Best of the Program | 3/18/25 - The Glenn Beck Program

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Summary of "The Glenn Beck Program | Best of the Program | 3/18/25"

Release Date: March 18, 2025
Host: Blaze Podcast Network

1. Unveiling the Horrors of Mexican Cartels

Glenn Beck opens the program with a chilling account of recent discoveries related to Mexican drug cartels, emphasizing the dire situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Discovery of Concentration Camps: Beck narrates the horrifying findings at a ranch near a quiet Mexican village, where volunteers unearthed three underground ovens still emitting the stench of burnt flesh. The site contained over 700 personal items, including shoes, toys, and scarves, indicating the mass-scale atrocities committed by the cartels.

"They found over 700 personal things. Shoes, a kid's toy, a woman's scarf. And it wasn't some random dump." [00:15]
Evolution of Cartel Operations: Once primarily involved in drug trafficking, Mexican cartels have escalated to orchestrating abductions and systemic violence. Beck describes how the cartels now abduct vulnerable individuals, luring them with false promises of employment before subjecting them to unimaginable brutality.

"The drug cartels are abducting the vulnerable and luring them with false promises of work. And then they ensnare them in a cycle of violence." [00:45]
Santa Muerte and Dark Spirituality: Beck delves into the religious aspects exploited by the cartels, particularly the worship of Santa Muerte—a skeletal figure representing Holy Death. This deity has been co-opted by the cartels to symbolize and legitimize their malicious activities.

"At the heart of this horror looms Santa Muerte... She is their protector. She's their edge." [14:30]
Impact on Communities: The pervasive fear and loss have left Mexican communities devastated, with 120,000 individuals missing and the number rising daily. Families are left without closure, mourning lost loved ones without any governmental intervention.

"Families are left with no closure, no graves to mourn, just the echoes of their loved ones' absence." [10:20]

2. Anticipating the Release of JFK Files

Beck transitions to a pivotal topic—the imminent release of the JFK assassination files—a development that has sparked widespread speculation and anticipation.

Historical Context and Delays: He outlines the history of the JFK files, initially slated for release by 2017 but postponed multiple times. The delay has fueled conspiracy theories and skepticism about government transparency.

"In 1992, Congress passed a law saying, release everything by 2017 that isn't a national security risk. Well, that deadline passed over and over and over again." [26:00]
Potential Revelations: Beck speculates on what the 80,000 pages might contain, suggesting they could reveal systemic incompetence, structural power abuses, or hidden truths about the assassination beyond the lone gunman theory. He emphasizes focusing on the "what" rather than the "who" concerning the protection of certain interests.

"It's not about who shot him but what have they been protecting." [29:02]
Impact on Public Trust: The discussion highlights the delicate balance between uncovering historical truths and maintaining or eroding public trust in governmental institutions. Beck warns that incomplete releases could exacerbate conspiracy theories, regardless of the actual contents.

"The question that has to be answered is why did it take this long? ... Just because they didn't release all, conspiracy theories go through the Roof." [28:00]
Negotiation Analogy: Drawing an analogy to negotiation strategies, Beck compares the administration's handling of the file release to choosing between a Volkswagen and a Rolls Royce, emphasizing the importance of meeting expectations and delivering quality results.

"It is the Rolls Royce Volkswagen. If you buy a Volkswagen and it runs like a Rolls Royce, you're happy, okay? But if you buy a Rolls Royce and it runs like a Volkswagen, you're very unhappy." [32:22]

3. Government Transparency and Future Implications

Beck engages in a conversation with Stu Burguiere, dissecting the broader implications of the JFK files' release on government accountability and public perception.

Structural Flaws and Accountability: They discuss how the files might expose structural issues within government operations, potentially revealing bureaucratic failures or entrenched power dynamics that have historically obstructed transparency and accountability.

"Maybe the files reveal a machine that doesn't bend and a network of influence that outlasts any president." [28:30]
Containment of Accountability: Beck posits that the government's reluctance to fully release the files might be an attempt to contain accountability, preventing a cascade of revelations that could undermine trust in various institutions.

"The what is the containment of accountability itself. Keep everything secret." [29:02]
Conspiracy Theories: The dialogue touches on how incomplete information fosters an environment ripe for conspiracy theories, as Beck and Burguiere acknowledge the difficulty in disproving unfounded claims once initial doubts are planted.

"There's no way to disprove them because if what comes out of this is actually... there's no big conspiracy behind it." [29:02]
Future Demands for Transparency: They anticipate that the release of JFK files will set a precedent, leading to demands for the disclosure of other controversial documents such as those related to Butler, Pennsylvania, Epstein scandals, and more, thereby increasing pressure on government transparency.

