The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： John Ondrasik, Bryson Gray, & Virginia Prodan ｜ 10⧸26⧸21

00:00:00.000 All the way from Dave Chappelle to Let's Go Brandon to Five for Fighting to a little woman 1.00

00:00:08.680 who isn't even five. She's about four nine, a little teeny woman from Romania that changed 1.00

00:00:17.160 her country. There's some really amazing things happening right now that you need to be aware of

00:00:22.900 to give you strength. Don't miss a second of today's podcast.

00:00:30.000 The International Human Rights Attorney, the author of a book that came out a few years ago

00:00:46.100 called Saving My Assassin, and a fellow Dallas resident that I can't believe I haven't met

00:00:55.040 until just now. Virginia Proden. Hello, Virginia. How are you?

00:01:00.200 I am doing fine. I am doing fine. I am so happy to be here. And when you have the television

00:01:07.200 show, I was on your television show several times.

00:01:11.220 You look so familiar. That's why I remember now.

00:01:15.800 Yes. You did several, several programs. And I was on the socialist one and later on on several.

00:01:23.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So good to see you again.

00:01:25.740 Good to see you.

00:01:26.760 So I don't, I, did I know your story back then? Did I know the full story?

00:01:32.780 No. When I was on the socialist part of the story on the television, the book was not published yet.

00:01:39.920 Right. And you were talking about what life was like.

00:01:42.580 Yes, yes, yes. I remember that. So, Virginia, let's start with your, let's start with your story.

00:01:49.440 How old were you? You're in Romania, which is horrible, horrible. One of the worst places 1.00

00:01:56.360 under communism because of Ceausescu.

00:01:59.120 Yes.

00:01:59.500 Right. Tell me about life under him and what that was like.

00:02:04.340 I was maybe around six years old when I started to notice that my parents were very politically

00:02:12.560 correct outside of the home and they were fearful and giving away all their rights. But I also heard

00:02:20.320 them inside of home whispering how horrible the government is and the fact that tomorrow they're

00:02:28.020 going to take more rights. And as a kid, I was petrified. I was scared to death thinking my life

00:02:35.500 doesn't count to my parents or to my, to our government. But also a fire came inside of me

00:02:45.760 and I was thinking, I don't want to live like my parents. I do not want to grow up and live like

00:02:52.440 them. I want to find the truth. Why people, adults know the truth, but don't speak up about the truth.

00:02:59.820 And with that came the idea because I had around in my family lawyers that had questions to

00:03:08.220 different, you know, problems, but they never, they were never courageous to speak up. I thought I will

00:03:18.280 go to law school and I will find the truth and I'll speak up for the truth.

00:03:22.260 So you, um, you get there, you're in law school, you go and, um, you begin to live your life now as

00:03:31.940 an adult and what stops you from doing what most adults do, uh, and, and say it's too risky. I'm not

00:03:41.360 going to, I have to have this job or I can make a difference by being quiet in the system. Uh, first of

00:03:48.560 all I want to say, when you as an adult, uh, uh, quiet and don't say anything, look around because

00:03:55.980 your kids and, uh, and your people and neighbors, uh, looking at how you respond today. Uh, second of

00:04:04.580 all, I went to law school and I study. Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, before you go on to that,

00:04:10.660 there are people that believe now that they are in the majority and those who believe they are in the

00:04:16.460 minority and people don't stand up at work because they're afraid that they're the only one or that

00:04:25.320 they're, they'll be left out hanging. They'll be the only one that will say anything. And all these

00:04:30.180 people that whisper in the hallways and say, I'm with you won't say anything. So how do you get past

00:04:37.040 that? Okay. Uh, from my own example and you'll learn later on is, um, we always said, if she stands

00:04:45.700 up, I will stand with her. Okay. So everything starts with you. You stand up for, for the truth

00:04:52.820 and speak the truth politely and nicely and let God, if you are Christian to protect you. After all,

00:05:01.580 your job, it's not comes from your boss, respect your boss, but your job and your resources and

00:05:08.420 your life and your freedom comes from God. And if you have that solid foundation, you will stand up

00:05:15.520 and you will be amazed how many people will stand up with you, but start with you. So the most forbidden

00:05:22.760 book in all of Romania is. It was at that time, uh, the Bible. And the reason is because, and the

00:05:32.000 reason is why right now as Christians, we are marked, we are marginalized and even threatened to lose the

00:05:40.720 job is because if you are a Christian, you have a solid foundation and you are loyal to Christ.

