RADIOMarch 22, 2022

SHOCKING inflation price comparisons show Biden is FAILING US

What did a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a lightbulb, or a loaf of bread cost at the grocery store before Biden entered the White House? And what do those items cost today? What are they projected to cost in 2024, if America continues down its current path? Glenn details all those price comparisons — plus more — showing just how badly the Biden administration — thanks to its inability to handle inflation — is failing us. 'We MUST turn this around,' Glenn says. 'But our government, our fed, and our administration are incapable of taking the right steps.'

Inflation by the numbers

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: All right. I want to talk to you about a couple of things. First of all, I want to build this case with you, I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm doing, and what I think you should do as well.

Well, I was going to do it, and then I decided not to. Because I've had so many boating accidents lately, Stu. So many boating accidents.

STU: You, just as a friend, don't think you can boat. Because you can't seem to keep these things afloat. What are you making them out of? Cement.

GLENN: I know. And the latest, gone. Gone. Down at the bottom of the lake.

STU: Did you think about maybe getting a submarine, going down there, getting your guns.

GLENN: I can't do it. It's too deep.

STU: Too deep?

GLENN: Anyway, so I'll give you some solutions here to this. But I want you to listen carefully, and check all these numbers yourself. If you care to.

First, you have a problem with inflation. We all know that. We all can feel it. We can see it. It wasn't caused by Russia. It is caused by the Federal Reserve. It is caused by spending too much money, and printing even more.

I say it's caused by the Federal Reserve. They didn't spend the money. Yes, we have a debt now of $30 trillion, that if interest rates go up to about five or 6 percent, we will not be able to afford anything, but the interest on that debt.

Okay? Now, we know that's happening. The Federal Reserve also has printed and given the banks untold trillions of dollars. We know that they gave $30 trillion to the bank. By -- to the banks, by 2010. That news has just been released due to a FOIA request. We have no idea what they've done in the last two years.

STU: Okay. Can I just add to your point on interest here, Glenn? This is according to Brian Riedl over at the Manhattan Institute. For every point that interest rates go up, just a point, that adds $30 trillion to the debt. Over the next, I think it's 30 years. Which is the same amount, that we would spend in that period.

On defense. So every single point, interest rates go up, we owe another $30 trillion, at like -- we're adding an entire new U.S. military every time one of these things goes up one point.

GLENN: So we just raised the interest rates, the fed did by a quarter point. And said, five to seven more hikes are coming. Okay?

STU: My gosh.

GLENN: All right. So let's just talk about real stuff here for a second.

I wanted to show you what the price of things were, what the price of things are. And what the price of things will be, by -- by Election Day, 2024. Okay?

We must turn this around. But our -- but our government, and our fed, and our administration, are incapable of taking the right steps.

This is just inflation. The numbers I'm going to give you, just inflation. This doesn't include extra regulation or shortages, or anything else. This is just because the value of your dollar is going down.

Prices aren't going up. The value of your dollar is going down. Now, I use not 7.9 percent CPI to project into the future. I used shadow status. The reason why I did this was because everybody was comparing this to the days of Jimmy Carter. No. It's worse than the days of Jimmy Carter. I'm using the shadow status. Because this is the way the government calculated inflation in 1980. They changed that calculation because it was looking bad for the United States government and the fed. So they changed it. But if we look and measure the same things. The same way. We'll get the inflation rate that is 15.5 percent, not 7.9 percent. So this is from Shadow Stats. That's how we calculated these. I made some chart, but I'll read them off. In case you happen to be watching TheBlaze, you'll see the charts. If not, let me just tell you where we're going to start, and that is with hamburgers.

When Biden was elected, when Biden was elected, a hamburger was $4.40. Today, I think you guys are working on the wrong -- you're working on the wrong end of the -- that's the last slide. Look for hamburger.

When Biden was elected, it was $4.40. Today, it's $6.01.

STU: Jeez.

GLENN: 2024. November. The time the next election, just with inflation, that's it. No food shortage. Nothing. Just due to inflation, are you better off than you were four years ago? Hamburger was $4.40. A hamburger will be $7.95.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: When Biden was elected, this is just due to inflation. When Biden was elected, gas was $2.18. Today, it's 4.41. November 24th, with no shortages, no war, nothing. Just from inflation. 5.83. When Biden was elected, milk was $3.20. Today, it's 3.89. Just through inflation, in November 2024, the price of Biden milk will be $5.15.

