The Glenn Beck Program - Former Soviet Spy's Warning for America | Guest: Jack Barsky | 5/9/22

Episode Date: May 9, 2022

Glenn reads an op-ed from the New York Times regarding the right to have an abortion, and Glenn sets the record straight. Glenn and Stu discuss the radicalism of the pro-abortion side, as the Left accuses the Right of the same. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss Jewish leaders claiming that the Torah is pro-choice. Jack Barsky, former Soviet spy and the topic of the podcast “The Agent,” joins Glenn to discuss Russia, Putin, and America slipping into authoritarianism. Glenn and Stu discuss the state of California, its ongoing power struggles, and the benefits of nuclear power. Glenn and Stu discuss the odd number of food processing plant accidents that have occurred recently, involving plane crashes and fires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The radio show starts here in just a couple of seconds. Let me paint a scenario for you. Imagine that every state were free to choose, whether or not to allow black people, people and white people to marry. Some states would permit such marriages. Others probably would. Others probably wouldn't. The laws would be a mismatch. If the interracial couples would suffer, legally consigned a second-class status depending on where they live. This can happen here. This is a serious op-ed from the New York Times. It is written by a fourth grader. I'll give you the latest in 60 seconds. Susan Roke-Glen, my husband and Charlie, the B-Man, are professional

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It seems unthinkable as a scenario in 2022. That's because in 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that barring international, barring interracial marriage, as 16 states still did, violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection. Under the Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person or another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state, said the court. More than half a century on, this court case is considered one of the court's great rulings, and yet it was not universally admired at the time. Southern states complied only grudgingly. Alabama didn't repeal its ban on international marriage or interracial marriage until the year 2000. That's the point of having a federal constitution, says the New York Times op-ed. It is supreme. The guarantees and rights in that document apply to all Americans,

equally whether or not they live in the south or the north, no matter where, they live. The court system and the Supreme Court in particular exist to protect those rights when state and local authorities refuse to. Leaving the matter to individual states and political process means that millions of Americans will be denied their fundamental rights. In this case, the right of a woman to decide what happens inside her own body. I mean, unless it's, you know, a vaccine. The draft opinion relies heavily on the lack of mention of abortion in the Constitution, therefore argues that the document cannot be the basis for the right to terminate a pregnancy. The Constitution also says nothing about, here comes the fourth grader, the Constitution also

says nothing about interracial marriage. That didn't prevent the judges from finding in the 14th Amendment the guarantee that no couple may be treated differently because of the color of their skin. Because that that's specifically what the 14th Amendment is talking about. It's specifically talking about. You can't take somebody that lives here in America and treat them differently because of the color of their skin. Because they are different in some way.

Now, if the left, I suppose, were arguing that men could have abortions as well, then maybe. But see, this is missing the point entirely. The point is, in the Constitution, it doesn't say you can kill babies that you claim are a lump of cells. There is nothing, there are no right. You know how many, do you know how many things? the Constitution actually allows the federal government to do. What are the number of things that the government is allowed to do, the federal government allowed to do,

according to the Constitution? What's that number? I don't know the number, but there's very few of them. I mean, the common defense. You have the courts. You have the post office. I mean, you have 17 things in the Constitution.

only 17. How many millions are they doing right now? Oh, wow. And to point out, not only is gay marriage and interracial marriage, not there, neither is marriage marriage. Like the old school, that's not, it's a state issue. It's not a federal issue. To this day, it's not a federal issue. And by the way, marriage marriage wasn't an issue at all. That was a church and human to human thing. Shouldn't be a government issue at all. It could be. That all started because of the progressives.

Interracial marriage banned because of the progressives. I would say that Planned Parenthood had a lot to do with that. I just want to point that out here. Yeah, and we should point up, you know, the guy, I don't know if this president freed the slaves. Remember this guy? He had a big hat pretty tall. I don't know, kind of a weird looking dude. Got married.

Yakov Schmirnoff with the big, furry hat? I don't think it was Schmiernav. It was another one of our past presidents. All right. He got married without a marriage license. That's weird. So did George Washington. Yeah, so did George Washington.

Because that was not the way they thought about it at all. In short, constitutional rights are meaningless unless they apply across the entire country. Let me rephrase that for the New York Times and the fourth grader that wrote this. In short, constitutional rights are meaningless unless they apply to all people. All people. Now, our argument here in the state would be that. that that clump of cells doesn't suddenly turn into a tumor, it always turns in to a human being. You have a right to life.

No one is allowed to take that life from you unless you've done something and you've been tried in a court of law. No innocent life is supposed to go away because the government says. So that's the extremist point of view. But the Constitution is there to say these are a few of the rights that come from God. So they come from, you know, you could say it's a higher power. You could say it's the stars. It's stardust, the things that make us. Whatever it is, rights come from them.

You know, the trees, the forests, I'm speaking right directly to the progressive left. The forest gives us our rights. And no one can change them. And no one can just issue rights. That's really important because that's what the government wants you to believe, that the government can give you rights. The Supreme Court is not taking away abortion rights. The Supreme Court is saying,

It's up to the people in the state. The federal government can't do anything about it. Why? Because it's not their job. When it comes to something like this, it has to be decided by the people. This is the least dictatorial ruling I have seen in I don't know how long. All right. So what's happening?

Well, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, very much. upset very very upset because the Supreme Court is overturning Roe versus Wade and she said I am not to I am not going to enforce any laws that say I have to break into a doctor's office and stop abortion I just won't do it again that's not what the Supreme Court said it's your state laws. Well, Michigan has a law in the books from 1931. By the way, the height of the progressive era. You really hung on that age and height for some reason. That seemed to. It criminalized abortion with, she says, with no exceptions. I mean, except for the exception for rape and incest.

But other than that, no exceptions. Okay. Well, if you don't like it, I think the Democrats control Michigan. I think actually the mob does, but the Democrats control Michigan. You'll have a very pro-choice governor. Change the law. You can't go off as the attorney general. I know George Soros is telling you differently, but you can't

just say as the chief law enforcement officer in your state, you can't say, we're not going to pay attention to that law. What you do is you change your law. This is not a federal law. This is in your state. Ask the voters. It really, it really amazes me how stupid people really are. She knows better than this.

All these people, New York Times, they know better than that. That's a fourth, it is honestly a fourth grade opinion. It really is. It shows you have no understanding how this system works at all. But then again, why should people, why should people be smart when they're spoon fed everything they're supposed to believe? And then told you must believe it. CNN reported on Friday that the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion, probably a right-wing political. leak and it's going to lead to right-wing political violence.

What? What are they even talking about? CNN has learned the U.S. Capitol Police are bracing for large demonstrations that are being organized by far-right groups to protest abortion rights. What far-right groups? What? I mean, you always say far-right groups, which is wrong, far-right groups are Nazis. Nazis love abortions.

They were killing children in the millions. What are you talking about? The Nazis are upset about killing children? They love it. The recently installed non-scalable fencing outside the court building was visible. As CNN reported, several members of law enforcement have expressed concerns that people who are committed to committing act of violent extremism could use Roe versus Wade opinion for a justification of that. Yeah. Where did they say?

say that it was going that it was going to be the the vast right wing where are they saying that CNN did say I should caution there are no specific credible threats oh okay okay all right I get it sure sure now a lot of people have been saying these things about the the right While they put up the fence, I was shocked, shocked to see the progressive left calling to burn the Supreme Court and the country down. I don't know about anybody else. You know, those pro-life conservatives were really upset. Oh, man, they had some heated arguments around the dinner table yesterday. Yeah, they did.

