The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Ron Johnson & Liz Wheeler | 3/30/26
Aired: 2026-03-30
Duration: 43:23


=== Balancing Religious Access (15:06) ===

[00:00:00]  How ridiculous is the no-kings protest in the United Kingdom where they have it and the end goal, convincing 3.5% of the population to overthrow the system.
[00:00:12]  There is a calculus to all the madness that you saw.
[00:00:15]  Also, Oklahoma is getting close to passing a bill that would allow our dead relatives to become plant fertilizer.
[00:00:20]  Not making that up.
[00:00:22]  And do I have to hate Liz Wheeler based on what the Pope said about Catholics?
[00:00:26]  Because I'm tired of hating everybody.
[00:00:28]  Can you join me on today's podcast?
[00:00:31]  Liz joins me to weigh in on the subject and we talk about, do we really have to hate one another?
[00:00:36]  I don't think so.
[00:00:37]  All that and more on today's podcast.
[00:00:47]  You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:00:52]  If all you see on the internet now is that Catholics were not allowed to go in and, you know, access the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem because, you know, Jews, I guess, hate people who are Christian, then you don't have all of the facts and the story might resonate with you a bit, I guess.
[00:01:13]  But what you may not know, and is really important to know, is that Israel closed all of the holy sites, not just the Christian holy sites.
[00:01:24]  And they're doing it because Iran is intentionally targeting the holy sites with their missiles, and Israel wants to protect them.
[00:01:32]  That is their job, to protect all of the holy sites.
[00:01:36]  You didn't hear about that online, did you?
[00:01:38]  Did you hear about the Iranian missile fragment that nearly hit the church of the Holy Sepulchre recently?
[00:01:44]  Where were all of the public condemnations then?
[00:01:48]  Did you see any major figures coming out to condemn Iran as quickly as they came out to ban and to spread this online like crazy about Israel?
[00:02:00]  Closing major sites at times, you know, that, you know, Iran knows that there could be people to target and kill them is not unreasonable.
[00:02:11]  And it's also not unprecedented in wartime.
[00:02:13]  I mean, I hate to say how much did those Londoners hate Christians when they closed the, you know, St. Paul's Cathedral in World War II?
[00:02:23]  You know, by the way, how much did Catholics hate Catholics when they closed COVID?
[00:02:28]  You know, closed the Vatican for COVID?
[00:02:31]  Did they hate Catholics?
[00:02:32]  No.
[00:02:32]  Were they anti-Christian?
[00:02:34]  No, of course not.
[00:02:35]  It's called safety.
[00:02:37]  Israel is treating the Christian sites no differently than their own Jewish ones.
[00:02:41]  Why do the Israelis hate Jews so much?
[00:02:44]  Jews still cannot openly pray at the Western Wall.
[00:02:49]  Okay?
[00:02:50]  Can't do it.
[00:02:53]  Christians now can go into the Holy Sepulchre.
[00:02:58]  It's a lose-lose for Israel.
[00:03:00]  No matter what they do, it's always a lose-lose.
[00:03:02]  If they let the Cardinals in, they were targeted by Iran, it would be Israel's fault.
[00:03:06]  Why didn't they keep them safe?
[00:03:07]  If they don't let them in, it's still their fault.
[00:03:09]  Either way, Israel is villainized, and they know that.
[00:03:12]  But I will tell you, they protect all of the holy sites.
[00:03:15]  And quite honestly, I don't think that the Iranians are targeting the Christian sites or the Jewish sites.
[00:03:22]  I think they are targeting the mosque because they know that will wash the world in blood.
[00:03:29]  And this is just another story used to outrage and divide us.
[00:03:34]  The Pope said in his Palm Sunday message, he was preaching against Israel saying, God doesn't listen to the prayers who wage war.
[00:03:43]  You know, I'm really glad the Pope's not infallible.
[00:03:45]  I'm really glad because that's not true at all.
[00:03:47]  It's not true at all.
[00:03:48]  Bible is full of prayers from warriors about war.
[00:03:53]  Full of it.
[00:03:54]  Full of it.
[00:03:55]  I don't know if you caught that one.
[00:03:58]  What really bothered me was that instead of focusing on cleaning up the messes, quite honestly, in our own churches, I'll make that broad.
[00:04:07]  Here's a guy using Palm Sunday to stoke division, to point the finger and tell us who to hate now.
[00:04:12]  You know?
[00:04:13]  And still, Israel has promised to work with them to ensure that they can safely access the holy sites during a war.
[00:04:21]  But I don't know about you.
[00:04:22]  I'm tired of all the message and telling who to hate.
[00:04:26]  I'm going to show you something.
[00:04:27]  I've never showed these before.
[00:04:32]  This is a medallion.
[00:04:34]  I wear it every day.
[00:04:34]  This is a medallion from World War II.
[00:04:38]  And it's a Christian medallion, and it's all of the Christian faiths, most Protestant, okay?
[00:04:43]  Christian medallion.
[00:04:45]  This one is a Catholic medallion.
[00:04:48]  It's Our Lady of Guadalupe.
[00:04:51]  I grew up Catholic.
