The Glenn Beck Program - The Most Insane Theory on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Yet? | Guests: Jeremiah Johnston & Tristin Hopper | 3/27/24

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

Glenn gives an update on the devastating ship malfunction that caused the complete collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, including the estimates of how long it'll take to rebuild. The question has to be asked: Why do we never see Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg when these tragedies happen? Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the most insane theory on the bridge disaster yet. Amidst all life's stress, guilt, and shame, Glenn speaks about the importance and benefits of following God's plan for your life. To discuss this and the historical basis for faith, Prestonwood Baptist Church Apologetics Pastor Jeremiah Johnston joins to dig through all the proof of the death and resurrection of Jesus. National Post reporter and columnist Tristin Hopper joins to discuss a secret report that paints a bleak future for Canadians. Glenn previews the newest comedy movie released from BlazeTV, "Agua Donkeys."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's an amazing story. It's an amazing hero story of the cops. Yeah, let's make sure we get rid of those cops. A hero story where they saved, I don't know how many countless, lives by, you know, being there and doing exactly the right thing quickly. But I'm really tired of hearing about how long this is going to take us before we survive and how bad it's going to be because it's going to be so long. Let's start there in 60 seconds. Stand by. Let me tell you about

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52.3 million tons of foreign cargo was transported through Baltimore just last year. The bustling port is cut off now after the 1.6 mile bridge crumbled and fell into the river early Tuesday blocking the only shipping lane into the port. The port is one of the busiest in the U.S. and saw a record of 52. million tons of foreign cargo transported in 2023. The officials have said the timeline for rebuilding the bridge is, quote, years. We're going to do everything we can to protect those jobs and help those workers. The president said yesterday, the port of Baltimore creates more than 15,300 jobs, with 140,000 jobs linked to the activity at the port.

This is a major disaster and will create significant problems on the East Coast for U.S. importers and exporters. The bridge collapse will mean that for the time being, it will not be possible to get to the the container terminals or a range of the other port terminals in Baltimore. The Maryland Secretary Transportation told reporters Tuesday that the vessel traffic in and out of the port of Baltimore would be suspended until further notice, but noted the port is still open to trucks. So we still have trucks going in. As soon as we clear the bridge, we can get vessels in, but it's going to be a major hassle

for over time for cars, et cetera, et cetera. An expert on property damage cases in the shipping industry told the New York Post that the collapse will have a major impact on shipping and traffic routes in the East Coast for the foreseeable future. It's not, quote, it's not going to get fixed any time soon. It's going to take a lot longer than anyone expects. This is going to be a major problem for the Northeast. I'm sick of this. I am absolutely sick to death. of all of these stories that say things like that.

Have we forgotten who we are? Have we forgotten what we've done? Let me just take you on a little journey here for the American spirit. A spirit so potent and so vibrant that it has scaled towering mountains. Mountains nobody thought they could cross. Constructed marvels of engineering. Have you ever been to the Hoover Dam? We erected buildings that scraped the sky.

The sky scraper was invented here. Here we are on the threshold of tomorrow. None of us know what is happening tomorrow. None of us. But I'm getting the impression that we've been so beaten down that we believe we're not going to make it tomorrow. Can I just remind you of who we come from? Our ancestors, what they did. our history, if you just look through it briefly, you will see a group of people that never take no for an answer and can do anything.

I want to stop just briefly in 1930. The Great Depression had its icy grip on us. It was a time like where everybody felt the flickering candle in the vast darkness. It was just barely there. yet it was in this crucible of adversity that Americans did great things. The Empire State Building rose. It wasn't just a structure of steel and stone, but it was a beacon, a beacon of hope and American resilience and ingenuity.

The way that thing was built, nobody had ever seen anything like it before or since. in a record-shattering one year and 45 days, an army of workers, as many as 3,400 men on certain days, they transformed this audacious vision into a cowering reality. The guy who was funding it knew this thing better come in under budget and we got to get it in here fast, or this is just going to destroy all of us. The Empire State Building wasn't constructed. It was conjured into existence with a symphony of clanging metal and roaring machines. And quite honestly, the inexhaustible spirit of its builders.

There are stories. The men who were perched on the steel girders that were being flown in by giant cranes, they sat there. there were whispered tales about how they could still feel the warmth of the freshly poured metal beneath them. That beam was still warm even though it was poured in Pittsburgh and then put on a train, then put on a boat, then put on a truck, then hauled up into the air. They could feel the warmth. It was moving that fast. It was a feverish pace of construction. It seemed to defy the laws of time and physics.

For a long time, it was the tallest building in the world, an architectural achievement. There was also a declaration to the world that America was a land where the impossible became possible. Determination, innovation, a relentless will to succeed. Yeah, that's a whole old dusty history. Why even look at that? because they're not merely historical footnotes. They are blazing torches, illuminating our path forward. They remind us or are supposed to remind us that when we are faced with adversity,

we don't just endure it. We overcome it. We don't wait for history to chart our course. We write it with the sweat of our brow and the strength of our backs. That's who we are. Have we forgotten that? It's going to be years. We find ourselves at another crossroads, America.

Faced with the challenges that threaten to dim the bright future that we all dream for, for our nation and for our children, the spirit that built the Empire State Building, it laid down miles of railroads that cut through the rocky mountains that sent astronauts to the moon. it's still inside of every heart of every American somewhere. Awaken that spirit. Scale new mountains. It's not just rock and earth. Scale the mountains of innovation and sustainability.

Build. Not just physical structures, but a future that upholds the spirit of adventure and hard work and ingenuity. Stop tearing everything. down and let's start building. Well, we might have another president, you know, who's out there? Who could we? Why are we waiting?

If this isn't a national emergency, I don't know what is, and I don't mean the bridge. I mean all of it. Well, our government has to lead. Really? Really? Does it? Maybe that's our problem. America is led by its values and its principles that are found in the that are found in the soul of those who still remember who we are and who we serve.

Americans led the way. The government always follows. Yeah, well, we can't act without them. Bull crap. Where are the bridge builders who will stand up today and say, I'll get it done? As soon as that happens, you'll see who's leading and who's stalling. The government is the one that stalls the engine out. To expect more from our leaders is rational. but to expect the most from ourselves is essential. We are the architects of our destiny. We are the builders of our dreams. There's a huge task that's right in front of us.

I still believe we can tackle that. We can overcome anything. The history of America is a tapestry woven with the threads of bold endeavors, monumental achievements. Blood. The blood spilled at the Empire State Building and every other path to greatness. Let's harness the potential. Not for glory.

Not look at us. Oh, we're the best. We're the best. But because we understand that in the pursuit of a better world, action is not just an option, it's our duty. I often wonder, and as I look to the horizon now in today's America, is that a sunset or a sunrise? It depends on you. If Americans rise with a determination that carried our forebears through the trials and tribulations,

if we build with love and compassion and an unbreakable commitment to the spirit of daring adventure and hard work and ingenuity, We restore ourselves and our country. In the words of our ancestors, that are etched in every American heart somewhere. You can do it. You can become anything. You can do anything. That doesn't make it easy.

It doesn't mean you deserve it. You can do it because it's hard. And it's in doing the hard things that we find the best of ourselves. That's why everything that's going on is not necessarily a curse. It's an honor to serve at this time because we can find the best of ourself. We can step forward into the dawn of a new day with our eyes wide open to all of the problems of the past and the possibilities that are right in front of us. But we have to resolve to make those possibilities our reality. We are Americans. There is nothing

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but can I ask a question about what our country is? You are going to take this happy smile off my face. You're determined to do it. Go ahead. I, I, I am not saying, I want to make sure I'm clear, I am not saying, not saying that Pete Buttigieg is going around the country, sabotaging all of our infrastructure. I'm not saying that. I'm definitely not claiming that is what is going on.

But what other explanation is there? Like, if you, he's not sabotaging incompetence, total and complete incompetence. Is it? Where is this guy? I don't know, but I think the question we should be asking is how do we get him to go back on paternity leave? Ever since this guy got this job, it's been nonstop transportation catastrophes. This guy has been, he's overseen every single part of our infrastructure just fall apart in front of our eyes. And he's the only thing tying it all together.

