The Glenn Beck Program - September 29, 2026


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00:00:00 Lots to talk about today.
00:00:04 On the full show, we give you a lot of economic news, and some of it's really good.
00:00:07 I give you a look at something that nobody is talking about, and that is the pain that
00:00:15 the entire staff of The New York Times must have gone through to say, maybe what Trump
00:00:19 is doing in Iran is working.
00:00:22 Also, we talk about the steel mills that are being rebuilt.
00:00:25 Too big to question.
00:00:27 This is a really important story for AI and Donald Johnson, the guy that we told you a story about yesterday, the 81-year-old man.
00:00:38 We talked to him today and got the real story.
00:00:40 He really could use your help.
00:00:42 Make sure you listen to all of today's podcast.
00:00:44 you're listening to the best of the blend back program
00:00:57 uh welcome to the uh program glad you're here sorry i gotta take a little alivert
00:01:06 because my my i don't know what i'm allergic to there's nothing growing
00:01:12 i'm allergic to something um all right welcome to the program i want to i want to give you some
00:01:18 more news that i think is good news but it's a wait and see kind of thing look
00:01:24 i i want to tell you um i'm gonna tell you something i don't know why this show is successful
00:01:35 i'm not sure other people will tell you this um i'm not going to carry water for anybody i'm not
00:01:41 going to carry water for the administration or the Republicans or anything else. I'm going to
00:01:44 tell you the truth. And I'm going to be hopeful. I like the president. I think he's doing a great
00:01:49 job. And so when he's doing things that haven't, you know, turned the corner yet, I'm going to be
00:01:54 hopeful, but I'm not going to tell you that, you know, I'm not going to tell you something I don't
00:01:58 believe. And I also, I have so left the click and the audience building mania behind, I don't
00:02:14 care. And I haven't cared in a very, very long time about, oh, I've got to be number one. We
00:02:22 have to be first on this. I don't really care. If I chase that, I will chase the wrong things.
00:02:28 And this has been my philosophy for a long time.
00:02:30 I will chase the wrong things, and we will become everything that I despise.
00:02:36 My philosophy now is the country is just in so much trouble,
00:02:42 and I personally am so sick and tired of hearing clickbait.
00:02:47 I'm so tired of being tricked into a headline.
00:02:50 I'm so tired of somebody saying, I know this is exactly what's happening,
00:02:55 when they don't have any idea what's happening.
00:02:56 And so I am trying really hard not to be one of those guys because I think the most valuable thing that anyone can give to you is perspective, the facts, then perspective, and then on top of that say, but I don't know.
00:03:13 I could be wrong.
00:03:15 I'm not God.
00:03:16 I don't have a crystal ball.
00:03:19 In this world, everything is changing so quickly.
00:03:22 So I can tell you what I think this means today, and I'm going to be hopeful on what I think it means for tomorrow.
00:03:30 Let's stop with the game.
00:03:32 Okay, so let me tell you about the steel mills that came out yesterday.
00:03:37 I think this is a really good thing, but there's some caveats here.
00:03:41 Yesterday in the Oval Office, the president announced that the White House is now calling what will be the largest steel plant in American history.
00:03:51 is going to be built. $15 billion, Lee County, Iowa. That's in the bottom corner of the state
00:03:58 on the Mississippi, a couple of counties, and one county that has peaked at about 44,000 people in
00:04:05 1960 and has been shrinking ever since. So this is a good thing for this corner of the state.
00:04:11 The numbers, 5,000 to 6,000 construction jobs while it's being built, 1,750 permanent jobs
00:04:19 when it's running, plus about 350 at the mine in Minnesota that feeds it.
00:04:24 Now, that's a lot of great news.
00:04:27 Seven and a half million tons of steel a year at first, 10 million at full speed.
00:04:33 The White House says that's roughly a tenth of everything America made last year.
00:04:38 Out of one mine, steel is coming back to America.
