Glenn Beck’s 2023 interview with Kash Patel is a MUST SEE before Patel assumes new role as FBI director



When Trump was first elected in 2016, he pledged to “drain the swamp” — that is, the Deep State that permeates the federal government and actively works to ensure certain agendas are pushed and others are squashed, its opponents are persecuted, and the nation heads in the direction it sees fit.

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. The Deep State is alive, but it isn’t necessarily well as an older and wiser Trump gears up for a second term.

His recent pick for FBI director — Kash Patel — is a surefire sign that he intends to root out the corruption this time around.

Almost a year ago, Glenn Beck sat down for an extended interview with Patel, and now that he is headed to the most powerful seat in one of the most brazenly corrupted branches of the DOJ, their conversation is well worth a revisit.


“I wanted to speak to somebody who has seen [the Deep State] firsthand, knows how it works,” said Glenn on December 13, 2023.

As the “principal deputy to the acting director of the national intelligence agency … under President Trump,” Patel “oversaw all of the operations of all 17 intelligence community agencies.” On top of that, “he also worked with the National Security Council, the secretary of defense, and the Department of Justice.”

All that to say Kash Patel was exactly the person Glenn was looking for to expose “what the Deep State is, how it works, and what its real goals are.”

Glenn’s first question for Patel was simple: “How bad is it?”

“It’s way worse than I thought it could ever be,” Patel, who documented his experience in a book, admitted. “It’s not just one guy; it’s not five … it’s like a thousand.”

The Deep State “just webs out into government, and it secretes in distinct places and kind of just hides there for a while. And then when they want it to activate, the media and others come in with their leadership and say this is what we need,” Patel explained. “These people who run these institutions — DOJ, FBI, DOD, what have you — they are part of this entrenched class in Washington that all respond to one thing: their self-advancement.”

“The only way they do that is if they glorify and protect the institution that's been corrupted,” he added.

To hear Patel’s firsthand experiences battling the Deep State (specific names included) and get a picture of what and whom he will be up against at the new director of the FBI, watch the episode above.

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EXPOSED: The globalists who control the legacy media



In 2024, 90% of the media is owned by just six giant global corporations — while just four decades ago, 50 companies controlled 90% of the media.

“This is the media-industrial complex. The propaganda-industrial complex,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” comments.

Currently, National Amusements and the Redstone family control CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, and so much more. Disney and “the far-left whack job” Bob Iger control ABC, ESPN, the History Channel, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, video games, and again, so much more.

TimeWarner and CEO Jeff Bewkes control CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, print media like Time, and dozens more. Comcast and CEO Brian L. Roberts control NBC, MSNBC, CSNBC, Telemundo, and the internet.


NewsCorp and the Murdoch family control Fox and National Geographic while Sony controls an incredible amount of music, television, movies, and more.

“These are just a few examples of what these conglomerates own,” Glenn says. “Remember, almost everything you use and consume and eat are owned by, what did I say, 12 companies? And six own what you’re talking about every day.”

“Who’s controlling the information? The big six, taken all together, are valued at nearly $500 billion dollars. You want to know why they fought the little guys so much, and lost by the way, this Tuesday,” Glenn continues, noting that all that money they’ve invested “isn’t working.”

However, he says, “the result of their work is devastating.”

“The way we cut out this cancer is by more competition, more options, ending the partnership between the government and their surrogates, their corporate board members that are all sitting at the tables of the big six,” Glenn says.

“Increase the amount of independent media. No government bailouts. No government startups. Let the system work. Halt the cronyism between the government and the media companies,” he continues, adding, “And the great thing is, that’s Donald Trump’s plan.”

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Glenn Beck’s research team uses THIS system to discern truth from lies in the media



Between the ideologically captured mainstream media and Big Tech giants that control the internet, it’s hard to know what is true these days.

But Glenn Beck has a tried-and-true system his very own research team uses that will also help you discern truth from lies.

Glenn says the most frequent question he gets from his audience is: “How do I know who to trust?”

