
Episode 4431: Glenn Beck LIVE In The WarRoom ...
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Glenn Beck
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.
Steve Bannon
I know you try to do everything.
Glenn Beck
In the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
Steve Bannon
And where do people like that go.
Glenn Beck
To share the big lie?
Steve Bannon
MAGA Media.
Glenn Beck
I wish in my soul I w.
Steve Bannon
That any of these people had a conscience.
Glenn Beck
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Steve Bannon
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner.
Glenn Beck
Okay. Welcome. It is Tuesday 22nd April, year of our Lord 2025. A special edition of the War Room. The great Glenn Beck.
Steve Bannon
How are you?
Glenn Beck
Thank you. Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Juan.
Glenn Beck
You're in D.C. for a couple of days.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. I don't like coming here.
Glenn Beck
I know. I know that. I know that you spend very little time here.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I. In 1982, I lived here and I just. I was just walking around the Capitol, tried to get up, show my wife the, you know, the, the bronze doors and the. What are they called? The Columbus doors.
Glenn Beck
Yes.
Steve Bannon
And you can't even get close to them. You can't even get close to them. This is a nightmare. Totally changed.
Glenn Beck
I want to go back a couple of things since we only got an hour with you. The crises we have before us today. You know, Thomas Paine wrote the crisis we just had, the 250th of Lexington Concord, was it 14 years ago. When you first came on my radar was when you were doing the absolute dead zone at Fox at 5:00.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Which you made the new prime time.
Steve Bannon
No.
Glenn Beck
Rachel Wallace, Nicole Wallace, that whole crowd that have now those shows was because. And a guy named Roger Ailes didn't think it could be pulled off.
Steve Bannon
I know. And I honestly didn't either. When I was. I met with him. He said, what is it about our number one status and the more. And the money that I know is more than you're making now, that doesn't interest you? And I said a couple things. You don't know my business. I know yours, but you don't know my business. And the second thing is 5:00. It's never been successful ever.
Glenn Beck
Ever.
Steve Bannon
And I said, I don't want to be a little curio cabinet piece that you just taken off the board and put In a cabinet that nobody sees. He's like, no, you'll do it. I like, I don't think you even believe.
Glenn Beck
So he approached you to do at the time, the 5:00?
Steve Bannon
5:00.
Glenn Beck
5:00, yeah. The reason I saw you is guys on Wall street contacted me and said, hey, is this guy on Fox late in the afternoon? Not, not at Fox Business or CNBC late in the afternoon to talking about quantitative tightening, quantitative easing. Easy. And I go, you're kidding me. And not on a. Not on Bloomberg or. It says no. And I started watching it and it was absolutely incredible. And I saw that the audience couldn't get enough of. Did you have the blackboard at the time of the whiteboard? Because you did do a transition to a whiteboard eventually, right?
Steve Bannon
I think when I left, yeah, it was always blackboard. I was there. Yeah, but it was. I remember meeting a Columbia University Professor, 2008, and the Crash had happened and I had been talking about it for a couple of years, and he came up to me, he said, where'd you get your degree in economics? And I thought, you. And I'm a shock joke. I said, nowhere. In fact, I don't have a degree in anything. And he said, I knew it. And I was about to hit him and he said, I can't get my students to think like you. And he said, I knew you had to have no formal education because everybody gets trapped in the system. Oh, it's. We have all these safety, you know, valves, and it's a system and it's going to protect itself. And I kept standing outside of the system going, it's, it's. You're lying to yourself. Can't you all see what's coming? And, you know, because of what the Fed did, we haven't paid the full price. Well, that.
Glenn Beck
We're about the bailout of, of 2008. You're saying the crash in the bailout. 2008?
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
You come to Fox when?
Steve Bannon
2008.
Glenn Beck
Right after the 2008. And how did Roger Ailes pick you?
Steve Bannon
I have no idea. We were, we, we got to know each other. I was over at cnn and we would have dinner together from.
Glenn Beck
You were doing headline headlines.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And you made that show. Yeah, at 5:00. It was 5.
Steve Bannon
It was, it was 7.
Glenn Beck
7. And it was. But it was like it had traction.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Headline News had never had a breakdown show, but you were starting to get traction.
Steve Bannon
Right. And so he, we just talked about television and he used to call me Jack Parr. He's like, you're Jack. And which was a huge compliment for.
Glenn Beck
Our audience that Jack Parr was. Johnny did to the Night show before Johnny Carson had a certain style invented.
Steve Bannon
And he left at the height of it.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
And when I left, Roger said, you're not really gonna leave. And I said, he said, nobody leaves. I said, one did. I said, jack Park. But anyway, you know, it's strange. I was thinking about it the other day that when I went to Fox and this, this is what really bothers me. When I went to Fox, I was on Neil Cavuto show. And I'm talking about, you know, everything that we're doing and how we are, we're just making the problem bigger and bigger by the more we. The more we hold it up. This is unnatural. And I said, this is. This is going to eventually come and really bite us in the ass. And I finish, and Neil was very polite. And then we go off the air and I get up and I said, thank you, Neil. And he didn't even look at me. He sat there like this and he was writing and he said, you are the most irresponsible person I've ever met in my life. And I was like, what? Because I really like Neil. And I said, what? He said, I can't believe what you just said. And I said, wait, wait, wait. You just put me on the air. If you disagreed with what I said, why didn't you say something? He said, because I don't. And I said, so how am I irresponsible? He said, we all know it's going to happen, but we have a responsibility to the people to not tell them. And I said, excuse me, what do you mean we have a responsibility to not tell people? Those are the people you all, you bankers, all you big financial guys, you all know. And you're going to get bailed out, and you're going to get bailed out by the little guy. And you have a responsibility. They'll freak out. Give them the benefit of the doubt. Tell them the truth. Try telling them the truth.
Glenn Beck
And that's why the show was such a big hit. I mean, it became so. It was at the same time of the Tea Party. And the Tea Party was, you know, tax enough already. But it was kind of amorphous of what it believed, you know. No. Crony capitalism.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
But your show became the kind of the go to spot.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Late in the afternoon, you made 5:00. But you continue to harp on the financial condition of the country, the bailout and the financial condition now, I think the, the debt at the time was four or five trillion dollars.
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck
And it was nothing. I guess at the end of the.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, maybe six or six. Seven.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, but you were talking about quantitative easing, blowing up the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve to bail it out.
Steve Bannon
Everything, Steve, everything.
Glenn Beck
And it was self taught, right?
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah. Everything that, to me, that they were doing and was coming was so obvious. If you just, if you just approach it and say, I don't know anything about any of your little systems of protection. Let me just look at this and see what you're headed for. It was so obvious and everything that they said that because I was just brutalized. You know, they're never going to inflate the money. Okay. How are they going to get out of it? We're never going to have quantitative easing. Okay, tell me about that one. Everything. Moody's will never downgrade the United States. No one will ever sell our Treasuries. They'll never lose faith in the United States because as I used to say to them, they say we're still the strongest in the world. And I said, you mean we're just the floatiest piece of poop in the, in the toilet? Everybody else just sinks a little bit further, but we're at the top. We're still going to be flushed when the time comes and everything.
