The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein ｜ 12⧸11⧸23

00:00:00.260 Sarah, tell him it's time to do the show open for the podcast, will you?

00:00:05.020 It's time for the podcast open.

00:00:06.780 Okay, so we're doing the podcast open right now.

00:00:09.180 I'm not talking to Glenn because he's a bad person in every way possible,

00:00:14.540 and I refuse to directly engage with him today.

00:00:17.760 Tell me when he's not speaking anymore so I can do the commercial 1.00

00:00:20.820 because Stu's a bad, bad man, a liar, bigger than Obama. 0.99

00:00:28.480 Obama and Biden and Clinton combined. 1.00

00:00:32.980 I hate him that much.

00:00:35.360 Tell me when he's done, Sarah, so I can go on.

00:00:37.600 Stu is done.

00:00:38.680 You're not a friendly person, I'll tell you that right now.

00:00:41.460 First of all, let me tell you about Jace Medical.

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00:01:34.680 Tell him he can start the podcast reel now. 0.87

00:01:37.480 You know, I saw Hunter Biden selling his art to buy prostitutes

00:01:55.180 and help his dad accumulate more money so he can trade on his dad's name 0.99

00:01:58.840 and then buy some more prostitutes. 1.00

00:02:00.560 And I thought, man, this guy spends money on things he really believes in.

00:02:06.100 You know, he puts his money where his mouth is, literally.

00:02:09.100 And shouldn't we all?

00:02:10.480 Shouldn't we all?

00:02:11.460 So this Christmas, I'm going to follow in Hunter's footsteps.

00:02:14.880 I mean, not exactly. 0.84

00:02:15.920 I'm not going to buy prostitutes. 0.97

00:02:17.520 But I'm going to be selling my art. 0.98

00:02:21.500 But instead of buying prostitutes, I'm going to donate all of it to charity.

00:02:24.860 For the next three days at glennbeckart.com,

00:02:27.900 I'm hosting a silent auction for three different signed giclays of my art.

00:02:33.440 And the proceeds from each piece of art going directly to three different charities.

00:02:37.800 I picked three different charities and three pieces specifically for each charity.

00:02:42.260 The first one is Morning of Hope, Dusk of Despair.

00:02:46.940 This painting is the MS St. Louis from 1939.

00:02:50.620 Carried hundreds of Jewish refugees who were trying to escape the Nazis.

00:02:54.400 In the painting, it's a beautiful spring morning and the ship is passing in front of

00:03:00.200 the Statue of Liberty, Morning of Hope.

00:03:02.800 Or is it the Dusk of Despair?

00:03:05.220 Because we denied them entry.

00:03:07.620 Is that ship actually pulling out of port and in the Dusk of Despair?

00:03:13.520 By the way, most of these people died in the Holocaust after we sent them back. 0.98

00:03:17.660 The charity I picked for this painting, by the way, it's really beautiful.

00:03:20.300 You don't have to remember that story.

00:03:22.160 It's really a beautiful painting.

00:03:23.060 I picked this painting for Ezra International.

00:03:26.700 They're a Christian humanitarian aid organization, supports Jews all around the world who want

00:03:31.320 to emigrate to Israel.

00:03:33.020 With anti-Semitism on the rise?

00:03:35.300 I don't know.

00:03:37.300 Israel has to exist. 0.99

00:03:38.980 Otherwise, we'll repeat the MS St. Louis. 0.55

00:03:42.100 The Jews aren't safe in their own home.

00:03:43.980 They're not going to be welcome anyplace else.

00:03:46.600 That is available now at glennbeckart.com.

00:03:49.860 The next piece of art that I'm auctioning is titled Redeemed.

00:03:54.060 It's Johnny Cash's mugshot after he got caught with cocaine.

00:03:58.900 If you look at this painting, most people go, well, that's the lowest point of his life.

00:04:03.320 But I don't think this moment happened to him.

00:04:07.260 It happened for him.

00:04:09.380 And because of this moment, he gave his life to God and followed him for the rest of his life.

00:04:14.320 He was so on fire with God that he made multiple trips to Israel and recorded an entire album called The Holy Land.

00:04:22.400 Messy story.

00:04:23.160 But the moment of that mugshot was the beginning of his new life, and he was redeemed.

00:04:29.440 For that reason, the proceeds for this painting are going to the One Heart Project.

00:04:34.460 This project meets young people at their lowest moment after they've been arrested.

00:04:39.580 And they don't get a second chance, usually.

00:04:42.320 The One Heart Project surrounds them with support and good role models to pick them up and put them on the right path

00:04:48.360 and make sure they don't end up back in jail.

00:04:50.820 The final one I'm auctioning is Save the Republic.

00:04:55.020 And this is one of my favorite.

00:04:56.740 It hangs in my office.

00:04:57.940 I just love this one.

00:04:58.980 And all of the proceeds are going to Mercury One, who is still on the ground in Maui.

00:05:05.780 Still on the ground rescuing people in Afghanistan.

00:05:10.120 Still on the ground in Israel.

00:05:13.420 Mercury One is obviously my charity.

00:05:19.180 Each painting represents the work of these three charities.

00:05:23.380 And whichever organization you feel led to support or whichever painting you like,

00:05:28.060 100% of the proceeds are going to those charities so they can keep doing God's will.

00:05:34.580 All the information about the auction, the charities, and how to bid,

00:05:38.260 available on the front page at glennbeckart.com.

00:05:41.280 That's glennbeckart.com.

00:05:43.720 By the way, if you see a poster or something else,

00:05:46.000 it's 50% off everything except the originals now at glennbeckart.com.

00:05:51.820 Welcome to Mr. Pat Gray.

00:05:53.480 Hello, Pat.

00:05:54.240 Hello, Glenn.

00:05:54.980 Wow, this is an impressive box.

00:05:56.880 This is beautiful.

00:05:57.580 Yeah, it's nice, isn't it?

00:05:58.460 It really is.

00:05:59.140 Yeah.

00:06:00.160 It's our sold-out Christmas box, but we held out one for you guys.

00:06:03.240 Oh, thank you.

00:06:04.460 It's already sold out?

00:06:05.560 It is.

00:06:06.100 So you can't get it anymore?

00:06:07.100 No, you can get the cookies, but you can't get the box.

00:06:09.240 Wow.

00:06:09.480 The box cost us about $4,800 per box.

00:06:13.200 Really?

00:06:13.740 Yeah.

00:06:13.920 Really, yeah.

00:06:14.500 We're taking a little bit of a loss on them.

00:06:16.340 God bless us, everyone.

00:06:18.760 And inside our...

00:06:19.960 Oh, wow.

00:06:20.580 Look at that.

00:06:20.940 This is great.

00:06:21.200 Oh, and then look at the trading cards.

00:06:22.580 Daniel did those.

00:06:23.760 The what?

00:06:24.620 The trading cards are from A Christmas Carol.

00:06:28.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:30.700 So you've got Scrooge.

00:06:31.320 This costs you.

