The Glenn Beck Program - Democrats vs. ‘Health Issues’ | Guests: Bill O’Reilly & Brad Thor | 7/23/21

Episode Date: July 23, 2021

Sen. Amy Klobuchar has a new bill that would make social media sites liable for spreading COVID-19 "misinformation." How often is today’s “misinformation” tomorrow’s truth? Glenn goes through all the “fake news” that ended up being true. Glenn and Stu showcase all the new woke emojis they’ve created to be used by a leftist near you. Bill O’Reilly joins to discuss the news of the week, including the misinformation crackdown, the latest Capitol riot drama, and his pick for the biggest problem facing America. Author Brad Thor calls in to discuss his latest thriller novel, “Black Ice,” and its parallels to current affairs. Why are Republicans suddenly begging people to get vaccinated? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome to the program today. I want to share with you that Bill O'Reilly is going to be on with us and so much more. I want to talk to you a little bit about American financing. An uncomfortable question for you. How many times a day would you say you pick up the phone and scroll through Facebook for at least 10 solid minutes? Stop doing it. Today, don't do that. Here's what I want you to do.

I want you to call, take that 10 minutes and call American financing at 800-906 2440, 800 906 2440 it's american financing dot net hello stew hey glen how are you oh i'm fantastic yeah yeah doing well doing yeah that's good to hear yeah just sitting in uh stew's or i mean that pat's place today yeah got an interesting back of the chair situation going on there a little little pillow action yeah yeah yeah just a little head rest you know yeah just a little headrest but it's good yeah thank you very much thank you thank you thank you thank you It's going to be an exciting, exciting show today. It's one word for it.

We're going to start with Amy Clomacher here in just a second. Hello, America. It's Friday, and we have quite a program lined up for you. Not today, of course, probably next week at some time, and today will be, you know, it'll be an okay show. But, wow, we've got a great show lined up for you. It's Friday. Bill O'Reilly begins with us in just a few minutes. Also, we begin with Amy Klobuchar.

Oh, she wants to make sure that we're all healthy. And so now the government will decide what's misinformation and what's not. And if you're filing it misinformation or spreading it, you're going to be in trouble with your big brother. We begin there in 60 seconds. So Kent lives in Arkansas. He writes in about his experience with Relief Factory. He says, I've been taking Relief Factor now for a, about three months, and I'm amazed at how much my pain has decreased.

Rainy weather, I would be in ridiculous pain, just wanting to crawl into bed and cry. Gosh, I hope you, okay, you live in Arkansas. I was hoping you didn't live in Seattle. At this writing, it's been rating all day, and I feel fine. Before relief factor, I never had a day when something didn't hurt. Now, most days, I have great quality of life. Thank you so much. That's exactly how I would describe it.

Relief factor will take you and give you your life back. Doesn't mean you're going to live a life of pain free. It means you're going to live a life where you are able to function and most of your pain is gone. Gant, I'm glad you got your life back with Relief Factor. I know what you mean about just wanting to crawl into bed and cry. But some of us, we go on. We stand on our own too. feet and we push forward.

You know what I'm saying, Stu? Some of us are standing on your own two feet. That's what you're doing today. I'm here, aren't I? You are here? I'm sitting here right here in the studio right next to you. In a way, yes, you are. You certainly are.

It's an interesting day here at the studio. It's Friday. Relief factor. Try it out. 70% of the people who try it go on to order more month after month. It's relief factor. Relieffactor.com or call 800, 500, 583.84. 800, 584.

It's Relieffactor.com. All right. You sick, twisted freak. How you doing, Stu? Good. How are you? Well, I'm a little worried about misinformation today and, you know, what Big Brother is going to say about what we're talking about today. So I want to make sure we're in line.

And all of our words are politically correct. And if not, I think it's appropriate to not only ban us from, let's say, Twitter, but also from all other social media and maybe all speech entirely. Well, I don't think you should be allowed to speak if you have misinformation, you know. You know, it's not enough. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, but radio, television, all internet. But hey, look, if you want to write letters, you can write letters to. people. Can't send them in the mail. No, no, not with a federal, it would be a federal crime to send false information through the U.S. Postal Service. So you don't want to do that. Sure, sure, sure.

But you could write letters. I didn't say send them. I said you could write letters. This is Amy Klobuchar. Now remember, Amy Klobuchar was the one that said, hey, you know, we're going to do, we're going to, these people are way too crazy for me. And if you're a Democrat, and you just want common sense and you don't want all this radicalism. Well, let me tell you right now, what you need is Amy Klobuchar for president. Yeah. She was the moderate. Yesterday, she came out and introduced her Health Misinformation Act.

Co-sponsored by Senate Commerce Communications Subcommittee, blah, blah, blah, created an exception to websites currently, current liability protection for user posted content. So in other words, if Facebook is providing misinformation, well, they're not, they're not held responsible. They don't mean to, okay? But, uh, whew, let me tell you something. If you post something, now this is only because it's a health emergency, right? Stu? I mean, it's, this is not going to happen for, you know, everyday things.

No, no, of course. Just, just the health. Just if there's like a major health and safety sort of. situation. Right. Like COVID or... Right. Exactly. Like a pandemic. An ongoing pandemic. Or racism. Because racism is a really big health problem. As we found out, that's why you could protest. Yeah. That's why it was okay to protest in the George Floyd thing because obviously more important than the pandemic as a health issue was racism. Racism. It was a bigger, it was a bigger pandemic in America than the actual pandemic. And, you know, I mean, I think we should throw away.

in guns because guns are huge problem. Huge problem with health. Huge health issue. That's probably okay. I will say this, the climate is so serious, Glenn. Well, it's a health of everybody. Yeah.

We all die. Yeah. It's a, I mean, existential threat. Right. And talk radio really, I mean, it's become, the guys on talk radio are really more of cult leaders. That's a great point. That's a great point.

Health issue. And they really, need to be stopped. This is, we're not making this up. This is exactly what will happen. And I know this audience knows this, but so many people in America won't even pay attention to this story. You know, we are being killed, not by Marxist. We are being killed by apathy. We are being killed by a bunch of people who have no interest in doing anything for themselves. They'll believe whatever they hear and they'll just take it at face value and they don't really care.

They're not really paying attention to any of the news. They probably can't tell you who the vice president is. And certainly they couldn't tell you what HHS is and a Misinformation Act. Of course that sounds good. I mean, we got to stop this misinformation. Hmm. Well, may I give you just a few things? This is actually coming from the Daily Caller.

Here's four major stories, four major stories that were called disinformation. The first one is the lab leak theory. We received anti-primperiodies. anti-browny points. I don't know what you would, I don't know what you would call those, but we were flagged as a company, and it cost us money to tell you that we felt that there is a chance it came from the lab.

It's obvious that that's where you even start. You know, when you have a coronavirus coming out and it's got a, you know, it's got a wet market, 277 yards away from the bio lab, you look at the wet market, but you also look at the biolab. We weren't allowed to do that. For months after the coronavirus spread, Democrats and media talking heads dismissed any possibility

that the virus could have leaked from a research laboratory. Tom Cotton, do you remember what Tom Cotton went through? because he said that it was coming from the lab or the possibility that it was coming from the lab. He was labeled a fringe conspiracy theorist for that. Well, it turns out looks like he may be right. Now everybody's saying it's okay. So what happens to the people like me, people like you, that might have been saying and exercising their First Amendment right to question the government,

Remember, that's part of the First Amendment. It's not just freedom of press. It is also to petition the government. To get together and say, wait a minute, wait a minute, you owe us answers because we don't believe that. If we lose the right to petition our government and the right to free speech, what's really left that is important? if you can't question the government, if you can't question what the mainstream media and the government say, do you really have any freedom left anymore?

That's not a rhetorical question, by the way. Tell me how you have freedom without freedom of speech, freedom of expression. Tell me how you are free if you're not allowed to question authority. if you're not a cool how do we have any new invention how do we have anything see this is what happens to communist countries people just think that oh well no they just have some bad leadership at the top no they kill everything that leads to invention they kill everything that leads to um progress because you're not allowed to question those in authority.

So only those in authority, if they steal the ideas from other people or they just come up with them themselves, that's the only way you get any kind of progress. And who's interested in progress when those at the top are fat and happy? Why change things? Why upset the apple cart?

Why do we need this? now another one of course was the Russian bounties on American soldiers a few months before the 2020 presidential election the media began to circulate a report suggesting Russian officials secretly placed bounties on the heads of American soldiers effectively paying the Taliban to kill Americans everyone from the New York Times and now the White House press secretary Jen Saki pushed this narrative the Washington Post even gave Trump four Pinocchio's for calling the story fake news. Now, six months after the election, the story has changed. A new statement from the Biden White House said former White House press secretary, Kaley McInanini said from the beginning that the intelligence community did not have

high confidence in the information. And yet, the press and the government, all of the agencies, said, if you question that, You were just a crazy Trump supporter. You were just trying to get him elected. You were ignoring the fact that Americans were being slaughtered and executed at the request of Russia. You were just a denier. And now we know it's not true. How about Hunter Biden's laptop?

That's the opposite direction. if you believed in Hunter Biden's laptop, you were a moron. This was Russian disinformation. This was bad for the election because we know Russia has been working with Trump, and now they have this laptop that just shows up. NPR said they wouldn't even report on it. Now what do we know about Hunter Biden's laptop? Well, we don't know a lot from the government.

We don't know a lot from the press. But we do know now that the Hunter Biden laptop story is absolutely true. They're still trying to deny the things in it just by not talking about it. But it's not disinformation. It's not misinformation. It's not misinformation. It's true. There's three really important ones.

How about just the Russian collusion in and of itself? How about this one? In 2007, I said something that almost no one agreed with. I got so much heat from people because I said the economy, we're going to collapse. The banking system is going to collapse. And lo and behold, it did. Well, I said that for about how long, Stu? before that happened, three years?

Yeah, it was a long time. Yeah, three years, I was, I was really ringing the bell on that. Look out, look out, don't get involved in all this housing scam. We're in trouble. Well, was that disinformation or was that my opinion? And it actually helped save some people. But everybody was pissed at me, Republicans, Democrats alike. Everyone was pissed at me.

