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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I think that's, that's fair, generally.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. It's like in the Middle east, you know, hey, you know what? I'm going to build a big, beautiful resort there in Gaza. No one was saying that. What did he do? He moved the Overton window so far over, he completely changes the conversation.
Glenn Beck
And much of that is just. It's embarrassing that the media falls forward every time. It really is.
Stu Burguiere
But you know what? He wrote a book about how he negotiates. Yep. And nobody pays attention.
Glenn Beck
Yes. I read it when I was like, 12. Yeah. As the biggest nerd in the world.
Stu Burguiere
Right. You know, and when you look at what he did with China yesterday, he's like. And any other, any other country that was hitting back, what is the first thing you knew before he even came down the escalator, but especially after he came down the escalator, everybody who stood against him. What is the first thing you learned on both the Republican side, Democratic side? What's the first thing you learn about punching Donald Trump?
Glenn Beck
He doesn't like it. And he'll punch back.
Stu Burguiere
He punches back twice as hard. Right. So when you're negotiating with Donald Trump.
Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
You shouldn't punch him because his style is to punch back twice as hard. China, I'm talking To you. Bad idea. Bad idea.
Glenn Beck
I mean, you know, look, they. They are going to. I mean, it's Chinese Communist Party. They literally lived through the Mao era and killed 60 million of their own people to hold the line.
Stu Burguiere
No, I know. I. And you know what? I don't have a problem if those are the people we're pissing off in the world.
Glenn Beck
I know.
Stu Burguiere
I'm fine with that.
Glenn Beck
And, of course, I think both of us would have been much more on the bandwagon with this generalized policy. If this is what we did from the beginning. Right. If we did a strong move on China, that would have been a lot. Even that's a lot. We get a lot. 9% of our international trade comes from them. That's already a big move. So if it was just that, I think it would have been easier to swallow for the markets and easier to swallow for people who, generally speaking, don't love this policy.
Stu Burguiere
So was it Besson yesterday that said this is Donald Trump's plan from the beginning, and he comes out and he's like, no, everybody was freaking out.
Glenn Beck
Yes. Trump himself said it wasn't the plan. I can't believe every single person I talked to yesterday, like, oh, this is.
Stu Burguiere
Part of the plan. Never notice. Exactly.
Glenn Beck
Himself said it wasn't the plan. And that's okay.
Stu Burguiere
Exactly. Right.
Glenn Beck
It's a smart thing to do for myself, to adjust to circumstances.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Stu Burguiere
Hope someone is going to do.
Glenn Beck
Exactly. You want someone to take it seriously and, like, he can, you know, it's always been part of the plan to take on China very directly and very strongly. He has done that. I don't think he needed to do this other stuff to do that. But if that's where this lands, that is a policy that most, even people who believe in the strongest version of free trade you can imagine are fine with taking on China, who absolutely is doing things that are against that concept.
Stu Burguiere
And here's the thing that Americans don't understand. Americans have, for 85 years, have. Are used to a president, when dealing with the rest of the world, to walk in with carrots. Yes. I want to show you all these carrots. Look at all these carrots. You can eat. You. Would you like some carrots? Let me give you a couple of carrots. Okay. Donald Trump knows that because we always walk in with pockets full of carrots. Everybody wants the carrots. And no, we're suckers. We're like, you know, we're. We're like, you know, grandpa's with those butterscotch candies, you know, Just ask Grandpa, he'll give you one. Okay. That's the way we behave. It's all carrots all the time.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So we expect our president to do that. When you're changing the world, you have to show the world. No, I'm, I'm, I'm dead serious. I'm absolutely dead serious. You have to mean what you say and say what you mean. This is negotiation. One on one. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Because some people just can't break off enough barnacles to go, well, he means that everybody thinks I was just talking to. Who was I was talking to yesterday? I think so somebody. And they said, you know, I was negotiating a deal. And after I negotiated this deal, these people came to me and said, you really, I mean, you really did a great job on that deal.
Ben Lamb
Huh?
Stu Burguiere
And he was like, well, what do you mean? Well, I mean, the way you played them. And he's like, I wasn't playing them. I just said, this is the way it's going to be.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And they might have thought I was playing a game, but I was just telling them this is. I learned this really early. Don't make threats, make promises.
Glenn Beck
You've told me that for 20 something years.
Stu Burguiere
Right. Make promises.
Glenn Beck
It's the best possible advice you can have in a negotiation.
Stu Burguiere
Exactly right.
Glenn Beck
Because even if they don't come to whatever you're, you might be looking for or hoping for, you've already made the decision that the other thing is okay, and you're totally comfortable. So you, you don't come in and say, oh, well, I'm not gonna. If you don't give me this, I'm not gonna do this. When you don't want to do that other thing.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
You have to be comfortable with that other thing before you come with that.
Stu Burguiere
Because if, because they may say, they may honestly come to the decision, well, I don't want that at that price. Okay. And then you can't go back and go, okay, well, I didn't mean it. Right. No. And, and you have to be comfortable with that. And sometimes, you know, in the President's case, talking sticks and carrots, when you are trying to change the entire world and the world is used to the President walking in with some, you know, butterscotch candy for everybody and a pocket full of carrots, you gotta walk in and go, nope, none of this. None of this. And they'll say they're bluffing. No, I'm not. Yeah, he is. No, he's. No, no, I'm not. I'M telling you right now, you want tariffs? I'll show you tariffs. We're going to start with 10%. Okay. I just want to get everybody used to 10% because you don't negotiate now, it's going to get really ugly. And you know what? I love tariffs. I love tariffs. My favorite word in the whole world. I love tariffs. He's not bluffing. He really does that.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, he does.
Stu Burguiere
Ok, okay. He loves tariffs. So tariffs you could argue back and forth. Well, he'll never do it because it's really bad for America, blah, blah, blah. No, no, he doesn't think so. He's not bluffing. And so when the rest of the world goes, well, he's just playing a game. No, Donald Trump doesn't play that game. He doesn't play that game. And so what's happening now is he's put the world on notice. Oh, yeah. I'm just crazy enough to do the damn thing. You don't think it works? I still think it works. So you want to go back there? Go ahead, let's go back there. Because I don't mind. And it is a very, very risky game. But he's not playing one. The people who are playing the game are the people that are on the other side of the table thinking he's playing a game. The only ones that I don't think are playing a game is China. The United States and China, I think are both saying the truth. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Europe, I mean, you saw cuz they did what's funny about this, they did respond.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, they did.
Glenn Beck
And then they've now backed down as well. They said, okay, you're gonna pause for 90 days. We'll pause for 90 days.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
And Trump did not do to Europe what he's doing to China, which I think sends a pretty clear message that like what he's really focused on here is China.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
You know, I still don't fully understand the goal of all this because what you're saying is, oh, well, he'll get them to back down and we'll come make a deal. Well, what's the deal we're looking for? Is the deal we're looking for to return manufacturing jobs or to get lower tariff rates and better, easier trade?
Stu Burguiere
I think honestly he wants tariffs to return jobs to America. Okay, okay. Which is going to take a very long time. Would take, would take more time than he has in office, certainly.
Glenn Beck
And also is, has not been a sick. Has it doesn't have a good track record of success, that policy.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
Generally.
Stu Burguiere
But he is Bringing jobs back to America. They are investing back in America. But not necessarily because of the last couple of weeks.
Glenn Beck
Right, right.
Stu Burguiere
But because of the things that he has said, I'm going to do this.
Glenn Beck
He's doing a lot of. A lot of things that are really good for really. And then they're not really the headlines. Right, Right.
Stu Burguiere
So he is. He is wanting the jobs to come back, but in the end, Donald Trump is pragmatic. In the end, he might want what he wants, but he's not going to let that stand in the way of, that's a good deal. That's the best deal I could get for America. I'm taking that deal. He just wants the best deal he can get. And the way he does, I mean, look at his pattern. I don't understand how everybody freaks out all the time. And you know what, Stu? I said to you yesterday, I'm kind of freaked out because I'm not freaked out.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Stu Burguiere
But maybe I'm not freaked out because look how it's turning out. I told you at the beginning of the week and last week, the guy knows his entire presidency hangs in the balance. If this goes down the crapper and everybody thinks he'll just flush it down the crapper. He's not suicidal.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I don't think he'll do that.
Stu Burguiere
Right. He won't trust this. Anybody who doesn't like Donald Trump, you will tell me all the time. It's the biggest ego of all time. He's out of control ego. Okay, then use that as your hope. He's not going to go down as the worst president that destroyed the economy and made us into a third world country. He won't do it just because of his ego. He's like, I'm not going to go down as that. Who would want to go down with that? But if you don't like him because of his ego, use that as your hope. Because that, I think, is what happened yesterday, not his ego. He just knew. He's watching all the trend lines and going, this is not going to work out well if I play, if I continue to play this, this way for very much longer. So let's change tactics, which is something you want your company or your CEO or your president to do. You don't go into it blindly. You go in and say, watch all the trend lines here. If it starts going the other way, we need to pivot as soon as we can.
Glenn Beck
That was another reason to not panic, because this was not something that couldn't be reversed. This is not the Housing crisis. Right. Like, oh my gosh, everything's happening. That's terrible. How do we reverse this? The reversal was obvious. Right. Even when tweets came out with people with a rumor of a 90 day pause, the markets turned around.
Stu Burguiere
Correct.
Glenn Beck
Everyone knows exactly why all of this happened. Right.
Stu Burguiere
Look at what happened yesterday. Isn't it the best day in the.
Glenn Beck
Stock market since 2008?
Stu Burguiere
Since 2008.
Glenn Beck
Might not remember 2008. All that positively, these big ups and downs in a day are not necessarily good things to have.
Stu Burguiere
Correct.
Glenn Beck
But it is.
Stu Burguiere
But that was a fundamental problem. 2008.
Glenn Beck
This is not.
Stu Burguiere
This is not. I can turn this valve off at any time.
Glenn Beck
Exactly. And I don't think he's going to sink his own, his whole presidency.
Stu Burguiere
Of course he's not.
Glenn Beck
Panic, first of all, does you no good. You can't control it. This is not under your control. I mean, to the extent of I wind up buying the dip with stocks.
Stu Burguiere
Good for you. I almost said that. You did say that. I almost said that yesterday. Now's the time to buy. And as it turns out, yes, it was.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Or not. Get out in the first place.
Glenn Beck
I'll surely sell it at the wrong time and still lose money. But the point is that there's no reason we're not in that mode right now. Donald Trump is doing a lot of things that are helping the economy that I think so far people are not focusing on. He has a lot more planned that will help the economy. As you know, I think these tariffs are not a positive for our economy.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
But if what we're doing is a focused strategy on one country that is blatantly our adversary, that is blatantly ripping us off over and over again, that is something that is, I don't even think, particularly controversial. I think a lot of people on the left want that to happen. I know a lot of people on the right want it to happen. So that is an approach that if that's where this lands, I don't think it's going to be the story of his presidency.
