Avi Loeb joins Glenn Beck on the show to talk about the Three Eyed Atlas and the future of astronomy. Also, a fascinating interview with Eric Trump on Mom Donnie, his father, how he does it without sleep, and Under Siege, the new book by Eric Trump.
00:09:03.660And 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.
00:09:17.200You know, the earth was covered with dust.
00:09:18.820And, yeah, so, and, you know, 75% of all species died.
00:09:23.960And we owe our existence because after the dinosaurs died, you know, the more complex animals came along.
00:09:45.360Right. 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.
00:09:53.460Oh, by the way, this could happen, and it's coming our way, and there's really nothing we could do.
00:09:57.120Is this just a big worry, or is there things that we can actually do?
00:10:01.620Yes, 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.
00:10:11.600And there are all kinds of proposals for how to do that.
00:10:14.220But you can – you know, the most aggressive one is to explode a nuclear weapon on it.
00:10:20.500But wouldn't that break it up, and then we'd have all kinds of little meteors coming our way?
00:10:25.780Yeah, exactly. That's why it's not a good idea.
00:10:29.080You know, all the Patriot missiles were doing just that, and they created – when they were operated back a decade ago, you know,
00:10:37.880they created much more damage than help, actually.
00:10:41.880But you can do it in a more intelligent way, maybe explode the weapon close to the object so that it doesn't disintegrate.
00:10:51.220It just ablates part of it, and then you get the rocket effect from the ablation pushing it.
00:16:05.500In 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.
00:17:34.460When they first launched in the 1920s, they had a huge pipe organ.
00:17:37.860And every Sunday, they would have services on the air.
00:17:42.320But 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,
00:17:56.340they decided, the Columbia Broadcasting System decided that they were going to make a network.
00:20:05.200Do 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?
00:20:12.760You'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.
00:20:21.820Today, you're listening to voices all around the world.
00:20:27.680You're seeing images in your hand instantly, live.
00:20:33.740And that's why Woe Woe and stations like it endure.
00:20:46.180And 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.
00:21:02.040When 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.
00:21:15.460And then there's the local station that says, no, no, no, remember, here's who we are.
00:22:03.000Because 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.
00:22:27.180In a divided America, that is rare, and that is sacred.
00:23:40.880Because in the end, it's not going to be a national voice that saves.
00:23:48.440It's not going to be the federal government.
00:23:52.580It's going to be all of us in our little towns all over America that saves things.
00:23:57.660And 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.
00:24:11.940It's people sharing sound and memory and truth.
00:24:17.480It was and remains the heartbeat in the static.
00:27:10.580And the trees are starting to turn colors.
00:27:13.040And some of the factories are even being used again.
00:27:20.960I was just at Berna, one of our sponsors there here in Fort Wayne.
00:27:26.160And they've been building here and building factories as America gets back to work.
00:27:32.320I thought I could live here in a heartbeat.
00:27:34.240But time goes on and so does the news and things get busier and busier and busier.
00:27:48.720And I got here yesterday and I was worn out because I had spent a few hours with the president this week.
00:27:56.980The 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.
00:28:15.960Did 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.
00:28:35.060And 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.
00:28:45.020And it was the vice president and the secretary of state, the guy moving so rapidly and I was tired.
00:28:55.500This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:02.260Welcome back to the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:04.240I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana today celebrating WoWo's 100th anniversary.
00:29:09.380I'm back tonight for the fundraiser for the Mercury One Gala tomorrow.
00:29:16.020I have to tell you, I travel quite a bit and, you know, I get usual worn out like everybody else does.
00:29:23.280And then I go to the White House and I see this president who is, I don't know, 15 years older than me.
00:29:31.700I mean, he had 36 hours without sleep, flying across the world, doing all kinds of stuff, meeting with everybody, holding press conferences.
00:29:41.660He holds a press conference, meets with Javier Millay, then does the Charlie Kirk thing.
00:29:46.540Then 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.
00:29:57.220Then he has a two hour phone call with Putin.
00:30:38.580What'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.
00:30:44.100You know, they were the ones 10 years ago.
00:30:45.740Glenn, you know this better than anybody.
00:30:46.800I think you reported on it better than anybody.
00:30:48.380But, you know, will Donald Trump have the stamina to be president?
00:31:05.100He 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.
00:31:12.120You know, I heard from him at 1130 that night.
00:31:14.700I mean, no, the guy is absolutely remarkable.
00:31:16.660I mean, sleep isn't one of these things that we've ever had in our gene, but the guy is beyond remarkable.
00:31:52.300And, you know, he's one of these guys who's always been myopically focused on whatever he wanted to do at the time, right?
00:31:57.140If it was real estate, he was myopically focused on a building.
00:31:59.600If 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.
00:32:08.820And certainly when he went to politics, it was the same thing, right?
00:32:16.900And right now he is laser focused on the success of this country.
00:32:19.920I'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.
00:33:08.860Listen, 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.
00:33:19.920I mean, I think about the great irony there.
00:33:22.320I mean, you know, they said the top 18,500 taxpayers in New York City paid 85% of the taxes in New York City.
00:33:31.360And it breaks my heart because I'm a guy that loves, I love New York, but they've destroyed it.
00:33:35.300I don't know why everything needs to be a social experiment.
00:33:37.340I mean, and I understand political bravado.
00:33:39.720You probably understand political bravado better than any human being in the world.
00:33:42.920The 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.
00:33:53.220Now 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?
00:34:05.400You know, he obviously hates the Jews based on the fact that he wants to arrest, you know, Netanyahu.
00:34:10.920He wants to nationalize grocery stores.
00:34:12.800I 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.
00:34:20.580We 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.
00:34:34.040What's going to happen to New York is going to be stark.
00:34:36.460And the same thing with Jay Jones, this, you know, you're, you guys know it.
00:34:40.880You 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.
00:34:46.080And, you know, you have Jay Jones, who's just, he, that was heartfelt.
00:36:18.120They 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.
00:36:25.640You, you, you had Comey, you know, leaking to the New York Times as FBI director every day in an effort to undermine my father.
00:36:32.700They were, they were spying on our campaign.
00:36:54.620They were weaponizing the IRS against conservative organizations, against churches, against pastors, right?
00:37:00.760I 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.
00:37:11.020Glenn, they were coming after all of us.
00:37:14.260The siege just wasn't against our family.
00:37:16.160It 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.
00:37:26.800I 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.
00:37:40.460And it said, third Trump enemy to be indicted in 21 days.
00:37:45.540And 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.
00:37:56.980And 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.
00:38:08.500I mean, this is such a small response.
00:38:11.900If it was a response and it's all being done by the book and they will never admit what they did to your family.
00:38:18.680That's why I think the book is under siege.
00:38:25.080I 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.
00:38:33.240They were all going to the White House.
00:38:35.720You 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.
00:38:43.320You think a public library raids Mar-a-Lago, the former president's house, probably the most famous house on earth.
00:38:49.560And 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.
00:38:59.760And 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.