I mean, is it possible he's going around, disabling power structures of boats. He's not smart enough. He's derailing trains intentionally in the middle of the night. I mean, we have to at least open up the possibility at this point that this is what's going on. No, no, you don't. Here's why you don't. Because the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime and that guy never shows up.

I mean, Boeing is an institution in this country. I know. Pete Buttigieg gets this job and just doors are flying off. What is going on? Something has to be going on. I mean, I don't want, I, yesterday I read a lot of theories. And some of them hairbrained. None of them really helpful at this point.

We have no idea. We have no idea. But again, it is coincidental. And I mean that it is just at this point. coincidental that the two companies that have gone all DEI Boeing you know let's let's fire all the engineers and put bean counters and DEI people in and United Airlines let's have you know let's have our CEO care about drag shows and dress in drag well how about making sure that the plane is there with all of its

wheels. Could we could we do that? And now this ship, this is another ship that is this company is big on DEI. I don't know. I mean, maybe everybody's DEI. So that's not a coincidence anymore. Maybe everybody except us. You know, maybe that's why, you know, it looks like that. But I don't know. I don't know. I think there's a lot to look at. But the most important thing I think we can do is, find the people who can build this bridge in the time that it took to build the Empire State Building. Are you telling me a bridge is tougher? Do you know that halfway up, they were still building the steel structure? And in the bottom 10 floors, even the bathrooms, they were all tiled and working before the building was even complete in the steel structure.

You cannot tell me that we can't move mountains to get this. I'll tell you this. If Ron DeSantis was president, that's the kind of talk we would be having right now. Not a, it's going to be a long time. I mean, I'll be long dead, long, probably 20 years dead before that port's ever open again.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We welcome Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed. The podcast that you can hear wherever you get your podcast or you can hear him record it live. Yes, live every day before this program on Blaze TV and radio network. Hello, Pat. Hello, Glenn. Thank you for that very nice introduction. That's all true.

It's all true. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm here to tell the truth. So the bridge, Stu has a theory on this Baltimore Bridge collapse. I do not. I would not say I have a theory at all. I'm just saying, look, it wouldn't make any sense for this to be a terrorist attack the way it happened in 1.30 in the morning.

Like, why would you do it that way? Maybe you can argue it was some sort of test. run or something, but like, I don't know. It's a... Just to disrupt our infrastructure. But it doesn't seem like it's going to be that serious in that... I mean, like, these places are able to... What?

It doesn't seem like... I mean, like, all the reporting is that they are able to reroute to other ports. The... I mean, it's going to affect Baltimore pretty seriously. Obviously, traffic will be affected. But, like, if you're going for some major terrorist attack, first of all, 1.30 in the morning is kind of a weird time for it. And, you know, of course, you know, the warnings from the ship

and all of these other things. But beyond that, like, I'm looking at a broader picture here. And I'm not, I'm getting, I'm not saying this. What I want you to know, Pat, is I'm not saying this. Okay. I am. What are you not saying? I am not saying that Pete Buttigieg individually is going to each one of these things

and, like, unscrewing Boeing doors before the plane takes. I'm not saying he's doing that. Right. I'm not saying he's loosening tires off of planes. You're not saying. I'm not saying that. It'll be incredibly impossible. What I am saying is, should we check his house to see if he has scuba gear?

You are saying that? Let's just at least check it out. All right. Why not go into his garage and see maybe he has a couple of, you know, a couple of, I don't know, rubber suits that he's, and that might be for other use. But like, I'm just saying, can we at least check? We should at least know that. Hey, all right. Maybe he's got a Phillips screwdriver or something.

Yeah. Right. Does he have a screw? Right. Yes. Right. It would just be interesting to know what type of underwater diving gear the man owns. Like, does he happen to have a mini submarine in his garage?

Like, that would be something. That would be weird. First of all, first of all, as I said, they always return to the scene of the crime. So he never. shows up after one of the he disappears after this yes you know that we never hear him talk about anything transportation have you heard him actually you know standing in front of a united airliner going we're going to shut this thing down until we figure out why the united airlines keeps losing doors and wheels and i heard the steering wheel or something the other day why right why

where is he on that so he never shows up at the scene of the crime so that at me immediately goes, it's also way too much work for him. Okay. He would have to learn things like how to put the mask on, which I think is beyond his capability. You know, how do I, the scuba gear, the breather goes where exactly and you don't want to use it after him. After he tries it, I'm just saying, I don't know. I think, look, there are a lot of reasons to believe that Pete Buttigieg isn't responsible. for each one of these things.

It would be insane. It would be a crazy development. By all accounts. However, like, how else do we explain this? It would be unprecedented. The fact... If it was our transportation secretary. Right.

It would be, yes, I would agree. Unprecedented. Never in history has a transportation secretary doesn't happen. But... Can we look at the bright side, however? Can we look at the bright side, however? That would be more than any transportation

secretary has done probably in the history of transportation. I never know what they do. This is a good point. Who knows the name of any other transportation secretary? Yet we all. Chow was one. And the other one that I did pop into my head was La Hood because back in the day. But like not for, hey, he's screwing up all of our infrastructure.

It was like, oh, well, he's sort of a notable figure that occasionally comes up in policy. conversations. This guy has overseen disaster movie sequel after disaster movie sequel since he got this job. We have American institutions. Boeing is just like, we can't keep planes in the air anymore. Why? Why has all of this happened under his watch? It's like he's trying, he's like he's Michael Mann.

He's a tie to, we now have more footage to show and disaster movies because of this guy. Allegedly, I mean, I don't think he is intentionally derailing trains across the country. But it does seem weird that ever since he got, we should at least look to see if he's got like a wedge or some tools that would allow him to do it. I would say the fact that everything is being derailed would lead me to believe that it's not one man. It's probably not. It's probably not. This is not that unusual.

The entire, the entire country is going into a bridge abutment. That's true. It would explain why we never see him, though, because he's always on skulking into one of these places, loosening some bolt. Like, it's probably not him loosening bolts. Probably not. Probably not. It's probably not. But like, wouldn't it be easy to rule it out?

Like, shouldn't we at least go looking around? Just, you know, let's toss that. Let's toss the individual possibility that Pete Buttigieg is flying around the country, disabling our infrastructure. Let's just rule that one out. It's got to be easy to rule out. I'd feel a lot better. Yes.

You know, I would. I mean, even though I understand, it's unlikely. It's unlikely. It's on the life. Find out what was he in bed with you last night or the night before when this thing hit the bridge abutment? Just find out. Let's just find out.

It's just an easy one to rule out. And like, until we can rule it out, he should go back on paternity leave. That's all I'm saying. He shouldn't be employed in this job when this is a possibility. I see what this is. You just want him out as the transportation secretary. Oh, wow. You are such a bad man.

Oh, man. Is it homophobia? Is that what's happening? It's definitely not homophobia. He can be as absolutely. gay as he'd like to be while on paternity leave. In fact, I'd encourage it. It would be almost odd if he wasn't, right?

But like, what I'm saying is, ever since this guy took this job, we have done show after show after show out of about transportation infrastructure collapse. What is how? Like, why not just either he's individually doing it himself or maybe another possibility is everything this man touches gets destroyed like he's Ivan Drago. Maybe that's the thing. I have to tell you, I don't even know if he, I think this is just, this is just, now four years of absolute incompetence.

The companies all being distracted from what they have to do so they can meet new governmental mandates on bull crap that mean nothing to any of us. And this guy, this guy, I don't think he knows what his job is. I really don't. He seems to be terrible at it. And whenever he is involved in something, tragedies ensue. So, you know, I mean, we talk about these problems. Like, with the border, like, I don't know.

What do you do? You got to close, you got to make sure you're closing off the border to illegal immigration before you're worried about the immigrants that have already crossed, right? Like, got to be stopped the flow. There's a leak. You got to stop the leak for turn the water off first. Fix. With this, it's like, shouldn't we just turn the water off here? Like, get this guy away from this thing first and then we'll figure out some of the other details. Whatever he's bringing to the table is weighing down the table and the table's collapsing. Can we do something about this? This is the best entertaining conspiracy theory I have heard in the last 24 hours. This is good. This is good. I don't think it would be absurd. absurd to picture Pete Buttigieg in a scuba outfit.

