Best of the Program | 3/10/25

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program – Best of the Program | March 10, 2025

Release Date: March 10, 2025

Hosted by: Blaze Podcast Network
Description: Storytelling, insight, and compelling perspectives on American culture and politics. Glenn Beck's quick wit, candid opinions, and engaging personality make this one of America's most popular radio programs.

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1. Opening Segment: Recent Tragedies and Media Commentary

Timeframe: 00:00 – 00:03

Glenn Beck opens the program by addressing the recent tragic news of three females found dead. He remarks, “Looks like someone's going after these girls” (00:05), hinting at potential underlying motives or threats targeting these individuals. Stu Burguiere adds a cautionary note, emphasizing the need for vigilance.

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2. Political Analysis and Commentary

a. Critique of Government Operations and Interests

Timeframe: 10:31 – 14:00

Glenn and Stu delve into the inefficiencies within government departments, specifically targeting the Department of Education and USAID. Glenn points out, “President Trump talked about that pretty extensively. ... there's a big, big problem there” (10:31). Stu expands on this by questioning the efficacy and transparency of government actions, stating, “They keep saying, what's going to happen to our schools?... They are trying to do good, but they're not” (13:36).

b. Analysis of Congressional Figures and Discrimination

Timeframe: 04:06 – 11:17

The discussion shifts to recent statements by Congressman Al Green and Congressman Hank Johnson. Al Green criticizes what he terms "invidious discrimination," sharing personal experiences of segregation and racism (05:31). Stu and Pat Gray explore the meaning of "invidious discrimination," with Stu quipping, “I had it until now. But it is an actual word” (05:40).

Hank Johnson's remarks on public education and its impact on minority communities spark a heated debate. Johnson warns against defunding public education and shifting funds to private for-profit institutions, claiming it would retraumatize African Americans: “It's a recipe to make education unavailable to black people” (07:13). Glenn and Stu challenge Johnson's assertions, questioning the underlying motives and implications of such policies.

c. Trade Negotiations and Tariffs

Timeframe: 25:00 – 38:12

Glenn discusses President Trump's approach to international trade, particularly tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He reassures listeners, stating, “It's not chaos. It is a strategy” (25:00). Drawing parallels to Ronald Reagan’s bold declarations against the Soviet Union, Glenn emphasizes Trump’s negotiation tactics as strategic rather than chaotic. He cites Reagan’s “evil empire” speech as an example of effective leadership that led to significant geopolitical changes (35:00).

Glenn further elaborates on the necessity of reciprocal tariffs, advocating for a fair playing field: “I like reciprocal tariffs. You put a tax on our milk, we'll put a tax on your milk” (35:45). He argues that such measures are essential to counteract corruption and protect American interests, dismissing critics who label these strategies as reckless.

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3. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

a. Leveraging AI for Productivity

Timeframe: 28:00 – 39:25

Glenn transitions to discussing the role of AI in modern workplaces. He shares his personal experience, “I've been using AI to help look for sources on things... It allows me to look at things that would take us forever to look at and to digest” (28:30). He advocates for using AI as a tool to enhance productivity, comparing it to having an expanded research team: “Using AI is like adding 10 people to your job” (29:15).

Glenn encourages listeners to adopt AI responsibly, highlighting its potential to handle grunt work and allow humans to focus on more strategic tasks. He warns against relying solely on AI to replicate jobs, emphasizing the irreplaceable value of human creativity and unique perspectives.

b. Concerns About AI in Social Media and Content Creation

Timeframe: 32:01 – 39:25

The conversation shifts to the infiltration of AI in social media, with Pat Gray expressing skepticism about the authenticity of online interactions: “I feel like half the stuff I'm reading is just AI, a bunch of AI bots talking to each other” (32:45). Stu Burguiere concurs, noting the potential for automation to erode genuine human connections and the integrity of content.

They discuss the implications of AI-generated content on employment, with Stu highlighting the risk of job displacement: “At some point an unscrupulous boss is going to go, why am I paying all these people?” (33:14). However, Glenn remains optimistic, viewing AI as a tool for enhancing human capabilities rather than replacing them. He emphasizes the importance of using AI to add value and remain indispensable in the workforce.

