The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Rick Burgess & Floyd Brown ｜ 4⧸28⧸23

00:00:00.000 Stu, did we, did we do the Lord's work today?

00:00:04.060 Did we, did we, did, or are you proud of what we did today?

00:00:08.260 You did the Lord's work, the Lord of darkness.

00:00:12.440 You evil.

00:00:15.700 Oh yeah. 0.98

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00:00:34.820 The bad guys of world war two and Hitler, is he alive or dead? 0.86

00:00:38.740 Um, he thinks if he had to bet, yeah.

00:00:43.520 Uh, it's crazy.

00:00:44.660 He did this show, but we talked much more than just what he found a couple of years ago in

00:00:49.140 alive or dead or just escaped initially.

00:00:52.040 Well, yeah, yeah.

00:00:52.840 Back in the day.

00:00:53.520 Okay.

00:00:53.780 Not yet.

00:00:54.220 He's still not alive.

00:00:55.200 They've got his brain.

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00:02:26.580 Floyd, my man, how are you, sir?

00:02:28.920 I'm great.

00:02:30.100 Good to be with you.

00:02:31.100 Yeah.

00:02:31.280 Good to be with you.

00:02:32.580 So, um, we are at a time now where, um, I think this is the, you know, right.

00:02:40.100 Reagan said it now is the time for choosing.

00:02:43.300 This is the time where you have to decide what side you're on.

00:02:48.400 Uh, and I think there are many strange bedfellows that can be made at this point, uh, because

00:02:56.500 people are standing up from all walks of life.

00:03:02.160 Do you agree with that?

00:03:04.080 Oh, absolutely.

00:03:05.040 That's why I actually, my, my book is called counterpunch, but the subtitle is an unlikely

00:03:11.040 alliance of Americans fighting back for faith and freedom.

00:03:14.700 Um, and I think you are absolutely correct.

00:03:17.900 America is at an inflection point and we've been under such a barrage of what I call false

00:03:24.740 narratives for so long now.

00:03:27.040 And, uh, I mean, you deal with all of these false narratives from climate changes is caused

00:03:33.700 by man to Trump was a Russian spy.

00:03:36.940 Biden laptop was Russian propaganda.

00:03:39.360 I mean, we get all these false narratives and false narratives, their purpose is to make

00:03:45.400 people feel alone, isolated, and like they can't do anything.

00:03:51.440 And so, you know, I, I, I've traveled the country and speak at conferences and I kept hearing from

00:03:58.340 everyone.

00:03:58.780 What can I do?

00:03:59.880 What can I do?

00:04:00.720 What can I do?

00:04:01.460 So I thought I would put together a book that explained to them that they have the most power

00:04:09.200 right around them.

00:04:11.920 It's a lesson that I learned a long time ago.

00:04:14.640 We underestimate the power that we have to influence the people that are right around us.

00:04:21.000 Um, you know, local action can have national impact.

00:04:24.680 And so, uh, it's really a time for people to get engaged.

00:04:30.460 It's time for people to start building community again.

00:04:34.820 You know, they put us on house arrest.

00:04:36.920 They locked us all down.

00:04:38.540 They tried to do everything they could to break the bonds of community.

00:04:42.440 And we've got to go the extra step and start rebuilding those bonds.

00:04:48.440 So how do you do that when sometimes your family just can't even get together?

00:04:53.860 Yeah.

00:04:54.400 Well, the first thing that I suggest is people get to know their neighbors again.

00:04:58.740 Most people live on a street.

00:05:01.720 Most people, you know, live in an apartment building.

00:05:05.260 There's somewhere where there's neighbors nearby, but Americans don't know them anymore.

00:05:11.520 And so you can do things as simple as have coffee with them.

00:05:15.040 And then I talk about, uh, several examples of groups and organizations that have organically

00:05:22.740 grown up as a result of somebody just stepping out.

00:05:27.320 I talk about a guy named Basil Furmanos, who's in North Phoenix.

00:05:31.840 Uh, Basil was upset with mask mandates.

00:05:34.900 And so he texted 50 of his friends to come to a coffee shop and meet him and 250 people

00:05:43.600 showed up.

00:05:44.460 Wow.

00:05:45.060 And so that group, um, you know, was launched and they still meet, they meet Mondays, every

00:05:53.880 other Monday.

00:05:54.940 And they, they've been involved in school board races, local legislative races.

00:05:59.620 They are making change right where they live.

00:06:04.060 And that's how we fix the country.

00:06:06.400 You know, I, nobody's going to ride in on their white horse into Washington, DC and fix

00:06:12.980 everything.

00:06:13.420 That's not a solution to our problems.

00:06:15.720 No people, people have to occupy right where they're at.

00:06:19.140 There is, um, there's something also that I think is for me, at least the most important

00:06:26.720 thing.

00:06:27.300 Jason Whitlock yesterday said, stop calling me a conservative.

00:06:30.600 I'm a Christian.

00:06:31.900 I'm not necessarily conservative.

00:06:33.740 And I heard a, uh, great, uh, priest talk about this recently on a YouTube video.

00:06:39.160 I watch where he said, I'm tired of hearing about a liberal priest or a conservative priest.

00:06:44.740 He said, there's neither of those.

00:06:46.380 If you're for gay marriage, you're not a liberal priest.

00:06:51.100 You're not a priest. 0.87

00:06:52.720 If you are for, um, you know, transgenderism and the mutilation of our children, you're not 1.00

00:06:59.300 a liberal priest.

00:07:00.420 And I'm not a conservative priest for standing against it.

00:07:03.980 You're just not a priest.

00:07:05.900 And I think re, um, establishing ourselves with our faith.

00:07:14.420 And I don't know how many people really have that deep of faith anymore.

