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If you couldn't believe the news from yesterday about the monkeys containing, you know, herpes and Covid that escaped from containment in some movie gone bad in Mississippi, there's a the monkey story has just gotten nuts. We talk about that. Also Wikipedia taking a stand on something as simple as not allowing pedophiles to edit pages regarding child stars and children. You know, it's noble, but it also shows how low society has fallen. And the proof is in the pudding. The files on Arctic Frost have been released. You want to save the Republic? You need to understand this story and make sure it never happens again. All this and more on today's podcast. Winter isn't just a season, it is a test. And every year it asks the same questions. Are you ready? You ready? Because when the power goes out, because you know of Bill Gates and his and his chatgpt, the world turns silent and cold and dark. The people who are prepared are the ones who sleep easy. 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Like, everybody said that meeting couldn't happen. It happened, and they said it couldn't be done. And it was. I mean, everything is like, people, I got up this morning, people said I couldn't open the door. And I opened the door. Ok, it was the greatest door opening I've ever seen. But from all, you know, accounts, this was a really, really good meeting. Um, let me just say this. He's getting ready to meet with Putin and with what Putin has done in the last couple of days, and now everybody's upset. Oh, my gosh. Donald Trump said he's gonna start to testing nuclear weapons again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know why? Well, China is testing them and Russia is testing them. We've had a moratorium on that. Uh, and here's what he's really doing. If I were, if I heard the news and I was in the Donald Trump White House, I would be. I would have walked in after I heard the news, especially yesterday, that Vladimir Putin has a new nuclear missile that he can shoot 6,000 miles away underwater and it can navigate and then blow up like a hydrogen bomb under the water just off the coast of California, which would create a radioactive tsunami. This is what I would tell the President. Congratulations, Mr. President. You've won. Now, why would I say that? Because Vladimir Putin's not gonna do that. He's not going to do that. It would make him the pariah of the entire world. You're not going to set off a nuclear radioactive tsunami to cover Los Angeles. Because here's if I'm the president, and maybe this would make me a very bad president, but if I'm the president and I hear that he has just launched a nuclear missile towards Los Angeles, my decision is, do I stop it? Yes. I do everything I can to try to stop the missile from hitting. Do I respond before it hits? Every. All conventional wisdom is you got to launch now, Mr. President. You have to launch now. Now, maybe this makes me a very bad president. I don't know. I think it probably does. But I would say, no, I'm not launching. Let it hit, and then I'm going to Say to the rest of the world, immediately after it hits, this man just buried Los Angeles, killed all of these people by launching a missile, a hydrogen bomb underwater. God only knows what it's done to the environment, but here's what it's done to people, and here's what it's done to Los Angeles. I give the world an hour before I respond. I don't want a nuclear war, because we all know what that means. But the rest of the world, you need to condemn him, and he needs to go on trial for crimes against humanity. Nothing, nothing warrants that kind of abuse of nuclear weapons. That's what I would do as president, because I know the rest of the world would not be kind to anyone who launched a nuclear weapon at the West Coast. Wouldn't. If we launched a nuclear weapon, you know, even if we blew up Israel with a nuclear weapon, the world would be like, look at what America has just done. They've killed all these Jews. Wait a minute. I'm so confused right now. What I'm for and what I'm against, but they would still condemn it. Nobody can get away with that. He knows. Putin knows. The president is the most concerned about nuclear weapons. So what does he do? He describes two nuclear weapons he has. He's pulling out all that. There's nowhere to go from there. What are you going to do next? I'm going to blow up the moon. He's just used everything in his bag of tricks. There's no place bigger he can go other than actually launching those things. Mr. President, congratulations. You've just won. So that's what I think is, is happening with, with what Donald Trump has done this week and the way Putin is now reacting, and he's about to turn his sights on Putin and Ukraine. So let's watch and see what happens. There's something else that has happened this week that we haven't had a chance and actually I think happened last week, and I haven't had a chance to address it. But I think it's important mentally, because we have a problem with actual common sense in this country. So let me tell you a story. In New York, there was a conference hall that was, was, was holding just another boring conference with all the people from Wikipedia, you