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4. Listener Engagement and Interactive Segment

Timeframe: 34:57 – 39:25

Listeners like Charles share their experiences with AI, discussing both its advantages and limitations. Charles mentions using AI for research and creative endeavors, such as generating charts and assisting with book writing: “I input the parameters, and initially it was fantastic... But it just seems to get overwhelmed” (35:00). Stu elaborates on the current limitations of AI, particularly its inability to maintain coherent long-term narratives necessary for tasks like novel writing: “It can't write a book for you” (37:44).

The segment concludes with a reminder to use AI responsibly, emphasizing its role as an aid rather than a replacement for human ingenuity: “Use it as a tool to say, if I had a staff of 10... make yourself the most valuable employee” (38:15).

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5. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

Timeframe: 39:25 – End

Glenn wraps up the program by reiterating the themes of strategic leadership, government accountability, and the responsible use of technology. He encourages listeners to stay informed, leverage AI for personal and professional growth, and remain vigilant against systemic inefficiencies and discriminatory practices.

Notable Quotes:

• Glenn Beck (05:31): “I know what invidious discrimination looks like.”

• Stu Burguiere (10:11): “Everyone should be aware of this. You know, they keep saying, what's going to happen to our schools?”

• Glenn Beck (28:30): “Using AI is like adding 10 people to your job.”

• Pat Gray (32:45): “I feel like half the stuff I'm reading is just AI, a bunch of AI bots talking to each other.”

• Glenn Beck (35:45): “I like reciprocal tariffs. You put a tax on our milk, we'll put a tax on your milk.”

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Conclusion:

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program offers a thorough exploration of pressing political issues, government inefficiencies, and the burgeoning influence of AI in society. Through candid discussions and insightful analysis, Glenn Beck and his team provide listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing America today. Whether addressing discriminatory practices in Congress or the strategic use of AI in the workplace, the program encourages active engagement and informed decision-making among its audience.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

Over the past several days, three females.

[Stu Burguiere]

Have been found dead.

[Glenn Beck]

Looks like someone's going after these girls.

[Stu Burguiere]

Then they have to know to watch their backs. Streaming March 13th.

[Glenn Beck]

You really want what happened if it's.

[Stu Burguiere]

When it happened to you. Exactly why I need to keep going on this. Starring Emmy award winner Amanda Seyfried. I'm worried about what you're gonna find. So am I. Long Bright River, a limited series streaming March 13th only on Peacock. Hey, it's Monday's podcast. Want to know if you used AI over the weekend? If so, what was your experience? And wait until you hear the people responded that actually used AI for their business and what a change it has made in their business in just a couple of days. Also, talking about the the tariffs and the way Trump negotiates. It's really important for you to understand so you can explain it to your friends. Trump doesn't care who gets credit as long as the negotiations work. Reag was the same guy. It's an evil empire, shook people to its core. But did it work? That's the question we should be asking about Donald Trump in maybe two years. Is this working? Also the latest from Al Green and Hank Johnson with Pat joining to talk to us about it. It's so agonizing. All this and more on today's podcast. All right, let me tell you about Relief Factor. Pain is a battle. Every day. Millions of hard working Americans have to fight that battle just to be to get out of bed. And I can tell you I've been one of them. I fought the battle daily and for the most part I lost. But that's until I found Relief Factor. Actually, I didn't find it. My wife found it. She's smarter than I am and I don't know, she's just less stubborn. She's more open to new ideas. Unlike a lot of products out there, Relief Factor is not about masking your pain. It's about eliminating it at the source, which is almost always inflammation. Relief Factor helped me in the battle against pain and get my life back. And it was a miracle for me. It really honestly was. Doesn't work for Everybody, but about 70% of the people that order it and try it, they go on to order it again and again, month after month. As somebody who has lived through pain, probably not as bad as what's happening in your life. But join me. Will you feel better if it doesn't work? Yes, you're out 20 bucks. But if it does, you get your life back. Try Relief factor. Get their three week quick start for only 1995. That's less than a dollar a day. 1, 800 for relief. That's 1, 800, the number for relief. Relief factor. Visit them now, relieffactor.com you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Well, let's say hello to Mr. Stubergear, executive producer on the program. Hello, Stu.

[Pat Gray]

Hello, Glenn. How are you?

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm great. How are you? Really?

[Pat Gray]

Well, everything's going great and I'm excited about it.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, right. That's the way to do it. And, you know, these things come up and you're like, I would be interested to see how that all works out.

[Pat Gray]

That's exactly how I feel about everything.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, hello, Pack. Ray, who's wearing. Glenn, who's wearing a. Looks like an official ice jacket.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. And it is, of course.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Official ice agent. Yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

Are you really?

