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00:00:13.720 richer than you think got a great podcast for you today it's friday going into the weekend we

00:00:18.540 talked to john solomon tried to get a update on the latest that has come out on the fbi and the

00:00:24.760 russiagate scandal he says something big is breaking very soon i mean it's just it's relentless

00:00:29.800 what's coming out we also talked to matthew continetti he is from the free press uh and we

00:00:35.080 were talking about donald trump up in alaska and uh negotiating with donald trump don't expect much

00:00:41.340 from from this negotiation period but why is donald trump doing it how did he pull this off

00:00:47.580 and is he caving to vladimir putin or is this all part of a really master negotiation you'll find

00:00:58.240 out yourself uh coming up also allison ide she is a new christian artist who is i mean she is

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00:03:42.260 welcome to the glenn beck program we're glad that you're here uh thank you so much for uh tuning in

00:03:48.340 um i want to i want to play uh something from 2017 a quick flashback uh from a senate hearing

00:03:56.580 with fbi director james comey listen director comey have you ever been an anonymous source

00:04:03.920 in news reports about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation never

00:04:11.640 uh question two on relatively uh related have you ever authorized someone else at the fbi to be an

00:04:25.460 anonymous source in news reports about the trump investigation or the clinton investigation no

00:04:32.040 has any classified information relating to president trump or his association associates

00:04:41.940 been declassified or and shared with the media not to my knowledge is there an investigation

00:04:48.900 of any leaks of classified information relating to mr trump or his associates

00:04:56.180 i don't want to i don't want to answer that question senator for reasons i think you know

00:05:02.180 uh there have been a variety of uh leaks well leaks are always a problem but especially in the last

00:05:09.460 three to six months and where there is a leak of classified information the fbi if it's our information

00:05:15.480 makes a referral to the department of justice or if it's another agency's information they do the

00:05:20.040 same and then doj authorizes the opening of an investigation i don't want to confirm in an open

00:05:25.320 setting whether there are any investigations open wow listen to that i mean this guy is in deep trouble

00:05:31.800 uh we have uh john solomon with us from just the news john good to be with yeah that i haven't heard

00:05:40.840 that uh my staff put that together and i remember it well uh-huh that is not good that's everything

00:05:48.760 that he said we now know verified is a lie yeah listen i think it's going to get worse i think there

00:05:56.920 were in the documents i put out last week some information that was redacted by the justice department

00:06:02.280 from the fbi documents i think the redactions on that information could be lifted by the end of next

00:06:08.280 week and i think we will see even more evidence of comey's media and leaking strategy and it may

00:06:15.400 come from some of the most surprising sources so we already have his right hand pr man uh mr richmond

00:06:22.920 who was a um a lawyer at columbia university very clearly saying that he he was asked by comey to

00:06:29.480 burnish comey's image and to uh work with the media and he clearly had a conversation with the

00:06:35.320 reporter about classified information and he gave one i think one of the greatest non-denial denials

00:06:41.880 we're ever going to remember in washington history right up there with bill clinton's

00:06:45.480 monica lewinski denial depending on what the meaning of the word is is we all remember that

00:06:50.280 famous dodge um when richmond was asked that he leaked the information that the reporter published

00:06:55.640 right after he talked to him and right after comey had given richmond the intelligence he said i'm

00:07:01.480 pretty sure i didn't confirm it and i'm sure comma with a discount comma i didn't uh give him the

00:07:08.360 information i'm sure with a discount i guess what does that mean with a disc what does that mean

00:07:15.240 yeah the fbi clearly thought it meant that uh you're gonna have to give me a little wiggle room

00:07:19.320 on my answer here so and that's not what you that's what it means when you you know i'll buy that

00:07:24.360 sure i'll buy that for a discount yeah you gotta take a little bit off of it so i i that's how the fbi

00:07:29.480 i took it at the end of the day uh there was a justice department both under um president obama

00:07:36.360 and president trump one that wasn't willing to pursue uh the evidence that sits in these leak

00:07:41.880 documents and i think uh most of those leaks are going to be unpunishable at this point hey john um

00:07:48.040 jason butchell here i'm glenn's chief researcher i'm huge fan of yours i was reading through that

00:07:53.320 document i think it was like 266 pages and it was talking about leaks from adam schiff it was talking

00:07:58.840 about leaks through you know daniel richmond that columbia university professor all these different

00:08:03.640 leaks and the fbi would end those different segments within that document with we decided

00:08:08.600 not to go forward we decided to close the investigation how how in the world were they

00:08:13.880 just closing all these investigations and not finding information that would lead to an indictment

