Why the Left Loses ALL REASON Concerning Trump | Guests: Kathie Lee Gifford & Thomas Blackshear | 7/19/24

This episode discusses the intense and often irrational reactions from the political left towards Donald Trump, especially in the context of recent events, including a potential assassination attempt and Trump's speech at a Republican convention.

1. Donald Trump's recent speech marked a significant shift in his public persona, showing humility and a strategic focus.
2. The left's reaction to Trump, particularly after the assassination attempt, has been characterized by irrationality and conspiracy theories.
3. The media continues to portray Trump as a dangerous authoritarian figure, despite a lack of concrete evidence.
4. There is a cultural and historical importance in preserving American values, as discussed through various segments in the episode.
5. The episode underscores the importance of strong leadership in guiding the country through current political and social challenges.

1. Introduction

Overview of the topics to be discussed, including Trump’s recent speech and its impact on the political landscape.

• Glenn Beck: "We're going to go over everything about the election, everything about Donald Trump's speech last night, and my theory on why he only mentioned Joe Biden one time."

2. The Assassination Attempt

Discussion on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the media's response to it.

• Glenn Beck: "Halfway through the speech, he said, you know, I was not supposed to be here tonight. I'm not supposed to be here. And they started chanting, yes, you were."

3. Trump's Speech Analysis

Detailed analysis of Trump's speech, highlighting his humble tone and strategic messaging.

• Glenn Beck: "He came out quiet, humbled. He did about 30 minutes of just riveting material that he wrote himself."

4. The Left's Irrational Response

Examination of the left's response to Trump, including conspiracy theories and media narratives.

• Glenn Beck: "They're just crazy, really, truly crazy about him. It's just like they lose all reason."

5. Cultural and Historical Preservation

Discussion with guest Thomas Blackshear on the importance of preserving American history and culture through art.

• Thomas Blackshear: "We are doing a show at my studio... it's a museum of art and history all in one weekend."

6. Conclusion

Final thoughts on the need for reasoned discourse and the preservation of American values.

• Glenn Beck: "We're just going to do what we have to do because we all know. We all know, and these clowns are going to blow themselves up eventually."

1. Stay Informed: Keep up with current events to avoid being swayed by sensationalism. Follow multiple sources for a balanced view.
2. Preserve Culture: Engage in activities that preserve and celebrate American history and culture, such as visiting museums or attending cultural events.
3. Support Strong Leadership: Encourage and support leaders who exhibit humility, strategic thinking, and a focus on preserving core values.
4. Promote Reasoned Discourse: Foster conversations that are grounded in facts and logic, avoiding the spread of conspiracy theories.
5. Value Historical Education: Invest time in learning about American history to better understand current events and their implications.

Glenn gives his thoughts on President Trump’s speech on the last day of the RNC. More and more high-profile Democrats are reportedly calling for Biden to drop out of the race. The Democrats continue to paint Trump as authoritarian, but Glenn and Stu point out Biden's continual effort to forgive student loans even after the courts have rejected it. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the latest security failures that occurred that nearly cost former President Donald Trump his life. Is Kamala Harris vetting possible running mates on the chance that Biden drops out? The guys discuss Trump's changed tone and demeanor during his first speech after his almost-assassination. Artist Thomas Blackshear joins Glenn to discuss his latest joint project with Mercury Studios and where he finds inspiration for his art pieces. Author and actress Kathie Lee Gifford joins Glenn to discuss her newest book, "Herod and Mary," a fictional-thriller retelling of an often untold biblical story. Lastly, Glenn previews the latest episode of "The Beck Story" podcast.

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Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kathie Lee Gifford, Thomas Blackshear

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Blaze Podcast Network, MSNBC, CNN

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Kathie Lee Gifford, Thomas Blackshear

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Glenn Beck
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This is the Glenn Beck program.

Well, hello, America, and welcome to Friday.

And what a Friday broadcast we have for you today. We're going to go over everything about the election, everything about Donald Trump's speech last night, and my theory on why he only mentioned Joe Biden one time. We begin there in 60 seconds. Well, you rely on your car to get around safely and efficiently. So when your car has problems, the very last thing you need to be worried about is how you're going to afford fixing them. I was out on the ranch yesterday and my, my rhino, my four, you know, four runner. It, uh, kind of bit the dust last night. I'm like, oh, geez, it's a time to bury it and get a new one because I can't imagine what it's going to cost to fix it. I wish I had car shield on that. I have Carshield on my trucks, and they've saved me a buttload of money in repairs. For almost two decades, Carshield has been helping millions of drivers avoid the stress of major repairs. They offer plans covering up to 5000 parts and systems from your engine to your transmission and all of the electronics and more. So call them at 802 276100. It's kind of like medical insurance for your car. It's 802 two two seven.

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But, so thanks for filling in.

But I've been watching the convention this week, and it is the best convention I have seen, and I think it was better than the Reagan conventions. And those were pretty good.

This, this had everything you needed in the republican convention.

It had all of the right people speaking, I thought all the way through the week, if people spent the time and watched it, actually listened to it, they saw a very different party than what they have ever seen before. At least I did. And last night, a very, very different Donald Trump. I've never seen him like this.

I've never heard him speak this way. I've never seen him take the stage the way he did. He was humbled.

And I think, you know, he pushed back on the crowd, or the crowd pushed back on him. Halfway through the speech, he said, you know, I was not supposed to be here tonight. I'm not supposed to be here. And they started chanting, yes, you were. Yes, you were. And he said, no, I wasn't. An assassin wanted me gone, and I wasn't supposed to address you today.

But God saved my life. And it was not a moment of boasting.

It was a moment I thought of clarity.

Now, there's something else that happened that I haven't heard a lot of people talk about. In fact, I haven't heard anybody talk about this yet. And I think it's very, very telling. Donald Trump has kind of shifted gears into this, into this zone of I know what I know.

I know what I feel, and I know who the other side is. And they're dismissed.

He's not fighting them like he was before. Now, that doesn't mean that he's not fighting. The one thing about Donald Trump is he's a fighter. But it's almost as if he feels that the outcome is already there and he doesn't need to, he doesn't need to push the envelope anymore. He just needs to say the truth.

And so he came out quiet, humbled. He did about 30 minutes of just riveting material that he wrote himself. He tore up the speech, wrote this speech himself, which is also not Donald Trump. He usually will ad lib.

He doesn't usually write his own material. But he wrote the first 20 minutes and probably the last 20 minutes as well.

The rest of it was kind of a stump speech. But he, he came out humbled and told the story of the assassination.

He said at one point Joe Biden's name, and at one point when he said it, he said, I'm only going to say this once.

And he talked about telling the story of the assassination and said, it's too painful, so I won't tell this story again.

You'll hear it the first and last time from me tonight.

When he brought up Joe Biden. Do you remember the context due on, on when he first brought up Joe Biden and then apologized and said, I'm, I'm not going to say his name anymore? Yeah.

Stu
He was talking about the ten worst presidents of all time and how all of them added up together wouldn't get to Joe Biden. And that's when he said his name.

Glenn Beck
Right. Right. And he said, I, you know, I didn't want, I didn't want it to be unclear who that president was. That was worse than the ten worst combined.

He said, but I'm not going to mention his name anymore.

And to me, that may be lowering the temperature a little bit. I think that's one way to read it. But I think, more importantly, I think he strategically is now looking at the fact that Joe Biden's not going to be the nominee. I just don't believe he's going to be the nominee, and it's only a matter of time. And Donald Trump, why waste his hour of television, or in his case, 90 minutes of television making a case against a guy who's not going to be running?

And that's why he kept saying they, they made these things. This administration did this and did not say Donald Trump or it did not say Joe Biden and did not say Kamala Harris. Now, that, the Kamala Harris thing, I think, is because he just doesn't know if Kamala is the one running and, and why, why look back at the people who are so far behind you at this particular point?

But the, the hopeful side of me says that he didn't mention Kamala because he knows it's going to be Michelle Obama. And I only say hopeful because Stu will owe me. I think it's four grand, isn't it, Stu?

Stu
Three. It's definitely three. It's 100% three. Three.

And even that with inflation, I don't even know if we can really count 3000. I think we should probably lower. I don't know.

Glenn Beck
Well, we'll talk about five.

It should be five. Yeah, because three just isn't what it was six months ago when we made this bet.

Stu
I will say, thank God for bite inflation, because by the time I pay this bet off, it will be worth nothing.

$3,000 will be like, what, a loaf of bread?

Glenn Beck
We won't be able to buy a sandwich. No, we won't.

All right, so there's a couple of stories here that explain the speech. The first one is the New York times and the New York Times.

Trump in RNC speech struggles to turn page on the past. Well, it's a little difficult, you know, when the past involved assassination attempts.

