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There is There's a ton that was happening on today's show.

We talked about RFK and the hearing.

Tulsi Gabbard, is she going to be somebody that's going to be confirmed?

I think she's going to have the hardest time.

We explain why.

Craig T.

Nelson is on to talk about a new movie that he has done called Green and Gold.

That's excellent.

We talked to Congressman James Comer about the Biden family.

And will the Justice Department now start examining this?

Because whether anybody goes to jail or not, it has to be exposed.

And Pat is back from Mexico and he saw a few differences between the U.S.

and Mexico.

He said he almost cried when he finally got back to America.

We take so much for granted here in the U.S.

And he points that out on today's podcast.

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Tulsi Gabbard, her hearings begin tomorrow.

Those are going to be open,

but the vote is in the skiff.

And here is

the real problem.

Tulsi Gabbard has been charged by President Trump to go in and look at every single secret agency and find out what the black ops are, what have they been doing, who is involved in any of this smear.

She's being smeared like crazy again today,

again by the intelligence community.

And

I think she's the most risky vote

because it's a secret vote and it should not be a secret vote.

She is not, she doesn't have any.

high high top secret clearance yet.

She has none.

So she's not going to be divulging any secrets.

And

I want to know.

I may not have to hear everything.

If some things are sensitive, then I want security for the United States.

But this has been a secret vote since the Department of Homeland Security invented the job of Department of National Intelligence.

She oversees all the spooks.

And I want to know how my representative is voting.

Because without, if they take a secret vote, then we don't know who's on our side, who's not.

I want to be able to say, wait a minute, Senator, why did you vote that way?

This is a way for them to be cowards and do things.

I mean, you don't understand how many senators and congressmen have said to me in secret outside, looking around, being very paranoid, you carrying a phone, and then say, they are spying on all of us.

That has to stop.

This is oversight.

So you might want to call

your congressmen and make sure that they vote or your senators and make sure that they vote for Tulsi Gebard

and demand that it's not a secret vote.

You can make a difference.

With that said, before I go to Pat, let me just give you one other piece of news.

that just came in from Ron DeSantis, who was on yesterday's program.

He said,

I want you to thank all the listeners of your program yesterday, Glenn, who have supported the strong immigration proposals in Florida.

They called, they wrote to the Florida legislatures to insist on the strongest law possible.

Please keep up the calls and the letters.

for the provisions that are currently missing from the legislature's latest bill.

So they started to make, you made a difference yesterday.

Keep it up.

They're starting to move his way.

But you've got a lot of rhinos in Florida that are

trying to play the old game.

Don't get DeSantis' bill through or you're going to lose Florida.

You're going to lose what you have.

The minute he's gone, these weasels will come back in and screw it all up again.

Be strong and send a strong message to the legislature.

Hello, Pat Gray.

Welcome.

Hello, Glenbeck.

You just got back from Mexico, right?

I did.

Yeah.

How was that?

It was awesome.

It was great.

It was eye-opening, though.

You know,

you realize just how much we take for granted

in the United States.

Every time I travel to come back and go, oh, thank God I'm back in the United States.

Yeah.

Oh, we, Jackie and I were both that way.

We nearly wept as we flew over the DFW area coming back home.

I mean,

it's so tragic to see what they have to put up with in Mexico.

What do you mean?

I mean, it's a nation with incredible resources.

You know, they have oil, they have

agriculture, they have tourism.

They could,

they could,

but their leadership squanders it because they're corrupt.

And,

you know, it's pretty bad when the water is so bad that you can't even brush your teeth with it.

You can't even put it in your mouth to spit it back out because it's too dangerous to do that.

You can't even flush toilet paper down a toilet.

The sewer system is so screwed up.

I don't know how they put up with it.

I don't know why they put up with it.

I guess they're used to it now.

I mean, again,

if we didn't have Donald Trump,

we would

eventually be in that situation.

And be in that situation, and we just have to put up with it.

They don't have a Donald Trump and anybody who looks like could be a Donald Trump, they're killed by the cartels.

Yeah, it's true.

I mean, It does show you what 50 or 100 years of socialism brings you.

Yes.

And corruption with cartels.

Corruption, yes.

And the cartels are in control of a lot of what happens.

Where did you go?

We went to Valle Dolid first, and then we went to Tulum, which are, you know, Tulum's kind of a trendy, new touristy area now.

Oh, well,

you scream trendy.

Don't I, though?

Right?

When people see me and hear me, they think

trendy.

