Best of the Program | Guests: John Rich & Alex Newman | 12/1/25

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Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program

Episode: Best of the Program | Guests: John Rich & Alex Newman | 12/1/25
Date: December 1, 2025
Host: Glenn Beck
Platform: Blaze Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

This episode features Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere discussing America’s handling of Afghan refugees, inflation and the erosion of the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power, and the importance of truth-telling in society and government. Notably, country musician John Rich joins the program to debut his new song “Righteous Hunter,” and the discussion pivots to the epidemic of child predation in America and the need for parental vigilance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Afghan Refugee Crisis & Government Accountability

[03:33–11:00] Immigration Vetting, Chaos, and Moral Concerns

• Glenn and Stu respond to online criticism regarding the evacuation of Afghan refugees. Beck clarifies that his charity, Mercury One, prioritized the evacuation of Christians, U.S. passport holders, SIVs, and P1/P2 visa holders, all of whom were thoroughly vetted; most ended up in the UAE or Australia, not directly in the U.S. (04:00–05:37).
• Beck expresses outrage over poor government vetting:

  “The United States is bringing people in. They have no idea who they are.” – Glenn Beck [04:35]

• The U.S. State Department allegedly forced planes to include unvetted individuals, replacing vetted Christians in some cases (04:45–05:37).
• Both hosts underscore, with some dark humor, their willingness to see consequences for anyone brought over who causes harm:

  “I'd be happy to flip the switch on the execution chair. Sorry, that's… but that's not going to happen.” – Glenn Beck [05:48]

[17:42–28:59] Deeper Dive Into Evacuation Failures

• Beck draws historical parallels to warn about nations failing to protect their borders and identities, referencing Rome, Byzantium, and contemporary Europe (20:27–23:40).
• He cites federal reports noting a host of issues at U.S. bases with recently arrived Afghan refugees, including sexual assaults, domestic violence, and forced marriages.

  “Even today, we don't know where they are. And that's not xenophobia... that's the Department of Homeland Security's own inspector general saying that, quote, ‘we don't know who many of these people are.’” – Glenn Beck [19:29]

• The show points a finger at failures of courage and honesty in both the media and government:

  “A mark of a nation in decline is whether it can confess... Today, Congress is whispering. The media is hiding.” – Glenn Beck [27:26]

• Calls for prioritizing protection of genuine allies and advocating for a reckoning and honest accounting of what happened.

2. Inflation, the Dollar, and Gold

[06:11–11:25] Black Friday Records and the Vanishing Dollar

• New record: Black Friday online sales approach a quarter-trillion dollars. Beck and Stu question if Americans are truly buying more or if inflation is masking stagnancy (06:11–07:03).
• Beck lists how the purchasing power of a dollar has dramatically dropped since 1913, culminating in a 2025 “benchmark”:

  “In 2025, you can buy one pack of great value gummy worms. I don't know. I think our dollar has gone down a little bit.” – Glenn Beck [08:13]

• Gold is discussed as a safeguard against inflation:

  “Gold hasn't changed price. Dollars have dropped in value... What cost you $20 in 1913 now cost you $4,200.” – Glenn Beck [08:44]

• The crew critiques the Federal Reserve’s “2% inflation target,” questioning why Americans accept built-in devaluation of their currency (10:44–11:00).

3. The Value of Speaking Truth in Today’s America

[24:25–28:59] The Cost and Necessity of Truth-Telling

• The show laments the culture of silence, taboo, and accusation around honest discussions of immigration, social order, and government failure:

  “We're not living in a time of courage. We're living in a time when... you acknowledge reality and you get labeled.” – Glenn Beck [24:25]

• Truth is portrayed as immutable and waiting for someone to acknowledge it, despite societal resistance.

4. John Rich Interview: “Righteous Hunter” & Child Predation

[29:11–41:29] Music with a Mission

• John Rich debuts his new song “Righteous Hunter,” written in response to child predators and parental fears.
• Rich reveals a startling statistic:

  “Department of Homeland Security told me that in a 12 month period, they received 36 million reports of their kids being targeted online by child sex predators. I said, 36 million? They said, yes, it's over 3 million a month.” – John Rich [30:23]

• Glenn tells a personal story of how his own son, as a teen, was nearly targeted via online gaming.

