Pray for the Children of Minneapolis | 8/27/25

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Episode Title: Pray for the Children of Minneapolis | 8/27/25
Air Date: August 27, 2025
Hosts: Stu Burguiere & Jeff “Jeffy” Fisher (in for Glenn Beck, who is out sick)

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Episode Overview

This episode, hosted by Stu and Jeffy in Glenn Beck’s absence, blends satirical commentary, keen political observation, and serious reflection on America’s cultural and political climate. The main focus is a developing mass shooting at a Catholic school/church in Minneapolis, but the show also offers an extended deep-dive into the ever-changing persona of California Governor Gavin Newsom, urban crime, policing strategies under Trump, the pitfalls of DEI and wokeness, commercial brand pivots, and corporate misdirection. The hosts maintain the program’s trademark irreverence, but shift to a somber tone as the Minneapolis news unfolds.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Glenn's Absence and Opening Banter

• Glenn Beck is out sick; Stu and Jeffy emphasize that the show will go on and aim for a candid, unfiltered take on pressing news and issues.
• Lighthearted intros segue into advertisement reads before the main content commences.

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2. Crime, Policing, and Urban Decline

• The hosts discuss widespread increases in crime across major U.S. cities and the struggle of city leaders to cope.
  • Stu (09:57): "If you want to live in a world where your city is crumbling, where crime is rampant, where the economy is going into the tank... You can have it."
• Comparison is made between U.S. cities and countries like Venezuela and North Korea.
• They forecast more cities facing similar failures as those in LA, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Urban Policing & National Guard

• Discussion of Trump’s strategy of increasing National Guard/police presence in high-crime cities.
  • Jeffy (29:11): "There are plenty of residents in Chicago that would say, yeah, come on in."
  • Stu (31:55): "Most people would [want] a larger police presence in areas where there’s lots of crime."
• Noted dramatic crime decreases in D.C. after federal interventions.
  • Stu (29:16): "We’ve seen real dramatic decreases in crime... at least zero murders."
• Reflects on the hazards of normalized urban decay and how people in cities become desensitized to crime and poor conditions.
  • Stu (33:08): "You start to tolerate a weird set of everyday events."

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3. Gavin Newsom: A Catalog of Reinventions

A comedic yet pointed “software release” style chronology of Gavin Newsom’s political persona shifts, framed as endless, soulless rebranding.

• Newsom Versions:
  1. Party rising star.
  2. Playboy (public infidelity).
  3. Anti-Trump tough guy.
  4. DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) champion.
  5. COVID dictator – most extreme lockdowns.
  6. Hypocrite (French Laundry dinner scandal).
  7. "Competent executive" to debate Ron DeSantis.
  8. Biden’s party loyalist.
  9. "Anti-DEI Centrist" and "Manosphere podcaster" (cozying up to right-wing figures).
  10. Social media troll and "tweeter-in-chief."
• Stu (19:32): "There will never be a relationship in your life. Your children, your spouse, your mother, your father—no one will love you like Gavin Newsom loves Gavin Newsom."
• Positioning Newsom’s chameleon act as emblematic of a broader lack of authenticity among American politicians.
  • Stu (28:09): "Whatever he needs to be, he will become. And it’s possible the American people fall for that. It’s just embarrassing if they do."

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4. Trump’s Approach to Power and Law

• Trump’s directness contrasted with other presidents' denials or caveats.
  • Stu (36:59): "Donald Trump just cuts the corner. He’ll just make it seem way more aggressive and over the line from his mouth. And then what he does is the opposite."

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5. Pandemic & DEI/Woke Era Retrospective

• Reflection on how quickly the U.S. reversed many long-held values during the COVID and George Floyd/DEI era.
  • Stu (53:54): "We reversed almost every belief we had in this country for a couple of years."
• Companies’ and sports leagues’ social justice signaling recalled as outlandish and performative.
• Current pushback against “woke” corporate culture and branding.

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6. Cracker Barrel & Brand Reversal

• Extended, humorous debate about Cracker Barrel’s failed rebranding (logo change, removing mascot “Herschel”, de-cluttering stores) and rapid reversal after public backlash.
  • Jeffy (58:35): "They’re taking away the old guy on the rocking chair, who it turns out is named Herschel."
  • Stu (73:32): "I think the right thing to do in this moment is to reverse yourself. There’s no reason—this was a rebrand and it was a bad idea."
• Compares the pivot to “New Coke” and the necessity for companies to listen rather than stubbornly push unpopular changes.

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7. Flag Burning Executive Order Discussion

• Trump’s new proposed order: harsh mandatory penalties for flag burning.
• Hosts clarify that—contrary to Trump’s bluster—the executive order does not create new criminal penalties, but focuses on prosecution existing crimes (e.g., riot incitement) tied to flag burning.
  • Stu (77:11): "The actual text of this...is consistent with the Constitution and the Supreme Court ruling."
• Touches on the symbolic importance of the flag but frames “flag amendment” pushes as political theater, not practical legislation.

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8. Emerging Breaking News: Minneapolis School Shooting

• Unfolds live during the episode—Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis.
  • Initial reports: over 300 K–8 students were gathered in a mass when a gunman opened fire.
  • Early casualty numbers are unclear, 15–20 injuries, shooter deceased via suicide.
  • Stu (91:10): “Prayers are a different story. When the left mocks prayers, what they're mocking is the ultimate thing you can do in this moment.”
  • Both hosts reject the idea that "thoughts and prayers" are empty, insisting faith is an action when practical solutions are limited.
  • They contextualize school/church security, the desire for notoriety in shooters, and media responsibility (“do not name shooters”).

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9. Class Action Against Amazon: You Don't Really "Buy" Digital Content

• Riff on Amazon’s practice of selling users a "limited license for viewing access," not true ownership, and a new class action lawsuit.
  • Jeffy (111:57): "What’s being bought isn’t ownership of the title, but rather a limited time license for viewing access."

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Notable Quotes & Highlights

• Stu, on Gavin Newsom’s self-love (19:32):
  "[Y]ou, in your entire life, will never find anyone who loves you as much as Gavin Newsom loves Gavin Newsom."

• Jeffy reenacts views on Chicago police intervention (30:24):
  "There are plenty of residents in Chicago that would say, yeah, come on in..."

• Stu, on American values reversal (53:54):
  "We reversed almost every belief we had in this country for a couple of years, that’s for sure."

• Stu, on “tolerance” of urban decline (33:11):
  "You start to tolerate a weird set of everyday events."

• On the Minneapolis shooting (92:57):

  • Jeffy: “We can certainly hope and pray that what they're reporting is not true. The shooter, they claim, is deceased.”
  • Stu: “...All we can do is pray for the victims, pray for the families that are involved.”

• Stu, on flag burning order (77:11):
  "The actual text of this, though, is consistent with the Constitution and is consistent with the Supreme Court ruling..."

