The Glenn Beck Program - November 11, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Jack Carr ｜ 11⧸11⧸26

Everything Wrong with Massie's Impeachment Case Against Pete Hegseth ｜ Guests： Vianca Rodriguez & Erin Lee ｜ 11⧸10⧸26

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00:00:30.000 on today's podcast we have some great great uh pieces there's just the gems of the full show
00:00:42.180 jack carr from the terminal list is on with us i kind of give him a you know just a rapid fire
00:00:46.880 list of all the things that are going on in the world and then we also talk about his uh his tv
00:00:52.500 series i think in a different way have you ever heard an interview like that with jack carr it
00:00:56.260 It was a really good interview.
00:00:57.640 Also, who's really robbing you?
00:01:00.140 And this kind of goes into socialism and the assassination culture and superhero movies.
00:01:05.480 All part of today's podcast.
00:01:14.080 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:22.320 We have so many issues right now.
00:01:26.260 with national security um we have uh a a soldier in england just been arrested for assisting and
00:01:35.680 working with russian intelligence that's not good we have the head of nvidia sleeping with a 0.97
00:01:41.240 chinese but can you look stop sleeping with asians i'm sorry asians i'm sorry but if you're 1.00
00:01:49.320 from china stop sleeping with asians from china is it too much to ask is it too much to ask 1.00
00:01:57.880 i mean i mean when you if you have a sensitive role that you're having to play in the country
00:02:05.280 you know can you just maybe think for a second outside of your pants can you just for a second
00:02:13.560 go, you know, maybe I'm not that hot. Maybe there's another reason this hot Asian is wanting 1.00
00:02:19.840 me because, you know, I don't know. Uh, I run kind of a big, important company for national security. 1.00
00:02:28.000 Can we stop thinking we're all that? I mean, honestly, if a hot Asian came up to me, first 1.00
00:02:34.560 of all, I'm married. So I would, but if a hot Asian came up to me, I would look at you and go, 0.98
00:02:38.860 are you from China are you from China I know I know well no but well my family's in China right 0.99
00:02:48.620 now and I visit there an awful lot yeah yeah I don't know I get back in the car going yeah
00:02:53.440 you're not that hot you're not that hot she was not interested in anything except info from you
00:03:00.000 uh anyway um we got a lot of things going on and a lot of half truths and that is the problem with
00:03:09.160 this van jones thing van jones he took a half truth he said affordability yes now let's be
00:03:18.280 adults let's hold the second part of that truth i go in my daughter has a fever of 106 i know don't
00:03:27.060 hold me 106 she goes in do i go in and say when she has a fever of 101 after they put her on
00:03:35.440 antibiotics do i say her fever hasn't broken no her can we let the antibiotics work for a second
00:03:42.260 it was 106 it's not 108 it's 106 when she came in it's now 101 let's let this work but if you
00:03:52.420 just heard she still has a fever you would be like wait a minute nothing's working
00:03:57.520 can i look at the fever can i see did it go up or down it's down to 101 can i look at our gdp
00:04:05.920 can i look at the average wage is it up or down can i look can i look at the um the rate of
00:04:13.500 inflation is it up or down is the fever getting better or not are the antibiotics working no it
00:04:20.000 It hasn't fully been, it hasn't fully kicked in yet, but how do you turn this vessel called
00:04:27.140 the United States of America in less than two years by yourself?
00:04:33.320 That's the problem.
00:04:35.160 The additional problem is he said then we've got to go back to what Biden was doing, but
00:04:40.580 never said that, never said that.
00:04:42.540 All he said was hope and change.
00:04:45.800 What's your hope and change?
