The Glenn Beck Program - The Supply Chain vs. Christmas ｜ Guest Host： Jeff Katz ｜ Guests： Victor Avilia & Jimmy Gagliano ｜ 12⧸27⧸21

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00:01:55.840 It is the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:58.140 Jeff Katz, so happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

00:02:02.140 I normally heard on news radio WRBA in Central Virginia.

00:02:05.820 So, I am looking at a video. I go to TheBlaze.com. I do it every morning. I do it in the midday. I do it late in the afternoon.

00:02:12.800 Love TheBlaze.com.

00:02:13.940 And I see this video of a woman who is, well, let's just say she's a little upset. 0.96

00:02:20.440 Maybe she's a little more than a little upset. 0.98

00:02:22.240 She's crazy. She's bat crap crazy. 1.00

00:02:26.720 And she's yelling at a guy. 0.99

00:02:28.600 Okay, so now, every married man in America is thinking to themselves,

00:02:31.880 Jeff, look, it's just like it's a day that ends at Y.

00:02:34.720 At my house, I get it. You know, my wife is angry. 1.00

00:02:37.120 I did something stupid. 0.95

00:02:38.540 I will apologize because, you know, I'd like to live in the same house and sleep in the same bed. 0.81

00:02:44.600 No, no, no, no.

00:02:45.520 It's not a snippet into your life or my life.

00:02:48.440 This is on board an airplane.

00:02:50.420 And if you haven't seen the video yet, again, go to TheBlaze.com.

00:02:53.020 You're going to see a woman who is now, I believe, a guest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

00:02:59.160 a guest of the Department of Justice, who has been asked a couple of questions.

00:03:03.680 She's on board in airline flights.

00:03:06.240 She's yelling at a guy.

00:03:09.040 Okay, so now, I'm looking at it going, all right, so maybe he did something.

00:03:16.360 Maybe she was sitting next to him and maybe he said something to her.

00:03:21.240 Or maybe he accidentally touched her.

00:03:22.980 Or maybe he intentionally touched her.

00:03:24.720 And she's just outraged.

00:03:27.600 Now, if any of those things were the case, I'd kind of be on her side, right?

00:03:31.100 I mean, and this is the strange thing, the sad thing.

00:03:35.060 Immediately, I'm thinking, oh, yeah, he did something.

00:03:37.980 And then I'm looking a little bit further.

00:03:39.820 And as I'm watching the video unfold, I'm realizing, okay, so she's standing up.

00:03:44.620 She's not sitting next to him.

00:03:46.740 He's sitting down.

00:03:48.060 He's trying to eat whatever it is that he's trying to eat on board this flight.

00:03:53.620 And this woman is screaming at him, put your blanking mask on. 0.99

00:03:58.780 And then I realize, oh, it's one of those people.

00:04:06.040 My list of those folks has grown with the COVID situation, right?

00:04:13.400 We now have a whole slew of amateur epidemiologists or epidemiologists or infectious disease experts.

00:04:22.100 Everybody now knows everything.

00:04:23.600 And the folks who are the smartest, of course, are the folks who are wearing masks, even when they're not really wearing masks.

00:04:32.300 So I'm looking at this woman. 0.96

00:04:33.300 Now, understand something.

00:04:34.520 And again, if you haven't seen the video, would you please go to theblaze.com and you can see it?

00:04:38.240 She has a mask, but it's not covering her face.

00:04:42.160 It's not covering her mouth, not covering her nose.

00:04:44.820 She's wearing it like a chin strap, like she's trying to keep some giant hat on her head.

00:04:50.980 And she screams again and again and again, put your blanking mask on, put your blanking mask on. 0.96

00:04:57.260 And he says, I'm eating.

00:05:00.620 Now, he's relatively calm.

00:05:03.360 He's hungry, apparently.

00:05:05.260 I'm eating.

00:05:06.080 Then she starts challenging him to a fight. 0.91

00:05:10.680 And now I'm thinking to myself, okay, she's drunk, right?

00:05:14.160 She's got to be blitzed. 1.00

00:05:16.560 There's no normal human being.

00:05:18.540 There's no rational person who's going to stand there, yell at a guy, challenge him to a fight.

00:05:23.200 And then I'm going further.

00:05:25.360 And I'm realizing she's not drunk. 0.97

00:05:28.500 She's not even stupid. 0.98

00:05:31.320 She's empowered. 1.00

00:05:33.060 Oh, she is. 0.88

00:05:33.620 She's empowered.

00:05:34.540 She's enabled.

00:05:35.260 She's emboldened by folks like Anthony Fauci.

00:05:41.100 She's emboldened by folks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:05:45.600 She's emboldened because she is part of the uber-left crowd that says, I know better than you do.

00:05:53.620 Now, she continues to yell at him.

00:05:56.180 He says to her, quote, sit down, Karen.

00:06:01.260 Now, I'm not crazy about the Karen stuff because I think it's overused.

00:06:04.280 But nonetheless, you understand what he's saying.

00:06:06.380 Then you've got the flight attendants coming up trying to tell her, look, you got to sit down. 0.98

00:06:12.900 You got to cut this out.

00:06:13.980 She's the one who's causing the ruckus.

00:06:15.620 And she keeps yelling at him, and she keeps yelling at the flight attendants that they have to force him to put his mask on.

00:06:26.700 Did I mention to you she's not wearing her mask properly?

00:06:30.640 Did I mention to you that she's wearing her mask like a chin strap? 0.99

00:06:34.900 Then she punches him. 1.00

00:06:39.580 And then everybody realizes, oh, she's going to jail.

00:06:43.080 As soon as the flight lands in Atlanta, that's it.

00:06:44.920 She's going to jail. 1.00

00:06:46.000 But wait, there's more.

00:06:47.320 As Ron Popeil used to say, but wait, there's more.

00:06:49.840 She keeps screaming at him, and then she spits at him. 0.99

00:06:53.120 So what do we do now?

00:06:58.480 Well, she's escorted off the plane when it lands in Atlanta.

00:07:02.720 FBI now takes over the investigation.

00:07:06.600 She also scratched him. 1.00

00:07:08.360 So what happens?

00:07:14.320 No, seriously, what happens to her? 0.84

00:07:16.060 Well, she'll be charged, I hope, with some sort of a crime.

00:07:20.240 I hope that she will be charged to the maximum extent of the law, and I hope that she's prosecuted.

00:07:27.800 I hope that she's convicted.

00:07:29.000 And quite frankly, I hope she goes to prison.

00:07:32.440 I don't know that I ordinarily say stuff like that.

00:07:34.720 I really don't.

00:07:35.300 I mean, I look at bad people in the world, and, you know, I sit here as an ex-cop, and I'm thinking, well, everybody's got something going on.

00:07:42.860 But I want bad people arrested, and I want them prosecuted, and I want them convicted, and I want them to go to prison.

00:07:49.600 And I look at this lady, and I'm thinking, yeah.

00:07:52.040 But it is bigger than her.

00:07:56.280 It's every one of the virtue signaling folks in the world right now.

00:08:02.500 I actually know just a little bit about these masks, right?

00:08:08.840 I'm not an expert.

00:08:09.640 I don't want everybody to think I'm an expert.

00:08:12.220 But I trained as an EMT a thousand years ago.

00:08:16.780 I grew up in a home.

00:08:18.180 My mom was a nurse for 30 years on a med-surg floor. 1.00

00:08:22.260 Man, we had masks and rubber gloves everywhere in the house.

00:08:29.200 And I beat everybody to the, you know, I'd like some Purell on my desk parade.

00:08:35.300 Because I always had two jars of Purell on my desk.

00:08:38.400 And it's not that I'm a germaphobe.

00:08:40.060 It's just that I don't like germs.

00:08:41.700 And I realized, my gosh, human beings, we've got more germs than we know what to do with.

00:08:47.380 So, I do actually know one or two little things about the masks.

00:08:52.840 Most effective?

00:08:54.800 N95, made here in the United States. 0.99

00:08:59.500 Certain standards that have to be observed to qualify as the N95 mask.

00:09:05.500 That's like the gold standard.

00:09:06.500 That's actually what I have.

00:09:08.320 And I've had for years.

00:09:10.600 Then there's the KN95, right?

00:09:12.640 That's the Chinese knockoff. 1.00

00:09:16.280 Second best to the N95. 0.94

00:09:18.660 And then after that, man, it's everything else.

00:09:22.200 It's the surgical masks that we see everywhere now.

00:09:27.180 And you know what's down at the very bottom of this?

00:09:29.580 The cloth masks.

00:09:31.240 Because for a lot of people who just want to remind you, they're smarter than you are.

00:09:34.460 Because, I mean, after all, they're leftists.

00:09:36.240 And they know better than you do.

00:09:37.620 And they know how you should behave.

00:09:38.760 They're the ones who have embraced the mask as kind of a fashion accessory.

00:09:45.200 So, the cloth masks.

00:09:46.900 I look at people wearing these cloth masks.

00:09:48.800 And I'm thinking, I know what you had for lunch.

00:09:51.200 I can see a ketchup stain.

00:09:52.620 There's a mustard stain.

00:09:53.920 You might as well just be wearing a napkin strapped across your face.

00:09:58.920 And then there are people like this brain surgeon on the plane.

00:10:02.780 Who are wearing the mask under their chin. 1.00

00:10:07.040 And you think, huh, are you really that stupid? 1.00

00:10:11.680 Or, or, are you so unbelievably smart because you qualify under the political list? 1.00

00:10:21.220 And it is the second, by the way.

00:10:22.980 So, while we watch this play out, my friends, you and I are continually sitting back and saying, well, I don't know.

00:10:30.980 I'm taking precautions for myself.

00:10:33.320 I don't know if I'm on board with all of the hysteria.

00:10:36.760 But I'll tell you what I'm not doing.

00:10:38.780 I don't take my medical advice from Jenny McCarthy.

00:10:41.860 I'm not anti-vaccine.

00:10:43.420 I've got my Moderna shots.

00:10:46.700 And I just got my booster shot.

00:10:48.300 So, yeah, I believe in that.

00:10:49.980 I made that decision for me.

00:10:51.380 You know, my body, my choice.

00:10:53.060 You remember that was all the rage for a while.

00:10:55.900 My doctor and I sat down.

00:10:59.060 Said, hey, well, here's what the risks are from this.

00:11:01.900 And here's what the risks are from that.

00:11:04.360 And I respect his opinion.

00:11:05.860 And then I have a whole slew of people I know who happen to be doctors.

00:11:09.240 And I respect their opinion.

00:11:10.840 Hey, should I?

00:11:11.460 Shouldn't I?

00:11:12.460 So, I made the decision for myself.

00:11:14.240 What I would never do.

00:11:15.480 It would never occur to me to engage in this sort of infantile behavior.

00:11:20.160 But this woman is simply the latest.

00:11:24.300 She's the poster child for the latest.

00:11:28.520 She knows better than you do.

00:11:30.420 And she's going to tell you all about it.

00:11:33.640 All right.

00:11:34.280 We got a whole bunch of stuff that you and I are going to have to cover.

00:11:38.420 By the way, Alec Baldwin also has a video out for Christmas. 0.93

00:11:41.880 It is as demented and delusional as he is.

00:11:46.620 Talking about all of the letters and the emails and the cards he's received. 0.91

00:11:52.080 Offering him support.

00:11:53.660 Oh, he's hard face.

00:11:55.040 He's got like a little tear.

00:11:56.800 And I thought to myself, now, did your wife, hilarious, get involved in this? 1.00

00:12:01.760 Did she, like, produce the video?

00:12:03.920 Is she standing off to the side or not?

00:12:06.840 So we'll address that.

00:12:09.160 And what exactly is the crisis on the border and the latest insult for the Biden White House?

00:12:14.300 Victor Avila is going to be with us in just a few moments.

00:12:17.860 Victor is a retired Homeland Security special agent.

00:12:22.260 Still lives on the border.

00:12:24.200 Sees what happens on the border every single day.

00:12:28.720 And Joe Biden agrees with the let's go Brandon sentiment.

00:12:32.760 Or so it seems.

00:12:34.460 We'll tackle that next.

00:12:35.880 It is Jeff Katz.

00:12:37.140 So happy to be sitting in for my friend Glenn Beck.

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00:13:46.160 It is Glenn Beck program.

00:13:52.840 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

00:13:56.680 I mentioned the Let's Go Brandon tagline.

00:14:02.720 This is wonderful.

00:14:03.800 Now, the other evening, there's a father, somehow he's called in or his son or daughter has called in to the NORAD Santa tracker.

00:14:15.280 And I love the NORAD Santa tracker.

00:14:17.280 When my kids were younger, we used to get logged into that all the time and we would watch Santa's progress around the world.

00:14:23.180 It was really super cool.

00:14:25.160 And even though my kids have aged out of that, I haven't.

00:14:30.780 You know, it's that weird thing that happens, right?

00:14:32.580 You're a kid and you're involved in Santa, right?

00:14:37.960 And then you get to a certain age where, I'm not doing Santa. 0.98

00:14:42.420 That's ridiculous.

00:14:44.580 And then you get to another age where you go, I love Santa. 0.96

00:14:49.940 I do love Santa.

00:14:51.340 And before everybody gets upset, Jeff, aren't you Jewish?

00:14:53.300 I am Jewish.

00:14:54.500 And I still love Santa.

00:14:56.580 Santa's for everybody, in my opinion.

00:14:58.100 Santa's just representative of everything that can and should be right in the world, really is.

00:15:07.800 Santa, despite his very poor treatment of the elves and the reindeer.

00:15:13.500 And I'm still torqued, by the way, about the Rudolph special.

00:15:17.120 Look, I love every one of the Christmas specials, right?

00:15:20.540 And again, I'm at that age, even though my kids have aged out of it, I watch them all.

00:15:26.380 Heidi and I will sit and watch them.

00:15:28.140 And then we've got our list of Christmas movies.

00:15:31.340 And by the way, I heard Glenn and Pat and Stu right before they went on vacation talking about Die Hard.

00:15:39.360 And I was sitting there thinking, man, I want to get in on this.