[Glenn Beck]

Do you do people unofficially Official.

[Stu Burguiere]

Wow, it's that official that it's unofficial?

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu Burguiere]

Keeping it on the down low.

[Glenn Beck]

Exactly.

[Stu Burguiere]

They're pretending that you're not.

[Glenn Beck]

They like to pretend. They give everybody a little wink.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

He can't bring you in.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. But you're wearing that anyway.

[Glenn Beck]

But I'm wearing it.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

So that must mean I can't.

[Stu Burguiere]

Right. And so do you see a lot of people run when you walk into stores with that?

[Glenn Beck]

Almost everybody. Almost everybody where I live. Almost everybody.

[Stu Burguiere]

Really? Okay. All right. I wanted to bring you in because I, I, I heard a couple of takes, a couple of audio pieces on your show today, and I, I just wanted you to take, take us through Hank Johnson and Al Green. Which one do you want to start with?

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, man, it's so hard to choose.

[Stu Burguiere]

I know. Let's start with Al Green. Yeah, I was going to suggest Al Green. You know, he was the guy who stood up last week with a cane. I really. Did anybody else see that and think, oh, my gosh, it's 1853.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu Burguiere]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu Burguiere]

He's dead with the crane. I'm like, he's going to go up and try to beat Donald Trump to death with a cane. Anyway, here he is claiming that, well, you listen.

[Al Green]

Cut 11 is invidious discrimination in the House of Representatives. I'm a son of the segregated South. The rights that the Constitution recognized for me, my friends and neighbors denied. I had to sit in the back of the bus balcony of the movie, drink from a colored water fountain, and my relatives who committed some crimes were locked up in the bottom of the jail. I know what invidious discrimination looks like. The Klan burned across in my yard. I have. I know what it smells like. I was in filthy waiting rooms, and I've been in places where I didn't want to be. And I know what it sounds like. I've been called all kinds of ugly names, so I know. Invidious discrimination. And when the speaker decided that I would be removed, and then there was this oh, boy. Motion, this resolution to censor me, it was. It became obvious to me that I was not being idiots as others were. And candidly, speaking of that word is invidious discrimination.

[Glenn Beck]

I told you. It is in videos.

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm not sure I've ever heard the word.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. I had it until now. But it is an actual word.

[Stu Burguiere]

Is it? And what does it mean?

[Pat Gray]

Likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.

[Glenn Beck]

Exactly.

[Stu Burguiere]

Okay. All right. Well, it's good we learned something.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, we used it well.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. Used it like five times.

[Pat Gray]

And when we were talking about Al Green, I was worried when the definition started with likely to arouse, but it did come around to an actual word. Yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

So. So he's saying that just because he's black, when he stood. Yeah. Waving a cane at the president during.

[Glenn Beck]

The speech and yelling and screaming. That it was during his speech.

[Stu Burguiere]

Because that's. That's. That's not happened before. The closest we could find is Joe Wilson saying, you lie. And everybody did it once. He did it once. And. And that was it. And then everybody apologized for it. And he was censored the day. But he stood up with a cane. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

And would not sit back down either.

[Stu Burguiere]

Because he was black. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

It's in video discrimination.

[Stu Burguiere]

Okay. All right, good. All right. Yeah. Now, Hank Johnson.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

He's brilliant. And you might remember him from worrying about Guam tipping over and capsizing.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, yeah. Capsizing.

[Glenn Beck]

If so the guy.

[Stu Burguiere]

No, only he's a thinker. Only if we put all of the Marines on one side of the island, then it would capsize.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Pat Gray]

Because she wasn't just randomly saying the island would capsize. He was saying if we move too many troops to one side of it, it would.

[Glenn Beck]

10,000, he said if there are 10,000 troops were put there.

[Stu Burguiere]

Of course.

[Glenn Beck]

That's good.

[Pat Gray]

People often they leave out the context.

[Stu Burguiere]

I know. They want to make it fair. Right. You want to be fair. It's invidious. That's what that is.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

Let's go to cut 12. Here is Hank Johnson.

[Hank Johnson]

All of the ways in which they can kill public education from defunding it from a federal level and then also enabling state monies and local monies to flow into the private for profit school setup that is going, that is ongoing. It's a recipe to make education unavailable to black people. And where does that then leave us? Puts us back to when America was great and we were picking cotton and.

[Stu Burguiere]

America's not great back then.