He may not scream trendy, but he does scream tourist

when it's in Mexico.

That I'm sure of.

So that's for sure.

Military presence there.

I know in Cancun, it's heavy.

Yeah, it's not as heavy as it is in Cancun, but there's still pretty serious military presence.

You see them driving around in their Humvees and the Jeeps with the AR-15s or AK-47s.

I'm not sure what they use.

And they're on the street corners on the main strip

where the tourists all walk down the street all day long.

So there is a serious presence.

But you can't even trust that.

No, you can't.

And I was told when I was there, hey, don't ever carry cash with you if you rent your car because when they pull you over, they will find a way to take it all from you.

I'm like, well, we have that in America.

It's called civil asset forfeiture.

So I'm pretty used to it.

In Mexico, they have just called corruption.

Yes.

We at least give it a fancy name.

They said the cops are so corrupt there that if if you get pulled over and they know that you have any sort of, because they offer to accept your ticket right then and there, and they usually find a way when they find that you have money to take it all.

So.

That is so.

Can you imagine living that way?

No.

I mean,

that's where we were headed.

It is where we were headed.

You couldn't trust the police.

You couldn't trust the FBI.

I mean, I still don't.

I trust my local police,

but I don't trust the FBI.

Don't trust the justice system.

I mean, look at what Donald Trump is taking on right now in this last week.

When you were on vacation, I'm assuming you saw some of it.

Yes.

What were your thoughts?

And did you hear anybody in Mexico say anything?

It felt too good to be true.

I mean, the things that he was doing were

dream just a few months ago.

Right.

And remarkably, he's still doing more.

Every day.

People come in and we're like, oh, my gosh.

You could tell Doge is in effect with this.

I'm sure we'll get into it later.

Fork in the road.

Yeah, this idea that every single employee gets this email saying, you can just respond, resign to this email, and then we'll pay you till September, which may get overturned in the courts, but it's the exact thing that they did with Twitter.

Uh-huh.

It's exactly.

It started the same way.

It started the same way.

Yeah, the letter to the Twitter employees and the letter to the government employees started with a fork in the road.

Yeah.

And I think that's great.

I don't have a problem with that.

I don't have a problem with it either.

I mean,

there's some clause that you can pay employees $25,000 for them to resign.

Like that's in the law.

It's like the Homeland Security Act for some reason.

It's in there.

But paying people until September would go well over that for a lot of employees.

So they may have trouble with that particular part of it.

But again, all these things are getting challenging.

Pretty generous.

It is.

It's still generous.

Still saves, what was it, $150 million a year?

Oh, it would save a fortune.

It depends on how many people take it.

Right.

Right.

I would take it.

If I were in the administration, I'd be like, you know,

they're going to find a way to cut.

I've done my deal.

I mean, unless you're hardcore,

I think I would take it.

And I think, of course, this is part of the reason.

It's the same thing Elon Musk did and the same thing that he's doing here.

If you are an opponent of Donald Trump and are working at a job that you're now executing policy that you disagree with, I mean, like, look, I'm sure there are good liberal workers who are in there because they got in there and they wanted to do, they wanted to change the world and help people.

And they go in there and all of a sudden, like, they're cutting these programs.

They probably don't want to stay in that job.

And so this gives them the opportunity to get out.

Of course, there are millions and the majority are liberal in government.

They believe that government is the way to fix things.

So they go into those government jobs.

Yeah, makes sense.

We don't believe that.

So we don't go go into those jobs.

Correct.

I get victimized by those other people.

I know.

So, I mean,

it only makes sense that our government is riddled with socialist or big government people, especially over the last few years with what's been happening with our educational system.

They're just pumping them out like crazy.

Yeah.

And this is a great way to just, you're going to wind up getting, I don't know, how many people accept this?

A quarter?

I don't know.

Probably a lot of people who tend to be a lot of people.

I would think a lot.

I don't know.

Whatever it is, it's going to be a large, raw number of people who are like, you know what?

I'll get paid till September and I'll find a new gig.

And like, that's a great setup for somebody.

Right.

I'd much rather pay them till September to do nothing, but there's an end date on it than continue to pay them for what they're actually doing.

Because whatever that is isn't working.

And it certainly beats severance if you get fired anyway

and we give you two weeks and we say, see ya.

Yeah.

This is a way better option.

Oh, which was implied quite clearly in the email.

Yeah.

You're probably going to get fired anyway, so you might as well take this.

Right.

And they probably are.

I really think Donald Trump is serious this time about reducing the size of government.

Oh.

