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00:00:15.660 Hey, it's Friday. So I wanted to give you some stuff that just, you know, makes you feel good.

00:00:19.740 Some of it is politics. Well, one of the things that I'm going to share with you is politics.

00:00:23.100 We talked to Christy Rogers. Her husband, Mike, is running for Senate in Michigan.

00:00:28.460 And a race that I thought a few weeks ago was over is now within one point.

00:00:33.400 And there's a good chance that Mike wins this thing only if people get out and vote.

00:00:39.220 And you have to hear what Christie is saying.

00:00:41.700 It's it's this could be a really great thing for Republicans.

00:00:46.460 But you need to know that a lot of good news in today, including something that I want to talk to you about, about how you are in control of your own destiny.

00:00:55.240 you know um but you have to actively shape it until i ask the question and this is where we

00:01:01.800 start who are your heroes on today's podcast you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:01:13.100 i don't know about anybody else but uh i am finding a renewed sense of urgency

00:01:22.720 that we have got to get serious on what we're doing.

00:01:28.460 We have to get serious on our youth

00:01:33.240 and teaching our principles because nobody is doing it.

00:01:36.840 Literally, nobody is doing it.

00:01:39.920 And our, especially Generation Alpha,

00:01:42.960 they are starving for it.

00:01:44.840 They need the education.

00:01:47.280 And I think we can start here with heroes.

00:01:48.960 where are your heroes who are your heroes this spring harvard asked 2 000 young americans

00:02:01.140 how they felt about the country 13 said we were on the right track 13 the pollster said the

00:02:09.340 biggest challenge since 2018 isn't about the country it's about them it's a growing belief

00:02:16.340 that what they do no longer shapes what happens next.

00:02:23.320 That is the biggest lie.

00:02:25.480 That is the most dangerous lie we can have.

00:02:28.040 Another survey asked men who they look up to.

00:02:31.640 Mom came in first.

00:02:33.120 Dad came in second.

00:02:34.820 Coaches and teachers third.

00:02:37.180 Famous names all came in way behind.

00:02:41.740 I think those two are the same story.

00:02:43.780 for 50 years we taught our kids that every hero had clay feet that george washington was a 0.97

00:02:52.640 hypocrite lincoln was just a politician he didn't do that great in fact he betrayed his country 0.95

00:02:57.560 that every great man had a secret and the secret was the real story not the great thing that he 0.99

00:03:04.560 did and some of it was true some of it wasn't but all of them were men or women

00:03:10.380 but we didn't stop at the truth we kept digging and digging and picking until there was nothing

00:03:18.800 left and now we wonder why the generation feels like nothing they do matters tear down everyone

00:03:26.720 worth looking up to and the only place left to look is your shoes

00:03:32.360 is looking down all the time.

00:03:35.540 Nothing. Doesn't matter.

00:03:39.060 I was thinking about this the other day.

00:03:45.560 A friend of mine years ago came to see me in New York.

00:03:48.820 He had been around the block a few thousand times, let's say.

00:03:52.460 He worked at the White House when he was young.

00:03:54.640 He built one of the great industrial companies in America.

00:03:57.800 He, for years and years, was one of the wealthiest men in the country

00:04:01.560 on the Forbes, you know, top 20. And before he died, he gave all of it away. He said, I want to

00:04:08.200 die broke. And he gave it all away. And he was the biggest philanthropist I have ever met.

00:04:15.040 He came to New York one time and he said, I want to come stop by and see you. And so I said,

00:04:19.200 great. And I had an office, I don't know, on the 35th floor or something on the Avenue of Americas.

00:04:25.720 And it was three blocks from the Empire State Building. It was across the street from the New

00:04:30.220 york public library you could see the chrysler building from my office window the empire state

00:04:35.320 building from another one 30 rock i mean the my whole it was amazing my whole office framed in

00:04:40.980 windows and everyone who walked into that room they didn't notice anything in the room they

00:04:46.880 just noticed skyline they were like oh my gosh look at this it was amazing he walks in he didn't

00:04:53.260 notice any of it he didn't even look at the skyline or the windows he walked in he looked

00:04:59.620 right, as he walked in, he's looking right at my desk and what's on my desk. And he said,

00:05:06.580 where are all the pictures? I said, what do you mean? I looked down there,

00:05:11.600 pictures of my family on my desk. And he said, where are all your heroes?

00:05:19.400 I didn't have an answer. I didn't know. So he gave me one. He said, you have to have pictures

00:05:26.600 of the people you look up to.

00:05:28.740 You have to have them in front of you.

00:05:30.180 You have to have them on your desk or on the walls,

00:05:32.160 wherever you're looking while you're on the phone

00:05:33.960 or you're in a meeting.

