The Glenn Beck Program - April 29, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Benny Johnson ｜ 4⧸29⧸26


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Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 to a person convicted of the charge.

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00:02:21.080 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:25.640 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:27.240 Yesterday, James Colmey was indicted on the seashell thing.
00:02:31.080 We'll get into this here in a second.
00:02:32.400 First, here's how he responded.
00:02:34.380 Cut to.
00:02:35.480 This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago.
00:02:41.700 And this won't be the end of it.
00:02:43.980 But nothing has changed with me.
00:02:45.820 I'm still innocent.
00:02:47.520 I'm still not afraid.
00:02:49.440 And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.
00:02:52.480 So let's go.
00:02:54.280 But it's really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country.
00:03:00.120 This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be.
00:03:03.320 And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values.
00:03:08.500 Okay, great.
00:03:10.560 Good for you.
00:03:11.700 All right. I want to make sure I'm consistent. Can you check with Glenn AI, Ricky? Have you checked with Glenn AI to see?
00:03:17.440 Oh, it was one of the first things I did this morning. I knew we were going to have to talk about this story.
00:03:21.900 And I want to know what you said back when this initially came out in 2025.
00:03:25.340 You said at first you didn't think Comey meant kill him.
00:03:29.400 And you interpreted it as getting him out of office. That was very, very generous of you.
00:03:34.440 But then you heard Tulsi Gabbard talk about how he actually may have violated the law.
00:03:39.920 and you kind of changed course and you said that he has spent his career prosecuting the mob he
00:03:48.320 knows exactly what 86 that's the way i remember it i remember at first saying 86 real um because 0.86
00:03:54.960 i believe 86 it came from uh something in new york i'm pulling this way out of my butt something
00:04:02.980 New York during, um, during prohibition and one street address on one side was like 125th and on
00:04:11.300 the other side of the block, it was like 86. And it meant get out of that door, go 86 it. So go
00:04:18.060 through the 86 exit because the cops are coming into the other. Um, and so I interpreted it more
00:04:23.880 like that, but then I remember hearing Tulsi Gabbard talk about it and she talked about him
00:04:28.240 with the mob and how the mob uses 86. That is the order to kill. And, and I, so I, I adjusted 0.69
00:04:37.020 and was like, well, no, he's not more of a historian. He's more of a prosecutor with the
00:04:43.420 mob. He would know exactly what that means. Okay. So I'm still there. He knew what that meant. This
00:04:50.580 whole innocent bull crap. Okay. But now let's look at what he was indicted on. Here are the 0.99
00:04:57.820 charges. Count one, threatening the president, a violation of U.S. Code 188718. I'm not going to
00:05:05.000 read all these codes. It makes it a crime to knowingly and willfully make a threat to take
00:05:11.160 the life of or inflict bodily harm on the president of the United States. Is that what he did? Is that
00:05:21.460 what he did. You got to go back to the Vietnam war, the Supreme court. There was a kid. This
00:05:27.880 is a Jonathan Turley pointed this out the other day. There was a kid in the Vietnam war who said,
00:05:33.660 if they give me a rifle to fight and I have the opportunity, the first one I'll shoot is LBJ. 0.97
00:05:41.720 Okay. And the Supreme court said that wasn't a violation. 0.96
00:05:45.700 if that wasn't a violation certainly seashells is not and i'm not saying that's right or wrong i'm
00:05:53.980 just saying that's where the court decided with lbj and we were living in exactly the same kind
00:06:00.980 of thing people had been killed etc etc count two transmitting a threat in the interstate foreign
00:06:07.960 commerce i love this one this prohibits knowingly transmitting via instagram which crosses state
00:06:13.660 lines, a communication containing a threat to injure, kill another person. Uh, the indictment
00:06:18.640 uses similar reasonable, uh, a recipient language as above maximum penalty is up to 10 years,
00:06:27.680 five years for each count. Now it's not going to make me popular with you today,
00:06:41.920 but that's okay my job is to tell you what i think and how i'm looking at it and i'm not here to
00:06:50.000 convince you of anything i'm just here to tell you this is what i think and this is not going
00:06:55.080 to be popular with people who are sick and tired because i am too sick and tired of these people
00:07:01.340 getting away with anything um and you know what you could make a case to me that going after al
00:07:08.120 Capone for income tax was the right thing to do. But I wish we could get people on actual things
00:07:15.520 that they did and not income tax. But I don't think this is income tax. I don't think you can
00:07:22.820 prove anything. Now, let me say this. Jason, what did I say earlier this morning when I first came
00:07:29.380 and we first talked about this? It's important that I preface it and I didn't. So let me do it
00:07:35.560 Now, it is important that I preface it with, with what we know right now, for them to file
00:07:44.260 this, uh, indictment with the seashell picture seems pretty light.
00:07:52.220 You know what I mean?
00:07:53.160 That seems like anybody in the, in the office would go, um, yeah, that's not going to work.
00:07:59.700 That's not going to hold.
00:08:00.860 That'll be rejected immediately.
00:08:02.420 so with what we
00:08:06.160 things that are in the indictment that we don't know of and is there any indication of that jason
00:08:15.640 a little bit the acting attorney general did say that it's up to the government to prove this
00:08:21.240 basically through receipts so he he acknowledged that this is you know there are receipts coming
00:08:26.740 That's what it sounded like, that there's more to come.
