The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 9/25/26

Episode Date: September 25, 2026

Glenn plays a video of a once-homeless pianist, Rhys Wynne-Jones, returning to a charity event to play "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the piano. Everybody has heard the slogan for State Farm Insurance, but Glenn shares how the insurance began with farmers who helped each other out in times of struggle. Rapper Macklemore has now announced a pro-Palestine tour after being removed from Ed Sheeran's tour. Was this Macklemore's plan all along? Glenn reacts to Judge Judy telling people who hate America to leave.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So it's good news Friday, and we had to cover some things that are not so good, but we cut them out of this. And, you know, if you want to know about the bond market and what's coming our way, probably worth paying attention to. That's in the longer show. People walking out of the UN yesterday turning their back, I think, a fulfillment of prophecy, or beginning of a fulfillment of prophecy. That happened yesterday. That's in the main show. You can get that wherever you get your podcast as well. This is the best of, and we're going to leave you with some good news.

I tell you about some things that happen, you know, to individuals. And I'm trying to show you that while the world looks like it's on fire, the world is made up by individuals. And there are some amazing things happening with individuals. We get into, we get into a few of these stories. And you're going to love all of them. Next. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America.

Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It's Friday. And I want to do a good news Friday. I want to tell you some stories that you might not have heard because they're not big international stories and there's no screaming headlines. Everybody's going to die. We're at war and we'll never get out of it. Trump, Trump, Trump.

They're just stories about everyday people that you don't hear about. This one comes from a place called Penzance. It sits at the very bottom tip of England. It's about as far as you can go before the land runs out and the sea takes over. In the summer, it's postcards. In January, the wind comes off that wet water and cold and it just gets into your bones. It was January. There was a man who was living on the street.

His name was Wise Wynne Jones. He was sleeping rough in that wind. The cold was bad. The night was worse. He said, sleeping rough at night is not safe. Doorways are not safe. You're in public view at all times. so he did what apparently a lot of homeless people have learned to do.

He stopped sleeping at night and he stayed awake while the whole town slept. And he slept when the whole town was awake and there were people around. And he knew he would be somewhat safe. This is a guy who was afraid of the dark for a good reason. He's an interesting guy. He was carrying around a lot for a long time. He was badly bullied when he was a kid. He was carrying around a head in his words full of noise all the time

and hadn't had a home in about 10 years. But there was one thing that he carried around that no one knew. When he was 12 years old, he started playing the piano. It turned out he had perfect pitch. He could hear a song and see it. He said, every time I hear music, I could see the notes. I imagined myself playing the piano and I could see the notes in my head. In all those years when life caved in, he had one rule.

If things go wrong, I'll just go and find a piano to play. Well, that worked until he found himself homeless. I mean, go try to find a piano when you don't have a front door. Now, in the middle of this town, Penzance, there's an old granite church called St. Mary's. and on certain nights St. Mary's does something most churches don't.

They keep the doors open all night and they call it night church and volunteers come in they stay up for anybody out there who has nowhere else to be well there's one of those freezing nights in January just a couple of years ago

where he walks in he wasn't there for a sermon he needed help and he needed help from the piano He came in and he said, I noticed you have a piano and it's very noisy in my head. May I play it? They said, sure, go ahead.

He sat down, cold, tired, worn, homeless in this old stone church in the middle of the night. And he started to play this. This is actually him playing this in that sort of. Stone Church. About a year later, he doesn't just play a few bars. He plays the whole thing, the ballad, the opera, the rock, all six minutes, all from memory, filling the stone in the arches and the dark.

Alex Phoenix, who runs the night church, said, I'm a Christian woman, but I swore out loud when I heard it. She said, my volunteers just started crying. One of them had the sense to pick up their phone and record it. And they posted on Facebook and it took off. Thousands of people watched it. And all of them wanted to know the same thing. Who is this guy?

They began calling him the Knight Church pianist. He didn't have any idea because he didn't have a phone. He didn't get notifications. He found out. He found out when he would walk down the street and complete strangers started to come up to him. A man who had spent years trying not to be seen because being seen at night was dangerous,

suddenly being seen by everybody. And for the first time, for the first time being seen was safe. What came next came fast. Local charity got him into temporary housing and Housing Association got him a place of his own, and he played a benefit concert, and you're listening to that now. He ended up on a charity stage alongside Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.