Glenn Beck
We're still the prime reserve currency.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, I know. And that'll never. That will never.
Glenn Beck
That'll never change.
Steve Bannon
That'll never change.
Glenn Beck
These little nations, they just got to take the dollar.
Steve Bannon
Gosh. So look at where we are.
Glenn Beck
I want to get there. This is around 2010, 2011. The tea party has had monster midterm election. 2010, we win 62 seats. Then everybody wants to know about the Tea Party at the time. Did you ever think that 14 years later we'd actually be at 37 trillion, $2 trillion annual deficits with literally the political class being unable to cut any spending?
Steve Bannon
The. The thing that amazes me is that we're still standing. It's much more resilient than I thought it would be. I really didn't think. I mean, look at the body blows this thing has taken since September 11th over and over and over again. Just body blow after body blow. And then you take all of the, the pillars out. You just destroy all the pillars and this house is still standing. That's how strong this country is. Imagine if we actually, I don't know, put a pillar up or two that belong there.
Glenn Beck
Talk to me about that. The institutional pillars. Is that what you're. Because right now, this crisis of economic and finance, of geopolitical, of spiritual, cultural.
Steve Bannon
It's all of it.
Glenn Beck
All of it.
Steve Bannon
It's all of it. And it's all been done intentionally. I'm convinced it.
Glenn Beck
Because at the time also, you were first to start talking about the Cloud Piven. Andrew came in and Andrew's big thing was the Frankfurt School. You start talking about Clower Piven collapse.
Steve Bannon
Overwhelmed.
Glenn Beck
You're not a conspiracy theorist, but you actually think that this is well thought through and a wealth of a neo Marxist.
Steve Bannon
Come on. How do people not see that at this point? You couldn't be this wrong every time if you tried. You have to be brilliant to be this wrong all the time. You know what I mean? There's no way it always falls to that side. And it's because they are managing the decline. That's all they're doing is managing the decline. And Donald Trump is the first guy to a. This, this is really. I understand it because I'm not a tariff guy, but it's really pissing me off because while I'm not a tariff.
Glenn Beck
Guy, because I haven't turned you to an economic populace yet, we're going to get there. We're going to get.
Steve Bannon
No, but I'm not a tariff guy. But I will tell you this. That guy, he's the only one, he's the only doctor we've had in probably my lifetime, since maybe Reagan that will actually tell you and say, yeah, you're riddled with cancer. And this whole thing, this whole body is going to die unless we start cutting the cancer out. And at this point, it has to be so radical that it's like chemotherapy. You use chemotherapy hoping that it doesn't kill the human body before it kills the cancer.
Trevor Comstock
Go back.
Glenn Beck
I want to talk about managed decline. What do you mean by that, do you think the elites in our country of both, almost the neoliberal, neocons. It is about the managed decline of the country.
Steve Bannon
I mean, they don't like America. They don't think that we deserve to be America. They don't see a value in America. They don't. None of them seem to be looking for.
Glenn Beck
They believe we're colonists here, we've taken this land illegally.
Steve Bannon
And yet those people, I mean, Steve, help me out on this one. You remember Occupy Wall Street?
Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah.
Steve Bannon
Okay.
Glenn Beck
They were against Tim Pool and all those guys came out, right?
Steve Bannon
They were all against Occupy. They were all against Wall Street. They were all. We got to take down Wall Street. Then all of a sudden, Occupy Wall street just disappeared. Yeah. And they start popping up at the World Economic Forum. Right. Okay. And then all of those people that they were camping out in front of all of those big, big corporations, the big banks, all of the big banks and big corporations start writing them quiet checks to fund it. Honestly, the NGOs and all that. It is clearly, leave us alone. Just leave us alone. We hear you. We hear you. And so it only makes sense because everybody said to me for the longest time, glenn, there's too much money at stake. The people with money are never going to let this thing collapse. They're right. They're going to change it. They'll have their place at the table.
Glenn Beck
They'll adapt. They'll adapt.
Steve Bannon
They'll adapt. And they're spinning this thing down Darwinian into something else. Okay? And we all know it. I mean, you just watched the first speech that Joe Biden gave as his first. His first speech he gave in front of Congress when everybody was still wearing masks and they were, like, sitting six.
Glenn Beck
Feet apart a couple weeks after. So it's not called State of the Joint. Joint address. Right.
Steve Bannon
And in that, he said things that I've not heard anybody else talk about. He looked instead of at the camera, he looked at the people in the. In the House and the Senate and said, it's because of you people that we're here. It's because of your resilience that we're able to move forward. He saw the world as. As Woodrow Wilson did, as people that are in control or managing everything and screw the little people. And somehow or another, Donald Trump is the. I don't know the oligarch really well.
Glenn Beck
It's also telling that they gave a lot of lip service in that first hundred days to actually taxing the billionaires, but it never made it. Schumer ran the Senate, Pelosi ran the House, and she ran it, you know, like a mob boss. You had Biden, and they never even got out of committee. All talk about the oligarchs. Like today, they talk about the oligarchs, but President Trump is actually thinking of having the upper bracket pay a different tax rate. And we're in federal court this week with both Google and Facebook to break up the oligarchy. And yet these guys are out there in the oligarch tour, but they will never touch the puppet masters that control the Lord. Easy money. That control.
Steve Bannon
It bothers me, and I'd love for you to explain this. It bothers me that Donald Trump is talking about hitting the upper bracket. Because the real oligarchs, they don't pay income tax. They don't pay it. Right. You know, it's all dividends and everything else. They squirrel. They don't. They don't make an income anymore.
Glenn Beck
They don't. They don't want. They have all the tax breaks. So they're. They're most concerned about taxing their assets like they do.
Steve Bannon
Correct. Correct.
Glenn Beck
I just think to me it's just pure mathematics. Unless you're at the growth rates we have, let's say optimistically, it's 3% with this 6.5 or $7 trillion of federal spending in the trillion. 5 or 1.7 discretionary with 1 trillion. That being the Defense Department. If you're going to give additional tax cuts on no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security to the working class and middle class who need tax relief. Extending the upper brackets, which I fought in 17. I said you shouldn't tax them because the argument is they don't pay that much income tax anyway.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Glenn Beck
So you got it. You got to get as much squeeze other juice.
Steve Bannon
Here's what bothers me. Where the hell is Congress? We need. We need the biggest. Hold it.
Glenn Beck
You were the lead of. I want to go back in time in 2010 off a much smaller base. I think the Republicans only had 150 seats about. Yeah, that was the greatest. Remember those days, 62 seats in a House that they. That the donors really didn't. Come on. That was that Tea party congress of 2010. Because you kind of see it today. What happened to those guys. Remember, we had all the fire.
Steve Bannon
They all sold their. They all sold their soul.
Glenn Beck
Tell. Tell people how that works. Because remember, that was something that people got back of. Right. Breitbart gotten back of it. Glenn Beck was in back of fact, Fox. Fox was kind of caught by surprise because they're Bush guys.
