The Glenn Beck Program - September 08, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Jonathan Cahn ｜ 9⧸8⧸26


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00:00:00.000 I started the show today with crazy stuff that's going on in Chicago.
00:00:03.740 I mean, we are seeing real mental illness.
00:00:07.140 And the week of Charlie Kirk's death, the anniversary or the memorial that is coming up on Thursday that I'll be at UVU in Salt Lake City.
00:00:18.160 It's got me thinking about all the craziness and how we're reacting to it.
00:00:23.180 And so I start the best of podcast with who are you really?
00:00:27.160 Who are we?
00:00:28.040 Because we've lost our story about not just the nation, about who we are.
00:00:32.340 You may never have actually written your story intentionally.
00:00:36.500 I talk about that.
00:00:37.340 Also, Jonathan Cahn joins me.
00:00:39.060 An amazing story.
00:00:39.740 If you saw the guy that was taped to the airline seat, remember, over the weekend,
00:00:44.980 some guy got completely out of control?
00:00:47.020 The press, as usual, never told you the real story.
00:00:50.420 Jonathan Cahn was the guy sitting next to that guy.
00:00:53.620 What actually happened on that plane is horrific.
00:00:57.080 horrific and he was the guy that he witnessed it was him it was him that the guy had to be taped
00:01:03.880 down to his chair because he tried to choke jonathan gone wait until you hear this story and
00:01:07.940 three dollars and the run to goshen two things that have happened this weekend that nobody's
00:01:16.280 going to tell you about that are absolutely staggeringly great long term for america
00:01:22.260 common sense all that more on today's podcast
00:01:27.080 Truth is under attack in our culture.
00:01:29.020 People are embracing lies about gender.
00:01:31.020 They're rejecting the sanctity of every human life.
00:01:33.600 And the government is even punishing people for saying what's true and right.
00:01:37.760 Or worse, the woke mob is doxing them and slandering them with no due process.
00:01:42.060 Just an angry mob making their lives miserable or worse, putting families in real danger.
00:01:47.520 But the biblical principles on which our country was founded still matter.
00:01:51.320 Real patriots and Christians are beginning to stand up.
00:01:54.360 They're showing real courage without a safety net of a big bank account. 0.93
00:01:58.220 They're bolstered only by the truths that are self-evident.
00:02:01.640 But these people must be defended.
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00:02:34.300 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:38.620 There's a couple of things that I want to share with you.
00:02:41.200 Did you see the video of the guy who was duct taped to an American Airlines chair?
00:02:47.600 I think he was in first class.
00:02:50.300 And they actually took duct tape and duct taped him to his chair because he became violent.
00:02:56.780 This is from the story.
00:02:58.060 The passenger allegedly used the N-word towards a black flight attendant and then became violent. 0.54
00:03:04.940 Also, gay slurs. 0.66
00:03:06.900 And then hitting other passengers and pushing another. 0.97
00:03:10.720 That's the story you're getting.
00:03:12.560 Here's, show the video here.
00:03:13.860 It's cut six.
00:03:14.580 there they are just duct taping and taking him out
00:03:23.640 all right what that story doesn't tell you is pretty significant there is a missing part of
00:03:36.780 this story that when you hear it you're like wait a minute wait a minute how was that not in the
00:03:42.040 story how do i know it i happen to know the guy who is sitting next to him on the plane
00:03:48.780 he joins me in about 25 minutes wait until you hear what the press left out uh coming up in uh
00:03:58.340 just a second uh also i want to play a couple of other things here um this is from tiktok it shows
00:04:06.380 a family divided over trump and i think this is
00:04:11.080 this is so unfortunately universal listen to this cut two yes you made a wrong decision and i would
00:04:21.760 if you apologize to me for taking away my rights and the rights of everybody who can relate to me
00:04:27.340 on these videos then we would be fine i told you in that text when you apologize for what you've
00:04:32.480 done to this whole country what you've had a hand in doing you had a hand in this you and your
00:04:39.360 people did this to my country to all of our countries that is the problem you think it's
00:04:45.300 your country and there's my way of the highway yeah murder is wrong racism is wrong you know
00:04:50.420 he was sued over seven times for not serving black people what do you have to say what do 0.99
00:04:55.720 you have to say to that okay then why'd you vote for him why'd you vote for him you are so racist 0.95
00:05:00.280 can you imagine speaking your mother this way because i know as a dad i mean she looks to be 0.94
00:05:06.900 about 20 get the hell out of my house you do not speak to your mother this way period period
00:05:17.720 now if there's not a man in the house then she needs to say get out of the house you are not 0.86
00:05:26.540 You are not going to speak to me.
00:05:28.060 You can have different opinions, but you are not going to speak to me that way in this house, period.
00:05:34.500 Show some respect.
00:05:36.120 But we don't do that anymore.
00:05:38.340 And the reason why is we've forgotten who we are.
00:05:43.720 We've completely forgotten who we are.
00:05:46.580 We don't know who we are anymore.
00:05:48.360 We've lost our story.
00:05:49.940 We've lost our story as a nation.
00:05:51.560 We've lost our story as a people.
