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Episode Date: March 6, 2025

Did President Biden refuse to allow Elon Musk to help rescue two stranded astronauts in space because he feared the bad optics? Glenn exposes Biden's pattern of deserting his own people due to politics. President Trump's latest message to Hamas is a clear distinction from the Biden administration: We will not leave our people behind, and justice will be swift to anybody who harms Americans. The Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration, forcing President Trump to release $2 billion of USAID funding. Glenn breaks down the ruling and explains why he believes the justices got it wrong. We need the next SCOTUS justice to be the next Justice Scalia. Is Trump's newest executive order the first step to dismantling the Department of Education? Glenn explains why the cowboy way of life is making a comeback in America. Glenn and Stu discuss the accusation that Stacey Abrams received over a billion in taxpayer dollars to form a committee. Professional Bull Riders CEO and commissioner Sean Gleason joins to discuss why heartland values are being embraced and resonating with more Americans than ever before. Glenn previews his newest podcast with Kid Rock.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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that has been hanging over America for the last four years. And next hour I'm going to talk to you about, it's been going on for a lot longer than that. And it's an end of an era. This is a, end of an era and the beginning of a new one and I'll all explain, but there is a shadow that was cast by Joe Biden that we all started to feel was inevitable. It was a presidency that turned its

back on those it swore to protect. And the evidence is a little overwhelming, undeniable. Yesterday, one of the astronauts that has been marooned, think of that word, only used to hear that on Gilligan's Island, they were marooned on the International Space Station. What he said yesterday, this astronaut, is basically this. Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's offer to bring him and his marooned astronauts home, not for strategy. not for principle, but for petty politics. Biden feared the optics, the chance that it might make Donald Trump look really, really good, and him bad.

So he didn't do it. So two Americans languished in orbit, symbols of a nation that once reached for the stars, now just content to let him drift in space. It's obscene. But this, unfortunately, wasn't an isolated failure. Afghanistan comes to mind. The withdrawal in 2021, how many thousands were left behind?

Do you know we're still in Afghanistan, Mercury 1? We are still, we're trying to get out of there. But there's like 100 people left. We're trying to get out that we promised we would. And because of the Taliban, because it's going to change now, but because of the State Department and Biden, we've never been able to get them out. We left interpreters, allies, families

who risk everything to aid our troop. And yet we let the terrorists come across our border. The Biden administration, they abandoned people and left them to the mercy of the Taliban. We all felt it when that happened. That week was one of the darkest weeks in my history of being an American. of living here and seeing it and going, that's not us.

It was the fall of Saigon in 1975. We airlifted people out that we could, and then we just left a whole bunch of people to go into either a re-education camp or face a death squad. You know who didn't forget the people? Biden forgot the people in Afghanistan. You know who didn't?

You know who sent in the planes and brave men and women to go in behind enemy lines and rescue them? You did. Just as a single American, you did. History has taught the world over and over again the cost of deserting people. And yet Biden repeated it over and over again, ignoring the pleas of those who trusted us or who carried a blue passport. What about the Abbey Gate?

Abbey Gate, 13 Americans, service members for America, died in that suicide bombing during that same week. we abandoned people. Biden never pursued the mastermind. He never even acknowledged the sacrifice in his public tallys of the war's toll. Their names faded into silenced, un-avenged, unrecognized, unremembered by a White House too busy to scrambling around to save face. And the pattern repeats. After Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel, guess what? were left stranded, scrambling for evacuation as the State Department faltered. And yet who was there? You were.

The tales from Mercury 1 of the people that went in to help save and rescue Americans is just phenomenal. You sent planes over to rescue the trapped. In Haiti, under Biden, chaos erupted. 2024. U.S. citizens. Thousands of them trapped. No real rescue mounted by the U.S. State Department or our government. Yet again, you sent in the planes.

Let's look at the abandonment of East Palestine or Palestine. How do you say Palestine? I can't remember now. Anyway, in Ohio, you all, Palestine, you remember, you remember when the train spewed all of that gas into the air. and yet Biden never came there. He never rallied his administration to cut through the red tape to stop the suffocation of that small town in Ohio. North Carolina drowned under Hurricane Helene's wrath.

Just last September. President said, we've done all we can. Leaving communities and families and people, individuals trapped on mountaintops or to claw their way out of the mud. Yet again, you showed up to do the right thing, and you did it not for glory, not for fame, not for politics, not for headlines,

but because it was the right thing to do, the American thing to do. These were not oversights. They were choices by this administration, a consistent refusal to prioritize the vulnerable, the forgotten, the American. Things have changed. Have you noticed that? Now Donald Trump is in office.

Some real big things have really changed. Take the Abbey Gate mastermind. Trump announced that he was captured and brought to U.S. soil two days ago. Two days ago, National Security Advisor Mike Walts revealed Trump's team went, got him, and extracted a confession before even landing in Dulles. delivering accountability when Biden offered none. The Gold Star families, one of whom cried out in anguish during the 2024 state of the union. Remember, Biden had that guy removed. He had that guy removed who was just crying out and saying,

Justice, say my son's name. You cannot just say that nobody was killed. 13 of our children were killed. well, this week they finally saw their pain recognized, and their children and their deaths honored. Not with words, but with action. And then Trump did it again. Yesterday, I don't know if you saw this. Yesterday, he made his position on the hostages in Israel super clear.

Quote, not a single Hamas member will be safe until you release every hostage. Pretty clear. And yet, just in the first six weeks of this guy's term, Donald Trump personally secured 11 total confirmed hostages. These were poor Americans being held in some of the most, just most hostile, nasty areas of the world. Gaza, Russia, Venezuela. And you know what?

None of these were grand gestures for applause. None of them. They were just smart and decent moves to bring Americans home. What the hell is your passport or you being an American worth? If somebody can just scoop you up, Biden's tenure saw a thousand Afghans with special immigrant visas left behind. Per the State Department's estimate, alongside with hundreds of Americans unrescued from the conflict zones like Israel and Haiti, Trump's first term by comparison, he's freed over a dozen high-profile detainees, Americans like Joshua Holt from Venezuela, the pastor, Andrew Brunson from Turkey, the same year.

Relentless negotiation, relentless pursuit of what is true and right. Where Biden just dithered and withered, Trump leaned in, often personally leaning in, Like when he met with Kim Jong-un in 2018. You know, I don't know if you remember this. He secured the release of three American hostages from North Korea. It's the intent. It is the willingness to act. I'm a little soupy today because honor is coming back.

And it's not about chest thumping nationalism. This is about duty. This is about a covenant between a government and its people that are rooted in ethics and responsibility. It's about a duty, a covenant between a government and its people. Franklin Roosevelt, when he launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, he knew that covenant that we made. He didn't abandon the downed pilots.

He ordered rescue missions deep into enemy territory. When Jimmy Carter fumbled the Iran hostage, in 1980, he at least tried. It was flawed. Desert One was abysmal failure, but Biden didn't even try. He withdrew. He deflected. He excused. His era was one of shame. Not just of what he did, but he shamed us for being somebody who believed in these ethics, in the American way, in the American responsibility. shame, not because America lacked the power or the willpower. He left us a legacy of shame because he lacked the will. We watched as our own were left to fend for themselves as their lives were like bargaining chips that were just too costly to play.

I can't play that. I get bad headlines. Man, it feels good to be able to say that that era ends now. It's over. Trump's return signals a shift, and it's not blind jingoistic pride. It's a renewed clarity of purpose. The capture of the killer at Abbey Gate, it's not just a win for justice. It's a message to the world.

We are not going to leave our citizens, our people behind. and if you kill any of our people, we will hunt you down and justice will be served. The parents of those lost at Abbey Gate, sorry, that one is very personal. The citizens that have been stranded in countries all over the world, the American towns and citizens that were ignored, you're not a footnote anymore. You're the priority. And it's not about one man's ego. This is about a people waking up, remembering that strength lies in protecting the least among us.