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck
Right. All of a sudden, you know, they would send some guys to tea party things. All sudden when that, when it's 60 and. And Sarah Palin was at the top of her game.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
The whole thing clicked.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
We could have made changes right then if you had leadership.
Steve Bannon
But you can't go in. Everybody is. They either are convinced that they have to make compromises to be able to get in on the right committee. And if I do this, then I'll do that. Once you do this, you're done. And then I know a lot of them that were there that were good people and I'VE always said, you got to guard your soul, man. Because this whole system, and I know this, you have to know this to being around Hollywood and everything else. They will, if you're effective, if you're good, they will offer you anything to stay. Okay? Anything. Drugs, women, whatever you want. Whatever you want, whatever your wildest dream is. Once you say yes to that, you're done. And you convince yourself, you know, a Republican or any servant has gone wrong when they say, you know, but if I'm not here, who's going to do it? Right? You know what I mean? I have. I'm just one person.
Glenn Beck
I'm just doing some. I'm just doing some compromises so I can stay here and fix the system from within.
Steve Bannon
Right? Why is that?
Glenn Beck
Why does that not work?
Steve Bannon
Because you're compromised. You're compromised. You're part of the system. Once they have you, once you're captured, you're done. And they make it almost impossible. That's why it's so important for people to remain involved. Because if you're not backing those people who are standing them there all by themselves, they're alone and there's no chance of success. The only person I've seen actually do this is Donald Trump because he does not care. He does not.
Glenn Beck
Well, definitely on the comeback and now there's no care at all. The first time wasn't care, but he was much more reach out. He was to try to have.
Steve Bannon
He was shocked. I mean, you know, you've seen the footage of him on the View, like three weeks before he came down the escalator and they were kissing him on the mouth, right? Saying, we just love you. Right? Then all of a sudden, everybody hates he's a Nazi. That had to. That just had to be a punch in the face that he just didn't see.
Glenn Beck
Let's go back. Of the crisis we have. And it's all one thing. If you had to triage it for a way out of here, the cultural, the spiritual, the financial and economic, the geopolitical, all of it, how would you rank order how you go about trying to find a solution given the fact that you were the first warning shot, true warning shot. 14 years ago. That in fact you came out with a book with Schweitzer called Debt that was a big hit at the time. That if you go back and read that book today, it's like you wrote it last week.
Steve Bannon
You go back to the book, not the American Crisis, Common Sense that I wrote in 2007. And you read that about debt and you're like, oh, my. It could. I could republish it today. It's incredible. Except the numbers are so.
Glenn Beck
But it's like riff from today's headlines.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the same problem over and over again. So if you had to fix it.
Glenn Beck
And you're saying that it shows the resilience of the. I think a lot of that's predicated in the fact that we're still the prime reserve currency.
Steve Bannon
Yes.
Glenn Beck
That they have to our greatest exports, the dollar. Everything's got to be converted. The dollar.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And the bricks are coming together.
Steve Bannon
I mean, look what we're doing right now. This is what people don't understand about Donald Trump. He called it Liberation Day for a reason. Okay. 1945, 46. We liberate Europe and we put this insane system together. Yes. And it's probably the right thing to do at the time. It's not even close to the right thing. Now.
Glenn Beck
How did that get co opted? All the, all the, all the dreams of the guys in the battlefield were the greatest generation. Then you had a group of leaders done it. Why do they set up a system that's a total globalist system that goes back to what Woodrow Wilson wanted?
Steve Bannon
Woodrow Wilson and the Federal Reserve in the FDR guys. Yeah. You get those, you get, you get those. That trio together, it's a disaster. I mean, this has been coming since Woodrow Wilson, but so, but you were.
Glenn Beck
Really the first guy to out him as a progressive. Oh, he was in American history. He'd kind of been forgotten about.
Steve Bannon
Oh, they loved him.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
All the, all the university professors. He was always top five. He was a monster. He was a literal monster.
Glenn Beck
Progressive and a. And a racist at the same time.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
How do you do that?
Steve Bannon
Yeah, I don't know exactly. I don't know. Outside.
Glenn Beck
Not truly progressive.
Steve Bannon
Right. You're right. No. Truly progressive.
Glenn Beck
Yes.
Steve Bannon
You know, as Hillary Clinton said, I fashion myself an early 20th century American progressive. Really? You mean the racist ones?
Glenn Beck
Yes, yes.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. The ones that were into eugenics and taught the Germans how to do it.
Glenn Beck
Oh, that Sanger came out of the whole crowd.
Steve Bannon
Oh, it's bad. It's just bad. But so 1945, 46, after the war, we set this whole thing up. Then the UN comes in, we're doing fine. Bretton Woods. Okay. We're making all the products and rebuilding the world, and they're all buying our products. 1972 comes along, we want war and we want a big state. Can't have it. Nixon takes us off the gold standard.
Glenn Beck
In one weekend. It's never talked about.
Steve Bannon
I know.
Glenn Beck
It's never talked about.
Steve Bannon
I know.
Glenn Beck
People think FDR took us off the gold standard. Actually, Nixon did.
Steve Bannon
No, Nixon.
Glenn Beck
Over a weekend.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. We had French. Who knew France even had battleships. The French battleships were in the harbor of New York saying, give us our gold.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. They had demanded and we said, hey, can't find it.
Steve Bannon
Okay. I don't know where.
Glenn Beck
I don't know.
Steve Bannon
So here he is, he gets us off the gold standard and we make a deal with the world. Because the world is like, okay, we're out, we're out. We can't lose the world's reserve currency. So we make two deals. One, we're going to buy all your products. We're going to be the buyers, we'll be the consumers, you be the manufacturers. And the whole world loves that. So they buy into that.
Glenn Beck
And because at the moment, we're a manufacturing super hedge on Hegemon and we have a pristine balance sheet.
Steve Bannon
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Almost virtually no debt.
Steve Bannon
No.
Glenn Beck
A little bit, but almost no debt.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And a pretty highly. Although blue collar, A pretty highly skilled and educated workforce. Because at that time Catholic education and still public education had not collapsed.
Steve Bannon
I'd have my kids live in Detroit back then, right now, 1962. I'll take that. Right. So you have him then saying, we'll become the buyer. And Saudi Arabia back us up, will become the petrodollar. So everybody will be forced.
Glenn Beck
Everything's converted into this, everything's converted into that.
Steve Bannon
So we become the buyer. Well, that's the dumbest thing. That's the dumbest thing ever. We start teaching our children.
Glenn Beck
I want to go back. Because that crisis of the currency and the crisis was driven by this time the greatest generation was now coming into power.
Steve Bannon
Yes.
Glenn Beck
It's driven by. Because Johnson, Nixon and Kennedy all served in the war as junior officers. They weren't the leaders. So they decided to do two things. Vietnam, which talks about bigger issues of what they thought about military power, and the Great Society, which we thought we had. No, we thought we had infinite capacity to do both.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. We were lied to. I mean, we've been lied to my whole life. You can have both. You can have it all. You can't. You can't. That was the time where you had the, the big, big military industrial complex. People saying, we've got to have the war machine. And on the other side, the big liberals saying, no, we've got to take care of everyone. And what did Nixon do? We can have both. Let's have Both. We shouldn't have either of, of those things. Okay.
