 together i just want you to know that's not a glitch that is the socialist philosophy
00:09:04 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 the borough of camden the council told the residents in an apartment building to rip out
00:09:15 their air conditioning to comply with net zero the official advice how to survive the heat wave
00:09:21 open your windows open your balcony doors that came from the people who they elected to represent
00:09:29 them okay now lay this over everything else that's going on over in in europe and in england
00:09:37 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 a gallon in tax alone. The price of the pump roughly is double what you pay here. So in
00:09:55 some places, it's as high as $5 a gallon. That's not an accident. That's the policy working as
00:10:04 designed. Make the fuel hurt. Make cooling disappear. Pursue net zero. And I'm quoting 0.99
00:10:11 the critics now whatever the cost so even if the cost is a child fainting in the classroom in may
00:10:20 even if the cost is 175 000 people that die even if it's 40 people that die from drowning
00:10:28 this is what it looks like when a country is governed by experts and elites not evil men
00:10:35 necessarily clever men credentialed men men with a spreadsheet and a target and the quiet certainty
00:10:43 that they understand how you ought to live better than you do and once they have the power to act
00:10:48 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 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 on what the Democrats,
00:11:03 and I'm going to show you some things
00:11:04 that happened with the Democrats
00:11:06 over the weekend.
00:11:07 It is getting terribly frightening.
00:11:09 These are not progressives.
00:11:12 They are not socialists.
00:11:15 They are communists.
00:11:17 And the mask is finally fully coming off.
00:11:21 This week, at the same time,
00:11:23 we're celebrating the Declaration.
00:11:26 250 years, almost.
00:11:28 And I want you to understand
00:11:29 exactly what those men built
00:11:31 because it's the exact opposite of what you're seeing happening over in Europe and in England.
00:11:36 Our constitution is a design, a charter of negative liberties.
00:11:41 And people say that like it's an insult.
00:11:42 Barack Obama used to always say, it's a charter of negative liberties.
00:11:45 We need a charter of positive liberties.
00:11:47 No, no, no.
00:11:47 The whole miracle is that it is a charter of negative liberties.
00:11:52 You know, it doesn't hand you a list of the things the government will graciously permit you to have.
00:11:57 it hands the government a very short list of things that they can never ever do to you and
00:12:02 what they can do. Congress shall make no law, shall not be infringed, shall not be violated.
00:12:10 No, no, no, no. That's what our constitution is all about. It puts a leash on the government,
00:12:16 not the citizen. That's why no mayor in America can send a man into your child's school and carry
00:12:22 the cold air back out the door because some family across town doesn't have it. That's the
00:12:27 difference. That's what the Declaration and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that's the
00:12:32 whole difference. So this week, celebrate it. Celebrate your rights. Celebrate your responsibilities
00:12:38 because a free people must carry both of those things. But celebrate the strange and beautiful
00:12:47 thing that those farmers and lawyers did in Philadelphia when they wrote down not what you
00:12:53 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 anybody ever talk you out of it, but they are the Democrats. It's remarkable what is happening on
00:13:10 our streets right now with the democrats and it is waking up some some democrats 13 in congress
00:13:17 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 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 i want to show you what is happening on our streets and i told you at the very very beginning
00:13:36 Remember, from the beginning, I'm talking early 20th century American progressives, and you're seeing it now.
00:13:44 Early American progressives, they are actually communists.
00:13:48 They liked communism, and they just didn't like the bloody revolution.
00:13:54 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 That's the early 20th century American progressive.
00:14:06 okay um now some people were conned into it and they're like no progressivism just means we love
00:14:12 each other but that is the understanding and i told you at some point you get to a point point
00:14:18 of of of breaking the system cannot stand when you've mixed them these two systems of free people
00:14:27 free will free choice and communism can't and the masks will start to come off and i told you before
00:14:34 that they would start to come off
00:14:35 and they would declare that they were socialism.
00:14:38 Yes, I said, this is in 2008,
00:14:40 they like socialism.
00:14:42 In fact, they don't like capitalism.
00:14:45 Now they were all denying this at the time.
00:14:47 And I said, you watch, it will happen.
00:14:49 And they will start taking apart capitalism
00:14:51 and saying socialism is the only answer.
00:14:54 The masks would fully come off and say,
00:14:56 yes, we're communist, it's got to change.
00:15:00 Well, that's where we are now.
