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Best of the Program | Guest: Danny Burmawi | 9/16/26

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Best of the Program |  Guest: Danny Burmawi | 9/16/26

Ryan Reynolds promotes Mint Mobile’s affordable summer plans, offering unlimited data at just $15 per month—far below traditional rates—with no upfront payments required. The company highlights a new customer offer including over 50GB of data, making it a compelling alternative amid rising wireless costs. The podcast also delves into a broader cultural crisis, criticizing censorship in major events like concerts, where stadium owners have barred performers for political speech, such as Macklemore’s protest against the Israel-Gaza conflict. This is framed as a modern form of "cancel culture," where private property owners restrict free expression. Danny Burmawi shares his journey from Islam to Christianity, arguing that Islam is monolithic and that radicalism arises from deviation, not the majority. The discussion extends to free speech rights, with concerns that private entities like stadium owners can suppress dissent, violating First Amendment principles. The program also critiques political figures, including Texas’s Ken Paxton, for contradictory statements on gender and identity, and calls for public accountability. Ultimately, the episode positions free speech, religious liberty, and truth as central to American values, urging listeners to defend these principles against censorship and misinformation. A call to action encourages audience reviews and support to maintain the show’s reach and impact.

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Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile with your summer price forecast. Now, unfortunately, we're seeing rising costs across the country with possibility that big wireless hates you 100%. Now, over here at Mint Mobile, we're seeing sunny skies and dropping prices every plan to just $15 a month. Give it a try at MintMobile.com/switch. Up from payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for 12-month plan required, $15 per month equivalent to taxes and fees extra. New customer offer for initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes and we slow in at Work as Busy, C-Terms. The room at the wall door, you're gonna understand that whole story and what. Where you should stand in my opinion, where you should stand, where I stand on this whole thing. Also, we speak with Danny Burmawi, he is a guy who was a Muslim converted over to Christianity and is now speaking out and saying we need to be proud we're infidels. Wake up. James Tallerico, the Tallerico Texas, all on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the perfect program. All right, all right, let me, let me start with this audio from AOC. It's cut for a thing. Comes on the radio while you're driving along, are you changing the channels? I am. You are? Yeah. Why is that? I think that what we've seen, especially it's not, it's not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup but when you see what Robert crafted to line up all of the stadiums, to censor speech in that one specific way. It's become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive issue, in this case the genocide and Gaza, but it doesn't stop there. It could be speaking out about AI. It could be speaking out about any issue that you can now just get a handful of stadium owners to ensure that entire person's career can be jeopardized if they speak out about any issue. So it's like cancel culture. Is that what you say at AOC? It's cancel culture. Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it? When you can get a handful of groups together and they can put pressure on, let's say I don't know advertisers and get people pulled from the air, carry the sucks, doesn't it AOC? Oh my gosh, I gotta lose my mind. I'm sorry. Blood might chew through my eyes at any moment. I can't take the hip-hopper. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Everybody always says it is for hypocrisy, but it really is the hypocrisy, how they can clearly see it on one side and not the other. So let me tell you what's really going on here. Ed Sheeran is playing Philadelphia on Saturday. As of right now, he doesn't have an opening act. He was playing it MetLife, his opener, the rapper Macklemore, told the crowd that he joined the tour so he could stand in stadiums all across America and say two words, free Palestine. I don't know. Me, I want to go to a concert. I'm paying to go see a concert, especially not going to pay to see the warm up band. But when I go, I want to forget all of this stuff. Can you leave me alone? I don't want you to talk about Donald Trump and how great he is. I don't want to hear any of it play music, but maybe that's just me. Maybe everybody who's going to see Ed Sheeran is like, oh, I got to hear about free Palestine. I got to hear about how wrong the Jews are. Oh my gosh. So then he played his protest song, written for students who took over a building at Columbia. Images of Goss on the screens and he did it the next night. So now Robert Kraft, who owns the Patriots and Gillette Stadium. It's wholly independent. He owns it. He barred Macklemore from the building. Macklemore says Kraft then rallied other stadium owners behind an ultimatum. He says, you don't play here. Okay. I know Robert Kraft has a right to do it because he owns it. So it's not a free speech thing. If you own it, I don't have to have you play here. You know, I own this building. I'm not doing drag shows here. I'm sorry. And you can't make me. I own the studios. Sorry. Not going to do it. Is that harming your freedom of speech? No. What you're saying is if a private person owns private property, you don't actually own your private property and