The Glenn Beck Podcast

Two American giants collide in the brutal birth of modern politics. John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson were born the same year, but they represented two radically different Americas. One was a polished diplomat raised for public service; the other was a fiery frontier warrior who carried bullets, grudges, and political rage. Their rivalry explodes through the “corrupt bargain” of 1824, the vicio...

On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, Glenn Beck speaks aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, California, as part of Moms for Liberty’s “Sea to Shining Sea” event. Glenn asks a question we all must all answer: Do we still have the courage, bravery, and selflessness of the Greatest Generation? Because, as Glenn explains through historical stories about the Battle of Midway, D-Day, America’s founding, and...

America declares war on the most powerful empire on earth and almost immediately discovers it may have picked a fight it cannot win.  This is the story of how America’s second war for independence erupted into disaster, humiliation, and legend.  Washington DC is engulfed in flames. Dolley Madison races to save a priceless portrait, while an unknown clerk rescues the nation’s founding documents.  F...

A single night of terror in the mountains of Haiti in 1791 ignites a slave revolution that forever alters America’s destiny.  This episode follows the astonishing chain of events leading to the Louisiana Purchase, the greatest land deal in American history.  Napoleon’s collapsing Caribbean empire, Thomas Jefferson’s constitutional dilemma, and Robert Livingtson’s high-stakes negotiations all colli...

As the French Revolution turns into a blood-soaked spectacle, the shockwaves reach across the Atlantic to President Washington’s desk. Follow Washington through the most volatile years of his presidency: cabinet warfare between Hamilton and Jefferson, street mobs stirred up by Citizen Genet, a deadly yellow fever outbreak, and the explosive Whiskey Rebellion that forces Washington back onto the ba...

In this episode we enter the pressure-filled launch of America’s government and get to know the major figures who shaped its destiny.  Relive George Washington's reluctant ascent to the presidency, from his Mount Vernon solitude to a triumphant inauguration amid national fears of monarchy.  Discover how James Madison championed the Bill of Rights against skeptics, ensuring fundamental American fre...

The American experiment nearly collapsed before it ever truly began.  Plunge into the chaos of post-Revolution America:  mutinous soldiers surrounding Congress, a government too weak to defend itself, and a nation fracturing under the failed Articles of Confederation.  From Shays’ Rebellion shaking the states to the top-secret, sweltering summer in Philadelphia where Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, a...

The American Revolution teeters on the edge of collapse before roaring back to life with Washington’s daring crossing of the Delaware River and a Christmas surprise attack at Trenton. Experience the heartbreak of Brandywine, the comeback at Saratoga, the frozen crucible of Valley Forge, and the global shakeup triggered by a French alliance. Along the way, Benedict Arnold betrays a nation, an ensla...

America’s break from Britain begins with midnight riders, musket smoke, and a gritty nation staring down the world’s greatest empire. In this explosive chapter, ride with Paul Revere on his moonlit warning mission, stand on Lexington Green as the first shots shatter centuries of order, march with Washington as he stares down defeat, and witness the fiery words of Common Sense ignite a revolution....

Boston in the 1760s-70s was a fuse. This episode follows the improbable patriot who kept lighting it: Samuel Adams. From failed businessman to revolutionary mastermind, Adams turns personal tragedy, political convictions, and relentless grit into a movement that will ignite a continent. Step inside smoky tavern rooms, tense standoffs, midnight meetings, and the blood-stained snow of King Street. E...

George Washington wasn’t born a legend – he was forged in fire, frost, and the brutal chaos of a world war he accidentally helped ignite.  In this gripping episode, we follow Young Washington from a fatherless Virginia boyhood to the frozen wilderness of the Ohio Valley, where a single musket shot sets empires on a collision course.  Experience Washington’s disastrous stand at Fort Necessity, his...

Dive into the chilling spark of the Salem Witch Trials and how colonial America’s spiritual decay ignited the First Great Awakening. Discover the preachers whose biblical devotion shaped government and defended liberty in the young society. From the pulpit of brilliant pastor Jonathan Edwards to the electrifying rise of George Whitefield – the evangelist who captivated unprecedented American audie...

