The Glenn Beck Program - SOTU 2026 Recap: Trump's BEST and Democrats' WORST Yet? | Guest: Sheriff Jim Cooper | 2/25/26
Aired: 2026-02-25
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[00:01:45]  Now let's get to work.
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[00:02:38]  Glenn Beck is on.
[00:02:40]  Oh, God.
[00:02:43]  I gotta tell you, I could have rolled in today, you know, two minutes before I cracked the mic and had plenty of stuff to talk about and without breaking a sweat.
[00:02:55]  Last night, a few things happened.
[00:02:59]  One, I don't think I've ever made it to the end of a State of the Union address.
[00:03:05]  I don't think I've ever made it to the end, especially one that was two hours long.
[00:03:11]  I've never, I, you hit 15 minutes into it and I'm like, I can't take it anymore.
[00:03:16]  I can't take it anymore.
[00:03:18]  When will this guy shut up?
[00:03:20]  That's what I'm saying about every single president that has ever, when will these people stop clapping, sit down so we can get through this?
[00:03:26]  And when will this guy shut up?
[00:03:29]  Last night I was riveted, absolutely riveted, and I, oh, I have a lot to say.
[00:03:34]  We learned a lot last night.
[00:03:37]  We'll get into that here in 60 seconds.
[00:03:39]  First, let me tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
[00:03:45]  What does it actually mean in 2026 to stand with Israel in a world that feels increasingly unstable?
[00:03:52]  It's easy to say the words.
[00:03:54]  Well, maybe not.
[00:03:55]  Maybe not today.
[00:03:56]  Not anymore.
[00:03:57]  I stand with Israel.
[00:03:58]  Well, good luck with that.
[00:04:00]  The headlines are constant.
[00:04:02]  The threats are real.
[00:04:04]  The region around Israel remains volatile.
[00:04:07]  And you may have lost friends if you say, Yeah, I believe Jews have a right to live in their own nation and defend themselves.
[00:04:15]  I don't necessarily have to agree with their wars.
[00:04:18]  I don't have to agree with the way they fight them.
[00:04:20]  I don't have to go join them on that, but I agree that they have a right to live.
[00:04:25]  Oh my gosh, when that gets dangerous, you know the world is in trouble.
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[00:05:00]  All right.
[00:05:01]  I'm going to give you my overview, and then I'm going to take it bit by bit and tell you.
[00:05:11]  There's places I just, we just have to go.
[00:05:14]  We just have to go.
[00:05:15]  I just have to play the audio because it was incredible last night.
[00:05:19]  Last night was not a speech.
[00:05:22]  Okay.
[00:05:22]  Last night, it was a mirror.
[00:05:25]  And if you were watching carefully, not through Twitter, not through the spin room, not through cable Chirons, but actually watching the room, you saw something that should concern every Democratic strategist in America.
[00:05:42]  You saw something in the room that if you vote for the Democrats, should have made you question: who am I standing with?
[00:05:52]  The damage was not done by the president.
[00:05:55]  The damage was done by the people who refused to stand or clap for the most obvious things.
[00:06:04]  Let me say something plainly here.
[00:06:08]  This was the best speech President Trump has ever given.
[00:06:12]  I mean, you want to talk about a mic drop.
[00:06:13]  And I urge you, go back and look at when he was walking out.
[00:06:19]  I mean, I think you will see it.
[00:06:20]  Now, when I point this out, you will see it.
[00:06:22]  When he's walking out and he's shaking people's hands on the way out, the guy looks 20 years younger.
[00:06:28]  He looks like he's 60 when he's walking out.
[00:06:33]  He walked in strong, clear, disciplined, not tired, not wandering.
[00:06:41]  He was on prompter, yes, but he commanded the prompter unlike any time I've ever seen him give a speech.
[00:06:47]  He had humor that landed.
[00:06:50]  He had key moments like the hockey team that was humor, that was human, that was light, that was confident.
[00:06:58]  The opening statistics I thought were overwhelming.
[00:07:02]  Rapid fire, border, inflation, energy, jobs.
[00:07:05]  There was a rhythm to this speech.
[00:07:08]  The most important thing is he did not look like he was defensive.
[00:07:14]  And Donald Trump has been on the defense for most of his presidency, not necessarily this term, but last term.
[00:07:24]  And then when he was running for president and even towards the beginning of this first or this second term, he has been saying, look, it's going to be great.
[00:07:36]  He no longer had to say that.
[00:07:38]  Last night, he was on the offense.
[00:07:41]  Last night, he looked certain.
[00:07:45]  He knew what he had done, and he was commanding as president of the United States.
[00:07:52]  But that's not the story.
[00:07:54]  Although that's big news, that's not the story.
[00:07:57]  The story was the Democrats.
[00:08:01]  When you have a third of them not standing for the U.S. hockey team, what is going on?
[00:08:12]  No real applause for the Olympics or the World Cup coming to America.
[00:08:18]  Muted response for the first World War II veteran.
[00:08:25]  Polite, restrained clapping for the Coast Guard rescue mission.
[00:08:30]  What?
[00:08:30]  What?
[00:08:32]  The moment that was the most powerful moment I have ever seen any president give other than Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
[00:08:42]  There was no moment in presidential history in my lifetime that was as strong as that until last night.
[00:08:52]  Stand if you agree the first job of government is to protect the American citizen and not foreign citizens.
[00:09:02]  That's the easiest applause line ever presented in American politics.
[00:09:09]  That is, you shouldn't even think.
[00:09:12]  Stand up.
[00:09:13]  That's not even partisan.
[00:09:15]  Is the job of the American government, Congress, to protect the American city, a citizen, or illegals or foreign citizens?
[00:09:31]  What happened?
[00:09:33]  Hesitation, folding of arms, looking down, no one clapping, no one standing up on that side of the aisle.
[00:09:42]  Just play this out with me.
[00:09:44]  That's something that even if you don't believe in, you stand up for.
[00:09:49]  It's something that you go like, I don't believe in this, but this is going to look really, really bad.
[00:09:54]  We all got to stand up.
[00:09:57]  You don't damage your opponent when you do that.
[00:09:59]  You damage your brand.
[00:10:02]  This was the worst night for any brand and maybe twice as bad for the night that Coca-Cola came out and said, we're getting rid of the original recipe and we're going right for new Coke.
[00:10:20]  I mean, that did brand damage like I've never seen before.
[00:10:23]  This, I'm not sure the Democrats survive the brand damage that they're doing right now.
[00:10:29]  You know what I mean?
[00:10:31]  When you can't stand for that.
[00:10:36]  The American people last night were not watching like operatives.
[00:10:42]  They were watching like parents.
[00:10:45]  And parents understand instinctively, if you can't stand for protecting citizens, something is very broken.
[00:10:54]  Something is very wrong.
[00:10:57]  The border section was devastating to the Democrats.
[00:11:02]  Angel moms.
[00:11:04]  Elizabeth stabbed 24 times.
[00:11:08]  Delilah crushed by an 18-wheeler.
[00:11:11]  Now a little girl in first grade kissing her father.
[00:11:17]  You don't stand for that?
[00:11:19]  Calling for a commercial license to be denied to illegal immigrants because of her and calling it Delilah's Law.
[00:11:27]  And you can't stand for that?
[00:11:31]  You can't clap for removing dangerous rapists and criminals from the country.
[00:11:37]  Think about this.
[00:11:39]  We can disagree on immigration policy all you want.
[00:11:42]  We can debate visa quotas.
[00:11:45]  You can argue about asylum reform.
[00:11:47]  But when you can't stand for deporting violent criminals, that's not a strategy.
[00:11:54]  That's the end of your brand.
[00:11:56]  That's moral confusion.
[00:12:00]  I was stunned by that.
[00:12:05]  Because America looked at that and went, do these people hate our country?
[00:12:12]  Do they hate America?
[00:12:15]  The average person.
[00:12:16]  You had to walk away with that.
[00:12:19]  The contrast on all of it, I mean, the economic contrast, very sharp.
[00:12:25]  He talked about, you know, inflation and how they drove up inflation by spending too much.
[00:12:32]  Energy, they drove up inflation because they stopped drilling, you know?
[00:12:37]  And he said, you caused this.
[00:12:39]  Your policies caused this.
[00:12:42]  I'm fixing it.
[00:12:44]  Crushing health care costs.
[00:12:45]  Everybody in the country knows healthcare is being crushed.
[00:12:50]  It's crushing people.
[00:12:53]  You did, you promised Obamacare.
[00:12:56]  You said it would fix it.
[00:12:58]  And it hasn't.
[00:12:59]  It's made it worse.
[00:13:01]  And I'm going in and fixing it.
[00:13:04]  When he comes out and he says, look, you're going to pay, what was it?
[00:13:08]  The IVF thing.
[00:13:11]  I got to get into that.
[00:13:13]  When he talks about any of the drug costs going from $4,000 to $500, you can't stand and applause for that?
[00:13:23]  You can't?
[00:13:24]  What?
[00:13:27]  Then taxes.
[00:13:30]  Did you notice that when they introduced Michael Dell, who gave, what was it?
[00:13:35]  $6 billion, some crazy amount of money to these, you know, to these America accounts.
[00:13:44]  So kids can be, when they're born, they can get an account worth, I don't know how much.
[00:13:50]  Well, Michael Dell gives, he and his wife give, I don't remember what it was.
[00:13:54]  I think it was, I think it was $6 billion, wasn't it?
[00:13:58]  $6 billion.
[00:14:00]  $6 billion.
[00:14:03]  Okay?
[00:14:06]  They don't stand for a guy who just gave the nation and the children and the most vulnerable $6 billion.
[00:14:15]  They will stand and applaud for, we want to take more of these rich billionaires' money, but we're going to take it.
[00:14:22]  We're going to use it for the IRS.
[00:14:24]  We're going to take it.
[00:14:25]  And then God only knows where that money goes.
[00:14:28]  They'll cheer for taking and crushing billionaires, but they can't stand and applaud a man who voluntarily gave $6 billion to the government to help children.
[00:14:42]  That should tell you a ton.
[00:14:46]  They could not applaud for a deduction on your auto loan for the first time in history.
[00:14:54]  No tax on tips.
[00:14:57]  No tax on tips.
[00:14:59]  They could not applaud for that.
[00:15:02]  They couldn't applaud when he talked about 401ks are up.
[00:15:08]  What was it?
[00:15:08]  30%, I think.
[00:15:10]  I mean, I know that you don't feel it.
[00:15:14]  And quite frankly, it's hard to feel.
[00:15:17]  I don't feel it.
[00:15:19]  When I go to a fast food restaurant and I'm rolling out of there and it's just Tanya and I and we've just spent 35 bucks at McDonald's, I have a hard time going inflation's under control.
[00:15:29]  So I get it.
[00:15:31]  If you're trying to buy a house, I completely get it.
[00:15:34]  I don't think the average person feels it yet, but I don't think the average person has looked at their 401k either.
[00:15:42]  How much is the average 401k up?
[00:15:45]  He said, since I took office, the typical 401k balance is up by at least 30,000.
[00:15:50]  30,000.
[00:15:53]  Okay?
[00:15:55]  You can't applaud for that?
[00:16:01]  You can't applaud.
[00:16:02]  Actually, I think Elizabeth Warren did.
[00:16:06]  Applauded for the Wall Street being banned from buying up single-family homes.
[00:16:11]  She also stood for insider trading.
[00:16:15]  They didn't stand for paying the lowest prescription drug price paid anywhere in the world.
[00:16:20]  I have always said, Democrats, why do you have a problem with us overpaying here in America that we are paying the highest drug price in the world?
[00:16:29]  Aren't we the wealthiest 1% in the entire world?
[00:16:33]  Of course we are.
[00:16:34]  America is, when you look at it globally, we are the wealthiest 1% in the world.
[00:16:39]  You always say the wealthiest 1% should pay more.
[00:16:43]  Well, your drug policy for prescription drugs, the way you allow America to have her eyes pushed in with the thumbs of the insurance and the drug companies, it at least fits your view that the wealthiest 1% should pay the highest because as a collective looking at America, even the poorest are among the wealthiest 1% in the world.
[00:17:10]  But he comes in and he says, that's not fair.
[00:17:13]  That's not right.
[00:17:15]  We should not be, we're now paying the lowest.
[00:17:20]  And you can't recognize that accomplishment?
[00:17:28]  I mean, you can argue policies.
[00:17:32]  You can argue whether any of these mechanisms will work long term.
[00:17:35]  That's fair.
[00:17:38]  But he was offering mechanisms.

