RADIOFebruary 17, 2023

‘IT’S ALL A SHAM’: Why Buttigieg & FEMA are DITCHING Ohio

The recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio caused intense health and environmental concerns thanks to the massive leaking of toxic chemicals. But, yet, the Biden administration’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is nowhere to be seen. AND, as Glenn details in this clip, FEMA just denied assistance to the Ohio town as well. But since when has FEMA turned down the chance to take control of a town, Glenn asks. In this clip, Glenn explains why he believes the left are ABANDONING Ohio: ‘It’s ALL A SHAM.’

Transcript

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GLENN: All right. So, Stu, help me make sense of this story.

STU: Uh-huh

GLENN: Republican governor Mike dewine said, he's not seen secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg, at all.

At all. Now, I'm sure he's seen him on TV. I'm not talking about Ohio. I'm sure he's seen him, you know, at some point, at his life, maybe.

But since the train derailment, nothing.

STU: I mean, he probably saw him on TV, talking about how there weren't enough black people in construction jobs. He saw that. That's an important thing to talk about.

GLENN: Liar. What a liar!

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Anyway, and then yesterday, the Biden -- I read this verbatim. The Biden administration has turned down Republican Ohio governor Mike HEP Dewine's request for federal disaster assistance, for the train derailment.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, otherwise known as FEMA. Have you ever heard of them?

STU: I have heard of them, yeah. Too many white people working there too.

They say that Ohio is not eligible to receive assistance. Because the incident didn't classify as a natural -- as a national disaster. The rejection came nearly two weeks after the Norfolk Southern train. Which carried harmful chemicals derailed. 2,000 residents were evacuated.

Blah, blah, blah.

FEMA classifies a national disaster declaration as when there is property damage caused by a tornado, flood, hurricane, or earthquake.

The state currently does not have any associated costs that could demonstrate to FEMA to be able to get a disaster declaration.

Bras the train cars didn't cause any power outages, block any roads, or impede resident's property.

That's a quote from FEMA.

STU: Didn't impede resident's property. I mean, they had to evacuate. They are just saying, everything is fine. Right. That's their claim.

GLENN: You can go back there. You can go back.

STU: Just check it out.

GLENN: Just check it out. We're not saying. Do you get your vax. If you got your vax.

STU: Did the vaccine work for this too? For train derailments?

GLENN: I don't know that. But I just don't want them to go back, if they haven't had their vaccine, you know what I mean? But if you've had your vaccine, go back in. You're fine. You're good.

The federal government has nothing to do with your puny, little life there. What?

Train, big toxic clouds.

STU: Is it just -- are they trying to say, it's just not FEMA's purview. I mean, if we had a chemical fire somewhere.

GLENN: Tell me the time that FEMA has not champed at the bit, to come into your community to take over.

STU: Right.

GLENN: I can't think of one.

STU: But their lying there, seems to be, it's not a natural disaster. And we only deal with natural disasters.

Is there another government agency? Another alphabet collection of letters that's supposed to come in and deal with chemical accidents? The EPA?

GLENN: Well, the EPA is there.

STU: Are they helping the people?

GLENN: What they're trying.

Oh, yes, they are. They're saying, come on back in. Everything is fine.

Come into the water. Just, take a net, scoop all those dead fish, off of the surface of the water. They died from something else, I'm sure.

STU: Right. Some of them seem to sprout wings and fly off of your property. Just scoop them up. They're dead now.

GLENN: And if you don't scoop them up, they'll grow feet.

STU: You don't want the fish feet. No, fish feet around your property will lower property values. Your Zillow thing is going to go through the floor.

GLENN: Now, let me give you this story from the New York Times.

By the way, I'm leading someplace, and it's -- it's a happy place.

STU: Is it fish feet? Does this all come back to fish feet?

GLENN: Well, so here's the headline from the New York Times. Now, listen to this story. Chernobyl 2.0. Ohio train derailment spurs wild speculation. So this story is about the conspiracy theories, that are coming from --

STU: Conservatives.

GLENN: Yeah. Conservatives. Yes.

STU: So wait a minute. We finally found an ecological issue that the New York Times is downplaying?

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: There finally is one? Every time there is an oil spill of like three drops, they all -- they send like 12 reporters from the scene, and any bird that has any oil on their feathers. There is a snowstorm, and it is because of your hair spray.

All right. Since a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Ohio, nearly two weeks ago, writes the New York Times, residents have feared for their safety.

A controlled burn of toxic materials, has filled the air, and covered surface waters with soil -- and soil with chemicals.

Dead fish that floated in nearby creeks. And an unnerving aroma has lingered in the air. Okay.

STU: This is a lot of -- this is a lot of evidence.

GLENN: But for many commentators, from across the political spectrum. The speculation has gone far beyond known facts.

Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical, using the crisis, to HEP sow distrust about government agencies. And suggest that damage could be irreparable.

