The Glenn Beck Program - Biden vs. Private Business | Guests: Sen. Ted Cruz & Bill O’Reilly | 5/28/21

Episode Date: May 28, 2021

The price of plywood is at an all-time high, and yet Biden wants to double the tariffs. Highways are now apparently racist, and there are talks to have them removed. Sen. Ted Cruz calls in to discuss ...a new bill he introduced called the “No Vaccine Passports Act” and Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal. Bill O’Reilly gives his take on the week’s news and he argues that Biden is trying to strangle private businesses. Bill also talks about the origins of COVID-19. Rishi Sharma, host of Legends of WWII, joins Glenn to talk about his mission to interview World War II veterans and share their stories. Philanthropist Adam Sandoval joins to describe his journey to raise awareness of our military veterans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:46 rough greens dot com slash Beck well President Biden has just proposed a new budget which a round of applause that's the first time we've had a budget proposal in well I think it's kind of an old fashioned thing we used to do before Obama but I'm glad to see it
Starting point is 00:04:14 now when you're thinking hey maybe the government is spending too much you're thinking wrong. You're thinking wrong. That's wrong think. President Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget. That is that's about double what we are spending now, even though we'll have like a trillion dollar deficit on that budget that goes right to the debt. He's saying, let's double it. Let's double it. And he said, I don't want to make anybody uncomfortable. and I don't want to say their names, but I do have a list of all those who are against
Starting point is 00:04:53 and held up the list of all the people in Congress that voted against this. Another scare tactic, another veiled threat? What is that? I mean, just start building the gulags. I talked to somebody the other day, they're like, just go, just start. Just I'm tired of this windup.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Just you revealed who you were that you're really actually Marxist. Now just go. And I'm like, let's slow down on that one. I don't think that's a good idea. But anyway, six trillion dollar budget. This is the highest sustained level of federal spending since World War II. But we've got to fight climate change.
Starting point is 00:05:38 And they're almost as bad as Nazis. Almost. Almost. Now, some other things just to help the economy out, Joe Biden, the administration, is now moving to double tariffs on Canadian lumber. Oh, so the plywood that has already gone from $13 to $70 a sheet, plywood, crappy-ass plywood is now $70 a sheet,
Starting point is 00:06:06 and he wants to double the tariffs on lumber coming from Canada, which I think that's, you know, I just, God bless him, I think that's just great. He is today. Today, he's going to be talking about doubling the price of lumber from Canada. Oh, and another story I think you're going to love. This is from the New York Times. The New York Times is running the headline. Wait until you hear the story.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Can removing highways fix American cities? Now, Stu, I want you to listen to this. I want you to listen to this. Uh, the, the cities now are thinking about removing highways because the highway system has destroyed the city. And it is cut black neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods in half by putting these highways right there. Uh, in the, I'm quoting from the New York Times. The growing movement has been energized by support from the Biden administration, which is made, addressing racial justice and climate change major themes in the debate over highway removal.
Starting point is 00:07:25 Now, I really only have one question. Did anybody know we were debating removing our highways? Because I've been left out of that debate. And I think I should say something about it. I got an opinion. How about you? Yeah, you know, you hear this complaint every once in a while that, you know, you know, wonderful neighborhoods get destroyed by highways.
Starting point is 00:07:50 And, you know, I mean, maybe there's some examples of that. But generally speaking, highways are pretty good. I've noticed because I don't want to be going 14 miles an hour everywhere I go. You know, I have to tell you. Have you ever driven Route 66? No, I've never have. Yeah, okay. I have.
Starting point is 00:08:07 It's not as good as the song promises. It's slow. There are stoplights. Once is more than an hour. More than enough. I mean, you'll once in a while, you'll hit these old-timey places and you're like, oh, wow, look at this must have been a great little town of six shops and four of them are gas stations. This must have been really cute in the 1950s. And then you hit a stoplight and you're like, and this is why it's gone.
Starting point is 00:08:38 Didn't you live in a city? Was it Phoenix when you were younger that didn't have any highways? I did. It was great. So back in the 80s, I lived in the beautiful town of Phoenix. And one of the places I never went to, I think it was Mesa, because there were no highways. The founding fathers of Phoenix, in their great, great wisdom, said, we don't want to turn this into another Los Angeles. We don't want all these highways.
Starting point is 00:09:08 And we don't want to be driving across the desert forever. So they didn't build any highways. and it was wonderful because I could live in one town and the next neighboring town I never went to because it would take you four hours to get there. It was wonderful.
Starting point is 00:09:29 It was wonderful. Yeah, I mean, it's, it does seem to be one of these ridiculous things. Like, I'm sorry, this is news for everybody. If you have a really poor, downtrodden area of town and you remove the highway, what you will have is a poor, downridden, you know, area of town without a highway.
Starting point is 00:09:49 It's not exactly right. The people are going to be like, okay, let's build our mansions now. No, no. Poor people are going to move back in and they're going to make it nice. Pete Buttigieg, who heads the department, has expressed support for removing highways and other barriers that divide black and minority communities, saying there is racism physically built in. to some of our highways. Oh, man, we should get rid of those racist highways. Yeah, by the way, are you, what are they doing?
Starting point is 00:10:23 What are they doing? We could build them all out of lumber. No, that will be too expensive because the price of lumber is going to be doubled today. So I don't know. What should we do? It's interesting. I lived in a, I grew up in a very middle class sort of town, and it was divided by a highway. I now live in a nicer area of the state, which is.
Starting point is 00:10:43 is also divided by a highway. It doesn't seem to have much of an impact on the communities at all. You know what's running through my town, which is a very nice town? A highway. A highway. Okay. You get an underpass, an overpass. You do things like that.
Starting point is 00:11:01 And yeah, it's divided. It's divided the town. But nobody really seems to have a problem. Pat was riding with me. He was from the west. He had never been out east. and we were taking Amtrak from Washington, D.C. to New York. And I'll never forget, he was looking through it and he's like, man, the train tracks,
Starting point is 00:11:24 they were built in the worst part of towns. There's nothing going to these cities and there's not. I said, Pat, these tracks were laid a long time ago. Nobody wanted to upgrade or build. Who wants to live next to the railroad tracks? It's not like they were saying, gee, where are we going to lay? Are there any blacks over here? Because we'll just build it here.
Starting point is 00:11:46 No. No. Which came first? I kind of had this idea that maybe the goal was to not have poor neighborhoods. Like I don't want people living in poor neighborhoods if we can all avoid it. We want to upgrade those neighborhoods. But what happens, Glenn, when you upgrade neighborhoods and you put in nicer homes and nicer places, then you get the complaints in the 15,000 word think piece from the New York
Starting point is 00:12:11 Times about the gentrification. of our cities. People who have lived here all their lives in such, I'm sure, complete happiness. Well, that's why you can have rent control, rent stabilization. You can, I mean, that's what New York is doing now. They're now going in and they're increasing their subsidies so they can get more minorities and low income people to live in the city. Well, you got to do something because nobody's living in the city anymore. They've destroyed New York. COVID and, and, uh, what's his face, the Marxists
Starting point is 00:12:45 completely have destroyed. De Blasio. New York. It ain't coming back anytime soon. And so now, what are you going to do? Wait,
Starting point is 00:12:56 you can't afford the police. You're now going to tax people more to pay for housing. They can't even pay for their own housing. Where are you getting all of this money? Well, I guess you could just defund the police
Starting point is 00:13:10 and then use that cash. Yeah, defund the police. Well, no, no. don't do fun. Reimagine. Oh, okay. Reimagine. Sorry about that. And let's today, because I didn't even know this was a debate, but let's all spend the day reimagining an America without a highway system.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Wow, what a pleasure. And like they seem to want, they're just putting all these pieces together, but they seem to want no highways, but more train lines. Like what do we think, where do the train lines go, first of all? Exactly right. And secondly, and if you want to train, it's going to split the town just like the highway. What they'll do is they'll rip down the highways and then build more trains. And then, you know, can I tell you something? Honestly, Walt Disney, if he wouldn't have died, we wouldn't have been here.
Starting point is 00:13:59 Walt Disney had the answer. It was called Epcot. And it is the most ingenious city I've ever seen. It was not an amusement park. I've spent years studying this. And I just think it's absolutely genius. You had highways in levels that went under every city. And every city was shaped like a, it was all shaped around the town.
Starting point is 00:14:26 And the neighborhoods were all part of the town. And it came out in like a giant, you know, spoke to wheel. And it was brilliant. And everything had, you know, what he called the wed walkways, uh, that went into the town. and then right into the houses, which were each separated in the front of the house by a park. The back of the house was an alley, but it was the only place where cars were driving. So you could drive right up to your house and park in the back. You had no backyard, but your front yard was a park trying to get everybody to come out of their houses and be part of the neighborhood.