00:06:32.300 You're not making this money back.

00:06:33.700 No, that's right.

00:06:35.160 That's right.

00:06:36.740 Wow.

00:06:37.120 Those are amazing.

00:06:38.660 Yeah.

00:06:39.000 They're pretty cool.

00:06:39.880 Can I...

00:06:40.580 Now, Glenn, we talk about the economy all the time.

00:06:43.160 Can I make a, I don't know, a little suggestion for our economy?

00:06:48.060 Yeah.

00:06:48.240 And Pat, maybe this would be something you participate in.

00:06:50.480 Mm-hmm.

00:06:50.800 When you do something incredible like this, maybe the time to come on and talk about it

00:06:55.880 is when they're still available.

00:06:57.080 When they're still available.

00:06:57.100 Yeah, like maybe like when you could still theoretically sell them to the audience, you

00:07:02.100 should tell us about it.

00:07:03.020 You can still get the cookies.

00:07:03.460 Yes.

00:07:03.760 You can still get the cookies.

00:07:05.460 In time for Christmas.

00:07:06.480 And it comes, yes.

00:07:07.640 If you order right now, if you order this week up until Saturday, we can get guaranteed

00:07:11.440 delivery by Christmas.

00:07:12.700 K-E-K-S-I.

00:07:14.460 Dot com.

00:07:15.200 Yeah.

00:07:15.600 K-E-K-S-I.

00:07:16.240 Dot com.

00:07:16.280 They're awesome.

00:07:17.060 They're really.

00:07:18.040 Best cookies.

00:07:18.840 Best cookies.

00:07:20.320 All right.

00:07:21.180 So let's talk about a couple of other things.

00:07:24.800 Do you see that government jobs now are through the roof?

00:07:29.840 We're going to set a new record this month.

00:07:31.520 Highest ever, right?

00:07:32.160 Yes.

00:07:32.720 Yeah, it's the highest ever.

00:07:33.560 Creating jobs.

00:07:34.980 The 23 million government employees.

00:07:37.960 My gosh.

00:07:39.660 That's unreal.

00:07:41.440 10 million away from 10% of our entire population working for the federal government.

00:07:47.360 That's why he still has 37% approval, because those are all government workers.

00:07:52.320 Exactly right.

00:07:52.980 Exactly right.

00:07:53.860 So here's the stats.

00:07:55.060 In 2000, it was 20 million.

00:07:58.200 In 2010, it was 22.9 million.

00:08:03.840 In 2020, it was down just a little bit.

00:08:06.280 It was 22.5.

00:08:07.860 Right now, it's 22.96.

00:08:11.080 It will be 23 million by the end of the month.

00:08:14.160 Jeez.

00:08:14.800 And you get.

00:08:15.380 And you're letting people go.

00:08:16.660 If you're a small business person, you're struggling right now and going, how am I not

00:08:20.720 going to let people go?

00:08:22.100 Well, just tell them the government's hiring.

00:08:24.680 And they'll say this is great news for the economy, right?

00:08:27.060 Yeah.

00:08:27.200 They'll say.

00:08:28.060 It's obscene.

00:08:28.320 Oh, well, this is working.

00:08:29.600 Bidenomics is working.

00:08:30.480 And this is, if there is anything that is central to Bidenomics, it is this, right?

00:08:34.380 It's expansion of government.

00:08:35.760 Yeah.

00:08:35.920 So I guess you are creating.

00:08:37.520 I mean, it is a straight line to creating jobs.

00:08:41.360 You're just making up jobs for, you know, BS, you know, institutions.

00:08:47.320 And I guess you could get everybody hired there eventually.

00:08:49.720 We'll just, this is a path to socialism that we can all accept.

00:08:52.640 So let me give you, uh, let me give you a look at, uh, inflation.

00:08:58.120 Has anybody watched Home Alone lately?

00:09:01.800 Uh, I feel like I watch it every year, but it's been, I haven't watched it in probably

00:09:06.180 at least a year.

00:09:06.860 We are getting, we, we watch, you know, the Miracle on 34th Street on Thanksgiving.

00:09:11.620 We watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles the night before, and then Home Alone is coming

00:09:16.900 up next week, right?

00:09:18.980 Watch when Kevin goes in to buy groceries.

00:09:23.080 You want to talk about inflation.

00:09:25.480 Wow.

00:09:25.880 Okay.

00:09:26.180 A little cheaper.

00:09:26.920 He has $20 on him.

00:09:29.480 That's all he has.

00:09:30.920 Do you remember what he buys?

00:09:32.780 I don't.

00:09:33.580 Half gallon of milk, a half gallon of orange juice, a TV dinner, bread, frozen macaroni and

00:09:40.940 cheese, laundry detergent, cling wrap, toilet paper, a pack of army men, and dryer sheets.

00:09:49.980 $19.83 with tax.

00:09:53.880 Okay.

00:09:55.080 Last year.

00:09:56.420 Now remember, it's, it's going to be better this year.

00:09:59.000 Last year, the same grocery list went from $19.83 to $44.40.

00:10:07.760 Jeez.

00:10:08.360 But, the White House is telling us this is the most inexpensive year for grocery shopping.

00:10:13.740 Right.

00:10:14.240 Yes.

00:10:14.380 Right.

00:10:14.780 It's gone from $44.40 last year to $72.28 this year.

00:10:24.160 In one year?

00:10:24.860 In one year.

00:10:26.040 Gosh.

00:10:26.800 Why?

00:10:27.860 Those, well, the economy is doing so well.

00:10:31.580 Oh, yeah.

00:10:32.460 Yeah.

00:10:32.760 People are upset.

00:10:33.840 People are more winning by it.

00:10:35.140 Yeah.

00:10:35.440 Yeah.

00:10:36.140 No, seriously.

00:10:37.000 That's crazy.

00:10:37.400 Why?

00:10:37.840 Is it dryer sheets?

00:10:38.680 Are dryer sheets going nuts?

00:10:40.020 I don't know.

00:10:40.780 It's all the individual stuff.

00:10:43.240 First, I mean.

00:10:44.020 You can have some of those weird, I mean, obviously inflation overall has not gone up that much.

00:10:47.760 But this isn't weird.

00:10:47.960 This isn't weird, though.

00:10:49.200 A gallon of milk, or a half gallon of milk, half gallon of orange juice, TV dinner, that's weird.

00:10:54.520 Bread, frozen mac and cheese, laundry detergent, cling wrap, toilet paper, the army men is weird, and the dryer sheets.

00:11:02.240 That's not weird.

00:11:03.480 What do you mean weird?

00:11:04.680 Like things that normal people don't buy?

00:11:06.260 Those are things people buy.

00:11:07.920 Yeah.

00:11:08.140 I mean, and TV dinners aren't called TV dinners anymore, but people buy frozen entrees all the time.

00:11:12.480 So, I mean, that's pretty rational.

00:11:14.060 Yeah.

00:11:14.240 That's interesting.

00:11:15.020 I wonder why it's, I wonder if there's one real outlier product in there for it to go up that much that quickly.

