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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
Okay, let's say hello to Stu and also to Jason Butrell. And let me start here. Yesterday, the president said something I thought a little shocking in the press conference while he was in a press conference with Pam Bondi. It was not a press conference. It was a Cabinet meeting. And by the way, this press conference lasted about two hours, which is longer than, I believe, all of the Cabinet meetings that Joe Biden held over four years, all of them combined. I think just the press conference in that Cabinet room was longer. But he, he starts out and one of the first questions is about Epstein and goes to Pam Bondi. And the president stops dead in tracks. And do we have the audio, please? Here's what he said.
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Jason Buttrell
Jeffrey Epstein.
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Glenn Beck
It left some lingering mysteries. One of the biggest ones is whether.
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Jason Buttrell
He ever worked for a American or foreign intelligence agency.
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Stu Burguiere
The former labor secretary who was Miami U.S. attorney Alex Kosvi, allegedly said that he did work for an intelligence agency.
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Glenn Beck
So could you resist whether or not he did? And also could you say why there was a minute missing from the jailhouse.
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Jason Buttrell
Tape on the night of Saturday?
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Kristi Noem
Yeah, sure.
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Glenn Beck
If I could I just interrupt one second. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking. We have Texas, we have this. We have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time and do you feel like answering?
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Kristi Noem
I don't mind answering.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we're having some of the greatest success and, and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just Seems like a desecration. Okay. That seemed odd to me because he ran on Jeffrey Epstein. He ran on, I'm going to release everything. So there's a couple of ways to look at this. He feels he did release everything. There's nothing to see here. Okay, the. And if that is true, then quite honestly, I stand by what I said yesterday. Pam Bondi should be fired for the way she rolled this out. It was horrible. It's one of the worst rollouts of quote, unquote, the truth I've ever seen. You know, just the, just, just, just the videotape alone. Now, she came out and she said, well, there's that one minute. Okay, that's fine. That one minute, I don't think is enough to show, you know, anything. It was edited, we thought yesterday, and she said it comes out. And every year or every day there's a reset just before midnight. I checked with, you know, security experts. That's absolutely true. Not all systems do that, but some systems do. There's a whole bunch of things we could go down that road on, but we don't need to. But why wouldn't you say that? Why would you. How did you miss that one minute? Okay, second thing, it's not pointing at the door. It shows nothing. It shows nothing. But we can nitpick for every, you know, for everything. I personally think we have seen a massive change in the White House and in the, the way this was being handled at first. We're going to release everything, and then I have it on my desk. Then I have it on my desk and I'm going to release it probably tomorrow. And then when that didn't happen, then it was the FBI in New York. This all Pam bonding. The FBI in New York is thwarting our efforts. And there are people in New York that are, that are trying to keep this information away from us. And now there's nothing. Nobody was arrested for trying to keep information away from her. What is that? That's mass incompetence. Mass incompetence. So she should be fired. He's not going to fire her. Because I think there's also something else going on. I think, you know, and people are like, well, that's that, you know, Donald Trump. That's because he says name is in it. No, no, no, it's not. If you believe Donald Trump, the guy has models hanging off of every single finger that he has. If he wants the models, he's got the models and they're all over age. And it doesn't seem to me that he's ever shown any. Any. I mean, just. That's stupid to believe that he would be with a 15 year old girl. Stupid. Are there people like that? Yeah, I don't think he's one of them. And he had a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein and everything else. So I just don't believe that that is the deal. And I think you're wildly misguided if you do, but to each his own, I guess. Now what do I think possibly happened? I personally believe that he was an operative. I think he was an intelligence operative. And, you know, you can say all you want, but when you're President of the United States and the intelligence agencies come to you and sit you down and say, okay, here's what happens, Mr. President, when you release this. You have. Let's just say there wasn't 5,000 people involved. There was four. Four. One of them was Prince Andrew. Okay, so, all right, go ahead, release that. You know what that says? That says that he was an operative working for us and Prince Andrew was caught in this honey trap. So now the United States of America just took one of their biggest, oldest allies and roped this guy into a honey trap for What? For what, Mr. President? For what? I don't know for what. Yeah, well, maybe we got nothing out of that, but this was a CIA OPER operation and it just happened to backfire on our biggest ally. Do you think the world is going to stand for that with everything else that we've done? No, I don't. Now, I don't know. I don't know what decision I would make. If I were President of the United States, I would think, I would hope that. I would say release it because we have to clean it up. Not my fault. Not my fault. Happened years ago. We're not doing it anymore. And I'm making sure. And the only way to make sure that we disinfect is to fire all the people that were involved, make sure that it doesn't happen again, and make an example out of people, that's what I would hope I would do. That's what I would hope the President would do. But I have a feeling that he's not afraid of him being exposed. He's not afraid of him being killed by the CIA. I think he is making a decision that he believes is right for the country, but he's not gonna say that now. Why would I, Why would I jump to this conclusion? Because Donald Trump is a very, very, very smart guy and he knows how to handle the press and everything else. What did he do. Instead of saying, Pam, you blew this rolling it out. Look, America, there's nothing going on here. There's nothing going on and I'm gonna get to work on other things. But I understand, cuz we talked about it on the campaign trail, so I understand your interest in this, but there's nothing. Instead what he said was what a stupid question that is. Have you ever heard of a dumber question? With all the stuff that's going on, Pam, do you even want to answer that dumb question? Yeah, I'll take it, Mr. President. I just, I mean, and then looking right at the reporter, I can't believe you even asked that question. What a stupid question that is. What did he just do? He made sure in that room there was only one question about Epstein. Had he not done that, there would have been follow up questions. What Donald Trump just did was single one reporter out and say, you're going to be that stupid to ask that question. Now nobody wants to ask the follow up question and only a few people will. Now, I'm not a reporter, we will continue to follow this story. But I have a feeling until you have somebody like Shellenberger that are going to dedicate their whole thing to exposing this, because I do think there's stuff here, but until you have Shellenberger or somebody like that going after it and, and, and really doing, you know, 247 kind of gumshoe work, I don't think you're going to find anything else. Nothing else is coming from the government that was clear yesterday. That's all you get. That's it, it's over, Move on. I don't suggest we move on, but that's all the information we're going to get officially. Okay, now let me change to another story that has been brewing since July 4th that is really important and as the days go on, it gets more and more important. There was an attack on July 4th on ice. And this is looking more and more well coordinated. And there are three stories that I want to tie together that will show you what is coming. We can talk about Epstein and I think it's very important that we do. We can talk about Epstein, but that is only going to solve what was in the past as well as what is still in intel. But this one is on the near horizon and I think we need to talk about this one in depth today. So you are prepared because I think we're on the verge of a massive change in tactics here in the United States. And I'll get to that in 60 seconds. First let me tell you about our sponsor. This half hour. It's cozy earth. You know, when I leave the studio, you know, after a four hour shift, I mean, I am all tuckered out, really. I mean, it's basically, it's a full body workout. You know, when I say four hours, I mean four hours. That's half an hour commute to the studio, then a half hour commute back. 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Stay cozy with cozy earth@cozyearth.com cozyearth.com 10 seconds. Station ID. Okay, it's July 4th. Let me take you back to a Prairie Earth detention center. Now this is like 25 miles outside of Dallas, Texas. It's an ice facility. And on July 4th at night, about 10 to 12 people, all in black garb, dressed really in military garb and with military gear, the flak jackets, you know, bulletproof vests, et cetera, et cetera. 10 to 12 people come and they start firing fireworks at the facility. Okay? Then the crowd kind of breaks up a little bit. They kind of, there's two people that break off to the side and they go after these ice vehicles and they start, you know, spray painting ice pigs and everything else that brings out the two ice officers. Two of them come out unarmed and they come out to try to get the guys to stop spray painting the, the, the trucks and the vans, etc, etc. When they do, snipers in the woods, unseen until now, snipers in the woods start firing at this guy. These guys, one of them is hit in the neck. Thank God he didn't die. But he's hit in the neck, they're unarmed. Then everybody scatters. What does this mean? Jason is in? Because we've been talking about it yesterday and we talked about it early this morning, and this. He believes, and I do, too, that this is a change now that we're going to start seeing in the future from the left. Because we've got two other stories to link to this, but let's focus on this one first.
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Jason Buttrell
Jason, I'm just shocked that this is not getting a lot more attention in the media, but the way this attack was carried out, it shows complexity. It shows.
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Glenn Beck
So wait, wait, wait, wait. I read that it said that it's. This was a very complex operation. It really doesn't sound like it sounds like you got a couple of guys in the woods, you got 10 or 15 people throwing off fireworks, and then you have some people spray painting. So what do you mean it's complex?
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Jason Buttrell
Like it sounds. It's. I mean, if you've ever seen like a military movie or if you actually know military tactics, this is the kind of plan that they would actually execute. This was not just a bunch of, like, thug. Well, they are thugs, but this is not just a bunch of random people with no plan that decided to piss off the ICE facility and get some news. They had a force in reserve out in the woods, concealed. They had a plan is what it sounds like, to make a distraction, then another plan to draw people out. The people that were in reserve waited for all of this to happen. They didn't join in, you know, with like an anger rage mob. That's not what this was. This was a step by, step by step plan to hurt someone. That's what this was. And if you're looking at the evolution, I know there's a lot of veterans right now that are listening and saying, wait a minute, this sounds very, very familiar. This kind of sounds like what I saw in Afghanistan. This kind of sounds like what I saw in Fallujah.
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Glenn Beck
Yep.
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Jason Buttrell
And you would be right.
