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00:00:30.000 On today's podcast, a fascinating hour with Dr. Casey Means.

00:00:34.500 Is the food you're consuming poisoning you?

00:00:37.600 The answer is yes.

00:00:38.640 And we find out, you know, what are the things you can do to make the substitutions to the things, you know, as we try to make America healthy again.

00:00:45.820 And just how much people have changed in the last few years.

00:00:50.300 Also, Senator Ted Cruz is here.

00:00:51.800 How close are we to losing Texas?

00:00:54.180 Closer than you might think.

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00:01:02.320 And Florida Representative Bob Rommel joins us as we talk about the Florida abortion measure that is on your ballot for a constitutional amendment in just a few weeks.

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00:01:25.360 On the full show, we break down the Kamala interview with Brett Baer and the soundbite she and her team specifically wanted, I believe, to make available for her voting base.

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00:02:51.960 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:56.760 Dr. Casey Means is with us.

00:02:59.120 He's Levels' chief medical officer and co-founder and the co-author of the book Good Energy.

00:03:06.200 Welcome, Casey.

00:03:07.960 How are you?

00:03:08.320 Great to be here.

00:03:09.220 I'm wonderful.

00:03:09.960 How are you?

00:03:10.660 Good morning.

00:03:11.320 I am good.

00:03:12.360 You know, I'm new to this, and it's funny because I was reading some of the stuff that you have written,

00:03:17.340 and about maybe seven, eight years ago, I became very, very sick with some kind of chronic disease,

00:03:25.480 and every doctor I went to, we described the symptoms, and every single one said,

00:03:31.780 you're being poisoned.

00:03:33.320 And I said, well, I don't think I am.

00:03:36.460 I mean, you know, we're keeping tabs on George Soros.

00:03:39.300 I think I'm not being poisoned.

00:03:41.300 And every single one said, and we did all of the stuff, and I wasn't.

00:03:47.400 I didn't have, you know, heavy metals or anything else.

00:03:49.780 And I thought, in reading your stuff, maybe that is just in a completely different way.

00:03:55.980 Maybe we're all being poisoned a little bit at a time.

00:04:01.360 You know, I'm sorry you had to go through that, but I think so many people in America are sort of feeling something like this.

00:04:07.320 We're all trying really hard to be healthy.

00:04:09.960 We're going to the doctor's visits.

00:04:11.640 We're going to all the specialist's office.

00:04:13.200 And yet, somehow, Americans don't feel very good, and we're getting very, very sick.

00:04:18.860 And the statistics in American health, as you've probably seen in some headlines, although it's not being talked about enough, it's not very good.

00:04:28.000 Life expectancy in America is actually, it's been going down for the past several years.

00:04:33.420 We're living eight years less in America as our friends in Japan and Sweden,

00:04:40.140 even though we spend almost twice as much as any other country in the entire world on health care.

00:04:47.560 So it makes you scratch your head a little bit.

00:04:49.320 It's not like we're prescribing, it's not like we're not prescribing enough medications.

00:04:52.840 We prescribe 221 million statin prescriptions per year, and yet heart disease is still the number one cause of death in the United States,

00:05:02.540 taking almost a million lives per year.

00:05:04.980 So it's not for a lack of medication.

00:05:07.040 It's not for a lack of spending.

00:05:08.960 So what is it?

00:05:10.060 Then you get to the question of things like, are we being poisoned?

00:05:12.960 And, you know, it's not to be alarmist, but the U.S. does allow 10,000 chemicals in our food system,

00:05:21.540 whereas other countries allow vastly fewer than this, allow only about 400 in Europe.

00:05:27.440 And you can actually just go to the FDA website and see the chemicals that are allowed in our food system.

00:05:32.560 And it kind of makes you shudder.

00:05:34.040 Things like acetone, benzene, these are allowed in our food, 10,000 of these.

00:05:39.380 And there is not a strong push to have these be proved as safe before they go into our food system.

00:05:48.960 That was one of the things that really amazed me is if you want one of these things approved in the food,

00:05:57.160 you as the food maker have to hire a research team, do your own research,

00:06:03.320 then present that to the FDA while you're paying them to do it.

00:06:08.800 And then they approve it based on your own research.

00:06:12.760 And then every time you make a batch of that stuff, you have to continue to pay them.

00:06:18.320 I mean, it sounds like bribery.

00:06:20.980 There's a program called GRAS, which is generally recognized as safe.

00:06:25.980 And the FDA uses this program.

00:06:28.500 It is a self-designation on the part of a company.

00:06:31.800 It is a process that allows a company or an individual to independently determine that a food ingredient is safe for its intended use.

00:06:42.280 Doesn't that seem a little strange that the company would be the one to have to do this?

00:06:46.220 So let's just take an example here.