Not in PR stunts or political gamesmanship. None of that matters. And if you don't get it yet, let me just tell you. Let me say the unspoken truth that so many haven't grasped yet. Biden's abandonment wasn't incompetence. It was a worldview. It was a belief that America's role was now to retreat, to a manage decline. We didn't lead anymore.

We didn't deserve to leave a lead anymore. He saw our reach as an overextension, our rescues as a liability. Trump, no matter what you think of it, sees very different. differently. Every American left behind is a wound to our soul. It's a debt unpaid. That's why he pursued the mastermind. That's why he fought for the jailed. That's why he's vowed to rebuild whatever was neglected. It's not about glory. It's not about him. It's about honor. A concept that America under Biden and the last 20 years has just been left to atrophy. but let me tell you right now, the era of shame is over.

We're recommitting to the hard work of being a nation that actually stands by its own. From the astronauts above to the families below, from Kabul to Ohio, a promise is being rewritten again. No American gets left behind. That's the America that I've always believed in. That's the America worth believing in. that's the America worth believing in again. It's not a myth. It's a renewed mission.

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Because I used to be afraid of my. country I'm proud of my country again. That's good that's good to hear yeah I will say too if there is anything to get emotional over that the Afghanistan story is still to this day one that that requires I think that type of treatment yeah it's unbelievable that that was not even more of a factor oh my God during the election how anyone involved in that White House and those decisions could have possibly been considered to be president again. It's just incomprehensible. Yeah, it is. It is.

But you know what's so great is it's over. It's over. And I've got to, I wrote some notes early this morning for my message, the top of next hour. And, ooh, I'm going to have a hard time getting through that one. Because it's why things have changed. It really hit me yesterday. I spent the day I was in Fort Worth and they're driving the cattle down the street.

And I'm with Kid Rock yesterday. And we were just talking about, you know, what's happening in America. And it just clarified in my mind where we are and what actually change. The things that you're seeing that are becoming popular now in, in trends, it is sending us a message what you are leaning into just on stupid trends that have nothing to do you think with politics has everything to do with it. And it is a very good sign. I'll talk to you about that in about a half hour. I'm going to dive into the Supreme Court decision on restoring USA funding, which is absolutely insane. but the Supreme Court has spoken.

We'll talk about that next. This is Glenn Beck. So you're at a stoplight in traffic. Cars to the right and left of you, cars in front of you, the rear view mirror. You can see the guy in the car behind you. He has unhinged. He's lost his mind.

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Court justice, if you get to appoint one. The question is, who really holds the reins of our government? yesterday the Supreme Court ruling came out and they really didn't because it was a quick turnaround it's not a full reading of what everybody was saying and I want to know exactly how they made this decision but we saw Justice Amy Coney Barrett side with John Roberts and the court's liberal ring a wing what a surprise there and it was against the Trump's administration to push to freeze $2 billion, $2 billion. You and everyone you know, maybe everyone you've ever met,

everybody lives in the same town with you, will never pay $2 billion in income tax. So $2 billion in foreign aid. And the dissent came from conservative justices like Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh. Now, this was, I mean, Scalia, talked a lot about this. And let me break it down in this way. The federal government is like a giant kitchen. Congress is the head chef. They write the recipes and then order all of the raw

ingredients, laws and the budgets. Got it? The president is the kitchen and manager of the chef and all of the kitchen. He decides how do we execute this? How do we do this? And the Supreme Court is really the food inspector who's called in when there's, you know, worry about food poisoning, you know, botulism, something really bad that the restaurant was never supposed to put out. That's what it's supposed to be. In this case, President Trump, on his first day back in office, he signed an executive order to freeze $2 billion in USA funding. Okay, why? Because he suspects deep corruption.

So the money Congress had already earmarked for foreign aid, which is their job, it gets blown out of the water. Now, his team said, let's look for waste, fraud, and abuse. Now, that comes right from his campaign promises. That's what he was elected to do. He was very clear about Doge. The nonprofit groups sued. And a lower court judge ordered the funds to be unblocked.

And in the Supreme Court yesterday, 5-4 split, they upheld that order. Now, what? The ruling said, basically, you can't just hit pause on Congress. Okay? They've come up with a recipe. They've ordered all of the goods unless the law explicitly lets you the president. Now, I think it does. But really, so does Thomas and Alito and Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

they said, he's the administrator. He's the one. He's the one to say, no, no, no, no, wait. I think there may be some sort of botulism in some of these ingredients. I'm not putting them into the food. The administrator, does he have leeway to manage the funds and root out corruption? Especially since the executive branch is tasked with, quote, faithfully executing the laws, faithfully executing the laws.

Amy Coney Barrett, Trump appointee from last time, surprised a lot of people, me not so much. She didn't write a separate opinion here, but her vote suggests a real narrow view of executive power that I don't think the founders ever really saw this as. Scalia, where he alive, might have dissented, in God. the way of Alito and Gorsuch because he always railed against judicial overreach. There was a court case back in the 80s, Morrison v. Olson. He warned letting courts micromanage executive discretion, I'm quoting, infebles the president's constitutional role.

What does that mean? The president oversees his domain. Congress oversees their domain. And there can't be any judicial meddling in this unless the Constitution or Congress clearly says so. Okay. Congress allocated the funds. And no law gave Trump the unilateral freeze button. That's what she said.

Here's the problem. Here's how I think of it and how I think you should think of it. Think of your family. You're running a family budget. You and your spouse, that's Congress. agree to spend $500 at a kid's summer camp, okay? But you and your wife, for some reason, are really busy. And so you hand the $500 over to your brother, the president.

And you're like, I want you to pay the camp director and send him to summer camp. And then you're out. And then you find out that the brother is holding on to that $500. Of course, you're like, wait a minute, I gave you the $500 to send our kid to summer camp. and your brother says, wait a minute, the camp is way overcharging, or worse, it's a scam, or even worse, they actually stand against everything your family, you, your son, everything you're trying to teach him, everything you want. I couldn't in good conscience give this $500 to them because it's corrupt. Are you cool or are you mad? that your bra, I told you it had to be spent on this. Are you going, thank God, or do you say, you have no right to do that? I want my money going to that corrupt camp, even if they're abusing my child.

Of course not. That's the oversight of the administrator. That's this case in a nutshell. That's what Trump is arguing, and that's what Trump should be given. The problem is it's not a family of three or four or five. It's a family of 330 million people. And the cash is yours. Do you want it to go to anti-American or changing mice, you know, one sex to the other?

Do you want that? Because I as a family member in 330 million people. I'm kind of pissed about that. Maybe you're not. I am. Okay. Is that a little bit too, Glenn? At any point, the mom and dad can just send that money directly to the camp.

Yes. All they have to do is instead of doing this BS thing they're doing, which is like, here's a big pile of money and we want generally this thing to happen. They can just write in the laws that they pass. Exactly right. Exactly where the money needs to go and when it needs to go there. That is complete. They have the power. The Congress has all of this ability.

as according to the Constitution. But the progressives, the progressives have changed all of that. They passed in 1946 the Administrative Procedure Act. I don't know what that is. You ever heard of that? Really super important. It creates a fourth branch of government that's neither executive or legislative. It's just kind of out there in limbo.

Why? Because it dilutes the power of the president. president and it takes Congress out of the hot seat. They don't want to be blamed by you for something. Is anyone taking responsibility for the cash that we know is being funneled into, you know, nefarious purposes? Nobody in Congress is being held responsible for it. Why?

Because they did exactly what Stu said. We're just giving it to that agency. I don't have anything to say about the agency. I said we should send it over there because I thought they were doing this. And then if the president doesn't have the power to say, wait a minute, you're not spending that money, then you can't even blame him. Who do you blame? Who's responsible for earmarking that money to go to those specific groups? Somebody you've never met, somebody whose name you've never seen, somebody who will never go to jail or be held responsible, even if they're funneling it to nefarious camps.

