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00:00:44.580 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:48.840 Hello, America. It's Friday.

00:00:57.640 The Glenn Beck program. Glad you're here.

00:00:59.460 Bill O'Reilly comes up in about half an hour.

00:01:01.920 I'm really excited to talk to him about the news of the week.

00:01:04.920 What he felt was the most important, usually wrong on that.

00:01:09.040 He's usually wrong on that, but he's got a great viewpoint.

00:01:13.760 And we'll check with him in about a half an hour from now.

00:01:16.480 Looking at you right now, you have a great viewpoint as well.

00:01:18.520 A little viewpoint from space.

00:01:20.140 Well, you know, Branson went into space and then what's his name from from Amazon.

00:01:26.820 He went up. I went in, you know, his was a little controversial.

00:01:31.540 Bezos, when he went into space, his capsule kind of looked a little, you know.

00:01:36.280 But I went in a a rocket shaped as a lady bits. 1.00

00:01:42.400 And so I'm in space now.

00:01:44.700 It's very it's funny watching you because as if you missed it, Glenn is laying flat on the ground today and they've put a green screen behind him and are just changing the backgrounds to torture him.

00:01:54.820 And it's fun.

00:01:56.100 And actually, it's one of these that we should send some pictures out, tweet some pictures out of Glenn with the various backgrounds.

00:02:02.920 And perhaps I'm just suggesting to the audience because it's Friday.

00:02:07.380 It's a summer Friday.

00:02:08.960 Maybe they're a little bored.

00:02:10.220 Yeah.

00:02:10.680 At Studez America at Glenn Beck.

00:02:13.060 Tweet us the background you think should be behind Glenn for the rest of the show.

00:02:16.940 So just it's just if you have a funny picture that you think would look funny having Glenn in the middle of it as he's trying to do serious material on the air.

00:02:24.200 I'd like to be in the garage with Jack Ruby right now.

00:02:31.080 Can you put me back in bed with Amy Schumer, please?

00:02:34.060 Does that one that one looked kind of real, didn't it?

00:02:36.980 You're gonna have to take it full screen.

00:02:38.220 There it is.

00:02:39.000 Kind of looks like.

00:02:40.880 And she's looking over at me like, oh, my gosh, this is great.

00:02:44.440 And so to make this complete, it has to be like.

00:02:50.760 I think.

00:02:53.240 This is one of those things.

00:02:54.800 I will say it's not just where we are.

00:02:58.540 We've talked a lot about social media today because of the Amy Klobuchar bill.

00:03:03.840 And sure, people can tweet backgrounds for you to do the radio show today at Studez America at Glenn Beck.

00:03:09.860 Sure. 0.83

00:03:10.320 But we're not just here to be silly. 0.91

00:03:13.480 No, we're not.

00:03:14.440 We are here to help the audience and navigate these very difficult times.

00:03:18.580 Thank you.

00:03:19.060 Now, I don't know if you know this, but they've decided to come out with new emojis because, hey, things are changing.

00:03:26.120 And so the emojis need to change, too.

00:03:28.160 And so the good people at the emoji producing factory have decided to take on a new task.

00:03:39.640 Yeah.

00:03:40.140 Well, I know they had the pregnant man. 1.00

00:03:41.640 Yeah.

00:03:41.980 Which was a nice one.

00:03:42.940 Because, you know, people don't realize this, but men can be pregnant.

00:03:46.300 No, men cannot become pregnant. 0.93

00:03:48.360 Oh, yes, they can.

00:03:48.860 Yes, they can.

00:03:49.360 No, they can't.

00:03:50.020 No, they can't.

00:03:50.640 Basically, the way that a man becomes pregnant is they are a woman and then we call them a man. 0.86

00:03:56.520 Oh, okay.

00:03:57.320 So then they can become pregnant. 1.00

00:03:59.460 But a biological man, no matter how he changes his parts, can't have a baby.

00:04:07.380 And anybody like Stu who's trying to propagate that, dangerous medical disinformation.

00:04:15.460 Just want to point that out.

00:04:17.980 Dangerous medical misinformation.

00:04:20.620 This is the road we're on.

00:04:22.440 This is the road we're on.

00:04:23.840 I know.

00:04:24.640 And we're far down this road, by the way.

00:04:27.060 I mean, the fact that they're releasing a pregnant male, which we all, we all look, we can all talk about this stuff however you want.

00:04:33.800 But the bottom line is that men cannot have children. 0.62

00:04:35.840 That is a very basic fact of human anatomy.

00:04:39.060 I have children.

00:04:39.840 You did not give birth to any children.

00:04:41.600 Feels like I did.

00:04:42.360 People always say, like, we're pregnant.

00:04:43.960 Now she's pregnant. 1.00

00:04:44.920 All right.

00:04:45.220 You're not anything.

00:04:46.260 You spent probably 18 seconds doing something.

00:04:49.720 It's over.

00:04:50.740 Your part of this is pretty much over.

00:04:52.680 You'll spend the rest of your life probably screwing the kid up as they grow up.

00:04:57.380 But you're.

00:04:58.020 Wow.

00:04:58.380 She's.

00:04:58.780 Wow.

00:04:59.020 Somebody had some daddy issues. 1.00

00:05:01.120 Holy cow. 0.89

00:05:03.180 But it's like that term is hilarious. 0.97

00:05:05.660 We're pregnant.

00:05:06.640 I got that you had a small role.

00:05:09.360 She's the one doing everything.

00:05:10.680 What are you doing?

00:05:11.460 I know.

00:05:12.140 We have children.

00:05:14.120 That's accurate.

00:05:15.180 Yes, of course.

00:05:15.760 We're pregnant.

00:05:16.800 No, no, we're not.

00:05:17.860 No, we're not.

