The Glenn Beck Program - February 23, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Brandon Darby & Lue Elizondo ｜ 2⧸23⧸26


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45 minutes

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160.656

Word Count

7,236

Sentence Count

549

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

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00:00:16.600 What the hell is happening with Mexico?
00:00:19.140 Don't let your kids go for spring break.
00:00:21.980 Brandon Darby talks about what's happening in Mexico
00:00:24.780 and it's really, really good
00:00:27.020 and a little bit frightening as well.
00:00:28.840 Also, how is somebody who we did not even know their name 24 hours ago
00:00:34.420 now the one guy that everyone wants to talk about?
00:00:38.120 How we can understand what happened with America, the gold, and the hockey game.
00:00:44.980 And UFOs.
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00:02:53.680 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:03:06.460 Brandon Darby is joining us.
00:03:08.280 He is the editor-in-chief for Breitbart, Texas.
00:03:11.660 He is also Breitbart Cartel Chronicle co-founder and director.
00:03:15.620 He was on with me in April, and in April, we talked about this particular cartel and the
00:03:24.640 head, and he said, the United States isn't serious unless we get this guy, but this guy
00:03:31.060 is protected by the Mexican Secretary of Defense.
00:03:37.260 Well, apparently that has changed.
00:03:41.880 So we wanted to bring Brandon on.
00:03:43.840 First of all, Brandon, you've been reporting on this for years and years, if not decades.
00:03:49.520 Did you ever think this day would come?
00:03:52.680 No.
00:03:53.440 And Glenn, thank you for having me on.
00:03:56.280 Good morning to you and your listeners.
00:03:58.200 I am super excited.
00:04:00.120 I did not expect this.
00:04:02.740 I believed the Trump administration, when they were warning Mexico, they said basically, hey,
00:04:10.020 you're going to get this guy, you're going to take this seriously, or we're going to take
00:04:13.600 it seriously without your consent.
00:04:17.620 And I thought that that's probably what would end up happening.
00:04:21.560 I did not expect Mexico to play ball and actually help.
00:04:27.340 No.
00:04:28.720 So why?
00:04:29.780 What do you think the president said?
00:04:32.100 Because I don't think the president of Mexico is a fan of America, and certainly not a fan
00:04:37.400 of Donald Trump's.
00:04:38.680 What did he say, do you think, that got them to act on this?
00:04:44.000 Because this is a really big deal.
00:04:46.780 Right.
00:04:47.220 So I think my best estimation at this point of what happened was that the Mexican president,
00:04:56.680 Gloria Scheinbaum, knew about this, but that the rest of her cabinet did not.
00:05:02.960 I know that roughly, was it probably February 15th or so, Navy SEALs began to train a group
00:05:11.460 within the Mexican army, Sabana, for a specific training that no one, it was obscure, no one
00:05:19.340 knew what it was about.
00:05:20.840 Well, it turns out this is what it was about.
00:05:22.740 So I know that those Mexican military folks were sequestered, so their phones or any mechanism
00:05:30.600 they had to communicate with the outside world was taken from them, and they did this operation.
00:05:37.840 The Mexican government did this operation.
00:05:40.000 So I think that it's very well documented, the current Secretary of Defense for Mexico
00:05:46.920 being, you know, heavily connected with El Mencho.
00:05:52.640 So obviously, you know, they didn't know.
00:05:56.520 So it was kept very secret.
00:05:58.520 There is a possibility that this was done, you know, without the approval of the Mexican president,
00:06:04.760 but she is kind of running a victory lap so far, so I don't think that's the case.
00:06:10.100 I think it really is a situation, you know, if we look at the history, every time the U.S.
00:06:16.840 has found El Mencho and tried to work with counterparts in Mexico to get him, El Mencho was tipped off
00:06:24.140 and was told, hey, they're about to get you, so he would be missing or he would be gone.
00:06:29.460 And this time, that did not happen.
00:06:31.300 This time, it was kept close to the chest, and they were able to pull it off, and now he's gone.
00:06:41.080 I question the narrative that El Mencho and two others were, you know, injured
00:06:46.960 and then were being flown to Mexico City, and they all happened to die on the helicopter ride to Mexico City, right?
00:06:55.000 Like, I question that narrative.
00:06:56.680 I think that he was probably going to die, you know, he was probably killed.
00:07:02.420 They probably decided, like, hey, if we let this guy, you know, in our system, he is so connected that he's going to get out.
00:07:10.220 He's going to be able to get out and kill our families.
00:07:12.900 So I think they killed him.
