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Glenn Beck (0:02)
The wrongs we must right, the fights we must win. The future we must secure together for our nation. This is what's in front of us. This determines what's next for all of us. We are Marines. We were made for this. What a broadcast today. I'm gonna give you the short version here. This is the edited version. You can find the full version@glennbeck.com torch but the President had an Easter message that didn't feel like, here comes Peter Cottontail. It was a little. A little frightening. Regarding the Hormuz Strait, what does it mean to you? I break it all down. Also, Victor Glover. He is an amazing astronaut. You know, he's the first black man in space. He doesn't even want that to be. He wants this to be about humanity. But he took it into a different place. His Easter message was incredible. And who wins with lies. Who wins with lies. All this and so much more. On today's podcast,
Victor Glover (1:17)
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Glenn Beck (1:19)
best of the Glenn Beck Program. All right, so I want to talk to you about Victor Glover, because I think this guy is absolutely amazing. He is the pilot of Artemis 2, and yesterday there was a message from him in space. And I want you to hear the whole message. Listen to this.
Victor Glover (1:39)
As we are so far from Earth and looking back at, you know, the beauty of creation, I think for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is I can really see Earth as one thing. And, you know, when I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us, who were created, it's. You have this amazing place, this spaceship. You guys are talking to us because. Because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos. Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we're doing is special, but we're the same distance from you. And I'm trying to tell you, just trust me. You are special in all of this emptiness. This is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe. You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together. I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about, you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we got to get through this together.
Glenn Beck (2:51)
Amazing. Amazing. Now, remember, this is the same man who went viral last week for saying that he was, yes, proud to be the first black man going around the moon. But I don't want you to think of that. I don't want to be known for that. He said, I don't want this to be about race. He said, quote, this needs to be about human history. It's not the story. It's the story of humanity. Not black history, not women's history, but human history. Oh, my gosh. How long have we been pining for somebody to say that? Right now, everything in our world is trying to shrink all of these stories, break it apart, divide it, turn it into smaller and smaller pieces until all we can see is us, me, myself and I. But then you get 240,000 miles away, and suddenly none of that holds. From that distance, you can't see red states and blue states. You barely see countries. There is no trending outrage, no cultural tribes. It is just a blue marble hanging in the black sky. And if you are honest and you really look at it, there is no political argument there. You see a miracle. Glover just said, when you look back at Earth from space, that is what you feel. And he would know. I wish I knew it like that. This is a man who has spent six months on the International Space Station. On the International Space Station. He took communion every single week, every Sunday in space. Think of that floating above the world, circling it every 90 minutes, watching sunrises and sunsets stack up like seconds, and choosing every week to stop and remember something eternal. What a story. He said something else there, too. He said, we've all heard the phrase, there are no atheists in a foxhole. He said, there aren't any atheists at the top of a rocket either. Because when you see creation like he's seeing it now, when you see the scale, the precision, the beauty, there's no guesswork in any of this. It's math. The whole thing is math. You don't feel bigger, you feel smaller, and somehow or another more connected at the same time. I think that's the part that we have lost. If you live in a big city, I remember living in New York, and the first time I went out to the mountains with my family and we sat around a campfire. We did what everybody does, what cavemen used to do, I'm sure, sit around and say, what is up there? I mean, look how. Look at the vastness of this. We are super small in the grand scheme of things, and it puts the world into perspective. You know, when we stop looking up, we Start looking down in. And when everything turns inward, our problems, our identity, our grievances, our egos, everything, it becomes the entire universe to us, our own little gravity well. And you get stuck there and you just begin orbiting yourself and your problems. But space, if we allow it, has a way of breaking that. It forces perspective. Imagine being in that capsule and looking and seeing the side of the moon that no man has ever seen completely, not even in pictures. We have never seen it. They are seeing something no human eye has ever gazed on, and most of the world is yawning. But if we can take that one moment and really imagine it for ourselves, it reminds you you are part of something huge, and you're part of something. You're not the center of everything. You're part of something. And perhaps if we let