How about there's a caliphate? The caliphate is coming. That's what these people want to do in the Middle East is they want to caliphate. Oh my gosh, that's the craziest thing ever. Was that disinformation? Can you imagine even talking about Benghazi today? Was that disinformation? No one paid for that.

No one paid for that. But we know what the truth is because we saw it. We, we, we, in America, the people who were involved could write a book. And then in the time when it wasn't just what was politically correct, but what could be made into a good movie, like that's a higher standard. We saw the movie. Was that disinformation? We are now entering a place and this is really, truly it.

If this happens, this is the key to destroy everything. And that is having the government and HHS decide what's information, what's misinformation, and disinformation. And I know they're saying that, no, that's not going to happen. It's only because this is a health epidemic. Uh-huh. Well, you have already said climate change is about health. You have already said gun control is about health. You will put anything about health.

If I said the things I said, which are true, and we now know, about Obamacare when they were trying to shove that through, they could have silenced me because that's a health issue. And I was lying to the American people. No, I wasn't. No, I wasn't. Who was lying? it was the government. If Americans don't start to see that our founding fathers were exactly right,

if you don't, if the government doesn't have a healthy fear, that the American people are watching and will remember and will take action at the voting booth, if they don't fear the people, the people will fear them. And no government, left or right, no president, left or right, Republican Democrat independent, should ever have as much power as our president now has. No president, no Congress should ever be able to make the American people afraid. Donald Trump scared half the country. So what did they do?

They put somebody else in office who scared the other half. of the country. What are we doing? I think it's time we start coming together and saying, no, no one should be afraid of the government. All right. Let me tell you about LifeLock or sponsor this F hour. Unless you have some ability to constantly adapt to every new way cybercriminals

are attempting to seal your identity, you need something that's going to protect your data. There's an unfortunate truth. Nobody is able to keep up with all. cyber crime because it's happening all the time all over the world. Did you see what happened yesterday, all the websites that were shut down, Stu? No, I don't think I did. Oh my gosh, big story. We'll talk about it in a minute.

It wasn't a cyber hack, they say. They say it was a software update, but it was the banking system. It was AT&T. It was a lot. It was a lot. And don't think that our enemies can't. do that. Now, if they're able to do that to the government, if they're able to do that to some of our infrastructure, you don't think they can get your information and destroy your life? You need

life lock, somebody that is watching over you all the time. They can't catch everything, but if they miss something or if something has happened to you, they'll help you make it right. They have a dedicated restoration team that you can grab a specialist from. And if you become a victim. They assigned somebody to your case. It's Lifelock. Lifelock.com. Use the promo code back. Save 25%. 1-800 Lifelock. 1-800 Lifelock or Lifelock.com. Use the promo code back. 10 seconds, station ID. What is it? Yeah. Yeah. It's Friday. Bill O'Reilly is coming up in just a little while. Also, Brad Thor is going to be on with us at hour number three. He's always fun.

He is. Brad's always an interesting. interesting a conversation. Speaking of interesting, are we going to address your situation here on camera today? Situation on camera. I'm just sitting here. I feel a little like Stephen Hawking. Oh, wait a minute.

I'm on the beach, strangely not laying down on the beach. But that's weird. That's weird. If you're watching GB TV or you're watching Blaze TV today, you'll see that now I'm just suddenly. myself on the beach. And it's beautiful. Yeah, Glenn is having some back issues, which seems to be a very frequent occurrence lately.

Yeah, I mean, I've never, I'm turning into Pat. I've never had, I mean, I fell out of a two-story window probably 30 years ago and screwed up my back royally and been living with it. And I've been able to handle it. And the pain will come and go. And once in a while, I'll throw my back out. it'll be bad. I threw my back out. I don't even know. Three months ago and I've had all kinds of, you know, steroid injections and everything else. And I, the doctor is now saying, you got to have

surgery. And I don't want surgery. I don't, I, you know, it was a sad situation, obviously. It was that it was only two stories, but, you actually back in the day did the show with Pat after he went through a surgery. Yeah. And wasn't he in the bed for? He was in bed for, I don't even know. Two months? Right. Something like that. So now you are currently laying flat on the floor here in the studio.

Yeah. With a green screen behind you. I don't know what you're talking about. And I'm here on the beach. Oh, my gosh. Who am I in bed with? That looks like Amy Schumer. You seem to be in bed with Amy Schumer.

This is not going to be good. This is not right. I don't want to be in bed with Amy Schumer. She feels the same way. Thank you. This is the glit. All right. our sponsor this half hour is My Pillow.

You know, I wish I had my pillow right now, but I don't. The inventor of My Pillow is Mike Lindell, and they're great. They are truly, truly great pillows. You can also get the incredible sheet set, the Giza sheets, and up your towel game with his six-piece towel set. It's made with U.S. cotton. It's extremely absorbent, yet still proves that the soft feel that you have, you can get in a look and a soft feel at a reasonable price.

It comes with two bath, two hand towels, and two washcloths, and typically retails for about $1,99. But for a limited time, you can get this set for a low price of $3999, only at mypillow.com. Click on the new radio list. your specials and get this insanely low price of $3999 on the towel set. You'll find deep discounts on all other MyPillow products right now at mypillow.com. promo code back. And head over to blazTV.com slash Glenn. promo code is Glenn.

You'll save $10 off your subscription to Blaze TV. And you'll get to see Glenn in bed with Amy Schumer. Ooh, that's not good. Hello America. It's Friday. The Glenn Beck program. Glad you hear. Bill O'Reilly comes up in about half an hour.

I'm really excited to talk to him about the news of the week. What he felt was the most important, usually wrong on that. He's usually wrong on that. But he's got a great viewpoint. And we'll check with him in about a half an hour from now. Looking at you right now, you have a great viewpoint as well, viewpoint from space. Well, you know, Branson went into space and then what's his name from Amazon?

He went up. I went in, you know, his was a little controversial. Bezos, when he went into space, his capsule kind of looked a little, you know. But I went in a rocket shaped as lady bits. And so I'm in space now. It's very strange. It's funny watching you because if you missed it, Glenn is laying flat on the ground today. And they've put a green screen behind them and they're just changing the backgrounds to torture him.

And it's fun. Actually, it's one of these. We should send some pictures out, tweet some pictures out of Glenn with the various backgrounds. And perhaps, I'm just a suggestion to the audience because it's Friday. It's a summer Friday. Maybe they're a little bored. At Stu Does America, at Glenn Beck. Tweet us the background you think should be behind Glenn for the rest of the show.

It's just if you have a funny picture that you think would look funny having Glenn in the middle of it as he's trying to do serious material on the air. I'd like to be in the garage with Jack Ruby right now. Can you put me back in bed with Amy Schumer, please? Because that one looked kind of real, didn't it? You're going to have to take it full screen. There it is. Kind of looks like, and she's looking over at me like, oh my gosh, this is great. And so to make this complete, it has to be like, I think.

This is one of those things. I will say it's not just we are. We've talked a lot about social media today because of the Amy Klobuchar bill. And sure, people can tweet backgrounds for you to do the radio show with today at Studios America, at Glenn Beck. Sure. But we're not just here to be silly. No, we're not. We are here to help the audience and navigate these very difficult times.

Now, I don't know if you know this, but they've decided to come out with new emojis because, hey, things are changing. And so the emojis need to change too. And so the good people at the emoji producing factory have decided to take on a new task, Stu. Yeah, well, I know they had the pregnant man, which was a nice one. Because, you know, people don't realize this, but men can be pregnant. No, men cannot become pregnant. Oh, yes, they can. No, they can.

Basically, the way that a man becomes pregnant is they are a woman, and then we call them a man. And so then they can become pregnant. But a biological man, no matter how he changes his parts, can't have a baby. And anybody like Stu who's trying to propagate that, dangerous medical disinformation. Just want to point that out. Dangerous medical misinformation. This is the road we're on. This is the road we're on.

I know. And we're far down. this road, by the way. I mean, the fact that they're releasing a pregnant male, which we all, we all look, we can all talk about this stuff however you want. But the bottom line is that men cannot have children. That is a very basic fact of the human anatomy. I have children. You did not give birth to any children. Feels like I did. People always say like, we're pregnant. Now, she's pregnant. All right? You're not anything. You spent eight, probably 18 seconds doing something. It's over. Your part of this is pretty much over. You'll spend the rest of your life probably

screwing the kid up as they grow up. Wow. She's... Somebody had some daddy issues. Holy cow. But it's like that term is hilarious. We're pregnant. I got that you had a small role with it.

She's the one doing everything. What are you doing? I know. We have children. That's accurate. Yes, of course. We're pregnant. No.

We're not. No, we're not. And we're glad. Half 50% of us are glad we're not pregnant. Now, if you look at our physiques, we look pregnant. Yes. And the male pregnant thing actually would work for us as an emoji because we look like we're pregnant. Exactly right.

Stu, that's our new logo. You and I as emojis pregnant. It works. It works. And that will keep us. They can't ban us that. Right. So we're the pregnant men.

We decided. We decided that we were going to help the emoji people and come up with some new emojis as well. For instance, I don't want to. I don't want to get somebody's pronouns wrong, and they don't always announce their pronouns. So to make sure I don't misgender somebody, I'm suggesting a new 99-shaped emoji. That way, you know, I just put that instead of Mr. Miss, you know, you, they, whatever it is, you just put the 99 emoji up there. So this is what covers the 99 genders? Is that the idea?

Yeah. Now, we might have to change that as to. genders keep going up. Maybe $9.99 would be a safer thing? Probably. Because we probably have a good month or two before it hits 999 genders. Yeah. Now, I've come up with another, and we're going to be tweeting all of these out, so you'll

be able to see them. I came up on another one, because we know that CRT, we told you yesterday, the definition of a word that you probably have never heard, praxis. It's an old word, but it was really, it's really used by communists. and people who believe in Carl Marx. I mean, I believe in Carl Marx. I just don't believe in his writings, but the praxis means putting it into action,

and that's what's happening to our schools. They are making activists out of our schools. And so, you know, when we're talking about our kids, I think it's easy just to use a little emoji there, which is, looks to be, how would you describe that, Stu? an angry child an angry baby holding a BLM sign yeah so there's your new emoji for child activist now we all have complained from time to time that we've lost our heroes you know all of their who are the heroes and so we thought we would make the politically correct

emoji of our new heroes and here they are they're holding hands there's there's three of them there. One is Castro. One is President Z. The other is Maduro. And they're holding hands with halos over their head. So I totally appropriate. And the good thing about using these emojis, you will never get banned using them.

