Best of the Program | Guests: Nick Shirley & Goldie Ghamari | 1/6/25

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program – Best of the Program

Guests: Nick Shirley & Goldie Ghamari | January 6, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Glenn Beck dives into recent stories of large-scale fraud in Minnesota with activist Nick Shirley, then shifts to the ongoing civil unrest in Iran with insight from Goldie Ghamari. Beck examines how U.S. policy—particularly under Donald Trump—signals a new approach to global regime change, energy dominance, and the shifting geopolitical landscape. Beck’s trademark style—passionate, direct, and sharply critical of mainstream narratives—runs throughout.

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Fraud & Corruption in Minnesota: Interview with Nick Shirley

Exposing the Daycare Fraud Scheme

• Nick Shirley describes the repercussions after exposing widespread daycare fraud in Minnesota, much of it allegedly connected to the Somali community:

  "You wouldn't think by exposing fraud you would really get a lot of people to come after you... but then you see them all just turn it around and make it act like you're some sort of villain."
  — Nick Shirley [02:08]

• Shirley details how the issue, while strictly financial, was reframed by media and politicians as a racial or religious attack:

  "It's just about money being stolen. And so now you're being called anti migrant, anti Islam... It just happens to be that 89% of the Somalian population is committing the fraud in Minnesota."
  — Nick Shirley [02:35]

Investigative Tactics and Public Impact

• Shirley explains the difference in his approach:

  "You could never physically see it with your eyes... Here in Minnesota, the fraud so obvious that you literally just go knock on the door of the daycare. And one, no one answers. Two, they do answer, there's no kids."
  — Nick Shirley [03:33]

• Glenn underscores bank and government complicity:

  "I'm amazed at how this has happened. And people don't see that the government, and quite honestly, I think the banks... just turned a blind eye."
  — Glenn Beck [04:12]

Fallout and Government Response

• Minnesota political figures are pressured; Governor Tim Walsh steps down amid scandal:

  "Conspiracy theorists, right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares... President of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors..."
  — Glenn Beck, quoting Tim Walsh [04:36]

• The FBI increases involvement, responding to Shirley’s viral reports:

  "I've never seen anything like that. Have you been working? Are you in contact with the FBI at all?"
  — Glenn Beck [06:03] "No, I have not... I missed their call, and by the time I got out of the Uber, so many people had called me... I couldn't figure out which number it was."
  — Nick Shirley [06:38]

Scale and Systematic Nature

• Shirley suggests corruption reaches into state government and beyond, with prominent figures allegedly complicit:

  "She [Rep. Ilhan Omar] has photos of her outside of Quality Leering center with the owner of the restaurant, who also is in a video with the mayor of Minneapolis going to her next daycare. They're all in on it."
  — Nick Shirley [09:37]

• Beck drives home the magnitude:

  "It's really not a racial issue. It's just a fact that people are stealing millions and billions of dollars from Americans."
  — Glenn Beck [08:51]

Key Segment Timestamps:

• Context of threats to Nick Shirley: [01:56] – [02:28]
• Description of the fraud & Shirley’s methods: [03:33] – [04:12]
• Reaction of state authorities and involvement of federal law enforcement: [06:03] – [08:20]
• Discussion of systemic corruption and connections to politicians: [09:37] – [10:46]

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Iran in Uprising: Interview with Goldie Ghamari

Nature of the Iranian Protests

• Ghamari, of Iranian descent, frames the current unrest as an existential struggle against four decades of religious dictatorship:

  "People are rising up to overthrow the shackles of Islamic oppression that has held them hostage for the last 47 years... They're chanting, 'Death to the dictator.'... 'This is the final battle. Pahlavi will return.'"
  — Goldie Ghamari [12:48]

• Beck draws parallels with previous U.S. failures to support such revolts:

  "That's the thing that Ronald Reagan did when the Berlin Wall came down... the missing piece. But the other part that at least Obama did was send money to the regime."
  — Glenn Beck [16:33]