Glenn Beck
Because he came in, he had an opportunity to. He tried to stop the Vietnam War, but particularly if he was a true conservative. Yes, right. He could. And Dixon did a lot of good things. But one thing, he made a pact with the devil right of the box and said, I'm not going to change anything. Because he was kind of a liberal in domestic politics. Yeah, he was.
Steve Bannon
We always.
Glenn Beck
He got Daniel Patrick Moynihan and he, Patrick Moynihan would be a radical right wing Democrat today.
Steve Bannon
I wouldn't be a Nazi.
Glenn Beck
Right. He'd be like Bobby Kennedy and these guys or even Trump. Trump was a Democrat back then.
Steve Bannon
I know.
Glenn Beck
So that inability to make that decision is what drove the financial crisis that got us off the gold standard.
Steve Bannon
And then when Reagan gets in, he says it, he doesn't do anything about it, but he says, I just want you to know, over the horizon, maybe around the turn of the century, it's going to get so ugly there won't be any good options.
Glenn Beck
And he was a gold standard guy. I mean we had the raging inflation. He had to have volckers and wring it out of it. But as far as deficits go and actually all of his belief in gold as going back to a gold backed currency, all out the window.
Steve Bannon
All out the window.
Glenn Beck
You think that was because of the Bush influence in the.
Steve Bannon
Oh yeah.
Glenn Beck
Jim Baker in that.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Glenn Beck
And Nancy Reagan. And Nancy Reagan with all the models.
Steve Bannon
I mean the.
Glenn Beck
He took down the evil empire, but the whole, the rest of it, he had one.
Steve Bannon
I think he had r1.2 accomplishments. Taking down the evil empire, which by itself.
Glenn Beck
Pretty big tests. Correct?
Steve Bannon
Enormous, Enormous.
Glenn Beck
Enormous.
Steve Bannon
And to restore our faith in ourselves. That's what Trump is trying to do.
Glenn Beck
But go back to Reagan talked about, tell people. Because a lot of our viewers were. Their parents weren't dating back in those days. Talk to us about the crisis of confidence in America in the late 70s.
Steve Bannon
Exactly the same place. Not as, not as bad, not as backed up to the hilt as we are now. Our back is against the wall. It felt like it at the time. We had stagflation. No jobs were being created. Nobody was getting richer. The inflation was going up. It was horrible inflation.
Glenn Beck
Like the interest rates were. 18.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, right, 18. 18. Thank you, federal Reserve. And then, and then on top of that, you had the same kind of things happening in our cities where they were out of control. It just. They were war zones in our cities. It's the Same thing, except where the.
Glenn Beck
Place, the place we're here now, Capitol Hill, right in Brexit. Supreme Court was not. I mean, this was a very, It's a dangerous neighborhood now. It was almost an unlivable dangerous neighborhood back then. Bad, bad, the cities here.
Steve Bannon
And so he corrected that. And how did he do that?
Glenn Beck
You're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're a student of leadership. How did he, how did he instore confidence in the American people in themselves?
Steve Bannon
He did the same thing that Donald Trump does. I think they're cut from the same cloth. I've never seen, have you ever seen a guy who's surrounded by more gold stuff than Donald Trump and yet he is a McDonald's man. He's a guy who is absolutely relatable. Yes. Somehow or another, he never lived it. Ronald Reagan lived the common man. Trump never lived the common man. But he understands it and it's who he is to his core. Same thing with Ronald Reagan. He could speak to the average person, didn't matter what party they were from, and he could appeal to their best instincts. And at the time, you know, he would make fun of the Democrats all the time. He would tell his, start his speeches with a joke about the Democrats every time. But it was good nature. And everybody's like, ah, you know, boy, have times changed? Have times changed?
Glenn Beck
No, I think, I mean, I'm talking about even the Obama era. If you go back and look at the issues we were all over back then, it's like kindergarten compared to, I mean, it's, it's so vicious and so the stakes are so high. But back to Reagan, you could, you could, you could, you could. He could tease Tip O'Neill and they said they'd go have a drink afterwards. Yes, because that Democratic Party, the Cloud Piven and all that, the radical nature of the Democrats had not kicked in. When did that start seeping into the politics?
Steve Bannon
Clinton, the voter. Motor, motor voter law. That's Cloud and Piven. I mean, they were there. Or at least she was there.
Glenn Beck
Tell her on Some may not know. Who. Who are Cloud and Pimpin?
Steve Bannon
Why.
Glenn Beck
Why is the Frankfurt School and Clarence and Piven so important for where the.
Steve Bannon
United States Communists are chased out of Germany? Because believe it or not, fascism and communism are enemies as a, as a free market and, you know, somebody who loves freedom seem pretty close to the same. But the Communists are up against. The Germans are the Nazis. The Nazis are out. So they all leave the institutions over in Germany to get away all the communists do they come over here to Southern California.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, they go to Southern California. Most beautiful places like the fr. It's like the Italian Riviera. The most beautiful weather, nicest people in Hollywood.
Steve Bannon
And Stanford University.
Glenn Beck
And they're full of hate.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
They hate everything. About how I could understand if you got stuck in some bad part of the country. But I don't know where that would be. But they come. It's like that. It's like the Muslim guy that went to Colorado, remember him? And the guy, the guy that wrote the. The radical chic that came over here for college, remember, ended up in Centennial, Colorado and said, these are the worst people. You know, he went to a square dance. He said, this is awful. He just. He had a hatred. They go to the best place and.
Steve Bannon
Square dances aren't really something we should.
Glenn Beck
Exactly. So they go to Southern California and they literally hate America.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And everything comes out of that. They have to take down America.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. And they're joining the people that were there. I mean, Stanford University, that's where the human betterment society is for all. All those buildings at Stanford, they're all named after eugenics. Eugenists and all the eugenics thing that went over to Germany. It's all Southern California. Okay. And so that happens. And then these people are raised Johns Hopkins. Around the turn of the century. They become the first progressive school with genetic. I mean, all of this really bad stew is happening and they decide they're going to get in and start really teaching a new idea of America and clarity Piven come out of this. Back in the 60s and 70s. They're professors at. I think it's Cooney, isn't it? I can't remember which universe.
Glenn Beck
City. Old City College.
Steve Bannon
Okay.
Glenn Beck
City University, New York.
Steve Bannon
So. So they. They're teaching them a hotbed of radicalism.
Glenn Beck
For a long time.
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah. And they're teaching. Let's sign everybody up for all of the benefits that the city is offering because there's no way they could pay for all those benefits.
Glenn Beck
Yes.
Steve Bannon
So let's get everybody on the dole and crash. And crash. And it. And they did it. It worked. It worked.
Glenn Beck
New York went into bankruptcy.
Steve Bannon
Bankruptcy.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
Okay. That's what's happening now. That's the same thing.
