The Glenn Beck Program - NYC Shooting Proves America has a Mental Health CRISIS | 7/29/25

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

Glenn discusses the horrific shooting that occurred in New York City, which caused the deaths of multiple people, including an off-duty police officer. Glenn lays out the facts of the shooter that have been confirmed and the potential motive. When will America address the mental illness epidemic that plagues our streets? Glenn and Stu argue that America should stop taking the complaints of mass shooters seriously. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss CNN’s embarrassing coverage of the shooter and a recent segment on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ where detainees being held were interviewed. The guys react to the illegal immigrants complaining about the ‘hard’ conditions of being detained. Glenn shares a message to the youth of America to help keep them from being manipulated and used to push an evil ideology. Glenn and Stu discuss the media’s attempt to paint the hunger famine in Gaza as Israel’s fault, including publishing a misleading photo of a sick child. North Carolina hurricane victim Matt Van Swol joins to share how his experience with Glenn and Mercury One changed his life forever.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, we're going to start right on the streets of New York, where last we left, It was peaceful. And yesterday afternoon, a gunman showed up. But it's not the only city a gunman showed up in. The other city is not getting any attention because it would require reporters to travel outside of their comfort zone. I'll tell you about this coming up in just a second. First, American financing. How much money are you losing every month by staying in the wrong mortgage?

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Normally, a quiet street with the exception of the honking and possibly the sirens. The sun had just begun to descend behind the skyscrapers, when the violence came. It was a man we now know, 27 years old. His name, we don't need to say it now. He got out of a black BMW and he double parked near 51st and 52nd. His movements, as we see on the camera,

were calm, deliberate. In his hands was a Palmetto State Armory, AR-15 rifle. His target, we didn't know until this morning. His purpose? We didn't know until this morning. All we knew was the carnage that he left behind. He walked into 345 Park Avenue.

It's a tower of wealth and power. Blackstone is in there. The NFL is there. Ruden management. It's the sort of place where the idea of chaos feels very foreign until it arrives. He walks into the lobby and he shoots a... New York City police officer in the back, 36 years old. A husband, a father, father of three, with a newborn on the way, a protector.

Shot in the back while standing post, never even had a chance. And his rifle cracked with rhythm, another woman cowering behind a pillar, hoping she would be unseen. She wasn't. He gunned her down without any hesitation. Security footage shows him just moving through the lobby like a ghost, methodical, relentless. A guard behind the desk was next. Then a civilian. Then silence. Well, silence, only broken by the sobbing of survivors and the screechings of sirens. He got out of the lobby and he hit the elevators.

One opened. A woman stepped out. face to face with him. He let her pass. Why? We don't know. She doesn't know. She'll probably be asking that question for the rest of her life.

He takes it up to the 33rd floor. This is Ruden Properties. This is a place that owns a lot of property throughout New York. And there, amid the quiet hum of the fluorescent lights and the cubicle chatter he fired again and again and again and again and another life was taken another family broken and then in one final motion he turned the rifle on himself it was 7.52 p.m. last night that the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the scene had been contained. I don't know if you've seen the pictures of some of the office workers that they had just piled up couches and

chairs against the doors. The shooter was dead, but the damage was done. Four dead, one officer, one guard, two civilians, several more wounded. And the city once again left to reckon with a nightmare come to life. You're going to hear all kinds of things. You're going to hear more gun control, yada, yada, yada, but will we ever talk about the real issues here? We know now that he drove cross-country. He came from Las Vegas to New York.

He's a security guard by trade. He's a man with a concealed carry permit. Yet he has a history of mental illness. He had a backpack of ammunition, medication, and intent. In his car, they found a revolver, extra magazines, a rifle case. And in his wake, nothing more than grief and confusion and questions. Outside, seemingly completely unrelated, as chaos. erupted, two protesters were arrested, just outside the building, one shouting,

Free Palestine! And then, followed by, I'm not the shooter. The surreal and the tragic colliding on the sidewalk under blinking police lights and the cold were of the helicopters overhead. Among the shattered glass, the young officer's body was pulled out by his comrades, taken to the morgue for his pregnant wife. wife to view and bury. This morning the news broke that we now know he was carrying a note in his pocket.

We now know why he went to that tower in New York. He wanted to express his grievance with the NFL because he suffered from CTE. That's the brain injury linked to head trauma. But he wasn't in the NFL. He apparently was a decent football player in high school, no work. of whether he went on to play football in college, but his note cited the NFL in the writings. In the note, which was several pages long, he blamed football for his apparent struggle with this neurodegenerative disease, CTE.

He shot himself in the chest, and in his note he asked that his brain be studied. He lived in Las Vegas. He had a history of mental illness. This is a tale of insanity, a tale of evil, a tale of broken minds, a tale of innocence destroyed in the place where it was least expected. A skyscraper in New York turned slaughterhouse and a Monday night that turned to mourning. And once again, people of the country saying, oh Lord, how long, oh Lord, how long will this go on? At the same time, a story from the other side of the country. Three people are dead. Three others wounded by gunfire as a man opened fire with a handgun outside of the Grand Sierra Resort Casino in Reno.

Police officer was also wounded. Suspected gunmen, multiple magazines, shot by responding police. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. They were there within two minutes. No motive has been determined so far. The call apparently came in the morning yesterday. We're just hearing about it today. The chief of police said he was seen walking in the parking lot of the casino to the valet area.

When he got to the valet area, he just pointed his handgun. The firearm malfunctioned. He was able to address the issue quickly. Then he fired multiple times into a crowd. One person died of gunshot injury at the scene. Four others were taken to the hospital. One of the victims died. Two are still in critical condition.

One who was shot has already been released. He then went back to the parking lot, traded gunfire with a casino security guard. Then he fired on a person who was just driving through the parking lot, killing them. The police arrived and he started firing at them. They fired back. They stopped him, wounded him, took him to the hospital. We have an epidemic of mental illness in this country. Have you walked the streets of any city in America?

Have you walked it? Last time my wife and I were walking down the streets of Manhattan, this is a couple months ago. A black guy on a bike rides towards us, and he begins to circle us on his bike on the sidewalk. we're just minding our own business walking down the street. He circles us, keeps riding around us, all a while looking me right directly in the eye and pointing with one hand to the other on the handlebar saying, I'm going to kill me a white man today.

Today is the day I'm going to kill me a white man. Luckily, he noticed that I had two armed security people behind us. He recognized maybe they've been. might kill a black man on a bike today. He wrote away. The man was clearly unstable. He wasn't the only one. Didn't matter the color. They were nuts. We have become a society that has gone into madness in polite society and not so polite society. We have just sunk into madness. And oh Lord, how much more madness will it take before we stand up and say enough is enough? If you think the use of social media has nothing to do with it, you're wrong.

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and he was talking about the beating. I don't even, I don't even be, what is happening to us? And meanwhile, I think it was the mayor of Cincinnati. Mayor? Oh, the police chief.

Thank you. Cincinnati saying this is just social media. Well, you know, it might play a role. It does. It plays a role. So does everything else in our society. But you have to start with personal responsibility. If somebody is beating another person for no reason, I don't care if it's at a concert,

the White House or the Waffle House, you arrest that. person. You put them in jail. You prosecute them. You show the rest of the society. This is intolerated. This is what happens when a society becomes irreligious and immoral. This system of freedom that we have always enjoyed cannot last. There aren't enough laws. You want more laws? Oh, they'll give you more laws. You want to make sure nobody's steps out of line? Oh, there is always someone willing to make sure no one steps out a line. Maybe we need more cameras. Maybe we need more surveillance. No, what we need is more morality. What we need is more kindness. What we need is more God. What we need is more sanity.

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Fired up today. Yeah, I mean, you know, isn't it? Everybody just a little sick of it? I'm a little sick of it. Yeah. I'm sick of it. You know, it's fascinating to see all of the reaction to it as well. You know, they're, we're going to get a media cycle of how bad football is out of this for sure. It's going to be blamed on that.

