The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 6/18/26

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

What’s actually in the 14-point memorandum of understanding between Iran and the U.S.? Glenn breaks down what the memorandum actually promises, which is contrary to what many in the media claim, and explains why this memorandum was necessary for President Trump to issue. Glenn discusses the horrific story from England of children suffering an unfathomable amount of abuse and the country protecting the offenders because they're Muslim. If mankind won’t even stand up for the safety of children, what are we? Glenn reacts to a recent poll from CNN, which revealed that a majority of Democrats are no longer proud to be Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's podcast, I have an update on Iran and the MOU. Am I happy about it? Well, you'll see. I'll at least tell you the truth. May not make any friends in the administration or friends with you, but I'm telling you the truth on what I believe really is happening here. Also, protecting the Muslim abusers in the UK, actually, my aura ring sent an alert to my phone,

just asked, are you doing yard work? No, I was writing a month. monologue about this and I was so passionate about it. I burned calories on it. So frustrating. We get to half of it. The second half of the monologue, I think you're going to have to find probably on the full podcast, but it is a, it's an excoriation of the system and pointed directly at our churches. Where are they on this? Also, what to love about America and what to hate about America. Apparently, Dems, really don't like America. That's the latest from CNN.

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And I want you to share it with everybody you know. Anybody you think still has a grasp on their soul. And I don't know the answer. But I see trouble coming and I am blowing my trumpet. You know, there's something that Jesus said that condemns all of us in this. horrific story that is coming out of England. 250,000 children have been raped by these rape gangs from these illegals and the Islamists, and they've done nothing about it.

We've lost, under Biden administration, we just lost, misplaced, about 500,000 children. Don't know where they are. We found 146,000 of them, Trump has. They set out to look for them. They found out that we were just giving them to anybody, and now these children are being found raped time after time after time, day after day after day. There's something that Jesus said that really condemns all of us, I fear. He said, whoever harms one of these little ones, one of these children, it would be better

for that man to have a millstone hung around his neck and drowned in the depth of the sea. Think of this. This is the gentlest man who ever lived. The one who said, turn the other cheek, the guy who forgave the men driving nails. into his own hands. That man looked out and found one thing that was so unforgivable he reached for the image of a stone tied around the neck

and a body sinking into the sea. And what was that one thing? The abuse of a child. I want you to know, I condemned me. I condemned me first. I had a hard time making these notes and thinking about it. I mean, I talked to my wife about it

for an hour last night. I called a friends and talked to them, and I said, I don't know how to do this. because I don't know what the answer is. I do know that there are people that should be on this 24-7, so I have a question for those people. I have a question of the men of the cloth.

Where the hell are you? Where are our pastors and our priests and our rabbis? Where are the pulpits? A quarter of a million children raped in England while every institution looked away. Hundreds of thousands of children handed to traffickers on our own soil while the people who run our country

filed all the paperwork for it. And the single most explicit warning Christ ever gave is being violated on an industrial scale in our lifetime, in our towns. And the house of God is so quiet, it is staggering. I know you know the story

because you preach it every year. Man's beaten, left it half dead in a ditch. Who walks past him? Not the criminals. They're already gone. Who walks past him? pastor, it's the priest, it's the Levite, it's the religious professionals, the credential, the robe, the respectable. They see the bleeding man and they cross to the other side of the road so they don't have to deal with it. You have preached this parable a thousand times. Did you ever think

that maybe you were preaching it about you? Because I think that's where many of our pastor, and our priests and our rabbis are. They're on the other side of the road. You know, I say what I mean and I mean what I say. So let me say something. Are all of you over-educated, self-righteous, collar-wearing clerics, anything more than fundraisers,

middle management, cowards and paper tigers? Is that all you are? Are you more worried about your title, your paycheck, your tithing receipts, your building fund, you're standing in the community, If I say something, I might offend.

Jesus told you exactly what you are when you do this. He said the good shepherd will lay down his life for the sheep. But the hireling, the man who's only in it for the wage, the moment he sees the wolf coming, he runs. He leaves the sheep. He runs because he never loved them in the first place. He loved the job. while you run while you stay silent evil rampages.

