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00:02:39.480 hello america it's good to friday we're glad you're here lots to talk about today you've

00:02:49.780 We've got corruption in California, massive corruption scandal of Act Blue,

00:02:53.940 which I think we've been covering this for a couple of years.

00:02:56.480 That thing is going to burst wide open.

00:02:59.260 The chief of the staff of the Army has been replaced.

00:03:02.980 ICE has arrested the Islamic Society of Milwaukee president.

00:03:06.380 Apparently, he lied on his green card application to become a legal resident here,

00:03:10.160 and he has been arrested for possible ties to Hamas

00:03:13.240 and for alleged terror charges back in the Middle East.

00:03:16.240 And Pam Bondi, who wasted 14 precious months refusing to prosecute any crimes committed against us, has been replaced.

00:03:27.440 I'll give you the down low on all of that and so much more.

00:03:30.820 Beginning in 60 seconds.

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00:04:36.320 and terms. Thank you so much for joining me. I am grateful that you are here today.

00:04:42.500 We have been working long, hard hours to make sure that we are ready for you.

00:04:46.680 And I want to start with some perspective.

00:04:48.400 I want to go back in history and set the table for what we're going to talk about today.

00:04:52.800 Let me take you back to the 1960s.

00:04:55.280 The 1960s were really turbulent.

00:04:58.680 Cities were set on fire.

00:05:00.380 Campuses were occupied.

00:05:02.760 Young Americans were no longer believing in America.

00:05:05.660 They flooded our streets, and not just in protest of war, but in rejection of the system

00:05:11.720 and capitalism and the presidency.

00:05:13.720 I mean, everything.

00:05:14.920 And America was called irredeemable at the time.

00:05:18.500 In the 1960s, the Marxist language,

00:05:21.280 which had been really confined to dusty academic corners

00:05:25.440 and basements, suddenly became the vocabulary of the crowd.

00:05:29.060 And it was not quiet.

00:05:31.260 Riots were happening in Chicago.

00:05:33.700 Buildings seized at Columbia.

00:05:36.060 Police pushed out of neighborhoods

00:05:37.780 where order itself became negotiable.

00:05:41.720 And at the same time, America was locked in a distant war, Vietnam, bleeding slowly, no clear ending.

00:05:50.060 And the public began to lose faith.

00:05:52.860 And then the media stepped in and amplified the chaos.

00:05:58.500 The country in the 1960s began to doubt itself, not just the war, itself.

00:06:04.320 Does any of this sound familiar?

00:06:07.040 Because I believe today the banners have changed, but the slogans haven't.

00:06:11.720 We see the radicals in the streets, some openly calling from the dismantling of capitalism, the overturning of the United States of America.

00:06:19.960 Some are cloaked in softer language, but our schools have become training camps and universities are no longer places of learning.

00:06:27.600 They just become staging grounds for ideological revolution.

00:06:31.320 We have city.

00:06:35.580 It's dominance.

00:06:37.020 That's all it really is over and over and over again.

00:06:42.460 And again, America is entangled in distant conflicts, decades of war in the Middle East.

00:06:49.520 Now we're in direct confrontation with Iran, and there is a sense that we again are spending 0.96

00:06:56.100 blood and treasure overseas.

00:06:59.180 And why are we spending it there when we should be spending it here?

00:07:02.140 Nothing is new.

00:07:04.900 Then in the 1970s, it was the oil crisis, lines at gas stations, inflation eating away

00:07:11.000 at savings, stagnation, an economy that made people wonder if the American engine had finally

00:07:17.020 run out of fuel and if it was over.

00:07:21.640 Again, perspective.

00:07:23.220 Today, different causes, same symptoms.

00:07:26.200 Inflation, energy instability, economic anxiety, a middle class that feels squeezed, uncertain

00:07:32.160 about the future.

00:07:35.100 But at that time, something remarkable happened.

00:07:38.200 something that we just we didn't see necessarily as maybe a possible solution

00:07:46.760 because other things were happening that were so bad in the 1960s

00:07:51.960 the assassinations began martin luther king jr robert f kennedy moments that didn't just

00:07:58.380 take lives but shattered our confidence today the same thing the assassination of charlie kirk

00:08:05.700 multiple attempts on the life of President Donald Trump.

00:08:11.540 My job is to just look for patterns.

00:08:16.580 That's what I do best.

00:08:17.580 I look for patterns.

00:08:20.780 We've been here before.

00:08:22.740 That made me feel better.

00:08:24.140 We've been here before.

00:08:26.600 But now let me complete the story

00:08:28.860 because that's really only half of the story.

00:08:31.240 In the late 1960s, it was a time of total chaos and despair, but it was also a time of decision, because while fires were burning in places like Altamont, the free concert in San Francisco, where order collapsed so completely, the hell's angels were used as security.

00:08:51.420 At the same time those fires were burning, another fire was being lit, a different kind of fire, a fire of belief.

00:09:01.240 In the middle of that same turbulence, exactly as it is today, America decided to go to the moon.

00:09:12.760 At the same time, with the same conditions, Apollo 11 went to the moon.

00:09:18.240 Now think about this.

00:09:19.300 At the very moment when voices on the ground are saying America is finished, a very small group of Americans looked up and said, no, no, no, no, no, not yet, not yet.

00:09:29.380 And they chose creation, exploration, and the future over fight.

00:09:39.060 It was right after, as the poets say, we slipped the surly bonds of earth,

00:09:46.280 that America then entered another revolution.

00:09:50.900 This revolution was proclaimed by Time Magazine, of all people.

00:09:55.480 It was the Jesus revolution. Seemingly out of nowhere, miraculously, all of these pieces just start coming together out of nowhere. 0.94

00:10:05.240 these parallels matter

00:10:10.460 because then as now

00:10:13.460 America stood at the crossroads

00:10:16.660 one path led downward

00:10:20.080 into division, into resentment

00:10:22.120 into the slow erosion of everything that once held us together

00:10:25.720 the family, faith, community, shared purpose

00:10:28.480 shared principles, eternal truths

00:10:30.660 and the other path led upward

00:10:33.540 And in 1969, we chose the heavens.

00:10:41.240 So before I start my broadcast today, I just want to tell you, you know, the sky is still there.

00:10:51.880 It's still sitting there, unchanged, unclaimed, waiting.

00:10:57.880 And it doesn't care about our arguments.

00:11:00.380 it doesn't bend to new math it doesn't bend to new divisions it just hangs above us the exact

00:11:11.440 same sky that watched rome rise and fall that watched men cross oceans that watched a fragile

00:11:20.980 rocket leave the earth in 1969 carrying three human beings that had the stubborn belief

00:11:27.200 that we are more than our worst moments.

00:11:37.240 This Good Friday, the sky is asking the same question.

00:11:41.180 Are we better than our worst moments?

00:11:44.060 Are we more than that?

00:11:46.300 Do you still believe?

00:11:50.780 Can we leave behind the lies of perfection,

00:11:54.500 the lies of personalities and politics,

00:11:57.200 and find the eternal principles, and quite honestly, our American grit and believe in

00:12:07.200 something bigger again. Do you believe still in the idea that we can still form a more perfect

00:12:15.600 nation? Do you still believe in the idea that free people, when pushed to the very edge,

00:12:22.240 especially Americans push to the edge. We don't collapse. We choose. We choose to build, to reach,

00:12:31.600 to rise. Because going to the moon, quite honestly, was never about going to the moon.

00:12:41.400 It was a declaration that even in chaos, especially perhaps in chaos, we refuse to look

00:12:49.180 down. We as Americans look up. Are we still those people?

00:12:58.600 If this is another 1968-1969 moment, if the noise is loud and the country is strained and

00:13:06.140 the future is uncertain, I say good, good, because we've been here before and we know

00:13:13.700 exactly what to do, and we've done it before.

00:13:19.180 we steady ourselves.

00:13:23.780 We reject the gravity of cynicism.

00:13:28.040 We fix our eyes on something higher 1.00

00:13:30.640 than the stupid fight in front of all of us 1.00

00:13:34.040 that we're engaging in every day. 1.00

00:13:35.660 Aren't you tired of it?

00:13:37.960 Doesn't it just seem worthless

00:13:39.420 and a massive waste of time?

00:13:43.280 Of course it does, because it is.

00:13:46.740 No nation has ever survived

00:13:48.420 because they win arguments.

00:13:50.900 They survive by choosing a direction,

00:13:54.540 up or down.

00:13:57.740 And if we choose up,

00:13:59.420 if we choose to believe again,

00:14:01.460 we choose to build again,

00:14:03.300 to reach again,

00:14:04.900 then one day,

00:14:08.380 perhaps not too far from now,

00:14:10.700 one of our children or our grandchildren

00:14:12.200 might look up into the night sky

00:14:15.200 and see a new light moving across it.

00:14:18.420 and they will not ask what divided us.

00:14:23.940 They will ask,

00:14:26.040 what made us rise?

00:14:35.560 The answer is going to be simple.

00:14:40.340 We remembered who we were.

00:14:44.900 We chose.

00:14:48.420 We rose out of the mud, reached beyond, and touched the sky.

00:14:59.440 He is risen.

00:15:07.380 And so shall we.

00:15:11.840 Back in just a minute.