know, the beautiful Wikipedia people. They are so great. I'm so glad Grokopedia is around. Not sure it's all that much better, but it's better so far than Wikipedia. But Wikipedia is responsible for shaping what the world calls truth. So the, the head person of, you know, the CEO of Wikipedia is giving a keynote address, and a guy walks onto the stage and pulls out a revolver, doesn't point it at the CEO, points it to his own head, and he says, I'm not here to hurt anybody. Well, you got a gun. I'm a non contact pedophile, and I want to kill myself. Now, the worst part of me goes, well, uh, but that's the worst part of me. This guy's name is Connor Weston, okay? He calls himself online Gapazoid. Okay, maybe you should. Okay. He wasn't there to harm anybody but himself. He said, I'm there to protest what he called a don't ask, don't tell policy at Wikipedia. Now, this is a rule that has banned anyone who openly admits to being a pedophile, even those who claim to have never have acted on it. Now, I don't know about you, but generally speaking, in my workplace, you claim to be a pedophile even though, hey, Glenn, Glenn, Glenn. Never acted on it. But, boy, those children are hot. I'm not interested in your opinion, okay? I don't feel comfortable being around you. Okay, Now I appreciate that you are admitting that, but can I ask you the next question? What are you doing, dude? To get help. Okay, well, nothing. Nothing. I'm working on Wikipedia and I'm. I'm. Well, I was. I was editing stories about children, psychology, sexuality. I call Wikipedia. And like, what the hell are you thinking? Do you know this guy is a pedophile? Not acting pedophile. Okay, what does Wikipedia do? Well, the editor was like, we can't have those people editing. Look, let's not just tell anybody. Let's just. Let's just make sure. If we find that out about somebody, you're not editing the Wikipedia files about children. Okay? And he said, I don't want a scandal on this. Let's just do it. Well, so he was. He had been editing articles about children, child actors, child abuse prevention, child psychology, and pages on sexuality. Kind of a bad idea. I look at Wikipedia for the very first time, perhaps, and go, good move, Wikipedia. Right? So they had a ban. He no longer could have access to. To change any of those or be an expert on any of those pages. And I think it was the right call. He's like, well, we're punishing the. This is thought. This is thought crime. Cause, yes, I'm thinking about it, but I haven't acted on it. No, this isn't thought crime. That's not thought crime. Here, here's. Here's the way to think about this. I Get onto a plane and the pilot says, ladies and gentlemen, as your captain speaking, and I just want you to know I've been having wild, wild thoughts of suicide lately. But I'm gonna get you to San Francisco pretty safely and looks like everything's gonna be okay. Forget about the suicidal thoughts. I'm not acting on my suicidal thoughts. I say, excuse me, steward is. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Either he's off the plane or I'm off the plane. I don't want a guy piloting the plane that has suicidal thoughts. Now that's not punishing him for thought. Ladies and gentlemen, I understand some of you are in a full fledged panic right now. What are you accusing me of? Actually wanting to kill all of you? Again, I've had wild suicidal thoughts lately. But let's not, let's not panic here and start prosecuting people for thought crime. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Yes, let's. I don't want to condemn him. I'm not going to call him a bad person, blah, blah, blah. But can we get him out of the cockpit so he is safe? Get him some help and make sure that we get to our destination without going down in his suicidal thought. Okay, that's just common sense. We, our lives depend on his stability. That's not a thought crime. Okay? And we don't judge. We don't judge him. You know, if, if you admit you're, you know, I, you know, I am really attracted by that hot 4 year old, but I'm fighting the darkness every day. Great. Well, that's wonderful. I'd like to know what you're doing to get help to fight that darkness. And thank you for informing me and I support your fight of darkness, but you should not be in the airplane next to the guy with the suicidal thoughts. Okay? The problem is with the suicidal thoughts and the pilot, we can actually say we need to get him some help. Okay? I mean, unless you're in Canada. I think suicide is actually okay in Canada now. But we should get you some help. But with pedophilia you can't do that because how dare you question their truth. Right? So we can't even say he's saying. I haven't acted on it. Okay? Why? Because he knows it's wrong. But we can't say to him, what are you doing to get help? Dude, what are you doing? We can't say you really need help because that's politically incorrect. That is, that is, that is taking the boundaries off of compassion. We must not have boundaries on compassion. You Know, just like somebody who has anger issues. I don't know. I don't think they should work in law enforcement until they're healed. You know what I mean? Some responsibility is just a little too heavy, you know, for the