The Glenn Beck Program - Is Trump's Iran Threat Actually a Diversion? | Guests: Ed Rush & Keith Wilson | 4/7/26
Aired: 2026-04-07
Duration: 02:02:37


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[00:04:18]  All right, so let me go over the 10 point plan.
[00:04:23]  You know, and the only two, the two of the points, you know, don't need the rest of the eight because it's unworkable because of two points.
[00:04:30]  And I'll explain why here in a second.
[00:04:32]  The deadline for Trump is tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
[00:04:40]  He says he is going to go after everything, he's going to go after their power plants, their bridges, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:04:49]  He can't actually do that.
[00:04:51]  I mean, you can go after power plants, but he.
[00:04:54]  He has to have a real legitimate military reason for it.
[00:04:58]  You don't want to hurt the people.
[00:04:59]  And by the way, that would be a really bad thing according to the Geneva Convention.
[00:05:04]  You just don't take power away and just make the whole country suffer.
[00:05:08]  You have to have legitimate reasons to strike those things.
[00:05:13]  And if they strike, that's what they will be doing.
[00:05:16]  They will be talking about those legitimate reasons on what they struck.
[00:05:20]  And we'll know beginning tonight at 8 o'clock.
[00:05:25]  Now, Some people say this is Taco Tuesday.
[00:05:27]  Trump always, what is it?
[00:05:29]  Trump always chickens out.
[00:05:31]  Yeah.
[00:05:32]  I don't think he does.
[00:05:33]  I really don't think he does.
[00:05:34]  I think he makes his statements and usually people move.
[00:05:38]  And last night, it looked like maybe they were moving because they came out with this 10 point proposal.
[00:05:43]  But there's two parts of it that are just unworkable, totally unworkable.
[00:05:47]  The first part of the proposal is a guarantee that Iran would not be attacked again and an end to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, lifting all of the sanctions as well.
[00:05:58]  Well, that's not going to happen.
[00:06:00]  It's just not going to happen.
[00:06:01]  It's unreasonable to think it would.
[00:06:03]  Then they said they would also lift their blockade of the shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:06:10]  However, they added on that they also now get to have a fee that they would impose per ship of $2 million per ship.
[00:06:21]  No, that's not going to happen either.
[00:06:22]  That's not going to happen.
[00:06:24]  So, why?
[00:06:26]  Why can't that happen?
[00:06:27]  Why can't that happen?
[00:06:28]  I want to give you some history that you may know, many people in America do not know.
[00:06:35]  Our first foreign war was actually started and finished by Thomas Jefferson.
[00:06:42]  We have to go back in the early 1800s, just after the ink is just barely dry on the Constitution.
[00:06:49]  The United States is young.
[00:06:51]  We are broke.
[00:06:52]  We're trying to figure out, you know, What it means to exist in a world that really doesn't care about all men are created equal.
[00:06:58]  We're completely alone in that idea.
[00:07:01]  And then on the other side of the earth, in the Mediterranean, which nobody had been over to the Mediterranean, I mean, very few had been over the Mediterranean back then, there's a system that had been in place for generations that most Americans didn't even understand.
[00:07:16]  And it was led by the Barbary pirates operating out of Tripoli and Tunis and Algiers and Morocco.
[00:07:24]  But Tripoli, Played a big, big, big role.
[00:07:27]  This was highly organized.
[00:07:31]  It was state backed, and they would go out as pirates and they would seize ships.
[00:07:36]  They would seize crews, cargo, and if you were lucky, you were held for ransom.
[00:07:41]  If not, you were just disappeared into slavery because they could do whatever they wanted with you because you were an infidel.
[00:07:49]  Europe had been dealing with this system for a very long time, for years, for decades.
[00:07:54]  Europe had paid the toll, it had paid the bribe.
[00:07:59]  And it said, just leave our ships alone.
[00:08:01]  Do whatever you want with the women and children.
[00:08:03]  Just leave our ships alone.
[00:08:04]  That was Britain, France, and Spain.
[00:08:06]  They were the main ones.
[00:08:08]  And they had made a quiet agreement to pay an annual tribute, and they would pay them whatever they wanted.
[00:08:15]  It was just, quote, the cost of doing business.
[00:08:18]  Pay the rulers along the Barbary coast, and your merchant ships can move.
[00:08:23]  Refuse, and your merchant ships are going to be taken.
[00:08:26]  Everything on them is going to be taken, and your people will be taken.
[00:08:32]  So, everybody in Europe was like, okay, I got to.
[00:08:36]  We got to pay for it.
[00:08:37]  Because nobody wanted to fight him.
[00:08:40]  Then America shows up.
[00:08:42]  And at first, under George Washington, we did exactly that.
[00:08:44]  We did what everybody else was doing.
[00:08:46]  We paid.
[00:08:46]  And we paid a lot.
[00:08:49]  And you have to remember, there was no Navy to speak of.
[00:08:51]  We didn't have an appetite to fight another war.
[00:08:54]  We had just gotten out of the war for independence.
[00:08:56]  So, the last thing we want to do is like, hey, let's go fight another war.
[00:08:59]  It's kind of like how popular it is right now.
[00:09:01]  Okay.
[00:09:02]  So, Money goes out the door to keep American crews from being dragged off in chains.
[00:09:09]  And it doesn't work because why?
[00:09:11]  When you are negotiating with terrorists, when you're doing bribery, what happens?
[00:09:17]  You pay, and then they're like, you know what?
[00:09:19]  I think you can pay more.
[00:09:20]  The demands grow.
[00:09:22]  They always do, they demand more money.
[00:09:25]  So at one point, nearly one fifth of our federal revenue is tied up in tribute.
[00:09:31]  Imagine that.
[00:09:32]  That's like, imagine that it's slightly less than what California is stealing from us today.
[00:09:40]  20% of our budget was going to the Barbary pirates, the Islamists over in Tripoli.
[00:09:46]  Just as our country is being born, we are already being taxed 20% by a foreign power that is offering us nothing in return but the promise of, we're going to leave you alone.
[00:09:57]  We'll look the other way until we decide to raise the price.
[00:10:00]  Jefferson gets in and he's like, okay, this is ridiculous.
[00:10:03]  This can't happen.
[00:10:07]  So we have the first foreign war, the Barbary pirates war.
[00:10:14]  Not good.
[00:10:16]  We refuse to pay.
[00:10:18]  The ruler of the Barbary pirates goes to a U.S. consulate and he cuts down the flagpole, the U.S. flagpole.
[00:10:27]  Well, that was a declaration of war, and so we went to war.
[00:10:30]  Now, when we go to war, what does Thomas Jefferson do?
[00:10:33]  He suggests that a copy of the Koran is printed in English.
[00:10:40]  We have an original copy at our library in Dallas, and it In that Koran, it actually has a warning.
[00:10:48]  It says, look, you have to read this.
[00:10:50]  You have to read this.
[00:10:51]  You have to read it in context.
[00:10:53]  You have to read the whole thing.
[00:10:55]  And you have to remember it because these people are serious.
[00:10:58]  And you are not going to believe the, this is what I'm quoting, you're not going to believe the absurdities that a good portion of the world actually believes, like slavery.
[00:11:08]  You can just take people's slaves.
[00:11:10]  Now, it's weird because we also agree with slavery at that time, or many people do.
[00:11:16]  So they're looking at the Quran and saying, This is what the Barbary pirates believe.
[00:11:20]  This is why we can't negotiate with them.
[00:11:23]  So we are now facing this decision we can't avoid.
[00:11:27]  We have to either keep paying or what?
[00:11:32]  We become Europe, pay it, and accept whatever line comes next, or we do what Jefferson said.
[00:11:39]  You know, I saw this in Europe and it's not going to work out well.
[00:11:42]  He knew that the tribute doesn't buy peace, it buys time.
[00:11:46]  And listen to this.
[00:11:48]  It buys time in what always happens when the clock is running.
[00:11:51]  The time always runs out.
[00:11:54]  So, America fights.
[00:11:57]  Not popular, not convenient.
[00:12:00]  It feels exactly like it feels today.
[00:12:02]  Our Navy, however, is really small.
[00:12:05]  The distance is like to the other side of the moon.
[00:12:08]  Supply lines are almost non existent.
[00:12:11]  The guarantee is, or the outcome is not guaranteed.
[00:12:15]  This is where we get from the Marines leathernecks.
[00:12:17]  They actually.
[00:12:18]  Put leather and tie them on around their necks so they can't be beheaded as they are fighting with the Barbary pirates.
[00:12:26]  Okay.
[00:12:27]  So we go to war, but the alternative is worse, which is a permanent tax paid to people who see you as nothing but prey.
[00:12:34]  You are prey, or you are a slave, or we can kill you.
[00:12:42]  There's a line in the song for the Marines to the shores of Tripoli.
[00:12:49]  And every time you sing that song, but nobody really knows, you know, it's just a song now.
[00:12:56]  But basically what that means is we're done paying.
[00:12:59]  We are not going to pay anymore.
[00:13:03]  Now we fought.
[00:13:04]  It didn't end piracy overnight, didn't fix everything, but it broke the assumption that the only way to survive was to hand over money and hope.
[00:13:11]  Okay, why am I telling you this stupid story?
[00:13:15]  Because for the last few days, as I've seen this negotiation go on, I'm thinking to myself, this is the same pattern.
[00:13:22]  This is exactly the same pattern.
[00:13:25]  You've got a narrow stretch of water.
[00:13:27]  The world depends on this, the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:13:30]  It's sitting near that choke point where we get all of our oil, and a regime that is sitting there, an Islamist regime, exactly like the Barbary pirates.
[00:13:41]  No, if we create enough instability, we can.
[00:13:46]  We can force people to pay to keep things moving.
[00:13:48]  So deals start forming.
[00:13:51]  Keep the passages open.
[00:13:52]  We got to keep the tankers moving.
[00:13:54]  So, who leans into this first?
[00:13:57]  Of course, first at the plate, France.
[00:14:01]  And France, they believe France has already negotiated to pay $2 million per ship.
[00:14:08]  That's insanity.
[00:14:11]  Well, energy needs are real and the people don't want war.
[00:14:16]  Okay, Mr. Frenchie French.

