The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Dave Isay | 11/21/25

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Are a group of Democrat members of Congress advocating sedition? You cannot politicize the chain of control without breaking the republic. When a bank detects suspicious activity, it is required to file a “Suspicious Activity Report.” Over 14 years, JPMorgan filed seven SARs against Jeffrey Epstein, despite thousands of suspicious activity flags. StoryCorps founder and president Dave Isay joins to share how one small act of kindness can make a significant difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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misdirected so we don't talk about the money because if you listen to the longer version of the show you also hear what's happening in Minnesota which is jaw dropping also a little bit of Thanksgiving Dave Isay from StoryCorps stops by to talk to us about Thanksgiving and the real meaning behind it all on today's podcast. First let me tell you about relief factor everybody talks about pain like it's just an inconvenience you know sore knee a stiff back a little tension in the shoulders or whatever but if you've had it for a long time you've lived with pain for any real length of time. You know it does something much, much deeper.

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I will show it to you in Dearborn, Michigan. I will show it to you with Nick Fuentes. I will show it to you with Epstein. And I just showed it to you a different kind of the Bubba effect, institutional Bubba effect with that statement that came out, you know, telling the troops to, you know, disown, you know, the president or don't, don't follow orders, question orders. And you should do that. And that is something they're taught in the military, but they're taught within the system.

You know, it's not just that they made a message to the military. They sent that message. Imagine if the Duma would have sent that message to Putin. And we received it and saw it. We'd be like, their government is falling apart. Their military is falling apart. Look at this. What message is that sending to China and Russia and all of our allies? It's bad, very bad. So there is a moment in every republic, every empire, every nation that historians will look back on and go, yep, that was it. That was the biggest warning. That was the last warning.

And I think we are living in that moment right now. when Congress told active duty military to ignore the orders of the commander in chief, you got a problem. When you can't get a federal judge impeached because he approved something that has never been done in American history, granting one branch of the government the right to secretly surveil the other without notice. You have constitutionally, you must notify you're under surveillance, okay? If they're doing a mass thing, you have to notify because that's a second branch. Otherwise, you break up the branches, okay?

These are not political stories. These are constitutional earthquakes and no one's talking about them. So now the question is what now? What has to happen if the republic is going to survive the stress of these fractures that everybody seems to be creating and dancing on? Let me outline it plainly here because all of us have a role. One, Congress. Congress, you have to discipline your own. If lawmakers can publicly encourage military resistance without consequence,

then Congress has surrendered its moral authority. You cannot police the executive branch. You can't oversee the intelligence agencies. You can't demand transparency if you cannot police your own members. Censure is not vengeance. It's maintenance. It's routine. It's necessary. Constitutional maintenance.

And if Congress refuses to do it, then the precedent remains. And it gets worse. And history shows us no nation survives a politicized military, ever. Two, the military. You have to restate the chain of command publicly and immediately. The joint chiefs don't need a press conference. They don't need hearings. They just need to say,

United States armed forces obey all lawful orders of the president. That sentence, those exact words, that's the firewall between an American Republic and every failed nation in history. The silence so far is not reassuring. Three, the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, closed the door on the Bozberg case. He opened a door that is so dangerous. no judge, no matter how noble his intentions, has the authority to rewrite the separation of powers. If one branch can secretly spy on another, then you have no checks and balances. You have a surveillance government. The Supreme Court must intervene, not Trump, not even Congress,

but for the survival of co-equal branches. If they don't, this is the new normal. And you don't come back from that one either. And now the hardest part, the one that everybody talks about, nobody does. The role of the cultural leaders and people like me in the media. In a functioning republic, this is supposed to be where the media steps in. This is where the cultural leaders, the voices left, right, center, stop obsessing over clickbait and start explaining to the people what just happened. why it's unprecedented, why it matters, how we as citizens need to respond.

But look around. Do you see anyone in the press doing that? Do you see anyone in Hollywood doing that? You see anybody in academia doing that? No, you don't. Because America's cultural class no longer sees its role as the guardian of the republic. Who's the guardian? They're guardians of ideology.