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00:16:37.480 it's not exactly the way the song went in the wizard of oz but it's close enough for me

00:16:42.800 uh after 14 months of wasting time and spinning wheels now i'm sure she did some great things

00:16:51.080 yada yada blah blah blah blah blah i just am concentrating on what the new york times is

00:16:56.460 saying today that donald trump has to get rid of her because she won't go after his enemies

00:17:01.680 can we can we stop for just a minute can we stop for just a minute let me ask you

00:17:11.800 fundamental principle questions do not think on teams do not think whoa yeah but you guys

00:17:19.480 don't think that way let me just ask you fundamental questions if somebody caused a pandemic

00:17:27.840 they let it go they covered it up they then knew exactly what caused it then got in bed with giant

00:17:38.980 corporations made money on all of the vaccines that they knew were not doing what they were

00:17:46.440 claiming it was going to be done it killed millions of people they lied over and over and

00:17:55.380 over again and millions died, should anyone go to jail? Or should we just go, meh, I'm sure it

00:18:05.580 won't happen again. Forget about the personalities and which side your team is on. Just answer that

00:18:12.740 question. Do you want a medical system that can do that and get away with it? I think it's

00:18:20.360 extraordinarily dangerous, but we're not prosecuting anybody. How about this? Forget

00:18:28.060 Russiagate. Do you think that either side should be able to collude in the White House,

00:18:38.540 spy on people illegally, concoct this whole story out of whole cloth,

00:18:47.320 use it politically and then use it to impeach forget russiagate ask yourself do you want your

00:18:59.100 side to be able to do that or do you want the other side whichever side it is you want the

00:19:04.820 other side to be able to do with it and get away with it the answer is no in both of those questions

00:19:11.100 the answer is no, right? If you're talking about principles, FBI targeting parents,

00:19:18.040 do you want Donald Trump to be able to say, FBI, I want you to go after parents of anybody who is

00:19:24.520 liberal? I don't even want that. And I'm not a liberal parent. I don't want that. You certainly

00:19:31.060 don't want that. Now, do you want it to happen to conservative parents? The answer should be the

00:19:37.600 same. The FBI targeting journalists. The FBI labeling church members as extremists based on

00:19:48.700 nothing. Do you want the government, do you want the FBI and the federal government to be able to

00:19:56.860 implant itself into a group of people and push them into an insurrection,

00:20:05.000 which didn't happen but push them into an insurrection and then lie about all of it

00:20:11.540 i don't want that do you want that for you want my side to be able to do that to your side

00:20:17.520 do you want the government to be able to tell now that everybody's saying oh donald trump's

00:20:24.520 in bed with big tech do you want donald trump to be able to say to big tech silence those people

00:20:30.460 I don't want that. Do you want it? Do you want the FBI under Donald Trump, Donald Trump saying

00:20:42.560 to the FBI, I don't care what it takes, get Joe Biden, go raid his home and then plant evidence

00:20:51.280 in the home? Do you want that? Because I don't want that. Shouldn't have been done to Trump,

00:20:58.200 shouldn't be done to Joe Biden. Do you want the Heritage Foundation to be able to covertly get

00:21:06.520 billions of dollars and then use that overseas to do things that you don't want done

00:21:13.540 to take that money and and pour it back into campaigns? I don't.

00:21:20.740 do you want people in china funding groups to change our point of view online and on the streets

00:21:32.520 do you want china funding things in our university that are violent in nature

00:21:39.600 i don't want that i don't think you want lawfare i don't want lawfare

00:21:46.200 new york times as usual you're wrong again this is not about pam bondy not going after his enemies

00:21:59.940 these are enemies if the evidence proves it these are enemies of the republic these are enemies

00:22:09.020 against our very eternal principles that must never be violated, no matter which side violates

00:22:17.520 it. And I know that there's a lot of people, in government especially, that will turn a blind eye

00:22:22.900 to their side if they do it. I'm not one of them. And I don't know people who are like that. And if

00:22:28.660 I do know people like that, they're not my friends. I don't want your side to get away with it. I don't

00:22:35.840 want my side to get away with it. You know, everybody preaches about fairness and justice.

00:22:41.500 This is about fairness and justice. I am sorry that it had to end this way for Pam Bondi. I wish

00:22:52.280 her well. I'm sure she's going to be a Fox News correspondent soon. Now it's time for somebody

00:23:00.280 who's serious about the job to not look at it as partisan politics, but look at it as eternal

00:23:07.440 American principles and let the chips fall where they may. Republican, Democrat, independent,

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00:24:52.360 so you know that mural up in um in rhode island i just want to touch on this quickly

00:25:09.020 i've got to get it off my desk it's been bothering me for the last couple of days there's a mural of

00:25:13.940 the woman that was killed on the train remember she was stabbed violently on the train died um

00:25:20.440 and nobody did anything about it well an artist decided he's going to paint a mural on the side

00:25:27.200 of a building and it's beautiful beautiful mural up on the side of a building in uh rhode island

00:25:32.100 well the mayor is all upset about it and they're shutting it down and they don't want it anywhere

00:25:37.200 in their city and he said quote this has not brought us closer together as a community in

00:25:41.600 In fact, it's been quite divisive and a little bit ugly. 0.88

00:25:46.980 Wait, a picture of a woman who came here from Ukraine legally and was stabbed by a madman.

00:25:56.940 And you don't want justice for that?

00:25:59.160 That's not something worth remembering.

00:26:02.120 What about all the George Floyd murals that were everywhere?

00:26:06.200 Everywhere.

00:26:07.620 How about BLM on the streets of the Capitol?

00:26:12.520 That's okay, but this isn't.

00:26:15.940 He went on to say, this is a movement that was funded by some right-wing billionaires.

00:26:23.760 Unlike the left-wing billionaires, can we stop playing this game?

00:26:29.340 Please, can we stop playing this game of my team, your team?

00:26:33.400 We have to agree on fundamental principles of right and wrong.

00:26:37.760 Let me give you one.

00:26:38.360 And because America, and quite honestly, me too, there's a story out by Christopher Rufo that is in our show prep today.

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00:26:52.520 You'll get it every morning.

00:26:53.440 And it has all the news that I look at every day and I think are important.

00:26:56.840 And we cover, I mean, just we scratch the surface of it.

00:27:00.660 But it'll give you an in-depth understanding of the news you need to know about.

00:27:04.860 There's a story in there from Christopher Rufo about corruption in California.

00:27:11.940 And quite honestly, I looked at it.

00:27:14.200 I have the attention span of a goldfish and maybe even a mentally deficient goldfish with ADD.

00:27:23.060 This story is very long.

00:27:25.380 And exposing corruption, massive corruption, is really hard if you're trying to explain it to a bunch of goldfish.

00:27:36.340 So most people will just tune it out.

00:27:38.700 They won't because too many numbers, too many programs, it's really complicated.

00:27:42.120 So I spent some time this morning trying to figure out how can I explain this to you and give you a good deep dive on it.

00:27:49.840 But because if I can't explain it, if we can't make this understandable to the average person, then, you know, it's hiding there in plain sight and everybody will shrug their shoulders.

00:28:01.760 So here's what Christopher Rufo and his colleagues at the City Journal have been digging into.

00:28:08.760 And this is not isolated waste, but it is, again, a pattern.

00:28:13.340 Remember, AI, artificial intelligence.

00:28:16.140 It doesn't think. All it does, because this is intelligence, it recognizes patterns. So look for patterns. If a portion of what they have documented here is accurate, it is staggering. So let me make it really simple.

00:28:37.060 First, let me give you the scale. This is according to interviews with officials, audits, and public records that are reviewed in the report. California may have lost as much as $180 billion to fraud and improper payments across multiple state programs.

00:28:54.780 Now, what I just said, I'm going to come back, and that probably didn't shock you at all, but when I go through this, I'm coming back to that number, and I think you'll go, holy crap.

00:29:08.060 Now, this is an important distinction and something that most people on either side won't do.

00:29:14.320 This number is an estimate.

00:29:16.100 It's built from multiple sources, and it is not a single confirmed audit line.

00:29:21.440 But even the confirmed numbers underneath it are enormous. Let me just start with what's been confirmed. Start with unemployment. During COVID, California alone rapidly expanded unemployment payments.

00:29:38.720 What Rufo is now reporting, based on state admissions and audits, is that roughly $20 billion of that was confirmed as fraud, and $55 billion of that was classified as improper payments overall.

00:29:57.800 So, let me just take the $55 billion, not even the $20 billion, just the $55 billion.

00:30:02.940 How big is that?

00:30:04.540 If you spent $1 million every day, it would take you 150 years to spend $55 billion.

00:30:15.900 That is more than the entire annual budget of many U.S. states.

00:30:22.560 You could build dozens and dozens, I'm sorry, hundreds of high schools and dozens and dozens of major hospitals with $55 billion.

00:30:31.480 You could fund tens of thousands, armies of teachers, police officers, and nurses, and you could fund it for years.

00:30:44.060 $55 billion equals about $150 taken, stolen from every man, woman, and child in America.

00:30:52.980 Not taxpayers, every single person in America.

00:30:57.260 For a family of four, that's somebody coming into your house, the average American has $500 saved in the bank account. $500 is the average cushion. This is this one program, one program in one blue state stealing $600 from every family of four.

00:31:18.100 55 billion dollars if you stacked it in one dollar bills a million dollars is four inches high

00:31:26.680 a billion stacked in one dollar bills is 358 feet that's taller than the statue of liberty

00:31:35.200 how big is a stack of one dollar bills at 55 billion it would stretch 3.7 miles into the sky

00:31:44.900 that's how much money this one program in one state has paid out in fraud that is something

00:31:55.520 we should be able to see from a distance but because these numbers are so big and it's going

00:31:59.640 to get even worse it people will people won't understand it i mean the fraud is unbelievable

00:32:06.820 payments were sent in the name of prisoners including death row inmates international fraud

00:32:14.020 rings filing claims from overseas. Criminals bragging about it online. We saw it. This is

00:32:21.860 not speculation. This is all documented. That's one. Then comes healthcare, Medi-Cal. Here are

00:32:30.540 the things that are confirmed. Fraud. And then estimates and warnings. Experts cited in the

00:32:41.380 reporting suggest fraud rates could range from 15 to 25 percent of total spending which applied

00:32:49.660 over time could mean tens of billions of dollars lost again this is not a confirmed total you then

00:32:56.900 have welfare and homelessness spending california has spent roughly 24 billion dollars on homeless

00:33:03.700 programs okay what rufo's team documents now specific criminal cases including non-profit

00:33:11.440 leaders siphoning millions of dollars developers accused of misusing public housing funds fraud

00:33:18.480 rings exploiting food assistance systems how bad of a person do you need to be to take food out of

00:33:24.580 people's mouths that are hungry and take it for yourself and here's the key point auditors have

00:33:30.520 said, in multiple cases, they couldn't fully track the outcomes or spending effectiveness.

00:33:37.120 Not they didn't like it. They couldn't track it. So what's the pattern?

00:33:45.200 What Rufo is arguing in this report now, very directly, is this. This is not bad luck. This

00:33:52.820 isn't just a few bad actors. This isn't just, well, it was COVID. This is an entire system

00:33:58.960 where oversight was weak to begin with, safeguards were removed

00:34:04.960 or people told to ignore, and massive amounts of money pushed out quickly.

00:34:13.460 This is an environment where fraud isn't just possible.

00:34:17.020 It's inevitable, and they knew it.

00:34:20.160 Now, to be fair, I'll again do something that nobody else will do.

00:34:24.300 To be fair, Newsom has come out and said fraud happened everywhere during COVID,

00:34:28.440 and I'm sure it did. Emergency speed requires rapid payments. But what I want to ask you is,

00:34:36.380 was that a bug in the system or was that a feature? How much was actually lost,

00:34:43.260 not just in California, in the red states as well? How much is still being lost?

00:34:50.000 Where were the systems?

00:34:53.300 Where were they?

00:34:56.400 If all of this feels abstract, let me bring it down to one single case.

00:35:01.460 There's another story in today's show prep.

00:35:03.780 It comes from San Francisco.

