RADIOJune 25, 2025

Trump GOES NUCLEAR on Israel & Iran over ceasefire fiasco

President Donald Trump was FURIOUS after Iran and Israel exchanged missile fire just hours after he announced a ceasefire deal in their "12 Day War." So, what went wrong? Is the ceasefire over? And did Trump have a hidden goal with his ceasefire?

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GLENN: All right. Last night, I was driving out with my niece. And I heard the news that there was a -- there was a cease-fire.

And I looked at her. Because we had just been saying earlier in the morning.

She's -- she lives up here in the ranch.

And we were just talked about it.

And I said, you know what is really strange?

Is I'm not getting any sense of real trouble. And I know trouble has to be just over the horizon.

And I don't know. Maybe God is not talked to me anymore.

And she said, no. I feel the same way. In fact, you feel a real sense of peace. And I said, yeah. I think I do too. And I don't understand it. Because the world is on fire.

What is the warning that we should be giving?

What should we be doing?

And then we're driving, and we hear that, you know, peace.

And it shocks both of us.

Cease-fire.

Between Iran and Israel? Are you kidding me?

That's the first real diplomatic break through in a war that has been edging towards the abyss forever.

And, you know, will be the final battle, I believe in the end.

And who brokered it?

Donald J. Trump.

Not NATO. Not the UN. Not the globe. Not a roundtable of seasoned diplomats, sipping espresso in Brussels.

Trump, and he announced it via social media, naturally. He said both parties have agreed to an end to the hostilities, and it would be 24 hours. I think -- I think Iran had to behave itself for the first 12 hours. Then Israel could join. And behave itself for the next 12 hours.

Then after that, everything stops.

Iran said they would stop missile launchers. The takes on this, have been mast. You know it. And I know it. Forty-eight hours earlier, you know, the -- the -- the Israelis had flat end the Iranian revolutionary guard positions.

They had in response, Iran had just leveled sections of Tel Aviv, 200 people wounded in Israel. Black smoke over Damascus. Missiles intercepted over Oman. The region was on fire.

But the fire paused briefly, and then it didn't.

I get up this morning, and here's what the president says. As he's heading for Marine One. We have edited it, and you will understand why we've edited the president's words when you hear it, if you haven't heard it yet. Listen.

DONALD: They violated it, but Israel violated it too.

You know, Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I had never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay. Now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.

So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that.

Well, we have basically two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don't know what the (bleep) they're doing. Do you understand that?

GLENN: I think everybody did, Mr. President. Then he took to social media.

Israel, do not drop those bombs. Bring your pilots home now. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States.

I don't think I've ever seen him like this before. Now, let that sink in for a second.

The US president publicly telling Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.

Stop your retaliation.

Damage was done. Israel had already -- you know, resumed the airstrikes. This time, a vengeance the Israeli defense minister didn't mince word.

He blamed Iran for breaking the truce.

Launching missiles at civilian targets, again in Israel.

And, of course, you know, Iran denied everything.

They always do.

Play the -- play the sot here of -- of Iran saying how they won the war. This is from Iranian TV yesterday.

Listen to this.

VOICE: It is true --

GLENN: Yesterday, the people conducted a signet radiation.

And they heard the Israelis say, that there were over 500 casualties, in our attacks yesterday, in addition to 300 people that are still missing.

And they are stuck under the rubble. More than 200 people were injured. More than 200. So our operation yesterday, alone, more than a thousand people were killed or injured.

Or still missing. Perhaps America has joined the war. Because we're very, very close to annihilating Israel.

It was -- we were in the closing stages.

No, not really. But did you notice, is that the way we would have reported that story in the west? If we were the ones that were sending the missiles over. Would we say, hey. Just the open. We did 300 people. We killed 300 people.

And then there were like 300 casualties.

Maybe as much as 500 casualties.

And then just in the last two days, we've killed a thousand people.

Is that the way we would have reported that?

That should tell you everything you need to know, about choose life, choose death. Which side is on the side of life. And which side is on the side of death.

Talking about a thousand people dying. Not -- not military targets.

A thousand people dying. Okay.