So what do we do? Well, we do what Americans have always done when institutionals fail. We step in ourselves. But if we don't care, that's it. The founders never trusted the press. They trusted the people. So that's where we are now. And we all have to model what a responsible media or a responsible citizen should be doing.

So let me show you right now how a responsible broadcaster responds to a constitutional breach. My fellow Americans, this is not about Donald Trump. This is not about Democrats. This is not about Republicans. It's not how you vote. This is about whether the military stays

under civilian authority, whether our adversaries overseas are given the indication that we are ripe for the taking. This is about judges that want to erroneous. Race the separation of powers. The separation of power is what has kept this constitutional republic going for all of these years.

Most importantly, this is about whether your children will inherit a functioning republic. And if the mainstream media won't tell you, then I will. That right there is the job. To preserve the republic. So our children and grandchildren, and that is what we all should be doing. That's what the press should be doing. That's what cultural figures should be doing. You call out the violations of constitutional order.

No matter who benefits, no matter who gets angry, no matter what tribe demands your silence, this is what leadership looks like. This is wrong. This has never been done before. This breaks constitutional boundaries. And it has to be corrected immediately. Americans, you understand the Bubba effect. is here and it's everywhere.

You are going to see people that you're like, well, he's really wrong on that, and that's really outrageous, and I don't agree with that, but at least he's right on this one. And it will always be to question the system, to break it down. So what do you do?

Well, you don't riot. You don't panic. You don't despair. We are headed into Thanksgiving. Give thanks for the crosses that we bear. Give thanks because our liberty, our freedom, should we decide to keep it, will be more valuable to us. But you should call your representatives.

I'm so sick of calling my representatives, but you should do it anyway. You need to demand transparency. You need to insist on consequences. Don't normalize what is happening. Well, they're all like that. Stop it. Stop it. If that's what you expect, that is what you will get.

But understand this. the cure for constitutional drift is not rage. The answer is not anger. It's not division. It is citizenship. It's also not apathy. If we sleep through this, the system will break. Guaranteed.

But if you wake up, stand up, and insist on boundaries, eventually it will happen. I know you're tired. I know you don't want to do it anymore. I know you're just desperate for an answer. because the time is running short, but now is not the time to act in in ways where we dishonor ourselves, in ways where we throw in with a lot, we're like, that's really bad, but at least they're pointing it out.

You point it out. Once you start standing up, once we as a people, all you need is 20%, 20%, 20%, anywhere between 15 and 20% of the American people. If they understand the Constitution, if they understand the Bill of Rights, if they understand that God has put us in this place at this time and each of us have a reason to live. We're here for a reason. Everything snaps back into place. It always has from 1800 to 1868 to 1974, institutions bend. People break, but the Constitution can be restored. But if and only if you know it, you love it, you never betray it yourself, and you demand it of the people who represent us.

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That's the real story. I'll tell you about the billions that have gone to terrorists from the U.S. and Minnesota taxpayers here in a second. And when I talk about that, what most people will do is they'll fight over ice, they'll say it's Islamophobia, they'll fight over care, whatever. USAID, when that went down, well, that was just about feeding hungry children. And it's all misdirection to get you away from the money. So let me bring this now to Epstein. When a bank detects suspicious activity, when they see something that looks like money laundering, human trafficking, tax evasion, sending money overseas to terrorists, they don't send a polite note to the supervisor. They don't send a polite note

to the supervisor in hope somebody reads it, they are required by federal law after 9-11 to file what is called a SAR. It's a suspicious activity report, a SAR. They have to report that directly to the U.S. Treasury Department through Finsent, financial center for crimes. Okay. Once a SAR is filed, the bank isn't even allowed to tell you that they filed it. They just hit send, It's locked. The Treasury is notified. Now, this system, like I said, was built after 9-11, built after decades of financial corruption,

a system designed that no single banker, no single executive, no single billionaire, can make illicit money and then have it just disappear offshore. This is activated. If you draw $10,000 out of your account, you're moving $10,000, you get a SAR report,

and it goes directly to the treasurer report. And it goes directly to the Treasury. And when the bank flags something suspicious, the SAR is called a yellow ticket. And it's not a suggestion. It's not a memo. It is a federal alert. That triggers monitoring by the Treasury,

the FBI, Homeland Security, depending on what the flags indicate. Now you understand that. Let me talk to you about Jeffrey Epstein. Between 2002 and 2016, J.P. Morgan Chase filed seven SARS, seven yellow tickets on Epstein. Seven.

