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Hey honey, hey honey. Hey, hey, hey. Adjust your TVs. Do not adjust your devices. I am bald. Yes, I am bald. I was sick of it. It's getting too dang hot here in Texas and my hair is too dang thin. So, I just said, "Forget it." Just took it off. It happened. Oh well, I'm living with it. My hair now grows so slowly that I will have a full head of hair back in probably two and a half to three years. I'm not even joking about that. That's about how long it takes.
Happy Monday, everyone. Movie gone. Happy Monday. I want to first uh point out uh insider PA Scruffy and PA Scruffian sent the entire studio in here. I guess the radio studio people some hairs freedom 250 snacks. I want to uh say thank you to PA Scruffy and that's awesome. I had to look up what even hairs is. I'm from I'm a Texas boy. I had no idea. And um Sarah over here said, "Oh, I know hairs." She's another Philly girl. Um she knows all about the hairs. Um but uh I looked this up. Uh producer Matt, throw this up. It's kind of cool. I didn't know they were doing this, but Philly founded our nation. We're founding our flavors. Hairs flavored by Phil Philly. Taste the 250. That's awesome. Thank you so much, PA Scruffy, for all uh for that. I can't wait to loh jump into these loaded cheese fries. I grabbed that immediately.
Um, let's h head over towards before I tell you where Glenn actually let's look in. Let's peek in at Glenn. See what he's doing right now. I know exactly where he's going and I don't know if he's listening to me right now, but I think the world might be getting close to ending because he sounded upbeat this morning and he's also leading with sports. I don't know what the heck is happening over there in West. I don't know. Glenn, are you okay?
>> I'm not I'm not but I'm not actually talking sports.
>> I'm not talking sports. It does revolve around sports. In fact, the whole hour revolves around two different sports.
>> What?
>> I know. I know. But unfortunately for the listener, it doesn't require me to know anything about the sports.
>> Did you see a Broadway play that had sports in the Broadway play and that set off your
>> Actually, my daughter was in she was in high school. What is it? High school musical.
>> Basketball. There we go. There we go.
>> It was basketball. So, are you talking basketball today by chance?
>> Uh, yes I am. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. But I'll be singing about it.
>> No. Uh,
>> we've got a lot.
>> My, you know, my daughter was in this show. Did I tell you this? She was in the show and she's in two shows simultaneously. I don't know where she gets this work ethic from because I'm way too lazy. But she's in two shows at once and she's rehe's doing the one show and she's rehearsing for Oklahoma, which her one show closed this weekend. Her next one opens up Wednesday and it's Oklahoma and she plays, you know, the girl, the comedic. I can't wait to see her as a comedian because she's really funny. But she plays and at one point she has to run to this guy and he grabs her and picks her up, you know, picks her up and grabs her by the rib cage. He broke her rib. I mean, not his fault. Broke her rib. And so I'm watching her on stage. She's with a doctor before each performance and they're wrapping her up and everything else. And she could just barely move. She's like, "Ow, ow, ow." She gets on stage, man. You would not have noticed. You wouldn't have I wanted to stand up and go, she's doing this with a broken rib. This is incredible.
>> It's amazing.
>> It's amazing.
>> Absolutely amazing, kid.
>> Anyway,
>> all right. That's coming at you a full hour right at the top. Glenn's going to open up.
I know we had a huge event UFC at the White House. Uh I can't wait to show you some videos, some pictures of that. I was every single person that I was talking I have about 50,000 group chats in my phone. Every single one of them was either had chills or was cheering on what was going on last last night. It was awesome. Um I want to give a shout out to the first poster of the day. Who's this Jason Butel guy? First poster of the day. Congrat Butel even though he's pretty awesome. Let's give it to an actual insider. COO CFC said, "Hi." So Beige said, "Good morning from South Mississippi. The ProAmerican messages in between bouts at UFC 250 were the best I've ever seen." Glenn's going straight into that right at the top of the hour. Uh Thomas Senko, people keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer, but I'm back. Welcome back, Thomas. Liberty Bell, not impressed by what I've seen of the Iranou and Tina in Florida said, "Jason, can you explain this peace deal? I've seen so much on social media that is saying we are getting screwed, but I don't know if that is just the people against Trump or not. We will go uh into as much as we can. We're going to talk about the uh the Iran peace deal. Um calling it a peace deal, I think is part of the problem. Um what do I mean by that? Uh well, let's we'll get into that. Uh I I don't really think this is a peace deal. Uh I think this is more of a ceasefire while they negotiate the peace deal, but it's being marketed as a peace deal. Um, and I've got a few conditions that I'm looking at to see what we actually get out of this. I think uh the president is steering us in the right direction, but there's a whole lot of miss uh information out there. Oh my gosh. Insiders, tons to get to. It starts right now. Glen Beck is on Start the flame. Pass it on. Crank the game. Back is on. Is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment. This is the Glen Beck program.