He played a concert inside of a cavern. He played the hall in Cornwall. He has a few other tricks up his sleeve. Man's a genius. He can recite every country on earth, every element on the periodic table, the first hundred digits of pie. He's done for.

fire circus. He morris dances. For years, the world had walked past this man in a doorway. And in about two and a half years, Rees Wynne Jones has raised more than 40,000 pounds. About $54,000, and every penny of it, he insists, goes to homeless charities and good causes. He doesn't want any of it himself. He says, I don't see myself as a professional pianist or a celebrity figure. I just need enough money to cover my expenses. The rest he gives away. He's a man who knows exactly, exactly what it's like to have nothing. And now in his newfound success, he has decided he doesn't need much more.

The rest goes to that other guy that is now in the doorway. He calls his piano a coping mechanism. But also this. It's not just that I have my friend. It's my friend. It's somebody I trust. Somebody I love dearly. There's a lot of noise in my head, but when I play the piano, my head goes quiet.

He has home now. He goes home to a warm bed, a door that locks, and a night that can't hurt him anymore. He could sleep through every single one of those nights if he wanted to. But on Wednesday nights, when the sun goes down, and the cold comes in off the water. He leaves that warm home, and he walks back through the dark to St. Mary's, where he sits down at the same piano, the doors open

and plays for anyone who comes in out of the cold. He used to be the man who was afraid of the night. Now, now he's the reason somebody else isn't afraid. News Friday. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. 300,000 in metric tons of foreign ground beef are about to come into the United States without the normal tariff. That's a huge amount of beef. And here's the part that bothers me. When that beef ends up at the grocery store, you have no way of knowing which country it came from. I'm all for buying beef for my family. But I want to know where it came from. That's why I

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But this is what I'm remembering in my head. I don't remember even what she, this speaker said, but something clicked and I was like oh my gosh and I was remembering this commercial according to statistics your next accident is most likely to happen near your home so doesn't it make sense to have an insurance agent who lives right in your neighborhood one you can count on for fast fair claim service the kind of agent you know will be there when you need it most just like a good neighbor Okay. Remember that? You didn't sing that. Everybody my age at least knows that. Like a good neighbor,

stay farm is there. Listen to the sentence. It's a comparison. The company is the second thing. The first thing is the standard. It's the gold in the vault that gives the whole line its value. Like a good neighbor. You're going to have an accident. Wouldn't it be good? good to have somebody who's your neighbor there to help you? Yes. Whoever wrote that assumed you knew, you knew that this is true. They assume this so completely they never bothered to explain like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. And that's what good advertising does. It borrows something that you already own and then it rents it back to you. Now let me tell you why I was thinking about this in church.

I live in a town of about 500 people up here in Idaho. And out here, that sentence still runs in the right direction. Because here's what a farmer knows. State farm insurance. Now, they're talking about cars. State farm insurance. You can do everything right as a farmer and still lose it anyway. You can watch the sky for a week.

Pick your day. You cut the hay on Tuesday. Wednesday, it's raining. It wasn't in the forecast. It's nobody's fault. The crop that was perfect is turning into garbage on the ground. Too little rain, too much rain. Not enough sun. Price of the sale barn. It's somebody in an office decided on Friday. Farmers can be so careful, skilled, hardworking, faithful, up before the sun for 30 years and, you know, be four days from losing the point. place. In farm country, insurance didn't start as insurance. It started as a promise. Did you know that in the last half of the 1800s, the big Eastern companies would not write a policy on a farm, not at any price. No, you want a policy on your farm? No, because the arithmetic was really easy. Farm sat too far away from a fire department. So if your house catches fire, your farm, your barn catches fire. By the time anybody arrived, there's not going to be anything left. So a farm fire wasn't a claim. It was a total loss every single time. So they're like, no, we're not going to insure farms. No. But you couldn't

live without some sort of backstop. So the farmers built their own. Between 1870 and 1900, they organized about 1,100 farmers, county by county, township by countship, 30 men in a schoolhouse on a Saturday. Maybe they were meeting in the back of somebody's store. Norwegians. in one township, Germans in the next, church congregation in the one after that. By the mid-1920s, there were nearly 2,000 of these communities that have connected each other. And here's how it worked. You didn't buy a policy. There was no pile of money in a vault waiting for you for a bad day.

