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00:02:45.760 Jonathan Isaac, he's the NBA basketball player for the Orlando Magic.

00:02:50.760 He's also written a book, Why I Stand.

00:02:53.660 He became very popular to people who don't know sports during the COVID debacle because he said no.

00:03:06.700 He founded Unitas and has now created the first basketball shoe to feature a visible Bible verse.

00:03:16.480 You can find all of this at WeAreUnitas.com.

00:03:22.120 Welcome to the program, Jonathan.

00:03:24.880 By the way, full disclosure, Unitas is a sponsor, I think, of The Blaze.

00:03:30.460 So just want to make sure you know that.

00:03:32.360 But I don't really care.

00:03:33.680 It doesn't affect my conversation with Jonathan.

00:03:36.520 Hey, Jonathan.

00:03:38.400 Hey, Glenn.

00:03:39.040 How you doing?

00:03:39.620 Good.

00:03:39.840 How's your ankle?

00:03:41.820 It's doing better.

00:03:42.660 It's doing better.

00:03:43.160 I appreciate you.

00:03:43.720 I'm actually on this call with you on my way to practice.

00:03:47.560 Okay, good.

00:03:48.220 Good.

00:03:49.040 So what prompted, for people who don't know anything about Unitas, what prompted you to start Unitas?

00:03:57.540 Well, what prompted me was first just wanting to see my values represented in the marketplace,

00:04:02.600 specifically in the sports and apparel lane.

00:04:05.180 We've got a plethora of companies today, and really just our society at whole, I felt are moving away from godly values and principles and also constitutional values and principles.

00:04:17.540 And so it's like, hey, I know that millions of people feel the same way I do about what makes a prosperous society, faith, family, freedom, things like that.

00:04:25.880 And I wanted to be able to give them something that they can be encouraged by and just feel good about and know that the company that they're supporting completely supports and stands for their values, not just behind closed doors, but in the mainstream media and marketplace.

00:04:40.460 What prompted Nike to pull their partnership from you?

00:04:43.480 You know, I don't officially know.

00:04:49.820 Part of it is when players get hurt, it's something that happens, right?

00:04:53.440 Back in the bubble, after I stood, I got hurt, and it was a pretty serious injury.

00:04:58.000 And, you know, it's a part of the business.

00:05:00.560 If you can't play, you know, you can't make companies money.

00:05:02.960 And so I wasn't able to play, and so they didn't resign me.

00:05:05.260 Okay.

00:05:06.520 And so you now have introduced Judah One.

00:05:09.640 This is the first basketball shoe to be manufactured with a visible Bible verse in it.

00:05:16.520 Never been done before.

00:05:18.360 Tell me about it.

00:05:20.020 Yeah.

00:05:20.580 So, again, that's just me trying to be authentically myself.

00:05:25.100 And the sneaker actually came about before the idea of United started.

00:05:28.900 And because I didn't resign with Nike, I actually went to my pastor, and I told him, hey, you know, I don't have a shoe company anymore.

00:05:34.600 We were just talking casually.

00:05:36.440 And he said, make your own sneaker.

00:05:37.980 And I was like, what?

00:05:39.640 That doesn't make any sense.

00:05:40.760 He said, make your own sneaker.

00:05:42.200 And so I went down the line.

00:05:43.780 Okay, what would it look like?

00:05:45.080 And then I wanted it to be authentically me.

00:05:46.940 And so I'm like, shoot, we'll put Bible verses on it.

00:05:49.340 My middle name is Judah.

00:05:50.420 We'll call it the Judah One and have Judah on the side of it, the Lion of Judah. 0.95

00:05:54.400 And so that's where it started.

00:05:56.300 And then the bigger idea of United came about because it was like, why just create a sneaker for myself?

00:06:00.480 Why not give everybody an alternative avenue to stand for their values?

00:06:05.700 And so that's where it started.

00:06:07.860 And I'm just so glad that it's been released.

00:06:10.160 And honestly, the support and the recognition of it has been absolutely amazing.

00:06:14.740 And so I'm appreciative.

00:06:16.400 So what is the process like to design your own sneaker?

00:06:22.780 So mine was a little different, I'm sure, than most.

00:06:25.500 I remember watching a movie a while back, and the person had went to a college campus and used the students.

00:06:33.400 And so that's what I did.

00:06:34.180 UCF was right here.

00:06:35.120 And so I was able to connect with their design school, and we turned it into an entire assignment for the students.

00:06:41.020 And we were able to pay five of them to come up with designs that we liked.

00:06:44.800 And that's where the first prototype design of the Judah One was born. 0.94

00:06:48.120 And we just ran with it once we got it from them.

00:06:50.860 So it's – but it wasn't just the design.

00:06:53.420 It was the design of the actual shoe, or is the shoe itself, you know, as far as the way it works, you know, on your foot?

00:07:02.460 Right.

00:07:02.860 It was just the flat-faced design, and then we were able to take it to factories and a company called SoulWorks to actually turn this into a real sneaker.

00:07:11.460 Unbelievable.

00:07:12.620 So you have not only sneakers, but you also have active wear, et cetera, et cetera.

00:07:17.680 And I'm looking at WeAreUnitas.com.

00:07:21.220 You've got a great I Stand With Israel t-shirt right on the front.

00:07:25.280 I mean, you are bold, brother.

00:07:27.080 You are bold.

00:07:29.420 I'm thrilled.

00:07:30.820 I'm thrilled.

00:07:31.480 These make great Christmas gifts.

00:07:34.600 How much is the Judah One? 0.92

00:07:37.280 The Judah One is $150.