00:04:43 Now, the ore is going to come out of the ground in Minnesota,
00:04:46 and then it's going to ride the rails south and it becomes steel in iowa including steel the
00:04:52 administration says will meet military standards so we're now i see i jason remember we talked
00:04:59 about this the other day that i think the president sees something that nobody else is
00:05:03 seeing and nobody's talking about it why would he say that including steel that meets military
00:05:09 standards. I think the president is seeing things coming down the pike. Okay. So mine to mill,
00:05:19 it will never leave the country. Now, who owns it? The name on the door is Mesabi,
00:05:27 Mesabi Metallics. It's a Minnesota company. The name behind the door is the SR Group.
00:05:34 It's a family conglomerate from India, founded in 1969 by two brothers named Ruia.
00:05:42 Now, the Commerce Secretary says SR is going to finance the steel plant and no direct, the keyword direct, no direct federal money will go into it.
00:05:53 But the mine is a different matter.
00:05:54 The Export-Import Bank, which is your government, is lending it $770 million.
00:06:03 could go as high as $10 billion.
00:06:08 Okay, $770 million to $10 billion.
00:06:13 That's quite a spread.
00:06:14 Anyway, Iowa lawmakers have been told they may be called back
00:06:18 to approve tax breaks to make this thing happen.
00:06:20 SR has been on the iron range before.
00:06:23 It broke ground on that same mine in Minnesota in 2008,
00:06:27 promised to finish it in 2013.
00:06:30 In 2016, its Minnesota company went bankrupt, owing more than a billion dollars.
00:06:36 Local contractors were left holding the unpaid invoices.
00:06:40 The state was out about $65 million in road and infrastructure money.
00:06:43 Its own bankrupt subsidiary sued the parent company, accusing it of siphoning off the project's funds.
00:06:50 It's an accusation. It's not a verdict.
00:06:52 We don't really know for sure because, I mean, everything is corrupt in Minnesota.
00:06:55 How do we know?
00:06:56 I don't want to get in bed with a corrupt company, but apparently there's enough out there that says that that didn't happen.
00:07:03 I don't know.
00:07:04 Minnesota has spent years trying to keep SR out.
00:07:09 SR bought its way back in, and then this month it actually delivered.
00:07:14 They bought themselves back in.
00:07:16 They went back into the mine, and on September 17th, they blasted loose 1.3 million tons of rock
00:07:23 and produce the first iron concentrate with pellets due next month.
00:07:29 So they're mining, mining, mining, mining, mining, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
00:07:34 nothing to go out of business, bankruptcy, they come back,
00:07:37 they blow up some rock, and they find the first iron ore.
00:07:41 So this is the first iron ore mine and pellet plant in America in 50 years.
00:07:47 So both things here are true.
00:07:50 Got to hold two things in one hand.
00:07:52 The guy's got to be able to walk and chew gum.
00:07:54 So two things are true.
00:07:55 The same people who left the range holding the bill came back and got it running.
00:08:01 So is this a big story?
00:08:03 Yes.
00:08:04 Huge story.
00:08:06 Caveat, if it gets built.
00:08:09 The first steal is 2030 after the next presidential election.
00:08:14 This announcement came 36 days before the election,
00:08:17 with IR Republicans in tight races standing around the desk.
00:08:22 $95 billion in economic activity is the White House's own estimate spread over a decade.
00:08:29 An announcement is not a mill, just ask Minnesota.
00:08:32 The plant exists because of a 50% tariff on foreign steel.
00:08:38 The administration says so itself.
00:08:41 If that tariff is lifted, then what happens to this mill?
00:08:46 The tariff is also paid for by every American who buys a washing machine, a pickup, or a steel beam.
00:08:54 And for 40 years, our side said government couldn't pick winners.
00:08:58 But the government bank, you know, lending three quarters of a billion dollars to one company, I think is picking a winner here.
00:09:04 But maybe it's a good one, but let's at least call it what it is.
00:09:08 So here's why it matters.
