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Stu Burguiere
Minutes and 57 seconds before the opening bell. That's right, Wall street pins and needles. Everybody say bloodbath. It's gonna be a bloodbath. A crash. Today it's going to be Black Monday. We'll tell you about that in 60 seconds. First, you ever have one of those nights where something just feels off? It's late at night, house is quiet, your dog starts barking. And not the playful bark either. The other one, the one that says, hey, go to the window. Go to the window. Sure enough, there's a guy standing in your backyard. Not moving, just standing there. And sure you might pee just a little bit. But then you brace yourself, take your cell phone in one hand and your loaded burner launcher in the other. Already you feel safer because there's a chance you don't need to kill the guy. But you do want him to be able to, you know, lay there on the grass, rolling around, you know, before the cops get there. I want to give him that opportunity. Burn a launcher will help do that. Firing kinetic and pepper rounds or tear gas rounds from a CO2 cartridge. Bernard's gonna put the guy on the ground for about 40 minutes and you'll have him wishing he didn't, didn't have eyes for at least that long. One, one thing to keep your family safe is burn a launcher. It's a great, great, great self defense weapon. Burnaby rna.com Glenn 10 discount now burna.com Glenn hello Stu.
Glenn Beck
Glenn, how are you?
Stu Burguiere
Panicked. Panicked. Panic.
Glenn Beck
Things are bad things. Are they a little bit better?
Stu Burguiere
Dollar bad.
Glenn Beck
That's what we're gonna get today. The ups and downs of the market every 10 seconds.
Stu Burguiere
I gotta tell you, I'm not concerned. So it could be.
Glenn Beck
No, when you're not concerned, not the worst possible thing.
Stu Burguiere
Actually I'm. I'm actually okay through all of this. I'm not like panicked, you know, or anything.
Glenn Beck
And that's cuz you're an evil rich person, Glenn. No, no.
Stu Burguiere
Lost a lot of money last week as an, as an evil rich person. Yeah. A lot of money. A lot of money. No, just don't think that it was. I don't know. You know, Jim Kramer's out there and. Jim Kramer is kind of the opposite of me, whatever he says. And you know, I think this is.
Glenn Beck
People are always so tough on Jim Cramer. It's bs. The poor guy goes out there and he makes a bunch of stock predictions.
Stu Burguiere
Honey, leave him alone. Honey, honey. Yeah, Just trying to sell it. Just try to sell it.
Glenn Beck
Okay, so he's wrong.
Stu Burguiere
He's wrong. Anyway, okay. You know, bloodbath, crash, Black Monday, Asian markets sliding as we speak. We are now 21 minutes and 26 seconds away from the open, from the apocalypse.
Glenn Beck
I mean, look, I don't know. Who knows what's going to happen. We've had, what, two or three really, really bad days in a row? Like, you know, four digit drops.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
You prefer to avoid those. I don't think we'll see another whole. Like, it would be surprising even during COVID I'm thinking back to the COVID days when, like, there's a real reason for stocks to be dropping.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
Like we're just turning all of our businesses off for six months.
Stu Burguiere
I think this is all fear.
Glenn Beck
In that period, though, we still saw days of big gains. So I would think that it's going to bounce around wildly is what we're going to see until this thing settles. And if it continues to escalate, like, for example, we put all these tariffs on China. They responded with 34% tariff of their own. Like what Donald Trump promised going into this is that he would. If you raise tariffs on us, we're gonna continue to raise them on you. Right. I don't think, I don't want that to happen. But if he goes there and then China goes there and we have this escalation, I would assume this is gonna last longer.
Stu Burguiere
So far, you have 50 countries that have asked to negotiate. The tariffs are like, we've, we've, we've rethought this. Maybe we'll negotiate. Vietnam went to zero.
Glenn Beck
Are we happy with that outcome?
Stu Burguiere
I'm happy with negotiating tariffs down.
Glenn Beck
So you want them to zero?
Stu Burguiere
I would love them to be at zero.
Glenn Beck
You would love to?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I'd love to.
Glenn Beck
I would love them.
Stu Burguiere
I would love them to be at zero. That would be.
Glenn Beck
So if a country turns them to zero, we should go to zero would be your policy.
Stu Burguiere
That would be my hope.
Glenn Beck
Now, that has not happened so far.
Stu Burguiere
No, I know.
Glenn Beck
We hope that changes.
Stu Burguiere
I hope that changes. I hope that changes.
Glenn Beck
I'm with you. I mean, I hope that changes.
Stu Burguiere
Their response to Vietnam was like, great, now buy more of our stuff.
Glenn Beck
And this is an interesting thing. Like, like, so Madagascar, for example, this is one that is on our list. We were terrified.
Stu Burguiere
They're cartoon.
Glenn Beck
It's right. We import their cartoon animals.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Because where else are we gonna get talking animals? No, we can't just find them in America. They're not in America. I assume they're all bred in Madagascar.
Stu Burguiere
Because we keep getting those movies. Talking Animal Factory over there. Yes, go ahead.
Glenn Beck
So Madagascar. We have a trade deficit with Madagascar. Okay. They make vanilla beans, like, really well, we really love. We Americans love their freaking vanilla beans.
Stu Burguiere
Love them.
Glenn Beck
So we take in a lot of their vanilla beans. You'll be surprised to hear that the people of Madagascar have very little appetite for are high level financial software that we export. They don't want to take any of that.
Stu Burguiere
Wow.
Glenn Beck
In fact, they don't have any money to buy anything that we sell.
Stu Burguiere
Wow.
Glenn Beck
So we have a trade deficit with that.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Glenn Beck
That seems to me to be very.
Stu Burguiere
That one seems to be like one we should negotiate. You know, we should. On our side, we should be like, okay, Donald, Madagascar. We might want to just look the other way on that one. Right, right, right.
Glenn Beck
And so Australia is the opposite.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
Where they have. We have a trade surplus with them, largely because the things that we export, you know, like, they need, like, you know, technology and stuff. They need the things that they export, which are actually also valuable.
Stu Burguiere
Stuffed kangaroos. Stuffed kangaroos.
Glenn Beck
Stuffed kangaroos. Not talking ones. Those will only come from Madagascar.
Stu Burguiere
Crocodile boots.
Glenn Beck
Crocodile boots. Crocodile Dundee actors.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Okay.
Glenn Beck
That if they need another sequel.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. We got that.
Glenn Beck
Like stuff like metals. There's an article about this that I was reading recently that, like, metals was the example where we were pretty good at coming up with that stuff ourselves. We don't need to export. It's far away. They're heavy to ship. Not a great thing to export. So we have a trade surplus with them.
Stu Burguiere
And we tried tying them to helium balloons. No. All right. Just saying.
Glenn Beck
So that's one other part of the negotiation. We could do more. I don't know where helium balloons come from, but whatever that country that is, we have to work with them.
Stu Burguiere
But the point is, God help us, I hope it's Madagascar.
Glenn Beck
A lot of these arrangements makes sense. There's a reason why we have a deficit or a surplus.
Stu Burguiere
Sure.
Glenn Beck
And like that is that.
Stu Burguiere
That's for like a place like Ireland. I mean, you know, we buy a lot of Lucky Charms. We have.
Glenn Beck
True.
Stu Burguiere
Too many. You know, maybe we can slow down on that and we might. Ireland. We might. We might slow down on Me Lucky Charms.
Glenn Beck
So all leprechaun themed items.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, that's anything. Green beer, all of it.
Glenn Beck
What about the leprechaun movies? Because we made, like.
Stu Burguiere
I know already. In my own private little kingdom.
Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So anyway, so. So we are possibly looking. And the reason why they're saying it's, you know, this could be Black Monday. I don't know if anybody remember, Black Monday happened in 1987. And, you know, the Dow dropped 508 points. That was 22% in one day. So the Dow at what, 4,200? Right around 4,200. That would be looking at almost a 10,000 point plunge today if it was black. Black Monday. That would be significant. Yeah, that would be significant.
Glenn Beck
I don't think that's going to happen.
Stu Burguiere
Don't think that's going to happen. Well, you don't know. You don't know. Well, it wouldn't happen because we'd close the market. Because after Black Monday, we're like, we should close the market. When that happens again, maybe we should just go. Everybody needs to take a breath. Have a seat. Okay. But it wasn't the end of the world, right? I mean, 22% drop. It was not the end of the world. It didn't happen. We, you know, by the 87, we were seeing cracks because of greed, basically. Deregulation, tax cuts, a sense of invincibility. We always go through these cycles and. And everybody started to get greedy and buying stocks, and then it just went too high and we had problems with computers and everything else, and boom, it was out. Okay, so what happened last week? $5 trillion wipeout. Not a glitch. It was. It was an actual reaction to Trump and his terrorists. 10% base tariff on all oil imports. You know, bigger hits on India and China. Those are real numbers. Okay, great. Jim Cramer said that was a policy nuke. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I just have a different look on this. I don't know why. I just have a different feel on this one. I feel like. You know what? You know, what we're not talking about? What we're not talking about is this is the great reset. Except it's not the great Reset. It's the great reset of the great Reset. The Great Reset. We had two ways to go. And Donald Trump never, never said it this way, but I thought I had articulated this and maybe I hadn't clearly enough. And I've been trying to say it for the last few days. So let me just be very, very clear. You had two choices. The world as we know it doesn't work. So the first choice was what Klaus Schwab was doing, where we could all eat, you know, bugs, and they were going to reset everything. Get away from the free market entirely, go all globalism and push everything up to a global government that would reset. Yeah, that would reset our economies, it would reset our dollar, we would go to a global currency. All of this stuff we've talked about for the last five years, that's real. That was happening. Donald Trump came along and said, don't like that. Don't want to do that.
Glenn Beck
That's good. That's really a good observation. We shouldn't do that.
Stu Burguiere
The problem is, you can't just not do that because the problems are real, the solutions. The way the world works now no longer works. It doesn't work the way it did in 1946. It's not 1946 again. So we need to update the system and repair all of the damage that has been done for the Great Reset. Because remember, what was their. What was their plan to manage the decline of the west, just to keep it going enough so nobody really. And then it'll come in one violent shock and everybody will be like, oh, my gosh, panic. And that's when they will finally change everything and make the final switch. That's the Great Reset. So Donald Trump, we elected him because we didn't want that, right? If you thought you were going to get a replay of 2016, you're mistaken, because this time he gets it. Remember, we said, you know, the 2020 election was really good, it turns out, because he had time to think and realize what he was fighting and where everybody is and make a plan. This is part of his plan. And he told us. Now, he didn't say about the Great Reset part, but he told us that we're going in a completely different direction. He told Europe that. He's told everybody that that's what NATO is about. That's what all of this stuff is about. He's resetting the system. So it will be an America first and anybody else that wants to join us, you know, England first, whatever, we'll all get around, we'll all get along, we'll trade, but we're not going to do it the way the globalists have done it. So what we're going through now is the shock to the system of the beginning of the shaking off the calcification of this system and restarting the engine and saying, we're going in a different direction. Throw this thing in reverse. And so all of the. All of the gears and everything that has been turning one direction now for almost 100 years, and especially in the last 25 to 30 years with the Great Reset and the W, E F and everything else, all those, all those mechanisms, all those gears that have been going one way only all of a sudden are grinding to a halt and reversing. That's what you're going to feel now. I didn't expect this to be, happen now. I mean, I, I was expecting that I would see progress on the border. I was hoping that I would see tax cuts by now. I was hoping I would see more regulation cuts by now because those, those two things are vital before you put in the tariffs or at least right after you put in the tariffs. It helps ease this pain. That's Congress haven't done their job. I don't know why he's not pounding his fist on their heads right now to get that job done, but that's what's happening. And this is going to, this is why Donald Trump said over the weekend, what was it? I want to give his quote, he told the average Americans, hang tough. Just hang tough with me. I know it is, it is bad right now, but this is an economic revolution and we will win. Hang tough. It won't be easy, but the end result will be historic. I, that's what I'm hoping for. I'm not hoping that his tariffs work. I'm hoping for an economic revolution. I'm looking for the end result to be historic. And it's not just about money. It's about changing the entire system away from that system which was pounding America into the ground and managing our decline. Does that make sense to you?
