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Stu Burguiere
Glenn's sick, so he is going to be out today. He actually came in and got sick while he was here and then left. So we are on the fly putting together a wonderful show for you. I think you'll like it. And I want to tell you about my Patriot Supply to lead it off. The sad and ugly truth is that no one, not even President Trump and his new administration, can protect you and your family from every possible emergency situation that can arise. It's true. I mean, your responsibility here for your family is to prepare as best as possible. And when a crisis hits, food is almost always the first casualty. Everyone needs it. And as soon as things get scary, panic buying sets in. You've seen whenever there's a hurricane rolling into town, you've got every shelf is bare. Depending on where you're living, it can be bad. Emergency food in your home is the right thing to do. We still live in those crazy times and you and your family could need it. So right now, my Patriot Supply is offering $50 off their four week emergency food kit. It's got 2,000 calories per day for three whole months. Plenty to get you through even a prolonged emergency. All their food kits last up to 25 years in storage. And it's great stuff. It comes all weatherproof and everything. So check it out. Now get $50 off their four week food kit at mypatriotsupply.com check it out. My patriotsupply.sa.
Glenn Beck
Round. When times get down gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.
Pat Gray
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Welcome to it. It's Pat and Stew for Glenn today. He's a little under the weather.
Stu Burguiere
So he is. He even came in today, started prepping the show and then got sick while he was here.
Pat Gray
Yes.
Stu Burguiere
So now we're surrounded by all of his germs and attempting to do a radio show all day. So thank you for that, Glenn.
Pat Gray
So we're just a tad hesitant to be speaking into the microphone, which was just eluded.
Stu Burguiere
You know, we'll do our best. I think what we should do today is wear four different masks to honor Anthony Fauci and his health advice.
Pat Gray
Right.
Stu Burguiere
Because, you know, it's very important to protect yourself.
Pat Gray
Is that two apiece or four each?
Stu Burguiere
I think. I think we get large masks and we just have them wrapped all the way around both of our heads as we do the show.
Pat Gray
Okay.
Stu Burguiere
That's just a recommendation, though. That's not science.
Pat Gray
All right.
Stu Burguiere
He is science. We are not.
Pat Gray
We're not.
Stu Burguiere
We are not.
Pat Gray
We are not. All right. There is a lot going on, you know, the, the whole tariff thing. I think you're kind of in a similar place where I am on tariffs. We'll get into that and what happened yesterday on the tariff front and much more. We also have nominations that will either be confirmed or not today. We'll get into some of that in 62nd.
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Pat Gray
Pat and Stu Forkland today, I'm sure you guys have talked about how President Trump has done so much so fast that it's, it's almost impossible for us to keep up with, let alone the liberal media to try to complain, whine and cry about everything he's doing. I mean, as soon as they start complaining and crying about one thing, he's already onto the next. And it's been a breakneck pace. It's been unbelievable.
Stu Burguiere
It really has. It's been, it's sort of the opposite of overwhelming the system that the left was always trying to do. They were always trying to load so much stuff on so you wouldn't notice half the stuff that's going on. I don't think Trump is in that position. I think he likes that everyone notices when he, when he signs a new executive order. But there has been so much in just the first couple of weeks. I mean, certainly the most I've ever.
Pat Gray
Seen, oh, by far in my life.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Yeah. I, the only thing I think I can think of that compares to this is the job that Harding and Coolidge did.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Glenn Beck
And.
Pat Gray
But I'm not sure it was on this kind of scale. I mean, the, the cuts in the budget were beyond what's going on right now.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, not even close.
Pat Gray
Not even close. He. He cut the budget 50% in the first year and then 50% again the next year. But those were the days when the U.S. budget was like 12, I think 11 or 12 billion dollars annually. So the first year he cut it to like 6 billion, and then the next it was down to 2 billion. I mean, it was. Wow. It was staggering what happened then. But I don't know if he, he did. If they did. As many things as are happening right now on as many fronts, tackling as many issues, it's really strongly believe that this would not have happened had he won consecutive terms.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, I think you're right. I think it's. Again, you don't wish the Biden years into existence by any means, because they happened.
Pat Gray
It allowed this.
Stu Burguiere
It allows this. I think when you have. Because you know, this is true with, I think any job. Right. Like you can go through and when you're working in a day to day, the day to day can kill you. It can overwhelm you. There's always a new development. And certainly his entire last year of that last term was lost to Covid. Yeah. So it was one of those situations where you're always having a new catastrophe. He was being investigated for Russia. Russia was invading Ukraine. I mean, you know, that was actually after his first term, right? Yes, it was after his first term. That was 2022 now, I think about it. But there was still stuff going on over there. You had so much to deal with on a day to day basis. A lot of it from the media, from congressional investigations, from impeachment efforts. You know, I think that day to day got to him a little bit. And taking four years off, where all you have to do is stew about how the last years went, but also plan for how I would do it again if I had the opportunity. That is what I think he did. And he put people around him who came up with a plan. And it has been a little shock and awe. Ish. It has, right?
Pat Gray
It really has. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
It really has been, even for someone who likes the things, generally speaking, that he's doing, it has been like, wow, this is a lot.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And I think that's, I think it's smart because if you think of the timeline of a presidency, Pat, they've got what, a one seat majority right now, basically, when these people that he's appointed get into office and they're trying to slow play the Stefanik seat in New York right now to try to keep the majority as small as possible. You go through that period, the chances of you winning after two years when you have such a small majority are low. I mean, most presidents lose seats in that first election.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So if you kind of look at it that way, let's just say they lose that and we hope they don't. But if the Republicans lose that election in 2022, you've got a two year presidency where you're really gonna be able to get a lot done, especially with Congress. And then you start shrinking that down. Well, that last year before the election, all these purple, you know, purple district moderates are not going to want to get on board with anything hard in that year before the election. So you probably lost that year. And then you have this first year kind of the only thing, and it starts off with all these appointments. So you're kind of jumbled usually up in that process for the first month or two and you start shrinking down and you just don't have that much time to do anything. The way our system is set up right now. He's decided, he knew that. He decided, I'm going to do something about it. I'm not going to slow play this. They're going to be appointing people, I'm going to be doing stuff on my own. They're going to get as much done as they can. And then they do have this one big reconciliation bill to pass this year too, which is going to be a struggle with small majorities, but hopefully they get that done as well. But he's just going for it and I think that's the right approach.
Pat Gray
Yeah, I mean, he's going for things that I didn't expect him to like. They are saying that he's already written drafts for the executive order to close down the bar, the Department of Education. I mean, eventually that'll take Congress to do it too. But the executive order to begin the process or start dismantling it is about to happen, apparently.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think. And it's going to include a plan as to how to unwind it. Yeah. Which you Know, again, I, I, you don't.
Pat Gray
You.
Stu Burguiere
I am completely on board with ending the Department of Education, as I have been every since, ever since I've been politically aware.
Pat Gray
It has to be done congressionally.
Stu Burguiere
It has to be done congressionally. And I will say that's the, that's the same thing with usaid. Like, I mean, he's, he's been talking about, they're talking about Doge coming in and dismantling it. You can't really do that without Congress. It was started by an executive order, but was later codified by Congress. So you do have to go to Congress much later.
Pat Gray
Yeah, it started under Kennedy. Yeah. So, yeah. Then it happened under Clinton.
Stu Burguiere
It was 98. I think Bill Clinton had a lot of stuff going on in 1998.
Pat Gray
Yes, he did.
Stu Burguiere
Lots of stuff going on. But while he, while Monica was under the desk, he was signing, he was putting together an effort to put that congressionally through, and it did succeed. So you would have to go through. That doesn't mean, though, you can't change these things. We're seeing that a lot with a lot of stuff Doge is doing. You come in here and you say, hey, you know, if you want to resign, give us an email to resign. That is within his authority. It's ridiculous to say that it is not. Even though the Democrats are trying and the unions are trying to say that, of course it's okay to say we'd like you to leave. It depends on how much you can pay. And there's some legal lines there. But at the end of the day, they say now 20,000 employees have so far taken them up on that. Now, that's not a, it's not a number that you're going to notice in the budget, honestly, 20,000 employees, but still, it's something, and it's the beginning of an effort and maybe more jump on board as we go. I think they're all being encouraged to not take it because they have all these protections built in. And the left has done a good job in putting this sort of government apparatus in concrete so it can't be moved, it can't be reshaped. They're doing everything they can to stop this, but 20,000 supposedly have already taken the offer to just get out, get paid till September and not have to work.
Pat Gray
I mean, it's, it's a pretty sweet deal.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, no kidding.
Pat Gray
You know, you got seven, seven months to find a new job. You're, you're getting paid a decent amount of money until then, why not? If you're going to go anyway. And a lot of them probably are. A lot of them probably were going to be fired.
Stu Burguiere
Like, if you were working, Pat, in the, in a Trump administration, the first term, you're working in some civil service job under Trump and you're something you believe in and then Joe Biden gets elected and all of a sudden you're like promoting LGBTQ abortions every day. You'd probably leave too.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So I can understand why a lot of those people would want to get out and they get a nice long Runway to do set. If you're really smart, this is not going to make much sense in the entrepreneurial spirit to a lot of government employees. But, like, maybe you take it and then go get another job and then you've got two salaries for nine months. Would that put you ahead? I bet it would.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
That's a nice way to go. So it's actually quite a generous offer if it holds up in court. And honestly, like, if I'm in that, if I'm in that situation, there's a good chance, I think, I take it. I don't want to sit here and try to promote the initiatives of some left wing nut job.
Pat Gray
Right. That you completely disagree with. You don't want to be doing that.
Stu Burguiere
So get out. Yeah, get out. The people who want to stay, stay and help. If you don't want to stay and help, then get out. That's a pretty basic request. It should be the approach of every company. This is the same thing they did at Twitter. They basically said, look, we're going to be cutting anyway, so you might get fired anyway. I want to tell you right up front that that pressure is on. You might wind up losing your job with much less severance.
Pat Gray
But isn't it a better thing to know about it going in.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Than to wonder if you're going to keep your job? I mean, when you're told, yeah, there's a really good chance you could lose your job. So you could. Here's a, here's an umbrella. Here's a, here are a parachute to use on the way out. I mean, it's generous. Go ahead and take it. Yeah, take the parachute.
Stu Burguiere
We had a situation like this. My wife, who had her own national radio show, she does music radio, but she was doing a radio show on a daily basis. She signed a new three year contract. And then there was this thing that happened. There was a pangolin in Wuhan that apparently started making out with some guy and it passed.
Pat Gray
I hate when that happens.
Stu Burguiere
I know. Well, you know, look, to each his own, Pat. If you're gonna make out with a pangolin, you make out with a pangolin. Right.
Pat Gray
Who am I to be all judgy on the scene?
Stu Burguiere
Yes, exactly. The LGBTQIA2P community. So you're loving on a pangolin a little bit. And a little virus broke out.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And the radio company decided, holy crap, we need to fire everyone. So they laid off my wife. That was like April or May 2020, you know, right in the middle of everything. I think she signed her contract in April 2020, and then they laid her off in May 2020. She signed a three year deal.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
So she got this payout where she was just getting paid for nothing for a really long time. It was. It was absurd.
Pat Gray
Pretty sweet. It was awesome. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I was like, this is the best job you've ever had. You can sit here and not have to do any shows. You don't have to show up to work at all. You can do whatever you want and you still get paid. Like, this is incredible. I don't remember how much it was like half the time of her contract or something. She's got paid for nothing. I think that's a good gig.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I don't know that it made any economic sense for the company, but whatever. It was awesome for her. She was excited about it at the end, certainly. So it's one of those things where if you get a. That's. That thing comes around once a year in a lifetime.
Pat Gray
Take it, take it, take it.
Stu Burguiere
Hey, you in Washington, you don't like what you're doing, get out.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
The chances of you getting fired are there anyway. Take the risk. Get out. Go find something you want to do in a field you want to work in in the private sector. Now they're going to ask you to show up to work. Probably they're not going to let you stay. You're not going to be able to work three hours a week like the government.
Pat Gray
All those bastards.
Stu Burguiere
I know. They're going to say, you need to leave your bathtub.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
You know, that's. That's. There are some negatives.
Pat Gray
You mean they might ask you to actually come into an office of some sort?