[Hank Johnson]

The productivity that they are putting the. My Latino brothers and sisters, who this is great, migrate here to do that work because we are not suited intellectually to do it anymore.

[Glenn Beck]

Wait, what?

[Hank Johnson]

But they would have us back confined to doing that kind of work.

[Stu Burguiere]

That was invidious.

[Hank Johnson]

We gotta watch out for where we are headed. And it's the people that will save our democracy that will. This movement towards the past that Trump has.

[Stu Burguiere]

Can we stop for just a second? I just have a couple of questions here, Pat. So did he just say that blacks were no longer intellectually suited for field work?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I'm not sure if he's talking about blacks or Americans in general, but yeah, we're intellectually not suited for it, so.

[Stu Burguiere]

Meaning we're above that. I guess Hispanics are.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, but Hispanics are. They're not above doing that. They're suited. I guess they're intellectually suited.

[Stu Burguiere]

Suited for it. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's a difference between I'm above that, which is absolutely wrong, and I'm not intellectually suited for that work. But you are. What? Yeah. What does that even mean?

[Pat Gray]

Would that be racism?

[Glenn Beck]

Would you say I think it's racism? No.

[Pat Gray]

Likely to arouse.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Stu Burguiere]

Okay. Not really.

[Pat Gray]

I'm sorry, I left the second part of that.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. Right. Okay. Wow. So then he also says that it's Trump's plan to close the Department of Education to keep people from being educated. But if I could be wrong. Help me out with the facts. I think since the Department of Education was put into place, our test scores have gone way down. And so like, like not just black kids, like no kids graduate now with more than like a third grade lead reading level. That's what's putting people in chains. I don't, I don't know if he understands that, but the entire system as it's built and everyone should be aware of this. You know, they keep saying, what's going to happen to our schools? What's going to happen to what has happened to our schools? Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. President Trump's talked about that pretty extensively. There were 40th among industrialized nations. We spend by far the most amount of money. We're number one in spending and we're 40th in education. So there's a problem there. Yeah, there's a big, big problem there.

[Stu Burguiere]

And part of it, honestly, I mean, when will. You know, anybody who was. Who is stuck in 1965 is not going to get this. They're not going to get this because they're stuck in 1965, and they don't see that the world has dramatically changed, and they still look at people like Johnson, one of the biggest racists of. Of my lifetime as a president. They don't see him as doing anything but good.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu Burguiere]

I. I truly believe, whether he knew it or not, what he did completely destroyed black families. Black children, enslaved them. And until we understand that, if you.

[Glenn Beck]

Look at the timeline, you see that proven out.

[Stu Burguiere]

I know. Over and over and over again in almost every way.

[Glenn Beck]

Yep.

[Stu Burguiere]

And.

[Glenn Beck]

Yep.

[Stu Burguiere]

I mean, when are people. We have got to stop looking at the government as wanting to do good. Maybe they did at some time. I don't know. Our founders would have said no, it never does that. It never does that because people are in charge. So you always look at it as a hostile entity. That's why you keep it under wraps. But let's just say they wanted to do good, okay? Everybody in the. In the government wants to do good, but they're not. Okay? They're not. So for us to say, let's just keep going down this path is an act of insanity. All we do is throw more money, grow the government, which is not working by any measurement. It's not working. Everybody's so upset about, oh, my gosh, we shut down usaid. First of all, USAID is a CIA operation. It is. It was designed to look like aid, but it's a CIA op. That's what it is. So first of all, you got to learn that, man. Learn that. Second of all, even if. Even if it was, you know, for aid, can anybody tell me why we should spend maybe 20 cents on every dollar that goes there? And I'm being generous. Maybe 20 cents of those dollars actually goes to help people. The rest of it is all about control and manipulation of other people's countries. And what's left is graft and just incompetence and loss. Why would we do that? Why are we focusing on that? Maybe 20 cents instead of the 80 cents? You know, if. If we were losing 20 cents on every dollar, I'd still be pissed. But we're not. We're getting 20 cents of what is what we really think we're getting, and 80 cents to bad stuff. Why? Why why? How do you defend that?

[Glenn Beck]

You can't. Not if you're reasonable. Not if you're common sense American. You can't.

[Stu Burguiere]

Unless you say, government always means to do well. And gosh, we're just what we're trying. Right? But when have they proven that to be true? Recently.

[Pat Gray]

And if we listen to you, everyone in Guam would be in the ocean right now. That's, that's.