You mean like, we have to act on global warming, and completely destroy all of any kind of modern living, and eat bugs? Within the next ten years?

Or the earth will be destroyed forever?

You mean that kind of irreparable?

On social media, like Twitter and telegram, commentators have called the situation, the largest environmental disaster in history. Or simple --icismy Chernobyl 2.0. Invoking the 1986 nuclear disaster.

By the way, let's go back and see how the press reacted to the Three Mile Island accident. Remember?

That was the greatest nuclear meltdown of all -- no. Nope.

Nothing was measured in the air. Nothing. Nothing.

STU: Yeah. The worst side effects of that incident were the equivalent of a full set of chess x-rays.

GLENN: Correct. And that, they made in -- they stopped nuclear energy.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Because of that.

STU: And arguably caused day -- if you want to believe their narrative, or at least their outcomes. They're not going to give this narrative. But arguably caused the problems that we had with global warming today. Right?

They shut down the nuclear industries, so we had to go to other --

GLENN: Stay on fossil fuels.

STU: Fossil fuels.

And in their world, this is what has caused all the problems.

Which, by the way, which means they caused all the problems.

GLENN: Well, isn't that what progressivism worked?

They caused the problems, and then tried to fix the problems they caused. Which causes more problems, which they then try to fix those problems.

It's a never-ending series, chain of events.

They warned, they said, they warned, that vital water reservoirs, serving states downriver could be badly contaminated.

Key word there, could.

And they suggested that the authorities, railroad companies, and mainstream news media were purposely obscuring the full toll of the crisis. Right.

Because when have you ever done that, mainstream media. Government.

Or railroad companies.

STU: You've already had several bits of information that have come out, that different chemicals were on board, that we didn't know about initially.

There were more effects than we thought. Of course, they're going to speculate, that there was more than they told us.

GLENN: Stu, please read the New York Times.

STU: I've read the New York Times. And the New York Times, every time there's any sort of chemical that leaks anywhere on the planet, they say it's going to be a catastrophe. This is the entire papers. Is basically based on someone dripped some chemical 3,000 miles away.

GLENN: But those were disasters. This is not.

Listen --

STU: This is fine.

GLENN: Since then the EPA has said air quality has returned to safe levels. Residents have been allowed to return.

Yeah. A chemical order lingers, because people can smell the contaminants, even when they are far below hazardous concentrations. This is all according to the EPA.

That's what it says right here.

Water testing found no indication of risk to public water systems so far, the EPA said.

Through private -- though private wells should be tested, but the public water, fine. The private water we're not sure.

Utilities drawing from the Ohio river were taking precautions at least one company said.

At town hall meetings on Wednesday, frustrated residents, pressed officials for assurances that the air and water were safe.

Experts urged caution as they assessed the long-term consequences. Warning that airborne contaminants, settle on to surfaces. Seep into wells, and migrate through cracks and basements to homes.

Yet, influencers and right-wing commentators were quick to draw the conclusion of their own, theorizing about the extent of damage in and the federal response, which they say, have amounted to an extensive cover-up.

STU: This makes no sense. How could the New York Times take that side of the story?

There's a good argument to be made. This happens a lot. You have an accident like this. And it's a pretty natural series of events. That people who live close by. They are pretty worried about it. Because they can smell stuff in the air, and they're worried about what's going on with their water. They are worried if their children are going to die or develop cancer next week.

All really rational fears. And then maybe some scientific experts come in and say, we don't think it's a risk.

When that series of events occurs. The New York Times always sides with the families.

Always sides against the companies. Always says, actually, we found some person, this one random person, who has this effect.

It's not proven to be connected. But we're going to say it's connected anyway.

They always, always side with the freaking out side of this this argument. And for this one side. This one incident, they're all of a sudden, on board, with it don't go going on.

Seriously, isn't this weird? Seriously, isn't this weird?

GLENN: No. You have no -- you have no example of that. Let me give you -- let me give you an unrelated story.

Headline, Russian pipeline leaks spark climate fears, as huge volumes of methane spew into the atmosphere.

STU: Every time.

GLENN: What is methane?

That is natural gas. Natural gas. Key word, natural. Okay?

It seeps out into the atmosphere all the time. Because it's coming from the earth, and it's natural gas.

Not man made chemicals, that are not meant to burn, that they just set on fire.
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No, no, no. This is natural gas. They call it methane, which is also what comes out of the butt and the mouth of a cow, that they say, God created all of this. This is a master plan.

This is an incredible thing.

But what he didn't know, is that he actually created animals, that live on the planet, that spew a toxic chemical that will make their entire planet die!

That's what -- yeah. Yeah. Well, if you don't believe in God, you believe in -- you know, natural evolution.

Well, if the cow and the farts from animals, is toxic to the planet. Well, evolution will figure that out.