Glenn Beck
It does make sense to me.
Stu Burguiere
You don't buy into it?
Glenn Beck
No, I do not really. I think Donald Trump had what I expected from Donald Trump. And again, we may very well see lots of things will change. There's no reason to believe this won't bounce back. And I'm not at all. We still have to see how all this works out.
Stu Burguiere
9 minutes and 38 seconds away from the opening bell.
Glenn Beck
Go ahead. But I think it's reasonable to look at when Donald Trump reelection and say to yourself there are some things that went well and some things that didn't go well. And what I did expect was him to continue with the policies that went well. The areas like, for example, the economy, I think the economy went really well during his first term. And I thought we would get more of those policies and that similar approach. And then in something like the border.
Stu Burguiere
Where he's doing something different, though this time he's not just, he's not just.
Glenn Beck
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Stu Burguiere
I, I know, but he never, he never, he never gave any indication he was just going to rearrange the chairs at the same table. Again.
Glenn Beck
Well, what he did last year, he said, we had the greatest economy we've had in a long time, and you could quibble with that. Then back in 2019, we did.
Stu Burguiere
You could. However, to get there, you can change the levers and make things work a little better, but you're still managing a decline until you stop the spending, until you change the fundamentals of how this economy works, you're just certainly.
Glenn Beck
I don't remember ever hearing a speech of Donald Trump saying he was managing the client in 2019. No, that's not. No, no, that's not what he says.
Stu Burguiere
I don't think he knew that. That's why I said in 2020, it was a blessing. I don't think he walked in. He didn't realize how deep this went, Stu. We didn't realize. When. When did we find out about The Great Reset? 2020. That's when we found out about the Great Reset. I mean, nobody knew that. This is really. We didn't know how deep this was.
Glenn Beck
It's just hard to. I mean, look again, he did hit these things. I'm not trying to, but, like, if the cure to the Great Reset is, you know, Richard Trumka's policy platform for the last 30 years, it's shocking to.
Stu Burguiere
I think that's unfair. I think that's unfair.
Glenn Beck
I mean, it's the same tariffs the guy's been calling for forever.
Stu Burguiere
But that's. That's not all that he's calling for.
Glenn Beck
Certainly not.
Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
I think the hope for optimism is exactly what you said. Which is the other part of this platform that is obviously not similar to Richard Trumka's policy platform, which is the regulation improvements and the tax cuts. Right. You know, it's hard for an economy, I think, to deal with only one of the parts of that platform. And when you have the tariffs come in, which, again, tariffs were part of Donald Trump's first term as well, but they were targeted. And I talked to Kevin Roberts from the Heritage foundation, and he pointed out, he's like, you know, I think we would advise the president to try to make these as targeted as possible. Was a very nice way he put that. And I think what he did there is he did it on washing machines, Right. And he did it in washing machines. And the washing machine thing, my argument was it would not be a successful policy. I think it cost more than it was, benefited us. However, our country can swallow something like that, Right? Every president does something like that and our country can swallow it. When you're doing it on this wide scale, our country can still swallow it. I think we'll still live. We'll be fine. But like, I think what he's doing.
Stu Burguiere
Though, I mean, the guy, I don't know if you've noticed this. He's not subtle.
Glenn Beck
No, he's been very clear in any.
Stu Burguiere
Way, shape or form. That guy is not subtle. I mean, you know, if he lives his, if he picks his underpants like he lives his life, he's wearing red leopard underpants right now. Okay. He's not subtle. And I think if you look at what Starmer said over the weekend, the end of globalism is here. And so we're going to start doing, you know, Britain first kind of policies. Now, I find that fascinating, especially a guy who is knee deep in the World Economic Forum. However, that, I think is what Donald Trump is doing. He is telling everyone in the world we're going another direction. And we highly recommend you go in this direction too. You, if you don't come to the table with a sledgehammer, you're not going to get the people who are already skittish because their people are starting to revolt against them. And Klaus Schwab is telling them, their leaders, they're telling the leadership, you stay in place. Don't, don't trust the system. It'll work. Really doesn't seem to be working. Donald Trump is coming with a sledgehammer to break this apart. I say, hold on, hold on. This is Glenn Beck. By the time this program ends, another family farm in America will have closed its doors, maybe for good. How? By time. Today, this program is over. It's dangerous. Every farm or ranch we lose is another piece of what makes this country special. And that goes away. Things like hard work, independence, real food coming from actual farms that are owned by actual people, not just corporations. And those things are slipping away from us. It is time to spring into action and change things. For generations, American farmers have been waking up before the sun, working long until after it sets. So you can have food on your table and I can have food. So now maybe it's time for us to show up for them. This is where good ranchers comes in. They deliver high quality American raised meat straight to your door. And when I say American raised, I mean every bite you take right now. You can get free bacon, ground feed, ground beef seed, free oil, chicken nuggets and salmon, all for a year. $40 off when you use the promo code Glenn at checkout. All you have to do is go to goodranchers.com, subscribe, get your choice of protein for a year. You're gonna love the choices. All great stuff from America. Goodranchers.com American meat delivered.
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Stu Burguiere
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I'm just working on a chalkboard here because I, Stu is, you know, Stu is bringing up some really good points and I'm trying to figure out a way to explain this. Might take me all day to put this together, but I'll have one for you today. I'll have a chalkboard to explain exactly what is happening, what I think Donald Trump is doing.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I think that's really helpful. I think the American people, I mean, look, it's not me you need to convince, right? It's not my favorite policy, but, like, you know, I mean, this is you live and you live and you learn. You see how these Things work out. I'm not all that worked up about it. But I will say that, you know, the American people, there's a lot of people who don't follow this stuff on a day to day basis. And I think if the messaging is what it kind of has been so far, which is like, suck it up, suck it up, be tough, we'll get through this. Look, I think we will. I think the American people are very tough. I think the economy is resilient. I think capitalism is a wonderful thing that usually winds up curing these problems in the long term. But I think that's gonna be tough messaging. Let's just say pragmatically for the midterms, if we're down 30, 40%, which I don't necessarily think we are going to be, maybe we will, maybe we won't. But that messaging is gonna be a tough sell, I think, to voters, especially the ones that aren't like people who are more like, hey, the reason why I voted for Donald Trump was because Joe Biden was so bad and the economy was rough. I think it's gonna be a tough sell to those people. Not like the people who are like, okay, I'm a MAGA hat wearing and those people aren't gonna go anywhere. Obviously they believe in this vision and they've seen it coming for a long time. But I think those people in the middle might be tougher sells.
Stu Burguiere
It should tell you something. However, you know, you're saying, well, that's not gonna work. Just saying suck it up and you know, let's get through this. We're tougher than that because that was how FDR won four terms. That's all he did.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
All of his policies were nightmares.
Glenn Beck
And that's the moral. We've made this argument many, many times. The moral equivalent of war. Right. If the American people believe the moral equivalence of war, then they do tend to make those decisions. You're right.
Stu Burguiere
Correct, Correct. Now here's our Treasury Secretary who I think is really very good. Listen to what he said to Tucker Carlson. Cut to the private sector, in essence has been in recession during the Biden years. And this is an opportunity to right size the federal government and unleash the private sector again because it's been hemmed down by excessive regulation and it's been crowded out by the government. Let me play a couple of other things here.
Glenn Beck
I love that.
Stu Burguiere
Me too.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, and that's, I think, was your point in that first monologue. Right. Where it's more focus on that will help whatever drops we're having in the markets. For example, if he looks as dedicated to those types of policies. Right. Sizing government, which I think you've seen with Doge at some level, also tax cuts and regulation cuts, those things will excite the market. At the same time. These might not, may not, and that could help even things out.
Stu Burguiere
Let me give you Brian Decker. I want you to listen to this one. Listen to what he says about what Donald Trump is doing. Cut 10.
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Trump is crashing the stock market by 20% this month, but he's doing it on purpose. And this is why Warren Buffett just said Trump is making the best economic moves he's seen in over 50 years. Now here's the secret game he's playing and it could make you rich. So why is he doing this? To push cash into Treasuries, which forces the Fed to slash interest rates in May. And those lower rates give the Fed the ability to refinance trillions of debt very inexpensively. It also weakens the dollar and drops mortgage rates. Now, it's a wild chess move, but it's working. Now you're probably wondering what about his tariffs? Well, I'll tell you, it's a genius play. It actually forces companies to build here to dodge them. It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the US to bring grocery prices way down. We've already seen this with eggs. Now remember, 94% of all stocks are owned only by 8% of Americans. So Trump, he's taking from the rich short term and handing it to the middle class through lower prices. Now, tariffs may seem like they're going up one day and down the next, but it's not wishy washy. It's a strategy because investors hate surprises. So they sell stocks and rush into the safety of bonds. But mark my words, by summer, we will see Bitcoin and stock prices at a new all time high.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, I don't know about his whole theory and I don't even know if this is what Trump is planning on doing, but that the one thing that he said in there that is true is everybody's pulling their money out of the markets. And where does that money go? Goes to bonds. When people are pouring money into bonds, what does that do? It makes the price of bonds or the return, it's called the yield, it makes that go down because they're not having a hard time. Price. When you think of yields, think of price the government has to pay you to buy one. Okay, they got a, I want a hundred dollar bond, okay? Well, I mean, I can. I mean, I get a lot in the stock market right now, but if the stock market is doing poorly, they don't really have to pay you a lot to convince you to get into it. You know, oh, I'll give you $101, you know, for your hundred. Okay, let's just let us use it, and I'll give you 101. When you. When. When it's over, when. When everything else is going well, nobody wants those Treasuries, those bonds, and so we can't sell our debt. And it's like, I'll give you 110, 115, and that's our interest, and we're paying so much interest. So I don't think this is strategy. Although Bassett is so smart, it might have been a consideration.
Glenn Beck
I mean, there's positives, right, that go along. There are, like, they always talk about, like, oh, the left used to do this all the time. When the economy would look bad, they'd be like, oh, well, gas prices are down because there's less demand. Right. Like, so there are, of course, going to be positives to any economic change to just a question of whether it would be, you know, weighed out by the negatives. Again, that's not Trump's argument. That's just some guy. There's obviously a whole. There's a whole cottage industry of people who come up with arguments to justify everything on both sides of the hood.
Stu Burguiere
He is a serial entrepreneur and financial expert.
Glenn Beck
Okay.
Stu Burguiere
You know what I mean? I mean, I don't. That's how he's described. I don't know him.
Glenn Beck
Right. I know. I'm not even criticizing. I don't know him.
Stu Burguiere
I don't know anything about it.
Glenn Beck
But, like, would you have been okay if the idea was Donald Trump's going to get elected and intentionally crash the stock market? Like, I don't think that's what he said.
Stu Burguiere
Literally what he said. I know. And I said, I don't agree with him. I don't think Trump is doing that.
Glenn Beck
No. And I would not be also okay with someone who's just temporarily taking from.
Stu Burguiere
The rich to give to the right.
Glenn Beck
Like, these are concepts that are not only not conservative, but are things that he.
Stu Burguiere
Un American.
Glenn Beck
Un American.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
Like, I don't want a centralized government crashing stock markets and stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Like, that's not what I want at all. Now, if Donald Trump takes the. The positive outcome of this, like, if we do have lower, and we are starting to see some Lowering rates and does a policy, implements a policy you and I have argued for for many years to finance. Refinance this long debt, long term at lower rates, then we'll be taking a positive out of a situation that might be a little shaky and might lead to great things.
Stu Burguiere
Correct.
Glenn Beck
So of course that's what you have to do as a president is to try to make you make lemonade out of lemons when you get the lemons.
Stu Burguiere
Correct. And that would be a very good glass of lemonade. It's still lemonade. I still had some Lem. Want to have lemons at all? I didn't want lemonade, but I'll drink the lemonade much more than the lemon. Yes. And that is a very good glass of lemonade.
Glenn Beck
It would be massively impactful to the country if he could get that.