00:08:19.320 does it make sense to you it makes no sense to me uh well it makes sense in this respect every

00:08:24.600 time they went to the justice department the u.s attorney that had prosecutive authority that 0.63

00:08:29.000 prosecutors wouldn't prosecute right i mean that is i i started my career as a sports writer and i

00:08:34.520 remember uh one of the great defenses of all time the steel curtain of the pittsburgh steelers there was

00:08:39.880 a steel curtain around james comey and anyone who went after trump any democrat that had a criminal

00:08:47.160 problem whether it was hunter biden hillary clinton joe biden his classified documents every time the fbi

00:08:53.720 went to get the sort of normal prosecutive help they get all day long from the u.s attorneys the

00:08:58.680 answer was no we're not going to help you see you later decline and uh you see now in these documents

00:09:04.920 a very powerful dual system of justice is this does this have anything to do with the fact that we cannot

00:09:11.960 get new u.s attorneys confirmed uh i think they the i don't think this is a most of the crimes here are

00:09:22.200 beyond the statute uh you know there are there's some there's one statute that allows a 10-year

00:09:26.280 willful prosecution and classified information the adam schiff uh many of the legal experts i talked

00:09:32.200 about based on the whistleblower if that whistleblower's account could be verified uh adam

00:09:36.680 schiff might still face a knowing and willful violation but most of these are done so the democrats

00:09:42.760 aren't uh putting their foot out to trip up these u.s attorneys because they think these guys are going to

00:09:48.600 get prosecuted they're putting their foot out because they don't want donald trump to succeed

00:09:52.280 at anything they would love to see chaos on the streets and be able to blame them for that so

00:09:56.760 what better way to do that than not allow them to have judges and prosecutors who could do the job

00:10:01.640 that the american people need done and so i think their their their obstruction is much larger than just

00:10:07.240 protecting themselves on the 2016 2017 racket but does this testimony while it's out of statute of

00:10:15.560 limitations doesn't this play right into the grand conspiracy that is where uh there's a strong

00:10:22.200 possibility that's a complicated case you never know how a grand jury will digest it um but uh there

00:10:28.280 is a strong uh they're already underway i confirmed this this week there are grand juries currently

00:10:33.000 collecting uh evidence in multiple jurisdictions in pennsylvania and virginia and in new york so the work

00:10:40.040 of gathering the evidence and securing it which sometimes is missing in the adam schiff file one

00:10:45.720 of the most extraordinary things the fbi clearly had grave concerns they interviewed the whistleblower

00:10:50.600 four times they knew this was serious stuff but when they uh when they went to go say hey adam schiff

00:10:57.160 we got to get your staffers to talk to us they said we're not going to talk to you we were protected by

00:11:01.480 the debate and speech clause and the justice department wasn't willing under donald trump to pierce that

00:11:07.720 claim which i think is pretty tenuous from the legal experts i've talked to so you just see every

00:11:13.320 time the fbi follows the lead they get to a certain point and then it's the justice department that

00:11:19.080 really is the department of injustice it is simply not allowing fbi agents to complete investigations that

00:11:24.840 would embarrass the deep state or the democratic uh elites uh or their friends in the government who

00:11:31.240 tarried their water in 16 and 17 i just talked to uh the author who exposed raven 23 and got those

00:11:38.280 guys um out of prison um and you know i said what happened to all of the prosecutors and the fbi and the

00:11:44.920 people in the state department she said oh they're all still there um nobody's learning any any lesson

00:11:50.920 at all um is there uh is the doj doing enough uh there is a transition underway in the justice

00:12:03.480 department and i think the jury is out on a pam body senior obviously bumpy start with epstein i think 0.90

00:12:09.240 in the grand conspiracy case there is a sign that they're doing it just the way they used to do it in

00:12:14.360 the 1980s when the justice department was at its heyday it took down um you know the mob and it took

00:12:19.640 down the early drug cartels when you have a grand conspiracy case you start with an fbi predicate

00:12:25.640 that happened then you create a strike force something we haven't used in a long time but

00:12:29.400 strike forces are very effective prosecutive tools she did that and then she authorized the use of 0.90

00:12:34.360 grand jury so they're following the playbook the non-political playbook the way the justice department

00:12:39.400 is supposed to act uh whether she succeeds or not is a long way out on the investigation on

00:12:45.080 cleaning our house they've cleaned out a lot they're very short of prosecutors right now

00:12:49.800 there are career positions that are open and almost all the u.s attorneys are open

00:12:54.200 so until those positions fill in a little bit there is a limitation to what could be succeeded but