00:05:35.480 You have to have pictures of people you want to be like.

00:05:43.440 They can be in your life or in history.

00:05:45.860 It doesn't matter.

00:05:46.560 But people who had the traits

00:05:48.520 and the ability to choose the right path

00:05:51.860 no matter their circumstance.

00:05:54.160 And then he told me why.

00:05:55.060 He said, Glenn, there's going to come a time

00:05:56.560 if it hasn't happened already you're going to sit in that chair whatever your chair is wherever you

00:06:03.400 are you're going to sit in that chair and somebody's going to call you on the phone or

00:06:07.320 somebody's going to sit in front of you and they're going to ask you to make a decision or to do

00:06:11.620 something or get involved in something that might be profitable might be good but might be slightly

00:06:17.520 wrong he said you'll hit the really wrong things out of the ballpark you'll get out of my office

00:06:21.720 he said but the slightly wrong ones and they're going to need an answer immediately there might

00:06:26.280 be a crisis answer right now I need an answer he said if you have those faces in front of you

00:06:33.800 and you've carefully chosen them for all of the traits that you want they are your counsel when

00:06:39.900 you're pushed you will look down and see their faces and you will instantly know nope wrong choice

00:06:46.260 I thought that was wisdom he earned in a boardroom

00:06:51.900 and it was wisdom also through life he had lived it but it's also wisdom that's 2 000 years old

00:07:02.900 there was a roman named seneca he spent years at the side of the uh emperor nero when he finally

00:07:11.400 um got out he wrote letters to a younger friend and in one of them in one of them he gives almost

00:07:18.140 exactly the same advice. He says, pick a good man and always keep him in front of your eyes.

00:07:24.180 Live as if he were watching you all the time. Do everything as if he sees it.

00:07:30.780 And then he adds a part that I love. He suggests Cato. Cato was the sternest, most unbending man

00:07:38.620 in Rome. And then he says, if Cato is too much for you, pick somebody gentler. But pick somebody

00:07:46.040 because you can't straighten a crooked line without a ruler.

00:07:52.480 A man who had stood that close to Nero

00:07:55.380 knew exactly what kind of requests come into powerful men's rooms

00:07:58.780 and how fast you have to answer.

00:08:02.400 My friend did it too because he stood next to a president

00:08:07.040 and he watched it too.

00:08:12.520 So do you.

00:08:13.380 If you've ever had a boss or a buddy or a bank account, you know it.

00:08:18.180 You will become whatever it is you keep in front of you. 1.00

00:08:21.960 I think it's Sufist, Sufist, Sufist, I can't remember.

00:08:28.560 The ancient Eastern philosophy, that which you, what is it?

00:08:37.180 That which you gaze upon, you become.

00:08:40.120 It's true.

00:08:40.720 And look what we're gazing on.

00:08:41.940 We're watching it happen with our kids

00:08:43.680 As they're staring at their phone

00:08:45.440 That's what they're becoming

00:08:47.080 So I took his advice

00:08:50.660 On my desk, Raul Wallenberg

00:08:55.820 A Swedish businessman who could have stayed safe

00:08:58.420 And went instead to Budapest

00:08:59.820 He went the extra mile because he knew it was right

00:09:02.660 He died doing it 0.93

00:09:03.780 Martin Luther King

00:09:05.000 Stood in a church in Memphis the night before he died

00:09:07.840 Told him, I might not be able to get there with you

00:09:10.260 He knew how it was going to end, and he did it anyway.

00:09:14.140 Gandhi, when his own supporters wanted violent shortcuts,

00:09:18.280 he called off his own movement rather than win that way.

00:09:21.960 He stood against his own side.

00:09:25.060 Pope John Paul II, who went into a prison cell

00:09:28.600 and forgave the man who just shot him and tried to kill him.

00:09:35.900 Latest edition on my desk is Charlie Kirk,

00:09:38.140 who never screamed back at the people who screamed at him.

00:09:43.960 My brother, Robert, the best father I know.

00:09:47.440 And my friend, John Huntsman, the man who asked me where my heroes were.

00:09:54.160 He also taught me, Glenn, if you want to truly be a philanthropist,

00:09:58.020 you have to care about the entire human condition, not just one part.

00:10:01.880 And die broke.