I'm sorry, I do. It's my property. I can do what I want to do. Cool. So then the promoters confirm that venues told him exactly that. So Monday, Macklemore off the tour. Kraft said it crossed a line pointing to New Jersey and what he calls a broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery. Okay. I'm being, I'm being as calm and as nice as I possibly can on this. And I think you might be surprised where I come down on it, but anyway. So on Tuesday, Sharon speaks out. He says it's the promoter's decision, not mine. Okay. He said, I spent a week trying to build a bridge and I couldn't. Okay. He said, I'm not going to abandon the fans, the crew or the musicians who rely on me to make a living. He said, he's appalled by the war, but he's not going to be drawn into a public fight over it. Good. That's his right too. Just like it's Macklemore's right to speak out against the war. Within hours, every remaining supporting act quit, Aaron Rowe, an Irish singer songwriter who says Ed changed his life, Bioga, an Irish folk band that played the middle of Ed's set, Lucas Graham from Denmark, and Phineas, Billy Eilish's brother. He was booked for South Africa. Okay. Or South America. First of all, Phineas. What do you expect? It's Phineas. Of course. The rest of them. I don't even know. Now, you might, but I'm not going to see, what is it, Bodega or whatever they are. I'm not going to, I'm not going to pay a ticket of like $600 to see Bodega, okay? When they get big and I'm sure they're going to be big, well, maybe not. The world may never know their greatness now that they've decided to do that, but that were their principles, and that's their right as well. So let's look at this. A dad on X with fewer than 1,000 followers did something almost nobody bothers to do. And that is right Ed Sheeran, a Sheeran, a letter that just says, you know, a tweet that just says, "Dude, I love you." But this is so offensive, I had to leave the stadium with my kids. And then come back when you were on. See, is this what you want to be, that caught fire. He decides, craft decides to start it up with the stadiums and then we're off to the races. If Sheeran cancels, he eats roughly $25 million. $600,000 fans go home disappointed, 10,000 workers lose the days, they built their calendars around. $25 to $50 million in profit disappears. And next time he does tours, he tours alone. Unless he makes every opener act sign a contract promising never to say anything political on stage, which I think they should do anyway. Now those are one man's estimates, it's not an audit, but his was the only post that I read this week that remembered the guy who hangs the lights. That's why artists have business managers. Because if they were left their own devices, they'd be broke by Thursday and proud of it. I'm a starving artist, yeah, whatever. But look what actually happened. Because for a little while, the system was working, Macho Moore said what he believed on stage out loud. His right, Robert Kraft decides, you know what, you're performing a building that I own, it's my right to say you're not performing here. If you want to say those things, Macho Moore was, was she in okay with that? Did you tell him? Because it's his show. You're an invited guest, okay? As long as the man is inviting you to be on the stage, but then if he's invited you and you said, hey, I'm going to do this and he's like, oh, that's fine with that. Well, then you got a problem with Ed. Four acts walk away from real money over principle. I think their principle is wrong, but that's their paycheck. It's whatever. Their protest, that's their right. Sharon, Sharon decides he's going to keep his crew employed, keep his opinion on the war himself, his right. And every person holding a ticket gets to decide whether they're going to go or ask for a refund. They're right, everybody chooses. Then comes the part that isn't a choice. Sharon Silence is now being called cowardice. One critic said he let a billionaire pick his politics for him, like you haven't with George Soros. Macklemore's own song accuses artists who stay quiet of complicity. The rule is simple, neutrality is not permitted. You are going to say what the mob tells you to say or your guilty is that the kind of country you want to live in. And I don't care, I don't care if it's happening on our side because we don't get a pass. We don't get a pass. Anybody who says you're, wait, wait, wait, you're for this war. You're a trader. What? No. You don't agree with everything this guy does or that guy does or you don't agree with everything I say. You're a trader. No, I'm not, I'm somebody who has an opinion and sometimes I agree with people, sometimes I don't. Gillette is private. Now here's where it gets sticky. Most of the other stadiums on this tour are owned by cities and states. Okay, I know that Philadelphia is 100% city-owned. That's a different story now because now you can make a case. Now I don't know how this comes out, but it's a city-owned venue. So now you can make a case and say, this is, this is private speech. And you are violating my First Amendment because a city, a government can't do that. Hmm. Chi. That's a problem, isn't it? That's a real problem. First Amendment, if a taxpayer owned stadium banned a Christian singer for something she said at about a abortion, I'd be on the microphone for a week. I wouldn't want to go to the concert because I'd go to the concert. I don't want to hear about abortion. There's a growing crowd on the right that wants its own loyalty oath. And it's the same disease as we have. I mean, it's terminal on the left. Don't catch that disease. Now I don't know what the answer is on this. It's going to be raised by somebody. And it's another reason why the stadiums should be private and cities should run a city not a stadium. You