The Glenn Beck Program - March 06, 2025


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Sean Gleason ｜ 3⧸6⧸25


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Two astronauts are stranded on the International Space Station and no one has been able to reach them since 9/11. Biden rejected Elon Musk's offer to bring them home. Glenn explains why and why not. Also, Sean Gleason from the Professional Bull Riders Association is here to talk about the World Finals of the Rodeo and Kid Rock.

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00:00:30.000 So yesterday, in a press conference from space, we got confirmation that Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's bid to rescue the marooned astronauts on the ISS.
00:00:43.480 Biden left Americans behind because of press.
00:00:47.760 And it is such a stark difference to what Trump has already been able to accomplish.
00:00:52.620 And I show you what the difference is and what it all means.
00:00:56.480 Also, there is a change in the country.
00:00:59.780 And Yellowstone is part of the change, in a way.
00:01:06.720 We've seen this before in America.
00:01:08.560 Something has changed, and I explain it.
00:01:10.580 Also, Sean Gleason from the Professional Bull Riders Association is here to talk about the world finals of the rodeo that's coming up.
00:01:18.040 And Kid Rock.
00:01:19.080 So that's all on today's podcast.
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00:02:57.460 Well, you know, in looking at the news today, I am overwhelmed by the weight of abandonment
00:03:06.720 that has been hanging over America for the last four years.
00:03:14.040 And next hour, I'm going to talk to you about it.
00:03:15.880 It's been going on for a lot longer than that.
00:03:18.000 And it's an end of an era.
00:03:19.140 This is an end of an era and the beginning of a new one, and I'll explain.
00:03:24.580 But there is a shadow that was cast by Joe Biden that we all started to feel was inevitable.
00:03:33.460 It was a presidency that turned its back on those it swore to protect.
00:03:40.660 And the evidence is a little overwhelming, undeniable.
00:03:47.200 Yesterday, one of the astronauts that has been marooned.
00:03:51.780 Think of that word.
00:03:53.180 Only used to hear that on Gilligan's Island.
00:03:56.300 They were marooned on the International Space Station.
00:04:00.540 What he said yesterday, this astronaut, is basically this.
00:04:05.300 Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's offer to bring him and his marooned astronauts home.
00:04:14.300 Not for strategy, not for principle, but for petty politics.
00:04:21.300 Biden feared the optics.
00:04:23.420 The chance that it might make Donald Trump look really, really good and him bad.
00:04:28.480 So he didn't do it.
00:04:31.580 So two Americans languished in orbit.
00:04:35.940 Symbols of a nation that once reached for the stars, now just content to let him drift in space.
00:04:45.560 It's obscene.
00:04:48.280 But this, unfortunately, wasn't an isolated failure.
00:04:52.380 Afghanistan comes to mind. 0.64
00:04:54.080 The withdrawal in 2021.
00:04:56.040 How many thousands were left behind?
00:04:58.920 Do you know we're still in Afghanistan?
00:05:00.900 Mercury won.
00:05:01.880 We are still.
00:05:02.760 We're trying to get out of there.
00:05:04.540 But there's like 100 people left.
00:05:06.960 We're trying to get out.
00:05:08.440 But we promised we would.
00:05:10.960 And because of the Taliban, because it's going to change now. 0.81
00:05:13.920 But because of the State Department and Biden, we've never been able to get them out.
00:05:18.020 We left interpreters, allies, families who risk everything to aid our troop.
00:05:24.620 And yet we let the terrorists come across our border.
00:05:28.600 The Biden administration, they abandoned people and left them to the mercy of the Taliban.
00:05:36.020 We all felt it when that happened.
00:05:39.980 And that week was one of the darkest weeks in my history of being an American, of living here and seeing it and going, that's not us.
00:05:48.300 It was the fall of Saigon in 1975.
00:05:51.080 We airlifted people out that we could.
00:05:53.380 And then we just left a whole bunch of people to go into either a re-education camp or face a death squad.
00:06:03.060 You know who didn't forget the people?
00:06:05.120 Biden forgot the people in Afghanistan.
00:06:06.960 You know who didn't?
00:06:08.120 You know who sent in the planes and brave men and women to go in behind enemy lines and rescue them?
00:06:15.160 You did.
00:06:17.180 Just as a single American, you did.
00:06:20.400 History has taught the world over and over again the cost of deserting people.
00:06:29.540 And yet Biden repeated it over and over again, ignoring the pleas of those who trusted us or who carried a blue passport.
00:06:39.320 What about the Abbey Gate?
00:06:41.420 Abbey Gate, 13 Americans, service members, four America, died in that suicide bombing during that same week.
00:06:50.300 We abandoned people.
00:06:51.600 Biden never pursued the mastermind.
00:06:55.440 He never even acknowledged the sacrifice in his public tallies of the war's toll.
00:07:02.100 Their names faded into silenced, unavenged, unrecognized, unremembered by a White House too busy scrambling around to save face.
00:07:13.080 And the pattern repeats.
00:07:15.840 After Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel, guess what?
00:07:20.040 Americans were left stranded, scrambling for evacuation as the State Department faltered.
00:07:26.680 And yet who was there?
00:07:28.440 You were.
00:07:30.260 The tales from Mercury One of the people that went in to help save and rescue Americans is just phenomenal.
00:07:40.240 You sent planes over to rescue the trapped.
00:07:43.840 In Haiti, under Biden, chaos erupted.
00:07:46.880 2024, U.S. citizens, thousands of them trapped.
00:07:50.860 No real rescue mounted by the U.S. State Department or our government.
00:07:55.480 Yet again, you sent in the planes.
00:07:59.120 Let's look at the abandonment of East Palestine or Palestine.
00:08:06.600 How do you say Palestine?