• Stu, on Trump’s style (36:59):
  "Donald Trump just cuts the corner. He’ll just make it seem way more aggressive and over the line from his mouth. And then what he does is the opposite..."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:54 | Hosts introduce themselves; outline day’s topics and Glenn’s absence | | 09:57 | Urban crime crisis, parallels to Venezuela & North Korea | | 19:32 | Satirical “versions of Gavin Newsom” segment begins | | 28:09 | Newsom’s “manosphere podcaster” phase, adaptability for self-benefit | | 29:11 | Trump’s National Guard and crime strategy discussion | | 36:59 | Trump’s political style vs. other presidents | | 53:54 | COVID/George Floyd/DEI era as a national reversal of values | | 58:35 | Cracker Barrel rebrand debacle | | 73:32 | Should brands reverse after backlash? The New Coke example | | 77:11 | Deep dive on Trump’s flag-burning executive order | | 87:14 | News of Minneapolis school shooting breaks; prayers & details discussed | | 91:10 | Thoughts and prayers: why faith is a meaningful response | | 111:17 | The Amazon class-action lawsuit: “You don’t own digital content” | | 125:16 | Eyewitness quote: Daughter survives Minneapolis shooting; appeals for prayers |

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Tone & Language

• Candid, satirical, and frequently irreverent—especially on political figures.
• Quick pivots to a more serious, compassionate tone as breaking news on the Minneapolis shooting emerges.
• Occasional self-deprecation, especially in regards to “America’s weird new normal” and cultural nostalgia.

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Summary: Who Should Listen

This episode is quintessential Glenn Beck Program: insightful but brash conservative analysis, media skepticism, mocking of “woke” excesses, and a willingness to take detours into the absurd—until it’s time to respond soberly to tragedy. The talk on Gavin Newsom’s ever-shifting persona and the urban crime/Trump policing strategy is particularly sharp and timely, while the live coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is delivered with genuine gravity and empathy. Those seeking a mix of humor, critique, and current events—with an unfiltered right-leaning lens—will find much to engage with here.

Transcript

[Stu]

Glenn is out sick today. We're going to get to a lot to talk about, though. Plenty of stuff going on in the world. Let me give you a scenario here, though. You're walking out of a store at night, the lights are buzzing over your head, your hands are full, and you notice someone hanging back a little too close for comfort. Your heart beats a little faster because in that moment, you're doing the math. What options do you really have here if something's going to go wrong? If you're unarmed, you're hoping they lose interest and just go away. If you're carrying a traditional firearm, you know you're now faced with a choice that could change two lives forever. But there is another way. The Burna Launcher gives you a true middle ground. It's a non lethal compact device that can stop a threat instantly without taking a life. Glenn carries it every day. I have one as well. Because it offers something unique. The ability to defend yourself and your family without having to cross a line that you could never uncross. The burner is legal in all 50 states, no permit required. And it is designed for those real life moments where you need to act quickly. It's Burna.com Glenn Get 10% off right now with your purchase or visit Sportsmanswarehouse. It's by R N A.com Glenn.

[Jeffy]

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[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

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[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

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[Jeffy]

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[Jeffy]

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[Stu]

Today with Stu and Jeffy in for Gladys. Glenn is sick. Make America healthy, Glenn. Glen. That's what we need. Make America healthy, Glenn. We'll see if it happens very, very soon. The good thing is no shortage of material to talk about today. Why Upcoming a three hour special on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's marriage? Either that or we're not going to talk about it at all. We'll get into that here in just a second. But let me tell you first about Prageru. If you get free videos that teach common sense, history and economics and values that matter, you know Prageru, this stuff is great. Their material is fantastic and in just five minutes you can learn more truth than most students use and hurt here in God four years of college. Prager U's content is reaching millions of people every single day. From high school students to working parents to anyone who's been tired of kind of being fed lies constantly and half truths by the media and universities. 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It's prageru.com Glenn been watching a lot of the mayor of Chicago who is now in the bizarre position of trying to justify that his city is not completely out of control with crime. Just as we saw from the media in D.C. where they had to constantly justify their city was not out of control with crime. Previously we had Los Angeles who was trying to justify how they were not completely out of control when it comes to crime. We're seeing a massive difference so far in Washington D.C. and you know, D.C. is a unique circumstance. It's a federal district. There's all sorts of powers the federal government has there that they don't necessarily have in other places. So it's not going to be as easy to do this in other cities. But it's also setting up this clash of personalities. There's a story in Reason Today, Brandon Johnson, Chicago is a preview of Zoran Mamdani's New York. And it's true. If you want to live in a world where your city is crumbling, where crime is rampant, where the economy is going into the tank, where you have city run grocery stores that have no food in them, that's a world you want. You can have it like it's available to you. It's available all around the world. You can go to Venezuela right now and check that out. You want that, you go to North Korea. They've got that sort of the empty shelves and grocery stores available in spades. You've got it all over the world. And now we're starting to get it in US City after US City. Because when you implement these policies, this is what you get. It's not some crazy formula. We're not reaching into deep economic texts here though. They all support this idea and has been proven over and over again. These are basic things. If you want the government involved in every aspect of your life, if you want the economy to be controlled by somebody other than you, you can get that. It's an available option. It's just a bad option. The people in New York who are completely surrounded with bad options, let's be honest about it. I mean, when your other option is Andrew Cuomo, I understand, I guess it's a difficult choice. But it's darker and darker and darker and darker. And these same choices are going to have to be made now by America as we go forward in the future. Like Donald Trump is in a second term. You know, he can do a lot of good things. He is, he really is a person unlike any other human being I've ever seen. Seems to never get tired. He's 78 years old and just non stop every day there's four or five new things you can talk about. With some new policy he's pushing through or some new idea he has, he just does not tire. But now he is, you know, President of the United States, working toward a different sort of country, a country he's trying to, you know, rework a little bit, remix, move to a different vision, certainly to what we've, we've had to go through over the past four years and before that, the Barack Obama era, but that, that everyone now is positioning themselves for. What's next? There's a bunch of redistricting news. We'll get into that today. That's the next election we're going through. That's next year. Of course, then 2028 is up. And when you Talk about this idea of Karen Bass in LA, the D.C. situation, Johnson in Chicago, Mamdani potentially in New York. Everyone's positioning themselves for their next step in the power struggle. And Gavin Newsom is probably the highest profile guy doing that. And Newsom is so. I mean, I don't know. Maybe people buy this. Maybe I am so out of touch with the American people that maybe they will fall for the lead actor in American Psycho. Maybe that will be a thing. Maybe they. Maybe they want that. Maybe they want a guy who, by all appearances, seems to be to carry all of the characteristics of a serial killer from a movie portrayed in the 80s. I don't know. It's possible. I can't put it past the United States. They elected a guy who was in the second syllable of the word dementia when he was. When he was elected, and he progressed to the last syllable during his public time in office. Perhaps they would elect someone like Gavin Newsom. But is it just me? Is it possible that we maybe, as Americans, are still capable of. Of seeing through someone who is so clearly trying so hard? You might look at your life and hope that you can make some good friends and have a good spouse and have a great family. But I have to break this to you. You, in your entire life, will never find anyone who loves you as much as Gavin Newsom loves Gavin Newsom. There will never be a relationship in your life. Your children, your spouse, your mother, your father. No one will love you like Gavin Newsom loves Gavin Newsom. It will never occur. It's the type of relationship that, you know, I said I was going to bring it up, but you hope that Travis and Taylor can get to at some point, but they never will. They will never love each other as much as Gavin Newsom loves that mirror. This dude loves himself. And it's funny because he's constantly remaking himself to try to garner the attention of whatever audience he feels benefits him at that moment. That is really the extent of it. What gets him more power, more money, more attention, more clicks. That's all he's doing. You know, A big chunk of California's back on fire. I don't know if anyone's noticed this. Maybe Gavin will notice this one because it's wine country. I hope it doesn't hit anywhere near the French Laundry. He's got his half of his state burned down last year. A big chunk of it's on fire again. And what is he doing? He's tweeting. He's tweeting at the President. He's trying to, he's, he's releasing new merch. This is who this guy is. And every single step of the way there's been a new Gavin Newsom. He's like a software release. You get Gavin Newsom comes out, then they release it. It's Gavin Newsom 2.0 and 3.0. I think the iPhone, the new iPhone is coming out soon. He's got more versions than there are iPhones. Go back to the beginning. Gavin Newsom, back in the day, he's this, you know, Gavin Newsom 1.0 was this rising star of the Democratic Party. Gavin Newsom, Democrat rising star, the fresh faced California golden boy coming up hyped as the party's future. Some people bought that. But it's the beginning he gets into mayor of San Francisco. Is that really long term? Maybe he can turn that into the presidency. He certainly was his thought even at that time. And Gavin Newsom 2.0 was Gavin Newsom, Playboy. He was the guy, he was a ladies man. And one of the ways he made sure that you knew he was the ladies man is by breaking like, I don't know if you have a pyramid of infidelity, okay, at the, you know, maybe at the bottom it's, it's a cheating on your high school girlfriend, I don't know. And then you raise that up and it's eventually a few steps up from that, it's cheating on your wife, which is really, really bad. And then it gets higher than that. There's several steps. And at the very top, I would say of the, of the infidelity pyramid is sleeping with your best friend's wife. That's Gavin Newsom, Playboy edition, sleeping. I mean, it's one thing you have this guy who is not only his best friend, but also helping him through his career, helping him climb the political ladder in California, working closely with him every single day. But apparently not every single night. Because while he was working alone at night, Gavin Newsom was also working his wife. I mean that's. You want to talk about a bro code violation, that's gotta be number one, right? That's as bad as you can possibly get. We've churned out a lot of garbage in this country. There's been a lot of trash that the United States has pushed out over the years. Some great people too, lots of them more than maybe any other country in history. But we've also, you know, screwed up from time to time. We've, we've got our serial killers, we've got our mass shooters, and we've got our Gavin Newsoms. Then Gavin Newsom 3.0 was the anti Trump tough guy. He's out there talking about Trump all the time, criticizing Trump. He was the guy that was going to stand up. He was a resistance warrior. Then Gavin Newsom 4.0 was released and that was Gavin Newsom, the DEI warrior. He was the guy that was going to promote every single race and color. He was going to take the most important characteristics that everyone has, their skin color and their genitals, and make all decisions based on that. Because at that time that's what benefited him. Now he, at one point, this is like 2019, he's governor and it's right before COVID and he's got a decision to make on, you know, some high level health, basically the HHS Secretary of California, if you will. And he is in the middle of figuring out who to promote. He's got an infectious disease expert who is in line for the job. Everyone expects her to get the job. The problem with her though is she's white and blonde. So she doesn't get the job. She's passed over for someone who doesn't know what they're doing but is the right color. And he puts her in the position right before COVID Now look, as we all can sit here and remember, not every disease expert did things that we would necessarily approve of as conservatives of people who care about our liberty. I'm sure we would disagree with, you know, whoever, whoever he put in there as far as policy goes. But instead he put in someone who was completely incompetent to the point where they actually were hiding her from reporters at press conferences. They weren't inviting her to meetings about COVID and they were pushing out the actual experts from the meetings before that. So that was Gavin Newsom as he steps in Dei Master. Then of course, Gavin Newsom 5.0 was released, which was Gavin Newsom Covid dictator, longest lockdowns, most extreme policies. The guy who, if you were to look back and say who were the worst offenders during this period, you'd probably see Andrew Cuomo first, let's be honest about it. But secondly, you're probably going to see Gavin Newsom and he was the first guy who really locked down even before Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was still in his previous release, which was, wow, this is no big deal at all. Then you had the Queen of Versailles, Gavin Newsom, who decided, while yes, of course everyone else should be locked down, I should be going out to dinner indoors, he's at the French Laundry rolling out Gavin Newsom 6.0. Then Gavin Newsom 7.0 came out. I'm probably, there's probably a 6.1, 6.2 I'm missing in here. But Gavin Newsom 7.0 came Out. That one was, hey, it seems like this is at the point where Trump maybe not looking like the favorite for 2024. The favorite for 2024 looks like Ron DeSantis. So what does Gavin Newsom turn into Ron DeSantis? He tries to be. I'm Mr. Competent Governor. I can debate. In fact, despite the idea that as of now, he's not even running for president, I'm going to debate Ron DeSantis on Fox News. That's Gavin Newsom. Super competent debater. Man. There's even more we could keep going on this, but quick. Let's take a break. 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Newsom doesn't know what to do with himself, cuz he's positioned himself to be the guy and the party is cracking down on him and saying, hey, Gavin, get in your lane. This is not your gig. So Gavin Newsom becomes party man defending Joe Biden. The number one guy out there telling you Joe Biden is completely fine. Nothing's wrong with Joe Biden. Biden's the man. He's super, you know, he's sharp as attack. I don't know if you've heard that. So we go through this whole thing, then the debate happens. Who's out there saying he's still fine? Gavin Newsom. Tons of people in the Democratic Party are saying this guy can't run. You can't have another Biden term. Who's out there defending him all the way? Gavin Newsom, party man. He's the party line. Gavin Newsom 8.0. Then there's Gavin Newsom 9.0. You might remember relatively recently he became an anti DEI centrist. Yes, he, he just couldn't believe the idea that you would let men play in women's sports. What? He's cracking down on such things because he, he can relate to you. This Democratic Party seems to have gone too far. You know, then like, I think there was a Gavin Newsom 9.1 release where he became a manosphere podcaster and started talking to like, Charlie Kirk and saying, oh, Charlie Kirk, my son loves you. He wanted to stay home from school to talk to you, Charlie Kirk, because you're so relatable. I'm having all the right wing guests on because I, I can understand them. We might not agree on everything, but here I am, basically Joe Rogan. Now that's me. Because that worked previously. I remember it happening in 2024, seemed to work for Trump, so I'm going to jump on that bandwagon. And that all leads up to, of course, the newest Release, Gavin Newsom 10.0, a social media troll. And you might think, oh, well, this guy, he's mocking Trump. He's got the capital letter, you know, tweets. He's, he's always doing this while his state is bur. According to the ground, he's on Twitter. And you might think, wow, this is an interesting approach to win in 2028. But of course, it's. It's not. It's got nothing to do with what he's gonna be doing in 2028. There'll be 12 other versions of Gavin Newsom that'll be released before then. This is what he does right now. His task is lining up donors, getting social media excitement for his primary campaign that will come up in 2027. He's working on that Gavin Newsom right now. And when he needs to be a different one, he'll just change to a different one. He's absolutely soulless. Back in a second.