You signed your name to a piece of paper that said, when one of us is ruined, I will pay my share. Then you went home and farmed. That was it. If a barn burned, they added up. up what it cost and they divided it by the members and sent everybody a bill. They called it an assessment. Now think what that is. A bill that arrives at your kitchen table because your neighbor just had the worst day of his life and you pay it and you pay it. Why? You pay it gladly because the

only reason your name is on that list is that next spring the wind can turn and it can be your barn and 30 men you know by face will get a piece of paper with your bad luck printed on it and they'll pay. 1922 a guy puts this idea. My wife may be right. I wasn't listening. In 1922, there's a guy that puts this idea on wheels. He had farmed in Illinois. He was 40 and his wife health turned and took him off the land. And he noticed that the insurance farmers were charging a farmer's city rates to drive a car down a dirt road that he had entirely to, he's not going to get an accident with another car. And he thought, wait a minute, we're getting ripped off here. This is a lie told with numbers. So he builds a company, an old mutual model owned by the people it insured, no shareholders.

You had to buy a policy. You had to already belong. Farm Bureau, Mutual, Farm Mutual, or, you know, the family of somebody who did. Membership in the neighborhood was the underwriting. He did one more thing that proved he actually farmed. He let the premium come due when the crop check came, not in January, harvest time. Because he knew what was in a man's pocket in March. He called this company State Farm. They didn't have this slogan back then.

The slogan came 50 years later when America had changed. It was 1971. big New York agency. They're like, how do we explain what this is? Well, you know what it really is. It's, I mean, farmers are just good neighbors. That's a good idea. So they give this idea to a young piano player who is paying his rent.

He's an absolute nobody. He's paying his rent by making jingles. He sets him down, you know, 15 seconds of melody, and he gets $500. No residuals. $500 and he was happy about it. You've heard that 15 seconds more times than you've heard most of your friend's voices. But the jingle writer at the time sang it and he did it once in concert, all of the jingles that he ever wrote.

And here's a clip of that compilation of all the jingles. Listen. We forget. Never you're driving like a good neighbor. You recognize the voice? That jingle writer was. Barry Manilow. Okay?

Look at the year. By 1971, the company had to tell you what a good neighbor was. Because most of the country that it was selling to had moved somewhere else where nobody's barn was going to burn down. The whole system of like a good neighbor had fallen apart because now people were starting to live in places where they didn't know their neighbor. The sentence stopped being a description of how the thing actually worked and became a comparison to something we were already losing. this was the system, the assessment system is merciless when it broke. Bad year, everybody assessed, everybody was broke at the same time. The dust pole, everybody went under, okay?

And, you know, desperate men were starting to set fire to their barns. We didn't abandon mutual aid because we turned wicked. We set it down because something showed up that was better and mostly it is. But look what came in the box with it. when your protection is a promise from 30 men, you actually have to know 30 men. You have to know which one is dependable, which one's drinking, which one buried a child last winter and just hasn't been right sins. The knowing wasn't a pleasant side effect of the system. The knowing was the system.

Hand now the promise to a company in a building three states away that is just looking at numbers. It does the job, efficiently. But the problem is nobody has to know anybody. That's the trade. We traded the knowing for the paperwork. The paperwork is better. But the knowing is gone. Out in this town that I'm broadcasting from now,

about 500 people, they're not better people. They're just closer to the edge, and we see it and we know it. And so when a neighbor is down with a broken hip, they're down with a broken hip and it's September. Truck show up in his field.

Nobody organizes it. Nobody posts about it. Somebody notices the hay is standing too long. Makes two phone calls. The man who shows up isn't a saint. He's done the math. He knows he can have the best year of his life and the next one can take everything.

And he'd like a truck in his field too when that happens. The question is, I guess, is do we need a hay field for this? Do we have to have a bar? Do we have to be faced with being absolutely wiped out before we look back to what worked so well? And I'm not talking about insurance. I'm talking about just being a good neighbor. If you live in an apartment building with 400 people in it, you're surrounded by weather.

The woman two doors down whose car hasn't moved in four days. The man who's recycling is all takeout now, who used to cook. The kid in the stairwell at an hour. kid should be in a stairwell. The neighbor who stopped saying hello about three weeks ago and you noticed but you let it go. That's hail on somebody's crop. And nobody's going to mail you a bill for it. Maybe that's the problem.