“I want to give you some simple ways to test information that I and my research team use every day,” he says.

1. The "liar, liar" test

“When someone in a media source lies to you, you have to remember that,” says Glenn. Going forward, you must “evaluate them with a higher level of scrutiny.”

“They have to earn your trust back with interest. An apology or a loud correction helps this,” he says, adding that “this applies to all sources, even if they’re on your side of the political aisle.”

“The overarching goal must always be to find the truth — not the thing that we would like to be true but the truth. A good source will be willing to publish the truth even when it conflicts with its own ideological views.”

2. The "What is a woman?" test

“Let's say you’re reading something an expert is talking about on any topic. Try to find out what that expert's position is on an issue where there is zero doubt about what the correct answer is,” says Glenn.

While there are probably multiple issues that would work, one foolproof litmus test is the “what is a woman?” question.

“If they cannot accurately tell the difference between a man and a woman, then the source is definitely unreliable,” says Glenn.

3. The "egg-throwing gorilla" test

Glenn took the name for this test from Larry Elder’s race for California governor in 2021.

During his campaign, Elder was repeatedly called a racist by the left. One Los Angeles Times reporter called him “the black face of white supremacy.”

“A woman even went to one of Elder’s rallies wearing a gorilla mask and then threw eggs at him,” Glenn recalls.

“When a bias is this obviously backward, the source is untrustworthy,” he says.

4. The "beware of bias" test

When publishers “publish things that go against their own interests, then [the source] is more likely to be true, and this counts in credibility for other stories,” says Glenn, pointing to Michael Shellenberger as a great example of this.

“He's a longtime environmentalist, and yet his reporting in recent years on green energy corruption and failures” — ideas that might undermine his personal ambitions — “means it's more likely that he's telling the truth,” he adds.

5. The "bloodthirsty tyrant" test

Simply put, “if someone supports or calls for violence in any way, you should not trust the information coming from that source without a lot of corroborating evidence,” says Glenn. “If you think your cause is so righteous it justifies rioting, violence, burning cities down, then I don't trust you.”

6. The “original source” test

“This one is tough because it takes patience; it takes digging,” Glenn prefaces.

“Whenever possible, don't take [news] firsthand. … Once we know the original source, we can ask — is that guy trustworthy? If you hear something reported as absolute fact and is repeated verbatim by multiple outlets, try to find out where that fact originated,” he explains, adding that “if a media outlet doesn't mention the source of that fact that they share, that's a red flag.”

To learn more, watch the clip above. For a deep dive into Glenn’s truth-discerning system, check out “Propaganda Wars: How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel.”

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Deep state in ‘survival mode’: Can Trump stop Russia from going to WAR with Biden?



Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired American-made long-range missiles to attack Russia — which Vladimir Putin had previously said would be a red line.

“Whoever is president of the United States, let’s just use air quotes and say ‘Joe Biden,’ told Ukraine that they could use those long-range missiles,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells Rep. Cory Mills, disturbed.

Putin has declared that an action like this will be “treated as a joint assault on Russia.”

“For four years, Ukraine had been asking for long-range capabilities, have been asking to be able to hit within the outlying areas inside of Russia in an effort to try and prevent continual assaults, and it was denied, denied, denied,” Mills comments, noting that as Trump’s presidency nears, they’re “continuing to try and spiral things further out of control.”


However, while he’s admittedly concerned, he also believes that Trump is the right man to get America through this unscathed.

“The benefit we have, however, is that we have an exceptionally strong president coming in, and every one of the world leaders knows that President Trump does not suffer fools and that he does not have the weakness, which invites aggression,” he says.

“I think that both Putin and Zelenskyy understand that President Trump coming in is not going to necessarily say, ‘It’s OK for you guys to continue this back and forth, it’s OK to continue the atrocious events that are occurring.’ He’s going to come with an actual solution and say, ‘What kind of sanctioning, what kind of imposement,’ because remember, it was President Trump who actually removed America from the INF Treaty, which had been violated by Russia time and time again,” he continues.