That's what this is really all about. and when the people truly understand that and realize there is no check on the judicial branch, the judicial branch is supposed to just make the decisions. No, that's not in the Constitution. But instead, we've changed all of these things through law that are, those laws are unconstitutional, because they destroy the checks and balances of the three branches. But what are we going to do? We're going to be like the Democrat, just do it anyway.

Nope. We say to the president of the United States right now, you let the DOJ, if they force you to spend this money, you sick the DOJ on them and you track every dollar. You find anyone who is wasting our money, anybody who is doing anything nefarious, and you march them out in an orange jumpsuit, in shackles and you throw their ass in jail.

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Well, Donald Trump is expected today to issue another executive order aimed at abolishing. That's going to make you sad. The Department of Education. Oh, no. Yeah. I know. Now, unfortunately, in this particular case, you can't. You can't just do that.

Well, the executive order says. It's worded well. Yes. It's worded very much acknowledging that accuracy. Quote, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the education department based on the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law. Yeah. So he's saying, look, Congress established this thing. It was an executive order on a Jimmy Carter.

And then Congress went and said, no, you, we really like that. And so they codified it so nobody could do what he would like to do. That's fine. So now we have to work within the framework of law. But that's what this says. Yes. I want you to shut this thing down as tight as you possibly can according to law and that it's appropriate. What did they codify?

Was it in the 90s? Wasn't it like late? It was much later than I remember thinking. I don't remember. Yeah. I have to look that up. But because, I mean, Reagan could have did it that way. And he was a strong opponent and ran on it.

And I don't know if he just felt like, you know, who knows, I'd have to go back and revisit that period. I think except for this president, every president has been taught to pick your battles. Yeah. Don't do all of them. That's true. Trump is like, I want all the battles. Yeah, he's like, he doesn't care. He does not care.

He's just taking all of the battles on, which I love. And, you know, I don't know. I don't know. You know Trump better than I do. I mean, you know, you've obviously spent a decent amount of time with the guy over the years. But like, is this theory here? Is he the type of thinker where he's saying, you know what? It's a different era.

And people don't remember a lot of stuff. And some of the stuff probably will be. unpopular. And I think it's important. I'm going to do it anyway. And by the time it's, accountability is there where like voters are voting. They're going to be on 25 different things by then. Let's get it all done right now. Is that part of his thinking? I think maybe part of his thinking. I think, um, I think that part of his thinking also is if I move fast enough, see, like him cutting all of this, all of these things from USA and D. And, and, uh, I mean, it's the reason why he did that big monologue in the middle of his speech the other day.

This, we're doing this with your money. We're doing this with your money. We're doing this. And notice it was a funny part. So it was entertaining. It was something that would connect with everybody. That's to just keep hammering home, your money is being wasted in just ridiculous and and unethical and maybe even illegal ways.

when he gets to the place to where he goes after and finds out what Stacey Abrams was doing with that $2 billion, and he starts putting people in orange jumpsuits, that's when it's going to solidify and everything will start to come down. He's just building, he's moving forward, everybody's kept busy on so many fires, and he's building a case for the big ones every single day. Yeah. I think he's broken this up into phases. You're only seeing phase one.

When he hits phase two, this is a guess, this is a guess. When he hits phase two of this, I think it's going to be breathtaking. I think it's going to be breathtaking. This is, this is the sleepy time? You know, he's got 100 days.

He's 40 into it. And he's not going to slow down. He's going to get faster. It's a thing to behold. And today we'll see what his executive order says, assuming he signs it today, but shutting down the Department of Education in every possible legal way. This is Glenn Beck. Let me talk to you about Oracle. Listen, even if you think it's all just a bit overhyped, AI is suddenly everywhere from self-driving cars to molecular medicine to business efficiency.

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We think that that is what's driving, but it's not. It's not the reason. It's a symptom. And it's all wrapped up in the collective denial of what is true and real. So let me... What is true and real? Have you noticed that the... The Cowboy, the rugged West, is making a comeback.

You see it in television. You see it everywhere. It's making a comeback all of a sudden. Why? And it's coming at the same time our politics are changing. So which is the chicken and which is the egg? The cowboy, this rugged West, Yellowstone. The TV Yellowstone, or Taylor,

Sheraton and all of his many 800 shows that seem to be on television, that's not what brought the cowboy back. It's not Kevin Costner on TV grumbling about the land and the legacy. It's not it. It's deeper than that. It's in some ways it's that jagged spine of the Grand Teton's. It's the open sweep of the grass that rolls out like God himself just unrolled it and was like, how far can that go?

it is the untamed West, but it's not that because that's a postcard. That's on a TV screen. That's something that nobody in New York sees. That's something that people all over the country have never actually seen themselves. But yet they have that thumping or humming in their chest. And it's something that has been in every American for a very long time. and it has been waiting for us to listen to it. You know, the press, mainstream media,

they couldn't figure out Yellowstone at all. Look at those crazy people I just want. They just want that train station to actually exist. It wasn't the vigilante stuff that attracted us to Yellowstone. The bodies dumped in the dark to settle scores or how Beth acted or what she said. Sure, that played a role. It was entertaining. But that's not what we felt.

That was the noise. what got underneath our skin was that there was justice to it. Not vigilante, not perfect, not polished, but there was justice. A line, somebody was drawing a line in the sand, a common sense line that said, you know what, some things matter too much to let slide. And what were those things? They were heritage. It was family.

It was a way of life that's worth planting your feet. for. The whole show is about the Dutton's losing the ranch. Or is it? Or is it about fighting for something that cannot be left behind? It shouldn't be left behind. Was it the Dutton Ranch or was it the American way? And not something on a bumper sticker or slogan, but a heartbeat, something that is deep in all of us. And we feel it. I don't care if you're kicking dust in Wyoming or you're kicking a coffee cup in the streets of New York. It's there. And it's not the hat.

It's not the spurs. Those represent this, I guess, because it's the cowboy. And what does the cowboy represent? A handshake that means something. A promise you don't break because your word is the only thing you own. It's taking your hat off for a woman. It's saying, yes, ma'am. No, sir.

because respect isn't optional. It's standing up and not just for yourself, but for your family, for your land, your way of life, the things that are worth defending, the things that you have been told for the last 20 years, sit down, shut up, you should be ashamed of that. It's writing wrongs when the law is too slow or too blind to see what's what. Afghanistan withdrawal comes to mind. It's a fierce independence, the kind that says, you know what, I don't have anything against you, but I'm going my own way. I'm going to chart my own path.

I'm going to do what others swear that just can't be done. I'm sorry, you think it's too tough? I don't think so. Nothing's too big. Not as long as you have faith in God and the grit of an American, then nothing's too big. That's what the cowboy represents. But it's more than just him. I don't know how to describe it.

It's us. It's in all of us. It's who this land shaped us to be. Whether you, I mean, I'm not somebody that would have crossed the Rockies in a creaking wagon. I would have stopped way before that. You know, snow biting at my hands, you know, uh-uh. Strangely, I am kind of the guy that wouldn't mind being strapped to a rocket and shot up just to stab this red planet of red dust, million miles away or however far it is with a flag and not because the flag.

Why do these explorers do what they do? They don't do it for God or country. That's what the left would tell you. It's jingoism. It's not. They don't do it for God and country. They do it because of God and country. Because of what God and this country made us.

It's simply who we are. It's why the rest of the world never understands us. And yet, when we live up to those ideals, when we live up to what this land and God created with us, when we live up to who we really are, the world loves us. It's what this land does to you. The mountains, the plains, the rivers that cut through stone, they're not just pretty.

I don't know about you, but they call to me. They call to all of us. They make you. And when you answer, it's not about proving something to anybody else. It's about proving it to yourself. Because that's what the soul of this country is asking for. Who are you? Who can you be?

No other country, no other people can feel it like we do. Because this is our DNA. That's why I go to the mountains every chance I can get. I love my ranch. not to escape, but to remember to breathe the air that is sharp and clean, cold in the morning, hot during the day, to hear the wind, whip the flag. Yellowstone was not big on TV because it was a show. It was big because it's a mirror.