I really think he's going to.

Yeah.

Oh, I think he's serious about all of it.

Yeah, I do too.

I mean, he, you know, it takes on, watching him now, everything he told me over the summer and during the election, it

changes the way I viewed that.

I knew he intellectually was there.

Yeah.

But this shows that he not only was intellectually there, he began planning this a long time ago and has the basis covered.

The way he's doing things is remarkable.

It's incredible.

I mean, he's said this a few times, but I really think it's true.

I think he's had the most consequential eight days in office in history.

Oh, yeah.

Ever.

It's been intense.

It has.

It's been intense.

And I feel.

Intensely good.

Yeah.

And I will say, like, I feel like we've missed things.

At least I've.

I know we have.

Because we've talked about a lot of these things.

And I've done it.

It's impossible to do a deep dive in all of them.

Guys, guys, this is, you and I, we, the three of us were together during Obama.

Remember?

We couldn't keep up with it.

He overwhelmed the system.

Because he overwhelmed the system.

The media can't keep up with this.

We can't keep up with this because he's overwhelming the system.

It's brilliant.

He's using Cloward and Piven in reverse.

Against them.

Against them.

I will say, though, this is the new norm, isn't it?

There's no way a Democrat gets into office and doesn't do the same stuff now.

This is it.

And

that's why we have to win.

That's why we must win in two years.

We must win every single election till the end of time.

And these, well, no, I mean, no,

if you can codify these things, otherwise the next president.

It has to be.

We have to stop this executive order stuff.

Yes.

To get a hold of the country, we have to do it that way now but it's got to be codified otherwise we're just going to keep doing this over and over again and no country will survive those wild swings none of them pat good to have you back thank you very much pat gray on leash you can hear him uh wherever you get your podcast or on blaz tv

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All right, let's go to James Comer, who is with us, Congressman from Kentucky.

Welcome, Congressman.

How are you?

I'm well.

Thanks for having me on.

It is great to have you on.

I want to look at your book and what we found, but I want to frame it in a way of

it's just frustrating to talk about all this stuff that we know if nothing is going to change.

So tell me what you found and how we can actually make sure this doesn't happen again on either side.

Well, we found two things.

First of all, obviously we found that the Bidens were on the take.

What the media tried to

say about the Bidens was they were in business like Jared Kushner and Donald Trump.

But what we found in our investigation when we started subpoenaing bank records and things like this and bank violations, that was the big thing, the suspicious activity reports, was that they didn't have a legitimate business.

They had all these LLCs.

They had about 26 or 27 LLCs.

And at least 20 of them were flat out.

what's called shell companies.

They were not real legitimate businesses.

The banks flagged them.

They said

their client, when they would ask Hunter Biden, what is this LLC?

He would say it's an investment company.

And then the bank examiners would be communicating with each other when we subpoenaed the emails from the banks.

And they would say, the client says this is an investment company, but it has no investments,

which is a shell company.

They were using these shell companies to launder money.

from these foreign nationals, and I would argue, from the country of China, not from a Chinese energy company like the media said.

According to Tony Bobolinsky, yeah, it was the Chinese Communist Party just bribing the Bidens.

They would then launder it in incremental payments to 10 different family members.

So we found out, first of all, the Biden family was on the take.

And secondly, we found out that the government knew about it.

That's the thing.

The government knew there were four different government agencies investigating the Bidens.

They were hot on the trail.

That was the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

All had ongoing investigations.

And when they would get to the point to where they would have to talk to Joe, because none of this money would be happening without Joe Biden, then they were told to stand down.

So we found out the Bidens were on the take, and the government knew it, but there was a cover-up.

Now, how does somebody get that kind of power to say, stand down?

That's a great question.

And that's what we call, what I call the deep state.

These were deep state bureaucrats.

It wasn't necessarily the Christopher Rays or the James Comeys.

It was the

embedded bureaucrats, the unelected bureaucrats who actually run these government agencies.

And a lot of people think, okay, Trump's won the election.

He's come in.

He's going to put Cash Patel, who I love and already communicate with, and he's the right guy for the government.

But Cash is going to have to to fire a lot of career people in the fbi and and and you know the way the civil service laws are you can't fire them and that's what happened to trump the first administration he wanted to fire some of these people in the you know the bill bars of the world they would say oh you can't or the

next time they're going to try

yeah they're going to and and that's that's how you stop it because people say they should we need to pass a law or fix this to where this doesn't ever happen again again.

Well, the laws were in place.

