Best of the Program | Guest: Jonathan Cahn | 9/8/26

0:00I started the show today with crazy stuff that's going on in Chicago. I mean, we are seeing real mental illness. And the week of Charlie Kirk's death, the anniversary, or the memorial that is coming up on Thursday, that I'll be at UVU in Salt Lake City, has got me thinking about all the craziness and how we're reacting to it. And so I start the best of podcasts with, who are you really? Who are we? Because we've lost our story about not just the nation, about who we are. You may never have actually written your story intentionally. I'll talk about that. Also, Jonathan Khan joins me. An amazing story of you saw the guy that was taped to the airline seat. Remember, over the weekend, some guy got completely out of control? The press, as usual, never told you the real story. Jonathan Khan was the guy sitting next to that guy. What actually happened on that plane is horrific, horrific. And he was the guy that he witnessed. It was him.

1:02It was him that the guy had to be taped down to his chair, because he tried to choke Jonathan Khan. Wait until you hear this story. And $3 and the run to gochem. Two things that have happened this weekend that nobody's going to tell you about that are absolutely staggeringly great, long term for America. Common sense. All that more on today's podcast. Truth is under attack in our culture. People are embracing lies about gender. They're rejecting the sanctity of every human life. And the government is even punishing people for saying what's true and right. Or worse, the woke mob is doxing them and slandering them with no due process. Just an angry mob making their lives miserable or worse, putting families in real danger. But the biblical principles on which our country was founded still matter. Real patriots and Christians are beginning to stand up. They're showing real courage without a safety net of a big bank account. They're bolstered only by the truths that are self-evident. But these people must be defended.

2:03Alliance defending freedoms on the front lines of this fight. And they're standing in courtrooms across the country upholding truth and you're right to speak it. Your gift to ADF will be matched by a special grant while the funds last. Visit joinadf.com slashback or text back to 83-848. Visit joinadf.com slashback or text back to 83-848. You're listening to the best of the perfect program. There's a couple of things that I want to share with you. Did you see the video of the guy who was duct tape to an American Airlines chair? He was in, I think he was in first class. And they actually took duct tape and duct taped him to his chair because he became violent. This from the story. The passenger allegedly used the N word towards a black flight attendant and then became violent.

3:05Also gayslurs and then hitting other passengers and pushing another. That's the story you're getting. Here's, show the video here. It's cut six. There they are just duct taping and taking him out. All right. What that story doesn't tell you is pretty significant. There is a missing part of this story that when you hear it, you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute. How was that not in the story? How do I know it? I happen to know the guy who is sitting next to him on the plane. He joins me in about 25 minutes. Wait until you hear what the press left out. Coming up in just a second. Also, I want to play a couple of other things here. This is from TikTok.

4:05It shows a family divided over Trump. And I think this is so unfortunately universal. Listen to this. Cut two. Yes, you made a wrong decision. And I would have, if you had all the rights to me for taking away my rights and the rights of everybody who can relate to me on these videos, then we would be fine. I told you in that text, when you apologize for what you've done to this whole country, what you've had a hand in doing, you had a hand in this, you and your people did this to my country, to all of our countries. That is the problem. You think it's your country and there's a lot of other highway. Yeah, murder is wrong. Racism is wrong. You know, he was sued over seven times for not serving black people. What do you have to say? What do you have to say to that? Oh, wrong. OK, the much you vote for him. Much you vote for him. You are so racist and hateful and so. Can you imagine speaking your mother this way? Because I know as a dad, I mean, she looks to be about 20.

5:08Get the hell out of my house. You do not speak to your mother this way. Period. Period. Now, if there's not a man in the house, then she needs to say, get out of the house. You are not, you are not going to speak to me. You're going to have different opinions, but you are not going to speak to me that way in this house. Period. Show some respect, but we don't do that anymore. And the reason why is, we've forgotten who we are. We've completely forgotten who we are. We don't know who we are anymore. We've lost our story. We've lost our story as a nation. We've lost our story as a people. And let me ask you, deep down, deep down beneath all the noise, the scroll, the busyness, the endless doing. Who are you? Who are you? Really?

