Glenn and Stu talk Iran, war, and Bill O'Reilly's coming up on the Glenn Beck Program. Also, a little bit about the cruise we are taking in 2020, and how you can be a part of it.
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00:04:26.000I wake up and I look at the news and I see that the president has authorized a strike on Iran and that we had dispatched, excuse me, military.
00:04:42.500Um, and we had already, uh, shot planes off and they were on their way and I don't know what their target was.
00:04:52.060I would imagine their nuclear facilities, et cetera, et cetera.
00:04:54.680Uh, and we had our ships positioned, uh, also to attack.
00:05:02.080Now, when we found out about it is when the go order then was rescinded.
00:05:08.700Now I'm trying to remember, Stu, have you ever seen a, a go order rescinded before in your lifetime?
00:05:15.340Uh, usually if I'm sure there have been some, but, uh, they're not, uh, widely reported the next day in particular, uh, maybe you find that out in a store in a history book, right?
00:05:27.100Like 10 years later with reviewing what went on.
00:05:29.740I don't think I can ever remember seeing something where the next day kind of in real time and the night of that this was, was sort of reversed, which makes me wonder, uh, is this exactly what Donald Trump wants them to think happened?
00:05:44.800Right? Like, is this exactly the type of thing where you're saying Trump wants to say, look, he's, he's, he's warning Iran.
00:05:54.700Look, we were about to do this and that's how close you are to crossing this line.
00:06:04.080Yeah. Now there's a couple of, there's a couple of ways to look at this and I want to take this all apart this hour.
00:06:09.340And I want to, I just want to take you through some critical thinking on this because, you know, if you listen to the press, I listened to the daily this morning from the New York times.
00:06:31.360And if you're listening to the New York times, you're listening to the, the, uh, the, the left, you're hearing the story that Donald Trump is a warmonger.
00:06:39.340And the people in his administration and the president had just been itching for a fight.
00:27:33.420I mean, there's so many open questions, I think, with it.
00:27:35.480I mean, it does definitely, to me, feel like a direct administration leak to say, hey, this is exactly, this is what they want Iran to hear, which is, you are this close to this line.
00:27:48.240Our president happens to be the guy who just is giving you a break here, but you better not keep crossing these lines.
00:27:54.200And I think that is, you know, kind of the foundation of this.
00:27:57.480But it's interesting, I think, too, in that, you know, there's this sort of two sides of Trump and that, like, Trump obviously wants to portray strength.
00:28:06.040He, you know, he wants to, he, with many things, he gives the tough talk.
00:28:10.520He is a guy who wants to show you that he's in control.
00:28:12.920And if he has to, he'll wipe you off the map.
00:28:15.440At the same time, you're right, Glenn.
00:28:16.780I mean, you know, in most conflicts, going back as long as Trump has been in the public eye, he's been on the side of not doing them.
00:28:23.160I mean, in almost every circumstance, very, very briefly at the beginning of Iraq, he supported it, but then turned very quickly to one of the biggest critics of Iraq.
00:31:32.060But I think you're going to be reasonable because this is a beautiful, luxurious.
00:31:35.900It's going to be a beacon for the whole world.
00:31:39.060OK, Tiffany wasn't moved by that argument.
00:31:41.640And he said right before he left, OK, I tell you what, if you don't sell that to me, what I'm going to do is I'm going to build this building.
00:31:51.160And he rolls out this ugly monstrosity and he looks at them in the eye and says, and I mean it.
00:34:39.660We maybe should spend time on this next week, Glenn, in that, like, you know, the idea of war with Iran is not the idea of war with, you know, a few missiles into Syria.
00:34:52.600Like, this is a – it's not us, but it's a relatively advanced military that could give us serious problems.
00:35:00.120I don't even think that – I agree with you, but that's not what concerns me.
00:35:06.400What concerns me most is the power of the terrorist network that Iran has that they would employ all throughout Europe, the power that they have in the strait to be able to really dramatically shift resources and to stop resources from going into our allies of oil.
00:35:30.240And the biggest thing is they have an ally, and that ally is a big Russian bear who I also want to destroy.
00:35:42.440I mean, it is – I believe that Iran could be the key to the next global war, that Iran could be the one that is the house that you have to topple over, and then we go into World War III.
00:35:59.820I do know that scriptures tell us that when the bear and Iran sign a treaty together, which they already have, and become allies, that that is the Armageddon team.