00:35:05.540 It was a woman whose job was to defend human rights and oversee taxpayer-funded programs. 1.00

00:35:12.200 Human rights.

00:35:13.140 All we keep hearing about are human rights.

00:35:15.320 Make sure that it's justice and fairness, right?

00:35:19.000 She's now facing 17 felony charges, including conflict of interest, perjury and misappropriation of public funds.

00:35:30.320 Prosecutors are alleging now that Cheryl Davis, who helped manage tens of millions of dollars, not from the state, but from the city, the city, the Dream Keeper initiative, diverted money meant for vulnerable communities, and it went right directly into her bank account.

00:35:48.160 everybody in the city of san francisco should be enraged how much money do you pay in taxes

00:35:55.480 how come things aren't getting better in my city well this is why let me give you the facts

00:36:02.580 non-profit tied to her received 3.5 million dollars in city funds intended to help homeless

00:36:08.840 children the money according to the prosecutors redirected through organizations all connected to

00:36:16.720 her. In fact, her son allegedly received $140,000 deposited into an account she controlled.

00:36:24.680 A co-conspirator ran another non-profit that's accused of helping facilitate the scheme.

00:36:32.740 And this wasn't uncovered by routine oversight. This one came from a whistleblower. Thank God

00:36:40.240 for whistleblowers. And it went on long enough that investigators had to execute more than

00:36:45.800 50 search warrants and over 18 months just to piece it together.

00:36:54.020 These are all allegations. They'll be tested in court. I want to remind you that her attorney

00:36:59.060 is denying any wrongdoing, but prosecutors are clear. These are not routine charges.

00:37:05.440 And here is why this matters. This was not a back office clerk, and this isn't isolated.

00:37:11.120 This and the other programs were done by people who were entrusted with public money, public trust, and a mission rooted in justice.

00:37:21.060 And when people hear billions lost, it feels distant.

00:37:26.640 Corruption doesn't start at $55 billion.

00:37:30.320 And when you hear $55 billion, remember, the average American has $500 saved as a cushion.

00:37:38.440 They stole from your family and every family of four in one state on one program, $600.

00:37:49.400 One program, one gatekeeper, one decision to look the other way or worse.

00:37:56.800 Multiply that across systems with weak oversight.

00:38:01.020 Multiply it, not just from San Francisco, but cities all through California.

00:38:04.840 Then multiply it for all of the blue states.

00:38:07.480 then add in all of the red states do you think this is just a blue state problem this is going

00:38:13.320 to hit red states as well the numbers are going to be astronomical and if we don't fix this that's

00:38:22.420 how the whole thing goes apart one small abuse at a time until it's not small anymore but let me

00:38:28.620 give you some good news. I believe the president put J.D. Vance in charge of this because J.D.

00:38:37.260 Vance's whole career is going to depend on the end. Did you find anything and did you put them

00:38:45.180 in jail? And I will tell you, if J.D. Vance is smart, he will simultaneously do a red state as

00:38:55.100 he does a blue state and he shows we're talking justice not political payback we are talking this

00:39:02.600 is the american money this is the american taxpayer this is our about our very survival

00:39:09.000 when you are stretched so thin you have a hard time making money enough money to buy your food

00:39:16.060 for your kids at the grocery store i don't care who did it they're going to jail and i think you're

00:39:23.860 going to see that i think you're going to actually see interest on action on this one because it is

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00:41:17.900 so i get this happy note from ricky last night she's like oh my gosh you got an invitation look

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00:43:34.580 We'll be right back.

00:44:04.580 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment.

00:44:19.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:23.240 Glenn Beck is on.

00:44:26.840 Hello, America.

00:44:28.280 It's Friday.

00:44:29.620 Good Friday, actually.

00:44:30.820 Easter is on its way.

00:44:32.420 He is risen.

00:44:33.280 We're going to talk a little bit about what a new study has shown about social media and how it affects the average person.

00:44:44.920 And also, atheists were not happy with me at all this week. 0.93

00:44:49.180 Oh, really? Stand in line, atheists. I got a lot of people unhappy with me.

00:44:53.460 I want to talk about this and the difference between science and faith.

00:45:00.700 We'll do that here in 60 seconds.

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00:46:20.240 are not happy because i posted something on x and it actually became a community note

00:46:26.560 um i i witnessed the the launch of artemis and the entire time as i think many americans were doing

00:46:36.660 i was saying a prayer for their safety because i witnessed the challenger and until they had all

00:46:44.340 the separation until they were actually you know past that moment of launch and they were really

00:46:50.280 on their way with no more go with throttle up. I was nervous and praying. And so when they finally

00:47:00.700 did it, Ricky said to me, she said, what are you feeling? And she was rolling her phone to capture

00:47:08.340 the moment. And she said, what are you feeling? And I was so overwhelmed with emotion that what

00:47:13.980 had just happened, but also that they were safe, that I looked at her and I just said, God is great.

00:47:19.580 And I couldn't, that's all I could utter

00:47:21.920 I had a lot of things I wanted to say

00:47:23.720 But all I could utter without blubbering like a baby

00:47:27.540 Was God is great

00:47:28.720 God is great

00:47:29.880 So she posted the launch and that moment

00:47:33.200 And next thing we know

00:47:34.960 We have people coming after me

00:47:36.780 God is not great

00:47:37.820 Really?

00:47:39.680 Who is arguing this?

00:47:41.420 God's not great

00:47:42.500 Science is great

00:47:44.040 Okay

00:47:45.620 I want to talk to you about science

00:47:48.300 and the difference between science and faith but before i do that i want to show you something else

00:47:54.960 that just came out in the washington post today the more people use social media the less likely

00:48:01.140 they are to believe that democracy is the best form of government this is a survey of over 20 000

00:48:07.360 americans the same heavy users are far less likely to believe democracy is the best form of government

00:48:15.140 53 sorry 57 percent of heavy users people who use the internet five you know or social media

00:48:21.640 about five hours a day whereas 73 percent of people who use social media for an hour or less

00:48:28.500 say democracy is the best form of government that is crazy so if you're a heavy social media user

00:48:36.660 you are more open to political violence you are less open to compromise this is what the survey

00:48:42.720 has just found posted in the Washington Post today. They find it hard to get along with people

00:48:47.360 who don't share their belief and they are less likely to believe that everyone should have the

00:48:51.620 right to vote. That's incredible. That's incredible. Which brings me to something that Thomas Jefferson

00:48:59.360 said about newspapers, but I just replaced the word newspaper with social media. He said,

00:49:04.380 the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but social media.

00:49:14.160 He said newspapers.

00:49:16.600 But that is our newspaper.

00:49:18.680 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but social media.

00:49:25.660 It's true.

00:49:27.180 It is true.

00:49:28.500 so let let me take you to science but i want to take you through science by looking at the calendar

00:49:35.920 today it's passover sorry wednesday was passover today is good friday easter is on sunday

00:49:42.760 these are three markers in time separated by centuries but all all bound by one single idea

00:49:53.360 deliverance as an event for a long time now for a very long time we've been told something that

00:50:01.380 is not true we have been told quietly at first then loudly and then confidently then beating

00:50:06.520 the chest and then told shut up sit down full faith belongs in one corner and facts belong in

00:50:13.360 another that science only advances when belief retreats that the old stories the ones that built

00:50:22.000 civilizations have to be discarded if we're to be considered modern rational and enlightened people

00:50:28.460 i just want to ask you the question what if that assumption is wrong

00:50:33.840 remember this we're talking about the same people who told us that butter is good then butter was

00:50:39.300 bad then butter is good again it's going to be bad and then it'll be good again science is

00:50:43.840 constantly changing truth never changes but what if the what if the separation between science and

00:50:50.280 religion, there was no dividing line there. The dividing line is between open minds and closed

00:51:01.000 minds, and that could be on either side. You can be religious and totally closed-minded to science.

00:51:05.620 You could be a scientist and you're totally closed-minded to religion. But piece by piece,

00:51:11.380 layer by layer, something remarkable is happening, and it's happening in the dirt,

00:51:17.800 in excavation sites, in burial grounds, in fragments of papyrus and the ruins of ancient

00:51:25.640 cities. Places like where the Bible calls Goshen, avarice. Archaeologists have uncovered

00:51:37.020 something that they weren't looking for. And this is amazing. This is a story in the

00:51:41.880 Glenn Beck show prep. You can also get it at glennbeck.com today. It's a free article.

00:51:46.080 Ryan Morrow wrote this, and he's been looking at this for a while.

00:51:50.820 What we found in the dirt was a massive Semitic population, a Jewish population, foreign to Egypt. 0.99

00:52:00.740 They were all living together, but they were not equals.

00:52:04.560 They were laborers. 0.91

00:52:06.160 They were slaves.

00:52:08.320 Remember, everybody has said, oh, that whole Passover story, that whole story of the Bible, that's all false.

00:52:14.660 We can't prove that.

00:52:15.560 well now wait a minute hold on these were people that did not belong to the ruling class

00:52:21.260 they were part of the system then there's another site i think it's kuhan same story

00:52:28.360 same jewish kind of people same conditions slaves for egyptians two separate places

00:52:35.580 and here's where it gets really strange

00:52:39.440 the the archaeologists have found that suddenly these people just vanished they it wasn't through

00:52:49.260 assimilation it wasn't through war or genocide it wasn't through illness they just vanished just 0.78

00:52:57.320 gone what's interesting is it's happening it happened at the exact same time egypt was hit

00:53:06.240 by catastrophic calamities, massive death, sudden devastation.

00:53:11.900 They have found burial pits, not filled with soldiers, but with civilians,

00:53:17.100 and not just civilians, but children, male sons.

00:53:24.200 So it was an outbreak targeted, it seems, in a way that even modern researchers

00:53:30.840 struggle to explain. Burial pits with sons, Egyptian sons, died of something, they don't 1.00

00:53:41.040 know what, and an enslaved population that at the same time just disappears. That population

00:53:48.420 was spared or passed over. After they're passed over, they immediately leave, and there's

00:53:56.680 no record of the destruction, no evidence of their collapse, just they depart and exodus.

00:54:05.900 Now, stop for just a minute, because this is the part where modern thinking is supposed to kick in

00:54:10.720 and say it's a coincidence. It's legend. It's myth wrapped around natural events. Okay, maybe,

00:54:18.360 but you don't know that, and neither do I. I can tell you what I believe, but that doesn't

00:54:22.740 necessarily make it true, but we're starting to find evidence that leans that way, not the other

00:54:30.280 way. If you read some ancient Egyptian papyrus that has been found, an ancient document,

00:54:37.380 it's not in Hebrew, and it describes Egypt at the same time in chaos, blood, plagues, death,

00:54:46.160 social collapse children dead in the streets you read the records from that second ancient town

00:54:54.460 they found it refers to an quote evil hour a time of devastation that was marked by disease and loss

00:55:03.140 suddenly overnight now the question isn't can this be proven the question is now

00:55:11.780 So, why does this line up at all?

