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00:00:00.000 Hey, great show for you today. We talk a little bit about what's really going on on the ground

00:00:05.100 in Ukraine. For the first time, I feel like we have the truth because it's hard to tell

00:00:12.480 what's propaganda and what's not. Things don't seem to be going well for Russia. So what is

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00:00:51.220 I have hesitated on telling you what things are what's actually going on down on the ground

00:01:02.060 in Ukraine. We didn't really talk about that last week because I'm not sure who to believe. I think

00:01:08.180 our press is so skewed and I know the Russians so skewed. So what is the truth? Well, we have 1.00

00:01:16.740 Jason Buttrell with us who has some sources on the ground of Ukraine, mainly because we've done so

00:01:23.780 much work on Ukraine in the in the last couple of in the last couple of years that we we know some

00:01:31.620 people and he's got also some other contacts as well. Tell me what's going on, Jason.

00:01:38.200 Fairly catastrophic. I won't say catastrophic. It was a very bad weekend for the Russian military

00:01:43.360 and it's been a just a bad invasion period. A lot of the reports that you hit on it is you can't

00:01:51.220 trust a lot of the stuff you see from both sides. Both sides. Good or bad. But all evidence now is

00:01:57.700 showing that Russia probably expected this to be a 72 hour time frame. The initial troops that Russia

00:02:04.320 sent in, there were paratroopers, which are basically glorified riot police. And that fits along.

00:02:10.120 And they were decimated. Most of them were decimated on entering into the country. I don't have actual

00:02:15.720 casualty counts on either side. Right. Because they're so widely, you know, wildly skewed on both

00:02:21.380 sides. Probably look at what each side is saying and then take a middle number and that's probably

00:02:25.780 what it was. But even that number is not good for Russia. But a lot of the equipment that's getting

00:02:31.420 either destroyed or captured, they also have riot equipment like shields, batons, stuff like that.

00:02:38.600 So Russia clearly thought this was, hey, three days maximum will go in. The population will

00:02:44.560 capitulate or turn to us. And this will turn into more of an occupation without firing many shots.

00:02:51.520 Very wrong. Multiple aircraft were shot down this weekend. That just caps off, you know, over the past,

00:02:57.080 you know, week and a half. Several aircraft, helicopters, fixed wing aircraft have been shot

00:03:01.080 down on the Russian side. For the most part, their operations are stalling on the ground because they

00:03:07.700 don't have the logistical capability at the moment to take care of anything. They don't have fuel,

00:03:12.200 they don't have food, water, things like that are very scarce on the ground, which shows that they

00:03:17.480 were just completely unprepared. This is not a good invasion, which, you know, you might want to say,

00:03:23.220 okay, that's a great thing. But if you look at Russian strategy, if you look at Aleppo, the siege of

00:03:29.980 Aleppo, if you look at the siege of Grozny during the second, you know, Chechen war, when these things

00:03:37.180 stall, they move to severe bombing, indiscriminate bombing, cluster bombing of big population.

00:03:44.480 They've been doing, we think, the cluster bombing in the cities already. They were doing that last

00:03:48.180 week, which you don't do. That's, isn't that against the Geneva Convention?

00:03:52.600 Yes, but the Russians do it, and they get away with it. 1.00

00:03:56.360 So now they, the news is this morning that they have circled all of these cities or a lot of the

00:04:03.100 big cities in Ukraine. That is what they do right before they just start just bombing the snot out of 1.00

00:04:09.600 cities, isn't it? Yeah. Historically speaking. Yes. And then, and they haven't really completed

00:04:15.120 encircling many of these. It appears that way. And a lot of people have reported and showing these

00:04:19.560 large clusters of Ukraine that are under Russian control. And that's not entirely the truth from

00:04:24.040 what I'm seeing. Russia has pushed further, pushed into Ukraine. They're on major roadways, 0.77

00:04:30.040 but they're not really occupying the surrounding territory. For one of the reasons right now is

00:04:34.940 it's very, very, this is, you know, rainy. It's very muddy. It's very, it's hard to move some of

00:04:39.480 these vehicles across this land. Again, it doesn't seem like they were prepared for that, the Russians. 1.00

00:04:44.540 Um, so even the territory that they have, it's not exactly what I would call an occupation. You

00:04:51.020 know, it's like, they're not really occupying those areas. We're seeing the Russians move now 0.97

00:04:55.160 in force really. And, and having to have some sort of, uh, offense and defense, they don't seem very

00:05:04.480 impressive. Oh no. Um, most of them appear, they don't seem like a professional soldiers to me. Right.