Starting point is 00:15:04 He saw the breakdown of the cities. He saw what was happening. And he saw what highways and everything else were doing. And that's why he put trucks and things that were going through the city, not having to stop in the city. They went down underground on one level. So it was like an express lane. You just bypass all of this crap. Then those trucks that had to service the town went on the level above that.
Starting point is 00:15:29 There were no trucks up above because all the trucks would be below and they would feed all of the stores, all of the restaurants, everything else from down below. All the loading docks would be below. Then you would have the city traffic would be one level. It would be the top level of the highways. And all of that stuff, you could go wherever you needed. But the streets were below and you would take elevators up. And then the last one was public transportation. And there was trains and stuff like that on the bottom.
Starting point is 00:16:01 But just up above, they also had this really great, he called it the people wedway people mover. And you could go from your house to your business on the people mover. It was fantastic. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is even thinking like that. I was in a town here in Texas the other day. Color, is it color? Do you know, Rob?
Starting point is 00:16:23 Color, right? How do you, do you know, color? It's, anyway, it's a small little town. I'd never been there before. It's great. And what it is is, try this out for size. A small old city. It's like a little town that has the downtown,
Starting point is 00:16:40 and the housing and everything right there around a central green. You know, like our founders built. And I saw it and I thought, this is a beautiful little town. It's got a little specialty shops in it and everything else. You want to go to a big box store. Go go to the big box store down there. All the big box stores are right down there, but they're not in town. And it was this community.
Starting point is 00:17:02 The arts center was right in the center of town. It was really great. In Texas, these towns are starting to be built. That's good. will restore community and and everything else. It'll be great. But until we actually start to buy in it, can we, again, the headline from the New York Times, can removing highways fix our cities? No, unless you remove them and have a plan on what you're going to do with all the traffic that's going through and around your city. Good heavens.
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Starting point is 00:20:37 Good for their English class, too. That's going to work out well for the grammar tests. Yeah. No, the grammar test will be great. So on each box of the new Together serial, you can play little games where you can celebrate your pronouns. I wish this actually was about real pronouns, not saying I'm an it. But I think this is great because as the slogan goes, no matter who you are, who you love, or what pronouns you use,
Starting point is 00:21:13 you're too awesome to fit into a box. Boxes are for cereal. Oh. Not people. Oh, that's great. Wow, that's wonderful. Also, genitals are for cereal? I don't know why sexuality would have anything to do with your breakfast cereal.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Generally, I don't like thinking about genitals at breakfast time. No. Or talking about that stuff. I don't want to talk about Uncle Leo's bad gas at the breakfast table, dinner table. Anytime near food. I don't want to hear about it. But this one is, this one's designed for our children. So it's incredibly wonderful.
Starting point is 00:21:52 I also saw that they have gay Legos now, which is I thought pretty nice. Or gaygos. They have, wait. No, that's not serious, is it? They're not called gaygos. That was the term I came up with. Okay, all right. It is fantastic.
Starting point is 00:22:05 However, no, it's gay Legos. They came out with a set of Legos where they're all rainbow colored. And then they, of course, have the, they had to add black. and brown because you couldn't have an actual rainbow is not inclusive enough obviously so they added black and brown and then in the very back you could see the white it's the lid and the pink so the women and the white people are in the back of the line may i just may i just say stew you haven't heard anything until you hear about the new stamps from spain to solve racial equity they have flesh colored stamps the least expensive are the black the most expensive are the white so the bigger the
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Starting point is 00:24:40 to just distribute. This is being spun as the parents, you know, demanded that they dismantle white advantage teachings with critical race theory. And some of the parents, I mean, I'm telling you, the parents have gone from zero to a hundred in no time. People know now what critical race theory is. There is no science behind it, period. It came from the Frankfurt School. You don't know what the Frankfurt School is.
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Starting point is 00:26:08 they are you can never count that you have won with any of these people because they'll do it behind your back Senator Ted Cruz is with us now and Ted welcome to the program I liked what you announced last night Glenn good to be with you thank you yeah the no vaccines passport act I think this is one of the more important things. Can you explain why it's important? Well, sure. So this week I've introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit vaccine passports. My view on vaccines, I believe in vaccines.
Starting point is 00:26:52 I've gotten the COVID vaccine myself. Heidi's gotten it. My parents have gotten it. I'm grateful that we have the innovation that led to the vaccines that is enabled for so many of us, us to return to normal life and the freedoms that we cherish. That being said, I think the decision whether or not to get the vaccine is a personal decision. It ought to be up to you. You ought to make it for your life, for your health situation. And the federal government shouldn't mandate it. There shouldn't be a federally mandated passport. And we should protect your civil rights,
Starting point is 00:27:25 your individual liberty. So what my legislation does, it prevents the federal government from requiring a vaccine passport. And it also prohibits discrimination based on whether or not you choose to get the vaccine. We're seeing employers across the country who are firing their employees if they don't get vaccinated. I think that's not right. You ought to have the same civil rights protections you have for other things in the workplace. And it ought to be your individual choice based on your individual liberty. I have to tell you, Ted, this has become all about politics. 100% about politics. People have lost their reason entirely. I haven't gotten a vaccine because I had it in December and I had a bad bout with it. The research all shows, if you want to follow the science, if you've had it, you have the antibodies and all of this crap that they were saying for the last year about, yeah, but it may not last very long. They say that if you've had a good case of COVID, that you have, you have. have the antibodies and they could last up to years.
Starting point is 00:28:33 And I go places and I'm not wearing a mask and I'll say, I had it. Oh my gosh. It's like, it's like all of a sudden your gerbils or something. There's so much politics about this that it's bizarre. I mean, my view, I've never understood the extremes on either ends of this. There are some folks who never wear a mask and say wearing a mask is terrible. I don't get that. Look, it was a contagious disease.
Starting point is 00:29:00 It's dangerous. in vulnerable populations, it could be deadly. You know, I wore a mask. I still wear a mask on an airplane and I think taking reasonable steps to limit the spread of an infectious disease. I think that makes sense. But on the other side, the folks that are just virtue signaling that a mask shows how righteous they are, I think is bizarre.
Starting point is 00:29:23 You know, when you're driving down the road and you see someone in a car alone wearing a mask or a double mask, I just laugh out loud. It's like, you know, what the heck is wrong with you? I know. It's really bizarre. So the vaccine... Glenn, I got in trouble with my team because I did tweet out. I said, wearing a mask in a car alone, wearing a condom in bed alone.
Starting point is 00:29:51 Very true. Very true. Well, I'm like, what exactly is the point here? So, Ted, the problem with the vaccines, or not the vaccine, but the, you know, but the, the problem with the vaccine passport. The government is going to say, we're not going to do any vaccine passports. You know, the private industry wants to do that.
Starting point is 00:30:11 But they are making an end run around our constitution on almost everything with the, the coddling of these giant corporations. I've never been a guy who's been against, you know, corporations. I'm a free market guy. But when the free market becomes an arm of the government and they are the ones spying on people because the government can't, but we'll share that information with the government. That's just an end run. Is there anything that's going to stop these corporations from doing this? Well, part of the legislation I've introduced prohibits discrimination based on vaccine status.
Starting point is 00:30:53 And so what it does is it adds it to the existing civil rights laws. And so the Americans with Disability Act, for example, requires that. that you make a reasonable accommodation for an employee that has a disability. Now, reasonable accommodation doesn't mean that you always allow, you know, look, someone who's blind, you wouldn't hire to be an airplane pilot. I mean, there are some instances where there are disqualifying medical conditions. I would beg to differ with you, and I am not making this up. This is absolutely true.
Starting point is 00:31:29 When I worked at CNN, they had a deaf sound engineer. So please don't give me your non-woke descriptions of what people can and cannot do. That's crazy. But that's what they did. Wow. Yeah. Was the guy any good? Could he do his job?
Starting point is 00:31:48 Well, I only know that he was deaf because I had to ask about some issues. And they were like, yeah, don't ask. He's deaf. And I'm like, excuse me? Anyway, anyway. So the point is, we have an existing legal structure that protects your civil rights and with respected disabilities requires reasonable accommodations. And what my legislation does is it puts your choice of whether or not to get a vaccine with the same protection so that the blaze doesn't fire you, Glenn, because you chose not to get a vaccine. Now, given the control the company, I think you're pretty safe there.
Starting point is 00:32:31 But, you know, well, I mean, I could be schizophrenic at some point. Let me, is there any chance of this passing in the House and the Senate? I don't know. So I just introduced it. The question obviously is going to be, will Democrats be willing to support it? The Biden administration has at least said publicly that that they, that they do not support a federally mandated vaccine passport. Now, I think you and I have reason to be skeptical of that claim,
Starting point is 00:33:05 and so it will be interesting to see. So I have not yet, and I will in the coming weeks, be reaching out to Democrats and seeing if any Democrats are willing to come together and support it. If no Democrats supports it, then no, it won't pass in a Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi Congress. If Democrats are willing to support it and they should, then it has a chance of passage.