It is a fun house mirror. And everybody else looked at the funhouse part. what we it's all about what we've been missing it's what it was showing us that's what we felt what we what we let slip through our fingers because we were too busy chasing other things or listening to other people convince us of lies and now look around last six weeks what is america doing we're putting our boots back on we're wrapping ourselves in denim that's not a to touch grass. In fact, it's required to touch grass. And not because it's trendy, but because it's true. It's who we are deep down. I don't care if you've ever roped cattle. You should see me

with my cows. I have no idea what I'm doing. It doesn't matter. You can be punching a clock in Cincinnati. It doesn't matter. But the land, our way of life, our DNA is calling us back and thank God, we're listening. It is mourning in America again. And it comes again under the brim of a cowboy hat. But the guy who's the one who seems to be doing it all, he would look ridiculous in a cowboy hat. Maybe as ridiculous as I look in a cowboy hat.

He's a big city real estate broker from New York City that likely has never gone anywhere on horseback or climbed a mountain. But the spirit lives in this guy. His whole life is about doing something no one thought could be done. He didn't climb mountains or conquer the West in the traditional way. Instead, out of concrete and steel, he built mountains that tear at that American sky. He conquered what we all thought was, you can't conquer that. Mainstream media, he broke the back of that horse, and he is riding it sitting tall in his saddle, and he's also making it very clear to all the outlaws of the world.

And I can guarantee you'll go, yes, sir, when you hear this, he's making it very clear, this man from New York City. There is a new sheriff in town, the spirit of the West. All humans feel this call to the ocean. I don't know what it is, but we all do. For Americans, it's the same kind of call, but something different. The West isn't a place, it's a feeling, it's a pull. It's a strange shadow of a horse and a rider against a sunset that bleeds red and gold.

It's the creek of leather, the weight of a rifle in your hands when the world turns mean. It's the quiet of a night so quiet you can hear your own thoughts. It's the roar of a river that reminds you something. just can't be tame, not by man, not by time. And that is what's roaring back. It's the spirit that put us here in the first place. The part of us that says, I'll stand for what's right. I'll fight for the little guy. I'm going to build something worth keeping, and we do, because we always have. From the first people that cross the oceans to the ones who broke the trails through the mountains, no sane person would ever do that. The dreamers who look at the people who

looked up to the sky and said, I'll go to the moon. And it was never about glory. It was about guts, knowing that there are some things that are just bigger than you, but you're big enough to meet them anyway. Yellowstone is, again, a mirror of us waking up. It was already there. It was simmering. It's always there. The photos of the peaks and the planes and the horses, they're not just pictures. They are us. It's the snap of the sound of. The sound of it. It's the sound of the, of that snap of a flag in the wind. It's the weight of a life lived on your terms, and it is not dead.

It is not gone. It is rising again. Because the truth is, it never really left us. You'll feel it wherever you are. You'll hear it in the stories we tell, the songs we sing. The way we look at the world and go, why can't people do it? We'll take it on.

You're living in an American era again. are truly going to see the rebirth of a nation. Not in the boardrooms or the ballots, but first and foremost in the dirt, in the sky, in the soul. It's about a cowboy, an American cowboy coming home, not because he's lost, because finally, finally he remembered where he belongs. and we're all riding along with him, whether we know it or not.

Because no matter what the popular culture tells us, this is really who we are. We are fierce, we're honorable, we're free, we're unbroken. The sun just dipped down low and the shadows were stretching long, but thank God America heard it whispering again, Come back.

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And it was. Did he beat you up? I was so uncomfortable. I've never been. I don't know what it is. Weird because you've interviewed a lot of big actually cool celebrities over the years in your previous life. And I don't know what it is about Kid Rock that just made me feel like I was about to be beaten up in the back of the school because I'm not cool enough. Please tell me you did it.

No. No. But it was so weird. I was, I don't know if it will show on the podcast. But it was like, I struggled through that one. I really like him. What's his vibe? Is he totally different than?

No. Totally cool. Totally cool. And just doesn't give. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. There's a, yeah. Yeah.

He just doesn't care. And I think that's what makes him cool. He's like, I don't care. I don't care. And he means it. You know, there are people like, I don't care what they say and they do. Yes, of course. He really doesn't.

Yeah. No, I get that for them. Yeah. And he is, uh, is he kid, like, is Kid Rock a like a, I don't know, a character? So I tried to get into that. Okay. I tried to get into that because yes and no. Okay.

Uh, and I said to him, you know, I don't feel comfortable repeating it because, I mean, people know it, but, you know, I called him by his real name. Kid Rock is surprisingly, not his real name. That was not his given name. Not his given name. Wow. Yeah, not his given name. And I said to him, so once in a while, you'll let this guy come out.

And he's like, yeah, I prefer not to talk about that. And I said, but which one is you? Which one? How do you separate? And which one is you? And he was like, they're both me. They're both me. Kid Rock is a persona.

And who I am every day is not that. But it is. It's a fascinating. It's a part of him, essentially. Yeah. It's not a complete fabrication. He's not playing a role. Right.

It's taking a part of him and amplifying it. Turning himself way up to 11. Yeah. It's fascinating. What he said, I mean, we got out of the podcast and Ricky, the TV executive producer, she came up and she's like, oh, that's going to be newsmaking. And I said, yeah, that's what I said, because I was just sweating. I was just like, I couldn't even hear what he was saying. I'm just like, why am I interviewing him? I mean, he just, it's pathetic. I don't know. It was so weird for me. I don't know why. But Ricky came up and she's like, that was. amazing. And kid was still standing there. I went, really? And he took it. See this again. I was about to get beat up because I went, really? And because I was judging me. And she's like, yeah. And he's like, don't be so surprised, man. I'm like, no, no, don't please don't be me. I didn't mean it that way. Anyway. God, I'm such a loser at times. But.

Lots of times. Thank you. But he said some things that, oh, I think are going to be newsworthy. Oh, really? Oh, interesting. Oh, yeah. Can we get topics or general areas? He's taking somebody to dinner at the White House that if it happens, he said, invites there. Trump has already said yes. If it happens, oh, it's going to be interesting. That's on the podcast. It's open for all Blaze TV subscribers today. BlazTV.com slash Glenn, use a promo code Glenn and save. It'll be out tomorrow. We're going to touch on that and play some of it coming up. in a few minutes.

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Oh, my gosh. Of all the tragedies of the Palisades fires, that's the real one. I know. And he said, I'm not going to be able to make my child support, I guess. He's not going to be able to do anything. He can't find a house. And he has no place to live. That's sad.

I don't understand, Glenn. He's made a lot of money. His dad has made a lot of money. Uh-huh. All the ways that he made the money, he's now been pardoned, pre-pardoned for all the potential criminal actions. But that shows you why he can't make any more money. Because anything he does criminal, he can be charged with now. You know, I just feel like a.

Savings plan should have been in order for Mr. Crackhead. I feel like, you know. I think so. But, you know, artist crackheads aren't very good at saving money. They are always called starving artists. But maybe, maybe somebody in this mysterious vaccine company. Ooh. That Biden gave $28 million to.

Well, they achieved a lot of this company, right? Really? Yeah. Because I can't find anything. It was run by his co-ed-ed-old. COVID advisor. Mm-hmm. And of course, it was based out of a Maryland P-O-box.

Well, that's what most... A lot of people don't know this. That's where most vaccine innovations occur. Really? In P-O-boxes? Yeah, you have the BS1, BS2, BS3 level facilities, and then PO boxes. That's the highest level of... BS3?

Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. So pretty... Pretty... Pretty... It's a... There's a lot of these, Glenn.

No, there's a lot of them. There's only, there's, well, there's this one. The vaccine one for $26 million, which is enough, right? That's a massive scandal. EPA also gave a social justice group, $20 million to replace lead pipes and restore wetlands. Now, that's a great goal. Well, they don't have any, they don't have any experience of doing any of those things. That's not what they, they're a social justice group.

