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00:01:41.060 Hey, I'm Trey Rado filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program in just minutes. We'll be back

00:01:50.500 with what I hope you find is one of the most interesting, engaging, really funny political

00:01:55.180 shows that you've ever heard. Coming up, the media painstakingly forced to report that the economy

00:02:01.560 under Donald Trump might be, could be, even is doing really well. This, of course, after a full

00:02:08.280 year of telling you that inflation is killing us and Trump tariffs will bury us. Also, Texas,

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00:02:20.680 Senate. And that is Jasmine Crockett, the gift that keeps on giving. Also, speech under threat. The 0.90

00:02:26.120 Trump administration cracks down on EU officials, saying that they are a threat to speech and are

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00:04:10.540 Hello, my name is Chaz. I typically anchor on NPR in San Francisco, and I'm so happy to be filling

00:04:16.800 in for Glenn Beck today. Today, we will discuss why taxpayers should pay for gender reassignment

00:04:21.640 surgery. We will ask, was Nancy Pelosi the greatest Speaker of the House of all time?

00:04:27.460 And yes, Queen. And is milk a symbol of white supremacy? Also yes. And in case you don't know,

00:04:33.120 I'm messing around. Hey, everybody. I hope you haven't had a heart attack or pulled your

00:04:36.100 car over to the side of the road. My name is Trey Radel, and I am filling in for Glenn today on the

00:04:40.520 Glenn Beck program, and I'm really excited in case you cannot tell. So before we begin today, I just wanted

00:04:47.120 to kind of give you a little bit of an intro of who the heck I am if we've never met before, and kind

00:04:53.160 of go through just a little bit of my life and my perspective before we begin. So first of all,

00:04:58.900 I host a show here in the free state of Florida on 92.5 Fox News, right here in the Fort Myers,

00:05:05.220 Naples area of Southwest Florida. I'm a husband. I'm a dad to three incredible kids. I do a bunch of

00:05:12.300 other stuff in the media and in politics, and I have had a pretty wild life full of ups and downs.

00:05:18.320 And I, again, share this to let you know kind of where I'm coming from. So I've been a TV news

00:05:23.320 reporter, a TV news anchor, built and sold a small business also in the media world, but I'd always

00:05:29.320 wanted to serve in Congress. I'd always wanted to serve the country in some way. And so years ago,

00:05:36.000 a lifetime ago, in my 30s, I ran for the United States House of Representatives right here in

00:05:41.420 Southwest Florida. In fact, you may even know our current Congressman Byron Donalds has been making

00:05:46.020 national headlines. He's running for governor now. And I ran more than a decade ago. I was the

00:05:52.100 underdog. I'd never run for anything in my life. And I won. And I served in the House of Representatives.

00:05:59.440 And this is where I share a bit of a commonality with the man we all know and love, Glenn Beck.

00:06:04.000 I hit a pretty dark period in my life at that time, and I was out of control. I was drinking way too much,

00:06:09.460 making terrible decisions. And I got busted buying drugs while I was a sitting U.S. congressman.

00:06:16.340 So maybe you saw it on ABC, NBC, CBS, Al Jazeera, BBC, anyway, other places. And I resigned. I resigned

00:06:23.840 from Congress, and it was the best decision of my life. Because since then, I've had so much time

00:06:32.360 to do the things that I love. First and foremost, being with my kids and my wife, but also doing

00:06:39.240 some fun things here and there, being an actor, working in music. However, the passion of my

00:06:44.880 life, what I love so much is politics. And what I hope to share with you today in giving perspective

00:06:52.480 and breaking down stories and understanding them is a perspective that I think very few

00:06:59.780 other conservative talk show hosts can give. And that includes everything from a peek behind

00:07:05.140 the curtain of Congress to taking you into the belly of beast of politics and more.

00:07:10.600 I'm going to get the calls and everything. I love your calls. I love interacting with

00:07:13.640 you. We'll get to that. First, I want to start today, though, with the media celebrating Donald

00:07:20.320 Trump. I mean, quite frankly, I wonder if this should actually be a moment of silence for CNN.

00:07:24.780 A new report shows the U.S. economy was much stronger than expected in the third quarter.

00:07:29.380 GDP grew at the fastest rate in two years. Americans are also seeing some prices ease at

00:07:36.120 the grocery store. The cost of eggs, milk, chicken and tomatoes are all down, as you see here on

00:07:40.360 the screen. It's got to be difficult for the media to do that. And you almost hear the pain

00:07:45.280 in her voice. What she just went through is how, in fact, the Trump economy is killing it. 0.78

00:07:52.980 I mean, it is past all expectations, because what have we heard for the past year? You know,

00:08:00.740 one month after Trump gets sworn in, every single prediction is that the tariffs are going to kill

00:08:07.920 us. Our deficits are going to go through the roof and inflation is only going to be exacerbated

00:08:13.580 by this crazy man in the White House, Donald Trump, who dares to talk about tariffs. You know,

00:08:20.080 President Trump really, I think, nailed it when he gave his address to the nation. And what I'm about

00:08:27.580 to play here goes into the politics of the midterm elections coming up. What President Trump lays out

00:08:34.520 here is how the economy is inherently tied to illegal immigration. A little bit of context here.

00:08:42.360 What you're about to hear is always struck down by liberals as more racist stuff. Look, I don't know

00:08:51.980 how many times they could continue calling Trump racist or white supremacist, or I mean, we've arrived

00:08:58.060 at Adolf Hitler, by the way. Where do you even go from there? You can't call him Pol Pot. No, I don't

00:09:03.780 think very few people know. You can't call him Mao, because the Democrats celebrate that. But everything

00:09:09.280 that Trump has said and Republicans in general simply get shot down with, well, you're a racist.

00:09:14.400 But listen to how President Trump breaks it down with no emotion, just stats and what the reality

00:09:22.940 is on the ground. The last administration and their allies in Congress brought in millions and

00:09:28.320 millions of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing. While your rent and housing costs skyrocketed,

00:09:34.660 over 60% of growth in the rental market came from foreign migrants. At the same time, illegal aliens 0.90

00:09:41.500 stole American jobs and flooded emergency rooms, getting free health care and education paid for

00:09:47.720 by you, the American taxpayer. They also increased the cost of law enforcement by numbers so high

00:09:54.380 that they are not even to be mentioned. For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse

00:10:00.500 migration as migrants go back home, leaving more housing and more jobs for Americans. In the year 0.98

00:10:07.260 before my election, all net creation of jobs was going to foreign migrants. Since I took office,

00:10:14.900 100% of all net job creation has gone to American-born citizens. 100%.

00:10:24.500 You know, Trump just simply lays it out there of what has been happening in our economy, how unfair

00:10:32.260 it is. I don't know how you can vote Democrat and not recognize what he's saying there. If you are an 0.98

00:10:39.060 American, you realize how utterly unfair things have been for the last several years under the Biden

00:10:44.820 administration, who flooded the country with millions and millions and millions of either illegal

00:10:50.340 immigrants or under these ridiculous pretenses of they're seeking asylum. Has anyone ever thought 0.99

00:10:56.100 about the ridiculousness of that, by the way? The fact that we open our borders, you go to a legal

00:11:02.180 port of entry, and you just use the one word. That's it. Asylum. You're in. It's like the secret

00:11:08.020 password to get into a club late at night. It's asylum. And what we end up with are people who claim that

00:11:14.740 they're seeking asylum from countries all over the world. In fact, ones that we like give foreign aid

00:11:22.580 to. So let's think about that for a second. You are a taxpaying American right now. Maybe you're headed

00:11:27.860 off to work. Your money goes to countries, billions of dollars, where we say, we're going to give you all

00:11:35.380 this money because we support you. We're going to help your infrastructure. We're going to help you with

00:11:39.700 the education of your citizens. We're going to help you feed your citizens, foreign country. And yet, at the 0.98

00:11:45.940 same time, the Biden administration says, Well, we recognize that this country that we're giving billions

00:11:52.420 of your dollars to is so terrible, so awful, that if you come here and you say the word asylum, you're in. And

00:12:00.500 Trump underlies all of this. And so, as we begin to wrap this segment up, you know, in, in knowing that I'm

00:12:07.700 speaking to a heck of a lot of people across the country right now, including people who may be

00:12:12.500 running for office that are Republican, like what Trump has done here is taken his strongest issue,

00:12:19.940 which is immigration and fighting illegal immigration, by the way, strongest issue among

00:12:25.300 Democrats included. They respect the guy for it. Independence, love the guy for it. Fellow Republicans,

00:12:31.700 we know the job that Trump has done when it comes to fighting illegal immigration and making sure that 0.98

00:12:36.980 people are removed that are here in these ridiculous pretenses. Everyone running needs to understand

00:12:43.140 politically what he did there was take his strongest issue and tie it that illegal immigration issue and

00:12:50.500 tie it to perhaps the most important, which is always the economy. He took his strongest issue,

00:12:57.700 ties it to the economy and says, effectively, look what I'm doing around the country. Well,

00:13:02.580 we will certainly have the media and liberals running around saying they're racist and they're

00:13:07.940 disappearing brown people or whatever ridiculousness that they want to come up with year after year 1.00

00:13:13.460 after year. That just becomes white noise. What he's done is taken this issue and said, this is really

00:13:22.180 about you. It's about you, the American taxpayer. I want you to have jobs. I want you to be able to walk

00:13:30.500 into the emergency room when you have a serious emergency and not wait for five hours because

00:13:37.540 the ER has to take care of everybody that's there, legal or not. And so Trump takes his strongest issue

00:13:44.740 there and ties it to the economy. And this is something that I think that Republicans across the

00:13:49.700 country should be doing. Quite frankly, that address that President Trump gave not long ago to the

00:13:55.460 nation. You know, it is important, obviously, for him to go out and use the platform to speak to voters.

00:14:02.660 But I also think that he was doing two things in that address to the nation. I think he was once

00:14:08.820 also hammering it to the media, like the media will continue to attempt to talk about how terrible

00:14:13.780 things are. But he's saying, nope, here are the facts. But he's also setting the stage and a message

00:14:21.860 for Republicans all over the country to understand. And I wrap up with this. Here's a this is CNN

00:14:29.540 bringing on a Harvard professor who knows that his job is to speak ill of the economy. But he just can't.

00:14:37.540 I mean, I was surprised it was a better number than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation's been very

00:14:45.540 high. It stayed high. It has not been coming down. But, you know, people were expecting it to be above

00:14:51.540 three percent. It was well below three percent. I mean, I think the president will take this as good

00:14:57.620 news. The investors will think that interest rates will get cut more. So, you know, it was it was a

00:15:03.460 positive news. There's no other way to spin it. Absolutely. Those last words are key. There's no other

00:15:09.780 way to spin it. I mean, that dude's basically on air saying, look, I know that you want me to come

00:15:16.740 on here and say how terrible things are and how awful Donald Trump is. But there's no other way

00:15:23.620 to spin it. We're going to take a break and be back. I am Trey Radle. Super excited to be with you.

