The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 7/10/26

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

Glenn starts the show by discussing the preliminary trial of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk. Glenn elaborates more on what President Trump is hunting for in Iran and reveals what may come next should his search be successful. Glenn further explains why socialist policies fail, why they’re attractive to the uneducated, and how conservatives can fight back against them.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wayfair, every style, every home. Welcome to Friday. We start with a Charlie Kirk trial. Then I go to the war and I explain some more. I used a lot of history today to teach. in fact with a Charlie Kirk trial I don't know if it's going to make it to the best of but it's in the regular show

I told a story from the 1800s exactly the same thing has happened before we have to be very very careful on Charlie Kirk and this trial but it does not look good for the guy who allegedly pulled the trigger and all of those conspiracy theories now the Jews did it all kind of going down the tube now aren't they

also with Iran the man in the Algiers Hospital and on socialism. Why doesn't it work? You know that it's been tried in America in over a hundred different towns? I mean, honest to God, the best case scenario, try socialism. And I tell you a story of something that happened

that had four presidents involved in the thinking of it and listening and wargaming it out with the guy who went and did it, And he made New Harmony, Indiana. And I tell you that story. And why would I tell you that story? Because the GOP is brain dead. The DNC is the old school.

They're talking about old ideas that nobody's interested in that. They and the GOP are just protecting the machine. We on, you know, if you're a supporter of MAGA, or you're kind of part of that Tea Party kind of mentality. We're just trying to fix the voting because we know that's crucial. But the only one that's actually talking about the issues that people care about today are the Democratic Socialists, and they're promising free stuff, and that's going to win in the end if we don't understand socialism,

how to show why it fails every time, and what is our message? All of that on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck program I thought we would I thought we'd start with something you know appropriate today because we're going to talk about the Charlie Kirk

assassin and of course who really did it let me explain my coffee was cold blame the Jews they control the pot I'm told traffic jam on the highway can't get to work must be the elders

Zion pulling strings like a jerk My team lost the big game Raffs rig the score and the whole damn place Where could it be space laser from Tel Aviv, obviously The Jews did it The Jews did it Every bad thing, yeah they orchestrated The Jews did the price of chip

The Jews It's pretty clear here I can't take the Johnny Kirk thing My heads go to explode That's the tinfoil hat kid What else is new? The Jews did it. The Jews did it.

It's Friday. And, of course, the Jews did it. You know, wasn't it the Jews who first wrote down that there was seven days in a week? So they're responsible for so much that's going every Monday. Every Monday, just remember it was the Jews that gave you a Monday. I don't know who gave us Friday. Sure, it kind of falls apart when you get a day you like, but. Let's be consistent. The Jews did it.

Let me talk to you a little bit about what's going on in Provo, Utah. For 10 months now, America has told the story of the murder of Charlie Kirk. I mean, it's more than one story, too, which has been very interesting. I mean, you listen to some podcasters who are just asking questions. And, of course, it was a deep state hit. But it was a deep state hit caused by the Jews. It was a false flag. It was a crisis actor.

was a convenient death dressed up as an assassination. One podcaster insinuated that maybe it was my daughter that did it. Oh, you caught me now. So this week in the 4th District Courthouse, Provo, Utah, none of those stories showed up, you know? None of them. It was weird. It was really weird.

When you look at the evidence, you're like, oh, wait a minute. Maybe it wasn't my daughter. But actually what showed up was stranger, a little more terrifying because it is more human than any of the... The Joe's did it kind of stuff. The evidence has, you know, come in now. I mean, real evidence, the way it always comes in. Slowly, under oath, on screens, surveillance video of a young man crossing a rooftop, dropping into the shooting position, firing one round through Charlie Kirk's neck, while 3,000 people watched.

and then started to run. Also a grandfather's bolt action mouser wrapped in a towel, ditched in the woods. There was DNA. There was ballistics. And then there was also the voice of the person who knew him best.

His trans lover, the roommate and partner, Lance Twigs. Now, Lance was granted immunity, interviewed on tape, told investigators what happened in the hours after. the text under the keyboard, the messages where Robinson was admitting that it was him.

And he felt really bad. I wish I wouldn't have done it. I wish I wouldn't have done it. You're not the one who actually did it, are you? Yeah, I did. I couldn't take it anymore. You know, those kinds of things. And then the morning after, where he was pacing back and forth in the apartment, crying,

I got to turn myself in with my parents. There were no handlers, no grand design, no shadow directing the shot. No shoes surprisingly showed up in this. I was shocked that it looks like it was this guy. Everything the state put on those screens points to one person who made one irreversible choice. Now, this is a preliminary hearing. It's not a verdict. The defense is still challenging the DNA, and they show.

you know, but the shape of it is pretty darn clear, you know, and the shape is not a movie plot. This is where it gets frightening. It's a kid. They showed the bullets. And this is the part where the camera really kind of rushed past, I think. The casings were not engraved with a manifesto. They were engraved with jokes.