00:05:19.280 I mean, and we're glad.

00:05:20.840 Half 50 percent of us are glad we're not pregnant.

00:05:23.880 Now, if you look at our physiques, we look pregnant. 0.99

00:05:25.980 Yes.

00:05:26.220 And the male pregnant thing actually would work for us as an emoji because we look like we're pregnant.

00:05:31.740 Exactly right.

00:05:33.320 Stu, that's our new logo.

00:05:36.320 You and I as emojis pregnant.

00:05:38.860 It works.

00:05:39.820 It works.

00:05:40.300 And that will keep us.

00:05:41.260 They can't ban us that.

00:05:42.460 Right.

00:05:42.760 So we're the pregnant men.

00:05:44.120 We decided.

00:05:45.000 We decided that we were going to help the emoji people and come up with some new emojis as well.

00:05:51.560 For instance, I don't want to, I don't want to get somebody's pronouns wrong and they don't always announce their pronouns.

00:05:58.940 So to make sure I don't misgender somebody, I'm suggesting a new 99 shaped emoji. 0.99

00:06:08.600 That way, you know, I just put that instead of Mr. Miss, you know, you, they, whatever it is, you just put the 99 emoji up there.

00:06:18.420 So this is what covers the 99 genders. 0.85

00:06:20.780 Is that the idea?

00:06:21.940 Now we might have to change that as the genders keep going up. 1.00

00:06:25.560 But maybe 999 would be a safer thing.

00:06:28.260 Probably.

00:06:28.560 Because we probably have a good month or two before it hits 999 genders. 1.00

00:06:32.220 Yeah.

00:06:32.400 Now I've come up with another, and we're going to be tweeting all of these out.

00:06:36.380 So you'll be able to see them.

00:06:37.800 I came up with another one because we, we know that CRT, we told you yesterday, the definition of a word that you probably have never heard praxis.

00:06:48.240 It's a, it's an old word, but it was really, it's really used by communists and people who believe in Karl Marx.

00:06:56.600 I mean, I mean, I believe in Karl Marx.

00:06:58.460 I just don't believe in his writings, but the praxis means putting it into action.

00:07:04.740 And that's what's happening to our schools.

00:07:07.500 They are making activists out of our schools.

00:07:11.340 And so, you know, when we're talking about our kids, I think it's easy just to use a, just a little emoji there, which is, looks to be, how would you describe that?

00:07:22.460 An angry child, an angry baby holding a BLM sign?

00:07:26.740 Yeah.

00:07:27.660 So there's your new emoji for child activist.

00:07:32.120 Now we all have complained from time to time that we've lost our heroes, you know, all of their, who are the heroes?

00:07:41.780 And so we thought we would make the politically correct emoji of our new heroes.

00:07:47.740 Uh, and, uh, here they are, uh, they're holding hands.

00:07:51.660 There's, uh, there's three of them there.

00:07:53.900 Uh, one is, uh, Castro.

00:07:55.920 One is, uh, president Z and the other is Maduro.

00:07:59.800 And they're holding hands with halos over their head.

00:08:02.500 So I totally appropriate.

00:08:04.240 And what, and this, the good thing about using these emojis, you will never get banned using them.

00:08:08.600 These will be completely approved.

00:08:10.480 As long as you don't use them in some sarcastic way, who would do that?

00:08:15.260 I hope nobody, I mean, I know this isn't sarcastic.

00:08:19.500 We're not doing this in a sarcastic way.

00:08:21.240 We mean it.

00:08:22.540 We mean it.

00:08:23.100 I would love to have these emojis.

00:08:25.820 Can we, is there a way to make this emoji package so we can actually have people use them as emojis?

00:08:32.600 I don't know.

00:08:34.260 I will say I've never in my life used an emoji, um, for any reason.

00:08:38.960 I do.

00:08:39.700 I use the guy.

00:08:40.780 I use the guy with his tongue out and his eyes kind of popped out.

00:08:45.040 And cross-eyed.

00:08:45.760 I use that one a lot.

00:08:47.440 Uh, I use the one where he's just got big white eyes and he's like, what?

00:08:51.780 I use that one a lot.

00:08:53.000 I had this thing where I learned growing up, um, words.

00:08:57.300 Uh, so I use those to describe the things I'm talking about.

00:09:00.220 It's a crazy idea.

00:09:01.040 The one I find the most, the, the most active, at least for me, is the salsa dancer.

00:09:08.880 You've seen the, yeah.

00:09:10.120 Have you seen that?

00:09:11.180 They have a lady salsa dancer and a man salsa dancer.

00:09:14.580 And I use that all the time.

00:09:17.340 Really?

00:09:17.820 All the time.

00:09:18.600 I can't.

00:09:19.120 Just so many.

00:09:19.820 I can't tell you how many.

00:09:21.680 Is it like, hey honey, bring me thee.

00:09:23.980 And then salsa.

00:09:25.140 Exactly.

00:09:26.020 Okay.

00:09:26.320 It's like, hey honey, you want to salsa dance tonight?

00:09:30.580 You know, uh, I thought you were looking for condiments, but I was, I was apparently

00:09:34.680 mistaken.

00:09:35.220 No, no, no.

00:09:35.480 That's the main use for it.

00:09:36.860 That's the main use for it.

00:09:38.380 Uh, what the hell is that?

00:09:40.300 Why do they have a salsa dancer? 1.00

00:09:42.220 Why?

00:09:43.440 Who's using that?

00:09:44.440 I don't know.

00:09:45.140 I don't know the point.

00:09:46.180 People think these things are cute and I, I, I don't understand.

00:09:50.180 It's just a dumbing down of our society in such a massive way that I, I don't.

