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00:00:30.000 Hey, welcome to the Friday podcast.

00:00:31.680 Kind of started at a weird place today.

00:00:33.440 Because as everything is being flattened out in our society,

00:00:36.660 as algorithms are just making everything the same,

00:00:39.700 I happen to be broadcasting this Friday's podcast and radio broadcast from WoWo Radio.

00:00:44.580 And they're celebrating their 100th anniversary in radio.

00:00:47.640 One of the first radio stations in America.

00:00:50.580 Why is local radio?

00:00:52.900 Why?

00:00:53.460 What can this teach us about the future?

00:00:56.580 Also, Avi Loeb, he is a professor at Harvard.

00:01:00.260 He's talking about the three-eye...

00:01:02.540 What is the name of that, Sarah?

00:01:05.260 Three-eye.

00:01:07.980 Yeah.

00:01:09.080 He's talking to us about the three-eye atlas.

00:01:12.460 I don't know what it is exactly.

00:01:15.460 Asteroid?

00:01:16.240 Comet?

00:01:17.020 Or something intelligently designed that's coming our way.

00:01:20.760 Also, a fascinating interview with Eric Trump on Mom Donnie, his father,

00:01:26.860 how he does it without sleep, and Under Siege, the new book by Eric Trump.

00:01:31.340 All of that on today's podcast.

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00:03:51.180 Professor Ravi Loeb is with us.

00:03:53.400 Avi, how are you, sir?

00:03:55.300 Doing great.

00:03:56.280 Thanks for having me.

00:03:57.440 It's great to have you on.

00:03:59.860 So can you just please explain,

00:04:03.720 are we just seeing these things more than we ever have

00:04:06.640 because we have the eyes now in space to see this?

00:04:10.560 Yeah.

00:04:11.160 Over the past decade,

00:04:12.920 astronomers constructed the new survey telescopes of the sky.

00:04:16.980 Also, we have much better computers that allow us to digest large data sets.

00:04:21.400 But the motivation for building those survey telescopes is a task that the Congress gave

00:04:28.140 to NASA and the National Science Foundation to survey the sky for any objects that are near Earth,

00:04:36.780 that could collide with Earth, because that poses a risk.

00:04:39.600 And they posed it as the challenge of finding all objects bigger than a football field that may collide with Earth, near Earth objects.

00:04:48.700 And there were two major observatories constructed back a decade ago.

00:04:56.240 There was Pan Stars in Hawaii.

00:04:58.500 And recently, in June 2025, a new observatory in Chile was inaugurated called the Rubin Observatory,

00:05:06.180 funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

00:05:09.880 And those allow us to see objects that are the size of a football field and have a complete survey.

00:05:19.020 And amazingly, in 2017, an object like that was flagged.

00:05:23.640 And then the astronomers realized it's actually moving too fast to be bound by gravity to the sun.

00:05:29.280 So it came from outside the solar system.

00:05:31.860 It couldn't have been around.

00:05:33.240 So that was the first.

00:05:34.720 It was given the name Oumuamua, which means scout in the Hawaiian language.

00:05:39.880 And then there were two others.

00:05:41.840 Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on just a second, because I remember this, and I think I talked to you around this time.

00:05:46.620 Explain what you meant it was moving too fast.

00:05:49.960 Oh, well, you know, the planets orbit the sun.

00:05:54.180 For example, the Earth moves around the sun at the speed of about 30 kilometers per second,

00:06:00.220 you know, which is faster.

00:06:02.520 It's 300 times faster than the fastest race car we have.

00:06:06.360 I'm talking about 30 kilometers in one second.

00:06:11.060 That's about 20 miles in one second.

00:06:13.780 That's the speed by which the Earth orbits the sun.

00:06:17.260 But imagine boosting the Earth, just giving it, attaching a rocket to it.

00:06:23.340 Once it would reach a speed of about 42 kilometers per second, just bigger by the square root of 2,

00:06:31.080 1.4 times the current speed that it's moving, it will be able to escape the solar system.

00:06:37.540 So it just needs a high enough speed to escape from the gravitational potential well of the sun.

00:06:44.000 And we know what the speed is.

00:06:46.420 And so if we see objects moving near the Earth at more than 42 kilometers per second,

00:06:51.400 we know that they cannot be bound by gravity to the sun.

00:06:54.560 They must have originated somewhere else.

00:06:57.180 And so Oumuamua was one of those.

00:07:00.700 And since then, we found two more with telescopes.

00:07:03.900 I actually identified with my student a fourth one, which was found by the U.S. government's satellites that are monitoring the Earth.

00:07:14.280 That was a meteor that came from interstellar space.

00:07:17.380 But at any event, the most recent one was found by a small telescope in Chile called the Atlas.

00:07:24.500 And again, to identify risk for Earth.

00:07:29.220 And that one was given the name 3I Atlas.

00:07:35.100 So help me out on this, because, I mean, we didn't have these telescopes.

00:07:38.740 This is obviously a relatively new thing that we're doing.