And what are you doing? Honestly, what are you doing? You're at your desk polishing up another clever little sermon, three points in a poem that half your congregation is going to sleep through anyway. Do you honestly believe with what's going on in the world that the thing you're talking about next Sunday, the thing you're doing today is the thing that Jesus would be doing, His children are the most sacred among us. They're mutilating them, losing them, and raping them.

But you're busy workshopping your Sunday talk while they're being devoured. You want to know why your church is so empty? This is why. Real evil is on the hunt, and you don't address it. Our churches are a ship in a storm without a captain or a rudder. Martin Luther King, who is by far not a perfect person, by far, marched for no less than what's happening to these children today. And do you remember what his great disappointment was? It wasn't the men with the dogs and the hoses.

When he was sitting in a jail cell in Birmingham, he wrote the hardest words to the clergy, to the good, decent, educated white pastors who told him to be patient, to wait, don't make trouble. He said he had almost concluded that the great stumbling block was not the obvious villain, but the moderate, the more devoted to order than to justice, the one who agreed with the goal in private and did nothing in public. He said in the end, we're not going to remember the words of our enemies. We will remember the silence of our friends. The silence, I'm not going to remember your Sunday sermon.

but I think we will remember the silence. That's what's being recorded. Not the screaming of the wicked. We expect that. But the silence of the shepherds. Do you know why I fear Tommy Robinson might fail in his efforts in Great Britain? Not because he isn't right, not because he isn't smart, but because England doesn't have a figure like Martin Luther King to model.

The churches aren't there. The churches are literally working, for the king. They don't believe the Bible is supreme. They don't even believe the Bible is true. They hide behind and empower their real king. And it ain't Jesus.

It's King Charles. How many of our pastors, priests, and rabbis are hiding behind the government? How many of them will say this is a political matter? It's a state matter. It's not the church's place. Well, let me remind you who these children are. Okay? Render unto Caesar that.

which is Caesar's. Give Caesar his coin. I don't know if you've noticed this pastor, but a child is not Caesar's coin. A child does not bear Caesar's image. A child bears the image of God. Our children do not belong to the state. They never did.

Caesar has no jurisdiction there. And any pastor who treats the mutilation or trafficking of God's children as somebody else's department has handed to Caesar the one thing Caesar was never permitted to touch. Look what you're spending your days on. All of our churches. We argue doctrine. We argue the fine print.

We spend our strength on, I'm more righteous than you. My denomination is purer than your denomination. My theology is more correct than your theology. Well, that's because I know it's true because we're more righteous than they are. You've turned faith into a debating society while the wolves are emptying our nurseries. James said faith without works is dead.

Oh, no, no, no, we've got the great... Faith without works is dead. A faith that can argue theology or end times prophecy for three hours but can't walk into the street for a raped child is a corpse in a nice suit. Try to outrun this one. Try to outrun it because it's in your own book.

read it, I know it, I take it sincerely. Ezekiel. The watchman on the wall. God says if the watchman sees a sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people die, the blood is on the watchman's hands,

not the enemies, the watchmen's, you are posted on the wall. You see the sword, you saw it, you said nothing. Just understand what's being written. if you continue to remain silent, if the church keeps its head down while the blood of innocence runs

and the freedom that was exhausted to us to guard and to hand to those very children, the next generation is lost, there's going to be a receipt for that failure and your name is on that list. It'll be yours, it'll be mine, it'll be our churches, your church, my church.

I'm not standing outside of this. I'm in it with you. and that's why I won't be quiet about it. So let me ask you, what's it going to take to get you off your self-righteous backside and lead? Not to riot, but to do what King did, to do what the abolitionist preachers did, to wake your people up and put them peacefully, prayerfully, immovably, into the street, into the public square,

into the face of every official who looks away and not sit back down until every last one of these children have found and every coward who enabled this is out of power. Wake up for the love of the God you claim to serve. Wake up! Your flock is being eaten by wolves. And you were given a staff for exactly this. Father's Day is coming up.