00:09:55.760 Well, let me just tell you this, um, you know, who you can, who can really help, who

00:10:00.840 can really help and not dumb down our society is the government.

00:10:04.540 And that's why we have a new, uh, government, uh, emoji here to help.

00:10:09.980 Uh, it's just a, uh, yellow faced, uh, guy in dark sunglasses and, uh, and a needle.

00:10:16.920 Uh, so he's got the vaccine all ready to go.

00:10:19.660 He's here to help.

00:10:20.880 Coming door to door.

00:10:21.740 Yeah.

00:10:22.100 Yeah.

00:10:22.520 Yeah.

00:10:22.720 Yeah.

00:10:22.940 Yeah.

00:10:22.980 Uh, then of course, if you want anybody to take you seriously, you're going to need

00:10:26.700 this emoji.

00:10:27.660 This is your vaccine passport emoji.

00:10:31.180 Uh, so you can just label that and you're like, look, I can come into this theater.

00:10:35.540 Here's my passport.

00:10:37.040 You know what I mean?

00:10:37.920 Exciting.

00:10:38.640 Yeah.

00:10:39.120 Yeah.

00:10:39.980 Um, now this one was inspired by, uh, by, uh, Joe Biden, uh, because, uh, you know,

00:10:46.420 I, I, of course use latinx all the time when I'm talking about, excuse me for saying 1.00

00:10:52.320 this Latinos, um, now we, uh, is it confirmed latinx?

00:10:57.740 I thought it was Latin X.

00:10:59.120 Is it both?

00:10:59.980 How does that work?

00:11:00.660 Well, it is latinx.

00:11:03.180 Um, but apparently Joe Biden is so hip, uh, that he came up with his own way of pronouncing

00:11:08.900 it.

00:11:09.200 And, and here he is.

00:11:10.260 Listen, it's awful hard as well to get latinx vaccinated as well.

00:11:17.060 Latinx.

00:11:18.000 Latinx.

00:11:18.540 Good point.

00:11:18.940 So we have a new latinx, uh, emoji.

00:11:23.840 It's a tissue box with a sombrero on it.

00:11:26.680 A new latinx. 0.55

00:11:29.340 You know, that one may get you banned.

00:11:30.820 That one potentially might actually get you banned, but it's still really funny.

00:11:35.460 Uh, let me go for the, uh, peaceful protester. 0.58

00:11:37.660 Um, if we have the peaceful protester, uh, he's a black, uh, block rioter with, uh, raised 0.89

00:11:44.380 fist, uh, Antifa, uh, banded, uh, branded riot shield.

00:11:49.620 Uh, and his face is masked.

00:11:51.240 Uh, so that's, that's the peaceful protester emoji and not spreading COVID.

00:11:55.760 Uh, exactly right.

00:11:56.660 Because they're wearing the mask.

00:11:57.460 Exactly right.

00:11:57.960 And, uh, let me just show you now the journalist.

00:12:01.120 Um, there's the emoji for the journalist.

00:12:04.040 Um, that seems to be very similar to the peaceful protester and Tifa member.

00:12:11.020 Oh yeah.

00:12:11.220 They're exactly the same.

00:12:12.160 Okay.

00:12:12.640 But, uh, just depends on which context you use.

00:12:14.840 Uh, and then here is the college student.

00:12:16.960 Um, you have the college student emoji, uh, right there.

00:12:21.220 Again, that looks exactly like the journalist and the Antifa member.

00:12:25.300 I know it's hard to tell them apart, isn't it?

00:12:26.960 It is.

00:12:27.480 It is hard to tell them apart.

00:12:31.940 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:38.760 So I, I love the Twitter feed, um, especially during the town hall on CNN.

00:12:46.120 From Bill O'Reilly, um, Bill O'Reilly.

00:12:49.640 I'm just going to read his Twitter feed here.

00:12:51.760 First 10 minutes of the Biden town hall.

00:12:54.440 Incredibly boring.

00:12:56.260 Not just boring.

00:12:58.280 Tweet, uh, one, say a tweet.

00:13:00.460 Number two, 16 minutes in and we're still on COVID.

00:13:04.840 The president says he listens to science.

00:13:08.060 Good to know.

00:13:09.480 Next 30 minutes in.

00:13:11.180 Absolutely.

00:13:12.000 No news has been made other than the president wants school kids under

00:13:16.000 12 to wear masks.

00:13:18.420 Next tweet, a commercial break.

00:13:20.760 Thank God.

00:13:22.220 Next.

00:13:22.740 I'm not being facetious.

00:13:24.680 No joke.

00:13:25.740 I'm being serious.

00:13:27.540 This town hall is tedious beyond belief.

00:13:30.780 And the last one is it's almost over.

00:13:34.600 No joke.

00:13:35.760 I'm serious.

00:13:37.220 Bill O'Reilly.

00:13:38.320 Welcome to the program, sir.

00:13:41.000 Here's the deal.

00:13:42.640 It was painful.

00:13:43.920 It was a painful thing to watch.

00:13:46.380 I waited for the clips.

00:13:47.680 I knew this in advance, Bill.

00:13:50.240 I knew this in advance.

00:13:52.480 But we have to do our jobs as, uh, guardians of the country.

00:13:57.920 Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, guardians of the nation.

00:14:00.660 So, I'm, I'm, uh, in a house.

00:14:03.660 Uh, someone was nice enough to invite my son and I over for dinner.

00:14:07.960 Um, there are a few people in, uh, in attendance.

00:14:11.200 And after dinner, we sat down and watched Don Lemon.

00:14:15.000 Always a treat.

00:14:16.540 Always a treat.

00:14:17.680 You know that.

00:14:18.280 Oh, okay.

00:14:19.280 Well, he's one of the most well-informed reporters in the nation.

