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Hello, America. It's Friday. We're glad you're here. Thank you so much for listening. This week I'm going to go over all of the news of the week. I'm going to try to give you perspective on what all the puzzle pieces tell me that has happened this week. But I want to start in Iran. We haven't really covered what's going on, and there's some developments there, some good ones. No matter what you might read in the New York Times, which, by the way, it's going to be open phones today, and I'd love to hear your definition of treason. I mean, I know the Constitution is very, very clear, but I don't think what the New York Times is doing is treason. But it is at least extraordinarily unhelpful. I'm trying to understand how somebody thinks they're doing our na. Whose side are they on? How do you think what you're printing in the newspaper is good for America? We'll get into that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Super Sure. Someday, you know, insurance for your business will be really simple. A child will be able to understand it. You know, you won't have to worry, do I have, you know, enough coverage? Too much coverage, the right coverage ever again, sadly, you know, that'll be when we're in the afterlife. Insurance is only simple in heaven, I think. I'm pretty sure that's in the Bible. We're in Bible country there, so we're all here on Earth. The next best thing is Super Sure. They help business owners make sense of a part of running a company that often feels needlessly complicated. They help you find the right coverage for real risks that your business faces every day. Liability, property, workers, comp, all of that without wasting hours trying to decode industry jargon in fine print. Because you got better things to do than spend half your day wondering what endorsement language even means. Or, you know, whether your 1 paperwork error error is going to cause a bigger headache. Right now you can go to supersure.com back and get a full report on your current policies with no obligation and find out if you're overinsured, underinsured, or somewhere in between. Go to supersure.com beck one super agency, one powerful platform, and all of your policies in one place. Go to super sure.com beck that is super sure.com Beck paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, LLC, a licensed insurance agency. All right, let me go to the Middle East. I want to bring Jason in on this. And Jason, I'll come to you as we go here. But let me start with what's happening in the Middle East. We are told now by some podcasters, incredibly so, that Trump's ceasefire just doesn't make sense. Okay? His ceasefire has been expanded for another two weeks, and I'm trying to understand because at first, people were saying, you know, he's going to get us all killed. He's going to start World War Three. He just wants war. We're going to send all of these soldiers in. First you say, no troop troops and stop the killing. And so he doesn't send in troops, and he says, a ceasefire on all the killing. And now you say, what are we doing? You got to, I guess, start the killing again. I mean, it's. It's almost as if people are hoping for the killing and hoping for destruction. What's his name? The wife of. She asked about Jim Acosta's girlfriend. Sorry, not wife. Girlfriend. Jim Acosta's girlfriend was in the White House yesterday, and she. She asked one of the dumbest questions ever of the President. Listen to this. Would you use a nuclear weapon against Iran? You posted on Truth Social. No, we don't need it.
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Why do I need it?
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Glenn Beck
Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would I.
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Why would I use a nuclear weapon
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Glenn Beck
when we've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it?
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No, I wouldn't use it.
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Glenn Beck
A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody. Okay? The guy is terrified of nuclear weapons. He understands how bad nuclear weapons are. He doesn't want nuclear weapons. I mean, it is so very clear. Why would you ask that? For the controversy. I mean, this is the strategy the President is using. We have told you from the very beginning, this is sanctions with teeth. Everyone said we should do sanctions, more sanctions. Right? That's what everybody has said. We got to do more sanctions. Well, sanctions don't work unless they're on steroids and they are a wild animal. You negotiate, but you make sure it's real. And you stay out of nation building and regime change. Okay? President Trump also extended the Israel Lebanon cease fire for another three weeks. He also has three carriers in the region. He's ordered the Navy to shoot and kill any Iranian boats laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. He's made it clear nuclear weapons will never, ever be allowed with Iran. And for the first time in years, bad actors are facing real consequences instead of weakness. Now, before I get to the New York Times spin, which is incredible, let me give you the truth on what is happening. And in a minute, I'll show you all the sources behind it, too, so you can decide. Iran's economy is collapsing. Now, would we love to have regime change? Yes. But we don't want to have troops on the ground. We don't want to nation build. We don't want to own it. So we have to fight this war different than we fought any other war in the Middle East. He's collapsing the oil economy. Some say it has days, maybe by this weekend, before it has to shut down their oil wells. If that happens, it's over for Iran. They will have no income. Already their GDP is down over 40%. Can you imagine a 40% drop in our GDP since what, the beginning of April? Their supreme leader is reportedly burned, disfigured, and losing control of his hardline generals, which is not good news, but at least we now know who we're negotiating against. Okay, the parliament speaker, the guy who we were hoping was gonna have charge just quit the negotiating team. So the regime is cracking and it is going to the hardliners, and it's still talking tough. The hardliners are seem to be in power. But let's wait and see. This whole thing revolves around oil distribution points. Donald Trump has said since the early 80s, you want to hit them, you go into Carg island, you get their pumps, you take their oil. Okay, well, that's what we did. But we didn't take Carg Island. Normally we would have bombed it and destroyed it. But that leaves you in the position again where you have to nation build afterwards. Because you can't just leave that nation with all those good people, all those Persians and good Iranians with no food, no way to make any money. We don't need to occupy or destroy CARG to cripple Iran's oil revenue. The current playbook, and this was confirmed by the Treasury Department on April 23rd yesterday. It's simpler and it is lower risk. You, naval blockade all of the Iranian ports and the tankers. You, our forces, intercept any of these oil tankers that are headed in to take oil on or heading out. Anything headed toward Kharg island, which is where they fill all of these tankers, is not going to be allowed in or out, especially in now. This is already slashed exports from 1.5 to 2 million barrels per day, near zero since mid April. But oil, you can't stop the pumping of oil. So all of the oil from the fields that's being pumped is going into Carg Islands tanks. But you got to get it off of the island, you got to get it into tankers, and you let physics do the rest. Okay, Carg's off. I'm sorry. Onshore storage is about 13 million barrels, that spare capacity. But when we, when we block them in with a blockade, it's filling at about a million barrels per Day net, they say that we're going to hit 13 million barrels. So they'll be out of storage space by April 26th or 27th. That's some estimates. Okay, Once it's full, this is the key. Once it's full, they have to shut down the upstream wells, they have to shut down the oil fields or they have to burn the excess crude, which would be a disaster. But don't put it past the hardliners for doing that. If they don't do that, there is permanent damage on the well and damage that will take you sometimes six months to a year because pressure builds up and it, it locks in all kinds of. You can, when you turn it back on, you can go from 100 barrels per day to 20 barrels per day because you shut the thing down. And it's very long term, costs a lot of money. It's destruction of those wells without blowing them up, by the way. According to the Guardian. Now, Trump and his advisers have repeatedly say that's what they want to do. Instead of blowing things up and invasion, they want to push them to the brink. So they're sitting there and the hardliners are saying, let it go. And all of the normal people are saying, you can't, you'll starve the nation. Okay, so seizing the island, that means we have casualties. The Iranian retaliation against the Gulf oil structures and the global price spikes and everything else, it'd be bad. Blockchain blockades achieve the same cutoff with the ships that are already there. According to Fox News, ceasefire was explicitly extended to build this pressure. April 7, April 8. The ceasefire and its extension was not about peace and love. It was a tactical pause to do a couple of things. One, find out who we're negotiating with. Are we with the hardliners or the good guys? Who is actually in control? It's just flipped now. Looks like the hardliners are starting to be in control, but we don't know yet because there's another story that is just breaking in the last hour or two that it looks like the delegation is going back to Islamabad to actually negotiate this weekend. We don't know who's in it, but this keeps the US the blockade in place. Iran gets some breathing room on bombing. We're not killing people and we're not sending troops in. I thought that was a good thing. And the economic vice titans, which I thought is what everybody said, even Barack Obama said we should just tighten the sanctions. Well, we are. Scott Bessant yesterday said in a matter of days, Carg Island Storage will be full and the fragile Iranian oil wells will have to be shut off because they'll be shut in. That's from India today. Now there's a rumor going around today that they are going to set the oil fields that Iran, the hardliners will set the oil fields on fire. They'll just start burning the oil and put up some sort of a smoke screen. This weekend there's, I looked and looked and looked. There's no credible reporting on this. There's no confirmation of anybody planning to do that to burn the crude at Carg or elsewhere this weekend. That's according to Newsweek. They, they verified that there's nothing happening. But you can't put it past the hardliners, okay, because they just might do that because what else are they going to do? And if they believe chaos is the answer, well then how do you negotiate with people who just want chaos? And how do you let a nation that controls the world's oil supply, if they're that crazy, how do you leave them in charge? You can't. Do you see what's happening here? Do you see what the actual question is? You can't. If they're that crazy, you can't let them have control of the choke point. It's bad not just for the us. It's bad for the entire world. Plus by giving this, this ceasefire a chance, you're letting that pressure work. So you're just doing sanctions with teeth. That's the problem with all the sanctions that we've had. Nobody believes those sanctions. They're like sending a strongly worded letter. They, this guy, they at least believe they're. Our own press is saying, would you drop a nuclear bomb on them? Of course not. But at least if they're thinking that, if our own press is thinking about that, what are they thinking? So Iran's actual play is now floating the storage that they sent out a 30 year old ship, Nasha, I think it is NASA or something and they're trying to get it into the port and they're trying to fill that up. If they can't get, if we blow up ships or stop their ships, these empty ships from getting into Carg island and we don't let them fill up and relieve that pressure, they have no place to go. They have no place to go. Every time they send a ship in, it'll buy an extra couple of days. Okay, it's, it's not a war winning strategy but it buys a few days. Survive and delay. That honestly is the entire strategy of not just Iran but of NATO, of the wef, of all of the progressives and the Marxist and the radicals and the Islamists here in America. Just survive and delay for the next couple of years and let's see if we have another president who is going to go back to the Kamala Harris, Joe Biden kind of ways. Just survive and delay. That's, that is the strategy of everyone. Because his strategy is right if we can hold it together. But if we start falling apart, if we start getting weak, need they know and they'll just survive and delay. Do you want to win or not? That's the question. Do you want the west to survive or not? Yesterday I retweeted something about what Canada has done with all of their energy projects. They've just gutted all of them. And I said you don't have to like drill, baby, drill. But which one of these is suicidal for a nation? Which one is going to build the nation into a leader and, and into a survivable system over the next 20 years? And which one will kill it? It's very clear. So you don't have to like it. But which one is suicidal and which one's not? Here's the thing. We are winning the economic attrition battle without needing to storm the island or drop any more bombs. Hopefully. We don't know how this is going to end. But that takes me to what the New York Times printed yesterday. And I want to have a frank conversation and we're going to take your phone calls today. 888-727-BECK. Triple-8727-BECK. We do that next. First. We're fighting a spiritual battle as we, as we move forward every day. And protecting the innocent, the most innocent among us babies in their mother's wombs is critical to this. Preborn stands on the front lines of this battle and their network of clinics are positioned in the highest abortion areas. 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Now there's strategy here that we could talk about, but first I want to get to what is the point of that? Who is there? No one in the edit in the editorial room that says Guys, guys, guys. Okay, this might be important, but is it important while we're in the middle of negotiations and in the middle of a war right now? Is there any way to. To do this story but not as a gift to who we're fighting right now. We're I'm on the air telling you how bad things are and it's true, how bad things are in Iran. Why would our New York Times get on and tell Iran? Yeah, but we're about to move. We're about to run out of all of this stuff. I mean it's not treason, but it's bad, isn't it?
