The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Brad Wenstrup & Riley Lee ｜ 12⧸4⧸24

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00:00:30.000 Great show today.

00:00:31.180 We talked to the guy who has just released the official findings on COVID.

00:00:39.400 COVID-19, how did it happen?

00:00:40.880 Where did it come from?

00:00:41.920 Surprise, surprise.

00:00:43.400 You know all the answers, but there's more that has not been released.

00:00:48.080 We talk about that coming up.

00:00:49.840 Also, the presidential nominees, my time with the president last night, some of the things we talked about, war, the economy, etc., etc.

00:00:58.740 And trying to get Braveheart's sword into Mar-a-Lago and pass the Secret Service.

00:01:07.960 Not easy.

00:01:09.340 I tell you that story as well on today's podcast.

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00:02:35.880 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:39.840 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:46.000 We have a shortened time with Brad Wenstrup.

00:02:50.700 He is the chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

00:02:54.940 And I've got a ton of questions.

00:02:56.340 First of all, Brad, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for everything that you guys have done on looking into COVID.

00:03:05.060 And I'm surprised.

00:03:06.920 It apparently came from a lab in some place called Wuhan.

00:03:11.220 Yeah, you're shocked, aren't you?

00:03:12.920 Oh, I know.

00:03:14.400 Yeah.

00:03:16.000 It's amazing.

00:03:17.000 I tell you that Christmas music, I was glad to hear it, but it doesn't fit my mood.

00:03:20.520 It actually fits mine because I think something is going to be done about this.

00:03:28.840 When I saw that Fauci's senior advisor deleted federal COVID-19 records and all of the things he did with EcoHealth Alliance,

00:03:40.320 is there a chance people go to jail?

00:03:44.060 Yeah, there should be.

00:03:45.420 And EcoHealth Alliance is a good place to start.

00:03:49.080 But, you know, Glenn, I've followed you for a long time.

00:03:52.180 You know, we both grew up with the beginning of Superman in black and white,

00:03:57.540 fighting for truth, justice the American way.

00:03:59.740 And that's what we're fighting for here because it just doesn't exist.

00:04:03.440 And you know what we really have found is obviously China had a cover-up.

00:04:06.480 I mean, that's not a surprise.

00:04:07.580 Everyone knows that by now when people suspect it and we've got so much proof that there's cover-up within our government

00:04:13.900 and then certainly cover-up from these international scientists who do gain-of-function research,

00:04:18.560 dangerous research, who have every reason to want this thing to be said to come from nature

00:04:24.000 because they don't want the blood on their hands, that this is the type of thing.

00:04:28.140 But even in 2012, Dr. Fauci was asked, well, aren't you concerned about a pandemic if it gets out of the lab?

00:04:35.160 And this is in an interview in 2012.

00:04:36.640 So I think the benefits outweigh the risk.

00:04:39.020 Well, I would beg to differ.

00:04:40.260 I don't think the benefits do outweigh the risk.

00:04:42.400 You haven't prevented a pandemic.

00:04:44.300 You've created it.

00:04:45.800 And you've developed a technology that can be used by adversaries like China to develop bioweapons. 0.89

00:04:52.540 I mean, this is really, really bad.

00:04:55.920 And EcoHealth Alliance, I mean, the things that go on in our government today are unbelievable.

00:05:01.540 You know, Fauci's deputy, Dr. Morin, is saying things in his emails like, hey, email me on my Gmail because I'm getting FOIA'd, right?

00:05:13.020 And I'll hide these things and we'll keep things out.

00:05:16.020 We don't want the New York Times.

00:05:17.260 Well, guess what?

00:05:18.020 He also wrote one later.

00:05:19.300 Oh, it turns out they can still get these emails.

00:05:22.000 You know, the deceit was unbelievable.

00:05:25.120 There's no oversight process on the grants.

00:05:28.280 It's just money going out the door.

00:05:30.060 Fauci even said, well, I get billions of dollars in grants and I only just sign them.

00:05:35.960 An advisory board okays them.

00:05:38.520 I can't see what's in them.

00:05:40.280 It's like, where does the buck stop?

00:05:41.880 With anybody?

00:05:42.640 Oh, it's over in compliance.

00:05:44.260 I don't have anything to do with that.

00:05:45.520 We had no oversight over doing dangerous research in a foreign lab of an adversary, a research that has the potential to create a bioweapon. 0.97

00:05:55.320 So, Congressman, I'm sorry.

00:05:57.480 I'm up against a network break.

00:05:58.960 Could I have you back?

00:06:00.060 I'd even like to do a full podcast with you uninterrupted so we could go through this because this is so important that this is all cleaned up.

00:06:09.940 Thank you for your work.

00:06:11.280 And please, I'd love to have you back when we have time.

00:06:14.500 I'd be glad to do the podcast.

00:06:16.380 Great.

00:06:17.260 Thank you.

00:06:17.820 Thank you.