I mean, like, if someone were to Photoshop that and give it to us in Twitter, that would be silly. Obviously Pete Buttigieg. It's irresponsible, too. He can't possibly be doing it. Let's just confirm he doesn't have the equipment to make it possible. Let's rule it out now. Have we seen close-up pictures of the United Airlines flight when it was taking off

losing the tire. Do we did, was there a parachute after? Exactly. Was he up in the wheel hub as they took off? Just, you know, like one of those, you know, poor Afghans that were just like, I'm going to go to America. And he's like, wait, I'm not done. I've got to unloosin the bolts here.

Yeah, like, yeah. I'd like to see a close up. Was he driving a tanker truck last June 11th and left it on I-95 in Philadelphia? Right. That bridge. Why? When that took caught fire. Let's just find out. Let's just look. Let's just see who the driver was.

Let's just look if like if you have the CCTV footage and just see a little guy scampering away from the bridge right after. Like I would like to know who is that. Is that a lepricod or is that Pete Buttigieg? I want to know who it is. These are basic questions that we can ask honestly. And my goal here is. to exonerate Pete Buttigieg. Clear him.

That's my goal. I feel like we might be able to do it. But before you said this, I don't think Pete Buttigieg came up as a suspect. Well, how? I mean, it would, because it would be so outlandish, right? Like, there's no way that you were afraid to say it. It would be crazy. Thank you for.

Is that what it was? Yeah. It was. We were throwing off the chains and saying what everybody was thinking stupidly. But other people would say, as John Stewart said, saying the things that nobody's thinking. Right. Well, that's what he's, that's what he's doing about. It could be. It could be. But then again, other people might say it's the most logical explanation that he's just going around doing it himself. And why else would all of this happen? And that's why I just want to exonerate him and let him get back to his wonderful family, you know, back on paternity leave.

Yeah, you know, and like I think too, we should consider for this particular role, whether paternity leave should only happen after the birth of a child. Maybe it should be like a constant thing, like a whenever you need it, you take it. Just go ahead, go on leave right now and maybe take eight to 12 years off. Just in case, you know. Okay. These are just possibilities. Thanks for standing and watching the whole thing burn with me.

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And it's still dark out and I'm up in the mountains and I, Jamie, our engineer comes in, what time? About 6.30 or so. And he's in here and we hear this, because I had the door open and I hear this, I don't know, like a flock of birds, right? And they're making weird sounds. And I looked at him and I said, what the heck is that? And he said, I don't know, just birds. But it was weird. And so I'm going back to the house just to get some stuff.

And I walk out the front door of the broadcast barn. And I hear, I don't know what it was, but all of a sudden the birds went like, and they just flew out of the bushes. And then I heard like the scariest growl I've ever heard. I don't know what it was. but we have mountain lions up here and I think it might have been a mountain lion. I mean, all the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I went, Jamie, I think there's something out here. And then I just screamed out to the mountain lion, do whatever you want with the engineer.

Just leave me alone. Terrifying. Those things are so spooky. Yeah, that is, that is terrifying. Do we know it thought? Was it Pete Buttigieg in the bushes? Is it possible? Can we rule it out?

Like if we just had... You know what? A situation where maybe Pete Buttigieg sits in front of Congress and we ask him to make his best growling noise and then you'd be able to just identify whether it was him. Can you please sound like a mountain lion? Right. And if he can.

It was like this weird. It was like a kitty cat per half growl. if the kitty cat was like 800 pounds. You know, it sounded like that. Can you make that sound, Pete Buttigieg? We should ask him because then we could rule him out. We can rule him out. We could just rule him out.

We just want to exonerate it. He was not hunting for, you know, little animals to eat in this morning. He was just, you know, just someplace else in the dark. So you did get a little purr mixed in with the, with the growl, would you say? You know that sound that cats make when they're like, you know what I mean? Salivating over flesh. Is that what you're...

Yeah, I don't know. You know that purring sound that they make, except it was like... Oh my gosh. It wasn't a kitty cat. It was terrifying. Terrifying. This is why I'm indoorsy.

I don't want to be an outdoorsy guy. I'm an indoorsy guy. Those things don't happen indoors. I mean, I like it. It's pretty up here in the mountains and stuff, but I don't like that there's something out there with a taste for human flesh, you know?

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Free month of service, use the offer code spring 24. Patriotmobile.com slash Beck, 972 Patriot. I think this is the most important week of the year. religiously speaking, and speaking just as a human being. The problems that we face in America today, and quite honestly, the entire Western world, is a lack of forgiveness, a lack of grace, and a lack of understanding the atonement. Suicide rates are up. people think there's no need to live anymore that nothing is real they don't realize that

they're not a human having a spiritual experience they're a spirit having a human experience that we are at this time here for a reason and no matter what you've done it doesn't matter It doesn't matter. And you think I can't, at least I did, so what made me drink and an alcoholic, I couldn't, I couldn't live in the world that I had created. It was so many things that I was ashamed of and everything else just piled on. And it wasn't until I stopped drinking, went to AA and did that, but I still couldn't really let go of the past until I was baptized. And when I was baptized, I remember I said, I was in the water.

Pat actually baptized me. And I was in the water. And in my head, I was saying, you promise, you promise. You cease to be God if you don't live up to your promise. And that promise is live the way I ask you to live, do the things I ask you to do to the best of your ability. And I will take all of the things from the past away from you. And I'm telling you my life changed overnight. It's real.

A lot of people who even profess that it's real, I don't know, they don't act like it's real. You know, and I think it's something that you have to practice, put into practice every single day and be grateful for. It is the greatest gift ever given. And that's what we're supposed to celebrate on Easter, the resurrection. but did that even happen there are people that claimed Jesus didn't even live well let's look at history is there proof that he lived is there proof that he died is there proof of the resurrection and I mean proof historical proof we happen to be friends with Jeremiah Johnson not the guy who well I don't think so Jeremiah do you like livered onions in the

another life maybe. I'm better looking at that Jeremiah Johnson. Right. Okay. So that Jeremiah Johnson, the one, the mountain man, he is, you know, that happy little movie with Robert Redford, kind of happy. It didn't end that way in real life. But anyway, Jeremiah Johnson, he is a PhD, author of Body of Proof. He is Christian Thinkers Society President, Preston Baptist Church, and an apologetics pastor. And, um, And a huge fan of Glenn Beck, if I may say, and a blaze subscriber, by the way. Really? Are you really? Of course. I'm an OG subscriber. And listen, I love being on with you. I appreciate your word. I appreciate you speaking truth.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, that's really hurt your credibility with everybody else, but I appreciate it. So, Jeremiah, we wanted to get you on because there's a lot of unbelief today. And it wasn't until I went to school for like 10 minutes at Yale, and I took early Christology, and it was the historic proof of Christ. And it was through the history department and what times were like back then. And it really opened up a whole new world. So I'd love to talk to you about, you know, what this week was really like and what the evidence is that. Christ even lived. Right. And then we'll get to the resurrection. Love it. Go ahead. What's fascinating about it is Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, Glenn, puts itself to a

historical test. Make no mistake that archaeology, evidence, proved, not checking your mind at the door, these are Christianity's closest cousins. No other religion or ism is like that today or has been ever. In an absolutely devastating passage in 1st Corinthians 1517, Glenn, St. Paul tells us what's at stake about how important it is what we're discussing this week, this holy week. He said, look, if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, this is 1st Corinthians 1517, we're still in our sins. We have no forgiveness, as you were just talking about. And two verses later, Paul says, hey, people should kind of feel sorry for us. We should eat, be merry for tomorrow we die. just go be Corinthians and live wild and crazy. But he says, and again, this is an uncontested

passage. First Corinthians 15 is one of the most respected historical documents. And I'm talking about even those apostate, secular, skeptical professors that you probably had in New Haven at Yale. I'm not saying they all are, but some of them are. I've been to the bind of the key. This one wasn't, but everybody else, yeah. Even they accept First Corinthians as a historical document. And all passes on what's called the Kyrgyrama. He passes on the earliest tradition of the church that Jesus lived. He died according to the scriptures. He was buried and he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures. Paul was a male chauvinist. He hated Christians, didn't like women, and he certainly didn't like you if you were a Jew. It was only because of experiencing

Jesus alive from the grave that his life is utterly transformed. He's the earliest witness, Because remember, Paul's letters antedate the Gospels. And so I don't check my brain at the door when I become a Christian. Glenn, I am a follower of Jesus because on April 5th, AD 33, Jesus walked out of that tomb alive from the dead. That's the only reason I'm a Christian. You know, let's talk about Paul for a second, because he is fascinating to me.

