The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 5/14/24

Episode Date: May 14, 2024

Glenn, Pat, and Stu discuss the importance of infrastructure after Earth's recent solar flare was nearly disastrous. A Catholic faith-based charity has just lost its charity status because, according to the government, charity is secular. President Biden appeared at an abortion rally, where he made the sign of the cross. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm here, Stu and Pat doing the show today. However, I will say, an interesting appearance from a one, the only Glenn Beck. He showed up to work today, kind of. And yeah, he's here. He can't see anything, but he's still doing a radio show. And look, you know, you can't see him either. So I guess everyone's equal when it comes to that sense. Here is the podcast today.

Lots of good stuff on it. I think you'll enjoy the show. And Glenn, hopefully we'll be back in full force tomorrow. But here is the podcast for today. Yeah, relief factor is something that, you know, help me hear one of the other stupid things that I had going on. I had pain in my body. And, you know, Pat used to fly with me all the time.

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Check it out. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. So I want to welcome Pat from Pat Gray Unleashed. And, of course, Stu, our executive, producer. I am still kind of without eyes and can't, can't really read anything. And so the guys are going to kind of walk me through and help me do what I do and do so poorly. But at least you know it. You know, you're aware of it. Yes. That's a start. Right. Thank you. Thank you. I know that. So do you want to explain it all what, what you're going through? What's going on in your

So, yeah, so I have the weirdest things that happen to me. I don't know. Can I just have a cold occasionally? I have a problem with my eyes and my eyelids to where my muscles are not working and keeping my eyes open. So I have problems with my eyes as it is. And then my eyelids aren't opening. And so the last, I don't know, Stu what? six months. I've been kind of every time I will read things and it got worse and worse,

I would read things on the air and I'd have to push my eyes open so I could see. So I had surgery. Hopefully it'll work what they did this time. And if not, then they have to go back in and, you know, cut the muscles and all of the horrible stuff. They would not take pictures of the surgery. I wanted pictures of the surgery. I wanted to see face off. But they, they wouldn't do it. So I get stitches out today. I might be able to see a little bit better tomorrow. We'll see.

We got to see your hemorrhoids. I was really looking forward to see in the eye situation. Well, if you look in a Stu's monitor, there they are. There they are. How do you like that? Oh, wow. Yeah. Looks almost like you got your eyes gouged out.

It does, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. It really looks like. When we talked on FaceTime last night, it really did because of the lighting. that was involved with where you were at the time. Yeah. It really looked like you just had two holes there. Yeah.

Where your eyes used to be. Incredible. You know, we're still doing construction on the ranch. And I was on the phone with them yesterday, FaceTime. And one of the contractors was up there and he wanted to talk to me about, you know, the price of stuff. And I said, go ahead. The window guy just gouged my eyes out. You're next.

He had no idea. I had surgery. He was a little freaked out. So this wasn't the, this wasn't a retina problem, right? This is a muscle problem with your eyes. The retina is the retina problem stopped. Thank God. Oh, wow. Good. So it's not detached. You don't have a detached retina. No. Thank you. Thank God.

It's a good thing. It's hard to keep track of all the health ailments on the Glenn Beck portfolio. You know, it's really weird is I was always the healthiest guy, right? I mean, yeah. You never took a day off. I never took a day off, ever. And then I hit like 50. And all of a sudden it's like, yeah, you have leprosy. You got a touch a gangrene, but we think it's only a 24-hour case.

I mean, everything just fell apart. Yeah. This is what happens. This is called aging, I suppose. But you're doing it in a spectacular fashion. Thank you. So congratulations on that. Should we talk?

talk about what's going on. Do you want to start? Is there any particular topic you're looking for us to go into here? Well, I know this is probably not on anybody's charts, but the seeing the Aurora Borealis is a very big story that nobody has been talking about. Everybody's like, oh, look at the sky. It's so pretty. Yeah, sure. But why is it pretty? Why is that happening? This is the first time in 20 years that we have seen the Aurora Borealis as low and as south as possible, or as it was. But we had an event, and I talked about it in our meetings, Stu, last, I think Monday, a week ago Monday. And everybody looked at me like I was crazy, and I said, there's a huge CME that just happened. There's a huge solar flare that just happened.

And luckily, it was on the side of the sun, but it was kind of. coming our direction, but not directly. It was the biggest solar flare since the Carrington event in, what, 1860 or whatever? Yeah, 1860, I'm sure. The Carrington event you're talking about? That's 18, yeah, 1860. How many times if we talk about the Carrington event? Come on.