00:08:07.800 I can't remember now.
00:08:08.820 It's it's you remember.
00:08:10.260 Anyway, in Ohio, you all Palestine. 1.00
00:08:13.580 You remember when the train spewed all of that gas into the air and yet Biden never came there.
00:08:21.020 He never rallied his administration to cut through the red tape to stop the suffocation of that small town in Ohio.
00:08:29.760 North Carolina drowned under Hurricane Helene's wrath just last September.
00:08:35.620 President said, we've done all we can.
00:08:38.120 Leaving communities and families and people, individuals, trapped on mountaintops or to claw their way out of the mud.
00:08:51.680 Yet again, you showed up to do the right thing and you did it not for glory, not for fame, not for politics, not for headlines.
00:08:58.680 But because it was the right thing to do, the American thing to do. 0.52
00:09:06.220 These were not oversights.
00:09:08.980 They were choices by this administration.
00:09:11.800 A consistent refusal to prioritize the vulnerable, the forgotten, the American.
00:09:21.460 Things have changed.
00:09:23.240 Have you noticed that?
00:09:25.040 Now Donald Trump is in office.
00:09:28.680 Some real big things have really changed.
00:09:36.260 Take the Abbey Gate mastermind.
00:09:39.720 Trump announced that he was captured and brought to U.S. soil two days ago.
00:09:45.120 Two days ago.
00:09:46.360 National Security Advisor Mike Waltz revealed Trump's team went, got him, and extracted a confession before even landing in Dulles.
00:09:55.060 Delivering accountability when Biden offered none.
00:10:00.480 The Gold Star families, one of whom cried out in anguish during the 2024 State of the Union.
00:10:05.820 Remember, Biden had that guy removed.
00:10:08.840 He had that guy removed who was just crying out and saying, justice, say my son's name.
00:10:14.400 You cannot just say that nobody was killed.
00:10:17.520 13 of our children were killed.
00:10:21.280 Well, this week they finally saw their pain recognized.
00:10:24.420 And their children and their deaths honored.
00:10:32.800 Not with words, but with action.
00:10:35.000 And then Trump did it again.
00:10:37.860 Yesterday, I don't know if you saw this.
00:10:39.600 Yesterday, he made his position on the hostages in Israel super clear.
00:10:45.620 Quote, not a single Hamas member will be safe until you release every hostage. 0.63
00:10:53.440 Pretty clear.
00:10:54.440 And yet, just in the first six weeks of this guy's term, Donald Trump personally secured 11 total confirmed hostages.
00:11:07.080 These were poor Americans being held in some of the most, just most hostile, nasty areas of the world. 0.51
00:11:14.200 Gaza, Russia, Venezuela.
00:11:18.700 And you know what?
00:11:20.040 None of these were grand gestures for applause.
00:11:22.660 None of them.
00:11:24.440 They were just smart and decent moves to bring Americans home. 1.00
00:11:31.780 What the hell is your passport or you being an American worth? 0.97
00:11:36.740 If somebody can just scoop you up.
00:11:41.480 Biden's tenure saw a thousand Afghans with special immigrant visas left behind.
00:11:47.360 Per the State Department's estimate, alongside with hundreds of Americans unrescued from the conflict zones,
00:11:54.440 like Israel and Haiti, Trump's first term by comparison, he's freed over a dozen high profile detainees.
00:12:01.240 Americans like Joshua Holt from Venezuela, the pastor, Andrew Brunson from Turkey, the same year.
00:12:08.840 Relentless negotiation, relentless pursuit of what is true and right.
00:12:16.220 Where Biden just dithered and withered.
00:12:20.220 Trump leaned in, Trump leaned in, often personally leaning in, like when he met with Kim Jong-un in 2018.
00:12:30.020 You know, I don't know if you remember this.
00:12:32.220 He secured the release of three American hostages from North Korea.
00:12:35.740 It's the intent.
00:12:40.080 It is the willingness to act.
00:12:42.580 I'm a little soupy today because honor is coming back.
00:12:55.060 And it's not about chest-thumping nationalism.
00:12:58.660 This is about duty.
00:13:00.440 This is about a covenant between a government and its people that are rooted in ethics and responsibility.
00:13:08.060 It's about a duty, a covenant between a government and its people.
00:13:14.920 Franklin Roosevelt, when he launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, he knew that covenant that we made.
00:13:23.660 He didn't abandon the downed pilots.
00:13:25.820 He ordered rescue missions deep into enemy territory.
00:13:30.260 When Jimmy Carter fumbled the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, he at least tried.
00:13:37.720 It was flawed.
00:13:39.220 Desert One was an abysmal failure.
00:13:41.760 But Biden didn't even try.
00:13:44.120 He withdrew.
00:13:45.040 He deflected.
00:13:45.940 He excused.
00:13:49.040 His era was one of shame.
00:13:51.720 Not just of what he did, but he shamed us for being somebody who believed in these ethics in the American way, in the American responsibility.
00:14:05.140 Shame.
00:14:06.340 Not because America lacked the power or the willpower.
00:14:11.160 He left us a legacy of shame because he lacked the will.
00:14:15.220 We watched as our own were left to fend for themselves as their lives were like bargaining chips that were just too costly to play.
00:14:24.560 I can't play that.
00:14:25.380 I get bad headlines.
00:14:28.520 Man, it feels good to be able to say that that era ends now.
00:14:34.480 It's over.
00:14:36.800 Trump's return signals a shift.
00:14:40.040 And it's not blind, jingoistic pride.
00:14:45.220 It's a renewed clarity of purpose.
00:14:50.520 The capture of the killer at Abbey Gate, it's not just a win for justice.
00:14:54.620 It's a message to the world.