00:06:48.580 Let's say you're creating a product in the United States, like a drink, and you want to have that drink be strawberry flavored.

00:06:54.940 It is not cheap to grow a bunch of strawberries and extract strawberry extract or strawberry juice from those products.

00:07:02.000 That's very expensive and time-intensive.

00:07:03.860 You could quite literally call up a scientist, a food chemist, a food chemical company, and say,

00:07:10.980 I need a molecule synthesized that tastes like strawberry.

00:07:14.300 It doesn't really matter what that molecule is.

00:07:16.880 And we're going to put that in our food.

00:07:19.200 Much cheaper, much easier.

00:07:20.760 And the onus is on the company to say that it is safe.

00:07:24.100 So you can then have that in the food system for years.

00:07:27.360 And it may be causing health effects.

00:07:29.040 But if you think about it, it's very hard to prove that one chemical is causing issues in kids, for instance.

00:07:36.620 And so they get away with a lot.

00:07:38.620 I just talked about food dyes last night.

00:07:41.600 That's all we covered was just one.

00:07:43.480 And it said that the studies have to show that the amount in, let's say, jello is not going to be harmful, at least if they don't eat too much of it over their lifetime.

00:07:56.740 But does the research include how many times that dye is used in every other product?

00:08:05.180 Absolutely not.

00:08:06.380 That's crazy.

00:08:07.860 Glenn, you've nailed it.

00:08:09.020 So that's one chemical, which might be in 15 foods kids are eating.

00:08:14.820 It's in their Froot Loops.

00:08:15.980 You know, let's talk about like Red 40, which is getting a lot of attention this week because history was made on Tuesday of this week in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Vani Hari and several other food advocates, doctors, pediatrists went to go fight Kellogg's about Red 40.

00:08:30.100 Because the science is extremely clear.

00:08:32.500 Red 40 is causing attention disorders in children.

00:08:36.020 The research literature or peer-reviewed studies is showing this.

00:08:38.660 We've got ADHD in children skyrocketing and behavioral issues.

00:08:42.060 We have a chemical in so much of their food that we know is linked to it.

00:08:45.700 And Red 40 and these other food dyes, they are derived from what?

00:08:51.900 From oil petroleum.

00:08:53.780 These are crude oil that are going to our kids' bodies.

00:08:57.280 They also contain benzene, which is a known carcinogen.

00:08:59.960 And Kellogg's and other food companies are not taking that out of the foods.

00:09:03.440 Even though the exact same products these companies like Kellogg's sell in Europe, they have a different formulation because these chemicals are banned in Europe.

00:09:13.160 So American companies are serving American children foods that have chemicals that are banned in other countries that we know are causing issues like attention disorders and maybe causing cancer.

00:09:22.960 And, of course, we have young adult cancers skyrocketing in the U.S., up 79% in the past 10 years.

00:09:28.660 So these foods, this is one chemical we're talking about, Glenn, out of 10,000.

00:09:33.580 And, of course, the way these are studied, we can say, oh, the average kid eating one bowl of fruit looks a day.

00:09:38.740 This isn't going to cause a problem.

00:09:39.980 But what about the Skittles?

00:09:41.300 What about the fruit roll-ups?

00:09:42.740 What about the red food coloring on the cake they're eating in class?

00:09:46.320 It's adding up.

00:09:48.960 And it's unbelievable how sneaky the companies are about this.

00:09:52.580 It was so interesting.

00:09:53.380 I was actually, the night before Callie and I did Joe Rogan last week, we were at a steakhouse.

00:09:59.280 And I got a mocktail.

00:10:00.800 I got a Negroni, sort of like a non-alcoholic Negroni.

00:10:05.140 And right after I drank the drink, I was actually feeling really off.

00:10:09.400 And so I looked up the ingredients of what was in this drink, and I saw under the ingredients for this aperitif that was in it called Giffard Aperitif Bitter, there was an ingredient called E129.

00:10:24.040 And I thought, what the hell is E129?

00:10:26.660 What did I just put in my body?

00:10:28.300 So I Google it.

00:10:29.340 It's Red 40.

00:10:30.300 It's another name for Red 40.

00:10:32.820 So they're even actually changing the name on different packages so you don't know how much you are getting.

00:10:38.360 This is the tip of the iceberg of the issue, what we're talking about here.

00:10:42.160 I'm just, because I lived at the time where they started to ban cigarette ads on television.

00:10:47.700 I remember that.

00:10:48.480 I remember seeing, you know, my doctor recommends that I smoke filtered camels.

00:10:54.560 And it's like, your doctor recommends that?

00:10:57.300 And I remember the game that was played.

00:10:59.680 And then in the 80s and the 90s, where big tobacco came under scrutiny, it took forever to get to the point to where you're like, wow, they knew this forever and were making things more addictive.