00:07:14.560 That's the most likely scenario.
00:07:16.960 And now we are in a very different stage.
00:07:21.400 As I've said before, if someone this powerful, the top of the top, can be taken out,
00:07:30.120 it tells everyone in Mexico who's involved in cartels that they can also be gotten
00:07:36.940 and that they better keep it in check, or they might be.
00:07:41.700 What does it mean for the president of Mexico?
00:07:45.080 Because she could have done this herself long ago.
00:07:47.760 This obviously is she's kowtowing to Donald Trump, or not.
00:07:52.820 Absolutely.
00:07:53.700 Well, so if you look at the, you know, the social media statements of Mexico's leading politicians
00:08:03.180 and Mexico's leading journalists, you know, they're doing everything they can to take credit away from Trump
00:08:11.420 and the Trump administration and the Trump administration's approach.
00:08:14.480 They're saying that this was, you know, another person in the administration who pushed this.
00:08:20.760 Trump had nothing to do with it, but that's not true.
00:08:23.140 What happened is that-
00:08:25.480 Let's let them believe that's true.
00:08:27.980 Yes, whatever they want to say.
00:08:30.140 And I don't understand.
00:08:31.820 I'm going to be honest with you.
00:08:32.860 It's very difficult for me to understand the liberal mind,
00:08:35.820 even though once when I was younger, I was one of them.
00:08:39.460 I, sometimes I, they still just blow my mind with the, the way it blows my mind, right?
00:08:47.520 The logic sometimes blows my mind, but-
00:08:49.500 Yeah, the mental gymnastics.
00:08:50.480 Okay.
00:08:51.080 The gymnastics blows my mind that we, you know, folks like you and I try to,
00:08:55.600 and our movement holds us accountable to the intellectually consistent, right?
00:09:00.900 That's okay.
00:09:01.620 They do it differently.
00:09:03.200 That's fine.
00:09:03.760 Um, that's their business, but, um, you know, what happened here is that Trump began to hit
00:09:09.680 narco boats, showing that he was willing to do things that had not been done prior.
00:09:15.180 Trump took out Maduro.
00:09:16.920 Trump took, I mean, he went down the line and, and, you know, Pete Hegseth and others in the
00:09:21.560 administration openly warned Mexico that you will either help do this or we will do it unilaterally
00:09:29.200 because it affects our country.
00:09:30.720 Um, what Mexico began to do was to hand us, you know, to, they started to crack down on
00:09:37.280 cartels as a whole, and they started to hand us significant figures, um, who we wanted.
00:09:43.720 However, if you looked at it, the vast majority of them up until about a month ago, maybe two
00:09:49.600 months ago, were all of the, uh, all of the opposition and all of the competition to cartel
00:09:55.940 Jalisco and El Mencho. So, so in an effort to appease us and look like they were taking it
00:10:01.120 seriously, they were actually still helping El Mencho. They were protecting him and they were
00:10:05.860 taking out his adversaries as proof that they were serious about cartels. And a couple of months
00:10:11.700 ago, we started to see them going after cartel Jalisco. They took his number three guy, they,
00:10:18.600 and they gave him to the U S quickly because the last time he was arrested, he was let go,
00:10:23.280 right? Immediately a judge let him go. And, um, uh, so what happened was that they realized that
00:10:31.020 you're either going to do this and help us or, or the U S is going to do it alone. And the political
00:10:36.040 fallout will be horrible for you. If the U S takes unilateral military action in their country
00:10:41.360 and they decided to play ball and, and to actually roll the dice and go for it. And that's what they've
00:10:47.840 done. What is the fallout for us here in America? Cause they have operatives all over the United States
00:10:57.780 all over. Um, well, I, I think that what we have to look at is we have to go back historically, um, to
00:11:06.700 what happened with other cartels, right? Even though the other cartels did not have the level of power
00:11:12.100 and influence that El Mencho had. Um, but what happens is you have like the Gulf cartels who
00:11:18.080 operates, uh, South of Texas along the, you know, the, the Gulf of America, I call it. Some people
00:11:25.000 say Gulf of Mexico still they're antiquated, but I say Gulf of America. Um, you know, that, that cartel
00:11:32.120 had, had centralized power of Mexico's central government. They had state power, all types of