00:05:09.960 I mean, what, what, I mean, what happened to the mighty Soviet army? Right. I mean, it almost seems

00:05:15.720 like MacArthur was right. If it's, if this is what, if this is the capability we should just gone

00:05:19.540 through and then gotten, gotten this over with from the beginning right after World War II. Russia

00:05:23.760 hasn't fought a war like this. Um, if you look at the United States, we've been fighting a war like

00:05:28.020 this for over 20 years. Um, and it's very complicated. Combined arms, when you combine artillery,

00:05:32.820 troops on the ground, you know, aircraft in the air, it's complicated. Uh, the United States military

00:05:37.560 is the best in the world at it. Um, so I don't know if they just expected, Hey, we'll just adopt

00:05:41.900 these tactics and go in and it'll be done. Um, but clearly this is the evidence that they're not

00:05:46.800 very capable at this kind of warfare. So what does this mean? What do you think that you put Putin

00:05:51.620 into a corner? What do you think that means? Yeah. Um, not good for the people of Ukraine. Um,

00:05:57.320 what you're looking at is if you want to compare it to what it's going to look at, look at what they

00:06:01.260 did in Aleppo, look at what they did. The world will stand for that. I, I, yes, because, you know,

00:06:06.340 they say, well, what about Syria? Syria, it is nothing about race or anything else. It is about

00:06:12.300 the Middle East has always been on fire. It's, it's a dumpster fire and you never know how to help or 1.00

00:06:21.180 if it will help. You're always on the wrong side. I mean, it's, that's why America didn't look at

00:06:27.240 Syria. America barely looked at, uh, at the, the Christians in the area, you know, I mean,

00:06:35.020 we just didn't do anything to help the Christians in the area. So it's not because of a religion or a

00:06:41.280 race. It's because it's a dumpster fire. Yeah. This has been a stable Westernized country,

00:06:48.840 completely corrupt, but a stable Westernized country. So yeah, we are looking at it. And I

00:06:56.400 don't think that the, the world will stand for him just shelling shit cities. No, we were talking

00:07:02.440 off air, Stu, you mentioned that, you know, where's the Russian air force been on this? And

00:07:06.620 I think a big reason why he hasn't probably bombed, uh, the heck out of some of these cities

00:07:10.940 with his massive air force is because the world will not stand for this happening to, you know,

00:07:17.000 a more Western, uh, European country. Uh, when he just unleashes, like he did in Aleppo or Grozny,

00:07:24.300 uh, when cluster bombs are hitting Kyiv, that's when the world is going to be like, okay,

00:07:28.780 you've gone far enough. The question then is how far does the West get involved here?

00:07:34.040 Which gets scary. Let me, uh, let me play cut to this over the weekend. This is, um, uh, Blinken.

00:07:40.020 What more can the United States do here? If for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member

00:07:45.440 wants to send fighter jets, does that get a green light from the U S or are you afraid that that will

00:07:51.280 escalate tension? No, that, that, that gets a green light. In fact, we're talking, uh, with, uh,

00:07:57.900 our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill, uh, their needs. If

00:08:03.000 in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to, to the Ukrainians, uh, what could we do? How

00:08:08.260 can we help to make sure that, uh, they get something to backfill the planes that they're

00:08:12.200 handing over to, to the Ukrainians? We're in very active discussions with them about that. Look,

00:08:16.320 I've been in, in, in Europe for the last couple of days working closely as always with our allies

00:08:21.240 and partners at NATO, uh, the European union, uh, the G seven countries, and all of us together

00:08:26.980 are continuing to take steps to increase the pressure, uh, on Russia through, uh, additional

00:08:32.060 sanctions, all of which are very actively under discussion and will be implemented in the, uh,

00:08:37.340 in the coming days, as well as, uh, taking further steps to give the Ukrainians, um, what they need to

00:08:43.260 defend themselves against the Russian aggression. Okay. So this seems like a good thing. 1.00

00:08:46.980 Explain how scary that is. Well, NATO supplied fighter jets that, that, that's kind of another

00:08:54.380 level right there. Um, coming from Poland, they are, uh, old, I think it was mid mid 29s that 1.00

00:09:01.140 they're considering remember in top gun and mid 28s. That was like, that was in the eighties.

00:09:04.860 Um, so, um, but yeah, so, but this is still an escalation and it's got the earmarks of your

00:09:11.580 typical cold war, you know, battle, whether it's the U S and Vietnam, the Chinese and the

00:09:16.780 Soviets wouldn't get involved, but they would supply Russians to the Vietnamese. Um, very 0.97

00:09:20.920 similar North Korea, same thing. Um, this is how, and, and, and, and Afghanistan went that 0.88

00:09:26.640 one out too. Um, but this is a major regression and it's got all the, you know, the, the symptoms

00:09:32.640 or, or the, uh, you know, the same things that happened during the cold war. Now, the question

00:09:36.600 now is, um, you know, like during Vietnam, we knew this was going on. United States wasn't

00:09:42.280 on the verge of collapse, how Russia can't sustain this, right? They, they cannot, um,

00:09:48.460 continue to let all these, uh, weapons go into Ukraine, embarrassing Putin while at the

00:09:53.300 same time, uh, you know, an economic, uh, you know, WMD is now being unleashed on Russia.