00:05:53.560 And let me ask you, deep down, deep down beneath all the noise, the scroll, the busyness, the endless doing, who are you?
00:06:04.540 Who are you, really?
00:06:09.600 Not the version you show the world.
00:06:12.500 Not the resume, not the feed.
00:06:16.840 The role you play for your family or your boss or your followers.
00:06:21.220 But the real you.
00:06:23.560 the one that remains when the lights go out and no one is watching
00:06:27.440 and it's just you alone.
00:06:30.500 Who are you?
00:06:33.360 Do you know that most of us never ask?
00:06:36.020 I mean, not honestly, not deeply.
00:06:39.520 We're too distracted.
00:06:41.340 We're too tired.
00:06:42.560 And honestly, if you're anything like I was, you're afraid.
00:06:48.180 You're afraid to ask that question
00:06:49.960 because maybe you're not sure there is anything real there
00:06:54.880 or you're afraid what the answer might cost you.
00:07:02.140 You know, I knew when I was really on the road to recovery
00:07:07.120 when I first started going through AA,
00:07:09.540 when I could drive without the radio on.
00:07:13.840 We fill our days with noise
00:07:15.860 because silence forces us to face the truth.
00:07:20.960 When you can actually be silent for 20 minutes
00:07:25.180 and just be alone with your own thoughts,
00:07:27.760 you're comfortable with knowing who you are.
00:07:32.100 But I don't think most of us even know who we are anymore
00:07:34.580 or why we're here or what life is really for.
00:07:39.340 I think we are beginning to think we're all here for politics.
00:07:43.060 We're not here for politics, gang.
00:07:44.880 We're not.
00:07:45.340 We're not fighting politics.
00:07:48.200 We are fighting the collective versus the individual.
00:07:52.980 And that is a God thing.
00:07:55.220 Did God create us as a collective?
00:07:58.080 Did Jesus come and save us as a collective?
00:08:01.740 Or does he work with the individual?
00:08:06.580 Because if God deals with the individual, then we know how his kingdom is run.
00:08:12.620 It's run on the individual, on the individual choices.
00:08:16.460 And he gives you the ability to choose.
00:08:19.020 That doesn't mean there is no right or wrong.
00:08:21.560 There are punishments.
00:08:22.760 There are consequences, I should say.
00:08:24.300 I don't look at eternal consequences as punishments.
00:08:28.880 I look at them as consequences.
00:08:31.020 You know, hey, don't run.
00:08:32.600 Don't run with a knife.
00:08:35.400 Why?
00:08:36.320 There's no punishment if you fall down with a knife and you stab yourself.
00:08:41.280 Hey, don't run with that stick.
00:08:43.520 You're going to put an eye out.
00:08:44.480 It's not a punishment if you put your eye out.
00:08:46.480 It's just a consequence.
00:08:53.740 We avoid all of the questions that matter the most.
00:08:57.220 We stop being silent.
00:09:01.420 We never stop long enough to ask,
00:09:03.200 if everything I own, if everything I've built,
00:09:06.060 if every title, every opinion, every approval that I chase,
00:09:09.400 If all of it disappeared tomorrow, what would be left of me?
00:09:17.900 What am I trading today for?
00:09:22.900 Because I'm doing it every day and I don't even think about it.
00:09:27.920 Am I living the story that I wrote, that I was born to write and live?
00:09:34.920 Or am I living the story others have said about me?
00:09:37.900 Am I living somebody else's script and I've just allowed myself to believe it?
00:09:47.740 What would I do if fear and comfort and the need to be liked no longer had a vote in my life?
00:09:55.560 How much of your life would change?
00:09:58.260 What would you be doing now if you didn't have a need to be liked?
00:10:03.000 you didn't have a need to be
00:10:07.020 to have approval
00:10:08.760 what's the one thing worth giving
00:10:14.920 everything for not just your time
00:10:16.820 but your heart your future
00:10:18.500 your breath
00:10:19.900 you know why guys die
00:10:26.600 when they retire
00:10:28.080 because guys find their meaning in work
00:10:31.600 And I don't know how to get around that because a lot of my meaning comes from work, but I
00:10:35.780 am in this really hard, difficult place to where I've realized my kids are much more
00:10:43.940 important than anything I've ever done.
00:10:47.240 All of this stuff is garbage compared to my children and what I've taught my children
00:10:52.540 and the time I've spent with my children. 0.98
00:10:54.280 And every time they call their mom four times to the one that they call their dad, it kills me.
00:11:01.540 But not because they're doing it, because I made the choice to concentrate on work.
00:11:11.340 What are the real achievements?
00:11:17.640 Is your life about appearance, stuff, the applause of others?
00:11:23.100 By the way, I'm not asking you these questions alone.
00:11:25.740 I ask these of myself all the time.
00:11:28.180 Or is it something eternal?
00:11:30.400 Is it something that can never be taken away?
00:11:32.800 Because I got news for you.
00:11:33.880 Have you seen the state of the world?
00:11:35.280 We could lose everything.
00:11:37.940 What are you going to be left with?
00:11:42.100 That's when you ask, why am I here?
00:11:46.060 Why am I here?