Economic Crisis as Catalyst

• Beck notes the catastrophic inflation, with bread reaching up to 500,000 rials per loaf:

  "It's 1.47 million riyals to $1... Inflation has gone through the roof for them."
  — Glenn Beck [17:07]

• Ghamari acknowledges the economy as the spark, not the root cause:

  "The economic crisis... has played a role in sparking the movement. But people out there right now, they're not protesting because of the collapse of the rial... It's about human rights. It's about torture."
  — Goldie Ghamari [18:07]

Leadership in Exile and Visions for Transition

• Iranians, she claims, are calling for the return of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi:

  "There's only one person that Iranians trust to transition the country from a brutal totalitarian dictatorship into a functioning, secular, democratic country, and that's His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Iran, who's in exile."
  — Goldie Ghamari [12:48 & 14:30] "He wants there to... be basically a court of law, and anyone who is guilty of oppression... will have to face that court of law."
  — Goldie Ghamari [20:24]

• Ghamari insists the protestor side seeks a non-violent transition, while outside proxy fighters imported by the regime pose the real threat:

  "We’re not Islamists. Prior to 1979, we were a modern, Western secularizing society."
  — Goldie Ghamari [21:50] "One thing that gave Iranians a lot of hope is President Trump's statement... that actually gave Iranians so much hope."
  — Goldie Ghamari [15:35]

Key Segment Timestamps:

• Uprising context and slogans: [12:48] – [14:12]
• Role of economic collapse: [17:07] – [18:42]
• Plans for non-violent justice and regime transition: [20:24] – [22:08]
• Potential for foreign interference: [22:08] – [23:26]

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Geopolitics, Energy, and Regime Change: Beck’s Perspective

The Real Meaning of “Regime Change”

• Beck asserts U.S. and global systems are in crisis, with actors preparing different frameworks for power:

  "We all know that the system has been torched... They're building framework to drop into when this thing falls apart."
  — Glenn Beck [25:19]

• He frames Trump’s approach as a calculated upper hand, aiming not to occupy, but to secure energy and resource supremacy within the Western hemisphere:

  "There is a regime change coming, but it is a third way. It's America as the leader again put into place again... I believe we are in World War Three. You just don't know it yet."
  — Glenn Beck [27:04]

Energy as the New Arsenal

• Beck highlights Trump’s moves to control oil and resources:

  "Donald Trump is making sure the west has all of the assets it needs to fight and win a war with China. He is getting all of the oil, all of the energy. He is getting all the rare earth minerals."
  — Glenn Beck [32:16] "He's doing it by building the arsenal of democracy. What was that, FDR? We're going to build tanks, we're going to build guns... What is today's arsenal? Oil, power, tech, rare earth minerals."
  — Glenn Beck [34:35]

Hemispheric Independence

• Beck predicts U.S. pressure on Canada and other neighbors to ensure resources stay in the hemisphere and away from China:

  "We control the oil in this hemisphere. It is not going to our enemies."
  — Glenn Beck [30:35] "We're going to make sure this hemisphere stands. That's what's really happening."
  — Glenn Beck [35:50]

Key Segment Timestamps:

• Beck’s thesis on regime change and frameworks: [25:19] – [27:04]
• Energy, banking, and rare earth minerals as strategic priorities: [32:16] – [34:35]
• Hemispheric resources and foreign policy teeth: [30:35] – [35:50]

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Notable Quotes

• Nick Shirley:

  "I need to say use the word allegedly because I don't want to get sued, but allegedly, all these people know about the fraud." [10:17]

• Goldie Ghamari:

  "We're not Islamists. Prior to 1979, we were a modern, Western secularizing society. And anything and everything that happens will... be based on... laws and courts of justice." [21:50]

• Glenn Beck:

  "When America is really strong, the rest of the world can be free. He's playing it so America has a completely... new century ahead." [34:00]