00:05:49.180 You respect your boss, you respect your government, but you know that your government and your boss

00:05:56.460 are there because God established them in your life, but they are not the ones giving you the job

00:06:04.660 or, um, the orders of how to live your life. Yes, exactly. How to live your life. And for that

00:06:11.180 reason, when you have that, yes, you might lose your job. You might be under house arrest. Like I will

00:06:18.060 explain like I was, but at the end, you will, you will see the victory. Uh, that's, if you forget

00:06:27.420 everything from my story, think about, I fought against the most powerful and cruel dictator in the,

00:06:37.100 in the West Eastern, uh, block. He had everything on his fingertip. He had an army, he had, uh, money,

00:06:47.180 he had even the Western civilization that was, he lied to before I started to speak up and he's dead and

00:06:56.540 I'm alive. We belong to a team. When we stand on Christ ground, we belong to a team who never lost a

00:07:07.180 battle. Christ never lost a battle. If you want to be victorious, forget about fear, be courageous,

00:07:14.540 remain with Christ and you will see the victory. You're remarkable. Okay. So you find the Bible,

00:07:22.140 you start to read the Bible and this makes you say, uh, okay, I, I have to stand up right now.

00:07:28.460 And so what did you start doing? Well, before I find the truth, I, I want to say that after years or a

00:07:37.900 year and a half or something, two years of practicing and every day going to work in Romania,

00:07:44.300 thinking today, I'm going to find the truth. I'm going to speak up for the truth. One day I came to

00:07:49.820 my office and I was almost ready to give up my profession. I put my briefcase on my secretary's

00:07:57.180 desk and I said, I can't find the truth. I don't want to be a lawyer anymore. She looked at me like,

00:08:03.980 what are you dreaming about? Where have you been? And she gave me three files and said,

00:08:09.420 there are three people coming to you. And one, it's in your office. I took the files and I walk

00:08:14.700 into my office and I remember seeing the client that, um, I have been working with him for more

00:08:22.860 than a year. It was a good client. Um, and he came because he had new situation in his, uh, case.

00:08:30.380 And as I stood in my chair, uh, looking at him, I watched him again. I hated this man for the

00:08:40.060 confidence that he had, the joy that he had on his face. And many times I was thinking,

00:08:46.220 I need to fix this man. He's crazy. He's joyful in a joyless land. He's hopeful in a hopeless land. 0.99

00:08:55.940 He must be crazy. And as I look at him that day, desperate and thinking, I'm going to give up

00:09:03.460 my profession. I can't find the truth. I said to him, I wish I had in my life, what you have

00:09:09.620 in your life. And he looked at me and said, do you go to church? And I stared at him thinking,

00:09:15.780 I knew you are crazy. I don't know why I asked you. 0.97

00:09:19.460 Because in, in Romania, in the Soviet union, church was more than just frowned upon. And, uh,

00:09:29.380 it was deemed like it is now, really, you know, just a bunch of crazy people that believe in a

00:09:35.300 ghost in the sky.

00:09:36.260 It was worse than that. Uh, like a month ago before I, uh, um, my client was in my office,

00:09:43.540 the dictator declared himself God and require all of us to go to worship him. So when he said,

00:09:51.220 Wait, wait, wait. Sincerely, he said that?

00:09:52.900 Yes. Yes.

00:09:54.260 Oh my gosh.

00:09:54.980 He declared, there is no limit when, uh, a man in the government, especially in a socialist, uh,

00:10:02.980 government has full power. There is no limit. And he declared himself God.

00:10:10.500 So when it's weird in, in Nazi Germany, it took the churches, not all of them, but it took the

00:10:17.140 churches, uh, about six months to remove the picture of Christ off of the altar and replace

00:10:24.100 it with Adolf Hitler. Six months, six months. Yes. Yes. So when my client said, would you come to church? 0.56

00:10:32.980 I said, yes. And I was petrified. I was thinking, what are you saying? A month ago, he, he declared

00:10:41.860 himself God. I don't know who they worship, but I said, yes. And the next Sunday I was in his, uh,

00:10:48.740 in his church because I was that determined to find the truth. And there I heard the pastor opening

00:10:55.620 the Bible and say, Jesus Christ said, I am the truth, the way, and the life. Nobody comes to the

00:11:00.980 Father except through me. And that day I accepted Christ. And that day I understood that God put on

00:11:08.100 my heart, the desire to find the truth, which is Christ, not a notion in a law books. And from that

00:11:15.380 day, I realized that God had an appointment on my life to defend Christians and human rights cases.

00:11:23.140 I didn't have to look for cases. People will come to me because nobody will take the cases. Everybody

00:11:29.540 was fearful that if you take the case, you will go to jail. And that's kind of what happened to you.

00:11:36.180 Yes. Yes. So tell me about the case or the situation that they came to arrest you. What were you doing?