Over 14 years. Those reports flagged a grand total of $4.3 million in sketchy activity. Okay. It's all, you know, it's a decade plus, $4 million. You can make all kinds of excuses for that, right? But after Epstein died, when the government finally unsealed the sex trafficking details, details that they had held on to for years, J.P. Morgan Chase suddenly panicked because the floodgate suddenly opened. In 2019, two SARS were flagged. Two SARS were sent to the Treasury.

They flagged over 5,000 suspicious wire transfers. We're not talking $4 million. This is $1.3 billion. 5,000 suspicious activity transfers and transactions of $1.3 billion. Now, let me just say this clearly, so nobody really misses the gravity of this. You do not accidentally forget to report 5,000 suspicious wires. You don't, like, where did we put that $1.3 billion? Okay. You don't misplace a billion dollars in wires to foreign banks. banks and shell companies connected to then a convicted sex offender under federal investigation.

It doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. It doesn't happen because a junior banker made a mistake. It doesn't happen because the compliance officer was sleepy. It doesn't happen because somebody's inbox was full to not report that level of suspicious activities directly to the Treasury first of all is against all federal law, at a minimum, multiple officers, multiple departments, multiple sign-offs choosing not to look. $1.3 billion, $5,000 suspicious activities. Hmm. Why?

Why? Did nobody report that? Well, now, according to internal emails, J.P. Morgan, Chase held off the filing of the SARS. Now, do you, let me ask you this. If you had one suspicious, if you withdrew $10,000 from your bank, are you really clear that your bank would do what the federal government directs, and I have to report this, and it's going to go to the Treasury, are you clear that they would do that on you? Because the answer is, yes, they would. it. Federal law requires it. But the bank decided, well, we want to continue to work with

Epstein. He's valuable. He's connected. He's a referral engine to some of the richest people in the world. He had sensitivities according to the bank. Wire transfers to Russian banks. Wire transfers to shell corporations. Wire transfers from a guy who is engaged in sex trafficking, links to top political figures, relationships with two U.S. presidents, both of whom Epstein at various times claimed to be very, very close with. Let me explain. There's something most people don't know. Banks file SARS suspicious activity reports to the Treasury for far less than this.

$10,000. They flag it. A business wires to an unusual location. They flag it. It's sent to the treasury. A client sends repetitive round number transfers to an unknown entity. They flag it. It goes to the treasury.

A wire connected to anything resembling terror or human trafficking or exploitation. They flag it right now. Banks don't wait for 5,000 suspicious transactions. They don't wait. They file over one. So how did Epstein get through 5,000 suspicious activity reports without triggering any alarms? Not because the alarms were broken, because they weren't. It's because somebody turned them off.

I'd like to know who turned those off. I'd like to know why they were turned off. I would like to know if it was just the leadership of the bank, I'd like to know that every single one of those bank officers all the way to the top, go to prison. Not some slap on the wrist, not some, well, you're well connected, so we're going to let this other guy pay for it. I want all of them in prison. You broke federal law, something we all, all of us, have to abide by. We have had our treasury, we've had our government snoop into our lives, watch everything we do, and we're not connected to human trafficking.

We're not selling children. We're not convicted felons. We're not transferring $1.3 billion after we've been convicted. SARS are not, these suspicious activity reports, they are not decided by a single teller. They have to pass, they pass through compliance teams, risk divisions, bank lawyers, federal liaison officers. This isn't one bad apple. it's an entire system. And Senator Wyden, no conservative firebrand I might point out,

is now openly saying what everybody knows privately, J.P. Morgan Chase should face criminal investigation. And it should go all the way to the top. And it should not be civil. It should be criminal. Because if you or I did this, if we had sent just a handful of suspicious wires, the bank would freeze your account, notify the treasury,

before you could blink. But Jeffrey Epstein, a billion dollars worth of exceptions. Hmm. Wow, that seems much more important than a stupid birthday card. Let me ask you this. The question the DOJ doesn't want to touch. How many people does it take inside a bank to make 5,000 suspicious transactions just vanish for 17 years? Is it five people?

