The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Sen. Ted Cruz, Rishi Sharma, & Adam Sandoval ｜ 5⧸28⧸21

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It's the last day before Memorial Day weekend. We have a great slew of

00:00:04.740 guests here for you. Ted Cruz, right in the first hour, he's got a new bill he's introducing that I

00:00:10.300 think you're going to be interested in. Bill O'Reilly joins us for his weekly hit. All the

00:00:14.580 stuff that's going on in the news, including the fact that his book is going to be the number one

00:00:19.500 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations to Bill for that. We have Rishi Sharma, who is

00:00:24.980 legitimately one of my favorite guests we've ever had on the show. It's like the third or fourth

00:00:28.300 time we've had a mom, but guy who decided he wanted to document World War Two veterans and

00:00:34.260 their stories and just goes around the country, archiving them, real veterans, their real stories

00:00:40.720 on video. And he's like 22. And he's been doing this for five years. He's an incredible guy. And

00:00:48.340 he's doing incredible things for our veterans, as is Adam Sandoval. He's on as well his story about

00:00:54.320 basically giving up his life to go help veterans across the country. I mean, it's going to make

00:01:01.220 you feel incredibly inferior, but I think that's okay on a day like this. It's kind of what Memorial

00:01:07.260 Day is about. You're going to feel very inferior to the people who protect us and lay down their

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00:02:13.520 Senator Ted Cruz is with us now. And Ted, welcome to the program. I liked what you announced last

00:02:20.980 night. Glenn, good to be with you. Thank you. Yeah. The No Vaccines Passport Act. I think this

00:02:31.140 is one of the more important things. Can you explain why it's important? Well, sure. So

00:02:37.460 this week I've introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit vaccine passports.

00:02:45.340 My view on vaccines, I believe in vaccines. I've gotten the COVID vaccine myself. Heidi's got

00:02:50.960 it. My parents have gotten it. I'm grateful that we have the innovation that led to the vaccines

00:02:56.460 that has enabled for so many of us to return to normal life and the freedoms that we cherish.

00:03:03.760 That being said, I think the decision whether or not to get the vaccine is a personal decision. It

00:03:09.620 ought to be up to you. You ought to make it for your life, for your health situation. And the federal

00:03:14.540 government shouldn't mandate it. There shouldn't be a federally mandated passport. And we should protect

00:03:20.120 your civil rights, your individual liberty. So what my legislation does, it prevents the federal

00:03:25.640 government from requiring a vaccine passport. And it also prohibits discrimination based on whether or

00:03:32.540 not you choose to get the vaccine. We're seeing employers across the country who are firing their

00:03:37.900 employees if they don't get vaccinated. I think that's not right. You ought to have the same civil rights

00:03:42.880 protections you have for other things in the workplace. And it ought to be your individual

00:03:47.960 choice based on on your individual liberty. I have to tell you, Ted, this has become all about politics,

00:03:55.980 100 percent about politics. People have lost their reason entirely. I haven't gotten a vaccine

00:04:03.340 because I had it in December and I had a bad bout with it. The research all shows if you want to

00:04:10.800 follow the science. If you've had it, you have the antibodies and all of this crap that they were

00:04:16.900 saying for the last year about, yeah, but it may not last very long. They say that if you've had a good

00:04:22.260 case of covid, that you are you have the antibodies and they could last up to years. And I goes places and I'm

00:04:29.680 not wearing a mask and I'll say I had it. Oh, my gosh. It's like it's it's like all of a sudden you're

00:04:35.520 you're gobbels or something. There's so much politics about this that it's bizarre. I mean,

00:04:42.980 my view, I've never understood the extremes on either ends of this, that there are some folks who

00:04:49.960 never wear a mask and say wearing a mask is terrible. I don't don't get that. Look,

00:04:54.460 it was a contagious disease. It's dangerous in vulnerable populations. It could be deadly.

00:04:59.560 You know, I wore a mask. I still wear a mask on an airplane. And I think taking reasonable steps to

00:05:05.300 limit the spread of an infectious disease, I think that makes sense. But on the other side,

00:05:10.920 the folks that are just virtue signaling that that a mask shows how righteous they are, I think is

00:05:18.560 bizarre. You know, when you're driving down the road, you see someone in a car alone wearing a mask

00:05:24.540 or a double mask. I just laugh out loud. It's like, you know, what the heck is wrong with you?

00:05:30.620 I know. It's it's really bizarre. So the vaccine, Glenn, I Glenn, I got in trouble with my team

00:05:37.060 because I did tweet out. I said, we're wearing a mask in a car alone. It is like wearing a condom

00:05:44.000 in bed alone. Very true. Very true. Exactly. Is the point? So so Ted, the problem with the vaccines

00:05:56.420 or the not the vaccine, but the problem with the vaccine passport, the government is going to say,

00:06:03.020 we're not going to do any vaccine passports. You know, the private industry wants to do that.