00:08:30.840 Okay.
00:08:31.820 So here's my feeling on this.
00:08:34.020 If there's more to come, there's really nothing to debate.
00:08:37.280 We shouldn't be arguing with each other about this right now.
00:08:39.860 We should watch and see what's coming.
00:08:42.280 Why borrow trouble?
00:08:43.780 Why argue with each other?
00:08:45.200 Why call each other traitor names and you're just against this or you're just for this?
00:08:50.200 Stop.
00:08:50.840 We don't have all of the facts yet.
00:08:52.880 Let's see this play out.
00:08:54.260 my initial take if this is all they have is two one it won't hold up constitutionally um and two
00:09:03.680 i'm not a fan of pan bondi
00:09:14.060 uh by any stretch of the imagination am i a fan of pan bondi i think pan bondi was uh you know a
00:09:22.620 an empty skin suit walking around okay what did she do what did she do um now we have this new
00:09:32.400 acting attorney general who's coming in and all of a sudden we're starting to see things 0.97
00:09:36.980 we're starting to see action okay i want to see real action i don't want
00:09:43.800 it doesn't help us make the case that these guys are bad by going after these kinds of things.
00:09:54.580 Okay. The, the shells I want, if this is the best the FBI has on Comey, we're in trouble.
00:10:02.260 That means nobody's done anything. If this is what you're like, we can get him on this.
00:10:08.440 What do you say? We try this one. We're in trouble. Okay. They haven't done Jack.
00:10:13.800 this could be a, a attorney general that, or a guy who's acting as attorney general and wants the job
00:10:22.680 saying, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to throw everything at them. I'll throw every, and I'm
00:10:28.520 for throwing everything at them and seeing what sticks, but I wouldn't have started with this.
00:10:34.060 I would have added this on top of all the other things. You know what I mean? I wouldn't have
00:10:38.020 started with, and now we got you. Now we got the real heavy guns out. We're going to start with
00:10:43.520 seashells so that bothers me can i pose a theory yeah do you remember when they threw everything
00:10:51.080 at trump administration officials um and while they didn't get them on real crimes they got
00:10:57.340 them on some easy things and they got people to talk and and squirm brennan is under investigation
00:11:03.540 right now do you think it's possible they're using this as a way to get comey to talk and
00:11:10.160 pit him against Brennan i don't think Brennan i mean i don't think there's a a true legal scholar
00:11:19.420 that would look at this and say i don't know that's real trouble i think there's a legal
00:11:25.980 there are legal scholars out there that might go i don't know you can give it a whirl but there's
00:11:30.640 nobody that says that's trouble and you're not going to get anybody to flip unless they think
00:11:34.620 you're serious i've got you that's that's the difference between this and what happened with
00:11:39.940 fauci yesterday explain what happened with fauci's cohort yesterday a fact uh fauci's right-hand man
00:11:46.360 basically was was it looks like he's caught red-handed in his in his foia communications
00:11:51.060 saying that you know basically doing exactly what they need to do looking like they need to do exactly
00:11:58.420 what they need to do to avoid any kind of scrutiny or get around for you so whatever we want to talk
00:12:04.040 about that you know it could be damaging to our narrative we got ways to talk about it to get
00:12:10.660 around so that one is that one to me is oh i'm coming for you the federal government has you
00:12:17.920 saying these things that would scare the living bat crap out of me um the if i'm james comey and 0.99
00:12:25.060 i see the seashell thing i like okay go ahead go ahead it's going to make my life a pain in the ass 0.99
00:12:30.040 but I'm not going to prison on that. If I'm, if I am Fauci's number two guy, I look at that and go, 0.97
00:12:35.440 I could be going to jail for a very long time. And they're going after him because they're saying to
00:12:41.380 him, I can guarantee you, they're saying to him, we have you dead to rights. You're going away
00:12:47.860 for a very, very long time. Now there is something we can do to lessen that. You could start giving
00:12:55.560 us more dirt on people you can give us access to these things because you obviously know how the
00:13:03.500 whole thing they're trying to get him to flip i can't imagine i i'm sure they would want to get
00:13:09.240 um comey to flip um but i don't think they're going to get him to flip especially on this
00:13:15.260 now let me let me add one more story into the mix jason what happened yesterday in minnesota
00:13:23.060 So they had about 20 plus raids, you know, pertaining to the leering center type organizations.
00:13:32.860 That's just not the perfect thing to the leering or leering.
00:13:36.780 Okay.
00:13:37.840 But yeah, it seems to be the start of this anti-fraud task force actually getting down and doing something about it.
00:13:44.220 That is really good.
00:13:46.860 And that's led by this new attorney general as well.