These will be completely approved. As long as you don't use them in some sarcastic way. Who would do that? I hope nobody. I mean, I know this isn't sarcastic. We're not doing this in a sarcastic way. We mean it. We mean it.

I would love to have these emojis. Can we? Is there a way to make this emoji package so we can actually have people use them as emojis? I don't know. I will say I've never in my life used an emoji for any reason. I do. I use the guy.

I use the guy with his tongue out and his eyes kind of popped out and cross-eyed. I use that one a lot. I use the one where he's just got big white eyes. He's like, what? I use that one a lot. I had this thing where I learned growing up, words. Yeah. I use those to describe the things I'm talking about.

It's a crazy idea. The one I find the most active, at least for me, is the salsa dancer. You've seen the, yeah. Have you seen that? I'm not. I'm not. I use that all the time. Really?

All the time. I can't tell you how many. Is it like, hey, Hey, honey, bring me the, and then salsa. Exactly. Hey, honey, you want to salsa dance tonight? You know? I thought you were looking for condiments, but I was apparently a mistake.

No, no, no, that's the main use for it. That's the main use for it. What the hell is that? Why do they have a salsa dancer? Why? Who's using that? I don't know. I don't know the point.

People think these things are cute and I don't. No, I don't understand. It's just a dumbing down of our. society in such a massive way that I don't well let me just tell you this um you know who you can who can really help who can really help and not dumb down our society is the government and that's why we have a new uh government emoji here to help uh it's just a yellow-faced uh guy in dark sunglasses and uh and a needle uh so he's got the vaccine all ready to go he's here to help coming door to Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Then, of course, if you want anybody to take you seriously, you're going to need this emoji. This is your vaccine passport emoji. So you can just label that and you're like, look, I can come into this theater. Here's my passport. I mean? Exciting. Yeah, yeah. Now, this one was inspired by Joe Biden because, you know, I, of course, use latinks all the time when I'm talking about.

Excuse me for saying this, Latinos. Now, is it confirmed Latins? I thought it was Latinx. Is it both? How does that work? Well, it is Latinks, but apparently Joe Biden is so hip that he came up with his own way of pronouncing it. And here he is.

Listen, it's awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated as well. Latinx, Latinx. True. Latinx. A good point. So we have a new Latinx. emoji. It's a tissue box with a sombrero on it.

A new Latinx. You know, that one may get you banned. That one potentially might actually get your band, but it's still really funny. Let me go for the peaceful protester. If we have the peaceful protester, he's a black block rioter with raised fist, Antifa branded, branded Riot Shield.

And his face is masked. So that's the peaceful protester emoji. And not spreading COVID. Exactly right. Because they're wearing the mask. Exactly right. And let me just show you now the journalist. There's the emoji for the journalist.

That seems to be very similar to the peaceful protester and Tifa member. Oh, yeah. They're exactly the same. But it just depends on which context you use. And then here is the college student. You have the college student emoji right there. Again, that looks exactly like the journalist and the Antifa member. I know, it's hard to tell them apart, isn't it?

It is. It is hard to tell them apart. All right, our sponsor, this half hour is if I could see it, I would be able to tell you. It's American financing. If there's one thing that we as Americans are used to, it's standing on the precipice of change, especially now, right? Isn't it exciting to be on the precipice where you feel like you might fall off the cliff? But don't worry you're not. going to. Sometimes it changes good. A lot of times it's not so good. I don't know what the future holds,

but I do know that it holds all kinds of change. And it's going to have change that will be directly related to your banking future. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please look into the Great Reset or watch one of our episodes on The Great Reset. But it is going to change. A lot of stuff is changing. And I want you to call American financing because it's going to get harder for you to get a loan, especially once they start doling out the ESG cards. And you listen to this program? Yeah, you're kind of a risk for the bank. So I don't think we're going to be able to do that for you. Give American financing a call today. Do not wait. Do not put it off. You want to start saving money right now. look into a refi or maybe you're looking for a new mortgage for your house right now or you're buying a new house

or you want to do a consolidation loan right now American financing 800 906 2440 800 906 2440 or go to American financing.compancing.compancing NMLS 1-82334 www. nmLS consumer access.org You know, Joe Biden is looking to spend an awful lot of our money, and I'm not sure he even understands what he's talking about. By the way, I'm up on top of, I think this is Everest because I'm that kind of guy. Anyway, he said in the town hall the other day, I'm not being facetious. Democrats or Republicans, I don't care if you think I'm Satan reincarnated. The fact is, you can't look at television and say nothing happened on January 6th.

You can't listen to people who say this was a peaceful march. No, I'm serious. I'm not joking. Think about it. Think of the things being said. I've been through the other end of this when Democrats 35 years ago were way off on the other side. So was he thinking, does he think the 1960s were 35 years ago or is he accurately saying that the bombing of the Capitol building from the weather underground happened? And that was a democratic move. I also like how he's presenting it as it's crazy that like you look at TV and you show.

shouldn't you can't believe your eyes that doesn't that was not like just a peaceful event that's exactly what they required us to do the entire summer of the george floyd protests yeah look at all this violence look at all the things burning to the ground that's nothing that's a peaceful protest you can't listen to people who say this was a peaceful march no i mean it i'm not being facetious think about it it drives me nuts amazing amazing by the way another thing to think about here glenn before we uh we we finished the hour, and Bill O'Reilly's coming up here in just a couple of minutes. The spending process that we're talking about, this is from Brian Reedle at the dispatch, add it all up, and the Democrats are laying the groundwork to add $6.1 trillion in new spending and tax cuts,

including, our tax credits, excuse me, including the mostly unnecessary $1.9 trillion stimulus bill enacted just four months ago. That would bring the 2021 binge just this year to a historic $8 trillion over the next decade. how much is $8 trillion enough for Washington to deposit $60,000 into each family's bank account? And instead of that, what we're going to get is a mishmash of programs and nonsense that won't work at all. That's what we're going to get. $60,000 in everybody's bank account. And if you think about it the other way, at a cost of $60,000 to every household,

that's another way to kind of consider how serious this. It is. And $8 trillion, and nobody's really even blinking. Nobody's blinking. Remember when we said, that would cost, you know, $10 trillion. And they'd be like, that's over a 10-year period. Yeah. Well, and that is a year.

Well, it's a year when they're enacting it. I mean, you're right. A lot of this is over the 10-year period. But still, what does that mean? It's still going to be spent. What happens next year when they say they want to spend $8 trillion over a 10-year period? And he points that out in the piece. A lot of these programs are, it's only $8 trillion because of they're giving these false ending dates.

Like they're really not going to keep the child tax credit this high going into next year. Really? Right. Really, they're going to cut it in half next year. Think of what the debate will look like in a midterm election year on that proposal. All right. Mr. Bill O'Reilly is next. Talk about the big news of the week, followed by Mr. Brad Thor. Thank you very much, Hillary.

It is a really amazing podcast. don't want to miss it. It's available now. Amak, our nation is depending on all of us to stand up against the woke mob. Otherwise, we're going to end up kneeling before them. The question is, will you answer the call? Many of us, many of us are. If you're watching us, if you're listening to us now, you're probably part of that group. But there are things that you can do that help.

And because there's power in numbers. And one of those things is to join AMAC. If you're over 50, you want to join the Association of Mature Americans or AMAC. They are calling on you to help them combat the indoctrination of our children and grandchildren at school. They are taking a stand against it. The integrity of our elections. They're standing for it. Freedom of speech.

Freedom of religion. The right to keep and bear arms. They are standing against it and they need more of us to join the ranks. The bigger they get, the bigger our voice, the more heft to that stick. I want you to join now. Amac. com.us slash Beck. Join now.

Hello America. It's Friday. And Bill O'Reilly joins us in 60 seconds. So Nancy lives in Texas. She writes in about her experience with Relief Factor. She says, I love Relief Factor. I can do so much more now. after teaching riding lessons and taking care of my five horses daily, I used to be so tired.

But now I can keep on going, getting more yard work, housework, and cooking done on top of everything else. I have more stamina because I don't hurt. It feels so good to be able to do the things I used to do. It did take a couple of months on Relief Factor for me to get the full effect. It began quickly, but to get the full effect, it took a couple of months for me. I keep taking it and the improvement is amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much, Nancy, for all that you do.

And thank you for finding your life again. We need everyone in the fight. Now, relief factor is not a drug. It is something that was developed by doctors. And 70% of the people who try it go on to order more. Why would you do that unless you're seeing relief from Relief Factor? 800, 500, 583, 84. get their quick start trial.

It's a three-week trial period. You should know in three weeks whether it's going to work for you or not. 800, 583-84, 800-5804, or Relieffactor.com. So I love the Twitter feed, especially during the Town Hall on CNN from Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly, I'm just going to read his Twitter feed here. First 10 minutes of the Biden Town Hall, incredibly boring. Not just boring.

Tweet one, tweet number two, 16 minutes in and we're still on COVID. The president says he listens to science. Good to know. Next, 30 minutes in, absolutely no news has been made other than the president wants school kids under 12 to wear masks. Next tweet, a commercial break, thank God.

Next, I'm not being facetious. No joke. I'm being serious. This town hall is tedious beyond belief. And the last one is, it's almost over. No joke. I'm serious. Bill O'Reilly.

Welcome to the program, sir. Here's the deal. It was painful. It was a painful thing to watch. I waited for the clips. I knew this in advance, Bill. I knew this in advance. But we have to do.

our jobs as guardians of the country. Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Guardians of the Nation. So I'm in a house. Someone was nice enough to invite my son and I over for dinner. There are a few people in

attendance. And after dinner, we sat down to watch. Don Lemon, always a treat. Always a treat. You know that. Oh, my God. Well, he's one of the most well-informed reporters in the nation. I don't know if you know that. I like Don Lemon personally, but, you know, I mean, I know what I'm going to get from Don.

