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00:05:11.620 Great, Glenn. How are you?

00:05:12.500 I am really good. It's, uh, you know, it's Friday. I thought we'd go over some of the big stories of

00:05:18.460 the week. And one of them that we really haven't had a chance to address this week is, uh, Ian Andre

00:05:22.680 Roberts. He is at the beginning of the week, he is that poor guy that ice is just going in. Here he is

00:05:30.380 the superintendent of schools for Des Moines public schools. He is, he is well known. He is well

00:05:37.440 qualified. He's an upstanding member of our community and ICE just comes in, guns a-blazing,

00:05:44.560 wearing masks, no indication of even who they are, and they just tag him.

00:05:50.360 Yeah. Yeah. I've read that. I, you know, I love, you know, a sleepy city is moved to protest for a

00:05:56.520 beloved superintendent detained by ICE.

00:05:59.100 That was that one of the headlines?

00:06:01.500 That was one of the, that was NBC News headline.

00:06:03.320 Oh my God.

00:06:04.180 Several dozen students gathered at the state Capitol calling for his release, holding signs,

00:06:08.800 reading radical empathy, a tagline he frequently used.

00:06:15.240 Oh my gosh.

00:06:16.560 I love that. Uh, during, uh, during rush hour, people displayed a banner from a bridge over the

00:06:21.920 interstate, reading free Dr. Roberts, uh, dozens of cars honked. And you know, when cars honk,

00:06:31.800 you know, it's a real cause.

00:06:33.900 No, no, no. And you know, that's showing your support. I'm willing to honk.

00:06:36.780 That was the main thing that happened in Nazi Germany. Uh, they, when the SS would roll into

00:06:41.200 town, there'd be a bunch of people honking in protest. And, uh, that's how you knew they were

00:06:45.640 Nazis. Uh, there was a walkout of students. And then you had Jackie Norris, who is a former

00:06:51.480 Michelle Obama, uh, aide. Yeah. She's kind of in the middle of this. She says, uh, you know,

00:06:59.700 she wants to, uh, it's fitting to take a page out of Dr. Roberts book and ask the community to

00:07:04.840 engage in radical empathy. They kept saying this over and over again. As we walk through this

00:07:09.280 situation together, we do not have all the facts. Uh, during his time with our district, he has shown

00:07:15.020 up in ways big and small. And that's, that's, that's definitely true. That was, that was, that

00:07:23.100 was true. First of all, um, I'm not sure he is a doctor. I mean, I know now what we have found out

00:07:27.980 during the week is he played doctor a lot, uh, in many ways, uh, you know, in the, you know, the way

00:07:35.220 you play doctor and the way that you just like, yeah, I, I graduated from MIT and I got my doctorate

00:07:41.140 here, here and here. I mean, listen to the guy. Um, let's see here the, his credentials. First of

00:07:48.000 all, he, he got, he was at Sloan school of management from MIT, got an MBA from MIT. Then

00:07:56.460 he also attended Harvard and Georgetown. Uh, he got his doctorate degree from Baltimore's Morgan

00:08:03.360 state university. Uh, and there was another one too, I believe that he went to the deal. He didn't go

00:08:10.800 to any of those schools and it didn't have any of that. He came over from Ghana, uh, and, uh, was

00:08:18.720 overstayed his visa was here illegally under the Biden administration. He was ordered to be deported

00:08:27.000 under the Biden administration. I mean, that's kind of, that's a tough, that's, that's a, I mean,

00:08:35.480 that's a pretty high bar you have to cross to be deported by Joe Biden. Uh, but he, uh, he wasn't

00:08:42.480 because, you know, they're, well, they're not just going to go out and get this guy. I mean, and he

00:08:45.700 was busy. He had a lot of things that he was, uh, working on. A lot of them seem to be women. Um,

00:08:53.200 you know, he was up, he was up, uh, doing his DEI, you know, uh, school board thing, uh, in Pennsylvania.

00:09:03.300 And apparently he was caught having sex with a female coworker on school property. Um, in his,

00:09:11.420 in his role as superintendent who was being a bad girl. Hmm. Uh, uh, the, the people up in

00:09:21.480 Pennsylvania described him as a sketchy figure and a pathological liar. And they felt that he had

00:09:28.060 been hired there because of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Um, now when he went to, uh, Des Moines,

00:09:35.700 it's another, yep. DEI, he became the DEI guy. And, um, you know, uh, people up in Pennsylvania said,

00:09:46.480 I'm not sure he's a legal resident and they ignored that because nobody wanted to see it up in

00:09:53.060 Pennsylvania. Nobody wanted to see because of DEI. Everybody was just like, when he went to Des

00:09:59.780 Moines, same thing. Um, he's a pathological liar. He just told this person that he's married and has

00:10:07.040 three kids. This person he told he has no kids and he's not married. I mean, he's a pathological

00:10:12.400 liar. He would lie about almost everything, but when they would bring it up again, everybody in

00:10:18.900 power would say, how dare you racist? I can't believe they ignored everything that they had

00:10:25.460 said. Okay. He hasn't been legally here since 2020. Uh, he was arrested by ice on September 26th.

00:10:36.400 Why? Well, because he knew he was going to be deported, uh, and, uh, he was found hiding in

00:10:46.440 bushes. Oh my gosh. How degrading for him. How degrading for him. Well, the school owned vehicle

00:10:53.160 that he was driving contained a fixed blade hunting knife. I'm not sure if he was a big hunter or not,

00:10:59.700 a loaded Glock 19 firearm and $3,000 in cash. Now, how did this illegal get a Glock, especially

00:11:09.200 since he had already been arrested in 2020 for possessing an illegal firearm? Did he not care

00:11:17.980 about the law still? Did he not care about the law? Is that what happened there? Some people are saying

00:11:22.320 that. Um, but in reality, uh, we don't really know if it was an illegal firearm because since he was

00:11:29.420 illegal, all firearms he would have would be illegal. There's no, there's no path, uh, to

00:11:35.940 my, well, unless you're, I guess maybe a legal firearm possessed by an illegal then because of

00:11:41.640 the double negative. I'm not a, I'm not a school superintendent. I don't know. Does it cancel it

00:11:47.080 out and suddenly everything is legal? Yeah. Yeah. That was one of those, uh, you know, PBS scholastic

00:11:52.580 songs about that. I'm pretty sure the double negative cancels your crime out. Yeah. I remember

00:11:57.100 that song. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, apparently when he was up in Mill Creek,

00:12:02.080 um, as the superintendent up in Pennsylvania, uh, you know, he was caught having sex, blah,

00:12:07.040 blah, blah. The school district was, was inundated. I'm quoting inundated by lawsuits forced to pay

00:12:12.800 out over $400,000 in sex discrimination settlements. Uh, because he was promoting less qualified women

00:12:21.100 over more deserving men. Apparently, uh, that's, that's part of it. And you know, I think the sex

00:12:26.200 thing where everybody was, it was also a, a problem. Uh, they were in the process of negotiating

00:12:31.360 a $250,000 settlement with, uh, Melody Ellington, um, because she apparently was fired for constructive

00:12:41.880 discharge. Now that's, that's, that's not real. That can't be real. No, it sounds like something

00:12:49.740 that you go see your doctor about. Uh, I think I have some constructive discharge here. Um,

00:12:56.340 constructive discharge. I didn't know what that was. Uh, I had to look that one up. Um,

00:13:03.560 it applies to, I'm quoting, applies to situations when a resignation is involuntary

00:13:10.340 okay. Resignation is involuntary. That means you're being fired. I think when your resignation

00:13:17.740 is involuntary due to a hostile or intolerable work environment. Right. Well, it could be like

00:13:24.180 getting pressured into quitting, right? I mean, I think the, the seeming accusation here is that

00:13:30.220 he was trying to get rid of her for some other reason other than her job, which again, we can

00:13:35.540 considering all the other accusations against him, we can guess what this revolved around.

00:13:39.200 But does constructive discharge sound like some sort of PC thing that doesn't tell you anything?

00:13:47.840 Yes, it does. Yes. It just sounds like a bunch of nonsense. But if you think about it, it's like,

00:13:53.140 you know, uh, you know, you're getting rid of somebody for some reason that is, you know,

00:13:59.720 constructed, right? It's that, what was the term you used the other day? The, uh, the, the false

00:14:04.560 construct, the, uh, and you were like, I can't listen to anybody. Me being fired. My, my resignation

00:14:09.440 is a false construct. Right. Yeah. That it is. That it is. And by the way, that, that particular

00:14:15.720 settlement, which was a quarter of a million dollars, a lot of money. I mean, you wouldn't

00:14:19.600 want to hire someone who's in the middle of that. That was being settled right at the time he was

00:14:25.960 getting the job in Des Moines. Like it was in the middle of the settlement when he was like,

00:14:30.360 ah, I'm going to go to Des Moines and get it, go to a bigger city and get a bigger job.

00:14:34.620 So my question is, how did he get this job? I mean, there is serious corruption in the vetting

00:14:44.820 in Des Moines and quite honestly, Mill Creek. Now Mill Creek, this is the one up in Pennsylvania,

00:14:51.380 Mill Creek said they followed a vetting and search process by a recruitment firm,

00:14:58.540 Ray and associates and the recruitment company didn't respond to the request for, you know,

00:15:04.900 information from, you know, journalists like us. Um, but the school district said we received all

00:15:10.800 clearances, including an FBI background check prior to Robert serving as superintendent. No

00:15:15.520 disqualifying events were identified. Okay. Well, that's weird because he had charges against him,

00:15:21.880 uh, you know, of a legal possession of a firearm that you would think schools would go,

00:15:27.080 that is a problem. But here's the thing, Ray and associates. And now this may mean nothing,

00:15:32.600 but me thinks there's something rotten in Minnesota. Uh, this rain associates, uh,

00:15:40.820 that did all the vetting on this guy is from Minneapolis and it just, it just could be my bias

00:15:48.160 on what's happening in Minneapolis and how Minneapolis is being run and how, uh, Minnesota is being run.

00:15:53.720 So I, I don't know anything about Ray and associates, but we will soon, we will be looking into them.

00:16:00.680 Um, I, I, it's, it's just this, this whole, uh, system of corruption. How do you hire somebody like

00:16:13.580 this? How do you clear somebody like this? The people in, um, uh, in Des Moines,

00:16:20.340 the, he shouldn't be the only one that's gone here who vetted him, who hired him?

