The Glenn Beck Program - May 11, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Bill O’Reilly ｜ 5⧸11⧸21


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36 minutes

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423

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today we get started with Glenn yelling about something that I think will
00:00:04.560 really reach you in your heart and your soul. You're going to feel this one along with Glenn
00:00:11.500 as well. We also have Bill O'Reilly on the program. His new book is out today. It's called
00:00:15.820 Killing the Mob. It's one, of course, you do not want to miss. He goes through all of that
00:00:19.900 and much, much more today. Check out the podcast if you could subscribe to this podcast. We'd
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00:00:51.460 Here's the podcast.
00:00:55.560 So we have the oil pipeline, the gas pipeline that has been shut down. It is the gas pipeline
00:01:17.520 that serves major U.S. airports, including Atlantis-Hartsfield-Jackson, which is the busiest
00:01:24.960 passenger by traffic anywhere. This provides Jet-A fuel, it provides gas, and it also provides
00:01:39.520 diesel. This was hacked last Friday. It was hacked by a group, Darkside. Darkside is in Russia.
00:01:52.160 We know that. We don't have ties directly to the Kremlin. However, you don't do things like
00:02:00.320 this without Putin's understanding or permission. You would never, never attack. Do you think
00:02:08.160 they're going to, you think they're going to attack China? You think they're going to go
00:02:12.760 after an ally? Of course not. That's why Darkside never attacks former Soviet states.
00:02:22.960 So we know that it was at least a Russian gang. We don't have ties to Putin himself,
00:02:34.560 but we know the attack came from Russia. We know who these people are.
00:02:39.520 Here is what the White House said yesterday about the pipeline ransom. Listen to this.
00:02:47.680 We know that victims of cyber attacks often face a very difficult situation, and they have to just
00:02:54.400 balance often the cost-benefit when they have no choice with regard to paying a ransom. Colonial is
00:02:59.600 a private company, and we'll defer information regarding their decision on paying a ransom to them.
00:03:05.200 Would the administration offer any advice on whether or not to pay a ransom?
00:03:10.800 So typically that is a private sector decision, and the administration has not offered further advice
00:03:15.680 at this time. Given the rise in ransomware, that is one area we're definitely looking at now to say
00:03:21.120 what should be the government's approach to ransomware actors and to ransoms overall.
00:03:28.960 Stu, can I ask you a question? Yes.
00:03:31.200 In the original episodes of 24, what was the one thing Kiefer Sutherland always said?
00:03:45.600 Do not negotiate with terrorists.
00:03:51.440 The United States doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
00:03:54.880 We all know that. We all know that. This is critical infrastructure. Now, let me give you
00:04:05.040 a reason why I think that all of this is being let play out. I think the Biden administration is
00:04:14.160 moving at a geriatric pace for a reason. It makes it so much easier to nationalize everything.
00:04:22.000 It makes it so much easier when everybody is screaming about gas. They didn't create the
00:04:30.320 problem, but they will exploit the problem. What did what was his response yesterday?
00:04:35.680 His response yesterday is, well, this is, you know, covered in the stimulus package. This is why I need
00:04:40.880 to have that, uh, you know, 2.2 trillion dollar infrastructure. Really? Is that it?
00:04:47.680 I'm telling you, I got up this morning and I was looking at the news, what's happening in Israel,
00:04:55.120 what's happening all around the world, what is happening in our own country with our own economy.
00:05:00.480 And I thought you couldn't plan this any better. You really couldn't. And I don't mean that,
00:05:06.160 you know, gee, it's, it just couldn't be planned any better. I mean, they did a really good job.
00:05:12.000 They did a really good job. You cannot convince me that this is all just inept people. They're not that
00:05:21.360 many inept people. And yes, I've been to target.
00:05:25.280 I, I, I, this is going to affect the airports. It's going to affect the gas stations.
00:05:44.880 It's going to affect prices. Well, gee, no big deal. The gas stations all along the East Coast are now
00:05:54.240 beginning to run out of fuel. This is America's biggest petroleum pipeline and they can't get it
00:06:02.960 back online because of Russian hackers. If the United States of America cannot, we have such, uh,
00:06:13.200 weak defenses that they cannot protect our private businesses from terrorists. And that's exactly what
00:06:22.160 they are terrorists from Russia. Then what the hell good is the federal government? What is the reason
00:06:30.800 we have government? We have government to protect our rights. We have a government to protect our property,
00:06:40.400 to protect our, our way of life. It's like the police. We have the police because we can't police
00:06:49.360 everything ourselves. We have the government because there were certain things we can't do by
00:06:55.840 ourselves. One of them is stopping cyber terrorism from Russia. Oh, this is a private sector. Is it?