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Glenn Beck
It is. So this is why. This is why this is so important. This has now changed towards military operations, at least military style operations. This is not just a group of, you know, thugs that are, you know, getting wild and then shooting things up. As, as Jason just said, this was a well thought out plan to draw people out. We saw this in Idaho with the fire. Start the fire, bring the firefighters up, and then be waiting for them and then shoot them. That's a plan. And the plans are starting to go, go towards military or terrorist, like, activity. Now there's a second story, Stu. The USAID color revolution. If let me just remind you, USAID was a CIA front, okay? Everyone says no, it was an aid organization. And 16 million people. This is an actual story headline I read last week. 16 million people are going to die because they cut the funding for usaid. Bull crap is USAID was started by the Kennedy administration and it might have been started with good intent, but it was to stop the military, the CIA. He shut down one organization from the CIA that was an absolute front and said we're going to stop that, we're going to do good with usaid. Well, the CIA just infiltrated the USAID and they started doing the same thing. This is the group of people that started color revolutions all over the world, which was how to topple a nation. And we did it all over the world with our CIA. And everybody wants to deny it. When they cut usaid, what they did was cut the CIA. Now listen to what's happened recently and what is happening currently.
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Stu Burguiere
We should note that what you just said is obviously a conspiracy theory.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, right.
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Stu Burguiere
That, that is not. They don't do any of those things.
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Glenn Beck
No, of course not.
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Stu Burguiere
Now separate from that, this is what they're now admitting. Some of the democracy building experts, quote unquote, President Donald Trump fired this year from USAID in the State Department are now reapplying their skills and knowledge that they built up over decades to undermine Trump's power. Take it from those who worked in authoritarian countries. This is a quote from them. One of these workers, anonymous worker, we, we've become one an authoritarian country. They were so quick to disband aid the group that was supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they've done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well trained individuals into your population. If you just kept your offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer for.
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Glenn Beck
You to keep your regime. Now this sounds like a patriotic aid group, doesn't it? So now what they're saying here is that they are plotting regime change in our own country. And here's what they've started to do, they're starting to do now. Workshops.
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Augustus Dorico
Yeah, they are.
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Stu Burguiere
Let's see if I can find that part of it. Former officials reportedly told this news outlet, this is notice is the news outlet that reported on this.
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Glenn Beck
Just want you to know former officials of usaid, they are holding workshops on.
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Stu Burguiere
A tactic called non cooperation. They're building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. They're planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike. Some in the informal network of the Trump opponents are sharing an old CIA pamphlet with allies who still work in the government. It's called simple sabotage.
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Glenn Beck
So your aid workers are now engaging in sabotage and color revolution. The aid workers of usaid. And you have Democrats that have been so convinced that USAID is going to start starve people to death because he cut it. And now the aid workers, quote, unquote, are planning revolution. GLENN Beck There's a third story yet to get to hang on. Now, for every cyber criminal who gets caught and thrown into jail, you gotta wonder how many never get caught, how many fake accounts are still out there using stolen information to apply for loans and rent apartments and file tax returns in somebody else's name. And the thing, the thing is you, you don't always know it's happening to you until it's been happening for months. And this is why I recommend LifeLock. They monitor your identity across the dark web, all of the credit applications, Social Security use, and they alert you at all suspicious activity in real time. They ask you, because we've had these alerts, are you applying for. Nope, that's not us. Okay, got it. And then they take care of it. Their US based restoration specialists, their teams work to clean it all up and they back it with a million dollars in coverage for expenses and lawyers and everything else. It's not paranoia if the bad guys are really out there to get you and in this case, they're out there to get your personal information and all of your money. LifeLock is the best preparation because the good guys don't always catch every bad guy. Protect yourself with LifeLock. Join now. Save up to 40% off your first year with a promo code BECK called 1-800-LIFELOCK 1800 lifelock or lifelock.com promo code.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
I want to show you this pattern before we get to the the last story of three. First we have the ambush of ice on July 4th. This was a military style operation. This is the left beginning to act like military or terrorists. Then you have the USAID the color revolution. People that everybody has been duped into believing, oh, that's Donald Trump taking food. I'm so sick of these people taking food out of children's mouths because it says AID in usaid. This is a CIA operation. That's what it is. Open your fricking eyes, people. I'm sorry, I'm not. I'm speaking to a very small audience right now. I am sorry, I'm not speaking to you. It's a CIA operation. It is not Donald Trump stopping weather. It's not Donald Trump causing tornadoes and floods. It's not Donald Trump getting us into another war. It's not Donald Trump starving little children. This is an abomination to our country. Color revolutions are a thing that we all know about or should know about. We've been doing it and it's what causes people to hate our guts. We go in and we say we know better and we are State Department. And USAID goes in under the guise of aid and we topple government after government after government. Now they announce the people in USAID now have said to the press, boy, Donald Trump sure made a mistake because he's unleashed all of us who are experts in color revolution. And so now we're gonna topple this regime. That's just Donald Trump just making up. You know that's a right wing conspiracy. Believe what you want. I am not, I am not fighting those people anymore. If that's what you believe, fine. Good luck with that. That's the second story. Now let me give you the third story. The third story we talked about yesterday, how now Democrat lawmakers, Democrats are now coming out and saying they're start. They're beginning to be afraid of their own constituents because these are, well, I'm quoting them, well educated white people. Wow, what a racist thing to say. Well educated white people who are now saying, we need blood. You're not doing enough. Maybe one of you should get shot so we can wake people up. We are here. We are now here at the chalkboard that I put up 12 years ago, 15 years ago, anarchists, communists, socialists, Islamists, they will, all these radicals will work together to destabilize and overthrow first Israel, then Europe and then the United States. We're here and what is coming is really not good. And everything that this government does to protect you is going to be fascistic. And it will only lead to more division and it will only lead to more people saying, see, I told you they were fascists. You know, at some point this, this Constitution cannot hold because there's not enough people that will listen to the Constitution. There's not enough people that believe in the Bill of Rights. There's not enough people who are good enough, decent enough, God fearing enough to actually hold this thing together. It is wholly unac. Inadequate for a A religious and amoral society, a, A, a system of freedom requires you to be intelligent. It requires you to do your own homework. It requires you to know history. It requires you to think and ask critical questions. If you don't do that, if you're just spoon fed, if you think you can just parachute into very complex questions and complex situations with no information other than what you got off of social media, you're gonna lose your country. Congratulations. I hope you're happy. And you know what's great is once you. Once everything's really falling apart and we're controlled by some foreign power or we're all just living like Mad Max, you're gonna be able to blame it on Donald Trump. Good for you. You'll be able to say, I was right. Good for you. Pay attention. I don't know how to do my job anymore. I really don't. I really don't. I try to be reasonable. I try to listen to both sides. I try to understand. Just did it with Jeffrey Epstein. Could be, could be. Don't know. You know, it's funny. I used to do this joke when I was on tour. I did, I think the Christmas tour, I did. And I told stories of my grandfather. And my grandfather was the greatest storyteller ever. I loved him, but he was a, he was a liar. He was a liar. I mean, he was a great storyteller. And so he could tell stories and he could move people and he could. And he never had a bad thought in his heart, ever. He would always say, look, you know, and I'll tell you a story sometime. But he would always say, look, they're happy and we're happy. I'm like, yeah, but Grandpa, you just kind of conned them into that. Yeah, but they don't know that they're happy. No, no, no. Okay. And in our family, we don't know what's true. In our family history, we have no idea what's true. Because Grandpa would mix truth, See if this sounds familiar. Mix truth with fiction. And he did it just to tell stories, just to tell great stories to the family. And so we know there are stories that are absolutely not true because Grandma would say, not true. I was there. Didn't happen. There were stories that Grandma was there, and she'd say, absolutely, I was there. It happened just like that. And you can't tell the difference because they're both outrageous. And then we're left with a collection of stories. The family that Grandma, because we went before grandma died, we went and asked her all these questions. Okay, Is this one true? Is this one true? And there was a third category. True, not true, and could be, don't know, could be. That's where we are as a nation. That's true. That's not true. And could be. And we may never find out the real answer on could be. And that doesn't help anybody. But there are things that we know to be true today. We know them to be true. And those are the only things we have power over. I can't say that those are the only things that we should be really concentrating on. We don't have power over any of this. You think I'm going to make a difference? You think you're going to make a difference? Now, I know this sounds bad to you right now. Sounds like everything opposite of what I've said, but it's not. We. We have to choose the things that we really, truly have power over. And the things we really have power over is how we react to things. The only thing we really have power over is us as individuals. And that's how you save the country. Not by saying, you know what? Epstein, he was a CIA agent, which I believe he was either CIA or he was a. He was Mossad, I don't know. But he was an intel guy. That's what I believe. But what difference does that make? What difference does that make? I can't change anything by just saying that over and over again and making that the hill I die on. We can't change anything on that. Now, that doesn't mean that I don't have researchers looking into it. Doesn't mean that I don't pay attention to stories. But me just saying that over and over again makes no difference at all. What really makes a difference? What is the only thing in the world that really matters? Well, quite honestly, nothing in the world, everything that really matters is spiritual. The only thing that will really change the world is spiritual. It's the only thing that's going to save your family. It's the only thing that's going to save our country, and it's the only thing we actually have power over. So when I'm saying I don't know how to do my job anymore, I am so sick and tired. I am so. It is clear to me now. I have been wrong before. And, you know, one of my mottos now in the last 15 years has been, the only thing I'm certain of is that I'm not certain of anything. Because could be, but I've done enough homework to know, and quite honestly, I Have been blessed enough to have given some foresight on some of the really bad things that are coming. I don't know when they come. I'm always wrong on timing, but look at the track record. Not my track record, his track record. It's pretty clear. I'm so sick of it. I'm so sick of just wasting my breath every day when I. What I should be doing is just focusing on spiritual things and, and focusing on. I try to be a better person every day. And then I had to do a monologue like I just did. I say this joking all the time. I don't know how I got this job. And I say this joking all the time, but I mean it today, boy. Raise your standards, America. I don't know how I. I don't. I mean, this is the best you got. This show me. Really? That's the best you got? Because I don't know what the hell I'm doing besides our best. That's something I really want to try to do. I really want to start just saying about people, they're doing the best they can. They don't know. God forgive them. They have no idea what they're doing. They're just doing the best they can. And maybe on days like today, I'll get that in return. He's doing the best he can. All right, back in just a second. First, let me tell you about Simply Safe. One of the best ways to protect your house is to sit on the couch all day guarding that front door. You know, for all your words, just. You just eat there, you sleep there some. At some point, maybe your skin can just graft with the couch. It'll be great. Never leave your post. You are the human alarm system. You know, and things couldn't be much more perfect than that. Except reality check. You got a job, you have a kid, you have lives, you know, to lead. And, and you step away for, let's say, four minutes using the bathroom. Even if you're on that couch, somebody, something's going to go wrong. I mean, that'll be the four minutes. 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Stu Burguiere
Let me tell you a little bit about fish oil.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Fish oil.
