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00:00:30.000Today's show is really different. Agree or disagree with it. It's really about staying the course and making sure you know how to judge truth and how diligent you need to be on that.
00:00:42.760I told a story of a ship that was going to go from New York to London, ends up in Miami.
00:01:22.160And right now, one of the most important shipping routes in the world, the Strait of Hormuz, along Iran's southern border, is under massive strain.
00:01:30.360About 20% of the world's oil passes through it.
00:01:33.020And when conflicts in that region happen, it is effectively closed right now.
00:09:26.160Have I made peace with my neighbor? Have I made peace with my family?
00:09:31.100Have I told my family what matters most and am I living my life that way?
00:09:37.560Have I lived my life as though history is random?
00:09:42.840Or have I lived my life, and am I living my life today, knowing that one day I will have to answer for the life and for every minute I was given?
00:10:00.600For over 30 years, I have made a living looking ahead, connecting dots.
00:10:12.840Sometimes seeing patterns before they fully form.
00:10:16.680And if you've listened to me for any length of time, you know this already, but there's a lot of times I am not right.
00:10:42.840But there is another part of my record that matters, because when you step back and you look at the arc, there are moments, if you've been listening to me for a long time, that are hard to ignore.
00:10:55.960In 1999, I spoke about Osama bin Laden, and I said there will be a major terrorist attack on New York City with blood, bodies, and buildings in the streets.
00:11:09.360In the early 2000s, I warned about our financial system, stressed beyond reason, something that could snap and take the world down with it.
00:12:24.920Years ago, I spoke about artificial intelligence in terms that sounded extreme at the time,
00:12:30.580that we could reach something like AGI around 2030, that it would disrupt not five or 10% of
00:12:36.180our jobs, but something closer to half of our jobs. That put me back then way on the edge of
00:12:42.540the fringe, lunatic fringe. Now I'm much closer to the center of the conversation. And that wasn't
00:12:49.440about jobs. That was about losing truth. So how do you reconcile the two truths that I have,
00:12:58.060that I'm wrong a lot, and then I have these things that are like shocking.
00:13:08.040Here's the only answer I can give you.
00:13:11.000I know the difference between when I'm reasoning something out
00:13:18.260and when something feels placed in front of me.
00:13:23.020And you can call that intuition, you can call that pattern recognition,
00:13:26.100you can call that experience. I call it listening to the spirit. I'm not going to force that on you,
00:13:32.940but I will tell you, I don't take credit for the moments that turned out right.
00:13:37.560Because I know they were not engineered or reasoned out by me. I know it, and only I know it.
00:13:45.060So I can't prove that to you. But I have learned the hard way to be very, very careful about
00:13:52.520telling those two things apart because when it's just me when it's just my analysis my guess my
00:13:58.620conclusion i hold that loosely i expect to be challenged i expect to revise that's why i say
00:14:04.200to you all the time in monologues especially in the last few months but especially about this war
00:14:10.040i don't know it could i could be wrong on this that's me i'm trying to send you a signal whenever
00:14:16.340you hear me say that i'm sending you the signal this is my pattern recognition ability it is my
00:14:23.680reason it is it's a chance that i am really wrong on this that's what i'm trying to tell you when i
00:14:30.880say that but when it's something else something that arrives fully formed and also as a weight
00:14:44.560and a clarity and an urgency, I have learned do not dismiss or ignore it.
00:14:57.200And that's what I want to talk to you about today. I'm not going to make a prediction or
00:15:03.160lay out a timeline or a headline. I today want to pass a warning I feel more than compelled
00:15:12.940to share with you. Time matters right now in a way that is hard to explain with any
00:15:22.420kind of chart or data. The world is not falling apart randomly. There is a direction to it
00:15:31.280And there is awareness beyond what we can see.
00:15:38.240I feel compelled to tell you none of this is a surprise to God.
00:15:47.180None of this is catching him off guard.
00:15:49.980None of this is outside of his view, and neither are you.
00:15:54.760I believe deeply that people are being called, quietly, individually, across different faiths, countries, different lives, not all with the same words, but with the same pull.
00:16:09.180You might feel it yourself, a pull to get closer to him, to simplify, to spit yourself out of the system, to return to the basics of how we are supposed to live.
00:16:22.400And I don't mean go live in a log cabin.
00:16:25.740I mean the way you're supposed to live in your own home.
00:16:31.060Because the times ahead are not going to be easy.
00:19:24.900Your daily choices matter more than any headline.
00:19:29.680I told my wife yesterday, we have to double our work on feeding the hungry.
00:19:33.500We have to double our work on telling the truth, leaving your sins, loving your children fiercely like they're the only thing that matters.
00:19:45.380Honor your vows. Pray like heaven is real.
00:27:42.760I think at the end of the day, some of the other provisions, including a ban on absentee voting for most Americans, will be preserved because several red states like Arizona do it.
00:27:54.940But if they skinny it down to voter ID and to citizenship checks, which are 85 percent popular in the American public, there is a good chance that they can pick up six or seven senators, particularly when senators start to find out that their state was acting one of the targets of this Chinese influence operation.