6:10Not the version you show the world. Not the resume, not the feed. The role you play for your family or your boss or your followers, but the real you. The one that remains when the lights go out and no one is watching it, it's just you alone. Who are you? Do you know that most of us never ask? I mean, not honestly, not deeply. We're too distracted, we're too tired. And honestly, if you're anything like I was, you're afraid. You're afraid to ask that question because you're maybe you're not sure there is anything real there? Or you're afraid what the answer might cost you? You know, I knew when I was really on the road to recovery when I first started going through AA when I could drive without the radio on.

7:14We fill our days with noise because silence forces us to face the truth. When you can actually be silent for 20 minutes and just be alone with your own thoughts, you're comfortable with knowing who you are. I don't think most of us even know who we are anymore or why we're here. What life is really for? I think we are beginning to think we're all here for politics. We're not here for politics, gang. We're not. We're not fighting politics. We are fighting the collective versus the individual. And that is a God thing. Did God create us as a collective? Did Jesus come and save us as a collective? Or does he work with the individual? Because if God deals with the individual, then we know how His kingdom is run. It's run on the individual, on the individual choices.

8:16And He gives you the ability to choose. That doesn't mean there is no right or wrong. There are punishments. There are consequences. Because I should say, I don't look at what, I don't look at eternal consequences as punishments. I look at them as consequences. You know, hey, don't run. Don't run with a knife. Why? There's no punishment if you fall down with a knife and you stab yourself. Hey, you don't run with that stick. You're going to put an eye out. It's not a punishment if you put your eye out. It's just a consequence. We avoid all of the questions that matter the most. We stop being silent. We never stop long enough to ask if everything I own, if everything I've built, if every title, every opinion, every approval that I chase, if all of it disappeared tomorrow, what would be left of me?

9:17What am I trading today for? Because I'm doing it every day and I don't even think about it. Am I living the story that I wrote, that I was born to right and live, or am I living the story others have said about me and I've, am I living somebody else's script and I've just allowed myself to believe it. What would I do if fear and comfort and the need to be liked no longer had a vote in my life? How much of your life would change? What would you be doing now if you didn't have a need to be liked? You didn't have a need to be, to have approval. What's the one thing worth giving everything for? Not just your time, but your heart, your future, your breath?

10:25You know like guys die when they retire because guys find their meaning and work and I don't know how to get around that because a lot of my meaning comes from work. But I am in this really hard difficult place to where I've realized my kids are much more important than anything I've ever done. All of this stuff is garbage compared to my children and what I've taught my children and the time I've spent with my children and every time they call their mom four times to the one that they call their dad, it kills me but not because they're doing it because I made the choice to concentrate on work. What are the real achievements? Is your life about appearance, stuff, the applause of others? By the way, I'm not asking you these questions alone.

11:25I ask these of myself all the time. Or is it something eternal? Is it something that can never be taken away? Because I got news for you. Have you seen this day of the world? We could lose everything. What are you going to be left with? That's when you ask, why am I here? Why am I here? What is my purpose here? Not the generic to be happy, to be successful. That's the answer the culture is giving us. What's the real answer to that one? The one that only you can fulfill? These are the questions that most of us don't even like to ask because asking them honestly means we might have to change. It means that we might have to admit the life we're living may not be the life we were

12:32made for. But here's a beautiful truth, the terrifying truth. The many you start asking those questions with courage and honesty, something very powerful begins to awaken inside of you. Your inner strength. The real kind. The kind that doesn't depend on circumstance. The kind that doesn't matter if you're rich or poor and you can barely make it today. Because you'll stop drifting. You'll stop performing. And you begin the journey back to yourself. I can guarantee you, somebody said this to me once when I was young, you have no idea how powerful you are when you get out of your own way. And I say that to you, you have no idea how powerful you are if you would just get out of your own way. If you would stop letting your circumstances dictate where you are and what you think.