00:14:23.260 I don't know if you know that.

00:14:24.300 I like Don Lemon personally, um, but, uh, you know, I mean, I'm not, I know what I'm

00:14:30.640 going to get from Don.

00:14:31.600 Yeah.

00:14:31.840 But anyway, about halfway through is an hour and 20 minutes.

00:14:35.520 There was almost a brawl in the house.

00:14:37.420 People trying to grab the remote to turn anything else on.

00:14:42.580 Okay.

00:14:43.760 Anything.

00:14:45.420 Anything.

00:14:46.800 Can it spend Gouillon with Revenge of the Mummy?

00:14:50.940 Get that.

00:14:51.860 Oh, so bad.

00:14:53.060 It was so bad.

00:14:54.100 It was, it was.

00:14:55.540 And then when the ratings come in, a million five.

00:15:00.600 Now, if people don't understand the ratings, um, if I got a million five viewers, you would

00:15:08.180 have been in trouble.

00:15:09.600 I would have committed suicide.

00:15:11.020 Yeah. 0.79

00:15:11.640 No, your average night.

00:15:13.760 If I don't, if I'm not mistaken, it was about 3 million.

00:15:16.880 About five.

00:15:18.320 Oh, it was five.

00:15:19.020 Um, because we had, uh, we had the two runs, um, and five to 6 million, uh, which in, and

00:15:27.920 that I knew he was going to get, I knew that the rate is going to be low.

00:15:31.920 I didn't think they're going to be that low.

00:15:33.260 And, and also I wanted to, this is another topic, but the, the Olympics this summer are

00:15:38.340 going to get wiped out in a room.

00:15:39.520 Oh yeah.

00:15:39.980 I mean, nobody.

00:15:40.800 Oh yeah.

00:15:41.120 Nobody, nobody cares.

00:15:42.620 Uh, in fact, I think people are rooting.

00:15:44.460 We may have a situation to where, remember bill, when we used to have the Soviet Union to

00:15:50.440 root against.

00:15:52.040 Yeah.

00:15:52.440 We may have that situation again, except we'll be rooting against America. 0.69

00:15:58.080 Well, I, I don't know about that, but I know that I'm the women's soccer team.

00:16:04.040 Uh huh.

00:16:04.740 I mean, they're so, but, but we got, we look, Sweden beat the U S women's soccer team three

00:16:15.240 to nothing.

00:16:15.860 Now just step back a moment.

00:16:17.900 There is no grass in Sweden.

00:16:20.100 They don't, they have to practice on practice on glaciers.

00:16:23.020 It's just frozen and they beat our team three to nothing.

00:16:29.580 Okay.

00:16:30.320 And I mean, I'm sitting there going, Sweden, 9 million people, America, 320 million people,

00:16:38.340 many of them female. 0.99

00:16:39.900 I got to tell you, I got to get our butts kicked three nuts. 0.97

00:16:42.740 Look, I said to the U S woman's soccer team coach, maybe you might want to do a little 0.99

00:16:50.780 less kneeling and a little more running, run and shoot.

00:16:56.260 I have to, uh, I have to tell you the European handball federation has fined the Norway women's

00:17:03.640 beach handball team.

00:17:05.400 Uh, I don't know if you, I don't know if you heard this, uh, you haven't.

00:17:10.400 Oh, this is, this is great.

00:17:11.800 Uh, okay.

00:17:13.040 So the Norwegian, uh, women's beach handball team, uh, they were fined.

00:17:17.720 They came out onto, uh, onto the scene wearing shorts and that's, that's against the league

00:17:25.240 policy.

00:17:26.060 Uh, they're supposed to wear bikini bottoms. 1.00

00:17:29.540 Oh, uh, so I just, I mean, when we are more, uh, woke and, uh, I mean, we've turned in,

00:17:41.740 to the worst, um, country in Europe.

00:17:45.840 We have just turned into the, the one with France. 0.93

00:17:48.780 Okay.

00:17:49.200 I'm going to just say it, France.

00:17:50.580 We have turned in to France when Europe looks like, ah, that's crazy.

00:17:57.340 Huh?

00:17:57.740 They, they got their women's team wearing bikinis. 1.00

00:18:01.580 Uh, something's wrong.

00:18:03.100 Something's wrong.

00:18:04.320 I don't know how you play handball on the beach.

00:18:07.200 Don't you need a wall and, and, and some kind of floor.

00:18:11.060 I don't know, you're asking the wrong guy.

00:18:14.700 I, I, I have no idea.

00:18:16.900 All right.

00:18:17.520 So Bill, there's a couple of things that I want to talk to you about.

00:18:20.700 First is, uh, Amy Klobuchar.

00:18:23.180 Do you think this is the big story of the week or what do you think the big story is?

00:18:28.640 Well, Amy Klobuchar wants to limit speech, right? 1.00

00:18:32.740 Is that what you're talking about?

00:18:33.580 Yeah, the, uh, COVID misinformation and she wants HHS to be able to label people, you know,

00:18:41.740 who are engaged in dangerous misinformation.

00:18:46.500 Yes.

00:18:47.300 It sounds a lot like the Soviet union.

00:18:49.800 Sure does.

00:18:50.740 Uh, uh, because, and I'm not being facetious here.

00:18:53.560 No joke.

00:18:54.040 Joe Biden might say this is no joke.

00:18:56.280 Right.

00:18:56.700 Okay.

00:18:57.740 Here's the serious.

00:18:58.880 All kidding aside.

00:19:00.140 Yes.

00:19:00.520 Next week is the anniversary in 1943 of Joseph Stalin passing a law in the Soviet union during

00:19:08.440 world war two that imprisoned anyone who was a coward.

00:19:14.180 That was the law. 0.84

00:19:16.260 Now, of course, Stalin was the one who decided if you were a coward or not.