00:37:42.180But the president, who was the father of this family, said to his son, you know what?
00:37:47.940I think you're on to something that does sound like the future, but if we're going to do that, we have to make sure that we get free samples out.
00:37:54.460We have to make sure it's really super easy because nobody's going to do the beep, boop, shh, over and over and over again.
00:38:02.100And we have to make sure that we guarantee it.
00:38:04.340If it's not right, we'll take care of it.
00:38:08.080That's why they're the number one online sales now for custom window coverings, blinds, shutters, drapes, whatever it is that you want for your windows.
00:39:43.080They're just telling everyone that we found this and we swear it's true.
00:39:47.360So, you have to, first of all, take the, you know, face value, this environmental group that's against, you know, the, you know, Roundup and glyphosate and everything to believe that.
00:39:57.460But let's just take them at their word for a minute just for the thought experiment here.
00:40:02.020How do they figure out what is toxic when it comes to levels of chemicals?
00:40:05.240We all know that everything has a toxic level, including water, right?
00:40:07.720Like, you drink too much water, you will eventually die.
00:40:09.900So, there's a toxic level of everything.
00:40:11.220So, how do they do this with something like glyphosate?
00:40:13.940What they did is they first go to a species that's much more likely to get cancer than us, which is mice.
00:40:19.820And then they just load these things up.
00:40:21.440I mean, they load these mice up with mice to see if they can figure out what the toxic level is.
00:40:26.060So, they take the absolute minimum level that may cause harm.
00:41:45.440I've never even thought of General Mills or, you know, Tony the Tiger's attorneys, but I hope they have big attorneys and they go after this crazy environmental group.
00:41:55.440Yeah, well, Tony the Tiger actually is an attorney.
00:41:57.620Meantime, I'm going to have some Froot Loops.
00:48:28.340And it actually works in Donald Trump's favor.
00:48:31.000Now, not if I just take the New York Times.
00:48:35.700But the analysis is based on your gut feeling and your frame of reference from what's happened in the past.
00:48:42.500So that's what you should tell your listeners that, look, this is what I think happened based upon what I know about the Trump administration.
00:48:51.300But all morning long, I mean, you empower an organization that has been absolutely dishonest.
00:49:49.980Here's where the media is really doing a disservice to America because they continue to try to make him into a hate monger and a warmonger.
00:53:00.060So Bush's theory was so put freedom on both sides and pop the head of the snake for the purposes of helping the American people, which I know you and Stu desperately want to do every second you're on the air.
00:57:38.520Anyway, so let me play devil's advocate.
00:57:41.500And I actually heard this today from the New York Times.
00:57:45.240I'm listening to Michael Barbaro and New York Times, The Daily, and they're actually saying, you know, these sanctions, they're making Iraq or Iran more dangerous because the tighter the sanctions, they have nothing else they can do.
00:58:08.880And I thought, gee, that's like saying, you know, when you discipline your children or you want your children to behave a certain way and you take away their phone, well, you're causing them to be more rebellious.
00:58:21.180No, what are you supposed to do with a group of people that won't do it?
00:58:25.280So the press will say, and many on the left will say, this is going to make things worse.
00:58:31.940Total sanctions, it will trap this lion in a cage, and the only way to get out is with its claws.
01:16:48.360Biden can't even come out and say, you know what?
01:16:50.640I didn't like these southern senators because I believe they were segregationists, but I worked with him, and we advanced the good of the country.
01:17:02.620Now, Ocasio-Cortez, if I handed her my book, Killing the SS, if I handed it to her and said, look, why don't you read this and find out what concentration camps really were?
01:17:36.020She wants to tear the fabric of the country down.
01:17:39.660So do you believe that, I know, but do you believe that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, et cetera, et cetera, hate and despise our country and want to tear it down, or are now afraid of this, of the left, that they are just, they're not going to do anything about it?
01:17:58.160They're intimidated because they don't want to be torn to pieces like O'Reilly was.
01:18:05.240And look, when they tore me to pieces two years ago, everybody got the message.
01:29:14.080And we started going over this earlier with Stu and I want to take it a step further.
01:29:19.360But Stu, bring us up to speed on what they're actually saying and how much is required for you to eat and for how long before you'd have a chance, a minimum chance of getting cancer.
01:29:33.040Right, because they they found trace amounts in cereal.