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00:16:43.860 Trey Radel in for Glenn Beck here. Let's get to some of your calls regarding affordable housing. Got

00:16:49.220 Duana in Arkansas giving us a shout. Hello. You're on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:16:55.060 Hi. Yes, I have another way he can tie immigration to the economy. He could say no illegals can buy 0.99

00:17:04.020 homes. And you know, Congress has to get busy. But anyway, he could say no illegals can buy homes

00:17:10.820 and get that competition out of the market. Plus, the big corporations like BlackRock and all that,

00:17:17.780 they keep buying all these single family homes and making the prices too high for

00:17:23.700 you know, families to compete against. They can only buy big apartment buildings and you know,

00:17:29.700 any kind of corporation like that. And we've got to get rid, the founding fathers would be appalled that

00:17:36.180 the government is the biggest landowner in the country. We need to get rid of a bunch of the land

00:17:43.940 that the government is holding. And you know, not the national parks or something like that. But

00:17:50.420 we have so much land that it's not being used well and whatever like that.

00:17:55.860 Need to put that on the market for people to buy homes there.

00:18:00.180 Yeah, I agree. Let me take some of that apart. And I appreciate the call like

00:18:06.100 regarding people residing here illegally in the country and purchasing homes.

00:18:11.380 I'm like, to me, it's just unconscionable the way that Democrats in general want to treat society

00:18:21.540 on basically keeping a status quo. Okay, so you have people that enter the country by the millions,

00:18:29.860 and there are people here certainly residing illegally. But then you have states like California,

00:18:35.220 and I'm sure others that allow for people who have barely been in the country at all,

00:18:41.780 have not assimilated, have not even learned customs, for example, driving the standards of driving,

00:18:48.180 they get a CDL license, okay, they can drive a semi truck. And I bring that example up very

00:18:52.900 specifically because of a tragedy, multiple tragedies that we've had here in the state of Florida,

00:18:58.500 where you have had people residing in this country illegally, who went and were able to drive semi

00:19:06.020 trucks. And in both cases, there was one of actually a family that I knew, who were killed on I-75. There's

00:19:14.660 another case too, of a man who came from the country of India who got his license in California. In both of

00:19:23.220 these cases, both men did a U-turn on the highway. Okay, obviously highly illegal. But I come back to

00:19:33.140 some of the broader implications of unfettered, uninhibited, illegal immigration. The biggest

00:19:41.220 problem is that there's no assimilation. Like look, I understand a few things. In fact, let me even sound

00:19:47.780 like a liberal here for a second. First of all, I do wholeheartedly believe that the overwhelming majority

00:19:54.740 of people who want to or do come to this country, simply want a better life. I get it. It doesn't 1.00

00:20:01.780 make it right. It doesn't change the fact that there should be millions and millions of deportations. But

00:20:07.860 you can understand that. I also understand that when people come to the country, even if it's through

00:20:12.980 a legal process, you're not going to have them speaking English fluently right away. As a guy

00:20:18.100 that I speak a couple other languages, it's really difficult. And that's why you see places that still

00:20:23.700 exist like a little Italy or things like that. Like in New York City, it just comes to mind.

00:20:30.180 And so you, you hear this or you see this happening and it's people who will come, but then they assimilate 0.86

00:20:37.860 in other ways. They learn customs, they learn the culture, they learn the language. And when you have

00:20:46.260 this mass illegal immigration, what it ends up in, it ends up as detrimental. It ends up as detrimental 0.67

00:20:54.740 to the country because you have people that end up forming their own little pockets that will never

00:21:00.100 get out of it. And they look at the United States as a rental unit. This is not home. This is where they

00:21:05.460 come and they leech as much as they can and then send money back to whatever country. And they, there

00:21:11.140 is no, there's no intention of living and being woven into the fabric of American society. We become

00:21:19.380 a rental unit. If you go rent a place versus buying a place, how do you treat it? And generally speaking,

00:21:26.340 you just, you don't treat it as well as you do your home. And one of the biggest problems in this

00:21:31.940 is that you end up where you have people who are not assimilating and then you get to the other

00:21:38.340 dangers of that. And, you know, for Democrats who, who are like, you know, we don't need voter ID,

00:21:45.540 which is by the way, arguably one of the most serious things that you can do that directly affects

00:21:50.020 your other, uh, your fellow citizens and allowing anybody to do whatever the hell they want. It simply

00:21:56.020 does not work. And this is a major problem that we face in the United States. So we're going to take a

00:22:00.900 break in just a little bit. When we come back, I'm going to talk about something near and dear to my

00:22:04.420 heart here from the free state of Florida, where I do a show here locally. I'm 92, five Fox news.

00:22:09.620 And for Myers Naples, we're going to talk about the elimination of property taxes, but tolls,

00:22:15.860 wherever you're at right now, listening, do you have ridiculous tolls? Give us a shout and share

00:22:21.220 the most ridiculous tolls that you have, whatever you've been through when you got those eight,

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00:24:12.820 Trey Radel, filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. You can find me on X, on Facebook,

00:24:18.980 etc. Trey Radel, that's T-R-E-Y-R-A-D-E-L. A huge thank you to Glenn for today. Right now,

00:24:26.180 I am broadcasting from the free state of Florida. And over the years, no matter where you're at,

00:24:32.580 you may have seen how the media has tried to destroy our current governor, Ron DeSantis,

00:24:38.660 and the fights that he's been in, I am convinced that Florida right now is the most conservative

00:24:45.780 state of all 50. Here, not only did you have the utter rejection of COVID lockdowns,

00:24:54.980 but we've done some pretty big, bold, conservative movements here. And now you've got the possibility

00:25:00.900 of the elimination of property taxes and even tolls. I'm curious, wherever you're at, my gosh,

00:25:07.300 if you're up in like Chicago, the Chicagoland area where I lived for years or New York or Jersey,

00:25:12.020 or even here in Florida on the East Coast, what kind of crazy tolls do you see? The phone lines are

00:25:16.980 open. 888-727-B-E-K. That's 888-727-BEC. What kind of crazy tolls do you have?

00:25:26.420 So to get to DeSantis proposing the elimination of property taxes, just for a second here, if I may,

00:25:32.900 I think that one of the biggest reactions I hear from Republicans, Democrats, people that really even

00:25:39.780 aren't into politics is, well, where government's going to get money. I want you to think about that

00:25:46.740 for a second. If you're a fiscal conservative Republican, why the hell would you even ask that?

00:25:53.780 Where's the government getting, is that what you want? You want the government to just be taking as

00:25:59.700 much money as possible for you? Do you really think that whether you are at the local level,

00:26:03.780 state level, or federal level, that the government truly keeps you in mind and responsibly takes care

00:26:11.620 of each and every tax dollar? And I contend, no. I think that even in Republican-controlled areas,

00:26:18.820 including Southwest Florida, which is deep red, there have been Republicans of the past

00:26:25.300 that do things like fund, you know, give handouts, corporate cronyism to businesses,

00:26:31.780 say, oh, well, we need to incentivize them to come here. Well, if it's a great place to live

00:26:35.620 and to work and be in, how about they just come here? Why do we need to give them taxpayer dollars?

00:26:40.900 And so I do think that even in conservative areas, certainly in this area, Republicans of the past

00:26:47.220 that used to be in control in county commissions and cities here, did obnoxious things with your

00:26:52.340 money. And so I think this concept of, well, where are they going to get the money is just,

00:26:56.580 I'm sorry, but if you're a fiscal conservative, you shouldn't be asking that. You should be saying,

00:27:02.180 how will my government respond to this in a more responsible way? Now let's go to irresponsibility.

00:27:09.860 Tolls. Governor Ron DeSantis now is saying we should consider eliminating tolls.

00:27:15.620 Tolls are the biggest symbol of government failure. There is no other way around it. I don't care where

00:27:23.460 you live. If you have a toll, that is your government telling you we failed. When you break down

00:27:31.220 government's core responsibilities at the really, at the most local level you can,

00:27:37.140 I mean, the most basic responsibilities that they would have would be infrastructure. So your roads,

00:27:43.700 your bridges, your water, uh, and safety, you could include that as well, making sure that everybody's

00:27:51.140 safe. So providing the local fire department, a sheriff's office or police department, if you're

00:27:56.260 in a municipality. And these are just some of the absolute most basic tenants that the government

00:28:03.700 should be taking care of with your tax dollars. And so when you have a toll road, what they're

00:28:09.140 saying to you is we failed, we spent your money in all these other places. We brought in businesses. We

00:28:17.620 incentivize this. We have DEI programs that we're spending millions of dollars on to just give jobs 0.98

00:28:23.300 away to people who probably are qualified. And now you, because we failed you, you have to pay to get on your

00:28:32.180 own road that should have been paid for with your tax dollars already. And this to me is just a, like

00:28:39.140 a psychotic break among Democrats. If you're a Democrat and you're listening right now and you're

00:28:44.260 over on Florida's East coast, which is totally controlled by Democrats. Here's what's really

00:28:49.540 happening. The rich do really well. It's like a Disney fast pass. You get to go and you get to pay

00:28:57.140 more to skip the lines at Disney. Why am I going to go wait to get at universal to get on Harry Potter

00:29:04.020 when I can get their fast pass? I'm going to go to Disney. I don't want to wait in these lines.

00:29:08.100 And so what you end up having is those poor people, the poor people get laughed at, waved at,

00:29:15.700 while rich person has their fancy little toll electronic card there. And they're blowing past

00:29:22.660 traffic in their Mercedes looking over and laughing at the plebe stuck in traffic. Why? I have a Disney 1.00

00:29:28.580 fast pass. Why? Because government failed you. And what they've done now is say, look,

00:29:34.580 for those of you that have the extra disposable income and you don't want to sit in traffic,

00:29:40.420 you don't want to be with those little poor people over there that you're blowing past. You can buy 1.00

00:29:45.780 the Disney fast pass. This to me, no matter where you live, more than likely you've been on a toll at

00:29:53.380 some point. And it is a symbol of what is essentially catastrophic failure of government.

00:30:00.180 Their basic responsibilities are your infrastructure, your roads, your bridges, your clean water,

00:30:08.020 and providing a fire department, police department to help take care of the citizens and make sure that

00:30:13.060 everybody is safe. Once you begin to go beyond that, look, I'm not a purist libertarian. I get it that

00:30:18.420 you have certain zoning rules and regulations and you don't want it to be crazy with whoever's building

00:30:25.140 here and there. I understand all of that, but it does not take away that this is one of their core

00:30:31.060 responsibilities where they have failed you. Let's get to some of your calls on tolls. Oh,

00:30:37.140 I'm super excited to hear from this. David in California, David, behind liberal lines there.

00:30:44.340 David, what kind of numbers do you pick? Do you have tolls there in California?

00:30:48.180 Well, first of all, I'm from Illinois and now I'm a permanent Florida resident, but I was involved in

00:30:56.340 Illinois politics really deep in the nineties, uh, during George Ryan, when he went to, went to prison,

00:31:03.540 like a couple other Illinois governors. But so get back to your direct point on toll roads. So

00:31:10.180 correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole premise behind the tolls were once the roads were paid for,

00:31:15.940 then we were supposed to keep a minimum total for maintenance. If I may interrupt just real quick,

00:31:21.140 any time that government introduces either a new tax or new toll, it is never ever going away, man.