Glenn Beck
Make it so the system can't function.
Steve Bannon
Correct.
Glenn Beck
And then in the collapse and the chaos, they would take charge.
Steve Bannon
Look at Donald Trump has removed. I don't even know. 350,000 people so far that have come in here illegally. Yes. A nothing number in compared to. Let's say Bill Clinton.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Who of the 10 million that Biden allowed in, in a very organized invasion of the country.
Steve Bannon
You're being so kind to Biden by seeing only 10 million.
Glenn Beck
You think there's more than 10?
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Okay.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
I'm not talking about anybody came before, you know that there's 20, 30, maybe 40 according to Ann Coulter. But do you think on Biden's watch is more than 10?
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Do you think that those all have to be mass deported?
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Okay, so do I. Now, given the fact we've had a firestorm just on MS.13 and you've got the Democrats, they are done. It's pretty blatant, right?
Steve Bannon
I mean, you have to be a Democrat now and just go, wait a minute, what am I standing with? I'm, I'm standing with people who are now standing up for the Palestinians who are okay. All those people on the streets, they're all okay with what happened on October 7th.
Glenn Beck
Okay, so they wanted more.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah. So I got to be okay with that. And I have to be okay with.
Glenn Beck
Because they're colonizers, the Israelis.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah. I have to be okay with the new colonizers coming in here. 10 million people, Ms. 13, raping, killing our children. You know, even at best, even at best, they're good hearted people that are here, just want a better life. I understand that. I do understand that. If I were in Mexico, you and.
Glenn Beck
I'd be the first one if Biden's going to invite you, I'm going El Norte, 100%.
Steve Bannon
Let's say that what that's doing to our children in our school system and.
Glenn Beck
Hispanic and black, right. The families, working classes are killing it. And Wall street did this on purpose to lower the wages among unskilled workers. So again, they're the problem, not the investment bank. The problem we had is wage inflation among the low skilled workers. That was the problem.
Steve Bannon
We, we are, we're just being played from every single angle. And so now Donald Trump comes in and says it's Liberation Day. It's Liberation Day.
Glenn Beck
And what does that mean to you?
Steve Bannon
To me. And I don't know. I'm going to see him on Wednesday. I got to ask him. I think he, I think he named it that because I want everyone to understand, all those who are paying attention. Europe. Yeah. Liberation Day. Liberation from the last Liberation Day. We came in, we set all this stuff up. It's no longer good for us, it no longer works for us.
Glenn Beck
You're saying that this truly, in Trump's view, is the beginning of the end of World War II. Everything we did at the end of World War II.
Steve Bannon
Look at what he's saying about NATO.
Glenn Beck
Giving China to the Chinese Communist Party, right? Abandoning the Russian people and letting the Bolsheviks run it, which eventually the KGB and embracing basically guys who didn't fight with us. None of the NATO nations really. All the elites there except for the British, right? If you look at the French, the Italians, the Germans, the Swedes, the quislings in Norway, right? The Irish, my Irish, they were terrible, right?
Steve Bannon
But look what they're doing now. Look at what all those countries are doing. They're importing. They're going to be Islamic nations with a nuclear weapon.
Glenn Beck
Why? Why does Europe have. Why the European elites on the culture, which is the foundational element of the. We have the Judeo Christian west, right? That was the first part. To Christianize outside the desert. Why do they have a death. Why do they have a death wish? Why are they. Why are the elites allowing it to happen?
Steve Bannon
Because I think they buy into Klaus Schwab and all of that evil bullcrap about we're going to create a new world and we will, we will all run it from the top. That's what they're thinking. They think that they look progressives always do this. They look at themselves as ranchers and we're sheep, okay? The sheep don't need to know anything. Just go stand over there and they'll kill us one by one and eat us one by one. But they're sheep. They'll never know.
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Steve Bannon
The rancher has all the power in.
Glenn Beck
The middle of this mix the geopolitics, the cultural, the financial. We now add the technological. We're from the industrial. You know, we're basically flat until the industrial revolution. Then the productivity of mankind goes through the roof and technology is frees people over time from. From labor. Now you're in a situation with the convergence of advanced chip design and quantum computing and artificial intelligence, AGI, regenerative robotics, the singularity on that point, which used to be science fiction and fantasy. And when the book was written 20 years ago, it said was going to take place in the late 21st century. CBS has 60 Minutes last night and the guy saying.
Steve Bannon
And out outside five or ten years, 1995. I'm talking about the singularity, and I'm saying It's coming in 2030. And no one was saying that. No one was saying.
Glenn Beck
So the singularity that. That convergence point on this side is Homo sapien, on the other side is Homo sapien plus. Would you concur that that is the most important inflection point in mankind's history? Absence, the birth of birth and death.
Steve Bannon
Of course. Let me go. So there's two ways to look at the singularity, if you will. Singularity to some means mana machine, merging the Borg. Okay. Most important thing, you lose your humanity. Okay. That's when I go all Amish and, you know, I talked to, you know, Ray Kurzweil is. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, he's.
Glenn Beck
He wrote the book and he was kind of an outside fringe guy. Now he's head of development at Google.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, yeah.
Glenn Beck
Pretty powerful position.
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah. So he's a terrify. I've had several interviews with him. He is absolutely terrifying. But he doesn't know it.
Glenn Beck
No, just what he says.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. He just doesn't know it.
Glenn Beck
No, to him, it's like when they.
Steve Bannon
It's great. It's great because there is no. There's no. There's no soul to him. There's nothing unique about the body and the soul. It's just a collection of synapses.
Glenn Beck
Are they mocking the Holy Spirit? Are they mocking God when they do this?
Steve Bannon
This is so.
Glenn Beck
No doubt to your. No doubt.
Steve Bannon
So evil we are, if we're lucky, Tower of Babel will happen to us. I mean, I've thought about this for years. Tower of Babel, people don't understand what happened. There was. And I talked to a Jewish rabbi and asked him about the Tower of Babel, because Jewish rabbis, they have the oral tradition. They have a written tradition, then they have the oral tradition. The oral tradition is tremendous. And so I Said, help me out on something. Nebuchadnezzar comes out in front of the people and he gets everybody excited and he says, let's build bricks. And we're going to build a tower to the sky.
Glenn Beck
To heaven?
Steve Bannon
Yeah, to heaven. And what bothered me was, I've never heard a politician start with the menial stuff. Okay, why did he say, first let's build bricks and then get to the exciting stuff? Is it mean nothing? He said, good, good observation. Whenever you read about bricks and stones in the scriptures, bricks are slaves, stones are individuals. So he's talking not to the people, he's talking to the elites. Let's make bricks, let's make slaves. That everybody is interchangeable. That doesn't matter. You live your die, it doesn't matter. Because what we're going to do is we're going to do something to build a tower. We'll become godlike. Okay? The. In the oral tradition, the good God, the merciful God comes down and destroys. And he says, if they can do this, they can do anything. So he changes their language and scrambles their language. The only thing that will save us after the singularity is the scrambling of our ones.