Is it 10? Is it a department head, a board member? $5,000, $1.3 billion was Epstein? Did it happen because Epstein was useful to the powerful? So nobody wanted to know? Did this happen because others were involved? Does it really matter what their excuse was? Here's a terrifying question.

If a bank can look the other way on $1.3 billion for a sex trafficker, what else have the banks learned to ignore? I'm beginning to think the banks are a real problem. There's a new idea. This story isn't just about Epsine. This is about the machinery that allowed him to operate. All of the middleman, all of the financial networks, all of the institutions that treated him like an asset instead of a criminal.

And I do believe he was an asset. Intelligence asset? I do believe he was probably an asset to, our intelligence, although I hear both sides. No, no, that's not true. Oh, yes, it's definitely true. I don't know what the truth is. I don't think it's unreasonable to say he was an asset for a foreign government, maybe Israel, maybe somebody else, I don't know, but also an asset for us. That happens all the time. Apparently, we do all kinds of horrible things. Why not? Senator Wyden says, he wants to follow the money, well, good.

For the first time in a long time, maybe the money is finally pointing us somewhere, and it's not just here. And by the way, if anybody still believes this ends with one dead man in jail, I don't think you're paying attention. Because this is where it really leads. And I'm going to show you, I'm going to show you the same kind of thing that is happening now in Minnesota.

The corruption in Minnesota is so far beyond comprehension. You know, I said in 2009, maybe 2010, the biggest heist in all of human history is happening right now. And the time that us boobs figure it out, our bank accounts will be empty. Nobody even knows the bank is being robbed. Why? Well, I think because the bank and maybe the treasury are in on it, or at least, least they're so incredibly incompetent that they just can't see it. Billions of dollars.

I believe trillions of dollars have been laundered. All your taxpayer money. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show podcasts. Anywhere you download podcasts. All right. So I want to talk to you about Thanksgiving here for a little bit because it's not about

Turkey. It's not about the football or the parade with the giant inflatables. You know, that's not even the Thanksgiving parade. That's the Macy's Day parade. It's a store reminding you to buy products. But it's part of our tradition now. All of these things, you know, planes, trains, and automobiles is a tradition. We're going to watch it next week.

You know, we watch the dog show after the Macy's Day parade. We have the dog show on as we're preparing, you know, Thanksgiving meal, et cetera, et cetera. Those things we do every year, but those are ornaments on a very, on a much older tree. At its core, Thanksgiving is the American holiday that is supposed to force us quietly, maybe stubbornly, to confront the truth of who we are and where we've been.

Thanksgiving started with a small band of people that had every reason under the sun to curse the circumstances that they had found themselves in, and they chose to give thanks instead. Half of them had died on the trip over, the pilgrims. Half of them died on the trip over. Then the first winter comes. They were woefully unprepared.

They weren't ready. And what of the half that was left? Half of those guys died in the winter. Spring comes. They go to work. They till. They learn. They plant.

They reap. They stored. And then around this time of the year, after all that work was done, they stopped to recognize what happened to them. And they weren't celebrating abundance. They were celebrating survival. They were celebrating providence, that fragile flicker of hope that God had preserved them for some reason, unbeknownst to them, because certainly what they did didn't deserve that.

And that's the real meaning of Thanksgiving. It's gratitude in the face of hardship. I think all of us have faced hardships. A lot of hardships recently. A lot of woe, a lot of trouble. That's what this is about. Get your family together. if your family has been through hardship because you're split on whatever it is, stop all of that nonsense.

Stop it. Just say, hey, we've had hard times, all of us. We just want to get together and thank God that we're all still together. Gratitude in the face of hardship, humility before blessings that you didn't earn. A recognition that freedom, true freedom, always costs something. And Thanksgiving reminds us that our country didn't. not begin with triumph. It began with humility and thanks. It's the one thing that calls us back to something older than politics, deeper than division. The idea that we are not held together by force, not by the government, not by the screens in our pockets, not by shared acknowledgement of our rights, our lives and our liberties, they come from God. That's what brings us together.