So Iran is denying reality. Multiple sources. US Intelligence. IDF radar. Eyewitnesses on the ground in Jerusalem confirmed rockets were fired from Iranian proxies in Syria. And southern Lebanon, without -- within hours of the truce.

So does that mean that peace was just a mirage?

Well, here's what I think it means. It means behind the headlines. And the diplomatic smiles. And everything else, the truth about Iran remains. It's the only thing that we know for truth.

They don't negotiate for good faith. They never have. They're liars.

They don't actually want peace. They want to dominate the Middle East. And they want Israel gone. And they also want America humiliated.

So the cease-fire is a test. And Iran failed. And yet, the coverage, who is the villain?

If you watched the coverage, the villain was Israel, or Donald Trump.

The mainstream anchors last night. I don't know if you saw this. I mean, it looked like somebody was killing their children.

When they found out that there was a cease-fire, it looked like, oh, my gosh. No. No.

But they were -- I mean, when they announced the collapse, you know -- they couldn't -- they couldn't blame Trump, the night before for war.

And their glee was almost reckless. I mean, they were just -- they were just so happy.

They had stunned silence the night before when it was good news, and then when it was bad news, they were like, eh, see, we told you!

Here's the thing: Trump's pressure campaign worked. His unpredictability worked. Iran blinked. Now, they tried to treat the cease-fire quietly. They got caught. Israel responded, because we would too.

So now what? Trump is now on the plane headed over to, NATO. Not as the wild car, but the man who came this close to brokering an impossible peace between two mortal enemies.

He has. And, you know, the peace might be back on, by the time he lands.

The world really needs to face this question. What if Donald Trump is right?

What if boldness, not a bunch of pencil pushers, not a bunch of politicians.

What if boldness is what keeps the war from boiling over? What if the thing the world hates the most, mocks the most, was the thing that's holding back the flood?

Yeah. The cease-fire collapsed. Last night.

But I think history will remember this moment, not as a failure. But as a reveal.

A spotlight shined behind the Israel motives of the regime.

In case, you didn't get it yet.

It was a spotlight on the media last night.

So invested in failure, of this. They couldn't even fake relief.

When peace arrived. Couldn't fake it!

I think what Donald Trump did is -- you know, I said last night.

Maybe it was just to a friend.

This is why I would make a very bad president.

Because when the fate of the world is at stake, I would be like, I -- I can't make that decision.

I can't make. And you have to have somebody who can make the decisions.

And I just don't think I could do it. I really don't.

Could you have done what Donald Trump did? Stu, can you have done what Donald Trump did in the last week?

If you were the president, and you had to stand there, all by yourself. Your own base was -- everybody was turning on you.

And you said, nope!

I believe this is the right thing to do. With what was at stake, and what is at stake, could you have done it?

STU: Those are two -- I think two separate questions.

I think I would be able to take a stand for something, when my base disagreed with me.

That type of stuff we do.

It's very difficult.

GLENN: Yeah. The whole world is at stake.

STU: Doing everything he did over the past -- I mean, the guy seemingly has no shortage of energy. I don't know if there was a fountain of youth situation.

I don't know if there was just like, I -- I mean, if he just loves --

GLENN: Genetics.

Really good genetics. That's what it is.
Great genetics.

All right.

STU: Yeah, there's been a lot for him to do.

I mean, if there's -- he still has the bill going on. When was the last time we even mentioned the big, beautiful bill that is going through the Senate right now?

And it's a massive part of what he has to deal with. Not to mention, he's going over to these meetings in Europe, right now.

The -- the topic isn't even Israel and Iran. It's Ukraine, and Russia.

Like, that --

GLENN: And 5 percent!

STU: And five -- yeah. And the funding. Yeah. For NATO.

GLENN: I mean, that is crazy.

STU: Yeah. It's a lot.

GLENN: We couldn't get them to one and a half percent.

He finally got him to 2 percent.

Now he's like 5 percent. You have to cough up 5 percent, each of you.

And I think it's fantastic.

Right!

But it looks like it might happen, this time.

You've got that look on your face. Like, yeah. A lot of things might happen.

And you're right. A lot of things might happen.

