The Glenn Beck Program - August 06, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Clay Travis & Wade Miller ｜ 8⧸6⧸26


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00:00:28.340 go to go places. Terms apply. Great, great show. You should listen to the whole thing. But if you
00:00:37.320 only have a few minutes here, let me give you the best of. I talk about Perez Hilton. I didn't
00:00:43.240 talk about him yesterday because I didn't know exactly how to approach it and what to show and
00:00:48.420 what not to show. And so I went back to history and I found the answer. What's happening with
00:00:54.980 Perez Hilton is so disturbing and so sad. But we've been here before. And I want to tell you
00:01:02.920 and give you the historical pin on this one. It will change the way you look at exactly what is
00:01:10.240 happening with Perez Hilton. Also, I spoke to Wade Miller. Wade is, he's just written a great
00:01:17.940 piece for the Center for Renewing America on the Red-Green Alliance. And this is what I put on the
00:01:25.620 chalkboard in 2010. The Islamists and the Marxists and the communists and the radicals will all 0.95
00:01:32.280 gather together and work against Israel, the United States of America, capitalism to destroy 0.79
00:01:37.240 the Western way of life. It didn't have a name back then. It does now. It's called the Red-Green 0.74
00:01:41.980 alliance um and just yesterday the senate had a hearing on the effect of the muslim brotherhood 0.99
00:01:50.260 on our politics in america muslim brotherhood is really a nasty organization and the dsa you know 0.54
00:01:56.560 how many democrats showed up to for that hearing none none you need to understand what wade is 0.95
00:02:03.640 saying this is a civilizational killer and you need to understand and he has some things that
00:02:09.100 you can do um the the last thing uh is well i i i had clay travis on because
00:02:16.200 clay who is the host of the clay travis and buck sexton show right after my show on the
00:02:22.580 premier radio network uh he uh he's come up with a the most inclusive uh basketball team for the
00:02:31.360 NBA. It's called the Nashville Balls. And it would finally be men breaking the glass ceiling for
00:02:39.420 women. It's an all trans woman. Is that the right way to put it? They're men, but they're calling 1.00
00:02:46.320 themselves trans women, men, whatever. The Nashville Balls. And we talked to him about 0.87
00:02:52.680 that all of today's podcast.
00:03:01.360 You're listening to
00:03:03.720 The Best of the Glenn Beck Program
00:03:06.500 So it's Tuesday night, Miami
00:03:12.860 Perez Hilton
00:03:14.660 He's alone in his house
00:03:16.860 He's live on TikTok
00:03:18.240 I won't describe what happened next
00:03:20.680 Enough to say it's a horror show
00:03:22.900 An absolute horror show
00:03:23.980 He's cutting himself
00:03:26.160 And it looks demonic
00:03:28.160 It really does
00:03:28.820 He's covered in blood
00:03:30.540 And thousands of people watched it happen.
00:03:33.520 He's alive.
00:03:34.340 It's been verified.
00:03:35.340 It's not AI.
00:03:36.580 It's not a trick.
00:03:37.400 He's in the hospital.
00:03:38.740 All kinds of lacerations.
00:03:40.300 He's also undergoing psychiatric evaluation.
00:03:43.580 His family put out a statement asking for privacy and thanking people for their prayers.
00:03:47.800 His own manager said Wednesday they still have not been able to reach him.
00:03:51.860 Now, as I told you, for five months before Tuesday, this is the part that's worth your time.
00:03:57.480 In March, he got the flu.
00:03:58.860 He took his medication without food, and it burned a hole in his stomach.
00:04:03.940 Ulcer perforated.
00:04:06.060 He went septic and spent 21 days in a hospital in Las Vegas and nearly died twice.
00:04:12.240 He got a blood clot in his leg, another procedure.
00:04:15.680 So close to death twice.
00:04:17.780 He came out of that, and as I just played for, he told the world God had presented himself to him.
00:04:22.160 He was careful about the wording.
00:04:23.640 He said it was not a feeling.
00:04:24.920 He said he grew up Catholic, baptized, first communion, confirmed, seven years of Jesuit school.
00:04:30.560 That's a problem.
00:04:31.520 And then that he had never really been a believer until now.
00:04:35.540 And he said God had been calling out to him for years, and he no longer needed to hope.
00:04:41.740 He said, I have it.
00:04:42.880 And he said, I started to take my kids to church every single week.
00:04:46.400 Then he posted a nine-minute video apologizing.
00:04:49.300 This is a man who built his empire out of cruelty.
00:04:52.220 He made his money for 20 years
00:04:53.820 drawing on photographs of people's faces.
00:04:56.420 And he said, my mistakes are public.
00:04:58.920 The internet is forever.
00:05:00.480 Receipts are forever.
00:05:01.600 I carry deep regret and shame.
00:05:05.040 And then he publicly and privately
00:05:06.540 apologized to dozens of people.
00:05:08.540 And he said, there were still people out there
00:05:10.320 that wanted me to suffer and pay.
00:05:11.760 And he said, that's valid.
00:05:12.920 I earned those thoughts, but I forgive myself.
00:05:16.120 In June, he said, God told him to move to Miami.
00:05:18.920 And he took his three kids, all under 14,
00:05:21.580 back to the city where he grew up.