00:11:19.860 So, the moral of the story, though, is don't leave your kid home by himself when you're going to France with the rest of the family.

00:11:27.260 Leave at least $100.

00:11:28.300 Right.

00:11:28.740 Yes.

00:11:29.040 Okay?

00:11:29.300 Yes.

00:11:29.760 No $20 bills anymore.

00:11:31.280 It won't cut it.

00:11:32.020 And really, if you're in that situation as a child, like, the softness of your dried clothes is not that important.

00:11:38.040 Shouldn't matter right then and there.

00:11:38.580 Yeah.

00:11:38.600 Like, that's not a priority.

00:11:39.860 Right.

00:11:40.440 He learned from his mother.

00:11:42.720 Do not take that little boy down for learning how to do his own laundry from his mother.

00:11:47.280 It's impressive that he knew.

00:11:48.340 It's a beautiful point.

00:11:49.460 Thank you, Pat.

00:11:50.260 Thank you.

00:11:50.860 There's a prioritization that maybe he should also learn from his mother, although his mother is prioritizing her trip to France over her son, so maybe not.

00:11:57.480 Well, not really.

00:11:59.260 She just forgot how many times has that happened to you.

00:12:04.340 Oh, man.

00:12:04.800 I mean, zero, but I've only been to France once.

00:12:06.860 So, you know what's weird is, you know, I saw one conservative outlet saying, just watching, you know, watching Home Alone shows you how far the middle class has fallen.

00:12:17.740 That's not a middle class family.

00:12:20.500 It was never a middle class family.

00:12:22.720 No.

00:12:23.100 Never.

00:12:23.540 No way.

00:12:23.820 It's a beautiful house.

00:12:24.880 Oh, yeah.

00:12:25.340 Not only a beautiful house, but who can afford to take the whole family to France?

00:12:29.220 France.

00:12:29.340 To France.

00:12:30.120 Yeah.

00:12:30.320 During the holidays.

00:12:31.820 Right.

00:12:32.300 Okay.

00:12:33.140 And, you know, Mom and Dad are sitting in first class.

00:12:37.400 That's not a middle class family.

00:12:39.460 I remember looking at that house thinking, oh, my gosh.

00:12:44.280 And that was the height of, remember, Ralph Lauren, and he had, you know, the wallpaper and everything else.

00:12:51.300 That was such a Ralph Lauren kind of look.

00:12:54.140 Yeah.

00:12:54.900 Which, again, even back then, wasn't really affordable.

00:13:00.200 Are they still editing Donald Trump out of the sequel?

00:13:04.620 I don't know.

00:13:05.380 They were doing that for a while, and you have to believe that's now.

00:13:08.440 Were they really?

00:13:09.020 Yeah.

00:13:09.400 They would take him right out of it.

00:13:10.700 They would re-air it.

00:13:11.580 They thought it was wrong.

00:13:13.960 So, Macaulay Culkin, is he in the sequel?

00:13:17.180 Yes, he is.

00:13:18.800 This time he was abandoned in New York.

00:13:20.980 Yes.

00:13:21.260 Okay.

00:13:22.000 Yeah. 0.97

00:13:22.240 His parents are terrible people. 0.94

00:13:23.900 Let's be honest about it. 0.97

00:13:24.780 Like, they just don't care about their son.

00:13:27.280 CPS should be paying him a visit.

00:13:28.780 Right.

00:13:29.280 Can I bring up something else?

00:13:30.600 Maybe we can talk about this tomorrow because we're out of time. 0.85

00:13:32.380 But you know who else is a horrible, horrible person? 0.82

00:13:35.940 Oh. 0.95

00:13:36.420 Santa.

00:13:37.840 Wow.

00:13:38.560 Yeah.

00:13:39.060 In all of those Christmas tales.

00:13:41.400 Rudolph the Red Nosed Ranger especially.

00:13:42.500 Oh, my gosh. 1.00

00:13:43.000 He's a bastard. 1.00

00:13:43.960 He's terrible. 1.00

00:13:44.540 He's tough in some of those.

00:13:45.660 Yeah.

00:13:45.980 Tough?

00:13:46.520 The fictional portrayal of Santa in some of these specials is not what I believe to be

00:13:50.760 accurate.

00:13:51.220 Thank you.

00:13:51.560 Thank you.

00:13:51.700 Yeah.

00:13:51.960 Santa, I'm sure, is a good guy.

00:13:53.680 Yes.

00:13:53.960 The real stuff, of course.

00:13:55.040 But, you know, when you're talking about the Rudolph one.

00:13:57.340 It's portrayed poorly there.

00:13:57.940 Yes.

00:13:58.300 Yeah.

00:13:58.780 He tells Rudolph's dad that he should be ashamed of himself because he has a kid with a red

00:14:04.700 nose.

00:14:05.100 Right.

00:14:05.560 That's not cool.

00:14:06.240 Oh, you didn't have a cripple, did you? 1.00

00:14:08.540 Wait, what? 0.93

00:14:09.660 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:14:11.800 So, next thing you know, you're going to have a kid in a wheelchair.

00:14:17.120 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:14:20.760 All right, so we're doing a, I'm doing a charity auction for the next three days.

00:14:25.700 I want to let you know about it.

00:14:27.440 Glennbeckart.com, I'm auctioning off three separate signed limited run Gclays of my art.

00:14:35.940 Proceeds are going to three separate charities.

00:14:39.080 I picked a piece of art specifically because they tell a story that I think relates to the

00:14:43.800 work the charity is doing.

00:14:45.280 One of the charities is the One Heart Project.

00:14:48.320 It's a charity that helps young people rebuild their lives after being, you know, put in

00:14:51.960 prison.

00:14:53.200 Ezra International is working to support impoverished and persecuted Jews, start a new life in Israel 0.85

00:14:59.540 all over the world.

00:15:00.920 And the charity that I founded, Mercury One.

00:15:03.260 There are three different paintings, and, you know, if you win and you're like, I like one

00:15:09.880 of the other paintings, I'll do another painting, you know, for you, whatever is up on the website.

00:15:16.020 You can go to glennbeckart.com.

00:15:18.520 This is something, you know, what's great about this, listen to this sales job, let's do it, listen to this.

00:15:24.360 What's great about this is it's the end of the year.

00:15:28.720 So, whatever you give, it's all tax deductible.

00:15:31.400 You're going to be able to write it off, and you have a piece of art signed by me that you

00:15:37.140 could give to somebody you don't like.

00:15:39.420 Oh.

00:15:40.500 Yeah.

00:15:40.720 So, you're not necessarily targeting all of these for people you do like.

00:15:46.040 Well, yeah.

00:15:46.900 I mean, it's my art.

00:15:48.280 What would piss somebody off more?

00:15:49.960 I mean, if this isn't the holiday season, tell me what is.

00:15:53.200 What would piss off your family member that you have to get a present for than a piece

00:15:59.660 of art that they might like, and then you tell them, yeah, see the signature, that's

00:16:04.580 glennbeck.