They're not kings, not presidents, not parties, but our shared rights and the humility to be able to say, my gosh, what a miracle that is. And maybe the closest we get to that now in today's age is just the family gathered around the table. But even that is only the doorway. If we stop at the family around the table, we miss the whole point. Thanksgiving is the quiet confession that we are dependent on something much greater than ourselves, that America's strength begins. not with the clenched fist, but the open hand lifted in gratitude. This year, remember, it's not the meal, it's not the game, it's not the dog show. It's not all the traditions that mean so much to each of us.

We've piled on top of all of that. This is ancient. This is a simple act of people pausing just for a moment to say, man, out of this whole year and all of the things that have happened, we have survived. Thank you, God. Thank you for everything. even the hard things. It's maybe especially the hard things.

Thank you. Thank you. It has shaped us into the nation worth giving thanks for. That's Thanksgiving. That's America. And for that, I am grateful. I am thankful. I'm also thankful for a good friend of mine who Dave I say is, he's the founder and president

of StoryCorps, StoryCorps has preserved voices of the American story for the National Archives, and he has been with StoryCorps. He started at 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, I think was 2023. And he comes on from time to time,

and he shares some of the stories. Welcome, Dave. How are you, sir? Glenn, I'm doing great. It's great to hear your voice. Yeah, likewise. Likewise. Dave, you're going to share a story with us of gratitude and Thanksgiving.

Do you want to set this up? Sure. And that intro was absolutely gorgeous, Glenn. Thank you for that. Everything you said, 100% true. And we do have a true. Wait, wait, before you, you know what, while we're here, before we get in the story, I am so grateful for you.

you have you are working so hard to get people to sit down with one another and just talk they disagree but just talk try to lessen divisions in our country and um thank you for that Dave how's that well you know thank thank you I mean you know I listen to you preaching this every day in between the Jasmine Crockett talking about a Jeffrey Epstein and that was a great segment yesterday, Glenn. But you have a message that you're pounding your audience day in and day out. We have to love one another. We have to show each other grace. We have to love this country. We have to love each other. Or we have no future. And, you know, the Glenn Beck audience is the main conservative participant audience in this effort where we're putting strangers together across

the divides to get to know each other as human beings, not to talk about politics. And I mean, it goes all the way to Michaela on your team, reaching out to my team to do an interview. I mean, it's just like part of the DNA of the show. And, you know, it is our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we may disagree. I mean, that goes to the heart of what you were just saying about Thanksgiving. And I'm so grateful for that. And we would love, we want every, you know, this is, we're here to talk about Thanksgiving, but every Glenn Beck listener, viewer, everybody in the community, when we see, when my team sees a Glenn

listener name come in to participate. They go right to the top of the list because they're the smartest most and you know this, Glenn, your audience, most thoughtful, heartfelt, nuanced, you know, human beings. Yeah, I know you do. And you can hear that in the show every single day. So people can go to Take One Small Step.org and, you know, look, it is unbelievably hard. You know, I got a text from a guy who, who is like the smartest person on polarization in the country earlier this year. And he basically is like, the time for the work is going to come. Let's keep aiming for the stars. But it's going to be hard and harder and harder and harder and harder.

But we will get it's going to be trench warfare, but there is another story of America and that other story is going to win. And Glenn, to have you as a brother in this thing. And I do only come on occasionally, but, you know, I think we both feel pretty close to each other, and we come from, you know, we came from different politics, you know, but the minute we met each other, you know, we're like brothers. We care. We're like brothers.

And 99% of things we agree, you know. So this is, and we're living in an illusion, you know, 90% of the country are sane. They're just like, they're looking for a way out. Part of the exhausted majority. and we have these like loud, nutty voices on the fringes that are driving us absolutely bonkers. And it's not going to end well if we can't figure out a way to get people to remember who we really are as Americans. And it's, you know, it's everything you just said. And, you know, and you say it over and over again, blessed are the peacemakers, you know, and that's your audience.

