The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Richard Landes ｜ 9⧸22⧸26

00:00:00.000 Today on the podcast, the message that every pastor, priest, rabbi, every Christian,

00:00:07.840 everyone who believes in the God of, you know, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob needs to hear.

00:00:14.780 Every single one. What pastors are not warning about and not doing. Also the shadow test. This

00:00:23.960 is crazy the converse controversy have you heard this oh my gosh look at the converse ad it's a

00:00:31.120 lynching no it's i'll explain also ed sheeran and taylor swift why because culture matters

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00:01:55.060 The Best of the Glenn Beck Program

00:01:57.880 Alright, now I want you to listen to this

00:02:00.080 The craziest damn thing I've read in a while

00:02:02.240 Young woman

00:02:03.900 Standing in a long white shirt

00:02:06.180 Her name is Karina

00:02:08.240 She's one of the biggest pop stars in Korea

00:02:10.840 She's holding a pair of black Converse high tops

00:02:14.560 Above her

00:02:16.140 A spotlight

00:02:17.420 And the spotlight is cut

00:02:20.160 into the shape of the converse star wow now how could you find anything controversial about this

00:02:32.000 don't worry you live in america somebody found it that's the ad that's the whole ad

00:02:42.020 went up september 3rd for two weeks millions of people saw it nobody said a word nobody had a

00:02:48.400 problem with it. But you didn't have enough time on your hands. You probably have a life.

00:02:55.500 There's somebody out there without a life at all who is like, I'm going to find something about

00:03:00.880 this. Everybody else saw a girl and shoes. But then somebody with absolutely no life studied

00:03:10.200 the lighting. And the edge of that star I told you about, it fell across her skirt and made a

00:03:18.800 white triangle. And somebody decided that triangle looked exactly like a Klan hood.

00:03:25.620 And the shoes that she was holding into her hand right next to that Klan hood, which wasn't a

00:03:32.840 Klan hood, it was a spotlight triangle shadow. Those shoes she was holding next to it looked

00:03:39.280 like she was it was the feet of a lynching victim so we have a korean pop star a sneaker

00:03:48.120 and a spotlight oh man right you know we used to say that evil hides in the shadows

00:04:00.500 they don't look at the shadows anymore we don't we don't look into the shadows we look at the

00:04:06.740 shadows now. We pull them up into the light and we interrogate the actual shadow, not what's lurking

00:04:15.180 in the shadows. Within hours, the machine was running. Fire the staff. Boycott the company.

00:04:23.080 A sitting congressman, Troy Carter of Louisiana, said, I want an apology. In fact, an apology

00:04:29.100 isn't enough. He wants Nike and Converse to name those responsible and a commission,

00:04:35.180 an independent investigation

00:04:37.260 over a shadow.

00:04:48.660 Pardon me for a second.

00:04:51.020 Dear Lord.

00:04:53.200 Seriously.

00:04:55.720 Take me now.

00:04:57.120 Just take me now.

00:05:00.080 Because I don't know how much more I can do of this.

00:05:03.100 I really don't.

00:05:05.180 sign glenn love you all right back to the show then a civil rights attorney named lee merit

00:05:16.100 said you know we keep having this conversation because corporations keep failing the same test

00:05:22.280 i really want to know lee what test what the shadow test what test

00:05:30.340 you took a photograph you cropped it if you squint the right way and you ask one question

00:05:40.200 and that question is do i want to be offended could i be offended the answer is always yes

00:05:47.240 that's why nobody passes nobody you know look at that cloud doesn't that cloud look like hitler

00:05:57.060 It's a cloud.

00:05:59.840 No, it's oppression in the sky.

00:06:02.000 That cloud is oppressing me.

00:06:04.240 A tree fails it.

00:06:06.260 Your kitchen fails it.

00:06:07.740 If the morning sunlight hits the dish towel just right.

00:06:14.620 That's where we are.

00:06:16.920 Now what's in the picture?

00:06:19.800 What the light did on its way through.

00:06:24.260 And converse?

00:06:26.660 did anyone say that's a spotlight this is a shoe no no they fold it in a day

00:06:35.240 we're really really sorry let me I want to quote it I want to quote it we're really really really

00:06:41.520 super sorry we understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize we got this wrong

00:06:46.940 how how you didn't intend it if you're squinting if you're looking for it and you're cropping the

00:06:54.820 picture yes but that's not what you did you did nothing wrong you can understand i can understand

00:07:02.380 how this is deeply upsetting to crazy people we removed it from our channels and are working to

00:07:09.640 remove it everywhere it appeared this should not have happened and we'll do better how how how are

00:07:16.240 you going to do better the only way you can do better is if you hire a bunch of lunatics to look

00:07:22.600 at all your ads and go, can you guys come up with some way to be offended by this?