>> Glen Beck is on.
>> Hello, America. Welcome to the Glen Beck program. Uh, I'm going to I'm going spend some time talking about sports today. And you know how good that gets. Uh, you know, you're listening to the Glen Beck program. If it's your first day, you're like, "Okay, that's cool." If this is, you know, you're a regular listener, you are terrified out of your mind on what's going to happen. Uh cuz I don't know my ass for my elbow when it comes to sports. Well, let's just put it this way. Uh I was watching the Knicks game uh with the Spurs. Um you know, I don't know how many home runs it took to finally win, but uh my watching with my son uh as we were watching a play, my daughter was in a play this weekend, so we were kind of watching that off to the side. Uh there might have been some inappropriate Yeah. Uh you know, from my son from time to time during the play, but he made it work. Um anyway, so I've got a lot to say about that. And last night, my wife explained the UFC fight to me uh as we watch as we watch that together. Uh so some some perspective on all of this coming next. First, let me talk to you about rush tax. You know what the IRS eats for breakfast? Puppies. Puppies and people that make mistakes. They love both of them. Cute little puppies with big eyes. They will eat them. And then you you've missed a form. You got a number in the wrong box. They'll eat that puppy while questioning you and little puppy blood uh running down their cheeks. That's who they are. Okay. You have a job. You have family. You have responsibilities. God to help you if you have p puppies and you've made a mistake on your IRS for him cuz it'll they'll go for your puppy dog first. Anyway, something goes wrong, you need somebody that knows how to get the IRS from stop eating your puppy and taking you to jail. Here's the thing. They want to help people that are dealing with uh tax debt, IRS notices, levies, garnishments, any other problem that grows out of a simple mistake. Maybe you didn't even realize you made it. Rush Tax Resolution is A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and they're the only company that I trust or recommend for this. They offer a free IRS transcript investigation and they will tell you upfront and for free if they can help and they'll only take their your case if they know they can help you. So call them at 877-554-7874. That's 877-554-7874 or go to rushtaxresolution.com.
All right. So, last night on the south lawn of the White House, it was it was amazing. 100,000 people gathered around a cage. Uh there was a rig the size of a spaceship. They call it the claw. And it was throwing shadows and and lights and everything else right right behind the White House. It was it was an amazing look. It was the president's 80th birthday. And as they were preparing for this, I have to be honest with you, as they were preparing, a little voice in the back of my head, keep whispering, kept whispering two words. And those two words were breads and circuses. Bread and circuses, bread and circuses. And that phrase, you know, comes from the Roman poet that was, you know, writing while he watched his empire rot from the inside out. And his complaint was, you know, the people who once chose their leaders, who once argued about the fate of the republic, now only wanted two things, just to be fed and entertained. and the empire was more than happy to give them both. Okay. Uh and so I'm I was wondering, you know, once this thing was announced, I immediately thought a bread and circuses and I thought we are a crowd now, uh that, you know, wants to be full and amused cuz, you know, then we won't ask any hard questions. We'll just be fine. So, here's what I was looking for last night when I started watching this. The circus was not a celebration. The Roman circus not a celebration. It was a it was anesthesia to make you forget. So when I saw a cage match on the lawn where the president decides the question of war and peace, the historian in me kind of flinches a little bit. However, it was the 250th birthday of the United States of America. If you can't throw a party at 250, when can you? Okay. A celebration is not de decadence and it is not anesthesia. Joy is not decline. So which was it going to be? Remembrance, joyous and entertainment. Are we Rome handing out a circus or are we a free people throwing a festival that we have every right to throw? I watched it last night and it was super clear, at least to me. I don't I don't know if you saw it. It was so well worth watching. Um, even if you don't like UFC and the fight or whatever, I mean, I prefer boxing myself, you know? I don't like it when they're down on the ground and they just keep wailing on each other, but it it was okay. Um, but it it was remarkable all of the videos that they were putting in between the way this whole thing was staged. I mean, just the fly over. Do we have the the audio of the fly over >> right after this? I mean, I've never seen a flyover like that. I've never seen I mean, it was it was stunning. I will tell you, Reagan was an actor. Donald Trump is a showman. Donald Trump is the best showman we've ever had. I mean, I think America, the only one I can think of that might have been maybe in his league is PT Barnum. The guy knows how to throw a show. He does. But the point of this is it was a celebration. It was a celebration of America. It was a celebration of our past. And it was a celebration of our heroes. The difference between a circus and a festival is the difference between forgetting and remembering to build. Rome's circus was designed to make you forget. The great festivals of the modern age are designed to make you remember what you're capable of. And let me give you a couple of examples. Donald Trump called this uh cage uh the claw. Uh he said, you know, maybe I'll keep it up. Maybe we should keep it up because, you know, they they built the um the Eiffel Tower and that was supposed to come down. Eiffel Tower happened in 1889. Uh same guy who helped build the Statue of Liberty and Paris was uh throwing the World's Fair. And so they built this Eiffel Tower out of iron. Everybody said it was horribly ugly. It was a scar on the city. It was and they all said it's it's temporary. It's temporary. Temporary. Okay, it wasn't temporary as it turned out. People had it and now you can't imagine without it. The point is the Eiffel Tower was not a distraction. It was a dare. Okay. Same thing with San Francisco. 1906 there was an earthquake and then the earthquake set off a fire and it almost erased all of the city. I mean the heart of the city was completely gone. It was nothing but rubble and ash. People said San Francisco is over. It'll never come back. 9 years later, nine years that city threw the biggest party the planet had ever seen. They had called it the jewel city. 18 million people. This is this is uh what 1805 or se sorry 1905 sorry 1915 I think 18 million people came 18 million people and the whole point of it was to say we're not done we're not done look what we can do now here's the part that most people don't know of that entire entire jewel city the glittering city they kept one building. It's called the Palace of Fine Arts. If you've ever been to San Francisco, I can guarantee you you've been to the Palace of Fine Arts. It's an outdoor park and it was made by the famous architect at the time, Bernard Maybeck. And he built it on purpose to look like it was a Roman ruin that was crumbling. Um and it was it was to express uh that all great civilizations, you know, and all great ideas and vanity of human, you know, wishes, it all declines. Okay? So he builds an a monument to the idea that everything falls. But the people of San Francisco loved it so much they didn't want it to fall. So they rebuilt it in permanent concrete. 111 years later, it's still standing as a park, still full of families and swans and the afternoon light and people taking their wedding pictures. The monument to mortality became proof that a city can refuse to die. Okay, that's the opposite of a circus. A circus distracts you from the rot. These things point straight to the rot and say, "Now watch what we're going to build on top of it. And that's, you know, what I saw um a couple of nights before in Los Angeles when the World Cup came home for the first time in a generation when they were singing the Star Spangle Banner. I mean, not a can instrumental, the real thing. Men stood with their hands, you know, over their hearts and their hats off and it was beautiful. It was beautiful. The visiting side, little Paraguay, you know, brought two of their own. a couple who met in a college music seminar and they sang the Paraguayan anthem which if you read the words is about a people who lived, you know, who lived three centuries under somebody else's scepter and then one day said, you know, enough and broke it. I mean, two nations, two anthems, pride on both sides of the field. Nobody said we're living on stolen land. Nobody lecturing anybody. Nobody, you know, handing out a list of reasons why they should be ashamed of where they just came from. It was just gratitude out loud all in front of the entire world. That's what a healthy country sounds like.
Now, according I told you this last week, according to brand new polling, 59% of us, clear majority, now say America's best days are behind us. In 1976, at the bsentennial, pollsters asked Americans if they were pessimistic about our future. 15% said yes. Today that number is 41%. Tripled in 50 years. Half this country is standing right here at the 250 yard line looking at the wreckage and things that are genuinely broken and just saying I don't think it's worth rebuilding. Let me say this. It is worth rebuilding. Celebrating it is worth it. Fixing what doesn't work is worth it. And plenty doesn't work right now. And pretending otherwise is kind of a lie. And I don't want to I don't want to live a lie, but rebuilding it for a new century is absolutely worth it. You know the survey that I just told you, you know who the optimistic ones are in the survey? The most optimistic are the young ones. The youngest ones, the generation everyone swears has given up still believes something great can come out of this. Maybe they just know something that we cynics forgot. Before you let anybody talk you into a funeral, answer this question. Name the country that would be better to lead the world than this one. Go ahead. Try. Try. What is it? China? They bury their own history and they jail pastors for giving the wrong sermon. Russia, a gas station with nuclear weapons and a birth rate in freef fall. I don't think so. beautiful, exhausted Europe that's now asking us to defend it. Name the nation that was not built on blood, you know, on soil, not on a strong man. Name the name the other country that was built on a single revolutionary sentence that all men are created equal and that a creator gave us certain rights. Name the great power on earth that that has that. You can't name the power on earth that doubts itself as much as we do. You know why? You know what? You know what's good about doubt? Doubt shows we still have a conscience. We're misguided a lot of times, but it shows we have a conscience conscience. Proof that there is a soul still in there fighting. There's there's no other country like this one. Never has been. So, I watched the fight last night. I really loved it. I loved it. 250 years, we've earned a party. Just keep the difference in your head. Just keep the difference straight in your head.
There's all kinds of things going on um in Washington DC. And I, for one, I'm going in a week or so. I'm going to be broadcasting up there for the week of Fourth of July, and I can't wait to be there. There's some great changes that have happened. Just remember, Rome handed out circuses to help a dying civilization forget. We're not Rome unless we choose to be. But I have to tell you, I'm going to show you some things in the next couple of days. I I honestly I probably slept probably 90 minutes last night. I was laying in bed. I was writing some stuff. I was doing some research and I was just filled with what I saw over the weekend. And I saw some really bad stuff. I'm going to get to the Nicks here in a second. I saw some really bad stuff, but I also saw some amazing things. And I was so excited to come on and share some things with you. I'm going to break it up over the week because there's a lot there's a lot. But I have a feeling that we are turning a corner. I think we're turning a corner. I think we're beginning to wake up. I think I think I know we at least have the opportunity to say, "Yeah, I'm done with that. I'm done with that." You know what? I'm going to take a page from a city that burned to the ground and built a jewel out of the ashes on purpose just to tell the world we're not beaten. We're we're San We're from San Francisco. We're Americans. We're going to take a page out of that book. So celebrate, then fix it. And then go build the thing your great great grandchildren will refuse to let fall. That's who we are. It's going to be an exciting week.
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I am I'm really scary because I'm not optimistic very often but I'm very very optimistic on what I am seeing we're going to talk a little bit about Iran fan here um as we go. In fact, let me just touch base on this one. Jason, do you have any anything from a source that you trust that is telling you what's in this deal that supposedly we're going to sign on Friday?
>> Uh no, not from a source I trust. And apparently all the mainstream media trust every Iranian source they come across, which is absolutely ridiculous,
>> right? Not only not only uh every media source, every Democrat, every Democrat is saying this is horrible. We don't know what's in it. We don't know. Now, it may turn out to be horrible. I hope not, but we don't even know what's in it. And they haven't signed it. They're supposed to sign it. Guess when. Guess. Take a guess. When are they supposed to sign this? Uhhuh. Friday. Every Friday, we've got a deal. Okay. So, I'll talk about this when we actually know what's in the deal because if some of the things that Democrats are saying are in it, I'm going to be pissed. I'm not going to be happy about that. But why why do we borrow trouble? You know, I really I think it's because I'm getting older. I maybe I maybe some would call it wisdom. I just call it just getting hit in the head so many times you're like, I I got to stop doing that. That just hurts. Um, but I I question myself, why did I worry about so much stuff that it's good to market and say, "Okay, this is what it could be, but it's not yet. Let's just be aware of that, and then we'll deal with it if it comes. Let's just be ready to deal with it." I'm ready to deal with the the Iran deal. If it's good or bad, I'm ready. But I'm not going to deal with it today. And I don't understand why the press and everybody else other than Trump derangement syndrome. And I think they think that bad news sells. And I and maybe it's just me being too optimistic. I This is weird for me. I'm not usually like, but I think those days are over. I think people are sick of hearing nothing but bad news. I think they're tired of hearing about sto I'm I'm I just want to recognize that my studio is on stolen land. No, it isn't. I'm I didn't steal it. I didn't steal it. I purchased it. Um now, uh it might have been taken in a war, but that's the way all land has been taken forever. Um and by the way, this wasn't stolen from Mexico. We bought it. We did it through a negotiation uh with the Spanish, what was it, the MexicanAmerican War. It was all negotiation. We did all of that and the Mexicans were happy to do it. Uh so please stop with that. I think people are just so sick and tired of hearing all of this bad news um that they don't want to borrow any more trouble. I got enough problem. Have you gone to the gas station lately? I got enough problems. I'd rather I'd rather I'd rather be happy for the next couple of days going, you know what, gas last night was at 76 uh $76 a barrel for oil. That's really good. It was like 80 before the war. It was at 76 I think last night. It's about 82 today. I'm good with that. We can get gas back down to about 275 $3 a gallon. I'm good. I' I'd rather spend the week thinking about that and then if it turns out to be a crappy deal or we go back into war, well then we'll deal with that. You know, I already know how bad that can be. I'd like to spend the week kind of feeling good that maybe things are getting better.
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Coming up, the Knicks just won a historic NBA championship, but Glenn explains how he lost so much more in the end. Stay with us on the Glen Beck program.
>> And we are back. Wow. I I have so much stuff to get to today. Uh we have to talk to Tulsi Gabbard and her bol uh lab um release. Um where some people are taking it, the other direction, some people are not taking it. And it's really annoying to me. I saw Disclosure Day. Um, and I don't even know when we'll have time to get to, you know, I I'll probably shoe that uh push that in. Probably at the quarter hour, so we can talk about that. I I told you I was going to go see it and I was I told you I would tell you what I thought about it. So, we'll probably do that um probably next segment and a whole lot of other things to get to today. Um le let's stick with the MMA fight yesterday, UFC. I know Insider the Champ is a huge MMA fan. uh the champ. I'm really curious about what you thought about last night, the the whole spectacle of everything, how it looked and what you thought about some of the uh some of the fights. Let me know, tag me, let me know what you thought. Um Al Flyer said, "Saw disclosure today. Thought it was pretty corny." Um yeah, let's talk about that in the next segment. Uh I have some opinions, a few. Uh Katherine Gagny said, "Is it wrong that I don't care about the fight hype? I just see distraction." I thought it was super cool. I had a ton of people on on my phone just blowing it up. Everyone was saying how awesome it was. That's what I was kind of focusing in on, just how awesome of a spectacle it was. And it felt like during that moment, everyone was just proud to be American. At least all my friends. We were just we were extremely gung-ho last night watching everything go down. Um, and apparently, well, pretty much everyone that I know or even saw on social media or heard from, they were all just all, you know, all hype, but apparently there was a counterprotest. Actually, counterprogramming that was going on. Did you even know this? I did not even know this. It shows how, I guess, small the audience was, but not surprising when you consider this was the content. Watch this. No one is getting behind.
>> What is this?
>> No one.
>> Glenn, what do you think about this?
>> I have to tell you. I have to tell you it. This is so bad. I saw this yesterday and I s and I I thought, "Oh my gosh, we've switched places." This is part of my optimism. We've switched places. Look at what Donald Trump put on. That was one of the greatest shows and most patriotic things I've ever seen. So beautifully produced, so well done, patriotic. You learned history and everything else. And they're they're like uh like I don't know, like a nursing home up on a stage playing the piano going and I can't find my underpants. I don't know what. And I thought, my gosh, these were the people that knew how to sell things, knew how to entertain. Look at what they've become. They have no idea what they're doing. They're insane.
>> They're on the winning side, gang. We're on the winning side.
>> Look at this imagery. I I've got this producer Matt, throw this up. I got this picture of the stage. They're they're pushing this imagery of their street protests. So, they have all their protest signs flanking the big screen. And then if you've ever seen these protests, this is this is what the people look like. They're playing these stupid drums. And ever since Occupy Wall Street, they're playing these stupid drums. I don't see any blue hair, which is very very weird.
>> I mean, but it is all it's all protest. It's all marching. It's all things that normal people don't want to do.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay. They don't want to do. And you don't want to be those 1960s hippies and I can't find my dentures. That's what it seems like. You know, they're crazy. They're out of touch and they're just protesting. I think America is turning a corner. They want to be for something.
>> Yeah,
>> that's that's what Donald Trump was offering yesterday. You want to be a part of this? Be a part of this
>> 100%.
>> Look at We're having fun. We're learning something. We're doing things. We're watching epic battles happen in front of us. Be part of this. It's good over here.
>> Yeah. And speaking of imagery, quite a distance we've gone from. Remember the the imagery of this? Producer Matt put this image. Remember that. I'm coming for you. 80% of the country is evil. I'm flanked by the Marine Corps. I guarantee you those Marines there are saying, "Get me the heck out of here." You have that imagery flanked with a red backdrop while he's pissed and yelling at us the entire time.
>> Yeah.
>> And then we go to that.
>> Compare that compare that to last night.
>> Yep.
>> I'm proud of my country.
>> Yeah.
>> I know. I'm I'm telling you. I am telling you there's something happening. Look at that. Look at the difference.
>> Mhm.
>> Which side do you want to be on? I mean, even though even though it does kind of look like a whole bunch of nuclear missiles have been launched into the sky, that particular shot, but I mean, which side do you want to be on?
>> Yeah, even Stephen A. Smith was uh forced to recognize how awesome he tweeted last night that got to be honest, the UFC event at the White House looks spectacular. This is a big time show. Props to UFC President Dana White and the show they put on, it's big time, plain and simple. It was big time. It was awesome. I I wish I could show you this. There's There's this video going around. You see the Teddy Roosevelt AI video? I don't know if the UFC actually put this out or not. If they did, awesome. If they didn't, it's still awesome. I want to show you this when we have to die a little bit later in the show. right now. Glenn's coming back. Torch's summer of 250 is on. songs, lessons, and stories that empower the next generation of Americans. Learn more at torch2250.com. I can't wait to show you in just a couple of minutes the difference there. There something is happening and it's really good and exciting and I'll I'll show you and we saw it this weekend. We saw it this weekend. Let me give you this. last night, the sports event in uh with the UFC, if you saw any of it, it was spectacular. It really was so well done, so uplifting. I mean, except for the fighting till you're a bloody, you know, a bloody stump. Um, you know, the the imagery and the lessons and the music and everything was about America and it just made you feel good. Okay, compare that to how you felt after the Knicks.