Meanwhile, the acts of violence or illegal activity seems to be things like a Catholic church burned in Boulder, Colorado. It was vandalized. I shouldn't say burned or broken into or terrorist activity. This is vandalized. Vandalist. Vandals? Vandals did this. Now, was the vandalism mostly peaceful?

It was mostly peaceful. but it was mostly also anti-religious and and it was, you know, pro-choice. So, but it was peaceful sort of fire-starting, bomb-throwing, you know, sort of threatening if abortion isn't safe, neither are you sort of way. Right. And that, you know, that's in a peaceful sense, there was tranquility involved in those words. Amen, amen. And they also scribbled on the side of another clinic in Madison, Wisconsin.

It was a pro-life office. They scribbled, or actually very nice cursive handwriting, so you know that it was the right. 1312 was also on there, which every conservative, who doesn't know what 1312 means, right? I mean, that's, we start all of our kids. Come on, we start all of our meetings with, hey, hail 13 12. What is 13.

12? All cops are the B word. I'm not sure. I think I know what B word, but so many words have been banned when somebody says the B word. Well, we wouldn't want to designate the gender of the police officer. Exactly. That would be either one of those. It could be either one of those.

So we don't know. But 1312, that was the tip off to me that it was definitely, definitely right winged. churchgoers. Welcome to the, oh, by the way, Antifa also, the pro-abort men of Antifa were putting out hits on pregnancy centers in Portland also this weekend. They bash windows and put F-CPCs, which, again, come on, we all know what that means. All right, the Tuttle Twins. I want to tell you about a little girl named Pippa.

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It's a free sidewalk. Yeah. Actually, you don't. You don't. It's against the law to protest or try to intimidate at a home any judge to try to influence their decisions. It's against the law. Now, who would have known that? Now, it's okay to break the law when you're involved in a mostly peaceful protest when you're on the right side of these issues. Yeah, and that's the key. That's the key. Like when, let's just advance a little while here.

When the left occupies the Supreme Court building, when this occurs, will it be called an insurrection at that point? No. It will not. No. Okay, just want to make sure. It's for the right, you know, it's for the right causes. Here's MSNBC. It's cut eight, please. Amy, you just heard Michelle refer to the anti-abortionist as terrorists. And she has a point because the quote-unquote people who call themselves pro-life, they achieved this through violence. When you look through the, I remember, I'm old enough to remember that in the 80s,

anti-abortion protesters began bombing clinics, threatening doctors. By 1990, a thousand abortion doctors had quit. 84% counties nationwide had no abortion. clinic. You are an abortion provider. What does this ruling mean for you? That is the dumbest point of it. So Michelle is right. And I'm thankful to be here Tiffany this morning with both Michelle and Nancy. There is violence and it is terrorism. And I think it's very important for us to recognize that it is Christian extremism that is at the meat of the shame and the stigma that allows laws like this to pass that allows justices like this to be confirmed. And this does not represent

the majority of feelings and beliefs of people in this country. I'm sorry. I'll tell you this is connecting with a lot of people. It probably is. Because you have, no, you have MSNBC. There were six panelists there,

I think, which is six times the normal viewership of MSNBC. That's true. They were all watching. They were all watching. So ratings were up. Yeah. Well,

I should say maybe five. So the theory here is that 12 murders, which they claim, I haven't fact checked back, from 1973 to today, is what brought us to this 98-page legal rule. by the Supreme Court.

Yeah. That's the case. It's terrorism. Wow. I mean, you want to talk about brilliance. How do you, honestly, how do you bridge the gap? How do you bridge the gap? The gap is just getting so far apart.

It's impossible to bridge the gap with someone that dumb. It's impossible. I'm going to try. I'm going to try. There was a gap. There was a gap. I'm sick of trying. I'm sick of trying.

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Oh boy. Emily Libert. She is talking, writing about Jewish leaders, banning abortion, is absolutely a violation of religious freedom.

She says she has talked to many, a coalition of rabbis who are defending Jewish pregnant people's right to abortion access. In fact, Rabbi Rutenberg, scholar in residence at the National Council of Jewish Women, who, oh, it's a Jewish rabbi, focuses on religious texts, and she focuses on religious texts around sexuality and bodily autonomy, she says Judaism is a patriarchal religion and that there are plenty of places in the Torah that don't get it right.

If you view it through a reproductive justice lens, she says much of the Jewish religion can be interpreted as support for the right to choose, which I think, you know, I like my rabbi, my priest, anybody who can read through a reproductive justice lens. Oh, absolutely. That's the only kind of lens I look through. Right, exactly right.

I got mine at lens crafters. Where'd you get? Oh, you did? Yeah. Better contacts and eyeglasses is where I got mine. Really? Wow. Anyway.

So. I don't have a third lens crafter show teed up here. Walmart. Walmart. You get at Walmart, apparently. I don't know. So Exodus. The rabbis use Exodus 2022.

Two, the article says the verse says, when men fight and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other harm ensues. The one responsible shall be fined with the woman's husband's demands a compensation. The payment will be determined by judges. But if other harm ensues, the penalty shall be life for life. The problem is maybe these rabbis can't read Hebrew or know somebody, because I don't read Hebrew, but I know people that read Hebrew. And the Hebrew phrase that they are translating as miscarriage actually translates to her children come out. Now, nowhere is in the Bible does that, is that word translated as miscarriage? Because there's another word for miscarriage in Exodus, none shall miscarry.

And that's a completely different word. So the verse actually says, if men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she prematurely gives birth and yet no harm follows, he's supposed to go to court and be punished accordingly. But if harm follows, then you shall give life for life. So in other words, if the baby comes out and there's something wrong with a baby because of this, you can kill him. I just wanted to just. Sounds really approach. So it's not, yeah, it's not exactly. However, Genesis also talks about Jacob and Esau wrestling in their mother's belly.

And they don't say that the scriptures say the sons, her sons were wrestling in her bed. Doesn't say clump of cells. The clump of cells was, you know what I mean? And Isaiah, Adonai called me from the womb before I was born. He spoke my name. He clearly said, clump of cells. which was really, which is really weird. And then Jeremiah 1.15, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, you were a Buick.

Then I changed my mind and I thought, ah, let you be a kid. All right, so you're a kid. So they could have aborted when the child was a Buick. You're still in Bible country. He's still in Bible country. Yes, absolutely. And that would have been way ahead of time for a Buick. So that would have been kind of cool.

Well, God knows all. There's no time in God's world. So the Bible is a book of patterns that maybe we should, you know, look at those patterns. And I, this is me and I'm not a rabbi, but I am a doctor. It is useful sometimes not to pull a single verse out and have that support your entire philosophy. Really? like if I was a doctor of Shakespeare, you know, I just don't think I would pull one line to be or not to be. And then I could explain all of Shakespeare. You know what I mean?

That's just a safety tip? Safety tip. Safety tip. To those clumps of cells. I keep hearing this argument. I'm curious if you guys feel the same way on this. they keep saying like, we don't need your religion in our laws. Like, I don't care if you have a religious viewpoint on abortion. It doesn't matter. It has nothing to do with a woman's right

and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You have that personal view, but it doesn't matter. And I started thinking about that a little bit because they say this often. As if the only way you could come to the conclusion of keeping babies alive is through your religion. Right. And I was kind of examining my own thought process on this, and this may be to my own shame.

Okay. All right. but I don't think I've come to that conclusion at all based on my faith. Like I don't, I'm really happy my faith agrees with the conclusion I've come to logically about abortion. Yeah. Because if it did it, I would have a real, I don't think I would be able to square those two.