00:15:43.560 And then I realized I'd never seen Die Hard.

00:15:46.380 It's true, right?

00:15:47.260 It's been out for 33 years.

00:15:48.600 Could happen at any day.

00:15:50.420 So Heidi and I, the other night, we've wrapped up Christmas Story, right?

00:15:56.120 Have to watch that.

00:15:57.020 It's on 24 Hours on Christmas Day.

00:15:59.200 You can't possibly miss it.

00:16:01.180 So we watched that.

00:16:02.360 I love it.

00:16:03.020 Reminds me of just how brilliant Gene Shepard was.

00:16:05.380 And then we watched It's a Wonderful Life.

00:16:09.240 It was also on this year, 24 Hours.

00:16:12.280 And so you couldn't possibly miss that.

00:16:14.380 Absolutely love It's a Wonderful Life.

00:16:17.840 And I said to Heidi, look, we've got to watch Die Hard.

00:16:21.520 No, we really do.

00:16:22.480 We've got to watch Die Hard.

00:16:23.880 This is the big discussion.

00:16:25.020 Everybody's in on this.

00:16:26.280 Is it a Christmas movie?

00:16:27.600 Is it not a Christmas movie?

00:16:29.300 This is the movie that both of my sons have seen.

00:16:31.540 And they are both of the opinion, by the way, that it is not a Christmas movie.

00:16:37.340 And their logic, their argument is this.

00:16:40.620 Christmas is not an integral part of the film.

00:16:45.400 That the story could have happened at any time.

00:16:48.160 All it had to be was a party for that company.

00:16:50.860 It didn't have to be a Christmas party.

00:16:53.580 So I said, all right, we've got to watch this.

00:16:55.500 So we turn it on and we get, I don't know, 10 minutes into it, 15 minutes into it.

00:17:04.740 And we both look at each other and we kind of shrug our shoulders.

00:17:08.140 It's weird.

00:17:09.960 And I said to Heidi, I said, are we going to watch this?

00:17:13.720 She said, I don't know.

00:17:14.440 It's really, the pacing is very 1980s.

00:17:17.800 It's just, you know, it's not great.

00:17:20.000 Now, I know there have been like a thousand sequels, right?

00:17:24.580 Die Hard part 897.

00:17:27.440 Bruce Willis gets fitted for the arch supports.

00:17:32.060 Whatever it is.

00:17:32.780 I don't know.

00:17:33.960 I don't know.

00:17:35.080 Do we really want to?

00:17:36.460 I said, I do.

00:17:37.300 I absolutely positively want to.

00:17:40.340 But we didn't finish it.

00:17:41.620 So we're working on it.

00:17:43.860 But I said, I believe in Santa, right?

00:17:46.440 And you get to that point of that.

00:17:47.720 And you do, you get to that age where you sort of age out of Santa and then you age back in.

00:17:52.920 And then you get to a point, like for me, where I'm thinking, man, I just love the whole thing that Santa represents, right?

00:17:59.580 People are nice.

00:18:00.380 People are good.

00:18:00.940 They want to help other people.

00:18:02.800 And I like that.

00:18:04.820 So part of this is watching the NORAD tracker for Santa.

00:18:10.840 So Heidi and I were logged on.

00:18:12.620 We were watching it here and there.

00:18:14.280 And then you could apparently call in.

00:18:16.360 Well, we don't have little kids.

00:18:17.420 We didn't call him.

00:18:18.160 But there is a father who calls in, actually gets to speak with Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.

00:18:29.900 And we have a little snippet here.

00:18:31.760 He sort of winds things up and, you know, talks about let's go, Brandon.

00:18:36.580 And then Joe Biden agrees.

00:18:38.860 Can we hear that little clip?

00:18:41.040 Yeah.

00:18:41.400 I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well.

00:18:43.620 Oh, thank you.

00:18:44.160 Thank you.

00:18:45.180 Let's go, Brandon.

00:18:46.620 Let's go, Brandon.

00:18:47.640 I agree.

00:18:50.080 Well, so do I, Mr. President.

00:18:51.700 It's not often that I find myself in agreement with Joe Biden, but I do kind of agree with that.

00:18:59.420 So I'm so torn on this one, right?

00:19:01.440 Because there's a part of me going, yes, score one for the good guys.

00:19:04.960 And then I realized that guy, oh, that could have been me.

00:19:09.820 Oh, absolutely.

00:19:10.920 I could have and would have said something like that.

00:19:13.920 And then, you know, what would have happened?

00:19:15.720 Heidi would have been throwing stuff at me. 1.00

00:19:17.440 And every husband in America knows right now that their wife, your wife would have been outraged had you done that.

00:19:27.160 So this guy now is making the like the apology rounds.

00:19:31.920 Every media outlet that he can reach out to going, hey, hey, listen, I just want you to know.

00:19:36.240 I just I just thought it was funny, you know, and I I'm not a big Biden supporter, but I don't hate Biden.

00:19:42.500 And and I just want you to know, and you know, as well as I do, that it's his wife who has forced him to do that.

00:19:49.580 But there's another little part of this, right?

00:19:52.340 Joe Biden says, well, Brandon, I agree.

00:19:55.940 Folks go, well, he doesn't even know what it means.

00:19:58.440 Isn't that part of the story, though?

00:20:00.420 He doesn't know what it means because he's so removed from the world.

00:20:04.620 He has no clue.

00:20:06.760 And the legacy media types.

00:20:09.380 Oh, my gosh, they're in meltdown.

00:20:10.840 Why, that's a vulgar slur. 0.92

00:20:12.640 The very same people who spent four years attacking, demeaning, insulting anyone and everyone who was connected to President Trump.

00:20:24.100 All of a sudden, my brother, they're just outraged.

00:20:27.620 Why, this is appalling.

00:20:29.080 It's vulgar.

00:20:31.300 Yeah, but it's also born from frustration on the part of real people.

00:20:38.260 You and I get up every day and we see the gasoline has doubled in price.

00:20:44.020 And you know what happens?

00:20:44.980 You think to yourself, let's go, Brandon.

00:20:48.420 You go to the supermarket and they're out of half and half.

00:20:51.440 And you think to yourself, yeah, thanks a lot, Brandon.

00:20:55.020 You want to get a gift for your kids.

00:20:57.480 It's out of stock.

00:20:58.540 You're thinking the same thing.

00:20:59.720 What's really happening on the border, thanks to Brandon?

00:21:04.020 We're going to talk about that just a couple of minutes from now.

00:21:06.900 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

00:21:09.240 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:11.120 Life is about being active.

00:21:18.720 Whether it's about going on your daily tasks or exercising, you know you're well when you're

00:21:24.260 regularly active.

00:21:25.360 But what happens when being active actually hurts by the end of the day?

00:21:29.160 This is the position I found myself in a number of years ago.

00:21:32.260 Everything I wanted to do in my daily life, all of the activity it called for was held captive

00:21:37.720 to almost constant nagging pain.

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00:22:17.240 Doing our part to keep free speech alive.

00:22:20.640 There's much more after the break on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:22:23.900 It is Glenn Beck Program.

00:22:37.600 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

00:22:41.060 I want to remind you, if you want to get in touch, you can always look for The Jeff Katz

00:22:45.840 Show on Facebook.

00:22:47.440 I've got all the stuff posted over there, and the video we were referencing talking about

00:22:51.840 the crazy lady on board the plane, of course, you can find it at TheBlaze.com and all of

00:22:57.520 Glenn's wonderful writings and activities, GlennBeck.com.

00:23:02.360 Now, every once in a while, I come across a story, and I think to myself, I've just got

00:23:08.020 to share this with people.

00:23:09.060 I've got to let people know.

00:23:11.220 I happen to be very concerned with what happens on our border, right?

00:23:16.620 I got three kids.

00:23:18.740 I'd like to preserve the United States of America.

00:23:20.780 I'd like to pass on to them a country, a nation.

00:23:24.800 And so I look at the surge across our southern border, and I see numbers.

00:23:32.420 I see numbers like 600,000 folks entering the country illegally, and nobody is tested for

00:23:40.400 for COVID.

00:23:41.340 Now, I thought that was the biggest threat to all of us, right?

00:23:43.460 I mean, we're not going to be able to work.

00:23:45.240 We can't go to the movies.

00:23:46.380 We can't do this.

00:23:47.300 COVID, COVID, COVID.

00:23:48.360 But the Biden team seems to think that 600,000 illegal aliens not tested for COVID and then

00:23:56.620 released into the United States, that's a brilliant idea.

00:23:59.040 That's the size of the city of Boston.

00:24:03.160 It's the entire population of Vermont.

00:24:06.540 It's insane.

00:24:08.380 I mentioned the stories.

00:24:09.500 That's a story we need to know about.

00:24:12.080 There's another story we need to know about, and that's what happens to the brave men and

00:24:16.860 women who are trying to protect us. 0.87

00:24:18.920 Victor Avila is a retired supervisory special agent from Homeland Security and ICE, and he

00:24:24.800 has just an amazing story and has a great book on it.

00:24:28.020 It's called Agent Under Fire.

00:24:29.540 And I'm just so happy to say that Victor is joining us.

00:24:32.500 Victor, thanks for being part of the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:35.040 Great to be with you, Jeff.

00:24:38.040 Thank you for having me.

00:24:39.460 I want you, if you don't mind, just set the scene.

00:24:43.540 I've mentioned the book, Agent Under Fire.

00:24:46.360 This is where most of us first become familiar with you.

00:24:50.700 Tell us the story.

00:24:52.240 And then I'm going to need you to bring us up to speed on this insult from the Biden White 0.67

00:24:57.400 House, okay?

00:24:59.200 Absolutely, Jeff.

00:25:00.980 You know, 10 years ago, as a special agent with ICE, I was serving in Mexico, and my partner,

00:25:09.420 Special Agent Jaime Zapata, and I were ambushed by a vicious Mexican cartel, Los Zetas, as we

00:25:17.020 were on an official assignment.

00:25:18.760 We were ambushed and shot at over 100 rounds on Highway 57, which is the main corridor between

00:25:25.160 Mexico City and Texas.

00:25:28.000 And this is the reason why I wrote this book, Agent Under Fire.

00:25:32.000 And during that ambush, Special Agent Jaime Zapata tragically lost his life in the line

00:25:37.680 of duty.

00:25:38.580 I was shot three times and survived by the grace of God.

00:25:43.520 And that's the reason why I wrote this book.

00:25:45.440 It's unfortunate that many people still, 10 years later, do not know that we have lost

00:25:51.180 an agent in the line of fire protecting our homeland.

00:25:54.680 And this is what I do now, is try to bring awareness, as you know, of what is happening

00:26:00.820 at the chaos at our border.

00:26:02.340 It's beyond a crisis.

00:26:04.040 And let me tell you the latest.

00:26:06.140 It is nonstop.

00:26:08.000 It's continuous.

00:26:08.820 We have a lot of individuals coming from many, many different countries, but not just

00:26:16.320 the what people might think, well, the migrant workers or they want to come and do a better

00:26:21.500 life.

00:26:22.040 This is not exactly a lot of the people that we're seeing.

00:26:24.860 We're seeing a lot of criminal elements at our southern border.

00:26:28.860 A lot of prior deports.

00:26:31.100 These are people that have been convicted of serious crimes in our country that are illegal,

00:26:36.660 sex crimes, violent crimes, drug crimes that have been deported.

00:26:41.280 They're all coming right back.

00:26:42.980 Plus the new criminal elements, gang members, cartel members, terrorists that are coming from

00:26:50.340 special interest countries coming in through our southern border.

00:26:54.660 This is a national security issue and a public safety issue, and it continues to be the number

00:27:03.040 one issue.

00:27:03.800 And that's the reason why I'm running for this office of Texas Land Commissioner.

00:27:08.700 Now, I want to talk about that because, you know, I'm in Virginia.

00:27:13.020 We elect three people statewide, and there are states, Florida, Texas.

00:27:18.280 It seems to me you elect a lot of people.

00:27:20.440 So I don't even understand what the land commissioners do.

00:27:22.440 Do they give you land, Victor?

00:27:23.520 I mean, what exactly is the what is what what what does that position do?

00:27:29.160 The number one issue right now is try to secure the border using our public state lands that

00:27:37.040 touch that border between Texas and Mexico.

00:27:40.360 And let me tell you, no one running this office is as battle tested as I am and knows on the

00:27:47.800 ground how it is to finally secure this border.

00:27:50.540 And that's the reason why I'm doing it.

00:27:51.800 I will use these lands.

00:27:54.360 Some of this some of these lands have started to use.

00:27:58.620 And you might have read that our governor has popped up a small section of a wall.

00:28:04.180 But I need to bring further information into what we how we place that wall, where we place it and these vulnerable

00:28:15.320 entry points, because it's not just the wall.

00:28:18.160 It's infrastructure.

00:28:19.520 It's technology.

00:28:21.080 And we must work closely with our private landowners as well.

00:28:25.260 The ranchers, which I continue to be on my trips down to the border, talk to them personally.

00:28:31.180 They're fed up with the illegal activity.

00:28:34.460 And as you know, Jeff, it's not just Texas is being affected, but the rest of the country.

00:28:39.140 Every state is becoming a border state.

00:28:41.600 Victor Avila is joining us.

00:28:43.980 Victor was a special agent with the Homeland Security, retired as a supervisory special agent.

00:28:50.260 His book is called Agent Under Fire.

00:28:52.540 He and his partner, Jaime Zapata, were where we're dealing with one of the Mexican cartels.

00:28:58.160 Jaime lost his life during a brutal, brutal exchange of a gunfire.

00:29:03.960 And, Victor, this is the this is the thing that I just want people to hear.

00:29:09.100 It's not just what's going on at the border, but you spent a lot of time trying to get justice for Jaime.

00:29:16.260 And there was legislation.

00:29:18.040 And and then it seems to me it all kind of came to fruition.

00:29:23.200 But then you got like this giant, I don't know, crazy salute from the White House, right?

00:29:31.500 Absolutely.

00:29:31.980 You know, two years ago, the the shooters were brought over, were extradited and charged and and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

00:29:42.440 But two years ago, they appealed that sentence and to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,

00:29:47.740 which granted their appeal, saying that the murder statute used against them was invalid because the murder happened extraterritorially,

00:29:56.260 meaning happened outside outside of the United States.

00:29:58.740 And two years ago, Jeff, I could not sit here and do nothing about this.

00:30:02.720 And so as I've done in my career, as I will do as a land commissioner, is continue to fight.

00:30:08.960 And I did that. And I got on the phone with our with our legislators, with our senators and congressmen.

00:30:14.700 And I always mentioned the Federal Law Enforcement Office Association, who were extremely helpful in helping pass this bill.

00:30:21.180 So we drafted a brand new bill, the Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila Federal Officer and Employee Protection Act.

00:30:28.760 And it was passed and signed.

00:30:31.460 You know, it's kind of weird how this happens, but it was signed by Biden just last month.

00:30:36.200 And very proud of that accomplishment, because now it protects our officers that serve and the family members abroad, protecting our homeland.

00:30:47.120 Wow. So I hear that and I'm thinking to myself, well, it's going to be a cool event for Victor, right?

00:30:53.680 They're probably going to fly into the White House.

00:30:55.260 You're going to stand next to the president.

00:30:56.680 You'll get one of the pens used to sign that that legislation, making it law, because that's what they do with all of these bills.

00:31:04.420 But did your invitation kind of get lost in the mail or something?

00:31:08.380 Well, it never came. I was waiting.

00:31:10.600 I was on standby, literally on standby to get the call from the White House.

00:31:14.800 Senator Cornyn's office had sent all the information in, not just mine, but the Zapata family as well.

00:31:19.740 And literally was waiting until but the call that I got was from someone else saying, by the way, the signing ceremony is tomorrow at the White House.

00:31:29.160 And the invitation never came.

00:31:32.160 And let me tell you, that was very disappointing.

00:31:35.000 Once I got it, it opened old wounds.

00:31:38.020 You know, all this happened from the the Biden Obama administration with Fast and Furious, the guns used against us.

00:31:48.060 And it just kind of reminded me that the government didn't want me back.

00:31:52.440 And it hurts. It hurts.

00:31:54.060 And it really helped to to remind us that, OK, we know where this administration stands with law enforcement.

00:32:02.560 But, you know what, I had to focus on the positive, saying they're not going to invite us.

00:32:06.800 They had this big show, Jeff, big show there.

00:32:09.700 But the people that must or should have been there, at least the Zapata family and myself, were not present and were not invited.

00:32:18.700 That's it's appalling.

00:32:20.100 Victor, I I thank you always for making time for us.

00:32:23.620 I wish you the best with everything you're doing.

00:32:26.200 God willing, we'll get the chance to talk again.

00:32:28.400 I want to remind everybody about some websites.

00:32:32.780 VictorAvilatX.com is one of Victor's websites.

00:32:35.080 And the other one, AgentUnderFireBook.com.

00:32:38.480 You can learn all about Victor.

00:32:40.040 You can learn all about Jaime Zapata.

00:32:41.840 You can learn well.

00:32:43.040 You can learn more, frankly, than you probably want to know.

00:32:46.100 But it's important that you do know.

00:32:49.480 Jeff Katz, so happy to be sitting in for Glenn Beck today.

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00:34:05.100 It is Glenn Beck program.

00:34:06.880 Jeff Katz, so happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

00:34:10.700 I think Facebook may be doing the same thing that Twitter has done over the years.

00:34:15.060 I've told you my Twitter stories, right?

00:34:17.500 I look at the numbers and I've given up.

00:34:20.080 I really have.

00:34:20.580 I've just totally given up on Twitter at this point.

00:34:22.500 Although, if you want to torque the people at Twitter, by all means, you can follow Jeff Katz Show over there.

00:34:28.160 But, you know, one day I get up, I've got, I don't know, 25,000, 30,000 followers.

00:34:32.100 Which, for me, you know, little guy, Central Virginia, what's, I think that's great.

00:34:37.100 And then one day I get up and it's down to five.

00:34:40.840 Huh.

00:34:41.640 Did I really anger 29,000 people?

00:34:44.700 Now, make no mistake, it's a distinct possibility.

00:34:47.960 Oh, I absolutely have the ability to do that.

00:34:50.160 But I just don't think it happened.

00:34:51.500 And so it goes back and forth and back and forth.

00:34:53.540 And so finally now for Twitter, it's at this one number.

00:34:57.180 And, like, that's it.

00:34:58.000 It doesn't matter how many people sign up.

00:35:00.700 And every time I'm so fortunate to sit in for Glenn and we've got a whole bunch of people that follow on Twitter.

00:35:07.260 And the number goes up.

00:35:08.540 And then an hour later, they're all gone.

00:35:10.340 So I've kind of given up on that.

00:35:11.640 But Facebook, I think, is doing the same thing.

00:35:14.860 So I'd really love to torque the people at Facebook.

00:35:17.580 So if you go to Facebook, would you follow or like whichever one is appropriate, the Jeff Katz show on Facebook?

00:35:23.800 I just want to see.

00:35:24.580 It's like just a little experiment here, the Jeff Katz show on Facebook.

00:35:28.500 And that's the problem, by the way, with all the legacy social media folks.

00:35:32.020 I mean, it really is.

00:35:33.240 They are controlling what it is that you and I are able to say.

00:35:36.280 You hear Glenn talk about this all the time, right?

00:35:39.700 The Great Reset.

00:35:41.520 Man, it is real.

00:35:42.960 And when you and I lose the ability to communicate, when you and I lose the ability to just stand up and say, hey, I don't agree with this or I do agree with this, we really are in a world of hurt.

00:35:57.700 And that's going to be very dangerous.

00:35:59.920 No, not going to be.

00:36:00.980 It is very dangerous.

00:36:02.720 Can I give you a little snippet of something else that I think ties into this that's very dangerous?

00:36:06.920 Remember Kamala Harris?

00:36:08.660 She's the vice president of the United States, right? 0.98

00:36:12.320 Most famous at this point, I think, because not of her accomplishments, because let's be honest, there really are no accomplishments, but just the way she dismisses every question.

00:36:27.760 So there was, I guess, like a little puff piece that they were doing on Kamala Harris.

00:36:34.340 Excuse me.

00:36:34.960 And the reporter says something like, hey, so what is your biggest regret?

00:36:39.960 What's your biggest worry?

00:36:41.880 Take a listen to this.

00:36:43.640 What do you think, as you come to the end of this first year, what do you think your biggest failure has been at this point?

00:36:50.680 To not get out of D.C. more.

00:36:52.440 I mean, I mean, I'm melting.

00:37:02.680 That's it.

00:37:03.320 It's the cackle, right?

00:37:04.600 That's the part.

00:37:05.700 I swear to you that everybody just she laughs in this dismissive, condescending tone.

00:37:12.680 And it just, I don't know, it reminds me of most of our left wing pals in America, right?

00:37:22.040 Condescending, dismissive, insulting.

00:37:24.920 Now, unless I've missed something, there's nothing keeping the vice president of the United States from getting out of D.C. more.

00:37:32.560 There's certainly nothing keeping her from going to the border.

00:37:35.600 Didn't we hear she was in charge of the border? 1.00

00:37:37.460 Wasn't that supposed to be her responsibility?

00:37:42.420 I haven't seen any images of her down there.

00:37:45.660 I was just chatting with Victor Avila, who is on the border in Texas.

00:37:50.880 If the vice president wants his number, I'll pass it along.

00:37:54.840 I really will.

00:37:55.360 I'd be happy to pass it along.

00:37:56.500 He could give her a great guided tour.

00:37:59.420 The other day, when I was fortunate enough to be sitting in for Glenn, who do we have join us?

00:38:03.840 Mark Morgan.

00:38:04.380 Really cool dude.

00:38:06.200 I mean, really, really a cool guy.

00:38:08.560 Morgan was the chief of the United States Border Patrol under President Obama, the commissioner of customs and border protection for President Trump.

00:38:17.460 So nobody can accuse him of being part of the vast right wing conspiracy.

00:38:21.420 He's just an honest, straight shooter.

00:38:23.600 And he said, listen, this is outrageous what's going on.

00:38:26.920 So when the vice president, Kamala Harris left, I should have gotten out of D.C. more.

00:38:37.540 Yeah, there are a lot of us that wish you would get out of D.C.

00:38:40.360 I mean, but you got three more years to go.

00:38:42.340 I get it.

00:38:42.860 And then I'm thinking former President Trump rides to the rescue again and kind of saves us from the disaster that we're watching unfold.

00:38:53.060 Speaking of disasters, Christmas shortages, they were real.

00:38:59.640 It's Jeff Katz sitting in today for Glenn.

00:39:01.880 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:03.520 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:15.220 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:39:39.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:49.160 I don't care whether you call it supply chain issues, kinks in the supply chain, or let's go Brandon Unchained.

00:39:59.480 We're starting to look like a third world country.

00:40:01.660 We'll talk about it straight ahead.

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00:40:09.880 Happy holidays from the Fed.

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00:40:25.960 Energy prices up 34%.

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00:41:13.780 Jeff Katz in this morning for Glenn.

00:41:16.420 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:18.080 I am part of the lineup of News Radio WRVA in Central Virginia.

00:41:22.680 I sit here, as I do every day, I remind you, beautiful Hanover County.

00:41:28.740 God, I look out my window here, the official weather window that's here in the broadcast hut, and I'm seeing trees and grass and flowers.

00:41:36.680 Yeah, that's my, I really just don't quite get that you're an atheist window.

00:41:42.020 Seriously, because I look out there and I go, ah, yeah, it just all sort of happened, right?

00:41:46.320 Nah, I don't buy it.

00:41:47.780 Now, I'll tell you something else that didn't just happen.

00:41:50.340 It's the screw-ups that you and I are seeing when we go into stores or online.

00:41:55.340 Now, I am not the most advanced person when it comes to the interwebs.

00:42:02.800 I'm not a Luddite.

00:42:03.640 Look, I don't sit here with a piece of slate going, man, if I could just hammer a number.

00:42:08.340 No, I'm fairly adept at it, but there are limitations that I have.

00:42:13.100 So, like, social media stuff, last week we were talking with a young man, PJ Morrissey.

00:42:19.980 PJ happens to be the guy who does all my social media.

00:42:23.020 He's the guy who was telling the story of his beautiful sister, Emily, and her bracelets,

00:42:27.300 emilysbracelets.com, that whole deal, you remember.

00:42:30.100 So, anyway, PJ kind of keeps me up to speed on that sort of stuff.

00:42:34.160 So, I've got a dilemma that I have to actually reach out to him for, and I'm hoping he'll be able to solve it.

00:42:39.760 But my youngest guy is 17, and Joe is, I swear to you, a good kid, wants everybody to be happy.

00:42:52.140 He's a pleaser.

00:42:54.260 Now, I do worry about that sometimes because I think, eh, there's some bad people in the world, kid,

00:43:01.400 and I don't want you hooked up with them trying to please them or make them happy.

00:43:06.900 But we asked both of the boys, what do you want for the holidays?

00:43:12.860 Now, see, we do both, right?

00:43:15.460 I'm Jewish.

00:43:16.160 We do Hanukkah.

00:43:17.380 Heidi, we've raised all the kids Jewish, but, you know, Heidi grew up Catholic

00:43:22.800 and still does this beautiful Christmas display at the house.

00:43:27.500 It's a little bit like, I don't know, if Martha Stewart vomited.

00:43:34.000 I mean, because I'm telling you, there's tinsel and lights and trees and elves, and it's everywhere.

00:43:40.760 It's everywhere.

00:43:41.980 So we said to the boys, listen, what do you want?

00:43:47.220 Right?

00:43:47.640 When they were younger, it was so easy.

00:43:49.960 Cars, trucks, trains, we're done.

00:43:55.000 Now, it's like, I just don't know.

00:43:58.600 What?

00:43:59.480 What do you want?

00:44:00.340 Please tell me what you want.

00:44:02.420 So we got them a gaming system, a new gaming system, and Heidi tracked it down, the PS5.

00:44:11.740 And then she told me how much it cost.

00:44:15.420 And, well, after I stopped cursing and crying and shouting and ripping pieces of my clothing,

00:44:22.540 I said, okay, so that's the big gift, right?

00:44:26.180 I mean, that's it.

00:44:27.780 Yeah, yeah, it's for both of them.

00:44:29.060 Okay.

00:44:29.320 And then she came back with, but, you know, we do have to do a couple of smaller gifts.

00:44:35.560 All right.

00:44:37.300 Now, what I did, because I'm me, I went to the home goods store.

00:44:43.960 It's like TJ Maxx, but for home goods.

00:44:47.500 And Heidi and I were over there, and we were there, I guess it was last week.

00:44:51.900 And since Hanukkah is over, and my oldest boy was not home for Hanukkah.

00:44:55.840 He was out at college.

00:44:57.180 Did I mention he goes to Stanford?

00:44:59.360 I try to work that into every conversation, because I can't even take a tour of Stanford.

00:45:05.140 But he's there, and he's a sophomore, and he's doing well in the 4.2 GPA in the whole Magilla.

00:45:12.120 But we went to the store, and Heidi was sure there was stuff we needed there.

00:45:16.240 And being a good husband, I went, okay.

00:45:17.960 So, they had all their Hanukkah stuff on closeout.

00:45:23.340 It was clearance, because, you know, Hanukkah was a couple of weeks ago.

00:45:26.920 And I, yes, score for me.

00:45:28.640 So, I stocked up on some of the Hanukkah stuff, and they had some really great, like, Hanukkah candy.

00:45:34.280 And I thought, well, there you go.

00:45:35.860 There's nothing more Jeff Katz than buying the Hanukkah candy while it's on closeout, and then giving it to the boys, and going, hey, happy Hanukkah.

00:45:45.900 But there were a few other things we were supposed to get, and this is where I get back to the interwebs.

00:45:49.860 Joe gave me a couple of links for t-shirts.

00:45:56.100 Now, they're t-shirts related to certain games that he enjoys online.

00:46:00.880 And I said, okay, well, you know, that's fair.

00:46:02.840 Let me do that.

00:46:04.040 It didn't seem like it was going to be a big deal.

00:46:05.280 A couple of t-shirts.

00:46:06.140 I don't know.

00:46:07.240 $10, $15, $20 a shirt.

00:46:09.120 I'm thinking that'll be fine.

00:46:11.040 So, I go to the site, and I just figure I know his size.

00:46:16.660 I know what color he wants.

00:46:19.100 It could not have been easier, except none of the shirts were available.

00:46:23.860 Why?

00:46:24.900 Why?

00:46:26.780 Brandon, that's why.

00:46:29.180 Because Joe Biden has screwed up my country so badly in the 12 months that he's been inside the Oval Office.

00:46:37.700 I couldn't even get these t-shirts online for Joe.

00:46:42.780 Supply chain issues, don't you know?

00:46:45.240 Delays, don't you know?

00:46:47.020 Problems with delivery, don't you know?

00:46:49.180 Two flippant t-shirts.

00:46:51.980 Now, these t-shirts, by the way, I guarantee you are sitting somewhere off the coast of Long Beach in a giant container.

00:47:00.160 And I don't care how many truck drivers Joe Biden says he's going to get to drive at night.

00:47:05.540 We're not getting these t-shirts anytime soon.

00:47:09.120 So, why do I talk about the internet?

00:47:10.860 And why am I going to reach out to my buddy PJ?

00:47:13.380 Because he's got to track down these t-shirts somewhere else.

00:47:16.120 That's why.

00:47:17.500 Because he's got to find me someplace else that has them.

00:47:20.840 And I'm thinking there's not going to be any place else that has them.

00:47:24.120 This is real.

00:47:26.980 I never thought I would live in a country where I would go into a store.

00:47:32.680 I mean, a brick and mortar store, a physical store.

00:47:34.960 And see shelves that were empty.

00:47:38.000 But that's the reality in 2021.

00:47:40.380 In less than a year, this guy has broken my country.

00:47:46.720 And it just pains me to my very core.

00:47:52.880 This is wrong on every single level.

00:47:58.120 And I honestly, I'm at a loss.

00:48:02.160 I'm at a loss as to what we do.

00:48:05.120 I mean, I know coming up in November, we vote. 0.98

00:48:07.860 We vote all of these buffoons out of Congress. 1.00

00:48:11.540 I get that. 0.99

00:48:12.220 We kind of get somebody, some people up there to pump the brakes.

00:48:17.260 So that this build back better garbage doesn't go any further. 0.78

00:48:22.500 So that these ridiculous new laws that Biden wants to impose, 0.96

00:48:27.540 they don't even know what they are. 0.64

00:48:29.300 He really doesn't.

00:48:30.380 I think he's clueless.

00:48:32.120 I mean, it's all the people on the signs that are pulling his strings.

00:48:34.380 He looks lifelike.

00:48:35.420 I get it.

00:48:36.740 79 years old. 0.88

00:48:38.040 But he's like the presidential meat puppet.

00:48:40.680 They just move him.

00:48:41.720 They pose him.

00:48:42.680 It's like weekended Bidens, for God's sake.

00:48:45.200 You'll sit over here.

00:48:46.380 Read what's on the teleprompter.

00:48:48.080 Okay.

00:48:49.020 Right to the very end where it says, stand up, walk to the left.

00:48:54.860 And he reads it.

00:48:56.880 Now, I didn't have any problem with gifts, by the way.

00:48:59.100 You know why?

00:49:00.840 Because I told Heidi, I said, look, here's what I want you to do.

00:49:03.800 I want you to give me things I already have.

00:49:06.240 What?

00:49:06.820 Yeah, seriously.

00:49:07.660 No, no, no.

00:49:08.320 No, there's a discount code.

00:49:09.880 She's always got a discount code.

00:49:11.160 She's got a discount code, and she's got Kohl's cash.

00:49:14.580 And Kohl's, man, Kohl's is a little bit like the crack dealer.

00:49:18.040 It really is.

00:49:18.740 Because what Kohl's will do, oh, they give you a discount,

00:49:21.300 and then you spend so much money, then you get, quote, Kohl's cash.

00:49:24.540 But you can only spend Kohl's cash at Kohl's.

00:49:26.580 And you can only spend it in a certain amount of time.

00:49:28.400 And Lord knows Heidi can never bring it in under budget with the Kohl's cash. 0.98

00:49:32.960 So Kohl's always winds up ahead.

00:49:34.840 It's like, you know, it's like going into a casino.

00:49:36.660 The house always wins.

00:49:39.100 So I said, look, she said, no, no.

00:49:41.480 I'm getting you a new Stanford sweatshirt.

00:49:46.660 And I said, you know, for what we pay Stanford,

00:49:49.280 they should just send us sweatshirts and baseball caps and underwear

00:49:55.360 and jockstraps and earmuffs and toe warmers.

00:50:00.120 They should send us.

00:50:01.620 So I said, no, don't do that.

00:50:03.180 I said, here's what I want you to do.

00:50:04.940 And you know what I did?

00:50:05.740 I said, you see these boots?

00:50:08.080 A couple of months ago, I broke down.

00:50:09.640 I bought myself a pair of Harley Davidson boots.

00:50:12.060 Now, I don't have a Harley, and I'm never going to ride a Harley.

00:50:15.520 And I mean, I'm not, believe me when I tell you,

00:50:17.880 I'm not doing motorcycles, but I love the boots.

00:50:20.600 So I actually treated myself.

00:50:22.740 I bought a pair of Harley Davidson boots.

00:50:24.860 And Heidi kept saying to me, do they fit?

00:50:26.240 Yeah.

00:50:26.600 Well, why are you hanging on to the box?

00:50:27.820 I said, because we're going to wrap it up,

00:50:30.300 and you're going to give it to me Christmas morning.

00:50:32.540 I am not.

00:50:34.260 Yeah, you are, because that's what I wanted.

00:50:37.200 And then I said, and in addition to that, here,

00:50:39.800 here's a bunch of books.

00:50:42.040 So I actually gave Heidi books that I already owned.

00:50:45.240 I said, here's the latest from Brad Thor.

00:50:47.240 You know, I love Brad, Black Ice, so she wrapped that up.

00:50:50.240 And Brian Talley.

00:50:51.820 Do you ever hear with Brian's story about the Talley Bill,

00:50:54.820 a Marine who was really severely injured and then got really just rooked and screwed over by the Veterans Administration?

00:51:02.700 So he's got a great book called, I Didn't Choose This Job.

00:51:05.740 It shows me.

00:51:06.440 And I said, look, I own a copy.

00:51:07.700 Here, wrap that up and give it to me.

00:51:09.360 And then I had a couple of Zig Ziglar books, because I just love Zig.

00:51:12.400 I always have.

00:51:13.240 So she wrapped it up and gave it to me for Christmas.

00:51:15.020 But we still don't have Joe's T-shirts, and I have no idea when they're coming in.

00:51:20.720 I'm just curious.

00:51:21.540 Did anybody else run into that?

00:51:23.720 Did you run into empty shelves or online stores that just couldn't fulfill the order?

00:51:29.780 888-727-BECK.

00:51:32.880 888-727-BECK.

00:51:35.280 I'm just curious to know.

00:51:36.760 Is it just these T-shirts?

00:51:38.780 Or are you seeing the same thing where you see empty shelves?

00:51:42.520 You see online stores that are unable to complete your order because of branding?

00:51:50.620 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

00:51:55.540 Oh, if you want to shoot me an email, you can.

00:51:57.660 Probably the easiest way.

00:51:58.960 Go to thejeffcatshow.com.

00:52:00.920 There's a contact button there, thejeffcatshow.com.

00:52:03.900 And click that contact button.

00:52:05.620 Again, Facebook is always available to you, The Jeff Cat Show, over there.

00:52:10.900 I'm curious to know other folks who ran into this.

00:52:13.720 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

00:52:17.120 Remember, check out everything at theblaze.com.

00:52:20.820 Check out glennbeck.com.

00:52:23.040 Jeff Cat, so happy to be sitting in today for my friend Glenn.

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00:53:30.620 Jeff Katz sitting in today for Glenn.

00:53:36.880 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:53:39.280 Now, you and I are going to deal with these empty shelves, right?

00:53:42.880 I mean, what do we do becomes the question.

00:53:44.940 And I tell you the truth, I don't know.

00:53:48.120 I really don't know.

00:53:49.480 I'm going to try and track down the T-shirts for Joe, and hopefully that's the worst of our situation.

00:53:55.200 Denise is listening to the Glenn Beck Program in Florida.

00:53:58.080 Denise, welcome. 0.82

00:53:59.000 Hi.

00:54:01.400 Hi.

00:54:02.040 Yeah, I'm calling from the great state of Florida, where things are a lot better here than the rest of the country.

00:54:07.960 Yes.

00:54:09.700 I walked into a Michaels the first week of December, the craft store.

00:54:14.480 Yeah.

00:54:14.940 The aisles they had separate for Christmas items were empty.

00:54:19.060 No.

00:54:19.800 And that went on for about a week.

00:54:22.160 No.

00:54:23.220 Really?

00:54:24.040 Yes.

00:54:24.280 And in Florida, where life is, you know, normal, like with real people, and people go out in public, and they're not hiding under their bed or wrapped in hazmat suits.

00:54:36.080 Well, we have our, we have the development I live in.

00:54:38.760 We have our token few that still are afraid to come out of their homes.

00:54:43.420 But having moved here from Ohio a year ago, I am so thankful I made the move.

00:54:50.740 I'll bet you.

00:54:51.300 Now, did Michaels ever restock those shelves?

00:54:55.220 It took about a good week and a half.

00:54:57.760 No kidding.

00:54:59.040 Wow.

00:54:59.780 Yeah.

00:55:00.020 Wow.

00:55:00.820 It's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, and then once it was gone, it was gone.

00:55:05.080 Yeah.

00:55:05.340 So they had limited supply.

00:55:07.260 Wow.

00:55:07.800 All right.

00:55:08.220 So did Christmas work out, though, Denise?

00:55:09.720 That's my question for you.

00:55:11.840 Yeah.

00:55:12.440 Overall, Christmas worked out very well.

00:55:15.100 Okay.

00:55:15.580 So I can't complain.

00:55:17.040 All right.

00:55:17.500 I appreciate it.

00:55:18.160 Denise, thank you so much for calling the Glenn Beck Program.

00:55:20.840 You know, there were a lot of people who wanted Christmas trees.

00:55:23.180 Well, of course they did, Jeff.

00:55:24.180 It was Christmas.

00:55:24.820 No, I know.

00:55:26.040 Christmas trees in short supply.

00:55:27.660 I got a buddy of mine who owns this beautiful farmer's market here in central Virginia.

00:55:34.620 And Tom Leonard, and he comes from a long family line of, of grocers.

00:55:40.240 Like if you're in, if you're in Connecticut, then, you know, Stu Leonard's.

00:55:43.960 Well, Stu is Tom's dad.

00:55:45.520 So Tom is like the guy when it comes to supply chain issues for me.

00:55:51.600 And I'll ring him up.

00:55:52.880 I really, I'll just text him.

00:55:53.740 Hey, Tom, what's, what's the latest?

00:55:54.880 And he'll send me, you know, Hey, you know, I got this, this piece of information from

00:55:59.100 such and such a, uh, supplier.

00:56:01.920 They're not going to have blank or they're not going to have blank.

00:56:05.120 So he, you know, he smartened me up right before Thanksgiving.

00:56:08.180 Jeff turkeys are in short supply.

00:56:11.320 Oh no.

00:56:12.200 Yeah.

00:56:12.820 Turkeys are, you know, you're going to have tough time finding a Turkey. 1.00

00:56:15.420 So thank God, Tom said, I'm going to put one away for you, put it aside.

00:56:19.740 So you'll have it.

00:56:21.440 And then we got it.

00:56:22.460 And, you know, we did Thanksgiving and the whole bit, but then he says, Oh, by the way,

00:56:25.460 Christmas trees, same thing.

00:56:27.640 Same thing.

00:56:29.080 Can't get Christmas trees.

00:56:30.140 Why?

00:56:30.440 The Christmas tree farmers are saying, uh, it's, it, we don't have drivers to drive the

00:56:34.940 trucks, even though didn't president Brandon say, well, we're just going to have people

00:56:39.080 drive at night.

00:56:39.840 You know, there are fewer people on the road because most of their horses are sleeping at

00:56:44.500 night or whatever.

00:56:46.580 Can't get Christmas trees.

00:56:47.700 Now, again, God bless Tommy, put one, put one aside for us, but do you ever think you'd

00:56:53.800 live in a situation like that?

00:56:55.220 Now I'm talking about lighthearted stuff.

00:56:56.980 What if you need, I don't know, medication or something like that?

00:57:01.160 Valerie is in Maine.

00:57:02.720 Valerie, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:57:06.060 Thank you.

00:57:06.840 Hello.

00:57:07.580 Hi.

00:57:07.860 So this has, this has nothing to do with Christmas, but I, I have, uh, recently been

00:57:16.000 diagnosed with sleep apnea, um, actually a few months, a few months ago now.

00:57:21.020 Right.

00:57:21.420 So they say like stop breathing 40 to 50 times an hour.

00:57:26.340 So I need a CPAP machine.

00:57:28.860 So this is two months now.

00:57:33.680 Uh, basically the doctor said there are two, there are two good things.

00:57:37.840 Uh, although one of them was, uh, was recalled over the summer.

00:57:44.540 So now everyone else is going with the second brand.

00:57:48.060 Well, so it's so, you know, so many people are waiting for this.

00:57:53.440 And he said he called the company and there were like 40,000 machines sitting on a boat

00:58:00.760 somewhere off the coast of California could be six, eight months a year before we get them.

00:58:06.180 This is, this is what he said.

00:58:08.060 So I said, what's the alternative?

00:58:09.940 Well, there's another brand.

00:58:11.940 I tried it out.

00:58:13.180 It's adequate.