00:11:47.200 what is
00:11:50.340 my purpose here
00:11:53.740 not the generic
00:11:58.140 to be happy
00:11:59.040 to be successful
00:11:59.980 that's the answer
00:12:01.360 that culture is giving us
00:12:02.680 what's the real answer
00:12:04.480 to that one
00:12:05.200 the one that only
00:12:06.820 you can fulfill
00:12:07.880 these are the questions
00:12:16.620 that most of us don't even like to ask
00:12:19.220 because asking them honestly means we might have to change.
00:12:24.680 It means that we might have to admit the life we're living
00:12:29.040 may not be the life we were made for.
00:12:37.960 But here's the beautiful truth, the terrifying truth.
00:12:42.500 The minute you start asking those questions with courage and honesty, something very powerful begins to awaken inside of you, your inner strength, the real kind, the kind that doesn't depend on circumstance, the kind that doesn't matter if you're rich or poor and you can barely make it today because you'll stop drifting, you'll stop performing, and you begin the journey back to yourself.
00:13:10.000 You, I can guarantee you, somebody said this to me once when I was young, you have no idea how powerful you are when you get out of your own way.
00:13:17.820 And I say that to you, you have no idea how powerful you are if you would just get out of your own way, if you would stop letting your circumstances dictate where you are and what you think.
00:13:28.880 you're going to discover that your identity
00:13:34.760 was never meant to be built on shifting sand
00:13:39.220 on what you do
00:13:40.600 what you have
00:13:42.080 or what people think about you
00:13:43.820 it was always meant to be rooted in eternal truth
00:13:47.540 because you were created for a purpose
00:13:51.120 and when you lean into that truth
00:13:54.380 your life begins to fill up in ways you never imagined
00:13:58.620 with no more stuff or noise, but with meaning, with depth,
00:14:04.920 with peace that actually lasts.
00:14:10.500 And then you start preparing for life's real entrees,
00:14:13.500 not the entrees that you take your phone out and take a picture of.
00:14:17.100 I don't understand why we photograph our food all the time.
00:14:21.440 I just don't get it.
00:14:23.440 Those are meals somebody else has prepared for you.
00:14:25.340 What is the meal that you're preparing for yourself right now?
00:14:32.480 You're going to move from consumer to creator, from passenger to pilot, from lost to found.
00:14:39.120 And the more that you discover who you truly are, the more you will realize you were never meant to live for yourself alone.
00:14:47.620 Your life will find its fullest expression when it flows outward.
00:14:51.980 Especially if you're not married, get married.
00:14:53.820 Find somebody, find somebody that loves you, loves God, and you love.
00:15:05.440 Because when you find that higher cause, when you find who you really are,
00:15:10.520 then you begin to stand up for what is right.
00:15:13.860 And you start to build and you start to speak truth
00:15:16.820 and you pour yourself out into something bigger than your own comfort.
00:15:20.480 It's when you and your family and everything around you becomes fully alive.
00:15:32.340 If we don't start asking ourselves these questions, we're not going to make it.
00:15:37.700 Because right now, we don't even know who we are as a party.
00:15:41.560 Look at the arguments that are going on.
00:15:43.080 We don't know who we are as a family.
00:15:45.040 We don't know who we are as a country.
00:15:46.680 You're not going to answer any of those unless you can answer who are you as an individual.
00:15:56.060 If any of this connects anywhere with you, take it as a sign.
00:16:04.320 Believe me, you don't want to be at rock bottom to begin.
00:16:07.900 And you don't have to have it all figured out.
00:16:09.980 That's the thing my kids say to me.
00:16:12.740 Dad, I don't have it figured out.
00:16:14.360 Neither do I.
00:16:15.100 you're not going to have it all figured out.
00:16:17.320 Stop waiting for having it all figured out.
00:16:19.540 Just start moving.
00:16:21.260 Stop avoiding.
00:16:23.160 Answer the questions you've been avoiding.
00:16:25.560 Start today.
00:16:26.260 Sit in the quiet.
00:16:27.200 Write them down.
00:16:28.040 Speak them out loud.
00:16:29.620 Bring them honestly, honestly, and ask God.
00:16:34.420 He's not afraid of your questions.
00:16:36.680 He'll answer every single one of them.
00:16:39.680 Who are you really?
00:16:42.800 Why are you here?
00:16:44.600 What are you willing to live for?
00:16:46.520 Ask, listen, choose.
00:16:51.480 You remember it was a year ago this week
00:16:53.120 that a lot of people said,
00:16:54.140 I am Charlie Kirk.
00:16:55.180 Are you?
00:16:56.840 If you made that promise to yourself,
00:16:58.660 what have you changed?
00:17:00.240 Have you changed?
00:17:00.860 It's been a year.
00:17:02.720 What have you changed?
00:17:05.000 Anything?
00:17:09.440 You were created for full, free, purposeful,
00:17:14.120 significant life.
00:17:18.300 You were made for this.
00:17:20.740 You were made for these times.
00:17:25.580 Don't try to be Charlie Kirk.
00:17:29.240 Be you.
00:17:31.420 Find out who you are and be you.