00:10:00.420 So he's going to have civil, um, problems. These people are going to rise up. We're not going

00:10:05.440 to see that probably because tick tock, you know, all these Russian media outlets, Facebook,

00:10:10.280 Twitter are now shut off in Russia, which is a tragedy really. Um, but we're not going

00:10:17.520 to see how they're reacting, but they're not going to react well.

00:10:20.340 So visa and MasterCard over the weekend said, they're not going to process anything in Russia,

00:10:26.360 which Russia immediately turned to China and they said, fine, we'll, we'll use their, you 0.71

00:10:31.440 know, visa or MasterCard. Um, but this is targeting the civilians, which we've, we've never,

00:10:37.200 ever, ever, ever, ever done before. It was sanctions. We always say we are targeting the

00:10:43.960 regime. We're targeting the country. We don't target the individuals. My understanding too,

00:10:50.600 is that the cards will work. Russian issued visas will work inside of Russia. So they can

00:10:57.100 still buy basic supplies with these cards. They just can't buy anything international.

00:11:01.200 So it is, it's remarkable, uh, to me that nobody is noticing the number of companies that are

00:11:09.660 involved in this. This has never been seen before. And everybody is saying this is great and screaming

00:11:16.580 for, you know, the oil to be shut off from, uh, from, uh, Russia. But could I just point out,

00:11:24.820 we don't have the oil. If we want it to shut off, we need to say, open up our own oil and gas

00:11:35.220 resources. We can't afford to shut this off. Well, it's only 10%. Okay. You want another 10% on top?

00:11:45.300 This is, this is death for the United States. We are right now negotiating with Iran and Venezuela.

00:11:55.420 Amazing. Why would we enrich those two countries? Look, I, I know the global warming bull crap. I know

00:12:04.920 all of these people are like, Oh, well, the planet's going to die. Well, you know what?

00:12:09.480 I know the radicals, the real radicals believe that we should just, we need to shut down more than

00:12:18.740 we did at COVID-19. That's death for millions of people all around the world. Literally that will

00:12:26.220 mean millions will die all around the world. We cannot shut down all of our fossil fuels at this

00:12:33.720 point. Can't do it. I would understand if the president who disagrees with me came out and said,

00:12:41.760 look for the next nine months or however long this thing drags on, we are going to open our pipelines.

00:12:48.460 We are going to, uh, fund our, uh, you know, the exons of the world. We are going to start going back

00:12:55.600 and taking the natural gas out and shipping it. We're doing it because we have to, or we'll kill

00:13:03.400 the nation. Now I'm going back and I'm shutting it all off again in whenever nine months, whatever it

00:13:10.480 is, people would understand that reasonable people. The only people that wouldn't understand it are the

00:13:16.660 Marxist that want to destroy us anyway. It makes no sense. None. Why would we be enriching Venezuela

00:13:28.020 and Iran instead of taking care of business ourself? That should be the number one call. 0.93

00:13:38.720 I want the oil to stop from Russia, but I want the oil to be replaced with American oil and gas 0.66

00:13:47.300 period. All right. Friday, I was concerned Saturday when I got up because Friday, I was concerned

00:13:54.700 because the state department said Americans should consider leaving Russia. Okay. All right.

00:14:02.280 If I were in Russia, I'd probably go, you know what? I think it's about time. Uh, however, Saturday

00:14:08.900 they said the state department said all Americans should immediately leave Russia. I don't know.

00:14:17.560 That was kind of concerning because you don't just higgledy piggledy throw that one out. There's a lot

00:14:23.880 of Americans working in Russia, right? Including WNBA players. Right. And you don't, you don't just say,

00:14:29.680 Hey, by the way, you should leave right now and upend everybody's lives without real reason. That's

00:14:36.560 usually the last thing that happens before a country goes to war. Then Saturday afternoon,

00:14:43.060 they talked about, uh, reinstalling the red phone, the hotline. Now for those who didn't grow up in the,

00:14:52.400 uh, in the time period I did, the hotline was there on the president's desk and the desk of whoever

00:15:00.300 was running things in Moscow. So it's a direct line from Putin to Biden. So if something happens

00:15:08.700 in the fog of war, before you launch, you call and say, was that a mistake? Or did you just escalate?

