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you can quit, and that's perfectly healthy. I really disagreed with this and I quit because I cannot be a part of that. And that has happened in the past. They didn't quit and they weren't fired. They weren't stifled. Instead, they did what all good teams do. You discuss it, you hash it out. You might even have a brawl over it. But then once the decision is made, you work as a team to do and execute what the decision maker has said we're doing. I haven't seen that in a long time. I mean, without threats. I haven't seen that in a long time. That's the way an American team should work. And Maggie, I'm glad you exposed this. I'm glad that you show that the president doesn't fire people when they disagree with him, that he can have adult conversations. That's the way it should be. This is the most important thing any of us can talk about. This is why I've been, since the day it happened, I have come on the air with you every day. And I said, I don't know how this is going to work out. Here's what I feel, here's what I'm thinking, here's what I suspect is happening. Here's the way I'm looking at this. But I don't know. It could turn out horribly and we should never. Silent. You are not a traitor for being against the war. You're not. You are not a traitor for saying, I disagree with this. I think this is dangerous. That doesn't make you a traitor. That makes you a patriot. The same can be said and should be said by you to people who say, I've done my thinking on this and I think this is good. I think this is the right thing to do. You could disagree with that. But they are a patriot as well. Where you fail to be a patriot is when you try to silence the other side and you notice that's what the President didn't do here. And if we were living in a place where there was a king or he was a dictator, Maggie Haberman would be in jail at best. No dictator, no king would allow that to be printed. It's printed, it's out. And he's not going after Maggie Haberman and he's not going after his cabinet. You know who he is going after? Somebody who in his own either Defense Department or Cabinet. We don't know who it was. We don't know who it was, but somebody leaked and said, yeah, there's the second pilot that is out that almost got one of our people killed because of that leak. That leak he's upset about. And he's not upset at the press. He's saying due to national security. I want to ask the people that work at that press organization to tell me who leaked it because that is a violation of national security. That could have gotten that person killed and could have gotten all of our troops killed. We, we had a hundred special forces down on the ground looking in this one area. They could have gotten everybody killed. You don't do that in war. But of course, he's a dictator because of that. But they don't notice he's not a dictator when it comes to Maggie Haberman. Isn't that odd? I think that's the theme of today's show, the hypocrisy. I can't take it. Even from our own side, I just can't take it. We should be able to have conversations that are controversial and be able to still look at each other, have reasonable conversations and still look at each other and say, I really so strongly disagree with you, but thank you for that point of view. Thank you. And then when the decision is made that that's the other thing that's so frustrating about this whole thing to me is the decision's been made and we can advise. We can advise, but we've gone from, hey, I don't think this is right. I should let my voice be heard to my senators to, you know, my president. We've gone to letting the whole world know that we think our president is a warmonger. We think our hope our president will vaporize everybody, that we think he's a war criminal. You know, WLW in Cincinnati, a legendary radio station, WLW in Cincinnati was the first. I think it was a million watt transmitter. I'm trying to remember, is that a million water, 100,000 watt. It was something that's never been made ever again. I think it was a million watts. And it would have been heard not Only coast to coast, 700, WLW would have been heard around the world. Okay? Because at night, because of the way AM radio works, it would hit the ionosphere and it would skip and you would be able to hear it in Europe. So they spent all this money and RCA develops all this technology and they put this million watt transmitter in. It was never used. Was never used. Why? Because Cincinnati was known as Heartland. Cincinnati was not reflecting the views of New York or Washington. It was the views of the heartland. And FDR said, we cannot afford to have Germany or Italy or Spain hearing the views of the heartland. We can't have that because it will give them information about how our people are thinking that they shouldn't have. Let them at least work for it. But we are all on X thinking that it's just going to be us. It's just going to be us. It's just, I'm just, I'm just putting it out there. You are giving our enemies all kinds of ammunition. You are teaching them everything they need to know on how to hit you, how to hit our country. And nobody's thinking about that. Nobody's thinking about the power of them, the power of their one comment. And you know what? We're not going to get people to think about it. We're just not. I would like to challenge you to think about it. And not that you're, what you're posting, but who you're reading, who you're following. Start unfollowing some of these people. If they told you yesterday that Donald Trump was going to nuke everything, they have no credibility. You should just stop following them, stop listening to them. If they told you he was going to be a war criminal yesterday and now he's a chicken hawk, they have no credibility. Stop, stop putting those kinds of things into your mind because not only do those, those tweets actually affect, you know, the whole world, it affects you personally. It. Every time you put one of those messages into your head, it sticks there. I want you to look at everybody you're reading today and say, what is it they're hoping for? Because there are those who are hoping for the destruction of Donald Trump over the destruction of the evil regime in ir. They're hoping for the destruction of Trump. The way some people are presenting themselves, they, it's, again, it is patriotic to