Stu Burguiere
May. They may ask that. Although I will say if one of the reasons why you don't want to or you don't like your job so much is because you're currently remote working and have to change that. There are actually a lot of companies that will allow you to remote work.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So go find one of them and go work There, maybe you'll like it more. The bottom line is there's way too much waste in our government. We all understand it, we all know it.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And if we have an opportunity to shrink that, I mean, really, I don't think any Republican president has ever taken it seriously, by the way, including Trump won. I don't think anybody really took shrinking government seriously until this effort that we're seeing with Elon Musk and Doge.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And Trump obviously on board with that. So this is a good change.
Pat Gray
More coming up in 60 seconds.
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Pat Gray
So President Trump talked about why some of these things are happening right now and why they're happening with the. With the rapidity with which we're viewing right now. And a lot of it's because we're just getting ripped off. And he talked about that in his first term, but, man, this time he's really putting the hammer down. Check this out.
Tom Homan
Every single one of those countries is dying to Make a deal. You know why? Because they're ripping us off really badly. And the United States is tired of been ripping, just being ripped off. And that's why we have $36 trillion in debt. We have it for a reason. Because we make bad deals with everybody, and we don't allow that anymore. So the Wall Street Journal is wrong, because very simply, every single country that you're writing about right now is dying to make a deal because the deals they have right now are so good and so good for them and so profitable for them. You didn't know that Canada didn't allow our banks. You didn't know all of these different things. And I think in the end, you're going to see that either very, very substantial tariffs are going to be paid by them, or they're going to make some kind of a deal.
Pat Gray
Hmm.
Stu Burguiere
So why would they want to do a deal if they're ripping us off? And would they prefer to keep the one in place?
Pat Gray
Right.
Stu Burguiere
That they have? Well, I think what he's referring to is the deals there to be made because there's a lot of room. Right. Like they've got the good side of this deal. And.
Pat Gray
And now he's going to end that.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, he's going to end that. So they're going to want to do a deal. Once. Once he gives. He puts them on alert. Which, by the way, we saw. Yeah, we saw immediately yesterday with both Canada and Mexico.
Pat Gray
Yes. Because the tariffs were supposed to take place today. 25% on Canadian goods, 25% on Mexican goods, 10% extra on Chinese goods. And so it caused them to come to the table and have a little conversation with the president. And so now it's been delayed with both Canada and Mexico, because he's right. They're willing to deal now.
Stu Burguiere
It's not just that, too. It was Colombia who was gonna take our. They were rejecting planes. Then they turned that around really fast. I will also say I was doing the Megyn Kelly show yesterday, and I was gonna come on right at the beginning of the show, and then they moved me back, like 15 minutes. And the reason why they were talking to Rick Grinnell, who went to Venezuela and negotiated the release of six of our hostages, of their hostages, you know, our people being held hostage there, and was able to bring six of them home. And he went through the entire. Was incredible.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Again, could we have done that during the Biden administration? I mean, I don't think he had ever been capable of it, but, like, why not? Why weren't we there? Saying, hey, look, we don't agree with the Maduro regime, but you got some of our people there. What can we do to make this happen? And that happened in the first week. Yeah, I mean, it seems like listening to Grinnell, he's gonna be going all over the world and doing stuff like this, and that's a great thing.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So, yeah, it's just, it's. Look, it's just been impressive. It's been impressive. I think it has been an impressive first couple of weeks. You run the risk. I mean, some of the stuff we really like and, you know, maybe isn't as popular across the country. Some of that stuff will start catching up to you over the long term. But this is the right approach for that stuff.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
If a cut is, is unpopular, get it done, rip off the band aid and everybody move on. So we can kind of look for more, you know, things that American people can unite on and also reap the benefits of cuts, because the earlier you make them, the better they are.
Pat Gray
He had much more to say about tariffs and about USAID fraud. We'll get into that. Coming up. It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. This is Glenn Beck.
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Pat Gray
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Stu Burguiere
We should probably poison him less. You know, thinking about it in retrospect. I know we have a long term, multi year program to poison him slowly, but I think maybe we added a little too much this morning.
Pat Gray
Well, we've been working for years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Pat Gray
He doesn't have that.
Stu Burguiere
He does not have that.
Pat Gray
No. So. But a little does a lot.
Stu Burguiere
Apparently.
Pat Gray
It does. So it goes a long way. So he's experiencing that today. So we're talking about the, the deal with, with Canada. President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products and Mexican products. And then shockingly, he had a discussion with Justin Turdo yesterday between Turto and Donald Trump.
Stu Burguiere
And I think you're mispronouncing that.
Pat Gray
Really? Turd dough. That's not. No. You got it. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Okay. I'm sorry.
Pat Gray
All right. So they came around to some sort of arrangement where we're gonna wait for 30 days. Hmm.
Stu Burguiere
It's weird.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Like, it's almost like this was a negotiating tactic.
Stu Burguiere
It is almost like that. It's almost why I never freak out about this stuff.
Pat Gray
Like, Right.
Stu Burguiere
Trump does what he does. He says things sometimes like, he just said he's friends with Kim Jong Un. So what? Who cares? Right? Like he. I don't. Is he really friends with Kim? I doubt he's hanging out with him on the weekends. But, you know, he says these things for a reason. He's trying to lead to something. You might not like that thing. You might not like his approach to get to that thing.
Pat Gray
Right.
Stu Burguiere
But the bottom line is you can't just sit here and like, you can't freak out over it. Right. You have to look at it.
Pat Gray
And yet the left does every single time.
Stu Burguiere
I know. Does anyone remember this guy was actually. And I don't know if you even know this, Pat, but he was Donald Trump, President of the United States already once.
Pat Gray
Whoa.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. So we all got to see him be president.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And all kind of got to see his tactics and how he would handle the job and While this, as we just pointed out, I think, I would argue this one's a lot seemingly more smooth and I think well planned out maybe than the first one where it was kind of a surprise, even one. I think this is going better so far.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
But I will also say we get the, the hint, right? Like, it's like, oh, my gosh, is Vin Diesel really going to go on that highway at 100 miles an hour and jump over the bridge and somehow land and all and then get in a fight with the rock? Yes, it's a Fast and Furious sequel. Yes, that's going to happen. And the same thing here. Like, yeah, these are sometimes explosive things that he says. But like, as a person who does not appreciate tariffs as economic policy, I don't like them. I don't think they're good economic policy. They do work in situations like this. They work to get other things. Tariffs are not good in and of themselves. They are good if you want something else because it is a punishment to that country and to your country. You're putting pain, as Trump has talked about, you are putting some pain on yourselves. But your bet is we can withstand it a lot better than they can withstand it and they will fold. That's what, that's why he, how he uses tariffs.
Pat Gray
Yeah. And it looks like it's gonna work, frankly.
Stu Burguiere
Worked twice yesterday.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Here he is talking about the new tariffs.
Stu Burguiere
Secretary chance that Canada or China could also get out of the tariffs after you start the deal with Mexico.
Tom Homan
Well, nobody's out with Mexico. We had a great talk with Mexico and we had. President Scheinbaum is a woman. I like her very much. We've had good relationships. But we have to stop fentanyl from coming in whether I like somebody or not. And we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in. I think we've lost 200,000 people on average a year for many years. Much higher than the 100,000. Could be even closer to 300,000. And they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like forever. 10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. They have a big incentive to do other than that. We've agreed to talk and consider various other things. We haven't agreed on tariffs yet, and maybe we will, maybe we won't, but we have a very good relationship. I also spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada and we had a good talk in the morning. But I did ask him a couple of questions like, you know, banks aren't allowed to do business in Canada. Canada is very tough. Canada is very, you know, we're not treated well by Canada and we have to be treated well.
Pat Gray
Canada is really protectionist. I mean, they protect their stuff.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, they have tons of tariffs on us.
Pat Gray
Oh my gosh. Tariffs, rules. The broadcast companies have to go by, I mention show yesterday the, the Canadian broadcasting rule where 35% of their weekly content has to come from Canadians. So if you're a music station, 35% of the music you play every week has to come from Canadians. It either has to be.
Stu Burguiere
It's a lot of Brian Adams.
Pat Gray
Completely written. It's a lot of Brian Adams. It's a lot of Anne Murray.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. No matter what format you're in. Yeah, you're pulling from that.
Pat Gray
It doesn't matter because if, if you're a country station in Canada, I don't know who you're going to play, but it's got to be 35% Canadian. So there's going to be some bad country music.
Stu Burguiere
You're probably not a country music station in Canada. Probably not. But it's true. This happens, by the way, all over the world, you know, and I, that's one of the things I like about America and that we don't do those things right to people. But like, you know, I was doing some business out of the country and, and it was on a project that had stalled multiple times. It was a 20 year project. It was installed and we started and stopped and started and stopped. And then the former prime minister or the Prime Minister's son or something got involved in the project and all of a sudden everything started going totally fine. It's so weird how that occurs. It's like that is how business is done all over the world. And I don't want to be the country that does that. I don't think that helps your economy long term. It is protectionist and protectionist policies don't work. They wind up screwing everybody. Both the people who want to invest in your country from outside of it, but also the people inside your country. It hurts them too. You can sometimes protect one group in your country at the expense of another group in your country with protectionism. That does happen. But generally speaking, it's just a negative economic consequence, which is why it's a good threat. It's why it works. They're not folding because they're like, I'm scared of Donald Trump or I worry about what Donald Trump's voters think of me as Trudeau and Canada. They're voting because they're changing these policies because, holy crap, we don't want to face that pain. I don't want to have to deal with my own voters when they say, hey, Trudeau allowed this to happen. He's on his way out anyway, Trudeau. But that's the instinct. You don't want to deal with the pain yourself. And we, as America, the strongest nation on earth, I mean, think of how strong we are, Pat. Like, is there another country on earth that's like, we want 10,000 troops from your country on our border? We're so confident. We're like, yeah, Canada, Mexico, go ahead, put 10,000. We want you to. We're in, but we're requiring you to put troops on our border. Again, they'll be on the Canadian or Mexican side, but still, like, what have. How did Ukraine feel when 10,000 Russian troops started showing up on their border? They didn't look at it as a positive.
Pat Gray
Slightly nervous.
Stu Burguiere
They're a little worried about that. Rightfully so. We're like, ah, you're not going to do anything. That's how strong we are. And because we're so strong, we can, we, you know, Trump is making that calculation that if necessary, and it is happening with China, we can accept a little of this pain, and we think we can withstand it longer than you can.
Pat Gray
Yeah. And as a result of this, everybody's come to the table again, including China. We're all renegotiating with these, these deals again. So it's, it's been fascinating to watch. And again, that's, that's why you don't panic when President Trump says these things. Look, we're going to, we're going to impose a 25% tariff on North American trade partners. Okay, well, let's see if that really happens, because, again, it's a negotiating tactic, I think, and I, I really doubt that the 25 tariff will ever happen. But President Trump also talked about the U. S. Aid situation and the fraud coming out of that organization yesterday. Here's what he had to say about that. The first term, though, USAID was something that you liked in some respects.
Tom Homan
I love the concept of it. Yeah, that's a program, sure. I love, love the concept, but they turn out to be radical left lunatics. And the concept of it is good, but it's all about the people.
Pat Gray
Yeah, the concept is good, but in practice, it's turned out not so good when you're talking about things like a one and a half million to advance diversity and equity and inclusion in Serbia.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, I'm you're not. You're not big on DEI in Serbia.
Pat Gray
Not that big, no. Really? Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
How much money do you think we should spend on it? A billion or a trillion? Like, what do you. What are you thinking? Like, how many zeros you want after that number?
Pat Gray
Just the 1. 0. And that's the only number I would use.
Stu Burguiere
Just the zero.
Pat Gray
Just the zero.
Stu Burguiere
Just the straight zero.
Pat Gray
Yeah, zero.
Stu Burguiere
But then they wouldn't get any money for diversity, equity, inclusion, Pat.
Pat Gray
Right.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
You know that.
Pat Gray
I do know that. I do know that.
Stu Burguiere
That seems like the right amount.
Pat Gray
What do you think is the right amount for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland?
Stu Burguiere
I mean, how good is the musical? Can I hear some of the songs?
Pat Gray
I mean, I don't actually have any examples of the songs.
Stu Burguiere
Really?
Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
What if it's a great musical, though, Pat? How much money should we give it then? Let's say. Let's just. Let's like, put.