00:07:42.600 How much damage does a football field size comet or space debris, what would that do?

00:07:50.400 What was the size of whatever killed the dinosaurs, if that indeed was what happened?

00:07:55.440 What is an Earth killer size?

00:07:58.080 Yeah, well, the size of a football field can, an object like that, if it collides with Earth, can cause regional damage.

00:08:06.000 Much more, you know, like of order, a thousand times the Hiroshima atomic bomb energy output.

00:08:13.640 So kind of like what happened in Russia back in the turn of the last century?

00:08:18.140 Yeah, something.

00:08:18.940 No, that one was actually much smaller than, that was a thousand times less massive.

00:08:25.600 Oh, my gosh.

00:08:26.100 So, you know, these big ones are really rare.

00:08:30.280 And that's why I will say, as we continue the discussion, I will mention this new one.

00:08:36.020 And it's estimated to be, you know, of order, the one that killed the dinosaurs.

00:08:42.220 And these are extremely rare.

00:08:44.640 And so the question is, why are we seeing an interstellar object that big, you know, just within the last decade?

00:08:50.720 But coming back to your question, the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was roughly Manhattan Island.

00:08:57.720 Okay, so compare the size of a football field to Manhattan Island.

00:09:01.880 It's a very different scale.

00:09:03.660 And so what the Congress wanted NASA to do is identify those that will cause just the regional damage, not the catastrophe like happened with the dinosaurs, where there was a nuclear winter.

00:09:17.200 You know, the earth was covered with dust.

00:09:18.820 And, yeah, so, and, you know, 75% of all species died.

00:09:23.960 And we owe our existence because after the dinosaurs died, you know, the more complex animals came along.

00:09:30.880 And we are one of those species.

00:09:34.620 So you say they're only looking for the small ones, but I'm sure if the big one shows up, you'll ring the bell.

00:09:40.780 No, that's, yeah, it's much easier.

00:09:43.620 It's much easier to see the big ones.

00:09:45.360 Right. And do we have any technology that can move these things out, or is this just something that we're not – no, just another thing on the plate.

00:09:53.460 Oh, by the way, this could happen, and it's coming our way, and there's really nothing we could do.

00:09:57.120 Is this just a big worry, or is there things that we can actually do?

00:10:01.620 Yes, we can, because if you catch it early enough before it comes close to earth, you just need to nudge it a little bit to the side, and then it will miss the earth.

00:10:11.600 And there are all kinds of proposals for how to do that.

00:10:14.220 But you can – you know, the most aggressive one is to explode a nuclear weapon on it.

00:10:20.500 But wouldn't that break it up, and then we'd have all kinds of little meteors coming our way?

00:10:25.780 Yeah, exactly. That's why it's not a good idea.

00:10:29.080 You know, all the Patriot missiles were doing just that, and they created – when they were operated back a decade ago, you know,

00:10:37.880 they created much more damage than help, actually.

00:10:41.880 But you can do it in a more intelligent way, maybe explode the weapon close to the object so that it doesn't disintegrate.

00:10:51.220 It just ablates part of it, and then you get the rocket effect from the ablation pushing it.

00:10:57.300 But there are other ways.

00:10:59.280 Some people suggested painting it on one side so that, you know, it reflects more sunlight on one side,

00:11:05.200 and then it's getting nudged a little bit.

00:11:07.820 You can imagine shepherding it by gravity.

00:11:11.080 You know, the spacecraft is massive enough, and it shepherds it.

00:11:14.060 It basically gives it a gravitational nudge.

00:11:19.100 There are all kinds of methods that were proposed.

00:11:22.400 And, by the way, NASA, just a year ago, they tried one of these methods with a mission called DART,

00:11:30.620 where they collided with an asteroid just to see how much it gets kicked as a result and what happens to it.

00:11:38.620 And it was quite surprising because, you know, some of these asteroids are not very rigid.

00:11:44.060 They are porous, and you get all kinds of dust thrown out of them in ways that were not anticipated.

00:11:51.240 So, at any event, the people are thinking about, you know, rocks.

00:11:55.640 Rocks are easy to deal with because, in principle, you can tell what their path would be.

00:12:01.440 However, one thing that was never discussed is the kind of thing I'm trying to advocate we do

00:12:06.860 is what if there is some alien technology out there?

00:12:11.260 Then, you know, if it was designed by intelligence, you wouldn't be able to forecast exactly what it would do.

00:12:18.900 It's just like finding a visitor to your backyard.

00:12:22.260 The visitor may enter through your front door.

00:12:24.260 You have to act immediately, and you need to engage with it in ways that are much more complicated than dealing with a rock.

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00:13:52.060 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:13:58.220 I am sitting in a brand new studio, state of the art, at WoWo in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

00:14:07.760 WoWo is this amazing radio station, and I am here to celebrate their 100th anniversary

00:14:15.540 as they are launching into their second century of broadcast and grabbing on to the future.

00:14:23.980 I'm here because when we launched, WoWo, I think, was one of the first five stations.

