The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Brian Trascher | 10/8/2

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell says the critiques of the administration's hurricane response are "dangerous rhetoric." United Cajun Navy vice president and PIO Brian Trascher joins to discuss whether Hurricane Helene supplies are being deliberately thwarted. Glenn and Stu react to Kamala Harris' shockingly terrible CBS "60 Minutes" interview.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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One user suggested yesterday that a militia should go against FEMA, got more than half a million views. What kind of impact has this had on the recovery effort? It has a tremendous impact on the comfort level of our own employees to be able to go out there, but it's also demoralizing to all of the first responders that have been out there in their communities, helping people, FEMA staff, volunteers, the private, and the private private sector that are working side by side with local officials to go out and help people. I need to make sure I can get the resources to where they needed.

And when you have this dangerous rhetoric like you're hearing, it creates fear in our own employees. We need to make sure we're getting help to the people who need it. This is the Bubba effect. This is the Bubba effect. And you're only in mainstream media, you're only getting one side. So that means half the country is only hearing that. They are not in everything that the other side said to them is being dismissed as conspiracy theory or dangerous misinformation. That only plays in to see, I told you these people were dangerous.

When these people are the ones who have been the first responders, we have been there long before FEMA ever showed up. Let me give you two other stories and then we're going to go to the phone. My premise here is you are going to lose your freedom of speech. Elon Musk came out yesterday and said, believe me, they will try to shut down X by any means possible if elected. That is true. if it wasn't for Elon Musk, we would be in a much different situation.

He is the only man of any real clout and power that is standing up against this push. And you cannot dismiss this as a conspiracy theory because you have, in the last week, Barack, Hillary, Harris, Walsh, and the left, all giving speeches or interviews saying, this has to stop. Now, let me give you this. There is a new pullout from the agencies or on the agencies and the bosses. the bosses of all of the federal agencies were asked in a new Neapolitan Institute survey about the individual freedoms that Americans have. 51% of those people in charge of our agencies say Americans have somewhat too far too much freedom.

the voters 16% 57% believe the government has way too much control over their lives we are looking at a difference of a big difference of a very important opinion between those who are in the agencies who control your life

through their own regulation not Congress their own regulation they believe you have somewhat to far too much freedom. So you know, among the Republican federal agency chiefs, 33% agree, and Democrats 68% disagree. So even the Republicans are out of step. But this is why RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk.

That's why they're saying cut the size of the federal government. One last thing. House Democrat Bill Foster has now introduced three separate bills that push digital identification on Americans through legislation. What a surprise he's from Illinois. He's announced the Improving Digital Identity Act in September 2020. He says, quote, it's time for the United States to catch up with a developed world on digital identity technology. He says this is a very bipartisan bill. Remember, among the people who believe you have far too much freedom,

he says it's vitally important to ramp up safeguards to protect against identity theft and fraud. When has our government been afraid of identity theft? In bipartisan manner, member of Congress appears to be collecting evidence to bolster their argument for why digital identification is required. Apparently, the only way we can be safe is if we all have digital ID. No, no, no, period. Let me go to Mike in North Carolina. It's open phones today.

I want to hear your voice. 8-88-7-27-B-E-C-K. Mike. Good morning, sir. How are you? Good. How are you doing today? I'm good.

How can I help you? I was in the Asheville-Weaverville area, the Sunday after the storm. Yeah. Working with a private tree service. I just want to discuss the response to the storm or the lack thereof. I've honestly never seen anything like it.

There was nobody there. I didn't even see like a line trim and tree crew or anything like that for four days after that storm. And you say that's rare. That's never happened. I'll put it that way. I've been doing tree work for 25 years. I've been to most of the big ones.

Usually you're in a caravan of tree crews going up there and we were all by ourselves. So whose fault is that, Mike? I mean, our crew was talking about the storm probably a week before it happened. Correct. We knew something happened with all that rain that came through. It's amazing to me that they didn't have anything set up. And who would have set that up?

The governor. The governor. The governor. You're exactly right. Usually when they declare a state of emergency, things start happening. And the power companies, you know, they call in all these crews. And I guess they didn't this time. Yeah, interesting.

