The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Pastor Rick Bick | 10/12/26

Episode Date: October 12, 2026

Do some recent political polls show good news for America? Glenn shares recent polls he has seen that give him a little hope as the midterms get closer. Glenn explains why these polls show that Americans still have standards and blames social media for making it seem that you have nothing in common with your neighbors. New Life Center Church Pastor Rick Bick joins to discuss what happened in the second after an Iowa city council heard a satanic prayer. Glenn breaks his silence on the case against seven men who attended Cornell University and are accused of gang rape in a new civil lawsuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's program, I start with poll numbers, election poll numbers, but it's more than that. I started really digging in to try to find out what direction are we going, who are we? And boy, there are two Americas, and it's not what you think. This is actually a good story. Also, Pastor Rick Bick, he's from a Tomwa, Iowa. I told you a story last week where a guy walks in to the city council meeting, and he's supposed to give the opening prayer, and he prays to Satan. Well, I didn't know the end of that story. There was a pastor sitting there and he's like, okay, that's not going to stand.

And my question to you is after you hear the story, what would you have done? And the Cornell 7 case. What is everyone missing on that? Completely different view on the Cornell 7, all on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We've got a lot to talk about today.

I want to get right to it because I want to go to some election polls and some good news. And the real, the thing that would change everything is the price of diesel and the price of gas. And I've got four suggestions for the president that I would really like to see him do. Will he do it? I don't know. But we'll see. Because that would actually change things. And the, even if it wasn't an election, I would be saying the same thing.

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Okay, so I started looking at the polls. I started looking at the political polls. And there's a couple of things that stuck out to me. And I want to get to that in here a second. But as I was going through the polls, I started to go deeper and looking at some of the other polls that are out there. There are polls out now that show that we are to Americas. But not in the way everybody thinks. Polsters have taken America's temperature.

And the headlines really wrote themselves, but you have to go deeper than the headlines. Pride in becoming or being American hit the lowest level Gallup has ever recorded. We've heard that, okay? Only one in three of us say we're extremely proud of this country. Among adults under 35, it's 14%. Here's another one that wrote itself. 78% of us say the American dream is harder to reach than it was a generation. ago. 78%. A Pew study of 25 nations found Americans are especially likely to believe that their

fellow citizens are morally bad. Okay, so that's those stories you heard. That's where the headlines stopped. That's where the reporter stopped. But that's not where the data stopped. Gallup also asked whether you personally can still achieve the American dream. Remember, we're very pessimistic. You can't make the American dream is over. It's over. 68% of us said, yeah, I can still make it. 68%. It's everybody else that you're worried about.

We haven't lost faith in the promise. At least for ourselves, we've lost sight to the people around us who are still chasing it the same way we are. most Americans still believe in themselves. What we've misplaced is our belief in one another. And that is honestly the most fixable problem in the country because it doesn't require Congress. It requires a driveway.

Now NBC, I saw poll this weekend. I'm looking at all of these, trying to put them all together and figure out who we are, where we are, where we're headed. NBC came out with a poll headed in the other direction. They looked at it from another angle. 54% of Americans say most of us share the same core values and simply disagree on policy. Okay, so the majority believes we're basically alike while we tell our pollsters that our neighbors are morally bad.

Both of those things cannot be true. Here's my answer to it. One comes from your street and the other one comes from your screen. while we may be busy doubting each other, millions of Americans were quietly raising the bar. For 25 years, Gallup has asked Americans whether a list of behaviors is morally acceptable or morally wrong. For most of the time, acceptance has moved in one direction. And you know what direction that is. This year, it fell on 17 of the 20.

three years ago, 70% said having a baby outside of marriage was morally acceptable. 70%. Today, that number is 58. Gambling was 71% in 2022 is morally acceptable. Today, it's 57. How did that change happen? No law changed that. No politician has been campaigning.

There's been no television crusade. There's nobody telling us what to think about gambling and having babies. It's just millions of ordinary people looking at their own lives, their own kids, their own bank accounts, their own neighborhoods and deciding, you know, some things matter more than we've been pretending they matter. This is the really good news. Nobody has organized this. Nobody has funded this. It's happening one kitchen table at a time, which means it can keep happening the exact same way. As you know that in 2024, weekly Bible reading in America hit a 15-year low. We're at 30%. One year later, according to Barna, it jumps 12 points.