00:07:39.140 Okay.

00:07:40.520 They will ship them out ready to go for Christmas.

00:07:45.940 You'll find something that is at WeAreUnitas.com.

00:07:52.240 I wanted to get you on because I wanted to ask you, I think this is such a remarkable product, and I just applaud you.

00:08:03.400 You're the first guy to really come in and just say, hey, I'm doing my own thing, and I'm doing it for God, and I'm doing it because our values are being lost.

00:08:13.440 I would love to have any of the prototypes, any of the prototypes, any of the early stuff, I'd like to keep it in our museum because I think this is going to be an important shoe.

00:08:31.000 Absolutely.

00:08:32.600 We can make that happen, Glenn.

00:08:34.200 I appreciate you.

00:08:35.140 When you said, you know, you're bold and all these things, I have definitely developed, I would say, quite a bit of callus over the years from the different things.

00:08:46.080 So I'm like, look, this is who I am.

00:08:48.460 I think with the way that our country is going, we have to be just authentic and transparent about what it is that we believe in and stand on it.

00:08:55.460 And no, it's not.

00:08:56.460 Everybody's not going to agree with it.

00:08:57.440 No, not everybody's going to like it.

00:08:58.700 But there are so many people who need to see somebody stand up for what they believe in to know that it's okay to do it themselves.

00:09:06.040 And I guess that's a part of my calling, and I just want to, you know, walk it out.

00:09:10.280 You're a good man.

00:09:11.680 Thank you so much.

00:09:12.300 It's great to have somebody that our kids and even people like me can look up to and say, look at this guy.

00:09:20.460 Look at what he's doing.

00:09:21.440 Courage is contagious.

00:09:23.200 And you are spreading that like crazy.

00:09:26.320 Thank you so much.

00:09:28.180 I appreciate you, Glenn.

00:09:29.000 God bless.

00:09:31.460 We are Unitas.com.

00:09:34.220 We are Unitas.com.

00:09:35.780 And on the back tab is the Bible verse, which I think is fantastic.

00:09:40.700 And I think he's coming out with the fourth iteration of the Judah one. 1.00

00:09:47.660 There's several of them.

00:09:49.740 And he's coming out with the fourth or the fifth now.

00:09:52.820 Great Christmas gifts.

00:09:54.360 We are Unitas.com.

00:09:56.300 You know him, Pat?

00:09:57.820 I don't follow the NBA that closely, but I know of him.

00:10:01.500 Yeah, I've heard.

00:10:02.840 NBA's changed so much, hasn't it?

00:10:04.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:05.180 It's, I don't know.

00:10:07.200 It's just been a while since I've, I've really followed, followed it closely, but it's nice.

00:10:13.500 It's really refreshing to see a professional athlete who's in the news because of something positive like that instead of beating up his wife or girlfriend.

00:10:22.460 I have to tell you, there's a lot of, I think the NFL is changing.

00:10:25.480 I think there's a lot of guys in the NFL that are really Christ-centered and really good.

00:10:32.760 And are outspoken about it.

00:10:33.880 And outspoken about it.

00:10:36.380 He's the only one in the NBA that I'm aware of, but I don't obviously follow the NBA at all.

00:10:43.800 But I know he has paid a very, very high price, and I hope he is, and this shoe becomes very, very successful.

00:10:53.280 Everybody is like, oh, I've got to have a Nike shoe.

00:10:55.300 I've got to have a Nike shoe.

00:10:56.300 Why?

00:10:57.420 Why?

00:10:59.380 Why?

00:10:59.980 Is fashion, you know, I thought of something the other day that we are truly, we've lost shame in our society.

00:11:12.760 There's no shame.

00:11:15.180 And that's what I thought.

00:11:18.160 And then a friend of mine said, you know, I don't, you know, sometimes my wife will say something if I'm wearing, you know, socks in my sandals.

00:11:32.540 And I'm like, well, she should.

00:11:34.520 But it made me think that we are brand shamed.

00:11:43.060 If you're not dressed properly, if you're not with the right brand, and that could be from politics to clothing, car, neighborhood, whatever it is, we shame for brands now.

00:11:58.300 We don't have personal shame anymore.

00:12:02.260 And that's one of the big problems with our society.

00:12:06.520 Shame needs to be returned away from this brand shaming, but actual values. 0.55

00:12:15.380 You know, you're a bad guy. 0.80

00:12:18.220 You should be ashamed of yourself. 0.94

00:12:20.180 You're ripping people off.

00:12:21.900 You're Hunter Biden.

00:12:23.680 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:12:25.520 That kind of stuff about Hunter Biden, we're going to get into it next hour.

00:12:29.240 Stuff about Hunter Biden.

00:12:31.900 You know, the average person used to be like, oh, my gosh, I can't.

00:12:40.420 I mean, my life is over.

00:12:42.960 Yeah.

00:12:43.300 Now he becomes more famous and more popular.

00:12:46.860 Sells his art for more money.

00:12:48.700 Well, that's only because daddy's president.

00:12:51.580 There is that.

00:12:52.360 There is that.

00:12:53.480 Access.

00:12:54.420 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:12:58.980 We have Chip Roy coming up, hopefully in a couple of minutes here.

00:13:01.860 Chip is the representative from the great state of Texas.

00:13:06.280 He and Mike Lee, and who was the third one from, I think it was Alabama, wasn't it, Pat?

00:13:17.240 Tommy Tuberville?

00:13:18.220 No, no, no.

00:13:18.940 It's not him?