Stu Burguiere
If he does a massive refinance.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. At a low rate and hopefully continues to go that way. But it's a tough game and it is something that we advocated for this for a decade. We had guests advocating for it. It is a massively important thing. So obviously rates coming down do good things. Right. It helps. People may be able to refinance some of their mortgage debt. It helps regular people too. So that is a side effect that.
Stu Burguiere
Could come from this and one that if we don't take care of, could kill us. The debt.
Glenn Beck
I agree.
Stu Burguiere
The debt and just the interest alone on the debt. I mean, you could make a case. I don't think that he did this intentionally, but I bet it was. I bet it was. I bet it was kicked around. I think the guys in the treasury are smart enough to go, you know, this is going to do. This will drive down the interest rates on our treasury bills, our yields, and we'll be able to really. You'll see things. You might see the housing market start to pick up, etc. Etc. You'll see other things that are happening because the mortgage rates will go down. You know, Okay. I don't necessarily think the mortgage rates going down or the, the interest rates going down is always a positive. I mean, look, we had 0% interest rates for a very long time. After a while, they become a very big negative. But right now, if the government took advantage of rates that were going down and we could lock in our debt at a much lower, that would take a big, big monkey off of our back. Because that, that is one that concerns me gravely. They never. Biden didn't refinance anything. We had zero. Zero percentage. He didn't refinance anything. So everything is coming up now with high interest rates. This is just, it's just like you have a mortgage on your house. If you had an adjustable mortgage, how would you be doing right now? Right, because you, you, you banked on your mortgage rate being a certain rate, and we have, like an adjustable mortgage rate. Well, somebody needs to go in and refinance all of that, but you can't, you can't refi. When the interest rate is so high. So that is one good thing. I don't think it was done intentionally, but I don't think it's necessarily a bad side effect. And I'll bet you it was one that they did talk about. But that doesn't. Look, I. By the end of the show, I'll have it for you. It is. I am convinced. And I could be wrong. I have to tell you. Yeah, I can tell you. Everything that I'm saying is coming from me, and whenever I'm wrong, it's coming from me. You know, I rely a lot on spiritual prompting, and I don't have any on this one, good or bad. I have none, which usually means, to me, not that important. That doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean bad things. It just means supposed to concentrate on other things. And I think those other things are the things that we talk about here all the time. And that is, how's your spiritual house? How's your family doing? How's your education? How are your kids holding up? How are you doing with social media? How are you doing with education? How are you doing with the things that actually matter? That I feel that now that is what at least I'm supposed to concentrate on right now. This is honestly. I mean, I had monologues prepared for this, but it's taken me by surprise because Stu is so surprised by my reaction and like, no, that's not that I've. He's made me reevaluate.
Glenn Beck
Oh, no.
Stu Burguiere
Absolutely everything I've said. No, no, no, it's a good way. That's your job. It's a good thing. But I just, I'm. I don't know.
Glenn Beck
Well, I mean, not worried about it, I think. And again, this comes from a place of rooting Donald Trump on, because the things you just said, all those really vital, important things to the American people. I think Trump's doing a really good job on. Yeah, he's doing a really good job on all those things, and I want him to continue to do a good job on those things. And I want not only the next couple of years while he's President of the United States. I want those things to continue long term. And I am concerned that, look, not everybody thinks like we do. Not everyone's engaged in all these issues. A lot of people are gonna look at their 401ks and gonna be like, geez, this sucks. And that's gonna be their summary of this period.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And I just, I'm concerned because, look, I've got a 401 like everybody else. I don't like that it's down, it sucks. I'm pretty risk, you know, I can deal with risk. You know, I live in that world. So I am not all that concerned when it comes to that type of thing. But I am concerned about where, how much of the Trump agenda, if you want to call it that, I think it's the American agenda. I think it's largely a conservative agenda. Those things that he's been pushing for and doing a good job on, I want those to continue. And I do believe that if the economy does wind up seeing this as a long term issue and we wind up seeing a downturn, the midterms are at risk. Just looking at, from general political analysis, you're going to see risk. Now a lot of people are telling me in my mentions when I talk about this stuff, they're like, oh well, this is all going to turn around by summer or it's going to turn around by the end of the year and everything's going to be fine. And if that happens, obviously it will be. But you're introducing a new element of risk. And so I'm concerned about that risk.
Stu Burguiere
I just want to leave you with what my father told me in 1987 after all this, I don't know, son, I don't know what's going on with the stock market, but people are still coming in and buying bread. Life's going on. Yeah, that's just the way it is. That life will go on. And right now is how much of this is how much of this actually has affected you today. I think that's where, when, you know, when you hear the president say just it's going to get bumpy. Hang on, he's talking to those people. He's not talking to the people who do this all day long every day and are like, my stock market, it's down. He's not talking to those people, he's talking to the average person. You're still going to go in and buy bread at the groceries store. Things are going to get better. Things are getting better in many different areas. It's going to be bumpy. Hang on. Thanks dad. People today still are going into a bakery someplace buying bread. We still need bread. All right, back in just a second. I now present to you for your listening pleasure how not to Find a Real Estate Step 1 Real estate agent Go to a neighborhood Facebook group. STEP 2 POST Anybody know a good real estate agent? STEP 3 Sit back and enjoy the next 800 or so replies from people who swear their cousin's boyfriend's neighbor is absolutely the best. Finding a real estate agent isn't like picking a pizza place. This is your home, your future, your money and it's all online every single time you move. That's why over a decade ago I started Real Estate Agents I Trust and we we hand picked the full time seasoned professionals. We we check them six ways to Sunday to make sure that they are square with our values, with best business practices. They know how to listen and they'll fight to get the best deal for you. How do I know? Because they don't even make it onto our list until we vetted them and know they're the top seller they claim to be. Real Estate Agents I trust dot com. The name says it all. Just tell us where you're buying and selling, either across the street or across the country and we'll help you find the right real estate agent. It's Real estate agents I trust.com common sense ain't common anymore. Is it? Time to wake up and wrangle the sheep? Glenn Beck continues Next.
Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
Boy, Stu and I are. I mean, this is a. I mean, this. I don't know this has ever happened. Stu is worried that, you know, he's like, completely out of touch with people. And I'm just worried that I, like, don't have a clue on what I'm talking about today. It's a. It's an odd. It is. It is Black Monday, just in a completely different way.
Glenn Beck
Soon you're gonna be pitching sports, models, monologues, and I'll be talking about theater.
Stu Burguiere
But. But Trump planned it this way. Oh, that's part of his grand plan. Can we stop? Can we stop, please? Can we stop with that? We stop. Just. Let's take things at face value and know that he is pretty smart and he's got smart people around him. Let's not panic. Let's not panic. This is Glenn Beck. Let me talk to you a little bit about Jace medical. Fun question to ruin your. Ruin your day. What's. What's living inside of you? Yeah, I'm talking about parasites. You know, third world problem. I don't have worms in me. No, actually, it's a human problem. I hope I don't have worms in me, but if you ever find yourself dealing with parasites, you don't want to wait for three days for an appointment and another five for a prescription, you know, Hey, I just got back back from fill in Any country that nobody really goes to. Yeah, you're going to want a Jace case. I'm just saying. Jace's new parasite use case. It's a 90 day supply of medications designed to fight back hard when you need it the most. It includes ivermectin and other stuff which I can't pronounce, and I'm not even try because I'm a doctor of humanity, man, not. Not medicine. Okay, Bottom line is this is the fastest and most affordable option for this kind of situation. And it comes from the folks I already trust to help me be prepared when it Comes to emergency life saving medications. Side note, this doesn't work on nosy mother in laws, nosy bosses, obnoxious co host or other kind of parasites or worms. I want you, I want you to go to jace.com. enter the promo code BECK at checkout for a discount on your order. That's promo code beck j-a s e.com it down the road where shadows hide.
Dave Landau
Feel the dark on every side Stand.
Stu Burguiere
Your ground when times get down.
Dave Landau
Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.
Stu Burguiere
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. It is April 7, 2025. A date which will live, you know, in the calendar, probably history books, you know, is it Black Monday? That's what's trending today on X. The chatter is thick with worry. $5 trillion wiped out last week. Trump's new tariffs, trade wars, is that what's coming? Jim Cramer, all kinds of red flags. He's the red flag guy saying this is a crash like 1987. Well, the stock market is down what, 1500 points? All right, that's not good, don't get me wrong. But to be like it was in 1987, it would have to crash by 10,000 points today. That'd be kind of a big deal. Kind of a really big deal. So Black Friday, I don't know. Let's keep watching. More on this in just a second. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. Welcome to the nightly 2am Olympics where you're sure to win gold in every single category. And tossing and turning, flipping the pillow, you know, checking the clock every three minutes. What time is it now? You know, you try one side, then the other side, then flat on your back, not good. And weird sideways twist, one where you look like a broken action figure. You know, tried that one. That's great. Hot dog. I tell you, you are the best non sleeper out there. Sleepless nights stink. And if you've tried everything, I mean, chamomile tea, breathing exercises, putting stew does America on nothing does the trick. I mean nothing.
Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
Hi, Glenn. That was a little insulting, but I appreciate your promotion of my show there.
Stu Burguiere
That's all right. That's all right. I. I mean, BlazeTV, I find your show insulting, quite honestly. A little bit. A little bit.
Glenn Beck
It's fair. It's a fair one of the higher, better reviews that we've received. So is it?
Stu Burguiere
Is it? Well, okay then. That sounds great. By the way, Klaus Schwab is stepping down as leader.
Glenn Beck
No.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Not Klaus.
Stu Burguiere
Klaus is. Klaus is. He's. Clouse is saying, I've had enough. He's gotta get. He's gotta. He's gotta go. He's gotta go. And the reason why now he's not being pushed out. He's not. No, he's not being pushed out. Apparently. Apparently women are alleging that they were pushed out and saw their careers suffer when they were pregnant or coming back from maternity leave. And also other women claimed that senior managers had sexually harassed them, which. Huh. Klaus Schwab. That's the w. What kind of ESG score would they get? I'm just, I'm kind of wondering because that doesn't sound like people that would get a good ESG score, does it? No, but I don't think they have to worry about the ESG scores because, well, you know, I mean, they created it. So, you know, that's for us. It's for us little people, not for people like Klaus Schwab. So they're. I don't know if they're gonna have a cake or. I don't know, do not see. Still eat strudel. So maybe they don't have cake, but they have strudel for him because that's. That's fantastic. The Wall Street Journal is reporting. In the end, all it took was. All it took to oust Postmaster General whom president term appointed in his. President Trump appointed in his first term was a nudge from Elon Musk during a Friday meeting last month at Trump's Bedminster, New York Club must complain to the President that the Postmaster General was resisting his cost cutting efforts. And well then he was out by Monday. Postmaster General announced his resignation and the world wept. Where were you, Stu, when you found out that the Postmaster General had. Had. Had resigned in America?
Glenn Beck
I don't really exactly where, but in.
Stu Burguiere
The United States I remember exactly where I was. I. In America.
Glenn Beck
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, it was crazy. How about you? Do you remember if you were in America on the day. The Postmaster general. Very few of us, very few of us right now that are listening who would say, no, I don't. I don't even remember if I were in America or not. I mean, some do. Some do. Some do. They're that callous. But apparently the, The Wall Street Journal is, you know, is. Is. Is enjoying this, I guess, this problem between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. First of all, you know, they start out with, obviously, Donald Trump is just doing everything that Elon Musk says. And then later in the same argument, it's like. And, you know, they don't get along. I mean, Donald Trump won't do what Elon Musk says. Okay. And then it's, you know, they're two dictators. I mean, look at them. Look at them. Two peas in the pod. They're just destroying everything they touch. And then, and then when that one doesn't work for more than a paragraph. Paragraph. It's. I mean, look at them. They have nothing in common. They hate each other. They're going to break apart at any moment. It's over. Here is my. Here's my favorite paragraph from this article. That it says that. See if I can find it. That. That Elon Musk and Donald Trump have nothing in common with. Nothing in common. Wow. Really? Nothing in common? Well, no, you know, Donald Trump plays golf. Elon Musk doesn't. Donald Trump wears a shirt and tie and Elon Musk doesn't.
Glenn Beck
Are they both equally evil? At least.