00:31:28.020 Right. So during that time period that I was involved in politics, um, you know, the toll roads

00:31:36.660 up there, there's many scandals of abuse with the toll money, you know, people got caught with their

00:31:42.820 hands in the till and they went to jail. And that's the problem with government, especially in the liberal

00:31:48.180 states is all the controversial corrupt people that are involved hiring, uh, family members to high

00:31:56.820 paying jobs with the toll, uh, money disappearing, being used inappropriately. That's the problem

00:32:04.660 taxpayers have in these liberal states is if you're going to pay a high tax or a high toll, you demand

00:32:13.620 perfection and accountability. Everybody, when you go out and spend your money, whether it's a dinner or

00:32:19.060 buy a car or whatever, if you spend good money, you get good quality service and quality food. Then

00:32:25.060 at the end of the evening, you're happy with what you received. The problem up there is all this

00:32:30.180 money goes into these programs, especially a tollway and it's being wasted. It's, it's being,

00:32:35.860 it's corrupt and no one trusts the system or the government anymore. And all they want to do is just

00:32:41.300 keep raising taxes and throwing more money. It's a dumpster fire up there. That's the reason why I

00:32:46.740 moved to Florida. I'm sick and tired of it.

00:32:49.060 Uh, well said, I appreciate the call. And yes, I mean, I, I, that's why we see people fleeing

00:32:54.420 from California, Illinois, New York, uh, blue states, uh, that like you're listening there right

00:33:01.140 now. I just don't understand it. How do you deal with it? I mean, I, I get it. If you,

00:33:04.660 not everybody has the means to just pick up and move to an Arizona, Texas for whatever. Uh, but it

00:33:10.580 really is, uh, horrifying the way that hardcore leftist governments treat you their own, you know,

00:33:19.620 you're the one that employs these people. I lived in Chicago for years. Uh, fantastic city. I have a

00:33:26.180 real affinity actually for a Chicago and New York city. Um, I think it's a damn shame what's happened

00:33:31.540 to them over the past several years. They've been running to the ground. Lord knows what we're going

00:33:36.340 to get though with socialism in New York city. Looking forward to that. Uh, but the way that

00:33:41.140 they abuse their tax payers, that the people that employ them, uh, it really is a sin. And I come

00:33:47.380 back to where we started here, which is right now as I'm broadcasting from the free state of Florida,

00:33:53.780 like I love the fact that we got a governor who really, really has some, some guts is the word I'd

00:34:01.620 use in this morning time program versus something more provocative. And, uh, you know, he has been

00:34:07.380 behind pushing forward to eliminate property taxes altogether. By the way, one real quick thing,

00:34:14.740 the way that I love DeSantis when he negotiates that I think more Republicans should be doing

00:34:20.020 is he starts way far, right? Cause by the way, he's got some people in the Florida legislature that

00:34:26.500 are not exactly that conservative who are already pushing back against this.

00:34:30.260 And DeSantis starts with a premise like number one, you never own your own home. You never do

00:34:34.420 try not paying taxes. You never own it. It's going to get taken. And what I'd also come back to is

00:34:40.420 what I often hear is people ask, well, where are governments going to get the money? And I'm sorry,

00:34:46.420 that's the wrong approach. It should be. How can government make itself better and more efficient

00:34:53.460 to deal with this and to move forward? And by the way, it makes them more accountable.

00:34:58.500 Should they have to raise a local tax sales tax, whatever it may be? Okay, great. Put that on the

00:35:05.060 ballot and see if your citizens that employ you decide to move forward with that. And so he started

00:35:11.620 with this with the property taxes. We'll see what the Florida house does because wherever you live,

00:35:15.140 I think that this could be a model for other red States. Uh, and the tolls issue, I don't know where 0.99

00:35:20.580 that's going to go, uh, in the next year in, in our governor's last year here, but, um, but wherever

00:35:26.420 you're at, I know you're listening right now, whether you've called in or not, and have paid

00:35:30.260 a ridiculous amount in tolls all of your life. And that is a absolute symbol of a catastrophic failure

00:35:38.900 of our government. And there's no other way around it because that's one of the core responsibilities

00:35:43.940 that they have. We're going to take a break. And when we come back speech under threat, and this

00:35:48.900 is not a fringe issue of just AOC. We're talking about Democrats that are questioning the validity

00:35:54.340 of the first amendment. I'm Trey Radel filling in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program. We'll be right

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00:37:33.620 Trey Radel filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. Great to be with you. Coming from you here

00:37:39.140 from the sunny, beautiful, free state of Florida. You can find me on X at Trey Radel. That's T-R-E-Y-R-A-D-E-L.

00:37:48.180 Fantastic to be with you here as we begin to wrap up this first hour. And also, I love your calls. We're

00:37:53.380 going to be getting the calls as well. 888-727-B-E-C-K. Right now, I want to share John Kerry with you.

00:38:01.220 For all of the talk that you hear about, oh, it's just the fringe left that is threatening speech,

00:38:09.940 we have heard this repeatedly from mainstream Democrats, of which, by the way, AOC is now

00:38:17.860 clearly front and center as a mainstream Democrat, regardless of her, at times, insane or radical views.

00:38:25.460 But here's someone who's really considered an institutional Democrat. Listen to this man

00:38:32.660 on free speech. It's really hard to govern today. You can't let me just stop that guy there. Like,

00:38:39.780 that's the premise. That's the whole thing that you're about to hear. You know, this whole thing,

00:38:46.020 the First Amendment, the most important one, it just, it's just kind of a pain. You know,

00:38:54.100 I, why, why can't I tell these people what to do? Why can't I force them to comply?

00:39:02.260 Why are they all so dumb? It's really hard to govern today. You can't, you know, you know,

00:39:07.300 there's no, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact,

00:39:12.020 that kind of, you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree. And, um, people go and that people

00:39:17.380 self-select where they go for their news or for their information. And then you just get into a vicious

00:39:22.820 cycle. So it's really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the

00:39:28.180 45, 50 years I've been involved in this. I, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how

00:39:32.900 you curb, uh, those entities, uh, in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know,

00:39:38.420 some accountability on facts, et cetera. But look, if people go to only one source and the source they

00:39:43.860 go to is sick and, uh, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation,

00:39:49.380 uh, our first amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just

00:39:54.820 hammer it out of existence. Oh, that's a, that's a heck of a closer. The first amendment 0.83

00:40:01.700 basically stops us from hammering it out of existence. That is wild. I mean, like for all of

00:40:08.980 the talk about fascism and a dictatorship, like if you took those words and put them into Donald Trump's

00:40:17.780 mouth and Donald Trump said that there'd be blood in the streets, it like it's really hard to

00:40:24.500 comprehend that you've got John Kerry there. He can't believe people self-select. How dare these,

00:40:31.780 these people decide what news they're going to watch. I mean, you know how much they would just love

00:40:37.780 to get back to the days where the New York times told you everything that you need to know.

00:40:43.780 And you had one, maybe two or three anchors who told you what you need to know. When we come back,

00:40:51.460 why I love Democrats, why I love the ACLU. That more, we come back. I'm Trey Radle filling in for

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00:42:39.800 It's a movement to put flags and pictures of guns around U.S. classrooms.

00:42:48.140 Every public school filled with the exact text of the Second Amendment.

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00:45:10.080 Democrats and the ACLU.

00:45:14.400 There was a day when Democrats, classical liberals, were absolutists on free speech.

00:45:22.220 The Democrats that I grew up with were the ones who were out there front and center supporting speech in every way, shape, and form, whether it was for up-and-coming hip-hop artists, whether it was for rock and roll stars, artists, and more.

00:45:41.420 However, it was always the Democrats who were right there saying that we support free speech, free speech at all costs.

00:45:49.300 The ACLU, in fact, used to be the best at this.

00:45:54.200 And the ACLU used to be very nonpartisan when it came to speech in particular.

00:46:00.580 You all may recall that there have been times where the ACLU absolutely took the conservative side, even Rush Limbaugh at one point, and the ACLU used to be this way.

00:46:10.400 They're gone.

00:46:10.860 And I think that you had a massive shift where we saw this, not even so much during COVID, which is where everything gets exacerbated.

00:46:21.680 But really, when you see the Republicans begin to win the House more often, you know, for many, many decades in our history here in the United States, certainly in modern history, Republicans really didn't win the House a whole lot.

00:46:38.560 And yet, once you started seeing that happen more often, I'll even go back to the so-called Tea Party days, which, by the way, the media tried to take that term, just like they take MAGA and make it a complete negative associated with horrible things and turn it into something it isn't.

00:46:55.140 But once you had the rise of the Tea Party Republicans, who were big and bold, but also the popularity of Fox News rising, and even other channels like Newsmax, as you see the rise of that, what you see happening are those who used to stand with free speech at all costs totally abandon it.

00:47:18.380 Now, if you're just joining us, we played a clip from John Kerry, who talked about how, basically, the First Amendment's a real pain in the butt.

00:47:27.180 You know, this whole thing, people, they're just choosing where to go to get their disinformation and misinformation, and we just, there's just more that we should be able to do to eliminate that.

00:47:38.640 And I play him in particular because this is an institutional Democrat, John Kerry.

00:47:43.960 As much as you may detest his hypocrisy, especially on the environment, this is a guy who has really been kind of a standard bearer, along with Hillary Clinton.

00:47:53.760 Hillary Clinton, numerous times, has talked about ways that, you know, we have this First Amendment, but we need to rein it in. 0.62

00:48:01.540 And now a new generation of Democrats is also abandoning core principles that liberals stood for.

00:48:07.900 You know, I do think that several members of Congress and some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here.

00:48:21.900 And we're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation.

00:48:38.440 It's one thing to have differing opinions, but it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false.

00:48:47.260 And so that's something that we're looking into.

00:48:51.740 We're looking into, you know, what that is, is we're looking for ways, as she says, rein in media.

00:48:59.380 It's they're trying to find ways to censor.

00:49:02.420 Now, we saw the ways that the Biden administration was able to do this in a really effective way while Biden was in power.

00:49:11.020 Now, let's be clear here.

00:49:11.940 Biden was never in power.

00:49:12.900 We have no idea who was signing off on naming from executive orders to who was in charge at all.

00:49:18.520 But clearly, it was a group of hardcore leftists that wanted to stifle speech at all costs.

00:49:24.300 And what they did was begin to leverage themselves with either the highest law enforcement of the land or the power of the White House to tell places like then Twitter to knock conservatives off, just to use algorithms to stifle their voices or de-platform people.

00:49:40.080 They did the same on Facebook.

00:49:41.680 Those people complied and you saw what happened.

00:49:45.360 They they were doing whatever they couldn't.

00:49:48.220 So what we have a taste of, and especially during covid, is the way that they would execute that.

00:49:53.680 And again, abandon all of the principles that Democrats that I grew up with used to embrace.

00:50:00.280 Those people are gone.

00:50:02.020 And for all of the talk about Trump, it's a fascist Republicans are fascists.

00:50:08.100 First of all, I dare anybody to even begin to define that that keeps claiming that over and over.

00:50:12.880 What is what is that?

00:50:14.440 What is that to you?

00:50:15.440 Because seemingly it is the behavior that the Democrats are engaged in.

00:50:21.280 And that's exactly what was happening under Biden.

00:50:23.940 And you know what?

00:50:25.620 When you see what's happening in Europe in particular, even Australia, after the massacre over there, after you have Islamo fascists who just decide to start shooting up people at a Hanukkah event in Australia. 0.87

00:50:38.660 The talk still is about, you know, the real problem are these neo-Nazis, white supremacy and the ridiculousness that comes from that.

00:50:46.940 But what you see statistically is that in Europe, especially, and it's coming even stronger in Australia, is that you have voices that are censored.