No, no, no. No.

Methane, natural. Natural. Not chemicals in the sky.

Again, used, made for World War I, setting those on fire. No. It's not a problem.

Climate scientists acknowledge that it's hard to accurately quantify the exact size of the emissions. And say leaks. Are, quote, a wee bubble in the ocean, compared to the massive amounts of methane emitted around the world every day.

Nonetheless, environmental campaigners argue the incident reaffirms the risk of sabotage or accident makes fossil fuel infrastructure, a ticking time bomb.

Wow.

But you and Ohio.

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GLENN: Okay. So let me tell you exactly what I I think is going on. These people do not care about the things they say they care about. It's all a sham. It's all a sham.

This whole global warming thing. Look, at first it was global -- no. First it was global ice age coming. When I was growing up.

It was an ice age. Then it was global warming.

Now it's global climate change, because it's going different ways. Okay?

Now you can't predict it. But they were absolutely sure you could predict it, just a few years ago. That it was going to be warming. Now, we can't predict it. But we can predict, that will it will be unpredictable.

Oh, okay.

It's a sham.

Now, I believe climate is always changing. We may be in a new period, but all the rest of it is bullcrap for control.

Otherwise, they would care about this just as much as they care about everything else. But see, this one has politics involved. This is a red state.

This is a state where they don't care about. They'll rush FEMA any place. Any place.

Well, not to the border here, where we're being overrun. Not to Ohio. Where the skies are on fire.

No, no, no, no. These people honestly don't care about any human condition, except for their condition of power.

4 MAJOR cover-ups Kash Patel would EXPOSE as FBI Director

President-Elect Donald Trump has tapped Intelligence Community veteran Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Glenn explains why he’s a big fan of that pick, and it stems from an interview that Kash gave Glenn back in 2023. Glenn plays a clip of the interview, where he urged Trump to declassify information on multiple major cover-ups, including Jeffrey Epstein’s black book, the January 6th pipe bomb incidents, the case of the “deleted” J6 text messages, and Russiagate. So, if he is confirmed as FBI Director, will he release all this information to the public?

Transcript

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GLENN: But Kash was -- Kash was on my show.

And we were talking about who holds -- who has the diary, who has the phone records, who has everything from Epstein? Do we have that cut?

Yeah. Go ahead. Play it.

Who has Jeffrey Epstein's black book?

VOICE: FBI.

GLENN: Porn music.

VOICE: Oh, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. Just like the manifesto from the Nashville school shooting and the Catholic school. We haven't seen that yet. It's not the national police or PT --

GLENN: Ding, dong, pizza.

VOICE: The FBI says this is not going to happen. They do that because this is another government gangster operation. All these local law enforcement communities get funding from the DOJ and FBI for local programs.

And if you don't cooperate, you're not getting your million dollars for this.

You're not getting -- and that's a lot of money for these local districts. That's how they play the game.

That's why you don't have the black book.

GLENN: So, but the black book is not just sitting -- I mean, that's -- that's Hoover power times ten.

VOICE: And to me, that's a thing that I think President Trump should run on. On day one, roll out the black book. Oh, yeah. Please, I can't take anymore.

VOICE: On day one, roll out all the text messages and communications we were told were deleted. On day one, play the rest of the video of the pipe bomber.

He needed -- one of the forms I talked about, is you need a central note, to continuously declassify.

This is another thing they do. They overclassify. I'm telling you, as a former number two --

STU: Stop it.

GLENN: Yes! Yes!

Oh.

VOICE: I know you can't see that. Nothing to see here. Gino was a master of it. Of doing it. And we still haven't seen the half of the Russiagate report that we wrote.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

VOICE: It's still under lock and key.
I don't know how the ICA was originally constructed. We went -- we put 10,000 man-hours against John Brennan's team that did it.

And we found out why they came up with their bogus conclusions.

But we couldn't sell it to the world, because we couldn't talk about it. And the government gangsters came in and buried it.

GLENN: Wow. Let me tell you this. I think I need a whole pack of cigarettes after that.
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He is --

PAT: He's going to be good.

GLENN: Oh.

STU: And that's the only reason this part is happening.

Because Kash Patel.

Glenn Beck likes him so much. Look he's definitely going to come after Hunter Biden.

And therefore, we didn't think -- we never would have predicted that Adolf Hitler would do something like this.

GLENN: Here's what -- here's what we need to start tweeting. Okay?

Everybody needs to start tweeting this.

Kash Patel.

We love you!

We love you!

Please, release all of the information on the Biden administration.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: All of the information on Hunter Biden. You can't prosecute him.

But you certainly can prosecute everyone that was involved in the cover-up.

And, by the way, we would like the names on the Jeffrey Epstein list!

There's no reason, that if that was a bunch of truck drivers, we would know every truck driver's name!

Why don't we know this?

And it is too much power, in the hands of the FBI director.