00:07:05.920 That's weird because you would think that the pharmaceutical companies would be a private
00:07:10.240 sector thing too, but you had no problem marching in there and saying, I want to take the patents.
00:07:15.600 North Carolina has declared a state of emergency.
00:07:29.280 Today's emergency declaration will help North Carolina prepare for any potential
00:07:33.600 motor vehicle fuel supply interruptions across the state and ensure motorists
00:07:37.520 are able to have access to fuel. This is according to the governor.
00:07:44.320 This is the fourth day yesterday, day five today of the largest oil pipeline or gasoline pipeline,
00:07:52.800 fuel pipeline in the East Coast. I don't know if the president knows that, but that's where
00:07:59.280 most people in America live. Meanwhile, they keep denying inflation. Last week, I told you that
00:08:10.320 Costco and Kroger, among other brands began the process of serving size optimization.
00:08:17.200 That's basically what they're saying is we're going to charge you the same price, but get you,
00:08:20.560 give you less. Paper towel rolls instead of being 235 sheets is 212 sheets. Your package of mac and
00:08:29.200 cheese still provides four servings, but now instead of 12 ounces per serving, it's 10.1 ounces.
00:08:36.080 Kirkland, the brand of whole salted cashews used to be 22 ounces, still in the same plastic container,
00:08:45.760 now 20 ounces of nuts. The rest is air. This is the first thing that happens in inflation. Serving sizes go
00:08:54.560 down. It's been going on for generations. The only other thing you can do is, you know, reduce the
00:09:04.000 product or raise your prices. Well, nobody wants to raise their prices, but actually because instead of
00:09:12.640 paying 10% more for those cashews, you're just getting 10% less, but you're paying the same price.
00:09:19.280 So it's, it's the same thing. It's just a trick. Is anybody else sick of tricks? Is anybody else just
00:09:26.240 searching for somebody to be honest? God, I'm so sick and tired of having to try to figure out what
00:09:33.920 everything means because everybody's trying to bamboozle you or trick you. Did you see what was in,
00:09:40.800 I'm going to talk about this next hour. Did you see the, the left Democrats seem to believe
00:09:47.440 Americans are so gullible, gullible and stupefied that friendly reporters can openly quote the left
00:09:53.520 gloating about how they lie, steal and cheat to get power. Time magazine article crowing about domestic
00:10:01.440 domestic Democrats, uh, Democrats successful conspiracy to rig the 2020 election through
00:10:07.520 aggressive lawsuits, complaints to corporate media, the ability to deploy rioters. Remember that
00:10:14.400 time magazine quoted them, talked about a conspiracy, a whole group of people that had conspired together,
00:10:24.240 the corporations and everybody else. Now, New York magazine yesterday, it's out with an article
00:10:33.360 quoting delicate Democrats celebrating their successes at lying to Americans about the true
00:10:39.760 goals of the president, their conspiracy elected. The author claims a person close to the white house told
00:10:48.240 her at his hundred day mark, Biden is the most liberal president we've ever had. And the public
00:10:53.920 thinks he's a moderate. That's a winning strategy to me. They're willing to accept that you're going to
00:10:59.680 write this piece so long as they know that swing voters in Colorado aren't going to read it. That's a quote.
00:11:06.400 I am so sick and tired. You want to change the country, then tell us what you want to change it to.
00:11:19.840 Stop telling me that you're not a Marxist only later to reveal that you are a Marxist and Marxism is great.
00:11:26.880 You smeared me. You smeared me. You did everything you could to destroy me and my family for years.
00:11:35.600 For what? So you Marxists could win?
00:11:43.280 Now, the powers that be are lying to you about inflation. Why is inflation so bad?