=== Paying to Keep Tankers Moving (11:00) ===

[00:14:18]  Okay.
[00:14:19]  Say what you want, but.
[00:14:21]  You know, I don't think you've changed since the days when all your men used to paint their faces white and put that black mole on their cheek.
[00:14:28]  You're exactly the same people you were during the Barbary Pirate War.
[00:14:32]  But it will buy us time.
[00:14:34]  Buy us time?
[00:14:35]  For what?
[00:14:38]  When you have one side applying pressure, what do they use that time for?
[00:14:43]  To get stronger and more entrenched.
[00:14:46]  And what do you use it for?
[00:14:48]  Well, we are going to eat cake.
[00:14:50]  We are going to go back to sleep because we think everything is fine.
[00:14:54]  Exactly right.
[00:14:55]  And eventually the bill is going to come due because it always does.
[00:14:59]  So here we are, the United States, in exactly the same position that Thomas Jefferson was in.
[00:15:06]  Whether you want to admit it or not, that's it.
[00:15:08]  Here we are.
[00:15:09]  We're looking at the sea lanes and we're saying to the rest of the world, I don't know about the rest of you, but we ain't paying it.
[00:15:15]  We're not doing it.
[00:15:17]  We're taking on a risk that everyone else in the world is like, no, we will just manage our payments.
[00:15:24]  We will be safer in the short term.
[00:15:27]  There's a cost to that, a huge cost, and a cost to what we're doing financial, political, human.
[00:15:34]  It's not clean.
[00:15:35]  It's not popular.
[00:15:39]  People are saying this is overreach.
[00:15:41]  Really?
[00:15:44]  To me, it looks like we're carrying the weight once again that others have chosen to set down.
[00:15:49]  But this president is not carrying that weight for France or England.
[00:15:54]  You go ahead and make your own deal.
[00:15:55]  You want your oil?
[00:15:56]  Go get it.
[00:15:58]  Go get it.
[00:16:00]  But exactly like our first foreign war with the Barbary pirates, the Islamist Barbary pirates, there comes a time when somebody needs to stand up and say, no, this is an evil system.
[00:16:12]  We are viewed as prey to these people.
[00:16:15]  We are not paying them so they can become stronger.
[00:16:19]  If access to the world's arteries, whether it's the Mediterranean, whether it's the Persian Gulf, doesn't matter.
[00:16:25]  If it all depends on paying these people off, paying people off whoever threatens you, then trade is not free.
[00:16:35]  It's conditional, it's taxed by force.
[00:16:39]  And once that becomes normal, it spreads.
[00:16:45]  Back in Jefferson's time, the world was convinced that's just how everything works.
[00:16:52]  You just pay the Barbary pirates because fighting them is so hard.
[00:16:59]  My little black mole on my really super painted white face might peel off.
[00:17:05]  And so they just lived with it until somebody stepped up and went, now that's a stupid system.
[00:17:14]  Look at the pattern side by side.
[00:17:16]  Really hard to ignore.
[00:17:19]  And by the way, let me add this to the pattern.
[00:17:21]  Do you know who's really against foreign wars?
[00:17:25]  Thomas Jefferson.
[00:17:28]  Well, there'll be a foreign war.
[00:17:31]  But then he saw the ideology that is exactly the same.
[00:17:36]  And the logic that we're fighting today is exactly the same and intact.
[00:17:41]  Pay now, deal with the consequences later, or refuse and pay the consequences immediately when you're strong, not after making them stronger.
[00:17:51]  Neither path is easy.
[00:17:53]  One just hides the cost longer, makes you feel better, eh?
[00:17:59]  Have a croissant.
[00:18:03]  Europe learned, or I thought they did, maybe they've forgotten their own history, but they're making the same calculation again.
[00:18:13]  What I find fascinating is, I'm going to wildly butcher and paraphrase Jefferson here, but Jefferson, when we ended the Barbary Pirates War, we didn't finish the job, okay, because we're tired of these foreign wars.
[00:18:32]  So we didn't finish the job.
[00:18:35]  And.
[00:18:37]  He gave America some advice, and I'm going to paraphrase him, wildly paraphrase him here, but it seems like the exact advice that we need to hear.
[00:18:48]  Basically, he said, hey, everybody, we've just fought a foe that sees you as prey.
[00:18:55]  We just fought a foe that will kill you because their God says they can because you're an infidel.
[00:19:02]  They will take your wives and your children as slaves because they can.
[00:19:08]  They believe these things.
[00:19:11]  Religiously, this is not just some ideology.
[00:19:14]  This is a religious fervor that has been put into a political system.
[00:19:23]  And if we're not careful, if we don't finish this war, they will come back stronger and we will have to fight what may be America's last war.
[00:19:39]  Boy, the parallels here are just worth paying attention to, aren't they?
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[00:21:06]  Let me just bring Ricky and Jason in on this.
[00:21:09]  I mean, I find these parallels unbelievable.
[00:21:15]  I mean, it's exactly the same thing.
[00:21:17]  You're like the only broadcaster who can refer to history and make it make sense in today's headlines.
[00:21:25]  I'm not just saying that because I like my job, but I would like to ask you and Jason what you guys think would be good deal points.
[00:21:35]  If these are unacceptable, What would actually benefit the U.S. and save the world from nuclear annihilation?
[00:21:42]  So I would say this is not what the president is going for, but a free people.
[00:21:48]  But you can't give them that freedom.
[00:21:49]  They're going to have to earn that.
[00:21:50]  At some point, they're going to have to come out in the streets and earn that freedom.
[00:21:56]  But free flow of oil, no more terrorist funding.
[00:22:03]  Those are the two things I want.
[00:22:05]  I mean, besides, don't kill your own people.
[00:22:08]  Okay, critics would say that there was a free flow of oil.
[00:22:12]  Before bombed Iran.
[00:22:14]  Was there?
[00:22:15]  Nope.
[00:22:15]  Was there really?
[00:22:17]  Jason?
[00:22:18]  No, absolutely not.
[00:22:19]  There is now this 10 part plan.
[00:22:23]  Points six through 10 are basically codifying what they've been doing forever.
[00:22:28]  Nowhere in the world would we allow a nation state to threaten any kind of tanker, any kind of cargo ship, the way Iran does in the Straits of Hormuz.
[00:22:38]  They're trying to codify that right now.
[00:22:39]  They're trying to codify a Barbary pirates esque situation.
[00:22:44]  In the Straits.
[00:22:45]  This is an absolute no go.
[00:22:47]  There's no way the Trump administration is considering this seriously.
[00:22:52]  No, no.
[00:22:53]  And if that's really where they are, I wonder what Trump is going to do tonight at 8 o'clock.
[00:23:03]  I mean, because it is, it's a, I mean, he laid it out clearly.
[00:23:09]  I think he laid it out so vividly.
[00:23:13]  I don't know what he can actually do or what he's willing to do on that.
[00:23:18]  But it could be a very dicey 8 p.m. deadline.
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[00:24:36]  Today at noon Eastern, we expose the Islamic attempt to conquer the West.
[00:24:40]  The Safe for YouTube version of the Jihad from Within premieres free immediately after the show at youtube.com slash Glenn Beck.
[00:25:03]  Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:25:06]  I want to bring Jason in on a conversation here in just a second, but before I do, I want to remind you that today we are releasing something on YouTube.

=== Hardening the System Against Jihad (05:22) ===

[00:25:18]  That special we did on the Islamic blueprint to take over America and fundamentally transform us and build a caliphate.
[00:25:30]  We have had so many people ask us for.
[00:25:34]  You know, additional information.
[00:25:36]  And then we had a lot of the insiders say, Can I want to send this to my friends?
[00:25:40]  But you got to be a torch insider.
[00:25:42]  Well, I wanted to make the whole thing available on YouTube, but I can't because of the YouTube rules and regulations.
[00:25:50]  But this is such an important special.
[00:25:53]  We want to make sure that we get this out.
[00:25:55]  You know, after September 11th, and this is the framework I want you to look at this in September 11th happens, the attacks happen, and everything we build after September 11th was aimed at stopping.
[00:26:10]  Planes or bombs.
[00:26:13]  We couldn't imagine people flying planes into our buildings.
[00:26:16]  We couldn't imagine somebody putting bombs in their shoes.
[00:26:19]  But everything we did, you could see it, you could track it, you could respond to it.
[00:26:27]  And that's the way we think here.
[00:26:31]  But it is the way we look at danger, and it's a house of mirrors, okay?
[00:26:38]  Because it narrows danger.
[00:26:41]  We stood up the Department of Homeland Security.
[00:26:44]  We put the TSA in.
[00:26:46]  Every traveler, every plane, we had layered intelligence on top of intelligence.
[00:26:52]  All of it still, you know, I guess makes sense for that kind of threat.
[00:26:57]  But we didn't do anything.
[00:26:59]  We spent long hours preparing for one pattern.
[00:27:03]  And when you do that, you miss the other patterns.
[00:27:07]  And the other pattern doesn't come with flying airplanes into buildings.
[00:27:13]  It doesn't want the attention because attention makes you stand up and go, uh oh, we need to defend against this.
[00:27:22]  So, our special tonight does not take on Muslims as a whole, it takes on Islamists, people who are very, very clear, Barbary pirates, Iran, that kind of an attitude.
[00:27:38]  In their own words, their faith is not meant to stay personal, it is meant to become the government system globally.
[00:27:47]  Okay, you can read it.
[00:27:48]  You can read it in court records, internal memos, speeches, sermons that they're giving in the mosques of America.
[00:27:56]  We have all of it.
[00:27:57]  And they assume that time is on their side.
[00:28:01]  We think in election cycles, they don't.
[00:28:04]  So the method doesn't look like what we're expected.
[00:28:07]  We're trained to expect planes blowing up in the sky.
[00:28:11]  That's what we're trained.
[00:28:15]  And when that doesn't happen, everything else seems like a conspiracy theory.
[00:28:18]  Because why wouldn't they just blow up a building?
[00:28:20]  Because that's stupid, quite honestly.
[00:28:22]  It is really stupid.
[00:28:24]  Our immigration, our speech, our courts, local politics, all of those things, all of those things have become our weakness.
[00:28:34]  But they used to be part of what made our country work.
[00:28:37]  But because we're not paying attention, they're being used.
[00:28:43]  You see pieces of this overseas.
[00:28:45]  You see, if you look over in London, you look over in France, anywhere in Europe, neighborhoods where integration is not happening, what filled its space?
[00:28:59]  The authorities hesitated, sometimes out of fear of getting it wrong, sometimes out of a political calculation, to the point where they're not arresting people who are raping their children.
[00:29:10]  And it's getting harder and harder to fight.
[00:29:16]  Except in places where people started to notice.
[00:29:21]  When people start to notice, if they notice early on and do something, well, then you can fight it.
[00:29:26]  But most places notice too late.
[00:29:29]  And now the system is hardening around it.
[00:29:32]  You know, we talk like the threat has to look the same as it did in 2001.
[00:29:37]  And if it doesn't, we wave it off or we say it's a conspiracy theory.
[00:29:44]  Meanwhile, time.
[00:29:47]  Is passing.
[00:29:50]  What do weak enemies want?
[00:29:53]  They want time, time to build, time to harden, time to get stronger.
[00:30:01]  And so, with this kind of approach, you don't get a moment anywhere where everybody agrees something's changed.
[00:30:09]  You get a series of small adjustments policy here, a court case here, a line that moves a little and then stays there and then moves a little bit on this side, a little bit further.
[00:30:19]  And most people don't track that kind of change.
[00:30:21]  They're busy.
[00:30:22]  They trust if something serious would happen, it would be obvious, but it isn't.
[00:30:28]  That's the blueprint.
[00:30:30]  That's the plan.
[00:30:31]  And there isn't an agency that you can build that fixes that.
[00:30:34]  You can't screen for an idea at a checkpoint, you can't flag it as a carry on.