00:05:23.940 On July 22nd, on Instagram, he was grinning, reading Bible verses about the value of work,
00:05:30.120 joking that scripture says work, work, work, centuries before Rihanna said it, okay?
00:05:35.980 Monday, he posts something else about stepping away from the spotlight,
00:05:39.220 and he closed it by wishing well to anyone out there who is hurting.
00:05:43.400 Then, Tuesday night comes.
00:05:45.140 Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office start getting calls.
00:05:48.000 This is, this is, is this the case of illness?
00:05:52.260 Let me make that case.
00:05:54.360 Look at the load the man was carrying.
00:05:56.360 Septus that nearly killed him.
00:05:58.480 Three weeks in bed, emergency surgery, a clot, emergency surgery.
00:06:02.780 A single father of three small children with no second parent in the house tore up his life in Las Vegas after three and a half years, moves across the country.
00:06:10.680 Five weeks ago on camera, he tells his audience he's in a spiral, he's anxious, he's overwhelmed, he feels the devil is coming after him.
00:06:18.380 The body does things to the mind.
00:06:20.080 It does. Critical illness, septus, long ICU stays, they leave people in real cognitive and psychiatric damage, and it shows up sometimes weeks or months later.
00:06:30.060 Add sleeplessness, a move, no support system.
00:06:32.840 The man had just spent five months publicly excavating his 20 years of shame in front of his own audience.
00:06:42.760 Okay. Bad. Bad.
00:06:50.080 I'd say the same thing about a lot of what we're watching all the time.
00:06:55.380 The young man charged with shooting an insurance executive on the Manhattan sidewalk.
00:06:59.860 Young man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.
00:07:02.900 The men who went after President Trump.
00:07:05.260 When the mind arrives at a place where killing a stranger is the logical next step,
00:07:09.440 something in that mind has come apart.
00:07:12.960 Okay.
00:07:13.880 So we could leave it at that.
00:07:16.040 We could leave that this is medical.
00:07:17.720 Okay?
00:07:17.980 And it very well might be.
00:07:20.080 prosecutors, in those cases, argue ideology, not illness.
00:07:25.180 Manifestos, planning rehearsal, that isn't confusion, that's conviction, okay?
00:07:31.140 And I think all of this can be true, and that's the uncomfortable part.
00:07:35.280 Ideology doesn't create the sickness, it gives the sickness a target and a script,
00:07:40.960 and it hands a disordered mind a reason and a costume, okay?
00:07:45.940 now here's the part that people are going to get wrong one way or another okay and i'm not going
00:07:51.480 to tell you what's inside of his head i'm not going to tell you what's going on because i don't
00:07:56.380 know you don't know his doctors barely know anybody who goes on television or in podcasts
00:08:01.420 this week's and diagnoses either chemical or a demon in a stranger that you've never met
00:08:06.140 is selling you something i'm saying just pray for him whatever it is but i wanted to point something
00:08:11.740 out because of him but separate from him 15 minutes thousands of people some of them begged
00:08:20.440 him to stop some of them just hit record some of them reposted it specifically so it would outlive
00:08:27.920 the takedown and it did tiktok says its automated systems flagged the stream within minutes and then
00:08:34.400 routed it to human moderators and then in their words a moderator error caused a delay in the
00:08:39.180 removal a moderator error which means somebody had it up on a screen and they decided not to
00:08:46.360 stop it a man bleeding an audience and a machine engineered to gather the crowd and hold it there
00:08:53.520 you can call that technology if you want but it's the oldest architecture in the history of man
00:09:00.540 and we've been here before i really wrestled with the reason why i didn't talk about this
00:09:06.680 yesterday's because i really wrestled with this i went back to augustine 1600 years ago augustine
00:09:12.620 writes down what happened to his best friend his name was alipias he was young gifted studying law
00:09:20.700 in rome one afternoon all of his friends grab him and drag him to the coliseum for the games and he
00:09:26.620 fought them the whole way he said you can haul my body into that place but you cannot make me watch
00:09:31.600 it i will be there but i will be absent and he sat down in the amphitheater and he shut his eyes
00:09:37.760 then something really gruesome happened man goes down in the sand in the sand and the entire
00:09:45.040 crowd roars at once and alipias opens his eyes augustine says his friend took a wound in the
00:09:55.220 soul deeper than the wound the fighter took in his body. And he drank it in. He was not the man
00:10:02.240 who had walked through that gate. He was now one of the crowd. And he came back to the crowd,
00:10:09.760 to the Colosseum. And the next time he brought other people with him.
00:10:17.080 Notice what got him. Not the men who dragged him, not the gladiator. It was the roar of the crowd
00:10:25.120 that got him.
00:10:26.500 What got him was the belief
00:10:27.940 that he could sit in that room
00:10:29.640 and not be in that room.
00:10:34.840 Tuesday night,
00:10:35.660 there were thousands of people
00:10:36.720 in that room.
00:10:38.900 Read what they wrote afterwards.
00:10:44.200 I didn't go looking for it.
00:10:45.780 I wish I wouldn't have seen it.
00:10:49.860 It's my job to see things
00:10:51.440 and then decide
00:10:52.140 what do I show you.