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We're coming to the end, perhaps, of this war with Iran. And let me tell you what's in it. And then I'll tell you what it means, because those are two different conversations. One, the first part, I'm going to give you facts. The second part, I'm going to give you opinion. And my opinion is worth just as much as your opinion is. So take it for what it's worth. What's the MOU?

14-point memorandum. Let's start with the part that everybody on Trump's coalition, everybody on his side is up in arms about, an open revolt. There is a reconstruction plan for Iran worth at least $300 billion built with regional partners and the United States issuing the license to move the money. It's not our money. It's not your money. It's not American dime will go to this. but every frozen Iranian asset will be unfrozen and made fully spendable, payable to whomever the Iran's central bank points to. That doesn't sound good. The Treasury is then starting to issue oil export waivers immediately so Tehran can sell crude right now. And on a schedule, every sanction comes off.

Let me say that again. on a schedule, all sanctions come off. The UN, the nuclear watchdog, our own sanctions. We've had these sanctions in place since 1979. Now the nuclear heart of it, because this is where the war was supposedly fought. Iran has to reaffirm it will not build a weapon. Uh-huh. It's stockpiled of enriched material, doesn't leave the country.

Uh, what? It will get watered down on site under inspection. Oh, UN inspected. inspectors, uh-huh, and the enrichment not ended just to be discussed. Not happy with any of that. Meanwhile, the status quo holds. Iran keeps its program where it is, we add no new sanctions and no new forces. On the Strait of Hormuz, free passage is guaranteed for 60 days only.

And then the future, quote, administration of the strait gets negotiated with Oman and the Gulf states, which a lot of people are reading as the doors left wide open for Iran to charge tolls down the road. I don't know. That's speculation. Now, the president is saying out loud that Iran gets to keep some of its missiles and some enrichment, walking back the very things the war was started to take out. Okay, so that's the bad side. And there's a lot to be said for the bad side on this one.

Okay? But hear me out. Now let me give you the other side of the ledger. Here's the good stuff. of this is a treaty. This is a MOU, a memo of understanding. That's it. It's a roadmap and a 60-day clock.

Either side can walk at any time. The money and the relief are sequenced against Iran actually doing things. So it's not like we're opening up the bank account. And again, it's not coming from us. This is their money. But we don't

release any of that money, and it doesn't go all at once. They have to do things. They have to open the rate. They have to clear the mines. You cleared the mines? We verified you cleared the mines. Okay, here's a little bit more of your money. They have to let the oil and the inspectors flow. The minute they don't, they don't get the money. There is a monitoring mechanism. A final deal will have to be locked in by the Security Council. Our forces don't fully leave until 30 days after that final deal. So until then, we're sitting right off their coast and we're ready to go.

Trump's message is, if it falls apart, I've got four words. Go back to bombing. That's the deal. That's the memo of understanding. Now what do I think about it? Take it for what it's worth. This war started to stop them from bombing people and building missiles. We hoped that it would end in freedom.

But we've learned two lessons. This war has taught us two things. Lesson number one, the 12ers are not going anyway, anywhere. These are the radicals that believe they can wash the world in blood and bring about the return of the Mahadi. It is crazy. These are the apocalyptic clerics and the generals, the ones whose whole theology runs this country now from beginning to end. We bombed and the moderates did not rise to the top.

We killed and they did not. Instead, the IRGC got stronger. We bombed. We made it possible for it to be weakened. The people did not pour into the streets to finish it. The people that were in power that could have stopped the IRGC did not stop the IRGC. The people who still pray for the end of the world to come so the Mahadi can return, those are the people who hold the country today.

