The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Brandon Darby & Lue Elizondo | 2/23/26

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

Breitbart Cartel Chronicles co-founder and director Brandon Darby joins to discuss whether U.S. forces helped kill El Mencho, which ignited a violent cartel war across Mexico. The United States won the gold medal in ice hockey for the first time in 40 years, and Glenn is proud of it, despite media outlets telling Americans they shouldn’t be. Glenn reacts to some of the highlights of yesterday’s big win. Former Pentagon UAP official Lue Elizondo joins to discuss Obama’s recent claim regarding alien life on Earth. Are there classified documents that prove extraterrestrials have visited Earth? Glenn and Lue also theorize how the existence of alien life could be different from what we’ve previously thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What the hell is happening with Mexico? Don't let your kids go for spring. break. Brandon Darby talks about what's happening in Mexico and it's really, really good and a little bit frightening as well. Also, how is somebody who we did not even know their name 24 hours ago? Now the one guy that everyone wants to talk about, how we can understand what happened with America, the gold, and the hockey game. And UFOs, Lou Elizondo joins us to talk about the latest on the search for UFOs. Are they real? Is something coming our way? All of that and more on today's podcast. Let me tell you about relief factor. I know thinking too about being in pain for years.

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the best of the Glenback program. Brandon Darby is joining us. He is the editor-in-chief for Breitbart, Texas. He is also Breitbart Cartel Chronicle, co-founder and director. He was on with me in April. And in April, we talked about this particular cartel and the head,

and he said, the United States isn't serious unless we get this guy, but this guy is protected by the Mexican Secretary of Defense. Well, apparently that has changed. So we wanted to bring Brandon on. First of all, Brandon, you've been reporting on this for years and years, if not decades. Did you ever think this day would come? No. And Glenn, thank you for having me on. good morning to you and your listeners. I am super excited. I did not expect this.

I believed the Trump administration when they were warning Mexico. They said basically, hey, you're going to get this guy. You're going to take this seriously or we're going to take it seriously without your consent. And I thought that that's probably what would end up happening. I did not expect Mexico to play ball. and actually help. No. So why?

What do you think the president said to the, because I don't think the president of Mexico is a fan of America, and certainly not a fan of Donald Trump's. What did he say, do you think, that got them to act on this? Because this is a really big deal. Right. So I think my best estimation at this point of what happened

was that the Mexico, and President Gloria Scheinbaum knew about this, but that the rest of her cabinet did not. I know that roughly or was it probably February 15th or so, Navy

Seals began to train a group within the Mexican Army Savannah for a specific training that no one, it was obscure, no one knew what it was about. Well, it turns out this is what it was about. So I know that those

Mexican military folks were sequestered. So their phones or any mechanism they had to communicate with the outside world was taken from them. And they did this operation. The Mexican government does operation. So I think that we, you know, it's very well documented. The current Secretary of Defense for Mexico being, you know, heavily connected with El Mincho. So obviously, you know, they don't. didn't know. So it was kept very secret. There is a possibility that this was done, you know,

without the approval of the Mexican president, but she is kind of running a victory lap so far. So I don't think that's the case. I think it really is a situation. You know, if we look at the history, every time the U.S. has found El Minchot and tried to work with counterparts in Mexico to get him, El Minchot was tipped off and was told, hey, they're about to get you so he would be missing or he would be gone. And this time that did not happen. This time it was kept close to the chest and they were able to pull it off. And now he's gone.

I question the narrative that El Minchot and two others were, you know, injured and then were being flown to Mexico City and they all happened to die on the helicopter ride, the Mexico City, right? Like I question that narrative. I think that he was probably going to die. You know, he was probably killed. They probably decided like, hey, if we let this guy, you know, in our system, he's, he is so connected that he's going to get out. He's going to be able to get out and kill our families. So I think they killed him. That's the most likely scenario. And now we are in a very different stage, as I've said before. Um, if, If someone this powerful, the top of the top can be taken out, it tells everyone in Mexico

who's involved in cartels that they can also be gotten and that they better keep it in check or they might be. What does it mean for the president of Mexico? Because she could have done this herself long ago. This obviously is she's touting to Donald Trump or not. Absolutely. Well, so if you look at the, you know, the social media statements of Mexico's leading politicians and Mexico's leading journalists, you know, they're doing everything they can to take credit away from Trump and the Trump administration and the Trump administration's approach. They're saying that this was, you know, another person in the administration who pushed this. Trump had nothing to do with it, but that's not. true. What happened is that... Let's let the believe that's true. Yes, whatever they want to say. And I don't understand. I'm going to be honest with you, it's very difficult for me to understand the liberal

