Best of the Program | Guest: Jon Erwin | 6/29/26

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Glenn Beck** (0:35)
Okay, all this week, it is a celebration of our 250 years as a nation. Beginning tomorrow for an hour, the second hour of the broadcast will be the telling of the Declaration of Independence. How did we get there? And it is an incredible story. I've worked personally about a week on writing it to make sure that it's all right in doing the research. I've learned so much, and so will you. That starts tomorrow, hour number two. In today's Best of podcast, we start with socialists in America. And jeez, there's a lot of them. There's a lot of them. We talk about the 13 Democrats, kind of like the 13 colonies, that are standing against the rest of the 257 Democrats in Congress. These guys have said, hey, we're not socialists, we're not communists. We'll see if they're eaten because I start with the story about what's happening in Europe with just air conditioning and what it means to you. Also, I show you a remarkable document as we get ready for our 250th anniversary from Rhode Island. It is the ticket that got you in to actually be a signer at the Declaration of Independence and debate. It comes from Rhode Island and it's a fascinating story. And John Erwin tells us the story of the Young Washington, all on today's podcast.
Well, the heat came to Europe this month in a way that it comes every year, early and angry. Boy, what's happening in the Midwest this week, what's happening in Washington, DC and New York, it is going to be boiling hot. In Spain, the thermometer hit 111
Britain just lived through the hottest June it has ever recorded. And in France, in a single week, 40 people drown.
What does that have to do with the heat wave? Well, they weren't drowning in storms, they were in rivers and lakes and quarries because they were desperate to get cool and the water was the only relief they could find. So 40 people drown. World Health Organization, yeah, those experts, say heat kills a 175,000 people just in Europe every single year. I want you to sit on that number for a second. That's nuts. A 175,000 people in Europe every single year die of heat. That can't be true.
Well, here's what's really crazy. We know how to prevent most of it, and it's not really a moonshot. It's a box in a window that blows cold air. What a crazy thought. Studies say air conditioning cuts heat deaths by as much as 75 percent. Now listen to this. One study, this is The Lancet, it credited air conditioning with saving nearly 200,000 older Europeans in a single year.
Ninety percent of American homes have it.
In Europe, one in five. So you would think with bodies piling up, that Europe might be like, we got to get a box in every window. Maybe that would be a social program that would be helpful. You'd think that that would be one thing everybody could agree on. But you'd be wrong.
Let me take you to some of the things that are happening here in France. Let's play, let's play cut to here. This is a British mom talking about her child's room, her baby's room. Listen to this.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:29)
Us using so much electricity, oil and gas is the reason we're in this position in the first place. However, last summer I was seven months pregnant in the summer. And this summer I've got an eight month old baby and a three year old. And my baby monitor last night said that both rooms at seven o'clock at night, which is their bedtime, was 31 degrees.
And Kate, like I think you said earlier that the guidance is if the room is 29 degrees or over, children under five should not be in them. Now, what do I do? Where do I put them?
They have to go to sleep.

**Jon Erwin** (5:02)
So you put the aircon on?

**SPEAKER_4** (5:03)
So I put the aircon on and it makes it more manageable, but it still wasn't an enjoyable sleep. I struggled to sleep in that. And my little baby is so restless.

**Jon Erwin** (5:13)
Do you leave the aircon on all day? Or do you just put it on?