RADIOOctober 27, 2025

I took the NEW American citizenship test. Was it as HARD as they say?

The Washington Post recently compiled a 10-question quiz based on the federal government’s newly revamped US citizenship test, which is allegedly harder to pass. Glenn Beck takes the test to see for himself...

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Tomorrow, I'm going to be at Dickies Arena with Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly is -- is doing her traveling stage show.

I don't even know if that's what you would call it.

STU: That's exactly what you would call it. She calls it the Megyn Kelly traveling stage show. It's an experience.

GLENN: Whatever it is. Experience. Megyn Kelly experience.
STU: It's going to be a great tour.
GLENN: Yeah, it's going to be a great tour. She has a lot of people, and then she has me in Fort Worth. And I can't wait to go. Can't wait to go.

STU: Dickies Arena?

GLENN: Yeah, Dickies Arena. Bring your family. Bring your friend. It's going to be a good night.

Making a pretty big announcement tomorrow night. And I'm also going into the vault today, to see what I'm going to bring for history.

Teach something from history. I think I know what I want to share with Megyn, and you tomorrow night. Dickies Arena. Get your tickets at MegynKelly.com.

MegynKelly.com.

STU: Very cool.

Now, as you mentioned, you have a vault filled with all sorts of historical documents, items from our history.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: And I -- I think this makes you a little overqualified to answer the new citizenship test. That is being --

GLENN: We have a new citizenship test?

STU: Yeah. New citizenship test.

GLENN: Boy. Can you imagine what it was under Biden?

STU: No.

GLENN: How much do you hate America, on a scale from one to ten?

STU: Are you supposed to be here?

If you click no, you're in!

The federal government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. Test your knowledge with the quiz. Washington Post has this. If you want to take it -- if you're by yourself. You want to check these off. See how many you can get.

You want to take this, Glenn?

GLENN: No.

STU: You don't. I think it will be -- you should be able to do these. The first one --

GLENN: I hate these. You walk in. Oh, there's going to be something, that will make me look really stupid. All right. Go ahead.

STU: The first one, if you get it wrong.

You, now, a normal person, walking around, thinking about their lives. Could easily get something like this wrong.

You should not get something like this wrong.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Is it Benjamin Franklin, John Adams.

GLENN: They give you. It's multiple choice.

STU: Multiple choice. Thomas Jefferson or George Washington.

GLENN: Thomas Jefferson.

STU: But, I mean -- I will put that in there, see if it's right. Oh, wow.

It's right. It's correct.

I will say, you have a copy of the original draft of the Declaration of Independence. I have seen you give 20 speeches based on it. And all things that it says. It's very focused on Thomas Jefferson. And your analysis of his thought process in that moment. Of course, you get that right. But I think an average person, could see some famous founder.

GLENN: Give me the names again.

STU: Benjamin Franklin.

GLENN: Benjamin Franklin's writing is on the original draft.
STU: John Adams, that's right.
GLENN: John Adams, his writing is on the original draft. So you could say, it was a committee of five. The three of them were really instrumental in that. So if you would have given me only three choices, I would have had a hard time.

You know, I would have said, Thomas Jefferson. But you could also say, all of -- all of the above.

STU: Right. George Washington.

GLENN: George Washington was not --

STU: No. And Salena Gomez. Was she?

GLENN: Oh, she was, yeah.

STU: She was a big factor.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Name a power that is only for the federal government. A --

GLENN: Oh, my gosh, it's multiple choice.

STU: A, print paper money. B, declare war. C, make treaties.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: D, all of the above.

GLENN: D, got to be. Yes, all of above.

STU: That's correct. We might let you win. We might let you win in this country.

What amendment says all persons, born or naturalized in the United States and subjected to the jurisdiction thereof are US citizens?

What a fascinating one for them to stick in here. Now, you should know this. I knew this one. You should know this one.

GLENN: Give me the choices.

STU: A, Second Amendment.

GLENN: No.

STU: B, Sixth Amendment.

GLENN: No.

STU: C, 12th amendment. D, Fourteenth Amendment.

GLENN: I want to say the 14th. But it could be --

STU: Fourteenth Amendment. Final answer?
GLENN: Yes.
STU: Do you want to phone a friend?

GLENN: No, because I would call you, and you are not my friend.

STU: Fourteenth Amendment is correct. And that's what, of course, interesting. Because they are specifically, the Trump administration is push agree for a particular interpretation of that Amendment, which includes the phrase they often leave out: In the jurisdiction thereof.

Okay. Question number four.

GLENN: Okay. See, the multiple choice. I knew it was the Fourteenth Amendment. But when you have the choices. I mean, the 12th. The 14. The 14. Always go with your first guess.

Not that that was a guess. All right. Go ahead.

STU: The American Revolution had many important events.

Name, one! The battle of Gettysburg. B, Battle of the Bulge. C, the battle of Yorktown!

GLENN: Yes.

STU: D, the Battle of Plattsburgh.

GLENN: No. So it's C. Yorktown?

STU: C, Yorktown. Yes, it is correct. Correct. Good job with that. You didn't think Battle of the Bulge?

GLENN: I didn't think so, and I don't want to even think about that one. On where that would lead some people to go.
(laughter)

STU: Let's leave that.

GLENN: Let me -- let me give you a safer place, Lizzo.

STU: There you go.

Why were the Federalist papers important?

Is it, A, they supported passing the Constitution?

D -- B, they stoked tensions, leading to the Civil War.

C, they inspired Americans to break from the British crown.

Or, D, they inspired the Declaration of Independence.

GLENN: A. Constitution.

STU: A, correct! Yes. That is correct.

Although, you know --

GLENN: I would be a wealthy man if this were like on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

STU: Yeah, just gets you nothing. Actually, all it does is get you entry into a country that will tax you into oblivion. Okay. Next up.