00:13:19.540 Tuberville, I tell you, I think that guy is a hero for what he's done.

00:13:23.120 I think all of the stuff that he has done to stop abortion and everything else, and he's

00:13:34.200 just been raked over the coals by the wonderful GOP makes me sick, makes me really sick.

00:13:43.960 So they came out yesterday, and they want to put an end and defund the United Nations

00:13:52.440 and all of its subsidiaries.

00:13:55.240 So the WHO and everything else would be a thing of the past.

00:14:00.180 And Mike Lee's part of that.

00:14:01.120 Did you already mention that?

00:14:01.960 Yeah.

00:14:02.100 Yeah.

00:14:02.560 And I...

00:14:03.700 So good.

00:14:04.360 It would be really good.

00:14:05.660 Don't know how they're going to make this case and win, but I'm glad somebody's at least

00:14:13.280 making this case.

00:14:14.600 There's so much going on here right before the end of the year.

00:14:18.100 We have Chip Roy on with us now.

00:14:20.000 Hi, Chip.

00:14:20.400 How are you?

00:14:21.600 Hey, Glenn.

00:14:22.300 How are you?

00:14:23.060 I have a lot of stuff to ask you about that.

00:14:26.660 First of all, let's start with the UN.

00:14:30.300 What prompted this from you guys, and what is the plan?

00:14:37.400 Well, first of all, it's not a new concept, obviously, for those of us who hated the United

00:14:41.120 Nations for a long time and believe that it's a colossal waste of money, $12.5 billion of

00:14:46.320 American both tax dollars and borrowed money that's gone to the UN as recent as 2021, okay,

00:14:52.220 in one year.

00:14:53.260 Mike Lee and I were talking about this, so disgusted about what we've seen at the United

00:14:56.960 Nations, their ridiculousness in terms of how they've treated Israel, voting not to 1.00

00:15:01.720 condemn Hamas, their ridiculousness of funding Hamas through UNRWA, which is, you know, done 0.87

00:15:07.500 in the name of refugees, but ends up funding terrorist entities like Hamas, you know, their 0.66

00:15:12.940 Human Rights Council, which is a complete sham.

00:15:16.580 They put all of the worst human rights violators on it, funding the, you know, China one-child 1.00

00:15:22.000 policy.

00:15:22.660 I mean, you can't even begin to do it.

00:15:24.340 And then you just saw the article yesterday that Mike Lee tweeted out.

00:15:27.280 Mike and I, you know, he introduced the Senate version.

00:15:29.460 I introduced the House version to totally just defund the United Nations and get out.

00:15:33.040 And Mike tweeted out a picture of an article about how all these UN workers have been raping

00:15:38.760 children in Africa and other places around the world. 0.88

00:15:40.960 And look, it's just a organization devoid of soul.

00:15:44.900 They don't believe in Western civilization.

00:15:46.580 They are not our friend.

00:15:47.740 Why do we fund it?

00:15:48.660 It's just a joke and we shouldn't.

00:15:50.460 Is this something that you think could gain traction and win?

00:15:55.140 Well, I mean, not in the instant.

00:15:57.620 I think we need to get really serious about it.

00:15:59.720 And I will say, OK, to the credit of the House, you know, I'm pretty, you know, vicious

00:16:05.060 in my condemnation of the failures of House Republicans.

00:16:08.320 But in fairness, right, we're dealing with frickin' a recalcitrant Senate that doesn't 0.97

00:16:12.480 want to do anything in a White House that's not just incompetent, but evil. 0.87

00:16:15.960 We passed appropriations bills that are state and foreign operations that would have defunded

00:16:21.560 a lot.

00:16:22.140 Not all of it.

00:16:22.740 It wasn't perfect.

00:16:23.420 But it defunded a lot of these terrible things, like UNRWA, like the Chinese policy.

00:16:29.080 Mario Diaz-Ballart in Florida, he worked with us on that.

00:16:32.180 But it's jammed.

00:16:33.040 It's just sitting in the Senate, right?

00:16:34.220 The Senate won't do anything with it.

00:16:35.600 So we introduced this bill as a standalone, basically to kind of one-up it all and send

00:16:40.220 a message that you have serious members of the Senate and the House saying, wait a minute,

00:16:44.540 we should not be sending $12.5 billion to the United Nations.

00:16:48.300 So, you know, we'll have to keep working the issue.

00:16:50.620 But I know you agree and I know your listeners agree.

00:16:52.400 Okay, so the next thing is the spending bills and the fact that this defense bill, first

00:17:00.640 of all, if I'm not mistaken, it was yesterday that Lloyd Austin said, if you fail to pass

00:17:08.760 this Ukraine aid bill, U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine are likely.

00:17:16.500 What kind of threat is that?

00:17:19.180 Yeah, so let's take them in order, right?

00:17:21.380 You're talking about the supplemental spending bill at the moment, right?

00:17:25.000 That includes on the Democrat side, right?

00:17:27.620 Because the president put it forward.

00:17:29.040 It has a massive amount of spending, over $100 billion, $60 billion additional funding for

00:17:36.040 Ukraine.

00:17:37.100 I think it's $10 or $15 billion of additional spending at the border, which would just be

00:17:41.260 used to process more people, not change the policies.

00:17:44.800 More spending for Taiwan, more spending generally.

00:17:48.280 And so we would oppose that.

00:17:50.560 And yes, in a briefing the other day, the secretary alluded to, you know, saying, you know, if

00:17:57.800 you guys don't do this, you know, effectively, we're going to be committing American troops

00:18:01.580 to war.