You know, if you kill yourself, I maybe pay attention. If you kill a bunch of innocent people, I don't care. I don't care what your complaint is. Don't care. Nope. Don't care what your complaint is. Not looking into it.

Not looking into it. Not going to take it seriously. No. In fact, it prohibits me from taking it seriously for an extended period of time. Yep. Don't want to hear about your dumb complaints about football. And I will turn off any news channel that it's talking about CTE.

Yes. Shut up. I don't need to hear it. Don't need to hear it. Yep. The same thing with the dope that was assassinating the CEO of the healthcare company. Don't care about your complaints about health care. No.

Don't care. You know, consider doing as a civilization? When someone uses violence in a way like this to get their complaint taken seriously, we don't reward that by taking it seriously. Kind of a basic thing. You want to disincentivize violence, not incentivize it. And if someone who is at the end of the rope and thinks they've got nothing to live for and wants to go do this because they think the way they can make a mark on a society is for their point to just gain the prominence it deserves. Well, what we should do is the opposite of that.

We shouldn't talk about it at all for a year. The guy who set himself on fire in front of the VA hospital, remember in Texas, he didn't take anybody else out. It was a tragic story of mental illness. And he said, you know, that his mental illness had been ignored by the VA, et cetera, et cetera. I talked to his dad and I talked to him on the air. He didn't hurt anybody else. He heard himself, tragic, awful. Yeah, awful. Don't do that.

Don't do that. Awful. That's a sign of madness. But if he does that, I might take them seriously. You're not hurting anybody else but yourself. So you at least have some decency left. I'm not listening to you. You take out a bunch of innocent people.

You're a madman and a murderer. No. Sorry. You know, I don't care if Jeffrey Dahmer was like, you know, heads are tastier with salt. I'm not listening to that. I don't really care. Jeffrey Dahmer had heads in his refrigerator.

I don't care if he was trying to eat people because he wanted to make a message about how cute puppy dogs were. I'm not mentioning cute puppy dogs around anything that's going on with Jeffrey Dahmer at that time. Just saying. It's a heck of a sentence. Yeah. You're not mentioning puppy dogs around anything to do with Jeffrey Dahmer. If that's what his point was,

Not going to do it. Not going to do it. And none of us should. None of us should. Stop rewarding these lunatics. This is Glenn Beck. I can't take the news on Israel and the starvation that is going to. No, no, no.

Famine. The famine that is now going on in Gaza. And even our president was, well, I think there is starvation. Well, okay. Israel is constantly under attack. And boy, what a weird thing that they were just talking about a two-state solution. And then at the same time, all of a sudden, there's a famine. Anyway, Israel always has to be prepared.

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IFCJ.org. That's IFCJ.org. Let Israel fight her own war, but we can help the innocent. head over to glenbeck.com and subscribe to the free email newsletter get all the stories we talk about every day for free glenbeck.com the media is just so bad we're just sitting there looking at CNN they're showing these pictures of these uh you know famine uh famished children uh that you know they say that they're not being fed well show me the parents you know because what what's happening is these children are having muscular dystrophy or other ailments and it's now coming out that it's verified. These are not starving children. If they are, show me they're starving parents.

Parents are just well-fed. Yeah, notice that? You'll see the parents holding the children and they're well-fed. How did that happen? Yeah. I mean, I don't know about you, but I feed my children before I feed myself. Yeah, let's, that personize that one. What I'm talking about, what I'm saying me, I mean the royal.

Right, the royal way. You know what I mean. Pat great joins us now. Hello, Pat. Hello. Oh, great. Oh, so great. So great. So great. I want to play something from CNN as they were describing the shooter yesterday, you know, right off of the heels of look at these starving children and their fat parents. They go right into the shooting and listen to this. Showing your hair to John's reporting that they do know what they looks like, male, possibly white mustache, sunglasses in that building isolated, they believe. to various locations. Possibly white.

Possibly. Let me translate. Hopefully white. Yes. That is. That is. Translate further. Not white.

Well, very much not white. Impossibly white. And you're judging that by what? The photos? Yeah. By the photos of the guy of the actual shooter. Well, he's possibly white. He's possibly.

Can I be in another universe? If he had another parent, he could have been white. He's possibly white. I will say, though, to be fair to Aaron Burnett, what we see in the video is his face, which is clearly not white. However, the rest of his body is covered

by clothing. He could be up to 90% white. Yeah, he could be. Possibly white. We don't know. That is crazy. I can't argue with that. I didn't see the rest of his body. Meanwhile, while this is going on in areas like, we've got to have gun control, what's happening with a crime on our cities?

Then the same network is going after Alligator Alley. Oh, alligator alcatraz. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, alligator alcatraz. This clip is amazing. Sarah Gonzalez on her show was showing this to Pat and I yesterday.

And we were just flabbergasted by it. It is a apparently supposed to be the design of the piece is to make you feel bad for people who go to alligator alcatraz. Now, let me let me just ask you, who goes to alligator alcatraz? Criminals. criminals go to alligator alcatraz. People who have number one broken our immigration laws and likely have committed other more serious crimes, if you will. They go to alligator alcatraz and it is not a permanent facility, is a temporary holding facility, which is next to a runway, which has planes on it that take them to other countries where they're supposed to be. But there's all around.

And again, surrounding it. There are alligators within miles of the facility, yes. I mean, it is in an area where alligators may live. I don't know if you've known this. I've lived in Florida. The whole place is where alligators may live. Sometimes you look out on your little cul-de-sac, and there's an alligator crossing the street. Oh, look at that.

Alligator. Okay. People don't say, this is my alligator house. No. They don't live inside of alligator alcatraz. They exist. I mean, in theory, if you escaped and tried to swim across the swamp, you may run into an alligator

like any swamp in the state okay yep it is not an act it's just a kitsy name for a place that makes it sounds scarier than it is frankly it's just at an airport it's a bunch of tents at an airport that's what it is okay show this to me here's the video this is sad sad

hopeless it's a type of torture these are the stories of migrants held at alligator alcatraz a new detention facility deep in the Florida Everglades Using a plan of the site shown during President Trump's visit and photos from media tours and social media, CNN created a 3D model. Oh my gosh. Why? When you have the photos of it.

Why? Here are the giant tents where people report being crammed into cells. Oh, my gosh. There's two. In a cell, there's two bunk beds. Yes. What they've done here, as Pat points out, is take an actual photo of the inside of alligator alcatraz and then conformed. then formed it into a 3D model of the same photo.

So what you're seeing are a couple of beds, and then there is a 3D model of a couple of beds. What is possibly the purpose of that? I think it's to make it more mysterious. Yes. It's like, we can't even get a camera in there. Well, you just showed us the actual photo. And now you're doing the 3D mockup.

Why? It is superimposed. There's the photo, and then it just fades into the 3D model. That's amazing. bizarre. Pat's right. Can you imagine using resources on that? Why would you need that?

So they can rotate around the outside of the bed? That is legitimately what they use it for. But there's so much more. Watch it's so much more impactful this way. It is. It is. Okay, here we go. Denta cells made of chain link fence, packed with bunk beds. CNN spoke with eight detainees to hear first-hand accounts of what conditions are like on the inside.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, no. Some asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Because of the way that we have been treated, it has been a very terrible experience. Oh, no. Oh, no, guys. You wanted to be a nice experience for them, don't you? Let me just go back to every torture place you've ever heard. How many times did we get the phone call from Dietrich Bonhoffer?

Was it 12? It was 12 times. This is really horrible. This is really horrible. I don't like it here at all. I mean, you know, Eidi Amin, he's putting people in boxes. We never got the phone call from them. No, that's how it works.

Wait a minute, Eidie. You might be torturing me and putting me in a hole, but wait a minute, I demand my phone call to the press. As they pointed out, it is true. Some of the people who did this did not want their names to be used. Some of them did. Now, how many times have you seen that from one of the fascist dictator has imprisoned people and tortured them? They don't usually get to speak at all, but they certainly wouldn't be like, yeah, my name's Bob. I'm in bunk 74.

