Best of the Program | Guests: John Solomon | 3/23/26

0:00Today's show is really different. Agree or disagree with it, it's really about staying the course and making sure you know how to judge truth and how diligent you need to be on that. I told a story of a ship that was going to go from New York to London, ends up in Miami. How did that happen? I'll tell you that story. Also, find that still small voice and you're picking people to listen to. Be careful. Because we're entering a new time in world and global and man's history. Also, John Solomon is here with a recap of all of the news of the day. Really fascinating stuff, especially about the war that you don't want to miss all of today's podcasting. War affects supply chains and right now, one of the most important shipping routes in the world, the Strait of Hormuz, along Iran's southern border is under massive strain.

1:00About 20% of the world's oil passes through it and when conflicts in that region happen, it is effectively closed right now. Consequences will ripple out fast. Air freight costs have already soared by as much as 400%. Some shipping routes now require detours that add close to a million dollars to a single voyage and those costs are passed right along to you. Experts are warning that this could escalate before it even starts to settle down. What happens the next time you need a prescription and the pharmacy can't get it? Jace Medical, this is why they exist. Their Jace case provides 10 essential antibiotics and emergency medications prescribed online and shipped directly to your door and you'll have them before you need them. And with Jace Daily, you can also get up to 12 months of supply every everyday medications. I want you to go to Jace.com, enter the promo code back and check out for a discount. Jace.com promo code back. Hello, America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We worked tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you.

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3:09There is a description of these times at the end of the Bible. It's wars and rumors of wars. And that's the way everything kind of feels right now. You know, you might have heard your father, your grandfather say, there are no atheists in a foxhole. The prospect of war, even one across the world, makes people reach for ancient stories and holy books, whether you're religious or not. It happens. And there is something unsettling that is going on. And something about this war in particular that makes us think about the ancient world and the beginning of everything, but also the end of everything. Whether that's nuclear war or the apocalypse, things that none of us want to think about. We don't want to think about those things. Christians believe that upheaval, apostasy, calamity, immoral collapse are signs of the end.

4:11But we don't know when that end is. This has happened over and over again all throughout history. Some Jews look at Israel restored in their land, surrounded by enemies and asking whether, wow, is history moving to the place where the Messiah, as promised to the Jews, is coming. Muslims, especially with the Shia eschatology, they hear this language of oppression and chaos and deception and war and ask whether is Trump the Dijal? Is he the Antichrist? They're actually saying that in parts of the Middle East. He might be the Antichrist, is the Mahadi coming. And their own tradition speaks of widespread injustice and the Mahadi being revealed, Jesus comes back, but not as Jesus is, you know, anyway, the deceiver following, the falling, the great Satan falling, and history rushing towards a reckoning.

5:12Let me talk to you about, what's happening here? What do you see happening? The world's great faiths are not suddenly agreeing on, on every doctrine. They're doing something more haunting than that. They are all staring at the same storm, each from a different tower, each from a different text, each with a different vocabulary, but they're all looking at the horizon and saying in one form or another, this may not be ordinary. Civilizations don't merely collapse from bad economics or failed diplomacy. Sometimes they do. They collapse when they lose any sense that eternity has a claim on them. When nothing is sacred and everything becomes negotiable and we have been here in the last 25 years, marriage is negotiable. Truth is negotiable. Who's truth? What truth? Your truth.

6:14Children become negotiable. They're not your children. They belong to somebody else, the school, the state. We can do whatever they want because they're not under age, really. We can adjust their body. How do you know what sex is? Justice is negotiable. Even human life is negotiable. And once people have lost the permanent, they become the perfect prey for the intermediate. And that's where we are right now. And believe it or not, everyone in every land on planet earth is prey. We are all distracted by notification. We are hypnotized by politics. We are consumed by work. We're buried in debt. We're entertained to death. We're arguing about personalities while the foundations of the world shake beneath our feet. And yet we don't stop and say, what are we really arguing for here?

7:16I mean, there's something bigger here. The deepest question is not whether this is the end of days. The deepest question is, if it were the end of days, would we even notice? Or are we all too busy scrolling, too busy branding ourselves, too busy chasing comfort, too busy treating the soul like an afterthought? I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks and it is important that you hear me. If there's even a possibility that this is such a time, then our conversations are absurd. We should be talking less about who won the, you know, clip of the day war and more about whether we are right with our maker. Less about endless outrage machine and more about repentance and forgiveness and courage and discipline and empathy and mercy.