13:33You're going to discover that your identity was never meant to be built on shifting sand on what you do, what you have or what people think about you. It was always meant to be rooted in eternal truth because you were created for a purpose. And when you lean into that truth, your life begins to fill up in ways you never imagined with no more stuff or noise, but with meaning, with depth, with peace that actually lasts. And then you start preparing for life's real entrez. Not the entrez that you take your phone out and take a picture of. I don't understand why we photograph our food all the time. I just don't get it. Those are meals somebody else has prepared for you. What is the meal that you're preparing for yourself right now?

14:33You're going to move from consumer to creator, from passenger to pilot, from loss to found. And the more that you discover who you truly are, the more you will realize you were never meant to live for yourself alone. Your life will find its fullest expression when it flows outward, especially if you're not married, get married, find somebody that loves you, loves God, and you love. Because when you find that higher cause, when you find who you really are, then you begin to stand up for what is right. When you start to build and you start to speak truth, and you pour yourself out into something bigger than your own comfort, it's when you and your family and everything around you becomes fully alive. If we don't start asking ourselves these questions, we're not going to make it.

15:37If we don't, because right now we don't even know who we are as a party. Look at the arguments that are going on. We don't know who we are as a family. We don't know who we are as a country. You're not going to answer any of those unless you can answer who are you as an individual. If any of this, if any of this connects anywhere with you, take it as a sign. Believe me, you don't want to be at rock bottom to begin. And you don't have to have it all figured out. That's the thing my kids hit me. I don't have it figured out. Neither do I. You're not going to have it all figured out. Stop waiting for having it all figured out. Just start moving. Stop avoiding. Answer the questions you've been avoiding. Start today. Sit in the quiet. Write them down. Speak them out loud. Bring them honestly, honestly, and ask God. It's not afraid of your questions. He'll answer every single one of them.

16:40Who are you really? Why are you here? What are you willing to live for? Ask, listen, choose. You remember it was a year ago this week that a lot of people said, I am Charlie Kirk, are you? If you made that promise to yourself, what have you changed? Have you changed? It's been a year. What have you changed? Anything? You were created for full, free, purposeful, significant life. You're made for this. You're made for these times. Don't try to be Charlie Kirk. Be you. Find out who you are and be you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Jonathan, what happened on that airplane?

17:43OK. It was the flight from hell. I was on it. I was sitting next to the guy. I was the unidentified passenger. I really, you know, I realized that was the only one who really what happened. They saw the kind of the effects of it. And I was actually at the center of it. I was physically attacked on the plane. The articles, I mean, you said this, you're totally right. The articles were talking of the side things. Yeah, he said some things, but he's out of control. But it was demonic. And I'm not saying where the guy's at. I don't know the guy, but what happened was demonic. It was real spiritual warfare. And the other thing is this going to sound wild. I know I'm going to be back. I'm going to talk about the book. The book was actually at the center of this or causing this. So the real story is I knew something. It's going to sound wild. I knew something was going to happen before that even week. I knew there and we I told people pray because of an attack on me.

18:46Because the reason I said it's because every time a book comes out, put out a book, there is crazy attacks. And that makes sense because kind of on revealing the books reveal kind of that the spiritual realm. And there's a dark side of this spiritual realm. And so it's always happened. And I don't say this one, the ultra-epurgamon is, it says, the mystery of the dark angel, that's Satan and the future of the world. And so it's even more so. So we expected something big. So I get on the plane and I'm saying the guy is to my left. Friendliest guy in the world. By the way, Glenn, I wasn't supposed to be on that seat. Last minute, I'm switched to that seat. And he's the friendliest guy talking about his business and real turn, all that. We're talking, he's laughing. I've talked about his family, my family. And I wanted to get work done, but I figured, okay, maybe God wants me to talk to this guy. And so about two hours, the flight attendant thought we were the best friends. We knew each other. So and all that. And then I said, God, give me a chance to share your love with him,

19:47your salvation with him. And so it happens. And so I said, well, he says, well, I rejected that. I knew that as a kid. I rejected that because of Christians. And because so he goes to this thing, I said, well, so I'm sharing about God. But I'm sharing about, it's not about Christians, it's about you and God. It's about God's love. It's about being born again. I'm saying that was, and then he says, this is what's going to lead up to it. This is what caused the whole sort of, he says, how do you know God is real? And I said, well, I was an atheist. You know, I saw a biblical prophecy coming true now. Is I couldn't argue with it? And then I got hit by a train. He says, really? Yeah, then I shared two things. And this is what, this is what Triggered the whole thing. I said, you know, he said, well, he's real. So I said, well, one, I shared the story of how the Harbinger is the first book I did, became a book. It was a supernatural encounter in an airport. Okay. Then number two, I shared how God brought my wife from Brazil, how we met. And it was totally supernatural. And everything's great until, and then it turns that moment. I don't know, I've never seen anything like this in my life.