Thank you, Mike. Patty in Connecticut. Hello, Patty. I can't begin to say thank you for all you have done, Glenn, Stu, your group, Mercury 1. Oh. The rising of the good-hearted American people who are the soldiers. We are the mercy. The Americans are the most.

kind, empathetic, sympathetic, and they rise to the occasions in any emergency, time is of the essence. Life depends on it. People you help the sick, the veterans rose to the occasions, the special forces, the goods, the heart, the soul of America you see there. This is the fabric of who we are. We have to count on each other. We have to believe in each other. We have to pray every single day for God's healing hands on this country. for President Trump to be the leader.

Leadership, logistics, planning is essential in an emergency. Time will hurt people, will delay care, will delay life. We have children with no shoes. We need to take care of these people. We need to make them paramount in this country. We make them to be what is going to be taken care of. Charity begins at home. We need to take care of our people first, our families first.

who have probably worked very hard their whole lives, never asked anyone for anything, the pride of an American, the American hard worker who does a full stay's work and more and never asked for any charity. They want to do it themselves. Well, they were stuck, and they're counting on us.

They're counting on us to be there, to be present, to do their very best, and all the people who are in the area are using, the essentials they have inside of themselves, their skills, their personal things they're able to do, and they rose to the occasion. Every life you save, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. This is who America is.

We never should forget that what this has actually revealed to every single person in this country, there are heroes amongst us. We are not alone. Do not be afraid. Do not let government make you afraid. Stand up for truth. Listen to shows as yourself where truth is paramount. Take care of each other.

look to see for people in trouble because Americans do not like to ask for help. And in regard to Israel, that is God's land, that is God's home, those are God's people. Try for them every day. Give a dollar, if you can, to help these people. Let them know that they have our support because when you're suffering terrible, it is a huge comfort to every human being to know that there's someone there who cares. And if people should lose their life, it is so nice to know. They didn't die afraid and alone.

I thank you for what you're doing. Thank you. Thank you very much, Patty. I really appreciate it. I'm going right after the show. I got here early this morning. I haven't had time to go next door, but I think the museum is full of pallets of food and supplies and everything else.

And I want you to know, again, I haven't had a meeting, but I did correspond with Mercury 1 yesterday about, Tampa and Florida and we are pre-positioning in Florida as well so we we will be wherever people are in need I have great confidence in in DeSantis taking care of things in Florida however this may be one of the worst ones that has hit in over a hundred years and so we will be there as well you can donate to mercury one.org 100 percent of everything raised goes right directly to the problem and to the source to be able

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972 Patriot. Patriot mobile.com slash back. Ryan Trasher is on. the vice president of the Cajun Navy, the United Cajun Navy. Brian, thank you for everything you guys are doing. You are absolute heroes. Having us, and really we just want to take a minute to thank you and JP and the team over at Mercury 1 for the tremendous support and generosity.

They've been given us throughout this deployment in North Carolina, and we hope to continue to keep working together in Florida. So thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts. Everybody, thanks you, Glenn. I want to thank, please, it's the audience. It's not me. Right. Please don't let me forget before we go to talk about Florida and what we have to do in Florida.

But first, can you talk to me? Are supplies meant for Hurricane Helene? Are they purposely being thwarted? And what happened with the helicopter? So, you know, I think I made the mistake of asking for new conspiracy theories for Christmas because all the ones I got last year came true. And so, you know, we were on the ground pretty early in Florida. You know, we always say that people have to understand that FEMA and the National Guard are not first responders.

They're second responders. Amen. And the first responders locally, the local first responders are also victims, so they're not always fully up to speed. So that's why we put first shrimp boots on the ground and get to work right away. The good thing about the United Cajun Navy is that we don't have to ask our lawyers for permission to do anything. We just ask them to show up to the bond hearing later. and we'll deal with it. So anyhow, when we first got down there,

we were hearing reports about people getting stopped and getting, you know, impeding the relief efforts. It didn't happen to us. You know, we have an existing relationship with FEMA and the Red Cross and a lot of agencies, so they know who we are. And so we weren't really experiencing it like other people were. We were getting reports of it, for sure.

But then we started getting frantic calls and texts and pictures and stuff sent to it. it's from our volunteers over at that site saying, you know, what in hell's happening? You know, they said that the, this Black Hawk did a low pass like he was going to land. And they started giving him the X signs with their arm saying, you know, it's a no land zone. And he kept coming down. And, you know, look, I wasn't there myself, but I've watched a video a bunch of times. I am a pilot.