Starting point is 00:33:26 We'll have to see what they're willing. to do. All right, Ted, a couple of other questions just to sweep up on some things. The January 6th committee, I have no problem with the committee looking into what happened on January 6th, which I think was disgusting, and what happened all around the country on the other side all through the summer. But that's, they're only doing January 6th. And, you know, you just said, and I, I had a hard time not speaking out about it. When you just said, you know, we have a system that protects people's rights. Well, as you are well aware, the Justice Department is going through every cell phone record
Starting point is 00:34:06 if you were even in Washington that day. There's no warrants, nothing. They are just going through everyone. If you were GPS tagged for Washington, D.C., they're going through everything. What the hell happened to civil rights? Well, look, I think civil rights are always in peril, particularly. when you have too big government
Starting point is 00:34:32 and over-vigorous criminal prosecution. But my view, let's start with first principles. Violence is wrong. Violence is always wrong. If you carry out an act of violence against someone else, if you assault someone else, if you injure someone else,
Starting point is 00:34:49 if you attack a police officer, you should be prosecuted. You should go to jail. 100%. And that's true regardless of your politics. whether you're right wing, left wing, or you have no wings at all. I think the guys who broke into the Capitol, I think the people who broke into the Capitol put their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk or whatever,
Starting point is 00:35:09 I think they should all go to jail. That was wrong. No questions asked. I don't care who you were for or who you were against. It's wrong. Go to jail. Look, that's exactly right. And there were a lot of police officers who were assaulted,
Starting point is 00:35:21 who were injured, some injured badly that day. And I think if you hurt somebody else, if you hurt a cop, You ought to do serious jail time. And so I support prosecuting anyone who committed a crime of violence. Now, there were thousands of people in Washington that were peacefully protesting, that didn't break into the Capitol, it didn't hurt anybody. And I don't think they should be persecuted for standing in the National Mall and singing, God bless America. There's a difference between peaceful protests and committing acts of violence. As you noted as well, January 6th is not the only.
Starting point is 00:35:59 day on which acts of violence occurred in America. We just came through a year where for almost an entire year, we saw riots across the country. We saw peaceful protesters, yes, and they have a First Amendment right to do so, but we also saw violent criminals that were firebombing police cars, that were looting stores, that were assaulting and in some instances murdering police officers. Every one of those violent criminals should be prosecuted and go to jail. Amen. So is the January 6 commission going to pass in the Senate? I don't think it will. We're likely going to vote on it later today. It will take 60 votes, so the question is, are 10 Republicans going to vote for it?
Starting point is 00:36:43 I think the answer is probably not. And part of the reason is we already have multiple investigations going on. We have multiple. They're still going on. We have the Department of Justice. We have the FBI. And what Schumer and Pelosi want is they, want a partisan kangaroo court to spend two years laying out the theory that Donald Trump is bad and Republicans are bad. And it's all about the next election. And so that's why I'm not going to support it. I think most Republicans in the Senate are not going to support it. Okay. One last thing. Two-part question, but we only have about 70 seconds for an answer.
Starting point is 00:37:21 the $6 trillion, is it six or eight, six trillion dollar budget proposal that came from Biden, and the, you know, we'll give you half a trillion dollars for infrastructure. What's happening there? Are the Republicans going to hold the line here? I don't know. I am worried about it. You know, Biden has laid out, it's actually about $7 trillion in new spending. I've been joking, please, dear God, nobody tell the Democrats what comes after a trillion.
Starting point is 00:37:55 Trillion. It is, the amount of spending they are rolling out is staggering. It is a budget in excess of what we spent in World War II. We're already seeing inflation taking off across the country, and I think we are on the verge, potentially of a serious inflation crisis. I think we need to stop bankrupt to the country, and that's what I'm fighting to do. at least so far, Republicans have not been willing to go along with this. It is always dangerous, though.
Starting point is 00:38:27 I mean, look, look, there has been historically a coalition of all the Democrats and a bunch of the Republicans who were willing to spend and spend and spend and spend. Right now with our Republican colleagues. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. They're usually not as bad as Democrats. I, you know, years ago, a friend of mine suggested a bumper sticker.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Republicans, we waste less. That is a way. I hope we hold the line. Yeah, that's the quickest way to lose people coming out and voting for the Republicans to stop this madness. This is madness that's going on, clear and utter madness. Ted, thank you for the good fight. Thank you for the new bill on the passports. and we're here to inform people that it should be supported.
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Starting point is 00:40:48 Yeah, I mean, I'm, let's say, seems like Dr. Fauci. Yeah. Dr. Fauci. Highest pay. Your tax dollars pay him more money than anyone else in the entire federal government. Seems right. All right.
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Starting point is 00:42:03 Hello, America. Welcome to the program. It's Friday, which means Bill O'Reilly is coming up next. Bill O'Reilly, wonder if you'll have an opinion on anything today. Can't wait. Let me tell you about relief factor. My sister is visiting from Wyoming, and she just came in this morning and bright eye, bushy tailed,
Starting point is 00:43:02 and she's had all kinds of problems. She's had bad back and Crohn's disease and everything else. And she said, I have to tell you, I started taking a relief factor because of you. And I said, really? And she said, yeah, my daughter, you know, listens to you. And she got some of that relief factor. And she's been doing so much better. She's got like bad back where she's got a cage inside of her around her spine.
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Starting point is 00:43:41 You know, I don't know why people will say, Glenn, do you really believe? Then again, I've done that to people too. Do you really believe that? I don't know why. Because I will not endorse something I don't believe in. I take this every day. It works. least for me, and it will work for 70% of the people, at least that's what the stats show.
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Starting point is 00:44:26 Bill O'Reilly.com. Welcome to the program, Bill. How are you? No spin news, Beck. Ah, that's what it is. That's what it is. I knew it was something about sitting in spinning. No spin. No spin. O'Reilly.com. Yeah, not a spin. Pass. Right. Okay. All right. Good. Good. Here we are Memorial Day. Gas prices are the highest they are in seven years. Nobody seems to be talking about that in the news. And the Biden administration, has just moved to double the tariffs today on Canadian lumber,
Starting point is 00:45:01 even though lumber is skyrocketing. Is the president, does he think that, is this like golf where the way you normally keep score is just the opposite? Because it seems like he's trying to destroy us. How is he thinking any of this is good for the economy? Well, he doesn't think that way. So there are two things going on. Number one, there's a difference now in a way corporate media is covering the news as opposed to during Donald Trump's years. You may have noticed this.
Starting point is 00:45:38 During Trump's years, it was demonized and attacked Trump every day. So it was outrage du jour, I used to call it. And now it's ignore failures from the Biden administration. black them out. Do not mention the failures. So it's been a shift. And these are some of the most powerful companies in the world. Now, we're talking Disney, Comcast, Viacom, CBS. And the basic thrust is we backed Biden. We know Biden is failing because anybody with any analytic capability knows the Biden administration is failing already after four months. But we're not going to mention it because we don't want a big comeback by the Republicans in the midterm elections of 2022.
Starting point is 00:46:38 So that's what's in play. Now, as far as Mr. Biden himself is concerned, it is impossible for me to know what goes on in the man's mind. I can't. No one could. But I can tell you this. is totally disengaged. Right, but let's talk about the policies that they're... No, I know.
Starting point is 00:47:02 All right, all right. He's totally disengaged in any problem-solving effort. He's not trying to solve any problems. That I can tell you with certainty. Go. Okay. So I know this, but the people around him know. what the policies are.
Starting point is 00:47:26 And it, I mean, why would you put tariffs on on lumber when we are having lumber prices go up 800%? Why, why is the New York Times today reporting on something that apparently we all were aware of because they say, you know, this is in a continuation of the ongoing conversation about removing America's highway systems? I didn't even know we were having that conversation, and I can't imagine what would be, what good would come from removing our highway situations, or highways. But Pete Buttigieg, heads up, the department, has expressed support for removing the barriers that divide black and minority communities, saying there is racism physically built into our highway system. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing here that is going for America. None of this. No, it's all about tribalism.
Starting point is 00:48:30 And there are highways that have gone through minority neighborhoods and have adversely affected that. Sure. Yeah. All right. So I guess the Biden administration is going to tear on them down because they want to spend $6 trillion. dollars are going to announce that today.
Starting point is 00:48:48 But let me get to the lumber thing in Canada. This is all about cheese. It's not about lumber. All right. So the Trudeau government in Ottawa slapped on restrictions on American dairy farmers sending cheese
Starting point is 00:49:07 to Canada because they want to protect the Canadian farmers. In return for that, the Biden has slapped tariffs on lumber. Now, you asked, well, why would they do that since we already have a lumber shortage and housing building materials have gone up 300% in four months? Why would they do that? Because they're not looking out for the folks. This isn't about helping individual Americans. It's about amassing as much power as possible in Washington, D.C., to basically
Starting point is 00:49:41 change the whole economic system of this country. That's what's going on. It's not about Americans paying far more for gasoline and therefore paying far more for food because all the food has to be trucked in. Not about that. It's about we're going to control the private economy. We, the Biden administration in Washington, we're going to control the marketplace. And we're going to break the private marketplace. We're going to break you. That's what happened.