You know what the Carrington event. We're all over the Carrington event. Well, Pat just started a new podcast called Pat and the Carrington event. Yeah. Wait a minute. I'm just, I'm trying to look. I can barely see through my eyes, but are you wearing, I'm a fan of the Carrington event T-shirt?

I am. Yes. Oh, yes. So the Carrington event. I usually do. I do have it in different colors. Right. But, uh, yeah.

Available at patsadjerk.com. So, uh, the Carrington event happened in the 18, I think 60s. And, uh, we hit, we were hit by a massive solar flare. And at the time, the only, you know, we didn't really have electricity or anything, but we had telegraphs. And the telegraph wire all over the country burned up. I mean, literally started on fire. From the telegraph, all the way through all of the polls, it just burned out. And that is, you know, a significant problem with today's electricity.

all of our wires. That could have been a blackout situation, an EMP. We dodged the bullet. It could have shut down power companies and power lines all over the country, all over Europe as well, for at least a year. The problem we have is all of our power transformers, it takes that I think it's a year to build and to replace giant transformers. And we don't have extras. Nobody's thinking about this stuff. And we haven't protected our infrastructure. No.

And it would be very inexpensive. Brett Weinstein wrote a great article on this last week about, you know, he was kind of making fun of, you know, how everybody was saying, oh, look at the beautiful sky that's going to happen. next week. And he's like, it would take so little to protect our infrastructure and nothing is protected. We really dodged the bullet. Well, this is a few years ago, but they were talking about not just a solar EMP, but an EMP from, you know, a foreign, foreign adversary and how we could protect our infrastructure from it for, it seems like it was only a billion. I think it's

under $5 billion. Yeah. It's dirt cheap in comparison to what we would lose if it actually happened. And they won't do it. It's one of those low probability high, what do they call those things? High impact. Yeah, high impact. This impact, if we were hit by an EMP, and it takes three nuclear weapons launched into space,

Iran could probably do it when they get their missiles North Korea North Korea all you have to do is put two barges one on the east coast and west coast you fire two on one one goes over the middle of America one goes over the west coast

then you have a boat on the east coast it takes three missiles detonated at the right altitude above America you'd shut us down and in the first year, 95% of our population would die. Yeah, because we're back to the cave time. Stone age.

Yeah, it's, you don't have refrigeration. You don't have transportation. And you cannot repair it fast enough because we didn't protect anything. This is, this is one of the craziest things. Congress, you're spending money on so much, a turtle tunnel, spend $5 billion to protect the infrastructure. Doesn't make sense not to. No, it doesn't.

It seems like one of the basic things that government is designed to do, right? Yes. There's a lot of things they're doing that they're not supposed to do. Wouldn't this be something that falls in the category of must, must do? And how often do they talk about infrastructure? We've got crumbling roads and bridges. We've got electronics that could be protected and they're not being protected. Do you know that this solar event could have knocked out all of Elon Musk's satellites?

They were afraid of those. And all of our GPS. Do you know what would happen if we'd lost all of our GPS? You're a mess. So the GPS, our magnetic field is so far awry right now that it is at about a 30 degree, switch. And so it's drifted about 30 degrees. Okay, so it's not up at the pole and the top and the bottom. It's 30 degrees off. And because of that, it's causing all kinds of holes and thinning of our ionosphere. So, you know, all of this stuff can come through. And you, you, we have such a

problem with it. It's moving so rapid. rapidly, we used to have to adjust our GPS, I think it was every five years, then it was every two years. And because our poles are shifting, it was then a year. It's now every six months we have to reset our GPS satellites. The polls are moving that rapidly. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. I don't know about you, but I know Pat and I really love beef. We, Pat's always,

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but I can't read any of the stories right now. There is one story that I want to talk to you about that is on the front page of blaze.com. By the way, if you haven't read the blaze.com recently, this should be your go-to page every day. it is so good and we are hiring more and more writers and and really deep thinking opinion makers every day. It is really a great website. Anyway, the story is the state of Wisconsin is our, has argued that Catholic charities is not operated primarily for religious purposes. and I'm quoting, because their activities are secular. So what does that mean?

That means that when Catholic charities goes out and they train people to work, the government can do that. When they feed people, well, the government can do that. When they house people, the government can do that. When they give people clothing, the government can do that. These businesses can do those things. this isn't a charity. Are you kidding me?

So they're saying now that their activities are secular because in the secular world they also happen and so Catholic Charities isn't really a charity. I don't know. You have a problem? I don't have a problem with that. You have a problem with that? No, I don't know.