It would be really difficult for me to understand. But like, that is honestly more of a coincidence than anything else. I do it to a complete science. Completely science. I want, life is important. It's not just a more,

that is a moral stance, but it is not just a moral stance. It is a legal stance, is a logical stance that every child should have a chance at life. By the way, all morals don't have to come be based in the Bible.

I mean, you know, hey, let's not kill children. I think that's a pretty good safety tip. I don't need God to tell me that. There's a lot of moral atheists. Yeah. People who live good lives, even though they don't believe in God.

Exactly right. And the moral basis of a lot of our laws comes from that, uh, Judeo-Christian tradition, right? But that does not mean that this is the reason why people want there to be no children being aborted. These are totally, like, they work together, which is what's great about faith many

times. Logic and faith tend to line up a lot, which is... Sometimes they don't. But sometimes it's hard. Sometimes it's hard. But in this particular case, like, it just doesn't, like, it murders another one, right? Like, thou shalt not murders in the Bible quite clearly. but that's not necessarily why I think there should be a policy against murder.

Right. Right. It's in the Bible. Okay. Okay. Pope Stu, quiet down about murdering people. I love how they're trying to make this out all the protests that are starting to occur and some of the violence that is beginning to happen. And they're trying to blame it on the right.

Clearly. You see the report from. CNN, warning of the far right violence because of this decision. What far right violence has there been? We were just talking about it. I think the Nazis were pretty cool with killing babies.

Yeah, they seem like it. And they always say that's far right. Plus, the far right, as you pointed out a million times, Nazis are not on the right. They're socialists. Nazis are national socialist and they belong on the left unless you live in Europe. Yeah.

Yes. Then they're a right organization. And why is that, Pat? Because they don't have something called the Constitution. Right. Exactly. So, I mean, the media, and especially CNN, is always trying to blame violence on the right. And we never accommodate them, except when it's one of the things that makes it so bad, January 6th. I mean, January 6th was probably the one thing. that they can point to and say, see?

And we've said that for 15 years. Don't ever do it. Right. Right. And now they've done it. And we've got an excuse now to point to them and say, look, see, we told you they were violent. I just don't think people are going to buy it. I really just don't think.

I mean, it's so clear what's going on. I mean, to go just off the point we played a clip earlier, Glenn, like when they're trying to point to right-wing violence, they literally go back to abortion clinic bombings from the 1980s. Right? Like, this is what, like, this is what's happened. I mean, you know, what was the guy, Eric Rudolph, was it? Yeah.

I'm trying to remember his name. And that was what? 96 when we heard about him. Yeah. So, that's right. But he had been before that when he supposedly bombed abortion clinics. So 90s, you've got some, you know, 20 years ago. I know we had the one.

40, 30 years ago. 80s were 40 years ago. He's crazy. You had one murder I remember in, I think it was Kansas of an abortion clinic and a doctor. And I remember thinking, I've never heard, never heard a conservative be, justify that in any way. Say, hey, look, we think that's bad.

But it's not. It's just straight out wrong. Wow. Wow. Okay. Apparently, you guys don't know what's really going on. Oh, really? Oh, wow.

Yeah. Rosanna Arquette, you know, the actors. Oh, no. Oh, no. She's not. She has. She has. She has.

Bill the beans, yes. She's read through us. Yeah, she knows what's happening with the Republicans. She says the Republicans have financial gain in this Supreme Court ruling. Okay. We really? Oh, big time. Yeah.

Think about it. Where's all that money coming from? The money is coming from the Republican parties trafficking babies. Oh, wow. The Republican Party is? Yeah. Oh, sure. They're not competent enough to do anything of this sort.

No, she said, no, this is a satanic force that's in the Supreme Court. And she said, it's not hysterical or alarmist. They are going to traffic in babies that women just can't afford to keep. And she's on to us. She's on to us. Yeah. We were hoping nobody would notice. I know.

We were. Well, until we had to advertise. Yeah. She said there's huge money in making a world. wide market for babies. Oh. And it's all behind organ trafficking. So she says the Supreme Court

is officially the satanic force. So wait, what are we doing? We're growing babies to grow organs? Yeah. So this is... Yeah? Your answer to that was yeah. Yeah, this is, of course. Please. Of course. When you call the Supreme Court, you stop pretending, Stu, we've been caught.

We've been caught. We've been caught. Stop attending. Okay. When you call the Supreme Court, you say, I'd like a copy of that case, please. And then they say, okay, anything else? And you'd say, yes, I'd like it with pepperoni and pineapple. Then they go down into the basement. That means you want a Hawaiian baby, doesn't it?

Isn't that what that means? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, half Hawaiian, half Italian, along with the court case. But see, it's, it's. So it's, you order it like it's a pizza? There are tunnels under the Supreme Court where they're trafficking baby. This sounds familiar. It does sound familiar.

I don't know. Do they play ping pong at the Supreme Court too? I'm not, no. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. So I'm sure all the people that echo this Rosanna Arquette theory are going to be banned from social media like they were for Pizza Gate. Oh, sure.

You know they will be. You bet, but she's on to us. She is on to us. She's on to us. So, shoot, we could have all. been so rich. It wasn't for those crazy kids. In that van.

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And it's kind of sketchy. We don't even know how they were made, et cetera, et cetera. We are going on, yeah, we think it's this. that went for it was either almost five or almost $600,000. It was estimated to go between $20,000 and $40,000. It is some people with money. And I always say this because my grandfather always taught me. The people in the Depression who survived the Depression

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I thought I would ask a friend of the program, Jack Barski. He's a former Soviet spy. He is the author of Deep Undercover. He's also the guy that the Americans used as a consultant on that to get the story right. He also has a podcast documentary called The Agent. If anybody knows how to read the tea leaves, Jack may be one of the few. We talked to him in 60 seconds. Mary wrote in about her experience with Relief Factor.

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The year was 1988, and Jack Barski had been in the United States for over 10 years. Like anyone living in the hustle and bustle of New York City, the site of the skyline, peppered with so many tall buildings, never got old. He had made this city a home, a home he knew better than most native New Yorkers, having explored nearly every street by foot or by bicycle.

He loved his job as a software developer at MetLife. He adored his coworkers, and he finally felt like he was fitting in. He was meant to be here. He lived in a modest apartment with his wife and young daughter, and they considered looking for a bigger place now that there were three in the family. Even though his days were long and his commute to and from Manhattan made it even longer, He rushed back home every night to see his little princess one last time before she went to bed. Jack Barski was living the American dream.

But this dream was about to take a sudden, an unexpected turn. The town has taken refuge there. The news watch never stops. It's 42 degrees in clear in New York, going down to 29 degrees in Midtown. I would probably. We wake up typically about seven, have a bowl of cereal, and get on my way. I lived in Queens. I had about a 12-minute walk to the subway.

This was in December. It was still dark at that time. I'm not a morning person, so I'm just like walking, sort of in a days. I went along a path that I had communicated to the center. They needed to know this because there was a spot on that path where they were able to put signals. So every morning when I get to a supporting post for the elevated A train, I would just take a look and nothing ever was there. But on this cold December morning, Jack noticed something different as he approached the subway station.