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Summary Table: Key Segments

| Time | Topic/Quote | Speaker | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------| | 02:08 | Nick Shirley on backlash for exposing fraud | Nick Shirley | | 03:33 | Physical evidence of fraud in Minneapolis daycares | Nick Shirley | | 06:03 | FBI involvement in fraud investigation | Glenn/Nick | | 12:48 | Ghamari on Iranian uprising against the Islamic Republic | Goldie Ghamari | | 17:07 | Economic catalyst: hyperinflation & collapsing rial | Glenn Beck | | 20:24 | Crown Prince Pahlavi’s vision: Nuremberg-like trials, not violent purge | Goldie Ghamari | | 25:19 | "Frameworks" for regime change vs. old models | Glenn Beck | | 32:16 | Trump’s energy strategy: dominance in oil, rare minerals | Glenn Beck | | 34:35 | Parallels to FDR: Building the new “arsenal of democracy”—energy, tech, minerals | Glenn Beck |

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Tone and Takeaways

• Investigative and Bold: Both Nick Shirley and Glenn Beck emphasize frustration with institutional inertia, complicity, or cover-up.
• Activism and Resolve: Goldie Ghamari’s commentary is fervent, expressing hope for nonviolent transition and faith in Iran’s future.
• Strategic and Critical: Glenn’s discussion of global politics adopts a “chessboard” view—asserting that America (and specifically Trump) is playing the long game for Western survival and renewed leadership.

This episode offers pointed insight into the intersections of local corruption, international revolution, and the high-stakes contest for control over energy and influence in the coming decade.

Transcript

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[Glenn Beck]

Terms why the focus on Venezuela is more than just a regime change. It is a global regime change. And Trump, I believe, is following in FDR's footsteps in the best of ways. Also, Nick Shirley is on with us and we talked to somebody who is from Iran to tell us what is actually happening and somebody from Venezuela to do the same thing. All on today's podcast. Hello America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and lead a comment because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it, a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share. Together we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work.

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Nick, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?

Doing good. It's been a crazy past week or so.

I bet it has. I bet it has. You are now getting death threats. How much has your life changed?

Yeah, it's changed drastically because you wouldn't think by exposing fraud you would really get a lot of people to come after you. You think like for instance, you think the mainstream media would be happy. You think other government officials would be happy, but then you see them all just turn it around and make it act like you're some sort of villain, which then enrages a bunch of crazies to want to kill you.

And why do you suppose that is? Why are they reacting the way they are?

Well, obviously people don't like when millions of dollars are going to be exposed, especially if they're receiving some of that money. And then two, now it's been painted as a race issue when it's really not a race issue. It's just about money being stolen. And so now you're being called anti migrant, anti Islam, all this sort of stuff. When you just did a video about fraud, you had nothing to do with the race or the religion. It just happens to be that 89% of the Somalian population is committing the fraud in Minnesota.

What did you do differently that made your story stand out? Where you know, Chris Ruffo and as I said, Walter Kern, they've been talking about this for a long time. And, and it, it connected, but it connected in the mind. What, what did you do different? Why were you a surprised that it connected the way it did? And why do you think it did?

Yeah, I think I did. Because you could, you could, you'd always heard about the fraud. Like when Elon was doing those, you heard about the fraud, but you could never physically see it with your eyes. You could, you heard about the contracts, but you never actually saw that the money was going there. You never saw the effects of or whose hands it was going into. And just how blatant the fraud was. Because this is happening all across the country. And here in Minnesota, the fraud so obvious that you literally just go knock on the door of the daycare. And one, no one answers to, they do answer, there's no kids. And three, if they answer, they can't give you a brochure to enroll a child.

You know, I'm amazed at how this has happened. And people don't see that the government, and quite honestly, I think the banks do, had to be involved. The banks at least knew about it. They just turned a blind eye. The government, especially in Minnesota, they were absolutely part of this, were they not?

Well, you just saw Tim Watts step down from re election.