A storm-tossed servant nearly vanishes into the Atlantic but ends up shaping the future of the United States.  This is the dramatic saga of the Mayflower — the persecution that drove the Pilgrims from England, their nightmare crossing of the Atlantic, and the fragile pact that held their fractured community together.  You’ll meet Squanto, whose astonishing journey across continents becomes the col...

A mysterious armored skeleton discovered in 1831 sets the stage for a sweeping journey into America’s earliest days.  In this premiere episode of The American Story: the Beginnings, we trace the chain reaction that led from Columbus’ westward gamble to Martin Luther’s world-shaking Reformation, and finally to the deadly struggle for survival at Jamestown.  John Smith’s capture, Pocahontas’ dramati...

Joel Salatin is a self-described, “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.” If that confuses you, that's the point. But Joel explains how every part of that moniker is purposeful, and it all starts with Christ. He explains how his livestock farming has become a living classroom for gospel truths of mercy, provision, and redemption. He teaches Glenn about the “glory of the...

“'We were about to give you this staff writing job ... but we can’t because you’re a white guy, and we already have too many white guys on staff.'” That’s what Jacob Savage — aspiring screenwriter turned ticket scalper, father of two, and author of "The Lost Generation" — was told point-blank in a Hollywood writers’ room. He and Glenn unpack the brutal downstream effects of DEI policies: the destr...

“The problem is Islam. The problem is Muhammad,” says Tommy Robinson, who came from England to warn America about how the far Left is using Muslim immigrants to shore up its own political power. After watching the unchecked rise of Islam in his hometown in England, he “picked up a camera and became a journalist,” documenting the gut-wrenching reality of Pakistani rape gangs, “chemical jihad,” and...

Hidden biblical patterns from Genesis to Revelation predict an Islamic takeover of the West that makes sense of everything from the plagues in Egypt to the Arab Spring to the Islamization of the West. Glenn sits down with Pastor Bill Cloud for a conversation that Glenn warns could get the pastor arrested if he were in Europe. Could the red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists have been foretol...

Is feminism incompatible with Christianity? Glenn sits down with Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of "Relatable," to discuss the dangers of progressive Christianity, the OnlyFans star who found Jesus, and why Peter Thiel is talking about the Antichrist. No matter what people say online, Allie doesn’t shy away from her stance that women shouldn’t preach and why we need to embrace the “radical” gend...

“If you'd have told me the day after I regained consciousness after my fall that I'd be doing an interview with Glenn Beck, I would have thought you were smoking some very potent weed,” says Dennis Prager in the midst of miracles following a tragic accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. But even paralysis cannot deter him as he joins this Torch Exclusive Conversation to discuss his l...

"Twenty years from now, we are in World War III with Islamists,” Glenn predicts to Bryan Stern, veteran career intelligence officer, founder of Grey Bull Rescue, and the man behind the unbelievable rescue of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. But Bryan says we are already at war — and President Trump knows it. From swapping harrowing stories of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal...

Does she sound like Adele, Billie Eilish, or Ella Fitzgerald? Glenn can’t pick just one in this very special, music-filled edition of "The Glenn Beck Podcast" with rising star Emma Nissen. From the night B.B. King hit on Glenn’s wife to Emma wiping her runny nose right before shaking John Legend’s hand, the stories flow between live renditions of Emma’s songs. She reveals how a hemorrhaging vocal...

What if the rage tearing through America today is the exact same rage that turned the French Revolution into a bloodbath? Nationally acclaimed legal scholar Jonathan Turley sits down with Glenn to unpack his new book, "Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution." Through the sharp lens of Thomas Paine — the revolutionary firebrand who played a role in both the American...

What if a scripted TV raid on Venezuela turned into real-life headlines? In this eye-opening episode, Glenn sits down with investigative journalist and author Annie Jacobsen to unpack the shocking U.S. operation that captured Maduro — drawing direct parallels to her advisory work on the show “Jack Ryan,” where she pushed for “an authentic kill-or-capture mission inside Venezuela.” Glenn shares his...

“I feel like I’ve been fired by America,” says Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino in a vulnerable tell-all that goes behind the scenes into the explosive Cracker Barrel rebrand, which Glenn describes as “stupid from start to finish.” In August 2025, Cracker Barrel unveiled a minimal new logo with modern fonts, cozy colors ... but no nice old man and no BARREL for him to lean on. But it wasn’t just th...