Best of the Program | Guest: Stu Burguiere | 3/20/26

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Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program

Episode: Best of the Program | Guest: Stu Burguiere | 3/20/26
Date: March 20, 2026

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Overview

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program brings together Glenn Beck and returning guest Stu Burguiere for a lively and candid discussion on American politics, humor in diplomacy, cultural trends, and the evolving Senate race as seen through prediction markets. The conversation moves from Trump’s controversial jokes and reflections on Chuck Norris’s passing, to serious commentary on political divisions, rule of law, and the impact of prediction markets on understanding upcoming electoral outcomes. The episode’s tone shifts between humor, reflection, and urgency.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump, Diplomacy, and Humor: The Pearl Harbor Joke

Timestamps: 02:42–05:43

• Context: Glenn and Stu break down former President Trump’s joke referencing Pearl Harbor during a discussion with the Japanese Prime Minister.
• Trump explains his rationale for keeping military actions secret: “You don’t want to signal too much... Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” (Glenn Beck quoting Trump, 03:22)
• Reaction:
  • Glenn marvels at Trump’s comedic timing: “You are. If you don't find him funny, if you don't get that he is trolling almost all the time. You've missed a sweet, sweet, fun ride.” (Glenn Beck, 04:38)
  • Stu comments on the stunned silence of the Japanese press: “What I love about that was all the faces of the Japanese press pool looking at each other with that, ‘Is it too soon to make that joke?’” (Stu Burguiere, 05:30)
• Broader discussion on presidential decorum and the shifting boundaries of public humor.

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2. Remembering Chuck Norris: Tribute and Tales

Timestamps: 05:43–12:05

• Glenn announces the passing of Chuck Norris, reflecting on Norris’s legacy:
  • Norris’s impact through his Kickstart program helping at-risk youth in Texas.
  • Personal anecdotes: “He was just a normal guy who dedicated his himself to making the lives of children better... He has left more than jokes on how tough he is behind. He has left a legacy of good and strong young men and women.” (Glenn Beck, 09:35)
• Discussion of Chuck Norris internet memes, and the story behind them:
  • “Chuck Norris doesn't die. He left to beat up the grim reaper.” (Co-host, 10:17)
  • The origin of the memes was a family discovery—Chuck and his wife initially unsure, their son noting how it boosted Norris’s legend.

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3. Political Commentary: Rule of Law, Justice, and COVID Accountability

Timestamps: 12:05–23:35

• J.B. Pritzker’s remarks about a “Project 2029 agenda” trigger Glenn’s frustration with political hypocrisy over law and accountability.
• Glenn’s passionate critique:
  • “We have to restore the rule of law... We have to punish those who have violated the law. Let me ask you this. Could we apply that maybe to the little people?” (Glenn Beck, 12:27)
  • On COVID and political responsibility: “When will anyone pay any price for the millions of people that have died because of COVID? When will anyone pay any price?” (Glenn Beck, 13:47)
• Themes of hypocrisy, selective justice, and calling out failures to hold elites accountable.
• Spirited spiritual commentary:
  • Glenn humorously, yet earnestly, invokes “sweet baby Jesus” as a coping mechanism amid frustration: “Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Wow. Because I almost said things that would have had the show canceled...” (Glenn Beck, 14:37)
  • Urging unity over division: “The evil that we are fighting is so profound that we will lose [if divided]... We need to love one another, because this one is all hands on deck.” (Glenn Beck, 17:43)
• Cultural critique on Western tolerance and the dangers of moral relativism, especially regarding child abuse and exploitation justified as “culture.”

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4. Prediction Markets and Election Prospects