And that teaches you something really hard. your actual goal is to end the regime, not bruise it, but to end it, there is only one model in history that will do that. And it's the one we ran on Germany and Japan in 1945. And that is total defeat. Occupation, dismantle the apparatus, try and hang the leadership, denottsify the entire machine, and build it into something that can't do this again by using the Iranian people. That's the only thing that has worked in the past and the only thing that will work in the future. But that requires two things that we don't have. So before everybody gets all hot and bothered and oh my gosh, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, can we just look at ourselves

for a minute? There are two things that we don't have or won't give American troops on the ground. I won't. I don't want American troops on the ground there. I don't want it. So no-go zone. And I'm not alone. Everybody on all sides says no troops on the ground. Okay. Two, an Iranian public ready to go and pick up the rubble and build a free country out of it. Don't see it yet. I don't. Without both of those things, you are not going to end the regime.

The only thing you can do is postpone it. Lesson two. We only lose wars in the United States that we refuse to fight, or the ones that we get bored of, or are too inconvenient for us. That is the ceiling of war. The whole world knows it. That's the real ceiling. That's the one that decided this.

What was that one thing that we decided to choose over trying to fix Iran or whatever it is what we're going to do? What is the thing that outweighed that? The price of gasoline. Period. I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm not saying that's not a real concern. I'm just telling you the truth. What decided how we fight this war was the price of gasoline.

Americans had no tolerance for high price of gas. The American appetite for this fight ran exactly as deep as the number on the sign at the corner gas station. Iran has known that for 40. years. It's the whole reason the Strait of Hormuz exists in their strategy. The world knows it, and Donald Trump knows it better than anybody. He cannot go one step further than the American people will carry him. And the vast majority of the American people are tied directly to the price of gas. The American people, the vast majority, do not see Iran as a problem. They are not willing to look

at a long-term solution. They do not, and I'm not judging, I'm just telling you the facts. They do not believe that we have a fight that we should fight with Iran, the majority of people. And that's how it works

when a president, who's not a dictator, is trying to do something that the people have no stomach for. That's the way it works. In a republic, which we have, dictators would have just kept going. Notice the different Democrats?

So now put these two lessons together and ask the honest question. The one, the people that are screaming, he betrayed us, won't ask. Knowing that the regime survives, anything short of a ground war, knowing that the public's patience end at the pump, what did you expect him to do? What exactly could he have done? What exactly kind of deal would you have gotten that would have been better without changing either one of those facts?

What kind of deal do you expect when Congress, while we were negotiating, was saying you've got to stop this and we're voting for you to stop this war? What exactly kind of good deal do you think we would have gotten? Okay, so let me give you my read, and it's not a certainty. is just a read. He set him back. That is not what I wanted. That's not, I don't think, what you wanted. That's not what the left wanted.

They didn't want them set back. But he set him back. He kicked the can down the road at least five years. I didn't want him to kick the can down the road. He didn't want to kick the can down the road. But he also didn't want to own what he didn't want,

war in the Middle East that we were stuck in. And neither did you. Neither did I. So, sets them back on the missiles and the bombs. This is temporary. This is not a fix. We can never, ever, ever, ever, ever trust the Iranian leadership, ever. But a five-year setback bought with bombs and very few American funerals is still worth doing.

Now, me personally, I would rather fight Iran in my lifetime than to hand that fight to my children, and I suspect you feel the same. But the vast majority of our neighbors do all of their math at the gas pump, not at the map, not thinking about the future. That's the country we live in. That's the country Trump is governing. That's the board he must play on because, let me say it again, he's not a dictator.

So, will I tell you that this worked out the way I hoped it would? Nope. Didn't. Not the way I hoped it would work out. Not the way I prayed it would work out. Not what I was expecting. But cursing the deal is not a plan. So I'm sorry.

I don't, I'm sorry I'm coming off. I fear that I'm yelling at you and I'm not yelling at you. I think you were just as frustrated as I am. But what I am frustrated with is, is the people, even on our own side, they want to have it both ways. They want to have it both ways. They want to be able to vote and say,

stop this war, stop this war. And then complain when you don't get a good deal. Of course you're not going to get a good deal. These weasels in Washington drive me out of my ever-loving. I better take off my aura ring, or it's just going to show horrible things. My wife's going to say, which will it stresses me out even more.