00:09:10 This matters because a country that can't make steel can't build a ship, can't build a tank, can't build a bridge or a power plant without asking somebody's permission and waiting for it to get loaded onto a boat and sent here.
00:09:26 That's what a steel town is.
00:09:29 It's a permission slip to build what you need to build.
00:09:32 A steel town is a place where the mill whistles, the whistle sets the clock.
00:09:39 The mill sponsors the Little League.
00:09:41 The son follows the father through the same gate.
00:09:44 A man with a high school diploma buys a house, raises four kids,
00:09:48 takes a week at the lake, a homestead.
00:09:51 Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh, employed 15,000 people during the war.
00:09:57 The last of it shut down in 1986, and they tore it down, built a shopping center there.
00:10:02 They left a row of 12 brick smokestacks standing between the parking lots.
00:10:07 People park under them now to buy shoes.
00:10:12 We have to have steel mills.
00:10:15 The year before that, 1985, there was a mine called Butler.
00:10:21 It closed in Minnesota.
00:10:24 Same ground where they set off that blast this month.
00:10:27 We have literally been here before on that very range.
00:10:30 it was 1890 that a family of timber cruisers out of Duluth brothers and nephews named Merritt
00:10:40 had crews digging test pits on a low ridge most prospectors had passed over their father believed
00:10:48 for years that there was iron up there he was right the crew hit a soft red ore right under
00:10:54 the surface you didn't need to dig a tunnel you could scoop it out with a steam shovel
00:10:59 They had found the greatest iron range in America.
00:11:03 And they would go down in history as seven iron men.
00:11:07 But ore in the ground is worth nothing until it moves.
00:11:11 So they built a railroad to the lake.
00:11:13 To build it, they borrowed.
00:11:15 The man they went to was John D. Rockefeller.
00:11:18 Then came the panic of 1893.
00:11:21 The banks failed.
00:11:21 Loans came due.
00:11:22 The merits couldn't pay.
00:11:23 And by early 1894, the mines, the railroad, the ore docks belonged to John D. Rockefeller.
00:11:30 They sued him for fraud and won.
00:11:33 They lost on appeal because he had more money.
00:11:36 They ran out of money and they settled.
00:11:38 A few years later, Rockefeller sold the whole thing to a brand new company.
00:11:41 That company, U.S. Steel.
00:11:45 But the merits found the ore that built America's steel century.
00:11:50 And they died without the fortune.
00:11:53 But here's where it all landed.
00:11:55 U.S. Steel, the company built on the Merritt's ore, was bought last year by Nippon Steel of Japan.
00:12:03 The newest mine on that same range is owned from India.
00:12:09 Over 130 years, the money has come from Cleveland to New York to Tokyo to Mumbai.
00:12:16 The ore hasn't even moved, but neither did the people who dug it.
00:12:21 the range has taught the same lesson for a century
00:12:25 the paper changes hands every generation
00:12:29 the men who find the treasure rarely keep it
00:12:33 what stays is the ore, the river, the railroad
00:12:37 and the people who show up at 6 o'clock in the morning every morning
00:12:40 whose name is on the deed matters less than where the furnace sits
00:12:45 and whose hands are running the furnace
00:12:48 so let's watch this one the right way
00:12:50 Don't watch the Oval Office on this one.
00:12:53 Watch Lee County.
00:12:54 Watch for dirt moving.
00:12:57 Watch whether the local contractors get paid on time this time.
00:13:01 Watch what Iowa gives away in that special session and see what it gets back in writing.
00:13:07 Because if it does get built, this is a huge thing for America.
00:13:14 And for one small reason, there's an eighth grader in Fort Madison right now who will walk through that gate someday.
00:13:21 His grandfather walked through the factories and watched those factories leave.
00:13:26 He may get to watch one come home again.
00:13:30 Rockefeller got the range.
00:13:32 Japan got the U.S. steel.
00:13:34 India now has the mine. 1.00
00:13:36 The smokestacks are still standing in homestead, 0.96
00:13:39 and somebody in Iowa may get to light a new furnace.