wounded to carry right now. And that's not prosecuting thoughts. We don't jail people for temptations they haven't acted on. At least conservatives don't. I mean, that's hate crime, you know, that's thought crimes. Those, you know, conservatives don't do that. Um, that's all the rage on the left, not on the right. But we as a society have to protect the innocent from preventable harm. He's having suicidal thoughts. What do you say we prevent that from happening to all of us on board? That's not tyranny, that's civilization. The purpose of moral boundaries isn't to shame the fallen, it's to shield the vulnerable. And when you hold a position of influence, which, you know, I don't know, editing the world's encyclopedia and shaping how people understand, billions of people understand childhood sexuality and abuse, I dunno, our standard should be pretty high. In fact, our standards should be absolute trust. Because a single edit there will bring the whole system down. A single word, subtly changed, will alter how the rest of us perceive evil itself. And if that trust is compromised, then the entire institution collapses. So, yes, Wikipedia, continue to draw the line. I'd like you to draw a few more lines. But. But this one, this one is not balancing freedom over safety. This one is already answered. When you said, yeah, I wouldn't want the pilot to fly me to San Francisco. Even if you. Honestly, even if you didn't have suicidal thoughts. I'm on the wrong plane if you're flying me to San Francisco. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Can I get off? Mercy and moral responsibility, Technology with humanity. These are the questions that deserve our time. Those are the things we should be spending our time in, our time in, and our time on. We are, you know, if we can't agree to protect children from the risk of a broken mind behind a keyboard, how will we ever protect humans from the power of a machine behind a screen? The story is tragic. Most of life is tragic. The only thing that, that isn't a tragedy is when people who have moral clarity, who have love in their heart, not persecution, when they stand up and say, this has got to stop that, that's what stops life from being a constant tragedy. You know, a man consumed by his own sickness, a gun in his hand, somebody has to confront that. But it's also a warning. Compassion without caution is not virtue. It's negligence. Love the sinner. Lock the cockpit door. Because the purpose of moral law, of boundaries, of rules and reason, it's not to punish the lost. It's to keep the rest of us from being dragged into the fall. Mercy for the broken, but protection for the innocent. All right, let me talk to you a little bit about Relief Factor. Somewhere along the. Along the way, we started living our lives in. In chairs. We sit to work, we sit to drive, we sit to eat, we sit to relax. And then we wonder why our bodies feel like they're, you know, rusting in place. 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That's 800 the number four relief. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. Let's talk about Arctic Frost. That is the code name. And according to. According to the records released now by Senator Chuck Grassley and the the House Judiciary Committee, the Biden era DOJ and Special counsel Jack Smith drove an investigation that sprayed subpoenas like fire hose. We now know there were 197 subpoenas spanning more than 1700 pages sent to 34 people, 163 businesses, and then vacuumed up communications tied to more than 400 Republican individuals and entities. Okay, that's reaching into everything. They reached into media companies, cbs, Fox, Fox Business, Newsmax, Sinclair. Into financial institutions, into political organizations, even members, employees and agents of the legislative branch. So now you have congressmen and senators being vacuumed up into this whole thing. This is not a precision rifle shot. This is a net and a very big dragnet, okay? This is not the way justice in America works. You do not go after, you know, an entire party, 400 people. Now, what were they looking for? How did it start? Well, let me say the opening memo to justify Arctic Frost is called. In legal terms, it would be called the predicate, and it was stamped sensitive investigative matter. Okay? And it cited, and I love this, listen to this language cited evidence suggesting a conspiracy around alternate electors. I'm going to get to that here in just a second. But it. It relied on. Leaned on news clips, news clips to vacuum all these people up to get the get thing. The engine turning news clips were used, suggesting, not proving, suggesting. And it just rose up the ladder. Ray, Garland, Monaco, even coordination with the White House counsel's office. It surfaces now in the record. This went all the way to the top. This is not my language. This is what the documents now on the table imply. Okay, now let me just pause for a minute in the reading room of American memory. What is this all about? Alternate electors. That's not a Martian invention. That's not something completely foreign. We've seen them before, 1876 and 1960. They were messy, contested, deeply political moments that produced zero criminal prosecutions for their existence