Pat Gray
70,000.
Stu Burguiere
What. What if it's the best musical of all time?
Pat Gray
Okay.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, the bet. Now, I've never seen a musical I enjoyed. I kind of like the Mov. The Little Shop of Horrors movie when I was a kid.
Pat Gray
Okay.
Stu Burguiere
Which was very twisted, but, I mean, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis. All right, I was in on that one. Can't go wrong, but pretty much nothing else. Okay, but let's say it's the best musical ever created in Ireland. In Ireland? No, not just in Ireland.
Pat Gray
Just anywhere.
Stu Burguiere
But it happens to be in Ireland. But it's all over the world. The best musical ever created from the dawn of time.
Pat Gray
Okay.
Stu Burguiere
Go back to Bach. Go back to Beethoven. This is the greatest of all time. Mozart. Better than all that crap. Anything Better than trash compared to this musical. What if it's that good? How much money?
Pat Gray
I'm still gonna say zero.
Stu Burguiere
No, it's always the right number, regardless of the idea. If it's DEI or if it's like, what if it's a. What if it's a. Pat, what if it is a musical that is praising the BYU football program in Ireland? There's like. It's a whole thing about, hey, we really love the BYU football program. We think they're gonna win every national championship from here on out? That's one of the songs. That's the title of one of the songs, Pat.
Pat Gray
Even if I get free airfare offered to me.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Pat Gray
Go to Dublin and enjoy that music at any time.
Stu Burguiere
Time.
Pat Gray
I'm still going to say the total investment into that program should be zero. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
We should never. Here's another thing, Pat. No matter what the situation, we should never fund a musical, right? What about if it's in America? We have all these big arts. No, no. Zero. Every single time you bring up a musical for our government to fund, the answer is zero.
Pat Gray
Certainly you don't feel that way about electric vehicles in Vietnam, though, though, right? You're. You're okay with two and a half million dollars being invested into electric vehicles in Vietnam?
Stu Burguiere
I am not okay.
Pat Gray
You're not okay with that?
Stu Burguiere
I am okay with some expenditures to that. Obviously, the amount would be zero.
Pat Gray
Okay. But what about $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia?
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
Now that's. That's a high priority on the stupid gear list.
Stu Burguiere
You found the one thing worse than a musical. An opera, Transgender opera.
Pat Gray
And you can get a whole for only $47,000.
Stu Burguiere
You got that? However, what if instead of that opera, which I'm sure is wonderful, do you have any of the songs? Sarah. Sarah's gonna sing some of the transgender opera songs here for us in a second, but I can't wait for that. Yeah, it's gonna be great. It's coming up in just a few minutes. But if it was. Instead of a transgender opera, an opera to an opera that was specifically designed. All of the songs were about Kexi cookies. Every. Every single song was about a new version.
Pat Gray
Now you're kind of hitting me where I live.
Stu Burguiere
Delicious Kexi cookies. K E K S I dot com. Go buy them. They're fantastic. We all know they're fantastic.
Pat Gray
Yeah. And it's a whole opera devoted to that. Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Devoted to Kexi cookies in Vietnam. Serbia.
Pat Gray
Where was it in. In Colombia.
Stu Burguiere
In Colombia. A Colombian pro. Kexi cookie. Opera. Opera.
Pat Gray
Really? Increasing our international market really would.
Stu Burguiere
Because I don't know how many cookies you sell, though. Probably a low amount of cocaine cookies. I don't think you are at this point.
Pat Gray
No, no.
Stu Burguiere
But if they came up with that opera, how much government.
Pat Gray
In this case. In this case, I'm going to make an exception.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
And say a total of $0.0. None. None.
Stu Burguiere
You never fund an opera?
Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
Ever?
Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
If people want to do operas, they do them on their own. They find people who want to buy tickets to an opera. What if there are none? Then you shouldn't be funding it.
Pat Gray
Maybe you find some private money. Some private donors, perhaps. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Like this one you could get Caxy to maybe sponsor. They probably are, like, excited about that expenditure.
Pat Gray
40,000.
Stu Burguiere
We get a whole opera. That sounds great.
Pat Gray
That's pretty good. But, like, it's Unbelievable.
Stu Burguiere
This is so hard for people to understand, and I don't know why. Like, they're like, what about the. The art funding for the arts?
Pat Gray
Zero. None.
Stu Burguiere
All of it's zero. Arts are things that, generally speaking, people like to do. Right? People like to sing. People like to produce musicals for some reason.
Pat Gray
Like, Sarah's gonna show us in a minute.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, just a minute. With her transgender opera. It's a medley, right, Sarah? Yeah, she said it's a medley. But, like, people like to do that. They like to paint, they like to sculpt. They like to do those things.
Pat Gray
Right?
Stu Burguiere
Those are things they want to do.
Pat Gray
Go ahead.
Stu Burguiere
In fact, you know what happens path when you don't fund it? When you don't pay people to do it, they pay others to go do it. At, like, establishments that are built, they have painting places. You go, you paint, you have a glass of wine.
Pat Gray
What a concept. That is weird. That's just a weird idea, right? More coming up.
Stu Burguiere
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Pat Gray
Beck, we'll be right back.
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Pat Gray
Pat and Stew for Glenn today who's a little under the weather. We should, we should read more of these USAID expenditures that we heard you heard on a newscast.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Trump finds objectionable.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, because you're listing these off and I had not heard the details on them and they're obviously all ridiculous.
Pat Gray
Uh huh.
Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Down the road where shadows hide Feel.
Stu Burguiere
The dark on every side Stand your.
Glenn Beck
Ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.
Pat Gray
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program today featuring Pat and Stew for Glenn who's sick today, hopefully be back tomorrow. We haven't even scratched the surface on the USAID situation yet. We'll share what Marco Rubio and others, Ilan Omar, Jamie Raskin had to say about USAID and where this money is going. I mean this is. It's just incredible. And we'll get to that in one minute.
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Pat Gray
Okay. Marco Rubio, yesterday on USA now, the big deal with USAID is that the agency has effectively been shuttered. Right. The Democrats surrounded the building yesterday, demanding that it be reopened. And, you know, they. They want to continue to spend money on really important things like. Like the transgender comic book in Peru, for instance, which is only $32,000. It's a. It's not that big an investment. Okay. And is it not worth it to have a little. A little bit of fun for transgenders in Peru?
Stu Burguiere
You know, it's a good question. I don't know. What is the transgender population looking like in Peru these days? 40%, 50% of the population?
Pat Gray
It's more like 80 or 85%.
Stu Burguiere
Seems to be growing dramatically in every culture right now, which is interesting. From such a. A natural and normal thing, you know, that it would be just growing.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Why would that happen?
Pat Gray
I'm not sure, but it's gone from about 0.7% to about 89%, I think, worldwide.
Stu Burguiere
Just the 89%. Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna say that we shouldn't fund it, really. Not only that comic book, but any comic book, huh?
Pat Gray
No comic books at all.
Stu Burguiere
Our friend Eric July.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Who, of course. Blaze TV contributor. He came up with an idea for his own, you know, world. Right. Like, it's a.
Pat Gray
How much did he get from usaid?
Stu Burguiere
Zero.
Pat Gray
What?
Stu Burguiere
And you know how many he would accept if offered? 0. Because he doesn't want to be voted by the government. He wants it to be funded by the people who actually enjoy the comic series.
Pat Gray
That's interesting.
Stu Burguiere
I know. It's a crazy idea. Yeah. But it is possible. And again, people enjoy coming up with comic books. They'll do it on their own. You don't need to fund it, really. And if you need to fund it.
Pat Gray
Where are you getting that?
Stu Burguiere
This is just A crazy idea I have. If you need to fund it, probably not worth it. It really, If a person's like, I won't make that comic book for you about transgendered superheroes unless you give me from the US Government. Remember, think about this position. You're in Peru. You're like, I won't make this comic book unless the US government gives me $32,000. Maybe it's not a worthwhile project at that point.
Pat Gray
I don't know. You're a little too radical for me this morning.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be radical, but I'm an American conservative. It's really the only thing have going on for me.
Pat Gray
Certainly you're okay with $6 million to fund tourism efforts in Egypt? No, no, no. What?
Stu Burguiere
You know, my thought is they got the pyramids. People like going there.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Isn't there a sphinx or two you can check out while you're there?
Pat Gray
Couple, I think.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. People really like Egypt. Cairo. I remember watching one of the. Indiana Jones. Was it Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Weren't they in Cairo for that when they met the guy who we've had on the show a bunch of times. I can't think of his name. Jonathan. I can't think of his name off the top of my head, but great dude. And he was one of the most beloved characters. He was in Cairo. You take Cairo because people like it. People like Egypt. They want to go visit. They want to see these incredible wonders of the world. You don't need to advertise Egypt. People just know about it.
Pat Gray
So the American government doesn't have to give money to Egypt to advertise for their tourists.
Stu Burguiere
No. In fact, here's another incredible thing, Pat. Even if no one wanted to visit Egypt at all, we still shouldn't advertise Egypt. What if they had, like, what's another country not a lot of people go to visit. I don't know, Mongolia. Not a lot of people go into Outer Mongolia on vacations. I do have one planned right after the Super Bowl.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I'm going to tack it onto the super bowl trip. But most people don't have the timeshare that I have there. So that's the issue.
Pat Gray
I understand timeshares are beautiful. Beautiful. And Outer Mongolia.
Stu Burguiere
The Inner Mongolia is trash. It's overpriced. Pat, don't go there. But Outer Mongolia is fantastic.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Especially this time of year. And if they really needed the tourism, though, you know, like, let's say they were thinking, like, wow. We only had zero visitors this year. Maybe we should up the tourism.
Pat Gray
Like to get like five.
Stu Burguiere
Five. Right. And you know how much we should spend on that? $0. There's never an incident.
Pat Gray
We're the richest country on Earth.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. And if we want to spend some of those riches on trips and time shares in Outer Mongolia, we can do that. Yeah, but see, it's not our responsibility to fund their government's tourism budget. Yeah, that's not a thing. $6 million. And again, it's Egypt. A place that people dream about visiting. You don't need a. We burning an ad. Hey, we got pyramids. We have. We know. We all know you got a bunch of big.
Pat Gray
I've seen them on tv.
Stu Burguiere
Triangles there. They're fantastic.
Pat Gray
I'd like to see them in person someday. But I doubt the US government will pay for my trip when I do decide to go.
Stu Burguiere
No, they're just going to entice you with advertising so you spend your own money on the trip.
Pat Gray
What the hell is this? Crazy. It's just. It's nuts. But that, that's kind of the mindset that the left has fallen into, right? Is that it is our responsibility to. To do all these things on the planet. We're the planet's police officers. We're the planet's babysitters. We're the planet's bank. Their bank account for every expenditure they need. I mean, it's unbelievable.
Stu Burguiere
Despite the fact when I look at our balance sheet, I'm not impressed.
Pat Gray
What? The 36 trillion in debt.
Stu Burguiere
I feel like it should be lower than that. Am I wrong on that? I don't know. It feels to me that again, you're.
Pat Gray
Kind of picky this morning.
Stu Burguiere
A little higher high.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I feel like it. And by the way, increasing every single.
Pat Gray
Month by 1 trillion every hundred days.
Stu Burguiere
Is it 100 days?
Pat Gray
Yeah. Every hundred days it goes up another trillion.
Stu Burguiere
A trillion dollars.
Pat Gray
Something that took us 200 years to get to in the first place. From George Washington to Ronald Reagan to get to 1 trillion. 1 trillion. Now we do that every hundred days. Days.
Stu Burguiere
And we're getting to the point now you don't even want to get me started on what the budget looks like the next 30 years. I mean, it's abhorrent to the point where our interest on the debt is going to be bigger than our Defense Department.
Pat Gray
Geez. Which is close to a trillion dollars a year, Right?
Stu Burguiere
I think it's 300 billion or so right now. Every year that we spend on interest. No, it's not an interest. And it catches up over the next, like, 10 or 15 years. That's.
Pat Gray
The defense budget is what, 800 billion?
Stu Burguiere
I think, give or take, Pat.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And look, you can find plenty of waste in that number. I'm sure we know that for a fact. However, at least that's a core application.
Pat Gray
Something we should be spending money on.
