The Glenn Beck Program - November 04, 2019


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Governor Matt Bevin & Jason F. Wright ｜ 11⧸4⧸19


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Glenn and Pat discuss the loss of Beto Ocasio-Cortez, Kanye West's new album Jesus Is King, and why they don't even like Christmas music. Glenn also plays a song from the Dark Side of the Moon.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Monday's podcast. We're still a little broken up about Beto dropping out of the race.
00:00:05.900 He was our guy, we thought for sure. Man, we thought there was an end to these guns.
00:00:10.440 But apparently, no, America's just not ready for him. Not ready for him.
00:00:13.940 And same goes for a black woman. We're apparently not ready for that, according to Kamala Harris. 1.00
00:00:22.080 America just won't have one. 0.59
00:00:23.500 And that's why, you know, all the Democrats are saying we need either Michelle Obama or Oprah Winfrey, because they're, of course, not black.
00:00:34.200 Okay. Also, Matt Bevin, the governor of Kentucky, is with it.
00:00:39.040 An amazing story from Salon about how I celebrated Earth Day back in 2011.
00:00:45.500 And it is because of my hatred that has caused this post-truth world.
00:00:52.480 You won't believe it. All on today's podcast.
00:01:01.460 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:05.500 So, um, we're gonna get to Beto here in a second, because the morning is, I mean, this morning, spelled with a U, we're all in morning for Beto.
00:01:23.000 So much promise, so much talent, so much bullcrap, and it's all gone. All gone.
00:01:30.180 We lost him, Pat.
00:01:31.760 I know. It hurts.
00:01:33.320 It does. It hurts.
00:01:34.420 Deeply, doesn't it?
00:01:35.240 Yes.
00:01:35.720 It's like a scar that will never heal.
00:01:37.360 Never.
00:01:38.940 Oh, wait a minute. Mine just healed.
00:01:40.760 Wow.
00:01:41.180 Wow. Okay.
00:01:42.000 Huh.
00:01:42.440 You know what it might be? You know what it might be?
00:01:44.760 What might it be?
00:01:45.500 Kanye. Kanye. Healing the world.
00:01:48.380 Oh, wow.
00:01:49.100 Yeah. Could be. Could be.
00:01:50.900 I want to say something to you sincerely.
00:01:55.360 Have you been watching what's happening with his Sunday services?
00:01:59.040 Not closely.
00:02:00.160 Not.
00:02:00.660 Maybe not as closely as I should be.
00:02:02.740 Sure.
00:02:03.020 Sure.
00:02:03.340 Sure.
00:02:03.800 Are you, have you, have you listened to his new?
00:02:07.760 His new album?
00:02:08.740 His new album.
00:02:09.480 Jesus is King?
00:02:10.420 Yes.
00:02:11.220 I've been trying to get to it.
00:02:14.420 Right?
00:02:15.100 There's just been so many albums in front of it.
00:02:17.220 Really?
00:02:17.800 Yeah.
00:02:18.040 What could possibly be in front of that?
00:02:20.360 Oh, gosh.
00:02:21.080 The Chipmunks greatest hits.
00:02:23.200 Really?
00:02:23.900 Yeah.
00:02:24.260 That's, that's out.
00:02:25.220 That's out.
00:02:25.840 I forgot about that one.
00:02:27.040 Yeah, that's out.
00:02:27.780 So, so I listened to it.
00:02:30.220 And now this may come as a shock to many in the audience, but I'm not exactly, I'm not
00:02:38.260 exactly down with rap.
00:02:40.320 Stop it.
00:02:41.100 Yes.
00:02:41.700 Yes.
00:02:42.060 I'm not.
00:02:42.620 Stop it.
00:02:43.100 I'm not.
00:02:43.520 I don't even like Christmas rapping.
00:02:45.200 I don't do it.
00:02:46.040 I don't do it.
00:02:48.100 So I, so I, I, I decided to listen to the, uh, uh, to the album and I have to tell you,
00:02:57.120 uh, surprisingly.
00:02:59.020 Terrific.
00:02:59.580 I still don't like it.
00:03:01.020 What?
00:03:01.620 That is surprising.
00:03:02.880 Yeah.
00:03:03.300 That's still, in fact, that's shocking to me.
00:03:05.060 I still don't like it.
00:03:06.460 Still don't like it.
00:03:07.500 Uh, but I want to play something for you.
00:03:09.300 I just want to play.
00:03:09.980 I just want you to listen to this.
00:03:11.180 Now do not, if you're not a fan of rap, which I'm not try really hard not to just go, wow.
00:03:17.420 I hate that.
00:03:18.840 Just listen to the words here for a second.
00:03:22.000 Go ahead.
00:03:22.420 Play this.
00:03:22.820 Jesus, please help.
00:03:34.240 Jesus, please heal.
00:03:35.700 Jesus, please forgive.
00:03:37.200 Jesus, please reveal.
00:03:38.660 Jesus, give us strength.
00:03:40.140 Jesus, make us well.
00:03:41.600 Jesus, help us live.
00:03:43.060 Jesus, give us wealth.
00:03:44.580 Jesus is our safe.
00:03:46.040 Jesus is our rock.
00:03:47.500 Jesus, give us grace.
00:03:48.940 Jesus, keep us safe.
00:03:50.100 Clean us like the rain and spring.
00:03:53.320 Take the chlorine out of conversations.
00:03:56.380 Okay.
00:03:57.320 Hmm.
00:03:58.280 Ah.
00:03:59.340 Hmm.
00:04:00.620 Wow.
00:04:02.420 Now I think Pat and I are going to go in a different direction here.
00:04:06.080 So go ahead, Pat.
00:04:07.800 Well, I was just going to say that I need to.
00:04:10.080 Big fork in the road.
00:04:10.820 I need to spend some time with that.
00:04:12.800 You know, like Dark Side of the Moon with Pink Floyd.
00:04:14.800 We used to listen to that.