disagree with war. But the way you are being presented so much, so many people are presenting is. It is the cheering on of the destruction of America, the loss for America. We should all realize this war is happening. We are in it. We are in it. We don't control the end of it. We can protest, we can speak out, but we should do so responsibly. Because I don't want America to lose. What is it that the people you are reading are hoping for today? I am hoping for a peaceful conclusion, one that we can live with, one that defangs the claws and hopefully, I mean, in my wildest dreams, the people of Iran are set Free and can be themselves from these religious zealot monsters. But I don't know if that's going to happen. But I don't want them controlling the straits. I don't want them to be exporting terrorists. That's a win and I'm very clear on that. We can't do all this and then just go back to the way it was. That's not a win. That's not a win. That's what I'm hoping for. Why is it everyone is either hoping or telling you that we've already lost? Unfollow those people. Don't put that poison into your own head more in just a second. You can learn just about anything online these days. That includes how to sell your house. Because there are countless videos that make the whole process look pretty straightforward. 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Yeah, I guess maybe it was the same feeling. But if you're trying to say that, you know, in 68, the Apollo was set for 68 because they were trying to help the president out, or today, you're completely wrong. So I don't know even what your point is. You know, New York Times reports the discussions about the possibility of war began on February 11th. Operation Epic Fury began on February 28th. But the original date for that NASA selected November 2024. Biden delayed it September 2025. Then in December, he moved it to April 26th. So it was Biden who set this date. It was during his tenure that they set that. So what do you. What exactly are you implying is on. Crank the game, The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment is the Glenn Beck program. Glenn Beck is our. If you missed any of the show today, you got to go back and listen to hour one and hour two because. Because today we spent a lot of time talking about the war in Iraq and what is Go. Sorry. In Iran and what is. 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R u f greens.com rough greens.com promo code Beck I want to. I want to start with something. Kind of out of the blue, I guess. You know, it's. It's interesting to me that we are living history over again, it seems to me. And I've wondered for 20 years. I remember talking about 1968, 69, what was going on and the strife that was happening in the country and the riots in Chicago and Altamont and all of the things that they were so close to winning. And then NASA launched a rocket and we put a man on the moon. And it was that summer, I think, that really everything changed. And after that, something else happened. The Jesus movement happened. I mean, Time magazine called it the Jesus Revolution. It was like 1970, 71. And we swung from this really radical destroy everything to this beautiful Jesus movement. And I'm just seeing all of the pieces repeat themselves or at least rhyme. A lot of it is rhyming. And this last week, we've heard a lot of talk about God. And we've heard a lot of talk about God in space. So the NASA astronaut Victor Glover, as they were getting ready to go to cut communication and go to the dark side of the moon, where they are alone in space with just their thoughts 250,000 miles out in space, farther than anybody's ever been, he talks about God. And so rational reasoner, I don't know, that is, he replies, no respect for Victor. Keep it to yourself. Just enjoy the 100% scientifically managed ride around the moon. You're not praying the rocket into space. Victor, the foxhole stuff is factually incorrect. And it does. As if it discounts bravery. If anything, it lowers your respect even further. Okay, so he goes on and he's all hostile about it. And I don't know why people have to be so hostile. I mean, you don't believe in God. You don't believe in God, that's fine. Why do. Why do you have to be right? Why do you have to be right? And, you know, honestly, it gives people. I mean, I'm just looking at it as somebody who, if I were atheist, this is the way I would look at it. It lets people feel good. It helps them be better people. What is the problem? You know, I've said to people who have problem with my faith, okay, it has made me a better man. How can you possibly be against that? Even if it's a lie, which it's not, even if it was a total lie, it has made me a much better man. That's a good thing, isn't it? Shouldn't we be cheering that on? And if your atheism makes you a better person, great. I cheer you on. Good for you. But the response to this, the really great response came from George Rush. He's a guy who works, and I'm. I can't say where he works because I don't know what his deal is because we're trying to get him on tomorrow. I think maybe he'll be on tomorrow with us. And I know where he works. He builds rockets. Okay. And he said, when I was building the spacecraft, one of our engineers would stand behind us while we were laying wire harnesses and read from the Bible. We would sometimes pray before a large operation. He brought his Bible into the clean room and privately prayed over a vehicle before we sent it into test. I'm pretty sure he prayed over the Orion that is being flown on Artemis 2 as well. The Orion team was just as religious, if not more religious than we were. We are the science, and we're glad Astronaut Glover is as faithful as us. They didn't pray the rocket into space. They used science. But they prayed that they would do things right, that they would be at the top of their game, that. That. That there would be a bigger purpose for all of this. How is that a problem? We don't believe in magic. You know, if you listen to podcasts, if you're online at all watching X, you might have heard people talking about. About the book of Esther recently and, and how this is, you know, this is just a story of Persian genocide, and it shouldn't even be in the Bible because God's not even mentioned in the Bible, and they don't even know why. I'm not going to get involved in any of the podcast