Are Mystery Drones SPYING on Americans?! | Guests: For King & Country and Jonathan Skrmetti | 12/6/24

December 06, 2024 2h 8m

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Random drone sightings are happening in New Jersey, some drones as big as vehicles and sightings lasting for hours. Is the government spying on us? Only 6% of federal employees work in an office, leaving $2 trillion worth of buildings empty. Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered," joins to celebrate the current Texas House speaker, Dade Phelan, abandoning his race for a third term after being exposed as a RINO. Sen. Jon Fetterman (D-Pa.) shocked the Right by coming out in support of Elon Musk. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joins to discuss the case going before SCOTUS that aims to protect children from harmful gender-affirming procedures. Joel and Luke Smallbone, known as Christian band For King & Country, join to discuss their new Christmas show, "A Drummer Boy Christmas Live," that celebrates the joy and true reason for the season, no matter your religious affiliation.
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There's lots to cover today.

Pete Hegseth speaks out about his, quote, redemption.

The president said he's going to go to the mat for

several of his appointees, and I believe that to be true.

Fetterman was testifying yesterday and was praising Musk and working with him.

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John Cornyn said Cash Battelle is going to be confirmed.

Tucker Carlson is over in Russia.

Again, some people are saying that he is, you know, he's being a shield.

No, he's not.

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that interview is showing the absolute truth.

We're going to get into that in just a second.

Also, the drone sightings, what the hell is happening?

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What is happening with these drone sightings?

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I don't know what's happening.

And, you know, the Department of Homeland Security is myorcus.

Does anybody think he has any credibility whatsoever?

He's like, wow, I don't know what's going on.

Well, you didn't know what was going on on the border either.

The state police of New Jersey, the FBI, and

I don't know who to believe.

I don't know if you can believe, but apparently everyone is saying they don't know what's happening.

And there are these

drones that are now flying in formation, et cetera, et cetera.

And they were flying over the Bedminster golf course.

That's Trump's golf course.

They've been flying over

Air Force bases, et cetera, et cetera.

Do we have?

Oh,

we have a clip from New Jersey News.

Listen to this.

The FAA has placed a temporary restriction on drone flights over Pikatinny Arsenal and over Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster.

When these drones were first spotted two weeks ago, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said that they posed no known threat to public safety.

But people want to know what the heck are they and what are they doing?

It's normal to see red and green lights in December unless they're coming from mysterious drones in the night sky.

It's kind of unsettling.

They're not up for 15 minutes.

They're up for hours.

Some are very big, probably the size of a car.

Mike Walsh says he's seen hundreds of them over the past two weeks from his Randolph backyard and has the video to prove it.

They kind of go slow.

They come towards you, then they'll change direction a little.

They're all going different ways.

The drones have been spotted all over Morris County.

Morristown police sent an alert to residents Sunday saying they are aware of drone activity and that if a drone crashes or lands, do not approach or handle it.

The FBI's Newark Field Office would only say it is working with other law enforcement agencies to figure out what's going on, but at the moment doesn't have enough information to share.

Hmm, those are big, too.

What the hell is that?

What is that?

I mean,

that could very well be, you know,

surveillance on the average American because maybe they're doing police work or whatever.

It could be our government doing it.

It should not be, but we do have, like at the border, we do have drones that are up in the sky.

These are very large.

Some of them are very large.

You don't, you know, those aren't cheap.

And the very large ones are not something I don't think the average person can purchase, can they?

The really large ones?

I mean, you might be able to purchase them.

I know that there is a size requirement for registering them.

Yes.

And of course, now we know that not everyone follows those rules.

But like when you have a, you know, the size is pretty small to not register them.

So those are way over the limit.

And they have the red and green lights.

And I don't remember

which one means, you know, right and left or whatever, but

they have the red and green lights on each side.

I don't think the ETs are like, you know what, we should follow the standard of putting, you know, the red and green lights on each side so they know, you know, why do people think they're aliens?

Some people think that this might be some alien thing.

I don't.

No,

I think this is most likely our government.

Second most likely, you know, this is a China balloon.

Not an actual balloon, but a drone.

This is just another thing that, you know, Biden knows about, but

we can't do anything about it anyway.

What is it?

Yeah, I don't know.

That's a good question.

I mean, it could theoretically, you think of like an incoming president who spends a lot of time at one of these areas.

Like, maybe they're doing some sort of security setup, but I mean, they would just tell us, right, if that was true.

You'd think they'd be like, hey, by the way, this is the federal government doing these things.

This is why we're doing it.

You know, so I don't know.

I mean,

I was just at Mar-a-Lago with the president.

There were no drones that, you know, I saw or anybody was talking about.

I mean, you know, they're pretty good at security, and they would just say, you know,

this is closed airspace.

You would know immediately when they say that, you know, they're closing the airspace.

If it's flying over that airspace, then it's obviously hostile

or ours.

Yeah, I mean, you, you would, I mean, I can't imagine, I could be wrong on this, of course, we've seen some incompetent moments over the past few years, but I can't imagine if you had hours of hovering over

a property owned by the incoming president that this wouldn't be noticed and wouldn't be something that they were dealing with if

it wasn't the U.S.

government.

Right?

Like, it just, that's why that seems like, to me, the most likely explanation that it is something that we're doing for whatever reason.

And And you can say nefarious or positive, but

they wouldn't just let

again, they let a guy just get on the roof in the middle of a rally.

So I mean, maybe they wouldn't just let, but I just, it seems like they would stop this if they didn't want those things.

Have you seen the drone fleets in China?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, you've seen, you've obviously seen like the drone shows,

the ones that are cool and like for your entertainment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, you realize with nefarious ideas, you could do lots of damage with

just those.

The Chinese military drones

that are in these gigantic fields and

thousands of them are flying in

formation.

I'm telling you, you watch,

God forbid we get into World War III.

Oh.

Our aircraft carriers are going to be the horses of World War I.

Yeah.

They're just going to be mowed down.

I was watching a documentary.

It was in a series of nine documentaries.

And this was, I believe,

number three.

Because me and my daughter went through all the Star Wars recently.

Oh, yeah.

And they have that moment where they go to the planet where they've just been making all of these clones.

It was a clones or drones in two armies.

It's Clone Wars.

But it's a Clone Wars, right?

And they just have like a zillion of them ready to go at any moment.

I kind of feel like

that was not a crazy sci-fi prediction.

Like that is really going to be where we are with war at some point relatively soon, where it's not clones, but

it'll be droids.

It's drones and droids, right?

And you have those situations where, I mean, this is another documentary I once saw,

but

this one was

something, somebody had fallen.

I don't remember what the name of the one, because they had about 12 of those in the series, but it's like Morgan Freeman's the president.

Yeah.

And like,

they're out there in the lake.

Right.

Something is falling.

At the very beginning.

Yeah, at the very beginning.

And then like 100 million drones come over

the trees and just try to assassinate the president.

Absolutely.

Totally real.

Totally real today.

Could easily happen

at any moment.

I mean, you know.

We have that technology.

Yeah.

You know, I think a lot of normal people could put that together with not that much effort.

I mean, that's terrifying.

You look at what happened in New York with a guy just walking up behind him.

Who, you know, what's to stop somebody from doing that type of thing with a drone?

Have you seen

they don't have to be standing there?

Have you seen the video of the guy?

I know I showed it, oh man, maybe two or three years ago.

The guy comes on stage and says, this is the new weapon of war.

And he opens his hand and it's about the size of a big dragonfly.

Okay.

And he's got a mannequin on the other side.

And he says, watch what it can do.

And he kind of just lifts his hand and it flies up and it flies around the audience.

And

it has the targeting on a screen behind.

Okay.

And it shows his facial recognition.

And then the target is the mannequin facial recognition.

