RADIOMarch 16, 2022

Why saying ‘that will never happen’ IS NO LONGER ACCURATE

‘That would never happen HERE!’ It's a saying most Americans have uttered before. But we’re now living in a different world, Glenn says, and scenarios that once seemed impossible firmly are on the table. To prove it, Glenn goes back to October 1969 with a story about President Nixon, the Soviet Union, and nuclear war that proves ANYTHING can happen…

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

Pray for the people in Russia, as well as the people in Ukraine.

There is a big anti-war effort going on in Russia.

And it is getting ugly.

You can -- you can see the things that have been leaked out on the internet. On the number of arrests, that are happening now, from people. If you disagree with the war, you can't say anything.

And they will pick you up. That woman that was on television, the national broadcast for the evening news, in Russia.

The Russian anchor was giving the news. And this other news woman walked behind her with a sign, that said, stop listening to the lies. They're lying to you.

No war with Russia.

And -- and she can't be found today. So pray for those who are standing up, and speaking the truth.

Because I think that will be a lot of people, all around the world.

STU: Let me ask another question.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: This is going to show my cowardice of life a little bit here. Is it worth it? Is what she did, was that a good decision?

GLENN: Yeah. I think it was.

STU: I think I'm supposed to say that it was. And when I watch it, I say, you know what, that's really brave and a good decision. However, when I think about it, I'm like, pragmatically for a moment, maybe a million people in Russia saw that. It's probably a high number. I don't know.

A million people saw it. How many minds did she change? I don't know. Maybe a few. A few thousand, maybe.

GLENN: I don't think about changing minds. I think about giving people the feeling, oh, my gosh, I'm not alone. And there are people in very high places that know.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: Can you imagine if that happened on ABC News, when they were talking about The Great Reset?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And somebody -- and somebody that worked in the newsroom, walked behind and said, don't listen to them. About covid.

Don't listen to them, they're lying to you.

That would make a huge impact. At least -- at least at the very least, on the psyche.

STU: It would make -- if you believed in it already, it would make you feel good about it, I think.

It may change a few minds too. Like, maybe you have a few people looking into something.

There's a story. Because of the New York Times.

One of these mainstream sources, talked about a father/son duo.

One father living in Russia, son living in Ukraine.

And the son, the war starts. And he is like, hey. I haven't heard from my dad. Bombs are falling all around me. My dad hasn't called me to see if I'm okay.

He calls. His dad is like, hey. You know what's going on here? I'm in Ukraine. Bombs are falling.

He's like, no, no, no. That's not happening. His dad in Russia, didn't believe his own son. Believed the state media, who was telling him, that's not happening. They're just going to de-Nazify the region.

So it's pretty powerful. Maybe it did change some minds. But on the other hand, she also gave up -- maybe she sacrificed probably her life.

Let's be honest about it. Whatever life she might have ahead of hers, is either close to destroyed or destroyed.

GLENN: So this is one reason why I want you to start thinking differently about the world.

Let me give you an example. About a month ago, it was insane to think about, that we were going to actually think that maybe somebody would drop a nuke. Anywhere in the world. Right?

That's nuts. We all know, that's nuts.

But you have to know, who you're playing against. And right now, the world is a little nuts.

Let me take you back to October 1969. Six American B-52 bombers, each loaded with a nuclear bomb flew over Alaska, toward the Russian border. Most people don't know this.

President Nixon ordered the mission. He had been in office, less than nine months. Seven years after barely avoiding a nuclear war, with a Cuban Missile Crisis.

He decides to order missiles, on B52s, to start flying toward Moscow.

So we -- we didn't start the Cuban Missile Crisis. But this one, we did.

So remember, Nixon was the vice president under Eisenhower. And the Cold War was at full tilt in the 1950s.

And we kept each other in check, by what was called MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. You could destroy each other. So why would anybody do it?

However, all of this theory depended on a country's ability to strike back within minutes of being fired upon, otherwise, your missiles would be crippled, and you couldn't retaliate. That's where the nuclear football comes in. It's the black Satchel, carried by the military aid, wherever the president goes. And it has the launch options. The code. Communication. So we can have a nuclear response, instantaneously. Well, one of the reasons Nixon won in 1968, is because he said, I'm going to end the Vietnam War. But after he took was, negotiations with the communist, north Vietnamese stalled.