00:14:31.360 I know we launched with 20 stations, and I think they were like number four, number five that signed on.

00:14:38.280 They were with us on the very first day that we launched the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:43.580 But beyond that, WoWo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was one of the very first stations in America, in the world.

00:14:53.180 And what it has meant, what it has done, and what it's about to do is remarkable.

00:15:03.240 Back in 1925, there was no such thing as a network.

00:15:07.880 CBS had not even started to put together a network, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

00:15:14.220 Radio was brand new.

00:15:15.980 The air was silent.

00:15:22.780 And WoWo launched.

00:15:25.040 And when that voice spoke, people listened because they knew it was speaking to them.

00:15:33.640 WoWo was never a spot on the dial.

00:15:36.720 Our local radio stations are, I don't know if we really appreciate our local radio stations.

00:15:43.220 Everything has changed, and yet, something still remains true.

00:15:49.560 And it's that truth that finds its way through the static on the air.

00:15:54.660 It's that truth of a friend in the dark hours of a war, or the comfort during a storm when everything else is down.

00:16:03.500 The laugh on a long morning commute.

00:16:05.500 In Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a hundred years now, when blizzards shut down the roads, when the headlines, when the headlines scarred us, or when hope felt small, there was always that voice humming through the night, a reminder that we're not alone.

00:16:24.460 And it's local radio.

00:16:25.600 This is a station that helped put Fort Wayne on the map.

00:16:32.800 It was its first broadcast carried not music and news.

00:16:37.700 Its first broadcast carried with it identity.

00:16:41.160 And this is so critical.

00:16:43.940 Everything is being flattened out now.

00:16:46.300 Everything.

00:16:46.860 You go to one town after another, and they're all the same.

00:16:49.540 They have the Ann Taylor and the Gap and everything else.

00:16:51.920 And it's exactly the same.

00:16:53.260 The first broadcast carried, and the broadcasts that are still carried on your local station,

00:17:02.940 Woe Woe told the nation that Indiana had something to say, and that people could be both humble and mighty.

00:17:14.380 It gave a voice to the farmers and the shopkeepers and the school teachers and the kids with dreams bigger than their town's borders.

00:17:23.980 It carried their music, their songs.

00:17:28.900 Woe Woe was the first radio station in the country to carry a basketball game.

00:17:32.940 It carried their prayers.

00:17:34.460 When they first launched in the 1920s, they had a huge pipe organ.

00:17:37.860 And every Sunday, they would have services on the air.

00:17:42.320 But what made these few stations so unique, when CBS, two years after Woe Woe went on the air, maybe four years after they went on the air,

00:17:56.340 they decided, the Columbia Broadcasting System decided that they were going to make a network.

00:18:00.800 But how do you make a network?

00:18:01.880 Woe Woe was one of the first 16 stations to say, we'll share the burden.

00:18:07.440 We will go to the Bell System, now AT&T, and we will buy the phone lines from New York, and we'll string them all the way to Fort Wayne.

00:18:18.740 And that way, we'll be able to carry a network show on a phone line.

00:18:23.180 And at night, when its clear channel signal stretched across the map from the Carolinas to New England,

00:18:31.400 travelers and truckers that were far from home could turn on the dial and hear the warmth of the Midwest.

00:18:36.380 I used to listen to KFI early in the morning up in the Pacific Northwest, and I could hear the sound of Los Angeles.

00:18:49.640 Here, amongst the busy streets along the coastline of the Atlantic, people would be able to hear home.

00:18:58.640 Woe Woe was the sound of home that was carried on the wind.

00:19:01.900 Today, we're kind of lost.

00:19:08.340 Today, we don't really know who we are.

00:19:10.500 It's a world overflowing with noise.

00:19:14.480 And yet, there are those local stations, and I see them in town after town.

00:19:19.260 When we go to serve after a hurricane, it's the local station.

00:19:23.060 It is the Woe Woe of the market that is still doing what it always has.

00:19:28.180 Listening.

00:19:29.420 Serving.

00:19:29.840 And reminding who we really are.

00:19:39.580 For a hundred years, this radio station has proven that community isn't something that we click on.

00:19:47.820 Community is something that we build.

00:19:49.700 And when you build it together, and the static fades, something remarkable happens.

00:19:58.180 We begin to hear each other again.

00:20:05.200 Do you remember what it was like if you're at my age, or maybe even a little younger, listening to the ball game under the blankets?

00:20:12.760 You'd go into your bed, and you'd turn on your transistor radio, and you could listen in the middle of the night, and you would listen to voices far away.

00:20:21.820 Today, you're listening to voices all around the world.

00:20:27.680 You're seeing images in your hand instantly, live.

00:20:32.260 Information is infinite.

00:20:33.740 And that's why Woe Woe and stations like it endure. 0.99

00:20:46.180 And they endure perhaps more urgently than ever before, because they stand as proof that localism, the small town, the shops, the neighbors, the farms, they matter.

00:21:02.040 When you watch national news, when you're seeing things on Facebook, everything is flattened, the perspective is just flat, and the algorithms tailor the outrage for you.