All right, go ahead. Detained by ICE when he showed up for a meeting with his probation officer. Oh, no. Pause. He has a probation officer, which leads you to believe he might be on probation, which also leads to he committed crimes. I love that. All right. It's 32 people per cell

Or per cage really Because this is a cage It's a metal cage High Three open toilets are shared by Dozens of men You say there's no running water Or sewage system

Roger Moreno Was living in the last hour Stop That is That is That is the same story For many mobile home parks In Florida

Surrounded by alligators Very good point It's also true Of every concert festival I've ever been to, right? They don't have running, but they do have a lot of people sharing the bathroom. It's not the prettiest situation. And the chain link fences held together by those all ever defensive zip ties.

Zip ties. Do you remember all the reports from World War II when Himmler was saying we used zip ties on the cell? I don't. Also, like, you know, it's such a, a, they use the word cages as if that's worse than cell. Like is it? Is a chain link cage, which would be a holding facility, worse than a cell with steel bars? No.

And concrete walls? Like, if anything, it would be more open and better. Yeah. But they use it in the opposite way to make it, well, it's actually basically the cage. And they say, you know, 87 people do the cage. Look at the size of the cage. Right. Yeah.

Look at the size. It's massive. Yeah, they've got 87 bunk beds. I mean, you know, did you see the one? in, where was it, El Salvador, where there's like 60 people on a bunk? Right. It's not this situation.

Not at all. All right, go ahead. Are shared by dozens of men who say there's no running water or sewage system. Roger Moreno, who has lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years, told CNN, the rain makes it worse. The toilets, when it rains, they overflow, and the cells we're in

fill up with sewage. Every time it does rain and storm, the toilet's Detainees told CNN the lights are kept on 24 hours a day. Now stop for a second. Now, I wasn't familiar with the right to nap when you're being held in a facility like this. I mean, you would want the lights to maybe go down

unless you're afraid of a shiv. Let me go back to the next guy who also has a criminal record to tell us about how horrible this is. Go ahead. It's like shining bright. Juan Palma Martinez has lived in the U.S.

for more than 20 years and was also picked up by ICE at a routine meeting with his probation officer. Oh, wait. Wait, what? Pat. Another one picked up at a meeting with his probation officer. What could possibly be the reason he would be visiting a probation? Maybe he just had, he just friendly with them?

I don't think so. Like, hey, my man. Hey, my probation officer. Maybe it's slang of some. Is there some slang being used? I know of, usually indicative of committing crimes. It's interesting.

It was a visit. It was a visit. It was a visit. It wasn't an appointment. It was a visit. A little visit. There you go. All right, go ahead.

No, when it's daytime or when it's nighttime. I don't sleep. It's affecting me mentally and physically. The tents aren't sealed. Okay, stop for a second. I just want to rewind what he just said here. Okay. Or just review.

He said he can't tell if it's night. or daytime. That's a complaint. Now, you can say that could be like a problem, right? Like, you know, it would be weird to not be able to detect that. Listen to the literal

next complaint they have. I no longer know when it's daytime or when it's nighttime. I don't sleep. It's affecting me mentally and physically. The tents aren't sealed. You can see cracks in this image. Okay, stop.

If the, if you can see cracks, cracks, that means you could see the outside and would be able to detect whether it's daytime or nighttime. I love the fact. I love the fact that they have President Trump and Ron DeSan, I mean, that's not Ron DeSantis, standing there on a tour with the press of this facility. Right. Like we're not hiding it. They did not need the 3D mock-up. No, no. Larry's a 3D model with a 3D rendered Trump in that. I like to know. This is what we believe the president looks like.

Go ahead. In this image. And at the height of the hot Florida summer, that means the insects are relentless. Yesterday, the air conditioning went out. The air conditioning. We had the whole morning without air conditioning. The whole morning. The whole morning.

The whole morning. I was a miscuitous team. Oh, no. Our air conditioning has gone down in our house, and I've had days without air conditioning. In this very building, the air conditioning has gone out. The month. For a month to the month to fix it. And we suffered every day with it.

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But the crime in Maryland is way, way down. Is that because they keep removing Maryland fathers? Yes. That's why. It's not. It's because, you know, the George Soros DA was voted out. new DA is in, crime has dropped 60%. Hmm.

What's the difference? Are there a difference in policy of some sort? A little bit, a little bit. Now, there is a discussion with the socialist leaning mayor, you know, who is like, you know, what we need are we need, we need fewer police, but we need, you know, doctors out there to, you know, I don't know, talk people down. I have no idea out of their crime. but the the the you know the the the the the DA is like hard nose now and is going out you break the law you go to jail and they think that that's what's causing the crime to go down I think they're probably right hmm yeah yeah the mayor says no it's just that we're being also nicer to criminals I don't think that's making the crime go down you you know you You don't think being nicer to criminals. No.

But I mean, we just heard from the poor victims of alligator alcatrass. No, I don't think that's going to help. You don't think it's going to help? No, not if we, not if we corrected it. I say we go ahead and we have the tent and we show that that's what your life is going to be like until you get on a plane and you go bye-bye to your house, to your home, to where you belong. No. You're saying we should disincentivize crime? I'm saying that that's a crazy old-fashioned idea.

Hmm. Yeah. That seems to be working in places like. Maryland, Baltimore, you know, not the easiest place to live. But it seems to be getting easier by the tune of about 60% fall in crime. I don't know, uh, that sounds like a good plan. Maybe we should try that elsewhere. Let me talk to you about Moxie. A big difference between having guests in your home and, you know, hosting something that crawled in through the foundation. A real guest calls ahead, maybe brings a bottle of wine or something and leaves a place more or less how they found

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We talked about it and the reason why it happened. and we now know. He was blaming the NFL for injuries, you know, brain injuries, that he suffered not in the NFL, but when he was in high school, apparently. He was mentally ill. What a surprise. We have a real problem in America, but we also have a real problem. We are in denial.

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his vow to tax the rich reminded me of another young, good-looking charismatic Democrat who upset the heavily favored party nearly a decade ago. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Back then, I was one of AOC's biggest supporters. In fact, it was not too much to say that I helped her win. In the fall of 2017, when I

was a video producer at the left-winging millennial news company, now this, I found myself at a small meet-and-greed event hosted by Arena, political action committee, dedicated to backing those new Democratic candidates. The speakers that night were unknown candidates hoping to take back the House. One of the

candidates was a lesa slotkin who has since become michigan's junior u.s. senator and there was aOC an unknown bartender turned volunteer for bernie sanders out of all of the candidates i hit it off with alexandria she was beautiful humble articulate had a spark of charisma you could tell this girl was going places we're the same age and it was easy to talk about our frustration and fear of donald trump our love of bernie and the need for real change from universal health care to climate action to free college. We exchanged numbers two months later. I booked her for a video interview on the

Now This program. AOC arrived to our office and by the end of the hour we felt like old friends. My friend working behind the camera is also completely taken by AOC and her vision. We agreed that AOC had tapped into something real and it was going to be popular with the coming generation. I'm now 35, a mother of two, and a homeowner. Like so many other people before me, I've grown up and my ideas have moderated.