Now, who led the way? Not Grandma and Grandpa. They didn't lead that climb. You know, boomers now read scriptures less than any other generation. So who led it? men. 54% of Gen Z men and 57% of millennial men say they open their Bible every week. Excuse me?

57%? For generations, women outread men. Among the young, that's flipped. Now, Pew has a poll out, says this revival talk is overblown. And maybe it is, I don't know. But for years, we were told the young men were lost. The young men were angry. The young men were gone.

Well, these are the same young men. Some of them are sitting at their kitchen table every night or at least one night a week, looking at an old book, looking for something true. That's not a lost generation. That's a searching generation. That's really good news. There are also the young people who told Gallup that they aren't proud. Wait, what?

Now you can hear contempt in that if you want. But remember, this is a searching group. I hear a generation that hasn't been given much to be proud of up close. What have we given them to be proud of? They've been handed a country through a phone, and the phone only shows the fights. Difference between the driveway and the screen. You don't learn to love a country from a feed.

How do you learn to love a country? Is it through school? I think you learn to love your neighborhood, your neighbors, and your country through a coach that shows up. Through a neighbor that plows your driveway. A church that brought dinner when you and your dad were sick. Love of country is built out of gratitude for people. We lack gratitude because we're so busy on our screens. You know, Pew asked, what does it take America to live a fulfilling life?

61% said close friends are essential. 61. More than marriage, more than children, more than said money. We know the need. Yet one in six of us feels lonely or isolated all or most of the time. So Pugh went farther. What cuts that loneliness? Well, it's not a pill and it's not a program.

Among Americans who don't know any of their neighbors, one in five feels lonely all or most of the time. Among those who know most or all of their neighbors, it's 6%. Less than a third as many. You know the loneliest place in America? is New York City, surrounded by people, but you don't know anybody. So let's lay the polls side by side here for a second.

We think our fellow citizens are morally bad, and yet we feel alone. Now, hang on just a second. How does that work? We don't know anybody, but we think our neighbors are bad. Again, one is reality, one is a screen. we doubt the dream is open to anyone except us. And the most powerful things that moves those numbers cost nothing. Just know your neighbor.

Most of what we fear about people disappear is the moment you learn your neighbor's name. You know, the guy with the wrong yard sign becomes Dave, who just lost his mom. The family you never, you know, that never waves becomes the Martinez. family whose boy deploys next month. The woman who seems cold is a widow who hasn't had a real conversation since August. The kid with that annoying loud truck is saving for a ring. The screen never introduces you to Dave or the kid or the widow. It introduces us to categories.

And it's easy to hate a category. It's kind of hard to hate a guy who just returned your ladder. This week I want to challenge all of us. Don't try to save the Republic. Take back your corner of it. Learn one name you don't know on your street. Knock. Bring something or don't. Just say, you know, I've lived here for four years and I've never introduced myself.

You're going to feel awkward for about nine seconds. And then your neighbor's going to go, you know what? We've been trying to come over to your place as well. Call a friend. Call a friend you've let drift. not a text, a call, call them. You already told the pollsters, friendship is what makes life worth living.

Let's start acting like we mean that. If there's a young man in your life, your son, your grandson, a kid who bags your groceries, while you're standing there and they're bagging the groceries, ask him, what are you eating? He may be waiting for somebody older to talk about it. Be that person. And while you're at it,

tell him one thing about the country, you're grateful for. Not that he should be grateful for, that you're grateful for. He may never have heard a grown-up say anything like that out loud. Here's the thing I wanted to start before we get into the election polls. I wanted to start with this. Experts will continue to poll. That's good, good. But every one of those numbers is a headcount of choices people like you made last month. Change the choices and you change the numbers. No one in Washington can do that for you. Nobody in Washington. Nobody in Washington can stop you. The polls say Americans doubt each other. The same polls say we're wrong

about each other, that we still believe in ourselves, that we're quietly raising the bar on how we live. How can we be raising the bar dramatically and yet more and more of us are becoming immoral? That doesn't make sense. We don't know each other. Our young men are lost and yet our young men are opening the Bible. And we know deep down that a good life is measured in friends. That's not a nation in decline. That's a nation homesick for itself. America's not a pole. America has always been a porch light. Turn yours on. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. High prices are here to stay. Gas, groceries, insurance. And if you're a homeowner, you've probably thought, should I call American Financing to refinance and pay off this credit card debt, and then you second-guess

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And he gives a satanic prayer and we're not going to play it on the air and I'm going to repeat any of it. But it was bad. And then everybody just kind of got up and said the Pledge of Allegiance. And I thought that was the end of it. It was not the end of it. Rick Bick is a pastor for the New Life Center Church. And he happened to be there and stepped up right after.