"They keep everything secret... That's just corruption or waste or incompetence." [29:27]

4. Concluding Perspectives

In his concluding remarks, Beck reiterates the necessity for confronting evil and fostering transparency to restore public trust and ensure justice.

Standing Against Evil: Beck emphasizes the moral imperative to oppose the atrocities committed by cartels and the systemic issues within governments, framing it as a fight against profound evil that affects countless lives.

"We're standing up against evil. And the families aren't just losing somebody. They. They're losing everything." [25:50]
Call for Rebuilding: He advocates for using the revelations from the JFK files as a catalyst for societal rebuilding, urging listeners to demand truth and accountability to prevent future atrocities and governmental failures.

"If we can stare down 1963, we can then demand 2024's truth as well." [29:58]
Final Thoughts on Current Affairs: The program wraps up with reflections on the Trump administration's handling of various issues, underscoring the challenges in meeting public expectations while navigating complex governmental responsibilities.

"If you're screwing this one up, how are you going to get the big ones?" [39:51]

Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

"They found over 700 personal things. Shoes, a kid's toy, a woman's scarf. And it wasn't some random dump." — Glenn Beck [00:15]
"The drug cartels are abducting the vulnerable and luring them with false promises of work. And then they ensnare them in a cycle of violence." — Glenn Beck [00:45]
"At the heart of this horror looms Santa Muerte... She is their protector. She's their edge." — Glenn Beck [14:30]
"It's not about who shot him but what have they been protecting." — Glenn Beck [29:02]
"It is the Rolls Royce Volkswagen. If you buy a Volkswagen and it runs like a Rolls Royce, you're happy, okay? But if you buy a Rolls Royce and it runs like a Volkswagen, you're very unhappy." — Glenn Beck [32:22]
"Maybe the files reveal a machine that doesn't bend and a network of influence that outlasts any president." — Glenn Beck [28:30]
"We're standing up against evil. And the families aren't just losing somebody. They. They're losing everything." — Glenn Beck [25:50]

This episode of "The Glenn Beck Program" provides a sobering examination of the escalating violence at the U.S.-Mexico border and anticipates significant revelations from the pending release of JFK assassination files. Through meticulous storytelling and incisive analysis, Beck challenges listeners to confront uncomfortable truths about systemic corruption and the pervasive influence of organized crime, advocating for transparency and accountability as essential steps toward societal healing and justice.

Transcript

Glenn Beck (0:00)