And it comes so fast and it just goes exploding, goes through the guy's head,

through the guy's head, the mannequin's head.

Yeah.

That's, I mean, that's what's coming.

There's no defense against stuff like that.

That is, it's, we are entering such a brave new world.

And,

you know,

all the, all the people that are in charge of this stuff, they all know.

But why aren't we being informed of where we are?

Yeah, I mean, I, because they are developing defenses for this, and they might be able to come come up with a defense for an aircraft carrier, possibly.

But yeah, I mean, they are developing those things.

What are those Aegis?

The Aegis guns?

You know what I mean?

The Aegis defense system.

Yeah.

That are like 50 cal and they fire like a thousand rounds a minute or some crazy thing.

Yeah.

They can't stop us.

No, I don't think it's guns that they're trying it with, right?

Like there's,

again, I watched another documentary, but it was, you know, you're talking like, you know, microwaves and things of that nature to disable these things as they come down.

But that doesn't protect the average person walking down the street.

I mean, you know,

that might, you might be able to find a way to protect at some level against those things when you're defending the president of the United States, but

when you're talking about,

you know,

these other uses for these things, God, terrorist attacks, who knows?

Something the size of a

fly that could fly.

Somebody opens the door of the West Wing and he says

and flies and then just hides.

Imagine.

I mean, we're there.

You think of intelligence operations.

You know, think of, you know, think of what happened with Hezbollah, right?

With Pagers and what happened when

you have officials going to Qatar and going to what they think is an Airbnb, and then the whole thing just blows up.

People will have really

intricate uses for these.

And I think the truth is that a lot of these things end up.

We have no idea what happened.

Well, here's the other problem.

There's a story today.

Marco Rubio is just.

pissed.

So is Rick Scott with the cybersecurity officials.

You know, we have that, what is it, CISA, the cyber infrastructure security agency or whatever it is.

and it's supposed to protect all of our cyber electronics and everything else and be detecting things.

Well, you remember when the phone systems just went out for a while?

The global telecommunication systems went out with several companies.

Well, we now know that it was China that did that.

So China has infiltrated our telecommunication system and they shut it down to show us we we can shut you down right now.

SISA doesn't have any answers.

They're like,

we don't have any idea who really it was or how they did it.

What the hell are you doing?

You can't tell me how our cyber communications, how our phone systems went down?

What good are you?

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There's several things going on.

The Black Church Coalition is demanding MSNBC probe Harris's campaign payment to Sharpton.

The black churches are coming out against that.

Let's see.

There's just all kinds of stuff.

Ukraine now is in so much trouble.

They're mobilizing women because they don't have enough troops to fight.

And yet...

Another Biden aid, this is how it's described, a Biden aid

is now assisting to ship a huge load of armaments over to Ukraine before Biden leaves.

Who is this person?

Who's making the decisions?

This is crazy.

This is exactly how the founders designed it.

They

wanted people to be governed and ruled by those they did not know the name.

Just no accountability.

No accountability.

We don't even know who they are.

Yeah.

I love how, too, they're like, oh, well, you know, we should get,

we're telling Ukraine that they should conscript 18-year-olds.

And Ukraine's like, we don't want to do that.

And we're telling them that they should.

Can you imagine someone coming to you and saying, hey, like, you know, maybe all the children who are coming out of high school should go into war and get destroyed and blown up on the front lines?

Doesn't that sound like a great idea?

And again, like, they can do what they want to do.

I don't think think it's a, it's, you know, we've obviously had lots of young men die for our country.

I get it.

But like,

I guess this is what happens when you have a country who's paying for everything.

Yeah.

They get to tell you whatever they want.

Yeah.

And, you know, and don't worry, we'll take your farmland.

That's what we've done.

We've taken their farmland now, and we'll rebuild you at a cost, but we'll rebuild you.

So all, you know, BlackRock and everything else getting rich off this.

This is despicable and disgusting, what's going on over there.

But let me go back to Elon Musk and cutting of the federal government.

Do you know that

only, I think it

was it six or was it 12%

of the workforce in Washington, D.C.

and the federal government is actually showing up to work?

Six?

The rest of them are working from home.

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the Doge team testified yesterday, we have $2 trillion

worth of buildings we should sell right now because they're empty.

No one's showing up to work.

Now, the government is going to say, well, we're going to try to make everybody go back to work.

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You're doing about half the job.

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I'm sorry.

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I said, let's apply that to the federal government.

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Everybody else, you're fired.

You're not essential.

They're still not showing up for work.

Sell the buildings and start firing people.

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So there's some big news

here in Texas.

The Texas House could have a new speaker as soon as this weekend.

Now, this is big because the Texas House Republicans have a speaker that,

for some reason,

has done every time

he comes in and he's like, you know what?

Yes, we won, but let's be fair.

Let's give the Democrats half of the power.

What?

He is absolutely against school choice.

He is, I mean, he was the guy who tried to bring down Ken Paxton.

He's the guy who is drunk on the floor.

Allegedly.

I think I could, Your Honor, may I be sworn in as an expert

on.

You do know something about this topic, don't you?

He was drunk

on the floor.

And for some reason now, he's decided, yeah,

I'm not going to be here.

me run, what?

Have no idea.

Somebody who has been on this from the get-go is Sarah Gonzalez from Blaze TV.

Sarah, what happened?

This story just broke.

Do you know?

Yeah, well, I mean, what happened was Dave Phelan finally realized that he was not going to have the votes to maintain his speakership simply because of what you just referenced.

He ran the whole impeachment sham against Ken Paxton.

He, you know, a lot of of people think that Donald Trump is like the OG of having this weaponized lawfare against him.

And Ken Paxton has been dealing with it here in the state of Texas for nearly a decade.

So he was behind that.

He barely won.

He barely hung on to his seat by like something like 300 votes over there in the Beaumont area.

So, I mean, you are looking at a guy who is seeing the wrath of the Texas grassroots activists.

They have come out in force against this guy.

And now you're seeing all of these, even if they're rhinos, we have a lot of work to do in the Texas House.

We have a lot of rhinos remaining, Glenn.

But the

wall, hang on, let me explain this to if, you know, if you live, you probably know this in like Oklahoma or places where it's very, very red.

People who are Democrats, they're like, I can't, there's no way I can win as a Democrat.

So I'll say I'm a Republican when they're Democrats.

And so they become these awful, awful rhinos.

And people who don't know will just go, well, you're a Republican.

That's great for me.

And that's the real problem.

Texas is red, but it's not as red as its population is because we've been voting in rhinos because that's a Republican.

Exactly right.

And so the problem for all of these rhinos is that Texas grassroots activists have had enough.

There was a bloodbath at the polls.

We have something like 25 new incoming freshmen, House Representatives.

They're shaking up the system.

These are elected by Texas conservative grassroots.

I mean, they are as conservative as it gets.

We're going to pass school choice.

We've got the votes for that.

And so we're seeing the makeup of this legislature changing.

And Dade Phelan simply did not have the votes from all of these incoming freshmen, these actual true conservatives, said, we're not voting for Dade.

We want to change.

The people elected us to come in and change things and we're going to do it and so dave phelan finally had to decide to to step down now i will say glenn the fight is not over because we have dade jr uh dustin burrows here in the state of texas it is filing to enter the speakership race and he's the same he's the same thing they're i mean they're friends and they you know are

in coaches he would be the mouthpiece for dade yes he would be the mouth mouthpiece for dade if he wanted um you know my hope is that the grassroots activists will still continue to let their voices be heard put pressure on their representatives to say, you do not vote for Dustin Burroughs.

We don't want that.

And there is, of course, David Cook would be the grassroots activist's choice for the speakership here in the state of Texas.

So what would it mean if we did get David Cook in?

Well, what it would mean is that we would have someone who would not put Democrats in key committee chairs.