[00:04:53]  This was a special meeting to my mother, etc., etc.
[00:04:55]  I wear both of those.
[00:04:56]  And this weekend, I attended a bar mitzvah.
[00:05:00]  I don't hate anybody's religion.
[00:05:03]  I don't know why we have to hate each other.
[00:05:05]  I don't understand why our churches must divide each other.
[00:05:10]  And don't get me wrong, it's not all churches.
[00:05:12]  It's just some people doing some things at churches.
[00:05:15]  And everybody gets on board and they get up there.
[00:05:18]  You know, stop it.
[00:05:20]  Stop it.
[00:05:21]  You know, I really think some point we're going to realize that Jesus is coming home.
[00:05:26]  And when he comes and gets here, if we're all arguing amongst ourselves, do you remember what it was like when mom and dad got home and all the kids were arguing and bickering and dividing themselves?
[00:05:35]  Remember what they used to say to us?
[00:05:37]  I think daddy's going to say that to us too when he gets home.
[00:05:41]  Stop your bickering.
[00:05:42]  I don't care who started it.
[00:05:45]  Stop it right now.
[00:05:46]  All hands on deck.
[00:05:48]  I'm tired of whose church I have to hate.
[00:05:50]  I'm tired of what podcaster I have to hate today.
[00:05:54]  You know, I'm tired of having to hate the Jews every day, no matter who's saying what.
[00:05:59]  There is a dark spiritual effort to tear Christians and Jews apart, to tear Christians apart from other Christians, to take conservatives and terrorists apart.
[00:06:11]  It's happening everywhere.
[00:06:14]  Every coalition is splintering into smaller and smaller groups.
[00:06:17]  And meanwhile, the enemies of Judeo-Christianity, they're all growing.
[00:06:21]  Radical Islam watching this fight like a vulture waiting to swoop in and eat the remains after we kill each other.
[00:06:31]  You don't have to be a victim through all of this.
[00:06:32]  You can see through it.
[00:06:34]  You can see through all the narratives that are designed to make you angry, to put you in a silo of lonely outrage where you're totally alone and useless.
[00:06:44]  Once you feel like you're alone, you are open to some very dark alliances.
[00:06:49]  Look what happened to the left.
[00:06:52]  They were convinced that every little group was for themselves, and suddenly we see the Marxists and the Islamists working together because they agreed on one thing, people they hate.
[00:07:03]  If we're not careful, that's exactly what's going to happen to us.
[00:07:06]  And if the whole conservative movement turns on itself, who wins?
[00:07:09]  Who wins?
[00:07:09]  If Christianity turns on itself now, when the Lord needs all of us to prepare the way, all of us.
[00:07:19]  What do you think is going to happen?
[00:07:22]  If we let Jews and Christians be split apart, then what alliance comes next to take its place?
[00:07:28]  Don't let anybody manipulate you into anger.
[00:07:32]  It may feel good to fight, but it might feel good to be right.
[00:07:36]  But he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
[00:07:40]  And I'd prefer not to die that way.
[00:07:42]  The hate we create, the hate we create for one another will consume us right after it's consumed our enemy.
[00:07:53]  I'm going to go to Liz Wheeler, a Catholic who I'm supposed to hate today, I guess.
[00:07:58]  Hi, Liz.
[00:07:59]  How are you?
[00:08:00]  Hi, Glenn.
[00:08:01]  Do you hate me?
[00:08:02]  I don't hate.
[00:08:04]  I know.
[00:08:05]  I don't hate you.
[00:08:06]  I can't.
[00:08:07]  Okay, good.
[00:08:07]  Liz, I can't take this.
[00:08:09]  I mean, I don't agree with what the Pope said by any stretch, and it's disappointing.
[00:08:15]  But what am I supposed to hate the Catholics now?
[00:08:20]  No, I think two things are true.
[00:08:24]  I think the internet is addicted to drama and that the internet doesn't always reflect the reality of what normal people think.
[00:08:32]  And I think that's probably the case with what happened in Jerusalem yesterday on Palm Sunday when Cardinal Pizza Bala was denied access by Israeli police.
[00:08:43]  And the internet went nuts about this, acting as if the state of Israel, the Jews in Israel hate Christians.
[00:08:49]  I see no evidence of that.
[00:08:51]  I agree with what you said about security.
[00:08:54]  Obviously, Israel has not only significant security concerns, they have a responsibility to keep these holy sites safe.
[00:09:02]  I do think it's totally fine.
[00:09:03]  And I was one of the ones that spoke up.
[00:09:05]  I do think it's fine for people around the world, Christians of all denominations, should all rally together to do this.
[00:09:11]  Whenever there is an instance of religious persecution or infringement of the right of worship, we should speak up and make sure that that's justified, especially after what we suffered here in the United States during COVID.
[00:09:25]  I wasn't allowed to go to mass because, you know, Gavin Newsom in California told me I wasn't.
[00:09:30]  That's not just.
[00:09:31]  That's a violation of my religious liberty.
[00:09:33]  And we did not, in the name of safety, no less, by the way.
[00:09:37]  And we did not, as a society, collectively ask whether we were balancing the safety risks with the fundamental God-given right to worship.