00:58:14.560 We'll try and get you one of those.

00:58:16.960 So, I mean, I kind of didn't really want adequate.

00:58:21.280 Yeah.

00:58:21.900 Listen, doc, I just stopped breathing 40 to 50 times an hour.

00:58:26.720 Have you, Valerie, can I ask a question?

00:58:29.460 Did you think about just hiring somebody with a long stick to poke you throughout the night?

00:58:35.240 You know, they noticed, Hey, I don't think Val's breathing.

00:58:38.340 Yeah.

00:58:38.940 Right. 0.99

00:58:39.260 Uh, yeah, it's just really pathetic. 1.00

00:58:44.140 It's pathetic. 1.00

00:58:45.060 It is. 1.00

00:58:45.200 It is.

00:58:45.620 Well, Hey, three cheers for Brandon.

00:58:48.560 Valerie, I appreciate the call to the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:52.020 Dan is in Colorado.

00:58:53.200 Dan, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:56.700 Hey, how you doing?

00:58:58.280 Fine, thanks.

00:58:59.040 My wife and I, my wife and I run a small business.

00:59:02.300 Well, actually, she runs a business. 0.94

00:59:04.540 I'm driving truck right now.

00:59:06.220 And we, uh, the product that we sell, we sell it on the internet, but we also, you know,

00:59:14.680 we purchase it from our suppliers and we can't get it.

00:59:19.600 We can't get it from our suppliers so we can sell it on the internet.

00:59:23.940 It's not a CPAP machine that Valerie needs, is it?

00:59:28.380 No, we sell decorative ribbon.

00:59:33.180 Wait a minute.

00:59:33.980 You're telling me we've got a shortage of ribbon in America?

00:59:40.000 No, we don't have a shortage.

00:59:41.540 We just have a shortage of the good stuff that's not made over in communist land.

00:59:49.540 Oh, well, as long as we've still got the garbage available, Dan, I mean, you know, what

00:59:53.440 could possibly happen?

00:59:55.200 Dan, I appreciate the call to the Glenn Beck program.

00:59:57.700 I just never thought I'd live in a time like this, right?

01:00:01.060 You remember that ancient, uh, ancient, uh, I guess it's really a curse when you think

01:00:07.340 about it.

01:00:08.740 May you live in interesting times?

01:00:11.360 Well, I'll tell you what.

01:00:12.800 Brandon has given us some really interesting times.

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01:01:44.500 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:01:47.380 Jeff Katz.

01:01:48.180 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:01:50.660 News Radio WRBA here in Central Virginia.

01:01:54.760 Quick update on the Facebook thing, because I really am sort of puzzled by this, and we'll

01:01:59.000 talk more about these empty shelves.

01:02:00.360 Did you ever think?

01:02:00.960 I don't know how old you are, but did you ever think you'd live in the United States

01:02:06.240 of America and be thinking to yourself, you know, I'm pretty sure the old Soviet Union 0.99

01:02:10.560 had more choices, really.

01:02:12.100 I mean, at least they had stuff that was either gray or light gray.

01:02:18.940 We got nothing.

01:02:21.400 It's bizarre.

01:02:22.560 Kathleen says, Jeff, you're mentioning the Facebook situation.

01:02:25.120 Well, I hear you on Glenn today.

01:02:27.660 She lives in Georgia, she says, and then I remembered, man, I hadn't seen a post from

01:02:31.500 you in ages.

01:02:32.360 I don't know what happened.

01:02:33.400 Perhaps Brandon unfriended me.

01:02:36.780 It's possible.

01:02:38.580 I don't know.

01:02:39.360 I'm telling you.

01:02:40.060 I think it's just like Twitter, where they're just sort of shadow banning people.

01:02:43.240 Then Scott says, no, Jeff, listen, I'm looking at your Facebook page.

01:02:46.980 Everything looks good to me.

01:02:47.920 All right, whatever.

01:02:48.400 It's the Jeff Katz Show on Facebook.

01:02:50.680 And I thank both Scott and Kathleen for checking in on that.

01:02:53.300 That's very cool.

01:02:55.000 Maybe it's working.

01:02:55.840 Maybe it's not working where people are, you know, getting dumped.

01:03:00.860 But if you have a chance, the Jeff Katz Show on Facebook.

01:03:04.680 So have you run into the same situation I have is really my question.

01:03:08.280 I'm just trying to get a gauge of this.

01:03:09.660 Is it just me?

01:03:10.380 Is it like, hey, you know what, Jeff?

01:03:12.640 It's just you.

01:03:14.060 It's just those two T-shirts my son Joe wanted.

01:03:17.060 Or is it more?

01:03:18.680 Because I get the sense that Brandon has really done an incredible job all over America.

01:03:24.540 1-888-727-BECK.

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01:03:28.400 Wendy is listening to the Glenn Beck program in Texas.

01:03:31.920 Wendy, welcome.

01:03:32.780 Hello, thank you.

01:03:36.240 Yes.

01:03:39.700 I'm preparing.

01:03:43.180 So he has to bring with him all the supplies that he needs.

01:03:47.840 You know, and clothing is specific to where he's going to be and so forth.

01:03:52.520 So I took him to good old Kohl's.

01:03:55.080 You mentioned Kohl's.

01:03:55.880 So this is what triggered my call.

01:03:57.240 But we always have everything that we need.

01:03:59.540 Plus, you get Kohl's cash, so you keep coming back, baby.

01:04:03.760 That's right.

01:04:05.480 Yes.

01:04:06.080 But they didn't have the pants that they always have in supply.

01:04:10.400 And we only needed like five or six of them.

01:04:13.900 We could find one.

01:04:15.520 And then I called around to other stores.

01:04:18.000 None of them had the pants. 0.89

01:04:20.480 And it's ridiculous.

01:04:21.980 After two weeks, we went back and they said, yeah, they should be here in another truck

01:04:26.540 because we always have them.

01:04:27.960 And these are always, you know, in stock.

01:04:29.920 Yeah.

01:04:30.400 And it's been about six weeks and we still cannot find the pants, which is unheard of.

01:04:35.120 I've never had.

01:04:35.600 It's outrageous.

01:04:36.780 It's outrageous.

01:04:37.740 Yeah.

01:04:38.180 Yeah.

01:04:38.440 It's outrageous.

01:04:39.540 Well, all right.

01:04:40.400 But but think of it this way, Wendy.

01:04:42.060 At least you get to hang on to your Kohl's cash a few more days.

01:04:45.180 Right.

01:04:48.020 All the best in the new year.

01:04:49.920 And I hope that Brandon, you know.

01:04:52.180 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:54.220 Wendy, I appreciate the call.

01:04:56.280 Yeah.

01:04:56.500 My wife has a sitting on piles of Kohl's cash. 1.00

01:04:58.880 Real cash.

01:04:59.560 Not so much.

01:05:00.240 But Kohl's cash.

01:05:01.080 Oh, yeah.

01:05:01.720 Ready to go, Jeff.

01:05:02.760 And it's it's it's you know, it's that sort of math.

01:05:05.640 You don't understand, Jeff, how much we saved.

01:05:08.340 OK, now here's how much we spent.

01:05:10.660 No, that's not the important issue.

01:05:12.440 Look how much we saved.

01:05:13.780 But, you know, we would have saved more.

01:05:15.340 My dear, had we not spent any. 0.93

01:05:17.520 Oh, that's just silly.

01:05:18.620 And by the way, get the minivan out of the driveway because there's another delivery from

01:05:22.820 Easy Spirit coming in for me any day now.

01:05:25.360 Carol is in Connecticut.

01:05:26.920 She's listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:05:28.600 Carol.

01:05:29.040 Hello.

01:05:29.940 Hi, Jeff.

01:05:30.540 How are you doing?

01:05:31.160 Happy New Year.

01:05:31.820 A little early.

01:05:32.940 Same to you.

01:05:34.820 I have a problem with my cat loves Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers.

01:05:39.420 And you go in like five different grocery stores in the area.

01:05:43.300 Not one sneaking can.

01:05:44.700 So he's been living on our, well, you can't give him human gravy because it's got onions

01:05:52.080 and stuff and cats can eat that. 0.87

01:05:53.700 But he's been living on our people tuna.

01:05:56.060 Oh, wow.

01:05:57.040 Different little things.

01:05:58.340 But I, man, I scored.

01:06:00.020 It was funny.

01:06:00.640 I was in the store and I was like, yes, like that.

01:06:02.580 And everybody's looking at me.

01:06:05.580 There's Carol. 0.90

01:06:06.460 You know, she's the crazy cat lady, right? 1.00

01:06:08.100 Yeah, she's cooking for a cat at home now, right? 0.55

01:06:10.940 Yeah, you got it.

01:06:11.840 We only have one, so I'm not too crazy with cat ladies. 0.98

01:06:14.120 No, not at all.

01:06:15.120 Not at all.

01:06:15.660 All right.

01:06:16.000 Well, Carol, I appreciate the call and I wish you a happy new year as well.

01:06:19.700 Carol can't get food for a cat. 0.99

01:06:21.540 Now, I'm sitting here with my executive producer, Pixie, the wonder dog, who's thinking, who cares?

01:06:26.260 I mean, we've got dog food.

01:06:27.480 But now, now I'm thinking, my gosh, what if we don't have dog food?

01:06:31.440 I'm not cooking for my dogs.

01:06:32.900 I really am not.

01:06:33.840 All right.

01:06:34.340 I probably am.

01:06:35.540 Michael is in Texas.

01:06:36.760 Michael, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:06:38.380 Uh, yes.

01:06:40.480 Uh, I go into the grocery stores and there's a lot of empty shelves and I can't even get

01:06:46.500 dog food.

01:06:47.900 Oh, wait a minute.

01:06:48.900 All right.

01:06:49.120 For my dogs.

01:06:50.040 Okay.

01:06:50.340 So, Michael, unlike Carol, who I, she seemed like a lovely lady, but she can't find cat food. 1.00

01:06:55.100 So what do I care, right?

01:06:56.160 This is, however, is a crisis if you can't find dog food, right?

01:07:00.260 It's outrageous.

01:07:01.420 It is outrageous.

01:07:03.320 Gosh.

01:07:04.680 Never thought I'd live in a country where we couldn't get dog food.

01:07:08.000 I got, I got spoiled chihuahuas and I can't even get them dog food. 0.79

01:07:14.340 Now, Michael, I have to ask you, because I also have a chihuahua and I never in my life

01:07:19.880 saw myself as a small dog person, right?

01:07:22.840 I'm a guy, Michael.

01:07:23.920 I want a big dog.

01:07:25.180 I want it the size of a pony.

01:07:26.860 And now I have this thing weighs nine pounds.

01:07:28.900 And if, if I could wear a purse like Paris Hilton and not get laughed at, I would do

01:07:34.760 it.

01:07:35.040 I really would.

01:07:36.020 I'd carry her around.

01:07:37.500 Are you, you're not quite at that point, are you?

01:07:41.600 No, we would just call it a man back.

01:07:45.400 I love it.

01:07:46.300 Michael, I appreciate the call, my friend.

01:07:48.240 I mean, you know, we're, we're going to have, we're going to have shortages here or there.

01:07:52.960 I mean, it happens.

01:07:54.200 No, it does.

01:07:54.700 It happens.

01:07:56.280 Christmas time is one of those things.

01:07:58.900 You get a certain toy that for some reason is just resonating with everybody.

01:08:04.640 Remember back to Tickle Me Elmo?

01:08:06.420 You couldn't find an Elmo to tickle anywhere in America.

01:08:09.820 Every Elmo was already fully tickled.

01:08:12.580 Thank you very much.

01:08:13.760 Couldn't find one anywhere.

01:08:15.240 All right.

01:08:15.600 So I understand that.

01:08:17.760 Cabbage Patch Kids, a thousand years ago.

01:08:20.420 That was the rage.

01:08:21.640 I understand that.

01:08:22.800 But I am telling you seriously, if you go into the store and you cannot find food and you don't live somewhere where you can grow some of your own food.

01:08:36.820 Now, I am hardly a farmer.

01:08:43.180 But every year I have my little vegetable garden.

01:08:47.180 Are we getting to the point now we got to grow our own food?

01:08:49.600 Maybe we are.

01:08:50.680 Maybe we are.

01:08:52.120 You can't find clothing.

01:08:54.240 What did Wendy in Texas say?

01:08:55.740 She wasn't looking for anything fancy.

01:08:57.960 She wasn't.

01:08:58.640 Seriously, she wasn't looking for some designer name.

01:09:00.360 She was looking for basic pants that her son needed to go to school and they didn't have them. 0.80

01:09:08.700 I'm looking online for a couple of T-shirts.

01:09:11.520 Now, Joe's got plenty of clothing.

01:09:13.940 All right.

01:09:14.120 He's not going to go to school naked.

01:09:15.560 He's not going to show going to show up at work topless.

01:09:18.420 He's got shirts.

01:09:20.540 But to be told by online retailers, nope, we don't have those shirts.

01:09:26.120 And, and this is the problem, we have no idea when we will.

01:09:31.760 Jim is up next.

01:09:33.040 Jim, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:09:36.220 Hey, thanks for taking my call.

01:09:38.400 Sure.

01:09:40.720 I work for a small company who sold over the Internet for probably over 15 years now.

01:09:49.600 Okay.

01:09:49.880 Um, and like most companies, they started selling on Amazon that isn't much choice.

01:09:55.400 And now, uh, it comprises the vast majority of their business, probably upwards of 80%.

01:10:02.260 Wow.

01:10:03.120 And over the Christmas holidays, uh, you know, well, first let's just say Amazon is a great platform for small business.

01:10:11.540 It just is an incredible opportunity, but the power that they exert over the third-party sellers is, uh, incredible.

01:10:21.900 Uh, what happened this year, about two weeks prior to Christmas, if you're a third-party seller and you are self-fulfilled,

01:10:30.680 and that means your product ships from you and not through Amazon itself, from one of their products.

01:10:38.220 Uh, this, uh, date, earliest arrival date, seven days out from the actual delivery date.