8:23When's the last time your social media said to you, what kind of man are you becoming? When's the last time you pondered that, what kind of a woman am I becoming? What have I taught through my actions, through the way I live my life? What have I taught my children to worship? Comfort, success, identity, tribe, or truth? Do they know what truth is? Have I made peace with my neighbor? Have I made peace with my family? Have I told my family what matters most and am I living my life that way? Have I lived my life as though history is random? Or have I lived my life and am I living my life today? Knowing that one day I will have to answer for the life and for every minute I was given.

9:26For over 30 years I have made a living looking ahead, connecting dots, sometimes seeing patterns before they fully form. And if you've listened to me for any length of time, you know this already but there's a lot of times I am not right. I'll say it, there are a lot of times I am out now wrong. Things I misunderstood, times I move too fast, times I trusted the wrong sources, filled in the gaps with my own conclusions, that's real and that's all on me. But there is another part of my record that matters, because when you step back and you look at the arc, there are moments, if you've been listening to me for a long time, that are hard to ignore. In 1999 I spoke about Osama Bin Laden and I said there will be a major terrorist attack on New York City with blood, bodies and buildings in the streets.

10:37Two years later it happened. In the early 2000s I warned about our financial system stressed beyond reason, something that could snap and take the world down with it. In 2008 it did. I thought it would lead us to a great depression. I was wrong because I didn't see tarp, but when I saw tarp I said these interventions, the bailouts, they're going to stabilize thing in the short term. They'll fundamentally change our system and they will delay a deeper reckoning and that deeper reckoning is still ahead. It's not a victory lap, this is a timeline. I've talked about the ideological movements, the Marxist anarchist, Islamist forming strange alliances that nobody said could, nobody could say they would ever do. I was crazy for saying it. I warned that they would create chaos in the Middle East and then chaos in Europe and it would lead to massive migration waves that would test the cohesion of all Western nations.

11:38It would come here to America and cause chaos in America and its plan was to topple the Western world and Western civilization. That was something that was nuts when I first said it. It's not really now, is it? Years ago I spoke about artificial intelligence in terms that sounded extreme at the time that we could read something like AGI around 2030 that it would disrupt not five or 10% of our jobs, but something closer to half of our jobs. That put me back then way on the edge of the fringe, lunatic fringe. Now I'm much closer to the center of the conversation and that wasn't about jobs, that was about losing truth. So how do you reconcile the two truths that I have that I'm wrong a lot and then I have these things that are like shocking?

12:38Here's the only answer I can give you. I know the difference between when it's when I'm reasoning something out and when something feels placed in front of me. And you can call that intuition, you can call that pattern recognition, you can call that experience, I call it listening to the spirit. I'm not going to force that on you, but I will tell you I don't take credit for the moments that turned out right. Because I know they were not engineered or reasoned out by me. I know it and only I know it. So I can't prove that to you. But I have learned the hard way to be very, very careful about telling those two things apart. Because when it's just me, when it's just my analysis, my guess, my conclusion, I hold that loosely. I expect to be challenged. I expect to revise. That's why I say to you all the time in monologues, especially in the last few months, but especially about this war.

13:40I don't know it could, I could be wrong on this. That's me. I'm trying to send you a signal. Whenever you hear me say that, I'm sending you the signal. This is my pattern recognition ability. It is my reason. It is, it's a chance that I am really wrong on this. That's what I'm trying to tell you when I say that. But when it's something else, something that arrives fully formed and also as a weight and a clarity and an urgency, I have learned, do not dismiss or ignore it. And that's what I want to talk to you about today. I am not going to make a prediction or lay out a timeline or headline. I today want to pass a warning.

14:40I feel more than compelled to share with you. Time matters right now in a way that is hard to explain with any kind of chart or data. The world is not falling apart randomly. There is a direction to it and there is awareness beyond what we can see. I feel compelled to tell you, none of this is a surprise to God. None of this is catching him off guard. None of this is outside of his view and neither are you. I believe deeply that people are being called quietly, individually, across different faiths, countries, different lives, not all with the same words but with the same pull. You might feel it yourself, a pull to get closer to him, to simplify, to spit yourself out of the system, to return to the basics of how we are supposed to live.