Starting point is 00:50:11 So we have trillions of dollars now pumping into the system. system. And Joe Biden has just put forward a budget of $6 trillion. That's more than we spent in World War II. It's the highest spending we've ever had as a nation. Six trillion dollars. That's double, double the current out of control budget. I don't know what everything is going to be spent on. But that, that, do we ever recover from all of this spending bill? Well, the inflation is going to devastate Americans who have saved up for education or retirement. That's certainly going to happen. Oh, good. So the people who played by the rules, now let's screw them even more. That's right.
Starting point is 00:51:07 Every American is going to get screwed. Every single person is going to get screwed because the criminal justice system is collapsing and the economic system won't be far behind that. And Missouri has already lost, Missouri has lost 26% of small businesses just because of the pandemic. You and I both know, jobs are created by small business people and they're destroying those. That's right. But that's why Biden wants this massive spending so the federal government can take over from small business and provide jobs in the highway sector or the, green energy sector.
Starting point is 00:51:47 But I want to tell you one thing about this. If you watch the notes of the newsbeck, which you do not, by the way, you do not. I'm going to tell everybody that doesn't do it. You would have heard about that. I don't even know what channel it's on. Yeah. Okay, it's on every channel. You can't escape it.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Go to Bill O'Reilly.com and there is it. That's an internet. Okay. Those internet things are scams. The last night I was the only reporter in the world to tell you that FDR tried the same thing in 1935 that Biden is trying now. What Biden is doing now is a replica of what Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to do in 1935, which was what?
Starting point is 00:52:28 Which was what? ...over the private economy. Yes. Price controls all of it. Yes. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously what FDR tried to do in 1935 was unconstitutional. All right. Nobody knows that, but me, Beck, you don't know it, too. Of course not.
Starting point is 00:52:52 FDR, you're going to have to back up and explain who he was. So what I said last night, because I presented you the facts, and if you look up the case, you'll see it, all right? Yeah. That's the Supreme Court slap down FDR's budget and his vision of taking over the economy. That could happen today. So I suggested that the Attorney General of Texas immediately if this budget is passed or it doesn't even matter. He can write up something today. Sue the Biden administration on behalf of Texas and it'll be the same suit and they'll win in the Supreme Court.
Starting point is 00:53:37 What was the name of the case? I don't have it off the top of my hand. Oh, my gosh. Who is the... All you have to do is Google, Google, FDR, Supreme Court, 1935, and it'll pop up. Okay. And what was the specific case? Do you remember the specifics on that?
Starting point is 00:53:59 What was the specific case? Who was making the charge? Who was suing? And why did they win? The case was brought by private business owners that said they could not conduct. commerce, interstate commerce, because of all the restrictions, FDR was putting on them. That was the case. Okay?
Starting point is 00:54:23 You can do the exact same thing now. And you're going to have to, although I don't think this budget's going to pass, by the way. But they're not going to stop. See, what your listeners need to know is that this is a well-thought-out campaign to wrangle private business to put as many companies out of business so the federal government steps in and provides all the employment. It is why the, it's why the federal government did all of the forbearance and they own now between the federal government and the Federal Reserve about 90% of all low income housing and 70% of all mortgages, period, in this country.
Starting point is 00:55:12 They are the ones who are the lender of last resort. They're the ones that have bought up during forbearance. So they're the guarantors. I mean, you can't pay. The government is the one that ends up with your house, your home. They are owning everything through this. Right. Because that takes away freedom and liberty and self-reliance from the people.
Starting point is 00:55:41 and makes the people dependent on the Democratic Party in Washington, which will dole out the goodies, the jobs, the entitlements, the mortgages. This is a well-designed plan that has been executed in every socialist country on earth. That's what you're seeing. But it'll never be reported by the corporate media or the New York. Times or the Washington Post. Therefore, 95% of American voters
Starting point is 00:56:17 don't know what's happening, and I don't believe Biden knows either. My producers, I know you can do it on your own, but my producers can put you in direct content, contact with the
Starting point is 00:56:31 Attorney General here in Texas. He's a friend. I know he'd come on the show. You should ask him to do it. You should explain this to him and see if he'd do it. Because they love, they love, Sue and the federal government here in Texas. They love it. They love it. And they usually win. I think they probably know, Beck. I think they probably know this. If they don't, you can tell them. And I'm happy to talk to them. But my job is to report the news. That's what it is. And I'm so angry that the news in America is not being reported any longer. And you know it.
Starting point is 00:57:03 Yeah. You know it. I know it. Okay. Let me, I want to get into some of that here in just a second. Let me take a one minute break back with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. Also, Killing the Mob, which is the number one bestseller in America now, Killing the Mob by Bill O'Reilly. It's a great book. Our sponsor... American Financing, NMLS, 182334, www.n MLS Consumer Access.org. Thank you. American financing, remind you, being fiscally responsible is really important.
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Starting point is 00:59:16 There is a, the ex-intel chief for the U.S. just told the Jerusalem Post that Biden is surrendering to Iran. Have we surrendered to Iran and are we surrendering to China? It's a complicated situation. So the Biden administration doesn't want to deal with anything in the Middle East at all. Nothing. So they basically say, this is not worth our while because it doesn't have are green environmental climate change agenda.
Starting point is 00:59:58 Right, that's overseas. That's 100% what the Biden administration is interested in. Right. So they don't care whether Hamas shoots rockets into Israel. Oh, oh, oh, the Center for American Progress. These leftists, they love Hamas. They love Hamas. The difference between the leftists and the Biden administration.
Starting point is 01:00:23 Biden administration. Really, what is it? What is it? What's the difference? I don't think, I don't see people that are, I don't see people that are traditional Democrats running this administration and its policy. No Democrat that I know that is a neighbor agrees with any of this crap, any of it. But they don't care about it, yeah. All right?
Starting point is 01:00:46 They don't care that it happens. It's not that they're trying to stop it or trying to, negotiate anything. They don't care. It doesn't advance their green agenda and socialism agenda here in the USA. So is that one wants to have a phony nukees. All right, they'll sign a phony nucleo. If Iran wants to arm Hamas, the Biden ministry's not going to do anything about that. They don't care. They don't want to do it. All right? They don't want to be involved in it. if they only care about their green new agenda, then why are they okaying the Russian pipeline?
Starting point is 01:01:27 I mean, it's a really dangerous thing. They made a deal with the EU, right? So we'll let you have all the natural gas from Putin in return for more cooperation on a number of fronts. It was a deal. Again, do they care about Putin? Does Biden care about Putin? No, he doesn't care.
Starting point is 01:01:53 You have to understand that. In the past, most presidents did look out for the welfare of America. And America was tied in morally with the freedom and a protection of Israel. That's gone with the Biden administration. They couldn't care less about it. And then when you go into China, they're afraid of China. Biden's afraid of them because they're way more aggressive than the Biden administration will ever be. So he doesn't even want to deal with it.
Starting point is 01:02:30 So this is what you're seeing. You're seeing whereas Barack Obama put forth that we are one of many. We are not a superpower. We are not anything special. That was Obama's foreign policy, right? Am I correct? Yes. Now, Biden's foreign policy is even more extreme.
Starting point is 01:02:50 It's we don't want to get involved with anything over there because our agenda is to turn the economy socialist and to hype up the Green New Deal stuff. That everything comes back to those two things. And if it's not connected to those two things, the Biden administration doesn't want to hear about it. that may be absolutely on the money, which is getting to be worth less and less as the seconds tick by. More with Bill O'Reilly here in just a second. I want to go to China and the Wuhan virus.
Starting point is 01:03:29 Can we say that now? Facebook says, yeah, now it's okay to say. More in a minute. Oh my goodness. Oh, my goodness. So Mike Lindell, his my pillow I would have never ordered it on TV
Starting point is 01:03:49 you know I would have never ordered it off of TV and Mike Lindell wanted to do commercials and as I said I don't do commercials for things I don't believe in and he was coming in and you know I don't like confrontation believe it or not and I was like how am I going to say
Starting point is 01:04:07 that I just don't like his pillow and he came in shook my hand he's very perceptive and I said hey Mike he said what do you think of the pillow and I said, well, he said, you don't like it. And I'm like, okay, caught me. No, I don't. He said, you have the wrong size.
Starting point is 01:04:22 And I said, what? And he said, which one do you have? And I said, the shorter one, you know, the standard size. And he said, you need the king size. And so I got a king size. And I have to tell you, he was right. He was right. They are great pillows.