00:11:44.020 I defended Christians who will take, uh, uh, Bibles from one church to another for vacation Bible 0.98

00:11:53.300 school. I will defend, uh, doctors who will give prescription to their clients and with a

00:12:00.260 prescription or a little piece of paper will give a Bible verse. They will be threatened. They will lose

00:12:07.460 their job or I will defend churches who will put, who will ask the government for years to, uh, let them

00:12:16.260 maintain the church and the government will put them on the waiting list until the, um, um, church

00:12:24.500 will be in disrepair and the government will say it's dangerous. We take the, we demolish the building

00:12:31.540 and take the land and the list goes on and on. Did they warn you to stop doing cases like every,

00:12:38.180 every single day unknown to me. And I want to say it to your audience. You have to be aware

00:12:46.740 that when you fight and you stand up for what it's right for religious, right for God's principle,

00:12:54.420 God will do things to protect you and to, um, advance your work that you are not going to be

00:13:02.740 aware of. When I was in Romania behind the Berlin wall, I had no idea that my cases

00:13:11.140 were part of United Nations report on human rights violations or United States reports on human

00:13:19.860 rights violations. I had no idea. Later on, congressmen like Frank Wolf and Congressman

00:13:27.460 Smith, Christopher Smith will come to Romania and talk with me first and then talk with the dictator

00:13:34.020 because before I started to defend Christians, they will go and talk with the dictator and the 0.58

00:13:40.180 dictator will say, we don't have any problems. We respect the human rights because President Reagan gave

00:13:48.260 them and the American government and the American government gave Romania the most favored national

00:13:53.220 status attached with respecting the, um, Christian and, uh, human rights cases, but he didn't respect

00:14:02.820 that. So now they will come, the congressmen, Frank Wolf and Christopher Smith and Secretary of

00:14:08.580 States will come to me and talk about my cases and then go to dictator and the dictator will lie to them

00:14:15.140 and say, oh, we don't have any cases. And they will say, let us tell you about the cases.

00:14:20.820 So Virginia, you are being warned, the people around you, you have the same secretary that looked at

00:14:30.420 you crazy at this time. Did she know you were in trouble? Yes. In fact, every single day, um, after I

00:14:38.820 will take my kids to school, um, in fact, by the time I left the house, I will have a secret police

00:14:48.660 following me as I will take my kids to school and then they will take me to interrogation. They will

00:14:55.780 tell, ask me to, um, to stop what I'm doing. They called me an enemy of the state because they said that

00:15:05.940 when I was allowed to go to school, um, I, uh, I, uh, I was supposed to defend the government

00:15:13.700 against people, uh, you know, that speak up against, uh, the government. Yeah. In fact,

00:15:21.220 I will like your audience, especially the ones that love socialists so much to read my book and to read

00:15:30.660 what the requirements are in a socialist country to go to school. You are not the one decided

00:15:41.220 your profession. The government decides your profession. And I explain in, in my book exactly

00:15:47.780 how, uh, how the government that is coming now just through software. I mean, the public private

00:15:54.180 partnership and what we had with common core, Bill Gates was talking about, we can, we can,

00:16:00.580 figure out what profession they'd be best at and then just streamline them exactly the way the

00:16:06.740 communists did, except now it's an algorithm, uh, and we'll streamline them. And with the public

00:16:11.940 private partnerships that are being established now with the government and high tech and the schools,

00:16:17.700 that is what's coming here. Yeah. But we still have power. It's a lie that they are saying to you

00:16:24.420 that you don't have power. I am under five feet tall. I was 82 pounds in Romania and a woman,

00:16:32.180 still a woman, uh, which in socialist, in socialist, it's nothing, not what they lie to you. 0.93

00:16:39.380 And I still fight, find, uh, found the power to, uh, to fight for me and for generations to come.

00:16:47.860 That is a really important key to remember. You're not fighting for you, but generations to come.

00:16:53.780 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:17:08.820 All right. I think the best way to start is with the piano.

00:17:13.220 I can't stand to fly. I'm not that naive. I'm just out to find a better part of me.

00:17:33.540 I'm more than a bird, more than a plane, more than some pretty face beside a train.

00:17:43.700 It's not easy to be me.

00:17:53.220 Is my mic. John Andrasik, um, is, uh, with us, John, what a privilege to meet you.

00:18:00.100 Thank you, Glenn. Pleasure to be here.

