The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Sen. JD Vance & Rep. Jim Jordan ｜ 9⧸19⧸23

00:00:00.260 What a day. What a show. It's almost the big show. I mean, it could be the pre-big show, but I mean, this could be counted as a big show, a really big show.

00:00:09.560 It's a moderately sized program for us.

00:00:12.740 Oh, for us.

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00:00:15.940 So it's a big show.

00:00:16.860 So it's a big, big, big, big, big show based on just the weight of it. It's crazy. It's like an IMAX of podcast.

00:00:25.520 You don't want to miss a second of today's show. Very, very funny.

00:00:29.080 And informative.

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00:01:23.760 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:35.440 I'm going to tell you the truth here on something.

00:01:42.940 You know, J.D. Vance, I've always thought was a good guy, liked him.

00:01:47.500 But my opinion changed on him when I found out that Mitt Romney said he was one of the worst people in the world.

00:01:55.400 He's become a god to me.

00:01:59.240 J.D. Vance, welcome to the program.

00:02:01.380 How are you?

00:02:02.800 Good, Glenn.

00:02:03.520 How are you doing?

00:02:04.000 Very good.

00:02:04.620 Okay.

00:02:05.240 So, first things first.

00:02:07.000 We have to ask you.

00:02:08.680 This spokesperson for the Ukrainian military.

00:02:13.420 I mean, if we didn't live in the world where nothing makes sense, I would say that's completely bogus.

00:02:22.760 But I don't know what's true anymore.

00:02:25.120 Oh, Glenn, I mean, if you just play the video of this person, I would think it was an SNL skit or something.

00:02:33.520 Correct.

00:02:33.900 I can't actually believe this is the real world, but it is.

00:02:36.940 And it shows how far school it is.

00:02:38.440 Let's sort of focus on the substance here because I think it's very important to sort of nail down what exactly this person said.

00:02:46.820 So, number one, they said any – and it's a man, by the way.

00:02:51.080 It's sort of a transgendered man saying that we're going to hunt down Russian propagandists.

00:02:59.420 Okay.

00:03:00.140 Russian propagandists are anybody from – if you judge by the standards of the American media, anybody from Tucker Carlson to yours truly.

00:03:07.620 Many friends of mine in the American media have been accused of being Russian propagandists.

00:03:12.300 So, is that an explicit threat to anybody who challenges the party line in Ukraine?

00:03:18.060 Because that's what it sounds like.

00:03:19.160 Now, the other thing we have to remember is this is not some random Yahoo who went over to Ukraine.

00:03:23.780 This is the official English language spokesman for the Ukrainian military.

00:03:28.760 Okay.

00:03:28.960 We know that to be true, right?

00:03:31.060 We know that to be true.

00:03:32.800 We know that to be true.

00:03:34.280 Now, here is the crazy thing, Glenn.

00:03:36.040 I don't want to get too much in the weeds because we're still learning a lot.

00:03:39.140 There was a Daily Beast story reported two years ago about this individual where they claimed to be a member of the Ukrainian military.

00:03:49.760 Sorry, sorry, excuse me.

00:03:50.740 They claimed to be a member of the U.S. intelligence services.

00:03:53.420 This is two years ago.

00:03:54.620 So, are we actually dealing with a person who used to be employed by the U.S. government, went over to Ukraine, and now is threatening to kill people for exercising their First Amendment rights?

00:04:04.780 Because that's what it looks a lot like to me.

00:04:07.340 And we need to get to the bottom of this.

00:04:08.740 This, in my view, I'm selfish about this, Glenn, should be the biggest story in American media.

00:04:13.960 This guy, I guess, pretending to be a woman, or, you know, I don't know which direction this runs.

00:04:19.600 I never do.

00:04:21.720 Pretending to speak and threaten people for exercising their First Amendment rights, it is crazy.

00:04:29.500 If this is an official spokesperson, why are we sending a dime to Ukraine?

00:04:37.120 They are threatening American citizens. 0.73

00:04:40.800 And, by the way, I don't understand because, you know, the left – well, no, the left has always traditionally hated anti-war people, haven't they?

00:04:51.400 Oh, no, they didn't.

00:04:53.940 We should not be sending a dime to them.

00:04:59.100 Well, that's exactly right.

00:05:00.700 In fact, our tax dollars are being used to threaten American citizens with violence for exercising their rights, right?

00:05:06.920 Now, this sort of gets to the heart of the lie at the Ukraine-Russia war, Glenn.

00:05:11.460 And I don't know where you are on this, but I've sort of been a skeptic of this from the very beginning.

00:05:15.340 Oh, yeah.

00:05:15.860 If you sort of – if you listen to what people say, they say it's a war for freedom.

00:05:19.440 No, stop.

00:05:19.780 Well, we know Zelensky's arresting Christian priests, and now his spokesperson is threatening American citizens with violence for exercising their rights.

00:05:28.680 We're told it's a war for democracy, and yet they've suspended elections indefinitely.