00:13:50.240 I'm telling you, I could be wrong on this
00:13:53.440 But if I'm President Trump, look at what he did
00:13:56.900 As soon as this war started
00:13:58.040 Hey, Marco, you come on over with me
00:14:01.460 We're working on the war thing
00:14:02.900 You be the guy who's working on the war thing with me 0.99
00:14:07.480 If it works, it's going to be good for you 0.75
00:14:09.420 At the same time, we know that there's a split
00:14:12.580 I think this shows how smart Donald Trump is
00:14:17.160 at the same time we know there's going to be a split in MAGA I don't understand it I don't get
00:14:23.880 it but there's a split in MAGA so JD I know you have some concerns about it I'm not going to throw 0.97
00:14:30.400 you under the bus I want you to express your concerns keep it nice otherwise you're a fat 0.98
00:14:36.900 loser but you go ahead and express those concerns I'm not going to drag you into this 0.98
00:14:42.320 in case it goes poorly, but here's what I want to do. 0.98
00:14:46.440 I'm going to give you a real task force
00:14:51.000 because when it comes to the election, people will forget a lot of things.
00:14:56.140 They will forget and they will forgive.
00:14:57.860 They will not forgive you for not paying attention to them.
00:15:01.900 If they feel this administration has abandoned them
00:15:05.400 and is no longer responding to them,
00:15:07.160 it's just all about oil and gas and all of this stuff,
00:15:11.320 they are not going to have any patience for it at all.
00:15:14.720 Donald Trump has taken and said to J.D. Vance,
00:15:18.960 go get the fraud.
00:15:21.120 Go get them in Minnesota.
00:15:22.820 More importantly, go get it in California.
00:15:26.340 You get that fraud and you start nailing that.
00:15:29.400 You start putting people away.
00:15:31.000 A, you're going to start feeling good about the government's doing stuff
00:15:33.840 and putting bad guys away.
00:15:35.100 You're also going to go, hey, thank God somebody is looking out for the little guy
00:15:38.820 and not giving all of our money away to all these fraudsters.
00:15:42.840 And the guy who's doing it is going to be running for president of the United States.
00:15:48.040 It's a brilliant move.
00:15:49.520 I think that's what he's doing.
00:15:51.720 So fraud in Minnesota, great move from our acting attorney general yesterday.
00:15:57.900 The Comey thing, let's just watch to see if they have anything else.
00:16:01.300 uh and the the other FCC we just covered that uh and told you exactly what has to happen there
00:16:09.540 I think that clears all of this up and lets people who are MAGA people who believe in Donald Trump
00:16:16.900 keep their values keep their principles not be somebody who's out for blood and just head
00:16:23.180 hunting but demanding actual justice using actual law I think that's a win I think yesterday was a
00:16:29.960 win you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program benny how are you my man glenn
00:16:37.500 what's up dude nothing but love glenn thanks for i know and same i'm not a reply guy yesterday
00:16:46.140 i'm not a reply guy but i saw it and i said this is a this is a problem this is a misunderstanding
00:16:53.600 and we should correct this i'm glad that your producer reached out glad we can chat yeah yeah
00:16:58.760 Yeah. So I saw it yesterday and Benny, you know, I respect you. Um, and you know, and I know you're
00:17:03.600 not a bomb thrower and we could have a real conversation and I might be missing something
00:17:08.500 that you are seeing. Um, you know, I, I look at things, I've been in broadcast now for 49 years.
00:17:16.400 So I know the FCC inside and out. I know all the rules, et cetera, et cetera. And I can't find my
00:17:21.060 way around it, but in some ways, man, would I love to, I'm so sick of all of this stuff,
00:17:27.900 but I want to make sure we're not violating the principles that we all hold dear.
00:17:33.880 So I said yesterday that if I worked at ABC, if I were running ABC,
00:17:38.880 I'd fire Jimmy Kimmel in a heartbeat because of standards.
00:17:41.640 It's just, it's reprehensible what he has done.
00:17:45.660 And I would send a message to the country.
00:17:47.980 We're not for that.
00:17:49.500 Okay.
00:17:50.420 And if I would have said something like that about Barack Obama at Fox,
00:17:53.900 I would have expected to be fired.
00:17:56.140 um however with that being said i don't see the fcc move here and if there is an fcc move i'd
00:18:05.080 prefer the president although i do prefer that he's out in the open unlike joe biden where they're
00:18:09.920 hiding it uh i prefer that it's not directed by the president i prefer that it is something that
00:18:16.040 is just uh the fcc takes care of because it's a clear violation but i can't find the violation
00:18:21.720 you may be able to. So help me out, Benny. Sure, sure. So let's attack this from three
00:18:29.140 different perspectives, Glenn. First, the moral obligations, then the regulatory obligations.
00:18:35.480 And then what I find most important is the obligations of our movement in order to
00:18:40.260 establish barriers and to have instructive moments. And I think this is one, certainly.