STU: I got news for you, I don't care what the price is, I'm not drinking Biden milk. That just sounds icky. You can milk anything with a nipple.

GLENN: You're not the one milking him either. It does.

When Biden was elected, the price of a lightbulb was 1.57. Today, it's 2.55. A price of a lightbulb, when the presidential election in 2024 is happening, will be 3.37.

When Biden was elected, eggs, a dozen, 1.45. Today, 2.35. November '24, 3.11. When Biden was elected, 1.50 for bread. Today, it's 1.67. November 2024 projection, 2.21. That number is going to be wildly different, and you'll understand why, here in a minute. When Biden was elected, just because of inflation, houses were 358,700. Today, they're 414,123. November '24 projection, 547,885. That's the average home.

STU: Gee.

GLENN: When Biden was elected, $22,095 -- what? $22,951 was the price of a car. Today, it's 30,603, if you can get one just -- just through -- just through inflation, that number will jump from 30 to 40,488.

STU: Just some quick personal news here, Glenn. I celebrated this weekend, my seven-month anniversary, with an order of my car.

Thank you. It's still not here. They haven't even taken the order yet. But seven months in, I'm doing well.

GLENN: That's great. That's great. Have you thought about a horse?

Now, let me give you something else. Now, these are just projections, and you can find -- we'll publish all of this. You can find how we made all these projections. But they are just projections. These numbers can change dramatically. But we wanted to add in the geopolitical instability factor.

So we know about wheat. And I've got something I've got to share with you in a minute.

We know about wheat. But we are kind of -- we're being, I think, very conservative on some of these numbers.

A hamburger. The price I just told you, add 25 percent, if things continue to go geopolitically as they are.

Gas, if things continue, the instability factor, you'll need to add 30 percent to that gallon of gas. 15 percent added for milk. 5 percent for lightbulbs. 15 percent for chicken.

I don't think -- or, sorry, for eggs. I don't think that's high enough. You'll understand why, here in a minute. Bread, up 30 percent. Housing, down 25 percent. And cars, down by 25 percent.

I agree with the housing, not necessarily so with the projection of the cars. But I left this to the experts and be our team to put together the numbers.

Number two, I'm going to take a one-minute break. And then I'm going to tell you the truth, that no one is willing to talk about, about what's really going on with food.

And why you need to begin to prepare, right now.

GLENN: Stu, have you ever listened to the podcast, all-in.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Okay. Really good. Really bright guys. Generally speaking, more independent now. But they've all been Democrats. Staunch Democrats. I think, except maybe one of them.

And they're all experts. In different fields. And all friends. David Freedberg is one of them. And I was listening to the podcast. And they asked David a question. Now, David used to work for Monsanto. And he doesn't work there anymore.

But he believes in, you know, Monsanto. Think GMOs, et cetera, et cetera. If you're against GMOs, don't dismiss him. Because I got the facts from him, on the stats. But we're not talking GMOs. We're just talking about looking at the market, and what is really happening.

So when you're looking at food, understand that 15 percent of all global calories, come from wheat and rice. 25 percent. Sorry. 15 percent.

One-third of all of our wheat, comes from Russia and Ukraine. We're supposed to be planting crops, all around the world, right now, for wheat.

Not happening in much of Russia. Not happening anywhere in Ukraine. Next stat you need to understand, our food supply -- you know how the cars had just in time. Our production lines were all just in time.

And that's why we can't make cars. Because there are parts, that are sitting somewhere, you know, crossing the ocean. Sitting on a dock someplace. The whole supply chain has broken down. Because it's just in time. It arrives just in time to put it into the car. When you have a disruption, it just bogs everything up. And unclogging, we don't really even know if we can unclog it, and get it started again. But it will take years to do it. That's the supply chain, for stuff. The supply chain for food is 90 days. We have 90 days' worth of food in the supply chain. That is from the grocery store, to the garden, and everything in between. If it stops, we stop -- let's say, we for some reason stop all farming, we would have 90 days left of food worldwide. Okay? 25 percent of all global production, is food. We're about to lose 12 percent of production. That means, we're losing half of our food supply, of wheat. Half of our wheat food supply.

This is going to hit places like Africa first. And it's going to hit places of poverty, unlike anything we've ever seen.

800 million people, currently on earth, live below 1200 calories per day. So you know, the Germans would not allow Jews to have more than 600 calories a day.