[Jeffy]

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[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

I'm not making fun of that.

[Stu]

No, I.

[Jeffy]

Cause that could happen to any one of us.

[Stu]

It really can. I want to get into that. Maybe we should get into that again. I would love to get your opinion on that whole thing because, you know, Jeffy really was the original face of the Maha movement. Make America healthy again. That's Jeffy.

[Jeffy]

Thank you. Thank you. That's the title of my biography, Everything in Moderation.

[Stu]

But I want to finish off on Gavin Newsom here. And I think because the world moves fast and I think because whatever's happening right now is the thing everybody's thinking about, we forget how ridiculous these transitions are with Gavin Newsom. Go back to Newsom. This is just a few months ago. I mentioned it briefly before. This is when he's a manosphere podcaster for two weeks. Uh, here is Gavin Newsom. Think about the person you know now, the person who's screaming about Trump all the time, trying to appeal to like the farthest left leftist, trying to appeal to AOC and Jasmine Crockett and their audiences. This same guy a couple months earlier is talking to Charlie Kirk like this last night, trying to put my son to bed.

[Jeffy]

He's like, no, Dad, I just.

[Stu]

What time?

[Jeffy]

What time's Charlie gonna be here?

[Stu]

What time?

[Jeffy]

And I'm like, dude, you're in school tomorrow.

[Stu]

He's 13. No, no, this morning. Wakes up at six something.

[Jeffy]

He's like, I'm coming.

[Stu]

I'm like, Craig, he literally would not leave the house.

[Jeffy]

Did you let him take off school?

[Stu]

No, he didn't. Of course not.

[Jeffy]

He's not here for a good reason.

[Stu]

But the point is he canceled school for like two years. Once.

[Jeffy]

One day. The point is.

[Stu]

The point, which is you are making a damn.

[Jeffy]

Dennis.

[Stu]

Thank you. I'm kidding.

[Jeffy]

When you go to these college campuses.

[Stu]

I love watching your TikTok, which is next level.

[Jeffy]

Clearly that's expressed by my 13 year old son.

[Stu]

I want to meet this guy.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, I actually.

[Stu]

He's coming to a Turning Point event this summer. Tampa, Florida Student Action Summit. By the way, very funny line from Charlie Kirk. He closed schools for two years. You can't get the game one day off. But like, who is that guy? That guy is a completely different human being than the one that is out there today. He is. Has a totally different personality. He is a totally different human being. And that's because he's decided this is what's best for him right now. That is the Gavin Newsom that benefits Gavin Newsom.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

And in three or six months, it may be something totally different. Whatever he needs to be, he will become. And it's possible the American people fall for that. It's just embarrassing if they do. But this is what we're seeing in California. We're seeing all these cities kind of melt down across America and Trump looking to potentially step in. Chicago's a fascinating example of this. Jeffy, are we all for that we're.

[Jeffy]

Ready to move in to let him take over?

[Stu]

Well, no.

[Jeffy]

And they aren't.

[Stu]

They aren't.

[Jeffy]

They are not. They are.

[Stu]

Trump, I think, is ready as soon as this D.C. thing is over. I don't know that it's. One part about this that's an issue is it's not a sustainable approach. You can't just send the National Guard into city after city after city or all cities at once. It's not a way to necessarily solve crime, but it can be helpful, certainly for a period. Now, DC's a little different. He's only got 30 days in DC.

[Jeffy]

It's coming. I mean, we're already 14, something like that. Right? 13, 14, something like that.

[Stu]

Basically two weeks in.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

We've seen real dramatic decreases in crime.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

In most types of crime. At least zero murders.

[Jeffy]

Right. And they're used to. Every other day. At least one every other day.

[Stu]

I love the bragging of this. You know, we're all like, oh, can you believe this city hasn't had a murder in two weeks? Wow.

[Jeffy]

I know, I know.

[Stu]

When did that become something you brag about? I mean, it's so. It's true. It is quite an accomplishment in that city, but what an embarrassing fact that is, no question.

[Jeffy]

And they don't care because Trump is bad and we don't care that you're saving lives. It just saved one life. Yeah, it saved a bunch.

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Jeffy]

We still don't want it.

[Stu]

No, they don't want it in dc, but in dc, there's really no question he has the legal authority to do it.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

We start getting into more and more questionable lines the more this expands. And the only thing we can do is look at these on a case by case basis, look at the justification utilized. I mean, I think there was some justification for it in LA at the time. We will have to see what they do in Chicago and judge it by on its merits.

[Jeffy]

There are plenty of residents in Chicago that would say, yeah, come on in. Yeah, I mean, right now, we played a clip earlier this morning that, you know, CNN's their man on the street interviews, and they've got this, they've got this young African American female they find on the street and she's like, yeah, I do want them to come in. I want to feel safe. And the CNN reporter is like, don't you.

[Stu]

We could seriously do your reenactment of this or just play the clip. Those are the two options on the table. I'm fine with you reenacting it, honestly. I kind of like it so far. But we do have the clip. Let's. Let's listen. Let's listen to. This is a CNN clip again, talking to a Chicago resident. Our first reaction was that this is a good thing. I think that the governor as well as the mayor should be on board with it, just so we can get a bit more of security in Chicago the way that we need. The crime has dropped since 2024. Do you feel like the city feels safer? No, not at all. No. No. Especially with the police being defunded.

[Jeffy]

Yeah. Don't you feel crushed?