00:13:42 Money doesn't have a hometown, but you do.
00:13:47 It's time America builds like it.
00:13:51 That's what yesterday's announcement means.
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00:15:12 Right now, you're paying more, and so are the companies, the analysts say, two reasons.
00:15:19 The energy shock from the Iran war and from the Ukrainian war, and a government that owes more money every single day.
00:15:30 That's why your interest rate is going up.
00:15:32 That's why companies' interest rates are going up.
00:15:35 Now, who is borrowing more money now than anybody in America besides the federal government?
00:15:42 Who's borrowing the most amount of money?
00:15:46 It's a little staggering when you look at the numbers.
00:15:48 But again, you only find this out in the math part of the program.
00:15:51 It's almost over.
00:15:53 The people who are borrowing more money than anybody else
00:15:56 are the people building artificial intelligence.
00:15:58 And CNBC laid this out over the weekend.
00:16:03 SoftBank just borrowed $11 billion in junk bonds,
00:16:08 paying as much as 9.75%.
00:16:12 Wait, what?
00:16:15 Oracle's interest bill for one quarter jumped 55%.
00:16:20 Their interest is now $1.4 billion.
00:16:25 JP Morgan expects $4 trillion of AI debt to be issued between now and 2030.
00:16:32 That's not what they've already.
00:16:33 It's $4 trillion between now and 2030.
00:16:39 $4 trillion.
00:16:39 That's a tenth of our national debt borrowed and just in time as the price of borrowing is climbing.
00:16:51 This is like building your dream house with an adjustable rate mortgage,
00:16:57 and the rate just keeps being adjusted, and it's always up.
00:17:02 How long would that last?
00:17:06 CoreWeave, this is one of the biggest data center landlords in the country,
00:17:09 tells its investors that every one-point rise in interest rates
00:17:13 cost it another $30 million a year.
00:17:21 Okay, that's one.
00:17:24 Then last week, Brookings put a price of the whole thing.
00:17:28 $10.3 trillion for America's AI build-out between 2025 and 2032.
00:17:34 $10.3 trillion.
00:17:38 What is the debt and the interest on that?
00:17:41 Now, you measure that against the size of the economy.
00:17:45 That is bigger than the canals.
00:17:47 That's bigger than electrifying the entire country.
00:17:50 That's bigger than the interstate highway system.
00:17:53 That's bigger than the railroads.
00:17:55 the risk the paper says is moving off the books moving moving the books of big companies
00:18:05 into places that you can't see oh i love it when they do this i love it when nobody makes it
00:18:13 transparent so now that 10 trillion dollars is slowly being moved into private loans
00:18:20 special purpose companies, and securitized debt.
00:18:27 Oh, oh, and then one more.
00:18:31 Loan guarantees.
00:18:35 Now, let's play a little game.
00:18:42 Who guarantees a loan in the trillion dollar range?
00:18:49 Come on.
00:18:50 Come on.
00:18:54 It's not Bill Gates.
00:18:56 It's not Elon Musk.
00:18:59 Two weeks ago, the president posted that there is a sick conspiracy going on against AI and data centers.
00:19:06 And the only one that is happy about it is China. 0.51
00:19:09 Then he posted conspiracy theorists, treasonous traitors and leakers beware.
00:19:16 Two days later, the Justice Department put out a reminder that people acting for a foreign power have to register before they stage public demonstrations.
00:19:25 I want all of the people that are acting for a foreign power, I do want them in trouble with the government. 0.73
00:19:32 I do. 0.99
00:19:34 But that's not everybody.
00:19:36 Gallup says 71% of Americans now don't want a data center in their own town.
00:19:42 You put those together.
00:19:43 This is the biggest bet in not American history, in human history.
00:19:50 This, let me say it again, the biggest bet in all of human history, financed with borrowed money.
00:20:01 And money is getting more expensive every quarter.
00:20:06 and the risk is sliding into places no one can really see it.
00:20:15 And the people who are asking questions about this are being called traitors.