I mean, that is the most significant, one of the most significant things.

Have you ever heard of that, Stu, Sarah, in any other state have you ever heard of a Republican putting Democrats in key positions leading key committees

I don't think so I've never heard

No, I mean it's the most backwards thing.

Imagine the people elected, the people decided we want a red legislature, and all you do is you turn over the keys to the car to the Democrats to drive it.

I mean, you're talking about key committees like the calendars committee.

You You know, they decide what comes up on the floor to debate.

I mean, these are really, really key committees, and he's handing the keys over to the Democrats.

So that won't happen with David Cook.

You know, David Cook will be driving the bus into a more conservative, you know, place.

So I do think, you know,

would he be my choice if I had the makeup of every single Texas legislator there?

Probably not, but the grassroots have said, this is the guy that we can get through.

This is the guy who can win the votes.

And this is the guy who is going to take us.

He has been put on notice that he is to govern in a more conservative way.

So, I mean, look, I'll take the win.

Getting Dade off of this, having him withdraw is

huge for us.

Huge, huge.

Because we will have school choice now.

Yes.

Texas has been trying to do this for a long,

long time.

They've been trying to do it.

And it is because of this

Speaker of the House who is just in the pocket of somebody, probably the teachers' unions,

and just will not let it come to a vote and stomps it down every single time.

Sarah, did you say, did I think you say that we do have the votes you think for it now?

Yes, everything that I'm hearing indicates that we do have the votes for it now because even people who were a no last go-around, they saw what happened at the polls.

They saw all of their friends.

They saw all of Dade's lackeys get decimated over the topic of school choice.

You had Governor Abbott out there

endorsing people in the primaries solely based off of their school choice vote.

So, I mean, it was just that they saw what happened at the polls.

They want to hang on to power.

If it scares them enough and they're still rhinos at heart, but they're scared enough that they're going to vote our way, you know what?

I'll take the vote because it's embarrassing that we still don't have school choice in this state.

So, what do you know about, let me change subjects here.

What do you know about our gold-backed currency that we're working on?

So,

I don't get into that topic very much, but I do know that they are working on it.

It is something that

they have said that they do want to take up in the session.

Yeah, we should get David.

What is his name?

Kevin Freeman on.

Because I think this is something that he has been pushing for a long time.

And I read his book about it, and I think he's right.

I think he's absolutely right.

And it would, you know, every state needs to strengthen itself.

You know, the idea of let's close the Department of Education doesn't mean we don't care about education.

It means we want the money that our states have to stay in the state and we want control.

We don't want to send a dollar and get 30 cents back.

in education and then be told exactly what we have to do.

It's ridiculous.

We have to strengthen our states.

And when it comes to the dollar, I I mean, I'll never forget

sitting in Rick Perry's office, probably 2010,

and

Germany had just asked for their gold from the Federal Reserve.

And the Federal Reserve was like, well, it might take us five years to get it to you.

I'm like, what?

And I talked to Rick and he said, I'm very concerned.

And I said, where's our gold?

And he said, Federal Reserve.

And he said, I just asked for it back.

And we got it back.

So now

we have Texas has its gold in the state.

And they're now talking about doing what Utah has done and have some sort of gold-backed currency that is good for trade.

And

I think that's really smart, really smart.

Sarah, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Yep.

Big news coming out of Texas.

Yeah, and Sarah has worked really hard on that issue.

She is.

She's a pit bull.

Oh, yeah.

She gets her.

Don't get in the way.

She's coming.

Yeah.

She's done so much for not, I mean, not just this issue, but so many other issues, you know, particularly the stuff like, you know, the transing issues and such.

So she's worked so hard on this.

She's out all the time on the weekends.

Like, you know,

she is an incredible.

She's an activist.

Let me play one thing because

speaking of her, she would.

This is so insane.

This is how insane the uh the transgender thing is getting uh let's see let's play cut 10 here trans child worried concerns have you had about speaking out that i'm gonna be like murdered like one day i'm gonna

be walking down the street and somebody's gonna come up and like shoot me or something That's a really scary thing to be worrying about at 10 years old.

Yeah, where would you get an idea?

Worry.

Yeah,

you know, it's interesting.

I would agree.

Yeah.

You know, we talk about bipartisanship.

Here's some bipartisanship for you.

I agree.

She shouldn't be worried about that.

Stop telling your child they're going to be murdered on the street.

Can you imagine?

Where'd they get that idea from?

Their parents.

Either their parents or like TikTok that you've left them with over the past, you know, every

school.

Yeah.

I mean, like, some activist.

Some crazy person.

But again, at school would be one of those two explanations as well from one of their friends.

Yeah.

You know, it's the same, this very similar thing goes on with climate.

The same thing, these activist parents that are insane terrify their children that they're all going to die from climate change.

That is just like,

that is borderline child abuse to put that in your kids' head like that.

I have to tell you, I tell my kids, you know, my kids, they live with me.

I mean, that's practically child abuse.

You know what I mean?

They're just like,

the world's coming to an end.

But like there are real worries.

And I think, especially when they're at that age, I do everything I can to shield my kids from this.

Tanya has shielded them from all of the stuff, you know, and I have brought it to them now that they're 18, et cetera, et cetera.

I do talk to them about, hey, these are the real concerns.

These are the things you probably shouldn't have to worry about.

But these things you should watch as an adult now.

You need to watch these things you don't tell a 10-year-old child you're going to be shot in the street because of who you think you are at 10.

yeah i mean i think i think back to march 2020 where all of a sudden like nba games are just they're just getting canceled with 20 000 people in the in this in the stadium you know donald trump is out there talking and we're in that 15 day 30 day to slow the spread all that stuff we still don't know where this is going And there's moments in that where you're like,

even if this is wrong and it's not as serious of a pandemic, like, what's the government going to do?

What happens to our economy?

Can we reboot this?

Will life ever get back to normal?

Those are real questions that you asked.

We forget about a lot of them now, but there are moments where you're like, what the hell's going to happen here?

And I remember thinking to myself, all I can do is try to make my kids' life not feel that way.

Right?

All I can do is I hope when they get older, they will look back at this period and remember, hey, remember when we did all that cool stuff with mom and dad when we were home for all that time?

Like that's how I want them to remember it.

That's not how these parents operate at all.

No, they're terrifying their children

in their childhood.

2016, who was it from ABC or it was Stephanopoulos, I think, who said his children were sleeping in their bed, crying themselves to sleep every night because of Donald Trump.

Are you out of your mind?

Why?

That's you.

That's not them.

That's you.

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Yeah, it's like a derogatory term.

And it's not.

No.

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Yeah.

You know, it kind of started started with like, which I didn't know, started with comedy sketches about it, and they called it Yacht Rock, and it grew into this whole thing.

And it's that whole genre.

You know what?

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Remember the time?

I don't know, even though, are you old enough to remember this?

When Michael McDonald was on every record, no matter who it was.

And here's the Pope doing his vest.

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Yes.

They kind of reference that in the documentary.

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Yeah.

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There's some just some amazing things that have been uttered by people in the last 24 hours.

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And I think.

And it was a fascinating conversation because we did disagree, but it is exactly the kind of disagreement and conversation that we should be able to have with everybody.

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Okay, so there's a couple of things that happened.

First of all, let me just go through some of the sound from yesterday.

There was an exchange between Representative Pat Fallon, he's a Republican from Texas, and the acting director of the Secret Service.

It was kind of interesting.

Listen.

You recognize this photo?

Yes, sir, I do.

Okay.

Was that the remembrance of September 11th?

It was.

Was it in New York?

It was at ground zero.

Okay.

Who's usually at an event like this closest to the President of the United States?

Security-wise.

The SAC of the detail.

Special Agent in charge of the detail.

Were you the special agent in charge of the detail that day?