of rival slates. In fact, Al Gore, if he didn't set a alternate slate of electors, he was counseled. And I've talked to Dershowitz about this. He was like, they're counseled to have an alternate set of electors. Because once, if you don't do that and the tables turn and you're like, you know what? There was a problem. If you haven't seated those electors before a certain time, you have no case. You can't change anything. So it has to happen. And it has happened two times before, I think three, but definitely in 1876 and 1960. In Hawaii, in 1960, Democrats signed certificates while a recount was still underway. The recount flipped, so it was ultimately certified. The Democratic slate was certified ugly. Yes, but that's the way it works. It's not criminal. And history has said, no, it's not criminal, but it doesn't matter when it's about Donald Trump. So let me go back to Arctic Frost now. As the subpoenas flew, the FBI reportedly snooped phone records of Republican members of Congress. The scope widened to donor analytics, broad financial data, Trump World Advisors, the lawyers, the media contacts. We said during January six, we said internally, if you don't think they are going after a massive tree. Because, remember, this is. This is what the Patriot act allows you to do. Now. You go after one person. If anybody is calling somebody else, well, that person now can be hoovered up. And who is that person called? So you. You could get pretty much everybody that you want with one subpoena, but that's not where they stopped. They didn't stop with one subpoena, okay? When the state cast a dragnet over the opposition's political ecosystem with the authority to seize all their communications, compel testimony, and chill the donors, that's not tough politics, okay? That is the government with badges and grand juries leaning its full weight into one side of the national scale. Watergate, please. Watergate. Let me compare Watergate. You know what Watergate was? Watergate was a gang of political operatives who broke into an office to get information. They weren't even. They weren't even losing the election. Nobody even knows why they would have even done this. It was so stupid that they even did this. But it was a local office. They broke in. They wanted to get some information that was there, you know, on the. You know, on the candidate and on the race. And then they covered it up, and they tried to keep the public from the truth. It was wrong, it was criminal, and it forced a president to resign, and people went to prison over it. But Watergate was a private burglary executed by a campaign and covered up by the White House. Terrible. Awful. That's not the doj blanketing the opposing party's entire world with federal subpoenas while citing news hits as the predicate. Do you see the difference? Watergate was an attempt to weaponize a campaign. Arctic Frost. If the emerging records hold was the attempt to weaponize the entire state against a political party, the difference there is the whole ball game under a constitutional republic. You don't have a constitutional republic if that's allowed to happen in America. The state is supposed to be the neutral referee, not a sideline enforcer wearing one team's colors, you know, under the stripes. And don't even start with me on, well, what about Donald Trump? We play that game all day long. And you know where that gets us? Nowhere. You want to make a charge against Donald Trump and what he's doing? Good. Let's take that separately. Let's do that. I'm willing to. Let's take that separately. Let's deal with this one first, okay? The moment the referee picks up the ball and starts running, the game is over. It's not a fair game. Anymore. And if it can be done to them today, it will be done to you tomorrow. That's not a slogan. That's a law of political gravity. Yeah, but Trump did. Okay, let's have that conversation. But can we at least have it honestly? Because if you think this is about what, about ism, you cannot see the no's on the front of your face. You're completely missing this. You cannot make a weaponization of a government a partisan inheritance that each side can claim when it holds power. If any president, any prosecutor, red or blue, uses federal power to criminalize political opposition rather than prosecute clear crimes, it is an offense against the equal protection under the law. So let's. Let's lay down a standard here that I'm willing to apply to Donald Trump and to Joe Biden and any other president that comes our way, because if we don't lay this clear standard down, we're done. The predicate, predication, it has to be real, not rhetorical. Evidence suggesting via TV interviews is circular sourcing at its best. It's not something that you launch a sprawling investigation on into a presidential rival's universe. If you can't articulate the crime specifically, you don't get to launch a dragnet on the people that are running against you. The scope has to be narrow and tied exactly to the alleged crime, not a sweep through meat media organizations and donor records and opposition infrastructure under vague theories that come from TV reports, journalism, political advocacy, fundraising, all of those things are protected