=== The Democrats' Brand Damage (15:39) ===

[00:17:41]  The Democrats last night offered facial expressions, pins that used the full word F-ICE.
[00:17:49]  You see Rashida Tlaib?
[00:17:51]  Wearing a pin that said F-ICE.
[00:17:54]  That's appropriate.
[00:17:58]  They offered angry insults, screaming on the floor.
[00:18:06]  I mean, do I need to go into Joe Wilson?
[00:18:09]  Do you remember what that was all about?
[00:18:11]  Under Obama, during the debate on Obamacare, he said, look, you got to pass Obamacare.
[00:18:18]  It's got to be done because it doesn't have anything that these people say it will.
[00:18:22]  It will never be used to support health care for illegal aliens.
[00:18:29]  That's an absolute blatant lie.
[00:18:31]  It was a blatant lie then.
[00:18:32]  It's a blatant lie now.
[00:18:34]  Look at it.
[00:18:35]  But he said that.
[00:18:36]  And Joe Wilson could not take it.
[00:18:38]  And so he said, you lie.
[00:18:42]  What happened?
[00:18:44]  What happened?
[00:18:45]  It was like the whole world caved in.
[00:18:49]  You can't do that.
[00:18:50]  How dare you say that?
[00:18:52]  He had to apologize the next day.
[00:18:55]  The president then accepted his apology.
[00:18:59]  But that wasn't good enough for the Democrats.
[00:19:01]  They didn't accept it.
[00:19:03]  You know, John McCain, everybody was on fire because he said two words, you lie.
[00:19:09]  Last night, they were screaming, you kill Americans from the floor.
[00:19:21]  Representatives were screaming, you kill Americans.
[00:19:25]  And nobody says anything.
[00:19:30]  It was incredible.
[00:19:31]  When he said Republicans voted for tax cuts and every Democrat voted against them, they sat.
[00:19:39]  When he said, stop insider trading in Congress, Elizabeth Warren stood.
[00:19:46]  Democrats did not.
[00:19:49]  When he said, we're putting the American worker first, arms folded.
[00:19:55]  Do you know what the American voters saw last night?
[00:19:59]  Resentment.
[00:20:01]  Resentment.
[00:20:05]  Hatred for America.
[00:20:06]  It was the most patriotic speech I have seen given by a president in a very long time.
[00:20:14]  And they looked like they hated America.
[00:20:19]  There's so much more I got to get into.
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[00:22:05]  And so he is saying to these tech companies, you cannot raise the prices on other people because of your demand.
[00:22:12]  You want the power.
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[00:22:16]  I mean, that is a pledge to protect your electricity costs for you and your children.
[00:22:23]  That's future framing.
[00:22:25]  That's long-term positioning.
[00:22:29]  And the Democrats were annoyed by it.
[00:22:32]  And they showed.
[00:22:33]  I mean, it was amazing.
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[00:24:44]  So last night of the state of the union, the president, I think strength, Uh signaled strength and continuity,
[00:25:12]  that he is moving in this direction and it's all a plan and it is being executed piece by piece and it's all falling in place and you're starting to see the results of it.
[00:25:25]  The Democrats signaled fatigue and defiance, you know, and they had the state of the swamp last night where they had the frog.
[00:25:33]  What was it?
[00:25:34]  The frog swamp brigade frog brigade of Portland there.
[00:25:41]  It was insane.
[00:25:42]  It was insane.
[00:25:45]  Here's the problem for the Democrats.
[00:25:46]  The country is exhausted.
[00:25:49]  We're exhausted by inflation.
[00:25:51]  We're exhausted by disorder.
[00:25:52]  We're exhausted by cultural warfare.
[00:25:55]  And when somebody stands up and can say from 1776 to today, we built a nation for our children, people lean in.
[00:26:09]  When the response is silence, people notice.
[00:26:14]  You don't have to love everything the president said last night.
[00:26:17]  You don't have to love every word he said or how he said it.
[00:26:20]  You don't have to agree with every policy.
[00:26:22]  This was a massive strategic mistake.
[00:26:26]  Okay.
[00:26:27]  For them to sit every single time and not stand for things that are obvious and easy is such a missed opportunity.
[00:26:44]  They could have stood for the veterans.
[00:26:45]  They could have stood for protecting citizens.
[00:26:48]  They could have stood for lowering drug prices.
[00:26:51]  They could have stood for banning congressional insider trading.
[00:26:55]  They chose not to.
[00:26:58]  And when you refuse to stand for things that are broadly popular, emotionally resonant themes, you don't look principled.
[00:27:10]  I don't even think you look partisan.
[00:27:12]  You look anti-American.
[00:27:15]  The Democratic Party last night did more to damage its own brand than any attack ad, any other politician could have ever done.
[00:27:24]  They did the brand damage themselves.
[00:27:27]  Americans are not going to remember in a week the statistic that he said or got wrong.
[00:27:33]  They will remember for a very long time who stood, who clapped, and who didn't.
[00:27:42]  In a country that is still deep down, we want to believe we're on the same team.
[00:27:50]  In a country where we still believe we're decent, we're good, we can save our nation.
[00:27:58]  Refusing to stand for the team when it's team America is not a winning strategy.
[00:28:06]  Last night was not a speech.
[00:28:08]  It was a contrast.
[00:28:09]  It was brilliant.
[00:28:12]  One side saying, protect the border, cut taxes, lower costs, defend retirement, build energy, put Americans first.
[00:28:19]  And the other side saying, nope, I don't even think that that's our job is to protect Americans.
[00:28:26]  Oh my.
[00:28:27]  That is truly remarkable.
[00:28:30]  Truly remarkable.
[00:28:33]  When their posture was, nope, not with him, not this way, not now.
[00:28:42]  Tone changes everything in politics.
[00:28:45]  And last night, the tone shifted.
[00:28:48]  And if the Democrats don't understand the damage they did themselves by sitting down when America stood up, they are going to find out the hard way.
[00:28:58]  Let me ask our own crew here.
[00:29:04]  I put together a little piece question I have.
[00:29:09]  Ricky, didn't you put a poll out for the insiders?
[00:29:12]  What was that poll?
[00:29:13]  Torch insiders, you can vote on this poll right now at glennbeck.com slash torch.
[00:29:17]  What was the most important takeaway from President Trump's State of the Union address?
[00:29:21]  One, his plan is working.
[00:29:22]  Two, America's on the rebound.
[00:29:24]  Three, America is a country we should be proud of.
[00:29:27]  And finally, the Democrats hate America.
[00:29:29]  And I have to say right now, Glenn, just with the probably thousand people that have voted so far, Democrats hate America was the biggest takeaway for Torch Insiders of the State of the Union last night.
[00:29:41]  Are you surprised by that?
[00:29:42]  Yeah, no, I'm not.
[00:29:43]  That was my question.
[00:29:45]  My question was, who are the Democrats?
[00:29:49]  There's only three answers to that.
[00:29:51]  One, they're Americans who disagree with policies.
[00:29:55]  That's the way Democrats have always been.
[00:29:56]  Republicans have always been that.
[00:29:58]  We just disagree on policies.
[00:29:59]  Second option, Americans who have lost sight of America's goal and her people.
[00:30:07]  Okay?
[00:30:09]  I have to add a third one.
[00:30:12]  People who care more about power, money, and other outside forces over Americans and America.
[00:30:21]  I can go deeper on that.
[00:30:23]  People who do not like or love our country.
[00:30:29]  But you're, to me, I'm C, or if I add a D. That's what I saw last night.
[00:30:36]  I didn't see people who disagreed with policies.
[00:30:39]  I didn't see people who have lost sight of, you know, because of Donald Trump and they hate him so much, they've lost sight of America's goals.
[00:30:46]  They don't like America.
[00:30:48]  That's what I saw last night.
[00:30:50]  That's what I felt.
[00:30:52]  Feelings, I'm sorry, I know facts don't care about your feelings, but perception is reality.
[00:30:59]  And when you can cement things with your eyes, with your ears, this was not somebody telling you this.
[00:31:06]  You experienced it last night.
[00:31:09]  You viscerally saw these people say, no, it's not our job to protect Americans over illegals.
[00:31:18]  What?
[00:31:19]  That is jaw-dropping, absolutely jaw-dropping.
[00:31:23]  Can I add one thing?
[00:31:25]  Yeah.
[00:31:26]  There were so many human moments last night that you'd have to almost be inhuman to not have a response like tearing up, clapping, supporting, smiling.
[00:31:39]  And it made me think that is it possible that they hate Trump more than they love the country.
[00:31:45]  And it made me very sad.
[00:31:47]  So give me one of those.
[00:31:48]  Give me one of those.
[00:31:49]  You should play something from last night.
[00:31:51]  Give me one of those moments.
[00:31:53]  Let me look at the cuts that we have.
[00:31:56]  Stalling, vamping, as they say, in our industry.
[00:32:02]  I'm going to leave you hanging there.
[00:32:03]  I'm going to leave you hanging.
[00:32:04]  The one where we were talking about the Donald Trump introduces the mom who lost.
[00:32:10]  That's Cut 11.
[00:32:11]  Let's play Cut 11, please.
[00:32:13]  And yesterday, as you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration.
[00:32:26]  People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen with our open borders.
[00:32:30]  These are the angel moms and families that for decades our government betrayed and our media totally ignored.
[00:32:38]  Totally, it was terrible.
[00:32:40]  Hard to believe, actually.
[00:32:42]  In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lisbeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.
[00:32:53]  Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.
[00:33:04]  Lisbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and just brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously.