00:07:28.840 And you know what? They're going to find a way to be offended by all of it. Sorry, we got this.

00:07:34.940 God, what wrong? The angle of the light? Do better at what? Predicting which shadow a stranger on the

00:07:41.900 internet will turn into a hate crime? That's not an apology. It's a confession. We live in the world

00:07:49.380 of Takamata again.

00:07:51.780 We are hauled in front

00:07:53.480 of an Inquisition.

00:07:57.480 Oh, but talk to me some more

00:07:58.560 about fascism

00:07:59.360 and how much you hate it.

00:08:02.120 This tells the whole country

00:08:04.560 there was something evil

00:08:06.220 in that picture

00:08:07.080 and Converse put it there

00:08:08.360 on purpose

00:08:09.020 and it hands the next mob

00:08:11.000 a trophy and a road map.

00:08:14.840 Did anybody apologize to Karina?

00:08:16.960 She showed up.

00:08:17.800 She stood where the photographer

00:08:18.800 or told her where to stand and held the shoes.

00:08:21.700 Her name now sticks next to the word Klan

00:08:24.220 and lynching in headlines all around the world.

00:08:27.400 Not one person in this entire outrage

00:08:29.740 has said her name in sorrow.

00:08:37.340 This is a witch hunt.

00:08:39.580 We are actually hunting for witches.

00:08:44.820 And the denial is more evidence.

00:08:48.800 The only exit here is confession.

00:08:52.100 They'll take you down.

00:08:52.880 I can guarantee you this is the conversation at Nike and Converse.

00:08:57.600 Just admit it.

00:08:58.800 Just say it.

00:08:59.620 Just say it or they'll never stop.

00:09:01.680 And then they'll take us all down.

00:09:04.340 Just say it.

00:09:05.520 That's a witch hunt.

00:09:07.140 The only exit is the confession.

00:09:09.680 Witch hunters supply the fear and the corporate cowards supply the confession.

00:09:14.740 And neither one of them survives without the other.

00:09:18.140 That's the partnership they're in.

00:09:19.620 That's the whole engine of this.

00:09:23.620 Racism is real.

00:09:25.260 It's real.

00:09:26.260 The Klan was real.

00:09:28.720 And the terror it brought was real.

00:09:31.840 This isn't the Klan.

00:09:38.540 What was Bernie Sanders comparing?

00:09:41.080 Oh, he was comparing ICE.

00:09:43.920 And people being removed who are here illegally.

00:09:47.400 and putting them on a plane, not a cattle car, a plane, and sending them back home.

00:09:53.880 He compared that to the Holocaust yesterday.

00:09:57.460 Could we get some perspective?

00:10:04.920 God help you if you're a lighting person.

00:10:07.320 Look out.

00:10:08.280 What gel are you putting on there?

00:10:10.700 I mean, somebody cries Klan at a spotlight.

00:10:14.100 You know, that makes racism, that word, get a little cheaper.

00:10:16.940 don't you think don't you think and someday somebody is going to need that word to mean

00:10:21.660 something and it won't because you'll actually be crying racism and everybody will go everybody's

00:10:27.920 crying racism no this is real racism here and you'll find you you will find in life what you

00:10:35.280 believe and what you look for you it happens all the time that's the way it works you know you buy

00:10:40.580 a red car and suddenly you notice all the red cars on the highway all the cars seem to look

00:10:45.460 why are all these red cars? I thought I had a unique car. They're all red. No, you just started

00:10:50.000 looking. You wake up looking for racism and you'll find it. You'll find it in a sneaker ad,

00:10:55.680 in lightning, in the folds of a skirt. You'll find it in your own family. You'll find it everywhere

00:11:00.960 because you are looking for it. You are training your eyes to see it. And this society is training

00:11:07.940 you to see things in shadows. A man who hunts monsters for a living can't afford to run out

00:11:15.860 of monsters. Let me ask you this, because I don't want to be outraged all day today. I don't.

00:11:28.860 when's the last time any of us went looking for good

00:11:33.060 not waited for it

00:11:36.100 hunted for good

00:11:38.020 the way people are hunting for a fence right now

00:11:42.180 who's hunting for goodness

00:11:45.040 for growth

00:11:45.880 for kindness

00:11:47.400 for unity

00:11:48.560 maybe more than I think

00:11:56.820 but you don't see it because the algorithm doesn't want it.