This is really odd. I get a little closer and there was this red dot. The fist-sized red dot, that screamed at me what is. what saying is danger. Get out of here. Immediately. Don't go back home. Don't go to work. Retrieve your reserve documents. I had a set of Canadian documents that I had hidden in a park someplace and make a B-line to the Canadian border where eventually you get further instructions and that's how we get you out of here. That's all I knew. Danger, do this. This was part of the plan. Jack had received a signal, a code red. The red dot was a signal from the center, the home of KGB

headquarters back in Moscow, and was part of an elaborate system of graphic signals used for communication. In the 10 years he had spent in America, Jack had regular secret communication with other Russian agents, agents he never actually met in person. But until today, Jack had never received the danger signal. This is from the podcast, The Agent, and Jack Barski is with us now. Hi, Jack. How are you? I'm good.

Good morning. And thank you. I feel honored to be called a friend of your Glenn Beck program. Can I have that in writing? It'll probably get you in more trouble with the FBI and others, I think, at this point, Jack. but thank you so much. You're an amazing man who lives an amazing life. And had we talked in the 80s, I wouldn't have said that.

But you have turned into a great friend of the United States. And I think what, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to reveal anything that is in the agent. I just wanted to talk to you, Jack, because something has happened. here with this Ukraine situation. And I feel like everybody's pushing for war. And I'm not so excited about that because this seems like this could quickly become a nightmare of World War proportions. You are so right.

And we have to expect that Russia makes a lot of noise. You know, this is what Putin does. And, you know, they threaten. But what's happening in the United States and in other Western countries, we have a bunch of armchair warriors who are playing politics with a situation that could easily be accelerated into what you just called, the World War III. The first time I cringed when our president called Putin a war criminal, did that move the needle one way or the other? I said, just shut up.

Don't talk, act. Because that, you know, that going back and forth could easily, you know, Putin just might get triggered by that. He is not very amenable to being criticized. And that's a fact. It's a proven historic fact. Jack, tell me, because I've gone back and forth in my head, other than them being incredibly different people. Ronald Reagan called Russia a, you know, an evil empire and called for the destruction of it. And I know reading history that the Kremlin, I think it was, and drop off, really was quite a paranoid guy and thought for sure that the United States under Reagan would, you know, launch missiles in a first strike.

What's the difference between then and now? You're right about Andropov and in his paranoia. He saw it. And I was aware of that. He started an opera called Operation Ryan where everybody, every KGB agent who operated in the West who had to look out for signs of war. But there was, in those days, the Soviet Union was already weakened. and there was more fear than, you know, active aggression. The Soviet rulers did not want to go to war.

And I think Vladimir Putin is very aggressive, and he's, and he's maneuvered himself into this position. He can't, he's on a one-way street with no side street to talk into. Yeah. And the, do you think he's in his speech that he, gave where he talked about a new Russia being born. Was that misinformation or is this, do you think he really believes that? Oh, no. You know, he, a couple of years ago, I think he wrote an essay, a lengthy essay about what he wants to do and he wants to restore Russia's greatness, not the Soviet Union, mind, no, mind you, Russia's greatness. And, you know, this is, this is

his life, okay, that this is him. He is Russia. And he has, you know, he's convinced himself that some greater power. I think he pretends to be a believer now. He does pretend to be a believer. I don't know if he does believe in God, but he thinks he's been appointed to do just that. That's a little frightening. So what are we doing that we,

I mean, we came out for the first time, Jack, that I know of, and confirmed that we sunk the Russian flagship in the Black Sea, and that we confirmed that we are giving them all kinds of targeting information to target their generals. We are just beating our chest in a very terrifying way. Well, I don't know who we is. There's some leaker, right? and then the media printed it. The Pentagon and Biden have denied that. Now, we do admit that we provide intelligence. But, you know, to say that we contributed to the destruction,

make this statement that we have proof, that's an exaggeration. My God, this country is populated by leakers. and everywhere, everywhere you go where you're supposed to keep things secret, it leaks out. So what do you see happening here, Jack? As you're sitting watching all of this stuff unfold, somebody who grew up under that system, you probably know geopolitics, at least from a historic sense, probably better than most. So what's going on here, you need to, uh, Put yourself into the shoes of Vladimir Putin, his leadership, and the Russian people in general.

And Putin looks at this conflict as a conflict between himself and the West, not just Ukraine. He isn't just saying it. He believes it because this kind of thinking is rooted in Russian history. The Russian people and the Russian leaders have always been paranoid for a good reason. Ever since Russia was founded, it has been attacked from all sides, from the northeast, west, south. It was the Mongols, it was the Turks, it was the Vikings, it was Napoleon, and it was Hitler. So there's a paranoia gene in the Russian DNA, and Putin believes that, you know, the West is coming after him. And this only gets worse as we shut down all of the financing and pull all of our people out.

And when I say our people, pull all of our financial systems and any, of our businesses out of Russia that has to speak volumes? It does, but I don't think it is as powerful as Americans like to believe, because Putin, we know that he's not stupid. He expected that. And when you look at what's happening right now, the ruble has stabilized. Putin still is, I think in the last two months, he got more oil and gas revenue than in the five months. before.

You know, and he has allies. I mean, right now China is allied with him. And India is at best neutral. Right. Economy is like a set of gears that will have some to deal with some sand. But I don't think we can bring him down to his knees. All right. Back in just a second with the agent.

He is a former Soviet spy from the United States. He was deep undercover. He was born in East Germany. Came over here to spy for the Russians. Fascinating guy. We'll continue our conversation with Jack Barski here in just a second. American financing NMLS-182334 www.nmlS Consumer Access.org.

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there's some reality behind that my believing that we're not that close. I mean, Putin in his speech, in his speech, did not threaten nuclear nuclear nuclear. you know, exploding some nuclear missiles. He was, it was like status quo. Let's keep on going, you know. And I believe this, this conflict is going to drag on for a long time. Well, and that's better than the alternative. You bet.

But there's a, there's a secondary war here. And the secondary war is economic, right? Because, you know, Western Europe is, I think, in great danger. as the United States economically are not as much in danger because we have all the natural resources. Western Europe, if they can, they're so dependent on, with regard to their energy, that if that war drags out for a long time, they will be severely weakened. Well, we're not doing anything with our energy. And I tell you, Jack, I look at this and I think if I were a former Soviet spy and still

could think like the other side, I'd be thrilled with what America was doing right now. We are dismantling ourselves. You know, we have gas prices going through the roof. We haven't even hit the summer. You know, we could be at $5 a gallon for the summer and maybe $7 or $8 for trucks, which will just cripple the nation. I just want to make one statement, which is not necessarily political because, you know, there's one thing about, you know, talking about the ideology that runs rampant in the Democrat Party.

But we are currently led by a bunch of people who don't know how to get things done. They don't know how to execute. And, you know, we're shooting ourselves in the foot. And, you know, the energy policy is driven by ideology, and that's global warming. It's almost a religion. Oh yeah, it is. Absolutely. With a... You know, you lived in East Germany. How old were you when you left East Germany? I went first to Moscow to improve my English. And when I left my... When I came to the United States, I was 29.

So you're 29 years old. You were recruited by the KGB. You were trained in all of these things. And you, being from East Germany, I would assume, you know, you were very well aware of the spying that they did and the manipulation of people that they did. Did you notice that? Did you know that when you joined the KGB that they were? Or is this patriotic kind of our side versus their side? I was not, not, I was a patriot, but I also was a revolutionary. I was going to contribute. to build the paradise, the workers' paradise on Earth.