mind, even though once when I was younger, I was one of them. Sometimes they still just blow my mind with the, the way it blows my mind, right? The logic sometimes blows my mind. The mental gymnastics. The gymnastics. The gymnastics blows. in the mind that we you know folks like you and i try to and our movement holds us accountable to be intellectually consistent right that's okay that they they do it differently that's fine that's their business but um you know what happened here is that Trump began to hit narco votes showing that he was willing to do things that have not been done prior Trump took out Maduro Trump to I mean he went down the line and and you know Pete Hegseth and others in the administration

openly warned Mexico that you will either help do this or we will do it unilaterally because it affects our country. What Mexico began to do was to hand us, you know, they started to crack down on cartels as a whole, and they started to hand us significant figures who we wanted. However, if you looked at it, the vast majority of them up until about a month ago, maybe two months ago, were all of the opposition and all of the competition to cartel, Halisco, and El Minchos. So in an effort to appease us

and look like they were taking it seriously, they were actually still helping El Minchot. They were protecting him, and they were taking out his adversaries as proof that they were serious about cartels. And a couple of months ago, we started to see them going after Cartel Halisco. They took his number three guy,

and they gave him to the U.S. quickly, because the last time he was arrested, he was let go, right? Immediately a judge let him go. And so what happened was that they realized that you're either going to do this and help us or the U.S. is going to do it alone and the political fallout will be horrible for you if the U.S. takes unilateral military action in their country. And they decided to play ball and to actually roll the dice and go for it. And that's what they've done.

what is the fallout for us here in america because they have operatives all over the united states all over um well i i think that what we have to look at is we have to go back historically um to what happened with other cartels right even though the other cartels did not have the level of power and influence that el mincho had um but what happens is you have like the gulf cartel who operates south of Texas along the, you know, the Gulf of America, I call it. Some people say Gulf of Mexico still. They're antiquated, but I say Gulf of America. You know, that cartel had centralized power of Mexico's central government.

They had state power, all types of power. We began to decapitate them and decapitate them every time a leader popped his head up. And what you're left with is 10 to 15. you know glorified gangbanger units who really have no they no longer have central power over the central government of Mexico they no longer really even have power over the state that they live in tamalipas in mexico they just have county power and little they're glorified gangs and they still call themselves the gulf cartel but they're so weakened at this point that that they really don't have the type of power they've had historically.

And that's what's probably going to happen here. There's going to be an uptick in violence, which liberals will blame on Trump, even though they're not crediting him with taking out the guy, right? That's what I meant by mental gymnastics. They'll blame the violence on Trump and on the United States. But there will be an uptick in violence as four or five different groups fight for power and fight for control. They'll become factionalized.

And then we'll take out the heads of those groups. And then they'll become even, you know, even more fractionalized, fractional and factionalized. And ultimately, they'll have no longer have central power over Mexico's government. And they'll no longer have that. They'll have regional power and then we'll take them out. And then the next thing, you know, they'll be reduced to having power over their block, you know, their street. that's the goal. So the effects of this will be long.

I do not think we'll see a lot of acts of narco-terrorism within the U.S. because of this. I don't know that, but I don't think so. I think that the statement made is that it doesn't matter how powerful you are. Like if you put yourself in a position to become the focus of the United States government, we can and will get you. And I think that this result, and a lot of folks trying to keep their heads down and not being as ostentatious as El Minto was when he was alive.

Are we going to see a transformation of Mexico? Do you think, do they have the stomach to finish this job or is somebody else is going to step in? Well, I think that's going to, it's a great question, Glenn. I think that's going to depend on what we do in this country. You know, if the next time we get a leader, if that leader is very left-leaning and soft on, you know, soft on drugs and soft on crime. And if that leader is also soft on illegal migration, right? If that leader is soft on asylum claims and they allow tens of millions of people to show up at our border as they did in the last administration, keeping in mind that several of these cartels have business models that are that are primarily based on asylum claimants, right, and on illegal immigration, they were making as much or more, like various factors of the Gulf cartel in Los Eccetas was making as much or more from the people showing up at our border claiming asylum than they were making from drugs.