  “They do an investigation. He was an adult. He was working at, let's just say, a major amusement park in the L.A., Orange County area…” – Glenn Beck [32:48]

• Rich stresses that less than 1% of trafficked kids ever return home (33:31); the goal of the song and video is both parental awakening and enemy intimidation:

  “It was written to make parents wake up. It was written to make predators hopefully shake in fear from the wrath of God and the American parent.” – John Rich [33:31]

• Stu and Glenn discuss how cultural programming and online platforms (specifically Meta/Facebook and TikTok) desensitize children and facilitate predation.

  “Things that were shocking in the 80s now would be rated PG... Degree by degree, they have come further and further into the households of Americans and conditioned those kids and parents to just consider it normal.” – John Rich [38:06]

• Beck slams Meta for excessive leniency:

  “Meta doesn't believe in three strikes and you're out. They believe in 17 strikes and you're out. Seventeen chances.” – Glenn Beck [40:12]

• The discussion ends with a somber warning:

  “If they can derail the kids, they think they can win and we can't let that happen.” – John Rich [41:22]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “We didn't perform a moral rescue as a government. We performed a political evacuation. And I was there. So I know it.”
  — Glenn Beck [25:32]

• “The mark of a nation in decline is whether it can confess... and today, Congress is whispering. The media is hiding.”
  — Glenn Beck [27:26]

• “I'd be happy to flip the switch on the execution chair. Sorry, that's… but that's not going to happen.”
  — Glenn Beck [05:48]

• “Gold hasn't changed price. Dollars have dropped in value... What cost you $20 in 1913 now cost you $4,200.”
  — Glenn Beck [08:44]

• “Department of Homeland Security told me... they received 36 million reports of their kids being targeted online by child sex predators.”
  — John Rich [30:23]

• “It was written to make predators hopefully shake in fear from the wrath of God and the American parent.”
  — John Rich [33:31]

• “Meta doesn't believe in three strikes and you're out. ...17 strikes and you're out. Seventeen chances.”
  — Glenn Beck [40:12]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:33–11:00] – Afghan evacuation: vetting, government failures, humorous vows to “write the check to send to Guantanamo”
• [06:11–08:13] – Consumer spending, Black Friday stats, dollar’s vanishing power
• [19:29–28:59] – Systemic government honesty failures on refugee vetting and the long-term consequences
• [29:11–41:29] – John Rich interview: “Righteous Hunter,” child predator statistics, personal stories, cultural decay, and proposed parental action

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Overall Tone

Direct, urgent, unapologetically political, and personal. Glenn Beck and guests use storytelling, humor, historical reference, and personal narrative to underline cultural and governmental crises, encouraging honest reckoning, preparedness, and parental action.

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Summary for Non-Listeners

This episode addresses the fallout from the mishandled U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, critiquing government failures in vetting and resettlement while warning of the cultural and moral decay that follows from such lapses. The decay of the U.S. dollar and its implications for ordinary Americans are discussed with historical context to show the impact of inflation. In a poignant and forceful interview, John Rich introduces a song aimed at waking parents up to the vast scale and subtlety of online child predation, offering both alarming statistics and practical advice. The episode is anchored by a recurring call for courage, truth-telling, and the moral responsibility of both citizens and leaders in American society.

Transcript

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[Glenn Beck]

Well, it's welcome back from the holiday. We get right into the major Afghan refugee problem that's happening in the U.S. and really the Islamist problem in the U.S. how do we solve it?

[Stu Burguiere]

Here's a tip. The Constitution go through all of that. Also a stark stat of how much.

[Glenn Beck]

The purchasing power of our dollar has decreased over the years. And John Rich joins us with a.

[Stu Burguiere]

Brand new song that I think think you really want to hear, especially if you're a parent. All that more on today's podcast.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

And thanks for standing with us.

[Glenn Beck]

Now, let's get to work.

[John Rich]

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

[Glenn Beck]

Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm glad you're here. I just want to address something I saw happening on social media. With all of the problems with the Afghani people that were brought in by the United States. And I saw, you know, Glenn Beck.

[Glenn Beck]

She got to pay for all the planes to bring all the people to Guantanamo Bay.

[Stu Burguiere]

Let me tell you something.

[Glenn Beck]

I'd personally be happy to write the.

[Stu Burguiere]

Check for a flight to Guantanamo Bay. If anyone we brought into the country.

[Glenn Beck]

Would do anything, I'd happily do it personally. However, all of the planes that we brought out of people, they went to the uae, not to the US and the ones that we did bring out were Christians, had U.S. passports, were U.S. residents or people who served our country who were SIV or P1, P2, State Department vetted and allowed every entry from the USA, from the UAE to the U.S. we brought them to the UAE. We were bringing them to other countries.

[Stu Burguiere]

Mainly Australia was one of the big ones that accepted our vetting.

