The Glenn Beck Program - Data Centers are DRAINING Your Energy. Here's the Solution ｜ 6⧸5⧸26

00:00:00.000 We're living in a time where it's really easy to forget what this country is actually about, how it came to be.

00:00:05.620 And we talk about the founders like they just appeared fully formed out of history.

00:00:08.940 But that's not how it happened.

00:00:11.420 That's why I think young George Washington is so important right now.

00:00:15.460 This is a film that takes you back before he was president, before the revolution was won, before George Washington was George Washington, that symbol.

00:00:24.380 And it shows you the young man he really was.

00:00:26.660 Not perfect, not polished, but somebody who is shaped by failures, hard decisions, and courage.

00:00:32.600 And by a sense that there was something bigger than himself at work.

00:00:35.900 Great leaders are not created in comfort.

00:00:37.980 They're forged when things are hard.

00:00:40.340 When stepping forward costs you something.

00:00:42.280 With the 250th anniversary of America right around the corner, this is a powerful way to market.

00:00:49.020 Take your family, take your kids, your grandkids, and connect them to the story that started all of this.

00:00:53.780 See Young Washington in theaters July 3rd.

00:00:56.880 Tickets available now, angel.com slash youngwashington.

00:01:23.780 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment.

00:01:47.320 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:53.780 hello america it's friday oh it feels good saying that uh hello and welcome i'm glad that you're

00:02:07.260 here we got a lot on our plate today a lot i mean i got tons and tons and tons of stuff that i want

00:02:12.120 to comment on but i also want to hear from you today 888-727-BECK um if you're an insider you

00:02:18.420 have your special insider line you can get in line to uh call up anything that i've missed

00:02:23.240 anything you think i got wrong any comments you want to make the floor is yours 888-727-BECK

00:02:30.320 i want to talk about what's happening with the story from uh jill biden and uh melania trump

00:02:37.420 the inaugural day i just love this story she's one badass woman do not screw with melania trump

00:02:44.740 She is just, she's not a wilting flower.

00:02:48.580 Let me tell you that.

00:02:49.600 More on Plattner.

00:02:50.960 Looks like the New York Times was playing a game.

00:02:55.300 Interesting thing on that.

00:02:57.020 The vote count in California.

00:03:01.880 Ukraine, Glenn Greenwald and I had an exchange on X yesterday

00:03:09.680 in the middle of like 800 things I was doing yesterday.

00:03:12.060 uh glenn greenwald just kept popping up and i'm like okay all right glenn you're wrong about russia

00:03:17.520 you're wrong about russia you know you'd be right about freedom of speech and everything else but

00:03:22.340 you're wrong about russia and i really want to talk about that today as well but your phone calls

00:03:25.920 will steer it 888-727-BECK first let me tell you about relief factor your trust isn't something

00:03:31.440 that i take lightly it's not something that i'm i'm gonna throw away by endorsing products i don't

00:03:36.060 believe in never have never will i've turned down more advertising than i've taken over the years

00:03:42.100 uh and if something doesn't work if it doesn't have value if i don't think it if i don't use it

00:03:46.820 i'm not telling you about it i will recommend it to my own friends if i put my name on it and you

00:03:52.360 are i mean i just have this weird relationship with you i know we don't know each other but i

00:03:56.460 do think of you kind of almost as family at least a friend except for those of you who are under the

00:04:02.460 payroll of george soros just to point that out uh i want to talk about relief factor you know my

00:04:07.340 story dealing with pain in my hands tanya suggested it i started feeling better in fact the real proof

00:04:12.940 came when i stopped taking uh relief factor because i thought oh i'm just starting to feel

00:04:17.300 better i'm so stubborn uh she can't be right i just started to feel better i stopped taking it

00:04:21.720 and my pain comes back immediately it's part of my routine now for years i just took it this morning

00:04:27.480 It's a daily supplement developed by doctors.

00:04:29.580 It has helped to create this to reduce inflammation in your body.

00:04:36.140 Try Relief Factor.

00:04:37.540 Try it now.

00:04:38.100 1995 Quick Start.

00:04:39.560 It's a three-week trial.

00:04:41.060 See if it doesn't change your life.

00:04:42.840 It did mine.

00:04:43.500 Visit relieffactor.com.

00:04:44.940 Call 800-4-RELIEF.

00:04:46.200 800, the number 4, Relief.

00:04:47.960 ReliefFactor.com.

00:04:50.940 All right.

00:04:51.540 Let me say hello to Jason and to Ricky, who are on the program,

00:04:56.100 our executive producers uh whoa whoa whoa did jason just get a promotion yeah i don't know i

00:05:02.840 don't know what anybody's title is on this we all are just busy worker bees for you

00:05:08.880 supporting that's right see now now you're starting now this woman is starting a flat organization

00:05:16.240 we are a flat organization uh but anyway uh welcome um ricky where should i even begin today

00:05:29.700 well where i began this morning is what i always do i wake up i read our morning prep if you're

00:05:37.600 not subscribed to the morning brief newsletter get that at glenbeck.com for free so i read that

00:05:42.860 and then I read any of the news that may have come in overnight that we didn't get to and all

00:05:48.300 of the trends on Google and X and I opened my X and I see that Glenn Beck is trending and I'm like

00:05:53.520 oh crap anytime you're trending it's usually not good the last time you were trending is for George

00:05:59.100 AI where again people misunderstood the whole point of George AI how hot he is and all that

00:06:05.680 stuff um anyways uh this particular time though I really like that you were trending you we were

00:06:11.600 you were making some great points this week about what's really going on with russia using some

00:06:18.400 western influencers to do their bidding and the west and create and so division and all that kind

00:06:23.920 of stuff and you've been talking about dugan for like a decade or more and you've always been ahead

00:06:28.880 and everyone's like oh my gosh dude it is the midterms why are you talking about dugan and

00:06:34.720 i can't tell you how many times hit the right news cycle i think right now is the right time

00:06:39.040 and you're trending for that so let's get into you and glenn is the other one that is the curse

00:06:43.900 of this program is i am always ahead and and i know you know roger ale said to me when i was at

00:06:50.760 fox he's like glenn one of your great strengths is you're always ahead you're always in front of

00:06:56.000 the parade but you're five blocks ahead of the parade can you slow down a little bit and um and

00:07:03.060 that's always the curse i have i think is that i'll see things like i've been talking about dugan

00:07:08.300 literally since the 90s when i first started hearing talk i didn't i don't know if i addressed

00:07:13.300 him by name but it was an advisor of putin that was saying that he is that america is going to

00:07:20.400 break up in a civil war into 10 different you know blah blah blah blah blah and he is actually

00:07:25.260 promoting it inside the united states that that was news back in the 90s um and then he became

00:07:31.340 putin's brain and then he started writing books i mean he was writing books in the 90s i think

00:07:36.340 But he started writing books.

00:07:38.280 I started reading his books, and I'm like, wait a minute.

00:07:41.800 What is this guy even saying?

00:07:44.080 And he's extraordinarily dangerous.

00:07:46.020 And I could not get anyone to pay attention because they always say the same thing.

00:07:49.500 He's not that big of a deal.

00:07:51.440 You know what?

00:07:51.860 Neither was Hitler for a long time, okay?

00:07:53.820 Neither was Hitler.

00:07:54.700 This guy believes that Stalin and Hitler didn't go far enough.

00:07:58.920 he has a fourth political theory that um that the enlightenment was the mistake

00:08:08.440 not just that the soviet union fell that the enlightenment was the mistake

00:08:14.900 and that the church and state need to come back together for christendom now i don't know anyone

00:08:23.000 sane who thinks that. He also believes that you should merge with Islam. You should fight with

00:08:31.680 the Mahadi, the 12ers. He is the guy brokering the deal with the 12ers in Iran. And Glenn Greenwald

00:08:41.500 doesn't think this guy's a problem. What the hell is wrong with you? So Glenn Greenwald said

00:08:49.380 yesterday. It's wild to watch MAGA now sound exactly like Rachel Maddow and Adam Schiff when

00:08:54.460 talking about Russia. Russian civilization has produced remarkable works of literature,

00:09:00.800 science, religion, architecture, politics. It's fascinating to visit. Talking to Russians isn't

00:09:06.120 sinister. Glenn Greenwald, you're smarter than this. You are much smarter than this.

00:09:12.140 That's not anything that I didn't say that they didn't produce, that you should never talk to

00:09:16.880 any russians i said you should not be hanging out and giving speeches next to dugan at something

00:09:26.240 that is known to be a kgb or fsb operation no that's that's only common sense um so i write

00:09:38.200 back glenn you're right great things come from russian people russians uh russians nor talking

00:09:43.100 to russians uh russians nor talking to russians are the problem i don't know what that i must

00:09:50.480 have been drunk you're much smarter than this tweet assuming that you're saying uh assuming

00:09:55.120 that you're saying uh is what i said the problem of the full is the philosophy of alexander dugan

00:10:01.280 and his plan to poison western faith anyone who's actually read his books knows he's not for

00:10:07.120 classic liberalism. He's not for individual liberty, and he is looking for a Christian

00:10:12.440 prince, one that can hold back the end of days by linking arms of those or with those who will

00:10:19.160 choose his prince over the American founding liberal documents and principles while linking

00:10:23.880 arms literally with the Mahadi and the Islamic world. That's the problem, not the Russian people

00:10:29.600 or candace or russian art and history but you know that i don't look for my savior of my faith

00:10:37.180 country or culture in a man be it trump or dugan or putin i put it in christ and people living by

00:10:42.920 the principles that he taught and that only works when each of us have the freedom to choose as an

00:10:48.060 individual he comes for the individual never for the collective so he responds you should interview

00:10:56.600 dugan i did in moscow he believes the west it's the west that seeks civilizational uh civilizational

00:11:03.980 hegemony uh the end of uh history is western liberalism he wants civilizational diversity

00:11:10.620 and you're wildly exaggerating his influence in russia i never said anything about his influence

00:11:15.580 in russia he's called putin's brain now they've had some falling out i'm sure but he's also

00:11:21.620 speaking at the same conference put together with him and Putin, and he's speaking next to Putin.

00:11:28.520 So, I mean, I gotta say, I mean, he's not like a nobody. And I never said anything about his

00:11:35.400 influence. I'm not worried about his influence in Russia as much as I am worried about his

00:11:39.080 influence in the West. And by the way, he believes he wants civilizational diversity.

00:11:46.240 No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. Anyone who believes the enlightenment is the problem

00:11:53.500 is the problem. They think that being able to have individual liberty, that's what he's talking

00:12:03.200 about. Individual liberty. I'm sorry, I can't get into that boat at all. So I write, sure,

00:12:11.880 I've read his books. Have you? His ideas are truly monstrous. The end of modernity and everything

00:12:19.040 this country is based on. I'm not in the business of giving a platform to somebody who is looking

00:12:24.480 for a bigger platform. I know who he is. He clearly lays it out in all of his books. I've

00:12:29.600 been following his work since the 90s. I don't know his influence today in Russia. I'm more

00:12:34.760 concerned with his growing influence in the West. I have a ton of respect for you, Glenn.

00:12:38.640 you're really missing the mark if you've read his books okay so that was the extent of the exchange

00:12:45.060 now here's why i think maybe i'm trending is because i said i have a ton of respect for you

00:12:51.780 glenn can we can we can i

00:12:55.440 can we hold two ideas at the same time

00:13:01.020 can we hold two ideas at the same time glenn greenwald is wrong about a lot of stuff

00:13:09.780 glenn greenwald has done a lot for freedom of speech i have a lot of respect for what he has

00:13:16.020 done in the past for freedom of speech i believe he has been a a very strong proponent of freedom

00:13:23.620 of speech i disagree with glenn greenwald on almost everything else i can have respect for him

00:13:30.020 and recognize that he is also wildly wrong.

00:13:34.660 Here's why I said that.

00:13:36.980 Somebody needs to model how to talk to one another again.

00:13:42.260 If I got on and said, Glenn Greenwald, you're a monster.

00:13:45.880 You're an a-hole and shut up.

00:13:48.400 Where would we be?

00:13:51.100 Glenn and I would not be having a conversation.

00:13:53.020 We would not be able to explore things.

00:13:56.960 and all we would have are two sides that hated each other i don't want that they already hate me

00:14:04.960 you know he already hates me or they are hate me you know his his people that are tweeting with him

00:14:10.580 my side a lot of people will already hate him and you know dog pile on him why why let's further

00:14:20.220 the conversation because we get nowhere by continuing to to divide ourselves that's why

00:14:26.040 I've not made this whole thing about

00:14:28.020 Candace Owens, because that's what everybody else is doing.

00:14:30.560 And I have to tell you, I feel sad

00:14:31.960 for Candace Owens, because I think she had potential.

00:14:35.720 I think she could have been

00:14:37.300 an influence for good.

00:14:40.400 I think she just chose to be

00:14:42.040 an influence. And I also think

00:14:43.820 maybe that there's some mental issues going on there.

00:14:46.620 Maybe. I don't know.

00:14:48.640 But

00:14:48.840 Ricky's putting her head

00:14:52.000 in her hands. I do believe that.

00:14:54.100 Can we not diagnose people live on natural radio?

00:14:57.980 We're not trying to start a war with Candace.

00:14:59.840 I've said it before.

00:15:01.460 I'm not.

00:15:02.120 But I do think that there's been some, okay, I don't want to say anything.

00:15:05.660 That's fine.

00:15:06.160 You might be right.

00:15:08.300 But, you know, I'm the one that gets the notifications lit up on X, sir.

00:15:13.180 It's my phone that's like, win back that I'm mentally ill.

00:15:16.960 My fight is, look, my, I don't necessarily.

