Best of the Program | 6/5/26

**Glenn Beck** (0:03)
All right, so best of today, we did three hours, three different topics, you're going to get the best parts of these in the best of here, this podcast. I talked about Aleksandr Dugin again because there's some new news on what's happening with Candace Owens today. Also, kind of had a back and forth with Glenn Greenwald, where I got a lot of heat from people who like me about what I was saying. We needed to talk about that. Also, a deep dive on datacenters. We'll give you the best of, but if you really are concerned about datacenters, I want you to hear me out because there's a lot to talk about. Just the energy problem with datacenters that you need to hear, and a couple that aborted their Down syndrome maybe.
We did an hour on this. Here's the best of.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:02)
You're listening to the best of The Glenn Beck Program.

**Glenn Beck** (1:09)
So, continuing our conversation here quickly about Candace Owens and what she's doing over in Russia. And really, the story is not about Candace Owens, but she is proving everything that I'm saying is right. Ricky just got a notification breaking news that Russian media is now calling Candace Owens what exactly? I want to get the quote.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:36)
The bridge.

**Glenn Beck** (1:37)
The bridge.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:38)
Bridge to the USA.

**Glenn Beck** (1:39)
The bridge between, that's right. And don't think of that as the Russian people. Think of that as Putin and Dugin. Remember, Dugin is the guy who just said if it were up to him, he would give every enemy of ours nuclear weapons to vaporize the United States. He is not our friend. He is not our friend. So, the latest is, Putin himself has just asked Candace Owens to speak today at this convention. So, she's just gotten bumped up another level and she's thrilled about it. Okay, you think about whatever you want, but I have to speak to those who say, yes, but Dugin and Putin have it right about our culture. Our culture is evil, blah, blah, blah. I want you to think about the doctorate. I just gave you two examples. One, somebody who diagnosed the pain and suffering that mental illness was causing in the United States and said, look, and everybody was like, they're right. These institutions are horrible, and these people are suffering horribly, and they're tearing themselves apart, blah, blah, blah. And so the doctor who was, I think, did I say he got a Nobel Prize for it? A prize-winning doctor says, I have the solution. Ice pick to the eye. That's called a lobotomy. You can diagnose something and say, this is the problem, and be right. But that doesn't mean your solution is right. Then I told you about the temperance movement. Alcoholism, trust me, I'm an alcoholic. I know how destructive it can be. My mother committed suicide. She was an alcoholic. I get it. It destroys everything. It's horrible, destroys families. That's what the temperance movement said. They diagnosed the problem correctly. People get out of control and it destroys families. But then they put in a constitutional amendment. And that started all kinds of stuff, including what I just told you. And look it up yourself. Most people don't know it. The United States government started poisoning alcohol with bootleggers. Yeah, well, we'll show them how dangerous it is. They poisoned, they killed Americans knowingly. Those people should not have been anywhere. The cure was wrong. The diagnosis was right. Let me give you one more. 1958, halfway around the world, Mao. He's in China. People are starving. And he makes a diagnosis that was correct right down to the single grain. He was saying, we have a problem with sparrows. They're eating the harvest. So a nation of hundreds of millions was mobilized to get rid of all of the sparrows. People banged pots and pans from dawn to dusk. The birds could never land until the sparrows just dropped out of the sky dead from exhaustion. This is a real story. It worked. The sparrows all died. Then what happened? Then the locusts came. And because the sparrows had been eating the locusts, the insects ate everything in the fields bare. The famine that followed killed tens of million more people, more than most wars in human history.
Mao had the diagnosis right. The sparrows are the problem, but his cure buried a generation.
Okay. So what am I? I mean, I could go on.
All of these things have one thing in common. These people were not cranks. They were not obvious monsters, a Nobel laureate, a constitutional amendment, a government, and the applause of the experts and the cheer of the crowd made the blade come down.