Stu Burguiere
They have that in common. You know, I think there might be something a little deeper that they might have in common, like, oh, I don't know, both of them love their country and are convinced they're doing the right thing for the country. That's kind of a big one to you.
Glenn Beck
Now, you might disagree with that. That's okay. Yeah, you can disagree with it.
Stu Burguiere
But they don't.
Glenn Beck
That they don't disagree with themselves. They think they're doing the right thing.
Stu Burguiere
They're doing the right thing. Right. They both love America. Now, you might disagree that they both love America. I don't know how, especially if you're on the left. I mean, is this one you want to argue with us that you know how to judge people? Well, you might know how to judge people who don't love America because you are surrounded by them. So they both love America. They're both entrepreneurs. It's another big One. I mean, sure, one wears a T shirt, one wears a golf shirt. I technically believe they're both shirts. But, you know, that's not enough. That's not enough. They don't have that all important tie. They're entrepreneurs. And what's funny is not just entrepreneurs, but entrepreneurs that will not listen to anyone when they say it can't get, it can't be done. You notice that that's kind of a big thing. Neither one of them will sit down and shut up. I don't know that one. You know, they're both hated by the left. That's kind of another big thing they have in common. Both of them were surprised by being hated by the left. You know, Donald Trump was like, like three months before he ran for president, like Barbara Walters jamming her tongue down his throat. Like, oh, my God. I mean, you, you judge for yourself. It was on the View.
Glenn Beck
Different strokes.
Stu Burguiere
Anyway. And then all of a sudden, you know, they all hate him. Same thing with Elon Musk. Everybody was. I mean, like, everybody on the left, he loved Elon Musk. And now they. Now, now, now, now, now, now they don't. Now they're trying to burn his stuff down. Oh. Which is weird because in that. What they tried to do to Donald Trump's. Well, his family and his businesses just try to burn it down to the ground. Just destroy everything that he had. So they have that in common as well. I'm seeing a few things line up. They're also massive disruptors. Well, they don't have technology in common. This is actually from the Wall Street Journal. They don't have technology in common. I mean, he's old and doesn't get it. Oh, oh, he's old and doesn't get it. That's weird because he seems to be getting the whole, we've got to build infrastructure for what's coming in tech. He seems to have that one down, by the way, you know who. When Nikolai Tesla died. I think this is an amazing coincidence. Or is it? When. When Nikolai Tesla died, we needed somebody to go in and look at all of his, you know, plans and schematics and everything else to see what he was working on, because he was working on very, very dangerous things. And so we needed somebody that was smart enough to go in and look at all of it and decide what could be released, what shouldn't be released, what the government should keep. And the guy who did that was an MIT professor who is Donald Trump's uncle. So it's weird. The Tesla connection, there isn't it. So, Wall Street Journal, you say they don't have a lot in common. You shouldn't keep using that word because I don't think it means what you think it means. Either that, or you're just completely and totally blind. Did I mention Klaus Schwab is. Is leaving? Yeah. Yeah, I just thought I'd throw that in again because, you know, it's. It's pretty good. GOP Senate has now approved framework for tax cuts and spending reductions. In a very, very late, late night, the vote 5148 included two GOP senators, Susan Collins and Rand Paul of Kentucky, voting against the package. Package contains $5 trillion in tax cuts and a minimum of 4 billion in spending reductions. That's nice. Let me ask you this. The $5 trillion in tax cuts, Stu, can you just look this up for me? Sure. Are those actual tax cuts? Are those just like, hey, we're not going to raise taxes by $5 trillion?
Glenn Beck
It's a good question, I believe.
Stu Burguiere
I do, too. I do, too.
Glenn Beck
A number that big has to. Really has to include. Hey, we're just including. You know, we're. Because, I mean, the tax cuts weren't that big in the first place, so.
Stu Burguiere
Right. Yeah. But it could be over. This is what I love. This is all the story says. The package contains roughly $5 trillion in tax cuts. Okay, $5 trillion over what time period? Five trillion years. Because they do that one all the time. We're gonna reduce our deficit spending by $5 trillion over the next 10 years. And you'll be like, okay, I think we could do a little better than that, but at least let me figure out how much that is a year. No, no, no, no. We're not going to cut our spend. We're actually going to increase our spending over nine of those years. But that last 10th year, we are not. We're. We're gonna find extra money that we've hidden away in NGOs, and we're gonna apply it, and so you'll get all that money back. We're gonna. That's how we're gonna cut it. That never happens.
Glenn Beck
Very true.
Stu Burguiere
No, I thought you had some. I thought you had. Did you have the update on that?
Glenn Beck
I don't have the exact update. It does seem like it is the tril. The $5 trillion would include continuation or a permanent state, but what else? I don't know that.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, see, I mean, there was.
Glenn Beck
There was talk about potentially, you know, lowering the. The capital gains tax.
Stu Burguiere
President said over the weekend he wants it gone.
Glenn Beck
That Would be great.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, a capital gains tax gone. You want to create jobs, that would be one.
Glenn Beck
We do have this also coming in. Glenn. Trump is saying he's considering a 90 day pause in all tariffs except for China. And now the market has now shot back up and is now in positive ground for the day.
Stu Burguiere
How things have changed.
Glenn Beck
I mean, but things have changed again. I don't think there's any doubt that it. And he could still do this, right? Like, none of these, most of these tariffs haven't even come into effect yet. If he just turns them off, I think we'll see a huge bounce back.
Stu Burguiere
He's, Let me ask you, considering a.
Glenn Beck
Pause was the term that I'm seeing.
Stu Burguiere
But let me ask you, does that hurt the President's bargaining power? Yes. I would have rather seen, you know, everybody just hold on, let him negotiate and just get on the phone this week and be like, you know what, I'm not going to change. You going to change? Because I'm not going to change. So what do you say we, we negotiate? Are you one of the 50 countries? You're not one of the 50 countries. You want to be one of the 50 countries? Because I'm thinking about going up. I mean, I, I would have played that out.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I hate to doubt him because he's good at negotiating, but is that just everybody around him freaking out?
Glenn Beck
Well, I think, like, look, I don't, I don't love obviously the tariff policy myself, but if you're going to implement it, implementing it with some sort of Runway where people can try to figure out ways to deal with it is usually a better approach. So Even if a 90 day situation can at least allow these countries to say, okay, hey, what can we change? Let's talk about this. Israel is an example of Vietnam you mentioned earlier, going to 0%. Can we get more countries to do that? Now that's not going to wipe out his trade deficit problem. No. So that's, that is, you know, that's just, that's not going to be the.
Stu Burguiere
Way he could get everything. I'm not sure you could get everything. You know, I mean, I was putting this chalkboard together and you know, inflation, if you want to get inflation under control, Fed, no more printing of money, Congress, no more spending and then inflation. You have to expand trade, ease trade, so products that are coming into America are cheaper. The thing you don't do is, is, you know, make trade. Higher tariffs, okay. However, if you want to create jobs, you do want higher tariffs. That's part of the strategy on Donald Trump. So those are diametrically opposed to themselves. You're not going to get everything.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah, that's true. It's. It's. Look, that's why we are against centrally planning economies, because it's really hard to figure all that stuff out. I mean, that is an insult in this particular situation. I mean, I mean, it's why we criticize countries like China and the Soviet Union back in the day. It's one of the reasons they failed. It wasn't that they actually necessarily. I mean, sometimes they did want to starve their people to death, but a lot of times it wasn't that. A lot of times it was just like, no, we want this policy to go through. And if starvation happens to be one of the side effects, whatever, but, like, managing those things is very difficult. Again, trade is not the biggest part of our gdp. There's other elements to it that are really important. So we'll see. But I think you see here on the rumors of this pause in tariffs, you're seeing the markets bounce back, which shows that we're not in this situation where this has to happen. And if we can find a way, if he winds up negotiating with half of these countries and it winds up being a lot better, we're going to see really good results from that, I think.
Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Is this down to 75,000? Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
It's over, isn't it?
Glenn Beck
I don't think it's over.
Stu Burguiere
Told you the whole thing was a sham.
Glenn Beck
It is down, although it. It does seem to be bouncing back up now because of this most recent announcement. It's up to 78,000 again. This is a. I will say a. A report of a rumor of a consideration of a pause. A report of a rumor of a consideration of a pause for 90 days in tariffs and that is causing the markets to rise.
Stu Burguiere
Do you think maybe, Come on. Maybe we're just not really. We're not equipped for all of this information.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, same. Maybe, maybe we should. What? Could we reverse the information age? Is that something that we can. Have we considered that at all?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, Everybody in the Biden administration tried to do that.
Glenn Beck
They did try to do that.
Stu Burguiere
They tried to do that.
Glenn Beck
I'm just thinking more like emp. Are we in a situation where we could just, you know. You know, none of this seems to be.
Stu Burguiere
I think maybe that's what I was feeling today. I just feel like this was a non issue. If you were listening last hour, Stu was like, very concerned. And I'm not. I wasn't just. I wasn't concerned about this and don't know why. And, and maybe it's because there's nothing to freak out about yet. There's nothing to freak out about. I mean, yeah, you have, you have stocks, but if you're. I mean, if you're 65. Yeah, you might. You're probably concerned. You might be a little late too, on that. You see him bounce back and, and then maybe, you know, talk to. Talk to an advisor on what do I do, what do I do on that. But if you don't need the money, you don't have to pull it out.
Glenn Beck
It could be a buying opportunity.
Stu Burguiere
Absolutely.
Glenn Beck
That was something I did a little of last week.
Stu Burguiere
You know what?
Glenn Beck
Maybe Friday, I was thinking to myself, you know, hey, I still have confidence in this country. I have a confidence in this president. Is the economic.
Stu Burguiere
Would you like to be rich? Like you?
Glenn Beck
My gosh, it wasn't a lot, but I dipped my toe in a little bit and I was thinking, like, I was thinking of particular companies that I thought would maybe be, you Want to share a tip? No, because that's even worse than. But like, I think one of the things you've taught me over the years, Glenn, if I may, is to focus on the things that you can control at the end of the day. You mention this often. It'll be really interesting to see how these things play out. You try to have that longer term view, a view that's not something that's going to lead you to panic. I don't panic in these situations because there's just nothing I can do about it other than trying to make maybe a smart investment here and do something with my own personal money. The same thing with my family. Like I, you know, when the, when the. You try to do what you can to avoid the negative situations for yourself and your family, you think of a longer term, it may be more eternal view of how things go. And at the end of the day that's all you can do. Like all the other stuff is not going to help you. So try to approach it with that with those eyes. It just gets difficult on certain days.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. I gotta tell you, you fill me with optimism. Oh God, that's terrible. And then I see a survey that has come out.
Glenn Beck
Oh no.
Stu Burguiere
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I love it.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Not sure what happened until we checked the news.
Glenn Beck
It seems like all these media organizations reported an interpretation from some social media user of an interview in which the interview.
Stu Burguiere
Wait, wait, I just want to track that back down. Okay. Have an interview with Trump.
Glenn Beck
No, no, no, that's a good question. The interview was with Trump official.
Stu Burguiere
The Trump official. Unnamed Trump official or Trump official official who is. So we got, we have Trump and then we have the Trump official. And then it's a, it's somebody on social media doing an analysis of what that Trump official said.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, right, right. So.
Stu Burguiere
And then the media picks up on that.
Glenn Beck
So they're quoting National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Okay. Basically all he said was like, look, I think the. He was asked by Brian Kilmeade would Trump consider a 90 day pause and has it said, I think the President's gonna decide what the President is gonna decide.
Stu Burguiere
Well, that means yes, he's gonna consider a 90 day.
Glenn Beck
It's incredible.
Stu Burguiere
That's how, that's where that story. We just gave it to you like four minutes ago. We go off the air and go into the commercial break and then it's all reversed and the stock market goes down. I think we should probably slow down a little bit.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. And again, this is no way to rent. The only reason Life, we even brought it up is to discuss why the market moved. And it was why the market moved. So it's an appropriate explanation, I think. But now the White House breaking.
Stu Burguiere
White House now just says 90 day pause is fake news.
Glenn Beck
Fake news. So it's not. There's no pause. And so now the market's down again.
