Explaining Trump's 'Whiplash' on Dealing with Iran | Guest: Mikayla Hedrick | 7/9/26

**Glenn Beck** (0:00)
America has always had a fascination with the finished product. We love the hero who crosses the Delaware, the general who wins the war, the president who voluntarily gives up power. But we don't spend as nearly as much time asking the important question, how did he become that man in the first place?
Great leaders don't just appear, they are shaped by failure and courage and discipline and the choices they make when nobody's watching.
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**Glenn Beck** (1:52)
Boy, every day I think that song is so true. You know, I am Glenn Beck, I am on heroin today, but I am on, and I'm glad that you're here. Thank you so much for joining us.

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**Glenn Beck** (2:08)
I can't wait because I've spent some time looking at that 167-page report on The Smithsonian.
And I was just at The Smithsonian, and it's crap.
But the good news is, Trump came out and said 167-page report show how out of step with the American story The Smithsonian is. But the New York Times just broke some news in the middle of the night. They got a bunch of experts together, and the experts say that report just isn't true. There's nothing like that going on in The Smithsonian. And by the way, make sure you're wearing your mask today, and take the sixth booster shot of the vaccine. Trust us, we're experts. Okay, we'll get into that. Also, Platner, he dropped out or did he? This is a fascinating story, and I'm going to take a couple of angles if we have time. Also today, the new audio book, Chasing Embers, is out. It is a great dystopian thriller from me.
Well, one of the people I just love on our staff actually was the one who wrote it. I told them the story and they were like, could you stop talking and let me write this story? And I'm like, well, Mikayla, I guess so, but don't you really say, no, no, I listen to you talk all the time, Glenn, please stop talking. It was a New York Times bestseller out a couple of years ago. We never did an audio book. We've done it completely differently now. It's enacted, it's been acted out by a couple of really talented actors and you're gonna love it. It's out wherever you get your audio books. It's out today. All right, I wanna start with Donald Trump and Iran because what's happening? I wanna pick you up from where I was yesterday where I said he's looking for an Albert Spear figure.
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