00:18:45.420 The moral obligation. Glenn, you had a hit show on Fox for how many years? A decade. You were the
00:18:50.700 number one rated broadcast in the world on cable news for how long i don't know two years okay
00:18:58.360 uh either way it was must see tv it what you made the chalkboard you probably sold more you
00:19:03.900 probably the biggest chalkboard salesman in the history of the world the chalkboard industry does
00:19:08.800 love me yes that's exactly right yes right yeah uh if you would you and you you went out on your
00:19:15.360 show and you were very prescient i mean i gotta tell you man um there was nothing like glenn beck
00:19:20.240 calling out the Soros Foundation from a thousand yards away when nobody was talking about this kind
00:19:24.940 of stuff. You were talking about Bill of Ayers. You were saying some pretty radical stuff about
00:19:28.780 Barack Obama. All of it turned out to be true. But you wouldn't even have been able to finish
00:19:34.720 your opening monologue if you had said Michelle Obama deserves to be a widow. Correct. If you 1.00
00:19:39.540 had said Michelle Obama deserves to be a widow, and not only that, a glowing widow, meaning she
00:19:45.320 would like for her husband to die, then you wouldn't have been you would have been pulled 0.62
00:19:49.020 from the show right you wouldn't use the five second and i yep right and i would have deserved 0.61
00:19:54.160 it however am i wrong no no no but hang on just a second you're not clinton hang up about hillary
00:20:00.420 clinton or jill biden you would have been pulled as well and if you would use yes but i would have
00:20:06.440 so this is the moral this is like the moral we're going to talk about like the moral yeah
00:20:10.780 betty wait yes but i wouldn't have had the fcc come after me fox would have done it the fcc
00:20:18.580 doesn't have anything to do with cable news so they couldn't have done it that way they would
00:20:23.880 have what would have happened is the left would have mounted a campaign and the right would have
00:20:29.420 folded um and and fox honestly i think fox would have been right to fire me had i said something
00:20:35.780 like that okay but it wouldn't have been the fcc and it wouldn't have been the federal government
00:20:40.840 glenn this is you please allow me to allow me to construct my argument i'll wheel in a chalkboard
00:20:45.540 next time and i'll draw it out okay i'll draw it out all right let's go so so so first off there
00:20:51.760 is no moral ground for jimmy kimmel to stand on if jimmy kimmel himself had said this about jill
00:20:56.720 biden and use the same rationale because jill biden is significantly younger than joe like by
00:21:01.200 i think 15 years and he said well melania is younger than trump that's why she's an expectant
00:21:05.680 widow it wouldn't apply to jill biden if he said jill biden is an expectant widow joe biden has 1.00
00:21:10.500 terminal cancer he'd be ripped off air too same thing about hillary clinton hillary's younger than
00:21:14.600 bill and bill's not in good shape but he wouldn't be able to get away with that we all know what's
00:21:18.900 going on it's permissible yes to celebrate and to fetishize the death of republicans and that that's
00:21:24.420 what they're signaling here and so i want to just establish that morally you wouldn't be able to get
00:21:28.660 away with it any other way uh and the fact that they're letting them 100 agree yeah on this and
00:21:34.080 then with that with that bs rationale of course that oh she's younger so i can say something like
00:21:38.960 this. How about this, Glenn? I was raised in Shueyville, Iowa. This is a town of 412 people.
00:21:46.180 There is one gas station that's also the town bar and also the town pizzeria and also the town VHS
00:21:51.000 rental shop. That's where I grew up. If you were to walk into that bar on a Friday night and you
00:21:55.820 normally could and find a couple of old timers sitting there with their wives and they're both
00:21:59.320 having a light beer, right? And that's how they unwind on a Friday night at the gas station bar,
00:22:03.780 pizzeria video rental shop and if you were to walk up to that farmer and say you uh your wife 1.00
00:22:10.720 looks like an expectant widow what do you think would happen i get my ass kicked punched in the 1.00
00:22:16.840 mouth i get my i get my ass kicked across the street and into the soybean field that's what 0.99
00:22:20.720 would happen in shooeyville iowa where i'm from probably where you're from too i would assume 0.97
00:22:24.340 right nobody would ever like no no in no universe is jimmy kimmel's explanation of this
00:22:32.260 logical not with other first ladies not with your wife not with anyone's wife so and on every level
00:22:39.380 this should be knocked down and the FCC is going to the FCC took action against ABC News in their
00:22:45.360 own station yesterday and I want to talk through why this is different than what we could say on
00:22:50.820 this program or what we could say anywhere else because you are free to say that you are free I
00:22:55.800 would be free is I would be free to walk into that bar and suffer the consequences of the farmer 0.87
00:23:00.020 punching me in the mouth. Jimmy Kimmel is free to stand on a street corner, pick up a cardboard box,
00:23:07.140 scribble on it and yell whatever he wants. He's gone to no Kings protests. He's done this. I'm
00:23:12.420 not saying Jimmy Kimmel shouldn't do this. I'm not against Jimmy Kimmel's free speech. That's
00:23:16.100 free speech. What I am against is taxpayer subsidized calls to assassination, which is
00:23:22.600 what we are doing right now with Jimmy Kimmel. Let me explain. Jimmy Kimmel operates on a federal
00:23:27.000 broadcast license. This is from the FCC. These are authorities that were granted to specific
00:23:32.740 networks in 1923. These specific networks have an option to operate on an electromagnetic spectrum
00:23:41.620 that is considered a scarce public resource that the FCC manages and licenses specifically to
00:23:48.820 prevent interference between stations so that they can have licensures and broadcasts in times of
00:23:54.540 emergency. These broadcasters must serve in the public interest and convenience and necessity
00:24:00.120 and have core legal standards and obligations under the 1924 Communications Acts. These licensees
00:24:06.440 do not own the spectrum. The government owns the spectrum. The government gives them a temporary
00:24:11.600 privilege to use that spectrum. This applies to some AM, FM radio stations. It applies to all
00:24:17.780 major public broadcasters, that would be PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS, they have to exist under a fair
00:24:25.220 time, equal time in the public interest broadcast viewers, and they can be penalized or have their
00:24:32.260 licenses stripped if they are found to be broadcasting profanity, pornography, if they
00:24:38.400 are found to be broadcasting untruths, things that they know are verifiable lies, if they're
00:24:42.880 found to be operating outside of the public interest, which is a broad legal descriptor
00:24:48.280 of what your broadcast should be. And I would argue, Glenn, that since Jimmy Kimmel is using
00:24:54.700 this billion, if not trillions of dollars of infrastructure that was built by the government,
00:25:00.320 that's maintained by the taxpayers, that has been serviced by our federal dollars,
00:25:06.580 that he should have to apply for these standards. And these standards do not cover him making fun
00:25:12.700 of Charlie Kirk's assassination, calling for the assassination of a duly elected president,
00:25:18.140 in no universe should that be allowed. So that is impermissible under the operations of Jimmy
00:25:24.320 Kimmel's and ABC News's lavish privileges that they get from the federal taxpayer dollars.