Timestamps: 23:44–40:44

• Stu introduces his new project, Predictable, focused on prediction markets for upcoming elections.
  • “What I love about the prediction markets and predictableshow.com... it cuts through not only what the mainstream media tells us, not only what the campaigns tell us, but also sometimes what our side tells us.” (Stu Burguiere, 27:36)
• Glenn and Stu discuss the real-world insights from betting and investment markets over polls/commentary.
• Senate Forecast:
  • For the first time, prediction markets show a 50/50 split for GOP Senate control in 2026 (“That is, to me, that points to a completely catastrophic outcome.” – Stu, 32:25).
  • House races heavily favor Democrats (85% chance).
  • Explains the Senate “scoreboard” and the nuances of safe versus toss-up seats (Ohio, Iowa, Texas as GOP leaners; Georgia, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Alaska as toss-ups).
  • On Texas: “One thing that people are forgetting about Texas right now is that we are still at a point where there are two camps on the Republican side that hate each other... They haven’t united.” (Stu Burguiere, 36:37)
  • Glenn’s take on party loyalty: “If it's glass, nails and fire that I have to walk through and he's the guy, unfortunately in this election, I'm going to be that guy that walks through the glass and the nails in the fire to vote for fricking John Cornyn.” (Glenn Beck, 37:24)
  • Intrigue over Alaska as a dark horse toss-up and the chance for a razor-thin, high-drama outcome.
  • Stu’s optimism: “I do think it's a little bit pessimistic to say it's a 50, 50 chance... So I can be a little bit more optimistic than that.” (Stu Burguiere, 39:17)
• The hosts discuss the impact of intra-party Republican divisions and how these may heal as the election approaches, referencing parallels to 2016 (“By the end of that, people were pretty united... I tend to think a lot of it will heal.” – Stu, 40:44).

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5. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Trump’s Humor:

  • “If you don't find him funny, if you don't get that he is trolling almost all the time. You've missed a sweet, sweet, fun ride.” – Glenn Beck (04:38)

• On Chuck Norris’s Legacy:

  • “He has left a legacy of good and strong young men and women.” – Glenn Beck (09:35)
  • “Chuck Norris doesn't die. He left to beat up the grim reaper.” – Unidentified Co-host (10:17)

• On Accountability and Hypocrisy:

  • “When will anyone pay any price for the millions of people that have died because of COVID? When will anyone pay any price?” – Glenn Beck (13:47)

• On National Unity and Culture:

  • “We need to love one another, because this one is all hands on deck.” – Glenn Beck (17:43)
  • “He has taken our best traits, our love, our compassion, our wanting to get along. And he has perverted it...” – Glenn Beck (18:56)

• On Prediction Markets:

  • “Markets cut through... not only what the mainstream media tells us, not only what the campaigns tell us, but also sometimes what our side tells us.” – Stu Burguiere (27:36)

• On Voting Reluctance and Party Loyalty:

  • “If it's glass, nails and fire that I have to walk through and he's the guy, unfortunately in this election, I'm going to be that guy.” – Glenn Beck (37:24)

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Segment Timestamps

• Trump’s Pearl Harbor Joke & Diplomatic Humor: (02:42–05:43)
• Chuck Norris Tribute & Internet Memes: (05:43–12:05)
• Rule of Law, COVID Response, Cultural Decay: (12:05–23:35)
• Election Prediction Markets with Stu: (23:44–40:44)

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Tone and Language

The tone constantly shifts between sharp sarcasm, deep sincerity, and stark urgency. Glenn’s signature humor and candor are on display, particularly in reaction to political absurdities and cultural shifts, but balanced with genuine concern for national unity and moral foundations. Stu provides calm, data-driven insights into election dynamics.

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Summary

This episode delivers a mix of comedy, tribute, outrage, and analytical depth. Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere alternate between bold criticism of elites and government failures, emotional remembrance of cultural icons, and strategic analysis of political trends. Listeners are left with urgent questions about accountability, a call for unity grounded in moral clarity, and a pragmatic glance at what betting markets reveal about the 2026 electoral landscape.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