The banks notified the Treasury that they thought the Bidens were on the take.

The suspicious activity reports that we got, and I have a banking background, I knew this was a big deal when we found out there were 150 of these suspicious activity reports.

I knew from being a director of a bank, you don't issue these things for nothing because that's the bank examiners roll in when you issue one of these, and you certainly don't do it on a prominent client unless you know darn well they're committing financial crimes and they had a you know it was reported 150 we found 170

on the bidens plus another 50 that they were they were a part of that that they were subject to so 220 bank violations where the banks six different banks were notifying the federal government we think they're laundering money.

We think they're violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

We think they're violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

So the checks and balances were in place.

The government agencies knew it, but they were told to stand down.

And I believe, and I write this in my book,

that I don't believe they did it because they loved Joe Biden.

I believe they covered up for Joe Biden because they hated Donald Trump and they didn't want Donald Trump to come back in office.

And that's why they did it, in my opinion.

Also, perhaps that the banks are getting an awful lot of money.

You know,

all the bailouts and everything else, all the cozy relationship with the banks, the Fed, and the federal government bother me a great deal.

Because they should have, if they weren't getting any

traction here and everybody was denying it, shouldn't they have come to the American people and said, hey, we just want you to know that we really truly believe or we have canceled our business with this client

because of suspicious activity or something like that.

Shouldn't they have done that?

I can tell you the banks were scared to death.

When I first, when we flipped the house and I became chairman of the House Oversight Committee, one of the first meetings I had in January when we were still trying to get a speaker elected that first week was with Jamie Diamond.

And I write about it in my book, All the President's Money.

And he's the CEO of J.P.

Morgan.

I knew J.P.

Morgan was one of the banks that had a bunch of violations on the Biden.

And I said, I'm going to hopefully have subpoena power in a week or two.

And I just want you to know I'm going to subpoena you.

and J.P.

Morgan for these bank violations.

And I thought he would, you know, bark at me or whatever.

But he wanted me to have those banks.

And the other five banks, you're talking about Wells Fargo, you're talking about Bank of America.

I mean, they wanted me to have because they were screaming.

I mean, you don't issue a suspicious activity report on someone and not get the bank examiners roll in.

But these banks were issuing dozens and dozens, and they had communicated amongst themselves and knew that other banks were doing the same thing.

And they couldn't believe that the government wasn't doing anything.

And then that, you know, when the laptop came out, that, you know, they saw some of these emails on there that alluded to the banks were after the Bidens.

And the media was saying, oh, there's nothing there.

It's Rudy Giuliani making stuff up.

It's right-wing

crazy people like Lecomer saying the Bidens are corrupt when it's Russian

collusion.

This is Vladimir Putin telling Republicans what to say.

And I mean, so the banks, I'll defend the banks on this.

They were very cooperative.

They turned over, I mean, they gave us the Biden bank records, which

you think about the sitting president of the United States,

the banks gave the House Oversight Committee

the personal bank records of Hunter Biden and Jim Biden and all these shell companies.

And

that's how we found it out.

How much money are we talking?

$35 million.

and and according to the irs whistleblowers they never paid a penny of taxes on it now you know think about that the bidens would owe another ten million dollars in taxes what hunter biden got prosecuted on

was the one legitimate thing he did so the one legitimate source of income that hunter biden had over a 10-year period that i looked at his bank record was from Burisma.

Burisma was a corrupt energy company in Ukraine, but it was a real company, and he was listed as a director, even though he had no qualification.

And they paid him an exorbitant amount of money, more than the directors of Chevron, Exxon, and Mobile combined making a year, he got.

But here's where he got.

He didn't pay taxes on it.

He got a W-2 on it.

And none of this other money he got a W-2 on because it was laundered money.

But this was the one legitimate paycheck he got, even though it was unethical as hell.

And he just didn't pay taxes on it.

Okay, so what?

Because the Bidens think they don't, you know, taxes are only for the little people, not for the, you know,

not for them.

I have to tell you, you're going to have president after president after president do this stuff if these people

don't pay a price.

And whoever was involved, but now they've all been,

you know, they've all been pardoned.

Will we still move forward and expose all of the players and all everything?

The people have to know this has to be on record and fully transparent.

I'm begging Bondi and Patel to move forward on this.

I told them we will help on the House Oversight Committee.

I've got, you know, I've got fighters like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace and Byron Donald and Scott Perry.

I mean, Andy Biggs.

You know, we want to keep moving forward.

But all we faced is obstruction from the Department of Justice.