know, we've been here before. And it answers all of it. This is the best of the Glenbeck program. Truth is under attack in our culture. People are embracing lies about gender. They're rejecting the sanctity of every human life. And the government has even put punishing people for saying what's true and right. Or worse, the woke mob is doxing them and slandering them with no due process. Just an angry mob making their lives miserable or worse, putting families in real danger. But the biblical principles on which our country was founded still matter. Real patriots and Christians are beginning to stand up. They're showing real courage without a safety net of a big bank account. They're bolstered only by the truths that are self-evident. But these people must be defended. Alliance defending freedoms on the front lines of this fight. And they're standing in courtrooms across the country upholding truth and you're right to speak it. Your gift to ADF will be matched by a special grant while the funds last. Visit joinadf.com/beck or textbeck to 83-848. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Danny, welcome back to the program. I'm glad you're here. We had such a huge response to you when you were first on. Because people wanted to hear your story. So can we start there? Tell me your story. You were born in Jordan and you were a die hard. If I've not mistaken, you told me you cheered on 9/11 and not for the Americans. Good morning, Glenn. Yeah, I was 13 as I told you. But it doesn't mean that I was radical because that is a misconception. If you are a Muslim, then you side with Islam. You side with Allah, you side with the believers, the followers, the faithful to Allah. And America is against Allah. So I cheered not because I was a radical. And in 2006, I became devout. But again, that was not radicalism. That was just mainstream Islam. I became devout in response to the Danish cartoonist who drew the profit of Islam. In Denmark, if you remember, in 2006. And I decided, all right, I'm going to defend Islam, I'm going to defend Islam, I'm going to defend the faith. And one year later, I left Islam. So of course, it's a long journey. By the way, why? You're ready to go to defend Islam. What changed? I could answer this question in different ways. But I would say that first, the theological answer, in Christianity, we have something called justification. You feel at peace with God. You're justified not because of your performance, but because of what God has done on your behalf. In Islam, there is no sense of justification. You feel this enmity. No matter what you do, how dedicated you are, I'm not exaggerating. I would wake up at four in the morning and then wash with cold freezing water because that gets me more credit with Allah. And walk to the mosque and I take the longer road because that gets me more credit. In dark, as I was praying, God, please give me peace. God, please give me your light. And a year later, there was nothing, absolutely nothing. And of course, on top of that, you read the history, you read the violence, you read the personal life of Muhammad. And God sent someone, my way, who started planting the seeds of doubt. You know, when you read the Quran, for example, if you're a Muslim and you read the Quran, you read to worship, not to understand. There's no critical thinking there. And I did that for all of my life. And then this guy started, you know, asking questions, like, hey, where do you think of this? Where do you think of that? And for the first time, I would be reading the Quran and, oh, my goodness, Muhammad married his daughter in law. I was like, what is this? And then I would say, okay, okay, there got to be an answer. I would go to an Imam or a cleric and I was like, what do you think of this verse? And no answer. So anyway, I left Islam and I became Christian after reading the gospels. And that's what happened. Have you heard this? I've heard that, I don't know if any of this is true. But I've heard that there's a ton of Muslims that are converting now, especially over in the Middle East, because they're having dreams of Jesus. Have you heard that? Yes, I heard that. I was a missionary in the Middle East for 14 years. I worked in eight different countries, planting churches, preaching the gospel. And I'm not a big fan of the theology behind dreams. I'm reformed, so, you know, that many of you obviously won't like that. But anyway, now I believe that millions of Muslims are living Islam. Millions. You won't believe that full churches are woman and hijab, they're just converted. And they still wear the hijab, it's a cultural thing. But yeah, it's happening all over the Islamic world, that's for sure. You said something a minute ago that there are basically, there are no radicals. How do you explain that? Yeah, the radicals in Islam, they are the secular, the moderate, because what is radicalism? You're not adhering to the genuinely, to the faith. If you are following the commandments of the faith as Allah meant them to be, or Muhammad meant them to be, then you are just moderate, and ISIS, Al Qaeda, they're moderate Muslims. They are the true followers of Islam. I know that is shocking, I know that many people would call this Islamophobia. Well, you cannot call me Islamophobia, try, if you want. My mother is still a Muslim, but I'm telling you the truth. If you want to be a faithful Muslim, you must be a terrorist. Thank God, the absolute majority of Muslims are not faithful to Islam. The Islamic countries, Glenn, they have deactivated Islam. They keep the shell, but their laws, they are imported from the West. Unfortunately, not 100%, but I mean, if you steal something, you don't get your hands, what is the word? Amputated. You don't get it, amputated. Why? Because they don't follow Sharia. They don't behave you. They don't