And he needed something that would start the peace talks again.

So Henry Kissinger and President Nixon hatched an idea. Very risky plan. They will make the Soviet Union think that Nixon was on the verge of using nuclear weapons, to end the war in Vietnam. And that hopefully would cause the Soviets to say, North Vietnam, you have to go back to the table.

Nixon told his chief of staff. Quote, I want the north Vietnamese, that I reached the point, that I might do anything to stop the war.

We'll just slip the word to them, that for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry.

And he has his hand on the nuclear button, end quote.

So during the last two weeks of 1969, the U.S. Air Force and Navy mobilized nuclear-armed planes and submarines around the world.

They wanted enough activity to make the Soviets notice, but not enough to spark a crisis. The nuclear angle made everything really kind of tricky. So after a few days of U.S. readiness exercises, the Soviet ambassador requested a meeting with President Nixon. And Nixon put on his best poker face. And he told -- the -- the ambassador, that he was serious about this.

The ambassador reported back to the Kremlin, that the Vietnamese Crisis was, quote, taking such an emotional coloration, that Nixon is unable to control himself, end quote.

So you've got planes with nukes, flying towards Russia.

The ambassador tells the Russians, the Soviets, don't pressure the Vietnamese.

He raised the steaks, ordered nuclear-armed flights. Six B-52 bombers over Alaska. They reported the flights for three days. On the third day of flyovers, the Soviet ambassador sent an urgent message to Moscow saying he wasn't so sure that Nixon wouldn't pull the trigger.

But the Russians thought differently. They thought, he's not going to do it.

This is a bluff. He won't do it.

Nixon was looking at this as a winnable bluff. A winnable chess match. But there's a couple things to look at and learn from history.

We said, we were going to send planes to Poland.

Then for some strange reason, we said no.

Every time we say there's a red line in the sand, and we don't do it, they learn something about us.

But there's something else that we should learn from.

There is zero margin of error, when it comes to nuclear weapons.

In the last few days of the Nixon presidency, he was depressed, and he was drunk, a lot of the time. And there was concern, at the time, that his irrational thinking, at the time, he might just do a nuclear launch.

Does anybody have the same concerns about Putin? If the Ukrainian war drags on?

Does anybody have that? Nixon's Defense Secretary said, if Nixon gave any nuclear launch order. Military commanders had to check with the Defense Secretary or Kissinger before proceeding.

You heard that one before?

The Defense Secretary wasn't actually allowed to change the protocol like that. But the Nixon White House never had many qualms about bending the rules. Especially on this one.

It was the morning of August 9th, 1974.

Nixon signed his one sentence resignation order. At 10:00 a.m. in the morning, he walked out of the White House for the last time. He departed on marine one.

He was still president for another two hours. But the nuclear football remained at the White House.
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I buy it as a hedge against insanity. People always say, oh, gold is a hedge against inflation. Well, that would be -- that would be now. But no matter what anybody says, when the world resets, it does reset to a barter. And then it resets to gold. Every single time. That's why China is doing it now.

I want you to call Goldline now. And ask them about some of the things that they have going on right now.

STU: Yeah. We were talked about buying gold a little bit this hour, with Dave Ramsey this hour.

And he mentioned the ten-year number, that it was not a great return on gold over ten years.

GLENN: 3.5.

STU: Something like that. Yeah.

Which is less. It was obviously up. But less than the stock market. And that's true, if you measure from exactly ten years ago, when there was a little bit of a bubble, and then it came back down for a few years.

GLENN: Well, he specifically talked about, you know, back before the crash. And around the crash. You were talking about gold. And I was telling people, don't that do. Because that was crazy.

STU: Yeah. Gold is way, way up from those periods. In fact, when we first started talking about it, it was up six or seven X, just looking at the chart, eyeballing it. Where the S&P 500 is only up four X from there.

It obviously depends on when you measure these things. But, I mean, gold is at an all-time high.

And we're at, what? $2,000, and it's been rising.

It's been a really good investment from the period, we've been talking about.

And you have never come out and said, like, oh, what you need to do is take all your money and buy gold bras. You're talking about it, as part of your strategy, and it's worked out very well for the people.

