Glenn Beck takes a look back at the crowds at Obama's 2008 and 2016 rallies, and compares them to Trump's 2020 ones. Plus, an amazing woman s story about recovery, a woman who was born in a rake factory, and more!
00:13:54.840We've been watching the president kick off his reelection bid.
00:13:58.400He's been on stage for about six minutes.
00:14:01.120Within two minutes, he did talk about the economy.
00:14:04.260But within four minutes, it was a tax on the media.
00:14:07.900So he was talking about a bright, rosy future, but then quickly reverted to some of the same themes he's been talking about since he began running four years ago today.
00:15:43.060It must be bizarre for the average CNN viewer, though, because, I mean, you get basically, and this is CNN and MSNBC,
00:15:48.120but you get basically this constant barrage that everyone is abandoning Trump and he has no supporters anymore.
00:15:55.960And you brought this up at the beginning.
00:15:57.280I mean, I don't think there's any question that Donald Trump has massively passionate supporters.
00:16:02.080Like, they have not, and the 90% of them plus have not faded from their passion for Donald Trump.
00:16:09.680The question is, does he have a large enough group of passionate people to win an election?
00:16:13.800And, obviously, that's going to be the answer that, you know, we're going to get that in 18 months.
00:16:18.180But, I mean, the idea that you're going to say that, like, he doesn't have these passionate supporters and that they don't care is, it's an asinine argument.
00:18:26.500This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:18:39.240You know, I didn't have a lot to say on Father's Day.
00:18:41.440Um, and I was, I was, I was, I was going to, and then, um, I didn't.
00:18:48.960As a, as a dad, I am working so hard to be a good dad and I fail so often.
00:18:53.800Um, but I'm trying to be, um, a better man every day.
00:19:03.660If you're a longtime listener to this program, you know that my dad and I didn't have a close relationship when I was growing up.
00:19:09.240Um, it was a very complicated family is a mess.
00:19:13.560Um, and then my dad and I got very close and he was my hero when my thirties and early forties, he was my hero.
00:19:20.840Uh, and then we had to confront abuse and my dad, uh, was revealed to me to be a monster.
00:19:32.360I mean, a monster and I've never talked about it and I will some, someday, but, um, I've had a very, very difficult time in the last few years dealing with this.
00:19:47.580And, um, and I thought my family was a shipwreck.
00:19:53.780We had a, we had a, uh, family therapist.
00:19:56.160We all went through therapy for this recently and, uh, she said, I've never, I've never seen a shipwreck of a family like this before.
00:20:02.880Just a, just an on the rock shipwreck.
00:20:07.120And, uh, there's always somebody who can show you a bigger shipwreck.
00:20:13.720It's called climbing out of the wreck and I picked it up and it's one of those books that it doesn't take too long to read and you start to pick it up and you are just, uh, you're amazed by the story.
00:20:26.000And you don't put the book down until you're finished.
00:20:28.940Uh, and it's also one of those books that you read and you're like, okay, please have a happy ending.
00:24:11.640But she twice, you know, twice in her life she tried to kill herself.
00:24:15.280And it was, you know, it's very painful now because I love my mother, you know.
00:24:20.260I hold on to the good parts of my mom.
00:24:24.960But, you know, these other things I want people to understand, I guess people like us, that, you know,
00:24:32.280when we go through something that we are scarred and we are traumatized and, you know,
00:24:38.480we are still fighting those scars and they kind of open up at times.
00:24:44.180Christine, I, because I went through this with my dad and I, my father was raped when he was young
00:24:52.900and had a horrible, horrible childhood.
00:24:56.480And so I, I attached compassion and I loved my dad and I loved my dad that he was working to conquer it.
00:25:05.180Um, and, uh, and at one point in his life he just gave up, uh, and it was about time he was about 70, 75 years old.
00:25:14.640He just gave up and he became an absolute monster.
00:25:18.300And, um, I, I'm, uh, I'm struggling, you know, it was with Tony Robbins and he reminded me of a lot of the good stuff my father taught me.