00:16:31.120 Well, I love the, I love the story of, uh, our friend Jackie Norris, because, you know,

00:16:36.360 if you remember she, former Michelle Obama aide was out there saying, you know, we need to show

00:16:40.520 radical empathy and all this. And then all this stuff comes out and you think, okay, she's got to

00:16:46.120 be, what, in hiding? She's probably resigned. Like there's this really embarrassing, uh,

00:16:52.280 well, what is she actually doing right now? She's running for U S Senate because of course she's

00:16:58.800 running for U S Senate. What better way to qualify you for a Senate run than this particular scandal?

00:17:06.180 None of this stuff matters to the left. None of this matters to the left. This is why you must be a

00:17:13.620 merit-based society. Because if you're just going to say, well, DEI, he's, he's good at DEI, which

00:17:22.000 apparently he wasn't good at DEI. Um, he's good at that. And you know what? We need a hire that has

00:17:30.180 his, you know, he's, he's a, an immigrant, he's black. He apparently is very, very sexy. He's got all

00:17:38.160 these degrees. Well, does he have all those degrees is, I mean, does, I mean, pathological

00:17:43.540 liar. You just hired him because he's settling a lawsuit for sex discrimination and you still

00:17:49.500 hire him. What is it? Because it doesn't matter. The crime doesn't matter. His past doesn't really

00:17:57.440 matter. Whether he went to these schools or not doesn't matter because he's going to help us on

00:18:01.840 this, the DEI thing until America comes to a place to where they can recognize this all a sham

00:18:08.260 and you actually have to have real standards based on real merit. This is going to continue to happen.

00:18:15.540 And until people like Michelle Obama's, uh, what, what is her name? And what state is she running for

00:18:21.220 in Iowa? Um, Jackie Norris is her name. And she's running for Senate in Iowa, Iowa. You're going to

00:18:28.220 get exactly what you deserve. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us because she's running for U S Senate,

00:18:33.960 but you're going to get exactly what you deserve until you start saying, wait a minute, wait a minute,

00:18:38.740 wait a minute. How did this happen? Who hired this person and fire all of the people involved in this

00:18:46.420 and fire all the people. There were teachers. There were people on the school board. Apparently

00:18:50.760 they were all saying, Hey, this is something's wrong here. We should check into this. Those people

00:18:55.640 should be elevated. And the people who told them, uh, shut up and sit down. Those people should be

00:19:01.040 fired. That's what common sense. Iowa people would have done when common sense actually existed.

00:19:08.860 Does it exist in Iowa anymore? We'll see back in just a second.

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00:20:27.780 Now we're also going to see what happens, um, in a case in Washington, DC. Uh, you know,

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00:21:01.760 he, the, the judge is going to sentence him. Okay. And the, the, the feds are asking for a 30 year

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00:21:47.240 I think we all agree on that. That's what the federal government is telling the judge to do, but

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00:22:52.200 trajectory. Huh? That's interesting. You know what? It would have stopped, uh, Brett Kavanaugh's,

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00:23:09.300 assassin, uh, Sophie needs a balanced life and appropriate support from loving people, not

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00:25:41.960 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. There is a lot on our plate today. First of all, there's a fire

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00:26:05.160 but it's going to relax a little bit, take a few deep breaths and we'll get into it. Uh, and the,

00:26:12.560 uh, fact, uh, that the shutdown is happening, why it's happening, what the truth is behind it,

00:26:18.360 uh, will Donald Trump actually got crazy left-wing, uh, programs during it? Uh, I'm going to give you

00:26:24.820 all of that information coming up in just a few minutes, but there's a couple of other things

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00:26:40.420 your podcast tomorrow. Uh, but Jonathan Haidt is, I think one of the, is one of the most honest

00:26:49.100 searchers for actual data points on what is happening in our society. He is a, uh, a society

00:26:57.600 scientist, behavioral scientist, social psychologist, and he's been studying what's been happening to us.

00:27:04.540 And he was on the, he was really a firm Democrat back in the mid two thousands. He was not a fan

00:27:12.360 of mine. Um, and he started to study what's happening. Why, why are people like Glenn Beck doing

00:27:19.460 this? And so he decided to actually watch and then listen to my show. Um, and he did, and then he

00:27:27.100 started listening to others. And he said, I broke through my understanding because of you, Glenn,

00:27:33.720 he talks about this in this podcast, he said, because of the language that you use, you said

00:27:38.740 things differently than other people. And he said, I understood, wait a minute, wait a minute. I think

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00:27:52.580 And that he wrote after that, what was the name of that book that he wrote? That was so good. Um,

00:27:57.340 do you remember Stu? Yes. Uh, uh, the gosh, we, uh, righteous mind. Yeah. Right. The righteous mind.

00:28:05.020 Right. Yep. And he talks about how language is different and is separating us, but we might be

00:28:10.300 saying many of the same things. Um, he's been studying all kinds of things, including for the

00:28:16.420 last 10 years, he's really been focused on what's happening to our kids. And, uh, he now has a huge

00:28:25.020 body of evidence that it is social media and our phones and you can't give your kids a smartphone.

00:28:32.840 You can't, I wish I had this information and all of the data to back it up. Um, you know,

00:28:38.500 there are schools now that are banning smartphones, banning all phones, really all during school.

00:28:43.100 This has to be done. You cannot give your kids a smartphone, uh, until at least 16 or 17 years old.

00:28:50.960 Uh, they can't be on social media. And we talked about the, the, where is all of this anxiety coming

00:28:58.880 from? Where is all of this, uh, coming from and the, the depression and everything else.

00:29:05.200 Can you, can you give me some of the facts? Listen to what he said.

00:29:08.840 Our kids moved their social lives onto social media platforms around 2012, 2013, and the results

00:29:14.060 have been completely disastrous. So I've been assembling the evidence for this because I'm arguing there's

00:29:19.860 some other psychologists say, no, there's no evidence of harm. No, it's just a correlation.

00:29:23.720 Correlation doesn't prove causation. Um, and I'll just, just to tip down the, the evidence that social

00:29:29.820 media is bad for our kids. The first thing is that the kids themselves say that when you survey high

00:29:34.820 school kids and college kids and kids in their young people in the twenties, they're not grateful

00:29:38.620 for this. They say this was really bad for us, but I had to say, I couldn't quit because everyone

00:29:42.780 else was on it. Um, we have testimony from the parents, parents know their kids. They almost

00:29:48.720 universally hate this stuff. They're not, they don't see it helping their kids. We have confessions

00:29:53.780 from the perpetrators. We have all kinds of, uh, documents, leaks, uh, documents that came out

00:30:00.160 in lawsuits where we hear them talking about all the harm they're causing and all the things they're

00:30:05.420 doing to cause addiction. These platforms are designed to grab our kids' attention and never let go

00:30:10.440 because if they let go, it's going to go to their competitor. Um, there's, there are correlational

00:30:15.660 studies, there are experimental studies. There are so many different studies that all point to,

00:30:20.560 to a degree of harm. So I, I think now that the case is pretty much closed. Um, the, the argument

00:30:26.580 that, oh, well, we just don't know. We need to gather more information. I, you know, that was the

00:30:30.360 tobacco industry playbook decades ago and meta, you know, social media, especially meta, they're,

00:30:36.320 they're, they're literally copying the tobacco playbook. I mean, a lot of people have written

00:30:39.160 about this. Um, so I think this is, uh, I was about to say evil, but we've talked about that.

00:30:45.660 Yes. You know what? It's an evil industry in the same way that you were talking about. I don't look

00:30:50.200 the people who work there. I'm not saying are evil, except for maybe a couple of the leaders who

00:30:53.320 know what they're doing. Um, but the company, the company is especially tick tock, uh, meta and

00:30:58.800 Snapchat. Those three companies are harming children at an industrial scale. We're not just talking like a

00:31:03.900 few hundred kids. We're talking literally tens of millions are harmed and thousands are dead.

00:31:07.860 So, um, um, so I do think that this is having a very pernicious effect on, on society, on children.

00:31:14.960 So, and I want to get into, you know, real world and virtual world and, uh, and what it's doing

00:31:21.620 to our kids, but let me jump forward here for a second. Have you thought about what does this mean

00:31:28.300 for this generation in 30 years? Oh yes. I think a lot about that. So here's the way to think about it.

00:31:35.720 Um, human development is really, um, complicated and kids need, need a lot of experience in the

00:31:44.860 world. They need to make lots of mistakes and, and, and learn from them. Um, and then especially

00:31:50.000 during puberty, during puberty is a time when the brain is changing very, very fast. It's rewiring

00:31:54.520 from the child to adult form. And so if in puberty, kids are not out there having adventures and flirting

00:32:00.600 and getting embarrassed and getting in arguments and over, if they're not out there having real

00:32:05.000 world experience, um, it's going to prevent the neurons from wiring up in a, in a healthy

00:32:09.740 adult way. So we really have to look at, um, at, at puberty at the, say roughly 10 or 11 through

00:32:15.420 16 is the most sensitive period of all. And if kids are growing up online, you know, originally we

00:32:21.860 thought, well, maybe it'll be great for them, you know, talking, checking in with a hundred

00:32:25.040 friends a day instead of just two or three, maybe that'll be good, but it isn't.

00:32:31.260 It is, uh, it's remarkable. He wrote this book called the anxious mind. I think it came out two,

00:32:35.980 three years ago and it is fabulous. It is forget Dr. Spock and all that crap. You're raising a kid.

00:32:42.500 This is the book you should be reading. Okay. This has all of the facts, uh, everything about social

00:32:49.000 media, everything about our devices and our phones that you need to know. Um, and we have the time

00:32:55.300 back in 2010, we didn't have any reason. It was just a grand experiment. The experiment's been done.

00:33:00.940 We now see the results and do you like them? Do you like them? Our kids are so, uh, fragile. They

00:33:10.680 shatter at anything right now. Look at what's happening with the shooters. Look at what's happening

00:33:16.840 with the, with the trans Tifa. If you will look at all of the results. I, I am convinced that we will

00:33:24.740 have more and more shootings from desperate, crazy people because they don't know how to deal with

00:33:32.500 anything. They've never been required to deal with anything. They've never had anything push up

00:33:38.160 against them in the real world. It's all been this, this bogus world of, of virtual reality.