Stu Burguiere
We should be spending a lot of money on it. I just don't know if we should spend it the way that we do or maybe not quite that much. You can make an argument. But, you know, I'm not uncomfortable with that number if it was spent on things that we really needed, like new weapons systems and new ways to defend our nation, like those things I'm comfortable with. But I can understand why people might think it's. You know, there's waste, and there certainly is tons of waste in that number. That being said, Pat, that is at least a core responsibility of the federal government. As far as I understand, transgender comic books are not.
Pat Gray
I don't know. You've got a kind of a weird understanding this morning. I've noticed. So I'm not sure if I can go with you on that.
Stu Burguiere
Now, Madison did write about transgender comic books and the need for us to be funding them.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Wasn't it Federalist 42?
Stu Burguiere
42, I believe.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
He was like. He was like, you know, there's a lot of things that the government shouldn't do, but they should fund transgender comic books.
Pat Gray
In Peru, it was either Madison or. Or Hamilton.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, it was one of the two.
Pat Gray
I can't remember Federalist42. But anyway, look it over, review it, see what you think about it. It. Here's what Marco Rubio said about usaid. You're now the head of usaid.
Stu Burguiere
The head of Doge Elon Musk called USAID a criminal organization and added that it is time for it to die. Do you agree with that?
Glenn Beck
They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a US Government agency, that they are out. They are global charity, that they take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global charity, irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest.
Stu Burguiere
Interest.
Glenn Beck
One of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like, is USAID is not only not cooperative, they undermine the work that we're doing in that country. They are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we're trying to work with on a broader scale and so forth. So they're completely unresponsive. They just don't consider that they work for the U.S. they just think they're a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States. And that's not what the statute says, and that's not sustainable.
Pat Gray
Can it be reformed or does it need to die?
Glenn Beck
Well, that was always the goal was to reform it, but now we have rank insubordination. Now we have basically an active effort. Their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone. We work for ourselves. No agency of government can tell us what to do. So the president made me the acting administrator. I've delegated that power to someone who's there full time. And we're going to go through the same process at USAID as we're going through now at the State Department. I think there are some. This is not about getting rid of foreign aid. There are things that we do through US usaid that we should continue to do. That makes sense. And we'll have to decide, is that better through the State Department or is that better through something, you know, reformed usaid? That's the process we're working through. There are things that are happening at USAID that we should not be involved in funding or that we have a lot of questions about, but they're completely uncooperative. So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.
Pat Gray
Incredible.
Stu Burguiere
Amen. That's a great outlying of all of the issues there from Marco Rubio. And I would add one more pat. USAID is an organization that provides aid to, in theory, provides aid to places all over the world, and yet they call it USAID and not usaid. It is. That is how inefficient this organization is. The actual initials make the word aid, which they're supposed to be providing, and they still all call it usaid. That's how dumb this organization is. And there is a, you know, look, of course, if you have a giant budget, you can definitely find money to throw around at global causes and do some good. There's no doubt about that. You can. Transgender comic books don't fit into that. And it is true that they see themselves, because they're called an independent government agency that they think, we'll just do whatever we want. What if we just do whatever we want?
Pat Gray
And that's what they've been doing.
Stu Burguiere
And that's what they've been doing.
Pat Gray
It's gotta stop, obviously.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, think about it. If you are Marco Rubio, your Secretary of State. And you're working with a government in the Middle east that has thoughts on gay rights that are not equal to ours. Let's say, for example. And then you're providing transgender comic book funding. What happens when you go to meet, if you're Marco Rubio to meet with that leader, you're complicating whatever you're trying to get done. And you might say, what? I really want them to change their mind on those rights. And I would, too, but that might not be the goal of that particular meeting.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And now you gotta deal with that complication.
Pat Gray
Well, do you remember how ridiculous it looked when the old clip of Kamala Harris was played where she was talking about the fact that she changed the law in California to allow for prisoners who wanted a sex change?
Stu Burguiere
Oh, yeah.
Pat Gray
To be paid for by the taxpayers in California. And she saw to it that that was able to happen. Well, we, most Americans realized that's insanity. Well, USAID is doing $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala. Okay. These were Americans and American prisoners. Now we're gonna. We're gonna fund sex changes for Guatemalans.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, if we're gonna carve up some genitals, it should at least happen on American soil.
Pat Gray
Yes. Yes, it should.
Stu Burguiere
You know.
Pat Gray
Yes.
Stu Burguiere
If we're gonna pay.
Pat Gray
Right.
Stu Burguiere
For someone to go in with a sharp instrument and carve up somebody's genitals, it should at least happen in Ohio.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Now, I think so. That's not right. It's absurd. So incredible even, you know, even if it was the best activity in the world, it would be absurd. When you say that it's related to, you know, a sex change, it becomes even more crazy.
Pat Gray
Insanity.
Stu Burguiere
And that's not. Look, you can argue with it, but your argument died in November. People looked at this argument and voted. And this is what they voted for. They voted for someone to go in with a maniacal focus to get rid of this nonsense. And that's what he's doing. And Rubio has been great on this, obviously. Elon Musk has been really focused. And look, the changes have to give you a sense of optimism. A lot of this stuff is stuff that other presidents, even if you like their policies more, you like their attitudes more, you like their tweets more, just wouldn't get involved in cuz it was too much of a problem. They didn't want to deal with the pushback. They didn't want to deal with every news station trashing them every night. Trump doesn't care.
Pat Gray
Not at all.
Stu Burguiere
He doesn't care. He likes it.
Pat Gray
I really think he does.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
All right, we've got more coming up in 60 seconds.
Stu Burguiere
I'm sure you're hoping, the way that I am, that Trump is doing the right thing with all these tariffs again. It worked out yesterday for sure. I understand that people are battening down the hatches, and some of the stock market stuff is scary. It was down 600, 700 points until this stuff got reversed. Some of this pain that Trump has talked about a little bit that could be on the way can make you nervous. How do you hedge that? How do you deal with it? One great way to do this is to invest a portion of your portfolio into precious metals like gold and silver. Glenn started doing this a couple decades ago. I remember one of the first things he talked about. We first started the show that it was important to hedge the insanity with gold. Lear Capital is the first place he bought gold from. This is years and years and years ago. If you want to know why gold could be your best performing asset in 2025, give Lear Capital a call, 800-957-Gold. 800, 957 Gold. They've got a free $4,200 gold report. You can see why gold could be headed for a record high in 2025. Do your own homework. Read this information. Give them a call, 800-957-GOLD. Ask how you can receive up to $15,000 in free gold or silver with a qualifying purchase. Give them a call now, 800-957-Gold. It's 800-957-Gold for Lear Capital. 10 seconds. Station ID.
Pat Gray
We were just talking about how great a job Marco Rubio has been doing so far. But also, you gotta admire the activity from Pete Hegseth, who is at the border right now. Kristi Gnome is at the border right now. When did the previous administration officials ever show up at the border as these operations are happening? First of all, there were no operations to stop illegal immigration under the last administration. So of course, they were never there. But it's pretty amazing to see in the first two weeks these officials at the border actually getting things done quite.
Stu Burguiere
Clearly a real priority. Right? Yeah. Border crossing is down 93%.
Pat Gray
I think Kristi Noem said 95.
Stu Burguiere
95. Okay.
Pat Gray
93. Yeah, it's down a lot. I know it was like 10 or 11,000 a day. The latest stat I saw was something like 5 to 600 per day. Now. I mean, that's amazing.
Stu Burguiere
It's really, really good. Some of that drop happened before Trump got into office and of course.
Pat Gray
Was it after the election?
Stu Burguiere
A lot of it was after the election. Some of it was, they did make, if you remember, before the election, though, Biden made some changes where they implemented some of the Trump plan that they.
Pat Gray
Had because they realized the American people don't want this to continue.
Stu Burguiere
Right. And they were like, crap, we're going to win this election. So they did do some of those changes. So they had some of the drops there, although it's even more extreme now. And you know, you don't necessarily, you don't necessarily like look at this and say you expect zero. It's gonna be hard to get to zero. I mean, I want, I don't think it'll ever be zero, but it'll probably never be zero. Yeah, but I was talking about this with my daughter. We were talking to her about cleaning her room, getting up on time, and I said, it's not that I expect perfection. I just want you to care. Just care. Care about it.
Pat Gray
Care.
Stu Burguiere
Try to do it. Show me that you're doing something in this arena. And that is what I kind of, that's the basic idea I want from the US Government. Trump is going well beyond that, actually doing something. It's not even just a surface effort where it looks like he cares. We're talking about 95% reductions already. It's two weeks and it's again, considerably better than his first term. His first term numbers were okay, they're better than Biden's, but like, they weren't anything like this. And who knows if this is gonna last forever. It may not. Not at some point. There could be a surge, there could be things going on. But Trump is focused on this and Tom Homan is focused on this.
Pat Gray
He is such a no nonsense guy.
Stu Burguiere
I love it.
Pat Gray
Talk about the fact that Trump doesn't care what they're saying.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Tom Homan really doesn't care what you think of him. He couldn't care less.
Stu Burguiere
I don't know if Tom Holman has ever given a two word response.
Pat Gray
I don't.
Stu Burguiere
It's always just like, no.
Pat Gray
Yes.
Stu Burguiere
So, yeah, that's it. That's all he needs. I love it.
Pat Gray
It is incredible.
Stu Burguiere
So it's. The improvement has been dramatic. And look, look, you can complain about stuff, I'm sure people do, but at the end of the day, this is what he ran on, this is what he promised, and this is what he's doing. Can't ask for more than that.
Pat Gray
It's actually fun to watch the Democrats weep and wail and gnash their teeth over it, too. It's actually been kind of satisfying. This is Glenn Beck.
Stu Burguiere
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Pat Gray
Check out my show pack Ray Unleashed every weekday live from 7 to 9 Eastern, 6 to 8 Central, or anytime and anywhere you get your podcast. It's Pat and Stu for Glenn. Today's sick this morning. Hopefully beat back tomorrow. Triple eight, seven two seven B E C K. Been really fun to. To watch the. The Democrats try to go nuts on every single thing that Donald Trump is doing, except he's moving so fast and doing so much that they really can't settle on any one thing. So they're just, they're just, they're trying to shoot at everything right now. They're just throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. And here is Bernie Sanders talking about what he, he just doesn't like what's happening.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, no, Margaret.
Pat Gray
We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We're looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism and I fear that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well.
Stu Burguiere
These are all new words you just learned. To work with my supporters all over this country to stand up and fight.
Pat Gray
Back to make sure we have an economy that works for everybody, not just.
Stu Burguiere
Elon Musk, and that we maintain American democracy.
Pat Gray
Oh, wow, that's weird.
Stu Burguiere
How does it, how does it work so well for Elon Musk? Anyone? Anyone? Track that one down. What's. What's he done to make all that money?
Pat Gray
I think it must been government handouts. Is that what's happening there now?
Stu Burguiere
He opposes those these days, but, you know, a lot of that money, they subsidize a lot of those cars that were purchased.
Pat Gray
Well, that is true, true.
Stu Burguiere
And I will also point out the other part of it is he's doing the space stuff better than the government can do it. So a lot of the money he's making is coming from the government, who all may have made decisions that the products he's making are so valuable they can't do without them, even though they hate his guts.
Pat Gray
And he's doing the space stuff so well, so much better than the government read NASA can do it, that it's gotten to the point where Donald Trump has asked, asked him to finally bring home the two astronauts who've been stranded in space for eight months. Hey, Elon, could you maybe bring them home as soon as possible? And he's taken on that task. But eight months, and they were supposed to be there for a week. One week mission has turned into eight months because of the ineptitude of NASA. Right now. They've got no way to bring them home. So SpaceX has to. It's incredible.
Stu Burguiere
Incredible. And, you know, this is something, when you think about it, you know, they've had this transition since, what would you say, 20, 19, 20, I guess Covid was probably the start of this with Musk, where the left started turning on him because he wanted to open up his factories and make the electric cars for the existential threat, the greatest existential threat. Our world faces global warming. And he wanted to open up his factories, and they got mad at him about that. And that's really, I think, the start of most of the problems between the left and Elon Musk. But like you think about this, they have hated him for five years, five years of just pure hatred. And they cannot unplug the stuff that he. They can't unplug themselves from the stuff that he does in business.
Pat Gray
Right?