00:21:15.460 And then there's the local station that says, no, no, no, remember, here's who we are.

00:21:20.880 Here's where we live.

00:21:22.700 Here's what we love.

00:21:32.040 Here's what we love.

00:22:03.000 Because when you get to this level, when you get to the small, local hometown, and yet one of the first network stations, when you get to a place like Woe Woe, it's one of the last institutions where people from opposite ends of the political spectrum might still hear the same words at the same time.

00:22:27.180 In a divided America, that is rare, and that is sacred.

00:22:32.040 I travel the country.

00:22:36.000 I've been in radio now.

00:22:38.080 In 2027, it will be my 50th year in broadcast.

00:22:42.120 I have been broadcasting half the time that Woe Woe has been in business, and it was one of the first stations in America.

00:22:50.400 And I travel the country, and the towns are the owners that don't appreciate or don't understand the power of local radio.

00:23:05.180 They have lost something irreplaceable.

00:23:08.140 Not sound.

00:23:09.940 We have plenty of sound.

00:23:11.700 We've lost our story.

00:23:13.280 We've lost the voice that says, good morning, Fort Wayne, and actually means it.

00:23:22.200 It's such an honor to be here today.

00:23:30.060 It really is.

00:23:32.300 And I know if you're listening someplace, especially in a big city, this maybe doesn't mean anything to you.

00:23:38.920 But it should.

00:23:40.880 Because in the end, it's not going to be a national voice that saves.

00:23:48.440 It's not going to be the federal government.

00:23:52.580 It's going to be all of us in our little towns all over America that saves things.

00:23:57.660 And it's stations like Woe Woe that remind us the value is not in watts or ratings, but in its quiet reminder that community is more than people sharing space.

00:24:11.940 It's people sharing sound and memory and truth.

00:24:17.480 It was and remains the heartbeat in the static.

00:24:27.660 Happy 100th anniversary, Woe Woe Radio.

00:24:36.120 Thank you for being an original sponsor, an original affiliate of the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:45.180 I remember the first time I was here.

00:24:48.300 I had just written my first book.

00:24:50.100 It was called The Real America.

00:24:51.320 About four people read it.

00:24:54.300 I showed up at a bookstore here in Fort Wayne.

00:24:58.620 And I had to stay there for, I think, an hour.

00:25:02.220 I was contractually.

00:25:03.200 I had to stay there for an hour and nobody was there.

00:25:05.220 I mean, after like 15 minutes, the whole place was empty.

00:25:08.640 And I'm like, huh, this is so awkward.

00:25:10.380 I'm standing around in this bookstore and nobody is here.

00:25:15.480 And these little old ladies came up. 1.00

00:25:18.600 And they were local.

00:25:19.540 And this one lady was introducing me to her other friends who hadn't listened to me yet. 0.99

00:25:29.040 And at one point, she brought me a pie.

00:25:31.620 Another lady, I think, brought me a loaf of bread.

00:25:34.020 And these were in the days when a listener could bring me something and I could actually eat it.

00:25:37.980 And this lady said to me, we were sitting there talking and she reminded me of my grandmother.

00:25:49.120 I could see her quilting her, what my grandmother used to say, her lap robe.

00:25:54.200 My grandmother would quilt these blankets. 0.94

00:25:57.000 We didn't know until after she died.

00:25:59.460 She would quilt these blankets all winter long.

00:26:01.820 We'd see her, but we didn't know what she was doing with them.

00:26:03.800 And she was giving them to the homeless. 0.60

00:26:08.260 And I could see this woman, just like my grandmother, just quietly quilting.

00:26:15.840 And she looked at her friends and she said, you need to listen to this young man.

00:26:22.900 She said, he's a really good boy.

00:26:24.600 And then she grabbed my cheek and she shook my cheek.

00:26:28.580 And she said, just sometimes he gets a little out of control, but he's a good boy.

00:26:41.940 I was driving this morning early in Fort Wayne.

00:26:47.540 It's still a town with a heartbeat.

00:26:49.060 They've redone the downtown.

00:26:53.220 It's beautiful.

00:26:54.660 I should probably tell you it's not because I don't think everybody wants people to go, oh, I want to live in Fort Wayne.

00:26:59.380 I think they would like to keep it like this, but the neighborhoods are still neighborhoods.

00:27:04.900 The big old houses aren't all run down in some ghetto.

00:27:09.620 It's beautiful.

00:27:10.580 And the trees are starting to turn colors.

00:27:13.040 And some of the factories are even being used again.

00:27:20.960 I was just at Berna, one of our sponsors there here in Fort Wayne.

00:27:26.160 And they've been building here and building factories as America gets back to work.

00:27:32.320 I thought I could live here in a heartbeat.

00:27:34.240 But time goes on and so does the news and things get busier and busier and busier.

00:27:48.720 And I got here yesterday and I was worn out because I had spent a few hours with the president this week.

