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00:00:00.000 Man, today's podcast is full of stuff. Department of War, cashless bail, Department of Defense versus Department of War.

00:00:10.240 Stu and I talk about, hmm, really, these presidential standards on being healthy.

00:00:19.460 I don't think so. We went back into the 1960s and looked what John F. Kennedy's standards were.

00:00:25.480 Oh, my gosh. I mean, not his standards, but his standards for P.E. Otherwise, his standards are very low on P.E. in high school.

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00:03:27.440 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:32.160 Do you have no idea who you're dealing with?

00:03:34.800 No, you don't have any idea who you're dealing with here.

00:03:37.140 I got my DNA test back like 10 years ago.

00:03:41.460 Okay.

00:03:41.660 And we all took it because we were looking for, you know, we're looking for things.

00:03:45.160 And so we all took it.

00:03:46.760 My DNA test came back.

00:03:48.520 And everybody in the family, their test made total sense.

00:03:51.180 We're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.

00:03:52.880 Then we read mine.

00:03:55.240 We have to find it.

00:03:55.960 I have to find it.

00:03:56.500 See if Tony even has it still.

00:03:57.640 We should have it framed.

00:03:59.940 I swear to you, they mix me up with somebody else. 0.97

00:04:04.440 Somebody else is like, wait a minute, man, I'm this pathetic? 0.94

00:04:08.260 Mine came back and said, you have the muscular structure of a something like an elite athlete. 0.89

00:04:22.020 You have the abilities and agility and everything else of an elite athlete.

00:04:26.380 And I'm like, there's not a chance.

00:04:29.240 I don't have any of that.

00:04:30.860 I don't even know if I have muscles.

00:04:32.660 I have to check once in a while and go, do I have muscles still?

00:04:35.800 The doctor was like, move your leg.

00:04:37.060 And I'm like, I don't know.

00:04:38.200 Can I?

00:04:38.880 I don't know.

00:04:39.880 How do you do that again?

00:04:40.520 Just press against my hand on the leg.

00:04:42.280 I don't know.

00:04:44.120 You know, I don't know how to do that exactly.

00:04:47.620 So you sure it said elite athlete and not elephant?

00:04:53.200 I mean, if they misspelled it, it could have been a smear smudge.

00:04:56.240 I was having eye problems.

00:04:57.900 No.

00:04:58.140 I mean, we read it and I was like, Tanya, I believe that for Tanya.

00:05:04.000 Maybe they switched me and Tanya because Tanya is really strong. 0.99

00:05:08.400 She'll kick your butt. 1.00

00:05:09.480 She works out every day, all of that. 1.00

00:05:11.780 Me, never, never.

00:05:13.680 And it kind of makes me wonder when I get to the other side and the Lord went, okay, so what did you do with your life again?

00:05:21.820 Because I gave you this incredible body and you wasted it the whole time.

00:05:28.260 And I'm like, you should have been more clear.

00:05:30.560 Okay?

00:05:30.940 You should have been more clear.

00:05:32.120 I, you know, maybe I could have played basketball, but I tried once and it was embarrassing.

00:05:38.600 It was embarrassing.

00:05:39.760 It was like sixth grade and I'll never live.

00:05:42.120 I don't even want to think about my time on a basketball court.

00:05:45.260 Okay?

00:05:45.640 So don't, don't start with me.

00:05:47.340 You should have made it a little clearer when I first started to do stuff.

00:05:51.840 And I think that's fair.

00:05:53.120 I think that's a fair argument.

00:05:54.240 In my defense, in my defense, your honor, your God, you should have made it a little more clear.

00:06:01.360 Yeah.

00:06:01.680 I mean, if they really wanted us to do this, then the 11th commandment is 50 push-ups and, or 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups, right?

00:06:11.400 Like, put it in a commandment if you really want us to do it.

00:06:14.820 You know, you have to be more specific.

00:06:17.460 We're Americans.

00:06:18.040 Okay.

00:06:18.820 So let me give you the top of the list for the JFK presidential fitness test.

00:06:26.260 Okay.

00:06:27.180 This is what you had to do in high school, in high school.

00:06:31.600 34 pull-ups, bar dips, 52.

00:06:36.260 What's I, cause I believe I did that a long time and it's not recommended.

00:06:40.660 Not a bar hop.

00:06:41.600 Oh, it's what?

00:06:41.960 It's, it's.

00:06:43.160 Oh, different dips.

00:06:44.860 Yeah.

00:06:45.200 Okay.

00:06:45.720 Okay.

00:06:46.180 All right.

00:06:46.800 Bar dips, 52.

00:06:48.560 Hand stand push-ups, 50.

00:06:50.960 What are handstands?

00:06:51.680 Is that?

00:06:51.840 Oh my God.

00:06:52.840 Hand stand.

00:06:53.180 I can't even stand on my hand.

00:06:55.180 Is that like, I'm, I'm doing a handstand and a push-up?

00:06:58.440 Cause that's not happening with anybody.

00:07:00.260 Yeah.

00:07:00.280 Like, you're, you're not human.