But anyway, about halfway through, it was an hour and 20 minutes. There was almost a brawl in the house, people trying to grab the remote to turn anything else on. Okay? Anything. Anything. It's been Gullion with revenge of the mummy. Get that. Oh, so bad. So bad. It was so bad. It was. It was. And then when the ratings come in, a million five. Now, if people don't understand the ratings, if I got a million five viewers. You would have been in trouble. I would have committed suicide. Yeah, no. Your average night, if I'm not mistaken, it was about $3 million.

About five. Oh, is it five? Because we had the two runs. and 5 to 6 million, which 10. And that I knew he was going to get, I knew that the rate is going to be low. I didn't think they're going to be that low. And also, I wanted to do this is another topic. But the Olympics this summer are going to get wiped out in a race.

Oh, yeah. I mean, nobody. Oh, yeah. Nobody cares. In fact, I think people are rooting. We may have a situation to where, remember, Bill, what we used to have the Soviet Union to root against? Yeah.

We may have that situation again, except we'll be rooting against America. Well, I don't know about that, but I know that I'm the women's soccer team. Uh-huh. I mean, they're so. Oh, I know. But we got, look, Sweden beat the U.S. women's soccer team three to nothing. Now, just step back a moment. There is no grass in Sweden.

They have to practice on glaciers. It's just frozen. And they beat our team three to nothing. Okay? And I'm sitting there going, Sweden? 9 million people? America, 320 million people, many of them female. I got to tell you.

We got our butt-kick three nuts. Look, I said to the U.S. women's soccer team coach, maybe you might want to do a little less kneeling and a little more running, run and shoot. I have to tell you, the European Handball Federation has fined the Norway Women's Beach Handball Team. I don't know if you heard this. You haven't? Oh, this is great. Okay, so the Norwegian Women's Beach handball team, they were.

fine. They came out onto the scene wearing shorts and that's against the league policy. They're supposed to wear bikini bottoms. Oh. So I just

I mean when we are more woke and I mean we've turned in to the worst country in Europe. We have just turned into the one with France.

Okay, I'm going to just say it. France. We have turned in to France. When Europe looks like, oh, that's crazy, huh? They got their women's team wearing bikinis. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. I don't know how you play handball on the beach.

Don't you need a wall and something on a floor? I don't know. You're asking the wrong guy. I have no idea. All right. So, Bill, there's a couple of things that I want to talk to you about. First is Amy Klobuchar. Do you think this is the big story of the week or what do you think the big story is? Well, Amy Klobuchar wants to limit speech, right?

Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, the COVID misinformation and she wants HHS to be able to label people, you know, who are engaged in dangerous misinformation. Yes. It sounds a lot like the Soviet Union. Sure does. And I'm not being facetious here. No joke.

Joe Biden might say. This is no joke. Right. Okay. Being serious. All kidding aside. Yes. Next week is the anniversary in 1943 of Joseph Stalin passing a law in the Soviet Union during World War II

that imprisoned anyone who was a coward. That was the law. Now, of course, Stalin was the one who decided if you were a coward or not. So now in America, we have Amy Kloberchard. Hey, if you say something that we, the federal government, don't like about COVID, hey, we're going to go after you. Now, what's the difference between old Joe Stalin and young Amy Klobuchar? Well, they will say that you are, you are misinforming people.

right now, Bill, because this is a health issue. And Globuchar says that there has to be an exception here for health misinformation because health information is deadly. Well, we already know that climate change is a health issue. We know that Antifa and their riots over the summer because of race, that was worse. this is CDC. That was worse than the pandemic, the pandemic of racism in America. We know that guns are a health issue. I mean, pretty about this is the threshold. You cross this threshold and freedom of speech is done. Well, there's no doubt that progressive left wants

to limit freedom of expression and thought in America. And no one could deny that. I mean, I guess Don Lemon might, but no one really could say, no, no, these are real ACLU people that want freedom of expression. And by the way, the ACLU is not the ACLU. Right. They're not. They're right on board with, hey, you know, if we don't like what you're saying, you got to go to jail. Sorry. You know, and you know what?

We're going to have bail. We're not going to have bail for the people who commit manslaughter. I'll let them right out. But you, no, you've got to go away. Yep. So this trend, and you're right to point out that what Senator Klobuchar is doing is trying to normalize this stuff, right? Yes, we're doing this to protect you because if Lenny down the street doesn't want to get vaxed, he's a danger to you. I'm not sure about that.

Why would he be a danger to me? If Lenny's an anti-vaxxer, I don't care. Is that influenced me? No. I do what my doctor recommends, which I think everyone should do. And then I go on. I don't really care about Lenny. Lenny wants to live in the basement.

Unbacked. That's okay with me. He's not a threat. Yeah, but Lenny is going to get out and he's going to infect other people. I know. It's kind of like that zombie thing, you know? Yeah. And that's really the genesis of the whole anti-vax movement.

The anti-vax movement kind of believes. that the government somehow is involved with this vaccine, which is true to the extent that Trump got it up and running. And that's the lead, as I told you, on the Trump-Orily history tour. How did you do it? But the anti-vax movement believes that somehow the government has put little chips in there and they're going to track you. Correct.

Okay, fine. Leave that, fine. But here's a very interesting thing. Well, Amy Klobuchar and the progressive left are pounding the anti-vaxers. they don't say a word about African Americans who won't get vaccinated. And that of all the ethnic groups in America, African Americans of the lowest vaxed rate. And number two, Bill, number two, Hispanics. White.

So I think Hispanics and whites are just about tied. But the problem as far as vaccinating on the ethnic front is with African Americans. And then you get Biden out there going, well, we understand that problem because of Tuskegee and in the past. And I don't even looking at the guy going, wait a minute. Do we live in a country where everyone is treated the same? Obviously we don't. And it goes right back to the equity thing. Like, well, we're going to give certain groups of past.

And they can really do what they want, even if they're public health dangers. So you never hear Cloberchar say that, all right, about African Americans. And I'm saying to myself, look, you know, the real threat to America is not from China and it's not from COVID. It's from we are turning on each other because the media is pushing the progressive left dictum that some groups and some people in America are more entitled to better treatment than others. And that's going to tear the nation apart. Of course it is. Bill, let me ask you, when you say that the biggest threat against the nation is the progressive movement, it is, I think the progressive movement has turned into the Marxist movement now. Would you separate the traditional Democrat liberal from that group? Yes, I mean, I know a lot of traditional Democrats who are not progressive nuts and who don't really know how.

how to handle the situation now. They're very confused on how to handle it because the progressives have the megaphone. So right up top of your head, everybody listening to Beck and O'Reilly right now, name one progressive, one so-called moderate Democrat in a country that has any influence right now. Name one. You can't. There's not one Hubert Humphrey. There's not one Jimmy Carter.

There's nobody. and you can't say Biden because Biden is captured. He's being held by the progressive law. I mean, I don't know whether I'm sure this registered with you, but filing crime is like the second issue among Americans. Oh my gosh. It's gone through the roof. Right, right.

And so Biden is up there for at least eight minutes, explaining how cracking down on gun stores, is going to stop violent crime. Nobody believes that. There is literally nobody on earth with an IQ over a hundred that believes that or could possibly believe it. Yet there he is yammering about he's going to get a task force.

He's going to bring in bazookas. I'll have more guns. I'll blow them off because that we've got to stop violent crime. And then he goes, and by the way, community policing. I mean, we don't need to arrest drug gang thugs who are gunning down children. No, we're going to bring in a social worker with the cops. Okay?

It's like a remake of Dragnet with Jack Webb. You remember that show? Yeah, yeah. Okay. But in the back seat, there's a shrink. I mean, just a fact. But here's Dr. Ruth, who's going to talk to you about why your son decapitated five people. Oh, you know, really, really, the president of the United States.

Well, hang on. I want to go, I want to finish this, particularly about the police and Joe Biden in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about rec tech. I've been talking about rec tech now for over a year, year and a half, and I have one. And it is a game changer. Stu is coming over tonight. Stu, tonight are we getting together or is it tomorrow? I don't know.

I'm not sure yet. I might be busy. It's not going to happen. Well, apparently we're waiting for your wife to respond to a text message. I don't know. We, obviously, we sit in the same room. We can't actually plan this ourselves. I know.

We have to look at the wife. We were supposed to get together. We were going to make a pizza on rec tech and then, and then go to a movie. But our wives can't get it worked out for some reason. Anyway, right now, this week only, if you just call in, you're going to save 10% sitewide. This is a very rare sale. So take advantage of it. From your cell phone, I just want to.

you to dial pound 250 and say rec tech you'll get 10% off everything site wide that's pound 250 you say rec tech you'll have the option to receive a one time auto dial text message from rec tech which will you know you can use to to uh uh save 10% check these grills out and then save right now best grills on the market to uh pound 250 just say rec tech 10 seconds second station id All right, Mr. Bill O'Reilly. So the president said, and I want to quote, these people, no, I mean it. I'm not being facetious. Democrats and Republicans, I don't care if you think I'm Satan reincarnated.

The fact is, you can't look at television and say nothing happened on January 6th. You can't listen to people who say this was a peaceful march. No, I'm serious. think about it. Think of the things being said. Now, I've been through the other end of this when the Democrats 35 years ago were way off on the other side. Think about it. I'm serious.

Okay, so I've got a couple of questions here. You can't listen to people who tell you to don't believe your eyes what you see on television and say that that was a peaceful march. Well, he's only talking about January 6th. I don't know anybody who is actually saying that that would. is peaceful. The people outside were peaceful. Some of the people were peaceful. Some of the people were extraordinarily violent. And we should be talking about those people. But doesn't that work, Bill, when you say the people on television continue today to say that what's happening in Portland is peaceful? What happened all throughout last summer was peaceful? I'm not, I'm not sure what your

question is. So the... How can he, how do, does anybody, are there people out there that still don't see that when he says you can't listen to people on television that will say this was a peaceful march? And I don't know who those people are. I don't hear that. I don't know what channel Joe is watching. I don't even know if Joe knows what channel is watching. Yeah. But the progressive left, and that's who Joe represents, they want to continue to demon.

anyone who voted for Donald Trump by saying, you know, it's your fault. That capital riot is your fault. If you voted for Trump and you like Trump, that's your fault. See, that's the strategy. So they'll keep it around. And, you know, what really caught my attention this week was Liz Cheney. So Liz Cheney is a very conservative woman. I don't think she's going to be reelected in Wyoming. She's going to be primaried. And I think she'll lose. but Liz Cheney got, it hates Donald Trump. It despises him because Trump said bad things about her father. And you know, I understand that.