=== Lisbeth Medina's Tragic Story (06:06) ===

[00:33:21]  Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals for our country at record numbers, and we're getting them the hell out of here fast.
[00:33:34]  We don't want them.
[00:33:39]  How?
[00:33:44]  How do you not feel that?
[00:33:46]  How do you not stand with that?
[00:33:49]  They can't.
[00:33:50]  They can't because that's their whole thing.
[00:33:57]  They cannot admit that there's a difference.
[00:33:59]  Remember, we talked about this yesterday.
[00:34:02]  You have to be able to hold, if you're a critical thinker, if you're expected to survive in today's world or any world, you have to be able to hold two thoughts at once.
[00:34:14]  You have to be able to say, okay, the two things that are true.
[00:34:21]  You know, I think we should be compassionate to illegal aliens, blah, blah, blah, and we should care about that and yada, yada, yada.
[00:34:29]  And what?
[00:34:34]  And we should not have people who are killing our children on the streets.
[00:34:40]  That is easy to stand up for.
[00:34:42]  This guy came in and killed, and then he follows it up with, that's why we have to get these violent illegals off our streets right now.
[00:34:53]  How do you not stand for that?
[00:34:57]  Americans don't understand that.
[00:34:59]  And, you know, he was, he, he used, whether he knew it or not, he was using Martin Luther King last night.
[00:35:06]  He was using Martin Luther King.
[00:35:09]  He was putting good versus evil side by side.
[00:35:13]  He was taking these vulnerable, vulnerable people who had experienced something horrific that no American should ever want anyone to go through.
[00:35:25]  And he was saying, here's what caused it.
[00:35:29]  Here's the solution.
[00:35:32]  Who agrees with me?
[00:35:34]  And by them sitting, Martin Luther King said, when you can put good versus evil on the same screen and you can show them to the American people and they can see it side by side, they'll pick good every time.
[00:35:50]  And I'm not saying that the Republicans are good or right about everything else.
[00:35:54]  That one is easy.
[00:35:56]  And all of these were easy.
[00:35:59]  Let me take a quick break and I want to talk to Sarah and also to Jason here in just a second.
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=== Glenn Beck's Memorable State of the Union (06:38) ===

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[00:40:24]  So Jason and Sarah, what was the big takeaway that you took last night from the State of the Union?
[00:40:32]  Let's start with you, Sarah.
[00:40:34]  Well, mine is, I felt that Trump from The Apprentice was there last night, especially, yeah, especially at the end when he was given the fighter pilot the medal and he had Melania do it.
[00:40:48]  I was like, he wants a heart attack right now.
[00:40:50]  He wants those ratings.
[00:40:52]  That was pretty impressive.
[00:40:54]  Yeah, he was, I got to tell you, he was the one thing that, you know, Ronald Reagan was so good.
[00:41:01]  He was the great communicator because he was an actor.
[00:41:04]  Donald Trump is not an actor, although I would make the case he's a good comedian.
[00:41:09]  He's a TV guy.
[00:41:12]  That came out last night.
[00:41:14]  That was the best produced.
[00:41:17]  That was great television last night.
[00:41:20]  One of the things we were talking about in the meeting before the show was that moment that Sarah's talking about and then also presenting the Medal of Freedom to the warrant officer.
[00:41:32]  I don't want to say that or else Jason will call me out.
[00:41:35]  Who led the raid on Maduro, who is still injured in a walker.
[00:41:40]  Yeah.
[00:41:40]  And it was such an amazing television moment.
[00:41:44]  But I wondered, has any other president presented Medals of Freedom and Medals of Honor during State of the Unions before?
[00:41:52]  He's the first to break precedent.
[00:41:54]  So Rush Limbaugh must have been the first one.
[00:41:56]  He was in 2020.
[00:41:58]  That was such a memorable moment.
[00:42:00]  I mean, he has changed the state of the union.
[00:42:03]  If anybody else can pull it off, he's changed the state of the union.
[00:42:06]  They've always brought up.
[00:42:07]  Let me tell you a story.
[00:42:08]  And I've hated it.
[00:42:09]  Every year I hate it.
[00:42:11]  Let me tell you a story about little Sally Muckenfutch, who has a child with no eyes.
[00:42:16]  She was born without eyes.
[00:42:17]  And so I've been growing eyes in the basement of the White House because that's the American thing to do.
[00:42:22]  And I hate those stories.
[00:42:24]  Every time I hate those stories because I just feel, we got it.
[00:42:28]  Last night, every story was riveting.
[00:42:32]  Every person was personal.
[00:42:35]  It was emotional.
[00:42:37]  I mean, he cracked the code on the State of the Union last night.
[00:42:42]  I think, Ricky, I think you said it when you first came in.
[00:42:44]  He's like, he should not give another State of the Union speech ever again.
[00:42:47]  Because that was, just rerun that one.
[00:42:50]  It was great.
[00:42:52]  It was great.
[00:42:53]  Do you know who wrote that one?
[00:42:55]  They will never tell you.
[00:42:58]  But if I had to guess, hints of Stephen Miller in there.
[00:43:02]  It was really, really good.
[00:43:05]  And you notice he sticked to the prompter.
[00:43:08]  He doesn't usually do that.
[00:43:10]  He usually is like on the prompter a bit and he'll just read blah, And then he'll riff.
[00:43:16]  Last night, he was the best I've ever seen him on Prompter.
[00:43:19]  He stuck to the script and his asides were critically important.
[00:43:24]  Like, you people are crazy.
[00:43:26]  These people are crazy.
[00:43:30]  So powerful.
[00:43:31]  So powerful.
[00:43:32]  Okay, your phone calls coming up in just a minute.
[00:43:36]  And we have a lot more to cover, not just on the speech, but everything else that's going on in the world coming up.
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[00:45:34]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:45:38]  Glenn Beck is on.
[00:45:41]  Hello, America.
[00:45:43]  The speech last night, State of the Union, the best the president has ever delivered, but the speech wasn't the story.
[00:45:49]  The reaction was the story.
[00:45:52]  When you have the Democrats, they cannot stand for the country.
[00:45:55]  They won't clap for safety, security.
[00:45:59]  They caused the inflation that they now criticize.
[00:46:03]  They're offering outrage last night.