I'm a fixed wing pilot, not helicopter. But it does look to me like, first of all, he was flying too low. FAA says you have to stay 500 feet over any structure a person. That's just a day one rule, but it looks like he does a left bank and then aft pitch, which increased, in my opinion, the strength of the rotary wash that you saw blowing all the materials in the tents everywhere. And then he pitched forward and took off. So I really don't, you know, everybody's been sending this information on the aircraft.

They're saying, you know, I don't want to say like, because we don't know for sure, but they think they know who it belongs to, where it came from. nobody knows including myself what the intent was. Some people are telling me, all the pilot just lost a situational awareness and made a mistake. I'm like, listen, Black Hawk pilots are the top guns of the rotary wing. The only Black Hawk pilots that make mistakes are the dead ones. You know, I mean, these guys are some of the best helicopter pilots in the world.

Seems like either we had just like a rogue hot shot or they were trying to send some kind of message. I hate to go down that rabbit hole, but, I mean, everybody's seen the video now. Like, I'm happy to hear what anybody thinks. So do I know somebody who has a black hawk, believe it or not. I didn't know you could buy them, but you can strip down apparently.

Do we know if this was private, at least? That was, okay, so my first instinct was, like, because you're right, if you got money, you can buy, well, you've got money, you could buy anything, right? You can rent a congressman pretty cheap these days, with inflation. So, but somebody,

one of our, one of our followers, like, you know, was really good with video and they were able to, like, kind of close up on it and see the two pilots in the cockpit. It takes two people to fly Black Hawk. And they said they were wearing standard DOD headgear. The aircraft does,

if we think we've identified the right one, does appear to be, does appear to be registered to the military. it was not armed. So I thought maybe it was, it belonged to an agency. You know, I don't know. I mean, there's so many possibilities. And there was no marking on it?

Not that, not that I'm aware of. We've looked at everything that we could as far as with the video and pictures available. I mean, that's illegal, isn't it? We just don't, yeah, we just didn't see any. Huh. So people have been using flight tracker and things like that to see who was flying, flying missions in that area. and, you know, again, they've come up with a few possibilities.

We're trying not to jump the gun. And also, even if it, let's say it was, you know, military, like the last thing I want people doing is going and trying to find out who the pilots were and start harassing them and all that, you know, I don't want any of that. Yeah, no, and I just said on the air, anybody who is threatening any government official is a problem, and it should stop. however, you know, standing there in a place like you're at now,

I assume you're at our base camp there by the Harley Davidson dealer. Yeah. Adam Smith, one of the baddest dudes in North Carolina. Yeah. And he has politely told them, go away. Because we have a system down and it's been working and it's saved a lot of lives. And you can go do your thing, but you're not shutting up. us down. There's no problem with saying thank you, but no thank you, as we are the first

responders. But you cannot take it out on the people. You know, you can't, please be kind. And I'll tell you, Glenn, just so happened that the week before Helene hit, we had some pre-scheduled meetings in D.C. And one of those meetings was at FEMA. And so they had us up into the incident command center, which is like their war room, and they had just done a level one activation, and they were watching Haleen and talking to all the local emergency managers and making plans. And I did not meet anybody in the entire building when I was at FEMA that was not a passionate, dedicated person that cares about their job and cares about helping people in trouble. So FEMA is, as a entity, seems like it's, you.

you know, like just another F word. And you can say what you want about the leadership of FEMA and the political appointees, but the people on the ground, and there are people on the ground in North Carolina, have been since I got there. But, yeah, don't be ugly to those people. They're just employees. Their job is to do this, and they do care about it. Yeah.

By the way, I don't know how they can say that they've got this covered. As of Monday, yesterday, only not. 9% of FEMA's personnel or 1,200 people were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters. They are having a hard time. They say this is the busiest year in the past decade. And the staffing reserves at this point were 19%. That is obviously not good. and they are they're having a difficult time getting people in to help.

So I don't know how the government can have it both ways. By the way, this is coming from the New York Times. I don't know how they can have it both ways. Look, we don't need help and, you know, we're here to take over. And then at the same time, be short people, especially with Milton on its way. Right. And, you know, it's worse than having being short people. And this is something that was, you know, intimated to me from some, you know, FEMA management people that obviously won't be named.