00:11:14.920 Well, those people, RJR Reynolds and others, went and they bought our food companies.

00:11:20.720 That's right.

00:11:22.040 And why wouldn't they?

00:11:24.320 I mean, here's one study said the tobacco company-owned food manufacturers focus on, quote, the rise of hyperpalatable foods, which contain potent combinations of fat, sodium, sugar, and other additives that drive people to crave and overeat them.

00:11:42.700 So they're doing the same thing they were doing with cigarettes.

00:11:47.320 That's exactly right.

00:11:48.620 So some of the largest mergers in American history up until the 1980s were exactly, as you say, they were cigarette companies, which were falling out of favor in American culture because doctors and scientists finally woke up to these being lethal.

00:12:03.360 They bought food companies.

00:12:05.600 And this is exactly when we saw the stark rise in ultra-processed foods as a percentage of our diet.

00:12:10.880 Now, 67% of all calories we are eating in the United States is ultra-processed food.

00:12:17.580 This is non-food, chemical, chemical substance essentially made by scientists and factories that look like food but are actually made of a combination of chemicals.

00:12:30.260 And that's now almost 70% of American calories.

00:12:32.700 Of course, we're getting sick.

00:12:33.800 Of course, we're getting mentally ill.

00:12:35.760 Of course, we're becoming less competitive.

00:12:37.760 We're eating literally a science experiment that was invented by the cigarette companies to addict us.

00:12:44.660 And that's exactly what it does.

00:12:45.800 They took their food scientists, their team of brilliant PhDs, and said, dopamine is a business model.

00:12:51.800 We are going to turn our attention from how do we make cigarettes addictive to how do we make food addictive?

00:12:57.840 Because how do they meet their quarterly profits?

00:12:59.720 They get more people insatiably eating this food.

00:13:02.740 And it worked.

00:13:03.400 We are now eating ourselves to death in the United States.

00:13:05.580 74% of American adults have overweight or obesity.

00:13:08.540 52% of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.

00:13:11.760 And, of course, all the downstream diseases from these, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, dementia are all going through the roof.

00:13:19.000 And the food is quite literally designed to reach us to our bliss point, the use of chemicals that make our brain go crazy for this.

00:13:26.180 And they include other chemicals like high-fructose corn syrup that turn off our satiety signals, meaning they tell our brain that we are not full.

00:13:36.020 And normally, of course, when you eat whole, real food, you get full.

00:13:39.660 You literally can't overeat grass-fed steak, right?

00:13:43.160 You can't eat so much that you would get sick if you get full.

00:13:46.760 Say that again. 0.71

00:13:47.640 Amen, sister.

00:13:48.520 Amen, sister.

00:13:50.320 But the box of Pringles tells you exactly what they're trying to do to you.

00:13:54.020 Once you pop, you just can't stop.

00:13:56.040 And that's biochemical.

00:13:57.360 That is food science.

00:13:58.580 And, of course, now we're spending 20% of the largest GDP in the world on health care costs, and Americans are getting sicker.

00:14:05.420 Why?

00:14:05.820 Because we're not focusing on the root cause, which is the environmental factors like toxic foods, which are government-subsidized and allowed by our government and are absolutely taking down the American population in front of our eyes.

00:14:16.480 And they're ignoring it when grassroot efforts, like what happened in Battle Creek, Michigan this week at the Kellogg's headquarters, it is absolutely being ignored.

00:14:24.660 So we have got to scratch our heads about this.

00:14:27.820 I think this is going to be a time in history that we look back on with real sadness of what we're doing to kids and to the adults in the American population with food.

00:14:36.560 You know, in every way, the medical associations have so discredited themselves.

00:14:44.280 The scientists have so discredited themselves that, you know, it's not a wonder we question authority.

00:14:54.480 It's not a wonder why we are questioning the government.

00:14:57.060 They were in bed.

00:14:57.820 They were with a COVID vaccine where the government, the Federal Reserve and Moderna are all making money off of something they are forcing you to take.

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00:16:30.680 Let's talk to Senator Ted Cruz.

00:16:32.740 How are you, Senator?

00:16:34.720 Glenn, I'm doing terrific.

00:16:36.080 How are you?

00:16:36.660 Great.

00:16:37.300 You killed it on the debate with Allred.

00:16:41.340 I mean, it shouldn't have surprised anybody.

00:16:44.820 I think maybe he was a little surprised that he did so poorly, but you could tell he was just nervous.

00:16:50.440 He knew what he was walking into.

00:16:52.240 You, buzzsaw. 1.00

00:16:53.420 Well, look, I also think he had a difficult task to begin with because what he is doing in this campaign is trying to run away from his entire record.