00:25:30.120 Jimmy Kimmel can do what every other bum does and get on a street corner with a cardboard sign. 0.73
00:25:36.000 He can start a YouTube. He can go on Spotify. Jimmy Kimmel can do whatever the hell he wants. 0.99
00:25:40.640 he can do smoke signals up in the mountains.
00:25:42.740 That's also free speech.
00:25:44.440 But Jimmy Kimmel shouldn't be able to use my tax dollars at force,
00:25:47.960 which is what's going on,
00:25:48.800 because if you don't pay taxes and I don't pay taxes,
00:25:51.000 to Jimmy Kimmel, we go to prison.
00:25:52.860 So that's force.
00:25:54.300 With that force and with that privilege comes standards.
00:25:57.920 Therefore, Jimmy Kimmel should be ripped off air
00:26:00.160 and the FCC should do a full investigation of ABC
00:26:03.040 and their broadcast licenses.
00:26:04.460 And sure, as shooting, Glenn,
00:26:06.320 that's exactly what they're doing right now.
00:26:07.780 so tell me about the taxpayer funding get go a little deeper on that for me benny and then
00:26:14.920 let's talk about the movement because you said it was moral i think you made the case on that
00:26:19.160 regulatory i'm not sure uh and then what it means for the movement so let's go back to the the
00:26:26.700 funding so this electromagnetic spectrum is maintained by transistors it is maintained
00:26:34.320 by towers, and those towers are incredibly important to the broadcast capacity.
00:26:41.000 And they're all paid for by the local stations or the corporations, not the federal government.
00:26:48.720 None of that is federal government money.
00:26:50.260 Of course, but what those licenses allow is for federal deductions. It allows for
00:26:58.100 operations to be maintained uh throughout this system the corporations that own these licenses
00:27:05.400 have uh these lavish privileges uh in order to broadcast directly into every single home
00:27:11.440 how much more how much more valuable would my program be if every tv came with the benny show
00:27:17.260 uh loaded in and locked in and it's just a channel you click on and you don't have to pay for
00:27:22.100 again like there there are federal subsidies that go into that and glenn you've been around
00:27:27.840 this business enough to know that these kind of things become massive write-offs these kind of
00:27:32.440 things uh have huge loopholes and one way or another the taxpayer ends up paying for it
00:27:38.220 i can't go there with you but i can see your point but i can't go there with you
00:27:43.620 i mean it's because that's a business expense and it's don't let me do you know and don't let
00:27:48.100 ABC Broadcast is worth much less than a cable network is now, and both of them are going to hell in a handbasket because of the internet.
00:28:01.280 So, you know, it's not like it was 20 years ago, but go ahead.
00:28:05.980 How much more valuable would my program be if every single TV in the country for the last 100 years had my program automatically loaded into it for zero dollars?
00:28:18.100 That is a massive gift to every broadcaster that gets those precious licenses.
00:28:24.620 It is a gift, but it is a diminishing gift.
00:28:26.840 But I get it.
00:28:27.400 I get it.
00:28:27.980 All right, go ahead.
00:28:28.600 But doesn't the American – through the FCC and through the use of that bandwidth and through the giving of that bandwidth and then the maintenance, even if that maintenance comes directly from the FCC and their own staff and the licensures and the phalanx of lawyers that it takes to run the FCC and to monitor all this, isn't that –
00:28:46.660 And isn't that prima facie a gift from the taxpayer?
00:28:52.700 Actually, it's a curse on the taxpayer.
00:28:54.680 I'd like to see all of it abolished myself.
00:28:56.760 Thank you.
00:28:58.240 But, you know.
00:29:00.060 Now we're talking, Glenn.
00:29:00.660 I don't want to make the case that, hey, we need more lawyers and more regulations.
00:29:06.100 Now we're talking, Glenn.
00:29:07.340 Yes.
00:29:08.440 All right.
00:29:08.980 So go to the movement.
00:29:11.780 Go to the movement.
00:29:13.080 What does this mean about our movement?
00:29:15.680 Yeah.
00:29:15.920 So you were at Charlie's funeral. You did a number of events and were so close with Charlie and when I saw what Jimmy Kimmel did to my dear friend in the hours, the mere hours after his death, which is of course to lie about the nature of the shooting, to lie in favor of the assassin,
00:29:44.140 to lie about who the assassin was and why they killed Charlie.