GLENN: It's a hedge against insanity.

And gold and silver are something -- Dave Ramsey was just on. He was talking about a barter community. Well, you might barter in blue jeans and bullets.

But you would also barter in something like silver. You know, I've been saying for a long time.

You have to think like a German Jew. Look, things went on. You know, the economy tanked. But things went on in Germany.

And even after the fascists took over, there is light at the end of the tunnel. We survive all of this. That will be the shocking thing. Most people survive. You just have to get from point A to point B. And when they were taking everything away, from the people who disagreed with the Third Reich, they would barter in diamonds and art and silver and gold. Until it was finally taken from their teeth in the end.

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

STU: Have you followed this Hong Kong situation at all? What is going on with covid in Hong Kong?

GLENN: No.

STU: Very bizarre. It's very unique to the world, I think. They went for zero covid. They went down that strategy. You know, plenty of places have attempted that. It's obviously not very successful in most of them, especially since Omicron hit.

But they went down this road.

And oddly, didn't vaccinate their old people.

So like, a decent amount of their population is vaccinated. But not people who are like 80 and older. For whatever reason, they didn't -- only about a third of people --

GLENN: For whatever reason.

Let's guess what that reason is.

STU: What is their --

GLENN: Well, they just changed their one-child policy. To say three children. Why?

Because they don't have the population, at the lower end, to keep funding the upper end.

STU: Interesting. I didn't really think of the -- I --

GLENN: Yeah. That's -- that's a country that doesn't believe in the individual. Get rid of them. Just let them die.

STU: We've hit that point, where Hong Kong is no longer separate. That is a big cause for what we're seeing, I think with Russia and Ukraine. A signal to the world, what the United States is going to do in these situations. But they didn't vaccinate their old people. So they had no covid, no natural immunity, because covid never really hit there.

Until like last month. And now, it's taken over, to the point where they have for you broken records, for when it comes to rate. Obviously, not raw numbers. But when it comes to rate the most covid deaths, are now at the highest daily covid deaths of the pandemic.

And it is --it -- including like beating Italy from like March 2020.

GLENN: Wow.

STU: It's past all of them. From when it comes to rates. It's passed like all of the European countries.

Throughout this entire thing.

GLENN: So is that because they -- they stayed inside, so they didn't get any natural immunity?

STU: No natural immunity. And the zero covid thing, held until this. You know, they had basically -- so no one got natural immunity. So it's all hitting at the same time. They have something like a 5 percent mortality rate. For these -- in this group. It's 80 years old. When you're 80 years old, obviously that's the real danger point. But there's no protection. No natural immunity. And almost no vaccine immunity. Only about a third of the population, above 80 years old was vaccinated. And in that group, about half of that, was sort of mediocre Chinese vaccines that may or may not do anything.

GLENN: Oh, how dare you. How dare you.

STU: I know. It's racist probably for me to say, that many of these vaccines suck.

GLENN: Right.

STU: But still, so they are still in this real, real problem right now.

And you wonder, if the Chinese government is just like, oh. Okay.

Well, if they encouraged that over the last couple of years, that would be fascinating. Because they're still going for zero covid too. And now that's going to affect the supply chain all over again. Because China is shutting down.

GLENN: By the way, I believe the first national stamp to show somebody flipping somebody off, comes from Ukraine. They have a soldier on an island, flipping off a Russian boat. God bless Ukraine.

The Book of Enoch: Did Extraterrestrial Beings DESCEND in the Days of Noah?!

The Book of Enoch tells a story the Bible only hints at: A story of heavenly beings who descended to Earth, took human wives, created hybrid giants, and unleashed forbidden knowledge that corrupted the world before the Flood. Glenn Beck and researcher Timothy Alberino break down how the ancient Hebrew worldview explains the Watchers, the Nephilim, the origins of demigod myths, and why Peter and Jude referenced Enoch directly in the New Testament. From extraterrestrial terms in Scripture to the cosmic “family of God” and the divine rebellion that reshaped human history, this discussion reveals a forgotten narrative that once defined early Jewish and Christian theology. What really happened in the days of Noah, and why does it matter now?