00:12:59.240 you see in the last couple days in the district of columbia how quickly the justice department and

00:13:03.720 the fbi could clean up some pretty bad guys off the street real quickly uh they're doing a lot of

00:13:08.920 things they're being asked to do a lot more than what they have resources for now and i think uh over

00:13:14.200 the next six months we'll know whether they get resourced enough and whether they have

00:13:17.960 the toughness the tenacity to fight this fight they're going to go up against the the best lawyers

00:13:23.720 the democrats can throw at this the fifteen hundred dollar an hour lawyers and the question is can the

00:13:28.760 government defeat them in the in the courts and that is uh a verdict yet to be written

00:13:34.520 fbi cleaned up enough they're moving pretty quickly yeah there is i will tell you there is a

00:13:42.760 significant tenured uh tenor in the voices of the agents i've known for a long time when i talked to

00:13:49.720 they feel like they're allowed to go investigate crimes and that there's no politics anymore when

00:13:55.000 they predicate a case it goes and i think that cash patel has very quickly changed the mindset they're

00:14:00.920 still craning out people sometimes you know one of the interesting things people ask me about this

00:14:05.080 why those two guys why was cash patel holding on to the two guys sometimes the enemy of my enemy is

00:14:10.600 my best friend which is you want to know for a while from people you got on the meat hook where are the

00:14:15.800 bodies buried where where are what what was going on here your job depends on you telling me the truth

00:14:21.800 and so some of the people that i think cash patel uh kept around for a while was to really

00:14:26.440 interrogate them and find out how bad was it and it was that those efforts that found the secret

00:14:31.880 room where some of the evidence was the burn bags that they found so that was a productive time and

00:14:36.760 then when i think when when that exercise was over those uh those agents leave as well but there

00:14:42.840 are some really significant uh signs in talking to people that the fbi is a different organization

00:14:49.720 today than it was just a few short years ago and uh last question on this um what's coming next

00:14:57.720 and when should we expect it i think round two of what we're going to learn about comey is going to be

00:15:03.720 pretty eye-opening i think we're going to get a strong sense that maybe there was better evidence

00:15:08.440 and more explosive witnesses against them uh it's just an inkling i have based on the way the documents

00:15:14.520 are redacted so i'm going to keep working that to get those redactions lifted i think i think the

00:15:19.320 justice department's going to do the right thing for the public and that's going to be important

00:15:23.480 we'll be able to get the complete picture of james comey and then i think there are a couple of other

00:15:29.240 big shoes to fall i think another place that has to be cleaned out is the intelligence that has been

00:15:33.800 a slower process the fbi has cleaned out much quicker than the cia and the odni but i would be

00:15:39.800 watching for tulsi gabbard to unleash in the next couple of weeks the most sweeping cutback of the 1.00

00:15:45.880 u.s intelligence committee have ever seen you're going to shrink it down so that they don't have

00:15:49.880 time to do politics they only have time to do national security threats that's going to be a

00:15:54.360 major major moment in the history of our intelligence uh weaponization concerns hey john jason again glenn's

00:16:00.920 chief researcher i haven't felt this overwhelmed with the barrage of information we're getting since

00:16:05.640 i think i was looking at your ukraine leaks you you gave me about probably probably two weeks straight

00:16:12.200 24 hours a day straight of just going through all the stuff you're foying and everything have you

00:16:16.280 ever been so overwhelmed with all these releases like since then it's just been insane yeah listen

00:16:22.360 the velocity of action in washington is unprecedented i've never seen in the 35 years i've been in this

00:16:27.560 town this much speed this much things going on there are major news stories every four to six hours

00:16:33.400 and there are major releases of documents what it tells you is that when the president said he believes

00:16:38.760 in transparency and is going to impose it which by the way he said all through the first campaign

00:16:43.800 first presidency but he didn't have people around him who had the courage and tenacity

00:16:48.840 to overcome the resistance and do it he's got that team now tulsi cabaret cash patel

00:16:54.360 pam bondy to her credit is she's not afraid to release anything that will give the public a sense of how bad it

00:17:00.840 is uh ratcliffe has been a little bit more hesitant i know he resisted on some things

00:17:06.040 uh but they have a group now that is really committed to getting the story out and the

00:17:11.400 beginning of the process is if you're going to prosecute your old enemies who did these terrible

00:17:16.920 things you've got to build public will behind you got to make the case to the public so that they're

00:17:21.400 not hoodwinked by the democrats to think oh this is just retribution they're doing it in a very