00:10:02.940 Jesus, the ultimate man, hangs on my wall

00:10:10.000 The imperfect, broken men are on my desk

00:10:15.120 They're all flawed like me

00:10:17.300 But that's not why they're there

00:10:20.020 Each one of them is there for the thing they got right

00:10:23.900 When it cost him something

00:10:25.780 And that's all a hero ever was

00:10:29.860 Not a saint

00:10:31.140 not a man we're supposed to glorify

00:10:34.860 somebody we're supposed to look down at

00:10:37.260 on our desk or in front of

00:10:39.240 or wherever you want to post that

00:10:41.480 somebody you look at every day

00:10:44.300 and you go that guy chose right

00:10:46.380 one time in his life maybe

00:10:48.300 he chose right when it made a difference

00:10:50.320 and it cost him something

00:10:51.720 when wrong was easier

00:10:54.280 when everybody said it couldn't be done

00:10:56.880 he did it

00:10:57.720 we as a culture have to find our heroes again

00:11:03.100 and not marvel heroes

00:11:05.040 men and women

00:11:06.880 that really lived

00:11:08.460 lived real lives and have the scars

00:11:10.600 to prove it

00:11:11.540 so who are your heroes

00:11:19.960 why are they your heroes

00:11:25.760 who do you look to because that's the person you strive to be

00:11:31.960 you know for half my life i allowed others to shape me 0.98

00:11:37.760 you know and it doesn't matter you know your family will shape you i'm still the stinky

00:11:43.660 younger brother my older sisters you know i mean that's not who i am and a lot happened to me my 0.78

00:11:50.160 mom died when i was 15 i'm an alcoholic i was poor then i had some wealth then poor again

00:11:58.440 divorced two kids suicidal i couldn't keep a job all that was by the time i was 30

00:12:04.260 then i changed my life and it took me 10 years five of them really i mean holding on by my

00:12:13.420 fingernails hard ones but that's when i decided i'm not going to let other people shape me i'm

00:12:19.600 not going to let my circumstances shape me. I'm not going to let success or failure shape me.

00:12:27.520 I'm not going to let my own self-destructive narrative shape me. I'm going to choose who I am

00:12:34.140 because I can. That's the most important choice you get. The freedom to choose, the most important

00:12:42.020 is, who am I?

00:12:45.620 I am choosing who I am.

00:12:48.700 I will gaze upon the things I want to become.

00:12:53.840 I will partner with God,

00:12:56.220 and I will build the man I was meant to be,

00:12:59.520 not what society or culture

00:13:01.960 or even my own laziness will allow me to become.

00:13:06.140 I'm not going to drift.

00:13:09.960 You know, when I was 40,

00:13:11.140 on my 40th birthday I had just sobered up five years before and I looked at my wife

00:13:21.420 Tanya and I said I haven't accomplished a damn thing in my life I was 40 I'm 62

00:13:29.440 by the time I was 50 I think I had 12 New York Times bestseller sellers because I had all this

00:13:40.960 pent up in me. All this potential that I had dismissed. And it started because I went looking

00:13:51.420 for men I wanted to be like. And I could give you a hundred examples because there's a part of each

00:13:57.540 of those stories inside of me now. Story, story, story. What is the story that connects with you?

00:14:03.560 If you don't have the story of your family, of your past, of your future,

00:14:09.960 if you don't have the stories of the men and the women you want to be like,

00:14:14.180 you cannot write your own story.

00:14:20.980 And so to the young men who told Harvard, nothing you do matters,

00:14:26.420 you're not powerless.

00:14:29.300 You're unfinished.

00:14:30.480 and an unfinished man gets to choose

00:14:34.160 what he builds his life around.

00:14:38.980 Find your own counsel.

00:14:41.500 Find your own heroes.

00:14:43.380 Put their faces where you see them every day

00:14:45.920 when you get up in the morning

00:14:47.500 and when your phone rings.

00:14:50.480 Don't find yourself.

00:14:51.880 God, I hate that.

00:14:52.900 I'm going to college because I'm finding myself.

00:14:55.020 Don't find yourself.

00:14:56.720 What do you mean?

00:14:58.500 I found myself.

00:14:59.840 I found myself. You know what I found? A bunch of stuff I didn't like.

00:15:04.880 Instead, go find out who you were meant to be, who you want to be, the highest version of yourself.

00:15:12.880 Find yourself. Find something better than you. Work on it. Struggle with it. Shape it. Live it.

00:15:19.580 And you know what? Someday, someday, maybe somebody, maybe your son or daughter, will put your picture on their desk.

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00:16:48.320 so i got some great stuff coming up for you uh yet today i've got uh interview with uh mike rogers

00:16:58.380 uh wife um she's going to be on with us mike rogers is now one point away from el saeed

00:17:05.840 looks like that might be falling apart uh and uh and uh it it could happen mike's supposed to be

00:17:13.460 on with us maybe next week uh but uh his wife is on today because um el saeed said some things

00:17:20.500 about women uh that i think i don't know i think you should hear and maybe hear from mike's wife

00:17:26.280 uh on that uh the the polls are tightening uh and that's really good news but you have to get

00:17:35.520 out and vote but all the polls now that they're hearing these people they're like oh okay wait

00:17:40.000 wait wait i think i'm beginning to understand who you really are i i don't think so i don't think

00:17:45.840 so so we'll see but again republicans have to go out and vote if you have early voting go out and

00:17:50.800 vote um you know and bring some dead people along with you why not they do it in chicago

00:17:57.140 anyway um we'll have more on that also this woman from france who came here she's a young woman

00:18:03.100 And she just wrote a book.