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Cracker Barrel CEO breaks silence on logo controversy in exclusive interview

Glenn Beck recently spoke with Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino about the company’s infamous attempt to change its logo, and he asked the question everyone has been wondering: Why wasn’t she fired?! Glenn previews his interview, which debuts Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6PM ET!

Transcript

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GLENN: I was in Tennessee this weekend, and Saturday morning, I go to -- I think store number two for Cracker Barrel. And I met with the senior vice president and the CEO of Cracker Barrel. And we sat down, and we had an interview. And Julie, who has not done an interview since Good Morning America, kind of said, okay. No more interviews, because that didn't go well.

This was her first interview since then.

And, you know, it was weird. Because I got off. I got off the plane.

And, oh. Somebody on the plane said, "What are you doing here?"

And I said, "I'm going to go interview the CEO of -- of Cracker Barrel."

And the immediate response was, "Get her!"

I was like, "Wow. Okay. All right. Thank you."

I get into the car, and the Uber driver says to me, "What are you doing here?" And I said, "I'm going to meet with the person at Cracker Barrel."

"Boy, she really screwed her up. You hold her feet to the fire."

I mean, I've never -- I've never seen anything like that. And, you know, I started the interview with her, you know, honestly. And I said, look, I -- I -- I'm not here to get you. I'm not here to do anything, but ask questions that I think everybody in America wants to know.

Like, what the hell were you thinking?

And I asked her some -- asked her all of the really pointed questions. Rikki, the TV executive producer said, "There's no way. I know you. You're going to soften. There's no way."

And when I got up afterwards, she was like, "Wow. Okay. You didn't -- you really -- you really didn't soften. You know, you asked all of those questions."

Because I thought they were fair. And I told her, "Look, I hate conflict. I'm not here for conflict. I'm not here. I don't need to make a name for myself by giving you a hard time. I don't care about any of that. I just want to do my job and ask you, 'What happened here?'"

And I said, "So I'm going to ask you really uncomfortable questions." And she was prepared. And I think I finally broke through, and got the real answer in the end. I think I got the real answer.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And it came from one of the questions I asked was, I mean, are you surprised, you haven't been fired yet?

And her response was, all telling. All telling. It's a fascinating interview you should watch. It's going to happen, I think Thursday on the podcast.

STU: Because I'm mildly surprised that hasn't happened. You know, like just because -- not because -- I don't know. There's a lot of things she's been accused of and everything else.

But just like, when you have a situation like this, where you're trying a major change and you roll it out a specific way and it does not go well, you know, it's usually -- it's like, when you're general manager of a football team, you go through the process. You evaluate all the quarterbacks. You pick the guy.

And that guy is a total bust, like you usually don't survive it. It doesn't necessarily mean you went through the process incorrectly. But when you miss, usually something happens like that. Does she feel like she missed like that?

GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yes, she does.

She's a very bright woman. I mean, she ran Coach, you know, the purse place or whatever.
STU: The purse company.
GLENN: The Coach brand. Godiva Chocolates. Taco Bell, the whole -- global. (I mean, she's a Fortune 500 CEO. She's very, very competent. Very competent.

So how could somebody very, very competent make this mistake?

STU: Hmm. Did she walk you through that? How that happened?

GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. She see.

And what's interesting is, they brought the senior vice president was also sitting there.

And he has been brought in since.

I mean, he had been there for 30, 35 years.

And really good guy. And he was one of the voices that was like, while that was happening, like, you guys. Hey, everybody upstairs. You shouldn't be doing this.

It's a bad idea. And so after they were like, "Hey. You know who was saying this? Let's bring him upstairs." And it was interesting to talk to him, because he's been long before she got there. So he kind of gave the view of, here's what happened before she got here! And here's where she came in.

And here's what happened.

And it's -- it's really fascinating.

I mean, if you want to hear the real story behind it.

And -- and also see somebody -- I mean, just wait until you hear her answer on -- I mean, it was so powerful and so honest. When I said, are you surprised you haven't been fired yet?

It was a fascinating answer.

STU: How many pancakes did you --

GLENN: Podcast on Thursday, I didn't eat any.

STU: You went to Cracker Barrel headquarters, and you ate zero pancakes?

GLENN: I didn't. I didn't. It was very difficult to not order the pancakes.

STU: You're the type of guy who gets pancakes by mistake. What do you mean you've got none?