Hey, on today's podcast, JB Pritzker, I tell you, I started the day with my head about to explode and I asked for sweet, sweet mercy from sweet baby Jesus and he showed up. That's an amazing part of the show today you don't want to miss. Also has enough time passed to make Pearl harbor jokes with the Japanese prime minister? Comedian in chief Donald Trump did yesterday. And Stu joins the program. Talk about the prediction markets and what it looks like for the Senate race at this point. That. More on today's podcast. Let me tell you about Relief Factor. You know, I feel the need to repeat this sometimes. I don't endorse products I don't believe in. I don't endorse products that I don't use. And that is why I didn't endorse Relief Factor. They were a sponsor on Blaze for a very long time and I never talked about them or anything else because I didn't, I didn't use it. And you know, Stu is with me. All those years I was in really bad, really bad pain all the time. And I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do my job for much longer. My wife said, why don't you try this Relief Factor thing? And I said, I. Because it's, it's all natural. All natural is not going to work. You know, better living through farmers. Get Dow Chemical on the phone, they'll make me feel better. And I started taking it and I felt it broke the back of the pain. Okay. I don't know how it did it. I don't really care. It broke the back. If you would like to change your life, try the new enhanced formula. Three week quick start 1995 at relieffactor.com 800 for relief 1, 800 the number for relief relieffactor.com get your life back just like I did. 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.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, I've got to play this. This is Donald Trump yesterday with the prime minister of Japan. And a Japanese reporter said, why didn't you tell your allies? Why didn't you tell Japan before the war? Listen to what he said. Of course, no, Japan and us are very good friends. But one question. Why didn't you tell US allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

So we are very confused about we Japanese systems.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, one thing, you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, right. He's asking me, you believe in surprise? I think much more so than us. And we had a surprise and we did. Okay, let's joke with the people of Japan.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

I think enough time has passed.

[Glenn Beck]

I think, I think the statute of limitations, like making an Abraham Lincoln assassination joke. I think, I think we're there, you know, I think we can. I think we could do it, you know, like John F. Kennedy. What was on his mind? I don't know. His mind was probably on the trunk of the car. You know, that kind of stuff. I think we're past the statute of limitations. We can make horrible jokes. It's not polite. And I shouldn't have made that joke. I know I'm going to burn in hell for it. Baby Jesus, let me smell your sweet hay of the manger again. But I think we can get over it. But no. What president does that? What president does that?

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

The greatest president of all time.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I mean, he is just.

[Glenn Beck]

You are. If you don't find him funny, if you don't get that he is trolling almost all the time. You've missed a sweet, sweet, fun ride.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

He's improving network ratings with stuff like this. And Melissa Chen, brilliant woman. You should follow her on X Mississippi Melchin. She actually collected some of his greatest hits. Remember when he told Aragon that he knows about rigged elections better than anybody? Oh, my gosh, that was a good one. We had the Trump. Trump sprays the Syrian president with cologne and he asks how many wives he has. This is this last term. You got that fatty North Korean guy who loves nukes. And this was a few. I think it was during his first term. He said, so we look nice and handsome and thin, this guy. We don't deserve him.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

What I love about that was all the. The faces of the Japanese press pool looking at each other with that. Is it too soon to make that joke?

[Glenn Beck]

They didn't really know.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Can we laugh too? Or. I don't know. This is uncharted water.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, man, I love it. Just love it. Hey, I just got bad news. It looks like Chuck Norris has died. The news just broke while we were talking about Japan. He's a friend of mine. We have known each other for the longest time. He was one of the most giving men I have ever met. And completely normal. Completely normal. Normal. Here's a guy who is known all over the world, is a megastar. Everywhere he goes, everyone loves him. And he was Chuck. He was just a normal guy who dedicated his himself to making the lives of children better. He knew that the discipline of martial arts would change people. And he started a program here in Texas in some of the harder hit areas in Texas where kids didn't have dads. They were falling into drugs and everything else. And so he started his Kickstart program, and it changed kids. My son was really struggling when he was younger, and we were over at Chuck and Gina's house, and we stayed overnight. And the next morning, I see him and my son walking outside. He said, I'm sending somebody to your house because I see greatness in you and I know you're struggling. I'm sending somebody to your house to get you started on your black belt. Because once you learn this discipline, everything will change in your life. And it wasn't because it was my son or me. That's the way he was with everyone's son or daughter. I can't tell you. I have met a bigger star than Chuck Norris. A man who has accomplished more in his life than Chuck Norris. Norris. And a more regular guy than Chuck Norris. A lot of that had to do with his wife, Gina. And I would ask that you pray for Gina. She was a titan. I was like, you know, Chuck Norris. You can't hurt Chuck Norris. You know, you can't hurt Chuck Norris. Gina will punch you in the face if you come after her husband. She's an amazing woman. And the two of them together were dynamo, an absolute dynamo. And he has left more than jokes on how tough he is behind. He has left a legacy of good and strong young men and women. So our thoughts are with Gina Norris and the family on the passing of Chuck Norris.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

The memes are coming in. You guys know the memes about Chuck? He doesn't sleep, he waits. When he doesn't swim, he's. When he swims, he doesn't get wet. There was one that just replied to the post about him passing, and they said, chuck Norris doesn't die. He left to beat up the grim reaper.