00:10:55.860 But I'll tell you, 1,600 years, the only thing that has changed
00:10:59.320 is that the amphitheater fits in your hand,
00:11:03.500 that the Colosseum is in your hand, and it never closes.
00:11:11.000 So make the case for evil.
00:11:13.360 I think you can make the case that evil is on a rampage.
00:11:16.240 I think I have friends who are being affected by the dark side.
00:11:20.560 and they all are friends that have just found christianity or found god and i have warned one
00:11:30.020 of my friends when he said you know i just started reading the bible i said please be careful
00:11:34.360 please be careful read it pray listen to him read the words but be careful what comes around you
00:11:43.220 because you have a very strong voice,
00:11:45.760 and Satan does not want your voice right now preaching God.
00:11:51.560 Be very careful because you will come under attack
00:11:54.460 in ways you cannot understand.
00:11:57.100 I know I have been there.
00:11:59.860 And when you least expect it, expect it.
00:12:04.060 I've been in a hospital once,
00:12:06.220 and they had me on so much medication,
00:12:09.280 and I was at a spiritual high when I went in.
00:12:11.660 I had to have some surgery done.
00:12:13.220 I was at a spiritual high and they, I have very high tolerance.
00:12:17.520 You know, I'll, I'll drink you under the table.
00:12:19.860 I mean, I have such a high time.
00:12:21.920 I've woken up on the operating table twice.
00:12:23.900 They just can't keep me down.
00:12:26.000 Um, and, uh, they couldn't keep me out of pain.
00:12:29.160 And so they gave me fentanyl and, um, morphine and all kinds of this cocktail that should
00:12:36.680 have killed me.
00:12:37.940 But I was in the hospital from a spiritual high in 24 hours.
00:12:42.060 I would have thrown myself out of the window
00:12:44.680 because now this could be spiritual, I believe it was,
00:12:48.920 could be just medication.
00:12:50.900 But I swear to you, I heard,
00:12:52.820 you think you know how I can destroy you? 1.00
00:12:54.980 I will destroy your family and take it apart piece by piece. 0.99
00:13:00.960 And in some ways, that has happened to my family. 0.99
00:13:05.780 But I would have thrown myself out of that window.
00:13:12.820 I'm telling you, I believe God is real.
00:13:16.100 But I believe Satan is just as real.
00:13:19.200 And we are now in the battle of the big boys.
00:13:23.860 And we can choose a side.
00:13:31.000 I don't know if Perez, something had taken hold of him or not.
00:13:36.040 Maybe it was just sickness that had taken hold of him.
00:13:38.640 I have no idea, neither do you.
00:13:42.060 that's why I decided not to talk about him.
00:13:45.860 I want to talk about, we've been here before.
00:13:51.520 We're a civilization that is rebuilding the Colosseum,
00:13:54.640 and we put it into every pocket of our children's clothes.
00:14:00.860 We keep it open for 24 hours, and we call the roar engagement.
00:14:05.800 If you don't believe in evil, just call it an incentive structure.
00:14:13.100 Because the behavior is identical either way.
00:14:16.780 That's rather the point.
00:14:23.500 And believers, hear me, because we get this backward more often than not sometimes, I think.
00:14:29.560 The temptation is to look at a suffering man and see a demon.
00:14:32.780 And look at a sick man and see a sinner.
00:14:35.800 Devil doesn't need to possess anybody to win Tuesday night.
00:14:39.040 He just needs 15 minutes in a crowd that just can't look away.
00:14:45.820 So let me give you three things, and I'm done here.
00:14:48.740 Don't watch it.
00:14:50.360 Don't share it.
00:14:52.020 Don't click on the repost that's captioned.
00:14:54.580 You can't believe this.
00:14:56.680 You can't shut down the amphitheater,
00:14:59.140 but you can decline to be part of the roar.
00:15:01.840 and that's the only vote that any of us get.
00:15:08.160 Second, if somebody tells you God showed up
00:15:09.920 in their hospital room, that's not a symptom.
00:15:12.360 Take them at their word, but keep watching them anyway. 0.97
00:15:16.900 Conversion is not immunity.
00:15:20.380 A real encounter with God does not exempt anyone
00:15:22.860 from a body that has been through hell
00:15:24.900 and some of the most serious believers I've ever known
00:15:28.000 have also needed doctors in bad ways.
00:15:31.840 Those two sentences are not inclined conflict.
00:15:35.580 God is a healer.
00:15:37.000 God is a scientist.
00:15:38.680 We have all of the capability.
00:15:40.780 We can heal through our hands to some degree by using his power,
00:15:46.320 him channeling through us.
00:15:49.820 But we also need doctors.
00:15:53.160 We've spent centuries now pretending one of them cancels out the other.
00:15:56.660 It doesn't.
00:15:57.740 And the third thing is pray for him.
00:16:00.420 Pray harder for the three kids who are under 14,
00:16:03.960 who are now going to grow up in a world
00:16:05.880 where the worst night of their father's life
00:16:07.960 is a file that somebody saved.
00:16:12.420 Pray for all of those who are in positions
00:16:15.640 and have future positions that they might not even know about
00:16:20.860 that are under attack.
00:16:23.400 And then put down the device
00:16:26.720 and pick it up when you've decided you're going to call that person
00:16:31.900 you've been meaning to call for three weeks
00:16:33.700 because somebody was in that live stream chat begging a stranger to stop.