00:17:05.680 He's trying to present a picture to the voters that is fundamentally false.

00:17:10.560 His actual voting record in his time as Congress has been extreme left.

00:17:16.400 His first four years in Congress, he voted with Nancy Pelosi 100% of the time.

00:17:21.260 He voted with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris their first two years in office 100% of the time.

00:17:27.720 So he's voted for open borders over and over again.

00:17:30.340 He's voted for releasing violent criminals from jail over and over again.

00:17:34.840 He's voted for taxes and spending and debt.

00:17:37.560 He's voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's assault on energy and oil and gas and jobs in the state of Texas.

00:17:45.000 All of that is a terrible record if you want to run statewide in Texas because that's directly contrary.

00:17:50.420 Right.

00:17:51.120 So the values of Texas, his whole campaign is millions of dollars trying to present a false image of who he is.

00:17:58.600 And my objective in the debate was very simple.

00:18:01.700 Lay out his record and lay out mine.

00:18:04.480 His objective was try to hide his record.

00:18:07.660 And I don't think that objective succeeded.

00:18:10.100 No, it definitely did not.

00:18:12.380 Senator, you mentioned that Allred had voted on the issue of men playing in women's sports.

00:18:20.080 Multiple times.

00:18:21.900 I think it was.

00:18:22.760 I think you said four times.

00:18:23.940 He kept trying to basically huff and puff and say it wasn't true.

00:18:27.180 What's the truth on this?

00:18:29.220 Well, the truth is straightforward.

00:18:30.780 And actually going into the debate, I mean, we had run several TV ads laying out his record on supporting boys playing in girls sports, men playing in women's sports.

00:18:41.260 And he looked those ads were doing damage.

00:18:44.620 His negatives were going up and it was it was having a real impact.

00:18:48.660 And so last week he put up a TV ad where he's just him standing, looking straight to camera, saying this is not true.

00:18:57.460 I do not support boys and girls sports.

00:19:01.040 This is a lie. 0.99

00:19:02.380 Ted is a liar. 1.00

00:19:03.340 That's his ad. 0.98

00:19:03.960 Now, it was we had within 48 hours, we had a response ad up that had what he said and then just laid out the facts.

00:19:12.100 And so I did the same thing in the debate where he likewise said, I do not support boys and girls sports.

00:19:19.760 And what are the why did you vote?

00:19:21.180 What are the facts?

00:19:21.780 Why did you vote for it?

00:19:22.940 The facts are he supported it four separate times.

00:19:25.640 Number one, he is a co-sponsor of and he voted for a bill called the Equality Act.

00:19:30.620 The Equality Act mandated that boys use girls restrooms, be able to use girls changing rooms, be able to use girls locker rooms and be able to compete in sports.

00:19:39.640 That's number one.

00:19:40.900 Number two, there was a bill that was called the Protecting Girls and Women's Sports Act.

00:19:46.000 It was a very narrow bill.

00:19:47.260 It did one thing.

00:19:48.640 It said that that girls sports are protected and boys can't compete in them.

00:19:54.320 Women's sports are protected and men can't compete in them. 0.98

00:19:57.120 It's all that did.

00:19:58.640 Colin Allred voted no.

00:20:01.440 The third thing he did, he signed on to something called the Transgender Bill of Rights.

00:20:06.380 He was a co-sponsor of it.

00:20:08.180 The Transgender Bill of Rights explicitly says boys should be able to compete against girls if that's how they identify.

00:20:15.100 He proudly signed on to that.

00:20:16.740 That's number three.

00:20:18.040 And then number four, number four, something he did just a couple of weeks ago.

00:20:21.540 He joined with over 100 very left-wing Democrats.

00:20:24.660 He signed a letter about our military.

00:20:27.360 And here are the changes, he said, that he believes we need in our military.

00:20:31.080 He said, number one, our military bases need to have drag shows. 1.00

00:20:37.340 Number two, he said, taxpayers need to pay for sex change operations on soldiers on our military bases. 0.99

00:20:46.860 Number three, taxpayers need to pay for sex change operations and sterilization of children on our military bases. 0.99

00:20:58.760 And number four, he demanded that military bases be able to fly the transgender flag above the base.

00:21:06.680 Now, look, that is a radical agenda.

00:21:09.520 That is wildly disconnected from where Texans are.

00:21:13.720 When it comes to our military, call me old-fashioned, I think our military ought to be the finest fighting force of the face of the planet.

00:21:21.660 I think they ought to be, their job is to defend the United States of America, to keep Americans safe,

00:21:28.200 and to be prepared to kill our enemies if necessary.

00:21:32.080 And all of this left-wing politics has no business being forced upon our military.

00:21:39.900 That, sadly, is who he is, and that's what he wants to see.