00:07:01.780 You're, you're, you're balancing yourself on your hands.

00:07:04.320 Your feet are above your hands, uh, on the wall, like a wall.

00:07:09.660 And you're doing.

00:07:10.420 Oh, so you're balancing yourself.

00:07:11.700 That makes it a little easier.

00:07:12.960 Still impossible.

00:07:13.920 Yeah.

00:07:14.200 But a little easier.

00:07:15.420 Impossible.

00:07:15.780 There, you could do precisely zero of those.

00:07:19.200 Right.

00:07:19.720 Okay.

00:07:19.920 So you had to do 50 handstand push-ups or one arm, 30, no, sorry, 26 one arm burpees in

00:07:28.580 30 seconds.

00:07:30.340 Isn't that a one armed push-up?

00:07:33.140 No.

00:07:33.820 So you're, you're, well, you're bracing yourself.

00:07:36.160 Like you're about to begin a push-up in a burpee with only one hand arm, which that's 0.97

00:07:40.160 not that difficult.

00:07:41.060 But then you're doing, I think that, then you're like, you move your feet towards your

00:07:45.140 hands and then you jump up in the air basically.

00:07:48.040 Uh, and then you do it, repeat it.

00:07:49.320 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 0.99

00:07:50.720 That's, that's ridiculous. 0.97

00:07:52.100 That's, no. 0.98

00:07:52.860 There's a law of gravity.

00:07:54.740 Okay.

00:07:55.160 You're not supposed to violate it.

00:07:56.520 Yeah.

00:07:56.540 That's not, yeah.

00:07:57.260 If it was a recommendation of gravity, maybe jumping would be appropriate, but it's not.

00:08:02.120 So follow the law.

00:08:03.640 In 48 seconds, you had to do a 300 yard shuttle.

00:08:07.960 Now I've been to the airport.

00:08:09.300 I think I've done a 3, 300 yard shuttle, but depends on who's driving.

00:08:13.020 Right.

00:08:13.280 You know?

00:08:13.620 Mm-hmm.

00:08:14.420 Yeah.

00:08:14.740 Uh, rope climb.

00:08:16.240 Try this.

00:08:16.920 Rope climb.

00:08:17.380 This is what I remember.

00:08:18.200 20 feet, hands only, sit, start.

00:08:23.240 No.

00:08:23.560 So, that's what I remember from the president's physical fitness test, and I remember looking

00:08:28.040 at that rope and being like, no chance I can get up that thing.

00:08:31.080 Oh, I just remember looking at that rope thinking, humiliation.

00:08:34.140 Yeah.

00:08:34.640 Humiliation is coming my way.

00:08:36.540 I'll never kiss a girl, because that ain't happening.

00:08:39.320 I'm going to get maybe 10 feet up.

00:08:40.780 Maybe.

00:08:41.120 Maybe.

00:08:41.380 And you were right for 24 years from that time, approximately.

00:08:47.720 Agility run, 17 seconds.

00:08:50.340 Extension press-ups.

00:08:53.460 You had to do, what, what?

00:08:54.820 I'm sorry, I'm just so tired from reading this.

00:08:58.340 Extension press-ups.

00:08:59.600 What's an extension press-up?

00:09:01.600 Eight inch.

00:09:02.440 Let's see.

00:09:03.300 You had to do a hundred of those.

00:09:05.900 An exercise, an exercise for low back pain involving lying on your stomach and pressing

00:09:11.760 your upper body up with your arms while keeping your hips relaxed and down on the mat.

00:09:17.220 Oh, I could do that.

00:09:18.900 Eight inches?

00:09:19.400 I could do the last part of it, relaxed and down on the mat.

00:09:21.760 That's what my doctor says I should be doing.

00:09:23.440 What?

00:09:23.940 I can do relaxed and down on the mat.

00:09:25.760 That part of it, I can pull off.

00:09:26.700 Yeah, I can do that.

00:09:27.560 I am the only guy.

00:09:28.520 I took yoga for a while, like three weeks.

00:09:31.980 My wife was like, yoga. 1.00

00:09:33.180 You could do yoga.

00:09:34.060 Let's just do yoga together.

00:09:35.220 I did.

00:09:35.980 And the yoga instructor said to me, because we were doing like, you know, a plank.

00:09:40.960 Yeah.

00:09:41.240 And she came and all I remember is her waking me up and saying, I think you're the only

00:09:47.900 person I've ever, ever taught that fell asleep in yoga.

00:09:53.240 I'm like, it's just so relaxing.

00:09:55.380 Just let me sleep.

00:09:56.880 Just let me sleep.

00:09:57.760 That's interesting.

00:09:58.260 No, she wasn't that you did yoga.

00:09:59.900 Is there any footage of that?

00:10:00.980 Is there any video that we can post?

00:10:04.180 No, there's not.

00:10:04.580 I mean, that'd be good for.

00:10:05.320 You have to do, you had to do pegboard, five trips of pegboard.

00:10:09.880 And I think that's when you have the two like pegs.

00:10:13.920 Yes.

00:10:14.900 And then you have to, you have to take it out and put it up, right?

00:10:18.520 Yeah.

00:10:18.720 And climb.

00:10:19.460 This is American Ninja Warrior.

00:10:21.580 This is not.

00:10:22.440 There's no way.

00:10:23.700 There's no way.

00:10:24.980 It's amazing.

00:10:25.400 Try this one.

00:10:26.400 You had to do a 45 second handstand.

00:10:28.680 I've never been able to do a handstand.

00:10:30.960 Never.

00:10:31.480 Never.

00:10:32.180 I've been able to do zero seconds of it.

00:10:33.800 And I'm an elite athlete.

00:10:34.700 I am an elite athlete.

00:10:37.760 Try this one.

00:10:39.460 A man carry.

00:10:42.760 Five miles.

00:10:44.660 What?

00:10:45.840 What do you mean a man?

00:10:46.860 Five mile man carry.

00:10:50.040 Is a man carry as obvious as it's?

00:10:53.280 I think it is.

00:10:54.640 You're carrying a human?

00:10:55.140 Like I want to carry me that man.

00:10:58.260 You got to carry me that man for five miles.

00:11:01.740 I'm not sure.

00:11:02.980 I can't carry any man for any miles.

00:11:06.560 I mean, if I am a firefighter, count on burning in the house.

00:11:12.320 You're just going to burn up in the house.

00:11:14.460 Because I can't carry you out.

00:11:15.600 I could get in there and go, yeah, I'm going to have to leave you.

00:11:19.660 I'm going to have to leave you here.

00:11:21.740 Can't help you.

00:11:22.540 Sorry.

00:11:23.540 It's also getting really hot in here.

00:11:25.060 I got to go.

00:11:25.860 You had to do a five mile jog.

00:11:28.240 An obstacle course.

00:11:30.040 You had to swim prone for a mile.

00:11:33.300 You had to swim underwater for 50 yards.

00:11:37.640 Any strokes, two minutes, deep water front hang float with arms. 0.96

00:11:43.440 What is a deep water front hang float with arms?

00:11:47.560 Wait, wait, wait.

00:11:49.160 It's a deep water front hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes.

00:11:54.660 It's what kind of Al-Qaeda PE class was this?

00:12:01.120 Who has access to?

00:12:02.820 Who has access to?

00:12:03.820 Like you're in the middle of the country.

00:12:04.900 You might not have a deep water body nearby.

00:12:07.000 Are you sure this was the actual test?

00:12:10.440 This is the actual test.

00:12:11.920 This is the actual.

00:12:13.120 What is a deep water front hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes?

00:12:17.960 Can you look that up?

00:12:18.980 Ask Rob.

00:12:19.380 A deep water hang float is an aquatic exercise done in a deep end of a pool with the aid of a flotation device, such as a noodle or belt.

00:12:28.480 In this position, the flotation device supports your upper body while your legs and torso hang freely below you.

00:12:35.800 The setup.

00:12:36.320 What?

00:12:36.940 That can't be what it is.

00:12:38.040 I mean, I could do that.

00:12:38.920 That's just, I could do that, get into a deep end of a pool with a noodle?

00:12:42.860 It's every weekend.

00:12:43.800 What are you talking about?

00:12:44.620 Can you bring a margarita?

00:12:46.140 Man, I could, this test is no big deal.

00:12:51.580 What?

00:12:52.660 No way.

00:12:53.860 No way.

00:12:55.500 Here's the last thing on the test.

00:12:57.760 A vertical tread in an eight foot circle for two hours.

00:13:03.120 No way.

00:13:04.300 Vertical tread in an eight foot circle?

00:13:07.160 So you're in the water and you're treading water in a circle.

00:13:11.400 For how many hours?

00:13:12.080 For two hours?

00:13:13.480 Two.

00:13:14.580 This is not, what?

00:13:16.380 This is not going to be the test.

00:13:18.020 I told you this is the top of the test.

00:13:20.100 I told you this is the top of the test.

00:13:21.680 So this was for the ones who could do all of the other tests.

00:13:25.640 This was the top of the test.

00:13:28.340 The bottom of the test is not that much better.

00:13:30.820 Here's the entry.

00:13:33.760 Let's see.

00:13:34.460 Pull-ups.

00:13:37.020 2 slash 6 slash 10.

00:13:39.060 I don't know what that means.

00:13:40.060 Push-ups.

00:13:40.520 16, 24, 32.

00:13:42.680 Bar dips.

00:13:43.380 4, 8, and 12.

00:13:44.440 Sit-ups.

00:13:44.920 30, 45, and 60.

00:13:46.540 Broad jump.

00:13:48.160 6 foot.

00:13:49.080 6, 6, 6, 6, and 6, 9.

00:13:52.600 To jump?

00:13:54.060 6 feet?

00:13:56.620 I don't even know if that's...

00:13:58.180 I mean...

00:13:58.840 That one is possible, Glenn.

00:14:00.800 Yes, I know it sounds incredible.

00:14:02.660 But yes, that one...

00:14:03.460 Sounds incredible.

00:14:04.360 ...is possible.