15:52And I don't mean go live in a log cabin. I mean the way you're supposed to live in your own home. Because the times ahead are not going to be easy. There is going to be confusion. If you think you're confused now, you haven't seen anything. And there are going to be voices loud, convincing voices that will try to pull you off course. And some will sound really righteous. Some you will agree, listen to everything, but mainly listen to him. Some will sound like they're right for a while. One percent off course is going to make a big difference. They will sound urgent and they will sound like they have all the answers. They don't. I don't. I was talking with my staff this morning about the state of America. And we talked about how it reminds us of the battles in the Bible where the enemy is just consumed with the spirit of confusion, like a fog over their camp.

16:56And they just start killing their brothers and their allies instead of who they're supposed to be fighting. They just all turn on each other. That fog has clearly fallen over America. And we're watching right now the left rip rip itself apart for years. And it gobble other parts of the left. And now the right is joining in. But beyond politics, we're ripping each other apart in our own families, in our marriages. The spirit of confusion has us attacking the people we're supposed to be fighting with and not against. And it is a thick, thick fog. And it's easy to get lost in if you don't have your footing. If you're not grounded in something deeper than what's happening right now, you can and will get lost. Now, let me give you some good news. We make it. We make it. It's going to be fascinating to see how God solves all this, but we make it.

17:58However this unfolds, however difficult the road becomes, the story doesn't end in darkness. There is something on the other side. That is glorious and worth enduring for. Something better than what anyone has ever known. But getting there requires preparation. Not just in what you store or plan, but in who you are. One of these days, I want to tell you some things about. I always know when trouble is coming because I come under attack. My family is under attack now. Like it's never been. I mean, it's been bad. I mean, other times, but it's playing on me. You have to get these things cleared up. Your family matters, your faith matters, your daily choices matter more than any headline.

19:00I told my wife yesterday we have to double our work on feeding the hungry. We have to double our work on telling the truth, leaving your sins, loving your children fiercely. Like they're the only thing that matters. Honor your vows. Pray like heaven is real. Read the ancient words again. Stand down from hatred. Step away from the lie that politics will save only what repentance can save. And you know what? I hope I'm wrong. If this is not the beginning of some grand chapter, those are still the right things to do. We all need to live our life as if the life that we live as if the Messiah is near is the life we should live even if he's not. So don't get distracted. Don't chase every new voice. Don't trust any voice, including mine. Trust the still small voice.

20:07Don't dismiss it. Ever. Do it. Do what he tells you to do. And you know the difference between yours and his. It's usually something you don't want to do. Then do it. But time is short. Strengthen your relationship in God in whatever way you understand. Let me tell you about relief factor. If you're tired of waking up every day, feeling like you just went 12 rounds in the boxing rings and you lost every single round. You know, not because you did anything crazy the day before, but because your body just doesn't bounce back the way it used to. A lot of people have accepted that. They say this is just what getting older feels like. So they push through it. They work around it. And you know, hope it doesn't get any worse, but it doesn't have to be that way. Relief factor is a way that you could possibly get a lot of your life back. It's a drug free supplement that was created to help your body respond differently to everyday aches and pains supports your natural response to inflammation.

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22:18We're finally finding out the Congress had no idea the president had no idea the American public had no idea that's kind of remarkable because two years ago in Great Britain. When Great Britain revealed that it's a voter registration data had been accessed by China hacked by China. There was national recrimination. There was a national crisis major changes to security. There were people who were fired. There were hearings and blue ribbon panels. Great Britain took such a breach of your election system very seriously. But in America the CIA FBI the DHS in the end of the Trump in the beginning of the Biden air just deep six. It didn't let anybody know. So we had into the twenty twenty six not even the president. Yeah, does not either not evidence that the president but the reason I say that is because we have now a report from the ombudsman for the United States intelligence community. And that ombudsman wrote that his name is Barry Zolloff and he wrote that this evidence was kept from the president himself.