01:29:36.680Now we're going to use the highest levels they found, which is honey nut Cheerios.
01:29:41.540Um, the evil bee is is spraying roundup on your on your cereal for whatever reason and that's what they want you to believe.
01:29:50.080And so the idea here is, of course, to sort of vilify roundup and say that it's basically everywhere going to cause cancer.
01:29:56.460You've seen these, um, these big awards that they have passed out to, uh, to places all around the country.
01:30:02.560And this is this is what you do when you want to vilify some big company and get big awards.
01:30:08.240It's, you know, you might try going to regulatory, you know, you go to the government, you go to regulatory agencies, you go to scientists and try to get all this stuff proven when they don't come up with it.
01:30:16.720You go to a jury and hope that they just feel really bad for the person who's sick.
01:30:21.880And then you, and so they, in California, they actually awarded $2 billion to a guy, a farmer who they say, uh, contracted cancer, uh, because of round, honey, nut Cheerios, not from a honey, nut Cheerios, just from roundup.
01:30:34.280Generally, because of roundup, there are big dollar signs here, right?
01:30:38.740And so obviously no one's going to win $2 billion in reality, but there's a lot of money on the line.
01:30:43.880I want you to know when you're talking to Stu about roundup, this is a guy who's had a glass of roundup just to show you that it's, it's not bad.
01:30:55.040I don't know what's wrong with him, but I'm, I'm really only staying in this business just to watch him either explode or turn into a giant lung with cancer.
01:31:05.380I'm not sure what's going to happen to him.
01:31:07.180I'm trying to pitch a new show where all I do is drink another ridiculous, uh, you know, I am, I am all for that.
01:31:17.760I don't know that I trust you exactly on this one.
01:31:19.560Um, but, uh, so yeah, I mean, like I, I, first of all, I will say I did drink roundup and fracking fluid, uh, to prove that they were safe.
01:32:08.920Um, uh, that is the, what they try to do is calculate what is the absolute minimum amount you could have that would create any risk of cancer or other harms.
01:32:18.660Um, and the way they do this is of course not give it, you know, not, not overload individual people.
01:32:23.400So they develop diseases because that would be completely unethical.
01:32:25.960What they do is of course, go to, uh, mice.
01:32:28.860Now mice of course are very famous for being much more likely to develop many types of cancer than humans, um, which is somewhat why they use mice, right?
01:32:38.520They want to see if there's any risk they're going to catch it because it's going to happen to mice long before it happens to humans.
01:32:43.200So they went through rather air on the side of safety, but you have to take that into consideration.
01:32:48.000Now they're airing, they're giving something to an animal that is prone to get cancer.
01:32:54.900So they air on the side of, of safety.
01:32:59.300So there's your first, there's your first changing the dose, you know, because the dose is going to be a lot lower in a mouse than a human, but let's air on the safety side.
01:33:42.520Now that is theoretically an adult mouse, right?
01:33:45.540So they, they reduce that by about 80% for safe levels for children.
01:33:49.540So the lowest, so the lowest level, uh, for, they say safe for children is about 30,000 milligrams per day.
01:33:57.120Now they, what they do there, they don't say, okay, that's it.
01:34:00.260We can give them 30,000 milligrams a day.
01:34:02.020What they say is, okay, well, first of all, let's just divide that by 10 for safety, which they do and get it down to about 3000 milligrams per day.
01:34:09.260Then wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, just for safety divide by 10.
01:34:13.780Well, you don't want to come close to these lines, right?
01:34:15.780Like there's not, there's not a, yeah, yeah.
01:34:17.520So I agree with that, but we've already, we're already coming down because it's a mouse that has, is more susceptible to cancer.
01:34:24.280Then we found out what gives it cancer, come down from that to 140,000 milligrams.
01:34:29.920Then, uh, for children, we take 80% of that.
01:34:33.760Now you're saying just an overall, no other reason, but for safety, reduce that by 10%.
01:40:05.160So you're going to this level of just trusting this organization.
01:40:08.480And the main problem with this is whether you care about cereal, whether you could be the most anti-Roundup person in the world and don't necessarily want to have a glass of it with breakfast like I do.
01:40:18.100But the problem is every media organization reported this as if it was fact.
01:40:23.640Study finds cereal gives you cancer risk.
01:40:27.980So, like, I mean, it's dozens of stories.