00:18:02.100 Now, if you're being less cynical, you'd say his position is that if we don't push back

00:18:06.600 on Putin now, we'll get drawn into a war that involves our men and women in uniform.

00:18:11.440 To which my response is, no, if you keep carrying out your incompetent policies, where you refuse

00:18:18.080 to promote American energy, where you refuse to actually sanction, for example, Iran, you

00:18:23.380 allow Iran to provide oil to China, you take all of the positions that are empowering our 0.90

00:18:28.060 enemies, then you say we need to fund a proxy war to stop those enemies, or you're going

00:18:33.200 to send our men and women to war.

00:18:35.260 And oh, by the way, they wanted to draft your daughters, which I proudly stood up and stopped.

00:18:40.000 That's the truth of this administration.

00:18:42.020 So we're going to stand up and stand athwart that, at least conservatives are.

00:18:45.660 And I hope Mike Johnson will keep doing what he's been doing.

00:18:49.960 I mean, I'm critical when I'm critical, but I'm complimentary when I'm complimentary.

00:18:53.860 Mike has sent a strong message that we will not even remotely consider Ukraine funding

00:18:58.840 until the border is secure.

00:19:00.020 I hope he sticks to that.

00:19:02.140 I don't, you know, I think we need to question Ukraine spending generally, but I know for certain

00:19:07.040 we shouldn't even mention the word until the border of the United States is secure.

00:19:11.200 I agree.

00:19:12.120 How's he doing, by the way, so far, Johnson?

00:19:15.660 Well, Mike, as you know, is a very good friend.

00:19:18.540 He's a very good man.

00:19:19.740 On that point, he's done, I think, a great job on sending over Israel immediately, first 1.00

00:19:25.140 day on the job, and that next week, you know, funded with taking money out of the IRS expansion.

00:19:30.740 I think he did a great job.

00:19:32.320 Look, I think he needs to not give in to the pressures of the swamp.

00:19:36.120 The swamp makes, they work on the addiction of pressure.

00:19:41.780 Oh, my God, if you don't pass FISA by December 31st, the world's going to end, and suddenly

00:19:49.180 people are going to end up, we're all going to die.

00:19:51.260 That's how the swamp works.

00:19:53.060 He should resist that.

00:19:55.080 This National Defense Authorization Act, which is a terrible bill, it's not the House bill,

00:20:00.940 which fixed the abortion transgender, I'm sorry, the abortion tourism. 0.99

00:20:04.540 It fixed transgender surgeries, it fixed the DEI and woke stuff, it fixed some of the 0.99

00:20:10.480 climate change stuff.

00:20:11.680 That was all thrown out, right?

00:20:13.280 Yeah.

00:20:13.660 Yeah.

00:20:14.060 Most of that, like 90% of that was thrown out.

00:20:16.640 So the defense bill is bad on its face.

00:20:19.880 Then, now they want to add FISA extension, which, Glenn, for your listeners, means using

00:20:25.660 backdoor foreign intelligence to go after American citizens.

00:20:31.120 We want to end that, we passed a good bill in the Judiciary Committee to end that, but

00:20:36.540 unfortunately, Mike has agreed with Senate Democrats to put a, quote, short-term extension

00:20:41.480 of the existing bill, which allows the spying, until April, and that would actually last until

00:20:48.400 the spring of 25.

00:20:49.800 We oppose it, all of your listeners should tell every single one of your members of Congress

00:20:54.180 and Senators to oppose the NDAA that has FISA on it, because if we vote on it next week,

00:21:00.540 we need at least 150 Republicans to stand up and block that bill.

00:21:05.640 Jeez, do you have 150?

00:21:08.280 Well, we also may get some Democrats, so it may be a little bit fewer, but I want as many

00:21:13.100 Republicans as we can get, depending on how many Democrats we get to block it.

00:21:17.900 But they're going to try to pass it on what we call suspension of the rules, which means

00:21:22.280 you need 200 and roughly 90 votes.

00:21:24.660 So we need, you know, 140 or so of both Republicans and Democrats to kill it.

00:21:30.300 So we want to get as many Republicans as possible to say, we're not going to jam through a 3,000

00:21:35.660 page watered down crappy defense authorization that continues the wokeification of the military

00:21:40.960 instead of a mission first military, you know, driving down morale, driving down recruiting.

00:21:45.860 And then, oh, by the way, continue the FISA spying regime, which has been abusing power

00:21:52.240 to spy on Americans.

00:21:53.400 We should stop that.

00:21:54.900 We have conservatives that have good bills.

00:21:56.900 We're advancing.

00:21:58.020 We just passed it out of the Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan basis.

00:22:02.120 That is what we should be advancing over to the Senate.

00:22:04.780 Tell me about Tommy Tuberville, because I think he's a hero.

00:22:08.400 He stood and stood and stood and stood and stood and damn near no Republicans stood with him.

00:22:15.060 Uh, and, uh, he was, I mean, he was just been bashed and bashed.

00:22:20.380 And he finally said, okay, tell me what happened here.

00:22:24.860 Well, uh, coach Tuberville, Senator Tuberville is a good man.

00:22:28.680 I've got to know him well.

00:22:29.760 Um, funny enough, his legislative director is a very good friend of mine and my roommate

00:22:34.320 when I'm in DC.

00:22:35.140 Um, look, coach Tuberville is, uh, someone who stood up on the side of life.

00:22:40.380 Like you said, he would do unlike a lot of Republicans, uh, that run on being pro-life.

00:22:45.660 And then when that, you know, the battle faces them, they run away.

00:22:48.860 Right.