20:47All it was like his face changes, his voice changes. And all of a sudden, he said, he whispered, he's like, he has something to tell me. He whispers and he says, I'm not going to say the word. He says, bull, black. I said, what? He said, bull, black, I said, what do you say? What I said, wasn't it? And then he says, I'm not, go blank yourself. And I'm like, okay. And so I'm there. And then he goes off. He's cursing God. By the way, he's cursing Jesus. He's blasphemy on the airplane. They didn't put that in the articles. In fact, one of them said he was talking about Jesus like he was a Christian. And he was like, hey, book Christian. So he is blaspheming. He is saying vulgar things. People all around are getting disturbed. I'm saying, I'm saying, come, you can get yourself in trouble. And then the flight attendants come over. He says something and he's probably saying, everything. And it happens back and then he stands up. And he goes to the people in front and says, do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe it?

21:48And then he starts talking about hell. I mean, it was, I mean, if you imagine, I'm not saying we're the guys out, but imagine a demonic manifestation. This had everything. And then suddenly, he turns friendly again like he's a different person. And he sees my computer. And now my computer glannet, the beginning of the week, you know, I, we're like ready for a time. All of whom is big. I mean, it's a black patch in the middle of it. Just appears when I'm about to go out and talk about the book. The book released on Tuesday. So I'm going out on Monday and this, I'm coming home on Thursday with a guy. And so he sees the thing there. I worked around it, but he taps my computer like three times and the black thing spreads across my screen where I can now barely see what's on there. That's what happened. And then this is where it happened. And then he's speaking like he's friendly, but I'm saying then he puts his hands around me like you said. And he is and he's laughing like it's a joke. It took me a while. It took me a while. He's going like this. Like this. So wait, wait, wait. So he has his hands.

22:48He's standing kind of in front of you as he's going in the seat. No, no, no, he sat down again. He's to my left. Okay. My left turns around. I'm to his right. I'm my computer. And he puts his hands around your neck. Yes. Okay. Yes. Like he's going to choke you, but he's pretending that it's a joke. Yeah. He's saying he's like I'm shown. He's just laughing. It's a joke that I'm saying. And this is where one of the guys saw it. One of the guys was going to help it saw that. Okay. So he's doing that. And then, and I'm trying, you know, I'm, I get that I'm trying after this not engaged. I'm trying to calm this guy down. And then what triggers the ultimate escalation. And this is a, I'm the only one who could see this. What, what happens? He starts, he's going to start becoming violent. What happens is he looks at my computer. And on the side that you could still see the, this is the image of the book appears. And then, he starts, he starts, he starts, he starts escalating to a whole other thing.

24:05He starts, he then says, this is, this is, this is where you will never see this in any newspaper. But this is what he says, I'm going to punch your blanking Jewish face in. That's what he says of the moment as, as you alluded to. And so at that point, I'm kind of, I'm signaling the flight attendants. I'm saying, I'm saying, like this, I'm going to, I'm going like this. But they're, they don't know what to do. They're trying their best. They don't know what to do. And they couldn't, and not they were prevented. They couldn't, I'm going to, you know, then he starts, he starts, he starts, he starts, he starts hitting me. Now, now they're hitting, it wasn't like we were in a fight. It's like somebody who's trying to start a fight. He's hitting my, my abdomen, like, there's like, trying to start it. I'm saying, I'm not going to get engaged in this. And I'm saying, and I'm saying, at that point, I said, I'm saying, guys, they said we could use help, we need help here, you know, okay, he's doing that. And then he stops and the, and the final thing is, and this is what led to everything.