And we didn't capture that. But Rick is on with us now. Hi, Rick. Hi, Glenn. How are you? Thanks for having me. Hupat. I got to tell you,

Atamo, Iowa is, that's a small town in Iowa, right? Yes. Yeah, we're in the heart of the country. Yeah. The heartland. Right. Yeah. I mean, my mom and grandparent was from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the small little Iowa towns that, you know, I think of the music man for the love of Pete.

And then to see somebody come out with a satanic prayer. And the way we saw it, the way it was clipped was there wasn't really any reaction to that. But that's not what happened. Can you tell me what happened? Well, yeah, he gave the prayer. and I think everybody just went into shock and that they like, what just happened here? And so the mayor went to the Pledge of Allegiance, and I just like, wow, he just, inside me, I wasn't saying this vocally or anything, but inside me what was going on, this guy just cursed our city,

and we're not going to do that because the mayor is a good friend of mine. we pray every morning for our city for blessing for good stuff. And this guy just cursed it. And I just told myself, no, we're not going to, he's not going to get away with that. So you stood up and what, what did you do? I just, I just stood up and challenged everything. And because I thought I broke some of the protocol and rules and that. But then the mayor called me, I said, that guy with what he said, you know,

starting out to pray with the O Dark Father and some of the things that were in it. And then he said, you know, ended with Hail Satan. I said, he just put a curse on our city and we need to stop and just reverse it right now. And then I got a lot of flack from, you know, one city council member. And I said, you know, with rules and regs and all that. And I said, I don't care what the rules or regs are. We're going to stop and reverse this right now because we're not, we're not accepting a curse on our city. What was the objection on the rules and regs?

There's no regulation on reversing something. something from a satanic prayer? I don't know what regulation stops this. Well, I guess it may be rules of Roberts or something, but after, you know, the Pledge of Allegiance, they're supposed to go to the consent agenda and some other, I mean, some other things in that. So she was saying that, you know, me being vocal should have went to the end of the meeting where, you know, there's citizen comments. And, but I think, actually, because the, uh, there was. There was. no vote to accept or

confirm the agenda or you know and that that really yeah so it's okay for me and then then even go ahead if you're using Roberts for I think even Robert would be saying no I'm cool with us let's stop the Satan stuff how did this guy how did this guy get selected to give the prayer

who is he the Atomide hasn't had a invocation prayer for many many years in our new mayor. That's one of the first things he wanted to do is bring invocation and prayer over a city again. So he had written a nice outline for invocation and used previous things. And so it was rejected. Part of it was like you need to be a pastor, a leader, five years experience in the communities. You know, nothing, I mean, pretty serious, you know, commitment, not just, you know, walking in off the street and doing it, which was pretty exciting. But then it went to the council and that other favorite group, the city attorneys.

And so they are that you're talking about the Satanist. Or are the attorneys different than the state? The city attorneys, you know, I'm not talking about the Satanists, because they then they review everything so that we appease everybody. And so we have to be open to everybody. So they rewrote the guidelines. And there are certain things that were to be followed. I'm not sure that this guy followed him.

But so they had to make it open to everybody. And he was given some rules. I don't, I think he had a meeting with the mayor a few minutes before or the mayor had talked to him before this meeting and that, you know, everybody was, you know, thinking everything was going to be okay. I thought he was going to do something goofy because I know him, but not that goofy. You know what I mean? So is he a Satanist? You say he's goofy. Is he a Satanist?

He just, he's, he's, Matt's an extremely intelligent guy, opinion-aided, you know, and, you know, in some ways I like him. But he gets off onto this. Now he said that he goes to the satanic temple, but he doesn't worship Satan. But then he agrees with the tenets, but not a Satanist. So I'm not sure how that works at. Yeah. I'm not sure.

really sees that fine distinction that he might be looking at. So was this a political statement more than anything else? You know, I'm not sure. I think he was just, maybe it's, you know, for attention or, you know, I'm making a statement that, you know, it may have been an under, you know, the underlining thing may have been a way to get invocation back out of the city council meetings. You know, it's so strange how we're all under attack. This is weird to me as Charlie Kirk being shot in Utah. I see a small town in Iowa and, you know, Satanic prayer is given before.