00:22:49.340 I mean, the other Senator from Alabama touts herself as being Ms. Pro-life, but did she go 0.98

00:22:54.780 down and support coach Tuberville?

00:22:56.100 No, no, a whole bunch of other senators.

00:22:58.420 I go through a list that didn't stand up.

00:23:00.500 Mike Lee was down there.

00:23:01.540 God bless him.

00:23:02.560 Roger Marshall went down there, but not that many went down and supported coach Tuberville

00:23:07.040 when he went to the floor and would object.

00:23:09.480 And by the way, Glenn, all he was saying was we should vote on these confirmations.

00:23:13.780 Correct.

00:23:14.100 Defense department.

00:23:14.700 That's it.

00:23:15.260 That's all he was demanding in making us do that.

00:23:18.080 Because he said, guys, if you're going to continue to advance an unlawful policy to

00:23:21.760 have taxpayers find abortion tourism at the department of defense, I'm going to make you 1.00

00:23:25.720 do the work of getting these things done through votes.

00:23:28.260 I'm sorry that he backed down last week.

00:23:30.400 I wish he'd have held firm a little longer.

00:23:32.700 This is the same issue that is in the national defense authorization act.

00:23:36.860 We fixed it in the house.

00:23:38.840 We should force the Senate to address it, but we, but instead Republicans are about, if we

00:23:44.340 don't stop them, Republicans are going to move a defense bill.

00:23:48.080 That does not address the abortion issue.

00:23:50.280 That does not address transgender surgeries.

00:23:52.680 That does not address climate change. 0.99

00:23:54.860 That does not sufficiently address diversity, equity, inclusion garbage.

00:23:58.620 That does not sufficiently restore people that lost their jobs for COVID and adds FISA

00:24:03.700 spying extension.

00:24:06.100 In what world should we do that?

00:24:08.500 Coach Tuberville did a great job.

00:24:10.860 We should finish the job now.

00:24:12.860 I've got about 70 seconds here for this answer.

00:24:16.020 The Hunter Biden indictment.

00:24:18.820 Is it going anywhere?

00:24:20.460 Also, the impeachment, is it going anywhere?

00:24:27.220 On Tuesday in the house rules committee, we will be taking up, and I serve on the rules

00:24:32.280 committee, a impeachment inquiry vote, which we intend to take to the floor.

00:24:37.680 And I hope and believe we'll pass off the house floor.

00:24:40.860 Now we have a couple of members who are still a little wishy-washy, but we hope to get it

00:24:43.900 there.

00:24:45.900 If we can do that, that's the additional tools that we need to get more information and force

00:24:49.920 the Biden administration to stop their obstruction, that's what it is, of our seeking the truth

00:24:55.960 of what we all know, is that that money flowing through Hunter was flowing through Hunter to

00:25:01.500 Joe Biden.

00:25:02.120 And we believe, oh, we've got to go get more information.

00:25:05.400 But certainly, in a conspiracy with Joe Biden, while enriching his son, using foreign actors

00:25:10.760 to do it, to the detriment of our national security and well-being.

00:25:14.780 And so, Hunter, of course, now that you asked about the indictments, the indictments that

00:25:19.080 were brought down yesterday, they seem fairly significant with respect to the tax laws that

00:25:25.060 were violated.

00:25:25.800 Correct.

00:25:25.980 He was writing off hookers. 0.97

00:25:27.240 He was writing off sex clubs. 0.84

00:25:29.120 He was writing off, I mean, any number of things you can't do.

00:25:32.440 And so I haven't studied the indictments.

00:25:34.320 I've looked at the summaries.

00:25:35.600 They seem to be significant.

00:25:37.160 But remember, they walked away and they let the statute of limitations run on some very,

00:25:43.600 very significant tax violations from 2014 to 15 when Biden was vice president.

00:25:48.760 We believe that was intentional.

00:25:50.500 We want to seek the truth on that.

00:25:52.040 So we're going to keep running as much as we can with the tools we have.

00:25:56.580 Jamie Comer and Jim Jordan have done a good job.

00:25:58.640 I hope every Republican will support this inquiry that we vote out on Tuesday.

00:26:03.860 I have to tell you, thank you.

00:26:06.520 Thank you.

00:26:07.020 Thank you for the handful of people that are around you and Mike Lee and others that are

00:26:13.080 actually moving the ball or trying to.

00:26:15.880 I appreciate every day you guys are in that cesspool, so we don't have to be.

00:26:21.240 Thank you for everything.

00:26:22.380 Well, Glenn, well, we can't do it without you.

00:26:24.260 Merry Christmas to all your listeners.

00:26:25.660 Maybe I'll talk to you before Christmas, but I'm not going to stop.

00:26:28.240 I barely have a voice right now, but I don't give a damn.

00:26:30.660 We got to save this country for our kids, Glenn.

00:26:32.740 Those men that sat in the foxholes in Bastogne in 1944, freezing to death so that we could live

00:26:38.660 free.

00:26:39.320 We shouldn't adjourn next week if we haven't done our dang job.

00:26:42.620 That's my position.

00:26:43.420 You call any time you need anything next week.

00:26:46.380 Any time you just call in.

00:26:47.680 Thank you so much, Chip.

00:26:48.920 Appreciate it.

00:26:49.440 Thanks, Glenn.

00:26:50.040 You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck.

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00:26:56.580 Well, welcome to the program.

00:26:58.580 Let's say hello to our executive producer, Stu Bergeer.

00:27:01.640 Hello, Stu.

00:27:02.180 How are you?

00:27:02.500 Glenn, how are you?