00:15:01 now let me play some uh some audio of what happened over the weekend with some of these
00:15:08 um some of these communists here's scott weiner now scott weiner is the san francisco uh nancy
00:15:17 pelosi wannabe okay he's running for nancy pelosi's office he is as far left as you can go
00:15:24 but he is jewish listen to what happened he was at a trans march listen to this
00:15:31 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 listen to this i think we've heard enough this is an amazing thing here's a guy who has been
00:16:03 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 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 genocide still not enough still not enough unless he'll say from the river to the sea 0.56
00:16:26 and because he's jewish he can never say enough look at the vitriol and how they have turned on
00:16:35 him this is called a purge this is exactly what communists do all the time they purge
00:16:42 they take the people that were with them if you don't step up to the line they want
00:16:48 they eventually kill you okay joe biden here he is uh being heckled at a speech cut five
00:16:56 it's a battle that's never truly over 0.97
00:17:01 okay here they go so that's this they're calling him genocidal joe genocidal joe yada yada yada
00:17:09 this is at a maryland democratic party uh gala now here is a group of toronto i mean 0.79
00:17:20 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 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 that anyway um this is completely different different kind of dyke not like the ones in 0.97
00:17:37 holland they're marching uh and here's what they're chanting 0.98
00:17:41 we're here we're queer free palestine is our demand 0.98
00:17:54 uh you're gonna be really surprised when that all comes together because you're going to be dead 0.98
00:18:01 you're going to be dead because they don't like you in the end remember what they're doing to
00:18:10 you right now what they're doing to scott weiner right now will be done to them because weiner 0.95
00:18:17 thought he was fine all these people in the trans uh community think they're fine all these people 0.65
00:18:24 in the gay community they're now saying palestine palestine they think they're fine just like scott
00:18:29 wiener thought he was fine a couple of years ago just like when he was standing with people that 0.66
00:18:35 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 get enough power they kill you so as you're chanting at your dyke march just remember 1.00
00:18:50 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 and they will eat you next.
00:19:01 Now, where does all this come from?
00:19:03 Cheddar.
00:19:04 Cheddar is funding a lot of it.
00:19:07 We're going to get into that
00:19:08 and then make full circle back to air conditioning
00:19:12 because I'm just amazed at how people don't understand 0.99
00:19:18 they'll kill you.
00:19:20 The ends justify the means. 0.99
00:19:22 We get to that when we come back in a minute.
00:19:27 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:19:36 I can't thank all of the insiders and everybody else who came on Saturday night and Saturday afternoon.
00:19:42 I was giving speeches all day in Idaho about the history of America, and I met so many great people.
00:19:49 I mean, people drove from California and Colorado, and I met a couple from Ohio and Oregon.
00:19:55 Again, it was an amazing afternoon, and thank you so much for coming to that.
00:20:01 I'm going to be in D.C. on Wednesday at 2 p.m.
00:20:04 I'm going to be at the Great American State Fair.
00:20:06 That's on the nation's mall at the Capitol.
00:20:09 You can find out all the information at freedom250.org,
00:20:12 but I'll be speaking at 2 p.m. at the Great American State Fair.
00:20:16 Then Wednesday night, that night, July 1st, I'm going to be doing the torch live,
00:20:21 and we'll be in Washington, D.C. to give you the special, the Golden Door.
00:20:27 It is great.
00:20:28 You're going to love this special.
00:20:30 Make sure you are a Torch member to see that.
00:20:32 On Monday, I'm going to be at Citizens United for Israel,
00:20:37 Christians United for Israel, CUFI.
00:20:39 It's a night to honor Israel.
00:20:41 If you want to register for that, you do have to register
00:20:44 because there's going to be very tight security.
00:20:46 But I'd love to see you there if you want.
00:20:49 They're making a special discount.
00:20:50 If you want to register and you're coming for me, Beck 26, and you get that discount.
00:20:55 Then in Vegas next Saturday, I'll be in Las Vegas speaking at Freedom Fest.
00:21:01 So you don't want to miss that.
00:21:03 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 It's going to be in this hour, and you do not want to miss it.
00:21:13 It is a great story, and I've been working a week on the research on this.
00:21:19 But today I just want to show you something that we just got.
00:21:22 I just won this in auction for our museum.
00:21:28 Tanya and I bid on this this weekend or this last Friday.
00:21:32 It's an amazing, amazing document.
00:21:36 You know, the Declaration of Independence is such a great story.
00:21:40 But, you know, the war started long ago.
