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00:00:30.000 I had an amazing talk with Linda from Florida. She was a listener, disagreed with the war in Iran. 0.73

00:00:35.620 And she said, it's all going to end up with our soldiers coming home in a box and Trump is wrong.

00:00:40.840 This is not America first. I spent about 45 minutes with her today. I'd love for you to hear

00:00:46.020 all of it, but some of the clips of it are in this best of podcast. But it is, it's a way to

00:00:52.520 model the conversation and you won't believe the conversation that we had. It was really,

00:00:57.420 really good that kind of feeds hope which is another topic that i talked about feeding your

00:01:02.220 hope and uh who's winning an spLC update and an update of all of the stories of the week what

00:01:09.420 were the important ones and what do all of them looking at them as a whole what does it tell us

00:01:15.120 who's winning all of that and more on today's best of podcast first let me tell you about

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00:03:20.440 you're listening to the best of the glennbeck program i looked at all the stories that are

00:03:28.020 coming out today in case you didn't get our newsletter you need to you sign up it's a free

00:03:31.880 email newsletter at glennbeck.com gives you all the stories of the day that i look at we get to

00:03:36.480 a fraction of them but they're all the stories that my staff and i are following every day

00:03:41.740 and we think are important for you to see to understand the world in which we live so what

00:03:47.560 are the stories that came out today that I think we need to pay attention to? And some of these

00:03:52.380 happen, you know, during the week. They've been unfolding during the week. So let's look at the

00:03:56.020 week here. For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center acted as America's self-appointed moral

00:04:02.260 referee. They have been a bane of our existence for years and years and years. One label from them,

00:04:10.060 they label you a hate group and lives were ruined. Bank accounts were closed. Companies

00:04:17.180 canceled contracts reputations destroyed no trial no evidence no appeal just their voice that's the

00:04:24.580 verdict that's the truth well finally this week the doj announced that they are under federal

00:04:29.760 indictment and i want to be really careful here because i got a million axes to grind with these

00:04:35.940 guys but i want to stay focused on what the government said they did a three million dollar

00:04:40.840 fraud scheme what they did was they routed money under fake names opening fake bank accounts

00:04:48.420 hiding payments from donors and cooking the books while they preached morality to everybody else

00:04:55.120 now the media is trying to spin this as they were just paying off you know uh people you know in

00:05:01.320 the neo-nazi group to uh to help them you know infiltrate well you can't do that as a 501 if

00:05:08.740 If you're the FBI, you can do that.

00:05:11.300 But if you're a 501c3, you don't have the right to do it.

00:05:14.380 You can't open fake bank accounts.

00:05:16.420 You can't fake wire transfers.

00:05:19.260 That's what the whole Patriot Act is all about.

00:05:22.260 You can't do it.

00:05:24.880 But the media is spinning this into a nothing burger,

00:05:27.460 and if it goes nowhere, charges of banking fraud,

00:05:31.880 if those are real and it goes nowhere, we're screwed.

00:05:34.360 But even if half of the stuff that the government is alleging is true,

00:05:38.740 This was the group claiming to expose Nazis and extremism, and they may have played a big part in manufacturing some of it.

00:05:49.020 I mean, look, hate exists, Nazis exist, racists exist, all of that exists, but they helped keep it going.

00:05:55.760 They made it into a bigger racket, and they advertised, you know, the referee was rigging the game.

00:06:02.520 So that credibility should be gone from everybody, but it's not.

00:06:06.700 it's not but notice this week that everything is beginning to wobble a bit perhaps perhaps some now

00:06:15.560 on the left are seeing why the left or some on the right are seeing why the left reacted the way they

00:06:22.580 did to Elon Musk and TARP okay they couldn't get them out of Washington fast enough they were

00:06:28.820 burning down his businesses okay why we now know if you follow the money the entire house of cards

00:06:36.980 comes down officials are now estimating that now listen to this between 2018 and 2022 two trillion

00:06:46.380 dollars were lost to fraud and corruption we have a budget debt of 40 trillion but in those four

00:06:55.540 years, and that was before things really got going. In those four years alone, they added

00:07:01.140 $2 trillion to that debt. Are you kidding me? If we could just do TARP and get rid of

00:07:08.160 all of this corruption, we would be able to pay down that debt pretty quickly instead

00:07:14.060 of adding, take the $2 trillion and pay down. This is always what happens when the ends

00:07:21.660 justify the means. Truth, integrity, theft, even murder don't matter as long as it serves the

00:07:30.120 higher purpose of what? The destruction of America and the Western world. You saw that last week with

00:07:36.180 Swalwell. Didn't matter. As long as he was helping them, he could get away with anything. The minute

00:07:41.700 he started hurting them, he was out. Ends justify the means. And this same twisted thinking is

00:07:49.540 everywhere. Listen to this story. In Houston, and we'll have more on this because this is a new