My mom used to say, she had this line and she would always say it. She when whenever as kids if we would start roughousing at all, you know, you knock over a lamp and you crack something that wasn't yours to crack and she'd stop and she'd put her hands on her hips and she would say the same six words. And I bet your mom said the same thing. What did she say? kids, this is why we don't have nice things. I'm like, well, if they're not nice, you don't you shouldn't don't say that to my mom. You get beat for that. But I heard her voice this weekend. I heard it clear. This and I meant it just like my mom. This is why we can't have nice things because in New York City, a basketball team wins its first championship in 53 years. 53 years of waiting, of loyalty, of fathers taking their sons to the garden. And what does what do the quote fans do with that joy? Well, somebody was shot. They set a school bus on fire. You know, people tried to hitch a ride on a moving fire truck. They kicked out windows of police cars, climbed statues. Around 2:00 in the morning, somebody opened fire in Time Square. Seven shots. Crossroads of the world. 17-year-old girl hits the ground. That was the celebration. And that was Saturday. This thing started earlier. A a a Spurs fan, grown man 40 miles from home. Um in spirit, 1,500 from home. In fact, walking back to his hotel after game three. Mob surrounds him. They beat him. They tear off his jersey off his back like a trophy. After game four, 10 police officers were hurt. Uh, one of them taken uh, you know, taking a glass bottle to the face. Teenager ends up in the hospital. Somebody thought it would be a clever idea idea to throw eggs at the other team's players at their own hotel. This isn't passion. Passion built the garden. Passion fills the seats. This is something else entirely. This, you know what this is? This is a society that has forgotten how to be a civil society. No regard for anything or anyone. Okay? This is why we can't have nice things. And I'm telling you, when we lose this, when we lose the simple ancient understanding that the stranger in the other jersey is still a human being walking home to his family, we're not fans anymore. You're not even a citizen anymore. You know what you are? You're an animal. You're an animal. And that's what I saw on the streets of New York. Animals. And the most chilling part is how fast it happens. How thin the floor turned out to be because everything is tribal now. Absolutely everything. Your team, your party, your flag, your side. And the other guy, he's not a rival. He's prey. Did he call them animals? Yes, I did. I don't care what color anybody is. Don't care. Don't care. Anybody who is doing that, you're an animal. Tell me how how else do I describe somebody who just does not see another human being and they are so excited that they just want to beat somebody with a chair out of five guys, you know. And I want to ask a question, you know, that nobody in a position of influence seems willing to ask out loud. If the so-called influencers and the leaders and the famous faces won't step forward and condemn this in the harshest possible terms, who will? Cuz here's the easy step. You think I know nothing about here's the layup. I think the Knicks, the coaches, and the players, especially the players, the the players that the kids worship, they all should have walked out the first time this happened. They should have walked out together and said, "If this is how you celebrate, we don't want you as fans. You are not our fans. You shame our team. You shame our city. You shame this game. You know, a few players muttered something respectful into a press conference microphone, and good for them. But a sound bite is not a stand. A stand is the team coming out shouldertosh shoulder, looking the camera and telling the mob, "Not in our name." That's what, you know, and and the Knicks can still do it. It's got to be done today. But they should say, "You did any of this. You are not a fan. You are not worthy of wearing a Knicks jersey because that's not who we are. We'll have nothing to do with any of this." And you know what? We want everyone prosecuted to the utmost. You were involved in this. You should go to jail. And if the teams won't do it, then the city should. Let me ask you this. How much money has New York paid or any other city? How much have you paid for those stupid uh franchises to be in your city? And what do they say? It brings money into the city. Well, really, does it? I mean, you built the stadium with public money. You pay the police to clean up after the riot. You pay for the burned out bus, the broken windows, the hospital bills. Why? Why? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for this? I think the city should start finding the franchises. If the franchise won't stand up against this stuff, then the city should start finding them. Your your fans and they'll all say, "These aren't our fans." Well, they're doing it in your name. So, what are you doing to make sure you say you're not a fan of ours? What are you doing to say not in our name? Don't do it. You know, let the people who profit from the passion pay for the carnage that the passion is now producing. The people who beat that guy, who threw the bottle, who fired the shots, find them, prosecute him, put him in prison. If that's what the facts warrant, then that's, you know, you put somebody else in a hospital bed, I think you should charge it like attempted murder. That wasn't a crime of passion. You're just an animal. That's it. It's not a riot. It's a crime against another human being. And I don't really count you as another human being.
Here's the warning, and I want you to really hear it. A free society cannot survive if it requires a police state to hold it together. That's the whole game. That's it. That's it. You cannot have a free society if every time your team w team wins, you go out and try to kill people. You decide, I'm going to tear the whole city down. I'm going to set things on fire. I'm going to shoot people. I'm going to go into a Five Guys and I'm going to steal the food and then I'm going to beat the people behind the counter with a chair. You can't have a free society. Liberty depends on you governing yourself. You can have a You can have a bottle. You didn't even have the worst thing inside of you say, "Oh, I got a bottle in my hand. I should throw it at that guy cuz I'm celebrating." And then the human part of you should say, "Hey, dummy. Don't do that. What are you doing?" And not because a cop is watching, but because that guy knows better. The moment you have a society where they just don't know any better, that the people on the street just don't know, and I don't buy that at all. Here's what they know. Nobody's going to do anything about it. I can get away with this. Over and over and over again. We taught everybody at BLM, ah, you can march. Oh, that's not marching. That's burning cities down. What Martin Luther King did was march. What BLM did was burn cities down. What the Knicks fans did is not celebrating. That's burning cities down. The days of burning our cities down to the ground, they got to come to an end. Enough is enough. And if the decent people, the leaders, the athletes, the ones who make millions of dollars because people go to see them, if they don't get on those megaphones and end it now, you know what? Then I guarantee you some authoritarian with a badge and a boot will end it all for all of us. And maybe there's a few people that want that, but the vast majority of Americans don't. You know, if you act like an animal, I guess you need to be kept in a cage. You know, I keep coming back to the people who changed the world. It was King. It was Gandhi. It was a carpenter from Nazareth. Every one of them faced violence. Real violence. far worse than a lost basketball game or even less understandable a win. And every one of them refused to pick up a chair. They refused to become the thing that they were fighting. This isn't even that they're fighting. They're not even fighting. The Knicks won. They're not fighting. They're not sad. This is They're happy. I'd hate to see them pissed off. The refusal to act like an animal is what built every nice thing we have. The mob in Time Square is what tears it down. So enough. Enough is enough on almost every front. I think America has had enough. But this one is easy. This one's right there. Athletes, the NBA, stand up. Do it today. Do it today, you cowards. Say it clearly. Say it now. Mean it. We will not be celebrated this way. Do that much. Ju, just just the basics. I know you're busy lecturing us about all kinds of other things. Love. You got to lecture us about love all the time. Why don't you just take a day and stand up and say, "Hey, we'd like to have nice things." And we can't have nice things, kids, if you behave this way. So, don't behave this way or you'll become my father. You don't want me to stop this car. Do I need to stop this car? You don't want me to stop this car. That's what the NBA should say today. The players should be out front. Will they? No. No. No. Because the NBA can't police their own. Back in a minute.
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Glenn Beck. >> Welcome back to the Torch Insider Show. Al Flyer, I highlighted this comment earlier, said, "Saw disclosure day. Thought it was pretty corny." Tampa Ken said, "So, how was disclosure day?" And Zach from Minnesota said, "Disclosure day is, I'm sure, predictive programming and a blueprint for what is coming. Please call Marine and Pastor Jamie Walden to get his perspective on it." Thanks for all your comments. Thanks, Zach.
Um, I don't I don't think I need to speak to too many people on uh what their perspective is on Disclosure Day because I think I have it pretty nailed down. And I I went into this movie, I told you I would tell you about my experiences. Glenn talked about this on Friday cuz he had already seen it. Um, I went on Saturday and it was pretty much everything I was expecting it to be. It was just, how do I put this lightly? A really bad movie. Stephen Spielberg, you kind of suck now and you should probably stop making movies because this movie uh Oh, I think I've made I think I've ticked off the bots.
Glenn's instantly wanting to come in. >> I don't know. I just I mean I just think that's unfair. It's not a bad mo I've seen bad movies. It's not a good movie. It's not No, it's not a great movie and it's got some real problems where you're just where it's it's one of those eye roll movies where it's really good and then you get to sections and you're like you got to be kidding. You know what I mean? >> But it's not a bad movie. >> I mean there was a time in Spielberg's era where you were like that was awesome. Like all the movies we grew up on. >> This is not one of them. >> I agree with you on that. That's what I said. That's what I said last last last week. It's not one of his best by far. It's not one of his best. This is not a This is not a great movie, >> but it's a good movie to walk out thinking. >> Yeah. For Can you Yeah.
Ricky, what's up? >> Oh, I was just going to say, Jason, you know how you felt like you thought maybe Steven Spielberg was softening us for something? I'm not going to give spoilers away or tell turn people away from watching it or not watching it, but I did come away thinking that we are intentionally being softened for something like >> like it when it's not just politics. It's not about the illegal alien metaphor perhaps. I think it's like >> I think it's religion. >> You're going to be cool with aliens being invade, you know, invading us. That's That's what I came You're You're going to love it when the aliens come. >> I think Lenn is right. I I think it's religion. There was multiple different points in this. Like there was Okay, so there was the most obvious like when that one character did the sign of the cross but then nailed down kneel down in front of >> in front of her in front of the Yeah. So completely ridiculous. Like what what do you you That didn't that didn't even make any sense. It didn't make sense. >> And the the the the main the main uh well, one of the main characters, the the the woman that was studying to be a nun, but she says, "Oh, I stopped uh you know, pursuing to be a nun when I when I realized that God was not divine." I was like, "Where are we going with this?" And then this woman, >> and you notice you notice you you notice it was all about Catholics, too. Yes. I mean, if I were Catholic, I'd be pissed. >> Pissed. Yeah. >> That was that was an that was an assault on my faith. I would have thought. >> And no one you talk to that's a Christian will say pretty much none of them will say, "Yeah, if if aliens turn out to be, you know, something that's real, it's not going to mess with my faith." But if you follow So the question is where are they going after this uh current SCOP campaign? If you know what the claims are, what they've been saying for the past maybe 10ish years about the evolution of man or where men came from, you know how dark this is about to go.