[Glenn Beck]

Was outrageously good, the vetting. And we said this at the time, the United States is bringing people in. They have no idea who they are. They also, as I've said recently, and.

[Stu Burguiere]

There'S a video circulating around it, the.

[Glenn Beck]

The State Department was so unbelievably dishonorable that they took people that we had vetted, Christians that we had taken and put on the plane, they had taken them off and said, no, you got to put these people on. We don't know who those people were. The first group, we did know who they were, they were soldiers that the US Abandoned. Abandoned and couldn't get out themselves. So we put them on our plane. Then we had to compromise with them. If you want any of these planes to take off, you're gonna have to put some of our people on as well. Fine. We're not responsible for them. We don't know who they are. We've got it all vetted. And that's when I was on the air saying their vetting is horrible. You don't have any idea who these people are. Um, but we know who our people were.

[Stu Burguiere]

Um, and if there is a problem, I'll make this promise.

[Glenn Beck]

I will personally be happy to write.

[Stu Burguiere]

The check to send that individual to Guantanamo.

[Glenn Beck]

I'd be happy to flip the switch on the execution chair. Sorry, That's. That's. But that's not going to happen.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's not going to happen. Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

The other thing is shopping. Did you see that? This Black Friday, first quarter of a trillion dollar season.

[Stu Burguiere]

Black Friday, first time ever. Quarter of a trillion dollars.

[Glenn Beck]

New highs.

[Stu Burguiere]

Wow.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay. Okay. Black Friday made up 10% total sales.

[Stu Burguiere]

For the month of November.

[Glenn Beck]

$111 billion represents 9.1% increase on online.

[Stu Burguiere]

Sales compared to last year. They track over $1 trillion in US retail site visits. Adobe does. If this continues, it looks like Christmas.

[Glenn Beck]

Is going to be the first quarter quarter of a trillion dollar season.

[Stu Burguiere]

That would be a record in the United States.

[Glenn Beck]

We're still spending, of course. You know, it looks like we're buying more, but are we really?

[Stu Burguiere]

I gotta send this. I gotta send this out. Would you tweet this for me, Ricky?

[Glenn Beck]

The purchasing power of the dollar in 1913. In 1913, you could buy 30 Hershey.

[Stu Burguiere]

Chocolate bars with $1.

[Glenn Beck]

1929, you could buy 10 rolls of toilet paper. 1933, 10 bottles of beer. 1944, 20 bottles of Coca Cola. 1953, 10 bags of pretzels. 1964, one movie ticket to a drive in theater. 1971, you could buy 17 oranges. 1987, with a dollar, you could buy two box of Crayola crayons. 1997, you could buy four grapefruits. 2008, with the same dollar, you could buy two lemons. By 2020, you could buy one McDonald's coffee. And in 2025, you can buy one pack of great value gummy worms. I don't know. I think our dollar has gone down a little bit.

[Stu Burguiere]

In.

[Glenn Beck]

In worth this. This is why gold is so important. A $20 gold piece in 1930, 1913, you go to the bank and you get $20 for it. Or you can go with $20, you can go to the bank and you get a $20 gold piece.

[Stu Burguiere]

And then you can walk into a.

[Glenn Beck]

Good men's clothing store and say, sir.

[Stu Burguiere]

I want your finest suit.

[Glenn Beck]

And for $20, you could buy the.

[Stu Burguiere]

Finest suit in the store today.

[Glenn Beck]

You could walk in with that same gold piece. They wouldn't take it.

[Stu Burguiere]

You'd have to cash it in.

[Glenn Beck]

But you'd cash it in and it'd be $4,200. And you could go into that same.

[Stu Burguiere]

Men'S store and you could say, I.

[Glenn Beck]

Want your finest suit. And for $4,200, you'd probably get their finest suit. Gold hasn't changed price. Dollars have dropped in value. What cost you $20. One gold piece. One ounce of gold, what cost you $20 in 1913 now cost you $4200. That's why gold is so important when.

[Stu Burguiere]

It comes to inflation, because the dollar is just going to keep.

[Glenn Beck]

We can buy gummy worms today, Stu. I don't know how many gummy worms. You, you know, think about how many gummy worms have to be sold for a quarter of a trillion dollars for the quarter. Well, I was a lot of gummy worms.

[Guest Commentator]

You, you say gummy worms, but you keep leaving out that detail that they are great value gummy worms. So that's the.

[Glenn Beck]

Not just any gummy worm, right?