=== Exposing the Source Material (07:15) ===

[00:30:40]  It comes down to whether a country is clear about what it is and what it's willing to hold as a line without drifting every time it gets comfortable.
[00:30:51]  And every Country doesn't know what it is any more, and it won't hold a line.
[00:31:03]  You got to hold a line.
[00:31:05]  And if you don't hold that line, the pressure starts to reshape the entire system.
[00:31:10]  So I laid all of this out in a documentary style.
[00:31:15]  It's a live documentary.
[00:31:16]  We went back to the source material and we went all the way back at the beginning.
[00:31:21]  Source material, not commentary, source material.
[00:31:25]  And I wanted it to speak for itself.
[00:31:28]  People who saw it along the way and allowed it to pass.
[00:31:34]  Now, I can't show you this without edits.
[00:31:37]  We wanted to do it on YouTube, but it doesn't fit there because they won't allow some things to be said.
[00:31:44]  So we have to play by their rules.
[00:31:45]  So this is an edited version of it.
[00:31:48]  You want the peel the skin off your face version, you go to glenbeck.com and join us on the torch, and you'll see that.
[00:31:55]  But going up today at noon, you can find it at youtube.com slash Glenn.
[00:32:01]  Sorry, slash Glenn Beck.
[00:32:03]  Thank you.
[00:32:03]  YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck.
[00:32:05]  You can find it there.
[00:32:07]  Also, can you get the documents there or do you have to go to StopTheConquest?
[00:32:10]  Go to stoptheconquest.com.
[00:32:12]  We'll link to that in the description on YouTube, which, by the way, we're already ad limited for just running the trailer to the special on YouTube.
[00:32:20]  A lot of folks asking why we're not putting it on Rumble because YouTube is the biggest Google platform.
[00:32:25]  We want as many people as possible to see it.
[00:32:27]  So share it, like it, comment.
[00:32:29]  Thank you.
[00:32:30]  So thank you, Ricky.
[00:32:32]  So if you will, just go to youtube.comslash Glenn Beck and share it.
[00:32:37]  We are making this because we had a lot of insiders say, I want to share this with my family.
[00:32:41]  I want you to share this with your churches.
[00:32:44]  I want you to share this with anyone who will wake up and say, you know what?
[00:32:51]  We've got to organize in our own town.
[00:32:53]  We have to make sure this stuff isn't creeping through.
[00:32:56]  Somebody and all of the documents.
[00:32:59]  I mean, I am not asking you to trust me.
[00:33:02]  I've put all of the documents.
[00:33:04]  We have a 30, 35 page little booklet that goes with it.
[00:33:07]  It's free.
[00:33:09]  35 page booklet that takes you through the entire story, does not have my name or my face on any of it.
[00:33:14]  So you You can share it with people who hate my guts.
[00:33:18]  And it also has hyperlinks to all of the documents.
[00:33:22]  So you don't have to say, no, no, no, really, trust me, this is happening.
[00:33:26]  No, no, no.
[00:33:27]  Read the documents.
[00:33:28]  It's from them.
[00:33:29]  It's from courts.
[00:33:31]  It's from trusted sites.
[00:33:36]  And you'll be able to have all of that.
[00:33:38]  So you can pass that on to your friends.
[00:33:40]  Again, that happens at noon today.
[00:33:43]  All right, let me go to Jason.
[00:33:47]  And ask you, Jason, one question.
[00:33:52]  We are, this could be crazy.
[00:33:56]  I just had this thought as I was listening to your insider break, and you were talking about what's coming possibly tonight with the president.
[00:34:07]  You know, the president has made it very clear, get your own oil.
[00:34:10]  He's tired.
[00:34:10]  He's tired of it.
[00:34:11]  You know, England is not going to let us use any of their bases if we strike anything today.
[00:34:16]  That's fine.
[00:34:17]  Fine.
[00:34:18]  And he's tired of it.
[00:34:20]  And he said kind of in a pissy mood last week, get your own oil.
[00:34:24]  You want your oil?
[00:34:25]  We're not going to pay for it.
[00:34:26]  We're not going to defend it.
[00:34:28]  You send your troops down.
[00:34:29]  You send your boats down and you defend your own ships.
[00:34:32]  We'll defend ours because we don't really need the oil.
[00:34:35]  But, you know, we're going to take some of the oil because if the oil gets stuck there, all oil, it's a market, all oil goes up.
[00:34:43]  So even the oil, unless you want to nationalize our oil industry here in America, it will float with the free market.
[00:34:50]  And that's a really bad thing to nationalize.
[00:34:52]  So don't even think about that.
[00:34:53]  But it's going to go up as oil becomes more expensive because China or whoever will start to buy from us.
[00:34:59]  And that's good because that will fund our exploration and everything else.
[00:35:05]  But it's bad because it makes the price go up.
[00:35:07]  So we're going to go in and we're going to.
[00:35:10]  Get our own oil and our own flagships.
[00:35:12]  Let me ask you this.
[00:35:14]  He said in nineteen, I think eighty two or eighty three, that if I were president, I'd go get Carg Island and I'd just take it, and we'd have all the oil we need from that area.
[00:35:25]  Is there a possibility that he is setting up a situation to where we will claim Karg Island as ours?
[00:35:36]  And we will just say, it's now American territory.
[00:35:38]  We won it in war and it's ours.
[00:35:41]  And we're going to take the oil from Karg Island.
[00:35:43]  And that's where we're getting our oil.
[00:35:47]  And we will protect it and we will protect our ships.
[00:35:51]  But the rest of you go pound sand.
[00:35:53]  You protect your own ships.
[00:35:55]  Is there a possibility that that's what's coming?
[00:35:59]  Personally, I do not believe that.
[00:36:01]  And you look back at Venezuela, the president could have done that in Venezuela, but he didn't.
[00:36:05]  He didn't even really do a full regime change there.
[00:36:09]  He just allowed for someone.
[00:36:10]  You didn't need to.
[00:36:13]  You didn't need to.
[00:36:15]  I'm not sure.
[00:36:17]  Go ahead.
[00:36:19]  He doesn't need to in this case either.
[00:36:21]  He just needs a regime that is going to operate within our interests and within the interests of the rest of the global supply.
[00:36:28]  Uses the oil from Iran.
[00:36:30]  I think that what he is probably threatening that to expose what the ridiculousness of NATO and Western countries has been for this.
[00:36:38]  Like when you mentioned how he said, go get your own oil, you know, if you want to defend it.
[00:36:43]  What does he know?
[00:36:44]  He knows that they can't because they have not built a sufficient navy.
[00:36:49]  They don't have a sufficient defense budget, even if they did want to park a few ships out there to even fund them.
[00:36:54]  He knows the situation as it is.
[00:36:57]  This war has exposed a lot of stuff, it's exposed what Iran's true intentions are.
[00:37:02]  What they want to do, which is toll every single and shut down the Strait of Hormuz whenever they want to do.
[00:37:07]  But it's also exposed the ridiculousness of Western Europe.
[00:37:10]  Western Europe is an absolute joke right now.
[00:37:14]  They can't defend anything they've had.
[00:37:15]  They've been relying on us since World War II.
[00:37:18]  And they've just kind of assumed that there was always going to be a situation to where there would be no calamity, there would be no reason to worry.
[00:37:26]  Well, there's always reason to worry.
[00:37:28]  And it's exposing all of that right now.
[00:37:31]  There is a fundamental shift that's going to happen in both the Middle East and the reality on the ground.
[00:37:37]  After this war, but also fundamental realities in Western Europe.
[00:37:41]  They have to wake up.
[00:37:42]  They cannot rely on us anymore.
[00:37:44]  And I think President Trump is signaling to them the gig is up.
[00:37:48]  You have got to start relying on yourselves, defending yourselves, so that we can start to disengage.

=== Saving Preborn Babies Today (03:28) ===

[00:37:55]  Time is over.
[00:37:55]  It's done.
[00:37:57]  We live in miraculous times.
[00:38:00]  By the way, we're going to talk about the rescue, which was, if you listen to the president's speech yesterday, oh my gosh, this thing was one of the most incredible. operations I've ever even heard of.
[00:38:16]  The way we brought helicopters in, and then I think we changed out the engines of some of these helicopters in like 15 minutes.
[00:38:23]  We knew what had happened in 1979 with our helicopters burning in the sands of the desert in Iran.
[00:38:30]  I mean, this thing was the most complex rescue I have ever even heard of.
[00:38:37]  And we have Ed Rush, who is a former Top Gun pilot.
[00:38:41]  He's going to take us through the entire thing here in about 15 minutes.
[00:38:45]  And by the way, in case you don't know, somebody said to me the other day, Top Gun, I thought that was a movie.
[00:38:51]  No, no, no.
[00:38:52]  That's actually a real school that they send you to.
[00:38:54]  And in fact, Jared Isaacman, who is now the head of NASA, is the guy.
[00:39:02]  He started a private business, bought up all of these fighter planes, and then trained pilots to go play the bad guys at the Top Gun school.
[00:39:11]  So when they do dogfights, they are fighting Jared Isaacman's company.
[00:39:17]  I don't know if he still has it, but it was his company for a long, long time.
[00:39:21]  He started it.
[00:39:23]  And.
[00:39:24]  And one of the guys who was in those dogfights, a former Top Gun pilot and a retired U.S. Marine who has been on missions like this, not like this, but similar, knows all about them, is going to take us through that incredible story here in about 15 minutes.
[00:39:40]  So stand by for that.
[00:39:41]  All right, let me take a break.
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[00:39:54]  But it's really not the whole story because what happens next is where preborn really sets itself apart.
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[00:41:20]  I mean, I think my manhood is being questioned here in the studio by Ricky.