00:15:17.500 Cause I got my finger on the button right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We did not mean

00:15:22.920 to do that. That shooting down on that plane was a mistake. Okay. It's the last fail safe. It is the

00:15:30.420 last line of defense before a nuclear missile launch. It's a little terrifying to say, you know what,

00:15:39.360 get that old phone, get it out. Do we still have it? I think it's in the Smithsonian. You bring it in

00:15:44.120 here. I mean, that's a little terrifying. Is it just me? So Jason, do you see this getting worse,

00:15:53.860 better? You say that they, they weren't prepared for this. They're getting, they're having heavy

00:15:58.320 losses. Blinken said there's very little sign of any kind of negotiations. So what, so what does it

00:16:07.680 get worse or better from here? I wish I had the answer. I don't see it's definitely going to get

00:16:13.020 worse. Uh, Putin cannot afford to look weak on the national stage or in his, you know,

00:16:19.600 in his own country or, or, or abroad, especially in his own country. So he's going to push to get

00:16:24.460 some kind of agreement where he's going to say, look, I can, I won, but then they, they also took

00:16:28.400 a win there as well. I think that he'll still try and say, before I commence bombardment of these

00:16:34.160 cities and pull a Grozny, um, this is what we want. And I think that they've, he's already kind of

00:16:39.980 hinted that he wants them to change their constitution, which would probably say we 0.77

00:16:42.940 will not join the EU. We will not, uh, join NATO, which they don't belong in either by the way.

00:16:48.260 Um, so Ukraine definitely could, you know, capitulate on that. The probably the areas

00:16:52.580 where they might not capitulate on is recognizing Crimea and Eastern Ukraine as a Russian or

00:16:59.420 separate. You think he's going to stop with that though? I mean, this is with this attack,

00:17:04.160 I, I, that's where I thought he was going initially, but you think he'd fall back to that

00:17:07.520 position at this point? I think that I, I think that he'll have no choice. Eventually he can't

00:17:12.280 occupy Ukraine, doesn't have the forces and his troops don't have the capability. Um, just seeing

00:17:17.660 what I've seen, they probably don't also have the will. Yeah. What am I doing? Why am I here?

00:17:22.660 Many of them didn't even know what they were doing. Yeah. All right. Back in just a second. Thank you so

00:17:27.400 much, Jason. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:17:37.520 We welcome, uh, Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed. Hello, Pat. Hello, Glenn. How are you?

00:17:47.720 Ah, never perfect. Really? Pretty much perfect. Wow. That is amazing. And you'd think you running

00:17:53.680 a company with cost of inflation, right? You know, driving to and fro work. Exactly. Yeah.

00:18:00.240 And yet everything's perfect. Yeah. Huh. You haven't seen any impact on your cookie company.

00:18:05.460 Oh, almost none. No, no, no, no. Ingredients are cheaper than ever. Yeah. Yeah. So I went to Costco

00:18:13.740 on Friday night. That was our date night. That was our date night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, you know,

00:18:19.460 I just went and I bought, bought lots of things, you know, and, um, it was fun. It actually turned out

00:18:26.340 to kind of be fun. Uh, the guys who are checking out, uh, Tanya and I and all of the people in the line

00:18:32.780 behind us were having a guessing game on how much is that going to cost because we got butter and

00:18:39.780 meat, lots of butter and meat and, uh, and, uh, adjust butter and meat. No, no, no. We got a bunch

00:18:46.720 of other things, but that was like, I mean, how do you, that's like gold. It's like gold now. I mean,

00:18:51.460 picking up the meat, I'm like, honey, I, I mean, I'm starting to like vegetarianism. It is crazy.

00:18:58.780 You know, she, we were at the cash register and it was like, is that a bug we could eat?

00:19:03.820 Let's look at that bug over there on the floor. Uh, it is just, it's insane. Yeah. And the,

00:19:10.820 the average person now, so I can't even say this. It's not an average person. The person who makes

00:19:17.060 a hundred thousand dollars a year, the average $100,000 a year earner is now living paycheck to

00:19:24.520 paycheck. Since seeing that's double what the average person and household makes, ah,

00:19:32.020 you got some problems. Yeah. Yeah. You, uh, it might surprise you to know that butter goes into

00:19:38.180 some of the cookies that we've, we make really. Yeah. It doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah. A lot

00:19:42.880 of butter. Yeah. So yeah, the prices have gone through the roof. It's crazy through the roof. It is

00:19:47.600 crazy. And you know, everything I've been thinking about, uh, you know, all of everybody that works

00:19:56.520 here, uh, and thinking, you know, everybody is under stress. So how do you give everybody a raise

00:20:03.060 for inflation? Well, then you'd have to raise the price of the blaze subscription and that hurts

00:20:08.280 people. And then they have to get her. I mean, it's just, it's, it's the inflation spiral. Yeah.