[Guest Commentator]

Would you rather have the cheapest one pack of great value gummy worms or 33 Hershey bars? That's a real. You're on the borderline there. I'm not sure which one you have.

[Glenn Beck]

Isn't that incredible? 30 Hershey bars, 10 rolls of toilet paper for a dollar, for a dollar, ten bottles of beer. You couldn't go in, you know, you go in with your friends and say, beer for everybody. I've got two bucks. Think of that. That's crazy.

[Guest Commentator]

And now that we need to get more drunk, we can't even afford the alcohol. It's really sad. What a terrible, terrible turn of events. It is amazing, though. I mean, and I think too, we've lost track of that because, you know, when inflation rates come down, that is, you know, positive compared to what we were facing a few years ago. But it is still building on top of those price increases that were locked in. It's not that prices are going down, it's just that the rate of increase on those prices is going down.

[Glenn Beck]

Why.

[Stu Burguiere]

Why do we accept 2% inflation every year?

[Glenn Beck]

I've.

[Stu Burguiere]

I've heard that my whole life. Like The Fed projects 2% inflation. That's their target target. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Why would we target our money being worth 2% less every year. That doesn't seem like a good deal.

[Guest Commentator]

Yeah, I mean, you've always talked about that. What is it? Inertia of money and trying to get the dollars flowing, which seems to be their motivation on that. If they actually were able to hit those numbers, it would probably not be all that damaging. You'd sure have a little bit of money wasting away every year, which is not good. But it wouldn't be that bad.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, we got close.

[Stu Burguiere]

Under Biden, it was 9%.

[Guest Commentator]

Yeah, that was good. That was good. And then we were like 9, you know, 6, 4, 3. We've succeeded like, well, no, wait. The 9% increase that stayed. And then we built another 3% on top of that and a 6% on top of that and 4% and just keeps going up and up and up and up. That was. Did you see by any chance. Hopefully you didn't over Thanksgiving weekend, but there was a chart tweeted by Amy Klobuchar. Did you see this by any chance?

[Stu Burguiere]

No, I didn't. I missed the Amy Klobuchar chart.

[Guest Commentator]

It was a Thanksgiving miracle, Glenn, because.

[Stu Burguiere]

I should have prayed for Thanksgiving on that. But go ahead.

[Guest Commentator]

It was such a thank you, Lord. It was so moronic that it was. It actually kind of was a holiday gift to all of us because she tweeted this chart of energy prices skyrocketing, and she's like, these prices are skyrocketing under President Trump. I can't believe this. And it is. I mean, it is pretty much a straight up line. The issue was it went back to like 2020 and shows that all of the increases happened under Joe Biden and they've just kind of continued to increase. And it wasn't even a pricing chart. It was how many people are behind on their energy bill, which is still skyrocketing. But almost all of this happened during the president that she passionately supported up until he seemingly keeled over in the middle of a debate. So, you know, not. Not necessarily the way to go, I guess, if you're Amy Klobuchar. But we just kind of accept all this at this point. We just accept the prices going up.

[Stu Burguiere]

We do.

[Guest Commentator]

Just, Just part of our.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, Glenn Beck dot com.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

Shop and you can get all the new styles on no King but Christ. This is a. The skull and crossbones is a really cool logo. It's my. Well, it's my personal, you know, Brand, if you will. I have it on my letterhead and everything else. But it's the skull and crossbones with a crown that flights above, that floats above it. And it's an old kind of colonial thing that they said, no king, but Christ. We don't have a king. We answer to Christ. So we have a whole bunch of new design T shirts that are out and mugs and hats and everything else, even wrapping paper. But also in the art section, if you go up and you're looking around, you'll see merchandise and then art. And you go to the art. All the art is up. And some of these are just really great.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't think there's anything over 75 bucks.

[Stu Burguiere]

These are all posters and they're all 25% off. They're all prints, really nice prints. And you can, you can get them now. So if you've ever been a fan.

[Glenn Beck]

Of any of my artwork or you've.

[Stu Burguiere]

Never even seen my artwork, you should check it out. You can go to glenn beck.com the Cyber Monday sale is going on this week. Cyber Monday, 25% off. Everything now@glenn beck.com you order now, you'll get it all for Christmas, so you can have it. There's a lot of great stuff, A lot of great stuff.

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[Stu Burguiere]

I'm just looking through the artwork. I haven't looked at this artwork in a long time. There's some really cool. Because I'll tell stories of, you know, like there's this really one I really love of the Hindenburg. And you see it and it's kind of cloudy and kind of out of the mist. And you see just this little flame at the beginning of it, and it's called 29 seconds. And all of the paintings have a story behind them. And 29 seconds is how fast your life can change in 29 seconds. They went from, oh, wow, look at this.

[Glenn Beck]

This is a miracle.

[Stu Burguiere]

To oh, my. Oh, the humanity. And all these people dead on the.

[Glenn Beck]

Ground in 29 seconds.

[Stu Burguiere]

That came out of the sky and was over in half a minute. I've got one. If you know of a golfer, there's a great one, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus, that I did. And it's when they were.

[Glenn Beck]

They were playing as a team, you.

[Stu Burguiere]

Know, they were fierce competitors, but when they were.

[Glenn Beck]

They were playing as a team. They just became one. And it was just this amazing thing to watch.

[Stu Burguiere]

And it's this. As I was painting it, I was going to do it all in color, and then I'm looking at them And I'm seeing that their eyes. There's this great photo of them, and they're looking at the ball and they're laying out the shot, and Hogan is behind Nicholas and he's looking at the shot. And you can see they're just focused on the same thing. And so I painted one over just them and their focus, and that's all in color because I kind of thought.

[Glenn Beck]

If you're really, really focused, you know, how when what you're focused on, what you're doing, what you're really good at, it's just vivid color and you can see it clearly, and everything else kind of fades off into the black.

[Stu Burguiere]

And you just check them out. They're great. It's glenn beck.com go to the merchandise section, go to the store and go to shop. And if you want to look at the art, you'll find that under art and otherwise the merchandise. And you can find it all there.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

Wants to say out loud.

[Glenn Beck]

And it begins with a people, but begins with the people that are responsible for failure. And that's. That's our leadership here in America. A failure of honesty, a failure of courage the whole time. When Cabal, When Cabal fell back in 2021, we rushed in to do what Americans always do, and that's help people out. We run to save. We ran to keep our word. And God bless every soldier and airmen and marine and volunteer who risk everything to rescue the men and women who stood with us for 20 long years. But here's the part that nobody prince. We didn't just evacuate our allies. We did. But the United States government evacuated anyone they could grab in the chaos, because chaos is the oldest enemy of truth. We opened up floodgates, tens of thousands of people we didn't know, nobody really vetted, nobody could verify, nobody could fully account for. Even today, we don't know where they are. And that's not xenophobia. That's not fear mongering. That's the Department of Homeland Security's own inspector general saying that, quote, we don't know who many of these people are, end quote. This is something that while we were doing it, we said, our vetting is much better than the United States of America. They're bringing in people. We don't know who they are. Now think of the weight of the sentence came from the inspector general. We don't know who. Who many of these individuals are. Think about the histories of nations who forgot the simple duty of understanding who they bring inside the gates. When that happens, the country is over. Rome did it. The Byzantine Empire did it. Europe did it. Before the migrant crisis. And now in 2021, we did it as well.

[Stu Burguiere]

And we knew this.

[Glenn Beck]

We've been talking about it on this program forever. Now, inside of our temporary bases, Fort McCoy, Fort Bliss, Quantico, even our own FBI and military police documented things that the media just dusted off. Ah, don't worry about it. We showed you at the time sexual assaults that were happening in these temporary bases. Sexual assaults, domestic abuse, attempted strangulation, US Service women harassed and followed into showers. Did we do anything about It. These weren't rumors. These were not Internet stories. They were actual federal charges. Did anybody say anything about them? Meanwhile, police departments, Virginia, California, Texas, places with the largest Afghani arrivals began reporting the same exact pattern. Domestic violence, forced marriage concerns, child protection cases, cultural classes. And our law enforcement had to deal with them. And did anybody in the media say anything about it? Nope. Why? You were a bigoted if you said anything about it. Here's what happened. Our government took a lot of people from a tribal system, patriarchal, war torn. No skills, no. Imagine going from Afghanistan to Chicago. How do you survive in that? How do you survive in that? Now, that's not the fault of the families. That's the fault of our federal government, a government that just threw them and us into a social experiment overnight without even thinking about it, talking about it, just saying, accept it. Some of the people that are paroled into the United States had ties to the Taliban, isis, K, or another or several other terrorist organizations. That's not speculation. That has been confirmed by our own dod, dhs, and congressional testimony. We've known this for a very long time. You know, when the Pentagon warns you that, you know, that person probably shouldn't be in the United States, I don't know, maybe we should listen to them and maybe we should be concerned about a DHS or a State Department that waves them in anyway. That's not compassion. That's dereliction of duty. Period. Period. Now add to this the humanitarian parole system meant for rare, urgent cases. It was a revolving door. You. Where are all these refugees from? I'm not talking about the Afghanis. I'm talking about all the other people that have gone to Europe, that have gone to the United States, that are swamping countries in the West. Where are they coming from? Really? There's that big of a. This is a bigger refugee problem than we had in World War II.

[Stu Burguiere]

How's that possible?

[Glenn Beck]

We can't confirm anybody has identity. Doesn't seem that we care. Asylum, family reunification, requests exploded, some valid, some of them unprovable, some of them just out and out lies that we knew were lies. So what happened? Our cities become strained. Our cities go into disorder. They start stealing from us. Look at Minneapolis. Here's the biggest strain. The biggest strain on us is the truth is honesty. It takes courage to say what actually happened. But, you know, we're not living in.

[Stu Burguiere]

A time of courage.

[Glenn Beck]

We're living in a time when people saying the truth, you know, you get. You acknowledge reality and you get labeled. You notice patterns. Oh, my gosh. You're silenced. You ask responsible questions. You're accused of bigotry. Truth doesn't care about the labels. It just sits there. It just waits for somebody to show up and go, ah, you know, that's the truth. I'm going to have to say it. So let's say it. Here's the truth. America owes a sacred debt to anybody. We promised anybody who was fighting with him we should protect them, we should honor them, we should welcome them. But that's not what happened. That's not what happened. We didn't perform a moral rescue as a government. We performed a political evacuation. And I was there. So I know it. You know, somebody posted a kind of a snarky tweet at me because I.

[Stu Burguiere]

Spoke at our gala here a couple.

[Glenn Beck]

Of weeks ago, and I talked about.

[Stu Burguiere]

What the State Department was doing, and.

[Glenn Beck]

I said, you know, it's time America really understands how evil the State Department was during that evacuation. Our people were vetted, and we didn't bring people into the United States. We brought people to the uae. A lot of our people went to.

[Stu Burguiere]

To Australia.

[Glenn Beck]

A lot of people. And I said, sat on the tarmac forever, Forever. Because the State Department was shutting down.

[Stu Burguiere]

And saying, we can't verify any of these people.

[Glenn Beck]

We could verify who these people were. We knew who these people were. Most of the people that we brought out, we could show you their baptismal certificate because that was part of our vetting. Are you a Christian? Really? When were you baptized? Who baptized you? What church did you belong to? Because we knew you were under the gun. Now, if you were like, yeah, I was just baptized three weeks ago. You didn't get onto one of our planes unless the State Department insisted that you get onto one of our planes. Because that's what I was saying in that video that this person just reposted. I was saying in the video, do you know the compromises that they forced us to take? You want to save these Christians, you have to save these people. You got to put these people on first. We don't know who those people are. I don't know who those people are. And those were the ones that came to America. We gambled with the future of these Afghani families because we just threw them in. Just throw them in. They're gonna be fine. We threw em into a system not based on reality of any sort. We threw them in without vetting them. Meanwhile, we would not take the Christians.

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[Glenn Beck]

I want you to know we should not be attacking anybody except honestly condemning our government because it refuses to tell the truth on what it did and what it failed to do. The mark of a nation that is in decline isn't who it lets in. A mark of a nation in decline is whether it can confess. It can admit to its own mistakes, talk about the truth and the consequences. And today, Congress is whispering. The media is hiding. I mean, did you read any of the stories?

[Stu Burguiere]

Hopefully you didn't. Hopefully you just had a great time on. On vacation and for the holiday.

[Glenn Beck]

But I did. My team did. Did you read the stuff from the New York Times? They still can't admit the truth. They don't even know what the truth is still. But I'm still here, waiting for the courage of any adult to stand up. A great nation can welcome the stranger, but a dying nation loses the wisdom to ask, who is this stranger and that gate we passed long ago? The question is, do you want to be a dying nation or not? I don't. I don't. We can't afford to be a dying nation. The world can't afford us to die. So what do we do about it? Well, the first step is defending your home, and the first step in defending your home is knowing who's inside your home.

[Stu Burguiere]

You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more?

[Glenn Beck]

Check out the full show podcasts. Anywhere you download podcasts, pull out cut 8 me. Here's just a little bit of John Rich and his.

[Stu Burguiere]

His new song. Listen to this.

[John Rich (singing)]

Try to steal away our sons and daughters all shrouded in the shadow of night? But we fight with protection of the heavenly father we scared to die? Oh, and I can see you around the corner And I know you're coming? If you had any sense you.

