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Hey, it's the Friday podcast.

I'm really excited because stew's on it.

Glenn, by the way, we should point out for breakfast

horse feed.

It was feed meal.

They feed it to horse.

It was oatmeal.

For breakfast, weirdo.

We get into the horse dewormer thing with Sanjay Gupta.

This guy, well, goes on Joe Rogan because he wants to sell, I don't know if it's a book or socks, or I have no idea.

He goes on because nobody's watching CNN.

And he actually is like, yeah, we shouldn't have said that.

We shouldn't have said, I don't know why they said that.

Did they really say that?

Oh, wait until you hear the montage of it.

Yeah, they really said it.

Bill O'Reilly is amazing today and talks to you about the real theft of the election.

I think he's right on this.

And I know, I know, it's a first.

It's a first.

And he probably eats oatmeal too, horse food for breakfast, all on today's podcast.

You're listening to the best of the blend back program.

Hey, some good news.

If anybody has been waiting, McDonald's are they're finally releasing the McPlant burger,

which it's coming here too, by the way, to our right in our neighborhood in Texas as one of the test markets.

Really?

Yeah.

I mean, if this isn't a taste, you need to taste it.

I'm looking at the picture.

You know how pictures always, they always look better than what you, right?

I want to show you the picture of the McPlant burger.

Wow.

That doesn't look like anything I would put in my mouth ever.

It's also a terrible name, isn't it?

Oh, McPlant?

Yeah.

I mean, like,

say what you want about it, but like, the impossible burger, it's kind of a good name.

It's great.

Yeah.

It's a good name.

The McDonald's.

The plant?

Yeah.

Like, no.

You want to for the whole point of these things is you're supposed to forget you're eating plants.

Right.

Exactly right.

Oh, this looks good.

So anyway, we got it.

It comes in November, by the way, and it is coming right to our neighborhood so we can taste test it on the air.

Now, can I ask you?

No, well, you can't do a.

I can't.

Oh, no.

I can't.

No.

You can't.

No, I can't.

Oh, you could.

We could get you.

No, no.

Strict, strict diet.

Diet.

The doctor has been saying too much plant in your.

Really?

Yeah.

And he was specific.

I said, is that like lettuce?

He said, plant.

Plant.

We should also point out that your doctor is also the one saying, don't have normal ivermectin.

Have the horse dewormer.

And so, by the way, rat poison should work well for you too.

No, he's not one of those.

But

let me go there for a second.

Did you hear

on Joe Rogan, Sanjay Gupta comes on, and we have that cut.

Please hear Sanjay Gupta on Joe Rogan.

It was a tweet, and it was snarky.

I admit it.

They said, you are not a horse, you are not a cow.

Stop taking this stuff, or something like that.

Why would you say that when you're talking about a drug that's been given out to billions and billions of people, a drug that was responsible for one of the inventors of it making the

Nobel Prize in 2015?

2015, yeah.

Yeah, a drug that has been shown to stop viral reputation in vitro.

You know that, right?

Why would they lie and say that's horse dewormer?

I can afford people medicine, mother.

This is ridiculous.

It's just a lie.

But don't you think that a lie like that is dangerous on a news network when you know that they know they're lying?

Do you think that that's a problem, that your news network lies?

Well, I don't, I don't, dude.

What did they say?

They lied.

What did they say?

I was taking horse dewormer.

First of all, it was prescribed to me by a doctor along with They shouldn't have said it was a bunch of other medications.

If you got a human pill, because there were people that were taking it, the veterinary medication, and you're not, obviously.

You got it from a doctor, so it shouldn't be called that.

Ivermectin can be a very effective medication for parasitic disease.

Does it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied?

Just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer.

They shouldn't have said that.

Why did they do that?

I don't know.

You didn't ask?

I didn't think that was.

You're the medical guy over there.

I didn't ask.

I should have asked before they

had such glee.

No,

I watched.

You know what he said?

Did you hear what he just said?

I shouldn't have asked before, I should have asked before I came to do this podcast.

Right.

That's what he said.

Yeah.

Not I should have asked.

I should have asked before I came to do this podcast.

Here he is with Don Lemon after that interview.

He did say something about ivermectin that I think wasn't actually correct, about CNN and lying.

Ivermectin is a drug that is commonly used as a horse dewormer.