Actually, let me address this.

Could you please, staff, leave that?

Oh, no, leave that one up with the circle around me.

Thank you.

So actually, Congressman, what you're not seeing is the sack of the detail off, out of the picture's view.

And that is the day where we remember the more than 3,000 people that have died on 9-11.

I actually responded to Ground Zero.

I was there going through the ashes at the World Trade Center.

I was there at Freshkills.

I'm not asking you that.

I'm asking you, Congressman.

We're using

charge to show respect for a secret service

that died on 9-11.

You're trying to be...

Do not invoke 9-11 for political purposes, Congress.

I'm not.

I'm invoking this.

You are, sir.

And you are out of Carmen.

I would like to ask him a question.

Please, you are out of time.

Don't you bully me.

Order.

I'm an elected member of Congress, and I'm asking you a serious question.

I am a public servant who has served this nation, and you won't answer

on our day, on our country's darkest misconception.

Stop, stop, stop.

You know what this is?

This is the Hillary Clinton moment.

What difference does it make?

Okay.

This acting Secret Service,

he may feel passionately and he may have been there on 9-11, but that makes no difference.

Why wasn't the head of the detail next to the President of the United States?

Why was he 10 feet away instead of two feet away?

He was not the guy.

He says, I'm there to remember.

I got news for you.

Even my detail, they don't, they never carry anything.

If it is like, if I'm at my house and I am, we're loading up to go, you know, on vacation or something, they might take a bag or a suitcase and throw it in the back of the car at my house.

When they're on duty and we're outside of the fence of my house,

they don't put things in their hands.

Nothing.

All they do is watch me and everything around.

That's their job.

Their job is not to, you know what, I was there also remembering.

No,

your job, if you're protecting the president, is to protect the president, period.

That's the case that he was trying to make, and I think he made it poorly because he got upset so quickly.

Because

actually, the acting head of Secret Service, I think, was politicizing.

He was trying to get out of this by saying, I was there to remember.

That's not in question.

You have a role to play.

You could be there.

But why were you standing there?

And the implication is because you wanted to be in the picture.

Now, let me show you something else.

This is crazy.

Fetterman.

What the hell?

I don't even know how to...

Fetterman.

Listen to this.

You see yourself ultimately working with folks like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy who will be heading to the...

Yeah, again,

I admire

Mr.

Musk.

He's been involved in very important parts of American society, AI,

SpaceX,

and other kinds of things.

Yes, he's

on a different team, but that doesn't make me me an enemy.

I don't be automatically going to become a critic.

It's like, hey, he has made it, you know, he's made our economy and our nation better, and our politics are different.

And I don't agree with some of the things that he might say, but that doesn't make him, like I said, an enemy.

I got to tell you, this guy, first of all, I think has had an amazing recovery.

I really did not think that he would come back as fully as he has.

I still hate hate the sweatshirt thing.

However,

he at times is something I never thought he would be.

Reasonable.

Yeah, he's good, and he's good on a couple things.

Look, he is a Democrat.

Do not forget that he's a Democrat.

His voting record is everything that Joe Biden wants.

That's his voting record.

But he is oddly sane on a few issues.

And

also, his approach is better than most of the other people.

And I think it's important to say we're not going to agree on everything, but

if you can have a reasonable conversation and you can say, okay, forget politics here.

What are the principles behind this?

Let me show you something that happened yesterday on stage 19.

I did my podcast.

It's out now for

Blaze TV subscribers.

You can watch it.

It is fascinating.

I really hope you watch this one.

When I walked walked out of the studio, I looked at all my producers and I said, How was that?

And they were like, I think that was one of the best exchanges you've ever had on a podcast.

Anna Kasparian, who I didn't really know much about other than she was on, what is it, Young Turks.

I don't spend any time watching or listening or paying any attention to the Young Turks.

So I didn't know.

Now, Dave Rubin used to be on Young Turks.

Okay.

She's not on our side.

She's not a Republican.

She's not a conservative.

But she has changed

so much.

It was a fascinating conversation.

I talked to her about,

for instance,

The border.

What would you think somebody on Young Turks would say about the border?

Okay.

Listen to her and her new understanding of the border.

I can definitely be honest about my own flaws and my own mistakes because I bought the mainstream media narrative that there wasn't a migrant crisis.

And yeah, I did believe it.

I believe because look, I was an idiot because, I mean, who do you trust in today's media landscape?

I know, right?

There's a lot of liars out there.

And when it comes to mainstream media, the fact of the matter is they do play defense more and more for the Democratic Party.

And that's an issue because there was a time when that didn't happen.

And so I

still believed in their good faith reporting, even though it turns out, you know, a lot of these reports would omit really important details about what's really going on.

And so it wasn't until Texas Governor Greg Abbott started busing or sending migrants to blue cities where that woke me up.

That woke a lot of people up.

And suddenly America realizes, oh, there is a migrant crisis.

Why did that wake you up?

Well, because all of a sudden you're seeing migrants sleeping on the floor in the police department in Chicago because they don't have shelter for these people,

right?

You're seeing, you know, these...

I love watching streams of city council meetings because that's how you understand what's really going on in these cities, right?

These are real people who live there and they get their opportunity to speak.

Chicago's been an amazing thing to watch.

It's wild.

I mean, I watch every city council meeting from Chicago because it's crazy.

And for me,

rather than relying on mainstream media reporting or anyone's reporting, to be quite honest with you,

what I'll do is I'll go out of my way and I'll watch, you know, the entirety of a government function, local government function.

I talk to real people and I get a sense of where hearts and minds really are.

And so on election night, I wasn't surprised at all.

I knew what was coming.

I totally knew what was coming.

I knew that Cook County was going to swing, I think it's about eight percentage points toward Republicans.

I knew LA County, and this is what I was surprised about.

I did not expect Donald Trump to flip 10 counties in California from blue to red.

But I guess I shouldn't have been surprised about that either.

Because when you look at the conditions that people are living in in a Democrat-controlled state, well, yeah, you can understand why people are turning their backs on the Democratic Party.

You can understand why people are frustrated at the corruption, at the loss of $24 billion that was allocated to help the homeless when homelessness only exploded during that time, and that money is now unaccounted for.

It was funneled to nonprofits whose executives get paid minimum $200,000, $250,000 a year.

And they have multiple executives who are making at least that or more.

And you just see the waste and you see the real grift.

And so for people out there who are concerned about the grifters, take a good hard look at the systemic grifting that's happening right now.

It's disgusting.

She was amazing.

We started talking about the NGOs

and

we're on exactly the same page.

It was really a refreshing conversation.

We walked away still disagreeing with each other on things, especially like labor unions.

But

there are so many points of connection now from reasonable.

I told her, I said, I think that there is, you know, there's the machinery Democrats, and the same with Republicans.

There's maybe, I don't know, 5 or 10% that's just machinery.

It's just the machine that just keeps churning, you know, the graft and the corporations and all of that stuff.

It's just all about power and money.

Then there's probably 8% of just crazy out-of-the-mind.

We shouldn't even be paying attention to those people.

And then there's the middle.

And the middle just wants things to be done right.

No graft, no corruption, transparency,

all of this stuff.

And I think that's where we can really come together.

i think that's honestly why

why fetterman and others will look at elon musk and ramaswamy and go this is good because the ones that actually are not part of the graft the ones who are going in to serve and know that it's wrong to use the insider trading to make yourself a multi-millionaire while you're serving the public.

They're tired of it just as much as we are because they're closer.

The ones that we have brought in now are closer to the American people than they are to the machine.

And that's, I think, critical.

It's a fascinating conversation.

You will love it.

And I can't.

I'm sorry I'm talking about this.

I am such a proud father.

It is so amazing to see.

My daughter, I got home yesterday and she said, Dad, I just got an email.