We are really in dark spiritual times. The enemy is quite busy and is busy on every. every corner and especially the smallest, meaning us as individuals. Yes. Yeah. And I, you know, no one was expecting this. And quite frankly, I just, I reacted because I don't, my whole thought and process was, you're not getting away with cursing our city.

Nobody's cursing our city. We're blessed in our city. I had no idea that this was going to, the, this was going to go the way it did. How did, how did the people in, the in a tumwa react to this they just blow by it or they what what's what's the city actually uh well at the meeting if you watch it you know people are in shock some people after he started like one city council member after he started prayer walked out out of the meeting and but in the city there's a lot you can't see it in what you're showing there but in the city um even you know non-religious people are

on, they're up in arms. They're saying, no, who praised to Satan? Who does that? And so it's caused a lot of things on the local level. Well, I'm glad you were there. I really appreciate you talking to us and thanks for taking quick action. Because honestly, I saw the people, because I could only see the people behind him. And I saw the people behind him.

And they were standing there. And they looked like they were, you know, concentrated. on something else. They weren't necessarily fully listening. And I thought, you know, if I were standing there, I think I would have said to my wife, what just, what the hell? What did he just pray to say? I mean, I think that would have been my initial reaction as well.

You know, I don't think I would have, you know, immediately like that one city council person that walked out, I think he was way ahead of the crowd on that one. Yeah. So I did stand up, the invitation is to stand up and join. I didn't stand up for it. I just, because I thought this is, this is not going to go right. Yeah, I just knew it wasn't going to go right. And I don't want to be in agreement with that.

So, and then when he got done, what you don't see on the camera is when he got done, he turned. You can't see me, but if you look on that screen to the left, I'm sitting in the first pew or row behind the low gate. So when you see over his shoulder to the left, you can't see. You that sat down. No, no, no, no. I'm the other way. I'm, you can't see me. Oh, the other way.

Okay. Okay. So, so what would be, if you're looking at him, is his right shoulder. If you go to the other. I'm there. And so when he came by, I stopped him and I said, did you just say, hail Satan? And he went into this. Yeah.

And if you can say in the name of Jesus, I can say, hail Satan. And I said, no, you can't do that here. You got to go. He virtually ran out of the building. So when you see me walking up to the podium, podium, he's already in his truck and gone. Rick, blessings to everybody in Atamwa, Iowa. And thank you for standing up.

I appreciate him. God bless you. Thanks for having me. Rick, Rick, New Life, you bet. New Life Center Church pastor who, who, I mean, you got to watch it. No, no, don't watch the video. It's just, it's crazy. It's crazy.

And we should all be very aware that, you know, these things are happening around us. And what are you prepared to do? If that happened to you and you were somewhere, what would you do? Would you have just gone on with it and went, I don't know what the hell? Okay. And then just went on with your life. Would you have stood up, walked out? Would you have approached the podium?

What would you have done? You know, these are the kinds of tests that I think that we all need to pass now because it's, we're in like first grade on evil tests. and they're only going to get harder as we go on here. So what would you have done? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. Okay, so there's a Marine in North Carolina now who's never set foot on the Cornell campus.

But he's getting death threats now. And the only connection to Cornell is his name. He shares it with one of the seven young men named in a lawsuit. lawsuit. And the women's lawyers put out his address in a court filing by mistake. Oh, well, thank you. They corrected it, but the wrong filing stayed public. And the internet does what the internet does. Okay. His phone number went online. His attorney says the threats followed. At least one other man with the same name, who is a defendant, has been harassed as well. If you don't know what this case is about, let me just take you through what this case is about. Woman says in October

24, one of the fraternity houses at Cornell, she was pressured into ketamine, marijuana, and alcohol until she was incapacitated and unable to make decisions rationally herself that seven members of the fraternity assaulted

her for hours. Her lawsuit includes a picture of a group chat. She shows them discussing the night. She went to campus police three weeks later. Now, the fraternity was suspended. Cornell says it punished the students, some with expulsion.

The district attorney, however, didn't file any charges. He says her first sworn statement didn't describe being drugged or gang raped. Then last month, she files a civil suit and the country found out. Now, so here's what's happened since then. District attorney's office has been buried in insults and threats. prosecutors have demanded the university president's resignation. The fraternity house has been vandalized, a comedy writer launched a website about the Cornell 7. New York governor appointed Letitia James, a special prosecutor.