00:05:32.860 At what point do we look around and say, we're not funding a war for democracy, we're funding something else entirely?

00:05:40.860 Let's have an honest conversation about what that is.

00:05:43.020 We're funding the Great Reset.

00:05:45.840 That's what's happening.

00:05:46.660 We are funding BlackRock and Goldman Sachs and everybody else going in to rebuild.

00:05:52.580 We've already sent over half the amount adjusted for inflation that we sent for the Marshall Plan.

00:06:02.260 That rebuilt a lot of Europe with the Marshall Plan.

00:06:06.240 We've already sent half of that money over there, and we're talking about rebuilding while the war is still going on.

00:06:14.440 And he's opened up the stock market.

00:06:17.980 Zelensky has.

00:06:19.940 Our stock market.

00:06:21.700 He keeps talking about invest in Ukraine because the business is going to be good.

00:06:26.020 We are funneling all this money to God only knows who.

00:06:33.040 Yeah, it may very well be the biggest racket in the history of the last century.

00:06:38.400 I certainly am open to that.

00:06:40.140 But whatever we're funding, here's what I'm sure about, Glenn.

00:06:43.900 We're certainly funding a very deadly war with no insight.

00:06:48.260 We're funding a war that is destroying one of the most important culturally nations in Eastern Europe.

00:06:54.620 We're funding a war that is enriching a lot of Americans and a lot of defense contractors in the United States of America.

00:07:01.600 And I still am not clear on what our actual interest is.

00:07:04.820 On top of that, we're exhausting weapons supplies that we may need, God forbid, if there's a war in another part of the world, like, for example, East Asia.

00:07:12.940 So this has just gotten completely out of control.

00:07:16.180 Zelensky is going to be in D.C. on Thursday.

00:07:18.140 We'll see if anybody lets me get close to him because, you know, I've sort of gone back and forth on what I would actually ask him.

00:07:25.360 And I think what I would ask him is the last time you were in town, we were told that the counteroffensive would be a major inflection point.

00:07:32.860 And now we're being told we need to buckle in for the long haul.

00:07:36.620 Is that another $100 billion, another $500 billion?

00:07:39.900 How much are American taxpayers expected to fund this thing when, to your point, Glenn, we know that a lot of this is ultimately going to get fundled to the American or, I should say, the international corporate class that seems to actually rule the world?

00:07:52.540 All right.

00:07:53.080 Let me change subjects.

00:07:54.520 I haven't talked about the UAW strike because I don't understand what they're thinking.

00:08:00.720 They're asking for a doubling in salary.

00:08:04.300 And you know what?

00:08:05.500 Everybody's hurting right now.

00:08:07.240 So if you can get, you know, but this is a doubling of salary.

00:08:11.320 It is the restoration of things that were not financially feasible and taken off during another.

00:08:22.100 They're asking for the world.

00:08:24.600 Meanwhile, because of this administration, Ford loses, what, 30, 35 grand per electric vehicle.

00:08:33.980 They're $2 billion in the hole every year now because of the electric vehicle.

00:08:41.260 They can't even build enough trucks now.

00:08:43.680 You have to wait for a Ford truck.

00:08:45.360 And China, we just found out, is the leader in 19 higher tech fields, including battery operations and the production of batteries and the production of EVs, where they're already dominant.

00:09:06.020 What are the unions and everybody else doing to our factories?

00:09:11.020 Well, look, first of all, we're subsidizing an industry, to your point, that the Chinese dominate.

00:09:16.840 And it's not just the batteries.

00:09:18.240 It's the components.

00:09:19.220 It's the minerals.

00:09:20.040 It's the mining.

00:09:20.760 It's the entire supply chain from when you start digging stuff out of the ground to when you actually start driving these cars.

00:09:27.600 The Chinese dominate it. 0.99

00:09:28.860 So every time we subsidize an EV, what we're really doing is subsidizing the destruction of a gas-powered automobile job with a Chinese EV job. 0.96

00:09:39.380 We need to be honest about that.

00:09:41.360 Now, Glenn, I'm sympathetic to the factory workers because, like you said, everybody's getting screwed with Biden's inflation.

00:09:47.020 Everybody's trying to struggle.

00:09:48.600 And, yeah, look, a lot of their demands are excessive.

00:09:51.260 But we have to remember this is a negotiation.

00:09:53.800 And what I'd encourage all of my fellow conservatives out there is to remember the real lesson of the last 40 years.

00:09:59.980 My view of that lesson is when we ship our industrial base to China, American consumers lose, American workers lose, and the American people become weaker.

00:10:10.140 We become weaker as a nation.

00:10:11.980 And that's what we're doing here.

00:10:13.100 So we have to keep our eye on the prize here and say the Biden administration is doubling down on 40 years of failed policy.

00:10:20.280 Let's ship all of our industrial jobs overseas and pretend and hope that workers are going to somehow benefit.

00:10:27.040 They're not going to benefit.