00:04:47.680 Marxism? 0.99
00:04:50.000 islamicism california let me tell you about california let's ask who's really robbing you 0.81
00:04:58.380 california finally thank god just said no to proposition 40 that's the billionaire tax 0.65
00:05:04.860 one time five percent on the net worth of roughly 200 people okay not their income their stock
00:05:12.900 their companies their art their cars their houses whatever they own and the pitch was simple
00:05:18.640 Washington cut Medicaid we can't afford Medicaid two million Californians could lose coverage 0.98
00:05:25.540 now how many of those are illegals there's one thing but you're not going to talk about that 1.00
00:05:30.060 hospitals can close that's a real problem health care union behind it the health care
00:05:38.040 union behind it promised a hundred billion dollars they were the ones saying I wonder
00:05:43.440 can you check was that SEIU um they were the ones saying you know what we gotta tax the
00:05:48.040 billionaires and the state democratic party endorsed it the state's non-partisan analysts
00:05:53.660 said tens of billions and warn it will cost more and lost income as the billionaires move out
00:05:59.420 and they did it lost roughly 53 to 47 the opposition spent more than 378 million dollars
00:06:09.760 and a companion measure writing a ban on wealth taxes into the state's constitution
00:06:15.500 is still leading we don't know if it's going to turn out this way so the billionaires are safe
00:06:20.520 but you know who's not you now you can blame the billionaires or you can look and say that was
00:06:27.140 absolutely un-american and unconstitutional that's not the way to solve it notice they're talking
00:06:32.960 about wealth they're not talking about their spending problem in sacramento because the hole
00:06:40.260 is still there the deepest medicare cuts hit next year the union says well we're going back
00:06:45.260 in 2028 if sacramento doesn't fix it and there will be unions that will organize what do you say
00:06:51.280 riots on the streets protest union shutdowns of course that's what they're doing in spain today
00:06:57.300 they're doing that in france they're going to be doing it all over europe why not let's be more
00:07:01.440 like europe and the governor the new governor opposed the wealth tax but said he was open to
00:07:08.580 raising taxes on top income earners okay so now that's the doctor that's the engineer that's the
00:07:14.720 small business owner whose company's profits land on his personal return. You know, people who can't
00:07:21.000 buy a constitutional amendment or a house in Austin, now they're going to get hit. California
00:07:27.200 already has the highest top income tax rate in America. When governments can't reach the man at
00:07:33.580 the top, it doesn't stop reaching. It reaches for the one down next. And when they kill the
00:07:41.400 millionaire class, they're going to come after you because there's not enough money to pay for
00:07:45.700 everything that they've promised, especially when you promise it to anyone who comes across the
00:07:50.180 border. And we haven't even started on the national problem of social security. The trust fund that
00:07:56.780 pays your retirement benefit is projected to run dry in the early 2030s. They said 2033. I bet it'll
00:08:04.320 be earlier than that and when it does the law cuts every check automatically by roughly a fifth
00:08:11.880 so every serious fix is some mix of higher taxes later retirement or smaller checks
00:08:20.780 but smaller checks and later retirement will not be done so they'll say you just have to cut
00:08:25.440 well they're not going to cut because they'll never be re-elected so what happens they'll
00:08:30.340 promise more. This is what's happening in France and happening in Spain. At some point, it doesn't
00:08:36.600 work. And Washington is going to do exactly what Sacramento is looking to do right now.
00:08:43.580 California said no to taxing 200 people. Nobody said how to pay for what's already promised.
00:08:49.480 A promise paid by somebody else is still a bill. It just hasn't found your address yet, but it will.
00:08:55.500 so seven billionaires packed up they left peter thiel larry page uh sergey brin they left they
00:09:04.680 took about 540 billion dollars with them that's 30 percent of all billionaire wealth in california
00:09:11.740 gone before the single vote was cast and those are the ones who announced it economists say
00:09:18.460 others have likely slipped out quietly they just didn't want anybody to know about it
00:09:22.300 So instead of $100 billion, they estimate the tax would bring in about $30.
00:09:27.520 Now it's not going to bring in anything.
00:09:29.260 $30 billion is still real money, but billionaires don't sit on their wealth.
00:09:33.580 They pay income tax every year, and then they leave, and that leaves with them.
00:09:39.820 The Stanford team says California has already lost $3.5 billion in income tax every year.
00:09:47.560 Congratulations.
00:09:48.960 Now, if people don't move back to California, and why would you?
00:09:52.420 The state ends up $39 billion worth off, worse off than it was before they even started talking about all of this.
00:10:04.380 It's a tax designed to raise money that loses money.
00:10:08.080 And it wasn't even passed.
00:10:10.780 Now, the unions will say, this is misinformation.
00:10:13.940 Oh, please, pipe down.
00:10:15.340 they say the money is needed to replace federal health care cuts okay or you could do the hard
00:10:22.500 thing and start telling people the truth we're running out of money do you want do you want if
00:10:28.820 look if you're the person i don't care if you're male or female you're the person that pays all
00:10:32.900 the bills you're the person that you know looks over and balances the budget in your own home
00:10:37.140 home do you do you want uh a spouse that just says i don't want to know anything about it i
00:10:45.860 don't want to know anything about it i don't want to know anything about i'm going to keep spending
00:10:48.400 the way i'm spending and then i want more i want more i want more or do you want somebody that
00:10:52.020 will tell you the truth hey guys hey sweetheart we can't afford this anymore i want to i want
00:10:58.680 you to sit down and look at our budget it doesn't work that way anymore things have changed
00:11:03.580 it's an abusive relationship if one or the other isn't informed it's an abusive relationship
00:11:12.080 you're being abused as the bookkeeper of the family by a spouse that says i don't want to
00:11:17.360 know and i want more that's abusive because she's putting it all on you or he's putting it all on
00:11:24.360 you and if you're the one and you're like no honey i got it i got it i got it you just keep spending
00:11:32.140 you're abusive because you're lying to them that's what's happening in washington that's what's
00:11:37.760 happening in every capital all across the west that's what's happening in sacramento you know
00:11:42.740 a couple of nobel prize winning economists are on their side they point out that venture money
00:11:48.260 has kept flowing into california okay let me tell you something not not for much longer and you know
00:11:55.940 who else is going to get hurt Texas I have already heard from people who moved to Texas from
00:12:01.980 California move from California are on our side got out it got out of California because they
00:12:08.720 saw what happened they're so spooked by what happened in Texas they're already saying I got
00:12:14.060 to move to Florida eventually here's the problem we're going to run out of places to move to
00:12:19.680 eventually it catches up
00:12:22.680 but you think that money is going to stay in texas not i mean it might for the next two years
00:12:29.960 but if texas continues to vote this way it's over in texas
00:12:34.040 and if florida falls you got nothing left you got nothing left
00:12:39.940 that's where we are
00:12:43.420 and it's abuse if you don't if politicians don't start telling you these things
00:12:52.220 a billionaire can buy a house in another state by friday the ones that get hurt are the guys
00:13:03.800 in the middle the electrician the nurse the couple running a small shop that's what happens
00:13:09.520 their paychecks have barely moved
00:13:11.480 in a generation, and they
00:13:13.520 can't afford to move across the state line because
00:13:15.540 they don't have enough to do
00:13:17.680 it.
