On this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn talks about Joe Biden's comments about a brass knuckle fight, immigration, and campus reform. Also, Brad Thor joins the show to talk about how insane farming is.
00:11:06.400Well, I mean, like, since I thought all that was Trump, like, I thought, like, that was going to be a slam dunk, but apparently, you know, I got to reconsider that.
00:11:13.780So, I'll just look more in-depth, really.
00:11:15.960Would these quotes potentially lead you to another candidate?
00:11:46.420But second of all, I would say, you know, it's one of those things where, forget the fact that, obviously, like, the double standard on what is racist, speak or not, is a big problem here.
00:11:58.480I mean, you know, this is a great example, you brought up as well, the talk about revolution, and this is one of the most clear ways the media is actually biased, in which they believe Joe Biden is a good guy, so therefore, they don't assign negative intent to his statements.
00:12:15.380And the same thing here with the racism stuff.
00:12:18.280They believe Joe Biden isn't racist because they like him, and they think he's a good guy, so therefore, those statements aren't problematic.
00:12:24.800May I disagree with you just a bit, and I'd like to hear your opinion on this.
00:14:08.020And again, these are not even new quotes.
00:14:09.600Now, the media gave him a huge break because he was essentially Barack Obama's vice president, so he had a clear ride through a lot of that.
00:14:17.000But I think piggybacking on what you're saying is the most important thing, Glenn, the fact that they didn't know this,
00:14:21.500is another thing which shows why they're all Democrats, why they're all socialists, why they believe every Republican is a racist.
00:14:39.600You're going to change your opinion on a man from a quote that's completely out of context from a person you don't know who does have an agenda?
00:15:10.940Because once you hear the facts, you change.
00:15:17.300Once you hear, I mean, look at what's happening with Bridget Phetasy.
00:15:21.400If you've been watching her or following her transition, it's remarkable.
00:15:28.040She tweeted yesterday, I always hated myself, and now I realize, because I was liberal, she is really, she's doing the work, and she's realizing, I'm not that.
00:15:47.640I'm not sure what I am, but I'm not that.
00:15:49.540But that's why you've got to shut down speech and thinking.
00:15:54.160If you hit critical thinking, it all falls apart.
00:15:57.460Pat Gray from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup, which you can hear as a podcast every day, live as it records it.
00:16:15.740Pat Gray Unleashed, and that's happening on The Blaze every day, precedes this program.
00:31:55.140And, you know, what we see is only the tip of the iceberg out there.
00:31:58.480So this is probably meant to be a very obvious shot across their bow, and they wouldn't do that if there wasn't something in the background that they were concerned about.
00:32:07.720So we'd say, hey, don't mess with us because this is what's going to happen sort of a thing.
00:32:11.880So I'm glad that we have the capability and that we're, you know, flexing our muscles a little bit just to let the Russians know,
00:32:18.780don't think about messing with our power grid or anything like that.
00:32:23.320So do you know anything about the Cyber Warfare Command and how it's just been given all of these new powers that were apparently slipped in,
00:32:35.040I love this, slipped in on the defense bill, the last defense bill?
00:32:41.040So I know a little bit about the organization, less about the defense bill.
00:32:45.540You know, we've been under a state of emergency that's been renewed.
00:32:48.920You and I have talked about this every single year since 9-11.
00:32:52.100So there's a lot of powers the government is granting.
00:32:56.300It's granting itself through this kind of continuing ongoing resolution that it renews every 365 days.
00:33:03.600So my big thing is, you know, Frank Church in the 70s warned us that when the NSA turned its giant listening ears inward,
00:33:11.480that will have been a Rubicon that we can't cross back over.
00:36:28.320Jonah Goldberg's book, Suicide of the West, was so fantastic because he said we're at the top of the mountain.
00:36:32.820And if we're not careful, if you lean too far forward, too far back, too far left, too far right, you fall off the top of the mountain.
00:36:39.820This is the best point in the history of the world to be alive, and we're in the greatest country to be alive in.
00:36:46.560But if we aren't careful, we are going to lose it.
00:36:49.520And so this laziness across those areas that I just explained really does concern me because we are not fighting enough for free speech.
00:36:57.380Glenn, I put a self-destruct program on my Twitter account.
00:37:02.080My tweets don't last more than two weeks now because I don't want somebody bringing up a great joke I made after a back-and-forth with Pat or Stu on Twitter and dragging it up from five years ago and saying, hey, wait a second.
00:37:15.420Well, in the context of five years ago, it was really funny because I'd been on the show with Glenn, and we had joked about this, and I made the joke on Twitter afterwards.
00:37:23.780That kind of stuff really as an author, someone who makes his living by expressing himself and with words, it freaks the hell out of me.
00:37:31.140So yesterday, I've been feeling this for a while, that we're living in a digital age, and when you look at, for instance, the movies you buy, you don't actually buy them.
00:37:57.900And so when Disney comes out with their own platform, most likely Disney is going to say, okay, you can only get our movies from our platform.
00:38:08.660So if you bought all those Disney movies digitally, when that license expires with Disney, if Disney decides not to continue the license with Apple, you lose all of that.
00:38:23.000And it is amazing to me how we could silence somebody who has a lifetime of work, and all of their work could be gone almost overnight.
00:38:38.600You could take back all of the books, unless they're in print.
00:39:04.320It's a two-way street, so stuff can be pushed on you and it can be removed.