I don't even know how to answer these questions.

You know, she just turned 18.

And I said, what?

And she said,

Billboard Magazine called me and wanted to know about the orchestra and everything else.

I said, do you know, I was 30 before.

I mean, you don't get your name even in Billboard Magazine.

And she's making the chart of Billboard.

And it's just, it's exciting as a dad.

And I can't thank you enough for listening to it and buying it.

And it's great.

Yeah.

Too.

It's not just being nice to you.

It's really enjoyable.

It makes me smile every time I hear it.

It is really, I'm so proud.

I was so afraid it wouldn't be good and we couldn't release it because I said to her, I said, if it is not, if it's not high quality, something that we would as a family, not knowing you, listen to over and over again,

I will not be that dad who's like, look at, you know, that Simon Cowell would go, who the hell has been telling you you have talent?

Yeah, you don't want that moment.

No, you don't want that moment.

I will tell you, that's definitely not the case.

I went into my daughter's room last night as she was putting her down, you know, to go to bed, and she was just listening to it again.

Again, she loves it.

This is all she listens to now.

Wow.

Which is very, very cool.

The other part too is that we saw her perform live, her first live performance the other night.

It was just

fun for number one, just to watch Glenn insides just churn.

the stress on Glenn is like 10 times what it was on Shadow.

Because I've been 18.

You know what I mean?

I was 18, and this was the very first time she ever did anything on stage.

And I I was more nervous than she.

You know, she'd come up and she'd be like, Dad, I'm nervous.

I'm like, you're going to be great inside.

I'm like, run for your life.

But my point there was to say that, like, she,

look, you can do a lot of stuff in a studio.

You can.

You can make anybody, you could almost make you or me sound good in a studio.

But she's on a mic on a little stage outdoors with, you know, I don't know, 100 people there.

And she sounded just like, just like the CD.

She sounded incredible.

Yeah.

There's a

guy that most people don't know.

His name is Roger Love.

And he is on the premiere payroll.

He was for Rush and I,

because if Rush would lose his voice or I would lose my voice,

we would call him.

He's one of the best vocal coaches in the world.

And I mean, he does it for Elton, John, and Lady Gaga and everybody.

Sure.

Beyonce.

You've known him for years.

I've known him for years.

He's a great guy.

And

I said to him, Hey, Roger, this is like three years ago.

I think my daughter might have talent.

And I know you don't really do a lot of, you know, vocal lessons.

And he's like, for you?

And I said,

yes, if that's a positive.

No, if it's not.

And he said, no, what are you looking for?

And I said,

my daughter.

And he said, Glenn, let me listen to her.

If she has talent, I'll take her.

And so he's been working with her.

And it's, I mean,

she's good.

She's good.

She is.

I'm a proud, proud daddy.

Anyway, I'm sorry for that.

Christmas is almost over.

I'll stop talking about her soon.

Let's see here.

We were talking about

coming together.

for the holidays and being able to have conversations.

And I think this conversation with Anna Kasparian yesterday, who is on the Young Turks, I mean, she asked me, she said,

would you be willing to come on the Young Turks?

And I said,

probably not.

And she said, why?

And I said, well, I would if it was just one-on-one with you,

but I've had so many bad experiences

with others that

I did not ambush you.

When she walked into the studio,

I...

got up to greet her and I grabbed her hand and I said, I want a welcome to my home.

And she said, thank you.

And I said, I never invite anyone in my home to ambush them.

Please feel relaxed just to have a conversation.

I'm going to ask you challenging questions, but I am not looking to get you.

And that has been your policy and you stuck to it since the beginning of time.

Yeah.

And so it gave us this moment, you know, where she was really, she would stop and ask me, she asked me about, you know, about war and Ukraine

and abortion.

We had a great conversation on abortion.

Sounds like a joyful time.

It's a good old Michael Ledbeck Christmas party right there.

Christmas party is happening tonight.

You know

what else is red?

Blood.

Let's talk about abortion.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

No, but, you know, because she was talking about, you know, transgenderism and

it got to women's rights.

And she was shocked.

It shows how much we don't know about each other.

Yeah.

You see the worst of everybody online and in clips and everything.

Let me

let me ask you a question.

Oh boy.

I don't know exactly how I feel about it yet, but I am a little concerned about.

Yes.

I think I'll bet you.

I'll tell you what I'm thinking after you say

I bet you we have the same concern.

My concern.

May I just say,

please just come in.

Just, oh my God.

I'm not going to just address it.

This is just something that, you know, if you are a Blaze TV subscriber, you'll enjoy.

Anyway, your concern.

My concern is.

This is going to be very difficult to do now.

Okay, go ahead.

Okay, so the concern is

that

we are working now with

many disaffected members of the left.

Do not eat the candle, I'm sorry.

With many disaffected members of the left who have kind of said, hey, this is a little bit crazy.

Like, what's going on right now is insane.

Yeah.

Even though we don't agree on a lot, it's good that we talk.

And you've done this forever.

You've done interviews like this forever.

Right.

Where you will,

you know, have conversations with people across the aisle and just, you know, get different understandings.

That's not abnormal for you.

As far as the movement goes, right, conservative movement,

there's a lot of embracing of people who previously

were

not really welcome in conservative policymaking and now are.

Like, I was watching this Elon Musk thing develop, and everyone was like, hey, there's a Democrat joining the Doge committee, right?

Great.

Is it?

Is it, though?

Because I'm a little concerned, not only that it's just a Democrat, but also that a congressman is now in this process before it's really even started.

And like, my guess is the Democratic congressman at the end of the day might be a good guy or whatever.

I'm concerned he might get a little bit in the way.

So,

of like a

buddy the elf is in the studio and it is smiley face.

I give you a smiley face.

So does

that be a good idea?

That's good.

I drew a butterfly.

That's great.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

Very nice, butterfly.

So anyway, good.

Now,

I can't concentrate.

Yeah, I had to go through the whole question.

You look dance around and

I know

and lick candles.

And now, when you get to answer, you're.

Santa!

Ignorium!

No, I'm not Santa.

Get out of here.

You're giving us a bad name at the buckle.

You no longer look like Santa.

You look great.

Oh, see, look at that.

Thank you, buddy.

I love you.

Buddy the Elf.

Thank you.

Thanks, buddy.

He's crazy.

This is unbelievable, though.

I have to go through this entire long rant while this is going on.

Right.

What's the website, buddy?

Where do people go for you?

What is it again?

Theelf.net.

The elf.

The elf.net.

Or you can follow me on social media because we have a lot of fun there, and you can follow my adventures.

I'm at the elf live on most socials.

The elf live.

Thank you, buddy.

I love you.

What's your favorite color?

I love red and green.

They're the most Christmassy.

Thank you.

Okay.

So I don't even know if my point made sense.

Yeah.

Okay.

So yes.

I am of the same concern because I think that there are those,

I think the Democratic Party is going to recalibrate.

and want to do the same thing that they already have done, but they'll just change the language and they'll try to appear like they're one of you.

You know what I mean?

That's what Republicans do that all the time.

Oh, I'm with you.

And then they get in and they're not with you.

So I am concerned about that.

However,

that's a different concern than I think what we're talking.

Oh, okay.

I'm sorry, buddy was distracted.

No, no, no.

What I just said, I think in the buddy context here was the point you answered.

And so I think that that's concern number one.

I think

structurally, as this goes on, it's good to bring new people into your fold, right?

That's what you want to do as a party, as a movement.

You want to get people who used to vote against you to vote for you, right?

Like you want that to happen.

So you have to have that happen, but you have to make sure you stay to your principles and you have to worry, like I really worry with like the Doge thing that like

the motivations of some of a Democrat hopping on this committee is not the same as my motivation.

I agree.

Right.

Like they're not really going to be cost cutters.