But it's not just not having enough bodies, Glenn. They're more experienced staff or elsewhere. And you know where I'm talking about. And so it's like they have people, but they're kind of barely new hires still carrying around their employee handbook trying to figure out what's going on. So they've requested, to their credit, these people have requested from their higher ups. to bring in some of these more senior experienced people. And my understanding is that that hasn't happened yet. I can't thank you and every single veteran that is on the ground.

I mean, the American people are really good people, but we don't have the experience per se that you guys do. The veterans and especially special forces guys, you guys sprung into action and set these systems up. up, like only really military can do. You just, you had what you had and you made good with that and you set it up and you organized. And I think you made the difference between life and death with a lot of people. So thank you. Yeah. To be clear, I myself am not a military veteran, but I'm a pilot. I'm a boat captain. I'm a diver. I just did all these types of skill sets on my

own and it turned out to be useful. But yeah, you're right. We have a ton of veterans and they do make the best volunteers. And they, they just, you can't freak them out. You can't make them, you can't make them woozy. They can handle anything. And I think one of the other things that helped us out as an organization with regards to, you know, local or locals or federal officials trying to stop relief efforts is that we put it out there very early that anybody getting in our way, we're offering

an all expense paid free swamp tour back in Louisiana. So sign up, please. All right. Thank you so much. Before you go, talk to me about Milton. We are, so Milton is, you know, one of the lowest center of pressure in terms of millibars that we've seen in the last century. We have our own meteorologists on staff at United Cajun Navy that are making sure that we're putting out accurate information. And it's bearing down the NHC track is looking to stay right in that Tampa area. unfortunately it's going to hit as a very strong hurricane.

We are pre-positioned. We have assets in Destin and Ocala and we're moving more into the area. We're going to have boat assets, supplies, and air assets, just like we did in North Carolina. So nobody has to worry about whether we're coming. We're already there.

And we're going to help as many people as you. And the good thing about Florida is they do such a good job with these hurricanes as a state that usually we're just there for like maybe a few days or a week, handling the life-threatening emergency stuff, and then they take over, and they have a tremendous snapback game. Yeah, Ron DeSantis is absolutely incredible, just incredible with the system.

Everybody should have a Navy SEAL of the governor. I mean, we love Jeff Landry. Don't give me wrong. He's a bad dude, but Brian, Ron's on another level. Brian, is there anything you need in help? If anybody wants to find out more about us, we're on all the socials, United Cajun Navy, our website is a united cage and navy.org, sign up to volunteer, donate. We always say time, talent, treasure.

If you got the time to give, the talent to offer, or the treasure to donate, we appreciate it all. One thing everybody can do for free is go to our social media post and share them. That helps us grow and grow our mission as does Mercury want and all your listeners. So again, thank you so much. We are very grateful. Thank you, Brian. We're glad to partner with you. Thank you.

I'm Brian Trasher from the Cajun. Navy. He's the vice president. Yeah, he's he's awesome and very funny. These guys are, I mean, you know, they've been through these things over and over again. And like he said, you know, they're just unflappable. And there's nothing better in an emergency than have a group of people that are just like, we got it. Don't worry. We got it. Especially when they're grappling down from a helicopter as they were over the, over the mountains and, you know, pulling people up in the helicopter. When I saw Corey Mills do that, I'm like, what? Who does?

Well, I mean, you do that, but I don't ever want to do that. I don't want to have to do that. I don't want somebody to have to pick me up like that. You know, tie, I'm just going to tie a rope around you. Then we're going to just head on up. No, thank you. No, thank you. All right.

More in just a second. By the way, you can help mercury one.org. Now with Milton on the way, we really need to pull together. and know that we will be there for you. You're listening to. All right. So last night I was at Monday Night Football up in Kansas City, and it was unbelievable.

I just loved Kansas City. Love, I just loved everything about it. Just loved everything about it. Just fun. And I just like the players are all, you know, Taylor Swift was there. So it kind of. Yeah, did you hang out with her at all?

You got a little. shine off of that a little bit. No, no Tatee time. Darn it. I don't think she was looking for any Glennie. Glenn time. No. That would have been weird. That would have been hilarious though. At some point, they just show the box and you just go in there and you just get a hug

from Taylor Swift. You guys are just joking. The two of us sitting next to each other. What do you think? I love that new dance number you put into the show. It's great. Anyway, guarantee she knows more about football than you do. Oh, yeah. Guaranteed, yeah, guaranteed.

