Glenn Beck talks about a woman who ran into a police barricade in order to save her son from a raging inferno. He also tells the story of a mother whose entire town was destroyed by the fires.
00:05:08.900He was only five miles away from home.
00:05:12.760He was at home with his dog just enjoying the last day of summer vacation.
00:05:18.360CBS News now has reported that when mom and her husband learned about the threat of the fires, they jumped in the car and they raced home to try to save him.
00:05:33.940Vargas told CBS, I was told, don't go, don't go.
00:07:15.440Then they could finally make their way back in to the home.
00:07:21.620This is when she discovered the area had not been cleared.
00:07:29.160They went into what was remaining of the house.
00:07:32.580And mom found her son dead in his bedroom, clutching his dog.
00:07:41.960The Associated Press has reported that barricades erected by authorities didn't just slow Vargas rescues, her efforts in town, but prevented some Maui residents from escaping the blaze as well.
00:08:11.960If you were attempting to flee the fires, there was only one exit, and it was the only paved road out of town.
00:08:20.200But authorities set up a barricade, a barricade that would allow them to access Highway 30.
00:08:26.660As a result, numerous cars were sent back into the flames.
00:08:34.140Now, those who disregarded the barricade managed to survive, including one family who ignored the barricade
00:08:41.620and just drove around it, having ignored the instruction of authorities, the family ended up safe and secure.
00:08:49.780A man who also had no time for these restrictions drove his four-wheel drive vehicle down a dirt road to safety.
00:08:56.760Another went uphill to safety, precisely where the government said,
00:09:02.120We can't use the air horns because people will go up the hill and they'll die.
00:11:35.900In order to facilitate electric vehicle production, the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
00:11:47.420A country which is known for high prevalence of unsafe child labor in its mines.
00:11:56.420Most of the mines are controlled by the Chinese.
00:12:06.140But our government will now send over a buttload of your hard-earned money to people who are running child labor in cobalt mines in Africa.
00:12:38.340And by the way, if you actually think that we can go and take cobalt from the mines of Africa, ship it over to China or over here, shipping pieces over here, combining them, shipping them back and forth to make sure everything is refined.
00:12:59.340Then, having a car built in parts of it in Canada, parts of it in Mexico, parts of it in Brazil, parts of it in China, have them all shipped together and then put on a giant truck.
00:13:13.980And that's better for the environment.
00:13:23.520By the way, a new update from the experts.
00:13:26.420The experts have just done an analysis in Europe of 39 brands of straws.
00:13:37.380And now they're looking for a new synthetic chemical, PFAS.
00:13:43.200They found the majority of the straws tested that had this chemical in it are bamboo or paper.
00:13:52.840Synthetic chemicals used to make everyday products from outdoor clothing to nonstick pans resistant to water, heat and stains.
00:14:01.720However, when they're put into straws, they're harmful to people, the wildlife and the environment.
00:14:09.900Substances, quoting from the study, break down very slowly over time and can persist over thousands of years in the environment.
00:14:17.340A property that has led them being known as forever chemicals.
00:14:22.420They're also linked to a number of health care problems, including lower response to vaccines, lower birth weight, thyroid disease, increased cholesterol levels, liver damage, kidney cancer and tech testicular cancer.
00:14:36.420They're now saying don't use paper straws.
00:14:42.420By the way, we have some new news as well.
00:14:44.820Biden's health czar has just come out.
00:14:47.680They're going to revise the alcohol advice to match Canada's alcohol advice.
00:14:55.200He's watching Canada's, quote, big experiment with interest.
00:15:01.120If there is health benefits, I think people will start to reevaluate where we are in the U.S.
00:15:06.300Current recommendations say women can have up to one bottle of beer, small glass of wine or a shot of spirit a day, while men can have two.
00:15:13.020But the new study out shows drinking any amount of alcohol raised the risk of someone suffering 60 diseases.
00:15:22.14033 have never been linked to booze before.