00:17:35.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:17:39.020 Jonathan, what happened on that airplane?
00:17:44.120 Okay. It was the flight from hell. And I was on it. I was sitting next to the guy. I was the
00:17:51.860 unidentified passenger. I realized afterwards, I'm the only one who knew really what happened.
00:17:58.460 They saw the effects of it. And I was actually at the center of it. I was physically attacked
00:18:04.360 on the plane. The articles, I mean, you said this, you're totally right. The articles were
00:18:10.520 talking of kind of the side things. Yeah, he said some things, but he's out of control. But
00:18:13.700 it was and it was demonic and i'm not saying where the guy's at i don't know the guy but what
00:18:19.220 happened was demonic um it was real spiritual warfare and the other thing is this going to
00:18:25.260 sound wild i know i'm going to be back i'm going to talk about the book the book is act was actually
00:18:30.280 at the center of this or causing this or um the real story is i i knew something it's going to
00:18:36.920 sound wild i knew something was going to happen uh before that even week i knew there and we i
00:18:42.080 told people pray because of an attack on me. Because the reason I said is because every time
00:18:48.140 a book comes out, put out a book, there is crazy attacks. And that makes sense because
00:18:53.040 I'm kind of on revealing, the books reveal kind of the spiritual realm. And there's a dark side
00:18:58.800 of the spiritual realm. And so it's always happened. And I'll say this one, the altar of
00:19:04.700 Pergamon, it says the mystery of the dark angel, that's Satan and the future of the world. And so
00:19:09.120 although it's even more so so we expected something big so uh i i get on the plane and um i'm sitting
00:19:16.900 the guy is to my left friendliest guy in the world by the way glenn i wasn't supposed to be on that
00:19:21.480 seat last minute i'm switched to that seat um and he's the friendliest guy uh talking about his
00:19:27.460 business and realtor and all that we're talking he's laughing i'm talking about he's his family
00:19:32.240 my family and i wanted to get work done but i figured okay maybe god wants me to talk to this
00:19:36.700 And so like two hours, the flight attendants thought we were the best friends.
00:19:41.820 We knew each other.
00:19:42.700 So and all that.
00:19:44.220 And then I said, God, give me a chance to share your love with him, your salvation with him.
00:19:48.860 And so it happens.
00:19:49.980 And so I said, well, you know, he says, well, I rejected that.
00:19:52.620 I knew that as a kid. 1.00
00:19:54.360 I rejected that because of Christians. 1.00
00:19:57.460 And so he goes through this thing. 1.00
00:19:58.700 I said, well, so I'm sharing about God. 0.53
00:20:00.380 I'm sharing about it's not about Christians.
00:20:02.040 It's about you and God.
00:20:03.140 It's about God's love.
00:20:04.220 It's about being born again.
00:20:05.260 And I'm saying that was, and then he said, this is what's going to lead up to it.
00:20:07.820 This is what caused the whole story.
00:20:09.380 He says, how do you know God is real?
00:20:11.900 And I said, well, I was an atheist.
00:20:13.580 You know, I saw biblical prophecy coming true now.
00:20:16.980 I couldn't argue with it.
00:20:18.160 And then I got hit by a train.
00:20:19.240 He says, really?
00:20:19.740 I said, yeah.
00:20:20.480 Then I shared two things.
00:20:22.160 And this is what triggered the whole thing.
00:20:24.600 I said, you know, he said, well, yeah, he's real.
00:20:26.920 So I said, well, one, I shared the story of how the Harbinger,
00:20:30.340 is the first book I did, became a book.
00:20:32.220 It was a supernatural encounter in an airport.
00:20:34.600 Okay.
00:20:34.740 And then number two, I shared how God brought my wife from Brazil, how we met, and it was totally supernatural.
00:20:41.160 Everything's great until, and then it turns, that moment.
00:20:44.640 I don't know.
00:20:45.000 I've never seen anything like this in my life.
00:20:48.080 It was like his face changes, his voice changes, and all of a sudden he said, he whispers, he's like, he has something to tell me.
00:20:56.080 He whispers, and he says, I'm not going to say the word. 0.94
00:20:59.000 He says, bull black. 0.96
00:21:01.140 I said, what? 0.99
00:21:01.980 He said, bull black. 0.95
00:21:03.280 I said, what are you saying? 0.98
00:21:05.060 What I said wasn't, and then he says, go blank yourself.
00:21:09.960 And I'm like, okay.
00:21:10.900 And so I'm there.
00:21:12.300 And then he goes off.
00:21:13.840 He's cursing God.
00:21:15.600 You know, by the way, he's cursing Jesus.
00:21:17.400 He's blasphemy on the airplane.
00:21:19.680 They didn't put that in the articles. 0.95
00:21:21.140 In fact, one of them said he was talking about Jesus like he was a Christian and he was a hateful Christian.
00:21:27.400 So he is blaspheming. 0.87
00:21:29.480 He is saying vulgar things.