00:06:19.160 Congressman Brad Wenstrup, he is the chairman on the coronavirus pandemic.

00:06:24.340 They released all of the information yesterday.

00:06:27.620 Okay, so earlier today, we had Congressman Brad Wenstrup on with us.

00:06:32.840 He is the chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

00:06:37.220 He's a Republican from Ohio.

00:06:40.080 They've been doing yeoman's work trying to get to the truth about what happened with COVID.

00:06:46.520 You're going to be shocked, honestly.

00:06:50.320 Hold your chin because your chin and your mouth may fall so far open when you hear this news, it could go to the floor.

00:06:58.420 However, it apparently came from a lab in Wuhan.

00:07:04.720 This, what I'm going to tell you right now is non-classified.

00:07:11.120 And because I had such a short time with Brad on the air, because we were up against this network clock, we didn't get to everything.

00:07:18.880 And he asked to hold on and talk to my producers after we got off the air.

00:07:25.240 And he said, tell Glenn, this is just the declassified stuff that has come out.

00:07:30.820 He said, the classified stuff, and it's going to come out, he said, is jaw-dropping.

00:07:37.500 He said, it is so far out of control, our government and big farm.

00:07:43.320 And gosh, wouldn't it be a shame to have somebody like Robert F. Kennedy say, I think this should be declassified.

00:07:54.400 I talked to the president yesterday about RFK, and he's like, he said to me, Glenn, there is a problem with something.

00:08:02.740 I don't know what it is.

00:08:03.740 He thinks it's food and pharmaceuticals, but just with autism, the numbers are staggering.

00:08:10.400 It is out of control, and he's convinced.

00:08:15.080 And so I told him, give me the science, show me, prove it, and let's fix it if that's what it is.

00:08:23.200 And he's also very clear about transparency.

00:08:27.420 And I think if Robert F. Kennedy comes out and says, you know what, the coronavirus pandemic thing really needs to be declassified, I think Donald Trump is going to declassify it.

00:08:37.700 And it is going to expose everybody.

00:08:41.820 Everybody is involved in this.

00:08:44.160 The intelligence community, the Justice Department, the cover-up alone from the NIH and Fauci's office.

00:08:52.640 We know now that they were shredding and deleting information and emails.

00:08:59.100 They were intentionally, and even during the subcommittee in the last year or so, while this was going on,

00:09:08.060 the Democrats were still trying to block getting any information on this.

00:09:16.080 The senior advisor for Fauci unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, okay?

00:09:24.500 You don't do that.

00:09:26.760 He then shared non-public information about NIH grant processes with EcoHealth Alliance.

00:09:33.160 This is everything we said.

00:09:36.020 We were, I think, the first ones to come out with a special and a giant chalkboard to show you exactly what happened.

00:09:42.920 We were almost dropped entirely from YouTube because of it.

00:09:51.060 And then Steve Dace and, gosh, what's his name?

00:09:58.120 I feel horrible, that wrote the book about, you know, how we're turning into Nazis.

00:10:04.420 Oh, Daniel Horowitz.

00:10:05.880 Yeah, Daniel Horowitz.

00:10:06.680 Then they came out with a book, and almost all of this stuff now is being proven, and that's just the declassified stuff.

00:10:15.640 This is, we have a real problem.

00:10:20.040 Our government is completely out of control.

00:10:22.960 And I am, I just want to remind you, the Declaration of Independence says,

00:10:28.000 Hey, dear King George, we really feel bad.

00:10:31.760 You know, we tried to talk to you about some things, and we really have to break away.

00:10:35.680 But we apologize that we're wanting to do that, but we feel we have to tell you why.

00:10:41.700 This revolution that we started is unlike any other revolutionary document ever produced in the history of the world.

00:10:50.640 Read BLM's revolutionary documents.

00:10:53.640 We're going to end this.

00:10:54.800 We're going to destroy the traditional family. 1.00

00:10:56.560 We're going to do this, and this, and this.

00:10:58.520 Ours started with, hey, we have a respect for God and mankind, and we think we need to tell you why. 1.00

00:11:06.420 And then it doesn't go into because you suck. 0.98

00:11:08.660 It goes into because we see things completely different. 0.98

00:11:11.520 We hold things that you don't believe to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, yada, yada.

00:11:16.560 And then it goes into, and governments are instituted among men to protect those rights.

00:11:25.380 And paraphrasing, whenever a government begins to injure those rights or harm those rights,

00:11:31.520 it is the right and the duty of the public to overthrow that government and replace it with a government more likely to protect those rights.

00:11:43.180 That's what happened, gang.

00:11:45.480 We just went through that paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

00:11:51.760 What this mandate was is we are overthrowing this out-of-control government that is inflicting damage on our rights,

00:12:03.900 and we're replacing it with a bunch of outsiders, hopefully, that will be better equipped to protect our rights.

00:12:12.840 Okay?

00:12:13.180 So we did this the right way.