Stu Burguiere
You know, crazy.
Glenn Beck
I will say this, Glenn, and I don't know what you think about this as far as politics go, taking out of where we end up on all of this, we'd have really bad economic times before. Right. Covid, the housing crisis in 08, the bursting of the bubble of the Internet back in 2000, and you go back to 87, that market crash, all those things, all of those, though, came from what seemed like an outside event. Right. Like to the American people.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Seemed like you had talked about the housing policies and what led to the housing crisis for years before that and warned about it for years. So there were policies that were directly associated with that, but that's not how the American people took that. It felt like it was like, oh, gosh, the housing market just crashed. Right. Covid just happened. This one, I think, to the American people, right or wrong, is going to feel like tariffs caused this.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Glenn Beck
And I'm wondering, I'm worried about how they.
Stu Burguiere
So let me interpret that, Let me, let me help you out on that. That's because people did not interpret the stock market. And what's going on in our economy is bogus.
Glenn Beck
Yes, you're right. I think you're right.
Stu Burguiere
It's all this bogus money that the Fed keeps printing and putting into the system with zero percent interest rates. It's all funny money. The, the stock market is no longer tied to anything real. And everybody, everybody just bypassed that and went, wow, things are really good. Things are really good. No, no, no, it was all bogus. All of that is bogus.
Glenn Beck
I think they sense the weakness, though, during Biden. Right. Like the market went up at times with Biden, but they sensed the weakness. They sensed it in other parts of the economy.
Stu Burguiere
Correct.
Glenn Beck
I think the optimism for Trump's policies launched into another stratosphere.
Stu Burguiere
But that is our McDonald's attitude. That is, yeah, I'd like some tariffs and Diet Coke. I mean, no, it's not a drive through. You're not going to get it by the time you get up to the window.
Glenn Beck
But I think that that is the, that's the point I'm bringing up, which is I think that's how a lot of people consume things.
Stu Burguiere
Correct.
Glenn Beck
And I don't think that's going to change.
Stu Burguiere
Look at what just happened. Stock market, the stock market, people who are supposedly, you know, educated, they turn that thing on a dime.
Glenn Beck
But that, that's people who are really engaged. Right. And they're overreacting to, to news that they're seeing. The average person is not even following this on a day to day basis. All they're seeing is the, they're seeing that general downturn. And if that Continues with them. I wonder if this is going to be seen. If, if this is. Turns into a recession, which it's not yet. If it turns into a long term negative consequences, it could be seen as essentially Trump's fault. Which means that the entire movement has problems as opposed to like Covid. What people saw was, okay, China released this virus or it started in China, it took over everything.
Stu Burguiere
No, they blamed it on Trump because the media did.
Glenn Beck
I don't think he took. I mean, I think he won in 2024 because of what people remembered from his economy in 2019.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Right. But they looked at 2020 as some outside thing he couldn't do anything about.
Stu Burguiere
Why did he lose the then? Well, the economy was doing really, really well. Why did he lose? They blamed him on, on some stuff. Yeah. For Covid shutting us down. Blah, blah, blah. You know, the stuff that he did that made sense at the very, you know, the very beginning.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I remember that being more broad an argument than. It wasn't. No one thought it was Trump's fault that the economy crashed because of COVID You can blame him and say, hey, I don't think he should have locked down. I don't think, you know, again, he didn't really do that.
Stu Burguiere
Democrats ran on that. Look at what he's done to the economy.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Stu Burguiere
Well, and they won. And they won.
Glenn Beck
They did win. Yeah, they did win.
Stu Burguiere
So I think it's just, I mean, I think that's just the, the ill informed again. And that's. I mean. Let me, let me give you the survey.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Ready for the survey?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, give it to me. Hit me with it. Hit me with it.
Stu Burguiere
Out of, out of 50 men, if you ask him in a hundred meter sprint, can you beat a horse? How many say yes?
Glenn Beck
How many say yes? They can beat a horse.
Stu Burguiere
Beat a horse.
Glenn Beck
Is this specific horse. Could it be a horse that's dead?
Stu Burguiere
No. Nope. Just generally regular horse.
Glenn Beck
So we assume a normal horse running on a normal speed. Not necessarily racehorse. You know, just, just a normal horse.
Stu Burguiere
I can outrun a horse.
Glenn Beck
The correct answer to this would be zero. Zero.
Stu Burguiere
Right. Zero should.
Glenn Beck
That's what it should be.
Stu Burguiere
Because, you know, a racehorse can run 40 miles an hour. Don't know if you know this. You can't. Okay. Usain Bolt, he's the fastest in a sprint.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
27 miles an hour. Right. Okay. Horse a little faster. Okay. So up only 2% out of 50. Okay. So not.
Glenn Beck
That's actually not that bad. I mean, 2% will say anything.
Stu Burguiere
That's the right that's the, that's the one they say. That is number 15 on the big charts of animals I could beat. Okay, okay, number 15, then you get to a zebra. Okay, I'm gonna just pass that off on. Maybe you don't think zebras actually exist. You know, we have none here.
Glenn Beck
It is strange.
Stu Burguiere
Deer. I could outrun a deer. A fox. An ostrich. Okay, number 10. I can outrun a cheetah.
Glenn Beck
A cheetah would be the one I would think would be the lowest number.
Stu Burguiere
Be the lowest number because the fastest animal.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, right.
Stu Burguiere
A kangaroo, a mongoose. I don't even know what a mongoose is. So I'm gonna give that one a pet. Ready for this one? I can outrun a swarm of bees.
Glenn Beck
I mean. No, you can't. Not, not for a long time.
Stu Burguiere
No, No, I don't, I don't think you can. I don't. Have you ever seen that's.
Glenn Beck
They move?
Stu Burguiere
Why wouldn't just people just run? If the bees, when you're being swarmed, just run, they can't keep up with you. You can't outrun bees. No, I can outrun a house cat.
Glenn Beck
No, I mean, people have seen cats before. Rather fast.
Stu Burguiere
I can outrun a goat. I can outrun a rabbit.
Glenn Beck
A goat. How fast are goats?
Stu Burguiere
I don't have that stat. I don't have.
Glenn Beck
Because I don't like, I don't every other, all the other ones seem completely absurd. When I see a. I'm thinking of a goat. They're kind of like climbing the side of a mountain, you know? I don't know. They don't look that fast. They probably take them.
Stu Burguiere
So would you say, yes, I could outrun.
Glenn Beck
We're getting close to my area.
Stu Burguiere
Really? Really. Okay.
Glenn Beck
I don't know.
Stu Burguiere
A goat, a rabbit.
Glenn Beck
No, rabbits are incredibly fast.
Stu Burguiere
A hippopotamus.
Glenn Beck
I mean, a hippo. I, I again.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, my gosh.
Glenn Beck
I've never raced a hippo myself, but I, you know, like a hippo doesn't seem like a fast animal. They're moving pretty slow.
Stu Burguiere
Is it, Is it the hippopotamus or the rhinoceros? One of those. The most deadly animal alive. Really? Oh, they're fast and they'll stomp you to death.
Glenn Beck
I thought it was mosquitoes.
Stu Burguiere
No. What? Right.
Glenn Beck
Mosquitoes. The most deadly animal.
Stu Burguiere
Personally, I can outrun a mosquito. Number two.
Glenn Beck
Why don't we just tell that to the African nations? Just be like, let's tell your people to outrun the mosquito.
Stu Burguiere
Why don't you run Number two, I can outrun an elephant. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
See, like, an elephant doesn't look like it moves quickly, but the strides are large. You have to factor that in.
Stu Burguiere
I don't have to factor that in. I just know I can't outrun an elephant. They're fast animals, but the. I mean, they're an animal. They're a giant animal.
Glenn Beck
So are we for all animals?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Not fast.
Glenn Beck
I, I, Look, I can. I'm not saying I would. I would say that I could outrun an elephant, but I can understand why someone might say that.
Stu Burguiere
Why do you think we invented the gun? Why do you think men invented the gun? We couldn't outrun any of these animals.
Glenn Beck
That's a good point.
Stu Burguiere
Okay. That's the only reason why we're at the top of the food chain is because we're like, oh, really? Take that elephant. Yes. I mean, that's. I can outrun an elephant. Yes. If I have a rifle, I will.
Glenn Beck
Do that because then it'll be dead, and you can walk it away from it.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, so we don't. We have a pretty healthy. We have a pretty healthy view of ourselves. 10% say that they have actually. Sorry. 28 say they have actually been out in the wilds someplace and clocked an animal and thought to themselves, I can outrun that. A tenth of them have actually tried to do that. I don't know, got out of their car. I was like, come on, horse, bring it on. And 11% now, out of those showdowns, mainly with dogs, 61% have tried to, you know, race their dog. 26% have tried to race their cat. I don't.
Glenn Beck
I mean, how would you even do such a thing?
Stu Burguiere
19% have tried to race a goat. Okay, but 60%. Only 60% say, yeah, I, I couldn't. I couldn't out. I couldn't. 26% considered themselves winners. And here's my favorite. 14 said it was a draw. It was a draw. I mean, I think we both. I talked to the goat afterwards, and I'm like, you agree, right? I mean, we finished. I mean, basically, we're at the same place, right? And you have four legs, so, you know, you might have run double the distance, but you have double the legs. So we're a draw, right? Oh, my gosh. I think we're. I think we're in trouble. 18% say they would back themselves to beat. Beat somebody in an arm wrestling match. Only 11% of women. Why? Wait, why. Why would only 11% of women. Women are no different than men. Wait, why hold on just a second. Oh, it's ego probably it's mansplaining that 26 of men say I can beat anybody in a wrestling match and only 11. Probably because of what men have said to women. That you're not strong enough to be, to beat a big strong guy. Right. Because we all know that could happen. 72% of all respondents admitted men are more likely to believe that they could beat an animal than, than, than, than women. My favorite is sure, I can outrun a horse, I can outrun a cheetah. But Some, some people, one in 50 believe they can outswim a dolphin.
Glenn Beck
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Huh. Don't know if you know this. They're in the water. That's their domain. You know. Now I could outrun a dolphin. You put one on the beach, I'll beat him every single time. I'll swim them. I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't think you should probably. You get a nap in. Get a nap in. Let's readdress this. Maybe tomorrow. You know how switching mobile phone carriers feels like something you know, you'd, you'd rather cut your fingernails with a chainsaw. You walk into some local pop up store, take a number like you're at the dmv. Then some guy named Chad tries to upsell you on the plan. Cost more than your car payment. Yeah, thanks Chad. Now I can. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. Not only the America's only Christian conservative mobile phone provider for what is my having a stroke? They also figured out how to make switching ridiculously easy. You don't have to go anywhere. No store, no hassle. You just keep your phone, keep your number, upgrade if you want. There you thinking of all kinds of jokes now. Like there you are, space seems. Activate equipment. I'm not having a stroke. Oh my gosh. I don't know what's wrong with me. Here's the best part. They're not supporting a bunch of leftist causes unlike some of the other big names wireless providers. You know that they do. Maybe it's time to ditch Chad and his insanely expensive plan. Get Patriot Mobile in your Life. Do it now. Patriot mobile.com beck or call 972-patriot. Get a free month of service with a promo code. Beck. You know what it is? I tried to outrun an elephant on the way here. Switch. Today it's patriotmobile.com Beck patriotmobile.com Beck. Glenn Beck.
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Stu Burguiere
I'm just, I keep looking at. 11% of people feel that they could out sprint a house cat. Women are more likely to admit that they'd lose a race to a non human creature. Okay. The study went on to find 11% of 2,000 adults polled estimated they could get around the entire grand national course, which is the, you know, a race course. Just think of Churchill Downs. That's four. That's four miles in less than 10 minutes. Okay. The course record is eight minutes and 47 seconds. So I mean it probably not gonna. Are we bad at math? Are we bad at distances? Are we. What logic. What is it we're bad at here? Besides everything? Because it's telling us something I don't. 22% of adults feel I want to be the Polish, I want to be that. I want to be the person calling people and asking these questions. 22% of adults say they are confident that they could lift a chimpanzee off the Ground.
