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Episode Date: January 29, 2025Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss President Trump’s continuing efforts to rid the government of radical leftists. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), author of "All the President’s Money," joins to di...scuss his efforts to get access to President Biden’s bank records and the possibility of the Biden family testifying. Actor, director, and producer Craig T. Nelson joins to discuss his newest film, “Green and Gold,” which highlights farmers' critical role in America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Congressman James Comer about the Biden family and will the Justice Department now start examining
this because whether anybody goes to jail or not, it has to be exposed. And Pat is back from Mexico
and he saw a few differences between the U.S. and Mexico. He said he almost cried when he finally
got back to America. We take so much for granted here in the U.S.
And he points that out on today's podcast.
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Tomorrow, those are going to be open,
but the vote is in the skiff.
And here is, here's the real problem.
Tulsi Gabbard has been charged by President Trump
to go in and look at every single,
secret agency and find out what the black ops are, what have they been doing, who is involved
in any of this smear. She's being smeared like crazy again today, again by the intelligence
community. And she's, I think she's the most risky vote because it's a secret vote. And it should
not be a secret vote. She is not, she doesn't have any high, high, high,
top secret clearance yet. She has none. So she's not going to be divulging any secrets. And I want to know.
I may not have to hear everything. If some things are sensitive, then, you know, I want security for the United States.
But this has been a secret vote since the Department of Homeland Security invented the job of Department of National Intelligence.
She oversees all the spooks.
And I want to know how my representative is voting.
Because if they take a secret vote, then we don't know who's on our side, who's not.
I want to be able to say, wait a minute, Senator, why did you vote that way?
This is a way for them to be cowards and do things.
I mean, you don't understand how many senators and congressmen have said to me in secret
outside, looking around, being very paranoid, you carrying a phone, and then say, they are spying on
all of us. That has to stop. This is oversight. So you might want to call your congressman and make
sure that they vote or your senators and make sure that they vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
And demand that it's not a secret vote. You can make a difference. With that said, before I go to Pat,
Let me just give you one other piece of news that just came in from Rhonda Santis, who was on yesterday's program.
He said, I want you to thank all the listeners of your program yesterday, Glenn, who have supported the strong immigration proposals in Florida.
They called, they wrote to the Florida legislature to insist on the strongest law possible.
please keep up the calls and the letters for the provisions that are currently missing from the legislature's latest bill.
So they started to make, you made a difference yesterday. Keep it up. They're starting to move his way.
But you've got a lot of rhinos in Florida that are trying to play the old game.
Don't get to Santis's bill through or you're going to lose Florida.
You're going to lose what you have.
The minute he's gone, these weasels will come back in and screw it all up again.
Be strong and send a strong message to the legislature.
Hello, Pac-Rae.
Welcome.
Hello, Glenn Beck.
You just got back from Mexico, right?
I did.
Yeah.
How was that?
It was awesome.
It was great.
It was eye-opening, though.
You know, you realize just how much we take for granted.
Oh, yeah.
In the United States.
Every time I travel, I come back and go, oh, thank God.
I'm back in the United States.
Yeah.
Oh, we, Jackie and I were both that way.
We nearly wept as we flew over the DFW area coming back home.
I mean, it's so tragic to see what they have to put up with in Mexico.
What do you mean?
I mean, it's a nation with incredible resources.
You know, they have oil.
They have agriculture.
They have tourism.
They could.
Yeah, very wealthy.
They could.
They squads.
But their leadership squanders it because they're corrupt.
and you know it's pretty bad when you when the water is so bad that you can't even brush your teeth with it
you can't even put it in your mouth to spit it back out because it's too dangerous to do that
you can't even flush toilet paper down a toilet the sewer system is so screwed up I don't know how they
put up with it I don't know why they put up with it I guess they're used to it now they don't
I mean, again, if we didn't have Donald Trump, we would end up be in that situation.
And we would just have to put up with it.
They don't have a Donald Trump.
And anybody who looks like could be a Donald Trump, they're killed by the cartels.
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, it does show you what 50 or 100 years of socialism brings you.
Yes.
And corruption with cartels.
And the cartels are in control of a lot of what happens there.
Where did you go?
We went to Viadolid first, and then we went to Tulum, which are, Touloum's kind of a trendy, new, touristy area now.
Oh, well, you know, you scream trendy.
Don't I know?
Right?
You scream trendy.
When people see me and hear me, they think.
Trendsetter.
He might not scream trendy, but he does scream tourist when he's in Mexico.
