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Glenn Beck: Couple of the Year

February 16, 2009
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The Glenn Beck Program


Couple Of The Year - Volume 1

Quite possibly our favorite show of the year-the "Couple of the Year" presentation. Listen back to some of our best moments from these classic shows - available as a CD or download it instantly in MP3 format.

GLENN: Hello, Pete, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

CALLER: How are you doing?

GLENN: Good, how are you?

CALLER: Good. Been sick all weekend, seriously in the doghouse.

GLENN: What happened?

CALLER: Got to help me out. Well, I've just been sick. She comes in Valentine's morning, hands me a card, candy, and I didn't get her squat.

GLENN: What did you say?

CALLER: I said I'm sorry, honey, but I didn't get you anything. I've been sick. She says, that's no excuse.

GLENN: I hate that. I hate that, "It's no excuse." Okay, what is her name?

CALLER: Her name is Cheryl.

GLENN: Now, you know if she catches you in this, you're in even more trouble?

CALLER: I know.

GLENN: But you're willing to take that risk?

CALLER: I'm willing to take that risk.

GLENN: Okay. Let me just fill out the form letter that you sent to me. You entered this contest.

CALLER: Okay.

GLENN: And you entered -- I'm going to hell her that you entered this contest months ago and we called you on Friday, we were supposed to award this to you and we asked you -- because I was gone, we asked you not to tell her.

CALLER: Okay.

GLENN: Okay? So dear Mr. Beck, I've never entered a contest like this before, however, I felt I had to tell you about my beautiful wife, right?

CALLER: Wife.

GLENN: I really can't express in words how uniquely wonderful Cheryl -- I'm just writing it in -- Cheryl is. Honestly at first I thought I was just attracted to her... what? What were you attracted to? Honestly at first --

CALLER: Oh, her eyes.

STU: Wait, it's anything but eyes, Glenn. That's a specific rule.

GLENN: Anything but eyes.

CALLER: Oh, anything but eyes?

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: She's younger than me. I don't know.

GLENN: It sounds like just a wild love affair that you two had.

CALLER: Yeah.

STU: Her what, her youth, you say?

CALLER: Her youth.

GLENN: Her youth. Is this Billy Joel calling? But as time went on, it turned into so much more. I guess I knew it was true love the first time we... blank. What do you, first time you what?

CALLER: First time we kissed.

STU: Anything but kissed, Glenn. That's another rule. Come on, eyes and kissed? How boring are you?

CALLER: First time we went for a walk on the beach.

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of Pete. What, are you talking to her about freshness? First time we talked -- first time we went for a walk.

CALLER: On the beach.

GLENN: When's the last time you went for a walk on the beach with your wife, huh?

CALLER: It's been a few years because I live in Oklahoma.

GLENN: And that trip to... where, was just wonderful? What trip did you guys take?

CALLER: You're putting me on the spot here. The trip to Arizona.

GLENN: The trip to Arizona. Boy, the photo albums that you two must have are just --

CALLER: Oh, they're wonderful.

GLENN: They are wonderful. You look through them sometimes once in a while, just to laugh, remember? I guess what sets her apart is the distinctive way she... what?

CALLER: Takes care of me.

GLENN: Stu.

STU: She does that in a distinctive way, Glenn.

GLENN: Is this -- this marriage is destined for divorce court. She takes care of me unlike any other woman in the... in the what?

STU: This is the county you live in? What county do you live in?

GLENN: I live in Oklahoma County.

STU: Oklahoma County there, Glenn.

GLENN: I could go on forever but that would take away from my time with her and I have to get back to work at... where are you working? Where are you working?

CALLER: I work at Tinker Air Force base, but I'm a federal employee. So I have the day off.

GLENN: Okay. Where I -- what do you do there?

CALLER: I'm a B-52 aircraft mechanic.

GLENN: From the hours of what? Like 9:00 to 5:00 Monday through Friday, what are your hours there?

CALLER: 6:45 to 3:30.

GLENN: Monday through Friday?

CALLER: Correct.

GLENN: Sometimes Saturday?

CALLER: Sometimes Saturday.

GLENN: That's why I was thinking, I think we should be Valentine's Day, for it's simple. I just love Cheryl.

CALLER: Correct.

GLENN: We're going to call Cheryl up here. We're going to take a break and then we're going to call her up.

CALLER: Okay.