00:20:13.420 Yeah. Yeah. And the good news is we do have some friends around the world that will help us out,

00:20:18.400 right? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Iran, uh, is, is going to help us out really because we're trying to get

00:20:24.920 rid of the, we're trying to ban the Russian oil. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's got to be replaced by 0.96

00:20:29.200 something somewhere. Right. And we're not going to, we, for some reason we can't, we can't drill our

00:20:34.140 own. Well, we can't figure that one out. Can't figure it out. Not since Trump anyway,

00:20:38.120 Trump figured it out, but Biden can't. Yeah. And so we're turning to good, close, personal

00:20:43.480 friends like Iran. Iran. So how's that negotiation going? It's going pretty well. According to one of

00:20:48.460 the, the, uh, lead negotiator for the Iranians, he had, uh, he had good things to say about the

00:20:54.100 negotiation. Really? Yeah, he did. Do we have it? Here it is. I think we do. Yeah. Iranian colleagues 1.00

00:20:58.540 are fighting for Iranian nuclear, Iranian nuclear, national interests look like lions. Indeed. I'm very 0.52

00:21:06.040 serious. They fight for every comma, every word. Every word. Uh, and as a rule, as a rule,

00:21:14.780 quite successfully, quite successfully. I must recognize that. Uh, do you think that this could

00:21:20.080 be a good deal for Iran? Because there have been different arguments inside. I'm, I'm, I'm

00:21:25.620 absolutely sincere. I'm sincere in this regard. Iran got much more than it could expect. Oh, wow. 0.99

00:21:34.040 Iran got much more than it could expect. Yeah. Much more, much more. And he goes on to reemphasize 0.96

00:21:41.320 that point multiple times. Wow. That they got much more than they could expect from the United

00:21:45.820 States. And I believe it. Who doesn't believe that? Constant weakness. I believe that. Constant

00:21:49.300 weakness. Constant weakness. That's the entire presidency. Constant incompetence in everything

00:21:53.620 they do. Now hang on just a second. We're also sending people down to, uh, to Venezuela and

00:21:59.360 we're trying to, uh, trying to get some Venezuelan oil up here. That'll be good. Won't that be

00:22:03.960 good? That'll be really, really good. And, uh, another good, close personal friend. Yes. Yes. And

00:22:10.100 then, uh, today Biden is thinking about sending some people to fly out to Saudi Arabia to, I mean,

00:22:16.840 look at what we're doing. It's not like we're desperate. We have it. We could supply the whole

00:22:25.060 world with the oil. We have it. We have cleaner oil than the rest of the world.

00:22:32.540 And just won't use it. Nope. Won't use it. Uh, America, you have to, you have to call your

00:22:37.780 congressman and your Senator. Stop this nonsense of telling them to, uh, uh, shut down the Russian

00:22:45.780 oil. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not unless we drill our own oil and gas here.

00:22:55.060 We have to provide the rest of the world. We're not going to Iran and to Venezuela and to Saudi

00:23:01.860 Arabia. What is wrong with this administration? Well, we know, we know, we know it's run by 1.00

00:23:08.860 Marxists who don't have, don't have America's no best interest at heart. Yeah. No. By the way,

00:23:15.760 did you hear about Brittany, Brittany Griner? Yeah. Uh, essentially being held captive in Russia.

00:23:22.340 Yeah. Now, do you believe, do you know anything about her? She apparently was a big basketball

00:23:26.320 player. Okay. She was like an MVP of the WNBA, wasn't she? She's like a big deal. She's big. Yeah. 0.96

00:23:31.040 So she was in Russia. She was at the airport coming out and they playing in a Russian league,

00:23:39.200 by the way, wondering why she's in Russia right now. She's a spy. Anyway, uh, no, um, she's, uh, 0.80

00:23:45.000 she was over in Russia. She was coming out over the weekend, uh, when the state department said

00:23:50.060 every American should leave immediately. She was at the airport. She had, I think already gone 0.54

00:23:56.480 through security and then she was stopped. You have it on, on tape. You can see it. They stop

00:24:01.440 her. They go through one of her purses or luggage and they found a, a vape, uh, what do you call it?

00:24:08.120 Pipe. And apparently it had hashish, hashish oil in it. Did it? Don't know. We don't know. Don't

00:24:15.700 know. Uh, certainly it wouldn't matter if it did or not from the Russians. No, no, they could just say

00:24:20.940 it does. And she could be now in a Russian prison for 10 years, 10 years for that. Yeah. It's scary.

00:24:28.540 And I, I wish her well, and I hope this doesn't turn into a, I hope she's not spending 10 years

00:24:35.580 in a, I mean, unless she, you know, if she was guilty of this, I mean, I guess you just,

00:24:42.100 you got to obey the law. Yeah. I would say that's still, is that a 10 year offense? No,

00:24:46.420 it's not a 10. No, it is not. No, but I will, but I, but I also, I'd just like to point out,

00:24:51.560 she was one that would not, uh, walk out onto the court, uh, for a year, uh, if the national 0.87

00:24:58.360 anthem was being played. And I'm, I'm bet, I'm betting she would stand up for the national

00:25:03.260 anthem at this point. You know what I mean? You would hope so. Looking for anyone with a flag 0.95

00:25:07.480 on their arm or their lapel to come in and help her. It's amazing how that works. Yeah, it is.