Like I don't see that.

See that.

There might be a little bit they can agree on.

That's great.

When it comes to the, the, um, like, you had a conversation with Anna Kasparian about abortion.

You mentioned this.

And you had a really, I think, interesting exchange, and you found, I think, some

common ground, even though you don't agree on the issue overall, which is, and this is something we've discussed many times, at the end of the day, legislation can be part of it, but you have to get to a place where you win part of it.

So you know, I don't happen to have this clip.

She came

me and because she was saying something and I'm like, huh, sounds like the 10th Amendment.

And she said, well, it is.

It's states' rights.

And she said, but let me ask you, Mr.

States' rights.

Yeah, yeah.

Would you support a blanket ban on abortion?

Now, the answer is,

I believe it's murder.

So yes, murder is illegal.

You think that should be illegal in all the states, Glenn?

Wow, what a radical position.

But wait, wait, wait.

No, I know, I know.

So it is murder.

So murder is, I said, but you cannot legislate that now because no one,

half the country doesn't believe it's murder.

Well, you wouldn't get it through.

Right.

You wouldn't get it through.

And it doesn't have to answer whether you support it or not.

But it doesn't stop it.

I said, you know, I have a new understanding of abortion where it's always been about the children.

And it is about the children, but it is also about the mothers.

And what they're saying is, hey, moms, go have an abortion and shout your abortion.

80% of the women who have abortions regret it within 12 years or 12 months, and they begin to have real behavioral and psychological issues with it.

Okay.

This is not a happy thing for women.

If you care truly about women and women's health, we have to then look at the woman and say,

what is causing her to do it?

And there's two things.

One, they're believing the lie that it's not a baby.

Okay, it is, because that's why ultrasounds are being fought by Planned Parenthood.

They don't want any ultrasound because you see it, you see the heartbeat and everything else and you're like, that's a baby.

Okay.

The second thing is, once they get past this, we talk about this with pre-born, it's why I like them so much, is

they feel trapped.

I can't tell you how many nurses I have talked to and they've said

the boyfriend or the father or the mother even, you know, the mom of the girl will come in and go, she can't have this.

There's no support.

There's nothing, yada, yada, yada.

And the girl is like, I have no other choice.

So if we begin to look at the actual issue, not the political issue,

the actual issue, what is causing these women, those who have abortion as a form of birth control, I think that should, you know, know, absolutely, that you can regulate.

No, you're not having six, eight, ten abortions for birth control.

Sorry.

Do you have to, what do you get a punch card?

Yeah, you do.

Your tenth one free.

But that's not the vast majority of women.

Very minority.

Right.

And so let's fix that problem and change people's hearts on that because no legislation is going to stop.

It's like drugs.

No legislation is going to stop the drugs.

guns you can take all the guns off the streets it's not going to stop murder they'll go to knives let's start looking at actual solutions and the actual problem and what would work

yeah and i and i agree like the long-term eternal solution to this right is similar to what i think has happened with slavery right slavery if you if you overturned amendments and made slavery legal and someone tried to come out and pass a bill to say, hey, African Americans should now go back to the fields, it wouldn't even come close to passing.

Everyone who supported it would be thrown out immediately.

We would reject it easily as a society.

I want that to, that is the long-term solution.

However, I just don't want to avoid the fact that like, no, I want a constitutional amendment to ban it right away.

I agree.

We can't abandon those things.

Even with slavery, we still buy all of our products made by slaves in China.

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All right, Jonathan Skermetti is with us, a Tennessee Attorney General.

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How is this playing out?

What are his thoughts now, a day past it?

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Many of us look at transgender care as butchery,

as insanity, as something that honestly returns to the Weimar Republic of the 1920s.

This science has been around for a while and it is junk science.

And it is dangerous to our children.

Look, you're an adult, you can do what you want, I guess.

But when children are affected, that's what's in front of the Supreme Court.

And the guy who brought this case to the Supreme Court is the Tennessee Attorney General.

He joins me in 60 seconds.

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Attorney General Jonathan how are you sir

great great thanks for having me on so uh

I listened to the case and I don't know how your head didn't explode with some of the questions that were coming from some of those on the left,

so to my ore for one.

But

overall,

how did you feel it went?

I think we did a great job of getting our points across.

I thought the court, I mean, it went on for two and a half hours or so.

The court asked a lot of questions.

They're clearly thinking hard about this.

It's going to be a long time before we get our opinion.

But I think we did everything we could to win this case.

I feel really good about our part of it.

Now it's up to the justices.

You know,

there was a well, first of all, tell me exactly what the case was.

What does it actually cover and what will it do if it's decided in favor of Tennessee?

So we have a law in Tennessee.

Our General Assembly passed a law that prohibits giving juveniles puberty blockers, hormone treatments, or surgery for the purpose of gender transition.

Surgery was not an issue in this case.

So this is just about whether the Constitution prevents the state from banning puberty blockers or hormone treatments for the purpose of gender transition.

So if we win, our law will remain in effect and kids won't be able to be subject to that in Tennessee.

Potentially, depending on how we win, it could mean that all laws dealing with gender identity are reviewed under a rational basis standard, which gives the people's elected representatives a lot more latitude as to how they regulate.

You know,

when you were discussing this, and it was Justice Sotomayor said, every medication has, you know, side effects.

Even aspirin has side effects.

I don't know how you took that question seriously, but you answered it very well.

Explain to the average person

why this is so different

than anything else that is prescribed for kids.

Every systematic analysis of the evidence shows little to no benefit for kids from these treatments for gender dysphoria.

Meanwhile, the risks are enormous.

They face losing fertility for the rest of their lives, never being able to have children.

They risk losing their sexual function for the rest of their lives.

Kids don't know what they're giving up.

They risk tumors and blood clots and cognitive disorders and bone density disorders, all sorts of serious lifelong medical complications.

And meanwhile, the evidence is this doesn't help them.

You're talking about very severe physical

interventions for psychological problems with no evidence that it's helping them with the psychological problems.

And so we're looking at a situation where kids are really at risk.

where there's not a good medical reason for putting them at risk, and where there are these people saying the Constitution prohibits the state from protecting kids, even where the evidence is so powerfully in opposition to allowing this to happen going forward.

I think it was Justice Souter who asked

the opposite side,

you know, you said that the science backs this up.

Well, now we have all this new science that is coming out.

Do you want to withdraw that statement?

What has happened since you started this process to the evidence that's coming out from everywhere now?

So there was a lot of evidence beforehand, but the CAS review in England is a large-scale, long-term study by an extremely respected pediatrician that looked really hard at these issues.

It's controversial around the world.

You know, England is not a red state.

It is not Tennessee.

They were making these procedures widely available to kids for a while, and they looked at the evidence, and they determined that they should not be doing that, that the evidence showed this was hurting kids, they should severely restrict access, and they did, and the CAS report gets into it very thoroughly.

It was discussed with a lot of specificity by the court.

You know, it shows there's no reduction in suicide, which is one of the things that we constantly hear.

You know, if you don't let kids do this, they're going to kill themselves.

We don't want kids to kill themselves, but the evidence is doing these life-altering interventions doesn't make a difference.

You know, it just looked at a lot of evidence from a lot of kids, and it showed what we already knew, which is that there is no benefit to justify these radical interventions.

what does this mean if it comes out the way we hope it does?

Does this have any effect on

bathrooms and

sports or anything else?

It really depends on what the court does.

I mean, there's a way that we could win that's narrower that only deals with

kids' transitions, or there's a way we could win that's broader if the court says that gender identity issues do not rise to the level of intermediate scrutiny under the Constitution, in which case a lot of the litigation we're facing about bathrooms and school sports and all the other things people have sued over would be pretty easy to resolve.

it's a very broad ruling.