00:33:48.160 Um, and he makes a very strong case that this has got to stop. And he talks about regulation of the

00:33:55.040 internet and I am not one for regulation, nor is he, but when it comes to our kids, our kids should not

00:34:03.240 have access to these things. They should not have access. Uh, it's as harmful as cigarettes. As he

00:34:10.200 said, it's as harmful as, uh, you know, just binge drinking at 12 years old. It's not going to end

00:34:17.820 well, just not going to end well. So you get this, uh, this podcast, wherever you get your podcast is

00:34:24.660 available right now, uh, at, uh, blaze TV, but you can also get it tomorrow, wherever you get your

00:34:30.140 podcast, Jonathan height on anxiety and social media. And we start with Charlie Kirk. Um, I took

00:34:38.240 him to places he wasn't expecting to go, but we had a really great conversation about what's happening

00:34:44.960 in our society. What is causing this? How do we fix this? And, um, you know, here's a guy who studies

00:34:52.380 this for a living and said, if we don't, if we don't wake up right now and start paying attention and

00:34:58.660 start fixing the things that need to be fixed. And neither of us agree on politics. And it's

00:35:04.960 really, I think a very, it's a tough conversation. The first 20 minutes is to kind of a tough

00:35:10.920 conversation because you want somebody on the other side to go, yeah, you're exactly right.

00:35:15.240 I see it the same way. I don't see it his way. He doesn't see it my way, but we have a conversation

00:35:20.720 on how did we get there? How, how, and what needs to happen? And I don't further the conversation

00:35:28.220 with him because I didn't want it to be just about this. Um, but the, we model the kind of

00:35:33.420 conversation that has to happen in all of our homes with all of our families to be able to get

00:35:39.740 there. Um, and it's a, it's just a really healthy conversation. Yeah, it's, I can't wait to listen to

00:35:47.360 this one. And I think too, it's really important, um, for parents, particularly if you're in that age

00:35:52.160 where you have kids that are going through between that 10 to 16 type of age, where, um, if you think

00:36:00.000 about how social media affects kids, right, we talk about it all the time with shootings, right?

00:36:03.740 We talk about it with all the really negative things that suicides and all these terrible things.

00:36:07.320 So often what happens is that, you know, people, kids get into these groups in social media. They're

00:36:12.940 influenced by these small, quirky, weird groups, strange beliefs, like people encouraging them to

00:36:20.020 hurt themselves, people telling them they're, they're not, they're not good enough. They're, you

00:36:23.400 know, they're, they're ugly, they're, they're worthless, all of these things. And it encourages

00:36:27.840 them to go down these dark roads. I would, I would encourage parents who are in the middle of this

00:36:34.300 situation in particular to, to listen to this podcast, to read Jonathan Haidt's book, The Anxious

00:36:41.080 Generation, to, to follow Jonathan on social media, because it's important for you to be immersed

00:36:47.080 in a community that understands the risks here. I think it's really easy when you're, you're talking

00:36:52.500 to your, your kids who you love, and they're telling you how much they need their phone. They

00:36:57.360 need social media. They need all these things. It's, it's understandable to give in, right? It's

00:37:02.820 really easy to give in. And for a long time, as, as you point out, Glenn, you know, we didn't have

00:37:07.880 the data. Your family became the data, right? Like that's, that's, you know, it is a, I've seen the

00:37:12.960 result. Yeah. It's really, really hard. But if you immerse yourself in this community,

00:37:16.900 with a lot of people, and there are tons who really understand this data and believe

00:37:21.340 that kids shouldn't have this, and you start building a community around you with other

00:37:26.160 parents that go to your school that also are doing the same things, this stuff becomes

00:37:30.040 a lot easier. It's a lot more, it's a lot easier to understand and justify that you're

00:37:33.640 not doing harm to your kid by not giving them social media. The exact opposite. You're protecting

00:37:38.840 them. You're protecting them from something you know is bad.

00:37:41.720 So it was, it's really interesting because we knew that it wasn't a good idea, but the

00:37:49.080 school was demanding that everybody have devices at the time when we were going to school with

00:37:54.500 our kids. They had to have devices. They had to have a, you know, a smart tablet or whatever,

00:37:59.200 and it would be regulated. Now kids can get past all of that stuff. Okay. And we were told

00:38:05.640 also the kids, you know, they've got to have, they got to have a smartphone with them. They

00:38:10.800 have to be able to, you know, do all this stuff. No, they really don't. They really don't. And

00:38:15.600 our kids, when we said, no, we don't want you to have it. Mom and dad, we are an absolute

00:38:21.440 pariah. Well, I don't really care. And we held out for a little while, not long enough.

00:38:27.280 Um, but we held out for a little while. We, we gave them access. They didn't have, uh, you know,

00:38:35.800 a computer of their own, but we would give them occasionally my iPad or, you know, they would

00:38:42.620 have the iPad after they got into school. They had to have the school's iPad and they were exposed to

00:38:47.640 stuff that we didn't realize you could access because we didn't really understand how bad it

00:38:54.460 was early on. I'm talking 2010, 2011, 12. Okay. We know now we know you, the entire world

00:39:03.780 is at their fingertips. They are exposed to some of the most vile, worse things possible

00:39:13.080 and it changes them and it hardwires. He talks about how boys are hardwired now with porn and how

00:39:20.720 they're going to be able to have sex and a normal, healthy relationship is, you know, beyond

00:39:25.880 him. Um, because all these things have now been hardwired into this generation. If like

00:39:33.400 Stu, you're now just entering, uh, the, the, you know, the real puberty and the real dangerous

00:39:39.560 age where everybody is getting onto social media and everything else. Stu's doing it the right

00:39:44.320 way because he has the information. Now you're trying to try. No, you're not. Yeah. You're

00:39:49.040 trying. Um, but I mean, you are, you are ahead of where we were because we didn't know what

00:39:56.120 to do. We had never faced it. We had never, we didn't know what it was. Um, we know now

00:40:01.900 we know now, and it's so dangerous. And Jonathan has all of it outlined in anxious mind. If you

00:40:09.120 are a kid, if you are a parent and your kids are under 16, before you make any move on phones

00:40:17.680 or social media, anything, read the anxious mind, you must read it. And before you do that,

00:40:23.820 you should know the title. It's the anxious generation. Sorry. It was the righteous mind,

00:40:27.940 right. Just mind. Both of them are worth reading, but it's the anxious generation on the phone

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00:45:28.100 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. There's a lot to talk about. We have

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00:45:57.340 Now it's, I mean, I thought it was shockingly low before. Wait until you see the new poll and the

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00:47:45.760 I know planes are falling out of the sky. It's crazy. The lights in Washington are dark and kind

00:47:51.460 of, and it's not because we didn't run out of money. It's because we ran out of honesty.

00:47:56.100 We ran out of truth. So I want to give you a little truth on what is actually happening. Why

00:48:01.520 is the government shut down? Who's responsible for it? And what does it all mean?

00:48:05.540 So at the heart of the, uh, the, uh, shutdown is just the simple truth that the Democrats are

00:48:12.600 demanding healthcare for millions of people who are in this country illegally. That is the main

00:48:18.740 sticking point. People who under federal law should not be here. I'm going to get into that

00:48:25.780 because there's a little bit of nuance as always, but I think you'll, you'll see right past that

00:48:31.820 nuance. Republicans have drawn a line in the sand and they say, no, now here are the facts.

00:48:36.880 And I urge you to check these out for yourself. Do not take, you have to own the truth yourself.

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00:48:55.680 out in two or three different stories. You can get that for free at glennbeck.com. Now

00:49:00.540 these people who shouldn't have been here, they shouldn't be having healthcare. Democrats say,

00:49:06.980 yo no, they should. Let me explain for decades. Immigration law has been very clear.

00:49:14.520 If you cross illegally, you are to be detained and deported. Now the law allows rare exceptions,

00:49:25.220 parole, but only on a case by case basis and for urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant

00:49:33.100 public benefit. So significant, urgent humanitarian reasons.

00:49:39.940 How does this play into today? Well, here's what Biden did. You knew that he was opening up the

00:49:50.420 gates. You might've even known that he was also flying people into our airports, uh, all across

00:49:57.440 the country. They didn't have to go through customs, immigration, nothing. They just, they just came

00:50:01.880 in and said, I I'm, I'm here as a, uh, as a refugee. Okay. Come on in. When they did that, especially with

00:50:13.180 four different countries, I'll get into that here in a second. Um, they then mass paroled 3 million

00:50:21.200 of them. That's Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. They flew those people in from their

00:50:27.620 countries into the center of our country and then said, okay, you're here as a refugee because you're

00:50:34.140 from one of these countries and, uh, we're giving you parole. That that's not something we've ever

00:50:39.500 done before. Okay. It's not legal. It, we, we granted them a ticket past the border, past the

00:50:47.540 background checks and straight directly into benefits. Each month up to 30,000 have been flown directly

00:50:56.940 into our country and received a two year parole. That's not a loophole. My opinion, that is an abuse

00:51:05.180 of power. That's executive amnesty without Congress. Now here's what Biden knew that we never even talked

00:51:15.120 about. What he knew is once they were paroled, they become lawfully present on paper. And that magic

00:51:23.120 phrase means they can now access the federal healthcare programs. These programs, as you

00:51:29.020 can imagine, were meant for citizens, lawful immigrants, refugees, those who come through

00:51:35.460 the front door. Biden turned inimissible aliens into beneficiaries overnight. Why?

00:51:43.560 This is, I'm going to give you my opinion here, but I'm going to, I'm going to back it up. Um,

00:51:51.720 was it compassion? Was it compassion because there are so many people fleeing, uh, you know,

00:51:58.840 because they are somehow or another refugees and they just can't live because they're under siege

00:52:04.500 in their own countries. I don't know how you make that case with the number of people that come

00:52:13.580 across the border, but let me ask you, instead of making the case here, let me ask you to look at

00:52:19.160 what's happening all over the world, because this is not just an American thing. This is happening all

00:52:25.720 over the world. It's not a Democrat versus Republican. This is a Western civilization versus a new world

00:52:32.840 order problem. Canada, all of Europe, the UK, South Korea. Now all overwhelmed on their borders.

00:52:42.760 May I ask where are all of these refugees coming from? Where are all of the wars? What, what, I mean,

00:52:50.060 we didn't have this kind of a refugee issue during world war two and half of the world was in active war.

00:52:56.680 So how do we have this problem when there's not an active global war?

00:53:04.460 But for the minute, just for a minute, let's remain here in America.