00:28:14.280I think that's a very big thing. That's going to come out. Listen, we're going to keep on the CIA. We're going to keep on the DNI.
00:28:19.080We are going to find out which states there are.
00:28:32.640No, but we expect that in the next round of documents.
00:28:36.320Talk to me a little bit about the FBI.
00:28:38.380They seized the records for Maricopa County.
00:28:40.580This seems like a million years ago now.
00:28:42.720and are we are we relitigating this or have they found anything significant i think in georgia and
00:28:52.740fulton county and arizona maricopa county the two big urban centers the metropolises for voting in
00:28:58.080those two states the goal of the fbi is to find out much like uh at the end of the day um gangsters
00:29:05.300sometimes get caught not on their mobster activities but sometimes on taxes or technical
00:29:10.300violations to hold accountable those state and city and county officials who didn't follow their
00:29:17.040state election laws. There's one unique part to the laws that the Democratic Party helped pass
00:29:22.080in the 1960s, and it says that if a state doesn't follow the laws of the books for the elections,
00:29:28.240and it does so knowingly and willingly, by the way, a county and a city as well, if there's a
00:29:33.220knowful and willful effort not to follow the laws on the books for the state election when it's a
00:29:38.580federal election, it becomes a federal offense. And so I think what the FBI is trying to create,
00:29:43.020what the Justice Department is trying to create, is deterrence, which is we may prosecute people
00:29:47.620for not following the laws in 2022 and 2024 so that they do follow the laws going forward in
00:29:53.680elections. What are those laws? Keeping the voter rolls dirty when they're supposed to be cleaned
00:29:57.560up. You see a lot of problems with that. Just last week, Harmeet Dillon reviewed. She's going
00:30:02.100through some of these voter rolls. She's found tens of thousands of non-citizens who made it
00:30:05.980onto the voter rolls, and she hasn't even gotten to California and New York and some of the big
00:30:10.380states yet. That's a problem. The law in those states says that non-citizens should not be on
00:30:15.400the voter rolls. Changing the ballots so that the ballots go out whether someone requests them or
00:30:21.180not. Some states ban that from happening, or they don't do voter identification like signature
00:30:28.120matches, which are required in Arizona, or photo ID matches, which were required in Wisconsin but
00:30:34.920waived in some circumstances in 2020. If those officials are showed to have done that in violation
00:30:40.840of the laws that their legislatures put up, they can be charged federally. And that'll be the first
00:30:45.340accountability we had for a loosey-goosey election system that has kind of been wandering about
00:30:50.080without structure for about 20 years now. It just gets worse every election. We're now seeing an
00:30:55.000administration committed to holding the states to the laws they say around the books so that
00:31:00.260everybody's treated equally. And if you don't do it, you could be prosecuted.
00:31:04.920That'd be refreshing. I believe it when I see it. The next thing on this same kind of subject is J.D. Vance going in after all of the corruption. And, John, I firmly believe, I'll bet you a third of our deficit is just waste and bribery and corruption.
00:31:26.940um and uh it's going to be found everywhere are we making any progress on this and will anybody
00:31:35.820actually be held accountable i believe that a uh a system is falling into place right now we're
00:31:43.140seeing in minnesota mass prosecutions we're up over 120 people that's a large criminal case
00:31:48.800um i think at the end of the day california is just starting to ramp up new york is starting
00:31:53.660wrapping up. You are exactly right. If you look at the GAO report, it estimates anywhere from
00:31:59.200$500 to $700 billion a year, which is about a third of the discretionary budget of the United
00:32:04.740States, is wasted either through going to dead people, going to ineligible people, going to
00:32:09.920foreign con men, going to domestic con men or con women. That is something that you don't need
00:32:16.560Congress to fix if you just enforce the rules that are on the book. And there's some really
00:32:20.240simple things that I think you'll see J.D. Vance get done right away. Most grant programs,
00:32:26.380most entitlement programs still don't check the dead person database at the Social Security for
00:32:31.860sending out a check. Now, that's just simple, basic due diligence. That could save a lot of
00:32:37.220money or tens of billions of dollars just doing that. Checking to see if someone says that they're
00:32:41.980living in Alabama, but their check is being sent to Moldova or Russia, not to pick on any particular
00:32:47.340the country. That would find a lot of the foreign fraud that we saw rampant during the COVID-19.
00:32:53.260It's like that easy? Literally that easy?