it. That's why this mission matters right now. Not because of the rockets or technology or what SpaceX is going to do or anything else. It's just the simple reminder. Look up again. Look up. Look up. Not just at the stars, but look up. Who made them? The book of Romans says, for since the creation of the world, God's invisible attributes have been clearly seen being understood by what has been made. In other words, you don't need a rocket to find him. You don't need to go to space. It's all right here, but we get so lost. But it's all right here in the order, in the design, in the mathematics, in the moments we usually rush past. I made a promise to myself just recently. I am not going to be the first one that stops hugging. Do you know, in Disney, if you're a princess or a character, you're not allowed to stop hugging before the child does. If that child hangs on to you for 20 minutes and is hugging you, you hug them for 20 minutes. You are not allowed to break the hug first. And I thought that spoke volumes. They know, Psycho. This is all that's all business. They know psychologically what that means to the kid. And I decided when I heard that I am not going to be the first to break a hug. And my son is a good hugger. And he came home for Easter and I hugged him and I thought we were going to be there all day, but we didn't rush past that moment. And it was nice, it was special. Victor Glover didn't find God for the first time in orbit. He found him the same place that you and I can, at home with his family in the ordinary. Space didn't give him faith. Space gives him perspective. Is it perhaps What Easter is really all about, not escaping the world, but seeing it clearly. So right now, as he's looking down on us, maybe we should do something we haven't done in a while. Look up. Look up with humility and gratitude and the understanding that we are all part of a story that is much, much, much bigger than ourselves. Not black history, not white history, not men history, female history, not political history. Human history. And it is still being written today. I don't know about you, but with all the problems in the world, we are so blessed to live at this time. We are seeing history written in so many different ways, good and bad. We are seeing human history written in gigantic, gigantic, bold capital letters, letters that you could. Eventually, we will see it from space. The story of humankind, and we're writing it. And part of me says, when I look at the bad stuff, it's going to be interesting to see what that story says. Another part says, I know humans, I know Americans especially. We eventually get it right. It's going to be exciting to see what and how we write in this next chapter. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Somewhere over the Isfahan province over the weekend, an American F15E fighter. One of these jets doesn't just fall out of the sky. It's hunted down. And gravity does all of the work. Two men punched out into the night. Two parachutes open over enemy territory. One was found and rescued right away. The other disappeared. He was wounded. He was alone, and he was hunted. His body hit the earth hard enough to remind him that he's still alive, but not much more. Sprained an ankle, maybe worse. No time to check. He has got to get on the move. In war, the clock doesn't start when you land. It starts when someone sees you land. And somewhere in war, someone always sees. So he's got to move. He moves up, way up into the mountains. 7,000ft of rock and silence. And nowhere to hide. So he has to hide in plain sight. He can't trust the radio. He can't trust that anybody is coming for him and find him. All he can do is trust the math. How long can I stay ahead of the men coming for me before the good guys come? Because I know the good guys are coming, but so are the bad guys. And they're not just soldiers, they're bounty hunters. These are not people who are in uniform. These are people that just want the money. A captured American is a big prize. A very, very big prize. So he goes up, up the mountain, and he finds a break in the rock, barely wide enough for him to breathe. And he is jammed for 36 hours. He stops being a man and he becomes part of that rock, part of that terrain. No movement, no sound, no second chances. Because if they find him, it will not be good. There's only a video. A thousand miles away. Something flickers. It's a signal. Weak, intermittent, but real. It's a beacon. You don't run to the signal. If you're in his situation, I understand. At least not immediately. Because in a war like this, the signal might not be friendly. It might be waiting for you. So the United States did something that we always do in war. Everybody always does. It lies. The Central Intelligence Agency began pushing out noise into the system. Whispers signals, digital breadcrumbs telling everybody listening that we've discovered the airman and he's already been recovered. The story is over. Nothing left to hunt. A ghost. Rescue, if you will. Fiction. It was designed to keep this guy hidden in the rock until we could find him. At the same time, a battlefield is closing in around him. Communications are jammed, roads are disrupted. Some sources say that it was the common Iranian that were disrupting the roads, trying to keep people off of that mountain. One way or another. Whoever was doing what, eyes were diverted and everybody was looking in a wrong direction. This wasn't just about a rescue. This was about control and shaping a reality so one guy could slip through it. Then night falls, and