00:55:16.280 Why does archaeology begin to echo what was written thousands of years ago?

00:55:21.440 Why do independent records, hostile sources, start to resemble the same exact pattern?

00:55:30.780 Maybe, maybe, because the truth leaves fingerprints.

00:55:37.580 over time if you're willing to look if you have an open mind if and an open mind means i'm willing

00:55:45.640 to consider it doesn't mean i believe it i'm willing to consider it and if you can make the

00:55:50.200 case then i will believe it but you got to make the case but if you start to look you begin to

00:55:56.660 see that now bring all this forward from passover to good friday another moment where the world

00:56:05.180 thought it understood the story man executed movement crushed hope buried the end that's what

00:56:12.580 it looked like but in about 12 minutes i have a guest who is going to show you the evidence that

00:56:18.780 is now because of science beginning to mount up that uh-uh it's not what people are dismissing it

00:56:25.880 as. It's what the book says. That happened on Good Friday, and then comes Easter. And

00:56:35.580 everything that looked settled now suddenly isn't settled. Everything that looked dead

00:56:40.440 is suddenly becoming alive. Everything that seems like the end was something else entirely,

00:56:47.620 a turning point a reversal a deliverance that no empire could stop

00:56:55.540 and so here we are today thousands of years later still arguing whether these things are real

00:57:04.600 as if reality is something we vote on as if truth depends on a poll or consensus

00:57:11.000 but history doesn't work that way and by the way this isn't new i can guarantee you

00:57:16.300 that if the story in the bible is true moses said these things are going to happen to you

00:57:21.320 and when they started to happen the people in egypt went that's a coincidence i mean this is

00:57:27.280 human nature but truth comes out in the end that's the way it works that's the way god is

00:57:34.880 What we're learning now through science, through archaeology, through the slow uncovering of the past is not that faith was wrong.

00:57:45.440 It's that we're perhaps too quick to dismiss it, too eager to believe that modern means superior.

00:57:54.500 Too willing to close the book before we've read all the pages or pondered, could this be explained some way or another?

00:58:04.880 is there any evidence of this? Because now the evidence is mounting. And to me, what this says,

00:58:11.880 the most important thing is science and religion are not enemies. When I said God is great,

00:58:17.880 I didn't mean that God put the rocket into the sky. Man did that. Man used eternal principles,

00:58:26.280 mathematics, not common core math, not math that man's making up, but math that has been there

00:58:32.440 since the beginning of time. We just had to understand it. And when you use those eternal

00:58:38.480 principles, you can call it science, but it's eternal principles, and you're able to do

00:58:44.200 remarkable things. But that's man choosing to apply those eternal principles. And God is great

00:58:52.720 because it's his design. And then he created us, and he's given us this desire to find truth,

00:59:00.240 to explore. And when we actually come together and put our differences aside and look for common

00:59:06.200 truths, look at what we can do. God is great because he created us. But here we're finding

00:59:16.600 ourselves in a situation where two languages are describing the same reality. One measures,

00:59:23.780 one means one tells you what happened the other tells you why it matters and when they begin to

00:59:32.060 align which it science is starting to align it doesn't diminish faith and it doesn't diminish

00:59:38.880 science it deepens it this weekend is not just a remembrance it is a reminder it's a reminder that

00:59:48.700 deliverance is not a myth. Do you want to live in a world where there is no deliverance?

00:59:55.980 That you have to depend on me or you or some system to deliver you from whatever it is?

01:00:05.920 I don't. I want truth that survives skepticism. I want truth that is actual truth, history,

01:00:13.780 real history that has a way of resurfacing even when the best of intentions and the best of

01:00:21.060 people have tried to bury it. No matter how dark that moment might appear, there's always morning

01:00:29.040 coming. And science will back that up eventually, but faith gets you there. The God in the Old

01:00:39.080 Testament was the God of deliverance of a whole people. And the God of the New Testament is the

01:00:44.740 same God, unchanging, but this time he offered personal deliverance. And I have to tell you,

01:00:54.280 I don't care what science tells me about personal deliverance, but I have turned my life over to

01:01:03.560 him when i had wrecked everything in my life and it was impossible to fix and i surrendered to him

01:01:09.640 and i asked for forgiveness and i tried to correct my ways and i haven't corrected all of them i've

01:01:15.000 tried and i try i try to be a more perfect person every day and i fail every day but he is so good

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01:02:44.540 all right let me show you another example really good news of science

01:02:58.700 and faith and i think the power of god coming together to correct things science told hershey

01:03:08.200 that they could make a better reese's peanut butter cup and it was awful why because they

01:03:14.620 thought they forgot about the eternal truth in the recipe of the original am i right can i get

01:03:21.700 an amen on this it was science that wrecked it it was science that first created it and went this is

01:03:28.560 yummy science wrecked it because man got involved and said i know a better way now they have

01:03:34.800 returned to the eternal truth of the original recipe and i have to i have to tell you i think

01:03:40.560 part of that came from you we had the grandson of mr reese's we had mr reese's on but the guy he's

01:03:49.060 his he's the grandson of the guy who actually made the first reese's peanut butter cup and

01:03:53.880 he couldn't get Hershey to pay attention at all. We had him on the air and people started to pay

01:03:59.440 attention and he was on the air other places. So it wasn't just us. But I think this audience is

01:04:03.440 amazing. You spread the word Hershey. He said on the air, Hershey will never change. They don't

01:04:10.060 care. They just came out and said, as of next year, we are going back to the original recipe,

01:04:18.440 the classic milk chocolate and dark chocolate chocolate recipes it will be out in 2027

01:04:24.460 that's huge huge huge most people most people i've never seen anything like it uh it's it's

01:04:34.380 like something that nobody could even imagine it's the biggest thing ever in chocolate so we

01:04:39.460 could eat the easter not this year oh next year next year they will be back reese's peanut butter

01:04:46.420 cup back to the original recipe. Thank you, Jesus. There is salvation. This time it just happens to

01:04:56.180 come in a little cup of chocolate with peanut butter in it. All right, more in just a second.

01:05:01.540 Stand by. Let me tell you about Legacy Box. I know you at one point owned a VCR. There's probably

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01:05:25.800 been touched in years having a bag of sand as you and switch it for the vcr before you get into an

01:05:30.960 avalanche of something but uh you've got all of these things and you don't know how to watch them

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01:06:24.180 Glenn Beck. Don't miss out on these moments. Join today at Glenn Beck.com slash torch.

01:06:35.640 so there is a ton going on today next hour i uh i have a guy a scholar good friend who

01:06:52.500 has been doing research on the shroud and the death and resurrection of christ in a scientific

01:06:59.140 way and the stuff he's going to show you today is remarkable that's coming up in about a half an hour

01:07:04.860 uh also kathy lee gifford i think is on with me for a few minutes next hour that's good i haven't

01:07:09.820 talked to kathy in a while she's a sweetheart um but i want to i want to spend a few minutes on

01:07:14.520 uh something else today i just really want to keep things positive we are at our 250th

01:07:19.960 anniversary as a nation um and it is amazing because i remember how you know the bicentennial

01:07:27.340 in 1976 was a big deal and it was everywhere every commercial everybody was on board for

01:07:35.180 the bicentennial um and this one is like an america 250 i mean it's it's remarkable how

01:07:42.160 little has been done especially by our government from the last administration and so there's a

01:07:48.300 couple of things there's america 250 um that was started by the biden administration which is

01:07:54.400 an interesting um path they're taking on america's history and then there's the freedom 250 which is

01:08:01.800 parallel but is actually celebrating america's you know birth as a nation and the truth about it

01:08:08.200 and uh tina deskovich she is the co-founder and the ceo of moms for liberty and she's a dear dear

01:08:16.460 friend and just i think a giant uh as a mom uh and she has done so much good with moms for liberty 0.99

01:08:24.240 And she has decided to put on this this event for the Freedom 250 at the Statue of Liberty.

01:08:35.040 And actually, it's going to be held on Ellis Island, which is just right across the water from it.

01:08:39.940 And Ellis Island is so important, especially right now, because we understand where we came from.

01:08:45.620 We are a nation of immigrants, but legal immigrants, legal immigrants and everyone came here.

01:08:52.600 My people came here, the Irish came here, the Chinese came, and we were all hated at first.

01:08:58.920 We were all hated, but what we had in common was we didn't let that stop us.

01:09:04.680 We said, we believe in the principles of this nation.

01:09:08.740 Even though the people might suck here and there, we believe in the principles of this nation and we know what it means.

01:09:15.440 And so that's what this whole journey is going to be about.

01:09:18.200 And it's happening on May 2nd.

01:09:20.560 And there are a few tickets left. This is a great fundraiser for Moms for Liberty, but it's just going to be an incredible event. And Tina is with us now. Hello, Tina, I haven't talked to you in a couple of weeks. How are the plans coming?

01:09:36.840 Oh, it's starting to really all come together. You know, putting on massive events like this is stressful, but also very exciting as they start coming together. So I'm thrilled at how it's coming along.

01:09:48.500 Good. Just give a thumbnail of what people are going to experience.

01:09:54.820 For those that have been out to Ellis Island, just the experience of arriving and taking the ferry over, passing the Statue of Liberty, where they'll stop for a few minutes and then go on to Ellis Island.

01:10:04.900 And that alone is, I mean, people line up from around the world to do that.

01:10:08.780 But then we have reserved the entire Ellis Island where millions of Americans and most

01:10:14.180 of our ancestors came through.

01:10:15.980 The entire hall and the entire island is ours for the evening.

01:10:18.880 And obviously, you're going to be there and playing a huge part, keynote speaking.

01:10:23.460 We have a lot of special guests coming, musical performances that your team has participated

01:10:28.920 in.

01:10:29.540 Mary Mildon, for those that know her, is going to be performing to fireworks going off over 0.74

01:10:33.640 the statue of liberty at the end of the night so it is going to be a black tie gala and like no

01:10:39.440 other i am uh i am so excited and how are our nameless special guests coming along we have

01:10:46.480 we have some nameless special i'm not allowed to say i'm not even allowed to say that we have

01:10:53.080 nameless special guests which i guess which i guess i just did um well no we don't know

01:10:58.940 really fun no i'm the special guest you were talking about tina he just i will be unnamed

01:11:04.820 uh for now um if you want to get tickets uh i want you to go to glennbeck.com

01:11:10.900 slash events and get your tickets there again it is happening on may 2nd uh and trust me you

01:11:18.980 are going to want to be i'm bringing my whole family in uh from all over my kids are coming

01:11:23.540 And they're, you know, leaving school and everything else to be there, because I think this is a once in a lifetime event.