He wasn't just a bad guy. He was a really bad guy. When the crowd is surrounding the brother of Jesus, he says, here, you know, basically, you don't want to get blood on your, your coat. Let me hold your coats. Right. So he's holding their stuff so they don't get bloody while they beat this guy to death and stone him to death. I mean, that's an extra level. That's almost to the evil Nazi kind of guy. He was the original mafia mobster mob boss in Jerusalem. He gave approval to take out.

He gave approval to all the hitmen to take out Christians. He thought that he was protecting Judaism. The Judaism was a coherent religion. He didn't like this new Jewish sect that welcomed salvation, Glenn, as you said, so vulnerably and so powerfully in your personal testimony to start this hour. He didn't like the fact that the gospel, this new message was for everyone. After all, he was trained in rabbinic Judaism. And Glenn, I don't know if you're aware in rabbinic Judaism.

They would say things like, better to burn the toilet. than teach it to a woman. The Jews had this benediction. They said, thank you, God, that you didn't make me a Gentile. Thank you, God, you didn't make me an ignoramus, a moron in Greek. And thank you, God, you didn't make me a woman. This is what's in the zeitgeist, if you will, the milieu of Paul and the Judaism he comes out of. So what can we say for the audience? Because this has immediate consequences on everyone who's watching and listening today. Jesus Christ not only lived, His death is the best established fact of the ancient world. Glenn, I often say if we can't believe that Jesus was massacred on a Roman cross,

don't bother believing in the Roman Empire because do you realize as a historian? So I had the privilege to study in Oxford for three years, 2009 to 2012, where I defended my thesis, 93,000 word, Glenn, Uber Lieferong's Geshisha of resurrection, 11 languages in my doctoral thesis. I looked at it. I heard all the arguments against the resurrection. which we should definitely dive into. Here's the key, though.

Jesus came out of that tomb alive and it utterly transformed the world, which is one of my body of proofs from my book. It's the only convincing evidence for me. It's the only convincing explanation for the historical fact that everywhere this gospel message goes and society embraces it,

culture is dramatically improved and made better. This same Paul, who is an OG gangster in Jerusalem, sees Jesus, Glenn, and he gives us a pastor, He says there's neither Jew nor Gentile nor there's slave nor free, neither male nor female. We're all one in Christ Jesus. And that one verse changes the world. Yeah, revolutionary.

I think he's my favorite character in the Bible, Paul. He's just, if we knew how to argue like Paul, if we knew how to live like Paul in many cases, we would be just an outrageously great group of people. Tell me why is he on the road to Damascus? He's on the road to Damascus because he wants to get even more approval. He wants to take his pogroms against Christian, and he wants them to go national. He is going to get approval to continue to kill Christians. So he is on the hit run, literally.

He's going to take what he's doing, the persecutions in Jerusalem. He wants to pass those into Damascus and beyond. He wants a systematic extermination of the way. That's how Christianity was first referred to in its earliest, historical documents. And so what we can say, though, Glenn, and this is what skeptics who are listening, and I get it, man, I wake up a skeptic every morning, and I have to wrap myself back in the truth of God's word and the truth of the evidence of scripture. What we can say is a historian, not as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fact, Jesus Christ, the documents say,

appeared to those who loved him and followed him. He also appeared to those who were indifferent to him, and make no mistake, as we'll dive into, he appeared to those who are out and out hostile against them. Okay, we're going to talk about that. It'll give me one minute. We'll back with Jeremiah Johnston in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor, this half hour, if I can click on it, and my computer is not working.

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Well, we've got about 20 minutes. So let's start just quickly on some things like, for instance, Josephus is a Jewish writer of one of our first historians and he writes about Jesus and not like a he's the Messiah sort of way, just verifies that the man was another one of these messianic figures that came down and had followers, correct? Exactly. But what's unique about Jesus, remember, Jesus wasn't the only guy in the first century claiming to be the Messiah. And my book, Body of Proof, I actually write about the fact that there's at least 10 other

what I call messianic pretenders or contenders. All of their movements came to not after the death of their would-be Messiah. like founder. Only Jesus' movement continues. So let me put it this way, because I'm a visual learner. I do a lot of work in archaeology. You can go to the land of Israel today, Glenn. There's about 100 archaeological digs that happen twice a year. I can introduce you to Jewish archaeologists. Now, these Jews are just Jews by ethnicity. They're probably atheists or perhaps agnostic leaning towards atheists. Glenn, they use six books you may have heard of to make sure that they're digging in the right spot. They make sure that these books exist.

Here's a word you'll love. Verisimilitude with what the world of the first century, late antiquity would have been like. You may have heard of these books. Some of your audience may be familiar with them. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the Book of Acts, and, as you just said, Flavius Josephus. So if the atheist slash agnostic Jewish archaeologists who do this for secular universities, not for any kind of faith integration or influence, they're just digging. If they're using those six documents, I want to tell you our audience should as well.

That tells me that the scriptures are, in fact, indeed, some of the best historical documents that we have. We can build 65 facts about the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus before we ever opened the Bible, Glenn. Do you realize I can't say that about any other historical figure? It's incredible and it's astounding. I will tell you that when you walk over there and you see it and you read it, You know where you. It's not a big place. No.

You know where you are and it describes it so well. Even 2,000 years later, you can see where you are and what happened there. So I don't think it's, it's, I mean, if you don't believe that Jesus even lived as a man, you know, I don't know where to go with you on that. Now let's let's take it to now he was a man and he was crucified. How do we know that this is the death that he endured? We know this because there are seven reasons, and this is why I took all of my learning, all of my education. But listen, I'm a busy dad of five, Glenn. I don't know if you knew this.

My wife and I have triplet boys who are seven years old. We haven't slept in seven years. So my kids go screensaver. They go screensaver if it takes dad longer than two minutes to explain something. So I took that to my book, Body of Proof, and I wanted to give people the seven best reasons, the proofs, the evidence. Here's what's cool, Glenn, and this is why I love you. You're a Christian thinker. You actually know how to think and you teach your audience to be critical thinkers. I don't go into some kind of Christian trance when I do Christian history. I think about the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth, his death by Roman crucifixion, which is the best established fact of the ancient world, the proofs of his resurrection, the proofs of nascent early Christianity. I do that the same way I do civil war history. You know, Glenn, I used to live in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Battle of Franklin, Bloody as five hours of the Civil War happens. Same way I look at that history is how I learn history of Jesus of Nazareth.

And so what's fascinating to me, though, is there is archaeology, there is evidential proof, textual proof. Okay. So when we come back, let's go through those seven. Okay. The proof that Jesus rose from the dead. Okay. And Hugh decide. Jeremiah Johnston, he is the author of Body of Proof.

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So there's a lot of Christians even that are a little iffy on the resurrection. And if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then what was the point? Why are you going to church? Why are you getting baptized? Why do you believe anything that you do if he didn't rise again? But that's kind of hard to swallow, especially if you're somebody that, you know, you haven't stumbled onto faith yet. And there's a new book out called Body of Proof by Jeremiah J. Johnston.

He is a pastor, an apologetics pastor, Preswood Baptist Church, Christian Thinkers Society president. He's a Ph.D. And this is a book that, as he said, we've got seven right out of the shoot, seven things that prove the resurrection. What are they? So the body of proof is this important for every believer. I want to make sure you understand what's at stake. There are 300 passages in the New Testament that talk about the resurrection of Jesus. there's only 260 chapters, 300 references on the resurrection.

Glenn, so many of us, as you said at the top of the hour, we need hope right now. We live in a society that's largely given into despair. We wonder what's life all about anyways? Well, number one, the resurrection of Jesus. This is proof number one in the body of proof is the only way we ultimately make sense of the suffering in our lives. St. Paul, we've been discussing Romans 818. He said, for I consider the sufferings of this world cannot be compared. paired with the glory that is to come someday.