So it is not a lie to say that the drug is used as a horse dewormer.

Oh my gosh, listen to this.

I think that's important.

And it is not approved for COVID.

Correct?

That's right.

That's correct.

It is not approved for COVID.

And you're right.

I mean, the FDA even put out a statement saying, you know, basically reminding people, it was a strange sort of message from the FDA, but they said, you're not a horse, you're not a cow, stop taking this stuff, is essentially what they said, referring to ivermectin.

Now, I think what Joe's point is.

It's been about proof for humans, but not necessarily for COVID, right?

Yeah.

That's correct.

It's been used for a parasitic disease, for something it's called river blindness, and it's been very effective for that.

But, you know, just because it works for one thing doesn't mean it works for something else.

Oh, my gosh.

And, you know, there's still

a lot of people around ivermectin.

Yeah, I I mean, for the most part, if you look at the business.

There's disagreement on whether it actually is affecting the public.

Yeah, but I mean, the guy.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, so here's the good news.

CNN is so worthless right now.

Nobody is watching this that Sanjay Gupta to

schlep his books and stuff has to go onto a podcast.

I told you this maybe four years ago.

Do you remember the day that

Joe Rogan had Elon Musk on and the stock went down

because he smoked pot on the airport?

Right?

Okay.

And I remember that day because I, in a commercial break, I turn on CNN and I hear them talking about it.

And they're like, who's Joe Rogan?

Who's Joe Rogan?

And I thought to myself, the number one podcast, a guy who is sweeping the nation, they don't even know it.

They have no clue as to how buried they are.

And I said on that day, it's over.

Podcasts are now leading the way.

Here they are.

They have to go on to Joe Rogan to schlep a book and take that kind of

accurate abuse.

And then he goes back with his tail between his legs.

And he's like, well, no, I mean, it is a dewormer.

It is a dewormer.

Yes, for horses, not for people.

Nobel prize.

Nobel prize.

And look what they're doing.

Yeah.

These people are amazing.

And what Lemon is trying to do here

is change, move, you know, move the goalposts.

Right?

You know,

yes, it could be used and is used for livestock.

That's well known.

However, it is also something we require every single person who comes here as a refugee to take.

We require it for them to come in the country because of what it does to parasitic disease.

Now, there is a disagreement about whether it is effective against COVID.

A lot of doctors don't think it is, some do.

But that's not what

that's not what the standard was.

To say he was taking horse dewormer in some really outrageous way is to try to move the goalpost to something else.

Honestly, honestly,

it's like saying,

why are you eating

food that bunnies eat?

No, it's a McPlant.

It's bunny food.

Now, you can make that point that bunnies do eat, I think, I don't know.

I have no idea if there's actually any plant in the McPlant, but you could say it's bunnies food and get away with it and it'd be accurate.

But that's not what the McPlant is.

I mean, it would be in my life.

It would be in my life.

I would like be looking for a bunny.

What are there?

Bunnies around here?

Yeah, throw it out in the, throw it out in the backyard, see if we can attract some bunnies.

But that's what they're doing with ivermectin.

Yes, it does do that as well, but it's a people medicine.

Again, this is Don Lemon.

This is a quote from Don Lemon talking about Joe Rogan.

Quote, he is taking several medications, including a drug meant for deworming livestock.

Not true.

Gosh, listen to me.

That is absolutely a lie.

It is not meant for

deworming livestock.

It can be used.

It can be used in that way, but that's not what it's meant for.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

Some of the Chirons here.

Joe Rogan says he has COVID, taking livestock drug despite warnings.

Unbelievable.

Joe Rogan announces he has COVID, is taking horse dewormer ivermectin.

Now, look,

it can be used for that.

So maybe technically, it's not a libelous situation.

Though, the quote, he is taking several medications, including a drug meant for deworming livestock.

That's ivermectin should be suing for that one.

Yeah, because that's not only what it's meant for.

I mean, it's just, it's so hypocritical.

They got caught in this.

This is so great.

And this is so great.

Do you know, you know, you have really good interactions with people.

You have a hundred good interactions with people, and they lie to you one time.

Do you trust them again?

It's hard, right?

Right.

You shouldn't, right?

That's that you, you

betrayed.

Correct.

And you betray it once.

