The Glenn Beck Program - 10/16/17 - Hour 2

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Glenn Beck.

So the Iranian nuclear deal.

Let me just say it this way.

The most

overly hyped and talked about piece of diplomacy in the history of overly hyped and talked about diplomacy ever.

The Obama administration did everything in their power to convince us this deal was an absolute miracle delivered to us by God, that it was a product of some diplomatic genius, as if Obama channeled the ghost of Winston Churchill through John Kerry to wow the Iranians at the negotiating table, forcing them to bend to our will, pay no attention to those giant crates of cash on the tarmac at the airport.

All that talk of this deal and the diplomatic move of the century was actually the equivalent of, Stu, correct me if I'm wrong, a 20-yard punt on first down.

That was a very good sports analogy.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Obama didn't want to have to deal with Iran, so all he did was he punted the football to another president.

That's what the Iranian deal really is.

It's an elaborate delay tactic that was overly hyped by an administration looking to build a legacy.

On the campaign trail,

Trump kept the hype train rolling by making the Iranian deal one of the talking points.

Worst deal of all time.

It's a bad deal, don't get me wrong.

But the president has little to say in actually doing anything about it.

That's the Senate.

On Friday, Trump did what little he could do and announced he's going to decertify the deal when it comes up for review this week.

Now, what does that even mean?

Well, it means...

that Congress gets to decide whether to keep holding back sanctions or start them up again.

Congress Congress doesn't want to do that, even though constitutionally it's their job.

Now, this may mean that Iran pulls out of the deal and all of that cash, all the stuff we gave to them was wasted.

We got nothing in return.

This master stroke of diplomacy allows Iran, by the way, to restart their nuclear program legally in seven years.

So it's a punt.

They start it now.

They start it in another seven years.

They're going to start it.

Trump's biggest announcement Friday on Iran didn't have anything to do with the overhyped nuke deal.

It came with his call to place the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terror sanctioned list.

Now, this move, above everything else, actually has the ability to curb Iran's behavior.

The

Iranian guard is spread out all over the Middle East.

Iran is using it to bend and reshape the region in its image.

They command militias asserting control all over Syria, all over Iraq.

Last night, these Iranian militias, along with the Iraqi government, used our hardware, as it always is,

to invade the Kurd territory and seize one of their cities.

The joint Iranian and Iraqi war on the Kurds has officially begun.

But you're not going to hear about that today.

One of our allies is under attack.

All of the debate is going to be on the most overly hyped and talked about deal in modern history.

Monday, October 16th.

This is the Glen Beck Program.

I was at church yesterday

and a friend came up.

I said, How was your week?

She said, not good.

My daughter tried to commit suicide on Friday

I don't know about your church

but

mine is facing

several

in that

net, that web

We are

we are looking at a generation and people

that

are searching for meaning.

I want you to listen carefully if you're one of these people.

Because I consider myself one of these people.

What really has meaning?

What truly has meaning in your life?

And how much of your day is spent on that?

And how much of your day is spent on stuff that is really meaningless?

How much of our day is spent on arguing or I mean, I think it's almost like

we're addicted to anger.

We're addicted to the fight on something because

it

gives us meaning, it gives us purpose, it gives us something to fight for because we don't know what's real.

We don't know really what's even happening to us.

And what we're doing at the same time, we're fighting for these things.

And we're struggling in our own self to find meaning.

If we're lucky enough, we're old enough to have

had some meaning in our life, have had something real in our life.

Maybe we don't have it anymore, but we did at one point.

And so we know it's possible.

I think our youth, they don't even know it's possible.

They don't know that anything has any value.

And this comes from

never having to fight for somebody, never having to fight for something, never, never losing something, never losing a game, never coming in last, never made to feel uncomfortable.

Think of the things that truly have meaning in your life.

Did they come to you easily?

Think of the things that truly have meaning in your life.

Were they cheap?

We are living in a

you know that right before you get to the cashier, what do you call it?

Place where it's just all the candy?

I feel like

that's what life is to Americans right now.

You know what?

I want that.

Yeah, I'm just going to throw that in there too.

Without all the shopping, without having to make the list, without having to pull it in the car or anything else, it's just, it's right there.

I want it.

I'm going to grab it.

And if I can't pay for it, don't worry.

I've got a card for

everything.

Have you ever bought anything in the checkout counter on the checkout line that had meaning?

That you, in the end, cherished, that you wanted to pass on?

Nothing.

This is happening to us because we're trying to make life comfortable,

and there is no meaning in all comfort.

Life is uncomfortable.

Life requires endurance.

Endurance implies there's tough times.

And we're trying to take those things away from everyone.

And it's what's making our life meaningless.

You know, in America, we think that we can protest and ban and tear down and rip up and legislate our way out of anything bad or anything uncomfortable.

We're going to find a way.

Biloxi School District just banned the books

to kill a mockingbird.

Now they've just banned that from the eighth-grade curriculum.

The students were in the middle of studying it, and the school board vice president said there were parents that were complaining about it because there's language in this book that makes people uncomfortable.

We can teach them the same lesson

in another way way that's not uncomfortable.

Wait, what?

Thomas the tank?

Is that, I mean, is that,

hey, here's Thomas.

He's going to talk about racism.

He's going to talk about lynching.

It should make you uncomfortable.

Life is really pretty easy.

People are complex.

We should understand that world is very complex because there are billions of people in it.

Racial injustice in the early 20th century America should make you uncomfortable.

How's that not a good way to talk to your children?

Do you know, have you ever read the Grimm's fairy tales?

Have you ever read the actual fairy tales?

They're not happy.

Hansel and Gretel don't make it out of the house.

I mean,

and why were they written that way?

To teach children that life is brutal unless you pay attention.

I don't know what you're going to do in Biloxi if you're in that area.

Call the school district.

But in a respectful manner, suggest that they stop cowering to the tyranny and have some common sense teach our children that life is uncomfortable.

The uncomfortability of struggle is what gives your life meaning.

Ask anyone,

ask anyone

their fondest memories,

most likely when they just got married and they were struggling to make it.

Why?

Because they learned so much.

We're getting tired,

but we're tired because we're fighting and it doesn't seem like anything has any meaning.

We're fighting, look how hard we have fought since September 11th for our country.

And all the people that we put our faith in, it doesn't look like they actually meant it.

So you're tired because you feel like you didn't do anything of meaning.

But you did.

You're just not seeing it.

You're not seeing it.

You changed the lives of your children.

There's nothing more important than that.

I'd like to point out that, you know, studying to kill a mockingbird promotes the exact kind of virtues and conversation that we are in desperately need of today.

Also, school district in Biloxi, you might also know that generations of Americans have studied to kill a mockingbird, and somehow or another, we have all managed to survive our uncomfortableness.

There is this movement in America into one giant pansy pillow line safe space.

There's no such thing as a safe space.

I was teaching in church a couple months ago,

and I asked, I was teaching actually during the week, I was teaching the young

adults, the 16, 17, 18-year-olds,

said,

tell me what sanctuary means.

Why did people, you saw Hunchback at Notre Dame,

the Disney cartoon,

Why was Esmeralda always screaming sanctuary, sanctuary?

Because the church was a safe space.

Wait a minute.

Safe space.

Was it a safe space?

Is church supposed to be a safe space?

No.

Church should be a predictable place.

But church should be the place where you come.

It's a hospital, man.

It's where you come and you're struggling,

and somebody will tell you the truth,

not make you feel better, but tell you the truth.

And here's the truth: it's really not that hard.

It's really simple.

You follow just a few simple rules, and you work hard, and you question with boldness,

and you don't accept excuses from yourself,

and you stop looking for safe spaces.

We would have never gone to the moon

because the moon is not a safe space.

We would have never ever gone into space

because it's chilly, I hear.

We would have never ever

come to America.

I know half the country seemingly would be happy about that.

But look at the blessings of America.

We would never explore the highest mountains.

We would most likely never get married or have children.

Because think of the heartache that you have endured because you fell in love.

Think of the heartache you endured because you had a child.

Would you change that for anything?

That heartache is

those are stripes I am proud to wear

because

those children gave my life meaning.

Glenn back.

Charlie Daniels is going to be joining us in just a little while.

He'll be in studio with us, and he's 80 now.

He's just written a new book, and it's fascinating.

Fascinating.

We'll talk to him coming up in just a little while.

You know,

talking about our friends who have had, you know, attempt at suicide in their family, and just the weekend before, a friend of mine, Delilah, the radio host, Delilah, her son committed suicide.

It's a scary thing, and it is happening more and more.

And

you'd have to ask why.

Why?

There's something sick inside of us.

There's something that is missing from inside of us.

It's probably, you know, again, all these circumstances are

different and suicide has been happening forever.

So it doesn't include everything.

But maybe the increase in what we're feeling, I think, is...

lack of a connection to anything anything real anything real anything anything foundational yeah you know it's everyone just, I feel like it's a lot easier to get into these situations where crazy things happen when you're not, when everything is an of the moment decision, when everything is

changes you from one thing to another.

You're happy one day, you're sad the next day.

Obviously, this is separate from a clinical depression situation, but I mean, just talking about how we make decisions without that foundation, without those principles, life is crazy.

Glenn, Beck

This is the Glenn Beck program.

I warn you, I'm going to take you to a very uncomfortable, non-safe zone commentary here.

I apologize that some people may feel uncomfortable with the truth.

This is a speech given by a guy named Dr.

Rick Rigsby.

He's a journalist, author,

and

a doctor, but that's not the most important thing about him.

He gave the commencement speech at California State University Maritime Academy, and

I want you to listen to what he said about the wisest man he ever met.

I want to share something with you.

The wisest man I ever met in my life never made it past the third grade, impacted tremendously me and my brother.

Growing up right here in Valleil,

this was our family.

This academy was our backyard.

Going on that training ship and getting lost, sneaking into the pool, going to all the different places for nearly 30 years, this was home.

And I want to tell you, I know what it takes to get where you are.

And I need you to listen to me very carefully.

I have four degrees.

My brother is a judge.

We're not the smartest ones in our family.

It's a third grade dropout daddy.

A third grade dropout daddy who was quoting Michelangelo when he was a cook at Cal Maritime saying to us, Boys, I won't have a problem if you aim high and miss, but I'm going to have a real issue if you aim low and hit.

So here's his father, who was a cook at this university years ago, had to drop out of his

out of school because his family had been hit hard and he needed to help, you know, grow food and

help at the house.

But his education, he fought for.

And listen to how he

reared these kids.

Be kind to people.

He always told us kind deeds are never lost.

I get to do a lot of NFL chapels.

You see some amazing things with those National Football League players.

You see guys that can bench press 200, 300 pounds 20 times.

You see folks that are huge, that can run like a deer.

You see folks from a flat-footed position jump 40 inches, 40 inch vertical leap.

I even saw a white guy do it once.

But the point.

You know what stops me in my tracks?

When I see one of those rich folks show kindness.

It literally stops the world.

George Washington Carver said,

when common people do common things in uncommon ways, they command the attention of the world.

I just described your grandmother.

I know you're tough.

I know you're seaworthy, but always remember to be kind.

Always.

Don't ever forget that.

Never embarrass mama.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

If daddy ain't happy, don't nobody care.

But you know, I'm trying to tell you.

So there's a couple of things that happen politically that you should be aware of.

First of all,

Sessions is getting a ⁇

I mean, this story speaks volumes about people on the left and how the media on the left view people on the right.

Nine months into his tenure as the nation's top law enforcement official, the nuances of Jeff Sessions' civil rights policy are coming into focus.

As a senator from Alabama, Mr.

Sessions had spoken out against same-sex marriage and voted against expanding federal hate crimes to protect transgender people.

And civil rights groups were livid when President Trump nominated him to be attorney general.

They predicted he would reverse policies on discrimination, police abuses, and other areas.

In many ways, Mr.

Sessions has fulfilled those predictions.

However, The Justice Department has dispatched an experienced federal hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student last year.

A highly unusual move that officials say was personally initiated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The man seems to care about prosecuting murders.

And it's unbelievable.

Possibly predicted this because this is not a white person.

This is not a white straight Christian male

he's going after.

I thought that's all he was going to support.

That's all I thought he cared about.

I knew he was against murder, but I thought it was only for murder of white Christian males.

That was my understanding.

And now here he is.

That's what we voted for, wasn't it?

I thought so.

Yeah.

The case is terrible, of course.

A 16-year-old in Burlington, Iowa, was shot to death in March 2016.

Friends and family told local newspapers that he was gay.

He identified as both male and female and occasionally went by a female name.

The Justice Department lawyer will serve as a county prosecutor in the case.

And I guess this is one of those situations legally that is very odd, right?

You don't normally apply these sorts of resources to individual murder cases.

And what they're saying here basically is that seemingly Jeff Sessions is interested in applying the law to individual cases when they show real merit.

And he is not embracing the wider sort of systemic ideas where you're going to change laws to try to prevent these things in a larger sense.

He's taking each case as individual cases, but he's just as passionate of prosecuting and maybe even more passionate in prosecuting a transgendered person getting murdered than the typical evil white Christian male.

It's a pretty interesting story because the New York Times here,

I would say it reads as they're sort of giving him credit, like, wow, he actually seems to give a crap about transgender people.

What does that say about us?

I know.

What does that say about the New York Times and

how they view

people who disagree with them?

For instance, gay marriage.

I'm for gay marriage because I'm a libertarian.

I don't think the government should be involved in marriage at all.

I get no value at all from a piece of paper issued by the government.

Yeah, but what about your town councilmen?

When they know you're married,

you're like, wow, they recognize me.

They know my love life, and I feel great about that, right?

However, at the same time, I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and that's what my faith teaches me.

But I don't care what you do.

Don't tell me and my church what I have to do, and I'm not going to tell you what you have to do.

Keep it out of the federal government and government.

It has no place there.

That is between you and God, or you and a tree, or you and whatever.

It doesn't matter.

That's your business.

And I know, I'm guessing, that that is what Jeff Sessions is thinking or was thinking when he was against gay marriage.

There's also something else that comes into play on this, and that is it was a slippery slope.

It was to open the door for almost anything.

And if you don't believe that, look at what's happening.

It was to be able to persecute people who don't believe in gay marriage.

And if you don't believe that, let me introduce you to a baker in Colorado, a baker in Oregon, a photographer in New Mexico.

What happened to their right?

We don't need additional laws.

And we don't need, I mean, I can't understand.

If somebody kills you,

there's a higher level.

If they're killing you, intentionally killing you,

because they didn't like the color of your skin or they didn't like that you were a liberal or a conservative or gay or straight or Christian or Muslim, there's additional crime to that.

Shouldn't the highest

problem that we have in our society is the murdering,

the hatred that's so deep.

And it could be just because, you know, you've been jilted, but you gave into your hatred that was so deep that you thought the only way this can be cured is by killing another person.

Why do I need a hate crime for that?

Yeah.

In the story, it says something like, you know, Mr.

Sessions opposed rules that turned attacks against transgendered people based on their sexuality.

It made those into a crime.

It's like, no, attacks were already a crime.

They're already a criminal act.

You kill this kid for any reason.

For any reason.

Yeah.

Now, I mean,

this is an exceptional reason, but it just shows,

you know, how crazy people can become.

And by not listening to each other, by not talking to each other, I, you know, I was, I was, um,

in a meeting yesterday morning in

our church council, and

we were going over the New Testament, and I kept getting hung up on

one place, and I ended up not listening, and I should have.

But I got hung up in this in a place in 1 Peter where he's talking about,

you know, the lively stones.

And

if you

understand

the way things were written and why things were written the way they were in the Bible, you know that bricks are people that are all made by somebody powerful into being exactly alike.

It's why the Israelis or the Israelites were making bricks.

I mean that story, they're making bricks because they're all slaves.

They're all the same.

They're interchangeable.

One dies, it doesn't matter.

Go get another one.

But God created all of us as stones.

We're all unique.

And it doesn't matter.

It is human nature.

And it is the worst part of our human nature.

It is the part that is, quite honestly, the enemy of man and the enemy of God.

That part of our human nature that that wants everyone else to believe and be just like we want them to be.

That doesn't work.

It doesn't work in marriage.

It doesn't work in life.

It doesn't work in society.

We are all stones.

We're all different.

And we say we should celebrate our differences, but I don't think the people who say that actually believe that.

Because if you're different, if you believe something else, you don't even want to talk to them.

They don't want to talk to you.

You don't want to talk to them.

Well, how are we going to get anywhere?

If there was a spaceship going to Mars and Elon Musk said, okay,

we're going to put a thousand people on this spaceship.

It's a big spaceship.

Have you seen his?

We're going to put a thousand people on this, and this is going to restart

Earth.

It is going to be the seed that we take the best of humanity and we're going to put it up on Mars so it can be another human colony.

Would we include,

would we just take scientists?

If this was going to restart us, would we just take scientists?

Would we just take

people who are rocket scientists

or

believe all in one thing?

Or would we also say, you know, if we're going to really have a human society, we should bring some painters along and a couple of people who can write and play music.

We should take some artists with us, maybe a poet or two.

Noah brought the duck-billed platypus along.

Right.

I mean,

he didn't just bring the good animals.

Right.

We need all of it.

We need all of it.

And somehow or another, all of us have to learn how to get along.

Glenn Back.

Quite excited.

Charlie Daniels has a new book out.

Never looked at the empty seats,

the story of Charlie Daniels' life.

He's just turned 80.

He's remarkable

and there's a lot of wisdom in Charlie Daniels.

I don't want to talk to him about

his past and the legends that he has

met with and been around and the influences on his life.

But I also want to talk to him about just finding your way.

He's led a remarkable life starting with his childhood.

Charlie Daniels, next.

Glenn, back.