00:19:21.500 So now in America, we have Amy Klobuchar saying, Hey, if you say something that we, the federal

00:19:30.440 government don't like about COVID, a, we're going to go after you.

00:19:35.660 Now, what's the difference between old Joe Stalin and young Amy Klobuchar?

00:19:41.620 Well, they will say that you are, you are misinforming people right now, Bill, because this is a health

00:19:48.560 issue.

00:19:49.800 And the Klobuchar says that there has to be an exception here for health misinformation

00:19:56.220 because health information is deadly.

00:20:00.120 Well, we already know that climate change is a health issue.

00:20:05.480 We know that Antifa and their riots over the summer because of race.

00:20:12.580 That was worse.

00:20:14.560 This is the CDC that was worse than the pandemic, the pandemic of racism in America.

00:20:21.160 We know that guns are a health issue.

00:20:25.240 I mean, pretty much this is the this is the threshold.

00:20:29.160 You cross this threshold and freedom of speech is done.

00:20:33.720 Well, there's no doubt that progressive left wants to limit freedom of expression and thought

00:20:38.900 in America.

00:20:39.840 And no one could deny that.

00:20:41.920 I mean, I guess Don Lemon might.

00:20:43.700 But no one really could say, no, no, these are real ACLU people that want freedom of expression.

00:20:52.220 And by the way, the ACLU is not the ACLU.

00:20:55.200 Right.

00:20:55.760 They're not.

00:20:56.460 They're right on board with, hey, you know, if we don't like what you're saying, you got

00:21:01.400 to go to jail.

00:21:02.280 Sorry.

00:21:03.460 You know, and you know what?

00:21:05.680 We're going to have bail.

00:21:06.720 We're not going to have bail for the people who commit manslaughter.

00:21:09.400 I'll let them write out.

00:21:10.560 But you know, you got to go away.

00:21:14.300 Yep.

00:21:14.720 So this trend and you're right to point out that what Senator Klobuchar is doing is trying

00:21:21.180 to normalize this stuff.

00:21:23.360 Right.

00:21:24.460 Yes.

00:21:24.900 We're doing this to protect you because of if Lenny down the street doesn't want to get

00:21:31.060 back, he's a danger to you.

00:21:33.320 I'm not sure about that.

00:21:35.020 Why would he be a danger to me if Lenny's an anti-vaxxer?

00:21:38.880 I don't care.

00:21:39.740 Does that influence me?

00:21:41.920 No.

00:21:42.520 I do what my doctor recommends, which I think everyone should do.

00:21:47.120 All right.

00:21:47.380 And then I go on.

00:21:48.780 I don't really care about Lenny.

00:21:50.940 When he wants to live in the basement, unvaxxed, that's okay with me.

00:21:55.920 He's not a threat.

00:21:57.040 Lenny is going to get out and he's going to infect other people.

00:22:00.960 I know.

00:22:01.500 It's kind of like that zombie thing, you know?

00:22:03.760 Yeah.

00:22:04.040 And that's really the genesis of the whole anti-vax movement.

00:22:07.440 The anti-vax movement kind of believes that the government somehow is involved with this

00:22:12.240 vaccine, which is true to the extent that Trump got it up and running.

00:22:16.720 And that's the lead, as I told you, on the Trump O'Reilly history tour.

00:22:20.880 How did you do it?

00:22:21.680 But the anti-vax movement believes that somehow the government has put little chips in there

00:22:27.960 and they're going to track you.

00:22:29.960 Correct.

00:22:30.260 Okay, fine.

00:22:31.160 Believe that.

00:22:32.020 Fine.

00:22:32.460 But here's a very interesting thing.

00:22:34.960 While Amy Klobuchar and the progressive left are pounding the anti-vaxxers, they don't say

00:22:40.560 a word about African-Americans who won't get vaccinated.

00:22:44.500 And that, of all the ethnic groups in America, African-Americans have the lowest vaxxed rate.

00:22:51.940 And number two, Bill, number two, Hispanics.

00:22:56.960 So I think Hispanics and whites are just about tied. 0.96

00:23:00.460 But the problem as far as vaxxing on the ethnic front is with African-Americans.

00:23:08.740 And then you get Biden out there going, well, we understand that problem because of Tuskegee

00:23:13.820 and in the past.

00:23:15.680 And you're looking at the guy going, wait a minute.

00:23:18.120 Do we live in a country where everyone is treated the same?

00:23:21.280 Obviously, we don't.

00:23:23.060 And it goes right back to the equity thing.

00:23:25.500 Like, well, we're going to give certain groups a pass and they can really do what they want,

00:23:29.760 even if they're public health dangers.

00:23:32.380 So you never hear Klobuchar say that.

00:23:34.800 All right.

00:23:35.560 About African-Americans.

00:23:37.220 And I'm saying to myself, look, you know, the real threat to America is not from China

00:23:45.040 and it's not from COVID.

00:23:47.380 It's from we are turning on each other because the media is pushing the progressive left

00:23:55.400 dictum that some groups and some people in America are more entitled to better treatment

00:24:01.940 than others.

00:24:03.300 And that's going to tear the nation apart.

00:24:06.320 Of course it is.

00:24:07.580 Bill, let me let me ask you.

00:24:11.700 When you say that the the biggest threat against the nation is the progressive movement, it is

00:24:18.620 I think the progressive movement has turned into the Marxist movement now.

00:24:22.640 Would you separate the traditional Democrat liberal from that group?

00:24:31.360 Yes.

00:24:32.100 I mean, I know a lot of traditional Democrats who are not progressive nuts and who don't

00:24:37.720 really know how to handle the situation now.

00:24:40.800 They're very confused on how to handle it because the progressives have the megaphone.