You could have 100 things that you have done and it's been accurate.

You lie to somebody one time and they may not turn away from you.

They may not dismiss, but they will question.

Now, if you have told 100 things that are true, and 100 things that are lies, you have no chance.

I mean, they do report the truth occasionally.

They must stumble onto it, okay?

Hey, it's President Joe Biden.

Accurate.

And he's here to save the country.

Lie.

You know what I mean?

So they have no credibility.

That's why no one is watching them anymore.

This is great news.

This is the end of.

Gosh.

Do you remember when we left?

What did I say?

Almost every day, the year before we left Fox and CNN, Stu.

Remember, every day I would say,

every day I would say,

we got to get out of here.

These companies are what?

Gonna burn themselves to the ground.

Yeah, yeah.

Every time.

Every time.

And look at, here it is.

They're gone.

They're gone.

They have no credibility.

And even some of the networks like Fox, Fox doesn't have the credibility it used to.

Tucker Carlson does.

Tucker Carlson does.

But when I was there, the network had the credibility and the individuals also had their own credibility.

But Fox, with the audience, had an umbrella that it could pretty much do no wrong.

That umbrella doesn't exist anymore.

Now it is the personalities that are there.

And look, I don't know.

CNN, is it going to burn itself to the ground?

If something burns itself to the ground, but no one is around to see the flames, does it actually burn?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I absolutely love this.

So the Netflix CEO, Ted Sorandos, has doubled down on the defense of Dave Chappelle.

Now, I'm sure this has nothing to do with the $140 million that they paid Dave Chappelle to make these specials.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with that.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with how wildly popular those specials are.

But they came out because there's a lot of people,

the transgender employees at Facebook

and the activists have come out and they are, they're walking off the job.

They're saying, I'm not going to, I'm not giving my money to Netflix anymore.

And, wow, Ted Sarandos has taken a hard stand out of the goodness of his heart, and he believes in, you know, freedom of speech and all of that.

And he said,

The activist claims that Chappelle's humor was the equivalent of real-world harm is false.

I recognize that distinguishing between commentary and harm is hard, especially with stand-up comedy, which exists to push the boundaries.

Some people find the art of stand-up to be mean-spirited, but our members enjoy it, and it's an important part of our content offering.

Is it?

Is it really?

Or do you just know you're on the losing side of this and your programming is really starting to suck and you just spent $140 million on it?

That's what it is because I can guarantee you, they're not going to put Steven Crowder on.

They would never say that about any comedian that, you know, was an up-and-coming guy.

And it's also not even true by their own actions.

I mean, I would agree with what he said, right, wouldn't you?

Yeah, I mean, that's 100% the standard should be for comedians can basically go wherever they want to go and they should have real

commentary.

Everyone should have it.

Everyone should have it.

But really, there's a wider birth, if anything, for comedy.

Correct.

It's supposed to be challenging in that way.

But like, they did a show a few years ago called With Bob and David, which is a sketch comedy show.

It was basically an extra few episodes of the, you know, the the one of the greatest sketch comedy shows of all time called Mr.

Show with Bob and David, which was an HBO show.

Really good.

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.

Correct.

And they did an episode of that show where they have like, it's kind of like a mock of like, you know, the libertarian thing where you're like, everyone's, you're going through like a police checkpoint and you're filming yourself and like talking to the camera.

You don't have to give him your license.

It was like one of those type of things.

And at the end of the sketch, David Cross, who's incredibly liberal, by the way, like one of one of the most liberal people in the world.

Like

going on stage

in Texas

on his own personal comedy tour, blasting seriously, like no funny stuff.

Like if you voted for Trump or if you're, you know, if you're a Texan, get out of here.

I mean,

he's way over the edge.

Yeah, he did an entire

tour, I believe, just basically bashing Trump was the entire thing.

Right.

At the end of this sketch, he is trying to prove something about race.

Right.

Right.

Where he shows that the cops always come after people, black people, and he does it in blackface.

They deleted the sketch from the show.

The entire sketch.

It's actually making a liberal point.

And they deleted the sketch from Netflix.

So did you see the Jave Chappelle special?

Yes, I did.

Okay.

I mean, it's filthy awful.

Some of it is

amazingly good, but yes.

Yeah, some of it is amazingly, filthy, awful.