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Stu Burguiere
Like you have these people who are kind of giving you these big promises, right? Improved cholesterol, lower blood pressure, less joint pain.
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Glenn Beck
Many I drink it on cereal.
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Stu Burguiere
You drink. But I saw him this morning. You put it right on a cereal.
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Glenn Beck
And like I get the milk, this fish oil. I just squeeze fish into my cereal, right?
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Stu Burguiere
They're not even, they're not even tablets with you.
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Glenn Beck
You take the actual fish, I squeeze the fish.
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Stu Burguiere
Perhaps maybe you could try something else. Let me give you another beyond fish presses.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Do I have to squeeze krill or press krill?
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You don't have. They're gonna do all of it.
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Glenn Beck
They're doing it for me.
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Stu Burguiere
However that process happens, you don't have to think about it.
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Glenn Beck
Wow. Yep.
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Glenn Beck
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Kristi Noem
Hey Glenn, thanks so much for having me on.
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Glenn Beck
Thank you. I'm sorry to drag you over into two days here, but I appreciate your willingness to do so yesterday. I want to, I want to now talk about, I mean, the first part of your book is stunning. What you saw personally. Just five feet away from the President, you're on the ground covered by a Secret Service agent while he's on the ground covered by a sir. And you can hear everything he's saying. And then you see him, you know, you saw him before. Then he calls you the next day because you were supposed to go on the plane with him. And he calls you the next day like seven or eight times. You, in your book, you really explain what happened afterwards with the crowd, which I've never seen anywhere else. And you explain red state America in a way that if people cared to know the truth about who we really are, they would read it and they would understand and they would see, oh my gosh, they're not monsters. They really do believe some of these things. You know, that about America and that's how they live their lives. But let's go in now to the shooter. Who was he? How did it happen? How did nobody catch it? What happened on the roof? And why did nobody care?
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Kristi Noem
Yeah. You know, Thomas Matthew Crooks, in many ways, Glenn is very symbolic of the collapse of very once trusted institutions in our country that have failed us all the way around. So what do I mean by that? So this was not, first of all, when it comes to my profession, this is not something that has been deeply investigated in the way that shiny objects are given to detail by some of the best investigative journalists in this country. There was no, there was a complete void of intellectual curiosity to get to the bottom of this. The other problem is the collapse of our trust. At one time, one of the most vaunted parts of our government and that is our Secret Service. Right. The competency, the incompetency of that day, the failure to loop everyone together. Which by the way, was one of the most important instructions from 9 11. Right. Our agencies didn't talk to each other.
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Glenn Beck
That's why we created the Patriot Act.
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Kristi Noem
Exactly. So how in the heck can you, knowing that there's going to be 50,000 people there in a wide open farm field with trees, a water tower and outbuildings all surrounding the perimeter in very close range of the stage. How is it that there was no communication set up between the different agencies? How is it that it wasn't fully and robustly staffed? And given that they know this information that he is already the target of Iran. How is this even possible? So he's also symbolic of that, but he's also symbolic. And we don't talk about this enough in a meaningful way in how we handle mental illness in this country. We shove it aside, we pretend it's not happening, we try to medicate it. Mostly people try to ignore it. And this is a young man, for all intents and purposes, had pretty much led a normal but quiet life, that after Covid and all the isolation that went along with that, he began to unravel. And the. And that unraveling happened at a warp speed in the last six months of his life. And he was this, you know, this should have been a red flag to someone who cared about him. He's at the gun range almost every day. Went down to the gun range and checked the logs. He is there almost every day. And he's there not just on. During the, you know, a regular day, but he's also there on days like Thanksgiving and Christmas and Valentine's Day. That tells you this is someone that is lonely and this is someone is isolated, and this is someone who has no support system around him. The challenge with.
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Glenn Beck
Hang on, hang on, hang on just a second. I could see, because I, you know, I'm a parent. I could see as a parent, you know, you don't understand how kids are growing up today. You don't understand the world they live in at all. And I could see, I mean, I used to spend, you know, working at a radio station, 13, 14, 15 years old. I was gone all the holidays. I spent it. And you could say, well, he's isolated, he's lonely. Or you could say he's just really into this and he's, you know, doing something about it, and it's what he loves, and let's let him get him through this period. So why is this a sign of mental illness?
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Kristi Noem
Well, it's a sign of isolation and loneliness. And that means there's a vulnerability there.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Kristi Noem
And as a parent, we're always keenly aware of vulnerabilities in our children or if we have friends, and they may mean nothing, but they also mean. Mean something profound. And that gets to my fourth problem is just the sort of collapse of the American family and how we take care of our children and how we watch our children and do we put a screen in front of them? Right. Is that how we medicate them? Right. Is that how we get them to just be calm and quiet and go in another room? Because we don't want to Deal with it.
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Augustus Dorico
And so can I present another option here?
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Glenn Beck
And it's just because I just finished raising two teenagers. It's not necessarily because. Because you want to just go in the other room, be quiet. You have no idea. Selena, I raised four kids a generation apart, and I got to tell you, raising the first set was not the same as raising the second set and totally different from my childhood. And you spend a lot of time thinking, okay, this is not a good thing, but how do I deal with this without setting making things worse? How do I, you know, what kind of space do I give them? Because they are teenagers and they have to rebel. How do I remain in their life? I mean, it is so complex now to be able to raise teenagers. And you are seeing major signs, but you don't necessarily know that that's a major sign, or if it is, you don't have any idea how to deal with it.
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Kristi Noem
Absolutely. You know, in the book, I have the transcript of his father calling the police. And you can tell in that conversation and in the details that he is giving the 9. 911 operator that he had a feeling something was going on with his son, that he. He reveals it in. Every parent will read that and say. And every parent that's had a child that they've been concerned about will read that and say he knew something was wrong. And this. This is a young man, by the way, his grandfather was a Vietnam War, not just a Vietnam War veteran. He was a Vietnam War officer in the military. Very highly respected man in the community, very involved in the community. When he passed away 10 years before last year, he wrote in the obituary his great love for his grandson. And you fast forward to today where his wife, Thomas Crooked Thomas, Matthew Cook's grandmother says she wants nothing to do with this family and hasn't for a while. So what happened, you know, and part of the challenge in reporting about him is that the family lawyered up. He was cremated, and the Secret Service was giving absolutely no information. There's only. So I know, I know there's other investigative journalists. I will be the first to say that is not my skill set. You know, I can go so far, but. But, you know, records and things like that, you know, the way that they can do it like that. Yeah, that's not, you know, my biggest skill set. But, you know, going into the community, talking to the neighbors, talking to people, you know, reexamining this life, it paints a picture that, you know, in hindsight, you could say, well, the warning signs were there.
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Glenn Beck
So was this what motivated him.
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Kristi Noem
The problem with this young man is that he left no digital footprint, which is very rare. That weird, that is, for someone his age. It could be as simple. I have gone back and forth in my. In my head and in conversation, conversations with people. It could be as simple in his decline in mental health that he was laughed off of the rifle team because his shot was so bad and he didn't make the team just a couple years earlier. And he wanted to prove to everyone that he was a good shot. And there doesn't seem to be any evidence that this was politically motivated because. Because he had registered as a Republican, but he also demonstrated or gave money to Democrats. So it doesn't appear to be ideological as much as I'm going to. To me, this is my takeaway. I'm going to prove to everyone I am good at this. I am a sharpshooter. And screw everyone that laughed at me that day. You know, think about the movie, Harry. Right? Everybody's laughing.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Kristi Noem
Right. Think about that and the vulnerability of that teenager. Nobody's laughing anymore. I made those shots.
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Glenn Beck
So what about the. The phones that had connections to, you know, foreign, you know, operatives or whatever that was? Anything there, Selena?
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Kristi Noem
Not that we know of. But I do know that this is something that's still being investigated and still being uncovered. And I think part of the reason why it's still being investigated is because it wasn't investigated as robustly as it should have been last year.
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Glenn Beck
So we have several things going on, it seems, at once, including the press. As you said yesterday, you were on the ground with a Secret Service agent on top of you. You were hearing the President, you're seeing the blood, and reporters are already saying that the President was hit by a shard of glass. There was no real interest in pursuing this story because they knew, I think they knew this was going to do really good things for his campaign.
