Best of the Program | Guests: Matt Bielski & Dr. Eric Bartky | 10/9/26

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Glenn Beck (0:33)

Well, today, we started with this firing squad at Fort Hood. It's going to be a public execution. And I have to tell you, I think I have a different point of view than everybody else. I want an all-female firing squad because the Muslim Islamic fanatics, you know, in ISIS, there was a female death squad that went out, and they were fighting against ISIS. And you know what?

They made ISIS run because you don't go to heaven if a woman kills you. Really? Fort Hood, I want an all-female firing squad. And we talk about that. Also, responding to the insider comments and questions about our special last night, there was breaking news today from Fox News, about France, and it is the first quarter of our special. They said, we just realized that this isn't, and they explained what's happening. It's on the chalkboard. It's on the chalkboard. We didn't connect it to France. We just showed you how it worked, and it's exactly what we laid out in the first quarter of the chalkboard. Also, a dad is going to join us. He is a dad of a four-year-old autistic kid who was completely non-communitive.

And he took an experimental drug. His son took an experimental drug. His doctor is on with us. Because of the Trump right to try, this kid was allowed to try, and he has gone from the least affectionate to the most affectionate four-year-old.

And they're starting to see real progress with this drug. It's still in the experimental phase, but if you want to try it, we show you how, all on today's podcast.

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Glenn Beck (2:44)

2009, in case you don't remember, the Fort Hood shooting. Hassan comes in, he kills 13 people.

At first, everybody was like, don't blame it on an Islamist. Don't do it. Well, that's what it turned out to be. What a surprise.

Trump wants him executed publicly.

There's a couple of things. This is a very long, long-standing, I mean, he's been saying this since the 80s. Donald Trump has had these kind of, you know, his policies, even on Iran, since the 1980s. He's not a fly-by-night kind of guy. You can predict him, for the most part. You can predict him if you understand his philosophy on life. And one of his philosophies on life is deterrence.

You know, I think if Donald Trump had his ways, we would be executing drug dealers the way China does. There's not really a drug problem in China. Why? Because you're executed and you're executed quickly. I'm not saying I agree with that. I'm saying that's what I think the president would like. If he had his way, we would have public executions a lot.

In this case, I actually may be for some sort of public execution. Actually, I am for it. I'm for it on Fort Hood. I am not for it online.

I think that if you wanted to go and witness it, you should. I think the military should see it. I think it, you know, maybe you do something internally, but I don't know if you can keep it secure. What I don't want it to turn into is a TikTok video. It would be very bad. And I think in this case, it doesn't work as a deterrent on Islamists, at least foreign Islamists, because they will just see this as, well, there he is. He's going to heaven and he's getting his 70 virgins. So I don't know if it would work as a deterrent for them. I think it would work as a deterrent for any of these Islamists who are 20-something Americans, because I don't think they're serious. And executions work. You know, it's like, what's her name, Ricky? You know, who's like, I can't use my arms anymore. Yeah, yeah, that was the point, you know. You weren't supposed to use your arms or your legs or any other part of your body. That was the point when they were trying to execute you. Yeah, Christa Pike. So she says she's confused now. Well, she was supposed to be brain dead. I mean, she was supposed to be dead, dead. And then when she didn't die, they said she was brain dead. And then she came back. Of course, she's confused. Of course, she's confused. She was supposed to be dead. And I'm sorry, but I told you, I told you the minute it happened, they're going to make a case that, you know, this is gruel and unusual punishment and you botched it. And so she shouldn't be executed again. No, I don't know why we rushed her to the hospital and we were trying to save her. You're executing her. Execute her. Do it again.