Like, I can't believe anyone's ever thought that, let alone said those words.

That's right.

But it is incredibly heartwarming at the end.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

The story he tells about transgender, his transgender friend, is like, it will bring you to tears.

It's so beautiful.

It is amazing.

And

yet, nope, Nope.

Not good enough.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

You know Rosa.

She's probably stumbling in drunk.

Mr.

Bill O'Reilly.

Hello, Bill.

Well, that's nice, Beck.

Thank you very much.

I'm going to have to woke you.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, boy.

On BillO'Reilly.com, attacking the Irish.

Oh, there it is.

Yep.

Totally unacceptable.

I'm offended.

Yes, but I'm the elite, so I can get away with it, Mr.

O'Reilly.

Well, we're going to have to have a petition, and we'll perhaps come to your house and burn it down.

Okay, all right, all right.

Is that what the petition does?

All right, Bill, what was the big story of the week?

Mark Zuckerberg, which is not being reported.

Mark Zuckerberg.

This is huge.

Mark Zuckerberg spent $420 million

trying to influence the 2020 election, and he was successful.

And you cannot find this story being reported.

This is so important and so scandalous.

I can't believe it.

So tell me the story, because I read the story, and I never got to it on air.

Tell me your story.

I understand, Beck.

You're very busy.

But if you watch me on the no spin news every night, that is your key.

I hire people to do that.

Okay.

So let's walk through it.

There are laws in every single state against electioneering at polling places.

That means when you go to vote to a polling place, there can't be somebody there screaming at you to vote for a certain person

or giving you advice or giving you a hot dog or anything.

Right, right.

That is against the law.

But if you have a mail-in ballot, there are no restrictions for someone coming to your house and actually filling out the ballot for you.

It's crazy.

Putting it in the envelope, taking it with them, it's called bundling, all right, and bringing it to the polling place in your county.

So this number one, that's where you start.

That's why the left wants the mail-in ballots universal

because there's no limitations on possible corruption.

Do we all understand?

Yep.

Does Stu understand?

Is he still awake?

No,

he fell asleep the minute I said Bill O'Reilly.

Okay.

Enter Mark Zuckerberg, the major domo at Facebook.

Zuckerberg and his wife donate a colossal $420 million

to two

nonprofits.

They are the Center for Technology and Civic Life, CTCL,

and the Center for Election Innovation and Research, CEIR.

So they get this money, and it's all legal.

Now, these nonprofits say they're non-partisan, which is a lie.

They are far-left people.

And what they do is hire vote navigators.

Let me repeat.

These two organizations hire vote navigators who are paid very well.

In the last election, Trump versus Biden, you'll all remember that.

All right, these vote navigators operated in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.

Wow.

Those were the states targeted by these two nonprofits using $420 million

to pay the vote navigators.

What do the navigators do?

Quote, they assist voters potentially going to their front doors to answer questions and assist in ballot curing and witness absentee ballot signaturing.

Oh, my my gosh.

Okay?

First of all, what's ballot curing?

Wait, wait, what's the definition of ballot curing?

All right, I'll get to that.

But the quote I just read you comes from the two nonpartisans.

They admit it.

They send people out to houses to show you who to vote for.

Ballot curing is if you make a mistake on a mail-in ballot, they correct the mistake.

Oh, my gosh.

So your ballot is not thrown out.

Go ahead, Stu.

And that's not necessarily always a bad thing, right?

Like, it's the idea if you make a mistake, the government can come and say, Hey, like, you made this mistake, you returned it in two weeks early, you have plenty of time to fix it.

Do you want to fix it?

If it's a non-partisan thing, yeah, it's not bad.

Ballot curing isn't necessarily always horrible, but if you're doing it this way, where you're sending partisan people out to do it, I mean, that's it's terrifying.

Shut up, Stu.

Of all the vote navigators, of all of them, only one county,

only one out of all of those states

went for Trump.

Every other county where the vote navigators navigated shockingly went for Biden in a huge way, which threw the vote count to Biden in very closely contested states like Arizona, like Georgia, like Wisconsin.

I'm sorry, I don't think I mentioned Wisconsin in that crew.

They were in there as well.

Those were all the states where there were questions.

Where the vote navigators run by these two organizations showed up.

Okay, so O'Reilly takes this story and runs with it last night.