00:15:25.480So now they're saying you can only have two beers a week.
00:15:31.660Now, as an alcoholic, I know the problems that I have with alcohol.
00:15:36.920I also know the trouble that came with banning alcohol.
00:15:41.040Now, they're not talking about banning alcohol, but may I remind you, they now control your health care.
00:15:49.320They now can monitor everything you do, including what you buy.
00:15:54.080Are you going to get health care when we need to when we need to ration it because we just don't have enough?
00:16:00.620You're going to get health care if you had more than two drinks.
00:16:06.600Florida Surgeon General came out yesterday.
00:16:08.880He said they're starting to reimpose mask policies, mask policies that have been proven ineffective and restarting lockdowns that we know to cause harm.
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00:25:57.900But Pai V. has been involved in public life for over 25 years.
00:26:01.660And when her church denomination in Finland said that they were going to be supporting and partnering on the gay pride parade,
00:26:10.640she sent out a tweet in 2019 objecting to that and also including a Bible verse related to it.
00:26:18.980As a result, the Finnish authorities launched a full bore investigation, a fishing expedition into all of her public statements in the past
00:27:31.460The European Convention of Human Rights, which is essentially the law that governs European countries,
00:27:37.960Article 9 and 10 guarantees the right of our ability to practice our faith and to speak freely as a fundamental human right.
00:27:45.720And so the law is certainly on our side.
00:27:47.480But we're seeing European countries pass these vague hate speech laws to try to trump those laws.
00:27:55.320And then we see state governments try to use them and weaponize them when they have people saying things that they think oppose the state orthodoxy.
00:28:05.400So are people, the people of Finland, with her, agnostic, against her?
00:28:19.440And Glenn, I would just emphasize for your readers, you know, many of the constitutions and governing documents around the world have protections in them for our right to practice our faith and to speak freely.
00:28:32.980But they're not worth the paper they're written on if we have an apathetic citizenry.
00:28:38.020The words in our First Amendment, there are no magic words to that.
00:28:41.480It's about the citizens' intent to require the government to adhere to those rights.
00:28:48.020And if they don't, if we don't stand up and use the system that we were given, then we lose those rights.
00:28:56.600If we just say, ah, that's what's so concerning to me about Donald Trump's arrest and arrest of all of these attorneys and everyone else for questioning.
00:29:06.980And, you know, we'll look at all of the facts, but it appears as though it's the questioning of the election that is causing so much trouble.
00:29:18.280And if it can't get you one way, we'll get you another way.
00:29:21.280It is really becoming a dangerous trend, and I hope people begin to wake up.
00:29:28.280Are people waking up at all in Finland on this?
00:29:37.760The fact that it's going up to the Court of Appeals is concerning, and that the prosecutor even argued that Pivey shouldn't have a right to even really participate in her defense, that the Court of Appeals didn't need to hear from her was concerning.
00:29:51.100I mean, the Bible was put on trial in this case.
00:29:54.240The human right to freedom of religion is, you know, facing direct assault.
00:29:58.140Even at the trial itself, as our attorney was there, was just stunned that the prosecutor opened by saying, this is not about the Bible, it's not about Christianity, and then began to read passages that the prosecutor disliked, questioned the defendants.
00:30:13.280It's not just Pivey, it's also a bishop who is on trial who helped her publish a pamphlet in 2004 on the biblical meaning of marriage.
00:30:23.660And even in that instance, she's questioning the bishop's theology and his hermeneutical approach to the Bible.
00:30:33.160It's just stunning what they are getting away with.
00:30:36.360And we're seeing, you know, other instances in Mexico, we are representing civil society leaders and former congressmen who have been convicted of essentially what's considered violence by speaking out against transgender ideology.
00:30:51.660And we have been representing people in the U.K. who are silenced outside of abortion clinics because of a thought crime.
00:32:35.180And I just fear there are people on both sides of the aisle that don't have good intent.
00:32:47.420You know, there are people that are truly working against the Constitution.
