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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
Hey, today is a really important podcast. If you can listen to the whole thing, you probably should. But this is a great edited version of the podcast that if this is the time you have, make sure you listen to all of it. A lot of information today. Today I started with again, what we can do to fix things, what things are going to look like if we don't fix things and how you don't have to worry about that if you're prepared and doing the right things. Also, RFK Jr came out and announced a big change when it comes to the COVID vaccine. Children and good we need to focus on, you know, actually eradicating these illnesses that children are suffering from. And he also said no more gender assignment surgery anymore. And it is a, it's probably the biggest step, concrete step in health care I've seen in a long, long time. Also, should Joe Biden's pardons be overturned because of the auto pan? All this and more on today's podcast. 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My Patriotsupply.com Glenn hello, America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it, a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top. Rate, review, share. Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. You're listening to the Best of the Blendbeck Program. So I don't know if you saw. Don't know if you saw that all of a sudden there's this big interest in cutting the debt and going with the Doge cuts. And I saw these headlines come across yesterday afternoon, and I was like, whoa, wow, that's good news. Who. What. What's happening here? No, it's not. It's not. It's just more of the same from these weasels in. In the Republican Party. Elon Musk announced that he is not going to be spending money in the elections. He said, I think I've done my fair share. And, you know, I don't know if it really even makes a difference. So all of a sudden, the Republicans who have been getting money from him are like, whoa, whoa, wait, Elon, we love you. Those Doge things you were doing, my gosh, we want more of that. We are you. Were you thinking we weren't going to include that in the bill, in the big, beautiful bill? Because we're including a lot of that, right? Right, guys? Yeah, absolutely. Elon, we love you. It's so slimy. It's sickening. But if that's the way they get to cuts, I'm all for it. The Doge cuts are the easiest cuts to make, and we must send a signal to the rest of the world that we are serious, because there's something coming that most Americans just don't understand, you know, and not because it's hidden. It's. It's right there in plain Sight. But it's, you know, like all financial crimes, it's all dressed up in fancy acronyms and, and things that people half understand. And it all sounds like it's going to be good. And eventually you start hearing the word that is the most important word. Debt. I've been hearing about a debt crisis since I was a kid. There's going to come a time. Well, this is the time. We are here, so we have to talk about this. Yesterday I read something that came across my desk about. It was from an advisor at Goldman Sachs, and just listen to this. Made my head hurt. Funding conditions remain easy but can tighten meaningfully once the debt limit is raised. 4 trillion increase is likely included in this latest bill. As bill supply will drain bank reserves by several hundred billion. I mean, it was like, I don't. Now you've given me homework. I don't want. I need to understand that, but I don't want to do all the homework on it. So if you're hearing that, I know you're thinking the same thing. So I did some homework on it, and it. And if I may quote Admiral Akbar, the debt, it's a trap. Okay? Congress is about to raise the debt ceiling $4 trillion. And they're arguing about it. They're bickering back and forth, and you're gonna see a press conference or two, but in the end, they always raise it. This time, $4 trillion. And the media will do what the media always does. They'll say, oh, crisis averted. But they're wrong. They're wrong because every time we raise the debt ceiling, it adds to the crisis. Okay? And this is the moment where maybe the final. We're maybe in final approach here. And if it's not this landing, it might be the next landing, but it's going to be one of the landings very, very close to now. Now, here's why raising the debt ceiling actually affects you. I don't know, Whoopi Goldberg. What. What difference does it make? Well, here's what difference it makes. And this is something that no politician is going to tell you or very few of them will tell you. Nobody will really explain it in a way that I think you can then use. So let me try. What happens when they raise the debt ceiling? They raise the debt ceiling and say, okay, the debt ceiling was, we can't borrow any more than this because we're out of control, so we can't borrow any more than this. And then they borrow all of that. And then they're like, okay, okay, okay. But we can't borrow any more than this. So this is the limit. And then they raise the debt ceiling and they borrow all of that money and then they're like, okay, okay, okay, but this time we really mean it. We can't borrow more than this. And the reason why they're saying we can't borrow more than this is because it's sending a message to the rest of the world. And who specifically? I don't think people that are, you know, you know, average workers in England are thinking about this. But the central banks are the, the, the sovereign funds are the major investment funds are thinking about this. That's why they say, okay, this time we mean it. Because all of