activities. Separation from the White House also must be unmistakable. If the White House's counsel's office is coordinating device transfers into an investigation of its chief political rival, Alarm should clang in every corridor of. Of every main justice hall, everywhere. The alarm, the Claxton, should be going off right now. Also, historic practice matters. If prior episodes, by the way, this is all thrown out by the Supreme Court, so you know nothing there. If prior episodes, 1876, 1960, and I believe, 2000, if they were treated as political, not criminal, especially where alternate electors were explicitly conditional, then you need compelling new legal theories and clean facts to criminalize it. Now, you can't just say, yeah, well, history never did anything about that before, and actually they said it was fine, but now, now it's going to be a crime. Wait, can you be specific on what has changed? Well, we really dislike the people that are doing it this time. That doesn't count. It doesn't count. Now, before anybody clips this monologue and screams, Glenn Beck said, nobody in the Trump administration did any wrong. Anything Wrong? Well, I don't think so, but that's not what I'm saying, because I'm not the judge, I'm not your juror. I'm the guy insisting that the rules are rules and they should be applied to everyone on all sides. Smith has his report. He says he wants to tell his side. Great, put him under oath. If he didn't do it, then he should be set free, but it should be on a clear set of laws. What's happened in the Biden administration, they just kept changing laws. Well, yeah, I mean, the bank said there was no crime, but Donald Trump. And so all of a sudden there was a crime. Nobody's ever been prosecuted ever before that. Even the bank said, this is ridiculous. There's no crime here. Didn't matter. That's not justice. I want real justice. Smith says he has a side. Let's hear it. Bring forward the memos, Publish the predicate. Let the country see whether we had a criminal case or an election cycle dragnet, because that's what it looks like. If the emerging picture is right, if Arctic Frost opened up on thin evidence, escalated on political pressure and metastasized into a government wide sweep of the sitting President's chief rival and his entire ecosystem, then this is not just like Watergate. This is much, much, much, much worse than Watergate. In kind, not just degree. Watergate tried to steal the information. That's it. They potentially attempted to steal legitimacy, to criminalize opposition by wielding the sword of the state. Of the state. That violates, you know, more than statutes. That violates our creed that free men govern themselves by consent and the process is sacred and the law is the wall that even presidents and prosecutors can never climb over. If proven, the remedy is not a sternly, a terse letter or an op ed and a shrug. The remedy is the full force of the law, Inspector general, referrals, special counsels where appropriate, prosecution where crimes are clear. Statutory reforms to bar this from ever happening again. From, from, from press clippings being your predicate. Bright lines need to be drawn. Protections for the press, for donors and legislators in political cases. Sunlight. All the sunlight on how this began, who approved it, and why. No one in the administration said stop. And to my friends say, well, Trump is doing the same thing. I hear you. I don't agree with you, but I hear you. Why don't we codify the guardrails right now? So when emotions are high and temptations are strong, the republic doesn't survive by trusting that our guys will be angels. It survives on the chains, on power, everyone's power. You know, when you hold a founding sermon in your hand, when you read the ink of Washington scratched in the margin notes of James Madison, you discover that America's miracle wasn't that we selected saints. It's that we built a system where even the sinners are fenced in by law. That's the process. When justice is blind to banners and bumper stickers and political parties. That's what America is. America. Arctic frost. If the record stands, it took a blowtorch to that fence. So the choice is really simple. Retreat into teams, each side cheering for its prosecutors and its dragnet. Or you can do the harder, nobler thing, just like our founders did, and insist that the state. Same rules that bind all power, especially when it's aimed at people we dislike, are enforced. That's how you keep a republic. That's how you make sure there's not a second Watergate. Because we learned the lesson the first time. But did we? Good. Because if we haven't, if we don't learn it this time, and by God, we are done. The story of America is not a story of who got whom. It's a story of a people who refuse to let the government become a weapon. And if that spirit still lives in us, then this cold wind called Arctic frost will pass and the constitutional withstand. Because you stood for equal justice, for due process, for truth that doesn't bend to politics. And that. That is how we relight the torch of America. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Okay, so, Stu, you know the Reese's monkeys that is. That escaped, you know, on a crash of a truck on i59?