[00:09:47]  So I think it's totally fine to ask why this happened, but it doesn't seem to me to be evidence of Israel being discriminatory towards Catholics.
[00:09:55]  It seems more evidence of just sort of government incompetence.
[00:09:59]  You know, I have to tell you, first of all, this should tell you everything.
[00:10:03]  How many posts were there for two weeks leading up to this?
[00:10:10]  For two weeks, there was shrapnel that hit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, okay?
[00:10:16]  9,100 posts on it.
[00:10:18]  Within eight hours, there was over a quarter of a million posts about how the Jews hated Christians because they kept him out of the church.
[00:10:27]  They kept Cardinal Pizza Bala out of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
[00:10:31]  Same church.
[00:10:32]  Nobody cared about when it was hit.
[00:10:37]  But apparently, somebody really cared about the other.
[00:10:41]  I mean, it's just not possible.
[00:10:44]  It's just not possible.
[00:10:47]  This is manufactured, pure and simple.
[00:10:50]  It is manufactured and it is pushed by the left and by, quite honestly, probably Iran and their allies to get everybody to separate themselves and hate each other.
[00:11:03]  I think both can be true.
[00:11:05]  I mean, there was obviously an element of manipulation or propaganda that was happening.
[00:11:09]  I mean, you see that on X every day.
[00:11:11]  And like I said, I think you can separate that from good faith Christians being like, hey, we don't think this is right.
[00:11:16]  I think, by the way, that this all could have been avoided had Cardinal Pizza Bala and the Israeli officials just communicated about this ahead of time.
[00:11:24]  Israel would have been like, oh, sure, you're not trying to have a large gathering.
[00:11:27]  You know, this is incredibly important on Palm Sunday for you to go to the site where Jesus' body was laid after he died on the cross.
[00:11:35]  I mean, obviously, that's going to resonate with people a little bit more deeply, I have to say, than shrapnel hitting the church on a random day.
[00:11:42]  There is something deep inside of us that is moved by that.
[00:11:46]  But they could have probably communicated about it just like they resolved it in about two minutes after all this outrage.
[00:11:51]  probably should have just communicated this and avoided it, which is why I'm calling it an unforced error, because there are people who are in our own country who are obviously very divided on Israel.
[00:12:01]  You know, Israel good, Israel ally, Israel bad, Israel villain.
[00:12:05]  And it's exhausting and a lot of it's fake.
[00:12:07]  And they try to take any incident, if there's even a grain of truth.
[00:12:14]  And the grain of truth in this is Israel and peace of Allah should have worked this out and this could have been avoided.
[00:12:18]  That's all true.
[00:12:20]  They take anything with an element of truth and they try to turn it into this war between the Jews and the Christians.
[00:12:25]  And that's the part that's a shame.
[00:12:27]  It's not recognizing that this incident between the Cardinal and the Israeli government shouldn't have happened.
[00:12:34]  Right.
[00:12:35]  And like you said, that is a very small group that went to lay palms.
[00:12:41]  This is not, this was not, you know, a huge procession or any, they're not filling it up for church or anything else.
[00:12:48]  Very small number of people.
[00:12:50]  You know, they closed the churches, the cathedral of St. Paul's in London during the war for the same reason.
[00:12:59]  Under attack, you don't want to be there.
[00:13:02]  Get out.
[00:13:03]  They didn't close it the whole time.
[00:13:05]  They closed it and opened it, closed it and opened it.
[00:13:07]  I mean, that is reasonable to do when you're trying to protect people and buildings.
[00:13:14]  That's, I mean, you know, who's going to, if that's blown up, if that, if the church of the Holy Sepulchre was blown up, who do you think is going to get the blame?
[00:13:24]  Iran.
[00:13:25]  That's why you said in your monologue, it's a lose-lose situation for Israel because they're going to be blamed if they don't properly secure it.
[00:13:32]  But there is a matter of balancing.
[00:13:33]  I mean, we know that during COVID, we were told that this was for safety and for security, and all of our religious rights were violated.
[00:13:41]  And that was not, the government had no authority to do that.
[00:13:45]  They aren't the ones to extend to us a privilege of worshiping God and attending mass and receiving the Holy Eucharist and everything that goes into Catholic worship.
[00:13:57]  And it is a balance between securing a population and not violating fundamental, inherent, God-given human rights.
[00:14:02]  And yeah, they messed up a little bit and they rectified it.
[00:14:05]  And people online don't want to see any kind of nuance whatsoever.
[00:14:10]  If you don't mind, going back to what the Pope said, I found that to be very interesting because as you know, I am Catholic.
[00:14:16]  I'm a practicing Catholic.
[00:14:17]  I'm a very devout Catholic.
[00:14:18]  And when the Pope makes questionable comments, which is how I would define his comment about God not listening.
[00:14:25]  You're being so charitable.
[00:14:26]  You're so charitable.
[00:14:27]  That's like a very diplomatic word that I've workshopped all weekend.
[00:14:30]  Please be happy.
[00:14:33]  When he makes questionable comments, it actually makes me very grateful to be Catholic, as funny as that sounds.