00:21:43 And this is a document.
00:21:47 It's on paper. It's 13 1⁄2 inches by 8 1⁄2.
00:21:51 And up in the left-hand corner right here, or the right corner, is pressed to bind the fiber together.
00:21:58 No ink. It's just a clear, clean bite into it, and it's a seal of Rhode Island.
00:22:03 And it just has the word hope on it, which I love. Hope.
00:22:07 At the bottom, two signatures. One is Nicholas Cook. He is the governor.
00:22:11 And at the right is Ward, Henry Ward. He was the secretary.
00:22:16 and between the seal and this is a commission
00:22:22 and its authority granted two men
00:22:25 to go and act in the name of the people of Rhode Island
00:22:28 and the date is the 6th of May, 1776
00:22:32 and here's what they don't tell you about that date.
00:22:36 The war was already a year old, okay?
00:22:40 We've told this story to ourselves.
00:22:41 We say the Declaration of Independence is what started it
00:22:43 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 That's not what happened.
00:22:53 By the time the Declaration of Independence, the ink was dry, we had already been at war for 13 months.
00:23:02 Blood was a year dry already.
00:23:04 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 It had already been fired.
00:23:13 and men had already fallen face down in the spring grass.
00:23:18 Two months after that, the 17th of June,
00:23:21 they fought at Breed's Hill above Boston
00:23:24 until the powder ran out,
00:23:25 and the British took that hill
00:23:27 but left 1,000 of their own on its slope.
00:23:30 So by the spring of 1776,
00:23:33 American boys have already been a year in the ground.
00:23:35 Mothers had already received the word.
00:23:37 Pine boxes already were lowered, covered over,
00:23:39 and the soil was already separated,
00:23:41 and the grass was starting to grow again.
00:23:43 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 So understand what these guys were in Rhode Island were doing with this document.
00:24:11 They were not picking a fight.
00:24:13 The fight had already picked them.
00:24:15 It was already here.
00:24:16 They'd already buried their sons.
00:24:18 What they were doing was harder because this is the thing that we have forgotten and the whole heart of it.
00:24:23 These were loyal men.
00:24:24 They did not want to leave for a year.
00:24:27 In fact, years.
00:24:28 The American colonists had clung to a single stubborn, I think, desperate hope.
00:24:33 the hope that the king would finally see them, that George III would finally look across the
00:24:39 ocean and go, oh man, these are my people. They're not rebels. They're not rabble rousers. They're
00:24:43 not some lesser breed to be managed or taxed or garrisoned, but they're my loyal subjects.
00:24:51 They're English, Englishmen, loyal, asking only for the rights that any Englishman was born holding.
00:24:57 and just before the declaration of independence in the summer of 1775 so a year before we send
00:25:04 out what's called the olive branch petition it was after bunker hill after the dead had already
00:25:10 been counted but even then with the war begun they wrote to their king and said please we're still
00:25:17 yours stop this hear us please he wouldn't even take this olive branch into his own hands he would
00:25:24 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 and then he went further he signed a law that cut the colonies uh out of his protection entirely
00:25:36 declared all of their ships fair prize sent foreign soldiers the hessians mercenaries hired
00:25:43 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 answer not hand extended a fist foreign bayonets paid by him to drive it home and that not the
00:25:57 dead at lexington not the smoke over boston that was the thing that finally broke the cord because
00:26:02 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 at you and finally calls you his own but but this this told them the truth that they had spent a
00:26:14 a year refusing to believe that the king was never going to see them as people. So he had
00:26:19 made up his mind across the ocean and he would sooner hire strangers to kill them than sit and 1.00
00:26:24 hear them. So the Declaration of Independence was not the beginning of anything. It was the
00:26:30 surrender of this little word up here in this document, hope. It was the moment loyal people
00:26:36 finally, in grief, let go of the king's hand. Not because they stopped loving the idea of him,
00:26:42 because they finally understood he's never going to love us back.
00:26:45 Now, look at the date on this page again.
00:26:48 The date on this page is the 6th of May, 1776.
00:26:52 Why is that important?
00:26:53 Because two days earlier, the 4th of May,
00:26:56 that little colony of Rhode Island had become the first to make it actually official.
00:27:01 They struck the king's name out of all of their oaths.
00:27:04 They crossed the crown out of all of their laws.