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Jason
Yeah. Especially when you compare it to wars that they actually want or champion like Ukraine. They wouldn't that that was not the leading story for them.
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Nope.
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Jason
We were worried about it.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Jason
And especially since, you know, we did not agree with subsidizing that war. Especially when it could have led to World War iii.
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Glenn Beck
Correct. An actual war and it wasn't being fought properly. We were just giving it away. We were giving all of these things away. We had no idea where they went. Some of these things, as we pointed at the time, we were not being used by us or them. They were being sold on the black market. How much of those things that we gave to Ukraine were actually sold a second time to people? We don't even know who they went to. We were pointing these things out at the time because it wasn't the United States fighting the war. We are in an actual war head to head.
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Jason
Yeah, we were just giving it. Giving our munitions away, just giving it all to them. And yeah, in this case, especially, as you point out, negotiations are going on. There were no negotiations going on in Ukraine.
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Glenn Beck
That was one.
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Jason
That was part of one of the issues. There was no peace plan at all.
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Glenn Beck
Correct.
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Jason
There is a peace plan. There is turmoil within the. The Iranian leadership, as you pointed out, they are at a very critical point. You run a story like this, but also you don't provide any other context.
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Glenn Beck
Right. I mean, this is an important story. As we have said in the past, this is an important story, but there's all kinds of context. And why would you do it when you're negotiating? What good. I think people really need to decide, which side are you on? Who do you want to win in the end? It's crazy. All right, let me tell you about homeownership. Homeownership. It comes with a steady stream of surprises. Oh, man. Things you never thought you'd have to deal with. All of a sudden you're having to deal with it, and then you deal with it. Like your gutters up on the weekends. Oh, man, that's the king of this category. Frustration. Nobody wakes up excited to think about them. Nobody gets up in the weekend, is like, I'm cleaning the gutters, but they clog up with leaves and twigs and debris. And they have a way of making themselves the main character in your life in a hurry. Now water is pouring over the side, splashing where it shouldn't, collecting where you don't want it to, and. And trying to turn a normal afternoon into a repair bill. That's why there's leaffilter. There's. They're designed to keep debris out while allowing water to flow freely so you can get your gutters back to what they should be. Something you never have to think about. No climbing ladders, no scooping out sludge, Nothing. No spending your Saturday afternoon, you know, you know, grabbing mud and guck out of the gutters and almost falling off the ladder. Go to America's number one gutter protection system. Get your free inspection schedule. Now it's leaf, filter leaf filter.com Glenn Beck 15 off leaf filter.com Glenn Beck this weekend, don't miss episode three of the American Story podcast. Torch insiders can get 10 episodes now@glenn beck.com Torch. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Linda is calling from Florida. Hi, Linda. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. How can I help you?
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Linda (Caller)
Hi, I'm calling from the Tampa Bay area and I'm calling in regards to the Israel, United States and Iran war.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Linda (Caller)
I was calling. I know you're more for it or, you know, in support of it.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I'm not for it. For it.
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Linda (Caller)
I mean, no, nobody's for it. I didn't mean it like that, but I am. I look at it and I feel like we're being bamboozled in regards to the United States being told, you know, Iran, Iran's been two weeks from having, you know, the nuclear power.
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Glenn Beck
100% agree with you.
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Linda (Caller)
Yeah, since the 90s. I mean, Netanyahu has been saying that since 98.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, well, it wasn't just Israel. It was all of the world's intel. And I said at the very beginning, don't start with me on they were two weeks away from nuclear weapon. I've heard that since, you know, I've been on the year. I've done this now for 49 years. So I remember when they first went in and I remember when we first started hearing about them going after nukes. So they've been two weeks away forever. So I'm 100% with you on that. Doesn't carry a lot of water with me.
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Linda (Caller)
Right. So what is, so how are we. And you are, you know, very important in what's going on, the dialogue of the world and what people think. What, what would make you think it's different today and in this moment? Because as far as you said that the world intel was claiming, you know, everything was leading, that they did have that ability to make nuclear. But how come the NATO powers, they're totally against this?
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Glenn Beck
Well, the NATO powers, I'm not going to, let's not, let's not bring NATO in as a, as a, as a credible organization. But let me, let me go through this with you because I thank you for approaching it this way. Linda. I love having this debate and, and, and, you know, maybe you'll bring some points out that will change my mind. But let me just explain how I look at things. This is in, in some ways, and I'm going to be very careful on making sure you understand this. This is Israel's war for them. They believe that Iran is a imminent threat. If somebody, if Mexico was saying what Iran is saying to us all the time, you know, we're going to wipe you out. You're going to burn. Americans are going to burn in the Islamic fury of the fire. Everything else, and they backed it up. And they were having, you know, they were lobbing missiles and having terror strikes all the time in the United States of America, we would view Mexico exactly the way they're viewing Iran. That doesn't make it America's war. That makes it Israel's war. So they have to fight the way they want to fight, and I give them the right because we would demand that right. If it was happening to us, this close to us, would you agree with that?
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Linda (Caller)
Yes and no. They've been saying that for, they've been. Iran has been saying that for decades.
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Glenn Beck
Right? No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't, don't, don't just talk about. Wait, wait. Don't just talk about nukes. I, that's why I brought in the terror strikes. I mean, they are constantly bombing Israel. They are constantly doing terror strikes. Just look at this. Not as Israel. Look at this as us. If Canada or Mexico were sending terrorists in and they were blowing people up in schools and school buses and they were killing our people and they did an October 7th on us, would you stand for that as an American, or would you say, we're going to stop this right now?
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Linda (Caller)
I would not stand for it, but I think there's more to all those stories.
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Glenn Beck
There's no. There's no but there. There's no but there. There's no but. You wouldn't stand for it. And anything else from any American is a lie. If this were. Forget about Israel, forget about the Jews and everything else. If the same thing were happening to us, all of us would say, get them. So that's Israel's. Hang on. That's Israel's war, and that's their business. Where the problem becomes is, were they convincing us that that war we should help fight? And if they, if they were, your problem is not with Israel. Your problem should be with Donald Trump. Because that's what, exactly what Marco Rubio's job is. Marco Rubio's job is to go in and convince other nations it's in your best interest to go in with war with us. And it's the right and the responsibility of every other nation to go. Yes or no. If they, if we convince you of something that you shouldn't be involved in because it's really in our best interest. That's the fault of their prime minister or their king or their president, not the foreign leaders who are convincing. So this is where I kind of separate with people. Your problem is not with the foreign minister or the prime minister of Israel. Your problem should be with the people who are making the decisions to go along with it. If that were true.
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Linda (Caller)
So that. So you brought up very good points. So two things with that, apparently. And again, I'm nobody. Like, I get my news by reading and powering the radio and, you know,
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Glenn Beck
good for you trying to figure out
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Linda (Caller)
what the truth is.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Linda (Caller)
We, our Pentagon said that we would never be able to win this war. This isn't going to be a Venezuela where, you know, take out the main.
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Glenn Beck
So your problem is not with Israel. Your problem should be with the commander in chief that made the decision, separate those two.
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Linda (Caller)
Israel with Israel was giving intel to our.
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Glenn Beck
Then our. Your problem here, you have to listen to me. Listen to me here. If somebody gives you fool me once, shame on you. Fool me since 1979, shame on me. So your problem is not with Israel, if Israel. You've just made the case that Israel has been saying the same thing forever. So the problem is why are the people, why is our side falling for it yet again? You said the Pentagon didn't fall for it. I don't know if that's absolutely true. I know that there was a split there, but I don't think it's true. The president has to decide who he believes. But if you say he believed the wrong side, the problem is not with Israel, it's with the President of the United States, is it not?
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Linda (Caller)
Yes. And the people that he surrounds himself
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Glenn Beck
with, which is his decision, he picks those people. Right. So I don't understand. If you're against the war, stop with the Israel part. Stop with it. You can disagree with Israel, you can say all the things you said about, you know, they look at it wrong, they're wrong for what, whatever. But when it comes to us getting involved, stop blaming it on Israel. If that's your point of view. The. The responsibility only falls on Donald Trump's shoulders. Right.