00:18:02.100 I, um, I have to ask you this first off, what is it like? Everything I do goes up

00:18:07.700 into space and is someplace like towards Pluto now, right? And people don't relive it and relive

00:18:14.580 it. And I think about this all the time. You, you did a song years ago that I still listen to

00:18:21.460 all the time, all the time. You've had, you have an impact on people. You have an impact on me and my

00:18:28.180 life and you don't even know it. Hmm. How weird is that? Does it give you comfort that you don't

00:18:35.460 know who's listening to your song that you might not, you might've done 20 years ago?

00:18:40.580 You know, I think it's like an athlete that maybe plays 10,000 games, but there's one game and there's

00:18:46.340 somebody seeing them for one time. And I think you always have to remember, uh, that as a performer,

00:18:52.820 and I don't know how you get up every day and do three, five, 10 hours of, of content. And,

00:19:00.180 it is satisfactory to know that the songs still resonate 20 years later. You know,

00:19:04.740 the songs that I loved growing up, they're still, they're still there. Uh, and I, I still listening

00:19:09.540 to them, but it is, it is humbling. I'm very grateful just to make a living at doing what I

00:19:14.740 love to do. I am so blessed. Yeah. So, so you, um, you're going to do a podcast with me, uh,

00:19:21.540 for later this week and we're going to go over some of the songs, et cetera, et cetera. But I,

00:19:25.060 I want to, um, talk to you about the courage it took to stand up and just do a song blood on my hands.

00:19:33.300 Yeah. What drove you to that? Do you want to play it or should we play the recording?

00:19:37.460 Why don't I play it? I'm here. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Here it is. This, this, uh, I, I get back from

00:19:44.980 the Middle East, uh, and Afghanistan and I hear this song. Well, I, I, uh, I'd like to actually,

00:19:53.780 uh, before I play the song, recognize our troops and our veterans, especially our Afghan vets,

00:19:59.700 because I, I know they're hurting. Um, and I want them to know they are not alone. Uh, we love them.

00:20:05.460 We are with them. Uh, there will be accountability and, uh, they served with honor.

00:20:10.500 Got blood on my hands

00:20:19.540 Got blood on my hands

00:20:26.260 And I don't understand

00:20:32.100 What's happening

00:20:35.460 There's blood on these hands

00:20:40.980 There's blood on these hands

00:20:42.020 They're still Americans

00:20:47.860 Left to the Taliban 0.51

00:20:53.540 And he, he, he, he

00:20:57.540 Now, how's that happening

00:21:00.740 Winkin', blinkin', blinkin', can't you look me in the eyes

00:21:13.700 Willy, millie, tell me, when did you decide

00:21:17.300 This will defend your sacred motto

00:21:21.300 Oh, now means, never mind

00:21:23.860 Oh, now means, never mind

00:21:25.860 Hands

00:21:30.820 Got blood on our hands

00:21:32.820 Got blood on my hands

00:21:36.820 Got blood on my hands

00:21:38.820 The flag of the Taliban 0.70

00:21:43.380 The flag of the Taliban 0.70

00:21:45.380 E, he, he, he, he

00:21:47.940 He, he, he

00:21:48.020 Over

00:21:49.940 Afghanistan

00:21:52.020 Now, General Lawston, is there no honor in shame? Can you spell Bagram without the letters in blame? Did Uncle Joe stick a drip in your veins? Hands.

00:22:22.020 And I can't hear her scream. If she's not, she's not, she's not on TV. I can't hear him scream. If he's not, he's not, he's not on TV.

00:22:46.340 Heave to every African ally that we left behind. Every child who won't know freedom faces covered and blind.

00:23:03.340 For this American promise. Now, hell in the fire. 0.51

00:23:10.340 Hands. There's blood on our hands. 0.67

00:23:21.340 Just one American. 0.92

00:23:28.340 He, he, he.

00:23:32.340 Asking.

00:23:36.340 What's happening?

00:23:38.200 It is.

00:23:50.200 It's a wild experience. I don't know if the camera could have caught this, but it's a wild experience to sit this close to you because I could see the emotion.

00:24:00.200 And, and, and which lines hit you deeply.

00:24:07.200 Where did that come from?

00:24:09.200 When did you, when did, when did you, what were you seeing that you were like?

00:24:16.200 Well, you know, like, like all of us, I was, I was horrified by the images coming out of Afghanistan. And when our 13 troops were killed and the hundred Afghans by the suicide bomber, again, that, that made me very angry. I was banging on my piano.

00:24:32.200 And I've told you this before. I had no intention of writing a song or releasing a song. I take no joy in releasing this song. But when, when our last troops left, I got a call from a friend who was organizing evacs.

00:24:45.200 And I said, are you really risking your life to, to go rescue the citizens we left behind? And I'll tell you, Glenn, it's a little emotional sitting in front of you, cause I know you're doing just that.