[Glenn Beck]

There is that.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

And you're right.

[Stu Burguiere]

You're right.

[Glenn Beck]

There is that. You're right.

[Stu Burguiere]

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From mortgage refis to accessing the high equity that you might have in your home to pay off the high interest debt. American Financing could be saving you hundreds of dollars a month, maybe as much as 1000. American Financing, 800-906-2440American Financing.net 800-906-2440 now back to the podcast. You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program. Several top officials, including the highest ranking legal officer at ActBlue, have reportedly jumped ship in recent weeks, while those who remain are allegedly stuck dealing with a culture of volatility and toxicity. In a letter to Act Blue's board of directors obtained by the New York Times, unions representing the group's workers identified seven officials who recently quit and stressed the alarming pattern of high level exits. Senior senior staff departures reportedly began on February 21, two weeks after the organization reportedly provided congressional investigators with an update regarding Act Blue security, their fraud prevention measures and related procedures. Act Blue, we have known is, I believe appears to be a money laundering system for the left, and there's a lot of money going through there. I don't know if any. If Doge is going to find any connections to Act Blue, but I wouldn't be surprised. Why are all these people leaving? Because they know this game is over. And that's why people are freaking out in Washington. They are freaking out in Washington because they know the game is over. Now, there are those people that are in the government that believe that they're doing the patriotic thing because they believe they know better than you, the people who elect presidents, or the president himself. You would not want this if it was your guy in office, right? Why wouldn't you want it? Why wouldn't you want a bunch of, let's say, Republicans that are in the deep state that didn't give a flying crap what Joe Biden said and wasn't executing his plan? Why wouldn't you like that? You wouldn't like that because that's not what the people voted for. The people voted for the President, not for these unelected bureaucrats that are faceless, nameless, and have complete control, apparently, over your country and your life. No, you wouldn't like it. And I talked to some people this weekend that are very upset about Zelinsky and how the president treated Zelinsky. You've got to watch the entire thing. People who are watching the clip to when the vice president steps in and says, hold on here. That's. That's where people start. That's not the beginning. There's 20 minutes prior to that where Donald Trump and JD Vance were trying to disarm Zelinsky, trying to get him to. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Not appropriate here. Stop. But it took him 20 minutes before JD Vance finally just snapped and said, stop it. So you have to inform yourself and not just the clips. I am. I'm a little uncomfortable by the way the tariffs are going with Canada and Mexico. Not so much Mexico, but definitely Canada. Mexico is just a. I'm sorry, but it's just an absolute corrupt country, and they've got to get control of those cartels, and we have to get control of those cartels as well and make sure we're not doing business with any of the cartels, which I'm not convinced we're not. But Canada is one of these countries. Come on. It's Canada. It's Canada. We've always liked Canada. Canada's always liked us, okay? There is a $1.2 trillion online with our trade relationship, okay? And everybody's saying, oh, my gosh, this will have a ripple effect. It's going to just cost everybody and you. It might. It might. I don't know. It might. On the surface, it is really tempting to see what everything that Donald Trump is doing as chaos. He's just swinging everybody and he's hitting our friends, and he's hitting our supposed friends, and he's just taking out everybody that. But that's not really what's going on. And I want you to understand this so you can share this to your friends or your family who maybe are freaking out. What are they? We're off Canada. I know. I don't like it either. I don't like it. But it's not chaos. It is a strategy. And you are dealing with the best negotiator America has ever had in office ever. And this is the strategy that people in America elected Trump to execute. Now, maybe your friend didn't or your family didn't because they didn't vote for him, okay? But the majority of people did, okay? Electoral College and the popular vote and the county swung by 20 points to the red. So this is a mandate. It is a movement. And it's not like other presidents that are like, you know, I'm. I'm gonna be just like you when I get in. I'm a fight for everything you're saying you're gonna fight for because I'm just like you. And, boy, that thing that I don't even address ever, but I just love what you're saying there. I got your back. And then they go in and they don't have your back. That's not what happened this time. First of all, people didn't vote for Donald Trump like, they voted for Joe Biden. Joe Biden they voted for. Because it wasn't Trump, okay? That's not what happened this time around. When you vote for somebody who's not the other guy, well, what is it you're getting in that case you got, I'm gonna make your boy a girl. Nobody was for that. Nobody voted for that. Maybe extremists, but we didn't even know that was even coming our way until, what, six months or eight months into the presidency. And then all of a sudden, dei, esg, all of this stuff was a big story. Most people didn't vote for that. They did vote for changing the direction of America. They were tired of corruption. They're tired of bureaucrats telling them how to live their life where they didn't get to vote on it. They're tired of being screwed by other countries. We Just want a fair and balanced playing field. I don't like tariffs. I do like reciprocal tariffs. You put a tax on our milk, we'll put a tax on your milk. You don't want a tax on your milk, then don't put a tax. And, and we won't tax you either. I like that. But that's what we're playing now is people just think we're going to take out Canada. I want you to think of this differently with your friends. And maybe your friends won't like this example, but it's true. When Ronald Reagan stood up, it was, I think it was in March of 83, and he's just gotten in and he's standing, I think it was at a breakfast or something. And he stood up and he said, and Russia, the Soviet Union is an evil empire. And everybody went, oh, my gosh. He just said, an evil empire. That's so scary. And everybody, even people who liked him were like, don't say that. They'll nuke us. And he's like, no, you're never going to beat them. We cannot do. Now listen to this. We cannot continue to play the