And I was ideologically 100% behind the Soviet Union, East Germany, KGB, the Stasi, simply because of ignorance. You know, this is what happens in a state where all communication is regulated and it's owned by the state. We never got the truth. the truth. So that's where I want to pick up our conversation. We'll come back, take a quick break. I want to pick it up there. What are the things that you saw in West, I mean, East Germany and

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A guy I find absolutely fascinating is Jack Barski. He is a former Soviet spy that was arrested by the FBI, I think, around 1990 something. Jack, what year was it? The FBI stopped you. Not arrested, by the way. detained. Detained. Okay.

There's a big difference. Yeah, all right. There is. There is. 1997. Okay. And he is, his story is the audio documentary and podcast, the agent, which if you haven't listened to is great, just fantastic, listen to it.

So, Jack, you were born in East Germany, recruited by the KGB. You assume the identity of a U.S. born citizen. You spied here in the United States for 10 years on corporate America. Then you became a trusted source for the FBI. You started to, the Soviet story, if you will, the things that drove you as a, as somebody who was willing to go in and possibly lose their life for their country, started to fall apart when? When I entered the workforce as a professional, because then I became sort of a functioning member of American society. And all the things that we were taught, how evil American corporations are and how workers are being suppressed turned out to be just damn lies. But that didn't necessarily make me an anti-communist right away.

Right. You know, many other things had to happen. And what really triggered me finally doing some investigation as to whether I was, I knew the truth or not, was when the Berlin Wall came down. And that was at a time when the Internet was available to do research. And one by one, all of these beliefs that I had fell apart. So I just withdrew at that point. I decided to, you know, it's just going to be a private citizen and not take any more political stance. But then 9-11 happens.

And, you know, and at that point, you know, I became emotionally an American and what actually made me a fan of the United States as it was initially constructed. as I took a 10-part online course on the American Constitution. Wow. Wow. And to me, that is the most brilliant political document I have ever read and heard about. It is. It is.

It's phenomenal. So, Jack, when you see things like the truth panel or disinformation panel from the DHS or the violence on the street that's called. you know, a protest or just vandals. And yet January 6th are terrorists and held with some of them without charge now for over a year. We now have Twitter and Facebook and Google monitoring things and editing things. Teachers unions now are demanding more censorship from Facebook. Does this ring a bell to you at all?

Yeah, well, you know, I was fundamentally brainwashed and the bottom line is in a country, in a society where you control the message, you will be in charge. And, you know, our messages were totally controlled. Putin manages to control the messages in his country to not 100% there's some leakage. And at this point, there's the left in cahoots with the media, in cahoots with big tech, is working on taking control of the message universe. It's not that easy in our country. You know, you're still on the air. Yeah. And, you know, Elon Musk has just bought Twitter. It's not that easy.

We are a rebellious nation. We are contrarians. We want to hear the other side. But it's a slippery slope. And if it doesn't get reversed goodbye, the country that was once America. How do you convince people a new generation that are being indoctrinated? How do you convince them of freedom of speech that actually means you have, have to tolerate the other side.

Honestly, I don't have an answer. And this is really what is the most, the biggest danger, the root cause of why it is quite reasonable to be pessimistic here. We already into the second generation of Americans that have been raised, educated in high school and college by leftists. And, you know, this is the, it started, you know, with the, with the anti-Vietnam movement, where a whole bunch of students became radicalized with left-wing ideas. And they became college professors. And they raised, and they taught the next generation of teachers. So it's very difficult to run up against prejudices in young minds that, you know, that were

planted as they were young. I have, I have proof of that because when, when I went back to the to East Germany, to Germany after so many years, and I had discussions with, you know, contemporaries, you know, that I went to school and college with, you think they have been able to shed all their communist ideology? No. What is planted in you as a young person is very difficult to reverse. I had the luxury of a slow and painless decontamination. most of my friends in Germany, the future of this country, because I really don't know how you can effort and work on the young people that we be able to influence. Some of us need to participate in that.

If you had, if your children, you have one child, right? Five. You have five. Good for you. Yeah. If your children, if your children were school age, would you have them in our schools today? One of them is she's school age and she has never been in a public school and she will not be in a public school.

She is currently enrolled in a Christian school where, interestingly enough, they teach how to think and how to argue and how to make, and how to, you know, how to, you know, just like they do exactly the opposite of what, you know, Christian schools are being. Yes, and also what the rest of society thinks, what's happening in Christian schools where they teach nothing but memorizing the Bible. Jack, thank you so much for talking to us, and I really appreciate it, and I've really enjoyed not only your book, but also your podcast. It's really quite riveting. Very, very good. Well, thank you so much, and I appreciate how you actually positioned me at the beginning of the program. I'm very grateful for that. Thank you.

You're very kind, Jack. Jack Barski. Former Soviet spy. He is also the storyline of the agent, the podcast audio documentary and the author of Deep Undercover. He was a guy that was one of the consultants on the Americans, if you've never seen that. It's quite an amazing series as well.

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This is the Glenn Beck program. So I don't know if you saw what Elon Musk posted. He posted a screenshot of a translated message from Moscow's Space Chief. And it said, from the testimony of the captured commander of the 36 Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Dmitri Kormonanov, it turns out, the internet terminals of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite company were delivered to the militants of the Nazi Azav Battalion. According to our information, the delivery of the Starlink equipment was carried out by the Pentagon. Elon Musk, thus, is involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment. And for this, Elon, you will be held accountable, like an adult, no matter how much you play the fool. First, Elon tweeted, the word Nazi doesn't seem to mean what he thinks it means, which I love.

And then he said, if I die under mysterious circumstances, it's been nice knowing you. This guy has made enemies of everybody. Absolutely everybody. You know, powerful. Can you imagine if somebody took him out? I mean, would you know who it was? No, everybody seems to be upset with him in one way or another. I mean, what he's done in Ukraine is amazing.

I mean, forget about, obviously, the thing here is for the Russians to point out that the military is using the internet here to communicate. But, I mean, honestly, just for the average person who, you know, the internet would be toast in Ukraine, if not for Elon Musk. Just for the regular people to be able to access information, it would be gone, if not for Elon Musk, who just decided to act in a way. that, you know, remarkable. Before, what, a year ago would not have been possible? Yeah. Did you ever see these satellites over your head, Glenn? Do you ever see the Starlink satellites go back?

No, I haven't. It looks like Santa Claus. There's like a long, in the middle of the night, I looked up one night and I was like, what the hell is before I knew Elon Musk was even doing this? Yeah. What is that? And it's like a long string of satellites like seemingly that go on forever. And they just come across the sky, all like spaced evenly apart and just go across the sky. It's really weird to see.

So up in the up at my ranch, I just put Starlink in. Oh, really? And we just tested it over the weekend to see how stable it is. It's completely stable. And the word from my chief engineer was somehow or another, he has seemingly solved or affected the light speed problem. Because he's cut delays back like a phenomenal amount to where, you know, you and I, when I'm up the ranch, we have a hard time talking to each other on air because it's the satellites are so slow. He says he's cut it in half.