Glenn Beck
Now.
Stu Burguiere
I don't, I, I mean, I don't know what a chimp weighs. You know what I mean? I imagine it's awkward. It would probably have to work with you if you're gonna, you know.
Glenn Beck
But like, didn't you remember that Michael Jackson have him, like crawling on his shoulders and stuff?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I mean, you could hold one.
Glenn Beck
So. Yeah. 70 to 130 pounds.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
So you could, you could lift one. Well, I, I, they would have to.
Stu Burguiere
Work with you, though, fighting against you. Right.
Glenn Beck
It would be kind of weird to just walk up to one and just hug it and try to lift it. I think that's a bad idea.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. But hey, just remember those stats while you, as you're going through and you're seeing a bear on the side of the road going, I could take him, I can take Megan. This is Glenn Beck. So I want to talk to you about King of Kings. The, the older I get, the more I realize something. When you see faith through a child's eyes, you start to understand it again. The wonder, the questions, the simplicity of belief before it gets all complicated. This is the kind of faith we're told to have. This is what makes this new movie, King of Kings, so powerful. It is an animated film from anime from Angel Studios, the team that brought you the Sound of Freedom. And it tells the story of Jesus in a way you've never seen it before. It begins with the father telling a bedtime story about the life of Christ. But it doesn't stay a story. The boy starts to imagine himself walking beside Jesus through the miracles, the betrayal, the cross, and ultimately the empty tomb. It is a fresh reminder that this story isn't dusty. It isn't some long lost legend fit for a history book. It's a story that is alive and well and needs to be told. Please go see King of Kings with your family in theaters this Friday, April 11th. Bring your kids, bring your friends. Get your tickets today@angel.com beck that's angel.com beck go see king of Kings begins in theaters this Friday, April 11th. It down the road where shadows hide.
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Stu Burguiere
It's a little surreal today. I mean, I think maybe we should stop panicking just a little bit. I mean it started with it's gonna be Black Monday and then it, then we had this weird thing about an hour ago where it's released. Donald Trump is reconsidering the tariffs, putting a 90 day pause on it. Stock market zooms up and within a couple of minutes the announcement is made from the White House. No, that's not true. He never said that. And it falls back down. I don't know. Things are happening a little fast. We should probably slow down just a bit maybe.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Carol Roth
The challenge for me, Glenn, you know, when I think about the stock market, there's so many people who are worried directly about the stock market and I'm not as much directly worried about the day to day machinations. Old enough, I've lived through stock market declines. I know the stock market doesn't always go up. I've lived through corrections. I even, I think mentioned multiple months ago that I felt that the stock market was overvalued. I am not so much concerned about that because stocks go down. And like we said we saw, when good news happens, stocks are going to go back up again. That's not my concern at all. My concern are what I consider the butterfly effects. And butterfly effects, you know, is when a butterfly flaps, it swings and that makes, you know, kind of a, you know, an air current, what happens downstream from that. So there are two things that I'm very much worried about in terms of that. One is that if this happens over a long period of time, the stock market is actually a pretty major driver of tax receipts. And we've talked about this choreography and this math before that we have these crazy deficits. The Biden administration left us a horrible fiscal position. And the butterfly effect is that if we do not get enough receipts because of capital gains, because of consumer spending, you know, whatever it is, that we're not going to collect enough revenue into the government and that will actually end up exploding the deficit. So that is one of my big concerns. The second is the downstream effects on Main Street. Main street, as we know, has been beaten up for five years. We had the COVID policy, we had the supply chain disruption, we had the labor market market disruption. We had historic inflation. They do not have the wherewithal to weather the machinations and the changes. You know, big companies, they have big balance sheets, they'll find a way to get through it. But the small companies that have been hanging on by a thread, that is an issue. And so when a, if they have the direct tariffs, and I have many clients and companies that have come to me that have direct tariffs, people who've taken, who've had, who import from overseas because they don't have another choice currently who've seen containers, containers that used to cost four figures, now costing, I'm not exaggerating this, six figures. And that's going to increase with the announcements from quote, unquote, Liberation Day, or if you're not directly importing and consumers are pulling back because of the reverse wealth effect, their 401ks are down. They're worried about the economy that's also going to impact small business. So I think when we talk about the issues of Wall street, we really need to bring it home to, to Main street because that is the backbone of the economy.
Stu Burguiere
So President Trump just tweeted a minute ago, you know, did you see this?
Carol Roth
No. Please tell me.
Stu Burguiere
Basically, come on, guys, let's pull ourselves together. We're not these people. Stop panicking, stop panicking.
Carol Roth
Right, but how do you tell a small business who was expecting to pay $6,000 to bring in a container and now has to spend $100,000 to bring in a container, has beaten up for four years, not to panic? Unless they're gonna come out, if they're gonna exempt small business from tariffs and find a way to return it to them. You know, this is not a panic because, you know, oh, there's a machination of stock market. This is, I'm going to have to fire people. I'm not going to be able to pay my bills. I may not have a company in a few months if this continues to go on. I feel like that's panic worthy. And I will note, Glenn, that the people who talked about government free Covid, that the government should not be creating barriers for companies are the same people who are cheerleading small businesses having barriers and saying, well, if we don't like the way you're doing business, you don't deserve to be in business. And it's starting to sound like a lot of people who are fans of Trump and we listen, we all want Trump to succeed, but there are some die hard fans who are starting to sound a lot like leftist Bernie Bros right now.
Stu Burguiere
So I am against, you know, this, I've been against tariffs, always have been. However, I feel as though we, this is not a surprise to any of us, none of us, we knew he was going to do this. We also know that he is, he's actually gunning for the entire global system. You know what I mean? He's, I think the way, the reason why it's called Liberation Day, why he called it Liberation Day, is to reflect back to 1945, Liberation Day, when that war was over. And we put that system into place that we've been using since 1945, 46. And it doesn't work anymore. Okay? And so he's reversing esg. He is going the opposite direction of the globalization, et cetera, et cetera. And I think he is, he's, he is churning absolutely everything. And I expected it to be ugly. He even said, well, he didn't say it would be ugly. He said it would be difficult, it'd be difficult. And I don't think he, I don't, I don't think people understood everything that he's taking on. And I feel as though I am nervous about the effects because I see it too. My friends, my friends who have small businesses, they buy anything and it, it's not like they're buying everything from China. They may have one part, but it's an important part or the only part they can get from that country. And they have long term contracts on it. So they're going to have to buy that part whether they like it or not. And that's going to put them under. So I understand that, I really do. But I'm not sure this is a really long term thing. Do you. I think he's, I think he's playing chicken with the rest of the world.
Carol Roth
So here's the thing, is that you said that Trump said this. Trump says lots of things and we've all known to take him seriously, but not literally. So we all had an expectation that he would probably do something with tariffs. I think what we didn't expect is that he would do it first. We thought that he would do deregulation, get some of the tax cuts made permanent, do some of those things to juice growth and then turn the attention. And so the fact that we didn't have that optimism streak extended before he attacked that, I think that was a surprise. I also think the scope, by the way, I think the scope was a mistake and they're just living with it because they were supposed to be reciprocal tariffs. A reciprocal tariff would have been, hey, they're charging us 700% on rice. We're going to start charge them 700% on rice or they're charging us 20% on this. That would be one way to do reciprocal. You could also do a country wide, hey, they're charging us 6%, we'll charge them 6%. They didn't do that at all. They came up with some insane formula that was based on a trade deficit divided by imports that means absolutely nothing. And I think that, by the way, a lot of people are saying they think that that was a mistake and nobody checked the math on there. And now they have to live with it. And I think that's the concern that had this been 10% across the board for everyone. Had this been truly reciprocal, you would have a very different tenor. That all of a sudden, you know, we're putting 30 and 40 and 50% tariffs on countries and really escalating. So I think that's an issue. And I also think the communication here needs a complete overhaul because there are a lot of different things that are being said that are in conflict with each other. And I'm with you. I really hope that this is an art of the deal, that this is, you know, a blunt hammer approach, which is not my approach. I would have done a cocktail party or something.
Stu Burguiere
But a blunt hammer approach is a sledgehammer. There's nothing subtle about Donald Trump.
Carol Roth
He's a sledgehammer, sledgehammer subtle about that.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Carol Roth
That's the way. But there are people who are making actual, like, ridiculous arguments that are in conflict with each other. You have some of his spokespeople out on TV saying things like, we're going to raise a bunch of money and eliminate taxes at the same time, saying they're going to try to take down trade. Well, those things are in conflict with each other. We're going to raise a bunch of money, but we're also trying to bring back manufacturing. Well, those things are in conflict with each other. There are people like me thinking that this is probably a way to try to refinance the debt, but that's in conflict with some of these other things that he's doing. So everything is in conflict. And sure, if you leave all the options open, you can declare victory much more easily. But now you have everybody infighting because you have people who are actually arguing really bad policy. Yes, is good.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, So I again, and maybe I'm giving the president too much benefit of the doubt here, too much room, but I don't think I am, because what he does is negotiate. And I know, because I know people who have been on his team, and they all say the same thing. You walk into a room with him, when he takes the room, he senses what's going on and he can move and pivot on a dime. What you do know is at the end, it will be good for the Trump Organization. Okay? And so I think that these all.
Carol Roth
Are Trump Organization or America.
Stu Burguiere
No, no, no negotiating with him, you know, in, in real estate deals.
Carol Roth
Okay?
Stu Burguiere
I think he is negotiating now for America. So I'm taking what he. How he negotiates for his company, and he's applying those same principles now for our country. And I think he cares about our country. And so he's walking into a room, and I think all those options are on the table. You're only going to get one, you're not going to get both. You're not going to get all these jobs and all this tax revenue coming in. You know what I mean? It's going to be one or the other. So the things that are incongruent here, I think, is the negotiating room. Let's see which one plays out. Which. Which one. Which one are we going for?
Carol Roth
Yeah, but it's a little hard for the American people to palette a non strategy. Well, we're going to get something right. Like, we'll get some benefit out of it. I don't. I don't know which one, or if that's the, or if that's the plan and just communicate it to people. And listen, if this ends in a week or a couple weeks, and especially if they're willing to pay back these small business owners for the huge amounts that they've had to spend out of pocket, I'd say great. That was fantastic. But there are so many things that can get damaged in the meantime, and the longer it goes on, the more risk it is inherent. So I think there needs.
Stu Burguiere
I do believe there, there's a shelf life of this. Yeah, I agree with you 100%. And I, I don't mean to be giving him too much leeway here. I think I'm being actually fair. I mean, I told the story last week of he's going in to sell the Plaza Hotel. Everybody. He's got Japanese people coming in. Everybody that is on his team, they're focused on the Plaza Hotel five minutes in. Then without saying anything to his team, he pivots and like, forget the Plaza. I want to talk to you about this. And everybody on his team is freaking out, like, we've got to sell the Plaza Hotel. What are you doing? But he said after the meeting, I knew I could tell they're not going to buy the Plaza. So I pivoted here. Instead of a wasted meeting, I sold them this. And I don't think that's wrong to give him the benefit of the doubt, because that's the way he shoots from the hip.
Carol Roth
I hear, I hear. Let me just, let's just take a step back on central planning, though, for a second. And, and yes, and we're, again, we're all on his side. We're all rooting for him. We're just discussing if this is the best tactic. The issue is the central planning. Even him sort of being able to do this. What happens, Glenn, if you know this, even, even if it doesn't turn out badly, but let's say, whether it's four years, eight years, 12 years down the road, we get in a new administration and they want to do things completely differently. They say, well, that was the Trump way and we don't like it. And now we're going to say X, Y, Z. And now every business now needs to go and roll and change. Businesses cannot operate like this. Businesses have already decoupled from China because we were told China bad, and now they're getting punished again. So it's very challenging when we have a government that has that much power to put up these barriers. I would much rather do this with incentives. Incentive.