00:06:07.220 But they are making an end run around our Constitution on almost everything with the

00:06:13.080 the coddling of these giant corporations. I've never been a guy who's been against,

00:06:19.660 you know, corporations. I'm a free market guy. But when the free market becomes an arm of the

00:06:25.560 government and they are the ones spying on people because the government can't, but we'll share that

00:06:31.960 information with the government. That's just an end run. Is there anything that's going to stop

00:06:37.040 these corporations from doing this? Well, part of the legislation I've introduced

00:06:43.840 prohibits discrimination based on vaccine status. And so what it does is it adds it to the existing

00:06:52.200 civil rights laws. And so the Americans with Disability Act, for example, requires that you make

00:06:58.220 a reasonable accommodation for an employee that has a disability. Now, reasonable accommodation doesn't

00:07:04.740 mean that that you always allow, you know, look, someone who's blind, you wouldn't hire to be an 1.00

00:07:12.380 airplane pilot. I mean, there are there are some instances where there are disqualifying medical

00:07:20.000 conditions. I would beg to differ with you. And I am not making this up. This is absolutely true.

00:07:25.100 When I worked at CNN, they had a deaf sound engineer. So please don't give me your non woke 1.00

00:07:33.240 descriptions of what people can and cannot do. That's crazy. But that's what they did. Wow.

00:07:39.660 Yeah. Was the guy any good? Could he could he do his job?

00:07:43.140 Uh, well, I only know that he was deaf because I had to ask about some, some issues. And they were

00:07:51.980 like, yeah, don't ask. He's, he's deaf. And I'm like, excuse me? Anyway, anyway. Um, so so the point 1.00

00:08:00.720 is, we have an existing legal structure that that that protects your civil rights and with respect to

00:08:07.100 disabilities requires reasonable accommodations. Uh, and what my legislation does is it puts

00:08:13.160 your choice of whether or not to get a vaccine with the same protection. So, so, so that, so that

00:08:19.820 the blaze doesn't fire you, Glenn, because you chose not to get a vaccine. Now, given that you

00:08:25.360 control the company, I think you're pretty safe there, but you know, well, I mean, I could be

00:08:31.840 schizophrenic at some point. Um, let me, uh, is there any chance of this passing, uh, in the house

00:08:38.800 and the Senate? I don't know. So I just introduced it. Uh, the question obviously is going to be,

00:08:45.860 will Democrats be willing to support it? Um, the Biden administration has at least said publicly,

00:08:52.020 uh, that, that, that they do not support a federally mandated vaccine passport. Now, I think

00:08:58.060 you and I have reason to be skeptical of that claim. And so it will be interesting to see. So

00:09:03.700 I have not yet, and I will in the coming weeks be reaching out to Democrats and seeing if any

00:09:08.700 Democrats are willing to come together and support it. If no Democrat supports it, then no, it won't

00:09:13.340 pass in a Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi Congress. If Democrats are willing to support it and they

00:09:19.100 should, uh, then it has a chance of passage. We'll have to see what they're willing to do.

00:09:24.360 All right, Ted, a couple of other questions just to sweep up on some, some things.

00:09:28.060 Um, the January 6th committee, I have no problem with a committee looking into what happened on

00:09:33.980 January 6th, which I think was disgusting and what happened all around the country, uh, on the other

00:09:38.940 side all through the summer. Um, but that's, they're only doing January 6th and you, you know, you just

00:09:45.900 said, and I, and I, I had a hard time not speaking out about it. Uh, when you just said, you know, we have

00:09:52.820 a system that protects people's rights. Well, uh, as you are well aware, the justice department is going

00:10:00.020 through every cell phone record. If you were even in Washington that day, there's no warrants,

00:10:07.700 nothing. They are just going through everyone. If you were GPS tagged for Washington DC, they're going

00:10:14.420 through everything. What the hell happened to civil rights? Well, uh, look, I think civil rights are

00:10:23.780 always in peril, particularly when you have too big government and over vigorous criminal prosecution.

00:10:31.540 But my view, let's start with first principles. Violence is wrong. Violence is always wrong.

00:10:38.980 If you carry out an act of violence against someone else, if you assault someone else,

00:10:43.780 if you injure someone else, if you attack a police officer, you should be prosecuted. You should go to

00:10:49.380 jail. And, and, and that's true regardless of your politics, whether you're right wing or you have no

00:10:57.300 wings at all. I think the guys who broke into the Capitol, I think the people who broke into the

00:11:02.500 Capitol, put their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk or whatever. I think they should all go to jail. 0.99

00:11:06.440 That was wrong. No questions asked. I don't care who you were for or who you were against. It's wrong.

00:11:10.920 Go to jail. Look, that's exactly right. And, and, and there were a lot of police officers who were

00:11:16.940 assaulted, who were injured, some injured badly that day. And, and, and I think if, if, if you hurt

00:11:23.620 somebody else, if you hurt a cop, you ought to do serious jail time. Um, and, and so I, I support

00:11:31.520 prosecuting anyone who committed a crime of violence. Now there were thousands of people

00:11:36.140 in Washington that were peacefully protesting that didn't break into the Capitol. It didn't

00:11:40.920 hurt anybody. And I don't think they should be persecuted for standing in the national mall and

00:11:46.420 singing God bless America. There's a difference between peaceful protest and committing acts of

00:11:51.080 violence. As you noted as well, January 6th is not the only day on which acts of violence occurred

00:11:57.340 in America. We just came through a year where for almost an entire year, we saw riots across the

00:12:04.440 country. We saw peaceful protesters. Yes. And they have a first amendment right to do so. But we also

00:12:09.820 saw violent criminals that were, that were firebombing police cars that were looting stores that were

00:12:15.740 assaulting and in some instances murdering police officers. Every one of those violent criminals

00:12:20.700 should be prosecuted and go to jail. Amen. Uh, so is the January 6th commission going to pass in the

00:12:27.360 Senate? I don't think it will. We're, we're likely going to vote on it later today. Um, it, it, it will

00:12:34.480 take 60 votes. So the question is, are 10 Republicans going to vote for it? I think the answer is probably

00:12:40.740 not. And, and part of the reason is we already have multiple investigations going on. We have

00:12:46.560 multiple committees investigating. We have the department of justice, we have the FBI and, and

00:12:52.060 what Schumer and Pelosi want is they want a partisan kangaroo court to spend two years laying out the

00:13:00.480 theory that Donald Trump is bad and Republicans are bad. And it's all about the next election. And so

00:13:06.280 that's why I'm not going to support it. I think most Republicans in the Senate are not going to

00:13:10.440 support it. Okay. One, one last thing, two part question, but we only have about 70 seconds for

00:13:16.280 an answer. Um, the $6 trillion, is it six or eight $6 trillion, uh, budget proposal that came from Biden

00:13:25.180 and the, you know, we'll give you half a trillion dollars for infrastructure. What's happening there?

00:13:32.740 Are the Republicans going to hold the line here? I don't know. I am worried about it. Um, you know,

00:13:41.180 Biden has laid out, it's actually about $7 trillion in new spending. I've been joking,

00:13:47.000 please, dear God, nobody tell the Democrats what comes after a trillion trillion. Um, it is the amount

00:13:55.860 of spending they are rolling out is staggering. It is a budget in excess of what we spent in World

00:14:02.600 War II. We're already seeing inflation taking off across the country. And I think we are on the verge

00:14:08.260 potentially of a serious inflation crisis. Um, I think we need to stop bankrupting the country and

00:14:14.660 that's what I'm fighting to do. Um, at least so far, Republicans have not been willing to go along

00:14:21.180 with this. And it is always dangerous though. I mean, look, look, there has been historically a

00:14:25.880 coalition of all the Democrats and a bunch of the Republicans who were willing to spend and spend

00:14:30.320 and spend and spend, um, right. Republicans, Republican colleagues. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead.

00:14:36.280 No, they're, they're usually not as bad as Democrats. I, you know, years ago, a friend of

00:14:42.440 mine suggested a bumper sticker, Republicans, we waste less. Uh, that is, uh, that is a way hope

00:14:51.400 we hold the line. Yeah. That's the quickest way to lose, um, the people coming out and voting for

00:14:58.720 the Republicans to stop this madness. Um, this is madness that's going on clear and utter madness.

00:15:05.580 Um, Ted, thank you for the good fight. Thank you for the, uh, uh, the new bill on the passports.

00:15:10.720 And we're here to, uh, inform people that it should be supported. No vaccine passports. Ted Cruz. Thank you

00:15:18.420 very much. The best of the Glenn Beck program. I want to introduce you to somebody that I just

00:15:36.440 think is one of the greatest guys I've ever met. And that's hard to say because I've met so many

00:15:43.020 really incredible people. Um, Rishi Sharma. He is a guy that's been on my program a few times. Uh,

00:15:52.480 and he started out just wanting to talk to world war two veterans. I'm going to let him tell the story

00:16:00.760 quickly. Risha, how are you? Rishi? Great. How are you? Yes, sir. Can you hear me? I can. I'm so glad

00:16:08.080 to have you, uh, have you on the program again. Can you just quickly, um, uh, recap how you started

00:16:14.980 doing this, how old you were, uh, and what you're doing? Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, I really appreciate

00:16:22.820 this opportunity to talk about the world war two heroes, but, uh, my name's Rishi Sharma and, uh, I