GLENN: I was looking at my wife. My wife was sitting off to the side of the camera. And I'm looking at her. I'm like, she's so beautiful. And I eat pancakes, too many times.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And she's just -- she has to live with this, the pancake-wearing shoes. I'm not going to order the pancakes. The pancakes.

THIS Epstein quote could PROVE Trump’s real ties to the scandal

Democrats are trying yet again to tie President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s scandals. This time, they’ve highlighted that Epstein once referred to Trump as “the dog that hasn’t barked.” Is this proof that Trump is in the Epstein Files…or is it actually evidence that he was a whistleblower against Epstein? Glenn and Stu discuss…

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GLENN: Now, Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news today. Could we just for the love of Pete release everything that we have, so we can move on! From the Jeffrey Epstein thing.

Here's the answer: No.

Even if we release everything that we still have, this is going to go on for the rest of our lives.

It will always -- and probably, into our children's lives.

Do you know, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump were the reason we never went to the moon.

It's going to happen!

It's just one of these conspiracy theories, that will never, ever go away.

Why?

Because no one was honest about it in the first place. Once you start to lie, you lie once -- once! If you're a very honest person, you will lie once. And then people are like, what? What?

Why would he lie about that? What is going on?

He's not like that. But if you're the United States governor government. You already have no credibility whatsoever!

Stop lying to the American people.

Just stop it. You know, I said something a minute ago. One of the reasons why you're hearing lies is because it works to the advantage of a Colour Revolution.

You know, there are reasons why people are lying to you. Some of it, they're just dirtbags and they're liars. Some of it, they're politicians, and so they're liars.

Some of it, however, a good deal of it is, we lie, because we know it causes damage to the credibility of this entire system.

We know it does damage to the culture of America, and we are here trying to destroy the culture of America because we want to try something new. And the only -- you won't vote for it. So the only way we can get America to change and do something entirely different, that they will never vote for, is just to cause chaos and disbelief in everything!

So as I said a minute ago, you know, it's not the news. Many times, it's a reflection of a plan! And when it comes to the Epstein thing, this is absolutely a plan. The way this thing has been played out. Democrats are completely against bringing anything out against Epstein.

They don't want to do anything about it. The media. Do you remember the ABC anchor that went into a commercial break. And she was like, you know what, I've got to tell you, Epstein. You know, we had the goods on him. Dead to rights.

Clinton. All of it.

And we were told, pull it.

Remember that.

Remember that, gang?

They pulled it at ABC. I think they fired the person who tried to -- who released that video.

Or tried to fire that person. I think they were working either at CBS or whatever. That person was in trouble for releasing that behind the scenes tape.

They had no intention of it. Now, everybody wants the Epstein tapes. Wait a minute. You didn't want them when Biden went in. And you could have said something, Democrats. And you could have released it all.

And, you know, it's funny. It is just so full of stuff about Donald Trump. Then why wouldn't they release just that?

Why wouldn't have the Democrats released anything in the Epstein file?

You're telling me, we've got to find something on them. Hey. I've got the Epstein files. Yeah, yeah. We've got to find something on it.

I have got some information here about Epstein. Him and Epstein, they were fooling around. Yeah, shut up for a second. Is there anything at all, that we can construe and manufacture about his banks?

I know!

He's got a vet signal between his bank and the Russian bank. I've got stuff about the Epstein.

Come on! If they had stuff about the Epstein, they would have gone to the stuff about the Epstein files.

They don't have anything, they don't have anything.

Now, let me speak directly to conservatives. They're not going to release anything about the Democrats, because they had the Epstein files.

Do you think that -- let's just say, I'm not even going to name names. Let's just say the most powerful people on the earth. The most powerful people with powerful connections, to government.

They knew their names were, you know, there on little, you know, guest books at the island, or whatever.

You don't think they called in some favors and said, "Hey, I need that -- can you remove that?"

You don't think that there were people that were like, "Hey. You know what, we'll remove that."

"We need $100 million from you, to help out on this campaign."

I mean, whatever it is, those names are gone too! They're gone! How do I know this?

Because the government is completely dishonest! That's how I know that.

But, anyway, now, Donald Trump.

STU: You don't think anything of interest would be in these files?