00:12:15.240 This is fantastic news.

00:12:17.720 Because our founders saw the solution, and we actually did it.

00:12:24.000 Now we just have to make sure, because these guys are going to fight with it.

00:12:27.100 There is so much money involved.

00:12:29.620 I mean, you want to just think of all the wars that are breaking out right now.

00:12:35.200 All of the wars.

00:12:36.740 You have South Korea.

00:12:38.420 You have North Korea, China, violating South Korea.

00:12:41.700 You have China with their drones. 0.79

00:12:43.460 I don't know if you've seen the video of their drone armies.

00:12:45.580 Oh, my, our aircraft carriers are over.

00:12:49.660 Mark my words, the next global war, the next serious war, aircraft carriers are going to be the horse of World War I.

00:13:00.520 It's over.

00:13:02.820 They're going to take Taiwan, possibly. 0.86

00:13:06.900 If Trump gets in, there's a chance of that stopping, or when Trump gets in.

00:13:13.000 But what are we doing?

00:13:14.240 We're depleting everything we have.

00:13:17.360 We built, rebuilt our armed forces under Trump.

00:13:22.220 Now, we don't have enough to fight a two-front war.

00:13:27.840 We just don't have enough.

00:13:29.280 We don't have it.

00:13:29.940 We've given it away.

00:13:30.960 Why?

00:13:32.460 Because the military-industrial complex says, you know what?

00:13:35.920 We can, why don't you give your stuff away?

00:13:38.380 We'll make more for you.

00:13:39.780 You know the money that is involved?

00:13:44.460 This is, think of Jason Bourne.

00:13:47.580 Those movies where people are killed because of small things like, you know, a billion dollars or power,

00:13:57.000 that is happening in almost every industry and every big business around the world.

00:14:05.420 Pharmaceuticals, healthcare, intelligence, the military-industrial complex, the education complex, everything.

00:14:14.580 When these things are exposed, people are going to be in danger on both sides.

00:14:23.100 You're going to just start seeing people, ooh, accidentally falling out of a window.

00:14:28.100 I'm convinced of it. 0.62

00:14:29.000 Because it is so corrupt.

00:14:32.820 But the good news is, we are on it.

00:14:38.380 And the best thing that can happen is to release all of these documents.

00:14:47.060 And this is the one thing I do like about RFK.

00:14:50.860 RFK doesn't trust the government.

00:14:54.680 He does not trust the intelligence agencies.

00:14:57.660 He doesn't trust the government because he's seen two murders and assassinations in his own family.

00:15:06.240 He knows what deep state can do.

00:15:09.680 And I am absolutely convinced.

00:15:11.640 I was never convinced of this before.

00:15:13.880 I am absolutely convinced.

00:15:18.260 Oswald killed him.

00:15:20.880 But that was an operation.

00:15:23.720 I'm absolutely convinced that was an operation.

00:15:26.580 He was going to cut all of the endless wars that they were preparing for.

00:15:34.000 Donald Trump is in that same situation.

00:15:37.520 The good news is, Donald Trump is not alone.

00:15:41.540 John F. Kennedy was kind of alone.

00:15:43.920 Had his brother.

00:15:45.680 But kind of alone.

00:15:47.240 But remember what Hoover did.

00:15:51.620 That's why Kash Patel is so critical in the FBI.

00:15:57.080 Kash Patel is, they are, they are pooping their pants, I mean, all day long.

00:16:05.060 I don't know how many changes of underwear they have to bring to Congress and the Senate and to the FBI building every day.

00:16:12.080 But they got to be changing their underpants a lot because that guy is serious.

00:16:18.960 I talked to his wife last night.

00:16:21.500 And she said, Kash wanted to come up and make sure that I said hello.

00:16:25.620 And I said, you make sure you tell him.

00:16:27.760 I am 100% behind him because we talked on TV months ago.

00:16:35.920 And he talked about, I wouldn't have released the JFK papers.

00:16:40.720 He said, I can't explain why, but I saw them.

00:16:43.960 I think that was the right decision.

00:16:46.060 But everything else, it just, it needs to be declassified.

00:16:49.260 Everything just needs to be declassified.

00:16:51.220 We just, this is too secretive.

00:16:53.240 So there's no accountability.

00:16:55.460 That guy's going to go in and he's going to take things like this and people are going to go to jail.

00:17:02.940 This is the kind of revolution that our founders wanted.

00:17:08.220 It is a peaceful revolution.

00:17:11.940 But they're not stopping their fight.

00:17:15.200 We are, we are in for, and I, I, I hate to keep harping on this, but this is why I'm so concerned about global war.

00:17:22.200 Because this isn't just an American problem.

00:17:25.160 This is happening everywhere.

00:17:27.320 This is everyone, every country, every Western country has this going on.

00:17:33.960 Look at Canada.

00:17:34.900 Look at Trudeau.

00:17:36.360 What do you think is hiding in the closet of Trudeau?