Anything could happen. And a lot of things might happen.

STU: Yeah. There's a part of me that's concerned about encouraging Germany to spend more money on defense. Like, that's the only hesitation, I keep coming up with this one.

Maybe them spending 2 percent is more than they need to spend honestly.

Because they get a lot of big defense going in Germany.

Things don't always turn out so well. I do understand, that's their agreement. They are supposed to be spending 5 percent on their defense.

That's part of their arrangement.

I agree. There's a lot of stuff going on.

I definitely could not handle all the stuff he's doing right now.

I don't think it's possible for most humans to do it.

GLENN: So are we closer to peace than we were yesterday?

STU: Yeah. I think so.

We don't know if this thing will hold out. Hold up, right?

We don't know if this arrangement holds up.

If we can get to a place where, what we have is even. What we had, you know, three or four weeks ago.

Where these countries still hated each other.

And were sort of on the verge of war all the time. Which is what the situation has been for as long as I can remember. For Israel and Iran.

Except for the fact they can't be many targets had been taken out in Iran.

And their nuclear program had seen been diminished significantly.

And a lot of their military leadership. Has been knocked out.

And, you know, and on and on.

All the things that Israel has achieved, during the past couple of weeks.

Even if it bounces back to where it was. Iran is in a much worse position.

And I think that's a real positive, frankly.

Yeah. I think we're in a better position thousand.

And the best-case scenario. Maybe this thing does hold. I don't think the Applebee's situation will happen any time soon.

Or we all get together, and they share a margarita at the bar. I think that won't happen.

I think it's unlikely.

Maybe Trump can make that happen.

That being said.

I feel like, we are going to be in a better position, largely because the worst actor in this situation. Is weaker.

That's good.

GLENN: Yes. Yes. Yeah. I agree.

And, by the way, your Applebee's thing will never happen. It's not kosher. Nor is it Halal.

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Why Trump is RIGHT to take back DC

President Trump is cracking down on crime in Washington, DC, and Glenn Beck believes it’s a “brilliant” move. Glenn explains why Trump is taking action, whether it’s legal, and what he believes it says to the world.

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GLENN: So the president yesterday, taking control of our Capitol back. And he said this, cut three. Listen.

DONALD: My father always used to tell me. I had a wonderful father. Very smart. And he used to say: Son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door, don't go in. Because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also. Same thing with the Capitol. If our Capitol is dirty, our whole country is dirty, and they don't respect us.

GLENN: It's absolutely true.

This is the broken windows theory. You know what that is? The broken windows theory is something that Rudy Giuliani used to turn the country around. And that theory is, no one, no one, picks up a rock or can or bottle or anything, that's in a nice neighborhood that's clean and everything else.

You don't pick up a rock and break a window. However, if you're in a neighborhood where there is a lot of broken windows and everything is broken down, the average person is much more likely to pick up a rock and throw it through a window.

Why? Because the entire neighborhood says, we don't care.

So what Rudy Giuliani did, was he used this theory, and he cleaned up the -- he cleaned up the subways by doing a couple of things.

First thing he did, was he made sure, that if you were jumping the turnstile, for the -- for the subway, you were stopped right there.

Before, people just weren't paying a fair, they were just jumping a turnstile.

And nobody was doing anything about it.

He says, no one was crossing that turnstile. Now, what is it?

Is it a dollar to ride the subway? No one rides it for free. And so he put police, right there.

And they stopped you, and arrested you, if you were jumping the turnstile.

The second thing is, was he stopped the graffiti. He said, I don't care if they have to be repainted every single day.

When those things pull into the station, at night. If we get there in the morning, and they've been spray-painted, I want them all painted again, and then they go out.

Everything had been covered in graffiti.

And when he changed those two things, all of a sudden, the attitude, of the subway, it became safe again.

Because it was sending a signal to the bad guys and to the good guys, we care. We're not going to let this happen, anymore.

So what he's saying here, about dirty doorstep, means a dirty kitchen. It's absolutely true.

You ever gone into a restaurant. Gone into their bathroom. And you're like, oh, boy.

Oh, God.

I can't eat now.

