The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 8/4/24

Episode Date: August 4, 2026

In light of WNBA star Sophie Cunningham standing up for biological women competing in women’s sports, Glenn finally breaks his silence and weighs in on women’s sports. Glenn explains how everything you need to know about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayad can be seen by the people he hangs around, like Hasan Piker. Glenn talks about how old parental advice, as cringey as it was growing up, is critically missing in the younger generations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, I think the people have demanded that Glenn Beck speak more on sports because I have such a deep, deep knowledge of sports. And so I spoke out about sports today, about Sophie Cunningham, that whole situation. And because I hope it doesn't get too complex for you, because I have such deep knowledge of everything that is sports, I kind of dumped it down. and I went right for what it's actually all about. That's in today's podcast. Also, if you're in Michigan, you know the primary is today. Show me your friends. I'll show you your future,

which leads me to another monologue about how our moms were right. The things they said a billion times, they all apply today. All that and so much more on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Blenbeck program. I got to tell you, I just, I absolutely love. politics. When you can see past all the bull crap, it is so hysterical. It only gets

frustrating when your friends are like, you know, I think he's really changed. You're like, wait, wait, what? Talking about James Talrico, he is now surging. He's one point ahead of Ken Paxton. This could be very bad for Texas.

I don't think that's what's going to happen, but it depends on if Texans come out and they see past this. Let me give you a couple of tweets. Talariko suddenly discovered barbecue, oil and gas, and Texas independence. The second he needed Republican votes. Funny how the guy who said God's non-binary praised Texas drag queens and ran a non-meat campaign is now trying to cosplay as a regular old Texan conservative.

The mask is slipping. Texas sees through it. Here's another one. Progressive seminary student who thinks Jesus was a radical feminist and God is non-binary. I'm just a Tal RICO. I'm just a regular eighth-generation Texan who loves the oil industry and wants to work with conservatives. You can't out Texas actual Texans by putting on a costume for five months. We remember the real record. The Tal-Riko Pivot is something else.

And he is. He's the patron saint of the pivot. Which brings me to a little ditty I put together from the makers of the ballless rhino. comes Talrico, Texas. My daddy read the good book, and my trucks are Chevrolet. I've been cutting taxes since I woke up yesterday. I'm just a good old boy, apostrophe, and all.

Took the G off working, and I hung it on the wall. Got a flag And a flag up on the shed And a third one that I salute I go to bed It's all Texas Where we on 24

Sing it louder boys We ain't backing down A little something out in Los Angeles Texas voters in an old milk court That ain't he or she might be a they event. Then I hollered Friday night lights, boys, and bolted for the van. Texas kind of highway. Well, a van's a kind of man.

It's Tala Rico, Texas, where the brisk gets made at 24. To the sky. Bless this long star, every twain. His bone deep o, it's been a me since spring. It has been. That drawl has been. since spring. So don't question it. Tel Rico, Texas, uh, from the Glenn Beck program. All right. We're going to take a quick break and I'm going to come back and I want to talk to

you because the, uh, because the country demands it. The country demands that I talk about, that I talk about sports. So I'm going to give the country what they're begging for. Next. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening. Being prepared, always a good idea. But as a somebody who, tries to prepare. I've always been frustrated that nobody had the medical solution on preparedness until Jace Medical. They've just launched the Jace Plus, plus the pocket paramedic. You know,

most people get their over-the-counter medical supplies and hope, you know, they never have to use them. But preparedness doesn't end with that. Supplies run low when something actually happens. You don't want to be figuring out in real time. How do I get my prescription medication? The Jace Plus is a membership designed to help you stay ready over time. In fact, it was my idea the first time I met with the Jace team. Plus, with Jace Plus membership, you can get 15% off on all products on Jace.com, 50% off replenishment medications, free shipping, insurance, plus so much more. And then there's the pocket paramedic. It's real-time guidance for everyday injuries and situations. Live professionals, one call away. It's about responsibility, self-reliance. It's about jace.com. Find out what's

available to you now. Jace.com. Use the promo code free month for one month free. This is the best of Unbeck program. You know, my mother used to say, show me your friends, and I'll show you your future. Well, I'm going to show you El Saeed's friends. He's the guy who's most likely going to win the primary for the Democrats. He is definitely not a socialist. He'll tell you. DSA, I don't even know who they are.

And they're wrong, by the way. I've never heard of them, but they are wrong. And he's definitely not a socialist. He's a big capitalist, you know. Big, big, big capitalist. And he loves America, except he'd like to change this Supreme Court and some of the other things that are fundamental to our system. But show me your friends and I'll show you your future. And let me show you the past and I'll show you your future.