00:17:40.860 What do you think is hiding in the closets of the Labour Party and, and even the Conservative Party over in England or France or Germany?

00:17:52.940 That, that, that doesn't have the kind of constitutional oversight like we have.

00:17:58.640 That these secrets are everywhere and they're connected.

00:18:01.540 We have our work cut out for us, but, uh, I just, I have to tell you, I feel this from every, every part of my being.

00:18:13.320 It is going to be very, very tough, but God is with us.

00:18:19.260 And Donald Trump is serious.

00:18:21.720 And, uh, he is looking for, I don't get the feeling he is married to any one person that he's appointing.

00:18:33.280 He, he is married to the mission. 0.88

00:18:36.180 And the mission is get it done, get it done completely and get it done fast before they can even react to cut our heads off, cut the heads off of this snake. 0.63

00:18:50.200 And he's serious about it. 0.62

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00:20:22.880 Now back to the podcast.

00:20:25.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:27.340 And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:20:30.780 Sometimes, sometimes I cannot believe the life I lead.

00:20:34.720 You know, sometimes I don't know if you've ever had this feeling to where something happens to you and you're like, this is my life.

00:20:41.840 You know, how has this happened?

00:20:43.720 Yesterday, I went to a Mar-a-Lago and I was with the president.

00:20:48.200 I was speaking on behalf of Dennis Prager trying to help raise money for Prager University.

00:20:54.280 By the way, please, please pray hard for Dennis Prager.

00:20:59.140 He is doing better.

00:21:00.980 But what happened again?

00:21:02.020 He fell in the shower, hit his head, and it snapped C3, C4.

00:21:10.960 And so he has been on a ventilator up until yesterday or the day before.

00:21:15.040 First time he actually spoke was yesterday because he's been on a vent.

00:21:19.320 I didn't realize it was that serious.

00:21:20.540 Oh, it's really serious.

00:21:21.540 But he's doing better and he's moving.

00:21:26.320 You know, they thought he could be permanently paralyzed, but it looks like he's not going to be.

00:21:32.740 But he has a long road ahead of him.

00:21:35.300 He's very optimistic.

00:21:37.000 He's, I mean, he's Dennis Prager.

00:21:38.320 He's such a good guy.

00:21:40.200 So please pray for him.

00:21:41.880 But they were doing a big fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

00:21:45.060 And so I was there and I was asked to talk about history, bring some history artifacts from the vault.

00:21:53.300 So I did.

00:21:54.940 And yesterday, you know, I don't write my speeches.

00:21:57.900 I just kind of go through the vault and I'm like, nah, I want to tell that story and that story and that story.

00:22:02.000 So I grabbed a bunch of stuff and didn't really put a lot of thought into it until we started approaching Mar-a-Lago.

00:22:11.560 Because now, if you've ever been there, to get to Mar-a-Lago, you have to cross a bridge.

00:22:17.080 It's this big, beautiful bridge.

00:22:19.020 Well, it's closed now.

00:22:20.160 You don't go across that bridge.

00:22:21.840 I mean, I'd hate to be a neighbor of the president right now.

00:22:25.580 Or to be a member of the club.

00:22:27.360 It must be challenging.

00:22:28.540 It is a nightmare right now.

00:22:32.000 And I'm happy.

00:22:33.080 I'm really happy.

00:22:34.340 Obviously a good thing.

00:22:35.300 The Secret Service are, they are a completely different group of people than they used to be.

00:22:41.920 I still want to see changes at the top, but they're at least doing their job really well.

00:22:49.200 So you, like two blocks before you get to that bridge, you have to have clearance to continue to drive.

00:22:56.500 And so you get to the bridge, get final clearance, and then you drive over the bridge.

00:23:00.440 And Mar-a-Lago is on the other side of the bridge.

00:23:02.880 And usually you go by the back service entrance, and you go in around a roundabout, and then you go through the front.

00:23:10.180 The front is just, I mean, it's like Secret Service, you know, trucks and everything else just blocking everything.

00:23:18.520 When I, when we landed at the airport, I saw his plane, they surrounded it with old school buses now.

00:23:25.680 So it's parked outside at the airport, but the, all these old school buses are wrapping the plane.

00:23:34.360 So you can't see anything except, like, the flag on the tail.

00:23:39.160 I mean, it's, the security around him now is absolutely incredible.

00:23:42.880 As it should be.

00:23:43.540 As it should be.

00:23:45.420 But, so he is, so you have to go in.

00:23:49.500 And so we, we come around, and we try to get into the back entry, and they said, you got to turn around, you got to go across the street and go through security.

00:23:59.160 And we're like, okay.

00:23:59.960 So we turn around, we go across the street in through this parking lot where they have these tents set up.

00:24:05.300 And you drive into these tents.

00:24:08.260 It was weird.

00:24:08.900 It was like, it was almost like a car wash in a way.

00:24:11.620 And Secret Service, you know, guns, everything, everywhere.