those people with a big money to buy our debt are saying, you guys aren't serious. So the debt ceiling is raised. What does that mean? The government has to print a bunch of T bills, treasury bills, which is basically an IOU. Okay. We say, oh, we really need $4 trillion, but we're gonna give you this IOU and we're good for it. Okay. We're really super gonna pay you back. And the less people believe that, the less that they think, oh no, they're serious, the higher the interest rate. It's like going to a loan shark. Eventually you got such bad credit you can't go anywhere else. And so you have to just keep raising the interest rates and before you know it, you're talking to veto. Who's gonna break your legs. Well, we're almost there. So they have to refill the cash drawer, right? We have to spend this money. So they raise the debt ceiling. Now who buys those? Just told you. Banks, pension funds, money market accounts, countries. And how do they pay for them? Well, they don't just have that money lying around. It's cash they have already sitting someplace else. So when they buy government debt, that cash leaves the banking system and moves over to the treasury so the government can have it and spend it. And what's left in those, in the banking system is a big iou. Hang on. If you have me so far. Good. But hang on because you're going to understand how this is going to affect your life personally in just a minute. So this is like a giant vacuum. It's a very powerful vacuum. I think it's a Dyson because it sucks up all of the money, all of the oxygen, all of the quote, liquidity that nobody understands. Well, liquidity. Well, liquidity. We're having a liquidity problem. Nobody understands that. My gosh, they can't tell you who the President of the United States is. They're going to explain liquidity. Okay, here's what it means. Cash. Cash at the bank. Why is that important? Why does that matter? Whoopi Goldberg might say, because you need cash from the bank in the form of a credit card or in the form of an auto loan or a loan for your small business. That's why this matters to you. Less money in the bank meets tighter credit. Tighter credit means loans are going to get harder to get, interest rates go up, which means what if you have a loan, God forbid you have a variable loan, your interest rate on your house is going to go up, which means you're going to pay more for your house, which means you're not going to, you're not going to get a raise at work because businesses are drying up because nobody has money, because this is affecting everybody. Okay? You can't get a mortgage, you can't get a credit card, you can't refinance. Your small business doesn't get anything. Why? Well, because the government has all of that money, okay? They just shrunk your financial oxygen tank. They told you, breathe deep, breathe deep. But they're taking the tank and not giving you the oxygen you might need. Okay? So this also, when they raise the debt ceiling, affects you because it infects, it affects inflation. Okay? This is slight. This is total sleight of hand because the money doesn't disappear, it's out of the bank, but it goes to the. All they've done is transferred. You were going to spend that money to. They are going to spend that money. So they just shifted it from banks and households to politicians and federal agencies, from the real economy to the administrative state. So that doesn't reduce inflation, it just changes who spends your money. It's not anti inflationary, it's anti you. We are running a system right now that is mathematically unsustainable. And every time we raise the debt ceiling, we are not solving a problem. Crisis averted, we're compounding it. The more we borrow, the more cash we suck out of the real economy. So here's what this is going to mean. Possibly in the coming months, if they pass this, you're going to see in business investment slowing down. Your wage is not going to go up. Unemployment is going to creep up. Families have to tighten their budget. The Fed is trapped. Cut hate, cut rates. Inflation's going to go up, raise rates and the system falls apart, okay? They're out of bullets. They're out of bullets. And as this is all happening, you're going to be told this is all normal. Don't worry about it. Everything's fine. Okay? But it's not fine. How long can a man live if. If every breath he takes is harder than the last breath to get oxygen? Okay, eventually the oxygen runs out and you're done. No family, no business, no nation can survive if it spends more than it produces. Forever. The clock is ticking, and you're going to be left holding the bill. Higher cost, fewer opportunities, and no one in Washington willing to tell you the truth. You know, we used to measure our wealth now or then, in what we made, what we built, what we grew. Now we measure our wealth, I guess, and how much debt we can sell before the system buckles. That's not prosperity, that is a countdown. So let me give you some solutions for you. I want you first, before we get into that, I want you to call your senator, call your congressman and demand the Doge Cuts. At least send a signal to those who are buying our debt that we have. We have some responsibility. Put the Doge cuts in the White House. Said they're sending them next week. They just need to happen. Do that now. There are other things you need to do for your own personal survival in your own personal economy. So I want you to know that this is not something I don't. I don't. I don't just talk about things on the air unless I really believe them. And I want you to know I'm. I'm making some changes in my life, and I am. I'm risking a great deal in the coming months, and I'll