00:12:00.800 The algorithm doesn't pay for the kid who mowed the widow's lawn next door.

00:12:06.080 It pays for outrage.

00:12:08.020 It pays for the 12 tweet thread that says,

00:12:11.860 look closer, look at the shadow.

00:12:16.920 It starves you of the light.

00:12:20.280 And then it tells you that's what the world looks like.

00:12:23.520 It doesn't look like that.

00:12:26.020 The world does not look like this.

00:12:28.540 This is social media garbage.

00:12:35.440 Go back to those two weeks.

00:12:36.940 Millions of people looked at that photograph and saw a young woman from the other side of the world selling American sneakers.

00:12:42.460 They didn't see a hood.

00:12:43.500 They didn't see a lynching.

00:12:47.120 They saw a person with sneakers.

00:12:49.220 That's the story.

00:12:50.600 Not a handful who found a monster in the lighting and the shadows.

00:12:55.280 and the millions who never went looking for one.

00:13:03.660 We have to choose.

00:13:06.980 We have to choose.

00:13:08.000 Which one are we?

00:13:09.440 I still think that this is a small group of people and an algorithm,

00:13:15.100 and then a bunch of people who are motivated because, again,

00:13:19.820 you can't run out of monsters,

00:13:21.140 and a bunch of cowards at the corporate level

00:13:24.560 who care about the almighty dollar

00:13:26.560 more than anything else.

00:13:28.560 They'll admit anything, anything,

00:13:31.980 just so he can sell some sneakers.

00:13:35.980 And you know what?

00:13:37.220 Stirring it all up, giving it life?

00:13:39.520 The algorithm.

00:13:41.020 Because it's not going to show you

00:13:42.800 what's honestly happening in the world

00:13:44.620 because there's no money in it.

00:13:47.600 So here's the only answer I know,

00:13:49.260 and it doesn't cost you anything.

00:13:50.420 Tomorrow morning, go hunting. Find three good things before lunch. They don't have to be huge.

00:13:56.760 A stranger who held the door. The co-worker who covered a shift and never mentioned it.

00:14:02.600 The neighbor who showed up without being asked. Write them down. Just for yourself. I mean,

00:14:07.960 tell somebody. Post it. But at least write it down. Do it for weeks. And I'm telling you,

00:14:14.100 you do that for three weeks, four weeks, and your whole outlook will change.

00:14:20.420 I did a test on myself, oh, 20 years ago.

00:14:26.800 I put a playlist together.

00:14:28.220 I should put this playlist out.

00:14:30.400 And it was a playlist of just positive songs, okay?

00:14:33.640 Some of them new, some of them, you know, from the 40s, you know, whatever.

00:14:37.700 Just songs that were all positive.

00:14:40.840 And I played that playlist, and I listened to that playlist exclusively for a month.

00:14:46.200 My entire mood changed.

00:14:50.420 You put darkness in, you're going to get darkness everywhere.

00:14:57.280 You get more of what you practice seeing.

00:15:02.700 And when the mob comes, and the mob will come.

00:15:06.240 When the mob comes for a shadow, don't confess.

00:15:09.680 Don't apologize for the angle of the light.

00:15:12.700 Just say, that's a spotlight, that's a shoe, and that's a skirt.

00:15:16.900 I mean, I'm sorry you see it that way, but you're seeing things that aren't there.

00:15:24.940 Shadow isn't a thing.

00:15:27.660 It's a place where something blocked the light.

00:15:30.940 And there's a lot of people right now blocking the light.

00:15:34.720 You can spend your life measuring the dark shadows and shapes on the wall

00:15:38.740 or cowering under your blankets because something you swear is in your closet or under your bed.

00:15:43.960 Or you just turn around and look at what's shining.

00:15:48.960 They were so busy, so busy staring at the shadows that they never saw the star right behind them.

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00:17:01.300 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:04.340 Okay, so Texas, you're going to be crying.

00:17:08.940 You're going to be crying and freaking out of your mind.

00:17:11.800 Because right now you think, oh, well, everything's fine.

00:17:14.260 Trump is in office.

00:17:16.060 And even though I don't really like Trump that much anymore.

00:17:19.860 You've forgotten.

00:17:20.840 Have you forgotten what it was like two years ago?

00:17:23.480 You're about to California your Texas.

00:17:27.120 The numbers are now out from a very, this is from the quorum report.

00:17:33.100 And this pollster was right last time in Texas when everybody said they weren't.

00:17:41.860 Here's what the numbers look like.