=== Rush Tax and Secret Service Secrets (15:26) ===

[00:46:05]  He was offering solutions and not just solutions like, hey, this is what we're going to do in the future.
[00:46:12]  He was pointing out, here's what I've done in just the last year.
[00:46:17]  And the dividing line was stark and simple.
[00:46:20]  Protect citizens or protect ideology.
[00:46:23]  Homes for families or homes for hedge funds.
[00:46:27]  Energy independence or manage decline.
[00:46:31]  Nation building for our children in our own nation or applause lines for the base.
[00:46:37]  That's what it came down to last night.
[00:46:39]  And I want to take you through some of the critical sections because I saw things I've never seen a president do last night.
[00:46:47]  I saw some things that I don't think any other president, maybe Reagan, but he didn't do it, could have pulled off.
[00:46:55]  The brilliance of the speech last night was to compare and contrast.
[00:47:01]  And he did it brilliantly.
[00:47:03]  And I'll give you the prime example of that in 60 seconds.
[00:47:06]  First, let me tell you about rush tax.
[00:47:08]  Listen to what Dr. Michael had to say about rush tax.
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[00:47:15]  But when the IRS came after me for tax liability, I didn't even fully understand.
[00:47:20]  I was completely helpless, or at least that's the way I feel.
[00:47:23]  A colleague of mine heard Rush Tax on this program, and he said, you should call them.
[00:47:28]  I did, and I wish I would have done it six months sooner.
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[00:48:21]  So last night, I want to start with the audio, which I have never, ever seen anything like it.
[00:48:33]  He is calling out.
[00:48:39]  Where is that audio here?
[00:48:42]  Okay, this, cut 13.
[00:48:44]  Listen to this, where he is just asking people, just stand.
[00:48:49]  Just stand if you believe this.
[00:48:51]  Listen.
[00:48:52]  So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
[00:49:00]  If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
[00:49:05]  The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
[00:49:20]  They're not clapping.
[00:49:22]  The Democrats...
[00:49:24]  None of them are standing.
[00:49:26]  None of them.
[00:49:28]  And Donald Trump just motions towards them.
[00:49:31]  Like, look at that.
[00:49:39]  This is the biggest political mistake I've ever seen a party make.
[00:49:44]  Isn't that a shame?
[00:49:45]  You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
[00:49:48]  You should be ashamed of yourself.
[00:49:51]  That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities.
[00:49:57]  Do you notice here, I've never heard the president speak so forcefully as, I mean, he was doing this a couple of times where you're like, what?
[00:50:06]  What is happening?
[00:50:07]  It's because he was trying to drown out the shouts from the high schoolers that call themselves congressmen who were shouting, you kill American citizens.
[00:50:21]  I mean, insane stuff.
[00:50:24]  That's why he was shouting so loud.
[00:50:27]  That's why I'm introducing, because he wanted to drown them out.
[00:50:31]  I've never seen anything like it.
[00:50:33]  From a country that went from Joe Wilson saying, you lie, and the whole nation stopped.
[00:50:39]  How dare you do that to the president of the United States?
[00:50:41]  I don't care if you disagree with him or not.
[00:50:43]  You don't disrespect the president in the state of the union.
[00:50:46]  To that, I was surprised they didn't start throwing things at him.
[00:50:51]  And I mean that sincerely.
[00:50:53]  I was shocked they didn't start throwing things at him.
[00:50:59]  It was not a good look.
[00:51:02]  Now, do we have the place to where he is talking about here?
[00:51:13]  Let's play cut 12, him calling for the, you know, for ending the shutdown.
[00:51:19]  Listen to this, cut 12.
[00:51:21]  As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
[00:51:28]  It's all cut off.
[00:51:30]  It's all cut off.
[00:51:32]  They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.
[00:51:39]  Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.
[00:51:45]  Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.
[00:51:51]  Tonight I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow.
[00:52:05]  We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.
[00:52:09]  We'd love to give you a hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.
[00:52:13]  Nobody's getting paid.
[00:52:14]  It's a shame.
[00:52:15]  So you have to think about it.
[00:52:17]  We have, in case you didn't know, pretty large snowstorm out there.
[00:52:23]  You know what he didn't say?
[00:52:25]  You want to be petty, but accurate.
[00:52:29]  But anybody who thought he was petty, you know what he didn't say has been defunded?
[00:52:35]  Secret Service.
[00:52:37]  Secret Service, DHS and Secret Service.
[00:52:41]  As they continue to try to kill this president, they're defunding Secret Service.
[00:52:51]  To me, that took a man much bigger than me because I would have said, I've had attempt on my life after attempt on my life, and you people are responsible because you keep saying I'm a Nazi.
[00:53:06]  And you have the gall to cut the budget and stop paying secret service to protect not just me, but our judges and some of you.
[00:53:20]  How dare you do that?
[00:53:23]  You have a responsibility to protect the constitutional order.
[00:53:28]  He didn't say that.
[00:53:30]  And he would have had every, they just tried to kill him again.
[00:53:34]  He'd have every right to do that.
[00:53:37]  Every right.
[00:53:39]  Now, it's amazing to me how some people are saying, you know, well, he didn't get any of the facts right.
[00:53:47]  He didn't get any of the facts right?
[00:53:49]  What?
[00:53:50]  So let's look at what he said last night because a lot of them that they say he didn't get right, well, it was mostly true, but we don't have enough evidence yet.
[00:54:00]  Okay, that doesn't make it false.
[00:54:03]  Okay.
[00:54:04]  The economy.
[00:54:05]  I had inherited a nation in crisis with stagnant economy, inflation at record levels.
[00:54:11]  Yep.
[00:54:12]  Yep.
[00:54:13]  The economy was not growing.
[00:54:18]  Now, BLS said it wasn't stagnant.
[00:54:23]  He says inflation is plummeting, core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.
[00:54:28]  In the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.
[00:54:32]  The BLS says core CPI is at 2.5 to 2.6 year over year, December and January 26, the lowest in years, but not at 1.7.
[00:54:45]  Gasoline, he said, now below $230 a gallon in most states, $1.99 where I've seen it, and $1.85 a gallon I saw at a gas station in Iowa.
[00:54:58]  The press is saying that's false.
[00:55:00]  The national average is $2.92 to $2.95.
[00:55:03]  Well, it's sure they held better than $4 a gallon, isn't it?
[00:55:08]  And that was in February of 2026.
[00:55:11]  No widespread sub $2.30 prices.
[00:55:16]  No widespread.
[00:55:18]  He said I saw a gas station in Iowa and in most states, it's $2.30.
[00:55:26]  That's not sub $2.30, is it?
[00:55:29]  Interesting.
[00:55:30]  Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast.
[00:55:33]  The annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 since I took office.
[00:55:38]  Slight exaggeration is what they mark this.
[00:55:41]  Rates fell in 2025, but not to a four-year low across the board.
[00:55:46]  Notice that.
[00:55:47]  Exact $5,000 savings, not independently verified at scale.
[00:55:54]  Okay.
[00:55:56]  The stock market is at 53 all-time record highs.
[00:56:00]  Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule.
[00:56:03]  Mostly true, but exaggerated on 53.
[00:56:06]  Dow Jones hit 50,000 in early February, not at 53,000.
[00:56:13]  That's not what he said.
[00:56:14]  He said the stock market broke 53 records.
[00:56:21]  Did he not?
[00:56:22]  He wasn't saying he was at 53,000.
[00:56:25]  It just broke because he follows it.
[00:56:27]  All-time highs.
[00:56:28]  Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead.
[00:56:31]  Okay.
[00:56:32]  Even if it was 50, 53.
[00:56:35]  In 12 months, I've secured commitments for more than $18 trillion new investments.
[00:56:41]  Fact checkers, unverifiable.
[00:56:43]  I mean, where is he getting that number?
[00:56:45]  Well, no independent government or news confirmation of exact $18 trillion figure in commitments.
[00:56:54]  Okay, but what is the figure that you have?
[00:56:56]  If it's not $18 trillion, what is the figure?
[00:56:59]  Because when you look at those numbers and you add them up, and if they actually come through, and this is all you need to say, $18 trillion, okay, that's what he says, but that money is trickling in.
[00:57:13]  There's maybe been a trillion of it that has come in so far.
[00:57:16]  It's over five years.
[00:57:17]  We'll watch.
[00:57:18]  But if that happens, then it's true.
[00:57:23]  American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day.
[00:57:27]  Plausible, but unconfirmed is the exact figure of 600,000.
[00:57:34]  American natural gas production is at an all-time high.
[00:57:37]  True.
[00:57:38]  More Americans are working today than any other time in the history of our country.
[00:57:42]  100% of all jobs created were in the private sector.
[00:57:46]  True.
[00:57:47]  Let me say that one again.
[00:57:48]  More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.
[00:57:54]  100% of all jobs created were created in the private sector.
[00:58:00]  True.
[00:58:02]  Why is that important?
[00:58:06]  That's important because we're not growing the size of the government.
[00:58:11]  All the jobs that have been created in the last, you know, during the last administration, the vast majority of them were all government sector.
[00:58:19]  They're not.
[00:58:21]  Okay.
[00:58:21]  We cut the record number of job-killing regulations, lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.
[00:58:28]  Exaggerated.
[00:58:29]  Snap rolls declined, but exact 2.4 million record, not independently verified as largest one in one year.
[00:58:39]  Okay.
[00:58:40]  All right.
[00:58:42]  Largest tax cuts in American history.
[00:58:44]  No tax on tips.
[00:58:45]  No tax on overtime.
[00:58:46]  No tax on Social Security.
[00:58:48]  Interest on auto lines, auto loans tax deductible if made in America.
[00:58:52]  Mostly true, they say.
[00:58:55]  The typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000.
[00:59:00]  Fact checkers, plausible.
[00:59:02]  Strong 2025 market gains boosted balances, but not exact averages increase varies by source.
[00:59:08]  So we found another source that said it was, what, 23,000?
[00:59:12]  The average is up 23,000.
[00:59:15]  So we're not sure.
[00:59:17]  23,000, 30,000.
[00:59:19]  What difference does that make, honestly?
[00:59:22]  Because there's no verified number.
[00:59:25]  So you can pick either and say either one of those is true and probably won't be wrong or that wrong.
[00:59:32]  The point is, is that America's 401ks, I didn't even think of that.
[00:59:37]  I didn't think that 401, the average American 401k, let's just use 23,000.
[00:59:42]  Did you know that?
[00:59:43]  Nobody's checking their 401ks.
[00:59:45]  Everybody checked their 401ks in 2008.
[00:59:49]  I heard every day, do you know how much I've lost in the stock market?
[00:59:52]  You know how much my 401k, how am I going to retire?
[00:59:55]  In the last year, if your 401k is up $23,000 or $30,000, that's a big deal in one year.
[01:00:07]  The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56% in one year.
[01:00:13]  True.
[01:00:15]  The murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history.
[01:00:19]  It's the biggest decline, lowest number in over 125 years.
[01:00:22]  Mostly true.
[01:00:24]  Homicides fell 21% in 2025 across major cities, largest single year drop on record, national rate likely lowest, likely lowest since 1900.
[01:00:35]  Okay.
[01:00:36]  All right.
[01:00:37]  Members of the Somalia community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion Minnesota, California, Massachusetts, Maine, even worse.
[01:00:48]  They say that's exaggerated.
[01:00:50]  Real fraud cases existed in feeding programs, et cetera, but the totals were in the hundreds of millions, not 19 billion nationwide.
[01:00:58]  I think we have that to play out yet.
[01:01:01]  And I don't think I take the press on their number more than I take what the president is saying on the number.
[01:01:08]  I'm telling you right now, a third of our debt, a third of our debt is going to, in the end, be because of fraud.
[01:01:23]  That's how big I think the fraud is in the United States government.
[01:01:27]  I think a third of our debt, not our deficit, our yearly deficit.

=== A Third of Debt Is Fraud (02:14) ===

[01:01:32]  What did he say yesterday?
[01:01:35]  I think he said, didn't he say half or a third of our debt?
[01:01:42]  He said we would wipe out our national deficit.
[01:01:45]  If we just eliminate the fraud, we will wipe out our national deficit and we will balance the books.
[01:01:51]  I think that is absolutely true.
[01:01:53]  Absolutely true.
[01:01:54]  Crime in D.C. is now at the lowest level ever recorded and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100%.
[01:02:02]  Fact-checked, exaggerated.
[01:02:04]  Homicides are down sharply, 67% year to date, early 2026 versus prior, January 2026, very low.
[01:02:13]  Only one to two cases.
[01:02:15]  Not almost no crime or exactly 100%.
[01:02:21]  Not almost no crime or exactly 100%.
[01:02:26]  Okay.
[01:02:27]  All right.
[01:02:27]  Well, we get it.
[01:02:29]  The point is, is that when he said that and he said crime is down dramatically, we're at the lowest crime in over 100 years.
[01:02:38]  The murder rate is down.
[01:02:40]  The Democrats didn't applaud.
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[01:02:59]  But when credit card balances and other high interest debt start stacking up, that monthly mortgage payment can feel less like security and more like a tightrope.
[01:03:06]  You're making the payments, but a huge portion is going to interest.
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[01:04:35]  Then he told the Catherine Raynor story of IVF.
[01:04:38]  Do you remember what, Ricky, what was it that they said he was going to do with IVF during the election?
[01:04:45]  Do you remember?
[01:04:46]  Democrats or Republicans?
[01:04:47]  Democrats.
[01:04:49]  I can't remember.
[01:04:50]  Do I fail this test?
[01:04:51]  No.
[01:04:52]  I just remember because I thought it was lunacy.
[01:04:55]  They said he's going to stop all IVSF treatments.
[01:04:58]  He's going to ban it.
[01:04:59]  He's going to ban IVF.
[01:05:01]  What did he do?
[01:05:02]  He lowered the cost.
[01:05:03]  And he said he was going to do this.
[01:05:05]  And the media and everybody else twisted everything he was going to say and saying he's talking about banning IVF.
[01:05:11]  He had Catherine Raynor there last night, woman who has been taking IVF treatments, $4,000 a treatment.
[01:05:21]  She just bought her treatment for under $500.
[01:05:26]  Now, you would think that anybody who cares about the country, cares about the cost of living, cares about the average person and healthcare costs, you would be thrilled with that.
[01:05:37]  As he said, these guys have been saying they're going to fix it forever.
[01:05:40]  They weren't interested in fixing it.
[01:05:42]  They just grew the size of the corruption.
[01:05:45]  They weren't fixing it.
[01:05:46]  I fixed it.
[01:05:48]  And they would not go, you know what?
[01:05:50]  I got to give him that one.
[01:05:52]  I got to give him that one.
[01:05:53]  That's fixed.
[01:05:54]  Going from $5,000 for IVF to $500, especially when I said he was going to stop all IVF treatments.
[01:06:02]  I got to admit, I was wrong on that one.
[01:06:05]  Americans saw a very stark contrast last night, and I've never seen anything like it.
[01:06:12]  One side just is hateful, dark, doesn't seem to love America, doesn't seem to even like America.
[01:06:20]  And the other side's offering solutions and doing it.
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=== Protecting Monsters, Not Victims (15:39) ===