[Glenn Beck]

Do you know the story behind those jokes?

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

No, tell me.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm sitting there, and I. And. And we were telling Chuck Norris jokes with him about his favorites and everything else. And I said, how. How. How did this happen? And he said, gina comes in one day, and he said, there are these jokes that they're seeing, and I think it was even before the Internet, I don't remember, but they see these jokes going around, and she's like, this has got to stop. This has got to stop. And he's like, I think they're kind of funny, but okay. And their son, Gina is talking to their son, and she said, this got to stop. He said, mom, this makes dad more popular than ever. She's like, really? They had no idea, but somebody had started it, and it just went on and made him really into much bigger of a legend than he ever was. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. I want to start with J.D. pritzker. He's talking about what is going to happen in 2028 or 2029 when they win, assuming that they do win. Listen to this.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

What does a Project 2029 agenda look like for you?

[Glenn Beck]

I don't think you can speak of it in shorthand, but I'll just say

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

a couple of things that I think are absolutely necessary. One is we've got to restore the

[Glenn Beck]

rule of means holding people accountable who've

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

broken the law and talking about in this administration when we get a new one.

[Glenn Beck]

Stop. Stop. Jesus, sweet baby Jesus, be with me. We have to restore the rule of law. Sweet baby Jesus, let me smell the hay in your manger. We have to restore the rule of law. We have to punish the people who have broken the law. Come to me now, sweet Jesus, before I lose my ever loving mind. We have to punish those who have violated the law. Let me ask you this. Could we apply that maybe to the little people? Could we apply that to people who are, I don't know, stealing from our treasury? Could we apply that to, I don't know, people who are dabbing people on the streets? Could we maybe do that? How about this one? A damning study of over 1 million kids finds myocarditis only in the vaccinated. Can I ask you a question? When will anyone pay any price for the millions of people that have died because of COVID When will anyone pay any price? We're not even talking about stealing from people. We are talking about killing people. And quite honestly, follow the science.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

Wow.

[Glenn Beck]

Baby Jesus just came to me. Wow. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Wow. Because I almost said things that would have had the show canceled and I would have been in court at fcc and I would have been in FCC hell. Thank you, sweet baby Jesus. They knew. They knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. And no one is going to pay any price. But I guess if you're Donald Trump and you're trying to have ICE follow the law and go and get people who have stabbed people to death or raped children and have them deported, that for some reason that needs to be prosecuted. But not Covid. Not the people stealing, not the people raping children. None of that. Not the. Not the politicians who have been involved in all of this stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Gang. Marxists do the same thing. Marxists and Islamists do the same thing. In the end, when they get full power, what do they do? What do they do? They purge. If they get power, they mean it because they do it. This is what Marxists do. They purge. We. Oh, he just visited me again. Thank you. We must come together. Oh, my gosh, look at this miracle that is happening. Do you know, I mean, I want to testify to you now that Jesus comes to you when you really need him. I was about to lose my mind and here I am, what, two minutes later, about to say, we need to love one another. We need to stop this fighting with one another. We need to find our way to another one another. We have to stop saying that person is a traitor and you must hate them. We have to stop all of that. We have to come together. The. The evil that we are fighting is so profound that we will lose. And when we lose this time, and I'm not the sweet baby Jesus grew up, he preached for a while, and because it pissed everybody off, they nailed him to a tree. He rose again for our sins, but he also promised. I'm coming back. The battle that we are approaching may very well be the final battle before Jesus comes back. We need to love one another, because this one is all hands on deck. This is all hands on deck.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

There's.