00:17:45.000 U.S. Senate, now this is in District 9, this is Tarrant County, this is Fort Worth.

00:17:50.500 Fort Worth has always been traditionally Republican.

00:17:55.140 Fort Worth, U.S. Senate, Tal Rico up by 9.

00:18:00.380 Texas Governor, Hingosa, I don't even know anything about her.

00:18:06.140 Up by nine.

00:18:08.300 Lieutenant Governor, Vicki Goodwin, the Democrat, up by three.

00:18:13.260 Tarrant County Judge, up by six.

00:18:16.780 Democrats are sweeping Tarrant County.

00:18:20.100 Why?

00:18:21.320 Because they know what it means to have Texas.

00:18:26.540 Do you know what it means to have Texas?

00:18:29.460 you know, everybody, everybody is claiming that, you know, it's so important. It's so important.

00:18:37.660 All the things our kids are facing, but then are those people who are, are those people who are

00:18:43.420 worried about the culture, who are worried about what your kids are taught? Are you planning on

00:18:49.040 going and having somebody in your car that you're taking with you? Let me give you this.

00:18:55.140 This summer, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CARE, has now published a plan.

00:19:03.820 And it's on their website, so you can go and read it.

00:19:06.360 The goal is mobilize 3 million more American Muslim voters this November, including 2 million brand new registrations.

00:19:15.420 This is not a pamphlet. It's an operation.

00:19:18.920 Four pillars. Register, educate, protect, turn out.

00:19:23.240 12 priority states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, and six more.

00:19:32.580 These are the states that will decide the House and the Senate.

00:19:35.380 35 chapters, each one required to name a civic engagement lead and file a quarterly report.

00:19:42.580 There is a scorecard, all 535 members of Congress, a trained poll observer in every precinct, in every priority state, from care.

00:19:54.120 There is a toolkit for the mosques to use, registrations at Friday prayers at every mosque, and in November, caravans to the polls straight out of Friday prayers.

00:20:08.560 Are you doing that?

00:20:12.580 CARE is a non-profit it can't endorse, but its sister group, CARE Action, can and has.

00:20:20.440 Abdul El Saeed for Senate in Michigan.

00:20:23.740 Peggy Flanagan for Senate in Minnesota.

00:20:26.040 Keith Ellison for Attorney General.

00:20:28.120 Donovan McKinney, the DSA-backed candidate who knocked off a sitting Democrat in Detroit.

00:20:34.180 Pew puts American Muslims at 53% leading Democrat.

00:20:39.300 You know which way the Democrat, or I'm sorry, which way the caravan is headed, correct?

00:20:46.240 I mean, you know they're going for the Democrats.

00:20:48.500 This is not to get the Republicans out.

00:20:51.640 Turning points, Tyler Bauer said, our side isn't prepared for what Kara's doing.

00:20:57.780 Well, yes, right, correct.

00:21:02.480 Now, I looked at this story and I thought, everybody's going to be pissed at Kara.

00:21:06.040 I was going, I can't believe Kara's doing that.

00:21:07.880 you can't believe Kara's doing it. That's what we should be doing. The problem is not that

00:21:13.900 Muslims are organizing. Registering your neighbor and driving them to the pole is not a plot.

00:21:20.100 It's called U.S. citizenship. It may be the most American thing in this entire story.

00:21:27.180 And I disagree with nearly every candidate and their endorsements on that list. I probably

00:21:33.040 disagree with everything all of them say, all the way down to, good morning. The answer to beat them

00:21:40.960 is the way they're trying to beat us, with votes.

00:21:47.680 The problem here is not care. The problem is that Christians are not organizing.

00:21:53.400 Care is hunting for three million voters. Now, let me look at the Christian church.

00:21:57.620 George Barna is the most respected Christian pollster in America.

00:22:02.540 Before the last presidential election, he measured us.

00:22:06.320 32 million Americans who call themselves Christians and attend a church regularly were not going to vote.

00:22:16.300 32 million.

00:22:18.440 We're not talking the Christian and Easter people.

00:22:21.700 We're talking people who go to church every Sunday.

00:22:24.480 32 million.

00:22:25.760 14 million of them are sitting in evangelical pews. 41 million born-again Christians staying

00:22:33.500 home. Care is looking for 3 million. We have 32 million in our own buildings every Sunday that

00:22:41.760 we sit next to who are not going to show up. Go back to 2012. Barna counted 89 million born-again

00:22:50.640 adults. 38 million didn't vote for president. 12 million of those were not even registered.