[00:14:38]  And the reason why is because the Pope, and this is sometimes hard, I think, for non-Catholics to understand because it is a little bit different in the Protestant world or the Catholic world.
[00:14:48]  But the Pope himself has no authority to unilaterally change Catholic beliefs, Catholic dogma, just with his pastoral comments.
[00:14:55]  The Pope has the ability to speak in two ways, pastorally and very rarely, infallibly.
[00:15:00]  It's called ex-cathedra, but that requires a very certain set of circumstances.
[00:15:04]  And it's not the Pope inventing any doctrine.

=== Why Burials Matter (12:28) ===

[00:15:06]  It's him acknowledging a doctrine or acknowledging a doctrinal interpretation.
[00:15:11]  And that infallibility almost never happens.
[00:15:14]  That distinction, though, is very important over the weekend because his comments about the war were in his pastoral capacity.
[00:15:20]  He wasn't speaking ex-cathedral.
[00:15:21]  So Catholics, such as myself, are not required to agree with his political opinions.
[00:15:26]  And don't get me wrong, I find it very annoying for sure.
[00:15:29]  I wish the Pope was a wiser leader on matters of politics.
[00:15:34]  But it also makes me so grateful to be Catholic because if he were the leader of a Protestant church, he could actually change the doctrine of what his faithful were to believe based on a faulty opinion.
[00:15:46]  And that's not the case with Catholicism.
[00:15:49]  As much as I find it very annoying, it doesn't push me away from Catholicism.
[00:15:53]  It draws me closer because I'm very grateful to God for his church that remains as it always was and always will be despite turmoil in the world or the sins of man.
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[00:16:12]  So there's a couple things I want to talk to you about here that are a little disturbing.
[00:16:17]  There is a bill that is moving through now in Oklahoma that will legalize what was until very recently absolutely unthinkable, the conversion of human remains into fertilizer.
[00:16:34]  So let's make sure we have this right.
[00:16:37]  The body of your dead father, wife, husband, child, whatever, is going to be placed into a container with wood chips and straw where it's broken down and processed and then used for compost.
[00:16:54]  Oh.
[00:16:55]  Oh, okay.
[00:16:56]  Oh, hmm.
[00:16:58]  Okay.
[00:17:00]  Then they're going to call this natural organic reduction.
[00:17:05]  Oh, of course they do.
[00:17:08]  Because every age that crosses moral boundaries first invents softer vocabulary.
[00:17:13]  You know, first, abortion, you know, is abortion, then it's, you know, and then it's, then it's not.
[00:17:20]  It's healthcare.
[00:17:21]  Death by doctors, same thing, healthcare.
[00:17:24]  Okay, now we're no longer going to bury our dead.
[00:17:27]  We recycle them.
[00:17:29]  Oh.
[00:17:32]  This sound dystopian to anybody else?
[00:17:34]  I mean, because me, it kind of sticks out.
[00:17:36]  You know, it's a little dystopian.
[00:17:40]  So what is the body worth?
[00:17:42]  And I don't mean price-wise.
[00:17:46]  It's an old question.
[00:17:47]  I mean, you know, it only feels new because we, I guess we've forgotten how often it used to be asked and how often it is always answered in the wrong direction.
[00:17:58]  You know, early 20th century, world rushed headlong into a promise of science and progress and follow the science and follow the progress.
[00:18:06]  And it was great.
[00:18:09]  G.K. Chesterson, he saw something dangerous.
[00:18:13]  He wrote a poem, kind of satire, really, mocking blind faith and progress of his age.
[00:18:21]  And he, you know, had a warning.
[00:18:23]  He dressed it up as a hymn to progress.
[00:18:26]  Here's what it says.
[00:18:27]  Let me see if I can get this here.
[00:18:28]  He wrote, lead us, evolution, lead us up the future's endless stair.
[00:18:35]  Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us, for stagnation is despair.
[00:18:41]  Groping, guessing, yet progressing, lead us nobody knows where.
[00:18:48]  Hmm.
[00:18:50]  To whatever variation our posterity may turn, hairy, squashy, or crustacean, bulbous-eyed or square of stern, toward that unknown God we yearn.
[00:19:04]  Goodness equals what comes next.
[00:19:06]  Oh, that is great.
[00:19:08]  That's great.
[00:19:10]  So let me see if I understand this.
[00:19:11]  A future with no fixed definition of good, no anchor, no standard, just progress, just change, just whatever comes next.
[00:19:24]  Goodness equals what comes next.
[00:19:27]  That means nothing is sacred and we're in for hard times, okay?
[00:19:31]  When everything is material, everything is just process, you know, everything becomes useful in one form or another.
[00:19:40]  And that's exactly where we are.
[00:19:42]  That's exactly where we are.
[00:19:44]  Once you accept the fact that the human body is merely biological matter, you strip it of meaning, you strip it beyond function, of course it can be composted.
[00:19:55]  Why don't we just pick up the bodies with pitchforks and throw them in?
[00:19:58]  Why don't you put them in the compost pile out back of the house?
[00:20:02]  I mean, it's efficient.
[00:20:03]  It's sustainable.