We go there here in just 60 seconds. First chapter. Let me paint you a picture. You're sitting at the kitchen table. There's a stack of Medicare papers. And I'm talking a tall stack. They're all plans with letters, plans with numbers, plans that all seem to promise you the same thing until you read the fine print. So you do with what most people do, you just pick one.

You put the papers in a drawer, you tell yourself, well, I hope I got that one right. The year goes by, your health changes, your medications change, your plans change, but the drawer stays closed. That's why I like chapter. Their advisors take time to look at your specific situation, compare all the plans from the insurers across the country, and help you find the option that actually fits your needs. They're not paid to push one particular plan, so their job is to help you make the right decision, even if that decision is to stay exactly where you are.

They compare every single medical plan nationwide, and they save people in this audience an average of $1,100 a year in health care savings. That's more than what Obama said Obamacare would save, and that didn't work out. This does. And the call is completely free. It takes about 20 minutes.

pound 250 say the keyword chapter. It's pound 250, keyword chapter. You know, my mom had saying a line that she would use on me when I was about 16 and running around with, you know, kids that she didn't necessarily care for. Son, show me your friends and I'll show you your future. And I thought it was unfair then. But I have to tell you, I think,

I've come to think of it as the single most reliable political instrument I own. And it doesn't need to pollster. Show me your friends and I'll show you your future. Michigan votes today, barring something nobody sees coming. Abdul El-Said wins the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, not by a hair. The final Emerson survey had him up 15 points. The prediction markets have him at 97 cents on the dollar. Mallory McMorrow got out in July, mainly because his name is stupid.

Haley Stevens has the governor and the retiring senator in something north of $60 million in outside money behind her. More than 30 million of it from a single Israel-aligned group. The most that group has ever spent on one race and she's going to lose because you cannot buy an election. Oh, Israel's so powerful. Aren't they? They got money in the election. Why aren't they winning this one? the more people try to, in the Democratic Party, try to make it so he cannot win the stronger he becomes. So let's look at the man who's about to win and let's do it honestly.

He's not a lightweight. Biology and political science at Michigan, Rhodes Scholar, the doctorate in Oxford, you know, medical degree from Columbia. Oh, he's going to be great. He's going to be great, especially when it comes to things like, you know, pandemics. Detroit's health commissioner in his early 30s, then health director for Wayne County. He ran for governor in 2018. He lost. He came back.

He's a physician who has actually run public health departments during the years when he was running a public health department. You know, when he was doing it, it was nobody's idea of a good time. And he'll tell you plainly, I am not a socialist, his words. I'm not as I do not believe I'm a socialist. I believe in capitalism.

He told the Wall Street Journal, he's definitely not DSA. Okay, fine. Take him at his word. Let's take him at his word through all the way through this. Except my mother's voice. Okay, maybe he's not a socialist. But let's look at his friends and let's see his future. Bernie Sanders endorsed him and flew out to Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids for him.

Okay, he is a socialist. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. cut an ad for him. She is. Every single member of the squad endorsed him. Talib, Omar, Presley, Summerlee, Ramirez, all of them. Between 2017 and 2020, he spoke at six Democratic Socialists of America events. So he hangs out with him an awful lot.

He headlined one of them, a fundraiser that raised $10,000 for the organization. So I'm guessing that his headline speech, his keynote wasn't like, you guys are wrong. A Detroit chapter introduced him as a longtime friend. Show me your friends. In April, he took his campaign to two Michigan campuses with another friend, Hassan Piker. You probably know the name by now. The Twitch streamer who said in 2019 that America deserved 9-11, who got suspended for it and then called it satire afterwards.

But all of his action show it wasn't satire. Michigan State President Board of Trustees put out of a statement before the event was held saying that comments attributed to the speaker, the university had not invited, were causing pain among Jewish students. The state news interviewed 13 students in the crowd. Most of them said they came for Piker. El-Said embraced him on stage and joked about the whole controversy. Then last night, the final hours of the Senate campaign, the hours a candidate spends where he

most wants to be, he spent a content creator pool party, his time. in Detroit. Piker was there. He wasn't ambushed by any of this. And that's what I want you to hear. Nobody tricked him. You know, he was asked about it directly and he defended it. And his defense is a real one. So let me give it to you. If you're serious about reaching people who have quit on politics entirely, you have to go where those people actually are. And those people, young men under 30, the demographic, every consultant in both parties says is unreachable, are unreachable. Our Twitch and they're not at a rotary lunch. A campaign that only speaks in rooms where everybody already agrees isn't a campaign.