Or the president.

Or whoever might have it.

The only way that thing becomes powerless, is if it is revealed.

Why Joe Biden’s PARDON of Hunter is NOT the end

President Biden has issued a pardon for his son Hunter that covers any crimes committed over the past 10 years. That would include any possible fraudulent dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma or the Chinese Communist Party. So, is Biden just trying to protect himself? Glenn breaks it all down and also explains how Donald Trump can still bring criminals to justice: Biden only pardoned Hunter and, by extension, himself. But anyone else who was involved in the Biden family’s shady business dealings is still fair game, especially if Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, declassifies everything …

Transcript

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GLENN: All right. Well, let me -- let me start here.

We've been saying it for decades now.

Decades!

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

That used to be kind of like a bumper sticker thing back in the Reagan era, you know.

These things, I think it's lost its impact.

I don't know if people really understand it, anymore.

Even know it. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Joe Biden has given his blanket pardon to his son. But only for crimes that may have been committed for the last ten years.

Now, this is something that he said he would never do, but I'm not surprised. We're going to -- this is the least surprising story of the decade.

We all knew it. We all knew it was coming, right?

Now, this is the privilege of the US president. The final month of office, actually accounts for about 92 percent of pardons and presidential commutations. It's fairly normal then, for presidents to exercise that constitutional power. And it is his right to do it.

It has no constitutional or Supreme Court oversight. So he can do whatever he wants. It's one of the few powers, that we grant the executive office for which there is no check and balance process outlined in the Constitution.

It's been used every year since Herbert Hoover, when he pardoned the first Thanksgiving turkey.

Legally speaking, Joe Biden giving a blanket pardon to his son for felony crimes, that he's actually admitted to in court!

And sentenced to in court, after millions of dollars were spent, in not only covering up the crimes, but also denying the crimes.

And all of the corruption that went on with the Justice Department and the FBI and the IRS.

All of that now, is gone!

He admitted it, in a book. He admitted it, as soon as he knew dad was going to pardon him. And presidents can do this.

They have, you know, whole staffs dedicated to finding criminals, who may have gotten the short end of the stick.

And if I may pause here for a Glenn Beck moment. Short end of the stick. You know where that comes from?

It's actually a historic reference from the Scottish/Gaelic days where they had physical combat, where two men would take a tree branch and kind of like a wish bone, they would break it in half. And then they would beat each other to death with that stick.

So it's like the turkey wish bone, except the other person dies. Anyway, back to modern times. President can give a blanket pardon to a multi-felony son, directly in the face of his own Justice Department's investigations of the same son.

Now, we're at the point where if this were just cocaine and prostitutes. I don't think we would care that much. I really don't!

I mean, it would be bad. But I don't think him doing cocaine and prostitutes is that much of a surprise!

Would you be that surprised, if cocaine and prostitutes? Dad was doing them too?

No. However, we're talking about money laundering charges to the Biden family. What about the violation of the State Secrets Act?

You know that Biden granted his children, including Hunter, security clearance against the recommendations of the NSA, and the CIA. And that warned him over and over and over again, secrets are being leaked.

How about Chinese prostitute spies? You care about that much?

I don't even know how you face yourself in the mere, if you're part of the White House Press Corp, or anybody in the mainstream media. Who has been saying the whole time: None of this happened. None of this happened!

He's not going to pardon his son. He's not going to need to.

I mean, I feel very bad in a small way for KJP, who has to stand there today, to defend what she's been saying the whole time.

No! I stand by what the president has said for the last two years.

Now she's got to say, if it wasn't -- if it wasn't the president's son, would he then prosecute it?

Yes!

He would have been prosecuted. In fact, he would have been in jail years ago!

So when Joe Biden says, yeah, well, there was -- you know, there was a miscarriage of justice here.

I mean, he got special treatment. Yes, he did. You know, the reason why all of this is a big deal. Is because the Justice Department and the FBI and the IRS made a deal, that one judge said, wait a minute.

I've never seen a deal like this. What's going on here?

That's why this whole thing came undone.

They were trying to sweep it up.

Yes! He was getting a sweetheart deal, that you wouldn't have gotten. Your son wouldn't have gotten.

How are they going to defend it? The same way. The same way.

It doesn't matter. That's why I say it's the least surprising story of the decade.

Nobody is surprised by it. We all knew. We knew this was happening when he was running.

Now, if Trump is who we think he is, or who he's, I hope, going to be.

An agent of change, he can completely blow the lid off of this. And effectively destroy -- and just destroy any semblance of respect Biden had left. Even if he couldn't prosecute Hunter or Joe. That's fine.

But he can declassify every single document in the Biden investigation. From cocaine, China, and the Middle East. And destroy not just the Biden legacy.

He's already destroyed that.

But he can destroy the press.

He can destroy everyone that was involved in this.

The entire apparatus around it!