00:18:04.620 Let me see if I can find what the name of this book is.

00:18:07.660 She just wrote this book, Dear Land of the Free.

00:18:11.940 It's fantastic.

00:18:13.640 I had a hard time putting it down last night.

00:18:15.860 It's this love letter to America.

00:18:18.940 And she's just like, she went back to France.

00:18:23.660 And she's like, I didn't know who I was.

00:18:25.600 I was born in France.

00:18:27.080 And she explains what it's like in France.

00:18:29.220 And then she came over here and she's like, I know who I am now.

00:18:33.100 because I spent time in America, and I want to come back to America.

00:18:38.180 And so she wrote, Dear Land of the Free is great.

00:18:41.100 You're going to love her.

00:18:41.940 She's going to be on here in just a minute or so.

00:18:46.000 While we're at some good news, let me give you, it's been a one-year anniversary.

00:18:52.620 Last Sunday, Sunday morning, there was fast and testimony meetings.

00:19:00.620 this is when people fast in the morning then they get up and they can they can speak about their

00:19:07.500 testimony and they can stand up and say what they know to be true now on september 28th of last year

00:19:15.620 there was this chapel where this was going on and a pickup truck came through the front wall

00:19:22.180 of that chapel, then gunfire, then flames.

00:19:28.340 It was in Michigan.

00:19:31.240 It was a LDS chapel.

00:19:33.900 You remember?

00:19:34.960 Greg McCat was sitting in the congregation.

00:19:39.620 He's an investigator for the Department of Corrections up there,

00:19:42.760 and he had a pistol on him.

00:19:45.140 When the guy comes in with a gun,

00:19:47.320 he immediately stands up and he pulls his weapon and he fires.

00:19:50.700 He fires five times and missed five times.

00:19:53.560 The gunman didn't miss.

00:19:55.720 Three rounds right into Greg's chest.

00:19:58.680 The police chief would later say it was those few seconds that bought the time for most of the ward to get out of the back. 0.98

00:20:06.500 Now, down the hall was Katie Brooks. 0.73

00:20:09.020 She was in a small room, five children, and the room was starting to fill with black smoke.

00:20:14.640 She didn't know what to do.

00:20:16.660 You know, stay in place, shelter, shelter. 0.95

00:20:20.700 she calls 911, what do I do? 1.00

00:20:23.520 And they said, get out, get out right now. 0.98

00:20:25.440 So she throws a metal chair through the glass 1.00

00:20:28.980 and she takes all the kids 1.00

00:20:31.100 after she says, pour water on your clothes, okay? 0.82

00:20:34.600 So she's covering them all in water, so the fire. 0.86

00:20:38.620 She calls 911, get them out of the window.

00:20:41.260 She picks up her little boy, Lincoln.

00:20:43.120 She throws him out.

00:20:44.940 She picks up all the kids one after another 0.95

00:20:47.160 and throws all these kids out. 0.84

00:20:48.720 Then she goes in.

00:20:50.700 Out back, a middle school math teacher named Dawn Scheich

00:20:54.460 drove her seven-passenger van,

00:20:57.080 fills it up with as many people that can get into this van

00:20:59.860 as they escape from the church,

00:21:02.040 cram them inside.

00:21:03.280 Two of them had been shot.

00:21:05.740 Four members of that ward never came home.

00:21:09.040 She just drives in the wood, get away.

00:21:13.920 It's been a year.

00:21:15.880 Last Sunday was a year.

00:21:18.840 You ask the survivors about the man who did it, and still today, there's no rage in them.

00:21:26.480 Dawn said, I don't hold any anger.

00:21:29.940 Mostly, she and everybody else are just puzzled by his hatred.

00:21:34.520 How could somebody hate them that much?

00:21:39.220 Katie said something important.

00:21:40.620 She said, never once have we doubted a thought that the Lord abandoned us.

00:21:45.700 We teach that even in hard things, in tragedy, we can feel the Lord with us.

00:21:54.180 Now we lived it.

00:22:00.080 I found out that Katie keeps a shelf at home. 0.66

00:22:03.520 She decorates it for every season.

00:22:06.540 The whole year, she decorates for everything that's going on.

00:22:10.480 This last year, it has been bare the whole time.

00:22:15.700 She just put up fall.

00:22:20.840 Things are starting to return to normal.