00:07:19.380 Um, but reestablishing that, no, there are, I have two citizenships, one to the United

00:07:24.920 States and my, my first citizenship is to the kingdom of God.

00:07:30.420 And I'm not going to break those laws in either of those citizenships.

00:07:36.020 I can't do it and, and be a good citizen.

00:07:40.620 No, you, you are exactly right.

00:07:43.460 This is a spiritual warfare.

00:07:45.940 You know, we, we, we all know that, uh, Tucker Carlson just recently was released at Fox.

00:07:51.760 And, uh, part of the speculation is we don't know everything that happened is that he was

00:07:57.560 starting to talk in terms of spiritual warfare and, and, and he, he, he was calling out people

00:08:04.880 as evil.

00:08:06.040 He gave this speech to the heritage foundation on their 50th anniversary where, uh, you know,

00:08:12.500 he, he, he, he said things that offend the elites.

00:08:16.240 And so, uh, you know, I think that that's a big part of why he might have been removed.

00:08:22.720 So you're right.

00:08:23.940 You've, you've, it is a spiritual battle.

00:08:27.120 And, um, you know, I encourage people to get back into scripture.

00:08:31.660 I think one of the ways that you can discern these false narratives is if you're putting

00:08:37.900 good things into your mind and the Bible and the scripture is full of wisdom.

00:08:43.700 So, you know, turn off social media, turn off Twitter, turn off Facebook and spend some

00:08:49.900 time in the Bible.

00:08:50.880 And I think it will really change your perspective about things.

00:08:55.240 I think it's really hard.

00:08:56.680 You know, if people went and swore off, uh, you know, movies, TV shows that are on Netflix,

00:09:04.200 people don't realize how far we have drifted just in the last 10 years.

00:09:11.400 You can't watch anything anymore that, you know, you would have, you would have thought

00:09:18.200 was good and wholesome 15 years ago.

00:09:21.180 They don't exist.

00:09:22.920 And what's good and wholesome now is still filthy.

00:09:26.680 You know, well, that's, that's one of the good things about having these streaming sites

00:09:31.780 is we can watch old programs.

00:09:34.040 I mean, I mean, my, my wife and I, we watched murder.

00:09:37.180 She wrote, which came out during the Reagan years.

00:09:39.640 Right.

00:09:40.460 Right.

00:09:41.380 So, but you know, uh, uh, uh, Alinsky, who was the most powerful influence on the left

00:09:48.460 and wrote rules for radicals.

00:09:50.300 He was a great tactical strategist.

00:09:52.740 And what he helped the left do was maximize their influence, but he did it by ridicule and

00:10:01.840 ripping people apart.

00:10:03.340 His strategies are incredibly divisive.

00:10:06.560 And, uh, in fact, you know, uh, he, he dedicated his book to Lucifer, the most divisive person

00:10:13.960 in the spiritual realm.

00:10:15.880 And, and I actually encourage people to do the opposite of Alinsky.

00:10:21.100 And that is start to love the people around you, start to love your neighbors, start to re-engage

00:10:28.520 with your neighbors, and then find people like you that you want to work with, and then get

00:10:35.180 involved in your school board race, get involved in some of these key things, because, you know,

00:10:41.520 we still have the bill of rights, we still have freedom of the press.

00:10:46.040 And if we don't exercise these freedoms, we will lose them.

00:10:50.560 I think that's one of the most important things that you have said is start to, uh, love your

00:10:55.980 enemy.

00:10:56.300 I, I, I, I gave a speech, uh, a couple of nights ago in Virginia and, uh, I said, you

00:11:03.360 know, their hatred comes from darkness and ignorance.

00:11:10.780 And, uh, there is a hatred that is spreading all over the world.

00:11:15.920 That is just evil.

00:11:17.540 And if we really are disciples of Christ, we have to love our enemies and we have to

00:11:26.280 start looking at some of these people.

00:11:27.800 Some of these people know exactly what they're engaged in.

00:11:30.220 I think a lot of other people don't really know, and they've just kind of, they've just

00:11:35.360 kind of eased their way into it and they don't realize that they're up to their neck

00:11:40.780 in evil now.

00:11:41.760 And the Lord wants all of his kids back, not just us, not one side or the other.

00:11:48.300 He wants all of them to return to him.

00:11:52.080 Uh, and you're never going to accomplish that with hatred and anger and violence.

00:11:57.560 Never.

00:11:59.040 No.

00:11:59.660 I mean, his message is a message of love of radical love.

00:12:04.360 And, um, you know, when I was growing up, we had the Kiwanis club, we had the lions club,

00:12:11.000 we had the rotary club, we had all of these civic organizations that were, were building

00:12:17.820 the local community.

00:12:19.560 And, you know, those organizations now are all in really tough shape.

00:12:25.800 They're smaller after COVID.

00:12:27.840 A lot of people didn't come back, uh, there, there, a lot of them will never re-engage.

00:12:33.900 We have to rebuild community and start with our neighborhoods and start with our neighbors.

00:12:40.780 And we can take back the country, literally town by town, city by city, county by county.

00:12:47.960 There's over 3000 counties in America that are, uh, in essence, red counties.

00:12:54.600 And a lot of times, uh, they aren't being run that way because people just aren't active

00:13:02.540 in their communities.

00:13:03.440 And politics encourages and invites and attracts some of the worst elements.

00:13:10.340 Uh, Floyd, thank you so much.

00:13:11.980 The name of the book that he's just put out is counterpunch.

00:13:15.740 Uh, his name is Floyd Brown.

00:13:17.960 You can get counterpunch wherever you get your books and you can also find, uh, much of his

00:13:22.600 work at westernjournal.com, westernjournal.com.

00:13:26.540 Floyd, thank you so much.

00:13:28.100 Great to be with you.

00:13:29.180 You bet.