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Linda (Caller)
Ask you one more question.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, but wait, could you give me a right on that or you disagree?
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Linda (Caller)
Yes. Oh, absolutely. He chose to be president. He won. And yeah, it does fall on his.
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Glenn Beck
And it's his decision.
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Linda (Caller)
The buck stops with him.
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Glenn Beck
Correct. Great. Okay, good. So what's your next question?
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Linda (Caller)
How do you feel about the Greater Israel Project?
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Glenn Beck
What is the Greater Israel Project?
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Linda (Caller)
It is a project Where Israel wants to expand its borders into parts of Lebanon. I guess it was like the old borders. They were essentially, like, playing a tug of war with south Lebanon and wanting to go into.
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Glenn Beck
So is this a bigger. Is this a bigger problem than Iran saying that they want to have a global caliphate, or do you put them
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Linda (Caller)
in the same boat? Well, I think it's a different. I think it's a different topic altogether.
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Glenn Beck
Why? What's the difference between the.
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Linda (Caller)
I think Israel. I mean, I'm sorry, I think Iran. It's not empty words because words do have meaning. But Iran has been saying what they've been saying for decades. Okay.
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Glenn Beck
But they've been backing that up with. They've been backing that up with terror all over the Middle East. I mean, Hamas for the very first time, Hezbollah. I'm sorry, for the very first time, Hezbollah does not control Lebanon. Now, whether Israel wants to expand or not, that's a completely different story than the war. Let's. Let's not borrow more trouble here. That's a separate thing. And we can. We can talk about that and we can debate that. I am. I am. For every nation being able to defend themselves in the way they think they need to defend themselves. I may disagree with it, and I may say we're not on your side, but every country has a right to do what they think is in their power. Best national interest. Again, we may be against it, we might even fight against it, but that's their business, not our business. Would you agree with that?
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Linda (Caller)
Yes. In my. In my older age, I wish when I was younger, I did read into history now, because I think the problems that we see today and without. That's now going into left field. But there is, I mean, if. If all of your audience, like, reads into the history of Iran and you've even mentioned it, like Iran, you know, a number of years, decades ago, the women look like Western women.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Linda (Caller)
And then there was, like, a regime change, some sort of coup d', etat, and everything changed.
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Glenn Beck
Right. It's the Islamic State that now rules Iran. They overthrew it with Marxists and Islamists, and that's what happened. It wasn't some sort of coup d'. Etat. It was the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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Linda (Caller)
There was, though. Wasn't Iran's oil at one point controlled by the England. The British?
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Linda (Caller)
They wanted sovereignty over their oil.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. You went. Now you're going back to the Balfour Accord. So you're going back, you know, between World War I and World War II. But if you want to get into that. You can't say that Iranians, the Iranian borders were right or this was wrong, but, but the Israel borders are right or wrong because it was done all at the same time by the same people. So you can't legitimize one government and that means you can't legitimize Iran, I mean, Israel and demonize Iran. The borders were all done at the same time by the same people. So you have to delegate, delegitimize all of it. And quite honestly, I don't think you can do that. That would be like us going back, you know, these people who say you're living on stolen land. Well, okay, you know, that was many, many years ago. This is the way it is. If you want to fight a war, that's how things are usually done. This was done by the UN and sanctioned by the un. It was the new world order and this is how we're going to do it. And the Balfour deal and all this stuff, they tried to do it through negotiation. Was that a good idea? I don't think it was, but this is what it is now. And so why are we going back and rehashing that? And if, because if you want to, then you have to open up the entire Middle east. And that doesn't sound like a good idea.
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Linda (Caller)
No, I mean, I will. Yeah. I mean, Persia, former Iran, Persia, former Persia, Iran is. It is over a millennia old, but it is definite. I feel like all of us should definitely do our homework.
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Glenn Beck
Yes, we should.
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Linda (Caller)
Read more what happened leading up to basically everything that is happening today.
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Glenn Beck
Can you. Linda, I so enjoyed our conversation. Can you hold on a bit? Because you were for Donald Trump and now you're not. And is that right? Is that correct?
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Linda (Caller)
Yeah, I voted for him three times.
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Glenn Beck
And so can I pursue that with you a little bit because I've really enjoyed our conversation.
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Linda (Caller)
Sure.
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Glenn Beck
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Linda (Caller)
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so now let's just talk about the war without the Israel part. Is this war America first?
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Linda (Caller)
No.
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Glenn Beck
Why?
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Linda (Caller)
Because we're being told that the oil that's coming out of there, we don't need it. That's oil that is going to Asia, it's going to Europe. We have plenty of our own oil. Again, if Israel wants to leave Israel
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Glenn Beck
out of it, live, leave Israel out of it. This is us. Yep.
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Linda (Caller)
Okay. But yeah, we are being told, correct, that yes, the oil that is coming out of Iran, we don't need it. We have under our own feet. Correct?
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Glenn Beck
Correct.
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Linda (Caller)
So you have to ask yourself, well, why are we. Why are we going into another? And it is. It truly is going to be. And it breaks my heart. It's going to be an endless war. We're going to see our young men and women come back deceased in a box or, you know, injured.
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Glenn Beck
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This is the Glenn Beck program. I am having such a great conversation with a listener from Florida. Her name is Linda. We don't agree on what's happening with the war and, but she's reasonable. She's well thought out. And we've made some progress. And I don't mean I'm convincing her. She. She's convincing me. We're making progress on at least understanding each other. And that is. That's the first and probably most important step. We talk over each other, we don't listen to each other. And so we don't understand what the other is actually thinking or how they got there. So Linda's teaching me a lot and maybe you're going to grab something out of this as well. As we continue our conversation, I'm going to. To hijack her day because I've Got a lot to. I've got a lot of questions for her and a lot of things to explore with her. So we're going to continue that conversation here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Real Estate Agents I Trust dot com. In fact, can I just take. We have somebody who said this. Oh, she dropped. We just had somebody who called and said she was in Colorado. She used real estate agents iTrust.com when she was moving last time and then she decided not to do it. And she said, and I wish I would have been able to hear a story. We so regret it. We didn't use them a second time. We should have used them a second time because it wasn't the same experience at all. I hear this all the time. Our reviews are off the charts because we really vet these agents to make sure they are locked into you. It's why I started Real Estate Agents I Trust. Because when life moves, you need an agent that can move with it. Somebody experienced, professional, responsive and proven. So find the right agent the first time. Realestate agents I trust. Com. You will see a difference. Check out realestate agents I trust.com. we'll show you how you can buy or sell your home in this tough market. Realestate Agents I Trust dot com. All right, let me go back to Linda. Linda, I'm sorry to hijack your day, but I'm, I'm enjoying our conversation. I hope you feel the same way.
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Linda (Caller)
Absolutely.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so let me just recap for the audience. We started talking about the war, and you are against. You voted for Donald Trump three times and you've been with him the whole time, but he promised not to get into wars. And you say he was bamboozled by Israel. Correct me if I have any of this wrong. He was bamboozled by Israel, got us into this. We decided that if your problem is with Israel lying to us, then your real problem is not with Israel. Because just like our State Department, we're going to say or do whatever is in our nation's best interest to get people involved in our stuff. Your real problem is the decision makers. Either those who are around Donald Trump or Donald Trump himself. And he has the responsibility of all those people around him. He hired them. So the real problem is with Donald Trump, correct?
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Linda (Caller)
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. And so I asked you right before we went to break, I said, so is this a war of that is America first. And you said a couple of things. And I want to go into both of these. We don't need the oil. So there's that? And let's be honest. This will be an endless war. And our men and women, our boys, will come back in a box. Can we separate those two things and talk about each of them first? Let me start with the last part. You don't know that, nor can I tell you honestly. It won't end that way. But why do you jump there when you don't know when you. Why go to the worst possible scenario
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Linda (Caller)
that are that our men and women would come back in a box? Injured. Yeah, injured or, you know, or dead.
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Glenn Beck
No, no. But an endless war. What?
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Linda (Caller)
Well, I feel like every, every war that we do in the Middle east ends up just a long and drawn out war.
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Glenn Beck
Correct. I agree with you. You know, now have you seen the way he's fighting it compared to the way we fought them before? That the strategy is not to break, not to regime change, not to kill everybody and blow up everything, but to leave the regime in place, which we have never done ever before in these foreign wars over in the Middle East. Does that make any difference to you? That it's a different, totally different strategy?
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Linda (Caller)
You're talking about we're doing like a war of attrition.
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Glenn Beck
Yes. And we're not, we are not going in and saying we're going to. We're going to give you democracy. We're not doing that where we did that in every country we've ever fought in.
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Linda (Caller)
Absolutely. You know, Glenn, I think what's different today versus even four years ago.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Linda (Caller)
Is everybody has. Everyone is their own reporter. We all have this great iPhone and. No, no, seriously.
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Glenn Beck
I know. No, I'm with you.
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Linda (Caller)
And everything is so real time. And I think that the powers that be, whether it is governments, it is monarchies, they're losing the control of the narrative.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Linda (Caller)
And people are, you know, I have this standing joke. You know, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm a conspiracy realist. Because if it's a theory in January and it comes true in June.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Linda (Caller)
Then, you know, I just haven't figured out the lottery numbers.
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Glenn Beck
Right. There's a, there's a difference. But there's a difference between the theories. In fact, you can start as a conspiracy conspiracy theory. The 9 or 10 or 11 missing people now are dead people with military, you know, that working on space stuff, that's a conspiracy theory. Right now it may turn out to be conspiracy fact, but right now it's just a theory. And that doesn't make it a bad thing. It just. You need to categorize it as it's a theory. And not go all in and put all your chips on the table and say, and you're a traitor if you don't believe it. No, let's play this out. Let's. Let's follow the facts. It's going to take time, but you, in the end, may be right. Correct.