Stu Burguiere
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
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Stu Burguiere
Prizepix.com Stephen Moore is coming up in just a second. The President's tariff Pause. What does he think? I know he was involved in the decision. I'm pretty sure he was involved in the decision yesterday. The one, the only good friend of the program, Stephen Moore, the founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Boy, it has been a, it's been a scary few days, Stephen. The president, you know, he is a great negotiator because he just doesn't blink. Some people will say he blinked yesterday. I think he just, you know, he's, he's smart, he's not suicidal. He's just reevaluating things and doing what? Stephen.
Stephen Moore
Well, good morning. Glad, you know. Look, Trump, one thing I've learned from Donald Trump, having worked with them for the last eight years or so, up and on as he oftentimes, the guy is crazy like a fox. Really is.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Stephen Moore
And so sometimes he's two or three moves on the chessboard ahead of everybody else. And so I don't, I don't know if calling this a retreat.
Stu Burguiere
No, I don't think.
Stephen Moore
Way to describe it.
Stu Burguiere
No, I don't think so. But you'll hear media saying that. Yeah, the media saying that.
Stephen Moore
You know, and I, what I'm saying is, and maybe it is a retreat, but maybe this was part of the plan all along. I mean, in terms of, you know, trying to get these countries to come to the table, negotiate. And look, Glenn, you know me, I'm more of a free trade guy than Trump is, and I'm not a big fan of tariffs. But if he can pull this off, and this would be a maestro, if he could do it, then all of a sudden you get fairer and freer.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, you're breaking up.
Stephen Moore
Basically. Agree to play at a level playing field. And so. And the other thing that Trump is doing, and I think this is master. Agree with them wholeheartedly on this. Look, there is one major villain in the world today, and that is China. And you know, you've been on the story a long time. Glad as long as I've known you, China is, is, is in my opinion. I don't know if you agree with me on this. They are like Japan circa 1937.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, yeah, they really are. I mean, big time. They've. Japan told us what they were going to do in like 1937.
Stephen Moore
Exactly.
Stu Burguiere
They told us China is now, too.
Stephen Moore
The same thing.
Stu Burguiere
Yes, yes.
Stephen Moore
And we're not listening.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Stephen Moore
And so you. What Trump is basically doing is. And this is a big moment for the, you know, the world economy and for world peace. Trump is saying to these other countries in the world, you've got to make a choice. Are you with us or are you with China and I don't even know. These Europeans are so stupid. You know, they were saying a couple of weeks ago, maybe we'll just trade with China and stop trading with the United States. Now that that would be a catastrophically bad decision. But the whole idea here, as I see it, maybe I have, you know, I'm not in Donald Trump's mind, so I. Sometimes he sees it way beyond what I do, but I think what he wants to do is, is basically.
Stu Burguiere
You're breaking up. Stephen, you there? What did you just say? Yeah, I can hear you now. What'd you just say?
Stephen Moore
Okay, sorry. I was saying that I think he wants to decouple. This is Trump's grand plan. He wants to decouple the world economy.
Stu Burguiere
Yes. From China. You got to get into another room or another state or. Have you tried Patriot Mobile?
Glenn Beck
I will say we are tariffing Steven's phone call today so that. Cause of this.
Richard Verner
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Are you on Huawei?
Stephen Moore
Sorry, I lost you there again. We had a bad connection.
Ben Lamb
But I can hear you now.
Stephen Moore
Sorry.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, so he wants the world to decouple from China, but I think also at the same time he wants the world to the Western world to decouple from this idea of managed decline, you know, and yes, and he's trying to. And I think this is, I think this is hopefully working with the rest of the world. He needs to break all the barnacles off that have just been, you know, on, on the hull of this ship forever now saying, oh, well, this is the way it's going to be. He's scraping all those barnacles off and saying, no, it's not going to be that way anymore. So you need to make a decision. You're either going to manage your own decline and throw in with China, or you're going to go a new direction that really only he and Milei and a few others are laying out.
Stephen Moore
You know, it's so funny you should mention that because do you know who the two most popular politicians in the world are today?
Stu Burguiere
Milei and Donald Trump.
Stephen Moore
I mean, the two populous pro people, pro free enterprise, anti big government leaders. And I've been predicting this. I think I said this on your show a few weeks ago, and I maintain this. I think you're going to see a Trumpian revolution all over the world.
Stu Burguiere
I do too.
Stephen Moore
I mean, these, these European leaders, they are so out of touch with their voters. I mean, remember the very start of the Trump revolution was when Britain was shocked that all of the, that majority of their people wanted out of the European Union. They said we're not going to have these bureaucrats in Brussels tell us how we live our lives and what tea kettles we can use in our kitchen. So you're these arrogant, out of touch, self righteous politicians are going to be thrown out of office for pro people and in pro working class politicians and that. So I think Trump has started a world revolution here. I really do.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think Maloney is in that category. She's just I think a little softer but I think she could be in that. You know, I don't know about Marine Le Pen now that, now that they've thrown her out, I mean that just.
Stephen Moore
Not bogus, bogus charges. It just seems they did to her exactly what the left tried to do to Donald Trump. Bogus lawsuits.
Stu Burguiere
Correct. And those countries like France that are doing that I think are going to be in real, real trouble. You know, it was interesting to me that the Prime Minister of England came out Starmer, who is absolutely a wef clone.
Stephen Moore
Oh he's, he's horrible.
Stu Burguiere
He's horrible. And he came out and said the age of globalization is over. You can't play this game, you can't say that and then be part of globalization. It's going to end really badly for him. Do you agree or disagree?
Stephen Moore
Yeah, yeah. I think the, Britain is really in bad shape right now and they, they need to find a Trump candidate and maybe it's, you know, who's the one who, I'm blanking on his name. The guy who let us lead Britain out of you senior moment here. Anyway.
Stu Burguiere
I do think that's going to Nigel Farage.
Stephen Moore
Nigel, yeah, exactly. And I made friends with Nigel. I couldn't remember. I know, but anyway, I think he could be the next leader of Britain. And so I don't know which way the Europeans are going to go, frankly. I mean, I think they're totally confused with their leadership in these countries. And by the way, I've got to tell you, Glenn, I've been doing over the last month almost every day like BBC and all these European stations and you know, and some of the Asian stations and they're so indignant and they're like Trump is causing a trade war. What is it? What is wrong with this guy? Blah, blah, blah. And I just very commonly say, well listen, you're terrorists in Britain or Germany or you know, Japan, whatever country it is, you're terrorists of three or four times higher than ours. So you're saying Trump is starting a trade war. We're saying you already started the trade war. How can you self righteously say, how dare Trump raise a steroids, we have terrorists three or four times. You know what, they never even answer the question. Well, because move on.
Stu Burguiere
Here's the thing. They expect that to be the norm because we rebuilt. I mean the reason why we accepted these things early on was because we didn't want to. We wanted to make sure the Germans, Germans not having jobs is a very bad idea. We wanted Germans to be able to rebuild their factories and Mercedes Benz and everything else else. So we had those and now they just expect that to be the norm. And Donald Trump is like, it was the norm, it can no longer be the norm.
Stephen Moore
And you know what? It's so you're exactly right about that, Glenn. And I would just add something. One of the things we've learned from this is that is no longer being recorded. Sorry, okay. One of the things we've learned from you in prison.
Stu Burguiere
Are you calling from a prison?
Stephen Moore
But what you were just describing that kind of American relationship, like rebuilding Europe. It's like the welfare state, you know, where people become dependent on welfare state and Europe is dependent on the welfare that we give them. And that's why that, one of the first things Trump did that I thought was so fantastic is that, you know, if you're not paying your NATO dues, we're out. And they, you know, again they bitched and they moan, they complain, but guess what? They played their notice.
Stu Burguiere
I know.
Stephen Moore
You know, I mean I just. The indignation and the self righteousness and the sense of entitlement of these countries, it drives me absolutely nuts.
Stu Burguiere
So let me ask you, the stock market is down again.
Stephen Moore
Down again? Yeah, yeah. Why topsy turvy for a while? Well, that's a good question. Why? I don't know. I mean, who knows why? It was way up yesterday. Dow Jones on a per point basis was up more than any time, any day in American history. But you know, look, it's going to be up and down, up and down until this, this reset happens. And it's always going to be topsy turvy I think for the next several months. So get, you know, get ready for that folks. But at the end of the day, I think Trump will prevail. I think we're going to have a much securer economy and these countries are going to stop treating us like we're daddy Warbucks.
Stu Burguiere
So because we're out of, we're not seemingly never out of war, but we are out of bucks. Stephen, yesterday I sent you something about the basis trade. And this is something that's so in the weeds for most people, but what's happening to the hedge funds and our, you know, bonds. And that looked really frightening. Is that going to stop? Because that was something that they were doing before. They said it might have been, you know, blown over with a feather of Trump. But this is something that's been going on and there are deep, deep cracks in it is how is that, how's that going?
Stephen Moore
Well, yeah, so just for background, what happened starting a few days ago is that foreigners started to sell their, sell their U.S. bonds. And that happened in Japan. And then Russia was selling some of their bonds, China was selling their bonds. And the interest rate on those bonds, when people sell bonds, that means you have to pay more interest to get people to buy them. And so the interest rate went from like three and a half to four and a half. Not, not exactly, but, but almost up a full percentage point.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Stephen Moore
And so that's bad for America because that means, you know, we owe $3.35 trillion and the debt turns over. And that means, you know, when the, when those bonds come due, then we have to issue no bond, new bonds at a higher interest rate. And as you know, you've reported on this many times, you know, I think interest expenses are like the second highest expenditure in our federal budget. So, you know, but, you know, if you're not going to invest in US Bonds are still the safest in the world by far. There's not no other, you know, are you going to buy Russian bonds? You're going to buy European bonds. So I'm not too concerned about it. I think that, I think that. But, you know, China has several trillion dollars of our bonds. And this is why having such an enormous deficit is a problem. And, you know, because then we have to borrow money from, you know, from people we don't want to have to borrow money from.
Stu Burguiere
Right. Are they, I mean, you know, they're serious. We just said Trump is serious on China, trying to jump serious on us. Are they able to dump our bonds, survive? Are they able to really fight this war out? I mean, no. No, they're not.