That's really great. It's an amazing, amazing device. And listen to this. This is from the director of electronic warfare at the office of the Secretary of Defense. okay this guy is in charge of our electronic warfare he said starlink was able to fight off the attack faster than the u.s. military could have been able to and that officials need to learn something from musk starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it um noting that the quick change rendered the attack not effective how they did that was why uh eye watering to me there's really

an interesting case to study and look at the agility that Starlink had in their ability to address this problem. In the way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to have that agility. That's the United

States government. It's amazing. And I keep seeing these pieces written by people talking about Elon Musk taking over Twitter that, look, I mean, there's a lot of hubbub here, but what's he really going to do? Well, there's not going to be much of a change. Oh, I think a huge change. What? business has Elon Musk touched that there wasn't a huge change in yeah this is what he does he

when he takes over a business like this or starts one he revolutionizes the industry yeah and there I don't think there's any reason to believe he's not going to attempt and very well succeed and try to do the same at Twitter if we have if we have time we should talk about it because he laid out some of his plan on Twitter what he's going to do it starts with laying off or firing a thousand employees and then he's going to go back and he's going to hire more engineering people. No word on if he's hiring more content regulators. But,

and then he's going to introduce something called Twitter Blue. Well, yeah, Twitter Blue already exists, right? No, no. He wants to, yes, it does. I'm sorry. But he wants to build up the subscriptions to Twitter Blue. Yes. So he wants to make sure that people are doing that because he said,

that's the way to protect the speech because we won't have any sponsors. I'm not to worry about it. You don't have to worry about it or you have sponsors that don't mind what people say. I would absolutely pay a reasonable monthly fee to get a better experience on Twitter that isn't, you know, choreographed by a bunch of crazy leftists. Yep. I would love that. Me too.

To actually see what's actually trending? Yeah, I would. Back in a minute. This is the Glenn BackPro entertainment. Hey, this is going to, this is going to be a surprise to you. But California says it needs more power to be able to keep the lights on this summer. Yeah, yeah. And other states are starting to joining and going, we might be headed towards a problem

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Call 833 GLEANN-33. That's 833 Glenn 33 or Roughgreens.com slash Beck. California energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for the state's electrical grid. They're saying now it lacks sufficient capacity to keep the lights on this summer and beyond if heat waves and wildfires or other extreme events take their toll. May I just ask Californians, do you actually think that heat waves and wildfires are unexpected extreme events? Because as an outsider, it seems like every summer we go through this. And when I say we go through this, you go through this. But then we have to watch it and hear about all of the problems. And yeah, some of us go out, not me, but some of us go out to actually help put the fires out and everything else.

And here you go, say, this is crazy. This is, you know, it's global warming. No, it's really not. It's mismanagement of your forests, for one. And you don't save any water, you know. And when you have. blackouts, it's not the tree's fault. Whose fault is it?

Yours. Because you refuse to build any kind of reservoir for water or any electrical plant. But you feel so good about yourself, don't you? Because we don't have a single coal fire plant. Not one coal fire plant in California. Yet most of your electricity still coming from coal fire plants just in another state. Oh my God. These people make me want to vomit.

As long as I don't see it, as long as it doesn't block the view of the mountains. You know, I don't want any of that smog here. We'd have smog in Nevada or Utah or one of those other bordering states. I don't even know what they are. They're so racist and bigoted. I hate them. I don't mind if you build 25 coal-polar plants over there.

As long as we don't have the smog. Oh. This comes from the California beaches that have the oil rigs right off the shore. Oh, yeah. Which I think actually looks pretty cool.

I got to be honest with you. I think it looks. I mean, you know, like you get the idea. There's a lot of water out there. That's the normal ocean view. You got some stuff to look at. I think it looks pretty cool, frankly.

But yeah, no, it's a big, I mean, look, fossil fuels still dominate this country. I mean, coal has come down quite a bit over the past few years, but natural gas has replaced it. So yes, it's a cleaner fossil fuel. But it is still a fossil fuel. So they had an online briefing and the officials are now forecasting a potential shortfall of 1,700 megawatts this year.

And they say if there's something unexpected like a forest fire, not really extreme, not unexpected. Just want to say. They say it could go as high as 5,000 megawatt. watts. So that's a lot of watts. That's enough to put about four million people in the dark without electricity. Yeah. Yeah. So, hmm. Oh, and there's, by the way, they also say your energy prices are going to increase in California between four and nine percent. I think if that's what they're saying it'll be closer to 12 to 80%. But maybe that's just me.

Now, there is another group saying, hey, maybe we should slow down on this whole thing. And that would be Jack Bear, the CEO of Miso. He came out yesterday. And he said, as we move forward, know that when you put a solar panel or a wind turbine, up, it's not the same as a thermal resource like coal or gas. He says the issue on the rise throughout the country and all throughout the West is many traditional and nuclear power plants are being retired to make way for the renewable sources of energy.

But the plants are being turned off faster than the renewable energy. and battery storage can keep up. John, did you say that? Come on. I thought you were smarter than this. We have magic fairy dust that's going to make everything work. In your craziest, busiest kids are screaming. You're really pissed off because you're all so hungry kind of moment.

Somebody says to you, hey, I got an idea. We're going to build these solar panels and things and wind power. And that should be a few years in the future. Should we turn off the nuclear power plant? At the height of the screaming of the kids, you're like, no, and don't bother me. Okay, don't you? Really?

I mean, it's pretty logical. Wouldn't it be nice if we had both? if we had the solar and the wind and we kept that nuclear power plant running just in case we need it. Of course, that'll never happen because there's never a need for it. There's never a spike because of a heat wave or a forest fire or a mudslide or an earthquake. There's no, it'll never happen. Why keep the other power plant running very low so you could, crank it if you needed it.

That's an interesting question. All I know is that all of this talk has convinced me even more to fully convert our economy to electric cars. Because what could possibly go wrong with California. You know what kills me is Elon Musk is even coming out going, we can't do this, stop it. I mean, he's the guy to, he's leading the charge. He's the guy that has become the richest guy in the world for pushing this stuff and he's even like slow down. Even he's saying, hey, we may need to develop our fossil fuels for the near future, considering

the global economic consequences and problems that we're having with energy. So a guy who honestly is what I would refer to as an environmental extremist is even coming out and saying that stuff now. Well, he's only an extremist because he built a car. company that really had no place to charge when he first started, you know, to charge the batteries. And then he's building rocket ships to go to Mars to get away from Earth because it's. Yeah. But other than that, he's not an extremist. He's not an extremist. I bet he's not pro-life. So the next story that you probably should pay attention to is diesel. We've been talking

about this in the last couple of weeks. This is very important. Diesel fuel is the fuel that powers the economy. Now, how does that work? Well, let's start over in China. You want something from Chad? You have to put it onto a big boat, a slowboat from China. And that's powered by diesel. Then it gets to our docks here. And you know all of those big cranes and everything else that take that crap off of the ship and then put it on the ground run by diesel. And then the forklifts that come and pick it up and then bring it over to the train, those run on diesel. And then the train, those engines run on diesel. And then the trucks that get it half a little. And then the trucks that get it, halfway across the country from the train,

they're picked up again by the forklifts run by diesel, and then they're put into a truck also run by diesel. I love these people are like, I'm not going to have to worry about anything because I have a Tesla. Yeah, I certainly hope that that grocery store that has food is within 400 miles of you. Because I don't think it would.

will when all the diesel dries up. East Coast stockpiles are at their lowest since 1996. Diesel and jet fuel at New York Harbor are now $200 a barrel. Europe's move away from Russian energy is also hastening the rapid price appreciation. They are now bringing in 700,000 barrels a day of diesel. from Russia, but they want to get out of that, you know, don't we all? Don't we all want to get out of that? But maybe we should have a plan before we stop doing stuff. They say that the rates for diesel are up now 90%. Not a big deal. Not a big deal. They're making biofuel now. They're reconfiguring all of these refineries that

don't worry we haven't built a new refinery since when 1972 i got to believe those things are nimble you know there's no activity seriously if you bought a tv or a cell phone well there were no cell phones a tv in 1972 are you telling me you wouldn't be getting the same crisp picture today that you could get you know at a walmart for a hundred bucks I don't think so. There's no technology that hasn't been, you know, just made better since 1972. So here's what's happening. These refineries are trying to, that don't make diesel, are now trying to retool to make diesel. But they make, what, say it would be, gasoline. And you know why everybody gets, why gas goes up? because of California, some of these refineries, they retool so they could make special blends for everybody.

And that causes problems. Well, now a lot of our refineries are trying to retool so they can make trucks or put the fuel in the trucks or the tractors of something called farms. and that's going to cause our gasoline to go up. I bet this summer, I bet we're paying over five bucks a gallon. And God only knows where diesel's going to be. I saw, you know, I was driving this weekend and saw those diesel prices.

They're stunning. They're over $5 a gallon now. Oh, yeah. I think they're close to six now. I saw this weekend. And this was in like middle of nowhere, Oklahoma. And it was like $5.60 a gallon.

I can't even imagine what these guys are paying. Go to the East Coast. I mean, what could it be, right? I don't even know. I mean, it's got to be completely ridiculous. But this is going to, you know, they like it at the Biden administration because this is going to help people transition. Yeah. You know, first we won't have any real electricity.

We won't have enough. We'll have those rolling brownouts all across the country, which I think Americans are going to be cool with, you know. I think we're really going to be cool with that. think I really honestly, without any sarcasm, I really think that they are building their own hangman stand. I really do. I think the left is pushing this country so fast, so quickly into things that are really insanity and everybody's going to pay for it that I think they're going to look and say,

get out, get out, get out. I think they're going to actually push the global warming thing even back because people are going to be so angry at what they're being, what they're being told they have to pay that I think these people are going to be voted out. As long as we still have free and fair elections, these people are going to be voted out because Americans are not going to put up with $5 a gallon gasoline and just take it. They're not.

They can't. It's fascinating, too. Like, who is the biggest, you have the left saying global warming is this huge, huge crisis. It's the worst thing in the world. And yet who are the people that are constantly attacking Elon Musk? It's not conservatives. Conservatives are like, hey, this guy's, you know, we don't always agree with his climate stuff. But man, he's pretty amazing guy and he's helping people and he's helping people.

He's made the electric car something that people actually want to buy. Same thing on the other side with the real solution here. if you needed to solve global warming and have a zero emission electricity option, it would be nuclear. And yet, who are the people constantly attacking nuclear? It's the Democrats. It's the left. It's not us. We're the ones encouraging it.

We want it to be developed. And they're shutting it down. And if you had nuclear, you could make an endless supply of hydrogen in the off hours. When people are sleeping, you keep the plant running, same level. and you just make hydrogen. You have an endless support of clean zero emissions energy that you can clearly get and make more every single day. It's insanity.

You can use that would be, you could use that for hydrogen vehicles if those were developed and then would be obviously in this situation. Or electric cars. I mean, you'd also have the electric. You'd have enough to go with the electric cars. You wouldn't need all of the craziness that they're trying to. do now. So why is that? Why is that? Because this isn't about anything except killing capitalism,

killing the West. It's clear. There are two solutions and they're all rolled into one, nuclear energy. I just saw this documentary, a scariest damn documentary you ever seen about three mile island. My gosh, you would think that it was nothing but killed a million children. But how did you make Three Mile Island scary? Because the maximum radiation was the set of, was the equivalent of a full set of chest x-rays. No, still. Oh, my gosh.

To any citizen. Oh, my gosh. You've got to watch a documentary. No. They never get down to exactly how much has been released. Oh. Oh, that's not part of the documentary. It was radiation that was released.

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10 seconds. Station ID. By the way, we're going to get to the food facility fires here in just a second. standby. And my computer is frozen. So the thing we were going to do here is not going to happen. Oh, really? Obviously. That's a problem with your computer.

I think you just, I think you abuse your computer. I never have a problem with mine. Ever. Mine likes me. Well, I don't. Like you. Okay. Well, that kind of makes me feel bad.

But we're going to go over your personal inflation here a little while. Also, the food facility fires. Have you heard this? that food processing plants are all catching fire. I want to give you some perspective on this coming up in just a second. Stand by. So I believe in the next couple of years, millions are going to die from starvation.

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Go there now. Prepare with glen.com. Tune in just a moment and find out your personal rate of inflation or to hear me light my computer on fire. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. your personal inflation rate coming up in just a second. I want to share with you from National Review and Jim Garrity. There is a great story on the food facility fires.

I've been asked about this over and over again, and we looked into it, and it doesn't seem to be out of the normal, believe it or not. Now, there are some things like, well, for instance, instance, National Review writes, in a typical year, how many plane crashes do we have into food processing plants? What's your guess? How many planes crash into a food processing plant?

I mean, as you say, seven a week, 300, no, none? Yeah, none, okay, zero. A bad year, maybe one. One. Okay, so so far this year, we've had two. That's, okay, that's, May. Yeah. And so you would think.

Hmm, there's something wrong. But two, I mean, it's really unlikely, but okay. Okay. Okay. All right. So let's look at everything that's been happening. A plane crashed into an Idaho potato and food processing plant, killing the pilot. Police say, uh, uh, gem straight processing in Hayburn, East Idaho at about 835 in the

morning on Wednesday. The pilot was the only person in the plane and died during the crash. Police said none of the employees at the processing plant were injured. Okay, so it had to be a kamikaze food plant guy. Okay. Because he flew the plane into the plant. Then, just a couple of weeks later, Covington, Georgia, firefighters responded to a plane crash that killed two people Thursday at the General Mills food processing plant. The small plane crashed apparently after taking off from a runway at the Covington Municipal Airport.

Six tractor trailers were damaged as a result of the crash. Both occupants of the plane died. however local officials were grateful the plane did not strike the plant building which could have resulted in greater loss of life so if you want to go for the plane crash idea yeah two plane crashes in or near food processing plants is weird it is weird um but well let me go on February 5th massive what these are the headlines massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meets on Thursday, destroying part of the facility. Then February 22nd, the Shears Food Plant in Hermiston, Oregon caught fire after a propane boiler exploded. March 17th, a structure fire at the Walmart distribution center in Plainville, Indiana broke out about noon on Wednesday. A thousand employees were inside, but none were injured. One firefighter suffered minor injuries. March 22nd, a fire broke out

at a Nestle Hot Pockets plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It happened on March 16th. The facility was still closed as of March 21st. March 25th, officials believe a deep frying machine is behind the fire that destroyed a potato processing facility in Belfast. April 13th, firefighters from several departments in Maine helped battle a massive fire that destroyed a butcher shop and meat market in in Center Conway, New Hampshire. And April 30th, soybean processing tank caught fire at the Purdue Farms plant in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Okay. I mean, that's a lot, right? That's a lot. Okay, so here's how we have looked at it, and this is exactly the way Jim Garrity has looked at it. Not all the fires or crashes did significant damage. In the Chesapeake soybean facility fire, the plant manager said the fire had little to no impact on their operations.

In the Georgia crash, the plane didn't hit the building. No employees were harmed. And General Mills spokesperson said the plant didn't experience any disruption and remains fully operational. The pilot in that crash, by the way, was identified as a student pilot. And the other person was the flight instructor. So, I mean, unless it was some sort of anti-food processing plant flight instructor that took that plane down and missed the plant, that's probably not one to count. Second, none of the fires so far have been declared cases of arson. This is really important because I, you know, I went looking at these and I thought to myself, I don't know, that seems like a lot.

but when we really started looking, none of them have been deemed arson. And that's from coast to coast. If any of them had been deemed arson, if two of them, I would have been like, let's look into this. In any given year, there are half a million fires reported to local fire departments. About 5,300 of them are manufacturing or processing facilities. that comes to about 440 per month. And if there are fires in 440 manufacturing or processing facilities a month from coast to coast, wouldn't we expect at least a handful of these to be at food processing facilities?