00:13:29.440 Bye-bye.

00:13:30.420 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:13:37.940 Welcome to the, uh, Glenn Beck program.

00:13:40.000 We're glad you're here.

00:13:40.860 Now, I want to talk to you about, uh, your elections.

00:13:45.820 You may have elections going on.

00:13:48.480 Texas, I know, has elections going on right now through May 2nd.

00:13:53.480 Election day is Saturday, May 6th.

00:13:56.140 Um, but this is, these are the ones where they get you because they're very organized.

00:14:02.660 And some of these elections, many of them school board elections, they can be won by three votes

00:14:08.640 because seven people have voted.

00:14:11.700 Okay.

00:14:13.040 Nobody goes out and votes.

00:14:15.820 You need to call your friends and organize your neighborhood.

00:14:21.240 Literally, if you put 10 people in a car, you could be the difference on a winning and

00:14:28.640 losing election in an election like what's happening right now.

00:14:32.480 Um, I want to introduce you to, uh, Stephanie Alad.

00:14:35.760 She is, and now don't hold this against her.

00:14:38.300 Okay.

00:14:38.820 Stephanie, yes, she's a California native, but she got to Texas as soon as she could. 0.99

00:14:45.800 Stephanie, welcome to the program.

00:14:47.940 Thank you, Glenn.

00:14:49.060 Yeah.

00:14:49.680 Um, so you moved from California, you moved to Frisco, which is a really nice, uh, part of

00:14:55.900 North Texas and it has great schools and you got into the schools and then you started

00:15:03.020 paying attention to what was being said because of COVID and what happened.

00:15:09.560 Right.

00:15:10.080 Well, the first few years were great.

00:15:11.600 We've been here 10 years.

00:15:12.820 And then I started to notice some things even before COVID, but then after COVID definitely.

00:15:18.240 And so I went to a school board meeting just about two years ago, actually.

00:15:22.800 And I just did not like what I saw at all.

00:15:26.320 I felt like the parents who had taken time to be there were, were very disrespected.

00:15:31.700 In fact, the school board president at the time said, this is our meaning, meaning theirs

00:15:36.160 and not ours.

00:15:36.880 And it just didn't sit right with me.

00:15:38.560 So to make a very long story short, I ended up running for school board last year and I

00:15:43.800 won.

00:15:44.340 So I have been a school board member, um, for about a year now.

00:15:48.520 And you found out, and we have the tape, we're going to play it here in a second.

00:15:53.420 You found out that other members of the school board were meeting without you to try to figure

00:16:00.100 out how to pretty much silence you.

00:16:04.060 Yes, I did find that out recently.

00:16:07.640 And, uh, well, let's, let's play.

00:16:09.860 Do you want to set this audio up?

00:16:12.820 Well, yeah, from what I understand, I can.

00:16:15.020 Sure.

00:16:15.220 So, so what happened last fall was that myself and another trustee put an item on the agenda

00:16:21.720 related to bathroom policy.

00:16:23.660 And so that it took a while.

00:16:27.800 And now I know why it took a while.

00:16:29.360 Once you hear what you're about to play, it'll probably make more sense, but it took

00:16:33.500 a while.

00:16:34.140 And I didn't really think that much about the fact that it took a while, even though

00:16:37.960 we have procedures as part of the board in terms of how long things should take before

00:16:42.500 they get on an agenda when trustees request it.

00:16:45.620 But anyways, apparently there was, um, some constituents of our community who were angry

00:16:51.560 about the policy.

00:16:52.680 So our three board officers met with them to address their concerns.

00:16:59.660 And, um, they were concerned that we had just passed a policy saying, you know, boys

00:17:04.460 use boys' restrooms, girls' use girls' restrooms. 0.68

00:17:06.860 They were upset about that.

00:17:08.720 And so this, this audio was the three board officers, um, kind of responding to those concerns.

00:17:15.940 Now listen to this.

00:17:17.120 Go ahead.

00:17:17.420 I am so tired of having, because every time it's on a board meeting, every time it's on

00:17:22.500 an agenda, the entire tape crowd now can come and speak about how terrible they think

00:17:29.040 our transgender students are. 0.94

00:17:30.320 Stop for a second. 0.99

00:17:31.560 This, this woman is saying, I am so sick and tired of it. 0.70

00:17:34.860 Every time we talk about bathrooms, then the entire hate crowd comes in and we have

00:17:41.040 to listen to how much they hate it.

00:17:42.840 Go ahead.

00:17:43.120 I mean, Marvin and Stephanie are going to keep on, but every time they're going to ruin

00:17:47.640 every meeting this year.

00:17:48.460 They're going to ruin every meeting this year.

00:17:49.660 Yes.

00:17:51.020 And I have mechanisms in place that I can push and I can use our subcommittee structure.

00:17:57.720 And they wanted to vote on this in July.

00:18:00.560 It's November.

00:18:01.620 That's how long I've been able to push this out.

00:18:03.420 And so, like, I have mechanisms by which I can do that.

00:18:06.580 And I can also put it on any agenda.

00:18:08.920 They want it on the regular board meetings because it's a show.

00:18:11.100 If they ask for anything transgender policy going forward, it will be on a special meeting

00:18:15.260 in the middle of the day that no one goes through.

00:18:16.460 And the only way we can combat what they're doing is to make sure our board stays then

00:18:20.900 the majority of good guys.

00:18:22.100 That's all we can do.

00:18:22.860 Because the state...

00:18:23.920 But if they change the state law...

00:18:25.420 They won't have to grab the...

00:18:26.400 They will try.

00:18:27.620 But they're...

00:18:28.280 They have never been successful in passing a bathroom policy at the state level.

00:18:31.880 Because we need to be in the audience listening to what their narrative is so that we have

00:18:36.440 a defense mechanism.