00:16:05.640 Oh, they'll hate it.

00:16:06.820 And yet, they'll have to hang it because you're coming over to their house all the time.

00:16:11.940 Mm-hmm.

00:16:12.400 Where's that really expensive painting I bought?

00:16:14.380 Where is that?

00:16:15.120 Oh, I mean, it's torture.

00:16:16.540 It is.

00:16:17.260 Yeah.

00:16:17.420 So, if you want to hurt someone that you're giving a Christmas present to, this is a great

00:16:22.460 way to do it.

00:16:23.080 This is your gift.

00:16:23.560 Okay.

00:16:24.040 I like it.

00:16:24.780 It's an interesting pitch.

00:16:26.140 And it doesn't really cost you anything because you write it off.

00:16:29.220 See what I'm saying?

00:16:29.980 That's not exactly how taxes work.

00:16:32.140 I'm pretty sure that's the way it works.

00:16:33.660 Pretty close.

00:16:33.960 Don't convince me otherwise.

00:16:35.780 Otherwise, I have to reevaluate.

00:16:38.300 Anyway, the highest bid goes to a great cause.

00:16:42.120 Just go to glennbeckart.com, glennbeckart.com.

00:16:45.300 By the way, everything except the originals are 50% off right now.

00:16:50.300 I found out when I did that.

00:16:52.120 I found out, you know, that means that you make like $4 on the art. 0.99

00:16:58.440 And I'm like, that's how much this crap costs? 0.98

00:17:02.040 They're like, yeah. 0.99

00:17:03.520 Remember you insisted on, you know, the best.

00:17:06.500 I'm like, oh, yeah.

00:17:09.020 So, I'm not really getting rich off of this anyway.

00:17:11.020 You just get a great piece of art.

00:17:12.780 It's glennbeckart.com.

00:17:14.540 That's glennbeckart.com.

00:17:17.480 By the way, all the proceeds for the auction go to the charities.

00:17:20.400 All the proceeds that come to me, that all goes to preserve American history.

00:17:25.760 Otherwise, I can't afford that.

00:17:29.540 I got to tell you what.

00:17:30.760 I got to tell you what we're trying to get at an auction.

00:17:33.300 But I don't want to say it until after the auction because I don't want anybody else to know who might go, ooh.

00:17:39.100 That sounds interesting.

00:17:40.000 That sounds interesting.

00:17:40.780 Nope.

00:17:41.120 Nope.

00:17:41.540 I'm not.

00:17:42.000 What?

00:17:42.540 Auction?

00:17:43.420 Nope.

00:17:44.320 Don't know anything about it.

00:17:44.720 And your wife is going to approve these purchases this time?

00:17:47.980 My wife is going.

00:17:48.380 My wife is.

00:17:48.760 Because I've noticed that lately, you're lately, what you've been doing is also not telling her about the auctions.

00:17:53.660 No.

00:17:53.800 No, no.

00:17:54.700 You don't tell the people so they don't bid against you.

00:17:56.740 And you don't tell her so she doesn't know that you're spending the money on them.

00:17:59.120 No, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:18:00.800 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:18:01.580 You don't know?

00:18:02.220 Nope.

00:18:02.520 Because I thought you would.

00:18:03.800 Nope.

00:18:04.580 Honey, we're just writing a check to charity.

00:18:07.920 That's what we're...

00:18:09.100 I need this.

00:18:09.800 Don't look at the check.

00:18:10.800 Don't look at the checkbook.

00:18:11.860 No, no, no.

00:18:12.320 Don't look at the checkbook.

00:18:13.380 It's...

00:18:13.780 You know, there's so much propaganda from the liberal media these days.

00:18:18.100 The checkbook...

00:18:18.660 Who knows what lies are in there?

00:18:20.620 In that checkbook.

00:18:21.840 In our checkbook?

00:18:22.460 Yeah.

00:18:23.080 Who knows what...

00:18:24.140 The way they're...

00:18:24.720 The WEF is manipulating these individual checkbooks now.

00:18:30.840 Amen.

00:18:31.500 Right?

00:18:31.860 Who knows what they're doing?

00:18:32.880 Yeah, I do know what you mean right now.

00:18:34.240 Yeah.

00:18:34.780 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

00:18:36.220 Yeah. 1.00

00:18:36.600 That damn WEF. 1.00

00:18:38.260 Yeah, right? 1.00

00:18:39.060 They're so bad. 1.00

00:18:40.400 Bastards. 0.99

00:18:40.980 Hey, there's a new poll out that I'd like to share with you. 0.97

00:18:43.600 It actually comes out tomorrow, so this is exclusive today.

00:18:47.160 But I have some questions on it.

00:18:49.800 So, there's a new poll out that shows...

00:18:54.960 Seems to show that fraud may have happened in the last election.

00:19:00.240 Okay?

00:19:01.600 This is a brand new Heartland Institute Rasmussen poll.

00:19:07.640 So, here is...

00:19:13.640 Well, let me just...

00:19:14.700 I'll just read the questions to you, all right?

00:19:16.640 Mm-hmm.

00:19:16.980 Here are the full results.

00:19:18.200 On the election fraud 2020 presidential election.

00:19:22.040 One, if your state banned mail-in balloting in next year's presidential election, would you choose to vote in person or would you choose not to vote at all?

00:19:32.760 Ninety-four percent said that they would vote in person.

00:19:36.000 Two percent said they wouldn't vote.

00:19:37.980 Four percent said they're not sure.

00:19:39.740 So, very little impact.

00:19:42.240 When they always talk about, like, we need to do this mail-in voter suppression.

00:19:44.920 So, but not much impact, even for the people who do like it.

00:19:47.980 Uh, we're now going to ask you several questions about voting in the 2020 presidential election.

00:19:53.180 Your responses will remain anonymous, so please answer honestly.

00:19:58.040 Who did you vote for in 2020, the presidential election?

00:20:01.380 Forty-five percent, Donald Trump.

00:20:03.140 Forty-six percent, Joe Biden.

00:20:05.360 Four percent, some other candidate.

00:20:07.160 Three percent didn't vote.

00:20:08.520 One percent's not sure.

00:20:10.400 I want to know who that person is.

00:20:11.400 I can't remember who I voted for.

00:20:12.720 I can't.

00:20:13.000 I just don't.

00:20:14.000 I don't.

00:20:14.720 Okay, this is not the FBI calling.

00:20:16.600 You can tell us.

00:20:17.980 Um, did you vote with an absentee or mail-in ballot in 2020?

00:20:23.040 Thirty percent, yes.

00:20:24.480 Sixty-eight percent, no.

00:20:26.660 Two percent, uh, not sure.

00:20:30.440 Okay.

00:20:31.120 Now, this, the following is answered by respondents who voted by absentee or mail-in ballot only.

00:20:37.640 Okay.

00:20:38.420 During the 2020 election, did a friend or family member fill out your ballot in part or in full on your behalf?