[Stu]

I will say, you know, I've been doing this job a long time. You have instincts. Jeffy. Recreating that interview would have been a disaster. I gotta say, I nailed it. I nailed it. By the way, you're welcome. Network of 500 radio stations. I didn't have Jeffy recreate that clip. We just listened to it. I do think that is how people feel.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

Sure, there are people who dislike Trump. Sure, there are people who are gonna be against Trump no matter what. But the average person who doesn't look at everything through a political lens says, we've got a big problem here. I would like someone to solve it. That's not always available. Right. Because there are process and rules and restrictions that you have to deal with. But all things being equal, most people would a larger police presence in areas where there's lots of crime.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely. Everybody, you know, everyone wants to go to 711 and get a Slurpee and pump their gas without being hassled, without being robbed. I mean, everyone wants that.

[Stu]

Yes.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

These are basic human requests. You know, we. I don't think we all expect to be given, you know, lifestyles of the rich and famous. We don't expect that. What we do expect is it would be nice. What we do expect is a general level of safety.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

Where our kids can go to school and come home, we can go to work and make it back. We don't get robbed on the way. And you do. And you know this, too, Jeffy, from living in, working in New York and cities throughout America.

[Jeffy]

Yes.

[Stu]

You start to tolerate.

[Jeffy]

You sure do.

[Stu]

A weird set of everyday events.

[Jeffy]

That just happens. Don't worry about it. Yeah, that just happens.

[Stu]

Yeah. It's like you just walk in, he's got, you know, you got rats crawling all over your, you know, your feet as you're in the subway. You've got people attacking each other. You've got a, you know, human being just peeing on a pole right in front of you. You know, you, you have, you have someone screaming insults, threats. I know you act like you don't hear them. You move along. There are smells you've never experienced that you just deal with on a day to day basis.

[Jeffy]

That is true.

[Stu]

This is life in the city. And when you're in the city, because I've seen these interviews with people talking about this, they will say, look, our city, you know, people are making it seem like our city's this dump. And it's like, you know, it's this crazy area where there's crime all the time. I mean, you know, sure, you'll get mugged every once in a while and sure, you know, we've all had our windows broken, but come on, this is not that bad if you are accepting it. Yes, it is that bad. Yeah, that is unacceptable. Which is what I think Trump's message is here.

[Jeffy]

And he's trying to, he's trying to solve the, also the issue of the way it is. The, you know, I, the baseline level, I won't reenact for you, but I did see, I saw footage of the police arresting a carjacker and he was like, why are you even, why are you arresting me? I'm just going to go down there and they're going to let me out. He already knows how the system works.

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Jeffy]

And so, no, dude, you were, you were trying to steal someone's car is the whole base point of this.

[Stu]

Yes. Right. And you should go to prison and you shouldn't get out for the maximum time allowed by law. Right. That we see this over and over again. If you go and you put police in an area of high crime, that crime level comes down. We know that. But if these people get arrested, go to jail for overnight and then are released the next day, or maybe don't even get into jail at all, it almost doesn't matter. And actually these police are put in a situation where they're in danger because now you're releasing all these people, they are responsible for arresting them all over time. They learn this, of course, as well. They're much more aware of it than the everyday person. And they're like, well, maybe we shouldn't bother. Why am I gonna go into that really dangerous district where people get shot all the time, risk my life, risk my family's Future to arrest someone who's gonna be back walking behind me the next day.

[Jeffy]

And absolutely, that's what Trump is trying to do. And that. That actually is a good. It's a good thing.

[Stu]

It is. It's a great thing. You know, again, you gotta do it. Of course, you have to do it within the Constitution. You have to do it within the law. There's no doubt, and there's no doubt about that. We don't know what every step of this is yet. A lot of this might just be. He's gonna wind up. He's good at this. He winds up making big statements and sort of threatening X, Y and Z. And then X, Y and Z have a way of reversing themselves. We've seen this with tariff threats, we've seen this with the border. Like, that doesn't mean he probably isn't going to send the National Guard to every city in America. He wants it, though, to sound that way. That's one of the fascinating differences of Trump versus every other politician and every other president. Like most people, if you accuse them of saying, well, you're gonna come into every city, oh, no, not every city. No, no, no, we're doing it this way, and we're doing it by the law. And here's why we're doing it, they will downplay it. They will say, no, what I'm proposing is much more responsible. We would never do that. What does Donald Trump say? I'm the president. I can do anything I want. Now, I think that is legitimately. It's not an exact quote. He basically said that in the Cabinet meeting yesterday.

[Jeffy]

Certainly could be.

[Stu]

Yeah, yeah, he basically said it in the Cabinet meeting. I'm president. I can do whatever I want. Now, we all know by watching him as being president for four and a half years now, that he doesn't do anything he wants. He listens to the Supreme Court. He likes to say he's not gonna listen to the Supreme Court, but he listens to the Supreme Court. Now, we should get into the flag amendment maybe a little bit later in the details on it. But when you look at that, you say, well, the Supreme Court ruled burning the flag is a First Amendment issue. And everyone's like, well, Trump is ignoring the Supreme Court. Read the freaking executive order. It doesn't do anything. In fact, it specifically says it's got nothing to do with speech, except that's.

[Jeffy]

Just not the way it's presented. From him.

[Stu]

From him. And that's what's funny is, you know, George W. Bush, he would say, things and the media would take them and make them look ten times worse. Donald Trump just cuts the corner. He'll just make it seem way more aggressive and over the line from his mouth. And then what he does is sort of the opposite of that. A lot of times it's very much in line.

[Jeffy]

He doesn't even know what he's talking about.

[Stu]

Right. It's so it's fascinating. We should get into that a little bit more. Also, there is a because even Joe Scarborough is confused as to what is going on with these mayors. And Joe Scarborough, by the way, we talk about releases, and he's got about 10 different personalities he's released over the years.

[Jeffy]

No kidding.

[Stu]

But he is completely baffled by the Chicago mayor's responses to these basic questions. We'll get into that here. Coming up in just a sec. It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn, who is out sick today. Let me tell you about Cozy Earth. There are a lot of places you can cut corners in life. And I really, this is, I have a huge passion for this particular issue. The comfortability of your sleep, of your sheets, of your bed. These are not corners you should cut. Because when you're lying awake at night tangled up in heavy, scratchy sheets that hold, you know, heat like a sauna, you're not resting. You're just sweating. Jeffy, would you like to comment?

[Jeffy]

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[Jeffy]

More Glenn Beck coming up next.

[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

I'm curious, would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago? Would that help drive down crime? Of course.

[Stu]

Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.

[Jeffy]

I understand you've talked about the other.

[Stu]

Things you want and I said those.

[Jeffy]

Are good and important problems program. But I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all of those social programs that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with?

[Stu]

The answer is yes.

[Jeffy]

Look, here's the best way I can.

[Stu]

Put it, Joe, is that in the 90s, when I was in high school, we had 3,000 more police officers, 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago. Chicago, it's just not policing alone. Of course we want more detectives. Of course.