00:22:58.160 12 million people with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and no relationship with the

00:23:03.920 county clerk. I don't know. One of them is easier. One of them you drive up, you fill out a form and

00:23:09.700 you're done. The other one requires work, character, all of that stuff. Why aren't you

00:23:17.780 taking the easy one you're doing all the hard work do the easy one barna asked why non-voters

00:23:27.360 why are you not doing two out of three said nah i'm not really interested in politics oh really

00:23:32.360 are you interested in religious freedom are you interested in what your kids are taught in school

00:23:37.460 are you interested whether adoption agencies the counselor the school the baker gets sued

00:23:42.700 out of existence. Yeah, I bet you care about those things. You're just not interested in the

00:23:49.620 one mechanism that decides how each of those things are dealt with. You want religious freedom,

00:23:57.100 right? It's not whether, it's the law. The law is written by people who get elected by people

00:24:04.660 who show up. Well, God's got this. If I hear that one more time, God's got this? What kind of lazy

00:24:14.340 excuse? I've got to tell you, I think St. Peter's going to look at you and go, oh yeah, I remember

00:24:18.880 you. You were the one that said God's got this. Yeah, I know. Can I get in? I don't know. You

00:24:24.420 know, God's got this. We'll see. God had the Red Sea too, but Moses still had to walk into it before

00:24:33.040 it parted. Now, let me talk to the pastors. Barna asked, what churches actually do at election time?

00:24:49.420 One Christian church in four registers new voters. One in four. And you know who that is?

00:24:56.260 Traditionally, it's the black churches, because the black churches are more than half.

00:25:00.700 and more than half hand out voter guides.

00:25:05.420 That's more than twice the rate of everybody else.

00:25:08.000 The black church figured this out generations ago because it had to.

00:25:13.360 Souls to the polls.

00:25:14.700 It was not invented in a consultant's office.

00:25:17.200 It was invented by people who remembered what it cost to be allowed to stand in line,

00:25:23.660 to be able to vote.

00:25:25.220 They remembered that.

00:25:26.560 They appreciated that.

00:25:28.040 and i know what the pastor i know what you're saying i can't the irs the johnson amendment

00:25:35.180 pastor i love you i love you but that's not true the johnson amendment says the church may not

00:25:41.200 endorse a candidate it has never said you can't register your own people it has never said you

00:25:47.060 can't host a forum teach what scripture says about family and liberty and hand out a non-partisan

00:25:52.280 guide or rent a van it's never said that last year the irs told federal court that church speaking

00:25:59.280 to its own congregation about elections through the lens of faith is no more a campaign than a

00:26:05.220 family talking about it around the dinner table the court threw that case out last spring so the

00:26:14.060 endorsement rule still stands but the table in the lobby what you're saying from the pulpit about

00:26:20.080 how you tie God's gospel to what's happening in society and get your butt out of the pew and go

00:26:27.060 vote, that's always been legal. I know, but you have fundraisers, so you probably don't want to

00:26:33.480 offend anybody because you've got to pay for your church. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Guys, pastors,

00:26:40.580 please, do you know how much time I spend worrying about my own soul because I have the responsibility

00:26:50.060 of this microphone?

00:26:53.180 Do you spend a second

00:26:55.160 wondering what the Lord's

00:26:56.680 going to say to you

00:26:57.640 that you did not speak out

00:26:59.880 in these times

00:27:01.020 because you had to raise money?

00:27:05.340 I keep on my desk

00:27:06.900 right next to this microphone.

00:27:14.700 It's a silver coin

00:27:16.080 from the time of the crucifixion.

00:27:17.760 it is one of the coins just like this 30 pieces of silver i keep it next to my microphone i've had

00:27:26.080 it i've had it here for 20 years to remind me don't sell out doesn't matter if you go broke

00:27:36.200 don't sell out.

00:27:45.140 So carries a 501c3,

00:27:47.820 same tax code as churches,

00:27:50.000 same rules,

00:27:51.100 same Johnson Amendment.

00:27:53.240 But they read that

00:27:54.340 and they built an operation

00:27:55.380 inside of it.

00:27:56.600 We read that

00:27:57.680 and we built an excuse.

00:27:59.200 It's a way for us

00:28:00.000 not to have to worry

00:28:00.840 about offending anybody.

00:28:01.820 do you read the part where jesus said he he's he's gonna piss a few people off

00:28:11.620 the mosque is registering voters after friday prayers every friday when was the last time

00:28:20.200 your church had a table in the lobby to get people registered you know it wasn't always this

00:28:26.120 way. 1634 in Boston, we've been here before. They started a custom. Every year on election day,

00:28:31.980 before the other businesses, before any other business, the governor and the legislature sat

00:28:37.320 in the church and sat in the pew while the pastor told them what God expected of them.