And remember, Paul, he was like the Job of the New Testament. He's often called the Job of the New Testament. He had so many problems. In 2 Corinthians 1, he said, I have the sentence of death within me. I can't even go on living right now. So without the resurrection of Jesus, suffering ultimately doesn't make sense. But suffering is what gives us hope. 1.3 says that no matter what we face, we have a living hope.

And here's what's cool about it, Glenn. Not because I woke up feeling hopeful this morning. My hope is tied to a fact. the fact of Jesus's resurrection. Number two, Jesus Christ called it. This is the second body of proof. And Glenn, I can't help your audience if you guys don't know what a hashtag is by now. But if the early church had a hashtag, it would be on the third day.

Jesus does something really cool. And by the way, I have a 1,000-year-old Torah scroll. Glenn, I so wish you were with me today because I brought my 1,000-year-old Torah scroll with me. I'm holding it up for those that are watching right now. Now, this is a Torah scroll. That means it's the first five books of the Old Testament. That's what Torah means. So Genesis, Leviticus, exit, that kind of thing.

So this is actually the Book of Numbers, Glenn. And this is Numbers 30 to 33. This was given to our ministry, Christian Thinker Society, was smuggled out of Iraq during Saddam Hussein's pogroms against the Jews. It was smuggled out entire rubber. Now, why am I showing you a Torah scroll? Jesus said that all of the Old Testament testified of him. And what's really powerful, Glenn, we're all on the road to Amos right now.

Every one of us, you're on the road to Amos, I'm on the road to Amos. And some of us were like... Explain that for people who don't know what that is. In Luke 24, the disciples thought Jesus was a charlatan. They're cussing. I never knew the man. They've given up. He wasn't supposed to die on a Roman cross, Glenn.

He was supposed to vanquish us from those Roman enemies. 4Q 285, a Dead Sea Scroll said that when Messiah comes, he'll kill the Roman occupants. vampires, vanquish a corrupt priesthood, purify a defiled temple. But when Jesus went to the cross, they thought he had lost. They thought the devil had won. And so they go home to Emmaus. Amas is seven miles southwest of the modern city of Jerusalem. And Glenn, in my Bible study book, body of proof, I took two drones, four cameras, to Jerusalem. We filmed just days before the Hamas attack. Little did we know. I'm on the actual Amas Road. And Glenn, you know this because you actually know and teach history, the Romans knew how to build roads. And the curbing is still there

from the road to Amas. And Cleopis and his wife, Mary. And here's what's really beautiful about it. They've given up. They've left the faith. They thought Jesus gave them no hope because he died on a cross. And Glenn, here's what's cool about it. They begin walking in a stranger who they don't recognize begins walking with them. And in fact, they invite this stranger into their home in Emmaus when they reach Amos seven miles later. And what I love about Luke, by the way, is he enjoyed eating. Did you know in the gospel of Luke, which is one of the four gospels, there's 13 meal scenes, Glenn. So Luke will be a great guy to hang out with some day. He's a man after my own. Yeah. He's a man after my own appetite. Here's the beauty, and I want you to see the arc.

It was during the eye, it was during the first meal scene in Genesis that Sen entered the world. Do you remember Eve ate the apple? Yes. She was tempted. And yet it's in this new meal scene in the new creation that their eyes are opened and the stranger who's been walking with them on the road to Amas Glen is none other than Jesus Christ resurrected. And there's this verse I would include, I encourage your audience to look up, Luke 24, verse 27. It says that Jesus began with Moses. So that's the first five books. That's why I brought my Torres Scroll. Right. And the prophets and the writing. So in the Hebrew Bible, that would be Genesis to Chronicles. And he said, not just a couple of verses. They all point to me. And here's what happens. Their dejection is

turn to unending hope. And Luke 2432, it says, we're not our hearts burning within us as he opened the truth of the scripture to us. And you know what? We need our hearts to burn with hope today, don't we, Glenn? And so Jesus called it. That's the hashtag on the third day. Jesus predict a lot of the skeptics out there, Glenn, they say, well, Jesus didn't really think he was God. People foisted that on him later. No, when you study Mark 831, Mark 931, Mark 10, 33, and 34, Jesus is constantly predicting his death by Roman crucifixion and on the third day, he would rise from the dead. Joseus 6, 2, and 3. I thought of him this week, you know, Palm Sunday, he comes in on a donkey and he's celebrated.

And he knows he's fulfilling scripture. And I thought, I don't think I would be happy going into Jerusalem. if I knew what was going to happen in just a few days and it was a massacre. The execution of crucifixion is beyond anyone's understanding of how horrible it is. And yet he was fulfilling prophecy, knowing what was going to happen in just a few days, and he was still hopeful. I mean, that is really remarkable. And Glenn, that's how much he loved you.

Romans 5A. But God demonstrated and keeps demonstrating his love for. for you and me. For everyone watching right now, man, there's a lot of despair out there. If you need a reminder God loves you, you need to look one place and one place only, the empty tomb.

After you look at the cross, God demonstrated his love for you and me and that while we were sinners, Glenn, while we were alcoholics, while we hated God, he still loved us. And so that's the beauty of it. Point number three, body of proof is Jesus demonstrated resurrection power.

Glenn, I went to Bethany. I don't call it Palestine ever. We should get into that at some point this week of why I never called Israel, Palestine, that's terrible. But I went into what moderns call West Bank. I call it Judea and Samaria. I filmed in the very tomb of Lazarus.

This is another story. Holy cow. I went down there and Glenn, you would have loved it. I was sweating. By the way, I was on a weight loss program. I could barely fit in the tomb. I had to get on all force. And I called out.

There were little tombs. We were smaller people. And I called out. I said, Lazarus, come forth. I just wanted to know what it sounded like in the tomb. We filmed it all. And here's the point. Jesus not only predicted his death and resurrection, he demonstrated resurrection power. Mark 5, Jiris's daughter, raised from the dead. Luke 7, widow of Nane's son, raised from the dead.

And then John 11th, this stupendous miracle. Lazarus's body is a ripe, stinking course. He raises it from the dead. And John 11 said they still didn't believe. And Glenn, that's why we have to help educate your audience. Some evidence will never be enough evidence for some people. Can we just talk about that for a minute? I mean, Jesus Christ could appear to you right now, but you've already close. your heart to him and when you close your heart to Jesus you close your heart to hope because hope is found in nowhere else than the resurrected Christ. I will tell you this is why dictators and everybody else the first thing they take on is Christianity. They take on religion. Eliminate it. To destroy the, yeah, they've got to destroy religion because that is the source.

It's the only reason why I do what I do. It's the only reason why I get up every day. I got up this morning and I'm like oh she said I don't want to read the show prep today right and you know what I do because I know he lives I know he saved me that's right and I know I'm forever in his debt never able to repay it but geez this is the least I can do if if he asks me to stand up and testify of him that's the least I can do so number five Glenn body approve you wanted me to get through them all the source is written in archaeological overwhelmingly confirm the resurrection narratives embedded in the Gospels. I'm going to quote atheist. I like to quote atheist scholars because we have some skeptics that for some reason that holds more weight.

I have the same credentials they do, but I'm not an atheist. So let me quote the atheist. Jody Magnus, University of North Carolina archaeologist. She is a specialist in Jewish burial traditions. She says the resurrection narratives embedded in the Gospels are exactly right. The entire juridical procedure is what we understand. Glenn, here's the cool part. cool part. In the Mishnah, that's the rabbinic tradition. If you, if you were a part of the Sanhedron, Glenn, if you and I were part of the 70 ruling priest in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus, and we

condemn someone to die, it was on you and me to be responsible for the burial of the criminal we killed. What do we read in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, these are members of the Sanhedron. They ask Pilate for the body of Jesus, why they're going to bury him, not honorably, but properly. All of that smacks of authenticity. Point number six, body of proof, Glenn, I love this one the best because, you know, as a dad of triplets and four sons, I can tell you something. Jeez. Abel, Ryder, Jackson, Justin, none of them think the other one is the son of God. Okay, I can tell you that right now as a dad of boys. I don't know, Glenn, do you have any brothers? I don't know if you have a brother, what would it take for you to believe

your brother was the son of God? I have to ask. these kind of critical questions. And Glenn, when I was defending my thesis, William Telford, who is a gospel of Marx scholar, but does not believe in the resurrection, he looks at me when I'm defending my thesis in Oxford and Viva Voce, half the words he's using is in Latin. And he said, Jeremiah, I have one question as we begin, had a big Brinna's pro tie on. He said, do you actually believe that Jesus rose from the grave? Or is that just imaginative storytelling?