23:20Specifically because US intelligence analyst inside the CIA inside the FBI inside the home and security department didn't like Donald Trump. They called them the vulgarian in the old office. That's actually what they wrote about their commander in chief in their own emails. And that they chose not to brief on this because they didn't want Donald Trump's policies on China to succeed. So you have an intelligence committee caught red handed putting their political interest ahead of their country's interest. John, what is it in this going to make any difference? It's a great question, right? We're a week into these revelations. The White House hasn't driven a narrative from the podium. You don't see Carolyn Levin talk about it on the podium even though the evidence is absolutely dispositive. We put the declassified evidence into the president has put it up on truth. He's raised some concerns about it. The president's intelligence advisory board chaired by Devon Nunez. They announced today that they're going to be investigating this Senator Ron Johnson is seeking the documents from the Senate public permanent subcommittee on investigations.

24:26But the administration which has everything to gain and helping the American people understand this fix it. For instance, we got a debate going on in the Senate right now over the same act, the same America. No, none of the senators know if their state was hacked by China. That's something that the Trump administration bureaucracy could do today. They could reset up briefings for the senators and give them that information. I don't know. I don't know. A pair they can only handle one thing at a time. Democrats can handle five things at a time, right? But we seem preoccupied with the administration. This administration has proven that they can handle 100 things at a time. I don't buy into that. If they choose to, but here's a situation they knew it was coming. The White House knew this was coming. The CIA knew it was coming. The DNI knew it was coming. They released the documents. But they've yet to contact the senators and tell them what states are there. And so I continue to ask those questions. Who wins? Who wins if we don't pay attention to this?

25:28I'm trying to figure out motive on why you wouldn't say anything. What is the gain? Trying to win. If there are capabilities, they're still preserved because there hasn't been the sort of alert that great Britain did. And then one could argue the Democratic Party does. And I say that only because of the documents that Cas Patel released last June that we broke here at just the news and June of last year. That China sent tens of thousands of fake drivers licenses into Chicago airport to be distributed around the country. And the goal of that, according to the FBI's own counterintelligence sources inside China, was for China to register people to fake people to vote for Joe Biden, help Joe Biden beat President Trump in the 2020. Now, we intercepted those. But it's pretty clear that China either has a preference with the Democratic Party or certain sort of alliance with the Democratic Party based on what the FBI wrote. John, can you believe you live in this time?

26:29I mean, any other time in our lifetimes, this would have shut everything down. Right? We should put our defenses up. We should fix it. By the way, it's eminently fixable. But the partisan divide in America makes everybody see red when they want to see green and when green when they want to see red. There is no bipartisanship party becomes before country. And you see this sort of gridlock driven bipartisan buckets. It's terrifying. How is the Save America Act? You've judged these things forever. You've seen them. Anything going to happen again? I think it gets skinny down. I think at the end of the day, some of the other provisions, including a ban on absentee voting for most Americans will be preserved because several red states like Arizona do it. Georgia does it. Florida does it pretty effectively. But if they skinny it down to voter ID and to citizenship checks, which are 85% popular in the American public,

27:33there is a good chance that they can pick up six or seven senators. Particularly when senators start to find out that their state was hacked and more to the targets of this Chinese influence operation. I think that's a very big thing. That's going to come out. Listen, we're going to keep on the CIA. We're going to keep on the DNI. We are going to find out which states are. We're told it says many is 18. We're going to stay on it until every state knows that they were impacted by China's malm influence operations. Do you have any states so far? None. None whatsoever. No, but we expect that in the next branch of documents. Talk to me a little bit about the FBI. They seized the records for America, but County, this seems like a million years ago now. And are we are we re litigating this or have they found anything significant? I think in Georgia and Fallen County and Arizona, America, but County, the two big urban centers. The metropolises were voting in those two states. The goal of the FBI is to find out much like at the end of the day.