[00:20:04]  It is modern, really.
[00:20:08]  It's also a complete rupture with thousands of years of human understanding, mainly from, oh, what was it?
[00:20:16]  The Judeo-Christian perspective.
[00:20:20]  This is what happens when you start losing that perspective.
[00:20:23]  The body's just a shell.
[00:20:25]  But the way we used to think of it, it's not a shell.
[00:20:28]  It's not disposable.
[00:20:29]  It's not, you know, it's not like one of those irritating CD cases where you were trying to get, you know, or God forbid you go into a CVS now, you try to buy a razor blade and you can't ever get it out of that stupid packaging.
[00:20:44]  No, it's part of the person.
[00:20:46]  It's formed intentionally.
[00:20:49]  It has dignity.
[00:20:52]  It was destined and ultimately destined for resurrection.
[00:20:57]  That's why we believed burials mattered.
[00:21:03]  Is there nothing sacred anymore?
[00:21:06]  Does life even matter?
[00:21:12]  I mean, I hate to bring this up on the week of, you know, Christ's burial.
[00:21:17]  But when he was put in the tomb, they just didn't say, you know what, put him in there for a while and then we'll plant him in the garden and maybe he can grow a tree.
[00:21:24]  It was an act of reverence.
[00:21:26]  And for 2,000 years, that understanding is what shaped our civilization until now, because this is progress, gang.
[00:21:34]  We're making progress.
[00:21:34]  Follow the science.
[00:21:35]  It's nothing.
[00:21:36]  This is compassionate.
[00:21:38]  You know, somehow or another, it's compassionate.
[00:21:41]  It's better for the environment, too.
[00:21:44]  And maybe, maybe on paper, it's more efficient.
[00:21:50]  Can I ask you, I want you to think of the most efficient society you can think of.
[00:21:55]  Quick, think of a country that's really super efficient.
[00:21:59]  Uh-huh.
[00:22:00]  Let's say that country's name together.
[00:22:02]  Germany.
[00:22:05]  Super efficient, wasn't it?
[00:22:07]  Yeah.
[00:22:08]  Civilizations that measure themselves by efficiency tend to be remembered as, I don't know, monsters.
[00:22:17]  You know another one that was really, really super efficient?
[00:22:20]  China.
[00:22:25]  Yeah.
[00:22:28]  You know, real civilizations are measured by what they refuse to do, sometimes more than what they do.
[00:22:40]  You know?
[00:22:43]  What we refuse to do will say an awful lot.
[00:22:46]  14 states have already crossed this line.
[00:22:49]  And now Oklahoma, Oklahoma standing on the edge now deciding, yeah, can we just get grandpa and just put him in the old shredder and plant him in the back?
[00:22:59]  Because we've got some corn to grow.
[00:23:02]  43 Republican legislators have already helped advance this.
[00:23:07]  Makes me go, what, what?
[00:23:10]  What do the Republicans even stand for anymore?
[00:23:16]  What do they stand for?
[00:23:19]  You know, once a society decides, ah, it's just material that we can process, could we make them, can we make, if one of my children dies, could I make them into a plastic sippy cup?
[00:23:36]  No.
[00:23:37]  Why is that offensive to you?
[00:23:40]  it was a human life.
[00:23:49]  Is there nothing sacred?
[00:23:52]  You start blurring the lines between dignity and utility.
[00:23:57]  You do it first in death, then eventually you do it in life.
[00:24:02]  Every regime that has treated human beings as raw material, whether it was for labor or experimentation or disposal, began that same quiet shift into darkness.
[00:24:15]  You know, person becomes secondary, system becomes primary.
[00:24:19]  And what happens?
[00:24:21]  Well, nobody's asking themselves, I don't know.
[00:24:24]  Adolph, is this right?
[00:24:27]  You just start saying, is that the best use of them?
[00:24:31]  Is there a better way to use them?
[00:24:34]  Chesterson saw it coming.
[00:24:37]  He saw if you worship progress without defining the good, you drift.
[00:24:45]  And you drift towards a place where even the dead are no longer at rest, but repurposed.
[00:24:54]  Hmm.
[00:24:56]  Well, it's about the environment, is it?
[00:24:58]  Well, it's about the environment and efficiency, is it?
[00:25:02]  Is it?
[00:25:03]  I think it's more about whether we still believe that a human being, body and soul, still matters, still is more than material.
[00:25:12]  You know, what's really crazy is we're doing this all on the lead up of AI that's going to make this argument.
[00:25:19]  You know, humans are really inefficient.
[00:25:23]  You know, I could just capture all of your memories and it's like grandma would live together in that little box.
[00:25:27]  Oh, oh, okay.
[00:25:29]  Well, if we don't care about the body and we don't believe in the soul, then why not?
[00:25:34]  Why not just capture all of our thoughts and just put them in a little computer box and we can all live forever?
[00:25:42]  because we know that's not us.
[00:25:50]  What comes next?
[00:25:54]  How about organ bags?
[00:25:58]  Oh, oh, you think I'm just making that?
[00:26:00]  No, no, no.
[00:26:01]  No.
[00:26:02]  Scientists now are doing something that they think is very, very exciting.