00:25:12.940 Isn't it though? Cause you, you do think when that happens, yeah, why don't you try somebody

00:25:18.380 else's, uh, justice system, justice system and see how that works. And I don't wish this

00:25:23.200 on her and I'm not, I'm not gleeful about it. I'm just, let's not take, uh, for granted

00:25:28.500 what we do have still here in America. Uh, and there's no way, I mean, it used to be that

00:25:35.980 the American passport was a golden ticket. You, you, nobody was stopping an American citizen

00:25:41.940 because we had, um, you know, we had some power and some clout in the world and you didn't

00:25:50.300 mess with Americans. Now it doesn't matter because we're a clown show. We're not a clown

00:25:55.400 country, but we're a clown show. We are run by clowns and everybody knows that. Yeah.

00:26:02.540 I mean, yeah. And they're taking advantage of us because of that. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

00:26:06.540 What the clowns or the other countries? No, the other countries. Well, the clowns are too.

00:26:10.400 Yeah. That's true. The clowns are trying to convince us that we all should, we all have

00:26:14.260 been wearing clown shoes and have clown noses. And we're like, I mean, does anybody else feel

00:26:18.840 like it is the emperor's new clothes where we're all sitting here going, no, that's not

00:26:24.060 right. No, no, no, you shouldn't be doing that. And everybody stands around going, Oh,

00:26:30.320 look at what they're doing. Isn't that great? Look at what we're doing. I mean, look at this.

00:26:34.440 It's amazing because you, you know, you, the Ukrainians, God bless them are sitting there

00:26:39.480 saying, Hey, can you guys help us out more? Can you do X, Y, and Z? Do you realize what you're

00:26:44.020 asking for? We're going to make things much worse with this group of people trying to fix the

00:26:47.960 situation. Oh my God. All we're going to do is screw up your life more. Like if Ronald Reagan

00:26:52.540 was president, I have some understanding and faith that maybe we would be able to navigate almost

00:26:58.960 impossible waters with Joe Biden as president. Yeah. I mean, we might as well, we might as well

00:27:05.320 completely just give up. You know, I mean, it, it, he is, he is the incompetence on every single

00:27:12.640 aspect of foreign policy since he took office is incomprehensible. I mean, your book, the great

00:27:18.300 reset goes into why a lot of this stuff is going on that maybe it's not just incompetence. And that's

00:27:23.420 the only thing that explains it. You couldn't just be this bad all the time. You could not. I mean,

00:27:29.840 I would like, you're, you're an odds guy. You don't know any odds makers that you, we could call and

00:27:35.060 say, let's just look at the policies of this administration. Give me the odds that they're

00:27:41.380 this wrong, this stupid, that every single thing turns against the United States of America. What

00:27:49.920 are the odds? Yeah. I'd love billion to one. We've said many times on the air, what would you do

00:27:55.700 differently if you were trying to destroy the country? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I can't

00:28:01.300 think of anything. Nothing. I mean, they've done a beautiful job of it. I would get involved in

00:28:05.920 Ukraine. That's the one thing I would do. Get involved in Ukraine. Yeah. Which they still may do.

00:28:10.860 Who knows? Jeez. Please tell your congressman and senator. No, no, no.

00:28:20.640 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:25.700 Let me tell you a completely made up story. A completely hypothetical, a cautionary tale about

00:28:43.440 a man named Tom, who now his family thinks he's a complete lunatic. Tom, let's say, is a loyal

00:28:54.040 listener of this program. He's read the Great Reset. He studied the WEF website. He even tried a

00:29:01.460 built bar. That's Tom. At first, he thought, ah, this guy, he's overreacting, collapse of the West,

00:29:09.660 whatever. Then he started to do his own research. Now Tom is wide awake and he wants to make sure his

00:29:18.860 family is ready because he feels responsible for their protection. Boy, can anyone relate?

00:29:28.740 Well, his wife, Lacey, might love Tom, but is not really like Tom. Might have been one day before

00:29:39.120 they started pumping out kids. Now they've got three kids under five. And Lacey, Tom's wife, 0.67

00:29:45.900 she's at home with the kids all day. She just wants to have an adult conversation from time to time.