00:13:27.100 But the rich will move out because they have airplanes,
00:13:29.580 they have means, they have lawyers.
00:13:31.480 They can do it.
00:13:33.280 But the bill won't leave with them.
00:13:35.600 It'll just land whoever 0.90
00:13:37.080 is left.
00:13:39.520 and the real problem here is families that need help they're not they're not our enemies they're
00:13:48.300 not they're not your enemy they're not my enemy they're our neighbors the problem is a system
00:13:54.760 that grows every year no matter who is in charge and never asks is this working the problem also is
00:14:04.640 the politics that keeps you staring at the guy with the yacht
00:14:09.400 so you never look at the bill.
00:14:11.800 Envy is a horrible accountant.
00:14:15.260 It always knows what the other guy has
00:14:17.740 and never asks, what is it costing you?
00:14:26.060 Billionaires are going to be fine.
00:14:27.500 They always are.
00:14:28.880 The question is, what happens to everybody else?
00:14:31.720 i heard somebody talking the other day and it's absolutely true
00:14:36.600 we have to have a real conversation people who have money
00:14:43.780 they're not hurting they're not feeling it they've this system has become a system where
00:14:53.580 you can make money whether it's good or bad doesn't matter if you have a lot of money you
00:14:59.880 can make money either direction at least at this point because we haven't hit a depression
00:15:05.540 but you're going to be okay everyone else is not so now do we punish the people who are saying
00:15:15.380 well i'm okay or do we look at the system and say in real terms not marxist have you ever
00:15:24.800 read Karl Marx? The guy's insane. That's not economic theory. I can't say this because I 0.93
00:15:37.720 can only think of expletives. That's not economic theory. And if you want to call it economic
00:15:47.980 theory the theory has been proven to be false a hundred times let's talk about the actual facts
00:15:59.280 how did we get here how do we fix it how do we make it so everyone has a chance how do we fix
00:16:07.920 this nation so we believe in the systems again you know one way we don't believe in the system
00:16:13.140 again i'm going to say it one last time and then i'm off this guy because i need him to be successful
00:16:17.920 John frickin' Thune.
00:16:20.800 That's how we don't make trust come back.
00:16:32.240 But it requires people listening.
00:16:36.040 It requires people to be able to hold two thoughts at once.
00:16:41.900 It requires critical thinking.
00:16:43.700 It requires a nation that actually cares about the facts and is tired of the easy solution because they've learned their lesson.
00:16:53.560 The easy answers never work.
00:16:56.620 More in a minute.
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00:18:13.820 What is it, James?
00:18:22.000 Daddy.
00:18:23.720 I've been a loose game.
00:18:27.120 My family.
00:18:31.500 My men.
00:18:34.640 Let's finish the list.
00:18:36.760 Wait!
00:18:37.700 Wait! 0.98
00:18:38.140 Wait! 0.98
00:18:38.200 Wait!
00:18:40.480 You're dying, James.