00:24:54.200 So to be able to play the song in front of you, knowing that every day you're on the phone rescuing people, kind of, kind of talking to the same folks I am, it shouldn't be this way. It's, it's insane. It's insane that we're doing what our government should be doing.

00:25:10.200 It's the first time in listening to the song that I, and I think it's because when you sang it, you looked at me and you shook your head about blood on my hands. It is, that's the way I have felt. I've never, I didn't get that from the song that you are, you are really feeling the same way I am is that we have done some, we, not the government, we have done something horrible.

00:25:40.200 No, it is us. And people ask me the white, well, there's no blood on my hands. I didn't vote for this person, but we're Americans. We're Americans. We're the American promise.

00:25:50.240 They don't care who we voted for.

00:25:51.800 Nobody cares. You know, when, when the Europeans look at us and say, why did you leave our people behind? They're not checking our, our voting record. And, and you're right. It's when you said it's, it's a national shame. We have lost the peace of our soul.

00:26:04.160 And I think until we admit that complicity, which we have not done, until we find some accountability, our moral conscience will continue to erode and fester. And it's, it's something like nothing else. We have these political fights and we have these bullets in the cultural war.

00:26:20.400 But this to me is something more consequential. It really speaks to who we are. Who are we? Who is America? You just had a guest on talking about the great light that's America, that people can come and find their dreams.

00:26:33.340 Well, those, that America doesn't break their promise to American citizens and allies that we fought with and maybe save some of our soldiers lives. So it's a, it's a, it's a scary song. And again, I take no pleasure in writing it or even singing it, but someone had to say it.

00:26:49.700 What is the response? I know you've been on the road. We've been calling each other, talking to each other and we're at the opposite ends of the clock.

00:26:55.680 Yes.

00:26:55.880 What is the reaction when you sing it?

00:26:59.240 It's been fascinating because I, I, I was mostly blue states on my tour. And at the end of my show, I asked my quartet to leave because I don't want them, frankly, cut up in the council game. And I talk about the song before I sing it. I talk about the fact that if Donald Trump were president or any Republican president, and we were in this situation, I'd write the song. I talk about it's a moral message, not a political one. And I ask people to just listen.

00:27:23.440 And it's amazing. When I play it, you could hear pin drops. There's some people crying. There are some soldiers screaming, oorah. And there's some people looking kind of cocky in their head. But everyone listens. And it gives me hope for this country. Because I think if we speak in a way that is not partisan, that is not tribal, we're not going to make everybody agree.

00:27:42.680 But I think everybody knows deep down this Afghanistan tragedy is, is something that we can't just push under the rug. And it's been emotional. You know, veterans come after me, Afghan vets, they can't even talk, Glenn. They're, they're in tears, their shame, their pain, you see the suicide rates are up. You know, my mission has expanded from just keeping Afghanistan on the front foot accountability to really letting our vets know that, hey, this is not about you.

00:28:09.460 You did the right thing. You did the right thing. And take care of their mental health. And I see that every night with the veterans and the military families.

00:28:16.280 I want to share with you probably with the podcast, or at least just personally, something that happened at the end of, I think, last week's last Wednesday's television broadcast to people that had been saved from Afghanistan.

00:28:36.620 And they're 20 something girls. They were on a bus of all of these school girls. And at the end, it wasn't even part of the show. We added it. It was after we cut the show, but the cameras were still rolling.

00:28:54.160 And I said, I want to introduce you to somebody who is my chief researcher. He was one of the first in Afghanistan. And he's been questioning and really struggling with what happened. And what they said to him was remarkable.

00:29:11.360 They immediately said, don't ever question what you did. We're here. Generations have changed because of this. You know, it ended poorly.

00:29:23.800 Right. But because you were there. We we have we have a chance. We have a chance.

00:29:30.660 There's a classical piano player named Ilan Fanous, an Afghanistan young man. And for veterans, if you're feeling that your sacrifice was in vain, Google him and read his letter.

00:29:43.140 He wrote a letter, I think it was in the Wall Street Journal, saying, thank you. I have a life of freedom. I have an ability to practice my art. And it's all because of you.

00:29:53.060 And you know what? It's going to be hard to stamp out that freedom in Afghanistan. Certainly, we have a lot of work to do, but there's still a lot of hope and there's still a lot of work that can be done. 0.97

00:30:02.300 And to a certain degree, we can fix it if we keep our eyes on it.

00:30:05.700 John Andrasik, he is the singer songwriter five for fighting who's joining me now.

00:30:11.520 And it's interesting that you say that you ask the rest of the band to leave because you don't want them drawn in to the into the blowback from this.