01:11:30.480 I remember when Ronald Reagan reopened the Statue of Liberty with a new torch and he had fireworks like we're going to have fireworks thanks to Patriot Mobile.

01:11:40.520 And I remember that because it was such a big deal.

01:11:45.860 This is the same kind of an event.

01:11:47.820 And we're going to have I know David and Tim Barton are going to be there talking about history and bringing some artifacts with one of the other co-sponsors, which is the American Journey Experience, otherwise known as Mercury One.

01:11:59.340 That's our museum is the American Journey Experience.

01:12:03.000 I'm bringing a few things to show you'll be able.

01:12:06.400 I mean, there's very few people that are going to be there.

01:12:08.500 This whole island is for about 400 people.

01:12:12.560 And you will be up close and personal first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

01:12:17.820 The stone copy of the Declaration of Independence, that's from 1820.

01:12:21.620 The reason, if you ever see the Declaration of Independence in person, you'll look at it and you're like, I can't even see it.

01:12:27.000 It's barely there.

01:12:27.840 It's faded.

01:12:28.700 No, it's not actually faded.

01:12:30.100 Part of it is because they left it out in the sun for a while.

01:12:32.280 But most of it is because in 1820, they took a solvent and put it on top of the Declaration of Independence, then put rice paper on it and lifted it up and took the ink off of a lot of the ink so they could make copies of it.

01:12:46.560 We have one of those very, very rare copies that you will see.

01:12:50.440 Also, a ton of stuff from George Washington, his compass, his glasses.

01:12:55.180 We have Lincoln artifacts.

01:12:56.680 We have the first Bible printed.

01:12:58.860 I'm bringing some stuff that are from some amazing immigrants that you might know.

01:13:05.900 I worked yesterday on a part of the program that is telling the story of somebody who came here in the 1930s or 1940s.

01:13:15.740 I can't remember that is going to blow people's minds apps.

01:13:21.060 It is only in America could this happen.

01:13:24.940 And I'm really excited for that.

01:13:26.940 You'll be, you'll be there for it.

01:13:29.780 Tina, I miss anything on this.

01:13:33.000 Are you ready to announce that we're going to have watch parties and you can

01:13:36.520 sign up for those.

01:13:37.760 We've got all kinds of stuff to still talk about,

01:13:39.560 but I'm not sure what you're ready to explore.

01:13:41.600 I'm ready.

01:13:42.020 Go ahead.

01:13:42.520 Go for it.

01:13:43.200 Yeah.

01:13:43.340 Real America's Voice has come in as the media partner, and we had to get special permission from the administration to live stream from the island.

01:13:50.940 And they are going to live stream and package the whole event so that all of your listeners that can't maybe get to New York that night will be able to host their own watch parties.

01:13:59.740 And we have free kits that we'll be able to send them and download to assist in their parties or a kit you can purchase to enhance your party, hashtag it.

01:14:07.820 And Real America's Voice has offered, if you're going to have a really great watch party, to actually send out folks to broadcast and check in with us on the island that evening.

01:14:16.680 So it's going to be amplified across the country.

01:14:19.960 I will tell you that Torch was pursuing this.

01:14:23.200 And when the number just for the broadcast hit 750,000, I thought, no, I'm going to have to pass this on to somebody else.

01:14:31.100 just because of the rules and regulations of the parks in New York and everything else.

01:14:38.940 It is insane.

01:14:40.040 So I'm very grateful for Real America's voice for covering this.

01:14:44.820 And you don't want to miss it.

01:14:46.040 And Torch, you'll get special access as well.

01:14:47.980 We have other things happening.

01:14:48.920 If you're a Torch member, we have other things happening.

01:14:50.840 The day before, I assume we're still on for that, Ricky,

01:14:55.200 that I'm going to do some things behind the scenes that you've never seen.

01:14:59.220 Uh, and we're getting a special tour of, uh, parts of Ellis Island that most people don't get to see as well.

01:15:06.900 So all of that is coming up, sign up for it.

01:15:09.600 Now get your tickets, um, at, um, you can either go from moms for liberty.com or glennbeck.com, I'm sorry.org or glennbeck.com forward slash events and get your tickets.

01:15:20.980 Now there's only a few left Tina real quick. 1.00

01:15:23.960 You are on a panel at the White House, and you and I have been talking about education and how it really needs to be revamped.

01:15:36.100 And one of the things that we've talked about a lot was what we're doing with AI.

01:15:41.980 And I was so glad to hear that you are representing moms and families at the White House about protection of our kids with AI.

01:15:50.540 because AI is either going to serve the system or it's going to serve us.

01:15:57.620 Can you give us, bring me up to speed or bring in, you know,

01:16:00.140 the audience up to speed on what you're doing and where we are in that process?

01:16:07.260 Oh, I would love to.

01:16:08.020 So AI and education is the biggest threat to parental rights in America right now.

01:16:13.360 It's the biggest threat to our children and it is the biggest threat to education.

01:16:18.020 That being said, it can be the biggest blessing if it's harnessed and the right policies are put in place.

01:16:23.680 And Moms for Liberty is just honored to be in a position now in America where we are leading in this area. 0.78

01:16:30.800 And the White House, you know, I commend them for including us.

01:16:33.620 You know, the White House released President Trump released just last week their national policy framework for artificial intelligence.

01:16:39.940 And because of the work that we've been doing with the White House and them including us on meetings and in December, I spoke to members of the cabinet.

01:16:49.820 And then I was recently at the First Lady's big event where she had with 45 first spouses of other countries having these discussions.

01:16:57.400 That national policy framework that President Trump released last week from the White House, the number one thing on that framework is protecting children and empowering parents.

01:17:05.480 That is a huge win for us and for kids across the country.

01:17:09.120 But there is so much work that still needs to be done in that policy crafting that needs to happen to make sure children are truly protected.

01:17:17.760 Explain what that means to protect from artificial intelligence.

01:17:21.280 What does that mean?

01:17:22.740 You know, there's so many areas that still there's so many areas in general that that we need to protect children from.

01:17:29.980 First of all, at all levels of government, which is where Moms for the Ritty really digs in and works. 1.00

01:17:34.180 And so we launched in February a whole toolkit with model policies for school boards to adopt.

01:17:40.900 So at the most local level, it will address issues like data privacy for your children,

01:17:48.660 AI companions.

01:17:50.180 We have a dad in Ohio who came to us recently.

01:17:52.320 His 10-year-old daughter created an AI companion on her Chromebook at school during school

01:17:57.720 hours that it was sexualizing her for six months.

01:18:00.560 He's got screenshots that are horrific.

01:18:02.200 So policies need to be put in place at those most local levels to protect children and

01:18:07.140 families.

01:18:08.020 We keep saying, and I got this phrase from you, parents need to hold all the keys to

01:18:12.140 the AI toolbox.

01:18:12.840 And we've been carrying that through all of our messaging to the White House, to our

01:18:17.280 legislators, and at the most local level.

01:18:19.680 So also in that toolkit, we have state model policy, which is a representative in South

01:18:24.000 Carolina who's already picked that up and filed it in South Carolina. 0.98

01:18:27.360 And then obviously, President Trump is asking for federal legislation.

01:18:30.060 And there's so many tenets that need to be addressed, transparency, making sure parents understand the algorithms.

01:18:36.680 I mean, we're watching the lawsuits happening now with social media.

01:18:39.300 It's 10 times worse with artificial intelligence.

01:18:41.620 Oh, my gosh.

01:18:42.460 Yeah.

01:18:42.780 And it has to be completely transparent.

01:18:45.040 You have to know what that algorithm is, and you have to be able to control it for your own family.

01:18:50.760 Tina, I can't thank you enough for everything that you guys do.

01:18:53.640 I mean, there is nothing more powerful on Earth than a mother.

01:18:56.640 And when moms get together and they speak to power, it changes the world. 0.99

01:19:02.140 And Tina has put together Moms for Liberty, and it is a game changer.

01:19:06.820 And you have my 100% total faith in support, Tina.

01:19:12.500 I just love you as a person because I know you, I know your values, and I know how hard you work.

01:19:18.220 And I thank you so much for everything you're doing at momsforliberty.org.

01:19:22.600 So grateful for you, Glenn, and your partnership and your help.

01:19:25.780 The one thing we didn't throw in is that we're launching the second event where we had so much excitement and response to the first event on D-Day on the U.S.'s Midway in San Diego.

01:19:36.200 So for your fans that are out on the West Coast, you will be there.

01:19:39.940 David Barton will be there again.

01:19:41.460 You're bringing artifacts again, and we're doing it again.

01:19:44.080 Fireworks off the bow of the Midway celebrating American heroes.

01:19:47.700 I think that is the first time I have spoken or done a public event in California, maybe 10 years.

01:19:53.120 i mean i just do not yeah i i know and it'd be incredible yeah so join us and you can find all

01:20:03.120 of the information uh for that event as well especially at moms for liberty.org tickets uh

01:20:09.320 are available through glennbeck.com slash events and we will see you both in california and new

01:20:15.920 york the first one is in may the second one is in june right yeah yep june 6th right um

01:20:22.980 And we have other special guests that are going to be there, too, or not, or not be there.

01:20:27.420 We don't know.

01:20:28.120 We can't say.

01:20:29.140 I couldn't say.

01:20:30.000 She couldn't.

01:20:30.580 Definitely can't say.

01:20:31.380 I never said.

01:20:31.960 I'm not allowed to say anything.

01:20:33.260 I know.

01:20:33.940 Okay.

01:20:34.520 Thanks, Tina.

01:20:35.080 I appreciate it.

01:20:35.620 God bless.

01:20:36.660 Thank you.

01:20:37.560 You bet.

01:20:37.860 Bye-bye.

01:20:38.540 Okay.