game the same way we've been playing it for 50 years, because it's not getting us anywhere. In fact, it might be hurting us. We know with all of our foreign policy that we've done, getting us into endless wars, spending all kinds of money, racking up a debt of $35 trillion, not knowing what the truth is because the government's no longer transparent. None of that works. None of that works. And that's what Donald Trump was, was saying. And that's what people voted for, a change. I think that's what people actually voted for when it came to Barack Obama, because all of this transparency, everything was opaque under George W. Bush. You were like, wait, what are we doing there? Why, why is it I don't want necessarily these never ending wars and now I've got, you know, people checking my underpants at the airport. What are we doing? That's why they wanted change. Transparency. They wanted change, but he never defined the change. Donald Trump was very clear. Anybody who didn't know that massive tariffs were coming just weren't paying attention. Okay? When Reagan did it, it wasn't a slip of the tongue. It was deliberate. It was a public shot across the bow. He did it in public because he wanted to change the world. And while everybody else was going, oh my gosh, and critics, Democrats, everybody, he's going to, it's going to be catastrophic. He's going to get us nuked. By Friday, though, all the squirrels will be dead. What are squirrels are going to be? What? Reagan wasn't playing for the applause. He was playing to win. His words were backed by a military buildup and unrelenting pressure. And it forced the Soviet to confront their own fragility. They couldn't do it by 1989. Remember, it was 1983 when he said evil empire. And we were, we were at. At equal terms in the world. We were both world superpowers that could annihilate the other one at the drop of a hat. That was 1983. Evil empire. By 1989, the Berlin Wall was rubble, all because Reagan had the balls to say it and then not blink. Now we could have been vaporized. Yes, but if you want to change the world, you're going to have. I have this saying that somebody gave to me a long time ago, and I. And I live my life by it. Risk big, win big, risk big, lose big. Just know the odds before you put your money down on the table. That's why I don't like Vegas. I know the odds are not in my favor. So yes, I could risk big, but I probably will lose big because the odds are not in my favor when it comes to Ronald Reagan Soviet empire. He had a plan, and so the odds he knew were in our favor. The same thing with Donald Trump. We can't afford a trade war, but neither can they. So let's all play nice with one another, shall we? This is the same kind of leadership that Ronald Reagan had. They. If we elected Donald Trump to fight to take on a global trade system, to take on the deficit and the spending. We can't fire all these people. It's causing all kinds of chaos. Wait, are you okay? Honestly, are you okay With a good portion of our money raised in taxes going to pay for salaries and benefits the way it is? We have 6 million plus employees. For what? For what? When you see how corrupt it is, why can't we return some of that power? Well, you can't cut the Department of Education. Why not? He pledged he was going to. He told everyone on the campaign trail he's going to. And then when he tries. Everybody says we've got to preserve the why. It doesn't work. Show me the evidence that it works. Well, you're gonna just leave all of the poor children out to. To educationally starve? They're starving to death right now. They can't read. When you don't teach children to read, they become slaves to whomever can read. How is that compassion? How is that good? How is that something you want to preserve? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right, I'm gonna tell you about the Department of Homeland Security here in just a second, but I want to talk to you about AI a little bit more. Today. We're just going to spend a few minutes on this, but I think we should spend a few minutes on this every day because I think people are waking up. It's just starting to become reality to the people who are paying attention. And the people who are paying attention now are going to be the ones that are the most likely to survive the first round of cuts. And you're going to. Hopefully you will see how to ethically use it. Because if you just use this to replicate your job. You know, I know I've got. I've got hours and hours every day I spend on a show prep, okay? But I've been using AI to help look for sources on things. And I mean, sources like that I would never find. You know, what does the GAO say about this? I'm not looking at the New York Times or anybody else. I. It's like I've taken. And I have a big staff that does research every day, and it allows me to look at things that would take us forever to look at and to digest, and we can digest it quickly. Then I can give it to my research team and say, just check on that. It says, page 437, paragraph 14 says this. Can you just make sure that that's exactly what it says and means? If you're using this to take your work and. Well, let me say it this way, using AI is like adding 10 people to your job. You no longer have to do the grunt work. It allows you to be a thinker. So you just need to get it to do all of the grunt work for you so you don't have to think about all that stuff you put it in so it can make what you do so much better. If you're using it just to do your job, okay, you might be done earlier in the day. My day has gotten much longer now using AI, but I am further ahead on a whole bunch of stuff. And if you use it just to copy what you do, then you are. You're replaceable. You're absolutely replaceable because you're the driver, you're the artist. You're the one who has the unique piece of humanity that it doesn't have. You can put things together that it won't. And so use it as a tool to say, if I had a staff of 10, if I had a staff of a hundred, what could I get done? How could I make myself the most valuable employee right now? It's not just coming in with the best report that Grok wrote. That would be bad because. Do you know about. How did you. What. What does all of this mean? It's a way for you to not only knock it out of the park with whatever you're doing right now, make what you do better, but then it's also about adding other things to. To your job so you make yourself the most valuable person in the building. Okay. Every job is going to be. My job is going to be. It's. There's going to come a time where I don't think real people will. I mean, I think real people will become a thing again, like handmade. But I think that there's going to be a time by 2030 where a lot of the podcasts right now, I will bet you that some of the tweets that you read from people that, you know, it might be AI generated, and then somebody else that you know and respect, their bot is responding to that tweet. And so it's the battle of the.