00:21:31.200 people all around are getting disturbed i'm saying this i'm saying shh come you can get yourself in
00:21:36.300 trouble come and then the flight attendants come over he says something and he's probably said
00:21:40.200 he probably said everything um and it happens back and then he stands up and he goes to the
00:21:45.160 people in front and says do you believe in jesus do you believe it and they start talking about
00:21:48.300 hell i mean it was it was i mean if you imagine i'm not saying where the guy's at but imagine a
00:21:52.980 demonic manifestation this had everything and then suddenly he turns friendly again like he's
00:21:58.540 a different person and he's and he sees my computer now my computer glenn at the beginning
00:22:03.600 of the week uh you know i we're like ready for attack all the sudden there's big i mean it's a
00:22:08.440 black patch in the middle of it just appears when i'm about to go out and talk about the book the
00:22:12.360 book released on tuesday so i'm going out on on monday and then i'm coming home on thursday with
00:22:17.500 a guy and so he sees the the thing there i i worked around it but he taps my computer like
00:22:23.780 three times and the black thing spreads across my screen where I can now barely see what's on there
00:22:30.900 that that's what happened and then this is what happened and then he's being like he's friendly
00:22:34.880 but I'm saying then he puts his hands around me like you said and he is and he's laughing like
00:22:41.880 like it's a joke so I it took me by surprise he's going like this like this so wait wait wait so he
00:22:47.080 has his hands he's standing kind of in front of you as he's going into the seat no now no he sat
00:22:52.780 down again he's to my left okay my left turns around i'm to his right i have my computer and
00:22:58.080 he puts his hands around your neck yes okay yes like he's gonna choke you but he's pretending
00:23:04.860 that it's a joke yeah he's saying he's he's like i'm showing he's just laughing it's a joke that
00:23:10.040 i'm saying well and and this is where one of the guys saw one of the guys who's going to help it
00:23:13.960 saw that okay so he's doing that and then and i'm trying you know i'm i get that i'm trying
00:23:19.680 after this not engaged i'm trying to calm this guy down um and then what triggers the the ultimate
00:23:25.860 escalation and this is and i'm the only one who could see this but what happens when he becomes
00:23:31.220 he's going to start becoming violent what happens is he looks at my computer and on the side that
00:23:36.740 you could still see the this is the image of the book appears on the is there inside and i'm just
00:23:42.580 showing you this is not i normally would hold it up before you're talking about the book but yeah
00:23:45.860 that's what that's what he sees okay that is and it says the mystery of the dark angel that's satan
00:23:50.420 and that's a that's a picture of that and that triggered that then he starts shouting and he's
00:23:55.700 shouting he said he says what did you do what did you do like i did something wrong with this thing
00:24:00.560 it was it was this thing and then it starts escalating to a whole nother thing he starts
00:24:05.620 he said he then says this is this is you will never see this in any newspaper but this way he 0.98
00:24:11.340 says i'm going to punch your blanking jewish face in that's what he says at that moment as as you 0.98
00:24:21.260 alluded to uh and so at that point i'm i'm kind of i'm signaling the flight attendants i'm saying 0.99
00:24:27.660 i'm saying like this i'm in the eye i'm going like this uh but they're they don't know what
00:24:32.320 to do they're trying their best they don't know what to do and they couldn't and if they were
00:24:35.320 prevented they couldn't i'm going god you know then he starts he starts hitting me now now the
00:24:42.400 hitting it wasn't like we were in a fight it's like somebody who's trying to start a fight he's
00:24:47.580 right he's hitting my my abdomen like there's like trying to start it i'm saying i'm not going
00:24:51.780 to get engaged in this and i'm saying and i'm saying uh at that point i said um i'm saying
00:24:55.900 guys i said we could use help we need help here you know okay he's doing that and then he stops
00:25:01.040 And the final thing is, and this is what led to everything, and this is exactly what happened, Glenn.
00:25:09.400 Something says to me inside of it, it says, the enemy, I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about spiritually, is going to use this guy to try to destroy your computer.
00:25:21.980 Because the whole week, there's been something about my computer.
00:25:25.340 Computer is where I write all my books.
00:25:26.700 Everything comes from this computer.
00:25:28.740 And so I said, so what I do is I take my computer, I start closing it up.
00:25:34.200 I take my cell phone, and I'm saying, I'm getting out.
00:25:37.120 So I go there, and I start going up there.
00:25:40.000 At that moment, he lunges at me, and he lunges at my computer.
00:25:45.640 And he grabs my computer, like with all his mind, and he's trying to wrest it from me
00:25:50.900 and undoubtedly to destroy it, throw it.
00:25:53.820 With all my mind holding, I know if he gets it, it's over.
00:25:56.420 I'm holding up.