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01:22:43.440 so i've only got a minute here so we're gonna have to uh actually maybe take a few minutes

01:22:53.920 out of next hour to cover something we didn't hit it before because it wasn't verified yet

01:22:59.780 but it looks like uh one of our fighter jets has gone down in iran and there is a search

01:23:04.960 and rescue on the way jason can you quickly give me the details you do have unconfirmed

01:23:10.680 on what brought the fighter jet down it looks like now as multiple people are reporting on it

01:23:14.980 that it looks to be it's they're saying a u.s fighter jets what analysts are saying it looks

01:23:19.400 like it might be an f-15 but it is now uh as per reports down and there is currently a search and

01:23:25.480 rescue operation for the pilots god help us if those pilots are taken may god please let's all

01:23:33.600 say a prayer together for those pilots i don't care however you stand on the war please dear god

01:23:39.460 protect those pilots because they are in for a nightmare if they're not uh all right more in

01:23:47.520 just a minute

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01:24:49.360 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program it is good friday and we've got a lot on our

01:24:57.460 plate but i need to get right to jason who is watching what has happened we have a military

01:25:03.560 jet that went down in iran we haven't found our pilots yet they did eject uh but there is a search

01:25:09.860 going on for them pray pray hard these guys are in for real trouble if they happen to be taken

01:25:15.820 uh by uh the iranians and everything could change it could get very ugly very quickly pray pray pray

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01:26:34.740 All right, let me take you quickly to Jason, who's going to give us an update on what is

01:26:40.080 happening with the shutdown. I believe it's an F-15. What do you have confirmed and where are we,

01:26:45.700 Jason? So I don't think we've confirmed F-15, but that's what they think is what happens.

01:26:50.040 And it's going to be hard to weed through some of the propaganda and the false information

01:26:55.980 coming from Iranian state media.

01:26:57.420 So I'm not even going to talk about

01:26:59.100 some of the things that they have said.

01:27:00.480 I'm just going to update on what has been supposedly confirmed.

01:27:04.600 So U.S. officials to multiple different mainstream media outlets now,

01:27:08.220 most of them are reporting the same thing,

01:27:09.980 that a fighter jet was indeed shot down.

01:27:12.600 They say shot down, so not mechanical failure or anything like that,

01:27:15.880 but shot down in southern Iran

01:27:18.040 and a search and rescue mission is currently underway.

01:27:21.220 We've seen a few different videos from just people on the ground

01:27:25.000 that have gotten out of some of this search and rescue happening,

01:27:28.380 a couple of helicopters that are being refueled over the air in southern Iran.

01:27:32.980 So that's really all we know at the moment,

01:27:35.120 and our prayers are very much laser-directed on what's going on right now.

01:27:40.720 This is so bad.

01:27:41.140 Remember when this happened just over, I think it was Kuwait, a couple of months ago,

01:27:45.180 and our pilots were being approached by Kuwaitis,

01:27:47.880 and you could see there was like, oh, dear God, what am I in for?

01:27:50.620 And thank God they were friendlies.

01:27:52.100 hopefully these are friendlies that will approach them if they're approached or will get them out

01:27:56.760 of there. This is really important. Stay on your knees and pray because this one could change

01:28:02.400 everything. All right. Thank you, Jason. Keep us up to speed. Let me talk to you here and introduce

01:28:07.040 you to the Prestonwood Baptist Church apologetics pastor. He is the president of the Christian

01:28:14.580 Thinker Society, and he has been doing research on the death and resurrection of Christ

01:28:21.220 and looking for the actual evidence of it,

01:28:24.920 not just faith, but is there evidence of there?

01:28:27.940 And I've gone with him to Turin in Italy,

01:28:30.460 and we were with the Shroud of Turin,

01:28:33.340 and it is unbelievable what science is now telling us.

01:28:37.700 Jeremiah, I wanted to bring you on

01:28:39.060 and talk to you a bit about,

01:28:42.760 I think it's not a coincidence,

01:28:44.820 but there is something happening, I believe,

01:28:48.280 around this date, this time.

01:28:50.460 We are expecting to know more about a comet that might be seen in the sky beginning on Sunday, but also Artemis.

01:28:57.840 Is there any link to the dates of?

01:29:02.300 Yes.

01:29:02.880 Go ahead.

01:29:04.140 It's fascinating, Glenn, and I'm so glad that you're capturing this for the audience.

01:29:08.880 And what I want you to know is we have the exact date that Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.

01:29:15.860 It's the best established fact of the ancient world.

01:29:18.280 He died on Friday, April 3rd. Guess what today is? Friday, April 3rd, A.D. 33. We know that as a historical fact. If we cannot believe that, we cannot believe that Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 B.C.

01:29:36.780 Because Passover fell on the 14th of Nisan, and we know that that was Friday, A.D. 33, a lunar eclipse was seen when Jesus was being crucified.

01:29:48.480 This is all factual.

01:29:49.840 You can see this.

01:29:51.140 So that's why it went dark?

01:29:53.260 Is that why it went dark?

01:29:54.020 That's exactly why it went dark.

01:29:54.920 Absolutely.

01:29:55.360 And so the facts that we're going back to the moon on the very week where the exact day, April 3rd, the crucifixion happened, which means the resurrection occurred, April 5th, A.D. 33, that is providential.

01:30:10.180 That is no accident, and people need to wake up.

01:30:13.220 I want you to pick up his book.

01:30:14.640 It's a great book, by the way.

01:30:15.640 I haven't had a chance to talk to you since I've read it.

01:30:17.180 the Jesus discoveries. Um, and these are the 10 big, big historic finds that you will be

01:30:24.800 introduced to Jesus face to face. And it is based on not just the Bible, but, but the facts, um,

01:30:32.780 that are provable facts. So can you, can you take us through some of these, um, uh, some of these

01:30:38.680 facts that introduce in a different way? Absolutely. We're doing the more Glendiana

01:30:44.040 to jones right now isn't it fun that the christian faith unlike any other religion certainly not

01:30:49.420 islam unlike any other religion in the world glenn you know this archaeology is christianity's 0.96

01:30:54.040 closest cousin because christianity is baked in facts real people real places real events

01:30:59.800 you know that i have a bunch of kids i have nine-year-old triplets i have two teenagers so

01:31:04.080 i haven't slept in nine years since my triplets were born and at dinner my kids challenged me

01:31:09.240 They said, Dad, what can you tell us about Jesus, but you can't use the Bible?

01:31:14.440 Now, hey, we love our scriptures, right?

01:31:16.440 But the fact is, all of us listening right now, we need to know how to pass the faith

01:31:21.320 onto our kids and to do it in two minutes or less.

01:31:24.360 And so I wrote a book, Glenn, about all the things we can prove about Jesus from the evidence.

01:31:31.020 We can build 65 facts, 65 about the birth, the death, the life, the miracles, the burial,

01:31:38.260 the death and yes, the resurrection of Jesus from extra biblical sources before we ever crack open

01:31:44.400 the New Testament. Now, here's the problem. Most people are, 98% of people listening right now,

01:31:49.100 they don't know what these discoveries are. And so I wanted to write it in a way, my nine-year-old

01:31:53.620 who I dedicated the book to, Abel, was reading it to me. I paid off, Glenn, I paid off every

01:31:58.660 archaeologist I could to get permission to use photos. So we actually have images of all these

01:32:03.000 discoveries. And this will give you that X factor when you're talking about your faith,

01:32:08.320 that Jesus is based in evidence. But here's the cool thing, Glenn. I don't know if you've read

01:32:14.200 the chapter yet where I talk about you, Glenn. I actually talk about you in my book. Here's what

01:32:18.340 I write. I will never forget my dear friend, Glenn Beck, through tears, giving testimony

01:32:24.720 in the Holy Chapel of the Shroud and Turin. And you said, it's one thing to see it on television.

01:32:31.360 It's a whole nother thing to witness it firsthand.

01:32:34.220 You were doing experiential archaeology.

01:32:37.080 That's what your audience loves.

01:32:38.300 That's what you did.

01:32:39.020 That's what Tanya and you and me did together.

01:32:41.960 Experiential archaeology.

01:32:43.220 And here's one thing I do need to correct, Glenn.

01:32:45.200 A lot of fine Christians, they think, oh, I just need faith.

01:32:49.740 I don't need proof.

01:32:51.000 Can I just tell you something, Glenn?

01:32:52.980 If Jesus did not walk out of that grave alive on April 5th, 2,000 years ago, physically alive from the dead,

01:32:59.320 the Bible wouldn't exist. Am I making myself clear? He said in Acts 1-3, he appeared with many

01:33:06.620 infallible proofs. And so faith is always based in evidence. Does that make sense?

01:33:12.280 Yeah. And I think, you know, I don't need, I don't care what anybody tells me. I know my

01:33:19.440 relationship with Christ, and I know, I understand redemption and salvation because I needed it so

01:33:26.020 badly and i know that that is a power that does not come from man um that is something entirely

01:33:33.340 different and i don't care what any science tells me but the the things like when i was with you at

01:33:38.980 the shroud when you actually see these things and you can experience them and you know wait a minute

01:33:47.160 wait a minute this is proven it it doesn't it doesn't strengthen your faith it just deepens it

01:33:56.320 it just deepens it it gives you more confidence to say no no my friend i can talk to you about

01:34:01.900 the spiritual stuff but i'm talking about the scientific stuff that is provable because a lot

01:34:07.180 of people they don't they don't have any idea what's provable they just they you know they

01:34:12.300 don't know about josephus which your book talks about they don't know that there's that there was

01:34:16.500 a jew that the first the world's first historian that talked about jesus that's right and glenn

01:34:23.900 this is why what you're doing so important with torch you know i'm a bio by the way can i weigh

01:34:28.120 in on the on the poll since i'm a full torch member glenn no listen no i'm going to listen

01:34:34.260 glenn you you told me to go speak at the world economic forum in davos all the people that are

01:34:39.980 working with the antichrist so let me tell you you're absolutely going to go speak at oxford

01:34:45.300 and you'll mop the floor with all of them, okay?

01:34:48.020 Oh, geez.

01:34:48.920 Okay, all right.

01:34:50.320 Okay, so let's go through a couple of things.

01:34:53.440 Talk about the James ossuary.

01:34:54.980 What is that?

01:34:55.500 The James, we actually have the bone box.

01:34:59.120 Ossuary is a bone box,

01:35:00.680 and we have the very bone box of Jesus's brother James.

01:35:04.320 How do we know that?

01:35:05.480 And Glenn, you're talking to someone

01:35:06.760 who's been in more tombs and more ossuaries

01:35:08.760 than anyone else in the entire world, okay?

01:35:11.280 And so ossuaries are what you would collect bones in.