00:15:23.240 i have to i have to think all of this things through because i speak before i think sometimes

00:15:27.860 um i don't i don't think she's mentally ill i think she has i think she has some mental issues

00:15:35.260 okay that doesn't mean you're a you're a nut job it just means like okay all right you know we all

00:15:42.160 have people in our family that are like you know what i think i think maybe they have some issues

00:15:46.120 here um so i'm just gonna go uh-huh okay all right uh and i still love you but you're a little

00:15:54.100 light over here on a few things um i feel bad for her because i think she has really done herself

00:16:01.560 some grave grave damage and in a way because i disagree with so much what she's saying i'm glad

00:16:07.280 she has exposed herself i mean you just don't go over to russia at this conference you could speak

00:16:13.040 in other countries you can speak in russia you just don't speak at this conference that is known

00:16:18.840 to be an fsb operation and then what are you going to tell the people when you come home to america

00:16:25.320 about russia and then you go on to what she you know did it like hey we're just exactly alike we

00:16:31.800 have the same problems and i think you got it going on um no i don't you spoke on the same

00:16:38.020 stage with Alexander Dugan. And I just don't think that that's, I don't think that's going

00:16:42.700 to be helpful for you, Candace, but to each his own. And you want to, you know, listen to Candace,

00:16:49.880 listen to Candace. I have no problem with that. I just think that this is getting into very

00:16:54.740 dangerous territory. And Dugan is a litmus test for me. If you want to say, well, yes,

00:17:05.420 but he's diagnosed the problem that's great you know in fact let me go there let me go there let

00:17:09.540 me take a quick break and then i'm gonna come back diagnosing the problem because that's what

00:17:13.740 everybody says dugan have you listened to him yes i have have you read his stuff because the first

00:17:20.400 parts of his book you'll read and you'll be like this guy gets it you know what he feels exactly

00:17:25.380 like i do and then he'll be like and then they annihilate all of him and you're like okay this

00:17:31.680 guy's a madman. He has diagnosed the problem. So let me go there. Next. First, let me tell you

00:17:37.560 about real estate agents I trust. I try not to move, you know, any more often than I have to.

00:17:43.060 I think it would, you know, that would be a fairly easy goal. Pick a house, live in it, stay put.

00:17:47.020 Somehow or another, doesn't happen with me. New opportunity comes along, circumstances change,

00:17:51.840 and I find myself packing boxes again and wondering why I own so many things in the first

00:17:55.340 place. I actually just went into my garage the other day and I found a box that I packed when

00:17:59.800 I lived in my house in Connecticut, and I'm still dragging that damn box around, and I don't even

00:18:04.540 know what's in the box, okay? Anyway, that's a packing problem and a pack rat problem, but let

00:18:10.220 me talk to you a little bit about finding a great real estate agent if you have to move. If you have

00:18:15.360 to move, you want somebody that can sell the house that you're in and help you find another one,

00:18:20.560 whether it's across the street or across the country, our agents can do that at realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:18:26.540 They put their clients first.

00:18:28.560 They know the right business practices, and they know the modern system to be able to

00:18:34.120 get the right people that are looking for a house just like yours to see your house.

00:18:37.980 It's realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:18:40.300 No cost to you.

00:18:41.160 I don't charge anything for the recommendation.

00:18:42.840 You interview and take it from there.

00:18:44.100 It's realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:18:47.740 realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:18:49.280 10 seconds, station ID.

00:18:56.540 sarah surgeon's hands so let me tell you let me tell you

00:19:05.740 picture the smartest doctor you've ever met smartest guy you've ever met he looks at you

00:19:12.360 for 30 seconds and names exactly what is wrong with you and he says all the things and you're

00:19:19.120 like oh my god thank god he finds somebody who gets it he names everything he names three things

00:19:24.040 that all the other doctors have missed and he's right and he's brilliant about it and you feel

00:19:28.620 this relief you know wash over you and you're like oh my gosh finally finally somebody sees it

00:19:35.080 and then he reaches for a knife now here's the question that could save your life

00:19:42.800 does being right about the disease make him the guy that should cut into you

00:19:52.260 i would say history would tell us no let me give you a couple examples 1949 doctor won the nobel

00:20:03.060 prize in medicine for a cure um the idea was on its face an act of mercy people drowning in mental

00:20:11.540 anguish that nobody could touch in asylums that were basically human warehouses he said you know

00:20:19.960 what i can operate on the brain and it will help and the diagnosis was true the suffering was real

00:20:26.400 and the prize was real and the suffering in america a doctor named walter freeman took that

00:20:32.520 idea and he's like hey that's a great idea and i can actually make that surgery easier i'll just

00:20:37.420 take an ice pick through the ice socket 10 minutes no operating room just an ice pick

00:20:42.460 okay it was called a lobotomy and it was very popular and then a strong-willed young woman

00:20:49.540 23 years old named rosemary kennedy went in she was restless she was difficult she was unable to

00:20:55.940 speak more than a few words she couldn't walk properly they came in ice picked through the eye

00:21:01.960 she was done she was hidden away in an institution for the rest of her life and the man who did it

00:21:07.400 held the highest honor medicine can give and he was the last guy on earth should have touched her

00:21:14.140 he diagnosed the problem she's ill she's in misery she's a handful

00:21:20.880 not an ice pick let me go back a few years before that america looked at the bottle seen the truth

00:21:28.780 alcohol destroys families men drinking away the rent women and children paying for it the

00:21:34.960 temperance crusaders came out and they weren't lying they said this is horrible alcohol and

00:21:40.820 alcoholism is horrible and so they banned together and got everybody to ban alcohol they wrote that

00:21:48.520 ban into the constitution and they felt righteous doing it because alcohol was a problem and then

00:21:54.100 bootleggers began stealing you know uh industrial alcohol to resell the government did the same

00:22:00.380 thing that should never be forgotten ordered that industrial alcohol be poisoned deliberately

00:22:05.580 lethally knowing full well that desperate people would drink it but the government was like yeah

00:22:10.400 but this is a problem. By the time it was over, 10,000 Americans were dead, poisoned by their

00:22:15.820 own government in a war against something that was real. Alcohol is poison and it's bad.

00:22:21.780 But they were catastrophically wrong about the cure.

00:22:28.080 Let me now take you halfway around the world in 1958, a story about Mao in China that you've

00:22:34.760 probably never heard. Next, first, let me tell you about SimpliSafe. Peace of mind is one of

00:22:38.920 those things. It's hard to put a price on. You're lying awake at two in the morning wondering whether

00:22:43.800 that noise downstairs was the house settling or something a lot less harmless. You'd probably pay

00:22:49.380 pretty good amount to make that feeling go away. Well, somehow the folks at SimpliSafe have actually

00:22:56.080 figured out how to put a price on that peace of mind. Right now, they're only asking you to pay

00:23:00.140 half of that. SimpliSafe has built a security system designed to help protect your home without

00:23:05.080 locking you into long-term contracts, making things complicated. It's easy to set up. It's

00:23:09.740 easy to use, and it comes with seriously impressive technology. If someone's lurking

00:23:14.360 around your property, SimpliSafe agents will see it, speak to that person through the system,

00:23:19.980 and then contact police before a break-in occurs. I don't know about you, but getting real peace of

00:23:25.660 mind for half price sounds like a pretty good deal to me, and right now you get that 50% off

00:23:29.680 your new system. All you have to do is visit SimpliSafe.com slash Beck. It's half off at

00:23:35.480 SimpliSafe.com slash Beck. SimpliSafe. There is no safe like SimpliSafe.

00:23:48.360 Coming up, Glenn weighs in on the couple who very publicly announced they aborted their baby over a

00:23:53.660 Down syndrome diagnosis. You are not going to want to miss this next on the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:59.680 Father's Day is coming up right around the corner,

00:24:03.700 and every year we all go through the same exercise.

00:24:06.080 We try to find a gift for dad,

00:24:07.300 even though most dads have spent their entire lives

00:24:09.480 insisting they don't need anything.

00:24:11.580 The best gifts usually aren't the flashiest ones.

00:24:14.080 They're the thing a man reaches for over and over and over again,

00:24:17.000 and the things that become part of his daily life

00:24:19.300 because they're well-made, they're comfortable,

00:24:21.020 and they're built to last.

00:24:22.320 That's why I think American Giant makes such great sense for Father's Day.

00:24:25.240 They make premium hoodies, sweatshirts, T-shirts,

00:24:28.060 It's everyday essentials right here in the United States.

00:24:31.100 The cotton is grown here.

00:24:32.300 The clothes are cut and sewn here.

00:24:35.220 And the people, let me do it again.

00:24:36.760 Sorry.

00:24:38.340 Threw me off at the 30.

00:24:39.380 I wasn't expecting it and I should have.

00:24:40.640 I'm sorry, it's my fault.

00:24:42.700 Father's Day is coming up right around the corner.

00:24:44.680 Let me do it again.

00:24:46.180 Father's Day is coming up.

00:24:47.260 It's right around the corner.

00:24:48.020 And every year we all go through exactly the same exercise.

00:24:51.500 We try to find a gift for dad,

00:24:52.820 even though most dads spend their whole lives,

00:24:54.420 you know, insisting they don't need anything.

00:24:56.460 The best gifts aren't usually the flashiest ones.

00:24:58.740 They're the things that a man reaches for time and time again, over and over.

00:25:01.980 The things that become part of his daily life because they're well-made, they're comfortable, and they're built to last.

00:25:07.140 That's why I think American Giant makes so much sense for Father's Day.

00:25:10.120 They make premium hoodies, great t-shirts, sweatshirts, everyday essentials made right here in the United States.

00:25:16.780 Their cotton is grown here.

00:25:18.440 Their clothes are cut and sewn here, and the people making them are American workers who still believe in doing the job the right way.

00:25:24.760 The result is clothing that feels great the first time that you put it on,

00:25:28.160 and it keeps feeling great years later.

00:25:30.740 Buy American.

00:25:31.800 This Father's Day, it's American-Giant.com slash Glenn.

00:25:35.000 American-Giant slash Glenn.

00:25:38.580 You're going to have to just piece this up because you'll have the card on it anyway.

00:25:41.920 Go back.

00:25:42.280 Let me get this.

00:25:43.500 Go down a couple of words.

00:25:44.780 Go down a couple of words in prompter.

00:25:46.240 Thank you.

00:25:47.640 American-Giant.com slash Glenn.

00:25:49.240 Use my name.

00:25:49.860 Get 20% off your first purchase.

00:25:51.260 American-Giant.com slash Glenn.

00:25:54.340 so continuing our conversation here uh quickly about candace owens um and and what she's doing

00:26:22.600 over in russia and the really the story is not about candace owens um but it is she is proving

00:26:27.780 everything that i'm saying is right um ricky just got a notification uh breaking news that uh

00:26:36.200 russian media is now calling candace owens what exactly i want to get the quote the bridge the

00:26:44.000 bridge bridge the bridge between that's right and don't think of that as the russian people

00:26:51.380 think of that as putin and dugan remember dugan is the guy who just said if it were up to him

00:26:58.860 he would give every enemy of ours nuclear weapons to vaporize the united states he is not our friend

00:27:06.960 he is not our friend so the latest is putin himself has just asked candace owens to speak

00:27:16.700 today um at this convention so she's just gotten bumped up another level and she's thrilled about

00:27:23.480 it okay you think about whatever whatever you want but i just i'm i have to speak to those who say

00:27:31.320 yes but but dugan and putin have it right about our culture our culture is evil blah blah blah

00:27:38.100 i want you to think about the doctor and i just gave you two examples

00:27:42.240 one somebody who diagnosed the the pain and suffering that mental illness was causing in

00:27:48.580 the united states and said look and everybody was like they're right these institutions are

00:27:53.140 horrible and these people are suffering horribly and they're tearing themselves apart blah blah

00:27:57.200 and so the doctor who was i i think he didn't i say he got a nobel prize for um a prize-winning

00:28:04.760 doctor says, I have the solution. Ice pick to the eye. That's called a lobotomy. You can diagnose

00:28:12.720 something and say, this is the problem and be right. But that doesn't mean your solution is

00:28:18.240 right. Then I told you about the temperance movement. Alcoholism, trust me, I'm an alcoholic.

00:28:24.820 I know how destructive it can be. My mother committed suicide. She was an alcoholic.

00:28:28.920 I get it. It destroys everything. It's horrible, destroys families. That's what the temperance

00:28:34.200 movement said. They diagnosed the problem correctly. People get out of control and it

00:28:39.540 destroys families. But then they put in a constitutional amendment and that started

00:28:45.200 all kinds of stuff, including what I just told you and look it up yourself. Most people don't

00:28:49.580 know it. The United States government started poisoning alcohol with bootleggers. Yeah, well,

00:28:56.260 we'll show them how dangerous it is. They poisoned, they killed Americans knowingly.

00:29:01.480 those people should not been anywhere the cure was wrong the diagnosis was right let me give

00:29:08.380 you one more 1958 halfway around the world Mao he's in China people are starving and he makes

00:29:17.780 a diagnosis that was correct right down to the single grain he was saying we have a problem

00:29:23.860 with sparrows they're eating the harvest so a nation of hundreds of millions was mobilized

00:29:29.960 to get rid of all of the sparrows.

00:29:32.680 People banged pots and pans from dawn to dusk.

00:29:35.680 The birds could never land

00:29:36.900 until the sparrows just dropped out of the sky

00:29:39.600 dead from exhaustion.

00:29:40.960 This is a real story.

00:29:42.180 It worked.

00:29:43.180 The sparrows all died.

00:29:45.300 Then what happened?

00:29:46.620 Then the locusts came.

00:29:48.120 And because the sparrows had been eating the locusts,

00:29:50.440 the insects ate everything in the fields bare.

00:29:54.500 The famine that followed killed tens of million more people,

00:29:59.200 more than most wars in human history mal had the diagnosis right the sparrows are the problem

00:30:07.780 but his cure buried a generation

00:30:11.520 okay so what am i i mean i could go on all of these things have one thing in common

00:30:20.760 these people were not cranks they were not obvious monsters a nobel laureate a constitutional

00:30:26.520 amendment uh the a government and the applause of the experts and the cheer of the crowd made

00:30:33.040 the blade come down that's the the real test the real test is okay he's right about the sickness

00:30:42.120 but what happens when he cuts into the body what happens what happens after that first cut can it

00:30:51.080 ever be undone this is the test true and correct diagnosis earns a man your attention

00:31:00.900 but it doesn't earn him the throat a person who can name your disease perfectly has proven that

00:31:09.620 he can see he has proven nothing about what's in his hand or where that hand will land or whether

00:31:16.720 you'll be able to live with what's behind that hand. So when somebody shows you exactly what's

00:31:22.600 wrong with you, your body, your country, your culture, your faith, and then in the very same

00:31:26.780 breaths, reaches for the scalpel and says, lie down, stay still. Trust me, I'm going to cut into

00:31:31.800 you. Don't be hypnotized about how right he was about the wound. There's another hoop he has to

00:31:39.540 jump through. And that's what's happening with Dugan. People are saying, but Glenn, he's got

00:31:44.900 the diagnosis right yes i agree with you now listen and read what he actually says is the

00:31:54.960 solution that's the difference uh let me see let me go to um let me go to jeff in arizona hello jeff

00:32:06.180 welcome hey glenn um i have a suggestion regarding ron desantis because i believe

00:32:15.320 he's a man who can make the diagnosis to use your analogy and perform the operation

00:32:21.680 successfully as he's done in florida i want to suggest that ron desantis become the free

00:32:28.460 agent governor and simply move to another state and save another state the way he has done in

00:32:35.420 florida i love you i love you so much i have said this and i've said it jokingly and seriously

00:32:41.900 seriously to ron de santis and he just doesn't he just shakes his head and i'm like listen you are

00:32:48.720 you are so good if you want to run for president run for president if you don't win president go

00:32:53.880 run in another state go save other states strengthen other states and you know he said

00:33:00.200 one time we were talking and he said you know i you know i don't know how other states would feel

00:33:04.700 about that. Stop with this carpetbagger stuff. We have to start looking at our states as needing

00:33:12.580 a great CEO. We need somebody who can get it done, who can perform and knows how to run the

00:33:22.420 apparatus of the state and get things done. That's Ron DeSantis. And if I'm a state, if I'm

00:33:30.080 California and I'm looking for the next governor, I'm looking for the best CEO, the best technician

00:33:36.840 that can actually get the things done that need to get done. I don't need somebody that I like.