=== Ejection and Burna Launcher Safety (15:52) ===

[00:41:24]  Yep.
[00:41:25]  I mean, I said, I think I could climb a 7,000 foot mountain.
[00:41:31]  And she said, not with mountain lions.
[00:41:32]  And I'm like, where were the mountain lions?
[00:41:34]  What are you even talking about?
[00:41:35]  They're a metaphor.
[00:41:36]  Well, you didn't make that clear.
[00:41:37]  Or the IRGC.
[00:41:38]  You didn't make that clear.
[00:41:40]  And I also wouldn't have a broken ankle.
[00:41:42]  I think the guy had a broken ankle.
[00:41:43]  You have a broken back.
[00:41:45]  We're going to get the full story of what happened yesterday, including.
[00:41:52]  The red, white, and blue striped American Eagle underwear that, I mean, did they leave their underwear behind for the IRGC to find and stand in a photo?
[00:42:02]  Was that Photoshop?
[00:42:03]  What is that?
[00:42:04]  And what does Dude 44 even mean?
[00:42:07]  How do you get that call sign?
[00:42:08]  The whole story is amazing.
[00:42:10]  Coming up next.
[00:42:13]  You're at home in the middle of the day, going about normal, quiet afternoon when something stops you cold.
[00:42:17]  Not a doorbell, not a knock, but the sound of somebody testing your doorknob.
[00:42:21]  And at first you might wait.
[00:42:22]  You know, thinking it's a mistake.
[00:42:25]  And then you hear footsteps moving along the side of the house.
[00:42:27]  Whoever has decided to try to get in has tried to get in another way.
[00:42:31]  And in that moment, everything becomes very, very clear.
[00:42:35]  This isn't somebody, you know, at the wrong address.
[00:42:37]  This is someone seeing if your home is an easy target.
[00:42:40]  And that's when you realize how important it is to have an option that, you know, doesn't require you to escalate to legal force.
[00:42:46]  It still gives you ways to protect yourself and create distance if you need it.
[00:42:50]  And that is a burn a launcher.
[00:42:52]  That's what it's designed for.
[00:42:53]  It's a compact device that fires.
[00:42:55]  Kinetic and pepper projectiles designed to stop a threat without using a firearm, and it is legal in all 50 states, and you don't need a permit.
[00:43:04]  Go to berna.com/slash Glenn.
[00:43:06]  Learn more.
[00:43:06]  Try before you buy a sportsman's warehouse located near you.
[00:43:09]  It's Burna, B-Y-R-N-A, Burna.com slash Glenn.
[00:44:09]  This is going to be a fascinating hour.
[00:44:14]  We have Ed Rush with us.
[00:44:15]  He's a former Top Gun pilot, retired U.S. Marine.
[00:44:19]  He is going to take us through the entire story of what happened trying to find Dude 44 Bravo.
[00:44:28]  I heard the president and everybody else, including the CIA and Pete Hegseth and everybody, talk about how this thing went down.
[00:44:36]  And I noticed something about the president.
[00:44:39]  Not once.
[00:44:40]  Did the president say, and I did, and I, and this is what I did?
[00:44:44]  Not once.
[00:44:46]  The entire thing, he kept talking about what they did, what they did, what they did.
[00:44:50]  And you could hear it.
[00:44:53]  I don't think I've ever heard the president that in awe of a group of people and what they did.
[00:45:00]  I mean, he took almost a back seat to this.
[00:45:04]  He said, you know, obviously I authorized this, but what they did, what they had planned, what the contingencies that they had ready, the guy was in awe.
[00:45:14]  Awe, and quite honestly, in listening to it, so was I.
[00:45:18]  I mean, I don't know of another country that would do this to save one person.
[00:45:23]  Has it ever even been done before?
[00:45:26]  It's incredible.
[00:45:27]  So Ed's going to fill us in as a former Top Gun pilot.
[00:45:31]  He's going to fill us in.
[00:45:32]  I mean, the first thing I want to know is, has he ever ejected out of a plane?
[00:45:36]  Because I hear that.
[00:45:36]  I mean, you're sitting pretty much on like dynamite and it just blows you out of the plane.
[00:45:41]  That's got to be wildly violent.
[00:45:43]  What happened?
[00:45:44]  Do we know what happened to Bravo?
[00:45:47]  How did he hurt himself?
[00:45:48]  I've heard everything from he was bleeding everywhere to he had a broken ankle.
[00:45:51]  Do we even know yet?
[00:45:53]  But what a remarkable tale.
[00:45:54]  He'll tell it here in just a second.
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[00:47:12]  There are so many amazing things that have happened.
[00:47:15]  I mean, everybody was born for a reason at this time, and God is using all of us.
[00:47:21]  I mean, look at what happened in space yesterday.
[00:47:25]  It's just miracles happening in space.
[00:47:26]  And then the gospel is being preached from space.
[00:47:29]  And then this pilot, what does he signal to say, I'm alive?
[00:47:33]  God is good.
[00:47:34]  I mean, it's just incredible what is happening.
[00:47:38]  Ed Rush is with us now, former Top Gun pilot, retired U.S. Marine.
[00:47:44]  His website is godtalks.com.
[00:47:47]  Hello, Ed.
[00:47:48]  How are you?
[00:47:49]  Glenn, God is indeed good.
[00:47:52]  I have to say, as a fighter pilot, I've had goosebumps for the last 24 hours.
[00:47:57]  Just watching the details of this mission unfold.
[00:47:59]  I watched the president's press conference, obviously, yesterday.
[00:48:02]  And I think you're right and very astute in saying how the president reacted.
[00:48:07]  It was just all about our ground forces and our air forces.
[00:48:10]  And I'm amazed.
[00:48:11]  I think we're going to walk through this step by step.
[00:48:13]  But overall, I just think it's an incredible testament to the American fighting men and women and what we've been able to accomplish in training and in war.
[00:48:23]  And it's a testimony to when a politician.
[00:48:28]  Just lets the experts pick the right experts to lead and then lets them do what they can do and just unleash.
[00:48:37]  Just go get the guy, bring him back.
[00:48:40]  It's amazing what they can accomplish.
[00:48:42]  Amazing.
[00:48:46]  I was as impressed with this, almost as impressed with sending somebody to the moon last week.
[00:48:53]  It's not just this mission, it's pretty much everything the military's done under this current administration, Operation Midnight Hammer, what we did in Venezuela.
[00:49:02]  I mean, the At the level of execution, we went into Venezuela and came out without a single loss of life.
[00:49:07]  And so, what you just said, Glenn, is totally right.
[00:49:09]  When you have a command and control structure that moves authority down to the low levels, which is where it should be, down to the warfighter level, you have unbelievable execution.
[00:49:18]  It's a real change of pace from what we've seen in the past.
[00:49:22]  Okay.
[00:49:23]  So, Ed, let's start at the beginning.
[00:49:25]  First, I have to ask you have you ever had to eject out of a fighter?
[00:49:29]  No, and thank God.
[00:49:30]  God is good.
[00:49:31]  So, the last, it is literally like the worst case scenario.
[00:49:35]  I mean, what Dude 44 Bravo experienced over the last three days is the worst.
[00:49:40]  I mean, it's like coming out of the airplane, having to survive.
[00:49:42]  I know we're going to walk through all this step by step, but I've never ejected.
[00:49:45]  Thank God.
[00:49:46]  It's like I have a roommate who ejected, went out of control, completely out of control in an F 18, ejected, was recovered safely over the sands of Yuma, Arizona.
[00:49:55]  And he, Glenn, he was an inch and a half smaller, like literally smaller.
[00:49:59]  His spine had compressed so much that he was smaller.
[00:50:02]  Wow.
[00:50:03]  So it's not a good deal.
[00:50:06]  Okay.
[00:50:07]  So they're flying, and we don't know how they were shot down.
[00:50:12]  I thought we had taken care of all of their rockets and everything else.
[00:50:18]  Do we know how they were shot down?
[00:50:20]  So there's no report as to the weapon.
[00:50:24]  But what I can tell you so I was flying in Iraq.
[00:50:26]  We had.
[00:50:27]  Ultimate air superiority in Iraq when I was there in 2004, 2005.
[00:50:31]  That didn't mean we weren't occasionally getting shot at by surface to air systems.
[00:50:36]  So, when we go in to fight a big war like we came in into Iran, what fighter pilots will do and what the military planners will do is called rolling back the IADS.
[00:50:46]  That's the integrated air defense system.
[00:50:47]  You start with the big systems.
[00:50:49]  We're talking about systems that can shoot 100, 150 miles out.
[00:50:52]  You start with the communication nodes.
[00:50:54]  And really, what you're left with, and you're pretty much left with this for the remainder of the war.
[00:50:59]  Are individuals carrying shoulder launched surface to air, infrared guided surface to air systems.
[00:51:05]  So there's no radar signature, there's no electronic signature that we can target, and small arms and AAA.
[00:51:11]  For the most part, our tactics keep us above what's called the WES, the weapons engagement envelope of those systems.
[00:51:18]  So flying 20,000 feet and above or 25,000 feet and above, typically you're outside of that zone.
[00:51:24]  My suspicion is that these F 15Es, which are strike aircraft or air to ground aircraft, We were probably flying low enough to look for targets.
[00:51:33]  In other words, they were trying to get eyeballs on maybe a moving target, maybe something that they were trying to fund on their ground so that they could direct air on top of that.
[00:51:41]  And while they were doing that, they took fire from an infrared surface to air system.
[00:51:45]  I'll bet you probably 95 to 99% that it was an infrared guided system like Press and SA 18 that was either Iranian or provided potentially by the Russians.
[00:51:56]  So they're hit.
[00:51:59]  Alpha is fine, rescued pretty much right away.
[00:52:05]  And how is it that Bravo was so far away?
[00:52:08]  What was he like 40 miles or some crazy distance from the other pilot?
[00:52:15]  How did he get so far away?
[00:52:17]  Yeah, I mean, so you have an airplane.
[00:52:18]  So, I mean, kind of walk through the sequence of what would have happened.
[00:52:21]  So they're flying their mission.
[00:52:23]  Both of them are probably looking out the cockpit in one direction or another.
[00:52:26]  Typically, one pilot or the wingman will pick up an air to ground signature of a launch.
[00:52:31]  Typically, you'll see the smoke or the corkscrewing smoke that comes out of the ground, and then you begin evasive maneuvers.
[00:52:37]  Typically, for this kind of system, you would be putting out chaff and flares that's designed to defeat the infrared seeker.
[00:52:44]  In this case, obviously, it wasn't defeated, or it was, but it just got close enough to where the blast radius of the weapon was enough to disable the airplane.
[00:52:52]  And then at that point, you begin an ejection sequence.
[00:52:56]  Still TBD as far as how quickly they had to eject.
[00:52:59]  It sounds like he sustained injuries on ejection, and usually that's a sign that they're at pretty high speed.
[00:53:04]  If you have an aircraft that's disabled, And you can slow it down, you are a lot more survivable in an ejection.
[00:53:11]  But for example, if your airplane's spinning or if it's going at a high rate of speed, if you pull the handle, you're going to hit the wind stream at 400 to 500 miles an hour, which is like getting hit by a chain.
[00:53:20]  And to put it into context, the moment you pull the handle, 20 G's erupt underneath your bottom.
[00:53:28]  That's enough, by the way, to kill a plane if it's sustained.
[00:53:31]  So that's 20 times your body weight.
[00:53:32]  So, like, if you're a 200 pound person, you're now 4,000 pounds.
[00:53:37]  If I just did the math right, so you're like, Getting rocketed out of this thing as quickly as possible.
[00:53:42]  And there's injuries sustained just from the G forces.
[00:53:45]  I'm talking about just in training when people go through ejection sequences, they can get injured in that way.
[00:53:51]  But now you're in the wind stream and you're going 400, 500 miles an hour, sometimes faster.
[00:53:56]  And all of a sudden, you're hitting this wind.
[00:53:58]  And a lot of times, what happens to guys is they break arms or legs because their arms literally flail out into the wind.
[00:54:04]  And so they train us as pilots to pull our arms and legs and to find an ejection position.
[00:54:09]  And so this pilot.
[00:54:10]  It said that he had 44 Bravo had back injuries.
[00:54:14]  I would imagine those injuries were sustained either from the ejection itself, which is probably the most likely, or from the parachute landing.
[00:54:23]  Because remember, now that you've sustained 20 G's, now that you're in the wind stream, you're in a parachute.
[00:54:28]  You know, the pilots, we always say it's better to be swinging in the sheets than singing with the angels.
[00:54:33]  You're better off, you know, in a parachute than you are in an airplane that's about to crash.
[00:54:36]  But as you're on your way to the ground, then you have to land and you're coming down pretty fast.
[00:54:41]  And so the.
[00:54:42]  Injuries were either sustained on the ejection or on the landing, and then you have to escape.
[00:54:46]  I'm not sure how they got so far apart, but it is common for the pilot and the backseater named the Wizzo to be some distance apart because the ejection sequence not only does it send them in at different times, there's a little bit of a delay between the backseat and the front seat so that they'll separate from each other, but often one will go right, one will go left, and then by the time you hit the airstream and then maneuver your canopy, you could be miles apart.
[00:55:10]  So, when you eject, there's got to be an automatic system that sends a beacon out to the military.
[00:55:16]  It says, hey, we got a plane down, and here's where each pilot is.
[00:55:19]  Or do you have to activate that yourself?
[00:55:22]  So, okay, so the airplane itself has a beacon.
[00:55:24]  So, what happens the moment you eject is both seats come out, both pilots head in one direction or the other, and then the aircraft itself ejects.
[00:55:34]  Like, you know, when we talk about the black box in a civilian aircraft?
[00:55:39]  Yeah.
[00:55:39]  The aircraft itself ejects its memory system.
[00:55:43]  And so there's literally like a box.
[00:55:44]  That comes flying off the airplane that carries with it the memory of essentially the last day of flying, so that investigators, once they find that, can do their investigation and find out what went wrong with the airplane.
[00:55:57]  That box itself also carries an emergency beacon along with it.
[00:56:02]  And so the rescuers can find that piece of the aircraft, but the pilots themselves aren't broadcasting a beacon.
[00:56:09]  And that is obviously for their safety purposes.
[00:56:11]  It's designed so that the pilot has the choice whether they can turn their radio on and off.
[00:56:16]  The survival gear that a pilot will have is typically a survival vest.
[00:56:20]  It has like minimal food, some chewing gum.
[00:56:22]  For real, there's literally chewing gum in there, a little tiny bottle of water.
[00:56:26]  Each pilot will have a radio that's essentially a satellite radio designed to connect with the CSAR forces.
[00:56:32]  And then they'll have a sidearm.
[00:56:33]  So when I was in combat in Iraq, I carried a nine millimeter pistol, which, just so you know, is like completely worthless.
[00:56:39]  Unless it's like you and one other person, that 15 round magazine is not going to get you anywhere in combat.
[00:56:45]  It's probably last resort, and truthfully, You're about to die if you're going to use your pistol.
[00:56:49]  And so you're armed with all of it.
[00:56:51]  Especially a 9mm.
[00:56:53]  Yeah, 9mm.
[00:56:54]  I mean, some of the guys, by the way, since I was a Marine, a lot of the guys carry.45s, you know, because of much more stopping power.
[00:57:00]  But like, anyway, so the military gives you a Verretta, this small Italian made weapon, and you carry it thinking, I'm never going to shoot anybody with these small Italian 9mm rounds.
[00:57:15]  You know, but you carry it anyway.