Much of the hyperpally being thrown at Mamdani and his followers goes too far, for example, that Mamdani is a 100% communist lunatic, as Trump says. I don't know if that's true. But I no longer think that giving the government more of our money to run free programs is the right way to do things. I spend time at the DMV and tell me if you want government run grocery stores, run like the DMV. We need less government in our lives,

less regulation, and lower taxes so individuals can flourish and create capital and prosperity. Hopefully these young New Yorkers don't have to live through the downturn of New York City to learn the hard way that socialism never works. It's a woman who helped AOC get elected. I still have sympathy for the young people who see inequality and poverty and want to do something about it. Their hearts are in the right place,

but sadly the promises that charismatic people like Mamdani and AOC sell are not the solutions that young people are seeking. They have been mistakenly taught that our capitalist society is the source of all of their problems, and the only way to fix it is with more government spending. Whether from the lack of life experience or just pure ignorance, they fail to realize that programs offering free everything have to be paid for and nothing is free. The politics and policies they promote will lead to a more centralized government with more power, higher taxes and a higher cost of living. I think we should extend these people grace and realize that most of them don't have any idea

that they're supporting horrible ideas that literally ruins civilizations. We should understand that they just want to make the world a better place. That is what Mom Donnie, with his charming demeanor and understanding of social media, is promising to do. He is still way ahead in New York. It's weird because I have always been an optimist. Yes, I'm an optimistic catastrophist. I know that. But I've always been an optimist. I've always believed in people. I believed in the country. I believe people can change. And the older I get, I see some of that wearing thin. You know what I mean? There are times I catch myself and I'm like, no, stop it. Stop it. You know the truth. You've just had 60 years of being beaten into the ground. Nothing's going to change. Nothing's going to change. And it's all a game. And that's where the gift of youth comes in. Because it is, it is the power to,

renew, to breathe life into the world that, frankly, has gone a little weary, has lost all of our hope. We're tired. We're cynical. And then you, the youth, show up and you renew us. And that's part of your job. You are the hope that this entire country is starving for right now. And soon enough, whether we like it or not, the world is yours to shape.

and it doesn't have to be shaped the way we want it shaped. But let me just plea to those, give a plea to those who are young. You need to understand something very, very, very real. Your passion, your energy, your hunger to change the world, it is fantastic and it is not invisible. It's not going unnoticed. And there are those who see it and are excited by it. there are those who see it and crave it. They would, they would gleefully take it, twist it, bend it, and weaponize it to their own ends. Because history repeats itself. History is not clean.

It's not clear cut. Revolution, war, protest, all of these things. They're not fairy tales. They happened and they can happen again. And for every cause that was just, there was somebody lurking in the wings ready to hijack it. Let me show you how this works. Let me take you back to 1933. The Hitler youth brainwashed millions of German children into Nazi ideology. Why? Because they knew the youth.

They were optimistic. They were idealistic. They were looking for hope. They were looking for something bigger than themselves that they could be involved in. Well, they ended up spying on families, disrupting. the church services, they helped lead the German military's aggressive style, and eventually all of that led to the Holocaust, and you know the rest of the story, unless you went to a public school. In 1966, who did Mao rely on? The Red Guards. What did the Red Guards do? They attacked

the intellectuals. They destroyed artifacts. They led chaos and violence in the street. They They pulled university professors out and stone them, killed them, beat them, and their families. They were responsible for so much of the loss of freedom in China. And who were the Red Guards? They were the student-led youth groups. They were you, if you're in that age group. That's who and why. It wasn't them.

They wanted to be a part of something bigger to change the world. The Hitler youth wanted to be involved in something bigger. And there was always somebody who was older, who couldn't get it done themselves, and needed the power of the youth to be able to take that and chain it and twist it to what he wanted. 1994. Genocide in Rwanda. One million deaths in a hundred days. They used machetes to kill a million people in a hundred days. Who was the main perpetrator of this?

The youth militia. Misguided, wanting to be a part of something for justice, something to change the world, used by leadership. 2020, BLM. Americans, youth. flood the streets, hammers, fists, fire, mass destruction, ended lives, dreams, opportunities. Remember, you have to have the black square for BLM? Did you know that all of that money ended up, most of it at BLM?

I'm not making this up. Look it up. BLM incorporated. That money was laundered. That money was lost. Useful idiot. That's what Stalin used to say. So to the youth of America, I know you want to change the world.

I know I do too. I'm more jaded because I just, we've tried to do it over and over and over again. And that's the problem. The people of my age that are using you, they know they can't do it because they've tried. And so they're now co-opting you and they're convincing you. That this, your idea, that's exactly what the, but they're not. They're not. Most times, most times they are looking for their own greed and their own power.

So I know you want to change the world. Just don't you want to make sure that you're on the right side of right and wrong? Don't you want to make sure you're not on the popular side, not on the easy side, but on the truthful side. This is really hard because you want to believe. And the people my age no longer believe many cases. But I do. I believe in you. There are millions of us that believe that, you know, it's your turn. It's your turn. But don't be used. Don't become a tool of somebody who couldn't fix it themselves because if they could, they would have. They would have fixed it by now, but they didn't. And now they're looking to you, not to lead, but to serve

the power. We all have to learn what history is begging us to learn. Yeah, the odds are stacked against real change. But here's the good news. Real change never comes from the odds. It comes from the people and usually young people. But that change is often very dangerous if the young don't know history. They want to choose to be more than just useful. You have to choose to be true. Because you have a light that is dimmed as life goes on. You are the balance between the people who still see the light, still believe in the light,

but have worked their whole life to try to make that light become stronger. And in many cases we have in many ways. but in others, it just seems like it's never going to end. It's never going to be a fight we win. And that's the way power wants it. And so we look down to you and we're like, they have the light. They believe in the light. And if that light is true, if it is based in thinking, in reason, in critical questioning,

then it's true. It's a universal and eternal light. and it's your job to not just carry it, but to guard it and protect it and refine it in the truth. Because now is your turn. And I am so excited to see what you're about to build. Our job at my age is to protect them, to point out the weasels that may be duping them, just like she did. she's like look I I get it I was there but that's not true

if you if you base your life in truth and you guard that light you are going to do something remarkable the future will be brighter than anything you dared to imagine it is and the best part is it will be yours it will be your success

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Welcome to the program. We welcome Stubergear, a answer to a crossword puzzle. in the Wall Street Journal last week. Hello, Sue. And it shows how famous I am. Oh, my gosh. That's how you know. How famous?

That's how you know. You walk into a bank. They'll give you a loan now. You'll be like, hello. Check out. I was four across. I think it was 43 across. Well, by the way, a lot of people asked, was it three letters or five letters?

Stu or Steve. It was three letters. Stu. Stu. So that's how you know that I'm, you know, well known enough to, that my name. isn't even known, which is impressive. It's very impressive. You're welcome for that name, by the way. Yeah, that was your mistake giving me that name. By the way, you know, it was really my drunken co-host at the time. That's true. Yeah, who just said, and he is Stu. And he said Steve,

but it sounded like Stu, and so I called it. And then beyond that, Stu, it's really your fault. I just agree with that. It took six months for you to finally say to me, you know, that's really not my name. It's interesting. Like, who's, whose responsibility is it to call a person their correct name? Is it the person who's being called the wrong name? When you have an honest mistake and then somebody doesn't correct it ever? I mean, but you're just so oblivious to. That's another thing.

Because everyone else knew it was a joke. But nobody else said anything to me. Either that or you just don't understand social cues. It could be that. That's a possibility, but I still blame it of you. Still blame it on you. You think so. Yeah, my drunken friend Vinnie.

Yes. Yes. I will say, um, looking at the, my daughter was very excited about the crossword puzzle thing. Because she loves crossword puzzles and she does them a lot. So she was very excited about it. Um, and a couple of people said, hey, well, I don't see Glenn getting a crossword puzzle, uh, hint named after him. And the reason for that is that you're actually too well known. It's easy to.

No, I was a crossword puzzle in the New York Times crossword. In one year? Like 2010 maybe? Right. Yeah, yeah. Right. Right. If you're on 2010, it would make sense because you'd be like, oh, I don't know.

Who is that? There's a conservative with, you know, conservative radio's back. And the answer would be Glenn. Mindset conservative radio is brigere and the answer was stew. But like. But now with chat GPT, it's really simple. Yeah, like I would say, you know what you can do a chat GPT? And this is true.

You could just take a picture of the entire crossword and say solve it. And it will. It'll just give you every answer. And then I don't know, you know, I mean, why are you working so hard on the crossword puzzle? Exactly. You know, just chat GPT can do it quickly. Yeah. It doesn't seem like there's going to be much mental use coming up in the future.

