On today's episode of Glenn Beck's new show, host Glenn Beck sits down with his good friend, Stu, to discuss abortion, conspiracy theories about the election, and the deep state. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator, radio host, and author. He is a frequent contributor to conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard, Fox News, and National Post, and is one of the most influential conservative voices in the country.
00:00:33.780We talk about saving babies on this show all the time because it's important to me, and I believe important to you as well, there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
00:00:42.700We need to save babies from the evil that is abortion.
00:00:45.880That's why I'm so proud that we have partnered with Preborn.
00:00:48.240They are the nation's leader in introducing moms with unplanned pregnancies to their babies.
00:00:53.160Once she hears the heartbeat, sees that precious baby inside of her, she's twice as likely to choose life.
00:00:58.920Over 64 million lives are gone from abortion in this country just since Roe v. Wade.
00:01:05.060And when that was enacted, now we've overturned that and more hang in the balance.
00:01:12.880We have to change people's hearts and minds.
00:01:15.320When a woman is considering abortions, she seeks to end her baby's life.
00:01:19.660Preborn is there, and the power of the ultrasound combined with God's love doubles the chances the baby has at life.
00:11:16.580Now, the press will make this into, you know, horrible dictatorial stuff, but it's not.
00:11:23.660If the Biden administration would have done this, I would have been for all of these.
00:11:29.880Now, what is the problem with them, Stu?
00:11:33.080Yeah, I mean, I think if you go through all those proposals, probably the worst thing you can say about them is that several of them are sort of just not particularly interesting to the average person.
00:11:45.700Like, I think a lot of people don't even know what a FISA court is, right?
00:11:48.920Like, when you're talking about it from that perspective, they might be good policies, but they're not going to be exciting.
00:11:54.420And they range from that to the most popular proposals in our public discourse.
00:12:01.380I mean, you're talking about things like term limits, which, you know, you're talking about 80% popularity around a proposal like that.
00:12:09.460And the only thing stopping it is Congress.
00:12:12.380They've been, you know, doing this forever because they're protecting their own gigs.
00:12:17.340Now, I will say I'm going to be very, very entertained when part of this proposal, he floats to taunt the media a third presidential term.
00:16:45.720Please give me, before you break up a long-term friendship, can you please just give me the original source of people calling for your deaths?
00:16:57.440Now, I'm sure there are people online that have said really crazy things because, honestly, let's go up about four paragraphs in what you just sent.
00:20:07.560During Good Rancher's Thanksgiving special, you can choose any box of their 100% American meat, wild-caught seafood, and get a little piggy.
00:21:41.320But, like, the liberals that I know, people who did vote for Harris or whatever, like, I might think that they're completely insane politically and wouldn't want them running anything.
00:23:37.100Letting police and everybody in the surrounding neighborhood knowing that break-ins are occurring.
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00:23:51.420That is a major factor in robbers saying, I'm going to go to the next house because he knows he's probably going to get busted and hauled off to jail if he tries this one.
00:24:01.800Because Simply Safe has 24-7 monitoring.
00:24:04.760Where most burglar alarms go off, the police do not respond because they think it's a false alarm and they don't have time to cover all of it.
00:24:13.360So, Simply Safe cuts that problem out by having 24-7 monitoring.
00:24:19.440They can check your alarm within five seconds.
00:24:23.060Then get police on the phone and say, this is a real alarm.
00:24:25.920There's somebody breaking into the house and police are coming.
00:27:07.880I wanted to let you know that precisely to your point, I voted for Donald Trump for a hopeful future from the success that I've personally seen us have, that I've had, and that you've witnessed during his last presidency that seems to have been gone the last four years.
00:27:24.780I wanted to tell you in your audience that I met Donald Trump in 2011 and how he is everything the left says he isn't.
00:27:33.360I came to his book signing at Trump Tower to tell him I read one of his books that inspired me as a young man and really helped me grow out of the poverty I endured.
00:27:56.220I introduced myself and my partner at the time who's now my husband, and I looked him in the eye, and I said how eternally grateful I am for his inspiration to me, that I would pray for him and his family's happiness, health, and success.
00:28:09.600I thanked him and turned to leave, and he said, Daniel, you're a beautiful guy.
00:28:13.440And then he said, you know, you should really have a photo of this moment.
00:28:19.120It wasn't the type to go sticking cameras in people's faces who'd made the time to meet me anyway.
00:28:23.520But he rallied his line for a young gay man who he had just met.
00:28:29.660Let's talk about, you know, the Lord's kindness to the least of them.
00:28:33.180And the lady behind me who actually took the photograph ended up writing me and sending me a card and said with that picture and said that she wasn't even a fan of Donald Trump but was there that day because she was lonely and just lost her husband.