Starting point is 01:04:39 My Pillow, the thing that started at all, lowest price ever. Premium My Pillow for 29. $9.98. It's a $40 savings only at MyPillow.com. Enter the promo code Beck. We're called 866-3117. MyPillow.com. And blazedt.com slash Glenn, the place to go. Get 10 bucks off your subscription with the promo code Glenn. We're with Bill O'Reilly. It's Friday. Let me just quote a member of the State Department team whose investigation into the origins of coronavirus has been halted this week by the Biden administration claimed yesterday it was sort of ridiculous to believe the virus passed naturally from animals to humans. We were finding that despite the claims of our scientific community, including the National Institute of Health and Anthony Fauci, that there was almost no evidence that
Starting point is 01:05:42 supported a natural zoonotic evolution or source of COVID-19. Bill, why did the state departments review on this, why was it canceled by Joe Biden and say, no, we're going to get really serious about it. We're moving it over to Intel. Because they don't want to have a problem with China, just like we were talking about five minutes ago. So everybody in the scientific world knows there are only two ways that COVID came to be. The first way is by infection from eating a bat or something else. Or a bat transferring, or a bat having a disease that would go to another animal and then jump into humans. Whatever it may be.
Starting point is 01:06:34 Right. So in China, they have some very strange culinary choices. Right. Very strange, particularly in the countryside. So that's number one. So you can get infected by eating an infected mammal or animal. And then you spread it. The second thing is that the Chinese virologists isolated a virus,
Starting point is 01:07:03 and they were studying it in Wuhan in their big lab. And somehow a few of the personnel in the lab that infected with the virus, kind of like a horror movie, right? Now, we know that in November 19th, that early, there were people taken out of that lab and put into hospitals. We don't know why or how because China doesn't put that stuff out. So what I believe, based upon all the evidence that I've seen, is that this virus did come about because of transferal of bacteria from animals,
Starting point is 01:07:44 mammals, mammals, to humans. The Chinese knew about it, saw it, tried to say, study it and it got out of control in the lab. That's what I think happened. I think that's a, I think that's a Walt Disney version of what I think happened. You got it on tape. You got it on tape. Pardon me? I said you have all of this on tape. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I know. I will. I will. I will. I'll play it with you there so you can laugh and point at yourself when I'm right. But the State Department has gone on to say an official in the State Department said that former State Department official Chris Ford was, quote, disgraceful.
Starting point is 01:08:39 His behavior towards the investigation was disgraceful. He seemed disinterested. He even said, if we came to it, how did we know where? it came out of, what lab? Very rarely in my life in government have I ever encountered someone who was more negative, less of a bureaucrat, and just a negacrat, than this individual.
Starting point is 01:09:02 So why did they move it then to the intelligence community and say, intelligence, they're much better at finding these things. Why did he move it there? See if we come up with the same answer. Beck, you know why. because they can classify everything then and vary it for 50 years. Yep, exactly right. Exactly right.
Starting point is 01:09:24 So if we found, let's say we live in a sane world, which we don't, I know that. But if we found that China made a mistake, that's one scenario. If we found out that this lab is run by the guy who used to be the head of the Communist Party bio-weapons research, So if we found that they were engineering this and it escaped, but they were engineering it for specific reasons, you know, his paper even says that we need to find a coronavirus that can wipe out the Western world and leave the East pretty much alone, we find that out. After all these lives, all these lives and all the money that has gone to hell in a handbasket because of this, what should the American response be in a sane world?
Starting point is 01:10:22 But you'll never find it out. It'll never be put that way because no one wants a war with China. And if China did indeed weaponize this to attack the West, which I don't believe they did because it's too... I don't believe they intentionally released it. I think that was a mistake, but I do believe they were bioengineering a weapon. But you know what the bigger, yeah, that's possible because a lot of countries do that, including the USA. But you know what the bigger story is here? And you mentioned it in the lead that the social media companies wouldn't let you even speak about these things.
Starting point is 01:11:04 They would brand it. Right. And that's the bigger story for we, the American people, is that now we're living in an age where, again, the truth. doesn't mean anything and can be blacked out by these giant corporations. And these giant corporations are having to come back over and over again and say, we were wrong, we were wrong, we were wrong, we were wrong, we're reversing our policy on this. It shows that they are nothing but a political organ, and they have smeared, besmirched, they have taken our business and throttled it down.
Starting point is 01:11:45 they have cost us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in the last year because of what they've claimed where now they're saying, oh, yeah, that was a mistake. Well, where do I go to get my reputation back? Where do I go to get my money that you lost, the business that I lost? Where do I go back to get that? I don't think sorry is enough. But they don't care. It's almost like we were talking about the Biden administration doesn't really care what
Starting point is 01:12:14 happens in the Middle East, they'll sign anything, and they'll just say, oh, we're trying to get peace. The social media companies, they are in business to advance progressive thought. That's it. That's what it's about. That's why they're in business. They have their billions and billions of dollars already. They couldn't spend it, no matter how much money they spent every day, they couldn't spend it. So now it's about we are going to advance this progressive left agenda. And so we're going to make
Starting point is 01:12:50 it very difficult for anyone who opposes that to have any kind of a forum. I mean, look, Trump shouldn't be banned from Twitter or anything else. Trump was right about the China virus. Was he not? Yes, he was. Well, why are you
Starting point is 01:13:06 banning him now? Because he believes the election wasn't honest. He's entitled to that belief. He's entitled to hold that belief. So let me go here. Let me go here. Jake Tapper has just issued a statement that he said, I haven't changed my mind as a journalist.
Starting point is 01:13:27 I just think it's okay to have an opinion. I see the role I played in 2015 to now as more of a manifestation of the deviation of the Republican Party and Donald Trump from normal political behavior, behavior, then I do the deviation of me from normal broadcasting. He said, I see my role as not being particularly opinionated, except for things about which I think it's fine to have an opinion, such as truth and facts and just basic dignity.
Starting point is 01:14:02 I told you about this a month ago. No, I know you did. I know you did. I know you did. I told you about him. You stuck up for him. He is worse. And you know,
Starting point is 01:14:11 what makes me happy, Beck? I'm kicking his butt in the book column. I'm selling 10 books for every one he sells. That makes me happy. This is a corrupt man. This is a vicious man. All right? CNN has lost 70% of its entire audience since January. I have to tell you, it makes me happy. Yeah, even when they hadn't lost 70% of their audience, the Blaze had many nights where we were beating them. And I'll bet you, Bill, that your numbers online are beating him today. I bet you're not only beating him in books, but online numbers. Because nobody is watching.
Starting point is 01:14:57 Nobody is watching it. You tell the truth as you see it. I tell the truth as I see it. The difference is we don't have corporations telling us what to say. That's Papper's game. That's his game. Beck. He's in that Washington and he does
Starting point is 01:15:15 what he's blank and told. All right? And I think these people actually believe it. Do you think that they have to do what they're told? I think they believe it. But he wants to believe it. He wants to believe it. Okay? If you
Starting point is 01:15:30 lay it out that socialism is going to destroy the fabric of the greatest nation ever, he's going to reject that. Correct. He wants to reject it. Correct. Because he's making money rejecting it. Well, I will tell you that this is why I don't believe when they said,
Starting point is 01:15:48 well, we didn't take the Wuhan virus thing seriously because Donald Trump said it. I don't care if the devil himself said it. Check the facts. Check the facts. They don't want to do that anymore. They check the facts that agree with them. Right. I know you're up against the clock and I need a minute before we leave.
Starting point is 01:16:09 If you look at Trump's. Trump's policies on the economy, on foreign affairs, on basically looking out for the working people in America, just the policies, take him out of it. And you compare those policies to Biden? That's like comparing Millard Fillmore to Abraham Lincoln. Right? It's insane. Now, I need a minute back. Ready? Go ahead. Yeah. I want to thank you. I want to thank you this coming Sunday, killing the mob, number one on the New York Times list, bestselling nonfiction book in the world. All right. The numbers are staggering.
Starting point is 01:16:49 I've been blackball from TV. Okay? The reason that this is going so well is because of you and some other radio people who are not in this cancel culture. Don't believe in it. No, it's a fascistic thing. And I want all your listeners to know that guys like me with a good product, Killing the Mob is a damn good book, right? We would be silenced without guys like you.
Starting point is 01:17:19 And I want to thank you for that. Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Bill. It is, I have the greatest audience, I think, ever assembled on radio. I truly mean that. They are open-minded. They are really smart. They like to read and know the facts.
Starting point is 01:17:35 And they're good and decent people. Don't thank me. It's the people who bought your book. Thank you very much, Bill. appreciate it. It's not kind of you to say. Have a good weekend back. You know, bye, bye. All right, well, we're only a few weeks away from summer now. It's time to celebrate. Longer days, fun and the sun. I mean, you deserve it.