00:30:21.660 It is shocking to me how even Eric Clapton or Van Morrison are writing songs about in in in England.

00:30:33.500 They're writing it about covid. Yeah. And, you know, it's kind of a kind of important questions and they are being pilloried and no one is playing their music.

00:30:46.500 It can't get anywhere. And when you're going after Eric Clapton for writing a song that's questioning the man.

00:30:56.420 Yeah. What the hell has happened to rock and roll and artists?

00:31:01.260 Yeah, it's funny. Like Rolling Stone is now the man. Right. Yeah.

00:31:04.900 You know, there was talking about Afghanistan. There was a folk singer named Farood Andarabi, who in the initial days was dragged from his home and murdered by the Taliban in front of his house.

00:31:14.000 It's a folk singer. And you would think the music media, especially the Rolling Stones of the world, would have that guy on their cover saying, hey, it's about freedom of expression.

00:31:23.100 It's about music, the suppression of music by the Taliban and its crickets. 1.00

00:31:27.860 And it just shows how deeply tribalism has infected our culture.

00:31:31.920 It is so malignant that they won't talk about any issue that that they perceive may hurt their side. 0.84

00:31:37.900 And it's frankly disgusting. It's shameful. We should be having concerts for the people of Afghanistan, the orchestra, the children's orchestra. 0.83

00:31:47.000 We've got half of them out. Half of them are still there.

00:31:49.420 The music community should be, you know, should be in Qatar right now organizing, you know, U2, Paul McCartney, Springsteen.

00:31:59.100 We should all be down there screaming for the human rights of Afghanistan. And why are we not?

00:32:04.700 Here's the facts. If it was a Republican president, you wouldn't be hearing my song. You know why?

00:32:09.240 Because there'd be 20 other ones, you know, calling about, oh, Afghanistan, the women in Afghanistan, the children in Afghanistan.

00:32:17.500 Tribalism is destroying this nation and the music media and the media in general are a big participant in that. 1.00

00:32:23.240 It is. I'm thrilled to have you here. It's so great to finally meet you.

00:32:28.220 He's going to be on the podcast, which will come out for Blaze subscribers on Thursday, and you'll be able to find it wherever you get your podcasts.

00:32:36.640 John Andrasik, the song is Blood on My Hands.

00:32:41.420 Find it on YouTube and share it while you can.

00:32:44.660 One of the songs that has been banned on YouTube for medical misinformation is coming up next.

00:32:53.740 The artist that, the rapper that did the song, Let's Go Brandon, joins us next.

00:33:01.020 Let's go, Brandon.

00:33:07.120 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:33:14.660 We have, of course, if you're a regular listener to this program, we have won several honorary Grammys for our work in the rap world.

00:33:40.880 Really? Yeah.

00:33:45.080 Yeah, I bet a lot of people don't know that.

00:33:46.500 Yeah, a lot of people don't know that, but I'm all down with rap.

00:33:52.720 It's not all up in here.

00:33:55.160 Exactly right.

00:33:56.680 And Bryson Gray is a Christian rapper.

00:33:59.640 That song that you're listening to is Let's Go Brandon, and it has been censored on social media,

00:34:06.000 even though it's number one on iTunes, and the reason why it's been censored is because it has misleading medical information in it.

00:34:16.060 Bryson is with us now.

00:34:17.460 Hello, Bryson.

00:34:19.160 What's up, man?

00:34:20.200 Thank you so much for having me on.

00:34:21.640 You're welcome.

00:34:22.320 You're welcome.

00:34:23.540 So tell me about the genesis of this song.

00:34:27.840 So I didn't want to make it at first, but I didn't want to make a trendy song.

00:34:36.480 But the way I looked at Let's Go Brandon is I don't curse.

00:34:42.160 So the F Joe Biden chants, they looked so cool, but I was like, I'm not saying that.

00:34:47.560 So you know what's so funny, Bryson, because Pat and I are exactly the same.

00:34:50.760 We love it when we heard it, but we were also at the same time, we wouldn't participate in it,

00:34:58.180 and we were also like, that's not who we are.

00:35:01.740 That's just not, I don't want our side to be like that.

00:35:04.980 But the Let's Go Brandon is fantastic.

00:35:08.920 Fantastic.

00:35:09.200 It's beautiful.

00:35:11.420 It's amazing.

00:35:12.940 I love it.

00:35:15.920 Finally, finally, I could do something.

00:35:18.160 But yeah, so that happened, and a guy named Black Conservative Preacher,

00:35:23.560 he was asking me to make a song before anybody did it.

00:35:26.560 And I was like, nah.

00:35:28.000 I love it, but nah, I want to make a song.