let you know about that as we get closer. But I'm. I'm probably taking the biggest gamble of my career and my life in the coming months because I believe in something. But with that said, I want you to know yesterday, when I saw this from Goldman Sachs, I thought, oh, boy. Okay, is this the right time to do it? And, well, the answer is I don't ever do anything for money. I do it because I believe in it. And so what happens will happen. You know, God will work it out. But I am changing many things in my own life because I believe in this. So we all have different situations, but let me just talk to the people who say, you know, I got a job. I have maybe some savings, but not a lot. What do I do? Okay, let me give you a goal. Whether you can reach this or not, I don't know, but it's a goal. Have six months of living expenses in cash or a cash equivalent. So you know, you can make it six months and pay your basic bills. Avoid any new long term commitments that will drain your flexibility. What, what you have to remain is super nimble right now. You have to have options in front of you right now. Cut your recurring expenses now. Eliminate or lock in subscriptions. Look at your insurance, your utilities. Cash flow is going to be king. Because something might happen and you're like, I gotta have the cash. Okay, if you can do that, great. If you can't, here's some other things. Side hustles. Set up yourself for a side hustle. Any skill. If you have the ability to go back to like a trade school, do it. Any skill. Mechanic, baking, child care, tech. Whatever it is, practice it right now, even part time, because you may need it later. If your hours are cut or your job disappears, have be working on a backup right now. Most important thing you can do is build local resilience. This is one of the reasons why I come up to the ranch and I've built my. My forever home up in Idaho in this small little farming community. Because I know these people and they are salt of the earth. I mean, they tear up just thinking about them. I go to church with these people and I listen to them and they are, they're just salt of the earth people. You have to have your local community, your local church. Because in hard times, networks equals net worth. Okay, forget about net worth. Think of networks. Also, own something tangible, even a small garden. Chickens, tools, something that can help you with independence and avoid any new debt. If you don't need a new car, don't get one. Non essentials vacation. If you can get it without it, or especially vacation homes, get out of it. The most important thing you need to know is stop assuming things will bounce back right away. That's normalcy bias and it kills you. All right, let me tell you about good ranchers. Somewhere right now, there's a man walking a fence line. He is checking for breaks after a storm rolled through overnight. There's a woman who this morning is hauling feed before most people had even poured their first cup of coffee. But they were out. They were doing things. All these people, they're the people who raise our food. And they do it because something in them still believes in the value of honest work and doing the right things the right way, even when nobody's watching. The truth is, family farms and ranches in this country are disappearing. Our supermarkets are flooded with imported meat, boxed and labeled to look like it's from here. But it's grown and processed thousands of miles away under standards that wouldn't pass on American soil. And every time that happens, every time a local rancher can't compete, we lose a piece of who we are. We must support our ranches and our farmers. Ranchers and farms, they matter. They don't just sell meat. They're the source of 100% American meat. If you get your meat from good ranchers, they also support the kind of America you still want to live in. So visit good ranchers. Buy your meat differently. GoodRanchers.com use the promo code BECK unlock your free meat for life plus 40% or sorry, $40 off. That's GoodRanchers.com GoodRanchers.com go there now. American meat delivered. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right, let me give you some good news here. This is a post, it was on X yesterday, came from the Health and Human Services Department. They let me just read it to you. HHS sent a letter to healthcare providers, risk managers and state medical boards urging immediate updates to treatment protocols for minors with gender dysphoria. Based on HHS comprehensive review that found puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgeries have very weak evidence of benefit but carry risk of significant harms, including stereotypical sterilization. Providers should no longer rely on discredited guidelines that promote these dangerous interventions for children and adolescents based on ideology and not evidence. Wow. Welcome to the return of common sense in medicine. Now RFK wrote that providers should avoid relying on the World Professional Health association for Transgender Health. That's wpath. Remember we talked about that years ago when it first started coming out and it was insanity. So now healthcare providers should not rely on that from hhs. It was one year ago we did a special exposing them for being ideological fraudsters. Wpath and you know, they were doing, I mean this is Frankenstein. This is Frankenstein. Like experiments on children and the mentally ill all done with the support of the medical community in the name of science and gender affirming care. Over our doctors took them seriously. They shouldn't have. Now here's what CNN said. Kennedy letters Kennedy's letter warns providers to avoid relying on guidelines from the World Professional association for Transgender Health on care and transgender and gender diverse people. These and other guidelines based on so called gender affirming model of care should not be relied on for harm of our children any further. The letter says. Good. Good. Kennedy says it's time for our doctors to now update all of the protocols. Amen. This is big news. This is the first big step, pulling us out of this death cult. I mean, when you are chemically castrating our children in America and the doctors are calling that a good step forward, that's a spiritual disease. And a lot of people voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to see an end to this. And I hope this means that there is an end to it. Dr. Oz is working on this, too, again from CNN. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also announced Wednesday. That was yesterday. It was launching an oversight initiative into hospitals that performed experimental sex trait modification procedures on children. Administrator Dr. Oz said CMS will not turn a blind eye to procedures that lack a solid foundation of evidence and may result in lifelong harm. Good. We're not turning a blind eye to the children anymore. And we're saying this is wrong to do and we're taking the right steps. Now. All of this can be changed in the next election. I mean, I hope not. But so much can change between now and 20, 20, 28, when we elect another president. But I hope we start to see real improvement. I know that a majority of Americans, for the first time since. Can you tell me when. Stu, do you remember we looked this up when Americans said we're on the right track, wrong track. And we looked at it and we're like, wait, we haven't thought we were on the right track since when? Remember, it was a long time. And for the first time, it's the majority. It's over 50%.
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Unknown Speaker
That's not to be clear, not in every poll. That is a poll that came out that showed that, like, the Gallup polls are still very much in the negative.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, let me rain on your parade, too.
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Unknown Speaker
No, I just, just, just trying to give the.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, those pants do make your. Your bet. Your, your butt look fat. Okay. I mean, what, what, what is that?
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Unknown Speaker
I will say it's up a little bit. I mean, for sure, even in the polls that show it's still negative, it's still going in the right direction.
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Stu Burguiere
In the right direction.
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Unknown Speaker
Pole.
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Stu Burguiere
Right.
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Unknown Speaker
So that's good. That's a positive. I'm glad to see that we are, you know, maybe catching up to Europe on this one. It's great to see.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, we want to be more like Europe, right? I mean, jeez.
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Unknown Speaker
Oddly, we kind of do. They seem to have figured this out before us. Usually they're far to the left of us and we're always tracking toward their left wing positions. It seems like they have actually kind of woken up before us, which is, I think, stunning. But I'm glad To see that certainly Trump is not on this bandwagon, and now that he's in office, he can start reversing this nonsense.
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Stu Burguiere
You know what's amazing is we've had so many discussions on this. We've had so. But how many of them have actually been based in science? Most of it is based in, you know, shouting, you're a hate monger, or you just want to, you know, kill people, or you just hate transgender, all that crap. Have you ever heard of the Dunning Kruger effect?
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Unknown Speaker
Yes. Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
You know what it is?
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah. You probably help me with a better definition. But my remembrance of it is like, people who know very little about a topics tend to be the most confident at the beginning, and then it kind of goes way down in their confidence as they learn more. And only when they become experts that they kind of say, hey, you know, there's a lot of nuance in. In the way they speak.
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Stu Burguiere
Correct. Correct. And it's. I mean, it carries another part to it. And my grand. My grandmother knew this. I mean, I think all of our grandmothers knew this. Stupid people just don't know they're stupid. They have no idea that they're stupid.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Okay.
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Unknown Speaker
That's much better explanation.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. And we are. We are either living under the, you know, the Dunning Krueger effect, or we're living. Living under the Freddy Krueger effect. I don't know which our society is embracing, but stupid people just don't know they're stupid. And they get just a little bit. And I mean, I'm not talking about, oh, I forgot to cancel my free trial stupid. I mean, but stupid. And, you know, when you. When you're stupid, you feel like a genius, and when you know a lot, you feel like an imposter.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, that's totally.