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Kristi Noem
Yeah, I think they saw this and looked at it and said, oh, boy, this is going to have an impact. And they did whatever they could to muffle it. I mean, three days later, we're talking about Joe Biden dropping out as the biggest story. And I'm thinking I'm still got bruises all over myself, wondering how are we not talking about this? I'm going to the funeral of Corey Campatore and seeing a family completely shredded. And I'm just. So you read throughout the book, as I continue to cover this election, as everything is changing in such fast motion, in ways that people, when they read this book, they will Say I had. I had. Why weren't people reporting this? You know, and it was so frustrating for me. I sometimes imagine myself as sort of like Snoopy jumping up and down and screaming, and nobody's hearing me because there was so much happening. And also, I also covered the Harris campaign and the unbelievable decisions that they made that nobody wrote about, nobody covered, nobody thought. This is a red flag.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, hang on. We're gonna get into that here. Just a second. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Let me take a quick break. We'll get back with Selina Zito. The name of the book is Butler Butler. It's really good. Preborn. You never meet, necessarily, the young woman that you may have helped. You may save her life and her child's life at the exact same time. When she's really in trouble, you're saving it, but you don't necessarily meet. But when a woman faces an unplanned pregnancy, it's not just a sudden medical decision she faces. It's an emotional and spiritual crossroads. She's afraid, she's alone, and there you are. Without even being there. She's been sold a solution maybe everybody else in her life has given her. That doesn't bring her peace. It only brings her lifelong regret. And the dirty little secret about abortion is it's never a get out of jail free card. It's been hyped up to be that by the left. But it's not. Preborn with you are there in that moment, offering a free ultrasound to help that woman see her child, hear the heartbeat, and find hope again. These moments change lives. In fact, over half the women who see that ultrasound choose life. And here's the thing. Preborn doesn't take a dime of government money, nor will they ever. Every ultrasound is funded, exactly from people just like you. Will you stand with preborn? Help a mom and the child? One ultrasound is only $28. 5 or $140. To donate, just dial pound 250. Say the keyword baby. That's pound 250, keyword baby. Or visit preborn.com beck that's preborn.com beck sponsored by Preborn. 10 seconds. Station ID. And we're back with Selena Z. Selena, I only have a couple more minutes here. Tell me what you mean by what was happening that was unreal by the Kamala Harris campaign.
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Kristi Noem
So Harris spent the bulk of her time in Pennsylvania and an oversized amount of time in Pittsburgh. The western part of the state is more conservative, more excited to vote, and more influential in the decision of who becomes President. And in that time, she barely interacted with voters. She didn't do the things that are necessary to win over someone who is uncertain. Every event was closed to the public. Most of them were attended by the SEI Social Justice Union. These are people who are already going to vote for her. And so there's no ability for people to kick the tires. She also made decisions. There's this famous neighborhood in Pittsburgh. I know you've been there because you ordered primancies from there. And it is. It is a. It's called the Strip district. There are 120 plus businesses there. They're. All of them are small businesses except for one. She picks the one that's a franchise. It's called Penzies. And Penzies is so against Republicans, it's on the splash page of the business that the owner hates Republicans and they are not welcome. That's where she chooses to go in and do a stage event and not. It shows the voter she is not interested in someone that's independent or conservative. She is not interested in you. And she is more interested in someone that only shares her beliefs. Like those small details matter, they matter to a voter, especially someone very local. They see her at Penzies. There's a sign there that says Republicans aren't welcome. And that's where she goes.
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Glenn Beck
Selena is a great book. And it's more than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was just going to be about the president getting shot and the aftermath of that. But you have, have woven such a great story on who the American people are, how this dramatically changed the campaign in so many different. I mean, it was like it just set off a chain of dominoes and changed and brought us where we are today. So thank you for that, Selena Zito.
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Kristi Noem
Thank you so much, my friend.
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Glenn Beck
And. And a great, great book. A must read. Grab it now. It just went on sale yesterday. It's called Butler by Selena Zito Butler. All right, when we come back, we're gonna look at some more of the news that has to be discussed in a minute. This is Glenn Beck. You know, whether you're walking the streets of that big buzzing city you call home or stepping out across the vast, quiet fields of the American Midwest, you know what pain feels like. It's a shared human experience. No matter where you live, no matter who you vote for. The near knees flare up the back that locks, the stiffness that makes a flight of stairs feel like Mount Everest sometimes for years. We've been told the same thing. Well, it's Just part of aging. It's just part of getting older. But it doesn't have to be. Relief factor is a daily supplement formulated to fight pain at the stores. Inflammation. It's not just some quick fix that only helps a little. And it's not a numbing agent. It is scientifically backed. It's a natural approach that works with your body and millions of people have tried it and it's changed everything for millions. I'm one of them. Used to have pain in my hands so severe I thought I was gonna have to give up my career because I just couldn't. My hands were just curling up into a ball all the time. Looked ridiculous. I couldn't paint. I couldn't write anymore. I got my life back. Try their three week quick start. Three week quick start. Try it for 1995. All you have to do is go to relieffactor.com or call 800 the number for relief 800 the number four relief. Reliefactor.com 800 for relief.
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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're very glad you're here. Jason Buttrell is with us, our chief researcher. And Jason, what are we doing? Is today Tuesday or today's Wednesday, right?
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Jason Buttrell
Wednesday, believe so.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. What are we doing on today's TV show tonight?
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Jason Buttrell
We're looking at the potential new mayor of New York City, mom Donnie. And this gathering storm of almost accepted communism and socialism in America. It's, it's not going away. And, and what are the, what are the potential cues that we can take from what this means for us in the future?
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Glenn Beck
Well, as you couple that with what we talked about in the first hour of the podcast, where the left is changing and they're starting to develop military strategies, as we saw evidenced on the July 4th weekend where the left came out in black battle gear, really? And did something that really is a military operation and, and shot members of the ice team just 25 miles out of Dallas. You might not have heard about it because, well, it happened over the holiday and the media doesn't care. But we talked about it at length in our number one, coupled with two other stories that are very, very disturbing that shows what's coming. Now you add the communist part of it and you're starting to see how we are being surrounded. We have the communists, the anarchists, the socialists, the Islamists and the radicals. That's what my chalkboard said. Would all team up. And I said they don't necessarily aren't going to plan it together, which shockingly many of them have, but they are all going to recognize a time. It's go time now, now, now, go get them. And we're at that time and it is critical that you understand and how our, our school systems have completely failed us. You know, nobody knows what communism is. Communism killed more people than Nazism did by far. Communism has killed more, more people in the last 100 years than I'm pretty sure all of the disease in the world combined. I mean, it is, it's crazy how deadly that is. And yet we're not teaching any of that to our kids. And they are here now and they have coupled with the radicals and the Islamists and you're going to see it all tonight.
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Jason Buttrell
Yeah, I'm so struck by some of the shows we've done just over the past year to two years that are just kind of all coming together. We did a show, it was a Wednesday night special, talking about how there were radicals, this was back during the BLM antifa period, talking about how some of these radicals were quoting from communists in Syria and actually getting training. I don't know if you remember this, but getting training from the communist fighters, the Kurds in northern Syria. I think about Stu talking about usaid. You remember that story that we did, that show? We did another Wednesday night special. We were talking about Obama's ambassador to Moscow. Remember him? Michael McFaul. Before Michael McFaul even met with Vladimir Putin as our ambassador, he met with the people, the street activists. He met with them before he met with Putin. And I just want to quote this from a Russian publication. This is what he told them. He said, quote, most of the specialists in Russia are diplomats, specialists in security, arms control, Russian culture. I'm neither. I'm an expert on democracy, anti dictatorial movements, revolutions. He said this to the Russian people. And then he also. This is something that we pointed out. He created something called the seven pillars, which was how to overthrow a government in a color revolution. These are the kinds of people that even to this day, Glenn are still praising usaid.
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Glenn Beck
I can't remember the seven pillars. Do you happen to have them off the top of your head, the seven pillars?
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Jason Buttrell
I'm just so nerdy that I do, Glenn. I have them right here.
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Glenn Beck
Of course you do.
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Jason Buttrell
So I think this is interesting in the context these would be used as we move towards an election. So think about these strategies being used, let's say during the midterms or during the next election. Number one, a semi autocratic rather than fully autocratic regime. That's what they need. They want to show that. Number two, an unpopular incumbent, make him as unpopular as possible. That you use this for the street movements, the ICE protests, all that stuff.
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Glenn Beck
Could they make him more unpopular than he's been made? He's the most. He's the most beloved and hated man in the country. Yeah.
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Jason Buttrell
Number three, a united and organized opposition. Got that to this as we speak. Forming. Number four, an ability to quickly drive home the point that voting results were falsified. What they accused us of. I guarantee you they are going to accuse again.
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Glenn Beck
Guaranteed.
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Jason Buttrell
Number five, this is kind of funny. Enough independent media to inform citizens about the falsified vote. Do they have biased propaganda like media on their side?
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Glenn Beck
I'm not sure.
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Jason Buttrell
Number six, a political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest the fraud.
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Glenn Beck
Look at. Yeah, look at that. Look at this. Look at this. So this is the way usaid, this is the way, you know, color revolutions are done. We have all of this stuff happening on our streets right now and they are starting to go become more militaristic in its nature. And it's not just here in America. Can we play cut 7? This is a montage of the protests that are happening all around Mexico City. And no surprise, they're mostly peaceful, if you discount smashing windows and looting, technically.
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Stu Burguiere
Are turning a lot of that material into pieces.
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Glenn Beck
So peaceful pieces. Yeah, yeah. So what is it they're protesting? This looks like you could see this in any city in America now from time to time. What is it they're protesting? There it is. No more gringos. Get rid of the gringos. No more Americans.