00:20:48.300 Nineteen.

00:20:49.240 Before we go on, that's not legal, right?

00:20:52.600 No.

00:20:53.080 You can't do that.

00:20:54.180 No.

00:20:54.580 Uh, so that would be, if you say yes to that, you would have committed some sort of election violation.

00:20:59.700 Right.

00:20:59.880 During the 2020 election, did a friend or family member fill out your ballot in part or in full on your behalf?

00:21:06.360 Nineteen percent said yes.

00:21:09.520 Seventy-nine percent said no.

00:21:11.800 Hmm.

00:21:12.380 So, nineteen percent of that group qualified for this particular voting.

00:21:18.460 Yes.

00:21:18.740 Of the thirty percent.

00:21:20.220 Okay.

00:21:20.400 During the 2020 election, did you fill out a ballot in part or in full on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or a child?

00:21:30.700 Twenty-one percent said yes.

00:21:33.000 You're not supposed to do that either.

00:21:34.420 No.

00:21:34.720 No.

00:21:34.900 During the 2020 election, did you cast a mail-in ballot in a state where you were no longer a permanent resident?

00:21:43.080 Uh-oh.

00:21:43.500 You're not supposed to do that, Glenn.

00:21:45.460 Seventeen percent said yes.

00:21:49.100 Eighty-two percent said no.

00:21:51.060 One percent said, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:21:53.860 That's the right way to answer, by the way, if you did it.

00:21:55.640 You're supposed to just say, ah, what are you talking about?

00:21:57.480 I don't know.

00:21:58.120 They've got you on tape, you know, with the NSA.

00:22:00.820 I mean, this is a, you know, this is Rasmus and Cullen, but you know they're listening.

00:22:06.240 Anyway, during the 2020 election, did you sign a ballot or a ballot envelope on behalf of friend or family without his or her permission?

00:22:17.320 What do you think that number is?

00:22:20.400 Wow, without their permission.

00:22:21.680 Without their permission.

00:22:22.700 That should be.

00:22:23.260 Before, it could have been like, I'm just filling it out for my wife.

00:22:26.220 Right.

00:22:26.580 You know, she's busy, and I was sitting there in the kitchen.

00:22:29.200 I'm like, let me fill yours out.

00:22:30.380 Yeah, like I think you could come up with an argument like an elderly couple where one is maybe has some issues.

00:22:34.620 Like, I think even some states have some ways to cover that, but this is different, right?

00:22:40.400 Without their permission, it's blatantly legal.

00:22:41.820 Did you sign a ballot or a ballot envelope on behalf of a friend or family member without his or her permission?

00:22:49.680 Blatant election violation.

00:22:52.020 Yes.

00:22:52.460 My gosh.

00:22:53.460 I mean, it shouldn't be more than a, it should be zero, obviously.

00:22:56.500 Maybe there's a couple of percent that.

00:22:58.880 One percent.

00:22:59.680 I don't know.

00:23:00.980 I'm not sure.

00:23:01.840 I can't remember.

00:23:02.380 Okay.

00:23:02.660 17% said yes.

00:23:06.760 That's way too high, boys and girls.

00:23:08.840 Way too high.

00:23:10.400 During the 2020 election, did a friend, family member, or organization, such as a political party, offer to pay or reward you for voting?

00:23:21.920 That one really should be zero.

00:23:24.300 That's blatantly illegal.

00:23:25.900 You can't do that.

00:23:26.800 One percent.

00:23:27.600 Not sure.

00:23:28.620 I don't know where I got that money.

00:23:29.780 Eight percent.

00:23:32.700 Yes.

00:23:33.860 That's really, that's much too high.

00:23:35.960 Do you know a friend, family member?

00:23:38.420 It's too high.

00:23:39.440 That's much too high.

00:23:40.260 That's eight percent.

00:23:41.380 Eight percent too high.

00:23:41.700 Go to jail. 0.51

00:23:43.060 Did you know a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance who has admitted to you that he or she has cast a mail-in ballot in 2020 in a state other than his or her state of permanent residence?

00:23:57.420 So, eight, what was it, 17%, was it 17?

00:24:03.540 Well, no longer, yeah, 17% said I was no longer a resident, and I did that.

00:24:09.040 Okay.

00:24:11.000 Did you have a friend, a co-worker, anyone tell you they did that?

00:24:16.880 Eight percent said yes.

00:24:18.740 Do you know a friend, family, co-worker, or other acquaintance who admitted to you that he or she has cast a mail-in ballot in 2020 in a state other than his or her permanent resident?

00:24:31.520 Ten percent yes.

00:24:32.860 Did you know a friend, family member, co-worker, or any acquaintance who has admitted to you that he or she has filed or filled out a ballot on behalf of another person?

00:24:41.820 Even 11% said yes.

00:24:44.260 This is interesting, too, because, you know, sometimes poll questions have this thing where people will answer to benefit their own side.

00:24:51.960 Yes.

00:24:52.280 Right?

00:24:52.740 Yes.

00:24:53.080 I mean, in this one, it's hard to see how that would happen, because you're saying, I mean, maybe, I guess, if you're a conservative, you're...

00:25:00.060 Well, there's the problem.

00:25:01.280 Okay, so there's several things that I would like to know.

00:25:06.000 First of all, out of the ones who said they were Democrats, what was the percentage?

00:25:12.960 Now...

00:25:13.560 Is it different than the Republicans?

00:25:15.880 Correct.

00:25:16.580 Correct.

00:25:17.700 However, however, 43% of all ballots cast in the 2020 election were by mail.

00:25:25.420 So, if the survey is correct, it would mean that, at a minimum, 9% of all ballots in the 2020 election involved fraud.

00:25:34.120 More than double the difference between Trump and Biden in the national popular vote.

00:25:39.120 Okay?

00:25:39.820 If it's true.

00:25:41.380 Mm-hmm.

00:25:41.880 Okay.

00:25:43.540 One in 10 voters in the survey, including both in-person and mail-in voters, said they knew somebody who personally admitted to them that they had committed one or more kinds of voter fraud.

00:25:54.220 This is an addition.

00:25:57.140 This is the first time in history we know of where huge percentages of voters have admitted to committing voter fraud.

00:26:04.320 The result of the survey also shows 8% of voters say that a friend, family member, organization, and its political party offered to pay reward for them voting another kind of fraud.

00:26:14.580 If this survey is accurate, this is proof of, well, it's a poll, so I don't know if you can call it proof, but it is evidence that leads one to believe there was widespread voter fraud.

00:26:30.880 Now, here's the problem, you know, it was 36% Democrat, 33% Republican, 31% other.

00:26:38.860 Among the people who answered yes to some kind of fraud, a party affiliation was roughly even.

00:26:47.700 Now, there's an important reason why you shouldn't look into the numbers for a specific voter ideology, party behavior.

00:26:57.180 One, this particular poll, the sample size is way small once you take the poll from all of them and then say, did you vote by mail?

00:27:11.100 Then it's down to a very smaller number.