00:17:26.680 sophisticated way but it is it can be overwhelming it's a lot of paper for me it's like being uh in an

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00:19:15.480 podcast this is the best of the glenbeck program all right matthew welcome to the program how are

00:19:23.640 you i'm well glenn thank you for having me uh you bet so i mean uh what great article really

00:19:32.280 i think going contrary to what everybody in the mainstream media is saying they're saying oh he's

00:19:36.280 bringing him over to alaska and that's such a win for uh putin i don't think it's a win at

00:19:41.560 all for putin and it has taken him more than one day um because he had to change the dynamics

00:19:49.880 of american policy and i think the policies of the world um and you point that out in your article you

00:19:56.280 want to go a little deeper into that oh sure absolutely no i think that trump is going to this

00:20:02.280 summit today in anchorage with a lot of leverage over vladimir putin and you're right the mainstream media

00:20:09.240 is wants already to characterize this as a win for putin because there's a meeting taking place at

00:20:15.720 all but i think this fundamentally misunderstands president trump uh president trump is wants to

00:20:22.360 meet anybody he doesn't care he's he's happy to talk to anybody the question is always what will come

00:20:28.280 out and if you remember he met with kim jong-un uh twice and in hanoi when kim jong-un just wouldn't

00:20:36.200 give up uh concessions on his nuclear program trump walked away so that could easily happen

00:20:42.120 this time but i think the overall dynamic changed in just the past few months the first step was

00:20:49.640 getting ukraine on board a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in on the ground and in the air and as we

00:20:56.600 know you know zelensky the president of ukraine was reluctant even to sign on to that uh before that oval

00:21:04.200 office dust up uh earlier this year but once he got on board and that meant that trump could then go

00:21:10.280 and say to europe let's get additional leverage by agreeing to increasing our defense budgets

00:21:17.880 and then trump agreed to this deal where nato will purchase weapons from the united states we're not

00:21:23.640 spending any money we're we're getting the money from europe for these weapons and then europe would

00:21:29.320 hand the weapons to ukraine that definitely got putin's attention as did our successful strike

00:21:36.040 against iran's nuclear program uh in in june remember iran is a russian ally iran has been supplying

00:21:45.560 a lot of those drones that are raining down on ukrainian cities and we basically took iran out i mean

00:21:53.320 but israel helped quite a bit of course in the 12-day war but so we've slowly ratcheted up the

00:21:59.880 pressure on putin thanks to president trump's policies the most recent one was this 50 tariff

00:22:06.600 on india now we might say well what does that have to do with ukraine and russia well

00:22:11.960 india is a huge purchaser of russian energy and so when trump says look we're going to punish third 0.65

00:22:19.480 parties that are financing the russian war effort well that's when putin said look i'd like to talk

00:22:25.960 to you directly wow you know i've been trying to figure out the um india angle because india is a

00:22:35.080 huge trade partner we really want them on our side um that makes a lot of sense so if they stop uh

00:22:43.480 uh purchasing the russian oil then that trade barrier comes down absolutely i mean this is how

00:22:52.360 president trump uses tariffs sure he he likes them for a variety of reasons um they raise revenue for

00:22:59.560 the government they want to incentivize foreign investment to build factories in the united states

00:23:05.560 but he likes them in particular because their way that he can use america's economic might to get

00:23:13.720 results uh in the foreign policy sphere and in this case you're exactly right the tariff is going on

00:23:21.160 india because of the purchases of russian oil if they said we're going to reduce those purchases

00:23:26.760 then the tariff would come off let's not forget too the energy sector is hurting in russia it's really

00:23:34.280 russia's main source of economic growth and government revenue and oil has declined some 19

00:23:41.960 year over year uh since trump has taken office that's partly because of trump's energy policy

00:23:49.960 the drill baby drill policy that's freed up supply and of course more supply means lower price and that

00:23:56.840 hurts vladimir putin as well they have like i think it's when it goes what is it below eighty

00:24:03.400 dollars a barrel they can't they have to start dipping into reserves they can't they can't afford

00:24:09.240 it so yeah and i think when it crosses 60 goes under 60 then they really start to hurt right

00:24:16.840 hey matthew uh jason butchell here glenn's chief researcher um there's been a lot of uh i guess word

00:24:22.120 from the europeans uh ukrainians even the russians uh talking about territorial concessions and like

00:24:27.400 that's everybody's red line uh do you think with some of the uh setup discussions with whitkoff with

00:24:33.160 putin earlier do you think that there's any uh room for you know for leeway here uh do you think that

00:24:40.840 uh possibly trump might have an upper hand with that as well or will we see anything when that's always