Although I will say chat GPT, my favorite use of that, of AI technology currently, is going to a store. And you have to buy something and you just take a picture of the entire shelf and say which one's best. and then it like it is incredible like I we had to do um I'm working on a project with my kids and I had to figure out like what glue was best like was it super glue was it fabric I don't know there was a bunch of different high yeah the whole thing of halby lobby they got like 974 types of glue so I just took a picture of the entire thing and just said which one should I get for this and it said buy this type of glue for that particular project wow it's almost like we don't have to think at all anymore it does make you so

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They're talking about the starvation, the worst case scenario of famine in Gaza. The worst case scenario of famine? I don't know. I've seen Ethiopia back in the day. I mean, that looked like famine. And what was interesting was mom and dad were both starving along with the babies. Why is it we're not seeing starving adults. We're only seeing starving babies.

Why is that? Have you seen the pictures of mom or dad holding the babies that are supposedly starving? and they seem perfectly healthy. Does that seem reasonable to you? There's no critical thinking here at all. None. No, it does seem to just default believe the worst about Jews. That really does seem to be the foundation of the coverage on this stuff.

And I want you to know, I am sure there are, there's hunger there. Real hunger. It's bad, yeah. Yeah, I mean, how are you getting food? There's no grocery stores. There's nothing. And you have a regime that has. shot people who are trying to get food.

You know, food arrives and, you know, then it goes to Hamas and they divvy the food out. So you better be loyal to Hamas. I'm sure all of that stuff is happening. So I'm not dismissing that there's not real hunger there. And we should do everything that we can. But, you know, let's put some of the onus on Hamas as well. And then can we stop listening to the people of Hamas? tell us by showing these babies who now we know have have problems from birth do we

when you say we should do everything we can would you include in that perhaps Hamas releasing the hostages that they're holding yes I would yeah would would that be something that they could do yeah would when you talk about everything you can to solve a hunger crisis because that's the reason why it exists when you when you murder, you know, 1,200 people, whatever the number finally was, and you commit mass rape and assault and everything else that they did, a war breaks out. I mean, you know, it was, I think it was Dave Marcus in an angel that made this point, you know, right after October 7th that I remember. But like, can you imagine what the United States of America would do if that

occurred on our territory? Can you imagine the hell we would rain down? on whoever did that. If it was Canada, they'd be glass. We would turn the dirt and the sand into glass. Immediately. You're raping our children with glee and calling home to say, hey, mom, hey, dad, look what I'm doing. We wouldn't tolerate it for a second.

There would be nothing left of the society. They would pray to be in the position that God says in if they did that to us. And then you look at this child, the most famous picture coming up, out is a mother holding her son and he's malnutrition. That's what they say. Well, according to reporting now, Muhammad, the kid, has a serious, has several serious genetic disorders and has also been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The widely shared image is also cropped in a way that removes his younger,

healthier looking brother from the frame. What? When, when do we, when do we stop? When, when do we stop? He has needed specialist medical supplements since birth, indicating that he's also likely suffered further due to the limited aid flow into Gaza and that medical equipment is in short supply and the health system has all but collapsed.

Okay, there's a story for you. He's had this genetic discreet. and now he needs special things and he's having a hard to, but not starvation, not genocide. There doesn't even seem to be an attempt to explain this. I mean, we all are aware of how food works, right? Like, you eat food on a daily basis, you know, if you happen to work on this program, maybe 10, 12 times a day. And you, that gives you sustenance for a period of time. That period of time is not long enough to sustain you if a invading army is keeping you away for food for two years. Right.

So either there has been a massive change in tactics over the last week and a half or two weeks. Right. Now, famine is obviously, by the way, this is not an official famine. That's just a word they're throwing around to describe hunger, hunger. It could be hunger. It could even be starvation, but famine is very different. very specific. I think there's been four famines over the past 20 years around the world. Yeah. And they're very specific. And many times caused by communists.

I mean, certainly throughout history, that has been basically the main cause of famine. But like, when you're talking about, basically what they're describing is there's been, I think, a hundred and two. Now, Ken, this is the Gaza Health Ministry, which I hesitate to even report, say what they're reporting. because there is no reason to believe anything the Gaza Health Ministry ever says. But their claim, which you'd assume is the most inflated possible, is like 122 people have died of starvation in Gaza since the beginning of the war. Now, is that famine? Obviously not.

If it's true, it's really tragic. Anyone who, you know, unless it's one of the Hamas, you know, murderers who's dying of starvation, then I'm not all that work broken up about it, frankly. but you know you're talking about children dying of that's horrible now this is happening around the world at much higher numbers right in other areas of the world that we just don't care about at all more than a hundred people yeah check in on north korea say how that's working check in on certain areas of africa how's that working out many areas in asia are having troubles with this not famine but people do die of of starvation and hunger around the world and it's terrible and we don't want it to happen now most people committing genocide don't typically work to bring in aid. I would say almost like you shouldn't depend on people trying to commit genocide to supply any food. That's typically not what they do.

I ask, you know, again, look at Stalin. One of the ways he committed genocide was making sure they could not have access to food during the Hall of Dormor. But if you look at this type of situation, unless you can describe a specific way that they're limiting food recently, right, in a different way that they decided, like after October 7th, they were just really nice supplying food for 10 months and then three weeks ago decided not to provide food. You can come up with some justification there. That does not seem to exist, by the way.

There does not seem to be a pathway to explain why all these people would survive this entire time and then suddenly start starving. And by the way, the examples we know of are people like the ones you're talking about. that are supposedly starving while they're in Italy receiving treatment for rare diseases they have or elements that they have that make them look terrible on television while they crop out siblings that are fine while they crop out parents that are fine why would that be how did they get to Italy well they got to Italy because Israel allowed them to go to Italy and helped evacuate them to Italy for treatment for the ailment that we're talking about.

Now, that might not be the case with all these people. You know, it might not be. I'm not saying that every single instance here, there is real tragedy happening in Gaza. And that is, of course, the doing of Hamas. Well, who is responsible for it. I will tell you that if you're going to try to rope in and say, this is not a coincidence that this famine is now at the front page, while the UN is meeting to do a two-state, solution. If you're trying to say those two things are connected at all, it's a real stretch.

It's a real stretch. Yeah, real stretch. Real stretch. And it's just like it's eaten up immediately. It just the same way every time a hospital was supposedly hit by, you know, Israel, we find out later it wasn't. And it's who are weird is the same people who are doing this never, never cover it. I mean, they were the ones that buried the Holocaust. They never wanted to talk about any of the programs. They never wanted to, they literally covered up the Holodomor in Ukraine, which was the starving of 7 million people in 12 months. Seven million people in 12 months.

And it didn't matter as long as you were a Ukrainian. The Soviets wanted you dead. I mean, and the New York Times went and covered it up. They said it wasn't happening. And it's amazing that the only ones they ever really want to cover seem to be. And, you know, when it comes to CNN, that's Christian Annamor. She is the head of their, or at least used to be, I'm sure, you know, if she's not her, it's all of her people. She's massive influence on all the coverage coming out of the Middle East.

And she does not like Israel. And, you know, that's, I mean, that's why you're seeing this coverage. I mean, it is quite the understatement there. Yeah. She does not like it. Yeah. It is, it's remarkable to me. how you can know that these pictures,

and I've seen that picture on CNN several times today. Oh, they've been running it like crazy. Yeah. After everyone knows. You know. How are you still running that? You know. Look at the New York Times picture we just had up here,

if you're watching Blaze TV. It is a, you know, looking like a very starved infant in the hands of an adult. Yeah. It does not seem all that starved. No, that's the picture where they cut out the healthy looking kid. the healthy looking sibling too. That's the picture.

Look at that one. If that's true, if that, this one from the Daily Express, if that child is literally starving, why doesn't the parent, why don't you see the parent's face too? Because the parent should look like that baby.