00:20:23 When a bet is too big to fail and too sacred to question,
00:20:27 there's only one place the bill can go.
00:20:30 One place.
00:20:33 Where do you think it's going?
00:20:36 i hate to say we've been here before during the civil war a philadelphia banker named jay cook
00:20:45 did something new he sold the war to ordinary people not to the big banks to farmers and
00:20:51 shopkeepers and widows he sent agents all across the north and sold more than a billion and a half
00:20:56 dollars of war bonds buying one was patriotic it helped save the union after the war cook found his
00:21:03 next great national project, the Northern Pacific Railroad, a railroad from Lake Superior to the
00:21:10 Pacific, through country mostly empty of people who would never ride it. Congress had handed it
00:21:18 tens of millions of acres of land. Cook turned that same machine that sold the war onto the
00:21:24 same people and sold them the railroad. He had given generously to President Grant's re-election.
00:21:30 He was the most trusted money man in America.
00:21:35 And the railroad, everybody knew, everybody agreed, that was the future.
00:21:38 The future, that's the future, right?
00:21:40 Yeah, not so much.
00:21:42 The financing was wrong.
00:21:44 On September 18th, 1873, days after sitting down with President Grant,
00:21:49 J. Cook and company closed its doors.
00:21:53 Two days later, for the first time in its history,
00:21:56 the New York Stock Exchange shut down for 10 days.
00:22:00 What followed lasted more than five years.
00:22:03 18,000 businesses failed.
00:22:06 The railroad, it got built years later by other people.
00:22:11 You know, it was built on the ruins.
00:22:14 Cook lost his fortune, but the people who paid the longest were the farmers and the widows who had trusted him.
00:22:23 Okay, let me play the other side here for a second. 0.94
00:22:25 The race with China is real. 0.97
00:22:28 I've said it on the program a million times. 0.99
00:22:29 If we don't build the power and the data centers, we lose.
00:22:33 And I still believe this.
00:22:36 Foreign money is stirring up opposition to American infrastructure.
00:22:39 That's not a fantasy either.
00:22:41 A Senate intelligence chairperson has come in and called for an investigation into exactly that this summer.
00:22:47 And you're going to find that most of this stuff is financed by China.
00:22:52 And to be accurate, that Justice Department, that Justice Department notice, doesn't name data center critics.
00:23:01 It applies only to people taking orders from foreign governments.
00:23:05 The man who wrote the Brookings paper doesn't say a crash is coming.
00:23:10 He says, measure it now while there is still time.
00:23:14 So all of this stuff is true.
00:23:16 You know, we have spent 15 years on our side saying that when, you know, banks get too big to fail, the taxpayer gets stuck and it's wrong.
00:23:26 We were right.
00:23:28 We said when government and industry moves as one, that's fascism and the little guy loses and we are right.
00:23:36 But it doesn't stop being true because our president and our industry say that we have to come together. 0.91
00:23:48 A woman in Ohio that doesn't want a data center next to her house is not a Chinese agent. 0.54
00:23:53 She's a citizen. 0.98
00:23:54 She might be wrong.
00:23:55 She might be right.
00:23:56 But she's definitely not a traitor.
00:23:59 I personally want these things built.
00:24:00 And I want to be allowed to ask, who's holding the debt?
00:24:10 These are not opposites.
00:24:12 This is what a free country sounds like.
00:24:16 It sounds like a group of people asking questions.
00:24:21 That's it.
00:24:23 Ask questions.
00:24:26 Rising rates are the market doing its job.
00:24:29 And here's what the market is saying.
00:24:31 This is risky.
00:24:34 Pay me for it.
00:24:35 This is very risky.
00:24:37 That's honest.
00:24:39 It's the one voice in the story nobody can call a traitor.
00:24:43 The danger is not the price.
00:24:45 The danger is somebody in Washington deciding the price is too inconvenient
00:24:50 and quietly putting your name on the loan.
00:24:56 Now, it hasn't happened yet, but there's still time.
