Best of the Program | Guest: Vice President JD Vance | 6/16/26

**Glenn Beck** (0:01)
At JD Vance on today, right out of the shoot, you're going to hear that is part of our edited podcast. This is the shorter version of the show, so you can get everything you need quickly. JD Vance, we talked about his new book, but we really talked about also what's happening in Iran. Some questions were answered, more questions are left to be seen when we see this deal with Iran. Also, I think we're at a turning point in our nation. Should we choose to accept it, Mr. Phelps? Should you and your team choose to accept it?
We're hearing a lot of great things about America from Europeans who are visiting America. I went through all of them. We have to restore the belief in America that this is worth saving, that it's unique, that it's different, that it's special, that it's worth saving.
And I think we can do that today, and I show you the path on that. And then the other thing we have to do is restore our story and our education on what our country, how it's actually built. Why was it built? And we do that through our Summer of Education at torch250.com. We talk a little bit about that on today's show. And finally, a plot against the UFC fight at the White House was just revealed today. Several people are under investigation. Some have been arrested, but it was a bombing and shooting plot that is absolutely terrifying. It shows this is no longer a lone wolf situation. This one would have had to be planned and trained for. And they were moving in. And thank God the FBI and DOJ caught them in time. But this comes with a warning.
When you're afraid, you will give up freedoms. And I have to tell you, if we make it to election day without a major thing happening, then God has truly blessed us.
If something major happens, our government will grow in size. And people will rush to anyone who will say, I'll keep you safe. We mustn't do that. So, weaponization of government is also on the list. You can hear the full show, get the full three-hour show. I think you get it in about two hours and 15 minutes. But this is the highly edited version, just so you can have a daily consumption of everything you need to know. Here's the podcast.

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**Glenn Beck** (2:48)
Hello, America, welcome to The Glenn Beck Program. It is Tuesday. Want to get right to our guest because it is the Vice President of the United States. It's JD Vance. I got to talk to him about many, many things, but he has a new book out called Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith, which I think is a very important book at this time, especially even if you're just trying to understand the Vice President, who may become our next President of the United States, at least we'll be running for it.
And also the times in which we live, we'll get to that and the Iranian things here in just a minute. Let me introduce the 50th Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, and his new book Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith. JD, you and I, when I'm reading your book, we have an awful lot in common. Your mother, I'm a big fan of Hillbilly Elegy. I mean, what an amazing story. Your mother was an addict, my mother was an addict, your mom had a happy ending, my mom did not. Your father, you were estranged when you died. It was a lot more severe than mine. I was estranged with my father when he died.
And there was so many things that add complexities to your life when you go through all of that. And I hope we have a chance to have a longer interview to kind of get into that. But I want to start with a part of the book where you talk about where you committed to Christ. You were in a cathedral and you noticed that everything was kind of falling apart, the whole world was falling apart, and you committed. Can you talk a little bit about the moment you chose to commit?

**JD Vance** (4:31)
Yeah, Glenn. So this is back in the summer of, I think, 2018
And if you remember at the time, I eventually became a baptized Catholic, and very bad time for the Catholic Church. There was a very bad sex abuse scandal that was getting reported on in Pennsylvania. And there was just this sense that, yeah, I was curious in Christ, I was curious about Christianity, but I wasn't yet ready to commit. And I was there with my son, actually. I was in this cathedral, it was beautiful, it was completely empty. And I felt this kind of sense of despair at first, because, you know, no one was there. And this beautiful old church, no one was there, there was nobody praying, it felt almost lifeless.