[Stu Burguiere]

You.

[John Rich (singing)]

Ain'T got a clue what a daddy will do? Better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun? You better give your soul to Jesus while I get my.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's called the Righteous Hunter, and John Rich is with us now.

[Glenn Beck]

Hey, John. How are you, man?

[John Rich]

Glenn. I'm great, brother. It's been a long time since I've had the pleasure of talking to you, so thanks for having me on.

[Stu Burguiere]

You bet.

[Glenn Beck]

First of all, what a great song. Powerful, powerful video. Really powerful. Why did you do this?

[John Rich]

So I'm a dad. I'm sure there's a lot of moms and dads listening to you every day. I know there are. And when I started realizing the extent of child predators and the networks that they have in America, I was. I was so overwhelmed by it. I couldn't believe the numbers. Department of Homeland Security told me that in a 12 month period, they received 36 million reports of their kids being targeted online by child sex predators. I said, 36 million? They said, yes, it's over 3 million a month. It is so huge and so massive that regular parents, even Christian parents, patriotic parents, you know, the ones that pay attention, even, even we can become victims of these people. They are that tricky, that elusive, that, that demonic. So that led to me writing this song. I'm sick and tired of us sitting around hoping they don't get our kids next. You know, it tells us in the Bible to go on the offense. When you're a parent, you're supposed to not just defend, but go on offense. If you know there's a wolf in the front yard, you go out there and handle the wolf. And that's how I look at these, at these predators. So the Righteous hunter. That song was born from that thought.

[Stu Burguiere]

You know, you say, you know, it can even hit us. I've only told this story once before, but my son, when he was probably 14, he was playing on a PlayStation and it's one o' clock in the morning and the phone rings and we were lucky enough at that time to have landlines and the. And we had multiple lines and it rang once and then it hung up. My wife was like, what was that? And I said, I don't know. And then she, it bothered her so much. She stayed awake and she watched the lines and she saw a line, line to light up. She's like, somebody's on the phone. And we went up, we found out that my son was on the phone with a gamer. And we called the FBI and my son was freaking out.

[Glenn Beck]

He's like, dad, he's just a normal kid, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Stu Burguiere]

Call the FBI, they do an investigation. He was an adult. He was working at, let's just say.

[Glenn Beck]

A major amusement park in the Los.

[Stu Burguiere]

Angeles, Orange county area. And was, I mean, as the FBI told us this the way it happens, you don't see it. It's in the middle of the night. They had just caught somebody who had just, in our general area, just caught somebody whose daughter was taken and taken across state lines. And they said, you know, they just.

[Glenn Beck]

Said, hey, we're going to send you an airline ticket.

[Stu Burguiere]

Just come and visit us. We're just. And you know, it didn't turn out well, but they, they caught that person as well.

[Glenn Beck]

But that doesn't happen all the time. You usually don't catch it. We were really blessed.

[John Rich]

Yeah, the stats are that less than 1% of kids who. Who wind up being trafficked or ever returned to their parents. This video that you're talking about that I shot, I had to take some time to think about it. I wrote. I wrote this song almost a year ago. It is such a disturbing subject, but I knew it was written for a reason. It was written to make parents wake up. It was written to make predators hopefully shake in fear from the wrath of God and the American parent. Because I don't think they have any fear. I know they don't have any fear of God, but they need to fear us. And so I took a lot of time shooting it. In this video, Glenn, there's a reenactment. Adults purchasing children in somebody's house.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[John Rich]

Which is accurate because we had. We had actual supervision in the room from people who do this for a living. They go sting these people. They set them up, they arrest them.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[John Rich]

We had them in the room to make sure everything we did was accurate. So I would urge people to watch it. As hard as it is to look at, you need to look at.

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[Stu Burguiere]

The girl who's returned. Was that just off top of your head? Was that just a hope or is that a true story? In the video.

[John Rich]

There are kids that get returned, but it's less than 1%. Less than 1%, Glenn. I mean, that is acceptable when there's 10. There's tens of millions of moms and dads who would go to the ends of the earth to get them, but less than 1% ever come back. I mean, it is. It is one of the most horrific blights and sins existing in the world today. I'd say the most. I mean, Jesus himself, probably the most aggressive thing the son of God ever said that's recorded is that you'd be better off dead than to hurt one of these kids. A millstone around your neck, as we know that phrase.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, yeah. Did Sean Combs and what he was going through play a role in bringing you to this message?

[John Rich]

Sean Combs? You mean you're talking about Diddy?