00:24:45.880 the huge red line between the two right well i think the administration and may have gotten a

00:24:54.200 little bit ahead of itself right after whitkoff's meeting when you heard the president mention these

00:24:59.640 land swaps very quickly president zelensky said well whoa i'm not ready for that and then the europeans

00:25:07.960 also said well we need to be part of the table as well since then in the days leading up to today's

00:25:13.160 summit trump has been very careful to lower expectations he's said that this is a feeling

00:25:18.920 out meeting um caroline levitt called it a listening session trump has said look if putin's not ready for

00:25:26.040 a ceasefire then i'm going to leave and he's also said this is just the first meeting he's been very

00:25:31.400 clear in the past several days that any settlement a settlement that would probably include some type of

00:25:38.440 uh territorial lines being drawn would only happen in a meeting between russia the united states and

00:25:46.680 ukraine and then as president trump said the other day maybe he'd invite some europeans to the meeting

00:25:51.960 as well so i think that uh we we heard that land swap talk early on but in the days since i think the

00:25:59.160 president has had a much more realistic view of what might be attainable uh in this first meeting with

00:26:05.800 vladimir putin remember he hasn't met putin in person since 2018 so i think he's he wants to get

00:26:13.000 a direct sense of putin's body language and and psychology that's important for the president you

00:26:20.600 know because he i i kind of studied the some of the deals that he has done in the last you know uh 15

00:26:27.880 years on land in his as you know trump uh you know as a company and there's a story about when he was

00:26:35.480 trying to sell the new york plaza and he met with the japanese people and it was all arranged all they

00:26:41.400 had to do is just close the deal with him and he got into the room and he spent maybe three or four

00:26:48.600 minutes talking and listening to them within five minutes he had changed the deal and said you know

00:26:54.920 what i'm building something over on the east river uh or the west side highway that i think you're really

00:27:00.760 going to like and he started and everybody on his team when they broke they said what are you doing

00:27:05.240 he's like they're not interested in the in the uh the plaza he's like i can tell right away we're not

00:27:11.400 going to be able to close that deal i switched to this deal so him face to face there's something

00:27:17.320 about him when he's negotiating face to face he feels the room clearly that even his closest advisors

00:27:25.880 can't translate and can't give him do you agree with that oh i i agree completely i mean he he makes

00:27:33.000 very gut decisions uh based on people's appearances based on people's um body language are they fidgeting

00:27:41.560 what sort of health are they in and these are things that are hard uh to assess over the phone and

00:27:48.280 even hard to assess when you have an intelligence briefer there trump of course always wants to see for

00:27:53.480 himself and so that's why i really do think this meeting will be exploratory remember too you know

00:27:58.840 trump has had this string of diplomatic success uh during his second term just last week he presided

00:28:05.880 over the deal between um armenia and azerbaijan and the white house that was very important as well

00:28:11.720 because that part of the world the caucuses has always been considered part of the russian sphere of

00:28:17.640 influence and here we have two nations from that part of the world not going to moscow but going to

00:28:24.440 the white house and shaking hands with president trump uh to arrange a deal and that put in there too

00:28:32.440 is saying okay i'm losing my influence not just in europe where of course nato has expanded rather than

00:28:41.320 contracted since the ukraine invasion but even in my own backyard we have these nations armenia

00:28:47.480 azerbaijan looking to trump and then of course we have you know the recent flare-up between thailand

00:28:52.360 and cambodia that trump was able to stop from escalating out of control earlier in the year indian pakistan

00:28:59.320 the same thing these sort of agreements that trump has been able to marshal preside over use our economic

00:29:07.160 leverage to obtain i think is one reason he wants to have this meeting with putin because he he's

00:29:13.880 beginning to understand his method of bringing the two sides to the table and forging an agreement

00:29:21.880 we're talking to matthew continetti uh he's with um aei he's a senior fellow and also a columnist for the

00:29:28.280 free press um matthew um i don't think anybody today really gives him the credit that he deserves

00:29:39.400 as a master negotiator um you know he's he was known as that you know in business but what he's done

00:29:47.400 in the last seven months to the world and changing the dynamics of the world and bring all these people

00:29:53.320 together you know he's never going to get a nobel peace prize uh you know everybody's like where's

00:29:58.280 somebody's going to nominate well yeah and yeah let's let's watch that happen do you think um at

00:30:04.680 some point uh assuming all these things continue to hold and he continues this trend i mean he could be

00:30:12.440 one of the greatest peacemakers in american history i think so i think he's taking a real uh lesson from