00:29:48.240 To call him MAGA is to say that Charlie deserved that death
00:29:51.200 because Charlie would have been a MAGA movement president in the coming years.
00:29:55.840 He would have been probably 49 or 50.
00:29:58.560 And so to say that his shooter was MAGA is to say that Charlie created the movement that killed him,
00:30:04.100 which is, of course, the opposite of what happened.
00:30:06.800 Jimmy Kimmel refused to talk about motive.
00:30:09.320 He did the same thing, by the way, in his non-apology to Melania Trump last night.
00:30:13.820 He refused to talk about the gunman's motive in Washington, D.C.
00:30:17.720 This alone is, of course, lying by omission. 0.93
00:30:20.660 They know damn well why these people are murdering Republicans, Trump or trying to murder Trump and murdering Charlie.
00:30:26.960 And so when I saw Jimmy Kimmel do that, I said, of course, this is abhorrent. 0.85
00:30:30.500 And we led the charge on social media to say this is totally wrong and people need to call their local broadcast affiliates to get Jimmy Kimmel ripped off air.
00:30:39.940 And sure enough, Jimmy Kimmel got taken off air for a week or two.
00:30:44.820 But what happened afterward repulsed me and made me so angry because what happened afterwards was we got woke scolded by our own side, by people on our own side.
00:30:55.340 Ben Shapiro, Ted Cruz used this as an opportunity to get a little doggy treat and a pat on the head by the left.
00:31:01.800 And to say in this moment where I'm simply trying to defend the legacy of Charlie and say this is disgusting.
00:31:07.820 Which, by the way, Erica agrees with me that all of the individuals at Turning Point that currently operate and built Charlie's show with him, they all agree with me.
00:31:15.480 They were all repulsed and sickened by this.
00:31:18.400 So was I.
00:31:18.880 We had a tax from the right telling us like – which is what always happens, which is, well, could you imagine if it was on the other side?
00:31:28.720 No, I couldn't because I don't have a federal broadcast license because the taxpayers don't subsidize my programming.
00:31:34.920 I am making the case.
00:31:36.200 I'm not making a free speech case.
00:31:38.380 I personally believe that I that my side is benefited and certainly my channels are benefited 1.00
00:31:43.560 every time Jimmy Kimmel says something stupid. 0.98
00:31:46.040 OK, I want Jimmy Kimmel to speak as much as possible. 1.00
00:31:48.060 I don't want to pay for it.
00:31:49.260 I don't want to subsidize it.
00:31:50.540 And there are standards that come with that subsidy.
00:31:53.800 And so that was the point I was making.
00:31:55.120 The American taxpayer shouldn't be forced to listen to this in multiple stations like
00:31:59.300 Nextar and Sinclair said, no, we agree with you.
00:32:02.720 They shouldn't.
00:32:03.360 And they shut Jimmy Kimmel down by preempting his show.
00:32:07.380 And so that is the thing that is instructive for the movement.
00:32:10.660 When the left gets an opportunity to exercise power over us, they take it and they wield
00:32:17.600 it with an iron fist.
00:32:19.160 And I'm calling for the right to do the same thing.
00:32:23.040 Benny, great points.
00:32:25.180 I want to digest them.
00:32:27.100 I'm going to take it under advisement.
00:32:30.520 And I'm going to give my response here in about half an hour, but I appreciate it.
00:32:33.940 I'm glad you were on.
00:32:35.240 I think you make some good points.
00:32:37.260 Thank you so much.
00:32:38.020 God bless you, Benny.
00:32:39.180 Thanks, Glenn.
00:32:40.980 You bet.
00:32:42.560 It's Benny Johnson, host of The Benny Show.
00:32:44.340 You can find him anywhere except on broadcast television.
00:32:49.360 BennyJohnson.com.
00:32:50.760 BennyJohnson.com.
00:32:52.960 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:58.960 Okay.
00:33:00.520 this happened in India. Now, all the way through, I want to show you how you count your blessings
00:33:10.420 instead of sheep. You want to sleep at night? Count your blessings instead of sheep.
00:33:15.040 First blessing, you don't live in India. 0.99
00:33:19.700 Now, maybe you like curry. I don't know. But you don't live in India. And I'm just
00:33:24.660 going to leave it at that. You might have a bad day, but it's not this bad. 50-year-old guy walks
00:33:35.460 into the bank, and he's arguing with the banker, the teller. He'd been trying to take out 20,000
00:33:49.780 rupees. Now, 20,000 rupees might sound like a lot. It's $211. And he's trying to withdraw it
00:33:58.360 from his sister's account. And he has authorization to do that, but not unless his sister shows up.
00:34:05.640 And he's like, yeah, but my sister is dead. She just died last January. And they're like,
00:34:13.560 yeah, well, she needs to come in and help. And he's like, she's dead. She can't come in. She's
00:34:20.400 dead. Well, I can't do anything until she comes in and she's dead. She can't come in. I'm sorry, 0.87
00:34:28.760 sir. $211, $211. We can't close the account. We can't give you that money. You know, I mean,
00:34:34.220 if she would like to come in herself with you, that was fun. Now you've had bad days, right?
00:34:41.820 you've had bad days has your day ever been this bad he leaves the bank and he's like you want my
00:34:50.000 sister to show up fine he goes to the cemetery and he digs her up he takes her out of the box
00:34:59.040 it's just bones he wraps her up in like you know i don't a blanket or something
00:35:05.480 walks back into the bank with her bones and says, 1.00
00:35:11.240 here's my sister, I want my $211.
00:35:18.660 So if you think you're having a bad day, just remember this.
00:35:23.460 You never had to dig up your sister to go to the bank to get $211.
00:35:27.780 So you got that going for you. 1.00
00:35:29.340 And again, I remind you, you're not living in India.
00:35:32.160 although it might feel like that at times uh let me take you to america's coming india
00:35:42.300 california california there are now new revelations about the estimated cost of the
00:35:52.960 fantasy train welcome to fantasy train now what was this supposed to cause you know ricky what
00:36:00.340 was it supposed it was supposed to be like 50 billion dollars to start with something like that
00:36:04.020 and then it was a hundred billion okay um and it was supposed to take just a couple of years it's
00:36:09.540 still going now the price tag is 231 billion dollars they have been saying scrap this whole
00:36:22.400 thing scrap it but california just keeps digging how much was it 2008 33 billion 33 billion what
00:36:32.560 a deal now 200 billion dollars over 200 billion dollars over and uh it's still not running
00:36:42.380 still not running and by the way it goes from nowhere to nowhere so i mean if you ever you're
00:36:47.820 Like, man, I wish I could get to nowhere, get on that plane.
00:36:52.100 I mean, you know, it's a ghost now, but you can think about someday getting on that train to go nowhere.
00:36:59.660 And somehow or another, the taxpayers just keep doing it.
00:37:04.420 They just keep going.
00:37:05.440 You know what?
00:37:05.780 That's not so bad.
00:37:06.720 That's not so bad.
00:37:08.080 How about this one?
00:37:09.300 This according to Brooke Rollins.
00:37:11.140 um Brooke Rollins said she's looking into SNAP recipients okay they are scamming the system
00:37:21.700 in one state does she identify the state she doesn't she doesn't identify the state yet
00:37:29.760 do you have it okay find it in one state 14,000 people receiving SNAP benefits now remember what
00:37:40.540 snap. Snap is something that Cloward and Piven, uh, snap is something that Joe Biden and everybody
00:37:47.500 else said we have to give because people are so poor and they can't afford anything and we've
00:37:51.620 got to feed them. And anytime you say no, no, no, no, no, no, you're called a hater because you just
00:37:59.400 want to starve people. And you're like, no, I don't want to starve people. I want people who
00:38:02.620 are actually hungry. I want to help those people. I want to help feed children. I don't want to feed
00:38:09.200 ghost children on a ghost train from Minnesota to California. I want to feed actual children.
00:38:16.280 I want to help actual people who are really struggling to eat. One state, 14,000 individuals
00:38:23.980 been getting SNAP benefits, are driving luxury vehicles, including 2,098 Teslas, 306 Land Rovers,
00:38:37.020 244 Alphas, 141 Porsches, 59 Maseratis, 11 Lamborghinis, 3 Ferraris, and 3 Bentleys.
00:38:53.740 They're on snap.
00:38:56.980 So, she has intentionally not disclosed the state.
00:39:01.800 And I bet it's because that state is in big, big trouble.
00:39:07.300 But I give you two guesses.
00:39:09.360 Minnesota, California.
00:39:10.820 Right.
00:39:11.300 It's probably not Florida or Texas.
00:39:12.960 Yeah, it's not.
00:39:13.740 It's not.
00:39:14.300 Do we have any idea?
00:39:15.920 No.
00:39:17.300 I'm telling you, I hope, I really, you want to have credibility.
00:39:23.380 Brooke, you want to have credibility.
00:39:25.300 Make sure you go after a red state as well.
00:39:29.700 Go after a red state. 0.99
00:39:31.500 Make sure that you are looking at red states and blue states, because I want their asses 1.00
00:39:37.180 in prison as well. 0.99
00:39:39.000 I want any politician who is stealing from the American people.
00:39:43.700 Is there anything, yeah, the other is, stealing from a church, going in and taking the tithing
00:39:50.040 money and stealing that, because then you're messing with God as well.
00:39:53.800 is there anything worse than taking money away from people who are struggling every day to pay
00:40:02.160 their taxes, doing the right thing, paying their taxes, not looking for shortcuts, not trying to
00:40:08.840 get out of it, not trying to scam anybody. They're actually working hard every day and paying their
00:40:13.860 taxes and you steal from them? I got to tell you, this is the winning angle on the election.
00:40:25.700 This is 2028. If J.D. Vance and his group or, you know, the MAGA group can actually expose all of
00:40:36.780 this and begin to put people in jail. It's an estimated, an early estimation of $2 trillion
00:40:47.380 over the four years of 2018 to 2022. $2 trillion. $2 trillion. That's 5% of our national debt
00:41:02.760 over four years. Can you imagine what happened between 2022 and 2026? You think it got better?
00:41:13.880 Oh man, I, I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, sorry, I can't give you your
00:41:21.560 snap payment unless your sister shows up. Oh, I'll dig my sister up for this one. Yeah. You put these
00:41:27.440 people in jail. Oh, I'll dig them up. I'll come with the bones on this one. And I don't think
00:41:31.860 I'm alone in that I think I mean I've just had enough and I don't understand Californians what
00:41:38.660 is wrong with you seriously what is wrong with you I'm really I want to know I'm begging you I'm not
00:41:46.100 I'm not trying to point fingers I'm not pointing and laughing I'm not accusing I'm just I'm 0.96
00:41:50.260 seriously begging for information do you have a mental illness is it is it the weather is it the 0.98
00:41:58.220 weather? Is the weather just so good? You're like, I don't care. They could set my children 0.99
00:42:02.060 on fire. I don't care. It's 75 today. I can keep the windows open. There's no 0.99
00:42:06.160 bugs. Is that what it is? Because I don't, and that
00:42:10.220 doesn't, and if that is what it is, Illinois, what 0.76
00:42:14.180 the hell is wrong with you? Because you can never open
00:42:18.260 the windows there. I mean, what is
00:42:22.160 happening? What is happening?
00:42:24.900 okay so the latest and this comes from blaze news
00:42:29.380 the spLC remember they were they were we've got some informants on the inside we have some inside
00:42:38.040 we have some inside before we have clans yeah okay they're clansmen but they don't want to be
00:42:41.760 they don't want to be clansmen but they are clansmen yeah but they're going to help us
00:42:47.240 You know, okay. Okay. Apparently, uh, apparently the one that they were bankrolling, one of the organizers, you know, of the rally in Charlottesville, um, he, he, he was a true, he was a true believer.
00:43:06.340 He was like, I don't know about you, but I love wizards and dragons, and if I can dress up as a grand dragon or wizard, I'm all in.
00:43:18.900 Congratulations on that one.
00:43:20.460 I can't wait until—here's the good news.
00:43:23.740 All of this stuff is falling apart.
00:43:25.380 We need more time.
00:43:27.060 We need a lot more time.
00:43:28.940 If we don't win—can you white pill me a little bit on this one, Jason, on the election?
00:43:33.780 because it looks like now everything that the media is saying, at least at this point,
00:43:39.680 at this point, it looks like the Republicans are not in as much trouble as they thought they were
00:43:44.900 or we thought they were.
00:43:46.080 Well, if you're just looking at like the redistricting battle right now,
00:43:51.820 Republicans, the GOP, appear to be winning every single one of those battles.
00:43:55.920 So we just won today Louisiana.
00:44:00.620 We've won Texas.
00:44:01.820 It looks like Virginia is going in Republicans' way, and Florida looks like.
00:44:07.560 I mean, and I showed you that map the other day.
00:44:10.020 I don't think you can find a redder color than Florida.
00:44:14.500 Honestly, I thought that the only blue spot on the map may be Lake Okeechobee.
00:44:19.660 It may be the only thing is a blue lake in the middle of it.
00:44:23.160 And a lake is even giving it way more justice than it deserves.
00:44:26.060 This is like a fishing pond in someone's backyard.
00:44:28.380 It's crazy.
00:44:29.220 It's wild.
00:44:29.860 Was that a joke or is that real?
00:44:32.180 That's legit.
00:44:32.880 If this goes through, this proposed map from DeSantis goes through, that's what it's going to look like.
00:44:38.140 So it looks good going towards the midterms.
00:44:41.400 I've looked at a few other people that say prediction markets are kind of staying away from a lot of the hoopla and emotion.
00:44:47.440 You know, I have to tell you another reason we must have the election.
00:44:53.600 We must have the presidential election is because of the census that comes out.
00:44:59.860 2010 Obama had it 2020 it was Biden that did all of this stuff 2030 it's got to be a Republican
00:45:09.860 because that's that's how they're that's how they're getting all of the money to go to these
00:45:14.480 states that are pissing it away just pissing it all away yeah I will say that the GOP is not doing
00:45:21.340 themselves any favor because it's still early but they're still not doing any favors by just showing
00:45:25.220 how they're not able to do any kind of action through Congress.
00:45:29.300 Have you seen what's going on with the Farm Bill right now?
00:45:31.360 A lot of insiders have talked about that.
00:45:34.600 No, I have not. Sorry.
00:45:36.160 This is from Anna Paulina Luna.
00:45:37.460 She just tweeted this, I think, last night.
00:45:39.660 But she said,
00:45:40.100 We are happy to report that one of my amendments,
00:45:42.100 removing pesticide liability,
00:45:43.980 will get a vote on the House floor as part of the Farm Bill.
00:45:46.280 However, the Rules Committee is pairing the Farm Bill
00:45:49.680 along with FISA and reconciliation
00:45:52.200 under something called a rule.
00:45:55.220 i mean i don't it feels like their hands are tied what they're doing is what they're doing is they
00:46:01.760 are you know they know the farm bill has to pass they know the farm bill has to pass they can't
00:46:07.660 lose that farm bill and so they're taking fisa and trying to wrap that into anything that they
00:46:13.040 know has to pass what you know what about uh save america why isn't that in there yeah why why yeah
00:46:19.140 Why aren't we doing that with the Farm Bill?
00:46:21.980 Why, Republicans?
00:46:24.640 I'd like to know anything at all about the Save America Act.
00:46:29.100 Anything at all.
00:46:30.220 I got news for you.
00:46:31.240 The guy, you know the guy's sister in the blanket was just Bones?
00:46:35.740 Probably more active than you are in Congress.
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