00:24:17.260 And you drive in, and they ask you for all your ID.

00:24:24.640 Then they say, any weapons in the car.

00:24:27.760 And that's when I realized, I said no.

00:24:31.100 And then we drove on, and I was like, ah, I think I answered that wrong.

00:24:37.140 And so we drove into the second tent, and they make you open the hood of your car.

00:24:42.600 And they, it's not, it's, it's not like TSA.

00:24:45.580 You know, TSA is like, yeah, well, just put your hands up, and we're going to scan you.

00:24:50.600 And they're not looking at anything.

00:24:52.840 These guys, they open up the hood of every car.

00:24:55.820 There's only about 80 cars that could be, that were allowed into Mar-a-Lago.

00:25:01.100 Usually, you can park, you know, across the street and everything else.

00:25:04.080 You have to take a shuttle for like five miles.

00:25:07.820 So, but we were allowed to park.

00:25:10.500 And so we go in to the second tent.

00:25:13.160 They open up the hood.

00:25:14.560 They open up the doors.

00:25:15.760 They bring the dogs out.

00:25:17.040 They ask you questions.

00:25:18.540 They're actually, two of them, looking at the engine, looking to see, is there anything in there?

00:25:23.200 The dog is smelling everything.

00:25:24.660 And I said, I may have answered a question incorrectly.

00:25:30.380 They asked if there were any weapons in the car.

00:25:33.300 And they're not.

00:25:34.860 But I'm doing a speech.

00:25:37.060 And I did bring some, and the guy, he knew who I was.

00:25:40.220 And he's like, Mr. Beck, just tell them across the street when you get there.

00:25:44.400 So, we go across the street.

00:25:47.700 And when you get there, secret service everywhere.

00:25:51.740 And you open up the door.

00:25:54.040 And first, they tell you, stay in your car.

00:25:56.940 Dogs, again.

00:25:58.680 Then you open the door.

00:25:59.980 You get out.

00:26:01.240 And they ask you again, do you have any weapons of any kind on you or in your car?

00:26:07.420 And I said, and luckily, again, they knew who I was.

00:26:11.000 And I said, well, kind of.

00:26:14.220 And the guy went, kind of?

00:26:17.500 And I said, well.

00:26:18.620 It's not a good answer.

00:26:19.560 I know, not a good answer.

00:26:20.920 And I said, well, I'm giving a speech on history.

00:26:24.880 And I brought some things.

00:26:27.240 And I wasn't really thinking about security when I put them.

00:26:32.980 And I told them, he said, how the hell did you get this on a plane?

00:26:36.800 And I said, long story.

00:26:38.840 But so, I said, the first thing I have is, I have Braveheart's longsword from the movie Braveheart, his broadsword.

00:26:49.300 And they went, you brought a sword?

00:26:53.520 And I said, well, I mean, on the bright side, it would be pretty hard to smuggle that close to the president.

00:27:01.520 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:02.260 It's not like we're going to have a sword fight.

00:27:04.080 No.

00:27:04.180 And they're just laughing.

00:27:07.540 And they're like, okay.

00:27:08.560 And I said, but it's a prop.

00:27:10.320 And he immediately puts his finger in his ear.

00:27:14.380 And he's like, I'm going to need some more authority up here, please.

00:27:19.000 So, all the head guys of Secret Service start coming.

00:27:21.820 They just swarm the table.

00:27:24.120 And he's like, this is metal.

00:27:28.520 This is an actual sword.

00:27:29.980 I said, yeah, but it was a movie prop.

00:27:31.840 It's an actual sword.

00:27:34.580 We're going to have to think about this one.

00:27:36.420 You leave that with us.

00:27:37.580 And I said, okay, this one might be a little more difficult.

00:27:42.480 And they said, than the sword?

00:27:44.860 And I said, yeah.

00:27:48.420 And I'm unwrapping it out of this case. 0.96

00:27:51.580 And I said, it's a rat.

00:27:54.460 Now, there's about 15 of them at this time around this table. 0.93

00:27:59.380 Not 15 Secret Service agents.

00:28:01.300 Because they're just looking like, this is crazy.

00:28:04.460 This has never been done before.

00:28:06.020 This is like the best story they've had in a while.

00:28:07.460 Well, they were taking pictures of everything.

00:28:09.440 They were laughing.

00:28:10.120 They were like, this is now lore in Secret Service.

00:28:15.320 And I said, it's a rat.

00:28:19.520 And they laughed and said, what's special about the rat that you want to bring near the president?

00:28:28.560 And I said, well, it was made by Ian Fleming during World War II by order of Winston Churchill.

00:28:38.140 And they said, okay.

00:28:40.180 And I pull it out of the box. 1.00

00:28:42.020 And I said, and it has a bomb in its butt. 0.99

00:28:45.840 And they said, one of them just put their head in their hands. 1.00

00:28:50.500 And I went, you have a rat from World War II that has a bomb in its butt. 0.99

00:28:58.880 And I said, yeah, but, I mean, it hasn't gone off. 0.97

00:29:05.320 I mean, it's been a while.