00:16:40.920 There's very likely somebody closer to you
00:16:44.060 that is waiting for a much smaller thing.
00:16:50.660 You know, I was praying for the Lord to inspire me the other day.
00:16:56.720 I said, please, Lord, let me hear what people need to hear.
00:17:00.800 And he always responds with something.
00:17:03.000 It's never about politics or anything else.
00:17:06.600 It's always personal.
00:17:15.540 And what I got that day, and I shared it with the insider is,
00:17:19.100 and I want to share it now because I feel prompted to do it.
00:17:21.700 You're okay.
00:17:23.060 You're okay.
00:17:23.720 I don't know who this is for.
00:17:25.000 Maybe it's for you.
00:17:26.420 You're okay.
00:17:28.220 There is a way out.
00:17:30.580 Your life isn't over.
00:17:31.960 You haven't made too many bad mistakes.
00:17:34.260 There is forgiveness.
00:17:35.660 You're not too far gone.
00:17:38.040 There are those who you don't know who are rooting for you.
00:17:43.320 And I know that God is one of them.
00:17:48.580 Believe it.
00:17:50.400 More in a minute.
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00:19:06.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:19:13.180 There are two organizations that I think are the major thought leaders in Washington right now that have done more than any other group out there.
00:19:23.300 There's two of them, and I put one of those is the Center for Renewing America, and I would include Citizens for Renewing America as well.
00:19:33.080 The executive director for both of those who has been a longtime supporter and working at the side of Russ Vogt, who I love.
00:19:42.320 He's our OMB director.
00:19:45.780 He is the executive director of both of those, the Center and the Citizens for Renewing America.
00:19:50.440 He's just written an essay, if you will, or a white paper on the Red-Green Alliance.
00:19:56.000 I read it the other day, and I think it is so important that you hear it because what I put on a chalkboard now is proven to be true by people who are much smarter than I am.
00:20:06.680 And Wade is one of those people.
00:20:08.080 Wade, welcome to the program.
00:20:09.140 Glad to have you.
00:20:10.700 Thanks for having me on.
00:20:11.560 And a lot of your work over the years has bled into what went into that white paper.
00:20:15.760 You did talk about this long before anyone else did.
00:20:18.160 So thank you for that.
00:20:19.120 you're welcome um you know i'm just glad that it has a name now um the red for the communist
00:20:26.720 the green for the islamist um and you know if i would have known history especially of 1920 or
00:20:34.420 1979 it would i would have had an answer for that and now we know that because of people like you 0.96
00:20:41.680 tell me tell me what this alliance is and why it is so dangerous even for the people who are in it
00:20:49.800 So it's, you know, the paper goes into much more detail, of course, but it's essentially a fusion of the Marxist left and the Islamist movement, you know, doctrinal Islam, as I would really define it.
00:21:05.180 And so these two forces, yes, and these two forces basically have every single barrier and every single goal shy of their in-state desire is virtually the same.
00:21:17.600 So there is a political convenience to them both aligning and working together because it requires the toppling of Western civilization, of capitalism, etc. 0.86
00:21:26.960 Now, of course, at the end of this, what the Marxists never really quite figure out is that once they've achieved their goals, the Islamists kill them. 0.93
00:21:36.800 They execute them. They get them out of the way. 0.96
00:21:39.760 So it's not a durable alliance. It's a short-term means to an end.
00:21:45.600 And I think that at the end of the day, the Islamists are playing the Marxists. 0.90
00:21:49.280 And you see this manifesting itself in the form of Mamdani, who's kind of both. 0.89
00:21:54.800 He's a Marxist and an Islamist.
00:21:56.380 But you see people out there like Hassan Piker and other Islamists out there who are saying a lot of things. 0.79
00:22:01.700 And I think that fundamentally the mistake we made, and some of it's understandable at the turn of the century, which is weird to say, but at the turn of the century, the focus was on Islamic terrorism. 0.66
00:22:12.700 And when the focus is on Islamic terrorism, that's 3% to 5% of the population.
00:22:19.280 And so then, therefore, the other 95% becomes victims, and they become asylum seekers, they become refugees, they're displaced, they get sent to Europe, they get sent to the United States. 0.93
00:22:30.080 And so now, in the last 20 years, almost incomprehensibly, we have a large population of Islamists. 0.88
00:22:37.180 And the problem is that Islam is radicalized culturally. 0.88
00:22:41.880 It does not align with classical liberalism. It's a conquering ideology. It seeks to displace 0.65
00:22:47.760 our system and replace it with Sharia and its own religious political ideology. And so, you know, 0.99
00:22:55.000 that form of radicalism looks different if they're not a terrorist per se. So, for instance,
00:23:01.900 you know, if you believe that if you leave the religion of Islam, that you should be tried in 1.00
00:23:06.760 a court, you know, you get due process, you get a lawyer, but you should be found guilty in the 0.98
00:23:11.380 sentence for that should be death, you don't belong in America. You never should have been
00:23:15.740 allowed in America in the first place. And so we have this radicalized cultural Islamist movement 0.98
00:23:20.820 that is in league with the Marxist left. And of course, now we're seeing all of these DSA 0.89
00:23:26.460 candidates pop out of the woodwork for the left and they're winning elections in Democrat primaries.