[Glenn Beck]

There's a great sorting that is going on. And if you don't have the spirit as your guide, if you are not, if you are looking at everything politically, you're going to get lost. If you're looking at things because you're angry, you are going to end up on the wrong side. You won't think you are, but you will be. I. I can't believe I'm here. What is happening to me, I testify to you now that we are. We are going to be asked to

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

stand,

[Glenn Beck]

but not slaughter. And the way things are going, everybody is getting so hyped up that everyone is a mortal enemy and a traitor. And our side would purge just as much as their side would. We are not immune. That is a human trait and we are not to engage in that. I suddenly know all of this is true. It's coming. And we are to love one another and be the example. We stand for what is right. If somebody you know last night on that special, it was an amazing special. I don't remember who said it, but one of our experts was talking about how the rape of children is happening in. In Sharia law. It's happening all over the world. And we have gotten to this place, to where we won't judge it. And she was raped as a child. She was raped. She was brutalized as a child by her father. And the school knew it, but the school wouldn't do anything about it because that's their culture. And that's the problem. We have gotten to this place to where we have just tried. We have. They have twisted. Satan doesn't destroy. First he perverts. He takes what's good and he perverts it and then he uses it. And by him using it, it destroys it. He is the destroyer, but he is the great perverter first. And he has taken our best traits, our love, our compassion, our wanting to get along. And he has perverted it to the point to where we will sit there and say, that young girl is being abused. But that's their culture. If that's their culture, then we must say that culture is evil. And we have stopped saying that because our best human traits that come out in the Western society, the best part of us is tolerance, is to get along, is to love one another. But you must not love that. It can't harden your heart. You still need to be filled with compassion. I have, I have learned so much. Just even in the last week, We must still guard that best part of our culture and us. But at the same time, we have to be razor sharp on evil and call it by its name. What was done during COVID was evil. It was evil. We had people in our own government conspiring to make something absolutely deadly. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they had such little value in human life that their little experiment was more important than millions of people. And we went to the most. One of the most evil countries in the world, China. And we partnered with them because they didn't have a problem doing it and our laws restricted us from doing it. So let's partner with them and do it in some crazy garage laboratory. And it went out. And then they covered it up. And then, and then the drug companies were excused and told, don't worry about any kind of liability. And they conspired with our own politicians all over the world and they killed millions of people. That's what happened. Period. That's the truth. Period. And it was evil. Exclamation point.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

You're listening to the Best of Glenn Beck.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

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[Glenn Beck]

Ah, hello, Stu.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Ah, Glenn. It feels like the old days. I know.

[Glenn Beck]

It's so good. I've missed you.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I really have missed you. It's been. It's so weird. It's so weird. I haven't gotten up before 2pm in any of these days since I stopped the show. So this is weird now.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

I've missed you too, Stu.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Ricky, I miss you as well.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

The bags under my eyes, the morgue that I live in now.

[Glenn Beck]

I've worked harder. I've worked harder now more now than I've worked maybe in my whole career.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Well, I will say I was watching the special last night. I could tell. I could tell, man, what an in depth piece of. You went really, really deep. It was amazing just watching it, seeing how many times you have these people admitting this, right? Like they're admitting they're on record. They. You have the quotes, you have the documents. That is, you know, it's something that, you know, you think of these things as theory and you pointed it out and I think you're right where like, obviously you're not talking. Some guy you're buying, you know, a meal from at a restaurant is not. These are not the people putting these plans together. But those plans do exist. There are people in power and these organizations trying to execute them and having success with it. That is terrifying.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, it's terrifying. If you missed the special, watch it@glenn beck.com torch I wanted to talk to you about because you're doing Predictable, which is coming out in April.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Yeah, predictableshow.com by the way, please go subscribe, you just free. It's an email. That's all you need to do.

[Glenn Beck]

And all you do is you're looking at all of the betting markets and predicting investment.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Investment.

[Glenn Beck]

Glenn. Sorry, yeah.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

These are investments.

[Glenn Beck]

Investment market. And, and, and you know, we've always said this. I mean, right after 9 11, it was DARPA.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

That started a prediction market, a betting market where they were telling people in, in, you know, the Five Eyes community, if you're in the CIA, you're in, you know, you know, MI5 or MI6, whichever the mis is, you go ahead and you invest and bet on where you think the next strike is going to be. And they felt that that was the best way to figure things out because when people put their money into it, they are not just being blowhards, they're invested in that. So they really do their homework. Same thing. This is what predict, you know, predictable is all about. Look at the people who are putting their money behind what they think is going to happen because it's a pretty safe bet.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Investment. Yes, I agree. Because it is true and I think goes. Certainly you were the one who introduced me to that story all those years ago and got me interested in it initially because it's an interesting thing, markets.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm blaming your leaving the show on me. On you.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

It's your fault.