01:35:14.240 that's all that's all osselegium means it means bone collection and oftentimes glenn it would say

01:35:21.440 you know glenn son of and it would say your dad's name well we actually have an ossuary that says

01:35:26.180 james son of joseph brother of jesus no other ossuary and we have 150 000 of them on the mount

01:35:34.740 of olives says brother of anyone and this is what's so cool about this finding james thought

01:35:40.840 his brother. It was embarrassed by his brother. I mean, I have four sons, as I mentioned, and I

01:35:45.700 don't know if you have any brothers, Glenn, but what would it take for you to believe your brother

01:35:49.060 is the Messiah? Like what would it take for any of it? It would take God. Yes, exactly. And so

01:35:55.440 James was skeptical too, like many of our audience. And guess what? Jesus appears to him,

01:35:59.900 1 Corinthians 15, 7, and says, bro, I hope we can time travel someday and go back when Jesus

01:36:06.100 appears. He said, bro, check out my hands, check out my side. And James becomes the leader of the

01:36:11.880 church of Jerusalem, and he dies in AD 62. And I know that not because the Bible said it, because

01:36:18.420 who you mentioned, Josephus, that first century historian, he dies, Glenn, in AD 62, believing

01:36:26.140 his brother is the Messiah. I cry when I think about this, because sometimes it's the hardest

01:36:31.600 to reach our own family with the faith.

01:36:34.360 And so that's why we have a chapter in the book

01:36:36.500 that, listen, James, the just, as he's called,

01:36:40.380 died believing his brother was Messiah.

01:36:42.560 And yes, in 2002, we found his ossuary.

01:36:45.780 Talk about the healing magic.

01:36:47.360 What does that prove to us?

01:36:48.520 This is so powerful.

01:36:49.500 Jesus is famous.

01:36:51.840 Glenn, you've written so many great books.

01:36:54.580 I try to copy everything you do

01:36:56.280 because you're such a great communicator.

01:36:57.640 By the way, y'all, I listened to Glenn over pizza

01:37:00.200 in turn explain the American Constitution, Glenn should be teaching the Constitution at every

01:37:05.460 university in America, okay? Can everyone just say amen? You are incredible. So magic, this is huge.

01:37:12.440 Do you know, and this has never happened to me before, before my book, The Jesus Discoveries,

01:37:16.340 ever came out, Popular Mechanics and other scientific magazines were doing articles on

01:37:21.000 my book because of this one discovery. Glenn, you may not have heard of this, it's so new.

01:37:25.340 the earliest artifact that we have with the name of Jesus on it is actually a magic cup now stay

01:37:32.740 with me on this for a minute Jesus is known as a miracle worker and as an exorcist way before the

01:37:39.200 resurrection okay and you think Luke 7 22 remember 25 percent of the Roman Empire was sick dying or

01:37:45.280 in need of immediate medical attention on any given day Frank Gaudio my friend at Oxford and

01:37:50.080 and by the way, there's Oxford again, 2008, he's a marine archaeologist, so he does archaeology

01:37:56.840 underwater. He uncovers a cup, and there's pictures of this in my book, The Jesus Discovery,

01:38:01.200 and do you mind if I say it in Greek for your audience, how it appears on the cup? Can I do it?

01:38:05.240 It says, through Jesus, the magician, or the enchanter. What does that mean? That means that

01:38:14.740 Jesus' name is so incredibly popular, Glenn, that around the Mediterranean world, people realize if you insert this name Jesus, there's power and it heals people.

01:38:24.700 So guess what?

01:38:25.320 That means God can heal you, too.

01:38:28.600 I want to take a quick break.

01:38:29.880 I want to come back, and I want to talk to you.

01:38:31.520 I was thinking about, you know, the inscription, and you write about it, you know, the King of the Jews, the inscription on the cross.

01:38:37.100 Yes, the titulus.

01:38:37.820 And I had I had something come to me this week that just because of the times we live in now, I want to see if you think there's anything to it.

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01:40:16.540 So I don't know if there's anything to this, Jeremiah, but, you know, King of the Jews, 0.71

01:40:21.440 I was watching something just the other night, and it was about the crucifixion.

01:40:26.060 And it said, you know, the inscription, King of the Jews.

01:40:28.580 And I thought, you know, when they put the crown on him and everything else and they mock him with the robe, I thought this is really kind of the first real anti-Semitism where you are seeing people mock him as, oh, here he is, the king of the Jews.

01:40:46.000 And it just took on, because of how we're living right now and we're seeing what people say, that's not why they killed him.

01:40:54.540 But it just, it felt different to me that I looked at it maybe from their time instead of our time.

01:41:03.760 Does that make sense to you?

01:41:05.620 That's the Holy Spirit speaking to you.

01:41:07.680 It's a shame we even have to have this segment, but we do.

01:41:10.560 And in fact, I have a picture of the titulus in my book, The Jesus Discoveries.

01:41:13.960 he writes the king of the jews and i want to clear something up for our audience

01:41:18.040 jesus is flogged 700 times he loses one third of his blood volume on good friday please by the way

01:41:25.260 glenn i just i just got some first century dice made of bone i've got to show them to you next

01:41:30.040 time i'm with you because don't forget the crew the executioners are gambling for his clothes

01:41:34.440 right well the author of life is dying before them they affix a mocking a condemnation sign

01:41:41.060 titulus crucis in latin this the king of the jews but i can i just say one thing if you and i were

01:41:47.740 in the audience that day when pontius pilate presented the bleeding nearly dead jesus mocking

01:41:54.320 him humiliating him it wasn't just the jews yelling crucify him glenn every single one of us would 0.89

01:41:59.900 have been yelling crucify him every one of us would have been we all killed jesus because our 0.82

01:42:05.420 sin put Jesus on the cross. We needed him to die, not just the Jews. We would have been yelling, 1.00

01:42:13.080 crucify him, because without Christ, we destroy ourselves. And so, yes, it's anti-Semitic. The

01:42:18.260 king of the Jews, they're mocking him. And it is truly the first form of anti-Semitism. And they

01:42:23.980 mock him. He is crucified. Not an area of his body is not wounded, including the pelvic region.

01:42:30.020 And friends, this is God demonstrating his love. Forgive me for preaching, Glenn, but someone

01:42:35.340 right now in your audience, they need to know that God loves them and that there's hope.

01:42:38.980 And Romans 5, 8 says, but God demonstrated, and that's what we're thinking about, demonstrated

01:42:46.700 his love for you and me, and that when we were at our worst, he sent his best Jesus to die for us.

01:42:52.460 And that's why that condemnation sign is so important. And let me just remind you, Romans 8,

01:42:58.000 therefore there is now no condemnation to those of us who are in Christ. Do you see the connection,

01:43:04.160 glenn jesus had a condemnation sign we don't because like you said earlier in the broadcast

01:43:10.620 you've been forgiven i will tell you um i don't know why jeremiah it is so hard to ask for

01:43:20.540 forgiveness for yourself and and and and accept forgiveness for yourself we can forgive others

01:43:28.480 but it is so hard to accept and it's like you know people like i can't even go to god on this

01:43:34.860 i can't even go to god because i've made so many mistakes and i've promised so many times and i've

01:43:38.140 broken the promises so many times i'm like he's not surprised he knows right he already knows

01:43:43.000 it's not like you're going and he's going to go wait a minute you did what he knows and he's

01:43:48.300 already accepted it is just about getting you to accept the forgiveness why is that so hard

01:43:55.580 Glenn, and here's what I would say. Well, first, a lot of people have challenging relationships with their dads. Now, Glenn, you are a rock star dad. So if you think about any of your kids coming to you who've made a mistake, you're going to love them. You're not going to shame them. You look at your, you'll hear your kids and you say, your love for me, my love for you will never diminish. It doesn't matter what mistakes you make, period. But you know what? A lot of people have broken relationships with their dads. A lot of people don't even know how to ask. And they don't even know what to do. We all pray way too religiously.

01:44:24.380 Do you remember the prayer, Glenn, that Jesus said was the perfect prayer?

01:44:29.820 Do you remember this one?

01:44:31.160 Quickly, I've only got about 40 seconds.

01:44:33.100 Sorry.

01:44:33.760 Go ahead.

01:44:35.280 God be merciful to me, a sinner.

01:44:37.580 That was all it took.

01:44:40.100 Jeremiah, I appreciate your friendship, and I appreciate all the stuff that you've done, and you've gone all over the world, and you have really made this so people can really see it and understand it in such a great way.

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01:45:12.040 You bet

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01:46:53.740 uh you know there are people that i have met that uh i like to consider friends because

01:47:20.220 they're the kind of people that you can talk to and then not talk to them for a few years and

01:47:25.080 you immediately fall right back into where you were um and kathy lee is one of these people

01:47:31.060 kathy lee gifford i say i'd like to consider her a friend i don't want to assume that i am because

01:47:35.540 she is in my book she is a really big deal she uh i mean she is really a pioneer of really good

01:47:45.040 wholesome daytime television that morning talk show when she was on with regis and kathy lee 0.75

01:47:51.760 um i mean the world was a different place you know forerunner to this crap that we get on the

01:47:58.940 view and everything else um and she is also one of the the most decent people i think i have ever 0.84

01:48:04.600 met and it's a it's an honor to have her back on the show kathy lee how are you my friend oh

01:48:10.060 Oh, Glenn, don't make me cry.

01:48:12.060 I just did my makeup.

01:48:14.300 So did I, strangely.

01:48:17.440 So lovely, lovely to speak to you again.

01:48:20.040 I feel the same way about you since the first time we met in New York.

01:48:23.520 I know.

01:48:24.180 And I always enjoyed being on with you and had great, great, great respect for you.

01:48:30.120 And your intelligence, but your sense of humor and your devotion to it.

01:48:35.760 What a patriot I felt you were.

01:48:37.640 So none of that's changed, my friend.

01:48:39.640 And so when they called me and said, you know, and I'm like worn out from this book tour, you know, book tours are like, and I said, it's Glenn Beck.

01:48:48.240 And I said, yes, yes, whenever he wants me, however long he wants me, I am there.

01:48:53.360 So thank you for the honor of being with you again, my friend.

01:48:56.420 Well, you have written a book, Nero and Paul, uh, and, and tell me about it.

01:49:03.640 Well, actually I've co-written it.

01:49:05.240 So I have to give this gentleman all his due.

01:49:10.120 Dr. Brian Litson is a PhD, has written his own books as well,

01:49:15.100 but he's an absolutely brilliant biblical scholar.

01:49:18.840 And so I don't pick up something I know I can't lift, if you know what I mean.

01:49:24.900 Yes, I do.

01:49:25.400 Yeah, I mean, I can look at an envelope and I go, I can handle that.

01:49:28.880 You know, you see the other stuff, you go, I need help.

01:49:31.520 I know.

01:49:31.760 And my son, who got his master's at Oxford University, is a brilliant, brilliant mind.

01:49:39.960 And he said, Mom, a couple of years ago, Mom, why don't you take this obsession you have with these epic characters from the scriptures, epic characters that started with Herod, and it goes on from there.

01:49:53.680 There's no lack of evil in the Bible.