00:53:08.320 What are the ramifications of this open border, or in this case, actually flying non-citizens into

00:53:15.420 our country directly, passing all border stops, and then having them go directly into our system to

00:53:22.380 gain benefits? Well, one of the ramifications is the cost. Between 2017 and 2023, the government

00:53:31.840 spent $27 billion on emergency Medicaid services for those ineligible because of their immigration

00:53:40.360 status. $18 billion of that was paid through your federal tax dollars. The rest of it came from

00:53:46.860 your state and local taxes. Democrats now want to go further. Let me back up. What was the big,

00:53:59.060 beautiful bill about? Remember how big and beautiful and important it was? And everybody's like, we got

00:54:03.080 to sign it, we got to sign it, we got to sign it. This is the one case where there was, you know,

00:54:06.880 all bills are jammed with stuff none of us really heard about until it's too late.

00:54:10.520 There's the one section of the big, beautiful bill that I'm like, wait, I'm surprised by that. Wow,

00:54:18.160 that's really good. And what it did is it ended healthcare for illegal aliens. They knew what Biden

00:54:24.820 was trying to do. They knew that we had to change the law and end the healthcare status for illegals.

00:54:33.500 So when they passed that law, the big, beautiful bill stopped all that. Well, Democrats didn't like

00:54:42.620 that. And so what they're demanding on this, on this, um, the shutdown is that Congress repeals

00:54:52.960 that part of the big, beautiful bill. Well, you just passed it. Everybody voted for it. You didn't vote

00:54:59.220 for it, but it passed. And now you want as a negotiation, you want to repeal that. How is

00:55:07.080 that even possible? That's, that's one of the things that Donald Trump was elected to do.

00:55:11.720 The repeal would add another $1.5 trillion in spending. So, you know, that's 1200, sorry,

00:55:21.920 $12,000 per American household. So you'll be on the hook for people who shouldn't have been here in

00:55:29.700 the first place for their Medicaid. You'll be paying $12,000 per healthcare, just this one time.

00:55:39.360 Remember, it's going to continue if it doesn't stop. So let me ask you, is this shutdown from the

00:55:47.340 Democrats? Cause that's what they want? They want that provision revealed, uh, repealed when they

00:55:52.660 say we're fighting for healthcare. Yeah. They're fighting to have that repealed $12,000 per household,

00:55:59.540 this one budget. So is this really about government workers missing paychecks?

00:56:09.080 Is this really about Donald Trump? Is this really about we're defending the average worker?

00:56:16.060 No. I think it's more about Democrats taking more out of your paycheck to give your money to people

00:56:25.460 who are not citizens, have not paid income tax, people who should never have been here in the

00:56:30.780 first place. More importantly, what this is, what the Democrats did and want to continue is

00:56:39.980 Cloward and Piven. The Cloward and Piven strategy, we talked about it years ago, Cloward and Piven,

00:56:45.640 they were two, um, socialist Marxist professors. They came up with a way to collapse a system and

00:56:52.960 they did it in New York. It's why, if you remember New York city back in the seventies,

00:56:56.880 I think went bankrupt. It was Cloward and Piven that designed that. They got everybody onto the,

00:57:02.640 onto the dole and New York could not handle all of the promises that they had made. If everybody

00:57:09.040 is taking advantage of it. And so they collapsed the economy of New York and put them out.

00:57:16.060 That's what's happening, not just here in America, but it's also happening globally.

00:57:20.560 This is a global power move. This is not about compassion. It's not about actual people on

00:57:29.900 either side. This is a power move globally. You flood the border, you jam the courts,

00:57:37.120 you overload our hospitals, you stretch everything until it snaps. Then Americans cry out for relief.

00:57:45.080 And the left's answer is always the same. More spending, more programs, more control for them.

00:57:52.060 Donald Trump is saying with this shutdown, no, no more, no more. We're not going down that road.

00:58:02.320 Stop the spending on this, enforce the law, send people home. Democrats say fund migrant hotels,

00:58:11.220 keep the Medicaid rolls open and pretend parole equals lawful entry. It doesn't. It's not about

00:58:19.260 compassion. It's not about children on the border. This is about whether America will survive as a

00:58:25.460 nation of laws or dissolve into some borderless welfare state because you can't give welfare to

00:58:33.420 everyone. You can't. Every family that is struggling to pay rent, every worker watching their taxes

00:58:40.500 climb, every citizen told to wait in line while Washington prioritizes those who cut the line.

00:58:47.540 This is a fight for you. This is the fight for you.

00:58:54.440 We're not going to fund the lawlessness anymore.

00:58:58.360 We're not going to keep paying for the collapse of our borders. We're not going to allow the cart to

00:59:03.460 be stolen right out of the store. The question is, do we have the stomach? Will America have the

00:59:11.280 stomach? Will it wake up to what this shutdown is actually about? Will, will they continue to fight

00:59:17.940 Donald Trump instead of looking at the global picture? Cause it's happening in every country.

00:59:23.780 And that's what we have to tell our friends. We have to be like a, like a clock striking every

00:59:29.560 quarter hour saying, Hey, this is a global thing. It's not about Donald Trump. This isn't about the

00:59:33.980 Democrats or Republican. This is global takeover. That's what this is. It's not about politics,

00:59:38.640 parties, or even politicians. It is truly about the survival of the Western civilization.

00:59:45.000 That's what this shutdown is really about. All right, back in just a second.

00:59:53.980 In four days, October 7th, we're going to mark the anniversary of a day that changed countless

01:00:00.220 lives. A day we still feel in our hearts and still see the echoes in the daily reality on the

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01:01:28.240 So, now, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have not very much confidence or no confidence at all

01:01:38.060 in the American press. That's remarkable. It's down now to 28% of the American public trust the

01:01:49.400 press. That's radio, television, newspapers. They don't trust it. Republicans are down to 8% trust.

01:02:00.700 And, I mean, you can't be surprised. Older Americans trust it more than anybody else. Over 65 express

01:02:07.120 having faith in the media. But here's what Gallup said at the end. Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans now

01:02:15.320 place trust in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news fully, fairly, and accurately.

01:02:20.540 With confidence fractured among partisan and generational lines, the challenge for news

01:02:26.260 organizations is not only to deliver fair and accurate reporting, but also regain credibility

01:02:31.960 across an increasingly polarized and skeptical public. There is a chance one corporation is

01:02:43.100 doing this, and it's CBS. They haven't officially announced, but it looks like Barry Weiss is going

01:02:50.700 to become the editor-in-chief of CBS News. That, I think, is remarkable. Barry Weiss is a remarkable woman.

01:03:03.960 Started Free Press. She was one of the people that Elon Musk sent all the Twitter files to.

01:03:10.800 She has, she does not agree politically with me, but she, she will talk to people like me. She's been on

01:03:21.060 this show before. I find her reasonable and thoughtful. And while we don't necessarily agree on

01:03:26.600 politics, she knows, she knows common sense politics and she does not play that game. She was fired from

01:03:35.300 the New York Times. She was one of the most respected journalists around and she was fired or was she fired

01:03:41.020 or she quit? No, she quit. She resigned. She quit. She resigned because she couldn't handle it anymore

01:03:45.780 because they were doing all this woke crap. Um, I mean, I think this could be a very big move. You get CBS if

01:03:55.840 she actually is editor-in-chief can clean house and put real investigative journalists in there and also stop with

01:04:05.060 the one side of journalists. Make sure that there are people that are open to the other side as well,

01:04:12.420 you know? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there'll be times that we disagree with the reporting and there's a

01:04:16.460 lot of ifs you just outlined, which of course are important. We don't know for sure what, what's going

01:04:20.460 to happen here. But like, as of yesterday, there was no chance any of the major three networks would

01:04:26.560 ever produce a story that was honest. No. And now we have a situation where we might get some.

01:04:32.920 This is a massive improvement to me. Uh, you know, I think she, you know, if she does what she did,

01:04:39.900 you know, what she's done at the free press at CBS, it will be an incredible improvement. And for the

01:04:46.780 first time in a very, very long time, we may get some honest, solid reporting, some interesting

01:04:54.000 perspective from one of these three major networks. I mean, it's been basically off of our radar for

01:05:00.780 decades that we'd ever get anything of value out of any of these places. And so while I think,

01:05:07.760 you know, you'll get the people who will be upset about this or that, that happens there, think of,

01:05:12.320 think of where we've been. I mean, I honestly, when she left the New York times, uh, and she,

01:05:19.600 she was, she went into business for herself. I would have been shocked if CBS news even hired her as a,

01:05:25.760 as a, as an opinion contributor or, or had her on as somebody who just had a POV of a story.

01:05:33.220 Exactly. They wouldn't have done it. Nope. Wouldn't have done it. Now they're talking about

01:05:35.540 her running it. That is a massive, massive improvement in our media landscape. And it

01:05:40.780 reminds me sort of, of Elon taking over Twitter. It's like, we're not going to get the entire media,

01:05:45.860 but if we have one place that will at least give free speech a chance, that's, that's something

01:05:50.880 major. That's a huge, huge improvement. All right, more in just a minute.

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01:07:41.040 You know, I said, I think two days after Charlie Kirk had died, um,

01:07:45.760 I wonder who's going to be the first to name a street like Martin Luther King Boulevard or

01:07:52.580 Caesar Chavez Boulevard after Charlie Kirk. Um, and we have one now, a highway, uh, has just been

01:08:01.680 renamed as the Charlie Kirk, uh, highway, Charlie Kirk Memorial highway. It has been approved by the

01:08:09.380 Lake County commission in Florida. Uh, it's a section of wellness way from us 27 to the

01:08:15.740 Orange County line. It's just, I think, uh, West of Orlando. Uh, and it's just in one County because

01:08:24.760 it had to be done County by County. But, um, yesterday on social media, governor Ron DeSantis

01:08:29.880 announced this is the first County that would recognize the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk.

01:08:35.680 And it's installed in Florida. Once again, Texas, Texas, what's wrong with you? Come on. Uh, but, uh,

01:08:44.100 Florida leading the way again, and I hope that this happens in County after County in city after

01:08:50.740 city. If you're living in a conservative city, why you wouldn't change a name of a street or your

01:08:58.340 section of the highway into the Charlie Kirk Memorial, uh, Charlie Kirk, Kirk Boulevard. It should

01:09:04.240 happen, uh, in, in every state, in every state. So good news there. Really good news. Yeah.