00:11:38.800 power. Uh, we began to decapitate them and decapitate them every time a leader popped his head
00:11:44.500 up. And what you've been, you're left with is 10 to 15, you know, glorified gangbanger units who
00:11:52.000 really have no, they no longer have central power over the central government of Mexico. They no longer
00:11:57.920 really even have power over the state that they live in, Tamaulipas in Mexico. They just have county
00:12:04.240 power and little, they're, they're glorified gangs and they still call themselves the Gulf cartel,
00:12:09.540 but they're so weakened at this point, um, that, that, uh, they really don't have the type of power
00:12:17.180 they've had historically. And that's, what's probably going to happen here. Uh, there's going to be a lot
00:12:22.140 of, an uptick in violence, which liberals will blame on Trump, even though they're not crediting him
00:12:28.100 with taking out the guy, right? That's what I meant by mental gymnastics. They'll blame the violence on
00:12:32.940 Trump, um, and on, on the United States, but there will be an uptick in violence as four or five
00:12:38.680 different groups fight for power and fight for control. Uh, they'll become factionalized and
00:12:44.220 then, uh, we'll take out the heads of those groups and then they'll become even, you know,
00:12:50.640 even more fractionalized, fractional and factionalized. And ultimately they'll have no,
00:12:55.820 they'll no longer have central power over Mexico's, uh, government and, uh, they'll no longer have
00:13:02.280 that they'll have regional power and then we'll take them out. And then the next thing, you know,
00:13:06.420 they'll, they'll be reduced to having power over their block, you know, their street. Um, that's
00:13:12.300 the goal. Uh, so the effects of this will be long. I do not think we'll see a lot of acts of narco
00:13:18.100 terrorism within the U S because of this. I don't know that, but I don't think so. I think that the,
00:13:25.140 the statement made is that it doesn't matter how powerful you are. Like if, if you put yourself
00:13:32.060 in a position to become the focus of the United States government, we can and will get you.
00:13:39.100 And, uh, I think that this results in a lot of folks trying to keep their heads down
00:13:43.440 and not being as ostentatious as El Mencho was when he was alive.
00:13:48.200 Are we, um, are we going to see, uh, transformation of Mexico? Do you think they have the stomach to
00:14:04.980 finish this job or is somebody else just going to step in?
00:14:08.380 Well, I, I think that's going to, it's a great question, Glenn. I think that's going to depend
00:14:14.760 on what we do in this country. Um, you know, if the next time we get a leader, if that leader is
00:14:23.080 very left-leaning and, uh, soft on, on, um, you know, soft on, on drugs and soft on crime. And if
00:14:32.040 that leader is also soft on illegal migration, right, if that leader is soft on asylum claims
00:14:37.860 and they allow tens of millions of people to show up at our border as they did in the last
00:14:42.560 administration, um, keeping in mind that several of these cartels, uh, have business models that
00:14:50.920 are, that are primarily based on asylum claimants, right. And on illegal immigration, uh, they were
00:14:56.920 making as much or more like the, like various factions of the Gulf cartel and Losetas was making
00:15:02.340 as much or more from the people showing up at our border claiming asylum than they were making from
00:15:07.360 drugs. So, uh, if, if we do things in this country that increase the pull factors and increase the
00:15:14.280 economic engines for various Mexican cartels, then we're going to be in trouble. But if, if we continue
00:15:22.000 to say in the best case scenario, right, say that, uh, we have J.D. Vance and he continues with the
00:15:29.680 Trump policies and the Trump focus on Mexican cartels, uh, I think that we, we have a, a, a very
00:15:37.020 good shot at, at Mexico becoming a better place, which is very important for us because it affects us
00:15:43.960 directly, right. You got to keep in mind, you know, like Americans didn't want fentanyl and then
00:15:49.840 El Minchil began to manufacture fentanyl, right. El Minchil began to manufacture fentanyl and then the
00:15:57.060 desire for, for more of it, right. It was, it was a push issue, not a, not a demand issue. Um,
00:16:06.100 there's obviously that's a complicated issue, but, but, uh, it was more of a push and not,
00:16:11.760 not so much a demand that caused the supply. It was the supply that pushed the demand.