GLENN: There's a specific way that you have to -- I'm going to ask you at the end and say, "Do you have anything else you want to say to Cheryl?" And Pete, you need to count to 5, it's a scientific thing, you need to count to 5 and then you'll say, yes. Cheryl? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... I love you.

STU: Don't say the numbers out loud, though. You have to just think the numbers.

GLENN: You can if you want to.

STU: That's not a good idea.

GLENN: By the way, if you blow the counting thing and it's under 5 seconds, I rat you out to Cheryl.

CALLER: I won't.

GLENN: You'll be living in that B-52 and dropped from 40,000 feet.

[Break]

Now we have Pete who wants to be our Valentine's couple of the year. Can we bring Pete up real quick? Hi, Pete. Pete, are you there?

CALLER: I'm here.

GLENN: We're calling Cheryl. Let's rehearse just the end of this, all right? First of all, you wrote a letter to me six months ago.

CALLER: Yes.

GLENN: You were in this contest. We called you a couple of weeks ago and then what happened? What happened, Pete?

CALLER: Well, I got sick, Glenn.

GLENN: No, no, no. I got sick.

CALLER: I got sick.

GLENN: You were going to, I was supposed to call you guys on Friday to let you know that I was sending you out to dinner and everything else.

CALLER: Right.

GLENN: And I told you not to tell Cheryl because we wanted to have you on the air and surprise her with it.

CALLER: Right.

GLENN: And I wasn't able to do it on Friday. You were sick on top of it, but Cheryl, I really did have a present for you. It was this contest. We're going out, you know, on the town.

Now, where do you want to go? Where are you going to pay to take her?

CALLER: I'm going to pay to take her to the Boulevard Steakhouse.

GLENN: Is that one of her favorite places?

CALLER: Oh, it's a wonderful place.

GLENN: No, that wasn't the question. Is that one of her favorite places?

CALLER: It will be.

STU: It's going to go well. It's going to go well.

GLENN: This is going to go really well.

STU: We have Cheryl now. She's not on hold but she can't hear this.

GLENN: Real quick, we're going to test the ending here with you. I'm going to say, is there anything else you want to say to her and you say..

CALLER: I love you so much.

STU: No, see, he's going to screw this up.

GLENN: If you screw this up, you'll rat you out. You'll say, "Yes, Glenn, there is. Cheryl..." and then you count to five, silently, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... "I love you."

STU: Just like that.

GLENN: Just like that. It's scientific. The longer you wait, keeps you choking up and everything else. So is there anything else you want to say to Cheryl? Pete, we're rehearsing. One more time.

CALLER: I love you.

GLENN: How did you make it to the altar?

CALLER: Waited five seconds like you told me.

GLENN: You need to say yes, Glenn. Cheryl?

CALLER: Yes, Glenn.

GLENN: Then you wait. You say, Cheryl?" And she's say, yes. So is there anything you want to say, Pete?

CALLER: Yes, Glenn. Cheryl?

GLENN: Now count to five.

CALLER: (Counting)

GLENN: "Yes?"

CALLER: I love you.

GLENN: Perfect. You got it?

CALLER: I got it.

GLENN: Go ahead and start the theme music and put her on hold so she can hear a little bit of that.

(Music)

GLENN: Coming up in just a minute.

VOICE: And now it's the contest in the making, it's Glenn Beck's quest to find the ultimate couple of love. The essays have been written, the heartfelt words have been read and the winner has been selected. So now to introduce the country's passionate pair, here's the love god himself, Glenn Beck.

GLENN: Oh, we've got a special one. We've got a special one this year. You know, if you listen to this program, you know that every year we pick a couple of the year and we spend about six months doing this contest where we ask guys to write in, and most of the guys have never done a contest like this before and it was supposed to happen on Friday but you know what happened on this program and I wasn't here to be able to do it on Friday. So we called Pete and asked him, and I hope, is Pete on the line? Pete, I hope you weren't in any trouble this weekend.

CALLER: Just a little bit.

GLENN: Just a little bit? Did you blow the surprise? Did you blow the surprise?

CALLER: No, I didn't blow the surprise.

GLENN: You kept it to yourself?

CALLER: I did.

GLENN: Do we have Cheryl on the phone?

CALLER: Yes.

GLENN: Hi, Cheryl, how are you?

CALLER: Fine, how are you?

GLENN: I'm very good. You're on the radio and we just wanted to call. And first of all, I have to apologize. First of all, say hello to your husband. Pete is on the phone.

CALLER: Hi, honey.