28:34Gangsters sometimes get caught not on their mobster activities, but sometimes on taxes or technical violations. To hold accountable those state and city and county officials who didn't follow their state election laws. There's one unique part to the laws that the Democratic Party helped pass in the 1960s. And it says that if a state doesn't follow the laws on the books for the elections, and it does so knowingly and willingly, by the way, a county in the city as well, if there's a no-full and willful effort not to follow the laws on the books for the state election, when it's a federal election, it becomes a federal offense. So I think what the FBI is trying to create with the Justice Department is trying to create is deterrence, which is we may prosecute people for not following the laws in 22 and 24. So that they do follow the laws going forward in elections. What are those laws? Keeping the voter rolls dirty when they're supposed to be cleaned up. You see a lot of problems with that. Just last week, Carmine Dillon reviewed. She's going through some of these voter rolls. She's found tens of thousands of non-citizens who made it onto the voter rolls.

29:37And she hasn't even gotten to California, New York, and some of the big states. That's a problem. The law in those states says that non-citizens should not be on the voter rolls. Changing the ballot so that they ballots go out whether someone requests them or not. Some states ban that from happening. Or they don't do a voter identification like signature matches, or which are required in Arizona, or photo ID matches, which were required in Wisconsin, but waived in some circumstances in 2020. If those officials are sure they've done that in violation of the laws of their legislatures, but they can be charged federally. And that'll be the first accountability we had for a Lucy Goosey election system that has kind of been wandering about without structure for about 20 years now. This gets worse every election. We're now seeing an administration committed to holding the states to the laws they say around the book so that everybody's treated equally. And if you don't do it, you could be prosecuted. I'll be refreshing. I believe it when I see it.

30:37The next thing on this kind of subject is JD Vance going in after all of the corruption. And John, I firmly believe. I'll bet you a third of our deficit is just waste and bribery and corruption. And it's going to be found everywhere. Are we making any progress on this? And will anybody actually maybe held accountable? I believe that a system is falling into place right now. We're seeing in Minnesota mass prosecutions. We're up over 120 people. That's a large criminal case. I think at the end of the day, California is just starting to ramp up. New York will start ramping up. You are exactly right. If you look at the GAO report, it estimates anywhere from 500 to $700 billion a year, which is about a third of the discretionary budget of the United States is wasted either through going to dead people,

31:38going to ineligible people, going to foreign con men, going to domestic con men or con women. That is something that you don't need Congress to fix. If you just enforce the rules that are on the book, and there's some really simple things that I think you'll see, JD Vance get done right away. Most grant programs, most entitlement programs, still don't check the dead person database at the Social Security by sending out a check. Now, that's just simple basic new diligence. That could save a lot of money or tens of billions of dollars just doing that. Checking to see if someone says that they're living in Alabama, but their check is being sent to Moldova or Russia, not to pick on any particular country. That would find a lot of the foreign fraud that we saw rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's like that easy, literally that easy. The former Comptroller of the United States, who is I think one of the smartest guys to... He's been saying this for 20 years. Nobody's been listening to him. I think JD Vance has dialed in these three simple recommendations from the Comptroller of the United States.

32:39The third is, go in, they're every year the GAO identifies high risk programs. Programs that clearly don't have protections in place and they have a long history of wasting money. Just implement the recommendations, which most agencies have not done. Those three things, the Comptroller of the United States said, could save between 300 and 500 billion dollars here. Now, a single law needs to be passed by Congress. Out of single-recision need to happen. Just that alone, if JD Vance achieved that, that would be an extraordinary gift to the American public. Is that why they went after Elon Musk so hard? Oh, yeah. You're hanging over the Holy Grail, and you see now what the Holy Grail looks like, right? When you dissect Minnesota, it is a plot that the Democrats have. First, open up the border, then get nonprofits to move people to the blue cities and blue states where you're trying to ramp up your apportionment, where you're trying to ramp up your representation, where you're trying to ramp up your federal funds algorithm,

33:39and then keep them there by letting them defraud programs so that they're happy and they're making good money off the taxpayer, because then you get another congressional seat, or you get an extra amount of extra billions of dollars a year. It's that coordinated. We see it. That's why when these whistleblowers came out in Minnesota and said, we told the governor, we told the attorney general they weren't interested in looking at it. There's a system that the Democrats have built, and I think right now, for the first time you're seeing it being dismantled, piece by piece. I fear, you know, politicians or politicians don't care left or right. You think this is happening in the red states as well? Oh, absolutely. It happens everywhere at the end of the day, because, you know, what happens is, you know, the head bones connected to the shoulder bone, the back bones down to the leg bone. By the time you get to the leg bone, there's some man or woman in a blue city, in a red state that's deciding whether you're going to get that money or not, whether I'm going to check the voter, the dead database.