00:30:21.880 theodore roosevelt you know who who's foreign who won the nobel prize a hundred years after he died

00:30:29.480 yeah exactly right and you know teddy roosevelt's foreign policy was gunboat diplomacy right no no

00:30:37.960 regime change and nation building gunboat diplomacy you have a strong military you might have to do a

00:30:43.800 raid every now and then like we just did and against the iranian nuclear uh infrastructure but also

00:30:49.480 mediation theodore roosevelt wanted the united states to mediate between different powers and

00:30:55.400 get them to the table and i see that working in trump's foreign policy as well you know and let's

00:31:01.640 not forget even in his first term uh he had the abraham accords between israel and several arab nations

00:31:08.040 and so you're right glenn he he is a peacemaker and i think even though he won't get any credit

00:31:15.000 from the liberal media now the test of time will i think um ensure his legacy because you know going

00:31:24.520 back to the first term with the abraham accords the biden administration which followed him never really

00:31:31.240 gave trump any credit but they also didn't do anything to disturb the abraham accords or and in

00:31:38.200 the fact wanted to try to expand them just as trump wants to do right now so i think what he's doing is

00:31:43.000 building a foundation that will last and i also hope he's he's teaching lessons that future presidents

00:31:52.040 can take to heart we don't america can use our economic power in a way to obtain peace agreements to

00:32:00.360 make sure that our position is maximized in different negotiations we don't always have to resort

00:32:06.680 uh to military force even as we keep it as an option in a case like the iranian nuclear threat

00:32:16.600 matthew thank you for the insight appreciate it wait before you go one more thing expecting anything to

00:32:22.520 come out of this i'm i'm i have pretty low expectations glenn i think there's a chance we

00:32:29.800 may get some sort of ceasefire but um i'm i wouldn't bet the ranch on it yeah yeah all right

00:32:35.480 thank you very much matthew we'll talk again this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:32:43.640 allison i welcome allison how are you good how are you doing i'm i'm great i'm great thank you for

00:32:52.040 coming on the show um i want to play if i may i want to play just a little bit of idk uh for the

00:32:59.720 audience for anybody who hasn't heard this listen to not only the voice uh and the production value

00:33:06.600 but listen to the words and what she's saying listen i don't know what if no one loves you

00:33:13.560 i don't know what if they hate you i don't know or what if you die alone well i do know the one who

00:33:20.440 knows it all i don't know what if you're not enough i don't know what if you can't please anyone

00:33:28.120 i will trust the one who knows it all what if your fears come true i don't know what if you're just not

00:33:34.440 talented i don't know what if you're actually bad at you i don't know but at least your songs

00:33:39.080 that they sound like stop i can't play any more of that because i'm only legally allowed to play 30

00:33:44.520 seconds of it but then it gets into the it is a great song it is a great song uh uh called idk

00:33:53.000 by allison ide uh allison how old are you i'm 25 you're 25 you're wildly talented how long have you

00:34:01.800 been doing this and and writing in particular great question i grew up in a music family so my

00:34:08.680 dad was actually a worship artist singer songwriter so i grew up touring with him in middle school high

00:34:13.160 school with like writing songs since i was a kid just because i loved to it was just fun um and it

00:34:18.200 was my dream to do this someday but i didn't release my first single until 2023 which did happen to go

00:34:24.040 viral and everything has snowballed after that so and the first one was who i am

00:34:30.280 love who i am yeah love who i am okay um uh and this one you just released and it went

00:34:38.760 mega viral in hours didn't it you know literally within like a couple days that thing had like

00:34:47.320 a bunch of millions of views on social media yeah and then it definitely when i really snump

00:34:52.680 like streaming platforms it was my highest streamed song so i've had a couple moments like this but idk is

00:34:59.240 definitely the biggest i've experienced which is like really cool very grateful yeah it's great i

00:35:05.720 by the way i would love to invite you i i'm i'm doing a series of uh interviews with musical artists

00:35:11.480 and things and um i would love to invite you up to the ranch if you would be willing to perform up at

00:35:17.000 the ranch and it's just it's just kind of a performance and then conversation kind of thing but

00:35:20.600 we could talk about that off air if you're interested at all um but um uh so um the lyrics

00:35:30.280 really on all of your songs uh are speaking i think they speak to me and it shouldn't i mean

00:35:37.640 i know who i am anyway um but i thought of my daughter immediately um because i mean girls girls are 0.97

00:35:47.080 wicked they really are mean to one another and you know when she was going through high school my

00:35:53.160 gosh it was it was constant you know uh crisis of identity and who do i listen to and everything else 0.77