00:27:07 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 it's a blank check written against their own necks in the middle of the war they were losing
00:27:36 and the first man it named uh was old steven hopkins steven hopkins he had been in the fight
00:27:45 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 look at the declaration of independence and you'll see his name and it's so shaky he could
00:27:55 barely right and when it came to his time at the table to sign the declaration of independence
00:28:01 he reached across with his left hand and gripped his trembling right and so he could steady his
00:28:07 hand somewhat and sign it and he said my hand trembles but my heart does not the second guy
00:28:16 on this was new and he was only there because of a fresh grave Samuel Ward he was the delegate
00:28:22 from rhode island the other delegate he had gone down to philadelphia caught smallpox and died of
00:28:27 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 worst hour to leave it empty so they reached for william ellery he was a lawyer in newport rhode
00:28:38 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 the uh the declaration of independence and uh he didn't flinch he didn't flinch he went straight
00:28:53 to grinding out this revolution um and uh it was pretty amazing what he you know what he had uh
00:29:02 what he had done when he signed the declaration um he um he signed it so large it's only second
00:29:12 in size to Hancock's. And Ellery knew exactly what his signature was. He knew that that was a noose
00:29:18 at the end of that sentence. So as the delegates came forward one by one, if you see the painting
00:29:23 of them, you will see Ellery standing back behind. He was watching every man. He said he wanted to
00:29:29 watch every man's face as they signed their own death warrant. And he said, I wanted to see if
00:29:37 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 to the declaration of independence and he said he stood there and he looked at face after face
00:29:48 and he said afterwards all i saw was undaunted resolution none of them flinched all of them
00:29:58 were ready for war these were men who had already buried their own men who had begged the king and
00:30:06 had been answered with mercenaries
00:30:07 and they signed anyway.
00:30:12 This room,
00:30:14 to get into this room,
00:30:16 which was locked and sealed tight,
00:30:18 this was your ticket.
00:30:20 This is what brought,
00:30:22 bought you a seat in that room.
00:30:26 To hold this thing
00:30:27 250 years later,
00:30:30 to have it in my own hands,
00:30:36 It is amazing.
00:30:39 The days of 4th of July, 2026, the king is gone.
00:30:43 He's a footnote.
00:30:44 The empire is gone, but the paper survives. 0.71
00:30:52 The men don't.
00:30:55 This paper has outlived the men who carried it.
00:30:57 But the paper still asks this one question.
00:31:01 The only one that really mattered
00:31:06 You don't get to choose when the storm comes
00:31:10 It's already here
00:31:12 Just as it was in their day
00:31:14 It's in the harbor
00:31:15 It's in the fields
00:31:16 You only get to choose
00:31:20 Are you going to stand inside the storm
00:31:23 The seat at today's table
00:31:28 Is still warm
00:31:29 but it has your name on it now what remains to be seen
00:31:35 is what you will do with it more in a minute
00:31:41 this is the best of the glenn beck program
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00:32:35 John Irwin, welcome to the program.
00:32:38 Glenn, good to see you, man.
00:32:40 It's been a little while.
00:32:41 It's great to be among friends.
00:32:44 I remember being on your show, release week of a film for I Can Only Imagine, many years ago.
00:32:50 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 of polar bears or something and he in the middle of the night so right before i got on the segment
00:33:00 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 gonna go on and stall with glenn and you're gonna find dennis quaid in the antarctic and they did
00:33:10 and they did right before we came out of commercial break so so i have many memories he had to go
00:33:14 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 allow him to be outside without his gun it was crazy yeah anyway to get service he had to be
00:33:25 like risk his life with polar bears i digress anyway i know many many great memories with you
00:33:30 man um i remember this has got to be 15 years ago we first talked and we talked about the problem
00:33:36 with hollywood and that you were setting out and you were going to change hollywood and it was hard
00:33:41 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 have to tell you, John, I watched your movie, Young Washington, with such pride and admiration
00:33:53 for you on all that you've accomplished and how good of a director and a producer and a screenwriter
00:33:59 you have become. It's a great story and a great movie. Congratulations. Thank you so much. We
00:34:05 share the obsession for Washington. I read many books on Washington, including yours, and I just
00:34:13 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 in theaters nationwide that celebrates american history as we go into the 250 and uh and i just
00:34:25 you know it's it's one of those things where i'm just grateful to the audience because you know
00:34:29 the audience just keeps shocking um hollywood and uh that allows us to do more and and have more
00:34:35 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 that airs on Amazon and the lead of that show, Michael,
00:34:44 he gave me this ring that says, seek discomfort.