That'll clear things up. Three days before her appointment, James had posted what the young woman had endured as horrific and unacceptable. And one of the accused is now in court arguing that she's already made up her mind. The other side has its mob as well. The accusers has been mocked for not being attractive. Her body was picked apart and so were her motivations. No one has been charged with anything. No jury has heard one word.

Both sides have already announced the verdict. You would think we would learn. But apparently we don't. Does anybody remember 2006? March 2006. An exotic dancer says she was raped at a party thrown by the Duke lacrosse team. The district attorney was in the middle of an election. A week after the story broke, he gave somewhere between 50 and 70 interviews. He becomes a hero. Within weeks,

group of Duke professors sign a full page ad in the student paper that, you know, told everybody that they had already reached a verdict. The court was forced out. The season was canceled. Three young men were indicted. Their faces were everywhere nationwide. A year later, the Attorney General of North Carolina, a Democrat named Roy Cooper, stood at the microphone, and did something the prosecutors never do. He didn't say, we're dropping this because of insufficient evidence. He came and he said the three men were innocent, innocent, called the case a tragic rush to accuse. The district attorney was disbarred and spent a whole night in jail. Now, happens the other way as well. Anybody remember Larry Nassar?

he was the Olympic coach for more than a year. People knew and he kept on abusing girls the whole time. Nobody rushed in that case because nobody believed the girls. You can fall victim by refusing to listen. You can destroy innocent man or women by refusing to wait. A just system doesn't allow either of those. So what's wrong here? There are two things.

And I'm going to hit the obvious one first. and that is, what went wrong? I don't know. Believe all women. And, you know, when that started, it was good. It was like, hey, let's take women seriously. When a woman comes forward, take her seriously. Don't laugh her out of the room. That part is right and was long overdue.

Take her seriously. Unfortunately, that slid into she's always telling the truth. And then that slid into he's always guilty. And anyone who questioned that answer, answer was an accomplice or part of the problem. Me too, me too, me too. Then 2020 comes, and Tara Reid accuses Joe Biden. And suddenly everybody wants more evidence than she had. Wait a minute. The rule held up right until it was inconvenient. That's how you know it's not principle. Okay. It's a weapon. And weapons get picked up and used by whoever is closest. Is that

the country you want to live in. I don't. So why we have to stop with the mob stuff. On all sides, stop. Now, there's another layer about this. And I think this is the more important layer. This is the layer about how the sexual revolution has made us miserable. And I mean really miserable.

You know, when we started pushing the lie that all sex is good as long as it's consensual, we lost the language to explain how we feel when we do something degrading. Because when you do something degrading, your body knows it, your mind knows it, your spirit knows it. This young woman degraded herself. And so did all the other people involved. I'm not pointing fingers to her. It's everybody. It's all of them.

It was seemingly consensual based on her own texts to the two, young men after the event, she used the phrase, our body, our choice, quoting, nothing was illegal, end quote. That's her. Now, just because something isn't illegal doesn't mean something isn't wrong. Here's what I think happened. What she was trying to say when she started to feel ashamed, when she used, when she started feeling like, oh my gosh, we all degraded ourselves and she feels icky. Sorry, that's a real word that can be used in this. Itchy.

She feels like this was wrong. This was, she feels horrible because she's been degraded and she degraded. Okay. But she was never taught the moral language to describe what. What just happened? All she was ever taught was consent. Was there consent? Yes.

Then it's good. It's okay. No consent? Then it's bad. So now she's feeling bad. She's feeling the wounds of what she engaged in and all of them engaged in. And so she has got to come to the conclusion there must not have been really consent because it feels bad. and from that lie, life after life after life is ruined.

And no one knows who to blame. Now, I want you to know, I am not saying this about her. I'm saying this about all of them involved. All of us. If it's just consent and then it makes it fine. What stops us from beastility? Honestly, what stops? You know, I think it's Peter Singer who says,

as long as the animal is enjoying it, it's okay. What? What stops us from beastiality is the idea of the animal can't consent. What does that do to you? You know, even though we can try, we can try so hard to convince ourselves that, you know, there's no such thing as right and wrong. Our bodies know the difference.

no matter how many times you tell a young woman that it's good to let seven men have sex with you back to back as long as you consent her body, her soul, the little spark of God that lives in her and all of us will always tell her it's wrong. And that same spark of God is in the men too, who are also lost. This is why I'm concerned about our society. Guys can generally be piggish, much of the men. more than women can. It bothers women. And in our society, it's seemingly no longer bothering women, but I think that's what this is actually about, that it is bothering. They just don't know how to verbalize it because they haven't been given any moral language. The dissidence between what our culture teaches us about sex and what our conscience knows. and creates shame in us without any understanding,

it leaves you looking for a scapegoat. I shouldn't feel this way. I did the right thing. It's okay to do whatever I want. Who's to blame here? So there's two sides to this story. There's the me to, me, two, me too, me too, gone wrong. Both directions.