00:14:57.420 We are not going to leave our citizens, our people behind.
00:15:04.020 And if you kill any of our people, we will hunt you down and justice will be served.
00:15:10.720 The parents of those lost at Abbey Gate.
00:15:19.940 Sorry, that one is very personal.
00:15:21.560 The citizens that have been stranded in countries all over the world.
00:15:36.860 The American towns and citizens that were ignored.
00:15:41.700 Third, you're not a footnote anymore.
00:15:48.720 You're the priority.
00:15:53.400 And it's not about one man's ego.
00:15:55.380 This is about a people waking up, remembering that strength lies in protecting the least among us.
00:16:05.540 Not in PR stunts or political gamesmanship.
00:16:08.800 None of that matters.
00:16:11.400 And if you don't get it yet, let me just tell you.
00:16:14.220 Let me say the unspoken truth that so many haven't grasped yet.
00:16:19.100 Biden's abandonment wasn't incompetence.
00:16:22.860 It was a worldview.
00:16:24.440 It was a belief that America's role was now to retreat, to manage decline.
00:16:33.120 We didn't lead anymore.
00:16:35.160 We didn't deserve to lead anymore.
00:16:38.840 He saw our reach as an overextension, our rescues as a liability.
00:16:45.260 Trump, no matter what you think of him, sees very differently.
00:16:48.600 Every American left behind is a wound to our soul. 0.99
00:16:55.740 It's a debt unpaid.
00:16:58.620 That's why he pursued the mastermind.
00:17:00.840 That's why he fought for the jailed.
00:17:02.760 That's why he's vowed to rebuild whatever was neglected.
00:17:05.920 It's not about glory.
00:17:07.380 It's not about him.
00:17:08.260 It's about honor.
00:17:10.200 A concept that America under Biden and the last 20 years has just been left to atrophy.
00:17:19.300 But let me tell you right now, the era of shame is over.
00:17:26.140 We're recommitting to the hard work of being a nation that actually stands by its own.
00:17:30.740 From the astronauts above to the families below, from Kabul to Ohio, a promise is being rewritten again.
00:17:38.080 No American gets left behind.
00:17:42.840 That's the America that I've always believed in.
00:17:45.220 That's the America worth believing in.
00:17:49.640 That's the America worth believing in.
00:18:00.620 Again.
00:18:01.220 It's not a myth.
00:18:07.300 It's a renewed mission.
00:18:09.480 There is no doubt that these first couple of months of the Trump presidency has largely been a relief, but we are clawing back four years of the Biden legacy, and that's going to take a while.
00:18:23.620 It is going to get worse before it gets better.
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00:19:20.600 Now back to the podcast.
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00:19:28.380 Yesterday, um...
00:19:31.420 Yesterday was just a different day for me.
00:19:33.700 My eyes opened up to some things, and I don't know...
00:19:37.440 I don't know exactly why, but some things really came clear to me yesterday.
00:19:43.860 And that is what we're waking up to.
00:19:48.160 Trump and the last election are symptoms.
00:19:51.280 We think that that is what's driving, but it's not.
00:19:54.520 It's not the reason.
00:19:55.900 It's a symptom.
00:19:56.560 And it's all wrapped up in the collective denial of what is true and real.
00:20:02.820 So let me...
00:20:04.580 What is true and real?
00:20:07.040 Have you noticed that the cowboy, the rugged West, is making a comeback?
00:20:13.000 You see it in television.
00:20:14.580 You see it everywhere.
00:20:15.420 It's making a comeback all of a sudden.
00:20:17.460 Why?
00:20:17.780 And it's coming at the same time our politics are changing.
00:20:25.580 So, which is the chicken and which is the egg?
00:20:30.960 The cowboy, this rugged West.
00:20:36.340 Yellowstone.
00:20:37.820 The TV Yellowstone, or Taylor Sheraton and all of his many 800 shows that seem to be on television.
00:20:44.260 That's not what brought the cowboy back.
00:20:47.320 It's not Kevin Costner on TV grumbling about the land and the legacy.
00:20:52.540 It's not it.
00:20:53.120 It's deeper than that.
00:20:55.500 It's...
00:20:56.180 In some ways, it's that jagged spine of the Grand Tetons.
00:21:02.060 It's the open sweep of the grass that rolls out like God himself just unrolled it and was like, how far can that go?
00:21:09.060 It is the untamed West.
00:21:11.440 But it's not that.
00:21:15.400 Because that's a postcard.
00:21:17.380 That's on a TV screen.
00:21:20.160 That's something that nobody in New York sees.
00:21:22.820 That's something that people all over the country have never actually seen themselves.
00:21:28.160 But yet they have that thumping or humming in their chest.
00:21:32.660 And it's something that has been in every American for a very long time.
00:21:38.600 And it has been waiting for us to listen to it.
00:21:43.620 You know, the press, mainstream media, they couldn't figure out Yellowstone at all.
00:21:48.220 Look at those crazy people.
00:21:49.700 They just want that train station to actually exist.
00:21:53.160 It wasn't the vigilante stuff that attracted us to Yellowstone.
00:21:57.780 The bodies dumped in the dark to settle scores or how Beth acted or what she said.
00:22:02.280 Sure, that played a role.
00:22:03.100 It was entertaining.
00:22:04.000 But that's not what we felt.
00:22:07.120 That was the noise.
00:22:09.060 What got underneath our skin was that there was justice to it.
00:22:17.060 Not vigilante, not perfect, not polished, but there was justice.
00:22:23.640 A line, somebody was drawing a line in the sand, a common sense line that said,
00:22:29.580 you know what, some things matter too much to let slide.
00:22:33.180 And what were those things?
00:22:34.500 They were heritage.
00:22:36.000 It was family.