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Linda (Caller)
Yeah. You know what's interesting about that story is.
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Glenn Beck
Sorry, no.
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Linda (Caller)
But no. It was Ducey from. It was the Sun. I know there's two on Fox. And he mentioned it.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Linda (Caller)
During, you know, during a press conference thing. Yeah, yeah. But he's the one who really put light to it.
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Glenn Beck
Right. You know, I don't want to get
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Linda (Caller)
bogged down in about it.
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Glenn Beck
I don't want to get bogged down in all that. I was just saying that, you know, we all need to slow down. And that's why I started with. You say, this is an endless war. You said, you said, let's be. Let's face the facts or let's be real. We all know it's good. I don't know that. I know that Donald Trump hates war. He really is terrified of nuclear war. It's the only thing I've seen him be afraid of. And I know he's doing everything. Now, it might. Because we're dealing with crazy people, it might turn into that, but we don't know that yet. And I was just wondering if you could say, I believe that it's a high probability that it will turn into that based on everything in the past. However, caveat. Donald Trump has shown no indications that he likes or fights wars the way George Bush or Barack Obama or Joe Biden or anybody else has fought wars. Can you go that far?
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Linda (Caller)
Well, can I. I'll say this. You know, we're not dealing with regular government in regards to Iran, but you have to admit Donald Trump's truths or whatever, tweets, truths, whatever you want to call them during Easter were so horrible. Awful.
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Glenn Beck
Horrible.
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Linda (Caller)
They were horrible. So when we're. We're. When we are laying this argument that Iran is crazy, and this. He was talking about, like, blowing them up. I mean.
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Glenn Beck
Right? So.
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Linda (Caller)
And that's when I missed it.
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Glenn Beck
You missed. Hang on. You missed a monologue that I did. Remember. The president speaks not just to the American people. He. And he doesn't speak to the people of the world. Sometimes he sends messages through the world to very specific people. That message was very specific. Oh, you think you're crazy? You think I'm afraid of you? You have no idea. I'm batcrat. Crazy. He's not crazy. He is not crazy. But sometimes when you're dealing with a crazy enemy, you need to have your eye twitched too. So they go, good God is. I mean, would he do it? Now, I'm not saying that's going to work because they want to wash the world in blood, but Donald Trump did not mean that. And you've seen that he was sending a message. You have to understand the president, if a. He does a lot of things on Twitter that I absolutely hate that are just crazy. Okay, Just, he shouldn't do it. But that one in particular I really don't like. I thought it was really bad. However, I give it with this caveat. It may have been directed right to the people he was trying to drive to the table two days later. Okay, okay, so let me go into, let me take a break so we don't have to break in the middle of it. Give me 60 seconds and I want to come back to your thought of we don't. They. They say we don't even need the oil. So why is this America first if we don't even need the oil? That's a great point. I want to talk to you about that. 60 seconds. Burn a launcher. Keeping yourself and your family safe means being prepared for situations that can, you know, put you or them in danger. It means being prepared for all the situations, you know, even those situations where deadly force is not needed. In fact, it's a real problem. There are more of those than you think. And if you're a gun owner, it's unfortunately easy to think a gun will provide you all the safety it needs. But never pull a gun unless you're prepared to kill somebody. And I'm, I'm not in all situations, you know, but they can go bad fast. There is a tool for this. It's the burner launcher. It's a non lethal alternative to safeguarding your home. That will teach somebody a very painful non lethal lesson. It's legal in all 50 states, no permits or background checks required. And it can be used by all age groups over 18. My kids carry them in their backpacks when they are going around. They have them in the, the glove box of their car. My wife has one in her purse in the glove box, wherever she is as well. I have them. Burn a launcher. You be confident that you are prepared to defend yourself against potential threats. Go to Burna.com Glenn learn more about it. Try before you buy it, a sportsman's warehouse located near you. You can find that location at burna by r n a.com/. Glenn, 10 seconds. Station ID. Okay. Trying to keep our, Trying to keep everything compartmentalized instead of drifting all over into many different things at once. Let's just talk about. Is this America First? And you said we don't even. Donald Trump keeps saying we don't even need the oil. So why are we there? What do you mean by that?
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Linda (Caller)
Well, that's what we've been told.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Linda (Caller)
However, when I, when we were on break, and I don't know if it was Jason or who, they were like, talking about political points. And apparently America is now exporting close to 13 million barrels of oil a day.
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Glenn Beck
Yes. It's the largest exporting we've ever done.
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Linda (Caller)
Well, that could right there, be your reasoning for justifying the war.
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Glenn Beck
Is that a bad thing? I'm not saying justifying the war for oil or money, but is it a bad thing that we are now the world's largest exporter? That goes to the America first question.
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Linda (Caller)
Right. Oh, goodness. This is like. It's hard, isn't is hard? As far as America First. No, that is America First.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Linda (Caller)
Does it. I never want to see another person, you know, when I look at war.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Linda (Caller)
One, it's the common person who is hurt the most. So people at the top, they're in safety somewhere. I look at these regular people, you know, I would be. If there was a war, you know, the domestic war here, I would be that regular person. I know that would be, that would be harder.
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Glenn Beck
I know.
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Linda (Caller)
At the top.
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Glenn Beck
So. So let me help you. Let me help you just think in this way and see if this makes any sense to you. Because I hate the idea of war for oil. It's absolutely immoral. It's immoral. However, let's look at America First. If we are going to survive the $40 trillion in debt, if we're going to survive into the next century with AI and everything else we need, primarily the things that we need, we need to lead in energy, and that's all energy. If we are beholden to anyone on energy, we are in trouble. If we can get, if others even compete with us, we lose leverage. Same thing with AI we must lead in AI which means we have to have rare earth minerals wherever they are, and we must control them. The world has to come to us for those things. We also have to rebuild our infrastructure. We have to build factories and, and plants and be able to make our own chips and everything else. So if that chain begins with AI rare minerals, manufacturing, they all really rely on energy. So that's why drill, baby, drill was so important, and that is to make us energy independent. The problem is, and this is not Donald Trump's fault, this is the fault of the left. And I don't know how to solve this one. I don't think this could ever be solved unless America just says shut up to all of the people on the left that are all about, you know, ending oil. The oil that we get, we have plenty of natural gas, lp, all this stuff, we have plenty of that, and that can be used here in America. But when it comes to gasoline and oil, we pull out of the ground something is called light sweet crude. It's really easy to process. The stuff we get from Saudi Arabia, even Venezuela is very dirty. We get light sweet crude here, but we have not made a new refinery in America since, I think 1973. You can't build them anymore. And none of them are geared for light sweet crude. So we take and we sell all of the oil that most of the oil that we are are drilling and getting out of the ground. We have to sell that to other countries. We can't use it here because we can't refine it. So we have to sell that. Which means when the President says we don't need the oil, well, until we build refineries, yes, we do. We have to trade our oil for the crap we get out of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world. Now we're getting less of it from Saudi Arabia, we'll get more of it from Venezuela in our own hemisphere, which causes the price to go down and the control and the danger and everything else. So what the plan was is a, if you want to be America first, you have to control energy. But also, where was the rest of the world buying their energy? Europe was buying it from Russia and Saudi Arabia. China was buying it from the Straits of Hormuz. You, you have all of this oil. Nobody's coming to us. And China had put together bricks. Brazil, Russia, India, China, brics. And their plan all during the administration for Biden was to come up with a new currency that could buy oil. The reason why the dollar is the king around the world is OPEC says you can only buy it through using US currency. The minute that's over, we are Haiti, we are. We crash, and we have no money. No money, it's worthless. Okay? So you have to break the back of bricks, which is why he just took Venezuela off of the board. It's why he just took the Panama Canal, so they can't get the ships out they got to go all the way around if they wanted to buy it. He's breaking the back of bricks and China on oil and rare earth minerals. So it is America first if we can break the backs. It's not true that we don't need the oil because we can't build refineries here. If we have to, we should come up with maybe, maybe Venezuela. I hate doing this, but we should say, will you build all of our sweet oil refineries there so we can have cheaper gas? It'd be cheaper if we built them here, but It'll take you 30 years and no one will invest in it because no one believes that you can get something built here in 15 or 20 or even 30 years with having the administration and all the laws remain the same. So that's why this oil thing is important, because it's not about gas prices and it's not about making, you know, a company rich. It's about the long term, being able to have America lead the world. Does that make sense to you?
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Linda (Caller)
Absolutely. And you like, I'm so glad that you're bringing up the things that you are, because I wanted to bring it up, but I don't. I didn't know if it would be quite appropriate in regards to exporting oil. Wasn't it last year Saudi Arabia dropped the petrol dollar or did not re Institute like recontract the petrodollar America.
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Glenn Beck
I remember reading something like that. I don't think that they did that, but they were. They were toying with it with China, which makes that extraordinarily dangerous.
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Linda (Caller)
Yes. So, I mean, yeah, at the end of the day, I'm glad because this is such an honest conversation and topics that really are not being touched by anybody. But that is what it boils down to. It's almost as though, like we. We have to back. Our money isn't backed up by anything anymore. It went from gold to the petrol and now that's in question.
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Glenn Beck
Correct.
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Linda (Caller)
And we have to wash our money with something.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Linda (Caller)
So, and I hate to say this, but is it being washed by war? War makes money.