00:18:39.240 That is incredible.

00:18:41.580 In case you need a recap, some of the things discussed there was we're tired of the people

00:18:47.020 coming to the meetings and wrecking the meetings.

00:18:50.060 And Stephanie and her fellow board member, they keep coming and they're going to wreck all

00:18:57.320 of these meetings.

00:18:58.180 So, then the next one says, well, I can keep it off the agenda.

00:19:04.000 They wanted to do this in July.

00:19:05.780 It's now November.

00:19:07.100 And I have mechanisms that will keep it off the agenda.

00:19:10.000 And the other one says, and if they want to put it on the agenda, we can put it on in

00:19:14.820 the day so nobody comes.

00:19:17.160 And we won't have to deal with all of that.

00:19:20.460 What was the last thing in there?

00:19:23.080 We have to make sure that the good guys remain in control of the board.

00:19:31.560 The question is, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?

00:19:35.700 When you heard this, Stephanie, what did you think?

00:19:41.320 I mean, I was shocked.

00:19:44.080 I really was.

00:19:45.440 Because, you know, I understand that there's a divide within the board and that, you know,

00:19:50.500 the existing board members didn't want me on it.

00:19:53.480 I certainly understand that.

00:19:55.420 That was made very clear in last year's election.

00:19:58.240 But, you know, I was surprised that anyone went to this level to do this.

00:20:03.600 And it was very concerning to me to call, you know, to characterize the parents as being

00:20:09.020 a hate crowd.

00:20:09.760 These are parents who came and spent their time and spoke, in most cases, pretty eloquently

00:20:15.880 about their concern about this bathroom practice that the district had had and, quite honestly,

00:20:23.640 is still practicing.

00:20:24.740 So, you know, they're allowed to come and say that.

00:20:27.420 And that doesn't make them a hate crowd.

00:20:28.860 They were concerned.

00:20:29.600 There were fathers coming concerned about their daughters.

00:20:32.500 There were, you know, there was a mom who came, who her son had been impacted by this

00:20:38.380 whole issue of having a biological girl in the boys' restroom.

00:20:43.620 And then, you know, when this mother complained to the school about that, they said, well,

00:20:48.800 your son can use the nurse's restroom if he's uncomfortable.

00:20:51.740 And she came and spoke.

00:20:53.120 I didn't, that's not a hater.

00:20:54.660 That's just, you know, someone who disagrees.

00:20:56.940 And it, you know, one of the things that concerns me the most about this whole environment

00:21:01.200 that we live in, especially as it relates to school board elections, is if you don't agree

00:21:06.040 with the establishment, then you're, you know, you're a hate crowd, right?

00:21:11.520 And you're anti-public education. 0.99

00:21:13.720 It's like, it's so ridiculous. 0.99

00:21:16.020 It's so intellectually dishonest. 0.99

00:21:18.120 It's like, we can disagree.

00:21:20.200 And that's okay.

00:21:21.500 But this name calling and this rhetoric is just, it's escalated in Frisco this year because

00:21:26.840 of the board election.

00:21:27.760 And it's really sad to see.

00:21:30.920 So, first of all, are there people that you've talked to or you're getting some other people

00:21:35.600 like you on that are running now for the board?

00:21:38.960 There are two people that I am supporting in this election.

00:21:42.020 I sort of characterize it as establishment candidates versus independent voices.

00:21:47.180 That's how I characterize it.

00:21:49.000 And so there are, I've supported Reed Bond and Susan Kershaw.

00:21:53.160 We have two seats up for election this year and I have publicly endorsed and supported

00:21:57.380 them.

00:21:58.360 Are they running as, are they Republicans or Democrats or independents?

00:22:03.560 They are.

00:22:04.360 They're, they're conservative.

00:22:05.800 Okay.

00:22:06.140 They are.

00:22:07.080 And they've gotten all the endorsements from all the conservative groups and a lot of the

00:22:11.640 Republican politicians.

00:22:13.900 But because they're nonpartisan races, it doesn't have the, any kind of party affiliation

00:22:19.420 on the ballot.

00:22:20.520 Right.

00:22:20.780 Um, and, and how do you, are there any, I mean, cause they're so, they hide, they hide.

00:22:29.140 We're open with our view.

00:22:31.040 Look, if you want bathrooms to be shared by, you know, both sexes or all 99, I'm not the 0.99

00:22:38.320 candidate for you.

00:22:39.600 They're not open and honest about it.

00:22:42.800 So how do you know that you're, you're standing with somebody that is good?

00:22:48.640 Well, um, you know, you just ask questions.

00:22:54.740 And I think a lot of these, these grassroots organizations, um, you know, do the vetting.

00:23:00.860 And so that's what I tell people is go look at their questionnaires, go look at who they're

00:23:05.440 endorsing.

00:23:06.620 And you can see some of that.

00:23:08.180 There's also forums that have been online.

00:23:10.000 Um, in fact, I was interested to find out that the Frisco Chamber of Commerce, when they did

00:23:16.920 their forum, that's kind of the biggest forum that we have here.

00:23:20.480 They asked, you know, do you support getting out of the Texas Association of School Boards

00:23:25.800 or not?

00:23:26.500 Because another district recently did.

00:23:28.100 And I thought, well, that's a, that's a question.

00:23:30.020 That's a good one.

00:23:30.680 People said yes or no.

00:23:31.820 Right.

00:23:32.120 And so you could see where people fell.

00:23:35.240 The other thing I'll say, just to kind of get back to the video for a quick second, is

00:23:38.660 that one of our state representatives, um, did request that the TEA, the Texas Education

00:23:46.380 Agency do an investigation into this to see if there was any kind of wrongdoing.

00:23:51.080 And so it is my understanding that that investigation has occurred.

00:23:55.420 So there's been quite a bit of backlash to it, including from several of our elected officials

00:23:59.580 who've gotten involved and are trying to do something to, to just stop this stuff.

00:24:05.700 So the, uh, Texas Association of School Boards, um, you know, we, we know about the school

00:24:12.260 board, um, associations nationally, uh, and the Texas teachers unions, uh, they were instrumental

00:24:20.700 in killing, uh, school choice here in Texas, which is incredible to me.

00:24:26.160 We have so many spineless Republicans.

00:24:27.920 Um, what role do those guys play in school boards and, and, uh, races like this? 0.99

00:24:35.440 So the Texas Association of School Boards, um, all trustees become a member once they get

00:24:41.580 sworn in, if your district is a member of, of that organization and all districts in Texas,

00:24:47.920 except for one are, and that, that would be Carol ISD in Southlake who recently just voted

00:24:53.340 to get out of the Texas Association of School Boards.

00:24:56.100 So they are in a process of exiting.

00:24:59.240 Good.

00:24:59.860 Um, but basically they provide training for trustees.

00:25:02.840 They provide legal and others as well, employees, things like that.

00:25:07.120 Um, they also provide legal services for districts and insurance services and things like that.

00:25:13.500 But they're on the wrong, they're on the wrong side.

00:25:16.120 Are they not?

00:25:16.940 Are they not also pushing?

00:25:18.900 Go ahead.

00:25:20.280 Yeah.

00:25:20.600 I've seen them push quite a bit of, of progressive ideology.

00:25:25.320 Um, I was not a fan of that organization when I was running because I had heard about this

00:25:31.120 concept called team of eight.

00:25:32.560 Yeah.

00:25:32.960 And that is basically where you have seven trustees and a superintendent and you're supposed

00:25:37.540 to be a team.

00:25:38.220 And I thought, well, that, that just seemed counterintuitive to me on the face of it.

00:25:41.860 Cause I thought, well, aren't the trustees supposed to be there to, you know, oversee the district

00:25:47.380 and isn't the superintendent supposed to report to the board and isn't the board supposed to

00:25:52.020 be seven independent voices trying to make decisions for the community.

00:25:55.080 So the whole team of eight concept, I ran a platform kind of against that.

00:25:59.440 In fact, I think I've specifically said I will not be team of eight.

00:26:02.440 I will be an independent voice.

00:26:05.000 Um, so that was kind of my thoughts before I, before I got on.

00:26:08.380 And then, you know, when I got on the board, I had the chance last fall to go to a convention

00:26:15.360 that was put on by the Texas association of school boards and they brought in ACLU attorneys

00:26:21.920 to talk to the trustees about some of these controversial issues.

00:26:26.760 And I was shocked.

00:26:28.100 I mean, it's one thing to present both sides of an issue, but I didn't see any heritage

00:26:32.300 foundation speakers or, you know, anything like that.

00:26:35.340 Right.

00:26:36.100 Exactly.

00:26:36.600 Right.

00:26:36.760 I saw the ACLU and I was, I was quite honestly horrified because it was, you know, you have

00:26:41.880 to allow pornographic books in libraries, just make sure they're age appropriate, which

00:26:45.960 meant to me, I guess high school is okay, but maybe some books aren't okay for elementary

00:26:49.540 school.

00:26:49.900 But they basically told us there's no book, you know, that you should take out of the

00:26:54.500 library.

00:26:54.780 And some of these books are so explicit.

00:26:57.220 And then they also, you know, said, you know, boys should be in girls' locker rooms and stuff

00:27:01.420 that they want.

00:27:02.180 And I mean, I heard them say it and I, I couldn't get my mind around the fact that that's what

00:27:06.920 they were doing.

00:27:07.440 And so there's a lot of that stuff that, that goes on in the conventions, but even just a

00:27:12.600 lot of the rhetoric from, you know, this organization, they basically said that when

00:27:18.000 you, you know, when you become a trustee, you serve a district and not the voters.

00:27:23.020 And I thought, well, that's, you know, what the heck is that?

00:27:26.020 So, so I have not been a fan of this organization.

00:27:29.200 Stephanie, thank you.

00:27:30.900 You are running again already.

00:27:33.440 No, I am not running.

00:27:34.440 You're not running.

00:27:35.140 Okay, good.

00:27:35.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:36.800 I didn't think so, but, um, yeah, uh, for your term, so I'll be in until 2025, at least

00:27:43.380 and, but I'm supporting Reed Bond and Susan Kershaw to be independent voices for Frisco

00:27:49.580 ISD.

00:27:50.260 I just wanted to talk to you.

00:27:51.840 Thank you, Stephanie.

00:27:52.700 I just wanted to talk to you for, uh, the one reason that these are the elections that

00:27:58.380 count.

00:27:59.200 They will organize in these.

00:28:01.220 The average American doesn't even go.

00:28:04.460 And literally they can be won by one vote, six votes.

00:28:09.920 You can change everything.

00:28:11.760 If you just grab five people, put them in your car, go and go and vote, do your homework.

00:28:19.400 But if you have these elections going now, locally, you've got to vote.

00:28:24.640 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:27.260 Uh, we are heard every day and watched, uh, every day on radio stations all over, uh, America.

00:28:43.380 And we are also watched and carried on blaze TV, blaze audio and podcasts.

00:28:50.560 The same can be said for our good friend, Rick Burgess, who is, uh, part of, uh, Rick and

00:28:57.040 Bubba and Rick and Bubba are on, uh, every morning on blaze TV where you can watch their

00:29:03.980 show.

00:29:04.340 They are also heard on radio nationwide, uh, and very, very funny and really, really good

00:29:10.580 guys.

00:29:11.840 Rick, uh, uh, Burgess is with us now.

00:29:14.120 He just did an interview that I heard with William Shatner, um, where, uh, William kept

00:29:20.620 referring to, uh, Rick as Bubba the entire time.

00:29:25.120 And, uh, Rick was nice enough not to tell him.

00:29:29.580 Yeah.

00:29:30.160 Bubba's not on the phone.

00:29:31.400 This is Rick, dude.

00:29:32.760 This is Rick, but, uh, welcome to the program, Bubba.

00:29:37.320 Yeah.

00:29:37.900 Yes.

00:29:38.260 I'm, uh, yeah.

00:29:38.900 I go, I answered to Rick.

00:29:40.280 Our Bubba, this is Bubba and I were, you know, we're in our 29th year in four months.

00:29:45.500 So at this point, if someone calls me Bubba at the grocery store, I just answer.

00:29:50.680 If somebody asks me how his wife's doing, I just pretend my wife is not happy about this.

00:29:56.600 My wife, my wife literally says, Glenn, she says, if another person asked me if I'm married

00:30:01.120 to Rick and Bubba, I'm going to screw it.

00:30:04.460 Uh, she, she's, I'm only married to one of them.

00:30:07.060 Right.

00:30:07.480 So look, we're interchangeable and you don't interrupt William Shatner.

00:30:10.620 You don't correct William Shatner.

00:30:12.180 I had him on my CNN program.

00:30:14.320 Uh, I don't know.

00:30:15.580 How long was it ago?

00:30:16.780 Almost 20 years ago now.

00:30:17.660 And he was, he said, you know, I watch you every day.

00:30:22.220 And I said, that sounds kind of creepy.

00:30:24.200 And he said, no, I watch you every day.

00:30:26.220 He said, because it's, it's as if I'm a pyromaniac and I'm just watching everything burn down in front of me.

00:30:36.240 And if you noticed, if you noticed, I said this when it was over, you know, Speedy, all the guys on the show, they're like, why didn't you correct him?

00:30:46.660 And of course, Bubba loved the fact that didn't cause he ended up having to miss the interview.

00:30:49.700 Cause you interview William Shatner when he can, or what he tells you to.

00:30:53.620 And so I said, well, don't worry, Bubba, there's no interviewing Shatner.

00:30:57.180 He, he said for eight minutes, what he wanted to say.

00:30:59.540 We were done.

00:30:59.980 You know, and, uh, and what's sad though, is Bubba is the one who loves star Trek.

00:31:05.200 I never watched it as a kid.

00:31:07.140 Cause it wasn't my thing.

00:31:08.080 I really thought Boston legal in that character, you know, was the most hilarious one.

00:31:13.800 Oh, he is a phenomenal, I mean, he never, I mean, this is not what you're on for.

00:31:18.320 So we're going to stop talking about William Shatner, but he is an awesome actor.

00:31:22.660 He really is in a very stilted sort of William Shatner sort of way.

00:31:28.400 Anyway, um, it says right here on my little piece of paper, uh, the topic I'm supposed

00:31:34.660 to address is why are the majority of church congregations made up of women? 0.98

00:31:39.820 Where are the men?

00:31:40.720 But I'm not going with that because you are, uh, the founder of the man church. 0.65

00:31:47.040 So the answer, where are all the men there at Rick or Bubba's church?

00:31:54.220 That is correct.

00:31:55.680 Let's talk about this.

00:31:57.300 Here, here's what we know.

00:31:58.800 Okay.

00:31:59.040 We know this.

00:31:59.780 Do you ever get tired of people hitting you with stats about something and you begin to

00:32:03.600 scream, well, are we going to do anything about it or just keep talking about this?

00:32:06.900 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:07.400 So we have, we have been on every, this is what every father's day, every time I've ever

00:32:12.000 been in church, the guy gets up and appreciate it.

00:32:14.960 And he says, well, we've done the survey.

00:32:16.580 We've done the survey again.

00:32:17.840 Let me tell you men something.

00:32:19.040 Uh, you, the Barner research is in and, and, and there is no influence that's anywhere near

00:32:25.340 the influence that God gave a man.

00:32:27.340 Now, let me be clear.

00:32:28.100 Uh, that does not mean inequality.

00:32:30.320 The men and women are of equal value and equal standing before God almighty.

00:32:35.280 He created them male and female.

00:32:36.820 However, there's a headship and that he gave to man and there's a maternal connection he

00:32:42.160 gave to woman that you can't just interchange. 1.00

00:32:44.660 And the headship does not meet inequality.

00:32:46.580 As we know, you know, that Jesus himself said, I'm here to do the will of my father.

00:32:51.300 There was a headship and the father, but the father and the son are equal, you know, so

00:32:55.600 it's not, it's not inequality.

00:32:56.700 So let's drop all that.

00:32:58.100 But, but what, but what that we hear is that Barner and all these others have researched

00:33:02.300 that inside a home, if the mother and father are there, if the man becomes a follower of

00:33:07.660 Christ, there is the low, the highest that ever was, there's a 93% chance the rest of

00:33:12.800 the family will follow his spiritual lead.

00:33:15.000 And then I think now down it's to 78 or 82, but it drops substantially down to if, if,

00:33:21.980 if mom becomes a spiritual leader of the home, it gets like the 23% that the rest of the house 0.73

00:33:26.380 will follow.

00:33:27.020 If it's a child, it's in single digits that that child could influence the rest of their

00:33:31.000 family.

00:33:32.040 So the question that we asked at themanchurch.com or God finally, you know, convicted me, are

00:33:37.740 you just going to keep talking about this?

00:33:39.180 Or why don't you quit waiting for someone else to do something?

00:33:41.660 And I said, well, what are we actually doing about it?

00:33:44.740 And most Western churches, if you go in, you will find that they'll say this on Father's

00:33:49.280 Day.

00:33:49.840 But if you looked at the budget or an investment or any game plan to reach and disciple men

00:33:54.460 so they can actually do the job as spiritually leading, spiritually leading their home, you

00:33:59.620 find that it's financed dead last, or there's really not a game plan at all.

00:34:04.060 So here was the question we have to ask, do we really believe it?

00:34:06.840 And in this country right now, wherever you go, when you see chaos, you see one thing.

00:34:12.920 Men have left their proper place. 0.92

00:34:14.900 And now we're getting into this, you know, biological men now want to identify as women.

00:34:19.640 And have you noticed?

00:34:20.560 They're becoming dangerous.

00:34:22.120 Anytime men leave their proper place under the authority of the one and only living God, 0.91

00:34:27.420 they're dangerous.

00:34:28.220 They always have been.

00:34:29.320 We always will be.

00:34:30.420 And so you're not going to address this nation's spiritual problem with some kind of worldly

00:34:36.360 solution.

00:34:37.680 And so at themanchurch.com and here at the Rick and Bubba show, we said, well, if that

00:34:42.620 will have a huge impact, if men have the most influence, if we got men in their proper place, 0.57

00:34:48.220 wouldn't we solve a lot of our problems?

00:34:50.480 And so we're being intentional about reaching, but then discipling men from spiritual infancy

00:34:58.160 to spiritual maturity, because we can't just tell them they need to spiritually lead their

00:35:02.100 family.

00:35:02.540 You got to equip us to do it.

00:35:05.240 Equip me.

00:35:06.580 Give me a place to start.

00:35:10.220 Exactly.

00:35:10.800 I mean, I told everybody, how would I feel if I went to church every Father's Day and

00:35:14.400 they told me I was supposed to be the mechanic of my home?

00:35:16.720 And they kept quoting scripture.

00:35:18.040 And I said, my goodness, the Bible clearly says that.

00:35:20.140 And then all of a sudden they just left.

00:35:21.820 And I looked around and I said, anybody going to show me how to be a mechanic?

00:35:24.180 I don't know anything about cars.

00:35:25.740 So when all we do is challenge men, but we don't equip them, we just frustrate them.

00:35:30.300 I appreciate what Promise Keepers did.

00:35:32.160 That was a great movement.

00:35:33.180 I appreciate men's conferences.

00:35:34.660 I still speak at them.

00:35:36.040 But if all we do is challenge and we don't equip, we're just frustrating men and we must

00:35:41.280 reach them and disciple them.

00:35:42.580 So at themanchurch.com, we have a whole strategy where you can just plug in.

00:35:48.400 And we have now our fourth 40-week curriculum that's coming out.

00:35:51.620 And this curriculum is designed to get men into small groups and actually equip them,

00:35:57.800 disciple them, teach them the Word of God, teach them to be able to handle the Word of

00:36:01.660 God, teach them what God's standard is, teach them the truth, not just shout at them and

00:36:07.040 tell them to do it, actually show them how to do it.

00:36:09.700 So we still challenge, but we also equip.

00:36:12.340 And so we have multiple resources available and we go into the churches and we set up

00:36:17.500 this strategy.

00:36:18.920 And like I say, we've got, like we were talking about a new resource that we just put out

00:36:22.800 that kind of says what we need to say, right?

00:36:25.160 We need to be transformed.

00:36:26.500 And that's the latest resource that we're putting out right now.

00:36:29.460 It's a 31-day devotional.

00:36:31.120 And listen to this.

00:36:31.980 You know how Jesus is always counterculture, Glenn? 0.92

00:36:34.440 The subtitle, picture how mad this makes everybody, embracing the death of self and the power of

00:36:40.920 God, go out to today's world and say, you need to die to yourself.

00:36:44.420 That's counterculture, but that's exactly what Jesus said. 0.89

00:36:47.480 Well, and it is so important now.

00:36:49.640 I mean, we are all, we're making ourselves into gods.

00:36:54.700 You know, I can decide sexuality.

00:36:57.120 No, you can't.

00:36:58.400 Gender is assigned by God. 0.95

00:37:00.600 That's not within your power.

00:37:02.440 Who do you think you are?

00:37:03.480 Well, God.

00:37:04.520 That's who I am.

00:37:05.480 Right.

00:37:05.900 And it's a real problem.

00:37:07.020 So, self-worship is the number one, that's the largest going religion we have in our

00:37:12.500 society right now.

00:37:13.260 It's the worship of self.

00:37:15.780 So, themanchurch.com, themanchurch.com.

00:37:19.500 Now, I've got a question from the other side.

00:37:22.800 You know, the first question was, you know, why are the majority of church congregations

00:37:26.700 made up of women? 0.77

00:37:27.660 Where are the men?

00:37:28.720 In your man church, where are all the women? 1.00

00:37:31.640 Uh-huh.

00:37:32.480 See, I'm going to put you on the rope.

00:37:34.000 You go ahead and answer that one.

00:37:36.120 Well, that's an easy question.

00:37:37.580 They're not invited.

00:37:39.100 So, well, here's what it is.

00:37:42.580 Let me tell you where we established the strategy.

00:37:44.940 Honestly, if you go into the church, women and children are being taken care of.

00:37:48.820 Yeah.

00:37:49.240 There is a game plan for them, and it's a flawed strategy.

00:37:52.640 The Western church, I don't know when this happened, what was the first seminary to do

00:37:55.740 this, and I use the word seminary loosely.

00:37:58.180 They came a strategy that says you reach the family through the children.

00:38:01.740 You do a great children's program, and you reach the children, then those children reach

00:38:05.100 mom, and then mom reaches dad.

00:38:06.800 Yep.

00:38:07.320 Total hogwash. 0.94

00:38:09.140 They don't understand men.

00:38:10.500 Men are more than willing to drop their kids and their wives off at church and then go play golf.

00:38:14.380 Yes.

00:38:14.620 Go hunting.

00:38:15.120 Go back to the office.

00:38:17.620 And what's happened, we've designed a lot of Western churches, and they're designed to

00:38:21.800 reach women and children, and men are on the outskirts. 0.78

00:38:25.100 They may be pandering.

00:38:27.940 They may be appeasing their wife by going. 0.90

00:38:30.760 But the children soon find out, this is something that mama wants to do. 0.54

00:38:34.100 Daddy's just giving in if he comes with us at all.

00:38:36.780 But this really isn't something he's made a priority.

00:38:39.320 So then the children don't buy in back to that influence again.

00:38:42.580 So we found in Scripture that three times a year, God was telling Moses in the Old Testament,

00:38:48.140 three times a year, this is in Deuteronomy 16, 16, and Exodus 34, 23, three times a year,

00:38:54.180 bring me the men.

00:38:54.940 So there was a precedent that God said, there is a time when I want to speak just to the

00:38:59.900 men, and I'll tell them what to now implement into their families and into society. 0.77

00:39:04.660 Look at the creation.

00:39:06.540 Adam is the one who's told about the tree.

00:39:09.200 Eve's not even created yet.

00:39:11.020 God tells Adam what they can and cannot do and expects him to then tell the wife that 0.95

00:39:15.680 he gives her.

00:39:16.680 And Adam, of course, as we know, fails at that job.

00:39:18.860 And when God shows up, he doesn't ask Eve what happened.

00:39:22.060 He says, Adam, what's happened here?

00:39:23.560 So God has always expected men to hear instruction from him and then implement that into their

00:39:30.120 homes, into the church, and into society.

00:39:32.580 And we have failed miserably at equipping men to do that.

00:39:36.460 So we're just stepping up and saying, we'll do it.

00:39:39.140 I just have to tell you, somewhere in New York City, there is a maybe 24-year-old intern

00:39:44.800 in a cubicle at Media Matters, who is now just a heap of blubbering jello after the last

00:39:52.840 couple of minutes.

00:39:53.820 And I thank you for that, Rick.

00:39:55.260 I do thank you for that.

00:39:57.620 Well, listen, Glenn.

00:39:58.760 Yeah.

00:39:59.040 Let me be clear.

00:40:00.060 Okay.

00:40:00.340 Let me be clear.

00:40:00.940 We don't do images of camo.

00:40:03.120 I do all these things, but that doesn't make you a man.

00:40:05.600 We don't do sports analogies.

00:40:07.320 We don't do the uncomfortable, here comes a sports hero who came to Jesus and he gets

00:40:11.400 up and tries to tell you sports stories and force them down on scripture.

00:40:15.280 That's not what makes you a man.

00:40:16.580 If you're good at sports, you can climb a mountain, you can lift a lot of weight, you

00:40:19.680 want to bar fight, you got camo on, you know, you can, that's not what makes a man.

00:40:25.440 So we don't use any of those images.

00:40:26.820 What makes you a man is whether you're a follower of Christ or not.

00:40:30.580 And if we had told men that Jesus Christ actually said, deny yourself, pick up your cross and 0.59

00:40:36.600 follow me, enter by a narrow gate, those who choose to follow me, the path will be hard

00:40:41.020 and most of you can't do it.

00:40:42.760 See, the Marines said the few, the proud, the Marines, Jesus said the few, the humble, my

00:40:47.900 disciples.

00:40:48.920 And if we were telling men that it's actually the most masculine man thing you could ever

00:40:54.540 do is actually decide to follow Jesus, that's one of our slogans, to be a man, follow Jesus.

00:40:59.080 Disciple men, change everything. 1.00

00:41:01.600 Yeah, but in the Marines, you get that snappy uniform that the chicks take. 1.00

00:41:06.640 Yeah, and unfortunately, following Jesus, you get a cross.

00:41:09.760 That's right.

00:41:10.900 That's right.

00:41:11.580 And it's becoming more and more, uh, less fun, if you will, but more and more important

00:41:17.420 every day.

00:41:19.100 Oh, look, I go to bed every night sleeping, not because my life's easy, but because my life

00:41:23.900 is secure.

00:41:24.920 It's under the authority of Christ.

00:41:26.640 And, and to me, there's nothing more important, important than that.

00:41:30.060 True masculinity is Christ centered masculinity.

00:41:33.000 You know, when God became a man, he did it perfectly.

00:41:36.740 That should be our example.

00:41:38.540 Rick, thank you so much.

00:41:39.520 Thanks for everything you guys do.

00:41:41.140 Thank you for your friendship and your broadcast on the blaze.

00:41:44.680 It's just, you guys are great.

00:41:46.780 Well, it's kind of you to say that.

00:41:48.600 And, and, and, and thank you so much for allowing the platform.

00:41:52.780 You've been so good to our show and the whole, all of us, uh, just love you and glad to be

00:41:57.580 part of blaze with you.

00:41:58.760 And, and if anybody needs our help on this, you can go to themanchurch.com.

00:42:03.560 Our brand new, uh, you know, resource is a new 31 day devotional.

00:42:07.480 I just wrote the commentary to it.

00:42:08.920 And I kind of talk about my story in there a little bit.

00:42:11.300 It's called transformed.

00:42:12.400 And that's what we need embracing the death of self and the power of God.

00:42:15.600 You can get it at themanchurch.com or on Amazon, but it's available now.

00:42:19.660 So it's kind of you, Glenn, to, to offer us the platform.

00:42:22.700 Thank you very much, Rick or Bubba, whichever one you are.

00:42:25.620 I don't know the difference between the two.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 28, 2023

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