00:21:42.480 I have to tell you, we talked about it, we've been talking about it quite a bit,

00:21:46.360 but earlier this week we mentioned that your campaign is not getting any help from the Senate GOP.

00:21:53.580 Mitch McConnell is not offering a dime to you, and you have Soros and every big leftist group

00:22:01.660 coming down to try to make sure you are not the senator from Texas.

00:22:07.020 That's all out-of-state money, and Mitch McConnell isn't doing it. 0.90

00:22:11.620 The GOP is worthless.

00:22:13.140 They're not doing anything to help you. 0.97

00:22:15.720 It is infuriating.

00:22:18.300 Chuck Schumer has been explicit.

00:22:20.200 I'm his number one target in the entire country.

00:22:24.060 He is flooding cash into the state.

00:22:26.640 He is going to spend between $100 million and $150 million in this race.

00:22:32.000 We're being massively outspent.

00:22:34.520 Glenn, you live in Texas.

00:22:35.740 Yeah, I know.

00:22:36.260 You know well, Colin Allred has been statewide on TV for four months.

00:22:41.880 Oh, and it's relentless.

00:22:44.340 Everywhere.

00:22:45.600 Yeah.

00:22:45.840 I just got up on TV a few weeks ago, and, you know, I was reading something criticizing,

00:22:51.280 well, Cruz really should have been on TV four months ago.

00:22:53.400 I would have loved to.

00:22:54.340 It takes tens of millions of dollars that we didn't have, and you're right.

00:22:59.400 Mitch McConnell has a super PAC with $400 million that he's spending in Senate races.

00:23:03.980 He spent zero in Texas, even though there have been a dozen polls that show this race

00:23:10.860 is a one-point race or a two-point race or a three-point race.

00:23:15.120 By the way, Mitch did the same thing in 2018.

00:23:18.800 My last election was, at the time, the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history.

00:23:23.420 I was outspent three to one.

00:23:25.480 I ended up winning by less than three points, and again, Mitch spent zero, and there's a

00:23:30.560 reason.

00:23:31.560 He uses that money to reward the senators who obey him and to freeze out the senators who

00:23:37.860 stand up to him, and if you're at home frustrated, wondering how come so few Republican senators

00:23:43.600 have a backbone and stand up to leadership, well, the answer is it costs you $10 million

00:23:49.000 or $20 million or $30 million or even $40 million.

00:23:51.980 That's right.

00:23:52.480 And so what it means is I have to rely on patriots in Texas across the country.

00:23:56.500 I want to ask your listeners, please come to TedCruz.org, TedCruz.org, come right now

00:24:03.360 to TedCruz.org and make a contribution.

00:24:06.060 Give 10 or 25 or 50 or maybe someone could give 100 or 500 or even 1,000, because the

00:24:13.700 only way we counteract the $100 million plus from Chuck Schumer and George Soros is patriots

00:24:21.740 and conservatives and common sense freedom lovers coming to TedCruz.org, making a contribution

00:24:28.360 right now.

00:24:29.460 And I'll tell you, we're 19 days out from Election Day.

00:24:32.000 Literally, you go on Election Day, you give $100 right now, and tomorrow that money goes

00:24:37.820 out on TV to communicate with the voters because it's real simple.

00:24:41.860 If the voters know my record and his record, we will win.

00:24:46.140 But the flip side is simple, too.

00:24:48.140 If we don't have the money to let the voters know my record and his record, he will win.

00:24:53.760 That will decide this race. 0.87

00:24:55.640 It's why I need you to go to TedCruz.org right now and help us lay the records out, help us

00:25:02.860 defend Texas and defend the country.

00:25:04.620 You know, Bernie Sanders and AOC say that Texas is the first step in changing the nation.

00:25:09.960 I think it's the last step.

00:25:11.200 If we lose Texas, we lose every time.

00:25:15.260 Yes.

00:25:15.580 Every time.

00:25:17.080 Well, and actually, I'll say something that I've never said before, Glenn.

00:25:22.700 AOC agrees with you.

00:25:24.800 I know.

00:25:25.620 That may be a first.

00:25:27.460 That may turn the heck out of you.

00:25:28.840 It is.

00:25:29.280 But both Bernie Sanders and AOC came to Texas two weeks ago.

00:25:33.720 They came here to campaign for Colin Allred.

00:25:37.020 Now, that will tell you who he is.

00:25:38.860 AOC and Bernie Sanders are here because they see him as the key to succeeding with their agenda.

00:25:46.160 And here's what AOC said.

00:25:47.840 If we win Texas, we change the country for a generation.

00:25:53.360 It's true.

00:25:53.940 He understands.

00:25:55.020 That's it.

00:25:56.100 This is the whole ballgame.