01:40:38.240So if you take the highest cereal that they found, which was Honey Nut Cheerios, what would you have to do to get to the California level of safety?
01:40:46.640How much cereal would you actually need to eat?
01:40:49.660You would need to eat approximately 80 bowls of cereal per day.
01:45:00.200The science is completely on the other side.
01:45:02.620They always talk about scientific consensus.
01:45:05.120It's totally on the other side of this issue.
01:45:08.800And yet with this, even the organizations, these advocacy organizations that come up with these scare studies to get people to click on them.
01:45:16.700These organizations sit back and report it as if it's fact with no context whatsoever to line their pockets and then expect us to believe them on global warming consensus.
01:45:27.920Expect us to believe them on their political reporting, on the reporting of what happened behind the scenes of what Donald Trump is doing with Iran.
01:45:35.420We're supposed to just trust them on all of this other stuff when they churn this crap out daily.
01:47:46.940It's not hyperbole to say that Joe Biden was the most corrupt, or at least in the top three, most corrupt politicians we've ever had as vice president or president.
01:47:58.880And we've had some pretty corrupt people.
01:48:01.500I mean, you look back at the, you look back at some of the administrations, even the Grant administration and the Johnson administration, not this Johnson, but the one in the 1800s.
01:48:12.880Jackson was taking land from the Indians and then telling his friends, hey, take some money and take some of my money and be at the land office at nine o'clock.
01:49:42.360I guess we're not the only ones that can find this truth about Joe Biden.
01:49:46.740Now, the question is, why are they doing this?
01:49:50.320Are they actually finding journalistic integrity?
01:49:53.380Or are they just trying to make sure Joe Biden is not the candidate?
01:49:58.640Yeah, I think that's a really interesting question.
01:50:00.380I mean, you know, look, I appreciate that they've done this and we should listen to some of this report.
01:50:04.880It's good that they're they're following up on this.
01:50:06.980It's just you get a real sense from the media right now.
01:50:09.680They are going to do everything they can to make sure Joe Biden is not the nominee.
01:50:13.400They're Hillary Clinton-ing him right now.
01:50:17.280It's interesting because, I mean, we think of Clinton getting good media coverage because we're comparing it to the media coverage that Trump gets.
01:50:24.240But, I mean, Hillary Clinton got terrible media coverage if you compare it to the coverage that Obama received.
01:50:28.540Or really any nominee that I can remember in my lifetime on the Democratic side.
01:50:54.640And so the question is, you know, because they are hitting him hard, not only with with this report that will play for you here in a second, but also just the way they're they're covering his controversies.
01:51:06.020I mean, at times, you know, CNN's coverage of a Joe Biden offhanded remark sounds like Fox News's coverage of a Joe Biden offhanded remark.
01:53:19.100They talked about, too, how, you know, you get to the situation where, you know, you're going into a country that you're there to stop the corruption.
01:53:28.240And three weeks after you show up, your son gets a multimillion dollar deal in a field that they have no experience in.
01:53:34.660And what they just did in about two minutes, we did in 22 minutes.
01:53:40.580So this is the Disneyfied version of of what that scandal was.
01:54:00.220And, you know, I don't expect ABC News to spend an entire show on it like and you spent multiple shows on it.
01:54:05.240But I mean, the fact that they're covering it at all and showing you the real truth here.
01:54:09.460Again, you're going to you're a big company that natural gas.
01:54:11.800You're going to put someone on your board, pay him millions of dollars that has no experience, has no experience in your country and just got discharged from the military because he was doing cocaine that you're going to do that.
01:54:37.240Less than two weeks later, Hunter's firm had new business, creating an investment fund in China involving the government controlled Bank of China.
01:54:45.920With reports, they hope to raise one point five billion dollars.
01:54:50.220Hunter still plays a role in the fund.
01:54:52.140His lawyer says his stake is worth about half a million dollars.
01:54:56.460Both Hunter and his lawyers say he never discussed any of his overseas work with his father.
01:55:01.780But even a critic of the current president and his children's business dealings says this.
01:55:07.020He should have encouraged his son to not take these positions.
01:55:10.560Biden's campaign team told us that the vice president acted at all times in a manner consistent with well-established executive branch ethics standards.
01:55:19.500One person who did not want to talk about it, Joe Biden.
01:55:23.580Mr. Vice President, what's your take on that?
01:55:25.320Was there a conflict of interest there?