Sounds fine to me. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it? You know what's crazy is Wow. Everybody else who is doing it is, and I don't mean this in a bad way because a lot of things happen like this and it's a really good thing through capitalism

but you are making money and you have to make money there are things that you do in charities that do not make money and shouldn't be motivated by money Christian compassion is what drives Catholic charities Christian compassion.

That's a totally different motivation. Have you ever been to, you know, the unemployment office? I don't think that's Christian compassion. No? It's like you always say you don't feel charitable on April 15th. You're just out of the mainstream glide, I think. You know, you know, what is so bad is they are beating down. You know, remember when it started with how long ago was it?

four years ago where they started telling people, you can't make sandwiches for the poor. Yeah. You can't hand out food. And these charities had been handing out food for like 25 years. There was no problem with it. All of a sudden, the city, it was some city in California, decided, nope, you can't do that anymore. They are taking away our right, our God-given responsibility to be better people. to help the stranger. By doing that, we become cold and callous. And I know this from living in New York.

Stu, do you remember, you might have been with me when I said it? We lived in New York for probably four years, and the taxes there are so high. My taxes were over 50%. And the city tax, I think, was, what was it, 12% if you lived in the city? Was I the only one that lived? lived in the city. It's something ridiculous. Yeah, I don't remember the exact rate. Yeah, it was like 12% tax just for living in the city. And I remember walking up to our building on Avenue of the Americas and the city had started to go downhill and there were papers and garbage and everything else blowing around. And I walked up to the building and whoever was with me, I said, how much money do I have to give this freaking city for them to keep it clean.

And it really pissed me off. And then I just stopped and I went, oh my gosh, in any other city I've ever lived in, if there was a newspaper blowing around, I would have picked it up and put it in the trash can. I would have thought that that was part of my civic responsibility. But because they don't want you to do anything and they charge you for everything,

you just get cold and you just step over things. Yeah, that's a big part of it. I mean, another part of it is if you touch the newspaper, you'll get syphilis. So that is. Well, yeah, I got a little, I got a 24-hour leprosy. Right. But, yeah. I mean, it is.

It does put you in a position. I mean, this is somewhat oddly consistent ideologically with what progressives want, right? Like the fact that they are not active in these situations, they don't want to help people through charity is consistent with their horrible worldview that government's supposed to do everything. Well, government is God. Government is God. I mean, God tells us that, you know, when did I see you, Lord? Well, when you fed the sick, when you visited those in prison, when I was thirsty and did you give me drink, all of that stuff, when I was naked, did you clothe me? That's God telling us,

not the government telling us what we're supposed to do. And the whole point of living on the world, at least in my view, is because we're supposed to be better. We are clothed in flesh, so we forget our divine nature, because we have to wield all of the power that we have. If you don't believe,

as a man thinketh he becomes you're a moron you need to you need to understand all thought is creative you have the power of you know parts of the power of god in you to be creative you think of something and you speak it out loud and you believe it it becomes part of your reality it you build everything all of this stuff that is around us the car the buildings you're looking at the landscaping, everything, came from somebody's idea. So we're creative. And our job is to not get locked into all of the stuff. Instead, see all the stuff that we can do,

and then also see that the most important thing we can do is serve one another. And our government is taking that God-given, not right, responsibility away from it. It is absolutely an Antichrist teaching. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So yesterday, Donald Trump apparently fell asleep at his hearings, which I think is fantastic. You know, he said he wasn't asleep, but I think he should have said, yeah, there's nothing going on. I took a nap. But now Joe Biden is calling him sleepy Joe, or I mean sleepy Don. which is so very clever.

Oh my gosh, how did he ever come up with that? But he's also on the campaign trail, and he's in trouble down in Florida, in Tampa, Florida. He was at a pro-abortion rally, and the people were screaming, you know, it's not enough.

We need more than 15 weeks. You know, we need 320 trimesters before you can tell us not, to abort our babies. And he said that, you know, Ronda Santis was extreme and we have to do better. And the speaker said in America today in 2024, women have fewer rights than their mothers.

Yeah, especially when it comes to sports and their grandmothers because of Donald Trump. Millions of women in Florida now face pain and cruelty. Millions of women in Florida now face pain and cruelty. cruelty? Really? And then he added, it's not inevitable. We can stop it when you vote. And then he made the sign of the cross,

which is kind of weird when you're talking about, you know, killing baby Jesus. I mean, it would have been convenient, I guess, for Mary to abort the baby. And her husband could have said, hey, I don't, yeah, right, like that happened. I don't know who that. Yeah, well, you're not having that baby. You're not shaming this family. and she could have had an abortion.