00:34:48 And I believe in that as a way of life.
00:34:49 So sometimes we say pain is temporary, film is forever.
00:34:52 So it's been a hard road, but an incredibly fulfilling one.
00:34:55 And I'm just so grateful for the audience too,
00:34:57 for supporting the work.
00:34:59 And that's what gets these films made.
00:35:02 Is it out now?
00:35:04 It comes out on Friday, going into the 4th of July weekend.
00:35:08 So it's, I mean, talk about the perfect date for a movie about Washington.
00:35:14 It releases on the 4th of July weekend on our 250th anniversary.
00:35:18 And so we're very grateful.
00:35:20 It's in theaters nationwide.
00:35:22 I'm working with Angel Studios to release it.
00:35:25 And so, look, we've always said your movie ticket is your vote.
00:35:27 And it's more true now than ever.
00:35:30 We really want to do more of these stories.
00:35:34 We want to do more stories on the life of George Washington.
00:35:37 We want to do more stories on the founding of America.
00:35:40 And I just know when I took the time to read a lot of books on the founding of the country,
00:35:46 the story is unbelievable, first of all.
00:35:49 As you know, it lives up to the hype.
00:35:52 And you're just filled with a sense of gratitude and awe and wonder and pride that this nation
00:35:59 exists at all.
00:36:00 And it really is something to celebrate together.
00:36:04 And it is a miracle.
00:36:05 I mean, talk about low statistical odds of success.
00:36:09 And so we want to make more of these films.
00:36:11 And it starts with, we thought, where do we start?
00:36:14 I'm like, well, I love the origin story,
00:36:16 Hero's Journey of Washington, where he learns to be a leader.
00:36:20 And so that's where we decided to start.
00:36:23 He learns to be a leader, but he really never learns to be a good general.
00:36:29 He's really bad at strategy.
00:36:32 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 he is at the beginning you know what's interesting about washington is he is forged much more by
00:36:45 hardship and failure and risk and adventure and uh than he was by ease and many of the great
00:36:52 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 good generals, you know, because we were colonies. But Washington became our first real leader and
00:37:06 the embodiment of a cause. And I think he learned over the course of this story early in his life
00:37:12 that to lead is to serve and to lead is to embody something that's bigger than you are.
00:37:18 And he became America's first great leader. And what I noticed about him during the Revolutionary
00:37:23 war is he had this fortitude man like he he had this ability to endure in an uncommon way and that
00:37:31 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 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 his early life so i wanted to make this i've always considered it pride and prejudice meets
00:37:44 the revenant you know this kind of first adventure story in the french indian war and and uh and and
00:37:50 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 stories and and we just i think so many of the problems that we have uh are come from the fact
00:38:02 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 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 i guess fully understood or saw you know i'm such an american that i never thought of george
00:38:28 washington having to go to the british and saying hey i could you know i could i could serve here
00:38:33 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 no consequence you have no education where americans we don't look at people like that
00:38:46 and and it's so weird to see and to think George Washington being rejected because
00:38:52 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 you'll understand but even his even his first real and I think I'll bet you his real love his
00:39:07 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 thought it was possible because he just was you know kind of scum beneath their their feet yeah 0.94
00:39:22 you see the american idea birthed in this idea of anyone you know from anywhere being able to do 0.98
00:39:30 whatever they set their mind to if they work hard enough that is the idea of america and that did
00:39:34 not exist and you clearly see that and you see the unfairness of a world fixed in a class system
00:39:41 with an elite that no matter what you do, no matter how good you are, you could never join
00:39:46 just by virtue of your status. And you see this group of people and you see Washington in this
00:39:52 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 wanted to join this group that he was actually destined to defy. And you see that over the
00:40:04 course of the film. And you wonder if the first great love of his life had chosen him or if he
00:40:10 was able to get a royal commission as a british officer which he wanted so badly yeah is there
00:40:14 in america today i don't know you know so it's amazing to see these these these things that
00:40:18 happened uh that really is as he called it we're kind of a divine handed providence guiding him
00:40:24 even when it was painful um it's interesting to um see what did you what did you find about and
00:40:33 did you even research this far into it his love affair with uh with martha i mean because i've
00:40:40 always felt that the love affair that you see this this crushing love that he has for this
00:40:47 this woman fairfax um whose father is you know has hired him to make maps of the county and
00:40:54 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 I mean, I know he loved Martha, but was it kind of the old-fashioned
00:41:05 because we're married and we're going to love each other?