00:07:55.340 story and we don't have all the details yet, but in Houston, two teenage girls, two teenage girls

00:08:01.380 were charged with plotting to ram a synagogue and kill as many Jews as possible. That's a quote from

00:08:08.160 them. Now, thank God they were stopped. And let's see what the court's going to do to these two

00:08:15.960 girls. But let me just point this out. A society, a culture is lost when the nurturing class

00:08:25.860 becomes the killer class. Understand that. Guys, they are violent by nature. They are 0.99

00:08:34.060 the protectors. Women are the nurturers. When women become a killer class, your culture 1.00

00:08:41.420 is over. But again, why? Why are they becoming a killer culture? Because the ends justify the 1.00

00:08:49.940 means. At UC Berkeley this week, students erupted in applause for a failed Palestine 1.00

00:08:57.100 suicide bomber who spoke at Political Prisoner's Day. He was trying to kill himself. He failed,

00:09:06.920 and they brought him on to speak

00:09:08.740 and they held him up as a hero.

00:09:11.960 And at the same time,

00:09:13.680 the New York Times this week gave airtime

00:09:15.560 to voices claiming shoplifting

00:09:17.700 is a valid form of political protest.

00:09:20.720 I just said, ends justify the means.

00:09:23.100 That leads to theft, to lies, to murder.

00:09:27.400 You've just seen it this week.

00:09:30.900 And this isn't disconnected madness.

00:09:33.820 This is what happens when a society

00:09:36.360 lets grievance culture rewrite morality. Because you've been wronged, you can do this.

00:09:45.440 That's all of the seven deadly sins all wrapped up into that. Okay? Harm becomes negotiable

00:09:52.180 when you can base it on who's doing it. Good and evil get flipped. And who pays the price?

00:09:59.720 your children's future civilization collapses and look how it's collapsing let's look this week at

00:10:08.340 the cities that have been swallowed by this hole hole swallowed hole new york zoran mondani he stood

00:10:18.020 outside of ken griffin's building grinning about i'm taxing the rich i'm gonna make him pay

00:10:23.160 So what did Citadel do? What was the richest response? That's okay. We're just not going to invest the $6 billion redevelopment project that would have created 6,000 construction jobs and 15,000 permanent ones.

00:10:43.920 That's not a threat.

00:10:45.100 That's capital walking through the door.

00:10:46.740 That's capital saying, okay, we don't have to do that.

00:10:49.400 So who gets hurt?

00:10:51.220 6,000 construction jobs.

00:10:53.840 Mondami doesn't care about those people.

00:10:56.060 He cares about the elites.

00:10:57.660 He cares about the Columbia educated.

00:11:01.200 He didn't care about the construction workers.

00:11:03.400 The 15,000 permanent jobs.

00:11:05.700 I don't even know what those jobs are.

00:11:07.140 Do they need a college degree?

00:11:09.220 Does he care about those guys?

00:11:11.060 Think of that.

00:11:11.560 20,000 jobs, one fell swoop. 0.89

00:11:17.380 Now, meanwhile, let me white pill you here.

00:11:20.380 On the flip side, red states like Texas and Florida are doing something that would have sounded crazy.

00:11:26.500 In fact, I said it two decades ago.

00:11:29.360 I said it, what, 17 years ago.

00:11:32.120 You're going to see people, and when you see states start to stockpile their gold, we're going to be in real trouble.

00:11:37.940 Well, Florida and Texas are now protecting themselves because of the $40 trillion in debt, the reckless spending, the out-of-control ideas that are coming.

00:11:49.860 If we lose the next two elections, it's coming.

00:11:53.280 And at least two states know this has got to stop.

00:11:56.780 So they're bringing their gold back.

00:11:59.560 I'm going to get into that next week.

00:12:00.940 That's way important.

00:12:02.840 If your state's not doing it, it should.

00:12:04.540 Meanwhile, Virginia is staring down a Democrat-drawn congressional map that could lock in one-party progressive rule and turn it into California 2.0.

00:12:14.980 It's almost already there.

00:12:16.700 Higher taxes, more homelessness, open-border spending.

00:12:19.920 We've seen this movie before.

00:12:21.180 I don't know what's wrong with people, but okay, whatever.

00:12:24.580 And now they're saying, well, Florida should do it.

00:12:27.120 Well, nobody wins on this, gang.

00:12:28.880 Once you open this, no one wins.

00:12:31.360 The rule of law goes out the window.

00:12:34.540 Now, the same pressure is hitting America's adversaries abroad.

00:12:38.860 I showed you yesterday what's happening in Canada.

00:12:41.840 They're no longer a free nation, as we've always understood Canada to be free.

00:12:45.440 It's not.

00:12:46.500 And it doesn't look like there's anything that's going to slow them down.

00:12:49.260 Pray for the people of Alberta, quite frankly.

00:12:51.480 That might do the trick.

00:12:52.820 Maybe.