34:39And so getting, because the federal distribution keeps going downstream, it eventually gets to either a crooked or an incompetent bureaucracy at the local level that administers those funds. That's what you see in Minnesota most times. Everybody knew there were problems with the autism program. Everybody knew there were problems with food program. Everybody knew there were problems with the child care program. But the people at the bottom of the food chain, they didn't care. And they didn't intervene now. Did they not care for political reasons? Did they not care? Because they just weren't good at their job. We don't know the answer to that. But when those people started getting indicted, because they didn't, they weren't good stewards of the money. You're going to see the system tighten up pretty quickly. And I think that's the next wave of indictments. All right. We got the fraudsters in the con men, at least in Minnesota. Another question is, who downstream is getting investigated? We've seen criminal referrals from James Gomer. Looking at some of the people in the state government, we've got whistleblowers that have dates and times and names of when people were told and didn't act. When state officials start getting in county, and city officials start getting indicted

35:40for not protecting the federal funds that they were entrusted with, that's when the system's going to tighten up really quickly. Because that's where all the abuse occurs. Downstream from Uncle Sam. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck podcast. Here more of this interview and others with the full show podcast, available wherever you get podcasts. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So all weekend, the Dow Jones was just taking a bath and it was the worst week ever. And today, the Dow Jones is up almost 700 points. Why? Because Trump just said things are going well in Iran. Can we not be the Dow Jones? Can we not be whatever the latest is on what somebody has just said to make us feel really, really bad or really, really good? You don't want to be like that. That just leads to absolute disaster. Because nobody has any idea. We are so confused right now. And that is part of this age, confusion and chaos. And spit yourself out of that system.

36:42If you are feeling confused and chaotic, find the things that make you feel anchored. And don't avoid what's going on as you will understand. Next hour, I'm going to be talking about something that is really, you know, top three things probably I've ever had to say on broadcast. In reality, number one thing I've ever had to say on broadcast. But you'll understand when I get there. You need to listen to next hour. But without any kind of despair or lies in your life. You just have to know what the truth is. And then just keep pushing forward on the truth. You know, I was just talking about Lindsey Graham and what he said over the weekend. This guy has never met a war he doesn't like. I want you to listen to Lindsey Graham what he just said. Here's why I tell President Trump. Keep it up for a few more weeks. Take Carg Island where all of the resources they have to produce or control that island.

37:46Let this regime down a vine. Is this going to, though, take Carg Island? Is it going to involve US troops on the ground? Let me just read you something from the Atlantic. It doesn't assessment on that. They say US troops may well take Carg Island. We believe there are ability to do so. But only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support. This has been an amazing military operation. God bless the fallen. But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground. I trust the Marines. Not that guy. I trust EOD. We got two Marine Expeditionary Unit sailing to this island. We did Aegema. We can do this. Okay. Aegema, not a good example. Why? It was a slaughter. It was a meat grinder. We lost so many people in Aegema. If you're willing to do that, okay, then we have to have a different kind of conversation with the American people. Because the American people do not have a stomach, have the stomach for a meat grinder.

38:47They don't really even understand what the objective is at this point. You know, we've been promised this is going to be a short-lived thing. We're not going to have ground troops, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, then you throw in Iwo Jima? No. But let me show you how easy it is to get lost on this. Here's Lindsey Graham saying, you know, the guy has never met a war he doesn't like. And we should do this. We should do this. We should do this. I am saying we don't have a choice now. Whether you like it or not, we don't have a choice. We have to fight this to win this. I don't know what that means. And if you're talking about ground troops, that's a whole different conversation. But you could listen to this and say, well, Glenn Beck saying the same thing that Lindsey Graham is saying. No, no, no, we're not. No, we're not. Same thing could be said a little while ago, I was saying this is becoming very, very concerning. And we are in trouble, I think.