Because if the -- the bathroom for the customer is like that. What is their kitchen like, where the customer never sees it. That's what he's doing, and he has the absolute right to do it. He's got 30 days, before he has to bring Congress into it.

This is the -- back in 1973, Congress passed this Home Rule Act. And they didn't have a mayor. They didn't have a city council. They didn't have any of these things.

This has been from the beginning of our country, the Founders wanted the District of Columbia, to be a district that is a federal district, run by the federal government. Not by local rile.

And in 1973, they started that. And it was all just to get them to be declared a state. First a city with a mayor. Then we should have power to elect the president of the United States.

Yada. Yada. Yada.

This has not been worked. This has been an experiment that has not worked at all. So he can deploy the National Guard for law enforcement, because there is no governor of DC. He can use it for emergencies, crowd control, and to execute federal laws. However, he just declared an emergency.

Now, under the Home Rule Act, he can assume control of the Metro PD, which he didn't, for up to 48 hours, during special conditions of emergency.
And that time period can be extended.

But he -- what he's doing here, is he's using these 30 days, hoping that the home rules act is going to be revealed. Only Congress can reveal that. But there's movement to reveal it now. And if Congress appeals the home rule act.

Then this nonsense in the District of Columbia is over. And if anyone tells you, you know what, the crime status are going down.

To what?

To what?

Even if they went down to 2019 standards, is that good enough?

I mean, it is still more dangerous than walking around in Bogota, Colombia.

It is twice as dangerous as walking around in Islamabad!

I don't know. I don't think that's really a good thing.

And, by the way, they changed the way -- you're a stat person. Did you read this about the stats.

PAT: Playing with them.

GLENN: Oh, my God. Playing with them.

Felony assault is not considered a violent crime now in their crime stats. Not assault. Felony assault. Felony means usually prison is -- is tied to that.

STU: Yeah. Not just some easy misdemeanor, where you get your hand slapped.

GLENN: Felony assault.

STU: Yeah. If you're not going to include that, it's hard to even take that seriously.

But your point is more crucial to this, than even the statistical games.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Because they keep -- they keep bragging they're getting it back to 2019 levels, or maybe a tick below. That's not good.

GLENN: No. It's not.

STU: What you're saying is acceptable is not acceptable.

That's the message from the White House.

I would love to see it.

And we're seeing it so far. I would love to see the Democrats try to win that battle those rules.

If what you're trying to tell me, because we were there for the inauguration.

GLENN: Police everywhere.

STU: Of course that was -- police everywhere -- it's a totally different --

GLENN: But I had a guy threaten my life, and not for political reasons. Just because I think he was batcrap crazy.

STU: Yeah. Yeah. Right. I mean, a lot of sane people threatened your life on a regular basis. Crazy.

GLENN: This is a nutjob.

STU: Yeah. But, like, unless you're at the mall, during the day, it's -- and even there, can get sketchy at times.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

STU: You feel it.

GLENN: You feel it. You feel it.

STU: You want to stay inside your hotel room.

GLENN: And, you know what, everybody knows this. Washington Post. There -- this is a story on how safe the city is.

This is a safe city, but overhearing witness game threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing, said one resident.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, over --

STU: Anonymity, over concerns of personal safety.

GLENN: Yes. Anonymity, over concerns of personal safety. So I don't want my name in the paper, because I'm afraid of the thugs finding out who I am, and killing me. But it's perfectly safe. Oh, my gosh!

STU: Everyone knows this! Anyone who has ever been to DC. You know it, by walking around.
Weird crap happens to you. People approach you, in threatening ways.

GLENN: You know, Rikki told me just a few minutes ago, our executive producer. She said, last time I was in DC. And she lived in DC for many, many years. She said, I was in my old neighborhood.
She said, I used to walk at 2 o'clock in the morning.
I never had a problem with that. She said, I went to this restaurant. And I was there with a friend.

And I had gone there a million times.

She says, it's in the middle of the day. Within just a few minutes, she's sitting on a patio outside, some huge guy, she said, 300 pounds, at least 6 feet, comes up and says, I'm going to kill you. And starts threatening her and her life.

