RADIOApril 19, 2022

Glenn: My friend died. THIS is what she taught me.

Glenn’s job not only is to warn you about what’s coming, he says, but to encourage you as well. And one of the most important ways to remain encouraged during these trying times is to decide WHO YOU ARE. Because if you don’t, Glenn explains, then the rest of the world will decide who you are instead. Decide the characteristics that define you, and speak them aloud for the next 60 days. Because you ARE that person...you may have just allowed somebody (or the world) to talk you out of it.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, believe it or not. There was a day when this show was rooted in comedy. I say this to people now, and they're like, what? We used to go on the road, 20 to 40 days in the year. And we would do comedy shows. And mainly, I got into this format. And, Stu, correct me if I'm wrong. To mock this format.

STU: Mainly that was the plan.

GLENN: Yeah. Too many of us take ourselves way too seriously. And I strangely have become one of those people. That have just become -- and it slowly happened. It's like the frog being boiled. You don't notice. 9/11 happened. And we had to take our job more seriously. And I realized, I'm a dope. I don't realize anything. So we'll figure this out. And then we'll go back to normal. Well, it never went back to normal. And then as -- as the stakes kept getting higher and higher. I became the more serious on finding answers. And then I was led to this new feeling. This calling. This responsibility, to warn you, on what was coming. Because nobody else in the media, most of them don't even care. They don't -- I mean, it is shark eyes. You start talking to some of these people in the media, about what's really happening. And they're like, uh-huh. Uh-huh.

I don't even (snoring). They don't care at all. So nobody is really alerting you. Which I felt I had to do. But then also, the audience, you know, as a general audience. I mean, as America. Most people just are looking for normalcy. And they really don't want to know. You know, I've asked myself. And we've asked ourselves, among our group, several times. Because once you know something, you can't unknow it. Well, no. Wait a minute. Joe Biden is proof that's not true. Because I think he knew a lot of things. And now he's like -- anyway.

Once you know something, you can't unknow it. And then what do you do with it? So we've asked each other several times. So would it have been better if we just kept making fun of stuff, and we were living in a bubble that we really didn't know the stuff we knew? Would we be happier?

No. No. We would find something to be miserable about. Come on. We are on the radio. Talk radio. You have to be pissed about something. No prophet ever ends his days in a lazy chair. Because most people don't want to know. You know.

And they'll tune out, because this is too big of a problem for me. I mean, what will be, will be. God will take care of it. He's really, no. Uh-uh. He's not your mom.

He's your dad. Dad is the one that always came in and said, your mother has said, clean this room up, I want it clean.

Okay. He's your dad. He's not like, please, clean up your room. Please clean up your room. Okay. Well, I'm tired of asking him. So I'll clean up the room.

Uh-uh.

We wash our hands and we wait for somebody else to fix it. Then worse yet, we get on Facebook, and we apply our filters, and pretend we have our crap together. Look at me. I'm actually looking at doing something on my Facebook and Instagram, where I just take a picture of me, every morning, as I get out of bed. Because it's a horror show. It's a horror show. But we look for the dopamine hit. You know, we take selfies in places we're not even really seeing it. We're just like, oh. Kangaroo. Let me get a selfie. And we move on with our lives. We're too busy looking at our screen. Nothing is real, and nothing has meaning. And I guess technically, we're working with our hands, as we're typing and posting. But we're not creating anything. Really, what are we creating? Online. Think how much time, you have. What are you creating? With your hands?

Nothing of value. I don't think -- maybe -- maybe in 1,000 years, people will go back and read some of our Facebook posts and go, oh, my gosh, that was incredibly deep. But I highly doubt it. So we're living in a dream world. And by doing that, we make ourselves slaves of whatever is coming our way. Because how many people do you know that you talk to, that you're like, hey. Do you have like food storage or something? Did you see that the world is on fire? No. I don't pay attention to that. I'm just sick of watching the news. It just gets me down. And you're like, okay. All right. Move away from this person.