00:18:41.940 that's so good jack carr welcome oh my goodness thank you so much for having me this is so
00:18:49.680 wonderful i wish i could spend the whole hour with you i haven't had a physical since i left
00:18:52.700 the navy over a decade ago so now i'm zipping down there real quick uh this morning but
00:18:57.440 so great to see you and fiction oh my gosh it when compared to the truth of today if i had
00:19:03.580 written uh 10 years ago let's say my first book came out in 2010 instead of 2018 and i'd written
00:19:10.240 some of the things that were actually happening today let's say between 2019 and present day
00:19:14.680 people would say oh my gosh this belongs in the science fiction category to say nothing
00:19:19.960 of contentious politics or covid or anything else but ai and all of us being addicted to
00:19:25.720 these devices and being manipulated by these devices and algorithms and robots and i mean
00:19:30.500 it is absolutely insane so it makes it a little more difficult we we've slipped into brave new
00:19:38.060 world and or well at the same time and then they didn't even notice it didn't even notice it some
00:19:44.280 of us noticed it some of us did but uh but you have to be a reader to notice these things you
00:19:49.420 have to be a reader both fiction and non you have to build that foundation so that you're aware of
00:19:54.480 the manipulations and uh and are able to apply the wisdom of the past to current problem sets
00:19:59.140 uh and we're not very good at doing that in this country especially with the manipulation devices
00:20:03.440 in our pockets before we get into some of the stuff i want to talk about including terminal list
00:20:08.380 which is just fantastic just just fantastic um i want to say happy veterans day thank you for
00:20:14.880 your service and i every time i say that i feel stupid is there is there something that we can
00:20:20.400 say to veterans people like you that is more meaningful than thank you for your service
00:20:25.940 no i mean it we understand the intent behind it and uh i thank you thank you it means uh means a
00:20:32.220 lot and when someone says that especially when in uh like hollywood circles when someone goes
00:20:36.240 out of their way or publishing circles to to say that um that that because you have this
00:20:41.060 this preconceived notion of what it's like in hollywood and what it's like in new york publishing
00:20:44.620 and when someone steps out of the way especially in those circles to to say something like that
00:20:48.680 um it's almost like a direct connection and helps uh establish and build on that relationship so
00:20:54.020 i appreciate that thank you um let me do some rapid fire with you here jack oh boy okay here
00:20:59.360 Here we go.
00:21:01.160 Pete Hegseth, impeachment.
00:21:04.060 Your thoughts?
00:21:06.040 Yeah, you know, I've been in the pages of my book,
00:21:08.340 so I'm going to give this,
00:21:08.980 this is definitely a rapid fire off the cuff,
00:21:11.860 but we have somebody who's disrupting the establishment
00:21:15.380 and that establishment is a bureaucracy.
00:21:18.260 That deep state is a bureaucracy.
00:21:20.100 They are entrenched.
00:21:21.340 And so you have anybody that ever comes in
00:21:23.400 and disrupts that and makes changes,
00:21:25.680 makes bold changes, bold adjustments,
00:21:27.840 they're going to have a target on their back and any opportunity for that bureaucracy to rise up
00:21:33.000 and crush them they're going to do it so uh it's probably not going to be the last time
00:21:37.360 iranian hackers sabotage 700 supermarkets in france uh using ai they hack in they turn the
00:21:45.120 machines off they turn the the freezers off a billion and a half dollars worth of food has to
00:21:50.120 be thrown away france now has uh threatened retaliation i don't know what that means they're
00:21:56.360 going to let all of your souffles collapse. I don't know how France is going to retaliate, but
00:22:01.440 your thoughts on Iran attacking like that? Yeah, sign of what's to come, probably a test. 0.83
00:22:11.100 How can they do it using proxies so it doesn't lead directly back to them? How can other countries
00:22:15.280 do that? It's more what other countries, other super empowered individuals, terrorist organizations
00:22:20.140 can learn from something like that uh so is it a test run is it uh was it an actual attack just
00:22:26.180 to attack france for but i think it's a sign of of things to come so it's uh it's a warning sign
00:22:32.020 and we should be ready there is another story that's coming out of england uh even more evidence
00:22:39.140 we have another base that we had to move our planes out of england um because you know of
00:22:45.720 of iran possibly attacking so there's now two attempts at an air force base raf base over in
00:22:51.840 england um is this proving is this proof that donald trump should have not gone into a uh iran
00:23:00.100 and and bombed them or is it proving that no he should have they're a problem for the entire west
00:23:05.340 i think we won't know for so we can look back on it and see i mean but then you go back to the hey
00:23:10.580 how close were they well is it a day is that when you attack is it a year is that when you when you
00:23:16.200 do it is it five years uh so that's that's what it really comes down to for me it's like you cannot
00:23:22.400 uh you cannot allow this country to have a weapon system that is going to can possibly destroy the
00:23:27.200 entire world so when do you take action a day before a week before a month before a year five
00:23:32.540 years but you know we'll go back and like we have to do we have to go back and look at what went
00:23:36.860 right what went wrong how we can do it better going forward should we have made other decisions
00:23:40.420 along the way and those are all very valid questions you always want to be able to do it
00:23:44.520 better the next time and i think we have people in senior leadership positions that are doing that
00:23:48.440 but that doesn't mean they're not going to make mistakes um uh prime minister from canada mark
00:23:54.980 carney said uh thank you for the gong uh said that the u.s is a bigger security threat than
00:24:04.020 communist china well i mean we're in the the uh the era of clickbait and likes and attention and 0.74
00:24:12.260 uh and very non-serious thinkers that just need to remain in power or uh galvanize a base in order to
00:24:20.580 uh keep their jobs so uh we're gonna see of course more and more of this as we continue to just stay
00:24:25.860 addicted to these devices that get some air time with uh with uh with you other people across the
00:24:31.300 the globe and obviously not true okay um last question we elected um a guy in michigan uh to
00:24:42.980 be our senator we put a congressman in in new jersey that uh is very similar congressman in
00:24:49.220 new jersey that is now congressman elect refuses to say iran is an adversary or an enemy of the
00:24:55.760 united states defends iran as having been pushed into a fight by israel argues america isn't any
00:25:02.440 better than iran because we've killed a lot of iranians as well how do we give these people
00:25:07.980 security clearances that is a very good question that is a very good question uh our strengths
00:25:13.860 uh as far as our freedoms go obviously are also our weaknesses that can be exploited uh we can't 0.86
00:25:20.680 do these sorts of things in China.