00:10:28.020 Consumers aren't going to benefit.

00:10:29.500 These car companies aren't going to benefit in the end.

00:10:31.960 It's a lose-lose proposition for everybody.

00:10:34.860 So, look, I think the workers, some of their demands are reasonable.

00:10:38.440 I think some of their demands are the things that you do when you go into a negotiation.

00:10:42.520 You sometimes ask more than what you think you're going to get.

00:10:44.680 But the core issue here is, look, when you ask who has been the biggest advocate of EVs and the transition to EVs, Glenn, it has been the big three automakers themselves, the corporate leadership, and also the union leadership.

00:11:01.420 Correct.

00:11:01.580 Who screwed the union membership and the consumers?

00:11:04.920 I know a lot of auto workers, they are not on board with this transition to EVs.

00:11:09.780 So the leadership needs to better reflect the views of the membership here and save this industry.

00:11:13.860 And that's what I say about the unions.

00:11:15.920 I'm not talking about the workers.

00:11:18.020 The unions are in bed with the government.

00:11:22.840 They're in line with the Green New Deal. 0.72

00:11:24.760 They're in line with all of this stuff.

00:11:26.800 I don't know how they benefit in the end, but there's clearly some way the union heads actually benefit. 0.95

00:11:35.960 But the people are being screwed.

00:11:37.420 You are going to lose everyone's job by going to EVs. 0.72

00:11:42.800 It's going to happen.

00:11:44.460 Just like, you know, we're just going to go ahead and, you know, we're going to make parts globally.

00:11:49.380 And how did that work out for us?

00:11:51.900 This is the same thing.

00:11:53.560 It's the same thing replayed over again and again, Glenn. 0.96

00:11:57.760 And we know who's going to get screwed.

00:11:58.940 It's going to be all of us and it's going to be our workers.

00:12:00.900 Now, here's a crazy statistic on this strike, Glenn.

00:12:03.820 Just focus on Ford.

00:12:05.420 If Ford gave the UAW everything they asked for, everything they asked for, it would cost about $5 billion in 2023.

00:12:13.720 Goldman Sachs estimates that Ford is going to lose, guess, $5 billion on EVs in 2023.

00:12:20.140 It is a direct transfer from working people and from consumers, of course, because the EVs are more expensive.

00:12:28.140 They have a lot of other issues as well.

00:12:30.080 Direct transfer from those folks to the people who have been getting rich for the past generation of this country.

00:12:34.800 It's a real problem.

00:12:36.080 We have fundamentally an economy that has been rigged by different people.

00:12:40.800 And right now, the people trying to rig the economy are the climate cult.

00:12:44.120 They're going to get rich from this.

00:12:45.240 I guarantee you, they're going to find a way to get rich from this, but we're paying more for cars.

00:12:49.880 We're paying more for used cars.

00:12:51.240 We're paying more for gas.

00:12:52.660 And that is by design.

00:12:53.940 And most importantly, we are destroying our – we go to war. 0.68

00:12:59.160 We need those workers and those Ford factories and those GM factories.

00:13:04.080 We've got to have those or we're not going to be able to do anything.

00:13:08.200 It's the reason why we could go from training with broomsticks in 1938 to outmaneuvering the German war machine by 43 because of those factories and those workers.

00:13:22.940 This is insanity.

00:13:25.140 We are cutting ourselves off at the knees every single day in every way and every place.

00:13:32.120 Yeah, and Glenn, we have an economy that's way too built around debt and way too built around financial services and globalization, not enough around making real things.

00:13:41.800 This is, I think, the fundamental inside the last 40 years.

00:13:44.600 We don't make enough of our own stuff.

00:13:46.440 So go back to Russia, Ukraine. 0.99

00:13:47.960 Guess how many artillery shells the Russians are making per day, okay?

00:13:51.660 And again, set to the side your foreign policy views, it highlights their economic power.

00:13:56.500 20,000 artillery shells a day is what the Russians are making.

00:13:59.640 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:00.280 We're the biggest economy in the world.

00:14:02.420 We make 20,000 in a month, Glenn.

00:14:04.780 I know.

00:14:05.340 We cannot win the next war if we don't have our own industrial power, and that's what we have to regain.

00:14:12.460 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:13.640 One last question, and that is the national debt just hit $33 trillion.

00:14:17.620 Do we even know what we're spending this money on?

00:14:20.320 We're still spending at the COVID levels.

00:14:23.720 We're $2 trillion over the budget.

00:14:27.120 What are we even spending this on?

00:14:30.360 And are we going to – is Congress going to stand and say enough is enough, or are we going to buckle again?

00:14:38.040 Well, we have no idea what we're spending on.

00:14:39.980 I think the COVID point is the important one, Glenn.

00:14:42.740 You hear a lot of people talk about entitlements in these conversations.

00:14:46.540 And look, we can have that conversation, but let's focus on the immediate problem.