00:28:44.540 They called it the election sermon, and they printed it afterwards so everyone could read it.

00:28:49.400 The very first one backfired. The story goes down that the preacher told them to

00:28:53.580 keep their governor, and the vote threw the governor out anyway. And that was fine.

00:28:58.560 The pulpit never owned the vote. It just refused to pretend the vote didn't matter.

00:29:03.420 It went on for 250 years. By the 1770s, those pulpits were preaching liberty so hard

00:29:09.440 that a loyalist writing the history of the rebellion blamed the preachers for it and gave

00:29:14.140 them a name, the color of their robes. If you've listened to my program for a long time, you know

00:29:18.700 what it is. It's called the Black Robe Regiment. The crown believed the most dangerous men in

00:29:25.280 America were standing in the pulpits. The last election sermon was preached in 1884 and nobody

00:29:32.500 banned it. No court, no law, no IRS, no Johnson Amendment. That was 70 years down the road.

00:29:37.980 They just stopped and the pulpit went quiet long before anyone told it to.

00:29:44.760 and now the pulpit blames the law.

00:29:51.960 Christians,

00:29:53.080 it's easier to be afraid of care

00:29:56.600 than it is to be ashamed of ourselves.

00:30:07.080 It's easier to share a post about their caravan

00:30:10.360 than to drive our own mother to the polls.

00:30:14.760 And our side's been sharing that post for 20 years now.

00:30:17.820 So let me say it plainly.

00:30:21.540 If you're a Christian and you're not registered,

00:30:25.140 stop complaining.

00:30:29.080 Stop mentioning how much you love or hate Trump.

00:30:32.560 Stop talking to me about,

00:30:34.440 oh, my school shouldn't be teaching this or shouldn't be doing it.

00:30:36.920 If you don't get out and vote,

00:30:39.360 you have no right to bitch about it.

00:30:42.140 You did nothing to change it.

00:30:44.760 You were handed a seat and you left it empty.

00:30:50.540 That's why the black church votes.

00:30:52.840 They had to earn that seat.

00:30:54.840 They had to fight for that seat.

00:30:57.900 James said, faith without works is dead.

00:31:01.760 A faith that will not drive to an elementary school gym on a Tuesday in November is not persecuted.

00:31:11.140 You're sound asleep.

00:31:12.620 A pastor, pastor, if you preach that the culture is collapsing 52 Sundays a year and you never once ask if your congregation is registered, never once say, get out of the pew and go vote, you're not a shepherd, you're a weatherman.

00:31:42.620 here's what I want you to do.

00:31:49.460 Check your registration.

00:31:51.640 Are you registered to vote?

00:31:52.980 It takes two minutes.

00:31:54.720 In most states, the deadline is early October.

00:31:58.000 That's what, a week and a half from right now.

00:32:01.440 Pastors, put a table in the lobby this Sunday

00:32:05.840 and the next one, one volunteer, one clipboard,

00:32:09.900 one laptop, that's it.

00:32:12.620 you don't have to tell a soul who to vote for,

00:32:17.800 but tie the gospel principles.

00:32:21.360 Hey, how are you going to do under Marxism?

00:32:23.620 You know what really thrives?

00:32:25.240 What really thrives under Marxism is Christianity.

00:32:30.520 Oh no, that's right.

00:32:31.900 They put all those preachers in jail.

00:32:37.740 You only have to tell people that it matters to God

00:32:42.100 whether they go or not.

00:32:44.580 You don't have to tell them how to vote.

00:32:46.920 Here are the principles the Bible teaches us.

00:32:51.060 Here are the candidates.

00:32:52.320 Here are what they stand for.

00:32:53.760 Make a choice and go.

00:32:57.360 Everybody else, they're running caravans after Friday prayers.

00:33:03.580 Can you figure out a way to run one after Sunday service?

