# Glenn Beck Substance Abuse **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394 "2009-12-08T01:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/21 "2009-12-08T22:40:08Z")
God dammit, here I thought I was going to have some more fodder for my '10 Death Pool list. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/22 "2009-12-08T22:55:04Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I don’t listen to Beck, so I don’t know. I’ve heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly. I can’t even express how delightful this is. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/23 "2009-12-08T23:00:41Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I don’t listen to Beck, so I don’t know. I’ve heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly. Well seeing as the only other person who knows what happened that night was raped and murdered, I suppose we’re at Beck’s mercy. I just wish he’d address it so we’d know once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/24 "2009-12-08T23:21:22Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I’ve heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly. Really? Do you have proof of this? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/25 "2009-12-08T23:30:34Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > _ **Whoosh!** _ Nothing but net! ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/26 "2009-12-09T00:28:55Z")
> [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](#): > > He has talked openly and often about his alcoholism and pot use. He also claims to have regularly used cocaine. He says he decided to become Mormon as a part of his recovery process, though he claims to have gone sober in 1994 and he didn’t join the LDS church until right after his second marriage in 1999. I would imagine his second wife was Mormon and thats why he converted. Glenn has talked openly about his history. He’s specifically named pot, cocaine, and (his favorite) Jack Daniel’s. Though he’s also said “if it exists, he’d tried it.” All from his time before talk radio. He’s told the story numerous times that he decided to get clean after a blackout (not his first) during which he’d told his kids a story and they asked him to tell it again the next day. His conversion to Mormonism happened when his wife-to-be said they needed to find religion. They went “church-shopping” together and eventually joined the LDS church (along with his daughters, but I don’t believe his ex-wife joined). Glenn’s long time best friend Pat Gray (who was LDS the whole time, and had to stop working with Glenn because Pat said it was killing him) baptized him. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394/27 "2009-12-10T13:31:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > He abuses [Vick’s Vapo Rub](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g). When the show calls for him to cry, he rubs a little Vick’s under the eye. I’m not going to say he _doesn’t_ fake it, but that video is for a photo shoot and they were trying to get him to “cry” for the stills. This isn’t necessarily what he does to cry for his shows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-substance-abuse/520394.md?page=1)