Best of the Program | Guests: Clay Travis & Wade Miller | 8/6/26
August 6, 2026
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5 min readThe Colosseum in Your Pocket
On Tuesday night, Perez Hilton—the celebrity blogger who built a career on cruelty—went live on TikTok and began cutting himself on camera, covered in blood, while thousands watched. He survived. He's in the hospital. But Glenn Beck uses the incident not to diagnose Hilton's mind but to diagnose something older and more unsettling about the crowd that gathered.
The episode weaves together three separate segments—Hilton's breakdown, an interview with Wade Miller on the Red-Green Alliance, and a conversation with Clay Travis about his satirical all-trans WNBA team—but the opening monologue on Hilton carries the show's real weight.
The Roar That Changes You
Beck walks through Hilton's recent history carefully. In March, Hilton got the flu, took medication without food, and burned a hole in his stomach. He went septic, spent 21 days in a Las Vegas hospital, nearly died. Afterward, he told the world God had presented himself to him—not a feeling, he was careful to say, but something real. He started taking his kids to church. He posted a nine-minute apology video, said his mistakes are public and the internet is forever, that he carries deep regret and shame. He privately apologized to dozens of people. In June, God told him to move to Miami. On July 22, he was grinning on Instagram reading Bible verses. Monday he posted about stepping away from
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:04) **Episode Overview & Guest Introductions** - Glenn sets up the three main segments: the Perez Hilton incident, the Red-Green Alliance with Wade Miller, and Clay Travis on the "Nashville Balls" trans sports team.
- 2 (02:41) **The Perez Hilton Incident: What Happened** - Glenn describes the live TikTok stream where Perez Hilton appeared to be cutting himself, covered in blood, watched by thousands.
- 3 (05:59) **The Medical vs. Ideological Framework** - Glenn argues that critical illness, sepsis, and long ICU stays cause real cognitive and psychiatric damage, but ideology can give that sickness a target.
- 4 (08:31) **The Ancient Architecture of the Crowd** - Glenn uses Augustine's account of his friend Alipius at the Colosseum to illustrate how the roar of the crowd, not the violence itself, corrupts the spectator.
- 5 (13:53) **Spiritual Battle and Personal Warning** - Glenn shares a personal story of being in the hospital on heavy medication and hearing a voice threaten to destroy his family, tying it to the reality of spiritual attack.
- 6 (18:43) **Introducing Wade Miller & the Red-Green Alliance** - Glenn brings on Wade Miller, executive director of the Center for Renewing America, to discuss his white paper on the "Red-Green Alliance."
- 7 (20:20) **The Nature of the Threat: Islam as a Political Ideology** - Miller argues that Islam is a conquering ideology incompatible with classical liberalism and the Constitution, not simply a religion.
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Show Notes
Glenn discusses the horrifying and tragic story of Perez Hilton’s latest emotional breakdown that ended with him in the hospital after going live on TikTok allegedly showing himself engaging in self-harm. Glenn encourages his audience to pray for Perez Hilton and his family as they work through this tragedy. Center for Renewing America Executive Director Wade Miller joins to discuss the dangers of the red-green alliance and the ways we can begin to dismantle it. Co-host of “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” Clay Travis joins to discuss his plan to create a 100% transgender WNBA team called the “Nashville Balls.”
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