Glenn Beck
And we're back up in 1995. I think Kuroswell is in the music business at the time. And you're a shock jock, right?
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
How did you. And being a shock jock, how did you come up with understanding, understanding even this concept? Because technocracy, this is one of the powers of Brzezinski, the new biography, they don't really get into. But unlike Kissinger, he looked downrange at this thing called the technocracy, which was starting to come up, right. What we call the oligarchs today, the tech oligarchs. Why did you see that in 95?
Steve Bannon
I just saw the way technology was going. And Ray wasn't just in the music industry. I mean, he. He made the Kurzweil piano.
Glenn Beck
Yes.
Steve Bannon
I. Synthesizer. I think he made it for Stevie Wonder. Yes, but he was in technology and he was the guy.
Glenn Beck
Well, he was bringing technology to music.
Steve Bannon
Yes, but he was also a futurist at the time.
Glenn Beck
Yes.
Steve Bannon
And so I read a lot of his stuff. Oh, you were.
Glenn Beck
You were reading that stuff back then?
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah, yeah. And when the age.
Glenn Beck
It scared you back in 95.
Steve Bannon
Have you read the Age of Spiritual machines from the 90s?
Glenn Beck
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I barely. Well, I tell you, if you read today, if you read Kaczynski or the, the. The Unabomber.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
I mean, his manifesto can be pretty scary about how he tried to warn about at least certain aspects of the.
Steve Bannon
Technocracy in society the wrong way on that one.
Glenn Beck
Well, I think his execution was a little different, right?
Steve Bannon
Yeah, his execution was a little different, but.
Glenn Beck
So in 95, what did you say?
Steve Bannon
We're going to enter a world. I remember I said it to my producer, still my producer. I said, soon we are going to enter a world where your television will be in your pocket. You will have download times where you're not watching Thursday night Must See TV on NBC. You'll be either it'll either download a certain day at midnight and you watch it whenever you want, or it will. Or they'll download the whole season and you can watch it. And. And I said, but what comes after that is this, this growth of. Of an intellectual being. AI, AGI and asi. And when, when we get to that, you're starting to ask questions about life itself that nobody's asking yet. And I've been trying to beat in the drum. There are questions we have to answer before we get here, and we're not going to.
Glenn Beck
Well, first off, your point about once we hit the singularity, it's almost too late to become Mom. If we don't do it. If we don't do it now.
Steve Bannon
I mean, like right now, the singularity is two things. It's one merging of man and machine, but the other singularity, if you look at a black hole, the singularity is the point of no return. So in other words, let's say you're in a rowboat and you're just going down the stream and you're having fun and your girls with an umbrella, strangely dressed in Victorian clothing, and you're rowing and you start to hear a rumble and you start to row, and now you're sucked into it and you realize that's a waterfall and there's nothing you can do. You can't get out of it. The point to where you.
Glenn Beck
And you can't turn. You're at a point you can't turn.
Steve Bannon
Around, where you can't turn around.
Glenn Beck
The current is too strong.
Steve Bannon
Too strong. That's what Elon Musk meant about the singularity when he said we are at the point of the singularity. Okay, meaning of no return now. Yes. Meaning we are now at that point of no return. We're going to be sucked into this thing. So the spiritual questions and spiritual ramifications of this are enormous. The intellectual ramifications. I know you've read Yuval Noah Harari. Yes, he's a scary dude. Scary. And he, he sees all this. He knows what's coming.
Glenn Beck
And he says there's Homo sapiens and Homo deus.
Steve Bannon
Yes. The, the man God. Second one's terrifying.
Glenn Beck
Terrifying.
Steve Bannon
And he talks about. And you'll notice everybody who's in the wef loves him. In fact, he's rumored to be the guy who's going to replace Claus Schwab. Right, right.
Glenn Beck
If he doesn't as the head of it, he's the intellectual.
Steve Bannon
He's the intellectual power. And he talks about the millions of people that are going to be useless people. I've heard useless eaters before. And what are we going to do? Well, we're going to either hook them to technology or to drugs. Okay. If you don't, if you're not aware of all of this, this stuff is going to come at you so fast, it's going to be like social media, except there is no return.
Glenn Beck
Okay, so this is the point of what I want to get to today. In 2010-2008-2009-2010, you went from somebody that was kind of on the margins, you went to a great job seeing, went to Fox and then became a superstar. Okay. And change television to make late afternoon a, you know, appointment TV people and MSNBC and others drafted off that end of five, you warned specifically about Clarit Piven, about what was happening inside. If you look at all the different crises you had, you go back to your show back then and the most important, the hardest one to get to a General audience at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the debt. First time quantitative easing. You were actually teaching people how the New York's Fed trading desk works. Which guys? And that's at first, the guys at Wall street told me and I watched it. This is unbelievable. And guess what? 17 years later, we're in worse shape. After all those warnings. I'm not blaming. I said so many people have done it. Just like you're drawn inexorably to your doom. We're now almost in a point of no return on the balance sheet of the United States.
Steve Bannon
That's why Donald Trump is saying right now, stay cool, stay cool. It's going to get bumpy. And I wish I could figure out a way for him to say it or for all of us to say it so, you know, he didn't have to. Because I remember I was called into the Oval Office by George Bush one time because I was complaining about the Gulf War and it was going horribly. And I'm like, what the hell Are we doing? And I get a call. I get off the air at Fox or at cnn, and. And I get a call and it's like, pick it up, Mr. Beck. It's the White House. The President would like to see you in the Oval tomorrow. And I'm like, oh, crap. I go there, and he sits me down. I'm in the Zelinsky chair. Okay. And he sits me down and he says, you know, a lot of people think they know what it's like to be President, United States. They have no effing idea what it's like. And I thought, this is going to be the longest hour of my life. And. And he explained that there are things I cannot say because the entire world is watching. And I'll never forget because I said to him, I said, Mr. President, that's the President I'd like to see more of.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Steve Bannon
Not this whale ad, you know. Right. And he said, I can't. I get so twisted up in my head because I can't say this. I can't say this. I know this person is watching. I can't shift my eyes on this. Donald Trump is trying to be as clear as he can be.
Glenn Beck
He's disintermediate. He has him right into the Oval for the press briefs. I said, think about it. Bush had run it that way, where every day you're asking questions. He's disintermediate. The mainstream media.
Steve Bannon
Yes.
Glenn Beck
So you have a constant, almost real time.
Steve Bannon
So smart.
Glenn Beck
Because I only get 10 minutes left. Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. So in giving the warning.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And laying out what. What was going to happen 15 years later, we're now in extremis. I mean, President Trump is going to have to. These are hard decisions we're going to have to make in the alternatives of narrative. Narrative, narrative. At the same time, a group of us, you include, are starting to warn about the Singularity, which. About change of. Of man and about change of the world, is to the tenth power of these almost insurmountable financial sins we're talking about. So, I mean, it changes everything.
Steve Bannon
And it's.
Glenn Beck
The worst people in the world, in the universe, are running this.
Steve Bannon
I know. So.