00:24:46.300 So right off the top of your head, everybody listening to Beck and O'Reilly right now, name

00:24:52.580 one progress, one so-called moderate Democrat in the country that has any influence right

00:24:58.280 now.

00:24:59.280 Name one.

00:25:01.100 You can't.

00:25:02.820 There's not one Hubert Humphrey.

00:25:05.020 There's not one Jimmy Carter.

00:25:07.420 There's nobody.

00:25:08.840 And you can't say Biden because Biden is captured.

00:25:11.520 He's being held high by the progressive left.

00:25:19.320 I mean, I don't know whether I'm sure this registered with you, but violent crime is like

00:25:24.120 the second issue among Americans.

00:25:26.200 Oh, my gosh.

00:25:26.880 It's it's gone through the roof.

00:25:29.300 Right.

00:25:29.980 Right.

00:25:30.420 And so Biden is up there for at least eight minutes explaining how cracking down on gun

00:25:37.080 stores is going to stop violent crime.

00:25:39.840 Nobody believes that.

00:25:40.780 There is literally nobody on Earth with an IQ over a hundred that believes that or could

00:25:48.020 possibly believe it.

00:25:49.840 Yet there he is yammering about he's going to get a task force.

00:25:53.560 He's going to bring in bazookas.

00:25:55.400 I'll have more guns. 0.97

00:25:56.720 I'll blow them up because that we got to stop violent crime. 0.98

00:26:01.140 And then he goes.

00:26:01.740 And by the way, community policing.

00:26:04.040 I mean, we don't need to arrest drug gang thugs who are gunning down children.

00:26:10.320 No, we're going to bring in a social worker with the cops. 1.00

00:26:15.600 OK, it's like a remake of Dragnet with Jack Webb.

00:26:19.680 You remember that show?

00:26:20.560 Yeah.

00:26:20.800 Yeah.

00:26:20.980 OK, but in the backseat, there's a shrink.

00:26:27.160 I mean, I'm just a fact.

00:26:28.580 But here's Dr.

00:26:30.080 Ruth, who's going to talk to you about why your son decapitated by.

00:26:33.440 Oh, you know, really, really, the president of the United States is killing me.

00:26:39.740 Well, hang on.

00:26:40.180 I want to go.

00:26:40.720 I want to go.

00:26:41.280 I want to finish this, particularly about the police and Joe Biden in 60 seconds.

00:26:46.420 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:26:59.120 Mr. Brad Thor.

00:27:03.260 Hello, Glenn.

00:27:04.660 How are you, sir?

00:27:05.880 I'm doing well.

00:27:06.560 Thank you.

00:27:07.160 Yeah.

00:27:07.520 Good to be on with you.

00:27:08.160 You know, I remember the days when, you know, you'd you'd send me a galley of the book and

00:27:16.320 you were very excited and you'd be like, Glenn, I'm so excited.

00:27:20.300 You got to read this book.

00:27:21.720 And then it would come.

00:27:22.740 It was autographed.

00:27:23.920 The only reason I know this is because I've I've been putting the books back in my shelf

00:27:28.680 at the house and I have all of your books and most of the galleys and they're all autographed.

00:27:33.180 Say nice thing.

00:27:34.120 This time I just got something from a PR person.

00:27:37.480 What?

00:27:38.400 Here's your book, Glenn.

00:27:40.240 Oh, man.

00:27:41.000 So only Sue got to sign one this year. 0.99

00:27:44.200 Don't lie for him, Stu.

00:27:45.540 Don't lie for him.

00:27:46.380 I will say the gold plated, you know, display case was a little over the top, Brad, but

00:27:52.300 I did appreciate it.

00:27:53.420 And I will tell you, I also said I was not talking to you again until, you know, and until

00:27:59.120 your your hero, Scott, walks into a room and somebody's listening to the Glenn Beck program

00:28:06.660 or just renewing their subscription on the place.

00:28:10.000 It's not happening.

00:28:11.200 It's not happening.

00:28:12.620 Brad, it's good to have you on.

00:28:14.540 You know, it's funny.

00:28:16.120 I didn't know you were coming on last week.

00:28:18.040 I didn't know you were coming on.

00:28:19.500 And I watched, what is it, American Assassin, the first movie of yours that was made.

00:28:27.260 And I forgot how good that was.

00:28:29.920 Really, really good.

00:28:30.960 That was Vince Flynn.

00:28:34.320 That was Vince Flynn's book.

00:28:35.820 Thanks a lot, Glenn.

00:28:36.880 No, no, no.

00:28:37.340 Okay.

00:28:37.480 So it's not American Assassin.

00:28:38.760 Which one is it?

00:28:40.160 I don't have any movies yet, Glenn, but thank you.

00:28:42.940 Why don't you pour some lemon juice in that paper cup while you're at it?

00:28:45.460 I thought that was really good.

00:28:48.060 It wasn't you that wrote it.

00:28:49.120 It was the sax I'm talking to here.

00:28:50.660 It wasn't you that wrote it.

00:28:52.020 I think Glenn's getting a little revenge for his lack of signed copy.

00:28:55.680 Uh-huh.

00:28:56.080 I just thought it was really good.

00:28:58.960 Did you write The Hunt for Red October?

00:29:01.620 Because I watched that and it was really good.

00:29:05.840 Nope.

00:29:06.400 Didn't write that one either.

00:29:07.520 Wow.

00:29:08.700 So what have you written or done?

00:29:12.440 I got a couple.

00:29:13.520 Got a couple out there.

00:29:14.760 How many?

00:29:15.260 What is this?

00:29:15.820 The 20th or 19th?

00:29:19.020 20th in the Scott Harvath series.

00:29:21.080 Black Ice.

