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France Is on Fire. What It Means for America | Guest: Margot Cleveland | 10/5/26

The Glenn Beck Program

October 5, 2026

A Russian researcher broke a test tube containing the pneumonic plague, and within a week, she had passed away after being hospitalized with severe pneumonia. Her official cause of death was “pneumonia of an unknown etiology,” and Glenn lays out how this playbook typically unfolds.

Speakers Glenn Beck, Margot Cleveland

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Hello America. Welcome to The Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. It is Monday. There are three major stories that we have to talk about today, and I'm going to cover all of them in depth during this entire show today, but I'm going to hit all three of them right here, so you have a real quick news recap of the things that you need to know about today. We begin in Russia, then we go to England, then we go to France. These affect you.

One of them is, well, no. All three of them are absolutely terrifying. One of them we didn't see coming. Well, I guess Annie Jacobson did. And we'll talk about that coming up in just a second. We begin in Russia, first relief factor. I've been talking about relief factor for years. Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with something new to say about it? Because I've talked about relief factor over and over and over again. What, why? Why try it? Why haven't you tried it yet? I've told you about my experience with it. You know, what else am I supposed to say? I've told you what other people are saying. You know, 70% of the people. What is happening? What is happening? Have you tried it yet? Please try it. I'm going to send my wife over to your house. She'll get you to try it. She'll say, I'm not going to listen to you wine anymore if it lets you take it. And I'm taking it. And it has changed my life. Your body's natural response to inflammation is boosted with relief factor. It is all natural. Try it now. relieffactor.com, relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. $17.76. Just to try it for three weeks. See if it works for you. relieffactor.com.

Okay. So let's start with the plague, shall we? Let's go to Russia. It was on September 25th, a 28-year-old researcher named Darya Shepilova was working in the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia. Now, when you say the Anti-Plague Research Institute, let me translate.

That's Russian for where we're trying to make the plague worse so it will kill everybody, because that's what they do in Russia. Okay, but it's the Anti-Plague Research. So it's in Siberia. Apparently, while she was working, she's holding the pneumonic plague. I'll explain that in a second. And she drops the vial and she breaks the test tube.

Four days later in the hospital, she's dead.

Russia quarantined, everybody was at the medical facility, all the people at the hospital, nearly 200 people who had been around her during the medical observation period. The regional governor says they've all tested negative, nothing to worry about, nothing to see here. And the official death is pneumonia of an unknown etiology.

Wasn't she working with the mnemonic plague and she dropped the test tube? I mean, these guys are just so bad at lying. We don't know what happened to her. She died of pneumonia. I don't know. Okay. Nobody quarantines hospitals over a chest cold. Now, plague from the history books, that's the Black Death, mostly carried bubonic and that was carried by fleas. The mnemonic plague lives in the lungs and spreads every time somebody who has it goes, great. Untreated, it kills almost everyone.

It's caught fast. It's cured with ordinary antibiotics, but everything depends on speed and speed depends on somebody telling the truth on day one. You gonna get that? You gonna get that one? Over the weekend, the White House told Axios it's aware in monitoring the outbreak and assessing our options.

The word we used, not Russia, outbreak. Russia has not used that yet. Now, we have been in this exact situation before with Russia in 1979

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