00:50:59.720 And the commonality that they have overwhelmingly are those on the right.

00:51:07.000 Take a listen to this.

00:51:09.720 This is a clip from 60 Minutes speaking with prosecutors from the country of Germany and how they determine what you should or should not be able to look at, listen to, and who gets fined.

00:51:24.140 That's clear.

00:51:25.280 Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?

00:51:28.800 Yes.

00:51:29.000 Yes, it is.

00:51:29.960 And it's a crime to insult them online as well?

00:51:32.740 Yes.

00:51:33.320 The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the Internet.

00:51:38.660 Why?

00:51:39.420 Because in Internet, it stays there.

00:51:42.420 If we are talking here face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish.

00:51:47.080 But if you're in the Internet, if I insult you or a politician...

00:51:50.080 That sticks around forever.

00:51:51.420 Yeah.

00:51:51.560 If somebody posts something that's not true and then somebody else reposts it or likes it,

00:51:58.360 are they committing a crime?

00:52:00.120 In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it.

00:52:08.800 That's the same for us.

00:52:09.700 I mean, this is so insane to me.

00:52:13.340 It really, by the way, this is one of the fundamental differences between the United States of America and the rest of the world.

00:52:21.740 I mean, those are Western Europeans.

00:52:24.360 It's not like you're there and listening to some sort of dictatorship out of Cuba, China, Venezuela, or whatever.

00:52:34.620 Those are Germans.

00:52:36.180 Now, I think it's a little awkward, if I may, that the Europeans are leaning on Germans to decide who may or may not have free speech. 0.53

00:52:45.460 But, hey, that's your choice.

00:52:48.260 But I'm not going to let Democrats do it here either.

00:52:51.360 It is unacceptable.

00:52:53.260 When you go back to the way, for example, AOC or John Kerry that we heard from earlier, what they're really telling you is that they use really two pretenses here.

00:53:03.480 Number one, there's harmful misinformation and disinformation.

00:53:07.520 And number two, you're stupid.

00:53:10.600 Let me go to the first.

00:53:11.540 So, misinformation, disinformation, why don't you tell me what that is on the left?

00:53:17.460 Would it be things like Hunter Biden's laptop doesn't exist, it's all fake?

00:53:23.360 Would it be things like the prediction that the Biden administration is going to make vaccines mandatory?

00:53:30.600 No, they would never do that.

00:53:32.260 That's misinformation, disinformation.

00:53:34.080 Sure enough, it's exactly what they tried.

00:53:36.560 I mean, the examples of how many things that were supposedly conspiracy theories for years all became true.

00:53:47.260 Like, I think, quite frankly, I think conspiracy theorists are batting a thousand when you take a look around.

00:53:52.960 But they call it misinformation and disinformation so obviously when it ends up being things that are inconvenient for them or affect them.

00:54:02.220 I mean, hell, you look at the ridiculousness with all the gender stuff in their party. 1.00

00:54:07.560 What's such a weird culture that they're there and they're tripling down on, yes, men can get pregnant. 1.00

00:54:12.640 What?

00:54:13.520 How is that not?

00:54:15.160 Misinformation, disinformation.

00:54:16.660 But I come back to the second premise as well, which is, you are too stupid.

00:54:23.100 John Kerry says, you got these people out there self-selecting where they get news.

00:54:27.680 AOC, there's no media literacy.

00:54:29.600 Are you kidding?

00:54:30.460 Are you really preaching to the American people on media literacy?

00:54:35.480 By the way, what a condescending term, by the way.

00:54:38.160 Like, did a consultant teach that?

00:54:39.880 That, to me, is a consultant said, here's a great phrase that we're going to use.

00:54:44.000 We're going to use media literacy.

00:54:45.920 And you tell people that, that they just don't get it.

00:54:48.700 That media literacy, they're not literate.

00:54:51.600 And that, to me, actually exemplifies the Democratic Party today.

00:54:55.060 Let's use consultancy words and tell everyone how stupid they are because we're so much brighter.

00:55:00.220 And you have her out there saying this.

00:55:03.600 And the reality is, I mean, I'm not getting emotional here, but it kind of breaks my heart.

00:55:08.900 For liberals out there listening right now, I have always been pretty darn libertarian.

00:55:17.420 And I've never been the guy that's like, I'm on this side, I'm on that side.

00:55:21.780 This is my team and that's your team.

00:55:23.760 There have been times where I can agree with certain policies that have been put forward by Democrats and the way that the liberals that I grew up with were just absolute purists on free speech.

00:55:40.020 It breaks my heart that that party has changed so dramatically now.

00:55:44.580 I mean, you know, growing up as a child of the 80s and 90s and and watching the way that Democrats would take the sides of rock stars, hip hop artists to just whatever artists.

00:56:00.700 And again, including at times the ACLU siding with conservatives, that is gone.

00:56:07.740 It is no longer a part of the Democratic Party at all when you have mainstream institutional Democrats calling for what is essentially dismembering the First Amendment.

00:56:22.360 We're going to take a break and be back again.

00:56:24.680 I'm Trey Radel.

00:56:25.240 It's great to be with you here.

00:56:26.160 You can find me on X at Trey Radel.

00:56:28.200 That's T-R-E-Y-R-A-D-E-L filling in here for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:56:32.880 When we come back, a move to bring the, speaking of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment into public schools on every wall.

00:56:43.000 I'm Trey Radel.

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00:58:01.660 I want you to envision this.

00:58:05.000 A bunch of conservative groups get together and they say, we got a great idea.

00:58:09.640 We are going to put the text of the second amendment in every public school classroom.

00:58:18.920 We're going to do that.

00:58:19.940 And by the way, we want pictures.

00:58:22.400 We want pictures all over of guns, different guns.

00:58:27.820 And they will be on every wall of every public school classroom.

00:58:34.640 Now, you could probably even make a case for that because after all, it's part of the constitution.

00:58:38.780 Second amendment, no matter how uncomfortable it makes certain people, is one of your God-given rights in the Bill of Rights.

00:58:44.200 But let's think about this, though, for a second.

00:58:47.640 They're also, this group, they're talking about making an LGBT flag.

00:58:52.880 And that would be Luger, Glock, Beretta, and Thompson would be the guns that they'd be celebrating on the LGBT flag. 0.91

00:58:58.960 Now, if you can't tell, I'm just totally full of it.

00:59:02.440 This isn't happening, but it's for a point.

00:59:06.220 What is it with teachers around the United States wanting to put the pride flag everywhere?

00:59:11.800 Something just happened here recently in the state of Florida, where I'm broadcasting from right now, in southwest Florida, just north of us, in St. Pete, where the state now is saying you cannot have the rainbow flag painted on public property, like on roads.

00:59:30.920 So they got rid of them.

00:59:32.320 And what they did just north of us, in a much more liberal area than here, is they painted all the bike racks, the colors of the pride flag.

00:59:42.980 Like, to me, it's just petty.

00:59:47.440 And you know that they're like, oh, not only do we get Governor DeSantis, we're getting Trump, we're getting all the MAGA Republicans on this one.

00:59:54.540 We're painting the bike racks colors.

00:59:59.160 While it's petty, the reality is, whether the left wants to hear this or not, is that the pride flag, or even the pride movement, even if it started decades ago with good intentions, that somebody said, you know what, my soulmate is someone of the same gender.

01:00:18.500 Okay, me, I'm libertarian, I don't care what you do, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, it doesn't matter, I have friends who are gay, whatever they want to do doesn't matter to me.

01:00:30.600 Here's the reality, the pride flag has 100% become a political weapon. 0.89

01:00:37.580 It is to indoctrinate at the youngest age.

01:00:40.240 And it's unbelievable to me that, like, this has just been accepted for so long.

01:00:46.000 Because now, I want to go back to, like, flipping this for a second.

01:00:49.580 Could you imagine, if you're on the left, could you imagine people coming into your classroom and being like, yep, here's what we're going to do.

01:00:57.680 By the way, insert southern accent here to make it even more stereotypical.

01:01:02.100 We're putting guns everywhere, boys and girls.

01:01:04.920 Gonna learn.

01:01:06.500 Gonna learn about the AR-15.

01:01:08.500 Is that for assault rifle?

01:01:09.840 No, shut up! 1.00

01:01:11.960 And we're going to put pictures, and we're going to celebrate guns, and we're going to have the Gadsden flag.

01:01:16.620 We're going to have flags everywhere, all representing the Second Amendment and your right to be able to protect yourself, your family, and your private property.

01:01:27.880 And the left would lose their minds.

01:01:30.720 I mean, in a big way.

01:01:32.280 Because what they would assert is that, well, this is clearly for political indoctrination.

01:01:38.380 That you're going, and you're placing flags that celebrate the Second Amendment in our child's classroom.

01:01:46.840 That would never, ever, ever be tolerated by the left.

01:01:51.560 But then how do you expect people with certain religious values, not just Christian, by the way, Muslim, those in Islam, rejecting the pride flag.

01:02:06.400 How can you even begin to assert that it's not political indoctrination when that is exactly what it is?

01:02:14.180 And so you see this in all parts of the United States, where, oh, you can't have the flag here.

01:02:22.160 Well, we're just going to go and put it up here or there.

01:02:24.360 And it's always the same tune, over and over, that this is done for equality and pride.

01:02:30.940 And again, I never question the original intentions of people that have their heart in the right place and say things like, I want to be treated equally.

01:02:40.880 But it is so beyond that.

01:02:42.820 And when you make this comparison, when you flip-flop these roles of putting a bunch of gun flags in parts of the, in classrooms throughout the United States, liberals would, without a doubt, lose their minds.

01:02:58.980 They wouldn't be able to do it.

01:02:59.960 When we come back, we're going to talk a little gambling, a little football.

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01:05:08.540 Hope you had a Merry Christmas.

01:05:10.540 Part of the Merry Christmas yesterday was sitting around and watching some football.

01:05:14.300 I'm a huge fan.

01:05:16.280 You know, the NFL at times has been absolutely pretentious, condescending, and ridiculous

01:05:20.600 in some of the cultural stuff that they've gotten into.

01:05:23.680 I can't help myself.

01:05:24.780 Like, my favorite thing on Sundays is to watch football, hang with my kids, hang with my wife,

01:05:31.480 and grill.

01:05:32.600 Just meet.

01:05:33.980 Just do manly stuff.

01:05:35.400 Grill.

01:05:36.020 Watch football.

01:05:36.940 Have a beer.

01:05:38.140 Watching football these days, if you caught some of the games yesterday, has become one

01:05:42.500 of the most ridiculous, like, oversaturated gambling markets that you could possibly imagine.

01:05:52.240 When you, like, I feel like when I watch it, it's like, um, let's take a look at the Draft

01:05:59.800 King replay brought to you by FanDuel from the Draft King camera, sponsored by Hard Rock

01:06:04.520 Casino, where you know you could go and gamble on the NFL.

01:06:07.840 And you have literal shows and segments that are now all about the odds, what to bet on,

01:06:15.060 who to bet on.

01:06:16.360 And it's all such a ridiculous premise on the way that governments, including Republicans,

01:06:24.060 legalize gambling.

01:06:25.660 Now, look, I, if we've never met before, um, I'm pretty darn libertarian.

01:06:31.720 I, I think that like 90% of my philosophy is just leave me alone.

01:06:38.780 Uh, the other 10%, Hey, if you want to hit me for some taxes here and there, great.