00:12:53.340 Maybe.

00:12:54.380 In the Middle East, we're told today by some podcasters that Trump's ceasefire doesn't make any sense.

00:13:00.940 Wait, he's expanded it by two weeks.

00:13:02.840 Wait.

00:13:03.100 First, you said no troops and stop the killing.

00:13:05.440 So when he does stop the killing, what, you want him to start killing again?

00:13:10.680 I'm confused.

00:13:11.400 I can't follow your logic here.

00:13:13.180 I can't.

00:13:13.680 Which is it?

00:13:14.180 You want him to do war or not do war?

00:13:16.260 You want him to negotiate with teeth or not negotiate with teeth?

00:13:19.280 I don't get it.

00:13:21.880 But so you know, everything we said we were probably doing, it looks like we are doing now.

00:13:30.500 We're negotiating and we're bleeding them dry of their oil. 0.52

00:13:34.860 President Trump also expanded the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire another three weeks.

00:13:39.420 He has carriers in the region. 0.90

00:13:40.940 He has ordered the Navy to shoot and kill any Iranian boats that are laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. 0.90

00:13:45.400 It's not like those old mines with the spikes on them and stuff. 0.96

00:13:47.700 These are down underneath the water.

00:13:49.440 But he sunk most of their submarines, if not all of them.

00:13:52.660 But he's made it clear, nuclear weapons are not going to be allowed.

00:13:55.160 And the first time in years, bad actors are facing real consequences instead of, you know, pallets full of cash on their airport, tarmac.

00:14:03.620 Their economy is collapsing.

00:14:05.740 Some people say it has days before they have to shut down the oil wells.

00:14:08.960 And if that happens, no income, no income.

00:14:11.400 They're over no income.

00:14:13.140 Already, their GDP is down over 40 percent because of the last couple of weeks.

00:14:17.320 This is bad.

00:14:17.860 the supreme leader burned disfigured losing control now i guess to people even more hardline 0.92

00:14:24.560 than he is but i don't know what a mullah who's gay i mean how hardline they are i hate to use

00:14:28.840 that phrase but now some bad news the parliament speaker just quit the negotiating team the regime

00:14:34.820 is cracking still talking tough but the hardliners seem to be gaining power but we don't know for

00:14:41.100 sure the the the the news today that came out right before i came on the show is they are sending

00:14:47.220 their team to pakistan to actually engage in talks this week so we could see again another friday

00:14:53.580 where i say to you let's see maybe it's peace by monday maybe not china is also feeling the news

00:15:00.480 it's tightening on their energy supply lines from venezuela to iran caribbia all of that

00:15:09.060 And the administration is accusing now Beijing of industrial scale campaigns to steal AI from America. This is huge, huge. And we're not just talking tough to protect ourselves. We're actually finally taking real action against China, carrying a big stick, but not using the full force of it yet because we don't want to do that.

00:15:32.740 back home also this week you should know real enforcement is returning governor abbott has cut

00:15:39.680 a deal with houston to honor ice warrants after threatening to withhold 114 million dollars in

00:15:44.760 state grants good borders are tom homan has invited pope leo come along with ice come with us on some

00:15:52.140 of these raids so you can see the border and what we're doing with your own eyes and please 0.73

00:15:56.160 pope leo i have no problem with the catholics or you i don't want to fight with any of them 0.93

00:16:00.700 But please don't tell us that the Muslims are not a problem and we shouldn't worry about that. 0.99

00:16:06.860 Your Vatican walls were built to keep the Muslim invaders out of Vatican City. 1.00

00:16:12.380 So please learn your own history and don't lecture us about politics. 0.96

00:16:16.420 Yours is God, not politics.

00:16:19.200 Federal agents just dismantled major pieces of the Mexican mafia in Southern California.

00:16:25.820 Dozens arrested, prison leadership hit, drugs, guns, extortion.

00:16:29.200 all these networks taken down. That's good news. And all of this connects to what?

00:16:38.840 We're making progress. The institutions that lied to us are losing their grip.

00:16:45.760 The moral confusion they spread is being exposed in real time. Don't get me wrong. We are not

00:16:53.300 killing them. We are wounding them. But if you go after the king, you better make sure you take 0.99

00:16:58.880 the king out they are not out not by a long shot but yesterday the tides foundation finally found

00:17:05.180 themselves in the scope of law enforcement but they're going to fight back and in the end they're

00:17:10.420 so old and and exposed now they might just morph instead of die but the economic consequences of

00:17:17.760 bad ideas are starting to hit hard and the enemies who grew bold during the years of weakness are

00:17:24.600 suddenly under real pressure. Unfortunately, so are you. I told you before, it's a race to the

00:17:31.040 finish line. I pray J.D. Vance and the new AG are going to be working hard and fast to stop the

00:17:39.920 bleed of half a trillion dollars a year in corruption. Imagine if we weren't giving this