00:27:14.720 And then you say, did you also vote this?

00:27:18.340 It's an even smaller number.

00:27:19.720 30% of respondents said that they voted via mail, one of the main questions.

00:27:26.140 Only a third of Republicans say they voted by mail.

00:27:29.260 And this is another thing.

00:27:30.440 If you just look at the Republicans who voted by mail, that would apply to the one-third of the 30% mentioned.

00:27:38.700 That's such a small group, it could skew it either way.

00:27:42.060 But also, Democrats were more likely to vote by mail, 58%, not 30%, but 58%.

00:27:49.060 So, the number might look equal, but it's not equal.

00:27:55.700 So, basically, there is a, again, all the disclaimers aside here, there is an issue with these sorts of problems in all mail-in balloting.

00:28:07.240 And, in addition to that, Democrats tend to vote by mail much more often.

00:28:11.340 Correct.

00:28:11.640 So, it probably is more of a problem on that side of the aisle.

00:28:15.660 Though, some of this might just be, while we call it fraud, it also is just a problem with mail-in voting generally.

00:28:23.500 Yeah.

00:28:23.900 It doesn't necessarily mean someone's trying to do something untoward.

00:28:29.600 It doesn't necessarily mean that.

00:28:31.500 It just means that there are massive problems with mail-in voting.

00:28:35.600 But, you add in to that, like Zuckerbox and everything else, and you've got a system you can't trust at all.

00:28:42.640 It would be interesting to follow up on this, because, I mean, another part of this that would be interesting to me is,

00:28:47.160 what is this number as opposed to other election cycles?

00:28:50.800 Like, is it—

00:28:51.240 They say this is the highest.

00:28:52.760 They've asked these questions before?

00:28:54.020 I thought this was a first-time thing.

00:28:55.860 That was my understanding.

00:28:56.560 Yeah, but what was it?

00:28:57.580 It was phrased in such a way that led me to believe—hang on, let me look for it.

00:29:04.220 But go ahead, make your point.

00:29:05.060 But basically, like, I think this is the—these are good questions to follow up with every election cycle, right?

00:29:10.020 Like, we should get a running number to understand if this is going up, it's going down.

00:29:14.160 I mean, you know, if you want to defend mail-in voting, you might just say,

00:29:16.920 well, this is obviously that we need to educate people on how to do it.

00:29:22.200 You're not allowed to sign this for your wife. 0.98

00:29:24.480 It's a crime.

00:29:25.700 Right.

00:29:25.900 People need to know that.

00:29:27.200 Maybe some of them don't.

00:29:28.760 This is how it's phrased.

00:29:29.880 This is the first time in history that we know of where a huge percentage of voters have admitted to committing voter fraud.

00:29:36.820 Right.

00:29:37.180 So it's maybe the first poll.

00:29:38.960 Yeah, it's the first time this has been uncovered.

00:29:40.520 That's kind of my question.

00:29:41.500 Like, is this number about this—is it 10%, 20% every single time?

00:29:45.380 Which is another major problem.

00:29:47.760 It just doesn't necessarily mean that 2020 was an outlier.

00:29:50.960 But look, anytime you can get a first piece of information, it's a good thing.

00:29:55.460 Do you think, though, that we have done—does anybody, Republican, Independent, Democrat, does anybody think that we've actually secured the vote?

00:30:06.260 That we've made it better?

00:30:07.520 We've learned from 2020 that we've made it better?

00:30:09.900 We know every vote is secure when your side wins.

00:30:14.220 Yes.

00:30:14.380 When your side wins, everyone—no one complains at all about voter fraud.

00:30:18.200 See, here's the problem.

00:30:19.340 Because—and the government knows this.

00:30:21.580 This is just yet another log on the fire that just keeps burning that they are doing things intentionally.

00:30:28.460 Everybody knows that if Donald Trump wins—let's say he's the candidate, the nominee—if he wins, the country will be set on fire because the Democrats will say voter fraud, just like they did in 2000, just like Hillary Clinton said to do in 2020 if Biden didn't win.

00:30:51.260 Okay?

00:30:52.320 So they're going to call voter fraud.

00:30:54.440 And they already have the entire plan to set the streets on fire if that happens.

00:31:00.580 If Joe Biden wins, I don't know a single person that would say, oh, yeah, well, that was totally legitimate.

00:31:09.880 I don't know a single person.

00:31:12.640 Would you feel comfortable saying—just the way you know now, you know, it depends on what actually happens—but do you—will you feel comfortable now that our elections are secure?

00:31:25.560 Well, I think the healthy thing is to never feel comfortable with that and to always be questioning and always be pushing back.

00:31:31.580 If you're not doing that, that's how you fall victim to these problems.

00:31:36.980 I mean, that doesn't seem like it.

00:31:38.200 I know some states—the problem—the funny thing about this is there have been some states that have made their election laws a lot better.

00:31:44.160 The problem is they're all the states that you're not that worried about.

00:31:46.620 Right.

00:31:46.880 They're all the states on the right who have done this.

00:31:49.400 The states on the left have done a lot to expand, quote-unquote, expand access.

00:31:54.700 Right.

00:31:54.900 Which usually means we sent a $50 bill in a ballot to their house six months ago, and we're going to harass them to pick it up.

00:32:05.940 Slight exaggeration, but not that much.

00:32:08.020 This is the problem, and the left is going crazy.

00:32:10.320 Well, here's the great thing.

00:32:11.500 2024.

00:32:13.540 It's going to be interesting to see how we work this all out, isn't it?

00:32:16.080 You know, it's going to be great to watch.

00:32:17.000 It's going to be fun to watch.

00:32:17.680 It's going to be very entertaining to watch.

00:32:19.320 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:32:20.940 A good friend in from Israel, Rabbi Itzhak Alderstein is with us.

00:32:28.600 Great to be here, Glenn.

00:32:29.920 How are you?

00:32:30.900 I'm doing good, as well as you can do in the middle of a war.

00:32:34.920 I've got to tell you, the power that you have, I'm just overwhelmed by it.

00:32:41.880 I was eating breakfast, breakfast meeting, call for an Uber, get into the car, and I hear this voice, and I look at the – and it says, Mercury?

00:32:52.320 And I tell my lovely driver, Deidre, I said, are you listening to Mercury?

00:32:57.580 He says, yeah, my daughter got me into it a couple of years ago.

00:33:00.660 They said, you know where we're going?

00:33:02.480 Yeah.

00:33:03.000 So great.

00:33:03.860 So great.

00:33:04.480 Texas is a blessed place.

00:33:06.740 How are things in Israel?

00:33:09.140 You know, it's a mixture.

00:33:10.400 It's a war.

00:33:12.060 There's no question.

00:33:13.320 I feel a little guilty because my family, my wife and myself and two kids live in the Jerusalem area where we haven't had to run for a bomb shelter in a couple of weeks.

00:33:29.200 People are amazing.

00:33:32.160 The feeling of unity in the country is just something.

00:33:36.400 It was like that in 9-11 for us.