[Glenn Beck]

Bastard.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

In so many ways it's your fault. But that is what you do, right? Like when you put your money where your mouth is. We can look at polls and polls can give us interesting information. You can listen to commentary. We tried, I think over the years, very hard to make sure we weren't doing the type of commentary that was just, hey, this is the thing you're supposed to say today. Here are all the talking points that everyone runs through. Here's what's hot on social media. Let us say it again for you. Oftentimes it even frustrated the audience. Like you get to a place where we might have a different opinion than the audience and blow this audience off

[Glenn Beck]

like six times and then rebuilt it and blew it off. Rebuilt it, blew it off.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

But they're awesome because they understand that.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

They come here with the idea of like, I want, I don't want to hear what Glenn says.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I might not agree and he might be an idiot on this and that's fine. It's very common in my experience. But it was.

[Glenn Beck]

You're a guest on this show, right? I am, yeah.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

But this does what I love about the prediction markets and predictableshow.com, one of the reasons I wanted to do it is because it cuts through not only what the mainstream media tells us, not only what the campaigns tell us, but also sometimes what our side tells us. Sometimes, you know, even our side, with the best of intentions, will give us what we want to hear.

[Glenn Beck]

Can you tell me anything about the economy, looking at the prediction markets? Because here's a. There is a possibility that everything is being priced in for disaster right now. All the markets are going, this is going to be a long, drawn out war. That's going to be horrible. Gas, gas is going to be through the roof and oil is going to be $160 a barrel. If he can shut this off in the next few weeks, it might, might actually be a boon. It might, people might go, oh my gosh, it's over, and rush back out. And it could actually be starter fluid for the economy, which he needed to have. What do you think of that?

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I think it's possible. Right. I do think you've seen this happen multiple times already during just the couple of weeks we've done this where Trump has come out and said it's only gonna be a few weeks and the price of oil goes from 115 to 80. Right. And I do think when this is over, that's the type of thing that we'll see. Right. Of course, Iran has a voice in this, unfortunately, and they can make our lives miserable in that region and keep these things high, even if we want to stop it. And I think Trump's approach, which has been, I think is probably the correct one, which is if they continue to do what they're doing, they're targeting oil infrastructure, they're targeting our allies in the region. He's just gonna start hitting them harder and harder and harder.

[Glenn Beck]

You see what Agset said yesterday, they're sharing the oceans now with sharing, we're going to share the oceans with the Iranians. We're just going to share the bottom half for them.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I didn't hear that line. Such a great. Steph is a quote machine.

[Glenn Beck]

I love him.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I mean, he's a reason, I mean, remember Blaze alum, by the way, he was on, started here, he started here before he got on Fox. He was on the Blaze and he, he knows how to phrase.

[Glenn Beck]

He's good.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

You know, I, I think there is a, a real risk that this could be something that is not something that Trump can control easily. One of the things he's done with the military, you think of all the things he's done, he's had success after success, after success, and over and over and over again, everyone's told him it was going to end in disaster. Soleimani. Right. Moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Venezuela maybe coming with Cuba, all of these things. Now, that one obviously isn't done yet, but all of these things have prevailed. Finland. Yeah, right. They said it was going to be a disaster. We don't have it yet.

[Glenn Beck]

I know, but I mean, they said that. I mean, just go. Just to the NATO part of that.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Yes, yes, right.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, look at what he's doing with Naito right now. He's telling NATO. I mean, he's doing to NATO and to Europe what he did to the Democrats in the State of the Union. He is saying to them, hey, you want to keep oil prices down? And they're like, no, no, we can't. We can't help you on that. They're afraid. And they know. They're not saying it out loud, but they know the reason why they're not, is they're afraid of their own population. They are afraid of the Islamic terror, and they know it. And at the same time, he's making them look right at that. Germany can't even raise an army now because too many Islamic militants are in their country. They can't get them to.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I mean, there's some positive. The Germany doesn't have an army.