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Stu Burguiere
You know what I mean?
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Unknown Speaker
Right? Yeah, Like, Right. I'm sure. Do you notice this, Glenn, sometimes when, you know, you're out at a party or something and you're talking to people and they probably come to you and bring up topics they think you talk about on the air because they know who you are? Like, they'll bring up, you know, they'll bring up something about, I don't know, the great reset.
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Stu Burguiere
Right, Whatever. Yeah.
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Unknown Speaker
You know, progressivism. And they'll say things and you're like, oh, yeah, no, sure. Well, I mean, that's not exactly it, but I know what you're saying, and it's like, because you've studied it for a long time, they probably haven't. They've heard Bits and pieces. Maybe they've seen a little bit on social media, but a lot of times what carries with that is certainty. Right. Like, they've read a couple things on social media, they're sure they're right, and they bring it to you and you're like, you know, sure, I know what you're saying.
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Stu Burguiere
Let me address this on the air when I can tear you apart. We're here together at a party. Let's not talk. No, that is absolutely true. You remember what I said? Everybody was making fun of me. Glenn Beck's on his apology tour when I left Fox. And because you do a lot of thinking when you go from one of the most, you know, beloved people, invisible people, to. To a fat person that, you know is. You know, is now hated by most people, you know, you. You tend to think a lot. And I.
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Unknown Speaker
So what I think so.
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Stu Burguiere
And everything. What I was saying at the time was, you know, I was so certain of things. And that doesn't mean that I was wrong. It was just that my approach. I was so certain of things. And the only thing I'm certain of now is that I'm not certain of anything. You know what I mean?
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
And that's kind of the mantra of my life now. And it's really hard to do this job and say that, but it is what I believe. The only thing I'm truly certain of is I'm not certain of anything.
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Unknown Speaker
Right. And that doesn't mean you don't try to get to the truth. It means that you're constantly reexamining what you believe, like you have to. I think that's where some of the social media world in this era of media has. Has. Has kind of lost the plot. And that you should constantly be pushing yourself. Right. When you think you know something, you should constantly be pushing yourself the other direction, just to make sure, like, get the best arguments from the other side. There are policies that I agree with, and I want to hear the best policy arguments from the other side to see if my opinion should change. You should be thinking that way, even if you're not going to necessarily change your viewpoint all the time. You should be thinking about how to best challenge, not only to see if you're right, but also to strengthen your argument for what you currently believe.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, I did an interview with Ro Khanna last weekend. I was on the podcast. It was very good. I don't agree with him really, on much of anything except fundamental principles of our country and what we were founded on. But, you know, He's a, he's a big government guy and everything else, and he's a guy who's probably going to run for president. And that's why I did the interviews, because you should know where he stands, who he is, et cetera, et cetera, because he's probably going to be one of the guys running for president in the Democratic Party, and I want you to be informed on him. So I do the interview and I read all of these leftist responses on this and saying, look, even Ro Khanna can even get on Glenn Beck's program because he's so reasonable. Well, yeah, that's, that is true. I do like to have reasonable people on, but I really don't have a problem talking to anybody. It's, it's, it's not that they're changing. It's not that Ro Khanna changed me. I'm open to talk to people I disagree with, sure, but the left generally isn't, you know, I'm open to talking to people. If you can have a conversation, if you enter the conversation with absolute certainty, well, then I can't have a conversation with you because all it's going to end up being is a bash fest. Well, you're just too stupid to understand. Well, who's the stupid one? Honestly? I mean, you know, this is where it gets uncomfortable. Statistically speaking, someone in the room here is the dumbest person. And since it's just you and me, I got some bad news for you, you know, and, and nobody, nobody, you know, everybody thinks that way and they don't think. Well, maybe. Hang on, let me listen, because I might learn something from, from somebody. And, you know, look at the arrogance on the doctors. Going back to the original story, which brought this up. The doctors just started touting things. They didn't actually. No, because the science did not back it up. Not enough science had been done. The ones that weren't arrogant were the ones, honestly in Sweden and the, the Netherlands that actually looked at the science. They were doing