00:25:57.200 we are wrestling on the plane we are wrestling and and uh we are we are i mean everybody is it's
00:26:03.840 a stencil the whole the whole the whole plane is in shock the the pilot is radioing down to to for
00:26:11.280 an emergency landing at that time and so we're back and forth and finally finally i'm able to
00:26:17.280 rest it away at the same time you know about about a month ago i had injured my my arm and it was
00:26:23.760 just at that day finally i didn't feel any pain anymore he grabbed that arm pulls it i'm injured
00:26:29.240 again i i get out but i'm out i'm in the aisle i move forward at that moment two guys who were
00:26:35.120 two two seats in front of me one is a retired policeman uh they get off they said i'd say it
00:26:40.200 was violent they knew that they get back and they go over the guy they're standing where i sat the
00:26:44.200 guy is violent with them and so they they take him and he starts they start screaming and it's
00:26:49.180 unintelligible uh yeah you could see him he's on the right that's by the by the window the seat
00:26:53.940 where they're standing that's my seat i am now had just gotten up and you and it catches me right
00:26:59.740 that's me i'm trying to be up there and they and he and so they they they give them duct tape they
00:27:05.740 bind him up but then at one point they tried to they try and he's i heard i can't i wasn't i heard
00:27:11.560 he was biting i at that point they try to loosen it give him some loosening thing and he attacks
00:27:16.040 again so that goes uh so he's there emergency landing we land in baltimore the fbi comes on
00:27:22.300 board they talk to me they talk to them they take out the guy he goes to jail and by the way this is
00:27:27.020 a realtor he was normal until that until this that this turning as i'm we were as i'm talking about
00:27:32.440 god that's the real story um and you know the the the you know the then the next day it's an all
00:27:38.300 there goes the story goes over the world and as you said and i saw me it's like they they didn't
00:27:43.760 touch the real story, and they avoided things. They made it look another way,
00:27:48.000 but that was the real story. This is spiritual. They made it look as though this guy was a
00:27:54.400 racist, a bigot against women, hated gays. None of what you said was in that story. None. 0.93
00:28:04.640 Yeah, well, more than that. I mean, when I read one thing, it said he was talking about Jesus,
00:28:11.200 like he's a Christian who is racist.
00:28:14.920 Well, no, he was blaspheming Jesus. 0.97
00:28:17.000 He was cursing Jesus.
00:28:18.120 He was hating Jesus.
00:28:19.740 And he did, I'm sure he said statements.
00:28:22.880 You know, I'm sure he said vulgar statement.
00:28:24.140 I'm sure he said a racist statement.
00:28:25.420 I'm sure he, but he was, it was like,
00:28:28.120 it's like, and I'm not saying what the guy is,
00:28:29.920 but it's like you're watching a demonic manifestation.
00:28:31.740 It's vulgar.
00:28:32.600 And he was saying everything,
00:28:33.420 but that was like, it's like Glenn,
00:28:35.700 someone comes in a house and they commit a murder.
00:28:37.460 and the story is man comes in and and leaves the house a mess it was that was just the things on
00:28:42.960 the side it was they didn't even mention that he was not duct taped because of the things he said
00:28:46.800 he was duct taped because he was he was attacking me and then he's just going violent that's the
00:28:51.420 truth that's what happened okay um hang on just a second we're with jonathan khan uh and uh he's
00:28:57.220 telling us a story if you saw the video of the guy being duct taped to an american airlines flight
00:29:01.760 When was this? Yesterday? Day before?
00:29:04.160 That was Thursday night.
00:29:06.080 Thursday night. Okay, so I saw it yesterday.
00:29:10.040 If you saw that video, he's giving you the real story
00:29:13.580 because he was the guy sitting in the chair next to him.
00:29:16.580 By the way, the real estate office that he was with has fired him and let him go,
00:29:21.860 so he doesn't have a job, which, you know,
00:29:26.280 to me, from what the story Jonathan is telling me,
00:29:30.660 which is completely different than the story that you're hearing everywhere else.
00:29:33.760 You know, it's pretty clear what was going on there.
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00:29:43.840 So a few months ago, I don't want to leave you black-pilled today.
00:29:46.560 I want to give you some good news.
00:29:48.620 And these two stories are great news.
00:29:51.340 And I don't think anybody's reporting on them
00:29:52.740 because I don't know if they know what they mean.
00:29:54.800 Earlier this year, we were talking about, in the middle of the show,
00:29:58.020 they said the El Paso Airport had been shut down
00:30:00.600 because of drones and we're like oh what is happening um and then they shut it down and
00:30:07.120 then there was kind of like well we're not sure if it was drones or what was happening and nobody
00:30:11.820 would say why it was shut down well we found out this weekend apparently the army had a truck
00:30:17.520 parked in the rio grande uh with a laser mounted on the roof and two soldiers sat inside one of
00:30:24.640 them tracks the target with an xbox controller i'm not making this up because this is what the
00:30:29.520 kids grew up with holding. And on the 25th and the 26th of August, they took down three drones
00:30:36.600 over the next 10 days, 11, and drone traffic probing of that stretch of the border has dropped
00:30:42.300 75%. Now, the border is a very small part of this story, in my opinion. Okay, it's good. It's good
00:30:50.000 that this is happening because they're out of control. But let me tell you why this is less
00:30:55.560 than half of the story. Each shot from that laser costs about three dollars. Now let me show you what
00:31:03.640 three dollars is up against. The Iranian Shahid drone, the one Russia flies into apartment
00:31:11.260 buildings in Ukraine, the one the Houthis have been throwing at our ships, costs somewhere between
00:31:16.260 twenty and fifty thousand dollars. Sheet metal, little piston engine in it, you know, just about
00:31:22.320 as complicated as a motorcycle and a warhead. That's it. We shoot them down with Patriots.