00:28:48.900I received that card, and thanks to Donald Trump's kindness to me in going the extra mile, I asked myself what the single nicest thing I could do for her would be and saw the card and started to send her a card every single day for years so she'd never be lonely again.
00:29:05.760Donald Trump was so kind to two gay guys.
00:29:09.420It's Donald Trump who inspired me to be a success.
00:29:12.800Let me tell you real briefly, and you and your audience, in 2016, I went from growing up that kid with a mother who worked so hard at a highway diner overnight just to be poor and starving without food, hot water, a bed to sleep in, to having my original recipes served at the Queen's Sandringham Estate for her Christmas jubilee in 2016, as well as several other of my recipes recreated at the restaurant there on our grounds.
00:29:42.420It was about to grow into another one in 2019 when COVID hit, completely ruined the new restaurant I had hoped to have.
00:29:48.520Then I got discovered by the largest home shopping network in the world and spent a year and a half writing recipes and producing a whole brand reveal for a buyer's meeting.
00:29:57.480They accepted two dozen recipes, and then it all came crashing down when we couldn't get any of the co-packers to make it, including the Queen's Soup, quote unquote.
00:30:06.840But it feels like when I look around this culinary landscape and this world we live in post-COVID, I see so many unnecessary monopolies and impressive systems put into place by the left that it makes it prohibitive for anyone, much less a chef or anyone else out there, who's made their way from the bottom to the top.
00:30:25.820And it has felt so hopeless these last four years, Glenn, for myself and many other chefs or just people, wondering if we'll ever get to create or be inspired in any meaningful way again.
00:30:38.000And I hope that my vote in Donald Trump will change that.
00:30:41.880And I know after having met him, the incredible kindness he showed to me and how he inspired me all my life that it will for not just me, but everyone listening in your audience.
00:30:50.920I am going to clip this for him and send it to him so he can hear it because I know he'll be he'll just be so honored that you remember that time and and and and, you know, how you're turning your life around and life is working out for you.
00:31:10.080So that is great. And you know what? I have to tell you, I want to get to know you, Dan.
00:31:14.840And I I am fascinated by, you know, the fact that you have you've created all of these recipes.
00:31:23.180I mean, you are obviously a driven man. That's fantastic. I love those people.
00:31:30.680What an honor. Thank you so much, Glenn. I sincerely appreciate it.
00:31:34.340And like I said, I still have the picture from the day and all of those books that Donald Trump signed.
00:31:38.800I'll never part with them. And my my my life and my page, if I can tell you my Facebook page, it's Chef Daniel Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
00:31:49.140If you ever want to follow me and see my work and my I blog about life in Lancaster County, which, by the way, thank you for your honest and incredible coverage of the on Amish.
00:32:00.440You know, these are my friends, my neighbors, and they create beautifully.
00:32:04.780And, you know, and every day of my life, I'm reminded how America and our American spirit, how we can do so much with so little.
00:32:12.320I saw that all around me growing up, you know, actually growing up, I had no reason to believe I could succeed.
00:32:18.920And my mother, I still remember her wrapping her feet in shopping bags just to walk miles of train tracks at night in the snow to get to work and work overnight and come home and starve.
00:32:29.540You know, and to think that one day a young man with no food growing up and not food promised to me the next day that I would have my food served at the Queens Estate and all these great places.
00:32:40.160And it just seems like that all of these systems and things that have been set into place and covid every time I could get ahead, it knocked me down at the knees so much so that these last four years, I'd really felt that all the hope was taken out of me.
00:32:54.540And so I just really have so much hope in the next four years, Glenn.
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00:35:25.120The FBI has just sent out a text that they are aware of the offensive and racist text messages that is being sent to individuals around the country, and it is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter.
00:35:42.980As always, the FBI encourages members of the public to report threats of physical violence to local law enforcement authorities.
00:35:49.700Now, I have to tell you, Stu, this is, there's no way this is Russian propaganda or just somebody on the left or, I mean, there's no way.
00:36:01.500This is, at the very least, just a troll.
00:36:06.720Yeah, I definitely want the FBI in the middle of navigating the content of text messages.
00:36:48.160The FBI is taking this very seriously.
00:36:51.340Now, I mean, if I got this, I would be like, all right, but this is clearly either somebody who has an IQ of about 60 or it's a foreign, you know,
00:37:05.600You don't think Boris is running that?
00:37:07.880I would say there's a third option, which you kind of mentioned before, which is someone on the left intentionally trying to make it look like this.
00:37:15.620Like the people who show up at rallies with the signs that, you know, obviously are not real.