it, and then they looked at the science and they looked at the studies and they were like, you know what? We got to stop this because this is not right. It's, it's not what we thought it was. But we continue just to double down and double down, and it was without any information. That's why I asked earlier today, what was it we were talking about? Oh, we were talking about the, the new approach by the State Department, which Marco Rubio is just killing it. And they, they're starting to put out these, you know, they've got a, you know, substack, and I read one of them at the beginning of the podcast today, and it. It was really, really amazing that it was coming from our State Department. And it should be something that everybody agrees with. And quite honestly, every Democrat I know would agree with it. Would have agreed with it, but now that it's coming from the Trump administration, they won't agree with anything. And I said, you know, I know why I've changed. I've changed my mind on a lot of things, and I am a different person than I was 20 years ago, and I think that's good. But I don't think Democrats are the same people either. And what I'd like to know is what new information did you get that has allowed you to abandon the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, all of that? What. What got you there, what got you from a place of these endless wars don't work to, yeah, we got to go in and kick some ass in Ukraine, and we got to topple Putin. What changed? Because I'm not there. And I'd like to just say, I would have liked to meet you in the same room here, because this is the room I always thought you were wrong on. You were right. But now you've changed. I really want to know what new information came to you that made you go, you know what? I've been wrong all these years? What new information came your way? That saying drag shows in, you know, first grade is good for children. I want specifics. What new information? Because you would have said, anybody who did that should be arrested. That's. That doesn't belong with, you know, first graders. It doesn't belong in the fourth grade. We shouldn't be doing these things. What we're doing to our children. I'm still at that place. I didn't change on that. I'm still there. But you did change. If you're on the other side, as an average Democrat, please specifically tell me why. What new information? Those are conversations I think America would love to hear. Instead of just calling each other names, just tell me new information. Because maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think I am, but maybe I am. So give me that new information that you got and don't make it about Trump, and I won't make it about Biden. How's that?
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Unknown Speaker
You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Stu Burguiere
So last night on the Wednesday night show, I talked about why the. You know, why this thing with Joe Biden and who is actually running the White House and the auto pin and everything else, why that matters and what, what do we actually know? And I had Ed Martin on, I don't know if you know who Ed Martin is, but he's a, he is the US Pardon attorney and he works through the doj. So he's the guy who knows about these pardons, if they're going to be valid, et cetera, et cetera. And I asked him last night and this has gone really viral. What, what are the potential laws that were broken and the laws in the COVID up about his health and abuse of the auto pen. Listen to his answer.
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Ed Martin
There's many, many laws that I would say apply to this. You know, someone brought up forgery. Forgery is the beginning of a conversation. I think fraud, you know, there's all kinds of aspects of fraud that could be done if somebody's making money, big money off of it. You know, there's, there's many things President Trump used in a truth social post about treason. And I think I'm, as a member of doj, I'm going to, you know, tread carefully towards what I would describe as the likely cr. But there's a lot, if this was an abuse, like people are worried. There's a lot of crimes that were committed and there will be, if the.
- [36:50]
Stu Burguiere
Facts show that it was happening, the DOJ will pursue aggressively justice.
- [37:00]
Ed Martin
The only way I know to do it is being aggressive. Glenn, you probably have seen this now. So, yes, I mean, we're going to get to the bottom of the facts. We're going to apply it to the law and we're going to go like hell against the people that did this to the country. And you know, this is the biggest scandal I could ever imagine in our lives. There's never been anything like this at this point. And so I hope it's the less, I hope it's a lesser scandal than it looks like, but it's headed towards one of the most egregious things we've ever seen. So yes, people will be held accountable and yes, they will be held accountable by prosecutions.
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Stu Burguiere
Wow. One of the biggest scandal it's headed, I hope it's less, but it's headed towards the biggest scandal we've ever had. Holy cow. And that's from a guy who's very, very reasoned and measured and he is, you know, he's the guy who does the pardons. And I asked him, you know, are these things even valid, you know, if it gets proven that other people, you know, use the auto pen without the President's knowledge of approval, are any of these things valid? Listen, what he said, cut 5.