So they're only double the amount of calories, that the Jews got, during the Holocaust. And we all remember what they looked like.

If they're at 1200 calories today, and they're in -- in places that are poor, which they most likely are, those calories will be either cut off or greatly reduced.

Now, the bigger problem is fertilizer. And energy. The energy price for run the trackers. To run the trucks. To run everything else.

And the price of phosphorus and potassium, potash, and Nigeria. Those are the three major things we use, to make fertilizer. Natural gas, 90 percent of ammonia is made from natural gas. Prices in natural gas, have doubled. And in some places, gone up 4X.

It's gone from $200 a ton, to $1,000 a ton. Phosphorus, 10 percent of the phosphorus from Russia, and 20 to 25 percent of all of the potash comes from Russia. It's now been banned in Russia. They cannot sell it. We cannot buy it.

They said, oh, you're going to cut us off at the bank. Great. We'll cut you off on this.

Potassium is up to $700, phosphate went from 250 to $700. This is causing so much stress on the farmers. That farmers all around the world, are not planting their fields.

They are reducing the acreage. Because without fertilizer, you're not growing much. So why plant all those fields? It's not going to be a good year, they're thinking.

So as they -- as fertilizer goes up, they pull more and more acres. So far, the price of corn has doubled. Soybeans. Wheat. Skyrocketing. The strategic food reserves, in some parts of the world, are now opening.

We better have perfect weather all over the world. Just because, if things continue the way they are and don't turn around quickly, and we can't get fertilizer, hundreds of millions of people, will experience famine by the end of the year.

We need to do everything we can to support our farmers, we need to understand what's coming. And you need to have a garden, plant some seeds. Live by a farm, and help them. Or start storing food now.

More on this, in a second.

GLENN: Rising fuel prices are taking a toll on small businesses. Owners from everything from furniture retailers to swimming pool service companies are trimming their services and revising contracts because the financial hit is getting worse and worse and worse. Keeping store owners wide awake, trying to figure out, what are we going to do?

Well, first of all, there's a couple of things we should do. Let me go back to food for a second. The governments around the world are buying up large swaths of food right now. Commodity prices going up. Not just because of traders. But because of governments are trading -- governments are like, we're going to buy our corn right now. And first in, first out.

Countries like -- that are in Africa, they're going to have a really hard time. They're not going to get the food, that they desperately need. But neither are other countries as well. We're all going to take a real hit on this. Especially if we don't have good weather. If we -- you know, we don't have fertilizer. We should, as a nation, be doing everything we can right now to help the farmer. Everything we can, right now, to get fertilizer. You know, everybody is worried about the price of inflation for the average person. Okay. That's really bad. And we're all hurting. But if we don't take care of the farmer right now, and get him fertilizer, and make sure he can afford the things that he can afford. Or they have to afford.

Our inflation is the least of our problems, it will be shortages, next year. Now, they are -- governments are buying up food. But governments all over the world now, are also, while they're doing that, telling you not to hoard. And I'm telling you, also, not to hoard. But I am telling you to prepare for your family. And then others, that will be hungry.

We have to help each other, through this. There are going to be people, who just can't make it. And they'll have to bring another skill. It's going to be barter, I guess. But we're just going to have to help each other. If you can grow food, plant this spring. Anything you can do it ease the burden on your family. And others, do it. When you go to a store, if you are going in, and you're going to buy macaroni and cheese, and you only need one box, buy two. Put one away.

Use the other one. When that one box is done, don't reach into the pantry to get it. Buy a second box. As I showed you just a few minutes Al Gore, just because inflation, that box, a year from now, will be costing you a lot more money at the store.

And when you hit a breaking point, you'll have some food storage. But be careful on what you think your breaking point is. Because real, real trouble is coming, and we have to be prepared, and we have to be prepared to help others.

That -- this is, I think, the beginnings of the times when I have felt, since the beginning with you, that you are going to may a role in saving this nation. And I think this is the beginning of it. Preparing for those in need.

And it is going to be really, really, really hard, because you're going to be like, I prepared, they didn't.

I know. I know. But we're in this together. You have to take care of your family first. But we're in this together.

That doesn't mean, that -- that doesn't mean that you should tell the world what you're doing. Because governments will come in. And they'll start to make it illegal to hoard food. They will start to demonize people first.

As hoarders. This is a while away, I think.

But that's what will happen.