01:09:11.820 Uh, it's, it's important. It's such a fascinating thing that's going on with trying to fight for the,

01:09:17.260 the sort of legacy of Charlie Kirk. There's this battle going on, which is, has a lot of dark

01:09:22.480 corners to it, uh, that aren't great, but I think, you know, remembering, uh, who he was in, in a way

01:09:28.220 that just says, this is a guy who spoke up for what he believed in. He tried to do politics the right

01:09:33.580 way. He tried to get in front of people and debate them and have conversation. And the, he also tried

01:09:39.180 to persuade them. That was what he was trying to do. Persuade people. That is what you're supposed

01:09:45.420 to do in this world when it comes to politics. And he did it, he did it and he did it well.

01:09:50.460 There's a story in, uh, the show prep today. Just, I don't want to spend any time on it except for this

01:09:55.860 that talks about, you know, it's from the left point of view and they say, well, the right has

01:10:00.440 their George Floyd and their hero worshiping Charlie Kirk. No, no, don't compare Charlie Kirk to

01:10:06.100 George Floyd. George, George Floyd, uh, died. I mean, I believe the autopsy says because of drugs.

01:10:16.540 Um, and I'm not dismissing the cop that, you know, the way he acted, uh, I think it was horrible the

01:10:23.440 way he acted, et cetera, et cetera. But this was a guy who was not a good example for our children

01:10:29.340 that should not be hero worshiped. Should people, people should say cops should never behave that

01:10:36.780 way. But George Floyd was not a hero the way he lived his life. I don't want, you want your kids

01:10:42.380 acting like George Floyd? You want George Floyd to be a hero for your kids? No, I don't. I don't.

01:10:49.720 And it has nothing to do with race, nothing. And it has nothing to do with the cops, the cops.

01:10:55.780 It's fine. That should never happen. It's horrible. Charlie Kirk. I want my kids to be

01:11:06.120 self-educated, to be relentless pursuers of education and truth. I want them to be Christlike.

01:11:13.720 I want them to debate openly and kindly. I, I, yeah, I want, I mean, our nation would be much

01:11:20.420 better off if we had kids looking up to Charlie Kirk and going, that's who I'd like to be.

01:11:26.640 What would society be like if, if the society said, you know what, George Floyd, that's who

01:11:32.120 I want to be. It's, I mean, it's a pretty different society. So please don't, don't say

01:11:37.880 that we found our George Floyd. No. And don't try to make me feel bad for looking at Charlie

01:11:42.780 Kirk as a hero. I think he was. And so are they, and are they saying that he is a hero

01:11:48.780 or are they, they demeaning what George Floyd was? I'm, I'm confused as to which way they're

01:11:53.800 going here. Cause we were told George Floyd was a hero and we're told that Charlie Kirk

01:11:59.660 is a hate monger. So I don't know which way they're going with that. Part of me wonders.

01:12:03.740 I don't think they really do either.

01:12:04.660 Yeah. I don't think they do either. Again, you know, people just say things. There's just,

01:12:07.480 there's a, there's a need for it to fill up the internet. So people just say things,

01:12:12.000 but that's a, that's a stupid take. And by the way, we're not burning down any cities

01:12:15.240 over it. I've noticed. Let me, uh, let me also give you another name of a hero that

01:12:19.680 everybody should know. Everybody should know the name Lydia Kaiser. This is a hero. Do

01:12:26.120 you know who she is? Lydia Kaiser. She, did she discover the bun? Is it? No, she wasn't

01:12:32.780 the Kaiser role. No, no, no. Um, I'll give you a hint.

01:12:37.480 She's just been able to return to school, uh, at Annunciation Catholic, uh, church in

01:12:44.100 Minneapolis. Yeah. This is a great story. I didn't know her name, but this is a great

01:12:46.940 one. Yeah. 12 years old. She's the girl that shielded a friend and was shot instead of her

01:12:55.820 friend. Okay. She shielded them. What happened to her is she's, she gets, uh, wounded and she's

01:13:05.560 had to have three different brain surgeries to be able to survive what she saw. Um, her

01:13:12.780 family says she's going to need ongoing care for the foreseeable future, but she is a brave

01:13:17.300 little fighter. She's feeling stronger every day. Um, there's a GoFundMe account set up

01:13:22.200 for the Kaiser family, um, to help them, you know, with the brain surgeries and everything

01:13:27.460 else after the shooting. GoFundMe. Just, uh, I think it's GoFundMe. Hang on just a second.

01:13:32.960 Let me see. Uh, it's GoFundMe.com. Uh, help Lydia and the Kaiser family. Awesome. Okay. Um,

01:13:46.500 but you can give to that fund. I think that's great. So there's good news. This hero, that's,

01:13:51.820 that's what I want my kids to have as heroes. I want my kids to be able to look and go, wow,

01:13:55.680 at 12, she's putting her body in front of her friends. Amazing. Let me give you another good

01:14:04.940 story. GoFundMe. Look at the money that GoFundMe has raised. Do you remember the time when I don't

01:14:11.740 even remember the name of the, the, the, you know, charitable fundraising, uh, website that you could

01:14:21.520 go use and they kept kicking people off? Remember up in Canada, they were like canceling you and

01:14:26.640 tracing, you know, who those people were and trying to turn them in. Do you remember what it was the

01:14:31.000 name of that? Doesn't matter. But GoFundMe came out because they were like, no, we, we're, we're not

01:14:37.120 going to, we're not going to do any of those things. You want to raise money for conservative

01:14:41.440 causes. You can do that. You can do that here. Um, that's another big thing. You know, that's,

01:14:48.660 it's like when Twitter, when Twitter went to Elon Musk, look how much changed. GoFundMe.

01:14:55.140 Look how much has changed. Look how much good we have as people have done.

01:15:01.920 Let me give you another piece of good news. I told you about this yesterday, but let me read.

01:15:06.180 My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS chapel in Grand Blanc,

01:15:11.920 Michigan on September 28. One of the families that suffered a terrible loss on that day was the

01:15:17.040 family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter. Sanford leaves behind a wife and children who

01:15:23.060 must be grieving. They face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of this week's

01:15:28.360 horrifying events. On top of that, one of Sanford's sons deals with serious medical challenges that

01:15:34.680 require ongoing care, treatment, and specialized support. In the past, the family has attempted to

01:15:41.320 raise funds for him, uh, without a lot of, uh, response or help. I have no connection to the

01:15:49.380 Sanfords, yada, yada. I'm just an ordinary member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

01:15:54.460 James teaches us in the Bible that pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this

01:16:00.660 to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. The purpose of this give send go is to do

01:16:07.000 that. Every donation will go to help provide for the Sanford family daily needs, provide for ongoing

01:16:12.180 medical treatment, and create some stability in a time when heartbreak and upheaval is at the fore.

01:16:18.660 Thank you for your kindness, your compassion, and willingness to lift up those who are suffering.

01:16:23.160 Uh, they have now raised, I think it's 400, uh, $400,000, something like that. 350. I can't find

01:16:36.980 it here, but another amazing thing that we wouldn't even have considered, you know, when, when George

01:16:46.800 Floyd went down, you know, nobody was raising money for the families of the cops. Well, those are the

01:16:55.100 bad guys, right? Nobody raised any money on that side, the victim side. Nobody said anything about

01:17:00.420 their families and that's fine. We don't do it to compare, but I'm just, I am proud to be, uh, a part

01:17:11.600 of people like this. Uh, so some good news on both of those things and the Charlie Kirk highway. I didn't

01:17:19.400 want your Friday to go by without giving you some things that are like, you know what? We're making

01:17:25.580 progress and Barry Weiss. I think that story is possibly one of those things too. We're making

01:17:30.580 real progress. I totally agree with that. It's very easy to get down on and realize, uh, you know,

01:17:37.900 worry about all the things that are going on in the world. There's plenty of bad ones, but

01:17:41.160 can you just think about where we were just a few years ago? I mean, you know, they weren't,

01:17:46.160 we were watching men in dresses in makeup commercials and, you know, it's not to say that

01:17:52.540 none of that stuff goes on. It still does at some level, but a lot of it has been cleared

01:17:59.020 out a lot. Uh, you know, American Eagle came out and said they had a million new customers.

01:18:04.460 I mean, again, you run an ad, you hope to sell a few pairs of jeans, a million new customers

01:18:09.620 because they just said, Hey, you know, it would be a good idea. We should just put someone who

01:18:14.080 is attractive in our clothing. Uh, you know, like,

01:18:17.380 And I think that that was controversial. Yeah. I mean, the world is going to look back on all of

01:18:23.280 those TV shows, all of these things. They're going to look back. That's going to just seem

01:18:28.100 that is forever preserved. And when the world comes back to normal, when it comes back to common sense,

01:18:35.660 it's going to look insane. Our children and our grandchildren are going to go, what the hell were

01:18:41.300 you thinking? Yeah. And we're going, it's interesting because I think of, you think of go back to the past,

01:18:46.980 like 40 years of, uh, of life. There have been, you know, bits and pieces, you know, things that

01:18:52.400 have happened, but there haven't been like eras that are in my mind, totally have defined, like

01:18:57.920 have been so incredibly strange looking back on them. And in the last five years, I think we've

01:19:03.300 had two of them. One is the COVID era, which is like, wait a minute, what were we doing? We weren't

01:19:07.840 going out to restaurants. Like we couldn't go outside. They were putting sand in skate parks and

01:19:12.740 you couldn't go in the ocean and think of all the crazy things we lived through in 2020

01:19:17.900 and into 2021 in some areas. And then the air, the era that followed that, which, you know,

01:19:24.060 I don't know if you want to define it as that, whatever the woke air peak wokeness, whatever

01:19:28.040 that was where, you know, the example that pops into my head all the time is the national

01:19:33.720 hockey league tweeting trans rights are human rights and trans women are women. Like what the

01:19:42.120 head, you're a hockey league. So let me go, let me add another one right now. Charlie Kirk's

01:19:50.560 assassination. This is another one that we have not lived in. We have not lived this in

01:19:57.740 my lifetime. I mean, I was four when Martin Luther King died. So I don't remember. But

01:20:03.720 you know, you're not, you're, you're younger than I am. You didn't live through anything like

01:20:08.020 this. Yeah. So there's three things that the first one COVID we swore would never like a

01:20:15.280 month before I said, well, that'll never happen in America. It was happening in Italy. I said,

01:20:19.300 oh God, can you imagine that ever happening here? And then two weeks later it was, it was

01:20:23.520 happening. It was happening. So we experienced that. We said it'll never happen. Then the,

01:20:28.580 the trans stuff and you know, guys in dresses dancing in first grade and preschool and all of

01:20:35.280 that stuff and parents taking their kids to do, it was like, what, what the hell is that?