[Jeffy]

I know it's not policing alone, but. Of course not policing alone. You've told me everything else you want.

[Stu]

Look at the.

[Jeffy]

Arm difference between. Between people. Do you believe that safer if there.

[Stu]

Were more uniformed police officers on.

[Jeffy]

On the streets of Chicago? I believe the city of Chicago, in.

[Stu]

Cities across America, would be safer if.

[Jeffy]

We actually had, you know, affordable housing.

[Stu]

Stop. Stop. Never going to get to this answer. Amazing.

[Jeffy]

Awesome.

[Stu]

If you're listening on radio, you miss the visual of Micah reaching over and, like, trying to calm down her husband in the middle of the question, his arm. Fascinating. Back one more in a second.

[Jeffy]

This is Glenn Beck.

[Stu]

You know, it's strange. We live in a country that can land a rover on Mars, that can send information around the world in a fraction of a second, yet we're losing something as simple and essential as American beef. More than 50% of the beef sold in this country is now imported. Most people don't even realize that it means that the family ranchers who built this nation, who raised generations on honest work and good land and strong values, are watching their livelihoods disappeared. Good ranchers saw this happening, and they decided to stand in the gap. And they partnered directly with American farmers and ranchers, guaranteeing that every box that you order is 100% American meat. Jeffy, have you had this one?

[Jeffy]

So good I have. I just saw a picture not too long ago this morning of one of their steaks being cut up open.

[Stu]

Oh, yeah?

[Jeffy]

I would like it delivered to me right now.

[Stu]

Right now.

[Jeffy]

Okay. Right now, that steak.

[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Got to face the dog and embrace the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.

[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

Like it's.

[Stu]

We have a lot of eras these days.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

It is really hard to even remember each one of these eras because they come, a big story pops up. We talk about it constantly. For a couple of weeks it goes away and then it becomes just a reference point.

[Jeffy]

Yeah. A year or so later you go, oh, yeah, yeah.

[Stu]

Remember that. We, of course, had many of these controversies in the past few years and we've talked about the way the country has changed over the past few years. If you go back to Covid. Right. We all have that feeling.

[Jeffy]

Good times.

[Stu]

Yay. Remember those days. Nobody wants to go back and think about.

[Jeffy]

Don't get those days, man.

[Stu]

You know, hopefully you don't. You never know what's around the corner. I heard. What is it? Screw worm is the latest one.

[Jeffy]

They found the first human infected with it.

[Stu]

Yes.

[Jeffy]

In Maryland.

[Stu]

In Maryland.

[Jeffy]

But apparently he traveled here from I think Guatemala or one of the Central American.

[Stu]

I hope he wasn't a Maryland father and husband. I know this isn't the case. Yeah. Human screw worm.

[Jeffy]

Yeah. Look, we're building factories to create sterile flies that are supposed to go out and kill the screw worms.

[Stu]

Really?

[Jeffy]

Yeah. We're. We're Building them. One in Texas, one in Mexico.

[Stu]

Huh.

[Jeffy]

And you're telling me you're not aware?

[Stu]

I am not aware.

[Jeffy]

Deadly screw you seem to want to date.

[Stu]

Let me ask you this. You ever had screw?

[Jeffy]

I have not.

[Stu]

Really?

[Jeffy]

Yeah. No. I mean, it seems like a couple things called that, but. No. No. Yeah. Just so stupid.

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Jeffy]

No, technically, I have not had screw.

[Stu]

You never have. That's good to hear, especially because I'm in the room with you right now.

[Jeffy]

If you're out and about and you have some sort of wound on you, though, make sure you cover that bad boy up.

[Stu]

Really? That's how you get screwworm. This is a little off topic, but I am convinced.

[Jeffy]

Screw worm.

[Stu]

I did. So go back to.

[Jeffy]

Believe me, infections I'm aware of.

[Stu]

Yes, that I know. Go back to Covid. Okay. We really. I think when you say, put yourself in that place again, what it felt like right. Now, we all know that everybody overdid it. We all know that Gavin Newsom kept California locked down till 2023 or something. We all know that. But I mean, think of those first couple of weeks. We didn't really know what was happening yet. We didn't really have all the information. We had indications that, like, healthy people weren't really affected by it. We all knew because I think everybody in the audience at least knew people who care about constitutional values. We all knew you can't be closing churches because of this. We all had those indications, but many of us had our. The businesses that we either own or work at were closed. Our kids, schools were closed, even in bright red states for a few weeks or maybe a couple months. These things were going on. And you can almost feel what it was like to be back in that moment. It was so strange, and it felt like something that could not happen in the United States.

[Jeffy]

Sure did.

[Stu]

Till it was here.

[Jeffy]

Sure did.

[Stu]

I was at a Dallas Mavericks game a day or two. It might have been the same night, or it was the night before the NBA. Remember, they stopped the NBA game in the middle of it. I think it was the night before. I can't remember now, but I was, you know, in the stadium. It was weird. They were handing out, like, the hand sanitizer. This is pre. Masks. People weren't talking about masks yet. And it was a strange place to be. It felt strange. And then all of a sudden, everything was closed. Right. We all have. We all understand how weird that era was now. Right? Like, we can all say that was so strange and so out of the American experience. I don't Think we've really begun to reckon with how weird 21 and 22.

[Jeffy]

Were, though, after Covid. After we've gone back to work. Yeah, right.

[Stu]

Because the fact that the echoes of George Floyd and all of that DEI stuff, and the fact that our country for a year or two decided to just become Ibrahim Kendi in nation form, where all of a sudden we were tossing every guy out of work because they made a bad joke to some co worker 12 years ago, the MeToo era, if you will. We were. Every time someone would say something that referenced anything controversial, they'd be tossed out of their gig, they'd be banned. We were talking, we were looking back at tweets of players getting drafted in the NFL and freaking said. And then you had all the company stuff where companies were just coming out and saying the strangest things. The one that went viral a couple weeks ago was a tweet by the NHL, the National Hockey League, that just said trans rights are human rights and those trans women are women.

[Jeffy]

Those bastards.

[Stu]

And you're like, why on of all sports, hockey, which is just famous for people beating the crap out of each.

[Jeffy]

Other, who's ever running their social media account.

[Stu]

Yep. Said that was the right place to be. Yeah, right. Everybody. You know, all these companies are basically Gavin Newsom, as I was explaining in hour one. They all just foreign. They go wherever they. They need to go to make more money. This is what they do. Like, they'll, yes, they'll kiss Trump's butt today, but they were kissing Biden's butt before. And this all changes. I don't think we've really reckoned with how strange that era was. And now that we're at the point where we're saying, hey, you know, maybe Bud Light shouldn't have Dylan Mulvaney as the logo of the. You know, as a spokesperson for the company, we have. We had so many of those moments where we've kind of reawoken from wokeness and said, hey, this is crazy that's happened now. And it feels like we're making progress and turning that around. I don't think we've realized how weird and crazy that period was, though. I mean, we reversed almost every belief we had in this country for a couple of years, that's for sure.