That I'm sure of.
That's for sure.
Military presence there.
I know in Cancun, it's heavy.
Yeah, it's not as heavy as it is in Cancun, but they're still pretty.
serious military presence. You see
them driving around in their in their Humvees
and the jeeps
with the AR-15s
or AK-47s. I'm not sure what
they use. And they're on the street corners
on the main strip where
the tourists all walk
down the street all day long.
So there is a serious presence.
But you can't even trust that. No.
You can't. And I was told when I was there,
hey, don't ever carry cash
with you if you rent your
car. Because when they pull you over,
They will find a way to take it all from you.
I'm like, well, we have that in America.
It's called civil asset forfeiture.
I'm pretty used to that.
In Mexico, they have just called corruption.
Yes.
And that's what they said.
We at least give it a fancy name.
They said the cops are so corrupt there that if you get pulled over and they know that you have any sort of,
because they offer to accept your ticket right then and there.
And they usually find a way when they find that you have money to take it all.
so can you imagine living that way no i mean that's the that's where we were headed it is where we were
headed you couldn't trust the police you couldn't trust the fbi i mean i still don't i trust you know my
local police um but i don't trust the fbi i don't trust the justice system i mean look at what
don't trump is taking on right now in this last week what what what when you were on vacation i'm
assuming you saw some of it.
Yes.
What were your thoughts?
And did you hear anybody in Mexico say anything?
It felt too good to be true.
I mean, the things that he was doing were a dream just a few months ago.
Right.
And remarkably, he's still doing more.
Every day.
Every day.
You would come in here like, oh my gosh.
You could tell Doge is in effect with this.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure we'll get into it later.
Fork in the road.
Yeah, this idea that like every single employee gets this email say, you can just
respond.
resign to this email and then we'll pay you till September, which may get overturned in the courts.
But it's the exact thing that they did with Twitter, right?
Like, it's exactly.
And it started the same way.
It started the same way.
The letter.
Yeah, the letter to the Twitter employees and the letter to the government employees started
with a fork in the road.
Yeah.
And I think that's great.
I don't have a problem with that.
I don't have a problem with it either.
I mean, there's some clause that you can pay employees $25,000.
for them to resign.
Like that's in the law.
It's like the Homeland Security Act for some reason.
It's in there.
But paying people till September would go well over that for a lot of employees.
So they may have trouble with that particular part of it.
But again, all these things are getting challenged.
Pretty generous.
Yeah.
It's pretty generous.
Still saves, what was it, $150 million a year.
Oh, it would save a fortune.
It depends on how many people take it.
Right.
But I would take it.
If I were in the administration, I'd be like, you know,
they're going to find a way to cut.
I've done my deal.
I mean, unless you're hardcore, I think I would take it.
And I think, of course, this is part of the reason.
And the same thing Elon Musk did and the same thing that he's doing here.
If you are an opponent of Donald Trump and are working at a job that you're now executing policy that you disagree with.
I mean, like, look, I'm sure there are good liberal workers who are in there because they got in there and they wanted to do, they wanted to change the world and help people.
they go in there and all of a sudden like they're cutting these programs they probably don't want to stay in that job and so this gives them the opportunity to get out of course there are millions and the majority are liberal in government they believe that government is the way to fix things so they go into those government jobs yeah it makes sense we don't believe that so we don't go into those jobs the private sector correct get victimized by those other people I know so I mean it's it's it
only makes sense that our government is riddled with a socialist or big government people,
especially over the last few years with what's been happening with our educational system.
They're just pumping them out like crazy.
Yeah.
And this is a great way to just, you're going to wind up getting, I don't know, how many people
accept this, a quarter?
I don't know, probably a lot of people, 10%?
I would think a lot.
I don't know.
Whatever it is, it's going to be a large, raw number of people who are like, you know what,
I'll get paid until September and I'll find a new gig.
and like that's a great setup for somebody.
Right?
I'd much rather pay them till September to do nothing,
but there's an end date on it,
then continue to pay them for what they're actually doing
because whatever that is isn't working.
And it certainly beats severance if you get fired anyway,
and we give you two weeks and we say, see ya.
Yeah.
This is a way better option for you.
Which was implied quite clearly in the email.
Yeah.
You're probably going to get fired anyway, so you might as well take this.
Right.
And they probably are.
I really think Donald Trump is serious this time about reducing the size of government.
Oh.
I really think he's going to.
Yeah.
Oh, I think he's serious about all of it.
Yeah, I do too.