And after that, I got on a plane.

And I went to Mar-a-Lago and I interviewed Trump.

And if you want to see a little bit of it, I posted already on billoriley.com okay that'll run on Monday night on the no spin news and all of our other affiliates okay I asked Trump about this

okay I say are you aware of this and he was

okay and he said well Zuckerberg broke the law and I said no he didn't He can do this.

But every state has to understand what he did and pass laws against it, it, just like the electioneering laws at the polling places.

Now that's a fascinating discussion.

But here's the kicker.

Trump had Giuliani and Sidney Powell and all these other people, the pillow guy, everybody run around

screaming about the Dominion voting machines, the dead people voting, the illegal aliens voting, screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming.

All right?

And still to this day,

millions of Americans believe that was the fraud.

It was not.

There was some of that, but not to the extent of this.

This was the voter fraud.

Navigators going to the homes of mostly poor, mostly out of it people, and telling them to vote for Biden.

and actually filling out the ballots for them and then taking the ballots.

And Zuckerberg financed it.

Do we all get this?

Are we all getting it?

Because you're not going to hear it on the corrupt corporate media.

This was the fraud.

Now, after I explained it to Donald Trump, and that's a very good exchange that you're going to want to watch.

Is that the clip?

No, I'm saving that clip.

I got Boo-Ku clips.

Yeah, okay.

You know, about Afghanistan, about Biden, about Millie, you name it.

But anyway, this story is so important and so powerful, but I will tell you, most Americans are never even going to hear it, which is why we are now living in red China.

Because the information flow is cut off.

Even the morons on Fox News aren't going to cover this.

Because they're not smart enough to get it.

I'm surprised I missed this, Bill.

I saw this story, and I was so tired of hearing about Zuckerberg and all of this stuff that I just passed it.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and to America's attention.

Beck, I have to say this: I'm giving you a pass on it because you're a genius for putting me on your program every week.

That's the counterbalance.

Okay.

And all I get is shut up.

Yeah.

I mean, and I think that was well deserved.

You're listening to the best of the Glendeck program.

Sarah Teske, she is a retired U.S.

Marine Corps.

She is an advisor for the Human First Coalition.

It's a group of people that are really doing some good work in Afghanistan and helping people.

They have already taken out, I think, about 800.

Well, I'll let Sarah tell you.

Hi, Sarah.

How are you?

Really good.

Good morning, Glenn.

First of all, thank you for everything you guys are doing in Afghanistan.

You're really making a difference.

Well, and so are you and your team.

Thank you for all you've done.

You're welcome.

So you have

about 800 American citizens that you have taken out, right?

We have actually taken out to date over 1,200 Americans.

Excellent.

6,700 other individuals.

6,700.

Fantastic.

Fantastic.

Okay.

So tell me about

the Joe Biden Afghan interpreter.

What happened?

How did he get out?

Well, first of all, we didn't want to steal him from you.

No, no, no.

We didn't.

We were worried about him because

we had put him up and then he just ghosted us.

And the emails are all like, where did he go?

Is he okay?

That's how its Marines work.

I received a

concerning email that his handler was frustrated and just really struggling with bringing him to safety.

And for us, it's all about human life.

I honestly,

in full transparency, when I reviewed the case, him being...

you know, President Biden's interpreter, I never foresaw this garnishing so much media attention.

In the larger portfolio, it was such a footnote to such a greater story.

I agree.

And for us, it's about saving human lives.

So when I got the case and saw that he had such a large family and children and the threat he was under, we pushed it up through our movement team and were able to move him immediately and get him out of country and bring him to safety.

And

then the media and everything started to learn about this information.

We've predominantly stayed out of the media to focus just on the rescue.

Sure.

And I felt it was important, though, to engage with people like yourself and others to tell our story because we have to be the voice of so many who are still in country, who still need to be saved.

It is shameful the way the media has just moved on.

They've just moved on.

And there are so many people.

I mean, I don't know about your safe houses, but ours are still full up.

We're still in there actively trying to get people out and planes are flying out every day with people from the Nazarene Fund.

I'm sure you're doing the same thing.

We are.

We have over 3,000 people still in safe houses.

Jeez.

And it's getting worse and worse.

There was a bombing in Kabul just a little while ago.