It's a support group. And you know what? He's right about that. He's also right about $60 million of outside money landing on your opponent heads, makes your money out of politics message sounds less like a slogan and more like a receipt. He's right. So he's not stupid. He's maybe not even lying to you.

Here's a problem. The label was never the thing. The room is the thing. A man's convictions tell you what he intends. His friends tell you what he'll be able to do, what he's willing to do. Which brings me to, we've been here before. 1948. A man, I bet ten bucks, most people have never thought about even once.

Maybe never even heard of Henry Wallace. This was Franklin Roosevelt's vice president, third term. Before that, he was the Secretary of Agriculture. Before that, he was a plant scientist who developed hybrid seed corn and quietly did more to feed the human race than most people who have won medals for it. Decent man, brilliant guy, dropped from the ticket in 1944, fired from the cabinet in 46 for saying, we should get along with the Soviets.

What a surprise. By 1948, he had had enough of Harry Truman, and he ran for president himself on a brand new third party. So when people asked Henry Wallace what he was, he said, I'm a progressive capitalist. El Saeed. I'm a progressive capitalist. And he rejected the other word flatly, communist socialist. Nope.

Then the Communist Party of the United States endorsed him. He didn't turn it down. Does any of this sound familiar? He didn't go looking for it either. Understand he didn't look for it. But when it arrived, he took the view. that if a man wants peace, you don't ask him for his papers at the door. So they came in.

They organized. They filled halls. They filled seats on committees. They wrote language, you know, into a platform. And it worked for a while. Late in 1947, polls had Wallace over 20% of the American electorate. By July 48, his convention finished up at Shide Park in Philadelphia, big league baseball park.

32,000 people in the stands to hear him accept election night. You know how much you got? 2.4%. Fourth place. Behind the segregationalists. Now, that's the part that people know. Here's the part that people don't know. Four years later, September 1952, Henry Wallace published an essay called Where I Was Wrong.

He wrote that the biggest mistake, stake had been failing to denounce the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in February of 1948, five months before the ballpark. He wrote that he had not accounted for the ruthlessness of the Moscow trained men. He called Russian communism utterly evil. But by the time he wrote it, the party he had founded was no longer his. He'd walked away in 1950. The people who came in the door because they wanted peace were still there, still holding the gavel, and they ran their own ticket in 52 that got 140,000 votes, and then the whole thing just fell apart. The friends didn't cost Henry Wallace an election.

The friends kept building. He was the front man. He was the name on the sign. He was sincere every day of it. He was the last man in the country to figure out what the hell he was a part of. It took him four years in a war in Korea to see what James Burnham could see. from his magazine office in 1948. Now, let me be exact about what this rule is and what it's not because it gets abused.

It's not whether a man's parent came from one place or another. It's not about his name. It's not about how he prays. That's the opposite of the rule. That's judging a man by the things he never chose. I don't want part of that. And neither should you. The rule is only about.

choices. Who you call. Who you stand next to on stage, on purpose. Whose crowd you borrow, because that's the crowd that shows up. Every one of those is a decision a grown man makes with his eyes wide open, and every one of them is on the record. He made his. Today, Michigan makes theirs. If I'm honest, my mother's line was never really aimed at politicians. She was aiming it at me in a driveway about a couple of guys with a motorcycle. Okay. She wasn't telling me those boys were evil. She was telling me that a person becomes the room he keeps walking into

and that he always, always is the last one to notice. So ask it about the man on your ballot today. This is not going to change a single vote. But let's see if how things play out in the general. because people need to see the friends you're surrounded by and then do the hard thing and ask it about yourself. Because my mom was right. Show me your friends.

And I'll show you your future. Good luck, Michigan. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show podcasts. Anywhere you download podcasts. As we celebrate America's 250th birthday this year, I'd like to ask you a question,

how much of the beef on America's grills actually come from America. The answer is probably going to surprise you. More than 85% of the grass-fed beef sold in grocery stores is not from America. 85, that's not good. One of the reasons I like good ranchers is because of that number. They partner with local farmers and ranchers

to deliver 100% American meat straight to your door. No imported mystery meat, just high-quality American beef, chicken, pork, and seafood raised right here. I love what they're doing. bridging the gap between American families and American farms. This July, Good Ranchers is celebrating all 50 states with $50 off anything on their site. Just visit Good Ranchers.com.