Guaranteed. But I know about things like what's good for the country. That's very true. More than she does. Very true. All right. So, Stu, last night you were watching the 60 Minutes interview. I did watch that, yes.

How was it? It was not good. Really? There are a lot of different things. I much would have rather been watching football. It was, so the couple things about it. Number one was pitched as a Kamala Harris interview. and it wasn't really that.

You got some Kamala Harris, a bunch of Tim Walls, and then an excruciatingly long piece about whether the election in Arizona was stolen in 2020. We got four weeks until the election. Why? Again, like, you can absolutely make a case that what happened in 2020 in Arizona is important. Nothing can be done about it from now until the election. What's important now is the 2024 election. You get past 2024, you can start fixing problems.

You think exist in all these states once again, should have been done, obviously, between 20 and 20 and 24. But there's just no relevance to this whatsoever at this point. But whatever, they're trying to make Donald Trump look bad. A lot of it was, you know, tilted that way, including puff questions to Kamala Harris about, so why do you think Donald Trump didn't want to do this interview? Good, tough question 60 minutes. You really push you there. There were a couple of questions.

Questions that were adversarial, I guess you could say. There was the typical, hey, you flip-flopped on 943 issues. Let me list three of them and let you give a generic answer about your principles haven't changed. That moment happened. So let me play one. This is cut three. This is her being pressed on her nomination. Listen to this.

Was democracy best served by President Biden stepping down? and basically handing you a nomination. You didn't have to go through a primary process. You didn't have to fight off other contenders. That's not really the way our system was intended to work. President Biden made a decision that I think history is going to show is rare among leaders, which was to put country the poor self.

Stop it. He didn't want to do it. I am proud to have earned the support of the vast majority of delegates and to have been elected the Democratic nominee. I am proud to have received the endorsement of leaders around this country from every background and walk of life. Nobody voted for you. To fight in this election over the next month for our democracy. But I think this truncated process is why people. think or say they don't really know who you are. Look, I've been in this race for 70 days.

Right. Right. Yes. And nobody voted for you. I mean, that's a fair question. You're right, though. The lack of follow-up is difficult. Right?

Like, it's tough to take because you know they would sit on this and press on it and say, wait a minute, but you're saying you won the votes. You won the votes of the delegates after. Correct. The sitting president endorsed you and you pushed everybody else out of the race. And after you sat on the information that he was almost a vegetable for four years, three and a half years, you said, trust me, I'm there with him. He is fine. And then we find out he's not.

The night we find that out, you say it was just a bad night. He's fine. Yep. You went on Anderson Cooper and said everything was fine. you see him behind closed doors. He's incredible. He's getting all these things done. He's dealing with these leaders in these amazing ways.

She was lying after the debate about this. And still, we really haven't had her pressed on what the hell happened there. How did you? Why did you not tell people about this in advance? Why did you continue to lie after everyone else already knew? So why didn't he ask that question? Cut eight, please. Here's Hillary Clinton.

And if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control. And it's not just the social and psychological effects. It's real harm. It's real harm. So why didn't the, why wasn't the question pressed over and over again the way it would be done for any? Anybody else? Cut nine, here's Tim Wals.

I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy. That's an incredible clip, largely because he then repeated it during the actual debate. That was 2022, that clip. He had multiple years. That clip went viral in between. And he still thought that there's, you know, the hate speech is banned by the First

Amendment and that you can. Can't say fire in a crowded theater. Things that anyone who studied this issue know immediately are wrong. And he knows nothing about them. Why didn't CBS ask the tough question? Why is no one really pushing Kamala on FEMA and the response to this hurricane, which is devastating? I don't know. Cut 10.

And I think the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing. growing. And it's part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't, you know, there's no, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't in a fact that kind of, you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree. And people go and that people self-select where they go for their news or for their information. And then you just get into a vicious cycle. So it's really, really hard,

much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I've been involved in this. And, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some accountability on facts, etc.

But look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is six, and has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation. Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence. Notice they are not talking about who the final arbiter is on miss and disinformation. The arbiter that they are asking for is them, that they will alert social media and everyone else. This is not true, this is true, just like they did with the Hunter Biden laptop. This is not true.