00:27:56.980 The guy who had flown on Sunday, left in the afternoon on Sunday, went, flew across the ocean, went to Israel, greeted the hostages as they were being released, celebrated, then went and spoke at the Knesset for two hours, then got on another plane, went to Egypt, negotiated a peace deal.

00:28:15.960 Did all kinds of talking and picture taking and shaking of hands and everything else, got back onto a plane, arrived, met with the president of Argentina, Malay, and then walked out into the Rose Garden and did a tribute to Charlie Kirk.

00:28:35.060 And then after that, he walked back into the Oval Office and I was standing outside of the Oval Office at one point and it was lined with people waiting to go in and see him.

00:28:45.020 And it was the vice president and the secretary of state, the guy moving so rapidly and I was tired.

00:28:55.500 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:02.260 Welcome back to the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:04.240 I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana today celebrating WoWo's 100th anniversary.

00:29:09.380 I'm back tonight for the fundraiser for the Mercury One Gala tomorrow.

00:29:16.020 I have to tell you, I travel quite a bit and, you know, I get usual worn out like everybody else does.

00:29:23.280 And then I go to the White House and I see this president who is, I don't know, 15 years older than me.

00:29:30.320 And the guy is powering through.

00:29:31.700 I mean, he had 36 hours without sleep, flying across the world, doing all kinds of stuff, meeting with everybody, holding press conferences.

00:29:40.200 He comes back.

00:29:41.660 He holds a press conference, meets with Javier Millay, then does the Charlie Kirk thing.

00:29:46.540 Then I'm standing in the in the hallway of the White House and I'm seeing all these people, the vice president going into for a meeting and then Secretary Rubio's going in for a meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting.

00:29:57.220 Then he has a two hour phone call with Putin.

00:30:01.320 I mean, when does this guy sleep?

00:30:03.100 How does he do it?

00:30:04.400 And that's a sincere question.

00:30:06.400 Eric Trump is with us now.

00:30:07.560 He's the author of a new book called Under Siege.

00:30:10.640 He this is a compelling book.

00:30:13.820 Everyone should have this.

00:30:15.340 Anyone who says, oh, you know, look what they're doing.

00:30:18.400 I want you to read Under Siege.

00:30:20.300 I want you to see what the left did to the Trump organization and the Trump family.

00:30:25.680 Eric, welcome to the program.

00:30:27.020 How does your dad do this?

00:30:29.360 Listen, the guy's incredible, right?

00:30:30.600 I think I've told you this before, but I mean, he's the Energizer buddy in a suit, wearing a red tie on steroids.

00:30:35.920 The guy is remarkable.

00:30:36.920 My entire life I've seen this.

00:30:38.580 What's amazing is, you know, so many of these, you know, kind of fake news journalists you see that, you know, that are on these kind of foreign trips with him.

00:30:44.100 You know, they were the ones 10 years ago.

00:30:45.740 Glenn, you know this better than anybody.

00:30:46.800 I think you reported on it better than anybody.

00:30:48.380 But, you know, will Donald Trump have the stamina to be president?

00:30:51.740 All right.

00:30:51.940 And literally they're falling off of Air Force One.

00:30:54.640 Now they slept the entire time, you know, on the way over there and on the way back.

00:30:57.700 My father didn't sleep at all.

00:30:58.880 He goes over there.

00:30:59.660 He's in two stops in Israel.

00:31:01.480 Then he meets every world leader in Egypt.

00:31:03.100 He does private meetings.

00:31:03.980 He does two press conferences.

00:31:05.100 He flies back to Andrews Air Force Base, comes off, as you said, you know, and he meets with the whole Argentinian delegation, does Charlie Kirk.

00:31:12.120 You know, I heard from him at 1130 that night.

00:31:14.700 I mean, no, the guy is absolutely remarkable.

00:31:16.660 I mean, sleep isn't one of these things that we've ever had in our gene, but the guy is beyond remarkable.

00:31:21.320 He does not stop.

00:31:22.300 He does not quit.

00:31:23.200 He does not cower.

00:31:24.780 He's a worker.

00:31:25.580 And that's exactly what this country needs.

00:31:27.280 Has he always been, what is he, three hours, two hours of sleep a night?

00:31:31.720 What does he get?

00:31:33.400 Yeah, probably three hours.

00:31:34.760 I mean, yeah.

00:31:35.700 Do you have that in your family?

00:31:37.520 Do the rest of you guys have this in your genes?

00:31:40.720 Yeah, well, I did a podcast live from Israel last night at 2 a.m., and I was at it again this morning at 630.

00:31:47.860 So, yeah, we've never been good sleepers in our family.

00:31:50.080 And not that we're not good sleepers.

00:31:51.440 We just don't sleep much.

00:31:52.300 And, you know, he's one of these guys who's always been myopically focused on whatever he wanted to do at the time, right?

00:31:57.140 If it was real estate, he was myopically focused on a building.

00:31:59.600 If it was, you know, building a golf course, if it was The Apprentice, he was myopically focused on every aspect of the show, of ratings, of PR for that show.