A furry forum meme, an old Italian protest song that, you know, has curdled into an internet gag. A throwaway insult. If you read this, you're gay. I.M.A.O. He then texted his partner that the messages were mostly a big meme. Then he worried the meme might show up on Fox News. Then he worried in writing,

he worried more about how he's going to explain the missing rifle to his dad than about the man he just left dead on the stage. See, this is what's terrifying here. This is not ideology. This is a human soul dissolved in irony. A young kid who marinated so long in the world where everything is a bit. Every belief is just a costume.

Every horror is just a punchline for an audience that isn't even in the room. That he carved jokes into the round he used to kill a father of two. He couldn't tell the difference between a meme and a murder until he had already committed one. It's terrifying because that can happen to any of our kids. Now watch what the whole country is doing with him. The left wants him to mean one thing.

The right wants him to mean another. The conspiracy theorists want him to be a puppet of the Jews. And the people debunking the conspiracy theorists want him to be a lesson. everybody, everybody is united in a single demand, that this death resolve into a clean story. And the evidence this week is quietly refusing. I mean, we know who the killer is, but the killer doesn't have a clean story. Just irony and a rifle and a daddy drifted away from and a joke residing in the place where his conscience should have been. Last night I spent some time looking for places in history where this sickness has happened before.

The hunger to make a crime mean the thing you already believe. And you can find it. You can find it in the Boston Massacre. John Adams. Everybody wanted that Boston Massacre to mean one thing. That the British were evil and the British were just shooting innocent Americans. And that's been John Adams said that's not true. and he was stubborn and he tried it and he proved that it wasn't true.

But we're in a time now where everybody wants it to mean something. And what we have to be wanting is just the truth. Let the chips fall where they may. And it's pretty clear to see where the chips are falling. But I want to take you to France. And I want to tell you a story about a spy in France right around the turn of the century. This story is

terrifying because it shows humans haven't changed. I'll show you here in just a second. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right, so let's start where I left this yesterday. Yesterday, I told you that Donald Trump

is hunting. He is actually hunting for something in Iran. And he's not hunting for a moderate. he is not hunting for a good man, he is hunting for an Albert Spear. You don't know who Albert Spear is. He was a good friend of Hitler. He was the architect for Hitler, a really bad guy,

just escaped the noose in the Nuremberg trials because in the end, he was the guy that Hitler said, I want you to do the Nero Doctrine, which was burn everything down in Germany. The German people have betrayed us, And the West is not going to get their hands on anything. So burn it all to the ground. And Albert Speer wanted to survive.

He knew this was over. You know, it was four weeks from the end. And he was talking to Hitler. And he's like, I don't think that's a good idea. You'll do it. Yes, sir, I will. And then he didn't. He actually became a roadblock.

And that's why he escaped the noose in the end. So that's what he's looking for, okay? Now, the question is, what are the odds that this is going to work? What if this doesn't work? What happens if there's nobody there to find? So let's start where we actually stand, because it has moved since the beginning of this thing. The bombs have already fallen.

Ali Khamini is dead now, killed in the opening strike back in February. His son, apparently he is alive. No real proof of that. but installed inside of 10 days by the Revolutionary Guard that wanted its own man in the chair before anybody could argue. There's now a sign memorandum, 60-day clock, oil moving through Hormuz again,

and the thing that started all of this, the enriched uranium, is still in the ground. It's buried under sites that we cratered, but we did not empty it. The stockpile is the whole game. Everything else is scenery here. So the spear that we, need, the Albert spear that we need, is now very, very specific. It's not a defector with a conscience.

Whatever or whoever is inside that battered structure decides to hand over the uranium and let inspectors prove that it's gone is what we're looking for. Now, here's why it may not work. So far, we don't see a lot of wavering from China and Russia, the patrons of Iranians of Putin has pledged on wavering support for the sun within days. Beijing warned everybody, you know, hands off. However, that has decayed since the trip with Donald Trump. He made some real good moves with Beijing, and he is in talks with Moscow now,

and I'm not sure how solid their support for Iran really is. But as long as Moscow and Beijing look like they're going to catch the regime, if it falls, nobody on the inside of that regime is going to wake up and conclude that the ship is sinking. Because from where he would be sitting, if he's got Beijing and he's got Moscow, it's not. It's not going anywhere. The man at the very top is the wrong man to reach for. A hardliner who lost his wife and his felon family in the strike. They made him the leader.