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[01:07:57]  So last night at the State of the Union, the president celebrated the fentanyl decline and the murder decline.
[01:08:07]  Listen, cut seven.
[01:08:11]  The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is downed by a record 56 percent in one year.
[01:08:30]  And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history.
[01:08:36]  This is the biggest decline.
[01:08:38]  Think of it in recorded history.
[01:08:39]  The lowest number in over 125 years.
[01:08:45]  Year 1900.
[01:08:48]  So he goes on to say, you know, the problem is, is in some of these cities, some of these states, they're just releasing these people, and we're having to do it all over again.
[01:08:57]  A great example of this is happening in Sacramento County.
[01:09:01]  We have the sheriff Jim Cooper on with us.
[01:09:04]  I saw this press conference with the sheriff the other day where they have just, California has just released this monster who I believe got three life sentences, three.
[01:09:18]  The sheriff has said, this is the monster that parents fear most.
[01:09:25]  A man who lured kids as young as three with candy and toys, then kidnapped and horribly, horrifically assaulted them.
[01:09:33]  Yet the parole board just reaffirmed his suitability for release after serving only 27 years.
[01:09:40]  Sheriff, how is this happening?
[01:09:45]  It is insane when California has to admit a law that allows these predators early release.
[01:09:51]  The majority of states exclude heinous crimes like this, such as murder and child molest.
[01:09:58]  This program is meant for those who no longer pose a risk.
[01:10:01]  Obviously, Mr. Funkin does.
[01:10:06]  So why are they giving them early release?
[01:10:10]  Because they're elderly, but isn't that, didn't they pass this law and say elderly is now 50?
[01:10:17]  And that's so ironic.
[01:10:18]  Think about this.
[01:10:19]  To retire with Social Security at 62, people were well into their 60s and 70s, and that's a big issue.
[01:10:25]  And where's the moral compass on this with the Board of Prison Terms?
[01:10:29]  They read the report.
[01:10:30]  It was eight kids, seven girls and one boy.
[01:10:34]  A three-year-old victim who testified at my hearing took her in front of her aunt's house, took her to his home, bathed her, molested her, threatened to kill her with a knife if she told anyone.
[01:10:47]  He had toys, Barbie dolls, and then dropped her off and told her again, don't tell anyone, I'll kill you.
[01:10:54]  Two years old.
[01:10:56]  He's about to go free.
[01:10:59]  Another seven-year-old girl offered her candy in his car.
[01:11:03]  When she went for it, he pulled her in, drove her, molested her, beat her, gave her a bloody lip, and then pushed her out of the car 60 miles away from her house.
[01:11:15]  So when I'm reading these reports over this weekend, and I'm reading all eight reports, and I'm wondering, how can anybody rationalize that this person deserves to get out early?
[01:11:26]  He's not knowing.
[01:11:27]  She's not in bad physical health.
[01:11:30]  We have a broken system that needs to be fixed.
[01:11:34]  But they keep making it worse.
[01:11:37]  I mean, it's not like it's a broken system that nobody will fix.
[01:11:44]  Their fixes are seemingly going towards the criminals and not the victims.
[01:11:53]  It's been that way here, and that's the unfortunate part about it.
[01:11:56]  And we're trying to fight it.
[01:11:58]  So hopefully with your help and others making this known, they will introduce a bill this year.
[01:12:03]  There are several bills introduced right now to change this law.
[01:12:06]  It's got to change.
[01:12:08]  And like I said, going back and reading those reports 30 years ago, what those kids went through, they were very resilient, and they gave detailed descriptions.
[01:12:17]  And the four-year-old boy picked Funston out in a photo lineup, four years old.
[01:12:22]  Imagine the horror he went through.
[01:12:24]  And to have the resilience to pick that photo out says a lot about those kids.
[01:12:29]  And we have to make sure we protect them and other kids.
[01:12:35]  Sheriff, if there's anything we can do, if we can talk to the parents or the survivors now that they're older and help you with your campaign to get this changed, you just please let us know.
[01:12:46]  I'll do anything to help you.
[01:12:48]  This is an abomination.
[01:12:50]  And I honestly, you know, I feel for the victims and the families because I don't know how you can think that this is justice.
[01:12:59]  But I also, what came to mind immediately was you guys.
[01:13:06]  How do cops and deputies and sheriffs handle doing all of this work to gather all of the evidence, get this guy arrested, get enough information for the prosecution?
[01:13:22]  The prosecution brings it to a trial in California, which is hard.
[01:13:27]  They give him three life sentences, and then they let him out.
[01:13:31]  I mean, isn't it incredibly frustrating for you guys to ever look and go, why are we even doing this?
[01:13:38]  What difference is it?
[01:13:40]  It's very frustrating when they make our job harder and the job of the perpetrator a much easier to do that.
[01:13:47]  And that's what's troubling, and it really has to change with this.
[01:13:51]  And really, people have to stand up and make their voices known.
[01:13:54]  But I still go back to when you read these reports and the board of parole hearing, they read the exact reports I read.
[01:14:02]  How do you reconcile that he's a changed individual?
[01:14:04]  He has remorse now.
[01:14:06]  Of course you're going to have remorse.
[01:14:07]  You've been in jail.
[01:14:08]  You want to get out.
[01:14:09]  How do you change that?
[01:14:11]  And that's what disturbed me.
[01:14:12]  A group of unelected individuals made this decision consciously to choose him over the victims.
[01:14:21]  And that pisses me off.
[01:14:23]  It is happening all over the country and mainly in blue states where this is happening where it seems like the criminals, the abusers, are the ones that are getting the breaks and never, never anybody who is the victim.
[01:14:41]  And all from people who claim to be for justice.
[01:14:46]  We're shouting for justice.
[01:14:47]  Where's the justice in this one?
[01:14:50]  Well, we shouldn't be fighting for justice for children.
[01:14:52]  Children should be protected.
[01:14:54]  And most of the criteria used in which this board deemed this monster no longer a risk.
[01:15:00]  Protecting children is not rhetoric.
[01:15:02]  It is coming.
[01:15:03]  No, he's remorseful.
[01:15:05]  He had a bad childhood.
[01:15:06]  Give me a break.
[01:15:09]  Give me a break.
[01:15:10]  Something like this.
[01:15:11]  And this is 30 years ago, Glenn.
[01:15:14]  So there was no internet, no phone, really.
[01:15:16]  He was learning with candy, the monster, hey, don't talk to strangers.
[01:15:20]  Don't take candy.
[01:15:21]  Don't get a car.
[01:15:22]  And that he's out now with cell phones, the apps on games.
[01:15:28]  It's much easier to contact children.
[01:15:30]  And you see law enforcement nationwide doing these investigations where predators try and lure kids.
[01:15:37]  Yeah, but he's elderly.
[01:15:39]  So, you know, we've never had a case of a grandfather molesting children.
[01:15:45]  What a bunch of bullfrap that is.
[01:15:47]  Yeah, we have a lot of those.
[01:15:49]  And I'm 62.
[01:15:50]  I know.
[01:15:50]  He's 64.
[01:15:52]  He's in good shape.
[01:15:54]  So, like I said, it's a get out of jail free card.
[01:15:56]  And that's what it is.
[01:15:57]  And your listeners should be very angry.
[01:16:02]  Well, Sheriff, thank you for talking to us about this.
[01:16:05]  Just tell us what we can do.
[01:16:06]  What can the average listener do?
[01:16:08]  Can they get involved?
[01:16:09]  Can they help you in any way?
[01:16:14]  Please make your voice known.
[01:16:15]  Let your legislators know that you want this bill passed and please pray for the victims.
[01:16:21]  And what is the bill that you're pushing?
[01:16:25]  There are actually several bills in the legislature right now, but it's going to be a battle because some folks don't want anybody held accountable.
[01:16:37]  Okay.
[01:16:39]  I don't understand that, but there's so much I don't understand about today.
[01:16:44]  It doesn't.
[01:16:45]  Yeah, it applies to common sense.
[01:16:47]  It does.
[01:16:48]  Sheriff, thank you for everything you guys do.
[01:16:50]  Thank you, all your deputies and everybody.
[01:16:52]  You stay safe.
[01:16:52]  Thank you.
[01:16:53]  Thank you, Glenn.
[01:16:54]  Appreciate you.
[01:16:57]  Can we see if we can get those victims?
[01:16:59]  Yeah, I was just actually messaging the team to say we need to get the bills that he's referencing up at Glenbeck.com so the listeners that you do have in California can help make a difference and those outside can still light up some phone lines.
[01:17:12]  But you want to talk to some of the victims?
[01:17:14]  I want to talk to the victims because I think it's one thing to read about it.
[01:17:21]  No, there were some victims.
[01:17:22]  It's another to actually hear from the victims and see what their life is like today and what that means to them letting somebody out.
[01:17:32]  You know?
[01:17:32]  The justice the insiders want is millstone treatment.
[01:17:37]  Well, you know, if there is any if there is any reason for millstone, it is for child molesting.
[01:17:43]  It absolutely is.
[01:17:45]  I mean, that just goes on and on and on and on generationally.
[01:17:52]  It is such a horrific thing.
[01:17:56]  And I speak from experience coming from a family who I had a grandfather who was scary as hell.
[01:18:05]  One grandfather was magic in Santa.
[01:18:08]  The other grandfather was scary as hell.
[01:18:12]  And he was one of those guys.
[01:18:16]  And nothing was ever done.
[01:18:20]  And, you know, it's back in the 60s and early 70s.
[01:18:23]  Everybody just kind of looked the other way.
[01:18:26]  And it was all in the family and just bad.
[01:18:30]  Just really, really bad.
[01:18:32]  I have zero sympathy for those guys.
[01:18:35]  You know, because show me how you're going to get better.
[01:18:38]  Show me.
[01:18:39]  How do you prove you're not going to molest another child?
[01:18:42]  I'm sorry.
[01:18:43]  You cross that line once.
[01:18:46]  You lose the right to ever be trusted with that line ever again.
[01:18:52]  Period.
[01:18:53]  Because there is no test that shows, oh, you're free and clear of that.
[01:18:58]  You're cancer free.
[01:18:59]  You're molestation free.
[01:19:01]  It doesn't happen.
[01:19:03]  You do not get the chance to be around children ever again.
[01:19:10]  Period.
[01:19:11]  I am so sick and tired.
[01:19:12]  This is what happened at the State of the Union last night.
[01:19:15]  This is the difference.
[01:19:17]  Donald Trump was saying, is the job of the government to protect the American citizen or is it to protect the illegal alien?
[01:19:28]  When he said, stand up if you agree that the job of the government is to protect the American citizen first, not the illegal citizen.
[01:19:39]  You could not have, you couldn't have had a bigger contrast.
[01:19:44]  No one on the Democratic side stood up.
[01:19:48]  We're talking about such bright lines right now.
[01:19:52]  When he was talking about the little girl that was stabbed 27 times by an illegal alien, and that's the kind of people we need off the streets, and they would not applaud.
[01:20:05]  How do you not applaud that?
[01:20:07]  How do you not stand up for that?
[01:20:10]  Who are you representing?
[01:20:15]  When you say you're for justice, justice for whom?
[01:20:20]  For whom?
[01:20:24]  The molestation guy in California?
[01:20:28]  The person that got in had absolutely no right to be driving an 18-wheeler, but it was your state because you have compassion.
[01:20:39]  You're looking for justice.
[01:20:41]  You put a guy behind the wheel that couldn't speak a word of English and he almost kills a little girl.
[01:20:48]  Did you see her kiss her father last night?
[01:20:50]  I'm going to cry just thinking about it.
[01:20:54]  The way she moved, you could tell she'll never be the same.
[01:21:01]  And the way she kissed her father, how do you not have, you don't have a heart.
[01:21:10]  You don't have a heart.
[01:21:14]  Democrats, I really don't care if you disagree with me on policies.
[01:21:18]  I don't care if you disagree with me on tax policy and everything else.
[01:21:22]  But we're not talking about that stuff anymore.
[01:21:25]  We're talking about good versus evil.
[01:21:29]  We're talking about protection of monsters.
[01:21:36]  Dennis Brager said to me the other day, this podcast that's out, it'll be, it's out for Torch Insiders right now, and it'll be available everywhere on YouTube and everything on Saturday.
[01:21:48]  And it's so worth watching.
[01:21:51]  But he said, you know, I had this woman come to me and she said, you know, you were against the death penalty and I've always disagreed with you, Dennis.
[01:21:59]  And she said, but I'm not, I'm for it now.
[01:22:01]  And he said, what changed your mind?
[01:22:02]  She said, my brother was killed and I want the death penalty.
[01:22:06]  And he said, that's not the reason to be for the death penalty.
[01:22:11]  He's like, it's not when it happens to you.
[01:22:14]  It doesn't mean as much when you change your mind because it just happened to you.
[01:22:19]  You have to see the pain in others.
[01:22:23]  And it's as if the Democrats just cannot see the pain in the mothers, all of those mothers that were there last night, all of them that were crying, that were wounded because their precious child had been killed or wounded by an animal.
[01:22:47]  And it's as if they just cannot relate to that pain.
[01:22:51]  But I guarantee if it happened to them, oh, they would want that person to pay.