00:33:43.280 I don't need somebody that has lived in my state the whole time. Well, he's not a Texan.

00:33:48.060 He's not a Californian. He just moved here from Florida to Iowa. Do you have anybody as good as

00:33:55.880 him if you do go go vote for him but if you don't why wouldn't you take i i 100 i think he should go

00:34:03.980 on a 50 state tour i think he should do he's going to have to keep him alive for a while

00:34:08.260 but i would say that he needs to go and and run for office in another state and when he

00:34:15.500 has termed out there go to another state because you're exactly right jeff exactly right let me go

00:34:22.340 to tammy by the way it's friday your calls are important i want to hear your voice anything i

00:34:27.300 got wrong anything you want to argue with me about anything you think i missed whatever 888-727-BECK

00:34:32.960 today is your day tammy in georgia welcome hi glenn um you were talking about a candidate in

00:34:40.380 new jersey um and you were talking with somebody you had and i i'm sorry i'm really bad with names

00:34:46.320 but you had this guy um was tied to al-qaeda and and terrorist groups and had something to do with

00:34:57.480 9-11 i want to know yeah why these candidates are not being vetted the way i think they should be

00:35:07.600 and why how can we as a country let somebody or or even the the congress or senate let somebody

00:35:15.460 like that try to go to the Congress or Senate? Well, because this is a free nation. Let me give

00:35:28.540 you the extreme case. The mullahs in Iran, they're the ones who decide who can run and who can't.

00:35:34.980 You never want that. You want the people to decide. You want just people to be able to walk

00:35:39.060 off the street and say, I want to run. And then it requires then a good, decent, well-informed

00:35:45.520 public using a honest press, um, to do their own homework on those person, those people and vet

00:35:54.580 them and say, yeah, that guy does not fit. We don't want him representing. Um, and that's just

00:36:01.680 not happening right now. This guy should have been vetted by the people of New Jersey. Um,

00:36:07.520 And, you know, he is in one of these elitist districts.

00:36:11.580 It's the 12th district of New Jersey.

00:36:13.780 He was, he provided testimony for the blind sheik.

00:36:17.880 There were reports that he was involved in the planning of the first World Trade Center.

00:36:22.220 He then went in to, where was it, Bosnia?

00:36:27.080 Ricky, I don't have the information.

00:36:28.380 I'm talking about Gaza, where he volunteered and served in Gaza in 2024.

00:36:33.040 He actually served in the U.S. military for a time.

00:36:36.520 Right.

00:36:36.680 And so, you know, you have to make your own decision, but he is somebody that should not get a national security clearance at the very least.

00:36:44.540 You can't give him information about our country.

00:36:49.060 But, you know, if the Democrats win in the House and he wins in the House, he will be sitting in some of our most crucial things.

00:36:55.540 And that's just the way this democracy works.

00:36:57.260 That's why, you know, we are doing at Torch, we're trying to teach American history.

00:37:06.500 Do we have another episode of the American story coming out today?

00:37:11.120 It should be nine.

00:37:12.420 We sure do.

00:37:13.360 Insiders already have it.

00:37:14.640 Everyone else is getting it tomorrow.

00:37:17.000 Okay, so episode nine, Inside the First Presidency, Power, Fear, and the Bill of Rights.

00:37:23.120 This is perfect because next week we kick off our education program with the Bill of Rights.

00:37:30.240 So we're telling you the story so you know our story.

00:37:34.180 Any society that doesn't know their story will lose, will fall apart.

00:37:40.660 It will disintegrate.

00:37:42.380 Humans run on story.

00:37:44.380 if you if you know a story if there's a good story that you're following you can then understand

00:37:53.420 things you know how to make decisions because you know the story where you came from where

00:37:58.980 you're going why you were there in the first place why you set off in this journey if you

00:38:04.260 lose that story there's nothing so the first thing we're doing is restore restoring the american

00:38:09.080 story with the american story it's a podcast uh hour-long episodes there's uh nine of them right

00:38:18.480 now but insiders i think you're going to have all 20 of them here shortly um uh and it takes you

00:38:25.620 through the first you know uh hundred years of america's story and you'll really understand it

00:38:32.220 in a way you never have then we have the bill of rights lessons they'll start uh next week these

00:38:37.320 are actual lesson plans that you and your family can give. I mean, I don't care if you're 80.

00:38:44.760 Most likely, if you're like me, I couldn't tell you the first five in the First Amendment. What

00:38:51.120 are the first five rights? What are the five rights in the First Amendment? If you don't

00:38:56.440 know those five rights and you can't defend those five rights and you can't say why each of those

00:39:01.020 five rights are important you you can't defend the country and that is exactly why our civics

00:39:08.960 classes don't exist and why our american history classes are so horrible because if you if you know

00:39:16.780 these things you can defend the country if you don't then we're just like every other place and

00:39:22.040 what difference does it make so you you want people like this not to be in congress there's

00:39:30.320 a few obstacles. One, your press. So what do you do? You support people that are telling you the

00:39:36.900 truth. You support and spread the word and you help gain. When you see somebody, and I'm not

00:39:44.800 talking about me at all, you're going on and you see somebody that you are like, this person is

00:39:51.440 telling us the truth every day. You should be on their YouTube page. You should be on their X page.

00:39:57.740 you should be on Instagram, you should like, rate, review. Every time. You should add comments to

00:40:06.820 them, you should like them, you should retweet them. You have to do that because that changes

00:40:12.560 the algorithm. So you want those voices to bubble up to the top, you have to engage.

00:40:20.960 And that will do more damage to the people telling the truth. Instead of being against

00:40:26.920 something before something, but you have to understand you have a responsibility. I can

00:40:31.280 provide all the information out there, but if I can't crack that algorithm because you're not

00:40:36.400 participating in it, then my voice goes nowhere. And it's the same with everybody. So like rate

00:40:42.820 and review on all platforms, support them when you can. I ask you to join the torch. You could

00:40:48.360 join daily wire. If that's where you get most of your news and you think that's good, join them,

00:40:52.500 help them in their effort. But then also when they are giving you stuff, use it. I urge you,

00:40:59.980 we have worked so, I've worked eight months on just this bill of rights stuff. There's 10 lessons

00:41:05.680 coming. I've worked eight months on these things and we ask that you use them. So join us. We begin

00:41:13.620 next week at glennbeck.com slash torch. Ah, well, if it isn't my favorite audience in the whole wide

00:41:20.600 world, I want to talk to you about food. Food, it's very important. If you're cooking an important

00:41:26.660 meal, like a big dinner or a holiday meal or anything where people are actually counting on

00:41:30.940 you, you don't want to spend most of your time cooking. You don't want to spend most of the time

00:41:35.560 checking or opening the oven or poking at whatever you're cooking or second-guessing yourself or

00:41:40.440 wondering if whatever you're cooking is done or worse, wondering if it's already overdone and then

00:41:45.840 yeah, but there's a lot of stress to this, isn't there? That's the part nobody enjoys and that's

00:41:50.360 exactly what Chef IQ gets rid of because it is a wireless smart thermometer that tracks your food

00:41:56.160 in real time and sends updates straight to your phone so you know exactly when it hits the perfect

00:42:01.580 temperature without guessing or hovering or constantly checking. And it works everywhere.

00:42:05.840 It works in the grill or the oven, even the air fryer. So whether you're making a steak or a roast

00:42:11.160 or a full-on holiday meal, you can actually step away and trust that it's handled. Which means,

00:42:16.280 of course, instead of standing there stressing about the food, you can actually spend time with

00:42:19.760 the people you're cooking for. Now, also, if you don't like those people, you can probably just use

00:42:23.860 the Chef IQ and hide in another room. Anyway, if you want to make cooking a lot easier, right now

00:42:28.440 they've got a Mother's Day sale. It is the perfect time to get one, give mom something that she'll

00:42:32.420 actually love and use long after Mother's Day. ChefIQ.com. Use the promo code Blaze for 30%

00:42:38.880 off right now. It's ChefIQ.com. The promo code is Blaze. This is easy to use. You're going to love

00:42:43.740 it. ChefIQ.com. The promo code is Blaze. More in just a second. Let me tell you about our

00:42:49.720 International Fellowship sponsorship. I've seen too many miraculous things in my life to doubt

00:42:54.240 the prayer matters. It matters. It changes people. It changes hearts. God is not uninvolved in our

00:42:59.720 lives. And sometimes changes in circumstances, it will change in ways that you just couldn't

00:43:06.520 predict. And there's something else I've learned over the years. When we pray for somebody,

00:43:10.940 we should also look for opportunities to be part of that answer. We are his hands and his back and

00:43:16.140 his feet. So one of the reasons why I love the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,

00:43:21.820 because every day they're helping some of the most vulnerable people in Israel and around the

00:43:26.420 world. They are helping people who are living under threatening circumstances, children who

00:43:31.560 have grown up in the shadow of war, people that simply just need somebody to go, you're not alone.

00:43:37.400 You're not alone. Do you know how lonely it is for Jews now? Do you know what it must feel like?

00:43:41.900 I don't, but I can imagine.

00:43:45.580 I'd ask that you would pray for the people of Israel.

00:43:47.700 I'd ask you to pray for our brothers and sisters who are Jewish.

00:43:52.100 And we have a chance to put those prayers into action by providing food and shelter and medical care and hope.

00:43:58.280 So would you help?

00:43:59.580 Go to PrayIFCJ.org.

00:44:02.340 Submit a prayer today.

00:44:03.680 Get involved.

00:44:06.080 PrayIFCJ.org.

00:44:08.000 Do it now.

00:44:09.000 Glenn Beck.

00:44:11.900 it is a rare glenbeck appearance in the state of california tomorrow tanya and i are going to

00:44:40.680 be there i'm giving a speech on the uss midway uh for moms for liberty tickets are still available

00:44:47.300 i would love to see you there it's been it's been over a decade i think since i've been uh with you

00:44:52.360 in california um go to moms for liberty.org get your tickets i will see you there tomorrow night

00:44:58.120 it is going to be a spectacular 250 event moms for liberty.org

00:45:10.680 there are only so many dad gifts available in the world before everything gets just a little

00:45:20.720 bit repetitive at a certain point every father in america owns enough novelty grilling aprons

00:45:25.920 socks with the tiny golf clubs on them and the coffee mugs with those hilarious sarcastic

00:45:31.760 slogans those are all great of course but i would say food better option especially the food is

00:45:38.080 really, really good. And that brings me to Kexi. Kexi has a special Father's Day cookie box available

00:45:44.060 right now with six gourmet cookies baked fresh and shipped everywhere nationwide. And these things

00:45:50.200 look absolutely insane in the best possible way. They're my favorite cookies in the world. You

00:45:53.780 will love them. One of their featured cookies is their peanut butter marshmallow flavor.

00:45:57.900 Combines warm peanut butter, melted chocolate, and gooey marshmallow into something that honestly

00:46:03.240 sounds less like a cookie and more like a controlled

00:46:05.420 substance. They've also got

00:46:07.280 s'mores, a s'mores cookie. This is

00:46:09.420 incredible. It kind of tastes like

00:46:11.380 an entire summer camping trip condensed

00:46:13.380 into dessert form. If you want

00:46:15.380 to try other flavors, they've got so many

00:46:17.300 great ones. You can build your own box. If you

00:46:19.380 use the promo code stew when you do that,

00:46:21.260 you'll go to kexy.com, get 15%

00:46:23.340 off right now.

00:46:24.960 Just so you know, the code doesn't apply to

00:46:27.520 the special Father's Day box. That's a

00:46:29.280 separate thing, but these are unlimited for

00:46:31.340 the holiday you just got to make sure you order them by june 14th for father's day so you don't

00:46:35.140 wait too long go to keksi.com use the code stew get 15 off regular orders now it's keksi.com k-e-k-s-i

00:46:42.000 dot com the code is stew when you travel well your klm royal dutch airlines ticket takes you to more

00:46:52.480 than just your destination it takes you to winding streets spontaneous detours and the realization

00:46:59.400 that neither of you is actually good with directions.

00:47:02.820 Recalculating route.

00:47:04.020 And when the final shortcut taken isn't exactly short,

00:47:08.380 Welcome aboard KLM Royal Dutch...

00:47:10.160 Our crew is here to give you a trip home that goes just as planned.

00:47:14.180 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

00:47:15.980 When you travel, travel well.

00:47:29.400 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment,

00:47:58.780 and empowerment this is the glenn beck program

00:48:06.160 there's a lot to talk about today it is friday and i want to squeeze your phone calls in

00:48:13.720 as well 888-727 but i need to take care of a couple of things um i teased last hour that i

00:48:19.540 was going to talk about um this couple that has just um aborted their down syndrome baby

00:48:25.420 and I was going to talk about that last hour

00:48:28.360 but I just have to be in the right frame

00:48:30.340 of mind for that I will get to it today

00:48:32.260 but it took up most

00:48:34.400 of our meeting

00:48:35.420 early this morning

00:48:37.760 about 5am

00:48:39.040 our producers were all

00:48:42.320 meeting and we were all talking about it

00:48:43.860 and it's very emotional

00:48:45.220 I need to be in the right frame of mind for that

00:48:48.260 so that's coming up before the end of the show

00:48:50.320 today I promise

00:48:51.000 something else that

00:48:52.380 I promised that I would do by the end of the week was talk about the data centers because there's a

00:48:59.340 huge movement and I get it. I get it with what's happening with these data centers.

