The Glenn Beck Program - July 23, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Bill O’Reilly & Brad Thor ｜ 7⧸23⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

163.43051

Word Count

6,467

Sentence Count

636

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

Brad Thor talks about his new book Black Ice, a thriller that focuses on the Arctic Circle and China and Russia, and he has some real insights on what s really happening. We talk about geopolitics in this era and whether we re in a war already with China & Russia and so much more on today s podcast.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, great podcast today. We have, of course, Bill O'Reilly on and then Brad Thor.
00:00:05.120 Brad Thor talks about his new book called Black Ice.
00:00:09.280 It's a thriller. Brad is on his 20th number one bestseller now with this series.
00:00:15.400 And he focuses on the Arctic Circle and China and Russia and what's going on.
00:00:21.580 And he had some real insights on what's really happening.
00:00:24.900 We talk about geopolitics in this era and whether we're in a war already with China and Russia.
00:00:34.900 Brad Thor and so much more on today's podcast.
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.
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.
00:03:10.320 But we're not just here to be silly.
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.
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.
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.
00:03:56.520 Oh, okay.
00:03:57.320 So then they can become pregnant.
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.
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.
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.
00:05:01.120 Holy cow.
00:05:03.180 But it's like that term is hilarious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
00:11:37.660 Um, if we have the peaceful protester, uh, he's a black, uh, block rioter with, uh, raised
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.
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.
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.
00:16:39.900 I got to tell you, I got to get our butts kicked three nuts.
00:16:42.740 Look, I said to the U S woman's soccer team coach, maybe you might want to do a little
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
00:25:56.720 I'll blow them up because that we got to stop violent crime.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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
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.
00:36:34.660 I mean, we're looking.
00:36:36.040 We're the ones who invented the damn chip.
00:36:38.620 And now we get all of the chips.
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
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.
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
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!