00:25:00 So here's the word I want you to watch out for, guarantee, a loan guarantee.
00:25:10 The day any bill, any agency, any president, any politician, any company, anyone says we
00:25:19 need to put the federal government behind AI debt, the bet stops being theirs and starts
00:25:25 being yours.
00:25:27 I recommend you call your congressman before that day ever comes, not after.
00:25:32 Because when it happens, it's going to happen fast.
00:25:35 We're going to loan guarantee all of this AI.
00:25:38 We're going to make sure that we, because this is a national imperative.
00:25:42 No, no, no, no.
00:25:48 I'm not going to give you special rights to create something that can kill us all
00:25:54 and then hold you not responsible
00:25:57 because it was your AI machine or agents that did it.
00:26:01 No, you built it.
00:26:03 You're responsible.
00:26:05 I'm not gonna guarantee your loans.
00:26:08 You're the one that says we have to have it.
00:26:11 We gotta do it.
00:26:12 We gotta do it now.
00:26:13 We gotta do it this big.
00:26:15 It's gonna change the world.
00:26:17 Well, then great, that's your bet
00:26:20 because I guarantee you,
00:26:22 You're not going to share the wealth with all of us.
00:26:25 Why should we share?
00:26:27 That is the free market.
00:26:28 I share the risk, then I get some of the reward.
00:26:32 Well, you're going to.
00:26:33 It's going to cure cancer.
00:26:34 Or it's going to kill us, one of the two.
00:26:37 You haven't decided yet.
00:26:41 I want you to ask one question of your congressman.
00:26:45 And I want you to send a clear message to everybody in Washington.
00:26:49 Ask this question.
00:26:50 If it goes wrong, who pays?
00:26:53 If the answer is fuzzy, so is the plan, and it will end up being on your shoulders.
00:26:58 And then at your own kitchen table, don't borrow against the future just because everybody says it's coming.
00:27:06 Jay Cook was right about the future.
00:27:08 He was early, and he was borrowing, and that's all it takes.
00:27:13 Any bet you're not allowed to question is a bet you've already been made to pay for.
00:27:20 The railroad got built.
00:27:22 The future does come.
00:27:24 The only question in 1873, and the only question now, is who pays for getting there too fast?
00:27:36 It's not going to be me.
00:27:37 It's not going to be you.
00:27:38 But I guarantee it will be the minute they start talking about loan guarantees.
00:27:46 And that's coming.
00:27:47 speak out about it now all right more in just a second
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00:29:12 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:14 And we really want to thank you for listening.
00:29:20 Yesterday, I told you the story of Donald Johnson.
00:29:23 He's an 81-year-old guy who's working to deliver luggage when, you know, the airline, you know, loses your luggage.
00:29:31 And they're like, we'll deliver it to you.
00:29:34 They've hired Don Johnson.
00:29:35 And he is, you know, your typical 81-year-old guy.
00:29:38 He's not bitching and complaining at all.
00:29:41 When asked, why did you take this job?