The bill is what used to make us look. I know we are the people of 9-12, not 9-11. We're the people of 9-12. We're like a good neighbor. And we're there. But I guess we were that like. on 9-12 because the bill came. We stopped looking.

I encourage you this weekend to look anyway. Knock. Ask a second question after somebody says, fine. Because fine is what everybody says. Bring the thing over. Whatever it is. You've made too much of something? Bring it over

to somebody else. Learn one more name on your floor than you knew last month. The sentence that I've been talking about has two halves. A company that has spent a hundred years and God knows how much money holding up the second half and they've done it pretty well. But the first half, the important half was never theirs. It's ours. And it was never a slogan. It was a job. And it's always been done by somebody who just noticed.

You had an accident. Wouldn't it be better to have somebody there like a good neighbor to help you through that? Be there. Just like a good neighbor. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. You know, there's a certain kind of confidence that only parents have. You can walk into a bedroom, you can take one look at your kid and go, yeah, he's getting sick. You don't need a thermometer. You don't need a doctor.

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Yo, we are out. And then everybody's like, okay? And now they're like, oh, I thought we're going to get some more like PR from this. You're like, no, we don't know who you are. We still know who you are. And now you're unemployed. And you're never going to be friends with that again. Ever. Ever, dude. I just like grandstanding that you're like, this is going to get me a lot of, dude, unbelievable. And then what about me? I stood with whoever. And they're like, yeah, you might have should have just gone to work. I was like, bro, professionally, you chose McElmore over Ed Shearren in 2026.

What are you doing? Causes aside. Wait, what do you mean you guys are moving on to the next city? What do you mean we have to get our stuff off the buses? Hold on. I'm getting reports that the twisted sticks are saying they're not on the tour. Okay, you didn't sell a ticket. I have to tell you, it is, it's really,

Maclemore is worse than you thought he was. At least I think. You know, I thought he was a despicable human being because of, you know, some of the stuff that he has done. You know, I throw in the Hitler salute as one of them on stage. But he's worse than this. He's worse than this. What was he saying about Ed Sheeran? What was he saying? Why was Ed not canceling the tour according to McElmore?

Ricky. Because he wasn't standing with Palestine? No, but why wasn't he standing with Palestine? Because he was a coward? Mm-mm. Do you remember Jason? What was McElmore saying? Didn't he say because of all these billionaires?

I thought he put it directly on them. No. Ed Shearin wasn't doing it because money. He wanted the money. He wanted the money. He didn't want to lose the money. Yada, yada, yada. Now, you know that.

Now, let me tell you the latest on Maclemore. Maclemore just announced out of the blue a new European tour where he's going to go with his free Palestine tour. You dirtbag, first of all, just know, you do not put a world tour together overnight. Okay, you can't book places overnight. So he puts a world tour together starting when next week, week after? Who was doing this for the money? Your career was absolutely nowhere.

So you took a guy who trusted you, who, you know, bands used to be grateful to the people who would give them a shot to open up. You know what I mean? It was like when you were an opening band for a big band, that was like being on the Carson show. All of a sudden, as a comedian, all of a sudden, you were somebody. You know, you were on with Jay Leno, and Jay Leno was gracious to you. And he was like, wow, I got the endorsement from the Tonight Show.

And, you know, that's great. And they were gracious and they were humble about it. This guy, oh my gosh, this guy took Ed show and his invitation and said, hey, McImore, I want you to open up for me. What an honor, right? I want you to open up. And I know you're on hard times. and nobody listens to you,

and your has been from about 15 years ago. But I like you. Why don't you come on and do, you know, you do the opening act. And that guy thought to himself, I might be able to revive my career, not by being good, but by actually being so offensive that I can create the conditions where Sheeran's got to kick me off, and I'll make a big deal,

and then I'll announce a world tour because I'll look like a hero and I'll do the free Palestine tour. I mean, you think Ed Sheeran felt raped before? He's lost all of his friends, all these people walked out. You think he felt bad before. I actually feel really bad for him now. Really bad.

You know, you invited somebody into your tent who just burned your house down. for his own gain. What a surprise a lefty Marxist, you know, free Palestine supporter would do that. What a shock that they'd end up being a dirt bag. It's amazing. It's amazing. Let's see.