So if we do things in this country that increase the pull factors and increase the economic engines for various Mexican cartels, then we're going to be in trouble. But if we continue to say in the best case scenario, right, say that we have JD Vance and he continues with the Trump policies and the Trump focus on Mexican cartels, I think that we have a very good shot. at Mexico becoming a better place, which is very important for us because it affects us directly, right? You got to keep in mind, you know, like Americans didn't want fentanyl and then El Minchill began to manufacture fentanyl, right? El Minchel began to manufacture fentanyl and then the desire for more of it, right? It was a push issue, not a demand issue. obviously that's a complicated issue but but it was more of a push and not not so much a demand that caused the supply it was the supply that pushed the demand and when it came to that so

it really just depends on what we do but i i can tell you this if mexico we're going to become a better place if our southern neighbor was going to get healthier this is exactly what was required for that to happen. So this isn't the armistice. This isn't the end of the war. This isn't, you know, Germany's surrendering, but this is definitely, yesterday was definitely D-Day, right? And we definitely took land and we definitely established a beachhead.

And so I am very hopeful. I think this shows that the current Mexican president is actually trying to work with the U.S. no, I don't think she would have if it weren't for Trump's pressure. But regardless of that, this shows a serious step in the right direction. Brandon, 45 seconds left. Talk directly to anybody who's thinking spring break's going to be great. I'm going to Mexico, no matter what. I would not allow my children to go to Mexico right now.

I would not allow my children to go to even the safe areas like Cancun or Putta Vajaca, because they're obviously not safe, but keep in mind those are economic engines for cartels. As they fight each other, they're going to try to hurt each other's economic engines, and you just might find yourself or your child or your college student caught in Crossfire. I would not do that right now. I would wait a bit or go into Mexico. Thank you so much. Appreciate it, Brandon.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. So last night was fabulous, or yesterday was fabulous, when we found out that the U.S. hockey team won the gold. Let me give you a couple of scenes from this. First of all, I don't know if you've seen if you happen to be watching on Torch. You will see the picture. This is Jack Hughes smiling after the win, which I just absolutely love.

Do you have that full screen? There he is. I mean, blood in his mouth. I mean, this is an American. This is an American. Okay. Here's the moment he scored the game winning goal. Listen, cut one.

The numbers. It's the greatest. It is the greatest. It is the greatest. It feels good. You know, Donald Trump said one at one point, you're going to get sick of winning. I'm not sick of it.

I am not sick of it. Now, they sang the national anthem, and I want to play just a little bit of the hockey team singing the national anthem. They're not singers. They're hockey players. But they were proud to be an American. They were proud to be there representing us. That is what.

felt so good. We don't feel that very often anymore. And the left is saying, oh, it's a MAGA win. Maga's a... Shut up. Shut up. This should be something for all Americans to enjoy. I'm tired of being ashamed of my country. I'm not ashamed. I should say, I'm tired of people trying to make me ashamed of my country. I'm tired of people being ashamed of our country. Have we we made mistakes? Yeah. Show me the country that has made fewer that are 230 years old or 250 years old. Show me the country. We all suck at some point, but we try and strive to get better. Look, when he brought home or helped bring home the gold, it landed differently than, you know, than most gold medals land.

Okay. And it's partly because of him, but it's also partly because of us. Hockey is different. Now, you're going to have to excuse me because I know nothing about hockey. I mean, I know nothing about sports, but from what little I have read,

excuse me for the first two points, but I think they're accurate, okay? There are five reasons why this hit differently for all of us. The first one, this is a new generation of American hockey. We lived, when I was growing up, we lived in the shadow of Canada and the old Soviet Union. And that was a machine. And the miracle of 1980, that was just blue-collar grit.

That was just, you know, that was Lake Placid. It was sacrifice. Hughes is different. He is speed. He's skill. He's flash. confidence. He's the face of the New Jersey Devils. Former number one overall draft pick. He is the guy who represents the American hockey player development. Kids coming out of the

U.S. national team development program who don't just compete internationally. They're dominating. And that shift matters because we've always kind of been this borrowed excellence or we were the, you know, we were not the, we didn't dominate. We borrowed. Now it's all homegrown. There's the first reason. This is homegrown. It's a new generation. Two, he has a style that I think Americans recognize. He plays like a modern American athlete. He is creative. He is fast. He is fearless. He walks off with no teeth in the front. I mean, he's willing to take over. Okay. Gold medals mean more to us when they're played or when they're won by players who feel distinctly American in their temperament. They're assertive. They're confident and a little defiant. That's who we are. Okay. And he didn't just compete. He imposed himself on these games.