Maybe even worse. You would feed your child before you would feed yourself. Why are the adults cropped out of these pictures? And if that picture is true, then we need to know it. Right. I saw some, you know, I've seen a few of these, but like social media influencer types that this stuff is now reaching.

People that don't deal with the news, they're like, you know, I've been told not to talk about this, but can't we just all agree that babies should not be starved? Can't we just agree that? It's like, yeah, we can definitely all agree that baby should be star. We can't apparently agree that they shouldn't be murdered in the womb. That's something we can't agree on. but we should all agree that they shouldn't not be starved. I agree with that. But do you think there's any sort of responsibility on your part to know word one about the truth about the story?

Like, is there any responsibility on your part to, I don't know, look into it for 10 seconds? No. No, apparently not. Children are starving somewhere, Stu. Yeah. And you know, you don't care about any of the other ones. Yeah. You don't care about any of the other ones.

You don't care about any of them that are boarded. You don't care about any of them that starve anywhere else. You care only about this one situation. And like when that accusation comes up, and it does often, and sometimes unfairly, sometimes, you know, anti-Semitism charges are thrown around wildly for people who are just being critical of, you know, Yahoo's policies. That does occur. But when you come to this summary and you're like, gosh, you don't care about starvation anywhere else. You don't care about any of these things anywhere else.

Just this one instance, the only thing that just eats up all of your passions, why is, that and I don't think it's completely insane to at least suspect potential uh anti-semitism from the Rashida Talibs, the AOCs, the Maldonis, the Elon Omar's of the world. From those people, absolutely, I agree with you. But from the average person, no, they are a, they're a symptom of what I talked about yesterday that Bonhofer talked about. Stupidity. They have just signed over their intellectual curiosity, their responsibility to think things through. They've just signed it over to an ideology. They've signed it over to other people.

No, it says that. I know I have to be on that side. That's what it is. And they absolutely believe it because they're stupid. And I don't mean, you could be very, very smart and stupid at the same time. Yeah. You've just signed over all of your curiosity to an ideology. And you have a responsibility to wake up, to wake up.

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No. It looks good. You know, I just don't want to get wrapped up in a show and it's like, okay. All right, what? And it looks fascinating. This guy, he wakes up one morning. It starts with him waking up one morning. It's July 1st and he's in bed and he wakes up and he gets married over the six months period.

His wife gets pregnant, yada, yada, yada, everything is great. And then it's Christmas and he goes to bed and he wakes up again and it's July 1st. And he does that three times. And he's like going nuts. and this spook comes up and says, you're reliving the same months? Yes, you're very rare, but you need to join us. And it's this group of people that every time the earth is about to be destroyed,

they reset back to a certain time point. And at this thing, they were trying to solve this pandemic. And they kept resetting back to July 1st. It's wild. I don't know if it's any good, but the first episode was this. This is Glenn Beck. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I can't wait to talk to a new friend, I think, from North Carolina.

He and his family were caught up in Hurricane Helene. And it was bad. It was very, very bad. And he met somebody from the Blaze and thought, well, I don't trust this guy. He's a conservative. Then he meets somebody from Mercury 1. and uh-oh, this is Glenn Beck's charity two, two times in a row. I really don't know if I can trust this person.

And he allowed us to help and notice something about us. And he's not necessarily, I wouldn't, well, maybe I'll let him speak for himself. Is he conservative or not? I don't know. But he has changed. At least he has an open heart to get to a place to where we can at least talk to each other, which is the whole point of everything. Just talk to one.

another. He's on with me here in just a couple of minutes. Stand by 60 seconds. We're with him. Peace is not a press conference, nor is a ceasefire declaration, you know, or a temporary pause in the fighting. That's, that's not peace. Peace is a child who feels safe enough to sleep without her shoes on. Peace is a mom who no longer has to count the seconds to the nearest bomb shelter. Right now, in Israel, that kind of peace is still a long way off. You know, I know there's a lot going on in the news about Gaza and the famine. Be careful. A lot of these pictures are of kids with different problems, not famine.

You're being used. Now, do I think that there is no starvation going? Of course, there's hunger. There's got to be in Gaza. But let the food supplies come in. Stop killing the rescue workers. Let the food supplies come in. So we got to do everything we can, but it means also be informed.

All right. What's happening right now? Right now, they're looking for a two-state solution, which is not going to happen. Why? Because Hamas doesn't want a two-state solution. Can we just concentrate? Let Israel fight their own wars. Let's just concentrate on helping people that we can help.

The rest of the world tunes it out. For me, it's about living a commandment. Comfort, comfort my people. And if that still matters to you, this is the moment to act. Help out the people who are actually on the ground just with basic supplies. IFCJ, look out there, life-saving work by going online to IFCJ.org. That's IFCJ.org. Matt Van Swal is with us now. He is a North Carolina hurricane victim and a guy who I shared his email on the air yesterday. Hi, Matt. How are you? Hey, Glenn. I'm good. How are you?

I imagine you're kind of saying that with a smile on your face because you could not have ever imagined you'd be on the program with me. No, no chance at all. I love that. So, Matt, quickly just recap your situation for anybody who missed it yesterday. Yeah, so like you said, we live in Western North Carolina. and after Hurricane Helene didn't hit our house super hard, but hit our neighbors very, very hard. And during that time period,

we were trying to help a lot of people. We were pretty liberal during that time. I think I sent your producer some photos of my son in like a Black Lives Matter onesie. And I was wearing a mask that said, you know, Trump's slogan is Make America Great again. And I wore this red mask. in 2020 that said it hasn't been great.

Wow. Anyway. So wait, wait, wait, wait. Were you the kind of person that would not have, would have, would have exiled family members or friends if they said they were for Donald Trump? We, oh man, this is so embarrassing. But we made my wife's dad take off his Trump paraphernalia when he came to the house. Wow.

They're at that level. Oh, okay. So if he's, you remember. Yeah, no, I mean, I know people, you know, on both sides. I know people. So anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

So back to the hurricane. Yeah, back to the hurricane. So we were just trying to help people. And it just seemed like the government was dropping the ball everywhere. I mean, it was unbelievable. And I did not feel like. like the news was getting out from how bad Hurricane Helene was. And it didn't, it wasn't making sense to me at all.

Like the, it felt, I always thought that the real news was the mainstream news. Like the news I saw on CNN or MSNBC or reading the New York Times was just, that was the biggest news. And if a story was big enough and good enough, it would just make the news. But none of the insane stories that, I was hearing from my neighbors and people on the ground was making the news at all, like at all. And we were talking with people who were, um, watched their homes get flooded, had applied

to FEMA and had been waiting for months. And FEMA would come out and do these press conferences and say, hey, um, you know, nobody's living in a tent. And I was like, I was just driving through Swamanoa. And I just saw 12 tense. Like, what are you talking about? And so I would make these videos. I had a drone.

And I would make these videos and say, hey, they're not telling you the truth. Because I live here and I walk out my front door. And I see devastation and it's not being talked about at all. And it was crazy because I got a call during this time period from one of your reporters, Steve Baker. Yeah. And Steve called me, because he wanted to talk about the FEMA camp that was just up the road from us and how they were not helping people that were packing up and they were

going home. And as soon as Steve messaged me and said he was a Blaze reporter, I'm like, I don't trust this dude at all. Like, he's related to, you know, Glenn Beck. I, you know, honestly thought y'all were pretty, like, crazy, right, radical right wing. That's what I had heard. I know. I know what they've done.