[Pat Gray]

Bots that's totally happening right now.

[Stu Burguiere]

Totally. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have any evidence of anybody doing it, but I can guarantee you that's happening.

[Pat Gray]

We're still.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's automated.

[Pat Gray]

We're still at the point, too, where you can kind of maybe detect it. I don't know how long that's gonna last. As you point out, it's advancing so quickly, but you could still kind of feel it. I feel when I read the stuff. When I read social media, I was telling somebody this weekend, it's like, I've always disliked social media, but I'm getting to the point now with it where there's no value to it to me whatsoever, because I can't even tell if these people are saying these things. I feel like half the stuff I'm reading is just AI, a bunch of AI bots talking to each other. What value do I get out of that? I have access to AI. I can just ask AI if I want that.

[Stu Burguiere]

Exactly right.

[Pat Gray]

And that's. I don't know where that ends. Hopefully it means the entire world of social media collapses and we act as if it was a horrible archive of history. But that being said, I don't know where that goes because I feel. You feel disconnected. You're just like well, why do I care what what an AI bot says about an AI written story from some crappy media source while both of the people commenting are out drinking together at some bar.

[Stu Burguiere]

Those are the people who are. Those people are afraid I'm going to lose my job because of, you know, because of AI. Yeah, if you're out drinking and you're working half a day because it's doing it, believe me, at some point an unscrupulous boss is going to go, why am I paying all these people? Now a smart boss will say, why am I paying all these people? I'm going to go pay the same amount of money to somebody who actually will take and do this and make it much better and add more value because they see that this can be used as a rocket ship and we can create 10 times the value of what we're providing. That's what I'm excited about. I'm seeing the possibilities of us being able to do the things that we've always done at a much higher level, much more even buttoned up scale than we already are. Because there comes a time with, even with us that we'll leave things off the, you know, but we'll put it on the edit floor because we're like, I'm not sure if that's true and we haven't had time. Well, in time that's where AI can help us go out and search and make sure that this is absolutely true. And it might be impossible for us to find, but soon it won't be for AI. It will find it. But, you know, there's, there's all kinds of things to talk about. I just want you to try it and just be playing with it. Not in a Please don't use unhinged. Don't make it your friend, don't make it your sex partner. Don't do that. Don't ever, ever blur the lines. It is a tool. Charles, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

[Charles]

Yeah. How are you doing, Glenn?

[Stu Burguiere]

Good, how are you?