00:04:16.660 Yeah.
00:04:16.940 And just really try to get into the deep, subtle nuances of that album.
00:04:22.540 And I think it's the same here.
00:04:24.160 Right.
00:04:24.680 I don't think there's anything subtle here.
00:04:27.620 I don't think there's anything subtle here.
00:04:29.840 No.
00:04:30.320 No.
00:04:30.800 I think this culturally is like a sledgehammer.
00:04:35.600 Mm-hmm.
00:04:36.260 Uh.
00:04:39.740 Dare I say it.
00:04:43.040 I think the awakening is here.
00:04:44.900 I think the third grade awakening is here.
00:04:49.460 The third grade awakening?
00:04:51.220 Great.
00:04:51.740 Oh, okay.
00:04:52.460 Because I thought the lyrics were kind of like maybe a third grade level.
00:04:56.360 But no.
00:04:56.940 No.
00:04:57.220 You're saying great.
00:04:58.440 Wow.
00:04:58.700 Okay.
00:04:59.480 Wow.
00:04:59.860 All right.
00:05:00.260 No.
00:05:00.560 Wow.
00:05:00.880 No, no.
00:05:01.420 No, no.
00:05:02.240 I asked you not to, you know, judge.
00:05:09.160 You did.
00:05:09.460 Yes.
00:05:10.300 I'm just, I'm asking you, this is Kim Kardashian's husband.
00:05:16.520 Right.
00:05:16.820 That's true.
00:05:17.400 Who is saying, Jesus, help us.
00:05:21.460 Jesus, heal us.
00:05:23.100 Yeah.
00:05:23.260 Jesus, change our conversation.
00:05:26.400 Clean our words like chlorine.
00:05:30.160 Jesus, help us.
00:05:32.280 This could be a big deal.
00:05:39.120 I think, A, I think it's real.
00:05:43.180 Oh, you too.
00:05:44.060 I think it's absolutely real.
00:05:45.940 Yeah.
00:05:46.440 And let me give you, let me give you this.
00:05:49.140 This is building.
00:05:50.600 Uh, over a thousand, uh, committed their lives to Christ on Kanye West Sunday service
00:05:59.760 in Baton Rouge.
00:06:01.260 Now listen to this.
00:06:03.260 Uh, tonight I got to experience Kanye West Sunday service at Bethany church in Baton Rouge.
00:06:09.320 If you ever doubted the legitimacy or spiritual impact of this Sunday service project, simply
00:06:14.980 look to this incredible shot taken, uh, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:18.340 During the altar call.
00:06:19.700 Yes, I said altar call.
00:06:23.140 Tonight, worship was lifted in the name of Christ was exalted.
00:06:26.480 The word of God was preached and the multitude played, prayed together.
00:06:30.260 The gospel was clearly proclaimed and an opportunity to respond was given in a crowd of 6,000 people
00:06:36.540 from all walks of life, ages and races.
00:06:38.900 I witnessed over a thousand people respond to the gospel by raising their hands to accept
00:06:44.080 Jesus as their Lord and savior.
00:06:46.060 Say what you want and think what you want.
00:06:48.340 But trust me when I tell you the spirit of the living God was indeed present.
00:06:52.220 We dance, we wept, we stood in awe of God's redemptive work.
00:06:56.740 And I can honestly say tonight that I witnessed a new wave of revival firsthand.
00:07:02.920 Isaiah, behold, I do a new thing.
00:07:06.420 Corinthians, but God chose the full, the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.
00:07:12.100 God chose the weak things of the world, God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
00:07:16.840 I think this is the beginning.
00:07:21.800 There is a, there, there is, and I'm seeing it everywhere.
00:07:27.940 I was in Salt Lake city this weekend and I, I was, uh, out for their fundraiser, uh, for, Oh, you are operation underground railroad.
00:07:36.720 They've just saved their 3,000th slave.
00:07:40.860 Um, and it, it, it is picking up exponentially.
00:07:45.120 I think they saved 1100 slaves this year.
00:07:49.980 Um, and there was a feeling in that room that was, was unlike anything I have felt in a while.
00:07:58.360 Um, we are working on something that I hope to be able to announce in the next four weeks or so before Christmas.
00:08:05.680 I really want to announce it, um, where we're going to do this thing this summer, but it is, uh, restoring the covenant.
00:08:14.300 And we're looking to put it at a place that has deep and profound meaning in the country.
00:08:20.300 And, uh, we just have to lock it in here in the next couple of weeks, but.
00:08:25.520 Um, we are a covenant nation and until we turn back to him and say, okay, sorry, sorry, help heal us and help put us back on the right track.
00:08:38.840 But this is the beginning.
00:08:40.300 You remember Pat, uh, because both of us hated the sixties.
00:08:44.820 Would you agree with that?
00:08:45.920 Yeah.
00:08:46.620 And hated the sixties music, uh, for the most part, because it was all hippie crap.
00:08:52.780 Um, however, there was a moment that the Beatles, I think really kind of hit first, um, where it was about love and, and real love.
00:09:07.800 And then it turned to Jesus and there was this Jesus moment in the 19th, early 1970s, late 1960s, 1969 was the breaking point.
00:09:21.040 And it happened at Altamont and the left and this progressive evil that was sweeping the, the world, not just America sweeping the world.
00:09:33.440 They hit Altamont and that was just a night of death and destruction.
00:09:39.280 And lo and behold, and lo and behold, in San Francisco, and it just fell apart from there.
00:09:45.340 People repelled from it.
00:09:47.820 And there was this Jesus movement that started.
00:09:51.280 And you'll remember some of the songs from the, uh, from the 1970s because Jesus became a thing again, but it wasn't a church Jesus.
00:10:01.980 It was just Jesus and it healed us for a little while and kind of put us back on the track of recovery.
00:10:13.920 I think it's happening now.
00:10:15.420 And I think Kanye is leading the way.