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Glenn Beck
When I'm hearing markets going up, it is backed by. Yes, that has something to do with stock markets going up because we have to rebuild everything else. But that's not what the. If, again, separate things. If Donald Trump is a man of his word, and I believe he is, that he hates war. He doesn't want endless. But he's trying to do America first. He must control the energy and also make sure that no One can collapse our dollar from the petrodollar. So that makes this essential to be able to save America and the American system. If we don't do that, we're out. We're out. So there are all kinds of ramifications, good and bad, on this. But if you can focus on, is this in our national interest to make sure the dollar, the petrodollar, is controlled. And even if OPEC would finally go away, we'd have so much oil here that the rest of the world would have to buy that the petrodollar would remain for at least half the world. Doesn't that make this a justifiable idea at least?
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Linda (Caller)
It's a beautiful idea. It's a perfect idea.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, so then why do you say you're against the president on this idea?
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Linda (Caller)
So when you lay it out in that sense, yes, I am for it. But when I look see, I know.
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Glenn Beck
I want you to know, Lynn, you're not alone. I went through this for days. I went back and forth, forth on this because it's ugly. It's hard. It's hard. And most people don't. They won't do it. They won't do this. Hard thinking, but you gotta make a choice. More in a minute. All right. Leaf filter. Look, it's bad enough you actually have to rake leaves out of the yard, but you also have to remove them from your house's gutter or we are going to end up with water damage. Somehow after you've already cleaned all of the leaves that fell to the ground, you're expected to climb up a ladder and deal with all the leaves that you know, took the high road, the road less traveled, sitting there in your cutters. Oh my gosh, it is. I mean, I have a personal grudge against autumn at times. It's why I live in Florida and Texas. You know, I'm just saying. I'm saying if you ignore all of this, the gutters will send water down the sides. It can destroy your house. So instead of getting a ladder out and balancing and doing all of that, would you just leaf filter? It's, it's a gutter protection system. It's designed to keep all of that crap out of your, out of your gutters forever. So start protecting your home today instead of spending weekends balancing on a ladder with a glove full of mystery mud. Go to leaffilter.com Glenn Beck that's leafilter.com Glenn Beck get up to 15 off at leaffilter.com Glenn beck Minimum purchase required Restriction supply C Represented for warranty and promotion details leaffilter.com glenn beck. Celebrate America's 250th by rediscovering our epic story. Episode 3 of American Story drops tomorrow wherever you get your podcast. You know, I'm so grateful for listeners like Linda who came in and, and look at what a reasonable conversation can produce. I don't know if we agree on everything, but we walked away willing to have a conversation with each other again. And, and we, we were at polar opposites when we first started and I think we found a lot in common. And that's where, that's where white pilling comes in. Okay? We are all black pilled on something one way or another. We're black pilled on so many things. But I want you to start looking for things of hope. Jason, you just played, who was it that was testifying in front of the Senate yesterday on Covid that you just played?
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Jason
Oh, that was Senator Johnson. It wasn't an interview, it wasn't a testimony.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, interview. And he was talking about what they're now finding with COVID and uncovering, etc, etc, and we can sit here and go, yeah, but is anyone going to pay for that? At least it is now coming out and being verified. We are showing the facts now and that's where, that's where everything can change. If you stay focused on facts and don't let people. You've got to compartmentalize. You're never going to be able to think everything through if you keep dodging from one squirrel to the next. You've got to follow one point all the way down and answer that, then take the next fact and follow that all the way down and make your decision on that. When you put them all back together, if one of those disagrees with the other, then you got to start all over again. But it's, it's hard work. It's hard work, but there is a lot of good stuff that is going on right now and we are starving for hope. I mean, right now, so many of us. I mean, look around, look around all your friends, okay? People wake up, they're tired, they're already convinced, you know, it's not going to change. Good. Life is out of reach. Where, you know, like, like Linda said an hour ago was, I want to get it, I want to get the exact quote from her. We all know this is going to be endless war, men and women. Our boys are going to come back in a box. We don't know that that's black pilled. That's Black pilled. And we swallow these things whole and, you know, all the way from that to I'm never going to be able to own a house or have the family or the future I want. And we're exhausted, we're desperate. And we scroll through media with social media which is filled with lies, okay? And, and you feel smaller and smaller and more confused and more despair with every swipe up, okay? Hope is dying in us one comparison at a time. But if we would stop and start, decide to feed hope every single day, stop, stop waking up to dread. Start waking up to possibilities. Life changes. Your chest isn't so heavy. You, you start squaring your shoulders, beginning to look up a little bit, and you begin to believe again that maybe life can be good and meaningful right where we are not. Someday when we make it. You trade numbness for expectancy. We trade fear for courage. We, we become the kind of person who can face hard days without being crushed by them. And if enough of us do this, our culture begins to heal and hope becomes a real powerful weapon. Hopelessness, hopeless people are very dangerous. They tear things down. But hope filled people build things. They create, they love, they fight for what's good. Families stay together, communities come alive, you know, and the generation that says it's screwed now, they begin living boldly again and risking and building. I want you to do a couple of things. Write this down. I want you to do a few things every single day if you can. If you want to be white pilled, okay? Start your day with eternal truth. Read something that was built before, that was written, long before any of this crap started, okay? Read things that are true. Spend five minutes reading scripture or some timeless wisdom that reminds you that hope is alive, truth is alive, truth is God. Okay? To write down one specific hope or prayer and keep it visible, keep it right in front of you. Something that gives you hope every day. Put it right in front of you all the time. You start to doubt, look at that picture. Take one faithful action, no matter how small. Take one faithful action to serve somebody else. Okay? Move towards a meaningful goal that is about helping other people, whatever it is. Four, limit your comparison and feed your mind with stories of real resistance and redemption instead of endless scrolling. And then when you end the day, Ben Franklin used to do this. He kept a charter, he started, he kept a diary. Every morning he had a list of all the things, all of the attributes that he wanted to embody in his life. And then he would check him on, he read them and he'd check them Off. And then he come back to that same list at night and he would write where he failed and where he can do better and where. Where he. Where he excelled that day so he could make it even better the next day. Remember every day that God's faithful in your life or in our history. If you do these things and you watch, you will. You'll be stronger every day, and you'll be much stronger than your circumstances soon. It does work. It does work. We have to get out of this black pill. But we also have to look at the truth. I'm going to tell you a story. You want to talk about scary? Let me tell you this story. I read this. I read this in a. You know, in a court document. Let me tell you to. Let me tell you the story in a story form. It's Albuquerque. Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's in the late 1980s at a hot dog cart. And two guys meet each other at this hot dog court. Okay? One is down on his luck. He's just scraping by. The other sees an opportunity and steals that guy's entire life. I don't know if you've read about this yet. This. This is a story of Matthew David Kierans, I think his name is, and the man whose name he took, William Donald Woods. It. It has been going on since the 1980s. And it is. I mean, it's Kafka. It's a nightmare, okay? But it finally caught up. So here's what happened. By all appearances, the man named William woods had turned his life around, okay? From the homeless hot dog vendor to a married father, successful hospital IT administrator. He was earning over a hundred thousand dollars a year in Wisconsin. He had bank accounts, credit lines, family. Everything looked legitimate. One problem. He wasn't the hot dog vendor. He's not William Woods. His real name was Matthew David Kierans. In the 1980s, Kierans met the real woods at that hot dog stand. And woods was a co worker. He was vulnerable. He was transient. Kierans didn't just borrow the name. He became William Woods. He got a Social Security card, driver's license, insurance, loans, credit, all in woods name. And when Kieran's stole cars, the warrants and arrests landed on Woods. He married and had a child who carried the stolen surname. His own wife never knew the truth. Meanwhile, the real William woods was drifting through life. He was homeless, he was bewildered. Debts, warrants, legal troubles, all piled up in his name. And he was like, wait, but that's not me. Now skip ahead. It started in the 1980s. It's now 2019. The real hot dog stand guy, the real woods now is in California. And he walks into a bank branch and he's trying to do the right thing and he's trying to clear all this up. And he's like, no, that's, that's not who I am. Somebody stole my identity. And they're racking up debt. And he shows his real Social Security card. But the banker notices the account address is in Wisconsin. Woods fails the security questions. Banker calls the listed number. Kieran's answers, calm as can be. And he's like, nobody in California should be able to touch my accounts. He faxes over his forged documents, Social Security card, driver's license, birth certificate, all in the name of William Woods. Then he goes further. He calls the police and he says, I want you to get this guy and prosecute him for stealing my identity. Remember, he's the guy who stole the identity from the hot guy, hot dog guy, already back in the 80s. Now he's saying, I want you to throw him in jail. So authorities arrest the real William woods and they charge him with identity theft and false impersonation. And woods is like, no, my name is William Woods. No one believes him because he's been a drifter his whole life. Then the courts do something incredible because he's so. I mean, could you imagine being this. This is like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. You're just like, wait a minute. Wait what? This is north by Northwest. No, that's not me. He's so excited about this in court. Court deems him mentally incompetent. So now he's sent to a mental hospital and, and he's force fed drugs. He is in jail for 428 days and 147 days institutionalized, force fed drugs. He's finally released and the court orders him to use only his true name, which is Matthew Kieran's, which isn't his true name. The real woods doesn't give up. Can you? Would you? I mean, I don't know what I would do. Now it's 2023. He contacts the hospital where William woods works. He hires a detective, a really good detective gets the case. DNA evidence seals it. So in July 2023, confronted with a proof Kieran's the real Karen's the fake. Woods admits, for decades I've been living as this guy. I've been forging documents and lying to law enforcement. Kieran's pleads guilty to making false statements to a federally insured credit union. Aggregated identity theft. The judge Looks past the guidelines and recommends around 12 to 18 months plus a mandatory 24. Is that all you would get? 12 to 18 months plus two more years. Judd said this is unusual and egregious. Kierans didn't just steal an identity. He weaponized the justice system to imprison and medicate an innocent man. He didn't show any remorse. No direct apology to the victim. The judge varies and says, you know what? I'm not going by the guidelines. 