00:33:08.200 Where early voting is open on a Sunday,

00:33:11.180 load the church van where it isn't pick up three people the widow the college kid and the guy in

00:33:16.680 the back row who never talks tell him you'll be at their driveway at 7 a.m. the crown was afraid

00:33:23.680 of the black regiment you know what our problem is nobody's afraid of us now and that should

00:33:30.960 trouble you a great deal more than anything care has ever put on a website

00:33:36.800 truth is under attack in our culture people are embracing lies about gender they're rejecting the

00:33:44.880 sanctity of every human life and the government is even punishing people for saying what's true

00:33:49.900 and right or worse the woke mob is doxing them and slandering them with no due process just an

00:33:55.220 angry mob making their lives miserable or worse putting families in real danger but the biblical

00:34:01.220 principles on which our country was founded still matter real patriots and christians are beginning

00:34:06.220 to stand up they're showing real courage without a safety net of a big bank account they're bolstered

00:34:11.680 only by the truths that are self-evident but these people must be defended alliance defending freedom

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00:34:46.120 I gotta tell you, I

00:34:47.100 want to talk to you about a couple of things.

00:34:51.000 Ed Sheeran

00:34:51.880 and Taylor Swift.

00:34:54.720 And I know you're thinking,

00:34:56.340 Why the hell would you be talking about those guys?

00:34:59.520 Because culture matters.

00:35:02.200 And these are two important stories.

00:35:07.740 One sad, bad, and one good.

00:35:11.900 I can't believe I'm saying it, but one good.

00:35:17.500 Sheeran was on stage in Philadelphia on Sunday.

00:35:21.240 And you know what happened.

00:35:22.540 I assume you know what happened.

00:35:23.540 And Macklemore was on stage, and he started doing this really, I think, outrageous anti-Israel, anti-Jewish.

00:35:34.800 You know, this is a guy who's been on stage giving the Hitler salute.

00:35:37.740 He is no friend of the Jewish people.

00:35:40.900 And so he was, you know, doing this pro-Palestinian thing.

00:35:45.840 And one father, who, by the way, nobody in the press has interviewed this guy.

00:35:51.520 He's not speaking to anybody.

00:35:53.540 He just wrote a letter, and that was it, and he posted it.

00:35:59.080 Now, we talked to him.

00:36:01.280 We called him up and said, hey, we know you're not talking to anybody.

00:36:04.360 Do you care to tell your story in an op-ed?

00:36:07.820 And so he wrote an op-ed, and it's posted today at glennbeck.com,

00:36:13.200 and it'll be the only time probably you hear from this guy.

00:36:15.940 It is well worth the read at glennbeck.com.

00:36:19.080 You can read it there now.

00:36:20.160 But he goes and he had to take his family out, you know, of the stadium for the time Macklemore was on because it was so offensive and he felt so full of hate.

00:36:32.240 So that's what starts this whole thing.

00:36:34.320 And then, you know, Kraft gets involved in the stadium, say no.

00:36:37.640 And and Philadelphia decides they're going to they're going to have Ed Sheeran.

00:36:44.200 And didn't Macklemore did Macklemore play the first because he.

00:36:48.380 no he was at this point he was at the jet stadium this was yeah he was already off the tour right

00:36:54.460 because there was one one where he said i'm not going to say anything and then he went on and he

00:36:58.480 did it anyway and so now he's off he was off the tour for philadelphia at lincoln financial um

00:37:04.660 and i don't know if you saw uh ed sheeran come out and he said you know i think what happened

00:37:11.300 on october 7th was horrific but i think what's going on is you know out of balance and blah blah

00:37:17.240 blah. And I disagreed with what he said, but you could see that he was deeply

00:37:22.800 sad and I think afraid. And this is what he said. Now on Sunday, he said in the middle of his

00:37:34.840 concert, he just sits down and he says, in these situations, you really find out who your friends

00:37:39.980 are. It's been a weird week. All of his opening acts quit on him, including his own backing band.

00:37:47.500 Did you know that? His band walked out in solidarity with Macklemore. He said, it all

00:37:55.080 happened so quickly. And at the same time, I had so many people to cancel my tour and so many people

00:37:59.580 I've known for years and years and years, and they're backing away from me. In the back of my

00:38:04.620 mind, I saw the ticket sales for this gig and I didn't see the cancellations. I saw people buying

00:38:09.360 tickets for this gig. Everybody's telling me to cancel, and I'm feeling all of my friends and

00:38:14.360 family and people I know abandon me. Did you know that? His own family turned on him.

00:38:24.520 I look at the end of the week, and I see 50,000 people who haven't abandoned me.

00:38:30.320 People can say what they want, but I'm doing this for you. I love you. I love this. He called the

00:38:35.800 concert the best show of his life he later cried as he said he felt so much love from the audience

00:38:40.560 he was initially worried for his safety that and that people would boo him he said the world is a

00:38:45.940 scary place right now America is a scary place right now this gives me hope Sharon I don't know

00:38:53.860 you I don't know your music I know my family is you know a fan of your music etc etc I just don't

00:38:59.160 listen to music anymore really but I have to tell you I feel for you when you say America is a scary

00:39:04.880 place, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. But who's making that a scary place?