Yeah. Well, if you want to get involved, please, you don't, you go to take one small step.org. And that's just you sitting down with some. somebody and finding the common humanity. And it is a really, I mean, Michaela is still talking about it. She did it, what, two years ago? And she is still talking about what an amazing experience. Yeah, it was.

Take One Small Step.org, and they'll fill you in on everything. So, Dave, tell me the Thanksgiving message here. Yeah. Okay. So we have a story for you. So this is from, you know, this is from not from one small step. This is from regular StoryCorps where we've had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Americans come together.

You know, and really in many ways just to thank each other in these 40-minute conversations they have about who they are, what they care about, all everyday people, none of the nonsense, none of the BS, you know, fringe crazy stuff that we were just talking about. So this is John Cruit and Cecil Doyle. In 1958, John Cruit's mom dies two days before Christmas. She's been seriously ill. He's in third grade. And his teacher, Cecil Doyle is incredibly kind to him. And more than 50 years later, he decides he needs to write Mrs. Doyle a letter. So let's listen to John Cruit and Cecil Doyle.

We talked about decorating the Christmas tree when I came home from school that day. But I walked into the living room and my aunt was there. And she said, well, honey, mommy passed away this morning. And I remember at my mother's wake, someone in my family came to me and said, Johnny, your teacher's here. When I found out she died, I could certainly relate to that. Because when I was 11, my own father died. And you just don't know how you're going to go on without that person.

When I returned to school, you waited until the other children left the room at the end of the day. And you told me that you were there if I needed you. And you bent over and kissed me on the head. It was really the only time someone said to me, I know what you're feeling and I know what you're missing. and I felt in a very real way that things really would be okay. Well, John, I really loved you as a student, and I'm so glad that I could be there with you for that time. Many years later, when I became a teacher, I started to think more and more about you,

and I started to think to myself, here I am with a memory of a teacher who changed my life. And I've never told her that. And that's why I finally wrote this letter. Dear Mrs. Doyle, if you are not the Cecil Doyle, who taught English at Emerson School in Kearney, New Jersey, then I'm embarrassed, and you can disregard the sentiments that follow.

My name is John Cruit, and I was in your third grade class during the 1958-1959 school year. Two days before Christmas, my mother passed away, and you told me that you were there if I needed you. I hope life has been as kind to you as you were to me. God bless you always, with great fondness, John. And your letter could not have come at a better time

because my husband had Parkinson's and he was going downhill and I had just come home from the hospital and I read this beautiful letter and I just was overwhelmed. Well, the funny thing is when I finally wrote to you again after 54 years, I typed a letter I was afraid my penmanship wasn't going to meet your standards. well after all this time this is doing all I can say to you is thank you

John what can I say I'm just glad that we made a difference in each other's life Dave all of these things are being collected in there at the National Archives 100 years from now what is the American story what do you think they'll see when they've

listen to all these what will they find easiest question I'll get all year you know the facilitators what they're going to find is the basic goodness of the American people, period. Every kind of person, every state, every occupation, every political persuasion, you know, the people who listen to these interviews, who facilitate the interviews, who work for StoryCorps, the facilitators, you know, they all come back.

And if you ask them what they've learned, it's a version of the end, Frank quote, that people are basically good. So what they're going to hear is the good, you know, a lot of people often say to me, you know, if Martians came down to Earth, then they could only hear one thing, hope they hear those story core interviews. Yeah. And it's really who it's who we are. And, you know, we're living in a complete, you know, reality distortion zone in this

kind of hate industrial complex. And it is, it's all a big lie. It's a big lie. Dave, you should have, you should go to Elon Musk and have these story core all put in to the algorithm of GROC. It might help the, it might help the algorithm understand who we. really are. And I, you know, I want AI to like us.

Yes, exactly. I mean, look, I think AI would be much better with StoryCorps inside of it than without story core inside of it. So we are, we're thinking hard about that. Good. We're on the same wavelength as always. And Glenn, I wish you and your family, a fantastic holiday. And I love you a lot for, you know, being in the arena with us every day on this thing.

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