00:36:02.120 and you seem to have that theme did you go through that i struggled a lot with my mental health i'd say

00:36:10.680 since i was like 10 years old so a lot of um my where these songs come from is just really

00:36:18.120 me being mentally a disaster and having no idea how to heal and get better um so wait a minute can

00:36:24.600 i ask you what do you mean what do you mean you struggled with mental health if you don't mind me

00:36:29.000 you can tell me stop anytime i won't push you but i have no you're so good i have struggled with an

00:36:35.000 anxiety disorder called obsessive compulsive disorder um and then struggled a lot with

00:36:40.600 different trauma and um episodes of depression and that was in and out throughout like middle

00:36:48.840 school and high school and college college it was at its worst which was ironic because i was like

00:36:53.400 playing college basketball i loved like um performing on stage but behind the scenes i was just

00:37:00.280 really debilitated um i grew up in a christian family though so i was like oh i like i should

00:37:07.080 be able to trust god i should have faith in him i should be confident like if god loves me how come

00:37:12.920 i don't know how to love me um and it was just this like tension at all times if i'm a christian i love

00:37:18.440 god why is it so hard and i feel like he's not here and in college was when it was i was struggling

00:37:24.280 the most but there was one night like in my car at 2 a.m um and i always wrote songs to like get

00:37:30.440 through all of this but i remember really experiencing jesus in my mess and i learned

00:37:36.200 like his heart does not repel our mess he actually is a magnet to those who are broken and so the

00:37:42.600 bigger the mess the closer jesus is um that inspired me to be like i'm not going to write songs and tie

00:37:48.360 him up in a bow like i'm just going to say it as it is unfiltered and um the lord has for some

00:37:55.080 reason taken these songs to a lot of places to help people so i just think he uses what's really

00:38:00.680 bad and changes it for good and that's a blessing i tell you i can understand i can understand how i

00:38:07.800 need to be as a father by looking at him as my literal dad and and i i can look at my daughter

00:38:17.960 and you know watch her struggle she struggled through a lot of the same stuff that you struggled

00:38:23.640 through struggled with and depression you know in and out of hospitals and uh and it was really

00:38:30.760 difficult and uh and she found um you know god uh to to be the answer as well and i loved i love the

00:38:40.280 lyrics in love who i am god i need to see me through your eyes i've been so dependent on how i think

00:38:47.240 they think of me truth pushed aside by the opinions that uh opinions i've been harboring i want to love

00:38:53.240 who i am not through somebody's lens but through the author holding the pen

00:38:57.480 um it's just great it's just they still speak to me yeah that's the lord is kind for that thank you

00:39:07.160 though you're very kind so where do you go from here where are you do you do tours i'm sorry i just

00:39:14.520 i'm i heard the music and i loved it and i asked my staff can you get a hold of her so i i'm i'm i don't

00:39:21.800 know that much about you but i want to i want to learn where where are you going now great question

00:39:28.120 we just finished summer tour so um we were all over the us my band and i for that and the the last

00:39:36.120 leg of tour we had a couple headline shows in new york and florida and it was the first time playing idk

00:39:42.440 live and it was crazy how the fans like screamed that song i so that's kind of what we just finished

00:39:51.480 up and it was really cool um we are currently working on tour plans for end of fall and then

00:39:56.760 next spring um but in the meantime i'm just releasing i have three more singles coming out

00:40:02.520 this year and very very excited about them what are they can you say yeah so the next one's called

00:40:10.120 digital jesus and what is that about i mean besides jesus basically digital jesus is basically a song

00:40:20.840 about being going through grief or any mental struggle and like numbing it out with the phone

00:40:28.280 and with the noise and just being like god i'm done and like wanting to throw the phone away and run

00:40:33.000 and be with the lord and feel again and the bridge of the song really touches on how

00:40:38.040 like the discomfort where there's discomfort where you feel a mess that's where god's presence is

00:40:44.120 dwelling and so it's it's not fun but to feel and to experience jesus is worth it and so i went through

00:40:53.080 a difficult year i lost my dad to cancer a year ago and it was a really traumatic experience and going

00:41:00.200 through that type of grief was uh very foreign to me i was i've never experienced something like that and

00:41:06.120 so who is god amidst grief and the mess has just been the theme of these songs so

00:41:15.640 it is fabulous um uh i don't know if you've ever heard of eminence and she is really good um she's

00:41:24.600 i love eminence yeah she's she's cracked she's crazy i know i just i just talked to her on the phone for 0.99

00:41:30.360 we're getting ready for her to come up at the ranch and i just talked to her on the phone a couple of

00:41:33.640 days ago she is hysterical she is really uh very very kind uh really powerful she knows who she is

00:41:43.960 but she struggled through a lot of i don't know if you follow her but she's she's she talks about

00:41:48.920 body image and everything else that i know girls are dealing with and it's it's in and it's just a 0.99

00:41:54.040 really powerful way but um anyway she she i've heard her say that you know i don't necessarily want 0.99

00:42:02.040 my music to be called christian music or you know pop music or jazz or whatever she's like it's just

00:42:08.360 good music and um do you kind of feel that way are you are are you are you kind of pushed into the

00:42:17.640 christian music even though i mean your lyrics are obviously christian but it doesn't sound like i could

00:42:23.800 listen to your music and it's like like listening to billy eilish or anybody else

00:42:29.080 mm-hmm totally i i totally understand eminence with that too i think what christian music is known as

00:42:38.440 like ccm feels like such a strict bubble and i think a lot of us younger artists are ready to break free from

00:42:45.800 that box um i know for me there was a time and when i was traveling to nashville i'm from minneapolis

00:42:53.080 minnesota but when i traveled to nashville and was building a team a lot of people were like trying to

00:42:59.400 help me write a song that's geared towards radio or fit the theme of like the christian sound and i was

00:43:05.560 like that's not me so i just kind of took it independent and built this from scratch a little bit and

00:43:11.640 i have noticed that the industry has never been shifting and changing more than ever before

00:43:18.840 and i think people are ready for just like emma said good music for me i i think i i am fine knowing

00:43:27.560 being known as like a christian artist but i think more so what i my mission is is to rebel against the

00:43:36.200 um how do i explain this the expectation to have everything together yeah it's a

00:43:42.280 i would love to show what it looks like to be an absolute disaster and still love jesus to

00:43:47.160 be doing the things that are like seem unchristian but are actually just revealing what mess looks

00:43:52.200 like and my song showing just modeling what it looks like to be authentic with the lord so whether

00:43:59.240 or not i'm pegged as a christian artist as long as that's what people are experiencing from

00:44:02.760 my songs than i've done my job and i trust the lord with the rest i will tell you um just stay

00:44:07.880 true to him and and the whole world is going to change um yeah i mean it already is changing i i think

00:44:14.360 people uh have dealt with labels for so long and you know when i first heard eva uh

00:44:22.680 i i thought i i could i could peg her with three i'd listen to a song and i'm like oh that's who she is

00:44:28.600 and then i listen to the next song oh that's who she is and then and then i heard i don't remember

00:44:32.760 what it is uh but one of her songs and she sounds exactly like ella fitzgerald and i and and that's

00:44:37.960 when i knew there's something you entirely unique she's her own little box i feel the same way about

00:44:44.440 you you're your own little box and and labels don't mean anything and i think just quality and i don't

00:44:52.600 know why you can't have good quality um music like yours that yeah it happens to mention god or jesus

00:45:03.000 but the others the other music that is pop is mentioning all kinds of darkness and really bad

00:45:10.360 stuff i'd rather have me and my family fill my head with good music that i want to listen to

00:45:18.440 but also have decent lyrics why why can't we why does that have to be in a box that's not pop i

00:45:24.120 think that's gonna change i really do i think it's gonna change i so agree i think also the powers that

00:45:32.520 be in the industry have never had less power because we have virality and social media and this digital

00:45:39.160 age gives everyone a much more of an equal chance to have a voice which means the internet is chaos with

00:45:45.880 music but it's beautiful because there are not as many gatekeepers and i think now we get to see

00:45:53.880 music i think it's it's a little unpredictable now which means the lord has the more control

00:45:59.800 on where the songs get to go and who gets impact which anything in the lord's hands

00:46:04.600 is that's the best hands something can be in so i mean that's what i think and i think it's chaotic but

00:46:11.160 it is a very important time for people to just write the music and make the songs that feels

00:46:16.760 authentic to them and you bring jesus into that whether explicitly or implicitly i think the lord

00:46:22.280 blesses it allison i hope to meet you i just love your music and uh love your attitude thank you keep

00:46:29.080 going thank you allison ide uh allison ide and the name of the song is idk listen to the whole thing i mean

00:46:36.520 it's it's really really really good claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament i've been

00:46:44.600 visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind

00:46:50.200 her car on her backhand side good thing claudia is with intact the insurer with the largest network 1.00

00:46:56.520 of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her

00:47:01.240 way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the first round but you

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 15, 2025

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