[Glenn Beck]

But what I'm saying is they know they're screwed. They know they're screwed. And he's just pointing that out to him. Just, hey, we don't need your help. Like, your help. Why is he asking for that help? He's not asking it for any reason other than, you know, you can't do it.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

I've been telling you, you're over. Wake up. The guy's just a strategic genius.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I mean, and he has taken big bet after big bet after big bet. And especially with the military. It's just paid off. Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

So that's been.

[Glenn Beck]

I think that's one thing that does worry me.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Yeah. Make your biggest mistakes in those moments.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. If you become convinced that everything I'm gonna do is gonna work out that way.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

So can I translate the economy stuff to the elections?

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

So, you know, you come into a Senate election, for example, for the first time. This is now a 50, 50 proposition on election markets.

[Glenn Beck]

Thanks for dropping by.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I'm done already.

[Glenn Beck]

No, go ahead.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

It's a 50, 50 for the first time, Republican Senate control in 2026. That is, to me, that points to a completely catastrophic outcome.

[Glenn Beck]

That is. That's the end of the Trump. I mean, talk about, you know, it's not just lame duck that will be nonstop investigations, impeachment, oh, my gosh, everything for two years. They will set the country on fire for two years.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

The House is obviously a real, real problem. That was something like 85% Democratic control. And I think honestly, that's pretty well priced. When we first started talking about this, it was at, you know, the high 50s and I thought it was unfortunately a buy for Democrats at that price. Now it's at 85. I don't know that there's any value left in that if you're looking at it as an investment. But I do think that there is a. You know, the Democrats are heavily favored and this is history, right? We know this. You know, you go back, I think it is 9% of the time the party in power has been able to hold on to the House. Senate is a little bit higher. It's about 30%. A lot of that has to do with structure. Unlike a presidential election where all the states are at zero, or House, where everyone is elected every time you kind of have a scoreboard going in to the Senate. So the scoreboard going into The Senate is 34 Democrats, 31 Republicans not up for election at all. So Democrats have a slight lead. When you kick off the scoreboard, if you will, then you have sort of a bunch of kind of yawn, should be easy seats. Let's just take that for what it is right now. If you look at those seats that are solid for either party, you've got nine Democrats. I can run through them if you want. Sixteen Republicans, most of those you look at, and you'd say pretty safe like Alabama, you don't see necessarily. We've seen upsets in states like this. You never know when your favorite candidate is gonna show up in a dead person's email about an island. So that can happen. But generally speaking, you'd say, like, a state like Alabama is gonna be pretty safe. That gets us to 47 Republicans and 43 Democrats. Then you have leaners, right? Leaner races for Republicans. You got Ohio, you have Iowa, and you have Texas. Now, again, Texas should be easy, right?

[Glenn Beck]

I don't put anything.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

But

[Glenn Beck]

Texas is in trouble.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

And this is why I went into deep and utter mourning a couple of the weeks. I just didn't even go online or anything after Jasmine Crockett was defeated. She was my girl.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

One of our torch insiders actually asked this morning, I need to know how devastated Stu was to learn that she

[Glenn Beck]

may be Trailing, he's wearing a black armband today.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Yeah, there was a lot of wellness checks. I will say, by my.

[Glenn Beck]

That was such a loss.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I wanted her so bad. Now Talarico also sucks. I believe the people of Texas are not gonna fall for that. He just seems like another Beto. And if you remember, you go back, you look early on, there was a lot of risk that, hey, is Ted Cruz gonna be beaten by Beto? And it got close. It got within a couple of points. These polls actually look slightly worse than that election for the Republicans. But we're still at a divisive point among this primary.

[Glenn Beck]

Did it end up at a couple points though? Did it?

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

It was. Yeah, it was.

[Glenn Beck]

I thought it was like eight.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

It was in that range. I can't remember the exact. Either the polls or the actual election. I thought the election was around 4. The final polls were 6 to 8. But if you look back at this time with Ted Cruz and Beto, it was more like our six or eight point race. What we're seeing in the polls right now is actually a slight lead for Talarico.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

Stu, how is this possible? We have so many opposition clips on this man. The most prominent being is that he doesn't really like meat. You cannot be a candidate in Texas who hates meat. You can be a co host on national radio for 28 years.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I barely get by.