wars. I think it's ridiculous that, you know, stop telling people who you're supposed to hate today, Okay? I don't care. I don't care. But I do care about facts, and I do care about this story, and I do care about this being discussed, and it's good that it's being discussed. But can I add some context to this conversation? Because it's really important to say that the book of Esther is about Persian genocide is ridiculous. It means you really don't know the story. It's the story of God using the bravery of everyday people to save them from genocide. Esther was a Jewish woman. She was raised by her uncle Mordecai in the Persian Empire. She was plucked from obscurity and given to the king of Persia in a marriage because she was so beautiful. But it wasn't her beauty that saved her in the end. It was her courage. An advisor to the king, her husband named Haman, plotted to kill and kill, plotted a genocide to kill every Jew. And Esther was asked to risk her life to go to the king. But you don't go to the king unless you're summoned. If you're summoned, then you can go, and then you can do whatever you want. You can talk to him and plead, you know, for the king to intervene. But if she's not summoned, he could execute her. And that she went in there knowing that she was probably going to be executed. Her uncle came to her and said one of the most famous lines in the Bible to convince her. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance from the Jews will arise from another place. And who knows? But you have come to your royal position for such a time as this. You were put here for the time in which you find yourself. She goes to the king. He doesn't execute her. She says, look, Haman is trying to kill the king. Eventually kills him. But there's a catch. The king had signed a decree. And in that system, once you had a decree and it was issued, you could not reverse it or call it off. The law stood. So the killing of the Jews planned by Haman was still scheduled. And so the king wanted to stop it, but he couldn't. So he said, I'm going to put a second decree out, and that will give Jews the legal right to defend themselves if A Persian comes to kill them, and that is what happened. It was violent, it was ugly, and the death toll was large enough to get anybody to stop and think twice. But it was not a campaign to wipe out Persians. It was a response to a state backed plan to wipe out the Jews. You can call it a lot of things, you can call it civil conflict, bloodshed, self defense. But calling it genocide flips the entire story on the head and shows that you don't know what you're talking about. And it treats the response as if it were the original intent and it wasn't. The intent was already written down. It was stamped, it was sent out before Esther ever stepped forward. Okay, that's not the important part for me of Esther. That's not why I'm telling you. I just want to correct the story. But I want to talk to you about why I think the story was written down in the first place. Because this is the stranger part. This podcaster said, you know, God's not even mentioned in this. Why would you put it in the Bible if God's not even mentioned? He's nowhere in the book. Not once is he mentioned. Yeah, and if you knew history, you would know that the author of this book did that most likely on purpose. Everywhere in the Bible, you know, it's always like God going, glenn, you need to build an ark. And I'm like, I don't know how to do that. Build an ark. And so you build an ark. But how many times does that happen to you? Because it doesn't happen to me like that. I don't know anybody where it happens like that. Esther is to show you how God works in everyday life. You look back on what you did, you're like, I don't know, should I do that? I mean, I am in this position. Should I say something, should I not? And then you have the courage to do it and then that's one piece and that triggers something else and then something else and it's all a string of coincidence. That's how God works. God doesn't say, hey, do this. Most of us don't get a burning bush moment like that. We get an idea, we a get feeling we should do the right thing and then we have to run with it. If the text had plainly just said, God did this, God moved here. God told them to do this. You'd read it and move on. And you'd be like, God never told me to do anything. And you'd file it under miracle and close the book. But Esther is like, us when you read her story, it just seems like everything falls into place. A queen at the right place, a well timed advice from an uncle, a sequence of decisions that you know taken one at a time. Each of them are ordinary, but when you step back from it, do this with your life, step back from your life. It's pretty miraculous that you are where you are. And if you don't recognize that, you need to take a look at your life again. Because a lot of things have come together to create, put you into the good position that you're in. Even if you think you're in a horrible position, you're really not. This writer wrote it for you, the common person. This writer forces you into a corner. Either this is just a chain of coincidence that just happens to save an entire people at the exact moment they're marked for death, or God works in a different way without announcing himself. This is so important because this is where we are. I am convinced that God is working through all of us, all of us. And we have to wrestle with the invisible, the unnamed hand guiding everything in our own lives. You don't need to read the word God in Esther's story to see God everywhere. In it, God shows up in the humanness of the doubt, of the humanness of the fear. And then God is the clear force that drives Esther to make the impossible choice to risk her life to save people when she could have stayed quiet and lived a life of luxury while everyone else was massacred. God's not written in the words. It's written in their actions, in human actions, in your actions. We need Esther in the Bible to remind us to do the right thing even when we're not sure God is even looking. And if you do that throughout your life, I pray, promise you, you will look back on your life and you will see how everything just lined up perfectly and you will see God everywhere. That, my friend, is why God is not mentioned in Esther. 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