00:17:47.800 money away to NGOs and Somalis and illegals who were funneling all this money through NGOs, 0.92

00:17:56.200 501c3s and democratic platforms. Imagine what you could do with that money. But this is a stress

00:18:03.520 test for the country. Some things are cracking, some things are holding. But I want you to know

00:18:10.060 while we're making progress, nothing is set in concrete yet. Everybody who is working to destroy

00:18:16.680 us everybody who hates trump needs him and anyone who thinks like him out if we can keep the house

00:18:23.540 and the senate and we can somehow win in 2028 we have a chance of killing this virus

00:18:28.000 i mean this is a virus that i mean this has the republic on a covid vent we're not off the vent

00:18:36.440 yet we have to stay vigilant even with our own side the house gop the fisa extension without

00:18:44.320 warrant requirement should worry every single American who values liberty. Make no mistake.

00:18:49.940 Make no mistake. We have to stand against our own side at the same time. But also,

00:18:55.820 don't make the mistake of saying the world is in chaos. It's not. Part of the world is trying

00:19:01.500 to create chaos. Social media will think that everything Trump is doing is chaos. It is not.

00:19:07.080 It's a reckoning.

00:19:09.080 It's a sorting out what is true and what was built on lies.

00:19:13.620 What survives this moment is what we'll build on or rebuild on.

00:19:20.920 And the choice is still ours to make.

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00:20:31.540 and we really want to thank you for listening welcome to the glenbeck program linda is calling

00:20:37.860 from florida hi linda welcome to the glenbeck program how can i help you hi um i'm calling

00:20:43.520 from the tampa bay area and i was calling in regards to the israel um united states and iran war

00:20:51.420 okay um i was calling i know you're more for it um or you know in support of it yeah um i'm not

00:21:00.980 for it i mean no nobody's for it i didn't mean it like that but um i am i look at it and i feel

00:21:09.540 like we're being bamboozled in regards to the united states being told you know iran iran's

00:21:16.060 been um two weeks from having you know the nuclear power 100 agree with you yeah since the 90s i

00:21:24.480 mean netanyahu has been saying that since 98 yeah well no it wasn't just israel it was all of the

00:21:30.520 world's intel and i said at the very beginning don't start with me on they were two weeks away

00:21:35.000 from a nuclear weapon i've heard that since you know i've been on the year i've done this now for

00:21:39.660 49 years so i remember when they first went in and i remember when we first started hearing about

00:21:46.660 them going after nukes so they've been two weeks away forever so i'm i'm 100 with you on that

00:21:52.780 doesn't carry a lot of water with me right so what so how are we and you are you know very

00:21:59.900 important in in what's going on the dialogue of the world and and what people think what what

00:22:06.500 would make you think it's different today and in this moment because as far as you said that the

00:22:12.560 world's intel was claiming you know everything was leading that they did have that um ability

00:22:20.820 to make nuclear but how come the nato powers they're totally against this well the nato power

00:22:27.920 I'm not going to, let's not, let's not bring NATO in as a, as a, as a credible organization.

00:22:34.840 But let me, let me go through this with you. Cause thank you for approaching it this way,

00:22:38.300 Linda. I love having this debate and, and, and, you know, maybe you'll bring some points out

00:22:43.320 that will change my mind. But let me just explain how I look at things. This is in, in some ways,

00:22:51.120 and I'm going to be very careful on making sure you understand this. This is Israel's war for 0.99

00:22:56.240 them. They believe that Iran is a imminent threat. If somebody, if Mexico was saying what Iran is

00:23:03.720 saying to us all the time, you know, we're going to wipe you out, you're going to burn, Americans 0.97

00:23:09.260 are going to burn in the Islamic fury of the fire, everything else, and they backed it up and they 0.99

00:23:13.760 were having, you know, they were lobbing missiles and having terror strikes all the time in the 0.92

00:23:18.620 united states of america we would view mexico exactly the way they're viewing iran that doesn't

00:23:26.440 make it america's war that makes it israel's war so they have to fight the way they want to fight

00:23:32.960 and i give them the right because we would demand that right if it was happening to us

00:23:37.640 this close to us would you agree with that uh yes and no they've been saying that for um they've

00:23:45.260 been Iran has been saying that for decades right no wait wait wait wait wait wait don't don't don't 0.98

00:23:50.480 just talk about wait wait don't just talk about nukes I but that's why I brought in the terror 0.82

00:23:55.840 strikes I mean they are constantly bombing Israel they are constantly doing terror strikes just look

00:24:04.460 at this not as Israel look at this as us if Canada or Mexico were sending terrorists in

00:24:10.800 and they were blowing people up in schools and school buses

00:24:15.760 and they were killing our people

00:24:17.160 and they did an October 7th on us.

00:24:19.920 Would you stand for that as an American?

00:24:23.640 Or would you say, we're going to stop this right now?