00:22:37.340 It was a way of life that's worth planting your feet for.
00:22:42.520 The whole show is about the Duttons losing the ranch.
00:22:45.420 Or is it?
00:22:48.060 Or is it about fighting for something that cannot be left behind?
00:22:53.040 It shouldn't be left behind.
00:22:55.500 Was it the Dutton Ranch or was it the American way?
00:22:59.120 And not something on a bumper sticker or slogan, but a heartbeat.
00:23:04.160 Something that is deep in all of us.
00:23:07.640 And we feel it.
00:23:08.760 I don't care if you're kicking dust in Wyoming or you're kicking a coffee cup in the streets of New York.
00:23:14.300 It's there.
00:23:15.620 And it's not the hat.
00:23:16.800 It's not the spurs.
00:23:20.700 Those represent this, I guess, because it's the cowboy.
00:23:23.660 And what does the cowboy represent?
00:23:25.500 A handshake that means something.
00:23:28.500 A promise you don't break because your word is the only thing you own.
00:23:36.740 It's taking your hat off for a woman. 1.00
00:23:40.940 It's saying, yes, ma'am.
00:23:42.700 No, sir.
00:23:44.280 Because respect isn't optional.
00:23:46.940 It's standing up.
00:23:47.940 It's standing up.
00:23:49.900 And not just for yourself, but for your family, for your land.
00:23:54.960 Your way of life.
00:23:56.200 The things that you have been told for the last 20 years.
00:24:02.020 Sit down.
00:24:02.900 Shut up. 0.95
00:24:03.300 You should be ashamed of that.
00:24:05.760 It's righting wrongs when the law is too slow or too blind to see what's what.
00:24:11.580 Afghanistan withdrawal comes to mind.
00:24:13.480 It's a fierce independence.
00:24:17.380 The kind that says, you know what?
00:24:18.640 I don't have anything against you, but I'm going my own way.
00:24:20.860 I'm going to chart my own path.
00:24:22.760 I'm going to do what others swear that just can't be done.
00:24:26.360 I'm sorry.
00:24:26.980 You think it's too tough?
00:24:28.040 I don't think so.
00:24:28.720 Nothing's too big.
00:24:29.520 Not as long as you have faith in God and the grit of an American, then nothing's too big.
00:24:38.800 That's what the cowboy represents.
00:24:43.740 But it's more than just him.
00:24:47.180 I don't know how to describe it.
00:24:48.780 It's us.
00:24:49.460 It's in all of us.
00:24:51.740 It's who this land shaped us to be.
00:24:54.900 Whether you, I mean, I'm not somebody that would have crossed the Rockies in a creaking wagon.
00:25:00.880 I would have stopped way before that.
00:25:03.260 You know, snow biting at my hands, you know.
00:25:05.540 Uh-uh.
00:25:07.480 Strangely, I am kind of the guy that wouldn't mind being strapped to a rocket and shot up just to stab this red planet of red dust million miles away or however far it is with a flag.
00:25:19.360 And not because the flag.
00:25:21.980 Why do these explorers do what they do?
00:25:26.780 They don't do it for God or country.
00:25:28.900 That's what the left would tell you.
00:25:30.500 It's jingoism.
00:25:31.760 It's not.
00:25:32.560 They don't do it for God and country.
00:25:34.640 They do it because of God and country.
00:25:38.520 Because of what God and this country made us.
00:25:43.760 It's simply who we are.
00:25:45.540 It's why the rest of the world never understands us.
00:25:48.380 And yet, when we live up to those ideals, when we live up to what this land and God created with us, when we live up to who we really are, the world loves us.
00:25:59.180 It's what this land does to you.
00:26:04.120 The mountains, the plains, the rivers that cut through stone, they're not just pretty.
00:26:17.080 I don't know about you, but they call to me.
00:26:22.860 They call to all of us.
00:26:25.120 They make you.
00:26:27.540 And when you answer, it's not about proving something to anybody else.
00:26:31.880 It's about proving it to yourself.
00:26:33.640 Because that's what the soul of this country is asking for.
00:26:38.040 Who are you?
00:26:39.700 Who can you be?
00:26:42.060 No other country, no other people can feel it like we do.
00:26:46.000 Because this is our DNA.
00:26:47.680 That's why I go to the mountains every chance I can get.
00:26:52.400 I love my ranch.
00:26:53.320 Not to escape, but to remember to breathe the air that is sharp and clean, cold in the morning, hot during the day.
00:27:00.920 To hear the wind whip the flag.
00:27:06.180 Yellowstone was not big on TV because it was a show.
00:27:12.140 It was big because it's a mirror.
00:27:14.520 It is a fun house mirror.
00:27:18.920 And everybody else looked at the fun house part.
00:27:25.880 It's all about what we've been missing.
00:27:28.800 It's what it was showing us.
00:27:30.160 That's what we felt, what we let slip through our fingers.
00:27:33.900 Because we were too busy chasing other things or listening to other people convince us of lies.
00:27:39.960 And now, look around, last six weeks.
00:27:44.520 What is America doing? 0.69
00:27:47.200 We're putting our boots back on.
00:27:50.100 We're wrapping ourselves in denim that's not afraid to touch grass.
00:27:54.540 In fact, it's required to touch grass.
00:27:57.980 And not because it's trendy, but because it's true.
00:28:01.800 It's who we are deep down.
00:28:05.560 I don't care if you've ever roped cattle.
00:28:07.480 You should see me with my cows.
00:28:08.780 I have no idea what I'm doing.
00:28:11.240 It doesn't matter.
00:28:12.740 You could be punching a clock in Cincinnati.
00:28:14.620 It doesn't matter.
00:28:17.280 But the land, our way of life, our DNA is calling us back.