00:16:16.260 And, uh, when it came to that, so it really just depends on what we do, but I, I can tell you
00:16:22.860 this, if Mexico were going to become a better place, if our Southern neighbor was going to get
00:16:28.940 healthier, this is exactly what was required for that to happen. So this isn't the, the armistice,
00:16:36.060 this isn't the end of the war. Uh, this isn't, you know, Germany surrendering, but this is definitely,
00:16:41.680 yesterday was definitely D day, right. And we definitely, uh, took, took, took land and we
00:16:48.660 definitely established a beachhead. And so, um, I am very hopeful. Um, I think this shows that the
00:16:56.360 current Mexican president is actually trying to work with the U S no, I don't think she would have
00:17:01.680 if it weren't for Trump's pressure, but regardless of that, this shows a serious step, um, in the right
00:17:10.400 direction, uh, Brandon 45 seconds left, talk directly to anybody who's thinking spring break
00:17:17.900 is going to be great. I'm going to Mexico, no matter what. Um, I would not allow my, my, my
00:17:23.940 children, uh, to go to Mexico right now. Um, I would not allow my children to go to even the safe
00:17:32.240 areas like Cancun or Puerto Vallarta, cause they're obviously not safe, but keep in mind, those are
00:17:37.440 economic engines for cartels. As they fight each other, they're going to try to hurt each other's
00:17:42.460 economic engines. And you just might find yourself or your child or your college student, uh, caught
00:17:48.620 in crossfire. I would not do that right now. I would wait a bit on going to Mexico.
00:17:54.720 Thank you so much. Appreciate it, Brandon. We'll talk again. Great job on calling this one. You bet.
00:17:59.920 Bye-bye.
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00:19:09.420 So last night was fabulous or yesterday was fabulous when we found out that the U.S. hockey team won the gold.
00:19:20.240 Let me give you a couple of, uh, couple of scenes, uh, from this. First of all, I don't know if you've
00:19:26.240 seen, if you happen to be watching on torch, uh, you will see, you'll see the picture. This is Jack
00:19:31.780 Hughes smiling after the wind, which I just absolutely love. Do you have that full screen? There he is.
00:19:38.480 I mean, blood in his mouth. I mean, this is an American. This is an American. Okay. Here's the
00:19:48.020 moment he, uh, he scored the game-winning goal. Listen, cut one.
00:19:53.100 It's the greatest. It is the greatest. It is the greatest. It is the greatest. It feels good.
00:20:21.400 You know, Donald Trump said one at one point, you're gonna get sick of winning. I'm not sick
00:20:24.700 of it. I am not sick of it. Now they sang the national anthem and I want to play just a little
00:20:32.900 bit of the hockey team singing. Okay. They're not singers. They're hockey players, but they were
00:20:51.120 proud to be an American. They were proud to be there representing us. That is what felt so good.
00:20:58.940 We don't feel that very often anymore. And the left is saying, Oh, it's a MAGA win. MAGA is a
00:21:05.160 shut up, shut up. This should be something for all Americans to enjoy.
00:21:12.320 I'm tired of being ashamed of my country. I'm not ashamed. I should say I'm tired of people trying
00:21:19.960 to make me ashamed of my country. I'm tired of people being ashamed of our country. Have we made
00:21:28.100 mistakes? Yeah. Show me the country that has made fewer that are 230 years old or 250 years old. Show me
00:21:38.400 the country. We all suck at some point, but we try and strive to get better.
00:21:52.120 Look there, when he brought Homer helped bring home the gold, it landed differently than, you know,
00:22:00.460 than most gold medals land. Okay. And it's partly because of him, but it's also partly because of us.
00:22:11.540 Hockey is different. Now you're going to have to excuse me because I know nothing about hockey. I mean,
00:22:16.080 I know nothing about sports, but from what little I have read,
00:22:20.460 excuse me for the first two points, but I think they're accurate. Okay.
00:22:28.560 There are five reasons why this hit differently for all of us. The first one, this is a new generation
00:22:35.620 of American hockey. We lived, when I was growing up, we lived in the shadow of Canada and the old
00:22:43.080 Soviet union. And that was a machine. And the miracle of 1980, that was just blue collar
00:22:50.340 grit. That was just, you know, that was Lake Placid. It was sacrifice. Hughes is different.
00:22:59.020 He is speed. He's skill. He's flash. He's confidence. He's the face of the New Jersey devils,
00:23:06.920 former number one overall draft pick. He is the guy who represents the American hockey player development
00:23:16.880 kids coming out of the, you know, U S national team development program who don't just compete
00:23:23.280 internationally. They're dominating. And that shift matters because we've always kind of been this
00:23:30.660 borrowed excellence, or we were the, you know, we were not the, we didn't dominate. We borrowed.
00:23:37.980 Now it's all homegrown. There's the first reason this is homegrown. It's a new generation.
00:23:45.820 Two, he has a style that I think Americans recognize. He plays like a modern American
00:23:53.360 athlete. He is creative. He is fast. He is fearless. He walks off with no teeth in the front.
00:24:00.340 I mean, he's willing to take over. Okay. Gold medals mean more to us when they're played or when
00:24:09.960 they're won by players who feel distinctly American in their temperament. They're assertive.