[Jeffy]

We reversed so many things that we believed never could happen in the United States of America again. It was happening.

[Stu]

Right. Like, we. We certainly had periods of massive racism in this country. We all know that. Right. Slavery. We've had all sorts of terrible things in this country. In our history. And the point was, we're moving on. We're gonna get past it, moving forward. And the way we get past this.

[Jeffy]

That'S what makes us great, is to treat people equally.

[Stu]

You go to a situation that's difficult where you just don't care about skin color, the idea of a colorblind society.

[Jeffy]

I mean, I thought we were there. I mean, we talked about it a thousand times, but I mean, I thought we were there when Obama was elected.

[Stu]

That's what we were told. I felt like that was actually where it started to turn around. It's actually the reverse.

[Jeffy]

The reverse happened. Absolutely, it did.

[Stu]

But we went down this road of making race and gender and sexual preference into what is most important about a person.

[Jeffy]

Yes.

[Stu]

What? Hear this clearly. What is least important about a person? It is the exact opposite.

[Jeffy]

Are you sure?

[Stu]

None of it. I mean, look, color of skin makes no difference right now. There are differences between the genders, which are important. The left tried to change those things. But that does not mean that gender should be treated differently. As far as rights go, you should be able. Everyone should have the same rights. That used to be something we understood. And then, of course, you mean the same.

[Jeffy]

It doesn't mean you're the same.

[Stu]

Exactly. It doesn't matter. It doesn't mean that you're the same. It means that you should be treated equally. Right. Everyone should have the same opportunity. Not the same outcome, but the same opportunity. When you come to sexual preference, of course, if you're at a bar or something, then probably there is some relevance to that as far. It is somewhat important to you in that moment.

[Jeffy]

It depends on the time of night, but go ahead. Stuff.

[Stu]

Depends how many Bud Lights you're in that particular evening. But yeah, you know, that. That one might be a little bit more. It's at least a little bit more core to a part of your life. Right. But it's still pretty much unimportant. And we've now seen so many companies just get swatted down with their ridiculous nonsense, trying to kiss butt and move into that. The. The afterglow of the DEI Ibram Kendi George Floyd era, which is, I think, largely gone now.

[Jeffy]

Well, you would think that. You would think that, and I hope that that's the case. But I think that, you know, what we call it is gone. I don't know that the actual happenings of the whole process is gone.

[Stu]

It's a good point. I made this observation yesterday with Glenn in that progress, I think, is undeniable here. We've Made real progress. Progress is not the solution, though. Like, we have not solved the problem. This is not the end of the road. We've just started backing out of the wrong. I always think of that, the famous picture where the road comes in, it splits. You try not to go down the wrong road. If you go down the wrong road, you don't just keep going because you started that way. You turn around, you come back to that split again and go the opposite direction. That's what you need to do.

[Jeffy]

You realize it was the wrong way.

[Stu]

You turn around, go to the opposite path. This is a lesson learned by Cracker Barrel yesterday.

[Jeffy]

Oh, man.

[Stu]

As they came out and have reversed themselves now in their incredible logo situation.

[Jeffy]

Incredible, man. They, they. She, when she took the. The CEO, when she took office, she said how. What a great, you know, company Cracker Barrel was. And she was so happy to work there. And then within the first six months. Yeah, we're going to change it all, though. We're going to redo.

[Stu]

Has she only been there six months?

[Jeffy]

No, no, no. She's been there for two or three years.

[Stu]

Yeah, I thought it was a couple years.

[Jeffy]

Within the first six months of her taking the CEO's ship, she said, we're going to do a whole restructuring plan. She had a whole restructuring plan.

[Stu]

And this is the result.

[Jeffy]

This is part of that. Yeah.

[Stu]

And it's.

[Jeffy]

We're moving that ship along for her. Yes.

[Stu]

And it lasted considerably less time than New Coke. A lot of people are like, hey, they won't go back to Cracker Barrel Classic. But it lasted a lot. New Coke was at least out for a few months and then they continued it as a parallel product to Coca Cola.

[Jeffy]

So they make that front, right? They make that front. Hey, we're going to change it. This is our new logo and we're changing up. We're not changing everything, but we're changing the big stuff that really matters. And this is our new Cracker Barrel. Well, the world went crazy, right? We're not going to. They. No. What are we doing? We're taking away the old guy on the rocket chair, which we come to find out his name is Herschel. I did not.

[Stu]

Is it her?

[Jeffy]

Did not know that.

[Stu]

I didn't know that.

[Jeffy]

I think it's either uncle or grandpa. Herschel, but it's Herschel. And so then, I mean, then the world went crazy. So then they go on. They. They paid for their. And I don't know that they actually paid for it, but they did the infomercial on Good Morning America where the CEO came out and, and had had great questions from Michael Strahan, like, oh, that's interesting.

[Stu]

And just to pause quickly. It certainly felt like a paid segment.

[Jeffy]

It sure did.

[Stu]

Was.

[Jeffy]

It sure did. That whole thing felt like the infomercial. But, and that didn't even work. Right. The firestorm was still there. That didn't even, that didn't even cover their bases. And she tried to say that the managers all wanted. Wanted. Were raising their hand for remodels. Well, I do believe that. I don't believe that they are. I don't. I think that managers are asking for, you know, new tables and new chairs.

[Stu]

Right, right.

[Jeffy]

And maybe we get some new stuff in the kitchen and maybe we work on finding some employees that can stick around and cook for more than two weeks before they quit something. I do believe that, you know, maybe we get some new shelving in our, in our lobby, in our, in the front of the store.

[Stu]

But not like this massive Jaguar esque.

[Jeffy]

Correct, Correct.

[Stu]

That's not what they were looking for.

[Jeffy]

No, no, they were.

[Stu]

No, they didn't, they didn't do that. I, there's talk about some of the redesigns right. Where they were get rid of all the clutter. That would be a major change to Cracker Barrel. Right. Like that would.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, I mean, I, I thought, I meant maybe it was AI but I thought I saw some pictures of.

[Stu]

There was some of that. I think that was real. And, and that was, I think, to me, hit me more than the logo change. Where the logo change.

[Jeffy]

You know, I was the clutter.

[Stu]

It's somewhat similar to the original logo. They get rid of a couple of the things on the outside, but it's sort of the same shape of the little logo and they just made it text, which is boring and minimalist and.

[Jeffy]

Many companies around America do that now.

[Stu]

Yes, you're right. And I think there is a real pushback right now on that, especially from the right. It was just like, and I do.

[Jeffy]

Believe that Cracker Barrel is probably hurting. I say hurting. You know, they're not doing the business that they were doing.