00:28:23.180 And thank God, we're listening.
00:28:29.640 It is morning in America again.
00:28:34.100 And it comes again under the brim of a cowboy hat.
00:28:37.480 But the guy who's, the one who seems to be doing it all, he would look ridiculous in a cowboy hat.
00:28:47.200 Maybe as ridiculous as I look in a cowboy hat.
00:28:49.940 He's a big city real estate broker from New York City that likely has never gone anywhere on horseback or climbed a mountain.
00:28:58.440 But the spirit lives in this guy.
00:29:04.100 His whole life is about doing something no one thought could be done.
00:29:08.400 He didn't climb mountains or conquer the West in the traditional way.
00:29:12.900 Instead, out of concrete and steel, he built mountains that tear at that American sky.
00:29:19.720 He conquered what we all thought was, you can't conquer that.
00:29:22.660 Mainstream media, he broke the back of that horse.
00:29:25.680 And he is riding it, sitting tall in his saddle.
00:29:28.980 And he's also making it very clear to all the outlaws of the world.
00:29:32.960 And I can guarantee you'll go, yes, sir, when you hear this.
00:29:37.120 He's making it very clear, this man from New York City.
00:29:40.780 There is a new sheriff in town.
00:29:45.820 The spirit of the West.
00:29:49.900 All humans feel this call to the ocean.
00:29:53.620 I don't know what it is, but we all do.
00:29:56.460 For Americans, it's the same kind of call, but to something different.
00:30:02.820 The West isn't a place.
00:30:04.060 It's a feeling.
00:30:05.140 It's a pull.
00:30:09.320 It's a strange shadow of a horse and a rider against a sunset that bleeds red and gold.
00:30:16.360 It's the creak of leather, the weight of a rifle in your hands when the world turns mean.
00:30:21.740 It's the quiet of a night, so quiet you can hear your own thoughts.
00:30:25.420 It's the roar of a river that reminds you some things just can't be tamed.
00:30:29.640 Not by man, not by time.
00:30:31.880 And that is what's roaring back.
00:30:34.020 It's the spirit that put us here in the first place.
00:30:42.200 The part of us that says, I'll stand for what's right.
00:30:45.100 I'll fight for the little guy.
00:30:46.760 I'm going to build something worth keeping.
00:30:49.220 And we do, because we always have.
00:30:51.840 From the first people that crossed the oceans to the ones who broke the trails through the mountains,
00:30:56.960 no sane person would ever do that.
00:31:00.400 The dreamers who looked up to the sky and said, I'll go to the moon.
00:31:05.040 And it was never about glory.
00:31:07.580 It was about guts.
00:31:09.640 Knowing that there are some things that are just bigger than you.
00:31:15.000 But you're big enough to meet them anyway.
00:31:19.880 Yellowstone is, again, a mirror of us waking up.
00:31:24.040 It was already there.
00:31:24.820 It was simmering.
00:31:25.360 It's always there.
00:31:27.180 The photos of the peaks and the plains and the horses, they're not just pictures.
00:31:31.480 They are us.
00:31:33.020 It's the snap of the sound of that snap of a flag in the wind.
00:31:39.080 It's the weight of a life lived on your terms.
00:31:42.040 And it is not dead.
00:31:43.500 It is not gone.
00:31:44.920 It is rising again.
00:31:48.320 Because the truth is, it never really left us.
00:31:51.280 You'll feel it wherever you are.
00:31:52.740 You'll hear it in the stories we tell, the songs we sing.
00:31:54.780 The way we look at the world and go, why can't people do it?
00:31:59.200 We'll take it on.
00:32:01.660 You're living in an American era again. 0.66
00:32:04.640 We are truly going to see the rebirth of a nation.
00:32:09.600 Not in the boardrooms or the ballots, but first and foremost, in the dirt, in the sky, in the soul.
00:32:18.080 It's about a cowboy, an American cowboy coming home.
00:32:24.020 Not because he's lost.
00:32:26.480 Because finally, finally, he remembered where he belongs.
00:32:35.320 And we're all riding along with him.
00:32:38.760 Whether we know it or not.
00:32:40.260 Because no matter what the popular culture tells us, this is really who we are.
00:32:47.000 We're fierce.
00:32:48.180 We're honorable.
00:32:49.480 We're free.
00:32:51.080 We're unbroken.
00:32:54.640 The sun just dipped down low and the shadows were stretching long.
00:32:58.960 But thank God America heard it whispering again. 0.59
00:33:02.480 Come back.
00:33:04.800 Come back home.
00:33:06.200 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:33:16.160 The PBR is a professional bull riders association.
00:33:19.520 And I have to tell you, if you have never been to a rodeo, I went to the Coliseum probably 10 years ago when I first moved to Dallas-Fort Worth.
00:33:29.900 And I go to the Coliseum and I'm with people from New York.
00:33:33.180 Never, you know, have not.
00:33:34.620 And they're the kind that got off the plane and saw Dallas and went, where are all the cows?
00:33:38.960 It's not like that anymore.
00:33:40.540 But they had never been to a rodeo.
00:33:43.120 And as soon as the kids got on the back of the sheep, they immediately began looking for attorneys.
00:33:50.240 They were like, this kid, you can't do that.
00:33:52.000 Yes, you can.
00:33:53.360 Can't in New York.
00:33:54.520 But everywhere else in the country, that happens.
00:33:57.000 Sean, welcome to the program.
00:33:58.000 How are you?
00:33:58.400 Glad to be on, Glenn.
00:33:59.320 Yeah, it's good to see you.
00:34:00.360 Yesterday, you were with Kid Rock.
00:34:01.740 You made a big announcement.
00:34:02.940 Yep.