But now she's so crazed about Donald Trump that she says that Nancy Pelosi is basically an objective leader. I know. When it comes to investigating the Capitol Riot. So this is what Liz Cheney put out there. And you don't want Jim Cheney. on it? You don't want Jim Jordan there. She's furious with the Republicans

who now are not going to participate in Pelosi's investigation because they wouldn't put Jordan and the other guy from Indiana on the panel. And so I'm going, you're kidding me, lady? I know. And this is the first time

in American history this has ever happened. Nancy Pelosi did something unprecedented by saying, yeah, we're not going to, we're not listening to the other side. We're not putting those people on. Never happened before an American history. Back with Bill O'Reilly in a second. I want to tell you a little bit about blinds.com. Whether you realize it consciously or not, the way the room is laid out and put together is really important, especially if it's part of your house, you want to spend a lot of time in.

Well, blinds.com understands this, and they will help you find that perfect finishing touch in the form of the best window treatments available. If it's blind you need, they have you covered. indoor, outdoor shades. They got it. You're going to find exactly what you want when you do business with Blinds.com. You're going to transform that special space into what you want it to be. That's really simple. Plus, right now, they're offering up to 35% off everything so you can upgrade any room indoors or out. With 25 million blinds sold, Blinds.com makes ordering custom window treatments online easy.

With free shipping and 100% guaranteed perfect fit, Sunshine and barbecues are in the forecast at blinds.com. Do it to now, do it today and save 35%. Blinds.com. Make sure you hit it this weekend and save 35% off everything. Rules and restrictions may apply. All right, head over to blazTV.com slash glen. Promal code is Glenn.

You'll save 10 bucks off your subscription to Blaze TV. We have more with Bill O'Reilly. Next. This is the Glenn Beck program. So glad that you've tuned in today. It's Friday. Mr. Bill O'Reilly is, with us today to give us a look at what's been happening this week.

Minneapolis City Council has advanced the plan to replace the police, Bill. Meanwhile, the president and his administration are saying that the ones who want to defund the police are the Republicans. Yes, it's just propaganda. So I don't even bother with that. But this is not a hard issue. So when I was a local news reporter in New York City at Channel 2WCBS in the 1980s, New York City was a horrific place to be. It was a crack thing coming in, heroin all over the place, drug addicts running wild, assaults.

You couldn't walk in Central Park after dusk. It was horrible. And a lot of my reporting was centered on that, so I know what I'm talking about. And then in the 1990s, it got so bad, they elected Rudy Giuliani as mayor. And Giuliani came in with U.S. attorney credentials and basically reorganized the police force to be a very, very aggressive, punitive force in the sense that it would arrest you. You jumped over a turnstile in a subway. If you did graffiti, you would be taken in.

You would be prosecuted. Well, the violent crime in New York was cut in half, sometimes even more than that. murders went from a high of about 3,500, 3,500 a year to 350. So you can see. Then Bloomberg came in and he kept all of the Giuliani policies, the stop and frisk, the aggressive gun, seizures on the street, and crimes stayed very low. So that's a fact.

There's no theory about it. There's no doubt about it. that happened over a almost 20-year period in New York City. So then when the Blasio took over the communists, he just blasted all of that out and said to the criminals, see, you can do what you want because it's society's fault, not your fault. You're beating up the old grandmother and firing a weapon that might hit children.

It's not your fault. It's because you were deprived growing up. That's the Blasio. And then the whole system, Cuomo, the girl, governor, the DAs, all cooperated, and now we have a horror in New York City. So I'm telling you about New York and not Minneapolis because I'm an eyewitness to this. No, I know. I know. And it's the same, it's the same everywhere. I mean, Bill, any place, any place that has defunded the police or, you know, really vilified the police, you know, some cities, Los Angeles is in total chaos. People are going

into places like Target. I just read a story. I can't remember where it was, but a group of people walked into a target. They just grabbed things off of the rack and they walked out. The store owner said they didn't even run. They're not afraid at all. They just walked out.

Because they won't be prosecuted or arrest. Yep. So this is a fact. That's the baseline for every. American who cares about his or her country or the crime issue. And then you have the president of the United States getting up there and saying, no, no, no, no, no. The way to solve violent crime is to put a social worker in the backseat of the police car when the call comes in that's a guy with a gun pointed at the head of his girlfriend or whatever.

That's the way to do it. Ah, no, no, no. And so, to me, that's insulting. number one. I'm insulted by the President of the United States being so dumb. It's subversive. It's what the President of the United States is doing. And remember, this stuff goes all over the world.

He's basically saying, look, I'm not going to solve the violent crime problem because closing down a bad gun store is not going to do it. Here's a bulletin. The violent drug gang criminals already have guns. guns, Joe. And they didn't get them from the gun store. All right. They didn't buy retail.

Okay? They didn't do that. All right. So there he is totally befuddled about everything. No joke. I'm not being facetious. Totally befuddled. All right.

Meanwhile, thousands of people, mostly minorities, are dying in the streets. While he's up there telling Don Lemon, hey, no, we need to get community policing. And I put up a few volleyball net. and all these drug guys are going to stop. I mean, really, just break it down to what it is. And it's frightening. Well, here's, here's, subversive.

Yeah, subversive is a better word. I, I, because the strike force that he's put together for these, you know, the gun trafficking in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., they're launching the Justice Department, launching a strike force in those cities. So this is to stop the gun violence. No, it's not. This is to stop guns. You watch. This is the Bloomberg dream of getting people in, the federal government getting in to stop guns. I don't think that they're going to be looking for gun trafficking.

They're going to be going after guns. They're making a case. and they will say the problem in Chicago is that they have access to guns. And we've got to stop the access to guns. But don't bother the criminals. Correct. Correct. Because they're victims of a bad, horrible America.

I don't know if you've seen what happened in, where was it? St. Louis. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney, is, they now say, has essentially abandoned its duty, her office. She is a huge beneficiary of money from George Soros.

George Soros. Yep. And she didn't, they didn't even show up for a group of court cases, which led to the release of a murder suspect. Nobody cares. The subversion. No, I think the American people care. But I think that in the election next year, 2022, that is one of the most important elections in American history.

So if Americans don't come out and say, look, we may not like Republicans or conservatives, but we cannot watch our country be destroyed by the progressive left. We cannot. It's got to be not a squeaker. It's got to be that overwhelmingly the progressive left Democratic Party is rejected in 2022. If that does not happen, with all of the corporate media, and I mean all of it now, on the side of the progressives, promoting propaganda from the left, if the American people are not smart enough to do that, or motivated enough to do it, to go out. All right? Then this country is now,

is then going to descend into tribes. So it'll be each tribe, hires its own personal security, does what it wants to do, but there's not going to be any cooperation among we the people will break down, just like they did in medieval times.

And I don't think people understand how important 2022 is. it is vital for this country to stop the madness, literally stop the madness, because that's what we're experiencing now. And Joe Biden is going to go down, I said this very early on, as might be the worst president of the United States, it's going to be close between him and James Buchanan. I will tell you, if it doesn't go down, if things don't change in 2022, he may go down as the last president of the United States. I don't see that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Let me say it this way. Not in name, but in who we actually have always been. Well, a country will definitely veer out. You know, you mentioned, we're not, we will not, we're not abiding by constitutional norms now. We're not abiding by the, the Bill of Rights right now. Everything that they're doing is much of it is anti- Constitution and anti-bill-of-rights. Yeah, they don't want the Constitution, but even more importantly and more serious, is that

Americans have no protection anymore. None. The justice system is breaking down, particularly if you live in urban areas, and this should infuriate African-Americans and poor of all colors, because you don't have any protection. There's nobody protecting you. If somebody hurts you, no matter if it beats you up or shoots you or stabs you or breaks you or breaks into your house or your car. The odds are those people are not going to pay a price for doing that.

I mean, every American has got to get out of their fog and understand exactly how dangerous Joe Biden is. He looks like his year, oh, yeah, you know, nice guy. Oh, yeah. The man is dangerous because he doesn't know or seemingly care. What is actually happening inside the country? Look, you know, I talked to Devin. Go ahead.

You and Stewart sitting in Dallas right now. Yes, right. Okay. Give me one problem. One, in this country as we are talking, that President Biden has put forth a solution to. I can't. I can do the opposite.

There isn't any. In relation, I don't know. That's not so bad we had stepped. I don't worry about a flightian. Okay? Crime. Oh, we're to surround the gun stores. That's how we're going to do it.

A border. Taxes by taxes, the economy? No, no, no. We're going to take all the money from the corporations and the app. Well, Mr. President, that's going to shut down job creation. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I created more jobs, which is the biggest con in the world. He did not, okay, because that was all COVID, and his baseline was a COVID shutdown.

It's unbelievable. And it's doing. Yes, it is. Bill, when you look at where we're at and Joe Biden as our president, you know, the one thing that nobody is talking about is the incredible loss of consciousness almost in that town hall. He went for, do we have the cut? He went for almost 30 seconds.

completely incoherent. Yeah. I mean, it was bad. You know, I have to play the... And no one... No one says anything about it. Let me play the clip. That's underway. Just like the other question is illogical.

And I've heard you speak about it because you always... I'm not being solicitous, but you're always straight up about what you're doing. And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are, why can't the experts say, we know that this virus is, in fact, it's going to be, or she mean,

we know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved, but permanently approved. That's underway too. I expect that to occur quickly. And nobody says a word. Well, everybody was an amulant. They're unconscious. I mean, did you see the crowd? For the first 15 minutes, they're paying attention,

and then all of a sudden the phones came out, and they're all going to check. Get me out of here. Can you send nine, call 911? I went out of here. Look, but I don't think there's anyone in the country. Not even Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. We would say, we have an articulate president

who can hold a thought in his mind and give a precise answer to a question. We don't. We don't. And you know what the answer is? when you present that to the liberal left, well, Trump was worse. Everything was Trump was worse.

Right. No, no, no, Trump was worse. You know, Trump. And I now have a moratorium. My liberal friends are not allowed to do that. They are fined if they do that. And I'm saying to myself, I do believe the Americans are going to rise up next year, Beck.