00:29:06.480 Right, right, right.

00:29:07.360 I mean, I think it's probably inert.

00:29:09.620 I can't guarantee it.

00:29:11.960 And I said, you know, it's, I'm just being honest with you.

00:29:17.000 It's not something, if I had designs on hurting anybody, that I would bring a rat to throw at their feet, hoping that it would go off.

00:29:24.200 I mean, I don't, you know.

00:29:25.000 Yeah. 0.94

00:29:25.360 And they're like, okay, the rat.

00:29:30.660 Let's x-ray the rat.

00:29:31.980 So they x-ray the rat.

00:29:33.300 And there's wires and everything else in this.

00:29:35.620 I didn't even know there were wires in the rat.

00:29:37.520 But it's all wired up in the rat.

00:29:39.200 Because it was made by Ian Fleming, by the guy he based Q on in the James Bond movies.

00:29:45.280 And they looked at me.

00:29:50.240 They kind of huddled around and talked.

00:29:52.980 And they looked at me.

00:29:54.200 And the head guy comes over and he said, we really don't know what to do here.

00:30:00.840 They've never had this situation before?

00:30:02.340 Yeah.

00:30:03.020 Why don't they just look in the handbook?

00:30:04.720 It's not addressed in the handbook.

00:30:06.280 What happens if someone with a rat bomb comes in?

00:30:09.140 And they said, we really don't know exactly what to do here.

00:30:12.700 We're going to need to hold these.

00:30:15.480 What time do you speak?

00:30:16.920 And I said, 8.30.

00:30:18.180 And they said, we'll hold them and we'll let you know by 8 o'clock.

00:30:23.700 So 8 o'clock.

00:30:25.400 And when they came at 8 o'clock, I'm getting ready.

00:30:27.600 They're micing me up.

00:30:28.600 And the guy says, this is legendary, Glenn.

00:30:32.100 I just want you to know, every Secret Service agent here took a picture of the sword and the rat and has been sending it to every Secret Service agent that they know.

00:30:42.800 And so they said, we have to remain with the sword and the rat.

00:30:52.800 And so there was a...

00:30:53.540 That's understandable.

00:30:54.100 I totally understand.

00:30:55.820 Yeah, that makes sense.

00:30:56.260 You know, I totally understand.

00:30:57.500 I wanted to say, but these guys were really on top of it.

00:31:00.700 But what did come to mind was, you missed the guy on the roof, but the rat.

00:31:07.820 But these were all the good guys that are actually doing their job.

00:31:11.380 I feel like the bomb rat is one of the few things that does stand out more than the guy on the roof.

00:31:17.220 I feel like that was...

00:31:19.260 Yes, maybe.

00:31:20.560 But if you're...

00:31:21.480 I mean, if I'm just walking up and I'm just, you know, attending a rally and I'm like, they're like, you have anything in your pockets? 0.99

00:31:28.460 I'm like, yeah, I got a dead rat with a bomb in his butt. 0.99

00:31:30.820 They would notice that for sure. 0.99

00:31:32.260 They would notice that for sure.

00:31:33.760 And you're not bringing it in.

00:31:35.220 In fact, you may be held back for questioning.

00:31:38.620 But I just want you to know, if you're listening and you're from Iran, don't try the rat thing or the sword thing because you ain't getting through. 1.00

00:31:47.420 You're not getting through.

00:31:49.260 Unless you have a very good story.

00:31:53.260 So this is the point where you said, I can't believe this is my life.

00:31:56.700 This is the point that I said.

00:31:58.440 And my wife said, why would you bring the rat?

00:32:02.160 That is a good question.

00:32:03.000 And I'm like, it's the greatest story.

00:32:06.640 And I was actually more worried about the sword as we were driving.

00:32:10.280 Because the rat obviously is not going to explode.

00:32:13.900 This is not an actual...

00:32:15.820 Well, as I said that to them, it did occur to me, I don't know.

00:32:23.080 I've never tried to set it off.

00:32:25.600 That's true. 0.99

00:32:26.300 It is a bomb in the butt. 0.99

00:32:28.680 I don't know if it's inert. 0.98

00:32:31.760 It's never gone off in 90 years.

00:32:34.080 You've been carrying it around the country.

00:32:35.840 Yeah.

00:32:36.500 In a padded box, though.

00:32:39.360 It's not like, oops, I dropped the rat.

00:32:42.920 I've never thrown it at the feet accidentally of somebody.

00:32:46.360 Right.

00:32:46.820 Hey, let's see if this thing goes...

00:32:48.560 So they're like, is this inert?

00:32:51.040 And I'm like, it hasn't gone off, you know, since Churchill.

00:32:57.560 So, yes.

00:32:58.780 I'm going to come out and just say you should not be allowed around the president for any reason.