00:32:56.480I have the former comptroller of the United States, who's I think one of the smartest guys to,
00:33:00.860he's been saying this for 20 years. Nobody's been listening to him. I think J.D. Vance has dialed in
00:33:05.440these three simple recommendations from the comptroller of the United States. The third is
00:33:09.720go in there every year. The GAO identifies high risk programs, programs that clearly
00:33:14.380don't have protections in place and have a long history of wasting money just implement the
00:33:19.760recommendations which most agencies have not done uh those three things the comptroller of the
00:33:25.140united states said could save between 300 and 500 billion dollars here not a single law needs to be
00:33:29.960passed by congress not a single rescission needs to happen just that alone if jd vance achieved
00:33:35.640that that would be an extraordinary gift to the american public uh is that why they went after
00:33:41.820dilemma so hard oh yeah you're hanging over the holy grail and you see now what the holy grail
00:33:48.320looks like right when you when you dissect minnesota it is a it is a plot that the
00:33:54.300democrats have first open up the border then get non-profits to move people to the blue cities and
00:34:00.060blue states where you're trying to ramp up your apportionment where you're trying to ramp up your
00:34:04.380representation uh where you're trying to ramp up your federal funds algorithm and then keep them
00:34:10.780there by letting them defraud programs so that they're happy and they're making good money off
00:34:15.520the taxpayer, because then you get another congressional seat or you get an X amount of
00:34:19.860extra billions of dollars a year. It's that, it's that coordinated. We see it. That's why
00:34:25.360when these whistleblowers came out in Minnesota and said, we told the governor, we told the
00:34:29.200attorney general, they weren't interested in looking at it. There's a system that the Democrats
00:34:32.980have built. And I think right now for the first time you're seeing it being dismantled piece by
00:34:38.100piece i fear you know politicians are politicians i don't care left or right yeah do you think this
00:34:46.580is happening in the red states as well oh absolutely it happens everywhere yeah at the
00:34:51.560end of the day because you know what happens is uh you know the the head bones connected to the
00:34:56.320shoulder bone the backbone is down to the leg bone by the time you get to the leg bone there's some
00:35:00.400a man or woman in a blue city in a red state that's deciding whether you're going to get that
00:35:05.280money or not, whether I'm going to check the voter, the dead database. And so getting, because
00:35:10.760the federal distributions keeps going downstream, it eventually gets to either a crooked or an
00:35:15.820incompetent bureaucracy at the local level that administers those funds. That's what you see in
00:35:19.960Minnesota most times. Everybody knew there were problems with the autism program. Everybody knew
00:35:25.300there were problems with the food program. Everybody knew there were problems with the
00:35:29.120childcare program, but the people at the bottom of the food chain, they didn't care and they didn't
00:35:33.480intervene. Now, do they not care for political reasons? Do they not care because they just
00:35:36.960weren't good at their job? We don't know the answer to that. But when those people start
00:35:41.000getting indicted because they weren't good stewards of the money, you're going to see
00:35:44.900the system tighten up pretty quickly. And I think that's the next wave of indictments.
00:35:48.040All right. We got the fraudsters and the con men, at least in Minnesota. Now the question is
00:35:52.620who downstream is getting investigated? We've seen criminal referrals from James Comer
00:35:57.300looking at some of the people in the state government. We've got whistleblowers that
00:36:01.480have dates and times and names of when people were told and didn't act when state officials
00:36:06.720start getting in county and city officials start getting indicted for not protecting the federal
00:36:12.440funds that they were entrusted with that's when the system is going to tighten up really quick
00:36:16.780because that's where all the abuse occurs downstream from uncle sam you're listening to
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00:36:26.540available wherever you get podcasts welcome to the glenbeck program uh so all weekend the dow
00:36:31.680jones were just it was taking a bath and it was the worst week ever and uh today the dow jones
00:36:36.180is up almost 700 points why because trump just said things are going well in iran can we not be
00:36:43.540the dow jones can we can we not be whatever the latest is on what somebody has just said to make
00:36:50.220us feel really really bad or really really good uh you don't want to be like that um you know that
00:36:56.820just that just leads to absolute disaster because nobody nobody has any idea we are so confused
00:37:03.080right now and that is part of this age confusion and chaos and spit yourself out of that system
00:37:12.300if you are feeling confused and chaotic find the things that make you feel uh anchored
00:37:19.040and don't avoid what's going on as you will understand next hour i'm going to be talking
00:37:23.560about something that is really uh you know the top top three things probably i've ever had to
00:37:34.740say on on broadcast uh in reality number one thing i've ever had to say on broadcast but
00:37:41.540uh you'll understand when i get there um you need to listen to next hour um but without
00:37:48.840any kind of despair or lies in your life you just have to know what the truth is uh and then just
00:37:56.500keep pushing forward on the truth you know i was just talking about lindsey graham and what he said
00:38:00.820uh over the weekend this guy has never met a war he doesn't like i want you to listen to lindsey
00:38:05.200graham what he just said here's what i tell president trump keep it up for a few more weeks
00:38:09.840take carg island where all of the resources they have to produce oil control that island
00:38:15.480let this regime down a vine is this going to though take karg island is it going to involve
00:38:20.480u.s troops on the ground let me let me just read you something from the atlantic does an assessment
00:38:23.960on that they say u.s troops may well take karg island we believe their ability to do so but only
00:38:29.060to endure ballistic missile strikes drone attacks petrochemical smoke all without a reliable means
00:38:34.140of obtaining logistical support this has been amazing military operation god bless the fallen
00:38:39.340But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground.