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00:01:00.000 Yes, it is breaking news and not the kind that anyone wants to hear,

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00:01:10.000 Two National Guard members shot near the White House in the middle of the day,

00:01:14.000 a suspect in custody and questions piling up

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00:01:22.000 Walk you through what we know and what we don't and why this moment feels different,

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00:02:58.000 You know, selfishly, I'm sitting down, trying to turn everything off and just enjoy some time with family over the last day or so, and the phone starts going crazy.

00:03:16.000 And I start seeing the same things.

00:03:19.000 I'm sure many of you have seen too.

00:03:22.000 And then it hits me.

00:03:25.000 I mean, you think about what it's like for us as we're used to be.

00:03:31.000 You could do a fill-in shift for Glenn or for anybody at this time of year, and it would be a lot of talk about, hey, Black Friday sales.

00:03:40.000 Did you get enough turkey? Did you eat too much?

00:03:45.000 All of these kind of inconsequential, slow, sort of boring things to talk about.

00:03:52.000 And I yearn for those times.

00:03:57.000 It's a different day in America.

00:03:59.000 It's a different day today, and I think we have to realize why that is and what's at stake.

00:04:09.000 So, as I mentioned, it's Justin Barkley.

00:04:11.000 I'm filling in for Glenn on what I like to call Beck Friday, on Black Friday.

00:04:17.000 I have the pleasure and the honor of doing this the last several years, and we get great conversations going.

00:04:24.000 In fact, maybe give a chance to join in today.

00:04:27.000 Love to hear from you, because I'd like to kind of hear where you're at, what you're feeling, the pulse of what you're thinking today.

00:04:36.000 For me, I said, you know, selfishly, for me, as I'm sitting down thinking about just wanting to turn things off a little bit and have some time with family, kind of having an idea of what we want to talk about today and where we want to go.

00:04:48.380 But then you have this breaking news, and I can't think, I can't even bring myself to a bear to think about what it was like for the families of these two Guard members.

00:05:03.380 You know, this news hits us in our gut, and I can imagine what it feels like to be on the other side of this.

00:05:09.380 I can't even imagine what they're going through.

00:05:11.380 One of those members is dead today.

00:05:16.380 One of those members will never come home.

00:05:18.380 Not just this Thanksgiving, but will never.

00:05:21.380 Will never come home for Thanksgiving, for Christmas.

00:05:26.380 Her name was Sarah Beckstrom.

00:05:29.380 And she and the other member who was brutally assassinated, that's what this really was, a brutal assassination, this attack that took place in broad daylight, point blank, with a man who we're learning even more and more about.

00:05:45.380 There's lots that people don't want you to know about this man, but we'll try and bring you as much of that as we can today.

00:05:52.380 As he went on this rampage attacking both of them and shouting, Allah Akbar, at the same time.

00:06:02.380 Sarah Beckstrom was 20.

00:06:05.380 She had, along with the other Guard member, just taking the oath there and sworn in, I guess, in Washington.

00:06:20.380 And her story and the pictures and how young she was and how much life she had left ahead of her is just, it's incredible.

00:06:28.380 It's heartbreaking and on a scale that I can't, I, I, again, I can't even imagine.

00:06:35.380 Just steps from the White House.

00:06:43.380 This takes place in a moment where the nation is on edge.

00:06:46.380 And boy, are we like more than ever.

00:06:49.380 Every, every moment, it does seem like we're walking on eggshells.

00:06:55.380 Every moment, there's something new.

00:06:57.380 You're just waiting for the next shoe to drop, right?

00:07:04.380 Just days ago, we had the story of the Seditious Six.

00:07:09.380 These are the congressmen and women.

00:07:11.380 One of them from my great state of Michigan.

00:07:15.380 I'm coming to you today from Wood Radio, W-O-O-D, in Grand Rapids.

00:07:20.380 The radio station over 100 years old and celebrated serving this community.

00:07:26.380 I'm grateful to be able to do it.

00:07:29.380 But in our state, we're represented by a senator named Alyssa Slotkin. 1.00

00:07:34.380 She was one that really led the charge almost in the making of this video, the manufacturing of this video.

00:07:43.380 Now, who's behind it?

00:07:45.380 That's even more as we dig a little bit deeper into this story and why it all connects and why things just feel a little different right now.

00:07:56.380 But she was proudly proclaiming the other day that, you know, there's some orders you may not want to follow.

00:08:05.380 You may find them illegal.

00:08:11.380 In fact, one of our colleagues in the same video say you must not follow these orders.

00:08:17.380 Rhetoric from the last months out of the folks on the left, Democrats, the media, but I repeat myself saying the same thing over and over again. 0.99

00:08:26.380 You know, Trump is a fascist, Republicans, conservatives are Nazis, and the folks in the National Guard, they are, they're like the Gestapo. 0.98

00:08:44.380 Here she was just a couple of days ago on ABC's This Week, claiming the National Guard was going to start shooting civilians any day now. 0.99

00:08:56.380 Look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago.

00:08:59.380 It makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.

00:09:09.380 It is very, a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground.

00:09:16.380 So it was basically a warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something particularly against American citizens.

00:09:22.380 That's not what it was.

00:09:23.380 In fact, we know that.

00:09:25.380 We know the whole thing was scripted.

00:09:27.380 We now know who might actually be behind it.

00:09:31.380 In fact, there are some details that we've got to sift through a little bit later on today.

00:09:38.380 And in fact, this hour of the program that will shine some light on this.

00:09:45.380 But I don't think, you know, you can't ignore these things.

00:09:49.380 In fact, you don't have to be going back with the chalkboard and the crystal ball now to be able to see through what's happening.

00:09:57.380 It's so obvious it's happening right in front of our face.

00:10:04.380 And you see stuff like this and it's kind of hard, you know, it's kind of hard to go about your daily in the business of doing what it is that we need to do, but we must.

00:10:19.380 So I think part of our mission today is to try and figure out how to walk that line as we are faced with the reality again that the country is changing and has probably already changed.

00:10:30.380 In fact, I mean, it really has in ways that we've got to be honest with ourselves about.

00:10:39.380 There's no sticking your hat in the sand like an ostrich.

00:10:41.380 There's no just trying to pretend like this didn't happen.

00:10:50.380 So we've got to face it.

00:10:52.380 We've got to come to grips with what is really going on, and we've got to also make sure that we do our best to continue to do what matters most, to talk about what matters most, to fight for what matters most, and in some ways still try to carry out lots of the things that make us who we are, the traditions, the things that are some of the most important.

00:11:22.380 I think maybe getting together yesterday with family.

00:11:29.380 Maybe getting together and having conversations is what we needed more than anything.

00:11:34.380 I don't know how they went for you, but for our family, they went well.

00:11:40.380 There was no incident where people were yelling at each other and calling each other names or whatnot at our table now.

00:11:46.380 I don't know what that was like for you.

00:11:51.380 But in an America where things are seemingly more divided, I say seemingly because it feels that way, you get around the dinner table and you get in person and it's a little different, isn't it?

00:12:05.380 It makes you wonder.

00:12:09.380 I mean, the things that happen on social media and, you know, I'm not some massive presence online, but I've got a decent footprint in what I see coming in on a daily basis.

00:12:21.380 It doesn't even shock me anymore, but I see lots of divisive rhetoric and comments and things from people that, yeah, I think being behind the keyboard and not in person gives them the courage of a keyboard cowboy that most don't have when they do come face to face.

00:12:40.380 But I also think we're being influenced.

00:12:43.380 I think there's a lot of foreign actors that want nothing more than to sow the division and tear this country apart. 1.00

00:12:50.380 And boy, when you break it all down, it goes even to a much deeper level.

00:12:56.380 Well, that's what we're going to try and do today is is dig into the root of all of it.

00:13:02.380 We will have more on this story out of Washington, D.C.

00:13:05.880 And of course, as the family of Sarah Beckstrom deserves our prayers at a moment like this for the peace and comfort that only the Lord can give them.

00:13:22.880 We also pray for the family of the guardman that is continuing to recover.

00:13:28.960 And there is some good news.

00:13:30.340 In fact, I've I've got this was from just this morning on a release on this coming up in just a moment.

00:13:35.800 But first, we'll take a quick break back after this on the Glenn Beck program.

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00:14:58.120 And we're going to give you a chance to join in here momentarily.

00:15:00.960 But first, I wanted to give you this news.

00:15:02.300 So we have Sarah Beckstrom, who was just sworn in, serving in Washington, D.C., that guards member from West Virginia. 0.89

00:15:10.160 And the second injured in this situation was Andrew Wolfe.

00:15:14.680 Now, just this morning, in fact, and he's 24, she's 20, he's 24.

00:15:20.360 He's still fighting for his life.

00:15:21.960 We got word going on nearly two days now.

00:15:26.600 Shot by this individual President Trump calls an animal.

00:15:30.060 Pray for a miracle, they say online.

00:15:32.300 This is Jeanine Pirro this morning talking about it and giving us a little bit of an update.

00:15:38.920 The other guardsmen, of course, we still have hope.

00:15:43.300 He's still in critical condition.

00:15:45.580 We are doing everything we can to assist his family and to make sure that they have everything they need during this difficult time for them.

00:15:53.880 We are all praying for Andrew Wolfe.

00:15:56.600 Again, a 24-year-old, taken by total surprise by an individual who made the decision to take a life on Thanksgiving Eve.

00:16:06.600 He did not have that right.

00:16:08.480 And the United States government will prove that.

00:16:10.660 So, I don't know how much I want to get into this now, but at some point we're going to have to get into the background of this individual and exactly who he was, how he got here.

00:16:27.160 And part of this is you got to make sure you shine a light on him in the situation.

00:16:33.860 I don't like to shine a light on the name of the individual.

00:16:36.800 I don't like to give people any more credit, but we've got to make sure that we surely point the finger of accountability here.

00:16:47.060 This individual should have never been here.

00:16:49.520 So, he was brought in from Afghanistan under the Biden regime, and this happened, in fact.

00:17:03.480 President Trump made a really interesting point about this the other night, and he was doing that kind of press conference news moment.

00:17:11.980 And he shows, in fact, shows, he loves to have, like, visual aids, but he shows a picture of one of these airplanes that was loaded up with folks, packed to the gills, giving a little bit of the details on this.

00:17:31.040 In fact, in part of this moment, he took a reporter.

00:17:36.300 I mean, he took this reporter to task.

00:17:38.580 It was fantastic, that, but first, here's what he says about that individual.

00:17:44.140 As you may know, DHS has confirmed that the suspect is an Afghan national, flown here by the previous administration, who was such a bad administration. 0.91

00:17:56.780 And I have a picture of a plane.

00:18:01.160 This is what it looked like when they came in.

00:18:03.020 It was total bedlam.

00:18:03.900 Do you remember that period of time?

00:18:05.720 Total bedlam.

00:18:06.400 People crammed onto the plane.

00:18:10.300 And the toughest, meanest, most capable physically got on the plane, not the people that we were looking for or that they wanted to bring in.

00:18:20.360 Here's a picture for you.

00:18:21.460 Just take a look at that plane.

00:18:24.000 Standing on top of each other and sitting on top of each other.

00:18:26.860 This is what we had under the Biden administration.

00:18:29.040 That whole thing should have never, ever happened.

00:18:32.700 They should have left from a different base.

00:18:35.500 They should have left from Bagram, as you know, and it would have been a much different story.

00:18:42.560 But they didn't do that.

00:18:43.780 And this was a this was just a route, just a terrible situation.

00:18:48.680 The Sainte's atrocity reminds us that we have no greater national security priority than ensuring that we have full control over the people that enter and remain in our country. 0.96

00:19:01.080 For the most part, we don't want them.

00:19:04.720 They come in illegally.

00:19:07.260 They have a lot of problems.

00:19:08.940 Their countries force them in because their countries are smart.

00:19:11.480 They don't want them.

00:19:12.600 Let's give them to the Americans to take care of. 1.00

00:19:14.700 They come out of jails in many cases.

00:19:17.340 Mental institutions.

00:19:18.820 They're gang members. 0.99

00:19:20.020 They're drug dealers. 0.98

00:19:21.540 We don't want them.

00:19:22.380 Here's the here's the moment that I think had everybody, everybody on on edge.

00:19:30.600 But, gosh, in moments like this, you've got to have somebody.

00:19:35.600 You know, you can argue about how he says it, but you've got to have somebody that will. 0.98

00:19:40.840 Lay down the law and a reporter as a just incredibly ridiculous question. 0.91

00:19:47.320 The president lets him have it.

00:19:48.460 Why do you blame the Biden administration?

00:19:50.140 Because they let him in.

00:19:51.100 She said, why do you blame the Biden administration for this? 1.00

00:19:54.800 Are you stupid? 1.00

00:19:55.940 Are you a stupid person? 1.00

00:19:57.240 Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here. 1.00

00:20:03.080 And you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person. 0.99

00:20:06.500 And we there's a law passed that it's almost impossible not to get to get them out. 1.00

00:20:11.740 You can't get them out once they come in.

00:20:13.880 And they came in and they were unvetted.

00:20:16.560 They were unchecked.

00:20:17.500 There were many of them.

00:20:18.460 And they came in on big planes and it was disgraceful.

00:20:22.680 And if you look, you'll see there was a law passed.

00:20:25.100 It makes it almost impossible not to let them in, not to certify them, so to speak, once they come in.

00:20:32.140 And they came in and they shouldn't have come in.

00:20:34.860 And frankly, the whole thing was a mess.

00:20:36.840 The whole Afghanistan situation was a mess. 1.00

00:20:39.880 We shouldn't it should have never taken place.

00:20:42.200 If we're going to go out and we would have gone out because I had everybody ready to go.

00:20:46.300 We were going to go out with strength and dignity.

00:20:48.620 So I've got to let me to cut the president off.

00:20:50.620 But we're getting close to break here.

00:20:51.860 And I got to make this point.

00:20:53.940 So we want more information about who the guy is and why all of this happened.

00:20:57.580 But I'm going to I'm going to if I can, we'll give you details on that coming up within the hour.

00:21:02.180 But also, I want to if I can just make this point, because this, I think, in the thumbnail is the issue.

00:21:09.940 You know, a lot of us when the president won.

00:21:13.880 You may be even one of these folks.

00:21:15.980 A lot of us just celebrated.

00:21:17.380 We were excited.

00:21:18.140 We couldn't believe it.

00:21:18.920 We almost felt like I know I certainly did.

00:21:21.800 Like our nation was spared.

00:21:23.340 You know, we celebrated what a miraculous moment, especially that millimeter miracle where he was spared in his life.

00:21:32.780 He shot and we thought, well, this is it.

00:21:35.920 We've won.

00:21:36.860 God's turned everything around.

00:21:38.580 You know, that that that is true.

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00:22:57.760 Well, so what is happening?

00:23:23.720 I mean, we're seeing things in this nation, even though we thought, you know, at the end of the day, the election of President Trump might save us all.

00:23:33.900 Some of us had a little bit more skepticism about that.

00:23:37.420 At the end of the day, you've got to know exactly what we're up against.

00:23:40.000 And by the way, all the things they've been doing, not just in the last four years, but I'm talking about for decades, didn't stop.

00:23:48.460 They didn't come to a screeching halt the minute he got elected.

00:23:51.120 We continue to have to fight against those things.

00:23:53.960 And how you do that, really, the only way is to know exactly what you're up against.

00:23:58.660 As we watch the things that have really transpired over the last week or two, particularly with the seditious six Congress members coming out, telling folks in the military intelligence community, you don't have to you don't have to obey those orders.

00:24:13.620 Those are illegal orders.

00:24:14.660 And, in fact, they went a little further.

00:24:18.260 It wasn't just you don't have to.

00:24:21.160 It's, you know, if you do, Trump's not going to be president forever.

00:24:26.020 And we'll have a bit of accountability when we get back in charge.

00:24:37.480 Sort of a promise they made.

00:24:40.560 We're finding out more about this entire operation.

00:24:44.160 And it is.

00:24:44.760 It's slick.

00:24:45.420 The messaging's all, well, it's all planned.

00:24:50.920 It all works together.

00:24:52.400 We're scripted.

00:24:53.440 In fact, we heard Gallego from Arizona, the senator, the other day on CNN, admit that he didn't get to cut his portion because he, I don't think he got the script in time is what he said.

00:25:06.240 You see, this is how it works.

00:25:08.360 It's well funded.

00:25:09.720 It's well thought out.

00:25:11.260 And it's planned thoroughly.

00:25:13.100 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:16.380 Our next guest is going to walk us through that, exactly what we're up against and why we've got to face it.

00:25:23.140 Folks, if you want to, if you want to really want to save this country, if you want to make it so that your grandkids and your kids and their grandkids have a chance to grow up in a place that you remember, and maybe even better.

00:25:40.100 Boy, you gotta, you gotta make sure that you take the steps to recognize what's going on, get educated on it, and then form that plan together as we fight back.

00:25:54.900 James Simpson's with us right now.

00:25:56.520 He's written the book on this whole thing.

00:25:58.180 In fact, he's an author.

00:25:59.300 He's investigative journalist.

00:26:00.920 His bombshell expose is out right now on the destructive cloward and pivot strategy Glenn's been talking about for years.

00:26:07.600 He explains all about how the Biden-Harris administration employed it before our very eyes and what we're watching really play out in front of us today.

00:26:16.580 This is The Chickens Coming Home to Roost.

00:26:18.660 Manufactured Crisis is the name of the book, The War to End America.

00:26:21.620 James, appreciate you being here with us today.

00:26:24.420 Yeah.

00:26:24.960 Hey, Justin.

00:26:25.740 Great to be with you this morning.

00:26:27.700 You know, you've talked about this at length for some time.

00:26:30.800 I know Glenn's talked about it with you in the past before.

00:26:33.740 This is something that I guess a lot of us sort of were lulled to sleep in some ways as the president got reelected.

00:26:41.680 And we thought, okay, good, everything's going to change.

00:26:44.220 But there's still a lot of this that's happening.

00:26:46.320 In fact, it's hard to stop a train or a big ship that's, you know, even a tractor-trailer headed down the road.

00:26:56.140 We've had that.

00:26:57.940 It's been coming at us for a long time, a head-on collision.

00:27:01.580 And to be able to put the brakes on something like this, we really have to understand it.

00:27:05.340 So can you walk us through specifically what we're facing, what we're up against, and particularly with the last week's events?

00:27:13.140 Yeah, well, you know, it's been called a color revolution, similar to what happened in the post-Soviet Russian states like Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan and others.

00:27:30.140 But it's really not a color revolution.

00:27:32.440 You know, color revolutions were nonviolent, and I think I'm skeptical that they actually were genuine changes.

00:27:43.840 They were apparent changes, but without any real change because those governments remain as corrupt as they were before and probably underground there just as communist as they were before.

00:28:05.180 But what we're facing really here today is much more like the Bolshevik resolution in 1917 when the Bolsheviks, a very tiny party, you know, Bolshevik was defined as the majority,

00:28:23.860 and the Bolsheviks, who were the socialists, who were less radical, were declared the minority, and that was by Vladimir Lenin when in an early 1900s meeting all the Bolsheviks who were disgusted with what Lenin was talking about they wanted to do,

00:28:45.660 when the Bolsheviks walked out, he declared, we are the majority, and they weren't the majority at all.

00:28:53.860 But it's a violent revolution.

00:28:58.220 It's not a nonviolent revolution in any sense of the word.

00:29:02.600 And it has been, you know, they've been working away at it, whittling away at it for about 100 years.

00:29:10.460 And, you know, it started with the, well, it actually started before the Frankfurt School,

00:29:18.560 but it really gained a lot of momentum when all of these scholars from the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany,

00:29:29.820 were transferred to the United States in 1933 after Hitler came to power,

00:29:37.740 because most of the college professors of this so-called Institute for Social Research were all communists,

00:29:47.620 and many of them were actually Soviet agents who were working undercover with that, you know, pretext as a reason for them to be there.

00:29:58.160 And they were, many of them were Jewish, so they had two strikes against them,

00:30:04.800 and they were resettled into the United States in 1933 at Columbia Teachers College,

00:30:11.060 where they proceeded to instruct the majority of future teachers, college professors,

00:30:18.960 and administrators throughout the United States with their poisonous ideology,

00:30:25.720 which we've come to know as cultural Marxism, but they called it critical theory.

00:30:32.900 And critical theory criticizes everything about Western society, top to bottom.

00:30:39.260 And then the subsequent critical theories like critical race theory and critical legal theory

00:30:44.760 and critical women's studies, there's dozens of them just split it into smaller pieces so that subsequent segments of society could be divided 1.00

00:31:00.280 and turned against each other.

00:31:03.520 And the whole idea is to create so much chaos and so many crises that we just basically go off the rails

00:31:14.180 and it launches a civil war that they hope will give them the pretext, if they're in power at the time,

00:31:26.060 for declaring martial law and then clamping down on all of us, taking away our Second Amendment rights,

00:31:35.280 seizing all our firearms, seizing our property, seizing our resources,

00:31:41.180 and turning this country into a Soviet-style state.

00:31:48.200 And that's really what's been going on.

00:31:52.380 James, can I ask you?

00:31:53.980 Can I interrupt you?

00:31:55.940 But I've got to ask you, how close are we to that?

00:31:58.660 Knowing what you know, based on the past, lining it up with where we are now,

00:32:03.200 how close are we to that?

00:32:04.500 Because it definitely feels like we're being pushed in that direction.

00:32:06.980 Oh, yeah, no, we are definitely being pushed in that direction, and we have been.

00:32:14.580 And, you know, it's a combination of two things.

00:32:18.060 One, you know, after four years of Biden's fraudulent administration,

00:32:28.400 that momentum really gained strength, and those people were given a free reign.

00:32:37.540 And, you know, just one simple example is this latest case where now the female National Guardsman 0.87

00:32:45.860 in Washington, D.C., we learned this morning that she died.

00:32:51.200 She had been shot in the head, so her father said it was a mortal wound that she wasn't going to make it.

00:32:58.800 And the other National Guardsman who was shot is fighting for his life.

00:33:02.580 You know, that's just one tiny example of the kind of chaos that the Biden regime deliberately created

00:33:13.360 by basically letting anybody and everybody into this country.

00:33:20.700 They did not vet the Afghan veterans, many of whom deserve to get what they call a special immigrant visa 0.99

00:33:30.180 to come to the United States because they had helped the United States and were in threat for their lives

00:33:35.760 if they stayed.

00:33:37.900 You know, Biden let anybody in, but he blocked a lot of those people from coming in,

00:33:43.240 and it was deliberate.

00:33:44.080 It's like that administration took anybody who was our friend,

00:33:52.800 and if you were our friend, you were their enemy, and so you were going to get punished for it.

00:33:59.560 And it is the most vicious and vindictive administration in the United States history. 0.75

00:34:06.380 I think they're all a bunch of traitors right up to it, including Joe Biden,

00:34:14.020 and they should all be paying for it heavily.

00:34:16.920 But so there's two things there.

00:34:20.020 First, they had that momentum, and they had already gotten a green light from many local governments

00:34:27.140 to go and riot like in Portland, Oregon, and many, many other places, Seattle, Washington.

00:34:34.240 And I feel like they have the momentum on their side.

00:34:41.240 And then at the same time, now we have Trump getting elected and America finally waking up

00:34:47.780 and seeing that they can say, no, we've had enough.

00:34:52.900 We don't want this anymore. 0.98

00:34:54.660 It was kind of like it never dawned on anybody before that we didn't have to run up with this garbage. 0.96

00:34:59.620 And so at the same time that they have this momentum, 0.92

00:35:05.260 they're also threatened very directly by the fact that they may be stopped

00:35:13.160 and not only stopped but arrested, sent to jail, fined, and everything else.

00:35:20.520 And so they're desperate at the same time.

00:35:23.460 So they're being even more violent and more dangerous than they were before.

00:35:32.420 And, you know, this Afghan national, he had worked with the special forces,

00:35:38.460 and one of his best friends had been denied this immigrant visa

00:35:46.160 and was subsequently murdered by the Taliban.

00:35:50.080 So he was off the rails about that, although it's hard to know

00:35:54.600 because so many of the Afghans that we worked with turned against our own soldiers

00:36:00.020 who, under the Obama administration, were not allowed to carry loaded weapons.

00:36:06.440 You know, it's an insane thing.

00:36:08.280 So they were basically just sitting ducks for those Afghans 1.00

00:36:13.880 that decided that they didn't like America, and they just started shooting them.

00:36:18.460 And so that entire episode of that disastrous pullout,

00:36:28.680 which I think was deliberately disastrous, created chaos from that one aspect,

00:36:39.620 but that was just one of so many others.

00:36:43.340 And there are so many things we have to think about and realize today.

00:36:47.940 And the most important thing is the upcoming midterm elections.

00:36:53.040 All right, James.

00:36:53.560 We must.

00:36:54.840 Yeah.

00:36:55.260 Yeah, let me stop you right there,

00:36:56.700 because I think you're going to make a critical point.

00:36:58.380 But we've got to take a break.

00:37:00.480 You're talking about the midterms.

00:37:02.020 It's so important.

00:37:03.180 People need to hear this.

00:37:04.580 But I also want to find out from you,

00:37:06.120 what do you think the solution on all this is?

00:37:08.260 As you lay out what's been happening,

00:37:10.320 and this has been in the making for decades now,

00:37:14.380 but how do we stop it?

00:37:16.300 Obviously, the first step is letting people know what's really going on.

00:37:20.720 And that's part of this, getting this word out, the education piece.

00:37:23.500 If you want to really dig into this,

00:37:24.740 Manufactured Crisis is the name of the book.

00:37:27.020 James Simpson will tell you where to get it and talk more about that.

00:37:29.600 First quick break.

00:37:30.440 We're back after this.

00:37:31.320 Justin Barclay in for Glenn Beck today on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:35.460 Here's a friendly tip.

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00:39:00.720 We've been hearing from our author or guest,

00:39:13.040 James Simpson wrote Crisis, Manufacturing Crisis,

00:39:15.760 The War to End America,

00:39:16.600 just talking about how to put a stop

00:39:18.880 to all the things that we're seeing.

00:39:20.480 And one of the biggest points he just made

00:39:21.980 was the midterms are coming up

00:39:23.600 and maybe the most critical.

00:39:25.900 We don't have a lot of time here,

00:39:27.400 but make your point, James.

00:39:28.560 This is big.

00:39:29.140 Yeah, no.

00:39:31.180 So absolutely,

00:39:33.100 the Republicans have not been doing nearly enough

00:39:36.960 to assure that the midterms are won

00:39:41.420 at the state level and the federal level,

00:39:43.980 especially in U.S. Congress,

00:39:45.440 because of the Democrats regaining control of Congress,

00:39:49.000 and Trump is just going to spend the next two years

00:39:52.520 fighting impeachment and everything else.

00:39:55.900 We absolutely have to win that election.

00:39:59.140 And the people who are behind all this,

00:40:02.480 they need to be demonetized,

00:40:04.520 and many of them need to be arrested.

00:40:07.320 We need to take serious action

00:40:09.220 for a little bit of our country.

00:40:11.120 James, I appreciate it.

00:40:12.260 I know you're passionate about it, folks.

00:40:13.980 Got to read the book,

00:40:14.760 Manufacturing Crisis,

00:40:16.460 The War to End America with James Simpson.

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00:41:41.140 Down the road where shadows hide.

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00:42:04.140 There is an international investigation going on as we speak.

00:42:08.140 Cash Patel, director of the FBI, talking about that.

00:42:10.140 Sources of the Afghan suspect worked in the CIA.

00:42:14.140 Zero units.

00:42:17.140 Latest on those developments on this story that continues to break with pieces and bits coming out as we speak.

00:42:24.140 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today.

00:42:26.140 Oh, and by the way, you're going to see more and more of this.

00:42:29.140 Little cracks is always how this happens.

00:42:31.140 Little cracks, little pieces here and there.

00:42:34.140 Debbie Wasserman Schultz out on CNN just moments ago, I guess.

00:42:38.140 Blaming Trump for the Guard members being shot and one of them dead.

00:42:44.140 You're going to see more and more of that.

00:42:46.140 That's always where it lands.

00:42:47.140 Blaming Trump.

00:42:48.140 Well, he gets some credit for some things coming up in just a little bit.

00:42:52.140 We'll get into that.

00:42:53.140 What's happening in Nigeria, by the way, it's been going on for a long time now.

00:42:57.140 You're just only hearing about it recently.

00:43:00.140 Over the last several decades, a man we know of spent some time there in a mission.

00:43:06.140 And he'll give us details about what's happening in Nigeria behind the scenes, not just with the Christians, but the genocide itself and why it matters, why you're hearing about it most recently.

00:43:19.140 It's all coming up in just moments today.

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00:44:36.140 You've seen a lot of this in the news lately.

00:44:45.140 And in fact, it's it's important that it gets covered because there's so much happening.

00:44:52.140 It's hard to really keep an eye on it all.

00:44:55.140 And the question is, if it's happening there, how soon before it happens here?

00:44:58.140 And folks, I guess that's probably one of the reasons why most people say they really ought to pay attention to this.

00:45:06.140 In Nigeria, the stories that we've been seeing are just incredible lately.

00:45:13.140 Unless it's happening in our own backyard.

00:45:15.140 And even then, sometimes it takes some some folks really a lot of time before they really start to know what's going on and understand that it is important.

00:45:26.140 Brad Brandon is a founder and CEO of across Nigeria, wanted to get a glimpse into what really is happening on the ground there for two decades.

00:45:36.140 He served in the ministry there.

00:45:38.140 He spent 10 years as a drive time talk host with talk radio connections.

00:45:44.140 Since then, in 2018, devoted himself to full time foreign missions in high risk.

00:45:50.140 So he'll be able to give us all the details about what's happening there in the heavily persecuted regions there in Nigeria and West Africa.

00:45:58.140 We appreciate it.

00:45:59.140 Thank you for taking the time today, Brad.

00:46:01.140 This is a big story.

00:46:02.140 We've we've been talking with you about it previously.

00:46:05.140 And I know even the president shining some light on it right now.

00:46:08.140 Want to get down to the truth.

00:46:11.140 Somebody who's seen it from the ground.

00:46:13.140 Hey, Justin.

00:46:15.140 Good to be on with you.

00:46:17.140 You too, Brad.

00:46:18.140 Tell us if you can.

00:46:20.140 And by the way, you know, I'm going to say it.

00:46:24.140 Happy Thanksgiving.

00:46:25.140 I think we can still say that we can even in these really dark times in these tough moments.

00:46:31.140 And maybe especially it's important as a pastor.

00:46:34.140 I'm sure you get this.

00:46:35.140 It's important for us to maybe talk about those things.

00:46:38.140 So we'll do it.

00:46:39.140 What is going on in Nigeria?

00:46:41.140 And what's the background on it?

00:46:43.140 Well, the background is, is that there is a genocide that's been going on for over 10 years.

00:46:49.140 We've been working there for about 10 years and I've seen it grow every single year.

00:46:55.140 And we've been crying from the mountaintops that this has been going on for all of that time.

00:47:01.140 And it's only been recently that the media here in the West has started to shine light on what's happening.

00:47:08.140 But really what's going on is it's a targeted genocide against Christians.

00:47:14.140 Most of northern Nigeria is where all of this is happening.

00:47:18.140 It is northern Nigeria is mostly Muslim, probably about 90, 90 percent Muslim.

00:47:24.140 And 12 of the northern Nigeria states are controlled by Sharia law, which is one reason why we here in the United States should care about that. 1.00

00:47:33.140 But you're looking at probably over 50,000 Christians have been killed since 2009.

00:47:39.140 Last year of all the Christians that were killed in the entire world that were martyred for their faith, 90 percent of them were killed in northern Nigeria.

00:47:49.140 So this is a huge issue.

00:47:51.140 It's a huge issue.

00:47:52.140 It's a huge problem that Christians here in the United States should wake up to. 0.99

00:47:57.140 What what what do you think is going to take that?

00:48:00.140 And the reason I ask is because, you know, we were just talking about our previous guest here the past week or so on the horrific attack on the two national government.

00:48:10.140 And and and and what's going on, why this is so important, the roots of it.

00:48:16.140 And then how do we how do we really you know, how do we fight back?

00:48:19.140 What are the solutions?

00:48:20.140 And I think a lot of these things and by the way, I think you're going to get this, too.

00:48:23.140 But like a lot of the stuff we're looking for answers and solutions in the natural here, unfortunately, that are probably spiritually based more than anything else.

00:48:36.140 How do we make people care, though?

00:48:38.140 I mean, how do we make people when there's so much happening right now?

00:48:43.140 Not to dump all this on you, Brad, but, you know, people are saying, I guess it's hard for me to put food on the table right now with with with my family.

00:48:50.140 I'm worried about, you know, the economy or whatever it might be.

00:48:53.140 And I think we're so inundated that these very important topics we sometimes we miss.

00:48:57.140 I think one of the things is us here in the United States.

00:49:01.140 And I'm currently in the U.S. headed back to Nigeria in about two weeks.

00:49:05.140 But here in the United States, we have the greatest country in the entire world.

00:49:11.140 We have an abundance of everything here in the United States.

00:49:15.140 Even the poor of us here in the U.S. live like kings compared to the rest of the world.

00:49:21.140 Northern Nigeria is an area where people live on less than a dollar a day.

00:49:25.140 And because of inflation, food is actually more expensive there than it is here.

00:49:30.140 Now, one of the things that scripture teaches me as a pastor and a spiritual leader is to those that are given much, much will be required.

00:49:40.140 So those of us here in the United States who've been given all of the freedoms, all of the abundance that we have, all of the conveniences that we have, each of us have access to our own little audience on social media.

00:49:52.140 We need to use that to be a voice for people who have no voice and take a stand for people who can't stand for themselves, particularly our brothers and sisters in Christ.

00:50:04.140 And those are in northern Nigeria who are suffering under this persecution.

00:50:09.140 We have to wake up and realize that what's happening in northern Nigeria is just it's almost like a foreshadow of the things that we see happening here. 0.74

00:50:19.140 I was just telling somebody the other day, Justin, that every time that I come back to the U.S. from Nigeria, the United States is looking more and more like Nigeria every time I come back.

00:50:31.140 And it all has to really do with radical Islam and corruption and Sharia law, all of these things. 0.99

00:50:38.140 Northern Nigeria is a foreshadow of things that are happening here in the U.S. 0.97

00:50:44.140 Wherever radical Islam is given a foothold, this is what happens. 0.99

00:50:49.140 And we're allowing that to enter the United States.

00:50:53.140 We're allowing radical Islam to have a stronghold here in the United States. 1.00

00:50:58.140 So for those two reasons, one, we've been given so much here in the U.S.

00:51:02.140 And we have a vested interest in this because we see it filtering into our country.

00:51:08.140 The church in the United States needs to wake up and start doing something about it.

00:51:13.140 Yeah, I think that's a very good point.

00:51:17.140 You mentioned this and I know there's it's not just Christian persecution there.

00:51:22.140 This this is happening to lots of folks in Nigeria.

00:51:26.140 But walk us through what you know what what you think that looks like.

00:51:31.140 Sharia law, by the way, that's another big, big buzzword we've been hearing here in America, especially what's happening in Texas and places like Michigan, where I'm at as well.

00:51:39.140 These are these are these are things that are starting to key at the top of folks consciousness right now.

00:51:46.140 Yeah, absolutely. Sharia law, like I said, controls 12 of the northern Nigeria state.

00:51:52.140 This is a place where if you are a Muslim and you convert to Christianity because you want to leave that brutal system. 1.00

00:52:00.140 That is a blasphemy law that is punishable by death under Sharia law.

00:52:06.140 Women are worth half that of a man under Sharia law. 1.00

00:52:10.140 Children are abused under Sharia law.

00:52:13.140 These are all things that are happening openly accepted in the system of Sharia law.

00:52:18.140 We even see it filtering here in the United States.

00:52:21.140 Back in 2009, there was a superior court judge who consulted an I mom to make a decision on a woman who was accusing her husband of abuse.

00:52:32.140 And because her testimony was worth half that of her husband, the I mom under Sharia law told the judge to believe the man over the woman, the man's testimony over the woman. 0.99

00:52:44.140 That superior court judge in New Jersey, of all places, decided to rule against the wife and not give the wife the protection that she needed. 0.73

00:52:55.140 That is Sharia law creeping into our own legal system. 0.99

00:52:59.140 It's happening under the Arbitration Act in the UK, the under the Arbitration Act in the UK.

00:53:05.140 They are calling for Sharia law to be used as precedent in their legal court decisions.

00:53:12.140 So it's filtering into the West. It's filtering here into the United States. 0.74

00:53:17.140 And it is a dangerous system that robs the population of, I'll just say it, human rights.

00:53:25.140 It is it is an offense to human rights. Sharia law is. 1.00

00:53:29.140 And if you want to see that on full display, just look in northern Nigeria.

00:53:34.140 Like you said, it's not just Christians that are being targeted, although it's, I would say, inordinately targeted at Christians. 0.53

00:53:43.140 But Boko Haram and Aiswa that control a lot of the areas that I work in, they will target anybody who doesn't hold their radical beliefs. 0.97

00:53:52.140 They'll kill Muslims. They'll kill people of any religion that do not hold their radical beliefs. 1.00

00:53:57.140 So it is not just an assault on Christians. It's an assault on everybody. 0.98

00:54:02.140 Although I will emphasize and say that the persecution and the genocide that's happening in northern Nigeria, it is absolutely targeted toward Christians.

00:54:14.140 Pastor Brad Brandon, AcrossNigeria.org is the organization and the updates.

00:54:20.140 Now, you've seen and we have that President Trump in I don't have ever seen such a strong statement coming from the United States, but particularly shining a light on this.

00:54:32.140 It's just the beginning. But what what needs to happen?

00:54:37.140 Obviously, there are groups like you that are going in doing work on the ground.

00:54:40.140 But what needs to happen from the support of the United States as a whole and maybe even for folks that are listening?

00:54:48.140 Well, President Trump was calling for military action.

00:54:51.140 In fact, he said, we'll go in guns blazing.

00:54:53.140 When asked what he meant about that, he said airstrikes and possibly boots on the ground.

00:54:58.140 I welcome that. I will.

00:55:00.140 We've had presidents the past two presidents who have been asleep on this issue.

00:55:05.140 In fact, President Biden, one of the first things he did when he took office was he took Nigeria off the country of particular concern list while thousands of Christians were being slaughtered.

00:55:15.140 So I welcome any attention that a president is going to give to this issue.

00:55:20.140 And I think it's a complex issue that's happening in northern Nigeria.

00:55:24.140 You have groups like ISWA, which is the Islamic State of West Africa, and then you have Boko Haram.

00:55:30.140 Those are terrorist groups that have a radical Muslim ideology, and they will kill anybody who doesn't hold that radical belief. 0.97

00:55:39.140 So when we're talking about military action or even leveraging the Nigerian government to get involved with it, they've been asleep on this issue for a long time. 0.55

00:55:48.140 I think military action is what's needed when it comes to groups like ISWA and Boko Haram.

00:55:54.140 There's also an issue of the Fulani Muslims.

00:55:57.140 The Fulani Muslims are an ethnic group in northern Nigeria.

00:56:01.140 Now, there are some Fulani Muslims that are radicalized.

00:56:05.140 There are some who are militant in their approach, no doubt about that.

00:56:10.140 But most Fulani Muslims, and that's who I predominantly work with, we have Fulani Muslim schools that we operate throughout northern Nigeria.

00:56:19.140 These are peaceful people who just want to provide for their families, and they don't like Boko Haram.

00:56:25.140 They don't like what these radicals are doing.

00:56:28.140 And what happens in northern Nigeria, like so many other places when you're talking about Gaza and in other places around the world, these radicals are experts at embedding themselves in communities of innocent people.

00:56:42.140 And if you go in with airstrikes and boots on the ground, you're going to have massive collateral damage.

00:56:48.140 And not only that, but you're going to drive some of those youth in those innocent communities further, and you're going to entrench them into the radical ideology of Boko Haram and ISWA.

00:57:00.140 So I think that it's not just one approach. It's not just all guns blazing. It's not just all airstrikes. There needs to be a combination of that.

00:57:10.140 But there also needs to be a combination of settling some of these socioeconomic issues that are driving a lot of this violence.

00:57:18.140 The Fulani Muslims in northern Nigeria a lot of times will attack Christian villages just simply because they're running out of grazing ground for their cattle.

00:57:28.140 Fulani Muslims are cow herders and Christians in northern Nigeria are predominantly farmers. 1.00

00:57:34.140 Well, when a cow wanders onto those farm fields and eats a farmer's crop, you get the conflict that happens a lot of times in northern Nigeria.

00:57:43.140 So it's very complex. But I do applaud the president for what he said and what he's doing and taking a stand for those Christians in northern Nigeria because so many other presidents have not.

00:57:54.140 The conversation continues after this. Brad Brandon across Nigeria talking about what's happening, the genocide there and the president's response to it, but also what you can do.

00:58:06.140 And the surprising part here is it won't cost you anything. It might even be the most important coming up next to fill you in after that right on the Glenn Beck program.

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00:59:43.340 Now, Brad, you and I have talked about what people can do. And obviously, you know, your organization accepts donations and things like that.

00:59:49.620 We don't want to we don't want to slight that at all because it's a big part of what you're doing.

00:59:54.240 But there's something even more important. You've mentioned with me when we talked about this before and it won't even cost you anything.

01:00:00.720 And that's that's to pray.

01:00:03.660 Yeah. Yeah. That's what the church needs to be doing right now.

01:00:06.700 Well, and as a as a pastor, I look to scripture to guide me.

01:00:10.860 And in Hebrews 13, it talks about how Paul calls the church when people are suffering for the name of Jesus Christ.

01:00:20.240 He says that we should bind ourselves as bound with them.

01:00:25.320 And what he means by that is binding ourselves so closely to those who are suffering for the cause of Christ that it's as though it's happening to us.

01:00:34.320 So instead of looking at this as something like, oh, that's too bad that that's happening to those Christians over there, the church here in the United States needs to wake up and say, this is happening to our brothers and sisters in Christ.

01:00:47.040 If they're in pain, I'm in pain. If they're going through this, I'm going through this.

01:00:51.080 And that leads to the point that you just made is the church here in the U.S. needs to be on our knees in a concerted effort to be praying and lifting up these Christians in northern Nigeria.

01:01:04.600 And not just pray for them, like in a polite way, like we often say in church, I'll pray for you.

01:01:09.680 But I mean, a systematic effort here in the United States by the church to pray for these Christians who are suffering, getting on our knees as faith communities, as churches, as Bible studies, as prayer groups, and lifting up these people because they are suffering right now.

01:01:28.280 And most of the schools in northern Nigeria have been shut down, so children can't even leave their home to go to school.

01:01:34.380 Our schools in northern Nigeria have been shut down because of the recent kidnappings that have happened just in the last week and a half.

01:01:41.400 So this is a time when we need to be fighting this battle through the most powerful weapon that we have.

01:01:47.160 And that weapon is praying for those Christians who are suffering genocide in northern Nigeria.

01:01:52.860 I know you've got a big event coming up at the Museum of the Bible.

01:01:56.040 If people want to keep in touch with you, find out.

01:01:58.980 Maybe, in fact, you're going to be in the area.

01:02:00.460 I'd love to go check out, Brad, or dig into Across Nigeria.

01:02:03.360 Best way to do that, AcrossNigeria.org, Brad?

01:02:07.120 Yeah, that's right.

01:02:07.840 Go to our website, AcrossNigeria.org.

01:02:10.060 They can learn all about the upcoming events that we have.

01:02:13.080 And they can learn how to pray for us by signing up for our email updates.

01:02:18.200 And that's the center hub for what we're doing is our website, AcrossNigeria.org.

01:02:22.860 I'm praying for you.

01:02:23.720 Thank you for everything you're doing.

01:02:25.100 And, of course, we'll continue to stay in touch.

01:02:28.240 Brad Brandon, AcrossNigeria.org.

01:02:31.040 Thank you, sir.

01:02:31.880 Coming up next, a chance to dig in.

01:02:33.800 By the way, I'm still getting the ripple effects of Judge Janine Pirro on Fox News this morning.

01:02:40.300 She kind of went nuclear.

01:02:42.440 We'll share some more from that broadcast coming up and more details that are still on the way from the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:04:30.860 Love to hear from you.

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01:06:20.760 So, I told you about it earlier.

01:06:21.980 I got a couple of videos I got to play for you.

01:06:23.820 Judge Jeanine, who just rips in a new one. 0.96

01:06:26.200 And, listen, gone nuclear in ways that, I guess, we got to celebrate these days, right? 0.94

01:06:33.260 But, also, it's already started.

01:06:35.020 You knew it was a matter of time.

01:06:36.380 And Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democrat radical from Florida, found the way somehow on CNN to blame Trump for the latest, this horrific attack from the terrorist in D.C. on the National Guard.

01:06:51.380 We need to make sure that we have tight and appropriate and proper vetting.

01:06:55.380 If there were gaps that admitted this person, they would have failed over multiple levels of gaps.

01:07:02.240 And this individual was trusted enough to participate in assisting our military during the war in Afghanistan.

01:07:09.100 So, I just think, you know, the president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies.

01:07:17.560 We need to make sure that we don't have our military deployed in our cities.

01:07:22.320 We're handling law enforcement responsibilities.

01:07:25.880 And we need to make sure that we address gun violence.

01:07:29.500 We certainly need to make sure we always have the proper and appropriate and tight vetting processes.

01:07:35.100 And those should be reviewed.

01:07:37.240 But, wait, did you hear that?

01:07:38.380 Not only did she blame Trump, but she also blamed guns.

01:07:44.380 In the same, she was able to get both of those out.

01:07:46.980 Yes, it's Trump's fault.

01:07:48.260 Oh, and we got to blame guns at the same time. 0.83

01:07:52.440 These people, it's shameful.

01:07:54.640 They'll never admit it, but it's just absolutely shameful.

01:07:57.100 For example, this is, you're talking about victim shaming.

01:08:01.060 They also, they like to talk about victim shaming quite a bit, but this is, this is it.

01:08:06.580 So, you're telling me it's the policies that put these individuals, in other words, if they never would have been in Washington, D.C.

01:08:16.780 It's Trump's fault.

01:08:18.400 These people would be alive today.

01:08:19.660 One of them would be alive today. 0.87

01:08:20.920 But, it's never the president's fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction, and it's pretty disgusting.

01:08:29.180 And, what's even more disgusting is that these people will do everything in their power to crowbar and make it his fault.

01:08:36.980 When it comes to the most, even the most horrific.

01:08:39.880 And, like I said, it starts slow.

01:08:42.380 They're going to get the signal any minute now that they're going to push, push, push, push.

01:08:46.420 And, eventually, the dam will break, and they'll all be pointing the finger at him.

01:08:52.080 They'll all be doing it.

01:08:53.200 You've already started to see bits and pieces of it.

01:08:55.360 We saw it happen early.

01:08:56.660 This is, I think this just happened early this morning.

01:08:59.900 Anyway, this was this morning.

01:09:01.140 Judge Janine, attorney, U.S. attorney, Janine Pirro.

01:09:04.400 Saying, now, the Afghan shooter, obviously, because of the death of Sarah Bruckman, is going to be charged with first-degree murder.

01:09:17.580 About, are we going to see an escalation in charges?

01:09:21.080 Oh, there's no question.

01:09:22.240 First of all, our hearts go out, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of a beautiful 20-year-old, Sarah Beckstrom,

01:09:31.180 who answered the call to serve her nation.

01:09:35.020 And she volunteered, and she ended up being shot, ambush-style, on the coal streets of Washington, D.C., 0.69

01:09:44.080 by an individual who will now be charged with murder in the first degree.

01:09:49.740 There are certainly many more charges to come, but we are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree.

01:09:59.200 And we are hoping that the more information we can get and the more investigation that is going on 24-7 now,

01:10:07.400 around the clock, in Washington, the more we will find out about what actually happened

01:10:13.840 in terms of this individual even being in this country and being in a position to ambush and shoot down an innocent young woman

01:10:23.700 who was doing her duty to the people of this country.

01:10:27.140 It's unthinkable.

01:10:28.740 When you really wrap your head around it, it really is unthinkable.

01:10:34.020 So here it is.

01:10:34.940 This is when she went nuclear, by the way.

01:10:37.260 There's a couple of really good moments.

01:10:38.800 By the way, I'm going to put this clip, too, up, posted on social.

01:10:43.160 I'm everywhere, at Mr. Justin Barkley, and I'll post it on my website, too,

01:10:46.660 and I put my stack up later today, justinbarkley.com.

01:10:49.840 Let me say one more thing, and it's not about this case.

01:10:52.600 It's about vetting in general.

01:10:54.420 The nonsense that the left gave us with this Operation Welcome Allies.

01:10:59.600 Look, there was no vetting.

01:11:01.400 If you think there was vetting, I have a bridge to sell you.

01:11:04.340 If you saw the chaos that was going on at that airport in Kabul in Afghanistan,

01:11:10.620 it was typical of what was going on in the Biden administration.

01:11:14.840 And the Pentagon, I believe it was Kirby, and people in the Biden administration said

01:11:19.940 the Afghan withdrawal that we all know was disastrous was a success. 1.00

01:11:24.740 And that's a quote.

01:11:25.880 They called that a success.

01:11:27.800 That chaos is not a success.

01:11:29.820 That is a nightmare.

01:11:30.880 And 13 American servicemen and women were killed at that airport

01:11:35.440 because the Biden administration couldn't get their facts together

01:11:40.780 and couldn't make a decision regarding the rules of engagement

01:11:43.480 to take down a known suicide bomber.

01:11:46.660 You know, I know people, in fact, they know a young man who was there

01:11:52.900 when all of that happened.

01:11:56.040 And I remember watching that at the time.

01:11:58.320 I know you're the same thing.

01:12:00.640 Anybody with, you know, half a brain could see how disastrous that whole thing was playing out

01:12:08.680 and how it was going to play out.

01:12:11.700 And it was in real time.

01:12:14.980 It was just horrifying in real time to see what they were doing behind the scenes. 0.99

01:12:22.100 That just, just absolute inept.

01:12:27.920 Fact these, you wonder, you know what, Autopin was like running the whole show, right?

01:12:32.920 Behind the scenes.

01:12:34.280 Autopin.

01:12:36.160 Autopin was the presidency.

01:12:37.680 You wonder if anybody was even making any of these calls.

01:12:40.360 I mean, that's the kind of thing you have to think about.

01:12:42.700 When you use, you know, truth, logic, and common sense,

01:12:46.100 you come to these conclusions, and it really makes you wonder.

01:12:49.780 Unless you pull the curtain back and you realize the playbook is a lot more nefarious than we are led to believe.

01:13:02.240 In fact, you know, when these people are talking about the system,

01:13:08.880 the system's broken, the system's not working.

01:13:13.540 No, the system's working exactly how they've designed it to.

01:13:16.420 You dig in and you look at what Glenn's been talking about for years,

01:13:21.740 and Cloward and Pivot and this whole idea of trying to collapse things so that they can replace

01:13:26.200 what was standing with what they have dreamt of for decades.

01:13:33.800 So in the meantime, they don't care.

01:13:35.600 Chaos is welcome. 0.99

01:13:36.680 Crisis is welcome.

01:13:38.400 They want you afraid.

01:13:40.100 They want you cowering in fear.

01:13:42.060 They want innocent people dying, unfortunately,

01:13:48.120 because it gets them closer to being able to get to where they really want to go,

01:13:52.380 which is their fundamental transformation, right, of the whole thing.

01:14:00.620 They've got all the answers.

01:14:02.020 Just ask them.

01:14:02.700 They'll tell you.

01:14:03.180 Don't forget, it hasn't worked anywhere they've tried it.

01:14:09.220 It hasn't worked anywhere they've tried it in the past,

01:14:11.640 and yet here they are pushing it on us yet again.

01:14:18.180 Hey, it's the same reason why Mom Donnie was so successful in New York City. 1.00

01:14:23.400 In fact, let's talk about that.

01:14:24.660 When we come back, I want to shine some light on what's going on in New York City

01:14:29.800 and why, you know, I know it looks radical to you and me,

01:14:33.340 but I think to most of those folks in New York,

01:14:37.160 it looks like a breath of fresh air.

01:14:40.120 And why they're welcoming all of that in.

01:14:45.020 This is the inconvenient, by the way, this is the tough talk, right,

01:14:48.260 the inconvenient truth that you may not get anywhere else.

01:14:51.860 We'll do that after this.

01:14:53.260 In the meantime, jump into conversation, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

01:14:59.260 Hey, Justin Barkley, in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:16:37.640 The vetting, again, part of the conversation about what's happening with these folks let in.

01:16:43.380 The Biden administration from Afghanistan, Judge Janine, U.S. Attorney Janine.

01:16:47.900 About vetting in general.

01:16:49.760 The nonsense that the left gave us with this Operation Welcome Allies.

01:16:54.920 Look, there was no vetting.

01:16:56.680 If you think there was vetting, I have a bridge to sell you.

01:16:59.840 I love that.

01:17:01.220 I love that.

01:17:02.380 We have a flashback.

01:17:03.880 Can you, please, permit me.

01:17:07.360 Jen Psaki, can I circle back?

01:17:09.960 Can I circle back to Jen Psaki? 0.83

01:17:14.100 2021, here she is.

01:17:16.420 Circle back.

01:17:17.160 This is what she said.

01:17:18.780 The White House spokes at the time about those folks coming in from Afghanistan.

01:17:25.020 We've talked about this a little bit on this as well.

01:17:27.300 But there are, of course, concerns among lawmakers, experts who have tracked this.

01:17:31.540 They're saying previous arrivals of large numbers of refugees from different parts of the world.

01:17:37.480 And that really there may be a handful, small handful, who are eventually deemed a security risk of some kind.

01:17:43.700 What reassurances can you make about the screening process and the attempts to make sure that somebody like that doesn't make his or her way here?

01:17:52.560 I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming into the United States of America who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process.

01:18:01.360 Sure, sure.

01:18:01.980 And there are many individuals, as you noted, who have not been through that process.

01:18:06.620 And they have gone to lily pad countries as that process has been completed.

01:18:10.600 Well, that's what we were told.

01:18:11.580 And here we have, as Puro points out, you know, we've got one dead guardsman and another in very serious critical condition as we continue to pray.

01:18:25.840 And that's in New York and all of this insanity of Mamdami is we were just talking about socialism and how it's failed everywhere. 0.95

01:18:33.360 And so many people, you know, just young people don't get it because they never heard this.

01:18:38.680 We talked about this in the first hour.

01:18:41.480 And if you get a chance to go back on the podcast and listen today at glenbeck.com, you'll be able to hear this.

01:18:47.500 But a guest in Arthur Jim Simpson talked about that in his book.

01:18:52.260 And, of course, in that Cloward and Piven strategy and this Marxist takeover, what they've been trying to do for decades now, is collapse the system.

01:19:02.320 So this is one of the ways you do it.

01:19:03.760 You let all these people in and you just don't care what happens.

01:19:06.700 It's burn it all down.

01:19:08.960 You don't care either way.

01:19:11.440 And so that's how bad it gets.

01:19:13.400 And we were just talking about this earlier.

01:19:15.460 But, you know, the bread and the circuses keep people distracted.

01:19:19.040 But even more so, it's even more effective than bread and circuses is the other side is when kids are so saddled with debt. 0.67

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01:19:38.120 They come out brainwashed and with a mountain of debt that they'll never pay off. 0.60

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01:19:56.220 They're not written the paper they're printed on.

01:19:59.440 On top of that, cost everything has gone through the roof.

01:20:03.320 And by the way, this is going to be a big point for the midterms.

01:20:08.760 One of the things that Republicans folks underwrite Trump, the administration, they need to do is, again, point out this is the Biden administration issue they created.

01:20:18.020 It even goes further back than that.

01:20:22.880 Trump's working to bring those prices down.

01:20:25.640 Patience, yes.

01:20:26.940 But it's going to be hard.

01:20:28.100 And this is why socialism sells.

01:20:30.340 These people never heard about it.

01:20:32.020 These kids that went to school, you think they heard about socialism?

01:20:35.100 Where they're being taught about America and America's evil?

01:20:38.540 No.

01:20:39.460 They never got the truth about it.

01:20:42.060 They never got the truth about communism.

01:20:44.100 They never got the truth about what Mondani says he wants to do.

01:20:47.520 And all of this stuff sounds great.

01:20:49.480 It really is a shiny new object.

01:20:53.000 At the end of the day, it's evil because it's killed more people than you can even put a finger on the actual number.

01:20:59.020 It's just incredible.

01:21:00.020 Millions upon millions upon millions.

01:21:01.800 It's never worked.

01:21:04.820 Well, that's because it's just never been done right.

01:21:06.840 You know, see, that's the problem.

01:21:08.240 That's what they'll tell you.

01:21:09.180 They'll sit in there theorize and tell you all day long.

01:21:12.160 That's the real problem.

01:21:13.460 No, no, no.

01:21:13.840 So no wonder these kids are lapping it up. 0.63

01:21:19.320 I don't blame them for that.

01:21:20.480 But we ought to get good at making sure we reach them and messaging that directly talks to them.

01:21:25.540 That's why they came out and voted in mass for President Trump this last election.

01:21:31.280 They thought he would help.

01:21:32.400 And he can.

01:21:33.060 We've got to make sure we keep that message in front.

01:21:38.900 This is Glenn Beck.

01:21:41.020 We'll be right back.

01:22:11.020 We'll be right back.

01:22:41.020 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:22:47.060 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:50.700 Yeah, he was a Marine fighter pilot.

01:22:57.980 This one bad dude.

01:23:00.220 Coming up, what Ed Rush is doing now might even be more interesting.

01:23:06.080 In fact, we're going to lean on him today for a little wisdom, a little understanding, and

01:23:11.360 a little bit of the way forward on how to see things and hear them that you just won't hear

01:23:19.260 anywhere else and get some guidance.

01:23:22.040 In the days where everything's like AI and you don't know what to believe with the news,

01:23:25.260 I've seen a lot of this fake news, not just fake news, but like obviously fake news.

01:23:31.100 It's posted all over the Internet these days.

01:23:33.920 You don't want to get the seed.

01:23:34.900 We'll tell you how you can make sure that you don't.

01:23:38.500 And speaking of AI, Thanksgiving ruined for a lot of folks.

01:23:42.680 We'll get to this story a little bit later on in the hour.

01:23:44.780 It's not because of politics and people arguing at the table.

01:23:47.840 No, it was because of AI recipes.

01:23:49.880 We'll talk about that and more on the way.

01:23:55.420 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:25:01.640 The name says it all.

01:25:02.520 So how do you see through all the fog of war?

01:25:17.620 I mean, we really are at war.

01:25:18.860 Whether we realize it or not, whether you're talking in the natural or something a little more super,

01:25:24.940 that's really what we're up against and the noise that we're constantly being bombarded with on a daily basis.

01:25:32.320 I thought it might be important to see if we can get some clarity and cut through some of that

01:25:38.320 with a man who knows a thing or two about it.

01:25:40.540 He's a Marine Corps F-18 fighter pilot, and what he's doing now is actually maybe even more exciting.

01:25:46.620 We'll have to ask him whether he feels that way or not, but I can tell you that I think he probably does.

01:25:50.320 He's still on mission, and this time as an author, speaker, and written several books,

01:25:55.220 and the author of one that I really enjoyed called God Talks.

01:25:59.060 Now let's talk to the guy that talks to God.

01:26:02.100 Ed, appreciate you taking the time to be here with us today.

01:26:04.320 Ed Rush.

01:26:05.100 Justin, man, it's awesome to be on the show.

01:26:07.200 Hey, by the way, happy Thanksgiving.

01:26:08.560 We have a lot to be thankful for.

01:26:10.140 As you said, you know, we're, I think, in a world at war,

01:26:12.820 but it is nice just to sit back every once in a while and just say thanks to the God who created everything

01:26:17.420 and smile around that table with the family.

01:26:19.700 So I hope you're having a good weekend.

01:26:22.000 Absolutely, and I think, as you mentioned, that's so important.

01:26:25.040 I mean, look, we've got to face what we're up against, but at the same time,

01:26:28.900 to give thanks, I think, is even more necessary, especially in times like this.

01:26:35.020 So, yeah, let's talk about how did you, you've written this book called God Talks,

01:26:40.700 and my thought process for talking to you today is, first of all, I think it's an interesting subject, nevertheless,

01:26:47.260 but, like, how do we, and times, especially when I get questions from people that I talk to all the time,

01:26:53.780 listen, or stream me online or whatever they do, and they're always asking,

01:26:58.560 how do we know what's real and how do we know what's not?

01:27:00.440 In fact, today I got that question again from Terry, who said,

01:27:04.040 look, can you talk about some of this AI fake news stuff?

01:27:06.880 It's all over.

01:27:07.860 It's everywhere.

01:27:08.500 How do we know what's real?

01:27:10.020 How do we know?

01:27:10.720 And I thought, you know, as we go into this time, and Glenn's talked about this,

01:27:14.060 but the AI, and we might already be there.

01:27:16.340 We're at a time where you may not be able to tell what's real and what isn't.

01:27:20.020 And if we're not there yet, we're getting very close.

01:27:22.560 And so I kind of lean on, and I've leaned on that thought that it's going to be even more important

01:27:28.360 to hear from a higher power, to hear from the Lord, to have, you know,

01:27:33.800 to have that discernment, that wisdom to guide you in these times.

01:27:37.480 Yeah, I mean, fundamentally, I think the human question, like the human question,

01:27:43.620 probably other than why are we here, is what's true.

01:27:46.640 You know, I mean, like if you go back in history, it has been fundamentally,

01:27:51.200 every single war that started, started over a battle of what's true and what's false.

01:27:55.340 And, you know, like, dude, I'm a fighter pilot, so I don't do floaty, fluffy, wooey, wooey.

01:28:01.420 I'm interested in like what really works when you are fighting gravity for a living.

01:28:05.420 You know, the fundamentals like physics, Bernoulli's law, when the stick goes forward,

01:28:11.080 the houses get bigger.

01:28:12.080 When the stick goes backwards, the houses get smaller.

01:28:14.500 Kind of basic fundamentals are really important to me.

01:28:16.640 And so, yeah, when I started to like go after this question as to like what is really true.

01:28:21.400 And by the way, what you said about AI is really true.

01:28:23.500 Like we live in a, in the most noisy, most confusing, most difficult to discern truth world.

01:28:31.160 And we have access to more information that paradox completely befuddles me, by the way.

01:28:36.460 And so, yeah, I started to try to figure out like the answer to that and to be perfectly open.

01:28:42.360 Like I didn't believe in any of this stuff.

01:28:44.740 Like the things that I teach nowadays and just, you know, big picture, I teach real people how to have a conversation with the real God.

01:28:51.760 It doesn't matter your religious background.

01:28:53.700 It doesn't matter your, you know, family upbringing.

01:28:56.920 It doesn't matter anything.

01:28:57.960 Like literally just start to end how to have a very simple conversation with God.

01:29:03.020 And it's important, you know, I didn't believe in any of this stuff.

01:29:05.520 Like even 15 years ago when I sort of stumbled into this, into this process, but fundamentally the most important thing that you can do, I think, is connect with the God who created you, handcrafted you in his image.

01:29:18.680 That's an amazing three words in his image and just be able to just understand what he thinks about you, what he thinks about the world.

01:29:26.080 And it really clears through quite a bit.

01:29:27.860 And like I said, I have no patience for fluffy, fluffy, wooey, wooey, come by a sort of sit around the campfire.

01:29:34.420 And make up pious platitudes.

01:29:36.900 I'm interested in things that actually work.

01:29:40.260 So let me ask you, I mean, obviously this process is pretty simple and you walk people through it in the book.

01:29:49.280 But if you wanted to give somebody maybe a thumbnail sketch or a place to start, for me anyway, like I'll just say that I know that the biggest piece for me is first of all, just,

01:30:02.060 and it doesn't have to be a long thing or just, but just turning off the noise.

01:30:06.760 And I know that, you know, look, we're on the radio.

01:30:09.700 We want you to listen to the show.

01:30:11.380 We want you to listen to this radio station.

01:30:13.960 But every now and then, you know, even I do it.

01:30:16.380 It got to take some time to turn it off, right?

01:30:18.520 So, yeah, I mean, I think what Justin's saying is listen to the whole show, then turn it off and then do the process.

01:30:27.600 So, I mean, we wouldn't want to miss this part at least.

01:30:30.620 So, no, it's amazing.

01:30:32.240 So, you know, like I live here in San Diego.

01:30:34.220 I'm probably about 14 miles from downtown San Diego.

01:30:38.720 And if I want to get downtown, I jump in my car, head down.

01:30:41.460 It's going to take me probably about 15, 16 minutes and I'm downtown.

01:30:44.720 Well, 200 years ago, if I was to go from here to there, it would be a walk.

01:30:48.320 I do a lot of walking.

01:30:49.200 I can tell you that's about an hour and a half at least just for, or sorry, no, I'm doing the math wrong.

01:30:56.240 That's about a four or five hour walk, right?

01:30:58.420 Well, during that time, back in the old days, people used to literally just get into this state where they were just sort of in this zone.

01:31:05.340 Now, scientists have actually identified that state or that zone.

01:31:10.240 There's five different brainwave frequencies that science will tell you about.

01:31:14.120 It's not my job to go through each and every single one of them, but I'll go in order.

01:31:18.520 You basically go all the way from the top, theta, beta, alpha, delta, gamma.

01:31:27.380 And there is this zone just beside asleep and just above awake called theta where it's like this, it's the zone.

01:31:38.740 It's like if you are just sitting there with a big smile on your face, you're perfectly calm, your thoughts are just moving very freely.

01:31:46.020 That's the zone.

01:31:46.900 And I will tell you that most Americans, probably most people in the world today, because of our connectivity, move quickly through that zone.

01:31:53.420 They're either in some sort of high state of information processing or they're asleep.

01:31:57.360 And that's really where people operate.

01:31:59.600 But, yeah, if you can find yourself into this really still small space, you're able to hear a lot better his still small voice.

01:32:07.420 And it's actually very simple.

01:32:09.460 Step number one, just like you described, is to turn off the noise.

01:32:12.300 Just turn it off.

01:32:13.880 I don't know many people who can go even for five or ten minutes with nothing.

01:32:18.820 Like I'm talking about turn the radio off after the show, turn off your TV, turn off the noise, turn off the conversation.

01:32:25.160 Find yourself into a place where you can just be quiet and just breathe for a little bit.

01:32:28.820 You actually find yourself into this new zone.

01:32:31.460 And I will just tell you, having taught tens of thousands at this point, Justin, there's probably well over 100,000 people how to tune into God's voice just to hear him talk to you.

01:32:40.280 That when you can control your mind and find yourself into this still small spot to hear a still small voice, it actually accentuates your ability to do that.

01:32:50.500 The people that I know that really have difficulty, and like I said, I've trained a lot of people, occasionally I have someone who's like, oh, man, I'm like really struggling with this or I'm having a hard time.

01:32:57.800 It's because they're not able to slow themselves down.

01:32:59.860 And it's really important, especially in a time like this, dude, we're talking on the middle of the biggest shopping day of the year.

01:33:05.780 But we're also talking in the middle of what traditionally for people is a four-day holiday.

01:33:10.000 And I find, I don't know about you, but I find like after a holiday or vacation, I need like a vacation or a holiday.

01:33:15.840 Like it is busier for me.

01:33:17.880 These four days, I got like, dude, we're talking this morning.

01:33:21.240 I got to go get a big Christmas tree.

01:33:23.020 I'm getting a 13-foot Christmas tree this year.

01:33:24.780 The whole family's coming to the town.

01:33:26.340 I'm doing like full Clark Griswold.

01:33:28.760 I got the lights around the house.

01:33:30.040 And like I got four days off, man, you would think this would be a place for peace.

01:33:33.880 It's actually a place for just a lot of busy.

01:33:36.060 And so even five or 10 minutes just to get away, just to breathe a little bit, take your brainwaves.

01:33:41.700 I could choose scientifically every single step along the way.

01:33:44.540 Take your brainwaves down into a place where you can hear from God and it'll change your life.

01:33:48.500 So how do we apply this, especially when it comes to seeing through all the noise?

01:33:57.260 Because discernment, as I said, would be more important through the days ahead as you're seeing things that you don't know.

01:34:03.060 Is that real or was that fake or was that AI?

01:34:06.100 Or is somebody lying to me about something?

01:34:08.780 I'm being pulled in every direction every day.

01:34:10.880 I think we all are by people who want us to believe whatever narrative it is.

01:34:15.120 And these are questions we want to break down.

01:34:17.100 Ed Rush is with us right now.

01:34:18.460 I'm going to take a quick break, just a minute here.

01:34:20.980 But we'll be back with those answers and maybe the answers to what you're really looking for.

01:34:26.140 Right after this, Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:36:02.580 Physicists propose radical new theory of consciousness, and it could finally explain what happens when you die.

01:36:10.460 Now, this is science trying to explain what we've known spiritually for a long time, but it's interesting because it says that we're all sort of connected in some way.

01:36:19.820 It's got this theory of talking about where some of these things come from when you have maybe a near-death experience or maybe even when you're able to get answers in some ways when you're quiet, right, that I think is spiritually or religious.

01:36:36.800 We would just use different ways to explain that.

01:36:39.720 But isn't that interesting?

01:36:41.620 You talked about science that are kind of starting to prove these things that the Bible's talked about for years.

01:36:47.100 Yeah, it's awesome.

01:36:47.740 So I love science, by the way, and I love sort of talking about the brain especially and just like how God really, truly, fearfully and wonderfully we were made knit together in our mother's womb.

01:36:58.240 And I love the fact that like a lot of times people of faith traditions get a little weird about when it comes to science.

01:37:04.580 I think it's amazing.

01:37:05.680 Every scientific discovery for the last, you know, 2,000 years has done nothing but show and prove everything that we're teaching is totally right.

01:37:14.140 Like I'll give you an example.

01:37:15.020 We're talking about the topic of hearing from God, right?

01:37:18.120 So when I teach people how to have a conversation with God, I usually actually start with the thing that I just talked about, which is just how to slow yourself down, how to connect yourself back to his voice.

01:37:28.040 But the second thing I teach right after that is asking the right questions.

01:37:32.300 Now, you may wonder like, hey, wait a second.

01:37:34.540 Why is that so important?

01:37:36.380 Like you're talking to God.

01:37:37.300 Why are the questions so important?

01:37:38.880 The questions actually are important, not because of God, but actually because of your neurology.

01:37:43.840 I could go through literally the way your brain was created.

01:37:46.840 But there's two parts of your brain that are significant when it comes to receiving input.

01:37:53.760 The first one is called your neocortex.

01:37:55.760 This is this layer that goes over the top of your brain that turns into this massive 150,000 vertical supercomputers kind of all stacked on one another.

01:38:05.740 And then you've got this other area in your thalamus that essentially operates as a filter.

01:38:10.600 Like if you walk through the airport, I'm heading out on the road again this week to do a little speaking and like go to a couple events.

01:38:17.700 I'm going to walk through the airport here in San Diego and I'll probably walk by eight or nine or ten gates.

01:38:22.080 During that time, if I see someone that I recognize, I'll be like, oh, what's up, Justin?

01:38:28.280 How you doing?

01:38:28.720 Like, I'll see you two gates away.

01:38:31.720 Now, what that means is that your brain has literally been filtering every single gate, all 150 people sitting at every single gate.

01:38:39.220 Your brain's like, don't know her, don't know her, don't know her, don't know him, don't know him, don't know.

01:38:42.820 And then finally it catches someone you know.

01:38:44.840 It would be maddening, by the way, if all of that information made it past your brain filter system like you would never even be able to get to sleep.

01:38:52.200 And so your brain has this amazing ability to filter things out.

01:38:57.000 And if you're the kind of person who hasn't been having a daily sort of as you go conversation with God, it's really likely that all of his communication to you is being filtered out literally neurologically.

01:39:10.700 I'm talking about a spiritual concept using physical real principles.

01:39:14.140 And so when I teach people to ask good questions, I'm asking them to do that so that they'll create filters in their brain to receive what signals literally what verbal, what visual, what olfactory symbols, whatever it is that God's sending, that they create filters in their brain to actually receive that.

01:39:33.080 And so like literally one of the very first questions I'll teach people, you've been through this exercise, is like one of the first questions I'll have them ask is, hey, God, what lies do I believe about me?

01:39:42.340 And then I'll have them follow it up with what's true about me.

01:39:45.940 Of course, I break the whole process down in the book, but the brilliant genius, and I'm not giving myself credit, just, you know, I wrote this three years before I discovered it scientifically.

01:39:56.140 Like literally, I found this out afterwards.

01:39:58.420 But the genius behind the way the questions are presented in the book is it creates a filter system in your brain where you can catch what God's saying to you.

01:40:08.200 And I kid you not, dude, I've had 84-year-old, like, crusty Southern Baptists who are like, look, God doesn't speak. 0.87

01:40:17.040 I've never heard his voice.

01:40:18.120 I'm 84 years old.

01:40:18.960 I've been going to church who, after 20 minutes of a little session, are weeping, like literally crying, going, well, man, if God can teach this 84-year-old Southern Baptist to hear from him, he can teach anyone, you know?

01:40:29.520 And like I said, it's sometimes just a matter of the filters, but kind of back to your point, every time I see some new scientific discovery, I realize it validates the claims that we're making, which is you were created by a loving God, you were created in his image, and he really wants to have a conversation with you.

01:40:46.660 Like, he designed you for that kind of interface, and I say, like, now's the time to get it started.

01:40:51.740 You know, one of the things, Ed Rush with us right now, he's the author of God Talks, but one of the things that Glenn has said before, and in the days ahead with AI and everything else, where we're headed, is there's going to be a time he's, I've heard him say this, is you will depend on the Holy Spirit.

01:41:09.340 You'll have to hear from the Spirit to tell you at some point, either stop, don't go that way, turn back around.

01:41:14.620 That's how close and how connected that we'll need to be, and we'll depend on it for survival at times.

01:41:20.820 How do people take this and apply it into instances like that?

01:41:25.800 Dude, it's just a brilliant point, by the way, and I completely agree with you, and of course, agree with what Glenn said about that.

01:41:32.080 We live in a world where, first of all, it's difficult to find out if something's true or false, but even if it's true, the next question is, is it important?

01:41:40.220 Like, you could spend an entire day just filtering through news stories, like one after the other after the other, and let's say theoretically, I mean, I don't even know what the percentage is, depending on the outlet, probably, but let's say, I don't know, half of what you read is true.

01:41:55.220 You know, like, I've been reading a lot of articles this week about this comet, like 3I Atlas, right?

01:42:02.180 This comet that could be a spaceship, that could be alien technology.

01:42:07.400 I mean, like, you know, I'm listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox, and I'm like, look, like, a lot of what I'm seeing is probably true, the way that it came in, where it came from, like, I don't know.

01:42:18.280 But the next question is, like, is it important, you know?

01:42:20.780 And I think that's, like, an even more important question, because you could give your heart and mind and soul to things that are true.

01:42:29.280 You know, you could spend, I had a guy come up to me, I love him, don't get me wrong or anything, and he literally, this guy, I mean, he spent, like, at an event that I was speaking at, he spent, like, five, seven minutes trying to talk to me about his flat earth theory.

01:42:43.360 Okay, look, if that's you, I love you, I think you're amazing.

01:42:46.440 I just told him, I said, look, why don't you give your life to something that has, like, a real meaning to it?

01:42:52.120 Like, if you're right about this flat earth situation, then, like, at the end of the days, you know, maybe you get a high five walking into heaven.

01:42:59.400 I don't know, you figure it out, like, yeah, you're right.

01:43:01.260 Why don't you give your life to something that actually has real meaning?

01:43:03.840 And that's what I mean about important.

01:43:05.000 Like, is it true, is it false, or is it important?

01:43:08.060 And I think a conversation with God really dials you in on stuff like that.

01:43:12.340 Like, I will just tell you, there is nothing, I'm a fighter pilot, right?

01:43:16.220 There is nothing more important to me than accomplishing the mission, and when you are focused on what God created you to do, you're going to change the world.

01:43:24.420 And it's going to be a lot of fun in the story.

01:43:26.140 Let's dig into that mission.

01:43:27.280 If you can hang with us for a second, Ed Rush, we'll be right back.

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01:45:25.080 AI is ruining everything.

01:45:47.840 Some of the claims that people are making, in fact, may have even ruined Thanksgiving coming up.

01:45:52.820 The AI slop recipes that are ruining Thanksgiving will walk you through.

01:45:57.760 It's kind of similar to what's happening with news right now.

01:46:00.560 Fake news and AI news and AI-generated stuff.

01:46:02.860 I went looking for yesterday.

01:46:05.520 The Lions played.

01:46:07.020 The Packers and one of my wife's favorites, Cece Winans, did the... 1.00

01:46:11.640 I think she's from Detroit.

01:46:12.620 Actually did the national anthem to open up the game.

01:46:16.300 And we weren't home.

01:46:17.560 So we missed it.

01:46:18.920 And I went looking for it.

01:46:20.120 And I found on YouTube everywhere all this, like, fake...

01:46:23.300 None of it was real.

01:46:24.140 It was, like, reports that they had...

01:46:25.640 Some AI had somebody made up about the thing.

01:46:28.900 And I couldn't find...

01:46:29.520 Eventually found the clip.

01:46:31.100 But it's like that everywhere.

01:46:32.120 There's so much of that flooding all of us.

01:46:34.080 And a lot of times you're coming across things.

01:46:36.180 And I get people that always ask me, is this real?

01:46:37.940 Is that real?

01:46:38.440 And as we walk through this time, the discernment, to know what's real, what isn't, what's fake,

01:46:44.900 the AI involvement in it as well.

01:46:46.840 That's part of what we're talking about today with Ed Rush.

01:46:49.800 He's a Marine fighter pilot, retired now, now working on something maybe even more exciting

01:46:55.520 with his book, God Talks.

01:46:57.560 GodTalks.com, by the way.

01:46:59.000 Ed, welcome back in.

01:46:59.880 We were just talking about some of these things and how to do it.

01:47:02.120 And maybe, like, the application of in these moments, like, the very specific times where

01:47:08.860 we might need to hear on something very important.

01:47:12.480 Should I make this move for work or my business or, you know, my job?

01:47:17.520 Or what do I do when it comes to treatments on something that I'm going through on my family?

01:47:23.900 Illness and things like that.

01:47:25.240 I mean, there's all kinds of different things that you could imagine people would want to...

01:47:28.860 Maybe if you could ask those questions, get the real answers to even those videos and

01:47:34.580 news stories that we're watching.

01:47:42.220 Uh-oh, did we lose them?

01:47:43.340 Ed, you there?

01:47:45.160 Sorry, man.

01:47:45.880 I had that mute button pushed on my phone.

01:47:48.120 That's a basic pilot error right there.

01:47:51.600 So, yeah, we used to, we used to chalk that up to, well, I won't make fun of pilots too

01:47:57.420 much, but our maintainers would occasionally make fun of us for pushing the wrong button

01:48:01.500 and then blaming them for something that wasn't working properly.

01:48:04.640 So, yeah, no, I was saying when I, literally, I was talking into my muted phone about how

01:48:09.800 we live in this very complicated technological world.

01:48:12.140 And the entire time I was talking about this very complicated technological world, the button,

01:48:16.480 the mute button was on.

01:48:17.400 How ironic.

01:48:18.180 So, yeah, no, we live in this world that's just crazy, right?

01:48:20.860 And it's not going to get any better.

01:48:22.120 By the way, I love AI.

01:48:23.060 I think AI is an amazing tool, like the internet, like social media, like everything.

01:48:26.660 It can be used for good.

01:48:27.620 It can be used for ill.

01:48:28.800 But, you know, if you're using it well and smartly, I think that you can.

01:48:32.040 But, yeah, I think, you know, having a conversation with your creator, the one who made you in

01:48:35.820 his image, about everything, not just the big things.

01:48:38.460 You mentioned, like, career moves or big relationship things or health.

01:48:42.180 I was reading this morning.

01:48:43.500 I actually woke up quite early.

01:48:44.840 I don't wake up all that early nowadays, even though I was in the Marines.

01:48:48.940 I woke up quite early this morning.

01:48:50.100 And I was reading in the book of John.

01:48:51.660 And I came across this one statement.

01:48:53.840 And by the way, whatever you believe in, whatever your faith background, this will be meaningful

01:48:58.940 for you.

01:48:59.880 Jesus was right at the end of his life.

01:49:01.580 And he said, he said, I know who I am.

01:49:04.620 And I know where I came from.

01:49:06.240 And I know where I'm going.

01:49:07.240 And I thought, man, if that isn't the epitome of one's life quest, you know, like, if you knew where you came from, where you are, and where you're going, it would answer every other question for you.

01:49:22.180 Like, every other question would just literally fill itself in the blanks.

01:49:26.880 And fundamentally, what I'm trying to do with the world, and you know, Justin, you know, we know each other.

01:49:32.220 Like, my goal is very simple.

01:49:33.420 I would like to see 8 billion people around the world.

01:49:35.660 That's the entire world simply waking up in the morning with a 10-minute conversation with God.

01:49:39.760 It would change everything.

01:49:40.600 We have a lot of issues in our world, certainly a lot of issues in our country, lots of division.

01:49:45.720 People are very angry at each other for lots of different things.

01:49:48.020 And some of you at Thanksgiving dinner experienced that last night.

01:49:51.260 And I will just tell you, if only we brought our initial questions to God, I think it would change everything.

01:49:57.160 It would change everything for us.

01:49:58.620 Our politics would certainly change.

01:50:00.100 Our health systems would change.

01:50:01.880 Poverty would probably go away very, very, very quickly.

01:50:04.060 It would pretty much change everything.

01:50:05.300 And you can ask him anything about anything.

01:50:08.160 That's the thing.

01:50:12.540 I don't know if there's anything too big or too small.

01:50:18.520 You know, when you think about it, is there anything too big or too small to even bring to him?

01:50:23.100 I think he probably wants us to bring it all to him.

01:50:25.700 Yeah, it's been my experience, by the way, that the best thing that you can do is do it with all the small things.

01:50:31.500 Like, for example, if you're right now facing a major health issue, I'm talking about, like, should I go and do chemotherapy?

01:50:38.160 Kind of level decision.

01:50:40.240 If that's the first conversation that you're having with God, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news.

01:50:44.280 It's going to be very challenging.

01:50:45.440 Anytime something's really emotional, anytime something is like kind of a life or death kind of situation.

01:50:50.620 But if you've been walking with him, if you've cultivated that sort of, you know, you've trained your brain to be able to have that conversation, it's going to be a lot easier when the chips are down to be able to really hear from him.

01:51:01.800 And that's why I say, like, look, I'm a Marine.

01:51:03.860 So for me, training is everything.

01:51:06.080 Like, dude, the first time I landed in an airplane, I almost killed myself and my instructor.

01:51:11.160 I'll never forget.

01:51:12.100 We landed, hit the runway, started going to the right.

01:51:15.100 He started telling me to steer with my feet, which is how you steer an airplane.

01:51:18.820 I was trying to steer with my hands like I learned in a car.

01:51:21.580 And my instructor was like, steer with your feet, steer with your feet, steer with your feet.

01:51:24.680 And right before we hit the sign on the side of the runway, he took the controls, took off and saved our life.

01:51:29.700 And I was awful.

01:51:30.640 Like my first flight, I was really bad.

01:51:32.040 And two and a half years later, I was landing on an aircraft carrier at night.

01:51:36.780 Well, how is that possible?

01:51:37.720 Very simple.

01:51:38.260 Training, practice, doing something over and over and over again.

01:51:41.000 And so when I teach people how to have a simple conversation with the everlasting, ever-living God, it's as simple as just practicing it and doing it.

01:51:51.700 And when you can do it with the small things, what you do is you learn to ask them questions about the big things, big career moves, big business swings, investor ideas, stuff like that.

01:52:00.040 You can actually get really good answers, but you just got to practice.

01:52:03.980 Godtalks.com is the website and the book.

01:52:07.360 You have a kid's book out now, too?

01:52:10.060 Did I see that?

01:52:11.180 Yeah.

01:52:11.640 Yeah.

01:52:12.320 Yes.

01:52:12.820 So we have Godtalks for kids.

01:52:14.640 So I have four kids.

01:52:16.400 My kids go 20, 18, 17, and seven.

01:52:19.500 And same wife and everything. 1.00

01:52:21.460 Like everybody asks me, this is like my second wife?

01:52:23.160 Nope.

01:52:23.400 Same wife. 0.94

01:52:23.920 We just, you know, 10-year gap, whatever.

01:52:25.980 So when my little girl Jojo was three, I was in the process of writing Godtalks.

01:52:31.940 And we started doing Godtalks together.

01:52:36.160 I just recently did it.

01:52:37.440 She's just turned seven.

01:52:38.260 But when she was six, we really got into it.

01:52:40.120 And we were asking some really in-depth questions.

01:52:42.300 And if you've ever watched a six-year-old have a conversation with God, it'll blow your mind, by the way.

01:52:46.600 It'll change your life.

01:52:47.360 Because what happens is God started speaking to my daughter, right?

01:52:50.780 And I'm sitting there taking notes for her.

01:52:52.060 She's telling me what she's hearing.

01:52:53.200 And what's crazy is she'll hear from God, but she won't do this.

01:52:57.840 Like a lot of adults, God will say, I love you.

01:53:00.480 And the person will go, well, you can't love me because of all the bad things I've done.

01:53:03.940 And you don't understand who I am.

01:53:05.620 And I've just been such a horrible person.

01:53:07.540 Like they actually start editing over.

01:53:09.720 Six-year-olds don't do that.

01:53:11.040 There's no filter.

01:53:12.240 There's no editing system.

01:53:13.560 There's no like weird conscience thing or something like that.

01:53:16.320 They're just sitting there receiving.

01:53:17.460 And the first time I watched my daughter have a conversation with God, I said, what did he say?

01:53:21.580 He said, I love you.

01:53:23.220 And I said, that's awesome.

01:53:24.100 I wrote that down. 1.00

01:53:24.720 And then she said, and God said, you're silly. 1.00

01:53:26.960 He said to my daughter, you're silly. 1.00

01:53:29.460 I thought that's perfect because exactly who she was. 0.96

01:53:31.560 And so together we worked on this book called God Talks for Kids.

01:53:34.680 It's just like four fun chapters, about 50 pages long.

01:53:38.000 You can just walk through.

01:53:39.100 Kind of ideal for kids, about four to maybe 10, something like that.

01:53:42.440 So, man, if you're looking for a great Christmas present.

01:53:44.800 So, God for Kids is the way to go.

01:53:48.960 You said he's working on another book.

01:53:50.420 I thought, man, I don't even know if I am.

01:53:52.160 But now I realize which book you're talking about.

01:53:55.120 Well, I'm glad to share it because I think it's never too early to talk to them about that.

01:54:00.540 I do that with my kids.

01:54:01.840 I got two girls that are, one's about to turn five, the other one just turned three. 1.00

01:54:06.920 And they are very, they don't have all the filters we have, you know, of thinking about what is and what isn't and what's possible and what's not.

01:54:17.840 And I guess it really is kind of a great example of that childlike faith.

01:54:22.400 It's like I once told a three-year-old to stop acting like a child.

01:54:27.220 It was not one of my best moments.

01:54:29.440 I was a little frustrated that day.

01:54:31.200 And I remember hearing myself say, you need to stop acting like a child.

01:54:34.460 I'm saying this to a three-year-old.

01:54:35.920 And in that moment, I actually kind of told myself, maybe you should start acting like a child.

01:54:42.020 You know, I mean, I'll take all the wisdom and all the understanding and knowledge and the years of experience that I've gotten in my adult.

01:54:48.220 But sometimes, sometimes you just need to take the filter off, you know, and you need to experience your creator as you were intended to experience him as his daughter or as his son or as his friend.

01:55:01.160 It will change your life when you understand that you have this creator that's actually really interested in having a simple conversation with you.

01:55:08.280 It doesn't even need to be important stuff.

01:55:09.700 It can be the most basic things like the parking spot that you're hoping to get in front of the mall today or, you know, or the deal that you want to get online.

01:55:17.620 It can be very simple.

01:55:19.000 Yeah, I will do that.

01:55:20.640 I'm big with the parking spot.

01:55:22.040 I absolutely love that.

01:55:24.060 Hey, it's great.

01:55:26.480 Go ahead.

01:55:27.180 And I just wanted to thank you for the take of the time to be here with us.

01:55:30.540 GodTalks.com is the website, the book, and I'll follow it on X and Facebook and Instagram, all those places.

01:55:37.100 Great follow and some good times.

01:55:39.140 I think you're going to really enjoy it.

01:55:40.660 Thank you for taking the time to help walk us through this process.

01:55:43.860 Justin, you're the man, dude.

01:55:45.120 Thanks for having me on.

01:55:46.600 You got it, brother.

01:55:47.360 Thank you, and God bless.

01:55:48.440 Again, this is just some encouragement, especially in the times that we're in right now.

01:55:52.260 You can feel, and I know I've felt it over the last couple of days especially, but you can really feel the darkness creeping in.

01:56:00.180 But I think it's more important that we don't forget, especially on Thanksgiving weekend, right?

01:56:05.060 What matters most, and we give thanks for it.

01:56:10.060 You know, the Bible says enter his gates with Thanksgiving and praise.

01:56:13.820 Just that.

01:56:14.960 All right.

01:56:15.340 Back with more coming up.

01:56:16.740 By the way, the AI recipes that are ruining Thanksgiving and much more.

01:56:21.000 And these billboards that are popping up everywhere that have something to do with the seditious six. 0.84

01:56:25.640 I don't know if you've heard about these yet, but we'll shine a light on it.

01:56:28.200 Coming up on the Glenn Beck program, Justin Barkley back after this.

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01:58:02.580 Black Friday deals or not.

01:58:17.740 This isn't an interesting story.

01:58:19.140 Over a third of Black Friday sales may not be what you think they are.

01:58:25.820 That's no surprise.

01:58:26.960 I saw a video last year that kind of blew the spotlight, the lid off of this.

01:58:31.200 And it's kind of an interesting conversation.

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01:59:09.380 Justin in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

01:59:12.160 Justin Barkley dot com, where I'm trying to get through these next few stories in just a few minutes.

01:59:17.480 And if I don't, I'll make sure I put them all up in my stack at JustinBarkley dot com so you can hear them.

01:59:24.260 But first, or see them, rather.

01:59:26.060 This is staggering from CNBC.

01:59:29.080 Over a third of Black Friday sales aren't really discounts.

01:59:32.500 Last year, we saw that video that came out, major retail store.

01:59:36.200 There's somebody that pulled the sign back and revealed that under the Black Friday price was the same price.

01:59:44.120 It was like the original price.

01:59:47.780 I guess that's really not lying if you technically think of it.

01:59:53.300 It's still the Black Friday price, but it was the same price as the day before.

01:59:56.680 And we've even heard of some of these big, like Amazon and whatnot, going through and jacking up prices at a certain point so that they can lower them so it looks like you're saving.

02:00:05.760 I think some of this is what's caused some of us to sort of back down.

02:00:09.580 I just saw a report on Fox saying that they're going to have more traffic at the real stores this year than they've had in years as well.

02:00:16.320 I don't know.

02:00:17.640 A lot of the stuff I do get, I get online or I get delivered or whatever it might be.

02:00:21.600 And then at the end of the day, I was just having this conversation yesterday.

02:00:24.380 I don't need another big screen TV.

02:00:26.220 I don't really know what it is.

02:00:29.340 I'd rather put my money behind something like some of the gear from the Glenn Beck store because that goes to something I support and a cause that I'm behind.

02:00:39.700 I think people are thinking about things differently these days.

02:00:45.040 I really do.

02:00:46.360 I think we're looking at the world in just a completely different way.

02:00:51.280 All right.

02:00:51.840 Putin's birds.

02:00:53.020 I don't know if we're going to be able to get to this story in its entirety either, but Putin in the next couple of months, I'm going to try my best.

02:01:03.480 Putin's got scientists that are working on making robo birds, pigeons, controlled by brain implants.

02:01:15.120 But first, the AI slop recipes that have ruined Thanksgiving food bloggers are being faked online

02:01:21.260 because they're using AI to basically clone like legit food bloggers and put them online on sites.

02:01:31.440 And one, this German blogger, they've not just cloned her, but they've cloned and made fake recipes. 0.96

02:01:36.940 And it's causing problems.

02:01:38.760 It's made a bit of an impact on Thanksgiving dinner.

02:01:42.800 AI-generated content, including images and recipes, recipes rather, that often inaccurately and can be hard to distinguish from real recipes with bloggers reporting sharp declines in visibility and traffic.

02:01:55.320 And people go to make them and they don't, they don't turn out well.

02:01:59.980 An unemployed son dressed as his dead mom to collect her pension in Mrs. Doubtfire scam while hiding her body at home.

02:02:08.840 Okay, let's leave that one.

02:02:11.200 Let's leave Putin and the robo pigeons.

02:02:15.380 And I'll give you this.

02:02:16.760 The Thanksgiving proclamation that came out yesterday.

02:02:19.340 In 1789, President of the United States and his office writes, just years after America's triumph over tyranny and the Revolutionary War,

02:02:30.000 President George Washington established the first national day of Thanksgiving, declaring the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,

02:02:38.560 to obey his will and to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection and favor.

02:02:44.960 And all those years later, President Trump did it again yesterday.

02:02:49.880 Read the full one.

02:02:50.600 We'll put it up online.

02:02:52.840 It's always an honor and a privilege to be here with you.

02:02:55.660 Justin Barkley in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

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