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Stu Burguiere
Look, Glenn, Death to America does not mean anything. It's got nothing to do with killing Americans. No, it's just. It's about the idea. Idea that gringos present, that's all.
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Glenn Beck
Get rid of the white people. No more white people. No more Americans. That's what they're saying now. That's what the radical left is saying. Funny, because that's really what the radical left is saying here in America as well. This is a global operation, just as I told you it would be. It is a global operation to destabilize the entire Western world and collapse us. And I have been thinking an awful lot about, by the way, Jason, you know, everything you just said about the shows that we did. All I could think of is, I cannot wait for January because we are developing a system to where all of that information on all of the shows, it'll be at your fingertips. I could have done it 25 years ago. And you won't. You won't even know how. What to ask for. You'll be able to ask for it. This is not in January. It'll first be internally facing just because of the, the, the computational expense. But we'll be able to say, what did Glenn say anything about this? And then can you go deep on it? And it will go and search my entire history and bring all of the connections, all of the documents, everything that you need to be able to study it, and you'll be able to apply it to new stories so you'll see the history of. You missed a show. You won't have to worry about it. You'll be able to. You'll be able to access all of it without even knowing what to ask for. Right now we have to know what to ask for. How many times? How long do we wait? Going wait. That wasn't exactly the right phrasing. What was the right phrasing that will bring this script up or bring this show up now? We don't have to do that as of January. It's all part of this new project that I'm dealing with. But let me, let me go back to the real story on how do we save our nation? And the only way to save our nation is to turn the hearts of people honestly back to God, but at least back to truth. How do you do that? You'll notice one of the, the pillars there, and this is all Saul Alinsky, too, is you have to paint the incumbent as a fascist dictator. Once you do that, it is really hard to go back. And it's also hard to control it. And this is what we're seeing now from the left. Yesterday I told you about how Democratic leadership, Democrats elected politicians that are Democrat, are saying they are afraid of their own constituents now because they're all starting to call for blood. Well, of course they are. You cannot paint somebody as Adolf Hitler and then. And say, we have to do everything we can to stop them and be preaching the ends, justify the means at the same time and not expect people to say, you're not doing enough. I mean, even if you have to get shot, you have to get shot. That's what their own constituents are telling people that, you know, some of you may have to die to make the point. That's a little terrifying. I don't think you can change those people. And I honestly don't even know if we can change the people that we love so much because people are so dead set on their right. We can never become those people. And I've been thinking a lot about. Do you remember the book Stu, Positioning the battleground of your mind? Came out in the 80s, maybe. Yeah. And it was right around the cola wars. And it actually, if I remember right, it helped put. It helped put Pepsi into a leadership position with Coke for at least a while. They were the choice of a new generation. Remember that? Michael Jackson and everything else. And it brought them. At least. They may have passed them for a while, but at least it brought them to parody, which way they were a distant.
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Stu Burguiere
It's what inspired New Coke, right?
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
That whole change.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
Which eventually, obviously, all of our.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. And the main point of it was, if I remember correctly, is perception versus reality. Many times in the battleground of your mind, you perceive something, and that is not reality. It's. It's how you perceive it. And this book, I have to go back and read it. But if I remember, you know, remember I'm drawing on something I read in 1980. The idea is you. You have to understand that in your competitor's mind or in the minds of others, that is reality. They perceive it that way. They perceive Donald Trump as a dictator. So it is their reality. How do you come in and challenge their reality? And when it is bound up in their life or death, that is really hard to do, especially if you have also been tied in their perception. Their reality is that you're part of the problem, that they can't trust anything that you say because you're just like him. That's what we're facing. And it's not with cola wars. It's going to be with actual street wars. If we're not careful, we could go into civil war. Because you're now dealing with half the population that says they have to be either rebooted, retrained, or we just have to get rid of them. We have to kill them. That, by the way, is fascism and communism. That's totalitarianism. And if Donald Trump would ever say anything like that about the other side, I would hope that every single one of us would be saying, no, we're not going to kill the other side. We're not going to silence them, and we're certainly not going to put them in some sort of a camp. But you've already heard those suggestions from the left because their perception is the reality. We have to start looking at this fight differently because I think we're in the real we're in the real world. We're the ones looking at reality. Truth, hopefully, is our reality. But they think the same thing about them. You're not going to win this by playing the same game that we have been playing. You might get Donald Trump in, you might get your team in, and they might make some real inroads. But how is it we're going to make these inroads and bring people back together, especially when you have forces on the inside that, as we told you in our number one of this broadcast, and we're going to tell you tonight, these forces inside are hell bent on making sure that reality stays exactly how they perceive it. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The International Fellowship, you know, wants you to look beyond the headlines. You know, ceasefire. Well, hopefully silence, maybe forthcoming peace, you know, hopefully this is over. I don't know if it will, but. But ordinary men and women, working people and their families, their homes have been reduced to rubble, their neighborhoods have been shredded by the missiles that have gotten through. Many of their lives have been shattered by grief, displacement, trauma. You know, we could, you know, people say, well, you don't care about the Palestinians. Of course we do. Of course we do. But did you see the aid workers that were trying to distribute aid? Just what was it last week? And they were all shot by Hamas. They opened fire, tried to kill them all. I mean, you can only do so much. Israel, on the other hand, we have the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews that is there trying to make things better. They're on the ground every single day and they, they supply emergency food and shelter and medical supplies. So if you can help, now is the time to stand with Israel's most innocent and vulnerable. Rush your gift now to 888-488-IFCJ 888488 ifcj or online@ifcj.org well, I guess we'll give you a minute to let all that sink in. More Glenn Beck coming up real quick. This the height of hypocrisy. AOC's brother took to Instagram to say, Ah, celebrating July 4th. For what? For whom. What a time to be silly asleep here. We failed our way into modern authoritarianism, and yet he somehow or another poor, poor distressed man was saying that from a boat on Lake Como. So apparently hasn't hurt his bank account and nobody arrested him for saying those things. Glenn Beck. So how far would you go to protect yourself or someone you love? Would you fight back? Would you Hurt somebody? Would you kill? I know I would. If one of my loved ones was at stake or my life was at stake, you bet I would. But there is another option, and especially if it's not as dire and it's farther away. Could you push that off? Yeah. The burnt launcher. That's what they offer. It's a non lethal self defense tool that looks and feels like a firearm, but it doesn't fire bullets. It fires hard pepper filled projectiles and hard pepper filled or tear gas filled projectiles that incapacitate an attacker at a distance, giving you time to escape. 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Yeah, it makes perfect sense because who needs the weather? That's. None of that's true. By the way, they said that Donald Trump, you know, fired people in the National Weather Service. And so when they were doing Texas, they didn't have enough people there. That's not true. They usually have two people on duty. That night they had five people on duty because they were prepared for this. Even Whoopi Goldberg. I mean, how far down the rapid rabbit hole do you have to be for Whoopi Goldberg to look at you go, I think you're too far down the rabbit hole. Even she said yesterday Donald Trump had nothing to do with it. She's like, I can't believe this is coming out of my mouth, but I have to say it. Well, good for you, Whoopi. At least you told the truth this time. Good for you. Now let's try to make a habit out of it. The other thing now that is going around is that cloud seeding. Cloud seeding? It killed all those people. I am not about a big cloud seeder person. I don't know much about cloud seeding. I do know somebody who knows an awful lot about it. In fact, I believe it was his company that did the cloud seeding. Just about a. I think a county away, just a couple of days before this happened. So we want to talk to him because let's hear what his answer is. Did this had anything to do with cloud seeding? We'll talk about about that in just a second. First, give me 60 seconds. The attic is a really strange place. You go up there, remember how scary it was when you were a kid that in the basement you go looking for a ranch or a suitcase and you end up finding your childhood. You know, you find all kinds of stuff now that you're adult and you're not afraid and just running to the string to pull the light on. You've got, you know, stuff that you have forgotten about. Your mom's voice, pictures of your childhood. Christmas, you know, 1994 with the kids. Whatever it is they're left up in the attic. That's heat, that's humidity. Mold. In time. 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Welcome, Augustus. How are you?
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Augustus Dorico
Hi, Glenn. I'm blessed. I appreciate you having me here. And again, still my heart and prayers go out to all the people of Texas. I'm here in Dallas now, actually, and though we didn't have Anything to do with the flooding. I still am praying for everybody affected by.
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Glenn Beck
Has got to be pretty disturbing for you to hear that you are being blamed for, you know, cloud seeding. And knowing science, I have to tell you, I don't know much about cloud seeding. It bothers me what I see over in England, but I again, haven't taken the time to really look into it. So explain what cloud seeding does and how, you know, you didn't have anything to do with that.
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Augustus Dorico
Yeah. I can also explain to you what cloud seeding does and what cloud seeding is not right, because you're referencing something from England that we can talk about in a second. So cloud seeding is a technology developed in the United states in the 1940s to increase water supply for farms, for ecosystem conservation, for reservoirs, for residences, and also our industries. Relies on identifying liquid in clouds and then releasing particulate, specifically silver iodide into those clouds that the water freezes onto into big snowflakes and then become heavy enough to fall as rain. Cloud seeding has been going on in the United States for decades. It again is paid for by farmers and utilities and government entities that want more water for their constituents. The very.
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Glenn Beck
Just a second. So I. I live up in the high desert in the summer and I have a farm and a ranch. And we pray for rain every year because it's hard, but we're in the high desert. It wouldn't work here because we don't have the clouds. Right.