00:49:05.680 I'm pissed off and I have hard, hard lines on these. However, we're handling this incorrectly

00:49:15.120 and I think it's because we don't, maybe, maybe we don't see the full picture. So I want to show you

00:49:20.900 the full picture. I want to do a deep dive here this hour on the data centers.

00:49:25.000 What the complaint is, what we are facing, what the strain is on electricity, and what

00:49:36.220 the problem is on electricity. When I get to the third point, it's not going to improve your mood

00:49:44.740 because the answer is already there it's already literally already done we just have a government

00:49:52.780 that just can't get out of its own way and we'll talk about that coming up in a minute first let

00:49:56.600 me tell you about chapter there are a few things in life that you know happen as predictably as

00:50:01.200 you know this you turn 65 and suddenly every day there's another letter there's another postcard

00:50:06.280 another brochure telling you why this or that medicare plan is absolutely the one you can't

00:50:10.000 live without you know and after a while starts to feel less and less like health care and more

00:50:13.720 like a marketing competition, which it is. That is the problem. This is not a decision you should

00:50:18.220 be basing everything on, on which is the shiniest flyer. You want to know which plan actually fits

00:50:24.300 your needs, your doctors, your prescriptions, and your budget. All those flyers, all these people

00:50:28.220 that are selling you Medicare, they're all being paid by certain providers to convince you that

00:50:34.320 they're the ones that you should be with. Okay. They're not, they're pushing you into an insurance

00:50:40.820 company um chapter doesn't do that chapter was actually founded by a guy whose parents were

00:50:47.440 screwed by people like that and he got so mad and he was in silicon valley and he's like

00:50:51.820 it can't be it's not this hard you know i can develop a system that can search all of the

00:50:57.960 medicare plans and then have an advisor there that can say okay tell me what your system is tell me

00:51:03.580 what you need tell me your prescriptions tell me you know what's what's your health like what are

00:51:07.800 you're dealing with doctors and everything else. Put it all in a system and it will find the right

00:51:11.720 one for you. It's complicated enough. Please let chapter make it easy. I just want you to hit pound

00:51:16.760 250. Say the keyword chapter. Pound 250. Keyword chapter. Please go there.

00:51:25.000 Okay, so there's a story coming out of Arizona and it's happening all over the country.

00:51:32.200 Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, sits at the center of the firestorm.

00:51:36.060 APS is proposing a 45% electricity rate increase for extra large energy users and a almost 15%

00:51:47.820 increase for residential customers. And no one is happy. Oh, I bet they're not happy. I wouldn't be

00:51:53.840 happy. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're going to jack my electricity rate

00:51:59.700 up by 15 percent because these users these this data center is coming in screw the data center

00:52:05.660 okay and that is totally understandable totally understandable the water thing totally understandable

00:52:15.800 i want you to listen here because there's there's i'm going to give you a solution

00:52:22.860 even if you're against them and you don't want them i'm going to give you a solution

00:52:27.400 because it's a solution is not what I saw.

00:52:29.800 I was in Logan, Utah over the weekend

00:52:31.520 and I'm driving down the street

00:52:33.160 and I say, I see all these people,

00:52:34.480 all good parted, you know, red-blooded Americans

00:52:37.340 want to do the right thing.

00:52:38.400 And they're saying no data center,

00:52:40.020 no data center, no data center.

00:52:41.620 And I thought that's not the way to do it.

00:52:45.900 And let me explain.

00:52:47.720 So first, imagine you're driving down the highway.

00:52:51.160 You've driven down this highway a hundred times.

00:52:54.040 you know there's a soybean field or whatever six months later that field is gone and in this place

00:53:01.120 is a building the size of dozens of big box stores no windows giant fences security cameras

00:53:07.760 power lines running from every direction and you're like it's a data center and if your first

00:53:14.020 reaction is wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute who approved this oh i get it a lot of

00:53:19.780 people look at these things and feel like something is happening around them instead of happening

00:53:23.740 with them and then their electricity bill keeps going up and then they keep hearing warnings about

00:53:30.000 the strain on the grid or the water and then they see some of these massive factories appear on the

00:53:34.860 edge of towns and that feeling is real and they're like wait a minute do i even count okay

00:53:40.620 i want to name that feeling because it's true it's valid and i have it too the feeling is this

00:53:48.880 This is not being done for me.

00:53:52.760 This is being done to me, in spite of me.

00:53:58.700 That's how a lot of people feel.

00:54:00.460 I feel that way.

00:54:02.300 So you're not paranoid.

00:54:04.160 You're not irrational.

00:54:06.100 Let's look at the numbers.

00:54:07.900 2023, data centers used about 3.5% of all electricity consumed in the United States.

00:54:14.040 3.5.

00:54:14.600 By 2030, some projections put that number about 12%.

00:54:18.960 In Virginia, data centers already consume roughly a quarter of the state's electricity.

00:54:26.240 So the other numbers I just gave you, forget about.

00:54:29.240 25%, one industry in Virginia.

00:54:32.840 Okay, so when you look at one of those buildings, you think something enormous is happening here.

00:54:37.760 You're reading the situation absolutely correctly.

00:54:41.160 Trust your gut.

00:54:42.760 Then do your homework.

00:54:44.020 and then check your homework.

00:54:46.120 And if the homework checks out, you know.

00:54:49.540 Now, here's the easy thing to do

00:54:52.400 is you make up a sign

00:54:54.280 and you get a bunch of people together

00:54:55.560 and you stand at a fence

00:54:57.320 or your city hall or whatever

00:54:58.840 and you say, stop, no data centers near me.

00:55:02.820 Not in my town, not in my country.

00:55:05.580 I understand the instinct,

00:55:07.320 but let me share with you

00:55:08.880 what the winning phrase would be on your signs.

00:55:14.020 No data centers unless.

00:55:20.300 That way, you're not an obstacle to overcome.

00:55:24.700 You are showing the way to overcome the obstacles that you have.

00:55:31.040 Otherwise, I guarantee you, with the amount of money and everything that is available, you're going to be steamrolled.

00:55:37.440 They're going to build the damn data centers.

00:55:39.020 They're going to.

00:55:40.260 So don't be steamrolled.

00:55:42.100 get the data centers built the way you will accept them now how that is i don't know

00:55:49.460 if you are just against the data centers i can't help you because i think you're wrong on that and

00:55:55.160 you know god bless you you stand up for what you believe but i think you're wrong

00:55:59.360 because if we stop building what have we accomplished because technology does not stop

00:56:05.980 demand does not stop. Do you know who's funding a lot of different groups that are standing up

00:56:15.040 against the data centers in the United States? China. China is funding a lot of this. China is

00:56:20.860 responsible for a lot of the stuff that's on the line. So the question becomes, if you don't build

00:56:25.800 these data centers, where does it happen? Okay. The projections on the global data center growth,

00:56:33.240 the United States and China, they will account for the overwhelming majority of all of the new

00:56:38.880 capacity expected over the next several years. Together, they will represent 80% of the growth.

00:56:44.700 That is where the race is. And I want you to understand, you can choose a different path.

00:56:51.260 I want you to know, I'm not trying to convince you to do the data centers. I think they're right,

00:56:56.540 but you can choose another path. But I want you to know what it is. This is not a choice between

00:57:01.880 data centers and no data centers. It's a choice about who builds them. It's a choice about who

00:57:09.220 develops the technology. It's a choice about who sets the standards. Now, I could be wrong about

00:57:15.940 where AI takes us 10 years from now. I think it takes us someplace not so great unless we control

00:57:23.200 it and we're in control of our own government. But nobody knows where this ends. But we do know

00:57:29.080 it's inevitable, you're not going to stop it. But if this technology becomes as important as

00:57:34.700 many people believe it will, then America must be shaping it. So let me ask you the hard question.

00:57:44.020 If you don't like the idea of the data center in your county, how do you feel about your

00:57:50.720 grandchildren being under the thumb of an all-powerful AI that comes from China.

00:57:58.160 Because those are the stakes as I see them. And not because China automatically winds of America

00:58:04.960 slows down, not because history is predetermined, but because leadership doesn't stay vacant.

00:58:11.600 If you choose not to build, you're leaving a void. Someone will open that up. Someone will

00:58:18.320 build them. History always has a way of filling empty space. Okay, so now the fear in you,

00:58:25.160 which is legitimate, stands up and says, fine, but not on my back, not with my water, not with

00:58:31.620 my electricity bill, not with the lights flickering in my house. No, you are 100% right.

00:58:38.440 I stand with you. That's the part we can solve, however. So here's my view. You don't say no

00:58:47.500 data centers, what you say is no. No data centers. The key phrase here, what should be on all your

00:58:54.540 signs is no unless. No data center. Unless the tech company, if you want 10 gigawatts of power,

00:59:03.940 then you provide the 10 gigawatts of power and I never pay for it. In fact, you could even say

00:59:10.540 you want 10 gigawatts of power, you build the power plant, you pay for it. And because we're

00:59:17.020 allowing you to do it you have to produce 12 gigawatts of power 15 gigawatts of power and you

00:59:24.040 give that 15 gigawatts of power and you put it into our power grid for free now you have something

00:59:33.100 you can negotiate by the way this is this is the all you're saying is eat what you kill you don't

00:59:40.500 you don't eat what i kill you eat what you kill that's a conservative principle you don't drain

00:59:46.400 the well that everybody drinks from you need water go find water you need water and we don't

00:59:52.820 have enough water for what you're going to use put your damn data centers in space it's absolute

00:59:58.660 zero you don't need water now we're already seeing companies sign agreements tied to new power

01:00:04.360 generation including nuclear projects opening the facilities that have previously been shut down

01:00:09.840 good that's the model if you need massive amounts electricity then you go bring the electricity

01:00:18.740 you build the generation you strengthen our grid you pay your bill don't hand it to me

01:00:26.800 i'm just trying to cool my my house for my family in august i'm just trying to heat my house in the

01:00:32.360 middle of the winter don't talk to me about your problems at the data center you're you're going to

01:00:38.360 wipe some of us out for our jobs because of AI. I'm sorry, but the price is going to be pretty

01:00:45.420 high for you. And you pay it. You want the data center, then pay it. It's unreasonable to say

01:00:52.040 no data center. It causes too many other problems. Now, here's the other thing. Not every project

01:00:58.420 being announced is actually going to get built. One recent analyst estimated that roughly a third

01:01:06.120 of the planned data centers will be delayed or canceled because of power constraints,

01:01:10.880 equipment shortages, construction bottlenecks, whatever. Reality still matters. The power

01:01:17.780 system has limits. It cannot be put onto the power grid. It cannot take it. Supply chains have limits.

01:01:27.860 Construction crews have limits. Reality will always send you a bill. Remember that. Do not

01:01:33.760 pay for somebody's dream if it's not based in reality, because reality always will send the

01:01:41.200 bill. So when you hear predictions about endless growth, unlimited expansion, relax a little bit.

01:01:48.320 Future has to obey the laws of engineering. So here's where I land on this part of it,

01:01:53.760 and I want to break this up, this deep dive into three parts. Standing in a field, standing in

01:01:58.500 front of a building screaming, no, no, no, no, no, not ever is not going to solve this. You are valid

01:02:06.060 and you are correct in feeling the way you feel. Communities should not accept whatever arrives in

01:02:14.180 their community without asking questions. You should be very skeptical of these gigantic data

01:02:20.640 centers. Both instincts miss something really important. America has always built big things,

01:02:30.400 railroads, dams, factories, power plants. The question is not whether or not we would build.

01:02:37.300 The question should be, will we build it wisely and not on the backs of the people?

01:02:43.920 that's the question the answer is build it but build it on terms that make sense

01:02:51.660 bring the power with you solve the water problem pay your own way and because of what damage you're

01:02:58.980 going to do to our job market you might have to pay a little more you might have to make you might

01:03:04.680 have to cut our electricity costs in half hire local people leave the community stronger than

01:03:13.140 you found it. We've never succeeded hiding from the future. We've succeeded by shaping it.

01:03:20.460 Americans don't run from what's coming. We build it. We steer it. And we're smart enough to do that.

01:03:25.220 America will be fine. But electricity is a bigger bottleneck than you think.

01:03:35.580 If the race is really about power, then we have to talk about two things that nobody is talking

01:03:42.340 about nobody understands i'll give you a continuation of this deep dive here in just a

01:03:45.780 second first let me tell you about our sponsor our sponsor this uh half hour is my patriot supply

01:03:51.280 when you think somebody really ought to be ready for this the problem is that that somebody should

01:03:56.100 be you okay because when a major storm hits the power goes out some other emergency turns a normal

01:04:01.720 routine you know upside down you you you don't have to wait for somebody else you are the one

01:04:07.740 with the plan this is why i want you to go to my patriot supply see their new go bag their new go

01:04:13.760 bag um is a bag that you know you throw together at the last minute with a flashlight it's not this

01:04:19.360 i got a granola bar and whatever else i found in the junk drawer i got a screwdriver some rubber

01:04:24.980 bands and a flashlight this comes pre-stocked food water uh water filtration survival tools

01:04:32.680 fire starter gear shelter equipment cooking supplies and a whole lot more all packed into

01:04:38.160 a tough tactical backpack design to go where you go this kit was designed with elite survivalists

01:04:43.740 in mind and now it's available to you and here's the best part when you go to preparewithglenn.com

01:04:48.360 you're going to unlock on a limited one-time 100 a 100 discount world's getting crazier by the day

01:04:55.560 make sure you do this get this survival bag today at preparewithglenn.com 100 off the regular price

01:05:01.840 preparewithglenn.com. 10 seconds station. I am so excited to see the people of San Diego and

01:05:20.480 California. There are tickets available for my speech tomorrow. It's this big event happening,

01:05:26.060 and I'm just the keynote speaker at Moms for Liberty on the USS Midway just off the coast.

01:05:31.840 uh, of San Diego. It's going to be a dinner, a really amazing night of fireworks, a celebration

01:05:37.480 of America's two 50, um, go to moms for liberty.org, get your tickets. Now I'd love to see you there.

01:05:43.660 It's been about 10 years since I've been in California and I may never come back again.

01:05:47.860 I'm not sure. So, uh, um, I haven't done a, I haven't done a speech in California forever.