00:32:51.160We know that on the left, but there are those people that are working on the right to do the same thing.
00:32:57.400And most people, this is the one thing that I liked about Vivek, and I hope he's, if he's not the presidential candidate, I hope he becomes a vice presidential candidate.
00:33:07.120I hope he has a very long career because he is speaking the words that Ronald Reagan spoke to the youth at the time, like me.
00:33:19.600And that really helped me solidify my love for this country and its history.
00:33:29.920Vivek is doing that right now because it's not just going to be us.
00:33:34.740We have got to get the younger generation.
00:33:38.600And there are people that are saying the Constitution is old, outdated, on the right, that it is time for, you know, maybe a dramatic change and change life in America forever.
00:33:52.880And go back to, you know, pre-enlightenment kind of thinking.
00:33:58.580And it is a little terrifying to see it.
00:34:01.480But the youth will not be able to defend it.
00:34:06.520If they don't have that love for America and they don't have that love for America.
00:34:56.640This is a special place where families will be able to come together and heal after the loss of their loved one.
00:35:02.500A firefighter, a police officer, a military member.
00:35:05.200Somebody who has been tragically altered.
00:35:11.860They build smart homes to help them manage.
00:35:15.040And now a community where they can really grow and heal together.
00:35:22.080Every mortgage-free home, the foundation, is making good on its promise to do good and never forget the sacrifices and the heroes that have made our country and our communities.
01:00:41.160But we should support his defense costs more to follow.
01:00:44.200Georgia should end this attack on justice.
01:00:47.480I hope that Congress starts to use their purse strings to go after the DOJ and investigate, investigate, investigate, and stop this madness.
01:01:02.900If you're waking up every day frustrated that you're going to have to face yet another day hurting, pain is your body's way of letting you know that something is wrong.
01:01:11.020And most of the time, what it's trying to tell you is that you have inflammation in your joints.
01:01:16.580Inflammation in our body is the worst thing.
01:01:19.620You can find ways to mask the pain, but that doesn't work out all that well in a long time.
01:01:24.300Sometimes the stuff you take to mask it can leave you feeling spaced out, depressed, or it just is masking something that shouldn't be masked.
01:02:42.100That's a weird, and look, attorneys can commit crimes.
01:02:45.660Sometimes they do go to prison, but it is weird.
01:02:48.000It is a strange invasion into something that we all sort of take for granted, right?
01:02:55.020Like, you should be able to talk to your lawyers about kind of pretty much anything unless it's a really overt crime, and you should be able to suggest things that you think that are terrible ideas, right?
01:03:05.620Like, you should be able to say, like, what if we do this?
01:03:07.780And even if it's a terrible idea, you should be able to have a conversation with your attorney about it, and that's kind of fundamental to those conversations.
01:04:42.560This is what I use and it has kept me a very sharp shot.
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01:04:51.720You attach it to your firearm, connect it to an app on your smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth.
01:04:57.280Then whatever you're firing, you have actual rounds or even dry firing practice.
01:05:01.440It, uh, tracks exactly what you're doing with your hand, your, your, uh, trigger finger, everything shows you what you're doing wrong and you improve rapidly.
01:05:53.580And then they tell you what to do, where to live, what to, what to eat, where to work.
01:05:59.900And if you're a good little party member, you get perks, you get all the way up to special lanes on the streets.
01:06:09.000Now, most people don't even get a car, but if you have a car and you're somebody special, you get a special lane for you to drive that car in.
01:06:38.780The state allows private people to do what private people do.
01:06:44.620They build a company or they buy a house or whatever.
01:06:48.080However, you don't really run your company in a fascistic government because the fascists, the ones who are in the government with all the experts, they need to control the economy.
01:07:19.460In capitalism, the law remains a referee, a referee that says, let me look at both of these things blindly, was one of these guys breaking the law and doing something they shouldn't be doing for unfair advantages.