Now that we have a friendly Department of Justice, you know, if they will pursue this, the one set of bank records I could not get because of, you know, and Trump talks about this a lot, presidential immunity.

We could not get Joe Biden's bank records.

I would love to see Joe Biden's bank records

because, you know,

there were plenty of allegations that the FBI had that Joe Biden was taking bribes and things like that.

We found the money of the allegations to the Bidens.

But not to him.

Jim Biden and the Biden family.

That's why Joe Biden had to pardon his entire family because of our investigation.

And

somebody said, well,

why didn't anybody go to jail?

We did the report and

all we can do, a police officer can arrest someone, someone, but he can't sentence them to prison.

And that's kind of like we were the police officers.

And the prosecutors wouldn't take it.

The prosecutors wouldn't take it.

They would just attack me.

And I wrote the book, All the President's Money, because the media would not cover this.

They would either say there was no evidence.

And honestly, a lot of conservative media would

miss the point.

Like when I'll give you an example, and I write about it in the book,

Tony Bobolinski did a great job in a public hearing, and he said that the money from China was a bribe.

I mean, this is the guy that was in the said the money from China was a bribe.

It was $8 million.

But then he got into an argument, if you'll remember, with Ocasio-Cortez with AOC, where she said RICO wasn't a crime.

Well, that's all that was on the conservative media, the clip of Bobolinski getting into it with AOC, which was good.

He made made her look bad.

But it's at the end of the day,

the message from the hearing should have been that the money wasn't from a Chinese energy company like the media said.

It was a bribe.

The money was a bribe from the Chinese Communist Party.

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I think the last time I talked to this guy, he was,

he talked to me while I was doing the CNN TV show.

I'm not sure.

He has become,

I mean, he writes, he directs, he produces.

He's an actor.

He is somebody that

has grown from just an actor that you might see on television to

done some incredible things.

He's currently doing pawpaw in Disney's Disney Jr.'s animated series Popstruction.

He's reprising, or is it reprising his role as Dale Ballard from Young Sheldon in its upcoming spin-off, George and Mandy's first marriage?

He was Zeke Braverman in NBC's Parenthood.

He was in movies like The Family Stone, Poltergeist, I forgot about that, The Voice of Mr.

Incredible,

Hayden Fox in coach, and he is now starring as Buck, a struggling Wisconsin farmer in the independent film Green and Gold.

Welcome to Craig T.

Nelson.

Hey, Craig T, how are you?

Hi, Glenn Beck.

How are you doing?

I'm good.

I think the last time you were on the show, I apologized for wrecking your career by having you appear on my show.

But you proved me wrong.

You know, I wasn't a curse around your neck because

you are great.

Just great.

Oh, no.

Thank you.

I had such a great time with you.

You know,

it was a lot of fun.

I thought it was...

I thought it was maybe Fox, but I'm not sure.

See, I thought so.

I thought so, too, but Stu said it was CNN.

I think it was Fox as well.

Maybe it was, yeah.

Yeah.

Because I remember you being very brave coming on the show.

I remember going, this guy is over.

He's never going to work a day again in his life.

You were doing all those

uncover and discover things.

We were getting into the deep state.

I know.

Isn't it crazy how things have turned out now?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean,

it's like completely revealed, right?

Yeah, it is.

And anyway, I don't know.

But I had so much fun with it.

Thank you.

So I want to talk to you about the new film that's coming out, Green and Gold.

This is a passion topic for me.

I'm a rancher.

And when I say a rancher, I own cattle and somebody else does all the work.

So I'm not really a rancher, but I live in a small town, you know, half the year of about 400 people, and they're all farmers.

And

we're losing that way of life, and it is being destroyed.

And that's what this film is about.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

It's,

you know, my family has a farm in South Dakota, and they've had it's been about 150 years

been in the family.

And

then my wife has

a family farm in South Dakota, also, which is really

she comes from that.

that environment.

And it's it's one of those things that I think

it goes unnoticed because the people that are

employed in the task of doing the work don't have time

to get out and say, hey, look at us.

We're having a problem.

And what happens is it just they get turned under like

the field, you know.

They get plowed under and forgotten.

And it's a shame.

So this is this is a movie about bringing that awareness but also it's a it's a bigger story than that glenn it's uh it's about the heart and soul of who these people might be and are i think i i tell you i you know thomas jefferson when they were you know designing the the jury who's going to be in a jury box and Some of the founders said we should just have scholars, et cetera, et cetera.

And he said, I trust people that have their hands in the dirt every day.