00:24:16.640 They're confident and a little defiant. That's who we are. Okay. And he didn't just compete.
00:24:24.780 He imposed himself on these games. Americans like that. The rest of the world may not like that,
00:24:31.960 but that's who we are. We're the people who cross the Rocky mountains. Okay. Third reason
00:24:38.400 gold still seems really rare in hockey. Okay. Basketball. I mean, when they were, we have the
00:24:45.260 dream team in basketball. Oh, we won the gold. What a shock expected baseball work. You know,
00:24:52.020 everybody's competitive football. That's ours. Of course. But hockey, hockey still carries an old
00:24:59.520 weight to it. It feels like you're taking something back from the old powers of Canada and Sweden and
00:25:06.960 Russia. When the U S wins gold in hockey, it's earned the hard way. And when a young American star is at
00:25:15.080 the center of that, I don't know, it just kind of feels like momentum, right? Feels good.
00:25:22.080 Now here's the fourth reason why this feels different timing. We are in the weirdest place of my
00:25:33.140 lifetime. We are culturally divided. We are cynical. We're exhausted by politics and sports.
00:25:42.980 At least this sports moment, it was clean. It was earned. It was unified.
00:25:50.140 And it hits harder right now when somebody look, listen, play the, uh, cut of him. Let me see
00:25:57.360 where I can find it. Play the cut where he is talking about how lucky is cut three. I'm lucky.
00:26:04.540 I'm from the best country in the world. We got great dentists there too. So I'm lucky. I'm American.
00:26:09.660 They're going to fix me right up. Standing there, listening to the anthem. What's going through your
00:26:13.340 head? Just so proud. I'm so proud to be American. I'm so proud of this group. I'm so happy that
00:26:19.200 we could win. You know, we have so many people here supporting us. We have so many people back
00:26:24.200 home supporting us. And, you know, we're just, we're, we're so thrilled with how this whole
00:26:29.660 tournament played out. And, you know, just an unbelievable moment for USA hockey. We've been
00:26:34.540 feeling that, that love for, for so many years, you know, so many of these guys have been in like
00:26:39.760 with USA hockey for so long. We have so many ex players, ex Olympians, all the guys we looked up
00:26:46.620 to reached out to us. We got their notes on the wall in the locker room and they sent some
00:26:51.300 unbelievable messages, stuff that, you know, puts tears in your eyes, honestly, because it means so
00:26:56.540 much to them. It means so much to us. And the next batch of kids in the next 20 years, it's going to
00:27:00.960 mean so much to them. So that's why we do this USA brother hockey brotherhood is so strong.
00:27:06.740 We're so proud that we could do it for them. We're so proud we could do it for everyone back home.
00:27:12.600 I mean, how great is that? There's no scandal. There's no theatrics. There's just excellence and
00:27:19.040 teamwork. Let me play the next, uh, cut. Uh, they brought the kids of, uh, Johnny Godro, uh, out.
00:27:27.260 He was killed by a drunk driver last year alongside his brother and they bring his two kids out on
00:27:34.580 the, he would have been playing in, in the Olympics and they bring his kids out, play a little bit of
00:27:40.000 this. And as we look behind Dylan Larkin and Zach Borenski have gone into the stands to go get
00:27:45.800 Johnny's kids. They're going to come out now and they're going to hold your dad's Jersey and get a
00:27:53.420 picture with the gold medal team. How beautiful was that? You talk about sports and you talk about
00:28:06.320 the togetherness of a team. That's why they won the gold. And that's what mattered to us.
00:28:15.700 I mean, this is the story of Jack. He's the face of it, but it's not the story of Jack. It is the
00:28:23.760 team. It's the team. There was a time when America felt like a team and I don't know about you, but I'm
00:28:32.360 longing to feel like a team again. I don't know why we can't get on to the, you know, USA team,
00:28:38.220 but we can't. There's too many people that hate America that are Americans. I don't get it.
00:28:45.700 Just don't get it, but you know, to each his own. And the fifth reason I think is because of the
00:28:54.480 story of his family. Another thing that is important to America. Jack's not just a one-off.
00:29:01.660 He is a hockey family. His brother is a star for the Vancouver Canucks, and I'm not going to hold
00:29:07.200 that against him. His other brother also plays for the Devils. Three elite American players from one
00:29:14.120 family. There is something to that that speaks to us about our family in a deeper way. Discipline,
00:29:20.760 structure, parental investment, people who work hard. This family obviously works hard, trains hard,
00:29:28.940 and is a unit. That's the American ideal. Build it at home, take it to the world stage.