00:22:23.940 More wise, a deeper testimony.

00:22:27.840 As they gathered again for the first anniversary fast and testimony meeting,

00:22:32.860 same kind of quiet Sunday, same kind of people in the pews.

00:22:37.740 But there were a couple of changes.

00:22:39.740 Their testimony was deeper.

00:22:40.860 and when it came to sing, time to sing

00:22:45.700 a guy walks from the front

00:22:49.360 he turns to face the congregation

00:22:52.040 he raises his arms to lead the hymn

00:22:55.820 it was Greg

00:22:58.640 the guy had been shot three times in the chest

00:23:01.960 the last time people saw him raise his arms

00:23:05.360 in the church, there was a gun in his hand

00:23:08.300 this time

00:23:11.000 he was just conducting the music

00:23:13.600 it's amazing how we can

00:23:19.320 take something bad

00:23:20.360 and make it into something good

00:23:22.780 or we can make it change

00:23:25.380 us and our lives

00:23:27.140 and become embittered

00:23:28.980 with hatred

00:23:30.560 it's nice to hear these stories

00:23:33.500 where

00:23:34.660 people are choosing the right path

00:23:36.860 let me go back to a story that we were just talking about when i was screaming normal normal

00:23:43.800 normal at you in a very un-christ-like way um this whole thing with the military

00:23:49.220 because we got into the break here a second ago with the insiders if you're not an insider you

00:23:54.720 should join us you miss a lot um glenbeck.com slash insider but jason was talking because he's

00:24:00.200 military guy he claims to be a marine but i i don't know i i don't know marines really have

00:24:06.400 you really, you're accepting people like Jason now? Oh, is Jason out of the room? Oh, that's

00:24:11.580 too bad. He can't defend himself. Get Jason's butt back in the seat. Um, we're talking about,

00:24:19.560 uh, you know, talking about this whole thing with the military and how the, you know, people are

00:24:26.260 saying, I can't believe Hegseth. Do we have the cut from Hegseth? Play the Hegseth cut.

00:24:31.720 We are no longer the woke department or the weak department.

00:24:36.600 Simple translation of that. 0.97

00:24:39.880 No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.

00:24:46.480 Just warriors. 0.52

00:24:48.480 Just tough, ready, committed troops.

00:24:52.400 The War Department, as you know, is colorblind, gender neutral, and merit-based.

00:24:58.160 or, as the president likes to say,

00:25:00.840 repeat, central casting.

00:25:04.880 You know, what's amazing to me

00:25:06.780 is that this is controversial.

00:25:09.800 Can I ask you,

00:25:11.260 what is the purpose of a military?

00:25:14.060 Is it to send cultural signals

00:25:17.500 of who we accept?

00:25:20.500 No.

00:25:21.740 No, you want to do that,

00:25:22.680 do that in some other department.

00:25:24.380 Do that in your artsy-fartsy departments.

00:25:26.860 Here's what the military is for. 1.00

00:25:29.260 To kill people. 0.99

00:25:30.780 You may not like to hear that, but that's what it's for. 1.00

00:25:33.520 To kill people.

00:25:34.820 Police are there to ensure that people are not killing each other

00:25:39.700 and doing their best to get the violent people off the streets.

00:25:43.140 Military is there to kill people 0.99

00:25:46.000 and kill them faster than they can kill our people. 0.99

00:25:51.120 We don't like to use it. 1.00

00:25:52.680 We don't like to say that.

00:25:53.920 we'd like to say oh well we're peacekeepers no we're not we're not peace that's not that's why

00:25:58.960 trump in a very genius move because he understands you change the language you change the culture

00:26:07.060 so instead of the department of defense which i've never had a problem with 0.70

00:26:12.260 until it started going woke and we started getting pussified

00:26:16.680 he changed it to the department of war to remind you that's what that that's what those people are

00:26:24.120 for they're not for peacekeeping they're not for nation building they're for war and i got news for

00:26:30.360 you who do you want fighting you want a guy who is in there fighting who is like well that guy

00:26:37.120 that guy now remember he's standing next to your son you want the guy standing next to your son

00:26:43.700 in battle to be the guy who was like, well, they accepted me for who I am. And I'm a woman now.

00:26:50.400 And I like to wear a dress on the battlefield. Do you want that guy? Or do you want a guy who is

00:26:56.040 like, I'm going to kill them. I'm going to kill them because that's what I've trained to do. 1.00

00:27:02.020 That's all I care about is my job to be a warrior. I'm going to stop them before they kill 1.00

00:27:08.300 me my friend you know what i had i had a um when i was over in israel this is 20 years ago

00:27:14.600 it was really dangerous for my family over there and um we had death threats and everything

00:27:22.480 in israel and they were coming to get us and so i my kids had to have their own security person

00:27:29.740 over there and uh this little teeny guy he must have been about five feet and he was he was a

00:27:37.760 you know, former military, Israeli military. I think he was a Mossad guy. And I look at him

00:27:45.680 and I'm evaluating, is this guy going to protect my kids? And I put my hand on his shoulder and

00:27:52.580 he's not wearing a vest. And I said, where's your vest? I don't, I like my protectors to have vests.