Stephen Moore
So this is the key insight that Donald Trump has made, which is so right on the mark that our economy is still substantially bigger than China's. In fact, our stock market is five times higher than China. So they're not even close with respect to the net worth of their companies. I mean, you just take the seven, the magnificent seven. They have more value than every company in China. So we have a huge lead on them. And the fact is that now, look, they've been catching up, no question. And look, I want to give you guys, your listeners, a little history lesson. What happened in China? And it's first of all, Mao was the greatest villain who ever lived probably in the history of mankind. He murdered 100 million people of his own people, and yet he's still on the currency. They still have pictures of Mao that would be like us putting Benedict Arnold on our currency. And so then you had the free market revolution that happened in the early 1980s, which was amazing. It shows what, they went from communist overnight to free markets, and their economy exploded. Yes, exploded for about 20 years. Then we decided to let them into the World Trade Organization because they were on the road to freedom. And then President Xi comes in and he goes back to communism. That's. I mean, this is an oversimplification, but not much of one. So we're not dealing with a free enterprise. We are dealing with a very dangerous country right now. And Xi has said this in 20 years. He said, we want China to take over the world.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Stephen Moore
And we were just sitting by and letting that happen. And Trump finally said, no, that isn't going to happen. Now, look, we have benefited over the last 30 years from being able to get cheap things from China, but their economy is completely dependent on having access to America's $20 trillion consumer market. Trump, if Trump says you don't have access to that anymore, they go through a Great Depression that makes like, what happened in the United states in the 1930s look like a picnic. And that's the leverage that Trump is using with China. He's saying that you either start behaving yourself or we're going to throw you into the worst depression you ever had. Now, it will hurt us, but it's not going to hurt us nearly as much as it's going to hurt them. So it'll hurt the people out right now.
Stu Burguiere
It'll hurt the people that shop at Walmart hardest. Right. You know, the bottom of the society, you know, the ones that are just scraping by all the time. Time, they're the ones are going to be hit the hardest here in America. But it is something where we just going to have to help our neighbors more. Not expect the government to do it, but help our neighbors more because it is crucial that we, we decouple the world and ourselves from China as much as we can.
Stephen Moore
So can, I know real quick, make one, one other quick point. We have to have a movement, you and I Call sell China. And what I mean by that is every one of us as citizens of this great country, just make a point of it. Just stop buying things from China. You may, you know, you might have to pay $3 more for a pair of shoes. You may have to Pay, you know, pay $3, $4 more for the T shirt. Do it. If you love your country, stop buying China.
Stu Burguiere
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Stu Burguiere
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Ben Lamb
Hey, thanks for having me back, Glenn. It's good to talk to you again.
Stu Burguiere
You bet. It's great to talk to you. I first I have to show this. This picture of George R.R. martin with the dire wolf. That is, I mean, that's brilliant. It's really brilliant.
Ben Lamb
I mean, he, he, George R.R. martin in game of Thrones, you know, made direwolves popular in pop culture. Many people think they're a myth, but, you know, they were a. An American wolf. They were the largest, strongest American wolf. And, you know, we got challenged, you know, were working on the mammoth and Tasmanian tiger and the dodo, but we got challenged by some of our indigenous partners and the government and a few others saying, why aren't you working first on an American species? Like, why are you not prioritizing that? So we got a lot of pressure and feedback and. And then when we. When we got close to it, we were like, well, if we don't bring George R.R. martin in, we're kind of mean. He's the guy that made him the most popular.
Stu Burguiere
You know, it kills me. Everybody is. I mean, I did the same thing. I saw the video of the, you know, the wolves howling and stuff as little babies, and I'm like, oh, that's so cute. They're an apex predator.
Richard Verner
They are.
Stu Burguiere
They are been gone for now 10,000 years. Why bring them back so colossal is.
Ben Lamb
A de extinction and species preservation company, right? And so we're going to lose up to 50% of biodiversity training now in 2050. And so we need new tools in the fight, right? We think it's better to have a de extinction toolkit than not then. And not need it then, you know, not have the extinction toolkit and need it. And so we're working on all these different species and. And we started having meetings with MHA Nation, one of the largest tribal groups here in the United States. And they started giving us the feedback that, you know, we need to do more for wolf conservation. Not going on with wolf conservation. It would be amazing if we could work on something like the great wolf. So then they started telling us that from their oral tradition, they believe that the great wolf was the dire wolf. And I kind of sat with you. I was like, Game of Thrones wolf. And so we had these great conversations. And then a few months later, we were in North Carolina and we learned that the most endangered wolf in the world is the American wolf, the red wolf. There's only 15 left. And so, like, when you think about Americana, you think about the bison and you think about the bald eagle and you think about wolves. It would be a travesty to lose these. And it's like they've been on the endangered.
Stu Burguiere
Wait, wait, wait. I mean, I live in for half the year in a place that has mountain lions and wolves. They're both very, very important to have, but they're also spooky as hell. And you're not talking about. I Mean, you're, you're not talking about preserving that species. You're. You just introduced a species that's been gone for 10,000 years.
Ben Lamb
Yeah, we have. And they are on a secure, expansive ecological preserve in the north. And if they ever go back into the wild, it will be in collaboration with the government as well as some of the tribes, and they would go back on secure private lands. They aren't rewilding direwolves. I mean, you're walking down the street worried about direwolves.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, well, I just know last time the government got involved with wolves, it was at Yellowstone. And that didn't work out well for anybody.
Ben Lamb
No, rewilding. Rewilding works as long as it's done thoughtfully and managed. And the problem is, is sometimes people just get so overzealous on certain sides of the table that they just. Just go out and muck with nature. It really needs to be studied. It really needs to be managed. It needs to be thoughtfully taken out. But a lot of times people don't realize that and they just get overzealous. Right. And they politicize it. At the end of the day, losing biodiversity, it should be a bipartisan issue. And we really need to save these animals. And so by doing what we're doing, though, Glenn, we're actually building technologies to save animals. And so we were actually able to clone. No one's talking about this, which is crazy. We were actually able to clone four red wolves with more genetic diversity than the existing 15 that are still left in the wild. That's a 25% bump in genetic diversity that has been gone, you know, for tens, you know, for, you know, over a decade.
Stu Burguiere
So, okay, so, I mean, you. You describe your company. I'm sorry. I love the technology. I love what you're doing. I love the way you think, but I'm also terrifying.
Ben Lamb
We talked a lot about it. Right, okay.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I know.
Ben Lamb
We. On our last time we talked, you asked about the CIA, because in Q. Tel is an investor. But, you know, we fall into a category called synthetic biology. Right? So being able to use AI and software as well as being able to edit and rewrite genomes is really critical. Technology, it's as important as technology, as space technologies and other defense related technologies. And our adversaries are advancing these technologies.
Stu Burguiere
Right. And then we're trying. So let me. Because I. This is like everything now, especially with AI and any of this, you know, crispr, all of this technology, you can't stop it, you can't put it back in the bottle. Because others are doing it. What China is doing with this on trying to breed smarter humans, stronger humans, you know, fighters. I mean, it's, it's the stuff of Nazi movies.
Ben Lamb
That's what they've, that's actually what they've said publicly. So everything you're saying is what they have said publicly. They said that the Beijing Genomics Institute is sequencing as many humans as possible. They use Covid as ruse to like pull in as many samples as possible, sequencing them. And then they said, we're looking for the genes that make the smartest people and we are going to engineer people. I mean, that's not even like crazy concerned, you know, conspiracy. They have said that out loud. So what have they not said out loud?
Stu Burguiere
Right. Any idea what they haven't said out loud?
Ben Lamb
Well, I mean, what, I mean, if you think about what, what Colossal's trying to do, right, Is we're trying to at least do it. We don't do anything with humans. So we do, even though we work with the federal government, we do have this kind of moratorium that we are not working on humans, only on animals. We won't even work on, you know, non human primates. So we're only working on the species that are working. But we are advancing these technologies that have applications to humans. Right. And you know, we are understanding from like a 72,000 year old skull what made a dire wolf bigger and stronger. It had a bigger jaw and stronger muscles and denser bones. We can now understand that with our technologies and engineer that into its closest living relative being, the gray wolf. Right. And so think about that same type of data apply to humans. Right. I think that you can look at it as, you know, adversarial countries can advance these technologies in a way where they can look at how can we enhance humans. And so for us, I think we as an American company that works very, very closely with the federal government, the Secretary of Interior just endorsed our work and we work very closely with Department of Interior.
Stu Burguiere
It's not necessarily an endorsement that my aud audience likes. You should de. Emphasize that with my audience because that's not a good thing.
Ben Lamb
It's not what anyone likes. It's just about.
Stu Burguiere
Right, okay.
Ben Lamb
All right.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Good for you. Good for you.
Ben Lamb
Like, I think it's important for us to always be, you know, we're pretty bipartisan. We work with both sides.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Ben Lamb
But I do think it's important to be transparent when things happen. And I think that us as America has to lead in synthetic biology. And Colossal is one of the most advanced synthetic biology companies.
Stu Burguiere
So what is the difference between directed evolution and playing God?
Ben Lamb
It's a great question you asked me this last time, right. I think that we as humans play God quite a bit.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Ben Lamb
And so I'll look at it from ecosystems perspective. When we overfish the ocean or we cut down too much of the rainforest, we are playing God on some level when we eradicate species. But now we have these tools and technologies that we can biobank species, protect them and even bring them back. Right. And I think this is going to be really helpful for how we balance progress as well as how we balance, you know, protection. And I think that we need these tools more now than ever because we could lose up to 50% of biodiversity all life on Earth between now and 2050. That's the current trend line.
Stu Burguiere
So, you know, AI is dangerous. It's glorious and horrifying at the same time. Just depends on, you know, who's using it and how that thing goes. And it's why Elon Musk says we have to have, we have to have the singularity as does as defined as human computer interface. So we, we merge as one. That's something of sci fi movies. Do you believe that the genetic editing tech that you are helping to design is going to be transferred to humans? Is there a time that you think, oh, well, that's probably has to.
Ben Lamb
I think that we will be able to look. So one of the biggest things that Colossal works on is what's called multiplex editing, being being able to edit multiple parts of the genome at the exact same time.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Ben Lamb
And so that's part of what we really, really need to continue to advance. Because most disease states, specifically ones that drive, you know, predispositions to cancer and Alzheimer's and others, are multigenic in nature.
Richard Verner
Right.
Ben Lamb
And so for us, I think it's very, very important to advance those technologies. So that you've probably heard about sickle cell anemia where there's CRISPR tools and technologies that are being used to do a single knockout. But most genes or most of these states are multigenic in nature. So you have to be able to edit multiple parts of the genome. So I do think that a lot of our technologies will be beneficial long term to helping cure inherited disease states in humans. And I think that's a good thing.
Stu Burguiere
How much of this is AI driven?
Ben Lamb
I'd say 30% of our work wouldn't be possible without AI.
Stu Burguiere
And imagine that number is growing exponentially. I mean, I know our.
Ben Lamb
Exponentially, Exponentially.
Stu Burguiere
You know, you named the direwolves Romulus and Remus. And I'm not a mythology expert, but I do know, abandoned and birth, raised by wolf, founded Rome, yada, yada. But didn't Romulus also kill Remus?
Ben Lamb
Yeah, we are. Romulus loves Remus, and Romulus is the bigger one. But they do love each other pretty well. So we're hopefully that not all of history will repeat itself.