I know what the media has done to be, Matt. I got it. And so, you know, I didn't even, like, I remember vividly my wife and I in bed saying, like, should we talk to this reporter? Like, and we were like, okay, I guess we should do it, but we should have our guard way up. And so, uh, we talked to Steve. and Steve completely disarmed us both. It was unlike a phone call I've ever had where I thought the person calling me

was going to be one way, and they were completely, like, I don't know, thought in my head that any reporter on the right wing was mean and not kind and just trying to push a narrative. And I talked to Steve, and I can't emphasize this enough, Steve let me speak. He asked questions, and he earned my trust. He disarmed me with his kindness. And it was one of the most shocking moments I've ever had because no one would talk to us. We had a direct, my wife works in film and she had a direct line to CNN. And they ghosted her completely. They would not talk to her about what was going on in Western North Carolina. And it was,

like we were alone in a situation that we thought would be on the news nonstop. And so to have Steve, like, listen to us say, yes, you're not crazy. This is actually happening. And it's even worse than you imagined. It's just unbelievable. I've honestly never experienced anything like that. So I just want to say thank you to Steve. So, Matt, so what was your, what was happening in your mind when your worldview was,

was crumbling, but just about the news when you're like, wait a minute, I thought CNN, I thought that, you know, and they're ghosting you. What was going through your mind and your, honestly, your heart when you're like, uh-oh, wait a minute, something's really wrong here. It just felt, it felt like I just described. You would just think that the news is the news. And if a story is big enough, it makes the news, no matter what. But I did not even, imagine that because it was an election cycle and that the hurricane reflected poorly on the response of the current leadership, that they would just not talk about the story at all. I mean, there were, I posted tweets.

I did not have a Twitter following at the time. And I posted tweets about what's going on in Western North Carolina. and they would get millions of views because the stories were so insane. I know. Like FEMA promising 100 homes to people in Western North Carolina by Thanksgiving, and then they only delivered 40. Or the fact that there were no homes delivered between September 27th and the middle of November, zero.

And you'd think, and there were people sleeping intents all over, and I thought this would be on the news. This would be the news. news. And it just never was. And it blew my mind. And at that moment, I knew there's a bent because it's not, it's not the economics. Because if it were the economics, these stories are getting millions of views on Twitter. Like, the stories are real and the stories are crazy. They're just choosing not to cover them. It's an act of choice to not cover the stories happening in Western North Carolina. And that

was the start for me where I thought, I don't think I can trust these guys anymore. That worldview just kind of started crumbling for me that the news maybe had an insane bent

and I just didn't realize it because one would think that if every news organization told you the same story that that story in the bent to that story, there would be no bet because news organizations would hold each other accountable. Like the story you'd read on the New York Times is the same story you see on CNN is the same you see in the Washington Post.

So you're like, oh, if all of these people are telling you the same thing, they're not all colluding, right, to tell you a story with a bet, would they? And it just turns out, yeah, yeah, they are. I will tell you, I feel for you, I've had, I've had maybe two or three of those moments where my worldview collapsed on me. Everything that I thought was real, I realized, oh my gosh, it's not like that at all. And it's, like, at least I did. I almost went through mourning in a way to where you're just losing such a big part of what you believed. and it's soul-crushing. I don't know if you felt it that hard,

but there's been a couple of things like that for me where it's just been soul-crushing because you just knew. And now, no, it's not that at all. And I just, I honestly, looking back, offloaded so much of my critical thinking to the news and just said, oh, okay, I read headlines,

therefore I know the truth, no more investigation is needed. And that's on me. I shouldn't have done that. And once you actually, sometimes even when you read the whole article, you can actually get the truth of the story. It's shocking to me how many headlines are just virulently anti-GOP Republican conservatives. But then you read the article and you're like, wait a minute. if I should just read this article.

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Okay, so we're talking to Matt Van Swal and he and his wife, not conservatives, very, very liberal. And then Hurricane Helene hit. A reporter from the Blaze comes, talks to him, they get a fair treatment. When the story came out, did you think it was fair and accurate? Matt? So fair, so accurate. Yes, absolutely. Good.

And then what happened? And then I get a DM from a guy named J.P. Decker. And he was with a charity that I never heard of, which I now know is your charity, Mercury 1. And again, like, honestly, there were a lot of people that offered help during the storm that just ended up never falling through. There was a lot of people who also lied and said they were going to help people and didn't follow through. So I'm very wary of JP. And so we kind of had this list of people we had been collecting over time of people that needed help. It was this Excel spreadsheet, and we worked hand in glove with a guy named Sean Hendricks,

an awesome human being, volunteer firefighter. And we had just created this list of people who needed help. And so we were like, what if we send one of these people to JP and see what happens? See if he actually get help. And so we sent a woman to JP who was living in a tent outside of her home. A tree fell through the middle of her house, crushed it, and insurance had denied her saying that there was water damage. And they didn't cover that. But the truth of the matter was it rained.

Right. And that was the water damage. But they didn't cover it. So she was just living with her son in a tent outside her home, not knowing what to do. And I, my wife and I called JP and said, can you, she's just asking for building materials so she can rebuild her home. Can you do that? And he said, absolutely no problem. And we're like, really?

Really. And two weeks later, we get a call from her and she said, they followed through. I've got the billing materials. And we were like, oh, my goodness. And JP didn't ask us for anything in return. He didn't ask us to post a story onto X. He just said, who else you got? And so we were like, well, we got a lot of people, JP.

And so from then on, we became text friends. I still text JP to this day. But the thing that solidified it for me was one day in January, my phone starts to blow up from clean victims saying that they're getting kicked out of their hotels. And FEMA had put a bunch of these people, thousands of people in hotels in Western North Carolina because they couldn't deliver housing fast enough. That's another story.

But their hotel vouchers were going to run out tomorrow. And it was 12 degrees outside. and these were people with kids, older people. One was a disabled veteran, and they were calling me crying because they said, we went to the front desk, and they said, we have to be out tomorrow, and we don't have a home to go to. And I started getting not one or two, but dozens of these phone calls. And I was like, what do you mean? FEMA forgot to extend the hotel vouchers? and sure enough, they just forgot.

And they didn't communicate it to the hotels. And so I can get on the phone with JP and I was like, I need some serious help because, you know, I don't have the money to extend hotel vouchers for these people that are calling me crying. He said, don't worry. I'll take care of it. Hang on, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, pause the story there. We'll come back with the rest of the story.

Because this is the story. I got a phone call when this was happening. happening. Glenn. And I don't remember why they what they were asking me for. But I remember saying to JP, is this real? Are you sure this is real? And he said, oh, it's absolutely real. I didn't know you were the guy on the other end of the phone. But I can't wait to hear the rest of the story. Next. This is Glenn Beck. You know, window treatments used to be a nightmare, scheduling consults, you know, hosting pushy salespeople, getting a quote that fell more like a Ransom note than a price tag, you know what I'm saying? Then blinds.com came along and flipped the script entirely. Now you're in charge every step of the way. Want to roll up your sleeves and install them yourself? Great.

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Mercury 1 wouldn't be able to do all these great things without your help. You can get online and do so at Mercury1.org. It's Mercury1.org. I have it swallows with us. I talked about him yesterday. He wrote a tweet thanking me for something that I didn't have anything to do with, but Charity and the Blaze had a lot to do with on the Hurricane Helene. victims. And we were just talking about how on January 9th, this is a guy who was very, very liberal and didn't trust us or anybody else, you know, maybe rightfully so. And he said on January 9th, our phones began to blow up.

FEMA forgot to extend hotel vouchers for thousands of Hurricane Helene victims and hotels in the middle of a snowstorm. I spent the day on the phone with terrified people not knowing where they were going to sleep tomorrow, people with kids, disabled veterans, whole families. I called Mercury One charity frantic. They extended the stay of the entire hotel's worth of Hurricane Haleen victims. I remember getting a call on this, Matt, and I don't honestly remember why they called me because they never involved me in any of this. You know, they're trained to just move and they just go. But I remember saying to JP, are you sure this is happening?

This sounds so crazy. Are you sure this isn't a scam? And he's like, no, no, no. And I didn't know that you were the one on the other end of the phone telling him about it. Yeah. Yeah. really wild. It gets even wilder. We actually had a specific North Carolina U.S. Senator emailing us and texting us people that were calling him and saying, can you help these

people? They're getting kicked out of hotels. It was a crazy day. It was a really wild day, but JP followed through, and he paid for an entire hotel's worth of people so that they would not get kicked out. Again, it was like 12, 14 degrees outside. It was so cold. And FEMA later put out a statement, it was like 10 p.m. that night saying, oh, our bad. You're extended, you know, but people were freaking out all day long. Of course they would be. Of course they would be. And not only that, some people did get kicked out because the message didn't get to the hotels in time. But thankfully, the people who were staying in the hotels that JP extended, they were good for weeks. And finally, the government sort of got back together later.