00:14:04.780 You know, I think we should have the average person Olympics.

00:14:08.140 I really do.

00:14:09.060 I really do.

00:14:10.180 I'd watch that.

00:14:11.620 I mean, I would watch that every time because you'd see them coming, you know,

00:14:15.220 and you're like, hmm, that one's not three feet.

00:14:18.440 I'd give him three feet.

00:14:21.080 200-yard shuttle.

00:14:24.120 Agility run.

00:14:25.380 Rope climb 18 feet.

00:14:27.680 Hands only.

00:14:30.340 880 yards in three minutes.

00:14:32.900 A mile in seven minutes.

00:14:36.580 Pegboard.

00:14:37.360 Six holes.

00:14:38.500 A 50-yard swim.

00:14:41.360 A 40, 50-yard swim in 36 seconds.

00:14:46.560 Man carry.

00:14:48.020 880 yards.

00:14:51.140 No thank you.

00:14:52.700 No thank you.

00:14:53.700 Look at what we've gone down.

00:14:55.540 That's the bottom of it.

00:14:56.960 And I don't think most Americans could do that.

00:14:58.560 I couldn't.

00:14:59.040 Well, I could because I'm an elite.

00:15:01.840 I have the body of an elite athlete.

00:15:03.580 You, yeah, no.

00:15:04.460 Okay.

00:15:04.600 You could not.

00:15:05.720 Now, of course, you, now, in your, let's just say, and this is supposed to be for a high

00:15:10.460 school kid, right?

00:15:11.300 So this is the prime of your athletic life.

00:15:13.960 Could you do some of these things?

00:15:15.060 Right.

00:15:15.260 Probably.

00:15:16.500 Go into high school.

00:15:17.980 Go into any high school and ask them to do this.

00:15:21.020 There's no way.

00:15:22.560 And all of the kids would be, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh.

00:15:25.780 Well, that's kind of what the reaction's been.

00:15:27.880 I mean, don't get me wrong.

00:15:28.920 I would have been there, too.

00:15:30.980 And my parents would have said, suck it up. 0.70

00:15:33.640 Just do it.

00:15:34.440 So nothing's really changed.

00:15:37.860 That's been the reaction to this proposal, too, of bringing this back, right?

00:15:41.460 Like, the media is covering it.

00:15:43.320 It's like, it's going to embarrass children.

00:15:46.460 You know, I mean, I do remember being like, I can't do that.

00:15:49.640 I'm not going to be able to get to the top of that rope.

00:15:51.240 That's not happening.

00:15:53.020 That's, you know, sort of life, right?

00:15:54.600 Like, sometimes you can do things.

00:15:55.660 Sometimes you can't do other things, right?

00:15:57.000 Like, that's...

00:15:57.600 That's why you have to learn how to injure yourself.

00:16:00.000 Right.

00:16:00.780 You know, how many stairs can I throw myself down to not do serious damage, but enough

00:16:06.260 to get me out of PE?

00:16:07.720 Yeah, you have to fake an injury.

00:16:09.060 You have to, like, learn from LeBron James.

00:16:11.300 Like, act like you got hit in the eye and fall down like you were just stabbed over and

00:16:16.120 over again during an athletic competition.

00:16:18.240 There's no way.

00:16:18.880 No way.

00:16:19.740 And you know what?

00:16:20.440 Honestly, if we...

00:16:21.600 This is why we're not having sex with each other.

00:16:22.960 We're not having kids.

00:16:24.600 Because nobody wants to look at each other.

00:16:26.360 You're like, no, leave your clothes on.

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00:16:45.180 Wait, no, I didn't want you to punch somebody in the face.

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00:17:48.760 Now back to the podcast.

00:17:50.340 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:52.700 One of my good friends, a guy who I just so admired, is Peter Schweitzer, or Ed Meyer.

00:18:01.260 I still admire him.

00:18:02.580 He is the president of the Government Accountability Institute.

00:18:06.120 He is the host of The Drill Down, which is a podcast.

00:18:09.560 He has written numerous books.

00:18:11.180 He's an investigative reporter.

00:18:12.180 He's been on this program a million times and is always way ahead of the game.

00:18:17.760 He's brought to my attention some land exchanges that are going on with China here in our own country, exchanges for dollars.

00:18:26.060 And they are still buying up more land and nobody's doing anything about it.

00:18:28.620 And then there's a story today about the 600,000 Chinese students that Donald Trump is letting come in.

00:18:37.440 Now, there's got to be more of this story on why he's allowing that.

00:18:42.780 But, I mean, these are people that, if I'm not mistaken, and this is my first question, Peter, aren't these students?

00:18:48.900 You have to be close to the CCP to be able to travel to the United States, don't you?

00:18:55.300 You have to be well-connected with the Communist Party.

00:18:58.620 Yeah, that's right, Glenn.

00:19:00.460 I mean, look, the reason I think that Trump is allowing this to happen is because this is a top priority for Xi.

00:19:07.720 And they're trying to negotiate a whole bunch of things.

00:19:10.040 But I still think it is a mistake.

00:19:12.660 And here's why.