They're going to be a slave to whatever happens. They're going need to somebody. Oh, and there will always be someone there, to help you.

You know, the problem is really, because of the filters, we had this in the past. We remember -- we remember our past in technicolor. Or Kodachrome. Do you remember that?

Where the colors were very, very vivid. Yeah. That's distortion. That one didn't really look like that. No. Grass was never that green.

So we look, at the guys who were probably -- I mean, seriously, I don't mean to be crass. Or anything. Or show any disrespect. But I mean this sincerely. How many people -- when that -- when that door fell open on those boats in Omaha, how many guys actually crapped their pants or peed their pants? I bet a lot. I bet a lot did. But you don't get that on smellovision. You're like, look at those heroes out there storming the beaches. Man, that's when men were men. They were crapping their pants, most likely.

But they did it. Those who rode the Freedom Bus to march with Martin Luther King, I don't think they were all like, yep. This is going to be a picnic. We're going to have a nice time in Washington, DC. No. No. But they did it.

Isn't it amazing? The last time we -- we silenced people, that, you know, others disagreed with, was the McCarthy hearings.

Remember how shameful that was? What's the difference between now communism is neat?

The difference is, we don't stand, I don't think, because we have a place to escape to. A digital landscape. It's another world. Where everyone is perfect. All kids behave themselves, and there are no problems.

When I was growing up, you nasty little kids. We only had one reality, and it sucked.

But we did it.

You know, the news can really get you down. I know. I'm an expert. News can really get you down. And then you go home. And then your house is on fire. And you're like, okay. Well, not all of -- nope. Nope. Now all the kids are on fire. Okay. That's good.

But I want you to know, I am not here. I -- I -- something is happening in me. I think it's good. I think.

What I felt my job was to warn -- my job is changing. It still will be to warn. But it's also to encourage you.

Because I know what life is like. I live out there too. He can't understand my life. Want to swap places? I'll bet you, they're the same. Except. Uh-uh. MyPillow. I have nicer sheets. No.

We are living in a time where Frank Sinatra was right. Some people just get their kicks on stomping on your dreams.

My father was right. He always said, you better know who you are. Glenn, say this with me. I am, blank. Fill in the blank. What are you filling it in with? Who are you going to be? I am, what?

I'm like, I am a disc jockey. He's like, that's ridiculous. Stop it. Otherwise, I'm going to have to say, I'm stupid. He's like, it's got to be -- who do you want to be? Not what do you want to be. Who do you want to be? I am strong. I am independent.

He said, if you don't say those things, believe me, there will be someone, or the entire world, will fill it in for you. Your family does this. I'm still the stinky little brother.

I am the stinky little brother. Still that to my sisters. Our families do it. Then the office does it. School does it. The world does it. And look at how it's filling things in for you right now. What are you? I am racist. I'm sexist. I'm white.

And if you're -- if you're actually on the popular side, what are they teaching you to say, I'm helpless. I'm impoverished. I'm -- I'm just someone who needs somebody else to do everything else for me. Because I can't do it. Because I'm not successful. And I'm not ever going to ever be successful. Because I can't be successful. My gosh, do you want to live in that world?

This is all leading somewhere. Because I just, in the break, just got news that a friend of mine passed away. You won't know her name. Few will know her name. But I hope when I die, I can be successful -- as successful as she was.

I'll explain in a minute. Well, it looks like CNN finally got around to listening to things that we've been talking about for a while. Sit down for this. CNN is reporting. And I quote, breaking news. The dollar might be in trouble.

Wow. That was breaking news about 2008. The dollar is our country's greatest weapon. And we blew it up. We -- yeah. We pressed the button on the dollar. Now, other countries are going, wait a minute. They'll do it to Russia. I might want to get away from the dollar. This is going to lead to further debasement of our dollar. According to the IMF over the last 20 years. A quarter of global reserves have shifted from the dollar. That's good. Huh? Then they told us, before it was breaking news. They told us, that would never happen. Well, it's hang.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.