Glenn Beck
Itself.
Richard Verner
Right.
Ben Lamb
Including the fall of Rome. We're, we're, we're pretty, we're pretty bullish on that. It'll work out better this round.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, good, good. So am I. I guess I. I mean, I guess we're rooting for that. All of us are together on that one. That's a great goal to have.
Ben Lamb
We're all, we're all, we're all rooting for the non. Fall of Rome.
Stu Burguiere
What is the. What's the next thing that you can talk about that you're going to tell the world about someday?
Ben Lamb
Yeah. So, I mean, we're making a lot of progress.
Richard Verner
Our.
Ben Lamb
I think we're. I think we're on the very cusp of a pretty big breakthrough for the Dodo project. Right. So talk about balance going from direwolves, dodos. We're, you know, we made some updates on the Tasmanian tiger and other apex predators that we announced last year.
Stu Burguiere
Can we slow down on the apex predators just a little bit?
Ben Lamb
Very important. I mean, look, elephants kill more people than wolves.
Stu Burguiere
No, I know.
Ben Lamb
Only been five Wolf confirmed attacks in the last 100 years. Years. You have, you have a higher probability of getting struck by lightning by getting. While getting eaten by a shark than getting attacked by wolves.
Stu Burguiere
No, I know that. Have you ever been, have you ever been in the wild and a wolf.
Ben Lamb
Quite a bit of the wild, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
With a wolf by yourself. You know, a wolf walks up. Yeah.
Richard Verner
Terrifying.
Ben Lamb
Well, I've, I've actually never been. I've been very close to wolves in certain ecological preserves.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, no, I've been on my own land and a wolf walks out from the bushes and you're like, oh, dear God. Because they are spooky.
Ben Lamb
It's definitely, they def. It's definitely spooky. Right. I'm scared of mountain lions and wolves personally, but I saw a mountain lion once. So the scariest thing I ever saw was I was actually in Cape Tribulation in Australia once in a cassowary. A bird walked out and that thing's like a living velociraptor and that. And it was just me. I was by myself and I was like, like, I'm going to die. Because they are very aggressive, they're very hard, very rare to even see them. But yeah, I mean, look, living with nature is what we got, right? We got to figure out how we do that. But our next species that we'll probably have some big updates on is the dodo. We're really close to a fundamental step in the dodo resurrection. We don't have dodos. We won't for a long time. But I do think that we are pretty close to a fundamental step that.
Stu Burguiere
We'Ll be able to announce. One last thing. You say that you are trying to help species survive because we're going to lose all these species. Why are you bringing back things like the direwolf that humans didn't have anything to do with the extinction. Why are you bringing those back?
Ben Lamb
So anthropologic effects, if you look at kind of the rise, if you look at kind of the rapid, younger, driest cooling period, also compared globally, not just in America, the rise of anthropologic effects, early humans did drive a lot of the extinction of megafauna here in the United States as well as, as well as globally. I do think that, that there's a lot of data that's starting to suggest some of the effects of the younger Dryas cooling period that was a rapid period that may have had meteorological effects that affected it. Right. And so for us, we want to build these. We want to use these technologies to bring back these species so that we can study them, so that we can look to rewild them if it makes sense, and also pair them to build technologies for wolves. Right. In the case of the dire wolf or Asian elephants, in the case of, of the mammoth. And one of the things that we don't, that no one really talks about is every single week we get dozens of letters from parents and kids and pictures of little woolly mammoths and dodos, hopefully. Now direwolves and people are telling us, and teachers are telling us that their kids are excited about science now, right? And people are getting more and more excited about science. And so if you ask a teacher or a parent about Colossal, many of them know more teachers and parents know because their kids are telling them in the classroom. And I think we need science now more than ever. And I think getting kids excited about science through de extinction while also helping conservation is a really good thing.
Stu Burguiere
Ben, there is no better spokesperson for Colossal than you. Colossal co founder and CEO Ben Lamb. Thanks, Ben, for being on. I appreciate it. God bless.
Glenn Beck
Kick out of that guy.
Stu Burguiere
I do, too. I love it. I just love it. It's crazy, but God bless him. All right. Past few days, it been, I don't know, a little while, to say the least. We've seen the stock market going up and down. We saw the reintroduction of direwolf. So where are we at today? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I will tell you that. What happened yesterday with Trump saying, okay, we're pulling back on some of the tariffs, we're doubling down on China. I think that's good. I think he has a vision for the country, and I think yesterday shows he knows that, you know, we can't put ourselves out of business. We, you know, he's. He's not a bad man. And that's what I think a lot of our friends might be saying, but he's crazy. He's gonna destroy us. No, he knows. Look at what he's doing. He's walking a tightrope. We all are. But I've been telling you for years that you need to be building a shelter for your wealth in precious metals. And I mean wealth. I don't care. You have any money pulled off to the side, it's going to go down in value because of inflation. Please call lear Capital today. 800-957-Gold. 800-957-Gold. Gold or Silver. You can get their free $4200 gold report. When you call 800-957-Gold, ask about getting up to $15,000 in free gold or silver with qualifying purchase. Do it now. 800-957-gold. 800-957-gold. 10 seconds. Station ID got some great chat comments from Blaze subscribers.
Glenn Beck
You know what I love about him? Ben Lamb is. He is. He reminds me of, like, the very first scene in every one of these movies where things go awry. He's the guy on television like. And you're like, gosh, yeah, that makes some sense. Maybe we should do that. And then, of course, it ends up in Jurassic park or something.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, if he. I. I wanted to say to him, we ran out of time. If. If you decided to build an amusement park on an island, let me know. Let me know. T wrote in wait. I thought natural selection and evolution was a way of nature that the experts say if a species doesn't survive, then I guess it wasn't supposed to be interesting. Elizabeth said, have them explain the horrible mistakes they've made in the cloning process and what happens to those poor animals. Ooh, good question. Wish I would add that Kimberly, interesting perspective. Totally disagree. But I like hearing the conversation. Betty. I'm totally against what Lamb is doing. It's totally against God. Yeah, maybe. Che, you don't think that's really.
Glenn Beck
Did Ben Lamb bring him back too?
Stu Burguiere
No.
Glenn Beck
We don't need another Che Guevara.
Stu Burguiere
This is a nightmare of every dystopian nightmare movie. Amen to that one, Jay. First thing I've ever agreed with Che on, you can go to blazetv.com glenn be a part of the conversation during the show. We love to see your comments. Blazetv.com Glenga $30 off right now. Okay.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, there is a different, like his point on. Well, we've also made a lot of these animals go extinct and that's playing God too. Is a good point. It's a great spokesperson point.
Stu Burguiere
But also, let's work on the buffalo. The bison, but we do that.
Glenn Beck
The dodo is all right. Dodo, fine. What's the dodo gonna do? I'm okay.
Stu Burguiere
I don't. No, I don't know. I don't necessarily want to find out. This is Glenn Beck. Hi there, I'm Glenn Beck. Are you waking every morning with new and horrible pain? Do you experience surprise knee twinges, unexplained back spasms when you clearly haven't been moving refrigerators? How about a sudden shoulder pain like he got a shot way back in the war and the weather's about to change. You know what I'm, I mean, stay tuned because you might be eligible for a breakthrough solution called Relief Factor. Relief Factor. You know, it has in common with essential oils and healing crystals. Really? Nothing? Not at all. Because those work. I mean, that works. Relief Factor works the other, you know, it's like spray paint for your bald spot. Inflammation in the body is getting you down. Relief Factor takes that away way. It's not a drug. It's the doctors who designed it to fight inflammation. Naturally they found a way to do that. So it works in bolding your body and bolstering your body to fight the things that it needs to fight. Over 70% of the people who go on Relief Factor, they go on to order more month after month. But wait, there's more. Actually, no, there's not. 1995, you can try relief factor three week quick start. Less than a dollar a day. 800 for relief. 800 the number for relief.
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Stu Burguiere
Alrighty then. Welcome to the program. Last night I did an Episode on Glenn TV about something called Epic. Epic is a. A proposed Islamic community that is rather large, just outside of Dallas in the Plano area. And it was started by a Muslim leader who said. Who said this in 2001. I want you to listen carefully. 2001. Here is the guy who's now trying to start a community, a Muslim community here in the Dallas area. Listen to what he said. It is not my right to legislate or your right to legislate. No Supreme Court, no system of government.
Ben Lamb
No democracy where they vote.
Stephen Moore
Can you believe it?
Ben Lamb
A group of people coming together and voting.
Stu Burguiere
And the majority vote will be.
Ben Lamb
That will then be the law of the land.
Stu Burguiere
What gives you the right to prohibit something or allow something? Who gave you this right? Are you creators? Are you all knowledgeable? Do you understand the repercussions, the implications of the laws that you're going to pass? Do they wish to follow the laws of ignorance? Verily, Allah is our judge.
Ben Lamb
He knows what's best for us.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, cool. If that's the way you want to live your life, not cool if you want to run a community. Now he has come out and said, and I want to make this very clear, that's the old me. Doesn't make me feel better. I don't know why. Doesn't make me feel better, but that's the old him. He says he no longer believes in that. Okay? Now this is. This epic project is. Is being done by developers here in Texas. Texas. These are not the developers of Epic, but these are Muslim developers talking about developments just like this. I want you to listen to what they say. The way what we're doing, brother, like.
Glenn Beck
You cannot make it exclusive. Like non Muslims.
Stu Burguiere
Not allowed. Far not allowed. What we're doing, there's something called association fee. I don't know what it's called in Dubai. Like your maintenance fee that you pay yearly. Cutting the service fee to cut the grass, to remove the snow and what whatnot. So that service fee will put there 75 of the service fee you're paying goes to the masjid. So they will automate automatically. If you are a practicing Christian, I would advise you, why help the Muslims?
Glenn Beck
You know, let Muslims do their own thing, right?
Stu Burguiere
So this is the way we're gonna put the clause. And our attorney already put it there. Okay, again, that's not the Epic developers. Those are people doing the same thing elsewhere. Uh, I don't know. Now maybe that's the old him. And again, it's not the same people, but maybe, maybe he's Changed his mind as well. I don't know. But I do know what's happening over in Europe, and I don't think so. I'm. I'm sorry. I just don't think so. I'm not comfortable. I may be maybe more comfortable with somebody else. I mean, I'm not comfortable, you know, with. With a Christian saying, you know what? And we're all going to live by God's laws, and that's the way it is. And who are you to vote against God's laws? I don't know. I'm a citizen of the United States of America. We have a constitution. I'd like everybody to live under the. The principles of Christianity and the Holy Bible as we know it, both Old Testament and New Testament, but we are a separate country. And I'm sorry, if you want to. If you want to rule your own little fiefdom and not use the law and the Supreme Court and everything as directed under our Constitution. No, no, no. I don't care if you're Christians. I mean, I would have a real problem. I'm, you know, I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints. Why are you going to tell us he was a Mormon? I didn't know that. That's awful. My gosh. He's been lying to us all these. I. I don't want. Want. I don't want the church running Salt Lake City or Utah. I don't want them going. You know what? Here's what we're going to do. The church says no to that. And by the way, 75% of all the taxes are going to go to build our churches.