01:20:40.960 Never happened before. Never happened. Now this, I mean, we're in five years, five years.

01:20:50.000 Well, this is sort of the question that was leading up to. And we, and this is a longer

01:20:53.300 conversation than we have time for right now, but maybe you've put thought into this.

01:20:56.840 Have we moved into a time where it's going to be nonstop stuff like this, where we swing wildly

01:21:04.560 from era to era to era to era. And it's not like it was. I mean, part of me thinks, you know,

01:21:11.180 the world, you talk about it with Jonathan Haidt in your podcast, the world that we currently live in,

01:21:15.260 I think might fuel these sorts of wild changes from one side to the other, the pendulum swinging

01:21:23.120 wider and wider and wider. Uh, and that it's a scary prospect, honestly, because I don't think

01:21:28.260 we handle those things very well. That question will be answered in the next election with Congress

01:21:35.900 Congress and then the next presidential election. I think if we can stay on this path for another six

01:21:43.620 years, Donald Trump told me it would take 12, but you know, at least six years, we have a chance of

01:21:51.940 being the, we have a chance of being the, the last outpost of sanity in the free world. But if we don't

01:22:01.000 continue down this path, we will swing so hard back the opposite direction. And then at that point,

01:22:07.340 the world goes off a, off a cliff because it's about to go off a cliff right now without us.

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01:24:35.840 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Uh, I gotta tell you this, this Riyadh comedy festival and the

01:24:54.260 comedians that are over there, uh, especially Dave Chappelle saying in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

01:25:00.800 uh, they, we have more free speech here than we do in America. How dare you, Dave? Um, I want to talk

01:25:07.200 about that. And Bridget Phetasy is going to be joining us to discuss comedy and Saudi Arabia.

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01:26:18.480 So the Riyadh Comedy Festival just happened.

01:26:22.800 And it's a bunch of comedians that were paid a lot of money to show up and be part of this comedy festival.

01:26:32.360 And you had to sign a document that said you wouldn't make fun of religion.

01:26:35.340 You wouldn't make fun of the royal family, etc., etc.

01:26:39.400 And you wouldn't make fun of Saudi Arabia.

01:26:43.160 And they went.

01:26:44.280 And, you know, they made millions and millions of dollars.

01:26:46.820 These comedians, you know, I think the average was, what, $1.7 million for the big-name comedians.

01:26:54.820 And I cut Louis C.K. a break because nobody in America is letting him work.

01:26:58.840 So let him go over.

01:27:00.120 He can work wherever he wants.

01:27:01.300 He can do comedy shows in China if he has to to make money.

01:27:04.440 I'm fine with that one.

01:27:06.180 But Dave Chappelle said some really, I thought, from the stage, really not good things.

01:27:12.280 Quote, right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you'll get canceled.

01:27:18.640 I don't know if that's true, but I'm going to find out.

01:27:22.760 It's easier to talk here than it is in America.

01:27:27.980 They're going to do something to me so that I can't say what I want to say when he returned to the United States.

01:27:35.440 I don't know, Dave.

01:27:38.780 It seems ignorant, really ignorant, and a little un-American to say those kinds of things on stage in Saudi Arabia.

01:27:48.820 So where do we stand on this one?

01:27:51.480 We fine with our comedians going over to Saudi Arabia.

01:27:55.080 And if we're not, then should we be canceling all of those big, you know, airplane contracts with Saudi Arabia?

01:28:01.260 Why are just golfers and comedians not allowed to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival?

01:28:10.200 And yet I still feel dirty because of it.

01:28:13.500 Bridget Phetasy is here.

01:28:15.720 She's going to talk to us about this coming up in just a second.

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01:29:23.400 My good friend, Bridget Phetasy.

01:29:25.940 How are you?

01:29:27.840 How are you?

01:29:28.800 First of all, just wanted to say I'm so sorry for your loss, you and Stu and everybody at the Blaze.

01:29:35.400 No, you're all, it's not that far out.

01:29:38.200 Yeah, I know.

01:29:38.860 And I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

01:29:41.280 Yeah, thank you.

01:29:42.280 Thank you.

01:29:43.340 But I'm good, you know?

01:29:45.700 Life is crazy.

01:29:47.560 I know.

01:29:48.320 Every time I talk to you, something new has happened where I'm like, that's not the Bridget I know.

01:29:52.800 That's not the Bridget I know.

01:29:53.860 I'm anxious to hear where you stand on this Riyadi comedy festival.

01:30:01.220 Oh, it's so interesting, isn't it?

01:30:03.400 It reminds me, I just keep thinking of that Ricky Gervais monologue that he did years ago where he said, if ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent.

01:30:13.220 I mean, it becomes more relevant somehow every year, that monologue that he did.

01:30:21.760 And I don't know, I think comedians got too rich, and maybe we all need to just, I mean, I'm not rich like them, but maybe comedians in general just need to go back to being kind of viewed as dumb losers again.

01:30:34.900 I think some of these guys are out over their skis a little bit, and they got really huge, and now, I don't know, maybe this is a challenge for them to push the limits because they can say whatever they want in America.

01:30:54.620 So going to Saudi is like, ooh, a little dangerous, a little titillating.

01:30:58.980 I don't know, they all had to sign documents that they wouldn't make fun of religion, they wouldn't make fun of Saudi Arabia, wouldn't make fun of the royal family, etc., etc.

01:31:07.620 You know, my thought on this, if we went to these same comedians and said, hey, we'll pay you the same amount of money, we want to do a Washington, D.C. Trump comedy weekend, would these guys have signed the same exact thing?

01:31:26.640 No, they wouldn't have. They wouldn't have. And everybody would have been out of their mind, crazy on the left, saying, look, Donald Trump wants to shut people down, wants to shut down anybody.

01:31:35.420 You can't make fun of his family? It's impossible. He's not going to do it. None of these comedians would have done that. None of them.

01:31:41.420 Yeah, it's, I'm not, I wouldn't have done it. And I'm not wealthy. But there's really no amount of money that you could have paid me to do that.

01:31:51.480 Only because I think if I'm, first of all, if I'm somebody out there who's screaming women and screaming about the rights of women and what, how we should be fighting for people like the women in Saudi Arabia who have real, no real voice or as many rights as we do, then it would be very hypocritical for me to go stand on that stage and say whatever I want.

01:32:15.380 I also think they're not getting, they're getting paid to legitimize these people.

01:32:21.880 They're getting, that's what they're getting paid. The quotes that are coming out of there, every quote I see, I was like, wow, the Saudis got their money's worth.

01:32:28.840 Like, oh, the Royals loved it. It's just like, if you're trying to, trying to justify your appearance in Saudi Arabia, the quote, the Royals were very happy is not great coming out of your mouth.

01:32:45.540 Yeah. And I, I, uh, I, I love the fact again, Chappelle said, you know, he's, you know, what America hasn't killed people. Yeah. The, the Saudi princess killed has killed people. What we haven't, you know, please give it a rest because you, you don't just write it off like that in America.

01:33:04.980 You know what I mean? You know, just like, oh yeah. So what? Our government has just killed a few people. You don't, but you're going to do it here because you're getting a big paycheck.

01:33:12.320 Yeah. We, I hear this argument a lot. Oh, how is this any different than the government? If this is, this is, I can't, you can't fix that kind of stupid. I can't even, I won't even, even deal with it because it's like listening to a 19 year old in their first year of college who just smoked the box.

01:33:31.460 Like, okay. Saudi Arabia and America are the same. Tell me more about your enlightened anti-American thoughts. Like, all right, go, go live in Saudi Arabia then. Like, let me know how that works out for you.

01:33:47.880 Try making fun of the royal family. Try making fun of the journalist or, or anything that they said that you can't make fun of. Go, go, let me know how that works out for you. And something more than the three days that you spent there viewing. I mean, a lot of it was, it was, it's so like, oh, we, we, they have McDonald's and Starbucks.

01:34:13.080 This was, this was some of the quotes coming from Bill that I was kind of like, yeah. So this is like Tucker eating McDonald's in Russia. Like, okay. We, that doesn't mean that these places are the same. I don't know what's happening.

01:34:28.940 Coca-Cola was, Coca-Cola was served, uh, to the Nazis in Germany up until like 1942. You know, Hey, we're just like you. No, no, you're not. No, you're not. That Coke bottle.

01:34:42.660 Does it make you us? Um, I don't know. It's, I'm not sure what's going on. I, but again, I, I am of many minds about this because I have been at venture capitalist events and the Saudis have been there and I don't know why should Jared Kushner be allowed to make money with the Saudis and not the comedians.

01:35:04.660 Right. Like you said, in the opening, I mean, I think it's funny how much less the comedians got paid than the golfers pretty significantly.

01:35:14.520 The golfers are getting tens of millions of comedians are getting like hundreds of thousands to a million to sell their soul out. And I don't know. That's just, that's also funny to me. I'm like, they, they offer the golfers a lot more than you guys.

01:35:29.720 You know, the, the thing with, um, uh, you said it earlier, the hypocrisy, they, they don't understand. It's like they have, uh, they never listened to that. One of these things doesn't belong song on Sesame street. I mean, with, with Jimmy Kimmel, listen to what Shane Gillis said about Jimmy Kimmel's return. Listen, it was good to see everybody stick up for him for free speech.

01:35:51.820 And, uh, yeah, I'm just glad they were all there for me back in, you know, he's my brother and being canceled now, you know, he was canceled for what, what was that? 48 hours.

01:36:04.560 Mine was a couple of years, but no big deal. What's it? He had to hold tight. Probably a very nice kind of modern house on the hills in LA. He had to sit there and just, you mean he didn't have to lay on a mattress in Queens with two snarky roommates that were like, Oh, did you write that apology? Yeah, I could tell.

01:36:19.120 Oh, Shane, I love him so much. I just love him. Yeah. I mean, look, I, I, I also feel, and I saw this on will Kane when it feels like the world is ending and everything is coming undone.

01:36:41.280 I understand people just grabbing as much cash as they can. And look, some of these comedians were not hugely famous and have been struggling for a long time. And like Shane mentioned, you're sleeping on a mattress on the floor for many, many years before you even make it in comedy.