You know, a little difficult there. Donald J. Trump has been a man long undone by himself. He imperiled his presidency in political campaigns with personal grudges, impulsiveness, and an appetite for authoritarianism. You know, it's really strange how they keep seeing authoritarianism in Donald Trump when he's not done anything authoritarian.

I mean, he might say, you know, we should go after the press and take away their license until he's reminded they don't have a license and he wasn't serious in the first place. Lock her up until he wasn't serious in the first place. Um, I can't find the authoritarian streak in him myself on anything that he's actually done.

And then they say, also, he's caused himself problems for his casual approach to the rule of law.

Now, Stu, out of he who shall not be named, and Donald Trump, which one has the casual approach to the rule of law?

Stu
I don't know. Should we go over the latest court to overturn his student loan debacle?

Glenn Beck
I know, I know. I read that this morning in the New York Times after reading the casual approach to the rule of law. And then, you know, the next story is, oh, another court said, you can't do that with student loans. He just keeps trying to go around the law over and over again.

Stu
The court returned his latest attempt at student loans the same day he announced another attempt for, I think it was $1.5 billion of student loan relief. I mean, he is addicted to giving away money to these people. It's incredible.

Glenn Beck
His unwillingness to accept electoral defeat and his actions that have resulted in $83 million in penalties, nearly three dozen felony convictions, and additional legal trouble ahead. I mean, that's how they start.

And, I mean, you've got to be, I mean, you're just under the spell of witchcraft if. If you buy into any of that. But on Thursday night, with his right ear still bandaged five days after he was wounded by a would be assassin's bullet.

Okay, can we talk about that for a second, Stu?

Stu
Sure.

Glenn Beck
The bandage, what they're trying to say here is he didn't need the bandage.

Do you think he needed the bandage still?

Stu
Yes. My guess is that his ear looks pretty funky right now, and he doesn't necessarily want to walk out on stage with a way.

Glenn Beck
Yeah, I was actually hoping that he would take off the bandage because I think his ear probably looks worse. He lost the top of his ear.

And, you know, that's kind of a, you know, you have to be. I mean, there's, there's conspiracies throwing around. Now, a third of Democrats believe that he set this up with the, with the secret Service.

What, to have his ear blown off?

I mean, how delusional do you have to be? First of all, he's not the guy who's got the in with the secret Service. And, you know, the spy agencies and everything else.

The conspiracy doesn't, it falls apart pretty quickly. You know, it's not rush by any means.

Stu
And this is something, Glenn, you see in polling every single time, if there is a conspiracy theory about your political opponent, about a third of people will believe it, no matter what it is. That is like now. You can get higher than that. The Democrats, about 50% of them, believed 911 was an inside job when George W. Bush was president. You can find numbers that get higher, but, like, the baseline number for a conspiracy theory against your political opponent is about a third. It just, just is like, it's people, a lot of people just taking the position they think hurts their opponent more than them actually believing it, I hope. But there are a lot of people, I mean, Joy Reid is on television every single day talking about this stuff.

I mean, they threw poor Joe Scarborough off the air. What did they think this guy was going to say? I mean, what do they think of Joe Scarborough if they leave Joy Reid on the air?

Glenn Beck
I never thought of it that way.

Stu
That's amazing.

Glenn Beck
Exactly. Right. Yeah. So here, let me just switch gears here. Joy Reid posted a video of herself working through a bizarre conspiracy theory suggesting that the Secret Service helped Donald Trump to create a. The defiant photo image from the shooting. She noted the Biden campaign released a lot of detailed medical information about his condition within minutes of the announcement that he had contracted Covid-19 again. But when it comes to what happened on Saturday with former President Donald Trump, this assassination attempt, we know almost nothing about his medical condition.

Bum, bum, bum.

How come no one has any information about this wound. We still don't know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet or whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel. We don't have any of those details.

Glass fragments. Where were the glass fragments from?

Was that the teleprompter that they say was it?

Stu
There was an initial report. I don't remember who reported it, but there was a report that it was glass fragments, and it wasn't even a liberal reporter. I remember reading it and being like, what? Like, what are you talking about? And then about five minutes later, you could see pictures of it where both of the teleprompters are still fully intact. I mean, it was a crazy theory that was debunked immediately. But people like Joy Reed, who are impossibly stupid, continue to believe it.

Glenn Beck
And we have a picture unlike anything I've ever seen. A picture of the bullet in flight as it's about to hit his head.

It's incredible. Yeah, I think it's actually been a fly, a really big mosquito. We don't know. We don't know.

Stu
Yeah, I think the picture is just after it passes his head. But, yes, I mean, it is about as. I mean, it's one of the most incredible photos ever taken, and the photographer who took it has basically the most impossible photo you can take. And it's still not the iconic photo of the incident, which is like, kind of, kind of a, I mean, you go through the, you caught a bullet in your picture and still, like, somebody else got the picture of him standing up with his fist up with a blood streaming down his face, which is still the iconic photo of that day. But, yeah, I mean, it is so stupid. They believe everything. They believe that, you know, the bandage is fake, that he didn't actually get injured. I don't know. I thought it was glass that hit him. Now he didn't get injured at all. Doesn't need the bandage.

I mean, it just, everything they come up with is dumber and dumber.

Glenn Beck
They're just crazy, really, truly crazy about him. It's just like they lose all reason. And for Joy Reid to be on the air on MSNBC is remarkable. And not because they should fire her because of her points of view. I don't believe in that. Just because she's dumb as a box of rocks, man. Yeah, she's crazy. She is crazy.

Stu
To be fair, I don't think Joy Reid has lost all reason. She just didn't have it at any point. So it's impossible to lose for her in particular.

Glenn Beck
All right. Okay. All right. How about Alex Wagner?

I don't know if you heard the latest from her on MSNBC, but this was kind of bizarre as well. Uh, what this theory is. We'll go into that here in 60 seconds. Stand by.

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Yeah, apparently I am. Culture has become debased. Art, music, film, everything, what is left. That's inspiring. That is true. That is uplifting.

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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We are so glad that you're here. We're looking for answers on what is happening. I'm Glenn Beck along today with Pat and Stu, who are joining me, and we're just kind of discussing today all of the different aspects of the convention. What? Well, first, Stu, remind me to get back to NBC's Alex Wagner and the theory on Pence. Have you guys read this yet?

Stu
The pence theory? No, I haven't heard anything about Pence.

Glenn Beck
Not, not. Not Pence Vance.

Stu
Oh, no. The Vance theory. Okay. No, I'm not. I don't know what you were.

Glenn Beck
Listen to this.

Stu
Ok.

Glenn Beck
The republican vice presidential nomination included JD Vance, and he dropped an Easter egg of white nationalism.

An Easter egg quoting. I know there was not the same red meat sort of blood and soil nationalism you might hear, and I don't know, other parallel universe republican conventions. So now we're into parallel universes.

But I do think there were sort of easter eggs of white nationalism in his speech. One of the things that stuck out to me was when he started talking about what America is. He said, america's not just an idea. It's a group of people with a shared history and a common future.

The thing about America is it's not a group of people with shared history. In fact, I think a lot of people would argue it's quite the opposite. It's a lot of people with different histories and different heritages.

Oh, my gosh. And then she goes into how he wants to be buried in Kentucky, but not in San Diego, where his wife's foreign, uh, parents are from. And it's like, are you? I mean, these people have literally gone insane. Literally gone insane.

Stu
Again, gone is an interesting way. I don't know that they were ever seen. Right? Like, was there ever a moment of sanity that I may have missed that show that they put on? Yeah.

But, yeah, it's interesting. And I. Here's a thing, and I don't know if you guys feel this way, but I just gotta throw this theory out here for a second while I, of course, mock them relentlessly for these crazy theories. And honestly, some people on the right are coming up with crazy theories, and I mock them a little bit as well. I just feel like everybody comes up with crazy theories. At least that's how I would normally react in this situation. This particular story, though, is so bonkers. They're so. It's so hard to believe that they just were like, ah, I guess let's leave that roof unattended. Like, these things are so crazy that I give a little bit more grace on conspiracy theories here than I normally would. Do you buy that, Glenn?

Glenn Beck
Yeah, but that one at least makes sense, doesn't it, Pat? I mean, the one, we didn't go up on that roof because it had a slant to it.

I mean, you want to talk about safety first. I know. Holy cow.

It had a slant to it. Yeah, like a three degree grade.

Pat
And forget the fact that it had a slope. What about, I don't know, station somebody at the ladder that leads to the roof? Could you do that?

You're so worried about your agents not being able to stand or sit or lay on that slope that you wanted them inside the building instead, but you couldn't put somebody out where the ladder is that leads to the roof. Kind of insanity.

Stu
Yeah.

I don't know if you guys saw this.

Sorry. The New York Times had a video they put out of this whole incident, and they showed the two pairs of snipers from the secret service or police on the two buildings. One of the sniper teams was set up in a position in which a tree blocked that building.

This is why the farther away sniper team is actually the one with a successful shot.

Why on earth would you set up in a position in which there is a tree in between you and the one elevated position in the entire field? Like, I just. It's impossible because.

Glenn Beck
Because we have sniper Sam and sniper sid. Right. Sniper Sid. You're there, right? With the Secret Service? I'm there with Cypress Sam and cypress Sid.

Hi.

Stu
Bizarre.

Glenn Beck
Who's running that place? Who's running that place? And then the other one that, you know, just gets me is, they're not talking about a conspiracy of COVID He's got Covid.

Come on. How many times has that guy had Covid?

I don't know anybody who has Covid anymore and is like, oh, I'm just wiped out with COVID I just can't handle it. I think that guy could die in his sleep in the next week. It's like, you know, he has. He'll have to decide if he's going to die or not. He's going to have to decide. Will he. Will he drink the. The medicine that we give him every night or not? Because it'll be his decision. I mean, I just think that, you know, they're. They're. They're serious about getting rid of him.

Stu
And to add to this, it was immediately after an interview he gave in, which, for the first time, he opened up the possibility of stepping down for a health crisis. Like, it was literally the last thing he did before the COVID isolation was to say, you know, yeah, I mean, if a big health crisis came along, well, then he went and. Excuse me, then he went and got into people's faces at a mexican restaurant and gave them all Covid. But after that, he went into isolation. I mean, it is.

Every single story is impossible to believe. That's where we are.

Glenn Beck
So what happens from here, Pat? What do you. I mean, I think that there is a real chance. Remember, Abraham Lincoln was elected the nominee by the republican party on the 50th ballot.

And that's when they all just started going crazy. And they're like, I don't know, the guy with a ward on his face.

And I could see that happening with Michelle Obama. They go through and they're just doing an open convention and they can't decide on somebody. And there's somebody's like, Michelle Obama. And everybody's like, yay. And the next ballot, Michelle Obama wins and she's drafted. I mean, I just think that's so.

Pat
Plausible, except I don't think she's gonna run. She doesn't want it. She does not want it. She hates this country too much to do that kind of work. She loves her life too much to do that kind of work.

Stu
But if the hatred of the country is a big feature, which I.

Pat
She could continue to destroy it.

Glenn Beck
Reason to do it, yes.

Pat
But, yeah, the other aspect is how much she loves the life of $100 million deal from Netflix and all the fruits of that deal and the life they're living now. She doesn't want to give that up.

Stu
And I think we can all realize that she deserves that life, and she does. She should continue to enjoy it forever.

There's no reason to get involved in politics. Michelle, you're above this now.

Glenn Beck
He's stutisted one of the lose the $6,000 bet.

Stu
Six. What do you keep inflating this? It's three. And you know it's three.

Glenn Beck
It's Biden inflation. I don't want to keep going up, but it's Biden inflation.

Stu
I think very much you do at this point. And we're at the point almost where I can't win the bet. That's the problem, because I had as Biden would be on the ticket and you had Michelle. And there is this in between ground where Biden steps down and it's Kamala Harris, and neither of us win. And we're getting into that ground right now, and it does not make me comfortable.

Pat
Yeah.

Glenn Beck
You know what's amazing to me? Is that if you look at this with Michelle Obama, what you just said, she loves her lifestyle too much. She hates America so much, but she loves her lifestyle more than she hates America. So she would never do it. Okay.

Look at Donald Trump.

He's got an amazing lifestyle. They've destroyed it. They've destroyed his family. They've hauled him in front of court after court after court, and then they shoot him. And he still gets up on the stage and says, I'm running because we got to stop this insanity.

I mean, big difference. Which one?

Pat
Big difference.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. What a difference.

Pat
Yeah. It does look like, I'm sure you guys mentioned this earlier. It does look like this weekend might be it, though, for the Biden campaign. I don't know. That's what they're saying. And there's a pretty detailed. Where did I see this? It's, I don't know. MSNBC, I think. No, it was Newsmax. It was Newsmax. They were talking about this really detailed plan now to open up the convention and bring in Kamala Harris. And she's already pre approved her running mate, supposedly. And also there would be Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer. And those are the three that are going to battle it out on the floor at the convention in August.

Stu
By that, I think it goes right to Kamala Harris, honestly, which is not an exciting opportunity for the Democrats. But this is, that sort of plan is the type of thing that could lead to Glenn winning this stupid bet, which I never agreed to, which is that. Wait, that, Glenn, that you have those three fighting it out. It gets so ugly, no one can make a decision. And then Michelle comes in over the top and says, oh, here I am. She comes down from the sky with, like, clouds and light beams and people.

Pat
Are like, look at those arms.

Glenn Beck
Look at her arms.

Stu
Look at those arms.

Pat
They need to be in the Oval office. Those arms.

Stu
That's the only place they can live. And then she winds up coming in over the top and just wiping all of this out and winning.

I still think it's a long shot for it to happen, but there is some scenario where it gets so chaotic they need something like that. But I will say I mentioned this to Glenn, I think, off the air. Glenn, I don't know if we talked about it on the air yet today. I'm very confused. It was a very late night last night. But all of the reporting about the Biden stuff about him stepping down this weekend is all nonsense. It's all like one headline from the New York Times yesterday, Washington Biden now is warming to the belief that he may have to step down.

That isn't saying anything. What do you mean? He's warming to the May, what do you mean? This is like one of those old school Al Gore statements that's filled with so many disclaimers. It doesn't mean anything about the climate. It's just like, it's all this stuff. It's all leaked by Nancy Pelosi. She wants him out. So she's leaking every negative thing about him. His own, his own people inside, like his close advisors that everyone says are the people that are around him are all saying this stuff is all fake. It's just all included in the paragraph, like paragraph twelve of these stories that are just, Nancy Pelosi screeds against this guy. And the New York Times wants him out in, the Washington Post wants him out, and MSNBC wants him out and CNN wants him out. So they're just all running with it. And he may very well get pushed out by all this pressure. It may work, but like, they have a plan. It is very consistent with what the left does when they want an outcome, which is lie and leak and then force the person out with the pressure.

I don't know that he'll survive this. Almost nobody can. I don't, can't remember a politician who survived this much pressure. The only one I can remember is Rod Bukhloya.

Well, Trump is a good example. That's a good example, actually, because Trump, they hit him with everything. But it was opposition pressure, right? It was, well, there wasn't its own party, but Gloria, which was hit, you know, in his state and by everybody to the, to the point that he got to a 4% approval rating. Four. It's the lowest I've ever seen of any. I think Jeffrey Epstein might have five. Right? Like 4% is about as low as I've ever seen for a public figure.

Glenn Beck
Which is, and he, which is also dating age.

Stu
He was.

Glenn Beck
People.

Pat
No, no.

Glenn Beck
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu today. Joining me as we just recap the week and go over what happened at the convention, it is just bizarre. I've never seen anything like this where really, truly anything could happen.

The president of the United States could die from COVID He could be forcibly removed by his own party.

He could decide that he's in. But they tell him that, yeah, no, you're at the convention, do your acceptance speech and, you know, he's in his bedroom or something and has no idea where he is.

I love the fact that they're saying that he has to stop running, but that doesn't mean he has to stop being president.

He's just too incapable of running.

Stu
That's amazing. I'm really. It's the reverse in a way. It's the reverse, right? Like he shouldn't be president right now because there's massive questions about whether this guy can do the job.

At some point you can theoretically argue you put him on the ballot. At least the american people can judge for themselves after that.

Glenn Beck
Right?

Stu
Like, there's no argument to say he should stay in there, but he can't campaign.

That is impossibly stupid.

Pat
I keep waiting for Barack Obama to make a public announcement on this. And when that happens, that will be the definitive answer, I think.

Stu
You think?

Pat
Yeah. If he tells him, if he says Barack says yeah. Barack knows that we've got to change our history and our traditions. And. And if he says that Joe Biden can't run, Joe Biden won't run.

Stu
You know, Biden. All the reporting was when Biden wanted to run in 2016, it was Barack who basically chose Hillary over him, right over his own vice president.

Everybody says, and, you know, you never know. You can't get in these people's minds. But everybody says inside the Biden camp that he really resents that and does not look at Obama as this, like, wonderful figure. They have this tight tie. It's. He's more angry about how he should have been president in 2016 and not have to wait until 2020. I don't know. I mean, there are at least some people inside the Biden camp are saying the more Obama speaks out publicly, the more he's going to dig his heels in because he's angry.

Pat
Surprised me.

Glenn Beck
Still, they hate each other. They hate each other. I think.

Pat
I think that's probably true. That's probably true. Anybody knows?

Glenn Beck
Yeah.

Pat
Yeah.

Stu
But, like, you know, that's the thing. Like, if. If someone you hate is telling you to do something and trying to force you publicly to do it, don't you resist that. Stand strong, Joe.

Glenn Beck
You can.

Stu
You can do this. Fight through. Don't listen to Nancy Pelosi. You're the president.

Glenn Beck
We believe in you. And. And I have to tell you, Obama called me last night. Boy, he hates. That's you, Joe.

He says you're so weak that you're gonna fold like a bag of chips.

Stu
Oh, my gosh. Wow. That's big news.

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My name is Glenn Beck. I'm joined with Pat and do today as we talk about everything political or the convention this week. I thought it was absolutely incredible. We'll get into that. And what is happening to Joe Biden and the Democrats? It is, I mean, you know, communists, socialists, Islamists, when they're all working together. It's just beautiful when you get those progressives in there and they start to eat themselves. And right now it is an all you can eat buffet on the left. They are just devouring each other. And it's kind of fun to watch. It is kind of fun to watch. I mean, in a peaceful, gentle way because their eating of each other is mostly peaceful. I understand. So we'll get to that here in just a second. 1st let me tell you about tunnel to Towers. I want to tell you about the fire department firefighter from New York, Daniel Foley. He assisted in the rescue and recovery efforts at ground zero following the 911 attacks. This brave man, this hero, had no way to know that his heroism that day would later cost him his life, more than 18 years later. And I will tell you, I was at ground zero after 911. And it took years, years before I, I could think of ground zero and I could smell what it smelled like. It was something I just had never smelled before. And it is caused so many 911 related illnesses that came from the toxic dust clouds that arose that terrible day. Most kids today, they don't know, but the victims are still suffering and dying from 911. Also, you've got all of the firefighters, the police officers that are still dying in our cities.

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So we welcome Pat and Stu to the program as we, as we talk about the speech last night.

It was, you know, I didn't watch anybody else's coverage. This is the first time I didn't watch Fox News. I didn't watch, I didn't watch ABC, NBC, CB's first time in my life, because I just didn't want to hear what they had to say, quite honestly. Um, you know, and I saw some clips, uh, from the other networks and they immediately were like, you know, he says he wants to unite America, but how can we unite America when we don't look like each other?

I'm black. He's not how it is there to unite on it. It's like, oh, my gosh, you people. Just shut up, will you?

Did you guys watch the coverage on other networks?

Stu
No. And I thought it was part of the low key brilliance of Trump doing a very long speech in that everyone just went to bed the second it was over. If you lasted through it, like no one was staying up to hear the left wing nonsense that happened afterward.

But, yeah, I feel like you've heard everything they could say about Trump, right? I mean, they just, they've seen, they said the same things over and over and over.

Pat
It's just not interesting anymore, like it ever was. But it's especially uninteresting now because, yeah, we've heard it. We get it. You don't like the guy? I got it.

Stu
Yeah, I think it was the New York Times that came out with a piece right around the time of the speech. And it was like, here's the vision of Donald Trump's America in 2025. It's dark, it's dangerous, it's threatening. Everything he did before is just building to a much bigger movement. And I'm like, this is five days after he was shot on stage that they're releasing yet another vision of this mandeh with, who wants a fascist theocracy in this country? And they, there, there was Glenn, what happened to the, the week, two weeks, three weeks? You're supposed to get after someone gets shot where you're not calling them a fascist like that. There was no, no honeymoon period at all. For Donald Trump after this, was there?

Glenn Beck
No, it was, it was truly amazing. And for no one in the mainstream media to really notice the profound difference in Donald Trump and in that convention. Van Jones, do we have the clip of Van Jones from yesterday when he was talking about how he has seen this one other time before play that.

Stu
This spirit that this guy has. You guys think this guy's drunk? He's not. This whole thing is like this. And I, guys, the last time I was in a convention that felt like this was Obama 2008.

There's something happening where.

Glenn Beck
And just like.

Stu
Obama, Trump is showing in this convention, he has the capacity to alter the.

Glenn Beck
Composition of the electorate.

That's pretty amazing. That's CNN.

And if you watched any of it, I mean, I have to tell you, kudos to the Trump family because the Trump family really orchestrated this whole thing. And Donald Trump tore up all the plans right after the assassination attempt. And it was truly remarkable how they hit on everything that I thought was important. They hit on the economy and they talked about people. And it didn't feel like the usual, you know, I was in the supermarket and Jane, a mother of four, was there and she said, apples. The price of apples. How can I sell apples on the street for $0.10 when they cost me $435 an apple?

It didn't feel like those fakey things. It was real.

When you had the 13 marines parents up on stage and they were talking, and it wasn't about politics. It was about my son. My daughter died, and the president didn't even recognize my son or daughter's loss of life. Still says that they weren't even killed.

And you heard these people. The Teamsters guy, I never thought I would see a Teamster leader on stage at a republican convention. But when he's up there saying, look, this is just, it's killing us. What's happening is killing us. And the Teamsters are not with the Democrats anymore.

It was just story after story after story that was so relatable, so well crafted, so well told that, and the people at the convention were happy. It was strangely, after an assassination attempt, everybody found their happy place.

And it was this joyous celebration of what could be. And I just hats off to the Trump organization and the RNC. I've never seen they can screw anything up. And this is the first time I kept waiting for the shoe to drop.

And it never did. It just never did.

Stu
Would you say that they were able to accomplish what can be unburdened by what has been? Is that what you would say, I.

Glenn Beck
Think that's really, I mean, gosh, that is so profound. Can you just say that again like 40 times?

Because that's so good. Now I hear Kamala, speaking of Kamala, that she is, she is now vetting possible running mates. Don't know if that's true or not, but I hope she sticks with what she knows. And she gets the driver of, you know, the one that makes the wheels on the bus go round and round.

Pat
I know, because who doesn't love a yellow school bus?

Stu
Oh, everybody loves, I love yellow school buses.

I just love them.

Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh. Can you imagine if she is the nominee, what her address is going to sound like?

Oh, she'll be like, talking to us like we're all for.

It will be, we just don't understand inflation. It will be hilarious.

Stu
It will be hilarious and bad. I will say it will be better than anything that Joe Biden can accomplish. And this is the thing with Kamala Harris. She's terrible. But she does solve by far the Democrats largest problem, which is Joe Biden's age.

And, you know, it's three and a half months until this election still. I'm, it feels so good right now. But, man, I, I do worry about changing any dynamic in this race. That's why Joe Biden needs to continue to fight, because he really deserves the nomination.

Glenn Beck
He won.

Stu
It's democracy. Millions of people voted for him. All the things.

But do you worry at all, Glenn? I mean, are we at a point of such confidence in hubris that three and a half months back later we might look back and be terrified of as to what we have created?

Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh. Three months. We could look back and say, do you remember when we didn't have nuclear winter?

Anything could happen in three months. Anything could happen. Remember when we weren't all getting a rectal probe from aliens?

That was great. Remember when the only aliens we had to worry about were the ones coming over the border, not from outer space? I mean, anything could happen. So, you know, I don't know. But I will tell you that what people in the press should not dismiss is the actual change of countenance of Donald Trump. Yeah.

Pat
The tone last night was unbelievably good. Unbelievably good all week and week. Last night. You know, speaking of illegals, he told the story of victims of criminal illegals.

Glenn Beck
Yes.

Pat
But the other thing he did that I absolutely loved was he stopped and he said, you know, as Americans, as Republicans and most Democrats, we want people to come to this country but we want them to do it legally. I mean, that's the way we should have handled this from.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. He projected strength in all of the right places.

And humility. I mean, I. When was the last time you heard the Donald Trump say, in all humility, I ask? He did that three times last night in his speech, in all humidity. Humility, I ask for your void, your vote. I come here humbled. As a humbled man, it was pretty incredible. His tone has changed. And where he was strong was, this war in Ukraine will be over the minute I get in office. And he said it. And he was pretty believable when he said, those hostages need to be released before I enter office, or you will regret it. Um, I believed him, um, when he said, at the same time, we're going to end these endless wars. We're not going to keep going into all of these wars all over, and we're going to stop paying for wars for other people.

Again, I believed him. And then on the compassion side, when he was talking about people, you could. I mean, that, that piece with the fireman's, uh, uniform of the firefighter who just, you know, covered his, his daughters and, and died for it, that was a, just an iconic moment. There. There are several things that are happening now that are going to be imprinted in the national psyche that will change us entirely. Just like, you know, when Obama was giving his speeches at the convention and the things that he did and the things that he and his wife said about, you know, we're going to fundamentally transform America.

That, that was a moment that told you what direction we were going in. And I think this week has been another one of those moments that really quietly announced the end of all this nonsense is just, we're just going to dismiss it. We're moving past. Everybody's done with it. Everybody knows it's just time to move on.

And I like that because that's, I think that's the attitude of God. He's not surprised by any of these things. When he's had enough, he's just had enough. And he's like, we're moving on. I don't, don't, don't worry about him. Satan over there. Yeah, he's a clown. I got him. I got him. Don't worry about him. You just do what you're supposed to do. And I kind of got that feeling from the message from the convention that we're just going to do what we have to do because we all know. We all know, and these clowns are going to blow themselves up eventually. I mean, they look at what they're doing.

In 1968, the convention in Chicago changed the country.

It changed the country. It ended the madness of the 1960s. Within a year, all of that stuff was dead. Okay? And what looked like it was going to take over the country. 1960, 819, 69, that was it. In 69 was Altamonte, and that was the last straw for America. Done.

And I think we're entering that period right now. And this convention and this attempted assassination is what, is what heralded the ending of all of this stuff.

Now, that's hopeful. But I really think it feels right to me.

Is it to you guys?

Stu
I, if it can be maintained, yes, I think you're right. I think it's the right tone.

I think there's an eye opening moment here for Donald Trump where he no longer is looking at like a 51 49 type victory, where he squeaks out Arizona and Georgia and Pennsylvania and is able to get back into the White House. We're now looking at something that could be wider than that. Right? You could, you could see a situation where maybe Trump wins Virginia, maybe Trump wins New Hampshire. Maybe this is the type of thing that is a little bit more like, you know, Obama versus McCain, like the type of thing with a real mandate, and he sees that in front of himself. And I don't know, Pat, do you think it just makes, is that turning on the discipline or is it just the factor that he just got shot on stage and it just changed him? I don't know.

Pat
Probably a little bit of both. Yeah, definitely.

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What is it that we haven't completed here on Donald Trump's speech last night? Is there anything left to say on that?

Stu
Can I kind of extend this conversation on the, the whole idea that the toning it down era is already over.

This piece written by Chris Bedford, he's one of the writers of the blaze. He went through all the examples of how quickly the left jumped right back into saying, essentially, this guy is Hitler and is going to ruin all of your lives.

There was almost no break. I thought we'd get a week.

I feel completely naive for thinking we'd get a week of people actually reflecting.

Glenn Beck
On what do you guys remember in our prayers? We used to pray every morning when we were in New York out loud with each other. And do you remember what the answer was on how does this end? In their arrogance, they will destroy themselves.

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If I may, I want to take a break from the speech. We get back to it here in just a few minutes, but I want to take a backseat here for just a second and talk to you about something that I've been working on for a couple of years, that its success or failure will be dependent, really, on you.

I have been taking art lessons for, I don't know, five, six years, and have gotten to know some great artists. And my art teacher said to me, as I was, I just wanted to paint landscapes because it took my mind off of everything. And as she was teaching me, and I would paint, she would say, tell me a story, and I would tell her a story of something. And she said, when I finished that landscape, she said, that should be the last landscape you ever do. She said, you have so many great american stories. You should paint stories. And we started talking about how our artists no longer tell stories, you know, it's kind of like, you know, Hilton hotel art. It's just kind of, you know, what's up on the wall. And people can't afford really good fine art. And it's hard to find things of meaning that you want to have in your home. And so we started working with 30 of some of the best artists alive today in America, and a few of them from overseas that just love America.

And we started taking them through the museum that I have, where we have a massive collection of american history. And we wanted these artists to go through and find something that really inspired them, a story from american history that they wanted to paint and that they wanted to bring to life.

And we are doing a show at my studio. It'll be the first time we open up the studios since for a very long time.

And it is called the american narratives in fine art. And it is going to be a combination of paintings and historic artifacts. And there's not going to be any experts there to judge it and say, oh, well, look at the brushstrokes. It is going to be judged by you.

You will vote on which painting told the american story, the best one. Which artist moved you to want to reconnect with american history. It'll be something for your whole family to come and see. And also, this art will be for sale to give you.

People just don't know great artists necessarily anymore like we used to. But one of the greatest living artists, I believe, in today's world, if I had an unlimited amount of cash and I could buy anybody everything this man's ever done, I would.

His name is Thomas Blackshear. He is the Norman Rockwell of our day. In fact, he's just been inducted into the illustrators, american illustrators hall of Fame, which Dean Cornwell. All these great, great Winslow homer are in the hall of Fame. He's a living artist, and he's incredible the way he tells stories.

He called this week. He's doing a couple of things. He's doing Charlie Chaplin based on. We have his cane.

He's, we have the props, the Ten Commandment props that you will see from the movie. He's doing this amazing painting of Charlton Heston as Moses.

And he called and he said, look, I know this isn't political. He said, but I want to pray on this. But I wanted to know if I could paint the iconic picture of Trump getting back up off the ground with his fist. And I said, thomas, whatever the Lord tells you to do, you are more than welcome to do.

Thomas Blackshear joins me now to talk about that painting and this art show. Welcome, Thomas. How are you?

Thomas Blackshear
Thank you so very much for having me on. Glenn, good talking with you.

Glenn Beck
You bethe good talking to you, my friend.

So are you going to do the president's rise back up off the stage?

Thomas Blackshear
I plan on still maybe doing a painting like that, but my main thing was trying to make sure I had it in time for your show. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to be able to get that done or not because I am still working on the other three. So that's something I like that I will be doing. It's just a matter of trying to see if I can still get it done on time. And that's what I'm still trying to figure out, so.

Glenn Beck
Well, I will tell you, because some of them are going to go up for auction, and even if it's unfinished, you should bring it because I think people would pay a good price for that one. Thomas, I think that is within your style. That's going to be absolutely incredible because it is an iconic moment.

So tell me the stories that attracted you that you wanted to tell.

Thomas Blackshear
Well, I mean, man, when you sent us that, listen, you had so much to choose from. It was hard to try to figure out what to do. And, you know, I knew for sure. I think the first thing that struck a chord was the piece to do a piece on the emancipation proclamation. Because you have a copy of that. So I'm like, yes. Yeah, maybe I should do one on that. So that's the first one I chose to work on. And I think I came up with a real nice design for that one. So I was pretty excited about that particular people.

Glenn Beck
And then it reminds me, Thomas, if I may, your painting reminds me of, because I've only seen the outline and the early color study of it, but it reminds me of a cover of that Norman Rockwell did years ago. And I can't remember the scene, but you have the emancipation proclamation printed and then you have, I believe it's the Lincoln Memorial. And behind, in front of that, and then a black man in the flag wrapped around him with the opened handcuffs or chains. And it's just stunning. Stunning.

Thomas Blackshear
Yeah.

That was interesting because, believe it or not, that photograph of that man was taken at least almost 40 years ago.

And I just had it sitting.

Pat
Really?

Thomas Blackshear
Yeah. Yeah. And I.

Glenn Beck
So you, you took that picture 40 years ago?

Thomas Blackshear
Yeah. Yeah.

What happened was this, I was living, when I first got married, I was living in an apartment complex in California, and there was a neighbor of mine who. And this woman who was living there had a boyfriend who was a football player. And he, you know, he. He had a nice physique. And every time he walked by, I kept saying, man, I need to use that guy on something. So, you know, I went up to him and asked him if he would pose for me, and he said he would. And so he came over and I was trying to figure out, well, what do I do with him? You know? So I said, well, let me. I don't know why. I just said, let me wrap him up in the american flag.

And that's what I did. And to be honest with you, the photographs really weren't that well done, but they were good enough to give me the impression in the image I needed to. And I've just been sitting on them for the last 40 years.

Glenn Beck
Unbelievable.

So, Thomas, besides us, if I may call you a friend. I don't know if you call me a friend, but I consider you a dear friend.

Thomas Blackshear
Of course you can call me a friend.

Glenn Beck
I don't want to ever assume, but I just love you so much, and I love your work so much.

Besides me calling you and asking you to do this, why are you doing this particular art show? Because you are.

You're everywhere. I mean, just won the grand Prix of the west and, you know, inducted in the illustrators hall of Fame. You are so busy. What is it about this art show that is different to you?

Thomas Blackshear
Well, the show is very unique. No. Nobody that I know of has ever done a show like this before.

I mean. I mean, for you, first of all, to be the kind of historian you are, and then having all these artifacts and memorabilia that you've gotten, and to do a show where you display a painting, and then next to it will be the artifact, I mean, that's just unique and different. It's just a different concept.

And then, like I said, because of everything you own, my goodness. And then the artist that you've chosen, I mean, it was kind of interesting because one of the artists, one of my friends, Frank Ordaz, he showed me some of the stuff he was working on. And when I saw what he was doing for you, I said, oh, my goodness. I'm gonna have to up my game because it looks so good.

Glenn Beck
Yeah.

Thomas Blackshear
I just said, oh, boy, here we go. You know, I gotta.

I can't come in here looking like, you know, some kind of slouch wood. So I've been doing what I could to just try to do a nice piece with some of the images that I'm doing.

Glenn Beck
So you've been up to the ranch a couple of summers where we've had some of these artists come up and learn how to storytell from people like Pixar and others. And I have gotten the impression that many of the artists, not necessarily you, but many of the artists have a hard time because they'll be pegged for one particular kind of thing, and they want to branch out and they want to tell these stories, but they just haven't had the chance because some of the galleries are like, no, we don't. That won't sell. That won't sell. And they may be right in the end. I would hate to say this, they may be right in the end, but I don't think they are. I think people are hungry for inspiring art. And, you know, one of yours is the picture of the angel guarding the child sleeping. What do you call that one?

Thomas Blackshear
That's called watchers.

Watchers in the night.

Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh. That is one of the most stunning paintings I've ever seen.

And it's religious without being overtly religious.

You have another one. I can't remember what it's called, but it's a black man, and he is wrapped in like a shroud of stars or something. It's been a while since I've seen it. Another unbelievable painting.

Thomas Blackshear
The image is called night and day, and the painting is supposed to depict nighttime being wrapped up in daylight.

And that's the idea I got. But what was unique about the painting was it's the first time I had ever done a painting for an art show. And I didn't know what to do. So I prayed about it and I asked the Lord, I said, God, I need a painting. I don't know what to do. Could you give me an image I just made, I just hope ask you to make it an incredible design and give me nice colors and a powerful image. And I don't remember how long it took, but it might have been a couple of weeks. But I remember all of a sudden, one day, he flashes this image inside of me. I saw it inside of my mind, and it was perfect. And all I did from that point on was copied what he showed me. So throughout my career, there's been at least six to seven times where God gave me an image, and all I had to do was copy it. The most recognized image that I've done, and I did it many years ago, is a painting called forgiveness. And that painting came the same way where I prayed about it, and God showed me the pain. So when that happens, all I have to do is copy what he shows me, and that's how I get a lot of the images, because he just gives them to me.

Glenn Beck
You make that sound so easy. But seeing that he's the greatest painter ever, it's not as easy as you make it sound.

I'm so thrilled to be your friend.

As you know, I own one of your originals, and it is. I mean, I've got a few really good paintings, and that is my favorite painting that I own, and I honestly wish I could own many more of yours. And it's an honor to have you as part of this art show. I'm just, you are the Norman Rockwell, you know, the JC leyendecker of our day. And I just, I'm thrilled to have you.

So thank you so much.

Thomas Blackshear
That is a big burden to carry.

Glenn Beck
My man, but I appreciate, well, you carry it well.

You carry it well. Thank you so much.

I want you to look up Thomas Blackshear. It's Thomas Blackshear. I I.com. you'll see some of his stuff. You just go back into his past and you'll find these things that you've seen a million times.

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Hello, America, and welcome to Friday. It's the Glenn Beck program. I want to take you through a couple of things with the convention that happened this week. One of the things is I have been praying for and looking for a revival in this country for 25 years, and there have been some starts and some fits with it, and it felt like it was coming, but, you know, you never know until you're deep into one.

However, something changed in the last week, and it may be the beginning of a reawakening of America to God.

Donald Trump is a different man. If you watched the speech last night, you watched him all week at the convention. He's changed and he knows he's on borrowed time. And he, I think, for the first time, really knows who he serves and who's responsible as the author of his life.

And this is starting to happen. And there's other things that are happening as well, especially in media and the books. The chosen is something that's remarkable that, I don't know, could have been made ten years ago.

And there's a new book that is out that is also telling the story of our real spiritual heritage. And it's written in a thriller form. It's biblically accurate, but it's written in a thriller form, and I'm going to introduce it to you in 60 seconds. Stand by.

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Let me introduce you or reintroduce you to a dear friend of mine, Kathie Lee Gifford. Hi, Kathie Lee. How are you?

Kathie Lee Gifford
Glenn, I couldn't. I was trying this morning to think how long it's been since we used to hang out quite a bit in New York. And then you, you were smart and got left out before anybody did. And I got, you know, it took me longer. I left about five years ago. But I was praying for us this morning that our time together would be fruitful and blessed and favored of the Lord, because you and I have always understood that about each other, that everything we did and everything that, that fueled our life was not about us. It never has been. It never has been. So I am so happy to say hello to you again.

Glenn Beck
Oh, me too. Me too. So you've written a new series of books or a new book that I think is going to develop and hopefully a series. Right, right.

Kathie Lee Gifford
And it's about as a pilot, you know?

Glenn Beck
Right, right. I know.

And this is the story of Herod and Mary. So tell me why this story is important and what's different about your telling of it.

Kathie Lee Gifford
Well, this, I've lost track, as I'm sure you have to, of how many books you've written. I know it's over 30, but I have no idea and I don't care. It doesn't matter. I just keep finding stories that I, that I can't have keep inside me. So in 2012, I went on my first rabbinical trip to the holy land with an amazing teacher named Ray van der Lon. And I learned for the first time, you know, Herod is mentioned just twice in Matthew, just twice. And it's just, we know he's a bad guy. You can tell. But there's no, it's all in black and white. No color, no technicolor, no dolby sound. Right. I went on this trip and I. The stuff I learned about Herod, I went, and this is what happens to me all the time on these trips. I get mad. Why didn't anybody ever tell me this?

I was, I was being in grandma's Sunday school. Stop it. These stories are epic. They're unbelievable. They're not all in the bible, but if you search deeper and deeper. Well, so anyway, I came home so on fire about Herod that I literally, my son found everything on the Internet. There was about every book because I thought, I got to make a movie about Herod.

If Jesus is the greatest story ever told. And billions of people believe that Herod is one of the greatest stories never told.

And I thought, there's something here.

Glenn Beck
I don't know anything really about him.

Kathie Lee Gifford
That's the point. And once you start learning his story, you're going to freak. That he had. He was one of, first of all, one of the most genius architects, probably of all time, what he built in Israel, the architecture, the Caesarea maritime. It took two cent, no, two millennia for them to figure out how the man built a marina on the Mediterranean Sea so that Caesar's ships could come to. And he called it Caesarea maritime.

Why was it now after Caesar? Because he needed Caesar. He had no army. He called himself the king of the Jews. He wasn't even a jew. He was an idiomite from basically modern day Jordan. He wasn't a jew at all. So the Jews hated him. You know how they are about their ancestry. And the Romans didn't trust him because he was. But he was. He got out of situations. He was like the consummate politician.

He was paranoid like crazy. So he was always looking behind his back to see if, you know, Julius Caesar was going to turn his back on him or who, what's her name? Cleopatra tried to seduce him.

He might be the only man that ever said no to Cleopatra, but it's only because he didn't want Mark Anthony to murder him.

And he was turning himself about his whole family because he was the richest man on the planet and he had all this power. It's a modern day story, basically, Glenn, ripped from the headlines, really. It's going on all over the world. It never changes. He murdered anybody and anybody that got in his way, including his children. The only woman he ever loved, his wife, Miriam Nee. And until our book opens, basically at the end of his life, when we go back and we tell it from the time that he was first born, basically, and then we juxtapose it against the story of the beginning of Mary's life. This young virginal teenage girl from Nazareth who has been visited by an angel, the purest of any kind of visitations could be. And he tells her what's going to happen because God has blessed her. And she says, let it be unto me, as you have said. I mean, knowing that she could be stoned for this. She'd never been with a man. She knew it, but she knew nobody else would believe it. So it's an incredible story of Herod's debauchery and is evil. Is evil all contrasted up against Mary. So people ask me all the time, and I'm sure they do. You too, Glenn, Cathy, do you think there's more evil in the world now than there used to be? And I always answer the same thing, which is no evil has been. Evil was in the garden of Eden. Even when the Lord God was walking in the cool of the day with Adam and Eve, the serpent was there. So we shouldn't be surprised by that. The only thing that's different now is that we have a lot of cable news channels and we have cell phones.

I said, but what we have to learn to do is realize that the Lord God, creator God, Jehovah, Elohim, Jehovah, Jireh, Jehovah, Rapha the healer, all the names of Jehovah are still here too. And that's who we have to look to. And that's what Mary did. And Mary had, Mary had a journey to take that would be excruciating, excruciating. And she said, yes, lord. So basically we open up the book as a thriller. And I have to give great thanks to my co writer Brian Lipton, PhD, because I don't know how to write these kinds of books. I've written 30 some other kinds and they come to me. But it was my son Cody who said, mom, we got to take this passion you have for this ancient evil characters. The next one we're going to write is about Nero, and the next one probably about Jezebel and Ahabdeh, and it's always been there. But I want people to have hope, Glenn, that even though this evil is happening, we cling to the living hope. And the living hope shows up in the course of us are telling the herod story in the form of a young teenage girl who has carrying the savior of humankind in her womb. And if that doesn't give you hope, what can?

Glenn Beck
It really is interesting to me, Cathy Lee, that in our darkest times it is a choice. And this sounds really weird, but one of the things that has really given me such hope in really dark times is this might be the time, and I know everybody has said this for 2000 years, but this might be the time that Christ comes back. And when you really think about that, it's. I think some people would go, whoa, wait, hold on. Just say, I don't want to, but I think that's exhilarating to think that we could be witnesses to those days that people have waited for forever. And when you have real faith that Christ isn't surprised by any of this. God knew this from the beginning.

Right.

It just, it takes all of the pressure off of, I mean, you still have to do what you're supposed to do, but you don't carry the burden of all this evil. Yes, it takes the fear away, you.

Kathie Lee Gifford
Know, takes the fear away.

Studying rabbinically, which means studying the source material of the Bible, the ancient languages that are still around and they haven't changed, which is the Hebrew and the Greek. You know that in the Hebrew Bible there is no word for coincidence. None, because they believe, and I believe, and I think you do, too. There is no such thing as coincidence. God is either sovereign God in all things or he's not God at all. So when you say good luck to somebody, it's a waste of your breath. There's no such thing as luck. There's no such thing as random or coincidence. No, he is sovereign God and he always has been. He's the only thing that never changes the world around us. My God, every time you wake up and you look at the news, everything, we don't know who's going to be president this weekend. You know, we don't know who's going to, we don't know anything. We just have to know him.

And it's not about religion. And you and I have talked about this so often, it's about relationships with the living God. So I agree with you. But people, when the first, and people don't understand this, they. Well, when the first christians were there, when I said, no, there weren't christians when Jesus was alive, those were followers of the way. They were all Jews.

Glenn Beck
All Jews.

Kathie Lee Gifford
And not until Jesus was dead, resurrected and ascended to heaven did the apostolic period begin.

And it was Nero who actually called them little christians because based on the word Christal, and he did it derisively. My dog's trying to get off my table. No, I'm going to walk with my phone, if you don't mind, for a second, just so I don't have a dead dog on my couch.

Glenn Beck
Talking to Kathy Lee Gifford about her new book, Herod and Mary. It's a thriller, but based on the true biblical story.

Kathy, you talk about no coincidence.

I think there was a change that happened after this attempted assassination on Donald Trump and it changed the country and it changed him. Have you paid attention to the convention at all this week and seen him? Because I know you know Donald Trump quite well.

Kathie Lee Gifford
I've known, I've known Donald since I first moved to New York in 1982. And he was already a good friend of Frank's at that point. And his father Fred, they all used to play golf together at all those great golf courses in that area. And, you know, I try to. I try to avoid politics because long ago, Billy Graham said to me, Kathy, the only thing I really regret in my life was getting involved with politics.

God has put you on this planet to be in the entertainment world. He's giving you a boldness about your faith. He's told you, and he says, if I would, I'm just. I love you, Kathy. He told me this in my twenties.

You were. God is going to use you hugely in the media, in the world of entertainment. Just keep telling people that he loves him, that God loves them. That's it. And the three times that Frank and I got involved in politics was because we sued the state of New York for things against children, and we won every time. But that was not political in the sense of Republican, Democrat. It was about children.

Glenn Beck
Right?

So I don't want to ask you about.

I don't want to ask you about politics.

Kathie Lee Gifford
I know. I know you don't. I just wanted to let everybody know I am not a political animal, but I follow it like an animal.

And I know how I feel about things. I pray about everything. I pray for Donald because he was a. He's a friend of mine. And when. When I was just giving birth to Cassidy, and that's 31 years ago, he saved me and Cassidy from a crazed psycho who was trying to murder me and her. And he sent his helicopter for me.

He sent his, like, more and more every single day until they found this guy. I had more people around me protecting me. And I just. I mean, that's the Donald that I've known forever now, of course. Yes. So that's. I can't help it. I have a personal experience with this man that very few people ever have.

But I've watched with interest the spiritual changes, the journey that he has been on all these years, because I have spoken to him at my home and, or different places. Mar a Lago, you know, about Jesus. That's all I talk about to anybody, not if they don't want to talk about it, but if they want to. And he was always so respectful and always understood what I was talking about, and then he just respected it. And that's what people don't realize about Donald. He will listen to people. He's fascinated by people, and he wants to learn. He wants to grow now once he became president.

Glenn Beck
So. Hang on just a second, Kathy. I've got to take a quick 1 minute break, and then we're going to come back and I want you to finish the story. But I'm up against the clock here, so let me just take a quick break. 60 seconds. And we're back. Relief. Relief factor is our sponsor. Starting your day out. You know, pretty much any day of the week when you are in pain sucks. When you start hurting, it really stinks on ice. If you're living with pain and you want to get your life back, I may have an answer for you. It's called relief factor and it's 100% drug free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain. Naturally developed by doctors, relief factor uses a unique formula of natural ingredients that addresses the inflammation in your body, which is where the pain starts. And it doesn't just mask your pain for a short time, it helps reduce or even eliminate it. All day, every day, wherever you're hurting, your back, your neck, joints, muscles, in about three weeks or less, see a difference and rediscover what it feels like to feel better and live better. Go to relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief. 800 the number four relief. Stay on. Save on your first order right now at 800 the number four relief. Relieffactor.com dot 10 seconds station id so talking to Kathie Lee Gifford, she has a new book out called Herod and Mary.

But I wanted just to get her thought on the changes she has seen since the assassination attempt. I think he's had a real spiritual awakening that has humbled him and he knows truly who is the author of his life.

Do you agree?

Kathie Lee Gifford
I heard, I heard your intro before I came on and I was sitting here thinking, yes, yes, yes. But I, I've seen it coming for far longer than just this assassination attempt because I've known him for so, so long and we've had so many conversations over the years. I mean, he and Marla Maples got engaged at Frank's and my house in Connecticut. I mean, we've had some conversations over the years, you know, and I don't talk about it and it's nobody's business. But now that all this has happened, I was sitting here in my home in Tennessee and I watched it in real time. And of course, the minute I saw him hit the ground, I just said, oh Jesus. Oh Jesus, be with him and everyone in the crowd, you know, and I was stunned like he was, that nobody went freaking out, freaking out and rushing and paranoid and terrified as would be natural to do so. Anyway, then we saw him stand up and do the iconic thing that we'll live in. You know, forever. And I just was rejoicing. I was rejoicing. I would have done the same thing if Joe Biden had been assassinated or me too. I just.

Glenn Beck
Me too.

Kathie Lee Gifford
I do not, I hate evil. The only thing I hate is hatred.

You know, and there are people that I don't like what they do, but I don't hate them. You cannot call yourself a believer in God and in God's love and then say, but at the same time I hate you and I hope you die. That you love cannot live next to hatred, you know, it just cannot. You're totally out yourself as a complete hypocrite when you do that.

So anyway, I was. I was. And I, you know, I knew. I've always known because I believe God is sovereign in all things and all things work together for good.

Romans 828. It says, for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Well, Mary loved God and she knew she was called according to her, his purpose, his purpose, not hers. And she prayed basically the same prayer that Jesus did in the garden. Not my will be done, Lord, but yours. And that's what we as believers all these thousands of years later, Glenn, have to learn from these stories. So over these years I have seen certain friends of mine get to know Donald privately, personally, spend time with him, pray with him. He always wants people to pray for him and he's not embarrassed by that. He's surrounded by people that know that he's called of God for whatever purpose. We don't know what it is.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. And I think he has.

Yeah. And I think he has come to the conclusion his will, not mine. Kathy Lee Gifford, thank you for being on the program. Harold Harrod and Mary is the new book out this week.

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Stu
Yeah, Glenn, also, your new book coming out next week, chasing embers, which is your, it's your first one you've ever done, right? For young adult thriller, for young adults.

Glenn Beck
First young adult fiction. I think we've done.

I think I've done all of them now, except like religious text, cookbook.

Stu
Cookbook out there.

Glenn Beck
You've hit all of the categories.

Stu
Pardon me, you had a cookbook out there yet?

Glenn Beck
Oh, no, I don't have a cookbook.

Stu
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Glenn Beck
It may just be that.

Stu
I will say, too, there's a great program. We talked about it a little bit earlier this week going on with moms for Liberty, which is an organization you're probably familiar with. It's a great one. And they are working to get, get sane books into public libraries, books that are actually appealing to kids that aren't woke and insane. And they are running a campaign now with chasing embers. This is going through the 21st, which is Sunday, so only a couple of days left with this. But if you donate to them this week, 100% of your donation will go to placing chasing embers into the hands of teens across the country. Country in public libraries. Like, I didn't know they allowed Glenn Beck books in public libraries. I thought that was barred by the constitution or something.