CALLER: Hi, sweetheart.

GLENN: Now Cheryl, I understand you didn't have a good Valentine's Day.

CALLER: Well, I've had better.

GLENN: You've had better?

CALLER: Yeah.

GLENN: Did you have any idea that Pete was working on something?

CALLER: No, I didn't.

GLENN: Good for you, Pete. Good for you. All right. Now here's what happened. Pete wrote me a letter about, how long ago, Pete, was it that you wrote in?

CALLER: Oh, six months.

GLENN: Okay. He wrote a letter, and we do this contest every year where, you know, Valentine's couple of the year, and he wrote a letter and we got this one really pretty early and I kept it off to the side, and I could tell that Pete's not the kind of guy that does these kinds of things, is he normally real romantic?

CALLER: No, no.

GLENN: Really?

CALLER: No.

GLENN: Well, it sure doesn't show in this letter, but..

CALLER: He has a lot of compassion but after a long time of marriage, we just, we don't see it very often.

GLENN: Really? Pretty dead?

CALLER: Yeah.

GLENN: Yeah, he's almost dead inside? Yeah.

CALLER: No, he's not that bad.

GLENN: Yeah, but almost. He's intensive care. Yeah, well, here it is. You know, Pete, I didn't catch that from you in this letter. Here's what he wrote, Cheryl. He said, dear Mr. Beck, I've never entered a contest like this before. However, I felt I had to tell you about my beautiful wife. I can't express in words how uniquely wonderful Cheryl truly is. Honestly at first I think I was just attracted to her youth but as time went by it turned into so much more. I guess I knew it was true love the first time we went for that walk on that beach and that trip to Arizona. Wow, what a perfect time that was.

You painted that, Pete, you really painted that. "I guess what sets her apart is the distinctive way she takes care of me, unlike any other woman in Oklahoma County. I could go on forever but that would take away from my time with her and I have to get back to my work. I work at Tinker Air Force base where I'm a mechanic on B 52s from 6:45 to 3:30 in the afternoon Monday through Friday and sometimes on Saturday. Besides, everyone always tries to make love so complex and that's why I think we should be your Valentine's couple of the year because for me it's simple. I just love Cheryl."

CALLER: That's beautiful.

GLENN: By the way Cheryl we're going to send you out to the Boulevard Steakhouse and you guys can have a nice dinner together.

CALLER: Thank you.

GLENN: You can remember, bring some of your photo albums and just look back at all of the good times you guys have had together.

CALLER: Thank you so much.

GLENN: Pete, do you have anything to say to Cheryl?

CALLER: Yes, Glenn. Cheryl?

CALLER: Yes.

CALLER: I love you.

CALLER: I love you, too.

GLENN: Another happy couple. Our couple of the year, Cheryl and Pete. Guys, have a good time. Thank you so much.

CALLER: Thank you, Glenn.

GLENN: All right, bye bye.

VOICE: Proof once and for all that true love really does exist. You've been listening to Glenn Beck as he honors amore and the incredibly rare loving men who go that extra mile to bring their soul mate the affection and attention they so richly deserve: Men who care enough to share their true feelings, men who always are the... are they gone yet?

GLENN: Are they off?

VOICE: God, I thought I was going to puke there for a minute.

STU: Perfect. There was a perfect execution, Glenn.

GLENN: It really was. He was very good at it. I feel a little dirty.

STU: You always do after this show.

GLENN: I just feel just a little dirty from that.

Biden's Cabinet Secrets: Marching Toward the Great Reset

Joe Biden's administration is getting ready for something historic, but we're all being distracted. And now that Biden has hired at least 14 former or current executives from Big Tech — experts at colluding to censor unflattering news about Biden — Americans must be laser-focused on what's coming.

On January 20, the most corrupt president in American history will be inaugurated, and it looks like some of his cabinet choices were picked specifically so everything just – poof – goes away. The administration nominees appear to be all about preserving corruption, crony capitalism, and executing a Great Reset. Those same people also have one more thing in common: Ukraine.

On his Wednesday night special this week, Glenn exposes their radical agenda in their own words and gives U.S. senators the questions they must ask before confirming corrupt nominees to some of the highest offices in the country.


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BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: We ARE NOT the people to give in to violence

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I want to talk to you about something that probably didn't make a lot of sense a long time ago. In fact, I can't tell you how many program directors and how many stations threatened to cancel. Or how many calls I got from the average listener saying; What the hell are you even talking about when I talked about, the leadership of Martin Luther King.