00:14:50.640 In 2020, our government – excuse me, 2019, we spent about $4.5 trillion.

00:14:56.000 If we spent just that amount of money this year, we'd have close to a balanced budget in this country in 2023.

00:15:01.560 But we're going to spend north of $6 trillion.

00:15:03.540 We allowed COVID to blow up the federal budget, and there's really been no sustained effort from Republicans to try to put that genie back in the bottle.

00:15:12.200 You asked the question, are we going to buckle?

00:15:13.680 Obviously, this is a House question more than a Senate question because Chuck Schumer runs the chamber on our side.

00:15:20.400 I hope that they don't.

00:15:22.320 I think that there's an opportunity here.

00:15:24.620 Look, at the very least, to get something.

00:15:26.120 I'm a realist.

00:15:27.180 I don't think that they're going to balance the budget in the next two years, but we need to get something out of this, right?

00:15:33.960 If we're going to give the Democrats something, whether it's defunding the weaponized DOJ, whether it's doing something, all these ridiculous mask mandates that they're talking about bringing back.

00:15:45.780 My personal – I think the most important issue in the country is actually not the debt.

00:15:50.180 It's the immigration. 0.89

00:15:51.160 It's the border.

00:15:51.780 If we don't get control of our own border, we don't have sovereignty, we don't have a real nation, maybe we can get something there.

00:15:58.080 But if we fold as a Republican Party and we get nothing in response for it, then I think our voters are going to be pissed, and they have every right to be so.

00:16:05.440 Oh, yeah, they are.

00:16:06.400 They're going to be more than that.

00:16:07.620 They're just – you're done.

00:16:08.800 As a party, it's going to be done.

00:16:12.180 Senator J.D. Vance from Ohio, thank you so much, Senator.

00:16:15.360 Appreciate it.

00:16:16.120 Thanks, Glenn.

00:16:16.660 You bet.

00:16:16.900 Bye-bye.

00:16:17.520 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:16:21.780 So, the Justice Department announced a new rule to amend ATF regulations.

00:16:28.840 Now, oh, what a scene is coming.

00:16:32.960 They have expanded the definition of a firearms dealer to include now those anyone who sells even a single firearm.

00:16:43.420 So, if I don't sell anything except the one, and I sell it to Stu, I'm now a firearms dealer?

00:16:55.120 What?

00:16:56.760 Why would they do that?

00:16:58.540 Well, because if you sell one gun and you're profiting on it, you need to conduct a background check, and those records are going to be possessed by the ATF, and then they're going to be digitized and put into a searchable database, which, gosh, that sounds like gun registry, doesn't it?

00:17:18.600 A little bit?

00:17:19.440 I mean, maybe a lot?

00:17:22.280 Aidan Johnston is here with us.

00:17:24.600 He's with Gun Owners of America.

00:17:27.860 He's the Federal Affairs Director, and he's up on this.

00:17:31.200 Aidan, that sounds like something that's illegal.

00:17:35.780 Well, this is a total infringement on your Second Amendment rights.

00:17:41.320 The law does not give Biden the authority to implement backdoor universal background checks or backdoor registration checks, but he's sure doing it anyway.

00:17:51.460 So, what is the recourse on this?

00:17:56.760 Well, the Biden administration is going through the rulemaking process.

00:18:01.080 So, we have the Congressional Review Act where Congress can strike down this rule, and we already have a congressman, Andrew Clyde, who's preparing to use that process to strike down this rule.

00:18:11.640 But, of course, Gun Owners of America also plans to file a lawsuit and take this rule change down in court, but we have to wait until the final rule is published.

00:18:23.440 Right now, it's the proposed rulemaking phase, and it's time for the public to comment and tell the ATF why they shouldn't implement that final rule.

00:18:32.060 So, just so people understand that there's no such thing as a coincidence, what made this rule change possible?

00:18:43.340 Well, last summer, folks might remember that a bunch of Republicans got together with every Democrat and passed the biggest gun control in decades.

00:18:53.740 It was called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and there were a dozen things wrong with that gun control bill.

00:19:00.020 And Gun Owners of America, we opposed it.

00:19:02.580 We told Congress what was wrong with each thing.

00:19:05.780 And one of the things we mentioned was, if you change the definition of what it means to be a gun dealer, they're going to weaponize it against us.

00:19:12.940 And we knew Obama tried to do this on his last stay in office with an executive order, and Trump reversed it.

00:19:18.780 So, as soon as they touched that definition, of course, Biden was going to do the exact same thing.

00:19:23.940 And, gee, isn't this Senator Cornyn's compromise?

00:19:28.900 Yes, and in fact, this definitional change is his little baby, his personal mission when he went to the negotiating table.

00:19:35.480 Let's to make this change, as if what we really needed was more government regulating your private business.

00:19:42.520 It is remarkable to me that this guy is from the great state of Texas.

00:19:47.040 It's truly remarkable.

00:19:48.440 I don't know how that happens.