00:10:18.060 And if that isn't, if that's what, you know, people were saying, you know, about, um, uh, Donald Trump that, you know, he was going to be used by the Lord.
00:10:28.360 I think, you know, the Lord uses everything good and bad.
00:10:31.380 There is no waste with him.
00:10:34.160 However, I think what you're seeing with Kanye, where he was kind of a broken man.
00:10:41.500 I mean, he was snapped in half and now he's walked away from, he says, he's not going to perform any of his old music ever again.
00:10:50.300 Oh, wow.
00:10:51.200 I hadn't heard him say that.
00:10:52.240 Oh yeah.
00:10:52.520 I just said it.
00:10:53.240 I think this weekend or, or last week, he said, I'm, I'm done.
00:10:57.400 I'm not going to perform any of my old music ever again.
00:11:02.260 That's really something that is remarkable.
00:11:05.480 That's remarkable.
00:11:07.000 Here's a guy who is walking away from all of the stuff.
00:11:12.160 Cause if you listen to any of his old music, it's filthy.
00:11:16.260 It's just filthy.
00:11:18.300 Look at the good.
00:11:19.580 This guy is doing now.
00:11:22.060 We've been waiting for it.
00:11:24.380 And it, maybe this isn't it.
00:11:26.880 But it sure looks like the beginning of the third great awakening.
00:11:32.080 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:11:49.540 Hey, it's Glenn.
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00:12:10.820 The man who the New York Times has deemed the most despised governor in the country.
00:12:20.140 Matt Bevan is with us with his hordes of hell.
00:12:22.980 Hello, Matt.
00:12:23.600 How are you?
00:12:24.080 You know, with that kind of a teaser, I feel like I should be greeting you from the deep abyss.
00:12:29.860 Really?
00:12:31.020 Do your eyes glow red yet?
00:12:33.220 Have you taken the mask off?
00:12:35.280 No.
00:12:35.600 I mean, day and night.
00:12:37.060 It's 24-7 now.
00:12:38.280 24-7.
00:12:38.900 I breathe fire.
00:12:40.320 Small children are scorched when I breathe on fire.
00:12:42.860 Glad to see you admit that.
00:12:44.800 Yeah.
00:12:45.260 Now, I forgot to mention, I have this manifesto.
00:12:48.360 It's this crazy document that I espouse at every turn.
00:12:52.340 It's called the U.S. Constitution.
00:12:53.960 Oh, what?
00:12:55.380 It's just making people's minds explode.
00:12:57.240 What a kook.
00:12:58.160 It's crazy.
00:12:58.840 Oh, yeah.
00:12:59.100 What a radical.
00:13:00.400 Radical.
00:13:01.080 What a radical.
00:13:02.300 So, you've got this constitution thing that you are trying to follow.
00:13:08.520 It's the old thing I found.
00:13:10.180 I've dusted it off.
00:13:11.480 I've tried to apply it in the 21st century, and it makes people's hair stand up on it.
00:13:17.120 Yeah.
00:13:17.460 So, seriously, they say that you're really despised, although you are at least neck and neck with
00:13:27.260 the other guy.
00:13:27.820 So, is the other guy just as despised as you are?
00:13:30.820 Well, here's what's going to happen.
00:13:33.960 It's a good question.
00:13:35.420 You know this.
00:13:36.380 More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said, if you want to avoid controversy, you want
00:13:41.100 to avoid criticism, you say nothing, you do nothing, and you be nothing.
00:13:46.540 And if there's anything that has been the embodiment of American politics in recent years,
00:13:52.060 it's the say nothing, do nothing, be nothing crowd.
00:13:54.640 I refuse to be a party to that.
00:13:57.240 You guys know this.
00:13:58.420 You've known me for years now.
00:13:59.660 This is the first political job I've ever had.
00:14:02.400 I'm not somebody who has kissed rings and backsides in order to get here.
00:14:06.440 I've come here by saying we're going to make hard decisions, adult decisions.
00:14:10.180 We're not going to kick cans down the road.
00:14:12.320 We're going to rip Band-Aids off.
00:14:13.760 And these are the kind of things that make uneasy people even more uneasy.
00:14:18.560 And so if this makes me unpopular, so be it.
00:14:20.760 But here's what I know, the strongest economy we have ever had in the history of Kentucky
00:14:26.720 is right now.
00:14:27.340 And it's not just simply things that are matching pace with the national trend, like lowest ever
00:14:33.300 unemployment.
00:14:33.780 We have had in the last four years the greatest rise in per capita income that we have ever seen in history.
00:14:42.520 And in fact, in the last four years, we have a higher increase in per capita income than any state that borders us,
00:14:50.740 including states like Indiana and Tennessee and Ohio that have been doing well.
00:14:55.000 And so Kentucky, we're making hard decisions.
00:14:58.500 People are bent.
00:14:59.660 But that's OK.
00:15:00.760 The people who are going to vote tomorrow are going to prove the fact that there's far more
00:15:05.280 that are happier, which gets back to your question.
00:15:07.580 Yeah, we're going to beat the pants off of the guy who supposedly is running against the most unpopular
00:15:12.600 guy in America.
00:15:13.640 How embarrassing will that be for him?
00:15:15.300 You do you have people people are trying to say that you're trying to make this a national election
00:15:28.760 by tying yourself to Donald Trump because Trump is popular in Kentucky.
00:15:35.080 I take it.
00:15:36.540 Yes.
00:15:37.080 Yeah.
00:15:37.380 I mean, he's popular in much of America.
00:15:39.520 I mean, I'll tell you, especially in the heart of America.
00:15:41.360 But I remind people and you all know this, you know, this better than most.
00:15:45.700 I was elected four years ago when President Trump was not President Trump, you know, when
00:15:51.340 Vice President Pence was still then the governor of another state.
00:15:55.120 The reality is that everyone said the same things about me that they hate the fact that
00:16:00.580 I'm pro life.