with it, the part of the story that never makes the headline. Nearly 100 special operations forces, trained, disciplined, very well aware of the odds, go in. They go in quietly, deliberate, across a sovereign border that does not welcome them. And they begin to climb the same mountain, step by step. They close in the distance with a man they can't see, but a man they've already decided they are not going to leave behind. In the middle of the night. They find him alive. This is where we always think the story ends, you know, Once you find the man, the hard part is over. But it's not. Never is. We had planes on the ground. We had two MC130 aircraft. That's their lifeline. They fail mechanical on the ground inside Iran. Does any of this bring back memories of Jimmy Carter? Understand the weight of all of that? A hundred of America's best suddenly not a rescue team, but now a target waiting for rescue themselves. And daylight is coming. Enemy forces are now adjusting. There is no easy exit. There is no margin of error. This is the moment that history turns on. Have to make a decision. Somebody has to make a decision. Somebody has to make that decision who understands what failure looks like. And that decision is made, and they choose risk anyway. Send in more aircraft again. More aircraft go in. In contested airspace in the middle of the night. 100 of our soldiers, our special operators, they're on the ground rescuing one guy. Send in more aircraft and then destroy the aircraft. We can't leave a man behind, but we also can leave aircraft. And for a few men, as those aircraft are coming in, 101. Wait. No movement, no guarantees, just the quiet agreement that all of them have already made. If this goes bad, We go bad together. One official said if there was a holy crap moment, that was it. He's right. That was the edge. That was the razor. And then again was precision. The American military. Smaller aircraft, lower, faster, come in pieces, and they leave in waves. And before they go, they erase all the footprints. They destroy the aircraft. The helicopters that were there on the desert, burned. Nothing left that can be studied, used, or turned. Because in this war, what you leave behind will fight you tomorrow. We know that because of Afghanistan. And above all of it, while this is going on, no victory parades, no immediate leaks, no nothing. No chest pounding, so quiet it feels like nothing happened until it's all over and our one man is out alive. And then, and only then, after the risk is passed, does the President say what can be said. This was one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US History, and it was. But if that's all you take from this, you've missed it, because this wasn't clean. It never is. Aircraft were hit. Helicopters took fire. Another jet went down. 13Americans already gone, hundreds wounded. And in Iran, they're still there. They're still capable. They're still calculating. They're still watching. So what do we call this? A victory. Yes. A warning. Also yes. This is modern war. Not lines on a map, but a single human being, bleeding, hiding, waiting, while a nation bends itself to bring him home. And others walking into the dark, fully aware they may not walk back out. This is the line. This is the line between chaos and order, between abandoning somebody and refusing to. If you get anything from this story, you should get that. Well, you change presidents, you change whoever is running the Pentagon, and it's easy to go back to what took us centuries to become an honorable military that never, ever leaves one man behind. That's the line. And for one night, on a mountain, on the side of a mountain in Iran, in between two rocks, we held that line. President Trump tweeted something this weekend on Easter, mind you, and I'm going to quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran, there will be nothing like it. Exclamation, exclamation, exclamation. Oping open. And he says the whole thing. The effin straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll live in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump. Now, there are several ways to look. There are several ways to look at this, okay? Oh, dear God. The President's gone insane. Oh, my. A man who has never had a drop of alcohol in his life. Somehow or another on Easter decided to drink. Or he's doing something else. Now, I'm not claiming to know what exactly that tweet is all about, but I'd like to. I'd like to tender a guess here. This sounds like a man who is trying to compress time, okay? A deadline. He named targets power plants, bridges, infrastructure. Dems, of course, are screaming for the 25th Amendment because they think he lost his mind. And that is an important subcategory of this story. I'll get to it here in a second, but let's assume that this is intentional. He didn't lose his mind, okay? Because Donald Trump is not careless, whatever you think, when it comes to war, he takes it very seriously. To the leadership in Tehran, especially the irgc, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the tone is not the headline. The clock and the specific bombing targets are. That's the headline. Because they have to ask themselves a simple question right now. Is this guy serious? Is this the last warning or is this the first move? We don't know. And I have always said that I've wanted our enemies to always look at our president and go, would he do that? And them not know? Okay? It's kind of this. You remember this from the movie Dirty Harry? It's like this. I know what you're thinking.