00:25:22.820 You can't insert a politician in there to work their way up
00:25:26.340 to have power in China or Iran or North Korea
00:25:29.120 or something like that in these closed societies.
00:25:30.780 So our openness and our freedoms,
00:25:35.040 that's a weakness to be exploited.
00:25:36.740 So will we see more of it?
00:25:39.480 Yes.
00:25:40.420 Is that concerning?
00:25:41.220 Absolutely.
00:25:42.040 And even concerning to our kids,
00:25:43.540 our kids ask us questions about that here at home.
00:25:45.680 And those are hard questions to answer
00:25:47.720 other than you have to be involved,
00:25:48.840 you have to vote, you have to get out there,
00:25:50.140 You have to be active.
00:25:50.800 You have to educate yourself.
00:25:51.960 And you have to be aware that you're going to be manipulated by that device in your pocket.
00:25:55.120 And you have to think on your own.
00:25:57.880 Jack, let me go to the terminal list.
00:26:01.700 The problem with America right now is we don't trust our institutions.
00:26:05.020 None of our institutions.
00:26:06.220 I think that's the real message that everybody should in Washington get.
00:26:13.600 Nobody trusts any of you guys.
00:26:16.280 And that's scary.
00:26:17.520 No country can survive that.
00:26:20.140 If your institutions are completely distrusted, there's nowhere to go.
00:26:24.680 In Terminal List, you have James exacting justice because the government gave these guys brain cancer.
00:26:42.940 Where did that come from?
00:26:45.120 Is that just a response to looking for something that people will relate to
00:26:53.380 and go, yeah, okay, I could go here?
00:26:54.800 Or did any of that come from any of the stuff that the American government
00:26:59.820 has done to our soldiers in the past?
00:27:03.420 Certainly.
00:27:04.180 Certainly.
00:27:04.560 The church hearings in the mid-'70s, they brought to light a few instances
00:27:09.820 of our government using drugs on soldiers, on mental institution patients, on university students,
00:27:17.480 prisoners, those sorts of things, doing those experiments back then. So that's really where
00:27:20.920 some of that idea came from. And of course, there were changes that took place after the church
00:27:24.940 hearings to rework how our intelligence agencies could do things. And I thought, well, what if
00:27:32.540 somebody didn't get the memo all these years later? And of course, while I was in the military,
00:27:36.680 I was getting poked and prodded with all sorts of things, anthrax shots and all that sort of thing.
00:27:41.480 And so I thought, well, what if one of these things is a test?
00:27:44.400 Because they've done it before.
00:27:46.360 And, of course, I'm thinking back as well to that distrust that you talked about.
00:27:50.920 And I've always been fascinated, probably because of the time my parents grew up in, with the JFK assassination and how our government handled that.
00:27:58.620 Whether they're guilty of any complicity or not, they sure look guilty.
00:28:02.280 and how they handled that and how we move from there into Vietnam,
00:28:07.620 how we don't do very well there, and those senior-level military leaders
00:28:11.920 fail upwards and continue to fail upwards all the way through my experience
00:28:16.500 in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:28:17.920 Of course, we go back to the Pentagon Papers.
00:28:19.720 But what we see there really after the reorganization of our military
00:28:22.920 and intelligence services after World War II is a lack of accountability.