00:19:50.100 Okay, so what do Americans need to do?

00:19:53.900 Well, right now, like I said, we're in the proposed rulemaking phase.

00:19:57.760 So, you have to go to regulations.gov or to the federal register and submit a public comment and tell the ATF, no, don't do this.

00:20:07.300 Now, if you don't want to do all that, you can also, GOA will help you.

00:20:13.020 If you become a member, we're going to be sending out an action alert.

00:20:17.680 It'll help you comment.

00:20:18.700 It'll give you a model to submit to the ATF, and that will help us down the road when we file a lawsuit.

00:20:25.940 We'll be able to say 100,000 gun owners, 200,000 gun owners said that this is unconstitutional for X, Y, and Z, and the judge will take that into consideration.

00:20:35.940 So, that's the next step that, like I said, we're also going to be fighting this in Congress.

00:20:40.680 But, unfortunately, the way things are, Biden's issued a rule.

00:20:45.120 He's abusing his executive authority, and it's a bit of a waiting game until this becomes finalized in a few months.

00:20:52.060 And for those who don't know, why is this such a bad deal to have them have a registry?

00:20:58.680 Well, so, universal background checks might sound nice in theory, right?

00:21:04.160 Who wants a criminal to get a hold of a gun?

00:21:06.340 But there are a million ways that criminals always circumvent the background check system,

00:21:11.340 and less than 10% of criminals in jail actually obtained a gun legally.

00:21:16.460 But universal background checks are only enforceable with a gun registry.

00:21:21.320 To know who did and didn't run a background check, you have to know who owns what gun.

00:21:26.300 And if you own a gun and it wasn't registered to you, then it must have been transferred without a background check.

00:21:31.040 So, this all plays in to something else that Joe Biden has also been doing, which is turning the Forms 4473, which you filled out if you bought a gun at a gun store,

00:21:43.400 into permanent gun registration forms, and then sending those to a database in West Virginia.

00:21:50.180 How is he doing that?

00:21:51.880 That's illegal.

00:21:52.600 Well, in part, it's been going on for a long time.

00:21:56.680 When a gun store goes out of business, all of their records are supposed to be sent to the ATF.

00:22:01.880 And using that statute, which has been around for decades, the ATF has compiled over 900 million records in this database in West Virginia.

00:22:12.780 So, almost 1 billion records of gun owners, the guns they own, their serial numbers.

00:22:18.320 And now, the Biden administration, last August, changed another rule and said those records can no longer be destroyed by a gun store once they become 20 years old,

00:22:30.420 which was the previous way of ensuring that most gun records didn't end up in this database.

00:22:35.960 A permanent, complete gun registry was never created.

00:22:39.380 But now, that means there is a record of every single firearms transaction going back to August of 2002.

00:22:50.500 Every gun that was ever sold at a gun store with a background check has a 4473 with the name, the Social Security number, and the serial number of the gun that that person bought.

00:23:01.940 Okay. Again, talk to the people who don't know anything about guns that are listening and they go, well, that's not so bad.

00:23:09.440 We should know who has what guns. 0.70

00:23:12.600 Why is this? How can this go wrong with the American people?

00:23:16.480 Of course. Well, now the federal government has a list of everyone who owns a gun and what guns they own.

00:23:22.760 That's a prerequisite for gun confiscation.

00:23:25.920 Gun registration always leads to gun confiscation.

00:23:28.960 We've seen it time and time again, whether it's Australia or Nazi Germany.

00:23:33.880 When the government knows what guns people own, that is a list of guns to take.

00:23:40.460 And the people in the Weimar Republic did it under the Weimar Republic, trusting their government,

00:23:46.320 and just didn't think about, oh, wait a minute, what happens if bad guys take over the country?

00:23:50.400 And they did.

00:23:51.700 And you had to turn in your gun.

00:23:53.540 And some people waited, you know, they were still within the rules, but they waited.

00:23:58.860 But the law at the time became, if you have a gun, we shoot before we ask questions.

00:24:06.320 So now people were trying to get their gun to the police station.

00:24:10.520 But if they take it to the police station, they'll be shot and killed because they're holding a gun.

00:24:17.740 And it didn't work out well.

00:24:19.500 Didn't work out well for the German people.

00:24:21.760 You know, when they were turning their guns in, also didn't work out a little later when they had no guns.

00:24:27.840 But no, of course not.

00:24:29.720 Our founding fathers, when they wrote the Second Amendment, recognized that it was necessary to the security of our free state.

00:24:35.640 Our freedoms are able to be retained by the people because we have this check on the government.

00:24:43.060 But if the government has the ability to take your firearms in a moment because they have a billion records in a gun registry that needs to be destroyed,

00:24:51.280 well, that is a threat on your Second Amendment.

00:24:54.660 And that undermines the security of our free state.

00:24:59.100 Aiden, thank you so much.

00:25:00.300 I really appreciate what you guys do.

00:25:02.120 It's gunowners.org, isn't it?