01:37:01.520 If you even make it. And, um, so I don't know. It's like, get that bag, but you're going to, you're going to have to hear about this forever.

01:37:11.680 This is, this is going to, I, there are people who I, I don't, I think for some of these guys, it did real damage to their brand or whatever. Um, some more than others.

01:37:23.120 Bridget, I, I'm of two minds on this because I get the criticism, uh, what we've been talking about, like, you know, the stuff that Chappelle said and stuff like, I don't like it. And I think it's kind of silly, but I also saw a lot of the, the, the, the pushback from like the high minded, I'm better than all of you people, comedians that, you know, I saw David Cross did some of this. It's like, there's a bunch of people who did it. And it's like a big fan of David.

01:37:47.700 Oh yeah. I loved it. I mean, I'm a Mr. Show junkie from back in the day, but like, I, you know, I, it's just like, okay, I get it. I, but I don't understand why there is a double standard for entertainers in this world. Like, you know, all, all sorts of American companies sell, uh, sell products in these countries. You know, as you mentioned, tons of investors do business in Saudi Arabia. I mean, Saudi Arabia is, you know, again, this is not the Nazi regime. This isn't, we're not at war with them.

01:38:16.420 They're supposedly in some ways allies of ours. And like, do the people of Saudi Arabia not get to laugh? Do they, do they not get to go to comedy shows? Like, like they can't have a festival in their country where people come and enjoy comedians. We saw, we've seen before.

01:38:31.060 No, they, no, unless they're on giant Boeing planes that seemingly every resident owns one.

01:38:37.100 Right. Right. But like, we've seen cultural outreach like this before have positive influences. Glenn and I were talking about this before off the air and I checked it after Glenn, we talked about it. You know, Billy Joel went over and did a concert in the Soviet Union. This was before the collapse. It was four years before the Soviet Union collapse.

01:38:53.880 Like it's, I'm not saying that it's probably no more high minded than getting your bag. I get it, Bridget. But like, isn't there a weird double standard when it comes to entertainers that they're supposed to somehow, uh, you know, I don't know, change the entire regime's mindset before they take a weekend gig. I don't understand it.

01:39:13.780 I, I, I, like I said, I'm of many minds about this because I, I think that some of this, that that's all absolutely true. And I don't, I don't blame really any of these people for taking the money and going at the same time.

01:39:31.400 You also have to understand that you are a useful idiot who's being used by a regime. That's, but, but understand that it's fine. It's, I don't think it's the same as doing, here's why I don't think it's the same as doing business because business people are smart enough to be behind closed doors and do all this stuff in Park City at secretive events where they all fly in on their private jet.

01:39:58.840 And entertainers are their, their, their face is their brand. Their jokes are their brand. Same with the golfers. Ultimately you're an athlete, but you're also an entertainer. And I think that's why they get held to this unfair double standard because they're actually quite poor compared to everyone else around them. These are court jesters for the Kings. Literally, literally.

01:40:27.840 Well, I, I will tell you, I will tell you that Jewish state could have put on a comedy festival and paid them the same amount of money. And I bet you almost all of those comedians would have turned it down because it's Israel.

01:40:41.340 I mean, they would never, they would never do it. They would never do it for, uh, for Donald Trump. If the government said we're going to put on a comedy festival for the 250th anniversary, but you can't make fun of the religion or the founding, uh, or the, you know, uh, Donald Trump family, they would never, ever, they would, they would cry bloody murder on that.

01:41:00.440 And the last thing is I am really sick of, of everybody else taking our culture and then giving us theirs. We seem to be taking all of the Saudi culture. You know, we're, we're to go ahead, go to little Somalia. I don't want that culture. I don't want it. You can keep that culture. You want to borrow some of ours and see and go. That's great. That's the difference with Billy Joel. He went over cause they were starving for our culture. They wanted to be more like us.

01:41:26.280 Right. They keep sending us all of their crap and saying, you take it. Uh, no, no, you keep your stuff. I'd like to keep ours. All right. More with Bridget here in just a second. Uh, first, let me tell you about our sponsor, the staff hours Patriot mobile. There's nothing I love more than buying something I need and realizing I'm also doing the right thing when I, when I do it, uh, your phone plan that should keep you connected, but also be a part of something bigger, a market of companies that actually answers to your values. Patriot mobile gives you that.

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01:43:11.400 and just a dear, dear friend that I just absolutely love. Bridget, what's happening in

01:43:17.680 your life? What is the thing that is, that's grabbing your attention or, you know, you feel

01:43:23.260 compelled to share? Oh man, the, the rise in, there's so much. I'm really, I'm really concerned

01:43:32.760 about this kind of rise in antisemitism. That's, that's kind of what I'm, I think most obsessed

01:43:38.420 with these days and, and it seems to be getting worse and I find it to be so crazy that it's

01:43:48.080 like a supernatural force. Um, so that's grabbed my attention. The Charlie Kirk thing, I think

01:43:54.860 was another, I, I was laughing before I came on because I was thinking every time I thought

01:43:59.820 before I, every time I talked to Glenn, I'm like a little bit more red billed. A little

01:44:07.740 bit more to the right. Um, and I'm not sure the center's holding. This is another thing

01:44:13.980 that I've been thinking a lot about and want to write. What does that mean? What does that

01:44:17.580 mean? Um, I just don't, I haven't been able to articulate it, which is why I think I want

01:44:25.100 to write about it, but it, it, I don't get this relationships that I've had even in my

01:44:31.280 family that have managed to be okay through Trump, not Trump, Trump, you know, the past decade really

01:44:39.640 are starting to fray and people that I love, um, because I'm either pretty openly pro Israel

01:44:50.120 or because I'm, um, also now more openly pro Republican, at least. Yeah. I think the center,

01:45:03.440 I think the center right is the new, right. Isn't it? I think the center right is the new center.

01:45:10.020 I think it used to be the center left and I feel like it's shifted. Right. But it does feel like

01:45:16.180 that two Americas, um, the Charlie thing really made that pretty evident to me that there seemed

01:45:24.780 to be kind of the two Americas are really moving apart from one another more and more. And I'm

01:45:31.800 seeing kind of the way centrists are trying to frame these things and they're just, they're

01:45:38.760 having a hard time because it's not, there's two versions of America that people seem to be

01:45:48.020 trying to grapple with. And I find that building something with family and there's one that's more

01:46:00.880 patriotic, more family oriented, more, more religious oriented. And the left, I'm not exactly sure what

01:46:08.700 they stand for at the moment. And it does seem like it's more destructive. And I think more and more

01:46:15.600 people are seeing that and feeling that. Bridget, always good to talk to you. God bless you. Have

01:46:21.520 a great weekend. Stay safe. Bridget Phetasy, writer and standup comedian. You're welcome. Love you.

01:46:26.420 Uh, host of the podcast walk-ins. Welcome. Um, she has her YouTube program,

01:46:31.460 dumpster fire and real America, Bridget Phetasy back with more in just a minute.

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01:48:14.260 So Matt Walsh has just written a piece for the daily wire. The Pope hosts cringe climate justice event,

01:48:35.700 uh, as a lifelong, uh, as a lifelong and devout Catholic. He writes, um, I, uh, don't enjoy criticizing

01:48:43.000 the Pope. I would prefer not to do it, but I have to do what I believe is the right thing. And in a time

01:48:47.840 when we simply cannot rely on church leadership to actually lead with moral clarity, it falls upon the

01:48:52.780 rest of us to speak up. After a 30 day stretch in which one of the most prominent Christians in the

01:48:57.820 country was murdered in front of the entire world, prompting thousands of public celebrations,

01:49:02.080 a murder that was bookend by mass shootings at two different churches. One was targeted by trans

01:49:08.640 identifying terrorists who explicitly despise Jesus Christ. You might hope that the Christian

01:49:13.960 leaders throughout the world and in all positions would be focused on that crisis, especially true

01:49:18.860 since in Nigeria, Christians are currently being systematically slaughtered by Islamists in a

01:49:23.180 genocide that has been going on for many years, be the ideal time for the most important Christian

01:49:27.460 leader, the leader of the Catholic church, the Pope to say something that might reassure Christians

01:49:31.620 and Catholics who are increasingly being targeted with violence because of their faith.

01:49:35.920 Christians need moral guidance now more than any other time in recent memory, but that's just not

01:49:40.780 the approach of Pope Leo. Um, first the Pope stated that you would not be pro-life if you support the

01:49:46.260 death penalty, a position that contradict scripture and Catholic tradition. Then in the next breath,

01:49:51.040 the Pope suggested that you're not really pro-life if you don't open the borders to illegals.

01:49:56.000 And now he just appeared at the Vatican's latest international conference in Italy, which was entitled

01:50:01.020 raising hope for climate justice. This is where he blessed a block of Arctic ice. And I want to just play

01:50:09.700 this clip real quick. I would now like to invite you to stand for the blessing of the waters.

01:50:31.020 Lord of life, bless this water. May it awaken our hearts, cleanse our indifference,

01:50:42.840 soothe our grief, and renew our hope through Christ our Lord.

01:50:49.200 All right. I mean, that's not bad, I guess. I guess it's just, you know, there is at the climate summit,

01:50:58.060 climate justice, which is, you know, socialist in nature and everything else. I don't, I wanted to

01:51:03.660 bring Liz Wheeler on because I think she's the best Catholic I know next to my mother-in-law.

01:51:07.600 Um, and, uh, and Liz, I don't want to criticize the Pope, uh, because at least he's not Francis who I

01:51:17.140 didn't have a problem criticizing because I didn't think he was actually Catholic. Um, is this, where,

01:51:23.020 where, where, where do you stand with this Pope? Is he, is there hope here? Is this just a blip?

01:51:30.240 What, what are you thinking? Um, good question. I think a lot of, I think Catholics all over the

01:51:37.040 world are asking themselves that same question. So I would say, let's start with the good news first.

01:51:42.540 The good news is the Catholic, is the good news. Oh, geez.

01:51:49.120 Wait, wait, you're, she tries to say good things about Catholics.

01:51:52.520 Okay, we're going to have to tell her, yeah. And the system shuts her down.

01:51:55.480 Some sort of digital hell. Yes. Yeah, some sort of digital hell.

01:51:58.240 It's cutting out, Liz, quite, quite badly. Oh, it's cutting out. Let me,

01:52:01.200 let me see if I can walk to a different spot. Am I good here?

01:52:03.680 Stay where you are. Sounds better. That's good. Yep. Good.