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Starting point is 01:19:20 And it's being treated like there's all this new information that has come to light. And there has been more developing information over the years. Let me take you back a little bit. This is November 18th, 2019. The Wuhan Institute of Virology, just a few miles away from the wet market. We've heard so much about. Posted a job opening. We're taking bats as the research object.
Starting point is 01:19:40 I will answer the molecular mechanism that can coexist with Ebola and SARS-associated coronavirus for a long time without disease and its relationship with flight and longevity. They were doing this result, these sort of research projects at the time in November, when people went to the hospital with strained coronavirus areas. A Chinese researcher who was formerly a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard posted a study. Now, he was working at a university controlled by the Chinese government. This is what he said. We screened the area and the seafood market and identified two laboratories. conducting research on bat coronavirus within 280 meters from the market.
Starting point is 01:20:26 There was the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention and of course the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He goes on to explain that in his estimation, it probably came from the lab. This is not something he wrote today. This is something he wrote back in February of 2020. Now, you could say, well, look, he is, he eventually went on to withdraw that commentary and said, I mean, it's probably not from, from the lab. Whether he's doing that with the, the cold metal of a firearm pressed to the back of his head by the Chinese government is yours to figure out.
Starting point is 01:21:12 But, you know, so we don't know COVID-19 came from a lap. But we do know that the bats that carry it aren't from the area. They're from hundreds of miles away. They also were not sold in the market that has been talked about. They were in research labs right down the street, however, being used to study rare coronaviruses. And their own researchers thought that COVID-19 came from the lab. The guy collecting the samples had been peed on and splashed with the blood of those bats, a situation he himself called highly risky.
Starting point is 01:21:45 This is not going back to, well, bat soup theory. Chinese people shouldn't eat bats. They shouldn't eat bats for other reasons than coronavirus. I don't care if eating bats cured coronavirus, they still shouldn't do it. But this is a legitimate theory. This is the Glenn Back program. Hi, Hillary. That's the warming of buzz.
Starting point is 01:22:04 Have a great one morning. Thank you, Hillary. You too. All right, can I get a word in edgewise for a second? Yes, please. Just talk. I mean, people are dying to hear me talk about real estate agents I trust. They are.
Starting point is 01:22:15 They've been saying it all day. They've been demanding it. When is he going to talk about real estate agents? I trust. It's trending on Twitter right now, Glenn. Right. It's the time is right now. You lucked into the perfect time to hear me tell you about the great real estate agents that we have waiting to help you sell or buy a house. You can be selling in one city in one state and buying in the next one. We will help you find the right real estate agents for you. It's free service to you. Real estate agents.I trust.com. I have a, I have a personal message. A couple of really great guests, but a personal message. Next.
Starting point is 01:22:57 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It's Memorial Day weekend. A personal message in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about hustler. Hustler lawnmowers. They're the best. There's no other lawnmower on the market that is built like that and like a hustler.
Starting point is 01:24:01 And I can tell you that with confidence. These are the people that have made industrial lawn mowers forever. You know, people who are cutting the sides of the highway, that's a hustler mower. They did the zero-turn lawnmower. They were the first ones to invent it, and then they perfected it. They started in like the 1960s with a zero-turn lawnmower. They've been around for years before that. And then they came up with a zero-turn lawnmower, and they made things for, you know, stadiums, football fields,
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Starting point is 01:24:46 and then go to a hustler dealer near you. Hustlerturf.com. Hustlerturf.com. It is Memorial Day weekend, and I want to send a personal message to one listener. I don't even know if she's a listener of mine anymore. She is the mother of Sergeant Patrick Tainish. He was an Eagle Troop, and he died in Baghdad, 21, 2004.
Starting point is 01:25:40 I met her, I think, at a book signing. I can't remember where we were. I remember meeting her. I'm sad to say I don't remember her name, but I remember what she told me vividly. She came up to me and she told me the story of her son Patrick. Patrick was a troubled kid. He was a good kid, but ran into trouble, got hooked in onto heroin.
Starting point is 01:26:19 and just heroin, when it gets a hold of you, it just doesn't let go. And he worked so hard with his dad to get off. And it took him a while, and he did, and he changed his life. And then he went to Iraq. He joined the military and went to Iraq. He felt like there was a reason he survived. Well, she told me the reason. reason he survived was because of the people he saved in Iraq.
Starting point is 01:27:00 And she told me this story with tears in her eyes, and she gave me this bracelet. It's just a standard black, you know, soldier bracelet. I remember bracelets like these when I was growing up. They were for prisoners of war in Vietnam. And she just asked me, could you, would you just wear this for the day for my son? I probably wore this every day for maybe 10 years. And I took it out of my little box that I have, you know,
Starting point is 01:27:41 my keys and watch and things in this morning. And I put it on. And if anyone in the table, Tainish family. This weekend is mourning the loss of Patrick Tainish. I hope his mother knows that I am doing the same this weekend, and I am grateful that he lived. And I feel as though he has been with me for many, many years. I want to introduce you to somebody that I just think is one of the greatest guys I've ever met. And that's hard to say, because I've met so many really incredible people.
Starting point is 01:28:29 Rishi Sharma, he is a guy that's been on my program a few times. And he started out just wanting to talk to World War II veterans. I'm going to let him tell the story quickly. Risha, how are you? Rishi. Great. How are you? Yes, sir.
Starting point is 01:28:48 Can you hear me? I can. I'm so glad to have you have you on the program again. Can you just quickly recap how you started doing this, how old you were and what you're doing? Absolutely. I really appreciate this opportunity to talk about the World War II heroes. But my name's Rishi Sharma, and I started interviewing World War II veterans when I was in high school. I've always been interested in the war.
Starting point is 01:29:19 And one day I decided to ride my bike, basically, to the local atomic. home and I wanted to meet the men firsthand who, you know, I had been reading about and seeing TV shows about. And it was an amazing experience just how open they were and the fact that I got actually look in the eyes of someone who went through hell so that someone like me could be alive, you know, and after meeting a number of these veterans at the retirement home, I, I really felt a burden that I owed these men not just my life, but to preserve what they fought, for so that future generations won't go to war and that will always remember what the World War two veterans have given us.
Starting point is 01:30:00 And so when I graduated, I was very blessed to get a bunch of news coverage and I had a fundraiser and I raised funding and I, to go out and interview as many World War II combat veterans as possible myself. And now it's four years later, 48 states, the UK, Canada, Australia, Australia, New York, Zealand and just over 1,100 interviews now on camera. Geez. Who has contacted you, Rishi, for, I mean, has the Smithsonian or National Archives, anyone contacted you about preserving these yet?
Starting point is 01:30:39 Absolutely not. You wouldn't believe the number of people I've, you wouldn't believe the number of organizations I've reached out to who just, I guess they aren't interested, maybe because it doesn't fit their narrative. Okay, okay, okay. May I, as a representative of Mercury 1 put you in touch, we would love to preserve the record of these stories. I think you do one of the most important things. History will remember your name.
Starting point is 01:31:12 It might not be in your lifetime, but they will remember you because of what you're doing. This is vitally important. Yeah, I appreciate that. I mean, I'm not all for that. As long as people remember what the World War II veterans went through. Right, right, right. When I was in high school, you know, as a member of the younger generation, I'm 22 now, I can honestly tell you that they don't teach World War II in school anymore.
Starting point is 01:31:40 And what they do cover is how bad, quote, the bad U.S. was for dropping the atomic bombs. I mean, people are being brainwashed nowadays. the younger generation are being brainwashed to hate our country, to hate our veterans, to hate our way of life, and it's not right. And I don't want to see that happen any further. That's why recording these stories of what these veterans actually went through, what they witnessed, the atrocities they came across, I mean, whoever has that footage is going to be able to control the narrative.
Starting point is 01:32:12 I know, I know, I know. I tell you, Rishi, you know, I just looked at the brand-new AP-Stom, standards for history. These are AP classes. This is not your regular class. This is the, I'm really smart. I want to take an AP history class, so it counts towards college. World War II, there is no mention of Hitler, the Holocaust, the Germans, the English, it picks up the story.
Starting point is 01:32:42 There's more to it than that. I can't remember all of it. It picks up at the bombing, not of Pearl Harbor, but of Hero. That's it. And the AP requirement is that you understand that the United States bombed Japan with a nuclear weapon and, quote, that made the world question the motives of the United States of America. Holy cow. It's absolutely, I mean, it's revisionist history and it's the lies because what people do. failed to realize is that we gave Japan many opportunities to surrender. We had been completely
Starting point is 01:33:26 surrounded by naval blockades. They had no food coming in or out. They refused. We dropped over five million panflets, we, meaning the United States and our allies, dropped five million pamphlets over the target cities telling the civilians to evacuate. And after the first bomb, they didn't surrender. I mean, it took two atomic bombs to even make them consider surrendering. And there's a well-known story that when the emperor, Hirohito, actually came on the radio across Tokyo, the citizens didn't believe him. You know, they thought it was some kind of allied propaganda. Because they had trained their citizens to believe that that's what was going to happen. The propaganda in Japan about the United States, they believed we would eat them practically.