00:23:31.220 And so we're seeing a surge of this entire movement. 0.95
00:23:35.000 So yesterday, Congress or the Senate held a hearing on the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a nasty green organization. 0.98
00:23:46.800 The influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the DSA. 0.99
00:23:51.760 Not a single Democrat showed up for that hearing.
00:23:55.880 That should tell you something, shouldn't it?
00:23:58.780 Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:59.900 And the unwillingness, frankly, even of our side in many respects, to admit that the problem is much bigger than 3% to 5% or even acknowledge that there's a problem, even if it's just 3% to 5%, which is way more than that.
00:24:12.820 The left won't even acknowledge the 3% to 5% and try to address that through public policy and national security means.
00:24:18.800 They ignore it.
00:24:19.600 They'll call you a bigot for highlighting it.
00:24:21.220 But the problem is that the radicalism is way more than that.
00:24:25.080 And it could be 80% of the population that's just not suitable.
00:24:27.960 But our side is politically unwilling to admit that. And I understand that, you know, the average person is not yet quite willing to say that it could be 80 percent of the population that's radicalized, that has been coming over in recent decades.
00:24:42.200 But first, you have to admit you have a problem and then you can start talking about the solutions.
00:24:46.580 And the white paper we wrote was just admitting we have a problem.
00:24:49.700 What comes after that is we need to start working with our allies on Capitol Hill and state legislatures to figure out what is the policy solution to this?
00:24:57.560 And the problem we're going to run into, Glenn, is that a lot of people on our side will say, well, the First Amendment and free speech.
00:25:05.800 Well, the answer to a conquering ideology in our domestic space cannot be that we have no recourse and that we just have to allow it to happen.
00:25:16.440 I'm also not saying that we should violate the First Amendment or religious liberty. 0.93
00:25:19.540 But I think that we have to figure out how do we treat Islam as a political ideology, unlike Sikhs, Judaism, Christianity, etc. 0.99
00:25:27.560 To me, this is really easy. It is not simply a religion. If you want to practice your religion, that's fine. But if your religion teaches that the Constitution must be replaced, now it is a political organization.
00:25:43.120 You're now saying it's a system of governance. I'm sorry, but that's incompatible. I mean,
00:25:49.600 you say in your brief, Red-Green Alliance is an existential threat to the republic,
00:25:54.660 uniting neo-Marxists and radical Islamists around the shared goal of destroying America's
00:26:00.080 constitutional order, capitalism, and Western Christian tradition. How can we continue to let
00:26:06.680 people serve, if that's their goal, when they are standing there taking an oath to protect
00:26:13.700 and defend the Constitution of the United States, if their goal is to overthrow the Constitution.
00:26:19.840 I agree. And I've publicly said that I think that these DSA candidates who are specifically saying
00:26:25.320 that, that we should refuse to seat them. That's fundamentally different than AOC,
00:26:29.640 who we just disagree with, and we think that she's wrong on virtually everything.
00:26:33.120 But even AOC is careful not to say that we should overthrow the Constitution generally.
00:26:37.280 I mean, if we dig deep, maybe we can find that.
00:26:39.360 But these new candidates, they just proudly proclaim it all over the place.
00:26:43.580 And I think that Congress should just refuse to seat them if they do, in fact, end up winning
00:26:48.140 their primaries.
00:26:48.980 We have to draw a line in the sand somewhere.
00:26:51.360 And I think that it is a relatively easy line to draw to say, if you're overtly arguing
00:26:57.020 to destroy Western civilization
00:26:58.940 in the Constitution,
00:27:00.260 you cannot take a place on the floor
00:27:02.840 and vote on legislation
00:27:03.960 affecting Americans.
00:27:05.980 So I found good news 1.00
00:27:08.280 in El-Sayed's victory 1.00
00:27:11.200 because it was predicted
00:27:13.220 to be just a wildfire.
00:27:15.640 He's going to just,
00:27:16.700 and it wasn't.
00:27:17.320 It was within, I think,
00:27:18.560 14,000 points in the end
00:27:20.360 when they stopped counting.
00:27:23.480 So I find some good news
00:27:26.260 that maybe the Democrats are not all sold on this.
00:27:30.360 And if you look at the numbers,
00:27:31.960 it's all intellectuals and white rich people 0.76
00:27:35.480 that voted for El Sayed, along with the Muslims.
00:27:40.100 The working class, they didn't vote for that. 0.98
00:27:44.380 So are you seeing signs of hope on this
00:27:47.120 that maybe Democrats are going to wake up to this?
00:27:50.740 Yeah, I mean, I think that if you're
00:27:52.140 a left Hispanic family Christian,
00:27:55.200 you see this, you're horrified. I think that if you are a left black family Christian, 0.79
00:28:01.800 you're horrified by this. And I think that ultimately at the end of the day,
00:28:04.920 those families are going to increasingly vote their interests and they may not vote for
00:28:09.240 Republicans, but I think they're going to choose a rational, more rational and moderate Democrat
00:28:14.380 voices. I mean, even James Carville is kind of apoplectic at what's happening to his party right
00:28:20.000 now. And Elon has been saying this for years now that the Overton window is just moving so far to
00:28:24.980 the left, that what used to be a centrist is now considered radical right. And I think that that's
00:28:29.500 playing out in politics as we see it. But, you know, we can't rest on our laurels that their
00:28:36.200 own radicalism will just self-destruct itself and that we can just wait. I think that we have
00:28:41.800 to proactively go out there and make the argument against it. Okay. So I want to talk to you about,
00:28:48.840 I mean, you said, and we're not going to have time to go into it. Let me just say, you say
00:28:52.180 that there is a three-headed hydra,
00:28:53.860 the enablers, which are the influencers in the media,
00:28:56.780 the legitimizers, intellectuals and institutions,
00:28:59.700 and the backers, the financial networks.
00:29:01.940 So you get into, in your paper,
00:29:05.640 how we can dismantle or kill this three-headed hydra.
00:29:08.820 I want to get into that more in just a moment.
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00:30:27.420 I really want to save some time
00:30:40.720 so at the end of the hour,
00:30:42.660 Jason can take us through
00:30:44.340 some of the information that we have
00:30:46.640 coming out from the election
00:30:47.920 on who voted for El-Sayed.
00:30:50.380 When you look at it,
00:30:51.580 it's kind of critical information.
00:30:53.980 We'll get to that here in just a few minutes.
00:30:56.320 Also, on a personal note, I'm going to be taking the next two weeks off.
00:30:59.780 I'm leaving in just about an hour or so.
00:31:02.900 And I won't be chronicling this in real time because we'll be in some places that I just don't need people to know that I'm there while we're there.
00:31:14.840 And I'm taking my family.
00:31:16.340 I'm not concerned about my kids.
00:31:18.380 I want to strengthen my kids because I hear from them all the time what they hear from their friends.
00:31:24.700 And they're hearing stuff about socialism and America and everything that is just so wrong.
00:31:32.600 And I just want to do everything I can to strengthen them.
00:31:36.400 And so I'm taking two weeks off, which I almost never do.
00:31:40.540 But I'm taking two weeks off because I want to spend it with my kids.
00:31:44.500 and I'll share what I've learned from them
00:31:48.580 and maybe I can help you with your kids
00:31:52.840 when I get back after I've learned
00:31:55.560 and hopefully they've learned a few things.
00:31:58.220 But pray for the family.
00:31:59.500 If you'd pray for the safety of my family, I'd appreciate it.
00:32:02.160 We're traveling with a whole bunch of security,
00:32:04.080 but you just never know.
00:32:05.800 Just pray for the guidance of the spirit the whole time
00:32:09.260 and pray for my children as well.
00:32:11.480 I want to bring in Clay Travis.
00:32:13.380 He is part of the Clay and Buck show that follows this program on the
00:32:19.320 premier radio networks.
00:32:21.220 And I want to bring him in because to me, this is kind of like Friday.
00:32:24.660 I'm, I'm leaving tomorrow.
00:32:25.740 I won't be here tomorrow.
00:32:26.700 And I think he had the idea of the week, maybe the month,
00:32:30.020 maybe the year.
00:32:31.860 And everybody's been talking about boys and women's sports and the WNBA.
00:32:39.140 And he's just come up with the Nashville balls.
00:32:42.300 and he said i wanted an all trans team so it's only men who are women now um because he said 0.69
00:32:52.500 we'll win every championship and then maybe i'll prove maybe we'll prove the point but we'll prove
00:32:57.200 the point we'll make a lot of money doing you know i just love it clay is with us now clay how are
00:33:02.840 you i'm doing great uh i hope that you and your family have a uh have a good trip um but uh i
00:33:10.880 would love at some point if we could get you courtside seats to see the nashville balls uh
00:33:15.840 the most inclusive team in the history uh in the history i would be glad to sit on the court side
00:33:22.480 for that i would be very happy to do that uh yeah look um i'm calling the bluff here uh if you're
00:33:30.420 wondering if you're out there and you haven't heard some of the news since sophie cunningham
00:33:35.060 uh player for the indiana fever came out and said men should not be able to play in women's sports
00:33:40.300 which is not a particularly radical proposition, there has been a lot of talk and many different
00:33:46.040 WNBA coaches, Glenn, actually came out and they said, what we think men should be able to identify
00:33:54.120 as women and play in this league. And as a staunch supporter of inclusion, diversity, equity as well,
00:34:02.560 I said, well, what is the best thing that I could do to follow the logic of this? To me,
00:34:08.300 it is to have an all-trans team, Nashville Balls expansion franchise in the WNBA. We will be the
00:34:16.680 first all-male identifying as women team. We are very pro-trans, incredibly inclusive.
00:34:24.380 Our slogan, you'll like this, Glenn, is one love, one love, two balls. And our very understated, 0.96
00:34:34.920 as you were showing it a little bit earlier on video,
00:34:37.060 but for people who haven't seen it,
00:34:38.720 Logo is a basketball hoop with two different balls going through the net.
00:34:45.280 And look, I just think it would be the greatest dynasty of all time.
00:34:48.660 Move over John Wooden's UCLA Bruins.
00:34:51.560 Move over Bill Russell, Michael Jordan.
00:34:54.160 We've got something for you.
00:34:55.820 We would be not only, I think,
00:34:58.180 the greatest professional sports franchise of all time.