Stu Burguiere
Including SpaceX, which is a miracle. You know, it is an incredible company that's doing incredible things at a level that the government can't achieve.
Pat Gray
And he didn't really start it. It doesn't seem like it started all that long ago. Yeah, it's been 20 years, maybe.
Stu Burguiere
No, it's been. It's less.
Pat Gray
Less than that, right?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. I mean, and certainly with any. Any notoriety, it's been less than that. I mean, he was, you know, if you go back and look at the history, he was. He was blowing up these spaceships all over the globe for, like, the first five years of the company.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
They got down to the last one. He said, if this next one blows up, the company's over. We have to shut it down. And the last one worked. Wow. He was. That's how close that company was from just not even existing.
Pat Gray
Now he's sending rockets into space and bringing them back and landing in the launch pad. Incredible. It's. It's amazing.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Stuff we've never seen before.
Stu Burguiere
And then, of course, Tesla, like, it's funny because I have a friend who is a big conservative, like, you know, big loves, you know, like, really wanted Trump to win and was very, very out there talking about it a lot. And he. He had a big old truck, you know, big old truck in Texas and just bought a Tesla plaid. He's like, I did it because Elon Musk. He's like, I just love Musk. I love what he's doing. I want to support him. How fascinating is that?
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
He has taken conservative to electric cars.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, that is like. That's a magic trick. You couldn't have told me that was possible to pull off? And he did it to the point that, like, now it's a lot of. It's. It's kind of the opposite. People like aoc, who bought a Tesla for the environment, are now trying to get rid of them because they are. They're embarrassed to be associated with Musk. I mean, that's awesome.
Pat Gray
It is. It is awesome. And they're great cars. You know, I. I would not mind having a Tesla. It just. The range is not quite there for me to go with an EV yet, but if I were to buy an ev, it would be a Tesla because they're just great cars. And the pickup, I mean, we knew that from, what, five or six years, seven years ago?
Stu Burguiere
Studio here one day.
Pat Gray
And this is way before COVID I.
Stu Burguiere
Mean, it was 20, 17, 18, a while. And they brought it to. They're like, hey, like, take a test drive, see if you like the acceleration. And they were like, just punch it. It's jaw dropping. It is. Never felt anything like it. And this is an older model. Yeah, but it is. My friend has one that's not the plaid. It's a. It's the version, I think the Model S performance or whatever. It is really, really fast, but not as fast as the plaid. It is like an incomprehensible amount of acceleration. It feels as if.
Pat Gray
Because it's immediate.
Stu Burguiere
It's immediate and it's so fast and it throws you back in your seat. And honestly, it can make you kind of uncomfortable. You almost feel like when you feel like going on a crazy roller coaster and you get off of it, you're like, oh, my stomach doesn't quite feel right. You can only punch it so many times because it's jaw dropping. And the technology's really impressive. Another friend of mine who has a Tesla lives in Colorado and comes here for work. He does some work with us and. And he takes it from Colorado to here, self driving from Colorado to Texas. And he's like, the whole way, I barely ever touch the wheel.
Pat Gray
Oh my gosh. Really?
Stu Burguiere
Yep. And he just. And now I like driving.
Pat Gray
That's amazing.
Stu Burguiere
It's something I like doing, though, on a ride like that. I would love to have a self driving option.
Pat Gray
It's amazing. And he's okay with that. He's okay with just letting it trust.
Stu Burguiere
He's a nerd. He's a Tesla nerd and he is so into it. Like, he's.
Pat Gray
Would you trust it that much? Because I would not.
Stu Burguiere
I probably wouldn't at first. One of the other friends I was just talking about who has this, has the same thing and he's much less trusting about it. He's like, I'm just getting to the point now where I can remove my hands for just a second, but they're like right above the wheel. And I'm panicked the entire time. He's like my other friend who's just a technology geek and he's just like, he reads all about it. He knows every update that comes down. He's on the list of the beta updates that come really early. And he would show me every time he'd come to town, show me the improvement of how they take certain. Like at the beginning it was like, oh, it would tell you to take control a lot and it would come up to a traffic circle and not exactly know what to do and you'd have to kind of grab it now it's like, it just does. It.
Pat Gray
It just handled it.
Stu Burguiere
He, the other day, last time he was here, he was out and my daughter was there and my wife was there and they were at a, you know, they were at my wife's business and he was doing some work over there. And as they were leaving, he's like, oh, watch this. He takes out his phone, presses some buttons. Car just pulls up. He's not in it. The car just comes. Comes from the parking lot.
Pat Gray
Pretty cool.
Stu Burguiere
Pulls up to pick him up. Like, that's.
Pat Gray
That's amazing.
Stu Burguiere
That is Jetson level crap. Like, that's insanity.
Pat Gray
It is.
Stu Burguiere
And the fact that this guy has made it cool for conservatives to own these vehicles should be something he should be put in the liberal hall of fame for. Right. He has crossed. He's been able to make it cool to have a car that's an electric freaking car. You guys keep telling us this is the solution to all of our global problems. And this 0.9 degree temperature rise over a century is really what we need to be worried about. Well, here's a big step in that direction. And they despise him because he challenges their power. And what is the greatest existential threat in our nation, Pat? Is it global warming or is it Democrats losing control of your lives? That's what they certainly seem like that's the one they care about.
Pat Gray
That's for sure. That's for sure. And not only has he made the EVs so cool, but like you said with SpaceX. I mean, everybody loves SpaceX, right? Well, that was created so that we could move to Mars.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Why?
Pat Gray
Because this planet is dying.
Stu Burguiere
Yes.
Pat Gray
Supposedly it was the two existential threat.
Stu Burguiere
The two existential threats he sees. One was AI, but the other one was global warming. Global warming. And he wanted to be able to have a place for human beings to escape to because he took liberal concerns that seriously. And still does, by the way. I mean, he still does.
Pat Gray
He's still.
Stu Burguiere
You know what?
Pat Gray
I hate him, though, so much now that they completely disregard that.
Stu Burguiere
Yep. But again, if it was really the threat you say it is, wouldn't you still embrace him?
Pat Gray
You would think so?
Stu Burguiere
I don't know. If there was someone. I'm trying to think of the right example, but like, if someone was, you know, I don't know, an actor or something, some leftist actor or actress was fighting really hard, but then took up the cause of, like, you know, repealing the 16th Amendment for income taxes, like, would we be supportive of that person?
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I would be Thrilled to have someone on the left who was like, you know what? Yeah, we should get rid of the income tax because this is crazy. Taking everybody's money and it doesn't make any sense. I'm with you. Like, go, I will support you now. I will oppose you on the policies I oppose, of course. But like, I'm not gonna. Just because they're on the left. If they're gonna, if they're sane on one issue. We're, we're overly welcoming. I would say to liberals who are sane on one issue, I'll give you RFK Jr. Than. Yes, it was April of 2024.
Pat Gray
I mean, there's a lot of conservatives that are embracing these guys now because they're saying things we like.
Stu Burguiere
Yesterday, Donald Trump called USAID a bunch of left wing lunatics. He used that exact phrase, left wing lunatics to describe RFK Jr. In April of last year. And we're like, hey. And he doesn't even agree with RFK Jr on vaccines. Remember, Trump is the one who was in office when this was developed with the COVID vaccine. They agree kind of a little bit on the food stuff, but I mean, I see Donald Trump eat a lot of McDonald's and Diet Coke. To think that they don't really agree on that issue yet. We're like, hey, we kind of like you on a couple of things. Come be our HHS secretary. Like we are at times too willing to do that. The left is the opposite. Like you go back to the history, got Roe versus Wade and we all know the Dobbs decision in between that the most the biggest ruling in the abortion world was the Casey decision because Casey was a pro life Democrat and now there are no pro life Democrats. They're all excised from the party. Yeah, all of them are gone.
Pat Gray
You have to support abortion all the way up to birth.
Stu Burguiere
Yep. To even be considered.
Pat Gray
They won't have anything to do with it.
Stu Burguiere
At least until the second trimester at the very. Maybe you can get a couple of Democrats who are like, I don't know, the last couple of minutes.
Pat Gray
Maybe we should avoid Virginia just came another step closer to abortion all the way up to birth yesterday. So triple eight, seven, two, seven, Beck. More coming up.
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Pat Gray
More Glenn Beck coming up next.
Stu Burguiere
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Pat Gray
Don't worry.
Stu Burguiere
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Pat Gray
Pat and Stu for Glenn. Triple eight, 727 Beck. Coming up in just a few minutes, I guess we. We've got Sarah Sullivan and her opera medley. Right? Your transgender opera medley is coming up. That'll be the last hour of the program.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, yeah, I'm a little concerned. I mean, she told me in the break it's 14 songs, which is a lot.
Pat Gray
It's a lot.
Stu Burguiere
You know, we're a talk radio program and it's like, to fit in 14 songs in a medley is really a big ask. But we decided to say yes, Sarah, so.
Pat Gray
Because we're sure it's really good.
Stu Burguiere
I'm sure it's good.
Pat Gray
Really, really good.
Stu Burguiere
Did you get funding from usaid?
Pat Gray
I did.
Stu Burguiere
No. Okay, good, good. Because I would hate to see her have to do that on her own.
Pat Gray
No, I mean, that's ridiculous. You can't do that, do it on your own.
Stu Burguiere
She would have to sit at home and write music on her computer and then get somebody to perform it and all that. Normally what people do in the free market when they want to create an entertainment product. But thankfully, our government steps in in foreign countries to provide that funding for people to come up with.
Pat Gray
You can somebody in a foreign country, country to do that.
Stu Burguiere
That's insane. That's insane. And you know why? Because most likely in some of these countries, the people who wanted to produce the opera would get killed. They would probably get executed by the state. But in addition to that, no one would want to go to it. Now, obviously, Sarah's medley is going to be so profound and beautiful that I think people might like that.
Pat Gray
But, yeah, I think so.
Stu Burguiere
You know, it's hard to even get to that position.
Pat Gray
I mean, I haven't heard any of the songs that she's going to sing, but I'm sure they're fantastic. Fantastic. They are. That's the kind of confidence we all.
Stu Burguiere
Have in Sarah, you know?
Pat Gray
Yeah, that'll be good.
Stu Burguiere
I heard a little bit of song nine, and I will say, at least if you're not gonna stick around for all 14, at least stick around till song nine. That's all I'm saying.
Pat Gray
All right. How did it go? Can you remind me?
Stu Burguiere
I can't. Well, I wouldn't want to ruin it. Obviously your beautiful singing voice is going to perform this for us in just moments.
Pat Gray
Yeah. You don't want to hear Stu sing it? No, that wouldn't. I mean, wouldn't be the same.
Stu Burguiere
You can't just have men and women performing the same role. That doesn't make any sense.
Pat Gray
No, it does not.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, wait, it really doesn't. Strangely, that's actually a true statement. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense for men and women to just change genders on a whim and with a series of magical words.
Pat Gray
Unless you're like 12, then it makes perfect sense. Yeah, right.
Stu Burguiere
12. 12.
Pat Gray
Pretty 10. Pretty old. Waiting too late.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I gotta say, like a 12 year old knows that's a seven. Maybe four, five. Maybe that logic makes sense to a five year old. Perhaps.
Pat Gray
Perhaps.
Stu Burguiere
Though, again, I think you'd be able to talk them into. Honey, you can't just change genders with a series of magical words. I think they would probably understand that.
Pat Gray
Yeah, I think they would.
Stu Burguiere
You know, they might want to be an astronaut and think that that's right around the corner for them. But I'm pretty sure they could figure out they're not changing genders that easily.
Pat Gray
And yet, pretty amazing to watch what's been going on? All right. Hey, this is exciting news. Joe Biden has signed a new deal with a Hollywood talent agency, one of the biggest in the world. We'll tell you about that. And there's lots more coming up. This is Glenn Beck.
Stu Burguiere
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Pat Gray
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Yes, it is. With Patton Stu triple eight seven two seven Beck. I gotta tell you about this deal that Joe Biden has just signed with a Hollywood talent agency. I love this because man who doesn't want to get out and see an 82 year old speak for an hour two at some university or some. Some big event that you're having and have that 82 year old make an awful lot of money from it. Get into some of that and much more coming up in one minute.
Stu Burguiere
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Pat Gray
All right. You know who Creative Artist Agency is, right? Yes. They represent some of the Biggest. Biggest stars in the world. Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga.