Glenn Beck
No, I was, I was told you were a Christian nationalist. Is that not accurate?
Stu Burguiere
Just the nationalist part. Oh, yeah, just the nationalist part. You know, because we can't be Christians.
Glenn Beck
You know, anyway, it's so funny that the left will defend this type of.
Stu Burguiere
Behavior and they would never.
Glenn Beck
I mean, if you tried to do that, and I know of no one who does. But when. I don't know if some cult attempts it, people are usually relatively critical. Right. Like, it's just not a.
Stu Burguiere
Maybe a little bit.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, maybe a little bit. I don't know. Like, a lot of times people tend to flock to the same area based on culture. There's nothing wrong with that. I, I think it's part of America that I like.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Glenn Beck
Like, you go to certain areas and you maybe get the best food from a certain region, and people tend to congregate around things that are familiar to them. There's not anything bad wrong with that, but these sort of centralized. I'm just not a fan of central planning in almost every context.
Stu Burguiere
That's weird.
Glenn Beck
It's weird.
Stu Burguiere
That is weird. So we've seen this before, and here's why I say I don't really necessarily trust anybody who says that's the old me. Because we had a. An issue and I don't remember what it was, but there was this mosque here in this particular town that we are in Irving, which is the most diverse zip code, I think, in all of America. And everybody gets along and it's great, and there's a big Muslim community, et cetera, et cetera. But there was a. I don't remember what the issue is, but my spider senses went off on. I don't think they're actually against Sharia law. Law. And so I had a conversation with these guys. It was a very pleasant conversation until about halfway through and I said, so, okay, so then you'll denounce Hamas for all of the things that they're doing, you know, killing and raping, etc. Etc. And one of the imams is like, well, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. And here's what followed.
Imam
I am here, I'm sorry to say it back to the first point. I'm here to discuss issue with Islamic talk tribunal. So please don't grab us to another situation. Maybe we are ready for any.
Stu Burguiere
No, I know that and I think we had a good.
Imam
We are ready for any point to discuss with. But the main point here we are that the reason we are here to discuss this issue what kind of cases Islamic tribunal handle. And you start with the Sharia. And what's the Sharia? Why the people afraid from Sharia? I'm sorry to say it. One point related to this cut head is not just in Sharia law, just an Islamic law. It's everywhere. Who said that? Just in Islamic law. That's even another Sharia in Jew, Sharia in Christian, Sharia in American. Here we cut head for some reason. So I'm asking you an easy question. If anyone kill another, he should get killed by law, by Islamic law, by governor, he should get killed. What is wrong with that? If a thief jump, I'm sorry to your house, scare your wife, scare your children, scare your neighbor. And they did that with our stores. This is the law. The law to cut his hand. Because if he feels my hands will cut because of that, he will think about this hundred times. He will never do it. And if he do that one time, he will never do it again. Look how many millions of dollars American here on other states or other states outside spend to keep the criminal in jail. Or a lot of millions of dollars. We can't save that. Just let him go and that's it. Because he did something wrong in the whole community and they scared the whole community. Why not? So back please, to the point. Islamic tribunal. Yes, we never deal with anything of that. It is not. We don't have authority for that. We don't have power for that.
Stu Burguiere
But I want to make sure we.
Imam
Just have two cases.
Stu Burguiere
But you're okay. You seem to be okay with that. If you had the power for that, but you don't have.
Imam
Absolutely not. Absolutely not. As Imam said, we have system. We are very organized people. If sorry for this example, somebody killed my dad, I shouldn't kill him. I have to take this case to the judge and judge have to the governor. This is system procedure I have to follow. So it is not like this one called this. Let's get him killed. No, no way. We have very. I give you just an easy example for leader Omar Ibn Al Khattab. This is after Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. He sent one to Yemen and he told him before he leaves, he asked him always as a habit, what did you do if the people bring a thief for you? He said, I will cut his hand. Okay? He said, you do that. Okay? Omar said, this is behind. After Prophet Muhammad, after Abu Bakr and the Prophet Muhammad. He said, okay, if one person came with me without work, unemployed, unemployed, I will cut your head. Because he has no job. So he. If you.
Stu Burguiere
Stop, it just gets worse from here. It just gets worse from here. So, you know, I'm a little. No, no, no. Cutting off of hands. Not going to agree with you. Whether you say you have the power to do that or not. I don't think that's a good idea myself. Maybe in the 1200s. Not today.
Glenn Beck
Wait, can we pause for one moment on this clip?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
It is the most bizarre clip I've ever seen in my life. If for anyone who's not watching BlazeTV blaze tv.com Glenn it is an interview that we did at 2015, apparently experimenting on what the set would look like.
Stu Burguiere
No, no. A no, no, no. There was a reason for that.
Glenn Beck
There was a reason I want to know because the interview is taking place in a field. The Glenn is sitting on a bright red chair with a. With a bow tie, which we've seen crazier things, right? These two guys are sitting on what Appears to be a green styrofoam airplane toy that is 3 inches off the ground. They are fat guys.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
Who are sitting there and one guy is talking for 20 straight minutes while the other guys are sitting there in sunglasses.
Stu Burguiere
The other guy was like dear God, shut up man, shut up, shut up. That's what he was thinking. Anyway, so I, I got a, I got an email yesterday while we were recording the show and it was from Aaron Ragsdale. She's executive vice president at Dallas based communications firm. She said I've been a fan of your show since the day of Fox, blah blah blah. We're working with community capital partners the developed. Now listen to this carefully. Stu, the developer of the proposed Epic City master plan community in Collin county. This is the, this is the master plan Islamic community. I heard AG Paxton on your show this morning noted that you're having TV special on Epic City tonight. Would you be interested in having Dan Codgedale on in the studio to share the CC CCP's perspective and share some facts about the project. For example, anyone can buy a lot or a house, open a business in the developers development community will partner with local law enforcement just as other master plan communities do yada yada yada and follow all local, state and federal laws. The only people who have mentioned Sharia law are the elected officials and people on social media. Not anyone related to the project. I'm happy to visit with on phone, blah blah blah, let me know. So I said yes because I didn't realize that Dan was the attorney for the developer. Yeah, I mean so we booked him an hour from now and I, I, no, I would like to talk to the. Why do you have to have your attorney speak for you?
Glenn Beck
Well, I mean I think the answer to that is obvious but that doesn't mean we have to participate in it.
Stu Burguiere
Right? I mean I don't want to talk to an attorney. I, I know what I'm going to get from an attorney. Why can't I talk to the developer?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, if he wants to talk about it I think that that would make more sense. No, no offense to the guy, you know, I'm sure he's fine but like why make sense for us why lawyer.
Stu Burguiere
Up on this one? I mean I understand of course, you.
Glenn Beck
Know why you would lower up on. Up on this.
Stu Burguiere
Yes, but do you think I don't know why I should lower. You know, you want to have an attorney. Great, I'll have an attorney too and our two attorneys can have a conversation.
Glenn Beck
And I mean we'll get no ratings and no one will listen and no one will care.
Stu Burguiere
Nobody cares. Because it's not. You're not going to get an honest conversation. I'm. I'm willing to say the tough things and ask the tough questions knowing that you'll sue my ass off if I get anything wrong. So. No, no, you can come on as a regular person that is proud of your development and just have a conversation about it. I have no problem with what you're doing. I have no problem. I don't have any evidence. Well, that, that. But he was a different man back in 2001. That's a little disturbing. But I have. Other than that, I have no reason to believe you're going to do any of that. I am a concerned citizen of the area that would not like to have no go zone. And so I just want to know. I mean, I had the same conversation on a different subject with the developers who didn't bring their attorney in in Houston at the big project, and they told us a bunch of crap that wasn't true. And we now know because they're all being. They're being raided by ICE now. And it was the same kind of thing. Don't get rich by just doing things that you think are wrong. And I'm not saying. Saying these guys are doing that. I'm saying you're concerned. I'm concerned about other things. People that will just go and do anything and fool themselves into saying, oh, no, this is totally fine. I don't want to talk to your attorney. I want to talk to you. I want to talk to you.
Glenn Beck
So what do you think? You just not maybe not have them on?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, not have. Well, they have an hour. We can just get the guy on who. I mean, just. We'll call. No, we're not talking to the attorney. We'll gladly talk to the developer. I'm sorry, but nowhere in here did you say he was the attorney for the developer. Maybe my misunderstanding of something that you just didn't write.
Glenn Beck
And what's the name of the place again?
Stu Burguiere
Epic. Epic City. I think they use the community capital partners. You should not call it ccp.
Glenn Beck
I would not say.
Stu Burguiere
It's another thing. It's another bad. And you know, it's a communications firm. You should probably know that. Anyway, let me tell you, bad timing on this one. Let me tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians in Jesus Juice. Eventually the cameras turn off, the headlines, move on.
Glenn Beck
Great timing for this one.
Stu Burguiere
What do you mean? The world turns its attention to something else, but it's a horrific story what's going on over there. And the need has not gone away over there. You're not hearing about the situation in Israel every single day anymore. But they are still embroiled in a terrible war against the enemies that are surrounding them. And they're still fighting just to survive, still trying to recover, trying to get a place, place where they can feel even a little safe. This is why I stand up with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, because they don't. They don't just respond during part of the crisis that's on the news. They're. They're there. They have been there for a long time, and they've been helping save and rebuild lives by providing things like bomb shelters, bulletproof vests, armors, armored vehicles for first responders, emergency food, medical support, trauma care. You can bless a life in Israel and her people by visiting supportifcj.org that's one word. Supportifcj.org or call 888-4-IFCJ 888-488-IFCJ. What you're hearing are your thoughts via the mind and mouth of Glenn.
Glenn Beck
Becky Easter is almost here. And, you know, let me guess, you're trying to figure out what to do that actually brings the family together. That's what we're doing, I think, all the time. But Easter, really, really important. Of course, there's chocolate bunnies and there are plastic eggs, you know, but that's maybe not the thing that matters.
Stu Burguiere
What came first, the chocolate bunny or the plastic egg?
Glenn Beck
That's a great point. I don't know. That's a great question. Now, I grew up in an era where Christian movies were painful at times. You watched them because you felt like you. But the quality of them, not exactly there, that's changing.
Stu Burguiere
You kind of want to keep to yourself one of those movies that everybody goes, you have to tell a friend and bring a friend with you. And you're like, oh, dear God. That's. No, no. That's a warning sign.
Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. No, we're just talking about. Apparently the trade war is still going on with China. We have now raised the China tariff because they raised it on us again. Again. And so then we raised it this morning. It's now at 145% on Chinese goods. It's not going well. Not going well. But that one, I think we can all agree that one. We probably should keep our distance from China. This is Glenn Beck. You know, most of the time you don't even think about medicine because you assume that it's going to be there. You know, you call the doctor for a prescription, you pick it up that afternoon. Soon got a little spoiled in this day and age, you know, especially when you see what's going on with China. You know, they're responsible for a lot of our medicines. I mean I don't even know that. Maybe we should point that out, you know to the rest of the audience. I'm gonna give you time to get your prescriptions right now. Call Jace right now before I tell the rest of the audience, the radio audience, what is happening. But, but you might want to call Jace. 145% tariffs now on China. Things could get ugly quickly. Jace.comjace.com under the promo code Becca, checkout get a discount on your order. They can help you be prepared for anything. Jace J-A S E.com make sure you use the promo code, Beck. All right. Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Got to face the dark and embrace the fire the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. Well, it's been a fun week. Isn't it fun Stu, to watch to see how all this is working out? It really is. It really is kind of fun. We had, we had a good stock market yesterday and are we still having a bad stock market market day?
Ben Lamb
Yeah, we're down.
Stu Burguiere
We are decent about right now. China. We had an 84% tariff and then China responded this morning and so we responded with 145% tariff. Things are in fun, right? My right or am I right? We have a world renowned economist on with us next. He is the guy actually coined the term quantitative Easing and want to ask him a little bit about the global impacts of what's going on right now. He joins us in 60 seconds. First American financing. Let me tell you a little bit about them. You know, you didn't think it was going to be like this back when you were starting out. You had that first real job, you lived in that apartment, you had plans, big plans. You're going to build something, you're going to be smart, responsible and so, so careful. You're going to build an empire. Well, you got the responsible and careful part. You know, somehow along the way the rent turned into a mortgage and it grew as the rates climbed and one credit card turned into three and the interest rates climbed and then we had, you know, the inflation reduction act which only made things much, much, much worse. Now this doesn't mean that you're stuck there. You don't have to give up on your dreams or even just give up on looking, looking at the problem. You should do something about the problem. And I know that is the hard first step because you think I'm trapped, I'm not going to get out of it and there's just no way out. But it's not true. You can get back in control of your financial house and the people that can help you are american financing.net go to american financing.net they'll help you cut costs and save a lot. Their salary based mortgage consultants are waiting to help you get started right now. Call American Financing at 8009-0624-4080-0906-2440 it's american financing.net mls182334nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms. Richard Verner, he is an economist. You can find him@professor verner.org Professor Vernon Richard Werner. Professor, how are you sir?
Richard Verner
Very well, thank you. Good to be in your program.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, good to have you on again. You're looking at the situation and it is changing by the hour. What are you feeling? Especially you're, you're from. Are you still in Germany today? Are you here in the United States?
Richard Verner
I'm actually in the U.S. in the U.S. all right.
Stu Burguiere
What is happening in Germany and in Europe and how's this whole trade thing affecting everybody?
Richard Verner
Well, it is affecting everyone because if you have the sort of list of tariffs that were announced last week presently suspended but if you look at the numbers for some countries, these were significant changes and potentially even now that they're being suspended, but they're still in place with China. Very, very high numbers you mentioned in the triple digit percentage tariff for China and China retaliating and is escalating. That is very dangerous because China is part of supply chains across the globe, even involving other countries. And of course the U.S. i mean, President Trump has a point. The U.S. is the most attractive market. Everyone want, wants to export to the U.S. so it's true that the U.S. has some leverage there. The question is what do we want to achieve and how do we go about it in order to make sure we actually achieve it? At the moment there is a risk the situation will escalate, particularly this confrontation now laser focused on China is the bad guy. And you see in Asia it's very important not to lose face and not to be publicly accumulated. And at the moment, you know, of course that's why they, you know, they can't easily give in. One has to create an opportunity and opening for compromise or, you know, China to give in. So what would be allowed, you know, at the moment, the way it's done is very hard.
Stu Burguiere
President Trump said this yesterday. He said, look, it's important in China that they don't lose faith face that they're not humiliated. And he said, I feel like they feel like they're being humiliated right now. So what should he be doing while still staying tough? What kind of opportunity should be presented to de escalate this?
Richard Verner
I think it's important to take it off the, I mean, you know, President Trump is very transparent, does things publicly. But maybe in this case where we are at this point, it's important to take it off the public focus and have some private conversations with Chinese leadership and maybe they even suggest a way in which this may be done. Essentially one needs a face saving solution that makes both sides look good. This can be done because the Chinese are as much interested in making a deal as President Trump is. The Chinese are famous for, for commerce, for trading, for doing deals. So just have to be done in such a way that they're not forced into a corner and then they feel obliged to also stand up to what appears to be bullying to them and appear tougher than they actually should be at this stage. So I think it can be done. I mean, I'd be glad to help get me into the Trump team. I've got good relations. I was invited to be professor of finance at one of their top universities, Fudan In Shanghai, met very senior people in China. And I mean, I've been in Japan for 12 years. I know how to talk to them. In Asia at the moment, there is perhaps this lack of the right approach, but it's fantastic news, as you mentioned, that President Trump is now acknowledging this. And I think this creates an open with the right advice. The other point I'd like to make actually is that I think it is very smart of President Trump to raise fundamentally the tariff issue and how the US had not always been treated equally by other countries when it comes to trade and tariffs. That is very valid. And tariffs in history have been, well, actually mix that have been very successful and good for America and also for other countries that use them, if and when they're used in combination with the right policies, domestic policies. That's where I think the Trump team still needs some good advice. The Trump team knows that this official mainstream neoclassical economics is not to be trusted. And that's very true. But they're still lacking the right advice. I'm an expert in high growth economics and I think the US can have 15% growth for 40 years like China had. This can be done. There is no, there is no real.
Stu Burguiere
What needs to happen?
Richard Verner
Get the right policies in place.
Stu Burguiere
What needs to happen? What is he missing? I mean, because I think what's missing is the Congress doing their job and putting other things in place. What are you saying is missing?
Richard Verner
Yes, well, it's a key thing is has to do with money and those who create money. Now the Fed has created a lot of money, far too much in recent years and has caused inflation, everything. But actually normally central banks only create 3% of the money supply. 97% of the money supply normally is created by who? The banks, the banking system and the banks normally. And this is capitalism where you don't have central planners making decisions by the, you've got private commercially oriented enterprises making decisions. And so the more diversified your banking system, and particularly the more small local banks you have, the stronger your economy, the stronger job creation. And that's where in the past the US has been extremely strong, but in recent years under other presidents and other regulatory authorities have really reduced the number of small local banks. I mean, there's been a collapse in the number of community banks and local banks almost across the United States. And that's very bad for job creation for small firms and their competitiveness. And China is the best case in point. They used to have this centralized Soviet style system with only one bank. And then when the leader, Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978. He felt, let's forget about all this ideology under Mao, Chairman Mao, let's deliver outcome, let's deliver performance and growth. How do we do it? Well, let's learn from those who did it. And he went to Japan and asked Japanese, what's your secret of success? And they told him, you need banks. How many banks do you have? One bank. Are you serious? For 600 million people at the time? Time. Something like that. Well, you need more banks than that. How about 5,000? And that's what he did. So he went back to China and created 5,000 small banks, local banks, village banks, credit unions, regional banks, rural savings banks, provincial banks.
Stu Burguiere
So what does Trump need to do to do that here?
Richard Verner
That lends to small firms.
Stu Burguiere
Sorry, what does he need to do to create that here? How should he be encouraged?
Richard Verner
Well, first of all, one needs to take the pressure off the small banks to merge. Because the Federal Reserve and the FDIC have been closing banks and forcing them to merge. That's why thousands of banks have disappeared in the us. Job creation. Politicians talk about job creation. But who is the main employer? It is small firms. SME, small and medium sized enterprises employ between 65 and 75% of total employment. And there is a special thing about small firms. They can't get money from capital markets. Wall street is not open to them. The only external source of funding is banks, local banks, banks. We all have another rule. Big banks don't lend to small firms. It doesn't make sense. So who lends to small firms? It's only small banks. And that's why America in the past was very strong. When they were going a few decades back, we had more than 20,000 banks, mostly these, these thousands of small local banks, community banks, and that was great. But the regulators and the centralization have led to mergers and the number of banks have been going down rapidly. FDIC closing down healthy banks. For some reason they think it's a good idea. Same in Europe. The ecb, European Central bank says we have too many banks, we have to close the small local banks. Well, that's how you kill the middle class. That's really what happened to the middle class class, that the small firms are not supported anymore. You know, when there's a new technology coming out, the small firms, they're not necessarily innovators, but they're the ones that have to quickly adapt, adopt the new technology, and for that you need money. If you have a small local bank that knows you, you will get your funding. You can upgrade you can maintain your market share and stay competitive, expand jobs, basically. But in countries where the banking system gets too concentrated and the US is now at risk of becoming one of those. I know, for example, look at the UK five big banks. The small firms get nothing from these big banks. But isn't this, they can't afford to do the small loans. They have to do big business. They lend to the hedge funds and private equity funds in billions. And that works for the big banks. Is it really good that the US Is heading that way? No, we have to change that. So we have to change policies at the FDIC and also at the Fed. They have to be bank friendly and therefore small firm friendly, network employment friendly. So if we combine the tariffs with the right monetary and banking policy, the US can be hugely successful. I mean, you know, Glenn, you've got connections. Help me to get to the Trump team.
Stu Burguiere
I'll put a word in for you. But I mean, I'm lucky to talk to the janitor. So, Richard, let me, let me go to Europe here for a second because I think what Trump is trying to do on many of his things is to break this elite almost World Economic Forum grip on dismantling the West. He doesn't believe in the, you know, slow decline of the West. He is looking to Change direction, directions 180 degrees. And I think that's part of what these tariffs on Europe and everything else is to say, look, we're going in a different direction, we have to go in a different direction. Who's with me does that? Do you read it that way or not?
Richard Verner
Well, I think that is certainly is one possibility and that would be, that would be a good goal because Europe is really still under the thrall of World Economic Forum and the deep state and including the US Deep state, it's still very active in Europe. We mustn't forget that sometimes when President Trump ends up arguing with European leaders, he is still arguing with his old enemy, which is the CIA. They're running Europe. They've got all their assets in place. And of course, the World Economic Forum is a CIA asset. You know, it was under Kissinger that the CIA funded this program which brought Klaus Schwab to the fore. You know, so President Trump needs to realize that he's still fighting the old enemy, but now, you know, you know, he won domestically, but, you know, the old enemy is strong in Europe and other places still where they, they've had the foothold through, you know, traditional military, foreign bases where the US army is and so on. Japan included. And that explains a lot of restriction. And so yes, in many ways it's good that Europe sees okay, there's going to be a change of policy. But they're just going to now while they're still under instruction from their minders at the CIA, they, they're just really agitating against the United States against Trump. They're talking about, well, we have to decouple, we can't trust America anymore at all.