tone you. They used to do that in Saudi Arabia until recently, but that is that is Islam That is moderate Islam and there is let me let me be clear here Islam is monolithic Let me repeat that Islam is monolithic. I know that many people love to say oh Islam has different set of beliefs and the different currents that is not true Muslim sects they differ on ridiculously minor things or non-theological things I'll give you an example the two major sects in Islam Sunni and Shia you know Iran and Saudi Arabia they have been fighting for 14 centuries you would think oh they're fighting over theology just like Protestant and Catholics no they're fighting over politics who should have been the caliph after Muhammad is it Ali or Omar but on theology they don't differ on anything the same God the same book the same prophet the same biography of Muhammad the same sayings of Muhammad minor things so would you would you say then the people who follow the 12th Imam that the 12 verses they know as they're known that that's what most of Islam follows because I've always heard the opposite that the 12ers are really frightening and dangerous I I wasn't Sunni before I converted Christianity I was not a 12 or Shia yeah let me tell you this Sunni Islam is way more dangerous than Shia Islam even though Shia Islam the 12ers they are Iran and Hezbollah and the West has painted a picture about them but think of ISIS and Hezbollah yes Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that's for sure killed Americans and doesn't hesitate to kill civilians but nothing nothing similar to what ISIS did burning people alive just remember 2013 14 15 and so Sunni Islam that violence in Sunni Islam doesn't have a purpose it is for the purpose of terrorizing the enemy in Shia Islam violence has a teleological end because they're waiting for al-Mahdi of course Sunnis to they're waiting for a Mahdi but it's like a different version of al-Mahdi but let me say this again these are eschatological differences they are they don't agree on what's going to happen when al-Mahdi comes back but when it comes to the main pillars of the faith because I I need to be clear about this when I say Islam is monolithic I mean the Quran the same Quran the same interpretation of the major doctrines they pray five times five times Muhammad his story all of the main things but eschatology even among Christians if you think about it we have a thousand different eschatological interpretation within Christianity right but but we go to the same church we maybe if you are if next Sunday ask the person next to you what do you think about eschatology probably they would they they don't believe in the same thing as you do but you still go to the same church why because eschatology is not really the main pillar of the faith correct the meat yeah so it is starting to become a important topic as you know many people believe we are living in those end days of people I mean the apostles thought it too so you never know and the shea end of time story is almost like somebody took the book of revelation and you know just wrote the opposite you're like I mean wow because their good guy is our bad guy and our our good guy is their bad guy and and I think they mean it and you know when you're looking at you know the scriptures tell us is a you know a 200 million man army okay that might be China but that's easily Islam if if 10% of Islam is radical that's over a million a hundred million man army yeah you know and I think it's probably you know if things got heated up you'd have a 400 million man army easily with Islam every generation thinks of themself that that this is the end times we are the generation of the end times because we love to be the center of event you know we we love to think that we are the most important generation that has ever left I don't even though I'm a theologian myself but when it comes to scatology I prefer to keep it to myself because I believe that you have been following what was happening and that there was a debate between dispensationalism and replacement theology within Christianity and the anti-Israel where weaponizing theology and chanting crisis king crisis king you know to take a jab at Jews using theology to justify your actions or your positions this is something global every group in the world does that the difference the difference is that in Islam and and this is something this is very important point because many people think that Islam is like an embryonic version of Christianity you know Christianity was violent then there was information and then Christianity became reconciled with liberal democracy and now Christianity can't coexist that is ridiculous that is ridiculous Christianity was never violent it was Christian people who were violent and based on no scripture at all so when the church decided to do anything it's like that to burn witches for example there is no scripture to support their stance now the difference is that in Islam it is the text itself so when people say is it possible to reform Islam again they're projecting their understanding of religion unto Islam they think oh the same thing is going to happen within Islam just like Martin Luther and John Calvin but that is a false comparison because the Christian reformation was going back to the solar scriptura to the text if Muslims decide to do that we will end up with two billion ISIS terrorists we don't want that so Islamic reformation took place after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and that was the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood that was the reformation so another another definition or misdefinition I would say is that in the west when the founding fathers penned the constitution the blue frights they were not thinking of Islam they weren't thinking of different denominations