They're not like plumbers. No. Or people that know anything about wetlands. Social justice. Social justice, they got $20 million. And, of course, you know, Stacey Abrams. I mean, let's, I mean, who doesn't think she deserved $2 billion? I don't think there's a problem there.

Well, they had raised previously $100. Right. So they were showing growth. They went from zero to $100. You know what that looks. At that pace. Right. You look at the chart, it goes zero, $100, $2 billion.

Right. I mean, that's growth. That is a real, real growth. I think she's going to go to jail. Hmm. I don't... Do we have the conservative board? I'm not...

Do not put poor music on when he's talking about Stacey Abrams. Do not do it. You know what? I take it back. He's right. Thank you. He's right. First time today.

I can. I don't know if she's going to jail. I know, again, my guess is they did this illegally. This is the problem with our... You funneled $2 billion to Stacey Abrams, and you think... I do. That that can be proven to be legitimate?

Legitimate is a totally different word than the word I used. I use the word legal. And my guess is, and this is a problem that the Trump administration should exploit to point out to people, this is in our system all the time. This is not just a, because I feel like when you go out and you get, oh, you charge Stacey Abrams. I think there's an example. I think Steve Deis was talking about this on our coverage, making an example. making an example out of somebody. And maybe that's a good motivation here because Abrams does seem to be in a lot of the stuff.

I just don't know if she broke the law here. But an example maybe should be made. The problem with it is this is our system of government right now. This is actually how this stuff works. Ever wonder how all of these leftist groups that are all Marxists that hate money so much? They can all of a sudden afford like crazy, all this crazy stuff? Well, that's it. That's it.

It's all been your tax. dollars funneled to these organizations all over the world. Yeah, and this is how they extend their lives in power. Yes. Because if you think about this way, let's just take a really charitable view of this. Good word, charitable. Because all of it seems to be happening in the charitable world. You know, I'm choosing my words carefully in this particular segment.

Good, good. let's just say, okay, you are at the end of this administration. Stacey Abrams has done all sorts of stuff for you. Let's just leave that stuff out there in this alleged category for now. Right? Right. You have this funding. You can dump it to whoever because Congress has given you this money and with this big open checkbook of like essentially a slush fund to write this stuff out.

Yep. And you say. That's by the way, why the Supreme Court should not have. have done what they did yesterday and why the Supreme Court, we just need to pray that the next justice appointed to the Supreme Court is not like Amy Coney-Barrant. Not constitutional enough. We need another Clarence Thomas or six. People who actually know what the Constitution means.

Anyway, go ahead. I would tend to agree with that. Yeah. But so you, you know, you're, Stacey Abrams, you're going to dump money towards what was an environmental one. I can't remember which one. What was the $2 billion for? Does it matter?

Does it matter? It's a good question. Stacey Abrams probably says she's interested in the, in the environment. Fairness of elections. Fairless of elections, whatever it is. You think it's a worthy cause. You have come up with legal justification to give money to that cause. Why not give it to some ally who can then say, I'll just go out and build this.

You know I'm good at this. I know everybody. I'll be fine. And like, you know, they get this. They fund their next 10 years. years of life. They also hire hundreds, thousands of people. Many of them are out of jobs because they just lost a campaign. So those people, that army that Biden and Kamala used to try to win that campaign, all those people are out of work. So this is where they go until the next election.

They go to organizations just like this so that they can keep the money going. They can keep getting paid and they're available to come back to run in the next campaign. This is how this stuff works all the time. And it is a feature, not a bug to almost everybody in Washington. And it doesn't just stop there. Your tax dollars also, remember, go to these universities. Any state university, all these universities, they're either getting money directly from your taxes or they're getting it in tax breaks.

But that's another human launder system. They just take these people and launder them in through education. They come and they just, they go teach and then they come back and they're here ready to campaign for the next person. I mean, it's, it's really despicable and disgusting. Yeah. And it's going to be really, I'm telling you right now, before AI goes bad and kills us all, it's going to get really amazing. There's something in the Bible about where all secrets will. be shouted from the rooftops. We're about to see that. We're about to enter a time where you don't have any

secrets, nor do they. Nobody's going to be able to keep secrets because you're going to be able to follow the money. You're going to be able to connect the dots. You know, that's one thing that everyone's like, you're so good at connecting the dots. I never saw this and this relate. Oh, you will. You will. You'll find them. You don't need people like me. You'll find them. And they're all going to be exposed. And that's really why everybody's freaking out in Washington. That's why they're acting like little children. They're just so freaked out. They don't know what to do.

They've got to keep this going. They know they're in trouble because they've set up a secondary government that just kept them in power all the time. And it's going to be exposed. and I hope it is. It seems like we're at least learning about it. Whether they can do anything to it, whether they can do anything to it. If Pam Bondi does not investigate or Cash Patel doesn't investigate

and then turn it over for prosecution if it rises to that level. And she doesn't go after these people with guns ablazing. And I know people on the left don't ever believe this when we say it, but I mean it. I don't care if it's the biggest person on the right. If that person is guilty, go to jail. If they're guilty of breaking the law and abusing our money and our trust, they should go to jail. Period. I don't care who they are.

That will be the thing that will restore our country. I just was talking about why was Yellowstone? so popular because there was justice. The rights, the wrongs were righted, just in a very unethical way. But it was somebody standing up and saying that can't be tolerated anymore. And for entertainment purposes, and we feel the same way. This happened in the 70s with the godfather. Why did the mob thing become so big?

Because there was an honor system to that. You don't do that. Hey, you don't touch my family. You, okay? It put family first in a very distorted, horrible way, but it had its own code of ethics and honor. That's the same thing with the Dutton family. And there is no honor in any of this. And so if Donald Trump can use Pam Bondi and Cash Patel,

and they empower themselves with the power that has been given, to them by the Constitution and Donald Trump, because he's given them the mandate, they already have the constitutional power to do this. But if they have, excuse me, the balls to do it, they will restore the hope and promise of America. And if they don't, we become Mexico. It's just that easy. That's where we're at. Which road are we going to choose? I choose America. I mean, the America we should be. I don't want to be. I don't want to be. I don't want to be. I don't to be like Mexico. Does anybody want to be? Mexicans don't want to be like Mexico. Okay? They might have, Mexico is great because of our traditions, because of our family, but when it comes to their government,

do you think they like that? Do you think they're like, oh, you know what? You know what I love? Is the mayor? Well, I loved the mayor that I was going to vote for until he was killed in the streets by the cartels. But hey, I just want everybody here loudly. I really like this new mayor. Do you think they want to live like that? No, neither do you. now is the time that Pam Bondi and Cash Patel have the chance to actually set us straight. All right, back in just a minute. So the Trump administration has dismissed a binary lawsuit against the state of Idaho. So hopefully now they can enforce the post-Roe versus Wade restrictive abortion laws.

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Well, I don't know for sure. I don't know specifics, but I do know reciprocal tariffs. Plus, they've got to stop the fentanyl and the terrorists and the borders. They have to match our work on our borders. Did you see that, did you see Mexico close in the border and they put this, they, they, they took, they're at the highway, they have these giant gates and they pulled these giant gates out. And they're like, they've had. a fence the whole time? I didn't see that, no, that's great.

Oh, it's amazing. They pull his fence out and you're like, wait a minute. Yeah. There's got to be more he's asking for that I don't understand, though, because I mean, the USMCA, which of course, again, was his negotiation, one of the crowning achievements of his first term, already had reciprocal tariffs in it. Like, we already had that before all of this. The fentanyl thing, again, is a real issue when you're talking about Mexico and Canada,

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They were doing a lot of that stuff already. You're right. You're right. They're couching it. Yeah, they're saying. They're saying it. And that's the point. And he's saying, look, you've got to get serious about your borders.

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He's got the new Rock and Rodeo that he has partnered with. He's going to be at the World Finals at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Yesterday we were at the Coliseum. If you've never been to Fort Worth, I mean, it is the place to go. If you're anywhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is to go down. to where the Coliseum is. It is this historic building of rodeo, and they've just redone it.

It's fantastic. It is a slice of America and the American West. We're going to talk about some of the values that have been talking about today with Sean Gleason. Next, stand by.

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Professional Bull Riders Association, and I have to tell you, if you have never been to a rodeo, I went to the Coliseum probably 10 years ago when I first moved to Dallas, Fort Worth, and I go to the Coliseum, and I'm with people from New York, never, you know, have not. They're the kind that got off the plane and saw Dallas and went, where are all the cows? It's not like that anymore, but they had never been to a rodeo. And as soon as the kids got on the back of the sheep, they all, they immediately began looking for attorneys. They were like, this, you can't do that. Yes, you can. Can't in New York, but everywhere else in the country, that happens. Sean, welcome to the program.

How are you? Glad to be on, Glenn. Yeah, it's good to see you. Yesterday, you were with Kid Rock. You made a big announcement. Yep. Yeah, we started this last year. We had the Kid Rock's Rock and Rodeo that we added and paired with the PBR World Finals. It's Rodeo reimagined. We not only brought in Kid Rock to help redefine the entertainment experience, but we turn rodeo into a team sport and head-to-head competition. Drag-race style. Drag-race style? Yeah, horse race style. I have to tell you, there is, I was with, last summer or the summer before, I think,

I was with somebody who was from Scotland. And he was like, you know, they pick up, you know, the big stumps and they throw them, you know, throwing rocks and they're like, that's a real man's sport, you know, whatever. He'd never been to a rodeo. And he said beforehand, he's like, this is really. ridiculous. And I said, uh, no, okay, you just watch. This guy was, you know, uh, in their special, the highest level of their special forces. The gate opened and the first 10 seconds went by and he looked at me and he said, why haven't I been here before? I mean, totally changed. That,

it's amazing what these guys do. It is. And I mean, you think about it. And at one point in time, rodeo was the only sport in America. Right. And it's amazing to me after 26 years of travel in this country, just how far removed people in urban environments are from one of this important pieces of history and heritage in our country, the sport of rodeo, Western sports, Western lifestyle. And so I've had the good fortune to travel this country back and forth

from Madison Square Garden to L.A. and teach people a little bit about it. So do you guys go into Los Angeles and those areas? Downtown, crypto.com. Shut up. We sold out three nights at Madison Square Garden in January just a couple months ago. Was it mainly attorneys? No.

Well, it might be. You know, Friday night's weird. People ask we all the time, what is your demo? And I'm like, well, if you go to New York City, Friday night's a bunch of suits that come out and they're looking for a good time. Saturday is women between the ages of, you know, 20. and 40 that are looking at cowboys and tight jeans. Yeah. And then Sunday's a bunch of families where people bring their kids.

And it's just an amazing experience to bring some of those values back to urban places like New York that haven't seen it in a long, long time. You know, I saw a story. We did a story on something where there's some kids were, you know, a mom is what it was. A mom was arrested for letting her kid go across the street from his house. eight or 10 years old and just play. And the cops came and arrested her for child neglect. Okay. Crazy. And I read a story and this is how much we have changed. And this is, I really think, this is the spirit of the rodeo. When you're responsible and you understand your kids and you

understand, you know, what life is really all about, there were these two kids in California that wanted to meet Teddy Roosevelt. He was going to be sworn in his president. These two kids, eight and ten, told their parents they wanted to go meet him. So they put them on horseback. They went by themselves. It took them three months to get to Washington, D.C. But by the time they got there, there were so many press reports about these two kids that just wanted to go see the president that they actually met Teddy Roosevelt and went to the White House and everything else. But nobody was saying that's irresponsible. You know, it's just so different now. I know. I mean, you know, Some people would like us all to wear bubble suits, I guess.

We put, we put, you know, 150-pound cowboys on the backs of bowls and pay them millions of dollars to do it. And some people have criticized that and said, we shouldn't allow that. It's individual choice, you know. But it also is, I mean, it's not a sport that is just played for sport. You know, when you see the cowboys go out and they rope the cattle, that is a skill. they use every day, you know?

Absolutely. And the combination of those horses, I mean, I know why they cost millions of dollars, the way those horses anticipate and move with the rider and, I mean, it's incredible to watch. Yeah, I mean, Cowboys fed America for a long, long time. That's where it was born out here in the West. And, you know, they had to, it was the greatest cultural melting pot, too, if you think about it because it was freed blacks from the east. It was Irish immigrants that couldn't find work. They hooked up with Native Americans and the Mexican vicaros and they created the cowboy.

And they depended on one another. They lived on the trail and they drove those cattle back and forth and fed the East Coast. It's one of the great stories of cultural diversity and hard work, honesty, integrity, values. I mean, it's... People have no idea who Bill Pickett is anymore. But he was a black man. He was probably one of the most famous black men in the 1920s in all of America. That guy, that guy was amazing. And the things that he would do, what did he call bulldogging, right?

Yeah. Is what he invented. Yep. And he, you tell me if this is true or not, I think it is, that he was a rancher and just tough as nails. and also a silent movie star. And he said that he saw his dog grab the bull, jump up, grab the bull by the lower lip and pulled him right down to the ground.

And so bulldogging was him. That's the story I've heard too. And he actually would get onto the bull. He would jump off his horse, grab the bull with his mouth on the lower lip of the bull and turn him down. And that's how bulldogging started. That's insane.

That's insane. You know, we're pretty proud. We have a partnership with Bill Pickett. And a few years back, we put the very first black rodeo on national television on CBS, had huge ratings and have supported those guys ever since. And we have now an event in Cowtown. Two weeks ago sold out Cowtown for Bill Pickett invitational rodeo. I heard that I was talking to the guy who's running Caltown now,

and that is the arena in Fort Worth. And he said like 274 nights of rodeo sold out. Yeah. I mean, it is crazy. We actually do a PBR event every Thursday. Rodeos Friday and Saturday. Bill Pickett occasionally when their tour permits. And PBR actually partnered with the Stockyards Heritage Group.

We actually run that building and facilitate all those events now. So pretty proud of what we've done there. I was living in New York and I was on CNN. to my shame, but I was on CNN. And I used to say all the time, look, I don't know what I'm doing. You know, I'm a rodeo clown. And trying to tell you the news. And then I got a letter from the president of the rodeo clown association.

And he said, do you have any idea what rodeo clowns do? And, you know, I hadn't been to a rodeo since I was a kid. And I don't think as a kid you can fully appreciate what those guys do. I've never said that about myself ever again. You watch these rodeo clowns. How often are they killed? Not often killed because they're pretty damn good at what they do. They're fearless.

They're fearless. But we, no disrespect to the rodeo clowns organization, but we took them out of the clown outfit and we put them into uniforms. And one of the reasons we did that is because they're the best athletes on the field. They face every bowl, every, every. protect every cowboy on every single out and they're on that dirt for every single one of the outs. And so they're great athletes. They're fearless human beings. But the thing I'm most proud of is they wear the U.S. Border Patrol uniform because they are the PBR's Border Patrol safety team.

So let me ask you, you're using the Coliseum in Fort Worth coming up. When is that happening? May 8th. And you're using the Cowtown Coliseum, which is a new venue, and I won't mention the old venue, because I don't even know if this is true. But I hear the old venue wouldn't allow

the United States Border Patrol to come in with guns. You wanted to honor them, and they wanted to come in with guns, and they said, we can't have guns here. And, I mean, it's Texas, man. What are you thinking? Everybody's got a gun in Texas.

Anyway, so you're not, you've moved it to a much small, You've got to be losing money on that like crazy. Well, we also took the final state T&T Stadium, which is the largest venue on the planet. So we have both the smallest and the largest venue. But yeah, it's actually, you took it there? That's true. I've run into that twice in my career now.

And one was in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the building basically said the U.S. Border Patrol couldn't come in with their sidearms. They wanted them to surrender them to a guy in a show. shack at the back of the building in order to come in. And that was the color guard from the U.S. Border Patrol. Have you checked on? I think it's illegal. It's illegal. Right. Right. Yeah. You have a badge and you are a law enforcement. They're federal law enforcement officers. And so that's, that's what bugs me is the disrespect that was given to the U.S. Border Patrol with them not recognizing that they could disarm the local Charlotte or Fort Worth police officers. And the guy in the

Shack who has what is making $8 an hour that they could arrest them for and and charge them with obstruction of justice basically. I mean, or a failure to allow a federal officer to do their job. Any policeman with a badge, any, you know, current law enforcement. And on the federal level, you can't, it's illegal to take their gun. Yeah. And I thought we had ended that in Charlotte six or seven, eight years ago. and we haven't been back to Charlotte and I ran into it in another building in Fort Worth and I moved our event. It's shocking.

It's shocking. It's unfortunate. You know why they did it? I don't. Most of the time it's, you know, it's a building policy. I get it and they're in place to protect the patrons that are there. It's a federal agent. But not the federal agents.

And especially not my heroes at the U.S. Border Patrol is. It's just don't disrespect the federal officers. Well, I can't wait. I can't wait. My family and I will be there. And we just love it. And I love the addition of Kid Rock. Yeah, he's been a great uplift to it.

And one of the things that I think we wanted to accomplish with it is rodeo has become the opening act for big music acts. So if you go to Houston, nothing against Houston, but it's 21 days of concerts that are preceded. by a rodeo. And people have become accustomed to showing up a little late, not really hanging out for the whole rodeo because they're waiting for whatever artists is coming up in the evening show. And we've never, at the PBR, I've never allowed the PBR to be an opening act for anybody. Why are you doing that with kid? Because when I, he and I sat and envisioned this whole plan, I said, we have to change the paradigm on how entertainment is delivered to the fans. And we've integrated his performance pre, during, and post.

And so it's not an opening act. It's all one show. I tell you, every time I've seen these places do like Fourth of July events. And it was all about the country. It was all about patriotism. And then they would introduce an act. And then over years, the act had to get bigger and bigger and bigger. And it just, everything else was lost.

People were coming for the concert and they really didn't care about the patriotism and the message of the day. Yeah. And erected. Or the sport. Yeah. You know, the sport itself. And our athletes go through too much and are too committed to being professionals to allow them to be overshadowed by the music act or another form of entertainment. Sort of like the Kamala Harris rallies from this most recent campaign.

Exactly right. They're throwing Beyonce on the stage and they all leave. They didn't care about her. Didn't care about her. Yeah. But I will tell you, Rodeo, if you've never been to one, you've got to go. It is, it's, it's remarkable.

And I will tell you, kid, I said this to Kidd yesterday, and he's like, right. I said, the sexiest women on the planet are the women who are on the horse with the flag at the beginning of the rodeo

that ride around the ring with a flag. It is, I don't know, there is something about that. Absolutely. That is just. Horseback carrying a, carrying the, red white and blue. It just doesn't get any better.

It doesn't. And they usually have on shiny outfits with some fringe on them. I mean, it just, I mean, I feel a little kind of dirty looking at it because I like, that's beautiful. But it is. It's beautiful. It's the greatest save of America. John, thank you.

Absolutely. Sean Gleason, if you want to find out more, go to their website. PBR Worldfinals.com. PBR World Finals. You can follow Sean at PBRCCEO. and again, the finals are starting May 8th, and Kid Rock's Rock and Roado with partnership with PBR is happening during the World Finals.

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10 seconds. station ID. The, the, uh, the, uh, uh, kid rock interview comes out today. And you don't want to miss it. You don't want to miss it. Yeah, he's, he's, he's, he was amazing. Uh, you know, he was just playing golf with Elon Musk and, uh, and Donald Trump last Sunday. We talked about that. A strange sentence that was. Right. Kid Rock, Donald Trump and Elon Musk on a golf course. That's the beginning of a joke. Uh, and, uh, and you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, he, you, uh, he, I mean, when he talks about Elon Musk, it's wild. It is wild.

Does he go into the Bud Light stuff at all? You talk about that? You know what? No, I forgot to ask him that. Oh, my gosh. Damn it. I knew there was something. I'm like, I'm missing something.

I'm missing something. And I didn't. Ah, I know. I didn't ask him that. I should have. Because it was an interesting thing. If I remember, right, obviously, he came out and he shot the cans. Oh, yeah.

It was kind of the big start of that. Yeah. And then later on kind of was like, you know, Like maybe the punishment has already exceeded the crime type of situation? I can answer the question. You never ask a question that you're not pretty sure you know the answer to. So I know the answer. He really felt as himself, not the Kid Rock character.

Yeah. But as himself, America needs to heal. We need to forgive each other. We need to come back together. And sometimes it means, okay, let's move on past this scar. I don't know if I agree with him on that one. Yeah, I kind of do. I kind of feel like...

I do if Bud... If Anheiser Bush would have come out and said, whoa, wow! Their actions indicated at least they very much wanted people to believe that's their reaction. Yeah. I mean, you know, every other... I read the book on the Bud Light Madness in Anheiser Bush. I remember that.

Yeah. Yeah. No. They could send any... I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't even need people to agree with me on sane things, though. I just want them to just, you know, make their products.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. You're not a rodeo guy. Have you been to one lately? I went to one here when we first moved down here. And it was cool. I mean, they're incredible at what they do. Like, it is an amazing skill set. I don't know how they do it.

It's kind of like, I don't think people understand the athleticism of a NASCAR or an F1 driver. you are an athlete. Sure. You know what I mean? Much more than the Canadians brushing the ice with the stones. Curling is pretty challenging. But the same thing. I don't think people understand.

I mean, these guys, I don't know how they walk. I like football after a while. But these guys aren't making football, you know, salaries. Some of them. Yeah, some of them are doing pretty well. But I don't know how. you put your body through that. And when you see them, they're riding the bull.

They just need eight seconds, eight seconds. And when you can't stay in a bull for eight seconds, and then you fall off and you fall off while the back end of the, the bull is up, and you fall off and you're down now underneath where the hooves are going to come back down, I just don't understand it. But that is as impressive and maybe in some ways less impressive because it happened so fast than when the writer and the horse, these horses, you know, I remember saying somebody like 10 years ago, you know, I go up and I'm all hat and no cattle. I mean, I own a ranch. I have 100, 150 maybe tops at some point when all the calves are grown up.

that's what I have for cattle, but I don't do anything with them. I don't know how to do anything with them. You know what I mean? I ride around in my cowboy hat, and I'm like, yeah, you gotta rustle up them cattle. And I go inside and I read a book or something. But when you see, I remember saying about 10 years ago,

that horse is worth how much? You know, you don't think about it with a Kentucky Derby. you're like, okay, it's a race horse. These horses, you know, the best horses are trained with buffalo. You know, because what they have to do is they have to, when you're rounding up cattle, you've got a whole bunch of them. I tried to do it myself, you know, in a four-wheeler. My cow, I was just told, just get that cow back here.

And I'm like, okay, I'll do that. I get in. My cow ended up, like, at a mountain top, you know, with me. They're like, how did you even do this? And I'm like, I don't know. I couldn't stop the cow. Every time I get in front of him, he'd go someplace. So anyway, it's really hard.

But these, they trained the best horses with Buffalo because Buffalo don't stop. And they're so fast, these horses will come in and they will trap to try to get them with the herd. they'll trap them and they're just like, you know, have you ever done this with like a kid where you're like, go ahead, try to get past me. Go ahead, go ahead. These horses are amazing. And when you connect that with the rider

and then a wild bull, it's incredible. It's incredible. It's amazingly impressive. You know, I mean, it's, I grew up in Connecticut, so there wasn't a ton of rodeo stuff that I, you know, it's a really. But Buffy did come over once in a while. We wrote it hot and hard.