00:29:52.580 She also has an elderly mother. So she's got a lot of responsibility, too. She rarely has a moment

00:30:00.140 to breathe. Nonetheless, study ESG scores not high on Lacey's list. The kids were screaming over the 0.78

00:30:09.860 radio when Tom years ago said, you should listen to Glenn Beck. She would just like quiet in the

00:30:16.720 house from time to time. Her mother always forgets to put on her hearing aids and then turns the TV up

00:30:24.720 to, uh, was it 10 on the, about 6 million. One day after listening to my show recently, Tom decided it

00:30:35.540 was time for the family to start preparing, but he knew he and his wife needed to make the decision

00:30:42.120 together. Way to go, Tom. So last week, Tom decided to his, to approach his wife in the kitchen. She was

00:30:53.140 making lunch. She has a three-year-old that was bumbling and babbling relentlessly under her feet. And she

00:31:00.440 hadn't slept much the night before because the baby, baby kept waking up. They had guests arriving

00:31:06.160 for a weekend stay in less than an hour, but Lacey had spent the morning helping her mother, trying to

00:31:11.780 find her heart medicine. So the house was still a mess. And Tom thought, you know what? Now is the right

00:31:18.120 time. I have no time to waste. Tom decided now is the time to talk to Lacey. The collapse of the West

00:31:28.860 is right around the corner. Tom bellowed to his wife, to which she replied,

00:31:35.320 you have been listening too much to Glenn Beck. Everything is fine. Tom stunned,

00:31:42.020 eked out a series of breathless words punctuated by rapid and indiscernible arm movements,

00:31:49.000 world economic forum, digital currency, Dugan, the oil. And then he went to the Glenn Beck standby.

00:31:58.260 It's a trap. Thoroughly exhausted, Tom collapsed to the floor, staring blankly into space. Lacey looked

00:32:09.280 on in horror. Not now, honey. We have guests arriving. Tom collected himself and scuttled out of the

00:32:17.940 kitchen, cloaked in abject failure. And sweat. Okay, this is an example of what not to do. Now,

00:32:28.960 how do I know? Because while I'm not Tom, I, of course, said more than just World Economic Forum,

00:32:38.240 Digital Currency, Dugan Oil. It's a trap. I said more than that. A lot more. And I'm surprised that

00:32:48.780 some of the family members who don't listen to me all the time, but know that Uncle Glenn

00:32:55.840 kind of knows what's going on. And so they look to me for time to time for an update.

00:33:02.400 I decided to tell them everything. Not a good decision. So let me break it down on the things

00:33:19.080 that Tom and I have both learned. Some rules that maybe you should take when talking to your

00:33:26.920 family about. Pick the right time. Now, I'm not sure when that time is, because in a busy household,

00:33:38.940 it never seems to be the right time. But pick the right time. Half asleep? No. In-laws arriving in five

00:33:51.380 minutes? Five days? Five years? No. Not the right time. Baby's birthday party? Sure. A classic tale to

00:33:59.720 laugh about years to come. But have you lost your mind? You need to pick a low stress time where you

00:34:08.160 can really talk. Now, immediately, I think maybe a romantic weekend. No. No. Not a good time.

00:34:17.980 In couples counseling, they teach couples to employ the acronym HALT. H-A-L-T. HALT. Before you have

00:34:27.340 any serious conversation, HALT and ask yourself a few questions. Is she hungry? Don't do it.

00:34:38.260 Is she angry? Is she lonely? I just want some adult time. Or is she tired? Yeah. If one or more or all

00:34:57.340 of them apply, wrong time. Wrong time to talk. Now, here's my question for the counselor. What on earth

00:35:05.640 happened to you this weekend? Uh, it was not, it was not good. It was not good. Uh, this is an

00:35:12.180 amazing month. So yeah, it was not good. You tried to explain to your family the doom we all face in

00:35:21.860 some level of detail. No, no, no, no. And you picked the wrong time? No. Okay. So they're my family. So I

00:35:28.580 said, they said, what are you doing to prepare? And I told them what I'm doing to prepare. And they all

00:35:38.800 went, really? And I said, yeah, but I mean, it may not happen. And it may not happen right now. But

00:35:56.360 I think we should all be prepared and start thinking along these lines. Well, they didn't

00:36:06.880 hear the, it may not happen right now. And then they also went home and they saw, you know, the new

00:36:15.920 red phone being put on the desk of the Oval Office and with Putin. And, uh, and, uh, you know, the fact

00:36:22.860 that, uh, you know, we're at DEFCON 2 in, in, in Europe and, and the other, my favorite, uh, was,

00:36:30.180 uh, by the way, we're the state department. If you're an American citizen in Russia, run for your 1.00

00:36:35.360 lives, get out right now, right now, run for your lives. That's probably, that probably notched them

00:36:41.820 up a little bit in the panic scenario. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, that, that there's a lot to be

00:36:50.200 worried about. So I, so I went to them and said, look, look, look, look, I am sorry. Uh, because I

00:36:56.380 feel very alone in the family because I don't tell the family, uh, you know, I don't go home and do

00:37:04.740 all this. If they want to listen, they can listen. And, uh, and there's many things that I believe that

00:37:09.700 I shall never say that, but I shall never say the things that I do not believe. Uh, and so there's

00:37:15.420 lots of things that I, I don't say because I don't want, you don't want to live in my head.