00:32:08.820 And certainly when he went to politics, it was the same thing, right?

00:32:11.100 Nothing else mattered.

00:32:12.280 He just, he's laser focused on whatever he wants to achieve.

00:32:15.400 And the guy is remarkable.

00:32:16.900 And right now he is laser focused on the success of this country.

00:32:19.920 I've never seen somebody just effectively X out the distractions as well as him, you know, the temptations, the other things, and just focus solely on one mission and put every ounce of their energy and heart and soul into achieving it.

00:32:34.960 He's a remarkable guy.

00:32:36.200 He's my best friend in the world.

00:32:37.360 And, you know, I feel that I kind of take on that same trait.

00:32:41.380 What a cool thing to say about your father, that he's your best friend.

00:32:43.800 And before we talk quickly about the book, the Mom Donnie thing, what the hell is wrong with New Yorkers?

00:32:51.340 What, I mean, what is going to happen to New York if that guy wins?

00:32:55.840 Well, he's going to, I mean, I hate to say this, right?

00:32:57.740 I'm going to get criticized for saying that, but he's going to win.

00:32:59.740 He's promising free everything to everyone.

00:33:01.920 It's insane.

00:33:02.960 I mean, listen, I understand.

00:33:04.080 What does it do to the economy to the rest of the United States?

00:33:07.220 Yeah, of course.

00:33:08.020 Well, that's what he's doing.

00:33:08.860 Listen, he's talking about how he's going to raise taxes in New York and DeSantis in Florida, where I live, is talking about how he's going to get rid of all property taxes and so much money has flowed into the state of Florida from New York.

00:33:19.920 I mean, I think about the great irony there.

00:33:22.320 I mean, you know, they said the top 18,500 taxpayers in New York City paid 85% of the taxes in New York City.

00:33:29.480 And guess what?

00:33:29.840 They're all gone.

00:33:30.560 I mean, they left.

00:33:31.360 And it breaks my heart because I'm a guy that loves, I love New York, but they've destroyed it.

00:33:35.300 I don't know why everything needs to be a social experiment.

00:33:37.340 I mean, and I understand political bravado.

00:33:39.720 You probably understand political bravado better than any human being in the world.

00:33:42.920 The difference is he's on Martha McCallum yesterday on Fox News, and he literally says if Benjamin Netanyahu comes to New York, he's going to arrest him.

00:33:50.600 I mean, this is a major world leader.

00:33:53.220 Now world leaders aren't going to want to come into New York City to the UN because out of fear of getting thrown in jail, what is this human being doing?

00:34:00.320 He hates the NYPD.

00:34:01.660 He wants to defund them. 0.99

00:34:02.680 He hates the Indian population. 0.99

00:34:03.940 He says that Modi is a war criminal. 0.98

00:34:05.400 You know, he obviously hates the Jews based on the fact that he wants to arrest, you know, Netanyahu. 0.92

00:34:10.920 He wants to nationalize grocery stores.

00:34:12.800 I mean, how about, like, safe streets, clean streets, and just, you know, low taxes and let capitalism work, and New York will be the greatest city in the world.

00:34:19.840 It's not a hard recipe.

00:34:20.580 We are a nation that is so divided, going in two different directions, and I, I, I mean, we're seeing it, and when, if he gets in, and I think, oh, you're right, he's going to get in, it is, it's going to be stark.

00:34:34.040 What's going to happen to New York is going to be stark.

00:34:36.460 And the same thing with Jay Jones, this, you know, you're, you guys know it.

00:34:40.880 You guys have been under attack, and they've been calling your father a fascist and everything else, and then they try to kill him twice.

00:34:46.080 And, you know, you have Jay Jones, who's just, he, that was heartfelt.

00:34:52.520 That wasn't a slip of the tongue.

00:34:54.420 That wasn't a joke.

00:34:55.200 That was heartfelt.

00:34:57.080 Some, the people he was talking to tried to stop him from saying it, saying, don't say these things.

00:35:01.600 This is horrible.

00:35:02.420 Well, you got to do that.

00:35:03.440 The only way to make people change their political viewpoint is to cause them pain in their life. 0.99

00:35:08.120 You're talking about killing his children. 0.93

00:35:10.920 But, but that, that's what they did under siege. 0.99

00:35:13.340 They wanted me gone.

00:35:14.480 They wanted me killed in every way, shape, or form, both physically and otherwise.

00:35:19.000 I became the most opinioned person in American history for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

00:35:23.420 I've never gotten a speeding ticket plan.

00:35:25.220 And they wanted to, they wanted me gone.

00:35:27.480 They wanted me off that stage.

00:35:28.740 They wanted to divide our family.

00:35:30.240 That's why they made up the dirty dossiers. 0.96

00:35:31.960 That's why they made up the stories about golden, you know, what's the prostitutes, which are paid for by Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:35:37.640 That's why they made up the fact that we had secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating with, with the Kremlin.

00:35:42.840 That's why they threw us off of Twitter and YouTube and Instagram and Facebook.