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Augustus Dorico
So first of all, I think you should keep praying for rain. I'm grateful to have gotten saved when I was 20 years old and baptized in Dallas, actually. I think that this is all God's world and it's our responsibility to steward it. Right. And insofar as we can help make more water for people and ecosystems here, that's my primary interest. Just because you're in the high desert doesn't mean that you can't have cloud seeding. If there aren't clouds, then you can't make it rain more. But sometimes there are. And also the aquifers nearby are recharged from cloudier regions not so far away. And so you can actually benefit from programs nearby as well. Okay, now to clarify cloud seeding, the best operations we've ever seen from either Rainmaker's own work or the national center for Atmospheric Research or other institutions, can produce tens of millions of gallons of precipitation distributed over hundreds of square miles over the course of about an hour or two. The remnants of tropical storm barrier that blew in and Caused the flooding. That storm dumps trillions of gallons, about a million times less than what the biggest and best cloud seeding operations can do right now. Now, that said as well, when you referenced England. Right. Cloud seeding is not solar radiation modification, nor is it chemtrails. Right. Solar radiation modification is a real technology that people are investigating and developing and increasingly deploying to release reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to cool down the planet, to dim the sun and cool the planet down. Cloud seeding, although it is also in the atmosphere, I think that it's something that deserves a ton of scrutiny. Totally agree.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah.
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Augustus Dorico
But cloud seeding has nothing to do with that. Cloud seeding requires existing puffy clouds full of water to be there in order to make them precipitate a little bit more. Now, if you see a long streak in the sky behind an airplane, that also is not cloud seeding, whether that's a natural contrail or a chemtrail, I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that chemtrails are malevolently. Malevolently being put down by the government or some other nefarious party. But regardless of which it is a chemtrail or contrail, it has nothing to do with cloud seeding either, because producing clouds is not what cloud seeding does. It. Cloud seeding relies on existing clouds to make them rain more. And those long streaks in the sky, those are mostly ice. There's not enough water in them to seed in the first place. And they're also like 20,000ft higher in the atmosphere than where all of our cloud seeding operations take place.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so you went out what day? Thursday. And cloud seeded in Texas, July 2nd.
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Augustus Dorico
We flew about a 20 minute flight where we seeded two clouds, two small clouds with about 70 grams worth of silver iodide. That's about 10 skittles worth of material. And those clouds dissipated about two hours after the event.
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Glenn Beck
Any rain?
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Augustus Dorico
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. And they dissipated and they don't remain up in the atmosphere. Right.
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Augustus Dorico
The clouds, the skittles one, the this, the skittles of material, they could not have stayed suspended in the atmosphere by the time that the flooding started happening.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. And then the flood that was a storm that rolls in and was not part of the system that you seeded.
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Augustus Dorico
Correct, Correct. And also, it's worth noting that, you know, a lot of people have said, well, this shouldn't go on without any oversight. And I totally agree. And I think that there should be even more regulatory scrutiny and oversight and reporting requirements. So that These operations are totally transparent, but there actually are regulations in Texas through the Texas of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation that have suspension criteria. And suspension criteria are these meteorological conditions, these weather conditions, these issuances and notifications from the National Weather Service that say, hey, hey, if there is a flash flood warning, if the soil is already too saturated, if cloud seeding would cause any flooding, you have to suspend operations. And not only did we suspend operations in adherence with the regulations from the state of Texas, but we actually, because our meteorologists were very proactive, suspended operations a day in advance of any warnings that would have regulatorily mandated us to. Because we at Rainmaker earnestly believe that, like, this is God's kingdom to steward and it is our job to do no harm and do as much good as we can. And so if we can bias towards being cautious, not so cautious that we ban this technology and prevent farmers from having water from it, but if we can be cautious in our operations such that we mitigate any potential for any damage, which we did and do. I'm all for that. That's what everybody's opinion is at my company.
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Glenn Beck
So I know China is doing cloud seeding up in the mountain. Mountains to get much more snow up in the mountains. So then they have the water, the runoff, et cetera, et cetera. Are they ahead of us? Is this. What we're doing is. It's the same thing.
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Augustus Dorico
So China, just for context, the United States a year ago spent $2.4 million on cloud seeding research. Right. To investigate how to produce more water for American farms, to save the Colorado river, to refill our aquifers. Right. $2.4 million total. And that was a one off. China has an annual budget of $1.4 billion for cloud seeding and weather modification. They have 35,000 employees in their weather modification office. They have two universities that offer bachelor's degrees in weather engineering, not meteorology, not atmospheric science, but specifically how to engineer the weather. And if the United States bans this technology wholesale, if we don't regulate it and monitor where it's going on so that we have a transparent account of the activities, not only will we be behind China, but we won't have regulatory statutes or the capability to monitor. Monitor who is modifying the weather in the United States and otherwise.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so. So tell me the difference between weather modification, which sounds scary, and cloud ski seeding.
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Augustus Dorico
Totally, totally. I think the, the bigger distinction to make is between weather modification, which cloud seeding is a kind of. And geoengineering. Right. So so cloud seeding is a way to make more water, right? You are modifying the weather by making it rain or snow a little bit more. Geoengineering is a global climatic intervention designed to either cool the planet down or create, you know, reflective high altitude clouds. And that has again, nothing to do with cloud seeding, which is a form of weather modification. And to your point about it sounding scary, right, I could try to do some sort of slimy PR thing and say like, oh, cloud seeding is not weather modification, but fact of the matter is like making it precipitate a little bit more is modifying the weather. And I think that I would rather be totally transparent about that and also say like, it's something that we should regulate and it's something that we should be cautious about and we should approach it with a mindset of stewardship. But still, if we were to ban it wholesale, not only would we deprive Americans of having access to more water from, but also we'd be liable to other countries continuing to do it without us.
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Glenn Beck
So you remember the big hurricane that happened and we were hit by two. One came and hit Florida and then the other one came barreling in to North Carolina, up from Florida. And people said that was weather modification, that that was that, that they cloud seeded that and they modified that and they even steered it that. I never believed any of that stuff. But can it be done? Can that be done?
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Augustus Dorico
No, no, it at this point in time cannot be done. The modification of a hurricane such that would either increase or reduce the winds, increase or reduce the damage done by it, that is not something that is doable. Now that being said, it's worth talking about something called Project Storm Fury, where in the last century the United States Weather Bureau and Air Force conducted flights over the Atlantic to try to seed hurricanes to mitigate the damage that they would do by the time they broke against the Eastern Seaboard. And we stopped that program because we didn't have what's called attribution, right? We didn't have the right radar, we didn't have any good satellites to measure what the effect from the seeding was. The reason why cloud seeding is coming back into the discourse now, why it's a viable technology that people are paying for, is because we can measure what the results of our operations are. And I would say that although Milton and Helene, I've seen no evidence of having been modified and I'm totally open minded about that, and if anybody does have it, I would happily scrutinize it and talk about It. But despite not believing those to be modified, it is worth thinking about the fact that, you know, like at the beginning of time, in Genesis 1:26 through 28, one of the first commandments we were given before the fall, while we were still in the garden, right before sin, God told us to take dominion over and steward the earth, the seas, the skies, and everything therein. And so could we now be concerned about making more water for our farms? Absolutely. Should we at least consider a potential world with extreme caution? And again, a mindset of like, prayerful stewardship, the notion that we could mitigate severe weather in the future? I think that it would be advocating our responsibility to try to tend to the world that God gave us if we didn't at least think about it. I am not advocating we do that now or anytime soon or without severe scrutiny from the federal government and transparency for everybody. But it's something that may, at some point in the future, be able to benefit folks.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I mean, I don't mind looking into technology. I just wish we would slow down sometimes, you know, with. With what's happening with AI. We've seen the damage that, that social media did. Now we're going into AI and it's coming at us faster and we have no idea what it's going to do. You know, when. When you're throwing stuff up, you know, whether it's chemtrails or whatever. I don't know enough about it, but I sure would like to be in part of the discussion on some of these things. I'd like to have our government say, hey, hey, what do you think? Are we going to do this or not? And leave it up to the people. We're talking about doing some things to the planet that, you know, might be good, but also could be horrible. And, you know, just the arrogance on some of this stuff really bothers me. Augustus, thank you so much for having a frank conversation with us. I pray for you and your family and all the co workers at Rainmaker who I know feels, you know, it's obvious you feel for the families, etc. Etc. But now to be blamed for it is. Is it's got to be hard. It's got to be hard. Thank you, Augustus.
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Augustus Dorico
Thank you, Glenn.
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
That was interesting to hear.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Honestly, I thought he was really credible. Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, and I'm sure if you believe this was the cause, you think he's the worst person in the world and don't believe anything he said and whatever, you know. But I, I do think like I am a big believer in the idea that, you know, we can help make the world a little better for people. Like, you know, I, I'm very much, as I drink a bunch of aspartame. I can note that I'm not the biggest naturalist in the world, but I do think like a lot of times we lose sight as to like all the improvements that have been made and that we all enjoy on a day to day basis and that are miracles. I mean think of air conditioning for one.
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Glenn Beck
I know, I know you are in this country. I know we, and we've done a lot of great things, but we're just getting to the point to where we. Yeah, we should be really careful, Jason.
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Jason Buttrell
You know, I'm, maybe I'm old school but you know, throwing up chemicals like silver iodide into clouds, you know, and I think the problem with a lot of these technologies is they haven't, there's no long term effects that we even have, we don't even have the research. So like long term, what is it doing?
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Glenn Beck
As he said, we've been doing that for what do you say, 50, since the 40s, since the 1940s. We've been doing this forever.
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Jason Buttrell
Which, which, okay, so I mean you can throw that number out there but like when you look at it in a much larger perspective, like what does this do over crops over a hundred years? We don't know, you know, like we don't know how that affects the food supply like that actually does to the top 80.