00:25:04.400 That is correct.

00:25:05.020 Yeah, gunowners.org, gunowners.org.

00:25:08.720 Thank you so much, Aiden.

00:25:09.620 I appreciate it.

00:25:10.300 You know, our Constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on if you don't stand up for those rights.

00:25:19.120 You know, they're trampling, all right, I got it right.

00:25:21.840 What are they doing?

00:25:22.500 They're taking away my right.

00:25:23.780 Yeah, well, you can say that all you want.

00:25:25.640 But until you put into action by standing up, letting your voice be heard, telling all your friends, all the gun owners that you know, this is what's happening.

00:25:37.640 Because did you know this was happening?

00:25:39.220 This happened last week.

00:25:40.340 Did you know this was happening?

00:25:41.760 They have overwhelmed the system far more than Barack Obama.

00:25:49.580 You know, what really pisses me off?

00:25:51.740 I can guarantee you.

00:25:53.000 I can guarantee you that the GOP has not sat down and had a group of constitutionalists sit down and say, OK, what is it that they've just done that we need to undo?

00:26:10.380 What is it?

00:26:11.100 What's our plan of attack?

00:26:12.420 They they plan for years while they're out of office for years, all four years of Trump.

00:26:18.780 All they did was war game.

00:26:20.400 When we get power back, what are we going to do?

00:26:22.740 And they make all of these tweaks.

00:26:25.960 And before you know it, you don't have any rights left.

00:26:30.940 You know, it's it's one thing to say, well, we're not going to, you know, what are we going to fight the government?

00:26:38.760 What would pestles?

00:26:40.240 They got tanks and planes.

00:26:42.020 Yeah.

00:26:42.580 Yeah, that's weird.

00:26:43.880 They do.

00:26:44.920 Yet it seemed to do pretty well for the people in Afghanistan.

00:26:51.740 Like, I don't want to fight that.

00:26:54.400 But don't tell me that small arms don't make a difference.

00:26:59.080 And I don't ever want to fight the United States government ever.

00:27:03.260 But if if they go rotten, if they go, I mean, if we're in the Weimar Republic years and all of a sudden we go into what comes next.

00:27:14.420 Yeah, I would say we shouldn't probably turn in our guns.

00:27:16.880 It would probably be a bad thing because history may not repeat itself exactly, but it does rhyme.

00:27:22.120 The Constitution, the more we go down this road and you haven't learned the Constitution, I haven't learned the Constitution, we don't understand the Bill of Rights, the more we're going to lose.

00:27:38.920 It really is amazing, too, that I don't I think because we've been so blessed in this country to have a Constitution that has lasted this long and been taken seriously for most of the time the country's existed.

00:27:51.740 We don't realize how rare that is.

00:27:53.660 Right. Like and I think recently a lot of us have had to wake up to the fact that, you know, they're doing stuff like the student loan thing is a great example of it.

00:28:03.220 Just doing it. Just doing it. And you're just like, wait a minute.

00:28:05.420 What about the Constitution? And you realize their answer to that is so what?

00:28:10.900 That's basically their their comeback.

00:28:14.200 And and when they say and a bunch of times, you realize that you realize how quickly this gets all slip away.

00:28:22.280 Right. Yeah. There's it is just a piece of paper.

00:28:26.360 Right. And the Republicans, many of them say, look, I yeah, I know.

00:28:30.360 I know the Constitution. I love the Constitution, but we have things to do once they say.

00:28:34.560 But I love the Constitution. But no, no, there is no.

00:28:38.960 But we follow the concept. All of our problems, all of our problems, every story we should do this show,

00:28:46.940 every story, I could connect it to one of the things in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution that is being violated.

00:28:56.060 Every story that comes out, I show it to you, show it to you.

00:28:59.920 That is who we are.

00:29:05.880 And we cannot lose that. And we're it's it's close.

00:29:11.080 I mean, I always thought the Constitution was hanging by a thread in the past.

00:29:15.220 I don't know. It's like one thread and it may have already been cut.

00:29:18.640 But time is running out to stand good, decent, honorable, honest people that just want a future for their children.

00:29:31.400 They want freedom for everybody.

00:29:34.200 But that means tolerance in a sane way.

00:29:38.600 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:40.060 All right. I'm going to tell you the story of somebody who is an overachiever.

00:29:46.220 OK, somebody who I think exists to make the rest of us look bad.

00:29:52.220 He's the number one New York Times bestseller and USA Today bestselling author of more than 40 novels.

00:29:59.380 Who does that except a show off?

00:30:02.560 There are currently more than 35 million copies of his books in print worldwide,

00:30:07.960 translated into more than 24 languages.

00:30:11.400 Uh-huh.

00:30:12.860 Richard is also the recipient, but he's not 80.

00:30:15.280 And that's how many countries there are.

00:30:16.940 So there's got to be at least 80 languages.