01:52:05.840 Okay, the second thing. No, you didn't, we missed the first thing.

01:52:09.940 Oh my gosh, it is out. Oh, the first thing was that the Catholic Church is the

01:52:13.760 Davidic Kingdom and it will endure regardless of infiltrators. So there's not, it's not a,

01:52:19.140 it's not a political organization. It's a, it's a spiritual one. The second piece of hope

01:52:24.300 is that young men entering the priesthood today are incredibly based. So the next generation is

01:52:29.380 not going to be dealing with, um, the boomer liberal priests that we have to deal with right

01:52:35.440 now. That's kind of the good news. Um, it is demoralizing, I think, as a Catholic to see the

01:52:42.360 Pope engaging in, in this climate. I mean, he calls it climate justice. What does that mean?

01:52:47.120 And I'm not saying that rhetorically climate justice is a very thin mask over communist

01:52:53.720 political aspirations. So it feels scandalous for a Pope to be cavorting with these people.

01:53:02.180 I mean, he blessed that water. I throw that holy water on these communists. See how many

01:53:06.020 demons hiss out of them. I mean, this is, this is a communist ideology that he's playing around

01:53:10.700 with. And I, I agree with Matt Walsh. I don't like criticizing the Pope as a Catholic because,

01:53:17.020 and I'll be perfectly blunt with you, Glenn, because whenever I, as a Catholic criticize the Pope,

01:53:22.860 my evangelical friends and Protestant brethren conflate my criticism of the Pope with criticism

01:53:30.300 of the Catholic doctrine. And that's one of the things that sets Catholicism apart is the Pope

01:53:35.660 is the leader of the church. And as such, we of course hope that he accurately represents the

01:53:41.180 doctrine, but he does not write or dictate the doctrine. He can say things as the Pope that

01:53:48.000 contradict Catholic doctrine because he, what he says is not infallible. We as Catholics are not

01:53:53.640 required to take everything he says as, no pun intended, gospel. And it's confusing sometimes

01:54:00.820 because that's not how a lot of Protestant and evangelical churches are, but it's worth noting

01:54:05.940 because in this case, I, I mean, to me, and I'm not trying to stand here in and define what sins have

01:54:13.540 been committed or anything like that, far be it from me. But it seems to me that when you stand quite

01:54:18.820 literally next to communists and take part in their rituals, that it's going to be very confusing.

01:54:24.560 It is the near occasion of sin at best because people who are not as informed about what

01:54:30.580 quote unquote climate justice actually is might conflate it for our true calling as Christians,

01:54:35.560 which is to be good stewards of the creation that God gave us. That's true. We are called

01:54:40.460 to do that as Christians. But when you conflate that with climate justice, which is anti-humanity,

01:54:46.340 anti-God, that can be very confusing for people who aren't as politically entrenched and reading

01:54:52.040 these documents of the UN climate conference, like you and I, and a lot of the people who are

01:54:56.380 listening today do. So I find it to be disappointing like that. I actually think I texted this to a

01:55:04.520 friend earlier. I think he should, he's good on many theological things. He has some liturgical

01:55:09.540 tendencies that are refreshing after Francis. He seems to be extending the olive branch to a lot

01:55:14.400 of traditional Catholics with the Latin mass and that kind of thing. And that's good. But I texted a

01:55:19.240 friend this morning. I said, he should listen to his brother more on politics. His brother,

01:55:23.440 I think has a very bombastic account down in Florida posting some, what I consider to be

01:55:28.880 funny. Some people might consider to be bombastic things about Hillary Clinton. And I, I mean,

01:55:34.240 I don't, I don't love his politics. So I think there's hope, but there's also a little disappointment

01:55:39.000 too. Yeah. Yeah. I think we all go through this with all of our churches. Cause I think all of our

01:55:43.900 churches have let us down. I really do. I mean, my church, I don't happen to agree with, you know,

01:55:48.740 the, the stance on, uh, illegal aliens. I don't understand that stance. Um, you know,

01:55:53.920 I understand the compassion and everything else, but, uh, follow the law is, is also part of it.

01:56:00.340 I, I thought, um, and we all have, we all have things that make us, um, uncomfortable in all of

01:56:06.000 our churches. And we just, I, I hope and pray that we'll start to see our churches find the leaderships

01:56:14.200 that the leadership that will stand up and be very, very clear on universal principles.

01:56:22.440 You know, uh, in one here, 25, 30 years ago, my faith came out with the proclamation of the family

01:56:31.580 and 30 years ago, it seemed insane. And it was like, gender is specific and ordained by God,

01:56:38.600 man, woman, children, that's the family proclamation. And it went deep,

01:56:44.120 deep into it. And that seemed nuts at the time, but that's the kind of stuff we need from all of

01:56:50.000 our churches right now. What are the eternal truths that we all need to stand for?

01:56:57.520 Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's actually one of the reasons why I'm not just why I'm Catholic,

01:57:04.020 but why I'm excited to be Catholic, because while yes, it can be demoralizing when a leader who

01:57:08.540 is a de facto representative of your faith speaks politics, either wrongly in an ill-informed way,

01:57:15.080 or even in what I consider to be immorally, um, at the same time, he, because he doesn't change the

01:57:22.320 doctrine. I mean, look at theology of the body, Pope, Pope John 12, the second, you know, look at,

01:57:27.280 look at the catechism of the Catholic church, defining communism as coming from Satan. I mean,

01:57:32.480 these are truths that aren't changed and that the Catholic church is unwavering in, um, not just

01:57:38.660 her belief, but her teaching. And if you put aside, um, really the sin and the brokenness of

01:57:44.860 the people who lead the church, because we're all sinful and we're all broken. And you look at just

01:57:49.700 the truth of, um, the gospel, you know, whether this is the, you know, we in the Catholic church call

01:57:56.020 this the word, it is both the Bible and tradition and the living word, Jesus Christ himself. If you look

01:58:02.180 at this deposit of faith, it is eternal, it is unchanging. And that brings hope beyond just

01:58:08.240 politics and beyond just the leadership of a specific organization that brings eternal hope.

01:58:13.180 And that's why, you know, no matter who is currently at the helm of the administration of the church,

01:58:18.120 I will always be Catholic. How, how, how are you feeling about, um, the way Christians are dealing

01:58:25.880 with each other right now? I think we're, I think we're in a new place and a really good place.

01:58:31.960 Do you feel that? Yeah, there's a spiritual revival that's happening. I mean, it, it accelerated

01:58:38.360 after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, because you and I have talked about this often, Glenn,

01:58:44.120 when someone, when someone is confronted with evil, as we all have been, um, because of the politics of

01:58:54.440 the recent decades, it brings to the forefront of your mind in a very new and very sometimes jarring

01:59:01.160 way that, well, if there's evil, then there must also be good. And when you search for that good,

01:59:05.860 it leads you toward God. And this has been a slow roll that's been happening over the course of the

01:59:11.780 last decade. And there's been some accelerating events. There were the black lives matter riots.

01:59:15.940 There was the COVID vaccine mandates. There was, of course, the very recent murder of our friend,

01:59:22.640 Charlie. There've been these events where people are like, wow, that, you know, when, when you're

01:59:27.680 told that your white child is a racist, just because they have white skin and that your black child is

01:59:33.040 oppressed just because they have black skin. Like that's not just stupid policy. That's not just

01:59:38.500 ill-informed leaders. That's evil. And so people have been searching and they are rightfully, and I

01:59:45.320 mean, it brings me great joy finding God in the midst of this political evil, because we would like,

01:59:52.100 I think, to believe that politics and religion are separate, that, that they're two entirely

01:59:58.220 different entities. But the truth of the matter is they're not. Our society is intended to, um,

02:00:05.900 help human flourishing, but human flourishing is not just the liberty to do whatever you want.

02:00:11.940 It's not just license. It's the opportunity, the liberty to pursue virtue, which is your opportunity

02:00:18.000 to choose Christ. So you can't really separate the two. And it's become very clear that the other

02:00:22.660 side doesn't separate their religion from their politics. We are, of course, engaged in spiritual

02:00:28.020 warfare, not just left versus right political bickering here. Um, and it has been in the midst of the

02:00:35.220 suffering that we have all endured in our country over the past decade. It is also a good and humbling

02:00:40.940 reminder that God brings so much good out of evil because you see this incredible awakening that's

02:00:46.120 happening in people's hearts as they face what could turn them to the bad side, but instead is

02:00:51.800 causing them to turn towards God. Liz, thank you for stopping by the show today. I appreciate it. Um,

02:00:58.100 just love you. Stay safe. Thanks, Glenn. Appreciate it. You bet. You bet. Bye-bye. One of my favorite,

02:01:04.680 I have two of my favorite people, uh, on the show in this hour. I mean, thank you.

02:01:09.160 Liz is just remarkable. Appreciate that quite a bit. And so is Bridget. And then we have to balance it

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02:03:34.120 thrust ourselves into as a nation where we ask ourselves the question, what if we just turn over

02:03:41.840 two thirds of our lives to phones? What happens? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? And I think we

02:03:51.240 are all sort of inherently aware that generally speaking, it's a bad thing. I don't know that we

02:03:55.340 know the extent of it yet. Uh, he goes through all of the research in the book and, uh, gives you a

02:04:03.060 perspective, not just on the way you're feeling, which is probably the same way I'm feeling, I guess,

02:04:08.240 which is, you know, these are, this is really bad, particularly for our kids though. I think it's

02:04:12.480 also terrible for adults. I don't think we should, we should, uh, underplay that element of it as well,

02:04:17.560 but I think it's really terrible for kids, especially in these developmental years. And he has a,

02:04:22.040 a concept of basically trying to create a new norm, uh, that we keep hit no phones until I think it's

02:04:29.540 14 and no social media till 16. Now I'm trying to be an extremist and go beyond those years,

02:04:35.220 if at all possible. Um, you know, we're my, my son's already 14 and does not have a phone. So I

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02:05:05.240 And as the outlines in the book, you know, we got very weird over the past 15 years or so,

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02:05:21.340 over and did the exact opposite with their online lives and just let them kind of go wherever they

02:05:27.440 wanted to go and crossed our fingers, not the right approach. So Jonathan Haidt with Glenn Beck

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 03, 2025

How Iowa Made the Most Insane DEI Hire Ever ｜ Guests： Bridget Phetasy & Liz Wheeler ｜ 10⧸3⧸25

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