Chapter 1: What are the implications of Pam Bondi's removal as Attorney General?
Well, what a great program today. You've got a great, great show just ahead of you. I start with fraud in California. It is bad in California and it's everywhere. Red states and blue states. I'm convinced of it. And we need somebody to track it down without a team jersey. Let's get to the end of this fraud. I'll outline just what we found recently in California, and you'll see what's coming.
It will be very freeing and very helpful when we put these people in jail. Also, pushing back on the atheists that got my Artemis post, a community note. God is not great. It's man that's great. Really? We'll talk about that. And Jeremiah Johnston is with us to talk about the archaeological evidence of... Jesus Christ and the resurrection on this Good Friday and Easter weekend.
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Chapter 2: How does Glenn Beck respond to criticism of his social media post?
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Chapter 3: What archaeological evidence supports the existence of Jesus?
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So you know that mural up in Rhode Island? I just want to touch on this quickly. I've got to get it off my desk. It's been bothering me for the last couple of days. There's a mural of the woman that was killed on the train. Remember, she was stabbed violently on the train, died, and nobody did anything about it.
Well, an artist decided he was going to paint a mural on the side of a building, and it's beautiful, beautiful mural up on the side of a building in Rhode Island. Well, the mayor is all upset about it, and they're shutting it down, and they don't want it anywhere in their city. And he said, quote, this has not brought us closer together as a community.
Chapter 4: How does Jeremiah Johnston connect Jesus' resurrection to current events?
In fact, it's been quite divisive and a little bit ugly. Wait. A picture of a woman who came here from Ukraine legally and was stabbed by a madman, and you don't want justice for that? That's not something worth remembering? What about all the George Floyd murals that were everywhere? Everywhere. How about BLM on the streets of the Capitol? That's okay, but this isn't.
Um, he went on to say, this is a movement that was funded by some right wing billionaires on like the left wing billionaires. Can we, can we stop playing this game? Please. Can we stop playing this game of my team, your team? We have to agree on fundamental principles of right and wrong. Let me give you one. And I'm because America and quite honestly, me too.
There's a story out by Christopher Rufo that is in our show prep today, uh, If you don't get my stack of show prep, you need to get it every day. It's free. Just go to Glenn Beck dot com. Sign up for the free email newsletter. You'll get it every morning. And it has all the news that I look at every day and I think are important. And we cover I mean, just we scratch the surface of it.
But it'll give you an in-depth understanding of the news you need to know about. There's a story in there from Christopher Rufo about corruption in California. And quite honestly, I looked at it. I have the attention span of a goldfish and maybe even a mentally deficient goldfish with ADD.
This story is very long, and exposing corruption, massive corruption, is really hard if you're trying to explain it to a bunch of goldfish. So most people will just tune it out. They won't because too many numbers, too many programs. It's really complicated. So I spent some time this morning trying to figure out how can I explain this to you and give you a good deep dive on it?
But because if I can't explain it, if we can't make this understandable to the average person, then. you know, it's hiding there in plain sight and everybody will shrug their shoulders. So here's what Christopher Rufo and his colleagues at the city journal have been digging into. And this is not isolated waste, but it is again, a pattern. Remember AI, artificial intelligence.
It doesn't think all it does because this is intelligence. It recognizes patterns. So look for patterns. If everything, no, I'm sorry. If a portion of what they have documented here is accurate, it is staggering. So let me make it really simple. First, let me give you the scale. This is according to interviews with officials, audits and public records that are reviewed in the report.
California may have lost as much as $180 billion to fraud and improper payments across multiple state programs. Now, what I just said, I'm going to come back and that probably didn't shock you at all. But when I go through this, I'm coming back to that number and I think you'll go, holy crap. Now, This is an important distinction and something that most people on either side won't do.
This number is an estimate. It's built from multiple sources, and it is not a single confirmed audit line, okay? But even the confirmed numbers underneath it are enormous. Let me just start with what's been confirmed. Start with unemployment. During COVID, California alone rapidly expanded unemployment payments.
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Chapter 5: What evidence does Jeremiah Johnston present about the Shroud of Turin?