00:28:00.460 where's your vest and he looks at me and he says i don't need a vest i will see them and kill them 0.55

00:28:08.280 before they ever see me and i'm like you're good you can watch the kids that's what i want in the 0.88

00:28:13.620 glenn beck program that's what i really want to thank you i don't want a babysitter i don't want 0.97

00:28:17.320 somebody teaching me cultural yes or no i want somebody who says i'm gonna kill them before they

00:28:23.300 even see me coming good you're in now do i want that person being my teacher for my kids i don't 0.96

00:28:31.980 know maybe probably not do i do i want this guy to be talking to me about you know whatever else

00:28:40.700 business no probably not i want this guy to protect and defend that's what the military is supposed to

00:28:49.540 do. And I know this is gravely non-PC. We're not supposed to say it, but I'm sorry.

00:29:02.040 Your job is to kill people faster than they kill ours. Your job is to instill fear in them. 1.00

00:29:13.000 Fear. Do you know that we could have stopped Benghazi? We could have stopped Benghazi. All 0.92

00:29:18.640 we had to do was low fly our planes. Do you know that when we fly our planes just over the rooftops,

00:29:27.720 when we fly our planes just over the rooftops and we're trying to stop a fight, we'll fly them

00:29:33.040 really fast. And just as we start to get over where they are, we kick it into afterburners.

00:29:40.360 Do you know why? Because it breaks every window in like a 20 block radius.

00:29:46.540 When those things come screaming over your head, you realize the might and the power of the United States of America.

00:29:56.300 Do they shoot anybody? Maybe, sometimes.

00:29:59.460 Sometimes it's enough to make the other opposing team wet their pants, literally, and run like little girls. 0.97

00:30:09.340 That's what a military does. 0.96

00:30:13.060 That's its number one job.

00:30:16.540 put fear in the enemy.

00:30:20.460 And he ain't doing that in a dress, Admiral.

00:30:24.240 Put fear in the enemy.

00:30:26.560 And if that's not enough, 1.00

00:30:28.020 then kill them as fast as you can and come home. 1.00

00:30:33.980 There's nothing wrong with this policy. 1.00

00:30:36.540 Period.

00:30:37.540 More in a minute.

00:30:43.580 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program,

00:30:45.320 And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:30:54.580 Christy, welcome to the program. How are you?

00:30:57.680 Hey, good morning. I am all right. Thanks for having me today.

00:31:01.480 You bet. So, you know, you're on the campaign trail, I'm assuming.

00:31:06.160 And you're hearing you're hearing people. 0.87

00:31:08.940 um we the republicans have been really down in the mouth because el saeed was it looks like he

00:31:15.720 was going to take things by storm that's falling apart what's happening on the ground yeah amazing

00:31:21.040 i'm just leaving actually kalamazoo headed up to grand rapids um and people are excited on the

00:31:26.580 ground uh for this race particularly in michigan it's running um the opposite direction of national

00:31:33.320 We actually have over 90 percent excitement of Republican voters.

00:31:39.840 That's unusual for midterm.

00:31:42.080 And it's not just the Republican base that's excited and that is excited for Mike to win this.

00:31:48.360 We also, our number one request for yard signs is Democrats for Rogers.

00:31:53.720 And so how do you poll that, right?

00:31:55.700 I mean, we're hearing that the polls are neck and neck.

00:31:59.000 It is Michigan.

00:32:00.000 It is a purple state.

00:32:01.120 It will be closed.

00:32:02.420 So we absolutely need everybody to get out and vote.

00:32:05.920 You know, as I just said to this whole room full of Kalamazoo voters, I'm like, I know you're going to vote.

00:32:12.680 Grab your aunt, your crazy uncle, you know, your friends, your co-workers.

00:32:16.780 It is so important to vote this cycle.

00:32:20.020 As you said, we have not in Michigan elected a Republican senator since 1994.

00:32:25.900 That's absurd.

00:32:26.800 And Democrats have controlled Lansing, our state capitol, for the better part of a decade.

00:32:31.780 and where are we now the democrats have managed to get us ranked 46th in the country we've lost

00:32:40.820 200 000 manufacturing jobs we're 46th in education our kids can't read we've got the highest car

00:32:47.700 insurance rate in the country that's democrats and so they're running around saying oh we're

00:32:52.300 going to make things more affordable absolutely not they're lying they're just going to increase

00:32:57.120 your taxes they've already given us as i said the highest car insurance rate in the country

00:33:01.500 the highest utility rates in the Midwest.