He's promised vengeance. This is not hard arithmetic, okay? but the 60-day clock cuts both ways. It pressures the regime, but it also gives regime time to find its own wavering men and shoot them. That's the other thing that I think the Trump administration is looking for. Are they shooting anyone inside of the team? This has been done before several times.

So let me take you back to the war in Germany. 1942, there's a hospital in Algiers. There's a French admiral sitting in his son's bedside. His boy had polio. And the admiral is the single most important man in North Africa, but he doesn't know it yet. Okay. His name is Francois Darlan. He's a collaborator.

18 months earlier, he had gone on the radio and told France that Germany was a much better friend than Britain would ever be. He's Vichy to the bone. He's a collaborator with the Germans. On the night of November 8th, 100,000 American and British troops come out of the dark onto the beaches of Morocco and Algeria in what was called Operation Torch. Every one of those landings could turn into a bloodbath

because the French forces on that coast might fight. That invasion had been wired for two years, not by a general, but by Robert Murphy, a career State Department guy, sent by Roosevelt as his personal man in North Africa. And Murphy's cover really was a grocery list. It was an agreement to ship American food and goods into the French colonies monitored by 12 new vice consoles, 12 amateurs, an Ivy League guy, wine merchants, and lawyers, oh, and a Coca-Cola. salesman, all fluent in French, itching to be useful. Washington called these guys the 12 apostles. The real job was not providing groceries in Coca-Cola. It was to move quietly through

the officer corps and take the temperature of every colonel and every general on that coast to find the men who had changed sides when the day came. Okay. And they had a hero picked out. General Henri Girard, I think. He had escaped from a German prison, smuggled into Gibraltar by submarine. He was a clean guy, brave guy, exactly what you would want on a liberation day. And when the moment came,

Gerard gave his orders, and the French officers looked at him and shrugged. And here's why. He didn't have the authority. The good man that they had could not. deliver. Nobody listened to him. The man who could deliver was the collaborator at the hospital bedside. He was the Vichy commander-in-chief. He was the only, he was the only guy whose word the troops would obey. So Eisenhower's looking at this guy and he's like, he is a collaborator with the

Nazis. He is horrible. We have this other guy who was a hero. He's perfect. and no, he's going to listen to him. So Eisenhower said, plug your nose, make the deal. Recognize the guy at the bedside as the high commissioner. Let him keep his chair. In exchange, he has to order the guns down. He did.

The shooting stopped. The Allies got their springboard into Europe. Okay? The American press lit Eisenhower on fire for it. You are cutting a deal with a pro-Nazi. Does any of this sound familiar? This is going to sound familiar. I'm telling you, you're making a deal with,

mm-hmm, mm-hmm. The answer Roosevelt and Churchill gave was the coldest, truest thing of the whole war. We're not here to reward a good man. We are here to stop the shooting and get on with a beating of Germany. So they looked at Darwin as an instrument. By the way, six weeks later,

young guy comes into his office and shoots him dead. History moves on without him, which is about, you know, what a guy like that earns. Now, take this back to Tehran. How does Trump send the message that he needs a spear? Well, he doesn't send the message. You can't stand at a podium and announce you're shopping for a traitor. You'll get the honest men killed.

and the regime put on alert. So what Roosevelt did was build a channel quietly. So when the crisis would come, there was already a wire running to the men who might move. That's the work. And I'll bet you that we're not doing that work. I'll bet you the ones who probably have the people in place to lay that path are the Israelis.

But the Qataris, the Omanis, they're doing back channels as well, I'm sure, private assurances, personal and specific to individual figures, look, you're going to survive. You help, you'll survive. Your family will survive. You know, your money will survive. And you're going to be able to say, I'm the guy who saved Iran. You have to hold a door open for one man at a time. And you accept the thing that stung the newspapers in 1942. to. The man who can deliver the uranium may be a man we may never want to stand next to. The clean insider may not have the power. The powerful insider may not be clean.