We start the podcast today with a story that has taken me a couple, a couple of days to absorb, to research to make sure that every word was right because it is so horrific that you will think that's no way this is true. It's about, well, I could say a Mexican concentration camp, but that is, that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. It is something that we should all be aware of regarding the cartels. It's why the border is so important. Also, the JFK file supposed to be released today. What, what, what do I, what am I expecting and what does it mean with what is coming out, it's going to happen over the next couple of days? And explaining the analogy that fits in most things of life, the Volkswagen Rolls Royce and how it compares to President Trump's administration handling the release of these documents. Brought to you by Relief Factor. If you in pain, I'm sure you have thought you've tried absolutely everything. But if you haven't tried Relief Factor, then you haven't. 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And if you're paying attention to this, you'll understand that Mexico right now is under siege and it has been under siege for a while. Its soul is being tested by flames that just refuse to die and are growing stronger and strong and stronger every day that goes by. Mexico is in this chokehold and it is far uglier than people realize. I want to tell you the story about a ranch, this ranch just outside of a quiet village where volunteers, regular people, parents, family members just looking for their brothers or sisters, their Missing kids dug into the dirt and found hell. What they found were three underground ovens and they are still reeking of burnt flesh. Hundreds and hundreds of bone fragments, skulls, teeth, fingers, just scattered like trash. We've seen this before, but never in this hemisphere. They found over 700 personal things. Shoes, a kid's toy, a woman's scarf. And it wasn't some random dump. The cartels that were once defined just by their drug trade, cocaine, methamphetamines, fentanyl, tools of death, now have transcended their origins and they have become something far, far darker. A forsatus doesn't merely profit from the chaos, but thrives on death. In Mexico, we've known this for a long time, but this is the first time in my career I've been able to actually point to the evidence that has been verified by multiple sources. Now what's happening is the drug cartels are abducting the vulnerable and luring them with false promises of work. And then they ensnare them in a cycle of violence. This ranch, just this one ranch, some survivors who got out in time said that men were coerced into service, trained in torture and brutality. And if they don't go along with it or their purpose, you know, wanes, they're reduced to the ashes in the ovens. And the scope is staggering. 120,000 are missing, and that number is going up every single day. Now, how come we don't know about this site? Well, it was discovered by volunteers because authorities acted on previous and prior knowledge. They came in, they found it, and then they did nothing. They walked away. The government knew about it, raided the place and walked away, and nothing changed. So that's why the volunteers, the families, went in themselves because the fires just kept burning. Now imagine being a Mexican citizen. This is happening around you, in your community. Your kids are missing, and nobody's doing. This is worse, I think, than what's happening in Great Britain where kids are being abducted and just sold into slavery for these Islamic radicals. So we've known that there's beheadings, we've known there's massacres. But also beyond all of that is a profound loss of identity. Families are left with no closure, no graves to mourn, just the echoes of their loved ones absence and questions and a government that will do nothing. This weekend, when I read about the 200 pairs of shoes, I thought about standing in that room in Auschwitz with all the big pile of shoes. But those were dusty and old and from another century, another time. This is happening now. Entire communities fade as sons and daughters just vanish, taken from the streets or lured away. And their fate is sealed in places just like this. You see, the cartels now are operating with industrial precision. Their clandestine crematoriums are turning people's lives into absolute hellscapes. And while our government remains silent on this, I believe our government has helped these cartels get richer and even more powerful. I want to ask you a really tough question. Do you really think that this stuff is happening and our CIA, our FBI, our intelligence agencies didn't know anything about this? It's on our border. Our American citizens have been kidnapped and abducted and lost. We knew nothing about this. If that's true, all those people need to be fired. Of course they knew about this. And are you telling me that we shouldn't care about what's happening on our border when we have a judge that is saying we can't send these horrific gangs back to Venezuela? People that the government of Venezuela took out of prison, trained, and sent here to America? We shouldn't care about this. Of course we should. And every single American knows it. And if you don't know it, you're baring your head. The Mexican government at this point, has got to be complicit. We know it is. I mean, if you're in a police or military and you want to fight this, you're either overwhelmed and live in a world of fear and are silenced, or you're dead. So who fights these guys? Well, let me tell you one of the worst parts of this story. At the heart of this horror looms Santa Muerte that you might not know, but you probably seen before and didn't know what it was. Maybe it's a skeletal figure known as Holy Death. It's not a Catholic symbol. It has been perverted and made into people that don't know Indua Kelly. But it is. I mean, to the uninitiated, you go down to Mexico, you might buy one of these statues and be like, oh, look, this is Mexico's underworld. And she is a deity of immense sway. She's an evil, evil figure. And when God is dead, man will find a new one. And the Mexican underworld, the cartels, they found their. Their new God, and it is evil. In Those crematoriums stood 28 little statues of her staring at the ovens. Because she's their protector. She's their edge. She wears robes of black and red, and she's revered as a protector, a granter of power to those who just kill without any hesitation. Evil. Yeah. These Cartels have been worshiping her, and it's rooted in ancient traditions and warped by modern desperation. And it is surged alongside the cartel's rise. It is evil. What's happening there is evil. And shrines