[Charles]

I'm doing quite well. God bless you all. And I just wanted to say I thank you for connecting me with labor of Love and Susan Selim and years ago it, oh wow. Really created my spiritual growth. So that's so great. Eternally. Thank you for that. Anyway, on the case of AI played with it a lot over the weekend on Grok and you're right for the research elements. It's fantastic. Yes, I had some charts made up for balance scorecard. I wrote a book on that several years ago and that's in my wheelhouse of technology and business and. Yeah. Creating various charts and things like that. Fantastic. Doing the deep dive on research. Really good.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Charles]

But I've had a book idea, you know, more of a novel, and I always struggle with dialogue. So I said, hey, let's see if it'll create the book that I had. So I input the parameters, and initially it was fantastic. It's a historical fiction, and it incorporated the historical elements I was going for and created the dialogue and the emotional pull. You could update it and ask it to enhance the emotion or expand on the chapter that I was working on. But at some point, it just seems to get overwhelmed by. Yeah, it falls apart and it just goes off the rails.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Charles]

It can't restart it, like three times.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. Yeah. Charles, your good observation, you. It can't continue going down the same road for very long because it doesn't have a memory. It. Its memory is so limited because it's supposed to remember everything on the Internet or at least have access to all of it. And so it just generalizes everything. And so it can't write a book. It can't. It can't write. It just can't write. I've. We've been working on things, and, you know, some members of my staff are like, well, that. I mean, would that put me out of a job? No, that wouldn't put you out of job because it can't do. Can't do. Can't continue a storyline. It all falls apart on you. Maybe someday. But I still believe that people are going to be instrumental because it takes the. The germ of an idea. If you look at this and, like, it's going to complete my work, it's going to write my book for me. You're crazy. And that's kind of evil. But if you say, for instance, Stu has known this because he's written books with me. Stu, when you get my rough draft of a book, how long would those books be?

[Pat Gray]

Oh, gosh. At least three times the amount of words that they're supposed to be.

[Stu Burguiere]

Right. Okay. I just. I'm verbose when it comes to writing, and the biggest job is, can you edit this down? Okay. That. It can do that. It can do. It can take my writing and cut it by two thirds and just keep the best parts. But it can't write a book for you. It's not going to. And nor would you. Nor would you want to. Well, it would be bad.

[Pat Gray]

It doesn't matter if it's good. But it can.

[Stu Burguiere]

Right?

[Pat Gray]

It's capable of doing it. And I'm sure that's what a lot of people are doing, honestly at this point. But again, there's no value in that. Like there's no value in these things. Churning out books for people. Like there's nothing that, there's no value in that. Obviously you go to an author because you're looking for their perspective. And yes, they can tell Grok what their perspective is.

[Stu Burguiere]

But like not, it's, it's not, it's not, it's not the same. And I don't think it ever will be the same because it, because of the way it uses memory. It, it, the way it uses memory, it will never be able to hold it until everybody stops at, you know, at the X or you know, Google. I don't think they'll ever do this until they open up that memory. But they're using all that memory for machine learning to get to asi. So you're only getting just a fraction of what is available to them. But they're using all of that memory to be able to churn, to produce something else. And I honestly, if you have asi, if they get asi, I really don't think we're going to get it. I think they will, but we won't. You know what I mean? Which bothers me a great deal.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, I do feel like that is just an artificial line though, right?

[Stu Burguiere]

I mean it is until it's an artificial line that they need to hold because everybody knows it's an existential threat to their business. Microsoft soft knows. If X gets it first, Microsoft is out of business. This should tell you something about your job. Microsoft X and Google. If you talk to people who at all use AI, you ask them when's the last time you used Google. You don't because it's so, it's almost like using, what was it? Ask Jeeves in comparison. It's like Ask Jeeves. They're going to put, somebody's going to put these gigantic corporations out if they're that freaked out. You shouldn't be freaked out. You should learn it. Because the first thing that happens is jobs are lost. So how can I use this to keep my job and to be the most productive and thoughtful and useful human brain on the staff? I can say to my new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, hey, find a keto friendly restaurant nearby and text it to Beth and Steve. And it does without me lifting a finger so I can get in more squats anywhere I can. 1, 2, 3. Will that be cash or credit? Credit 4 Galaxy S25 Ultra the AI companion that does the heavy lifting so you can do you get [e-mail] compatible with select apps. Requires Google Gemini account. Results may vary based on input. Check responses for accuracy.