00:41:09 Or was there ever really a deep love affair with Martha and George?
00:41:13 Yeah, I have opinions on this.
00:41:16 And you try to research as much as you can.
00:41:19 Martha burned all their letters.
00:41:21 She burned almost everything.
00:41:22 Except two.
00:41:23 And I was at Mount Vernon two days ago.
00:41:27 We got to lay a wreath on his grave, which was amazing.
00:41:31 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 there. And that's where one of these letters was from Martha, uh, tucked away, hidden, like it was
00:41:40 just hidden in the desk. Um, but the rest are burned. And the only letters that we have from
00:41:44 Sally are from the letters he wrote to her. And so Sally was obviously his kind of first crush
00:41:50 flame. There was obviously attraction there. The last letter he wrote her was like a week before
00:41:55 he married martha i feel like martha was a business partnership that and a part as marriages
00:42:01 were in that day that actually grew into a bond over time uh especially as they experienced
00:42:07 difficulty together and she was out with him during the war and if you read that one letter
00:42:11 that survived you you you see that their the relationship with martha martha blossomed in
00:42:18 this into a real bond uh in my opinion different uh than kind of the um yes the infatuation with
00:42:25 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 story i and and especially as you get into 70 76 and beyond just the pressure that he was under
00:42:36 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 know and uh it's so fascinating to explore yeah she was not only there for him but when they went
00:42:47 to valley forge i mean she was there i mean no woman is going to valley forge she was there
00:42:52 helping. And she was a remarkable woman. Anyway, John, what is the one last thing? What is the one
00:42:59 thing you learned about George Washington you did not know that you thought, wow, everyone should
00:43:04 know this? Well, as I studied his life, you know, you think about these characters forged in stone,
00:43:11 you know, and they're mythic. And then you ask, where do these characteristics come from? And
00:43:17 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 And you see that in this film, in this early chapter in his life.
00:43:38 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 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 So I think those were the primary things.
00:44:03 Other than that, I think his personality was like a lid on top of a volcano.
00:44:07 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 uh and and like as always when our audience unifies our voice around something and shocks
00:44:30 hollywood um millions and millions of people see it that wouldn't otherwise see it because of the
00:44:36 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 around the country it's cool to hear people like you know cheer and chant usa at the end of the
00:44:47 movie but what i love is a lot of people say i was up on google like all night researching like
00:44:52 did this really happen?
00:44:53 Yeah.
00:44:54 Yeah.
00:44:54 Some of the most extraordinary things in the movie actually happened.
00:44:56 So that's,
00:44:57 that's my hope is that it will serve as a spark of curiosity for Americans
00:45:01 everywhere.
00:45:02 I will tell you congratulations.
00:45:05 State department is doing screenings now of young Washington,
00:45:08 the embassies all over the world,
00:45:10 which is tremendous.
00:45:12 And I will tell you as a listener,
00:45:14 that stuff is not going to happen.
00:45:16 We lose the next,
00:45:18 you know,
00:45:18 couple of elections.
00:45:19 This is over.
00:45:20 and it gets really dark.
00:45:23 It is so important to support movies like this now
00:45:26 because money doesn't talk, it usually screams.
00:45:31 And the only way we get,
00:45:32 I mean, we have an extraordinary opportunity
00:45:34 this 250th year.
00:45:36 I mean, again, divine providence
00:45:38 to drop our 250th in right now,
00:45:42 where we are politically right now.
00:45:44 If this would have happened 10 years ago,
00:45:46 it wouldn't have been the same.
00:45:47 To happen right now,
00:45:48 you have a chance to educate yourself and stop all of this stuff and support the next great
00:45:54 storytellers. We lost our story. The left took it from us and has butchered it to death. We must
00:46:03 find it again, and we must support great storytellers. And I will tell you, John Irwin
00:46:08 is one of my favorites and one of the best. And the name of the film is Young Washington. And if
00:46:15 You make this, you go to see this and this becomes a success.
00:46:20 I can't wait to see the series that he will make on this because Washington is the greatest
00:46:25 story ever told in American history.
00:46:28 He is fabulous.
00:46:29 John, thank you.
00:46:30 God bless you.
00:46:31 Thank you.
00:46:31 Glenn, great to see you again as always.
00:46:33 Take care.
00:46:34 Good to see you.
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