144 months. That's 12 years in federal prison plus fines, restitution, supervised release, mental health and substance abuse evaluations. Well, Kieran's the fake Woods. He's like, that's crazy. I mean, I've only destroyed this guy's life since 1980. You're gonna put me in jail for 12 years? That's too harsh. Well, apparently not. April 23, 2026. That was yesterday. Eight Circuit Court of appeals shuts it down. Unanimous opinion, the judge and the court affirms every part of the sentence. Judge he said had wide discretion. Yep. The harm was extraordinary. Conditions were reasonable giving. Given a lifetime of deceit and no remorse. So he begins paying for the life that he stole. The real William woods finally has his name back. The scars remain. Can you imagine a hot dog encounter that took place in the 1980s? One of the most audacious identity thefts in American history. Some lies, they just don't ruin a life. They erase lives. Here's my warning. Imagine what can now be done with AI. We are entering a brave and frightening new world. Warning. Now go read some other truth that gets you white pilled again. I know, I know I'm not helping myself. But you gotta put good stuff into your head as well. Because you got to hear the truth. Live in the real world, but don't become that. Don't go down the dark roads. You have to know about it. But there is real hope as well. Things are changing. There is a movement afoot. All right, let me tell you about relief factor. 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Glenn Beck
Oh, golly, there is so much yet. We have to get to I next hour. I want to show you some of the news that is going on and kind of give you a look at what has happened this week from, from these two girls in Houston that were planning bombings, I mean teenage girls to what's happening on our campuses, what's happening into, you know, what's happening with Mamdani and taxing the rich up in New York are fraud. More on a little bit more on the war on what is happening this weekend. There is a way again and I want to show you how to look at things because I could give you a monologue and saying everything is bad. Look at all this bad. Or I could look at it and say, okay, that's bad. Now look at the other things that are happening that I think are really good. Now which what are you going to choose to concentrate on? You got to know all of it. But what are you going to choose to concentrate on? And I think I hope you will come out that things are getting much, much better. We'll continue to take your phone calls. Also, Billy Hollowell is joining us on on principalities. But but we'll talk about that coming up in just a minute. Standby. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is it can it can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself. You're still in the room, you're still nodding along, still showing up, but you're working a lot harder just to keep up. And sometimes you're guessing more than you'd like to admit and you're just hoping don't ask me anything because I don't know what we're talking about anymore. What stops a lot of people from doing anything about it is not denial. It's the process. It's the doctor appointments, the multiple visits, the adjustments, the price tag that makes you go how, what? So people wait and you shouldn't have to. Audien was built to remove those barriers. They have the Atom X. It is an over the counter hearing aid designed to be straightforward and approachable without prescriptions or complicated setups. The charging case has a simple touchscreen, lets you adjust the volume and modes with just tiny little, without the tiny little buttons or learning curve and it delivers clear, natural sound. Please try it audienhearing.com Take control of your hearing today. Pass it on.
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This is the Glenn Beck program. All right, so let's look at the news of the week and what were the big stories of the week? What do they all mean? Is there a pattern here that we should look for black pill and white pill both? We're going to hit those here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. At Z Factor, you need a good night's sleep every night. You know, I'm on the radio every day and if I don't get a good night's sleep, I have honestly had a really bad night's sleep because I don't sleep well without my wife. I mean, I just, I just wrote to her last week, week. I said, I don't want to spend another day for the rest of my life without you by my side. Every day. I just, I need my wife and I love my wife so much, but I don't sleep well when I'm away from her. Even if I take C Factor, I just don't. But I take it every night because look, you need your rest. And this helps me. It helps Tanya. She is out like a light immediately. 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So what are the, what are the stories that came out today that I think we need to pay attention to? And some of these happen, you know, during the week. They've been unfolding during the week. So let's look at the week here. For years, the Southern Poverty Law center acted as America's self appointed moral referee. They have been a bane of our existence for, for years and years and years. One label from them, they label you a hate group. And lives were ruined. Bank accounts were closed, companies canceled, contracts, reputations destroyed. No trial, no evidence, no appeal. Just their voice. That's the verdict. That's the truth. Well, finally this week, the DOJ announced that they are under federal indictment. And I want to be really careful here because I got a million axes to grind with these guys. But I want to stay focused on what the government said. They did a $3 million fraud scheme. What they did was they routed money under fake names, opening fake bank accounts, hiding payments from donors and cooking the books while they preached morality to everybody else. Now the media is trying to spin this as they were just paying off, you know, people, you know, in the neo Nazi group to, to help them, you know, infiltrate. Well, you can't do that as a 5:1. If you're the FBI, you can do that. But if you're a 501C3, you don't have the right to do. You can't open fake bank accounts, you can't fake wire transfers. That's what the whole Patriot act is all about. Okay, you can't do it. But the media spinning this into a nothing burger, and if it goes nowhere, charges of banking fraud. If those are real and it goes nowhere, we're screwed. But even if half of the stuff that the government is alleging is true, this was the group claiming to expose Nazis and extremism. And they may have played a big part in manufacturing some of it. I mean, look, hate exists, Nazis exist, racist, all of that exists. But they helped keep it going. They made it into a bigger racket and they advertised, you know, the referee was rigging the game so that credibility should be gone from everybody. But it's not. It's not. But notice this week that Everything is beginning to wobble a bit. Perhaps. Perhaps some now on the left are seeing why the left or some on the right are seeing why the left reacted the way they did to Elon Musk and Tarp. Okay? They couldn't get them out of Washington fast enough. They were burning down his businesses. Okay? Why? We now know if you follow the money, the entire house of cards comes down. Officials are now estimating that now listen to this. Between 2018 and 2022, $2 trillion were lost to fraud and corruption. We have a budget debt of 40 trillion. But in those four years, and that was before things really got going, in those four years alone, they added $2 trillion to that debt. Are you kidding me? If we could just do TARP and get rid of all of this corruption, we would be able to pay down that debt pretty quickly. Instead of adding, take the $2 trillion and pay down. This is always what happens when the ends justify the means. Truth, integrity, theft, even murder don't matter as long as it serves the higher purpose of what? The destruction of America and the Western world. You saw that last week with Swalwell. Didn't matter. As long as he was helping them, he could get away with anything. The minute he started hurting them, he was out. Ends justify the means. And this same twisted thinking is everywhere. Listen to this story in Houston and we'll have more on this because this is a new story and we don't have all the details yet, but in Houston, two teenage girls. Two teenage girls were charged with plotting to ram a synagogue and kill as many Jews as possible. That's a quote from them. Now, thank God they were stopped. And let's see what the court's going to do to these two girls. But let me just point this out. A society, a culture, is lost when the nurturing class becomes the killer class. Understand that, guys, they are violent by nature. They are the protectors. Women are the nurturers. When women become a killer class, your culture is over. But again, why? Why are they becoming a killer culture? Because the ends justify the means. At UC Berkeley this week, students erupted in applause for a failed Palestine suicide bomber who spoke at Political Prisoners Day. He was trying to kill himself. He failed. And they brought him on to speak and they held him up as a hero. And at the same time, the New York Times this week gave airtime to voices claiming shoplifting is a valid form of political protest. I just said ends justify the means. That leads to theft, to lies, to murder. You just seen it this week, and this isn't Disconnected madness. This is what happens when a society lets grievance culture rewrite morality because you've been wronged. You can do this. Those that's all of the seven deadly sins all wrapped up into that. Okay. Harm becomes negotiable when you can base it on who's doing it. Good and evil get flipped and who pays the price? Your children's future civilization collapses and look how it's collapsing. Let's look this week at the cities that have been swallowed by this whole, whole, swallowed whole. New York. Zoran Mandani. He stood outside of Ken Griffin's building grinning about. I'm taxing the rich. I'm going to make them pay. So what did Citadel do? What was the richest response? That's okay. We're just not going to invest the $6 billion redevelopment project that would have created 6,000 construction construction jobs and 15,000 permanent ones. That's not a threat. That's capital walking through the door. That's capital saying, okay, we don't have to do that. So now who gets hurt? 6,000 construction jobs. Mondavi doesn't care about those people. He cares about the elites. He cares about the, you know, the Columbia educated. He didn't care about the construction workers, the 15,000 permanent jobs. I don't even know what those jobs are. Did they have, do they need a college degree? Does he care about those guys? Think of that. 20,000 jobs, one fell swoop. Now meanwhile, let me white pill you here. On the flip side, red states like Texas and Florida are doing something that would have sounded crazy. In fact, I said it two decades ago. I said it what, 17 years ago. You're going to see people. And when you see states start to stockpile their gold, we're going to be in real trouble. Well, Florida and Texas are now protecting themselves because of the $40 trillion in debt, the reckless spending, the out of control ideas that are coming if we lose the next two elections. It's coming and at least two states know this has got to stop. So they're, they're bringing their gold back. I'm going to get into that next week. That's way important. You, if your state's not doing it, it should. Meanwhile, Virginia is staring down a Democrat drawn congressional map that could lock in one party progressive rule and turn it into California 2.0. It's almost already there. Higher taxes, more homelessness, open border spending. We've seen this movie before. I don't know what's wrong with people, but okay, whatever. And now they're saying well, Florida should do it. Well, nobody wins on this gang. Once you open this, no one wins. The rule of law goes out the window. Now the same pressure is hitting America's adversaries abroad. I showed you yesterday what's happening in Canada. They're no longer a free nation, as we've always understood Canada to be free. It's not. And it doesn't look like there's anything that's going