01:06:42.740 I think that a core responsibility is to protect our country.

01:06:45.400 And there you go.

01:06:46.580 Uh, so regarding gambling, you know, if, if you're an adult and you've got the money

01:06:52.300 to do so, go for it.

01:06:53.220 I don't care.

01:06:54.360 Uh, I, I mean, me complaining about seeing ads way too much on the NFL or the ridiculous

01:06:59.540 sponsorships.

01:07:00.340 Okay.

01:07:00.640 First world problems, but there truly is an utter hypocrisy in the way that our governments

01:07:08.800 engage in gambling while telling you what you can or cannot do.

01:07:12.880 And I think that one of the greatest examples of this is actually something that has grabbed

01:07:19.480 the headlines lately.

01:07:20.780 And that's the power ball, the lotto in any way.

01:07:25.400 Uh, so someone in Arkansas just won more than a billion dollars.

01:07:30.680 That is a staggering amount of money.

01:07:33.160 And whoever you are, if you want to be friends, by the way, I'm happy to be the, uh, the lotto.

01:07:40.480 Just think about this here for a second.

01:07:42.460 When, when I say this, I think there's certain things in life that we, we see every day, but

01:07:50.560 we don't put much thought to, and it just kind of goes overhead.

01:07:53.520 And then when you say it out loud, it's like, dang, that's right.

01:07:57.860 So in most States, wherever you're listening right now, it is probably illegal for you to

01:08:08.260 have fellow friends, consenting adults over to your house and play a game of poker for

01:08:13.960 money or whatever you want.

01:08:15.820 What a cards, whatever it is.

01:08:17.260 Generally speaking, in all 50 States, there are some pretty stringent rules on what you

01:08:23.280 are allowed or not allowed to do in your own home, in your own private property.

01:08:28.600 When it comes to gambling and they got rules for this, like you, in some States, you could

01:08:34.680 get locked up in prison.

01:08:35.920 Now we always say, well, that never really happens.

01:08:38.700 Well, then why is it a law?

01:08:40.580 That's one of the things that this is me now sounding like a crotchety old man.

01:08:45.520 And I really hate it when a reaction to, well, they never do that anyway, about a law that

01:08:51.060 should not be a reaction.

01:08:52.880 If that is in fact the case, then it should not be a law, but we have these laws that tell

01:08:59.720 you if you and fellow consenting adults want to gamble that in some States you could be locked

01:09:05.720 up for that.

01:09:06.320 And in every single one of those States, think about this, you pay your tax dollars to your

01:09:13.720 government, you're in your state every year, one way or another, you're paying them.

01:09:18.900 They take your tax dollars from you.

01:09:21.440 And what do they do?

01:09:22.980 They take your tax dollars and they advertise to you and they tell you, come bet with us.

01:09:31.120 Get in on our lotto.

01:09:33.160 You need to spend your money with us.

01:09:36.040 Come gamble with us, but you're not allowed to do it at your home.

01:09:40.000 And it's so ludicrous that they take millions of dollars and they create entire ad campaigns

01:09:46.140 to tell you, Hey, come look.

01:09:48.760 And they do the funny little skits here in Florida where I'm broadcasting from now.

01:09:52.780 We have the, the lotto ad counselor, whatever it does, where they have a digital campaign,

01:09:58.980 a TV campaign, radio campaigns, where they take your tax dollars and advertise to you to

01:10:06.460 come and gamble in their ring.

01:10:09.480 Why?

01:10:10.560 Cause it's for the kids, which is the, which is what you get the answer.

01:10:15.460 Anytime a politician, by the way, doesn't truly have an answer for something.

01:10:21.460 It's for the kids like that, or it's some sort of a threat to your life.

01:10:26.600 Right?

01:10:27.260 So they take your taxpayer dollars and they've set up an entire system to advertise to you

01:10:34.120 that in fact, by the way, it's coupled also at times with PSA warnings about not to gamble.

01:10:39.900 I mean, think about the lunacy of this while you tune in to any sport these days, you go

01:10:45.760 bet on anything and it's all state sanctioned or here in Florida, for example, we have an

01:10:50.760 actual monopoly on who you're allowed to bet with.

01:10:53.420 Well, all of that is done.

01:10:54.340 They tell you, you can't do this in your own private home.

01:10:56.160 They run PSAs telling you gambling may be dangerous, but worse, they advertise the lotto

01:11:00.960 to you cause it's for the kids and, and they spend millions to convince you to just stop

01:11:07.240 at the local gas station and pick up a few tickets every day.

01:11:11.300 You know, just go there, scratch off to buy the big one, Powerball.

01:11:15.700 And when they advertise this to you, I think the most hilarious part is they need to warn

01:11:21.160 you about their own product that they're telling you to get involved in.

01:11:25.720 You know, when you watch, uh, the ridiculous, like prescription pill commercials where you

01:11:33.200 see, it's always like a couple, by the way, has to be interracial.

01:11:37.200 According to today's, today's rules, an interracial couple just galloping across the field with 1.00

01:11:43.300 flowers and beautiful music playing.

01:11:46.260 And while they're telling you lovely things like, if you take this, you may have thoughts

01:11:49.700 of suicidal thoughts.

01:11:50.540 You may get nausea, vomiting.

01:11:51.540 You may die.

01:11:52.920 And that is their disclaimer.

01:11:55.000 They are required to do.

01:11:56.140 So when your state advertises to you, they need to tell you, if you are by a product, it's

01:12:02.620 dangerous.

01:12:03.100 We need to put a disclaimer on here and on screen that says, if you think that you have

01:12:07.940 a problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER.

01:12:09.480 In New York, call 1-888-3222.

01:12:11.480 And they go through 18 different states, by the way, which is also hilarious.

01:12:16.080 Wait a second.

01:12:17.320 I didn't catch that.

01:12:18.300 I'm in New York.

01:12:18.900 I didn't get the separate number.

01:12:21.540 I can't wait.

01:12:22.260 By the way, what is that?

01:12:23.520 Why can't you call 1-800-GAMBLER in New York?

01:12:26.740 I don't know what that is, but on every disclaimer, they have a separate number there.

01:12:30.260 I'll probably guess why.

01:12:31.780 It'd be simply speculating that New York just wanted to find a way to spend more money.

01:12:37.620 We're not going to go with the rest of the U.S. here. 0.94

01:12:39.920 We're not going with that 1-800-GAMBLER.

01:12:41.560 We're going to set up our own shop so we can throw away more money in New York. 0.74

01:12:47.180 But it's so insane to me that you have state-sanctioned gambling that they advertise to you to participate in.

01:12:58.780 And you all know, halfway serious here for a second, that the realities are the people, statistically,

01:13:05.060 who spend the most money on the lottery are people that have no business doing so.

01:13:11.980 It's kind of sad when you think about it.

01:13:14.720 But this, to me, as I sat there and I'm watching football, and all of the, again, the monopolies,

01:13:21.440 the state-sanctioned gambling, the way that different laws are set up throughout the United States,

01:13:27.800 your own government, and I say this too, by the way, to be an equal opportunity shot taker,

01:13:33.400 this is absolutely knock on Republicans as well, that they take this money from you

01:13:38.500 and they spend it to advertise you with fair warning that, you know what,

01:13:44.100 if you decide to get involved in this whole lotto thing, but remember, it's for the kids.

01:13:49.040 If you decide, then you may have a gambling problem, so you might be an addict.

01:13:55.300 Go seek help.

01:13:56.660 Now, contradicting myself on a little bit of this, I will say that something that is interesting

01:14:01.300 and worth observing, as the United States goes into, I'm going to use the word liberal,

01:14:08.340 but I don't mean it really in a political sense, liberalizing more things, such as medicinal

01:14:13.540 marijuana, recreational marijuana, gambling, the fact is right now, with gambling, is that

01:14:20.100 calls to addiction centers and more have gone through the roof.

01:14:24.140 Now, again, I'm pretty purist libertarian on certainly a lot of domestic issues, but you

01:14:31.300 cannot deny the fact that they correlate, that the more that you allow the legalization and

01:14:37.500 the billions of dollars pumped into advertising, and again, when you see something like, you

01:14:41.620 know, instant replay brought to you by FanDuel from the DraftKings, I mean, you have FanDuel segments

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01:14:49.580 Oh, my God, it gets confusing, but when you see this, what you also cannot deny is the

01:14:58.400 correlation of people that have a few problems with this.

01:15:01.580 Me, I've never been much of a gambler.

01:15:03.440 I've been to Vegas not in a long, long time, and again, while no problem with it, it is something

01:15:10.200 that needs to be recognized as our country, culturally, begins looking at liberalizing

01:15:16.320 all kinds of things, from whether it's medicinal marijuana, recreational, to even gambling.

01:15:23.000 We're going to take a break, and when we come back, Texas, I want to talk with you.

01:15:28.180 Texas, I believe, is settled on who will be their Democratic nominee running for the United

01:15:37.000 States Senate, and that is Jasmine Crockett, the gift that keeps on giving. 0.79

01:15:42.640 When we come back, we're going to play her talking about illegal immigration in this country,

01:15:48.540 and I'll tell you, I'm going to have a very liberal reaction, in fact.

01:15:54.660 We're going to go a little liberal when we come back.

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01:17:56.700 Great to be with you.

01:17:58.300 Texas and certainly the rest of America listening right now,

01:18:01.660 Jasmine Crockett is clearly the gift that keeps on giving.

01:18:05.300 She is apparently going to be the Democratic nominee

01:18:08.240 running for the United States Senate in Texas.

01:18:11.880 There's just a few political things that go with this.

01:18:14.340 I do find there to be a really interesting aspect to this

01:18:18.820 in terms of the institutional Democratic fundraising machine.

01:18:22.920 You know, when you have people like Beto O'Rourke of Texas

01:18:26.740 who ran Francis, this is his name, or Stacey Abrams in Georgia,

01:18:31.380 they raised millions of dollars.

01:18:33.160 I'm very curious to see whether or not Crockett has the ability to do that

01:18:38.500 given some of the crazy stuff that comes out of her mouth.

01:18:42.460 So I had to go around the country and educate people about

01:18:45.800 what immigrants do for this country

01:18:48.480 or the fact that we are a country of immigrants.

01:18:51.040 Right, right.

01:18:52.080 The fact is, ain't none of y'all trying to go and farm right now.

01:18:58.320 Okay, so I'm lying.

01:18:59.580 Raise your hands.

01:19:01.020 Raise your hands.

01:19:03.160 You're not.

01:19:07.400 You're not.

01:19:09.200 We done picking cotton.

01:19:13.340 Where's Mrs. Cleaver when you need her?

01:19:15.700 So what you got is Jasmine Crockett there

01:19:18.460 saying that she goes around the country

01:19:22.880 and educates people about immigrants

01:19:24.920 and then says, we done picking cotton.

01:19:30.020 You know, there's a very serious component to what she's saying here.

01:19:33.160 Is that we have slave labor now. 0.99

01:19:37.340 That's a really profound statement that she makes there.

01:19:42.040 You know, I'm done with this.

01:19:45.620 My ancestors picked cotton no more.

01:19:48.180 We now have a new slave trade and it's illegal immigrants in the black market. 0.95

01:19:54.080 I mean, what a horrible thing to say.

01:19:58.460 And this is why I cannot understand the liberals of today that the liberals of yesterday were the ones who had a heart and had compassion.