00:11:51.280 Because inflation screws you. It screws the guy down at the bottom. It screws the business owner that is
00:12:00.240 just trying to make it. It doesn't screw the banks. It doesn't screw big business. They're getting bailouts
00:12:07.520 all the time. In the end, it really screws the little guy. Anybody who has played the game
00:12:18.480 the way it's supposed to be? You pay your taxes. You save your money. You went to school. You worked
00:12:27.680 hard at your job. All of these things that are now in jeopardy because you might not believe in critical
00:12:35.440 theory. I'm sorry. I don't think all white people are racist. I also don't think black people can't be
00:12:44.720 racist. Sue me. Shut me down. Go ahead.
00:12:57.200 You play by the rules. You put your money in the bank. Your money, because they are printing money,
00:13:03.440 money is worth less. Yes, it says a dollar. I've got a hundred dollars in the bank. But if inflation
00:13:12.720 is 10%, you actually only have 90 cents in the bank.
00:13:16.880 The way they are running, the way they are running, and this is not my estimate, the way they are
00:13:29.360 running, experts believe that your $100 will be worth $52 in just a couple of years.
00:13:38.640 who wins?
00:13:44.880 I'll tell you what it looks like. You want to know what it looks like? Look at Columbia right now.
00:13:50.320 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:07.280 The pipeline is still down. The White House has said that we should, uh, that's a private sector
00:14:13.600 thing. So whether they pay the ransom or not is really up to them. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you for that help.
00:14:21.280 Is that an issue to you? I mean, you don't think the government should have a little more guidance on?
00:14:26.320 It is weird that like this is one of the things that happens often, not only by private companies,
00:14:32.080 but also by, you know, city governments and state governments that
00:14:35.440 get hacked and they just literally just pay criminals to get their information back.
00:14:39.920 What do we, what do we practice? What are we paying the federal government? Why are we paying taxes if
00:14:44.640 they won't protect us from outside forces? And that their job seems like it to me outside forces.
00:14:51.040 Yeah, it does to me. And we don't seem to take any of these things seriously after they happen. You
00:14:54.880 know, you have hacks from sometimes state actors that we don't do anything about. We have, I mean,
00:15:00.400 we have a very serious possibility that a global pandemic was caused by a communist government, uh,
00:15:07.360 and cover it by the way of still, still not unsealed the research files from, uh,
00:15:12.640 right. The Wuhan Institute of Virology so that people around the world can check them out and
00:15:17.440 see if maybe this was the cause still haven't done it or a year later still haven't done it. No one
00:15:21.840 seems to care. No one seems to do much of anything about it. And, uh, it's going to continue to happen
00:15:26.800 unless we hold these people responsible. We're busy working on equity right now. That should,
00:15:31.360 we should be laser focused on equity because that's what everybody's looking for.
00:15:35.360 Yes. Not equality. That's for sure. I don't want equality. I don't want equality. I want equity,
00:15:41.360 which is something totally different and brand spanking new, uh, in case you haven't been following
00:15:46.560 this. Have you seen the Disney thing? Did you look into that at all, Glenn, uh, over the past couple
00:15:50.080 of days? I didn't look into it cause it'll make my eyes bleed. I know about it, the Disney training,
00:15:54.720 but I did kind of make my eyes bleed. I thought about you a little bit and the eye bleeding here. And I
00:15:59.760 thought about how much to torture you over this, because I know you, you love, and you hate Disney.
00:16:04.880 You have a, you have a love hate relationship there. I love Walt Disney. I love what he stood for. I
00:16:10.080 love what he built. I love how he built it. Uh, uh, I love the ideals, the original principles of
00:16:16.960 Disney. I despise them now, despise them. Well, this is going to help you probably down this road,
00:16:23.120 because they've started a brand new, uh, brand new, uh, program for their employees.
00:16:29.360 And it's called reimagine tomorrow because you're probably imagining tomorrow right now as white
00:16:35.920 person, as like, you are a racist and you don't like black people and you're hoping to go back to
00:16:39.920 those good old days of slavery. But what can Disney do to help me reimagine a place where white people
00:16:45.920 are not in charge and, and where white people don't, you know, uh, milk their advantage to keep
00:16:52.240 people in, in chains. You know, I'm glad you asked that. And I'd like to get your reaction to some of
00:16:56.880 these things, Glenn, to see how you feel about that. Sure, sure, sure. One module of the program,
00:17:01.280 of the program is called allyship for race consciousness. The company tells employees that
00:17:07.280 they must take ownership of educating themselves about structural anti-black racism, and they should
00:17:12.640 not rely on their black colleagues to educate them because it is emotionally taxing.