00:33:04.060 So Michiganders are ready for a change, and they're looking at Mike. 0.55

00:33:08.280 But Abdul, I mean, this guy, he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him. 0.60

00:33:14.320 And, you know, he's running around saying Medicare for all, 0.83

00:33:18.100 and that he himself has said is going to raise Michigan families' taxes

00:33:22.260 by two to three times.

00:33:26.220 Two to three times.

00:33:27.420 That's about $20,000 what we're averaging per year, per household.

00:33:33.460 That's not going to make anything more affordable.

00:33:35.980 And he's saying he wants money out of politics.

00:33:38.880 His two top funders, Council for American Islamic Relations and George Soros.

00:33:46.020 Now, CARES, those are his two top funders.

00:33:50.120 And George Soros paid for his graduate education.

00:33:54.000 Think about that.

00:33:54.780 That's unbelievable.

00:33:55.540 so do michigan do people in michigan are they i mean i'm amazed i'm seeing this because we have

00:34:03.040 it in texas too i'm amazed i'm seeing this and i'm thinking have you forgotten what we're up

00:34:07.820 against have you forgotten what it was like just two years ago with this insanity and this is

00:34:12.960 getting worse these are avowed marxist and avowed islamists um that are at least supporting these 0.61

00:34:20.700 guys i think el saeed is um both of those things and you're going to have every mosque out to vote

00:34:28.780 for this guy every single one of them they're preaching it every friday are our christian

00:34:33.620 churches preaching get out and vote i don't know we're working we're working on it we are absolutely

00:34:40.680 working on it but the scary thing is only 50 of christians in michigan voted in 2024 i mean just

00:34:47.640 think about that. That's awful. So in heat, Abdul, his sister, is an avowed supporter of Hamas.

00:34:59.000 She said that the only reason she has not given up her professorship at University of Chicago

00:35:04.960 is because she's using it to recruit Hamas supporters and Hamas volunteers. His mom,

00:35:12.300 His mother is an unindicted co-conspirator raising money for al-Qaeda.

00:35:19.980 I mean, you cannot make this up.

00:35:22.560 And so Hassan Piker, he has brought Hassan Piker into Michigan three times.

00:35:29.280 He had Hassan Piker the night before his primary.

00:35:33.360 So he's attached to the hip with Hassan Piker.

00:35:35.820 And the frightening thing is he's bringing Hassan Piker to our college and university campuses.

00:35:42.300 Talk about brainwashing our future generations and our students.

00:35:47.900 This is absolutely scary.

00:35:50.660 And yes, he is beholden to Hassan Piker, and we are not letting Michigan voters forget it.

00:35:56.300 Azul Al-Said is frightening.

00:35:59.180 Do the people of Michigan, though, do they feel like I feel this every day?

00:36:04.520 I mean, I'm watching this stuff and I'm like, people, you've got to understand your country is on the very edge.

00:36:11.300 Because this is nowhere. This is not Barack Obama 2008. This is everything I warned that was coming from Barack Obama 2008. It's now here. These are avowed Marxists, avowed Islamists. Do people in Michigan understand that yet?

00:36:28.100 you know i say i i believe they're starting to and the scary thing is that is that they're

00:36:35.240 starting to they should already know it but when you actually say say the thing and actually use

00:36:43.340 a dual's words back at him people are like oh that can't be true that's that's too extreme

00:36:48.420 no it actually is true and you know we just look at his record you look at his supporters

00:36:53.780 And so we're just repeating what he has said previously.

00:36:59.040 And, you know, he's gone back and deleted 200 of his social media posts and YouTube videos.

00:37:04.280 Of course he has.

00:37:05.300 Of course he has.

00:37:05.800 He tells us what he has said in the past.

00:37:07.480 It's just...

00:37:07.880 Sorry, go ahead.

00:37:10.480 Yesterday was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and he said crazy things about that.

00:37:18.380 How's that going to play?

00:37:19.420 Explain what happened.

00:37:21.160 Well, you know, and Mike is a cancer survivor.

00:37:23.180 Mike got cancer when he was 19, and thank God it's not recurred.

00:37:27.480 But what Abdul has said, right, and he went to medical school.

00:37:32.280 Now, he runs around and says he is a physician.

00:37:35.500 He is not.

00:37:36.460 He never got his residency, never has been licensed.

00:37:39.640 In some states, it's illegal to call yourself a physician, but he does.

00:37:43.880 So we're starting to get people aware of that.

00:37:47.880 But what he said about breast cancer is just shocking.