Yeah, hold on just a second. Let me, let just take a moment and just celebrate this. This is what he said yesterday. Celebrate. We've got conspiracy theorists, right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the President of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous. Okay? So he, he said, I'm not going to run Anymore. I think he was talking about you, Nick. Pretty sure. Pretty, pretty sure he was right. Pretty sure he was. Conspiracy theory. First of all, you weren't breaking into the daycare center and asking to see our kids. You were asking, are there any children here?

Correct, Correct.

And how did you find these places?

Yeah, well, if you just drive around Minneapolis, they're literally nearly every single block there's a daycare. And this man, David, he had all the information, he had all the, the data. And we just started going to some of the daycares that were around him and in the neighborhood and they say 7 open, 7am to 10pm yet there's no children, the windows are all blacked out, and they're receiving millions of dollars. In that video right there, you're seeing a green building that has two daycares inside the same address receiving upwards of $5 million.

You the cash. Patel came out and said the FBI is aware of recent social media reports. Again, I think they're talking about you in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. They had, but they're, they just announced, I think it was yesterday, they're going to send another 2,000 investigators and federal officials, which is fantastic. I've never seen anything like that. Have you been working? Are you in contact with the FBI at all?

No, I have not. I, I messaged, I put a thing out when I was on Patrick McDavid and the FBI called me. The thing was, I was in Uber with the, when they called me, I saw that they called me and so I was like, well, I'm not gonna answer with the Uber guy in the car. And so I just let it ring through. And then by the time I got out of the Uber, so many people had called me between then and the phone call and so many messages that I couldn't figure out what phone it was, what phone number it was.

Oh, geez.

Lost the contact of the FBI.

Yeah, that's probably not the, probably not the best thing. They'll get a hold of you if they need to talk to you. Believe me, they'll get a hold of you. There is nothing, there is nothing freakier than when you look down at your phone and it's either the White House calling you or the FBI. You're kind of like, I'm not sure I want to take this phone call right now. Anyway, you said with Patrick. Bet David, you found it surprising that they didn't have all this information already?

Yeah, because, I mean, it was so obvious and just like, how come it was my video that surged even 2,000 more. If millions, quite literally billions of dollars is being given to these daycare centers, how come we don't. How come the government doesn't know that the money is being spent here? And so I thought what was great about this is the HHS then went and froze all daycare payments or all child care payments until these businesses prove they're legit. And so far, no business has been able to send in information saying they're a legit business.

It's in. I think I saw you in Ohio exposing this more in Ohio, or is that not you?

No, not yet.

Not yet, but they're.

I did go back to Minnesota for part two.

Okay. But this is all over the country, and they just announced today the UN Ambassador of Somalia is involved in all of this. He knows about this and is involved in some of this.

They're all in on it. Like, everyone knows. And you talk to the Somalis and they're like, are we the only people who commit fraud? They'll literally say, are we the only people that commit fraud?

No. And I'd like to find. Do you have tips on others? You should ask them. Do you have tips on others? Because we'll go after them, too. Yeah, yeah.

And like I said, it just so happens that the fraud being committed in Minnesota, 89% of the population committing the fraud is Somalian. So it's really not a racist racial issue. It's just a fact that people are stealing millions and billions of dollars from Americans.

With Tim Walsh leaving, I think probably a lot of pressure on that one. He knew he was in trouble. Hoping that if he just goes away. Because what happens to these things? They always turn political. And so they'll, you know, get the governor out or they'll get the senator out, and then it just doesn't go anywhere. Who, besides the governor, should our government be looking into?

I think just everyone involved over at the. At the Capitol in Minnesota and the dhs who is cutting the checks and just anybody who had ties to cutting any of the checks or just, like, knowing what was happening. Elon. Elon Omar. She's outside of the coffee shops and the daycares where these daycares were being found. She has photos of her outside of Quality Leering center with the owner of the restaurant, who also is in a video with the mayor of Minneapolis going to her next daycare. They're all in on it.

And there's no way. They could not have known because as you say, the leering center didn't have any children in it doing any layering.