00:16:01.300 They hate the fact that I'm pro Constitution, that I'm strongly supportive of the Second
00:16:05.600 Amendment, that I think red flag laws are a slippery slope and I'll have no part of them. 1.00
00:16:09.600 They hate the fact that I respect this country and our flag and our military and our law
00:16:14.660 enforcement.
00:16:15.500 They hate the fact that my Judeo-Christian faith informs my thought process and that
00:16:19.820 I'm willing to say as much from a publicly elected seat.
00:16:23.380 And so the reasons they hate me have things to do that they transcend the state or even
00:16:28.960 the national level issues at play.
00:16:31.640 These things have eternal impact and it bothers people.
00:16:34.960 To that end, they have hated me since before this president came around.
00:16:38.980 Now they say I want to ride his coattails.
00:16:41.280 I'm honored to stand with this guy.
00:16:42.940 I really am.
00:16:43.600 I'm grateful that he's our president.
00:16:45.460 But I won by nine percent when every poll four years ago said I was going to lose by
00:16:50.880 five percent or more.
00:16:52.240 And we're winning because we stand for truth.
00:16:55.080 And at the end of the day, the truth sets people free.
00:16:57.680 Matt, you know that the reason why health care isn't done on a state level is because
00:17:02.300 it doesn't work because states can't print money.
00:17:05.260 And because you can't print money, you're doing something that I think all governors should
00:17:13.560 be doing right now.
00:17:14.480 And that is going back and telling the truth to people before the money all runs out and
00:17:19.880 say, look, you were lied to then.
00:17:22.620 Or maybe it was just all, you know, ponies and unicorns that everybody was living on wishes
00:17:28.640 and hopes, but you can't get these pensions because the state can't print money.
00:17:35.420 And so before it goes completely bankrupt, we have to cut back.
00:17:39.540 You've actually tried to do this.
00:17:42.780 We actually have done it.
00:17:44.580 I'll be honest, Glenn.
00:17:45.380 We are doing things.
00:17:46.820 My first year as governor, we cut our state budget by nine percent.
00:17:51.380 Nine percent.
00:17:52.660 I mean, it's rare that anybody comes into government ever, let alone right out of the
00:17:56.240 gate and does that the next year, the next two years later, we do a biennial budget.
00:18:00.120 We did the same thing, not nine percent, but we cut another about six and a half percent.
00:18:04.200 We've cut most of the fat out.
00:18:06.120 There's still some.
00:18:07.140 But here's what I'm telling you.
00:18:08.440 In addition to that, we cut income taxes, personal and corporate income taxes by 17 percent.
00:18:14.160 And guess what?
00:18:15.420 In light of all those things, last year, Kentucky had the highest level of revenue we have ever
00:18:21.360 had.
00:18:21.920 We had a two hundred and some million dollar surplus, the most revenue we've ever had.
00:18:27.480 It can be done by being good, fiscal, prudent conservatives.
00:18:32.680 These are the types of things that make a difference.
00:18:35.060 It's something we need more of in government.
00:18:37.960 And I'm willing to try to take point.
00:18:39.760 You mentioned health care.
00:18:41.540 I'm trying to lead the charge for Medicaid reform.
00:18:44.420 We've not seen entitlement reform in America since the mid-1990s.
00:18:49.360 And we are leading the charge to say that able-bodied, working-aged men and women with
00:18:55.040 no dependents should do something in exchange for free health care, because the men and women 0.99
00:19:00.480 who bust their tails every day to give them free health care often don't even have health
00:19:05.960 care themselves.
00:19:07.080 They're certainly not of the same quality.
00:19:09.340 And so I'm being challenged by my attorney general.
00:19:11.520 I'm being challenged by a D.C. circuit court judge named, I don't even, Rosberg or
00:19:17.220 Bosberg or something.
00:19:18.800 And so one guy in D.C. is holding this up.
00:19:21.820 But I've had over 14 states now, Democrat and Republican alike, who have come to our state
00:19:28.360 and spent days with us saying, hey, when this gets approved, we're going to need to do the
00:19:32.640 same thing.
00:19:33.220 Because you're right.
00:19:34.180 We can't print money, but we can't pretend that these things come at no cost.
00:19:40.400 Matt, I know you've got an election to win tomorrow, but what are you doing in, say,
00:19:44.160 2024?
00:19:46.500 Oh, gracious.
00:19:47.580 Let's, uh, I look forward to being back in the private sector at some point.
00:19:52.600 I love the private sector.
00:19:54.440 I love, here's the thing.
00:19:55.240 I love America.
00:19:56.400 You guys know this.
00:19:57.320 I'm a former military guy.
00:19:58.940 I love and respect this nation, but I'm grateful to the men and women who even now
00:20:04.440 lay their lives out there.
00:20:05.820 You look at this mission to get al-Baghdadi.
00:20:07.640 You look at these people that are scattered around the world and they do this for us because
00:20:12.900 this land of the free and home of the brave was purchased at an extraordinary price.
00:20:17.780 And I love it.
00:20:18.840 I served with guys who are dead, who gave everything, gave their lives, whose kids have
00:20:23.640 grown up without a father.
00:20:24.760 And it breaks my heart.
00:20:26.420 We don't even bother to vote, but I love it that we're so blessed in this country.
00:20:31.560 But the danger we have is that our blessings are potentially our biggest curse because we
00:20:38.100 have it so good.
00:20:39.680 We really have it so good that we can afford to not care and think that it doesn't matter.
00:20:45.400 We can afford to be apathetic.
00:20:47.340 We can afford to not vote.
00:20:49.280 And I'm doing that in air quotes, which you can't see over the radio.
00:20:52.160 But this being apathetic is our greatest threat.
00:20:56.840 And if we don't vote and if we don't recognize that of and by and for the people means we
00:21:01.460 better get our butts out there and vote tomorrow in Kentucky and in Mississippi and in Louisiana, 0.98
00:21:07.420 but everywhere in America when you have an opportunity to go to the ballot box.