Americans like that. The rest of the world may not like that, but that's who. who we are. We're the people who cross the Rocky Mountains. Okay. Third reason. Gold still themes really rare in hockey. Okay. Basketball. I mean, we have the dream team in basketball. Oh, we won the gold. What a shock. expected. Baseball work, you know, everybody's competitive. Football, that's ours, of course. But hockey, hockey still carries an old weight to it. It feels like you're taking something back from the old powers of Canada and Sweden and Russia. When the U.S. wins gold in hockey, it's earned the hard way. And when a young American star is at the center of that, I don't know,

it just kind of feels like momentum, right? Feels good. Now, here's the fourth reason why. This feels different. Timing. We are in the weirdest place of, my lifetime. We are culturally divided. We are cynical. We're exhausted by politics. And sports, at least this sports moment, it was clean, it was earned, it was unified. And it hits harder

right now when somebody, listen, play the cut of him. Let me see where I can find it. Play the cut where he is talking about how lucky he is. Cut three. I'm lucky. I'm from the best country in the world. We got great dentists there too. I'm lucky. I'm American and they're going to fix me right up.

Standing there, listen to the anthem. What's going through your head? Just so proud. I'm so proud to be American. I'm so proud of this group. I'm so happy that we could win. You know, we have so many people here supporting us. We have so many people back home supporting us.

And, you know, we're just, we're so thrilled. with how this whole tournament played out and, you know, just an unbelievable moment for USA hockey. We've been feeling that love for so many years, you know, so many of these guys have been, like, with USA hockey for so long. We have so many ex-players, ex-Olympians, all the guys we looked up to reached out to us.

We got their notes on the wall in the locker room, and they sent some unbelievable messages, stuff that, you know, puts tears in your eyes, honestly, because it means so much to them. It means so much to us. the next batch of kids in the next 20 years it's going to mean so much to them. So that's why we do this.

USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong. We're so proud that we could do it for them. We're so proud we could do it for everyone back home. I mean, how great is that? There's no scandal. There's no theatrics. There's just excellence and teamwork. Let me play the next cut.

They brought the kids of Johnny Goddrow out. He was killed by a drunk driver last year. year alongside his brother and they bring his two kids out on the eye he would have been playing in the olympics and they bring his kids out play a little bit of this as we look behind Dylan larkin and Zachoretsky have gone into the stands to go get Johnny's kids they're going to come out now and they're going to hold your dad's jersey and get a picture with the gold metal team how beautiful was that moment you talk about sports and you talk about the togetherness of a team.

That's why they won the goal. And that's what mattered to us. I mean, this is the story of Jack. He's the face of it, but it's not the story of Jack. It is the team. It's the team. There was a time when America felt like a team. And I don't know about you, but I'm longing to feel like a team again.

I don't know why we can't get on to the, you know, USA team, but we can't. There's too many people that hate America that are Americans. I don't get it. I just don't get it. But, you know, to each his own. And the fifth reason, I think, is because of the story of his family. Another thing that is important to America. Jack's not just a one-off.

He is a hockey family. His brother is a star for the Vancouver Canucks, and I'm not going to hold that against him. His other brother also plays for the devils. Three elite American players from one family. There is something to that that speaks to us about our family in a deeper way. Discipline structure, parental investment. People who work hard, this family obviously works hard, trains hard, and is a unit.

That's the American ideal. Build it at home, take it to the world stage. That's why this hit us all so hard because it feels like a torch is being passed to the next generation and they're lighting an entirely new flame. American development is beating the old system. Excellence without shame or apology. Unity without politics.

And family. I mean, that was not a medal you saw. That was the symbol of something that Americans are hungry to feel again. that we're not fading away, that we can still produce the very best in the world, that our young men and women can walk into the hardest arenas on earth and come out champions, no matter what everyone else is telling them. And in hockey of all things and all sports, it still feels like we're proving something. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Lou, how are you, my man? Glenn, I'm doing better than I deserve. You know, I tell people at my age, any day above ground is a good day. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. So do you remember having that conversation where you said the clock is ticking? I do. I remember that, Glenn. I sure do.