00:19:13.600 There are 600,000 Chinese students that come to the United States.

00:19:17.400 American students going to China is a trickle.

00:19:19.800 So this is not about an exchange of ideas.

00:19:22.480 You know, it's not like junior year abroad in Italy where you learn more about Italian culture and you remember the rest of your life.

00:19:29.440 It's not that at all.

00:19:31.380 The students that come to the United States are screened for their political views.

00:19:35.860 Their families are screened for their political views.

00:19:38.820 Their costs are borne by the Chinese government.

00:19:41.580 So when they are here, they are functionaries of the Chinese government.

00:19:46.160 And if they fail to fall in line or do what they're asked, damage can come to their family.

00:19:51.240 Damage can come to them.

00:19:52.580 And the entire premise behind the student exchanges going back to the 1980s is that this would make the Chinese elite more like us, right?

00:20:01.540 They get to know us.

00:20:02.540 They become friendly.

00:20:03.420 They become more Americanized.

00:20:04.840 The vast majority of the hardline aides around President Xi were educated in the United States, primarily at places like Harvard.

00:20:13.220 So it's not working.

00:20:14.600 The Chinese leadership is actually more hardline now than it was under Ku Jintao or under Deng Xiaoping.

00:20:21.320 And they're more Western educated.

00:20:24.000 So it's not doing what they claimed it was going to do.

00:20:27.360 So why is he doing this?

00:20:30.160 I think Trump's doing it because he is trying to secure, you know, a series of trade deals with the Chinese.

00:20:36.560 He's trying to deal with them on the Ukraine-Russia war to pressure Russia.

00:20:41.160 He's got a whole bunch of things on his agenda.

00:20:43.340 This is a priority for Xi.

00:20:45.780 I would say one of his top three priorities.

00:20:47.140 I understand that.

00:20:47.760 But why would it be a priority for Xi?

00:20:49.620 I mean, he gets...

00:20:50.620 Great question.

00:20:51.640 ...600,000 spies here in the United States.

00:20:54.640 Yes.

00:20:55.620 That's correct.

00:20:56.480 And so here's what we know.

00:20:57.800 We know the Chinese students coming to the United States have engaged in espionage.

00:21:02.160 And by the way, they're not coming here to study comparative literature or sociology.

00:21:06.800 They're vast, vast, vast majority.

00:21:08.800 Over 90% are in the hard sciences.

00:21:11.940 So it is stealing our secrets.

00:21:14.200 We also know, by the way, that the fentanyl trade in the United States, as we've talked about before, the Chinese are intimately involved in that.

00:21:22.280 A key component of the money laundering is Chinese students in the United States who are taking suitcases full of cash to Chinese state-owned banks.

00:21:32.460 This is well documented.

00:21:33.560 So there is a component to it there.

00:21:36.660 There's also a political component to it.

00:21:39.080 Chinese students in the United States have done everything from shout-down speakers on college campuses that are critical of China.

00:21:46.460 There have been reports in California of Chinese students being bussed to places like San Francisco to engage in counter-protests when people are concerned about human rights in Tibet.

00:21:58.860 When President Xi, I remember, visited San Francisco, there were thousands of Chinese students bussed in there to organize pro-Xi rallies.

00:22:08.300 So there's also a political force component to this.

00:22:12.340 Wasn't there not – weren't there two students or were they just scientists?

00:22:16.460 Just recently, they were trying to bring in really dangerous stuff, and we caught them.

00:22:21.460 But twice we caught them.

00:22:24.080 That just happened a couple of months ago.

00:22:25.280 Do you remember that story, Peter?

00:22:27.020 Yes, that's exactly right.

00:22:28.680 And so, yeah, these were scientists, but these are scientists that oftentimes are educated in the West.

00:22:35.760 They take on research lab positions at American universities, like the University of Michigan, as in this particular case.

00:22:43.820 And so they sometimes bring in dangerous things.

00:22:48.160 There was a report in Canada of Chinese students that were bringing in pathogens related to COVID back in 2019, widely reported in Canada.

00:22:58.720 So it's an enormous problem, and it's not really something that we are focused on.

00:23:03.980 Again, we are teaching – we are treating them as if they're German exchange students or Americans studying in Italy.

00:23:09.580 That is not how China views this.

00:23:11.700 They view this as a component and an extension of the state, and the students need to fall in line.

00:23:17.060 And if they don't, they're going to suffer serious consequences.

00:23:19.480 Donald Trump is so strategic, and nothing he does is without several things down the line.

00:23:28.880 He's usually playing 3D chess.

00:23:30.600 He's way ahead of everybody else.

00:23:31.960 I cannot imagine what we're getting out of this that would balance this in our favor, but we'll have to see.

00:23:41.040 Is anything being done on the Chinese buying up land?

00:23:44.140 I know you're on a big story now about how much land is being purchased up in the Northeast that is extraordinarily dangerous.

00:23:53.300 Yeah, so we're working on a report right now.

00:23:56.980 One of our top researchers picked 20 military bases at random in the United States,

00:24:03.120 and he wanted to look at land records and say, of those 20 military installations,

00:24:07.860 how many have Chinese-owned land that is just adjacent to those military bases?