00:33:02.780 It did.

00:33:03.520 It did cross my mind.

00:33:05.060 It did cross my mind.

00:33:06.200 And then when he came into the room, about 40 secret service, I mean, there were like four of them came in.

00:33:11.480 And they came right to me.

00:33:12.760 The president is going to be coming through the room here in a minute.

00:33:18.520 And we'd like you, he'd like to speak to you, but we'd like you to stand right here.

00:33:24.860 I was standing right next to a secret service guy.

00:33:28.100 And then he came in and I said, dude, can we just hug it out?

00:33:34.580 And he's like, of course, we won.

00:33:36.560 And so we hugged each other.

00:33:37.580 And I thought, if I only had the rat.

00:33:42.760 It's so weird.

00:33:44.700 It's such a weird, such a weird situation.

00:33:47.760 I mean, imagine being under the pressure that, you know, and having to deal with actual threats, not you.

00:33:53.440 Actual threats all the time.

00:33:55.160 All the time.

00:33:55.600 I mean, just around his house, what you're describing going into his house, everyone that comes to visit him has to go through that.

00:34:02.340 It is a.

00:34:02.780 There is.

00:34:03.200 I'm convinced.

00:34:04.680 And I've paid my fair share in taxes in the last 60 years.

00:34:08.580 Really?

00:34:09.080 Yeah.

00:34:09.340 Yeah.

00:34:09.780 I am convinced all of the tax money that I have put in and everyone connected with me has put in, I don't think will cover the kind of protection they have on the president right now.

00:34:25.400 I don't, I don't think, I can't even imagine what it costs.

00:34:29.540 I've never seen anything like it.

00:34:31.340 And it is absolutely what the secrets.

00:34:34.240 I am proud for the very first time of secret service.

00:34:39.880 They are doing a incredible job.

00:34:43.500 Yeah.

00:34:43.940 And one of the things I do would like to say, I did get a bomb with a rat.

00:34:48.120 Pass them by.

00:34:50.060 Stop it.

00:34:51.300 I will say that one of the things that made me a little more confident, even after all the crazy stuff that happened over the summer, was, I mean, Trump was pretty consistent in his praise of the agents, at least around him.

00:35:04.820 I mean, yeah, he never said anything.

00:35:05.820 He never, he was never, he was never worried like so many others were.

00:35:10.800 Here's what crossed my mind.

00:35:12.640 You don't say bad things about the people who are protecting you.

00:35:16.660 Yeah.

00:35:16.860 However, I said to him, have you considered adding some private security to this?

00:35:22.420 He's like, no, they, they, they have me.

00:35:24.080 They have me.

00:35:24.740 That's good.

00:35:25.300 He trusts them.

00:35:26.300 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:29.360 Number one on iTunes.

00:35:35.140 It's Home for Christmas.

00:35:36.380 It's an asterisk by Cheyenne Grace.

00:35:38.940 What an accomplishment.

00:35:39.680 Number one Christmas, not number three overall.

00:35:42.120 I just want to point that out to you.

00:35:43.780 Yeah.

00:35:44.220 I was very clear on this.

00:35:46.060 You were not very clear on this.

00:35:47.500 I was very clear.

00:35:47.760 I went for the tapes.

00:35:49.400 I mean, I have, I can bring the evidence.

00:35:51.460 Do you want me to embarrass you?

00:35:53.240 We already played the.

00:35:55.880 Yeah.

00:35:56.240 I, let me just, let me tell you, I have the evidence.

00:35:59.660 Okay.

00:35:59.980 Okay.

00:36:00.600 Do you want me to embarrass you with it?

00:36:02.580 Cause I can.

00:36:03.460 We've already played you saying.

00:36:05.600 Sarah, could you please play what I brought to the table today?

00:36:08.680 No matter what you try to twist this into on a later date, probably the second or third

00:36:13.080 of December.

00:36:14.220 I want to be very clear.

00:36:16.660 It has to be number one on the main iTunes chart.

00:36:20.720 Not number one on a specific genre like polka or Christmas.

00:36:26.480 And to be clear, it has to beat other albums like the soundtrack to the motion picture.

00:36:34.200 Wicked Kendrick Lamar.

00:36:35.940 The party never ends by juice world. 0.73

00:36:38.680 I said that.

00:36:39.280 And also the separate Broadway production of wicked.

00:36:43.020 I said that.

00:36:43.740 And Stuart, I know what you're going to do.

00:36:47.200 And I want to be perfectly clear.

00:36:49.100 I want you to know.

00:36:49.700 This is not a I.

00:36:52.360 This is really Glenn on the air in late November.

00:36:56.040 This is not artificially intelligent speech.

00:37:01.240 This is not artificially intelligent speech.

00:37:02.580 I wanted to make that clear in advance.

00:37:04.280 Cause I knew what you were going to say.

00:37:05.920 That's a I Glenn.