I have done everything I can — as much as I possibly can — to teach you about Martin Luther King and nonviolent protests. And I don't think there's anybody in the media who has talked about nonviolence longer and more in-depth on commercial airwaves than me. Preachers, certainly. But commercial airwaves — I don't think anybody has.

Now I think many are beginning to understand why I tried to lay that foundation. I have told you since September 11th that I have this feeling you are going to be the group of people that will, in the end, save the republic.

I've always believed that. I don't know how it's saved. It might just be preserved in our hearts, I don't know. But I believe it now.

I never wanted us to get to this point — everything I've done is to prevent us from getting here. But everybody is so politically tied to their side that no one will let their shields down and actually listen to one another.

And we're at that desperate point now.

You are equipped to save the republic because you at least hopefully have a fundamental understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And you have at least a basic understanding of American history. More importantly, what makes this audience so phenomenal is that it is the most generous and service-minded audience of any show in America and perhaps the world.

That's part of what continues to be so frustrating about the Capitol invasion last week. Because you're being maligned.

You.

I know who you are. This is the most peaceful, generous, loving, God-fearing, authentic and patriotic audience in America. And you are frustrated and you are tired of being hit in the face and being called bigot and everything else no matter what you do.

I've been called an anti-Semite just in the last 24 hours by everybody, unjustly.

I get it.

You are now being tainted by the actions of complete imbeciles who do not represent you and me. It's not fair. But that's the hand that we're being dealt and God is in charge and He is not surprised.

We know the left's current tactics fail in the long run. Silencing. Canceling. Taking away rights.

We know the left's current tactics fail in the long run. Silencing. Canceling. Taking away rights. These are the hallmarks of regime, after regime, after Marxist regime on the ash heaps of history. Now China is still there because they've taken the so-called free market and took the capitalist system and they combined it with their Marxist utopia.

I don't know what's going to happen to the people over there. Especially seeing that our high-tech has joined them to weed out the dissidents. But it's not inevitable that we join them.

And it is going to require us to take a stand. Just not in the way that most people — especially if they're angry — think is most effective. Look at the ratings of BLM. 78 percent of Americans, at the beginning of the summer, thought that they were swell.

That number is in the low 20s now. Why? Because violence doesn't work.

I don't know if you saw the fellowship of the ring, but if you did, do you remember when Frodo said: "I don't want to do this!"

He's lamenting having to face down the evil and he's just one guy. I'll never forget it because it was right after 9/11, that the movie came out. I'll never forget Gandalf's reply. He said: "So do we all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what we're going to do with the time that is given us."

We can't decide what others are going to do. We can't control the dangerous Orwellian darkness that seems to be descending on America. All we can control is our response and strive to lead by example. If you know anyone in your sphere of influence who might be planning to attend one of these armed rallies in the coming days, beg them not to go. Do everything you can to stop them.

That's not a way to take a stand and it will not protect anything you hold dear and it will endanger the republic. It is what the other side wants.

So how do we take a stand?

The first thing I need you to do today is to help lower the temperature. It has been so hard for me not to respond to people on Twitter who have called me every name under the sun because I quoted the leading Holocaust historian last night on Tucker Carlson.

But see, that wasn't an attack on me, that was an attack on Tucker. If you can scare the guests from coming on to Tucker, you destroy Tucker. That's what they're doing.

Do not vent your anger on social media. At this point, it is probably just going to get your account shut down.

I want you to write this down and I want you to keep this in front of you.

Blessed are the peacemakers. For they will be called the children of God.

That means something today, much more than it did six months ago.

Blessed be the peacemakers.

Be a peacemaker.

And this is the hard part, you can't disconnect. Because things are moving too rapidly. You must stay plugged in.

But I want you to reach out to someone in kindness on social media. Encourage someone. Do not engage with the darkness. Be the light in the corner of your world.

You need to be a leader for what is to come.

And I know I'm asking you almost the impossible. I know you're angry and frustrated and it is gut-wrenching to feel that you're powerless to stop your nation from what you believe is sliding into the abyss.

You are not powerless. You are not voiceless.

I believe it too, with everything in me. I wish I was wrong. I hope that I am. I pray that I am. But know this: You are not powerless. You are not voiceless. You may be the only voice that anyone hears. Voices like mine will go away. I am trying to think of what I need to share with you before, God forbid, that ever happens. Because I cannot live with myself if I talked about something stupid politically and I find my voice silenced and then saying, I wish I would have said this or I wish I would have told them that.

You wield more power than you know. Not because of your voice or being able to call your congressman. You're more powerful than you know because you understand the real problem in America. The real problem in America is not political.

It is spiritual.

If you're like me when you get angry, you think that you are going to take on this challenge on your own — you are not being humble. You think you'll fix it. Everything that is happening to us is because we are an arrogant, out of control people.

We must humble ourselves. Please, you have the skill and the strength to endure the fiery darts that are going to come your way or already are. But this is a problem with our hearts.

You cannot reach someone's head without capturing their heart and no one is going to capture anyone's heart through violence.

Start in your own home and then reach out and if you're able, serve your neighbor. If you can, serve your local community. You must be a beacon of light in a very dark place. I'm going to ask you to do something you're really not going to like. And that's how I know things are from God. When I hear something or I think something and I'm like — oh crap, I don't want to do that — and you just know it it's right. You just know it's what God wants. And you're hoping that maybe you didn't hear it.

And it's so horrible. Because it's the last thing you want to do. But God is unlike many of our churches and preachers, He doesn't tell us what we want to hear. He doesn't have to pay for the church or get collection. Or be judged by how many people go.

Rise above the fray, with service and love, with malice toward none and charity toward all.

He'll say the same thing and he'll lose whole flocks. And they'll eventually start to go — oh wait, where is the Shepherd again?

But I have to tell you now some things that I want you to do. And they're not new. But I need you to hear me. I am asking you if you want to stand for the republic, I need you first to pray.

Pray like you've never prayed before. Pray for humility. Pray for guidance. Pray for peace. Pray for those people who you think you hate. Because you don't. Because hatred does not come from any good place.

Then I want you go out and serve someone in any way possible. On inauguration day especially, get your family and your children involved. Volunteer somewhere, take someone a meal. Do something to lift the spirits of hospital workers or your local police department.

Help a stranger mow a lawn, fix someone's car, pick up trash on the side of the highway. Do what you can do. But the most important thing is to do it with a sincere heart. And if someone asks you, why are you doing this? Just say, because I love my country.

Rise above the fray with service and love, with malice toward none and charity toward all.

Watch how the conversation went on radio HERE:

A pre-Inauguration Day plea: You wield MUCH more power than you know youtu.be


'I will NEVER stop standing for freedom of speech': Glenn Beck reacts to Parler shutdown by Big Tech

Early Monday morning, Amazon Web Services removed social networking platform Parler from its cloud servers. This comes just after Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their app stores over the weekend.

"You can't find them on the internet anymore. They're gone," Glenn Beck said on his radio program Monday.

"This is something I warned you of four years ago ... because a profound technological change is coming," he continued. "I told you, at the time, high tech will need the government, and the government will need high tech. And they will work together to preserve their power and their position. This is what's happening, today."

Glenn said he believes the "far left" has been talking about breaking up companies like Parler for years, and that the Capitol riots provided the opportunity they needed.

"This is not the end of this. This is where the Left is starting," he warned. "Those who persist in standing for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble, freedom to keep and bear arms, those people will be targeted for deletion. You will be hounded, boycotted, fired, ostracized, and de-platformed. And the louder and the more significant and effective your voice is, the bigger the target is on your back.

"But, let me say this: I will never stop standing for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble, freedom to keep and bear arms, and all of the rest of the Bill of Rights. That is the American thing to do."

Watch the video below for more from Glenn:


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Glenn Beck: This is the REAL Raphael Warnock and our new 'national religion'

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Multiple news outlets have called one of Georgia's Senate runoff elections for the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the Democrat who defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

So, on the radio show Wednesday, Glenn Beck looked into what this "radical preacher" has been saying in the past — and what he'll likely bring to the U.S. Senate in the future.

"Warnock is in one of the most influential and powerful stages of the country. And I use the word 'stage' intentionally," Glenn said. "It's the pulpit. He's the guy who says, if you voted for Donald Trump, well, you're a sinner."

Glenn introduced a video clip in which Warnock asserts:

If it is true that a man who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, then it is doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral, needs to repent. I know, no matter what happens next month, more than a third of the nation that would go along with this, has reason to be afraid. America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness!

"So, (according to Warnock) you should be afraid," Glenn said. "Oh, and whiteness is evil. And, somehow or another, America has been worshiping whiteness ... see, critical race theory is now our new national religion."

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