Glenn Beck Amfest 2025 Speech
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Learn English with Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck is an American comedian, actor, writer, and public speaker. His work has been widely known and appreciated throughout history. He is one of the most beloved and beloved people in the world, and is a force to be reckoned with. Glenn has been called to speak at some of the biggest events in American history, and has been a tireless advocate for human rights and human dignity.
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the woke left the left ideology is a religion do you know who our real enemy
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is the big business all over the world coupled with government coupled with
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media the people are waking up the world is changing it's going to be amazing the
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technology that we have the things that we can do and explore the diseases that
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we can cure life human life will never be the same you were called for this time you are here
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for a reason all of the eyes of the world are upon you please welcome glenn beck
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hello hello hello uh i brought somebody in uh because i saw something that i just thought was
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so incredible and it shouldn't be but it was and so i called this young lady uh it was the day after
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and she was surprised to hear my voice and i said i would like you to come as my guest to tp usa
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you may have seen her around i know she she was on the stage yesterday may i reintroduce you to
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so we were backstage just a few minutes ago and
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the reaction has been what overwhelming yeah she said she didn't understand why
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everybody was asking her for a selfie can you explain what you're curious about what you don't
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and that is why you're here okay this is we were talking backstage and i said
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when i was young when i was your age when she was your age there wouldn't have been somebody like
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this up on stage because it was the normal thing to do now it's not and i i just i wanted to thank you
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she told me she told me uh that she has a lot in common she understands erica she just
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she lost her husband and she said there are days
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that she has to hold on to her hold on to her chest because she feels like her heart's going to
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explode without her husband so that's why she is who she is she is a
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so i have a ton to share with you and honestly i had a completely different speech that i was
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today until i started watching and i last night started thinking about you and what you need to
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hear i wanted to talk to you about history i wanted to talk to you about the economy and what was what's
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coming i wanted to talk to you about what is coming for western civilization and to warn you
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that today the times have changed and you are desperately needed desperately needed
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that i think that i think that i think is more important
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it is important to stand for the truth but people are not your enemies lies are your enemies
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we each have a responsibility to stop to stop and point out lies to stop lies but you can't stop
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lies you can't stop darkness with more darkness you can't stop hate with more hate you only dispel the
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darkness of lies with the with the light of truth a single candle will light up a room if everything is dark one
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cell phone will be seen everywhere in this dark room you are that single candle you are that light
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and if you don't believe it i understand i do i get it i've i've spent a lot of time trying to think
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back to when i didn't have white hair when i was your age and what i what i thought and what i
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would be thinking if i were you if i were you and i'm 25 i was one when the world trade center came
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down i would have no memory of that and i certainly wouldn't have a memory of the united states before
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that you'd have no idea what it was like to get out of your car in front of an airport and right
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walk directly to the gate you don't remember a time when you didn't have a cavity search
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just to go onto an airplane you don't know of a time when you didn't have to have your iris
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scan until if you were born in 2000 you don't know of a time when this country wasn't at war
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or the world wasn't on the verge of global war that is a frightening place to live
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when you were eight years old the financial crash happened and maybe your parents lost everything
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but the big guys in new york the big guys at the banks they didn't lose everything nobody went to
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jail and you and your family paid the price that none of them had to pay then 2008 2009 the cell phone
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comes out social media comes out it's supposed to connect us so we can talk to our friends and it
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does just the opposite it divides us it changes us then 2020 hits covid happens if your parents
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survived 2008 now they face covid and if they happen to own let's say an ace hardware store a local
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hardware store what happened they were shut down because their local hardware store was killing
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grandparents but home depot was fine once again you saw the entire system turned upside down and the
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then with nobody going to jail you're also in school taught all kinds of things there men can be
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women and women cannot be defined unless you're a scientist i guess
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you are also told just study hard just keep your nose clean just do the right thing study hard go to
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college get a degree keep your grades up and you'll get a good job well you did all of those things and
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there are no jobs for you everything everything if i'm 25 years old i would think absolutely everything
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is a lie i get it so let me start with this you are not crazy you are not lazy you are not imagining things
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the truth is the rules have changed promises have been broken institutions have failed banks were rescued
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while families like yours weren't and you were told to follow a path that would guarantee security
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and it provides none of that but the most dangerous lie that you have been told
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wasn't that the system failed you the biggest lie that you were told is that you don't matter
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i want you to understand a broken system does not erase human agency
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it reveals who still has agency every single generation since the beginning of time has inherited
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a mess but only the great generations turn that mess into a mission and that's your calling
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america was never built for comfort it was built for people who believed they could
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shape their own destiny previous generations had it different but they didn't have it easier
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they had world wars they had depression they had drafts they had the plague they had no safety nets
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they had no guarantees but what they had that you don't have is belief belief belief in god belief
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in responsibility a belief that there is a brighter tomorrow just over the horizon
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not the other way around and you have been fed lies to keep you powerless and so many of your generation
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are following the natural path of somebody who believes they are powerless you look to others to lead
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you look for a leader may i propose one you you are the leader
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as i was watching as i was watching speeches yesterday i thought to myself what do any of us clowns
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who are up here have that you don't have what is it that we have that you don't have
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a platform build one charlie did build a platform you you don't have an understanding of history or god or
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economics or politics learn it you have the world's library in your pocket learn it the only thing that i
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have that maybe you don't have is white hair that's the only thing that i have and that comes from a long life