They call the cops. It takes them 15 minutes. She's not far from the Capitol. Fifteen minutes to get there. And then they don't do anything about it.

He -- she's like, anybody who says, this isn't happening, has just never been there. Here's an ABC anchor. Now, remember, their whole spin is, this was fascism.

There's no -- it's a safe city. Listen to this ABC anchor. Listen to this. Cut one.

We've been talking so much about the numbers, and usually that's how you play devil's advocate. You talk about, oh, well, stats say crime is down.

However, I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC, where we were, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot. One person died. Literally two blocks down here from the bureau.

It was within the last two years, that I actually was jumped, walking just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning, one of my coworkers said her car was stolen, a block away from the bureau. So we can talk about the numbers, going down. But crime is happening every single day, because we're all experiencing it firsthand while working and listing down here.

GLENN: Hmm. Hmm.

STU: You know.

GLENN: Go ahead.

STU: I was just going to say, I was on vacation last week. You know, it's like saying I'm cutting my calories from vacation levels to normal levels.

It's still not healthy. Right?

It's just -- even if there is an improvement from 2023, which some numbers do show, although the numbers are questionable.

2023 was just absolute catastrophe. And this is just terrible. Right?

Like, that -- there's no reason to embrace this norm.

As the norm.

GLENN: So let me give you -- I want to show you the response. The response on the left.

Here is -- show the full screen here of the free DC.

This came out yesterday.

Free DC. Like it's under some fascistic.

Look at this deal. And what it says is it is encouraging residents to protest Trump's federalizing of the city's police force. And what it wants to do is starting tonight at 8:00 p.m. And then every night, go out to stop this occupation.

Go out and bring pots and pans. And bang on them. And then when you're -- your neighbors go, what the hell is wrong with you!

Say, don't you care about the fascistic government.

STU: People will love that.

GLENN: This is crazy. This is crazy.

Now, if Donald Trump and I think with Jeanine Pirro.

I think some things are going to be happening quickly there.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: He actually has a chance. And I don't think he's doing it this way, for this reason.

But he actually has a chance of turning DC Republican.

Because you're living in that. Imagine --

STU: It's hard to imagine.

GLENN: It's hard to imagine. But imagine living there. And now you're seeing your side, that you've always voted for. Say, it's not so bad. And you know it's bad.

You can't have your wife go out to the grocery store at night.

You've had your carjacked. Maybe crazy people on the streets.

And then he's doing something. And if it works, if it works, people will be like, you know what, I'm sorry.

But that is a better solution.

He is -- this is very brilliant of him. He's very good at this.

He knows where people live.

You know, spiritually. And physically. He knows right where they live.

And where they're living in Washington it can't. Is a hellhole.

And everybody there knows it. And if he can actually change their lives, he changes everything.

Are these MAJOR PROBLEMS with our airlines widespread?

What is going on at our airports?! Glenn Beck has noticed an increase in flight issues – delays, technical problems, understaffing. So, he speaks with aviation expert Mike Boyd, who explains where he believes these issues are coming from. Are they widespread? Or is it just one airline? And can the FAA fix these issues under President Trump?

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GLENN: Mike Boyd. Welcome to the program, Mike, how are you?

MIKE: I'm doing fine. It's an honor to be here.

GLENN: Thank you. So thank you for coming on. I've been asking for an interview with Secretary Duffy, and we haven't been able to align the schedules yet.

But I am very concerned about our airlines. I was on a plane. These were all American Airlines, by the way. I was on the plane. The pilot, we got on. It was like two hours, three hours later late. We got on. And the pilot was standing in the aisle. And he said, everybody, I don't want you to blame the airlines. I want you to blame me.

And we're like, oh, okay.

And he said, because I wouldn't accept the plane, that they wanted to us fly because I have flown it before. And it has problems. And they haven't fixed those problems. And the only way it's going to be fixed is if we reject it. And say, I can't fly.

I don't know if that's true or not. Or what this guy -- you know, what the story was. But that didn't fill me with confidence. I'm like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. So you're actually saying, the airline is not repairing a plane.