00:35:00.980 I don't think we would lose a game.
00:35:02.260 Some games we might win without giving up a basket, which is unheard of in basketball. 0.98
00:35:07.880 Wasn't there like a kids team that played against the WNBA or a female team? 0.97
00:35:17.100 What was that story?
00:35:18.400 Yeah, the story is the U.S. women's soccer team, which won the World Cup, the best soccer team in the world.
00:35:25.060 They lost 5-2, Glenn, to a team of under 15-year-old boys in Dallas, Texas. 0.89
00:35:33.440 Not the best 15-year-old boys in the country.
00:35:36.840 And remember, under 15 means a lot of those kids are 14.
00:35:40.680 They lost 5-2 to the best soccer players in Texas.
00:35:44.700 And so all of this kind of comes together.
00:35:48.040 And look, I just think sometimes you have to, and this is my natural state here, Glenn,
00:35:54.500 is sometimes you have to follow absurdity with more absurdity
00:35:58.340 and actually call these people on the logic that underpins what they would suggest.
00:36:04.260 And so if you're going to argue that a man can identify as a woman
00:36:07.520 and play in the WNBA, which is the Women's National Basketball Association,
00:36:11.780 then I think we should just have a whole team of trans guys.
00:36:15.120 By the way, this is happening in France.
00:36:17.880 It's happening in France.
00:36:19.100 I've got to tell you, if they would take you up on this,
00:36:21.460 i know i know you're making a point but you're also probably very serious as well you put 10
00:36:27.940 million dollars up i would join you in this venture if they would do it because it they would
00:36:33.660 win every time they would win every single game yes every time and they wouldn't the games wouldn't
00:36:41.180 be remotely close and look ultimately what why will they why will they not just say hey uh the 1.00
00:36:48.300 WNBA is only for women, right? To their credit, the WTA has finally said it's the Women Tennis
00:36:53.360 Association. They have said it in the Olympics. They've said it in the NCAA, thanks to President
00:37:01.260 Trump. It's because they are committed so much to the left-wing idea that the trans agenda can
00:37:08.120 create women out of men that they are not willing to say a basic biological truth. And if you're
00:37:15.540 not willing to do that, then I think the natural results should follow, which is men who identify
00:37:21.440 as women should be able to compete in the Women's Professional Sports League. And I think, Glenn,
00:37:27.540 they would obliterate all of the women in this sport. I don't think it would be remotely close. 1.00
00:37:33.900 I think you could go all the way down, by the way. As soon as you get testosterone, as you well know,
00:37:38.300 as everybody out there who's ever raised a boy knows, it changes the game substantially. Heck,
00:37:43.980 if you've ever coached, if you've got a kid in 13 U that already has a mustache,
00:37:49.600 I mean, he's going to be a lot better than most of the other 13-year-olds.
00:37:52.880 And so I think you can get an eighth grade boys team
00:37:54.780 that would beat the best WNBA team, a team of WNBA All-Stars.
00:37:59.040 I don't even think some of those games would be remotely close.
00:38:02.460 So can I ask you, I've not been able to figure out
00:38:06.340 why Caitlin Clark is not supporting Sophie Cunningham.
00:38:10.220 Why has that not been a dynamic duo here?
00:38:13.980 I, so I'll defend Caitlin Clark in this way, Glenn, you and I, and most of your listeners
00:38:19.140 out there, we grew up and watched and loved sports in the eighties and the nineties, what
00:38:24.300 I would call the Jordan era of basketball.
00:38:27.120 Jordan's most famous quote in my mind, I wrote a book with this title is Republicans
00:38:31.740 buy sneakers too.
00:38:32.940 And I think Michael Jordan's perspective, and it was followed by Tiger Woods in golf,
00:38:37.020 and it was followed by Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, a lot of other big time athletes was
00:38:41.420 I'm not going to get involved in politics. I want everybody, Republicans, Democrats,
00:38:46.200 independents, to be able to be fans of my brand. Republicans buy sneakers, too. I think Caitlin
00:38:52.320 Clark is rejecting, in many ways, the LeBron era, which is you need to know everything that I think
00:38:58.600 about politics, which has, I think, made him incredibly polarizing. And instead, she's trying
00:39:03.500 to go back to the Jordan Tiger Woods era of appealing to everyone. And Glenn, the example
00:39:08.480 of this I would give is she was asked who she was going to vote for in the 2024 presidential
00:39:14.420 election, Kamala or Trump. And she said she didn't want to answer. She didn't think it was
00:39:18.600 her business to tell people what her politics were. And so I think what has actually happened
00:39:24.520 here is the WNBA has put a lot of coaches and players in tough spots who may well agree with us
00:39:29.700 on the absurdity of this premise. All they have to do, and she said this basically in her answer,
00:39:34.760 is that's a question for the league. And the league, the commissioner, should, if they had
00:39:40.900 any backbone at all, come out and just say, hey, this is a league for women. If you are born male, 0.93
00:39:48.100 you can pursue life to the furthest of your happiness as you desire. You cannot become a 0.95
00:39:53.880 women's basketball player. They haven't said it. They won't say it, I think, because the league 1.00
00:39:57.980 itself is committed to identity politics. But I do think that that is the reason why she has
00:40:05.060 avoided joining Sophie Cunningham on her side. That makes total sense. Total sense. I just feel
00:40:12.460 like, you know, Caitlin's been, you know, just pounded in the head for so long. And you would
00:40:19.360 think when you'd see somebody else being pounded in the head, it would just be your instinct to go
00:40:24.720 say, hey, knock it off. I don't have to agree, but knock it off. This isn't right.