I think they are going to do it. Now, the corporate media is going to have to try to silence you and me. They're going to try to do that. And I did a thing on bill o'Reilly.com or I said to my audience on the no spin news, I knew when I announced the Trump-Orily history tour that I would be attacked. I knew it. So I hired two high-powered law firms, one on the West Coast, one on the East Coast, to protect me because I knew it was coming.

And it did. And my lawyers have done a fabulous job in trying to fend this off. We do not do it in public. we do not do any of that. But because I signed on to try to get on the record the history of what Donald Trump did, actually did and did not do, why didn't the border go up? Why didn't the border wall go up? That'll be one of the questions.

Because I did that, there are elements, powerful elements, well-funded elements, that want to destroy me. If they could kill me, they would. All right? Now, Americans are going to start to figure this out, that we're in a danger, own. Yeah. My way to a danger zone.

Kenny Loggett. I think we're, I think we're already there. And at least our audience understands that, Bill, I've got to run. I'm running really, running really late. Bill O'Reilly, make sure you grab his, his latest book, Killing the Mob, and you can find him at bill O'Reilly.com. Ever since it became easier to watch TV, play on a computer, or, you know, glue a smartphone for the front of your face, those of us who know how important reading is have been screaming

from the rooftops that our kids. need to read more. What's really important is also what they read, what they read. And they are being given books in school that you and I would never want them to read. The time is coming when you and your kids and your grandkids need to know what made this country, how the free market is supposed to work. They need to be able to defend the things that are true. Well, there's a great series of of books out. It's called the Tuttle Twins Books and you can find them at Tuttle Twinsbeck.com and really they're for all ages. You get them from your little kids, the grandkids, you can get them for

teenagers and on up. Now right now the Tuttle Twins books, they're running a sale of 35% off and you'll get free workbooks with them as well. Don't let the left cancel these books and cancel America. Get them for your family now. Go to Tuttle Twinsbeck.com. That's Tuttle Twins Benzbeck.com. The most incredible podcast I think I've ever done is out tomorrow for the general public, out right now for Blaze TV subscribers.

It's a woman who escaped from North Korea. I thought I knew what it was like, how bad it was, to live under a communist regime. The story of her life and her and what she found as she came out and discovered the West, is phenomenal. You don't want to miss it right now, available on the blaze of available everywhere tomorrow, Glenn Beck podcast. This is the Glenn Beck program.

I, you know, I keep my ear to the ground for the latest things involving chocolate. And here's one of them, Built Bar. They have come out with a new flavor this week only. That's July 6th through the 9th. You can get the grasshopper cookie flavor.

It is really, yeah. If I had a time machine, I would totally get some grasshopper cookie. Yeah, it's past that, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It certainly is past that, yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, do it anyway. Yeah, get them.

Yeah, get them. What was the new? Didn't you say they had a new? Yeah, they have a new one coming out. It's Rocky Road on Tuesday. It is so good. It is so good. They have, this one is a little more calories.

This is the grasshopper cookie, and it's unbelievable. 150? Yeah, 150. Like, that's a lot of calories for a freaking. candy bar? It's a chocolate. It's a chocolate bar. It's a candy bar. Yeah. If you're a living, breathing human being, you know, this will please your palate. And also good for you. It's BiltBar. Use the promo code Beck 15. Say 15% off your first order. Use promo code Beck 15.15.15% off at builtbar.com. Some restrictions do apply and time travel not allowed.

Aw. Sorry about that. Hey, Brad Thor. Nice. Is coming up next. Yeah, sure. Brad Thor is with us next. He's going to tell us all about the exciting things happening in Norway with his new novel Black Ice.

You don't want to miss. Yeah, sure, Sven. Brad Thor is on. Next. If you're trying to buy or sell a home or both, you're going to need a few things. First of all, you're going to need to know what needs to be done to your house to sell it. Oh my gosh. That was uncomfortable when they came in and told me, here's what you need to do.

And so then we did. Now we're not even finished and we're getting offers on the house. And now we're not interested. Now we're not interested. Are you kidding me? After a year of doing all this crap to the house? I'm not moving ever. Anyway, you need a great real estate agent, a great real estate agent.

Somebody that knows how to sell a house. has qualified buyers already looking for houses like yours. It's real estate agents.itrust.com. It's a free service to you. You go there. We've already done a lot of the vetting. In fact, we've done all the vetting we need to do, but I want you to do your own homework as well.

But we've found somebody who has the best track record in the area, has all of the things that really make a real estate agent the best. So you want the best? Real estate agents.itrust.com. We think we found them. It's real estate agents. I trust.com. Go there now.

Buy or sell your house easily. Hey. Mr. Brad Thor. Hello, Glenn. How are you, sir? I'm doing well, thank you. Yeah. You know, I remember the days when, you know, you'd send me a galley of the book.

And you were very excited. and you'd be like, Glenn, I'm so excited, you've got to read this book. And then it would come and it was autographed. The only reason I know this is because I've been putting the books back in my shelf at the house. And I have all of your books and most of the galleys and they're all autographs, a nice thing. This time I just got something from a PR person. What? Here's your book, Glenn.

Oh, man. So only Sue got to sign one this year. Oh, don't lie for him, Stu. Don't lie for him. I will say the gold-plated display case was a little over the top, Brad, but I did appreciate it. And I will tell you, I also said I was not talking to you again until, you know, until your hero, Scott, uh, walks into a room and somebody's listening to the Glenn Beck program or, or just renewing their subscription on the blaze.

It's not happening. It's not happening. Brad, it's good to have you on. You know, it's funny. I didn't know you were coming on last week. I didn't know you were coming on. And I watched, what is it, American Assassin, the first movie of yours that was made. And I forgot how good that was.

Really, really good. Flynn. That was Vince Flynn's book. Thanks a lot, Glenn. No, no, okay. So it's not American Assassin. Which one is it? I don't have any movies yet, Glenn, but thank you.

Why did you pour some lemon juice in that paper cup while you're at it? I thought that was really good. It wasn't you that wrote it. Like, Marra's a Sacks I'm talking to here. Wasn't you that wrote it. I think Glenn's getting a little revenge for his lack of signed copy. Uh-huh. I just thought it was really good.

Did you write The Hunt for Red October? Because I watched that and it was really good. Nope, didn't write that one either. Wow. So what have you written or done? I got a couple. Got a couple out there. How many?

What is this? The 20th or 19th? 20th in the Scott Harvath series. Yeah. Black Ice. And this one, he's, you know, it starts and he's on vacation or, well, he's, he's having a good summer. And he's on the Fjord. And he's got a girl.

With his, his very attractive girlfriend who works for the Norwegian intelligence service. And I'm not even going to try to pronounce it because it has an O with a slash through it. Solvi. Solvi. Okay. All right. So tell me why this book is as good as a Vince Flynn book. Well, he's out of vacation days, out of sick days, and D.C. calls want him back, or they want his resignation. So he decides he's going to come back. It's his calling. He loves his job. And he's getting ready to leave. And he's walking out of a cafe in Oslo and sees a ghost climb out of a taxi cab. Somebody he killed years ago halfway around the world.

and that starts off a huge chase all the way up into the Arctic. So here's the thing. You and I have known each other. We've been friends for a very, very long time. And I think I coined the term, faction is what you write, because it is always based in facts. And I can always tell what you're concerned about just by reading your books. And in reading this one, you are concerned about. something happening in the Arctic and how far behind Russia and China are in the area.

Can you tell me what you were thinking on this? So I've been friends with the former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien since college. And this was an issue that I had brought up with him, is China inserting itself into the Arctic. So the Arctic is getting warmer and warmer, and the ice is melting up there, which provides a lot of opportunities. And China, suddenly the Russians were bad enough up there. They've opened up 50, more than 50 old Cold War era bases up in the Arctic. So they're moving very quickly up there. And China has declared itself a quote-unquote near Arctic state, which is the Seinfeld of diplomatic terms, because it means absolutely nothing.

Right. The closest China is to the Arctic Circle, any settlements over 800 miles away. So China is trying to get a foothold up there. They've got two icebreakers. They're putting icebreakers up there. We only have one, and it doesn't work very well. Why? The Russians have 30.

We fell behind the curve. Even Mike Pompeo said we are playing catch-up in the Arctic. But why is it important that we're up in the Arctic? So there are huge deposits of rare earth minerals, gas, oil. There's a whole bunch of stuff up there that we're going to want access to on the commercial side. On the national security side, we don't want Russia and China militarizing the Arctic and taking over that area. China has been sneaking soldiers in, posing as scientists. They're moving very quickly.

It is the next Cold War. No pun intended is what's going on up in the Arctic. Okay. So that's what you're concerned about. But you also in it, and maybe it's just me, but. I felt there was a little Eric Swalwell influence in this book. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. So that's, yes, very good, very good, yes.

So the Chinese have all these different forms of statecraft. And I joke in the book that they have as many forms of statecraft as the Eskimo have words for snow. So there is a kind of a honeypot operation where the Chinese are trying to get influence in D.C., and they put a very attractive young woman, Chinese woman, Chinese woman living in L.A., up to sweetening a deal with somebody to try to get China's ends pushed through in Congress, correct? Very good.

Did Swalwell? Yeah, no, I'm not a dummy. I mean, I don't get, you know, any kind of phone calls for my friend to say, hey, I'm coming on or anything like that. But I do. I mean, I'm not a dummy. I do read. Did Swalwell play any, what,

What did Swalwell the Fang Fang thing play any role in this? Yeah, I think that was something that was, you know, I was clipping a lot of articles out of the paper when this was happening. And, you know, there have been people that have been busted for not registering as a foreign agent. That's another thing that really makes me mad. In fact, they just busted another guy for lobbying on behalf of UAE Monday. So that kind of stuff, people trying to exert influence on behalf of foreign nations in not registering as an agent. is something that I don't like, particularly when it's Americans doing it. I just think it's absolutely terrible.

And I don't care what party you come from. You cannot do that. You can't go in and try to lobby for China or somebody else and not, you know, basically wear it on your sleeve like an ASCAR uniform. I want to know who's paying you. Yeah. You, the spy says something in the book that stuck out. I underlined it said, don't think of it as China.