=== Seeing Pain in Others (04:24) ===

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[01:24:05]  Glenn Beck.
[01:24:24]  Remember Irina Zarutska?
[01:24:26]  She was the girl on the train, came from Ukraine.
[01:24:29]  Her mother was at the State of the Union last night.
[01:24:32]  The Democrats couldn't even stand for her as she is crying and weeping.
[01:24:35]  You couldn't even stand with her.
[01:24:37]  And in North Carolina, that guy had been arrested 14 times, but his mental health took priority over the health of the community.
[01:24:45]  We're living in an insane time, insane times when you can rape children, mutilate children, you can stab people in the streets, you can set them on fire.
[01:24:56]  You can do anything, anything.
[01:24:59]  And the Democrats will stand with that person over the victim and still cry that they are the ones for justice.
[01:25:08]  Makes no sense.
[01:25:08]  And America's on to it.
[01:25:11]  There's that moment when you're passing a tree line or a parked vehicle or a dimly lit corner and you feel like, is there somebody that's behind there?
[01:25:20]  This is where the Burna launcher comes in.
[01:25:21]  It's a non-firearm self-defense option.
[01:25:23]  The fire's powerful.
[01:25:25]  Tear gas, okay?
[01:25:26]  Designed to disrupt a threat and create distance without using lethal force.
[01:25:29]  Somebody steps out from behind that tree line, boom, you hit them with that.
[01:25:33]  You're fine.
[01:25:33]  Gives you an option.
[01:25:34]  You prefer something smaller, more discreet for evening walks or daily carry.
[01:25:38]  The Burna Compact Launcher is the same non-lethal protection in a lighter, easier to carry profile.
[01:25:43]  It's what I carry.
[01:25:44]  The goal is not to expect trouble.
[01:25:47]  It's to walk a little more confidently when the sun goes down.
[01:25:50]  Just go to burna.com slash glenn, b-y-r-n-a.com slash glenn.
[01:25:55]  You can learn more.
[01:25:55]  Try before you buy at a sportsman's warehouse location near you.
[01:25:58]  It's burnabyrna.com slash Glenn.
[01:26:51]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:26:55]  Glenn Beck is on!
[01:26:59]  Last night at State of the Union, the president honored a lot of people, including Charlie Kirk's wife.
[01:27:06]  And I don't know if this is just me, but every time I see her and somebody is honoring or whatever, they'll say something like, and three months ago, her husband was killed.
[01:27:19]  Last night and five months ago, her husband was killed.