[00:26:08]  And we haven't even talked about it.
[00:26:10]  Organ bags.
[00:26:11]  Yeah.
[00:26:13]  Headless bodies, they like to call bags.
[00:26:19]  That's just growing organs.
[00:26:21]  Oh, well, that sounds like either a horror show from science fiction or progress.
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[00:26:48]  Consequences will ripple out fast.
[00:26:50]  Air freight costs have already soared by as much as 400%.
[00:26:54]  Some shipping routes now require detours that add close to a million dollars to a single voyage.
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=== Revolutions Beyond Kings (15:03) ===

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[00:28:19]  I was doing some family history this weekend.
[00:28:25]  And, you know, saving the photos and the records and everything else is so really important.
[00:28:31]  I got back to my grandfather's side on the Beck side, my grandfather Beck, who was, I mean, I'm the first non-baker in five generations of sons.
[00:28:42]  They were very happy about that.
[00:28:44]  I get back to, I think, 1540 is as far as I can get back, 1540.
[00:28:49]  And I find, you know, Johan, you know, I don't know, Glebe Beck or something.
[00:28:57]  You know what he was?
[00:28:59]  A baker meister.
[00:29:01]  He was a baker in the 1540s.
[00:29:03]  It's crazy.
[00:29:04]  It's crazy when you start doing your family history.
[00:29:07]  All right.
[00:29:10]  Let me tell you about a perfectly insane moment because there were lots of them.
[00:29:14]  But I really want to start here.
[00:29:16]  This weekend in England of all places, England.
[00:29:20]  Crowds were gathering together with signs that said, no kings.
[00:29:25]  And they were protesting Donald Trump, who I'd like to remind you is not a king.
[00:29:31]  So they're there in England with kings that say no king, but they're not referring to their monarch or their royal family, not protesting the man whose face is literally stamped on their money in a crown.
[00:29:46]  No, they aimed it at an American.
[00:29:50]  I mean, you almost want to walk up to one of the protesters very politely, very British, and say, excuse me, but I'm sorry.
[00:29:58]  I couldn't help but notice you guys have a king.
[00:30:02]  In case you don't know, his name is King Charles III, and he lives in a palace and he's really snotty.
[00:30:08]  And there are guards standing in bearskin hats all around his house.
[00:30:13]  You could visit it.
[00:30:14]  I don't know.
[00:30:14]  They sell tickets, I hear.
[00:30:16]  Maybe I'm missing something, but what about your king?
[00:30:21]  Now, maybe this is the most advanced form of protest ever devised where you oppose kings, but only the one located about 4,000 miles away in countries that actually don't have a king.
[00:30:34]  But I thought King Charles had to be really happy.
[00:30:36]  I mean, this isn't a rebellion.
[00:30:38]  This is really an international customer service call.
[00:30:41]  It is.
[00:30:42]  Because, I mean, if you're chanting no kings in a country that literally has a king and you're not talking about your king, then you don't have a problem with kings.
[00:30:54]  You have a branding problem.
[00:30:56]  I mean, think about the mental gymnastics that are required for these people in London.
[00:31:01]  Town with unelected power.
[00:31:04]  As they're standing there, you know, right in front of the palace where the guy, just because he's born, is the powerful one.
[00:31:12]  I mean, I, no one should be above the people except apparently the people who are born into it.
[00:31:18]  No kings, except the one that we sing songs about God save, you know, and put on commemorative plates and tea cozies.
[00:31:27]  And somewhere, quietly, Prince Charles was carrying on with his day.
[00:31:33]  I mean, if this isn't a dream scenario for any monarchy, I don't know what is.
[00:31:38]  A population so comfortable with their king that they can protest kings without actually mentioning that they actually have a king.
[00:31:49]  I mean, that isn't dissent.
[00:31:50]  That's invisibility.
[00:31:52]  And that is, that is really hard to pull off invisibility when your entire family is nothing but inbred goons and crazy and your brother is a big fat pedophile.
[00:32:03]  It's pretty hard to pull off invisibility with that family.
[00:32:06]  But I digress.
[00:32:08]  This wasn't about kings, okay?
[00:32:11]  If it was about real kings, then the protest would have looked very different.
[00:32:15]  Maybe a different location, maybe a different target, different risk.
[00:32:19]  But it's not.
[00:32:20]  This isn't about monarchy or kings because they're fine with kings as long as it's their king.
[00:32:26]  This is only about Donald Trump.
[00:32:28]  You know, which is fine.
[00:32:29]  You want to protest a politician.
[00:32:30]  You can protest a politician.
[00:32:32]  Just don't dress it up like the American Revolution standing under a functioning monarchy.
[00:32:38]  It's honestly, and believe me, I know this is like staging a hunger strike in a bakery.
[00:32:46]  You know, I am really upset about this.
[00:32:52]  I got to tell you, I'm going to do something after I have that donut over there.
[00:32:56]  Come on.
[00:32:58]  Words don't have meaning anymore.
[00:33:01]  Okay.
[00:33:01]  They don't mean what they say.
[00:33:03]  The slogans are now just costumes.