00:24:29.460 I would not stand for it,

00:24:31.260 but I think there's more to all those stories.

00:24:33.860 There's no but there.

00:24:35.240 There's no but there.

00:24:36.780 There's no but.

00:24:37.900 You wouldn't stand for it.

00:24:39.480 And anything else from any American is a lie.

00:24:42.960 If this were, forget about Israel.

00:24:45.380 Forget about the Jews and everything else. 1.00

00:24:46.860 If the same thing were happening to us, all of us would say, get them. 1.00

00:24:52.280 So that's Israel's, hang on, that's Israel's war. 0.99

00:24:56.260 And that has, that's their business. 0.94

00:24:59.080 Where the problem becomes is, were they convincing us that that war, we should help fight? 0.78

00:25:08.200 And if they were, your problem is not with Israel. Your problem should be with Donald Trump, because that's exactly what Marco Rubio's job is. Marco Rubio's job is to go in and convince other nations, it's in your best interest to go in with war with us.

00:25:26.140 And it's the right and the responsibility of every other nation to go yes or no.

00:25:31.360 If we convince you of something that you shouldn't be involved in because it's really in our best interest, that's the fault of their prime minister or their king or their president, not the foreign leaders who are convincing.

00:25:46.980 So this is where I kind of separate with people.

00:25:49.740 Your problem is not with the foreign minister or the prime minister of Israel.

00:25:53.800 your problem should be with the people who are making the decisions to go along with it if that

00:26:00.220 were true so that so you you brought up very good points so two things with that apparently and

00:26:07.860 again i'm nobody like i i get my news by reading and you know scouring the radio and you know

00:26:15.540 good for you trying to figure out what the truth is right our pentagon said that we would never be

00:26:22.720 able to win this war this isn't going to be a venezuela where you know take out the main so

00:26:27.800 your problem is not with israel your problem should be with the commander-in-chief that made

00:26:33.380 the decision separate those two israel with israel was giving intel to our then our your problem 0.63

00:26:40.900 here you have to listen to me listen to me here if somebody gives you fool me once shame on you

00:26:47.060 fool me since 1979 shame on me so your problem is not with israel if israel you've just made the

00:26:56.520 case that israel has been saying the same thing forever so the problem is why are the people

00:27:03.080 why is our side falling for it yet again you said the pentagon didn't fall for it i don't know if

00:27:09.260 that's absolutely true i know that there was a split there but i don't think it's true the

00:27:14.160 president has to decide who he believes but if you say he believes the wrong side the problem

00:27:19.060 is not with israel it's with the president of the united states is it not uh yes and the people that

00:27:27.900 he surrounds himself with which is his decision he picks those people right so i don't understand

00:27:34.800 if you're against the war stop with the israel part stop with it you can disagree with israel

00:27:40.900 you can say all the things you said about you know they look at it wrong they're wrong for what

00:27:46.180 whatever but when it comes to us getting involved stop blaming it on israel if that's your point of

00:27:53.220 view the the the responsibility only falls on donald trump's shoulders right one more question

00:28:02.080 okay well wait could you give me a right on that or you disagree um yes oh absolutely he chose to

00:28:09.320 be president he won and and yeah and it's his decision the buck stops with him correct great

00:28:15.580 okay good so what's your next question um how do you feel about the greater israel project

00:28:21.720 what is the greater israel project um it is a project where israel it wants to expand its

00:28:30.020 borders into parts of lebanon um i guess it was like the old borders they were essentially like

00:28:37.240 playing a tug of war with south lebanon and wanting to go into um so is this a bigger is

00:28:44.640 this a bigger problem than uh iran saying that they want to have a global caliphate

00:28:51.420 or do you put them in the same boat well i think it's a different i think it's a different um topic

00:28:58.100 all together why um what's the difference between the two i think israel i mean i'm sorry i think

00:29:05.060 Iran, it's not empty words, because words do have meaning, but Iran has been saying what they've

00:29:11.960 been saying for decades, okay? Yeah, but they've been backing that up with terror all over the 0.98

00:29:21.200 Middle East. I mean, Hamas, for the very first time, Hezbollah, I'm sorry, for the very first 0.80

00:29:27.220 time. Hezbollah does not control Lebanon. Now, whether Israel wants to expand or not, that's a

00:29:35.400 completely different story than the war. Let's not borrow more trouble here. That's a separate

00:29:42.640 thing. And we can talk about that and we can debate that. I am for every nation being able

00:29:50.500 to defend themselves in the way they think they need to defend themselves. I may disagree with it,

00:29:57.220 And I may say, we're not on your side, but every country has a right to do what they think is in their best national interest.

00:30:08.160 Again, we may be against it, we might even fight against it, but that's their business, not our business.

00:30:18.620 Would you agree with that?