So what did you mean by that? Well, look, in the world of national security, the clock is always ticking. What do I mean by that? Well, you know, there are foreign adversaries out there that are very much involved in the research of UAP like we are, just like our country. And what you don't want to do is allow ourselves to get to a point of what we call strategic surprise, right? All of a sudden you have country X or country Y out there that may not necessarily be friendly to the U.S. And all of a sudden they find they have a breakthrough, right? So China has already admitted they have their own UAP program, so is Russia.

And what we don't want to do is allow us. to fall behind some of our adversaries capabilities. Now there's also another part of that conversation too. What you don't want to do is allow so much time to go by that by the time you are forced to make a decision all your options you've you've exhausted. Meaning let's say that there is an announcement, let's say later this year that life has been been discovered somewhere else off of earth. Right. You don't want to be in a situation as a government where you are caught flat-footed and surprised, right? And by that statement, you want to be as proactive as possible. You want to be able to have the conversation, socialize the idea with your citizens.

Because let's face it, governments writ large are the reason why they have the authority they do is because people have faith and confidence in those institutions, in those governments. And the last place of any government wants to be is on their back foot, right, in a situation where they get surprised. And now, like we saw, for example, with the drone incursions that we had back in 2024 up in New Jersey, right? First, the White House says, there's nothing to see here, folks. And they said, well, actually, there is something to see here. Well, actually, they've all been, all these drones have been coordinated through the FAA. Well, no, they haven't. We don't even know if they're drones at this point.

Or the Chinese spy balloon, right? under the Biden administration. That's another case and point where decisions were made on our behalf because we simply didn't want to face the uncomfortable truth that China was sent. They were connoissell balloons over North America, completely unchallenged. So you started this out with, imagine country X or Y. So are you saying that we're possibly facing something from another country?

Well, I think all is possible. All cars have to remain on the table until they're not. I think there is enough information to suggest that other countries are heavily invested in this topic. But keep in mind, we've been dealing with this now for decades. And when I say decades, at least eight decades. That's 80 years we've been dealing with this phenomenon. And if you look 80 years ago, where was Russia? Well, you know, the United States had just entered the atomic age.

We had barely broken the sound barrier. No one has been into space. and that means some country secretly was developing this technology and was able to perfect it eight decades ago. So that doesn't make sense, right? If that was the case, this would be considered the worst intelligence failure in the history that's not having that of even 9-11, because that means for 80 years, some country in secret that has been, by the way, has been able to military facilities, and there's not a darn thing

we can do about it. So when you look back at this from a temporal aspect or a time aspect, it's simply, doesn't make sense that all of this, what we're seeing, is Russian or Chinese. It doesn't, it doesn't. You, and you're not the only one that said this. 2027 keeps coming up, and you just said later this year or in 2027. Why is 2027 the year that everybody keeps throwing around? Because it doesn't seem random to me.

Everybody seems to be saying 2027. Yeah, I've heard, um, 2027, also heard 2036. The capacity in which I heard it, I'd rather not get into. I heard it when I was, when I was working with U.S. Space Force. But it was, to me, it seemed more anecdotal. So I'm, I'm probably not best suited to answer that time wise, simply because I didn't come up with that timeframe. But like you, I heard that as well. And, you know, certainly something we need to, we didn't need to pay attention to. So

the Laura Trump just came out and said there's a speech for the president to give and he's prepared to give it at some point. Is that a speech? Do you think she's referring to a speech that that every president has had? Or is this something that is prepared for this time, do you think? I think it's probably something prepared for this time simply because a lot of presidents were kept in the dark on this topic for a very long time,

and I don't think they took it seriously. Certainly this president during his first term, initially when he was asked, kind of laughed it off, and then later, from my understanding, he received some briefings and then took it quite seriously afterwards. But look, it's a very risky topic. Any president that makes a public statement about this topic runs a huge risk, simply because there's a lot of unknowns. And it has never really been good for one's career necessarily or even the media up until recently to even cover this topic because the amount of stigma and taboo that have been

associated purposefully, by the way, on this topic, on purpose, our own government created this taboo unnecessarily to give it the flexibility to actually do research. A lot of people are surprised when they find out that ATIP was actually a approach. in the Pentagon that was studying UFOs. That's what my colleagues and I were told to do. And you said it absolutely correct. I was never a quote-unquote believer. I went to through the medical program at University of Miami and my technically I graduated in microbiology and immunology. So the scientific method for me is very important. Also as an intelligence officer, you have to let the facts. However, with that said, there comes a point where you have

so much overwhelming evidence and you have some of the most sufficiently can identify the difference between an F-16 and let's say a MiG-25 from 25 miles away. These same sensor systems are being used to collect information on things that frankly we don't understand, technologically speaking. These things can outperform anything we have in our inventory. And that is a national security issue. And I believe that our president has been made aware of that. And not just by the Department of War either. There's other elements. the FBI, the intelligence community, even the Department of Energy that all have equity.