00:28:26.900 Let's say before World War II, it took Lincoln,
00:28:30.600 a lot of generals he had to get through a lot of generals before he got to grant then you have
00:28:34.840 george marshall who gave people a chance but if they didn't measure up uh before and during world
00:28:39.640 war ii they were out and he put somebody else in who could handle it but after say 1847 time frame
00:28:45.560 that starts to shift and we don't have this accountability attached to performance anymore
00:28:50.360 it's more of a careerism and there's a reason we call it the profession of arms not the career of
00:28:54.120 arms and so you see these people fail upwards uh we continue to see that today not quite as much
00:28:59.560 we're seeing uh firings that were probably a long time coming not in every case by the way not in
00:29:03.880 every case i want to make sure i tend to talk about senior level military leaders with this blanket
00:29:08.120 and of course there are people who stood up uh and uh and and tried to do the right thing
00:29:13.560 uh a lot of them will never say that they tried to do the right thing whether that's in
00:29:17.160 mogadishu whether that's in uh in afghanistan they'll just they're going to kind of fall on
00:29:21.800 their sword and uh and take the hits but there were people out there i do know that there were
00:29:25.960 senior level generals out there, Scotty Miller among them. I feel like I can, I can say that
00:29:30.620 because he's never going to say it himself. So we did have great leaders out there who were just
00:29:34.600 weren't listened to or they were listened to and not heard. And, and so we do have that,
00:29:40.880 but going back to that accountability problem. So with the books, I find a way to hold senior
00:29:46.140 level leaders, politicians, businessmen accountable. And there's something that's
00:29:50.080 something you can't really do in real life. Cause if you were to do the things that James Reese
00:29:52.720 does in the pages of my novels or on the television screen uh well you're going to go to prison for
00:29:57.020 the rest of your life uh but you can have you can get this resolution by watching chris pratt
00:30:02.020 as james reese take these guys out or you can do that in the pages of my novels and uh you can feel
00:30:06.600 good about it uh because in real life you're probably not going to get that just a side note
00:30:13.000 uh uh i was a little disappointed to see in the first episode that uh bill maher was on and and
00:30:20.300 i mean why isn't he coming to what why aren't they coming on my show i don't understand that
00:30:24.520 but don't worry about it don't worry about um i do want to ask you a serious question
00:30:28.760 um chris pratt talks about the 80 20 rule 80 real 20 you know hollywood um when you're putting this
00:30:37.860 together or you're writing a book but i want to talk specifically about the show is there something
00:30:43.720 that you feel so passionately about no this has to be real is there a scene in the series that
00:30:51.980 you hope everybody watches or they get the point of it because it's the heart of what you were
00:30:59.000 trying to say as a man not as a storyteller but as a man is there a heart in there that you want
00:31:04.740 everybody to see or a scene well it's that revenge without constraint that theme is that underlying
00:31:10.460 theme and for for for me and i think for us as uh as the executive producers on the show it's those
00:31:15.460 foundational elements that uh that made the book a success so that's that uh that's that revenge
00:31:20.460 without constraint and how do we show that uh well in a few different different scenes and they got
00:31:24.720 morphed between the book and the television show because you're telling a story through a different
00:31:28.480 medium but there's one scene in particular that amazon did not want us even to film in that first
00:31:33.220 season and i think it allowed us to do the torture scene in this in this second season which is pretty
00:31:36.880 brutal but uh under no circumstances were we supposed to film chris pratt gutting uh this bad
00:31:43.240 guy in uh in season one and uh so we fought for it we got it uh and then that image of him holding
00:31:51.760 this tomahawk this winkler tomahawk up to this back that becomes the billboard all across los
00:31:57.480 angeles all across new york during that premiere month and uh so the thing they didn't want us to
00:32:03.000 film became the iconic image of
00:32:05.000 the show. So, it's those
00:32:07.000 things right there that stay true to the foundational
00:32:08.640 elements of the books. That's most important.
00:32:11.720 Are you concerned
00:32:12.760 at all? I mean, to take that into
00:32:14.780 today's life, there's a lot of
00:32:16.940 people calling for revenge on
00:32:18.400 everything. People cheering
00:32:20.920 for Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:32:22.900 I mean, we're turning into
00:32:24.420 problematic
00:32:27.500 people if we're
00:32:29.000 not careful. Especially
00:32:31.100 when it comes to revenge any advice on that well i mean these aren't supposed to be handbooks of
00:32:37.000 course but uh no i know that no no no i know that i know that i know who are protect we have a
00:32:42.120 protagonist of course who is uh is grounded in uh in his faith and that that uh changes over the
00:32:47.580 course of the books over the course of the seven books that i have on on james reece so i introduced
00:32:52.300 that early and then i i uh i build on that as i go towards the the seventh novel called red sky
00:32:57.320 red sky morning um so he's uh he's exploring different things as he goes to forgiveness
00:33:02.200 uh himself others uh so there are other things in there just besides uh james reese uh taking
00:33:07.800 people's heads off and putting them on spikes but uh but you know there's a reason that we're all
00:33:11.340 here today uh and we all had we all we all had ancestors who were good at that sort of thing
00:33:16.300 because if we didn't we would not be here today you had to be good at the fighting you had to be
00:33:20.700 good at the hunting and that's still in us somewhere so when you get someone someone gets
00:33:24.880 pushed too far um and and this is where i do think that this might happen at some at some point is
00:33:30.800 uh someone with the skills with the temperament uh who does have nothing left to lose and in the
00:33:35.260 book i give james reese this uh this brain tumor so he really thinks he's going into battle thinking
00:33:40.420 he is dead which is what uh the samurai did in feudal japan um but uh so he's he's got that and
00:33:47.400 at some point there's going to probably be someone who uh whose family members are uh let's say
00:33:53.380 attacked by someone in a say in a in a woman's restroom by a man who's allowed in and they're
00:33:58.540 gonna not be happy about it and they're not gonna they might hold that person responsible but they
00:34:02.780 might go up the chain as well and i'm not advocating for that right here but i'm saying
00:34:07.320 that is a distinct possibility you have a lot of people out there right now a lot of time in
00:34:11.300 iraq and afghanistan we lost a lot of friends there and have the skills uh to be able to do
00:34:16.080 the things that i describe in the books um so just uh yeah that's just pray that that doesn't
00:34:22.040 happen pray that that doesn't happen uh well i hope i talk to you before may because i know your
00:34:26.700 your fourth option uh new series uh begins uh what in may so i hope to talk to you before then
00:34:34.500 but the first option we have targeted targeted pan m103 is coming out in april so that's of course
00:34:39.520 uh december 1988 and doing the research on this non-fiction book it's just so heartbreaking 35
00:34:44.420 syracuse university students of course were on board that day and uh and the families are still
00:34:48.940 seeking justice right now the bomb makers set to go on trial in 2027 all these years after december
00:34:55.400 1888 so that's april and then the next james reese should be coming out in the fall and i'm sure i'll
00:34:59.820 be talking to you uh before then good thank you god bless you man thank you and happy veterans
00:35:06.120 day you bet thank you so much uh jack car i just love this guy he is he is so smart so
00:35:13.440 buttoned up. I just love him. All right. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck.