00:30:19.860 yes in my uh in my older age i wish when i was younger i did read into history now because

00:30:27.400 i think the problems that we see today and without that's now going into left field but there is i

00:30:34.020 mean if if all of your um audience like reads into the history of iran and and you've even

00:30:41.440 mentioned it like iran you know a number of years decades ago they the women look like western women

00:30:48.680 And then there was like a regime change, some sort of coup d'etat, and everything changed. 0.51

00:30:55.220 Right. It's the Islamic State that now rules Iran. 0.90

00:30:58.860 They overthrew it with Marxists and Islamists, and that's what happened. 0.87

00:31:03.220 It wasn't some sort of coup d'etat. It was the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

00:31:08.580 There was, though—wasn't Iran's oil at one point controlled by the England, the British?

00:31:17.840 yes and they wanted sovereignty over their oil yeah you went you now you're going back to um

00:31:24.160 the balfour uh accord so you're going back you know between world war one and world war two

00:31:29.540 um but if you want to get into that you can't say that iranians uh the iranian um borders were right

00:31:39.200 or this was wrong but but the uh israel borders are right or wrong because it was done all at

00:31:46.120 the same time by the same people. So you can't legitimize one government. And that means you

00:31:51.480 can't legitimize Iran, I mean, Israel and demonize Iran. The borders were all done at the same time 0.51

00:31:59.080 by the same people. So you have to delegitimize all of it. And quite honestly, I don't think you

00:32:06.920 can do that. That would be like us going back, you know, it's these people who say you're living

00:32:10.560 on stolen land well okay you know that was many many years ago this is the way it is if you want

00:32:17.420 to fight a war that's how things are usually done this was done by the un and sanctioned by the un

00:32:24.860 it was the new world order and this is how we're going to do it and the balfour deal and all this

00:32:29.500 stuff they tried to do it through negotiation uh was that a good idea i don't think it was but

00:32:35.800 this is what it is now and so why are we going back and rehashing that and if because if you

00:32:42.580 want to then you have to open up the entire middle east and that doesn't sound like a good idea

00:32:47.420 no i mean i will yeah i mean persia former iran persia i'm sorry former persia iran is uh it is

00:32:56.260 over a millennia old but it is definitely i feel like all of us should definitely do our homework

00:33:01.500 You know, read more what happened leading up to basically everything that is happening today.

00:33:11.020 Can you, Linda, I so enjoyed our conversation.

00:33:13.540 Can you hold on a bit?

00:33:14.440 Because you were for Donald Trump and now you're not.

00:33:20.380 And is that right?

00:33:21.960 Is that correct?

00:33:22.980 Yeah, I voted for him three times.

00:33:25.320 So can I pursue that with you a little bit?

00:33:27.800 Because I've really enjoyed our conversation.

00:33:30.100 Sure.

00:33:30.380 Okay, good.

00:33:31.020 hang on just a second. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck. To hear more of this interview and

00:33:35.760 others, download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. You know, I'm so grateful for

00:33:41.360 listeners like Linda who came in and look at what a reasonable conversation can produce.

00:33:48.720 I don't know if we agree on everything, but we walked away willing to have a conversation with

00:33:53.700 each other again. And we were at polar opposites when we first started. And I think we found a

00:34:01.000 lot in common. And that's where, that's where white pilling comes in. Okay. We are all black

00:34:10.340 pilled on something one way or another. We're black pilled on so many things, but I want you 0.88

00:34:15.120 to start looking for things of hope. Jason, you just played, who was it that was testifying in

00:34:20.900 front of the Senate yesterday on COVID that you just played? Oh, that was Senator Johnson. It

00:34:25.460 wasn't an interview. It wasn't a testimony. Okay. Interview. And he was talking about what

00:34:30.120 they're now finding with covid and uncovering etc etc and we can sit here and go yeah but is

00:34:35.040 anyone going to pay for that at least it is now coming out and being verified we are showing the

00:34:42.660 facts now and that's where that's where everything can change if you stay focused on facts and don't

00:34:50.320 let people um you've got to compartmentalize you're never going to be able to think everything

00:34:56.040 through if you keep dodging from one squirrel to the next. You've got to follow one point all the

00:35:05.500 way down and answer that. Then take the next fact and follow that all the way down and make your

00:35:11.260 decision on that. When you put them all back together, if one of those disagrees with the

00:35:16.660 other, then you've got to start all over again. But it's hard work. It's hard work. But there is

00:35:22.320 a lot of good stuff that is going on right now and we are starving for hope i mean right now

00:35:29.820 so many of us i mean look around look around all your friends okay people wake up they're tired

00:35:36.480 they're already convinced you know it's not going to change good life is out of reach we're

00:35:41.460 you know like like linda said an hour ago was i want to get it i want to get the exact quote from 0.95

00:35:46.780 her we all know this is going to be endless war men and women our boys are going to come back

00:35:52.260 in a box we don't know that that's black pilled that's black pilled and we swallow these things 0.99

00:35:58.600 whole and you know all the way from that to i'm never going to be able to own a house or have the

00:36:04.780 family or the future i want and we're exhausted we're desperate and we scroll through media with

00:36:12.920 social media which is filled with lies okay and and you feel smaller and smaller and more confused

00:36:20.840 and more despair with every swipe up, okay?