I mean, it's getting worse and worse there.

It is.

There are definitely, it's a very complex operational environment, and the intricacy and danger of the rescue missions on through transitioning them into lily pads and third world nations is especially challenging with the

legalities and the hurdles just bureaucracy that

we have to seemingly navigate

these people, not only get out and bring them to safety, but then build a life and future for them.

So something that's really important to us, and I know you and your organization share the same viewpoint, is we don't want to pull them out and dump them.

So for me

that doesn't help.

That only causes more problems elsewhere.

Absolutely.

So I say this all the time in the work I've done for 15 years in anti-human trafficking.

The rescue is sexy.

Everybody wants to be part of saving lives.

Nobody wants to roll up their sleeves and restore innocents, restore lives, help them start a new life outside of their former nation and country.

And these people have left with nothing, Glenn.

And it is our responsibility, if we move them and take them, that we give them an opportunity not only to succeed for themselves, but that we're also not putting a burden on other socioeconomic cultures

where we leave them.

I mean, even here in America, they shouldn't be, you know, they shouldn't just be dumped onto our streets.

That's unfair.

It's inhuman.

It's not humane to do this.

So, Sarah, I have a really bad feeling.

I talked about this the other day.

You know, you talked about the lily pad countries.

I mean,

I personally talked to leaders of state and they were like,

you got to get these people out of here.

We're taking so many.

We're taking more than we promised.

And I'm like, I know, I know.

We have countries that will take them.

So they won't be there long.

We'll start moving them.

Well, the State Department has sabotaged.

almost all of our relationships with other countries and we're trying now to get them out anywhere and having a hard time.

And I thought,

gee, I wonder if in the end,

after the State Department has made it so impossible to get them anyplace else, I wonder if at the end, they all are just moved here to the United States.

Wouldn't that be remarkable?

Wouldn't it be remarkable?

So remarkable.

Yeah.

And

seems kind of like what might happen, doesn't it?

Was it just me?

I hope so.

Here's to hoping.

I'm not going going to lose faith.

I tell my team all the time, you never can lose hope.

You never can lose faith because we are their light and we are their only light of hope and we must continue to shine for them.

It's critical because we are all they have in these dark hours.

I will tell you, the ones that we have moved, and I know you're the same, I mean, we vet.

We vet, vet, vet, vet, vet.

And it's not like, you know, the United States government that put five guys on that were going to take over the C-17.

Did you read about that?

I mean,

how did these guys even get on board the plane?

You know,

I mean, it's crazy.

And I, I wonder about all these people.

I know our people.

I don't know everybody else's people.

And that's a lot of people that would be coming to the United States.

A lot.

Yes.

Yes, it would.

Yes, it would.

Within our organization,

the majority of us are either

prior serving government or military members.

So with that came a lot of incredible and strong relationships.

Yes.

And we have been able to leverage those to actually vet every single person we take out through the State Department and through DOD.

So we are doing that not only on the back end with the United States of America, but we are also doing that in the accepting nation through their foreign ministers of travel and their foreign ministers of

affairs.

So for us, it is critical as individuals who have served to make sure sure we're doing this right and above bar and not just taking anybody and everyone who wants a flight out.

And to me, that's the other piece to this.

We have so many organizations that are well-intentioned,

but are lacking the experience in this operational environment and don't understand the complexity of mass meal operations.

And to me, I would like to see a greater unification of effort and

understanding people's strengths and weaknesses so we can

lessen the load for some and also

increase the resources for others who are doing it right.

You know, I hope, and please feel free.

I know we're on the air, but I don't have any fear of, you know, if you have something that we should be aware of, please tell us.

I know that we've tried to do that.

You know, one of the things that we have, we had access to airplanes and access to cash.

We didn't necessarily, especially at at the beginning, have access to people on the ground.

And I really, at the time, I was like,

this is great because other people have people on the ground and they don't have access to the airplane or the money.

Let's work together.

And I think that's really, really good.

Is there anything that we're doing that you see and you'd be like, I wish you guys would do this more or wish you guys would stop doing this?

Absolutely not, Glenn.

Your organization and Human First have actually been working together unbeknownst to probably a lot of people for a long time.

And it's been our absolute honor and privilege to do so.

You have so many remarkable heroes and individuals who have been doing extraordinary work

in this.