00:17:17.600 Oh, I can imagine how emotionally taxing it is. White people are not emotionally,
00:17:24.400 emotionally taxed at all right now. We are just living the sweet dream.
00:17:29.360 And the document goes on to basically say, instead of, like, so you're not, we're supposed to have a
00:17:34.820 conversation about race, right? That's what we're always told. But not with people of color. But
00:17:38.580 don't talk to people of color about their opinions on it because that is going to tax them emotionally.
00:17:43.140 Yes. Instead, you should go, as the document advises, you should go talk to, or go read
00:17:50.500 things from black journalists and writers who can inform you about this, which again, to my eye,
00:17:58.580 and I know as a man with white privilege, I don't have any role in this conversation, but
00:18:02.820 sure. But to my eye, picking your journalists based on their skin color is racism. Is it not?
00:18:09.660 Excuse me. May I quote? Ha ha. Racist. Oh, yeah. It's a great cartoon. Thank you. Yeah.
00:18:18.060 By the way, we should point out, this is from Christopher Rufo, who's done an incredible job.
00:18:21.940 I mean, one man wrecking crew. It is one man. It is.
00:18:25.600 In destroying and exposing so many times in internal documents like this from schools and companies
00:18:33.720 across the country. I think he's going to be joining us later this week to talk about this.
00:18:37.300 Disney recommends that employees atone for their racism by challenging colorblind ideologies
00:18:45.760 and rhetoric. I can't take it. Such as- I can't take it.
00:18:50.120 All lives matter. I don't see color. And, of course, white people must listen with empathy
00:18:57.140 to black colleagues and not question or debate black colleagues' lived experience. Now, Glenn,
00:19:02.880 correct me if I'm wrong here. I'm just- Yes. I'm just thinking here for a second. First of all,
00:19:07.340 I thought the utopian vision, utopian, we may never get there, but utopian vision
00:19:13.340 of Martin Luther King was a colorblind society. So now that we must challenge colorblind ideologies
00:19:20.160 and rhetoric such as, I don't see color. I mean, they are disclosing of Martin Luther King.
00:19:25.680 Yes, of course they are, because they believe the opposite of Martin Luther King.
00:19:31.000 Because Martin Luther King was saying, America, live up to your principles and your values and
00:19:36.400 your ideals. What they're saying now is all of those ideals, all of those principles are
00:19:41.100 garbage. And the only way to fight racism is with racism. So two can play that game. That's
00:19:47.740 what they're saying. Two can play that game. And we're going to get the one up on you and we're
00:19:53.660 going to crush you into the dirt. This, this is, you know, I'll show you this in action tomorrow,
00:19:59.020 tomorrow night on our special, uh, nine o'clock. It happens. You can, you can watch it a billion
00:20:04.880 places, watch it at blaze TV, watch it on YouTube. Um, by the way, you're going to have to go seek
00:20:10.700 it out on YouTube, but they're some reason or another, it's, it's hard to find any of the videos
00:20:16.200 of mine on YouTube being spread around anymore, but, uh, you can just go to YouTube and watch it
00:20:20.680 there for free. You can get it as a blaze TV, but we're going to show you this happening
00:20:25.860 in real time. They're just a little ahead of us, one country, and we'll show you the truth
00:20:32.020 on that. By the way, Stu, I brought in the Disneyland prospectus. Yeah. Okay. So this is
00:20:37.260 the actual prospectus that was typed out originally by Walt's secretary at his dictation over a weekend.
00:20:46.980 This is what he brought to the banks and said, uh, I want to build a theme park. Nobody knew what a
00:20:53.980 theme park was. Uh, they turned him down. He was asking for $18 million to build Disneyland. Can
00:20:59.580 you imagine that? This is the Disneyland story. I want you to see, are they living up to any of these
00:21:05.920 ideals? The idea of Disney of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find
00:21:14.060 happiness and knowledge. Okay. You could say critical race theory in a very twisted, absolutely,
00:21:21.560 uh, polar opposite of Walt Disney sort of way. You could say, Oh yeah, we're just giving knowledge.
00:21:28.680 Yes. It'll be a place for parents and children to share pleasant times in one another's company,
00:21:35.240 a place for teachers and pupils to discover greater ways of understanding and education.