00:25:57.780 And Colin Allred's record is hard, hard left.

00:26:02.940 His record is voting for open borders over and over and over again.

00:26:08.180 His record is voting for boys and girls sports over and over and over again.

00:26:12.740 His record is voting for releasing violent criminals from jail over and over and over again.

00:26:17.700 His record is voting against oil and gas and energy and jobs in Texas over and over and over again.

00:26:25.240 And if he gets elected, he would be a hard left senator, just like he's been a hard left House member.

00:26:32.260 And yet the corporate media, every newspaper article you read about him, every TV news story, they describe him as a moderate bipartisan centrist, a middle of the road unifier who brings people together, just like Nancy Pelosi.

00:26:47.960 He has the identical voting record she does. And yet the media is is spending millions trying to spin and trying to lie. And that's what makes this very, very dangerous.

00:26:59.740 So what's his name? Turtle face is not giving any money to Ted Cruz, but he'll give it to Cornyn.

00:27:10.300 And we cannot have John Cornyn and a leftist representing the great state of Texas. It just can't happen. It can't happen.

00:27:20.780 We lose the republic if we lose this election. Please go to Ted Cruz dot org and donate.

00:27:29.460 This is a very, very close election. This is probably, I would say, as close as the as Kamala and Donald Trump.

00:27:40.440 I mean, it's a point or two. It could go either way. And the problem is, is in Texas,

00:27:46.040 we are so arrogant that we think, oh, Texas will always vote the right way. Texas is always.

00:27:51.200 No, there are hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into this state to change it blue because they know if they win in Texas, it's all over.

00:28:04.420 You can't allow this to happen. And with with people like McConnell not helping, it's you kind of know where you weren't.

00:28:12.660 You know where Ted Cruz stands. He's not for that game that the rhinos are playing. 1.00

00:28:18.280 He's not for it. That's why he's not getting any of the money.

00:28:20.940 Please donate now to Ted Cruz dot org, Ted Cruz dot org.

00:28:27.720 Ted, thank you. And please call us back. Tell us what you need. We're there.

00:28:33.700 Glenn, I appreciate you. We need two things. We need contributions at Ted Cruz dot org.

00:28:38.900 And we need every Texan. Make sure you vote. Early voting starts on Monday.

00:28:43.660 Come out and vote. Get your friends to vote. Get your family to vote. It's all about turnout.

00:28:48.640 And the other side is is pushing really hard. We need everyone who wants to keep Texas, Texas to stand up and fight right now.

00:28:57.600 Yeah. Thank you very much. This is this one is a really scary one because people are really honestly asleep at the switch.

00:29:06.340 They just think I'm not going to vote. My vote's not going to matter because, you know, Trump's going to win.

00:29:10.960 Cruz is going to win. No, not this time. Not this time.

00:29:14.460 Not with the amount of money that they have poured into this state.

00:29:19.800 It it it is going to be close.

00:29:23.240 Please, everyone in every state.

00:29:26.580 Don't count this as an easy win.

00:29:29.640 It's not going to be. You've got to get out in each and every state and vote.

00:29:38.600 This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.

00:29:41.160 It's a compilation of clips from various episodes.

00:29:43.500 If you want to dig deeper into this interview, check out the full podcast episode.

00:29:47.180 As of October 15th, 11 statewide ballot measures related to abortion were certified in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, South Dakota, all for the general election ballot in 2024.

00:30:13.000 This is the most on record for a single year.

00:30:17.300 Abortion is on the ballot and you have to be very, very careful.

00:30:21.900 I'm going to go to Bob Rommel, who is a Florida state representative, as they are having their debate about this abortion amendment.

00:30:31.380 Hello, Bob, how are you?

00:30:34.120 Glenn, thank you so much for having me on it.

00:30:36.880 Thanks for all you're doing.

00:30:37.920 And I'm doing great today with my coffee and acetone.

00:30:40.780 Thank you for listening.

00:30:44.960 So talk to me about amendment number four.

00:30:50.960 Glenn, a couple of years ago in Florida, you know, in Florida, we've done so many things to protect children here.

00:30:57.260 First of all, we're the first state to ban boys from playing girls sports.

00:31:01.080 We stopped boys from going in girls bathrooms. 1.00

00:31:03.540 We stopped gender affirmation care for minors.

00:31:07.500 And we also passed a six-week abortion ban a couple of years ago.

00:31:11.540 And before we passed the bill, we paid attention to the other side that was going to oppose it.

00:31:16.020 They were talking about, you know, incidents of rape and incest.

00:31:19.540 And we put those exceptions in.

00:31:21.160 And then I talked to some young women that were talking about how expensive it is to raise a child. 0.78

00:31:26.540 And so we put in over $700 million in programs to help those that would make that choice just because of financial reasons.