Glenn Beck
And on that, once you hit that singularity, you can go Amish. But if we're going to become the Luddites, have to stand up now and say, you agree? We have to stay up now and say, hey, we can't do. We got to have. We have to have a sit down on this thing because of the four guys running artificial intelligence you have to have a Korean nail salon here in Washington, D.C. you have more regulation than you have no regulation whatsoever. And now the pitch is the Chinese Communist Party, because of Deepthink, may be so ahead of us that the oligarchs said, oops, we need a bailout. We need at least $500 billion. We need a Marshall Plan. Maybe you give us the national labs, no problem there to turn over to these guys Sandia and Lawrence Livermore. And they don't need any regulation because the Chinese Communist Party is going to rule it. So we're in the worst position of the world because we stand up to them. They say, hey, you guys are turning over world control. Schmidt just came out this morning and said that if you don't give us unfettered money, access to the national labs, everything, we're going to fall in back of the Chinese Communist Party, and then it's over. We're in as a culture and society in a world we have jammed ourselves into the worst. The hardest problems used to face, which are almost insurmountable, now look like nothing.
Steve Bannon
Compared to what we've done in technology on every front. I mean, it's. It's. I mean, I know you believe in God. I believe in God. It's. It's like, Jesus, when are you coming? When you come in. Because I don't know if we can. I don't know how this all plays out. I don't know how this all plays out. I just know that if we are going to reset, we cannot return factory jobs. We need to build nuclear power plants. We need. We need power. We need energy. We need our own rare earth minerals. We need to be mining our own places. We need to be in processing. Yeah, we need to be. We need to. Have to be able to dig it up, process it, and use it here. We need to be on the cutting edge of AI.
Glenn Beck
How are you on the cutting edge of AI without some sort of regulations or without it spinning out of control?
Steve Bannon
So I talked.
Glenn Beck
To make me feel better, this was.
Steve Bannon
Well, I can't.
Glenn Beck
Is the cavalry going to arrive to save us, or do we have to save ourselves? Is anybody coming to save us? No, not so. We have to save ourselves.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And with Trump, you got the best shot, at least on a hostage.
Steve Bannon
This is why I keep. I keep saying to the audience, because my audience, they're like, glenn, you're a free market guy. And I'm like, I know, I know. Do you have a better idea? Because I don't have a better idea. We have one Guy, you blow this chance, I don't know, we get another bite at the apple. We have one guy, I don't know. He's earned his place. For us to go, okay, is didn't come as a surprise if you walked in the voting booth and went, I think he's joking about tariffs. You're a moron. You're a moron. Okay, you have.
Glenn Beck
That should not be. That should not be a surprise to people, right?
Steve Bannon
No. Out of everything. Out of everything. And we have one shot. And if we blow it, there's no going back.
Glenn Beck
He has shut down the border, which they told us, you know, Langford came with the bill. It's going to take us a decade. All these bills in 60 days. We now have essentially secured it. We got to do much more. We haven't deported many people. But he's proven that. Of every. When you talk to him on Wednesday of everything that's going on, what is your recommendation to the president as he triages these problems?
Steve Bannon
He's not, you know him. He's. I'm sure he's like this with you. I'll see him once, I don't know, every couple of months.
Glenn Beck
Oh, no, he'll take your. He listens. He wants to have feedback. He's a guy. People don't understand this in meetings. He's not talking all the time. He's there. Bill Maher said the other day, when he goes to Bill Maher, that's actually truthful. He's sitting there listening to people.
Steve Bannon
He called me and we talked about tariffs. And I'm like, we're not going to come together on terror. This is before this term. I'm like, we're not going to come together on tariffs. And he said, no, tell me why. And we had a good 30 minute conversation on tariffs, where he listened, he asked logical next questions, and then he got to it. And I had even more respect for him at the end because not only did he listen, and I'm a nobody. Why should you listen to me on this? But he listens. And then at the end he said, you know, Glenn, you make some good points, but I'm going to do it anyway. I just love tariffs.
Glenn Beck
The T word, the T word.
Steve Bannon
And I hung up the phone and I went, no politician would ever do that. Politicians say, you made some really good point. I'm going to think about that. And then they do it.
Glenn Beck
Exactly.
Steve Bannon
This guy had the balls to tell me to my face, yeah, I just love him. I'm gonna do it anyway.
Glenn Beck
With the convergence of the singularity on top of all the institutional structural problems we have that Trump and you see us working through, but the deep states fighting us every day. The Supreme Court bailed on us the other night.
Steve Bannon
You know, I wonder, maybe you have an answer for this. I wonder why he hasn't taken Congress to the woodshed. The only chance we have is cut our regulation dramatically. Pass the REINS Act. Okay. Pass the REINS Act, Pass that. Cut the regulation at least by half. Then give.
Glenn Beck
Unleash the animal spirits. Yes.
Steve Bannon
Give me 15. 15, 15 in taxes. 15% capital gains. 15% for the average person. Make it 17. 17, 17. I don't care. But that incentivizes the entrepreneur. I can start my own business. 70% of all jobs begin with small businesses.
Glenn Beck
Yes.
Steve Bannon
We've got to incentivize those people. And that's Congress. And they're sitting around like they did after they won the Tea Party. They're going to be responsible for losing this whole thing. They've got to move.
Glenn Beck
What do you say about the investigations, the deep state, Everything we know about Brennan? Okay, talk about that. We only got a couple minutes. Our audience, the one thing they get furious about. And Pam and Cash are as good as you get. What's the problem?
Steve Bannon
Your audience the same way.
Glenn Beck
They're steam.
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah. You know, you could do an awful lot of stuff, but until you start putting bad guys in jail. I don't believe you. I don't believe you.
Glenn Beck
And you know, a sense of urgency. It's not like we have this forever. No, I mean, if Hakeem Jeffries wins in 18 months, which is not outside the possibility, they're going to impeach Trump.
Steve Bannon
Done. So where. Where is the doj? Okay. I know Cash quite well. I believe Cash. I don't know Pam, okay, that I'm not throwing dispersions on her, but something's not right. Why aren't you unleashing. Is it the deep state has them by the throat? What is it? But it's got to be solved. You. You have no.
Glenn Beck
Is that a message that you think you're. I don't want to get into your private conversation with the president, but is that something you would highlight that.
Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck
You think there needs to be a sense of urgency about this?
Steve Bannon
What does any of it mean?
Glenn Beck
Why is Congress taking so much time off right now? Traditional two weeks vacations or two weeks back they consider where they don't have town halls.
Steve Bannon
I don't know.
Glenn Beck
I mean, it is because collectively they're good people. But as A body.
Steve Bannon
They're horrible. They're absolutely horrible. I. Honestly, Steve, I can't tell you. I'm. I am at a loss for doj, and I'm at a loss for Congress, and I'm at a loss on Donald Trump. Man. Why aren't you using the bully pulpit to go after your own? Here, eat them. Eat them. Tell them, oh, we're watching you. The whole country is watching you. Get to work. Do these things now. Have you seen the clock on the wall and the numbers spinning?
Glenn Beck
We're burning daylight.