Anyway, here's the solution. If money is going to flow to Iran, and I hate every dollar of that, then it has to flow on the shortest leash ever put on a regime. Carrot and stick. The carrot has to be real. It gets metered out one tranche at a time. Every dollar of that $300 billion, every unfrozen asset sits in escrow. It's administered through our Gulf partners, which I don't like,

but it must be tracked end-to-end, accounted for down to the penny, so we know that built a road and that built a rocket. Inspectors have to watch the enriched material get watered down on-site, on-camera for everyone to see. Hormuz, a toll, that is a tripwire. 60-day clock, trip-wire, the enrichment that they want to discuss trip-wire. And the first time, and I mean the very first time, they cross one of those tripwires, the money must stop that hour, that minute, no warning, no extension, it's shut off. Snapback sanctions back on, posture back.

And the thing the president already promised, bomb the snot out of them must become real. We keep our forces in position and the threat believable because that's the only language this regime has ever respected. And that is the credible promise of force. That's the doctrine. it sits on a bumper sticker and it's fine and everyone can understand it. Here's the thing. Americans refuse a ruthless war. Nobody wants a ruthless war. No one.

They won't. We will not tolerate it. They have told us plainly. Congress, the weasels, plainly. And they're not wrong for being tired. Weasels in Washington are different than the average person. You're tired. They're scumbags.

here's the thing. We have to hand the only alternative that will keep us safe to the Iranians and that is not a soft piece, not a hopeful piece, not a trusting piece. For this to work,

this must be a ruthless peace. We won't fight a ruthless war, then we must have ruthless peace enforced with zero, zero. Oh, what about the children? none of that. Zero benefit of the doubt. Instant consequences. If we won't fight a ruthless war, fine, then we must have a ruthless peace. That's the assignment. Everything else is noise. Noise from the podcasters, noise from Congress, noise from the political parties, noise at the gas pump.

Everything else is noise. Ruthless peace, period. I personally, I don't see this as a loss of Donald Trump. I see this as a loss by the Americans, the American people, honestly, I think, and politicians, and politicians, mainly. They have played games with this. Everybody knows their day. Everyone in Washington knows who these guys are. Everybody knows who they are. We have some people in our Congress that want them to win.

Because quite honestly, I believe they're Islamists. You have all this propaganda that has been coming in from Iran, from Iran, all flooding our country. And you've had our podcasters, you've had our population, retweet, bolster Iran, believe Iran. You cannot win a war with that kind of population. You can't. So what do you have? You have the best you can do, which is kick it down and hope for sanity down the road.

Now let's hold a ruthless peace. God bless Donald Trump, because I know he'll do it. I don't know about the next president. I don't know about the next Congress, but he'll do it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. You know, the answers that we're looking for, we think they have to be complex, but they're really not. They're really not. Two hundred fifty years ago, a group of men sat in a hot Philadelphia room and they signed their names to a piece of paper

and they signed away their safety. They knew that most likely they were going to die. It was a death warrant. And they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. And they meant every word. I know it because I've been doing a lot of research on the signing of the declaration. I've got some things coming up in the next couple of weeks, that I've learned so much about these men that I can't wait to share with you. I'm sitting here in a small town just outside. I'm actually in a smaller town than this small town, Preston. But it's one of the neighboring towns.

And it's just different here. It's just different. Small towns are different all around America. You know, they are. and they couldn't have imagined our founders this small little town in southeastern Idaho with a bare river running cold through the mountains and the alfalfa and the grains stretching out green and gold under a sky that is so big sometimes it just makes you feel small in all the best ways it makes just feel small and while our founders couldn't have imagined

Preston or even Idaho this is what they fought for this is what they were fighting for These small little towns, our answers lie there. In a few weeks, there is something I look forward to every year. It's called that famous Preston Knight Rodeo. And it was the first rodeo ever in the United States to be under electric lights. That's why they call it famous. It's not the biggest rodeo. It is great.