Stu Burguiere
I am, I am absolutely willing because I did this last week. I said this last week. You know who I have a problem with is Congress. This is Congress's territory. This is not the President's territory. The minute Congress wants to reclaim their, their duties and their power, I am all for it. I do not like the government giving more power, anybody giving more power to the administrator. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. But where the hell is Congress? Where the hell is Congress? They are, they are the ones that are making this giant hole. Congress should have said right at the very beginning, okay, you will hang on just a second. We're going to pass tax cuts. We're going to, we're going to pass the regulation. You don't have to do that, sir. We're passing the REINS Act. That gets rid of half of the regulation already, maybe more than half. And that's our pervasion view. But they're not doing it because nobody in Congress has the balls to do what Donald Trump does. That doesn't mean I like it and it doesn't mean that I want somebody to, you know, continue this in the next administration. We're setting up some bad precedent, but it requires Congress to take their power back. All right, back in just a second. Let me first. Right now, even as I'm speaking to you, Israel is under fire again. Missiles are flying from Hamas, Hezbollah, even the Houthis. And if that's not descriptive enough, I want you to picture parents throwing themselves over children during the school drop off because there isn't time to get to a bomb shelter, which there's one like on every block. Imagine for a moment just having to do that with your children. This is not ancient history. It's not just over there. This is happening now to people who are our spiritual brothers and sisters. It's why I'm proud to partner with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They're on the ground, they're providing real life saving aid, things like bomb shelters, bulletproof vests, flak jackets for first responders, armored vehicles and ambulances and so much more. These are security essentials that can literally mean the difference between life and death. It's time to stand with Israel. It's not tomorrow or in a month. It's right now, today. They need your help now more than ever. Give a gift and bless Israel and her people by visiting supportifcj.org that's one word, supportifcj.org or call 888-488-IFCJ 888-488 IFC, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. 10 seconds. Station ID so where is, where do you think Scott Bessen is, Carol?
Carol Roth
It's a really good question. He certainly has been on some of the shows and he has been sticking to the party line. And I think that, you know, that's one of the challenges when you're in an administration that has a lot of power at the top is that you have to know your place. And so, of course, he is not going to go against whatever the president's wishes are. There have been some rumblings that there are divisions kind of behind the scenes that Besant and Hassett want a little bit more of a focused and lower tariff approach and that, you know, Lutnick and Navarro are the ones that are really pushing on this. So I think that there is some internal conflict and we're seeing that play out. And unfortunately, I think at the end of the day, it's going to be Trump's call. I don't think any of them are going to go against what the president.
Stu Burguiere
So I have less now, less than a minute. But I have to ask you, this, I think is the best cabinet I've ever seen in my lifetime. And especially the people on the economic advisors, the people you just mentioned, all really, really accomplished and quite brilliant.
Carol Roth
Well, I'll say that I think some of them are very accomplished and brilliant. And I think that maybe we don't have the same. But I'm not going to be the one who's going to, you know, go get into that on air. That can be a private conversation.
Stu Burguiere
Okay. I mean, I don't care. If you want to get into it, we can get into it. I don't really care. But Carol, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Carol Roth
It thanks, Glenn. Always good to see you.
Stu Burguiere
Wow.
Glenn Beck
That's saying something I mean, look, I think every administration has people that I think are brilliant and some that I don't. And that's the case with this one.
Stu Burguiere
Lutnick. I think they're great.
Glenn Beck
There's some great ones I think that.
Stu Burguiere
Like it's just looking for a hint from Carol who she just signed off.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, no, look, that is, you're never going to love everything. Right? The question is, as she pointed out, we all want the president to succeed. We want, want the best things for the country. It's the approach that you question and you hope that the policy prescription we're looking now it looks, he just announced, looks like 50% additional tariffs on China. So we would assume we'll probably get reciprocal from China as well on that one. So it's just a matter of what the approach is and how it plays out long term.
Stu Burguiere
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Stu Burguiere
Welcome to the the Glenn Beck Program. On Friday. We. We. We didn't blow up. I don't even know what we did exactly. We did a bit on TV that I named that manifesto, which I think dawned on me halfway through. This is just something to promote Dave Landau's book. That's all true. That's all that really was. And I resent him for it. But somehow or another, I invited him on the program again today.
Dave Landau
Thank you. I appreciate it a lot. Thank you. I enjoy it.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Did you?
Dave Landau
I did. I thought it was fun.
Stu Burguiere
Well, you're a guy who also robbed pharmacies, so I don't think we really take advice from you.
Dave Landau
Well, in fairness, though, after I robbed the pharmacy, I only got in trouble for stealing PB Crisps, the greatest snack of all time, when I was.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
Oh, my goodness.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, you wait. Hold on. Just as. Wow. What a crappy pharmacy this is. First of all, it hired you. Yeah. Do they know at the time you were completely out of control?
Dave Landau
No. It's odd because I had to have smelled like, you know, something during the interview. I assume. I didn't go in sober, so they still were like, this guy. Seems good to work at a pharmacy. Just feel free to take out the trash that's next to all of the pain pills and Valium, and I'm like, yeah, I'll get that like, eight times.
Stu Burguiere
A day if you want.
Dave Landau
It's no problem at all.
Stu Burguiere
So the name of the book is Party of One, and it's actually a fuzzy memoir, and it's your life story, and your life is. I find it hysterical.
Glenn Beck
Thank you.
Stu Burguiere
May not have found it hysterical while you were doing it and living it.
Dave Landau
No, not at the time. Yeah, not at the time. But it's definitely something to reflect on. And it's kind of my teenage years. So it's everything from, you know, you.
Stu Burguiere
Were stealing at a pharmacy in your teenage years?
Dave Landau
I was 15.
Stu Burguiere
Wow. Yeah.
Dave Landau
I was a go getter.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
It didn't involve entrepreneur.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Yeah.
Dave Landau
It didn't involve schooling. You know, I went to high school. High school for five years. So it's the fact that I wrote a book is.
Stu Burguiere
And did you graduate?
Dave Landau
I did, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Good for you.
Dave Landau
Oh, the place went crazy.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
I couldn't believe I did graduate. I think. I think the principal just, you know, changed a few grades.
Stu Burguiere
Right. We got to get him out of here.
Dave Landau
Yeah. Like, please make him leave.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
He can't be a six Year, senior.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Dave Landau
So. And I probably would have done it.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
Yeah. But I ended up getting my life together after that. But this is kind of.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
The beginning part of it.
Stu Burguiere
So take me through, you know, some of the highlights. Highlights of. Of your life.
Dave Landau
Oh, there's. In the book. There's a few of them. I guess one of the things. And it's been on Comedy Central, but this is more of the explanation is about how I was attacked by somebody in a mental hospital where I went in, I was arrested.
Stu Burguiere
You think those places are safe? You'd think so. Yeah. But they're not.
Dave Landau
No, no, no, they're not. Yeah, you'd be surprised. There's some real characters there.
Stu Burguiere
Really?
Dave Landau
I like to say it. Yes.
Stu Burguiere
Really?
Dave Landau
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Stomach.
Dave Landau
Yeah, I had bonged a fifth beer. Bonged it. I don't know if you're familiar, but I was already. Already pretty messed up. And then I grabbed a beer bong. Well, my friend did and he poured an entire fifth of Absolut vodka.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, my God.
Dave Landau
And then my friend Nick goes, this is stupid. And then poured in a cap full of Sprite and goes, now you're good. So he just thought I needed a chaser, right?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, sure.
Dave Landau
So I did the entire fifth and I tap danced for four minutes, lit a cigarette backwards and fell through a glass table.
Stu Burguiere
Wow.
Dave Landau
Yes.
Stu Burguiere
And that was. And then that was at what point in your. In your.
Dave Landau
I want to say there's about 45 seconds after I stood up.
Stu Burguiere
Right. No, I mean, I mean at what point in your. In your.
Dave Landau
Oh, in my addiction. Yeah, about three years in. When I was 17, because I really started hitting it hard when I was 14, which people probably are wondering.
Glenn Beck
Seems really early as a dad of a 13 year old boy. That seems really.
Stu Burguiere
Hold on just a second. California. Yes, California is. Is. Matter of fact, I want to give you this story. I want to give it to you exactly right. Because, you know, let's not go too harsh. California is now saying that in a new bill that you have to be 16 before you can ride in the front seat of a car. Okay, 16. 16.
Dave Landau
How hard are we going to helicopter people?
Stu Burguiere
So. Right. So I think, hey, harder than. I don't want to come. I don't want to come out and say, hey, hey, hey, you stop trying to achieve things on your own, Dave.
Dave Landau
There has to be some medium between 16 year olds aren't allowed in the front seat. Which is. Used to be a year older than you learned to drive.
Glenn Beck
Right, right.
Dave Landau
And robbing a pharmacy, I mean, isn't There something in between?
Stu Burguiere
That there probably is.
Dave Landau
We as Americans agree on.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Sweet spot.
Dave Landau
You never look at a 15 year old and go, you got to sit in the back. There's a.
Stu Burguiere
There's a chair.
Dave Landau
It'll be.
Stu Burguiere
No, that is. It's crazy. Let's see. Booster seats for under 10 now. 10.
Glenn Beck
10.
Stu Burguiere
A booster seat.
Dave Landau
No, my son, 10. I don't. I think my kid would attack me.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, right.
Dave Landau
There's no way he would do it.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, we were. When I was a kid, we were up. We laid in the back window of the sedan. Okay. You know, like. Like a bobblehead doll. I mean, we were laying up in the window.
Dave Landau
Do you remember the station wagons? The this, the tourist station wagons, where you sat in the back and faced.
Stu Burguiere
Out as kids was fantastic.
Dave Landau
Right. It was like. But if you got rear ended, only the kids would be killed.
Stu Burguiere
And I think that's a very wise design.
Glenn Beck
A lot of moms slamming out their brakes just randomly in the highway.
Stu Burguiere
Killed the kids.
Dave Landau
Yeah. Especially the way people drive now. It's like 75, 25. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
But I. I think we're. I mean, again, you know, you're not a good example.
Dave Landau
No, no, I wouldn't say.
Stu Burguiere
I wouldn't say freedom for kids.
Dave Landau
No, no, I'm not. I think if I was 14 and you let me do anything, I would have been the first person to have a pot store. It just wouldn't have been legal.
Glenn Beck
Right, right.
Dave Landau
Yes. Which eventually did become legal in Michigan.
Glenn Beck
Isn't it stories like yours, though, that have created this circumstance? Like people looked at your childhood and said, we need to keep kids in the backseat of cars. Like you are actually the cause of all the helicopter parenting you're opposing.
Stu Burguiere
I got.
Dave Landau
Yes. I got a DUI the day I got my driver's license. Yes.
Glenn Beck
Dui Day one.
Stu Burguiere
The day.
Dave Landau
First day. Yeah, It's. It's spectacular.
Stu Burguiere
Kids, you can make it.
Dave Landau
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, a little bit. You can make it.
Dave Landau
You can be better than jail at 16.
Stu Burguiere
You don't aim too high. You're like, I want to work with Glenn Beck at the Blaze. You can make that. You do it.
Dave Landau
Look at me go.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
I was 16 and I just got in my driver's license license that day, and I decided to take my dad's car. We were having a family reunion. I went down to the hood in Detroit, got liquor, came back. We ended up in a high speed chase. And it was with a guy who I gave a lawn job to, which is when you get on somebody's lawn, spin the tires, and it just starts kicking up grass.
Glenn Beck
People love that.
Dave Landau
They're big fans. And the guy sitting in his BMW, that was much faster than my Buick Regal chased me. Yes.
Stu Burguiere
So you weren't smart either.
Dave Landau
No, no, correct.
Stu Burguiere
What caused you to be this way?
Dave Landau
My dad got Agent Orange from Vietnam, and when he was 13. When I was 13. That he was 13, I was 13, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. And the VA did a lot. They did nothing to help us. So my dad decided he had to pay out of pocket to stay alive. So I watched my dad, who came from nothing, became a millionaire, lose everything to stay alive. Which he drove you to.
Stu Burguiere
Stealing pills.
Dave Landau
Well, they were. They were living in Boston at the time.
Stu Burguiere
They.
Dave Landau
And I was staying with relatives, so I was just kind of depressed and, like, my dad was everything to us, our coach, everything. And when he ended up getting sick, I kind of just lost my way. And they were across the country, and I was just dealing with trying to figure out life, and that's really hard.