And House of Representatives said, you know, you got to give people at least 21 days notice, not, you know, no notice. before you're kicking people out of a FEMA voucher hotel. But it was an odd day. You wrote over the weekend, this is the moment that the wall came fully crashing down. What do you mean by that? JP and his kindness just threw me for an absolute loop. And I had put honestly you, Glenn and some others in a category of non-

Unable to be empathetic. Unable to see the other side and help. I always built up in my head that liberals were the empathetic kind ones and conservatives were just the cold-hearted, truth, mean ones. And I don't know where along the road I got that in my head. but when J.P. said, we got this,

no questions asked, we're going to do it. And he spent his whole day, I think he was with you for this, but he spent his entire day on the phone with me, helping victim after victim after victim. It was like, I don't know,

JP can say it was like 18 hours that day, just him trying to help as many people as possible. That's when my mind changed. And I was like, there's something to this, and I don't know exactly what it is. Do you know what it is now? It's just, I built up liberals are good, conservatives with that, and that's just not true. I think it's more than that.

I think it's more than that. And I think you know it because you wrote, you've just done something with your five-year-old son. You took him someplace he's never been before. We did end up going to church. And it was charities like Mercury 1. Samaritan's purse, we saw a ton. Yeah. And I said, there's got to be something that they know that I don't know.

And I had, you know, I'd been to church and I had left the church. And my son, my five-year-old son had never been to church. my wife and I, it's kind of sworn it off. And during Helene, we just kept seeing churches, local churches, Mercury Blonde, Samaritan's purse, just jump in and be involved and ask for nothing in return. And we were like, all right, that's something we want. We want to be involved with that. And so we went to church about three months ago.

and we've been going for three months and we've found a home church. And it's been incredible. You know, churches always looked at as a building or something else, and it's really not. Church, you know, when Jesus talked about churches, he didn't mean church. There were no buildings back then. It was just groups of people. And, you know, when I was out in North Carolina, that was more of a, that was more of a Sunday service worship and church for me than anything I've ever gotten in any building.

I mean, you know, it's just, it's when people are doing the right thing and they want to do the right thing and they want to, they're serving one another. You know, Ben Franklin said, um, he believes in God that God will hold us accountable for how we treat one another and the best way to serve him is to serve our fellow human being. And I think that's the American church. I mean, I just think that's, that's who we're supposed to be. Yeah, that's exactly right. And for us, it was just such a godsend. We did not know how badly we were starved for community. And how amazing it was to see a community of people rally around and help others. And it kind of pushed us to realize maybe we've been really, really selfish.

and had focused on ourselves too much, and we wanted to give back. We saw a community of people giving back, and we wanted to be a part of that. And it was very much an eye-opener for all of us, and even our daughter told us we didn't even know it that she was a Christian at the time. Wow. You didn't even know? You didn't even feel comfortable telling us. You know, for us that was just a very eye-opening thing that maybe we needed to be more open-minded. You know, Matt, I sit in the studio every day and I blab a lot.

And I do it. I pray for the audience every day. And I say every day, Lord, just help me hear one person. Help me just say something that one person needs. And, you know, you sit in here and you don't have any idea if it's all just falling on deaf ears, if you have no idea. And your letter means the world to me. And I'm so glad that we were able to do something to help you in your community and your family. And I hope we can call you a friend, even if we disagree on stuff, we're going to.

So even if we disagree on stuff, that we can always call each other friends. So much for helping us. You know, I'd never listen to your show. And it didn't matter because you helped me anyways. So thank you. You're welcome. I hope to meet you someday in your wife and your family. And that rebel Christian in your daughter.

Wow. She's pretty cool. Yeah. I think she's way to lower than her parents. Yeah. Matt, thank you so much. My best to your family. Thank you, too.

I appreciate it. You know, as I'm listening to him, I look up on my wall over here. It's something I see every single day, and I read it every day. And as I'm listening to him, I was looking over at something that my daughter gave me for either Christmas or my birthday one year.

And I've hung it up for years, is in the studio, and it's a quote that I absolutely love. It says, you are good, but it's not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. In this world so filled with problems so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges,

you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right. Thank you. Thank you for the support that you have given Mercury 1 all of these years. To change people's lives. I do very little. I sit in this room and I say, hey, maybe we should do this. And you do it.

And thank you to every single member of Mercury 1. It has been a remarkable few years with them. We're celebrating our fifth, I think it's our fifth anniversary of the Nazarene Project. 260,000 Christians have been moved from danger to safety in the last five years. 260,000, I shouldn't say just Christians, Christians, Yazidis, and anyone else who is is persecuted for their religion. And that's all you. Thank you.

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little enterprise like an other on Amazon.com. Welcome to the program, April in Tennessee. Hello, April. Hello, Glenn. Hi, how are you? I'm great. I just wanted to say

thank you for everything you've done for the Hurricane Helene victims. We are in East Tennessee and I don't know what we would have done, honestly, without the help from all of the ex-platform tweets from Matt Van Swole and his

wife and just that whole group. Sean Hendricks, Steve Baker, I know I'm leaving out so many, but I have not actually had the pleasure to meet any of these people, but they have no idea how they've changed our life here in East Tennessee, just getting the media attention on the storm and the flooding and the missing victims and the people who didn't have food and water and those people who were homeless and a disaster. and people making noise.

And quite frankly, being a nuisance to get somebody's attention, I don't know that we would even be at the point that we are now in the steps of recovery. Because if you come to this town and visit, we're in East Tennessee, we're in Carter County. The river totally destroyed the area. It took out one of our local high schools. And no one seems to really care. There was so much going on with Trump, Trump, Trump. We're obsessed with Trump.

We're laser focused on Trump is. Trump did that. And it's like, when we didn't have communication for two weeks, you should try that sometime. It is hard not to have communication with your family, your friends. My dad, he was in the hospital at the time. We couldn't even get out of the area to go to the hospital. And you could drive 30 minutes to Johnson City, Tennessee, where I work. and it was like nothing ever happened.

I know. It was like, it was like nothing ever happened. And then I would drive home and I would see the destruction and I would see the debris. And I mean mountains of debris bigger than buildings, mountains of this stuff. It's still here, by the way, still here. Can I ask April, are we still there? Is Mercury 1 still there? I'm not sure exactly if you're still here now, but I know that Mercury 1 was very involved.

we saw their vehicles and their people, and every time I saw them, I just wanted to, you know, tell them thanks and give them a hug. And, you know, I tweeted out, you're a national treasure, Glenn, because you are. Because if it had not been for you, Dr. Phil, Matt, and like I said, that group of people there in North Carolina, Western North Carolina, this place would still probably look a lot worse than it does now. well I'm glad we could help out and I will check on you I'll ask I'll talk to J.P. today and check on you. Thank you so much. I really, really appreciate it. God bless you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. It's great. Great organization and it's helped so many people. You know, it's weird to hear, but around the world.

2009, I got a prompting that said, build the framework of hope. I remember thinking, what is that? And it's really, and despite, of all of my best efforts. That's exactly what it's become. Yeah, and it's turned into kind of a generational

thing, too. There's a story today of, this is a great summary of it. Fun story coming out of a house this week. The owner's grandparents used to give their tithes to Glenn Beck's ministry, Mercury 1 years ago, and now guess who is sponsoring the materials to rebuild their home? The Grandparents' home? Yeah, Mercury 1. Wow. Wow, that is really cool. Really cool. And this all happens because of you. please give to mercury1.org. You would not believe the blessings that you bring and 100% of what you donate goes down to the source directly.

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