00:21:41.640 Here, the older generation can recapture the nostalgia of the days gone by and the younger
00:21:48.440 generation can savor the challenge of the future. Here will be the wonders of nature and man for all to
00:21:55.980 see and understand. Disneyland will be based upon and dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, the hard
00:22:07.500 facts that have created America. And it will be uniquely equipped to dramatize these dreams and
00:22:14.220 facts and send them forth as a source of courage and inspiration to all the world. So if America was
00:22:21.980 built on slavery, you better damn well tear Disney apart because it was dedicated to the ideals,
00:22:30.220 the facts, and the dreams that created America. So if you're saying that slavery, tear the damn park
00:22:39.100 down and I will help you do it.
00:22:44.060 Uh, Disneyland will be something of a fair, an exhibition, a playground, a community center,
00:22:49.180 a museum of living facts, a showplace of beauty and magic. It will be filled with the accomplishments,
00:22:54.360 the joys and hopes of the world we live in. And it will remind us and show us how to make these
00:23:01.100 wonders part of our own lives. That was Walt's dream. That's what he built. That's not what any
00:23:10.620 Disney park represents today. If they are teaching their people, they have already allowed people to
00:23:17.420 grow their hair any way they want mustache. You could have tattoos. I know this seems like a really small
00:23:22.360 thing, but why was Disneyland so successful? Why did Walt Disney build a berm, a wall around Disney?
00:23:33.420 It wasn't just to keep people from sneaking into the park for free. Why did he build a giant berm
00:23:40.600 around that whole thing? He built it so you could enter a fantasy world. You could enter a world where the
00:23:50.820 current world of stress, the current world of problems would disappear. So would Walt want people with
00:23:59.780 tats on their face? No. Why? Because people view tats different ways. He wanted everything as clean and
00:24:09.740 as generic as possible with all of the employees. He wanted people to represent the best of mankind
00:24:19.560 without any reminders of the outside world.
00:24:27.080 You want to take your vacation at a place that you're already so concerned is going to bankrupt
00:24:32.620 your family? I mean, if you were the federal government, you'd be borrowing from your great
00:24:38.020 grandchildren to be able to go to Disney. You're already stressed out about that. You want to go into
00:24:43.160 a place that now is preaching to you what you should be instead of the hard facts, the ideals, and the
00:24:52.080 principles of this country that created the greatest country, the greatest flash of freedom in all
00:25:01.680 mankind? I don't think so. I don't think so. Sorry, Walt. I think now it's time for all of us to go back and
00:25:09.640 sit on that bench that had gum on it at the carnival where you took your kids every Sunday and thought
00:25:17.020 there's got to be a better way. Not anymore. They've destroyed it.
00:25:21.600 Alcatraz Penitentiary, 945 AM. Al Capone has let his guard down.
00:25:48.920 It's shortly after breakfast as the man nicknamed Scarface works his shift, mopping the prison shower
00:25:56.280 room. This guy once wore expensive suits and diamonds, but now displays the standard Alcatraz
00:26:02.960 uniform of a blue chambray shirt, trousers, belt, and shoes. Capone is 37. He's the former head of a
00:26:12.360 notorious Chicago crime syndicate that earned profits of more than a hundred million dollars annually.
00:26:19.060 That's about 18 billion dollars in modern currency. He lived without fear of arrest. He paid off the
00:26:27.380 judges, police, and politicians to ensure his freedom. And while he was once the most feared mob boss in
00:26:34.200 America, reputed to have killed more than 30 human beings, he's now just another inmate in this escape-proof
00:26:41.040 prison on a windy island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Capone knows he has enemies here
00:26:47.920 at Alcatraz. He has a reputation among the inmates for seeking special treatment from the warden.
00:26:53.640 The warden is James Johnston, who has famously declared that his prisoners are entitled to food,
00:26:59.800 clothing, shelter, and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege. It's known as rule number
00:27:05.120 five in the inmate regulation handbook. It's the reason Warden Johnston constantly denies Capone's
00:27:12.100 favors. But that doesn't stop Capone from trying. In one instance, he attempts to avoid the weight at
00:27:18.660 a prison barbershop. Get to the back of the line, you bum, says a fellow inmate, James Lucas, a 22-year-old
00:27:26.600 Texan known as a chronic hothead. Do you know who I am, punk? snarls Capone. Lucas grabs a pair of
00:27:36.640 barber shears and presses the blade into Capone's jugular. Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball.
00:27:42.760 And if you don't get to the back of the line, I'm going to know who you were.