25:06And this is exactly what happened, Len. I, something says to me inside of it, it says, and I'm, the, the, the enemy, I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about spiritually. It's going to use this guy to try to destroy your computer. Because the whole week, the whole week, there's been something about my computer. Here's where I write all my books. Everything comes from this, this computer. And so, and I saw, I said, so what I do is I start, I take my computer, I start closing it up. I take my cell phone and I'm saying, I'm getting it out. So I go there and I start going up there at that moment. He lunges at me. And he lunges at my computer. And he grabs my computer, like with all his might, and he's trying to rest it from me. And undoubtedly to destroy it, throw it with all my might, I know if he gets it, it's over. I'm holding up. We are wrestling on the plane. We are wrestling. And, and we are, we are, everybody is, it's a step. And so the whole, the whole, the whole plane is in shock.

26:07The, the pilot is radiating down to, to, to offer an emergency landing at that time. And so we're back and forth. And finally, finally, I'm able to rest it away. At the same time, you know, about, about a month ago, I had injured my, my arm. And it was just at that day, fun. I didn't feel any pain anymore. He grabbed that arm, pulls it, I'm injured again. I, I get out, but I'm out. I'm in the aisle. I'm going to move forward at that moment, two guys who were, two, two seats in front of me. One is a retired policeman. They get off. They said, that's it. It was violent. They do that. They get back and they go over the guy they're standing where I sat. The guy is violent with them. And so they, they take him and he's, they start screaming and it's unintelligible. Oh, yeah. You could see him. He's on the right. That's by the, by the way, the seat where they're standing, that's my seat. I am now, hey, just gotten up and you, and it catches me, right? That's me. I'm trapped up there. And they, and he, and so they, they, they give them duct tape. They bind him up.

27:07But then at one point they try to, they try, and he's not, I heard, I can't, I wasn't, I heard he was biting. At that point, they try to loosen it. If you have them, some loosen thing, any attacks again. So that goes, so he's there, emergency landing. We landed Baltimore. The FBI comes on board. They talk to me. They talk to them. They take out the guy. He goes to jail. And by the way, this is a realtor. He was normal until that, until this, that, this turning as I'm, we were, as I'm talking about God, that's the real story. And, you know, the, the, the, the, you know, the, then the next day it's an old, there goes, the story goes over the world. And as you said, and I, I saw me, it's like they, they didn't get, they didn't touch the real story. And they avoided things. They made it look another way. But that was the real story. This is spiritual. They made it look as though this guy was a, a racist, a bigot against women hated gays. One of what you said was in that story. None. Yeah. Well, he, more than that. I mean, I mean, when I read one thing, it said he started, he was talking about Jesus,

28:12like, like he's a Christian who was racist. Well, no, he was blaspheming Jesus. He was cursing Jesus. He was hating Jesus. And he did. I'm sure he said statements. You know, I'm sure he said vulgar, same. I'm sure he said a racist. I'm sure he, but he was, it was like, it's like, and I'm not saying where the guy is. He's like, you're watching a Devon of Manifaction. It's vulgar. And he was saying everything. But that, that was like, it's like, Clan, someone comes in a house and they commit a murder. And the story is man comes in and leaves a house mess. It was, that was just the things on the side it was. They didn't even mention that he was not duct tape because of the things he said. He was duct tape because he was, he was attacking me. And then he was just going violent. That's the truth. That's what happened. Okay. Hang on just a second. We're with Jonathan Conn. And he's telling us a story. If you saw the video of the guy being duct tape to an American Airlines flight, when was this yesterday, day before? Yeah. That was, it was Thursday night, at the Friday night. Thursday night. Okay. So I saw it on, I saw it yesterday. If you saw that video, he's giving you the real story because he was the guy sitting in

29:14the chair next to him. By the way, the, the real estate office that he was with has fired him and let him go. So he doesn't have a job, which, you know, to me, from what the story Jonathan is telling me, which is completely different to the story that you're hearing everywhere else, you know, it's pretty clear what was going on there. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck to hear more of this interview and others. Download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. So a few months ago, I don't want to leave you a black pill today. I want to give you some, I want to give you some good news. And these two stories are great news. And I don't think anybody's reporting on them because I don't know if they know what they mean. Earlier this year, we were talking about in the middle of the show, they said the El Paso airport had been shut down because of drones. And we're like, oh, what is happening? And then they shut it down. And then there was kind of like, well, we're not sure if it was drones or what was happening. And nobody would say why it was shut down. Well, we found out this weekend.