[00:33:07]  You know, no kings means just not that guy.
[00:33:11]  You're not watching a movement.
[00:33:12]  You are watching marketing.
[00:33:14]  And all of you dopes who are out with your signs, you were the useful idiots.
[00:33:22]  People rarely get rid of power.
[00:33:24]  Rarely do they get rid of it.
[00:33:26]  They just decide which version they're comfortable with.
[00:33:29]  Which version am I comfortable ignoring?
[00:33:32]  Which king?
[00:33:32]  Which king?
[00:33:33]  And right now in England, you can shout no king at the top of your lungs as long as you don't look up to the balcony and actually see the king that you're apparently not talking about.
[00:33:42]  So what is this whole thing about?
[00:33:46]  This whole thing is about a color revolution.
[00:33:50]  Make no mistake.
[00:33:52]  That's what this is about.
[00:33:55]  The participants just based on the numbers by the organizers, which is probably bullcrap, represent about 2% of the population.
[00:34:04]  Now, why is that important?
[00:34:06]  Well, it can't be important because they're the smartest people in the world.
[00:34:10]  Can I play?
[00:34:15]  Let me see.
[00:34:15]  Let me grab the woman who is just dumb as a box of rocks.
[00:34:22]  Where is the one with the woman?
[00:34:26]  Here it is.
[00:34:28]  Can't be that they're the brightest 2% of the population.
[00:34:31]  Play cut four here.
[00:34:33]  Listen to this protest.
[00:34:34]  This protester.
[00:34:35]  No death camps on Americans.
[00:34:40]  Ask what you're saying.
[00:34:41]  Stop right there.
[00:34:44]  She might be RFK Jr.'s sister.
[00:34:46]  I don't know.
[00:34:47]  Listen to the voice.
[00:34:49]  Play it from the beginning again.
[00:34:50]  Go ahead.
[00:34:54]  Play from the beginning.
[00:34:55]  Death camps on Americans.
[00:34:59]  Ask what you're saying.
[00:35:01]  No death caps on American soil.
[00:35:04]  No cats?
[00:35:05]  No death caps.
[00:35:08]  Okay, so that's right here, protests.
[00:35:10]  Yeah, cut!
[00:35:12]  No, those camps are death camps.
[00:35:16]  And no one wants to say you killing human beings in those things.
[00:35:26]  Camps are raping them.
[00:35:29]  They don't want kids in.
[00:35:32]  So they suck it up there, little tussies and smug it.
[00:35:38]  So where are these camps at?
[00:35:40]  Uh, they were...
[00:35:42]  The... Florida...
[00:35:45]  The Florida Keys...
[00:35:49]  In Florida, we got that one.
[00:35:50]  And they want.
[00:35:52]  I mean, that they try and put ice.
[00:36:02]  You just can't see it.
[00:36:04]  You are blind as a bat.
[00:36:07]  Right.
[00:36:07]  You are blind as a bat if you don't see it.
[00:36:10]  If you do see it, you might be crazy.
[00:36:13]  But I feel, I mean, sometimes stupidity is so painful.
[00:36:18]  And that was one of those moments.
[00:36:19]  Just very, very painful.
[00:36:22]  But, you know, hey, to each his own, you know, those, just remember those death cats or camps, whichever one she meant, you know, it just makes you a Nazi.
[00:36:32]  Okay.
[00:36:33]  So it's not the brightest 2%.
[00:36:36]  Okay.
[00:36:37]  You just need 3.5% of the American population.
[00:36:41]  That is apparently what all of the experts on the left say.
[00:36:45]  What do they need 3.5% for?
[00:36:49]  Revolution.
[00:36:51]  The intellectuals and organizers of No Kings have been studying this now for apparently a very long time.
[00:36:57]  And they've been looking at color revolutions all over the world.
[00:36:59]  And they found in their research that even if you're as dumb as that woman, all you need is 3.5% of the population.
[00:37:07]  And that's what you can use to bring the country down.
[00:37:12]  Really?
[00:37:14]  Apparently, it's exactly what our founders warned us about back in the 1700s.
[00:37:18]  The Federalist Papers talked about tyranny of the minority.
[00:37:23]  How a small, very small percentage of people could effectively make their voices look louder and larger than they actually are and force their will on the majority.
[00:37:33]  So if you get 3% of the population and you have them out on the streets, and then you have social media just churn this stuff out, people think I'm surrounded and you're not.
[00:37:45]  You're not.
[00:37:46]  This is the reason why our government was designed the way it was.
[00:37:49]  Direct democracy is a very bad idea.
[00:37:53]  We were made into a constitutional republic.
[00:37:55]  The Electoral College was created specifically to protect us from tactics just like this.
[00:38:01]  But color revolutions are designed to bring all of it down.
[00:38:04]  And it was a CIA thing.
[00:38:06]  Our CIA created color revolutions and we've been using them all over the world.
[00:38:12]  There are two names and I outline these names in a special.
[00:38:20]  Ricky, do you have the name of the special here?
[00:38:23]  Yes.
[00:38:24]  So we exposed the Riot Machine playbook back in October 2025.
[00:38:28]  Okay.