You don't get to pick the one you want. You take the one that can make this stop. Now the question is, what if there's nobody there? Well, the Operation Torch, it also answered this. if Murphy had come ashore with no channel built, no apostles, no officers cultivated, the landing would have been a slaughter. And it would have happened because nobody had given anybody the chance to think that there was a door out of that. Nobody inside is not a, it's not weather that happens to you. It's what you get when you never built a channel. Or when you wait so long that the regime finds its own darlands in the first place and purges them and kills them.

and now you're left negotiating with a room full of believers. That's the North Korea ending, a room where everybody left is a believer because the survivors are the ones who never wavered. Now, I've been going over this last weekend. I've been doing a lot of thinking of this, and I'm like, wow, is this really the best card that we have? I mean, is this it?

And the answer is yes, because all alternatives are worse than the, and it's not even close. the alternative to finding Iran's darling is going back and digging through that uranium by force. And we just ran that experiment. It's not good. It's not good. The Strait of Hormuz is shut.

Oil markets are in a panic. Largest emergency release of oil reserves in the history of the IEA. And at the end of all of that, the stockpile is still in the ground. more war isn't the clean options sitting, you know, next to the insider bet. It's the same gamble, but at a much higher price with the same lousy odds. The Speer strategy isn't the hopeful play. It's the least bad play. So here's what Trump has to do.

And it's two things at once. And they only look like their intention. Keep the pressure on. Do what he's doing. hard, visible, unrelenting, diplomatic, economic, and military pressure. That's the only thing that will build the private thought inside the one guy's head, like, this ship is going down, I'm going to be dead. And underneath it, run the quiet wire.

I don't even know how we do that, but you keep an off-ramp open, personal, credible, so that some morning, some senior man might look around and see the water is, this ship is sinking and he knows there's a lifeboat and he knows he's going to get him and his family into that lifeboat. The men who save countries at the end are not heroes. They're usually not heroes. There's the survivors who decided one ordinary Tuesday morning they'd rather be remembered as the man who stopped the shooting than the man who went down with a ship. Trump's job is not to find the good men in Tehran because he said they're all crazy and I believe he believes that. They're all crazy. His job is to find the one crazy guy who is more self-interested,

who has done the math already, sees that the light is on, a welcome lifeboat is welcome for him, find that guy. Now, why didn't we just keep hammering them? Why this 60-day thing? President said something to me on Friday that I think is really important that you understand because things can change for all of us all over the world quickly overnight. I'll explain that in 60 seconds. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and don't forget, rate us on iTunes. High prices are here to stay. Gas, groceries, insurance, and if you're a homeowner, you've probably thought,

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the sad, soggy dino Mitch McConnell, and I just thought that really, I mean, that needs me such a music. Oh, he's gonna Mitch McConnell in the rain. Um, mumbling a prehistoric creep and spoke to

Mitch 20 minutes sharp as it's just right. Sad song the machine. Oh, he is, he's running that machine and he's so good at it. He is just fabulous, fabulous. This is the problem with the Republicans. Republicans are playing the same game. The Democrats are playing. Didn't we see this movie with Joe Biden?

No, he's sharp as attack. I just had a 20 minute phone call with him. I mean exactly the same playbook. And the Republicans are now doing it with Mitch McConnell. Why? Because they have to have Mitch's vote. They got to have it. Got to have it. Got to have it. So let's just keep him alive as much as this. I mean, you get a, when you get your, your congressional pen, you know, or your Senate pen that you're wearing your lapel, it should come with a little drool cup now at this point. For the love of Pete, what are we doing? And this is not going to appeal to any voter. No voter wants this.

Let me just lay this out for you. As I said, you have the Republicans and Democrats that are cut from the same cloth, all in denial that anything has changed. They're operating honestly like they've operated the whole time. Nothing has changed. We control the machine. Nothing's going to move. We'll tell them what they want.

we'll just pass a, you know, we'll just bring up a flag burning amendment and we'll get all the Republicans and all of the, then they'll be all in our corner again. No, we're not buying that anymore. You're not doing anything. And what are we arguing for? We're trying to get them to pass voter ID, something that is so simple. It should have been done months ago. So we can actually talk about the real issues like the price of a house, the price of groceries.

what are we doing on housing? We're not talking about that because we can't because we're trying to get basics done that are no-brainers, which you'd think they'd be able to do because I don't think the Republicans have brains anymore. So give us the no-brainers like, hey, ID, when you go in to vote.

Can you get that one done for us? No, apparently not. And so the ones who are doing something they're trying to work on that, which stops us from talking to voters who are not engaged at the level that you and I are engaged at every day. They're worried about the future. They're worried about their kids being able to afford a house, them being able to afford a house, a job, et cetera, et cetera.