00:31:28.420 A Patriot interceptor is roughly $4 million every time we shoot one of those. Navy interceptors
00:31:35.300 run between $2 and $4 million apiece. Our Red Sea, our destroyers burn close to a billion dollars
00:31:43.400 worth of missiles knocking down drones that in some cases cost $2,000 to build. That's 100 to
00:31:50.140 one, sometimes a thousand to one, and it's running in the wrong direction. And I have to tell you,
00:31:56.060 I have been so concerned. I've talked to the president about this. I've talked to his advisors
00:31:59.160 about this. Why are we building these giant aircraft carriers? We should be working on
00:32:04.040 how to shoot drones because a drone wave is going to be coming our way. Nobody in Tehran 1.00
00:32:13.220 thinks a plywood drone is going to beat the United States Navy. They know that. That was never the
00:32:18.680 plan. The drone isn't the weapon. It's an invoice. Everyone they launch, we pay. Iran can build them
00:32:27.760 by the thousand every month. We can't build Patriot missiles by the thousand. We can't build 0.77
00:32:32.640 them by the hundreds. So the drone doesn't have to hit the ship. It only has to arrive.
00:32:39.200 They're not trying to sink the magazine. They're trying to empty the magazine. And then somewhere
00:32:44.400 down the road on a morning that actually matters and a place we actually care about. We reach for
00:32:49.540 the shelf and the shelf is bare. This is exactly what happened. We've been here before. This is
00:32:55.920 exactly what happened in the summer of 1944 with Britain. They had survived the blitz. The invasion
00:33:02.420 had landed in France. People all think the worst is over. And then Germany starts sending these
00:33:08.820 flying bombs across the channel. They're plywood and sheet metal, a little jet engine, no pilot, 0.53
00:33:14.400 $2,000 apiece. They came in at night, they came in at the day, and you could hear them coming.
00:33:20.980 And what you listened for was the engine cutting out, because that meant it was falling.
00:33:26.880 So Britain answered, you know, the way any serious country answers.
00:33:33.420 1,600 anti-aircraft guns moved to the coast. Fighter squadrons, barrage balloons on cable,
00:33:40.940 And in that first week on the coast, they were knocking down about one in six of the bombs that came into range.
00:33:46.640 But it was costing them 2,500 shells to bring down one.
00:33:51.980 2,500 shells for a plywood airplane. 0.58
00:33:56.420 Now, the Americans had in a laboratory a small radio that was small enough to fit in the nose of an artillery shell 0.65
00:34:05.140 and tough enough to survive being fired out of a cannon.
00:34:08.700 and it would look ahead as it flies and when it senses something close it would detonate
00:34:15.960 which means you don't have to hit the thing anymore you just have to get near the thing to
00:34:20.180 take it out now we had to guard we had guarded that device at the level of the atom bomb for
00:34:27.440 two years we refused to fire it over land because if a shell goes off and it falls into a field
00:34:33.840 somebody can pick that shell up, and then everybody has it. But then the flying bombs
00:34:38.220 started arriving, and so we used it anyway. By the end of the summer, three out of every four
00:34:44.240 bombs coming into the gun belt were being knocked down. One day, it was 82%, and the price went from
00:34:51.920 2,500 shells per kill to 100 per kill. Now, here's the part that I really love. The fuses
00:35:00.060 weren't built by some secret arsenal.
00:35:03.200 They were built by radio companies.
00:35:05.780 The outfits that made car radios and jukeboxes.
00:35:09.700 More than 100 factories could turn something out,
00:35:12.100 like 20 million of them.
00:35:13.900 Patton said the funny fuse
00:35:16.060 is what won the Battle of the Bulge. 0.97
00:35:20.520 Germany didn't stop building flying bombs
00:35:22.960 because Britain outspent them.
00:35:25.260 Germany stopped because its arithmetic changed.
00:35:28.860 And that's what just happened in South Texas.
00:35:33.180 Now, you're going to hear the $3 number thrown around a lot, and it's not the whole picture.
00:35:38.700 $3 is the shot, but the truck is somewhere between $17 and $25 million.
00:35:43.800 But the truck, you keep using over and over again.
00:35:46.900 We're not using shells.
00:35:48.480 And that burst of electricity or that burst of power, that's $3, okay?
00:35:53.340 the army just wrote its first big contract
00:35:56.360 for these $465 million
00:35:58.440 but lasers don't
00:36:00.420 like the weather, the fog
00:36:02.440 the water vapor eats the beams
00:36:04.440 the military says
00:36:05.820 75%
00:36:07.120 drop in these
00:36:10.420 drones might partially be
00:36:12.340 because cartels are just moving to a different
00:36:14.440 stretch of river but they're doing it because
00:36:16.420 they know we can take them out
00:36:17.700 the real danger in firing one of these 0.99
00:36:20.620 near civilian aircraft
00:36:21.700 is the reason the FAA shut down the El Paso airport
00:36:26.620 because we don't know what it'll do.