And I don't think -- I mean, I don't think our airplanes are in trouble, and going to start falling out of the sky. But that has been happening lately.

What is happening with our airlines?

MIKE: Well, I think the experience you had, that one specific one. We've done a lot from -- I come from an American Airlines background. Nevertheless, we've done a lot of work with American pilots unions. These are very professional people. The fact that guy stood up there and said, I'm not confident with this airplane. That's a safety -- that's a safety plus.

GLENN: Oh, I appreciated that. We thanked him for that. Thank you. Thank you.

MIKE: But we have a major problem with American Airlines. If you have pilots saying, I don't trust you. These are not yo-yos. These are not good consumer men's. These are professionals. If they say that, we have a problem in America. If that happens in America, and I think you might want to call the folks down there in Fort Worth, their brand-new American Way headquarters. They spent billions on them and asked questions.

But overall, I haven't seen that. Are there big problems with air traffic control?

Yes. No question about that. And we finally have somebody that the FAA and the DOT, who has a clue. And that will be addressed.

But overall, if it's just one airline, you're on the right track, as far as looking at it.

GLENN: Okay.

So this is -- but are you seeing this kind of stuff happening with other airlines.

MIKE: No. No.

GLENN: I'm flying out of Dallas all the time. So I generally fly American. And I occasionally will fly Delta. But, you know, it's mainly American. So I just assume this is happening on other airlines as well.

Because I'm reading the comments from people. And they're like, I can't trust that I can get there the next day anymore.

And that's a real problem.

MIKE: Well, because air travel is. I have to get there times certain.

This is not a game. I have to get to the bar mitzvah, whatever I'm going.

So if they can't get there, I'm not going to go. And the reason I'm not going to go, is you can't get me there. Now, if you look at reliability.
And again, we've had some issues, like Frontier Airlines, if you want to see Saturday Night Lights, go to YouTube. You'll see a gated -- a gated net, Frontier Airlines. It's really bad. But if you look at others, like our friends at United Airlines -- and I don't work for those guys. They have a system where if you book at United, very often, they're with you the whole damn trip.

If you don't like a lot of text messages, don't book them. They're with you, the whole time. And their CEO is functionally age, about making sure, whatever went on. Whatever it is. Take it or leave it.

From that point, I think you may have stumbled over something that affects the metroplex, more than anything else.

GLENN: So how's -- because I've been on the plane. And everybody is like, we're going to have missing.

You know, you will miss your connections.

And everybody is like -- is this kind of -- is the airline system set up almost like the Just In Time supply line? That if it did ever go into catastrophic failure, it would be a real problem.

Because, I mean, it's just one plane arrives, just in time for everyone to unload and reload and take off again.

MIKE: Well, yeah. That's just the issue. In ancient times, our friends at Southwest could come in and go in ten minutes.

Today, you can't get ten seats emptied in that amount of time. So they're really trying to cut down the amount of time, on the ground. That makes sense.

The question is, they have to have systems they can't be allow them to do that.

Now, delta has put in a very comprehensive system that only works for Delta, where they have been able to coordinate all those things, and do a better job of it.

But you're right. If you're coming in and going out, and that airplane has to do a go-around, coming into Atlanta. That could be 15 minutes.

That 15 minutes could mean, you can't get across the terminal to get your connection. That's going to happen.

GLENN: Tell me about the situation.

Because, Stu, you did a documentary on how bad the air traffic control system was. Right?

STU: Yes, I did.

GLENN: And is that on YouTube still? What was the name of it?

STU: It is. Countdown to the next Aviation Disaster. Unfortunately the countdown was not as long as you would have hoped it would have been.

GLENN: Yeah, it is. I mean, what's going on in our air traffic control.

And I would never want to be an air traffic controller. The stress these guys are under.

And that's not -- I'm not even calculating the stress on how close these planes are flying in and out now.

I mean, I'm just thinking, back in the good old days, where it was very stressful.

Now they're still passing paper to each other. And these planes are one on top of the other one.

When are we going to change this system and update it?

MIKE: Duffy is doing that. Duffy is not -- and finally, we have an FAA administrator who has a clue. Brian Bedford. He's been around. No, I've known him for 40 years. This man knows the business, and he's all business.