00:35:47.720 That's why they put the gag orders on our, on our family. 0.95

00:35:50.660 That's why they brought us into court every single day, 91 indictments.

00:35:55.020 We spent $400 million defending ourselves based on BS.

00:35:59.200 That's why they threw my father off the ballots in Maine and Colorado.

00:36:03.060 That's why they leaked our tax returns, mine, my father's, everybody in our family, everybody, all the executives of our company.

00:36:08.800 They leaked all our tax returns to the New York Times, the IRS.

00:36:12.880 They raided our home.

00:36:14.540 They raided Mar-a-Lago.

00:36:16.000 I mean, where do you want me to stop?

00:36:18.120 They were planting classified folders on the, on the floor of my father's office, taking photo shoots of them and sending them to the New York Times.

00:36:25.640 You, you, you had Comey, you know, leaking to the New York Times as FBI director every day in an effort to undermine my father.

00:36:32.700 They were, they were spying on our campaign.

00:36:35.120 I could go on for another two hours.

00:36:36.980 I mean, those are just a couple of the obvious ones.

00:36:39.720 They put us under siege.

00:36:41.440 They wanted to inflict harm.

00:36:43.140 They wanted to inflict pain.

00:36:44.860 They wanted to see us in a jail cell.

00:36:46.760 They wanted to see us bankrupt.

00:36:48.120 They wanted to see us voiceless.

00:36:49.960 And when I say us, it's not just the Trump family.

00:36:52.560 It's you.

00:36:53.360 It's all of your listeners.

00:36:54.620 They were weaponizing the IRS against conservative organizations, against churches, against pastors, right?

00:37:00.760 I mean, they were, they implemented DEI, so so many great people missed promotions in their workplace to somebody who was far less qualified, all based on some fictitious standard.

00:37:11.020 Glenn, they were coming after all of us.

00:37:12.800 And that's the story of the siege.

00:37:14.260 The siege just wasn't against our family.

00:37:16.160 It was against the entire conservative movement and everybody who loved God and the Constitution and the American flag and just wanted to make America great again.

00:37:24.800 And that's the story of under siege.

00:37:26.800 I have to tell you, I think this book is so important historically and for anybody who is, has anyone in their family who is saying the things, the CNN had a chyron on the bottom of the screen that, you know, the banner on the bottom of the screen.

00:37:40.460 And it said, third Trump enemy to be indicted in 21 days.

00:37:45.540 And they were making the case that Comey, James and Bolton are all being indicted because your dad has a thing against him and just wants to, you know, politically go after his enemies.

00:37:56.980 And I saw that and I thought, who are you people that you you actually believe that that if if Donald Trump wanted to respond in kind, it wouldn't be with three people.

00:38:08.500 I mean, this is such a small response.

00:38:11.900 If it was a response and it's all being done by the book and they will never admit what they did to your family.

00:38:18.680 That's why I think the book is under siege.

00:38:21.040 Get it.

00:38:21.660 That's why it's important.

00:38:22.680 But anyway, go ahead.

00:38:23.360 It was all coordinated.

00:38:25.080 I mean, you know, Letitia James was going to the White House and Fannie Willis and Nathan Wade were going to the White House and, you know, the vice president's house.

00:38:33.240 They were all going to the White House.

00:38:34.280 It was all being coordinated.

00:38:35.720 You know, remember when they raided Mar-a-Lago, they said the raid was on behalf of NARA, the National Archives, which is effectively a public library in Washington, D.C.

00:38:43.320 You think a public library raids Mar-a-Lago, the former president's house, probably the most famous house on earth.

00:38:48.320 Give me a give me a break.

00:38:49.300 Right.

00:38:49.560 And honestly, what I would say is if you have that liberal sister or liberal brother or liberal family member, I hope you could give them this book and just allow them to read the first three chapters.

00:38:59.760 And I think they'll say, wow, you know, regardless of where you stand on certain political issues, their jaw will hit the floor because it was so fundamentally un-American.

00:39:09.960 It was so wrong on every front.

00:39:13.160 And I want people and I don't want revisionist history be able to change the narrative because, you know, that's exactly what they do.

00:39:19.120 They're better at revisionist history than anybody in the history of the world.

00:39:22.140 Look, look at Wikipedia and look at the facts.

00:39:25.120 They, you know, you know, they can't change the narrative and it had to be documented for all all time.

00:39:31.040 And I think that's why this book's gone parabolic.

00:39:34.040 I mean, it's number one on Amazon.

00:39:35.200 It has been for the last week.

00:39:36.740 It has gone absolutely viral.

00:39:39.140 It is selling off the charts.

00:39:40.520 And it's people are upset.

00:39:43.480 I mean, Glenn, people are really upset.

00:39:44.800 And it's mainly your audience and the people who love this nation, love our flag and love God.

00:39:48.980 And they're they're pissed off.

00:39:50.520 They're really pissed off.

00:39:51.960 In the in the book, you warn about the threats to liberty.