Biden only granted Hunter immunity.

Only Hunter.

And by extension, himself.

But not the gross military intelligence industrial complex. And the team around them.

All those people can be exposed.

All of those people can go to jail.

And with the appointment of Kash Patel, I predict it's going to happen.

So now why not hearings?

I mean, we could impeach Biden right now.

But you want to spend the money on that?

You want to spend the time on that? Justice would say yes. Our country demands that we say yes. If we want a country, and we have a family that has built billions -- I'm sorry. Millions of dollars, from other countries. Why are we -- why are we in Ukraine?

Why is all this money going to Ukraine? Where is it going?

Where is it ending up?

You know, no one has followed the money on that one. Why? Why?

Is there even more corruption?

You know, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, they really were the ones that kind of industrialized this whole game.

They did it with China. But everybody turned their head.

No big deal. Oh, they were out of office now.

Joe Biden perfected it. If we let this family get away with this, what do you think is going to happen the next time, a president decides to sell themselves and the office.

People must go to jail. The president has every right. Every right to pardon his son.

But Kash Patel, if he's half the man I think -- no, if he is half the man I know he is, declassify all of it!

All of it!

Call out the corruption, that is everywhere.

I have to ask half the country a question. And I know you think that we're stupid, because Donald Trump is a felon. Is he? Is he?

He's a felon on -- on what? On what?

Charges that were brought against him? That have never been brought against anyone ever, in the history of the country?

That's called weaponization. And is it a surprise that they were brought, when he was running? You see, the Hunter Biden thing, that should have been in the pipeline, years before.

But couldn't do it. Because of Biden's grasp on the system. How stupid are you?

I mean, I'm sorry. I don't in between insult you. Because you think I'm stupid. What is it going to take.

You're still donating and supporting the Democratic party?

They just -- they lied to you, on so many things.

But they lied to you, about this.

They lied to you about the laptop being real when they knew it was real!

The FBI was part of it. They tried to make a deal. An underhanded deal, that you would have never gotten. Remember, why would you stand up for someone's extra rights, that you would never get.

If it's right for them, it has to be right for you. Remember, we lend our rights to them, to protect them. They don't have extra rights. They have none. They can't print rights. They come from us.

I -- you know, it is so hard -- you know, we just went through Thanksgiving. And hopefully, you had a big Thanksgiving. And hopefully, you didn't have big battles and fights and everything else.

Hopefully things went well.

But I've got to tell you, it is hard.

I marvel at the blindness of so many Americans.

I marvel at it. And I know they think the same of us.

I know.

That's fine. But we have the Constitution on our side.

We are fighting for the Constitution. Believe me, if Donald Trump, we found out, was selling secrets to Russia. Was selling secrets, or selling his office to China, I would be first in line.

Be first in line to impeach him.

If he was enriching his children, exactly the same way, that Joe Biden was, I would be for his prosecution, and his jail time!

Can you say that?

Until you can rationally describe to me that this isn't just pure nepotism, that utterly destroys Biden's entire career. His entire legacy. His entire presidency.

Everything that this man does. Has done, we now know, for the last ten years.

This isn't just, hey. I pardoned him for this crime. I pardoned him for every crime he may have committed for a ten-year period!

I mean, I just -- if we meet in a grocery store, you know, God bless you. But if you still think that that's okay, I might just pat you on the head and send you down the cereal aisle with the same kind of kindness I show a retarded puppy. But holy cow. Justice is more than a specific outcome. It is a philosophy.

It's a mentality. It's an absolute. We may not get it right every time.

Because we're human. But we should strive for justice.

What if Hunter's crimes were rape or murder?

Would that be okay? Would you still support a blanket pardon?

Or would you say, no. That's too far. But selling my children and your children into slavery, by granting China and others special access to our White House and to our secrets, that's okay?

Good on you. It's not for me.

But good on you.

And let me just end it with, surprise!

He pardoned his son.

Did Angel Studios just release a new CHRISTMAS CLASSIC movie?

Angel Studios and Dallas Jenkins, the director of "The Chosen," have released a new movie that many are saying could become a new Christmas classic. The film, called, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever", is based on the hit book and tells the story of misbehaved kids who put on a Christmas pageant and shock their community. Dallas Jenkins joins Glenn Beck to go behind the scenes of the film, which is in theaters now!

Transcript

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GLENN: Dallas Jenkins joins us. Hello, Dallas.

How are you?

DALLAS: Good, I'm actually wanting to write down what you were just talking about. It sounds great.

GLENN: I'm telling you, every school should have these things. Nobody wants to arm teachers. If you put your hand around the corner of the door. And somebody in the hallway. Yes, kids will be hit with tear gas. But nobody will die.

And the police can take that guy down.

It's crazy.

DALLAS: Yeah. No. It sounds amazing. I'm literally going, I'm going to get them for my home.