And, you know -- and, you know, I know he's good because Chuck Schumer doesn't like him. So that underlines everything right there.

GLENN: Good.

MIKE: So that's starting right now. Look, we testified to Congress in 1994 on this. On a free flight system, that you could make it far more efficient. The FAA blew it off. The FAA has always been a repository of some really great people at the operational level.

But at the top, these are just political appointees. Take a look at the FAA administrator that the -- the last president wanted. Phil Washington. Nice guy. Clueless. But he was a good appointee.

We can't do that anymore. I think we're going to see some major changes right now.

GLENN: Now, can -- how long is it going to take us to fix this?

MIKE: Well, you know, one of the things.

It's sort of -- what Duffy said, well, we have a -- there was a program in place to fix it over the next five years. And that's ridiculous.

So he's on it. I mean, he just went up to Wisconsin. He found the oldest, I think the oldest control tower in the nation. We're going to fix this. He's really making a point of trying to get it done.

And I think he's doing it incrementally. Where like Newark. What a disaster. I don't mean this city, necessarily. I do.
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But at the airport, you know.

He's trying to make that work better.

This guy is on it. So I'm thinking 18 months.

It's going to be incremental. But we will start to see this happen.

GLENN: In Newark, or in the country?

MIKE: In the country. Because we can't have a free flight system that is far more efficient --

GLENN: What does it mean, a free flight system?

MIKE: There's a free flight system -- they want to ignore this, where every airplane takes off, and it finds its own ways. Keep in mind, the skies aren't crowded.

You can put 250,000, count them, 737s in a cubit mile of airspace, parked, not moving.

But that's a quarter million of them. And any time in America, today, in the sky, you might have just 14,000 -- 14,000 airplanes in the sky.

GLENN: Wow.

MIKE: But that's like 11 million cubic miles of airspace. So we can use our airspace better.

But what we've had is quite frankly, an FAA that hasn't wanted to think about it. It's more worried about itself. I am convinced that is going to change over the next two years.

GLENN: And are we close to having AI do all of this free flight stuff?

I mean, I would imagine that you don't -- I mean, you don't need to check in with tower, if AI is assisting finding it.

MIKE: Oh, exactly. We've got to use that. And a lot of it -- it's -- the head of the FAA has always been the clown of the Titanic. He says, slow down.

And by the time, it gets back to the engine room, you know, we've hit the iceberg. I think it's one of those things that we have to recognize, a lot of stuff has to change organizationally at the FAA, and at the department of transportation. I think finally we have people that can actually address that.

GLENN: Wow!

That is -- I mean, this is wildly optimistic, but I am happy to hear that. I like Secretary Duffy.

I don't know much about him.

Not enough to say enough like you're talking. That makes me feel really good. I'm very concerned about our air travel.

It's not good. Not good.

Not going in the right direction.

MIKE: It's not going in the right direction.

I find out, if I treat the customer right, they might come back and fly me, and what's happening now, people are getting away from some of these really low fair airlines, where the seat is like, a bucket seat in a C-119.

They don't want to fly those things anymore. And people like United and Delta and other carriers are saying, we'll take your business.

And they are.

GLENN: I have to tell you, at times, I'll be on a plane. And I think we're like one scruffy dog with one blue eye, just walking down the aisle, creepily away from third world airlines. I mean, it's like, there are times I'm like, is there a chicken going to run down the aisle too? What country do we live in?

It's beyond. It really is the greyhound of the sky now.

MIKE: It is. There's no question. My mother was a stewardess in the 1930s. Everybody dressed up.

GLENN: Yes.

MIKE: Today, you're lucky if everybody is dressed.
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GLENN: I don't know why we haven't had you on before, Mike. You're very funny.

Mike, thank you so much. For an inside look on this. I appreciate it. Mike Boyd, aviation expert. From the Boyd group international. He's the president and CEO.

MIKE: Me pleasure. Thank you.

GLENN: He's the guy who consults all these airlines and tries to help fix them.

And is also, you know, testifying in front of Congress all the time.