I mean, he, you know, it takes on watching him now, everything he told me over the summer and during the election, it changes the way I viewed that.
I knew he intellectually was there.
Yeah.
But this shows that he not only was intellectually there, he began.
planning this a long time ago and has the basis covered. The way he's doing things is
remarkable. It's incredible. I mean, he's said this a few times, but I really think it's true.
I think he's had the most consequential eight days in office ever. In history. Oh, yeah. Ever.
It's been intense. It has. It's been intense. And I feel intensely good. Yeah. And I will say,
like, I feel like we've missed things. I, at least I know we have. Because I, we've talked about a
lot of these things. And it's impossible to do a deep dive in all of them. Guys, this is you and
we, the three of us were together during Obama. Remember? We couldn't keep up with it. The
overwhelmed the system. Because he overwhelmed the system. The media can't keep up with this.
We can't keep up with this because he's overwhelming the system. It's brilliant. He's using
Cloward and Piven in reverse. Against them. Against them. I will say, though, this is the new
norm, isn't it? There's no way a Democrat gets into office and doesn't do the same stuff now.
That's why we have to win. That's why we must win in two years. We must win every single
election until the end of time. Well, no, I mean, no, because if you can if you can codify these
things, otherwise the next president. It's got to be backed up with legislation. It has to be. We have to
stop this executive order stuff. To get a hold of the country, we have to do it that way now. But it's got to be
codified. Otherwise, we're just going to keep doing this over and over again. And no country will
survive those wild swings. None of them. Pat, good to have you back. Thank you very much.
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Let's go to James Comer, who is with us, Congressman from Kentucky.
Welcome, Congressman.
How are you?
Well, thanks for having me on.
It is great to have you on.
I want to look at your book and what we found, but I want to frame it in a way of,
it's just frustrating to talk about all this stuff that we know.
if nothing is going to change.
So tell me what you found and how we can actually make sure this doesn't happen again on either side.
Well, we found two things.
First of all, obviously we found that the Bidens were on the take.
What the media tried to say about the Bidens was they were in business like Jared Kushner and Donald Trump.
But what we found in our investigation when we started subpoenaing bank records and things like this,
and bank violations, that was the big thing that suspicious activity reports was that they didn't
have a legitimate business. They had all these LLCs. They had about 26 or 27 LLCs, and at least
20 of them were flat out what's called shell company. They were not real legitimate businesses.
The banks flagged them. They said their client, when they would ask Hunter Biden, what is this LLC?
he would say it's an investment company, and then the bank examiners would be communicating with
each other when we subpoenaed the emails from the bank, and they would say, the client says this
is an investment company, but it has no investments, which is a shell company. They were using
these shell companies to launder money from these foreign nationals, and I would argue from the country
of China, not from a Chinese energy company, like the media said.
According to Tony Bobolensky, yeah, it was the Chinese Communist Party just bribing the Bidens.
They would then launder it in incremental payments to 10 different family members.
So we found out, first of all, the Biden family was on the take.
And secondly, we found out that the government knew about it.
That's the thing.
The government knew.
There were four different government agencies investigating the Bidens.
They were hot on the trail.
That was the FI, the IRS.
the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission,
all had ongoing investigations,
and when they would get to the point to where they would have to talk to Joe,
because none of this money would be happening without Joe Biden.
Right.
And they were told to stand down.
So we found out the Bidens were on the take,
and the government knew it, but there was a cover up.
Now, how does somebody get that kind of power to, say, stand down?
That's a great question, and that's what we call.
what I call the deep state.
These were deep state bureaucrats.
It wasn't necessarily the Christopher Rays or the James Comey's.
It was the embedded bureaucrats, the unelected bureaucrats who actually run these government
agencies.
And a lot of people think, okay, Trump's won the election.
He's come in.
He's going to put Cash Patel, who I love and they already communicate with, and he's going to,
he's the right guy for the government.
But Cash is going to have to fire a lot of career people.
people in the FBI. And, you know, the way the civil service laws are, you can't fire them.
And that's what happened to Trump, the first administration. He wanted to fire some of these
people in the, you know, the bill bars of the world. They would say, oh, you can't, or the
Jones companies of the world. They're going to. This time, they're going to try. Yeah, they're going
to. And that's how you stop it because people think, they shouldn't, we need to pass a law or
fix this to where this doesn't ever happen again. Well, the laws,
were in place. The banks notified the Treasury that they thought the Bidens were on the take.