00:31:35.540 And, you know, we have a great state.

00:31:37.580 I think we have the best state in the nation.

00:31:40.060 Sorry, Texas.

00:31:40.720 I know, I know.

00:31:43.800 Texas is in your rearview mirror.

00:31:45.720 I don't like it, but it's true.

00:31:48.360 We still love you.

00:31:50.600 The left has been paying attention to what's going on.

00:31:53.800 They can't believe so many good things are happening.

00:31:56.600 And Amendment 4, which would create the most liberal abortion laws in America, actually way more liberal than even France.

00:32:07.160 It wasn't starting in Florida, Glenn.

00:32:10.220 It was started by the Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, George Soros, dumping millions and millions of dollars into our state to destroy it.

00:32:20.140 So almost every single one of these abortion amendments include one very important word.

00:32:28.820 In Florida, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined by the patient health care provider.

00:32:44.720 So that means abortion at any time, partial birth abortion.

00:32:51.640 That's everything, is it not?

00:32:54.060 It is at any time for any reason.

00:32:57.440 Right.

00:32:57.880 So first of all, I'm disappointed in our Supreme Court.

00:33:00.720 Maybe I shouldn't say that because they have to approve the language.

00:33:04.180 It can't be vague.

00:33:05.640 I'm very smart.

00:33:06.680 Most of the people I know are pretty smart.

00:33:09.200 Some are very smart.

00:33:10.540 Nobody knows what a health care provider is because it doesn't describe it.

00:33:15.660 It could be your masseuse.

00:33:17.020 It could be your nail technician that says it's important for you.

00:33:21.160 It could be your whatever.

00:33:23.580 And viability, there's some vagueness there.

00:33:26.360 I mean, in France, it says 14 weeks, period.

00:33:29.600 Here, viability.

00:33:31.160 And it's disturbing.

00:33:33.180 And when I talk to people, I know this is personal.

00:33:35.740 I know it's, you know, it's dividing our nation.

00:33:38.340 But when I tell them what's in the bill, they just don't want to hear it.

00:33:42.620 They said, that's not true.

00:33:43.700 I go, it's true.

00:33:44.520 You have to read it.

00:33:45.340 You have to understand it.

00:33:46.640 Glenn, a 14-year-old child in school can't go to the nurse and get an aspirin if they have a headache.

00:33:53.900 I know.

00:33:54.440 But the 14-year-old child could go to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. 1.00

00:33:57.580 And the parent couldn't stop it.

00:34:01.000 I know.

00:34:01.600 I know.

00:34:03.180 This is really, really dangerous.

00:34:06.960 And everybody, I mean, if you are somebody who's against abortion, again, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, South Carolina.

00:34:22.360 All of these states have a constitutional amendment being voted on.

00:34:30.280 What's the difference, Bob, between just a law and a constitutional amendment?

00:34:35.060 Well, I'm elected every two years, and I'm actually termed out in a couple weeks.

00:34:41.160 But if you don't like what I did, you can not elect me the next term.

00:34:46.580 Or if we realize we did something that's not working, we can change it.

00:34:50.860 It's nearly impossible to change a constitutional amendment.

00:34:54.240 So in the United States, most of your listeners, because they're smart, will know that there's 27 constitutional amendments in our country.

00:35:02.840 In Florida, there's over 150 of them, and they're usually sponsored by outside people.

00:35:09.780 They're pay-for-play, basically.

00:35:11.700 They're confusing. 0.54

00:35:13.060 We still have an amendment protecting pregnant pigs. 1.00

00:35:15.800 I don't really know what it actually does, but it's a constitutional amendment protecting pregnant pigs. 0.57

00:35:20.140 But I guess we're not going to protect pregnant moms anymore. 0.92

00:35:23.220 Sorry.

00:35:25.400 They're awful.

00:35:26.260 They can never, ever go away.

00:35:28.020 That's why you come up here.

00:35:29.080 I mean, we have open-door policy.

00:35:31.880 People come up.

00:35:32.820 We visit them.

00:35:33.360 And, again, when we did our six-week abortion ban, I listened to people, and I said,

00:35:37.220 hey, we have to do something for these moms that are thinking about keeping their baby. 1.00

00:35:41.900 You know, between hyperinflation, they can't afford it.

00:35:44.480 So let's take that off the table.

00:35:46.740 Let's give them another reason to keep that baby. 1.00

00:35:48.900 And we did it.

00:35:49.820 We did it here.

00:35:50.920 We do so many things to protect it.

00:35:53.280 But, Glenn, it's even more dangerous than just Amendment 4.

00:35:56.720 Across the nation, you know, if you look at the geographic map of the United States,

00:36:01.860 there's way more, you know, either conservative or moderate people out there that just want to be left alone.