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Ed Martin
This is a $64,000 question, but let's just do it as a hypothetical to be a little bit more, A little bit less specific to this. If I can. If you and I go enter a contract and it turns out that you were not capable of entering into the contract. Right. Depending on how I relied on it, you know, if I went and did something and I was paid for it, I might make the argument that you have to honor that. But in general, that's not a valid contract. So, you know, the validity of these things, whether they're pardons or other actions, is going to come into question. And I think there's some, some details and legal questions that are going to be a little bit harder. But, but you can see that it's, it's. And here's what's more troubling to me is if some of these pardons were issued because they were being engineered, you know, for, for example, for Fauci or for the Select Committee on.
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Stu Burguiere
To. To.
- [38:59]
Ed Martin
By someone who's taking advantage of Joe Biden in order to cover things up. Well, you know, I can't be the. What the system contemplated. And so I think that's all going to come into question. Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
Now let me play one more clip. This is from David Hogg. David Hogg. I don't think I need to even point out, you know, his history on who he is. Listen to what he said. Listen.
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David Hogg
I mean, I think the fact of the matter is the DNC is always going to be like a campaign arm of the President. Ultimately, the bigger issue was like, the inner circle that was around Biden. That's it. And I came straight. I came straight to you. Enough. Joe Biden's chief of staff, like, had an enormous amount of power. Jill Biden, Jill Biden's chief of staff. That was like an open secret at the left. Like, I, I would avoid him. Like, he was scary. What was his name?
- [39:50]
Unknown Speaker
Anthony.
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David Hogg
I've never seen him exactly.
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Stu Burguiere
What do you mean?
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David Hogg
He's just like a. He's like a shadowy, like, Blizzard of Oz type figure. That's what made him so, like, I knew how he looked, but I'm like, the general public wouldn't know how this man looked, but he wielded any, like, an enormous amount of power. And I can't stress to you how much power yet the White House.
- [40:15]
Stu Burguiere
That was on a Project Veritas hidden video. I mean, what these guys knew and how they just all dealt with it and just said, you know, ends justify the means. Can you imagine? Jill Biden was running the White House. Her, you know, her chief of staff. That's who is running all of this.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, Anthony. Anthony Bernal is. He's, by the way, one of the central characters in the Jake Tapper Alex Thompson book Original Sin, as well as seen, kind of described almost exactly that way as a guy who everyone was afraid of and that was making a lot of the decisions around the White House. One of four or five people, but he was one of the main ones, which is, again, you think about, we didn't elect Anthony Bernal, President of the United States. We didn't.
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Stu Burguiere
Or Jill Biden.
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Unknown Speaker
Or Jill Biden. At least we knew who Jill Biden was. But no, we didn't elect them.
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Stu Burguiere
We were.
- [41:15]
Unknown Speaker
We have a constitutional system that says that he's supposed to be making these decisions, Joe Biden, and he was not making them. I think quite clearly at this point, at least, his access to information and to even his own cabinet officials seems to have been controlled by the people close to him.
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Stu Burguiere
What's the book say about Hunter Biden? Because I've heard that Hunter Biden was making all of the family decisions at the time.
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Unknown Speaker
It basically talks about how. It talks about how Joe Biden was a big part of his decline happened around the time that Hunter was dealing with all these legal issues. They describe Joe in the book, I would say, as crushed by his losses over the years. He'd lost two children, obviously, previously, and he was worried about losing a third. And for that reason, he was insanely loyal to Hunter in believing that he was actually a good guy. Now, again, that's talking a lot about motivation. I don't know what the reason was, but. Yeah, wait, wait, wait.
- [42:23]
Stu Burguiere
I mean, I think that. I mean, I've known that from the get go. The guy was crushed by, you know, the death of his other son, and he was loyal to a fault to this son and was doing more damage, you know, and when you say that he really believed that he was a good guy, you got to remember you're talking about Joe Biden's version of a good guy.
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Unknown Speaker
Right, right.
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Stu Burguiere
It's different than my version with multiple.
- [42:51]
Unknown Speaker
Layers on top of this, the corruption being the one I think you're referring to there, but also the senility and the elements of senility that had stepped into his life. I don't think he was able to make those decisions anyway.
