“Someone Has to Go First”: Glenn Beck’s Inspiring Speech from the USS Midway

**SPEAKER_2** (0:05)
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**Glenn Beck** (0:30)
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I've always been told not to follow children.
I want to thank the city of San Diego for giving us a time limit, so I can now follow the big finale.
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I would have reprinted, I was backstage, trying furiously to edit my speech. I was like, we gotta print it again. All the printers are busy just printing up new ballots, so they can count.
So, jeez.
Well, hello. Thank you so much for coming. And thank you, Moms for Liberty. You are really, truly amazing. I said in 2008 or 2009, I was on the air and I said, you know, there's gonna be two groups of people that save the world and it's gonna be alcoholics, I mean, recovering alcoholics. Although I am pulling for the alcoholics at this point. But, and mothers, because how do you, how do you argue with a mom? They've found a way to do it, but not very effectively. Our moms are the ones who raise us. We get so much from our mothers. We learn our values and our principles from our mothers. None of us want to disappoint our mothers. Mothers have played a huge role in all of history, and they are playing a huge role again. And Tina, thank you for you and your organization.
I love history. Somebody asked me, and this is probably the number one question people ask me about history. Have you always loved history? No, no, actually no. Bored to tears with history as a kid. I love history because of David Barton. David Barton showed me history, and when I said that can't be true, he pulled out the document and said, well, you can argue with me, but here it is in their own handwriting. And I started to learn stories of history, and I started learning the men, not just memorizing the names and the dates of history. And that's what made me love American history. So David, thank you sincerely, and wall builders for everything that you do. And our...
I want you to close your eyes here for just a second. And I want you to imagine that you are on a ship in the Pacific. Okay, you're so creative. Wow, it's almost like it's really happening. You're on a ship in the middle of the Pacific, and it's 1859 And it's endless and isolating, a little bit terrifying, and it's an expanse of blue water that seems to go on and on and on. And you are thousands of miles in any direction away from any kind of civilization. And then suddenly, you spot out on the horizon what appears to be an island. It's actually three little tiny islands. They just barely peek over the waves. There's no trees on them or anything else. It's in the middle of nowhere. This island has something moving on it as you get closer and you realize they're birds. They're albatross. And you think I've struck gold. That's what happened in 1859 There was Captain Middlebrook. He found he was a seal hunting captain on his vessel. And he's out in the middle of nowhere. And he sees the albatross on this just bleak island. And the reason why he thinks this is a great find is because it's full of crap, bird crap. And in 1859, we were having a shortage of fertilizer. And when he found the islands, he thought, I claim it in the name of the United States of America. That's exactly what happened. And they named that island, those three islands, Midway. Because it was Midway between California and Asia.