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The Glenn Beck Program

Best of the Program | Guests: Nick Shirley & Jack Carr | 5/8/26

08 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say about billionaires?

0.031 - 26.135 Glenn Beck

Well, just when you think AOC can't get any more stupider, she goes and says something even more stupider. That's where we lead the show. Nick Shirley is on talking about his time in Cuba. They've got a little dicey. And the one and only Jack Carr is on with us. It's a brawl. You don't want to miss a second of today's podcast. And here it is. Let me tell you about relief factor.

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26.195 - 31.267 Glenn Beck

Human beings will adapt to absolutely ridiculous things if you give them enough time, right?

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Chapter 2: What insights did Nick Shirley share from his trip to Cuba?

31.688 - 51.158 Glenn Beck

You move into a house next to a train track and after six months, you don't hear the trains anymore. Somebody at work has a terrible personality, and eventually your brain just files it under, you know, that's just Jason or whatever. I'm just picking a name out of the air. People put up with almost anything if it happens slowly enough. Pain works the same way. At first, it's a small thing.

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51.218 - 62.191 Glenn Beck

Your shoulder bothers you a little, and your back gets stiff from the long drive. Then your knees complain when you stand up, and you're like, ah, it's just normal. I've been living with it for a while. That's why so many people have decided to try Relief Factor.

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Chapter 3: What challenges did Nick Shirley face while filming in Cuba?

62.231 - 81.161 Glenn Beck

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81.221 - 105.784 Glenn Beck

Visit relieffactor.com. Relieffactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. That's 800-4-RELIEF. Hello, America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you.

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Chapter 4: How does Jack Carr view the implications of the Afghanistan withdrawal?

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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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148.379 - 154.509 Nick Shirley

Nick, how are you? Oh, I'm doing great. I'm happy to be back in America. Good.

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154.529 - 164.987 Glenn Beck

Yeah. Good. Good to have you back in America. Why did you go to Cuba? What were you planning on exposing and what are you now going to expose?

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165.676 - 183.681 Nick Shirley

So I've had Cuba on the back of my mind for nearly a year now. I've been tracking kind of this rise of communism and socialism here in the United States. And I see that Trump and Rubio are talking more aggressively about taking over Cuba. So I figured I probably only have a few weeks left to go to make this video until they do take it over.

Chapter 5: What lessons can be learned from America's military strategies?

184.121 - 192.713 Nick Shirley

And so I decided last week that last week was the date that I was going to go do it. And I went and I was shocked by what I saw inside of Cuba.

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194.212 - 206.584 Glenn Beck

Somebody described Cuba to me just the other day as from a distance, it looks beautiful and quaint. And then when you get right up to it, it is rot and decay and suffering. Is that what you found?

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207.644 - 229.737 Nick Shirley

100%. I mean, if you just look at the buildings, the architecture of these buildings, they're beautiful buildings, but they have not been kept up for nearly 60 years. The buildings are actually crumbling. The streets are obviously not in good condition as well, and then people are starving. Seven out of 10 people are going without three meals a day.

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229.717 - 243.01 Nick Shirley

There's no kids aren't going to school because there's no power. The university is actually shut down because there is there. They can't go to school and there's no power. There's no electricity. So kids aren't even learning. College students aren't even learning.

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244.131 - 254.762 Glenn Beck

They would say that that's our fault because we've put the embargo on them. So that's our fault that people aren't going to school and they're not having the electricity and they're living in the dark. How would you respond to that?

256.025 - 258.669 Nick Shirley

Yeah, well, I think Cuba's had 60 years to figure something out.

Chapter 6: How does Jack Carr's new book differ from his previous works?

259.431 - 274.756 Nick Shirley

And for 60 years, they've been underneath this communist regime and they haven't figured it out. I wonder how long it would take for me or you to figure something out if we've been facing the same problem for 60 years. And they're literally 90 miles away from the United States and they've decided to be our enemy for so long.

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275.577 - 280.345 Nick Shirley

And now the United States is even offering support, it looks like, and it seems like they've rejected that support.

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282.772 - 297.069 Glenn Beck

So I don't know if you know who, I'm sure you do, Hassan Piker is, but he responded to you and says, I obviously don't believe this even a little bit. This is your last post that went to Cuba to document the humanitarian crisis, blah, blah, blah.

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297.469 - 312.407 Glenn Beck

I don't even buy this a little bit, but it is ominous that this medically stupid, he called you a foul name, is going to Cuba to manufacture propaganda for what I assume will be additional U.S. intervention. How do you respond to that?