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00:36:38.560 all right join me in the tunnel will you i want to take you into the dark tunnel because i want
00:36:58.120 to show you the light at the end of it we have been talking recently about um the assassination
00:37:05.480 Do you know that Scott Bessent now lives on a military base?
00:37:09.300 I think we have six or seven people that are working.
00:37:11.700 I've never seen that in American history.
00:37:14.320 That we have officials living on military bases because they're not safe outside of a military base.
00:37:22.380 That's insane.
00:37:24.880 Then we have a culture of death that is celebrating death.
00:37:28.060 And we've shown you the examples of people reveling in Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:37:32.240 but let me get ahead of the haters here you know you have a right to say what you say
00:37:39.120 you have a right and i don't want to punish you for it i just think it's it's sad okay
00:37:44.600 i also have the right to say what i believe um and it's all free speech and and i know you don't
00:37:52.800 need to hear this but for the person who will watch this clip and comment cancer culture blah
00:37:57.460 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, no, I don't want anybody canceled. Pointing that out,
00:38:04.540 pointing, pointing out that only a sick culture celebrates death. That's, that's having standards.
00:38:12.940 That's not having cancel culture. That's having standards. So let me start with an, uh, an
00:38:17.940 international relations and diplomacy major from the university of Texas. She came to a TPUSA event
00:38:24.860 to read an original poem about how great Charlie's death was.
00:38:29.520 And here it is.
00:38:30.600 It was the night before the Kirkiversary,
00:38:32.940 and all through the house,
00:38:34.320 not a creature was stirring,
00:38:36.020 not even a mouse.
00:38:37.520 The flags were hung proudly,
00:38:39.420 the memes all on deck,
00:38:41.160 as we solemnly remembered,
00:38:43.180 a shot to the neck.
00:38:44.740 The podcast fell silent, 0.96
00:38:46.880 the hot takes grew wary,
00:38:48.480 for tomorrow, dear friends,
00:38:50.260 is the great Kirkiversary.
00:38:52.380 So I'll see everyone at the Squirt for Kirk.
00:38:54.240 we're hosting that also. Stop.
00:38:56.480 This is a woman 0.95
00:38:58.440 who goes to the University of Texas in San 0.92
00:39:00.440 Antonio. She majors in
00:39:02.080 international relations and diplomacy.
00:39:04.500 Diplomacy.
00:39:06.380 Do you listen to diplomacy?
00:39:08.780 I mean, what kind of diplomacy is that?
00:39:11.640 She's celebrating
00:39:12.500 the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk.
00:39:14.800 Now, she came out with a statement
00:39:16.500 afterwards to apologize, and it was
00:39:18.520 very scripted, but I hope she is sorry.
00:39:20.740 I hope that impacts it. She's only going to
00:39:22.540 hurt herself, honestly.
00:39:24.240 um and i mean that sincerely because the level of hate will ruin not her life not not just every
00:39:34.500 life around her and make people miserable but her her own life it'll only hurt her 0.78
00:39:39.000 now more recently we had a leftist podcaster jennifer welsh laughing about the assassination 0.93
00:39:46.260 on her show she and another woman were reading comments on a post that cracked them up comments 0.94
00:39:50.880 like this one uh dead morose says we're digging up charlie kirk and doing it again
00:39:56.560 okay and they just continue to laugh 0.97
00:40:05.540 okay if it's funny you're in a you're in your what are you a 60 year old woman
00:40:15.360 you're an adult that's funny to you okay well now she's losing sponsors
00:40:24.160 i want to be really clear on this one because my my feeling is well that's good shows people
00:40:33.960 have standards sponsors have standards it but if it's a coordinated effort i'm against it
00:40:41.300 look, you have a choice. You can listen to it or not listen to it. You have that choice.
00:40:45.280 You must be able to accept that people have a right to say despicable things. And I do.
00:40:51.040 And you have a right to say them on broadcast, podcast, wherever you have a right to do that.
00:40:56.220 And I don't like any kind of coordinated targets. Believe me, because I've been under them.