“So people know this. They’re taking notice. But it’s disturbing to me that President Biden is doing everything he can to leave president Trump with the biggest mess possible, to stop him from actually getting onto the America First agenda,” he says, adding, “It also strikes me as the deep state going into survival mode.”

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Getting on a plane for Thanksgiving? You might want to read this first



Last week, a new Blaze Originals dropped. Titled “Countdown to the Next Aviation Disaster,” the documentary exposes the internal rot of America’s aviation industry. The reality is, our skies aren’t as safe as they used to be. In the last year alone, the number of “close calls” — meaning that planes narrowly avoided crashing into each other — surged to three per week.

What happened?

While there are numerous factors contributing to this decline, there’s one issue that stands out among the rest — the Federal Aviation Administration has infused DEI into its hiring system.

Stu Burguiere tells Glenn Beck just how insane the policies are.

Because of DEI policies that unfairly weed out qualified would-be air traffic controllers, our current air traffic controllers are “overworked” because nearly every control tower in the country is severely “understaffed,” Stu explains.

Further, these policies are specifically “blocking white males from getting these jobs,” he tells Glenn.

Flying an aircraft “is a matter of life and death,” says Glenn. “This DEI stuff ... it's death! It should be [spelled] DIE.”

“In the end, [death] is what happens when you have unqualified people building bridges, flying planes, being your eyes in the sky,” he adds.

“I talked to a guy in the documentary who took the merit-based test to become an air traffic controller and got a 100 on it — a perfect score. Then they added another test called the biographical exam,” says Stu.

“It had really weird questions,” like, “Did you perform well in science in high school?” and, “If you say, ‘Yes, I did well in science in high school,’ you get penalized,” he explains. “To [the FAA], you're less likely to be a minority if you did well in science in high school, so you get punished for doing well in a subject that obviously would relate to what you’re doing.”

The man who made a perfect score on the merit-based test ended up “not getting the job,” likely because the biographical exam pinned him as a white male.

“Now [he’s] suing the government over it,” says Stu.

Glenn is horrified but not surprised by all of this. In fact, he was just on a flight that nearly crashed into another plane. To hear the harrowing story of how his plane suddenly “rocketed up” unexpectedly, watch the clip above.

“Blaze Originals: Countdown to the Next Aviation Disaster” is available now on BlazeTV. If you’re not already a subscriber, go to BlazeOriginals.com and start a seven-day free trial. Use code DEI for $30 off your first year of BlazeTV+.

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'Yellowstone' actor Forrie J. Smith on why America needs to rediscover its cowboy culture



Fans of "Yellowstone" recently said goodbye to Yellowstone Dutton Ranch patriarch John Dutton — yet another one of the shocking twists that make Taylor Sheridan's series so compelling.

But none of the larger-than-life drama would work if "Yellowstone" didn't get the details right. The show's operatic plots of murder and double-dealing take place against a quietly authentic depiction of the ranching life.

'When you start messing with my children, my animals — you crossed a line.'

One of the people to thank for that is actor Forrie J. Smith, who brings his background as an honest-to-God cowboy to his portrayal of fan favorite character Lloyd Pierce, Yellowstone Dutton Ranch's oldest ranch hand.

Smith didn't exactly audition for his role, he tells Glenn Beck during a recent sit-down on "The Glenn Beck Podcast."

Roping his way into 'Yellowstone'

He was working as a the head animal wrangler on Sheridan's 2016 movie "Hell or High Water" when somebody moved his truck. "I didn't know who it was," Smith recounts. "I rode up, roped him, and pulled him out the door."

It turned out to be the guy who'd hired him — the livestock wrangler. Fortunately Sheridan saw it Smith's way. Not only did he refuse to let Smith be fired, he told him he had a part for him in a modern Western he was writing.

Promises like that, of course, are a dime a dozen in Hollywood, but Sheridan turned out to be "a man of his word," says Smith.

Smith grew up on his grandparents' cattle ranch in Montana City, Montana, and began competing in rodeos when he was 8. Along with schoolwork and basketball, helping out on the ranch was part of his daily routine. He saw firsthand how tough the business could be.