00:21:11.500 If we don't vote, we'll get the government we deserve and it's not going to be pretty.
00:21:15.340 So tell me how the the the lurch or the the sprint to radical socialism is being taken
00:21:26.180 by good Democrats in Kentucky, because there's a lot of there's a lot of good Democrats in
00:21:32.520 Kentucky and I can't I lived in Kentucky.
00:21:35.400 I can't imagine that state going towards socialism.
00:21:41.200 No, it's people are offended.
00:21:42.880 And I'll tell you, it's not just in Kentucky, but I'll speak for Kentuckians.
00:21:45.860 We're offended by the idea of it.
00:21:47.460 No question about it.
00:21:48.460 It's one of these things where it's so radical.
00:21:52.160 It's important.
00:21:52.920 Let me back up just real quickly and I'll come back to your question.
00:21:55.440 I have appointed people who are both Republican and Democrat to top positions in my administration
00:22:01.420 because I don't look at the party.
00:22:02.860 I look at the character of people.
00:22:05.100 I want people of good character, people that are competent and people that are committed
00:22:09.400 to serving and people of that sort.
00:22:11.980 They fit into both parties.
00:22:13.840 But historically, that has been the case.
00:22:16.700 The National Democrat Party is leaving people like that behind and they're offended at the
00:22:22.920 idea of socialism.
00:22:24.100 They're defended at the godlessness.
00:22:25.860 They're defended at this idea that everything is free, but they're still nonetheless expected
00:22:30.920 to pay for it while someone else gets it for free.
00:22:33.920 And while we're still heavily registered Democrat, and while there are still far more D's than
00:22:38.520 R's in our state, they are voting more and more on the Republican ticket because they 0.99
00:22:45.180 recognize that the values they hold dear are no longer espoused by the party that they've
00:22:49.980 been a part of.
00:22:50.580 Governor Matt Bevin, the election is tomorrow.
00:22:56.140 You're on record saying you'll be, I think, six to ten points ahead.
00:23:01.360 I think we will.
00:23:02.480 The polls show that we're even or slightly ahead or slightly behind.
00:23:06.840 We're somewhere plus or minus two percent, maybe even.
00:23:10.240 But I'm telling you, I think they're wrong, just like they were wrong four years ago.
00:23:13.820 I think we'll win by six to ten.
00:23:15.400 I'd like to win by ten to twelve.
00:23:16.900 I'd like to elect an entire slate of Republicans for the first time in history in Kentucky.
00:23:23.840 Best of luck to you, Governor.
00:23:25.760 Thank you, guys.
00:23:26.520 Keep up the good work.
00:23:27.320 Keep fighting for the Constitution.
00:23:29.580 Yes, sir.
00:23:30.040 We'll do it.
00:23:30.520 And thank you both for continuing to hold the torch and not allowing it to go out on our
00:23:34.420 watch.
00:23:34.780 You guys are tremendous.
00:23:35.940 Thanks a lot.
00:23:36.340 Thanks.
00:23:36.600 Appreciate it.
00:23:37.080 Governor Matt Bevin from Kentucky.
00:23:42.000 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:23:46.900 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:23:53.280 If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed.
00:23:57.740 It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts.
00:24:01.740 Mr. Jason Wright, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, best-selling author.
00:24:07.220 Some of my favorite books.
00:24:09.140 One of them is The Wednesday Letters.
00:24:11.080 What was the other one, Jason, that you wrote that I love so much?
00:24:14.520 Recovering Charles.
00:24:15.560 Yeah, Recovering Charles.
00:24:16.540 About an alcoholic down in New Orleans.
00:24:17.360 I love that one, Recovering Charles.
00:24:19.100 Thank you.
00:24:19.980 And also, he wrote Christmas Jars, which you wrote that, I don't know how many years ago,
00:24:26.980 became an instant bestseller.
00:24:30.180 That was 2005, yeah.
00:24:32.200 Wow.
00:24:32.540 It seems like a million years ago, doesn't it?
00:24:34.240 And it's this great story about Christmas jars.
00:24:39.620 And we used to all have jars where we would put our change into those jars.
00:24:44.460 And tell the story here, Jason.
00:24:47.200 Well, we used to put our change in those jars, and then would use it for us for money or movie night
00:24:52.340 or, you know, the trip to Disney if it got big enough.
00:24:55.940 And now, because of this little book, and because of your support, Glenn, you know,
00:25:00.120 you mentioned it became an instant bestseller.
00:25:02.520 Well, sort of, but really because you had me on the air, and you read the first chapter.
00:25:07.820 I'll never forget tuning in, and you're halfway through the first chapter of the book.
00:25:13.460 And it just, thank you.
00:25:15.140 I just, I didn't want to end this call today without saying you're the reason that we're here.
00:25:19.420 You're the reason we're having this discussion tonight.
00:25:21.640 You're the reason that we have a movie, so thank you.
00:25:24.700 But this is about not just a jar on the counter that you put your spare change in.
00:25:28.700 It's about thinking about the needs of other people, what this beautiful holiday really means.
00:25:33.120 Christmas is not a 24-hour event.
00:25:36.280 It is how we live.
00:25:37.940 It's how we remember the Savior of the world every day.
00:25:40.520 And then during the holidays, find someone in your circle of influence, work, church, your community,
00:25:47.180 your neighbor, to give that jar of money away.
00:25:51.620 And it's not just the money in the jar that will change their life, as I've heard from thousands of people since 05,
00:25:56.960 but it is the message that they were not alone.
00:26:00.400 So you have Christmas Jars, the movie.
00:26:04.120 It's a Fathom event, if I'm not mistaken, isn't it?
00:26:07.300 You're correct.
00:26:08.300 Yeah, it's a Fathom event.
00:26:09.560 Tonight.
00:26:11.000 Tonight.
00:26:11.700 Tonight only.
00:26:12.380 As you know, because I know you've had some events with Fathom in the past, it's a one-night-only experience.