Did you see any indication that any of the judges were leaning that way?

Were there any questions that made you

gave you any indication that that was

possible or probable?

There were indications that the justices are thinking about it.

There were questions about sports that came up, but I don't know whether that means they're thinking about issuing a broad opinion or they're just concerned about you know, the potential effects and

they want to think through exactly how this is going to play out because there's no constitutional law from the Supreme Court on gender identity stuff.

We have one case about a very narrow, very specifically worded statute, and the lower courts have been all over the place.

They need guidance, they need clarity on this issue.

You know, you can't go into a tattoo parlor if you're young without

parental permission.

You can't buy a gun at 12 or 16, you can't get married.

There's all these laws because we know you're not mentally prepared to make those kinds of decisions.

How does that logic

not

work for this issue?

You know, there's this argument that it's sex discrimination and therefore the Constitution provides a heightened level of scrutiny, but I mean, we've done this forever.

The law treats people differently based on their age.

Kids can't consent to things that will have lifelong consequences, whether it's entering a contract or smoking a cigarette.

The consequences for these procedures are so much more profound.

And we think we have a strong argument that the state should be able to regulate this, particularly given the evidence that it makes no difference, that it does not help, and it increases the risk of all these different horrible outcomes for the kids.

The other side just seems,

quite honestly, and I don't mean to slam people, but they seem unhinged.

I want you to listen.

This is a mom who was standing outside of the Supreme Court building while you were arguing the case.

Listen to what she said about her child.

Cut for it.

What motivated you to come out here today?

We're supporting our child, Violet,

and her access to the medical care that she needs.

Yeah,

we're here for her rights and her ability to be who she is.

And she's not going to let anybody silence her, and we're not going to stand in her way.

And what age do you think most trans kids determine that they're trans?

Violet told us when she was one and a half.

She's been telling us since she could speak.

she knew since birth.

18 months.

18 months she knew.

I have a three-year-old last week she told me she was a pirate.

Right.

That's a true story, by the way.

I mean, gender disorder is a real thing, and it's really hard for kids to deal with it.

But we have seen an explosion in these cases that sure looks like something very weird is going on.

And

I don't see how it doesn't come out eventually that there's massive overdiagnosis.

In England, a doctor saw a 4,000% increase in the number of girls seeking hormone treatments.

And

the evidence is very, very strong that the large, large majority of kids who have any sort of gender identity confusion grow out of it unless they're put on medications.

For most kids, this is a passing thing.

Doesn't mean it's not hard for them.

Adolescence is really hard, and I don't have to think gender confusion makes it that much harder.

But most of them are going to grow out of it, and for all of them, the evidence of a benefit is minimal at best.

Well,

we'll be praying for the Supreme Court, and I thank you so much for

you filing suit and trying to get this corrected.

It's truly madness.

I don't care what you do as an adult.

I mean, I actually do, but it's not my business if you're an adult.

But if you can't decide things like smoking, drinking, you know,

be responsible for enough with a gun, you certainly should not be able to do things to your body that are permanent and game-changing.

It's insanity.

We got to stop.

Jonathan, thank you so much.

It's an honor to be on the show.

Thanks for having me.

Merry Christmas.

Jonathan Skirmetti, he is the Tennessee Attorney General who argued just, what, day before yesterday at the Supreme Court to protect children from gender procedures.

And we should, by the way, take what he said seriously.

If his three-year-old is about to plunder passing ships, we should report that to maritime authorities.

Don't forget the pillaging and the raping.

Yes, immediately.

We must take it seriously.

We can save one

pillage

or pillage at what one pillage pillage somebody we could save one person from being pillaged.

We need to act now.

Isn't it worth it?

It's just as insane.

It really is.

It sounds like a joke.

No.

It is exactly the argument they're making in front of the Supreme Court.

How many of our kids have said, I want to be an astronaut?

I want to be, you know, I want to be whatever.

And then later in life, they're like, God, I said, what?

No.

I mean,

it's so insane.

But

I think we just voted for a cure.

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You know, Glenn, you were talking about

the kind of insane world we're in.

Yeah.

And the fact that three-year-old pirates might be a real concern and we should take that seriously.

Another leading indicator as to where our society is going

to me is the reaction to this healthcare executive being shot.

And

I can't, I honestly can't believe it.

I know we talk about how insane the world is all the time, but like I can't believe this poor guy being murdered in cold blood is something that, I mean, a large portion of the left is cheering on.

I don't know how large it is.

I hope it's smaller than my perception.

But wait,

when has this happened before in history?

This exact same thing.

You know what?

I don't know if this is, if you have an example in mind.

I do.

Okay.

What struck me as because I like to think, well, how would I react in a situation like this?

Would I react poorly?

And

what ran into my mind was Eric Rudolph, the guy who was bombing abortion clinics.

I assure you,

my opinion on abortion is more negative than your opinion on health care and insurance.

I assure you, I think it's a larger crime than whatever you think is going on with denial of claims.

I agree.

Which is an issue at times, I acknowledge.

But at

no point would I ever, ever cheer on someone who murdered an abortion doctor?

Never.

And I think that is,

I mean, I can't describe the horrors that I believe are associated with that practice.

So the reason why I asked you the history question is because this has been done.

This is where Marxism and

all of that kind of thinking

leads.

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It's being reopened as a temple of reason.

That's what happened during the

Revolution, in the French Revolution.

It became a temple of reason, not God.

And when that happens, you get into this, they have it, I don't have it, they screwed people.

The society just starts to unwind and you start to see guillotines.

You start to see people taking things into their own hands.

And after they do the healthcare providers, then they'll do the doctors, then they'll do the nurses, then they'll do the attorneys.

There's nobody left in the end.

That's why the French Revolution stopped is because

it transformed like three different times.

It was like, okay, you're the leader.

Okay, you're dead now.

You betrayed.

Oh, you're the new leader.

Well, you betrayed us.

You're dead now.

That's what we're seeing.

That's the people that will do this to a healthcare worker or cheer it on are the people that would have been at the guillotine of the French Revolution.

I think you're right.

I mean, I guess this is a pretty, at some level, human instinct, a horrible one, but one that as we've seen over and over again through history.

I just, you know, again,

you get fooled sometimes maybe by modern life that it's a lot, you know, it feels like it's a lot better and more, you know.

No, civilization is on the razor's edge always.

Always.

Reagan said it.

Yeah.

We have no idea how fast civilization can go away.

You just shut down food supply.

Everything that you know, everything you trust is over within three days.

It's true.

Three days.

You don't have food and you know no one's one's coming within 72 hours.

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And that's based on a bunch of like these

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We don't need to look further than Katrina.

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No help came for 72 hours.

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They were different.

They were neighbors.

They were

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That was the exception.

That's why I've said for a long time, hey, you might really want to recognize what kind of community you live in and move to one that, you know, everybody knows each other and kind of has the same kind of feeling about, hey, I like God.

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Well, well, well, from

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Do you have any, well, we'll get into that some other time on the air or off the air.

Tell me about the

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what are they called?

It's not.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's actually in, well, first of all, thanks for having us

and loved our time together.

It's in 1,500 theaters across America.

So here's the backstory, Glenn.

We love Christmas.

We love Christmas tours.

They've actually sort of become a hallmark of, you know, Luke's and my band, Fake and Country, particularly this song.

The Little Drummer Boy, we did sort of a very obvious version of it that Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra never thought of, and that is we put a load of drums on a song about a boy playing a drum.

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and the redemption that comes through God.

We need to be reminded of this.

So we took a film crew, we put them in the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas last year and captured a cinematic concert experience for the whole family.

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the show?

Well, we all do it together, Glenn.

This is Luke here.

I mean, look, I guess one of the privileges of being able to do work, you know, Joel and I are brothers from the same mother, from the same father.