01:20:08.840 You know, the black market, do you know what that does?

01:20:13.980 Again, sound here liberal for a second.

01:20:16.480 Like, the most disaffected component of the U.S. population when it comes to the inability to get jobs

01:20:24.520 when you have a mass influx of illegal immigration are young blacks and Hispanics.

01:20:30.840 You're screwed.

01:20:31.720 You're done.

01:20:32.340 Why?

01:20:32.540 Because as Jasmine Crockett, they don't pick a cotton. 1.00

01:20:36.040 They're going to have somebody else do it.

01:20:38.440 I mean, what a ridiculous question to how many of you are out there to go farming.

01:20:43.280 What?

01:20:44.080 What are you even talking about?

01:20:45.740 But she spouts off this kind of stuff and it truly, it truly exemplifies what she's really saying and what the Democrats are doing.

01:20:56.640 When you have uninhibited, unfettered, illegal immigration in the country, it is bad for everyone. 0.99

01:21:05.280 It's bad for Americans and, by the way, for the illegal immigrants that have been within black markets 1.00

01:21:12.080 and been in the horrible circumstances that are occasionally presented to them in the places that they work.

01:21:20.260 They don't care about you.

01:21:22.540 I also don't buy, by the way, I don't buy into the concept that any new immigrants to this country, all are going to be Democrats.

01:21:32.880 But when you adhere to a legal way of doing things, I think that the place that everyone normally and naturally gravitates to is conservatism.

01:21:44.360 We're going to take a break and be back for the final hour of the Glenn Beck Program.

01:21:49.200 I'm Trey Radel.

01:21:50.000 You're right back.

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01:23:18.540 Well, that didn't take long.

01:23:24.160 I've already received my first message from someone who I knew many years ago that's listening.

01:23:32.600 These are stupid, racist, Republican talking points.

01:23:36.920 There you have it.

01:23:38.240 I mean, that's what I proposed you to say.

01:23:40.300 Hey, everybody.

01:23:41.140 My name is Trey.

01:23:41.860 I'm Trey Radel, filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:23:45.260 And, you know, what's happening right now?

01:23:49.060 And just one reaction that I've gotten is very typical from the left, that there is no listening to data, facts, logic, reason.

01:23:57.780 It's just that you are a racist.

01:23:59.700 And how long have we been told that the biggest threat to the United States today is the white Christian male?

01:24:06.000 Now, this comes after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

01:24:09.540 This comes after multiple people identifying these different genders shoot up schools and churches. 0.99

01:24:17.360 We're going to touch on that coming up next, as well as a few of the top stories of this year.

01:24:22.360 Again, I am Trey Radel, filling in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Program back in a minute.

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01:25:30.760 Trey Radel, filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:25:42.380 Good to be with you here for our final hour.

01:25:44.100 This has been Head to the Ride, and thank you so much for the kind messages I've either received on social media,

01:25:50.980 the texts, we can get to our local line here in southwest Florida, where I'm coming to you from here in the free state of Florida.

01:25:57.820 It's been a wonderful ride, and I'm very, very thankful.

01:26:01.680 And I hope we get to do it again.

01:26:02.980 In this final hour, I want to start with something that profoundly affected me this year as we reflect on this year,

01:26:10.520 as we watch the left engage in exactly what they say they're fighting against,

01:26:23.200 misinformation and disinformation, as we've touched on this show.

01:26:26.040 They're out there saying that Charlie Kirk was, you know, insert description, racist, misogynist, xenophobe, as they always like to use.

01:26:40.760 And it's just so not true.

01:26:43.600 And it's a damn shame the way that they cherry pick like 10 seconds of a larger conversation and begin to attempt to shape his legacy on the left.

01:26:59.880 And the reality was Charlie Kirk was a profoundly open-minded, Christian-loving man.

01:27:09.500 Like, when you go and you get context with the way that he would speak to people,

01:27:15.680 the way that he would invite people up to talk that had radically different opinions than him,

01:27:23.280 he wanted them to talk.

01:27:24.580 He wanted to engage in conversation.

01:27:28.480 And Charlie Kirk, you know, paraphrasing him here, would always say, he'd ask,

01:27:33.520 people would ask him, why do you do this?

01:27:35.220 And he would ask, well, you know, why do people get divorced?

01:27:40.540 Why do couples, they're together for all these years, why do they get divorced? 0.92

01:27:44.160 And he would always point to the first sign of that is when people stop communicating.

01:27:50.500 And would then historically go into how when people stop communicating with each other in society,

01:27:57.160 that it ends up in violence.

01:27:58.680 And his whole goal was to bring people together, to talk, and yes, to debate, because debate is healthy.

01:28:06.800 It's something our college universities don't even do anymore.

01:28:09.900 You're not allowed to engage in debate if, God forbid, you're on the right.

01:28:13.940 And what he was doing was something that, again, classical liberals, Democrats of the past,

01:28:20.820 apparently used to like, getting involved in debate, having free speech, sharing ideas.

01:28:25.280 But they've shut that down now, and Charlie Kirk, who goes location after location,

01:28:31.900 university after university, to go and have great conversation, to speak with younger Americans,

01:28:38.920 and yes, engage in debate, that was never hurtful.

01:28:43.820 It was never attacking individuals.

01:28:46.380 You would never see him directly go after someone, ever.

01:28:49.980 And as he does this, to try to bring people together, to have conversations, they kill him for it.

01:29:00.860 And, you know, very quickly, I hate sitting here droning on about myself,

01:29:06.840 but if you are just joining us here in this last hour of the Glenn Beck program,

01:29:11.040 I've lived a pretty wild life of ups and downs.

01:29:14.160 You can find me on the internet prominently.

01:29:16.960 And I have been in very public positions most of my adult life.

01:29:21.600 I've been a TV news anchor, a reporter.

01:29:25.780 I owned a newspaper.

01:29:28.020 And I've been in media, including political media, like we're doing right now.

01:29:32.700 And I was in the House.

01:29:34.360 I served as a U.S. congressman.

01:29:36.740 And I look at what happened to Charlie,

01:29:39.140 and I know that that can happen at any time to anyone.

01:29:43.900 And yet, the craziest part is that to this day,

01:29:49.760 what we keep hearing is that the biggest threat to American society is the white male.

01:29:57.280 Again, what I come back to is that this concept of misinformation and disinformation

01:30:03.980 that is not based in stats that so-called Democrats,

01:30:07.260 so-called liberals who supposedly believed in the Constitution at one time,

01:30:10.980 want to shut this speech down.

01:30:14.320 And they're doing it by any means necessary.

01:30:17.760 And in this case, the shooting and killing and very public assassination of Charlie Kirk

01:30:23.000 was done to shut the mouths of people like Glenn Beck

01:30:28.360 and all of the others that you may listen to or watch,

01:30:32.740 even if it's someone like Joe Rogan, who, by the way,

01:30:35.480 Joe Rogan, not exactly conservative.

01:30:39.260 He just, you know, it's crazy how, by the way,

01:30:41.720 the Democrats, as they see people like Charlie Kirk

01:30:44.960 get these massive numbers of followings and others,

01:30:49.560 Benny, Benny Johnson,

01:30:50.680 people who are either online or radio shows

01:30:53.620 from Beck, Kennedy, and Moore,

01:30:56.380 and they look around and they're like,

01:30:58.000 we needed Joe Rogan.

01:31:00.040 You had him.

01:31:01.440 You had him.

01:31:03.520 What do you think happened?

01:31:05.600 And the way that people like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan explain it,

01:31:09.280 it's pretty simple.

01:31:10.420 I was here.

01:31:11.600 I was kind of in the center, you know,

01:31:13.340 maybe a few issues here or there.

01:31:14.680 I was a little bit to the left,

01:31:15.940 a few issues here or there,

01:31:16.920 a little bit to the right.

01:31:18.580 Because, you know,

01:31:19.620 you can't pin everyone into a little box like,

01:31:21.540 you believe in this, this, this.

01:31:22.500 Nope, not that way.

01:31:23.460 That's not life.

01:31:24.880 And Rogan, the way that he explains it,

01:31:26.500 Andy Elon Musk,

01:31:27.160 you're like, listen,

01:31:28.120 this Democrat party went off the freaking rails.

01:31:31.540 They're insane.

01:31:33.060 These people are crazy.

01:31:35.120 I can't associate with them.

01:31:36.620 I can't identify with them in any way, shape,

01:31:39.620 or form anymore.

01:31:41.380 And so I'm done.

01:31:43.560 And as soon as you do, you know,

01:31:44.940 they get attacked.

01:31:47.160 Looking, we need to find our own Joe Rogan.

01:31:49.660 What a Democrat thing to do, by the way. 0.98

01:31:51.400 You know, like, that's just an organic thing.

01:31:53.120 You can't just force.

01:31:55.700 You're going to like this person now.

01:31:58.220 The way that they're out there, by the way,

01:32:00.120 Democrats these days doing as much as they can on social media.

01:32:02.600 One thing that I've noticed that kind of goes along with this superficial belief of we need our own Joe Rogan is the way if you're on social media, go look at Gavin Newsom, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and a host of others.

01:32:17.900 And I promise you, if you scroll through just a few of their posts, you will see them all dropping F-bombs.

01:32:24.300 Why?

01:32:24.820 Because a consultant told them that they would be cool.

01:32:27.620 That's exactly why.

01:32:29.740 You know, Donald Trump, I love him.

01:32:32.960 I love his sense of humor.

01:32:34.460 He'll occasionally, but not that much.

01:32:36.980 He'll occasionally drop a curse word here or there.

01:32:38.820 And what's happening, though, because Trump tends to speak big and powerful, and even if he's not cursing, he's using powerful phrases.

01:32:47.120 He shapes language in a really unique way.

01:32:50.660 And so what you see now are Democrats who believe that they have to use curse words to keep up.

01:33:00.160 And that, to me, again, kind of goes very so rogue.

01:33:02.260 And they were like, they just they feel compelled.

01:33:04.200 Like, we need to be cool.

01:33:06.660 We need to go and drop F-bombs. 1.00

01:33:08.280 Chuck Schumer.

01:33:09.440 Like, give me a break, dude.

01:33:10.600 I've never heard you ever curse.

01:33:13.140 Maybe you do in your private life, but to go on to social media and start dropping the F-bomb?

01:33:18.660 Give me a break.

01:33:19.940 It's superficial.

01:33:21.080 It's fake.

01:33:21.840 But all of it goes along with the campaigns that they are waging against the right today.

01:33:28.820 And I come back to the horrifying death of Charlie Kirk and why they did it.

01:33:35.060 And it's to shut up the right.

01:33:37.040 That, to me, by the way, is clearly a terror event.

01:33:43.160 And that is to send, that is a public execution in front of thousands of people there on that campus.

01:33:50.120 And, by the way, not millions, but billions with a B of people all over our planet who watch that pretty much in real time.

01:33:59.560 And that video, like you, probably, it will never leave my head.

01:34:03.800 But sitting back and just allowing them to try to take control of this conversation is unacceptable.

01:34:13.320 And that's why I do have nothing but respect and love for the way that you see people who will not back down to this.

01:34:20.040 And so, in reflecting on this year and some of the stories, I also wanted to wrap with the way that the left reacted to Charlie's death.

01:34:30.440 To me, actually, I think that there are two deaths that speak volumes about the left today.