00:39:11.220 Is it the dad who just said, hey, this is outrageous. I just want to come and just

00:39:15.480 listen to music. I don't want to be lectured about anything. Is that what's making a scary

00:39:20.620 place? Or it is the bullies that are saying you're canceled. Your own family can't be family

00:39:28.440 with you your own band who knows you backs away because they're they're being told you'll never

00:39:36.000 work again it's it's a tragically sad story

00:39:41.960 now let me tell you a good story this one involves taylor swift oh boy

00:39:49.980 taylor swift a video of her watching her husband

00:39:56.960 Travis Kelsey score his first touchdown of the season

00:40:00.560 and then pointing at her wedding ring and screaming in joy,

00:40:03.760 that's my husband, is going viral.

00:40:07.780 Now, whether you personally care about Taylor Swift or not,

00:40:11.880 I don't care about her, but she moves the culture.

00:40:19.020 She is a major force in our culture.

00:40:23.180 The countless women who have never been told the power of supporting their husband's passions are seeing that video.

00:40:31.820 They have never been told that it's a good and honorable thing to support their husbands.

00:40:39.240 And they don't know how much that means to men.

00:40:44.820 Now, Taylor Swift is doing that.

00:40:48.200 This is a cultural moment, an important one.

00:40:52.320 It will give more women permission to point to their wedding ring and go, that's my husband.

00:41:00.340 You know, I said at my speech for Charlie Kirk's memorial at TPUSA that women have forgotten the influence they hold over men.

00:41:09.420 The power they have to shape the lives of the men that they love and to make sure they're, you know, on God's path.

00:41:18.560 Women have tremendous effect on men.

00:41:21.380 And it's not supposed to be pressure on women.

00:41:24.440 It's just supposed to be true.

00:41:26.480 You set a standard for us.

00:41:28.960 You see us in ways that we don't see ourselves.

00:41:33.700 You look at us as the man that somewhere in all of us we want to be.

00:41:40.540 We will be that man.

00:41:43.720 We will.

00:41:44.820 Without nagging, without saying anything.

00:41:46.520 you just see who we want to be and encourage us by saying that's my husband pointing to a ring

00:41:56.580 and saying that's my husband now that's i just want to say just personally to tanya i've never

00:42:01.860 seen you in a crowd do that now i want to say to to kelsey that's because i catch the damn ball

00:42:09.440 every time i'm out in public i'm just saying i i don't walk off the stage going wow that was a

00:42:16.240 disaster. So maybe my wife doesn't have to do it because she's like, yeah, that's my husband.

00:42:20.320 He's going to make the touchdown every time. So maybe that's the difference. I'm just saying,

00:42:30.200 being praised for your achievements, being praised for your strengths by somebody who

00:42:36.300 loves you is rocket fuel to a man. It's rocket fuel. You want to change your marriage?

00:42:47.100 You tell your wife every day how proud you are that you're married to her.

00:42:55.580 You tell your wife every day how amazing she is.

00:43:04.220 It will transform her.

00:43:08.160 Women, you tell your husband how proud you are of him and what he does and what he accomplishes.

00:43:16.240 how hard he works.

00:43:21.140 You'll transform him.

00:43:25.520 And that's just true.

00:43:27.640 And nobody in society is teaching it.

00:43:30.580 Instead, they're teaching this like it's trad wife.

00:43:33.340 It's not trad wife.

00:43:35.140 It's not.

00:43:36.360 You don't have to wear an apron.

00:43:39.420 She wasn't wearing an apron.

00:43:42.100 But that was very trad wife of her.

00:43:44.740 That's my husband.

00:43:46.240 And I'm proud of him.

00:43:51.160 That's why I had to mention this.

00:43:55.220 Because Taylor Swift just set a massive example for women all over earth with doing that.

00:44:04.980 And millions of young women.

00:44:06.720 For 50 years, Canadians have wondered what the names of IKEA furniture mean.

00:44:11.820 Like Natopa, the guardrail for children's beds.

00:44:14.920 Natopa means giving your favorite person room to grow.

00:44:19.220 It means their safety and your piece of...

00:44:21.400 No.

00:44:22.340 In Swedish, Natopa means night monkey.

00:44:26.520 Mom!

00:44:28.200 He's back!

00:44:29.680 IKEA. 50 years of Swedishness at home.

00:44:32.780 Look, he's wearing little pajamas.

00:44:35.360 So cute.

00:44:36.980 Saw it.

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