00:37:07.180 You would say genre.

00:37:09.060 You wouldn't say genre.

00:37:11.980 And, uh, and I, and I knew you'd play that card.

00:37:15.840 Yeah.

00:37:16.160 I thought it was really natural when you said the motion picture, wicked Kendrick Lamar.

00:37:21.800 As if they were the same thing.

00:37:25.920 That was interesting.

00:37:26.740 I'm just saying.

00:37:27.480 And you're saying that was not artificially intelligent speech.

00:37:30.580 That was not artificial intelligence.

00:37:31.860 No, that's.

00:37:32.260 That was.

00:37:32.560 I believe your quote was artificially intelligent speech.

00:37:35.520 Which, well, it might've been, it was a rough long day that day.

00:37:40.240 I'm pretty sure.

00:37:40.980 Wow.

00:37:41.340 That happened.

00:37:41.840 I, maybe the robots aren't going to take over cause they did not nail that one for you.

00:37:48.100 Um, but, uh, as we know you will be doing.

00:37:51.860 Yes, I will.

00:37:54.340 Did you hear that?

00:37:55.740 Unrelated.

00:37:56.260 That's just something else.

00:37:57.320 Wait a minute.

00:37:57.980 Wait a minute.

00:37:58.500 We'll be doing the song that you promised the audience.

00:38:01.240 Not even just me.

00:38:02.180 Yeah.

00:38:02.500 Cause who cares whether you promised it to me?

00:38:04.380 You, you let me down all the time, but the audience.

00:38:06.900 If I can, if I can, if I can do it right.

00:38:09.340 I mean, I don't want to just do, you know, I mean, you can't do a hatchet job on where

00:38:13.680 the hell my phone.

00:38:15.020 Well, she did.

00:38:16.240 I know.

00:38:16.980 How do you make it worse than this?

00:38:19.100 Where the hell my phone?

00:38:20.420 Where the hell my, where the hell my phone?

00:38:21.540 Yeah, I mean, the audience did come through.

00:38:24.680 They did?

00:38:25.220 They did.

00:38:25.820 It's, it's amazing.

00:38:26.540 What an incredible thing.

00:38:27.060 It's really, it's really amazing.

00:38:29.520 How's your daughter dealing with all this?

00:38:31.960 Uh, vomiting blood a lot.

00:38:34.520 Okay.

00:38:35.000 Uh, she is, uh, she's.

00:38:39.540 She's, she's just amazed.

00:38:41.100 She's, you know, it's like I said about me yesterday at Mara Lago.

00:38:45.080 It's like, I can't believe this is my life.

00:38:46.600 Yeah.

00:38:47.360 And she's kind of like a dad.

00:38:49.840 And I'm like, just none of it is real, honey.

00:38:55.560 None of the fame, fortune, success.

00:38:57.980 None of it is real.

00:39:00.720 And she's like, okay, dad, I understand that.

00:39:03.840 I'm 18.

00:39:05.280 There you go.

00:39:06.040 Perfect.

00:39:06.760 Yeah.

00:39:07.380 Yeah.

00:39:07.680 I will say you, you mentioned how your life was.

00:39:09.480 Let me tell you how my life was this morning.

00:39:11.200 Yeah.

00:39:11.380 I woke up this morning and I walked out to, uh, our kitchen and my daughter was eating an

00:39:16.640 English muffin with peanut butter on it.

00:39:18.380 And she was right by the counter and she was huddled around the little streaming device.

00:39:23.420 And on the, on the screen was your daughter's face and it was, uh, the man, the man with

00:39:28.540 the bag.

00:39:28.960 Oh yeah.

00:39:29.240 Yeah.

00:39:29.340 And she's listening to that over and over and over and over again.

00:39:31.660 Yeah.

00:39:31.940 And I was like, how cool is that?

00:39:33.240 Like, this is totally unprompted.

00:39:35.100 This is just what she picked to listen to as she was having her English muffin this morning.

00:39:38.360 It's really weird to see it on iTunes and see what people are liking.

00:39:41.300 Cause it's like, oh, that's my favorite too.

00:39:43.180 It's, it's just, it's really, it's surreal.

00:39:46.160 It's surreal.

00:39:46.580 And I can't thank you enough.

00:39:47.920 Um, I keep listening to it to make sure Glenn actually comes through with his promise of

00:39:52.360 a duet of where to hell my phone.

00:39:54.220 Absolutely.

00:39:54.840 That's going to happen.

00:39:55.980 So he just said it again.

00:39:57.740 Absolutely.

00:39:58.140 It's going to happen.

00:39:59.040 End quote.

00:39:59.700 And that is not artificially intelligent speech.

00:40:03.300 Are you sure?

00:40:05.620 So convincing.

00:40:07.100 I mean, I thought it was, I thought it was, I mean, the evidence was all there.

00:40:11.300 In what genre though?

00:40:16.580 No, no, no, no, no, no.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 04, 2024

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