[Unidentified Co-host or Guest]

The man doesn't like meat.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

That's true. He's got a lot of very weird. I would argue that's not even his weirdest position. I can understand why people would say that it is, but I think one thing that people are forgetting about Texas right now is that we are still at a point where there are two camps on the Republican side that hate each other. The Paxton camp. The people who love Paxton and really want him to win can't stand Cornyn. The people who really want Cornyn to win and don't like Paxton, just there's a hatred there between those two parties. They haven't united. There's still a lot of people in this voting group of Republicans who are saying to themselves, well, if it's Cornyn, forget it. And there's a bunch of people saying, if it's Paxton, forget it. I am not a fan.

[Glenn Beck]

Spies him not a fan. But if it's glass, nails and fire that I have to walk through and he's the guy, unfortunately in this election, I'm going to be that guy that walks through the glass and the nails in the fire to vote for, for fricking John Cornyn.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I mean, think about it.

[Glenn Beck]

That's the way it would be. You cannot lose Texas.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

When I think of the Senate, he's horrible.

[Glenn Beck]

I hate him.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I know. I've argued on the show a hundred times to say, hey, the target for Republicans is to take out in primaries people like John Cornyn in bright red states because that's where we can really make the difference. Trying to go after someone like Susan Collins in Maine is not nearly as profitable for their conservative movement. So I do think though, once this primary's over, you're going to see some of that fade as we get closer to this election. And I do think that you're gonna wind up with a Republican as a favorite there.

[Glenn Beck]

So give me a final look at the Senate. Where do you think it ends?

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

So right there with just the states we've discussed. If you're pulling off Ohio, Iowa, Texas, you should be able to do that. If you're anywhere near competent as Republicans. If you can win those three states, you're at 50. This is why I think 50%, 50, 50 idea on the prediction markets right now for Republicans is pretty pessimistic. They should be able to win those states and that's all they have to do basically to get to 50. And you think about when I think of the Senate, I think of control of the Senate being important for things like Supreme Court justices. We've got really old people in there that are awesome but might be going away. So you have that, then you have five toss ups. I have it as Georgia, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Alaska, which is one people aren't talking about yet. Watch Alaska as a toss up state. The Democrats got the candidate they wanted in that race. The Republicans not all that popular in the state. Very risky one in Alaska, which means we could have a very late night. If that Senate comes down to that Alaska seat, imagine how long we'll be waiting for that one. But I do think it's a little bit pessimistic to say it's a 50, 50 chance. You're in catastrophe levels. If oil is $160 a barrel, this is the type of stuff you're looking at and Democrats will win. I agree with you though. Right now there's a lot of that ultra pessimism priced into this stuff. So I can be a little bit more optimistic than that.

[Glenn Beck]

What do you think the damage is to. That's being done by, and I don't want to get into the personalities, but all of the damage that's being done on the splitting of the base and I don't think it's as bad as people think, but there is a problem of the bass being split hard. Is that. Is that dangerous?

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I mentioned to start a new show on Blaze TV, Stu and Davedo America and predictableshow.com. thanks so much for having me.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay. I don't want to drag. I don't want personality on. You know how I am.

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

Well, I, you know, and this is something I think you've tried to achieve and I have as well. It's like I don't do a show about other people's shows. That's not what I. If you want to hire me to do a show to review someone else's podcast, I suppose. Suppose you can make an offer. Not that interested in it. That's not why I got into this. I think it's a real problem how this has become about the personality.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. So what I'm asking you is, is that real or healable by the time we get. Is this going to continue to grow?

[Stu (Stu Burguiere)]

I tend to think that as we get closer to this election, a lot of that stuff's going to wind up healing. We saw it in 2016 with Donald Trump. I mean, there was massive divides between Trump, Trump and Cruz and all these other candidates. And by the end of that, people were pretty united. So I tend to think a lot of it will heal, it will get better than where it is right now. Is that going to be enough, is the question. I don't think it is in the House. I think it probably is in the Senate.