00:36:25.000 Hope is dying in us, one comparison at a time.

00:36:30.460 But if we would stop and decide to feed hope every single day,

00:36:35.720 stop, stop waking up to dread,

00:36:38.020 start waking up to possibilities,

00:36:40.980 life changes.

00:36:43.060 Your chest isn't so heavy,

00:36:45.440 you start squaring your shoulders,

00:36:48.120 beginning to look up a little bit,

00:36:49.300 and you begin to believe again that maybe life can be good and meaningful right where we are,

00:36:55.980 not someday when we make it. You trade numbness for expectancy. We trade fear for courage.

00:37:06.060 We become the kind of person who can face hard days without being crushed by them.

00:37:10.760 And if enough of us do this, our culture begins to heal and hope becomes a real powerful weapon. Hopelessness, hopeless people are very dangerous. They tear things down, but hope filled people build things. They create, they love, they fight for what's good.

00:37:32.740 families stay together communities come alive you know and the generation that says it's screwed

00:37:41.360 now they begin living boldly again and risking and building i want you to do a couple of things

00:37:48.700 write this down i want you to do a few things every single day if you can if you want to be

00:37:53.420 white-pilled okay start your day with eternal truth read something that was built before that 0.80

00:38:00.720 was written long before any of this crap started, okay? Read things that are true. Spend five 0.94

00:38:06.680 minutes reading scripture or some timeless wisdom that reminds you that hope is alive, truth is

00:38:13.660 alive, truth is God, okay? Two, write down one specific hope or prayer and keep it visible.

00:38:22.160 Keep it right in front of you, something that gives you hope every day. Put it right in front

00:38:26.760 of you all the time, you start to doubt, look at that picture. Take one faithful action, no matter

00:38:33.300 how small, take one faithful action to serve somebody else, okay? Move towards a meaningful

00:38:41.100 goal that is about helping other people, whatever it is. Four, limit your comparison and feed your

00:38:50.000 mind with stories of real resistance and redemption instead of endless scrolling.

00:38:56.860 And then when you end the day, Ben Franklin used to do this. He kept a charter. He started,

00:39:02.260 he kept a diary every morning. He had a list of all the things, all of the attributes that he

00:39:08.160 wanted to embody in his life. And then he would check them out. He'd read them and he'd check

00:39:12.140 them off. And then he'd come back to that same list at night and he would write where he failed

00:39:15.760 and where he can do better and where he excelled that day

00:39:21.220 so he could make it even better the next day.

00:39:24.500 Remember every day that God's faithful in your life or in our history.

00:39:30.980 If you do these things and you watch, you'll be stronger every day

00:39:36.180 and you'll be much stronger than your circumstances soon.

00:39:39.420 It does work. It does work.

00:39:42.820 We have to get out of this black pill. 0.98

00:39:45.180 But we also have to look at the truth. 0.63

00:39:47.780 I'm going to tell you a story you want to talk about.

00:39:49.880 Scary.

00:39:51.520 Let me tell you this story.

00:39:55.460 I read this in a court document.

00:40:01.280 Let me tell you this story in a story form.

00:40:07.000 It's Albuquerque, New Mexico.

00:40:10.060 It's in the late 1980s at a hot dog cart.

00:40:13.420 and two guys meet each other at this hot dog court.

00:40:17.300 One is down on his luck.

00:40:19.640 He's just scraping by.

00:40:20.760 The other sees an opportunity

00:40:22.100 and steals that guy's entire life.

00:40:27.860 I don't know if you've read about this yet.

00:40:29.780 This is a story of Matthew David Kierens,

00:40:32.460 I think his name is,

00:40:33.940 and the man whose name he took,

00:40:35.720 William Donald Woods.

00:40:37.840 It has been going on since the 1980s

00:40:40.780 80s. And it is, I mean, it's Kafka. It's a nightmare. Okay. But it finally caught up.

00:40:51.120 So here's what happened. By all appearances, the man named William Woods had turned his life

00:40:57.780 around. Okay. From the homeless hot dog vendor to a married father, successful hospital IT

00:41:04.020 administrator. He was earning over a hundred thousand dollars a year in Wisconsin. He had

00:41:08.180 bank accounts, credit lines, family, everything looked legitimate. One problem. He wasn't the

00:41:14.480 hot dog vendor. He's not William Woods. His real name was Matthew David Kierens. In the 1980s,

00:41:22.880 Kierens met the real Woods at that hot dog stand. And Woods was a co-worker. He was vulnerable. He

00:41:29.160 was transient. Kierens didn't just borrow the name. He became William Woods. He got a social