So just keep your mouth quiet, and it don't be needs to know your business. Just urge the people who get it, to go in just store some food, for their family.

And -- and create a network, if you will, of people who think like you. And really understand what's coming. And just help each other. Just help each other.

STU: So how real do you think the food shortage thing is?

GLENN: I think food shortage in places like India and Africa, I think millions are going to die. Millions will die. Probably worse than anything we've ever seen.

STU: Oh, my God.

GLENN: If -- if they come up with a solution today, and crops get into the ground, maybe not.

But -- but it will still be a problem, because we're not getting fertilizer. So it will be a situation where maybe we as a -- as the top market in the world, be are able to acquire this stuff, but at way higher prices.

GLENN: Way higher prices.

STU: Down the line, the -- the poorer countries aren't even able to acquire it at all.

GLENN: Yeah. Or very, very little. It will be Ethiopia, on a grand scale. Do you remember what Ethiopia was like?

STU: Oh, yeah. I remember all the commercials. And we had the, We Are the World song out of that. That was not worth it. I don't know if it solved it. If it did, still -- no offense, to the African people, but I think they would oppose the song over being saved.

GLENN: I don't think so. It might be a little --

STU: They would rather starve to death. Look, I may be speaking for an entire continent here. But I think if they can go back to the '80s and they said, look, would we have generations of our people be alive, or that stupid song play again, they would -- they would choose, they would choose to delete the song, and sadly, have -- deal with the repercussions of that.

GLENN: Well, we don't have Michael Jackson around, to make a song this time.

STU: That's right. We're screwed.

GLENN: It is going to be bad. It is going to be bad everywhere.

And forget everything else. Just know that a 25 percent of fertilizer comes from Russia.

STU: Just the 25 percent.

GLENN: But just 25 percent.

STU: So what do you do here? I think it's easy for us to say, we've done everything wrong. It's easy. But look at the effects of what we've talked about with inflation. The things you're talking about. Thirty and 40 percent increases are nothing compared to, if we internalize all the production in the United States. If we got rid of all this global trade, our prices would go up way more than 30 to 40 percent. Your TVs are no longer $400 for a 60-inch. I'll tell you that much. All this stuff goes away, without all the global trade. And all the things associated with it. The theory going back, as -- as globalization, not in the nefarious, you know, UN running our lives sort of way. But in the, hey, we're going to trade with countries because we can turn up production. And certain countries will do certain things well. Others will do others. We'll all combine our efforts, and this is why you have Walmart and prices are really low there.

So that goes in, and one of the theories was, as we saw new countries get into that system, those countries tended to moderate. They wanted to be involved in the global trade, so they didn't act like psychopaths all the time. So our theory was, if we embrace countries like Russia, and like China, they will over time, be so interested in these markets, that they will stop acting like psychopaths. Now, I think we've seen that with those two countries, that has not worked out that well. However, you've seen it in other areas. Japan is a good example of it working out pretty well. So what do you do?

Do you wait longer to bring them in?

Because it seemed like, you bring them in as an incentive to let them change. And instead of letting them change first, and then allowing them in.

GLENN: Right. So I think this is the key. Out of 170 countries, 95 do not have on their books -- ninety-five countries do not have on their books, illegal slave trade. They have not made slave trade illegal.

STU: Really?

GLENN: Ninety-five.

STU: That's a mind-boggling stat. Ninety-five countries.

GLENN: Ninety-five countries have not passed anti-slavery.

Now, there's a lot of countries, probably in that number. I don't know all the countries. But I'm sure there's some that don't have a problem with the slave trade.

STU: Of course.

GLENN: However, we should set our limits. And this has been common sense for a very, very, very long time.

If your government doesn't have the same kind of understanding about human rights, we shouldn't be doing trade with you.

STU: Just at a basic level, right? You don't have to match all of our policies, but you got to respect human life.

GLENN: Men are born to be free, okay?

Okay. If you enslave people or build concentration camps or have gulags or whatever, no. I don't think we should do business with you.

And that's why we're enslaved to these very, very low prices. It's not that we're getting -- some of this stuff we are.

It's not that we're hiring people at very low cost and then putting them in slavery. We're getting stuff, some places at a very low cost, because the cost of living is so low. So they're making a decent wage in their country.

STU: For their area.

GLENN: Yeah. For their area.

STU: When a lot of these factories open, the line is around -- it's a mile long to get jobs at this place. Because it's the best job available to that community.