That was the first question he asked me. And again, in the UK, you get a PhD, it's pass, fail. You fail. You can never do a PhD again. And you can that subject. I said, Professor Telford, David Hume said, wise men choose probabilities. The evidence leads me to believe with all my heart, Jesus rose from the grave physically, bodily on April 5th, AD 33. I believe it with all my heart.

He said, I don't see it that way. Let's start your viva. He later passed it with commendation. I published in the German system, you're not really called a doctor until you publish your monograph in an academic serial. He went on to recommend it for publication. So here's number six, the body of proof. How do you explain the conversion of James, the brother of Jesus? I love that you're conversan and Josephus, Glenn.

I love that you know history. I've learned history from you, Glenn. I don't want to date you or me, but for a while. I watched you back in the day on the chalkboards and learned from you. Thank you. John 7 verse 5 said not even Jesus' brothers believed on him. In Mark 6, did you know Jesus is called a bastard in the Gospels? They thought he's an illegitimate child. In Mark 3, his family thinks he's a nut job. So I want to ask our audience, because I'm sure many of them have not yet

become Christians. What would it take for you to die believing your brother was not only the son of God, but had come back from the dead? James didn't believe it either. And Glenn, I like to think in my mind's eye, you know, he was a builder. Jesus has been massacred on the cross. He's a charlatan James thinks. And First Corinthians, back to that power passage, verse seven and eight says, and he appeared to James. And in my mind's eye, I'm just speculating right now, Glenn, but I'm thinking that James is working on a project and Brother Jesus appears to him as the resurrected Christ. And he's like, bro, check out my side. Check out my hands. They got me. I told you, you owe me that money.

You owe me the bad. I got you. But here's what Josephus. And again, I'm not quoting the Bible right now. I'm quoting Flavius Josephus in AD 62. James is stone to death, Glenn, believing his brother is the Messiah, the son of God. How do you explain that? How do we explain that?

All right. Hang on just a second. We're going to get the last point here in just a second. First, let me break for a quick commercial. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Buying or selling a home isn't just, you know, a difficult to say. It's a whole host of big decisions. And the scary part is they're all pretty much your decisions.

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Get even more, Glenn. Subscribe to the Glenn Beck podcast, anywhere podcasts are found. This is the Glenn Beck program. Jeremy Johnston. He is the author of Body of Proof. if PAD and Presswood Baptist Church Apologetics pastor, he has just written this book, Body of Proof, that in it he has one of the things, seven reasons why you can prove that Christ, the story and the

resurrection is true. The last one, I think, is very funny in some ways. Go ahead. Glenn, I first presented this at an academic conference. This is an original contribution to knowledge. Glenn, if you and I wanted to invent a new religion that would have been marketable in a winning proclamation in the first century, we never would have invented Christianity. Everything about the Christian message offends someone.

In fact, if you and I, and so the title in my chapter, Body of Proof, is if the disciples invented the story of Jesus' death and resurrection, they did a terrible job. You would have never invented it that way. No one believed in a body, a ripe, stinking corpse coming back to life. So predominant was the Socratic notion of the immortality of the soul, the platonic notion of the immortality of the soul, rather. The body was ugly. He wanted to get rid of it. Glenn, women, as you know, were at a great disadvantage in the first century world.

In fact, we have a love letter, Papyrus Oxerinkas 744. A guy writes a beautiful love letter 50 years before Jesus was born to his wife Alice and Oxerinkis. He said, hey, if it's a boy, keep it. And then let me read it to you in Greek. Eon Aen telea eqbali. if it's a girl, throw it in the trash can. But who does Christianity choose? And by the way, no one would have batted an eye.

But it's in Mark 9 that Jesus said, wait a minute, the kingdom of God is like children. Bring the children to me. Jesus brought humanity back to women in children. And the resurrection is defended by women. We never would have invented it that way if we were trying to come up with a winning message. No, and you would have taken the Messiah and nailed him to a tree. That's right. the worst humiliation you could come up with.

Okay, you believe in the shroud? Yes or no? Yes. I do. Completely. It's no hoax. And listen, I was a skeptic. I got to tell you, I feel the same way, and I never did believe it.

Wow. But I do now. Tomorrow, we're going to take on the Holy Shroud of Turin. The Glenn Beck program. That story really pisses me off because what they should have said is, hey, everybody in the newsroom, grow up. grow up. We don't all have to agree with each other or just hit them with some tear gas. Probably not the best answer, but it is the best answer. I mean, the burner launcher would be helpful. In many circumstances, it is.

We actually, you'd mentioned and lied about a bunch of our, when we were testing the burner launcher at your house and you've told many stories about that. One thing I think is interesting that we haven't talked about, Glenn, with the burner is one of the biggest, you know, things preventing people from practicing and getting in good practice with their firearm is, the ammunition. With the burner, you actually can reuse it over and over and over and over again. I know. Which saves you so much money. Yeah.

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You know, I've learned a lot by just looking at what the government seems to be preparing for. You can see the future or the future that they are expecting by looking at how they're preparing and what they're preparing for. I told you yesterday that there was a troubling report out from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the things that the Canada and their police force are trying to start to prepare for. It's troubling because it talks about people rising up out of hopelessness out of their situation. Well, the guy who broke this story is from Canada, obviously. His name is Tristan Hopper. And he is on the phone with us now to explain, what does this mean? How seriously should we take this? And how serious

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aiding in safeguarding Canada. Tristan Hopper is a reporter and columnist for the National Post, and he is all on top of this. and can tell us the meaning behind it, if anything significant. Tristan, welcome to the program. Thank you. I didn't break the story. I shamelessly stole the idea from someone else, but I think I wrote it better than it.

Okay. Well, you're the story that I found, and so, you know, that's the same to me. Listen, steal from me, you've stolen twice. The thing that I want to know is when I read the story, it talked about, how hopelessness is going to be a part of Canadians' life in the coming years and that people aren't prepared. That's what I wrote about it. So the fact that the report exists isn't surprising. I mean, the job of the police, at least at the federal level.

I mean, the RCMP, I mean, they do street-level policing, but they also sort of function of Canada's FBI. So think of this as an FBI report saying, oh, here's what the next five years are going to look like. So, yeah, police should be sitting around saying, well, that's going to bite us in the butt in the next five years. So what is interesting was if you have a security analyst who's only worrying about security, they're going to look at Canada and say, oh, yeah, most of your young people can't afford houses. That's not good. That could be a real problem in the future. So this is sort of one of the first times I've seen acknowledged within an organ of the Canadian federal government saying, oh yeah, things are not good. They haven't been good for a while and they're set to get worse.

So obviously, if you ask the political, the Trudeau governments, government of Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, they're going to say, no, no, don't worry. Things are going to turn around. But I mean, according to the professionals within our security state, they're saying, no, no, we see none of this getting better. And when you have increasing numbers of young people who have no prospects of obtaining the life that their parents lived, you know, it's fine now, but that can quickly devolve in something very ugly. Yeah, this is, let me just quote you. The warning the federal government received

that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation. The coming period, quoting the report, the coming period of recession will accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witness compared to earlier generations. Yeah. For example, many Canadians under 35, you got to just like, for many Canadians under 35, they are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live, ever. I should point out this is sort of a, for a U.S. audience, this is sort of a preview of

coming attraction. So in affordability and just general life standards, Canada is sort of ahead of the curve on those being worse. So our per capita GDP has been, well, While the U.S. has actually been pretty good the last 10 years, ours has been steadily trending downwards. And then affordability, I know how those are expensive for Americans, but in our major centers, if you earn anything close to a normal income, so in Toronto, Vancouver, even in sort of secondary cities like Edmondson or Calgary, yeah, there are no circumstances whatsoever under which you can afford even a basic home.