01:34:37.380 Anyway, when Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in front of us all, I won't play the clips now.

01:34:46.380 They never should see the light of day.

01:34:48.800 But there were clips all over about people cheering his death, singing songs about his death.

01:34:55.000 And, you know, there's a point where you look and you get angry and you're like, you're a grotesque people.

01:35:00.600 You're terrible human beings.

01:35:02.440 Then there's another part where, like, I kind of feel sorry for you.

01:35:06.340 Like, what kind of messed up life do you come from where you're here celebrating the death of a father and husband who died in front of his children and wife?

01:35:19.180 But that's the left, the party and the culture of peace and tolerance and diversity, except diversity of thought.

01:35:29.480 But the other one that really gets me, that is darkly hilarious, is the death of Dick Cheney.

01:35:37.000 See, everybody, Dick Cheney was Hitler before it was cool.

01:35:41.780 That's who Dick Cheney was.

01:35:43.600 He was Hitler before it was cool. 0.96

01:35:45.600 Now, for those of you that are young and listening, Dick Cheney, years ago, was blamed for being the architect of wars.

01:35:57.420 And you had Afghanistan, and then we go into Iraq, and Dick Cheney was utterly despised by the left.

01:36:06.800 I mean, they were doing, like, it's pretty weird, too, because he's the VP.

01:36:10.500 He's not even the president.

01:36:11.220 It's one thing to go burn effigies of Bush, who was president during the early 2000s as we go into Iraq.

01:36:19.080 But then you got Dick Cheney, and everybody's all over him.

01:36:23.120 He is Darth Vader, that they'd say.

01:36:26.380 He is literally Hitler. 0.87

01:36:30.240 And then he passes away.

01:36:32.600 And my gosh, it was pretty remarkable this year to see Democrats, even on MSNBC, out there talking about, well, let's say something.

01:36:45.780 I'm barely paraphrasing here.

01:36:47.000 Like, you know, a few disappointing policies, but this guy, he came around.

01:36:55.020 He came around to the truth.

01:36:56.920 He came around to, and what they're really telling you is that he was on their side.

01:37:02.480 He hated bad orange man like them. 1.00

01:37:05.320 And therefore, because he and his daughter voted, not even for someone, but against Donald Trump.

01:37:12.080 It's like, you know, it's like being in confession if you're a Catholic.

01:37:15.880 All Dick Cheney had to do was come over to that side, and the priest and priestesses of the church gave him a little blessing.

01:37:25.660 Do the sign of the cross. 0.92

01:37:26.700 Now go over to that pew and give me 50 Hail Marys and 50 Our Fathers, and Dick Cheney, you are forgiven.

01:37:32.040 And that is precisely what the left symbolizes today.

01:37:37.120 We're going to take a break and be back.

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01:39:16.100 In reflecting on some of the other stories this year, there is one that is hilarious.

01:39:24.100 It has to do with the Climate Summit.

01:39:25.920 If you haven't seen this, what I'm about to share with you will sound like a Babylon Bee headline.

01:39:31.300 If you know Babylon Bee, I'm a huge fan.

01:39:33.460 It is center-right, if not right humor, and it's all satire.

01:39:40.340 And they're a great follow-up, by the way, on anywhere, on any social media.

01:39:44.820 And in this Climate Summit, they call it the Conference of the Parties.

01:39:48.520 Okay, that's where you've got really, like, uber-wealthy liberals who get together and fly on their private jets and then take either helicopters or even armored SUVs to their final destination before skiing and doing things like that.

01:40:07.300 And they go and they preach to you about why it's so crappy you drive a Ford F-150.

01:40:13.880 You're a gas-guzzling, disgusting human being you are. 0.99

01:40:18.220 How dare you?

01:40:19.380 Now, let me go hop on my private jet and leave a larger carbon footprint than you could ever dream of.

01:40:24.820 So, this year, they had the Climate Summit in Bilem, Brazil.

01:40:33.600 I've never been there, but I'm sure that it's beautiful.

01:40:36.360 It's in the Amazon rainforest.

01:40:37.740 And they all descend on this Amazon rainforest to talk about how human beings, especially anyone who believes that fossil fuels actually produce energy and low-cost energy and do wonderful things for the world.

01:40:56.000 They're there to tell you how terrible you are, what you should or should not be driving.

01:41:00.640 They want to go ahead and get involved in legislating your life.

01:41:04.980 And if you haven't heard, before they descended on Bilem, Brazil, in that area, there was a protected part of the rainforest.

01:41:15.660 Okay?

01:41:16.260 The Brazilian government deems this as protected.

01:41:18.700 They lifted that protection, and they built miles and miles, constructed miles of roads so they could have the climate summit in Bilem, Brazil, while destroying the rainforest.

01:41:37.440 Do you know how utterly disconnected that is?

01:41:40.280 Like, we're going to wipe out parts of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in order to make sure that we can have people fly around the world in their private jets, arrive here, and drive on this newly paved road that destroyed the Amazon rainforest to talk about how bad it is to destroy the Amazon rainforest.

01:42:05.340 This, to me, is the utter hypocrisy of the left.

01:42:08.920 That what it really shows is how little they believe.

01:42:14.760 Let me give you, like, a quick example here.

01:42:17.260 If you had a child with a peanut allergy in your home, you wouldn't have peanuts or peanut butter because it would cause certain death.

01:42:25.340 If the left truly believed that we are on our way, that we are destined for extinction, that we are destroying this planet, don't you think that they might abide by their own rules and their own beliefs?

01:42:39.920 And I guarantee you right now, right now as we speak, there is someone listening that has voted over and over for policies to regulate your life, what you boat in, what you drive in, and what you fly in, to regulate your life while they're driving a gas-guzzling car.

01:42:58.220 And by the way, buying electric isn't exactly any better for the environment when you incorporate everything else.

01:43:06.000 But remember, you could be holier than thou when you drive an electric car for some people, unless, of course, it's Tesla, which is another crazy story that's occurred over the past couple years here.

01:43:17.300 The way that Elon Musk has somehow went from hero of the left to the devil, and they're burning down his stores this year.

01:43:24.180 Again, whether you look at the torching and destroying of Tesla cars or dealerships to the way that they're destroying the Amazon rainforest, all in the name of climate change and solving our so-called climate crisis.

01:43:41.380 I think that this year goes to show how clear it is that these people believe in absolutely nothing, with the exception of one thing, one important thing for them, control.

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01:44:00.160 When we come back, why Republicans are the new Democrats.

01:44:04.400 I'm Trey Radel.

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01:45:49.840 Trey Radle, filling in here for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program, and I have managed to offend some people.

01:45:57.800 Those on the left who reached out, no apologies, but we also have Ann in Texas, offended by a little joke that I made, 0.98

01:46:07.080 and I'm always willing to hear critiques and more.

01:46:09.520 First of all, Ann, how are you doing?

01:46:12.140 I'm doing okay.

01:46:13.480 And Ann, where are you from in Texas?

01:46:15.840 Canyon Lake.

01:46:17.180 Canyon Lake.

01:46:18.080 Now, where is that?

01:46:18.740 I lived in Texas for a bit.

01:46:20.460 Where's Canyon Lake?

01:46:22.280 It's in between San Antonio and Austin, but closer to San Antonio, near New Braunfels.

01:46:28.900 Actually, I'm looking at it right now.

01:46:30.500 It looks spectacular.

01:46:31.620 It looks beautiful.

01:46:33.360 Yes.

01:46:33.640 What a beautiful place.

01:46:35.140 You got a big lake.

01:46:36.220 That is a huge lake, too.

01:46:37.740 Are you on the water?

01:46:40.020 No, not exactly.

01:46:41.500 Do you go on the water?

01:46:43.260 No, no, not on the water, but we have some property, like, you know, not far from there.

01:46:47.180 Nice.

01:46:47.760 It looks beautiful.

01:46:48.580 Can you, can you, is there like water sports?

01:46:50.640 Can I ride a jet ski in that lake?

01:46:54.920 Yeah, yeah.

01:46:55.720 And boating.

01:46:56.760 Nice.

01:46:57.080 And fishing.

01:46:57.880 Cool.

01:46:58.240 So, Ann, I made a joke for anybody that missed it.

01:47:02.140 Let me just recap.

01:47:02.980 So, basically, what I said was that the way that the left reacted to Dick Cheney's death

01:47:10.600 was utterly ridiculous.

01:47:12.940 And it just goes to show you that they believe in absolutely nothing.

01:47:17.140 Agree.

01:47:17.880 Agree with that.

01:47:18.900 And so, I said that it went with the left saying that Dick Cheney's good to go.

01:47:24.800 It's almost like a Catholic priest saying, okay, you just go over there, you say 50 Hail

01:47:29.740 Marys, and you're good to go.

01:47:31.020 It's just a joke, Ann.

01:47:34.580 Well, you know what?

01:47:35.580 I don't really find that very funny.

01:47:37.760 I am listening to you because I know you've been filling in for Glenn.

01:47:40.740 And I don't know if that was you last or before Christmas, but there was somebody from Arizona

01:47:46.500 before Christmas.

01:47:48.200 But, anyway, I've been a fan of Glenn Becks, like I was telling the screener, for, you know,

01:47:54.060 25 years.

01:47:55.320 I went to his rally in Washington, D.C. in 2008.

01:47:58.840 And I know that Glenn used to be a Catholic, but he's not anymore, unfortunately.

01:48:02.520 And I've never, ever heard anything said about the Catholic charge from Stu or Glenn or the

01:48:13.400 other guys.

01:48:14.100 I can't think of his name right now.

01:48:16.280 So, I was not here.

01:48:19.600 I don't know who offended you last week from Arizona.

01:48:22.520 I'm in Florida.

01:48:23.000 But, look, I got, like, I'm Catholic.

01:48:27.560 I, when I, you know, I don't know whether, what religion, I don't know what Glenn, I don't,

01:48:34.620 I really don't care whatever, you know, he wants to believe in.

01:48:39.780 You know, you stated, you feel sad that he's not Catholic anymore.

01:48:43.980 But, uh, the joke that I made has absolutely zero to do with Catholics or the church.

01:48:49.500 It has to do with the ridiculous hypocrisy of the left.

01:48:53.960 And so, sorry if I offended you, Ann, but I got nothing but love.

01:48:59.440 And, uh...

01:48:59.720 Yeah, but what you did say did have to do with the Catholic church, because you said all we

01:49:03.800 have to do is go to confession, and the priest will go tell us to say for Hail Mary, and

01:49:08.040 it's over.

01:49:08.660 And that's just not true.

01:49:10.180 We have to, we have to repent in order to be forgiven.

01:49:13.260 And I agree with you.

01:49:14.700 And I think that the left, absolutely, so, Ann, thank you.

01:49:18.840 I can't please everyone all the time.

01:49:23.580 This is what, it's what the left does.

01:49:25.680 The left has belief in nothing.

01:49:28.720 The fact that they would, it would go and hail Dick Cheney as some sort of a hero is so utterly

01:49:39.880 ludicrous.

01:49:40.280 If you are basically over the age of, I don't know, roughly, what, 35?

01:49:45.520 If you're over the age of 35, and you hear the left hailing Dick Cheney, you are like,

01:49:51.040 no way.

01:49:52.480 Like, of all people.

01:49:53.840 Remember, Dick Cheney was Hitler before it was cool. 0.51

01:49:57.660 That's how they labeled him.