30:15Apparently, the army had a truck parked in the Rio Grande with a laser mounted on the roof. And two soldiers sat inside one of them tracks the target with an Xbox controller. I'm not making this up because this is what the kids grew up with holding. And on the 25th and the 26th of August, they took down three drones over the next 10 days, 11 and drone traffic probing of that stretch of the border has dropped 75%. Now the border is a very small part of the story in my opinion. Okay, it's good. It's good that this is happening because they're out of control. But let me tell you why this is less than half of the story. Each shot from that laser costs about $3. Now, let me show you what $3 is up against. The Iranian Shahid drone, the one Russia flies into apartment buildings in Ukraine, the one the Houthis have been throwing at our ships, cost somewhere between $20,000 and $50,000.

31:19Weat metal, little piston engine in it, just about as complicated as a motorcycle and a warhead. That's it. We shoot them down with patriots. A patriot interceptor is roughly $4 million every time we shoot one of those. Navy interceptors run between $2 and $4 million a piece. Our Red Sea, our destroyers, burn close to a billion dollars worth of missiles knocking down drones that in some cases cost $2,000 to build. That's a hundred to one, sometimes a thousand to one, and it's running in the wrong direction. And I have to tell you, I have been so concerned, I've talked to the President about this, I've talked to his advisors about this. Why are we building these giant aircraft carriers? We should be working on how to shoot drones because a drone wave is going to be coming our way. Nobody in turn thinks a plywood drone is going to beat the United States Navy. They know that. It was never the plan.

32:19The drone isn't the weapon, it's an invoice. Every one day launch, we pay. A ran can build them by the thousand every month. We can't build patriots missiles by the thousand. We can't build them by the hundreds. So the drone doesn't have to hit the ship, it only has to arrive. They're not trying to sink the magazine, they're trying to empty the magazine. And then somewhere down the road on a morning that actually matters and a place we actually care about, we reach for the shelf and the shelf is bare. This is exactly what happened, we've been here before, this is exactly what happened in the summer of 1944 with Britain. They had survived the blitz. The invasion had landed in France. People all think the worst is over. And then Germany starts sending these flying bombs across the channel. They're plywood and sheet metal, a little jet engine. No pilot, two thousand dollars a piece. They came in at night, they came in at the day and you could hear them coming.

33:21And what you listen for was the engine cutting out because that meant it was falling. So Britain answered, you know, the way any serious country answers, 1600 anti aircraft guns moved to the coast, fighter squadrons, barrage balloons on cable. And in that first week on the coast, they were knocking down about one in six of the bombs that came into range. But it was costing them 2500 shells to bring down one 2500 shells for a plywood airplane. Now the Americans had an laboratory, a small radio that was small enough to fit in the nose of an artillery shell and tough enough to survive being fired out of a cannon. And it would look ahead as it flies. And when it senses something close, it would detonate, which means you don't have to hit the thing anymore. You just have to get near the thing to take it out.

34:21Now we had guarded that device at the level of the atom bomb. For two years, we refused to fire it over land because if a shell goes off and it falls into a field, somebody can pick that shell up and then everybody has it. But then the flying bomb started arriving. And so we used it anyway. By the end of the summer, three out of every four bombs coming into the gun belt were being knocked down. One day it was 82 percent and the price went from 2500 shells per kill to 100 per kill. Now here's the part that I really love. The fuses weren't built by some secret arsenal. They were built by radio companies. The outfits that made car radios and jukeboxes. More than 100 factories could turn something out like 20 million of them. Patent said, the funny fuse is what won the Battle of the Bulge. Germany didn't stop building flying bombs because Britain outspent them.