00:29:44 why do you have this job at 81 hauling heavy luggage upstairs he's like they're the only
00:29:49 people that would hire me and he's fine with it he's fine with it he's not complaining
00:29:52 and he's doing it to cover his wife's cancer bills um and um there was a a fundraiser
00:30:01 and they did three quarters of a million dollars to help him be able to retire pay his wife's
00:30:07 cancer bills and let the guy retire so he can be together with his wife and just spend all
00:30:13 his time with his wife. Well, then there was a problem. The original video that was posted
00:30:19 was posted from a neighbor called Aaron. But Aaron is a name the daughter and the neighbor made up
00:30:29 because the neighbor is like, I don't want my name. I don't want my name on this because you
00:30:33 know what it's like to be a social media person. They're coming after you. So what happened was
00:30:39 GoFundMe, found out that that was a fake name, and then canceled it. And so all of that money
00:30:44 was returned. And there are media outlets that are trying to make these people look like they're
00:30:51 bad guys. They are not. This is an 81-year-old guy who is delivering luggage to pay for his wife's
00:30:59 cancer treatment. Amy Johnson, his daughter, and Donald Johnson, the 81-year-old baggage delivery
00:31:06 boy is on with us now amy don how are you glenn you're gonna make me cry right it's an honor
00:31:14 it's my honor to have you on sir you're a remarkable man i just love your story i don't
00:31:22 know if you heard me talk about your story yesterday but i just i love your story the
00:31:27 way you are just it just has to be done you're not complaining you're not that doesn't exist
00:31:34 anymore you know that don don't you you know people have asked me 81 years old they keep
00:31:41 saying that i said it doesn't matter how old i am there's a job to be done
00:31:45 god i love you you're gonna make me cry this is you're the kind of american i really miss um
00:31:54 so amy yes did i get the story of why um gofundme canceled this do i have that right
00:32:02 You had that 100% correct, Glenn. So yes, that is what happened. It was absolutely devastating for them. And it's been a rough road the last couple of days, but we've had people like you and other just really kind people out there who are still supporting us. So it's made it easier.
00:32:24 I would like to say there are a lot of comments on our second fundraiser, Give, Send, Go, that are saying negative things about GoFundMe, and they're not happy about what happened, and they're trying to make sure that we get the money we need.
00:32:48 And I really appreciate all those people.
00:32:50 Yes, thank you.
00:32:51 well you can go to give send go dot uh com slash help don retire
00:32:58 give you time to write that down give send go dot com slash help don retire um so far you've
00:33:09 got about 75 000 so you're a tenth of what you were what is the is is the media dogpiling i've
00:33:16 heard that and i haven't read anything because i don't care um but i do want to know are they
00:33:23 dog piling on you guys are some media coming out trying to make you look bad they are absolutely
00:33:30 dog piling on us it's it's been rough um there was a woman who had interviewed my parents she's
00:33:37 with fox 4 um and she has basically switched the whole narrative about um an investigation piece
00:33:44 and just trying to really drag me through the mud and it's not focusing on my parents which
00:33:51 makes it really hard because that was what everything was originally about so I you know
00:33:56 I want to say that I'm sorry that I used a display name that wasn't the right name but
00:34:00 at the end of the day it's hurting my parents and I know a lot of people out there really
00:34:04 fell in love with them and they're good people so I'm okay with the dog pile with me but I'm
00:34:11 just hopeful that we're able to get back to where we were um because it really meant a lot for them
00:34:16 and it was life's changing yes amy can i tell you something you don't ever have to apologize for for
00:34:22 not you know for the neighbor saying i don't want to put my name on it and you guys coming up with
00:34:27 the name aaron you are proof right now of why she didn't want to put her name on it why you didn't
00:34:34 want to put your name on it because the media trashes people all the time and it's despicable
00:34:41 it's despicable i i want everyone in the audience to go to give send go.com slash help don retire
00:34:49 i want you to pass this to all of your friends um you know and because this is i mean there
00:34:56 don tell me about your wife let me just do that tell me about your wife how long have you guys
00:35:02 been married uh well let me first say i came out of the army in august of 68 and i swore to myself
00:35:12 i wouldn't get married till i was 30 years old at least i was 22 uh six months later i was married
00:35:19 to this wonderful woman and it was love at first sight honestly uh we met through a mutual friend
00:35:27 and i i was just smitten she's beautiful she's gentle she's everything a man would want
00:35:36 in a wife and uh we've been married 57 years uh and want to make it 75 or 100 years if we came
00:35:45 so uh she's my lifelong companion she's going through a hard time um cancer is a struggle
00:35:56 and she's exhausted much of the time
00:36:00 so I'm the guy that goes up and down the stairs to get her food
00:36:04 and drinks and things like that and just be there for her
00:36:08 and help her. She's brave
00:36:11 she's putting up a strong fight
00:36:14 pancreatic cancer is called the silent killer and we're not going to have 0.92
00:36:20 any of that.