Stu Burguiere
We're going to.
Richard Verner
And when the reality is they're now just totally still following their minders. So the deep state minders World Economic.
Stu Burguiere
Forum so let me take a one minute break and then come back. We're talking to Richard Verner. He is an economist. He is the guy who coined the term quantitative easy easing, which has been used in a different way. But we'll talk about that in just a second. More with him. Thanks to the Tunnel to Towers foundation, your generosity bringing real lasting change to the lives of our heroes. I want to tell you about The Clark family. U.S. air Force Technical Sergeant Jesse Clark. His service came to an early end after a chemical exposure led him to developing massive brain tumor. The effects were life altering and, and he's now paralyzed on the left side of his body. Legally blind, he struggles with memory loss. He's going to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. But because of supporters like you, the Tunnel to Towers foundation was able to help Jesse build a specially adapted smart home. It is designed to uphold his dignity and help him achieve as much independence as possible in the place he calls home. And since the foundation was created in the aftermath of 9 11, tunnel to towers has been there for American heroes and their families over and over and over again. And it's wide. I support them. America's heroes have given so much. And if we want our government to do less than we have to do more, together we can say thank you in a lasting and meaningful way. Please show your support now. Donate $11 a month to tunnel the towers@t2t.org that's t the number 2t.org 10 seconds station id talking to the economist Richard Verner. And I want to ask you about your own Germany here for a second. Germany's being dismantled. Everybody's being dismantled over there. You've got the mass immigration that is happening that is doing even more damage. The people are, you know, on the verge of unrest. You have clampdowns everywhere from this deep state government. I'm concerned that Europe is in a place to where they might just say, you know, what, let's just band together against America, let's go with China or let's go another direction. We're not. We'll put them out. Do you think that's a possibility at all?
Richard Verner
Certainly half of that is essentially is happening, namely the point where you said, you know, let's band together and let's try to work against America or the current, you know, government, the current administration in America, that is already happening concerning banning together with China. So far, that hadn't been really on the radar good. But now it actually is becoming also a possibility. And that's actually a big concern because what happened earlier with the previous different administrations and their Russia policy, they essentially forced Russia and China to collaborate as much as possible all the sanctions on Russia. And we know the result actually has been bad for the US and has been just helping China and Russia to essentially establish, together with brics and other countries, an alternative trading block and collaborations and investments mutually. And put the Chinese initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative, now in its 11th year, has signed up many, many countries, many developing countries and emerging markets. So there are alternatives. Now, that actually creates the possibility, in theory, that Europe will say, well, hang on, that's actually quite an attractive group of countries, countries, and maybe we should somehow move closer to them and work with them. And so US Policy should take that into consideration. You know, do we really want to drive everyone away or do we actually want to have good collaborative relationships? But as the Trump administration makes clear, you know, on different terms, we want to change a broad break from past policies which actually weren't that good for Europe either. You know, policies. And so for Europe, the truth is, the Trump administration is a great opportunity. Sadly, we don't have the leaders in Europe that take advantage of the Soviet Union because they could really change everything and actually strengthen Europe. But sadly, as you said, they are still in the process of de. Industrializing Europe and Germany, it's just accelerating. They're destroying the economy, economy and really dismantling everything, replacing the population. It's just a disaster. And so the leadership is lacking there. This is where perhaps also the Trump administration could help in trying to support those. And Elon Musk has reached out to the German opposition leader, so that's a good sign.
Stu Burguiere
So hang on, Richard, Just, just a second. We're talking to the professor. Richard Verner coined the term quantitative easing. He's an economics professor. More with him in a second. Glenn Beck. I want to talk to him a little bit about, you know, what, what he sees in the future and pursuing that what he was just talking about on, you know, people that are rising up that could be supported by, by us. All right. Real estate agents. I trust if you've ever worked with the wrong real estate agent agent. Oh yeah, you know, the one that shows up smelling like vape and Axe body spray. It's like, yeah, this neighborhood used to be super sketchy, but I think it's, you know, a lot less stabby now. He's, he's not the, he's not the guy that you want to go with at all. If you want the right real estate agent, the one that you know is a good one, one that listens to you, knows where your family needs to be be you need real estate agents. I trust dot com. This is my company and we find the real estate agents. I started working with the 500 Best Real Estate agents from around the country. According to the Wall Street Journal. I learned from them. I learned what makes them one of the best in the country. I learned what their practices are. And there, there is actually a formula. It's not that complex. Everybody can figure it out. It just starts with being a hard worker and honestly honest in the first place, listening to your customer. But there's other things. We put them together and want to give you their name. Real estate agents I trust.com realestate agentsitrust.com.
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Stu Burguiere
We are talking to Professor Richard Verner. He's an economist. He's the guy who coined the term quantitative easing and then they turned it upside on its head. Really, really bright guy. I just want to give you a couple of things that he has said lately and I want to make sure we address both of these things. The policies of the central bank's inflation is likely to rev up again. The central bank goal of CBDCs and progress on that front from their perspective. Perspective. Europe is likely to turn into a digital prison in the coming five years with BIS in Switzerland running also a digital asset register of all asset ownerships in the eu. People are arrested for social media opinions already EU Digital Services Act. The resistance against all of this is struggling. Let me start with that, Richard. You mean all of that? I mean within five years a digital prison risen.
Richard Verner
We're very close to it. Some people say already this October. Now that's that they introduced cbdc. That's actually too early. What happened in October is that, you know, the preparatory phase officially ends at the European Central Bank. It doesn't mean that from October this year we will have the digital euro, but we will be in the final phase, namely the introduction phase, where they will work on actually preparing to introduce it, which likely will happen in the following two years. And that is a massive, massive step towards this digital prison. The Digital Act, Digital Services act and other act already in place in Europe, sadly. And they're already using it to arrest people criticizing government. In Germany, you go to prison, just, you know, post an X message criticizing the government. That could be a prison sentence. It's unbelievable, but true. The BIS has already two years ago announced that it's working on this digital asset register. And of course, whenever the government wants to do a big census and register of, you know, what you own, well, you know what you come next, they're going to take some of that in the form of taxes or worse. You know, once it's a digital asset, the transfer of ownership will be very smooth and convenient and can be done by those in charge of those systems.
Stu Burguiere
You know, it does look very bleak when J.D. vance was over in Germany recently and your foreign minister started to weep and say we have nothing in common. I'm like, you know what, I don't know if we should be pursuing, protecting and being in NATO, because if you don't agree with people, should be free to speak. I don't know what we do have in common. But let me give something else that you talked about and I'd love to hear your comments on this. You just spoke about President Trump, you know, not fighting Europe or the eu, but the European opposition to the Trump administration, which you say are European politicians controlled by our deep state, which I fully believe you say first and foremost in Germany. Germany, because the CIA uses the US Occupation powers and NATO powers to claim legal authority to run its covert ops and assets, which includes most politicians and most parties in Germany. At law, Germany is still at war. There's not been a peace treaty, the constitution remains suspended, and there is only a basic law for occupied countries. And Germany remains an enemy country in the UN Charter. Most of all, many of the 1945 occupation statutes still apply, giving extraordinary powers to representatives of the U.S. government, which the CIA uses. Holy Mother, I had no idea. That's true.
Richard Verner
Yeah, that is the truth. That is the truth. I'm glad you saw it. You know, more Americans need to realize this and also that, you know, all members of the Trump administration need to realize that. So when they have an argument with Europe, who are they actually arguing with? It is their own nemesis, the old opposition, the CIA.
Stu Burguiere
Richard, I. How Long are you in the country for?
Richard Verner
Actually, at the moment scheduled to leave this evening, but I'll come back.
Stu Burguiere
Okay. I'd like to, yeah, we, I'd like to have you sit down because I, you have far too much information that, that I have not heard. And I'd like to really go deeper into that and have you show us the, the, the example. So it's not just, you know, one person's opinion. You also say that gold could hit $10,000 an ounce in a couple of years. It wouldn't surprise you why, exactly that's true.
Richard Verner
I just think about this extraordinary money creation that the central bank, starting with the Fed, have undertaken since March 2020 under all sorts of pretenses, is being so massive. And of course, that has had an impact on stocks and other things, but the gold price has barely moved. I mean, it's now just within the last sort of four months, five months started to move and it's now just about double where it was in March 2020. But that still doesn't reflect all the money creation that's been going on since. So it's still cheap, basically.
Stu Burguiere
So we are looking at, I mean, this is, I've been trying to explain to the American people that what Donald Trump is doing, he's not, he's not nibbling around the edges. And I'm, I'm, I'm not sure how much I understand. I'm not sure how much he understands. But we do all understand there is a deep, fundamental structural problem that started, you know, after World War II and it was all put in there, maybe, let's just say, for all good and intentions, but now it no longer works. In fact, it's working against the people and it's, it's been twisted and is in awful, awful shape. And half the, most of the politicians, half the world says, let's just manage the decline into some sort of global state. He is saying, no, we've got to go the other way. Can you explain this to the person that might not be a fan of Donald Trump? Trump, that is that you can, you can explain why it is important. What, no matter what the answer is? I don't know. I think I'm, I'm the only one that's diagnosing the cancer so far is Donald Trump. So I'll go with his prescription right now until I hear a better doctor that admits the problem and then says, here's a better solution. Can you describe to people who don't see this why it is so important that we must get it off the course we've been on for a long time.