are marking their strongholds. Altars in their hideouts, prayers carved into jail cells. She's tied right directly to the killing. They light candles, they spill blood on altars, all to keep her on their side. And the blood seals their allegiance and their people's fate in Mexico again. Imagine you're a citizen of Mexico and this is going on, and you know it's going on. You can't say anything. You can't call for help. There's nobody that will help you because anybody who said they would help you is dead. By the way, if that's not bad enough, she's also joined by other shadowy figures, like a spirit of the crossroads, another evil idol that was there as well, mixing into this black spiritual brew. The people who got out said this is right out of the Japanese or German concentration camps from World War II. It's a training ground. Torture lessons, target practice, and then to the ovens. And the people, man, they are caught in a nightmare nobody is talking about. I mean, is this the first time you're hearing about this? I hope not, but I bet it is for many. Nobody wants to talk about this stuff. It's too dark, it's too scary. But this is exactly the kind of stuff Christians should be confronting right now. What's happening on the border is not just moral for what we're doing to people. Let the slaves work our lawns. It's not just that. This is something so much more. This is. We are standing up against evil. And the families aren't just losing somebody. They. They. They're losing everything. The 200 pairs of shoes piled up, the kids vanishing from the bus stops, and the cartels just keep grinding. It's not random. It is a system. And it's all tied to these secret crematoriums. By the way, did I tell you? Six more were just found. Bones, ash, gone. This isn't about drugs. This isn't about superstition. This again, like everything in today's world is all about power. And the cartels are not gangs. They're machines. And they are eating Mexico alive. They are organized. They're everywhere, and they have no limits. They train killers, burn the evidence, and lean on this evil faith to keep going. People for a long time have been digging with faith and hope. Now they're having to dig with shovels. And the Government is no help. And Santa Muerte is watching and the ovens are humming and the bones keep piling up. That is the truth about Mexico today. That is Mexico. Not a failed state, not a drug state, but a collection of people living and dying in the grip of real evil. I don't know if anybody else feels this way, but Mexico's not exactly a vacation spot anymore. It is a place where the dead don't rest and the living just can never escape. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. When things go down in this world, a lot of time they go down very, very quickly. It's the old saying, when you know, when did you go bankrupt? How'd you go bankrupt? Well, slowly, and then overnight things pile up and then all of a sudden something breaks the camel's back. And we're looking at those things every day. 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Now, if you're listening to us live, two hours away and I'm interested to see what's in it. Tulsi Gabbard is the one who's overseeing it. Representative Anna Paulina Luna. She has been relentlessly pushing for this since February. Trump has seen all the files. He calls them, quote, very interesting, but he's leaving the judgment up to us now. Very interesting is different than when he said he was talked into making sure they don't go out by others. He didn't name the others. But here we are, 62 years after Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, and we're finally getting the vault cracked open. I think it's important, and I could be wrong on this. I think it's important for us not to look and chase the who. There was somebody else in the grassy knoll. There might have been. I don't know. I don't think that's what we're looking at, though. I think we're looking at the what. Not who have they been protecting, but what have they been protecting. Um, why is it taken so long and not for names, but for the principles, the systems, the intangibles that have been buried with these papers? The stakes are pretty high here. You know, what happens if we get 80,000 pages and there's meh. I mean, that's a possibility. That's going to be really bad for the conspiracy theorists because they're going to say, see, they didn't Release it all. 80,000 pages and they didn't release it all. The question that has to be answered is why did it take this long? Let's go back, look at the stakes. November 22, 1963. Kennedy is shot. And America changes at that moment. I mean, our innocence goes away. We have a president that is killed and our, our innocence takes a bullet as well. And the Warren Commission pins it on Oswald, but the doubts fester. Witnesses, ballistics, missing pieces, the. The note from Evelyn Lincoln, the secretary of Kennedy who said, I. My husband was in a restaurant two days before President Kennedy was going to Dallas and overheard two people in the booth saying, well, he'll be dead. He won't come back from Dallas. Her husband listened to it, called the White House and said, evelyn, you've got to tell him not to go. She went in and told President Kennedy, my husband just overheard a plot. He said, if Evelyn, they're going to kill me in Dallas. They're going to kill me at my, you know, going to my church on Sunday. They're going to kill me one way or another. So I'm not changing my life. Two days later, he was dead. Now the witnesses, the ballistics, the missing pieces. Tomorrow I'm going to go out and I would do some live thing out with just on, I don't know, X. We have the exact copy of the gun. I don't know if there is another one like it because it took a friend of ours, Paul Vian's, he's from The World War II Museum, the museum of the American Soldier down in College Station. And it's this great museum. And he is. I mean, you put him on something and he is like a dog with a Bone, he's not going to stop. And it took him like two years to recreate this rifle and to get exactly the rifle. It's very kind of a rare rifle in itself. It's impossible to find the scope that he used. And it was augmented in different ways. And so Paul has put this whole rifle together. He brought it up, gave it to our museum. And I, I'm, I'm gonna take the rifle out. We've had to go order because it takes special shells as well. So we're, we're going out to the range tomorrow or the next day and we're going to try to do the shots. And I'm bringing a couple of sharpshooters as well. I know I won't be able to do it. I might be able to hit the shot, but I don't know if I'll be able to hit the time. But maybe a couple of