00:27:50.720 That's just the beginning of chapter five of Bill O'Reilly's new book called Killing the Mob. And
00:27:57.280 Bill joins us now. Hi, Bill. How are you? Excellent read, Beck. Very good. I was riveted. I wrote it.
00:28:03.820 I was riveted when you were reading it. Thank you very much. Tell the rest of the story because
00:28:09.540 it's fascinating. He leaves the barbershop. And what happens to him? Well, he's beat up. And
00:28:15.740 the guy who put the shears to his neck is after him. And he meets him in the shower with a razor
00:28:28.400 and slices him pretty badly. And then Capone, that's it for his life. He deteriorates physically
00:28:38.000 and mentally, gets out of Alcatraz, goes to Miami and dies in his early 40s, which is justice because
00:28:45.760 what a horrible, horrible human being he is. But the reason that we've highlighted Capone in Killing
00:28:52.680 the Mob is he's the template for organized crime today. So what he did was he elevated,
00:28:59.840 we opened with Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, all those people, but he elevated criminality
00:29:05.400 to an organized level in Chicago. And as you pointed out, took over everything. I mean,
00:29:10.700 he bought the governor and the mayor and, you know, he'd do whatever he wanted to do.
00:29:14.440 And then once that was successful in the money, as you pointed out, billions of dollars in bootleg
00:29:21.420 alcohol in today's prices, once that was proven to be successful, then that's how the organized
00:29:28.540 crime then grew in that template to organize, to come into cities, New York, Chicago, L.A.,
00:29:35.600 Philadelphia, Boston, buy up everybody, bribe everybody, and take over the rackets.
00:29:40.660 Uh, prohibition was repealed. Then they went in heavy to gambling, extortion, prostitution,
00:29:47.800 vice, and the unions. So that's, that's how it all evolved. And Al Capone, a famous name,
00:29:54.780 but boy, what a awful, terrible human being.
00:29:59.020 What, um, uh, why did Elliot Ness go in? If anybody saw the movie, The Untouchables, uh,
00:30:06.200 it's just a great movie with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner. Um, but it's, it's clear that in
00:30:12.480 Chicago, everybody has been paid off. Why was it that Hoover didn't go after and use the FBI to go
00:30:20.740 after these guys? Um, Hoover took over the FBI in the thirties, uh, and assassinated, literally the
00:30:28.500 FBI assassinated all the bank robbers. And it wasn't like, come out with your hands up. It was
00:30:34.540 the FBI catches you, they can pull a bullet right between your eyes. And that's what happened to all
00:30:38.980 of them, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, pretty boy Floyd, babyface Nelson. Um, Hoover was in charge
00:30:44.540 of that. But then when it came to the Italian mobsters, Diego Hoover would not investigate,
00:30:52.400 would not put the FBI on their trail. Lucky Luciano, the first godfather in New York, his private
00:30:59.340 papers say, and we have them, uh, they mob had something on Hoover, but doesn't say what now
00:31:06.220 everybody knew Diego Hoover loved the ponies. He was a gambler and he was gay. And so I do believe
00:31:14.240 that the mob had something on Hoover and that's why he didn't investigate. So without Capone so out of
00:31:19.560 control, um, Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew that and was embarrassed that the federal government
00:31:27.860 couldn't control this guy. So he sent in a treasury department, that's Elliot Ness. That's the
00:31:33.440 untouchables. And they got Capone on income tax evasion. Which was not the, was that the plan
00:31:39.160 originally? The movie shows that that's the order to Elliot Ness was get them on anything you can get
00:31:43.900 them on. Okay. Get them on anything. All right. I mean, so the guy files an income tax, but Capone
00:31:49.900 files his income tax because he made $3,000 a year and he's right around in the best, you know, come on.
00:31:56.140 Right. So, and that's what the, that's what the drug people do today. But here, here's the ironic
00:32:00.540 part about all this. So, uh, Capone goes down and then there's a TV show, the untouchables.