And we have over 100 ground team security forces.

Wow.

So we were really able to support you in that regard, and you were really able to support us with the lift, with the planes.

So it has been a beautiful synergy.

And I think,

in all the negative, I think we have to sometimes look at the silver lining.

And I think we have to see through this how this entire effort, the bigger picture, underscores the beauty of humanity and the power and efficiency of public and private partnerships.

And I understand there's been a lot of popularity in hitting on that this is about the veteran who served in Afghanistan, but I have seen church groups, NGOs, elected officials, veterans currently serving members, along with corporations and foreign entities, come together from 8,000 miles away virtually,

all in the name of saving human lives.

And that beautiful tapestry is just something

incredible that has been woven in

literally two months' time.

Which is

beautiful.

When you have a talk radio host, rodeo clown, and the prime minister of Pakistan finding a bridge to help.

That's remarkable.

I mean, that's just

remarkable.

It's wonderful.

Yeah.

And we talk about,

I mean, there's a lot of bad, at least that I have to say about the State Department.

But I have to tell you, I've also seen State Department people that are working currently in the State Department bust their ass to do the right thing.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Agreed.

It's remarkable.

I have literally had people in State Department call me and say, can we just pray over you and your team?

Can we just

pray for all the incredible work you're doing?

And we hope it gets better.

So again, I tell, I always say this, everyone teases me because I must save it 300 times a day.

Unlimited grace, folks, unlimited grace.

We are working through an unprecedented situation.

in unprecedented times.

And unless you have walked what these Afghan allies and refugees have walked, unlimited grace, because

no one, unless they've lived through it, can understand the uncertainty and fear that they themselves are enduring at this very moment.

I just did an interview with a family that was brought here to the United States that we got out and

we worked with so many partners on it.

I hate when I say we got them out.

I don't mean it that way.

We all worked together on it.

But

they were here to tell their story.

And I have to tell you, it is,

I don't think Americans can even imagine what it's like to be a woman that was walking down the street when the Taliban rolled into town I mean it's just no no it's remarkable it is and I think what I think the human side of this is remarkable so our we have handlers and individuals as I'm sure you do that talk to these families to to the fathers, to the mothers, to the children every day.

And that beauty, that deep-seated relationship, that trust that has been built over phones is

one of the most extraordinary experiences and journeys I've ever been on in 25 years of being serving this nation.

And

recently I was in D.C.

I had the honor of addressing several members of Congress.

And while I was there, I had the unique pleasure of meeting the nephew of a family we had just rescued.

And to see him play with my kids and hug me and cry together and the power, we had been walking this together since before the withdrawal.

And we were able to bring their family to safety a couple weeks ago.

And just the relief of knowing his family was finally safe.

And the ability of us to work together to make that happen

is something that is even difficult to describe.

The power of that, the power of saving human lives is beautiful.

And I think on the other end of that, though, is also the pressure, because every single time we move, we talk about the rescue all the time, but to get there, you know, navigating, you know, our allies, the language barriers, the fear, moving them to checkpoints, and every single moment of these sometimes 24-hour long journeys, wondering, did I make the right decision to move this one?

Oh my gosh, Sarah, I can't tell you.

I don't know how you do it.

I had to stop.

I had to stop because I was getting involved in seeing the movements and stuff.

And, you know, you wouldn't get the call or something would happen.

You'd be like, oh my God, did I make the wrong decision here?

Did I just get somebody killed?

It is terrifying, terrifying.

It is, definitely.

And

it's some days emotionally depleting.

Yeah, it is.

Sarah, I can't thank you enough.

And I hope we get a chance to meet sometime and

just hear about all the success stories that you and Human First Coalition have done.

You're remarkable people.

Thank you so much.

Well, it's an honor.

Thank you for all you and your team have done.

And I think it's just important to remember that we're not just saving human lives.

We are truly changing the trajectory of history for generations to come.

And that's what keeps me going.

Amen.

Thank you, Sarah.

Appreciate it.

By the way, if you want to make a donation, this is a really good group of people.

It's humanfirstcoalition.org.

HumanFirstCoalition.org.

They're one of the partners that we work with at the Nazarene Fund.

Really, really good people.

You can follow them on Twitter at HumanFirst AFG, as in Afghanistan.