=== Hiding Before Broadcasting Position (09:10) ===

[00:57:16]  And so, yeah, so the pilots, it's up to him whether he's going to turn his radio on or off.
[00:57:21]  On or not.
[00:57:22]  And typically, what will happen is you hit the ground, you release your parachute.
[00:57:26]  That's really important because otherwise, it'll literally drag you across the ground.
[00:57:29]  You secure any gear that you have so you don't leave anything behind, and then you find cover or concealment.
[00:57:35]  You're trying to find a place where you can hide before you bring out your radio because the moment you start broadcasting, especially depending on the gear that you're using, there's forces that can triangulate in on your position.
[00:57:45]  And so, obviously, you want to be judicious as to how you use that radio.
[00:57:50]  Wow.
[00:57:50]  So then let me take a break and we'll pick it up when he is now trying to find some place to hide.
[00:57:57]  I think that's the logical place to go.
[00:57:59]  Trying some place to hide, hikes up 7,000 feet on the side of a mountain and puts himself between two rocks and becomes part of the mountain and is almost invisible, except somehow or another to the CIA.
[00:58:14]  And I want to go through that with you and what we can talk about, what we do know, which is very little.
[00:58:19]  Ed Rush is going to join us here in 60 seconds.
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[00:59:40]  So, Ed, he's ejected.
[00:59:43]  He's now looking for a place to hide.
[00:59:45]  We don't know all of his story yet.
[00:59:47]  He climbs up a mountain.
[00:59:49]  Do you know?
[00:59:50]  I've heard he had a broken ankle.
[00:59:51]  You hear it's his back that was really bad?
[00:59:54]  So, I think today, I'm guessing today or tomorrow, we're going to get a press conference.
[00:59:58]  He's probably just in Germany recovering from his wounds at the moment.
[01:00:02]  But I think it was a back issue.
[01:00:04]  That's at least what I heard in the initial report.
[01:00:07]  The press conference was Sencom.
[01:00:08]  I didn't hear anything about an ankle.
[01:00:09]  I wouldn't be surprised, by the way.
[01:00:11]  If there were multiple wounds, like I wouldn't be surprised if it was back, ankle, a wrist, an elbow, whatever.
[01:00:16]  Like when you're out of the airplane and trying to get away, like there's a lot of stuff that can happen to your body.
[01:00:21]  And, like, first of all, man, what an amazing survival job.
[01:00:26]  This is a big deal.
[01:00:26]  And your ability to think in a survival situation.
[01:00:30]  So I was never a POW.
[01:00:33]  Thank God I was never even chased.
[01:00:35]  But I did go to our, what we call our SEER school, S E R E stands for survival evasions.
[01:00:41]  Evasion, resistance, and escape.
[01:00:43]  You literally, Glenn, they put you into a POW camp for three days.
[01:00:46]  It's no joke.
[01:00:47]  Like, they're waterboarding.
[01:00:49]  I've got to sit here and be admitting this right now.
[01:00:51]  Like, that was before it was prohibited.
[01:00:54]  But it was a big deal.
[01:00:56]  Like, you were literally treated like a prisoner.
[01:00:58]  And what you learned in that school, more than anything, is just don't get captured.
[01:01:02]  Like, do anything you can not to get captured, especially in a country like Iran that's not following the Geneva Convention when it comes to prisoners.
[01:01:11]  You know, it's been a horror show.
[01:01:13]  Yeah.
[01:01:13]  I mean, you know, you're going to get tortured.
[01:01:15]  And so, this is a big deal.
[01:01:17]  And by the way, back to what we said in the beginning about God is good, this whole situation could have been a 1979 level Desert One situation.
[01:01:26]  I mean, it could have been a disaster.
[01:01:28]  And so, I mean, we could have lost multiple aircraft.
[01:01:31]  We could have lost multiple of our airmen, Marines, and soldiers.
[01:01:35]  And we got out unscathed.
[01:01:36]  It was just really amazing, the whole mission.
[01:01:39]  So, when do we send out this giant force?
[01:01:43]  Did we wait?
[01:01:44]  Were we planning immediately?
[01:01:46]  Do we have plans like this?
[01:01:47]  Because this was elaborate.
[01:01:50]  We send these 130s out, very heavy planes.
[01:01:54]  They land in the sand.
[01:01:55]  And I got to believe I mean, I'm old enough to remember what happened in this desert in 1979.
[01:02:01]  You just mentioned it.
[01:02:03]  We didn't get those helicopters up because of the sand.
[01:02:07]  So we land these gigantic C 130s.
[01:02:11]  I hear we had to make kind of a tarmac overnight to get some place for them to land.
[01:02:18]  Did we ever think they could get off that thing with all the sand and rocks?
[01:02:22]  And you don't land jets in something like that and expect it to take off, do you?
[01:02:28]  It's a pretty amazing beginning to end operation.
[01:02:30]  Now, keep in mind, there are units in the Marine or in the Armed Forces that train their entire lives for what's called CSAR, Combat Search and Rescue.
[01:02:39]  Like, that's their job.
[01:02:40]  That's what they train for.
[01:02:42]  These are missions that are literally in a box.
[01:02:44]  And they're going to come out and say, okay, we're going to execute, you know, this kind of mission.
[01:02:48]  And they know it requires these kind of airplanes, this kind of, uh, Forward arming base and everything.
[01:02:53]  And so, what was created in the desert is called a FARP.
[01:02:56]  It's important for me to spell that because it sounds like, you know, so it's S A R P, which stands for forward arming and refueling point.
[01:03:05]  Literally, they will take C 130s, land them in the middle of the desert, certain cases without any air runway at all.
[01:03:12]  They're airplanes that are designed to do this get in, get in, short landing.
[01:03:16]  Often they'll have Jado bottles, which are literally rockets that they attach to the side of the airplane so that they can take off.
[01:03:22]  And they will stretch fuel.
[01:03:24]  Lines directly out of the airplane so that the helicopters can come in, refuel, and go back looking for the aircraft.
[01:03:30]  And so, to answer your question about how quickly, like the moment the aircraft is down and they have a location, assets are already airborne.
[01:03:36]  So, there are airborne assets, helicopters, typically C 130s and jets flying around, literally listening on an emergency frequency, ready to listen for a pilot or to find his location.
[01:03:48]  So, we have less than a minute here and then we'll pick up the story again.
[01:03:54]  But so that signal was him when he was secure.
[01:03:58]  He lit up his radio and all he transmitted was God is good, which was their signal, He's alive and here I am, right?
[01:04:05]  It was his ad lib.
[01:04:07]  Now, typically there's a password challenge and response that you get that you're supposed to broadcast first.
[01:04:12]  But I think that was his way of saying, Hey, I'm in good shape and this is where I'm at.
[01:04:19]  And then he waited and everything went in.
[01:04:22]  And then we couldn't get the C 130s off the ground because they were stuck in the sand.
[01:04:27]  And so there was a contingency for that contingency.
[01:04:31]  I want to talk about that in just a second.
[01:04:33]  I also want to ask Ed when we come back, you know, eight o'clock tonight, what do you think the plan is tonight?
[01:04:42]  I just proposed something last hour that I think is very out of the box, but that's kind of President Trump.
[01:04:48]  What do you think the plan is?
[01:04:49]  We'll go into that next.
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=== Former Top Gun Pilot Interview (15:19) ===