00:33:38.040 It was like that in 9-11.

00:33:40.120 I do think it's something a little different here.

00:33:43.880 It's not just a question of survival.

00:33:46.040 It's people finding their commonality.

00:33:48.980 It's a commonality that is deeper than just this horrible, horrible enemy that we have to defeat.

00:33:55.780 It's the sense of mission, of purpose, of having been in this land for 3,000 years, have come back to it, started this wonderful, wonderful state.

00:34:06.620 We got more than 50% of the country who are volunteering to help soldiers, displaced people.

00:34:15.020 People are making meals every time, God forbid, another soldier dies.

00:34:21.000 There are literally thousands of people, thousands of strangers who come to a funeral.

00:34:26.840 It's exhilarating, and it makes me feel a little bad.

00:34:29.360 I think I remember when I was a kid, there was somewhat of this feeling in America, and it's dissipated for so long.

00:34:36.060 I know.

00:34:36.720 Hopefully it comes back, and hopefully it doesn't take a national tragedy to do it.

00:34:43.200 There's video that is out.

00:34:44.920 Palestinian strip forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire.

00:34:49.640 How do you respond to that?

00:34:55.200 My stomach responds first, after I can get control of that.

00:35:02.220 What are people saying?

00:35:05.100 You're talking about an army that invaded Israel, that was a perpetrator of the worst savagery that we have seen. 0.86

00:35:16.560 In, since World War II, certainly the worst that Jews have experienced.

00:35:25.680 I was in Knesset about a week ago, and just after a showing to members of Knesset of some of the footage that hasn't been shown to the general public,

00:35:36.480 nobody made it through the entire showing.

00:35:39.840 Everybody, some people made it closer to the end.

00:35:43.200 One woman collapsed.

00:35:44.540 There were doctors waiting outside.

00:35:46.560 You're talking about things that we don't even want to talk about, and if you see the visuals, you change for life.

00:35:53.480 When you then surround some of their soldiers, people who are pledged, who've said October 7th is just the beginning.

00:36:01.860 I know.

00:36:02.200 It's the first of a set.

00:36:03.760 There's going to be bigger and better coming, and there's no way that you're going to suppress us.

00:36:09.960 And people are upset when you show a visual of soldiers who should be happy that they're alive and are there because security demanded that you make sure that they're not hiding any arms.

00:36:23.880 You know what?

00:36:26.680 What's scariest about that, Glenn, is the extent to which people's minds are affected by visuals without any thought about principles.

00:36:36.120 It is truly terrifying here in America to see.

00:36:42.920 I mean, I knew it was going to get bad.

00:36:44.720 I've talked about it for years.

00:36:46.380 But to see how rapidly so many people have gone off the cliff of reality is a little terrifying.

00:36:59.720 You see what happened last week with the heads of Penn and Harvard and MIT.

00:37:04.920 I don't even understand how people are justifying this at all.

00:37:13.760 Do you?

00:37:15.080 I'm afraid that I do.

00:37:18.600 Look, there are a number of components of this.

00:37:22.200 Two of them we can get through very quickly.

00:37:24.200 The other one you're going to find more interesting.

00:37:26.400 Okay.

00:37:26.720 One is that anti-Semitism never, ever really goes away.

00:37:31.240 Correct.

00:37:31.740 It's there.

00:37:32.360 I've worked in the field of watching anti-Semitism now for decades.

00:37:37.440 And the worst kind of anti-Semitism as far as Jewish survival is unconscious anti-Semitism.

00:37:43.500 People who would be shocked to hear, what, am I an anti-Semite?

00:37:47.780 But yet harbor subconscious feelings about the Jewish people.

00:37:51.540 It's the only way to understand why there's so many people who are upset.

00:37:55.920 And people should be upset watching people dying, watching casualties, although we don't know how many there are.

00:38:00.860 But what happened a couple of years ago in Syria when Assad killed between 500,000 to 600,000 people?

00:38:08.180 By the way, almost every one of those deaths could have been avoided had America stood its ground rather than keeping painting lines in the sand that they never followed.

00:38:19.220 But 13 million people displaced.

00:38:22.120 If you ask people in America, where's the bloodiest conflict in recent decades?

00:38:26.860 Where are most people, where are more people dying than any place on Earth?

00:38:30.140 And I'm telling you, 11 out of 10 will tell you, will not get this right.

00:38:37.400 Math was not my strong point.

00:38:39.060 11 out of 10 will tell you, I don't know, but they won't get the real one, which is the Congo. 0.96

00:38:46.040 War that's been going on for decades with hundreds of thousands of casualties.

00:38:51.540 Orders of magnitude more than Israel-Palestine. 0.70

00:38:54.780 So where's the outrage?

00:38:56.700 So that's part of it.

00:38:57.900 Another part of it is the introduction of a Middle Eastern anti-Semitism that's a product of immigration. 0.91

00:39:09.600 That's going to change the demography of America.

00:39:11.980 It's already changed the voting habits of the Democratic Party.

00:39:15.420 But then there's the part that you should really get scared about, Glenn, and that is that Liz McGill, the one whose testimony was the most damning in Congress, it depends on context.

00:39:32.360 What was she doing?

00:39:34.220 That was your question.

00:39:35.860 What she was really doing was pandering to the expectations of faculty and students on campus.

00:39:43.560 And that has been heading in one direction for decades.

00:39:47.300 It is, you know, if you don't understand it, it is why Bob Iger being replaced at Disney will make no difference.

00:39:55.700 Because the culture is so deep, it's all the way down the food chain.

00:40:00.740 It's in all of the employees.

00:40:02.860 So replacing the top won't change a darn thing.

00:40:06.620 Right.

00:40:07.020 And I know I'm not going to get paid more for this interview by buttering you up, because you don't get paid anything.

00:40:14.320 But that's one of the reasons why you are sitting in such an important position.

00:40:18.780 Why the only way that this can be arrested, or at least contained in part, is if people recognize the depth of the problem and say we're going to take the appropriate measures.

00:40:28.820 I don't mean anything, God forbid, militarily.

00:40:31.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:32.320 I mean in education in particular.

00:40:35.640 There are just too many parents out there who say, this is horrible, you know, this intersectionality stuff and the wokeism, whatever.

00:40:42.420 But as far as their own kids and the schooling they're giving their own kids, you know, like, okay, we really were going to send our kids to a Christian school.

00:40:50.860 But, you know, we just moved and the public school is only half a mile away.

00:40:54.520 Right.

00:40:54.920 And we're going to do it in thinking that somehow you're not going to have to bear those consequences.

00:41:00.640 If you're serious about the centrality of the family, if you're serious about Christian values, then you have to realize that the most sacred mission that God gave to you is to make sure that your children are servants of God who are interested in the truth.

00:41:19.840 And people are just not able to emerge that way when they're glued to their devices 26 hours a day and then indoctrinated in public schools and certainly in the universities.

00:41:32.340 Right.