Starting point is 01:34:17 I mean, they thought we were monsters because of the propaganda. Absolutely. I mean, there was a well-known incident on the island of Saipan where the Japanese had a garrison. There was a civilian population there as well, and when the Americans landed, the Japanese forced the civilians to a cliff, women and babies,
Starting point is 01:34:41 and had told them stories that the Marines and the Army infantry would hurt them and do cruel things. things and these these babies were thrown off the cliffs and the women jumped after them and the Japanese you know obviously soldiers wet themselves but we had translators you know up on the cliffs trying to tell these civilians to come and that they would be safe and I mean it's so dangerous this type of rhetoric that the United States and the allies were in the wrong I run this YouTube channel called Legends of World War II and and some of that content of the veterans talking about their experiences, it's been censored by YouTube.
Starting point is 01:35:21 But what's also shocking is how many uninformed people there are. I get comments all the time people thinking that Pearl Harbor was in retribution for us bombing Japan. They don't realize it was the other way around. Oh, my gosh. Rishi, hang on, I've got to take a one-minute break. And then I want to come back. Talk about how you do this, how you are now asking others to do it and send you their footage. And I want to hear about the best stories that you have heard, the best people that you have met.
Starting point is 01:35:59 Because, I mean, meeting them from the greatest generation of America, I would imagine this is going to be hard for you to decide. But tell me about the most interesting and best encounter you have had with some of these vets. Back in 60 seconds. One of the things that gives me great pleasure in life is getting to come and talked about the products that I actually believe in. Well, I believe in rec tech. I have a rec tech. I use my rec tech. I love my rec tech.
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Starting point is 01:37:30 RecTech.com. 10-second station ID. So we are with Rishi Sharma, who I met, I don't know, about three years ago, and he is one of my favorite people I have ever interviewed. I think he was probably about 20 when we first met. And I just think he is, I mean, you're a hero of mine, Rishian. I mean that sincerely. So, so tell me, you say, oh, no, like, because I don't even know if you like me or, you know, anything else you might be like, oh, no, Glenn Beck just said he's a, I'm a hero of his.
Starting point is 01:38:12 Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry. No, no. No, no. You know, I feel very strongly that the word heroes really only reserved those, you know, who put their lives on the line. I mean, the fact is, if I had all the money in the world, I would still be doing what I'm doing. so blessed that I get a hang out and talk to the men who saved the world. Good for you. All right.
Starting point is 01:38:33 You mentioned a minute ago that your videos are being banned or demonetized on YouTube. Why is that? You know, I wish I knew the answer, sir. Oh, my gosh. Basically, you know, I raised all that funding, and I've been doing these oral histories of the World War II veterans. I give them copies of the interviews, but I would also put it on. YouTube. Back in December of 2020, the channel, I wasn't trying to be a YouTube or anything. It was just a storage place for the videos. But back in 2020, December, some of the little vignettes I was making, you know, 10-minute clips taken out of some of the interviews, some of them started going viral. I mean, getting millions of views. And I guess the way it works is the YouTube algorithm picks it up and they'll show it on many people's home page. Yes.
Starting point is 01:39:26 And so that was happening to some of the videos, causing a huge surge in traffic to the channel. And so I go for about 2,000 subscribers to about 25,000 in just maybe a week. And it's about 2,000 every day. And then it stops. And it craters down to maybe 100. And the analytics just don't make sense. Yes, they do from the YouTube side. you know exactly what YouTube is doing.
Starting point is 01:39:58 It makes perfect sense. They throttled you. Absolutely. I've looked it up. I've reached out to other people who deal with World War II on YouTube. They face the same exact thing because, I guess, the algorithm and the people behind it, YouTube, they believe anything to do with World War II is promoting Nazis and Hitler, and they don't take the time to decipher.
Starting point is 01:40:23 Oh, my gosh. It's ridiculous because, you know, there's no politics in these videos. It's facts. It's the veterans saying what they went through and what they saw. And, you know, without the monetization, I can't keep, you know, fording to stay on the road. And I just find it incredible that they find themselves to be the superior power that can censor whose voices can be heard and whose cannot. I mean, these makeup tutorials, they get a billion views with the men who fought for our freedom, them. Why can't we give them the same attention?
Starting point is 01:40:59 Tell me, tell me the, the most interesting and best out of all of that you've done, hard to choose, I know. What was the thing that really opened your eyes or moved you or had you look at things differently? You mean, you mean veteran interview? In an interview. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know, that's difficult. There's so many interesting veterans, but I would like to tell you about a man named Chuck Pataglia. I fell out through him through a directory of wounded veterans.
Starting point is 01:41:39 I literally would spend my days going through name-by-name calling these veterans who all belong to the same organization. And I came across his name, and I reached out to him, and he agreed to do the interview. And he didn't mention anything on the phone, anything unusual. I come to his house. This man is a double amputee. Both of his legs were blown off by a mortar during the fighting for the Hurtgen Forest
Starting point is 01:42:09 in October of 1944. He was the friendliest man, I swear to God. He would take the shirt off his back to help you. And I just, it was incredible to sit there and talk to him and hear his story. Basically, he was 18 when Pearl Harbor gets attacked, 19, when he decides to join. After training, he gets shipped overseas. And he joins as a replacement for the first infantry division.
Starting point is 01:42:44 And he was only in combat for about two weeks. And he is sitting behind a hedge one night. And he told me he could hear Germans on the end. other side, but he was out on guard, and all of a sudden, next thing he knows, he hears the loudest explosion of his life, and when he comes to, he can't move, and he doesn't feel his legs. So a couple of his buddies come, and they carry him to the first aid station. It doesn't look like he's going to make it. He had a strong faith, and obviously he did.
Starting point is 01:43:22 He comes back home. This is someone, you know, who has to be. his whole life ahead of him. You know, 19 years old to be dealt such a severe blow. But his family told me something. I sincerely believe that he never complained a single day in his life about his situation. All he wanted to do was get a job and raise a family and be a contributing member to society. He wanted to give back, even though he had already given his legs.
Starting point is 01:43:54 And the real interesting thing is he ended up working for the VA as a prosthetic technician making prosthetic for other veterans. Here's where I want you to go. I want you to go to the Facebook page Heroes of the Second War or Heroes of the Second World War.org. Heroes of the second world war.org. You can help them out with GoFundMe.com. Legends of World War WW2, if you will, WWII-I-GoFundMe
Starting point is 01:44:26 Page, Legends of WWII-I-I It's Rishi Sharma. Rishi, keep up the good work. Thank you for joining us. So I was just talking to my wife because I'm going on a road trip with the boys. My son and some of his friends and everything else were making a cross-country trip.
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Starting point is 01:45:58 Save 10 bucks. This is the Glenn Beck program. This weekend is Memorial Day weekend. I will be with some vets over the weekend, marking the day and their service. Rishi Sharma was just with us. He is the guy who started Legends of World War II, Heroes of the Second World War, which is where you can find him on Facebook. He wanted me to ask any veteran of World War II,
Starting point is 01:46:32 if you know a veteran, please sign up so they can be interviewed. And you can do that at Heroes of the Second World War that's spelled out, Heroes of the Second World War.org or on Facebook at Heroes of the Second World War. They are fading fast. They are going away. and he is trying to get as many as possible. You know, when I hear people talk about America, I think about people like Rishi,
Starting point is 01:47:03 a 19-year-old kid who started this because he was fascinated and now he knows the truth and he is fighting hard that we don't lose so we don't lose all of these voices and experiences. When I think of America, I think of a country that makes an awful lot of mistakes but then does its best to write itself and learn from that mistake.
Starting point is 01:47:26 I want to introduce you to Adam Sandoval. His story began because he was disappointed in himself. He said, I never served in the military. I didn't do so for no good reason, just poor choices. Temptations, distractions, I had my focus in all the wrong places at a young age, and as I got older, it really started to set in, the sacrifices and even more so realizing the sacrifices
Starting point is 01:47:49 that other people have made for our country. I wanted to find a way to give back and do what I could. So he came up with something that he is now very passionate about, and I want him to explain it. Adam, welcome to the program. Oh, happy to be on. Thank you so much for having me. I wish we were together in person.
Starting point is 01:48:11 I know you're up in Oklahoma. You are a guy who is dedicating his life now to raising awareness of our veterans. and you have some things going on soon that you're going to talk about. But tell me what you started and what you're doing. Sure. You know, it all started with a campaign. I called it Scoot in America. And I just rolled my Harley Davidson to every Harley Davidson dealership across the country
Starting point is 01:48:40 and raised awareness and support for veterans. It was an 88,000 mile road trip that took me coast to coast. Yeah, like 16 times coast to coast. Eight thousand. thousand miles. Oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. It was a long adventure. It took me about 21 months. Got hit by a car, had to come back from that, you know, damaged my leg pretty bad. But was able to get back on the bike and finish it and ride to every dealership in America.