00:27:03.260 I'm great.

00:27:04.240 I'm great.

00:27:05.060 There's a couple of things that I want to share.

00:27:10.060 You know, I've been suffering.

00:27:12.960 You know, I have macular degeneration in one eye and macular dystrophy in the other eye.

00:27:19.020 They say that's rare.

00:27:20.400 And I said, of course, I'm special.

00:27:23.800 Hello.

00:27:24.580 Do they cancel each other out?

00:27:25.840 No, unfortunately, they don't.

00:27:28.560 It's a race to the blindness.

00:27:30.700 But I've had this for a while now.

00:27:32.800 And my eyes have been stable.

00:27:35.300 I'm very, very blessed.

00:27:37.940 However, about a month ago, something started happening with my left eye.

00:27:43.160 And I have, you know, floaters.

00:27:46.240 And it's blurry in one eye.

00:27:48.440 And it's nasty.

00:27:51.020 I hate it.

00:27:53.000 And so I finally got into a doctor.

00:27:56.140 And yesterday they were talking to me about it.

00:28:00.240 And she said, did you see lightning strikes when this happened?

00:28:03.520 And I said, yeah, matter of fact, I did.

00:28:06.500 I said, I closed my eyes or even opened, but I closed my eyes.

00:28:09.820 It was at night, I remember.

00:28:10.900 And I saw just light.

00:28:12.220 It was like, it was weird.

00:28:14.420 And she said, yeah, let's go ahead and take some more pictures of your eye.

00:28:18.340 Apparently, when you get to be a certain age, over 12, I think, you know, the jelly.

00:28:25.460 Now, I'm going to get very technical here.

00:28:27.480 Oh, no.

00:28:27.820 Okay.

00:28:28.200 Yeah, because you are a doctor.

00:28:29.460 I am a doctor.

00:28:29.960 Please don't talk over our heads.

00:28:31.320 I know.

00:28:31.820 I know.

00:28:32.280 I know.

00:28:32.560 So any, you know, ophthalmologist or anybody who knows anything about that, Rand Paul,

00:28:38.040 sorry.

00:28:38.780 Okay.

00:28:39.700 But I'm going to get technical here.

00:28:42.040 So, you know, our eyes have like jelly in them.

00:28:45.500 Ah, okay.

00:28:46.080 Not jelly eyes.

00:28:47.240 It's not preserves.

00:28:48.840 It's not preserves.

00:28:49.960 It's not jam.

00:28:51.280 It's just pure jelly.

00:28:52.960 Okay.

00:28:53.120 Okay.

00:28:53.440 Uh, and, uh, and so when you get, you know, over 12, the, the jelly can pull away from

00:29:04.580 the eye, from the, you know, the membrane.

00:29:06.760 Uh, and when that happens, sometimes that, that will detach your retina. 0.95

00:29:11.660 Okay.

00:29:12.180 Okay.

00:29:12.700 And so I was like, bad.

00:29:13.980 Now I'm not a doctor.

00:29:14.880 No, you're not a doctor.

00:29:15.760 Sounds bad.

00:29:16.480 Yeah.

00:29:16.800 Yeah.

00:29:16.860 And so she said, let's go back and take some pictures.

00:29:19.940 And, uh, she didn't tell me about the detached retina thing yet.

00:29:23.120 And, uh, I said, oh, okay.

00:29:25.180 So we went back and then she looked at me and she said, this is good news.

00:29:29.980 And I said, is it really?

00:29:31.920 And she said, yeah, because it didn't pull any of the retina.

00:29:36.280 So you didn't detach and you go blind from detached.

00:29:39.100 Yeah.

00:29:39.400 That sounds really, really bad.

00:29:41.320 Um, and so here's the incredible part.

00:29:45.740 So I said, well, is this ever going to heal?

00:29:47.820 And she said, no, it'll, no, but come see me about a month.

00:29:53.300 It should be gone.

00:29:54.520 And I said, I thought you said it didn't heal.

00:29:56.200 And she said, no, this is how incredible the, the, uh, the body is.

00:30:01.500 She said, your brain will just get used to it and start filling in the missing information.

00:30:10.780 That's incredible.

00:30:12.500 Incredible.

00:30:13.020 Just incredible.

00:30:13.920 That's what they say.

00:30:14.460 A lot of peripheral vision is like you're, you don't actually see it.

00:30:17.960 Your body just like your mind takes it in and then recreates it as you're looking in other

00:30:23.000 directions.

00:30:23.400 I mean, that's insanity.

00:30:24.540 And for it to be as fly, think about how many hallucinations, uh, AI has.

00:30:30.840 Think about all of the pictures that are like, well, that's not quite right.

00:30:34.840 Have you ever looked at, have you ever had your peripheral vision or anything and went,

00:30:40.020 oh, it's not really a tree on the side of my head.

00:30:43.060 You know what I mean?

00:30:44.020 It's, it's accurate.

00:30:46.120 How can people think that there's not a God?

00:30:48.740 I mean, it's just the, the human body is just amazing.

00:30:52.740 It really is.

00:30:53.440 It really is.

00:30:53.740 And, and look, the thing that's, and one of the reasons why Glenn, you and I take such

00:30:57.960 good care of ours.

00:30:59.240 Yes.

00:30:59.640 We just, we keep at peak physical condition.

00:31:02.680 You're going to eat that Snickers over there? 0.98

00:31:05.420 Damn right. 0.98

00:31:05.780 I'm going to eat that Snickers. 0.97

00:31:06.500 All right.

00:31:06.720 Go ahead.