00:41:33.460 Let me ask you, because you said a year ago, and you said to me several years ago as well, they're coming for Christians first this time. 0.82

00:41:47.220 I think we're not in lockstep, but it's getting worse for the Jews faster than it is for the Christians. 0.85

00:41:58.120 But you were right all those years ago.

00:42:00.540 Christians are unaware of what is happening to them and and and what is right around the corner. 1.00

00:42:10.200 I mean, if you're surprised at how many people are saying, you know, I'm you know, I'm anti-Semitic things.

00:42:17.680 I'm I'm against the Jews or whatever. 1.00

00:42:20.640 That's that's it's not a huge leap in this society now to say, yeah, well, I'm also against those Christians, too, because the Christians cause all the problems. 1.00

00:42:30.540 Especially since one of the dominant themes in the culture of America today is the takeover by thoughts of intersectionality and wokeism and the idea that you can divide the world into two halves, the oppressed and the oppressors. 0.56

00:42:47.840 And the good guys are the oppressed and the bad guys are the oppressors.

00:42:53.420 There was a display in a hall at Indiana University, Purdue for almost an entire year, not in the classroom, in a hallway that sought to tell to alert students about how Christianity was part of white privilege.

00:43:13.620 And therefore made Christians as Christians part of the oppressor class, how Christianity was used as a vehicle of oppression. 0.89

00:43:24.980 You may be right that I was wrong about coming for Christians first, although as they did in places like Nigeria and a whole. 0.99

00:43:33.120 But, you know, the October 7th unleashed something that was that was powerful.

00:43:39.320 Right.

00:43:39.400 But you're not a step behind.

00:43:40.580 You may be a quarter of a step behind.

00:43:42.820 Michigan State University had a code of speech for students.

00:43:49.180 It has been revoked since then, but it was in force for, I believe, an entire academic year where students were told to avoid any language that made oblique reference to the majority religion in America.

00:44:04.040 So you were not supposed to use words like merry or jingle bells or eggs or –

00:44:15.360 Wow.

00:44:15.960 And it stressed majority religion.

00:44:20.140 You're allowed to talk about minority religions, I guess as long as it's not Jewish, but you can't talk about Christianity. 0.99

00:44:28.620 The key here to understand all of this is oppressor versus oppressed.

00:44:34.000 If everything else goes – all logic, everything goes out the window, all facts go out the window.

00:44:39.620 If you just look at oppressor versus oppressed, then you lose all common sense and everything else.

00:44:48.980 I want to ask you one other question that is – this has – you know, I've known this forever.

00:44:53.560 Read it in the scriptures.

00:44:55.000 When the chosen people are going into Israel, God says, choose life.

00:45:02.280 And we wouldn't have a society – the Judeo-Christian world is based on the respect of life.

00:45:09.760 Without that moment, you don't have the respect for life.

00:45:13.780 You have a horrible, horrible, dark world.

00:45:17.260 I keep coming back to the thought that that is the only decision that we really have to make.

00:45:25.480 Because everything right now is being divided into life or death.

00:45:30.660 All of it.

00:45:31.820 How you vote, it's either going to cause life to flourish or it will cause death.

00:45:38.460 All of these things are life and – and I've never seen in my lifetime that choice so clear.

00:45:48.320 You would think that the Bible wouldn't even have to instruct people.

00:45:52.900 There's life, there's death.

00:45:54.440 Choose life.

00:45:55.460 Who's not going to choose life?

00:45:57.600 But the point is, if you're not listening to God, if there's no room for God and his instruction in your life,

00:46:04.020 then in the end, the center of the universe is not questions any longer of right or wrong,

00:46:12.300 of listening to any kind of absolute.

00:46:14.240 It's not fealty to the family or to the nation or the community.

00:46:18.540 It's numero uno.

00:46:20.040 It's only yourself.

00:46:21.000 That's all that's out there.

00:46:21.900 And when it's you, without any moral code to have to choose from,

00:46:28.340 then feelings become more important than anything else.

00:46:31.680 So questions even of life or death themselves become irrelevant.

00:46:37.140 It's how I feel at the moment.

00:46:39.100 Do I feel oppressed?

00:46:41.320 Do I feel like a victim?

00:46:44.440 Do I feel like, I don't like watching these pictures, so let's do something about it.

00:46:49.140 And no, I don't have any real solution to it, but I'm not feeling good about it.

00:46:55.460 We're not thinking about life and death anymore and making that choice.

00:46:59.440 You're certainly right.

00:47:00.780 But the missing ingredient there is, if there is no connection with God and God's word,

00:47:09.140 and God telling you that there is such a thing as good and evil, it's not all relative.

00:47:15.220 It's not context dependent.

00:47:17.800 There are things we are hardwired to realize are wrong, and it takes real work,

00:47:24.360 which society has done, to get you to abandon those feelings.

00:47:27.980 So I think that the choice is, are we going to be in tune with God, with the existence of God,

00:47:35.560 and some message out there that God has for us?

00:47:38.440 How does this, I mean, I've read the Bible.

00:47:42.980 It never ends up, it ends up good for the society that is making the choice that we're making right now.

00:47:49.680 You're always, at least I am, always screaming at the people going,

00:47:52.560 Did you not see two chapters before?

00:47:54.720 You did the same thing.

00:47:56.800 How does this end?

00:47:59.700 It ends, well, the beginning of the end is what we're talking about right here,

00:48:03.980 the recognition that human societies are imperfect,

00:48:08.500 that the idea of humans redeeming themselves and coming up with a perfect solution,

00:48:13.260 whether it's Marxism, socialism, capitalism, anything in between, are all doomed to failure,

00:48:19.660 that the real solution to the problems of mankind is letting God into the world,

00:48:25.000 and that where there is more God consciousness, there is a hope for wholeness

00:48:30.700 and people listening to each other and listening to the Word of God who will give us the roadmap.

00:48:36.000 The end is secure.

00:48:39.380 It's not a wish, it's not that religious people can be more optimistic or hopeful.

00:48:43.940 We can take it to the bank.

00:48:46.660 But it starts with the recognition that we have to humble ourselves and long for God's redemption.

00:48:55.540 Yeah.

00:48:56.540 It's, you go down into crazy things when you lose your humility, you know?

00:49:02.820 You see it, you can see it in other people.

00:49:05.540 But for some reason, I don't think America has yet really seen, that's the key to our problem.

00:49:11.840 We're no longer humble.

00:49:13.300 We're no longer grateful for really anything.

00:49:16.560 And until we restore gratitude and humility, we can't turn back to God.

00:49:23.640 And he is the only solution.

00:49:25.960 Rabbi, thank you so much.

00:49:27.420 Always a pleasure being here.

00:49:29.020 Thanks for having me.

00:49:29.900 You going back to Israel today?

00:49:31.300 No.

00:49:31.760 A few more pit stops and then back.

00:49:35.500 My best to you and your family and everybody in Israel.

00:49:38.740 God bless you.

00:49:39.520 Thank you so much.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 11, 2023

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein ｜ 12⧸11⧸23

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