The suspicious activity reports that we got, and I have a banking background, I knew this was a big
deal when we found out that we're 150 of these suspicious activity reports. I knew from being a
director of a bank. You don't issue these things for nothing, because the bank examiners roll in when you
issue one of these, and you certainly don't do it on a prominent client unless you know.
darn well, they're committing financial crimes.
And they had a, you know, it was reported 150.
We found 170 on the Biden's plus another 50 that they were, they were a part of, that they were subject to.
So 220 bank violations where the banks, six different banks were notifying the federal government.
We think they're laundering money.
We think they're violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
We think they're violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
I mean, so the checks and balances were in place.
The government agencies knew it, but they were told to stand down.
And I believe, and I write this in my book, that I don't believe they did it because they loved Joe Biden.
I believe they covered up for Joe Biden because they hated Donald Trump,
and they didn't want Donald Trump to come back in office.
And that's why they did it, in my opinion.
Also, perhaps, that the banks are getting an awful lot of money.
you know, all the bailouts and everything else, all the cozy relationship with the banks,
the Fed, and the federal government, bother me a great deal.
Because they should have, if they weren't getting any traction here, and everybody was denying it,
shouldn't they have come to the American people and said, hey, we just want you to know that we really
truly believe, or we have canceled our business with this client because of suspicious activity
or something like that? Shouldn't they have done that? The banks were scared to death. When I first,
when we flipped the house and I became chairman of the House Oversight Committee, one of the first
meetings I had in January when we were still trying to get a speaker elected that first week,
was with Jamie Diamond. And I write about it in my book, All the President's Money. And he's a CEO of Jake
J.P. Morgan. I knew J.P. Morgan was one of the banks that had a bunch of violations on the Biden.
And I said, I'm going to hopefully have subpoena power in a week or two. And I just want you to know,
I'm going to subpoena you and J.P. Morgan for these bank violations. And I thought he would, you know,
bark at me or whatever. But he wanted me to have those banks. And the other five banks,
You're talking about Wells Fargo.
You're talking about Bank of America.
I mean, they wanted me to happen because they were screaming.
I mean, you don't issue a suspicious activity report on someone and not get the bank examiners roll in.
But these banks were issuing dozens and dozens, and they had communicated amongst themselves
and knew that other banks were doing the same thing.
And they couldn't believe that the government wasn't doing anything.
And then that, you know, when the laptop came out, that, you know, they saw some of these emails on there that alluded to the banks were after the Biden.
And the media was saying, oh, there's nothing there.
It's Rudy Giuliani making stuff up.
It's right-wing crazy people like Comer saying the Bidens are corrupt when it's Russian collusion.
This is Vladimir Putin telling Republicans what to say.
And, I mean, to the banks, I'll defend the banks in this, they were very cooperative.
They turned over, I mean, they gave us the Biden bank records, which you think about it.
The sitting president of the United States, the banks gave the House Oversight Committee.
Wow.
The personal bank records of Hunter Biden and Jim Biden and all these shell companies.
And that's how we found out.
How much money are we talking?
$35 million.
And according to the IRS whistleblowers, they never paid a penny of taxes on it.
Now, think about that.
What?
The Bidens would owe another $10 million in taxes.
What Hunter Biden got prosecuted on was the one legitimate thing he did.
So the one legitimate source of income that Hunter Biden had over a 10-year period that I looked at his bank record was from Burisma.
Barisma was a corrupt energy company in Ukraine, but it was a real company, and he was listed as a director, even though he had no qualifications.
And they paid him an exorbitant amount of money more than the directors of Chevron, Exxon, and Mobile combined making a year he got.
But here's where he got.
He didn't pay taxes on it.
He got a W2 on it, and none of this other money he got a W2 on because it was.
It was laundered money.
But this was the one legitimate paycheck he got, even though it was unethical as hell.
And he just didn't pay taxes on it.
Okay.
So what?
It's like the Bidens think they don't, you know, taxes are only for the little people, not for the, you know.
Well, I have to tell you, you're going to have president after president after president do this stuff if these people don't pay a price.
And whoever was involved, but now they've all been.
you know, they've all been pardoned.
Will we still move forward and expose all of the players and all, everything?
The people have to know.
This has to be on record and fully transparent.
I'm begging Bondi and Patel to move forward on this.
I told them we will help on the House Oversight Committee.
I've got, you know, I've got fighters like Marjorie Taylor Green and Nancy Mace,
to Byron Donald and Scott Perry, I mean, Andy Biggs, you know, we want to keep moving forward.