And one of the privileges of working together is actually being able to you know, create these things together.

Our brother Daniel is actually the show designer, but we obviously work on this all together.

And so, you know, when it comes down to the set lists, the visuals, the technology,

yeah, we're involved with all of it because we've actually done this since we were very young boys.

Our oldest sister was an artist by the name of Rebecca St.

James, and we went out the road with her.

And so I think I was like a lighting director at 14 or 15.

Joel was a little bit more.

Yeah, we broke a bunch of child labor laws somewhere in there.

You know,

you throw this all together and you create these shows.

And, you know, that's one of the things that I love about what we get to do is we get to do it together.

I have to tell you,

it was awesome.

It's one of the best shows I've seen.

You know,

I haven't seen the Christmas one yet.

I've heard the music, but I haven't seen the actual show.

But

your music and the staging was, I mean, I sat there with my wife and

we were with a bunch of friends.

And I said, this is incredible.

And if you aren't a Christian, you'd walk in here and you'd have really not necessarily any idea if you hadn't really listened to the lyrics, but you would feel what you're feeling.

And it just is such a great experience.

Yeah, that's kind, man.

Look,

in our interpretation, at least,

the idea of being a Christian or being a Jesus follower,

it's an invitation, right?

And also, it's a pretty enormous claim that we are in touch with the creator of the universe, that we're in touch with the creator of creativity, the creator of art, the creator of the Sistine Chapels and so on.

And yet, so often in the modern context, our art feels like second fiddle to pop culture.

And yet, and you know this as a bit of a historian yourself, throughout history, the religious arts have led the way.

And so, man, we take it so seriously, not for the sake of ego, you know, at least on our better days,

not for the sake of our self-aggrandizing, but for the sake of people looking at this and going, my goodness,

what a great God

that they must be in touch with to put on and to be inspired to do these types of things.

So have you guys been tempted at all to,

you know, in the old days when you'd go to a Christian concert, they would kind of preach at you and, you know, try to convert.

And, and what I loved about it was it was all there,

but it was not in your face.

It wasn't,

you weren't overtly saying, hey, come to Christ.

And so

you,

nobody was, nobody could possibly be offended.

It was just such a great way to present the message and have people go, what makes them different?

Have you been tempted to do be more obvious?

Be more obvious, an interesting way of putting it.

Look, you know,

I'm a big, well, I try to be a big historian, and St.

Francis of Assisi was a guy, was a saint many, many years ago, and he had a quote that as a young boy really affected me.

And he says, preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.

And look, I think that that statement should poke at a lot of us as Christians, because our lives should be

so unbelievably joyful.

Our work should be so unbelievably good that sometimes, yes, sometimes words are required.

But I think that most of the time they're not.

It's the presence that you bring that oftentimes people are left talking about.

And so I think that for us, man,

we try to

take that statement

literally.

You come into that room, hopefully you feel it and

you kind of know what's going on.

And

that's our hope.

So when I saw you in Kansas City,

I had forgotten that we I mean,

I know the name Smallbone, obviously.

I know your brother.

He worked

on one of my early book tours.

I've seen your movie of your family and everything else.

But I had forgotten that at one point,

you two worked for me.

You did a...

And you reminded me of that.

And I'm like,

what did you do, Luke?

Weren't you a lighting pack or something?

No, our brother Ben is a film director as well.

And I guess somehow we were working together, Glenn, because your team or somebody had said, hey, what if we do like a day in the life of Glenn Beck?

And so we started at your house and we like filmed you walking out and then we we filmed you as you went to work that day but the funny part was I was there to be like the the sound and the audio guy and before you came out of the door the loud mic that was meant to go on to onto you I dropped and literally broke it and so the rest of the day I mean for those of you who are listening where if you see those guys are holding that massive mic above people's heads you know to kind of get good audio usually that's like the backup mic well that day I made a mistake, broken the mic, and so I'm having to chase Glenn around all day with this massive mic because I had broken the lamb mic.

So yes, we worked together many, many years ago.

And it's

a small world and a crazy story.

A crazy story to look at where you are now.

I mean, you're massive worldwide.

Congratulations.

Oh, thanks, man.

You know this better than anyone.

It's a team sport, right?

This whole idea of being human was never meant to be an individual

concept.

We were meant to do this together.

And I think that's what the King Country represents.

That's what these live show represents.

It's collaboration.

It's compromise.

It's

creatively putting our minds together.

And that's what the Drum Boy Christmas Live in cinemas really represents.

We took the same film crew from our movie Unsun Hero that was released.

It's basically our parent story.

Luke produced it, and I play our dad in the film, which I dubbed a very expensive therapy session.

We took the same film crew and we put them in that Toyota Center to capture this.

So what I love about this concert film and what we've gotten to do live, but also what we're getting to do cinematically now is that we're getting

to invite people not only in America, but this film's going up to Canada.

It's going across to the UK.

We're playing playing a couple of shows in the UK at the O2 Indigo Theater next week.

It's going down to Australia.

It's going to New Zealand.

And so this is the beauty.

And you know this with radio, right?

We're talking right now, and there's thousands and thousands of people listening to this.

It's just this is when art and technology come together.

You're able to do something really cool.

So we're talking to For King and Country.

They're a drummer boy Christmas live.

It will be available in select theaters December 5th.

What day is it?

Is that today?

The 6th.

Oh, yesterday.

Wow.

Right now.

Yeah, through the 19th.

And if you've never seen them, I cannot explain how good they are.

They are really, really great.

You want to get into the Christmas mood.

I can guarantee a good time.

How do you get tickets?

I think if you, I mean, you should be able to go to your local theater, but fathomevents.com.

It's kind of got all of the theaters.

I think it uses your zip code to be able to direct you to the place to kind of go see

at your local theater.

Yeah.

Great.

4KingandCountry.com.

And you can follow them on Twitter at for the number for Kingand Country.

God bless you guys.

We'll see you soon.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Bye-bye.

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Geez, I made the mistake of asking Stu,

did the Lions win last night?

And

man, it was like, yes.

I don't know.

Like somebody somebody died, yes, because I needed them to lose that game because then the Eagles would be the one seed.

That's what I need.

And unfortunately, they won, and everyone's like, oh, what a great job.

They went for it on a

late fourth down, they went for it, which would have been a catastrophe if they didn't make it, but they decided to go for it in a tie game in fuel goal range,

which wound up icing the game.

You know, I don't know.

I just

use the Lions as an example of the entire world.

Did we slip through a wormhole?

I'd like the Lions too.

No, I know.

I'm not for the Eagles.

I want them to win.

I want them to win too.

I mean, I just, I root for the underdog.

And Detroit, man,

it's got to be...

I was in Kansas City

during one of the big games, and the whole city was just...

vibrating.

It's an era.

It's a moment in time that people that are living in Kansas City right now will never forget.

The same thing in Detroit, except it's got to be even more crazy in Detroit.

You've never seen them win anything.

I've never been to a Super Bowl.

And last year, they absolutely had it locked down in the championship game with a massive lead and somehow blew that game to the 49ers.

So and there's good players, as I understand it, they're good players, but it's really the teamwork.

It's not like a couple of stars.

It's yeah, you can make that argument.

They don't have like the big star quarterback where you're like, you know, I obviously see him a home.

I mean, they're not.

Yeah, Goff is a good quarterback.

Yeah, he's had a great year, but like not, they're not seen like a superstar type team, though they have some really good players on that team.

I mean, they're, I mean,

but the coach seems to be

fun.

Yeah.

Dan Campbell.

Yeah.

Wow, I just realized a lot of listeners must be thinking, what kind of wormhole did I just slip through?

It's a good point.

Have a great weekend.

Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you for everything.

We know

that our lives are our lives because of you, and we try our best to serve you the best we can.

Thank you for listening to us.

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