00:31:07.060 Anyway, we, what were you saying?

00:31:08.380 Nothing.

00:31:08.680 I don't know.

00:31:08.960 Okay.

00:31:11.440 Uh, last night, if you can't share, it's not right.

00:31:17.480 So anyway, um, last night, uh, Rafe came home and, uh, and we decided to go see a, uh,

00:31:27.180 could you just eat it?

00:31:28.180 Just eat it.

00:31:29.040 Thank you.

00:31:29.800 Um, uh, so we went to see Godzilla minus one.

00:31:35.280 You know anything about it?

00:31:36.500 I've heard it's actually pretty good.

00:31:38.060 Is this true?

00:31:38.860 It is incredible.

00:31:41.040 Really?

00:31:41.320 It is incredible.

00:31:42.720 Rafe and I are big King Kong Godzilla fans, you know, and we've watched all the Japanese 1.00

00:31:47.880 movies, which I hate.

00:31:49.500 I hate the Japanese movies, but you know, I watched them with him.

00:31:53.480 Uh, and so this one comes out and it's all in Japanese.

00:31:58.180 So it's subtitled strike one, but I kind of take away half the strike because they didn't

00:32:06.060 dub it, you know, it's not like their lips are moving and then you're like, and we should

00:32:10.440 run.

00:32:10.940 It's Godzilla.

00:32:13.080 Uh, so you're hearing only Japanese.

00:32:15.360 You're only hearing Japanese.

00:32:16.400 Okay.

00:32:16.720 I mean, I, this look, there might be an art house film.

00:32:19.980 I pulled the trigger on for this and the right certain scenario, but to see a Godzilla film

00:32:24.160 with subtitles like that, this is worth it.

00:32:28.920 This is really worth it.

00:32:30.620 Yeah.

00:32:30.980 So it's the original score, but all redone.

00:32:35.400 It's done, I think by the, by the original company or something that made the original.

00:32:40.440 So it's very true to the originals, except it's done well.

00:32:48.720 Okay.

00:32:49.900 Um, it doesn't look like a puppet like Godzilla.

00:32:53.420 No, it doesn't.

00:32:54.160 You can't see the strings coming out of the tail.

00:32:56.420 No, but it looks like the same Godzilla.

00:32:59.500 Okay.

00:32:59.920 It doesn't look like the modern dinosaur Godzilla.

00:33:02.760 It looks like the, the original Godzilla.

00:33:05.920 It's just not a guy in a big costume.

00:33:07.980 Okay.

00:33:08.320 Okay.

00:33:08.620 Is it CGI?

00:33:09.680 I mean, they go, yeah, it's like fully produced, fully produced CGI.

00:33:12.960 Um, and, uh, it's so different because it's Japanese and the story starts in world war

00:33:21.640 two with a kamikaze pilot who is afraid to die.

00:33:27.020 So he lands on this little Island, uh, where, you know, the plane, he's like, I, but something's

00:33:33.720 wrong with my plane.

00:33:34.620 You have to fix it.

00:33:35.420 And Godzilla shows up for the first time.

00:33:38.660 This is the big, this is at the end of world war two.

00:33:41.920 And so it's, it's the origin story, if you will, of Godzilla and has the, you know, has

00:33:48.560 him stomping on the power lines and eating the train cars and all of the stuff from the

00:33:53.660 original, except it's, uh, except it's done really well.

00:33:59.460 The storyline is so good.

00:34:03.760 The story of this kamikaze pilot who the war really never ends for him because, you know,

00:34:10.960 shame.

00:34:11.640 He was supposed to kill himself. 0.99

00:34:14.120 He was a kamikaze pilot.

00:34:15.240 How did you live?

00:34:17.020 And so the shame that he lives with, and then he's becomes a coward again when Godzilla first

00:34:23.680 shows up and everybody on the Island, except one guy and him, uh, die.

00:34:30.400 It's a little weird from an American perspective to get the kamikaze pilot as the hero.

00:34:36.580 No, it's weird.

00:34:37.440 It is weird.

00:34:38.100 And that's why it's, that's why it's so good.

00:34:41.100 And they, they recognize that, um, they, cause they say at one point, our culture has

00:34:49.260 been a culture of death where we didn't care about life and we're not like that anymore.

00:34:55.720 So there, it shows some of the change, um, but it is so good.

00:35:02.100 And there is this, the cutest little girl, this little Asian baby that grows up into a 1.00

00:35:10.700 girl's by, by the end of the movies, I don't know, about six or seven.

00:35:13.920 She is so cute.

00:35:16.240 She will just steal. 1.00

00:35:17.880 She just steals every scene. 1.00

00:35:20.140 Um, and when he, at this all of the beginning, when he goes back to his home and everybody's

00:35:29.260 dead and there's nothing left and you see him in that area for two or three years, you'll

00:35:38.600 understand the devastation in Japan, unlike you've ever seen before.

00:35:43.860 We've also getting a historical lesson in a way from, in a way, yeah.

00:35:47.360 It's just such a different look at almost everything.

00:35:51.080 And the, the, the story of the characters, it's just, it's just so good.

00:36:00.320 So good.

00:36:01.140 Oh, wow.

00:36:01.500 And a great, great ending.

00:36:04.020 Ah.

00:36:04.440 Great ending.

00:36:05.340 I gotta check it out.

00:36:06.120 Yeah.

00:36:06.400 It sounds interesting.

00:36:07.280 Now you don't like superhero movies.

00:36:08.980 I don't consider Godzilla a superhero movie though.