and that's really accelerated over the last 10 years. So, yeah, you have a lot of people who have good jobs, their wife has a good job. They've saved their money, and yeah, real estate's gone up 1,000 percent. So there's no way they can envision a future where they're not renting the rest of their lives. And it's not just that here in America. I mean, I think it was State Farm just said that to Californians, we're out. we're not going to we're going to cut i think it was 70 maybe 70 000 customers because they said they just you know that they've raised it up 80 percent for the people they

did keep and then just cut a bunch of other people because they said they can't afford to replace the homes in in california i mean you can't take an 80 percent increase on home insurance a 30 percent rise in electricity costs, you know, a 30 percent rise in in water, and then a 25 percent rise in groceries and expect this to last. It just can't. That's exactly right. So yeah, that has been happening for quite some time, and it's been so one one trend that is showing up in Canada that maybe is a bit different than the U.S. is that according to full numbers, our population is getting really conservative, particularly our young people. So probably for the first time in my lifetime, and one of the first times, you know, in any Western democracy,

we are having a plurality of young people actually favoring the Conservative Party of Canada. And you're seeing all of these demographics that never thought about voting conservative in their entire life. Is it both? You know, I mentioned young people who are saying, oh, yeah, yeah, 55% on voting conservative next. election. So there's never been anything like it. So is that both men and women when it comes to the youth? Because we're seeing that our women are going, our young women are going just full on woke leftist. And the boys and the men, young men, are going hard conservative. That was initially, so this time last year, that was what the trend was showing. This was showing young men were going,

yeah, real conservative. But however, that sort of changed. So I wrote about that a couple months ago. I was saying, you know, women initially weren't on with this sort of, what we would call the blue wave. The colors are swapped. But, you know, there's blue wave happening in Canada. But you can only sort of hold out those options for so long until you realize,

oh, I pay $3,000 a month for a 700 square foot apartment. And my car has been pulled three times this month. So, yeah, I guess people are being mugged by reality at a lightning face. So one of the things that's in this report, it says the trends in both Canada and abroad will have a significant effect on the Canadian government and RMC-R-C-MP. Canadians are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their government, which authors mostly chalk up to misinformation, conspiracy theories, and paranoia. Law enforcement should expect continuing social and political.

polarization fueled by the misinformation campaigns and an increasing mistrust for all democratic institutions. This is terrifying to me because they don't even recognize that the trust that we have all had for our institutions has been eroding for a long time because they continue to lie to us and they're on a different path than the people are. Yeah, so this did stand up to me. Basically, whenever I see the word misinformation or disinformation, it's usually front-loading a whole bunch of stuff that's not true. So, yeah, to see this in the report, I guess the ironic part that I took out of the report, if you can find it funny, is that, yeah, a lot of the section where they're getting into, you know, paranoid populism and conspiracies here, so this is not a report

that was supposed to be made public. I got it thanks to Matt Malone, he's a professor out of Thompson Rivers University. He just trials access to information to the principal to get secret government reports and just release them and see what happens. So in this section where it's saying, oh, people don't trust the government anymore and conspiracy theories, most of that is blacked out. So yeah, there's a section titled, paranoid populism, and it's saying, oh, people are

paranoid and popular. I don't know why blacked out. And then this whole section is blacked out. So there is one giant security risk that takes up several pages. That's sort of the one they lead with. That whole thing is blacked out. So who knows what that is? I'm going to guess it's something.

We don't even know what that. one is. Yes. So, wow. We've just got, people are broke, and then it gets into, most of the country is catching fire every summer, you know, commodity risks. So, you know, it's, it's harder to get reliable, all the, all the sort of normal things. But the thing that is unusual is a government agency saying everybody's broken, and that usually makes for angry people. This is, I mean, I just find it a little terrifying. What, what is the, they mentioned the increasing pressure to seed Arctic territory. Is that to China or Russia?

Yeah. So our military is not in great shape lately. And we have a lot of territory that isn't very strong. We don't, I mean, you, the Americans, you got a fair amount of stuff up in Alaska. I wouldn't screw with anyone in Alaska. But we don't even have any sort of permanent military bases up in the Arctic. So that kind of language, usually we use the word Arctic sovereignty, like, which we're worried about Russia or Denmark.

or someone taking. Right. You're put in that case, that's the most dire language I've ever heard in an article, a government report saying, oh, yeah, pressure to seed territory. Like, we've seen. But from whom? They can take our stuff. What are we going to do?

So is it Russia? Are they specifically, because I have not heard that from any. I mean, I know that Russia has subs up there and they're trying to, you know, claim that they own it. But is that what they're talking about or is there additional stuff? usually I mean as as you sort of lose ice up there there's a whole bunch of you know there's oil there's shipping routes it's becoming valuable so this is something I used to work I used to work in the north

I used to work in a magazine about 20 years ago so this was a big deal back then saying you know as soon as this it was easy when it was just all frozen and Sir John Franklin's corpse you didn't have to worry about anybody taking it but yeah we haven't really increased our military capacity in the north So as there's interesting stuff up there, who knows? You could get China, Russia, just move in and say, oh, we're taking this island. It's nobody's using it. There's very little we can do about that.

Can I ask you, Tristan, being a Canadian and yet you're so close to America, I think you're up in B.C. Are you not? Most of us are. Most of us are along the border. Okay. All right. So, you know, you're close to America. You understand what's happening here.

I contend that it is a game that is being played making us hate the other party. It's, oh, it's the Republicans versus the Democrats. No, it's really not. In every country in the West that I have seen, it is these marches are the little people marching against the elites saying, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? This is killing us. Is it the same in Canada? and do you have, is anybody waking up to, it's not just Justin Trudeau, it's all of them.

It's the elites that are taking us down this really bizarre path and denying everything that they're doing until they then come out and say, yeah, we did that. What, what's the problem? Yeah, yeah, I'd say it's part of the sort of political realignments I mentioned. I'm definitely seeing it. I mean, I'm speaking you from the capital of British Columbia, basically just north of Seattle. It's easily the most left-wing part of the country, and I work for a center-right newspaper. So whenever some lefty here has some, like, dark right-wing thought in the middle of the night, they usually call me. And that's been happening a lot lately.

So there's an awful lot of people who have voted for progressive parties their entire lives. And then something just hits him. They'll see, why did this guy get bail after, you know, he keeps killing people when he's out of jail? or how come my bike keeps getting stolen? So there's a whole bunch of that happening. And at a way more accelerated pace than I'm seeing in the U.S. I'm seeing the U.S. is still quite entrenched. There's sort of a partisan divide,

but there's definitely a wave happening. We are seeing people flooding to the Conservative Party of Canada. At rates, I would say, almost since the 1950s. That's incredible. And I will tell you, I think that's why, one of the big reasons why the Democrats wanted Donald Trump to be the candidate because if we can just keep arguing about Donald Trump and his tweets and everything else, then we don't pay attention to, wait a minute, there's something else going on here.

Tristan, thank you so much and I appreciate it. I'd love to stay in touch with you. God bless. Thank you. Tristan Hopper from Canada on a, when I find a disturbing report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All right, let me talk to you about relief factor. Sleep is one of those things that you just can't take for granted. I mean, you do, usually, but you toss and turn in bed, and that's the day that you're like, jeez. If you're that person, you find yourself staring at the ceiling, wondering when sleep is finally coming while you're saying, I've got to get up in a few hours, then let me recommend to you, relief factor sleep.

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against people like us the alleged miss and disinformation which is far too often aimed at conservatives and anyone who disagrees with the administration the murthy versus missouri supreme court case which the Biden White House colluded with social media platforms to censor speech, that's just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more of the censorship that is coming. Thanks to a FOIA request and eventual lawsuit brought by American First Legal, they were able to uncover a fascinating report by the, by U.S. Agency for International Development, that's USAID, that it was intended for internal use only.

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now that tough times lie head and they do but amidst the darkness there's always a glimmer of hope and a flicker of light guiding our way forward we we at the blaze need to you know the blaze was named after the burning bush i don't know if you know that but i named it after the burning bush because that is a fire that burns but doesn't consume and if you're standing in the purifying fire of god and and you're there God help you if you are not in line with the truth because that fire will burn out all of the imperfections. So we strive for what the truth is. And the truth really is so much larger than this fact or that fact.

It is based on fact, but it's also based on who we are and where we came from and what is necessary to keep. going especially in times of need we need hope and we also need to laugh once in a while and I don't know about you but there are times that I just like can I just laugh now the things that we're working on now at the plays I mean they may not be everybody's cup of tea but comedy is in the eye of the beholder and many of us here at the blaze find these very dry comedies where, you know, the average slub coming in will go, what the hell did I just watch? But those who have a very dry sense of humor, they quote those movies forever.

And, you know, some of my favorite movies are Christopher Guest movies, you know, like a Mighty Wind or Best in Show or any of those. Also, it took me a couple of times to watch Napoleon Dynamite because I wasn't in the right frame of mind. And when I watched it, I watched it with my kids and they said, Dad, you got to watch this funniest movie ever. And I started watching them like, I do not get this movie. And, you know, I think I just tuned out like 10 minutes into it. I finally watched it because my wife said, you don't really, Mr. Mighty Wind? You don't get this?

And it was reframed. And I watched it. I'm like, this is hysterical. It's hysterical. Same with Agua Donkeys. Not everybody's cup of tea, but if you like those kinds of movies, I think you're really going to love Agu Donkeys, which premieres today on Blaze TV. You can stream it right now if you want. I don't recommend it because the last 20 minutes of this show are going to be spectacular. But you could stream it at any time at Blaze TV. Let me play a little trailer of this for you. Who is it?

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P. Cunningham and Jair Jackson in the most exciting pool-related comedy of the year. Yeah, my buddy says you have a pool. Agua donkeys. It's available now on Blaze TV. It is really, really funny. And we've been working with these guys. I don't know if you saw, what was it? Grand Reopening or just reopening? Reopening, yeah.

That was, yeah, you can find that on the Blaze right now, which was the reopening. If you didn't see it, you really missed out. You've got to watch it on Blaze. It is a story of a small town theater that is reopening after COVID. And if you, I mean, it came out and I don't know how many people saw it. Everybody on the Blaze should watch it, all the Blaze subscribers. Because it is so, it made fun of everything the government was doing. And all of those people that were just way over the.

the top at the time when we were nobody was saying anything and it is really funny that's reopening from the same people we have aguadonkeys and we have some more coming out uh that i think you're going to enjoy yeah really really funny and uh and just i you know again it's got it's not like some big point like i feel like a lot of these movies especially on the rike get made like when they're trying to be comedies and they're they're just like hey here's a really hilarious movie about lowered individual tax rates and you're like, okay, that's not really, yeah, it's, that's more of a mission movie. Right, here's the thing. We've done some testing on it and some people have said, well, I don't understand why the blaze is running this. Well, what do you mean? Well, it doesn't,

it doesn't talk about the Bible or George Washington. It's like, yeah, because this is a lifestyle. We're a lifestyle. And we want to be a part of all of your life. And I know you don't come to us for comedy and you get it elsewhere, et cetera, but we do it because we also need to laugh. And that's part of our day is to be able to be able to have something. I thought it was really important that they said in the movie and one F bomb. And because I'm watching it and I said to Tyler, he said, are you okay with that? And I'm like, am I okay with what? And it was said so fast that I didn't even notice it. And he said, well, it was an F-bomb. And, you know, I don't want to cut it or bleep it or, you know, anything. I said, I didn't even know it was one. But let's make that in the promo. And there's

one F-bom. So everybody knows, you know, it's clean except for that one time. But it was funny. Yeah. It's very, very funny. These guys are really funny. I had seen something. some of their stuff a couple years ago and just, you know, loved it. It was just really, really funny. And if you have, again, as you point out, it's a certain type of sense of humor. If you'd like the pacing of like a Napoleon dynamite, I mean, you're going to love this. And it's, uh, it is, I love, I love those awkward moments. And this is these two, these two guys, they're just the just the dumbest two guys, they're pool, you know, pool. If you like dumb and Dumber. That's who these guys are. And they're they're fun they fall in love with Jackie who's in the

office and oh my God they are just so stupid. So much so that she's entirely clueless that they like that they like her at all. It's it's really good. It's really good. Yep. Available at blazed you up. Let me tell you. You can use the promo code Glenn if you want to save 20 bucks off your subscription. And you can watch that. And then also my show tonight at 9 p.m., which is really, really good, has really good commentary, has a lot of great facts in it. It's very useful, unlike what precedes my program. Right. The incredible lead-in with no facts and no perspective and no commentary, Stu does America. I mean, look, if you are trapped in a nursing home, And you don't have the remote control, but there's no way you can even get out of bed.

This do show's worth watching. We will take your viewership. We don't care. We do not discriminate. If you happen to be a victim of Andrew Cuomo or sitting in a nursing home, are pretty much already passed away. We'll still count you as if you were on our show. Look, we are looking for the Nielsen ratings to be actually done by the city of Chicago.

Right. And we'll take every dead person that we can get from the stew show. Dead people, a lot of disposable income. People don't recognize that, you know? They're about to. And they rave. They rave. Judy in Minnesota said, and I thought she made a really good point when she was talking

about Stu and his talent. One of our most loyal viewers that Judy in Minnesota. All right. That's all tonight on Blaze TV. All right, let me tell you about Juan. He wrote in about his dog's experience with Rough Greens. He says, Jojo is getting older. It's been starting to slow down quite a bit lately.

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I'm glad you're here. Ah, did you see what MSNBBBB. has done, you know, they tried to hire a Republican, the former head of the Republican National Committee, and their people just went crazy. And so here's the statement last night from MSNBC on Rona McDaniels. NBC News Leadership has announced that former RNC Chair, Rona McDaniel, will not be an NBC news contributor. We have a new email and up. that's come out just within this hour. So this is sort of breaking news here within our organization

on a story that has garnered significant attention and criticism in this new email, quote, there's no doubt that the last several days have been difficult for the news group. After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC news contributor. He goes on to write that no organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned. Over the last few days, it has become clear that disappointment undermines that goal. May I just say, you are pathetic, NBC News, absolutely pathetic. Your news, your newsroom can't work if you're not all aligned. You shouldn't be aligned on politics or anything else. You should be aligned on finding the facts and reporting them accurately. Since when do we all have to believe

exactly the same thing? You're pathetic. There is something to be said for opposition in all things. Now that's amazing because that comes from God who kind of knows the truth. And yet he set up a system where opposition in all things is important. But not for NBC News. No, no. Well, you know, our people know the truth. And they don't need to hear anybody else's opinion on what the truth will be. We know it.

And you know another thing? You say that we are, we just have zombies in our audience. These are people, they just hypnotize all these people all across the nation, fill them with disinformation. Really, our people are thinking people. They want to hear the other side. They want to know what's really going on. They'll argue with me.

And you know what? Me, as the guy, I don't bow down to them to serve them. I listen to what they have to say. And if I think they're right, I'll say they're right. If I think I'm wrong and they've correct me, I will say I'm wrong. But if I think that they're wrong and I'm wrong, right, I'll say that too. I don't change my show for the listeners. I don't do that. What a pathetic we, you have just built yourself a room where you are terrified of the mob because whatever the

mob calls, you know, I heard him say earlier the, well, you know, the, the phone calls that came in over the weekend. The what? The phone calls that can, does NBC, NBC have a switchboard that's open on Saturday and Sunday where a listener, I wouldn't even know how to begin to look up the NBC 30 Rock Newsroom and comment section. My gosh, who even uses the phone like that anymore? Our switchboards were flooded with people. Shut up. Well, they said calls came in.

The right people in you, the right people that you think are the right people, like the Clintons called in and said, what are you doing? What are you doing? She's not even hot. That's what happened. That's exactly what happened. The calls came from people like Joe Scarborough, who was calling management and was angry about it. And, you know, it's just pathetic. You can't, I mean, Moran McDaniel's not even like, I mean, would you even, what would you even consider her? She's been like the mouthpiece of the Republican National Committee.

She's not like, you know, a hardcore conservative. She's not even liked by the Trump people at this point. I know. She's can't. She's not liked by, she's only liked by the people like Mitch McConnell, which you shouldn't have a problem with because he votes with you. That's so bizarre. I mean, again, no one's thinking that MSNBC is going to correctly represent conservatism, but you can't even accept to hear it.

You can't even allow your audience to hear a little bit of it. Right. But if you disagree with us, call and we'll hang up on you. Okay, so.