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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.

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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.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.