The Omar guy who was running for mayor, he was also, he had a, a brother in law or some family member who was in charge of one of the daycares that had also been receiving $2 million. And they actually had so many violations they shut down the daycare. Then the next day they reopened and that guy was about to become mayor. And so all these people are in on the fraud. They all know it's happening. And I need to say use the word allegedly because I don't want to get sued, but allegedly, all these people know about the fraud.

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[Goldie Gamari]

I'm great, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me on. Good morning to you and to all your listeners. Very excited to be here.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm excited to have you. I watched your video as things were happening in Iran over the weekend and I'm watching Iran. I mean, not probably as much as you are. With real hope and anticipation of possible good things to come. Can you tell us what's going on in Iran right now and if it's different than what we've seen in the past?

[Goldie Gamari]

So what's happening in Iran right now is that people are rising up to overthrow the shackles of Islamic oppression that has held them hostage for the last 47 years. And a lot of people in Western media or a lot of the apologists for the Islamic Republic, you know, the pro Islamists, they are claiming that, you know, this is just about the economy, and people are just upset. Well, if this was about the economy, why are Iranians now like, this is the 10th day? And things have escalated. They're continuing to escalate. It's the 10th day. Iranians are going out on the streets en masse. They are chanting, death to the dictator. Magbad Diktator. They're chanting, which means, long live the king. And then they're saying, this is the final battle. Pahlavi will return. Pahlavi, of course, is His Royal Highness. Yeah, they're saying, which means it's the final battle. Pahlavi will return. Why? Because there's only one person that Iranians trust to transition the country from a brutal totalitarian dictatorship into a functioning, secular, democratic country, and that's His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Iran, who's in exile.

[Glenn Beck]

So do you believe? I've heard people say, well, he's not really a player because he's only been speaking out, but he hasn't really been active in anything significant in Iran. Is that true? Does he have widespread support?

[Goldie Gamari]

Yeah. So what they're saying about him is 100% false. He has been active in Iran and working to free Iran his entire life, like, since Iran was taken over. So he has dedicated the last 47 years to freeing Iran. And what we are seeing today, literally over 70 cities. Over 70 cities have risen up. That was just from yesterday's data. I still have to catch up with today. But pretty much every single corner of the country is out there, and they're chanting, this is the final battle. Pahlavi will return. The reason that there are some people who are attacking him right now at the most critical time is because they know that the only person who can free Iran is the Crown prince in exile. And so that's where he's being attacked. But Iranians in occupied Iran, they don't care. They are literally out there right now. They are risking their lives. It is. It's all out civil war, Glenn. The Islamic Republic, they have imported Their proxy terrorist groups from Iraq, from, like, Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza. Right. They've imported all of their terrorist proxy groups, and those people are heavily armed, and they're out there attacking Iranians right now. And yet for Iranians, it's basically now or never. They are putting their lives on the line. And, you know, one thing that gave Iranians a lot of hope is President Trump's statement where he said, if the Islamic Republic continues to shoot at innocent Iranians, then President Trump is going to do something about it. You know, the United States is locked and loaded. That actually gave Iranians so much hope. I guarantee you right now, President Trump is more popular in Iran than he is in the United States.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, he'd have a hard time walking down the street in Venezuela today as well, being mobbed with fans.

[Goldie Gamari]

Exactly.

[Glenn Beck]

This has happened twice before, but it happened with Biden and then it happened with Obama, and neither of them voiced their support. And I was saying at the time, that's the thing that Ronald Reagan did when the Berlin Wall came down, when you had the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was, he was vocally supporting the people. And I, and I thought that was, you know, the missing. The missing piece. But the other part that at least Obama did was send money to the regime.

[Goldie Gamari]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

You know, you say this isn't about economics. And I think part of. Partially true, but economics may have played the role to get the people out, the businesses out into the street and saying something. You know, I did a calculation today on the real, and it is. It's 1, 1.47 million riyals to $1, which makes bread right now in Iran is between 100 and 500,000 riyals. That means if it's at the high side, that means America, you could walk in and buy a loaf of bread for 34 cents. That's incredible. And inflation has gone through the roof for them. It's up to, I think, 52 or 56% just this last year. How much of a role did that play? And did Donald, Donald Trump cutting off money help with that economic pressure?