00:16:30.080 started interviewing world war two veterans when I was in high school. I've always been interested in

00:16:35.020 the war. And, uh, one day I decided to ride my bike basically to the local retirement home. And I

00:16:41.100 wanted to meet the men firsthand who, you know, I'd been reading about and seeing TV shows about, and it was

00:16:48.020 an amazing experience just how open they were. And the fact that I got to actually look in the eyes

00:16:54.200 of someone who went through hell so that someone like me could, could be alive, you know, and, and

00:16:59.900 after meeting a number of these veterans at the retirement home, I, uh, I really felt a burden that

00:17:06.200 I owed these men, not just my life, but to preserve what they fought for so that future generations won't

00:17:13.120 go to war. And that we'll always remember what the world war two veterans have given us.

00:17:17.860 And so, uh, when I graduated, I, uh, I was very blessed to get a bunch of news coverage and I had a

00:17:25.340 fundraiser and, uh, I raised funding and I, uh, to go out and interview as many world war two combat veterans

00:17:31.980 as possible myself. And, uh, uh, now it's four years later, 48 States, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,

00:17:40.460 and just over 1100 interviews now on camera. Jeez. Um,

00:17:44.700 Who has contacted you Rishi for, I mean, has the Smithsonian or national archives, anyone contacted

00:17:52.360 you about preserving these yet? Absolutely not. I, you wouldn't believe the number of people I,

00:18:00.000 you wouldn't believe the number of organizations I've reached out to who just, I guess they aren't

00:18:05.540 interested maybe because it doesn't fit their narrative. Okay. Okay. Okay. May I, may I,

00:18:12.040 as a, uh, representative of, uh, Mercury one puts you in touch. We would love to preserve the record

00:18:21.020 of these, of these stories. I, this is, I think you do one of the most important things. History will

00:18:28.080 remember your name. It might not be in your lifetime, but it, they will remember you because of what you're

00:18:35.220 doing. You're, this is vitally important. Yeah. Oh, I, I appreciate that. I mean, I'm not all for

00:18:42.160 that. As long as people remember what the world war two veterans went through. I mean, when I was in

00:18:47.220 high school, uh, you know, as a member of the younger generation, I'm 22 now, I can honestly tell

00:18:54.080 you that they don't teach world war two in school anymore. And it, what they do cover is how bad,

00:19:00.020 quote, the bad U S was for dropping the atomic bombs. I mean, people are being brainwashed

00:19:05.660 nowadays, the younger generation are being brainwashed to hate our country, to hate our

00:19:10.540 veterans, to hate our way of life. And it's, it's not right. And, and I don't want to see that

00:19:16.180 happen any further. That's why recording these stories of what these veterans actually went

00:19:21.400 through, what they witnessed, the atrocities they came across. I mean, whoever has that footage

00:19:27.320 is going to be able to control the narrative. I know, I know, I know. I tell you, Rishi,

00:19:33.800 you know, I just looked at the brand new AP standards for history. This is a, these are AP

00:19:39.280 classes. This is not your regular class. This is the, I'm really smart. I want to take an AP history

00:19:45.260 class. So it counts towards college world war two. There is no mention of Hitler, the Holocaust,

00:19:52.100 the Germans, the English, um, the, it picks up the story. There's more to it than that. I can't

00:20:00.740 remember all of it. It picks up at the bombing, not of Pearl Harbor, but of Hiroshima. That's it.

00:20:08.380 And the, the AP requirement is that you understand that the United States bombed Japan with a nuclear

00:20:16.880 weapon and quote, that made the world question the, uh, the motives of the United States of

00:20:25.840 America. Holy cow. It's absolutely. I mean, it's revisionist history and it's the lies because what

00:20:35.760 people fail to realize is that we gave Japan many opportunities to surrender. We had been completely 0.90

00:20:43.240 surrounded by naval blockades. They had no food coming in or out. They refused. We dropped over

00:20:49.420 5 million pamphlets. We, we, meaning the United States and the, our allies dropped 5 million pamphlets

00:20:55.260 over the target cities, telling the civilians to evacuate. And after the first bomb, they didn't

00:21:01.160 surrender. I mean, it took two atomic bombs to even make them consider surrendering. And there's a

00:21:07.480 well-known story that when the emperor Hirohito actually came on the radio, uh, across Tokyo,

00:21:14.220 the citizens didn't believe him. You know, they thought it was some kind of allied propaganda.

00:21:19.540 Because they, because they had trained their citizens to believe that that's what was going

00:21:25.600 to happen. The, the, the propaganda in Japan, uh, about the United States, they were, they believed

00:21:32.480 we would eat them practically. I mean, they thought we were monsters because of the propaganda.

00:21:40.280 Absolutely. I mean, there was a well-known incident on the Island of Saipan where the Japanese,

00:21:45.860 uh, had a garrison. Uh, there was a civilian population there as well. And as when the Americans 0.60

00:21:52.280 landed, the Japanese forced the civilians to a cliff, women and babies, and had told them stories 0.80

00:21:59.640 that the Marines and the army infantry would, you know, hurt them and do cruel things. And these,

00:22:05.200 these babies were thrown off the cliffs and the women jumped after them and the Japanese, 0.99

00:22:10.920 you know, obviously soldiers went themselves. But we had translators, you know, up on the cliffs,

00:22:16.280 trying to tell these civilians to come and that they would be safe. And I mean, it's so dangerous

00:22:21.320 that this kite, this type of rhetoric that the United States and the allies were in the wrong.

00:22:26.920 I run this YouTube channel called legends of world war two. And, and some of that content of the

00:22:33.980 veterans talking about their experiences, it's been censored by YouTube. But what's also shocking

00:22:39.880 is how many uninformed people there are. I get comments all the time, uh, of people thinking that

00:22:48.080 Pearl Harbor was in retribution for us bombing Japan. They don't realize it was the other way around. 0.74

00:22:56.920 Oh, my gosh. Um, so we are with, uh, Rishi Sharma, who I met, I don't know about three years ago,

00:23:05.440 and he is one of my favorite people I have ever interviewed. Uh, I think he was probably about

00:23:10.940 20 when we, when we first met. Uh, and I, I just think he is, I mean, you're a hero of mine,

00:23:17.820 Rishi, and I mean that sincerely. Um, so, so tell me, you say, Oh no, like, cause I don't even know

00:23:23.560 if you like me or, you know, anything else you might be like, Oh no, Glenn Beck just said he's

00:23:27.280 a, I'm a hero of his. Oh, no, no, no. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no. I just meant, you know, I, I feel

00:23:33.880 very strongly that the word hero is really only reserved for those, you know, who put their lives

00:23:38.240 on the line. I mean, the fact is if I had all the money in the world, I would still be doing what

00:23:42.840 I'm doing. I'm so blessed that I get a hangout and talk to the men who saved the world.

00:23:46.960 Good for you. Um, all right. You mentioned a minute ago that your, your videos are being

00:23:54.460 banned or demonetized on YouTube. Why is that?

00:24:00.360 You know, I wish I knew the answer, sir. Oh my gosh.

00:24:03.600 Basically, uh, you know, I raised all that funding and, and I've been doing these oral

00:24:10.000 histories of the world war two veterans. I give the then copies of the interviews, but I would also

00:24:14.480 put it on YouTube. Um, back in December of 2020, uh, the channel, I wasn't trying to be a YouTuber

00:24:20.900 or anything. It was just a storage place for the videos. But back in 2020, December, uh, some of the

00:24:27.760 little vignettes I was making, you know, 10 minute clips taken out of some of the interviews. Some of

00:24:32.580 them started going viral. I mean, getting millions of views. And I guess the youth, the way it works is

00:24:37.980 the YouTube algorithm picks it up and they'll show it on many people's homepage. Uh, so that was

00:24:43.920 happening to some of the videos causing a huge surge in traffic to the channel. And so I go for

00:24:50.620 about 2,000 subscribers to about, uh, 25,000 in just maybe a week. And it's about 2,000 every day.

00:25:00.080 And then it stops and it craters down to maybe 100. And the analytics just don't make sense.

00:25:08.540 Uh, you know, yes, they, yes, they do from the YouTube side. If you know exactly what YouTube

00:25:14.560 is doing, it makes perfect sense. They throttled you. Absolutely. I I've looked it up. I've reached

00:25:21.380 out to other people who deal with world war two on YouTube. They face the same exact thing because I

00:25:29.240 guess the algorithm and the people behind it, YouTube, they believe anything to do with world war

00:25:34.320 two is promoting Nazis and Hitler and they don't take the time to decipher. Um, and it's, it's,

00:25:42.040 it's ridiculous because, you know, there's no politics in these videos. It's facts. It's the

00:25:47.240 veterans saying what they went through and what they saw. And, you know, without the monetization,

00:25:52.400 I can't keep, you know, affording to stay on the road. And, and I just find it incredible that they

00:25:58.520 find themselves to be the superior power that can censor whose voices can be heard and whose

00:26:04.760 cannot. I mean, these makeup tutorials, they get a billion views, but the men who fought for our

00:26:10.140 freedom, who went through hell, I mean, why can't we give them the same attention?