I just love it. I love it. You go there and you can hear the shoots rattle and the announcer crackle over the loudspeakers and the gate clang open and then a 2,000-pound bull just comes running out of the shoot with, you know, some 20-something kid riding the wrath of God.

And he's just trying to hold on, you know, for eight seconds with nothing but a rope and a prayer and more nerve than sense. And he bucks off and he's on the ground. And thank God that kid gets up and he dusts off his hat. And he laughs and looks at his friends, nods at his friends,

and then he does it again. that's America gang that's America that's who we are we get bucked off and we get back up again we've forgotten our small towns and that's where the answer lies you know in Preston it's still a town that goes quiet on Sunday and the fields rest and there's no machinery that's turned on and the stores lock their doors and they didn't pass a law to make it so they're just people have decided that some things are bigger than, you know, commerce and making money. One in seven belongs to the Lord and to the family,

and it's a kind of stillness that happens in at least this small town that lets a soul catch its breath after a busy week. And that's something that the frantic world has forgotten. But out in our small towns, they never did. We remember the basics. You know, I love living in a farming community. Because when a man's crop doesn't come in, when the hail takes the wheat or the back goes out or cancer comes to your house, the neighbors don't form a committee.

They just show up. And the combines that you didn't ask for just gloriously appear in your field. The casseroles that you didn't request just fill your kitchen. And nobody's there. Nobody's making a speech about it. nobody posts about it, they just do it because that's what you do. And then they go home before you can even thank them properly. There's no government program that can do that.

Nothing the government can do can even come close to that. It's grown, like everything good out here in the soil. It's been worked by the same families for generations. And the strange yet beautiful thing that I've just becoming to, just getting to the place to where I can see it, The youth in these towns, they just can't wait to leave. They count the days. They lie at bed at 16, staring at the ceiling, certain at life, real life, big life,

is happening somewhere else, somewhere in a city with bright lights and no curfew and no chores at 5 a.m. And so they go, and we let them go. And then they go out into the big, wide world, and something funny happens to them. They find the lights, and they find them cold. might take him a while. They find the crowds and they find it, they find themselves lonely in the crowd. And one day,

they're driving home from the airport, coming home for Christmas. They're driving down this road, they could drive blindfolded, and they crest that last hill. They see that valley that they couldn't wait to get out of, just lying there in front of them.

and something in their chest just cracks open. And they realize the big life, the real life, was here the whole time. And they spend years trying to get back. And some make it. The lucky ones make it back home. Because what these small towns all across America raise, it's not crops, not really.

These small towns, these small little farming communities, they raise the kind of man that it doesn't ask, what's in it for me. They raise the kind of kids that fix a fence, not because somebody's watching and not really even because somebody asked them to. They raise the kind of men who keep their word when nobody is watching, keeping their word when it costs them something. These small towns raise the kind of people when everything is falling apart and the path forward is dark and nobody would blame them for quitting. They just go and do the next right thing. and then the next one, and then the next one, and the next one.

No reward, just the quiet, stubborn, unglomerous decency that built this country one honest day at a time. We're looking for answers. Don't how to fix things? Look to the cowboy. Look to the farmer. Look to the rancher with the cracked hands and worn out Bible and a flag and a flag on a porch

that he salutes every time like he means it because he does. We look for our answer in these marbled halls of Washington. America was not built in those marbled halls. They built it in fields, just like the one outside of my front porch, in towns just like Weston and Preston, Idaho.

They built it with one callous, hand shake at a time. The men in Philadelphia, they lit the fire. But people like you, you're the ones who have kept it burning for 250 years. You already have the answer. All you have to do is just keep living it. Don't give up.

Here's CNN, play cut three. Here's CNN talking about Democrats and what they found about Democrats in the 4th of July. Listen to this. What does July 4th mean to you? Celebrate America, friends and family time. Among Republicans, what do you see? You see the clear majority say it's a time to celebrate America, 65%. Among Democrats, however, the plurality disagree. Look at that. What do you see friends and family time at 42% versus just 24% who say that what it means most of them is to celebrate America? What do they say about the flag? Even on the basic level of flag, look at this. Look at how we have an increasing polarization on this issue. We'll display the flag on July 4th, the American flag.