Anyway, I was with Kid Rock yesterday. And I asked him, because he's now doing stuff with the rodeo, and I'm like, you grew up in Detroit, man. How did you get to rodeo? Listen to what he said. So we're here at, because you're starting something with PBR and the rodeo. Yeah, Kid Rock's Rock and rodeo. So, you grew up in Detroit. They're not a lot of rodeos in Detroit.

The Motown Rodeo. It would happen. I like the ring of that, though. What? You know, I grew up north of Detroit. We had six acres, a couple horses. You know, beautiful home, beautiful spread and all that. So, no, it was far from growing up as a cowboy or rodeo.

Although, you know, my parents were into that stuff, you know. They used to go, like to watch this fiddle player, sneaky peed, this little dirt foreplace. And, you know, they like to ride his horse and things like that. But, no, nothing like this. It wasn't until probably 20, I don't know if it was 20, 25 years ago when I started performing at high levels and started doing rodeos. There's Cheyenne rodeo. Yeah, yeah.

Rodeos in Canada, Calgary. And of course, the Houston rodeo. And so I was like, and it's kind of cool. It's kind of badass. Yeah. First time you go to a rodeo. I remember I was on CNN and I used to call myself a rodeo clown. I'm just a rodeo clown.

Until I got the president of the rodeo clown association wrote to me and said, do you know what rodeo clowns do? And I'm like, okay, you're right, you're right. I mean, it is really badass to use your language. It is, and it's one of the toughest sports, and I don't mean tough, like UFC tough. Right. I mean, like, cowboys and that whole lifestyle, cowgirls,

they're just tough people. I mean, just the way they live, they work so hard, the way they raise their families, the way they love this country. To me, that's tough. Let me cut and go to the next, a clip because we talked about also how let me use the word not tough not the word he chose how not tough America has become

cut a which one is that again the younger one no that's the after 60 born 65 oh okay I don't know what is wrong with that was somebody drunk when they put these clips together I don't know. He was just talking about how it's just the, I don't think I can use that language. It's language that I use, but I don't know if it's even legal to use that language on this particular word because it is perfect. You'll have to hear it in the podcast. It's a perfect word on how he describes what we become. And, you know, we used to go out and night kids and you're like, you know, you get your bike and you'd go to a rock quarry and you'd have a rock war with your friends. I mean, you were stupid. And we don't allow kids to be stupid anymore.

And I think this goes to what we have been in the last 20 years. It's such a tough thing as a parent, though. That's what he said. Oh, really? Yeah, he said. It's interesting. You know, I hate, you know, helmets on your bike. But then you look at it as a parent and go, yeah, well, but what if?

Right. And then, you know, number one, it's, you know, it's a terrible. outcome for your kid. And then number two, like, it feels like your fault if you don't take those steps. That's exactly what he said. And then we both pounced on those, those thoughts. You are. Oh, wuss. That is like, though, I think totally, you know, we've talked about this before in that, what do they, a free range parenting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, you know, I know logically, number one, really good for kids to be independent and explore and do all those things, right? Take risks. Like, you need that.

Number two, I also know that it's safer now than it ever was. I know. I mean, the stat that it was blows me away, and thankfully not literally, was that there were more deaths by school shooting when I was in high school than today by a big margin. It's not even close. And you're like, wait a minute. What? That was before Columbine.

That's because they were different style of school shooting. they were more like a couple people would get hit and there would be fights. It wasn't like the marquee. I'm trying to get attention for myself and kill as many people as possible stuff that kind of developed later. But when it comes to actual deaths

of shootings in high schools, it was more common then. So let me ask you something. What you're saying is you're admitting to being really almost a ringleader in getting us to say, you know what? If you want to be a woman,

you can be a woman. Because that's where that's, leads. That's a very long road to lead there. Oh, it's a very long road, but I got there. You did. I don't know how, but you got there.

No, because it's like, because we just keep weakening things down, a weakening things down until there's everybody's got to be safe. And then there's nobody who's like, shut up. Right. I'm going to go do this.

Yeah. And it's like, it's like, I know at a societal level, it is totally the right thing. And I think even the right thing for my individual kid. But like when it comes down to making those decisions, You become a wuss.

You, well, I mean, again, I think we started this with you guys both agreeing at this point. I don't know why I'm being singled out as the only one who's ever thought this way. It comes to my advantage. Oh, okay. Don't ever argue with a host. He always wins. I forgot. Yeah.

What are you thinking? The microphone. Right. But I do. Like, I have to make myself allow those situations. I have, like, it's not natural. I'm just dumb enough to why I don't think about. My wife will come out, you know, one of the kids will be bleeding or something.

you know, lost their arm and, you know, they're playing with a saw. And I was there the whole time. And I'll be like, I don't know. I didn't even see it happen. Yeah, you're just a bad father. I don't know if you know. Okay. But bad fathers have a place in America still.

That's true. All fathers were stupid. We were stupid guys. Let us be stupid again. Well, you'll never cut your second arm off. I'll tell you that. You'll learn your lesson. Right.

He also talked about P. Diddy. Oh. Uh-huh. Listen to this. It's dirty and it's evil. It's the most... Why do you say it that way? Oh, it's just full of scoundrels and scumbags.

Rip off con artists. I mean, what business, let's take a record company, what business basically they give you a loan? Now, of course, they do promotion and artist development and things like that. When you break it down to brass tax, kind of giving you a loan. And then after that, they basically take 80%

of everything you make. Like what business could survive doing that? Now there's a lot of money and there's an argument. I like to argue both sides that, you know, the artist go out and make the money touring where the money's at the gate. That's where the big money is. And, you know, the record companies usually don't share in that. They tried two years ago with these 360 deals.

They didn't work. But, I mean, they've been, they were charging artists for years. Like when records were out, certain percentage of those records would get broke in transit. Makes sense. So they had a 10% free goods clause. which means they charge an extra 10% because 10% of those records usually get broke. They kept that through digital.

Half the contracts. I mean, just start there. Look at the black artists when they started. You know the tales there. Look at the payoffs, you know, if you've ever read any of the books, of the payola for radio. The way these awards shows work,

the Grammys and the Oscars are such horrors. But you use the word evil, and when you said that, I think of P. Diddy. Is that real? I have no idea. Never got bite. think it's real? I think there was some, if I had to take an educated guess, there's some freaky stuff going

on. Is freaky stuff illegal? No. If involved children, screw you. You know, if there's certain, you know, I don't know. That's the Epstein thing. I don't know if it's... Yeah, when do we get to see that list?

Ask Pam. I know. Ask Pam. But, you know, you look at Epstein, you look at Diddy, and then you go to, you go to, Pizza Gate and you're like, okay, they didn't have children in the basement of that pizza place, but there's something collectively, I think

in our universal mind that we're like, something's wrong. There are there's the marketing and selling of children for sex. That is freaking disgusting. Those people should be lined up and shot. Period. There should be no nothing for there. We should go to medieval times on that, in my opinion.

I have files. I wondered when he said that, I was like medieval times. I mean, Do you want a big drumstick to watch that? I don't know. Anyway, it's Kid Rock. It is a great, great podcast. He makes some news in there on some of the things that he was talking about. Hear him talk about Donald Trump.

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And DB wrote in and said, if they said the president can't have a line item veto, that's too much power, then why would he be allowed to shut down an entire agency? He wouldn't be. And that's not what he's issuing an executive order supposedly today to not shut down the Department of Education, but get as close as legally possible. It was started by executive order, but then Congress codified it and passed a law that we're creating this agency and we're funding it. So whatever it is that they have to fund, he's going to have to keep open. But everything that they can take a surgical knife to and pare it down, his goal is to pair it down, show America, you know, this isn't helping us. This is making things worse because the one thing we're number one in is spending per pupil that's not helping anything.

That's what he'll do. And then hopefully Congress will just shut it down themselves. We'll see. This is Glenn Beck.