Once, after hearing his grandfather worry that he wouldn't even break even that year, the 16-year-old Smith asked him: Why keep ranching?

"He looks at me," says Smith, "[and said,] 'Well, son, we're helping feed America. We're helping feed our country."

And that's kind of the cowboy culture, right?" continues Smith. "We're helping feed our country. We're maintaining the grass and rotating our pastures to keep up everything."

Smith dives deep into the ethos of “cowboy culture.” He shares with Beck a nugget of etiquette that may surprise city folk: why a cowboy takes off his hat before a meal.

It’s not just about appearances; it’s a gesture of respect for the hands that prepared the food and the land that provided it. This respect — for people, animals, and the land — is central to Smith's worldview and is something he feels America desperately needs to rediscover.

But Smith’s respect for tradition doesn’t mean he shies away from hard conversations. When it comes to issues affecting American values and communities, he’s unfiltered: “When you start messing with my children, my animals — you crossed a line,” he tells Beck.

From there, they discuss a range of topics, from social media’s role in creating echo chambers to concerns about public schools pushing agendas that don’t sit well with traditional American families.

At the heart of it all is the cowboy code.

A no-nonsense perspective

Smith talks openly about the struggles he faces as a rancher, recounting his experience on his ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border, where he once had to confront illegal aliens disrupting his property. He provides a raw look at what many ranchers deal with every day, and Smith doesn’t sugarcoat the realities of an open border.

The conversation also touches on America’s beef industry, a topic Forrie is passionate about. As a lifelong cowboy, he’s dismayed by the decline in quality and the growing reliance on foreign meat.

Smith also has little patience for "greenies" who try to lecture people who have been stewarding the land for generations.

He points out the environmental hypocrisy, mentioning how 60 million buffalo once roamed the plains without creating a “climate crisis.” It’s refreshing, a reminder of the practical knowledge farmers and ranchers have always held about their land.

Resurgence of the American cowboy

"Yellowstone" has brought cowboy culture back into the limelight, and Smith sees it as a chance to remind Americans of their roots. In an age when traditional values are often attacked, Smith represents quiet, resilient strength — one rooted in family, hard work, and love for the land.

Smith's stories aren’t just anecdotes; they’re calls to action. He talks about neighborly values that feel increasingly rare, recounting how communities once pulled together in hard times.

Beck and Smith agree: America has lost much of this spirit, but it isn’t too late to bring it back. Smith's life proves that we don’t need big government to build strong communities — just good neighbors and a sense of responsibility.

Standing up, even when it’s hard

Throughout the conversation, Smith emphasizes the importance of standing up for what’s right, even when it’s uncomfortable.

He hasn’t been shy about speaking his mind, even if it means standing alone.

From refusing to comply with Hollywood’s COVID mandates to staying true to his cowboy roots, Smith embodies a level of conviction that’s rare in his industry. As he tells Beck, he knows that when things go south, it won’t be the wealthy elites who know how to survive — it’ll be men like him, who can “survive with a knife.”

Watch Beck's full interview with Smith below:

Does Laken Riley’s trial prove that justice is back?



On Wednesday, Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was found guilty of killing University of Georgia student Laken Riley and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Glenn Beck plays the clip of Judge H. Patrick Haggard reading the verdict of the four-day trial to Ibarra, who sat there emotionless. Ibarra was found guilty on all 10 counts, which included malice murder, three counts of felony murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with attempt to rape, aggravated battery, obstructing a person making an emergency call, tampering with evidence, and a peeping Tom charge.

“I'm happy that justice is at some level hitting this guy, but more just angry of how unnecessary it all was,” says co-host Stu Burguiere.

“The Biden administration put [Ibarra] on one of those ghost flights in the middle of the night so he could live in Georgia,” adds Glenn, who feels heartbroken for Riley’s family but glad at what the verdict of this trial indicates: “Justice is back.”

While some illegal immigration is inevitable, as people have always found ways to sneak across the border, immigrants like Ibarra are entirely preventable.

