RADIOJune 12, 2023

How prepared are YOU for a possible supply chain BREAKDOWN?

If the banking system collapses, if there’s another worldwide pandemic, or if something else catastrophic occurs that causes a supply chain breakdown, are YOU adequately prepared? In this clip, Glenn gives Stu the ultimate preparedness quiz — which covers questions about water, flashlights, food supplies, and more. So, could YOUR family survive if a crisis hits? Or, perhaps, is it time to head to Costco…?

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Transcript

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. So yesterday, I tweeted and put something on Instagram. A video of my wife and I went shopping at Costco yesterday. And I just tweeted, not saying you should go to Costco. But I'm not not saying it either.

Just assuming like a dummy, that people would understand, that I'm concerned about the banking system.

And, you know, just a good idea to stock up on aspirin and children's Tylenol and allergy medicine. And things that you will need, if there's a breakdown of the supply chain, you don't want to be without medicine and toothpaste and things like that.

STU: Sure.

GLENN: So that's what I did yesterday. And then immediately, it caught fire with, Glenn Beck is suggesting that there will be so much unrest due to Trump being indicted. That people should stock up on essentials.

STU: You suggested that?

GLENN: That's what I suggested apparently.

So that was what I really was worried about. Had nothing to do with the banks. No. Uh-uh. Had nothing to do with that.

STU: I feel like that was in the news. People might have heard about it.

GLENN: Yeah. It might have been something I have been known to talk about, being prepared.

And speaking of that, I have the results of this audience, and I think it's going to shock you.

This audience, we took a poll of 10,000 audience members.

How prepared are you? Now, we took this last week. Stu, you didn't get a chance to participate, darn it. So for mainly entertainment purposes, I thought we would have you take the poll.

How much food do you have saved with a long shelf life? I only order takeout.

Maybe until the end of a workweek. At least two weeks' worth of food.

My food stockpile can last several months. That's three. I'm good for at least a year.

STU: I mean, definitely at least two weeks. I would say, question is, can I get to several months? And I think --

GLENN: Three?

STU: I will go with that one. I think I can get to that one.

I do have -- I had placed an order a couple years ago, My Patriot Supply. Got some stuff.

GLENN: For what? Like your 48-hour kit from My Patriot Supply?

STU: No, it was a couple of big boxes. Lots of packages in there.

GLENN: Do you even know where they are? Oh, boy.

STU: Yes. Loosely.

I know kind of where they are. I can find them in a pinch.

GLENN: Okay. How much bottled water do you have stored in case of an emergency? Tap water doesn't count. None, I would be dead within three days.

I have a large pack of plastic water bottles from my kids' soccer games that could last a couple of days.

STU: Definitely at least this high.

GLENN: I have a few Costco-sized water bottle packs that could last a week or two.

My water stockpile could last several months.

I'm good for at least a year.

STU: There's a big gap between a couple weeks and several months. I -- I feel like I'm falling in that window quite a bit.

GLENN: Yeah, I know.

STU: Because I do have a few of those big water cooler jugs, you know, that I kept. We had a water cooler, we don't have it anymore.

But I kept a bunch of the extra bottles, just in case. Because I was thinking about you. You were always talking about having --

GLENN: So when let's say power goes out, you'll be able to not fill those right away.

STU: No. They're filled. They're sealed. When they were first delivered.

GLENN: Good for you. You probably have a better water supply than I have.

STU: I knew it. I'm the one who is prepared around here.

GLENN: Well, anyway.

How many of the following basic supplies do you have? A flashlight with extra batteries?

STU: Probably, yeah.

GLENN: I'm battery central, man. My wife has like batteries.

Batter-powered solar-powered radio.

STU: Solar-powered radio.

GLENN: Or battery-powered radio.

STU: I might have that.

GLENN: Cell phones and chargers.

STU: Yeah. Cell phones and chargers. Yes, I've got cell phones and chargers.

GLENN: And matches.

STU: We have a few lighters. Does that count?

GLENN: Yeah. Well, I guess.

It doesn't say lighters, but matches.

STU: Yeah. I think I was pretty good on that one, you know.

I mean, this is -- I'm basically a prepper, is what we're learning.

GLENN: How secure is your home or shelter? Not prepared at all. I have a fireplace and firewood.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: I do have a fireplace.

GLENN: Yeah. But it's gas, isn't it?

STU: I do have a gas fireplace.

I do have -- like one of those outdoor fire pits. Does that count?

I got a propane tank. We can slide that right in the house. What would go wrong?

GLENN: No, it doesn't.

I have an alternative source of heat to cook food, like a charcoal grill or camping stove. There you are.

STU: I have a gas grill.

GLENN: In addition to a heat source, I have a backup generator in case of power outages.

I have a very -- I have a little backup generator. We lost power. And I was able to power the refrigerator for eight straight hours. We didn't lose our food.

GLENN: There we go. I have an entire bunker ready to go, if power goes out.

STU: Well, I have that. That's Glenn's house. We think of Glenn's house as our bunker.

GLENN: I have guns, if I wouldn't have lost them in that fishing accident.

STU: That's why I was happy you lost them in the fishing accident. Because now I can come over, and you probably won't shoot at my early.

GLENN: How strong is your emergency fund?

This one is really very important.

Because if the banks go down, which do not panic.

All you have to do is prepare. If you have enough money for a few days of what it would cost to, you know, get gas, and food, or whatever.

You should have that in cash.

It would be great to have, you know, your monthly bills, in cash for a month. Okay?

But you should have some cash, just in case there's a banking holiday. Hmm, I love that.