In fact, the list above stretches the definition of food processing facilities because the Walmart distribution center also stored clothes and cardboard. and the New Hampshire fire happened at a local butcher shop. Third, if you were a terrorist or a foreign agent or somebody in the deep state, attempting to choke off the American food distribution network, would you start with a potato chip maker in Oregon or the source for hot pockets in Arkansas? Then move on to a soybean processing tank in Virginia. If you were nefarious terrorist group or hot.

hostile foreign power and had not, you know, not merely one suicide pilot, but two of them, as in the case of the Georgia crash, who, why were they there? Why not use that third person to bring down another plane? You wouldn't bring a passenger along. And would you really aim for a potato processing plant in southern Idaho than the Georgia plant where they make cinnamon toast crunch. The U.S. had, as of 2017, the U.S. had 36,486 food and beverage processing establishments. What's most likely happening, according to Jim Garrity, is the Bader-Mindhoff phenomena. You may not know what the Biter-Hen-Hoff phenomenon is, but you've experienced it. have you ever gone to buy a car and then suddenly they're everywhere oh yeah for sure that is that is

that phenomenon it's a frequency illusion that when things start to happen and we are now looking at food shortages we all know it we also all know some things aren't being done by our government that are right we also know uh there are people that you know you know like catastrophe and, you know, swim in really calm waters of catastrophe as they look at it, never waste it. So we have these things percolating. And as you see one fire and then another, these are not out of the normal. And they're not arson. They're not terrorist strikes.

And they don't seem to be affecting big plants. and that's what you would go after are the big plants. That's really good news. That's really good news. And that sort of thing happens to everybody. I mean, on the left, it happens all the time. One recent example was the Australian fires. Remember how big of a deal this was?

Yes. Everyone was on, you know, online. They were running fundraisers. And it was a big deal. I'm not saying the Australian fires a few years ago were not. But everyone was saying that like this is global warming and look how terrible this is and the environment and weather weirding and all of this. And at the end of the year, there was less.

less square mileage burned in Australia than average that year less than average. Isn't that crazy? Crazy. Yeah. And why is it happening to them? This is like when you're buying a new car, you're focused on that. When you're worried about global warming, you're focused on that. When you're worried about food shortages and you see things that you've not noticed before.

It's because you weren't paying attention to it that way. How many times have we paid attention to a, the forest fire in Australia. Well, we paid attention that year because the people who are running the news are talking about forest fires. Yeah. And global warming. That is what happens. And you get down the, and I think this happens all the time with global warming. Every time there's a moderately strange weather event that's slightly out of the ordinary, this is what it's blamed on every single time. And everyone's a meteorologist.

And if you really want to know what's going to cause food shortages, it's Russia and Ukraine and our response to it. That's really what is going to cause the most problems of getting food all around the world. What about China and the COVID shutdowns that they're still kind of going through that? That's big as well, right? Have you seen the Shanghai ports, the satellite photos from 2020 and then today? Incredible difference. It is. It's today.

It's backed up like crazy. Oh, it's like you're looking at the stars in the sky. There are so many ships out there. We are headed for real, real trouble, you know, in the next, I don't even know, three to six, seven months when it comes to items not being available. Car shield. If you've been carrying around, you know, some bailing wires and some duct tape just to keep your car going, you really need to think about CarShield. Car shield will help with all of those surprises of something going wrong with your car.

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Stay informed. Sign up for the free newsletter today at glenbeck.com. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're so glad that you're here. Thank you for listening. The New York Times has just put together your personal inflation. And have you taken it yet still? You have.

Yeah, seven questions. Okay. And you have to answer them. Basically, the average rate is something like 8.5% is what they're saying now. Now we know there's varying calculations of that. But some basic questions help you figure out your own personal inflation. So let me ask you. Let me give you the quiz here.

Yeah. Did you buy a car in the last year? I bought a new car, a used car, a new and used car, or I didn't buy a car? Used car. Use car. Okay. So now your inflation rate went from 8.5, up to 10.1%. Okay.

How much do you drive? I don't drive or I use an electric car. I drive less than 150 miles per week, 150 to 400 miles a week or over 400. So you figure. I do. I usually put about 12,000 miles on a car in a year. So let's see 12,000

divided by 52 is 230 miles so between 150 and 400 Okay yeah Okay That gets you from 10.1 to 10.3% Okay How much do you travel?

I typically take three or more trips a year for you right? Yeah That's the highest number So that's going to get you up to 11.4% Are you a vegetarian? No Is there a total opposite?

Okay, I am not a vegetarian, and now it goes you from 11.4 to 11.5%. Do you heat your home with oil? No. No. I don't. Okay, that brings you 115 back down to 11.4%. How often do you eat out?

What about oil? Hmm? Do you said oil? What about gas? It's just the only question is, do you heat your home with oil? I don't know. I didn't make the quiz up. This is made by an economist.

Go ahead. I rarely eat out. I typically eat out one or two days a week or several days of the week. I'd say one or two. One or two. Okay. If you, if you,

if you, if you, I would imagine that includes like, you know, Uber. Yes. Oh yeah. I would say that counts.

I mean, you know, I don't know. I might put you at three per week, but yeah, go ahead, put three. I mean,

there is a sonic cup by you every single day. So, well, let's see several days a week. Okay. And then, um,

do you pay for school? I don't pay for school. I pay for school. Pay taxes. Okay. Glenn, your inflation rate, 11.

5%. So instead of 8.5, yours is 11.5. Now, the biggest thing for you is going to be buying a used car, which is a big deal. But just the driving and it made a big deal as well, a difference as well to pop you up to 11.5. I saw somebody selling a, what is it? It was a range rover, a defender, one of those new defenders. It was last year. And I think there what, 120,000, something like that? I don't know. They were selling. a used one for 180. Incredible. I thought, good work if you can get it, dude. But what are you going to drive?

You know, you're not buying a used car selling your car now, even if you can get that money. What are you going to replace it with? Yeah, that's really a problem. Yeah, there's really nothing. There's no way to just sell a car and, I mean, unless you're working at home, right? Maybe that would be a decision you might make and take an occasional Uber. I don't know.

Yeah, that would be great because, you know, then we wouldn't, we could help the planet. If we all just sold our cars and just worked from home, wow, maybe we wouldn't have an oil shortage. Maybe we wouldn't have. It's enticing. It's enticing. We can go back to those glory days of March 2020. Oh, weren't those the days? Those were great.

And if we're really lucky, we can go back to 1820, you know, where nobody had a car. Yeah. Oh, that'll be really fun. By the way, when I took this quiz, I had to say, no, I have not bought a car in the past year because I ordered one nine months ago, but I don't actually have it yet. So what's your inflation rate? Mine was actually low. It was 8.2% or something, which is interesting.

I think I wasn't. Because that's vegetarian too. Vegetarian helps me on that one. It's usually more. Yeah, usually vegetarian eating is really expensive. But again, maybe we can get to a place to where no one can really afford meat, except for like a special occasion. And if you want to have some good animal protein, have you thought about bugs?

Because they're delicious and a delicacy in certain parts of the world. I'm surprised the New York Times didn't have that. Vegetarian? Or do you eat bugs? The Glenn Back Program.