[01:06:27]  We are going to run out of time.
[01:06:28]  This is a fascinating conversation with a guy who knows.
[01:06:31]  He is a former Top Gun pilot, retired U.S. Marine, Ed Rush, telling us the story of what happened.
[01:06:40]  As far as what we know and has been released, we don't know all of the details yet.
[01:06:46]  One of those things that has not been released is yesterday in the president's speech, I'm sure you saw it, he had the head of the CIA talk about how they were running bluff communications, et cetera, et cetera.
[01:07:00]  But he.
[01:07:01]  Referenced having some ability that no one else in the world has that can find a needle in the haystack.
[01:07:07]  And he said, We may not have found him without this capability.
[01:07:12]  That's unbelievable.
[01:07:14]  I mean, one thing I'm learning, Ed, is we've got capabilities beyond our wildest imagination.
[01:07:20]  Oh, eye opening.
[01:07:21]  By the way, and this is true when I was in the military almost 20 years ago.
[01:07:25]  It was true then.
[01:07:26]  I remember getting read in on certain programs that we had available at the time.
[01:07:32]  And I'm like, I can't even believe it.
[01:07:34]  So we have.
[01:07:35]  Great engineers.
[01:07:35]  I mean, unbelievable engineers here in the United States, and we have incredible products.
[01:07:40]  And I think it's interesting how the president did that yesterday.
[01:07:43]  I can almost see the CIA folks rolling their eyes, you know, like, oh my gosh, is he going to tell everybody, you know, about what we've got?
[01:07:50]  But clearly, we have communication devices, ability, location, potentially using drones or something like that, that are significantly above whatever the enemy may have.
[01:08:03]  I mean, it's quite obvious with how we're targeting everybody.
[01:08:06]  There's no hiding place on Earth.
[01:08:08]  If the United States of America wants to get you, they're going to get you.
[01:08:12]  Let me ask you some stupid questions.
[01:08:13]  First of all, Dude 44, the call sign.
[01:08:18]  Where's that from?
[01:08:20]  So, when squadrons go overseas, they don't take their CONUS, Continental United States call signs with them.
[01:08:27]  So, for example, I was here in San Diego with a squadron, VMFA 242.
[01:08:32]  We were the bats.
[01:08:32]  When we went to war, we changed our name so that people who were listening on the radio couldn't identify the squadron that was flying.
[01:08:39]  It's just a.
[01:08:40]  It's just a clandestine thing.
[01:08:41]  And so often the squadron will pick their call sign.
[01:08:44]  And so clearly, this F 15 squadron picked Dude.
[01:08:47]  I believe it's a reference to the Big Lebowski movie, you know, the dude or the dude Reno, if you're not into that whole brevity thing.
[01:08:54]  It's just a fighter pilot joke, really, that's become now pretty famous.
[01:08:58]  So Dude 44 was the aircraft call sign.
[01:09:01]  Dude 44A or Alpha is the pilot.
[01:09:04]  Dude 44 Bravo, the guy that we're talking about, is the backseater.
[01:09:10]  There is a picture of apparently these IGR, you know, IRGC fighters or just, you know, Iranian fighters that are holding up a pair of American Eagle red, white, and blue striped underpants.
[01:09:25]  And they said that's their, that's the pilot's underwear.
[01:09:30]  Why would the pilot take off his underwear?
[01:09:34]  You know, I mean, it's just, it's almost like a calling card at this point, Glenn.
[01:09:39]  It's like, you know, I went to Iraq and all I left behind was my dirty underwear.
[01:09:46]  I have to say, I think the underwear thing might just be a bit of an internet.
[01:09:51]  I can't imagine a scenario where a wounded pilot climbing a 7,000 foot mountain, trying to evade capture with his 9mm on his thing, is just going to drop his clothes and accidentally leave his underwear there.
[01:10:03]  So I think that would be.
[01:10:03]  Right.
[01:10:04]  I mean, that.
[01:10:06]  Okay.
[01:10:06]  All right.
[01:10:07]  Because that made no sense to me unless you were like, crap, now I know I'm going to end up in Germany in the hospital and I don't have clean underwear.
[01:10:14]  I got to get rid of this underwear.
[01:10:15]  I don't, I mean, that's the only thing I could think of.
[01:10:17]  You'd think that a professional Air Force pilot would be able to keep his hands on, you know?
[01:10:22]  Right.
[01:10:22]  Yes.
[01:10:22]  Yes, you would.
[01:10:24]  I heard in the briefing, the president was talking and he said, You don't understand the contingency is on the contingencies when the planes couldn't get up.
[01:10:34]  They couldn't get the 100 guys out.
[01:10:35]  So they had to have helicopters come in.
[01:10:38]  And he said they rebuilt the engines on the ground in 15 minutes.
[01:10:44]  Do you know anything about that?
[01:10:46]  What was he talking about?
[01:10:48]  So I don't.
[01:10:50]  The president, at times with regard to hyperbole, can maybe just go a little past what may have happened.
[01:10:55]  There's no question in my mind that they were repairing those aircraft on the ground.
[01:10:59]  It's one of the benefits of that forward arming refueling point, that FARP, is you bring in gear, you bring in maintenance folks, you bring in refueling, you're able to do oil, you know, fix oil or like, you know, change little chip detectors or whatever.
[01:11:11]  There's a lot that they can do on the ground there.
[01:11:13]  And so there's no question in my mind, Glenn, they're actually fixing the aircraft down there on the ground.
[01:11:18]  I thought it was interesting, the president's terminology yesterday when.
[01:11:21]  Because we blew up the C 130s.
[01:11:23]  They couldn't get in the air.
[01:11:24]  And so we obviously threw a satchel of C 4 inside there and just blew those aircraft up for ComSec purposes.
[01:11:32]  The president's exact words were we blew them to smithereens, which I thought was a perfect way to describe, perfectly presidential way to describe that.
[01:11:41]  What do you have to say to people that are, I mean, up until yesterday, we're reporting, Americans reporting that this whole thing was, we were trying to kill our own pilot.
[01:11:53]  First of all, I don't know about you, but if I were in a situation where I were going to be taken hostage, I'd prefer a missile, an American missile hit me before taken hostage, and I'm forced to say things on camera that I would never say unless I was being tortured.
[01:12:10]  I mean, kill me.
[01:12:11]  But that's not what was happening.
[01:12:13]  This was an amazing thing.
[01:12:14]  How do you respond to people who are still today reporting that?
[01:12:19]  Yeah, I mean, you know, I think Forrest Gump said it best when he said, Stupid is as stupid does.
[01:12:24]  I mean, the sad thing about the internet is, you know, everybody with an opinion, whether it's a good opinion or not, gets to share it.
[01:12:30]  I mean, what we saw over the last two days, it's like, I just feel like, hey, can we just give these guys a win?
[01:12:35]  You know what I mean?
[01:12:36]  Like, whatever your political beliefs are, whatever your conspiracy view of the military or whatever we're doing, like, just give the guy a win.
[01:12:43]  I mean, this is going to be a movie within the next year.
[01:12:45]  I mean, like, literally, probably next summer.
[01:12:48]  We're going to see a movie called Dude 4 4, and it's going to walk through this thing step by step.
[01:12:53]  And so I say, like, just give them a win.
[01:12:55]  Say, hey, like, great job.
[01:12:57]  We got out of there with the pilot.
[01:12:58]  Not only that, but we got out of there with no casualties.
[01:13:01]  That's unbelievable.
[01:13:02]  I mean, with the amount of opposition that we may have been facing and the amount of people that we put in there in night and day, in the throes of death, the fact that we got out of there with no casualties is just like a testament to God's goodness to our country right now.
[01:13:16]  I have to tell you, it says something also to a nation and an ideology.
[01:13:21]  You know, these 12ers, they'll blow up your children for Allah.
[01:13:25]  They will strap bombs to your children and blow them up.
[01:13:29]  This shows the difference.
[01:13:31]  We value life, every single life.
[01:13:36]  Has there been another country that has done anything close to this?
[01:13:40]  The amount of money, I mean, 100 soldiers flown into the ground, two airplanes destroyed.
[01:13:49]  How many millions of dollars were spent trying to get this one guy?
[01:13:54]  I don't.
[01:13:54]  Has there ever been another country that has done this?
[01:13:58]  And what message does it send to the rest of the world and our enemies?
[01:14:04]  I think it's a fundamental difference, Glenn.
[01:14:06]  It's also a fundamental difficulty.
[01:14:08]  I'll talk about that in just a second.
[01:14:09]  But, you know, the difference when I joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp, and Marine Corps boot camp is no joke, you are taught from day one, you never leave a man behind.
[01:14:17]  You never leave a man behind.
[01:14:18]  And the number of men I've carried, you know, firemen carried in a simulated training mission because you never, Ever leave someone behind.
[01:14:27]  Even if their body's laying there dead, you don't leave them behind.
[01:14:29]  It's an American ethos that I don't think we share with anyone.
[01:14:32]  It's just the way that we fight wars.
[01:14:34]  And it's difficult and it causes more challenges than we would like to admit, but it's a huge part of our ethos.
[01:14:42]  And when you juxtapose our country versus the country that we're fighting in Iran, it's the total opposite.
[01:14:48]  You have a country there that is literally the leadership is fighting for survival and they will sacrifice every single citizen of their country so that they might live.
[01:14:56]  I'm not kidding you.
[01:14:57]  The last person.
[01:14:58]  Alive will be the new baby Ayatollah Jr., or whatever, which one, the latest Ayatollah, they will sacrifice everyone.
[01:15:05]  And that is a fundamental difference between the American ethos.
[01:15:08]  And I think it speaks, I think it really does speak to the character and the value of our country that we still have, not just that we were founded on, but that we still have.
[01:15:19]  You know, the president spoke, and I've got about 1,400 questions, so I want to try to move through these quickly.
[01:15:24]  But the president spoke about, you know, somebody who leaked that we had a guy.
[01:15:31]  And honestly, I'm not mad at the president.
[01:15:33]  I'm not mad at the press for that.
[01:15:35]  I think it was a logical question.
[01:15:37]  Did we get the second guy?
[01:15:39]  I'm mad at the person who had the information that says, no, we didn't, and we're looking for him.
[01:15:44]  And that's who the president is mad at.
[01:15:47]  That put that guy and this mission in grave danger.
[01:15:53]  Correct?
[01:15:54]  Big time.
[01:15:55]  By the way, that's traitorous conduct.
[01:15:57]  If I'm the guy on the ground and I lose my life because someone talked, that's traitorous conduct.
[01:16:01]  And I think the president is right to be upset about that.
[01:16:04]  It is, we are in a battle space where communication is part of warfare.
[01:16:09]  It wasn't like that, you know, 50 or 100 years ago because communication lines move so slowly.
[01:16:14]  But now, because of the way things move so quickly, communication is literally like another armed force.
[01:16:19]  It's that important.
[01:16:21]  Traitorous?
[01:16:22]  I mean, that's the only thing in the Constitution that.
[01:16:24]  Carries a penalty.
[01:16:28]  That's traitorous.
[01:16:30]  Yeah, I mean, I think you're giving up secrets.
[01:16:33]  So the definition of top secret is that it is potentially loss of life or catastrophic loss of national security.
[01:16:42]  And I think that falls right into there.
[01:16:44]  If you're giving up secrets that could lead to loss of life, that's traitorous conduct, in my opinion.
[01:16:49]  Right.
[01:16:49]  And that is not the journalist.
[01:16:53]  That's the guy who gave the journalist the information.
[01:16:57]  So tonight, Can I present a concept to you?
[01:17:02]  You know, the president doesn't bluff, and the president also doesn't make things up on the fly.
[01:17:07]  He's been looking at this.
[01:17:08]  I mean, he's on record since the 1980s.
[01:17:11]  And one of the things he said, you know, if they misbehave, what I would do, this is like 1983 or something.
[01:17:17]  What I would do is I'd go in and I'd take Karg Island, and I would just declare it ours, and I'd take the oil, and that's it.
[01:17:23]  Enough.
[01:17:23]  Enough is enough.
[01:17:26]  He has other countries that are not helping us, and he said, go get your own oil.
[01:17:30]  We've got ours.
[01:17:31]  Tonight, what do you see as legitimate targets?
[01:17:37]  And what are the odds that we just take Carg Island and we're fine with our oil?
[01:17:42]  We let everybody else get theirs.
[01:17:44]  Yeah, I think, Glenn, he's going to talk about it tonight in the past tense.
[01:17:47]  I actually think we're on our way into Carg Island right now.
[01:17:50]  Initial reports right now through Reuters is that we're actually attacking, like literally as we speak.
[01:17:56]  I think the president will talk about it.
[01:17:58]  I mean, he does threats, but he talks detail in the past tense.
[01:18:03]  After the fact.
[01:18:04]  And I'll bet you tonight he's going to talk about how we've already started an operation on Karg Island.
[01:18:09]  And I think it's the most logical next step.
[01:18:12]  Like you said, by the way, this war is one of the greatest things that ever happened to our relationship with NATO.
[01:18:17]  It made really clear.
[01:18:18]  It's like you always say, you know, your friends are when times are tough, you know?
[01:18:23]  And that's completely redefined our role in NATO, which I think is very healthy for us at this moment, too.
[01:18:31]  Can you just tell me quickly, legitimate target?
[01:18:34]  What's the difference between a legitimate target, a legitimate power strike, and one that's not?
[01:18:40]  What are legitimate targets?
[01:18:42]  Very good question.
[01:18:43]  By the way, this is the debate of the day where the - I mean, there's lawyers all over the news right now talking about this.
[01:18:49]  You've got the Geneva Convention, which basically prohibits the hitting of targets that are essential for civilian survival.
[01:18:55]  And so if you hit a water site and people can't get water, that would be a violation of the Geneva Convention, which clearly we subscribe to, the other country doesn't.
[01:19:04]  I don't think this island.
[01:19:05]  Wait, wait, wait.
[01:19:06]  Unless it's dual use, right?
[01:19:08]  Unless it's dual use.
[01:19:10]  Okay.
[01:19:10]  Correct.
[01:19:10]  So, for example, if you have a power plant or a water desalination plant that also houses military gear, that's free game.
[01:19:18]  And so that's why, like, the lawyers, this is a big day for military lawyers because this is all the kind of thing that they're discussing.
[01:19:25]  But that island, in my opinion, is totally fair game, especially since you've been getting shot from it.
[01:19:32]  And do you think we try to hold it?
[01:19:34]  I mean, just declare it ours?
[01:19:36]  Put a flag over it?
[01:19:38]  It's a great question.
[01:19:39]  I was listening to your first hour when you were talking about that.
[01:19:42]  That's a line we haven't really crossed, actually, as Americans, even in our last 250 years, despite the Monroe Doctrine moves.
[01:19:50]  That's really not a line that we've crossed.
[01:19:52]  But we're in a post Bretton Woods environment now.
[01:19:55]  We're not going to provide security for the world.
[01:19:57]  So this might be a different show.
[01:20:00]  It's interesting.
[01:20:01]  It is going to be fascinating to watch.
[01:20:03]  Ed might like to, if you have time, I might want to have you back on tomorrow and just.
[01:20:07]  Review.
[01:20:07]  If something happens tonight, we know I'd love to get more of your analysis.
[01:20:11]  Thank you so much.
[01:20:12]  Appreciate it.
[01:20:12]  I'll be there.
[01:20:13]  Yes, sir.
[01:20:14]  You got it.
[01:20:15]  That is Ed Rush.
[01:20:17]  You can follow him.
[01:20:18]  His website is godtalks.com.
[01:20:21]  You can find him on X at Ed Rush Pilot, former Top Gun pilot and retired U.S. Marine.
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[01:25:36]  There is so much going on our Our allies overseas are really not our allies.
[01:25:40]  We've known this for a long time.
[01:25:43]  But what is happening now with the strikes in Iran?
[01:25:46]  And, you know, I think you have to be very, very cynical.
[01:25:50]  And I will admit it if I'm wrong tomorrow.
[01:25:54]  And Donald Trump just bombs all the power plants in Iran.
[01:25:57]  I do not believe he's going to do that.
[01:25:59]  I believe this is misdirection.
[01:26:00]  I think he's going to take Karg Island.
[01:26:06]  Jason was just talking to the insiders about why wouldn't we use cyber warfare on the power plants?
[01:26:11]  Take them down, but don't destroy the infrastructure.
[01:26:14]  But, you know, I'll admit if I'm wrong tomorrow, but we will see.
[01:26:20]  There's a lot going on.
[01:26:21]  We're not allowed to use the airspace.
[01:26:23]  We can't use England's bases for any of the operations if we do do operations tonight, which I'm hoping we don't have to, but I'm guessing that we are going to.
[01:26:34]  Canada is absolutely on fire.
[01:26:36]  Canada, I mean, Are they even an ally anymore?
[01:26:39]  I don't know.
[01:26:40]  I love the Canadian people.
[01:26:42]  You know, I grew up just off the border in Washington state, just a few miles out of Vancouver, British Columbia, and I love, just love Canada.
[01:26:53]  But Canada's gone insane.
[01:26:55]  You know, you're going to hear from a woman here today about, you know, she goes into the hospital, she has back pain.
[01:27:03]  And the first thing that the hospital says is, would you like maid?
[01:27:08]  Medical assistance in dying.
[01:27:09]  I have back pain.
[01:27:10]  What are you talking about?
[01:27:12]  It's gone nuts.
[01:27:13]  It's a culture of death now.
[01:27:15]  And in Alberta, they are actually, the Canadians are saying, you know what, we don't want to, but maybe we need to break away because now they are fighting for their freedom on so many fronts.
[01:27:28]  But one of the things they just passed a new law that allows Canada to confiscate all of the guns.
[01:27:34]  Guns that were legal and legally held by Canadians for years and years and years now are illegal.
[01:27:42]  And they're talking about the grace period is over.
[01:27:46]  It was over, I think, yesterday.
[01:27:47]  You had to turn your guns in.
[01:27:49]  Well, only 2% of Canadians turn their guns in.
[01:27:53]  Everybody else is like, come and get them.
[01:27:54]  And you sound a little like Texas.
[01:27:56]  What does that mean?
[01:27:58]  I have a Canadian attorney on with us, Keith Wilson, here in just a minute.
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[01:29:22]  Keith Wilson from Canada, Canadian attorney, to talk a little bit about Albertans and also the gun grab that is going on.
[01:29:31]  Keith, welcome.
[01:29:33]  Glenn, thanks for having me on.
[01:29:36]  So I would have never guessed that Canada would actually, I don't know, elect a bunch of officials that would say, hey, all those guns that you used to have, we're now going to come and collect them.
[01:29:52]  And then actually kind of talk about going door to door.
[01:29:55]  I mean, they don't have the people to do that.
[01:29:59]  How are they going to grab these guns from people?
[01:30:02]  I don't know, but it's very frightening, obviously.
[01:30:04]  I mean, the reality is the Liberal government in Ottawa has brought in these crazy laws designating otherwise legal hunting rifles, sport shooting rifles, et cetera, to be prohibited weapons.
[01:30:24]  First, they gave us a grace period, as you mentioned, so we were allowed to keep them in our gun safes, but we couldn't take them out.
[01:30:30]  Then they implemented, which just concluded, a buyback program where they would give us a little bit of money if we all showed up with our guns.
[01:30:38]  They don't know, there's no registry, so they don't know who has the guns.
[01:30:41]  So they wanted us to come forward and turn our guns into police stations, and that was a flop.
[01:30:47]  Only 2% of the people did.
[01:30:49]  So now we're all facing this deadline that if we don't turn in our guns by October 31st of this year, We will all be criminals and we will be charged and jailed for possession of a prohibited weapon.
[01:31:04]  So many things, Glenn, that are happening north of your border are just so difficult to believe, but they're real.
[01:31:12]  And there's a lot of trouble up in Canada, and that's why so many here in Alberta want to get out and form our own country and get away from this madness.
[01:31:22]  So, I mean, 2% of Canadians.
[01:31:27]  Actually, you know, abided by the deadline and actually said, okay, here's my gun.
[01:31:33]  That's a small number.
[01:31:35]  So you have 98% of those who had guns did nothing about it.
[01:31:40]  I mean, we've seen this movie before.
[01:31:42]  It does not end well.
[01:31:44]  Are the police behind that?
[01:31:46]  I mean, I've heard that this is just a law that they don't really even care about.
[01:31:51]  It's just to appease the voters in Ottawa.
[01:31:53]  Is that true?
[01:31:55]  Yeah, it's the voters in Quebec.
[01:31:57]  There's a really radical left.
[01:31:59]  Fringe in the controls effectively or has disproportionate influence over the cabinet and the decision making in Ottawa.
[01:32:09]  But the police chiefs, the police chiefs' associations en masse have come out and said, look, law abiding gun owners are not criminals.
[01:32:18]  They're not the ones committing the crimes.
[01:32:20]  The violent crime that we're seeing in our cities is with illegal handguns and illegally imported guns.
[01:32:28]  The criminals aren't going to say, oh, well, I was going to rob you tomorrow, but I guess I have to go turn my gun in, so I won't.
[01:32:34]  It's just, it's nonsensical.
[01:32:37]  And as you know, and we all know, history is consistent.
[01:32:43]  When citizens are disarmed, it doesn't cause governments to become more benevolent.
[01:32:50]  History has shown very bad things happen.
[01:32:53]  And so it makes us very concerned up here in Canada.
[01:32:56]  And of course, it's happening in a context of all kinds of other madness that I think you have some awareness of.
[01:33:05]  I got to tell you, the mad or the maid thing is terrifying.
[01:33:09]  Yeah.
[01:33:09]  I mean, it's a culture of death, it is terrifying.
[01:33:14]  I'm so glad that you've shined light on it, Glenn, because my wife and I were not that long ago in Miami on business, and we had an Uber driver, and she seemed to be awake to things, and we were trying to explain to her what happened.
[01:33:28]  I could tell she didn't believe us.
[01:33:30]  But it's incredible that over 100,000 people, they're now using it because you know the failings of our socialized healthcare system.
[01:33:38]  It's just, everybody's, but it's free.
[01:33:41]  Yeah, but you die on waiting lists.
[01:33:44]  Yeah, but it's free.
[01:33:46]  No, the system doesn't work.
[01:33:48]  So now they've come up with this workaround where, and as you know, it's remarkable.
[01:33:54]  It started off with people with cancer and terminal illness at the end of life.
[01:33:59]  And then they started shifting to people who had various kinds of injuries that might be expensive to treat, like cost.
[01:34:08]  And now they're moving it, as you're aware, into mental health issues.
[01:34:13]  So if you're depressed because you can't, Afford to live in our country because of the inflation and reckless government policies up here, and you're feeling down on life, they're moving into offering government assisted suicide.
[01:34:30]  That is a thing in Canada.
[01:34:34]  You know, socialized medicine, you know, worked in the Netherlands for a while.
[01:34:39]  It doesn't work now because you had a very homogeneous kind of society.
[01:34:44]  Everybody was on the same page, very much like Canada for a while.
[01:34:48]  You had a small enough population that it could generally work.
[01:34:51]  But once you started importing people and you just put them into the hospitals, put them into the systems, and there's nobody paying for it, no doctors, no expansion, of course you're not going to have enough medicine.
[01:35:06]  I mean, is there anyone talking common sense like that?
[01:35:09]  I mean, I know you don't have, for instance, talk radio, et cetera, up there.
[01:35:14]  Is there anyone talking this common sense in Canada?
[01:35:18]  There is in our alternative media, but the legacy media, the phenomenon we have in Canada, is that the equivalents, all of the equivalents in Canada of a Fox News or a CNN or a New York Times, they all receive substantial to the tune of many, several hundreds of millions of dollars of government grants.
[01:35:40]  This is a new phenomenon that started about five or eight years ago.
[01:35:44]  And so they're basically all extensions of the government.
[01:35:49]  If I've ever.
[01:35:50]  I am interviewed, and I say something that's really critical of the government.
[01:35:54]  It never gets printed because the editor says to the reporter, Yeah, that's true.
[01:35:58]  I might agree with Mr. Wilson, but if we print that, we're going to get a call from Ottawa and we're going to get our funding cut and we're going to have to do more layoffs.
[01:36:06]  So we've lost our freedom of expression up here, at least freedom of the media to have these serious discussions.
[01:36:13]  But people are alive to what's happening and increasingly concerned, at least in the Western provinces for sure.
[01:36:19]  So, what is happening?
[01:36:21]  To Alberta.
[01:36:22]  I mean, I just saw that you have the numbers now to force this onto the vote next fall where you could break away as a province and start your own country.
[01:36:38]  A, is there enough support in Alberta to actually get that done?
[01:36:42]  B, do you actually think Canada would allow you to do that?
[01:36:45]  I mean, you are the Texas of Canada.
[01:36:49]  We are, and what's unique about Canada is it's the only government or country, rather, in the Western world that has a legal process for a region or a province, in this case, to go through a voting process to become independent and leave the country and form its own nation state.
[01:37:10]  And that is unique, and it's a process that's set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in a 1998 case, and it lays the process so that if a clear majority of voters within a province Vote on a clear question for independence, that triggers two routes to independence.
[01:37:29]  One is the parties have to enter into good faith negotiations, meaning Alberta needs to go into a meeting room with the federal government and the other provinces and say, all right, we've got national parks here, we've got military bases in Alberta, we'll pay you, the federal government, a certain amount of money for those bases and national parks.
[01:37:49]  You owe us this much money, federal government, for our pension plans and other things, and hash it all out, and then the province. is independent and it's a free country.
[01:37:59]  The other path is if the parties don't enter into good faith negotiations, and that's something we're very concerned about here in Alberta, is you can do unilateral declaration of independence.
[01:38:11]  However, that relies on international recognition.
[01:38:14]  So if the United States and other countries are prepared to recognize Alberta independence, it creates a clear pathway.
[01:38:24]  And what's remarkable about our government here, Glenn, Is you may or may not recall the controversy last September over international recognition of the state of Palestine.
[01:38:35]  Our Prime Minister, Mark Carney, came out without consulting with our House of Commons or anything and announced that the government of Canada would unilaterally recognize the independence of the state of Palestine, even though it doesn't have any borders or anything else.
[01:38:51]  So we sat here in Alberta and watched this, and we're going, wait a minute, our Prime Minister just renewed and refreshed this international concept and international law.
[01:39:01]  Of other nation states giving recognition to breakaway states.
[01:39:06]  And we're on a path here in Alberta to follow that route.
[01:39:11]  So, well, I would just, my recommendation to you is hurry before Donald Trump leaves office because he'd recognize you guys.
[01:39:20]  I don't know if anyone else would, but he would.
[01:39:23]  Well, and as he should, because, you know, remember that Alberta, you know, this province equivalent in size to Texas, immediately north of your Montana border, we have the third largest reserve of oil in the world.
[01:39:38]  And we are, in fact, the largest supplier of oil to the United States.
[01:39:44]  I know there's a perception by some Americans that you get most of the oil that you bring in from Venezuela and the Middle East.