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Stu Burguiere
In the book. When do they say that he really kind of Checked out. When was his, when was he kind of done?
- [43:14]
Unknown Speaker
They describe it as sort of a multi phase process that began in 2015. Now you might recognize 2015 as a time he was not president, but was still Vice President of the United States. But going back to 2015, they say it started there. It wasn't constant then, though. People would notice he was having moments, bad moments, bad days. But it started picking up in 2018 and then again before he was president. Some of it was noticed in 2020. They say the real collapse off. You said this earlier. How do you go bankrupt? Well, very slowly. And then all at once they say kind of the same thing about his mental capacity and that it was fading from 2015, but really fell off a cliff in 2023. Now obviously we all noticed stuff in 2020, 2021, throughout that period. And they say it was there. They just say it wasn't as consistent. It was really noticeable even to the people close to him, even to the people who were cheering him on and wanting him to succeed. It became so overwhelming in the year, in 2023 and obviously into 2024.
- [44:33]
Stu Burguiere
You know, it's really amazing to me, you know, that the ends justify the means to these people. If in 2018 they were spotting it and going, he is. He's going downhill. Because if you, if you really believed in the presidency, if you believed in the Constitution and what the president was going to have to do, my God, carrying the nuclear football, just that alone. And if you, if you really truly understand that and respect that, there's no way you would say, yeah, let's go ahead and just run him anyway because you, you legally and constitutionally cannot stand in for him. And then what do they do? If you're going to do that, say, because he could win, great, then let's get the strongest vice president we can. Because if he starts to really fade, we got to have a. Somebody who can really run it. So maybe we use him to get elected. But you know, the first sign of real trouble, we're out. And what do they do? They get the weakest person to be the vice president. It shows from the beginning this was a puppet regime.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, they talk a little.
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Stu Burguiere
That's incredible to say.
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Unknown Speaker
They talk a little bit about that pick and go through the moments of how they picked Kamala Harris a little bit and they basically said he wanted Whitmer. Now again, Whitmer also would have sucked as a vice president. I'm not saying, but that Biden wanted Whitmer. He was more comfortable with Whitmer the family thought Whitmer would be a better pick, partially because of Jill Biden. Jill saw the actions that Kamala took during the debate and would not forgive her for that when she basically called her husband a racist. And also, interestingly, it wasn't just, hey, you called my husband a racist. That makes me mad. It was that Jill, I think, correctly diagnosed the idea that only a person with incredible desire to rise in the ranks would do such a thing. Right. Like only someone with all sorts of.
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Stu Burguiere
Of.
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Unknown Speaker
Want and need for higher levels of power would do that. So she did not want Kamala, according to the book. But. And Whitmer was the one that even Biden wanted, however they. I mean, it came down to skin color. I mean, it really did come down to that. Where, you know, his allies, particularly on the side, you know, people like Clyburn, wanted an African American on the ticket that was believed to be his strength with voters in the primary and on. So they kind of just picked her because she checked those boxes. I mean, it's as bad of a DEI thing that we always talked about. I mean, quite literally, the President of the United States, according to this book, did not want Kamala Harris to be vice president and instead picked her anyway because of these intersectional boxes that needed to be checked.
- [47:48]
Stu Burguiere
And if you said that the press demonized you and said you're crazy and now it's all coming out, that, yeah, that's absolutely true. I mean, it's really amazing what they put the country through.
- [48:03]
Unknown Speaker
It's really the entire saga of this book too. Right? Like all these things were things we were all saying. You know, there's not like there's tons of information we didn't know that is in the book, but it all supports things we did know. We all knew this was all going on. We didn't have the background information. We weren't in the private meetings because even his own cabinet officials weren't in the private meetings. But, you know, it was obvious to people just by the public stuff and the behind the scenes stuff, as opposed to what we heard on media, which was, oh, he's sharp as attack. You should see him when he's not on camera. Maybe we should film those moments if that's really what's happening. But in reality, that safe stuff was going on and it seemingly was worse behind the scenes than it was in front of the camera.
- [48:48]
Stu Burguiere
That's incredible. You wouldn't think that would be possible.
- [48:55]
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