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Stu Burguiere
It's only 80 years that we would know.
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Glenn Beck
I mean even that, even that, even.
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Jason Buttrell
That would be better. You know what I mean? It's like there's no long term, long term studies on these things. There's just nothing.
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Glenn Beck
But there's no long term studies on a lot of stuff. There's no anything new has no longer long term study.
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Stu Burguiere
That's always a thing.
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Glenn Beck
And I get it. I mean I am with you on I don't like doing big things to the planet. However, we're, we, we've been doing this since you know, the 1940s. So I mean I think we have enough years.
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Stu Burguiere
Is a long term study.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, that's a long term study. As long as we can make a long term say for Global now.
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Jason Buttrell
Not in my opinion.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, because most of the rain Mrs. Mrs. You know, the plants in the ground.
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Glenn Beck
No, no, he's saying that it would change the chemicals of the plants or the right topsoil, everything.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, you know, I, actually I was doing some research on this and I found that some of this leads to multiple chemicals falling into the, into the food supply. Hydrogen, oxygen, in fact, parts hydrogen, one part oxygen falls from the scalp die.
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Glenn Beck
Right. I will tell you, I will tell you that I am concerned what we put into our soil. I'm concerned what we put on our food as we're growing it. I'm very concerned about that. I, I, I just don't think that this I, and I could be wrong. I know nothing about it, but I'm willing to explore more.
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Stu Burguiere
But we should always be careful.
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Glenn Beck
We should be very careful. And I, and you know, especially with the future stuff that we're doing, maybe we should slow down a little bit. Just a little. This is Glenn Beck. All right. Every time you decide to move, it starts with a simple question. Is this the right place for us? Then everything else follows that. The guessing, the cleanup, the listings, the endless work that you have to do. Open houses where you pretend to Know you know what you're looking for. And the moment where you start to think, do we even know what we're doing? Real estate agents, iTrust.com, a company that I built to fix this problem, is there to say, yeah, you know what you're doing? It's okay. We interview thousands of agents all across the country, and we only select those who are proven vetted and actually good at what they do. We don't just look at sales numbers. We also look at the agent's character, their skill at communication, how they handle clients under pressure, and whether there's somebody you could trust, really, to help you lead, you know, lead you through this path. The biggest financial decision of your life, buying or selling a home. It doesn't have to be a roll of the dice. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to go to realestateagentsitrust.com that's realestateagentsitrust.com. just tell us where you're moving to and from. We'll give you the right real estate agent. You just do the rest yourself. It's a free service to you. We don't charge you. Just check them out yourself. Real estate agents I trust. Dot com.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Kristine Ome came out with something yesterday that I applaud. Listen to this.
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Kristi Noem
Today we have started a new no shoes policy with the department. The Transportation Security Administration. TSA will no longer require travelers to remove their shoes when they go through our security checkpoints. This is something that I know for quite some time people have talked about and discussed. And we know that when President Trump was elected that he pledged to make life better for all Americans. And that includes those who are travelers going through our busy airports.
- [110:27]
Glenn Beck
Thank you. Thank you. You know, for those of us who have traveled outside of the United States, we look like we're looking for witches. You know, take off your shoes and your belt.
- [110:39]
Jason Buttrell
Really?
- [110:39]
Glenn Beck
Is there a witch in my shoe? What is. I mean, it's really. We look so primitive compared, I think, to the rest of the world. They're not concerned about any of these things. And quite honestly, you know, flying out of an airport in the United States recently, there was a backup and everybody, and this is what the TSA said, everybody were backed up. So you don't have to take off your belt or your shoes, and you can leave your laptops in your briefcase. Just Just put it on the belt and go through the scanner and you're like, really? So today terrorism doesn't count? Or is it that this is just a bunch of bull crap anyway? I mean, I want to walk through the detector, I want security there. But it's ridiculous. It is. It is the worst part of travel. And there's bad. Remember, you then get onto a little airplane in a tube and each garbage and breathe the air of the guy who's in the back going. I mean, it gets. It does get worse. But to say that the TSA is the worst part of air travel tells you something.
- [111:47]
Stu Burguiere
That's why I don't understand why people just don't fly privately. You know, just get your own plane.
- [111:53]
Glenn Beck
Make the rules you don't have to deal with. All you have to do, think, wake up, America, right? Get a chauffeur. What's wrong with you?
- [112:03]
Stu Burguiere
It is really, it's interesting that. I mean, because I heard an analyst talking about this and saying, you know, Richard Reed gets on and he goes through the line at the airport and he's. The people at the airport noticed he's acting suspicious, right? And they check him, but they don't check inside his shoes, right? So he gets on the plane. One of the reasons he's sweating so profusely, it makes the wick unusable. And this is why he doesn't blow up a plane over the Atlantic, right? I mean, it's pretty. Actually an incredibly amazing miracle that that didn't happen.
- [112:41]
Glenn Beck
Divine providence.
- [112:42]
Stu Burguiere
So they were like, holy crap, we have a real hole in our security. And that's why they implement that rule. So you could see, here's.
- [112:47]
Glenn Beck
You do what the Israelis do. You pull them out.
- [112:52]
Stu Burguiere
I don't, I don't want that either. That.
- [112:53]
Glenn Beck
It is the best. It's the best security in the world.
- [112:56]
Stu Burguiere
It's. Give me, tell the story of your experience and you tell me you want to go through this on your next.
- [113:01]
Glenn Beck
Flight to everything they did. Logical.
- [113:04]
Stu Burguiere
It might be logical. It took you two hours to get.
- [113:06]
Glenn Beck
Through the process, but it was logical.
- [113:08]
Stu Burguiere
That doesn't make us. I don't.
- [113:10]
Glenn Beck
All right, here's what happened. Here's what happened. Tell me this wasn't logical. Okay, I'm going to Israel right after 9, 11. Okay. And never been to Israel. It's a last minute thing. It was something my agent put together for me. And he was like, you want to go to Israel? I'm like, I'd love to go to Israel. He's like, okay, I'll Put it together for you, and I'll tell you when it's done. I'm in the middle of traveling all over the country. I'm doing all kinds of stuff. And you don't want to go because you're a wuss. 100. So I fly into New York. I don't even remember where I was flying in from, but I fly into New York. Somebody else has purchased my ticket. Okay. And it was my agent. So I have no. You know. It was George Hills. Is he related to you? No. He's your agent? Yeah. And he bought you your ticket? Yes. Where are you staying? I don't know. I don't know. Wait a minute. You're going to Israel and you don't know where you're staying? No. They just didn't know you. If they knew you, I would say it's totally. This is why it's reasonable. And then they said, is someone meeting you at the airport? I said, yes. Who? I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? Well, I. Look, I've been traveling. I don't have any of the information. I just. But people will be beating me there. I know. I'm fine. And they're like, huh? And in the meantime, they're in another line and they're talking to Jeffy, Okay. Who was not my producer at the time, but he was my producer for this trip. And I said. They said, are you traveling with somebody? I said, that guy over there. Who is that? My producer. Okay. And he might have more information. Yes. Well, they went over to him and he said, yeah, we know where we're staying. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you're his producer? Jeffy says, no, because he's technically not my producer, but he's my producer for this trip. And they're like. He said you were his producer. I'm not his producer. Okay. And you're in charge of what? I'm in charge of all the technical stuff. And you're bringing equipment with you? Yes. Have you used this equipment before you packed it? No. You didn't pack it? No. Who packed it? I don't know. Where did it come from? Well, it was shipped to us from Los Angeles. You live in Tampa. He lives in Philadelphia. Who do you know in Los Angeles? I don't know. The company did it. They just bought all of this and put all this technical equipment, and you're bringing it onto our airplane and you know nothing about it? It's beyond. Have you said, has somebody given you something that you don't really know it's way beyond that, Right? Yes. Okay. And then so we're, we're going through all of this and none of it makes any sense whatsoever to them. Can you plug this equipment in and make it work? I think so. Wait, you think so? Well, I've never used it before. So they make us go back into this room and they're talking to us and they're going through over and over and over again. And can't get a hold of George Hiltzik because he's in Shabbat. Okay. He's at temple. He's not carrying his phone, and so I can't get him on the phone. Can you just get him on the phone? I can't, I can't. Why? He doesn't answer his phone. It's Saturday. Oh, so he's a Jew? Well, yes, he is. Uh huh. Well, okay, sure. And he bought you the ticket. So all of this stuff's going on. It took us like two hours to get through, but I think that was perfectly logical. Then we got onto the plane and they handed me a real steak knife to cut my chicken. I mean, they know who's on the plane. So what they do is they just come by and they're all, they're trained to look for inconsistencies. And when they find it, they just ask you a bunch of questions. And then somebody else comes by and asks you the same bunch of questions like you don't know. Oh, he asked me over there. I'm sorry, he's, he's busy right now. I haven't talked to him. Just answer the couple questions. So why are you going? What are you doing there?
- [117:14]
Stu Burguiere
Look, I understand why Israel, particularly after 9, 11, might do something like that. That I understand why they would have.
- [117:20]
Glenn Beck
They never have had a terror. They're more marked than anybody else. LL has never had a terrorist attack on their planes.
- [117:26]
Stu Burguiere
Okay, I understand that.
- [117:28]
Glenn Beck
Right.
- [117:28]
Stu Burguiere
And you know what? With that type of security, I'm not surprised.
- [117:31]
Glenn Beck
Right.
- [117:31]
Stu Burguiere
However, do I want to go through that security every time I fly to Wilmington?