=== Five Months of Grief (15:20) ===

[01:27:24]  And every time I think five, it's only been five months.
[01:27:29]  Five months?
[01:27:32]  Like, like time has no meaning to me anymore.
[01:27:35]  It's the weirdest thing.
[01:27:36]  I don't know if you're like that, but that seems like a lifetime ago.
[01:27:40]  It seems honestly like two years ago that happened, doesn't it?
[01:27:43]  Is it just me?
[01:27:46]  Five months.
[01:27:47]  Now, I tell you that because I want to give you perspective on something.
[01:27:53]  Oh, I am going there.
[01:27:56]  The bride of Charlie Kirk in 60 seconds.
[01:28:01]  First, let me tell you about Rough Greens.
[01:28:04]  Processed food is convenient.
[01:28:06]  The cheeseburger and fries that you're going to eat on the way home from work today might be delicious, but let's be honest, it will be delicious, but not good for you.
[01:28:17]  You know what I'm saying?
[01:28:18]  Dogs really get the raw end of the deal because their food is processed, and I don't even think it tastes good.
[01:28:23]  I mean, Uno hated it.
[01:28:24]  We had to hand feed him.
[01:28:27]  At least with us, we get flavor with our bad decisions.
[01:28:30]  Your dog gets a scoop of dry, overbaked pellets that's been sitting in a bag for months.
[01:28:34]  The problem isn't just taste, it's the nutrition.
[01:28:37]  That's why they're out eating grass, which has got to be worse.
[01:28:40]  The heat processing strips everything away, all the natural benefits your dogs were designed to run on.
[01:28:45]  Their bodies are not getting what they need.
[01:28:47]  You see it in the way they act, the way they present themselves, their coat, their eyes, everything else.
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[01:28:57]  Probiotics, omegas, vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, the stuff that's alive, put back into the food again.
[01:29:05]  Don't change your dog food.
[01:29:06]  Just put the good stuff back into it.
[01:29:09]  Add rough greens.
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[01:29:23]  All right.
[01:29:29]  I have a lot to talk about today, and I really, really want to get to the Somali thing.
[01:29:34]  And I really want to get to Elon Omar and really, what's her name, Talib.
[01:29:44]  But there's something else that I'm not blind to.
[01:29:50]  And everybody is forcing everybody to get into this fight.
[01:29:56]  And I'm not getting into the fight.
[01:29:58]  I'm just not going to do it.
[01:29:59]  And here's why.
[01:30:02]  I have a policy on school shooters, and I don't always hold to it, but I try.
[01:30:08]  I don't want to mention the name of school shooters because that's what they want.
[01:30:12]  That's what they thrive on is attention to whatever it is they're wanting to talk about.
[01:30:20]  I'm not going to give it to them because I know that's what they want.
[01:30:26]  But I do, from time to time, feel I should say something, and not about the personalities, but about principles.
[01:30:37]  If you've listened to this show, when we started, you know, the Tea Party started, and that was all about politics.
[01:30:41]  And I said, the 9-12 project is not about politics.
[01:30:45]  It's about principles, values and principles.
[01:30:47]  That's what this show is.
[01:30:50]  If you, and I'm not talking about you, those who say, you know, Glenn Beck hasn't spoken out about this and he's got to speak out about it, go to hell.
[01:30:58]  Who are you to tell me what I have to do?
[01:31:01]  Second thing, you don't, if you don't know where I stand on issues, especially when it is regarding Jews, you don't know by now you've never listened to this show.
[01:31:13]  Okay.
[01:31:14]  You've never listened to this show.
[01:31:18]  And if you think that you are more outraged than I am, have your children been dragged into it?
[01:31:28]  Have your children been questioned?
[01:31:31]  Like, why were they there?
[01:31:32]  You know, he loves the Jews and they were suspiciously close to him when he died.
[01:31:36]  Were your children brought into it?
[01:31:38]  Because mine were.
[01:31:39]  For me, it's personal.
[01:31:41]  But that's no, that's no business of yours or anybody else.
[01:31:45]  That's for me and my wife and my family.
[01:31:49]  I want to talk to you about principles.
[01:31:51]  So let me lay out a couple of principles here.
[01:31:56]  I've lived my life since I was 13 years old behind a microphone.
[01:32:02]  Okay.
[01:32:03]  And I have been successful and a failure and successful and failed and successful again.
[01:32:11]  Okay.
[01:32:12]  I've lived long enough to see what fame can do to me and to others.
[01:32:19]  And it's not the applause that's harmless on the surface, not the money because that's just paper on the surface.
[01:32:26]  Fame is battery acid for the soul.
[01:32:30]  I've said that for a long time, but I want to go into this principle a bit.
[01:32:34]  Fame burns slowly.
[01:32:36]  It doesn't scar all at once.
[01:32:38]  It corrodes you from the inside.
[01:32:40]  It corrodes your identity.
[01:32:42]  If you don't know who you are before the spotlight hits you, that bright, garish spotlight, that spotlight will then tell you who you are and it will lie to you every step of the way.
[01:32:58]  This is an important principle for you to understand because the spotlight is on all of us.
[01:33:04]  When I got into this, I had to work to build an audience.
[01:33:08]  Now, members of my audience have an audience.
[01:33:12]  Okay?
[01:33:13]  You can have an audience.
[01:33:14]  This applies to all of us.
[01:33:16]  In this age of social media, being the one is very dangerous.
[01:33:24]  And when I say the one, the one that's trending, the one that it's exposing, the one that is feared, the one that's being debated about, the one that is changing minds and hearts, the one, whatever it is, it's intoxicating.
[01:33:38]  And it feels like purpose.
[01:33:41]  It feels like destiny.
[01:33:43]  It feels like righteousness.
[01:33:45]  Yeah.
[01:33:48]  But it's a drug.
[01:33:50]  And it's interesting because you are both the user and the dealer.
[01:33:55]  Because media, social media or mainstream media, it's not, you are using the drug and it's lying to you, but you're also dealing the drug.
[01:34:06]  Because you might have hit something that was honest, but then if things start to slide at all, you have to find out what that next honest thing is that will take you to the next level.
[01:34:22]  And that's really hard.
[01:34:23]  You have to be able to walk away from all of it.
[01:34:27]  You have to be able to say, it's not that important to me.
[01:34:32]  You have to be, how many times have I offended this audience?
[01:34:35]  How many times have you probably listened to the show and went, what the hell is wrong with you?
[01:34:40]  Why would you say that?
[01:34:41]  Do you not know who the audience is?
[01:34:43]  Yeah, I do.
[01:34:44]  I do.
[01:34:45]  And there have been times when I've almost driven you away because I felt it.
[01:34:50]  Well, a couple of times because I was arrogant and I thought I knew better than you.
[01:34:54]  That was a huge mistake.
[01:34:56]  That's my fault.
[01:34:56]  That's stupidity.
[01:34:59]  But other times, like, for instance, when I printed Addicted to Outrage, thank you.
[01:35:05]  I can barely remember it because it sold like four books.
[01:35:08]  When I published Addicted Outrage, I knew it wouldn't do well.
[01:35:12]  I knew it wouldn't do well.
[01:35:14]  But it was important for me to talk about what outrage can do to you.
[01:35:21]  It was important for me to say, you know what, I've made mistakes and I've learned from it for me.
[01:35:28]  But when you are addicted to that high, you addict others to that high as well.
[01:35:36]  You got to keep the audience high, which means you have to push harder.
[01:35:40]  You have to dig deeper.
[01:35:41]  You have to reveal something darker, something more shocking than what I told you yesterday, something even more forbidden because yesterday's outrage isn't a big enough drug.
[01:35:52]  That's what got me high yesterday.
[01:35:54]  It won't get me high today.
[01:35:57]  And sometimes that pursuit uncovers real corruption.
[01:36:00]  Sometimes it does serve justice.
[01:36:03]  But sometimes if we're honest, it becomes escalation for the sake of escalation.
[01:36:09]  Not because truth demands it, but because the machine demands it.
[01:36:15]  And once you walk down that road, stopping walking down that road is almost impossible.
[01:36:21]  Okay?
[01:36:22]  You have no idea.
[01:36:24]  When I left Fox, it screwed with me for four years.
[01:36:28]  Hard.
[01:36:29]  It is so hard to walk away.
[01:36:32]  So hard.
[01:36:33]  Roger Gales told me you're not walking away.
[01:36:35]  Nobody ever does.
[01:36:37]  When he said that, I realized, oh my gosh, I really now have to walk away because he's right.
[01:36:42]  Nobody does.
[01:36:44]  But when you walk away from just the outrage part, not the fame, just the outrage part, I guarantee you, you're going to be accused of selling out.
[01:36:52]  If you show restraint, you've been compromised.
[01:36:55]  If you choose mercy, you're protecting evil.
[01:37:00]  And it's the very crowd that lifted you up that will turn on you the moment you refuse to go further.
[01:37:06]  One of the saddest things for me is you've listened to me for 25 or 30 years and I can say one thing and all of a sudden you'll say, you're a traitor.
[01:37:17]  It's like, what?
[01:37:20]  Really?
[01:37:21]  Is that how shallow our relationship is?
[01:37:28]  This is principle.
[01:37:30]  And here's the principle that I think we have to defend.
[01:37:35]  And it goes right to the bride of Charlie Kirk.
[01:37:39]  Can we leave the grieving to their grief?
[01:37:45]  You may not like somebody.
[01:37:47]  You may not trust somebody.
[01:37:49]  You might disagree with them.
[01:37:51]  You might believe they're wrong about everything.
[01:37:55]  But grief is sacred ground.
[01:37:59]  And it's not battleground for speculation.
[01:38:02]  If someone dies and you believe a crime occurred, there's a process to that.
[01:38:08]  There are investigators.
[01:38:09]  There are courts.
[01:38:10]  If you have evidence, give it to the authorities.
[01:38:13]  If you have resources, quietly fund the pursuit of facts.
[01:38:17]  You don't conduct a trial through thumbnails and trailers.
[01:38:23]  Let me explain it this way.
[01:38:27]  Because I'm a former alcoholic DJ.
[01:38:31]  Let's say a small town family loses their father in an accident.
[01:38:36]  Suspicious, however.
[01:38:37]  The town is divided.
[01:38:39]  Rumors are starting to swirl and one local radio host like me begins asking questions not with evidence but with feelings.
[01:38:48]  I don't know.
[01:38:49]  I feel and they're very very guarded and careful.
[01:38:52]  They'll hint, they'll imply They will build the audience on suspicion, but they'll never truly accuse because I'm gonna pay for that one in a court of law.
[01:39:03]  But I have this feeling What happens?
[01:39:07]  Soon the widow can't buy groceries without whispers every time she goes into the store.
[01:39:11]  The children hear theories about their mom at school.
[01:39:15]  Five months later, nothing has been proven, but the damage is permanent.
[01:39:22]  And even if later the host says, you know, I was just asking questions, the community is fractured.
[01:39:27]  That damage is permanent.
[01:39:29]  That's the principle at stake.
[01:39:31]  Free speech matters deeply.
[01:39:35]  I will defend someone's right to say the things.
[01:39:40]  I will defend their right to say the despicable things they've said about my children and me because they have a right to say it.
[01:39:47]  And the moment we start silencing people that we disagree with, we lose.
[01:39:52]  We lose our freedom.
[01:39:53]  We lose the republic.
[01:39:54]  But free speech is not the same as moral obligation and responsibility.
[01:40:00]  Free speech comes with responsibility.
[01:40:02]  And the First Amendment protects your right to speak.
[01:40:07]  It does not compel you to speak.
[01:40:10]  It doesn't sanctify escalation.
[01:40:13]  It does not require you to monetize suspicion.
[01:40:18]  Because there's a difference between investigation and insinuation, between courage and compulsion, between truth-seeking and audience-feeding.
[01:40:30]  And fame, if you're not careful, convinces you that every instinct must be broadcast.
[01:40:37]  I suffer with this so badly.
[01:40:39]  I don't know.
[01:40:40]  I have this feeling.
[01:40:40]  I should say that.
[01:40:42]  No.
[01:40:43]  Not everything you think, not every suspicion needs to be shared.
[01:40:51]  Not every silence is weakness.
[01:40:54]  Sometimes it's strength.
[01:40:56]  Sometimes restraint is the highest form of strength.
[01:41:02]  We should be rallying around principles that make us more human, not more viral.
[01:41:08]  Decency, process, presumption of innocence, respect for grief.
[01:41:14]  It's been five months.
[01:41:17]  Put yourself, if this society can no longer put itself in another man's shoes and see what those five months must be like, and you were dogpiling in the first three weeks, we're a lost society.
[01:41:36]  Once we normalize turning mourning into content, none of us are safe from being content ourselves.
[01:41:46]  The culture that rewards behavior like this isn't just influencers.
[01:41:53]  It's us.
[01:41:54]  Because we click, we share, we debate, we fuel the machine.
[01:41:58]  We demand people get involved.
[01:42:01]  And that demand creates supply.
[01:42:06]  So instead of saying, what the hell happened to fill in the blank of the influencer.
[01:42:13]  What the hell has happened to the right or to the left?
[01:42:15]  Maybe the question is, what is happening to us?
[01:42:20]  If we don't anchor ourselves in who we are and my opinion shouldn't matter more than your opinion, Glenn's got to speak out on this because his opinion, my opinion is no more important than your opinion.
[01:42:38]  If you are waiting for me to endorse your opinion, you're lost.
[01:42:42]  Don't have power.

=== Civilization Values and Empathy Stories (03:47) ===

[01:42:44]  There's power in you.
[01:42:48]  But you got to know these things before the likes, before the numbers, before the praise, or all of us are going to be swept away by whatever gets the most reaction.
[01:42:58]  Truth requires patience.
[01:43:01]  Justice requires evidence.
[01:43:03]  Grief requires space.
[01:43:07]  These are not partisan values.
[01:43:09]  These are civilization values.
[01:43:13]  If you lose the civilizational values, it doesn't matter who wins the argument.
[01:43:22]  Let me switch gears and talk about the other one.
[01:43:27]  There's three of them.
[01:43:28]  I'm only going to talk about two of them.
[01:43:30]  I'm going to do the other one next.
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[01:45:01]  I don't think I'm going to be able to say this all in three minutes, so I'm going to wait.
[01:45:09]  Let me tie what I just said into the state of the union last night.
[01:45:13]  Not about Charlie Kirk's wife.
[01:45:19]  You see where Charlie Kirk's wife, Erica, was sitting last night?
[01:45:24]  Where did Donald Trump, in the grand scheme of that room, where did he put Charlie Kirk's wife?
[01:45:30]  Did you notice?
[01:45:34]  Charlie Kirk's wife was sitting right next to Anna Zaruska.
[01:45:41]  That's Irina Zaruska.
[01:45:43]  Remember she was stabbed in North Carolina?
[01:45:45]  Do you know what the last tweet from Charlie Kirk was?
[01:45:51]  About her daughter's killing.
[01:45:55]  I don't even know if they all saw that, but there is a direct tie there.
[01:46:02]  But let me make another tie.
[01:46:08]  What did they all have in common last night?
[01:46:11]  What did everyone who was brought up and he told a story of, what did they all have in common that the Democrats missed?

=== Stories That Require Empathy (02:53) ===

[01:46:31]  The Awakening of Empathy.
[01:46:35]  They all had stories that required empathy.
[01:46:42]  They all had stories that, I mean, if you didn't, if you weren't touched by at least one of those stories last night, I don't know what, I don't know how you do it.
[01:46:56]  But they all were to awaken empathy in you.
[01:47:03]  And there is a group of people in Washington that are so dead inside that they cannot recognize that because politics and ideology is more important than the humans.
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[01:49:17]  So we were talking just a minute ago about principles over people.