00:37:51.080 He said that breast cancer research is disturbing, and it only helps those with social privilege and power.

00:38:02.100 Now, not only is that insensitive, that's disturbing, the fact that he said that.

00:38:06.680 10,000 women alone every year in Michigan get diagnosed with breast cancer.

00:38:12.380 And he said that breast cancer research, it's shocking. 0.84

00:38:15.200 How is he planning on luring women into this Islamic cult, into his campaign? How is he planning on doing that when he's saying that the research for something that only happens to women, women, women, is social power and privilege? How's that playing or going to play?

00:38:38.780 Well, you know, we're talking about it. I actually raised it again this morning. And the concerning thing for me also is that women age 18 to 40 are his largest supporters, the largest supporting group, which I just don't understand from so many different aspects.

00:38:59.060 from what he said about breast cancer research but also from the fact that he is a sharia

00:39:03.720 law adherent what that means is he believes that women are worth 50 percent less than men

00:39:11.460 and and and women are like oh that's not true no actually it is true it is

00:39:17.500 it is and when it comes it it takes it takes two women to testify against one man to equal

00:39:27.580 the testimony that is absolutely true um i don't even know where to start tell me what you think

00:39:34.960 what is the message that people in michigan need to hear the people in the country need to hear

00:39:40.580 from mike what is this truly all about it is about who we are as americans it's not just who we are

00:39:50.920 as michiganders and you know making making housing more affordable getting our kids to read again

00:39:56.500 bringing manufacturing jobs back. Mike has a plan for all of that. But we are truly the firewall

00:40:03.120 for what Abdul himself calls the movement, the DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America,

00:40:09.460 and the radical Islamist movement. He says he's the leader of it, and he's going to bring it

00:40:14.500 across America. So we're the firewall. And I'm telling everybody that I need that this is about

00:40:21.740 who we are as America, who we want to be going forward as America. And this is about our values.

00:40:28.780 And we have got to remember that that is not an exaggeration on any level. And the contrast could

00:40:34.540 not be more clear. You have somebody who's anti-American and Abdul Al-Fayed, who openly

00:40:40.380 says it hates Jews. And you have my husband, Mike Rogers, who is a former Michigan state senator,

00:40:46.900 a former michigan congressman chairman of the house intelligence committee former fbi agent

00:40:52.460 and former army officer running against this guy who is anti-american i mean it's just

00:40:58.760 the contrast couldn't be clear and that's the message we're getting out to everybody and i

00:41:03.400 believe it is starting to resonate uh we're feeling it and again i said we've got uh democrats for

00:41:09.320 rogers as our most requested yard sign right now and the largest event we've held in michigan

00:41:15.560 was actually Jews for Rogers, and two-thirds of them that showed up were Democrats.

00:41:22.200 So I don't know how to call that.

00:41:24.340 Right.

00:41:24.640 And so I do believe the message is getting out,

00:41:27.380 and I believe people are starting to really understand the importance of this. 0.98

00:41:31.860 And we just cannot allow this absurd Abdul El-Sayed national platform. 0.81

00:41:40.380 We can't allow it. 1.00

00:41:41.680 I have to tell you, I pray that you and Mike come across the finish line because you are right. 1.00

00:41:49.200 This is the most disturbing race, I believe, in the country.

00:41:53.560 If this guy wins, it sends a message on who we are and who we are allowing ourselves to become. 0.93

00:42:01.720 Christy, thank you so much.

00:42:02.780 My best to Mike.

00:42:04.820 And you can go to Rogers for Senate dot com. Rogers for Senate dot com. If you want to get involved, you must get out and vote. Christy, thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Bye bye. Christy Rogers. You know, I thought this race was over. I really did. I really thought there was no chance this thing is going to happen.

00:42:27.920 he's within one point now and uh again 11 of the democrats say they're going to cross over and

00:42:36.080 they're going to vote for mike rogers and i don't know if that is i don't know if that's in the

00:42:40.980 polling i don't know um but you know it could be it could slip by it could be a massive upset

00:42:50.660 and this would send a massive message

00:42:55.800 because this guy was way ahead, way ahead

00:42:58.860 and the more you listen to him

00:43:00.540 they all think, I told you years ago

00:43:03.280 they can't wait to take the masks off 0.99

00:43:05.400 they can't wait to tell you how Islamic they are 0.93

00:43:07.720 how Marxist they are, they can't wait 0.91

00:43:10.160 they thought their time to take the mask off was now

00:43:13.780 I'm not sure it is

00:43:15.520 but I'm appreciating them taking the mask off

00:43:18.120 so you can see it

00:43:19.060 Now let's see if it makes a difference.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 02, 2026

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Kristi Rogers ｜ 10⧸2⧸26

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