00:29:35.040 That's why this hit us all so hard, because it feels like a torch is being passed to the next
00:29:41.540 generation, and they're lighting an entirely new flame. American development is beating the old
00:29:47.000 system. Excellence without shame or apology, unity without politics, and family. I mean,
00:29:58.860 that was not a medal you saw. That was the symbol of something that Americans are hungry to feel
00:30:05.700 again. That we're not fading away. That we can still produce the very best in the world. That our
00:30:15.300 young men and women can walk into the hardest arenas on earth and come out champions, no matter what
00:30:22.260 everyone else is telling them. And in hockey, of all things, in all sports, it still feels like
00:30:28.820 we're proving something. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:30:37.620 Lou, how are you, my man? Glenn, I'm doing better than I deserve. You know, I tell people at my age,
00:30:43.840 any day above ground is a good day. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. So do you remember having that
00:30:50.320 conversation where you said the clock is ticking? I do. I remember that, Glenn. I sure do.
00:30:57.060 So what did you mean by that? Well, look, in the world of national security, the clock is always
00:31:04.200 ticking. What do I mean by that? Well, you know, there are foreign adversaries out there that are
00:31:09.520 very much involved in the research of UAP like we are, just like our country. And what you don't want
00:31:16.400 to do is allow ourselves to get to a point of what we call strategic surprise, right? All of a sudden,
00:31:21.820 you have country X or country Y out there that may not necessarily be friendly to the U.S.
00:31:26.720 And all of a sudden, they find they have a breakthrough, right? So China has already admitted
00:31:30.620 they have their own UAP program. So does Russia. And what we don't want to do is allow ourselves to
00:31:36.500 fall behind some of our adversaries' capabilities. Now, there's also another part of that conversation,
00:31:42.620 too. What you don't want to do is allow so much time to go by that by the time you are forced to
00:31:49.900 make a decision, all your options you've exhausted. Meaning, let's say that there is an announcement,
00:31:58.560 let's say later this year, that life has been discovered somewhere else off of Earth, right?
00:32:06.800 You don't want to be in a situation as a government where you are caught flat-footed and surprised,
00:32:11.800 right? And by that statement, you want to be as proactive as possible. You want to be able to
00:32:16.680 have the conversation, socialize the idea with your citizens. Because let's face it, governments
00:32:24.320 writ large are, the reason why they have the authority they do is because people have faith
00:32:29.900 and confidence in those institutions, in those governments. And the last place any government
00:32:36.660 wants to be is on their back foot, right? In a situation where they get surprised. And now,
00:32:42.540 like we saw, for example, with the drone incursions that we had back in 2024 up in New Jersey,
00:32:49.780 right? First, the White House says, there's nothing to see here, folks. And they said, well,
00:32:53.220 actually, there is something to see here. Well, actually, they've all been, all these drones have
00:32:57.300 been coordinated through the FAA. Well, no, they haven't. We don't even know if they're drones at this
00:33:00.980 point. Or the Chinese spy balloon, right? Under the Biden administration, that's another case in
00:33:05.960 point where decisions were made on our behalf because we simply didn't want to face the
00:33:11.720 uncomfortable truth that China was sending reconnaissance balloons over North America,
00:33:18.340 completely unchallenged.
00:33:19.460 So you started this out with, imagine country X or Y. So are you saying that we're possibly facing
00:33:31.980 something from another country?
00:33:35.740 Well, I think all is possible. All cards have to remain on the table until they're not. I think
00:33:41.180 there's enough information to suggest that other countries are heavily invested in this topic. But
00:33:46.580 keep in mind, we've been dealing with this now for decades. And when I say decades, at least eight
00:33:51.760 decades. That's 80 years we've been dealing with this phenomenon. And if you look 80 years ago,
00:33:57.760 where was Russia? Well, you know, we had just, the United States had just entered the atomic age.
00:34:02.140 We had barely broken the sound barrier. No one has been into space. And that means some country
00:34:09.040 secretly was developing this technology and was able to perfect it eight decades ago. So that doesn't
00:34:16.420 make sense, right? If that was the case, this would be considered the worst intelligence failure in
00:34:21.440 the history of our nation, eclipsing that of even 9-11. Because that means for 80 years, some country
00:34:27.020 in secret has been developing this technology and, oh, by the way, has been able to deploy it over
00:34:32.140 controlled U.S. airspace, over our sensitive military facilities. And there's not a darn thing we can do
00:34:37.020 about it. So when you look back at this from a temporal aspect or a time aspect, it simply doesn't
00:34:42.580 make sense that all of this, what we're seeing is Russian or Chinese. It doesn't pass the smell test.