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of watching things play out over and over and over again so the only thing that i have that you don't have
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is i've seen the pattern you're in the first phase of your life so you're seeing the pattern for the first time
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but believe me all of this crap will happen again and again and again and when you have the white hair
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you start to go oh crap this is a giant game i wish i would have known that a long time ago
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you need to know one thing you hold every card you need you have everything you need everything and more
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you have your intellect your intellect so you can now think you can reason you can learn
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you're living in a country that today is still free enough to where you can ask questions and never
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stop asking questions especially the uncomfortable questions
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there is no such thing as a wrong question or a dangerous question you ask those questions but then
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you find you find the truth you don't have truth given to you no one is here don't take anything
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i or anyone else on this stage say as gospel because i'm not jesus none of us are you find the truth
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yourself you can hear something but then you prove it to be true yourself
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here's something else that you have that i think you dismiss you're here so if not you who if not now
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when the other thing you have that you dismiss is that you're alive and that to me means proves the fact
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god god does not make excess people you have a reason to be here you have a purpose there is a reason for
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you to be alive god doesn't make excess people you're not excess you're the center of your life
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i will tell you that uh i believe i'm 61 i believe two months ago i discovered the reason why i was born
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and i had planned on talking to you about that because it's really important
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but you need to hear something more important than any of that that i have to share with you
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you need to believe in yourself you need to recognize the power that you have you don't need permission to
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begin a a meaningful life you have three levers of power that you don't understand that you have right in
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front of you every day you have one internal power no one can control your work ethic your honesty
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your discipline your faith or like genie your response to others you own that don't let others dictate how you
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you also have compounding power the compounding power small consistent actions every day
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will beat institutions every time because your skill compounds every time i met with charlie he was a
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different and better person every time he was smarter he was he was deeper in with god he was more
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successful and towards the end of his life it was compounding so rapidly that the changes were staggering but
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he's the one who did it he just chose to do it reputation compounds integrity compounds intellect compounds
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time is not on my side for compounding any of that anymore but you have all the time you need to be far
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greater than anyone else you're going to hear speak today the third thing you have is spiritual power meaning is not
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given by governments or markets purpose precedes prosperity god doesn't create excess people if you exist it means you're
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needed you are not born too late you were born into this moment for a reason only you will find
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and it requires courage to go out and find it and stand you are not
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history has never asked a victim to save it nor does history ask comfortable people to save it history
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history asks capable people to save it you will discover if you shake off the lie of victimhood you
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will discover the glory of responsibility when you take on responsibility when you concentrate
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on responsibility you will discover purpose when you have purpose cynicism
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first thing we probably all gasp or laugh a little bit gets a little uncomfortable and then
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and you will look at your phone and somebody at some point will realize there are no bars anymore
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the lights go out not for a minute let's say it's not a glitch let's say they go out and stay out
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at first the phones come out and somebody will say wow this is weird
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then your phones die then the stores close then the sirens start
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by tomorrow morning if the lights went out right now and they stayed out
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and it would not be fear it would be confusion which is worse
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when the system disappears people don't ask the question who's in charge
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when the lights go out and stay out people begin to ask the question
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some people will freeze some people will wait some people will demand answers i want answers
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somebody's got to pay for this and they'll be demanding answers from institutions that no longer answer
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others will just look around others will begin to look around and then check on neighbors
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they'll begin to share food they will organize quietly
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they will not wait to ask for permission they don't have or need special authority they don't have
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official titles they have something else personal responsibility and here's the part that matters
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when the lights go out that's when everyone will discover who they really are
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no one will ask no one will ask who did you vote for no one will ask what did you post no one will ask
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whether you're prepared to stand or not that's the moment and we're at this moment the lights are flickering
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i told you at the beginning you're not crazy things are not the way they should be
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the lights are flickering so now what do you do when the lights go out
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you need to restore your confidence the lights are flickering not just in markets and politics
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but in belief in confidence in belief you've been told the dangerous things over and over again that
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when the system fails you fail it's not true people matter more in those moments rather than less and
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every great generation in history they were forged in a moment when something big broke not when things
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were easy not when things were guaranteed but when people your age looked at one another saw this giant
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mess they didn't create and went oh crap we'll fix it i'll take responsibility that's not weakness
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that is the highest form of power because power is not the ability to control others
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power real power is the ability to control yourself when no one is watching power is telling the truth
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when lies are rewarded power is forgiving hatred when hatred is celebrated power is building when
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everyone else is tearing down hear my message to you
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you were not born too late you were born with everything you need
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all you really need is belief in yourself and from there comes courage and courage is not loud courage is
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just getting up when you've been beaten down every time you fall down you just get up again
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that's what courage is getting up one more time after you fall that's it
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courage is required now because civilizations are not saved by governments and people who understand
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their power they fix things that person that will fix things is you so i urge you please leave here this
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weekend filled with one thing if you take one thing away
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is that you matter that you count that the ultimate power is there and it channels down to you and you can
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accomplish anything so go out and do what charlie did live your life in a way that you are prepared for
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when the lights go out do not curse the darkness become the light that others will see by we're counting on you thank you