=== Alberta's Largest Oil Reserves (02:23) ===

[01:39:51]  That's simply not true.
[01:39:52]  61% of your imports come from us here, your friends up in Alberta.
[01:39:58]  And it's not just that.
[01:40:01]  With the situation in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, there are 1,000 ships stuck there.
[01:40:06]  It's not just oil and natural gas on those ships, it's helium that we need for making computer chips in the various countries.
[01:40:14]  And importantly, fertilizer.
[01:40:16]  You know, your farmers in Iowa and on the plains are very worried about fertilizer.
[01:40:20]  Well, here's your neighbor to the north, Alberta, that wants to become independent, wants to become your best friend.
[01:40:27]  And guess what else we're a supplier of?
[01:40:30]  Fertilizer.
[01:40:32]  So, what I'm hopeful is we now have a date set, Glenn, for the actual vote on independence, and it's going to be October 19th.
[01:40:44]  Interesting, think about this.
[01:40:45]  What did we first start talking about?
[01:40:47]  The October 31st deadline for the gun grab.
[01:40:51]  So, October's going to be a busy month up here.
[01:40:54]  So, on October 19th, Albertans might be voting and hopefully will be voting to become an independent country, and the United States will be getting a new neighbor.
[01:41:05]  Your best friend, and we're culturally aligned.
[01:41:08]  We have shared values.
[01:41:09]  We have far more shared values from Alberta with the United States and Americans than we do with these leftists in Ottawa.
[01:41:17]  We're so done with them, with all of their harmful policies.
[01:41:21]  Glenn, we have the third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world.
[01:41:25]  The world needs our products.
[01:41:27]  But these guys in Ottawa, they're all these climate cults, the climate cartel crew.
[01:41:34]  I know.
[01:41:34]  I know.
[01:41:35]  We have net.
[01:41:36]  Net zero policies, we have carbon taxes, we have laws that prevent us from putting pipelines in and developing our resources.
[01:41:46]  I tell you, Keith, I wish you all the luck in the world.
[01:41:51]  I think what Alberta is doing is extraordinarily brave.
[01:41:54]  I've been watching the MADE, I've been watching the gun grab, and I've been watching this carefully.
[01:42:00]  And I think this is a real hope for the Western world.
[01:42:04]  If you guys can pull that off, that is, I think, very, very good for the health of the Western world.
[01:42:12]  Thank you so much, Keith.
[01:42:13]  We'll talk again.