35:25Germany stopped because it's arithmetic changed. And that's what just happened in South Texas. Now you're going to hear the $3 number thrown around a lot and it's not the whole picture. $3 is the shot, but the truck is somewhere between 17 and $25 million. But the truck you keep using over and over again. We're not using shells and that burst of electricity or that burst of power, that's $3. The Army just wrote its first big contract for these $465 million. But lasers don't like the weather, the fog, the water vapor, eats the beams. The military says 75% drop in these drones might partially be because cartels are just moving to a different stretch of river, but they're doing it because they know we can take them out. The real danger in firing one of these near civilian aircraft is the reason the FAA shut down the El Paso airport because we don't know what it'll do.

36:28I mean, we don't want to shoot a plane out. And what's flying over the Rio Grande is not the Shahid. It's a quadcopter, scouting for smugglers, finding out where our people are standing, so they know we're not to walk. The commander down there made the point that matters. He says, you jam it and it goes home, but it comes back tomorrow. You burn it and it's gone. It's not a defense that's subtraction. And they're already flying drones against each other in Mexico. All the cartels, a couple hundred incidents in the last five years, dozens of people are dead. 8,000 American service members are on that border. Nobody has to imagine the next step. So here's the goodness. We're learning to do this cheaply and on our own against an enemy who is not the most dangerous enemy we will face with it. And yes, we're showing the world our cards and that's real.

37:30It was real in 1944. And the men who had spent two years hiding that fuse made the call anyway because there's a point we're keeping secret cost more than losing it. And 75% of those drones stopped flying because somebody on the other side figured out what the flash was. This is actually really good news. This is the war we're actually in gang. It's not a war of firepower. It's a war of arithmetic. And on a Tuesday in South Texas, a kid with an Xbox controller made it four million to three. That's fabulous news. Now I'm not going to have time to get to this one fully today. So I'm going to have to move this to tomorrow. But let me give you just let me give you the headline of this. What is everybody afraid of when it comes to their electricity costs with these data centers? Data centers they say they're going to have to generate their own electricity.

38:34You're afraid your electricity price is going to go up. But even when they say, well, no, they're going to have to use their own electricity. So they can't pull off the power line. They're already seeing that the electrical rates in some states are going up. Why? Because they have to build new transmission lines. They have to build all this new infrastructure just to keep up with the future. It's all outdated. It all needs to be replaced. Well, what is the problem with that? If you need power and you need it now, what is the problem with power lines? The power line is everyone says what? Not in my backyard. I don't want one of those power lines going in my backyard. It's not cutting my farm. It's not cutting my neighborhood. It's not kind of my county. For the first time, I have seen the government do something that I'm like, oh my gosh.

39:37That is genius. This is the way it's not complex. It's just genius in its simplicity. It is common sense. The president and his team were sitting around and they're like, okay, so we got to build all these power lines. Yes, Mr. President, every time a new line crosses a thousand parcels of ground, every one of those parcels has an owner and every owner has a lawyer and every county has a commission. It'll be 16 years before we can get these things started and built. So I don't know who it was, but they were sitting in the meeting and they went, okay, wait a minute, wait a minute. There are 161,000 miles of interstate highway in the country, 140,000 miles of railroad track. Every one of them has been surveyed and grayed and appraised and condemned and litigated and settled. Who owns the grass on the side of the highways?

40:41I imagine the room went quiet because everybody knew exactly where they're going because on the sides of the highway, most of it's empty. Not the road, the strip in between and beside the road, the grass, the gravel, the ditch, a ribbon that runs from Maine to San Diego and we only use it for one thing, cars. So two weeks ago, the Department of Transportation asked a question about that grass, that strip of grass on each side. And here's the question, why don't we run the power lines down that? We can run fiber, we can run power, we can run water. The lands already ours, the permits are already stamped, nothing has to be condemned, nobody's farm is going to get cut in half, nobody spends 11 years in court arguing because it's already ours.

41:44That's brilliant. Now all you have to do is build all the power plants and everything else, all of these big systems, the data centers, near the freeways. You build them near the freeways, they can dump power into those brand new power lines that will go to your house. And we've cut out all of the red tape. I'm going to tell you the rest of the story because it's amazing, it's amazing. I'll tell you the rest of it tomorrow.