01:07:44.740Capitalism allows you to succeed or fail based on your input, your merit, your ideas.
01:08:16.580Elon Musk's SpaceX was hit with a lawsuit from the Department of Justice on Thursday for allegedly refusing to hire refugees and those granted asylum.
01:08:28.540In a press release, the DOJ accused the spacecraft technology company of discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring.
01:08:40.440From at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them because of their citizenship status in a violation of Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the DOJ.
01:08:58.900They are going after SpaceX like nobody's business.
01:09:04.580Now, do you think that's because they're the only ones doing this?
01:09:13.320They thought, you know, if we only hire, you know, people with citizenship, we have some unfair advantage?
01:09:22.380Or are they doing it because I don't want to get involved in anything?
01:12:42.100And that might involve some FBI or undercover police as well.
01:12:46.340You know, another part of this, Glenn, if we have this quick sidebar, we're talking about the, you know, all of these things that are coming down on Trump.
01:12:53.260And one of the biggest things they say they have on them is this fake electors scam.
01:12:56.780You see this, they say this all the time, fake electors scam, fake electors scam.
01:12:59.540One of the people in Georgia who is on the co-conspirator list is Kenneth Chesborough or Cheeseborough.
01:13:10.260And so he's the one that wrote the, what they call the, basically a smoking gun, fake electors memo.
01:13:16.120And I don't think anyone's read it, right?
01:13:19.720You've maybe seen quotes from it, but let me just give you one little section here.
01:13:22.580And to go into their mindset at this time, because I believe what everything that was done after December 14th, which is Safe Harbor Day, was illegal.
01:13:49.620On January 6th, in a solemn and constitutionally defensible manner, consistent with clear indications that this is what the framers of the Constitution intended and expected and consistent with precedent for the first 70 years of our nation's history, Vice President Pence, presiding over the joint session, takes the position that it is his constitutional power and duty alone as president of the Senate to both open and count the votes and that anything in the Electoral Count Act to the contrary is unconstitutional.
01:14:24.020I don't think he's right on this, but he even says he doesn't think he's necessarily right on this.
01:14:28.120I'm not necessarily advising this course of action.
01:14:30.420And the Vice President need not make a decision how to proceed until January 6th.
01:14:34.680And obviously, there are many factors that will come to bear on how he proceeds, assuming this race has not been conceded before January 6th.
01:14:41.020This is the biggest point on the fake electors thing that I think people aren't looking at.
01:14:46.440My point here is that it is important that the alternate states of electors meet and vote on December 14th if we are to create a scenario in which Biden can be prevented from reaching 270 electoral votes.
01:14:58.620Even if Trump has not managed by then to obtain the court decisions or state legislative resolutions, invalidating enough results to push Biden below 270.
01:15:07.800So what he's saying here is because the law says by December 14th, these have to be in place.
01:15:12.860Even if we win our legislative battles after December 14th, we still can't win.
01:15:17.680Because if you don't have those electors in place before December 14th, we can't do anything about it, even if we are able to overturn these elections later on in normal legislative challenges.
01:15:30.820It is making sure the door is not kicked closed.
01:16:57.980But if you're saying you're an elector and you weren't, you can say, like there's things that they may find on this.
01:17:04.080I'm not saying, but like you have to look at their thinking at the time.
01:17:07.640And this was released as the smoking gun saying that, well, they were doing this.
01:17:10.840They were doing the fake electors thing.
01:17:12.100Well, you can, if you read the context there, you see exactly what they're doing.
01:17:16.160He knows that the line is December 14th.
01:17:17.840I don't agree with his legal theories, but like you could see that this is what lawyers do.
01:17:22.400So if you were on the left and you were prepared to go to any length, as we have exposed on this program two years or three years ago, the lengths that they were willing to go and they war gamed everything, literally war gamed all of it.
01:17:40.300And you see that the other side is going to try to use one of the tactics that you had.
01:17:53.000Do you really think it would be all that hard for them then to use the the dark tools of a of a of the deep state?