01:55:27.040Was there a clear conflict of interest?
01:55:31.000Now, in response to our questions, the Biden campaign for the first time is announcing if he's elected,
01:55:35.420he will invoke a new ethics policy on his first day in office that would empower White House lawyers to monitor for any types of conflicts of interest.
01:55:43.000Now, Hunter Biden did not want to comment on camera.
01:55:45.780He says he was brought into Burisma, that Ukrainian company that was facing the corruption charges,
01:55:50.180to help with its transparency and corporate responsibility.
02:00:32.300This weekend has Blake Harris on and he wrote a book that was supposed to be a book about technology.
02:00:37.060And he's a guy who's a liberal, but he's writing just about technology, interesting stories about technology and the kind of starting of virtual reality.
02:00:44.420And the guy who invented it is a 19 year old guy in a trailer.
02:00:48.020And what started, though, is that sort of story about the foundation of virtual reality turned into a story that had this really amazing thing with Donald Trump and the way technology destroys conservatives who are prominent in the world of Silicon Valley.
02:01:03.960Listen, this is a guy who knows everyone in Silicon Valley.
02:01:06.340And he said there's only two people I know in Silicon Valley who are publicly Trump supporters or who are willing to say that they're Trump supporters, Palmer Luckey and Peter Thiel.
02:01:14.900And that's obviously a problem for a lot of reasons, because I think that there's more than two that are just were unwilling to say it.
02:01:20.380But it's interesting to me that now here we are in 2019, less than two years after he said that, and both Peter and Palmer are out of Silicon Valley.
02:01:27.240And it's not because they don't like the geography there.
02:01:30.340It's because there's other stuff going on.
02:01:31.940So he posts his support for Donald Trump.
02:01:48.620But I mean, when this story really starts to take, he's sold his business to Oculus.
02:01:53.360And he's not like, you know, in the Trump gear and, you know, walking down Facebook, you know, with flags and going, you know, build a wall.
02:02:01.280He's actually, he is much more like how I remembered politics when I was growing up, where I remembered, I once asked my home economics teacher, which I would suspect is not really a class anymore, even though I thought it was very useful to learn those skills.
02:02:16.440And I remember asking her who she voted for in the election.
02:02:19.180I guess I was in eighth grade, it must have been 96.
02:02:21.240And she got mad at me, like, that's a very personal thing to ask.
02:02:24.140We don't, you don't ask people about politics.
02:02:26.180And that's sort of Palmer's mentality, which once he was, you know, it was determined that he was a villain, everyone thought, oh, that's him being sneaky.
02:02:33.580He doesn't want to talk about his politics.
02:02:35.020No, that's just, he doesn't think that matters.
02:02:37.000He was there to do virtual reality stuff and do cool tech stuff.
02:02:42.640But, but yeah, he had no qualms with, with publicly being a Trump supporter, not long after the escalator introduction of Trump.
02:02:51.360You know, one of the things I find fascinating that it's not in this edition of the book, but I will put it in a later edition because I'm still getting information, more information.
02:03:00.020Fortunately, no contradictory information, but I'm still getting other cool details that I want to include is that in, in April of 2016, Palmer went to a Trump rally in Costa Mesa.
02:03:09.640And the reason I know that is not just because he told me, but because there was an NBC video talking about protesters outside of the rally.
02:03:17.260And Palmer was one of the people interviewed as like, you're at this Trump rally.
02:03:28.900He knew this was going to be on the news, potentially millions of people to potentially know him, but like he had no problem hiding it.
02:03:34.220And then we flash forward to five months later when he makes this $10,000 donation to an organization and he does it anonymously, which people then say he did it because, you know, he was sneaky about it or he was trying to cover it up or whatever they say.
02:03:47.460And you have to ask yourself, well, then what changed over the five months?
02:03:51.920The answer is that in, you know, in between that was the Republican National Convention in 2016.
02:03:57.680Peter spoke there and came out as a Trump supporter, as a gay man, Trump supporter.
02:04:02.800And and people on Facebook want so many people on Facebook wanted to get him fired from the board of direct board at Facebook for for the only reason was just that he was a Trump supporter.
02:04:14.680Amazing story how they target conservatives.
02:04:17.160It's happening all over Silicon Valley.
02:04:18.860You can hear the entire interview for free at Glenn Beck dot com.
02:04:22.680Get it there or wherever you get your podcast.