39:50And we just have to be very, very careful. Now, you could listen to that and say, Glenn Beck is against this war. Just like, just like, you know, Joe Kent is. Well, no, I'm not saying the same thing that Joe Kent is. Joe Kent is against the war and says this could be very, very bad. Glenn Beck is saying, I don't know about this war. I trust the president. I trust our military, but I'm very nervous about it. But, you know, if we're going to go deeper into it, that changes the ballgame here. I need to hear more from the president of the United States. Similar, maybe, but what Joe does is he goes further. This is how you get lost. Let me tell you a story. Let me tell you a story about a ship. It's in New York Harbor. And it's got a hundred-day crossing. It's going to take a hundred days to go to England. And it's planning on docking in England.

40:53And everybody is ready to go to England. They're all very excited. But none of them really know how to read the stars. You know, they trust the compass in a few charts. But they're not sure the compass, how that really works either. But the word is, you know, who's ever at the wheel? Just hold her steady. Just hold her steady. Okay. London that way. A few degrees here and there won't matter, right? Well, let's just say that every day the ship runs on the old tradition of four-hour watches. So some, he's got the helm. At six times a day, 24 hours, the Helmsman's change. And each time a new man takes the wheel, some small happens. Okay. The first Helmsman, he's tired from the night before. So he just swings it one degree too far south, close enough. Okay. No one's going to notice a single degree on a ship this big. He's not wicked.

41:53He's not just lazy. You know, he might be tired that our next guy comes in. Glances at the compass, thought the previous course looks right enough. But, you know, he's off by a degree this time. It's just easier on his shoulders because he's sore. You know, he was working out. You know, a third man distracted by a story was telling drifted another degree. And so it goes on night after night, watch after watch. Not one of them choosing the wrong course. Not one of them saying we're all of them believing we're going to London. But just a tiny misjudgment. Not wrong. Just not right. Almost right by one degree. One degree at a time. Well, by the end of the first week, the ship is now 10 degrees off course. No one notice. Sea looks the same. Wind's still feeling the sales. Daily log steady as she goes. Second week, the drift is now 20 degrees.

42:53Officers shrug. We'll correct it tomorrow. Well, tomorrow never comes. The mathematics of the sea. Merciless. Same of the air. Same with life. London initially. 51 degrees from New York. Florida, a sunny beach. 201 degrees. The difference is 150 degrees. At one degree of air per watch. Six watches a day. The ship needed 150 shifts. A shifts to swing from London. All the way around going to Florida. The 25th day. The helmsman on the day watch. Feels the wheel answer strangely. It's a little light in his hands. He checks the compass. He kind of blinks. Shows. The car shows 201 degrees. Dead on for Miami.

43:53The ship is no longer almost headed for London. It's headed for Florida. The coast of England is now behind them. And to the north. The coast of Florida is somewhere just over the southern horizon. And drawing nearer every time. How did it happen? How did this happen? Imagine being the captain? Well, I guess. I mean, how did it happen? I mean, nobody really failed. There wasn't one failure of one guy. No one had mutiny. Nobody. No great storm had blown them off course. Just a thousand tiny decisions. Each one easy. Each one smaller. Each one almost right. Until they were headed towards Miami. That's life. You're going to hear from a lot of people including me. That might be almost right.

44:55In your life, we must be correct. For your course, you must be correct. What is your compass? What is the thing that you check every day and go? Am I on course? Because I have news for you. Social media. It's going to take you one to ten degrees off course. But you could do it every day. And it's just a little just a fraction of degree off course every day because of social media. You could get so wrapped up in your worry of war and politics and everything else that that could take you a fraction of a degree to twenty degrees off course. You could start listening to somebody like me. You use me as an example. And you're like, yeah, that guy's right. But you're not listening entirely to everything that I say. And so if you're just blindly following you're like, well, but I agree with him. But I might be headed in a place where you don't want to go.

45:57We have to be very, very, very careful on the influences in our life. We have to be much more discerning on everything that we do. And every life is about to change. And we all need to be aware that we are in charge of our course and setting it every day. And be aware of the little things my shoulders hurt. So I, you know, I'm just going to let it drifted degree. Everything we do has a consequence. And we don't notice it until we're headed towards, well, this sounds like a good thing. Tell we're headed towards Miami and not to London. We don't notice it until it is way off course. Just be careful, the little decisions matter.

46:58Life like the sea keeps exact and perfect arithmetic.