00:35:30.920 And then a few artists released Let's Go Brandon songs before me.

00:35:34.980 Four or five artists did it, and they all had profanity in it.

00:35:39.000 And in my mind, I'm like, well, that defeats the purpose of Let's Go Brandon, in my opinion.

00:35:42.940 But so he hit me up again and was like, man, I need something for my son to listen to, man.

00:35:49.140 This is a beautiful movement.

00:35:50.640 I need something for my son to listen to, bro.

00:35:52.640 And that finally got me, and I was like, you know what?

00:35:55.880 I'm going to make a Let's Go Brandon song, but if I do it, I want to pick Tyson James on it,

00:36:00.340 Chandler Crump on it.

00:36:01.720 And then I released it, man, and YouTube banned it, and it just, I'm on Glenn Beck's show right now.

00:36:06.860 It is the dream of every rapper to be on this program.

00:36:14.720 So when you were banned for, can we play the very beginning?

00:36:19.020 Because I think this is the medical misinformation that got you banned.

00:36:23.300 Listen, the very beginning of the song.

00:36:25.200 Shots that people are getting now, cover that.

00:36:28.460 You're okay.

00:36:29.600 You're not going to get COVID if you have.

00:36:32.060 Stop.

00:36:32.760 That is absolutely untrue.

00:36:34.920 Is that, do you think, the medical misinformation that they banned you for?

00:36:39.920 Well, I asked them which lyric did it, and the YouTube just refused to respond.

00:36:45.080 I've hit them up like five times.

00:36:47.020 They literally refused to tell me which lyric got me banned.

00:36:51.080 That's a little bizarre, isn't it?

00:36:54.960 I would imagine that it is the pandemic ain't real.

00:36:59.760 They just planned it.

00:37:01.020 That could be, but, I mean, we already know that it most likely came from a Wuhan lab, and it got out somehow.

00:37:10.840 And we already know Bill Gates talked about how they were going to use vaccines and other methods for depopulation.

00:37:18.240 So, you know, tomato, tomato.

00:37:24.820 Okay.

00:37:25.700 All right.

00:37:26.640 Okay.

00:37:27.280 You know, the problem is, and your song deals with it, the problem is, is that, as you say, when you ask questions, they start banning.

00:37:38.020 The silencing of voices is something unlike we have ever seen that I, at least in my lifetime, in America.

00:37:45.400 I agree.

00:37:48.620 This is actually my second song getting banned on YouTube.

00:37:51.800 I had one about Hydroxychloroquine that was banned, and Spotify banned another song of mine.

00:37:57.500 And I didn't, I'm confused.

00:38:00.500 When did we get to the point where we banned art?

00:38:02.500 Have you heard the rap songs that exist?

00:38:04.940 Like, has anybody ever sat down and listened to the most popular rap songs?

00:38:09.100 That's not banned, but you banned my song, because you don't like the, you don't like that it questions the narrative, and it goes against the consensus of the CDC, even though the CDC changes their consensus every two weeks.

00:38:24.980 We are in crazy times.

00:38:27.520 You know, it's amazing.

00:38:29.500 I was against the banning of rap.

00:38:33.680 It'll come, maybe, perhaps, as a giant surprise to you, but for as much work as we've done in the rap world, I'm not really all into rap.

00:38:42.800 But I defended rap when I was a morning show.

00:38:47.240 When were we?

00:38:49.160 1990s, Pat?

00:38:50.360 And remember, Tipper Gore was going after rap.

00:38:53.460 And we're like, look, we don't even like rap.

00:38:56.760 You should not ban it.

00:38:58.820 What are you talking about?

00:39:00.740 And it has only gotten so much worse, the things that are said in rap.

00:39:06.400 And they are allowed to say it, and I raise the flag for them being allowed to say it, but it is being consumed in such vast quantities, and no one is even thinking about the effect on our culture and the effect on our children that are listening to it.

00:39:26.900 And yet you come out with some questions, and you're questioning the man, which I think rock and roll and rap, I think that's what you do, and you're shut down.

00:39:40.340 And that is insane.

00:39:42.160 And I remember those days.

00:39:43.480 Well, I was born in 1991.

00:39:45.460 But, of course, I read about those days where, like, NWA, you had two live crew.

00:39:50.780 Yeah.

00:39:50.980 Yeah, people like that that were getting banned.

00:39:53.880 But even those are still love.

00:39:55.400 I think Ice-T has a song literally about killing police officers.

00:39:58.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:39:59.400 You can still go to YouTube and find that.

00:40:03.020 But as soon as I say the pandemic ain't real, they planned it, it's like, oh, no, that's it.

00:40:08.620 That's where we draw the line.