00:29:21.580 And this one, he's, you know, it starts and he's on vacation or, well, he's having a good

00:29:29.640 summer and he's on the fjord and he's got a girl with his very attractive girlfriend

00:29:36.980 who works for the Norwegian intelligence service.

00:29:39.460 And I'm not even going to try to pronounce it because it has an O with a slash through

00:29:42.720 it.

00:29:43.300 So Solvy.

00:29:44.420 Solvy Kolstad.

00:29:45.560 Okay.

00:29:46.040 All right.

00:29:46.360 So tell me why this book is as good as a Vince Flynn book.

00:29:53.420 Well, he's out of vacation days, out of sick days, and DC calls, wants him back, or they

00:29:59.120 want his resignation.

00:30:00.300 So he decides he's going to come back.

00:30:02.180 It's his calling.

00:30:02.920 He loves his job.

00:30:04.020 And he's getting ready to leave.

00:30:05.920 And he's walking out of a cafe in Oslo and sees a ghost climb out of a taxi cab, somebody

00:30:11.480 he killed years ago, halfway around the world.

00:30:14.000 And that starts off a huge chase all the way up into the Arctic.

00:30:17.820 So here's the thing.

00:30:19.060 You, you and I have known each other.

00:30:20.960 We've been friends for a very, very long time.

00:30:22.980 And I, I, I think I coined the term, uh, faction is what you write.

00:30:30.060 Um, because it is, it's always based in facts.

00:30:34.900 And I can always tell what you're concerned about just by reading your books.

00:30:40.140 And in reading this one, you are, you are concerned about something happening in the

00:30:46.100 Arctic, uh, and, and how far behind Russia and China are, um, in the area.

00:30:54.480 Can you tell me what you were thinking on this?

00:30:58.020 So, uh, I've been friends with the former national security advisor, Robert O'Brien since

00:31:02.520 college.

00:31:03.080 And this was a issue that I had brought up with him, uh, is China inserting itself into

00:31:09.380 the Arctic.

00:31:10.000 So the Arctic is getting warmer and warmer and the ice is melting up there, which provides

00:31:16.420 a lot of opportunities.

00:31:17.840 And China, suddenly the Russians were bad enough up there. 0.98

00:31:21.340 They've opened up 50, more than 50 old cold war era bases up in the Arctic.

00:31:26.540 So they're moving very quickly up there.

00:31:28.660 And China has declared itself a quote unquote near Arctic state, which is the Seinfeld of 0.62

00:31:33.860 diplomatic terms, because it means absolutely nothing.

00:31:36.640 The closest China is to the Arctic circle, any settlements over 800 miles away.

00:31:41.360 So China is trying to get a foothold up there.

00:31:43.960 They've got two icebreakers. 0.99

00:31:45.300 They're putting icebreakers up there.

00:31:46.500 We only have one and it doesn't work very well.

00:31:49.580 Why?

00:31:50.100 Russians have 30. 0.94

00:31:51.280 We fell behind the curve.

00:31:52.620 Even Mike Pompeo said, we are playing catch up in the Arctic and there are, why is it important

00:31:57.780 that we're up in the Arctic?

00:31:59.820 So there are huge deposits of rare earth minerals, gas, oil.

00:32:06.100 There's a whole bunch of stuff up there that we're going to want access to on the commercial

00:32:09.960 side, on the national security side.

00:32:11.820 We don't want Russia and China militarizing the Arctic and taking over that area.

00:32:17.400 China has been sneaking soldiers in, posing as scientists.

00:32:20.740 They're moving very quickly.

00:32:22.880 It is the next Cold War, no pun intended, is what's going on up in the Arctic.

00:32:28.000 Okay, so that's what you're concerned about, but you also, in it, and maybe it's just me,

00:32:35.180 but I felt there was a little Eric Swalwell influence in this book.

00:32:42.660 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes.

00:32:46.960 So that's, yes, very, very good, yes.

00:32:50.260 So the Chinese have all these different forms of statecraft, and I joke in the book that

00:32:55.540 they have as many forms of statecraft as the Eskimo have words for snow.

00:32:59.640 So there is a kind of a honeypot operation where someone, the Chinese are trying to get 1.00

00:33:05.980 influence in D.C., and they put a very attractive young woman, Chinese woman, Chinese woman living

00:33:11.000 in L.A., up to sweetening a deal with somebody to try to get China's ends pushed through in

00:33:18.340 Congress, correct?

00:33:20.500 Very good.

00:33:21.240 Did Swalwell, you know, I'm not a dummy.

00:33:23.760 I mean, I don't get, you know, any kind of phone calls from my friend to say, hey, I'm

00:33:28.380 coming on or anything like that, but I do, I mean, I'm not a dummy, I do read.

00:33:34.740 Did Swalwell play any, what, did Swalwell, the fang fang thing, play any role in this? 0.97

00:33:41.440 Yeah, I think that was something that was, you know, I was clipping a lot of articles

00:33:46.120 out of the paper when this was happening, and, you know, there have been people that have

00:33:49.660 been busted for not registering as a foreign agent.

00:33:52.860 That's another thing that really makes me mad.

00:33:55.120 In fact, they just busted another guy for lobbying on behalf of UAE Monday.

00:34:00.400 So that kind of stuff, people trying to exert influence on behalf of foreign nations in

00:34:05.600 not registering as an agent is something that I don't like, particularly when it's Americans 1.00

00:34:09.480 doing it.

00:34:10.040 I just think it's absolutely, it's terrible.

00:34:12.060 And I don't care what party you come from, you cannot do that.

00:34:15.640 You can't go in and try to lobby for China or somebody else and not, you know, basically

00:34:21.500 wear it on your sleeve like a NASCAR uniform.