00:37:21.560 You do not want to live in my head. It's a very dark and scary place. So, uh, and it causes a

00:37:30.680 problem with me. And I bet as a dad, if you feel the way I do, you might feel this way. You might feel

00:37:35.900 very, very alone because you're like, you know, everyone is depending on me. I'm trying to just to,

00:37:40.860 Hey, let's, yes, let's go out and, and, and, and just watch the kids play soccer this week.

00:37:50.660 Let's do that. Cause it's gonna, I'm not stressed out or thinking about anything at all. I'm just

00:37:56.640 thinking about, let's have a good time. Okay. Who wants to go to shaky's pizza afterwards? I know I

00:38:02.600 do. All right. That's, that's the way I feel like I'm just faking all of the time. Oh yeah.

00:38:10.860 No, me thinking, what are you thinking, honey? Oh, nothing. I definitely wasn't thinking about

00:38:17.580 18 minutes before, you know, missiles would hit here and how we would possibly survive and get

00:38:21.700 out of ground zero. I'm not thinking about that. I'm just nothing. So when somebody says, no,

00:38:29.680 really uncle Glenn, tell me, Oh, I was glad to share the burden. Not a good idea. So I, what I said to

00:38:40.100 them is, you know, be prepared, just, just be prepared. Just here's what you need to do. And I

00:38:47.040 didn't tell them this at the time. I told them this yesterday when there was a big conference call

00:38:52.680 with the whole family. And many of them were like, uh, we can never let our, uh, you know, our wives

00:39:01.100 down to your house ever again. You're not allowed to call here. Stop. Uh, and so I talked to everybody

00:39:08.760 and I said, look, here's the thing. All of these things are true. All of these things are true,

00:39:13.320 but you cannot, you, there's only so much you can do. And the first thing that's going to happen,

00:39:18.720 and I explained this to them, uh, that Tanya and I, for the last week, we have been trying to make

00:39:25.900 some really big decisions on things. You can't make them all at once. You can't, you can't have that

00:39:33.680 big conversation even all at once. You have to break them down into bite sizes. And you'll think

00:39:40.660 like, I'm not making any progress because I haven't made any decisions. All last week, Tanya and I

00:39:46.940 tried to have one conversation about one item on our list. And it is so, it's so, it's hard to think

00:39:56.960 about these things. It's hard to think there's, there's no, Oh, you know what? Go to the, go to

00:40:02.980 the bookstore. Um, there's gotta be a self-help book on what to do. You know, if your country's

00:40:09.960 about to collapse, there's no self-help on that. There's nothing, there's no, there's nothing.

00:40:14.480 There are zombie apocalypse help self-help. Yeah. And maybe you can follow my, I mean, I might get

00:40:18.960 to a point where I'm like, Oh, zombie is involved. Eat me now. Um, but, uh, uh, it's hard.

00:40:26.100 So you just have to do the best you can. And all last week, Tanya and I, we haven't made a decision

00:40:32.500 yet, but we're closer because we had five or six nights, uh, of just having honestly five minute

00:40:41.820 conversations before all of it, but before both of us were like, I I'm exhausted. I can't even think

00:40:47.520 about it. I'm just, I just shut down. It's really hard because it evolves everything, everything.

00:40:54.760 So what you need to do is just the next right thing. And the next right thing would be on the

00:41:05.880 political side, call your state house, your Senate, your house of representatives, call your governor's

00:41:14.920 office and say, no ESG pass a bill. No ESG. You don't even have to do that. If you just,

00:41:24.660 if you're just concerned about you go to the store and every time you buy food, you know, this,

00:41:30.320 this is not doomsday. This is just inflation. Every time you buy something by two, if you can

00:41:37.840 and then store the second one. And then when you run out of the first one, don't use the second one,

00:41:46.400 go to the store and buy two again and store the second one there and just keep doing that until

00:41:55.540 you have, I mean, I don't know if you saw this, uh, was it Colgate? I think, I don't know. One of the

00:42:01.940 toothpaste. They're saying that it's going to be $10 a tube this summer, $10 a tube for toothpaste.

00:42:10.940 Okay. All right. Wow. Maybe we should buy some toothpaste as well. Just do the next right thing

00:42:19.280 and start knocking them off. You cannot approach this the way, I mean, I've spent 25 years doing

00:42:28.120 this. I've spent the last 20, almost 18 years, just no, well, actually since September 11th,

00:42:35.280 really about 20 years, just focused on what I think we're entering into now to bring people up to speed

00:42:43.900 is tough and you don't want to scare them. So don't invite me to any parties because I'll make

00:42:50.160 everyone cry. Okay. There it is.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 07, 2022

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