00:34:52.360 You, and you're not the only one that said this, 2027 keeps coming up. And you just said
00:34:57.920 later this year or in 2027. Why is 2027 the year that everybody keeps throwing around? Because
00:35:06.800 it doesn't seem random to me. Everybody seems to be saying 2027. Yeah, I've heard 2027. I also heard
00:35:15.760 2036. The capacity in which I heard it, I'd rather not get into. I heard it when I was working with
00:35:23.540 U.S. Space Force. But it was, to me, it seemed more anecdotal. So I'm probably not best suited to
00:35:32.840 answer that time-wise, simply because I didn't come up with that, that timeframe. But I, like you,
00:35:39.340 I heard that as well. And, you know, certainly something we need to, we need to pay attention to.
00:35:45.380 So, um, the, Laura Trump just came out and said, there's a speech for the president to give,
00:35:53.200 and he's prepared to give it at some point. Is that a speech? Do you think she's referring to a speech
00:35:59.400 that, uh, the, that every president has had, or is this something that is prepared for this time,
00:36:07.540 do you think? I think it's probably something prepared for this time, uh, simply because a lot
00:36:13.620 of presidents were kept in the dark on this topic for a very long time. And I don't think they took
00:36:18.340 it seriously. Um, certainly this president during his first term, uh, initially when he was asked,
00:36:23.640 uh, kind of laughed it off. And then later, from my understanding, he received some briefings and,
00:36:29.140 and then took it quite, quite seriously afterwards. Um, but look, it's a very risky topic. You know,
00:36:34.920 any president that makes a public statement about this, about this topic runs a huge risk, um,
00:36:41.120 simply because there's a lot of unknowns and, and it's, it's, it has never really been good for one's
00:36:46.800 career necessarily, or even the media up until recently to, to even cover this topic, because the amount of
00:36:52.860 stigma and taboo that have been associated purposefully, by the way, on this topic, on purpose, our own
00:36:58.560 government created this taboo unnecessarily, um, to give it the flexibility to actually do research. A lot of
00:37:06.080 people are surprised when they find out that ATIP was actually a program in the Pentagon that was studying
00:37:11.580 UFOs. Um, that's what my colleagues and I were, were told to do. Um, and you, you said it absolutely
00:37:17.000 correct. I was never a quote unquote believer. Um, I went, uh, to, through the medical program at
00:37:23.300 University of Miami and my, technically I graduated in microbiology and, and, uh, immunology. So the
00:37:30.160 scientific method for me is very important. Also as an intelligence officer, you have to let the facts
00:37:35.440 speak for themselves. Um, however, with that said, there comes a point where you have so much
00:37:41.920 overwhelming evidence and you have some of the most sophisticated capabilities, technologically
00:37:46.280 speaking in the intelligence community, um, that normally can identify the difference between an F-16
00:37:52.260 and let's say a MIG-25 from 25 miles away. Um, these same sensor systems are being used, uh, to,
00:37:59.860 to collect information on things that frankly, we don't understand technologically speaking,
00:38:04.000 these things can outperform anything we have in our inventory. And that is a national security issue.
00:38:09.760 And I believe that our president has been made aware of that. Uh, and not just by the department
00:38:14.600 of war either. There, there's other elements, the FBI, the, the intelligence community, even the
00:38:20.640 department of energy that all have equity in, in this topic. Uh, one of my researchers said the reason
00:38:28.740 why the government is so afraid of all of this coming out is because if there is technology that we got
00:38:34.800 from someplace else, uh, and it was shared with certain companies, then other companies will
00:38:41.620 start suing and saying, well, I didn't get any of that. That's an unfair advantage. Do you think
00:38:45.400 there's any, anything to that? Yeah, absolutely correct. Yeah, absolutely. Look, there's, there's
00:38:51.040 back, you know, with, with the military industrial complex, there's still rules and laws that have to
00:38:55.000 be followed and you have to have free and fair competition. Um, that is, that is how this system
00:39:00.960 works. And if it turns out that maybe some general somewhere in the halls of the Pentagon, um, gave a
00:39:07.380 company an unfair advantage, you can imagine in 10 years, 20 years, company A becomes a multi
00:39:12.700 billion dollar aerospace company where company B goes bankrupt. Um, 200 jobs are lost and investors,
00:39:19.440 you know, lose their investment, right? So there's securities exchange commissions violations.
00:39:24.200 I mean, you, you could, you could, in theory rack up not just billions, but trillions of dollars
00:39:28.960 worth of, of liability and damages. So that is a very real issue. That is absolutely correct.