There's also Caleb Flynn. He's accused of murdering his wife. Now, he was a guy who was on American Idol. Do you know when, Ricky? Did he win? I'm sure he did not because his... His name is not familiar, but I'll look into that. Okay, all right, okay.

No, no, no. It's fine. I just didn't know if I was, you know, I don't recognize his name either, but I just thought, well, I have a case of OLD. And so he is, he murdered his wife. And now in the courtroom, they're playing these AI songs that he wrote for his mistress. And they are being played out in the courtroom. And people in the courtroom are having a hard time not holding back laugh.

because they are so bad. And he apparently spent a lot of time on these, you know, AI songs. And here's a clip. And if you happen to be watching, look at the people in the courtroom. Go ahead, cut five. I love the jurors that are kind of just, or the people that are just looking at each other like, look at the lady with how many people have a hand over their mouth.

Look at that. Like the whole, the whole courtroom is just very, am very uncomfortable during this and he's just sitting there stone cold. You know, good for you. Good for you. You can write music and you're going to have lots of time to write music. You know, but if you would have just strangled your kids or if you could have said you were transgendered and she wasn't accepting of that, you might have gotten away with it.

Oh, well. Let's see. What else is? I want to play this, it came out this week. Judge Judy. I love Judge Judy. During a recent interview with USA Today, she had a message for all those people who come to America and then complain about it.

Here it is, Judge Judy. Next year, and this gets political, which I don't mind. I have a house, and I have a home. I consider America my home. America has been good to me. I think that it's the greatest country in the world. If you don't like this country, go somewhere else.

Don't come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world, and say, I want to change it. There are other countries that are the something else that you want. Go there. We are a capitalist country that revered excellence,

that revered entrepreneurship, that revered all the things that made us great, that produced an Apple, an Amazon, AI, whether you like it or not, it's there. It produced the salt vaccine. It produced all of the major inroads in medicine. And we did that because we encouraged brilliance and excellent.

We gave them those people a push. They were gifted classes, which I know public schools used to have. Now it's taboo. Everybody should be equal. Well, everybody's not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical.

Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They're different. I love her. Ricky, we got to get her on. I'd love to do a podcast with her. I would retire if we got Judge Judy for a podcast.

So no pressure to our booker. Oh, please, just, please. Please, Judge Judy, please come on. Ricky will retire. Okay. She comes on. In soon. Ricky's been giving me a hard time.

She's been saying, you know, you should do good news, good news, good news, and I start doing good news today. And then she says, you should talk about Israel. And, you know, your thought about how that's beginning of prophecy of people turning their backs on Israel. I'm like, that's not good news. You should do that. I mean, so, I mean, you deserve every moment of harassment you can get today, Ricky. Every bit of it.

Can you just direct your harassment towards Mark Carney at some point, please? Let me see real quick. Oh, gosh. The Mark Carney story. Thank you, Ricky. She's, I had to say thank you. Mark Carney, thank you for the gong. Mark Carney is, he said that he is,

he's got to prepare for the possibility of U.S. military action against Canada. How are you going to prepare for that? Pack a suitcase? How are you going to prepare for that? He is absolutely deranged. He is absolutely deranged. This is the same people that, were saying that he was going to send troops into Greenland.

Did he? No. Is Greenland happy today? Yes. Are the Danes happy today with a deal? Yes. Is Donald Trump and America happy with it? Yes. Okay. Everybody won in that deal. Everybody went. And it was people like Mark Carney that were saying, he's going to march in with troops. No, he's not. No, he is not. And he's not going to do it for Canada either. And by the way, we could send our Cub Scouts up there and take Canada. So please give it a rest. Ricky. Oh, yeah, I just have to read a little section from the BBC that reports on this story.

And I don't know if they were trying to unintentionally be hilarious, but it is, quote, any conflict would likely be highly unbalanced. The U.S. military has more than 2 million active duty and reserve troops, while Canada has fewer than 200,000. Similarly, similarly as of 2,000. Oh, you just moved the story for me. But anyways, it's hilarious how they just. I have it.

Similarly, as of 2024, the U.S. possessed 65 military submarines compared to Canada's four. So, yeah, it would be slightly imbalance. But we're going to make a fair. We're going to send our Cubs Couts up. It might take four days longer. Still outcome. But maybe you walk away feeling better about yourself. We're not going to invade Canada.

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