Richard Verner
Yeah, yeah. Well essentially the resistance to President Trump which was very obvious before the elections, you know, and when he was shot at several times, assassination attempts, that is such proof that he is doing the right things. I mean the Deep state clearly has been very well, very much afraid of presidency, the second Trump presidency. So that's the first point. And then now why is this deep state so powerful? Once you look into that you realize that it is really the most important variable in the post war era. Certainly since the CIA was created in 1947. Fletcher Prouty wrote a really good book about this called the Secret Team. For many years it was not available because it was suppressed. And he describes the extraordinary powers of the CIA which technically actually illegal. But the CIA has used its powers to make it practically legal by any congressional oversight. They make sure these are all CIA agents because it's classified who is a CIA agent. And there's no, no they part of real oversight over this venture. Prouty wasn't just somebody, some kind of, you know, crackpot. No, he was actually part of all this. He'd been heading all sorts of covert operations. The first thing to understand is that the CIA has two parts. One is the official front, the public face which is just the analysts. And that's a very mild mannered part of the CIA. You can download their reports and everything, you know. And originally it was meant to be that in a briefing the President supposed to report to the President. Well it looks like they assassinated the President JFK and they colluded with all sorts of foreign powers and they had completely gone out of control. Because there's a second part of the CIA and he was, he worked at that and rose to the top, you know. And that is the covert operation part of the CIA. DeGio Prati was the head of Covid operations, chief corporate operations, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the White House. And then he became a whistleblower and he wrote this book. So that's the real problem. What the Deep state has been doing for decades and that has really shaped into a very, very bad shape world politics and many events. And Europe sucked on that. You know, the EU was created by this Europe CIA. It's a CIA creation that's actually a matter of public record because fortunately some of these CIA records have to be published. And they were published. And it turned out that all the founding fathers of the European Union celebrated by streets and buildings named after them in Brussels. You know, Jean Monet, he was 100% a CIA agent and all the others, you know, Spock and Schumann and so on. And then the so called European Movement movement which gave cash to all the European parties if they only put into their program ever closer. European Union creation of the United States of Europe was CIA funded. The European youth movement was 100% CIA funded. And that's really what's behind Europe. And of course they could build this up because they had so much big power base in Germany where we've never really addressed that issue, that Germany is not a sovereign country, it's still US occupied. There's no peace treaty and the constitution is suspended. We only have a basic law which was meant to be temporary. And so the CIA is using that, the occupation statute, then the powers of the occupation forces, they can do anything illegal and then claim, oh, it's legal, because occupation statutes, you know, and you know, the big, you know, operation bases in Germany, I mean, they're vast by the ca, so one has to be aware of that. And Trump essentially is fighting all that. I don't know whether he fully realizes just how big the monster is that he's fighting this dragon that he's trying to slay. But we have to support him. He's our best hope, I think. And that's the battle we're in at the moment.
Stu Burguiere
I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. I'd like to talk to you some more about this on air and yes, please, I will pass this on to the President and his team.
Richard Verner
Excellent.
Stu Burguiere
You are exposing some things here that I. I'm here for the first time. I have my chief researcher, Jason in here. Had you heard any of this stuff? None. None? None. Is Japan still under occupation law in Japan?
Richard Verner
Legally it's not, but in practice it is. So the situation there is different. In Germany, legally, it's still under occupation and the US has these legal rights. That's what makes it so easy for the circumstances in Japan. It's like in many other places where the CIA is operating. It is technically not, you know, they don't have the powers, but they just, you know, they have their extra legal power. So prime ministers in Japan that acted in a way the CIA didn't like, you know, this Prime Minister Obuchi, he died on the job, you know, and there's all sorts of rumors about that. Abe was assassinated recently. You know, Prime Minister Abe, now he was very much pro American, there's absolutely no doubt, but he always carved out a bit of, you know, protection of the Japanese people, which I think many Americans would Understand and would support. For example, he didn't want Japan to be flooded by immigrants.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Richard Verner
Well, the deep state didn't like that and he got assassinated.
Stu Burguiere
Richard, thank you.
Richard Verner
Didn't push the injections, you know, in Japan under the COVID pandemic.
Stu Burguiere
Thank you so much, Richard. I really appreciate the interview insight and we'll talk again, my friend. Thank you.
Richard Verner
Excellent.
Stu Burguiere
You bet. That's Professor Richard Verner, an economist. He's German Professor. You can find him at professor verner.org professor verner.org we'll have to have him back. So what does it mean to be pro life? Because it's easy to say we're pro life and that's good, but it's really just a label. It's a particular set of deep values and it means showing. Showing up. When you say you're pro life, it means showing up for. It means caring about the unborn baby that's growing inside a mom, desperately wanting mom to make the right decision when it comes to life or death and child. But it also means about caring about that mom, understanding that she is experiencing a terrifying, difficult situation she feels completely alone in and she just needs help. You would not believe how easy it is to change expectant mom mom's mind when you actually talk to her and listen to her. First you have to dismiss that it's just a clump of cells and you do that with a free ultrasound from preborn and then just listen to them. What do you need? That's why preborn is there for the first two years of of the baby's life for mom and the baby, because nobody else is there for him. Please dial £250. Become a part of this movement. Say the keyword baby at pound 250 keyword baby. Or you can donate online at preborn.combeck. that's preborn.com Beck sponsored by Preborn Beck. We'll be right back. All right, we gotta welcome Jason Buttrel in. He is our chief researcher and head writer for the TV show. Last night we did a show on a new Muslim Islamic town that is being talked about being built here just outside of Dallas. And I got a email from somebody who said, you know, you should talk to the developer directly to get, you know, can you read that actual line that I got last night? They're red on the air.
Richard Verner
Yeah.
Ben Lamb
It says given the amount of misinformation.
Stu Burguiere
Circulating, it might be beneficial to speak directly with the landowner developer to ensure accuracy. So I said yes to that on the program. Supposed to be on with us about 20 minutes ago and then find out that it's the lawyer. Well, what happened to the. Directly to the landowner developer? So they said, well, they will, he'll be prepared for our conversation sometime next week. So. But, you know, I don't, and I don't have anything bad to say about the developer if it's all in the up and up. It just. There's some things about this, the people that, you know, are engaged in it that are a little disturbing. I mean, unless I would say had a come to Jesus moment, but I don't think that's probably appropriate to say about an imam.
Glenn Beck
Look, there's some things that have been.
Ben Lamb
Said about this and I don't know, we're just concerned citizens and we would like to know what's really going, going on.
Glenn Beck
That's all. We've seen the statements from the governor which sound troubling.
Ben Lamb
So I would love to hear from them directly.
Glenn Beck
I would love like, like when you.
Stu Burguiere
Remember with the Islamic tribunals, you had.
Glenn Beck
Two of them come directly and you spoke to them.
Stu Burguiere
It was amazing. Yeah, it didn't go well at the end for them, but, you know, when they started saying, you know, but we all believe chop a hand off for, you know, crime, it started to go, it started to, started to unravel a little bit there. But, but we'll see. So we'll have more on that next week and tomorrow, gang, it's Friday tomorrow, so, I mean, you usually, I tell you, don't expect much from the show, but it's Friday. Don't expect very much, if anything from tomorrow's show except screwing off and having fun. We'll see you then. This is Glenn Beck.
Podcast Title: The Glenn Beck Program
Host: Stu Burguiere
Guests: Stephen Moore, Ben Lamm, Richard Verner
Release Date: April 10, 2025
Network: Blaze Podcast Network
In this episode of "The Glenn Beck Program," host Stu Burguiere delves into the intricate web of international politics, economic strategies, and cutting-edge scientific advancements. The central theme revolves around the provocative question: Did China's Human Experiments Make the CIA Fund Dire Wolves? This exploration intertwines discussions on U.S.-China trade relations, synthetic biology, de-extinction projects, and the influence of deep state entities on global policies.
The episode opens with a heated discussion on recent developments in U.S.-China trade relations. President Trump's decision to implement a 125% tariff on Chinese goods, followed by a swift response increasing it to 145%, sets the stage for an analysis of his negotiation tactics.
Stu Burguiere highlights Trump's approach:
“If you've read the Art of the Deal with Donald Trump, you know his negotiation playbook. It’s less about policy details and more about winning through psychology, persistence, and showmanship” [03:45].
Stephen Moore, founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, elaborates:
“Trump, one thing I've learned from Donald Trump... sometimes he's two or three moves on the chessboard ahead of everybody else. I don't know if calling this a retreat is the way to describe it” [26:10].
Moore suggests that Trump's tariff maneuvers are strategic steps toward decoupling the U.S. economy from China, aiming to restore American manufacturing and reduce dependency on Chinese supply chains.
Economist Richard Verner provides a critical perspective on the global economic impacts of these tariffs. He underscores the magnitude of China's role in international supply chains and the potential repercussions of the escalating trade war.
“China is part of supply chains across the globe, even involving other countries. And of course, the U.S.... is the most attractive market. Everyone wants to export to the U.S., so it's true that the U.S. has some leverage there” [91:52].
Verner emphasizes the importance of supporting small, local banks to bolster job creation and economic resilience, drawing parallels to China’s banking reforms under Deng Xiaoping.
A significant portion of the episode features an interview with Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal, a synthetic biology company focused on de-extinction projects, including the controversial resurrection of direwolves.
Ben Lamm discusses the ethical and scientific dimensions of bringing extinct species back to life:
“We are building technologies to save animals. We've actually been able to clone four red wolves with more genetic diversity than the existing 15 that are still left in the wild” [52:38].
Lamm addresses concerns about playing God and the potential risks associated with synthetic biology, assuring listeners that direwolves are kept in secure ecological preserves and not released into the wild without thorough management and collaboration with government and tribal entities.
The program takes a critical turn as Stu Burguiere discusses the proposed Islamic community, Epic City, near Dallas. He expresses apprehensions about the implementation of Sharia law and the exclusionary practices being promoted by some developers.
“If you want to run your own little fiefdom and not use the law and the Supreme Court... No, no, no.” [70:17].
A clip from a 2015 interview reveals alarming statements about Sharia law, prompting Stu to question the authenticity and intentions behind the project. The conversation underscores fears of cultural imposition and the erosion of constitutional principles.
Richard Verner delves into the influence of deep state entities, particularly the CIA, on European politics. He argues that the CIA has been instrumental in shaping the European Union and continues to manipulate political landscapes to maintain control.
“The European Union was a CIA creation... Jean Monet, he was 100% a CIA agent...” [103:59].
Verner contends that current European leaders are still under the sway of these covert operations, hindering genuine democratic progress and fostering anti-American sentiments.
Returning to economic themes, Richard Verner critiques the extensive quantitative easing policies adopted by central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve. He warns of the long-term consequences of excessive money creation, including potential inflationary pressures and financial instability.
“Gold price has barely moved... it's still cheap, basically” [116:34].
Verner forecasts a bullish future for gold, anticipating prices could reach $10,000 an ounce as a hedge against ongoing monetary expansion.
The episode concludes with a reinforcement of the episode's key themes:
Stu Burguiere emphasizes the need for vigilance and active participation in shaping policies that align with American values and sovereignty.
Stu Burguiere: “You don't come in and say, oh, well, I'm not gonna. If you don't give me this, I'm not gonna do this.” [11:25]
Stephen Moore: “China is part of supply chains across the globe... the U.S. has some leverage there.” [91:52]
Ben Lamm: “We are building technologies to save animals... clone four red wolves with more genetic diversity.” [52:38]
Richard Verner: “Germany is still under occupation and the U.S. has these legal rights. That's what makes it so easy for the circumstances in Japan.” [123:07]
Richard Verner: “Gold price has barely moved... it's still cheap, basically.” [116:34]
This episode of "The Glenn Beck Program" offers a deep dive into the intersection of geopolitics, economic strategies, and scientific innovations. With expert guests providing nuanced perspectives, listeners are encouraged to critically assess the ongoing shifts in global power dynamics and their implications for the future.
For those interested in the intricate details of U.S.-China relations, the ethical considerations of de-extinction, and the hidden influences shaping European politics, this episode serves as a compelling resource.