Steve Bannon
Burning daylight.
Glenn Beck
Okay, we got two minutes. How does everybody in our audience get to your content?
Steve Bannon
Blaze, tv.com or Glenn Beck dot com?
Glenn Beck
How about the books, the writings? All that. And Blaze still putting up great articles. We have guys on here from Blaze all the time.
Steve Bannon
You guys are doing.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
Unbelievable.
Glenn Beck
Which is. This is pure nonsense. You guys are real business. Got a studio, you got people. You're like, we're gonzo.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
But we're doing what we're doing. We gotta do this more often.
Steve Bannon
I love that.
Glenn Beck
No, because I, you know.
Steve Bannon
Can I say something I said to your daughter when we met in Phoenix, because you and I. Have we really spent any time together?
Glenn Beck
No.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And a little bit back in 2000 with Peter. I showed up to a dinner one night because I was so amazed that you were talking about quantitative easing. I said, schweitzer, I gotta go see this guy.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And you were into it at the time. It wasn't phony. I mean, you had it down and you were explaining to people, and they ate it up. One of the reasons we do so much capital markets on here. I tell people all the time, I say, Glenn Beck showed you. If you open up to people about.
Steve Bannon
That, all you have to do is. All you have to do is explain it to them.
Glenn Beck
We're down to a minute.
Steve Bannon
Okay. I just want to say to you. Yeah. Out of all the wrongs that have been done, out of all the things. I don't care if you were the Antichrist, what this country did to you.
Glenn Beck
No, no, no, it's not. It's. It's.
Steve Bannon
I know.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
It was wrong, but it was Pelosi.
Glenn Beck
These people, I tell everybody, but we lose the minute.
Steve Bannon
Where did those people when they.
Glenn Beck
When they steal the election in 2020? If they steal it, you're going to prison. I'm going back to prison, and Donald Trump's going to prison.
Steve Bannon
I know.
Glenn Beck
These people are neo Marxist and they play smash mouth, and we are not doing it. Thank you so much.
Steve Bannon
Thank You. God bless you.
Glenn Beck
Glenn back here for an entire hour. How's that you that was on fire. Good luck on Wednesday here for a couple of days. You got to come back to D.C. you come back once a quarter or once every six months.
Steve Bannon
Little as I possibly can.
Glenn Beck
It's kind of a depressing place even with President Trump in charge. Okay, everybody, thank you so much. We'll see you back here at 5pm will be Charlie Kirk follows us Posic after that. You got Steve Gruber, Eric Bowling. I'll do the handoff from bowling at 5:00. See you back. 5:00.
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Episode Summary: Bannon`s War Room – Episode 4431: Glenn Beck LIVE In The WarRoom
Release Date: April 22, 2025
In Episode 4431 of Bannon`s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon engages in a dynamic and in-depth conversation with renowned conservative commentator Glenn Beck. The episode delves into a multitude of pressing issues ranging from economic crises and political dynamics to the looming threats of technological singularity. Below is a comprehensive summary of the key discussions, insights, and conclusions drawn during their hour-long dialogue.
The episode kicks off with a fervent exchange where Glenn Beck expresses frustration with mainstream media and political figures, stating, "This is the primal scream of a dying regime." (00:03). Steve Bannon acknowledges Beck’s efforts to counteract prevailing narratives but emphasizes the inevitability of certain political outcomes (00:20). The conversation sets a confrontational tone, highlighting the authors' dissatisfaction with the current state of American politics.
Beck reminisces about his early days at Fox News, detailing his foray into late-afternoon programming. He explains how his segment, initially met with skepticism, gained substantial traction by addressing critical financial issues like quantitative easing and the bailout aftermath. Notably, Beck remarks, "The audience couldn't get enough of it." (02:40), emphasizing his role in reshaping prime-time discourse.
Diving deeper into economic matters, Beck and Bannon discuss the substantial increase in national debt from four to seven trillion dollars since the 2008 bailout (07:12). Beck criticizes the Federal Reserve’s actions, asserting that measures like quantitative easing are unsustainable and detrimental to the economy. Bannon echoes these concerns, highlighting the resilience of the American economy despite ongoing financial turmoil.
The dialogue shifts to the concept of "managed decline," where both hosts argue that elite groups intentionally undermine American institutions across cultural, economic, and geopolitical spheres. Beck references historical events like the Tea Party movement and its manipulation by corporate interests to stifle genuine grassroots efforts. He states, "It's all been done intentionally. I'm convinced it." (09:50), underscoring a belief in orchestrated systemic decay.
A significant portion of the conversation is dedicated to the impending technological singularity. Beck and Bannon express concern over advancements in AI, quantum computing, and robotics, fearing a loss of humanity and increased societal control by technocrats. Beck poses a pivotal question: "Would you concur that that is the most important inflection point in mankind's history?" (40:35), indicating the gravity of unchecked technological growth.
Beck and Bannon explore historical policies and their long-term impacts, referencing figures like Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. They critique the abandonment of the gold standard and lament the compromises made by political leaders that have led to current economic instability. Beck emphasizes the need for policy reversals, advocating for reduced regulations and lower taxes to spur entrepreneurship and economic growth.
The discussion highlights Donald Trump’s leadership style, portraying him as a decisive figure willing to take bold actions despite opposition. Bannon shares a personal anecdote about Trump's straightforward approach to tariffs, illustrating his no-nonsense attitude. Beck praises Trump's ability to connect with the average person and his efforts to dismantle established systems that hinder American prosperity.
In the concluding segments, Beck and Bannon urge listeners to stay informed and actively participate in political discourse. They stress the importance of resisting institutional pressures and maintaining vigilance against systemic manipulation. The conversation wraps up with an invitation for the audience to engage with their content through various platforms, reinforcing their commitment to promoting conservative values and strategies for national restoration.
Glenn Beck ([00:03]): "This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people."
Steve Bannon ([02:25]): "No, you'll do it. I like, I don't think you even believe."
Glenn Beck ([04:15]): "We're never going to inflate the money. Okay. How are they going to get out of it?"
Glenn Beck ([09:00]): "The thing that amazes me is that we're still standing. It's much more resilient than I thought it would be."
Steve Bannon ([15:45]): "Here's what bothers me. Where the hell is Congress?"
Glenn Beck ([19:17]): "If you go back and read that book today, it's like you wrote it last week."
Steve Bannon ([40:56]): "He's surrounded by more gold stuff than Donald Trump and yet he is a McDonald's man."
Glenn Beck ([54:33]): "He has shut down the border, which they told us, you know, Langford came with the bill."
Episode 4431 of Bannon`s War Room, featuring Glenn Beck, offers a critical examination of America's current economic, political, and technological challenges. Through passionate dialogue, Beck and Bannon articulate their concerns over institutional decay, unsustainable financial practices, and the existential threats posed by unchecked technological advancements. They advocate for decisive leadership, reduced governmental regulations, and heightened public awareness as essential measures to navigate and rectify the nation's trajectory. This episode serves as a clarion call for listeners to engage actively in shaping America's future amidst mounting crises.