Glenn Beck
But they do in some cities. Yeah. Yeah, they do in some cities, I have to tell you. Let me give you some of the reviews that I've received from some of the teenagers that just wrote it. We asked them several questions. Would you read follow up books? What was the most important thing that you learned?

Was it exciting? Et cetera, et cetera.

Here are some of the responses. Most important lesson is that if you spread lies, eventually everybody will believe them. So you must to fight, spread the truth.

Another one. The truth always matters, even when the world is run by pure power.

Keep history alive and share it with other kids. Dive deep into facts, look at many opinions on a subject and listen to one's own heart.

And the story is connecting with the young adults as well. I love the mystery of the book, how it had an exciting turn at every point. I love the writing style drama of the story. I will read the next one in the same series in a heartbeat.

So it's getting good reviews initially. It's something you can read with your family, you can give to your probably. I mean, I think, I think Rafe was reading Hunger Games when he was eight, much to my chagrin.

So if they're a good reader, they could probably read this easily at seven or eight. But it was really written for a young teenager, twelve to 18, and kind of in the genre of Harry Potter, where you can read it as a family and really enjoy it. It delves into history and tries to connect. It's one of these books I just put on my coffee table in front of the couch in our living room where the tv, as we watch tv, I just put Webster's original 18, what is it, 36 dictionary on the coffee table. And I put it there to see if it's there. Will my children reach for a dictionary or for Google because they respect this dictionary? Well, they were taught to. Well, we would just beat them into submission on respecting the original Webster's dictionary. And it was, I put it down on the table. We started watching that night and some word came up in some show we were watching and one of the kids said, what does that mean? I said, I'm not sure. And one of them reached for the dictionary and looked it up and we went through. And if you can teach your kids how to find the truth and how to find and dig into things, it's kind of exciting, at least for me, for the whole family. But anyway, you were saying that you could now give to the moms for libraries foundation. This is moms for liberty. It's m four l foundation.org back. And they get these into public libraries and into school libraries. You know, I mean, I know we have all the places we can go. It's different than the doctor seuss you had. It's this one ends in the strip club with the big fat guy dressed as a woman stripping.

So I know we can get those books in. Can we get good books into our public schools and libraries? That's what moms for Liberty is doing this week. They are trying to get our book in. Chasing embers m four l foundation.org. beck is the way to help.

Stu
Yeah. Or, you know, if you just want to get yourself or your family. Glenn. Glenn Beck.com. you can go there and pick it.

Glenn Beck
Up or wherever books are sold.

Stu
Yeah, wherever books were sold. Starting Tuesday, Glenn.

Glenn Beck
Yep. It's officially released Tuesday. And if you ordered through Glenn Beck.com, you should be getting it. If you don't have it already, you should be getting it faster.

All right, so let me tell you about something else that I learned that I am so excited to share with you.

Tomorrow is episode number five of my podcast on experts. It's called the Beck Story, kind of like the backstory on our history. And this one is an eight part episode or an eight part series on experts. And how did we go from a place to where, you know, we didn't have experts and we trusted ourselves, our neighbors, our family. And now you will be told by an expert that you didn't see what you just saw or that men can become pregnant. And because an expert says it, you'll believe it.

How did that happen? How did a group of people that used to hang on to common sense all of a sudden reject their own knowledge, their own understanding of universal truth, and just hand it off to an expert? How is it we have wild inflation and the people who told us it was transitory, nothing to worry about, or that it was great, they're still telling us, no, it's, it's not. No, you just don't understand the prices at the grocery store. What do you mean? I don't understand the prices of the. I know, and I'm spending more than I used to on groceries.

Then we listen to these experts. They tell us all this stuff.

They've caused the problem. And then we keep going back to those same damn experts and saying, okay, but now what? What are we going to do about it?

Why would you ask the people who broke it in the first place?

How did we get here? Well, it's a progressive story. And we went back about 125 years, and we started looking at how we got to become a society that doesn't listen to itself anymore. It doesn't listen to common sense. It listens to experts and episode five, which comes out tomorrow, is all about the Supreme Court and how the progressives changed radically changed the Supreme Court.

It is fascinating and you will learn more about today and what's happening in the Supreme Court by knowing what happened before.

Let me give you just a quick clip, a quick clip of it. Let's go with backstory number seven, please.

History can turn on a dime in America's case, that's what happened on September 6, 1901, when President William McKinley stepped in front of a receiving line at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

An anarchist named Leon Solgaz waited his turn in the long line. When he stepped forward to shake hands with President McKinley, he suddenly McClinley pulled a 32 caliber revolver from his jacket pocket and fired twice at point blank range.

The first bullet ricocheted off of one of McKinley's coat buttons, but the second bullet entered his abdomen and lodged in his back.

McKinley survived for eight days before infection and gangrene ultimately took his life.

Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was on a camping trip in the Adirondack mountainous when he was summoned to a friend's house in Buffalo to take the oath of office as the nation's new president.

America had its first progressive president and history turned on a dime.

The sudden presidency.

Nope, there's more. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.

Instead, they made due with their progressive allies in Congress, including Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette. They used those years out of power to spread their ideas in the press and lay patient groundwork for the moment when the progressive would return to the White House.

Here's how the Brandeis Frankfurter partnership worked. There was constant communication between them, sometimes even daily letters. Historian Bruce Allen Murphy describes the letters from Brandeis as resembling shopping reporting lists with numbered items proposing legislation, political action strategies, and even the latest insider information on Supreme Court cases. Then Frankfurter took action on Brandeis requests. He lobbied members of Congress directly, sometimes even drafted legislation for them to try to correct decisions that Brandeis thought the Supreme Court had gotten wrong.

Frankfurter's close working relationship with the New Republic magazine, his friendship with the editors of the New York World and Boston Herald, plus numerous other contacts in mainstream press and law review publications, enabled him to publish articles widely on any topic Brandeis ordered.

Often Frankfurter would take comments on current issues that he received in letters from Brandeis and redraft them into unsigned articles that were published in the New Republic. If Frankfurter did write the articles himself, he farmed them out to other journalists in his network or as was often the case. He used his carefully selected corps of Harvard Law school students to research and write scores of articles for he and Brandeis.

When these law student produced articles got published, they often thanked their professor, Frankfurter, for his inspiration and support, having no clue that the topic actually originated with a sitting Supreme Court justice.

What's amazing about this particular backstory is if you want to know about the leak of the Supreme Court and how that happened, you look back at the early history of the Supreme Court, which include the Harvard Law School and then the media and then secret clubs, if you will. That became known in Washington, DC, where you got all the progressives together and they started colluding with each other. And then they would go to the press and plant those stories. And then they got Brandeis into the Supreme Court, and he started colluding with the White House. And everything changed. And it looked to the average American like the system was working, that there we had three branches, but we didn't. And it was run by a handful of experts, and it completely changed America.

This is what's happening right now, I believe, when you, when you listen to tomorrow's podcast on the Beck story and you listen to the stories of the supreme Court, everything that you're hearing and reading about the Supreme Court now, how they're under attack, the leaks, who can you trust in the supreme Court, the trying to jockey and get people off the supreme Court. All of this has been done before, and it is remarkable to hear it. That's tomorrow on the Beck story. Wherever you get your podcasts, let me tell you about a great sponsor of ours. It's the Berna launcher. The Burna launcher is something that, you know when you have to make the decision to shoot a. Are you going to shoot to kill? You don't pull a gun unless you're prepared to kill somebody.

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Stu
So is this the weekend Joe Biden stepped down from the nomination of the Democrats? I mean, this is an amazing time. Prediction markets now have Joe Biden, the man who won the nomination, the man who wondez the primary, the man who participated in a debate as the candidate of the, of the party, now has a 5% chance of winning the election.

5%.

What a weird time this is. I will say it is legitimately incredible. I'm off for a few days next week. Glenn will be here with you. Uh, and by the time I get back, I wonder if Joe Biden will still be the nominee.

Going to be very fascinating to watch that play out. And it's going to be fascinating to watch the Nancy Pelosi smear campaign either putter, you know, sort of peter out this weekend or just stop completely. She has been leaking story after story after story to the media. The media eats it up over and over and over again because they want the same outcome. And over and over again, the Biden campaign keeps saying, look, screw you guys. It's our decision.

We will let you know if we're changing our minds on that. And so far, they keep, including today, denying they are going to step down from this race. And we, of course, here at the Glenn Beck program, want to encourage the president to stick with it. Joe, you can do it. You've been doubted before and you can push through it. If he does drop, drop out, we'll go live@YouTube.com. studosamerica. Follow the page, click the bell for notifications and you'll know when we go.

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