00:36:26 how are you holding up you know if making sure that she's okay and still working as much as
00:36:37 you're working how long are your days well i i'm not able to work every day right now i'm not
00:36:46 working because the car broke down we put so many miles on that car i have and uh but when i'm
00:36:54 working uh like i worked for one company for uh years and uh that was a 14 hour day sometimes
00:37:04 and uh driving three to four hundred miles in a day uh that's exhausting for sure and you get
00:37:12 home at 10 11 o'clock at night and get up early and start it again but um it's something i just
00:37:20 fell in the groove for
00:37:23 and just do it
00:37:25 without thinking
00:37:26 just do my job
00:37:28 so
00:37:29 that's it
00:37:32 okay
00:37:34 I want to keep up with you guys
00:37:39 this week and see what is
00:37:41 happening Don please tell your
00:37:43 wife that we're praying 1.00
00:37:45 I will
00:37:47 we want to thank you glenn we're such big fans of you um so thank you for having us on
00:37:57 you're welcome uh
00:38:00 i've been
00:38:07 i've been married to my wife
00:38:13 only for 26 years and uh i love my wife more than the day i married her
00:38:27 and i can't imagine we had a a small cancer scare with her a few years ago
00:38:35 and uh and i thought i can't i can't you know she's my whole life
00:38:43 and i can't imagine being together for as long as you have and how you feel so we're praying for
00:38:52 both of you we're playing for all of you and and amy we're praying for you just to be able to have
00:38:56 the endurance to stand the onslaught of this evil media that we happen to see all the time
00:39:03 um god bless you both we'll talk again soon thank you thank you thank you here's what i would like
00:39:12 you to do as an audience you are the most amazing audience in the world i say this
00:39:18 all the time
00:39:22 i don't think there has been a more charitable group of people in a commercial audience ever
00:39:30 Ever. I have seen you do remarkable things. I have seen, do you know we're in our,
00:39:40 do you know we're in Armenia? Today, we have been rescuing Christians out of Armenia because 0.99
00:39:52 Armenia, the Muslims closed off a corridor 0.99
00:39:56 that guaranteed the Christians' safety. 1.00
00:40:00 And they started dismantling all of the things 0.99
00:40:04 that kept these Armenian Christians... 1.00
00:40:05 These are the first Christians in the world. 1.00
00:40:09 And we have been moving them. 0.99
00:40:11 We have been protecting them.
00:40:19 And every dollar is coming from this audience
00:40:21 when you give to Mercury One.
00:40:23 Every dollar is doing that.
00:40:24 You don't have any idea
00:40:25 how much of a difference you make.
00:40:30 I know there's somebody
00:40:31 who has a car dealership
00:40:32 somewhere in this audience.
00:40:42 Will you donate a car?
00:40:47 Will you donate a car?
00:40:51 I tell you what, I will do commercials for you.
00:40:55 I'll cut a couple of commercials for you,
00:40:58 for your TV or for radio, whatever,
00:41:00 if you supply the car.
00:41:07 Can you help him
00:41:11 not have to worry about anything else
00:41:16 by going up and down those stairs
00:41:18 with a tray of food for his wife?
00:41:21 givesendgo.com
00:41:25 slash help don retire
00:41:27 givesendgo.com
00:41:29 slash help don
00:41:31 retire
00:41:32 you can 0.71
00:41:34 write to us
00:41:36 Ricky how do they get a hold of us if somebody wants to
00:41:39 do something with a car I know we have
00:41:41 car dealerships all throughout
00:41:43 support at glennbeck.com
00:41:44 support at glennbeck.com
00:41:47 okay you let us know
00:41:49 you let us know
00:41:52 All right, back in just a second.
00:41:59 Gosh.
00:42:03 I need to drink more water.
00:42:05 I think I need an IV bag every day I do these shows.
00:42:10 But I tell you, they're not sad.
00:42:13 These aren't sad.
00:42:18 I want to be Don when I grow up.
00:42:21 so great it's just so great life is so great so many good people and so many good things are
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