00:26:16.180 Tell me, tell me the, the most interesting and, uh, best, uh, out of all of that you've done,

00:26:25.700 hard to choose. I know. What was the thing that really opened your eyes or moved you or had you

00:26:32.080 look at things differently? You mean, you mean veteran interview in an interview? Yeah, yeah,

00:26:39.460 yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, that's difficult. There's so many interesting veterans, but I would

00:26:43.920 like to tell you about a man named Chuck Bataglia. Um, I found out through him through a directory

00:26:52.540 of, uh, wounded veterans. Uh, I was, you know, I, I literally would spend my days going through name

00:26:59.720 by name, calling these veterans who all belong to the same organization. And I came across his name

00:27:05.580 and I reached out to him and he agreed to do the interview and he didn't mention anything on the

00:27:11.880 phone, anything unusual. I come to his house. This man is a double amputee. Both of his legs were blown

00:27:21.760 off by a mortar, uh, during the fighting for the Hurtgen forest in October of 1944.

00:27:29.540 He was the friendliest man. I swear to God, he, he, he would take the shirt off his back to help you.

00:27:37.740 And I just, it was incredible to sit there and talk to him and hear his story. Basically he was 18

00:27:46.540 when, uh, Pearl Harbor gets attacked 19, uh, when he decides to join after training, he gets shipped

00:27:54.820 overseas and he is joined as a replacement for the first infantry division. And, uh, he was only in

00:28:03.160 combat for about two weeks and he is sitting behind a hedge one night and he told me he could hear

00:28:13.180 Germans on the other side, but he was out on guard and all of a sudden next thing he knows, he hears the

00:28:21.100 loudest, loudest explosion of his life. And when he comes to, he can't move and he doesn't feel his

00:28:29.140 legs. So a couple of his buddies come and they carry him to the first aid station. It doesn't look like

00:28:34.880 he's going to make it. He had a strong faith and obviously he did. He comes back home. This is

00:28:42.500 someone, you know, had his whole life ahead of him, you know, 19 years old to be dealt such a severe

00:28:49.580 blow. But his family told me something. I sincerely believe that he never complained a single day in his

00:28:57.900 life about his situation. All he wanted to do was get a job and raise a family and be a contributing

00:29:05.460 member to society. He wanted to give back, even though he had already given his legs. And the real,

00:29:11.740 the real interesting thing is he ended up working for the VA as a prosthetic technician, making prosthetics

00:29:21.680 for other veterans. Here's where I want you to go. I want you to go to the Facebook page,

00:29:26.540 heroes of the second war or heroes of the second world war.org heroes of the second world war.org.

00:29:33.500 You can help them out with go fund me.com legends of world war. WW2, if you will, WWII go fund me page

00:29:43.220 legends of WWII. It's Rishi Sharma. Rishi, keep up the good work. Thank you for joining us.

00:29:49.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:30:04.240 You know, when I, when I hear people talk about America, I think about people like Rishi,

00:30:09.980 a 19 year old kid who started this because he was fascinated. And now he knows the truth and he is

00:30:15.880 fighting hard that we don't lose. So we don't lose all of these voices and experiences. When I think of

00:30:22.800 America, I think of a country that makes an awful lot of mistakes, but then does its best to write

00:30:29.340 itself and learn from that mistake. I want to introduce you to Adam Sandoval. His story began

00:30:36.900 because he was disappointed in himself. He said, I never served in the military. I don't,

00:30:42.220 I didn't do so for no good reason, just poor choices, temptations, distractions. I had my focus

00:30:48.480 in all the wrong places at a young age. And as I got older, I, it really started to set in the

00:30:52.980 sacrifices and even more so realizing the sacrifices that other people have made for our country.

00:30:59.020 I wanted to find a way to give back and do what I could. So he came up with something that he is now

00:31:06.500 very passionate about, and I want him to explain it. Adam, welcome to the program.

00:31:12.640 Oh, happy to be on. Thank you so much for having me.

00:31:15.500 I wish we were, uh, I wish we were together in person. I know you're, uh, up in Oklahoma. You are,

00:31:21.220 you are a guy who is, who is dedicating his life now to raising awareness of our veterans.

00:31:29.060 And you have some things going on, uh, soon that you're going to talk about, but tell me

00:31:33.920 what you started and what you're doing. Sure. Um, you know, it all started, uh, with a campaign.

00:31:41.040 Uh, I called it scoot in America and I just rode my Harley Davidson, uh, to every Harley Davidson

00:31:45.980 dealership across the country, uh, and raised awareness and support, uh, for veterans. It was

00:31:51.180 an 88,000 mile road trip. I took me coast to coast. Yeah. Like 16 times coast to coast, uh,

00:31:57.860 88,000 miles. Oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. It was a long adventure. It took me about 21 months.

00:32:06.820 I got hit by a car, had to come back from that, you know, damaged my leg pretty bad. Um, but was

00:32:12.740 able to get back on the bike and finish it and ride to every dealership, uh, in America. And, uh,

00:32:18.080 you know, had Americans ride with me from, from every corner of this country, uh, in honor of our

00:32:22.840 veterans. We raised a ton of money and a ton of support for veterans. And, you know, I just

00:32:27.060 couldn't stop after that. I just kept going. So you've got all kinds of programs rolling out.