GLENN: Correct. Correct. However, that's not the case in China. Now, there might be people lining up around the block in China to have a job here, but they also enslave people. So no. If your country is so diametrically opposed to our system, no. That would include Saudi Arabia. That would include Iran.

That would include Russia. China. North Korea. All of these countries, that just don't see the world and people the same way.

STU: And I think too, this points to another one of the undersold failures of the Biden administration. That people are not talking about.

Which is, when Donald Trump was president of the United States, our relationship with India was never better. They loved Donald Trump there.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Now they've decided to side with Russia.

GLENN: And China.

STU: And China. And our option, right? If we were to lose China, as a manufacturing hub. Our easiest replacement is going to India. Where it's a little more expensive. But not a lot more expensive. And if they're a close ally. There's some synergy there. We can still probably make products at reasonable prices. And help someone -- they always call it, the global democracy. The largest global democracy. India is the biggest country that has some of the trappings of what we would respect as a government.

And we seem to be losing that right now. And that's -- and that's a big deal.

GLENN: We're going to lose them. We're going to lose Taiwan. We're going to lose possibly the Philippines. We will lose Vietnam. All of those countries, that provide low-cost labor. We'll lose all of those, if we continue down the path we're on. That will leave us with just half the world. Huh.

Almost like what The Great Reset is calling for.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: They will offer the solution of the end of globalization. You'll hear that. This is the end of globalization. We've got to do things. We've got to do things closer to home. And so it will appear to be the end of globalization. But it will not be the end of globalization.

It will be what you interpret as more global controls. But we'll make stuff closer to home. And not with China or Russia.

Uh-huh. Really? Because we're currently doing a deal with Iran. Just saying.

STU: It's going to work out well.

GLENN: This is the nightmare that's coming.

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Confronting evil: Bill O'Reilly's insight on Charlie Kirk's enduring legacy

Bill O’Reilly joins Glenn Beck with a powerful prediction about Charlie Kirk’s legacy. Evil tried to destroy his movement, Bill says, but – as his new book, “Confronting Evil,” lays out – evil will just end up destroying itself once more…

Transcript

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GLENN: Mr. Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program, how are you, sir?

BILL: Good, Beck, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it. How have you been?

GLENN: Last week was really tough. I know it was tough for you and everybody else.

But, you know -- I haven't -- I haven't seen anything.

BILL: Family okay? All of that?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Family is okay. Family is okay.

BILL: Good question good. That's the most important thing.

GLENN: It is.

So, Bill, what do you make of this whole Charlie Kirk thing. What happened, and where are we headed?

BILL: So my analysis is different for everybody else, and those that know me for so long. About a year ago, I was looking for a topic -- it was a contract to do another book. And I said, you know what's happening in America, and around the world. Was a rise in evil. It takes a year to research and write these books.

And not since the 1930s, had I seen that happen, to this extent. And in the 1930s, of course, you would have Tojo and Hitler and Mussolini and Franco and all these guys. And it led to 100 million dead in World War II. The same thing, not to the extent.

But the same thing was --
GLENN: Yet.
BILL: -- bubbling in the world, and in the United States.

I decided to write a book. The book comes out last Tuesday. And on Wednesday, Putin lobs missiles into Poland.

Ultra dangerous.

And a few hours later, Charlie Kirk is assassinated.

And one of the interviewers said to me last week, your -- your book is haunting. Is haunting.

And I think that's extremely accurate. Because that's what evil does.

And in the United States, we have so many distractions. The social media.

People create around their own lives.

Sports. Whatever it may be. That we look away.

Now, Charlie Kirk was an interesting fellow. Because at a very young age, he was mature enough to understand that he wanted to take a stand in favor of traditional America and Judeo Christian philosophy.

He decided that he wanted to do that.

You know, and when I was 31 or whatever, I was lucky I wasn't in the penitentiary. And I believe you were in the penitentiary.
(laughter)
So he was light years ahead of us.

GLENN: Yes, he was.

BILL: And he put it into motion. All right? Now, most good people, even if you disagree with what Mr. Kirk says on occasion, you admire that. That's the spirit of America. That you have a belief system, that you go out and try to promote that belief system, for the greater good of the country. That's what it is.

That's what Charlie Kirk did.

And he lost his life.

By doing it!

So when you essentially break all of this down. You take the emotion away, all right?

Which I have to do, in my job. You see it as another victory for evil.

But it really isn't.