And things might have been different if that would have happened. Yeah, they might have. But that's between her and her doctor. Right. And her doctor, yeah. And of course, before her doctor, you know, cuts her open and kills the baby or just, you know, inserts knives into the mom's womb and just chops the baby up.

It's really, I feel good that he makes the sign of the cross. You know what I mean? Just. It's so evil. So, you're right. Evil. It is evil. Unadulterated evil. So many problems with this statement. It wasn't millions of women in Florida. Millions of women in Florida now face pain and cruelty. Now, of course, this is a high number, but about a million abortions occurred in the entire United States last year. Which is... Yeah, but how many in Florida? Millions, right? Right. So not millions. We know that for sure. Not to mention, even their six-week ban still allows about 40% of abortions to go forward. So, About 40% happened before six weeks.

So really, I don't know. Again, not that you'd expect Joe Biden have any idea what he's talking about, but he has no idea what he's talking about. On every issue. Wow, that is deep analysis to what I think is appropriate. Really appropriate. That's great. I mean, that's all the deeper you need to go, right, with Joe Biden,

because he's just so butt stupid and so terrible. Can I ask you, do you? you think anybody actually believes anybody, even his supporters, if they were honest, do they actually believe he's making the policies of the United States of America? I think most people think it's Barack Obama. And if not Barack himself, Susan Rice, through Barack Obama. But even not saying who is doing it, do they actually think he's walking into the room and saying, guys, here's today's agenda. Here's what we're going to do. Well, that's what they try to tell us. Anyone believes that? They try to tell us how sharp he is,

how brilliant he is, how penetrating he is. I know, but I don't say penetrating with him. What I'm asking, ooh, your hair smells delicious. What I'm asking is, do you think the average Democrat, forget who's running it, actually believes he's setting the agenda. Yeah, I think Democrats believe it. They do? I think so. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, is it fair to just exonerate him from the responsibility of this, though? I mean, I think he deserves every bit of the blame for what's going on. I'm not saying that. What I'm, what my question is driving at is because I don't think he's, he's not running the agenda. He's not. He's not capable of it. So I'm not saying that, you know, give him a pass. I'm saying, how can someone vote for?

the president when he's not the president. He's not making the decisions and you don't know who is. Well, here's a really good indication of who might be making the decisions. Cut 16 where Joe Biden talks about it. My name's Joe Biden. I work for Kamala Harris. So there you go. He works for Kamala Harris.

I asked her to be my vice president. I knew I needed somebody smarter than me. Wow. Wow, that's saying something. Yeah, isn't it? And shockingly, this approach and this incredible energy and focus from our president has not leading him to good polling results so far. We mentioned this yesterday, Glenn, but you didn't get a chance to react to it.

Six swing states, polling came in. Joe Biden only leading in one of them, 47 to 45 over Trump in Wisconsin. So a two-point lead, obviously, within the margin of it. error. Also in the margin of error, Pennsylvania, except Trump leads that one by three, 47 to 44. Still, it's got to be, it's got to be over five to seven points. Well, you'll be happy to hear Arizona and Michigan or seven point leads for Donald Trump, 49, 42, Georgia, 4939 for Trump. Wow. And then Nevada, 50 to 38 for Trump. Up by 12. Wow. In Nevada. I think it's fair to be skeptical that Donald Trump is going to win Nevada by 12 points?

That would be... That's going to be more like 15 or 20. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. And there you go. So I was talking to a guy who follows the CIA and I'm not going to give you all the credentials. But he's a guy who knows and knows things.

And he's not currently involved with any thing in the government. But he has... He knows the color revolutions. And if you don't know what the color revolution is, just look at the Arab Spring. We were the ones responsible for the Arab Spring. We got together with Facebook, told them to keep things open. We organized people on the ground. And we found a way to get with social media and whip people into a frenzy.

We found ways to overturn governments. but it is important in a color revolution that you have somebody at the top that you can declare as a dictator, a fascist, a monster, okay? Mm-hmm. And we were talking about the election, and I said,

because I believe we are, everything the State Department did in the Arab Spring, they did in Ukraine, they did it again in South America, and I believe it's being, set up here and it has been for a long time because they have all of the pieces you need for a color revolution except the guy at the top being a dictator and we were talking about it and I said what do you think's going to happen in the election he said I actually think Donald Trump's going to

win and I said oh my gosh that makes me feel better and he said well let me tell you why he said because for a color revolution to work they have to the left has to have to have some somebody that they say, this guy's evil, we have to overturn all of it. So he said it will lead to more violence, but I think we all know that. Don't we? I think we all know that if Donald Trump wins, the left will set this country on fire. Yeah. I mean, strongly suspect that's going to happen.