00:30:19.580 Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including two first place storytelling world awards,

00:30:25.940 the Romantic Times best women's novel of the year award and five time recipient of the Wilbur Award.

00:30:32.360 Seven of Richard's books have been produced as television movies, but not eight.

00:30:36.960 His first feature film, The Noel Diary, starring Justin Hartley from This Is Us, is, uh, debuting, uh, well, debuted last year.

00:30:46.940 In 2011, he began writing Michael Vey, a number one New York Times bestselling young adult series,

00:30:54.120 which has won more than a dozen awards.

00:30:58.000 There's nine number one, uh, sellers in that one.

00:31:01.740 Uh, Richard is now the founder of the Christmas Box International,

00:31:05.860 an organization devoted to maintaining emergency children's centers and providing services and resources

00:31:11.560 for abused, neglected, and homeless children and young adults.

00:31:14.840 To date, more than 125,000 youths have been helped by the charity.

00:31:19.900 For his humanitarian work, Richard has received the Washington Times.

00:31:23.520 Not the Humanitarian of the Year.

00:31:26.560 Oh, no, that's too small for Richard.

00:31:29.200 He won the Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award.

00:31:39.000 He's a show-off and he's here.

00:31:40.700 Hello.

00:31:42.480 How are you, Richard?

00:31:44.060 That was a very generous introduction, but I'm a slacker.

00:31:47.460 You are?

00:31:48.160 Really?

00:31:48.980 Yeah, right.

00:31:50.040 You make me feel like I've done nothing in my life.

00:31:53.160 Richard Paul Evans is, uh, with us.

00:31:55.620 You have Michael Vey 9 coming out.

00:31:59.440 Congratulations, Richard.

00:32:01.640 Thank you.

00:32:02.040 It's a great series.

00:32:04.200 Thank you.

00:32:05.480 Uh, this one is called The Traitor.

00:32:09.980 Yes.

00:32:10.640 Tell me about it.

00:32:11.980 Well, the last book, Michael Vey 8, ended on a cliffhanger because Michael's best friend

00:32:18.480 went to the other side.

00:32:20.900 And, um, if you like politics inside books, you'll love this one because it's, uh, he makes

00:32:26.380 a very compelling argument about where America is today and why Jack leaves.

00:32:33.080 Hmm.

00:32:34.280 What did, give me a bit of the argument.

00:32:36.780 Well, he just says it's a crumbling culture and some things, uh, ideologies endure.

00:32:43.140 So, um, and the Chaski had been around and said, we've been around for hundreds and hundreds

00:32:47.560 of years.

00:32:48.420 We're just waiting our turn.

00:32:50.860 Uh, okay.

00:32:52.640 So, um, tell me, uh, where'd you get this idea?

00:32:56.760 Cause you, I mean, you've, I mean, this is the one thing I love about really great authors

00:33:02.440 is they go different places.

00:33:05.240 They see different things, write them down and then just churn on it for a while.

00:33:09.580 Yeah, this one, um, I was in a hotel room, right?

00:33:14.300 And I called my watch cause you're coming home.

00:33:16.000 I said, honey, I've got to go to the Amazon.

00:33:18.560 I said, I need to go into Amazon.

00:33:21.320 And I go, I've already booked my flight.

00:33:22.920 We go, I go deep in the Amazon.

00:33:24.920 It wasn't fun.

00:33:26.020 Lots of mosquitoes, but like, I'm just kind of putting the story together.

00:33:29.500 And I go, are there any airstrips?

00:33:31.040 And I go, well, there's a drug cartel house when about 30 miles ago, let's, let's go. 1.00

00:33:35.800 Are you stupid? 1.00

00:33:37.600 No, it's like, well, they're not going to be using it right now. 1.00

00:33:39.960 It's like, how do you know that?

00:33:42.500 It's like, okay, I'll give that to you.

00:33:44.520 We won't go to the airstrips.

00:33:46.060 Yeah, that's probably a pretty good idea.

00:33:47.560 Probably a pretty good idea.

00:33:49.600 Uh, Richard, tell me the, um, you know, we have so many people that have been reading

00:33:54.560 this series and I just, I know you do and I do as well.

00:33:58.620 Just think this would make the greatest TV series ever.

00:34:01.720 Um, uh, and it is changing the lives of kids.

00:34:07.720 Uh, and it started really with your son, right?

00:34:11.340 It did.

00:34:12.060 My son, Michael has Tourette syndrome.

00:34:14.160 And by the way, he adores you, Glenn.

00:34:16.360 Um, he's a good kid.

00:34:18.700 He is a good kid.

00:34:20.700 But, but he struggles with, um, you know, with his Tourettes.

00:34:23.860 And I wanted to, I wanted to kind of normalize Tourette syndrome.

00:34:26.700 I was hoping kids would read it.

00:34:28.980 What I found is that the whole series, um, has really appealed to kids with any disability,

00:34:34.640 especially autism.