00:26:18.760 They're so good at creating.
00:26:20.220 It's not just a movie.
00:26:21.960 It's really an experience for the community to come together and to experience this with friends and family and loved ones.
00:26:27.460 And there's some bonus content at the end of the movie.
00:26:30.560 Stick around.
00:26:31.380 There's about 20 minutes.
00:26:32.440 Some really, really fun stuff.
00:26:33.740 And I promise you, in fact, gosh, I've said this before in a couple of local interviews,
00:26:39.540 but it's maybe blasphemy for me to say that the movie is maybe better than the book.
00:26:45.040 It is so – it's beautiful, Glenn.
00:26:47.840 Really?
00:26:48.200 Glenn, if you don't cry –
00:26:51.060 Oh, that's not a – that's not – please.
00:26:53.600 That's – he cries at Kleenex commercials.
00:26:56.960 You seek medical attention.
00:26:59.560 I'm serious.
00:26:59.960 It is so beautiful, and I just – I can't say enough about Muse, the studio that made this thing.
00:27:06.900 They're phenomenal.
00:27:07.880 BYU TV came in as a partner to help get us over the finish line after 5,100 – I did the math during the break – 5,144 days since I took my first meeting on the movie.
00:27:22.920 That gets us to tonight.
00:27:24.340 And thank you, and to so many of your listeners, by the way, so many of these jar stories that have come into ChristmasJars.com, so many of those stories reference I heard you on Beck, or I saw you on The Blaze.
00:27:36.220 And I just – I'm grateful to your audience for helping not just make the thing a hit, but making it a movement.
00:27:42.620 So we try to do a family thing on Mondays, so I think we're going to go out to a Fathom and find the Fathom Theater tonight and watch ChristmasJars as a family.
00:27:55.920 So I'll let you know tomorrow.
00:27:58.740 Where is – tell me what – how the ChristmasJars has changed, because I don't have a change jar anymore, because I don't – I don't usually have change, because I don't carry money.
00:28:10.240 I carry my debit card.
00:28:14.580 Yeah, no, that's a great point.
00:28:16.400 I actually hear that quite a bit from people.
00:28:18.800 One option is to – well, when you do – particularly during the holidays, when you hit the convenience store or the laundromat, wherever you are making some smaller dollar purchases where you might pull a $5 bill out to capture that change.
00:28:32.900 I had a lady come up to me a few weeks ago and kind of say the same thing.
00:28:37.000 She uses a PayPal card, actually, almost exclusively all year long.
00:28:40.840 And then she goes to the ATM, and she takes $100 in cash.
00:28:44.340 She goes to the bank.
00:28:45.520 She gets coins.
00:28:46.200 She puts it in a jar, and she, like, apologized as if she were doing it wrong.
00:28:49.640 And I said, look, sister, there's no right way or wrong way to give the jar away.
00:28:54.700 There's just kind of your way.
00:28:56.400 And, in fact, Glenn, you've told some of your stories about giving jars away, particularly when you had little ones at home.
00:29:02.520 And it's beautiful.
00:29:04.560 It's your way.
00:29:05.460 It's however your family feels like is the best way to do it.
00:29:07.960 Yeah, we love it.
00:29:09.840 We absolutely love it.
00:29:11.880 We take the Christmas jars, especially when the kids were younger, and, you know, they would be filled with coins and dollars and everything else.
00:29:20.860 And you just, you know, knock and run.
00:29:24.940 And it is so fantastic.
00:29:28.460 You know, you find this family that you know is struggling, and you just leave the Christmas jar up on their porch.
00:29:36.320 You don't necessarily go buy something for them because you don't know that, you know, what they really need might be just a turkey.
00:29:44.860 It might be something to eat.
00:29:46.220 It might be something special that you don't know of.
00:29:48.680 But so we really like to do the knock and run with the Christmas jar.
00:29:53.880 It's a great, great family tradition.
00:29:56.680 And you can watch the Fathom Event movie tonight and tonight only.
00:30:01.440 Would you just go to christmasjars.com and find out where the Fathom Theater would be around you?
00:30:07.620 Yep, christmasjars.com will give you ticket information.
00:30:10.440 Fathomevents.com.
00:30:11.480 You just punch in your zip code.
00:30:12.760 It'll tell you the closest theater.
00:30:13.880 It's about 830-some-odd, so hopefully it's close or close enough for most of you.
00:30:20.140 If it's sold out, make some noise at the box office and say, hey, is there any way to get an encore tomorrow night or something?
00:30:25.820 And then stay tuned, because I suspect that there might be other opportunities to see it closer to Christmas in other ways.
00:30:32.820 I suspect as well.
00:30:33.960 I thank you again to you and to everyone listening who has turned this into something that has been one of the greatest blessings of my life,
00:30:41.580 is to see this turn into a grassroots movement that can't be stopped.
00:30:45.600 Jason Wright, the name of the book is Christmas Jars, and the movie, the same name, happening tonight only at a Fathom Theater near you.
00:30:56.820 Just go to fathomevents.com or go to christmasjars.com, and they'll give you all the ticket information.
00:31:05.220 Jason, best of luck.
00:31:06.520 Thank you so much.
00:31:08.160 Thank you, my friend.
00:31:09.000 You bet.
00:31:11.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:31:13.980 No economic system has lasted forever.
00:31:42.600 That's true.
00:31:43.980 And I imagine that someday, when historians are studying the rise and fall of capitalism,
00:31:50.400 this was just released yesterday from Salon.com,
00:31:53.300 that they might look back at Glenn Beck's 2010 Earth Day meltdown as a seminal moment.
00:32:03.200 An exemplar of how far capitalism created the post-truth society
00:32:08.720 that now seems destined to doom its ability to function.
00:32:13.260 Wow.
00:32:14.380 This is my fault.
00:32:16.380 Mm-hmm.
00:32:17.460 2010.
