#120 - Glenn Beck
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with Glenn Beck about America’s forgotten covenant with God, the biblical ideas that shaped the Revolution, and why the Founders understood liberty as a gift from the Creator. They discuss George Washington, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, George Whitefield, the Declaration of Independence, and why Americans must recover the true spiritual roots of the republic before it is too late. Eric also talks with Brad and Drew Formsma about raising grateful, generous children through America’s Grateful Stateful Road Trip. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.⭐ PRE-ORDER TODAY:Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World📕: https://a.co/d/0ir3NlapTODAY'S SPONSORS:⭐ FREE SLAVES with CSI: https://csi-usa.org/metaxas/📢 Don’t Let the Financial Storm Destroy Your Wealth and Future!https://www.metaxasgoldira.com/⚖️ Legal Help Center - Get Free Legal Help Today: https://www.legalhelpcenter.com/🛏️ MyPillow — Save BIG with code ERIC: https://www.mypillow.com/☀️ Honest, fast, and free Medicare plan guidance: https://askchapter.com/metaxas/💧 Sentry H2O: https://sentryh2o.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but I like Glenn Beck a lot. |
| 0:07.0 | And, you know, not everybody does, but people are wrong. |
| 0:13.2 | And I just want to be all right. |
| 0:15.6 | All right. |
| 0:15.9 | I can already hear him laughing. |
| 0:17.4 | Glenn Beck, I love you. |
| 0:18.9 | I don't just like you. |
| 0:19.8 | I love you. |
| 0:23.1 | And it's a joy to talk to you. |
| 0:30.9 | Anytime I get that privilege, welcome the program. Yeah, it's great to be with you, Eric. I love you too. |
| 0:38.6 | Let's get it now. It is, well, listen, you know, we're in the war together. And by the war together. And by the grace of God, we're, you know, we care about God's will. We care about the nation, about keeping the |
| 0:58.5 | Republic, preserving, saving the Republic. And I want to talk to you about that because I'm excited. |
| 1:04.2 | This year, of course, is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the greatest nation in the history |
| 1:09.1 | of the world. I call it the super centennial, |
| 1:12.7 | because when we were kids, it was the bicentennial. So it's America's bicentennial. And we need a term |
| 1:17.7 | that's better than semi-quincentennial. So I'm calling it the super centennial. President Trump |
| 1:24.5 | is on board with that. But, you know know when i saw you a couple months ago i was |
| 1:30.7 | telling you i've written a book on the subject i am dramatically excited about this this is not just |
| 1:36.1 | oh it's an anniversary uh it seems to me like a special moment in the history of our republic where we can |
| 1:43.5 | go back to our roots where we can go back to our roots, where we can restore |
| 1:46.3 | the republic to its origins, without which it goes away. And I know that you know this, |
| 1:53.4 | but I just wanted to talk to you about that. So it's funny that you would bring this up, |
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