to slow them down. Pray for the people of Alberta. Quite frankly, that might do the trick. Maybe, Maybe in the Middle East. We're told today by some podcasters that Trump's cease fire doesn't make any sense. Wait, he's expanded it by two weeks. Wait, first you said no troops and stop the killing. So when he does stop the killing, you what, you want him to start killing again? I. I'm confused. I can't follow your. Your logic here. I can't. Which is it? Do you want him to do war or not do war? You want him to negotiate with teeth or not negotiate with teeth? I. I don't. I don't get it. But so, you know, everything we said we, we're probably doing, it looks like we are doing now we're negotiating and we're bleeding them dry of their oil. Of their oil. President Trump also expanded the Israel Lebanon cease fire another three weeks. He has carriers in the region. He has ordered the navy to shoot and kill any Iranian boats that are laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. It's not like those old mines with the spikes on them and stuff. These are down underneath the water. But he sunk most of their submarines, if not all of them. Uh, but he's made it clear nuclear weapons are not going to be allowed. And the first time in years, bad actors are facing real consequences instead of, you know, pallets full of cash on their airport tarmac. Their economy is collapsing. Some people say it has days before they have to shut down the oil wells. And if that happens, no income. No income. They're over no income already. Their GDP is down over 40% because of the last couple of weeks. This is bad. The Supreme Leader burned, disfigured, losing control. Now I guess the people even more hardline than he is, but I don't know what a mullah who's gay. I mean, how hardline they are. I hate to use that phrase. But now some bad news. The parliament speaker just quit the negotiating team. The regime is cracking. Still talking tough, but the hardliners seem to be gaining power. But we don't know for sure. The. The. The. The news today that came out right before I came on the show is they are sending their team to Pakistan to actually engage in talks this week. So we could see again another Friday where I say to you, let's see, maybe it's peace by Monday, maybe not. China is also feeling the news. It's tightening on their energy supply lines from Venezuela to Iran, Caribbean, all of that. The administration is accusing now Beijing of industrial scale campaigns to steal AI from America. This is huge. Huge. And we're not just talking tough to protect ourselves. We're actually finally taking real action against China, carrying a big stick but not using the full force of it yet because we don't want to do that back home. Also this week, you should know real enforcement is returning. Governor Abbott has cut a deal with Houston to honor ICE warrants after threatening to withhold 100, $114 million in state grants. Good borders are. Tom Homan has invited Pope Leo. Come along with ice. Come with us on some of these raids so you can see the border and what we're doing with your own eyes. And please, Pope Leo, I have no problem with the Catholics or you. I don't want to fight with any of them. But please don't tell us that the Muslims are not a problem and we. And we shouldn't worry about that. Your Vatican walls were built to keep the Muslim invaders out of Vatican City. So please, learn your own history and don't lecture us about politics. Yours is God, not politics. Federal agents just dismantled major pieces of the Mexican mafia in Southern California. Dozens arrested, prison leadership hit, Drugs, guns, extortion. All these networks taken down. That's good news. And all of this connects to what. We're making. Progress. The institutions that lied to us are losing their grip. The moral confusion they spread is being exposed in real time. Don't get me wrong. We are not killing them. We are wounding them. But if you go after the king, you better make sure you take the king out. They are not out, not by a long shot. But yesterday, the Tides foundation finally found themselves in the scope of law enforcement. But they're going to fight back. And in the end, they're so old and. And exposed now, they might just morph instead of die, but the economic consequences of bad ideas are starting to hit hard. And the enemies who grew bold during the years of weakness are suddenly under real pressure. Unfortunately, so are you. I told you before, it's a race to the finish line. I pray JD Vance and the new AG are going to be working hard and Fast to stop the bleed of half a trillion dollars a year in corruption. Imagine. Imagine if we weren't giving this money away to NGOs and Somalis and illegals who were funneling all this money through NGOs, 501C3s and Democratic platforms. Imagine what you could do with that money. But this is a stress test for the country. Some things are cracking, some things are holding. But I want you to know, while we're making progress, nothing is set in concrete yet. Everybody who is working to destroy us, everybody who hates Trump, needs him and anyone who thinks like him out. If we can keep the House and the Senate and we can Somehow win in 2028, we have a chance of killing this virus. I mean, this is a virus that. I mean, this has the Republic on a Covid. Vent. We're not off the vent yet. We have to stay vigilant, even with our own side. The House gop, the FISA extension without warrant requirement should worry every single American who values liberty. Liberty. Make no mistake. Make no mistake. We have to stand against our own side at. At the same time. But also, don't make the mistake of saying the world is in chaos. It's not. Part of the world is trying to create chaos. Social media will think that everything Trump is doing is chaos. It is not. It's a reckoning. It's a sorting out what is true and what was built on lies. What survives this moment is what will build on or rebuild on. And the choice is still ours to make. All right, more in just a second. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. You know, a lot of business owners, they spend years building something valuable, and then they, you know, handle insurance like it's a form you know, of. I'll get to that later. That's understandable. You're busy keeping customers happy. You're managing employees. You're watching expenses, fixing problems, doing 10 jobs that somehow land on your desk. And insurance gets pushed to the bottom of the list. Just get an agent to take care of that. So I want to tell you about Super Sure. They help business owners find the right coverage for the real risks that you face every day. Somebody who understands your business, liability, property, workman's comp, commercial, auto. 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Linda (Caller)
Foreign.
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Glenn Beck
Jason, I want to come to you as we get ready for Billy Hollowell to come in and, and talk about something we've been waiting to hear. He was talking to us last week about UFOs and he brought something up that I thought was really important. We're gonna get to that here in a second. Quickly, is there anything on that list of things that we were going to talk about today that I didn't get to yet? We need to.
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Jason
Oh, there's the, the story of the soldier that made money off the Amador raid. Gotta get to that today.
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Glenn Beck
What do you think? What do you think of that?
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Jason
Oh, it's, he absolutely is in the wrong there. That there's no question, you know, endangering the lives of his team and the entire operation.
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Glenn Beck
So what he did is he went on, you know, like one of the things that Stu is promoting, you know, these, these betting sites or, I'm sorry, these, what do they call them, betting sites. And they, they bet on, you know, what they think is going to happen. Well, this guy took a lot of money and said, hey, a Maduro raid is going to happen. He got rich. You can't do that. You're in the military. You got to let Nancy Pelosi get rich on things like that. Not in the military. You can't do that. And I'm not sure what's going to happen to him, but I'm glad to hear you say that. That is a, I mean, that put people in danger. People watch those, those, those markets, the prediction markets, and they, you know, and if you're on the wrong side, you look at that and go, what does somebody know? Somebody knows Maduro. They're coming to get Maduro. That was a really bad move and he should be punished. All right, Billy Holell joins us in just a second. So much more left to go. All right, Patriot Mobile. You know, the people who founded this country understood the best way to exist in a society was to strive towards a balance of freedom and moral responsibility. I try to use my freedom wisely. I try not to take it for granted. I know you do too. And I do business with the people who do feel exactly the same. I had a group of people in my office yesterday. They wanted to do business with us. And we have been checking them out for a very long time and we're still a long way away from doing business with them. And I've known them and I like them. And we just spent probably an hour just talking about the things that we believe in and what's important in America and the times we live in. Those are the kind of people I like to do business with. Patriot Mobile a group of those people. Patriot mobile.com/back972 Patriot look, you're already paying for phone service. Why pay a company that is working against all the things you believe? Verizon, you know, they're, they're, they're spending money with Planned Parenthood. And I've been saying this for years. And you know, they don't shy away from it. That's not my values. I don't want to send anything that I've ever earned to Planned Parenthood. So why am I paying Verizon to do it? Patriotmobile.com Beck972 Patriot they stand with your values and you get great service. Same service on the all three cell tower, same cell systems and save money. Patriotmobile.com Beck get the American Story podcast episode three, wherever you get your podcast or now at Glenn beck.com torch. So the White House Correspondence dinner is happening, happening this week. And apparently Donald Trump is going to go to it. You know, the White House Correspondents Dinner started because of Woodrow Wilson. He said, we're letting these people be adversaries to ours. Bring them in, we'll make them our friends, will, you know, sleep with them and, and then they'll be on our side. And that's the White House Correspondents Dinner. And you see how they always treat Republicans at those things. This week they're not bringing in a comedian, which, you know, they should have learned the first time, you know, because it turned about on them when they invited Don Imus. Does anybody remember this with Bill Clinton and Don Im at the White House Correspondents Dinner?
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Announcer
And as you know, nearly every incident in the lives of the first family has been made worse by each and every person in this room. The radio and television correspondence, even innocuous incidents. For example, when Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive game record, the President was at Camden Yards doing play by play on the radio with John Miller. Bobby Bonilla hit a dog. And we all heard the President, in his obvious excitement, holler, go, baby. I remember commenting at the time, I bet that's not the first time he said that. Remember the Astroturf in the pickup? And my point is there is an innocent event made sinister by some creep in the media. Although in some cases the Clintons have not exactly helped themselves. Imagine if back in 1978, Mrs. Clinton had not said to Mr. Clinton, Honey, Jim and Susan are here and they've got some riverfront land for these great vacation homes and maybe we can make some serious money. And he said, God, I love this Reaganomics
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Glenn Beck
or Luke.
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Announcer
Later she said, bill, I talked to Webb and he said, Put down 600 hours. And he said, wow, that's a lot. She said, yes, I think 60 makes more sense. And recently somebody said, I don't know. I left him on the table in the book room. Which reminds me, in light of the controversy that surrounded the publication of Mrs. Clinton's book, perhaps Anonymous should have written it takes long a very village. And then there's Senator Dato's book. That takes a village idiot.