I mean, I think we've already seen some stuff of interest in the emails, no?

GLENN: Yeah, I think there are stuff of interest. I don't think there's going to be anyone at a very high level that is going to get -- that's going to be like, holy cow. Look, here's pictures with him with a 14-year-old girl!

That's not going to happen.

STU: Right. Somewhere that stuff, at least at the upper levels, not there.

Now, here's what is interesting: The timing of the release of a few documents last week. The Democrats released some documents.

And they released them, and at the same time, that Johnson were saying, by the way, we are going to expedite the releasing of everything.

So there's no reason to leak anything. But the Democrats decide to leak some stuff. They like a memo. And in that, oh, my gosh.

Look at what was said. What was said in that memo. Well, it was said, you know, the only dog that hasn't barked is Trump!

Well, what -- what did he mean by that?

He's keeping it quiet. All of these things. All of these innuendos and everything. Well, now we know, from the guy who wrote the book, all the president's meeting. Donald Trump and the making of a predator, that guy came out this weekend and said, no, no. That's not what he meant.

What did he mean?

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GLENN: So Barry Levine comes on. And he's on MSNBC this wreaked.

And he's asked, so tell me, I mean, we've seen this email between you and Epstein. What did he mean that the to go that hasn't barked is Trump. What do you think he's referring to?

Okay. What was he referring to?

I think Epstein is referring to the fact that he believed that Donald Trump talked to Michael rider who was the Palm Beach police chief in 2004. And began the first investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

So, in other words, he was the whistle-blower!

Yeah. But he's got all kinds of stuff in his -- in Jeffrey Epstein's books.

He's the whistle-blower!

The one thing you don't do is blow the whistle, when you know you got fingerprints all over the dead body. And the handgun that killed him!

You know what, I think you could find that hand gun, in this alleyway. Your fingerprints are on it. Man, why would you blow the whistle?

The suspect, he said, I suspected that Jeffrey Epstein was saying, he was 75 percent there.

Believing that Trump might have been the whistle-blower at the time. He believed it's 75 percent.

Now, how do you release something.

I mean, if you think things will be released. That will get Donald Trump. Why would you release that?

Where after two days of it being out, the guy who was part of that email, who hates Donald Trump, is like, yeah.

That's not what it means. It means he was whistle blower. Jeez.

STU: That is interesting. And I will say, you know, it is -- amazing that that's what they released. And chose to release.

That's the same email, by the way, that you're mentioning. That they blacked out the name of Virginia Giuffre, which they did intentionally. Because she has said that he was nothing, but respectful. And was never with any of the girls at all.

In not only her book, but also in testimony, under oath.

And the other one, that they released, which said, Trump -- he says, of course, he knew about the girls, was the other big one that they released. Which they left the -- well, they didn't leave it out. They just hoped you didn't focus on the next part of the sentence, which he says, that of course, he knew about the girls, as he asked Ghislaine to stop. Which would indicate, even if he was aware of this, which I don't think this had anything to do with the sex stuff. I think this was about him taking them.

GLENN: No. It was about poaching his girls from Mar-a-Lago.

STU: Right.

GLENN: The employees. He knows that we're poaching these girls. It doesn't mean he knows what they're doing with them. Stop taking my employees!

Okay. Now, if you suspect he's the whistle-blower and he knew you were taking employees from him, you know, in retrospect, you know, looking at it later, you go, oh, man, he's the whistle-blower?

But he also knows about the girls.

He knows we were taking them.

Does he know what we were doing with the girls?

I mean, this does not hurt Donald Trump. It helps Donald Trump.

STU: What about the one they released from Jeffrey Epstein. Where he said, I've met some very bad people, and none are as bad as Trump.

I mean, what if they come up with bad comments from Jeffrey Dahmer about Donald Trump? What will you say then? I mean, this is so dumb.

GLENN: I've eaten some bad eggs in my life, but I would not eat Donald Trump. I'll tell you that right now.

'House of David' Star REVEALS Story Behind TV’s #1 Biblical Series

Amazon’s House of David has become the #1 show on Prime Video, and today Glenn Beck talks with Michael Iskander, the actor bringing King David to life in one of the most powerful biblical series ever produced. Michael shares how fasting, prayer, and years of preparation shaped his performance, why David’s flaws and redemption resonate so deeply with viewers, and what really happened behind the scenes with Goliath, the sheep, and the shepherd who taught him lessons he’ll never forget.