GLENN: Yeah, yeah. They're great. How are you?

DALLAS: Here's the thing. I'm looking at you, and you're a handsome guy. But behind you is this big picture where you look phenomenal.

And it's -- it's like, it's not good for you to put it right behind you.

Because I'm like, wow. Wait a second. There's a difference. Like, you're -- again, you look good in person too.

GLENN: That's me happy.

DALLAS: But over there you look happy and rugged and handsome. Wait a minute.

GLENN: Yeah. So tell me -- tell me the story of the film Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

I have -- I admit to you. I have not seen it. I have others who have seen it, and just rave about it. I've seen the trailer.

This is before you ever sent me anything.
I didn't know who it was. And I watched the trailer.

And I'm like, this looks fantastic.

It looks heartwarming and funny. And all of it. And it's true!

DALLAS: And I really think -- we talked before. This is your kind of movie. I really think you will really love it.

I read this book almost 20 years ago to my kids. My wife brought it home. And the first couple of chapters, it's been around 50 years. I read it in public school, which is why I was so surprised by what happened when I read it again to my kids. First few chapters, I'm laughing. It's very witty. Very nostalgic. Just a terrific story.

And I get to the last chapter. And I'm going, I don't remember how Jesus-y this was.

Like I don't know how we got away with reading this in public school. I guess because of the Christmas of it all.

GLENN: Right.

DALLAS: I get to the last chapter.

GLENN: You get to Oklahoma?

DALLAS: Yeah. Illinois. I don't know. Yeah, a little different.

GLENN: Okay.

DALLAS: But, anyway, the first -- the story is the six Herdmen kids. The worst kids in the world. The ones that everyone is looking down on.

GLENN: This is -- I just want to read it -- it's not true? Okay. Somebody told me it was a true story.

DALLAS: No. That's The Chosen.

GLENN: Okay.

DALLAS: But this -- she captured, it feels very real. It's very nostalgic. Remember the movie, the Christmas Story. Very much that feel to it.

In this case, these six kids. They're on the wrong sides of the tracks. They're in poverty. They're mean.

They're feeler.

And this church and had this town, don't want them around. And they hijack the town's Christmas pageants. They take over the roles. They bully the other kids into saying, we will play these roles of Mary and Joseph. So of course everyone is scandalized and thinks it will be the worse Christmas pageant ever.

GLENN: Because they're so un-Christ-like.

DALLAS: Right. And so much like Mary and Joseph.

Like you can't have this awful girl playing Mother Mary. Mary is beautiful and sweet and pretty, and always looks clean.

So they get to the performance of the pageant. And I don't want to give anything away.

Of course, it's called The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

But we get to that last chapter. I start crying so hard.

I can't see the pages. My kids are looking at me like, what is going on? And my wife Amanda goes, give me the book. Let me read it.

She starts reading it. She starts crying.

We are passing the book back and forth to each other, while the other one recovers.

The story is just so beautiful.

It's because of these kids' poverty, because of their outsider status, they're actually closer to the heart of the true story than anyone else is.

And so it ends up transforming this town and the town, of course. So everyone is learning something new, because these kids have never heard the story before.

So they're asking all this question.

GLENN: Oh, that's a better ending than I thought -- I thought that it was they -- the -- the people that were helping the kids, actually kind of changed the kids to have those kids transform the -- it's fantastic.

DALLAS: That's the thing. The chump learns from these outsiders.

We've taken for granted the Christmas story and the Christmas pageant, and we think of the sweet little nativity.

And the halo around everyone's head. And the kids are going, why wouldn't they let a pregnant woman into the inn? And they're asking all these questions, that we take for granted. And so their perspective on the story is just closer to the truth of it.

Because of their unique perspective. And outsider status.

And so it just was so beautiful. There's a very common connective thread between that. And the chosen.

My passion has always been. And we talked about this before. I'm taking Jesus and the apostles down from stained glass windows.

Down from the pretty paintings that we've seen. And try to give you the most active direct portrayal of the humanity of these people, and their true story. And that's what really stood out to me, about the best Christmas pageant ever.

It's funny, it's witty. It's a traditional Christmas classic. Bits got this -- it's probably the only of the movies that I would consider to be Christmas classics. And hopefully, this becomes one of them.

That really does put a spotlight on the true story of Jesus.

But in a fun way.

GLENN: It's amazing to me how snotty Christians can get.

And maybe it's because they either -- they either didn't have that kind of experience, or didn't need the redemption of Christ as much as others do.

But the -- you know, Christ came for -- for the ones that needed redemption. We all need it.

But needed the redemption really badly.

He -- he was always around those kinds of kids.

GLENN: Yeah. He came for the sick. Not for the healthy. There's a line in the trailer or the movie.