Think of it as a consortium of investors along with a. experienced Chinese oil and gas corporation. What do you mean about that? So there is a lot of trying to put people at ease when they're making these deals, the Chinese. They're very happy to let people wet their beak and make money off these deals, and they phrase it and put it in certain terms so that people really can tell themselves, lie to themselves, that they're not doing this on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. But that's exactly what's going on, regardless of who,

China puts up as a face on this thing. The Chinese tried to buy a Canadian mining company in the Arctic so they could actually get some real estate in the Arctic that they could claim as theirs. I mean, and the stuff they were doing in Norway, using a Chinese real estate investor and trying to use him to buy all this property up there. So it is a creeping, endless thing as China pursues this Belt and Road initiative where they're putting money all over the world and then trying to influence the politics and the governments where they're, making heavy investments. How bad are we, Brad? Well, you know, we've got a lot of problems, and it goes back decades and over multiple administrations.

I mean, you know, under Clinton, there was the missile technology from LaRalle that got given to the Chinese, and they bully the crap out of American companies who do business in China to turn over their sensitive trade secrets and things like that. So it's a bad thing, but the thing that seems to me the most is that, they were putting the breaks on the WHO in the beginning of COVID so that they could go around the world and try to buy up the PPE. They knew it was coming. They knew how bad COVID was going to be.

And they still made the W.HO. dragged their feet while they went around, you know, gobbling up masks and all sorts of stuff. It's just, we need to be much better as a country. They are a national security threat. Yet, if you're on cholesterol medication, guess where it comes from? Yeah, no. China. It's, we have sold our souls to the Chinese.

I mean, we're looking. we're the ones who invented the damn chip, and now we get all of the chips. GMs stopped making trucks, and they say this chip shortage may go on until 2023. Yeah, it's crazy. And with two teens who needed cars, it's nuts what's going on.

And if we don't get control of our supply chains and stop manufacturing critical items like PPE and like medications in China, we're never going to be able to stand up to them when we need to. When you look at, I don't know if you saw what happened yesterday, but it felt like something that China would do. There came out and said that this was just a software update that caused a shutdown of like Bank of America's website, AT&T,

I mean a whole list of giant corporations were offline yesterday for a while. And I thought if this is a cyber attack, this shows how people just do not take us seriously and how far behind we are in our infrastructure. And don't talk to me about the infrastructure Joe Biden is doing. I mean actual protection of our infrastructure. We have, I think we're already in a war with China and Russia. It's just a cyber war, unlike we've ever seen before. Are we prepared at all? No, not on this front, not in what's called gray zone conflict, which is where of the cyber attacks.

That's the term for the arena in which those are happening. And Glenn, you and I years ago, years ago talked about a white paper that was written by two Chinese PLA colonels called Unrestricted Warfare, where these Chinese strategists, military strategists, said there is no way they could ever beat the United States on the conventional battlefield. So they needed to find other ways, things that we took for granted and thought were harmless, and could weaponize those and turn them against us and use them against us. And that's where we're at. And we are woefully ill-prepared to handle this kind of conflict. And it's not going to let up.

Look at the gas pipeline that got shut down with ransomware from those Russian hackers. It's bad. And the Chinese, we hear all about the Russian hackers all the time, but the Chinese are even more sophisticated. office buildings just full of these people that all they do is hack and look for vulnerabilities all day long. Brad Thor, the author of a new thriller that is out perfect for the summer. It's called Black Ice. More in just a second.

He's also the movie Born Identity. Really? That was his? Very sure. Wow. It was incredible. I mean, I would lose respect for him if that wasn't his. movie but uh all right let me tell you about rough greens ray lives in alabama he writes in about his dog's

experience with rough greens he says we've tried her share of supplements with our dog boris are you going to mess with a dog named boris uh he would refuse any i'm not eating food without supplement on that he's a very finicky eater and he'll refuse the food he doesn't like regardless of how hungry he is we started boris on just a trace of rough and he was a little hesitant to try it. However, we were able to get him to eat it, and soon he would eagerly eat his meals without half to three quarters of the recommended dose.

Even with that, he's happier, healthier. He's ready to play at a moment's notice. Glenn, thank you so much. Ray, thank you for giving it a try, and I love the fact that you named your dog, Boris. It's not a dog food. It's something you put on your dog's food. It's a supplement filled with all the things

that make your dog healthier and happier, and you can get a free bag of Rough Greens for your dog just to try out. All you pay for is shipping. Just go to roughgreens.com slash back or call 833 Glenn 33. That's 833 Glenn 33. Call them today. 10 seconds, station ID. Mr. Brad Thor.

It's been a long time, Brad. It's great to have you back on, man. Oh, yeah. I'm loving this one. Lots of fun. Don't you? Did you forget about how much you loved being interviewed by Glenn Beck? Uh-huh.

Did you, uh... Yeah, career. all-time career high today. This is great. Did you ever... Were you ever interviewed Byamus? Was I ever what? Interviewed by Imas. Oh, God, yeah. He told me he's going to come down to Nashville and whoop my ass.

He was a rough guy, and I said, who's going to hold the oxygen bottle for you, Don? Wow. I step on your hose. That's it. Game over. Old man. Yeah, he was great. Well, I just wanted to make you feel like you're on the I-MIS in the morning program today. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Call my therapist now.

Well, I mean, you need somebody to take you down a notch. You know, you're walking around. Oh, I've got 20, you know, 20 number one bestsellers. Look at me. I'm a big deal. I don't need my friends anymore. I don't need to send him a book. I don't need to do that.

I get somebody else on my team to do that. Make sure Jeffrey hides the book in his office, Stu, please. You jerk. How have things been with you? They've been good. They've been good. You know, we tried to find the bright spot in the pandemic with, you know, our daughters leaving for college in a couple of weeks.

And we said, when were we going to get the chance to have our teenagers home 24 hours a day, seven days a week? And that was, it was looking at the bright. That lasts a couple days. That was a good thing. Yeah, we didn't enjoy it for very long. We enjoyed it for about, I think, three months. and then it got really dicey, really dicey.

And we had to fumigate my son's room. But it was tough. It was tough. I mean, at the end, I think our family is closer than it's ever been. But it was really tough. And they're talking about doing it again. Yeah, that's the scary thing. I'm watching this.

And, you know, my wife, Trish, is a doc. And she came from a medical research background before she ever became a doctor. And, you know, we're eyeballing the Delta variant. But what scared the crap out of me this week is how now all the Republicans are coming out telling people to get vaccinated. Mitch McConnell and, you know, Sean Hannity saying stuff. Everybody's singing from the same hymnal all of a sudden. And it makes me wonder what the Biden administration reached out and told them because now everybody's coordinated. So I would tell you, I'll tell you what happened at Fox with me.

there was a point where I was called into an office and they said you got to stop talking. I don't even remember what it was. Stop talking about this. And I said, hmm. And they said, look, you're destroying the network. They said, we can't get, we are being told we will be blocked from every press conference unless you stop talking about such and such. and I didn't stop talking about it. It was a rough few months there towards the end.

But I think, you know, the White House has an awful lot of power when it comes to news. They have an awful lot of power. And are you against the vaccine? No, I got vaccinated as quickly as I could. So I'm actually glad that they're encouraging people, but it was so weird they wouldn't. You know, and you've got Tommy, Tuberville coming out. It's just all of a sudden there's a concerted effort on the right to encourage people where a lot of people are playing peekaboo with it, not taking a position, not really talking about it. Even Steve Scalise has come out.

He's like, I just got the vaccine. So the fact that everybody's pulling the oars in the same direction in this polarized partisan tribal warfare culture scares the crap out of me. Because I'm wondering why all of a sudden are we all on the same message unless something bad's coming. I mean, don't you think that everybody is concerned a little bit? I know we are concerned about, you know, Klobuchar yesterday coming in and saying HHS is going to have power to be able to say what's misinformation, what's not. And, you know, we're going to start punishing those who are spreading misinformation. When I don't even know what misinformation is at this point on COVID.

Yeah, I mean, because stuff changes and then they back up and then you can reinstate certain tweets now that the facts on the ground have shifted. You know, I don't like silencing speech because it is a slippery slope. You know, it's okay. Well, your stuff incites racism. So that's bad and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, it is scary that it's coming to this. Again, I worry, what do they know?

What are they so afraid of is coming that they've spooked all the Republicans to get on message, and now they're going after the, you know, the social media companies for disinformation. I'm spooked. I don't know if what they're seeing is too many breakthrough infections, and they're worried about the vaccines basically being rendered useless for the rest of us. By the way, hang on more in a second with Brad Thor.

She's a guy comes on. He just takes over it. American financing NMLS 1-8-2334. www. nmLS consumer access.org. I can just talk whenever I want to talk, Bradthor. Geez. Why don't you write it down? Maybe you'd write a good book.

book. Here is our sponsor this half hour. Our sponsor is American Financing. Taylor writes in about his experience with American financing. He says, Craig was very helpful in securing me a lower interest rate for refinance. Our entire process was so easy and so

fast. I was contacted quickly. My questions were answered. And I was able to defer two months of payments. And the closing was a breeze. It happened at my house. Tyler's experience is very different than experiences that I have ever had on closing mortgages until you start using American financing.

Many of us here at the studios have used American financing because they work for you. Pick up that phone today and call American financing. Make a decision that could positively affect you and your family's whole life by saving a ton of money. Right now, American financing 800, 906, 2440, Americanfinancing.net. And hit blazecd.com slash Glenn. code is Glenn. You save $10 off your subscription to Blaze TV. More with Brad Thor.

Next. Back when our government was smart, we ran something called the Red Cell Project, and Brad Thor was part of that. He was part of some of the best fiction writers in America that write action fiction. And they brought him into the Pentagon and said, come up with scenarios that we may not be thinking

of on how we could be hit by terrorists. Brad is a guy who studies this deeply. The one reason why I like him is he'll tell the truth of what he feels and what he's thinking, what he's worried about, and there's no whole bar because he's an author. And so you can kind of think out loud with him. He has a new book out called Black Ice. It is the 20th in his number one series. Black Ice available now for the summer.

Another great summer read from Brad Thor. Brad, we had to cut you off because you just kept going, going. But I want you to give you an opportunity to finish the thing you were talking about, you know, what you were concerned about with why the, why everybody is starting to say, got to have the vaccine, got to have the vaccine. Vaccine. And I got vaccinated as quickly as I could. But I watched things.