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[01:43:48]  And they offered, well, we could kill you.
[01:43:51]  It's an insane story.
[01:43:53]  But I want to tell you some of the good stuff that is happening here.
[01:43:57]  We just did last hour, we did a whole hour on that pilot rescue, which is incredible.
[01:44:03]  I want to play something from Artemis.
[01:44:06]  You know, this crew has been together and training together for a long time.
[01:44:10]  And the commander, Reed Wiseman, He, his wife was young, I think 48, and had children, and, you know, everything was fine.
[01:44:20]  And then she gets cancer and she dies.
[01:44:23]  Yesterday, they named a crater after his wife, and it was so beautiful.
[01:44:30]  I want you to hear this.
[01:44:31]  Cut five.
[01:44:33]  So we lost a loved one.
[01:44:35]  Her name was Carol.
[01:44:38]  That's supposed to read the mother of Katie and Ellie.
[01:44:45]  And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko, and it's just to the northwest of that, at the same latitude as Ohm, and it's a bright spot on the moon.
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[01:45:15]  And then they hug.
[01:45:20]  With all of the stuff that is going on.
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[01:45:25]  How much time do I have here, Sarah?
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[01:45:29]  Let me just play what I can here of cut six.
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[01:47:27]  Today at noon Eastern, we expose the Islamic attempt to conquer the West.
[01:47:31]  The safer YouTube version of our torch special premieres free immediately after the show at youtube.com slash glennbeck.
[01:47:53]  I want to get back to what is coming tonight with Iran and some theories that I think we should be very well aware of and what to expect tonight.
[01:48:05]  But we'll see.
[01:48:06]  We'll know by tomorrow, probably.
[01:48:08]  But I also want to bring in Miriam Lancaster.
[01:48:11]  Now, she was somebody we've been trying to get a hold of her for a while because I heard this story and I thought, this cannot be true.
[01:48:18]  This cannot be true.
[01:48:21]  She is a Canadian citizen.
[01:48:23]  She went to the doctor, went to the hospital.
[01:48:25]  She had excruciating back pain.
[01:48:29]  And Miriam, did the doctor just say to you, was it as simple as, would you like Maid to handle that pain?
[01:48:38]  Well, I'm sure she exchanged a few pleasantries, but she got right to her point, which was, let's just see about Maid.
[01:48:47]  I'm about to offer it to this patient.
[01:48:50]  She seems to be in pain.
[01:48:51]  We need hospital beds.
[01:48:55]  She said it like that to you?
[01:48:58]  No, that was her thinking.
[01:49:01]  Okay, okay.
[01:49:02]  And that's how I analyzed this strange request because here I was just off an ambulance, just into the emergency ward, trying to find out why I was in such pain because this came out of the blue.
[01:49:18]  And here she's talking about end of life.
[01:49:22]  Please.
[01:49:23]  So she hadn't even examined you.
[01:49:25]  She knew nothing about what had happened to you at this point.
[01:49:28]  This was like really like.
[01:49:31]  Oh my gosh.
[01:49:32]  No.
[01:49:33]  Yeah.
[01:49:34]  Then they proceeded to do, of course, a lot of tests, but the easy answer would have been if I'd said, yes, please bring on Maid.
[01:49:42]  Then they would have switched into that way of dealing with the patient, and they wouldn't have had to bother running all the tests, which they did on me.
[01:49:50]  And they found out what was causing the pain, and that's what I wanted to know.
[01:49:55]  I wasn't ready to say goodbye to the world.
[01:49:58]  Not yet.
[01:50:00]  Unbelievable.
[01:50:01]  And this is not the first time this has happened in your family, right?
[01:50:04]  I mean,.
[01:50:05]  That is correct.
[01:50:07]  No, it happened to my husband, who was, he was at the end of life.
[01:50:13]  But why did he want to whistle it by quickly?
[01:50:18]  He was a man of deep faith, and he certainly was going to go to meet his Lord at the time that his Lord said, Come.
[01:50:30]  And that's how it worked out for him.
[01:50:33]  I mean, as you were growing up, did you ever think you would live in a country that would offer made like this to people who aren't terminally ill, but to you for back pain?
[01:50:47]  I know, I know.
[01:50:48]  And this certainly wasn't on the books a few years ago.
[01:50:53]  And people of my age, we talk about this, of course, thanks to the news media, this has become quite a story.
[01:51:00]  Need I say, and especially on Vancouver Island, where the incidence of MAID is very high, very extremely high.
[01:51:08]  So it's a well, for some reasons, the hospitals on Vancouver Island have been given this go ahead, which we presume they're very quiet about who gives them the authority to do this, but it's presumably the hospitals want to have beds available for people that aren't at the end of life.
[01:51:34]  But you're not at the end of life, Miriam.
[01:51:37]  Not yet.
[01:51:38]  I hope to have a few more innings.
[01:51:41]  Right.
[01:51:41]  I mean, they're defining end of life as end of possible.
[01:51:48]  You know, the Germans used to say, How many potatoes are you making?
[01:51:51]  Are you consuming more potatoes than you can cull?
[01:51:57]  And that's how they defined end of life.
[01:52:00]  And it looks like Canada is doing the same thing as well.
[01:52:03]  If you're a baby or young, You're not worth saving.
[01:52:08]  And if you're at the end of your productive years, even close to the end of your productive years, you're out.
[01:52:17]  Exactly.
[01:52:18]  I think that the hospital officials took one look at the age of this.
[01:52:23]  This is a lady in her early 80s.
[01:52:25]  And anybody, I'm sure there's a policy that says anybody over 80, give them this offer.
[01:52:32]  Perhaps they will take it.
[01:52:34]  And that means we're freeing up a bed.
[01:52:38]  So, are senior citizens disposable in Canada?
[01:52:42]  Well, I'm sad to say.
[01:52:46]  My sister lives just over the border in the state of Washington, and she said it's quite different there.
[01:52:50]  I mean, just three hours away, things are very different in Seattle.
[01:52:58]  So, it's of great concern to me.
[01:53:01]  Here we are in a lovely part of Canada, a beautiful part.
[01:53:05]  Vancouver Island is very special.
[01:53:08]  Beautiful.
[01:53:08]  And the hospitals.
[01:53:11]  In this part of BC, much less Canada, are taking this policy to its extreme edge.
[01:53:21]  Are people, other Canadians, concerned about this, Miriam?
[01:53:25]  Are they seeing this and going, this is not a good road.
[01:53:27]  We should not be on this road.
[01:53:29]  Well, the Premier of Alberta has taken action, and at the very same time that my adventure was unfolding, legislation was passed in the province of Alberta to.
[01:53:44]  Put a few breaks on this offering of maid.
[01:53:47]  So, Alberta right now is leading the way.
[01:53:51]  But I would not be surprised if the press, if there's any good that comes out of this, I'm still alive, so that's good.
[01:53:58]  But if all the press attention, the unexpected press attention, brings this whole thing to discussions at governments across Canada, led by Alberta, I hand it to, it's a lady premier who did this.
[01:54:16]  I think that you're going to find, or we are going to find, more people falling in line about this because they're just not, people are not happy.
[01:54:24]  The reaction to this, well, you will have known, the reaction to this has been incredible.
[01:54:30]  My little story, I think it just hit a moment in the news cycle where there was nothing else going on because I'm surprised that I should end up on the front page of a national newspaper riding my horse in Guatemala.
[01:54:46]  I don't know if you've seen that coverage.
[01:54:48]  Yeah.
[01:54:51]  But it's true.
[01:54:52]  That really did happen.
[01:54:53]  I felt fine.
[01:54:54]  I feel fine right now.
[01:54:56]  I'm happy to be speaking with you, and I'm very happy that you're taking an interest in this story.
[01:55:02]  Not in me, but in the story.
[01:55:04]  Well, Miriam, we have been following this story for years, and I am gravely concerned.
[01:55:11]  This is not a good sign for any society.
[01:55:15]  And we have our own states here.
[01:55:17]  There are 15 of them and are trying to implement them.
[01:55:19]  Uh, implement this here in the United States as well, and it just can't happen.
[01:55:24]  It's a very, very bad sign for society, becomes a death cult, honestly.
[01:55:29]  Um, well, Miriam, thank you so much for you.
[01:55:32]  Good for you to shine a light on this, and it's been a pleasure to talk with you.
[01:55:38]  Likewise, thank you, Miriam Lancaster.
[01:55:40]  Imagine that walking into a what would you say?
[01:55:43]  You walk into a, and they haven't even done anything, they just she's got really bad back pain.
[01:55:50]  Would you like to die?
[01:55:52]  Oh, wow.
[01:55:54]  I'm glad her story ends with hope, though.
[01:55:56]  She basically kindly said, no, thank you, and then went on to have an amazing adventure in Central America.
[01:56:04]  So God bless this one.
[01:56:05]  Yeah.
[01:56:06]  Let me bring in Jason.
[01:56:09]  One last thought, Jason, before we go on what is going to happen tonight.
[01:56:15]  Is there any doubt in your mind that at 8 o'clock tonight we're going to start seeing things?
[01:56:21]  Oh, yeah.
[01:56:22]  There's reports now that they're going back and forth.
[01:56:24]  Some are saying that there's, as you, Per usual, that they're having negotiations.
[01:56:28]  Other reports are saying negotiations have stopped.
[01:56:31]  I don't know if we're going to learn anything there.
[01:56:32]  I think anything is open at the moment as far as what's going to happen.
[01:56:36]  They could still come to a deal.
[01:56:38]  Who knows?
[01:56:38]  This could be extended.
[01:56:40]  This does seem a little bit more immediate now, this time, but I think that there's multiple options, as you and I have discussed, on the table for what might happen after the deadline.
[01:56:51]  As much as I would like to take the credit for this, and believe me, I would, Jason was just talking to the insiders, and he said, You know, Donald Trump never, never tells anybody his plans.
[01:57:02]  Never.
[01:57:03]  And it's true.
[01:57:05]  I mean, I've been with him on air and privately, and I've said, So does this mean you would X, Y, and Z?
[01:57:12]  And both on air and privately, he had looked at me and smiled and went, I'm not going to tell you that.
[01:57:17]  Why would I tell anyone that?
[01:57:19]  He just embarrassed a reporter in the press corps, I think it was last week or the week before.
[01:57:23]  Where they asked him about his timeline, and right, he's like, Are you an idiot?
[01:57:26]  Like, I would tell you exactly what time I'm going ahead.
[01:57:30]  He's not.
[01:57:31]  So, A, the eight o'clock thing is probably not accurate.
[01:57:36]  But more importantly, why would he say, I'm going to hit all of the electrical plants tonight?
[01:57:44]  I'm going to take all your.
[01:57:45]  He wouldn't say that.
[01:57:46]  That is so.
[01:57:47]  This is such a brilliant observation, Jason, that he would never say that.
[01:57:53]  Why would he say that?
[01:57:55]  Because right now they are positioning everything around the power plants.
[01:58:00]  They are rumored to be.
[01:58:01]  Do we have this at.
[01:58:04]  Didn't CNN report that they are putting people, you know, human shields around the power plants?
[01:58:09]  CBS confirmed.
[01:58:12]  CBS confirmed.
[01:58:13]  So that's not Donald Trump.
[01:58:16]  Now, what is Donald Trump is something I said earlier.
[01:58:20]  He said in 1982, I think, you know, if they ever misbehaved, I would just go take the oil.
[01:58:26]  I would just go and take Karg Island.
[01:58:28]  Why not just take Karg Island?
[01:58:30]  That's where all that's the cash machine.
[01:58:32]  That's where all 90% of their oil flows through there.
[01:58:35]  If you just take Karg Island and then you take the other two islands that are there, you cut them off entirely from their money and their ability to stop the straight.
[01:58:48]  That would be a much smarter move because everybody is perplexed.
[01:58:51]  Why would he go after these power plants?
[01:58:53]  And you're going to hear tomorrow or whenever this starts.
[01:58:56]  I don't expect it to happen at eight o'clock tonight, but it might.
[01:58:59]  Um, Whenever this starts, you're going to hear Taco Tuesday.
[01:59:03]  He backed down again.
[01:59:05]  He didn't destroy.
[01:59:06]  Right now, everybody's like, you can't destroy all of their power plants.
[01:59:12]  That would be very bad.
[01:59:13]  Geneva Convention, et cetera, et cetera.
[01:59:15]  And what they're going to do is they're going to come back instead and they will say, see, he backs down every time.
[01:59:21]  Did he or was that his plan?
[01:59:25]  Jason, thank you.
[01:59:26]  That is the insight of the day.
[01:59:28]  He never tells his plan.
[01:59:30]  So, expect the unexpected.
[01:59:32]  All right, back in just a minute with something that just has to be heard.
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[02:01:12]  I told you, you know, 1968, 69, we went to the moon and we had Altamont at the same time where everything was burning down to the ground.

=== Coca-Cola Celebrates American Diversity (01:16) ===

[02:01:20]  But we had this choice.
[02:01:21]  And I want to condemn people when they do things that are horrible like Coca-Cola has.
[02:01:27]  And I want to salute people when they do something great like Coca-Cola has just done.
[02:01:32]  For America's 250, they took, you know, I'd like to teach the world to sing.
[02:01:38]  And they've redone and tried to do something like that in celebration of the America's 250th birthday.
[02:01:47]  I want you to hear it.
[02:01:49]  Yes, I am playing a commercial for free, but I think it's worth hearing.
[02:01:54]  Thank you, Coca-Cola, for remembering where you came from.
[02:02:10]  Was that that hard, Coca-Cola?
[02:02:12]  You got all the diversity in if you happen to see the video, the verse, but it's real diversity.
[02:02:17]  It's actually how America really is.
[02:02:20]  And when you package it like that, it goes down with a coke and a smile.
[02:02:26]  Thank you, Coca-Cola.
[02:02:29]  And happy birthday to our republic.
[02:02:32]  250 years this year.
[02:02:34]  May God save her.
[02:02:36]  We'll see you tomorrow.