00:34:03.160 Yeah, we, you know, we started this last year.
00:34:06.820 We had the Kid Rocks Rock and Rodeo that we added and paired with the PBR World Finals.
00:34:11.500 It's Rodeo Reimagined.
00:34:13.040 We not only brought in Kid Rock to help redefine the entertainment experience, but we turned
00:34:18.260 rodeo into a team sport and head-to-head competition.
00:34:21.580 Drag race style. 0.99
00:34:22.960 Drag race style? 0.97
00:34:24.200 Yeah, horse race style.
00:34:25.720 I have to tell you, there is, I was with, last summer, the summer before, I think, I was
00:34:31.700 with somebody who was from Scotland.
00:34:33.800 And he was like, you know, they pick up, you know, the big stumps and they throw them, you
00:34:38.140 know, throwing rocks.
00:34:39.640 And they're like, that's a real man's sport. 0.71
00:34:41.320 You know, whatever.
00:34:42.260 He had never been to a rodeo.
00:34:43.620 And he said beforehand, he's like, this is ridiculous.
00:34:48.100 And I said, uh-uh, okay, you just watch.
00:34:51.040 This guy was, you know, in their special, the highest level of their special forces.
00:34:56.380 The gate opened and the first 10 seconds went by and he looked at me and he said, why haven't
00:35:05.400 I been here before?
00:35:06.860 I mean, it totally changed.
00:35:08.340 That, it's amazing what these guys do.
00:35:12.640 It is.
00:35:13.280 And I mean, you think about it and at one point in time, rodeo was the only sport in America.
00:35:19.800 Right.
00:35:19.860 And it's amazing to me after 26 years of travel in this country, just how far removed
00:35:28.600 people in urban environments are from one of this important pieces of history and heritage
00:35:33.300 in our country, the sport of rodeo, Western sports, Western lifestyle.
00:35:37.520 And so I've had the good fortune to travel this country back and forth from Madison Square
00:35:41.640 Garden to LA and teach people a little bit about it.
00:35:44.780 So do you guys go into Los Angeles and those areas?
00:35:49.980 Downtown, crypto.com.
00:35:51.620 Shut up. 0.95
00:35:52.540 We sold out three nights at Madison Square Garden in January, just a couple months ago.
00:35:57.980 Was it mainly attorneys?
00:35:59.700 No.
00:36:00.520 Well, it might be.
00:36:02.360 You know, Friday night's weird.
00:36:03.700 People ask me all the time, what is your demo?
00:36:05.500 And I'm like, well, if you go to New York City, Friday night's a bunch of suits that come
00:36:09.940 out and they're looking for a good time.
00:36:11.360 Saturday is women between the ages of, you know, 25 and 40 that are looking at cowboys 1.00
00:36:17.540 and tight jeans.
00:36:19.320 And then Sunday's a bunch of families where people bring their kids.
00:36:22.540 And it's just an amazing experience to bring some of those values back to urban places like
00:36:29.500 New York that haven't seen it in a long, long time.
00:36:31.840 You know, I saw a story.
00:36:34.500 We did a story on something where there's some kids were, you know, a mom is what it was.
00:36:39.960 A mom was arrested for letting her kid go across the street from his house at eight
00:36:45.660 or 10 years old and just play.
00:36:47.840 And the cops came to her and arrested her for child neglect.
00:36:51.460 Okay.
00:36:51.800 Crazy.
00:36:52.680 And I read a story and this is how much we have changed.
00:36:55.940 And this is, I really think this is the spirit of the rodeo.
00:36:59.940 Um, when you're responsible and you understand your kids and you understand, you know, what
00:37:05.020 life is really all about.
00:37:06.680 There were these two kids in, uh, California that wanted to meet Teddy Roosevelt.
00:37:11.840 He was going to be sworn in as president.
00:37:14.080 These two kids, eight and 10 told their parents they wanted to go meet him.
00:37:19.220 So they put them on horseback.
00:37:21.380 They went by themselves.
00:37:23.180 It took them three months to get to Washington DC.
00:37:27.040 But by the time they got there, there were so many press reports about these two kids
00:37:31.100 that just wanted to go see the president that they actually met Teddy Roosevelt and went
00:37:35.300 to the white house and everything else.
00:37:36.520 But nobody was saying that's irresponsible.
00:37:39.680 You know, it's just, it's just so different now.
00:37:43.180 I know.
00:37:43.520 I mean, you know, some people would like us all to wear bubble suits.
00:37:47.180 I guess we put, we put, you know, 150 pound cowboys on the backs of bulls and, uh, and
00:37:53.200 pay them millions of dollars to do it.
00:37:54.940 And some people have criticized that and said, we shouldn't allow that.
00:37:58.420 It's, it's individual choice, you know, and.
00:38:01.440 But it also is, I mean, it's not, it's not a sport that is just played for sport.
00:38:08.380 You know, when you see the cowboys go out and they rope the cattle, uh, that, that, that
00:38:14.100 is a skill they use every day, you know, and the combination of those horses.
00:38:20.640 I mean, I know why they cost millions of dollars, the way those horses anticipate, uh, and, and
00:38:27.920 move with the writer.
00:38:30.320 And I mean, it's, it's incredible to watch.
00:38:34.020 Yeah.
00:38:34.520 I mean, cowboys fed America for a long, long time. 0.92
00:38:37.820 And that's where it was born out here in the West.
00:38:39.640 And, you know, they had to, uh, it was the greatest cultural melting pot too, if you think
00:38:44.580 about it, because it was freed, freed blacks from the East.
00:38:48.380 It was, um, Irish immigrants that couldn't find work.
00:38:52.340 They hooked up with native Americans and the Mexican vaqueros and they created the cowboy
00:38:57.060 and, uh, they depended on one another.