00:36:11.820 Well, this one is not like God, you know how Godzilla is like, oh, maybe we should hug him

00:36:17.620 in the end, you know, where you're like, oh, the recent ones haven't been like that though.

00:36:22.280 He's really kind of a good guy.

00:36:23.920 No, he's not.

00:36:24.580 Oh, in this one, he's not.

00:36:25.560 Oh, no, he's not.

00:36:26.240 Yeah.

00:36:26.260 Godzilla seems to always kind of turn around and then at the last minute, like kill Mothra

00:36:29.980 and save the city.

00:36:31.080 Yeah.

00:36:31.240 Save humanity.

00:36:32.320 Yeah.

00:36:32.520 No, this one, this one is what I think Godzilla would be like.

00:36:37.460 Well, see, I feel like the real story of Godzilla is 1967's son of Godzilla.

00:36:42.620 Oh, I haven't heard of son of Godzilla.

00:36:44.100 Yeah.

00:36:44.120 That's the one I feel like is the real one.

00:36:45.840 I mean, I, if you haven't seen it, I can give you the tagline and you can just tell

00:36:50.160 me if you're interested in it.

00:36:51.260 Okay.

00:36:51.400 This is the real tagline for the movie.

00:36:53.640 Have you ever seen a monster hatch from a monster egg?

00:36:56.880 No, you will.

00:37:00.560 That's the whole tagline.

00:37:04.680 That's great.

00:37:05.480 You ever see him?

00:37:06.140 Hey, there's going to be an egg hatching at some point.

00:37:08.120 A monster is going to come out.

00:37:09.100 So that's, that's in the movie.

00:37:10.300 Have you heard, have you heard, uh, about the movie ISS international space station?

00:37:17.720 I've not saw the preview for this before Godzilla.

00:37:21.240 Oh my gosh.

00:37:22.080 It looks great.

00:37:22.960 It is the international space station with Americans and Russians in the, you know, they

00:37:28.860 join and they're working together and everything's going well.

00:37:32.120 And then they look down, one of them is looking out of the window, uh, to earth and they see

00:37:37.800 a nuclear explosion and then, and the whole world is on fire and they can't raise anybody.

00:37:49.680 But then finally, this is what was in the trailer.

00:37:52.920 Finally, they do.

00:37:55.440 And they say, you must take over the ISS by any means possible.

00:38:02.020 Take it from the Russians. 1.00

00:38:04.180 And they're like, well, we're scientists.

00:38:06.860 We're not soldiers.

00:38:08.660 We don't have any weapons or anything up here.

00:38:11.120 And then one of them says, if we're being told this, they're being told this.

00:38:16.260 And so you just see all these scenes where the world is on fire below them.

00:38:21.940 Oh my gosh.

00:38:22.660 And they're fighting in space.

00:38:23.740 It looks fantastic.

00:38:25.380 I'm all in.

00:38:25.780 That's even better than he's seeing a monster egg gets hatched and a monster comes out.

00:38:30.640 I don't know.

00:38:31.400 I've never seen one.

00:38:32.660 I've never seen.

00:38:33.320 Well, the reason why I said that is because, uh, alien said, they'll never hear you scream

00:38:38.360 in space.

00:38:40.080 And, uh, this tagline was, uh, apparently.

00:38:46.680 Someone can hear you scream in space.

00:38:49.640 Something like that.

00:38:50.900 Wow.

00:38:51.100 So kind of a reworking of that.

00:38:52.940 Yeah.

00:38:53.220 Uh, you know, I was, uh, you bring up the ISS.

00:38:55.860 Yeah.

00:38:56.040 I was, I've been reading this Elon Musk book.

00:38:57.800 Yeah.

00:38:57.960 Me too.

00:38:58.320 The Isakson book.

00:38:59.020 Yeah.

00:38:59.160 It's good.

00:38:59.540 It is good.

00:39:00.180 You know, I go back and forth on him all the time.

00:39:02.860 I'm very mixed on Elon Musk.

00:39:04.600 Some things I really like about him.

00:39:05.780 Some things, eh, not so much.

00:39:06.900 Yeah.

00:39:07.040 Um, but you'll understand him better than you ever have.

00:39:11.800 Yes.

00:39:12.120 It's a really, it's worth, it's worthwhile.

00:39:13.820 And if you have Spotify, if you're on Spotify, you can get the book for free.

00:39:17.120 Yeah.

00:39:17.520 So it's, it's, it's long, but it's worth your time.

00:39:20.160 I think if you want to understand him.

00:39:21.160 But one of the parts they talk about is how we went, we just gave up sending people to

00:39:26.480 the, uh, international space station with our own machinery.

00:39:30.180 We just were like hitching rides with the Russians. 0.92

00:39:32.200 And I remember that sort of, but kind of forgotten it.

00:39:34.440 And what I loved about the story was the first time we started doing that again was a private

00:39:40.640 company.

00:39:41.360 Yeah.

00:39:41.460 A private company was able to send a person to the international space station.

00:39:47.060 I mean, now many were hitching rides with the Russians, Russians.

00:39:49.960 I mean, how embarrassing is that after, and God only knows what it would be like today.

00:39:54.780 Probably, uh, it wouldn't be so pleasant.

00:39:57.380 Uh, but I mean, the fact that we had a private company able to rise up, what a great American

00:40:01.520 story.

00:40:01.980 I mean, it really is incredible.

00:40:05.100 All you need to do is be the richest man in the world.

00:40:06.720 You can pull this stuff off all the time, Glenn.

00:40:08.620 Get a couple hundred billion dollars and it's cake.

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