[Goldie Gamari]

Absolutely. So. So, like I said, the, the economic crisis, the collapse of the rial, increasing inflation, that has played a role in sparking the movement. Right. So the economy has played a role in sparking the demonstration. But people out there right now, they're not protesting because of the collapse of the rial. But if the collapse of the rial is just one other symptom of, you.

[Glenn Beck]

Know, that broke the camel's back.

[Goldie Gamari]

Saw that. Exactly. Because, you know, it's about human rights. It's about torture. It's about the fact that people have been brutally oppressed by Islamic dictatorship. It's the fact that people don't want Sharia law. They don't want. Iranians are sick and tired of their name and their country being associated with terrorism because we're not terrorists. And prior to 1979, Iran was one of the biggest allies of the United States. In fact, I think Persian people are.

[Glenn Beck]

Amazing. Amazing.

[Goldie Gamari]

Thank you.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes, amazing.

[Goldie Gamari]

Thank you so much for that.

[Glenn Beck]

What?

What? Tell me. You know, it's been a long time since that has happened, and a lot. I mean, you've had generations now raised under this. It. When the. When the Shah left and you had the Ayatollah Khomeini come in, most people don't know that was the Islamists and the Marxist socialists that were supporting that. And as soon as the Ayatollah got In, I think 20,000 Marxists kind of were disappeared or thrown into jail or killed. And it wasn't exactly a smooth transition. It still had a lot of going on. If this happens and they fall and the new prince comes back, how bad would a purge be? I mean, would that be part of this, do you think that there'd be a lot of people that have to go to jail? And how would this happen?

[Goldie Gamari]

So His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince has said that he wants to establish something similar to the Nuremberg Trials. So no violence, like, no purge, nothing like that. He wants there to, you know, basically a court of law, and anyone who has, you know, anyone who is guilty of oppression or is part of the Islamic dictatorship will have to face that court of law. And then, you know, based on. Based on what the verdict is, you know, they either go to jail or not. But he has never advocated for violence. He never advocated for anything like that. And even now. Even now, in his messages to the Iranian people, when he's encouraging. Because also one of the reasons these demonstrations are growing is because the Crown Prince, he is urging Iranians to go out in the streets and demonstrate, but he's never called for violence. These demonstrations from the side of the Iranians have been peaceful, but when the Islamic dictatorship opens fire on Iranians, of course they're going to fire back. They're going to defend themselves, even though Iranians are not armed. Although we've now heard reports that in certain parts of the country, someone has started to arm Iranians. And so in many places, they're fighting back. But there's not going to be any sort of violent purge. I mean, we're not Islamists. Prior to 1979, we were a modern, Western secularizing society. And anything and everything that happens will. Will go right. You know, it'll be based on the, you know, fundamental, you know, laws and courts of justice.

[Glenn Beck]

How does. I mean, the IRGC is pretty intense. You know, Hezbollah is there. Others were really bad intent. Are there. How does that happen peacefully? Because I know that, you know, they're already talking about an escape plan for the regime. So, you know, the mullahs and everybody can get out, but, you know, you will have the IRGC left. Are they just going to lay down their guns, do you think?

[Goldie Gamari]

I don't know. I mean, I think the ones who are Iranian might very well do so. But I think the ones who are not Iran, you know, like the Hezbollah and like the Palestinians and Iraqis and like, I don't know, Afghanis, whoever else are there because they're not Iranian. They have nothing left to lose. They're actually some of the most vicious, vicious Islamic terrorists, you know, So I unfortunately don't see them laying down their guns. So what we really need is for the military to step up, for the military to defect and take the side of the people. I mean, or possibly for President Trump to do something or, you know, Israel to do something, because no revolution has ever been successful without outside interference. And in fact, the only reason the 1979 Islamic coup d' etat was successful is because of Jimmy Carter and the Democratic administration that supported the Ayatollah.