Who's talking about that? Well, not the Democrats. The Democratic Socialists are talking about it. And it's being presented as a new and exciting. idea. And it's not a new and exciting idea. It's an old idea that never, ever, ever works. And they've wrapped it up into all this new language, you know, fairness and equality and, you know, we're actually having our kids talk about living on stolen ground. Show me an inch of the earth that hasn't been taken from somebody else. That's the way of the world.

It's always been that way. want to damn the United States, then you have to damn everybody else. But we're not talking about that because we're just trying to get a fair election. And the Republicans are just trying to hold onto their machine. And the Democrats are just trying to hold onto their machine. And so all that's left that's really talking about things that people care about, like housing, are the Democratic Socialists. Let me tell you a story.

and I'm going to tell these every day because there are literally hundreds of these stories. I could not believe I started doing my research on hundreds of these stories in the United States. We take you back to 1825. This is before Marx because socialism is not a new idea. 1825, a rich man buys a town, very wealthy. And not a lot, not a block, an entire town, 20,000 acres. on the river in, or what is it, Wabash River in Indiana.

He buys 180 buildings, mills that are already working, orchards that are already bearing fruit, dormitories that have already been built. He pays $150,000 for that. And that day, in 1825, that was a fortune. He was a very wealthy guy. His name is Robert Owen.

And he didn't buy the town to get richer. he bought the town to prove a point. And here's the point. He believed that private property was one of the three great evils. The other two, organized religion and marriage. This sound familiar? Organized religion, marriage, and private property. And he believed that if you take really good people

and give them shared ownership of everything, you erase the line between what's mine and what's yours. They would stop competing and people would start cooperating and a new and better world would be born. He called it New Harmony. It still exists and it's an amazing town. By the way, it's not socialist. So this guy was not a crank on the corner street.

It's not Mom Donnie. It's somebody who is, I mean, in that year in February, he stood in the hall of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., and he laid his plan out for a society without private property. And to show you how much of not a crank he is, sitting in that room were three former presidents of the United States. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, the sitting president, James Monroe,

the incoming president, John Quincy Adams. The most respectable audience socialism has ever had in one room on American soil. He lays it all out. He goes to Indiana and he builds it. Now, he didn't fail because he was poor. Remember, he was rich. He didn't fail because the people that he had in the town were stupid.

He brought the finest minds in the country. He had Thomas Say, the father of American entomology. He had naturalists and educators and scientists, all true believers who sold their businesses, put all of their money into this, move their families across the wilderness because they believed there was 900 of them. And every single one of them was a volunteer. Every one of them was there because they wanted to be on paid for land with a working economy that they could, that would be handed to them like a finished house.

and they could all live in this utopia. If cooperation could ever beat competition anywhere, this is where it should have worked. How long did it last? Two years. Why? For the same reason it always collapses. The people who worked the hardest

looked around and saw the people who were eating the same bread, sleeping under the same roof, wearing the same clothes, answered to the same nobody, we're not working. And so they're like, he's not working. Why am I working so hard? So they stopped working. Why wouldn't you? Production falls. Food starts to run short. Buildings begin to rot. Because when everyone owns the mill, no one repairs the mill. No one loses when it breaks. No one gains when it's fixed. So the meetings, the meetings replace the work. Owen wrote seven different constitutions in two years,

trying to legislate his way out of human nature. None of them held. Because human nature is human nature. One of the guys who was there was an inventor. His name was Josiah Warren, and he walked away and spent the rest of his life on the opposite idea. Their united interests, he said, we're directly at war with the individuality,

of persons and the instinct of self-preservation. That is a natural instinct. Preserve yourself, okay? And again, the collective, he spends his whole life going, the collective doesn't work. Instinct to survive wins. It always wins.

Owen's own son who lived through the whole thing, he wrote later, any scheme that plays the industriist, and the idol exactly the same works on its own downfall. Now, let me tell you why I'm telling you that story. I think it's pretty obvious, but I want to be more clear on why I'm telling you that story because something that is not new

has arrived in America again. So what do we do about it? You know, look at, except for war, notice we don't have a problem with energy. We're not talking about the energy crisis, except for the war. We know what's causing our price against. to go up now. Why? Because he said drill, baby drill. Free it all up. That's what he's got to do on housing and everything else. Free it up. And on the rich, the ones you're told to hate,

I'm not going to ask you to feel sorry for a billionaire, but I will ask you one question. Has envy ever built a house for you? Has resentment ever lowered a single price for you or filled a single job? the question is never if some man across town has too much. The question is, do you have a road to more? Socialism offers you the warm feeling of pulling him down. Freedom offers you the road to get it yourself. Only one path feeds those families. Come on America.

Come on, Republicans. Get on the message or you're going to lose.