00:34:23.520 I want to know who's paying you.

00:34:24.720 Yeah, you, the spy, says something in the book that stuck out.

00:34:29.720 I underlined it, said, don't think of it as China.

00:34:33.560 Think of it as a consortium of investors, along with an experienced Chinese oil and gas

00:34:39.000 corporation.

00:34:40.820 What do you mean by that?

00:34:42.360 So there is a lot of trying to put people at ease when they're making these deals, the

00:34:48.500 Chinese.

00:34:48.820 They're very happy to, you know, let people wet their beak and make money off these deals.

00:34:54.660 And they phrase it and put it in certain terms so that people really can tell themselves,

00:34:59.660 lie to themselves that they're not doing this on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

00:35:03.920 But that's exactly what's going on, regardless of who China puts up as a face on this thing.

00:35:08.740 And they, you know, the Chinese tried to buy a Canadian mining company in the Arctic so

00:35:13.580 they could actually get some real estate in the Arctic that they could claim as theirs.

00:35:17.020 I mean, and the stuff they were doing in Norway, using a Chinese real estate investor and trying

00:35:23.040 to use him to buy all this property up there.

00:35:25.400 So it is a creeping, endless thing as China pursues this Belt and Road Initiative, where

00:35:31.080 they're putting money all over the world and then trying to influence the politics and

00:35:35.180 the governments where they're making heavy investments.

00:35:37.840 How bad are we, Brad?

00:35:40.520 Well, you know, we've got a lot of problems and it goes back decades and over multiple

00:35:46.420 administrations.

00:35:47.520 I mean, you know, under Clinton, there was the missile technology from Loral that got

00:35:50.980 given to the Chinese and they bully the crap out of American companies who do business in 1.00

00:35:57.740 China to turn over their sensitive trade secrets and things like that.

00:36:02.000 So it's a bad thing.

00:36:03.680 But the thing that steams me the most is that they were putting the brakes on the WHO in the

00:36:08.620 beginning of COVID so that they could go around the world and try to buy up the PPE.

00:36:12.700 They knew it was coming.

00:36:13.820 They knew how bad COVID was going to be.

00:36:15.700 And they still made the WHO drag their feet while they went around, you know, gobbling

00:36:20.860 up masks and all sorts of stuff.

00:36:22.800 It's just we need to be much better as a country.

00:36:25.740 They are a national security threat.

00:36:27.360 Yet if you're on cholesterol medication, guess where it comes from?

00:36:29.960 Yeah, I know.

00:36:30.300 China.

00:36:31.020 It's we have sold our souls to the Chinese. 1.00

00:36:34.660 I mean, we're looking. 1.00

00:36:36.040 We're the ones who invented the damn chip. 0.99

00:36:38.620 And now we get all of the chips. 0.99

00:36:40.560 GM has stopped making trucks and they say this chip shortage may may go on until 2023.

00:36:48.400 Yeah, it's it's crazy.

00:36:50.680 And with two teens who needed cars, it's it's it's nuts what's going on.

00:36:56.840 And if we don't get control of our supply chains and stop manufacturing critical items like PPE

00:37:02.960 and like medications in China, we're never going to be able to stand up to them when we need 0.98

00:37:06.960 to.

00:37:07.120 So when you look at I don't know if you saw what happened yesterday, but it it felt like

00:37:12.980 something that China would do there came out and said that this was just a software update

00:37:17.400 that caused a shutdown of like Bank of America's website, AT&T.

00:37:25.400 I mean, a whole list of giant corporations were offline yesterday for a while.

00:37:33.260 If this is a cyber attack, this shows how people are just don't do not take us seriously and

00:37:39.500 how far behind we are in our infrastructure.

00:37:43.260 We and don't talk to me about the infrastructure Joe Biden is doing.

00:37:46.700 I mean, actual protection of our infrastructure.

00:37:50.340 We have I think we're already in a war with China and and Russia.

00:37:56.820 It's just a cyber war unlike we've ever seen before.

00:38:00.680 Are we prepared at all?

00:38:04.060 No, not on this front, not in what's called gray zone conflict, which is where the cyber

00:38:09.380 attacks.

00:38:09.960 That's the term for the arena in which those are happening.

00:38:12.800 And Glenn, you and I years ago, years ago, talked about a white paper that was written

00:38:17.740 by two Chinese PLA colonels called unrestricted warfare, where these Chinese strategists, military

00:38:25.360 strategists said there is no way they could ever beat the United States on the conventional

00:38:30.080 battlefield.

00:38:30.540 So they needed to find other ways, things that we took for granted and thought were harmless

00:38:34.860 and could weaponize those and turn them against us and use them against us.

00:38:38.740 And that's where we're at.

00:38:40.240 And we are woefully ill prepared to handle this kind of conflict.

00:38:45.160 And it's not going to let up.

00:38:46.300 Look at the gas pipeline that got shut down with ransomware from those Russian hackers. 0.98

00:38:54.120 It's bad.

00:38:54.740 And the Chinese, we hear all about the Russian hackers all the time, but the Chinese are even 1.00

00:38:59.100 more sophisticated.

00:39:00.260 They have office buildings just full of these people that all they do is hack and look for

00:39:05.120 vulnerabilities all day long.

00:39:07.940 Brad Thor, the author of a new thriller that is out perfect for the summer.

00:39:13.080 It's called black ice more in just a second.

00:39:17.220 He's also, he's also the movie, uh, born identity.

00:39:20.920 Really?

00:39:21.680 That was his very sure.

00:39:23.780 It's incredible.

00:39:24.660 I mean, I would lose, I'd lose respect for him if that wasn't his, uh, movie, but, uh,

00:39:32.080 Nananananana.

00:39:33.720 Oh! 0.60

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