- [117:36]
Glenn Beck
No, but it's not that way. I don't know that way, though, you know, this time it's not that way because I don't, I don't want to.
- [117:43]
Stu Burguiere
Be asked and any questions when I'm in line at security. I want to go about my life.
- [117:48]
Glenn Beck
I would rather do that than all of the other stuff that me is meaningless.
- [117:51]
Stu Burguiere
You can have all the conversations you want with TSA employees. What I would like to do is.
- [117:55]
Glenn Beck
Go, no, no, TSA Employees, people who are. Look, everyone else around me had this. What are you going to Israel for? Oh, we're going to see family. Really? Where do they live? They live here. Great. Have a good time. That's what everybody else is. They were looking for things that.
- [118:11]
Stu Burguiere
That's the.
- [118:11]
Augustus Dorico
Seemed weird.
- [118:12]
Glenn Beck
That seem weird, or you're sweating profusely. Then they drill down.
- [118:17]
Stu Burguiere
I would also argue after December of 2001 that probably for some time, the shoe thing was probably a good approach. I mean, frankly, like, when you didn't have a way that you were checking it, putting them through the little. The little belt for, I don't know, six months.
- [118:37]
Glenn Beck
What's the window that you would need to put in the technology that they have? We've just dropped this. What have we done to make sure that somebody doesn't go, oh, well, now they dropped this. I'm going to put shoe bombs in my shoes. I mean, honestly.
- [118:50]
Stu Burguiere
Because they have technology that detects it and have for a long time.
- [118:52]
Glenn Beck
So they. Yeah, okay, so that is done.
- [118:54]
Stu Burguiere
That's. That's what. That's certainly what Kristi Noem's argument was.
- [118:57]
Glenn Beck
Okay, good. And I'm all right with it.
- [118:58]
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. I think, like, I think that's. I think the problem. The biggest problem here is they've had this technology.
- [119:04]
Glenn Beck
Right.
- [119:04]
Stu Burguiere
For a long time.
- [119:06]
Glenn Beck
The whole thing is to train us. The whole thing is to train us. I really believe. And no one wants to be compliant.
- [119:11]
Stu Burguiere
Person who took it off. And then a plane blows up because of a shoe bomb. So they all that, you know, you get into this situation where everything just stays in place and, you know, the. The tax that was used to pay for the building 25 years ago is still in place.
- [119:24]
Glenn Beck
And have you seen. Have the government. I'm more afraid of the people that I'm flying with than terrorists showing up. Have you seen the videos of the people who just go insane on the plane?
- [119:35]
Stu Burguiere
A lot of that.
- [119:35]
Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's a lot of that. You can't have a society if it keeps breaking down like that. I think a few questions like, have you taken your medication today? Yeah. Okay. Do you regularly see things that aren't there? Another thing we should smell smoke, maybe.
- [119:52]
Stu Burguiere
Think of implementing as having people interact with other human beings occasionally. I don't want my friendships to come from the TSA line. I'd like to like people to maybe, you know, not completely avoid all humanity and then get onto a gleaming metal tube that goes through the sky at 45.
- [120:09]
Glenn Beck
Wait a minute. Are you telling me that you don't want to avoid contact with almost all humankind.
- [120:15]
Stu Burguiere
Oh, I want to, but I would. I don't think it's the healthy approach.
- [120:19]
Glenn Beck
Right. Right. I got it. It's okay for you. Yeah, of course. I'm special.
- [120:22]
Stu Burguiere
I'm different.
- [120:23]
Glenn Beck
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- [121:59]
Stu Burguiere
I just want to get through as fast as possible.
- [122:00]
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I know, but I. I mean, if you're going to do it. I just don't want to talk to somebody who's making $16 an hour. You know what I mean? I could get a professional in here.
- [122:09]
Stu Burguiere
Oh, yeah.
- [122:10]
Glenn Beck
I mean, you know, I just don't. I don't want somebody who has also worked at McDonald's as their last job. And, you know, and. Because I. And. And, you know, look, look, I don't want to take down the tsa because there's a lot of really good people. I see a lot of really good people. The ones that stick in your minds are the ones that are really bad. I was just in an airport and, you know, gave them my ticket and. And my driver's license, and they said, okay, stand here. And I'm like, no, no, no. No pictures. And you can say that. And it's no big deal. That's far.
- [122:38]
Stu Burguiere
That's what you're talking about. When you, like, give them your license.
- [122:40]
Glenn Beck
Yeah. They take your picture. Okay. And you. You don't have to have it done.
- [122:44]
Stu Burguiere
Right.
- [122:44]
Glenn Beck
And I'm smart enough to know they have my picture. They know I'm traveling. It's. You know, they got it. And it's just a principal thing. No pictures. And the guy looks at my wife and he rolls his eyes and he goes, these people, like, we don't have cameras everywhere tracking their every move. And I looked at him and I said, you know, I'm still standing right here. Right. I mean, he said it to my wife. That's bizarre. It was bizarre.
- [123:10]
Stu Burguiere
Well, to be fair to him, he couldn't have possibly believed that she was married to you.
- [123:15]
Glenn Beck
Exactly right. True. I give you that. Yeah.
- [123:19]
Stu Burguiere
I mean, you know, again, I. You could go. I have very few issues at the airport. I go through. I very rarely have a bad experience. I don't give. I don't.
- [123:28]
Glenn Beck
Well, there's a reason for that.
- [123:30]
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
- [123:30]
Glenn Beck
You know what?
- [123:31]
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, you know what? I'm on my flights every time.
- [123:33]
Glenn Beck
No, I know. I know you're. I could see my flight every time. I could sit here.
- [123:37]
Stu Burguiere
Annoy Big stick.
- [123:38]
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
- [123:38]
Stu Burguiere
I. I can sit here and be very, very annoyed with my life where I can get through the line and get. Again, I don't like the policies, you know, like, I joined TSA Pre a long time ago.
- [123:47]
Glenn Beck
Sure, you did. Give them that iris scan.
- [123:49]
Stu Burguiere
Exactly. And I get to. Now I skip all those lines, and I never deal with any of them.
- [123:52]
Glenn Beck
Until everybody's on that. And then your line's going to be just as long.
- [123:55]
Stu Burguiere
No, actually, they think that it's going to. This shoe thing is a big thing for TSA Pre if you happen to be one of the people who goes through that line. Because it's going to encourage people less frequently to go through. Through the process to get it. So it should improve the lines. That's what they think is going to happen.
- [124:08]
Glenn Beck
Right.
- [124:09]
Stu Burguiere
Because a lot of people were getting TSA Pre just so they didn't have to take their shoes.
- [124:12]
Glenn Beck
Oh, I hate it.
- [124:13]
Stu Burguiere
It is really.
- [124:13]
Glenn Beck
I hate it.
- [124:14]
Stu Burguiere
And like, I think I'm. I'm, you know, I'm joking about, you know, about not caring about this stuff at some level. It's like, I do. I do care about security. I do want there to be some level of security.
- [124:24]
Glenn Beck
Right.
- [124:24]
Stu Burguiere
And I do. I. We have to defend at some level, you know, our privacy. I Nurse guys.
- [124:32]
Glenn Beck
Yeah, but I do think we have a problem with letting crazy people. Not bombers, not terrorists, just crazy people.
- [124:38]
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think that's it. You just have people who are going insane and then you get free drinks and it's.
- [124:43]
Glenn Beck
Right. You know, it's not necessarily that they're crazy. It's just that everybody's privileged now. Everybody. You don't know who I am. You don't know I have a right. I, I do this. I. You know, they're crazy. There's that nobody, nobody thinks all these collectivists. They're not collectivists. They, they just. They're in a collectivist movement, but they only think of themselves. And so when you're actually in it, when we're in the airplane, we're kind of all in it together, you know? I don't know. You know, Mal, maybe people who fly first class all the time think differently, but I think that just because there's a curtain between first and second class, I think we're still on the same plane. And that little curtain doesn't mean anything. You know what I mean? We're all on the same plane. I don't know why. Why can't we just. Look, we all are going to a destination. We're all. None of us want to be here. This is what I want the captain to say. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain. I just want you to know, none of us, including really me and the co pilot, we don't want to be here today. We're here because they're paying us to be here. You're here because you have to go someplace. You're probably miserable, gone through hell. You've been worried about this thing. And you know what? What? We could sit on the tarmac now for another four hours waiting for this system to move on. So none of us are happy. Let's just get that out on the table right now. We'll get you there as quickly as we can. Hey, why don't we just all just kind of mind our own business? If you don't like the person next to you, that's fine. Don't talk to them. Don't talk to them. Don't look at them, don't do anything. Just. Let's get to our destination.
- [126:15]
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, that's.
- [126:16]
Glenn Beck
Thanks for flying Delta.
- [126:17]
Stu Burguiere
And that's how I feel about the security line, too. It's like there is some level of inconvenience. You just need to push through.
- [126:23]
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
- [126:23]
Stu Burguiere
And I. I don't like a scene.
- [126:26]
Glenn Beck
You have a right to say. And it's no big deal. They just say, okay, yeah, that's it.
- [126:30]
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
- [126:31]
Glenn Beck
It's not like I'm not taking off my shoes going, people rise up, right? Can't take off our shoes.
- [126:36]
Stu Burguiere
You know, some people do that, though.
- [126:38]
Glenn Beck
I know. Those are the people that shouldn't be allowed on the plane because the pilot doesn't even want to be there, but he just won't see. Say that.
- [126:47]
Stu Burguiere
That's the key.
- [126:48]
Glenn Beck
Yeah. All right, we'll see you tonight. Really important show tonight. Nine o' clock on Blaze tv. Don't miss it. This is Glenn Beck.