01:10:45.740 Um, so if a package would normally get to somebody in two or three days, it's saying they're not getting it for 10 or 12.

01:10:53.900 Yep.

01:10:54.360 And it's only on the third-party sellers.

01:10:58.360 Uh, they didn't do that to themselves.

01:11:01.720 Yeah.

01:11:01.840 So, in effect, it basically made it look like, um, if they wanted their baggages before Christmas,

01:11:08.280 they had to order from Amazon or Amazon's fulfilled item and pretty much killed the sales for all the smaller players

01:11:17.700 or the ones who are self-fulfilled.

01:11:19.500 Basically, Amazon makes more money when it's fulfilled by them or they're selling themselves.

01:11:24.920 Well, sure.

01:11:26.240 Sure.

01:11:26.980 Sure.

01:11:27.320 Jim, I, I appreciate the call.

01:11:29.280 What great insight there.

01:11:30.340 And, and thank goodness Amazon is looking out for themselves.

01:11:33.060 No, I mean seriously, because poor Jeff Bezos, you know, rockets aren't cheap.

01:11:38.040 And you, you, you need more of those.

01:11:41.020 Is it all related to trucking?

01:11:43.060 I don't know.

01:11:43.680 Very quickly, let me grab Calvin, who was in Michigan.

01:11:46.000 I think he's a truck driver.

01:11:47.480 Hey, Calvin, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:11:50.060 Hey, thanks for taking my call.

01:11:51.940 Thanks for making it.

01:11:52.680 Um, yeah, real quick, a couple of things.

01:11:55.160 My wife runs, you know, daycare.

01:11:57.640 So we go through a lot of food naturally.

01:11:59.740 Yeah.

01:11:59.940 And, uh, every week we go to different grocery stores in the area and, uh, we have to go

01:12:05.000 to multiple stores just to get the food that we need.

01:12:08.160 Um, you know, all the kids have to eat healthy foods, wheat, everything like that.

01:12:11.880 So we try to give them the best that we can.

01:12:13.540 Sure.

01:12:14.100 Um, so not only is it hard to find the food now, but the price of groceries has gone up

01:12:18.660 a lot.

01:12:19.680 Um, I know a big topic is childcare, how much it costs, but with food skyrocketing like

01:12:24.760 this, I mean, it's not going to get any cheaper.

01:12:26.340 It's, uh, I can promise you that we're not getting rich out front of a daycare.

01:12:30.860 Um, it's pretty tough.

01:12:32.480 So second thing, I'm also a truck driver.

01:12:34.200 I run beyond, I'm like 28 years old.

01:12:36.180 Uh, I work for the road commission up here.

01:12:38.500 Um, and there's a huge trucker shortage while just working at a road commission.

01:12:42.660 I have great benefits.

01:12:43.820 I get paid well.

01:12:45.540 Um, I'm home every night on a regular schedule and we can't get help.

01:12:50.400 Um, I, I mean, we, we're so shorthanded up here.

01:12:54.040 Um, now that the snow is flying, it's really been a struggle to keep the roads clear for

01:12:57.780 everybody.

01:12:58.860 Um, I just, I, it's sad to say it, but a lot of people in my generation just don't want

01:13:04.040 to work.

01:13:05.000 Um, and I, I think you can offer them a hundred thousand dollars a year and a lot of trucking

01:13:08.300 companies are paying that.

01:13:09.880 And, uh, you're just, you're just not seeing, uh, people jumping on it.

01:13:14.960 Um, I mean, there is truck driver schools here in the area that will train you and there's

01:13:20.000 companies, 90,000 a year.

01:13:21.660 They'll hire you right out of school.

01:13:22.820 Um, they're just not doing it.

01:13:26.120 So I don't know if money is going to fix it.

01:13:27.660 I just, uh, I feel like we need to start motivating people to get in the trades and get CDLs and,

01:13:32.340 uh, not go to college.

01:13:33.980 I hear you.

01:13:34.860 Hey, Calvin, I appreciate the call.

01:13:36.440 Thank you so much.

01:13:37.160 I think Calvin's hit on something and I, let me just throw this in very quickly.

01:13:41.200 Not everybody needs to go to college.

01:13:42.880 I mean, we, there used to be a time we prized people who could make things and fix things.

01:13:48.580 What is wrong with that?

01:13:50.060 What's wrong with saying, Hey, you know what?

01:13:52.640 You have an incredible God given talent to build something, go build it.

01:13:58.400 Or you have an ability to, to fix a car.

01:14:02.300 I'm, I'm, I'm dear friends with, uh, with a gentleman who, who has been an A tech for 30

01:14:08.920 years, starts his own shop.

01:14:11.720 He's got a bunch of guys working for him.

01:14:13.720 He's making his American dream come true and making their American dream come true.

01:14:17.960 But, but people want to poo poo auto mechanics or plumbers or electricians.

01:14:23.620 Shame on anybody who does that.

01:14:25.760 It is Jeff Katz.

01:14:27.080 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

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01:15:53.680 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:15:56.600 Great email here.

01:15:57.640 I just got to share this with you.

01:15:58.940 Jim in Raleigh, North Carolina, sent a note.

01:16:01.600 He went to thejeffkatzshow.com, clicked on the contact button there.

01:16:05.180 He says, Jeff, I love the show.

01:16:06.560 Appreciate you filling in for Glenn.

01:16:07.780 Well, thank you for listening, Jim.

01:16:09.920 Glenn does a great program.

01:16:11.080 I'm simply doing my best.

01:16:12.560 He says, the only thing, Jeff, please ask listeners to stop with the Let's Go Brandon

01:16:18.180 chats.

01:16:18.940 The president actually thinks they're legit encouragement.

01:16:22.420 Hasn't he ruined enough of our country already?

01:16:24.820 My plan is to use the shovel I asked for for Christmas, estimated delivery time sometime in

01:16:30.080 late April.

01:16:30.460 Well, dig a pit to live in for the next three years. 0.60

01:16:33.940 Happy New Year to you and yours.

01:16:35.020 Thank you, Jim.

01:16:36.140 I get it.

01:16:37.600 I really do.

01:16:38.440 I totally get it that it's a tough time, isn't it?

01:16:43.680 And this guy, the president of the United States, really does think that things are going well,

01:16:51.620 I guess.

01:16:52.720 And the vice president of the United States seems to think, well, everything is just fine.

01:16:59.640 But I got news for you.

01:17:01.040 Here in the real world, down here on terra firma, you know, planet Earth, things are not

01:17:06.520 going particularly well.

01:17:08.260 We are having a difficult situation.

01:17:11.780 Now, I've got to share a couple of things with you that I think are vitally important.

01:17:20.300 I really do.

01:17:21.440 I think the idea that we have actually seen in America in the year 2021 empty shelves is

01:17:31.560 a problem.

01:17:33.500 Are they going to be refilled?

01:17:34.960 Are they going to be restocked?

01:17:36.080 Are we going to see our nation get back to being, you know, our nation, the greatest planet

01:17:41.720 on or the greatest country on God's green Earth?

01:17:44.900 Maybe.

01:17:46.660 And maybe not.

01:17:49.720 How do we rectify it becomes the question.

01:17:52.560 And I don't have an answer for that.

01:17:54.080 I really don't.

01:17:55.760 I do know a couple of things.

01:17:57.520 I know that the president is blissfully unaware of what's going on, or he just doesn't care.

01:18:08.880 I kind of hope it's the first one, because if it's the second one, boy, we're in even

01:18:14.740 worse shape than I had imagined.

01:18:17.300 Jeff Katz sitting in today for Glenn.

01:18:19.480 It is the Glenn Beck program.

01:18:31.460 This is the Glenn Beck program.

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01:19:03.600 So why is it that leftists seem to hate law enforcement officers and parents?

01:19:16.400 We'll dive into it.

01:19:18.320 That's next.

01:19:19.200 The Glenn Beck program.

01:19:22.840 The Glenn Beck program. 0.91

01:19:25.240 The woke mob rears its ugly head in this country every single day. 0.82

01:19:29.680 You know it. 0.93

01:19:30.400 I know it.

01:19:31.020 And increasingly, our kids know it, too.

01:19:34.000 They see it when they watch something on television or YouTube.

01:19:36.800 They absorb it in conversations that take place all around them.

01:19:40.160 And maybe worst of all, they're increasingly being fed heaping helpings of it in our school.

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01:20:34.520 Jeff Katz from NewsRadio WRBA in Central Virginia.

01:20:37.580 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:20:40.340 I mentioned Central Virginia.

01:20:43.500 I mentioned Virginia because you need to know that in terms of parental activity, man, we are front and center.

01:20:53.420 A few months back, I coined the phrase, we the parents.

01:21:00.460 And I coined the phrase, we the parents, because we the parents in Virginia had been told over and over and over again. 0.96

01:21:11.320 Shut up and sit down.

01:21:15.440 Now, I don't know how you feel about your kids. 1.00

01:21:19.860 I don't know how you feel about my kids.

01:21:21.700 I'll tell you, I like my kids.

01:21:23.140 Well, now, let me rephrase that.

01:21:24.360 I love my kids.

01:21:26.240 I love my kids all the time, and there are moments where I'm not particularly crazy about something they've done or said, so maybe I don't like them all the time.

01:21:35.360 But I love them all the time.

01:21:37.060 And I'm one of those goofy guys in that I think it's my obligation, my sacred obligation, to parents, to raise my children.

01:21:51.240 A lot of times I talk about raising my boys to be good men.

01:21:57.580 And I've actually gotten some notes.

01:21:59.940 Jeff, you always talk about your sons.

01:22:02.140 How come you didn't say you're raising your daughter to be a good woman?

01:22:06.720 Julia, even though she's 18 years old, chronologically, developmentally, Julia's about 18 months old.

01:22:12.240 Julia has severe disabilities and special needs and handicaps and challenges.

01:22:18.820 I mean, whatever the word is we want to use.

01:22:20.400 So, I mean, Julia's just a different sort of a situation, you know?

01:22:26.840 I mean, she's always going to be my baby.

01:22:29.720 I'm never, ever going to embarrass her by dancing at her wedding.

01:22:35.800 Sometimes I feel embarrassed because an 18-year-old young lady, I have to change her diaper. 1.00

01:22:42.980 So, that's just kind of why Julia's in a, it's just a different situation.

01:22:48.560 But I talk about my sons all the time, right?

01:22:50.420 And their activities in school.

01:22:53.400 And in every conversation, if possible, I try to work into it that my oldest boy is at Stanford.

01:22:59.420 Why?

01:23:01.600 Because I want something out of these payments.

01:23:04.240 That's why.

01:23:04.840 I mean, I know he's getting a world-class education.

01:23:07.220 But I didn't even get a t-shirt.

01:23:09.100 Heidi had to buy me that. 0.55

01:23:10.960 30% discount, though.

01:23:12.080 Because she had Kohl's cash.

01:23:13.100 That was great.

01:23:13.940 But as a parent, I'm supposed to be involved in my kid's education, right?

01:23:20.160 Isn't that how you and I were instructed over the years?

01:23:24.880 I mean, haven't we heard about parents?

01:23:26.760 Oh, you know, that mom over there, man, she never comes to the PTA meetings. 0.82

01:23:31.260 Or that dad, he doesn't even know what grade his kid's in.

01:23:34.360 So we want, or at least I was told we wanted, parents involved with education.

01:23:39.720 And then, as critical race theory was being jammed down children's throats, as sexual attacks were taking place inside schools here in Virginia, there were a whole slew of parents that said, nope, not interested.

01:24:00.280 We're going to do something about it.

01:24:03.640 And parents started to do things about it.

01:24:06.040 You know what they started to do?

01:24:06.720 They started asking questions.

01:24:07.980 I mean, that was number one.

01:24:09.300 Hey, excuse me.

01:24:10.640 Can you tell me why that boy in a skirt was in the girl's bathroom? 0.99

01:24:15.920 How dare you? 0.86

01:24:18.200 Are you transphobic?

01:24:22.080 Uh, no.

01:24:24.220 I just want to know why the 14-year-old boy in a skirt was in the girl's bathroom.

01:24:31.860 That's none of your business.

01:24:33.540 Yeah, actually, it is because I have a daughter who attends school.

01:24:38.760 And she uses that girl's bathroom. 1.00

01:24:41.300 So I just kind of like to know what's going on.

01:24:44.700 That's where this all started.

01:24:46.580 Those two issues, the critical race theory.

01:24:48.340 And it's always fascinating to me.

01:24:51.480 It's always, I would say funny, but it's really not anything to laugh at.

01:24:54.940 It's just interesting.

01:24:55.760 It's fascinating.

01:24:56.420 When politicians will say, well, we don't teach critical race theory in high school or in middle school or in elementary, that's a college level thing.

01:25:04.220 And you take a deep breath and say, okay, all of your teachers in the classroom now have been schooled in the school of critical race theory.

01:25:15.060 And their instructional methods for every subject embrace critical race theory.

01:25:22.920 So you would be right if you said there's not a high school course entitled critical race theory because there doesn't have to be.

01:25:34.240 Because every other course embraces critical race theory.

01:25:39.200 And then the issue up in Loudoun County, which is a D.C. suburb.

01:25:46.200 And I got to tell you something about Loudoun County.

01:25:47.920 It's a reliably Democrat, left of center county.

01:25:52.600 Hasn't always been that.

01:25:53.400 We used to be very rural.

01:25:54.560 And then over the last 20 years, I guess, it's changed.

01:25:58.980 And now it's reliably Democrat, reliably left of center.

01:26:02.600 Why do I mention that?

01:26:03.340 Because those parents who are upset, who are outraged at what's going on in their schools, there are plenty of them that are Democrats.

01:26:12.560 There are plenty of them that would tell you, well, I voted for Joe Biden.

01:26:15.540 I thought Donald Trump was this or that or the other thing.

01:26:18.060 I don't want my kids doing this.

01:26:20.320 In other words, this crosses all party lines, or at least it ought to.

01:26:23.560 This concern for our children should be something that involves every single mother and father.

01:26:31.780 So when you hear from a governor, as we did here in Virginia, our current governor who cannot leave soon enough.