00:41:02.480 The Obama White House had five, five boycotts that came out from the White House against my
00:41:09.600 program at some time so i'm an expert in this and i don't like it and i will defend anyone who has a
00:41:16.460 coordinated attack on them but if you decide or sponsors decide i can't put my money on that 0.99
00:41:21.120 that's that's up to you now she came out with the most underhanded fake apology about how she
00:41:27.260 stands against gun violence and supports common sense gun safety reform and then she announced
00:41:33.020 in the same apology that she donated to the radical gun control group every town for gun
00:41:38.120 safety okay whatever it's a fake apology you're not sorry you're sorry that you're losing money
00:41:44.320 and you know you're only bringing it up now and i i actually hate doing you this service by bringing
00:41:51.180 it up because you're only going to use what i say and what you know and you're only using that
00:41:55.920 you're losing sponsors to get more popular you still can't help yourself and that's fine you're
00:42:02.440 not well at all and that's clear and i again feel bad for you i do i feel worse for any impressionable
00:42:11.180 young person who listens to you and tries to emulate you because that's not that you're that's
00:42:16.080 not what a woman is that's not a man that would do that that's not a woman that does that that's a 0.55
00:42:20.600 child everything that pushes people into being bitter that makes a middle-aged woman laugh out
00:42:30.160 loud at the death of a young father that should not be held up in our society but that's not all
00:42:34.420 then we had dave chappelle and he said this on his comedy tour listen i feel upset it's scary
00:42:42.460 being a public speaker it is and i i mean look ever since that guy charlie kirk got murdered
00:42:51.460 and i shouldn't say this publicly but
00:42:55.840 i feel better
00:42:59.760 i have i painted a painting
00:43:05.960 of lenny bruce and i have it hanging in my studio in dallas lenny bruce said all kinds of stuff i
00:43:14.940 disagree with he said all kinds of stuff that i find despicable it was comedy he had a right to
00:43:20.660 say it he was pushing the envelope i don't have to be a fan of yours or like your comedy to say
00:43:27.340 you have a right to do that you know and comedians are transgressive but there are no norms now to
00:43:36.300 transgress you know that was the thing about lenny bruce lenny bruce was breaking all of
00:43:42.260 the the standards but you have to have standards
00:43:46.740 but all three of these people agree but here's the thing and here's the the light at the end
00:43:58.760 of the tunnel they're behind they're behind the times they think they're they still live
00:44:02.900 in an assassination culture of a few years ago where people could get away with crushing on
00:44:08.120 Mangione wishing Trump was shot in the head and not in the ear normal Americans are done with that
00:44:14.140 they're done they are decent people who have tolerated it enough and there has clearly gone 0.97
00:44:20.820 too far and they're like i don't want any of that even charlemagne the god who is not exactly a
00:44:25.600 pillar of virtue in my book came out and said this yeah i don't find the human people getting
00:44:31.280 clapped okay any of us can be shot and i don't want anybody getting shot because somebody
00:44:35.660 disagrees with their opinion so yeah you have the freedom to you know joke and talk about whatever
00:44:39.960 you want to joke and talk about but personally i don't want to deal with the energy of that like
00:44:43.340 I don't wish stuff like that are my worst enemy.
00:44:46.320 Good for him.
00:44:47.360 Good for him.
00:44:48.000 I don't agree with him on almost anything.
00:44:50.400 Good for him.
00:44:52.500 He doesn't want to live in that kind of darkness.
00:44:54.500 I don't want to live in that kind of darkness.
00:44:56.040 No sane person wants to, regardless of your politics,
00:45:00.060 America has a culture of life that has been caught up in a frenzy of death,
00:45:04.280 but the fever is going to break.
00:45:05.740 It's breaking, I believe.
00:45:08.520 Jennifer Welsh is not getting away with it this time.
00:45:10.660 The college student didn't get away with it this time.
00:45:12.540 the comedian's not getting away with it this time and it's not i don't want him punished and i don't
00:45:16.920 want him destroyed i don't want him banned i don't want any of that i just we're just tired of it
00:45:22.180 so people are going another way and leaving them behind and honestly it's a merciful god
00:45:28.900 to unmask this kind of evil before normal people get too wrapped up in it and when you can't see
00:45:34.100 your way out charlemagne he sees a way out so do i good and evil are not relative your gut knows
00:45:40.580 the difference all the way down to your bones you can feel it something just makes you feel have you 0.98
00:45:46.180 ever watched the show that was just like full of crap and you watch it and afterwards it kind of 0.95
00:45:51.500 leaves a residue on you like you kind of feel it for a while you know that's that's what this 0.99
00:45:56.520 culture is giving us now enjoying assassination is evil loving life living is good and you can
00:46:02.600 feel that and most americans are still moved by the battle of good versus evil they want to be
00:46:10.400 batman not joker and they want batman to be a good guy we want good to win and that's why evil loses
00:46:16.920 which brings me to another amazing victory that i think was actually made possible by
00:46:23.920 the radicals overplaying their hands they went too far
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