00:40:29.820 Yeah, I agree. And the argument you can also make is that this goes to the very essence of sport
00:40:35.620 itself. And look, I don't know how many far left wingers, to be fair, are Caitlin Clark fans,
00:40:41.920 right? Maybe there are some. I think her base, if I were sitting down and talking with her,
00:40:48.240 I would say, look, your base is Trump America, whether you like it or not. And also a lot of
00:40:53.380 other sane people. Because remember, Glenn, this is an 80-20 issue nationwide. I actually think
00:40:59.280 it's a 95-5 issue for sports fans. I think the 5% who are Looney Bin members get a lot of attention. 0.99
00:41:06.340 But I think for men, nobody makes this argument. There isn't a dad in America listening to you 0.90
00:41:11.800 right now who thinks that a grown man should be able to compete against his daughter or his
00:41:16.740 granddaughter. That's just lunacy. And so I think that's Caitlin Clark's base. Are there some
00:41:22.800 left-wingers who are also caitlin clark fans maybe uh but i actually don't if i were advising her i
00:41:28.740 understand the perspective of i'm just going to avoid all politics because if you answer this
00:41:33.020 next thing you know people are asking you what you think about every every issue uh but i think 0.66
00:41:37.840 her base is actually would overwhelmingly support her if she said yeah this is only for women 0.96
00:41:43.000 one more thing because i know you got to go get ready for the show because you're on here and 1.00
00:41:47.340 right after my show on premiere. Um, but, uh, what do you think of the, the coaches that are
00:41:54.140 now saying that, you know, men are going to start coming and taking their jobs and men shouldn't be
00:41:59.200 coaches for the WNBA. And yet while simultaneous, yeah. Well, simultaneously, I mean, that's
00:42:06.320 insanity. Yes. Well, I mean, I think what it goes to is you ultimately paint yourself into a corner
00:42:12.880 if you follow full left-wing ideals, right?
00:42:16.540 Because, I mean, you can take it outside 1.00
00:42:18.360 of this gender ridiculousness. 0.97
00:42:21.180 You know, if I said to you right now, Glenn, 1.00
00:42:23.040 I have an important announcement to make,
00:42:25.380 I am now a black woman.
00:42:27.300 On the left, they would have to say,
00:42:30.540 welcome to womanhood, Clay Travis. 0.92
00:42:33.060 We are excited to have you. 0.99
00:42:34.720 Your beard makes you look even more feminine 0.97
00:42:36.700 than we thought you ever might.
00:42:38.500 They would then say that I am a racist,
00:42:40.520 culturally appropriating uh for saying that i'm black so i think for i mean again this is what 0.73
00:42:46.860 their logic is right so i think for most people out there if you said what is more defining of
00:42:52.840 you your gender or your race people find out they're different race than they thought they
00:42:57.780 were all the time with the dna testing going on right now nobody ever finds out like i think i
00:43:03.660 have a lot but personally i bet you would sign on with this too i think men you know i have a lot
00:43:08.240 more in common with Black, Asian, and Hispanic men, I think, than I do with white women,
00:43:13.340 because gender to me is more of a definite defining characteristics than race is, right?
00:43:19.320 Doesn't mean you can't have a lot in common with a lot of different people of all different
00:43:22.120 backgrounds. But if you were going to say, which is a bigger deal to change, your gender or your
00:43:28.440 race, I think most people would have to say your gender, right? I mean, that's far more transformative
00:43:33.480 conservative than your race. Yet in the left, if you change your race, you're racist and you're
00:43:38.300 assimilating and you have to be canceled. Uh, but if you change your gender, you're a hero and it
00:43:43.080 must be immediately affirmed. Yeah. Is everybody hearing his white privilege there? Yeah. I think 1.00
00:43:48.360 I heard it. I think I heard it. Clay, it's good to talk to you, my man. Thank you so much.
00:43:51.760 Hey, appreciate it. Keep up the good word, Glenn. Have a good trip with your family and stay safe.
00:43:56.180 God bless. Say hi to Buck for me. Clay Travis, uh, Outkick founder, uh, and also co-host,
00:44:01.260 co-host of the Clay and Buck show that is on the premier radio network immediately following this
00:44:07.600 one. By the way, if you did not hear the show yesterday, the after show, it is now on demand.
00:44:15.620 It is something that I believe I'm not doing it on the regular show. I'm going to do it in bits
00:44:21.600 and pieces because it is, it is something that requires a little bit of thinking. It requires
00:44:29.760 real deep thought and explanation
00:44:32.920 on it, but it's what
00:44:34.860 happens when the past disappears.
00:44:37.260 And I show you that this has
00:44:38.820 been done before in history
00:44:40.640 and it is
00:44:42.600 stunning. It is stunning what
00:44:44.740 was said in 600
00:44:46.320 that's being said today.
00:44:49.120 Exact same thing. Just
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