Yeah. Right. So it's one of those, you know, you know, win-wins again for the left. If Joe Biden wins, great. You have Kamala Harris. Can you imagine Kamala Harris being the president of the United States? And that will happen if he wins.

And if Donald Trump wins, I think the left, it's going to be lawsuits at best. They'll do everything they claimed that the right was doing and that it was so wrong by claiming it was a fake election, and it will just set the streets on fire. We really have to be on our knees praying all the time. Please, Lord, protect the Republic. I have a painting that I did.

It's hanging in my office, and it just says, save the Republic. I think that should be what everybody is praying for. Save the Republic, Lord. Save the Republic. It seems like the heat just keeps getting turned up as well. And I don't know. I mean, I think you see it all over the place. It's hard to imagine the outcome.

Maybe you could describe it, Glenn. What's the outcome that leads to some peaceful resolution of all of this, right? Like it feels like there are extremists on both sides, frankly, that are constantly threatening some, either some sort of violence or seems so on edge about everything that if they lose, God only knows how they'll react. Can I say something that I think, you know, this is just thinking out loud, so don't take this as something I've really thought deeply about. But thinking out loud, I don't like this long term because this individual is not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

But I think if Donald Trump picked Tulsi Gabbard as vice president, it might, diffuse things in trouble because she could reach out to the left, not to the left, to the regular Democrat, and say, guys, I'm a Democrat. I don't agree with the same policies, but Donald Trump selected me to try to pull us back together and I'm appealing and she might be able to appeal to the common Democrat and hold it together. Maybe, maybe. What do you think of my theory that if he chooses Doug Bergam, people will be so bored that the entire nation will just fall asleep? Well, I...

What about that? I have to tell you, Pat, I'm actually hoping that Doug is the one because I've invested in the Doug Bergam used to be called Groucho Marx glasses. Yeah. Yeah. And I think I can make a lot of money. I think a lot of money on that. So it doesn't really matter about policy.

You're just looking to cash in. Yeah. Yeah. It's the capitalist way. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. I think that makes a lot of sense. Do you buy the Bergamentum?

Glenn, are you a Bergamania guy? You think this is going to be the pick? Is that a serious question? A lot of people, he is the literal favorite. It's a 4-to-1 favorite tied with Tim Scott. He and Tim Scott are 4-1-1. favorites for the vice presidential pick. No way.

First of all, Donald Trump always he likes the surprise. Yeah. You know, he, you know, he likes, remember last time there was favorites and then they would fall away and there'd be another favorite and they'd follow away and there'd be another favorite. He likes that drama. He's a showman.

He's a showman. You know, the real pick that I would want is somebody that is truly a constitutional stalwart. Somebody who is just steeped in the Constitution and not a Republican or a Democrat,

but is an American constitutionalist. That's who I would love to see because... And who is that person? To you. I mean, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, neither one of them were even possible, really. Yeah, and they wouldn't help him on the campaign trail. But that's what I would love to. have because the Donald Trump only has four years. Whoever he picks is going to be the movement of the party. That's why I worry about Tulsi Gabbard. But I think the Tulsi Gabbard move in the

short run in the next four years, I think it might be really, really important. Because that we need something to pull us back together. And look, people can change. But you know, Tulsi Gabbard again, endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016 against Donald Trump. I know, but here's the thing. She loves America. There is no doubt in my mind that she loves America. And I know she's, you know, socialist and everything else, but that goes back. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hang on just a second.

That goes back to the kind of argument that we used to have. You know, how big are social programs, how big is a spending, how big is this? that we have if you love America, if you love the basis of what we are. And I do believe she believes that. Yeah. I mean, you want to put her in some role, it's one thing. It's another thing to put a Bernie Sanders campaign head in the vice presidential slot when your president is in his late 70s and has the same affinity for McDonald's that I do.

I know. That's not a good thing. That is never a move that I would ever recommend, ever. at any time. And again, this is off the top of my head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I would never recommend that at any time, except for now. We all know massive trouble is coming after this election. And if you don't think so, you're not paying attention. 60% of the vans on Amazon, proven to vander independent, like sack magic. Hello, here Camille, of Sac, Magic.

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