01:26:41.400 Oh, good gosh.

01:26:43.480 Governor Goober is how we refer to him here.

01:26:46.520 Ralph Northam. 0.82

01:26:48.400 Terrible, terrible governor. 1.00

01:26:50.200 Awful, awful human being as well. 0.99

01:26:52.200 I mean, I hate to say that, but it's true. 1.00

01:26:53.720 He's just a bad person.

01:26:56.880 He would be most noteworthy in the other states across America because you'd be saying, hey, were you the guy in blackface or under the Klan hood?

01:27:06.460 Remember that photo a couple of years back?

01:27:08.000 Well, anyway, he told us, oh, there's no problem in schools and parents, you know, just leave it up to the professionals.

01:27:13.000 And then Terry McAuliffe, who was running to be governor, said over and over and over again, no, parents shouldn't be involved.

01:27:23.060 Parents should have no role in the schools.

01:27:24.640 They shouldn't be telling teachers anything.

01:27:26.600 And then he said again, parents shouldn't tell teachers.

01:27:32.320 And then he said again, no, you shouldn't be involved.

01:27:34.080 No, you shouldn't have any input on this on the books either.

01:27:37.240 I say, really?

01:27:38.740 So he lost.

01:27:39.920 Oh, thank God he lost.

01:27:42.240 We've got a new governor coming in named Glenn Youngkin.

01:27:45.500 And Glenn is like the real deal.

01:27:47.220 He's just somebody who's also a father who said we can do better.

01:27:53.820 But I want you to take a listen to Nicole Hannah-Jones.

01:28:00.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones is the woman who invented the 1619 Project.

01:28:06.520 You remember 1619 Project telling us that you're a terrible person, you're a racist, this country is built strictly on slavery and will never make, you remember that.

01:28:16.740 It was all the rage for a while.

01:28:18.280 And then people actually started looking into and saying, wait a minute, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

01:28:22.460 But I want you to take a listen.

01:28:23.640 She was she was on some yakking show.

01:28:27.220 And here is here she is.

01:28:29.520 Nicole Hannah-Jones on why parents should not be involved in education.

01:28:36.060 Well, I would say the governor's race in Virginia was decided based on the success of a right wing propaganda campaign that told white parents that they needed to fight against.

01:28:46.740 And I don't know if they were children being indoctrinated as race as being called racist.

01:28:50.840 But that was a propaganda campaign.

01:28:52.760 And there are a lot of black parents in Virginia.

01:28:55.280 There are a lot of Latino parents in Virginia.

01:28:57.340 And they were not being featured in that coverage.

01:28:59.440 And what they wanted for their kids education, which is more teaching about race, more teaching about the history of racism, seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.

01:29:07.940 So I think we should frame that question properly.

01:29:10.020 And I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught.

01:29:15.540 I'm not a professional educator.

01:29:17.420 I don't have a degree in social studies or science.

01:29:19.800 We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have expertise in the subject area.

01:29:25.500 And that is not my job.

01:29:26.880 When the governor or the candidate said that he didn't think parents should be deciding what's being taught in school, he was panned for that.

01:29:36.960 But but that's just the fact this is why we send our children to school and don't homeschool, because these are the professional educators who have the expertise to teach social studies, to teach history, to do science, to teach literature.

01:29:50.740 OK, I know she didn't quite get Terry McAuliffe's quote spot on there, but listen, I'll give her a pass on that one.

01:30:00.800 But this idea, well, we don't homeschool.

01:30:04.560 No, no.

01:30:05.980 Why would you homeschool?

01:30:08.600 I mean, people homeschool because they're really concerned about values.

01:30:13.880 They're concerned about the golden rule.

01:30:16.880 There's all sorts of resources out there for parents who do choose to homeschool to do an incredible job homeschooling.

01:30:24.700 Now, I'm not going to homeschool anybody on math.

01:30:28.080 That is just not my thing.

01:30:31.240 I was not the guy who could solve for X.

01:30:34.320 I could never solve for X.

01:30:37.180 I was a blue book guy.

01:30:39.420 I wanted to write 10, 15, 20 pages on how you felt solving for X.

01:30:47.180 My late father in law, a math teacher.

01:30:49.760 Oh, my God.

01:30:51.540 I just I don't I don't get it.

01:30:53.360 I mean, I mean, I know there are people that are brilliant at math.

01:30:56.280 So I understand if she said, you know, we just I'm not a math expert.

01:31:00.240 I would give her credit for that.

01:31:02.820 I tell you that honestly.

01:31:04.040 But you know what I can do?

01:31:05.320 I can read history and I could share that with my kids if I were homeschooling.

01:31:11.400 What she was attempting to do, what the left continually attempts to do is demonize certain segments of America for whom they have great contempt.

01:31:22.300 And it's a shame and it's ugly and it's sad.

01:31:25.220 But that's what it was.

01:31:26.560 And there's a reason that we, the parents in Virginia, we, the parents everywhere are standing up and saying we, we, the parents have not just a role.

01:31:41.380 We have an obligation to our children to know what's being taught and to be involved.

01:31:46.680 And anything less than full involvement is not doing right by your kids.

01:31:54.540 Hey, in a couple of moments, we've got to talk about this war on law enforcement.

01:31:58.400 Let me tell you something.

01:31:59.060 It is real.

01:32:00.540 It is real.

01:32:01.260 People in New York City, people in smaller cities are attacking police officers, murdering police officers.

01:32:09.500 The law is not being enforced anywhere.

01:32:11.680 So what the heck do we do about it?

01:32:13.540 Jimmy Galliano, a retired supervisory special agent with the FBI.

01:32:18.560 And you've probably seen Jimmy on CBS television news.

01:32:21.980 He is their law enforcement analyst.

01:32:24.360 He is going to be with us and we'll get a little insight from him regarding this ongoing law enforcement battle we see.

01:32:33.580 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:32:35.800 It is the Glenn Beck program.

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01:33:47.920 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:33:50.800 If you would like to learn a little bit more about the 1619 Project or what happened here in Virginia

01:33:56.480 relating to parental involvement, I've got a whole bunch of stuff up on Facebook.

01:34:02.120 If you want to head on over there, look for The Jeff Katz Show on Facebook.

01:34:06.220 The Jeff Katz Show on Facebook.

01:34:09.500 The involvement of parents is vital.

01:34:11.660 Now, I don't mean to sound like I'm preaching here, but I guess I am.

01:34:14.640 The involvement of parents is essential.

01:34:17.440 And here's the thing.

01:34:19.840 It's not just running for the school board or the school committee or the school commission,

01:34:25.800 whatever it's called, wherever you happen to be.

01:34:27.580 It's about active involvement.

01:34:30.260 And this is what terrifies the teachers unions.

01:34:34.620 This is what terrifies professional activists.

01:34:41.660 See, if you listen to that Nicole Hannah-Jones, what did she say?

01:34:47.760 Oh, well, I'm not a professional.

01:34:49.920 I understand that.

01:34:52.240 I understand that.

01:34:54.060 And I'm telling you, I couldn't teach anybody math.

01:34:56.480 I mean, past two plus two, I'm pretty much done.

01:35:00.980 Somehow, somehow, I believe I passed algebra, geometry, I think.

01:35:07.540 I mean, and these were low grades.

01:35:09.080 Let me tell you, this was actually, this was the time when I did understand numbers

01:35:12.280 because it was right there on the cusp, right?

01:35:15.220 A breath that way, a hair that way, man, I wouldn't have made it.

01:35:18.720 So I cannot teach anyone math.

01:35:21.040 I got it.

01:35:21.620 And I would never, ever presuppose that I could.

01:35:26.480 But I can teach you a thing or two about history because this is relatively easy.

01:35:31.980 This is a matter of saying, well, let's study.

01:35:34.780 Let's read.

01:35:36.100 You hear Glenn all the time talking about the Tuttle Twins.

01:35:39.520 Great resource for your kids.

01:35:42.220 There's all sorts of programs online.

01:35:48.340 I'm one of those guys.

01:35:49.560 I am always taking courses online.

01:35:52.060 My latest, my latest quest, I'm studying to, to become a chaplain.

01:35:58.780 Now, I'm not making a career change.

01:36:01.480 Let me be clear on that.

01:36:02.620 But I just feel, given my background as a law enforcement officer a thousand years ago

01:36:11.320 and my concern with the issues that impact our first responders,

01:36:20.140 this is something I feel called to do.

01:36:23.200 And so I'm completing all this training online.

01:36:28.080 It may or may not be your interest.

01:36:29.880 That's okay.

01:36:32.360 But there's all sorts of resources out there.

01:36:34.740 If you're a mom or dad that says, listen, I'm not happy with what they're teaching in school.

01:36:40.440 Maybe you do consider homeschooling.

01:36:42.280 I don't know.

01:36:44.020 Probably wouldn't be the thing that I would do personally.

01:36:46.820 I don't, I don't think I could do it.

01:36:48.660 But there are other parents far better than I am who do it every single day.

01:36:53.160 And the professional education establishment is threatened by that.

01:36:58.420 Why else would you fight against the idea of children being able to get a good education?

01:37:05.860 Why else would you and I see such opposition to charter schools?

01:37:11.360 That was another issue here in Virginia, despite what Ms. Jones had to say.

01:37:16.220 Oh, well, this was all done as a, it was a racist thing.

01:37:19.180 And white parents were told that their kids were being indoctrinated.

01:37:23.400 Well, that's because children were and are being indoctrinated.

01:37:28.040 And again, this is a relatively easy one.

01:37:30.500 We had our Virginia Department of Education years ago,

01:37:34.060 send out instructions to all of the school divisions in the Commonwealth saying,

01:37:38.540 Hey, this is what you have to teach.

01:37:40.160 Anybody who is going to be a professional educator has to go through a program where this is how they are taught.

01:37:49.460 I mean, it is clear and it's sad and it's wrong.

01:37:54.400 And that's why the education establishment is so concerned with this.

01:38:00.960 What did former President Trump say?

01:38:03.480 Let's give every kid an opportunity.

01:38:05.260 Is that outrageous?

01:38:10.540 Here in Virginia, the former governor who wanted to be the governor, Terry McAuliffe.

01:38:16.700 Well, he sent all of his kids to a very exclusive, very exclusive, very expensive private school.

01:38:23.360 I don't begrudge him that he has far more money than I'll ever have.

01:38:26.360 And he was able to spend $35,000, $40,000 per year, per child, to go to this exclusive private school, the Potomac School.

01:38:37.820 Okay.

01:38:39.600 But he then turned around and said to poor families,

01:38:45.140 single moms living in the inner city and in Richmond or in Newport News,

01:38:51.400 hey, you don't get the same chance.

01:38:53.860 Your kids have to go to really crappy public schools because, well, I'm a fully owned subsidiary of the teachers unions.

01:39:04.200 That's what happened here.

01:39:06.040 And that's why moms and dads said, no, no.

01:39:11.640 We want our kids to get a break.

01:39:14.220 We want our kids to have a chance.

01:39:16.360 You take a look around our country and you see school systems failing.

01:39:24.040 They're failing those children.

01:39:27.100 And who's fighting the hardest to keep those kids from getting a quality charter school education?

01:39:34.020 Teachers unions.

01:39:35.440 It's crazy.

01:39:36.800 How about the war on cops?

01:39:38.620 That's straight ahead.

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01:40:55.980 Making socialists question their life choices.

01:40:59.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:41:02.900 Stick around.

01:41:03.940 More after the break.

01:41:04.860 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:41:09.140 Jeff Katz.

01:41:09.780 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:41:12.120 I want to remind you very quickly.

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01:41:53.080 Now, we've been talking a lot about what's right and wrong.

01:41:58.660 I mean, it sounds simple.

01:41:59.800 It sounds crazy.

01:42:00.500 But what's right and wrong?

01:42:02.640 You and I probably trying to raise our kids to say, you know, we respect men and women who go out and say they're going to serve.

01:42:10.820 Law enforcement officers.

01:42:12.080 A thousand years ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was a cop.

01:42:15.960 And I remember what it was like.

01:42:17.620 Nobody called you when you were having a good day, right?

01:42:19.760 Oh, look, I got a promotion at work.

01:42:21.820 And that report card was straight A's.

01:42:25.400 Oh, and we're baking cookies.

01:42:26.700 Come on.

01:42:27.320 Let's invite members of the local constabulary to come over and enjoy the cookies.

01:42:31.440 No, it's always the worst day for whoever it is that calls.

01:42:35.200 And yet, we still have so many great men and women who get up in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, because they're working 24-7, my friends.

01:42:43.200 Get up, put on a uniform, strap on a sidearm, pin on a badge, and go out there and do the job.

01:42:50.900 But we see all sorts of folks attacking them, demeaning them.

01:42:54.240 And I'm trying to get to the bottom of that.

01:42:56.520 Now, there is nobody better when it comes to analyzing trends in law enforcement, what's going on in the law enforcement community with society than Jimmy Galliano.

01:43:07.440 Jimmy is a retired supervisory special agent from the FBI, graduate of West Point, ranger-trained combat officer, working on his Ph.D.

01:43:20.660 Oh, he's also the mayor of the town in which he lives.

01:43:23.860 So, in other words, a slacker's slacker.

01:43:26.760 Jimmy, I appreciate you being here, my friend.

01:43:30.140 Jeff, couldn't think anybody else I'd rather spend a bit of the holidays with than you.

01:43:34.280 And I will cop to the same thing you just did.

01:43:36.440 We are both fellow washed-up law enforcement officers.

01:43:39.380 But it is great to join somebody who appreciates what I do, which is being a law enforcement advocate and standing up for the men and the women in blue who, no matter what it is, they can't strike.

01:43:53.180 They have to show up no matter what.

01:43:55.460 It's the early parts of the pandemic, violence in cities, riots, no matter what.

01:44:00.420 They put on the badge, the gun, the uniform, and they show up and do their job.

01:44:03.820 And, Jeff, I'm proud to join you because I know how much of a law enforcement advocate you are, and thanks for what you do on their behalf.

01:44:10.020 Well, that is very kind.