Use the promo code Glenn at checkout, get $50 off anything on their site. Remember, that's my code, Glenn, $50 off, good ranchers.com. That's good ranchers.com. This summer is one to savor. Good Ranchers.com, American Meat delivered. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Somewhere in the back of my mind, there is still a screen door, especially at this time of year, that slams at the front door. Wood frame, spring on hinges.

And it's right around dusk, the street lights have come on. And somewhere down the block, there is a mom standing on a porch with a dish towel in her hand, calling a name into the dark. That was the clock. Nobody had a phone. We all just knew. I've been thinking a lot in the last few days about how much of what we actually use. Not what I know, but what I use didn't come from a book or a class or a man on a stage with a microphone or some boob like me. It came from people who said it so many times. It stopped sounding like advice and started sounding like weather, you know.

Shut the door. We're not paying to air conditions. the whole neighborhood. Turn off the light. Money doesn't grow on trees. Because I said so. If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump true? This is the one that is.

There was a body count on this one. I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. Oh, my God. You've made your bed. Now lie in it. Nothing good happens after midnight. Finish what you start.

wear a coat or your catch your death eat it do you know how many children would be grateful for that do you know how many starving children there are and wherever it's funny because we heard them so often that we quit hearing them at all you know there were background noise they were the hum of the refrigerator and you could have recited every single one of them at nine years old and you also as a nine year old would have said none of these apply to me and then you're 15 and it gets work because now they're not just noise. They're an insult, you know? Now every one of them is proof that they don't understand.

Grandpa says, use it up, wear it out, or make do, or do without. And you're thinking, they make new ones. You can get them at the store all the time. Grandma would say, pretty is, is pretty does. And you're thinking, grandma, that's not how high school works. Hey, your dad tells you, look a man in the eye, give him a firm handshake. And you think, that's a costume. Some old ritual thing that they do.

Your mom tells you, write a thank you note. Not a text, write it out. Stamp it. Put it in the mail. And you'd rather do almost anything else than that. And then you leave. You move out. And here's what nobody tells you about leaving.

It doesn't feel like freedom for very long. Feels like freedom for about six weeks. And then you get the apartment with the bad carpet and the neighbor who's up at two and you find out that all those rules you were straining against were also load bearing and you take them out one by one and the whole thing sags

you're 23 and you get the flat tire or the bad diagnosis for somebody that you love or you get fired or the person you were sure was the one is suddenly not sure about you and you're sitting on the floor of a place that doesn't feel like home it's one in the morning

and out of nowhere your mother's voice comes up through the floorboards and says it'll look better in the morning and you want to argue with it but you can't because she was right

damn she was right the whole time it actually does look better in the morning not fixed but better and mom never explained the mechanism to you she never cited a study she just said it every time you cried.

And then one night when she wasn't there, it showed up and did the job anyway. Somewhere along the way, we decided that wasn't enough. It just wasn't enough. That because I said so was primitive. We needed a philosophy behind it. So we got one, several, actually. We got the experts.

And I'm not against experts. I want a real one flying my plane and, you know, cutting on my knee. But we took people who had never met our child, never sat at our table, never watched that kid at 4 o'clock in the morning with a fever, and we let them tell us how to raise them. We sat down all of the stuff our grandma and our mothers knew

because it didn't come with footnotes. What did they know? Say, please. Say thank you. Say, I'm sorry and mean the second half. Do it right the first time. Leave it better than you found it. Your word is your bond. Which is the whole legal system in what, five syllables?

Nobody owes you anything. Hard work never killed anybody. Show up early. Go outside. You're not tired, you're bored. Every one of those is a load-bearing wall. And we knocked them all out to open up the floor plan because that's what we wanted. And then one day, and this is the day, this is the one I remember, one day you're standing in your own kitchen, and your own kid does something, and you open your mouth and your father comes out.

Word for word, same cadence, same pause before it. The exact same sentence you swore in everything you would never say to a child. of yours. And there's that half a second where you're absolutely horrified, I've just become my father. And then there's that half second after that where you realize my God was, my dad was right. This is true. It's always been true. He wasn't being lazy. It's just the truth. He'd gotten so far down the road to know that some things don't have a longer version. It's just it. I've been thinking about phrases. I said earlier today,

I think the best political advice my mom ever gave me was, show me your friends and I'll show you your future. That's what the Democrats are learning right now. It's my mom. I could put that into paragraph after paragraph, monologue after mom. Heck, I have for the last 20 years. I've been saying the same things. I should have just said that.