00:24:13.820 The answer, Glenn, is all 20.

00:24:16.280 So this is a massive problem.

00:24:19.300 It's, you know, land purchases are not regulated at the national level of the United States.

00:24:23.240 They not necessarily should be.

00:24:25.380 It's done at the state level.

00:24:26.760 And certain states like Florida and others have worked hard to pass legislation in this area.

00:24:31.800 The problem is you have states like California, where there was legislation passed in the state Senate,

00:24:39.100 the state assembly, on a bipartisan basis that said foreign hostile governments,

00:24:46.580 it didn't even say individuals, just foreign hostile governments cannot buy land in California.

00:24:52.080 Gavin Newsom actually vetoed that bill.

00:24:55.820 So the problem is, yeah, it was that narrowly written, bipartisan support, Gavin Newsom vetoed that bill.

00:25:03.840 And I think part of the reason, frankly, is, you know, he's involved in the wine business.

00:25:08.020 He has land vineyards in the wine area.

00:25:12.460 And Chinese state companies have been buying up vineyards in Napa Valley.

00:25:17.340 So it probably would have affected the valuations of his property.

00:25:20.380 That's, I think, one of the motivations.

00:25:22.240 And as we've talked about before, he has a, let's say, long history of association with people involved in the United Front groups

00:25:30.020 and, frankly, people involved with Chinese organized crimes.

00:25:33.680 So the land issue is not going anywhere.

00:25:36.760 It's a major problem.

00:25:38.600 Peter, if I'm just looking at this on the surface, I immediately think back to what Ukraine did to Russia with the drones, 0.97

00:25:46.640 where they were in these trucks, they were right outside the military base,

00:25:50.480 and they destroyed things that we could, we in our wildest dreams couldn't have destroyed just a few years ago.

00:25:56.700 And it was because of drones.

00:25:58.000 And it was a whole new line of attack.

00:26:00.660 Everybody knows that China is the leader in drone technology.

00:26:05.180 I mean, they are just way ahead of everybody.

00:26:07.640 If you don't, if you have a drone and it's not, what is it, DGI, DJI, it's not the best.

00:26:13.860 It's all coming from China. 1.00

00:26:15.800 If you have property all around the United States, all adjacent to our military bases,

00:26:23.920 that is a direct threat to our national security.

00:26:28.600 I mean, you could have a barn full of those drones or a truck full of those drones,

00:26:33.020 and you could take everything out on those military bases quickly,

00:26:35.840 and America wouldn't have any time to respond.

00:26:39.160 Is it deeper than that on concerns?

00:26:41.980 Well, I think, yeah, I think that's the main one is, right,

00:26:46.360 the ability not only to cause kinetic damage, as the Ukrainians have shown,

00:26:51.420 by you've flown drones and you blow things up.

00:26:54.060 And look, even our most secure military bases are not going to be able to defend against attacks like that.

00:27:00.200 You have the additional problem that you could do something more stealthy.

00:27:03.400 You could take drones, you know, with pathogens, with poisons, and introduce them into a military installation.

00:27:12.980 So, yeah, it's a massive, massive problem.

00:27:16.420 And the notion that we can't even limit the Chinese government or government state-owned companies from buying real estate,

00:27:26.000 that that somehow is a violation of some constitutional right,

00:27:30.160 as if the Chinese government has constitutional rights in the United States, is patently absurd.

00:27:36.120 So this is something we've got to continue to address.

00:27:39.440 We're going to keep exposing it.

00:27:40.700 You've been on the front lines of it, Glenn.

00:27:42.820 And it's one of those things, I think, that people innately understand.

00:27:47.020 When you think about currency flows, when you think about money laundering, it gets complicated.

00:27:51.600 This is very real and basic and understandable.

00:27:54.780 Yeah.

00:27:55.580 Peter, as always, thank you very much.

00:27:57.000 Thanks for your hard work.

00:27:57.740 We'll talk again.

00:27:58.740 Peter Schweitzer.

00:27:59.480 Thanks, Glenn.

00:28:01.220 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:28:03.800 All right.

00:28:09.600 Welcome to the program, Claire.

00:28:12.140 How are you?

00:28:13.880 Hello.

00:28:14.440 I'm doing well.

00:28:15.120 How are you?

00:28:16.420 I am.

00:28:16.960 I'm really good.

00:28:17.620 I watched your video, and the story of you and your mom is so unbelievably compelling.

00:28:24.540 And especially since, I mean, I'm a father of four.

00:28:28.360 And, you know, I have children.

00:28:32.560 My children have told me all kinds of things.

00:28:35.240 And it is so hard as a parent, especially at this time when everything is so confused.

00:28:42.340 And all of the experts are saying, no, your kid's going to kill themselves.

00:28:47.000 It is what your mom went through, let alone what you went through.

00:28:50.840 But what your mom went through is just, I think, so universal to some degree or another.

00:28:57.360 And I want to thank you for coming on and telling your story.

00:29:01.820 Can you start at 14?