Where the mom is volunteering to do this pageant. Everyone in the church is telling her, no. Just get rid of the Herdmans. We need to protect our sacred Christmas pageant. And at one point, her daughter says, shouldn't we just get rid of them?

You know, and she says, I think that would contradict the whole point of the story.

GLENN: Right.

DALLAS: And she said Jesus came for the Herdmans as much as he came for you and me.

GLENN: Right. He was -- everyone in that story was rejected and despised.

DALLAS: Yes. And there was also a moment where the herd men walk out on stage. And they are wearing the clothes.

They cobbled together at home.

To portray Mary and Joseph instead of the pretty costumes that were given to them by the church. Right?

And one of the girls in the choir, who is against them, goes, look at them. They look like refugees. And the main character is looking at them. Yeah. They do.

And she's smiling going, this is what Mary and Joseph were. They were refugees. They were outsiders.

It's those kinds of moments that unlike some of these other Christmas classics that I love.

You know, Elf and Christmas story. Home Alone. They're all great.

But this is a movie that has all those elements of humor and what not. But then there's these moments that they go, oh, my goodness. That is the true story. I think the moment about Christians and those in America. I think sometimes we -- it's not that we need redemption less. If anything, we need it more.

It's our awareness of our need. Which sometimes goes away if you live comfortably.

Comfort can sometimes cause you to take for granted. What -- who came for us. Not comfortable.

Jesus was born into a stable, into a rough environment on the run.

Hiding. Outsiders. Refugee. All that stuff. He came as a suffering servant.

Not as a conquering king.

And we sometimes forget that.

GLENN: Yeah. And it's -- it's remarkable to me, the best Christians -- I put -- I put a few people like Billy Graham into other categories.

But the best Christians I have met.

Regular people.

Are those people usually from the Middle East. Or from China.

The ones who are just like, oh, they -- they have to know God. Because it's literally all that gets them through their day.

DALLAS: Oh, yeah. I have a friend who runs this ministry. Called world relief.

And he said, the church in Iran is cool, man.

GLENN: Oh, I bet it is.

DALLAS: He said, we just had another great bopping. They were like, what? We had a bombing of one of our churches. We've never been closer to God.

We've never been more desperate for him.

We've never -- and I'm like, man, I wish I could reach that level of passion and desperation. Without needing to be oppressed for it.

GLENN: Yeah. I went to Iraq years ago, and we were rescuing the Yazidis. And I was supposed to come and pick them up.

And then we were going to take them to some other country in Europe.

And so when I get on the plane in New York. I'm told, you may not be able to go see them.

Because ISIS has just targeted the church, at the time, you're supposed to arrive, and they're having a final service.

And so I'm on the plane. Wondering, I mean. What am I going to do when we get there?

And I get there, and they say -- I say, so where are we meeting?

I said, oh, the church. Did ISIS?

They said, no. They're not changing their plans.

And I said, okay.

And then halfway through church, Russia said that they were going to start bombing that city.

And I --

DALLAS: You laughed at this, and said, this is not something we think about in America.

GLENN: Shh should we all maybe -- is there a shelter around here?

They just kept singing and praying.

And they said to me, oh, if we die, we're with God. Right now, we're fine.

This is great.

It was amazing to see it.

DALLAS: Very humbling. And so that's the kind of thing I'm hoping, not only that it reaches me. But the viewer, when I do the chosen. When I do a movie like best Christmas pageant ever.

It's, can we somehow remove these -- sometimes it's religion. Sometimes it's our sin.

Sometimes it's our art. That gets us -- gets us further away from that -- what actually happened. And from that desperation. And from that authenticity.

So in this case, it's wrapped in a fun, PG-rated Christmas movie. But it's all the same intention of, man, I would love to get that level of direct connection.

So connected to Jesus. That everything around you is so irrelevant.

GLENN: This is so important. This Christmas. I mean, I've been fighting Santa.

Not in a -- I didn't want to be that bad dad. We want Santa. Santa.

You know, I had fun as a kid with Santa. But I -- it was a different culture. The culture said, Christmas was about Jesus, not Santa. And Santa was just the fun part.

And it is so important. And this is a fun way to bring your kids to the true story of Christmas.

It's called the best Christmas pageant ever. It's in theaters now.

Are you going to release it, on video, on demand before Christmas or not?

DALLAS: Just close to around Christmas. But I do hope the people see it in theaters now. We want it to last in theaters for as long as possible. But yes eventually, shortly before Christmas, it will be available at home as well.

GLENN: Yeah. I will tell you, that the -- it -- it speaks a lot -- I think this came out November 5th. Yeah, eighth.

DALLAS: Right after the election.

GLENN: And it is doing really well.

This early in the season.

DALLAS: New York Times liked it, Glenn. It's got a 91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

GLENN: Wormhole.

DALLAS: I know, there's a glitch in the Matrix.

There seems to be this reaction of, wow. This movie does take me to where Christmas should be about. And it's been a really, really cool -- really cool experience, to see the reaction.