“We caught him and released him into the country. He got arrested multiple more times while he was here; we still gave him a free flight; we still put him up in the Roosevelt Hotel with free lodging, and then we sent him to Georgia with a free flight. He got arrested there with his brother. We still kept releasing him, and then after all of that, he murdered this poor woman,” says Stu, laying out the horrific history of both Ibarra and the radical leftist policies that teed Ibarra up to murder Laken Riley.

Even still, some blue state government officials are swearing to protect their illegal immigrant populations against big, bad Donald Trump, Glenn explains, noting that these are the same blue cities that not that long ago were complaining about their infrastructure collapsing under the weight of illegal immigration and even sending groups of immigrants to other states.

“I hope that the president finds the constitutionally legal way to cut you off from every funding,” says Glenn to the cities planning to stymie the Trump administration’s efforts to carry out mass deportations.

“[Trump] will, I think, overrule and overrun some of these people who are trying to avoid the law in their local jurisdictions, and he should do that,” says Stu.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Why Oklahoma RETURNED the Bible to schools



Americans love a good underdog, but many of them have never studied the Bible. Which means they don’t know exactly why they love a good underdog.

“It comes from David and Goliath,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” explains. “That is part of our culture. You don’t have to believe there was an actual giant and David defeated the giant with one rock. I happen to believe that story, but you don’t have to.”

“But if you don’t know that story, you don’t really understand the West, and the Bible is littered with those stories,” he adds.

Now, Oklahoma has become the first state to put the Bible back into classrooms, many thanks to Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters, who has dedicated funds to put a Bible in every school.


“The left, I’ll give them credit. They’ve done a tremendous job of indoctrinating our kids for the last 40 or 50 years, and frankly, broader society, to believe that somehow our Founding Fathers believed that there shouldn’t be a Bible in a schoolhouse,” Walters tells Glenn.

“We’re going to distort American history and tell kids this country is an evil, racist place, faith played no role,” he continues. “And so here in Oklahoma, we’re bringing the Bible back. We are very excited.”

While Walters expects pushback from the left, he’s not concerned.

“Leftists, you don’t have to agree with the Bible. You can be offended. That’s all well and good, and it’s fine, but you can’t lie to our kids about our history and the influence the Bible and Christianity plays,” he tells Glenn.

“You have to understand our history in order for us to continue as a civilization,” he adds.

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Why Glenn is SKEPTICAL about the ‘HACKED’ Matt Gaetz investigation testimony



Matt Gaetz has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as attorney general, and those on thee left have made it clear they’re unhappy with the decision.

Which is why Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere of “The Glenn Beck Program” are skeptical of the recent “hacker” who reportedly gained access to testimony from the congressional investigation into Gaetz.

The unidentified hacker has reportedly obtained the sworn testimony of Gaetz’s accusers from the House ethics probe through a law firm involved in a civil suit against Joel Greenberg. Greenburg is supposedly an acquaintance of Gaetz who is serving an 11-year prison term for sex trafficking.

The file features testimony under oath by a woman who claims that she engaged in sex with Gaetz when she was only 17 and from another woman who claims to have witnessed it.


“Really amazing how we have all of this technology that could track and listen and find anything, every keystroke recorded, but we can’t find this hacker,” Glenn comments.

“It’s funny because someone will come in and hack some cell phone provider's information. Millions, billions of records go out of millions of people, and we won’t know about it for six months. The next day, we have learned all about this hack. It’s almost like someone who knew about the hack was able to immediately give that information to the New York Times,” Stu says.

“In this case, there’s definitely no interest — people who don’t like Matt Gaetz: Democrats, and some Republicans — no chance that this was a setup and leaked to the New York Times, specifically within, gosh, 24 hours,” he adds.

And Stu’s not wrong, as Gaetz definitely has ruffled some important feathers.

“He was effective. He was probably the biggest voice against the corruption at the DOJ,” Glenn says, adding, “the report comes years after the DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that two central witnesses had serious credibility issues.”

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