Stu Burguiere
If you combine all those people, how many songs could you name from them? I mean, Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson, you could probably get a couple, right?
Pat Gray
Yes, yes.
Stu Burguiere
Any Ariana Grande songs?
Pat Gray
You know, only from Wicked, because I just. I just saw that with my fan.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
My daughter loved it. Did you? What did you think? It was good.
Pat Gray
I liked it. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I think it was. From what I understand, it was actually pretty well done.
Pat Gray
It was. It was really well done. As I've stated, too many songs.
Stu Burguiere
As I've stated on the show, I don't like musicals.
Pat Gray
Yes, there's too many songs.
Stu Burguiere
Not gonna be my.
Pat Gray
So I. I do have a hard time with them.
Stu Burguiere
Well, yours is an opera, not a musical.
Pat Gray
It's the same.
Stu Burguiere
Okay, well. Okay, so Sarah's opera, transgender opera, coming up here in just a couple minutes.
Pat Gray
But we're gonna get to that before.
Stu Burguiere
We get to that.
Pat Gray
There's 14 songs, so we gotta find the right place for it. So that's coming up here in a minute.
Stu Burguiere
We're working on that.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Maybe. Maybe Sarah will become a CAA client after this. I think that's highly likely. Highly likely, frankly. So we'll see.
Stu Burguiere
So who else is a new CAA client?
Pat Gray
Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a new CAA client.
Stu Burguiere
Joseph Robinette Biden.
Pat Gray
That. The very same, yes. And so you could book him soon for events. Bar mitzvah's birth date. He'll show up and drool on your kids as he smells their hair. Kind of exciting.
Stu Burguiere
Weird attraction for a birthday party. Drooling on your kids as he smells their hair.
Pat Gray
President. I mean, wouldn't that be kind of cool? Yeah. Joe Biden showed up and drooled on my kids hair while he was sniffing them.
Stu Burguiere
At that price point, they can drool on your hair. That's true.
Pat Gray
I mean, he. I guess after he was vice president, he signed up with CAA and then he became president, and so they. He dropped it or they dropped him. I'm not sure how that worked, but I mean, even after his vice presidency, people were actually paying him to show up and give speeches. He went to some place called Drew University in New Jersey. You ever heard of Drew University? They paid him $190,000 to speak after he was vice president.
Stu Burguiere
Drew.
Pat Gray
Drew University in Jersey University.
Stu Burguiere
I would say, first of all, you really missed an opportunity to call it Drewniversity. You just gotta go with Drewniversity at that point.
Pat Gray
Yes. I think you Do.
Stu Burguiere
That's a major. I already have a major problem with this college now, but Drew University is a hub of innovation, education, and community.
Pat Gray
Pat, I was just. That was on the tip of my tongue. I was about to tell you that.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, you were?
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
I didn't mean to cut you off.
Pat Gray
No, that's all right.
Stu Burguiere
Go ahead. They say they would like you to discover their diverse programs. I mean, Sarah, I'm just saying, like, if you've got a university, you want to back your transgender opera. I mean, maybe Drew University is the. Drew University is the place to go.
Pat Gray
I'll check it out.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
He also. He also received 182,000 from Lake Michigan College.
Stu Burguiere
Now I got Lake Michigan College. Might be a great college. I don't know much about it. Might be 180.
Pat Gray
You just wouldn't think they had $182,000.
Stu Burguiere
To pay, laying around.
Pat Gray
Yeah, 180,000 from Vanderbilt built.
Stu Burguiere
Okay. They probably do have that laying around now.
Pat Gray
125,000 at Southern Connecticut State University.
Stu Burguiere
Really? Oh, yeah, I remember them. They were right, right.
Pat Gray
Right in our backyard for a while when we lived in Connecticut.
Stu Burguiere
Yes. I wouldn't say that they should be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to speakers.
Pat Gray
No, I wouldn't either.
Stu Burguiere
Got that. I wouldn't have guessed that they don't have a Harvard style endowment and.
Pat Gray
No. And so he spoke at Brown. Brown only paid him 93,000. Is that because it's more prestigious and they don't have to pay you as much? That's really interesting.
Stu Burguiere
By the way. I just. I'm on the Drew University page still.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
You know, average annual cost to attend the Drew University.
Pat Gray
Mm.
Stu Burguiere
$68,495.
Pat Gray
Thus, they had 190 grand to give to Joe Biden.
Stu Burguiere
Yes, they did.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Just three. Three kids had to go 68,000 for. For a college we didn't even know existed.
Pat Gray
That's amazing. That's amazing.
Stu Burguiere
Holy crap. I just started by somebody named Drew. Somebody named Drew was like, I should just start at a university. And now there's the Drew University, and they're making 68k a person.
Pat Gray
I wonder what the.
Stu Burguiere
Holy crap, man.
Pat Gray
At Drew University. They have it listed there on the. On the web page.
Stu Burguiere
Yes. 15, 20.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Notable alumni.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
Notable alumni. James Vanderbeek. There you go. The actor.
Pat Gray
There you go.
Stu Burguiere
And Soon Yi Priven.
Pat Gray
Who?
Stu Burguiere
Soon Yi.
Pat Gray
Soon Yi. Oh, okay. That's.
Stu Burguiere
She said the one. You know, Woody Allen's kid.
Pat Gray
He was dating stepdaughter who he dated.
Stu Burguiere
Or whatever and married I believe.
Pat Gray
Yeah, I think they're still together.
Stu Burguiere
Soon Yi went to the Drew University. Okay. James Vanderbeek, Drew University.
Pat Gray
James Van Der. He was in Dawson's Creek. Dawson's Creek.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
I think that's right. Yeah, that's right.
Stu Burguiere
So there you go. Okay, so I apologize for disparaging. $68,000 a year.
Pat Gray
You're paying incredibly prestigious, obviously. Obviously.
Stu Burguiere
That's insanity. How much?
Pat Gray
Crazy.
Stu Burguiere
Good God. I told my kids, screw call. You think you're going to college, you better start working. Working? But I'm only 13, Daddy. Yeah, get to a factory somewhere.
Pat Gray
I will say that's the way it used to be. You know, you worked during your high school days and saved your money and then you paid for your own college or your parents could help you where they could, but you didn't just necessarily take out massive loans that you then declined to pay back back later on. And that's a perfectly acceptable thing.
Stu Burguiere
Now I could be wrong though. I don't think colleges cost $68,000 at the time.
Pat Gray
No, it's true. That is, that's very true. But we didn't make the kind of money we do now either. So sort of a trade off.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, look, I'm all for capitalism and if you can get $68,000 from a bunch of dumb kids to come to your college that you're naming the Drew University, that's great. And I, I give you credit for that. I will say it almost feels criminal for value for what you're getting for your money. It feels criminal.
Pat Gray
That's why I'm starting Pat State University.
Stu Burguiere
Pat State University?
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Is it a state college? Are you just calling it Pat State?
Pat Gray
I'm just calling it Pat State because that adds a certain je le sais quoi, if you will.
Stu Burguiere
So what's Pat State University like?
Pat Gray
It's an education that you can't get anywhere else. Else. I'll tell you that. I'll tell you that.
Stu Burguiere
I bet that's true.
Pat Gray
Yeah, it is true.
Stu Burguiere
Now, are you going to be teaching classes at Pat State?
Pat Gray
No, but I'm going to select only the finest instructors and professors.
Stu Burguiere
Wow.
Pat Gray
To educate the young minds.
Stu Burguiere
What's tuition running these days at Pat State?
Pat Gray
I'm gonna. It's gonna come in under Drew University. Really? It's gonna be 65, 000.
Stu Burguiere
Wow.
Pat Gray
Per person. Yeah. That way I think we'll do better in volunteer volume. We'll have a. We'll have.
Stu Burguiere
How many, how many students you looking for?
Pat Gray
I'm looking for 56,000 56,056 to 60.
Stu Burguiere
Well, you just kind of like add on annex buildings to your building and just to fill eventually as people join. You're not billing in advance. People need to buy on spec.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
This is an on spec education at Patton State, huh? Yeah. Are you going to have a. You're going to have sports teams?
Pat Gray
There's got to be a football team. Right.
Stu Burguiere
So what's the mascot for Pat State?
Pat Gray
I haven't worked that out yet, but I'm working on it. Really? How about a cookie?
Stu Burguiere
The Pat State Cookies. I like that. And you could probably get, I would say Kexi Cookies will sponsor it, but it doesn't seem like it needs to be sponsored.
Pat Gray
That could be the nickname of the school. The Pat State Cookies. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds terrifying, doesn't it?
Stu Burguiere
I don't know how prestigious it feels. No, I'm a cookie. Yeah. On. I'm a dedicated cookie alum. And doesn't sound as great as you might think.
Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
But I'm interested.
Pat Gray
It's almost as bad as the Beavers or the Ducks in Oregon, but a little goofy. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Feels a little goofy. But I'm, I'm interested. You know, my kids, I told them no to most schools, but Pat sounds pretty. Yeah, sounds pretty good.
Pat Gray
I mean, it's just as prestigious as Drew University. Right? Right. I mean, amazing. I mean, this is. I, I don't, I don't know who's booking Joe Biden at this point in his, in his life. You know, bless his heart, he, he can't get through a sentence. And are people going to pay him 500? Because that's about the going rate for former presidents. Right. When you're a vice president, you can Command close to 200,000 per speech. When you've been president, you can do half a million per speech. Is anybody going to pay him that to come speak at their university? Knowing what you know about Joe Biden and how deficient he is in speaking.
Stu Burguiere
Now he can't even speak, let alone give a speech.
Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
I also would say that he should be paying you to speak at your university.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Right. I mean this is a guy who's a disaster. He's got a horrible approval rating. I mean, I don't know what you're getting out of this that you know, but I guess this is the, this is the way of the world with this stuff. If you've got, you get that job, you're, you're set for life. Oh yeah, you can always get another gig. You can always get some high level speeches. You can always just milk this thing forever.
Pat Gray
Netflix will pay you to do some sort of producing situation like they did with the Obamas and gave them $100 million to do it. And they barely produced anything.
Stu Burguiere
Yep.
Pat Gray
What have they really? What have they done?
Stu Burguiere
Nothing.
Pat Gray
Nothing of nothing.
Stu Burguiere
Nothing of note. They were involved as a. They were involved in a. As a consultant on one movie that I saw, which.
Pat Gray
Was it a documentary?
Stu Burguiere
No, we talked about it at the time. Do you remember the name of the thing, Sarah? It was. It was a. It was a movie about like a. I want to say it was like a nuclear disaster or, you know, the whole world.
Pat Gray
Sounds somewhat familiar.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. And he was. They were criticized because there's one scene where they're maybe I say, critical of guns or talking about Jedi or something. I can't remember exactly what it was, though. I did not seem the movie to me did not seem, like, overly woke. It was just.
Pat Gray
Does it Leave the World Behind?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think it was. I think it was. And it was like one of those, like, you know, just awful, like sort of, you know, the whole world has a tragedy and you don't know what's going on the entire time.
Pat Gray
I did not watch Leave the World Behind.
Stu Burguiere
I will say it never really paid off. It was not a. It was not advent. And it just, like many people who attend Pat State University, it's not something you'd want to repeat.
Pat Gray
Wait, are you disparaging my university even opened its doors?
Stu Burguiere
I'm saying it's so, so good. You don't need to do it twice. You know, why would you need to go back? I Drew University. I don't know. You might be 65k over and over and over again.
Pat Gray
All right, that's fair enough.
Stu Burguiere
It's one and done.
Pat Gray
Fair enough. All right, we got more coming up in 60 seconds.
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Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
Founded in 1867. Wow, I think we've just missed it. It was called Drew Theological Seminary for a while and then changed over to the Drew University after that.
Pat Gray
So is it still like a religious.
Stu Burguiere
University affiliated with the Methodist faith?
Pat Gray
Oh, okay.
Stu Burguiere
So, I mean it might be great. I don't know.
Pat Gray
Yeah, might maybe.
Stu Burguiere
So there you go. If you're.
Pat Gray
Seems like 68,000. Serious tuition though.
Stu Burguiere
Serious tuition. And I will say you could get it at Pat State for 65. So why, why would you just not shop it around?
Pat Gray
Why not?
Stu Burguiere
You know, it's like when you're trading Luka Doncic, you should travel, you should shop it around a little bit, maybe get a better package.