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[John Rich]

Well, I saw a video of him about a year ago on stage at some award show, and he looked right into the camera and said, I own your kids. I determine what they listen to, what they wear, what they think is cool. I'll take your souls. He looks into the camera with this demonic look in his eye and proclaims this to American parents. And, you know, music is his weapon. Sean Combs and the industry, a lot of them, they use their music as a weapon to steal Our sons and daughters, as the song says, to take them from us, to wreck their lives, to veer them off the path that God has intended for them to live. They use their music to get them. And I was so enraged when I saw that demoniac say that with such arrogance. And we know the devil is the most arrogant creature ever created. I said, let's Sean Combs, his music is his weapon. Well, music is my weapon as well. So I'm gonna write something and let Sean Combs and the rest of these. Sean Combs is of the world know how the American parent feels about it and what we're willing to do to protect our kids. Because I don't think you guys are really aware of that. And so that's. Yeah, that's where the song came from. I went to Sean Ryan, who. A lot of people know Sean Ryan from his podcast, and I asked him, would he play the dad in the video? And, you know, this is not a guy that's gonna do music videos. I thought he would say, man, I appreciate it, but no, but he said yes. So in the Righteous Hunter video, Sean Ryan is playing the dad, and it's. And it's his daughter being reenacted. That has been taken.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, it's very, very powerful. Let me ask you, what is the.

[Glenn Beck]

You know, I was thinking about what.

[Stu Burguiere]

TikTok is here in America and what TikTok is in China. And TikTok in China is all positive. It's all positive, it's all uplifting, it's all kids doing amazing things, etc. Etc. Because they know it's good for society here. They've perverted it and just went the other direction. What is it about our society that is attracted to stuff like this?

[Glenn Beck]

Why are we. Why do we consume this garbage?

[John Rich]

I think we have been programmed for decades, you know, this. Programmed little by little by little. Things that were shocking in the 80s now would be rated PG. Things that are. That were shocking even 10 years ago. Now you can click on it and watch it on Tick Tock. Degree by degree, they have. They have come further and further into the households of Americans and conditioned those kids and parents to just consider it normal. And that's the trick. That's the deception. That's where. That's why you have 36 million reports in one year in the DHS alone of kids being targeted online. Listen, this video is not just a yell into the void, Glenn. It's not just, hey, all you predators, you know, we see you. Yeah, that's part of it. But the Bigger. The bigger point of parents watching this video and the whole thing by the way is posted at John Rich on X. That's just at the top of my page if you want to watch it. The bigger point is that American parents start looking into their kids devices. They go online and figure out how to safeguard against this stuff. Don't let them in your house. Listen, you wouldn't let a predator come through your front door or plate glass window in the middle of the night. He would be met with gunfire. He would die inside your home if he tried to take one of your kids. But we sit there as we're. Do you know, following up on our emails or whatever we're doing and our kids are off in the bedroom. They could be getting taken by Roblox. I mean all these innocuous games that seem like nothing. These predators are coming in and posing as a kid and then doing what you said that story earlier and they are very successful at it. We got to stop that. Parents have to go on the offense and it starts inside your own home.

[Stu Burguiere]

The one thing that you could do is cancel Meta. Make sure you don't have meta. I don't know if you know this but Meta.

[Glenn Beck]

If you were an account that engaged in trafficking of humans for sex.

[Stu Burguiere]

Meta doesn't believe in three strikes and you're out.

[Glenn Beck]

They believe in 17 strikes and you're out 17 chances. I don't know.

[Stu Burguiere]

I. I don't know.

[John Rich]

I mean that's what I don't know.

[Stu Burguiere]

Of a parent that would agree with that.

[John Rich]

Yeah, well no parent agrees with that. But listen, we are, we are up against an army, battalions, legions of demons in this world. They are, they are there. They possess people just like you and I are possessed by the Holy Spirit because we gave our lives to Jesus Christ. We are possessed by him. We're possessed by the Holy Spirit. They are possessed by the spirit of their father. And it is an actual straight up war. And if you think about it, what, what probably puts the most tears down the cheeks of Jesus Christ when you children hurt the kids? Yes, absolutely. That is their motive. If they can derail the kids, they think they can win and we can't let that happen.

[Stu Burguiere]

John, thanks for everything. You're a good man. I love watching you and listen to you and thanks for everything you do.

[John Rich]

You bet, Glenn. Thanks for having me on.

[Stu Burguiere]

You bet. John Rich, you can, you can listen to it. John Rich on AT X. John Rich at X. John Rich music or at John Rich.

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