But all we faced is obstruction from the Department of Justice.
Now that we have a friendly Department of Justice, you know, if they will pursue this,
the one set of bank records I could not get because of, you know, and Trump talks about this a lot,
presidential immunity, we could not get Joe Biden's bank records.
I would love to see Joe Biden's bank records.
because, you know, there were plenty of allegations that the FBI had that Joe Biden was taking bribes and things like that.
We found the money of the allegations to the Bidens.
But not to him.
Jim Biden and the Biden family.
That's why Joe Biden had to pardon his entire family because of our investigation.
And, you know, somebody said, well, why, you know, why didn't anybody go to jail?
We did the report, and we had all we can do, I'm a police officer can arrest someone,
but he can't send him to prison.
And that's kind of like we were the police officers.
The prosecutors wouldn't take it.
The prosecutors wouldn't take it.
They would just attack me.
And I wrote the book, all the president's money, because the media would not cover this.
They would either say there was no evidence.
And honestly, a lot of conservative media would miss the point.
like when I'll give you an example and I write about it in the book.
Tony Babelinski did a great job in a public hearing.
And he said that the money from China was a bribe.
I mean, this is the guy that was in the deal.
Said the money from China was a problem is $8 million.
And, and but then he got into an argument, if you'll remember with Ocasio-Cortez,
with AOC, where she said Rico wasn't a crime.
Well, that's all that was on.
The conservative media, the clip of Bob Olensky getting into it with AOC, which was good.
He made her look bad.
But at the end of the day, the message from the hearing should have been that the money wasn't from a Chinese energy company, like the media said.
It was a bribe.
Money was a bribe from the Chinese Communist Party.
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I think the last time I talked to this guy, he was, he talked to me while I was doing the CNN TV show.
I'm not sure.
He is, he has become, I mean, he writes, he directs, he produces, he's an actor.
He is somebody that has grown from just an actor that you might see on television to
done some incredible things.
He's currently doing Paw Paw in Disney's Disney Jr.'s animated series Pup Struction.
He's reprising, or is it reprising, reprising his role as Dale Ballard from Young Sheldon in its upcoming spin-off, George and Mandy's first marriage.
He was Zeke Braverman in NBC's parenthood.
He was in movies like the Family Stone, Poultergeist.
I forgot about that.
The voice of Mr. Incredible.
Hayden Fox in Coach.
And he is now starring as Buck, a struggling Wisconsin farmer in the Indefamation.
film Green and Gold.
Welcome to Craig T. Nelson.
Hey, Craig T. How are you?
Hi, Glenn Beck. How are you doing?
I'm good. I think the last time you were on the show, I apologize for wrecking your career by having
you appear on my show. But you proved me wrong. You know, I wasn't a curse around your neck
because you are, you are great, just great.
Oh, no. Thank you. I had such a great time with you.
I, you know, it was a lot of fun. I thought it was
I thought it was maybe Fox, but I'm not sure I remember.
I thought so, too, but Stu said it was CNN.
I think it was Fox as well.
Yeah.
Because I remember you being very brave coming on the show.
I remember going, this guy is over.
He's never going to work a day in his life.
You were doing all those uncover and discover things.
We were getting into the deep state.
I know.
Isn't it crazy how things have turned out now?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like completely revealed, right?
Yeah, it is.
And anyway, I don't know.
But I had so much fun.
Thank you.
So I want to talk to you about the new film that's coming out, green and gold.
This is a passion topic for me.
I'm a rancher.
When I say a rancher, I own cattle and somebody else does all the work.
So I'm not really a rancher.
But I live in a small town, you know, half the year of about four.
400 people, and they're all farmers, and we're losing that way of life.
And it is being destroyed, and that's what this film is about.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It's, you know, my family has a farm in South Dakota, and it's been about 150 years.
It's been in the family.
And then my wife has a family farm in South Dakota also, which is really, she comes
from that environment.
And it's
one of those things that I think
it goes
and notice because the people
that are
employed in the task
of doing the work
don't have time
to get out and say
hey look at us.
Yeah.
We're having a problem.
And what happens is it just
they get turned under
like the field.
You know, they get plowed under and forgotten.
And it's a shame.
So this is a movie about bringing that awareness,
but also it's a bigger story than that, Glenn.
It's about the heart and soul of who these people might be and are, I think.
I tell you, you know, Thomas Jefferson, when they were, you know,
designing the jury, who's going to be in a jury box?