00:32:19.780 Though it was only eight years ago,
00:32:23.780 We have largely forgotten how far-right firebrand Glenn Beck essentially prophesied the brand of spite politics
00:32:35.260 that animates much of the right today.
00:32:38.180 On his radio show, Beck gleefully shared with his listeners his plan to turn on as many lights as possible in his home during Earth Hour.
00:32:51.080 Wow.
00:32:51.860 I remember that very show.
00:32:53.860 Yeah.
00:32:53.960 They cut you dead to rights.
00:33:07.140 Beck told a caller on his April 22, 2010 radio program.
00:33:11.320 Have you cut down your earth tree yet and put it in your living room?
00:33:15.660 It's great.
00:33:17.240 I like to decorate mine with heat lamps, but that's a different story, he bragged.
00:33:23.440 You know, in our Earth Day, we've decided to turn on every light in the studio because we have some cockroaches to expose tonight in the bright light.
00:33:33.640 Now, that's an end quote.
00:33:37.460 Now, Salon continues,
00:33:39.840 Consider for a moment the kind of political position one must take in order to find joy and purpose in willfully burning something as caustic as styrofoam in one's backyard.
00:33:57.860 That's a really good point.
00:33:58.620 Such an act has no functional purpose besides spite.
00:34:04.380 Yet, Beck seems to believe it's his individual choice, his individual freedom.
00:34:10.760 He believes or is told to believe.
00:34:14.020 Right by your handlers, your masters.
00:34:16.380 Fine.
00:34:16.960 Mm-hmm.
00:34:17.740 Yeah.
00:34:18.120 Mm-hmm.
00:34:18.540 And that burning styrofoam is somehow as American as apple pie.
00:34:24.500 I know you believe that.
00:34:26.260 Oh, deeply.
00:34:27.000 Yeah.
00:34:27.200 I mean...
00:34:28.400 It's kind of what guides you.
00:34:29.660 This started in 2010, but I now heat my home with nothing but burnt styrofoam.
00:34:37.360 Back in 2010, and a lot of people were with me on this one, I just burned all the styrofoam peanuts I could find.
00:34:43.940 And a lot of people are like...
00:34:44.920 A lot of the shipping peanuts?
00:34:45.340 Yeah, I hate those damn things, right?
00:34:47.580 Am I right?
00:34:48.180 Well, they get out, they fall all over the floor.
00:34:49.880 You can never get them out.
00:34:51.080 They stick to your hand.
00:34:51.820 They're awful.
00:34:52.660 I actually rolled little children around in the styrofoam peanuts.
00:34:57.200 It stuck to them.
00:34:58.140 And then I shook them over the fire.
00:35:01.260 Wow.
00:35:01.800 Sometimes I slipped and I dropped a few of the kids, but that's okay.
00:35:04.420 We got rid of a lot of those styrofoam peanuts.
00:35:06.940 Who knew they were making more?
00:35:08.600 Anyway, Beck, of course, doesn't own the atmosphere.
00:35:12.340 We all have to breathe the same one.
00:35:15.140 Is that true?
00:35:16.620 No.
00:35:17.200 Okay.
00:35:18.420 Hence, the chemicals released in the burning of these toxic synthetic plastics spread across the planet in short order.
00:35:29.140 We've all inhaled their carcinogens by now.
00:35:34.020 Wow.
00:35:34.520 I never even looked at it that way.
00:35:36.360 You didn't care is what the problem was.
00:35:37.860 Well, but I didn't care to look at it.
00:35:39.900 Okay, you're right.
00:35:40.760 I didn't.
00:35:41.400 If future historians look back at this moment, surely they will marvel at what kind of confused ideological belief system could compel someone to do something so selfish and, frankly, stupid.
00:35:58.640 Surely they will.
00:35:59.460 Surely they will.
00:36:01.140 Surely they will look back at this and think, how could somebody be so stupid?
00:36:07.660 Yet capitalism begat this culture.
00:36:09.900 However, this notion that we're alone and have the individual right to do whatever we want with our time, our money, our lighters, even and especially if it hurts others.
00:36:22.080 Capitalism to function requires us to collectively deny the sheer idea of the collective good.
00:36:28.280 As Margaret Thatcher once said, there is no such thing as society.
00:36:31.920 There are only individual men and women and there are families.
00:36:35.780 Well, as Beck and Thatcher eloquently illustrate in very different ways, the ideological core of late capitalism is the supremacy of the belief in one's own individual beliefs and actions, regardless how they make others suffer or are morally or factually wrong.
00:36:59.500 I love this lecture from Salon.
00:37:04.160 The celebration of individualism in all its forms, including behavior, dress and actions, is intrinsic in this epic of capitalism exemplified in social media.
00:37:17.780 If you take this culture of hyper-individualism to its extreme, one might come to believe that you have the right to do or believe whatever you want, even if those beliefs are immediately, provably untrue.
00:37:34.140 How dare you?
00:37:36.320 So, thank you, Greta.
00:37:37.880 So, what this author is saying is, you shouldn't be able to believe things that are untrue?
00:37:47.900 Apparently.
00:37:48.940 Wow.
00:37:50.120 What should you do to people who are saying things that are not true?
00:37:55.940 I think you should lock them up.
00:37:57.260 Do you?
00:37:57.660 Do you think that's what they want?
00:37:58.780 Well, there has been mission creep with capitalist culture's idea of what freedom means, freedom to believe in one's own individual universe, freedom to pick and choose facts, and to disregard those that are disagreeable.
00:38:15.900 Oh, my gosh.
00:38:18.800 So ironic.
00:38:20.060 Oh, isn't it?
00:38:21.120 Mm-hmm.
00:38:21.420 Mm-hmm.
00:38:21.840 We are now seeing this result of mission creep in the emergence of a post-truth society.
00:38:28.540 We've been encouraged by a marketing apparatus to embody our own individual whims, to buy what we want, see what we want, do what we want, though all of this was just our right.
00:38:41.380 Thus, we would believe whatever we want isn't much further of a stretch.