within Protestantism and Catholicism maybe Judaism they were not thinking about Islam at all because Islam does not fit the western definition of a religion Islam is is I'm sorry wait wait wait I just want I got to take a break I want people to sit with that and then I want you to come back and explain that because you're saying Islam this is critical you're saying Islam does not fit the 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And the Then I went over and I was filming for four hours with Prager University. I get home, I'm dead tired, it's like six o'clock. And I get home and my wife said, did you, the same thing she says to me every day. Did you see my texts? And I'm like, no honey, I haven't seen you know. Why don't you check my text? Honey, because I'm working, I haven't had a chance to see the text, I just wanna wrap it radio. I do, 'cause I'm tired of that question. Did you see my text? No, you know what, push this button. It'll ring right to me. I don't care if I'm on the air. I will, yes, come in, come in, Captain Tanya. Yes, I'm here, what do you need? And it's always like, do you wanna go out and see a movie on Friday night? Yes, yes I do, yes I really, really do. So, could, could, Ricky, could you just tell Lauren, she'll get it done for me. I have already passed on the message and I didn't use a rapid radio to do it, but it has passed on. Good, all right, thank you, thank you, I want one. On my desk and one on an inner purse, 'cause you know what, I'm gonna do all day. I'm gonna go, come in, Tanya, Tanya, can you hear me? Hey Tanya, you're not, this is not inconvenient for you to talk to me right now. Am I disturbing anything by talking to you right now? I'm gonna be doing it to her. So, it's war. Anyway, all right, let's see. Let's talk about Talariko. In fact, do we have the Talariko Texas song, 'cause I mean, this says it all. ♪ Talariko, Texas ♪ ♪ Where the brisket's made of peas ♪ ♪ Made of pearls ♪ ♪ They're all our soldiers ♪ ♪ Sure ♪ ♪ We identify as trees ♪ ♪ Trees, don't we? ♪ ♪ Oh, my gal, my dog, my truck ♪ ♪ My whiskey and my lord ♪ ♪ Just don't go asking what I said in 2024 ♪ ♪ It's time to say goodbye ♪ ♪ Texas, April ♪ ♪ The stars still spell my name ♪ Hey, disagree on the Lord. ♪ Blue and blue and illusion rides ♪ ♪ A purple party playing ♪ ♪ I'm the son of every slogan ♪ ♪ I'm gonna tell Gaiden this town ♪ ♪ Sing it bigger ♪ ♪ Sing it louder ♪ ♪ Boys, we ain't backin' down ♪ ♪ I filmed a little somethin' out in Los Angeles ♪ ♪ 20 Texas voters and an old milk court to Dito ♪ ♪ I told him God ain't he or she might be a van ♪ ♪ Then a hollered Friday night lights boys ♪ ♪ And bolted for the van ♪ ♪ That's a van, not a truck, but it's a real big van ♪ ♪ And all the Texas kind of highway ♪ ♪ Well, it van's a kind of man ♪ - Yeah, it is. - And it says a lot in Texas. - Okay, so, tell or equal, the guy is, the guy, honestly, the guy is, he's nuts, he's nuts. He is not Texan in any way, shape or form. Let me ask you this. If somebody, Jason, if I came up to you and said, hey, Jason, who's your favorite drag queen? - I got nothing. - I got nothing, it's not like I'm having to think between a few, I'm not like, wait a minute, wait a minute, I know it, I know it. All right, I got nothing. I got nothing. This is exactly what happened with Tel Rico. Listen to this. - This is Tel Rico, so nice to see you, Zyra. Brooklyn, they were there when you defended the drags. Who's your favorite drag queen in Texas? - Oh my gosh, probably a little sad word. - Listen to this. I love my teammates, thank you so much. - Oh, probably a little sad words. I mean, like no hesitation. Who's your favorite drag queen? Oh, a little sad word, it's gotta be a little sad words. I mean, I've been thinking about it for a while. You know, I used to really love Tom, you know, missing Peter, but a little sad, just really, really love. I really love. Who is Melissa? Jason? - So, Alyssa. - Alyssa, sorry, not Melissa. - You didn't know at the top of your head? - I'm sorry, I confused Melissa and Alyssa all the time. She's another drag queen. - So Alyssa Edwards was actually featured on Netflix. A video was seen of Alyssa Edwards on Dancing Queen where he is in full on drag at a dance studio working with little children. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - What could possibly go wrong there? I don't even know the show. If somebody said, what's your favorite Dancing Queen show, I don't think I could even come up with, oh, Dancing Queen. I couldn't even come up with the name of the show, but apparently he probably had to know the show and the drag queen, so two points for him. While we're on this, would he support Transban on Miners? Cut eight. - Would you vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries when it comes to minors? - Absolutely. And in fact, in the legislature, I voted for an amendment that would have restricted the bill in question to a ban on surgeries for minors. - Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That's a plot twist, isn't it? - Here he is on Cut Nine. - During the 2021 hearing, you said there are six biological sexes. Do you still believe that standing here in the right now? - No, I've missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there's a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. I obviously didn't say it correctly. There are not six sexes, there are two. - Oh, come on, come on, dude, does anybody believe this? Does anybody believe this? You can't say there's six genders and then say no, there's two sexes. Because the whole thing is it's not about sex, it's about gender. - Remember? - That was the whole argument. You can't name your favorite Greg Queen and then say that. - Yeah, go ahead. - I don't think anyone believes this, and this includes the Texas Democratic Party