Transcript

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GLENN: I've got somebody on, who is in just an amazing, amazing show from Amazon. House of David. If you haven't seen House of David yet, you have to. Do you remember when-like biblical movies. I mean, they were good in the '50s. And then they got really, really bad.

And then all through the '70s and '80s and 2000s. They were horrible.

And then all of a sudden, they got really, really good?

This someone amazing. This is as good as the Jesus. What is the Jesus one?

Chosen.

It's called House of David. It's on Amazon, and we have the guy who portrays David. Michael Iskander on with us.

Michael, how are you?

MICHAEL: I'm good. What an introduction. Thank you for that!

GLENN: I mean, it's really.

Come on. Was there any time, that you thought, oh, man. This might -- I hope they do it right!

And then you saw the finished product, and you were like, wow! This is good?

MICHAEL: Yeah. That was -- you know, I try to keep my head down, and, you know, it's -- it's not finished until it's finished.

And season two is coming out. You know, I'm just going to be hearing the response of how this show is really affecting people.

GLENN: So can I talk to you about Goliath?

Because Goliath is portrayed really as a giant. Not just a big guy. He's a giant.

MICHAEL: Yeah.

GLENN: Talk to me about that.

MICHAEL: Well, I'll tell you what, when I first met Martin.

He was -- I went to -- I went to the gym with him one time.

And I -- I knew, I'm going to get, you know, my stuff. So I was prepared for that.

And -- and he made me workout for two and a half hours. And I thought that the workout was done. And he was like, no. There's another half. And, man, he -- Martin is a really dedicated man. And he just -- he pushed me to the edge, when it came to working out.

And, you know, when it comes to his role with Goliath. He's someone that really just put all the effort, both physically and emotionally to really portray that part, as best as he can.

GLENN: How long did it take you to learn the slingshot?

MICHAEL: Three days. It wasn't too bad.

GLENN: Well, I heard you had problem with the sheep.

That the sheep were -- they were not helpful.

MICHAEL: The sheep -- well, the sheep were actually really interesting.

I remember when we first started filming, they -- they put me in sheep training classes.

Because when I get on tape. They have to make sure, that I'm not -- you know, I'm not going to get attacked by one of the sheep. And I'm comfortable around them.

The sheep. First day I show up to this training, and she painted me. And you would think that the guy who plays David, you know, would think of his sheep.

GLENN: No. I don't. I don't. I don't think that's natural. You're an actor. I don't know if that's -- yep, well, they picked me because I'm good with sheep.

MICHAEL: I should get classes from you.

GLENN: I don't know.

MICHAEL: But, no. I mean, it really -- spent a lot of time with the Shepherd.
And he was giving me some really amazing lessons.
He saw that I was having trouble.

And he said, you know, you should stick next to me. Because this sheep, when they see you with the shepherd, they'll know that you're with me.
So they'll never leave my side.

GLENN: It's amazing.

MICHAEL: I want you to spend a lot of time with me. And I he said, oh, okay. And he said, I want you to know another thing: A bad shepherd is a shepherd who is behind the flock. And so you, you're going to be a good shepherd. You're going to show them. You're not going to let them lead you.

You're going to lead them, and you're going to be in the front taking risks and showing them the path.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

MICHAEL: And he is saying this, I think -- I think I'm getting more than just a sheep lesson here. It really helped in terms of understanding who David was as a person. And then his relationship to Christ.

And why -- why David was chosen as king.

GLENN: Is it true that you fasted, before the audition? I mean, you're a Broadway guy.

MICHAEL: Yeah. Yeah. I sent in the first audition. I was really excited about it.

And it was a dream of mine for a long time. You know, one of these dreams, that you don't tell anyone. And you don't think it will ever happen.

GLENN: To play David specifically? Or to be --

MICHAEL: Yeah, to play David. To play David.

GLENN: Really?

MICHAEL: And because I was inspired by the Chosen.

And I wanted to maybe do flashback scenes with a young David, or something.

When I got the audition, and they originally said no. I thought, oh, that would have been a good opportunity.

GLENN: Hmm.