01:50:00.660 And in fact, to talk a little bit about the political discourse of today, while Ann's got

01:50:05.180 me on a roll, I'm going to have to stand up here for a second.

01:50:07.920 Like, the way that they would call Dick Cheney or George Bush Hitler 20 plus years ago, at

01:50:16.820 that time, that was shocking, and it was horrible.

01:50:20.920 How dare you go out there and use the word Hitler to describe a U.S. sitting vice president

01:50:30.020 or president?

01:50:31.240 And what is it today?

01:50:32.280 It's commonplace.

01:50:33.160 How often do you go without hearing Hitler?

01:50:38.440 They have used this word.

01:50:40.000 The left uses this.

01:50:41.660 You know what it is?

01:50:42.760 Is Hitler is the new fascist. 0.78

01:50:47.600 Fascist is the new racist.

01:50:50.080 Racist is the new.

01:50:51.280 You see what I'm going with here?

01:50:52.280 Like, you go back to Bork. 0.91

01:50:56.920 I'm going to use even a Supreme Court nominee here.

01:50:59.460 Here we go.

01:50:59.920 Trying to talk with everybody from the youngins to Gen Z, Gen X, and the baby boomers.

01:51:07.700 When Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, was doing everything he could to stop that nomination for that Supreme

01:51:17.060 Court justice, that is when they brought out the big guns.

01:51:20.980 And the big guns were, that man is a racist.

01:51:24.980 He, and now think about that for a second.

01:51:27.100 You're saying, this white guy, this is really heavy at the time, hates black people.

01:51:34.340 And now, it is so abused and so overused, it's just white noise.

01:51:40.420 But the reality is, is using a term like Hitler has significant connotations.

01:51:45.820 And if you're, if you're Jewish faith listening right now, I like, I don't even, especially 1.00

01:51:51.580 if you're on the left, how do you even tolerate that?

01:51:54.820 That every week you've got someone on the right being called literally Hitler.

01:52:01.040 And by the way, one of the most important things that I want to stress here, as we've talked

01:52:05.720 for now, more than two and a half hours, is when we talk about the left clamping down on

01:52:12.260 the First Amendment, wanting to absolutely stifle speech, or we talk about the left overusing

01:52:18.380 and abusing the word Hitler, these are not, this is not fringe.

01:52:23.020 It's not fringe at all.

01:52:24.160 It's all the time.

01:52:25.420 It's the most mainstream institutional Democrats that you could possibly imagine.

01:52:30.340 And they use it so much that what it's effectively done, it's made the history null and void.

01:52:37.280 Nobody cares anymore.

01:52:38.400 No, Hitler, what is he? 0.65

01:52:39.540 I mean, you've got an entire generation growing up that just thinks that Hitler is a term like,

01:52:46.800 oh, well, you're a dummy. 0.91

01:52:48.400 Think about that for a second.

01:52:49.940 I'm, I'm not even being hyperbolic here.

01:52:52.080 Like it is used so much that you've got a generation of Americans that hear words like

01:52:59.000 Nazi and Hitler, and it registers on the scale of, well, you're kind of stupid.

01:53:04.960 And that is not only a profoundly ignorant way of, that our country is going, but I would

01:53:12.640 also say dangerous.

01:53:16.120 And the way that, that you look at all of this and the way that it unfolds is to me, it's

01:53:23.660 so clear that the Democrats have so radically gone away from their roots of liberal, classical

01:53:33.400 liberal, liberal beliefs in speech, where they were the speech purists to now, they're the

01:53:40.440 ones out there saying that the, that the first amendment and media online on radio, which

01:53:46.260 you're listening to right now on TV, anyone on the right is out there telling you misinformation

01:53:51.220 and disinformation, and they need to be shut down.

01:53:55.180 I cannot stress enough that all of my years of growing up and being a political nerd, since

01:54:00.280 I was probably 12 years old, total nerd.

01:54:04.680 One of the things that I so thoroughly respected about the democratic party was their absolute

01:54:10.740 commitment to free speech.

01:54:13.440 And now they're using these terms like Hitler, like Nazi to be able to shut down your free expression.

01:54:21.720 And this is something that's near and dear to my heart as, as somebody who is a free speech

01:54:25.200 purist, as someone, you know, again, if we haven't met, I've worked in media, I have been

01:54:30.340 a journalist, I've worked as a TV news reporter, a TV news anchor, I've worked on radio, right

01:54:36.360 now I'm broadcasting to you from Florida, where I do a show every night here on 92.5 Fox News.

01:54:41.840 And it is not only profoundly ignorant and offensive, the way that they're out there utilizing these

01:54:49.420 terms, Hitler and Nazi, and then in the same breath saying that there needs to be speech

01:54:55.100 that is stifled, actually engaging it under the Biden administration.

01:54:58.900 But you know what I come to?

01:55:01.480 In some ways, as I used to love the liberals who were absolutely stuck on being free speech

01:55:09.440 absolutist, what's happening now is a profound cultural and generational shift from leftism

01:55:18.980 to conservatism.

01:55:21.820 And if there's anything that as we begin to wrap up the show and this hour, that I hope

01:55:28.660 that people, including the politicians of the Republican Party, that they recognize what

01:55:36.140 Donald Trump has done is that he has ignited a cultural and generational shift of people

01:55:45.200 from the left to the right.

01:55:49.280 And I don't think that gets done without Trump.

01:55:53.020 And by the way, what I would also say are some of the people in the Republican Party that

01:55:58.660 have been, you know, for lack of better words, kind of Trump inspired or they've learned how

01:56:04.140 to, you know, not accept the ridiculous premise that the media sets out there, debate them

01:56:08.580 every damn time about being a racist, this and that, but how to stand up for themselves

01:56:12.440 and notably how to stand up for their policies.

01:56:15.900 Now, I served in Congress and one of the more disheartening things that I would see from

01:56:20.280 time to time is where Republicans would go behind closed doors and they would be like,

01:56:25.480 this is the policy we're introducing.

01:56:26.940 Here's what we're going to do.

01:56:27.920 They get really excited.

01:56:29.060 Now we're going to go out.

01:56:30.040 We're going to tell the world.

01:56:30.880 And we get out from a closed door meeting in the moment that the media would set up some

01:56:36.440 sort of a question that I'm paraphrasing here and being a little bombastic, but so you want

01:56:40.880 to do this policy, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Republican, Mrs. Republican, why are you racist?

01:56:47.120 And the moment that kind of older guard of Republicans hears that they back down.

01:56:53.160 Oh, no, no, I'm not, I'm not saying that.

01:56:55.340 No, I'm not, I'm not racist.

01:56:56.580 But they'd be baited into it and they back down and that we cannot stand for anymore.

01:57:03.140 And that is why I'm telling you that Republicans are the new Democrats.

01:57:09.000 When we come back, I'll explain what the heck I'm talking about.

01:57:11.620 There is a massive cultural and generational shift that's happening right now.

01:57:18.520 I'm Trey Radel.

01:57:19.080 You can find me on X at Trey Radel filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:57:22.680 We'll be right back.

01:57:23.320 Keep your powder dry and your conscience clear.

01:57:28.900 This is Glenn Beck.

01:57:45.880 The older I get, the more I think about trust.

01:57:48.440 I think about the people in my life who have my trust and earned my trust and the trust

01:57:53.960 that I have placed in some people who I later learned abused that trust.

01:57:57.820 I know we're alike in that way.

01:57:59.200 We don't trust a lot of people anymore.

01:58:01.040 It's like we're all Ronald Reagan trust, but always verify to make sure we're not making

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01:58:56.500 Trey Radel, filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:59:00.320 You find me on X, find me on Facebook, et cetera.

01:59:03.020 Trey, T-R-E-Y, Radel, R-A-D-E-L.

01:59:05.960 As we wrap up this wonderful show here, huge thank you to Glenn Beck.

01:59:10.700 I said before we took the other break, Democrats are the new Republicans.

01:59:16.640 And here's what I mean by that.

01:59:18.100 Right now, there is a profound generational and cultural shift to the right.

01:59:28.940 And look, there are times, I don't want to be too black and white here, that some of it

01:59:33.680 just has to do with how repelled people are against the left.

01:59:37.060 But you really look at, if you're over the age of roughly 35, and whether you are a baby

01:59:46.960 boomer or a Gen X, like for all of modern American politics, the left, they were the cool kids

01:59:53.560 in the room.

01:59:54.140 They were the long, they were the rock and roll stars.

01:59:56.800 I mean, baby boomers, you listening right now, it was your generation with kind of awesome

02:00:02.000 music coming out of the whole hippie movement, the leftist movement.

02:00:05.740 But I mean, even if you go through time of even like hip hop or rock rage against the machine,

02:00:14.200 they were always supposedly the cool kids in the room.

02:00:17.360 And now they are insufferable Karens. 0.66

02:00:21.020 They're the worst.

02:00:22.700 Like, if you're going to a party, you do not want to be pinned down late at night with some

02:00:28.120 leftist talking your ear off about anything from the weird gender things or whatever the

02:00:34.020 weird cultural things that they are incessant on.

02:00:38.880 The reality is, is that there is a massive generational and cultural shift underway.

02:00:43.940 I think that a load of it was sparked by the flame of Donald Trump, that he ignited this.

02:00:53.100 And I would highly recommend that Republicans continue to learn from what, from the tone

02:01:00.900 that he has set.

02:01:02.180 Look, Trump can absolutely pop off and say some either bizarre things, even offensive things.

02:01:07.500 But what is consistent about Trump is standing up for what he believes in, even if it's not

02:01:14.340 popular among Republicans.

02:01:16.760 And for far too long, Republicans have been the weak ones that backed down the moment that

02:01:21.380 somebody threw out the premise of racist, misogynist or whatever it was.

02:01:25.600 And Republicans need to learn to stand up for their policies and what they believe.

02:01:30.780 And I do believe that many governors and other members of the House and Senate have learned

02:01:35.300 from this, but the cultural and generational shift right now is very, very real.

02:01:43.320 The Democrat, and culture is the electricity current of politics.

02:01:50.440 It's culture that ignites the political shifts that we see.

02:01:55.540 And it's happening right now.

02:01:58.340 And with that, I say to the right, stand up to the man, fight the power and rage against

02:02:04.920 the machine.

02:02:05.860 Because what we learned, certainly during COVID and what we've even talked about these last

02:02:10.660 three hours, it's Democrats who are trying to assert control over every aspect of your

02:02:16.980 life through legislation or the cultural things like we're going to cancel people.

02:02:22.240 We're going to dox people and no more.

02:02:26.040 And those, those phrases, by the way, are cross-generational.

02:02:29.000 Stand up to the man, the hippie movement, fight the power, public enemy, hip hop, rage

02:02:34.880 against the machine.

02:02:36.140 They're all now these weird and sufferable Karens. 0.99

02:02:39.960 That does it for us.

02:02:40.800 I'm Trey Radel.

02:02:41.580 Great to be with you today.

02:02:43.160 You can find me on X and more at Trey Radel.

02:02:45.560 A big thank you to Glenn.

02:02:46.640 That was the Glenn Beck program.

02:02:48.060 This is Glenn Beck.

02:02:57.700 Thank you.

02:02:58.700 Thank you.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 26, 2025

Trey Radel filling in for Glenn- The Left's Changing View on Free Speech ｜ 12⧸26⧸25

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