And this is the ongoing story.

This is the most important story. So when you read my book, Confronting Evil, you'll see that all of these heinous individuals, Putin's on the cover. Mao. Hitler.

Ayatollah Khomeini. And then there are 14 others inside the book. They all destroy themselves.

Evil always destroys itself. But it takes so many people with it. So this shooter destroyed his own family.

And -- and Donald Trump, I talked to him about it last week in Yankee stadium. And Trump is a much different guy than most people think.

GLENN: He is.

JASON: He destroyed his own mother and father and his two brothers.

That's what he did. In addition to the Kirk family!

So evil spreads. Now, if Americans pay attention and come to the conclusion that I just stated, it will be much more difficult for evil to operate openly.

And that's what I think is going to happen.

There's going to be a ferocious backlash against the progressive left in particular.

To stop it, and I believe that is what Mr. Kirk's legacy is going to be.

GLENN: I -- I agree with you on all of these fronts.

I wonder though, you know, it took three, or if you count JFK, four assassinations in the '60s, to confront the evil if you will.

Before people really woke up and said, enough is enough!

And then you have the big Jesus revolution after that.

Is -- I hate to say this. But is -- as far gone as we are, is one assassination enough to wake people up?

JOHN: Some people. Some people will never wake up.

They just don't want to live in the real world, Beck. And it's never been easier to do that with the social media and the phones and the computers.

And you're never going to get them back.

But you don't need them. So let's just be very realistic here on the Glenn Beck show.

Let's run it down.

The corporate media is finished.

In America. It's over.

And you will see that play out the next five years.

Because the corporate media invested so much of its credibility into hating Donald Trump.

And the hate is the key word.

You will find this interesting, Beck. For the first time in ten years, I've been invited to do a major thing on CBS, today.

I will do it GE today. With major Garrett.

GLENN: Wow.

BILL: Now, that only happened because Skydance bought CBS. And Skydance understands the brand CBS is over, and they will have to rehabilitate the whole thing. NBC has not come to that conclusion yet, but it will have to.

And ABC just does the weather. I mean, that's all they care about. Is it snowing in Montana? Okay? The cables are all finished. Even Fox.

Once Trump leaves the stage, there's nowhere for FNC to go. Because they've invested so much in Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

So the fact of the matter is, the corporate media is over in America. That takes a huge cudgel out of the hands of the progressive movement.

Because the progressive movement was dependent on the corporate media to advance its cause. That's going to end, Beck.

GLENN: Well, I would hope that you're right.

Let me ask you about --

BILL: When am I wrong?

When am I wrong?

You've known me for 55 years. When have I been wrong?

GLENN: Okay. All right. All right. We're not here to argue things like that.

So tell me about Skydance. Because isn't Skydance Chinese?

BILL: No! It's Ellison. Larry Ellison, the second richest guy in the world. He owns Lanai and Hawaii, the big tech guy and his son is running it.

GLENN: Yeah, okay.

I though Skydance. I thought that was -- you know them.

BILL: Yeah.

And they -- they're not ideological, but they were as appalled as most of us who pay attention at the deterioration of the network presentations.

So --

GLENN: You think that they could.

BILL: 60 Minutes used to be the gold standard.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

BILL: And it just -- it -- you know, you know, I don't know if you watch it anymore.

GLENN: I don't either.

So do you think they can actually turn CBS around, or is it just over?

BILL: I don't know. It's very hard to predict, because so many people now bail. I've got a daughter 26, and a son, 22.

They never, ever watched network television.

And you've got -- it's true. Right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

They don't watch --

BILL: They're not going to watch The Voice. The dancing with this. The juggling with that. You know, I think they could do a much better job in their news presentations.

GLENN: Yeah. Right.

BILL: Because what they did, is banish people like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly.

Same voices, with huge followings.

Huge!

All right?

We couldn't get on there.

That's why Colbert got fired. Because Colbert wouldn't -- refused to put on any non-progressive voice, when they were talking about the country.

GLENN: I know.

BILL: Well, it's not -- I'm censoring it.

GLENN: Yeah, but it's not that he was fired because he wouldn't do that. He was fired because that led to horrible ratings. Horrible ratings.

BILL: Yes, it was his defiance.

GLENN: Yes.

BILL: Fallon has terrible ratings and so does Kimmel. But Colbert was in your face, F you, to the people who were signing his paycheck.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

BILL: Look, evil can only exist if the mechanisms of power are behind it.