This is Russian disinformation. When they knew the truth, you're seeing what they want to do. They are telling you what they will do. Now, we have to choose. Let me go to Dallas. And Dallas is, I thought, just. just looked up. I thought it was Dallas, Texas, but Dallas is his name. He is from Texas. Hi, Dallas.

Hey, how are you, Glenn? Good. Long time listener, first time caller. Yeah, thank you. I'm a retired Army aviation major, and I've got more than 1,200 in Blackhawks, 1200 hours in Blackhawks and a couple hundred hours in Chinooks. Oh, good. And after hearing your conversation, I went to look at the videos of the Black Hawk dusting off your supply. area. And having done something very similar myself more than once, it is, I don't think it was on purpose. I think it looked to me that as soon as they realized what they were doing, they were

pulling away. And I've seen more stuff than I can tell you blown over, including one of my soldiers was blown over by an Apache. I mean, actually sent him tumbling. Many years ago in Korea, Lieutenant and I were flying a hawk, and we were tactically flying the river beds, and it just so happened. It was also the vacation season in Korea, and the Koreans set up these canopies and easy ups on the river and float in the water. And we were following the riverbed, not going real fast, and I thought I was high enough until I looked out and I saw canopies tumbling and flying every which direction. You were popular. Yeah. Yeah, I was real popular.

So, well, I'm glad to hear that. And I hope you don't think that we accused because we said we didn't know. We'd like to know who owned the helicopter, you know, it didn't have a tail number on it. And so who was it? And just to not take it out on the pilots or even the service, but just to ask the questions, what happened there? What happened there? I can't tell whether that's a civilian-owned home talk or whether it's, It's a government hawk.

No, neither can we. There's a lot of agencies that have them. Once again, also at Fort Hood, I got accused of flying over a neighborhood while I was at my house having a lunch. Right. And I actually looked out and saw the Black Hawk, and I don't know if it was a customs or who it was, but after they found out that I was actually at my house and not flying, I got redeemed on that one. But no, if they had warned. wanted to really cause some damage, cause some damage.

They would have, they would have come in a lot lower. And it looked to me like as soon as they realized, oh, crap, you know, we're blowing. And it was light stuff from looking at the picture, at the video. So I really, in my heart of hearts, I don't think it was done on purple. I am glad to hear that, Dallas. Thank you so much. Let me go to Dan in Pennsylvania. Hello, Dan.

Hello, how are you doing this one? I'm good. How are you? You know, as I said, I'm a minister, and I'm a district superintendent of a church. And I wanted to thank you for the other evening. As you went off the show, you talked about getting God back in our families. I think it was back in our schools. And I just, that's where we need to go back to is we need to go back to God.

And I appreciate that. You don't hear that much anymore over our talk show. You know, it's strange, Pastor. I don't hear it a lot from the pulpit sometimes. That is true. And what I don't understand sometimes is I want to be careful, but people call themselves Christians. And I remember when Democrats and Republicans wasn't far apart.

We're beyond that today. We're beyond good and evil. And I would say anybody that calls herself Christians, conservative Christians, get out and vote and get Trump back in. I've seen a difference in, I'm over 10 churches, and I've seen a difference in that period of time. And I just wanted to thank you for putting that out and being courageous enough to do that, because most people would not do that. Well, I think more and more people are, Dan. I really do. I thank you for your call. I was in Kansas City yesterday, and I was with a

small group and it was just a kind of a Q&A thing and God came up an awful lot and it was a secular thing and I think people I think the people who are awake and they're religious and awake are willing to talk about God because they know that's the only thing left there doesn't seem to be fear anymore I mean I'm I'm not afraid somebody asked me you know you You think Jesus is coming? They don't even get the sentence finished. Yeah, I do. I do.

Could be wrong, but yep, I do. Now is the time to prepare and do all of the things that we're supposed to do because I think he's coming. I would have never said that 20 years ago on the air, you know? And you certainly wouldn't be, I wouldn't have said it on the air like a lot. You know, maybe once. You know, I don't know. I mean, maybe he could come.

I think he's coming. I think he's coming. And I think the people, we've had everything torn away from us. And like our children, the one opinion that Christians should not shy on stating is, I believe in Jesus Christ, he is my Lord and he's my Savior. He saved my life. He saved my soul. And I am here to serve him.

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