00:32:06.680 That was, do you remember that back? Or were you too young for that? Oh, I do. I do. I do
00:32:10.960 remember. I remember it in reruns. Robert Stack plays Elliot Ness and that's a Kevin Costner part
00:32:16.900 of the movie. All right. So it's the same thing. The untouchables go after Elliot, uh, go after
00:32:23.000 Al Capone, get them. And then the series is all Italian bad gangsters. Well, the real gangster,
00:32:29.180 the godfather of Chicago, Sam Giancana did not like that TV show in the fifties. The producer of the
00:32:36.540 show is Desi Arnaz. Lucy, I love Lucy. He produced it. All right. So Giancana hand delivers a letter
00:32:46.180 to Desi Arnaz says, Hey, knock off the Italians, make the bad guys other ethnicities. Whereupon
00:32:54.040 Desi Arnaz writes a wise guy note back to same Giancana saying, what do you want me to make them Jews?
00:32:59.560 That day, Giancana takes a contract out on Desi Arnaz and hires the assassin. We have
00:33:08.340 it all in killing the mob. And I'm not going to tell you anymore because I want people to
00:33:11.520 read the book, but Desi Arnaz came with this close to having a bullet in the back of his
00:33:15.700 head. I mean, how powerful the mob was.
00:33:19.140 Yeah. And Desi Arnaz was a very powerful person in television. Most people just think of him as,
00:33:24.960 you know, Lucy's husband on I Love Lucy. He was the secret behind Lucille Ball's success.
00:33:32.700 He, I mean, it was he and Lucy through Desi Lou that did Star Trek and the Untouchables and a million
00:33:40.060 other shows that people know. And it went well. Yeah. Go ahead.
00:33:45.700 Arnaz thought that he was, that he was invulnerable because he was so powerful, as you point out.
00:33:51.380 But what Arnaz did not know was that the mob controlled much of Hollywood through a guy named
00:33:58.140 Sidney Korshak, who was not a mobster. He was a lawyer. And the movies that you, that we all saw
00:34:05.300 in the 50s and 60s, a lot of the TV shows, they were all paying organized crime money to produce
00:34:14.860 the shows because the organized crime controlled all the unions, the cameramen, the lighting,
00:34:20.560 the sound, and they could shut down a production in 10 minutes. And nobody knew it. Americans didn't
00:34:26.520 know that the mob was controlling the film industry and the mob could walk in and say,
00:34:32.220 we want you to put this guy in that part and we're going to take 15% of your gross. They did it all
00:34:39.520 the time.
00:34:42.880 So is who are the ones that really clean this up? You had Elliot Ness. What happened to him after
00:34:49.560 Capone?
00:34:50.660 He committed suicide.
00:34:53.600 Uh-huh.
00:34:54.340 In Pennsylvania.
00:34:54.780 Do we believe it was suicide?
00:34:57.120 Yeah. Yeah. He, um, that was the apex of his career. And then he retired, um, and just didn't
00:35:06.480 have a very good life and took his own life.
00:35:08.580 Wow. Um, sad. And then who was the, go ahead, go ahead. No, I, I guess I can think of three
00:35:17.560 names. I can think of Elliot Ness. I can think of RFK and I can think of Rudy Giuliani as the
00:35:24.120 three guys that just were relentless. Were there more? No, because it, it had to be very, very,
00:35:33.780 uh, centralized. Organized crime was so powerful in this country between 1946 and 62, they controlled
00:35:42.420 everything. And is that because of the unions?
00:35:45.280 Yeah. And that's what the base, the power base was, the unions to this day. Organized crime in
00:35:52.780 New York where I am controls many of the unions. And I have a thing in the United States of Trump
00:35:59.940 where Trump and I are discussing, if you want to build a building in New York, you got to deal with
00:36:05.060 the mob now, today, this very moment. Oh yeah. And we name all the names and all that. Bobby
00:36:11.000 Kennedy is the hero of the book because Bobby Kennedy came in as attorney general, defied his
00:36:16.060 own father who had mob ties, Joseph Kennedy. His brother was kind of punch his pilot, agnostic about
00:36:22.940 it. And Bobby Kennedy went after the mob with a ferocity never before seen at the federal level
00:36:28.100 and did them huge damage. And then what he did led to Rudy Giuliani on the RICO statutes and new
00:36:36.260 federal laws. And Giuliani hurt the mob bad in New York as a U S attorney in the Southern district.
00:36:42.320 We're talking to Bill O'Reilly about his new book. It is out today. You can get a copy wherever. Uh,
00:36:47.120 it is wildly successful already. A hundred thousand copies in, uh, in five days leading up to the
00:36:53.900 release of the book, uh, Bill O'Reilly killing the mob.
00:36:57.380 Na, na, na, na, na.