00:29:06.040 What happened?

00:29:07.040 I can.

00:29:08.160 Yeah.

00:29:09.480 Well, it'd be better to start a little earlier.

00:29:13.140 Okay.

00:29:13.460 I started identifying as trans when I was 12 years old, following a sexual assault and

00:29:24.400 some pretty severe bullying that I was experiencing at school.

00:29:29.460 And adopting this identity gave me, well, one, it gave me the ability to pretend to be a new person,

00:29:38.360 someone that this didn't happen to.

00:29:39.980 And it also gave me an entire social network, a whole friend group of other kids who felt

00:29:47.320 similarly to the way I did.

00:29:49.560 And I fell into this social group and started seeing therapists recommended by the people

00:30:03.540 in the support groups that we were going to.

00:30:06.080 And they made my parents feel like abusers for being skeptical, for wanting to take pause

00:30:14.160 before, like, making irreparable changes to their child's body.

00:30:19.460 Did anyone say, any doctor say, hang on, we should look at the abuse?

00:30:24.640 We should, I mean, this might be something that is tied to the abuse and to those experiences.

00:30:30.760 Did anybody say that and take it seriously?

00:30:33.440 No one.

00:30:34.800 No one.

00:30:35.220 My mom asked about the abuse, the bullying, all these things that I'd gone through, disordered

00:30:41.940 eating, and she was told in no uncertain terms, no, that does not make a child think that they're trans.

00:30:50.320 That has nothing to do with it.

00:30:51.100 And these are doctors like at Cook Children's Hospital in Dallas, a fantastic children's hospital.

00:30:57.580 So they have credibility with parents, right?

00:31:01.160 One of the most well-funded children's hospitals in the nation, yes.

00:31:06.820 Interesting way of verifying what I said, the most well-funded.

00:31:11.800 Okay, so at 14, you were put on testosterone, and then like six months later, they're talking about surgery?

00:31:22.120 Yeah, no.

00:31:22.860 I started testosterone in November of 2018, and by January, I was approved for surgery.

00:31:32.100 It didn't happen until June, but that was just because we wanted to wait until the summer between my 8th and 9th grade years.

00:31:43.400 Oh, my gosh.

00:31:44.440 Oh, my gosh.

00:31:47.700 That's pretty young.

00:31:48.900 You're not legal to do anything at that point.

00:31:51.620 Right.

00:31:51.860 I couldn't get a learner's permit.

00:31:59.960 So what did they tell you about the surgery, and what didn't they tell you about the surgery?

00:32:06.460 Well, they told me that I was transgender, that I had gender dysphoria,

00:32:11.540 and that the only effective treatment for gender dysphoria was chemical and surgical intervention,

00:32:20.040 that if I didn't go through with this, the most likely outcome was suicide.

00:32:25.500 That's what they told my parents right in front of me.

00:32:28.360 Yeah.

00:32:28.540 And they didn't tell me that they would be performing a drains-free mastectomy on me,

00:32:41.580 meaning there was a significantly higher risk of fluid buildup and graft rejection as a result,

00:32:49.900 which did end up happening.

00:32:55.680 They didn't tell me that I would permanently take away my ability to breastfeed.

00:33:03.800 They didn't tell me that the majority of kids who look to pursue this end up growing out of it.

00:33:12.460 But there was a lot of things that I wasn't told.

00:33:16.580 So, I mean, but you weren't told, like, serious, like, you know, pelvic floor dysfunction and urinary incontinence and anything.

00:33:25.140 I mean, I see commercials on TV for, you know, drugs, and they go into 45 seconds of all of the things that could possibly happen to you.

00:33:36.800 They weren't required to tell you these things?

00:33:40.900 No, they were required.

00:33:42.540 They just didn't.

00:33:44.020 They just didn't do it.

00:33:45.260 And that's what the FCC and the DOJ are investigating now.

00:33:51.680 They're still doing it, aren't they?

00:33:55.140 The doctor who did it to me is currently being sued by the Attorney General of Texas for continuing to do it after it was banned.

00:34:07.780 So, when did you know?

00:34:09.480 I heard you talk about how when, you know, the double mastectomy, the bandages came off, and you cried,

00:34:16.540 and everybody thought there were tears of joy, but you weren't so sure.

00:34:20.120 What was like, when did you start going, uh-oh, uh-oh, what have I done?

00:34:30.020 There was always a feeling of sadness surrounding my chest,

00:34:38.360 but the narrative that they tell you in the trans community is that everyone kind of feels bad after surgery.

00:34:46.260 It's post-op depression is what they call it.

00:34:49.960 And that, I believed that it was just post-op depression for around a year.

00:34:54.620 And that, uh, what actually happened was a girl on my high school's vault talking about a breast reduction.

00:35:05.420 And I learned what a breast reduction was from that and realized that a complete mastectomy was not the only option that was available to me,

00:35:18.200 that things were hidden from me, uh, and that's when things started, tides started changing for me.

00:35:26.360 So, when did you start trying to speak out?

00:35:29.020 Because they silenced you immediately, right?

00:35:31.680 Mm-hmm.

00:35:32.880 They deleted my reviews off of, um, my surgeon's websites.

00:35:38.580 But I, I started posting on the internet, um, in, like, 2021 about what happened to me.

00:35:50.780 But I wasn't fully woken up to the reality of the situation until, uh, last December.

00:35:59.300 That's when I had my first public event.

00:36:05.660 And what did you wake up to?

00:36:08.580 That we're harming children.

00:36:11.100 That there's no such thing as a trans child. 0.91

00:36:13.160 And no, no one is born in the wrong body.

00:36:16.560 That you don't become your true self by cutting off pieces of yourself.

00:36:27.020 You, in your story, said that at one point, um, you started wearing, like, a padded bra.

00:36:34.840 And you didn't want your mom to know about it.

00:36:37.100 And I thought it was heartbreaking how you were protecting your mom.

00:36:45.960 And maybe you didn't know it at the time.

00:36:47.760 But, uh, uh, can you go through that part of the story?

00:36:51.960 Yeah.

00:36:53.540 Yeah.

00:36:53.600 So, shortly after I had the realization, after I learned what a breast reduction was, I started,

00:37:04.340 I got curious about women's fashion.

00:37:08.800 Again, I started wanting to be seen as a girl again.

00:37:13.060 And so I started wearing padded bras in secret and I would hide them under my mattress whenever I got home from school.

00:37:22.620 And one day my mom found one of these padded bras and she asked me if she had made a mistake.

00:37:33.080 Basically, if, if all of this had been for nothing.

00:37:35.980 So, wait, wait, wait, wait, not if you made a mistake, but if she had made the mistake.

00:37:43.520 Yes.

00:37:46.340 Well, I mean, I was a child and we all knew that I was a child and that this was ultimately not my decision.

00:37:56.100 And it was, there were many medical professionals and guardians who had to sign off on this.

00:38:03.400 Um, but yeah, she asked if all of this had been a mistake and I, I got really defensive and, uh, upset.

00:38:14.420 And I told her that I lashed out at her and I told her that this was why I didn't tell her that I knew she was going to overreact and make it a big deal.

00:38:26.500 Um, but it was a big deal and that's why she made it one.

00:38:32.540 Uh, and you know, I didn't, I didn't tell her that I regretted my transition.

00:38:39.780 I didn't tell her that I was, uh, de-transitioning until I decided to get breast implants when I was 18.

00:38:48.060 When you're how old?

00:38:49.920 18.

00:38:51.360 18.

00:38:51.760 And that's when you told your mom, when you were sitting in the meeting for reconstructive surgery, right?

00:38:58.980 Yes.

00:38:59.500 Or going to the meeting.

00:39:02.020 How is your mom doing?

00:39:05.860 She's doing okay.

00:39:07.960 Um, we both live with a lot of pain and a lot of regret and, uh, we talk about it a lot.

00:39:19.100 There's a, there's a lot to unpack and there's a lot of wounds that will never really fully be healed.

00:39:25.340 But, um, she loves me and I've never questioned that.

00:39:30.540 She did this because she loves me and she thought I would say, she thought she was saving my life.

00:39:38.320 So you can understand how, you can understand how parents are just as duped as the 14 year old.

00:39:45.460 Um, yeah, I mean, when you're sitting in front of a mandated reporter who you've entrusted with your child's life and they're telling you that you're killing them, that your child, that your child is cutting themselves and starving themselves because you won't go along with this.

00:40:05.080 It would take a lot of prior knowledge of this issue and a lot of like very strong will to be able to just overlook that, to be able to say, no, I know what's best.

00:40:22.480 So now the FTC is looking into, um, whether the pediatric gender medicine industry is deceiving families, hiding risks, making false claims.

00:40:37.600 Uh, and this could really be a big impact on stopping this nightmare.

00:40:42.940 Um, what do people do to help?

00:40:46.960 Well, if you are someone who has been affected by pediatric medical transition,

00:40:52.480 or if you know someone who has the FTC is taking comments from the public, uh, submissions for people to investigate essentially.

00:41:04.180 And if you need any assistance, filling out that submission, the LGB courage coalition, helping people to, uh, submit those forms.

00:41:17.760 And if you don't, if you're not someone who has been affected and you don't know anyone, spreading the word is a great way to help, um, sharing things like the IWF documentary that me and my mom participated, because people really believe that this isn't happening.

00:41:40.060 People, people, people need to know.

00:41:44.220 I want you to, I urge you to go to IWF.org, IWF.org and, uh, and read and learn and watch.

00:41:51.860 Uh, and you can go there and you can actually submit a comment directly to the FTC as well and urge them to crack down on the mutilation of our children.

00:42:01.340 Claire, thank you.

00:42:02.700 Thank you for being brave enough to share all of this and, uh, tell your mom we pray for not only you, but also her.

00:42:16.120 God bless.

00:42:17.260 Thank you, Glenn.

00:42:18.440 Bless you.

00:42:19.060 Thank you.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 26, 2025

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Peter Schweizer & Claire Abernathy ｜ 8⧸26⧸25

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