01:05:53.760 And I love Californians, at least the right thing in Californians. I'll see you there on

01:05:58.800 the Midway. That's tomorrow, momsforliberty.org. All right. So let me go back to the power and the

01:06:07.160 data centers. Most Americans think there's an American power grid, and there is not an American

01:06:15.200 power grid, at least in the way most people imagine it. What we actually have are three

01:06:19.440 major grids, and they're old and old-timey. They're bad. You have the eastern grid,

01:06:24.620 the western grid and texas i love this you have three electrical neighborhoods in one country

01:06:31.600 now before somebody turns this into a conspiracy it's not it's just history that's all it is

01:06:37.060 hundred years ago nobody sat down with a giant map and designed a national system from scratch

01:06:41.700 the power grew town by town company by company state by state one utility connected to another

01:06:47.600 utility one region connected to another region some places built ties some places didn't and

01:06:53.320 over time, the decisions harden into the map we still live with today. The map wasn't designed,

01:06:58.280 it was just accumulated. And that's an important distinction because we're living with something

01:07:02.180 that's so outdated. A lot of what frustrates us today is not the result of a master plan,

01:07:07.620 it's a result of thousands of old decisions that nobody ever went back and rethought.

01:07:12.440 They still aren't. Let me give you an example. The Texas power grid, when it failed during the

01:07:17.640 winter storm of 2021, millions of people lost power for a long time, and people in Texas were

01:07:21.880 really upset. And there are a lot of reasons for the failure, weather, equipment, planning decisions,

01:07:26.480 green energy, nonsense, and people still argue about the detail. But the fact remains that Texas

01:07:32.140 has limited electrical connections to the neighboring grids compared to most states.

01:07:36.860 And this is both good and bad for Texas. But when the system came under extreme stress,

01:07:41.500 there were limits on how much the outside could help. Okay. Think about that. America had the

01:07:46.360 power, just not where it needed to be. The electricity existed, the pathway didn't.

01:07:52.120 That's not just a Texas story. That is the American story because much of our transmission

01:07:56.260 system built decades ago, the power lines are approaching or exceeding the age where they

01:08:01.660 were originally designed for. The system built this was built, and I think it was built to last

01:08:07.020 70 years, and we're past that now. And the fact that they're still working is remarkable,

01:08:14.180 But they were not planning for artificial intelligence.

01:08:17.660 They weren't planning for data centers that were demanding gigawatts of power.

01:08:21.980 They were planning for an economy, you know, honestly, in the 1960s.

01:08:27.240 They built for the world they knew.

01:08:29.480 So how do we get to a modern system?

01:08:34.740 Well, the answer is actually already here.

01:08:37.080 This part's going to drive you out of your mind.

01:08:39.340 Out of your mind.

01:08:40.780 I'll tell you the final piece of this deep dive on data centers and electricity next.

01:08:48.520 Paid for by SuperSure Insurance Agency, LLC, a licensed insurance agency.

01:08:53.180 All right.

01:08:53.740 Most business owners don't spend their days studying insurance policies.

01:08:57.600 You know, I mean, unless you're an insurance agency, then I guess that would be the thing

01:09:00.720 you would do.

01:09:01.240 But you're serving customers, you're managing employees, you're trying to keep everything

01:09:05.180 moving forward.

01:09:06.120 You're trying to build something.

01:09:07.140 So it's easy to assume that if you have insurance, you're probably fine.

01:09:10.060 but probably is a word that costs a lot of money.

01:09:13.300 That's why I like what SuperSure is doing.

01:09:15.220 They can help you understand what you have,

01:09:17.260 what you need, where the blind spots may be

01:09:19.220 before they turn into expensive problems.

01:09:20.980 The worst thing that happens

01:09:21.920 is something happens in my business

01:09:23.720 and I say, we're covered for this, right?

01:09:27.000 And everybody in the room looks at me like,

01:09:28.700 I'm not really sure.

01:09:30.140 That's a problem.

01:09:31.920 SuperSure is licensed in every state,

01:09:34.160 provides year-round support.

01:09:36.040 One of the things I find most interesting

01:09:37.320 is they offer the tools

01:09:38.340 that can translate your existing coverage into English

01:09:41.000 out of lawyer ease and bull crap, okay?

01:09:44.140 So you know whether your business is protected

01:09:46.720 the way you think it is.

01:09:48.200 Go to supersure.com slash Beck.

01:09:50.540 That's supersure.com slash Beck.

01:09:53.060 Get a report on your current policies, no obligation.

01:09:55.640 Find out where you stand.

01:09:56.800 Are you overinsured or underinsured?

01:09:58.380 One super agency, one powerful platform.

01:10:00.600 All your policies in one place.

01:10:01.960 supersure.com slash Beck.

01:10:04.400 Tomorrow, episode nine of The American Story

01:10:06.460 drops for the public.

01:10:07.400 Torch Insider's got early access, though.

01:10:09.740 Celebrate America's 250 with us

01:10:11.500 at glenbeck.com slash torch.

01:10:13.000 all right i'm i'm doing a deep dive on the data centers and i want you to know my phrase here

01:10:42.620 is I understand the concerns and I validate them

01:10:46.780 and I believe you're accurate in those concerns.

01:10:50.200 You are accurate in your belief

01:10:52.400 that you're going to get screwed.

01:10:54.100 This thing is going to be built on your backs

01:10:55.940 with your money.

01:10:57.480 That's why it's not effective to say no.

01:11:02.280 It is effective to say no unless,

01:11:07.400 and you fill in the unless,

01:11:09.060 Unless you're putting more power in to our grid and you're building your own power system for what you take, but for the right to be able to have this big, huge data center in my community, you're going to put 5% more power into us because my electricity is not going up.

01:11:27.400 Because here's what the electrical companies are saying.

01:11:30.240 We have to upgrade the grid as it is.

01:11:33.520 And everybody is tying it to the data center.

01:11:35.940 And in a way they're right, but in a way they're not right. The grid was built decades ago and it was never meant to, it's all aging out. It was not meant to last longer than it already has. And so we have been delaying and delaying and delaying and nobody wants to pay for it. Nobody wants to pay for it. And it is decaying on us.

01:11:56.840 So our power grid is absolutely archaic, but that is the human way and the American way of doing things.

01:12:05.180 We never do it the right time.

01:12:07.320 You know when we'll think about hardening the grid?

01:12:09.620 You know when we'll think about putting protection around the generators that we have and the, I can't remember the name of the transformers?

01:12:21.560 You know when we'll start putting protection around the transformers?

01:12:24.240 when Al-Qaeda takes and comes in

01:12:26.520 and they shoot six of those things around the country

01:12:29.020 and they collapse our grid.

01:12:30.320 That's when we'll say,

01:12:31.520 we should put protection around those.

01:12:33.340 We should have done that a long time ago,

01:12:35.080 but we never do those things.

01:12:37.160 So we should have upgraded our grid a long time ago,

01:12:40.060 but we didn't because you only do it

01:12:42.860 because you're human and you're an American.

01:12:44.980 You only do it when it's a crisis,

01:12:47.060 when you absolutely have to.

01:12:49.400 So the powered grid problem

01:12:51.520 with these data centers comes in.

01:12:53.340 America, the builders of America know we have to have these data centers. And so it's a crisis.

01:13:01.960 And so now the power companies are saying, well, we're going to have to upgrade our grid. So

01:13:05.360 they're going to do it. And that's where you're going to get that 14% increase. No, no, no, no,

01:13:11.260 no. Use this to your advantage, cities. Facebook, you know, Tesla or whoever needs these,

01:13:22.580 you know, Google, you need a data center, Microsoft, you need a data. Here's what you're

01:13:27.700 going to do. You're going to upgrade our grid. You're going to put 5% of the energy you create

01:13:32.900 into our grid. So we're going to not only get a new grid, we're also going to get a reduction in

01:13:39.360 our, the average citizen's power, and you can build your data center. You don't do that. You

01:13:44.980 don't have a data center. We're not doing it here. Okay. And sometimes your bluff will be called.

01:13:50.520 Sometimes it won't be.

01:13:51.760 Sometimes you'll win.

01:13:52.560 But enough of cities do that and stop saying no, but say no unless you meet these conditions, you're going to start winning.

01:14:01.960 Otherwise, they're going to steamroll you and bulldoze you.

01:14:05.260 Now, here's the part that's going to really hack you off.

01:14:07.480 As of 2025, more than 2,000 gigawatts of proposed energy projects are waiting in interconnection queues across the country.

01:14:22.100 2,000 gigawatts. Think about this.

01:14:25.800 These are projects waiting, not producing power, waiting.

01:14:31.840 Some of them are waiting just to be connected.

01:14:35.800 Some of these projects are waiting to be built.

01:14:38.180 Some of them maybe shouldn't get built.

01:14:39.980 But the scale of the backlog should tell you something important.

01:14:44.160 The challenge isn't finding energy.

01:14:46.520 It's connecting energy.

01:14:48.140 It's permitting.

01:14:49.440 It's approvals.

01:14:50.620 It's planning regions.

01:14:51.980 It's studies.

01:14:53.080 It's paperwork.

01:14:54.860 Sometimes the hardest part of building a power project is not the engineering.

01:14:59.540 It's just getting past the damn paperwork.

01:15:02.660 and that's where we have ourselves in trouble every time we have made it so easy to say no

01:15:09.800 we've made it so difficult to say yes now there are reasons to review things there are reasons

01:15:17.520 for environmental studies and blah blah blah blah blah okay reasons communities need to have a voice

01:15:23.520 must have a voice i'm not arguing for bulldozing people i'm arguing for a system that can still

01:15:28.900 build things. In America, we can't build things anymore. Because if everything can be stopped

01:15:34.540 forever, then eventually nothing gets built. And if nothing gets built, the country, it doesn't

01:15:40.220 stand still. It falls behind. Nothing is static. Nothing will be this way unless you're preparing

01:15:46.560 for the future. Remember where we started? We started with data centers and artificial

01:15:53.020 intelligence and power demand, all of that sits on top of one basic question. Can America build

01:15:59.660 enough electricity? That's the question. Not can we invent? Can we innovate? We've proven those

01:16:06.840 things. Can we build? Damn, can we build? Can we connect? Can we move power from where it is to

01:16:14.900 where it's needed. Every problem I've just described was created by people.

01:16:24.800 Now, here's the good news. It was created by people. That means it can be fixed by people.

01:16:31.120 People can fix it. The situation we're in is not some law of nature. Permitting delays are not some

01:16:40.080 natural consequence. Transmission bottlenecks aren't a law of nature. All of these things are

01:16:46.140 choices and choices can change. We built the greatest industrial system on earth. We electrified

01:16:55.060 a continent. We powered factories that won world wars. We built dams and pipelines and transmission

01:17:02.520 lines and railroads and highways. And we were the country that built the skyscraper. Why was it

01:17:09.000 called the skyscraper it's called the skyscraper because they were so massive at the time it

01:17:12.940 appeared as though they were scraping the very essence of the sky that ability didn't disappear

01:17:20.120 do you know how long it took us to build the empire state building 11 months 11 months why

01:17:29.460 because we wanted to do it resources don't disappear they didn't disappear engineers

01:17:36.440 didn't disappear. What we've lost is confidence. What we've lost is the habit of saying yes.

01:17:43.400 We instead have trained ourselves to say no. So here's the goal. Build more generation.

01:17:50.920 Upgrade the lines we already have. Build new transmission where it makes sense.

01:17:56.620 Connect the regions that can help each other during emergencies, but allow it to cut off

01:18:01.300 in case it's a trip.

01:18:03.340 Make sure the biggest new power users pay

01:18:06.600 not just for the capacity they require,

01:18:09.500 but because of what they're doing to our culture,

01:18:12.440 to our nation, to our world, to our jobs,

01:18:15.420 they might have to pay a premium for that right.

01:18:19.340 Do that and the entire conversation changes.

01:18:22.140 You're not arguing over scarcity.

01:18:24.800 You're arguing on how can we build abundance for everyone

01:18:28.220 and not build it on the backs of the average person.

01:18:32.140 In a century where power increasingly means economic power,

01:18:37.220 military power, technological power, national power,

01:18:40.680 abundance matters a lot.

01:18:45.660 I live in the middle of the mountains.

01:18:48.720 My ranch is in the middle of absolutely nowhere,

01:18:52.060 and I thank the Lord for that.

01:18:54.480 I live in a town of 450 people,

01:18:57.360 And I just love it. I just love it. The people are rooted in the earth. They're just down to

01:19:03.820 earth. They're just good, solid citizens. And I love it. I don't have power in my mountain ranch.

01:19:11.600 And quite honestly, I don't want to bring the power lines. I can, it cost me a fortune,

01:19:17.180 but I can bring the power. I don't want the power lines. I don't want that because I know that what

01:19:21.700 that will do to where I live. I'm like the only one that lives in this canyon. So I don't want

01:19:27.740 to invite a bunch of other people by bringing electricity into it because that's the thing

01:19:32.520 that's stopping it. But I've had to generate all my own electricity. You know what my biggest

01:19:39.580 problem has been? And it's coming from me. I have a pretty big imagination, not a big enough

01:19:47.140 imagination. I've built it for, okay, what's it going to take to run the house the way I want to

01:19:53.860 run the house? And I build it. And then I'm like, oh, I got to add a studio. Before, I wasn't even

01:19:59.960 thinking about putting a studio up here. I got to add a studio because I'll be up there for a few

01:20:02.960 weeks. I add a studio. I have to upgrade the power. Then I say, I'm actually going to be here

01:20:09.580 during the summer months where we're using a heavy load for air conditioning and everything

01:20:13.360 because I didn't have air conditioning planned for the house originally. But now if I'm going

01:20:16.440 live here. I need some air conditioning in the summer months, which is going to put a drain on

01:20:19.660 the system and I'm going to be broadcasting every day. So I'm going to need more power.

01:20:23.180 Every time I make a move, I have to upgrade the power. If you're smart, you do exactly opposite

01:20:29.580 of what I did. You say, what are the absolute wildest possibilities that can happen? Let's

01:20:35.600 build for that. That way we don't have to keep in nickel diming. I can't tell you how much money

01:20:41.140 I've spent on power generation. Anybody who says, oh, you could live off the grid. You just get

01:20:45.440 some solar panels. You're a moron. You have no idea what it takes to have stable electricity.

01:20:51.580 And if we screw around with our power grid, you're going to find out what it's like not to

01:20:56.760 have stable electricity. It's bad. It puts you into the stone age immediately. Believe me,

01:21:03.920 I've lived it. I know. America can still, as a country, do big, hard things. If we want to

01:21:13.880 survive, we have to think, let's dream for way beyond the power grid that we need today for

01:21:21.540 these data centers. Build it. One last point on this. Talk about demand, talk about the grid,

01:21:32.120 talked about bottlenecks. All of that leads to one question. If we know we need more power,

01:21:37.700 we know there are projects ready to build it, why aren't we building faster? Why does everything in

01:21:43.020 this country takes so long? Because right now, more than 2,000 gigawatts is sitting there

01:21:48.340 waiting. 2,000 gigawatts. What are we doing? Why? It's not the lack of ideas, engineers.

01:22:00.700 They're all just waiting for permission. What are they waiting for? Permission?

01:22:07.440 hear me carefully on this one. Not every idea should be rubber stamped.

01:22:15.740 Communities, you have to stand up for yourself. Property rights matter more than anything else.

01:22:21.700 Environmental reviews, decent ones, real ones matter. Good reasons to examine these projects.

01:22:28.220 The question is whether we built a system that can still say yes when the answer should be yes.

01:22:33.640 that's why you shouldn't just march and say no you should say no unless the answer should always

01:22:41.020 have a way to find a way to yes because we have to have these i'm sorry but if we want to be if

01:22:51.440 you want to be france then don't build these and the france that is today or maybe even tomorrow

01:23:00.060 If you don't have a problem being Mexico, then don't build these.

01:23:05.140 But if you want America to be strong in a leadership role and you want your children to be able to deal with the future that is coming, whether you like it or not, you must have the data centers and you must have a strong power grid.

01:23:21.060 You just don't have to have it built on your back.

01:23:24.760 You just don't have, you have all the power.

01:23:27.320 They built this thing with your knowledge

01:23:30.220 With your data

01:23:31.440 They're still building it with who you are

01:23:33.820 Your data and what you use

01:23:35.480 Don't let them get away with it for another second

01:23:38.300 No, you're not building it that way

01:23:41.500 Unless

01:23:42.640 You just have to fill out the unless

01:23:47.080 Because it's different for each of us

01:23:48.960 And each community

01:23:49.820 All right, back in just a minute

01:23:53.320 sponsor this half hour is pre-born one of the things that has always fascinated me

01:23:59.080 is how quickly a person can change their mind once something that's been theoretical up until now

01:24:04.640 actually becomes real um it's easy to talk about an idea it's easy to discuss a theory

01:24:10.020 um it's easy to keep things at arm arms lengths when it when it feels abstract but when it's

01:24:15.620 real everything changes and that's what makes an ultrasound so powerful a woman can walk into a

01:24:20.560 pregnancy center feeling overwhelmed frightened unsure what to do next but she feels like she's

01:24:24.740 running out of options she feels alone and then she sees that ultrasound she sees and hears her

01:24:29.560 baby and it's not abstract anymore it's a child it's a heartbeat it's a life if you're a business

01:24:35.480 owner you might just consider a larger donation to claim a write-off this year a donation of a

01:24:40.140 thousand dollars ten thousand fifteen thousand dollars would sponsor a full ultrasound machine

01:24:44.100 for a needy clinic and you'll help save baby's lives for years and years to come imagine the

01:24:49.920 blessings from that. Also, you get a tax deduction. One of them reaches eternity. The other one only

01:24:56.320 reaches your IRS form. But get involved today. Dial pound 250. Say the keyword baby. Pound 250

01:25:02.400 keyword baby. Or go to preborn.com slash Beck. That's preborn.com slash Beck. Sponsored by

01:25:07.540 Preborn. Most of us just want to work hard, raise a family, and live in peace. That's not political.

01:25:15.760 That's human.

01:25:17.300 Glenn Beck will be right back.

01:25:41.200 Let me go to Christine in Tennessee.

01:25:43.460 Hello, Christine.

01:25:44.040 how are you hi glenn how are you i'm great hello thank you for listening good yeah go ahead well

01:25:51.280 i appreciate you uh putting the american story together because um i conned my husband on

01:25:57.220 vacation last week when we were in sedona to take a four-hour drive to get a helicopter um tour of

01:26:05.160 the grand canyon where it drives it flies down into the um canyon uh and it was supposed to be

01:26:12.240 an hour long. Well, we drove four hours out there for a 15-minute helicopter ride, and then we had

01:26:20.480 to drive back home. So I had to pull something out to make it worth it, and my husband gets

01:26:26.720 bored very easily. So I said, I have an idea. I'm a Torch member, so let me pull up the American

01:26:33.320 Story podcast, because he's a huge history buff, and he was literally riveted the entire time.

01:26:40.080 so i need to thank you for that oh you're welcome thank my staff i my i have my staff

01:26:47.420 the production staff that put that together and made it come to life and the writing by

01:26:52.160 nathan nipper i mean i played the smallest role of narration but it is i mean it is such a good

01:26:59.400 story if i had history like that i would have known american history from a kid i would have

01:27:05.980 been I would have been absolutely hooked on American history so I'm glad you enjoyed it

01:27:11.180 thank you it probably would change the whole course of the country because of you know what

01:27:17.020 they've done to our education system if it was exciting like that people would be more engaged

01:27:21.340 and they would know the truth uh-huh and that is exactly what the progressives knew then and it's

01:27:26.940 exactly what we know at the torch and it's why we're doing it our summer of education really

01:27:32.020 kicks off next week but you can get either wherever you get your podcast or the full thing

01:27:37.740 up to i think episode 15 at the torch with your membership glennbeck.com you're going anywhere

01:27:43.340 this summer you've got to be a torch member because the history you will learn will be so

01:27:47.940 fantastic glennbeck.com slash torch hello america you know we've been fighting every single day we

01:27:56.820 push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're

01:28:02.060 trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it.

01:28:07.960 But to keep this fight going, we need you. Right now, would you take a moment and rate and review

01:28:12.840 the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and lead a comment because every single review helps

01:28:17.840 us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This

01:28:23.100 isn't a podcast this is a movement and you're part of it a big part of it so if you believe in what

01:28:28.660 we're doing you want more people to wake up help us push this podcast to the top rate review share

01:28:34.200 together we'll make a difference and thanks for standing with us now let's get to work you know

01:28:39.440 it's becoming exhausting buying food from companies that want your money but don't want to tell you

01:28:44.580 where anything is made or anything much about it you pick up a package you squinted the label and

01:28:50.060 somehow you still need a private investigator to figure out what you're actually bringing home for

01:28:54.100 dinner it shouldn't be like that shouldn't be hard that's one of the reasons i like good ranchers

01:28:58.940 good ranchers delivers 100 american meat straight to your door sourced from local farms and ranches

01:29:05.520 right here in the united states beef chicken seafood quality quality food from people who

01:29:12.220 still take pride in doing things the right way you can start your plan today and you'll get

01:29:16.520 free meat included with every order, plus $100 off your first three orders with the promo code

01:29:21.820 GLENN. So go to GoodRanchers.com. Use the code G-L-E-N-N at checkout. It's free meat with every

01:29:28.280 order, $100 off your first three orders this month only. Just try it. You get $40 off your

01:29:34.420 first order with the promo code GLENN. GoodRanchers.com. American meat delivered.

01:29:46.520 Swipe the flame

01:29:59.740 Pass it on

01:30:02.320 Crank the game

01:30:04.840 Glenn Beck is on

01:30:07.320 Glenn Beck is on

01:30:09.320 Na na na na

01:30:11.660 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment.

01:30:26.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:30.240 Glenn Beck is on.

01:30:37.040 Hello, America.

01:30:37.940 there's something that is trending today

01:30:42.460 it's a letter from a couple

01:30:44.280 who wanted to post

01:30:47.360 that they just aborted their baby

01:30:49.000 because of Down syndrome

01:30:50.240 and they thank you for your understanding

01:30:52.580 and

01:30:53.800 this ate up most of my meeting

01:30:57.220 we have a meeting about 5 o'clock in the morning

01:30:58.920 every day

01:31:00.340 of all of my producers

01:31:01.900 and everybody comes to the story and they pitch me

01:31:04.160 Glenn you should talk about this, you should talk about this, don't forget about this

01:31:06.540 And this story came and everybody started with this story and said, Glenn, you got to talk about the Down syndrome couple.

01:31:14.160 And it consumed almost our whole meeting.

01:31:16.420 And it's a very emotional topic, especially for anybody who has children of special needs, which I do.

01:31:23.740 um and so i want to take it on but i i ask the lord for a blessing of grace and kindness as we

01:31:37.080 discuss this and understanding um because this is this question is what separates us from the

01:31:46.780 animals? This question, this story. And so I want to talk to you about what it means to be human.

01:31:57.620 We'll do that in 60 seconds. First, Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile might just become your

01:32:02.240 best new friend. Most friendships require a certain amount of work. You have to remember

01:32:06.080 birthdays. You have to help people move sofas. You have to pretend to be interested in their

01:32:11.920 vacation photos. You'll maybe have to pick them up at the airport. Patriot Mobile, on the other

01:32:16.060 hand, this makes life better and they never have to move a couch. It's really good. They give you

01:32:20.340 great wireless service. They operate on all three major networks. So you get the coverage you expect.

01:32:24.700 They do it with a competitive price, which is always nice in a world where everything seems

01:32:28.200 to cost more than it did last week. And the best part is with a lot of companies, you may find a

01:32:32.180 portion of it is helping fund causes that you wouldn't support in a million years. Patriot

01:32:36.080 Mobile is a different approach. They're with you. They're America's only Christian conservative

01:32:39.960 wireless provider. They support organizations that fight for things like free speech, religious

01:32:44.440 liberty sanctity of life so go to patriot mobile.com slash beck right now 972 patriot gain a new best

01:32:50.600 friend that'll never ask you to take him pick him up at the airport promo code beck free service uh

01:32:55.460 for a month it's patriot mobile.com slash beck 972 patriot okay so there is a couple and i don't

01:33:04.640 want to make it about the couple i just want you to hear their reasoning they said this week my

01:33:09.480 My wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Down syndrome.

01:33:17.520 Notice they said the difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy.

01:33:23.080 A little cold, but okay.

01:33:26.100 When I, I'm quoting, when I first was confronted with this news, I was shocked but optimistic.

01:33:32.000 If they're a little slow intellectually, we'll make it work.

01:33:35.480 I saw nine to be a parent, come what may.

01:33:37.360 I just didn't fully understand what Down syndrome entailed.

01:33:40.900 Once we made it public, it became clear what most people don't know what Down syndrome entails.

01:33:45.880 And no, it's not the same as autism.

01:33:47.780 Really?

01:33:48.780 50% of babies with Down syndrome have heart defects.

01:33:51.800 75% will have hearing challenges.

01:33:53.880 Over 50% will have vision problems, impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc.

01:34:06.040 Sadly, the list is long.

01:34:07.600 Feel free to look it up.

01:34:08.820 Down syndrome isn't a blessing.

01:34:11.320 It's objectively crappy from a health perspective.

01:34:14.940 I didn't realize how rough it is for the child, let alone the family.

01:34:19.700 More often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.

01:34:24.600 Miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which makes matters worse.

01:34:29.060 They may never see the light of day and put Ashley at further risk.

01:34:33.220 We spoke with doctors, friends and family, and genetic counselors

01:34:36.440 and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy

01:34:39.140 after learning the baby has Down syndrome.

01:34:42.400 This is way higher than I expected.

01:34:43.840 I thought it'd be lower given that I hear so many people say

01:34:46.220 they kept or would keep the baby.

01:34:48.000 I believe that most terminations happen privately.

01:34:50.560 It feels shameful.

01:34:51.880 A lot of judgment being cast.

01:34:53.600 You never think you'd be in this type of situation

01:34:55.500 until it happens to you and then things change.

01:34:58.220 Well, you didn't really believe anything.

01:34:59.640 If things change when you're in the situation,

01:35:01.180 and then you didn't really think it through

01:35:02.440 in the first place.

01:35:03.500 To all my fans who have weighed in on this topic,

01:35:06.460 who have autism, Down syndrome,

01:35:07.940 any other conditions, we appreciate you.

01:35:09.760 You matter a lot.

01:35:10.640 We're glad you're here.

01:35:11.680 I commend you and your families

01:35:12.620 for having the strength and courage to push forward.

01:35:14.900 As for us, we made difficult decision.

01:35:16.880 We believe the long run will be beneficial for our family.

01:35:20.000 Thank you.

01:35:20.720 We had a choice.

01:35:22.420 It will take a little time to move on,

01:35:23.980 but we're excited to try again in the future

01:35:25.340 and hopefully have a better outcome.

01:35:27.180 Love you guys.

01:35:27.960 Thank you for understanding.

01:35:29.300 Okay, let's just say the responses are not so understanding.

01:35:35.100 Molly Hemingway wrote in, said,

01:35:37.240 killing your baby because it wasn't perfect in your eyes is so sad and dark,

01:35:40.020 and yes, evil.

01:35:41.380 Even if we didn't know how wonderful people with Down syndrome are,

01:35:44.280 I pray you find Jesus' life is beautiful.

01:35:46.580 Kylie, man, you're evil.

01:35:48.180 Jessica O'Donnell, you didn't terminate the pregnancy.

01:35:51.860 You murdered your own baby.

01:35:53.220 Life is full of choices, and you made the wrong one.

01:35:56.780 Okay.

01:35:58.780 Full disclosure, I come at this from a different place.

01:36:06.340 Two reasons.

01:36:08.120 I practice a faith that believes in what is called the premortal existence,

01:36:13.500 that we were in heaven with God before we gained a body,

01:36:18.160 that there is a purpose for us to gain a body,

01:36:20.440 just like there was a purpose for Jesus to gain a body.

01:36:22.680 and we came down here to be shrouded in flesh so we could learn how to learn how to wield the power

01:36:33.300 of our spirits learn we have such power we are not god but we have the power like god in us

01:36:41.860 and to wield that and to be able to have all of these desires and passions and then to be able to

01:36:48.220 go, no, to have free choice and to know how to make the decisions that actually God would make

01:36:55.980 and to wield real power with compassion and decency and love, that's why we're here,

01:37:03.000 to learn all of that. My faith also believes in the literal war in heaven, that there was a war

01:37:12.020 and it was, Lucifer was like, I'll get all the credit, you give me the credit, I'll make all

01:37:17.240 the decisions, and I'll bring everybody home. And Jesus was like, no, I will go and I'll sacrifice

01:37:23.980 myself for their sins, so I will wash them clean so they can come back into your presence.

01:37:30.760 And God chose the plan of salvation, chose Christ, and said, that is the one. Lucifer gets upset,

01:37:40.540 has a war in heaven. Now think about a war in heaven. How do you, if you are there in front of

01:37:47.000 God, how do you get a third of the angels who have been worshiping and singing praise,

01:37:53.080 how do you get them to say, yeah, I'm on your side. I'm not going with God. How do you do that?

01:38:00.000 The only way I can imagine this happening is if you start saying things like, look at what he's

01:38:05.020 saying. He will sacrifice him for something he didn't do, his chosen one. He will make him

01:38:13.860 suffer on a cross, he will then take all of his children, send them down, knowing some of them

01:38:21.420 aren't going to make it, knowing they're going to have life of misery and pain and everything else.

01:38:26.520 And you say, Lucifer, you're going to take all that away. You'll just make all of the decisions

01:38:31.600 and everybody will come home and it'll be happy and it'll be great. God is horrible.

01:38:37.720 That's how I see it happening because I see it happening today. That's the same argument when

01:38:42.920 somebody says, no, you shouldn't make the choice. We'll make the choice for you. That's why I believe

01:38:49.180 free will is the answer on everything. You have free will. Now, there are certain boundaries that

01:38:58.380 we say, no, you can't do that. Just like God says, there are certain boundaries, thou shall not kill.

01:39:03.460 We have the same certain boundaries. But it's up to the individual to choose. And it has to be that

01:39:11.020 way, because that's the way God intended it to be. That being said, the ones who fought the most

01:39:17.500 valiantly, and I don't know what a war in heaven is actually like, could be words, I don't know

01:39:21.800 what it was like, but the ones who fought the most valiantly that didn't need to be tested as hard as

01:39:27.100 maybe I need to be tested, those who fought on the front lines and cast Satan out,

01:39:41.020 those are the ones that don't need to be tested.

01:39:45.880 And they are the ones that are born with, let's say, Down syndrome.

01:39:53.840 Have you ever met a Down syndrome kid?

01:39:57.500 Have you ever met them?

01:39:58.860 Their default is love.

01:40:02.540 Their default is kindness.

01:40:04.400 I worked with Special Olympians for many years when I was young.

01:40:08.660 And I will tell you, and this is the proper use of the word, they are not the ones that are retarded.

01:40:19.000 We are.

01:40:21.480 When I use the word retarded, I'm usually talking about people who I think are smarter than I am.

01:40:28.320 They are just so arrogant or so blind that they've become slow and they're retarded.

01:40:36.000 I never would refer to anyone with cerebral palsy or Down syndrome or anything as retarded

01:40:43.840 because they're not as another disclosure as a father of a daughter with cerebral palsy who has

01:40:49.940 taught me more than anyone I know she is my hero the way she deals with things her spiritual

01:40:59.480 connections the way she's disciplined herself the thing she's overcome she's my hero

01:41:05.540 I don't say that enough to her

01:41:10.360 we were standing in Auschwitz

01:41:17.040 and there's this room in Auschwitz

01:41:19.860 where they take all of the things from disabled people

01:41:22.200 and it was all in one pile

01:41:23.600 it was crutches, it was legs, it was wheelchairs

01:41:26.380 it was anything, you know, arms, fake arms, whatever

01:41:30.460 and she stood there with me

01:41:34.860 and she got really quiet.

01:41:36.380 I had to back up.

01:41:37.380 I had to go actually stand by a window.

01:41:39.380 It was so overwhelming for me

01:41:40.880 because watching her look at that

01:41:43.080 and I could see her thinking it through.

01:41:48.300 And she turned around and she came up to me

01:41:50.240 and she said,

01:41:51.340 Dad, they would have killed me, wouldn't they?

01:41:56.580 yes they would have

01:42:05.260 the joy and the glory

01:42:11.380 that my daughter has brought into my world

01:42:16.100 and others worlds

01:42:16.980 everybody who meets our family they always say

01:42:20.020 she is the greatest

01:42:22.260 we're secondary

01:42:24.060 and has it been hard you know what the hardest thing is of having and I can imagine with down

01:42:34.340 syndrome you know the hardest thing is seeing your child left out of things seeing your child

01:42:40.920 not understood seeing your child around people who and sometimes yourself I'm speaking about me

01:42:49.400 sometimes not having the patience

01:42:53.680 that's the pain

01:42:58.020 that comes

01:42:59.340 because you see it in them

01:43:02.940 and you see your own shortcomings

01:43:07.020 if I could have

01:43:11.240 in a really twisted warped world

01:43:14.680 if I was just thinking about me

01:43:16.660 I would say no

01:43:19.060 We don't want any of that.

01:43:26.100 But through all the pain that our children face

01:43:29.340 and all the pain that we face,

01:43:31.980 it is so worth it.

01:43:35.680 But you have to realize that life is not about you.

01:43:39.500 We're animals.

01:43:41.920 We are. We're animals.

01:43:43.540 We are exactly the same as animals,

01:43:45.840 except for one thing.

01:43:47.380 we were made in god's image whether that is he's got arms and legs i think he does but you know

01:43:54.540 whatever you could be a space octopus i don't really care we'll find out when we get there

01:43:59.040 we have his characteristics we have the ability to have his characteristics we have the ability

01:44:08.500 to think no animal can think like we can think we have the ability to make choices

01:44:16.880 We are the only animal on planet earth

01:44:20.920 That doesn't abandon the weak

01:44:24.020 I'm pretty sure all the other animals do

01:44:28.080 They'll either eat the weakest

01:44:33.500 Or they'll let something else eat the weakest

01:44:36.420 We don't

01:44:37.380 You have been given such a tremendous gift

01:44:43.600 And I hate this phrase

01:44:44.940 God will never give you more than you can handle,

01:44:47.120 but it's true.

01:44:49.140 You just have to be willing.

01:44:51.080 Mr. Phelps, this is your mission.

01:44:53.620 If you choose to accept it,

01:44:57.020 you're being asked to do an impossible mission.

01:45:01.240 Do you choose to accept it or do you say,

01:45:04.320 no, this life is about me.

01:45:06.000 I want my life.

01:45:07.380 I want my life and I want it on my terms.

01:45:09.660 I want to be happy.

01:45:11.100 I want to be free to create.

01:45:12.600 I want to be free to be without that burden.

01:45:16.060 I want ease.

01:45:18.380 And you can mask it any way you want.

01:45:21.020 You can even say, well, but they suffer.

01:45:24.320 Look up baby Naur.

01:45:26.080 Just look up baby Naur, the first baby that was the beginning of the Holocaust.

01:45:33.620 It was Hitler saying, look at this child.

01:45:37.460 Can't hear, can't see, can't speak.

01:45:39.640 probably will have no intelligence.

01:45:42.580 I think it didn't have arms or something, this child.

01:45:46.420 And the parents were like, we don't know what to do.

01:45:49.000 We don't know what to do.

01:45:50.320 And Hitler's medical doctors said,

01:45:54.020 there's no life for this child.

01:45:55.720 It's not worth living.

01:45:56.820 It's too hard on the state and too hard on the parents.

01:45:59.420 And they killed it.

01:46:00.460 And they killed it on the front page with compassion.

01:46:06.840 That's your choice.

01:46:08.400 That is your choice.

01:46:09.640 Once you start going down that road, that's your choice.

01:46:14.140 And it's who you will become.

01:46:17.580 And you'll become more and more like an animal and less and less like a human being.

01:46:29.180 You know, I'm a recovering alcoholic.

01:46:33.300 And there's a reason that I, well, several reasons, but one of the main reasons that I think I was an alcoholic is because I didn't understand happiness.

01:46:44.880 Let me explain that here in 60 seconds.

01:46:47.140 First, let me tell you about rapid radios.

01:46:49.180 I noticed something about modern life.

01:46:51.180 We have more ways to communicate than any other human in history.

01:46:55.320 And yet somehow, we're like, can you hear me now?

01:46:57.680 Can you hear me now on these phones and apps and texts and emails and video calls and direct

01:47:02.500 messages and group chats and all of this stuff? Can you hear me now? I sent that to you. You

01:47:06.240 didn't get that? No. No. When we need to reach somebody quickly, let me turn that annoying

01:47:13.340 situation into something like rapid radios because all you do is turn it on, you hit a button, and

01:47:17.860 you speak, and that person is on the other end. There's no typing out messages with your thumbs,

01:47:21.900 no waiting for somebody to answer. It's just there. Push to talk. It's simple. It's really

01:47:26.400 built for business, but I love it for families, especially if you're trying to keep in touch with

01:47:30.840 family members around or you're traveling someplace, stay connected, you're hiking

01:47:34.460 someplace. Rapid radios, easy way to communicate without all the usual hassle. Ship fast from their

01:47:40.480 headquarters in Michigan. It's rapidradios.com. Rapidradios.com. Rapid radios. Communication

01:47:48.080 Redefined. 10 seconds, station ID.

01:48:06.980 This

01:48:07.460 couple,

01:48:09.060 it's not like they didn't,

01:48:11.480 they didn't say that's not a baby.

01:48:13.660 It's worse. They didn't say that's not

01:48:15.860 a child. They said

01:48:17.920 that's a life, but it's not a life worth living.

01:48:21.940 That's worse.

01:48:28.620 And why isn't it a life worth living?

01:48:35.440 I think for most people, because it will interfere

01:48:39.120 with their happiness, their plans.

01:48:43.800 Let me tell you about happiness.

01:48:47.920 I had a stinky childhood.

01:48:52.620 Everybody did, so I'm not going to bore you with mine.

01:48:54.260 Everybody had a difficult childhood, one way or another.

01:48:56.480 And we can all sit here and whine about our childhood,

01:48:58.580 how we were raised, what happened to us, whatever.

01:49:00.360 I don't believe in any of that stuff.

01:49:01.920 You get over it or you don't.

01:49:04.440 And for a long time, I didn't get over it.

01:49:06.120 And I started drinking and drinking and drinking.

01:49:07.580 And I found all of, I made a goal for myself

01:49:11.680 that I was going to be successful in business.

01:49:13.900 And I was going to chart my own course and everything else.

01:49:17.140 And I started when I was 13 years old. By the time I was 30, I was an alcoholic. I had accomplished so much. I had been rich. I had been poor. I had been mildly famous. I had been mildly successful.

01:49:35.380 I had all of the bling.

01:49:37.200 I had the cars.

01:49:38.080 I had the houses.

01:49:38.940 I had everything.

01:49:39.740 And I was miserable.

01:49:42.560 Miserable.

01:49:46.460 And I sobered up.

01:49:47.960 And I met a good woman.

01:49:49.460 I found God.

01:49:50.600 I got married.

01:49:51.340 I had more children.

01:49:55.400 And I still had hard times.

01:49:59.220 But I found moments of happiness.

01:50:03.260 Real happiness.

01:50:04.540 And you know where I found them every time?

01:50:08.400 In my family, which is the hardest thing I've ever done.

01:50:15.440 Raising my children was the hardest thing by far.

01:50:20.920 I have to tell you, while I'm doing it, I would have done anything to not do that

01:50:25.780 because it was so far out of my ability.

01:50:28.140 It was so far out of my comfort zone.

01:50:29.980 It was so far out of my abilities, I thought, my capability.

01:50:35.400 I don't know what I'm doing.

01:50:36.880 I'm the worst.

01:50:37.700 I don't want to do this anymore.

01:50:40.440 But let me tell you something.

01:50:42.640 There is nothing that brings me more happiness than my family.

01:50:48.480 There is nothing that I wish I had more of than children.

01:50:53.260 I wish I had more children.

01:50:55.840 I wish I was a better parent.

01:50:57.680 but there is nothing that brings you happiness eternally you will understand this and you will

01:51:05.240 understand it the older you get there's nothing else but family cherish that don't kill it

01:51:13.580 more in a second having a dog just makes life a little better they're ready to forgive you for

01:51:19.680 just about anything as long as you scratch them behind the ears and believe me when i was having

01:51:23.220 And, you know, the worst times of my time with raising my kids, I would look at my dog and

01:51:28.500 it'd be like, Uno, why can't they just be more like you?

01:51:31.520 You know, cats, they look like they're evaluating whether they want to put you in the freezer

01:51:37.800 or eat you now.

01:51:39.000 I mean, it's anyway, dogs are different.

01:51:41.260 They don't care what kind of day you had or whatever.

01:51:43.500 They just, you know, they're happy, but you want to feed them the best.

01:51:46.000 You want to care for them.

01:51:46.820 You want them around as long as possible.

01:51:49.120 So you feed them kibble food and you think you're doing a good thing and it's easy and

01:51:53.080 it's inexpensive, et cetera, et cetera. And you think it's okay, but it's processed food,

01:51:59.300 highly, highly processed, and then baked at such high temperatures, everything good for them is

01:52:03.760 baked out. They spray it with flavor so the dogs like it, but their bodies know. And you can't live

01:52:10.420 that way. They can't live that way. Add the supplement, all of the live nutrients that they

01:52:14.800 need with rough greens, ruffgreens.com. You'll see a difference in your dog almost immediately.

01:52:21.100 Get their trial bag.

01:52:22.300 Right now it's free.

01:52:23.220 Just use the discount code BECK.

01:52:24.620 Pay for the shipping.

01:52:26.200 Roughgreens.com.

01:52:27.760 Promo code BECK.

01:52:29.320 You missed Glenn's overtime segment on Torch yesterday.

01:52:31.920 You missed a lot.

01:52:32.940 Get it now only at glennbeck.com slash torch.