00:38:47.620 Believe in astrology, believe in a flat Earth, believe that vaccines are a toxic plot, believe that every leader Trump says is right is right, and that all conspiracies are true simultaneously.
00:39:03.620 This is one of the most amazing pieces of lack of self-awareness I have ever seen.
00:39:11.380 My slightly shocking proposition, then, is this.
00:39:15.400 What if capitalism ultimately has created its own undoing by normalizing the post-truth society?
00:39:23.480 What if?
00:39:24.540 Many on the center and right believe that post-modern professors, a vague term that I disagree with how they wield it, have somehow perpetrated this lazy relationship with the truth.
00:39:34.720 Lazy relationship with the truth by promoting some sort of multipolar view of truth.
00:39:42.060 Others blame the sort of drug-induced counterculture ideologies embodied in writers like Carlos Constanda, whose literature depicted a reality that was hazy and self-determined.
00:39:56.200 These movements have sprung up from the same font of late capitalism, its tendency to tie individual with one's belief system.
00:40:05.540 You can draw a line, I think, from Milton Friedman's depressingly shadow view of human nature to our post-truth problems.
00:40:14.800 I was just thinking the same thing.
00:40:16.440 It was right on the tip of my tongue.
00:40:17.560 Was it really?
00:40:18.240 Yeah.
00:40:18.500 I was going to say that same sentence.
00:40:21.300 Is it perhaps the styrofoam that is burning here in the studio to keep us warm?
00:40:25.380 Possibly.
00:40:26.340 That is making you think those crazy thoughts?
00:40:28.520 Very possible.
00:40:32.280 You know, it's really sad because I, now that I've been exposed, I've been building houses out of styrofoam only to burn them down.
00:40:42.880 Wow.
00:40:43.540 Yeah.
00:40:44.200 Have you really?
00:40:44.700 Yeah.
00:40:45.220 I went to Georgia and I planted a whole field of styrofoam peanut plants.
00:40:52.320 So you got like a styrofoam peanut farm?
00:40:54.500 Yeah, I do.
00:40:55.800 Huh.
00:40:56.040 And we go out there and I have, I take people from the border who have been living in the shadows and I keep them in the shadows and I oppress them to pick the styrofoam peanuts in the farm. 0.98
00:41:09.480 Only to take them then and burn them and the illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:41:15.400 And yes, I said it, illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:41:17.280 You are truly evil.
00:41:19.080 Well.
00:41:19.820 Truly in every way.
00:41:21.460 We're living in a postmodern world and a post-truth world.
00:41:25.720 Yeah.
00:41:25.860 Which is what am I, what am I going to do?
00:41:28.980 You know?
00:41:29.520 Well, you've been caught dead to rights.
00:41:30.920 You might as well come out with it all now.
00:41:33.780 Oh, you want me to come out with all of it?
00:41:35.320 Yes.
00:41:36.220 Yes.
00:41:37.060 Beyond the farm?
00:41:38.300 I say purge yourself.
00:41:39.420 Beyond the farm.
00:41:40.580 Of all your iniquity.
00:41:41.560 All right.
00:41:41.940 Okay.
00:41:42.320 Let it out.
00:41:43.020 Okay.
00:41:43.560 All right.
00:41:43.980 I'm going to say it.
00:41:45.680 I took highly explosive styrofoam drones.
00:41:51.540 Oh, boy.
00:41:51.980 And you know how explosive, you drop, you drop styrofoam.
00:41:56.040 If it's from a high altitude, you know what a high altitude does to styrofoam.
00:42:00.320 Yes.
00:42:00.680 And I took that drone and I was ramming them into the rainforest this summer.
00:42:06.260 Wow.
00:42:06.820 Yeah.
00:42:07.640 Yeah.
00:42:07.920 Wow.
00:42:08.300 I needed to do something big.
00:42:09.700 I had already taken, you know, those styrofoam things that they pack, you know, livers and
00:42:14.600 hearts and kidneys in.
00:42:15.940 I had already burned all those.
00:42:18.100 So there was nothing then to pack the organs in anymore?
00:42:21.080 Of course not.
00:42:21.580 You didn't care.
00:42:22.200 Of course not.
00:42:22.540 I didn't care.
00:42:23.200 I needed to keep up with polluting the earth.
00:42:25.980 So I burned all of those.
00:42:27.300 Yeah.
00:42:27.740 And then you rammed the residual into the rainforest, which caused all those.
00:42:32.480 All the fires.
00:42:33.180 Fires.
00:42:33.740 Yeah.
00:42:34.700 Now, California was my idea, but I didn't do that.
00:42:39.640 It was my idea.
00:42:41.180 No, there's a copycat out there who's like, I hate the environment too.
00:42:44.900 Yeah.
00:42:45.240 And they wanted to burn their styrofoam and I don't, you know, whatever.
00:42:49.340 You know, I tell myself that, that, uh, you know, imitation is the highest form of flattery.
00:42:55.800 So.
00:42:57.320 Plus, I mean, you can't do everything.
00:42:59.600 Yeah.
00:42:59.960 Right.
00:43:00.220 You did the important one.
00:43:01.600 So I tried something new.
00:43:02.720 I tried something new this weekend.
00:43:04.420 I moved the global climate studies, uh, uh, summit summit.
00:43:09.180 I moved that from one continent to another, just to screw Greta, the little kid. 1.00
00:43:14.220 How dare you?
00:43:16.740 Yeah.
00:43:17.400 Wow.
00:43:18.060 But now that salon's on to me again, you might, and they have such a good point that, you know,
00:43:27.180 if you, you got to silence, you got to, you know, people like me are silencing those who
00:43:35.880 disagree with me, you know, and I'm allowed to believe in just crazy things, but they of
00:43:44.260 course are not lazy in their search for truth.
00:43:51.220 That is truly unbelievable.
00:43:54.340 That actually made it onto salon.com.
00:43:58.600 The blaze radio network on demand.