Believe the guy. Believe the woman, always. Both wrong. Let the system work it out. don't form a mob. And then there's this. And until we embrace there is such a thing as sexual morality again, the story is not going to stop.

It's just going to happen. No amount of consent or on-campus workshops about sexual violence will work because the entire model is based on a lie. Our bodies still know it's a lie because that's how God made us. it's time to listen you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program earlier today I started the program

with some polls that I was looking at beyond politics what is happening to us and I found really really good news go back and listen to that it's how I opened the show today

and I want to take this final segment here and kind of circle back to that my sister just moved to Idaho And for her whole life, almost her whole life, she lived in the same neighborhood in a town called Bellingham, Washington, which is like Marxist Central. It's a beautiful town, the water. Politically, it's as far left as American can get.

And she wasn't far left. She's not a Marxist. She's not even a Democrat. And in a neighborhood where politics was kind of the, I don't know, the membership card, decades on the same street meant she had very, few friends. Nobody was ever cruel to her that I know of. She just never fit. She had no friends that were neighbors and, you know, everybody knew it. So she packs up and she moves to a small town about

10 miles from mine. And it's a very religious town. She's not, you know, goes to the same church or anything. But it's a, I mentioned this because it's a place where the shops close on Sundays and the churches are full, you know, and without any laws, they just don't do it. Everybody's at church. Another day, I was driving through in a way to a friend's house, and I turned to Tanya, and we were driving through this neighborhood, and I said to Tanya, I said, I don't think I have waived to this many people on a street in my life, and I don't know half of these people.

They just, they look up, you know, moms in the front yard with their three kids in a garden hose, and you drive by, and they're like, hi, and you're like, hi, I don't know you, but hi. old couple on their knees, you know, with the tomatoes and every single person looking up and wave at a car, they don't know. Not my neighborhood. Who's fabulous. It was fantastic. So a couple weeks ago, my sister has a truckload of sod that's delivered. She just moves in.

She has just dirt in front of her yard. And so this sod is delivered and comes in the morning. Landscapers aren't due until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. So all day, she had a driveway full of rolled up grass sitting in the sun. and a street full of neighbors she had known about for about a week. So I'm coming about 5 o'clock. Five o'clock the landscapers show up. But so did the neighbors.

Nobody called them. Men still in their, you know, workboots and moms and a church youth group and a pack of teenagers who apparently had nothing better to do on a weeknight than unroll a stranger's lawn. It was bizarre. One hour, front yard and backyard all done. By the time I get there, they're halfway done.

Okay. The landscapers were there, by the way, which is additionally odd. None of the landscapers said, don't touch that. No release forms had to be signed or anything else. For a myriad of reasons, this does not happen anywhere in America anymore. But it was great. Within an hour, the grass was done. The sprinklers were running.

The youth group was sitting on my, you know, sister's brand new lawn eating pizza. She had run out because she didn't know. what else to do with the feeling. I'll let me go get them pizza. And not one of them asked. So what church do you go to? No one asked, how do you vote? It was a town full of people that take their faith seriously,

as seriously as anybody else in America. And the only membership they checked was, do you belong to the human family? She did. That's enough. It was amazing to watch. I know this community. so I wasn't surprised. She was shocked.

She pulled me aside. She's like, what's going on? What's the catch? What's happening? He said, there's no catch. But I understood the question. Because a lifetime of modern life teaches you that when somebody shows up unasked, they want something. A vote, a signature, you know, whatever.

She was like, what's the angle? What is happening? And I'm like, there's no angle, honey. This is the community you moved into. I hope you like neighbors because there. They're going to like you. These people are just deciding to act like Christ instead of just like talking about Christ. And they do it so they can become a little more like Christ.