Starting point is 01:49:10 And, you know, had Americans ride with me from every corner of this country in honor of our veterans. We raised a ton of money and a ton of support for veterans. And, you know, I just couldn't stop after that. I just kept going. So we've got all kinds of programs rolling out. So didn't you, when you would stop at these dealerships, didn't you many times give a bike to a veteran? A lot of veterans' motorcycle giveaways. I think to date, don't quote me on this, but I think I've given up 12 bikes away to veterans at this point. And that's always such an impactful thing because I know what the motorcycle community stands for when it comes to our veterans.
Starting point is 01:49:49 And they're very passionate and they're very embracing. and it can be a channel for a veteran that needs it. So when I find a veteran and I give them, hand them over the keys to a brand new motorcycle, I know it's not just a motorcycle I'm giving them. It's a channel for therapy. It's a channel for community, camaraderie. I give messages from them all the time, changes their lives. Why did this happen to you?
Starting point is 01:50:17 I mean, you, veterans are, they're part of a community. And if you're in that community, you can understand it. I don't know if I can fully understand it, but they are just, they walk as one many times. And you weren't part of that community. What was it that changed in your life or what happened in your life? You know, I think it's maturity. You know, I grew up.
Starting point is 01:50:44 I think you said it well in the open there. You know, I just made a lot of bad choices. And I started to regret those choices. And I just wanted to be... But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. By society's standards, you didn't necessarily make bad choices. You were quite wealthy. Were you not?
Starting point is 01:51:00 I mean, you had a big house and a nice car and an extensive art collection, right? I mean, yeah, I was successful in business. There's no doubt. But it was, it was more than that. Even that success came later for me, you know, in my early 30s, late 20s, it started to happen. And in my teens and early 20s, when I would have joined the military, I was just a young punk. And I was just making bad choices and had been wrong priorities in life. And as I matured, I did find some success in business.
Starting point is 01:51:31 But then, you know, the reality of my veteran setting, I started, got some very close veteran friends that were active duty, some that didn't make it home, some that did come home and then deal with struggles every day back here in America. and I really started to feel like I didn't do my part. And I felt like I should have should have been part of that. And it just, it just, I don't know, it hit me. And I wanted to leave. There's a lot of people, honestly, there's a lot of people that will say I want to do my part. But you sold your house, all of your expensive cars, furniture, your art collection. You let it all go.
Starting point is 01:52:10 And you then got on your motorcycle. and you went on this trip for the American Legion's Legacy Scholarship Fund, which benefits the children of fallen veterans who were lost on or before 9-11. A lot of people say, I want to get involved. You sold everything and went on the road. I did, man. I lived off of a back, it ended up being a total of five years. I was homeless.
Starting point is 01:52:37 I lived off the back of a motorcycle. And it was an incredible learning experience for me. I gained so much knowledge and really, and I think you're right. I don't think either of us can understand what these veterans go through, but I've spent a lot of nights next to campfires and a lot of miles on the road talking to veterans and helping whatever way I possibly could deal with, you know, whatever struggles they may be having or dealing with. And, I mean, it's heavy stuff, man.
Starting point is 01:53:05 I mean, it's very heavy stuff. I've heard you say that there were two events or two meetings that really kind of changed your life, they deeply affected you. One was with a mom, and the other was a salute. Can you tell those stories? So I was, you know,
Starting point is 01:53:25 kind of in the beginning of my campaign. You know, this always gets me going. You know, it's tough to deal with a veteran who is, who is, you know, trying to understand what they're going through, but when you have a mother come to you,
Starting point is 01:53:43 and her child, Did it come home? And you're riding to support a program that helps her grandchildren, her child's child, a child that's missing a father. And she comes up to you and out of the blue and wraps her arms around you and starts crying. And you've never met this woman before. And she starts telling you the stories of what her family is still doing with today because of the loss. And if that doesn't take you back and humble you and make you realize that the
Starting point is 01:54:19 There's so much more important. Yeah. I'd have given anyone in them cars or any of that art collection in any moment. You know what I mean? To help that lady and change what she was going through, you know? All of a sudden, all those worldly possessions just don't mean anything when you've got somebody sitting in front of you like that, you know. And you were talking about World War II veterans. You know, I had a World War II veteran teach me to salute.
Starting point is 01:54:43 You know, that's something I would have learned had I had actually served, you know, and that was quite the honor as well. So let me. I don't want to meet that guy. I'll be there all day trying on one. Let me ask you two things. You've traveled now over 80,000 miles around the country on your bike. You didn't have home. So you were everywhere in this country.
Starting point is 01:55:11 Two questions. What did you learn that you didn't know about veterans? And what did you learn about America? that you didn't know or you came to fully understand? Sure. You know, to answer a later question first, America, I learned that we're much more united than anybody wants us to believe. We are, we are every, you know, I, on that campaign alone, it was, it was 88,000 miles,
Starting point is 01:55:40 and I went to 702 cities across America. That campaign alone, I learned very quickly that we are united and we are united. and we are aligned, and the people that are out there working every day and grinding to keep the society going and to keep us afloat and to keep us, you know, a healthy country. We vastly agree on almost everything. The country's not a divide. On the big principles. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:56:09 You know, and that to me was really an eye-opener because before stepping foot in all these cities and having dinners and breakfasts and meetings with. all these different people in all these different cities, I had no idea we really were as united as we are. And it was an eye opener for me. And it got me excited. It got me amped, you know, because I'm like, man, we, we really are in much better shape than maybe, you know, a lot of people want us to believe. And I think that's one reason why people in the middle of the country, you know, when I warn about the things that are happening and the things that are coming, they don't necessarily feel that. because in their usual daily life, they are talking to their neighbors who are Democrats
Starting point is 01:56:52 or Republicans or independents and everybody's getting along. And so they just don't, they, I mean, it's a different world when you're outside of the media or outside of the social networks, when you're actually in America, uh, it feels entirely different. It does. I mean,
Starting point is 01:57:09 amazingly different. I mean, I get chills just hearing what you just said because it's so true. I mean, it's, people are good. People in this country are good. You know, there's a lot of good out there. I've only got about 60 seconds left.
Starting point is 01:57:24 Tell me about what you learned about veterans, if you can in 60. Man, I learned that there's a lot more trauma going on with our veterans than what we even know. And there can never be enough awareness and that we need a whole lot more support and help for them than what our government's giving them. And that even though I can preach. it to you right here on the show, you'll never know until you get with enough of them and see the struggles they're going through.
Starting point is 01:57:51 They're fighting a very ugly war right here on her own soil. And I learned that it's important that I do my part. I got quite a statement I'd like to say. And that is if you did not serve in your military, find time to serve those who did. And that's what I try to do. Adam Sandoval. You'll find him at Adam Sandoval.com. Also, YouTube.com slash Adam Sandival.
Starting point is 01:58:14 Adam, I'm sorry. I'd love to have you for a podcast. I know we've been trying to put it together the last few, but you're a fascinating guy with much more to tell. Thank you so much. Let's get together soon. Thank you. God bless.
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Starting point is 02:01:07 You know, we're looking to white Israel off the map. Yeah, we want, you know, we're looking to destroy Israel. We don't want to just Gaza. We want to have all of Israel. I've actually been learning about last in this last school year about everything that's going on over there So I like the sound of what you're doing it sounds like the great thing to do like totally against the Israeli genocide Awesome we just want to get rid of Israel and you know it's for the Palestinians stay off drugs But we would love you check out our website
Starting point is 02:01:31 Yeah, you're wonderful Good luck thank you if you feel like donating to help the cause to fight back and that'd be great For sure, definitely would and maybe consider making a donation Sure great Probably like 15 bucks, no that'd be that'd be be great. I don't know, maybe like 10, 20 bucks. $5 or $10.
Starting point is 02:01:49 Maybe like $10. $10. $10. $10. $10? $10. Let's say $27 since that seems to be my Bernie donation. Just so you know, the organization Ami Horowitz is raising money for in this clip is called Friends of Hamas.
Starting point is 02:02:07 And he has no shortage of college students willing to give him money to donate to an internationally recognized terrorist organization just because in his summary of what they do, he says they're going to destroy Israel. This is, by the way, if you think about critical race theory and you're like, well, it's some dumb thing that happens in schools. I don't really care.
Starting point is 02:02:35 The equivalent to critical race theory has been happening with the Israelis and the Palestinians across our society for years and years and years and years and years. And this is the end of it. We have people now financially supporting terrorism, which my understanding of that is that it's a crime. Not going to stop them, though. Have a great Memorial Day weekend. We'll see you next week.

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