00:36:08.120 But the crazy radicals that are trying to destroy our country,

00:36:11.360 they're using these citizen initiative ballots, spending hundreds of millions, probably billions, all over to actually get rid of the legislative process.

00:36:20.880 And you know what?

00:36:22.080 It's awful.

00:36:22.720 So here's another problem with this.

00:36:24.980 In Florida, it's legally necessary for a physician to be present at an abortion.

00:36:32.220 But Amendment 4 just says a health care provider.

00:36:37.980 But in Florida law, provider is a person that furnishes health care services and is licensed or otherwise authorized to practice in the state.

00:36:47.780 That's a physician's assistant, a registered nurse, a nurse midwife, a licensed practical nurse, or an advanced practice registered nurse that is licensed.

00:36:57.840 That's not a doctor.

00:36:59.320 That's a midwife saying, yeah, you want an abortion? 1.00

00:37:03.380 Okay, I can give that to you.

00:37:06.780 Glenn, that's why I'm disappointed in our Supreme Court.

00:37:10.180 How these things happen is, you know, you have to get 920,000 verified signatures, which it turns out there may have been some fraud there,

00:37:18.180 and you can't pay for signatures, and we believe it may have happened, but it's probably too late to change that.

00:37:23.700 But then you have to go before the court and say, okay, these things can't be vague because there's trickery in language, and nobody really pays attention.

00:37:33.280 And the court, you know, and many of the people who were appointed by Governor DeSantis, it was four to three approving the language.

00:37:42.420 And unfortunately, the people that approved the language, they were the men that were appointed by Governor DeSantis.

00:37:49.240 And I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying that, but oh, well, I can't hear it.

00:37:52.060 You're out anyway.

00:37:53.180 Who cares?

00:37:53.700 There shouldn't be vagueness in this.

00:37:58.200 You know, it should be clear.

00:38:00.520 And listen, the one good thing our founding fathers did, they made it almost impossible to change the U.S. Constitution.

00:38:06.500 In Florida and other states, it's for sale.

00:38:08.500 That's crazy.

00:38:09.980 Bob, thank you so much.

00:38:10.960 Thanks for informing us on this.

00:38:13.000 We'll keep hammering this.

00:38:14.200 This is really, really important.

00:38:16.260 Let me just give you the language in other states.

00:38:19.200 Again, what is that?

00:38:31.460 What is that?

00:38:32.120 That's constantly changing.

00:38:34.600 Provide a constitutional right to abortion in the state constitution and allow the use of public funds for abortion is Colorado.

00:38:43.260 Provide a constitutional right to abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined by the patient's health care provider.

00:38:53.060 That's the Florida one.

00:38:54.200 In Maryland, amend the Maryland Constitution to establish a right to reproductive freedom defined to include decisions to prevent, continue, or end one's own pregnancy.

00:39:07.820 Wow, that's kind of open.

00:39:10.620 In Missouri, amend the Missouri Constitution to provide the right for reproductive freedom and provide that the state legislature may enact laws that regulate abortion after fetal viability.

00:39:23.200 Montana, amend Montana's Constitution to provide a state constitutional right to make and carry out decisions about one's own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.

00:39:35.040 Again, Montana, no restrictions.

00:39:37.160 Nebraska, amend the Nebraska Constitution to provide that unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters.

00:39:47.580 Well, that's good.

00:39:49.540 But also you have in Nebraska the right to an abortion to amend the Nebraska Constitution to provide that all persons shall have a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability.

00:40:02.600 In New York, add language to the New York Bill of Rights to provide that people cannot be denied rights based on their ethnicity, national origin, age, and disability or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive health care and autonomy.

00:40:24.680 Wow.

00:40:25.680 Nevada established a constitutional right for an abortion or to an abortion providing for the state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, except for medically indicated to protect life, physical health, or mental health of the pregnant woman.

00:40:40.320 That is a wide open door.

00:40:41.320 And South Dakota provide a trimester framework for regulating abortion in the South Dakota Constitution.

00:40:49.240 With an exception of two, the answer is no on all of those.

00:40:54.620 Be aware, they are making abortion a very big deal.

00:41:01.680 The people who believe in abortion are going to be out in force, especially in those states.

00:41:08.300 That means you have to be out in a bigger force.

00:41:13.380 Voting is so important.

00:41:15.920 It is your civic responsibility as an American citizen.

00:41:20.780 I don't care if you don't like either of the candidates.

00:41:23.000 I don't choose life.

00:41:26.620 The contrast here is so stark.

00:41:30.380 I don't know what would keep you at home at this point.

00:41:35.740 Vote and vote early if you can.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 17, 2024

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Sen. Ted Cruz & Dr. Casey Means ｜ 10⧸17⧸24

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