00:40:09.960 Like, what?

00:40:11.000 Arts?

00:40:11.620 Music?

00:40:12.200 This is where you draw the line like that?

00:40:13.680 This is, man, this is, and the fact that people on the left are supporting it, like, people are mocking, like, me on Twitter saying, I'm glad your song got banned.

00:40:22.200 I'm like, wow, that's crazy.

00:40:23.680 So tell me the after effects of this.

00:40:29.960 Are you more optimistic or less optimistic?

00:40:35.020 Because I was just talking to John Odresik from Five for Fighting, and he just did a song, and it's getting squashed as well.

00:40:42.720 And his is about Afghanistan.

00:40:46.660 And, you know, they squashed Eric Clapton for a song about COVID.

00:40:52.940 Are you seeing more people come out?

00:40:55.820 Is there something that's changing in America?

00:40:58.920 I do think it's changing, but I think if we actually started paying attention more, it could change faster in a positive light.

00:41:09.140 Because there's obviously something changing in a negative way to where, if you want to be honest, in this country, I know we'd like to say we're all free.

00:41:15.900 But in reality, in the public space, only one side has free speech.

00:41:20.120 They can say whatever they want about Jesus and just get away with it.

00:41:24.200 They can literally do whatever they want.

00:41:25.960 Meanwhile, we can't even question, make a joke.

00:41:30.660 Then we're banned off platforms if we do that.

00:41:33.380 But the good side of it is, if you see what happened with this song, it shot up to number one.

00:41:39.980 Like, I do not think it would be number one if they didn't ban it.

00:41:43.880 I agree.

00:41:44.660 I agree.

00:41:45.940 Yeah.

00:41:46.760 So that's a positive side to it.

00:41:49.200 The only problem with that is, I feel like we do that for like a week or two, and then we go back to normal.

00:41:54.920 And if you actually listen to the lyrics in my Let's Go Brandon song, my whole point was it's time for us to, like, stand up and stop allowing and succumbing.

00:42:03.000 To what's going on in this country.

00:42:05.460 I think, though, that there is also something, and you're an example of it, John's an example of it, and as Cantor is an example of it, where people are starting to stand up, and there seems to be a little bit of a snowball that is starting.

00:42:26.020 Oh, yeah.

00:42:27.100 It's a culture war.

00:42:28.320 It's a culture war right now, and they have, the left has had the grip on the culture war for so long. 0.84

00:42:34.660 Like, I don't know if you saw, but there's some website wrote an article and said, I can't believe this moronic song passed Adele.

00:42:44.020 And then at the end of the article, it said Adele will be back number one by the morning. 0.96

00:42:48.000 This is just a MAGA, cult, nonsense, blah, blah, blah.

00:42:51.280 Now, that was yesterday, and, of course, this is the morning currently, and she's actually dropped the number three behind another Let's Go Brandon song.

00:43:01.280 It is, it's great to talk to you, and I just, I wanted to thank you for your courage to do this.

00:43:12.140 Are you concerned about Backlash?

00:43:16.780 Listen, my music is so controversial, but I've never been concerned about it.

00:43:20.320 I welcome it because I seek first the kingdom of God, so I don't fear anything.

00:43:26.180 God bless you.

00:43:26.980 God bless you.

00:43:27.660 So, Bryson Gray is his name, the creator of Let's Go Brandon, that has now been censored on social media.

00:43:39.760 Christian, or Bryson, thank you so much.

00:43:41.740 Appreciate it.

00:43:43.100 Thank you so much, man.

00:43:44.060 God bless you.

00:43:46.080 Another episode of Glenn Beck Talks Rap.

00:43:55.280 There have been so many episodes.

00:43:56.980 So many.

00:43:57.540 You know, so many epic episodes.

00:43:59.400 Yeah.

00:44:00.520 To really pick one, that's the thing.

00:44:03.860 What was your favorite?

00:44:04.980 You know, there's so many.

00:44:06.280 It's like choosing your favorite child.

00:44:08.420 Yeah.

00:44:08.940 I can't do it.

00:44:09.680 I think the episode with Tupac.

00:44:12.960 Yeah, that was.

00:44:13.580 Where I said, dude, don't go.

00:44:16.180 Yeah.

00:44:16.960 And he went anyway.

00:44:17.840 And he went anyway.

00:44:18.800 That was a powerful show.

00:44:20.500 Powerful in retrospect.

00:44:22.100 Right.

00:44:22.280 You know, but all right.

00:44:24.460 Na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 26, 2021

Best of The Program ｜ Guests： John Ondrasik, Bryson Gray, & Virginia Prodan ｜ 10⧸26⧸21

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