[Glenn Beck]

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Anyway, find it@glenn beck.com Part of the new torch. All right, So I want to, I want you to understand I'm not talking about regime change like Libya, okay? We're avoiding that. What I am talking about is a different kind of regime change, a great reset, if you will. Because we all know this is what we've been battling about, okay? We all know that the system has been torched, it has been destroyed, it has been dismantled. And what have I been telling you for 25 years? They're building framework to drop into when this thing falls apart. They'll have the framework ready to go. They'll have the answer. We know what the answer is for the West. The answer has been the WEF and central banks saying it's the great reset where we're going to have one global government. And you're just, you're not really going to have a say. You know, you will elect your representatives and they have part of the say, okay? It's a very fascistic kind of world. We've been against that. The other side is China, Russia, Iran, totalitarian state, communism. We're not for that either. And what we've been saying is we're for the Constitution. We're for, you know, 76 trombones. We're for all of this, you know, red, white and blue. We can never describe it to anyone. We just know what we want it to be. And the idea, and I've been saying this for a long time, we have to stop saying it's like Reagan, because nobody knows what Reagan did. Nobody knows that anymore. The youth, if you're under 30, definitely don't know anything about Ronald Reagan. You don't know anything about communism. You know nothing about any of that. So it means nothing to the youth. Somebody has to redefine what it is we're for. This is exactly what Donald Trump is doing. But he's not, he's not. There's nobody, there's no storyteller to tell it, to say what is actually happening. And it's happening at such a rapid pace. Now, I could be wrong on this, but I don't think so. I'm not smart enough to come up with all of this stuff. I just. There's gotta be somebody in the administration. Maybe it's Donald Trump, maybe it's a team, maybe it's one guy. Somebody is saying, no, you move this lever and this lever, you do this and you do this and that knocks that out, that out, that out. And we're, we're just, they're just. It's like bowling and they're bowling three hundreds every time they roll the ball. There is a regime change coming, but it is a third way. It's America as the leader again put into place again that I believe we are in World War Three. You just don't know it yet. And that is World War Three. We'll be fighting the Islamists, but we also are fighting the communists in China. We are fighting high tech all around the world. We're fighting for energy. Believe me, energy crisis like America has never understood is coming. It's around the corner if we don't control all of our own. Okay, so that's regime change. Let me take you back to what Donald Trump said yesterday. Canada, Panama and Greenland, maybe they should be protectorates. They should really be protectorates. We laugh at that now. I don't know how comfortable I am with all of this, that I'm going to be telling you next, but I, I'm pretty sure this is true. I mean, at a scale of 1 to 10 on Glenn, what do you think? My only hesitation is I haven't prayed on this enough. This, this happened last night, started coming to me last night. So I haven't prayed on this enough. But I'm pretty sure as coming from me, I'm at a 9 on the 10 scale. You know, 1 to 10, 10 being positive. I think I'm at a 9. But again, this is coming from me. Canada, again. Think of one stone, a thousand birds. Canada is a pain in Donald Trump's ass. Okay. Donald Trump is a pain in the Canadian ass. I love Canada. I don't want problems with Canada. I think most Americans are like, I love Canada. I don't want anything to do with Canada. And I certainly don't want them to be the first 51st state. Okay, I don't. We don't need that. They don't want it and we shouldn't want it. They're a great country. This started, this whole theory started when I read something from a Canadian press yesterday, and it said, it talked about how Canada needs. It was from Canadians and an economic paper, and it was how Canada needs to be very concerned about what just happened in Venezuela because it could collapse. Listen to me carefully. Could collapse the, the Canadian economy. Why? Much of the Canadian economy is geared on oil and gas. They built a pipeline south to us. Now we're not using that pipeline, but we get a lot of oil and they would like to sell us more and I'd like to have more Canadian oil. Quite honestly, I think that's great. Okay, but if they don't sell it to us, because Donald Trump, again, we're not taking the Venezuelan oil that I know of. We're using it to cripple China. We're saying we control the oil. Listen carefully. We control the oil in this hemisphere. It is not going to our enemies. That's what he just said to Venezuela. You're not selling it to China. We now have a chip that Canada doesn't like that is. Yeah, we have access to all this oil from Venezuela. So we don't really need Canadian oil. You want to sell it to us? You can sell it to us. Hey, we need you to do a couple of things for us. Otherwise, we're not going to buy your Canadian oil. That's really bad for Canada. That's a big chip. What would Canada's response be? Well, just sell it to somebody else. Okay, you. They have an east west pipeline, but I think it's small and it has problems because of progressives up there. But it would take him 10 years, 5 to 10 years to build a real pipeline to the west coast into British Columbia, where you have access to the port and easy access to China. But remember the Moreau Doctrine being taken seriously now. No, we control the hemisphere. You're not going to have any. For no foreign enemy is going to have a foothold in this hemisphere. The United States will not tolerate ch Canada selling oil to China. Where do they sell their oil? The obvious answer is to us in South America. Keep it in this hemisphere. But we're going to need you to take care of your border for us. We're going to need you to take care of some of the money that is flowing in and out of the country that is coming from Communist China. That is effect. How do you.