00:39:08.620You could have the version on your Kindle of a book replaced with an edited version.
00:39:13.180So without your permission, they can do something like that via not just Kindle but any e-platform at all.
00:39:19.540So when you're dealing with digital, listen, the smartest thing my wife ever did was she went out and bought all Mel Brooks' movies on DVD because we didn't want to lose them.
00:39:28.780You know, there's movies that I think are very funny that Mel Brooks did that if you tried to do them today, you'd never be able to get them done.
00:39:36.200In fact, you know, Mel Brooks would be the public pillory, he'd be dragged to it.
00:39:57.620I just don't like surrendering everything to digital.
00:40:01.200I think it comes with a lot of risk, and you couple that with the story you opened up this segment with about the article in the New York Times about us, you know, flexing our muscles with Russia in cyberspace with threatening their grid system.
00:40:16.400This is pretty serious, and the more reliant we are on digital, the more susceptible we are to great havoc.
00:40:23.520And I don't think that Russia is the – I think they will be deterred with mutually assured destruction.
00:40:33.000But places like Iran and North Korea, they will not be deterred by mutually assured destruction.
00:40:41.180They won't, and you also need to keep in mind with Russia that they've got a very active propaganda outlet, Russia Today, where they are pushing stories about 5G causing cancer because the U.S. is so far behind in that technology, and Russia is trying to rush their own version of it ahead.
00:41:01.560So there's a lot happening with Russia beyond just what they could do electronically from kind of a cyber warfare standpoint.
00:41:09.640They're also running a very active cyber warfare propaganda campaign.
00:41:13.420I don't know if you've noticed this, but all of the stuff that has come out recently about deep fakes, it's all coming from the Samsung Center in Moscow.
00:41:26.860And that concerns me that, you know, the Samsung Center in Moscow is the one leading the way on this because you know that the Russians will use that.
00:41:39.140All right, back with Brad Thor here in just a second.
00:41:41.240I want to get his list of things that he thinks we should preserve, books that he thinks we should have in paper form.
00:41:47.920What I'm doing is I'm putting a whole list together, and I ask for your help.
00:41:50.840Go to glennbeck.com slash save books, and give me a list of what you think is important culturally, is important to show the progress and the bad side of America.
00:42:03.600What would you want if you needed a library that said, this is what the West was, this is how it worked, and this is its faults, this is how you would restart it.
00:42:17.740All right, we are back with Brad Thor.
00:42:20.420So yesterday, we asked people, and we got a lot of responses online.
00:42:26.300Just go to glennbeck.com slash save books.
00:42:28.700We got a lot of repeats, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, The Bible of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, Brave New World, a lot of Calvin and Hobbes, believe it or not.
00:42:46.300But I wanted to get Brad Thor on because I wanted to get his list, and then I want to ask him another question about books we should preserve.
00:43:00.660So my list, I kind of have it broken into groups.
00:43:04.260It would be the Bible, the Summa Theological by St. Thomas Aquinas, the Federalist Papers, complete with the founding documents, the Constitution, Declaration of Independence,
00:43:14.060The Road to Serfdom, The Gulag Archipelago, and Cinderella Story, My Life in Golf by Bill Murray.
00:43:24.100The Bill Murray one took me by surprise.
00:43:30.060So, Brad, I think actually it's important to preserve culture as well, both good and bad, to show where we were as a people.
00:43:39.660Brad, I was thinking about, on my list, putting perhaps you or Tom Clancy or some Vince Flynn onto my list because you are not only part of the culture,
00:43:56.880but you have, there's so much truth in the books that you guys write.
00:44:01.700It has to make sense, and it has to be based in fact.
00:44:05.580Otherwise, you guys couldn't sell a book.
00:44:07.220Well, if you were going to preserve...
00:44:10.220If you coined the phrase, you called it faction, Glenn.
00:44:12.980You said, you know, you don't know where the facts end and the fiction begins.
00:44:17.560I mean, I've done thrillers about the Federal Reserve, about the threat of too much technology.
00:44:22.700I mean, with each book I do, my job is to give people a white-knuckle thrill ride, a fun, you know, take it to the beach, take it to the lake kind of book.
00:44:29.580But when you close it, you're smarter about the threats the country faces and what your role is as a citizen.
00:44:35.520So, I mean, I'm thrilled that you put me in that group with Vince and with Clancy.
00:44:39.860But I think that's probably not a bad idea if you want to get a current snapshot of the threats the country faces.
00:44:47.240Well, I did include Michael Crichton's Some of All Fears.
00:46:32.960Well, so if I had to pick a Thor book, I'd probably, considering everything that we're going under, we're dealing with right now, would be my book, Blacklist.
00:46:46.060Blacklist, which had to do with total surveillance of the population.
00:46:49.340What you and I talked about earlier, the warning from Frank Church in the 70s, that if the NSA ever turned its giant listening ears inward on the U.S., we would have crossed the Rubicon.
00:46:58.180And I actually opened Blacklist, my thriller Blacklist, with Frank Church, with a direct quote from him on the Today Show, talking about his earrings and what he learned about the NSA.
00:47:07.840That was one of my favorite books of yours, and I can't wait to read Backlash.
00:47:12.820It comes out, Backlash, comes out next week, next Tuesday.
00:47:16.540Brad, I'm sure we'll talk to you again, hopefully next week when that book comes out.