01:49:58.700 and and and and i'm fascinated by it he said let's make thrillers out of them you know the way that

01:50:05.460 that that uh that uh bill o'dreilly did killing lincoln killing jesus all of that but make them

01:50:12.000 biblically and scholarly make them so scholarly so you have nero you have nero who you know

01:50:19.580 wealth glamour sex power all of it um self-proclaimed god and then you have paul

01:50:26.880 which is a different worldview clashing tell me about that well you know what's fascinating to me

01:50:34.200 glenn is that they didn't start out clashing they both started out as babies and you and i both

01:50:39.040 believe babies come straight from heaven and they're perfect but nero was built was his his 0.99

01:50:45.440 his his lust for power was in the roman world the hedonistic roman world which was as bad as you 1.00

01:50:52.480 could get and and but but saul of tarsus is the way he started out he had the same kind of zeal

01:51:00.720 and he thought he was a righteous man because he he had the same kind to be uh he wanted to be

01:51:08.360 a pharisee and a sadducee and he wanted to be in the sanhedrin he wanted to be caiaphas he wanted

01:51:14.740 to be the new the new caiaphas which was he was a really he was a really really bad guy as their

01:51:21.680 as they're stoning i think it was james he says let me hold your coat no no you don't want to get

01:51:26.620 the very yeah steven yeah thank you right very first martyr you don't want to get blood on your

01:51:32.340 coat i'll hold it he was a bad guy he he did but he thought he was righteous yes yes here's the

01:51:40.600 beauty of this story he thought he was killing and murdering not murdering to him it wasn't it

01:51:47.440 was just getting rid of these people that were called at the time followers of the way. They

01:51:52.520 weren't, they were all Jews. So he saw it as a heinous thing in the Jewish population. He had

01:51:59.640 to get rid of it for righteousness sake, right? They weren't called Christians until Nero called 0.99

01:52:06.560 them that. Interestingly enough, the apostolic period had to come in after Jesus was resurrected

01:52:12.780 and ascended, then the apostolic, then they were called apostles, which means to be sent out with

01:52:20.220 a message. And they were, the followers of Jesus, the followers of the way then, were being so

01:52:27.020 persecuted by Nero, so horrendously tortured and everything else, and Saul of Tarsus was a big part 0.81

01:52:34.640 that, and they left Jerusalem. And so it was on the road to Damascus that Saul of Tarsus heard

01:52:43.760 the voice of Jesus say to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? And Saul goes, who are you?

01:52:53.460 And he goes, I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting. And then he goes blind, and then he

01:52:59.060 goes into a whole, the rest of the story, some people know. But what amazes me, Glenn, is it

01:53:05.380 took him hearing, hearing the absolute voice of Jesus for him to realize, and this is the part

01:53:12.380 that makes me sob, I missed the Messiah. He was already here, and I am torturing and murdering.

01:53:22.420 that's why he said for the rest of his life i am the worst of all sinners the greatest of all

01:53:30.520 sinners that was me and he never got over that but he missed the messiah so we say to ourselves

01:53:36.980 now glenn with everything that's going on in the world what are we lusting after what power

01:53:42.220 do we want so desperately that we are missing the messiah ourselves and everybody needs one

01:53:50.480 Everybody needs a Savior, whether it's from what you're afraid of, what you're brokenhearted from, what you're addicted to, whatever.

01:54:01.180 We all need Messiah.

01:54:04.520 And so it was Nero who said, we've got a problem with these little Christians.

01:54:11.220 He said it very derisively, and he meant it because the word Christo in Greek means Messiah.

01:54:20.480 so the the story that you're bringing here is i mean i think so appropriate for today because

01:54:30.280 we are so we've lost hope we we are seeing everyone struggle for power in in all walks

01:54:40.060 of life in everything that we see it is all about the struggle for power and even truth is at stake

01:54:48.340 um and what is it that you found in the story that you hope people connect with to that gives

01:54:56.180 them because this is what we really lack we lack hope we lack hope that this can be solved

01:55:02.720 that's right and that's why our sub our subtitle is and this is the second in the series the first

01:55:08.840 one was nero and it was uh excuse me herod and and mary talk to talk about juxtaposing ancient

01:55:15.720 evil and living hope as as as herod was dying and he was i mean just his body was literally

01:55:25.420 littered with with with with i mean maggots and everything else from the way he lived his life

01:55:32.220 he's dying while mary has the hope of the world the hope of humankind she's carrying the king of

01:55:39.560 kings. And Herod used to call himself the king of the Jews. He wasn't even a Jew. And Mary is 0.92

01:55:46.460 carrying the king of humanity in her womb. So that's what I loved about that juxtaposition.

01:55:53.380 They were around at the same time. And Nero and Paul were too, although Paul came quite a few

01:56:00.540 years before Nero. But still, it was Nero that set forth the whole world of... He was the one

01:56:09.160 that was crucifying the believers in Jesus, by that time called Christians, and he was torching 0.91

01:56:15.920 them. He would light Rome up with them on crucifixion crosses, you know, and he never

01:56:23.640 fiddled while Rome burned. The fiddle was not even invented then. That's just one of those things.

01:56:30.260 How did he, what is his ending? Did he ever come and turn around?

01:56:35.320 Absolutely. Never, never, never. He committed suicide. And Herod died of maggots and larvae in his groin. None of these people that had more power than the world had ever seen at the time, none of them ever turned around. But Saul of Tarsus did. And why? Because he literally heard the voice of the Messiah.

01:56:59.640 so how do we apply this to our life today kathy what are we missing where have we missed the

01:57:06.440 messiah in our lives what are we struggling with that we haven't given him yet that we haven't

01:57:12.880 turned over haven't surrendered to him yet it's you know he's he's not the kind of leader that

01:57:20.220 wants to you know and put us in chains that's why i don't like religion glenn you and i've talked

01:57:25.300 about this many times. Religion, for the most part, as I have observed, puts us in chains of

01:57:31.500 some sort. The way the Pharisees and the Sadducees did, they were already under the rule of Rome.

01:57:37.700 They were already under the Torah. That's enough for any human being to have to try to deal with. 0.84

01:57:43.280 Then they added like 600 other things. It's another whole conversation.

01:57:50.240 You sound a lot like our pilgrims.

01:57:52.960 Yes.

01:57:54.100 Yes.

01:57:55.360 And I just want to be freed up.

01:57:58.740 I know most people I know, I don't want to live like this.

01:58:03.460 I want to be free.

01:58:05.680 And Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

01:58:09.760 No one comes unto the Father except through me.

01:58:12.660 And people say, well, that's intolerant.

01:58:14.320 That's a terrible thing.

01:58:15.320 No, if he's holding the keys to the kingdom, right?

01:58:19.560 And I want the one who actually died for me today.

01:58:24.420 Today is Good Friday.

01:58:27.000 But we know exactly what it is.

01:58:29.040 It's Passover when the lambs, you know, when the angel of death passed over.

01:58:37.800 So we need to know our Judaic history, basically, is what I'm saying.

01:58:42.300 And that's why I write all these books.

01:58:44.180 People don't realize, and it's inconvenient truth to most people in Western culture,

01:58:48.460 that the story of scripture from beginning to end is a jewish story kathy can i can i ask you

01:58:57.060 a question and i've only got about a minute you know you can of course um are you surprised at

01:59:03.640 how dark we have gone especially people of faith how misguided we have gone so fast i mean it it

01:59:12.560 just feels like jesus is coming there are so many people losing their way fast that i would have

01:59:18.400 never expected yes and they thought they were on the path of the righteous you know they thought

01:59:23.320 they were just like saul did no and the anti-semitism is breaks god's heart i have people

01:59:30.700 that i love who say well they were the jews were once god's people but they're not anymore 0.99

01:59:35.580 no that is totally unbiblical it's unscriptural you know i study just the greek and the hebrew

01:59:42.180 because so many of the translations of the bible are terrible especially the king james version

01:59:47.740 the worst. Jesus was not a carpenter. We've talked about this. He was a stonemason. There

01:59:53.920 was no buildable wood in first century A.D. And it's a nice idea that Jesus, he worked with

02:00:00.220 bushes, not trees. And the rest of the time he worked with rocks. If you've been to the Holy

02:00:06.140 Land or anywhere in that world, none of the ruins are wood. All of them are stone. Jesus was a

02:00:16.360 stonemason. So if we've got that wrong, what else do we get wrong? My first rabbinical teacher

02:00:21.460 happened to be, it wasn't Jewish at all, but he was a brilliant biblical scholar,

02:00:27.880 Ray Vanderlaan. And he was from, he's a Dutch man from Holland, Holland, Michigan. And he said,

02:00:35.900 Kathy, we're wrong about everything. And that's when my faith came alive again, Glenn.

02:00:40.660 And I want to know the truth because that's what sets me free.

02:00:44.920 I know.

02:00:45.520 And now all these books later, I think this is my 37th book.

02:00:49.540 Wow.

02:00:49.880 And it's not all on, not all on face.

02:00:51.800 Some of them are funny books.

02:00:53.020 Some of them I co-wrote with Regis.

02:00:54.480 Some of them are kids books.

02:00:55.860 But they add up as a sort of a body of work through the years.

02:00:59.860 And I did most, wrote a lot of them when I was in the backseat of my car going in and out to New York to do my TV shows.

02:01:07.300 You know, I never wanted to waste a minute, Glenn.

02:01:10.660 well you have i do believe jesus is coming soon but i don't believe there's more evil in the

02:01:15.760 world today than there was before the serpent was in the garden at the beginning the same time

02:01:21.900 that the that the god jehovah god was walking in the coolness of the night with adam and each i

02:01:27.340 think i believe that i think the difference now is yeah i think the the the difference now is that

02:01:34.400 it uh thinks it's going to win and so it's more bold and more brazen but we know how the story

02:01:40.460 Kathy, God bless you.

02:01:41.980 Thank you so much.

02:01:42.720 It is so good to talk to you again, my friend.

02:01:44.660 Oh, Glenn, I treasure you.

02:01:46.800 I treasure you.

02:01:47.580 I hope you and your family are doing so well.

02:01:49.660 We are.

02:01:50.220 Lord bless you.

02:01:50.520 We are.

02:01:51.400 Say hi to you, kids.

02:01:52.020 And make his face to shine upon you.

02:01:54.140 Shalom, shalom.

02:01:55.580 Thank you, Kathy.

02:01:56.620 Kathy Lee Gifford, the book is Nero and Paul, another great read,

02:02:01.540 especially if you're looking for a gift for somebody for this season

02:02:05.560 or you just want to keep yourself rooted in the story.

02:02:08.580 nero and paul by katie by kathy lee gifford all right back in just a second um if you ever get

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02:03:53.820 excited jack about this launch um my most excited thing is um i will see for rocket launch into

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