Back in July of 2001, look at this. You had 68% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats saying that they would, in fact, display the flag on July 4th. You come over to this side of the screen, Republicans basically are where they were 25 years ago, right? 64%. But look at that Democratic percentage, absolutely plummeting. Just 27% of Democrats say they will, in fact, display the flag on July 4th. What about this idea? Are you proud to be an American, extremely or very proud to be an American? American. Again, look at this divide, a growing divide on this question. Back in January of 2001,

90% of Republicans, 85% of Democrats. This was after a very contentious 2000 election, keep in mind, right, with George W. Bush coming into the White House. You come over to this side of the screen in 2026. Look at this. Again, the Democratic percentage absolutely plummets to just 29% of Democrats say they're extremely, are very proud to be an American. That Republican percentage, The exact same. 90 and 90, the Democratic percentage, what is that? That's basically a third of the level that it was just 25 years ago. That's shocking. You know what I did with my wife yesterday?

My wife and I, we went out. We went to Walmart. We bought, what was it? 350 two-foot flags. And we put them on our fence posts. all along the highway, all the way down the highway. If you're driving by our ranch, there's like 300 plus flags that we put out front.

And you know what? I got that idea from some other people's ranch down the street. They did it too. And then I saw that going to the airport. Somebody's farm, they did it in another town. I'm like, felt good to see that. 25% say they'll fly the American flag on July 4th. What the hell?

You don't, you don't, you don't save a country. You don't say, you don't have a country. If you, if you're not celebrating the day the country was born. But you don't have to be proud of Donald Trump. You don't have to be proud of, you know, Joe Biden or whoever else is in offices. You don't have to be, that's, that's in the question. You're proud to be an American? Damn right, I am.

Damn right. I am not proud. of everything that we've done. I'm not proud of everything we're doing now. I'm not proud of everything that we've done in the past. I think we've made some huge mistakes. But you know what? I'm not some teenage girl that is like, oh, I like him because he has muscles.

I have a deep relationship with my country. I know the flaws of my country. I got it. I got it. But I also know who the character is. I also know who the people are. I urge you. Celebrate the 4th of July, unlike you've ever celebrated it before. Do not make it about family and hot dogs and fireworks. Pick somebody in the family right now

to talk about the meaning of the country. Find somebody in your family that can do that. Study it yourself. Talk about the Declaration of Independence. Read the first draft. It'll blow your mind. Read the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Have your kids talk about something about the country.

learn something new about the country. It's always bothered me that Bruce Springsteen, born in the USA, an anti-American song, is how we watch fireworks every year. And then we just all go home. Find something in your community that is teaching and celebrating America. I'm going to Washington, D.C., with my family,

taking the whole family out to Washington, D.C. And I'm just going to sit on a blanket, just like everybody else, right in the middle of the mall, and watch the fireworks, I'm going to go to the museums. I'm going to see the clean fountains. I'm going to see Washington, D.C., the way it should be, where you can be proud of how clean it is.

I'm going to go see the founding documents. I've seen them a thousand times. My kids haven't. And my kids, what I say, we're going to the National Archives. Dad, we've seen the Declaration of Independence. Haven't seen it like this. And you know what? I think last time you saw it, you were nine.

Time for a refresher. They'll remember it. All those things that used to, Somebody was telling me just last night, their folks used to take them, you know, for a two-week, you know, camping trip. And they had fish every day. And they were like, Dad, we got to fish. Yeah, we got to eat. We're going to have fish.

They'd fish every day. And these two girls, they hated it. While she can't still does not really necessarily appreciate fish. I can understand that. she sees that whole experience in a completely different way today. She appreciates her family, her parents, the small town, all the stuff. She's one of them, she was like, I can't wait to get out of this town. And she's living in a small town again.

She's lived a life. Celebrate, celebrate.