I listen for what's being said. as well as what's not being said. And so there was this resistance on the right in certain corners to be pro-vaccine. There was kind of this catering to the anti-vax crowd. And we know that the Russians love that anti-vax stuff. And they've been pushing anti-vax propaganda via Facebook and stuff before COVID even hit. So we're playing into the enemy's hands when we distrust the vaccine and things like that. So, you know, there's things that we can do to get people more on board.

you know, take, no longer make it an emergency use authorization, get the FDA to fully approve it, so then, you know, people will have that added confidence. But it is interesting that you've got Steve Scalise, Mitch McConnell, you know, Hannity, Sean saying stuff. Everybody's pulling on the wars in the same direction. This week. All of a sudden. And that's weird. And it makes me, it's good.

It's good. I would have loved to have had this a long time ago, and I'm glad to have it now. but the fact that everybody's on board this week just really makes me wonder what does the White House see coming? What does, you know, the CDC, what's going on that they spooked? It feels to me like suddenly the Republicans got a talking to and got spooked and they're like, oh, boy, yeah. Can I ask you a question? It started over in Wuhan and it spread all around the world. was was china after wuhan i kind of lost track did it affect china as deeply as it did the rest of the

world all across china no they but they're a different type of government they can seal a city and not let anybody out they can tell you don't leave your you know what i mean when we do things here they expect about 50% of the people are going to actually abide by the public health guidelines in China. They can get that up to 100%. They find you on the street. They'll throw you in the gulag. So it's a little bit different, but they did very well economically. I mean, they didn't take the massive hit that we took. So, yeah, it's, you know, my niece was on one of the last flights out of there. She was doing a church mission in Wuhan, and we just got her home in time. Yeah, no. So it was, we were glad to get her out of there. But yeah, listen, better late than never on the

messaging. I want everybody to be healthy. We're seeing, you know, just hospitals filling up again. I don't want people to have COVID. There are potential long-term implications. Yeah, it's bad. Yeah. It's bad. I had it. I got it. Strangely, right after I stopped taking hydroxychloroquine, stopped taking that, and all of a sudden, my family had had it, but I was on hydroxychloroquine, and the family all got it. I skated through. Six months later, I stopped taking hydroxychloroquine. I hydroxychloroquine and I got it almost immediately. So, but that, don't worry about that. That was medical misinformation.

Brad, let me ask you. Like, holy crap, did you take that stuff? Oh my God. I know. I did take that. And it, and it worked. I'm telling you it worked. You know, you talk about the Arctic Circle and China and Russia in black ice.

Let me, let me stay on China here for a second. Because you are saying that a cold, war is happening. I worry about a hot war, and here's why. China is not messing around. China has already just taken Hong Kong and nobody said a word. The next thing they are going to do is take Taiwan. They're already positioning for it.

They're letting the world know that's theirs. They're silencing the speech of anyone who says it's a separate country, separate of China. By the way, Taiwan is an independent country separate from China. And I don't think we have an obligation to protect Taiwan, but I don't think we're going to. No, I don't think we're going to either. And in fact, if you look at what happened in Ukraine with Putin going and taking the Crimean Peninsula, nothing happened. There was a strongly worded letter from the Obama administration, and they got kicked out of the, what it was it, the kicked out of the, there are no consequences.

And if we don't enforce these kinds of red lines, then nobody's going to respect us. And the other big thing that came out was the whole study about the U.S. Navy, that we are not doing well with our Navy. It's in bad shape. We're hoping a new secretary the Navy is going to be able to turn things around. But it's bad. Instead of teaching people to kick ass in the Navy, we're teaching them to kiss ass. And that's how you rise through the ranks. guys like Nimitz and Halsey, people who helped us win World War II couldn't be admirals today.

So let me go back to, let me go back to Taiwan, because you said what I was driving towards. If we let people pass lines, no one will respect us. I don't want to get involved in a bunch of foreign wars and everything else. However, this Taiwan has always been a very bright red line. if we if we pretend like we're going to continue this policy and protect Taiwan and China goes in and we do nothing literally where is our power is it all gone it's absolutely gone on the world stage the ability to influence anyone is completely gone when the Soviet Union broke up about a third of their nukes were in Ukraine. And we begged Ukraine to get rid of them. We'll help you get rid of them.

And Ukraine said, well, what's in it for us if we get rid of our nukes? And we signed a pledge to Ukraine saying, we will never let anybody invade you, will never let anybody take over your territory. And then Putin did just that. And so that wasn't worth anything. It was supposed to be a bright red line. And the Obama administration just let Putin walk right across it. So I don't have a lot of hopes, if China grabs Taiwan, I don't have a lot of hopes that that's a red line that we're going to go to war over. I think people are tired of war in this country. After Afghanistan and Iraq, we are a war-weary public, and I think bad actors are going to take advantage of that. Last question for you, Brad. My son, Raff, since you last saw him, has grown up. He's turning

16 next month, and he is, I mean, he's turning into a man. all of a sudden. And he announced to me a couple of weeks ago that he's thinking about either being a Navy SEAL or Marine Force recon. Wow. And I said a couple of things. Better study a little bit more. And the second thing is I didn't vocalize was I'm not sure I want him to go into the military. Because I'm not sure what the military is going to be like in three years with all.

all of the stuff that is going on with, you know, CRT and all this garbage. Yeah. So that is a big, big issue. So my thing has always been, we have an all-volunteer force. If you go and sign up and do your, do a patriotic act of selflessness by joining the military, I want you to be respected. I want you to be treated well. I don't want, I don't care if you're gay or straight.

If you're willing to pick up a rifle for this country, God bless you. I am so grateful for you. But I don't think we should be adopting any kind of indoctrination that teaches one group of people that just because of their skin color that somehow they are racist or, you know, if Mark Millie wants to read books to better understand black cultures so that black soldiers can feel more part of the army, I didn't know that there was a problem where black soldiers were feeling they weren't integrated. fully into the Army. If that issue exists or it's a hard thing to do to recruit in the black community, and that's just a book, I'm big on book reading. If that helps you appeal better to that community to recruit, good, do it. But I don't want to see white soldiers taught that somehow they're inherently evil just because they were born white, because that's not true. And that's not, that's not how we make fighting men and women is fracturing the service up like that. That's not how

you do it. So would you send your son into the military today? Absolutely. I'm the son of a United States Marine, and if my son said, I want to go serve, I would be proud to see him join the military. All right. So take out your family history. Navy SEAL or Marine Force Recon, which one? Well, boy, that's... Because remember, you're going to replace Scott with Rafe in one of the books. So, you know, which one should he go? I hope he likes cold water. He's going to get a bunch of it both ways. I know. I know. They're both absolutely fantastic. So, you know what?

You can't go wrong. That is a no-lose situation. You're going to do a lot of swimming in either camp. Yeah. All right. Brad Thor, thank you so much. Good to talk to you, my friend. You too, buddy.

Thank you. It's Brad Thor, the name of the book that is out right now, and he is always. Is he off? Okay. I'll tell you the truth. Every one of his books is fantastic, just fantastic. always worth a great read. I think he and

Vince Flynn were my favorite writers and still are my favorite writers of faction, as I like to call it. The latest is Black Ice by Brad Thor. All right, I want to talk to you a little bit about a service called Vid Angel. Vid Angel gives you control over the content in your homes. So, for instance,

my wife and I, we watch, oh, shoot, what's the name of that stupid with Kevin Costner up in Wyoming? Yellowstone. We watch Yellowstone. And, you know, it's not something that we would watch with the kids. And, you know, I wouldn't mind it if, you know, some of the scenes weren't in it. We discovered a service called VidAngel. Vid Angel gives you control over the content in your home. If you've ever said there's nothing that we can watch as a family,

because everything has swearing in it now. Everything is using the F word. I mean, it's crazy. It's crazy. If you've ever felt that way, you need to sign up for Vid Angel because it doesn't edit things. It allows you to skip parts that you don't want to see. So you set the filters for what you, want to see or what you don't want to see in your home. You don't want to see, you know,

everybody hot and lathered up and, you know, in bed. You don't want to have foul language. You set what the language is, how much of it you can tolerate all the way to none. And it will take and cut that thing down. It doesn't cut it. It just filters it out. And you just skip that part of it. It's quite amazing. It's Vid. Angels. You can find it now at vid angel beck.com. Use the code Beck 1 and try Vid Angel for a month for only a dollar. They've got 11,000 episodes from TV, 2,500 movies that already have the algorithm. So you can just skip all the parts that you don't want to see.

Yellowstone, I think, is one of them. VidAngel at vidangelbeck.com. Vidangelbeck.com. So I'll give you the latest poll. This is not a good poll. We would like to know how you would rate race relations between various groups in the United States these day. Would you say that race relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad? back in 2001, it was very to somewhat good, 63% to bad, somewhat bad, 35%.

And it got as far away as 72 to 26 by 2004. Then it started to narrow as we started to go in towards the election of 2008. It went 6434 in 2006. then it went up in 2007, 71 to 28. And then Obama actually held it pretty steady at 68 to 30, which is to me remarkable. And then something happened in 2013. It went from 70 positive and 30 negative. By 2015, it was 53 negative to 47 positive.

Now, what could that have been? That number of that poll was taken in 2015. I think that was the lead-up to the election. I think that was the, you know, the BLM, the first marches of BLM had just started. And then you had the election. And, of course, Donald Trump, who was really popular with African-Americans,

had to be separated from African-Americans. So they had to start calling him around. racist, et cetera, et cetera. And it went 53 negative, 47 positive. Once he got into office, it was 53 positive, 46 negative, until 2019. That's when we start to see the switch. 2019, it goes haywire, and it is growing ever wider apart. It's now 5742 negative.

How do you think things are with race relations? We haven't seen this in a very long time and it has been very expensive for the left it has taken an awful lot of work and brain power but congratulations they have succeeded in splitting this nation apart and reversing trends that we had been making

in positive ways since the 1960s, we had been making progress. Now they have reversed that. That's thank you to our teachers that are insisting on teaching critical race theory. Thanks to our labor unions that are doing the same. Thanks to the media. Thanks to the Democratic National Party.