Pat Gray
Do you believe that actually happened?
Stu Burguiere
No. That one.
Pat Gray
That is unbelievable.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, the whole thing's out, especially here in Dallas.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
He was like such a. A pillar of the community here. Everybody loved. He's in every ad campaign. He's on every billboard.
Pat Gray
Really the only reason to go to a Mavs game, isn't he?
Stu Burguiere
I mean, they went to the finals last year.
Pat Gray
Was it last year?
Stu Burguiere
Last year.
Pat Gray
Oh, wow.
Stu Burguiere
And they're like, hey, let's, let's trade away the second or third best player in the NBA.
Pat Gray
Yeah. In the world.
Stu Burguiere
Incredible.
Pat Gray
And the Lakers certainly need yet another of the greatest players on the planet.
Stu Burguiere
Always luck out with these trades too. They somehow just pull out. They get these amazing guys like out of nowhere. It doesn't seem possible. And it happens to the Lakers, like good things happens to the Lakers. I don't know why I don't look forward to them. Not a fan.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Yeah. So now you got Doncic coupled with your favorite guy, LeBron James.
Stu Burguiere
Not really worth mentioning, frankly on that team. You know, who cares if LeBron is there? But they're. I don't think they're going to be necessarily that great this year. But you know, they've reset their franchise for years and years and years to come by having Luka, who is basically a franchise in and of himself. I mean, that he team that made the finals last year was not that great a team for the, for the Maps. I mean, Kyrie is good.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
But he was having all sorts of problems everywhere else. Luca seems to have helped him along. And you look at the rest of the team, they've got some good players, but they're not, I wouldn't say utterly amazing.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And he had a made run to the finals last year. Like maybe you could understand it if they had underperformed for five or six years in a row. And you're like, this is just isn't working. We have to change this up. They went to the final last year.
Pat Gray
Weird and completely unexpected. Right. I mean, I don't follow the NBA very closely, but. Or at all. But that seems like nobody saw that coming.
Stu Burguiere
No, I mean, I don't think that anyone did. And that's the best part about that. They had the press conference with the GM here of the Mavs and he's like, you know, I just got to thank Rob Polinka, the GM of the, of the Lakers, because we worked on this for weeks and weeks and, and he just kept it quiet. And like, it's really hard to keep things like this quiet. I just thank him so much. Of course he kept it quiet. He didn't want anyone else to know the second anyone else found out they'd offered twice as much. Yeah, like, of course he wanted to keep it quiet. Jeez. Absolutely incredible. Now there's all these conspiracy theories. Have you heard the conspiracy theories on this, Pat?
Pat Gray
I don't think so.
Stu Burguiere
Some of them are sort of over the top and ridiculous. Like they, you know, Mark Cuban owned the Maps for a long time. Time he sold to the Adelson family, well known Republican financiers and involved in the casino industry. And that's how they make their money.
Pat Gray
Lives in Vegas.
Stu Burguiere
Lives in Vegas. So the theory is they want to try to either pressure Texas to legalize gambling so they can build a casino here or tank the franchise to then draw them to Vegas instead, which it's hard to imagine they'd pull a team out of. Dallas is what is the fourth biggest market. Yeah.
Pat Gray
So I, Yeah, it Is hard to.
Stu Burguiere
Imagine to be possible.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
You know, but there are a lot of people who are wound up on conspiracy theories on this because it doesn't make any sense to anybody.
Pat Gray
No.
Stu Burguiere
And, you know, Anthony Davis, good player.
Pat Gray
But not Luca Donson, not Luca, Level. But.
Stu Burguiere
And it's just a shocking shock, especially when Luca is 25 and Davis is 31. If it was reversed, like, if you had a player who was coming up and he was 20, like, if Luca was 31 and Davis was 25, maybe.
Pat Gray
You could make some sense.
Stu Burguiere
You could at least get yourself there.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
This makes no sense at all.
Pat Gray
None.
Stu Burguiere
It sounds like something. It's like Joe Biden negotiated the trade. It's like. I just can't believe, you know, I just can't believe I was so happy to hear that Zelensky kept this quiet. We were gonna give him $750 billion and he didn't tell anybody. Oh, great. Thanks, Joe. I'm sure he didn't tell anybody. Yeah, that's a. I wouldn't tell anybody either.
Pat Gray
I loved. I love President Trump's comments on Ukraine yesterday, talking about how he wants a guarantee that we're going to have access to their rare earth minerals now because of all the money we've getting them, we've given to them over the last almost three years now.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
It would be nice to get something in return, wouldn't it? And I think, you know, of course, Democrats are all pissed off about it because how dare you. How dare you ask them for rare earth Minerals with our $200 billion investment into the Ukrainian cause. Yeah, we shouldn't be asking anything of them. Just. Just continue to give and give and allow them to take, and that'll be fine. All right. Eight, eight, eight, seven, two, seven. Beck. More coming up. This is Glenn Beck.
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Glenn Beck, Stupid Gear Steve Dace, Jason Whitlock and me, Pat Gray. Listen to all your favorite conservative voices@blazetv.com promo code Glenn Len 47 it's Patton Stu for Glenn 88727 Beck. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has changed his tune just a little bit, huh?
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, his tune was quite clear yesterday, Pat.
Pat Gray
Well, he had proud of it. Illegal alien who was living in an apartment above his garage.
Stu Burguiere
Well, I believe he said someone whose immigration status was not where they wanted it to be. Right. What does that mean? I mean it means illegal immigrant.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
And he was proud of it.
Pat Gray
Yes, yes.
Stu Burguiere
Didn't he say something at the end there?
Pat Gray
Said he said come in if they and good luck to the Fed. Feds coming in trying to get her. So essentially he's challenging the Feds to come get her.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. And I, I think the Fed should.
Pat Gray
Take take him up on that. Well, that's what Tom Holman thought. Tom Holman said, well, if he does have an illegal alien living above his garage and he's breaking the law, I'll prosecute him for that. He can go to jail for that. We'll arrest him.
Stu Burguiere
Now, my argument is that Murphy has broken the law many times, times considering especially and it's been underplayed how terrible he was during COVID He was on. It's hard for me to say this, but he was almost on the Cuomo level of incompetence and danger to his own citizens. He did many, many of the same policies when it comes to elderly people into nursing homes with COVID that Cuomo did. He just didn't get the attention because Cuomo is such an unmitigated Jewish jerk that he, you know, took all the attention for that particular, I would call crime. Now, I Know, Cuomo also had the. I don't think Murphy's been groping people, so that's good. But although, I don't know, maybe, maybe the illegal alien living above his garage, you know, who knows what's going on there? I don't think so.
Pat Gray
Well, it's interesting because now his people are saying no one has ever lived in the home under those circumstances that the governor described. Wait, what? So he doesn't have an illegal alien living above his garage.
Stu Burguiere
So wait, he's saying that no one.
Pat Gray
No one's ever lived in the home. He had a statement issued by one of his people.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
That no one has ever lived in the home under those circumstances that the government that the governor described. Well, he's, he was pretty clear on it yesterday.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah, he was.
Pat Gray
And that's. So that's interesting. The.
Stu Burguiere
Sometimes people forget Pat.
Pat Gray
Yeah, they do.
Stu Burguiere
You know.
Pat Gray
Yeah, they do. Oh, I thought I had an illegal little alien, a living above my garage, but yeah, I guess not. So that's why you can't go come get her, because she's not there. So. But good luck finding her, cuz I just made the whole thing up. Now, the representative didn't explain why Murphy, who lives with his family in a mansion in Middletown, New Jersey, would dare the Trump administration to go after the woman at his home who wasn't actually there. Nobody really explained any of that. Of course. He's just lying through his teeth. I mean, I. Now why are you doing that?
Stu Burguiere
Right. Like he, the truth was there is an illegal immigrant living over his garage. Right. That's the truth.
Pat Gray
Yeah, maybe.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, I don't know, for a. If you go, maybe you could talk to some of your researchers at Pat State University. If you're thinking of a projection here, if you had to take a guess, gun to your head, Pat Gray, I.
Pat Gray
Would say, yeah, he probably did.
Stu Burguiere
That's the side I think he's talking about. He did. And now probably doesn't.
Pat Gray
Because she had to clear out.
Stu Burguiere
She had to clear out because of what he said publicly to get know, I guess, points from the audience. Right. Sold out. The, the girl he was supposed to protect that was living above his garage.
Pat Gray
Yeah. And what happened to her, by the way, if she was there and, and now. So now where is she? Because she had to make a pretty quick exit, I would imagine.
Stu Burguiere
I would imagine, I would hope if there were actual journalists in the state of New Jersey, which I'm sure that you'd have someone camped outside of their house waiting for someone to leave the Garage. Because I would want to interview that person. What happened?
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Why are you living at Phil Murphy's house?
Pat Gray
Right.
Stu Burguiere
You know, usually governors and politicians hide the fact that they're hiding random women at their establishments.
Pat Gray
He was proud of it.
Stu Burguiere
He was proud of it. He was like, yeah, we got some illegal immigrant women just living right above my garage. Stop over whenever I need to. That's nice of him. But it was not true. Pat definitely did not accept her.
Pat Gray
No, no, no.
Stu Burguiere
That was 24 hours.
Pat Gray
That would be illegal.
Stu Burguiere
What was he. Was he in some sort of, like, sugar haze? Like, what?
Pat Gray
Ha.
Stu Burguiere
Why would he blurt out that he had an illegal immigrant living above his garage if it didn't actually happen?
Pat Gray
It is so bizarre, because I don't even know. You know, we don't have a press that will really push him on this. Of course. And nobody's going to. Nobody's going to hold his feet to the fire on this and demand answers to. To. Why did you say you have an illegal immigrant living above your garage if you don't have one and you never have had one? What are you. What are you trying to prove here? You're just trying to embarrass the Trump administration. You're trying to, I don't know, challenge them in some way.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, it is not, I will say this, not entirely impossible that he was lying to the crowd for their favor. Now, Phil Murphy will lie in any room he's in about anything thing, in my view. So it's possible he was just saying this to make himself look good to the pro illegal immigration crowd. He was in front of that. You can't rule that out entirely. But again, this is why you have journalists in the state of New Jersey that I'm sure were camping out by the house, seeing if anyone packed up belongings at the garage that day. Oh, no, they weren't.
Pat Gray
If it was Trump, though, how many journalists would have been camped outside his garage to watch the illegal leave the premises before he got arrested? I mean, you'd have. You'd have dozens of reporters there waiting for that to occur. Mm.
Stu Burguiere
And of course, not in this situation. Pat, real quick, some breaking news. Bill Cassidy, Senator. He is the doctor who had some tough questioning for RFK Jr. During the hearing.
Pat Gray
This is Bill Cassidy in the Sundance Kid.
Stu Burguiere
It is Bill Cassidy in the Sundance Kid. Okay. Both he and the Sundance Kid are going to vote for RFK Jr. Which I would say that ends it. It's over. He's in. He's gonna get it.
Pat Gray
Yeah. Cause he's the one that everybody thought might be the wild card for the Republicans.
Stu Burguiere
You could probably find. I think there's a chance, a good chance McConnell votes against him and there's a good chance that, you know, you could talk about, you know, of course, Collins and Murkowski are always up for a vote against a Republican nominee.
Pat Gray
Although Collins said.
Stu Burguiere
Collins said she would go with him. Yeah, right. So. And she said the same about Tulsi, didn't she?
Pat Gray
I think she did, yeah.
Stu Burguiere
So I think all of these people are getting at it. I think the only one, really Trump is gonna lose entire process is Gates. Yeah.
Pat Gray
And that happened months ago, some time ago.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. So that's it.
Pat Gray
Interesting.
Stu Burguiere
I think that's going to. I mean, I'm looking now. Let's see what the markets are looking like right now. Give me one second. Tulsi Gabbard, 98% chance to get in RFK, 97%. Cash Patel, 97%. I mean, low key possibility of Lori Chavez Durmer, the Labor Secretary. There is, I think, legitimate Republican conservative opposition to her as she voted for a bunch of left wing labor bills. I don't understand why she's the pick. Honestly, I don't understand it at all. That being said, I just don't think anyone wants to do anything with Trump right now. I don't think anyone will oppose anything he says on the Republican side. That's basically the truth. I mean, it's just his party and it is just whether you like it or not. True, true.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
You know, so I just, I read.