00:41:36.560 security card, driver's license, insurance, loans, credit, all in Woods' name. And when Kieran's

00:41:43.000 stole cars, the warrants and arrests landed on Woods. He married and had a child who carried

00:41:49.660 the stolen surname. His own wife never knew the truth. Meanwhile, the real William Woods

00:41:58.100 was drifting through life. He was homeless. He was bewildered. Debts, warrants, legal troubles

00:42:03.600 all piled up in his name and he was like wait that but that's not me now skip ahead it started in the

00:42:09.600 1980s it's now 2019 the real hot dog stand guy the real woods now is in california and he walks

00:42:18.920 into a bank branch and he's trying to do the right thing and he's trying to clear all this up and

00:42:23.920 he's like no that's that's not who i am somebody stole my identity and they're racking up debt

00:42:28.120 and he shows his real social security card but the banker notices the account address is in

00:42:34.920 wisconsin woods fails the security questions banker calls the listed number kieran's answers

00:42:43.240 calm as can be and he's like nobody in california should be able to touch my accounts he faxes over

00:42:51.320 his forged documents social security card driver's license birth certificate all in the name of

00:42:55.800 William Woods then he goes further he calls the police and he says I want you to get this guy

00:43:02.380 and prosecute him for stealing my identity remember he's the guy who stole the identity

00:43:08.180 from the hot guy hot dog guy already back in the 80s now he's saying I want you to throw him in

00:43:13.900 jail so authorities arrest the real William Woods and they charge him with identity theft and false

00:43:22.080 impersonation. And Woods is like, no, my name is William Woods. No one believes him because he's

00:43:29.360 been a drifter his whole life. Then the courts do something incredible because he's so, I mean,

00:43:36.760 could you imagine being in this? This is like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. You're just like,

00:43:40.880 wait a minute, wait, what? This is North by Northwest. No, that's not me. He's so excited

00:43:47.120 about this in court court deems him mentally incompetent so now he's sent to a mental hospital

00:43:54.320 and he's force-fed drugs he is in jail for 428 days and 147 days institutionalized force-fed

00:44:05.620 drugs he's finally released and the court orders him to use only his true name which is matthew

00:44:13.540 Kierens, which isn't his true name. The real Woods doesn't give up. Would you? I mean, I don't know

00:44:26.620 what I would do. Now it's 2023. He contacts the hospital where William Woods works. He hires a

00:44:35.320 detective, a really good detective gets the case. DNA evidence seals it. So in July, 2023,

00:44:43.980 confronted with the proof, Kierens, the real Kierens, the fake Woods, admits,

00:44:52.420 for decades I've been living as this guy. I've been forging documents and lying to law enforcement.

00:44:59.400 Kierens pleads guilty to making false statements to a federally insured credit union, aggregated identity theft.

00:45:09.900 The judge looks past the guidelines and recommends around 12 to 18 months plus a mandatory 24.

00:45:18.060 Is that all you would get?

00:45:20.760 12 to 18 months plus two more years?

00:45:26.360 Judd said this is unusual and egregious.

00:45:29.940 Kierens didn't just steal an identity.

00:45:32.060 He weaponized the justice system to imprison and medicate an innocent man.

00:45:37.580 He didn't show any remorse, no direct apology to the victim.

00:45:41.820 The judge varies and says, you know what?

00:45:46.560 I'm not going by the guidelines.

00:45:48.940 144 months, that's 12 years in federal prison, plus fines, restitution,

00:45:53.180 supervised release mental health and substance abuse evaluations well kieran's the fake woods

00:46:01.280 he's like that's crazy i mean i've only destroyed this guy's life since 1980 you're gonna put me in

00:46:06.900 jail for 12 years that's too harsh well apparently not april 23rd 2026 that was yesterday eighth

00:46:18.720 Circuit Court of Appeals shuts it down. Unanimous opinion. The judge and the court affirms every

00:46:26.500 part of the sentence. Judge, he said, had wide discretion. Yep, the harm was extraordinary.

00:46:35.000 Conditions were reasonable, given a lifetime of deceit and no remorse. So he begins paying for

00:46:42.500 the life that he stole. The real William Woods finally has his name back. The scars remain. Can

00:46:48.580 you imagine? A hot dog encounter that took place in the 1980s, one of the most audacious identity

00:46:55.780 thefts in American history. Some lies. They just don't ruin a life. They erase lives.

00:47:05.520 Here's my warning. Imagine what can now be done with AI. We are entering a brave and frightening

00:47:14.280 new world. Warning. Now go read some other truth that gets you white-billed again. I know, I know,

00:47:25.300 I'm not helping myself, but you've got to put good stuff into your head as well, because you've got

00:47:30.320 to hear the truth, live in the real world, but don't become that. Don't go down the dark roads.

00:47:38.320 You have to know about it, but there is real hope as well.

00:47:42.320 Things are changing.

00:47:43.820 There is a movement afoot.

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