Show me your friends. I'll show you your future. Because that's where they are. I don't think our problem is that we said those things to our kids too much. I wonder if I've barely said them at all. I think there's a whole generation that never got to finish what you start. When you set it to them a million times so it isn't in the floorboards anymore. Because every parent isn't saying these things anymore.

There's nothing coming up through the wood at one in the morning when they're on their carpet in a bad apartment. And then I think, gosh, do I even say these things to myself? I tell my kids all the time, nobody's thinking about you as much as you're thinking about you. And then I'll spend the whole afternoon convinced everybody's thinking about me. What? I'll tell them, it's not as bad as it looks tonight.

It'll be better in the morning. And then I'll lie there at three o'clock in the morning like a man who's never heard of morning. I'll tell them that their word is their bond. and then I break a promise that I made to myself last week. Close your eyes. Go to sleep. Call your mother.

Drink some water. Say your sorry first. This two shall pass. And then the other half that nobody ever quotes, which is the good part passes two. So pay attention. We knew all of this stuff by the time we were nine. And we spent so much time rejecting it.

I think maybe we should consider going back to some of those things. we knew them at nine and most of us are still trying to learn it, but we want to hear it from an expert. Why? Come inside now. It's getting dark. More in a minute. You know, while we're here, you know,

you just can't fake it. You just can't fake it. I'm trying to think what my mom would say about Tala Rico. I mean, my mom, your mom, everybody's mom would know fraud immediately. If that were a fraud, friend and he started coming around and he had no Texas accent and all of a sudden he was like well how to ma'am how are you she'd be like what the hell's wrong with your friend what it's what's

what's Jimmy doing I don't know mom he's trying to he's trying to suck up to a girl that he really likes she's from Texas and so now he's all Texan she's like telling him it won't work jimmy stop it knock it off I think that's what my mom would say because he has gone all Texan He is now lower tax. He's doing everything. He is sounding like a Republican. Remember, this is the guy who was like, only eat tofu. I only eat tofu.

Now he's like, give me some more barbecue ribs. I got to have me some more ribs. Out of y'all. It's like, where did you get the drawl from, Jimmy? What was happening here? So from the makers of Thune the ballless rhino, which, by the way, I have to say, I have to, you know, I always say I lead with my mistakes.

And I have to leave, because I did something about selfie Cunningham, you know, and women's basketball and women's sports. And I just have to say, I came out and I said, you know, no men and women's sports. I was wrong. I think John Thune could play in the WNBA. I'm just saying, I think, I think he could. I think he could.

But anyway, back to Tal RICO. So I, we made a, we made a song for. for good old Jimmy. He was just like us. He drives a truck, man. He's just out Friday night lights. I'm just watching me some football. Here's a little song for little Jimmy Tal Rico.

My daddy read the good book and my truck's a Chevrolet. I've been cutting taxes since I woke up yesterday. I'm just a good old boy, apostrophe. and all took the G off working and I hung it on the wall got a flag out on the porch and a flag up on the shed and a third one that I salute I go to bed go Texas eat a piece where we on my truck at 24 sing it louder boy down little something out in Los Angeles Any Texas voters in an old milk court to Dito or she might be a they or them Friday night lights boys and bolted for the van.

Not a truck, but it's a real Texas kind of highway. Well, a van's a kind of man. It's Talleyco, Texie and my Lord 24. Access crate that choir to the sky. Let's see I'm a patron The Pid Bless this long star

Tree of Twain His bone geek boy It's been a mese in spring All the way back I mean he's had that draw All the way back To spring Uh

I said Del Rico, Texas So I mean You're a Texan, Jason, Is anybody going to buy this? Is anybody going to buy this?

This guy is worse than Beto Oh, yeah, way worse than Beto. I don't think anybody in Texas is buying it at all. What I worry about just in the Tala Rico election in Paxton is literally the Cornyn voters. It sounds like they are so, I don't know, spiteful or angry that they're willing to let a guy like Tala Rico win in this election, which makes no sense to me. None. Well, you know what? Let me tell you, Cornyn voters.

We'll sure learn our lesson. and you'll be standing over there, that won't affect you at all. And you'll be like, I told you so. What the hell is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I mean, you know, it's really, really important. It'd be every election, it gets more and more important to get out and vote. We are in the fight for our nation's life and it is only getting more clearer.

These guys, I mean, you know, maybe I could understand. end this 2004, even 2014, not today, not today. Hello, America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you. Right now, would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and lead a comment because every single review helps us break through big tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast.

This is a movement. And you're part of it, a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up. Help us push this podcast to the top. Rate, review, share. Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work.