01:18:06.040To say all we have to do just just do but wear Trump hats, just do what we were going to do for us just but make it look like them.
01:18:20.280I mean, they were willing to do what they did on January 6th, what they say the right did.
01:18:27.560What what's the difference if they just changed team jerseys?
01:18:31.800I've never met a I've never met a constitutionalist.
01:18:36.140I've never met a conservative that wears black and climbs on each other's shoulders to break all of the windows in our capital.
01:18:44.920That is just I've never met those people.
01:18:46.620I'm not saying they don't exist, but I've never met them.
01:26:27.620Yeah, I remember my daughter was doing a handstand in the yard and she was having me spot her and I was kind of holding her ankles and the boys were playing water gun fight, two boys.
01:26:40.140And I just remember thinking, what a beautiful evening.
01:40:07.620I need to be able to have more time with these people.
01:40:09.520And then I started feeling like, you know what, getting on the stage and just exalting myself and building up my name and having people glorify me,
01:40:18.520I'm not reconciling that with what Jesus says in the Bible about, if anyone would follow me, let him take up his cross, deny himself.
01:40:28.640And so that has eventually led to what is tomorrow, the last show as a country touring musician,
01:40:36.580and I'll be moving into more of a ministry role, writing more books, Lord willing, serving in our local church, and getting out and speaking.
01:50:29.380You have to let them know that it is true in your head.
01:50:35.560It's true that life will go on and you will be okay.
01:50:44.180If they don't, if they think that you fear it, they control.
01:50:49.700So he, um, I said, I, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't really know how to get, uh, you know, in, in, you know, in love with this, uh, possibility.
01:51:01.520And, um, he said, well, let me take you here.
01:56:42.120And I just want to leave you with, but it's all good.
01:56:48.120Everything that will happen to us will all be for our good and our children's good if we don't go dark inside because of it.
01:57:00.100Imagine the good that would happen if Donald Trump or his supporters that are right there at the jailhouse.
01:57:09.980Imagine if they all would have knelt down in prayer and had a vigil last night.
01:57:17.960Imagine the message that that would send.
01:57:21.520You go from somebody who is trying to overthrow the government to a group of people who are peacefully praying for the people who are so misguided that are trying to put him in jail.
01:57:31.940Imagine if Donald Trump went to jail, but then uttered the words of Martin Luther King or Gandhi and sent the message to his supporters.
01:59:35.120Stu and I, if you don't mind me sharing a little bit of what we were just talking about here, Stu.
01:59:56.940Stu and I just had a really remarkable conversation on, you know, if things happen, you know, that are so bad, how do you just get the strength to just carry on?
02:00:10.760And, you know, it's just, you know, you get beat up all the time, too.
02:00:17.680So you know it, and you're like, where do I find the strength?
02:00:20.100I will tell you, Stu just said this, and I have said this to so many people over this last summer.
02:00:31.280When you see what you have done in Afghanistan, just in Maui, I think we're up to 1.6 million.
02:00:40.540I mean, that's just a few hundred thousand dollars away from what the U.S. government is doing.
02:00:47.520When you see what has happened with hurricanes and disasters, and even I see it in the chat rooms, you know, from Blaze subscribers, and they support one another.
02:01:16.120And I'd be greatly diminished without your friendship.
02:01:20.680And I know that's weird because we don't know each other, but I always feel like when we meet, we do.
02:01:25.320Yeah, I've been coming back a lot to just everything that, you know, this group of people has accomplished, you know, over the past couple decades.
02:01:34.140And a lot of times it pushes me through these, like, times where, you know, the world does get a little depressing from time to time.
02:01:40.340I don't know if people have noticed that.
02:01:42.120And, like, it's hard to believe that you can get through it.
02:01:48.020And then you think of all the things that just this one audience of this one show has accomplished.
02:01:52.500And it does make it feel like it's worth it.
02:01:54.320It's worth coming in and doing this every day.