GLENN: That's great. Can you hang on just a second? I have to take a one-minute break.

We are with Dallas Jenkins, the creator/director of the Chosen. And the new movie, must-see, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

See it this week in theaters. It will be great to kick off the holiday, and kind of also remind us. Hey, God just played a big role in our lives here recently. We saw some miracles. Let's thank him. Let's thank him for that.

GLENN: That is part of the Christmas album done by my daughter with the Czech Symphony Orchestra.

Comes out, Black Friday.

It's called home For Christmas. Can we play the trailer of the Best Christmas pageant ever?

Please.

Listen.
(music)

VOICE: They're advertising it on TV now?

VOICE: The pageant is an especially big deal this year. It's the 75th anniversary.

VOICE: I want to be of special mention to Grace for volunteering to direct it.

VOICE: You did, what?

VOICE: Oh, no. Did somebody die?

VOICE: It's worse than that, son.

VOICE: It's going to be the best Christmas pageant ever.

VOICE: Oh, no. It's the Herdmans now.

VOICE: The Herdmans are absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world.

VOICE: What did they do now, dear? Break another window?

VOICE: Set something on fire?

VOICE: Steal your lunch. And then punch you for not having any candy.

No, even worse.

We're going to be in your Bible.

VOICE: Herdmans in church.

VOICE: Oh, boy.

VOICE: We take the pageant seriously.

VOICE: It's about community and tradition.

VOICE: What do you all suggest? That I kick the Herdmans out of the church?
VOICE: Yes.
VOICE: I want to be Mary, and Ralph wants to be Joe.

VOICE: And the angel of the Lord.
(laughter)

VOICE: The Herdmans shouldn't be here. They're a poor influence.

VOICE: You don't look like any Mary I've seen before.

VOICE: Don't touch him. I'm happy to take over the part at any time.

VOICE: I can't just kick them out.

VOICE: I thought you might all be interested in one of my stops.

VOICE: You never told me you visited the Herdmans.

VOICE: I got the biggest ham for you guys. Is your mom home?

VOICE: Not when the sun is up.
(music)

VOICE: What if the Herdmans ruin this for you?

VOICE: They probably will, but it's not about me. Jesus was born for the herd man's as much as he was for us. We will be missing the whole point of the story if we turn them away.

GLENN: The best Christmas pageant ever. It is playing in theaters, right now.

And I've never heard this before. The people that I know that saw it. And that I trust.

They said, Glenn, I saw the trailer. And I saw the trailer. I thought it was great and funny.

I saw the trailer. And it seemed like a little holiday, you know, Hallmark kind of thing.

And they said, the movie is so much better than the trailer. And I've never heard anybody say that about any movie. Ever.

DALLAS: Yeah, typically the trailer is the very best -- the highlights of it.

GLENN: Yeah. So I can't wait. I'm making reservations at the theater for Thanksgiving. After we've -- we have our Thanksgiving. We'll go to the theater at night. And watch the best Christmas pageant ever.

I have to get you to correct something. There was somebody that I was talking to, that goes to a Christian school, here in Dallas.

And they were talking about it. With a more and more friend, who has a child in that school.

And it came up that the Mormons distorted The Chosen because they were involved. And so you can't believe The Chosen scripturally.

And I want you just to verify that you used the set, I think for the first year, from the Mormon Church.

And there -- all churches are involved. But you have -- I said to them. You need to go back to the classroom and say, that Dallas Jenkins has a group of Bible scholars, that look at it from all angles.

And they argue, make sure it's exactly Biblically correct. Correct?

DALLAS: Yes, 100 percent. And number one, I'm an evangelical Protestant. I have the final say and control of every single piece of content in the show. It's not influenced by anybody.

And as I'm sure you wouldn't be that surprised. But all of the Mormon friends or people that I have, that I work with.

I mean, I have people of all backgrounds.

GLENN: Yeah. All faiths.

DALLAS: And lack thereof.

Half of my cast weren't believers. But there hasn't been any arguments. None of them said, well, we wished we would do this instead.

Like, it's the gospels. It's the story of Jesus.

GLENN: It's pretty cut and dry.

DALLAS: The arguments we have about Jesus. Are based on things that took place after he was here. Or before he was here on earth.

It was astonishing some of the rumors. I use a set that was owned by the church.

It's not like they said, okay. Now, if you will use our set, you have to Mormon this up --

GLENN: Yeah.

DALLAS: Because this set doesn't come free.

GLENN: That was the first time I ever had to defend my Christian friend. Against like the Mormons.

It was weird.

DALLAS: Yeah. No. It's been -- it's been wonderful. And a great, great relationship with everyone who was involved.

GLENN: Thank you so much for everything that you do.

Dallas Jenkins. Movie, Best Christmas Pageant Ever. See it.

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