GLENN: Who wants to be a millionaire and is going to lose it all?

STU: Six, James Madison is famous for many things. Name one! He was the first --

GLENN: Foot fungus.

STU: That's right. That's E.

GLENN: James Madison, right?

STU: James Madison. First secretary of state is at, B, helped draft the Declaration of Independence. C, founded the University of Virginia. D, president during the war of 1812.

GLENN: Dolley Madison saved the painting of George Washington, so it would be War of 1812. President is War of 1812.

STU: Correct!

Madison fourth president, father of the Constitution for the first time.

Another new question, similarly asked about how a fellow Founding Father and Federalist paper's co-writer, Alexander Hamilton. So there you go.

When did all women get the right to vote?

GLENN: Wait. What?

STU: When -- this is a news to a lot of people.

GLENN: Hold it just a second!

STU: Now, we're talking about men who are saying they're women too. They get to vote as well.

GLENN: Right.

STU: When did all women get the right to vote? 1919? 1920? 1925? 1934?

GLENN: This is a trick question.

STU: No. They actually can vote, Glenn.

GLENN: This is a trick question.

STU: No.

GLENN: Because I think the vote happened in 1919.

Or at least it started. I remember in 1919. But I think it -- it finalized in 1920.

STU: I would have guessed 1920. I would be honest with you. Total guess.

This is the type of thing. What does this have to do with citizenship.

This isn't the question that should be on here. I'm not going to critique it. I'm not learning -- the date between 1919 and 1931, who cares? Like, you always talk about, why am I teaching dates? You always talk about this.

You know, why are dates the important thing? It's the story. It's what's behind the story.

The range of dates in a 12-year period to me makes no difference. You guessed 1920, which was actually what I was going to guess. I have no idea if it was right, 1920.

GLENN: I think 1919 is when the -- the people's vote happened. And then it had to go through ratification or something.

STU: Right. So that had to be a period of longer than just 1920.

GLENN: No. 1919. 1920.

STU: So that's really a tough one. Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?

GLENN: Oil!

STU: That is actually answer B. To secure oil in Kuwait. A is to defend the US from Iraqi threats.

GLENN: No.

STU: C, to force the Iraqi military from Kuwait.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: D, to defeat Saddam Hussein.

GLENN: C.

STU: C is correct, although, there are parts of that thing, that I would say were elements in that decision.

GLENN: When did you start hating America, Stu?

STU: I love this country, Glenn. I've gotten them all right so far. Even the one I totally guessed at, of 1920, I got right.

Okay. Name one example of an American innovation.

A, the lightbulb. B, the stethoscope. C, the computer. D, the electromagnet.

GLENN: Oh, I have no idea. I have a problem with these.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: It's the lightbulb. As we know it, was American. But before that was France? Maybe?

But I think a lightbulb as we know it was Edison. What was the next one?

STU: The stethoscope.

GLENN: No idea where that came from. Don't really care.

STU: Right. The computer?

GLENN: During. That's England.

STU: Okay. The electromagnet.

GLENN: Think that's English. But I think that was a socialist.

That's why I think it was an English socialist that came up with that.

And I always wondered. Why don't you just give that all away. Mr. Socialist.

I have to go the lightbulb.

STU: That's what my guess would be as well.

It is correct!

But, I mean, the computer. That's always one that they -- you can go to Turing, of course.

But that wasn't what we think of as a computer. It was, you know, the basis --

GLENN: Phrase the question again.

STU: Name one example of an American innovation. We certainly have innovated with the computer.

GLENN: Yeah. We did. But it wasn't -- I think -- I mean, you'll have to look it up.

I think Turing was the one who first kind of came up with the idea of what we think of now as the modern --

STU: The basis. They talk about this with the innovation of the internet. Trying to calculate who actually started that. A lot of people are like, oh. The US government started it. But actually, a guy who was employed for the US government. Had the idea before he was in the US government. Actually, he was employed, largely because of an idea that he had, before he was in the government.

He was hired by the government for that purpose.

So like, I don't know.

There's a great book called how innovation works.

Which is Matt Ridley.

That has a great section on the -- on the lightbulb. And a lot of these things worth your time. If you feel -- if you're interested. Forever

All right. Last one. What is Memorial Day? Is it a holiday to honor military history?
Is it a holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service?

Is it a holiday to mark the beginning of summer?

Or is it a holiday to honor veterans?

GLENN: It's the -- to honor those who gave their lives. It's a tricky question. Because a lot of people think veterans. But it's those who gave their lives.

STU: The way you remember that. Of course, there's Veteran's Day.

GLENN: Right. There's a memorial for people who died.

STU: So, of course, the answer is, it marks the beginning of summer. Now, it is -- honor soldiers who die in military service. So you had ten of ten there, Glenn.

GLENN: Okay. So if I pass now, do I have to marry my brother?

STU: Yes. It's the Ilhan Omar amendment of the Constitution.

GLENN: Okay. That should be on there. You can't marry your brother in this country.

STU: That's question 11. By the way, you only have to get 12 of 20. We only give you ten questions. The real test is 20 questions. You have to get 12 of them correct.

You have to get 60 percent.

GLENN: Oh, come on.

60 percent.

That's -- that's -- that's an abomination.

STU: What is the average American?

Not the average American in this audience. What is the average American person out of 20 questions, how many do they get right out of that?

GLENN: Okay. 60 percent is high. Because that's -- just looking at. I'm thinking about that. I'm thinking, two. Out of the ten. Maybe two?

It's really bad.

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Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

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The American Dream is in CRISIS - How Freedom Was Replaced by Comfort

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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Glenn Beck warns: We're already in World War III

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.