Pat Gray
That they were filibustering Pam Bondi, which just ended yesterday. So that was kind of interesting.
Stu Burguiere
I think they're trying to delay that. I don't think you can technically filibuster a nominee like that.
Pat Gray
Yeah, but they're delaying.
Stu Burguiere
They're slow playing it. But she, to let you know, she on the markets is 99.8%.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
So she's. And I'm looking down the entire list. I don't see anybody below 98% or 97%, which would be RFK Jr. Cash Patel and Lori Chavez Durmer. That's it.
Pat Gray
So is that interesting that all these Republicans are on board with RFK Jr. That's fascinating. I find that interesting.
Stu Burguiere
I mean, because I think you could say, like if you look at the, maybe the most controversial nominees, where you'd say someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat, who ran a campaign for Bernie Sanders in Hawaii, but we've all seen a long, slow transition. I think From Tulsi. And she's someone who, I don't know that arc is pretty understandable. And I know a lot of people love RFK Jr but forgive me here for pointing out that this is blatantly transactional. I mean, remember, RFK Jr. Went to what's her face, Kamala first to see if he could get this kind of a race. And Kamala didn't return his phone calls. And then he went to Trump and Trump did. And it was a brilliant move by Trump. It was a smart move by Trump. It, I think did expand the party tent, his voter base. I don't know that it won him the election, but it's not impossible to make that case. As I pointed out, he needed to win a blue wall state in this election to win it. Everything else was there wasn't any huge shocks outside of the blue wall. That was really where most of the controversy was. There was a few other swing states that were up for debate, but, you know, the blue wall was where the action was. She needed to win all three of those. He needed to win one of those. The biggest blowout of those three states was two points. Yeah, that was a blow. The blowout. So two point difference here in that election in that state. And it's like, I think it was Michigan. I think it was. Was it Pennsylvania? I think it was Pennsylvania. I can't remember if it was Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin, but it was. I think it was Pennsylvania. It was two points. The bottom line is it's not impossible to make the case. RFK Jr. Was the difference. And I do think that Donald Trump does sort of owe him something. I think they did make an arrangement. It was very out there. Right. Like he wanted RFK Jr. I think if he had won, the presidency would have basically focused on HHS all the time anyway. So I. He wanted that role. Donald Trump, I don't think it's a super high priority role for him. I think Trump looks at that and says, look, I think we can make some improvements. I'd like to be run a lot better. You're the guy that knows it, go for it. And it was a transactional thing. RFK Jr would not have endorsed him if not for the promise of a role like this. And to the extent that as we mentioned, less than one year ago, Donald Trump was calling him a left wing lunatic and RFK Jr. Was saying, which he has been.
Pat Gray
I mean, he is his whole life.
Stu Burguiere
He's just not going to supposedly do those types of things in this role. He is still left Wing on almost every single issue. Trump correctly is saying we're going to keep him away from those issues. Now, I think he's going to be somebody going to need to watch. Yeah, you're going to need to watch him like a hawk in that role because while he may do things that you like, he will also do many things that you, if you let him.
Pat Gray
Get him get away with it in other things like climate change.
Stu Burguiere
Right.
Pat Gray
Oh my gosh. Abortion, abortion, abortion.
Stu Burguiere
Those are the two maybe headline issues. But there's a lot to it. There's a lot to that role. It's a trillion dollar budget he's gonna be overseeing. That's not just talking about your Fruit Loops guys. This is a big, big job. So my recommendation, if he cared, which he doesn't, to Trump, if you're gonna give HHS to RFK Jr. Come up with a panel of people. People and their only job will be like Doge to watch RFK Jr. And what he's doing. Just make sure he sticks to his side of the deal. If he does, he'll be fine. If he doesn't, throw him out. Because you can do that. As soon as he goes off the reservation, you can toss him out of the job. So you just got to watch really closely. He's the type of person that will do a lot of. He's going to be hiring people that he knows to these jobs. Those people didn't make promises to Donald Trump. And you're just gonna have to watch him like a hawk in this role. But he will probably do some good things as well. It's not to say that there's no positives here. I just would have preferred it in like maybe a Doge type role, an outside committee type role. Hey, here are our recommendations to someone that was a little more trustworthy to the conservative movement.
Pat Gray
88727 Beck more coming up.
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Pat Gray
This is Glenn Beck, Pat and Stu for Glenn. Triple eight seven two seven. Beck. All right, are we, are we ready then to hear just a little taste of the Sarah Sullivan opera that you're preparing, the transgender opera for Columbia? Just going to give you a little taste. Okay. I only had a couple years. We can't do all 14 songs, apparently, right? Yeah, a little medley, all soul, Sounds a little bit masculine.
Stu Burguiere
Is this for you, Sarah?
Pat Gray
Sarah, Is that you're telling us that you though? Yeah, I had to work on my voice.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, it's the transgender.
Pat Gray
Yeah, that's right.
Stu Burguiere
I will say, that actually sounds more like you than opera. That doesn't sound like opera at all.
Pat Gray
I don't even know how to take that. It's good for Columbia, though, because it's obviously.
Stu Burguiere
Well, the best operas are not operas.
Pat Gray
No, Right.
Stu Burguiere
If you want to get people to show up to an opera, make it.
Pat Gray
Not opera, because nobody likes opera.
Stu Burguiere
That's just one song, though. You gotta have more than that, right?
Pat Gray
Okay, I'll give you another. All right.
Stu Burguiere
There.
Pat Gray
Wow.
Stu Burguiere
I'm saying the drama of this, the.
Pat Gray
Pageantry, and you don't speak Spanish, so you don't know what it's about. No, I have no idea.
Stu Burguiere
I don't.
Pat Gray
I do.
Stu Burguiere
What is it really about? Transgender issues.
Pat Gray
You have to come see it. I'm not telling you. In Colombia. We got to go to Colombia to see this thing. Yeah. Huh.
Stu Burguiere
How much did they give you from USAID for this project?
Pat Gray
47,000.
Stu Burguiere
$47,000. Wow.
Pat Gray
But I had to study at Pat State.
Stu Burguiere
Pat State University.
Pat Gray
Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Okay.
Pat Gray
Had to be a cookie.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Well, you want to. Yeah, that's true. That's interesting. I, I, I think you need to learn what opera is like. That's one thing I would say. Before getting the $47,000, you should know what it sounds like.
Pat Gray
Like, I would blame my education, you know? Sounds like we didn't do a very good job.
Stu Burguiere
The arts department at Pat State, we.
Pat Gray
Need to work on that.
Stu Burguiere
It's not its priority.
Pat Gray
Real opera ish.
Stu Burguiere
Oh, it sounded like, I don't know, like, Enrique Iglesias or something.
Pat Gray
Telemundo.
Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
Pat Gray
Maria Maramundo. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. All right. Hopefully Glenn will be feeling better tomorrow, and we'll see you then. You're, like, off to the Super Bowl.
Stu Burguiere
After the Super Bowl. Go Birds.
Pat Gray
Come on. Come on. It's gonna be three straight Home Free State for the three straight for the Kansas City Chiefs. No, it's on.
Stu Burguiere
Don't lie. I hate Pat State University.
Pat Gray
This is Glenn Beck.
Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program – "How Much Should the Government Spend on Trans Musicals? ZERO" (Released February 4, 2025)
Hosts: Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere
Guest: Glenn Beck (Absent Due to Illness)
The episode begins with Stu Burguiere announcing that Glenn Beck is absent due to illness, prompting Pat Gray and Stu to take over the show. They joke about the challenges of producing a live radio show under these circumstances while emphasizing their commitment to delivering quality content.
Notable Quote:
[02:00] Glenn Beck: "When times get down gotta face the dog and embrace the fire."
Pat and Stu commend President Trump for his swift and decisive actions since assuming office. They highlight the unprecedented pace at which executive orders are being signed, contrasting it with previous administrations' slower legislative processes.
Notable Quotes:
[04:48] Pat Gray: "President Trump has done so much so fast that it's almost impossible for us to keep up, let alone the liberal media to try to complain, whine and cry about everything he's doing."
[05:17] Stu Burguiere: "It's been a breakneck pace. It's been unbelievable."
A significant portion of the discussion centers on Trump's imposition of hefty tariffs on Canadian, Mexican, and Chinese goods. Pat and Stu express optimism that these tariffs are pressuring trade partners into renegotiating more favorable deals for the United States.
Notable Quotes:
[19:19] Tom Homan: "Every single country that you're writing about right now is dying to make a deal because the deals they have right now are so good and so profitable for them."
[20:11] Stu Burguiere: "Why would they want to do a deal if they're ripping us off? And would they prefer to keep the ones in place?"
The hosts critique USAID for what they perceive as wasteful spending on initiatives that do not align with national interests. Particular attention is given to projects like transgender operas funded in foreign countries, which they argue should receive zero federal funding.
Notable Quotes:
[55:42] Glenn Beck: "USAID is not only not cooperative, they undermine the work that we're doing in that country."
[33:17] Tom Homan: "I love the concept of it. Yeah, that's a program, sure. I love, love the concept, but they turn out to be radical left lunatics."
Pat and Stu firmly oppose any government expenditure on arts projects like musicals or operas, especially those focused on transgender themes. They mock the idea of allocating public funds to such initiatives, advocating instead for private sector solutions.
Notable Quotes:
[34:00] Stu Burguiere: "But then they wouldn't get any money for diversity, equity, inclusion, Pat."
[35:11] Stu Burguiere: "Just the straight zero."
The hosts praise the Trump administration's efforts in tightening border security, noting a significant reduction in illegal immigration crossings. They credit key figures like Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem for their effective leadership in this area.
Notable Quotes:
[62:30] Pat Gray: "We're looking at 95% reductions already...it's two weeks and it's again, considerably better than his first term."
[63:11] Stu Burguiere: "Border crossing is down 93%."
Pat and Stu discuss Elon Musk's achievements with SpaceX and Tesla, praising Musk for driving innovation and aligning with conservative values despite opposition from the liberal media. They highlight Musk's role in advancing space exploration and electric vehicles without reliance on government subsidies.
Notable Quotes:
[70:00] Pat Gray: "He's doing the space stuff better than the government can do it."
[72:11] Stu Burguiere: "He has taken conservatives to electric cars."
A humorous yet critical discussion ensues about the exorbitant tuition fees of institutions like Drew University compared to the proposed Pat State University, a satirical alternative suggested by Pat Gray. They lament the unsustainable cost of higher education and mock the extravagant expenses associated with prestigious universities.
Notable Quotes:
[94:46] Stu Burguiere: "$68,495 per year...that is criminal."
[95:46] Pat Gray: "I'm gonna make an exception and say a total of $0.0. None. None."
As the show nears its end, Pat and Stu reiterate their strong stance against government-funded social programs and arts initiatives. They anticipate Glenn Beck's return and tease upcoming segments, including a performance by Sarah Sullivan's transgender opera medley, which they mockingly comment on throughout the episode.
Notable Quotes:
[125:03] Stu Burguiere: "No, it does not make any sense for men and women to just change genders on a whim and with a series of magical words."
[127:05] Pat Gray: "Sarah, your transgender opera medley is coming up."
Government Spending: Pat and Stu advocate for minimal government expenditure on social programs, particularly opposing funding for initiatives like transgender-themed arts projects.
Trump Administration: They laud President Trump for his efficient and aggressive policy-making, especially regarding budget cuts and border security.
International Trade: The imposition of tariffs is viewed positively as a means to renegotiate better trade deals.
USAID Criticism: USAID is criticized for its perceived misalignment with national interests and uncontrolled spending on foreign programs.
Border Security: Significant improvements in border control are attributed to the proactive measures of the Trump administration.
Elon Musk Praise: Elon Musk is commended for advancing technological innovation in space exploration and electric vehicles without heavy governmental support.
Higher Education Satire: The high cost of prestigious universities is mocked, with Pat proposing a fictional Pat State University as a cost-effective alternative.
This episode of The Glenn Beck Program delivered a fervent critique of government spending on social programs, praised the Trump administration's swift policy actions, and expressed admiration for private sector leaders like Elon Musk. Through a blend of humor, satire, and pointed commentary, Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere articulated their conservative viewpoints, emphasizing the importance of reducing government intervention in various sectors.