00:38:59.900 They lived on the trail and they drove those cattle back and forth and, and fed the East coast.
00:39:05.080 And it's one of the, the great stories of cultural diversity and hard work, honesty, integrity,
00:39:12.820 values.
00:39:13.420 I mean, it's.
00:39:14.240 People don't, people have no idea who Bill Pickett is anymore, but he was a black man.
00:39:19.260 He was probably one of the most famous black men in the 1920s in all of America.
00:39:24.620 That guy, that guy was amazing.
00:39:28.540 Uh, and the things that he would do, um, what did he call bulldogging?
00:39:32.240 Right.
00:39:32.520 Yeah.
00:39:32.720 Is what he invented.
00:39:33.660 Yep.
00:39:34.120 And he, uh, you tell me if this is true or not.
00:39:37.280 I think it is that he, he was a, he was a rancher and just tough as nails and also a
00:39:43.420 silent movie star.
00:39:44.840 And, uh, he said that he saw his dog grab the bull, jump up, grab the bull by the lower
00:39:52.260 lip and pulled him right down to the ground. 0.89
00:39:55.000 And so bulldogging was him.
00:39:58.000 That's the story I've heard too.
00:39:59.700 And you know, we have, he actually would get onto the ball.
00:40:02.180 He would jump off his horse, grab the bull with his mouth on the lower lip of the bull
00:40:07.240 and turn him down.
00:40:08.440 And that's how bulldogging started.
00:40:09.900 That's insane.
00:40:11.500 That's insane.
00:40:12.460 It's, uh, you know, we're pretty proud.
00:40:13.800 We have a partnership with Bill Pickett.
00:40:15.300 And, uh, a few years back, we put the very first black rodeo on national television on
00:40:21.720 CBS had huge ratings and, uh, have supported those guys ever since.
00:40:27.080 And, uh, we have now an event in Cowtown two weeks ago, sold out Cowtown for Bill Pickett
00:40:32.600 Invitational Rodeo.
00:40:33.600 I heard that I was talking to the guy who's running Cowtown now and that is the arena in,
00:40:38.520 uh, uh, in Fort Worth.
00:40:40.760 And he said like 274 nights of rodeo sold out.
00:40:46.420 Yeah.
00:40:46.740 I mean, it is crazy.
00:40:47.460 We actually do a PBR event every Thursday.
00:40:49.780 Rodeo's Friday and Saturday.
00:40:51.740 Bill Pickett occasionally when, uh, their tour permits.
00:40:55.100 And, uh, PBR actually partnered with the Stockyards Heritage Group.
00:41:00.320 We actually run that building and facilitate all those events now.
00:41:04.120 So pretty proud of what we've done there.
00:41:06.440 I was living in New York and I was on CNN, uh, to my shame, but I was on CNN and, uh,
00:41:13.660 I used to say all the time, look, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:41:16.640 Uh, you know, I'm a rodeo clown and in trying to tell you the news.
00:41:20.340 And then I got a, a letter from the president of the rodeo clown association.
00:41:25.100 And he said, do you have any idea what rodeo clowns do? 0.99
00:41:29.600 And I, you know, I hadn't been to a rodeo in, since I was a kid.
00:41:33.480 And I don't think as a kid, you can fully appreciate what those guys do.
00:41:38.260 I I've never said that about myself ever again.
00:41:40.700 You watch these rodeo clowns.
00:41:42.380 How often are they killed?
00:41:45.400 Uh, not often killed because they're pretty damn good at what they do.
00:41:49.300 They're fearless.
00:41:50.960 They're fearless.
00:41:51.580 But you know, we, uh, no disrespect to the rodeo clowns organization, but we, we took
00:41:56.840 them, we took them out of the clown outfit and we put them into uniforms.
00:42:01.780 And one of the reasons we did that is because they're the best athletes on the field.
00:42:06.100 They face every bowl, every, uh, protect every cowboy on every single out.
00:42:11.880 And they're on that dirt for every single one of the outs.
00:42:14.420 And so they're great athletes.
00:42:16.660 They're fearless human beings.
00:42:18.560 And the, but the thing I'm most proud of is they wear the U S border patrol uniform because
00:42:23.640 they are the PBRs border patrol safety team.
00:42:26.860 So let me ask you, uh, the, you're using the Coliseum in, in Fort Worth, uh, coming up.
00:42:35.460 When is that happening?
00:42:37.300 May 8th.
00:42:38.380 And you're using the cow town Coliseum, which is a new venue.
00:42:42.560 And I won't mention the old venue because I don't even know if this is true, but I hear
00:42:46.440 the old venue wouldn't allow the United States border patrol to come in with guns.
00:42:53.280 You wanted to honor them and they wanted to come in with guns and they said, we can't
00:42:56.700 have guns here.
00:42:57.380 And, uh, I mean, it's Texas, man.
00:42:59.940 What are you thinking?
00:43:01.420 Everybody's got a gun in Texas anyway.
00:43:04.020 So you're not, you're, you've moved it to a much smaller venue.
00:43:07.540 You've got to be losing money on that.
00:43:09.440 Like crazy.
00:43:10.200 Well, we also took the final state TNT stadium, which is the largest venue on the planet.
00:43:14.620 So we have both the smallest and the largest venue, but yeah, it's actually, you took it
00:43:19.860 there.
00:43:20.220 That's true.
00:43:21.360 Um, I've run into that twice in my career now.
00:43:24.160 And one was in Charlotte, North Carolina, where, uh, the building basically said the
00:43:30.840 U S border patrol couldn't come in with their sidearms.
00:43:33.720 They wanted them to surrender them to a guy in a shack at the back of the building in order
00:43:40.340 to come in.