01:52:50.540 welcome to the glenn beck program um thank you so much for listening i'm taking phone calls here

01:53:04.860 in uh in fact let me do it let me start here with june uh in michigan hello june

01:53:10.180 hi hi glenn how are you today i'm great good um calling in with a unique perspective

01:53:19.080 kind of in a very much in agreement with yours um yeah everybody's got a choice and you get to make

01:53:25.120 good or bad choices and then you get to live or not live with the consequences but um my unique

01:53:30.800 perspective is i was blessed with a niece who um her parents after an amniocentesis test and other

01:53:40.580 tests some years ago and by that i mean decades ago were told that they should abort her because

01:53:46.400 she was a Downs baby. So pretty sick doctor who apparently didn't understand, like the rest of

01:53:52.220 the world, what a light Downs babies and others are to us and what they do for our society,

01:53:57.620 which is beautiful things. But they chose not to abort my niece, who turns out she was not Downs,

01:54:06.160 not at all. And she is now an award-winning, big time, nationally recognized award-winning

01:54:13.720 executive in her field so imagine the years of joy of which they would have been robbed if they

01:54:22.060 had listened to that terrible advice of death and I just think the science is no more it's no more

01:54:31.500 foolproof now than it was then because these stories there are many many stories like this I

01:54:36.380 mean god forbid that my parents scientifically now could have found out that I was going to have two

01:54:41.140 cancers as I was aging and oh just go ahead and abort me because it was going to be really painful

01:54:47.420 and hard and I wasn't perfect I mean come on it's sick and I'm not speaking from a place where

01:54:54.620 wherewith I have not experienced because I myself at one point had an eptopic pregnancy and because

01:55:00.780 I feel so strongly about this I did not let my doctor touch me until he proved to me that the

01:55:06.940 baby had already passed yes i knew what the risks were they were completely explained to me i knew

01:55:12.380 entirely the risk and i took it because i because i valued life and not just my own and i believe

01:55:23.520 that god rewarded me in later years for that decision and i think that yes we all have choices

01:55:31.360 and we have good choices and bad choices

01:55:34.100 and life is never perfect

01:55:35.760 but we definitely suffer consequences

01:55:38.220 from bad choices and we

01:55:39.900 definitely get to enjoy the consequences

01:55:42.480 of good choices

01:55:43.960 and I believe that firmly

01:55:45.900 so I'm in agreement with you on that

01:55:47.900 June, I thank you for sharing

01:55:50.280 all of that

01:55:51.200 blessings, thank you

01:55:54.040 let me go to Chuck, hello Chuck

01:55:56.020 welcome to the Glenn Beck Program

01:55:57.160 you there Chuck?

01:56:01.360 Chuck is currently experiencing an emergency alert.

01:56:05.280 Chuck, are you there?

01:56:07.020 I'm here.

01:56:07.540 Or a bad hearing aid?

01:56:08.620 Can you hear me?

01:56:09.040 Chuck, hi, go ahead.

01:56:10.720 Yeah, I have a down syndrome son, and his name is Derek.

01:56:16.660 He's been a total blessing, a joy, I'm sorry, emotional, to our family.

01:56:21.720 Everybody loves him.

01:56:22.680 He was 41 years old.

01:56:24.980 He is a joy.

01:56:26.500 Everybody just loves him to death.

01:56:28.220 I can't imagine not having a life without him.

01:56:32.020 I can't imagine making that choice to abort him.

01:56:35.320 My wife could not imagine even doing that.

01:56:38.640 And he's been a total blessing to us.

01:56:41.500 We love him.

01:56:42.560 Sorry, I'm emotional.

01:56:44.540 We love him to death.

01:56:46.060 He is our joy.

01:56:52.980 Thanks, Chuck.

01:56:54.040 Let me go to Marty.

01:56:55.180 Hello, Marty.

01:56:55.660 glenn this is such an honor to speak to you and to speak about this subject i have a daughter

01:57:02.160 with down syndrome and i have a son who's on the autism spectrum and my son actually does a little

01:57:07.080 writing for the american story but back to my daughter what a gift she's 30 years old will be

01:57:14.180 30 she keeps telling me she's going to be 30 pretty soon um she's been such a blessing to

01:57:19.500 our family not just to me but people around her and like you said earlier in your monologue about

01:57:25.580 this these kids bring more to other people than they ever do um i'm glad she is what she is

01:57:33.300 she's accomplished more in life than i could ever think to accomplish and and i believe her all her

01:57:39.660 cousins and her brother feel the same way and you have done a wonderful service for this for this

01:57:45.300 group of people today glenn and i feel sorry for those people who started who your story started

01:57:51.140 with for making that decision because i think it's going to haunt them for the rest of their

01:57:55.720 lives and i don't mean that in a bad way but they've given up an incredible gift

01:58:01.660 marty thank you for saying it exactly the way you just did this this was my

01:58:08.880 my reaction

01:58:11.820 we we have to separate our our first reaction sometimes your first reaction you should trust

01:58:24.680 and you should go with sometimes your first reaction is just emotional and you should not

01:58:30.080 go with that and and i agree with all of the people that reacted online and said you just

01:58:36.200 killed your baby um you just killed this blessed kid all all of this stuff you're selfish that was

01:58:43.660 my first reaction but that that will only close hearts that will never open hearts my second

01:58:55.100 reaction was not about a response my second reaction was i can see how they i can see where

01:59:03.560 they are because i i've kind of been there myself not on this situation but i've been there myself

01:59:10.040 where i want to do me and i can justify that in a million ways how many times did i say

01:59:18.160 i know i'm away from the family a lot but i'm doing this for the kids i'm doing this for the

01:59:27.720 family. I don't know how much of that is true. You know, I get to the end of my life and not to

01:59:38.500 the end of my life, but you know, in the last few chapters of my life and you start to review

01:59:47.740 and you're like, okay, I'm not sure that what I've done is more important than what I could

01:59:56.540 have done with my family. I'm not sure when I said, because there are times that I do believe

02:00:03.400 strongly that I am doing this to save, to play a role so I can at least go home and say,

02:00:10.660 I did everything I could to save your rights, Lord, that you lend to us.

02:00:21.400 But I don't know if that excuses me from all of the hours and all of the things that I've had to

02:00:26.200 do to travel and be away from my family. I mean, my kids will sometimes, and partly because I,

02:00:36.860 you know, don't carry a phone, but they will sometimes go to my assistant to schedule time

02:00:42.480 with me. You know how horrible that is as a dad? You know how horrible that is?

02:00:46.620 that's not right

02:00:51.240 that's not right

02:00:53.240 and how much of that was done

02:00:54.900 because

02:00:55.820 I have an ego

02:00:59.240 I had a goal

02:01:00.360 I had you know

02:01:01.380 so when I had my second thought

02:01:07.880 when I saw this story was

02:01:11.100 they're going to so regret this

02:01:12.960 and they may not regret it tomorrow

02:01:15.380 They may not regret it in 20 years, but there will come a time, and especially if they ever realize doctors are wrong.

02:01:25.140 When my daughter was born, the doctor said she will not feed herself, walk, understand speech, be able to communicate out, and she's none of those things.

02:01:38.600 We were told by the doctors she will be bedridden for the rest of her life,

02:01:42.900 And if they would have told me that, I was 18 years old, I think, no, 20 years old.

02:01:49.260 I'm just a stupid kid.

02:01:51.340 And if they would have told me those things back then, I would have said, we should terminate.

02:01:58.680 We should terminate.

02:02:00.140 They were wrong.

02:02:01.740 They were wrong.

02:02:02.560 You don't know.

02:02:04.260 And even if those things are true, you don't know what those things lead to.

02:02:09.260 i was talking to somebody the other day that shared something with me that was very personal

02:02:15.140 and and uh and really horrible and they said i don't know i'm telling you this i i've never

02:02:21.580 told anybody this before and i said i could be wrong so you're gonna have to pray about this

02:02:27.820 but maybe it's because you should share this it's it's been a long time and maybe

02:02:34.620 holding it inside is stopping you from blessing other people

02:02:40.120 because other people have gone through exactly or are going through exactly what you went through

02:02:47.200 and they feel alone they don't know how to handle it and somebody like you

02:02:51.020 saying something will make a lot of people go wow i'm not alone or i can make it because they made it

02:02:58.980 there's so many things that we don't understand

02:03:03.880 and we won't until we get to the other side.

02:03:09.180 And I'm convinced the things that we think in life are meaningful,

02:03:14.200 I think most of those things are bullcrap.

02:03:16.940 I think most of those things, we're going to the other side and go,

02:03:18.960 really, that didn't count for anything?

02:03:20.320 That didn't really?

02:03:21.680 I really thought that was something important.

02:03:24.040 Nope.

02:03:25.700 It's decisions like this.

02:03:28.980 One thing that I have learned, and I don't know if you've listened to me for a long time,

02:03:43.100 I don't know what changes you hear in me as I get more seasoned,

02:03:48.780 but one of the things is I've stopped deciding what's good and bad because I don't know that.

02:03:55.920 I don't know that.

02:03:57.120 I mean, I don't mean good and evil.

02:03:59.280 I mean, this is going to work out well,

02:04:01.680 or this is going to work out horribly.

02:04:04.940 We're supposed to judge good and evil,

02:04:06.860 but not look at things and go,

02:04:09.820 well, that's just going to turn out,

02:04:11.760 you know what, that baby, we shouldn't do that

02:04:14.100 because that's just going to be horrible.

02:04:15.300 That's not my place to say.

02:04:16.820 I have no idea.

02:04:18.060 That's God's stuff, not mine, not mine.

02:04:23.100 And I wish we could get more people to understand.

02:04:26.240 There are things that you just have to let go.

02:04:33.080 My dad said to me once, he said, you know, son,

02:04:36.300 life is nothing but a series of choices.

02:04:39.520 And you try to make the best choices that you can.

02:04:43.420 But know that those are your choices.

02:04:47.060 And when things happen in your life,

02:04:49.380 some of them are caused by your choices.

02:04:52.640 Some of them will not be.

02:04:55.420 But even when those things are happening, they're not happening to you.

02:05:00.680 And all that remains is your choice.

02:05:03.860 How am I going to deal with this?

02:05:05.660 Am I going to let this drag me down?

02:05:07.260 Or am I going to find joy in this some way?

02:05:09.620 Am I going to find lessons in this that make me stronger?

02:05:12.860 And then you make adjustments.

02:05:14.760 So life is nothing but a series of choices, consequences, and adjustments.

02:05:21.880 I feel bad for these people

02:05:29.300 because of the adjustment

02:05:31.620 that someday I think they're going to have to make

02:05:33.560 in their own thinking

02:05:34.640 because the consequences

02:05:36.520 are going to haunt them

02:05:43.360 because you never know.

02:05:47.040 You never know what could have been.

02:05:50.040 All right, back in just a minute.

02:05:51.340 Let me tell you about Relief Factor.

02:05:52.820 When something is working, we tend to stop thinking about it.

02:05:55.260 Your water heater works great.

02:05:57.580 I'm not giving it a second thought.

02:05:58.640 Your car starts every morning.

02:05:59.700 Perfect.

02:06:00.200 Your body feels good.

02:06:01.180 Same thing.

02:06:02.460 Then something changes.

02:06:03.420 Maybe your knees start hurting when you stand up.

02:06:05.040 Maybe your hands feel stiff.

02:06:06.260 Maybe you notice things are not working the way they are supposed to, and it requires more effort.

02:06:11.320 And that has your attention.

02:06:12.640 That's the reason why I talk about Relief Factor.

02:06:14.520 It's a daily supplement developed by doctors to help support your body's response to inflammation.

02:06:18.920 I'm not the only one who's given it a try.

02:06:20.540 Over a million people have tried it.

02:06:21.900 Two-thirds of them have gone on, just like me, to order more month after month.

02:06:24.940 I take it every day.

02:06:25.980 When your body is working the way it's supposed to,

02:06:28.020 you can focus on living your life instead of thinking about what hurts.

02:06:30.900 If pain's been holding you back, find out why so many people like myself

02:06:34.120 make it part of their daily routine.

02:06:36.000 Relief Factor, three-week quick start.

02:06:37.720 See how it can work for you.

02:06:39.580 ReliefFactor.com, ReliefFactor.com.

02:06:41.840 Call 800-4-RELIEF.

02:06:43.620 800, the number four, relief.

02:06:46.240 Glenn Beck is back after this.

02:06:50.540 All right.

02:07:15.440 I'm going to leave you with something.

02:07:17.580 this is a guy who i think is one of the funniest people i have ever heard um he's irish his name

02:07:25.360 is uh garen none i think or noon um i don't i don't really know his name i just watch him on

02:07:31.580 instagram and i am such a fan boy i mean i wouldn't be able to speak around this guy because

02:07:36.640 i think he is so damn funny that i would just i wouldn't know what to say to him um my wife and i

02:07:43.400 pass these back and forth every day we are watching something he does he just did something

02:07:48.520 announcing that the irish have fallen now he's irish uh the f word is an art form to him and

02:07:55.380 for some reason when the irish say it it's just not offensive i don't know why maybe it's just me

02:08:00.780 but he just announced that ireland has officially fallen listen to this edited version civilization

02:08:08.920 has fallen ketchup and mayo sachets are to be banned in ireland what's next tiny jams miniature

02:08:17.760 little parmalades is nothing sacred complementary condiment sachets are the only thing that

02:08:24.680 separate us from the lips the eu has gone too far with this one that's it ireland is leaving

02:08:31.680 we're starting our own thing and we're bringing plastic straws back as well now we have to walk

02:08:36.540 cup to refillable dispensers holding a little cup probably made out of paper stop making things

02:08:42.700 out of paper we built the pyramids this is humiliating you i'm not gonna let you control

02:08:49.460 my sauce like that apparently this is just phase one they want to control everything look at all

02:08:55.400 this i don't even know what half of it is seasoning what the is that coffee creamer do you mean

02:09:01.340 f***ing milk. You listen and you listen f***ing good. Milk stays. I'm not putting a powder into

02:09:07.280 my tea. I'm not Pablo f***ing Escobar. Going to a restaurant in 2030 is going to be f***ing bleak.

02:09:13.920 Please remove your shoes before stepping into the slop pit. Enjoy your dirty water. We can no

02:09:18.920 longer clean it as the bacteria that causes dysentery is seeking reparations. If you feel

02:09:24.060 the need to f*** yourself to death please do it in the designated f*** yourself to death zone.

02:09:29.040 And they're also planning on doing it with tiny bottles of shampoo and soap from the hotel.

02:09:34.380 F*** you!

02:09:35.560 That's the only bit of theft I get to engage in.

02:09:38.440 A civilized human being.

02:09:40.480 I'm not sharing a soap bottle with a previous guest.

02:09:44.140 They've had their hands between the f***, I would imagine.

02:09:46.980 This is disgraceful and it must be stopped.

02:09:49.600 Follow me, I'm delicious.

02:09:53.300 Oh, he is delicious.

02:09:55.340 I'm sorry to fanboy geek out on that guy, but I just find him hysterical, just hysterical.

02:10:02.320 And read about him. His story is amazing.

02:10:05.680 What he has overcome in life, he's an amazing guy.

02:10:09.920 Not a comedian, a musician, but he is the funniest guy I have found online.

02:10:25.340 We'll be right back.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 05, 2026

Data Centers are DRAINING Your Energy. Here's the Solution ｜ 6⧸5⧸26

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript