The Glenn Beck Program | Hour 1 | 9/10/26

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2:08But I know we won't be really free if we don't stay united. Cause to ride it, we will fall for anything. It's true. So I have decided, and I will stand for you and I will. I will take a stand, I will taste the new voice, I will hold your hand. Cause be our flood, I will be by your side. I will make my choice, we will overcome. Cause we are one. We are one. We are one.

3:12It was a year ago today, then my friend Charlie Kirk was killed. I'm going to the university where it happened later today. I'm flying into Utah where there is a controversial memorial service. It's listening to those words that we play on the show every day. It's the theme for a while. And are we one? You know, I've known this day was coming for months.

4:12And I didn't know exactly what I was going to say when it got here. But I do know now. It's going to be quite a journey over the next couple of days. Today, the one year anniversary of the death of Charlie Kirk and tomorrow, the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And I see them as mile markers. I know where we were. Where are we now? I want to focus on you. Tomorrow, maybe we'll focus on the bigger picture. But I want to focus on what I think actually is the bigger picture, you and me. I'll get into it here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile.

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7:23You get 50% off all wireless plans for three months. PatriotMobile.com slashback972 Patriot. I can't tell you how many scripts I have written and thrown out. How many ideas my producers have come to me with for this speech tonight for the Charlie Kirk Memorial. By the way, you'll see it at clenbeck.com. It'll be live. You'll be able to watch it. It'll be in front of the paywall. So you don't have to be a torch member. But you can see it begins at 830 Eastern. clenbeck.com. I've gone through so many different thoughts. Lord, what do you want me to say? And I keep thinking about four words. I am Charlie Kirk.

8:27Sarah, would you have somebody go into my office, just right underneath the 9-11 flag? Is the Charlie Kirk poster? I got it from his funeral and I brought it and I put it down in my office and it's never moved since. And I got it for the museum because it was such a moment of history. And I think it says I am Charlie Kirk, I think. That's what we all said. I'm Charlie Kirk. And we meant it. I meant it. I meant it. You know, the way you mean things when your chest is tight and the whole country is looking at the same screen at the same time. And it was easy and it was the right thing to say in September. You know, we were all crying and saying his name that week made us part of something just enormous.

9:32And I do think we meant I know I meant it. But I have this monologue so you know it's more about me. I know I'm an ego me. It's more about me than you. So I'm not, I'm telling you what I'm thinking of. Did I mean that? Today's a mile marker. Today's a day you can go back and go. Did anything in my life change or was that just, was I just caught up at the moment? You know, saying I'm Charlie Kirk now cost a little more than it did even then. I want to spend today on the show. Not necessarily talking about him. You knew him as well as most people did and the ones who really knew him. Have a hard time talking about it today. What I've been doing instead and mostly at night is kind of a quiet audit.

10:42And I'd rather do it with you than pretend it. I've already passed it. I know I said I'd be Charlie Kirk and I made some promises to myself. I was going to take Hillsdale classes. I took one and then I stopped. I got busy. I said I would read my scriptures more. I have until I got busy this summer. I try to be a better elder statesman. I try to be a calming influence in the world. I'm going to read more. I've got to stack a books. I've moved that stack twice. I've moved that stack twice.

11:43I've moved that stack twice. Are you still going to church? I know people who walked in last September, they went for six weeks and then they didn't. And nobody in their life knows except for them. It's invisible when you keep it and invisible when you don't. Here's one I think I've avoided. Have I sat down face to face with somebody who thinks I'm a bad man? And not a comment, not a thread, a chair, a table. And me asking more than answering.

12:43Because that was the whole thing with Charlie. That was the entire radical act. It was a folding table in a line of people who came to argue with him. He never went where he was loved. We're further apart than we were back then. A year ago, much further apart. Say his name today in the wrong room and you'll get a laugh or a lecture. Of what he supposedly believed from people who never watched him for even ten minutes. Some people have lost friendships over that name. Don't hate them back. Don't hate them back. I know what that costs. I'm not good at it either. But the moment we answer contempt with contempt, we've quit his method and kept only his name and his name was never the point.

13:48You know, there are people on our side who did that. They took a dead man. They took his name and they used him as a permission slip. They told themselves of the cruelty that was courage. I guess I can understand where that comes from to a point. Maybe it comes from grief with nowhere to go. Still isn't caring anything. His wife stood up eleven days after and said the answer to hate is not hate. She said she forgave the young man. She's the one who paid her children. She didn't take the other road. And every one of us who did... Maybe we should be a little quiet about it.

14:48You know, fifty years to the day of the Battle of Monk or Hill. Boston laid a cornerstone on that hill for a monument. And it was an enormous day, enormous day. Lafayette came to set the cornerstone. Daniel Webster gave the speech. About forty old men who had actually fought in that battle set down in front. And the crowd ran for miles and they passed the hat. It's what happened after the speech has stopped that makes the difference. You see we've been here before. And I'll tell you about it in 60 seconds. First relief factor. One of the problems with something that works is eventually you forget why you started using it. The problem isn't demanding your attention the way it used to. So you kind of just move on. Maybe I don't need it anymore. It happened to me with relief factor. I started taking it because I had terrible pain. And Tonya suggested, now she didn't suggest. She said she wouldn't listen to me whine anymore if I didn't take it.

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16:53As I said, Daniel Webster, Lafayette and 40 old men who had actually fought on Bunker Hill attended. And they passed the hat and they're going to build this. They lay the cornerstone. And they started building and about two years into that they run out of money. And the monument stopped at 37 feet. And it's that for a year. And then two. And then five. A stump on a hill where every ship coming into Boston Harbor could see exactly what a cheering crowd is worth once the speeches stop. Nothing. 37 feet. They ended up selling the battlefield. They wanted to dedicate the whole field. They've sent up selling the battlefield. They bought the ground. The men died on and then they sold nearly all of it off so they could build houses. And they built those houses and sold those houses. Those lots to pay for the monument to the men who died on that land.

18:00They only kept four acres. So what finished it? It wasn't the crowd. You know what finished it? Wasn't adults. It's children. Children mailing in quarters. And a magazine editor named Sarah Hale. She's the woman who wrote Mary had a little lamb. She later spent 17 years pestering presidents until one of them gave us Thanksgiving. She got the women of Boston to hold a fair, pies, quilts, needlework. And she's the one who suggested the children send in a quarter, $30,000 in a matter of days all in quarters. So 18 years after the cornerstone, the thing was finally opened. Webster came back and spoke again. A hundred thousand people came. And in the front row where there had been 40 men that fought in that battle, they were now 13.

19:06Everybody came for the cornerstone. Almost nobody was there for the 18 years in between. And the obelisk that stands there today, it stands there not because of the people who got the stage. It's for the people who never got the stage whose names are not carved anywhere in that monument. A year ago we held the largest cornerstone ceremony of my lifetime. I sat right up front for his memorial, a hundred thousand people in a stadium and more outside, in a nation, in a world watching, that was real. Like it will never diminish it because I felt it. But a cornerstone is only a promise with a date on it. That's it.

20:10So what I've been sitting with as I've been preparing for today, the question isn't whether we meant it. I think we all meant it when we said it. The question is, where's my 37 feet? Where's the place I stopped when the money or the intention or the attention ran out and life became more ordinary again? Like I said, mine's a stack of books I've moved twice, minor all the un, the classes I just didn't take at Hillsdale. If you can name yours, that's most of the work. I challenge you to pick it up this week. Not a movement. Not a moment.

21:13Just the one specific thing that you set out loud when you were crying. 40 minutes at a kitchen table with the actual documents that you were supposed to read or going to read. Sunday. Then the Sunday after. Maybe it's just this friend you stopped talking to in 2020 and you haven't talked to them because you couldn't get along because of their politics. Call them about nothing. And when somebody laughs at his name, somebody says something horrible today, don't flinch and don't swing. Say his name plainly and then go back to your lunch. His verse was Isaiah. Here I am, Lord. Send me. His wife told him once backstage, please. Please talk to me before you say that again.

22:16He said it anyway. That was the promise, the four words the rest of us said in September. That promise. Measure the wall from the cornerstone you laid a year ago. Where's your 37 feet? Finish it. Finish it. More in a minute. Leave filter. Leave filter. You know, your house has a few systems that only really get your attention when something goes wrong. The roof. The foundation. The plumbing. You know, I'm never up on the roof going, I wonder how the roof's going. I'm not shocked. Something happens that I'm there. The plumbing. I never look underneath the sink.

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25:34I'm making no progress in my life. And I'm like, are you kidding me? He's like, I'm not, Dad. I'm not. I didn't do this and I haven't done this and I haven't done this. And I'm like, okay, those are the things that you are doing and you're saying I didn't do those things. That was your list. Let me show you the things that I and others have noticed, the changes that you have accomplished in this last year and you're blowing by them. You're not even taking the time to go, okay, I did that. And when I said those things to him and I said, you are this, you are that. I just witnessed this from you. You would have done that a year ago. And he's like, yeah, well, yeah, I know I got that. Now, don't dismiss those things. Don't dismiss those things. This is not a day to chastise yourself. I didn't do those things. This is just a time to say, because if you do an honest reflection, and that's what I'm asking you for, an honest reflection on who you are, where you have been, and where you're headed.

26:36If you do that, you have to have the inventory of the things you did do. Because if I would have just stopped it, you know what I said, I was going to learn more. You know, I was going to learn more through Hillsdale. Well, I didn't do the Hillsdale, but then I started thinking, geez, did I do any of that? Yes, I did. I've read more history in the last year than I probably have in the last two years. I mean, I've done it just in different ways. You have to give yourself the break and the benefit of the doubt that there are things that you've probably blown off. Because maybe they were the easy things for you. Or maybe you said you were going to do this, but you didn't do that. You just did it another way. You know, I was talking to the guys this morning, Ricky and Jason before went on, I just put up on the chalkboard, and it maybe means nothing to you. I've been fascinated my whole life with something called space time.

27:36It's a compound word, space time, one word. It's a map. It's a map. And when you think about, you know, we always think about the earth going around in 365 days all the way around the sun. So where were we? Well, we were here last February. We're not even close to that. If you're looking at a space time map, we are hundreds of thousands of miles away from that same circle we made. The universe is expanding. So you never can go back to where you were. Never. But you can find where you were literally on a map, not a calendar alone. You know, it's like when you say, I'm, you know, I'm latitude 56 degrees, eight minutes, 12 seconds, space time. You measure things with time and space together, one thing. And so I've always been fascinated on how you really can never go back, but you can trace your weight literally, trace your way back on a map of space time.

28:39I don't even know why I'm telling you that because the, the real point is that's not what I'm asking you to do. I'm not asking you to go back and say, where was I a year ago, you know, and what, where was I yesterday? I'm asking you, think of, forget about what I just told you. I'm so bad. I want you to think of a ladder. Where were you a year ago? Were you on the bottom run? A middle run, the top run, where were you? Just be honest with yourself. Of where you want to be, who you want to be. Does anybody even do this anymore? Does anybody even think about who I want to be? Or do you just let it spill out of you? Do you just recognize your creative force? You are the one. You are the designer of your life. Don't let others tell you who you are. Don't let life just happen to you. Chart a course.

29:39So when you look at a ladder, where were you last year? On everything, your marriage, your family, your kids, your wealth, your knowledge, your, whatever it is. Where were you a year ago? Now, where are you today? And don't just look at the bad stuff. Are you one run up or one run down? I'm convinced. This is why I think Constantine. This is why I'm sorry. I'll put up a can of worms on this one. I'm sorry, but I do not personally believe that I can be stabbing somebody to death and then go, as they're stabbing me in return and I know I'm dying and go, I accept Jesus Christ and then I'm in heaven. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's not a list. It's not a get out of jail free card. It must be sincere.

30:41It must, it, it, you don't need works, but that belief changes you. If you're like, oh my gosh, what am I doing? I'm stabbing somebody to death. I shouldn't be stabbing somebody. What am I doing? Lord, save me. Then you die. Okay. But it's a trajectory. It's where were you in the last five minutes? Where were you in the last five years, whatever it was, when you had that wake-up call? This is why it, this is why there's no place too far down that the Lord won't save you. There is nothing you can do that ables. Shock him. He created the world. He made the art vark. You think you can do something so ugly. He can't look at it. He made the art vark. All you have to do is just go, I got to change this. Forgive me for what I've done. I, I, I have to change this.

31:44And then are you getting better every day? Because you're not going to be perfect. Everybody's like, I'm going to get baptized and I'm going to be perfect. I got news for you. You're not. You're not going to be perfect. You're going to screw it up. You're going to screw it up. You're going to screw it up over and over again. And you might screw up the same thing over and over again. But is there more, is there more time in between those screw ups? Is the screw up a little last? You catch yourself a little earlier going, what am I doing? Think of yourself on a ladder. I have you gone up, a wrong or two or down. I know you said, next year I'm going to be on the roof. Well, how many of us did that? Life happens. But are you still making progress? I have to tell you, there's a piece of raw footage that for some reason, I think it was because, I think it was because literally,

32:48I think we were like 10 seconds before the show. And I hear in my earpiece, 10, 9, and I think I think the first word out of this, out of my mouth on this piece of tape we just found, was, wait, wait, stop, stop. Give me five seconds, stop. But they continue to roll tape. And I said, my wife is trying to, I could see her through the glass of my studio. And I said, my wife is trying to tell me something. We caught all of the moments that I found out about Charlie Kirk. It's never been seen before, never been her. I just saw it for the first time this morning. One of our producers found it. And, boy, I learned some. And I'm not sure how I even feel about it. I learned some things about me. And it's so funny because Ricky said she learned some things about her. And I'm like, no.

33:49That's not true about what you're thinking. And I learned some things about me. And she's like, glad that's not true. It's hard when you see yourself in this moment. Can we play a little bit of this? It's a nine minute, we're not going to play all of it. It's a nine minute piece of video. And you want to see what actually happened as I'm sitting down to record the show. And I find out something's happened with Charlie Kirk. Roll this. Hold for 30. What do you need, honey, quickly? Quick, what you need? Charlie Kirk is just... Who are you hearing that from? I can't even say it. I need somebody, it's Ricky online.

34:51My daughter and son are at a rally with Charlie Kirk. And Charlie Kirk has been shot. And if that's true, the show is scrapped. Yeah, yeah, she's I was shying on the phone now. She said it was point blank. And she said she's not sure. But it was aimed at him. But somebody... How did she say it, honey? Shut up. I know, no, I just got to tell you. Hold on, I just got to tell you. This is Ricky on the phone, honey. That's all I know. No, oh my God, it's like... It might not be complete. Oh, please tell me. Oh, my God. What? Ricky can't even talk. It's not an expert, it's not an expert. That's Sarah. Tell me, other producer. It's not confirmed. My husband said on the expert that Charlie Kirk is dead.

35:53But I don't know. We can't, yeah, we can't do this show right now. Okay. I learned so much about me watching that. I'm going to frame it in a nice way. You know, I've always said, I'm the guy you want on the Titanic once we hit the iceberg. Because I'm not processing anything other than, what do we do right now? What are our responsibility right now? And honestly, I'm not going to get into it now. But I see this cold, calculating guy, just like, okay, here's what has to happen. And then, when you watch the whole thing, then I said, roll tape, I got to put a statement out. And it was just all in this nine minutes from finding out to doing this. And I had no time to think. And Ricky said, we don't know if he's dead or not. And I said, I'll just leave it blank or I'll cut it two ways.

36:53But I got to say something. And then I stop. And then I start talking to you. And... It's interesting because there's so many things that I don't know what necessarily I want to say or exactly how I feel about it until I talk it out with you. It's such a weird relationship we have. Because I feel like I know you, even though we don't know each other. I feel like I know you. I imagine you feel like you know me. And we're friends. And that's why when I greet people with somebody, Bill O'Reilly, he was like, your audience hugs you. And I'm like, your audience doesn't. And I'm like, yeah, I feel like we're family. And he's like, oh, okay. But I just... And it's weird because as soon as I started talking to you, you could see I'm no longer... I'm no longer wearing that.

37:56Okay, everybody, here's what we're going to do, Hat. I'm now just talking about it with you. And it hits me like a load of bricks. Is that at glenbeck.com? Yes, the full video is at glenbeck.com right now. And then one other thing... Maybe we can play Cut 3. This is... now I'm on with Megan. And Ricky was on the phone. She had found out. And she's on the phone with Megan's producer, saying, do not tell Glendice on the air, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They were trying to keep Glendon while the world was waiting to confirm. And I'm texting him. I'm like, Glendice, such a cryer. Please don't. Please do not. Do not. This is going to devastate him. I don't want the world to see him this vulnerable. And then it happened. And I'm kind of glad that it did because I heard it from my friend Megan. And we had a chance to... anyway, here's what happened with the Megan Kelly Show a year ago today.

38:59There are news outlets reporting the worst right now, Glend. I don't know what I'm waiting for before I report it. You know, I trust just the news. I trust Deseret. Are we waiting for the AP to say it? We don't trust them more than we trust these. They're reporting that Charlie has died. That he's dead. At the age of 31. Which he would have to be if that video was real. There's no way he survived that. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. There's no way he survived that. I don't want to be able to say more of this. Anyway, some behind the scenes looks as we all remember where we were and how we felt on that day. And I want to hear from you today.

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