=== Burning Down Your Future (11:11) ===

[01:49:24]  And I said, you know, the reason why I don't want to, you know, talk about people, sometimes there's a few people that, you know, supposedly, you know, are in our camp and I don't agree with them.
[01:49:36]  And, you know, there's lots of people I don't agree with.
[01:49:41]  Some of the people I really vehemently disagree with.
[01:49:45]  But it's their right to say it.
[01:49:47]  And I think it's, you know, despicable, but it's their right.
[01:49:52]  And, you know, I'm not going to change their mind.
[01:49:55]  And they're not going to change my mind.
[01:49:57]  And I just would suggest that we all use principles to be able to see the truth.
[01:50:04]  And we'll come to different conclusions, whatever.
[01:50:08]  But I also think that there are those who, I don't judge people for what they say or their actions because I don't know them.
[01:50:17]  You know, I said to you yesterday, be careful of judging people.
[01:50:20]  And I told you a story personally of how people judged me.
[01:50:23]  And they had no idea what was going on in my life at the time.
[01:50:26]  So I don't want to get into people over principles because I have no idea what's going on in their life.
[01:50:33]  And, you know, well, I can't say, you know, these people were good friends of mine.
[01:50:42]  I knew them.
[01:50:43]  I know them.
[01:50:44]  And I don't understand what's happening, you know.
[01:50:47]  Now, there's others that are not friends of mine that I've never known.
[01:50:51]  And, you know, I and I want to talk about that because there are those who go awry.
[01:51:00]  There are those who have something going on in their life where they got lost, because I've done that.
[01:51:06]  And then there's others that got lost by fame or fortune, and they haven't figured that out yet.
[01:51:12]  And then there's the carnival barkers, okay?
[01:51:15]  The loudest man in the room, the one who intentionally shocks you, the one who says things decent people won't say, not because it's brave, but because it's shocking.
[01:51:27]  This week, Christopher Ruffo looked deeply into one of those figures.
[01:51:33]  I'm not going to give you a name because this guy, I kind of, well, I'm not even going to say that.
[01:51:38]  I don't give out the names of people who want me to say their names.
[01:51:44]  And if you stay on the surface, all you see is spectacle.
[01:51:48]  You see clips, you see outrage, you see memes, you see performance.
[01:51:52]  But when you dig, and I mean, really dig, you don't find rebellion.
[01:51:58]  What you find is wreckage.
[01:52:01]  And this is really important, and this is the reason why I really want to make it clear on this particular individual what you're dealing with.
[01:52:10]  You're finding, when you look, you find men who, young men, who have blown up their relationships, young men who have lost their jobs, young men who have made themselves unemployable because they decided to mimic a shock artist and made that a substitute for building an actual real life.
[01:52:34]  Okay?
[01:52:38]  One of the largest known financial backers of this guy transferred $250,000 in Bitcoin and then took his own life.
[01:52:48]  Think about that.
[01:52:49]  Think about that.
[01:52:55]  At least two mass shooters have been fans of this in particular, in particular, this individual, okay?
[01:53:05]  And fans of his content.
[01:53:07]  That's not politics.
[01:53:09]  That's not even activism.
[01:53:10]  That is gravity pulling downward.
[01:53:14]  And here is the pattern that I think we need to all recognize.
[01:53:20]  There's a skilled demagogue who understands something very old about human nature.
[01:53:26]  If you give a young man, a villain, a grievance, a permission to burn down everything, they will mistake that for strength.
[01:53:38]  Just have to drop racial slurs.
[01:53:40]  You just have to mock Jews.
[01:53:42]  You just have to joke about violence against women.
[01:53:46]  Some people treat that as ideology.
[01:53:48]  I don't.
[01:53:49]  I don't.
[01:53:50]  Sickness, death.
[01:53:54]  But more importantly, theater.
[01:53:56]  It's shock for profit.
[01:53:58]  It's the digital version of Jerry Springer, except at broken chairs, it's broken futures.
[01:54:04]  He creates outrage.
[01:54:06]  The outrage creates clicks.
[01:54:08]  The clicks create influence.
[01:54:10]  And the cost, it's not paid by him.
[01:54:13]  He's a performer.
[01:54:14]  He makes the money.
[01:54:17]  That's the part nobody really wants to talk about.
[01:54:19]  Who actually pays the price?
[01:54:22]  Because he keeps the platform, but they keep the criminal record.
[01:54:26]  He keeps the microphone, but they lose their marriage or the opportunity to marriage or the opportunity to have children.
[01:54:33]  He keeps the donations, but they lose their chance at a normal life.
[01:54:39]  And here's what's happening beneath all of it.
[01:54:41]  It's not a political movement.
[01:54:43]  It's not.
[01:54:44]  Politics requires responsibility.
[01:54:47]  It requires persuasion.
[01:54:49]  It requires the slow, dare I say it, adult work of building coalitions and governing.
[01:54:57]  This is something else that really the left understands really, really well.
[01:55:01]  This is digital nihilism.
[01:55:04]  It's selling permanent adolescents to men who are afraid to grow up because they have been, they've been told there's nothing for you.
[01:55:16]  It's Peter Pan for the resentful.
[01:55:18]  Honestly, it is.
[01:55:19]  You don't have to build anything.
[01:55:21]  You don't have to take responsibility.
[01:55:23]  The system is rigged.
[01:55:24]  Stay angry.
[01:55:25]  Stay aggrieved.
[01:55:26]  Stay 17 forever.
[01:55:28]  We've seen the cycle before.
[01:55:29]  History is full of charismatic men who fed on grievance and left nothing but ruins behind them.
[01:55:37]  Not because they were strong.
[01:55:39]  Honestly, most of them were really weak.
[01:55:42]  But they were convinced that they could convince others that destruction is power.
[01:55:52]  There's really nothing rebellious about burning down your own future.
[01:55:56]  You know, these rebels in Portland that are burning down Portland, nothing glorious in that.
[01:56:02]  You're burning down your own future.
[01:56:04]  You're burning down your own city.
[01:56:05]  Same thing in Minneapolis.
[01:56:07]  It's despicable what's happening.
[01:56:08]  There is nothing courageous about becoming unemployable at 28 because you wanted applause in the chat room.
[01:56:17]  Real rebellion, real strength?
[01:56:20]  You know what that is?
[01:56:22]  Doing the hard, really hard things.
[01:56:25]  Building a family, having children, starting a business, serving your country, raising children that are better than you.
[01:56:35]  My dad said to me once, the goal of every father should be to raise a son who is better than he is.
[01:56:47]  And in the hopes that he will figure it out maybe even 10 minutes sooner than the father did.
[01:57:01]  I've thought about that every day with my children.
[01:57:07]  Did I do enough to have my kids want to be a better man or a better person than me?
[01:57:16]  That's hard.
[01:57:18]  That's adult.
[01:57:20]  That's powerful.
[01:57:22]  That's what women want to marry.
[01:57:26]  But it doesn't trend.
[01:57:29]  And that's the quiet tragedy here.
[01:57:33]  Young men who should be building are trained to sneer.
[01:57:39]  Men who could lead are being taught to perform outrage.
[01:57:44]  Energy that could construct and build is being redirected to burn and destroy.
[01:57:50]  And the man at the center of it, he just moves on to the next controversy.
[01:57:56]  But the young man who copies him is going to live with the consequences.
[01:58:01]  I mean, we all say that we hate that the elites get away with it, but look at this.
[01:58:05]  Look at this.
[01:58:06]  Those who follow these people, they destroy their lives.
[01:58:13]  The one who did the destroying, he just moves on.
[01:58:18]  That's the difference between a provocateur and a leader.
[01:58:22]  One harvests attention.
[01:58:25]  The other helps others to build a future.
[01:58:32]  If you happen to be a young man and you are wondering what life is about, life is about being better tomorrow than you are today.
[01:58:47]  In one way, shape, or form, anything.
[01:58:52]  Life is about mastering your emotions.
[01:58:55]  Life is about being the master of your own life, no matter what anybody tells you.
[01:59:01]  You know, I can always tell really successful people have something in common.
[01:59:07]  They've had somebody in their life say, you're not going to be able to do that.
[01:59:11]  You're never going to be able to do that.
[01:59:12]  You'll never make it.
[01:59:14]  Successful men, successful people, they say, oh yeah.
[01:59:19]  And I can guarantee you, anytime somebody has said, that will never work, doesn't mean they were wrong.
[01:59:26]  But anytime somebody has said to me, that will never work.
[01:59:28]  That's a stupid idea.
[01:59:29]  You can't do that.
[01:59:31]  I've done it.
[01:59:32]  I've done it.
[01:59:34]  And they've given me the motivation to prove them wrong.
[01:59:41]  Why are you listening to the people who are saying, burn your life down?
[01:59:45]  There's nothing worth.
[01:59:47]  Everything is in front of you.
[01:59:49]  We are living at the greatest stage of all mankind.
[01:59:53]  We are witnessing miracles every day.
[01:59:57]  Every single day.
[01:59:58]  And you can concentrate on what you don't have.
[02:00:01]  You can concentrate on what has been done to you.
[02:00:03]  Or you can honestly man up and say, you know what?
[02:00:09]  That was yesterday.
[02:00:10]  That's what somebody else wants me to believe about me.
[02:00:13]  I know who I am.
[02:00:14]  I'm going to do it.
[02:00:17]  You can be a Frenchman and give up.
[02:00:22]  Or you can be an American and say, I'm going to cross that mountain.
[02:00:26]  Even though everyone said, I can't do it, I'm crossing that mountain and I'm going to do it when it's in snow.

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[02:02:27]  Glenn Beck.
[02:02:47]  Let me go to our VIP hotline, a Torch Insider, Randy in Illinois.
[02:02:52]  Hello, Randy.
[02:02:55]  Hey, Glenn, glad to talk to you.
[02:02:57]  Thank you very much.
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[02:03:00]  Yes, I am.
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[02:03:06]  All right.
[02:03:06]  Well, I was going to, I told your screener that me and my wife, we always argue during the State of the Union addresses because she's been a school teacher for 40 years in a teacher's union.
[02:03:18]  And I kind of dread these because here it comes again.
[02:03:21]  We're going to argue.
[02:03:22]  And the first time last night, we agreed.
[02:03:27]  Really?
[02:03:28]  What did you agree on?
[02:03:29]  That's what I thought, dude.
[02:03:31]  She said, they're not standing up.
[02:03:35]  She says, they're crazy.
[02:03:36]  And then the next line, Trump said, you people are crazy.
[02:03:39]  I said, see, you agree with me.
[02:03:42]  It was.
[02:03:44]  It was.
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[02:03:48]  So have you talked to her yet today?
[02:03:51]  No.
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[02:03:55]  I'd be interested to know.
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[02:04:00]  But you got to tell us what happens when you get home because there might be like, I don't remember that.
[02:04:05]  I was drinking.
[02:04:08]  Well, she's not political.
[02:04:09]  She didn't know who AOC or, you know, the sentence there.
[02:04:13]  She goes, they need to escort those two women out with her F ice on button, you know.
[02:04:18]  She said, that's not right.
[02:04:20]  I said, that's two of their big stars.
[02:04:22]  They can't escort them out.
[02:04:24]  Wow.
[02:04:25]  I hope there were a lot of people like your wife that were watching because that's the point I've been making today is I really think that the average person, what Trump did was he's like, there's people that love America, people that hate America, people that want to protect the violence and everything else, and people who don't.
[02:04:45]  And he just compared and contrasted, and they did all of the work.
[02:04:50]  He didn't do any of it.
[02:04:51]  He didn't have to say, you people are crazy.
[02:04:54]  I think he said that not to make sure everybody realizes these people are crazy.
[02:04:58]  I think he said that as a real actual reaction to them, like in disbelief.
[02:05:04]  I cannot believe you people are crazy.
[02:05:07]  Yeah.
[02:05:09]  It was what everybody's thinking.
[02:05:10]  He just said it.
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[02:05:13]  That is always the best.
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