00:39:54.680 And I have to tell you, if J.D. Vance or whoever doesn't win in 28 and we lose control of Congress, I think the vengeance that is coming.

00:40:06.540 I mean, these are vengeful people.

00:40:09.400 What what do we what should individuals do?

00:40:11.940 What are you guys doing to avoid the next onslaught?

00:40:17.020 Should that happen?

00:40:17.860 You know, it's funny.

00:40:20.200 It's their only playbook.

00:40:21.060 Their old their old playbook used to be identity politics.

00:40:23.640 And that was the only playbook that they were good at. 0.99

00:40:25.300 Their policy sucked. 0.98

00:40:26.140 But but they play identity politics. 1.00

00:40:27.640 You're a racist. Right. 0.98

00:40:28.440 And, you know, yes, yes.

00:40:29.300 We picked up more African-American vote than any conservatives ever.

00:40:32.080 You're anti-Semitic, which is kind of funny, considering my sister's Jewish.

00:40:34.780 And my father's been the greatest thing for for for Israel ever. 0.98

00:40:37.640 You know, you're sexist.

00:40:38.820 Right. We heard that for years.

00:40:39.880 It's kind of funny.

00:40:40.380 My father is the only person who's ever had a female campaign manager. 0.89

00:40:42.720 And he did it twice, both in Kellyanne Conway, who won in 2016.

00:40:45.980 And obviously Susie Wiles, who won in 2024. 1.00

00:40:49.520 You know, I mean, you go down the list. 0.96

00:40:51.060 You're fascist. 0.98

00:40:52.060 Yet they're shooting one of my close friends in the neck, you know, dressed in black from 0.99

00:40:55.980 a rooftop across the heads of college kids as they exercise free speech.

00:40:59.700 Right. I mean, they used to be good at identity politics.

00:41:03.180 Now that's all falling apart.

00:41:04.500 You know, they and so now what they do is because they've lost the narrative, they turn

00:41:08.120 to violence.

00:41:08.600 And that's why we see, you know, friends of ours being shot in the neck.

00:41:11.520 That's why they tried to kill my father.

00:41:12.940 You know, when when when dialogue breaks down, they just turn violent.

00:41:17.820 And that's why you see those text messages you saw from, you know, the agey candidate 0.93

00:41:21.780 in Virginia.

00:41:23.320 They know no other game other than weaponized and rigged system.

00:41:27.380 We saw them rigged system in 2020.

00:41:29.380 There's not a single person in this country, including Barack Obama, who thinks that Joe

00:41:34.400 Biden got 16 million more votes than Barack Obama.

00:41:37.380 And I'm shocked that no one's ever asked Barack Obama.

00:41:39.540 Do you really believe that Joe Biden got 16 million more votes than you did in 2012?

00:41:43.620 I'd love to see the reaction on his face.

00:41:45.580 And I'd love to see him try and answer that, because everybody knows that all the Democrats

00:41:49.180 are good at are rigging a system.

00:41:51.840 And so do I have any doubt that they're going to play their games again?

00:41:54.820 Absolutely not.

00:41:55.800 It's like how these people are bred.

00:41:57.560 It's like it's all they know in their genetic code.

00:42:00.240 I only have about 40 seconds here for you to answer and answer if you if you want.

00:42:03.560 But if Mom Donnie wins, when Mom Donnie wins, will the Trump organization stay in New York?

00:42:09.380 I mean, we've already moved to Florida.

00:42:11.180 You know, we still have offices in New York and we have a lot of assets in New York.

00:42:14.960 But I love that city.

00:42:16.380 I love that state.

00:42:17.300 New York is untouchable.

00:42:18.460 If you just had confidence, if I ran New York, safe streets, clean streets, low taxes

00:42:23.880 and let capitalism do what it does best and nothing could beat New York, no state could

00:42:28.460 beat New York, nothing and no city in the world could beat New York.

00:42:30.760 But they're incapable of doing that.

00:42:32.460 Everything has to be a social experiment.

00:42:33.920 Everything has to be this kind of, you know, experimental Petri dish.

00:42:37.700 It's such a shame and it's not going to be good for the state.

00:42:40.040 Are we hearing a future headline?

00:42:43.120 Eric Trump running for mayor of New York at some point?

00:42:46.520 Oh, definitely not mayor of New York now.

00:42:50.520 Please don't give me nightmares, please.

00:42:52.700 I love the sunshine.

00:42:55.380 I'm a Floridian, true and true.

00:42:57.400 Yeah.

00:42:57.840 Eric, thank you so much.

00:42:58.860 Good to talk to you again.

00:42:59.660 The name of the book is Under Siege.

00:43:01.100 I can't recommend it highly enough.

00:43:03.000 This is what everybody is arguing, that Donald Trump is, you know, doing all these fascist

00:43:08.740 things.

00:43:09.180 You want to know what Under Siege actually is?

00:43:12.620 Read Under Siege, available wherever books are sold.

00:43:15.340 Eric, thank you so much.

00:43:16.220 We'll talk again.

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