And that's when you read the front -- I take them one by one. And Putin is the most important chapter by far.

GLENN: Why?

BILL: Because Putin would use nuclear weapon.

He wouldn't. He's a psychopath.

And I'm -- on Thursday night, I got a call from the president's people saying, would I meet the president at Yankee stadium for the 9/11 game?

And I said, when a president calls and asks you to meet them, sure.

GLENN: I'll be there. What time?

BILL: It will take me three days to get into Yankee stadium, on Long Island. But I'll start now.

GLENN: Especially because the president is coming. But go ahead.

BILL: Anyway, that was a very, I think that Mr. Trump values my opinion. And it was -- we did talk about Putin.

And the change in Putin. And I had warned him, that Putin had changed from the first administration, where Trump controlled Putin to some extent.

Now he's out of control. Because that's what always happens.

GLENN: Yeah.

BILL: It happened with Hitler. It happened with Mao. It happened with the ayatollah. It happened with Stalin. Right now. They get worse and worse and worse and worse. And then they blow up.

And that's where Putin is! But he couldn't do any of that, without the assent of the Russian people. They are allowing him to do this, to kill women and children. A million Russian casualties for what! For what! Okay?

So that's why this book is just in the stratosphere. And I was thinking object, oh. Because people want to understand evil, finally. Finally.

They're taking a hard look at it, and the Charlie Kirk assassination was an impetus to do that.

GLENN: Yeah. And I think it's also an impetus to look at the good side.

I mean, I think Charlie was just not a neutral -- a neutral character. He was a force for good. And for God.

And I think that -- that combination is almost the Martin Luther King combination. Where you have a guy who is speaking up for civil rights.

But then also, speaking up for God. And speaking truth, Scripturally.

And I think that combination still, strangely, I wouldn't have predicted it. But strangely still works here in America, and I think it's changed everything.

Bill, it's always food to talk to you. Thank you so much for being on. I appreciate it.

It's Bill O'Reilly. The name of the book, you don't want to miss. Is confronting evil. And he takes all of these really, really bad guys on. One by one. And shows you, what happens if you don't do something about it. Confronting evil. Bill O'Reilly.

And you can find it at BillO'Reilly.com.

The difference between debate and celebrating death

There’s a big difference between firing someone, like a teacher, for believing children shouldn’t undergo trans surgery and firing a teacher who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk. Glenn Beck explains why the latter is NOT “cancel culture.”

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GLENN: I got an email from somebody that says, Glenn, in the wake of Charlie's assassination, dozens of teachers, professors and professionals are being suspended or fired for mocking, or even celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.

Critics say conservatives are now being hypocritical because you oppose cancel culture. But is this the same as rose an losing her job over a crude joke. Or is it celebrating murder, and that's something more serious?

For many, this isn't about cancellation it's about trust. If a teacher is entrusted with children or a doctor entrusted with patients, publicly celebrates political violence, have they not yet disqualified themselves from those roles? Words matter. But cheering a death is an action. Is there any consequence for this? Yes. There is.

So let's have that conversation here for a second.

Is every -- is every speech controversy the same?

The answer to that is clearly no.

I mean, we've seen teachers and pastors and doctors and ordinary citizens lose their job now, just for saying they don't believe children under 18 should undergo transgender surgeries. Okay? Lost their job. Chased out.

That opinion, whether you agree or disagree is a moral and medical judgment.

And it is a matter of policy debate. It is speech in the public square.

I have a right to say, you're mutilating children. Okay. You have a right to say, no. We're not. This is the best practices. And then we can get into the silences of it. And we don't shout down the other side.

Okay? Now, on the other hand, you have Charlie Kirk's assassination. And we've seen teachers and professors go online and be celebrate.

Not criticize. Not argue policy. But celebrate that someone was murdered.

Some have gone so far and said, it's not a tragedy. It's a victory. Somebody else, another professor said, you reap what you sow.

Well, let me ask you: Are these two categories of free speech the same?

No! They're not.

Here's the difference. To say, I believe children should not be allowed to have gender surgeries, before 18. That is an attempt, right or wrong. It doesn't matter which side you are.

That is an attempt to protect life. Protect children. And guide society.

It's entering the debate about the role of medicine. The right of parents. And the boundaries of childhood. That's what that is about. To say Charlie Kirk's assassination is a good thing, that's not a debate. That's not even an idea. That's rejoicing in violence. It's glorifying death.