And some of the founders said we should just have scholars,
et cetera, et cetera, and he said, I trust people that have their hands in the dirt every day.
I want the average person.
And there is something about that.
I think when we moved off of farms into cities, we lost a lot, a lot.
And we're about to lose all of it, I'm afraid.
Well, we lose where we come from.
Yeah.
I think, yeah, go ahead.
I was going to say, it's also, though, an understanding.
I mean, when you grow up on a farm, you live on a farm,
you, you, you know where your food comes from.
You know the circle of life.
You just, you just have a different, you know, you have to depend on God and your neighbor.
I mean, it's just lessons that you don't get necessarily, you know, living in the suburbs or the city.
Yeah, exactly.
And the values that they hold dear and that they believe in are,
you know, they're traditional.
And they mean something.
They may be conservative, but
for them and their lifestyle
is reflected in how they deal with each other.
And I think all we can do
I think it's great that we can
somehow bring an issue
to the floor that says something,
thing about these people and who they are.
Is it true? I read that
by the end of the
film, it was a passion project
for everybody. And on
day one, you walked in
and said, hey,
you know,
I know we're not putting a lot of money
into this, but I think
it should have, you know, different cameras
or, you know, additional cameras,
et cetera, et cetera, and you just took it out of your
your salary.
because you believed in this so much.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, well, they didn't have the money to do what they wanted to do.
The cinema, as you know, the scope of the movie is the land,
and the land is what endears ourselves to who these people are.
Right.
And the beauty of it, and that kind of scope, you need processing,
and you need the ability to go out and shoot it.
Right.
So they needed another.
camera so I said yeah I'm like hey let's do that you know and boy they did they got a they really
got it's a beautiful film so so you know we've we've talked a little bit about message but
yeah if you haven't seen the movie you know I have but most people can't see it yet
explain the plot sell it to somebody who's like okay well I like farmers etc but sell the
A fourth generation guy, kind of a crusty guy, you know, he's got a farm that he's trying to farm organically.
And he doesn't use machinery.
He's got some draft horses.
But he has the best clover in the area.
And he's got the best cream and the best butter.
And he's proud of it.
And he's trying to make it go of it.
But the milk prices are rising and falling, and sure enough, he's going to lose his place.
And he's trying to hold it together.
He's just trying to hold it together for his got a granddaughter who's working on the farm.
And he's already lost a daughter to a dream that she had.
And he doesn't want to lose the granddaughter, so he's got pretty tight cramps on him.
And so it's a story of.
It's a story of trying to keep something you love and making a mistake probably in how you're raising your granddaughter and then seeing the repercussions of that.
And also bringing a guy to faith that is, I think, one of those people that's hard to reach.
So I really identified with it in that regard.
It kind of covers a wide range.
I related to, I mean, I've had this conversation over and over again.
My kids want to live in a city, and I wanted to live in a city when I was a kid.
But, you know, we bought this ranch and I hope my kids will take it for generations
because it is just a superior lifestyle, I think.
It's just more rooted in reality.
But, you know, sitting there looking at your kids and going, are they going to
take this, especially if it's
been in your family for
generations.
It's kind of the Yellowstone story
really, without all the killing and stuff.
Yeah, without all
killing and yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
With all the drug running.
Yeah, right.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, it's, yeah, it's about
heart, you know, and it's also about
trying to find it. And
that's what it's so
I love about the movie.
Well, I want to thank you for coming on the program and enjoy talking to you again.
And thank you for your bravery.
I mean, you were brave when really no one was brave.
Do you think things are changing, or is it just going out of Hollywood?
No, I don't think things are changing, Glenn.
I think what we're reading is in the Bible.
and what we're seeing is definitely coming about.
It's quite frightening for me.
But it's a wake-up call, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
I tell you, I am still there that we are living in those days.
Some of the, I feel like the Lord gave us a little bit of a pressure relief,
but now it's up to us.
I mean, he's only going to do what we can't do,
and we couldn't have averted that bullet, but he did.
And now we're expected to do all the hard work,
and, you know, it's an amazing time to be alive.
It is, and we have to do the most with it and do what we can
to get the message to people, you know?
Yeah.
That we have to do something.
Craig T. Thank you very much.
God bless you.
Good to talk.
You bet. Good to talk to you.
Craig T. Nelson, the name of the movie is Green and Gold.
It is coming to theaters nationwide on January 31st.
I highly recommend it.
It's really good. Several people on the staff and I have watched it and highly recommend it.
Really, really well done.
And a great story that you will relate to.
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