00:32:31.900 So didn't you, when you would stop at these dealerships, didn't you many times give a

00:32:36.020 bike to a veteran? I have done a lot of veterans, uh, motorcycle giveaways. I think to date, um,

00:32:43.680 don't quote me on this, but I think I've given a 12 bikes, uh, away to veterans at this point.

00:32:48.260 And, um, that's always such a, such an impactful thing because I know what the motorcycle community

00:32:53.860 stands for when it comes to our veterans and they're very passionate and they're very embracing

00:32:58.320 and it can be a channel for a veteran that, that needs it. Um, so when I, when I find a veteran and

00:33:03.960 I, and I give them, hand them over the keys to a brand new motorcycle, um, I know it's not just,

00:33:09.820 uh, a motorcycle I'm giving them. It's, it's a channel, you know, for, for therapy. It's a channel

00:33:14.700 for a community camaraderie. Um, it, I get messages from them all the time, changes their

00:33:20.320 lives. Why do, why did this happen to you? Uh, I mean, you veterans are, uh, they're part

00:33:29.320 of a community. And if you're in that community, um, you can understand it. I don't know if I

00:33:35.820 can fully understand it, but they are just, they walk as one many times. Uh, and you weren't

00:33:42.460 part of that community. What, what was it that changed in your life or what happened

00:33:45.920 in your life?

00:33:48.060 You know, I think it's, it's maturity. Uh, you know, I grew up, I think you said it

00:33:51.860 well in the, in the open there, you know, I just made a lot of bad choices and, and I

00:33:55.780 started to regret those choices and I just wanted to be.

00:33:58.840 But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. By society's standards, you didn't necessarily

00:34:03.220 make bad choices. You were quite wealthy, were you not? I mean, you had a big house and

00:34:08.420 nice car and an extensive art collection, right? I mean, yeah, I was successful in business.

00:34:14.380 There's no doubt. Um, but it was, it was, it was more than that. Even, even that success

00:34:20.980 came, came later for me, you know, in, in my early thirties, late twenties, it started

00:34:24.920 to happen. And in my teens and early twenties, when I would have joined the military, I was

00:34:28.680 just a young punk and I was just making bad choices and, and, and had the wrong priorities

00:34:33.360 in life. Um, and as I matured, uh, I did find some success in, in business. Uh, but

00:34:38.720 then, you know, the reality of, of my veterans set in, I started, got some very close veteran

00:34:43.240 friends, um, that were active duty, um, some that didn't make it home. Uh, some that, some

00:34:48.460 that did come home and then deal with struggles every day back here in America. Um, and I really

00:34:53.780 started to feel like I didn't do my part and I, I felt like I should have, should have been

00:34:59.340 part of that. And it just, it just, I don't know, it hit me. And then I wanted,

00:35:02.460 there's a lot of people, honestly, there's a lot, there's a lot of people, uh, that,

00:35:07.160 uh, will say, I want to do my part, but you sold your house, all of your expensive cars,

00:35:12.340 furniture, your art collection, you let it all go. Uh, and you then got on your motorcycle

00:35:20.180 and you went on this, uh, this, uh, trip for the American Legion's legacy scholarship fund,

00:35:25.760 which benefits, you know, the children of fallen veterans who were lost on or before nine

00:35:30.120 eleven. A lot of people say, I want to get involved. You sold everything and went on the

00:35:37.040 road. I did, man. I lived off of a back. It ended up being a total of five years. Uh, I was

00:35:43.220 homeless. I lived off the back of a motorcycle and, uh, it was, it was an incredible learning

00:35:49.040 experience for me. Um, I, I gained so much knowledge and, and really, and I think you're

00:35:55.680 right. I don't think either of us can understand what these veterans go through, but I've spent a

00:35:59.800 lot of nights next to campfires and a lot of miles on the road, uh, talking to veterans and, and

00:36:04.680 helping, uh, whatever way I possibly could deal with, you know, whatever struggles they may be

00:36:09.120 having or, or, or dealing with. And I mean, it's heavy stuff, man. I mean, it's, it's, it's very heavy

00:36:13.980 stuff. I've heard you say that there were two, uh, events or two meetings that really kind of

00:36:20.860 changed your life. They deeply affected you. One was with a mom and the other was a salute.