If you spent $1 million every day, it would take you 150 years to spend $55 billion. That is more than the entire annual budget of many US states. You could build dozens and dozens, I'm sorry, hundreds of high schools and dozens and dozens of major hospitals with $55 billion. You could fund tens of thousands, armies of teachers, police officers, and nurses, and you could fund it for years.
$55 billion equals about $150 taken, stolen from every man, woman, and child in America. Not taxpayers, every single person in America. For a family of four, that's somebody coming into your house, the average American has $500 saved in the bank account. $500 is the average cushion. This is this one program, one program in one blue state, stealing $600 from every family of four.
$55 billion, if you stacked it in $1 bills, a million dollars is four inches high. A billion stacked in $1 bills is 358 feet. That's taller than the Statue of Liberty. How big is a stack of $1 bills at $55 billion? It would stretch 3.7 miles into the sky. That's how much money this one program in one state has paid out in fraud. That is something we should be able to see from a distance.
But because these numbers are so big and it's going to get even worse, people won't understand it. I mean, the fraud is unbelievable. Payments were sent in the name of prisoners, including death row inmates, international fraud rings, filing claims from overseas, criminals bragging about it online. We saw it. This is not speculation. This is all documented. That's one.
Then comes health care, Medi-Cal. Here are the things that are confirmed fraud. And then estimates and warnings. Experts cited in the reporting suggest fraud rates could range from 15 to 25 percent of total spending. which applied over time could mean tens of billions of dollars lost. Again, this is not a confirmed total. You then have welfare and homelessness spending.
California has spent roughly $24 billion on homeless programs. What Rufo's team documents now, specific criminal cases, including nonprofit leaders siphoning millions of dollars, developers accused of misusing public housing funds, fraud rings exploiting food assistance systems. How bad of a person do you need to be to take food out of people's mouths that are hungry? And take it for yourself.
And here's the key point. Auditors have said in multiple cases they couldn't fully track the outcomes or spending effectiveness. Not they didn't like it. They couldn't track it. So what's the pattern? What Rufo is arguing in this report now very directly is this. This is not bad luck. This isn't just a few bad actors. This isn't just, well, it was COVID.
This is an entire system where oversight was weak to begin with, safeguards were removed or people told to ignore, and massive amounts of money pushed out quickly. This is an environment where fraud isn't just possible, it's inevitable, and they knew it. Now, to be fair, I'll again do something that nobody else will do.
To be fair, Newsom has come out and said fraud happened everywhere during COVID, and I'm sure it did. Emergency speed requires rapid payments. But what I want to ask you is, was that a bug in the system or was that a feature? How much was actually lost, not just in California, in the red states as well? How much is still being lost? Where were the systems? Where were they?
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Chapter 6: How does archaeology corroborate biblical accounts of deliverance?
This was not a back office clerk, and this isn't isolated. This and the other programs were done by people who were entrusted with public money, public trust, and a mission rooted in justice. And when people hear billions lost, it feels distant. Corruption doesn't start at $55 billion. And when you hear $55 billion, remember, the average American has $500 saved as a cushion.
They stole from your family and every family of four in one state on one program, $600. One program. one gatekeeper, one decision to look the other way or worse, multiply that across systems with weak oversight. Multiply it not just from San Francisco, but cities all through California. Then multiply it for all of the blue states. Then add in all of the red states.
Do you think this is just a blue state problem? This is going to hit red states as well. The numbers are going to be astronomical. And if we don't fix this, that's how the whole thing goes apart. One small abuse at a time until it's not small anymore. But let me give you some good news.
I believe the president put JD Vance in charge of this because JD Vance's whole career is going to depend on the end. Did you find anything and did you put them in jail? And I will tell you, if J.D. Vance is smart, he will simultaneously do a red state as he does a blue state. And he shows we're talking justice, not political payback. We are talking this is the American money.
This is the American taxpayer. This is about our very survival. When you are stretched so thin, you have a hard time making money, enough money to buy your food for your kids at the grocery store. I don't care who did it. They're going to jail. And I think you're going to see that.
I think you're going to actually see action on this one because it is in the best interest of a guy who's very, very sharp and wants to be the next president of the United States. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. All right, let me take you quickly to Jason, who's going to give us an update on what is happening with the shutdown.