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Glenn Beck
It got very quiet in that room. But Don Imus was, you know, he said the next day, what did you think you were gonna get? You invited. Don Imus? Yeah, I miss this legend. All right, let me go to Billy Hollowell. We'll see what happens. We'll see what we're talking about, if anything, on Monday after the correspondence dinner. Let me go to Billy Hollowell. He is the co host of Investigating the Supernatural Miracles. Co host of Quick Start CBN has this. It's. It's an amazing special on the supernatural and UFOs and everything else. And he gets into the spiritual side. CBN.com supernatural Billy, you were on with us last week and we were talking about the idea of Ephesians and putting on the full armor of God. And it starts with, you are not fighting flesh and bone. Can you give that quote?
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Show Producer/Co-host
Yeah. So it says, put on the whole armor of God. This is verse 11, Ephesians 6. That you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. That's verses 11 and 12 there.
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Glenn Beck
So you said that. And I. And I've heard principalities forever. I don't know what principalities really are. Can you take that apart? When. When it's. Because this is so important, because I think this is what we're dealing with now. We are dealing with darkness, real darkness. And our enemies are not our neighbors. But we have deemed Them, our enemies, our real enemies are these principalities. Can you explain that?
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Show Producer/Co-host
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, look, when we look out at what is happening in the culture, right, we look at politics, we look at our society, and we wonder what in the world is happening. When you read these verses, it's not just talking about demons and evil attacking people. It's talking about, you know, when you talk about principalities, you're actually talking about geographical areas. And so how do we know that? You know, there's some mystery here. But you can go back to the book of Daniel. If you go to Daniel 10, this is really interesting. You dive into this. This prince of Persia that you see in Daniel 10, and now this is apocalyptic, so you got to be careful with reading too much into it. But what you see is Daniel has this dream, and he's praying to God. He's very disturbed by this dream. And it takes 21 days for this angel to get to him to answer this prayer. The angel tells him that the Prince of Persia was actively resisting the angel delivering the message. And so there's a lot going on there, but it's. It's some evidence in Scripture that we actually have some demonic forces, maybe some fallen angels that are actually in charge of geographic areas. And so when you go back into Ephesians again, it's talking about principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this age, that seems to be talking also about forces that are controlling narratives, right? You think about the media, Hollywood universities, all these places that we've talked about, we often wonder, why is it so secular? Why is it the way that it is? Well, some of this, you can see, see, in Ephesians 6 is pretty much explained in some of these verses. So I don't want to oversimplify, but that gives us a little bit of an overview there.
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Glenn Beck
And so the. That's the warning. And the solution is you go to
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Show Producer/Co-host
verse 13, and this is really interesting. Take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand. So it's not saying, oh, you might encounter evil. It's telling you you are going to encounter evidence, evil. And what does Scripture tell us? Resist the devil and he will flee. Now, how do you. How do you do that? And it's really interesting because as. As Ephesians 6 goes on, it's essentially talking about this shield of faith, right? Righteousness, pray scripture, reading the Bible, knowing the Bible, that is the number one thing. The Bible is the truth when you know it. And you Understand it. That is your shield of faith in the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit. These are all, all basically telling you, you know, when we boil it down, if you want to survive this chaos and actually understand what's going on around us, you've got to live like a Christian. You've got to look at every. Everything through an Ephesians 6 lens, not through a secular lens, not through, you know, a relativistic lens. Whatever you want to believe, whatever you want to feel and do you have to take everything and compare it to what Scripture tells us is true. And so it's interesting because all of these systems, right, they're all being dominated if God is not at the center of them. They're being dominated by these principalities and these powers and these rulers. And so, you know, I got to tell you, Glenn, I have read this a million times. And it wasn't until the last couple of years and working on these documentaries that I paused and really thought, well, what does this actually mean and how do we navigate it?
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Glenn Beck
Me too. It's amazing. I remember saying in early 2000, you know, imagine what it's like to live in those kinds of days and what could that be like? And it's becoming so clear. I've never understood how the German people went crazy like they did. We're seeing it happen here. We're seeing it. And it's the same ancient evil that is is taking rational people and in a way using rational thought, they're using pieces of truth and then perverting the rest of it. And you get so lost. And, you know, if people don't recognize that this is not normal, what we're going through right now is not normal. It's so easy to get lost.
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Show Producer/Co-host
So easy. And you know, one thing that's interesting, going back to that Daniel 10, this prince of Persia, and again, you know, there's also a prince of Greece that's mentioned there. And when you look historically, you know, Persia was obviously an issue for, for the Israeli people at that point, the Hebrew people, but Greece was soon going to become one. And that, that prince of Greece is mentioned in there, which is super interesting historically when you look at it. But this prince of Persia that was going on back then, this force that was in control and holding back those prayers, you wonder if that prince of Persia is still in effect today in Iran. Right, Because Iran is modern day Persia. And so again, we have to be careful making too many, you know, claims here. But what we can say is that we do know from Scripture that there seem to be principalities in control of geographic areas and also powers in control of some of the institutions that we're wringing our hands over.
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Glenn Beck
And I tell you, I think it's, you know, Tucker Carlson came out and talked about how he was, he feels he was attacked by a demon, had claw marks on his back and everything else. And everybody kind of ran by that. But when you see everything that is going on, I don't know if you should dismiss that at all. No, explain a lot.
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Show Producer/Co-host
And I'll tell you, it explains a lot. And I'll tell you too. I mean, we encountered these stories and investigating the supernatural and again cdn.com supernatural that definitively proved to me that this is very real, this is happening. And again, I think we only tend to talk about it happening to people like what Tucker was talking about. That is important and we focus a lot on that in the film. But then pulling back and saying, well, why are we transitioning children? How do we get to a place, Heidi, where we thought that was okay? And it's because we are being manipulated by these forces through the media in Hollywood and everywhere else.
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Glenn Beck
There was a, there was a bishop that I played something from this week that said, you know, the Bible is becoming very inconvenient. Well, yeah, it is. When you're trying to change the truth, it does become inconvenient. Billy, thank you so much. If you haven't checked out his special yet, you need to cbm.cbn.com supernatural cbn.com supernatural Watch this, Billy. God bless. We'll talk to you again.
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Show Producer/Co-host
Thank you.
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
So this weekend I want you to make sure you hear the next episode of the American Story podcast. It's episode three. It's Spiritual Firestorm, how the first Great Awakening rewired America. And it is about the Salem witch trials and what that did to America. We were just talking, Billy, about, you know, spirits and everything else. And it is important that we take these things seriously. But it's also important that you stand on guard because it can be used against you as well as it was in Salem. Listen to this Episode three Here's a clip from Spirit Spiritual Firestorm, episode three of the American Story podcast, available everywhere tomorrow. The Town Dr. William Griggs is quickly summoned. He examines them, his face growing more and more pale. He can't detect the obvious physical cause and so he provides the only diagnosis a Puritan village would accept. In New England in the late 1600s, the girls have been bewitched. Betty and Abigail point fingers first at Tituba, the Paris household slave who is from the Spanish West Indies. She's a witch, they say. She's tormenting us through dark forces. Days go by and the accusations begin to snowball. 12 year old Ann Putnam joins in. Her parents are tight with the Parisins. Then 17 year old Elizabeth Hubbard, an orphan who works as a maid in Dr. Griggs own home, the very man who diagnosed this as witchcraft. Suddenly, Salem village is aflame with panic. Disembodied spirits, the girls say. They're stabbing them, choking them, pricking them with pins. Soon the four girls accuse two more women of being witches. Sarah Good, a local beggar scraping by on handouts. And Sarah Osborne, a sickly widow shunned for her scandalous affair with an indentured servant. More girls pile on the accusations. The air in Salem is now thick with terror. The whispers are contagious. People are convinced the devil himself is loose in their midst, turning neighbors against neighbors in a frenzy of fear and suspicion. Now what started as a childish game spirals into a nightmare that claim lives and shatter a community. An echo throughout American history. But this isn't just a tale of hysteria. It reveals a deeper rot in the soul of colonial America, setting the stage for a spiritual turning point that will reshape the colonies. It is, you know, history of America. You can tell it. You can tell it several ways. The universities tell it. You know, just tell all the bad stuff. Many people on the right tell only the good stuff. I think we need the good, bad and the ugly. We need true American history because we're all of it. We have done some horrible, horrible things and if we don't understand those things, we will repeat them. You know, history doesn't repeat exactly, but it rhymes. And we are seeing this same kind of thing where, you know, instead of crying witch, we're crying racist, where we are doing the same things that we did in Salem today. And some of those things are real, some of those things are not. The Majority is not. And we're getting lost. And out of this is going to grow a spiritual awakening. This this series, the American Story, available in all 10 episodes, commercial free available right now at gl glenn beck.com torch join us. You get all 10 episodes. I'm just finished recording, I think episode 18 for the next 10 of the series. They'll be coming out this fall, but you can get the first three episodes wherever you get your podcast@glenn beck.com it looks at the backstories of our nation and, you know, the stuff that you forgot or probably never, ever learned. I saw a comment from one of the listeners that were listening on the podcast and they said, okay, I find I faintly remember US history from high school in 1991, and I know for a fact it wasn't this riveting. This is America's 250th birthday and I just don't see us. It's not like it was in the bicentennial. We're not remembering. We have to remember or we will be lost again. If you're a Torch Insider, you have access now to the first 10 episodes of they're in the series and it's commercial free. Everybody else, you can find it at episode three starting tomorrow. Wherever you get your podcast, if you like what you hear, the way to spread this is please take it like and review it. It's really important. That pushes it up into the algorithm. If you like and review it, please, when you listen to them like and review so we can get this exposed to as as many Americans as possible. Spiritual Firestorm, episode three of the American Story series this weekend, wherever you get your podcast, you don't want to miss this series. One of the best things I've ever done in audio.