00:43:40.980 And that was the color guard from the U S border patrol.
00:43:43.760 Have you, have you checked on, I think it's illegal, right?
00:43:47.560 Right.
00:43:47.900 Yeah.
00:43:48.080 You have a badge and you are a law enforcement.
00:43:51.520 Well, they're federal law enforcement officers.
00:43:53.680 And so that's, that's what bugs me is the disrespect that was given to the U S border
00:43:59.560 patrol with them, not recognizing that they could disarm the local Charlotte or, or Fort
00:44:05.980 worth police officers who has, what is making $8 an hour that they could arrest them for
00:44:12.080 and, and charge them with obstruction of justice.
00:44:14.900 I mean, or a failure to allow a federal officer to do their job, a, a, a, any policeman with
00:44:22.080 a badge, any, you know, current law enforcement and on the federal level, you can't, it's
00:44:28.640 illegal to take their gun.
00:44:30.620 Yeah.
00:44:30.880 And I thought we had ended that in Charlotte six or seven, eight years ago, and we haven't
00:44:36.540 been back to Charlotte.
00:44:37.380 And I ran into it in another building in Fort worth.
00:44:40.060 And I moved our event.
00:44:41.980 It's shocking from that building.
00:44:43.560 It's shocking.
00:44:45.020 Shocking.
00:44:45.560 It's unfortunate.
00:44:47.400 Um, you know why they did it?
00:44:48.880 I don't, uh, most of the time it's, you know, it's a building policy.
00:44:53.340 I get it.
00:44:53.940 And they're, they're in place to, to protect the patients that are there.
00:44:58.260 It's a, it's a federal agent, but not the federal agents.
00:45:01.800 And especially not my, my heroes at the U S border patrol.
00:45:05.480 It's just don't disrespect the federal officers.
00:45:08.440 Uh, well, uh, I can't wait.
00:45:10.800 I can't wait.
00:45:11.380 I'm, my family and I will be there.
00:45:13.440 Uh, and, uh, we just love it.
00:45:15.460 And I love the addition of kid rock.
00:45:18.000 Yeah.
00:45:18.580 He's been a great uplift to it.
00:45:20.720 And one of the things that I think we wanted to accomplish with it is rodeo has become the
00:45:26.460 opening act for big music acts.
00:45:29.600 So if you go to Houston, nothing against Houston, but it's 21 days of concerts that
00:45:35.120 are preceded by a rodeo and people have become accustomed to showing up a little late, not
00:45:41.920 really hanging out for the whole rodeo because they're waiting for, they're waiting for whatever
00:45:46.940 artists is, is coming up at the, in the evening show.
00:45:50.360 And we've never at the PBR, I've never allowed, uh, the PBR to be an opening act for anybody.
00:45:57.700 Why are you doing it with kid?
00:45:58.620 Because when I, he and I sat and envisioned this whole plan, I said, we have to change
00:46:03.700 the paradigm on how entertainment is delivered to the fans.
00:46:08.440 And we've integrated his performance pre, during, and post.
00:46:12.900 And so it's not an opening act.
00:46:15.220 It's all one show.
00:46:16.480 I tell you, every time I've seen these places do like 4th of July events and it was all about
00:46:22.040 the country.
00:46:22.640 It was all about patriotism.
00:46:24.140 And then they would introduce an act.
00:46:26.240 And then over years, the act had to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
00:46:29.800 And it just, everything else was lost.
00:46:31.880 People were coming for the concert and they really didn't care about the patriotism and
00:46:35.580 the message of the day and erected or the sport, you know, the sport itself and our athletes
00:46:40.820 go through too much and are, um, too committed to being professionals to allow them to be overshadowed
00:46:48.220 by the music act or another form of entertainment, sort of like the Kamala Harris rallies from
00:46:53.460 this, uh, most recent campaign.
00:46:54.820 She's throwing Beyonce on the stage and they all leave.
00:46:58.160 Yeah.
00:46:58.320 I didn't care about her.
00:46:59.340 I didn't care about her.
00:47:00.700 Yeah.
00:47:01.060 Uh, but I will tell you, Rody, if you've never been to one, you've got to go.
00:47:04.700 It is, it's, it's, it's remarkable.
00:47:06.640 And I will tell you, kid, I said this to kid yesterday and he's like, right.
00:47:12.760 I said, the sexiest women on the planet are the women who are on the horse with the flag 1.00
00:47:22.140 at the beginning of the rodeo that ride around the ring with a flag.
00:47:25.500 It is, I don't know.
00:47:26.640 There is something about that that is just back carrying, carrying the red, white, and
00:47:32.060 blue.
00:47:32.740 It's beautiful.
00:47:33.120 It just doesn't get any better.
00:47:34.580 It doesn't.
00:47:35.320 It doesn't.
00:47:35.940 And they usually have on shiny outfits with some fringe on them.
00:47:38.980 I mean, it just, I mean, I feel a little kind of dirty looking at it.
00:47:43.300 Cause I like, that's beautiful, but it is, it's beautiful.
00:47:45.980 It's the greatest site in America.
00:47:47.760 John, thank you.
00:47:48.640 Thank you very much.
00:47:49.900 Uh, Sean Gleason.
00:47:50.920 If you want to find out more, go to their website, PBRworldfinals.com.
00:47:55.300 PBRworldfinals.
00:47:57.080 You can follow Sean at PBRCEO.
00:48:00.520 And again, the finals are starting May 8th and Kid Rock's Rock and Rodeo with partnership
00:48:06.660 with PBR is happening during the world finals.
00:48:09.680 That's May 16th through the 18th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
00:48:14.400 We'll see you there.
00:48:15.620 Thank you.
00:48:16.320 Thank you.
00:48:16.640 Thank you.