manager who was caught on a hidden camera on the Daily Wire caught this. And they said, "Well, this is the time. " Actually, I have the video, do you want? Do you want to go ahead? - Yeah, yeah, go ahead, go, yeah. - Here it is. - Oh, why would he walk back? - I was going to write now, he's trying to target a white or not, which unfortunately means like being more palatable to Republicans here in Texas. - And I think that from the character that he's showing us, it seems like he does believe the things that he said before. But at this point in time, it just seems like the mic was my turn. Yeah, he really needs to win those taxes. - His support for trans children is not changed. - Yeah, and his heart, he still supports. - Yeah, I think he talks to some Republicans who are very Republican, especially in Texas. He's very, very to the right. - That's all it is. I mean, it's, it's, who doesn't know this? Who really, really? Texas, you're going to get what you deserve if you let this guy win. You're going to get what you deserve. And I don't want that to happen. I mean, you can't let this, there are a lot of dumb people who will go, yeah, he's just like me. - I kind of like that too. I don't, I believe, you know, maybe there's some, some people that were, you know, have sprouted three weeners. And so we got to take them into effect, but there's only two taxes, that's just like me. That's not who he is. And those people exist and they're going to go out and vote because he's also going to promise free stuff. And if you're at home going, - You know what, I just don't really like the way, you know, corn in and I, you know, but I don't like Ken Paxton and the way he handled his marriage. - Yeah, neither do I. - Neither do I. Are you going to punish yourself by putting this clown in? Who do you think's going to get hurt by that? - But, you know, hey, it's your vote, whatever, whatever. And by the way, he wants you to know that all of his money is coming from hardworking Texans, cut six. - That thing about fundraising is, is you got to look at where the money is coming from. You know, I don't take a dime from corporate packs. I never have, never will. All of my money comes from hardworking Texans who are giving five, 10, 15 dollars at a time. - Mm-hmm. And billionaires and billionaires and people from California that you're taking my from. (laughs) Come on. I could you do it, could you sleep at night? Because I know all politicians, and I shouldn't say all politicians, a lot of politicians, they do this. And they say, could you sleep at night? Because I couldn't. Ricky, you want to add something to this? - Oh, I'm just saying, this guy wears Texas like a skin suit. He goes, there's ads of him going into Cracker Barrel and pretending like he's one of the hardworking Texans that he's talking about. And it's just like a joke. And he's just like, what do I do with this biscuit? Like, he is a tail of two-tellerie coat. It's truly, truly, there are two telerecos, we have evidence of this, several statements on tape going back years and say whatever you want about Ken Paxton, he hasn't changed. I'm going to play one more, cut seven and then I want to give you my commentary on it. Scripture tells us that you can't love God and hate other people. You can't love God and abuse the immigrant. You can't love God and oppress the poor. You can't love God and bully the outcast. We spend so much time looking for God out there that we miss God in the person sitting right next to us. Absolutely true. In that neighbor who bears the divine image. Amen, Lord. I was brought up to believe that in the face of a neighbor, we glimpse the face of God. Oh, that makes you cry. It makes you cry. It makes you cry. It makes you cry. Absolutely how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger. I often wonder what would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate? I think he would tell the senators on the floor, depart from me. Depart from? I was hungry and you cut my food assistance. Oh, that's easy. I was sick and you kicked me off Medicaid. Amen. I was a stranger and you deported me at my family. Pre-job, brother. This is the biggest heresy I have ever seen. That's not Jesus. Give me a minute. I'll come back. Would it calm down a bit? Because Jesus is clear on what he would have said to the Senate. He already said it. We can go check the book. It's in the record. We know what he do. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening. Here's a question that I want you to ask yourself. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Mint Mobile offers unlimited plans at $15 per month, significantly lower than traditional wireless plans with no hidden fees.
  2. The company is promoting a new customer offer with over 50GB of data, making it an affordable alternative to rising wireless costs.
  3. A major concern is the rise of censorship in public events, such as stadium bans for artists speaking out on political issues like Gaza or AI.
  4. Danny Burmawi shares his personal journey from Islam to Christianity, emphasizing that Islam is monolithic and that radicalism stems from deviation from core beliefs.
  5. Critics argue that corporate and private property owners, like Robert Kraft, can suppress free speech, raising constitutional and First Amendment concerns.
  6. The episode highlights the growing cultural conflict over free speech, including backlash against artists who speak out, and the pressure on performers to self-censor.
  7. Glenn Beck and the program advocate for defending truth, religious liberty, and free speech, especially against what they describe as a global "woke" movement.
  8. A satirical segment mocks political figures, particularly Ken Paxton, for inconsistent messaging on gender and transgender rights, while emphasizing the need for accountability.