And I told her, I said, seeing you happy is what they get out of it. Seeing you happy. I have to tell you, I've never seen my sister happy. My sister is so happy right now. I can't tell you how many times we've talked about. What happened with Assad? And this is the way we used to be. You know, when somebody needed something, you know,

and, you know, no family could do it alone. The neighbors held a bee, okay? A raising bee is what it was called when you would put up a barn. A logging bee to clear a field, a husking bee for the court. Or before winter, women would do a quilting bee. The whole countryside would come. Armfrain would go up in a day. Nobody was paid because we're all in it together.

The family had one job. Just feed everybody when they're done. Are we still in it together? Do you live somewhere where you believe that? My sister didn't know any of that. She didn't know any of that. She hadn't seen any of that. And so then she just goes and gets pizza,

which is what the bee used to do. I mean, I guess it's in our blood. No one knows for sure where B came from, but the word Americans used for neighbors showing up, has a actually started they think they think for a word for prayer

which is funny because that's why this town is the way it is prayer sincere, honest, non-judgmental humble prayer nobody in this little town is perfect

they have bad tempers and bad knees and teenagers that roll their eyes right up until somebody rolls out the sod what they have is in perfection in fact it's humility they bowed their heads long enough to find the one thing that actually

can make a person better than he or she is and then they got up off their knees and they went to work so I love little towns I couldn't wait to get out of my little town when I was a kid there's nothing happening here yes that's the point

this little town understands something that most of America has forgotten and everybody wants to live in a town like that, I think. Almost nobody wants to be the kind of person, however, that makes a town like that. You know? These folks know that if what they do doesn't match what they want, then they'll never have it. You know? Not eventually.

No, no, no. Not ever. If your actions don't match your wishes, you don't have a wish. You have a complaint. Why isn't my town like this? well, are you like this? Honestly, I just wish all the people who thought like me

kind of lived in this town, but I'm never going to tell you the name of this town because, well, partly because of security, but partly because I spent a few days last winter in a town called Franklin, Tennessee, and it felt like my town. Felt like a town I'd love to live in.

But now people from all over the country, mainly California, are moving in. And I, I, there's a clock on it. You watch, there's a clock because it happens. People fall in love with a place, but not with what made it. They love the, the waving and the quiet Sundays and they lawn that appears in an hour. And they figure out, oh, and you know what, they're very religious. It's kind of a quaint little custom, you know, like an accent. It's charming, but religious people are weird. I mean, it's just one of those little quirks until every, Everybody moves in and it dies out and then you're like, wait, wait, I thought that was optional.

It's not optional. It's not optional. The religious people are the ones that usually make it like that quaint little town. It's in the water. My sister can buy a lawn by the roll. Comes off the truck green and perfect and it's grown on somebody else's farm. But if nobody waters it, it's brown within two weeks. It's dead.

It only lives if it sends down the root. into new soil. You can't move into a little town like this and unroll it over your life. You have to grow it. So I'm never going to give you the address of this town. I'm sorry. I know there's a lot of people who love to live in a town like this

and good for you. Go find one. I don't trust the Californians. I don't trust the people who are like, I like this, but I just don't like the religious people. Okay. You don't need the address anyway. You need the habit.

Because somewhere on your street, there's a widow with a yard full of leaves. There's an old guy who should not be raking the leaves anymore. There's a new family that doesn't know a soul. A man whose fence blew down in the last storm. Start waving at the cars that go by. And then show up unasked. And don't check what church they go to or,

What's on their bumper? Leave before they can pay you. And if you're the one with the pallets in the driveway and they do show up, buy pizza. I don't know if we can ever fix our big towns. Because I think this was the problem. This is when America lost itself. When we moved into the big cities and we became industrialized, we stopped depending on one another. We stopped.

I said to you earlier today, the loneliest place I've ever lived is New York City. And I lived with seven million names. neighbors. But nobody knew each other. I know how this country was built in the first place, and it wasn't built from the top down. It was raised one barn at a time by people who prayed and then picked up the other end of the beam. I'm, I don't know how to fix everything. I'm convinced if we fix ourselves in faith, it'll be the small towns that just may be where America comes back from. My sister spent decades on a street where she had to earn her way in or just by agreeing, you know, she moves 10 miles from me and was handed a lawn for showing up.

Tanya said to me as we were driving away from visiting my sister just the other day, she said, you know, if we would have moved here, I wouldn't have moved anywhere else in my life. And I'm like, are you kidding me? Do you know what that beach house cost me? I could have gotten it for this. She's like, I would have left. And I said, I know, I know. It's the neighbors.

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