00:39:36.680 One last thing. What is the, you were on the podcast with me and you talked about a spiritual
00:39:46.280 element of all of this that I think you said you walked into a meeting and the scientists were
00:39:53.860 talking about something spiritual and we didn't really get into it. Can you share that again?
00:39:58.960 Sure. Well, let me just say this, Glenn, if I can, I think, I think ultimately the human
00:40:06.580 experience is a spiritual experience. There's, there's no way around it. You know, a lot of
00:40:10.160 people say that we're humans, uh, having a spiritual experience. I tend to think we're spiritual beings
00:40:16.360 having a human experience, but that aside, um, there were elements in the Pentagon, um, that
00:40:22.800 believed that what we were looking into, uh, were actually demons. Um, and, uh, there were some
00:40:29.440 fundamentalists that believe that this was all, um, the work of, of, of, of, so, so to speak,
00:40:35.100 the devil. Now I, you know, I, I can't between you and me, and I guess now everybody else, I, I can't
00:40:41.520 necessarily fault them for, for thinking that because if that is their, their, their, their spiritual
00:40:47.080 perspective, then, then I can understand it. And there are elements certainly within this topic
00:40:51.800 that may, may scare some people. Um, but I don't know what to be true.
00:40:58.060 Like, like, can you tell me like, you know, like, sure. Yeah, there were, there were people in the
00:41:04.380 Pentagon that, uh, believe that, um, UFOs, they, not only did they say they were real, like she told
00:41:09.600 it to my face and my colleagues, but that we shouldn't be looking into them because, um, they are demons.
00:41:15.020 They're demonic. They are, we know exactly what they are. And again, some of these people are very,
00:41:19.820 very senior in the intelligence community. Some of them were friends of mine. Um, and although I don't,
00:41:25.520 I don't agree with their perspective, look, at the end of the day, I can't prove that they're wrong
00:41:29.960 either. So I, I respect it. I don't, I don't agree with it, but I can respect that, that, that fear,
00:41:37.340 um, that this topic brings because... Do you have any idea why they would say something like that?
00:41:44.280 Well, what was told to me point blank was, Lou, have you read your Bible lately? And I said, you know,
00:41:50.360 I thought I was, you know, pretty familiar with it. Why? And he said, well, then you would know,
00:41:55.100 because what we're dealing with are demons and we shouldn't be looking into them. And that was
00:41:59.440 the extent of that conversation I had with, with the senior leader in the U S government. Um, but
00:42:05.020 there were others as well who, who felt the same way. Um, there's a lot of people, uh, that also can
00:42:11.620 point to the Bible and they'll, they'll, they'll talk about Ezekiel's wheel, right. As being actually,
00:42:16.920 uh, an interpretation of a, of a, of an encounter with a UAP. Um, so I, I spent some time at the
00:42:23.120 Vatican and I'll tell you, I'll share this. That was kind of interesting and I'll make a quick,
00:42:27.040 um, there they opened a scroll. It was a very old, uh, parchment. It was in, um, it was in Latin.
00:42:33.400 And one of the senior, uh, academics there at the Vatican said, look here, read this part.
00:42:38.960 And it talked about Eclipus. Eclipus is a Latin word for like, think of eclipse. And it was the,
00:42:44.540 the word they were using for the, for the Roman shields because the Roman shields were round
00:42:48.500 and lenticular and they did look, I guess, like, like suns. And he said, here it is. And this was
00:42:54.060 a discussion between a Roman soldier and a Roman general where they just, the way they described
00:42:59.060 these flaming Roman shields in the sky that would follow them from battle space to battle space.
00:43:05.080 Um, and so, you know, this, this is going way back and this is, this is, this is a document
00:43:10.060 that's in the possession of the Vatican itself. So the Vatican has also had a, a, a deep interest
00:43:16.220 in this topic. Um, the, the, the last Pope actually said, I believe, um, several years
00:43:21.380 ago that we should not be surprised that life exists and is abundant in the universe. Um,
00:43:28.220 that, that, you know, God has the ability to, to create as many species as he wants. And
00:43:34.020 it doesn't necessarily mean that, that we are any less special.
00:43:40.420 Lou, it's always fascinating to talk to you. We'll, uh, you know, we'll, we'll keep watching.
00:43:44.860 Thank you so much. All right, God, my honor and privilege. Thank you so much.
00:43:49.600 You bet. Former Pentagon UAP official, the guy who led the search, uh, here recently,
00:43:55.140 a lot of the breaking news comes from him, Lou Elizondo.
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