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UFC Freedom 250 vs. Knicks Fans: Glenn's Must-Hear Breakdown | Guest: Jason Bartlett | 6/15/26
15 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the significance of UFC Freedom 250?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the Left's reaction to the UFC event?
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I'm going to spend some time talking about sports today, and you know how good that gets. You know, you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If it's your first day, you're like, okay, that's cool.
If this is, you know, your regular listener, you are terrified out of your mind on what's going to happen because I don't know my ass from my elbow when it comes to sports. Well, let's just put it this way. I was watching the Knicks game with the Spurs. I don't know how many home runs it took to finally win, but I watched it with my son 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. There might have been some inappropriate, yeah, from my son from time to time during the play, but he made it work. Anyway, so I've got a lot to say about that, and last night my wife explained the UFC fight to me. as we watch that together. So some perspective on all of this coming next.
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Chapter 3: How does Glenn Beck compare the UFC event to American culture?
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? And so I was wondering, you know, once this thing was announced, I immediately thought of bread and circuses.
And I thought, we are a crowd now that, you know, wants to be full and amused because, 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 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? A celebration is not 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 know if you saw it. It was so well worth watching.
Even if you don't like UFC and the fight or whatever, I mean, I prefer boxing myself and I don't like it when they're down on the ground and they just keep wailing on each other, but it was okay. But it was remarkable. All of the videos that they were putting in between, the way this whole thing was staged. I mean, just the flyover. Do we have the audio of the flyover? It's right after this.
I mean, I've never seen a flyover like that. I've never seen, I mean, 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've 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 and 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 cage the claw. He said, you know, maybe I'll keep it up. Maybe we should keep it up because, you know, they built the Eiffel Tower and that was supposed to come down. Eiffel Tower happened in 1889. Same guy who helped build the Statue of Liberty. And Paris was 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. And they all said, it's temporary, it's temporary, temporary. 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.
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Chapter 4: What lessons can we learn from the Knicks fans' behavior?
People said San Francisco is over. It'll never come back. Nine 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, what, 1805? 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 jewel city, 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 Maybach, and he built it on purpose to look like it was a Roman ruin that was crumbling. And it was to express that all great civilizations and all great – ideas and vanity of human, you know, wishes, it all declines, okay? So he builds 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. 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 what I saw... 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 Spangled Banner, I mean, not a canned 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, 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 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 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 Bicentennial, pollsters asked Americans if they were pessimistic about our future. 15% said yes. Today, that number is 41%, tripled in 50 years.
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Chapter 5: What historical parallels are drawn about regulation and capitalism?
And if you think this is new, have you ever read about the railroad? In 1800s, railroads were the SpaceX of their day. Great machines reshaped the entire continent. They competed brutally, vicious price wars. The biggest railroads kept losing control of everything. They tried to fix prices privately and failed. So one of the railroad guys gets a better idea.
Wait a minute, if we can't win the market, why don't we buy the referee? So in 1887, Washington creates the Interstate Commerce Commission, and they're going to regulate all the railroads on behalf of the public. Sounds great. People demanded oversight, and they got it. Except a few years later, the U.S. Attorney General, a man named Richard Olney, who had come right out of the railroad industry,
wrote a private letter to a railroad executive who wanted the new commission abolished. And he said, don't be foolish. What are you doing? Keep the commission. Because the commission satisfies the public demand for somebody to watch the railroads while it leaves, in practice, it leaves the railroads largely alone. And over time, the commission will become a shield for the industry, okay?
It will protect you from the competition and from the public's anger. Excuse me, what did he just say? Yeah, that's the problem with capitalism. The problem is not the dreamer, is not the trillion dollars. The problem is the referees. The referees, they're on the take.
Chapter 6: How does Elon Musk's wealth relate to the current political climate?
and they partner, the minute that Elon Musk says, you know what, I want to put my people, my competitors out of business, as long as he's still willing to honestly compete, capitalism works fine, and we should be grateful for it.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Jason Bartlett face as a South African farmer seeking asylum?
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You know, I can't wait to see go home is John Cornyn. That guy can't be gone fast enough. He and Mitch McConnell. They just go away. Go away. And that's not a comment on Mitch McConnell's health.
Chapter 8: What insights does Jason provide about the situation for white farmers in South Africa?
Sorry to hear about his health. He's been sick for a very long time, but I can't wait for their terms and them to be replaced. John Cornyn came out with a tweet this weekend to Mike Lee. Mike, I'm a co-sponsor of your Save America Act and repeatedly voted for this, but you just don't have the votes and John Thune can't change that. You know, it's math.
Try focusing on Democrats instead of the Republicans. Republican on a Republican attacks are hurting our chances to win the majority in November. Yeah, like you have a clue on how to win, John Cornyn. This guy has it out, and he is going to do everything he can to stop the Save America. Mark my words.
He and Mitch McConnell are going to do everything they can as their last hurrah to make sure that thing doesn't pass. And Donald Trump came out over the weekend in a true social post. Thank God. He said... The renewal of Section 02 of the Save America Act, he said, I'm against FISA if it doesn't come with the Save America Act, the full version firmly attached to it.
So he's telling them, and I'm so glad he is calling their bluff because it is a bluff. It is a bluff. Bill Pulte, he is the interim acting director of national intelligence now. Not forever. And he's not some radical overhaul overnight, you know what I mean?
He's just a guy who has been with Trump for a while, trusted set of eyes for a few months, while we get the new guy in to replace Tulsi Gabbard. And what happens? The establishment voices, the Democrats, some of them Republicans, intel lifers, they threaten to let FISA, Section 702, die. You tell me. These are the guys who pull for every war.
They pull for every spy thing that they can possibly get their hands on. They are the ones that have said, hands off Section 702. They're the ones. It's vital for national security. They won't even let you talk about it. They don't want it even opened up. Nothing. Just pass it, pass it, pass it, pass it, pass it. And now they're saying, if this guy gets in as the acting director of DNI,
He's so dangerous at this time that we will tell Donald Trump he can't have. Really? You're not going to let Donald Trump have Section 702? Really? You guys. You guys. Well, no. No. No, we can't. Bill is just too dangerous for the American people. Really? So you say Section 02, FISA, is so important and we're dealing with threats from China and Iran and the cartels across the border. Really?
You'd stab your own mother to death for a clean renewal in normal times. But an outsider comes out, suddenly it's a crisis. Ditch that. We won't pass that. We won't give that to you, Trump. Yes, you will. Yes, you will. You will. Okay? Now, I want to be fair. Qualifications matter. Experience and intelligence is serious business. But he's interim. He's interim. Well, he's too weak. Is he? Is he?
Because I think your reaction shows to me that you're in a panic. I don't know what you're panicked about, but you're panicking. You're willing to give something up that literally I think you really would stab your mother to death for Section 702. I don't know why, but now all of a sudden, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? Exposure?
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