Back to Glenn. So, you know what I really love about I love about sports, you know, they do this a lot with Olympics. Um, I like it when there's a story behind it. So, you know what you're rooting for. You know what I mean? I mean, the the idea that, you know, they haven't won a championship since 1973. And the Knicks won against the Spurs, did they not, in 73? But they haven't won for over 50 years. So, here they are in the in the finals. Um, and they got a guy on the team, Jaylen Brunson, I think his name was. He becomes MVP. This guy, this is, this should have been the story, but it wasn't the story cuz all we were talking about the next day was, did you see what the Knicks fans did? This guy, um, he is, uh, he signs to the Knicks in 2022. Everybody lambasts him because he's undersized. Uh unathletic. He's a guard who's never been a true number one option. Everybody was like, he can't handle the pressure of Madison Square Garden, blah blah blah. But everybody overlooks all the intangibles and his integrity and his pedigree. his dad. His dad is Rick Brunson, former Knicks player and current assistant coach who was in the 1999 Finals run and taught his son resilience, resilience, resilience. So now Jaylen and Rick, father and son, the first father and son duo to both play in finals for the Knicks. Um he they win because father and son uh heart skill, family legacy, working together overcomes the the physical int uh limitations and the external noise and all of this stuff. and they bring as a family, father and son get to help bring a win in the the kid that was just too small to do it, not talented enough to do it, becomes the NBA or the uh MVP of the game that brings the championship home to the Knicks for the first time in 55 years. That's what the story should have been, but nope. Nope. Because their fans, and I know the Knicks will say, "They're not our fans. They're not our fans." Well, they claim to be your fans. Can you imagine if my fans were doing that or somebody who claimed to be my fans? You think the press would care? You're damn right they would.
And we're back. Welcome back, Glen Beck insiders. So, I'm I'm gonna put a bow on my disclosure today stuff. I'm going to do that really fast because I want to pivot into Tulsi Gabbard and her recent disclosure. Interesting words there on um the Bolab um u issue, I guess the best way to put it. And I have a ton of notes on that. So, let's I gota get right to that.
So, let's finish off, you know, to just defend what I was saying about Spielberg in this movie. uh to I thought it was bad because what I immediately thought of when while I was watching this and it was kind of going nowhere and running around in circles was that do you remember that movie from the I think it was like the mid '90s early '90s whatever with Charlie Sheen and Christy Swanson the chase one of the most pointless movies ever um but that's what this feel felt like it almost felt like they copied the chase and but only instead of one long car chase it was multiple different car chases and a bunch of other chases with the over umb the umbrella story of aliens and uh this weird assault on Christianity and it yes it was a weird assault it was nonstop like shoved into multiple different plots within plots surround you know within the entire movie it it was non-stop and what I was saying right when we when we uh left on the last segment was that I I I Well, I feel like Spielberg was trying to make a larger point, but he didn't know how to figure out how to make that point and he couldn't convey the religious part. So, it was just kind of like I don't know. I don't know if the studio execs got in there and chopped up his movie. I I don't know what the excuse is, but I felt like that's the point they wanted to make. They just did it very very badly. And if you've seen I I've I've put I've put out this multiple times. You got to see that that documentary Mirage Men. If you've seen that, at the very end, it gives a hint at what the true, oh my gosh, alien disclosure is going to be. And it's not that aliens are real, even though that's a very big disclosure. the the the most damaging information, the the thing that they're apparently the most scared about, that specific detail within Aliens Are Real is what they believe will cause Christians to doubt their faith. And it's total crap. as if the aliens speak English or whatever language and they conveyed that to the people that know that this is the true history of mankind is ridiculous and stupid and points to a total scup. But when I see this stuff going in that direction, I'm like, "Okay, yeah, uh we see what you're doing here. Uh and we don't like it."
Within that news, uh, within the the release of this movie, the Pentagon released their third batch of UFO files. Right before the movie came out, the Pentagon released their third batch of UFO files. This was released on June 12th. June 12th, I think. Wasn't that the exact day Disclosure Day came out? Shut up. Give us a faking break. That's just so I'm just Yeah, I'm done with it. I I'm sad because I was all on the I was interested in the UFO stuff before. Now you're just pissing me off. You're just pissing me off. All right, let's get away from that. Let's There's new story uh came out. I think it was um