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313.433 - 339.446 Nick Shirley

Well, he's the same person who went to Cuba with Ilhan Omar's daughter to promote communism inside of Cuba. So he actually went on a paid trip from an organization to go to Cuba. Yet he saw what I saw with my own two eyes, and he thought it's still a good idea to promote communism and socialism inside of a country that is letting their children starve, letting the people go without internet.

339.827 - 357.692 Nick Shirley

They don't even have access to freedom of speech inside this country, yet he still wants to promote that. And so he's going to call me stupid. Meanwhile, he's seeing what I'm seeing. I'm seeing people suffer. I'm seeing a civilization that is depressed, has no hope left in their eyes, and yet he's still advocating for more of that.

361.299 - 363.803 Glenn Beck

So what is the video that you're releasing today?

Chapter 7: What impact does Jack Carr believe the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan had on global perceptions?

364.004 - 365.326 Glenn Beck

What is on it? What are we going to see?

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365.406 - 387.153 Nick Shirley

Yeah, so you're going to see... how people really don't have freedom of speech inside of this country and how the buildings are eroding, how these children aren't going to school, how there's no hope in the eyes of these people. That's one thing that shocked me the most is I've spent a lot of time with Latinos. I lived amongst them for two years.

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388.054 - 395.617 Nick Shirley

And even in poor circumstances, these people are some of the most happy people I've ever spent time with. These people in Cuba.

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396.078 - 402.081 Glenn Beck

When you say you spent time in their community, you were in Chile for two years, right? You lived in Chile on a mission. Yeah, okay.

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402.972 - 423.366 Nick Shirley

And so I've spent a lot of time with Latinos in the inside South and Central America as well. And these people are just, there's no hope left in their eyes, which is something you don't see even in poor circumstances in Chile, for instance. People may not have that much money or they might not have all the food they would like, but they're still happy.

423.887 - 426.111 Nick Shirley

And that's something I didn't see in Cuba, which was different.

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Did they know you were an American? Did you get any comments at all from people saying, hey, please, Trump, back off us, or please help us?

442.021 - 459.91 Nick Shirley

No, a lot of them, I would ask them about that, and a lot of them are ready for a change. There was only one lady who was supporting the regime, actually, and she was one of the ladies at the university who was trying to cover up for the mess of the university. And all the young people I spoke to, they're all ready for a change.

Chapter 8: How can capitalism be understood through moral sentiments?

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A lot of them even said, like, communism is the worst thing that can possibly happen.

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466.878 - 489.365 Glenn Beck

When you went, you said you got there and they started following you. You're not necessarily unrecognizable. If you're coming into a country, especially a communist country, they're going to run your name and they would find out who you are. Why were you surprised that they would be following you? Because it's pretty clear.

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489.566 - 495.653 Glenn Beck

I mean, if I were a communist and I see you in my neighborhood, I'm like, he's not here to help me.

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497.219 - 518.14 Nick Shirley

Maybe I was surprised because I had filled out all the required paperwork. It said my visa said journalistic activities. Yeah, they seized all of that. Other people had gone and made videos on Cuba. I guess I didn't realize that all those people had gone with a guide. With from the from the government. So I was kind of going rogue. And the government obviously didn't like that.

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518.34 - 528.036 Nick Shirley

And that for that same reason, there's a two star general waiting at the bottom of my hotel room for me in the lobby when I tried to leave early, because we were being tell 24 seven.

530.227 - 550.48 Glenn Beck

I was going to go and Hugo Chavez was alive. They asked me to come and speak a bunch of pastors from all over the world. And I was in Africa at the time and I was flying back and we landed in, I don't know, somewhere in the Caribbean and we got off and I was going to board a plane to go over to speak to the pastors in Venezuela.

550.932 - 575.86 Glenn Beck

And Hugo Chavez had, uh, had said that he was ringing the church where this meeting was supposed to take place with soldiers. And he would arrest me and everyone, all of the pastors in the building, um, if it was going to happen. Uh, and so I was asked, please, please don't come. We've got to be a, we'll be able to get away with it. Maybe without you, but once you come, you're a lightning rod.

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And it was very eye-opening to me to see the difference between what a communist country, you know, everybody's marching, no kings, no kings. That's what it means to have a king. You can't say anything when you're in a country with a real king or a dictator. It's not like it is here in America.

595.617 - 609.9 Nick Shirley

Yeah, that's what, another takeaway from this trip was, okay, so right now we have this huge movement inside of our country for ideas like socialism, for communism, and these people are protesting every week. Underneath the communist regime, they would not be able to protest.

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