MICHAEL: And I got another audition. I called my mom. And I said, Mom, this doesn't happen often. Can you believe it? She said, Michael, calm down.

The one thing I need you to do. I need you to fast, and I need you to pray.

I said, yes, ma'am.

A week later, I was having lunch with Jon Erwin. And he -- it kind of took off from there.

But, yeah, fasting and prayer.

GLENN: You know, I'm friends with.
I went to school with Jim Caviezel. And I can't remember what grade he was in. Maybe fifth grade, I think. But he went into church, and all by himself.

And he prayed, and he made a pact with God. Let me -- all I want, Lord, is to play you in a movie some day, and I will live my life honorably to be able to be ready, but I want to play you.

And so he told me when Mel called, he was like, yeah, I've been waiting for the call. It's an amazing thing.

MICHAEL: Wow. I didn't know that story. That's beautiful.

GLENN: Yeah. What do you think it is about the story about -- this was the number one show -- number one series on -- on Amazon -- on Amazon Prime this year.

What is it about the series that you think is connecting?

MICHAEL: You know, I -- I think it's different for everybody.

But I'll tell you for me.

The reason why this show means a lot to me, is because, David points us to Christ.

And -- and David is -- is a person.

He to me, is the embodiment to what it means to be human.

And to make mistakes. And find forgiveness.

It's a complex, long story.

But he was a man that -- that -- he's known as the man after God's own heart.

So for people to see that example. To see, to see the man that God loved so much, that Jesus himself was -- son of David.

I think that's what -- they see the Holy Spirit in the show. I mean, that's what I see.
And that's who I do it for.

GLENN: It's -- it's -- it's amazing to me, how -- with the exception of one, the Bible -- every single hero is so deeply flawed.

And David is so good, so good, and then, you know, becomes really, really does one of the worst things I think I've ever read in the Bible. I mean, just really bad.

MICHAEL: Yeah.

GLENN: Are you going to play -- do you have any idea, assuming the ratings are there, how long of the story you're going to tell?

MICHAEL: I really don't know. I mean, we're just trying to get to season two right now in the release.

Hopefully, pray for us, that we can get to season three, and we can keep telling the story.

I don't know what Erwin and Gunn have. What they're picking up. But I pray that we tell as much of the story as possible. I think it's important to see both the good and the bad. Like you said, to see this flawed human being, to see someone make mistakes, and to see them get back up and repent.

And ask for forgiveness. And find grace in God. So we'll see!

Pray for us.

GLENN: You -- I read some place that you were a Broadway guy. And I thought, this career is not over yet.

I mean, are you prepared to always be David?

I mean, the guy who is playing Jesus now. Jim Caviezel said, it took years before he was allowed to play anything else.

And I can't remember the guy who was playing Jesus his whole life. He is Jesus to a lot of people. Are you prepared to this be you for the rest of your life now?

And not, you know, going -- going back and doing other things, if that's the way it is?

MICHAEL: You know what, God has taken me through so much in my life, that I'm sure he's going to get me through this.

And if I'm known as the guy who plays David, I think it's actually a blessing. And I don't know what God has in store, but I trust him.

GLENN: Yeah.

MICHAEL: When that time comes, I will worry about it then. But nor for now, I'm having a great time portraying one of my favorite people.

GLENN: I just have to ask you a personal question. One for me. My daughter wants to be on Broadway. Can you talk her out of it in 30 seconds, please?

MICHAEL: Oh, man, I don't know if I want to talk her out of it.

GLENN: Okay. Well, time for you to go now.
(laughter)
Michael, thank you so much, and we're looking forward -- when does it premiere? Is it this weekend? Is it out?

MICHAEL: Well, episode eight is out on Warner Project on Prime this Sunday. Yeah.

GLENN: Okay. Good. Good.

Well, we'll be watching. Thank you so much, Michael. I appreciate it.
MICHAEL: Thank you so much, Glenn. Have a good one. Take care.
GLENN: You bet. If you haven't seen the first season, you really should see it.

It's really, really good. It's one of those that I started watching, you know.

And I stopped because I was like, wait.

Tania, we should watch this together. And she came home. And so we started watching it, and I think we watched the whole season in one weekend.

It's one of those. It's really good. Season two premieres this Sunday.