Stu Burguiere
I lost my mom about the same. About. About the same time. Time.
Dave Landau
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And had similar. I mean, you didn't rob pharmacies, but you went through a lot of the same struggles.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. I mean, I thought I was a bad guy until. I mean, I hope we die at exactly the same minute so I could go, jesus, look at that guy.
Glenn Beck
This is why you keep inviting him on the show. That's right.
Stu Burguiere
That's right.
Dave Landau
No, that's exactly what I've been to people, too. The worst person in the situation where it's like, well, I'm not that bad.
Glenn Beck
Right, Right.
Dave Landau
Like anything I do, I would have.
Stu Burguiere
Been convinced I was fine and not have a problem with alcohol if I would have been hanging around you.
Dave Landau
Every one of my friends that are still alcoholics felt that way.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. So the. The. The point of the. The book is it's not just a really funny ride, but it also is. I mean, I think it's number one on self help.
Dave Landau
It was. Yeah, it is. Yeah. In on Amazon.
Stu Burguiere
Which is it? It was or it is?
Dave Landau
It goes back and forth from one to two.
Stu Burguiere
All right. Okay. Yeah. So.
Dave Landau
And then it's one in self help on Amazon and one in. Com Comedy.
Stu Burguiere
And. And did you see it that way? Did you. Did you set out to. Which did you set out to write?
Dave Landau
I set out to write the story, but to be honest about it, you know, it'd be as honest as I possibly could be and see what people's reaction was and that's basically comedy.
Stu Burguiere
Any place that you were like, oh, man. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
There had to be stories you did not want to actually tell.
Dave Landau
I held onto it for five years.
Stu Burguiere
The book. The book.
Dave Landau
Five years. Because I didn't want to put it out yet because there's so much personal stuff in it. Stuff that happened to my mom as a result of what happened to my dad. It was very hard to deal with that. So when I wrote it all out and actually looked at it, I'm like, oh, this is horrible. A lot of the stuff I did was just horrible. And people are going to remember this, so I'm going to open some wounds here. And I also wanted to get ahold of people that were in the stories and be like, I changed your name, but is this okay? And everybody was fine with it. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Wow. You turned into a good guy.
Dave Landau
Yeah, I try to be.
Stu Burguiere
How did that happen?
Dave Landau
I don't know. Because of your program?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. No, let me keep working the program, writing it out. Was that part of, like, the fifth step or anything?
Dave Landau
It was, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Dave Landau
Yeah. It was something that I had never done early on, and this was about 10 years into my sobriety. And that's when I decided to finally really do it. And then I realized I had a lot of stories and I was already a storyteller on stage. So I ended up just kind of writing it out as a book. And then when I sent it to John Wiederhorn, who's also on there, he looked over it, and he's an author for rock musicians. And when he was shocked by stuff, I was like, oh, holy crap. When a guy who's worked with Scott Ian from Anthrax and Ministry is like, this is a bit much, I was like, oh, okay, so we're onto something. Like, he had never heard some of that before, and I was amazed.
Stu Burguiere
So you've seen. I'm sure you've seen people respond online and stuff. Yes. Most surprised, five stars.
Dave Landau
And people love it. And then the emails that I've gotten saying how they've connected with it in their youth. So there's a little something that everybody's done where they can go, oh, that story's me. That story's me. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, we're not as bad as you at all. We're not as bad as he is.
Dave Landau
You just felt that because you're a dad.
Stu Burguiere
Right. But I mean, it's. I mean, it's interesting when you. At least with me, when I sobered up and with you, and someday with you, Stu, and never With Sarah, when you sober up, you. You. You realize that we are all the same. We have different stories. Yeah, but we all are hiding something. You know, I was thinking this weekend, it's. It's interesting how, you know, in the. In the Garden of Eden, you know, the devil tempts him with an apple, and then the first thing he says is, hide. You're naked. Hide.
Dave Landau
Right?
Stu Burguiere
Hide. That's the first thing that Satan says is hide. Shame. And we still have that. And I think it's the same whisper that says, says, hide that nobody will like you. Hide that. Just like you said when you're writing it, everybody will think I'm horrible.
Dave Landau
That's what I thought, too. And, I mean, I told people to hide in the book many times when the police would show up to a party, which is why I got caught under a pile of laundry once.
Glenn Beck
A pile of laundry?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Dave Landau
I ran into my friend. Ran. My friend. My brother's girlfriend, I should say, hid me in a closet. I hid there for years. No kidding. But I was in there, and she threw a bunch of laundry on me. And while everybody's being arrested, I thought the cops would have left just for time. And when somebody walked in, I'm like, are they gone? And this cops like, no, we're still here.
Stu Burguiere
And I was like, oh, cool.
Dave Landau
Who's in there? I'm like, ET.
Stu Burguiere
Dave Landau. The name of the book is Party of One. You will love it. And it's available wherever you get your books. Just go to Amazon or wherever and get Party of One by Dave Landau. Dave, always good to have you on.
Dave Landau
Thank you for having me, Glenn. I really appreciate it.
Stu Burguiere
God bless. All right, let me tell you about Ralph Greens. You know, he's been there for a while. The moves, the bad days, the long walks turned into therapy sessions. But he didn't say anything. Didn't mean to miss a beat, either. He's your dog, and he's your best friend, and you want him to be around for as long as possible. And while he's around, you want him to be healthy and happy. And for that, may I recommend Rough green. Means it's not a type of dog food. It's a powder. Let me just. I have to tell you what's on my mind. Last night, Tanya and I had our first. You know how you have. You know how you. You both know you have to have a conversation, and you don't want to have a conversation.
Glenn Beck
Sure.
Stu Burguiere
Last night, we had our first bump in on what's UNO's quality of life. So sorry. It's just been thinking about that as I'm reading this Rough Greens commercial. I love my dude dog. I know you do, too. Give him the best. This is bought, I think. So much extra time with uno Rough Greens. Ruff Greens.com. rough Greens.com get a free Jumpstart trial bag. Use the promo code beck. It's rough greens.com promo code beck. You just cover the shipping. They'll send the free bag out for you. Rough Greens.com promo code Beck. This is Glenn. Becky, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. You know, Donald Trump sometimes has some of the greatest moments when he's. When he's talking about. About terrorists. May I just show you a clip of him discussing the Houthis this weekend? Here he's showing this. And these are Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops. There will be no attack by these Houthis.
Glenn Beck
Very true.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, no, they're not gonna be a. Not gonna be a single Houthi left in there. Oops. Gosh darn it. As the bomb just lands right in the center of them. Love that. I mean, it's sad. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong, it's human life, but when it.
Glenn Beck
Comes to people who are in the middle of attacking you and trying to kill your people, it's. You don't feel quite as broken up about it.
Stu Burguiere
Here are the. Here are the thousands of demonstrators at Hands off protest in Boston. They're now starting to say this is going to be the. The biggest gathering. This is bigger than the Tea Party. No, I don't. I know. I don't think so. That's Boston. Can we just show some of the Tea Party? Do we have any of the photos of the Tea Party? I mean, you know, those are kind of big. Those were rather, rather large. There's. There's one Tea Party. Oh, that's the April 15th. That's the tea Party. Is that San Antonio? Yeah. There's the Alamo in the back. Kind of large.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, it seemed pretty large.
Stu Burguiere
Kind of large. There's some more. You know, I'm not sure you're going to be able to say. These are. And you know, the other thing that is. Makes it not as impressive is we didn't have billionaires backing us up, remember? I mean, we couldn't even get a 501C3 from the, from the government. These guys print NGOs, like they're going out of style and getting money from billionaires and the government. We couldn't even get a 501C. We couldn't get tax status, so we couldn't even raise money. Money from amongst ourselves and, and still had it, and we didn't. You know, one of the bad things is I have to say we didn't have any union printed signs. And that always makes me feel bad because when they show up to these, these rallies, it always, it always, it always seems they have union printed signs, which, I mean, we made our own signs. But if I'm gonna have it, I think I'm gonna shop around for the best price. And I doubt I'm gonna get that from a union shop, you know what I mean? So. But anyway, maybe that's just me. All right, we will see you tomorrow. Same back time, same Beck channel. Have a good day. This is Glenn. Becky.
Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program
Episode: Black Monday? Why Glenn Beck Isn't Worried About a Crash
Guests: Carol Roth & Dave Landau
Release Date: April 7, 2025
The episode opens with a heated discussion between Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere about the prevailing fears of an impending stock market crash, commonly referred to as "Black Monday." The hosts delve into market volatility, highlighting significant losses experienced recently.
Stu Burguiere remarked at [04:05]:
"Black Monday is trending today on X. The chatter is thick with worry. $5 trillion wiped out last week. Trump's new tariffs, trade wars—is that what's coming?"
Despite the alarming projections, both hosts express skepticism about the likelihood of a market meltdown akin to the Black Monday crash of 1987. Glenn Beck provides historical context, comparing current market conditions to past economic downturns.
At [06:08], Glenn Beck states:
"We've had, what, two or three really, really bad days in a row? Like, you know, four-digit drops. I don't think we'll see another whole. Like, it would be surprising even during COVID."
A significant portion of the episode centers around President Donald Trump's tariff policies and their broader implications for the global economic system. Stu Burguiere introduces the concept of the "Great Reset," suggesting that Trump's actions are a direct challenge to longstanding globalist agendas.
At [12:15], Stu Burguiere elaborates:
"This is the great reset. Except it's not the Great Reset. It's the Great reset of the Great Reset. The Great Reset. We had two ways to go."
The hosts discuss the potential for escalating trade tensions, particularly with China, and the reciprocal nature of tariffs. Stu Burguiere emphasizes the need for negotiating tariffs down, citing Vietnam's move to zero tariffs as a favorable outcome.
At [07:25], Stu Burguiere states:
"I would love them to be at zero. That would be my policy."
The dynamic responses of the stock market to tariff announcements are analyzed, illustrating the fragility and interconnectedness of global markets. The discussion includes insights into how tariffs can influence domestic industries and consumer prices.
Glenn Beck reflects at [17:41]:
"We need to update the system and repair all of the damage that has been done for the Great Reset. Donald Trump said over the weekend to the average Americans, 'Hang tough. This is an economic revolution and we will win.'"
Carol Roth, a former investment banker and author, joins the program to provide expert analysis on the economic landscape. She expresses concerns about the long-term effects of prolonged market instability and the potential exacerbation of fiscal deficits.
At [92:18], Carol Roth shares:
"If we do not get enough receipts because of capital gains, consumer spending, whatever it is, that we're not going to collect enough revenue into the government and that will actually end up exploding the deficit."
She also highlights the struggles of small businesses facing increased import costs due to tariffs, stressing the importance of protecting Main Street alongside Wall Street.
Dave Landau, author of Party of One, joins the discussion to share his personal journey through addiction and recovery. His candid storytelling offers a stark contrast to the economic debates, providing listeners with a glimpse into overcoming personal and societal challenges.
At [112:07], Dave Landau recounts:
"I grabbed a beer bong, poured an entire fifth of Absolut vodka, and ended up with a high-speed chase. It was a turning point that led me to write a book about my struggles and recovery."
His testimony underscores the human aspect behind policy discussions, reminding listeners of the broader impact of economic policies on individual lives.
In their concluding remarks, Beck and Burguiere oscillate between caution and optimism. While acknowledging the current economic turbulence, they maintain a hopeful outlook on the resilience of the American economy and the potential for positive legislative outcomes.
Glenn Beck concludes at [73:21]:
"I think the American people are very tough. I think the economy is resilient. I think capitalism is a wonderful thing that usually winds up curing these problems in the long term."
Stu reinforces this sentiment, advocating for a composed approach amidst uncertainty.
At [65:50], Stu Burguiere advises:
"If you're not in need of the money, you don't have to pull it out. It could be a buying opportunity."
This episode offers a comprehensive exploration of the economic tensions surrounding President Trump's tariff policies, the potential for a market downturn, and personal stories of resilience. By intertwining expert insights with candid discussions, Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere provide listeners with a nuanced perspective on navigating uncertain financial landscapes.