00:36:26.960 Can you tell those stories? Sure. Uh, so I was, I was, you know, kind of in the beginning of my

00:36:33.740 campaign. Um, you know, this is, this always gets me, gets me going. Uh, you know, the, the,

00:36:40.480 it's tough to deal with a veteran who is, who is, you know, um, trying to understand what they're

00:36:47.820 going through. But when you have a mother come to you and her, her child did it come home and you're

00:36:55.680 riding to support a program that helps, uh, her grandchildren, her, her child's child, a child

00:37:02.120 that's missing a father. Um, and she comes up to you and, and out of the blue and wraps her arms around

00:37:07.960 you and starts crying and you've never met this woman before. Um, and she starts telling you the

00:37:13.280 stories of what her family is still dealing with today because of the loss. Uh, I mean,

00:37:20.480 if that doesn't change you, I mean, if that doesn't take you back and humble you and make you realize

00:37:26.080 that there's so much more important, I'd have given, I'd have given anyone in them cars or any

00:37:30.980 of that art collection in any moment, you know what I mean? To help that lady and change what she was, 1.00

00:37:35.660 what she was going through, you know, uh, all of a sudden, all those worldly possessions just don't

00:37:40.260 mean anything when you, when, when you've got somebody sitting in front of you like that, you

00:37:44.260 know? Um, and you were, you were talking about world war two veterans, you know, I had a world war

00:37:49.080 two veteran teach me to salute, you know, that's something I would have learned had I, had I

00:37:52.840 actually served, you know, and that was, that was quite the honor as well. So I don't want to meet

00:38:01.400 that guy. Uh, I'll be there all day trying on one. Uh, let me, uh, let me ask you two things.

00:38:06.540 You've traveled now, uh, over 80,000 miles around the country on your bike. You didn't have a home.

00:38:13.380 So you were, you were everywhere in this country. Two questions. What did you learn that you didn't

00:38:21.520 know about veterans? And what did you learn about America that you didn't know, or you came to fully

00:38:30.080 understand? Sure. You know, uh, to, to answer the later question first, America, I learned that,

00:38:37.120 um, we're much more united than anybody wants us to believe we are. We are every, you know, I,

00:38:44.680 on that campaign alone, it was, it was 88,000 miles and I went to 702 cities across America.

00:38:50.620 That campaign alone, I learned very quickly that we are united and we are aligned and the people that

00:38:58.040 are out there working every day and grinding to keep the society going and to keep us afloat and

00:39:03.120 to keep us, you know, uh, a healthy country. We vastly agree on, on almost everything. Um,

00:39:11.080 the, the country's not on the big principles. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. You know, um,

00:39:17.620 and that to me was, was really an eye opener because before stepping foot in all these cities and having

00:39:22.860 dinners and breakfasts and, and, and meetings with all these different people in all these

00:39:27.500 different cities, I had no idea we really were as united as we are. Um, and it was an eye opener for

00:39:33.500 me and it got me excited. Uh, it got me amped, you know, because I'm like, man, we, we really are in

00:39:38.360 much better shape than maybe, you know, a lot of people want us to believe. And, uh, I think that's,

00:39:42.940 I think that's one reason why people in the middle of the country, you know, when I warn about the

00:39:47.840 things that are happening and the things that are coming, they don't necessarily feel that because

00:39:53.160 in their usual daily life, they are talking to their neighbors who are Democrats or Republicans

00:39:59.600 or independents and everybody's getting along. And so they just don't, they, I mean, it's a different

00:40:04.840 world when you're outside of the media or outside of the social networks, when you're actually in

00:40:11.180 America, uh, it feels entirely different. It does. I mean, amazingly different. I,

00:40:17.540 I mean, I get chills just hearing what you just said, cause it's so true. I mean, it's the people

00:40:23.120 are good. People are good. You know, there's a lot of good out there. I've only got about 60

00:40:30.080 seconds left. Tell me about what you learned about veterans. If you can in 60, man, I learned that

00:40:36.800 there's a lot more, um, trauma going on with our veterans than what, than what we even know. And

00:40:43.020 there can never be enough awareness and that we need a whole lot more support and help for them

00:40:46.980 than what our government's giving them. Um, and that even though I can preach it to you right here

00:40:52.520 on the show, you'll never know until you get a, with enough of them and see the struggles they're

00:40:57.680 going through. Yeah. They're fighting a very ugly war right here on our own soil. And, uh, I learned

00:41:03.000 that it's important that I do my part. I got coined a statement I'd like to say, and that is if you did

00:41:07.260 not serve in your military, find time to serve those who did. And that's what I try to do.

00:41:12.440 Adam Sandoval, you'll find him at yeah, Adam Sandoval.com. Also YouTube.com slash Adam Sandoval.

00:41:21.240 Adam, I'm sorry. I'd love to have you for a podcast. I know we've been trying to put it

00:41:25.080 together the last few, but, uh, you're a fascinating guy with much more to tell. Thank you so much.

00:41:31.340 Let's get together soon. Thank you. God bless.

00:41:34.320 Na, na, na, na, na.

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