00:36:28.700 I mean, we don't want to shoot a plane out. 0.74
00:36:31.660 And what's flying over the Rio Grande is not the Shahid. 0.69
00:36:36.440 It's a quadcopter scouting for smugglers,
00:36:40.360 finding out where our people are standing
00:36:42.500 so they know where not to walk.
00:36:44.880 The commander down there made the point that matters.
00:36:48.340 He says, you jam it and it goes home.
00:36:51.700 but it comes back tomorrow.
00:36:52.760 You burn it and it's gone.
00:36:55.780 That's not a defense.
00:36:57.600 That's subtraction.
00:37:01.160 And they're already flying drones against each other in Mexico,
00:37:04.140 all the cartels, a couple hundred incidents in the last five years.
00:37:06.780 Dozens of people are dead.
00:37:08.320 8,000 American service members are on that border.
00:37:11.400 Nobody has to imagine the next step.
00:37:13.460 So here's the good news.
00:37:14.940 We're learning to do this cheaply and on our own
00:37:17.520 against an enemy who is not the most dangerous enemy we will face with it.
00:37:26.820 And yes, we're showing the world our cards, and that's real.
00:37:30.480 It was real in 1944.
00:37:33.800 And the men who had spent two years hiding that fuse made the call anyway
00:37:37.400 because there's a point where keeping secret costs more than losing it.
00:37:42.220 And 75% of those drones stopped flying because somebody on the other side
00:37:45.900 figured out what the flash was this is actually really good news this is the war we're actually
00:37:54.440 in gang it's not a war of firepower it's a war of arithmetic and on a tuesday in south texas a kid
00:38:01.300 with an xbox controller made it four million to three that's fabulous news now i'm not going to
00:38:11.160 have time to get to this one uh fully today so i'm gonna have to move this to tomorrow but let
00:38:15.300 me give you just, just let me give you the headline of this. What, what is everybody afraid of when it
00:38:23.900 comes to their electricity costs with these data centers? Data centers, they say they're going to
00:38:30.760 have to, you know, they're going to have to generate their own electricity. You're afraid
00:38:34.820 your electricity price is going to go up. But even when they say, well, no, they're going to have to
00:38:38.900 use their own uh you know electricity so they can't pull off the power lines you're already
00:38:45.480 seeing that uh the electrical rates in some states are going up why because they have to build new
00:38:52.240 transmission lines they have to build all this new infrastructure um just just to keep up with
00:38:58.660 the future okay it's all outdated it all needs to be replaced well what is the problem with that
00:39:04.700 if you need power and you need it now what is the problem with power lines the power line
00:39:13.800 is everyone says what not in my backyard i don't want one of those power lines going in my backyard
00:39:22.280 it's not cutting my farm it's not cutting my neighborhood it's not kind of my county okay
00:39:26.560 for the first time i have seen the government do something that i'm like oh my gosh
00:39:35.260 that is genius this is the way it is it's not complex it's just genius in its simplicity it
00:39:43.080 is common sense so the president and his team were sitting around and they're like okay so
00:39:48.460 we got to build all these power lines yes mr mr mr president every time a new line crosses a
00:39:56.180 thousand parcels of ground every one of those parcels has an owner and every owner has a lawyer
00:40:01.440 and every county has a commission it'll be 16 years before we can get these things started and
00:40:08.040 built so i don't know who it was but they were sitting in the meeting they went
00:40:12.680 okay wait a minute wait a minute
00:40:17.220 there are 161 000 miles of interstate highway in the country
00:40:23.320 140,000 miles of railroad track
00:40:26.920 every one of them has been surveyed
00:40:30.840 and grade and appraised and condemned
00:40:32.480 and litigated and settled
00:40:33.860 who owns the grass on the side of the highways
00:40:38.560 I imagine the room went quiet
00:40:43.400 because everybody knew exactly
00:40:46.560 where they're going
00:40:47.480 because on the sides of the highway
00:40:50.320 most of it's empty
00:40:52.240 Not the road, the strip in between and beside the road.
00:40:55.220 The grass, the gravel, the ditch.
00:40:57.680 A ribbon that runs from Maine to San Diego.
00:41:01.680 And we only use it for one thing.
00:41:05.320 Cars.
00:41:09.940 So two weeks ago, the Department of Transportation asked a question about that grass, that strip of grass on each side.
00:41:18.680 And here's the question.
00:41:19.860 why don't we run the power lines down that we can run fiber we can run power we can run water
00:41:26.820 the land's already ours the permits are already stamped no nothing has to be condemned nobody's
00:41:32.600 farm is going to get cut in half nobody spends 11 years in court arguing because it's already ours
00:41:38.920 that's brilliant
00:41:44.600 now all you have to do is build all the power plants and everything else
00:41:51.060 all these big systems
00:41:53.980 the data centers
00:41:56.320 near the freeways
00:42:00.620 you build them near the freeways
00:42:03.000 they can dump power into those brand new power lines
00:42:05.620 that will go to your house
00:42:06.920 and we've cut out all of the red tape
00:42:11.180 I'm going to tell you the rest of the story
00:42:15.360 Because it's amazing
00:42:16.720 It's amazing
00:42:18.020 I'll tell you the rest of it tomorrow