00:25:29.280And, uh, because I had forgotten some of those things or I dismissed those things because I just took my dad's teachings and everything and threw it out the window.
00:25:38.360And, uh, I just rejected everything as he said was, was a lie.
00:25:43.260And I'm starting to put those things in order again, but that's really difficult.
00:25:48.160Have you, have you, I, you know, I can, you know, there was, uh, there, well, I'll just break it down.
00:25:54.960And I went to visit, uh, my mother and my dad was there and this is, you know, I'm about 22, 23 at this time.
00:26:04.000I go in, I have a son at this point and he's a little boy and I go in there and I could tell my father was ready to attack me psychologically.
00:26:30.120And you know, you, what you taught me is not to be you within, you know, like I'd say less than 10 minutes.
00:26:36.700I got up, I walked out of the house with my son.
00:26:40.960I went to the car and I, you know, I was crying because it's pretty emotional when you have a parent attacking you like that, which I had all my life.
00:26:56.340And I thought to myself, being in that nightmare of that man that has abused me pretty much all my life.
00:27:04.460And then I go within 10 minutes to something that loves me and shows me I, I can do the right thing and live a great life.
00:27:12.340It really psychologically showed me I don't have to put up that person.
00:27:16.600I don't, I'm so much more than what this person would make me feel like garbage that I was able to go on to have, give life to somebody that loves me and adores me.
00:28:37.340And at one point, my mom picked up a steak knife.
00:28:40.940My mom would, in her rage, she would pick up knives and threaten, you know, my father or a kid screaming at us with them, that the officer came up to me and he bent down.
00:28:53.800He was like, are you okay, little girl?
00:28:55.920And the whole time I wanted to say, please take me with you.
00:29:03.260And people need to understand, children, why they do that is because we're scared to leave everything that we know, even though it might be a nightmare.
00:29:12.620It's like you went out of it, but then you realize I'll be taken, you know, from this home that I know, my siblings and my parents can be okay at times.
00:29:21.800And you hold on to those things, even though you're being abused.
00:29:27.860Christine, I would like to figure out a way, because I know you're keeping your identity.
00:29:32.160Because there's still, there's still problems with the family and everything else that are completely related.
00:29:37.240I would love to find a way to where we could keep your identity and I could sit down with a podcast and talk to you because there's, there's a lot of wisdom in your book.
00:29:46.780And the good thing is, is, you know, we, we just, we've just talked about the bad things.
00:29:52.660You did climb out of this wreck and not all of your siblings have.
00:29:57.040And, and I understand, I mean, it causes real problems with your siblings and, and it's just, you know, the walking on eggshells doesn't ever seem to end.
00:30:06.820Well, you know, like one of my sisters, you know, she's homeless.
00:30:15.680And the last time I saw her in a few years ago, I mean, I hate to say it this way, but, you know, teeth were missing out of her.
00:30:22.660She had holes in her face and I could barely really communicate with her.
00:30:27.720All she wanted was money to get more drugs.
00:30:31.000And I just had to stop the relationship.
00:30:34.060But she's very, I mean, violent kind of person.
00:30:38.080And she chose, you know, and my other siblings, the difference between myself and now two of my other sisters, we want a good life and we want to give it to our children.
00:30:48.420And we, you know, I realized if I stay a victim and angry, I'm just going to pass that on to my child.
00:30:58.500And I, you know, I ended up pregnant in my early 20s and I was in a situation, you know, I had no business because still I was working through all these issues and going through a lot.
00:31:11.940And my environment wasn't the greatest.
00:31:13.880And I remember I went to the doctor thinking I was sick and he said, Christine, you're pregnant.
00:31:35.760Now, religion and God wasn't a big thing in my family either.
00:31:40.760Actually, my father would put people that believed in religion down, saying that they were weak people when he actually was, you know, the sick person.
00:31:51.000But I started to pray, even though I didn't really know how to pray.
00:31:55.000I just started saying, if there's a God, I need guidance.