STU: I mean, the bank collapses. I mean, I'm not paying bills. What are they going to do?

Just tell them the bank collapsed. Sorry, I can't make those payments.

GLENN: Okay. How strong is your emergency fund? I don't have an emergency fund. My emergency fund can cover one to two months of expenses.

This is not cash on-hand, this is what you would have in the bank.

STU: Oh, okay.

GLENN: Three to five months of expenses, six to eight months of expenses, a year's worth of expenses.

STU: I mean, I could go easily into multiple years. I got it all stored over at FTX. I don't remember. I haven't checked in a while though.

GLENN: How much do you have invested in silver, gold, or extra precious medals? None. I bought half a gram of silver just for kicks, precious medals are a small part of what I have, precious medals medium, or precious medals large part.

STU: You know, I --

GLENN: This is entertainment purposes.

STU: Entertainment purposes. My Social Security number, is that the next question on this?

GLENN: Yeah. How many of these barter skills do you know?

I was bad on this one.

Carpentry, sewing, auto repair, medical expertise, or zero.

STU: When do you get to talk on radio?

GLENN: Zero. Yeah, that's zero.

I had to punch zero on that one. How much emergency fuel do you have stored for your car? None. I need an extra gallon of gas in the garage. I have enough extra gas to last a month.

Gas stored for the last six months.

STU: What are you supposed to do with extra gas?

GLENN: You put it in -- you know, you put it in plastic containers, okay? Big, red plastic containers.

STU: And then what?

GLENN: You fill them up.

And then over about a two-month period, you cycle through that gas. So if you need gas instead of --

STU: I've read horror stories of them. Because I lost power, I had to get gas from the generator. And then I did that. And then I had -- once the power came back on, I had leftover gas.

And then I was like, well, what am I supposed to do with that gas?

Then I went online. I made the mistake of searching for what I should do. And it was like, your house will burn down, if you keep this gas anywhere within 500 feet of your home.

That's basically what they said.

So then I just started running my car in the driveway, burning gas, and filling it back up. That's legitimately what I did.

GLENN: Is that what you did?

STU: I just ran my gas in the driveway for like eight straight hours. And just kept filling it up, until I burnt it up. Added it directly into the atmosphere.

GLENN: If you have a shed or something like that, just keep it in the shed.

STU: Then the shed burns down. That's what online said.

GLENN: Then there will be an explosion.

How well can you use a paper map? Hopeless without an i Phone?

Could possibly navigate to the other side of the neighborhood.

Navigate around a new city.

Can handle long hall road map trips with a paper map.

I'm -- I'm Bear Grylls. Drop me in the middle of a Mongolian desert with a map and a compass, and I could find my way back to civilization.

STU: I mean, I am probably not to that level, but I can read a paper map.

I will say, this is the same thing that will happen with AI.

I was thinking of you the other day, when I was thinking of this.

Because what happened from maps to GPS, is about -- is about what's about to happen with our writing skills?

GLENN: Everything. Everything.

STU: Everything. You're not going to do any of it anymore.

You're going to click ChatGPT. It will write something up.

GLENN: You will go. I need report. Yes, we got it.

STU: Idiocrasy is going to happen.

GLENN: Yeah. It will happen. It will happen.

Did you actually take it, and click on it?

STU: Oh. I thought you were doing it.

GLENN: Oh, I was doing it for me. I'm Mad Max, by the way, 100 percent. Even with no skills. No skills.

STU: Anyway, I'll quickly go through it.

GLENN: You go through it, 10,000 people took the quiz in this audience. Where do you think most of this audience is?

STU: I mean, I would think, you would think this audience, super well prepared, right?

GLENN: So 1.7 are toast. Okay?

STU: That's their category.

GLENN: You won't survive if your kitchen table breaks. It's like, I don't know what to do. I had to eat the children.

So that's 1.7 that took it, not prepared at all. Thirteen percent could survive a mild disaster. They've tucked, you know, some finances away for emergencies. They have useful tools or skills. And, you know, a little bit of food.

Most of this audience could survive a big disaster.

In fact, 69.8 percent of this audience, congratulations, you have some investment in precious metals, an emergency fund, some food and supplies stockpiled.

Maybe an extra generator. Even though, you may not be a prepper, you've taken steps to prepare for hard times, which will protect you and your loved ones for weeks, even months.

That's 70 percent of this audience. Then there's this -- Mad Max category of 15 percent, 14.7 percent.

Fifteen percent of this audience is Mad Max. You're one of the few people who could actually survive a nuclear apocalypse.

STU: Right.

GLENN: There -- there's a few that I'll bet you, in the general population, I can't even imagine.

What? One percent. Less than 1 percent. Your bunker is stocked with food, water supplies to last you months.

Silver, gold, emergency fund, will help you cruise in times of financial distress. You can secure more goods because you have learned a bunch of barter skills. You are Mad Max. It's great.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Now, if you haven't taken this test, you can just take it for yourself now.

But we have the ultimate preparation guide, which is filled with really easy, do this. Do you have this?

Just a checklist. And you can go as far as you want on the list, but it is a really easy guide to be prepared for whatever may come your way.

Go to GlennBeck.com now, and see how prepared you actually are, and then prepare.

If you want that list, you can find it at GlennBeck.com. I think it's no longer on the front page.

So I think you have to go down and click on, what is it? Extra stories or something like that. If you just go to the front page, you'll --

STU: Load more content.

GLENN: Yeah, load more content. Elton. It's right before my big fat face with radio and TV on it. Hit that, and then you'll find it on that second page.

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.

Transcript

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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.