sharpshooters. Sharpshooters can do it. I don't, I don't know. But it's not an easy shot. It's not an easy shot, but it could be done. But here's the problem. In 1992, Congress passed a law saying, release everything by 2017 that isn't a national security risk. Well, that deadline passed over and over and over again and we got it in dribs and drabs. Now Trump is saying, just release all of it. 80,000 pages unfiltered. So what's the what they have been guarding? I don't think it's a who. It's a what. What have they been guarding? It's gotta be something kind of big, right? So what could it be? Let, let's go through some of the options. Maybe what they've been covering or hiding is the illusion of competence. What if they've been protecting the myth that the government knows what it's doing? We're co. We're totally competent. Uh, no, you're really not. Don't ever show any of this stuff, cuz it'll show how bad you really were. You had Oswald in your sights, so to speak, and you did nothing. You just dropped the ball. You're like, I don't know, Judge. I don't think he's up to anything. That could very well be it. Just the hiding, the illusion of competence. I, I suspect we'll find that, um, 1963 was absolutely chaotic. Cold War paranoia, CIA plots against Castro, FBI fumbling domestic threats. Maybe the files just show keystone cops missed signals, botched surveillance, agencies tripping over another. I mean, it's like, you know, the Keystone Cops or the, or the, or Charlie Ch. Chaplin follies, you know. Okay, George. Releasing that in the 60s, maybe even in the 90s, could have tanked public faith when we needed it. But we don't have any faith left. So why does anybody think our government is competent? Really? Honestly, any Bueller. Vietnam was heating up at the time. The Soviets were watching. If the files prove Kennedy died just because of screw ups, not masterminds. They're not hiding a villain, they're hiding fragility. I think that's the most likely. What? That we're going to find that we were just the Keystone Cops. Okay, option two. And feel free, Stu, to throw in an option here. Option 2. I am so sick and tired of carrying this whole show on my back. I carry you every day. Option two, the architecture of power. This one structural. What if those 80,000 pages map how decisions got made? How intelligence, military and politics intertwined in ways that we are not supposed to see? Not a who shot him but how did we operate? Think about this. Kennedy was pushing back on the CIA after the Bay of Pigs. He was telling the Pentagon, uh, no, on Cuba, he was telling the Pentagon, I'm going to get rid of all of our nuclear programs. I'm going to negotiate with Russia. I'm going to stop these never ending wars. Maybe it's the files revealing a machine that doesn't bend and a network of influence that outlasts any president. Maybe it is something that reveals the deep state that was happening back then and they haven't held it back because they're protecting a guilty party. But to shield the blueprint, you expose that. And you don't just rewrite 1963, you question every power play ever since. The what is the skeleton of authority itself. That's a pretty good option, right? Okay, as I see it, option number three, the ghost of democracy. What if they've been protecting the story that we tell ourselves about who we are? Kennedy's death wasn't just a tragedy, it was a mirror. If those files say Oswald had help, foreign or domestic, and I think this is the least likely, if Oswald had help foreign or domestic, or that elements of our own government looked the other way, that's possible. It's not just history, it's an indictment. I don't know. In 1963 if we could have handled that, riots were coming, MLK, RFK would fall next. You know, maybe they locked it away to preserve the what of American exceptionalism. The belief that we're the good Guys, I shouldn't say that because I think we are the good guys. That our government and its many, many agencies are the good guys. So the delays about keeping that narrative alive, even if it's a lie. Fourth option, this one's pragmatic, but a little profound. What if the what is the precedent of exposure? Release the JFK files. And you can't stop there. We release the JFK files, we're going to say now release Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump's brush with a bullet. Secret Service whistleblowers are already saying the shooter wasn't a lone wolf. He was modeled. A product of a tactic that we've used abroad and the product of a tactic that they say we're not only using currently, but I say we were using at the time of JFK as well. And I'm not saying that we did it, but that's what whistleblowers in the service is. They're now saying that that's what Butler, Pennsylvania was all about. So if those 80,000 pages spill secrets, methods, failures, cover cover ups, it's a roadmap for the next demand. Butler's files, the 911 loose ends. Every classified corner, they held it not to hide the Kennedy truth, but to protect the dam from breaking. The what is the containment of accountability itself. Keep everything secret. And you know, that's, that's what our government does, they keep. They're over classifying everything. Why, why, why is the left freaking out so much about Doge? Because there's a lot to hide there and that's just in comparison to this kind of stuff. That's just corruption or waste or incompetence one of the options. Maybe we're just not competent. We weren't in 1963, we know we're not now. Maybe that's what they were hiding. Or was it. Was there more going on? Kennedy's era, because of the Cold War, it was just nothing but, I don't know, proxies and shadows. And what we were doing then became doctrine. It's why we're still in NATO. Why the hell are we still in NATO? What are we, what is it we're keeping at bay from NATO? Why, why at least are we not demanding that the other countries start defending themselves a little bit more? Because it's just, it's the way it's done now. I have to tell you, the worst thing that will happen is there's nothing in this that the average person goes, I don't know what they were hiding. Because if that happens, conspiracy theories go through the Roof. I mean, remember, right, this from the guy who told you in 2000, what, five or six, that you are going to. You will see a time if the government doesn't correct what they're doing right now, and this was under George Bush, if they don't correct this kind of secrecy and everything else right now, you will see a time where many Americans, 20% of Americans, it was at 6 or 7% at the time, will say, we never went to the moon. Look at where we are. Look how many people are saying we never went to the moon. We never went to the moon.