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How do. These were next hour. I think it's next hour some point. Today we're going to talk about the Chinese money that is funding all of this. All of these protests in the streets. How's all that money getting here? It's again, not coming in Samsonite luggage. It's going through a bank. If we don't take care of the banks, you can't take care of anything. You're just eating around the corners. That's all you're doing is nibbling at the edges. The center is the banking system. Donald Trump is making sure the west has all of the assets it needs to fight and win a war with China. He is getting all of the oil, all of the energy. He is getting all the rare earth Minerals. That's why I said yesterday, he said we don't need Greenland. I was wrong on that. We do, apparently. And he's still going after Greenland. Why? Western hemisphere. And those rare earth minerals are needed to win the AI war against China. They cannot go anyplace else other than this hemisphere. So he has. Because. Because he has followed through on his promises. Hey, Iran, you're going to do this. Otherwise, I'm just going to take out your nuclear power plants. And he did. Hey, Venezuela, you're going to turn yourself in or we're coming to get you. And he did. Because he did those things. The people who want to dismiss Donald Trump and are against the United States are now taking him seriously. Notice there's been, I think, 50 arrests in Iran and. No, no, I'm sorry, there's been 19 deaths in Iran of protesters. There were. I had it written down here the last time. There were 500 deaths and 20, 20,000 people jailed. That's not happening this time. Why? Because Donald Trump said, hey, you're not going to touch your protesters. If you do, we're locked and loaded. And they're taking him seriously. But he has so much of that capital now in his bag, and he's not afraid to use. Use it, because, as I said yesterday, he's playing to win. You may not like it. I may not like what some of the things he's doing or how he's doing it. I'm not. If any of this is true. I'm not sure how I feel about some of this. Part of a big part of me is like, finally, finally, we're playing to win. We're not playing to go, okay, well, we're going to go back and we're going to, we're going to hobble it together, and we're going to be our own little. No, he's playing it to say we are going to dominate because when America is really strong, the rest of the world can be free. He's playing it so America has a completely, a completely new century ahead. Like the 1900s in the 20th century. That was the American century. He's saying this century, the 21st century, can be a new American century. And I'm playing it to win it. Never seen anybody do it. And he's doing it by building the arsenal of democracy. What was that, fdr? We're going to build tanks, we're going to build guns, we're going to build ships, we're going to build the things that we need for war. What is today's arsenal? Oil, power, tech, rare earth minerals. We're going to build the arsenal so this hemisphere does not have to worry and depend on Europe or China because they're. I really think he's written them off. They're lost. We're going to make sure this hemisphere stands. That's what's really happening.