There's no place in a civil society for that kind of stuff. There's not. And it's a difference that actually matters.

You know, our Founders fought for free speech because they believed as Jefferson said, that air can be tolerated where truth is left free to combat it.

So I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, at all. I don't think you do either. I hope you don't. Otherwise, you should go back to read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Error can be tolerated where truth is left to be free to combat it.

But when speech shifts from debating ideas to celebrating death, doesn't that cease to be the pursuit of truth and instead, just become a glorification of evil?

I know where I stand on that one. Where do you stand?

I mean, if you go back and you look at history, in colonial matter -- in colonial America, if you were to go against the parliament and against the king, those words were dangerous. They were called treason. But they were whys. They were arguments about liberty and taxation and the rights of man.

And the Founders risked their lives against the dictator to say those things.

Now, compare that to France in 1793.

You Thomas Paine, one of or -- one of our founder kind of. On the edges of our founders.

He thought that what was happening in France is exactly like the American Revolution.

Washington -- no. It wasn't.

There the crowds. They didn't gather to argue. Okay? They argued to cheer the guillotine they didn't want the battle of ideas.

They wanted blood. They wanted heads to roll.

And roll they did. You know, until the people who were screaming for the heads to roll, shouted for blood, found that their own heads were rolling.

Then they turned around on that one pretty quickly.

Think of Rome.

Cicero begged his countrymen to preserve the republic through reason, law, and debate. Then what happened?

The mob started cheering assassinations.

They rejoiced that enemies were slaughtered.

They were being fed to the lions.

And the republic fell into empire.

And liberty was lost!

Okay. So now let me bring this back to Charlie Kirk here for a second.

If there's a professor that says, I don't believe children should have surgeries before adulthood, is that cancel culture, when they're fired?

Yes! Yes, it is.

Because that is speech this pursuit of truth.

However imperfect, it is speech meant to protect children, not to harm them. You also cannot be fired for saying, I disagree with that.

If you are telling, I disagree with that. And I will do anything to shut you down including assassination! Well, then, that's a different story.

What I teacher says, I'm glad Charlie Kirk is dead, is that cancel culture, if they're fired?

Or is that just society saying, you know, I don't think I can trust my kid to -- to that guy.

Or that woman.

I know, that's not an enlightening mind.

Somebody who delights in political murder.

I don't want them around my children! Scripture weighs in here too.

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Matthew.

What does it reveal about the heart of a teacher who celebrates assassination?

To me, you go back to Scripture. Whoa unto them that call good evil -- evil good and good evil.

A society that will shrug on speech like this, say society that has lost its moral compass.

And I believe we still have a moral compass.

Now, our free speech law doesn't protect both. Absolutely. Under law. Absolutely.

Neither one of them should go to jail.

Neither should be silenced by the state.

But does trust survive both?

Can a parent trust their child to a teacher who is celebrating death?

I think no. I don't think a teacher can be trusted if they think that the children that it's right for children to see strippers in first grade!

I'm sorry. It's beyond reason. You should not be around my children!

But you shouldn't go to jail for that. Don't we, as a society have a right to demand virtue, in positions of authority?

Yes.

But the political class and honestly, the educational class, does everything they can to say, that doesn't matter.

But it does. And we're seeing it now. The line between cancel and culture, the -- the cancellation of people, and the accountability of people in our culture, it's not easy.

Except here. I think it is easy.

Cancel culture is about challenging the orthodoxy. Opinions about faith, morality, biology.
Accountability comes when speech reveals somebody's heart.

Accountability comes when you're like, you are a monster! You are celebrating violence. You're mocking life itself. One is an argument. The other is an abandonment of humanity. The Constitution, so you understand, protects both.

But we as a culture can decide, what kind of voices would shape our children? Heal our sick. Lead our communities?

I'm sorry, if you're in a position of trust, I think it's absolutely right for the culture to say, no!

No. You should not -- because this is not policy debate. This is celebrating death.

You know, our Founders gave us liberty.

And, you know, the big thing was, can you keep it?

Well, how do you keep it? Virtue. Virtue.

Liberty without virtue is suicide!

So if anybody is making this case to you, that this is cancel culture. I just want you to ask them this question.

Which do you want to defend?

Cancel culture that silences debate. Or a culture that still knows the difference between debating ideas and celebrating death.

Which one?

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.