[00:38:28]  And that is up at glenbeck.com slash torch.
[00:38:31]  It's on the torch homepage and on the watch page.
[00:38:35]  Whether you're seeing it on the website or the app, just look for Riot Machine playbook.
[00:38:41]  We did a whole hour expose on who's involved in this and the two names that you really need to understand and two books that you need to read are part of this special.
[00:38:57]  But first, let me talk about the main organizers of the No King rallies.
[00:39:01]  Indivisible.
[00:39:03]  What's Indivisible?
[00:39:04]  Indivisible was created by a couple of former congressional staffers named Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg.
[00:39:13]  The Jews?
[00:39:14]  Are they Jewish?
[00:39:16]  Are the Jews behind all of this?
[00:39:19]  Nope.
[00:39:20]  Nope.
[00:39:20]  Commies are.
[00:39:22]  I've been talking about color revolution for a really long time.
[00:39:25]  And the reason these revolutions have been dubbed color is because of a marketing trick that the organizers use.
[00:39:33]  For example, they had the Rose Revolution, the Orange Revolution.
[00:39:37]  There is a clip.
[00:39:38]  Do we have the clip of the No Kings planning webinar hosted by Ezra and Leah?
[00:39:46]  And listen to what takes center stage for their preparations.
[00:39:49]  Again, this was not meant for you to hear.
[00:39:52]  Okay.
[00:39:53]  This is them talking about.
[00:39:55]  you know, the color revolution and they're not hiding it anymore.
[00:39:58]  Listen to this.
[00:39:59]  What's getting organic pickup that we can start to pull out and capitalize on, right?
[00:40:04]  And so thinking about things that we're seeing pop on the internet, things that we're seeing start to like take off in places like Reddit.
[00:40:12]  The color yellow, yellow and black have come up a lot, which is obviously very like, you know, kind of people taking pieces of the No Kings logo and running with it as a color scheme.
[00:40:24]  Okay, so we're coloring.
[00:40:26]  We're into color schemes now.
[00:40:28]  Okay, that's great.
[00:40:29]  Now that brings us to the first name I want you to know in the first book.
[00:40:33]  In another planning webinar for No Kings, Ezra and Leah featured a Q ⁇ A with a Harvard-affiliated woman named Erica Chenoweth.
[00:40:43]  Listen to what she had to say.
[00:40:45]  There's some interesting stuff happening.
[00:40:47]  There's a good list that's easy to find if you went to like Gene Sharp's list of 198 non-violent methods is like just one of those low-hanging, easy access resources.
[00:41:00]  And there's under economic non-cooperation, there's like a really long list.
[00:41:05]  And then there's other kinds.
[00:41:06]  There's social and political non-cooperation as well.
[00:41:12]  Okay.
[00:41:12]  So I don't know what her pronouns are.
[00:41:14]  I'm just going to, I'm going to assume it's revolutionary.
[00:41:19]  So it was her study of color revolutions that found the 3.5% number.
[00:41:25]  She calls it the 3.5% rule.
[00:41:27]  How a small minority can change the world.
[00:41:30]  Okay.
[00:41:32]  You want to know what's happening?
[00:41:34]  This is just the setup.
[00:41:36]  Okay.
[00:41:37]  This is what it's going to look like now all the way through the election.
[00:41:41]  She's got a book out why civil resistance works.
[00:41:48]  Her work looks like it was heavily influenced by another color revolution intellectual that I want you to listen to in part of this Q ⁇ A with the indivisible co-founders, where she mentions the resources people can look up to further the cause.
[00:42:04]  Listen to this.
[00:42:06]  What's getting organic pickup that we can start to pull out and capitalize on, right?
[00:42:11]  And so thinking about things that we're seeing pop on the internet, things that we're seeing start to like take off in places like Reddit.
[00:42:19]  The color yellow, yellow and black have come up a lot, which is obviously very like, you know, kind of people taking pieces of the No Kings logo and running with it as a color scheme.
[00:42:31]  Okay, which takes me to a second name.
[00:42:34]  And I'm going to give you that second name here in just a second.
[00:42:36]  All of this can be found now at The Torch.

=== Educate Yourself Now (00:45) ===

[00:42:38]  You need to educate yourself on what is actually happening.
[00:42:41]  These are not organic by any stretch of the imagination.
[00:42:44]  They are not organic.
[00:42:46]  And their plan is a color revolution, the toppling of the United States of America.
[00:42:52]  Don't listen to anything else.
[00:42:53]  You can listen to the planners and the people who have put all of this together.
[00:42:59]  Don't listen to the people on the streets.
[00:43:00]  They're useful idiots.
[00:43:01]  They don't have any idea what they're doing.
[00:43:04]  They have no idea what they're part of.
[00:43:06]  I'm just here because of the tech ops.
[00:43:08]  Uh-huh.
[00:43:09]  Are you?
[00:43:10]  I'm just here because ICE is really bad.
[00:43:13]  Are you?
[00:43:14]  Really?
[00:43:14]  Because that's not what the people who planned this and roped you into it.
[00:43:19]  That's not what they're saying this is all about.
[00:43:23]  Morhunts.