01:44:11.860 Let's start with a really sad situation, and that's Officer Potter.

01:44:18.540 Can you bring everybody up to speed, remind us why we're talking about her?

01:44:24.020 Yeah, so Kim Potter was just convicted in Minneapolis.

01:44:30.560 And it is a tragic, tragic case.

01:44:34.380 Jeff, and to bring everybody up to speed on that, she was just convicted of first-degree manslaughter. 1.00

01:44:39.420 She's the officer.

01:44:40.580 Now, you've got to remember, put things into context.

01:44:43.500 You know, George Floyd and the Derek Chauvin case in Minneapolis happened in, I think, a Memorial Day a year and a half or so ago.

01:44:52.820 And this one happened shortly thereafter, and it was a case of an officer, decorated officer, 20 years in the job, done everything right.

01:45:01.480 And in one moment, she had pulled somebody over, a young kid by the name of Dante Wright.

01:45:08.440 He had been wanted.

01:45:09.820 He had weapons possession.

01:45:12.260 He was pulled over because he had expired tags and something hanging off his rearview mirror.

01:45:17.300 And Officer Potter pulled him over.

01:45:19.300 And, of course, the kid jumps back in the car, tries to drive away, dragging the officers.

01:45:23.720 She pulled out what she believed was her taser.

01:45:26.620 Now, for the uninitiated, you know, officers usually carry their sidearm, their weapon, on their strong side.

01:45:33.840 And then they'll usually have their taser somewhere on the other side.

01:45:37.700 And in just a horrific, horrific case of a bad mistake when, you know, passions are inflamed and you're operating in extremis at a case of life and death, she pulls her weapon.

01:45:51.560 She shouts out, taser, taser, taser, which police officers are instructed to yell out to fellow officers when they're deploying a taser because the taser has a little barb on the end. 0.99

01:46:01.500 It also has a cable that runs to that barb so you can't have anybody else in between the target of the taser and the taser itself.

01:46:09.860 And she accidentally drew her firearm and shot Mr. Wright.

01:46:15.140 Tragic case.

01:46:16.400 Full stop.

01:46:17.320 I mean, I grieve for the family of Dante Wright as anybody would of somebody who lost their life that shouldn't have.

01:46:25.000 But under the circumstances in our blown up system right now where right is wrong, left is right, up is down, it makes no sense.

01:46:34.640 A jury decided to convict her of first degree manslaughter.

01:46:38.720 And, Jeff, the meaning of it in Minneapolis is she improperly used such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.

01:46:50.100 And I just think that is just a horrific misinterpretation of her actions.

01:46:56.340 And then to add, just to add even more fuel to the fire of how she is being mistreated here, she was held without bail while she was pending appeal. 0.59

01:47:06.480 And, Jeff, mark my words, I get a lot of these right.

01:47:09.380 Sometimes I don't get them right.

01:47:11.100 But my prediction here is that this case will be overturned on appeal, but she is being held behind bars because, obviously, the judge here felt that she was a flight risk or a threat to the community.

01:47:23.780 Jeff, it's lunacy.

01:47:25.580 That part is absolutely insane.

01:47:28.100 My understanding of Officer Potter's history, she's a longtime member or was a longtime member of that police department, was lauded by people in that community, made an absolutely terrible mistake.

01:47:44.460 I don't think anybody, unless I missed it during the prosecution, I don't think anybody said, oh, yeah, she really meant to grab her gun and she was trying to cover that up by shouting, taser, taser, taser.

01:47:55.660 Or I just, I don't know, I just hang my head.

01:47:59.820 And as I do oftentimes with these cases, Jimmy, I wonder about men and women who still step up to the plate, if you will, and say, yep, I want to go serve.

01:48:10.920 Yeah, it's one of those cases, Jeff.

01:48:12.700 I think you probably said this during your career.

01:48:15.000 I certainly said it many times during mine.

01:48:18.040 There but for the grace of God go I.

01:48:20.300 We are all fallible vessels.

01:48:22.820 Cops are not superhuman.

01:48:24.700 Cops are not perfect, but they are required to make decisions at the speed of light in a nanosecond, low-light situations when the world is just spiraling into a dangerous situation, and they're supposed to make life-or-death situations.

01:48:41.240 And look, when I say that, I understand the trumpets from the other side.

01:48:45.200 Well, then you're hiring the wrong people.

01:48:47.440 Well, then we need to get better cops.

01:48:49.640 It's not easy when we're hiring human beings.

01:48:52.360 Yes, we train them.

01:48:53.960 Yes, we expect them to be a cut above.

01:48:56.000 Yes, we need to trust them.

01:48:57.600 Yes, they have to have discernment and judgment that we don't expect out of an ordinary human being.

01:49:02.980 But they're not superheroes, Jeff.

01:49:04.680 And to your point, you know, it's one of these things.

01:49:06.960 We have to look at this the same way that the Supreme Court did back in 1989.

01:49:11.240 The great case, you know, where Graham v. Conor, which just basically says, we have to judge these officers under the objective reasonableness standard.

01:49:21.600 Were her actions objectively reasonable?

01:49:24.240 Does anybody believe that she pulled her pistol and then faked everybody out by yelling, taser, taser, taser, because she wanted to murder Dante Wright?

01:49:33.800 The answer is no.

01:49:35.660 So if that's the understanding, and because she was operating without the benefit of hindsight, without slowing things down at a speed that regular people can interpret it and make judgments on, gosh, Jeff, this was just a horrible case.

01:49:49.860 And again, I'm going to give you my prediction here on The Glenn Beck Show.

01:49:53.200 This case will be overturned on appeal.

01:49:56.420 Jimmy Galeano is joining us.

01:49:58.260 Now, you've seen Jimmy on CBS Television News as a law enforcement analyst.

01:50:04.260 His website is jamesagaleano.com.

01:50:06.880 Jimmy also serves on the board of directors for the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.

01:50:11.600 And this is an organization which steps up, helps police officers, law enforcement officers who are, well, being charged or pursued or prosecuted inappropriately.

01:50:23.640 And, Jimmy, if I understand correctly, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund now stepping up to defend some folks out in Portland, Oregon, correct?

01:50:33.000 Yes, the federal officers who were at that federal courthouse that was firebombed by Antifa and some of the activists and the folks during the riots of the summer of 2020 and folks there that actually used force, not deadly force, but used force on some people that were storming the federal courthouse.

01:50:55.840 Now, we're rightly agitated when people point out that, hey, there were people that tried to storm the Capitol on January 6th.

01:51:02.840 But where is the same type of apoplexy, and that's the right word, from the left when it comes to firehouses and police departments and police precincts and a federal courthouse in Portland that was stormed and firebombed?

01:51:20.120 And it's just not there because, you know, if they find sympathy with a certain cause, it's okay if our folks act out.

01:51:27.080 But if folks on the other side act out, we want to hold them to account.

01:51:30.240 In this instance, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, which folks can go online, it's www.policedefense.org, policedefense.org.

01:51:41.560 And it's a wonderful organization.

01:51:43.320 It's been around since the mid-'90s, founded by Ed Meese, a former attorney general that I have great respect for, still on the board of directors.

01:51:50.020 I was on a call with him last week, and I'm still so absolutely impressed by what he does at his advanced age and still trying to find ways to defend, again, cops that have been unjustly accused.

01:52:03.760 We're not defending people that do bad things.

01:52:06.500 We're defending people that were acting under the color of authority, trying to do their job, and caught a bad break, and now are being accused of a crime, Jeff.

01:52:14.400 That's the purpose of the organization.

01:52:16.120 If people go there, the wonderful thing about it is you can make a donation.

01:52:20.500 You can also choose a particular case to make a donation to.

01:52:25.260 So if folks do decide to do that, we'd really appreciate it.

01:52:28.420 It's a great organization.

01:52:29.440 So I remind everybody, policedefense.org.

01:52:33.240 And then the other thing, just as a bonus, I mean, here we are, we're wrapping up Christmas.

01:52:38.160 A lot of people got gifts they didn't want or didn't get any gifts.

01:52:41.160 The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund now has an online store, an online shop, so people can purchase something.

01:52:49.500 And those funds also will be used to help out those police officers who need some help, right?

01:52:54.720 Absolutely, Jeff.

01:52:56.640 If you go to the website, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, it's really easy to navigate.

01:53:01.700 And we do have a brand-new online store that just came online a couple of weeks ago.

01:53:05.940 And there's a lot of cool swag there.

01:53:07.820 If you want to show your support for law enforcement officers, really cool place to go.

01:53:12.040 And, again, we don't get, I'm on the board of directors, we certainly don't get any of the proceeds from this.

01:53:17.220 This is all being put back into the pot to help out folks that, again, we help with legal fees.

01:53:23.900 We help with families that when a cop is fired from a job and then has to, you know, fight for their lives, we help out with the bills for families.

01:53:32.380 So it's really a great benevolent organization and also an educational organization.

01:53:37.120 So check out the website. 0.87

01:53:38.660 You know, when people say, well, a cop should shoot a gun out of the bad guy's hand or a cop should shoot to wound instead of shoot to kill,

01:53:45.760 there's a lot of things there that kind of dispel some of these really just these urban myths that are out there.

01:53:51.780 So if you get a chance, I hope the folks that listen to you and listen to the Glenn Beck show will check out the website.

01:53:57.900 I appreciate it.

01:53:58.780 Jimmy, as always, thank you, sir.

01:54:00.940 That is Jimmy Galeano.

01:54:02.080 Jimmy is a retired supervisory special agent from the FBI, sits on the board of directors of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.

01:54:08.720 Now, while I personally will never compete with Heidi's regular deliveries from Easy Spirit, apparently we're that's our retirement is shoes.

01:54:18.380 But I got a truckload coming from Policedefense.org, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.

01:54:23.620 You can go there, learn more about it, make a donation if you'd like.

01:54:27.920 There is a police simulator there if you want to find out more what it's like under pressure.

01:54:32.500 And, of course, there's a whole bunch of swag because that's the way it is.

01:54:36.480 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:54:38.640 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:54:41.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:54:50.000 Happy holidays from the Fed.

01:54:52.380 They just gave us some, well, somewhat truthful reading about inflation for the first time this year.

01:54:57.500 What a way to wrap up the year, right?

01:54:58.840 Consumer prices and inflation have surged to a 39-year high.

01:55:03.400 It's the fastest pace in nearly four decades.

01:55:06.300 Energy prices up 34%.

01:55:08.220 And you know how fast food costs are rising.

01:55:10.900 We all feel it.

01:55:11.760 On top of that, Biden is now trying to throw another $1.7 trillion into their social and climate plan,

01:55:18.440 which could potentially accelerate inflation even more.

01:55:21.860 At this point, it's just a matter of when and how bad.

01:55:25.260 The U.S. dollar is in extreme peril.

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01:55:50.040 It is the Glenn Beck program.

01:55:54.720 Jeff Katz.

01:55:55.420 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:55:58.120 Now, I just got an email.

01:56:00.500 The Jeff Katz show dot com is where you can send me email.

01:56:03.860 Just go there and click on the contact button.

01:56:05.720 And this one is just so cool.

01:56:08.160 It says, Jeff, I just tuned in to Glenn Beck as I do every day.

01:56:12.100 You were filling in.

01:56:12.980 It's great to hear your voice again.

01:56:14.600 Many years ago, you hosted a Valentine's Day contest while at WRKO in Boston.

01:56:21.600 My parents, Joe and Barbara, won the contest.

01:56:25.180 They have since passed away.

01:56:27.440 Are the broadcasts archived?

01:56:29.760 Is it possible to purchase a copy of that show?

01:56:32.340 Thank you, Mike.

01:56:34.940 Okay.

01:56:35.500 So, first of all, I know.

01:56:38.360 I'm thinking to myself, man, I'm old.

01:56:40.880 I so remember Joe and Barbara winning that contest.

01:56:46.820 And I'm Mike, I thank you for listening.

01:56:51.240 I don't know if the radio station has such archives.

01:56:55.300 I really don't honestly know.

01:56:56.560 I will, however, reach out and ask them.

01:56:59.400 And I have got, if not thousands of cassette tapes,

01:57:05.560 which my wife has lectured me for years. 0.99

01:57:08.520 You got to throw these out.

01:57:09.520 Nobody cares.

01:57:10.020 Nobody even owns a cassette player anymore.

01:57:12.800 And I'm thinking, well, it's probably true.

01:57:14.400 But I promise you, later today, Mike,

01:57:17.720 I will go through and see if I can dig that up.

01:57:20.160 If I can, I will get it to you.

01:57:22.200 If I can't, I'm so sorry.

01:57:24.960 It is one of the cool things about sitting in for Glenn.

01:57:27.860 So many wonderful people part of this program.

01:57:30.920 God willing, you and I have a chance to do it again.

01:57:34.060 It's Jeff Katz.

01:57:35.020 Thrilled to be sitting in for my friend Glenn.

01:57:36.860 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:57:40.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:58:06.080 I have a começ to see if I can see you next time.

01:58:13.360 Thanks for coming.

01:58:13.780 I'll see you next time.

01:58:14.320 I know.

01:58:15.060 You Story.

01:58:16.340 I know.

01:58:16.620 You know, I will.

01:58:17.340 You know, I know.

01:58:18.460 You're buddy.

01:58:19.280 That's it.

01:58:20.120 I'm lucky.

01:58:20.960 I know.

01:58:21.520 I know.

01:58:22.180 You're welcome.

01:58:23.020 You're like me.

01:58:23.560 You're welcome.

01:58:24.420 You sixty, right?

01:58:25.160 I want you to get me.

01:58:26.600 You're welcome.

01:58:27.960 I know.

01:58:28.760 You're welcome.

01:58:29.860 You're welcome.

01:58:30.400 You're welcome.

01:58:30.980 You're welcome.

01:58:31.900 You're welcome.

01:58:32.860 You're welcome.

01:58:33.580 He's welcome.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 27, 2021

The Supply Chain vs. Christmas ｜ Guest Host： Jeff Katz ｜ Guests： Victor Avilia & Jimmy Gagliano ｜ 12⧸27⧸21

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