I believe it's an F-15. What do you have confirmed, and where are we, Jason?
So I don't think we've confirmed F-15, but that's what they think is what happens. And it's going to be hard to weed through some of the propaganda and the false information coming from Iranian state media. So I'm not even going to talk about some of the things that they have said. I'm just going to update on what has been supposedly confirmed. So U.S.
officials to multiple different mainstream media outlets now, most of them are reporting the same thing.
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Chapter 7: How do faith and science intersect in the discussion of deliverance?
April 3rd. Guess what today is? Friday, April 3rd, AD 33. We know that as a historical fact. If we cannot believe that, we cannot believe that Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC because Passover fell on the 14th of Nisan. And we know that that was Friday, AD 33, a lunar eclipse. was seen when Jesus was being crucified. This is all factual. You can see this. So that's why it went dark?
Is that why it went dark?
That's exactly why it went dark. Absolutely. And so the facts that we're going back to the moon on the very week where the exact day, April 3rd, the crucifixion happened, which means the resurrection occurred April 5th, AD 33. That is providential. That is no accident. And people need to wake up.
I want you to pick up his book. It's a great book, by the way. I haven't had a chance to talk to you since I've read it. The Jesus Discoveries. And these are the 10 big, big historic finds that. you will be introduced to Jesus face-to-face, and it is based on not just the Bible, but the facts that are provable facts.
So can you take us through some of these facts that introduce in a different way?
Absolutely. We're doing the more Glendiana Jones right now. Isn't it fun that the Christian faith, unlike any other religion, certainly not Islam, unlike any other religion in the world, Glenn, you know this, archaeology is Christianity's closest cousin because Christianity is based in facts, real people, real places, real events. You know that I have a bunch of kids.
I have nine-year-old triplets. I have two teenagers, so I haven't slept in nine years since my triplets were born. And at dinner, my kids challenged me. They said, Dad, Right. What can you tell us about Jesus?
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of fraud in California's state programs?
But you can't use the Bible. Now, hey, we love our scriptures. Right. But this the fact is, all of us listening right now, we need to know how to pass the faith onto our kids and to do it in two minutes or less. And so I wrote a book, Glenn, about all the things we can prove about Jesus from the evidence. We can build 65 facts, 65 facts.
about the birth, the death, the life, the miracles, the burial, the death, and yes, the resurrection of Jesus from extra biblical sources before we ever crack open the New Testament. Now, here's the problem. Most people are, 98% of people listening right now, they don't know what these discoveries are.
And so I wanted to write it in a way, my nine-year-old who I dedicated the book to, Abel, was reading it to me. I paid off
glenn i paid off every archaeologist i could to get permission to use photos so we actually have images of all these discoveries and this will give you that x factor when you're talking about your faith that jesus is based in in evidence but here's the cool thing glenn i talk i don't know if you've read the chapter yet where i talk about you glenn i actually talk about you in my book here's what i write i will never forget my dear friend glenn beck through tears
giving testimony in the Holy Chapel of the Shroud in Turin. And you said, it's one thing to see it on television. It's a whole nother thing to witness it firsthand. You were doing experiential archaeology. That's what your audience loves. That's what you did. That's what Tanya and you and me did together. Experiential archaeology. And here's one thing I do need to correct, Glenn.
A lot of fine Christians, they think, oh, I just need faith. I don't need proof. Can I just tell you something, Glenn? If Jesus did not walk out of that grave alive on April 5th, 2000 years ago, physically alive from the dead, the Bible wouldn't exist. Am I making myself clear? He said in Acts 1-3, he appeared with many infallible proofs. And so faith is always based in evidence.
Does that make sense? Yeah.
And I think, you know, I don't need, I don't care what, I don't care what anybody tells me. I know my relationship with Christ and I know, I understand redemption and salvation because I needed it so badly. And I know that that is a power that does not come from man alone.
Um, that is something entirely different and I don't care what any science tells me, but the, the things like when I was with you at the shroud, when you actually see these things and you can experience them and you know, wait a minute, wait a minute, this is proven. It, it doesn't. it doesn't strengthen your faith. It just deepens it. It just deepens it.
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