I want the average person.

And there is something about that.

I think when we moved off of farms into cities, we lost a lot, a lot.

And we're about to lose all of it, I'm afraid.

Well,

we lose where we come from.

Yeah.

And

I think, yeah, go ahead.

I was going to say, it's also, though, an understanding.

I mean, when you grow up on a farm, you live on a farm, you...

you know where your food comes from.

You know the circle of life.

You just have a different, you know, you have to depend on God and your neighbor.

I mean, it's just lessons that you don't get necessarily, you know, living in the suburbs or the city.

Yeah, exactly.

And the values that they hold dear and that

they believe in are,

you know, they're traditional.

And they mean something.

They may be conservative, but

for them and their lifestyle, it's reflected in how they deal with each other.

And

I think all we can do, I think it's great that we can somehow

bring an issue to the fore

that says something about these people and who they are.

Is it true?

I read that

by the end of the film, everybody, it was a passion project for everybody.

And on day one, you walked in and said, hey,

you know,

I know we're not putting a lot of money into this, but I think it should have, you know, different cameras or, you know, additional cameras, et cetera, et cetera.

And you just took it out of your salary because you believed in this so much.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, they didn't have the money to do what they wanted to do.

The cinema, as you know,

the scope of the movie is the land, and the land is what endears ourselves to who these people are

and the beauty of it.

And that kind of scope,

you need processing, and you need the ability to go out and shoot it.

Right.

So they needed another camera.

So I said, yeah, I'm like, hey, let's do that, you know.

And, boy, they did.

They really got a, it's a beautiful film.

So it's

looking.

So, you know, we've talked a little bit about message, but

if you haven't seen the movie, you know, I have, but most people can't see it yet,

explain the plot.

Sell it to somebody who's like, okay, well, I like farmers, et cetera, but sell the movie.

A fourth generation guy.

Kind of a crusty guy.

I've been,

you know, he's got a farm that he's trying to farm organically and he doesn't use machinery he's got some draft horses but he has the best clover

in the area and uh he's got the best cream and the best butter

and he's proud of it and he's trying to make a go of it but the milk prices are rising and falling and Sure enough, he's going to lose his place.

And he's trying to hold it together.

He's just trying to hold it together for his got a a granddaughter who's working on the farm and

he's already lost a daughter

to a dream that she had and he doesn't want to lose a granddaughter so he's got pretty tight cramps on it.

And so it's a story of

it's a story of trying to keep something you love

and making a mistake probably in how you're raising your granddaughter and then seeing the repercussions of that.

And also bringing a guide to faith that

is, I think,

one of those people that's hard to reach.

So I really identified with it in that regard.

It kind of covers a wide range.

I related to, I mean, I've had this conversation over and over again.

My kids want to live in a city, and I wanted to live in a city when I was a kid.

But,

you know, we bought this ranch, and I hope my kids will take it for generations because it is just a superior lifestyle, I think.

It's just more rooted in reality.

But, you know, sitting there looking at your kids and going, are they going to take this?

Especially if it's been in your family for

generations.

It's kind of the Yellowstone story, really, without all the killing and stuff.

Yeah, without all the killing and

all the drug running.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

No,

it's about heart, you know, and it's also about trying to find it.

And that's what is so

I love about the movie.

Well, I want to thank you for coming on the program.

I enjoy talking to you again.

And thank you for your bravery.

I mean, you were brave when really no one was brave.

Do you think things are changing, or is it just going out of Hollywood?

No, I don't think things are changing, Glenn.

I think what we're reading is

in the Bible.

And

what we're seeing

is definitely

coming about.

It's quite frightening for me.

But it's a wake-up call, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

I tell you, I am still there that we are living in

those days.

Some of the, I feel like the Lord gave us a little bit of a pressure relief,

but now it's up to us.

I mean, he's only going to do what we can't do, and we couldn't have averted that bullet, but he did.

And now we're expected to do all the hard work.

And, you know,

it's an amazing time to be alive.

It is.

And we have to do the most with it and do what we can

to get the message to people.

You know?

Yeah.

That we have to do something.

Craig T.

Thank you very much.

God bless you.

Good to talk to you, Clint.

You bet.

Good to talk to you.

Craig T.

Nelson, the name of the movie is Green and Gold.

It is coming to theaters nationwide on January 31st.

I highly recommend it.

It's really good.

Several people on the staff and I have watched it and highly recommend it.

Really, really well done.

And a great story that you will relate to.

Green and Gold.