One of my researchers said, the reason why the government is so afraid of all this coming out is because if there is technology that we got from someplace else, and it was shared with certain companies, then other companies will start suing and saying, well, I didn't get any of that. That's an unfair advantage. Do you think there's anything to that?

Yeah, absolutely correct. Yeah, absolutely. Look, there's back, you know, with the military industrial complex, there's still rules and laws that have to be followed, and you have to have free and fair competition. That is how this system works. And if it turns out that maybe some general somewhere in the halls of the Pentagon gave a company an unfair advantage. You can imagine in 10 years, 20 years, company A becomes a multi-billion dollar aerospace company where company B goes bankrupt, 200 jobs are lost and investors, you know, lose their investment, right? So there's securities exchange commissions violations. I mean, you could, you could, in theory, rack up not just billions,

but trillions of dollars worth of liability and damages. So that is a very real issue. That is absolutely correct. One last thing. What is the, you were on the podcast with me and you talked about a spiritual element of all of this. That I think. think you said you walked into a meeting and the scientists were talking about something spiritual, and we didn't really get into it. Can you share that again? Sure. Well, let me just say this, Glenn, if I can, I think ultimately the human experience is a spiritual experience. There's no way around it. You know, a lot of people say that we're humans having a spiritual experience. I tend to think we're spiritual beings having a human experience. But that aside,

I agree. There were elements in the Pentagon that believed that what we were looking into were actually demons. And there were some fundamentalists that believed that this was all the work of, so to speak, the devil. Now, I can't, between you and me, and I guess now everybody else, I can't necessarily fault them for thinking that. because if that is their their spiritual perspective, then I can understand it. And there are elements certainly within this topic that may, I don't know what to be true.

Like, can you tell me? Yeah, there were people in the Pentagon that believe that UFOs, not only did they say they were real, actually told me to my face and my colleagues, but that we shouldn't be looking into them because they are demons, they're demonic, they are. We know exactly what they are. And again, some of these people,

are very, very senior in the intelligence community. Some of them were friends of mine. And although I don't, I don't agree with their perspective, look, at the end of the day, I can't prove that they're wrong either. So I respect it. I don't agree with it, but I can respect that. Do you have any idea why they would say something like that? Well, what was told to me point blank was, Lou, have you read your Bible lately? And I thought, well, I thought I was pretty familiar with it. Why? And he said, well, then you would know because what we're dealing with are demons and we shouldn't be looking into them.

And that was the extent of that conversation I had with a senior leader in the U.S. government. But there were others as well who felt the same way. There's a lot of people that also can point to the Bible, and they'll talk about Ezekiel's wheel, right, as being actually an interpretation of an encounter with a UAP. So I spent some time at the Vatican, and I'll tell you, I'll share this, and it was kind of interesting, and I'll make it quick. There they opened a scroll. It was a very old archman.

It was in Latin. And one of the senior academics there at the Vatican said, look, here, read this part. And it talked about Eclipse. Eclipse is a Latin word for, like, think of Eclipse. And it was the word they were using for the, for the Roman shields because the Roman shields were round and lenticular and they looked, I guess, like, like sons. And he said, here it is. And this was a discussion between a Roman soldier and a Roman general,

where they described these flaming Roman shields in the sky that would follow them from battle space to battle space. And so, you know, this is going way back. And this is, this is a document that's in the possession of the Vatican itself. So the Vatican has also had a deep interest in this topic. The last pope actually said, I believe, several years ago, that we should not be surprised that light being that we are any less special. Lou, it's always fascinating to talk to you. We'll keep watching. Thank you so much.

All right, my honor and privilege, thank you so much. You bet. Former Pentagon UAP official, the guy who led the search. Here recently, a lot of the breaking news comes from him, Lou Elizando. We'll say, in the phone, all the world can be a guy of the finance. Not a reason to have a gross monger in art, to play to golf, or to be an pro of the crypto. Not a business, not even though,

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