Summary:

Ryan Reynolds promotes Mint Mobile’s affordable summer plans, offering unlimited data at just $15 per month—far below traditional rates—with no upfront payments required. The company highlights a new customer offer including over 50GB of data, making it a compelling alternative amid rising wireless costs. The podcast also delves into a broader cultural crisis, criticizing censorship in major events like concerts, where stadium owners have barred performers for political speech, such as Macklemore’s protest against the Israel-Gaza conflict.

This is framed as a modern form of "cancel culture," where private property owners restrict free expression. Danny Burmawi shares his journey from Islam to Christianity, arguing that Islam is monolithic and that radicalism arises from deviation, not the majority. The discussion extends to free speech rights, with concerns that private entities like stadium owners can suppress dissent, violating First Amendment principles.

The program also critiques political figures, including Texas’s Ken Paxton, for contradictory statements on gender and identity, and calls for public accountability. Ultimately, the episode positions free speech, religious liberty, and truth as central to American values, urging listeners to defend these principles against censorship and misinformation. A call to action encourages audience reviews and support to maintain the show’s reach and impact.

FAQs

Mint Mobile offers all plans, including unlimited data, for $15 per month during the summer.

Customers can pay a one-time fee of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for 12 months, with the monthly rate being $15 plus taxes and fees.

Yes, new customers can get a plan with over 50 gigabytes of data as part of a promotional offer.

Yes, new customers receive a plan with over 50 gigabytes of data for the initial term, but this offer is only available for the first plan term.

There is a growing trend of rising costs and potential censorship in the wireless industry, with some companies reportedly targeting specific viewpoints or artists.

Private stadium owners, like Robert Kraft, can ban performers from speaking on political issues, raising concerns about free speech and the power of private entities to restrict expression.

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