00:37:23.440They're like, you know, Handmaid's Tale fan fiction for leftists.
00:38:04.280And we've seen real world consequences, especially around the issue of abortion, where they said, if you go to get medical care because the abortion pill we've told you over and over again is as safe as ibuprofen is about to kill you.
00:38:18.140You will be arrested and women are not going to get that care.
00:38:23.100And then they are dying because of it, because of the abortion pill, not because of the abortion laws, but because of the abortion pill and the lies that have been fed to them by the media.
00:39:39.320So, I have to say that our worries about the stealing of the election may have been unfounded.
00:39:55.140And, you know, maybe it would have been different if we didn't have the GOP guarding and, on their side, guarding, which I feel good about.
00:40:05.980I think that should be done every single election.
00:40:08.580I think there should be, you know, people who are dead serious with lots of attorneys watching everything and making sure that no funny business is going on.
00:40:18.940But I can't take the people on our side who are saying, wait a minute.
00:41:32.300I mean, like, the bottom line is those raw number of votes are going to be higher in 2020 because of the rule changes.
00:41:39.380And if you don't believe that, you have to believe Donald Trump, right, because of COVID, those were the rule changes.
00:41:44.540And if you don't believe that, you have to believe that Donald Trump got less popular from 2020 to 2024 because he's probably going to come up with less votes as well.
00:50:06.860And I think, remember, when you say it's doing better than it's ever done, you can definitely look at financial measures that do not agree with that comment.
00:50:18.820His goal was to allow people to speak freely.
00:50:21.540And it was an expensive jaunt into that world.
00:50:26.920I mean, you know, but it was worth it, I think.
00:50:29.880And it was something that was protecting the First Amendment.
00:50:32.460And I didn't mean to say that in a negative way when I said heartless and soulless.
00:50:37.140That was how it has been portrayed by many.
00:50:39.420That's the way it spins, spun every time.
00:50:41.460And there are plenty of stories of him being tough on employees, maybe too tough on certain employees.
00:50:46.060But that attitude 100% is necessary in the federal government.
00:50:51.040Whatever he thought was waste at Tesla or SpaceX or Twitter is nothing compared to the burden we all carry with incompetent employees and complete waste and nonsensical programs that accomplish nothing.
00:51:15.400And if Donald Trump empowers him and he wants to take this on, as they talked about during the campaign, I feel like it's one of those things we could actually see a real difference made.
00:51:24.360Not just a little, hey, we shaved 4% off of this rate, which I will cheer on.
00:51:29.180I will be happy with tax rates going down.
00:51:31.320But, like, that's something I think could really change the country in a positive direction.
00:51:35.960I want you to bring your best hat, your best thinking cap on Monday, because I scheduled an economist who said the way that Donald Trump is thinking about tariffs would mean an $18,000 raise for everybody.
00:52:04.200And could actually work to pay our bills every month.
00:52:21.500Because if we can cut back our spending so it's fairly reasonable, and we're still providing a safety net and everything else.
00:52:31.100I am very interested in rebuilding our industries, rebuilding our factories, and actually motivating people to go to work and learn a real skill and start making things here in America and having pride in that.
00:52:54.280And I think, for the first time, I think, if I can get somebody to tell me all of the metrics and the numbers, because the numbers, they have to work out.
00:53:43.960One is, as you mentioned, getting rid of the income tax.
00:53:48.460And a third would be cutting the government down to levels, you know, roughly, you know, you, of course, adjust for inflation and you adjust for population growth and all these things.
00:54:00.320But roughly to the 1800s, as he talked about, 1880s.
00:54:08.420Calvin Coolidge did some of this as well.
00:54:09.660He actually, yeah, he was more friendly to tariffs, even though, you know, it's not my favorite policy, but he is one of my favorite presidents.
00:54:17.100But, you know, those three things are, if you could do all three of those together, it adjusts the country in a way that is so dramatic, it would probably do a lot of really positive things.
00:55:13.460Like, there might be a modified version of this that makes sense.
00:55:17.780If you can control spending, if you can cut some, and you can lower the income tax a great deal and replace some of that income with tariffs, I don't think that that would be the type of situation that would be horrible.
00:56:15.060If he backed it, he could get it passed.
00:56:17.340If he wanted to repeal the 16th Amendment with another constitutional amendment, and he really laid it out, here's what this would mean for you.
00:56:29.160I think the numbers are so staggering that who wouldn't be for that?
00:56:36.580Well, certainly, constitutional amendments are difficult because you need the other side involved in them.
00:56:41.900And that makes them, I mean, there are other approaches, but you know how hard it is.