00:34:36.160 Um, I have a grandson with autism and it's like, it's just really, I mean, I'm at signings

00:34:42.760 and I remember one time six, the first six kids had autism and lying.

00:34:45.780 And one of the parents said, you've never come out for anything.

00:34:48.140 Um, and I go, I love it because they feel empowered.

00:34:51.000 They feel strong.

00:34:51.760 They feel normalized.

00:34:53.340 And, um, because my main character has a disability, has Tourette's.

00:34:57.900 I remember I call it a disability because I have Tourette's and it's like, I think it's

00:35:01.300 opened many doors for me.

00:35:03.060 So I love that.

00:35:04.020 I love that about they, but there's Michael's a good kid in the world of swagger and trying

00:35:09.140 to be mean.

00:35:09.960 It's like Michael loves his mother.

00:35:11.860 Yeah.

00:35:12.220 Um, so I, I, you know, he's a good kid and I, I got a letter from a, uh, a young woman

00:35:17.740 in Paris, um, a few years ago.

00:35:19.460 And she goes, um, Mr. Evans, um, you probably even wondered where I am.

00:35:25.020 And she said to my sister, who is he?

00:35:27.240 Like, he goes, she goes, keep reading.

00:35:29.880 And she goes, I'm in the hospital.

00:35:31.500 I tried to take my life.

00:35:33.340 I only have one friend in this world and he, it's Michael Bay.

00:35:36.500 And he's here in bed with me.

00:35:38.000 Just, I'm holding that, holding the book.

00:35:39.920 And thank you so much for giving me someone I can believe in.

00:35:43.080 And it's like, that is the kind of experience I'm having around the world.

00:35:46.720 And it is a global bestseller.

00:35:48.600 There's more than three and a half million copies in print.

00:35:50.780 And, um, you know, if you haven't started Michael Bay, it's, you know, it gets kids to

00:35:55.880 read.

00:35:56.240 It's like, do it.

00:35:58.320 You know, trust me, they'll like it.

00:36:00.020 They'll like it.

00:36:00.560 So I will tell you, um, that my son, Rafe is a voracious reader.

00:36:06.040 He was reading.

00:36:07.620 Oh my gosh.

00:36:08.440 I think he read the hunger games by the time he was eight.

00:36:12.020 And I'm like, dude, dude, maybe not the hunger games.

00:36:15.060 And he's like, dad, really good.

00:36:17.180 Well written.

00:36:18.040 Like, okay.

00:36:19.480 Uh, and every summer we would read, um, the, uh, the Michael Bay, the new Michael Bay.

00:36:26.460 And we did it year after year.

00:36:28.840 My son has gone to college and I'm bummed that we're not going to be reading the next

00:36:34.840 one together, but he loved them and he read them every single summer we would read.

00:36:42.100 I mean, it was a tradition of ours and it is a great memory for both of us.

00:36:47.300 So thank you for that, Richard.

00:36:49.280 Oh, oh, I love that.

00:36:50.900 I love that.

00:36:52.320 So when does it come out?

00:36:53.680 Is it out today?

00:36:55.200 It comes out today.

00:36:56.020 Today is day day.

00:36:57.240 So number, number nine comes out today.

00:36:59.600 Okay.

00:36:59.880 And, um, I mean, you remember, Glenn, a few years ago, I had finished the series at number

00:37:03.640 seven and people are saying, well, why, why did you start it up again?

00:37:07.120 You know, part of it was COVID.

00:37:09.220 Um, it was just, I mean, I'm getting thousands of letters from kids saying, please continue.

00:37:14.080 And they're giving me plot ideas.

00:37:16.560 And, um, I just missed the kids.

00:37:18.980 I mean, my last signing for number seven, we had 4,000 kids came to the book signing.

00:37:23.900 I'm not exaggerating.

00:37:24.780 Unbelievable.

00:37:25.980 Unbelievable.

00:37:27.100 Richard, thank you so much.

00:37:28.220 If you want to get a copy of this, it's on stores.

00:37:30.600 Now, if you haven't read the series, you should start at number one, but number nine is out

00:37:36.020 now.

00:37:36.340 And, uh, it is just a great series.

00:37:40.240 You know how we were talking just the other day, all of our kids and our families, we sit

00:37:45.940 down, we were just talking about football and, uh, and you know, that, that exorcist commercial

00:37:51.680 came on over the weekend.

00:37:53.040 And you're like, can, can, can we just have anything that we can do together as a family?

00:37:59.840 Is there anything that's not going to insult us or assault us?

00:38:05.180 And this is it.

00:38:06.700 Uh, the Richard Paul Evans, uh, electrifying series, Michael Vay.

00:38:13.440 It is back, Michael Vay, nine, the trader, get it now, read it with your family.

00:38:19.700 You will have a blast.

00:38:21.620 Thank you so much, Richard.

00:38:22.820 Thank you, Glenn.

00:38:23.440 You bet.

00:38:23.820 Bye-bye.

00:38:24.060 Na, na, na, na, na.

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