[Stu]

Well, I, you know, I looked into that. I, I, okay, let me take a quick break. I want to come back on the other side because I am fascinated by even why they even started this process because it's a beloved brand at some level. People like it.

[Jeffy]

Just continue with me. I mean, because the last time I was there, I will say this and I, you know, I'm a fan. I've said I'm surprised. Big surprise. I may have been to a Cracker Barrel a couple of times. It wasn't as good as it used to be.

[Stu]

Oh, really?

[Jeffy]

The food? Yeah. I was very disappointed in there. The chicken and dumplings was one of my favorite dishes.

[Stu]

Not enough lard. What was the. What was the.

[Jeffy]

I don't know what the problem was. That's what the problem is right there.

[Stu]

Well, we'll figure that out here in just a second. Let me take a quick 60 second break. Get back to it. Self defense used to feel like an all or nothing decision. And in a way it was. Either you carried nothing, hoping danger never came close, or you carried a firearm, knowing that if you ever had to use it. But there's no going back on that one. Sure, you could carry pepper spray or brass knuckles. I know Jeffy's a big brass knuckle guy.

[Jeffy]

Big brass knuckle.

[Stu]

Yeah, that's usually the way you used to go. But really, what were those going to do for you in a pinch? The Burna launcher is a great way to change this calculus. It is a compact, non lethal device designed instantly to stop a threat without taking a life. And Glenn's been carrying his every single day because it offers something unique, real protection with a line he never has to cross. The Burna doesn't require a permit. It's legal in 50 states. And it gives you the confidence to defend yourself and your family in those critical moments where seconds matter. It's not about choosing between nothing and everything. It's about having the right tool for the right situation. For real life. The Burna lets you walk through the world prepared without ever having to compromise your values. Go to Burna.com Glenn learn more now Burna.com Glenn you can also get one at Sportsman's Warehouse at a location near you by r n a.com glenn 10 seconds. Station ID we're talking about Cracker Barrel. It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn today who's out sick. Had too much Cracker Barrel.

[Jeffy]

So they weren't really losing money. I mean, times were tough.

[Stu]

Let me give you the sales. This is annual revenue. 2015, $2.8 billion.

[Jeffy]

Okay.

[Stu]

2016, 2.9 billion. 2017, 2.9 billion. 2018, 3 billion. 2019, 3.1.

[Jeffy]

Steady.

[Stu]

Steady. Slight increases. Nothing to blow you away, but a slight increase. Then Covid happens and I would actually say the fact they only when they went from 3.1 down to 2.5 billion is pretty good performance during COVID restaurant where probably every location was closed.

[Jeffy]

Honestly, I don't know if they were open or not. I mean. Right. Because a lot of those, I'm sure. I don't know.

[Stu]

They probably. I mean, I know remember. I remember there was a big. A big issue that Waffle House was closed. And then they eventually were like, screw it, we're opening.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

Like, there was a lot of that.

[Jeffy]

I think maybe limited. Maybe you could just to take out or something.

[Stu]

Yeah. And it depends on where you were too, you know, here, that's still great. Places opened relatively quickly that you could make the case.

[Jeffy]

That was. They. They had pretty good performance. Yeah.

[Stu]

2.5 billion in 2020, 2.8 in 2021, 3.3 in 2022 people coming back. 3.4 billion in 2023.

[Jeffy]

Starting to travel again.

[Stu]

And then last year, 3.5 billion. Now what that picture shows you is moderate but relatively consistent growth.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

And it's been pretty strong, I would argue, since COVID Like, it bounced back pretty nicely.

[Jeffy]

People are traveling back on the road, needing to stop at Cracker Barrel.

[Stu]

I like it since COVID So it does, to me feel like this is totally unnecessary.

[Jeffy]

They should have concerned themselves with making sure that the kitchens were up to date and they had new tables and chairs and that they were able to have employees stick around that would cook the food properly.

[Stu]

Yes. Like the basic business stuff. Right. It didn't seem like it needed a complete rebrand. Now, look, companies rebrand if it's not for woke reasons. I don't think we necessarily care that much.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

I don't think sometimes you lose a brand that you love and it's annoying and you don't like what they've done. But like, usually it's because there's a motivation behind it. They've added some woke up agenda to it and everyone is saying that's what this was. There are signs of it. I mean, there does seem to be a DEI element inside this company. The CEO has been accused of some of this and such. But like, I don't know, at some level, I will say there's a line.

[Jeffy]

Oh, my God.

[Stu]

I gotta say, Jeffrey, there's a line.

[Jeffy]

Don't tell me you don't care about losing the Herschel. We are gonna fight right now.

[Stu]

I'm not saying you shouldn't care about you. I'm not saying that.

[Jeffy]

That's what it is.

[Stu]

What I am saying is there are.

[Jeffy]

A lot of people don't want to eat with Americans.

[Stu]

There is.

[Jeffy]

You don't want to eat with everyday Americans.

[Stu]

There's a dividing line where there's some things I care about, some things I just don't care about. And not everything can be above the line. That's what I'm saying.

[Jeffy]

Everyday Americans.

[Stu]

I like Cracker Barrel. It's good.

[Jeffy]

No, no, I'm gonna go.

[Stu]

No, I want to go now because.

[Jeffy]

I do not want your pity.

[Stu]

All right, well, you'll have more here in just a second. Triple eight seven two seven. Beck. Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

[Jeffy]

This is Glenn Beck.

[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

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[Stu]

Yeah, 888-727-beck is the phone number. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Glenn is out today. He is fallen ill. Too much chicken fried steak is the cause from Cracker Barrel. He got. See we were talking about the rebrand and he didn't want you to know that he was frequenting a Cracker Barrel in the middle of this period. Crossing basically crossing picket lines to get chicken fried steak.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, you gotta do what you gotta do.

[Stu]

You gotta do what you gotta do. And he crossed that line. So he's not feeling well today. Hopefully he's Back tomorrow on the program we mentioned, Cracker Barrel has caved to the rebranding outrage. This is a tough decision, too, because, as you mentioned, she comes into office six months after that, she's saying, we need a total rebrand. Takes her a couple years to get it done. They do all these, you know, they hire marketing firms, they have research. Yeah. And then a week after releasing this thing they said was going swimmingly, they've completely reversed themselves.

[Jeffy]

They have. I know. It's incredible. And they. Now we're getting stories about how the board didn't all agree on these changes, but they. Some of them let it happen. And. Okay.

[Stu]

All right, let me ask you this, Jeffy. You. You are not a man who folds to pressure over societal norms.

[Jeffy]

Well, thank you.

[Stu]

It's a nice thing to say.

[Jeffy]

Right. I think when people are going to take it that way, when people are.

[Stu]

Critical of you, you tend to just continue in the direction you were going in.

[Jeffy]

You don't. Well, that's the direction I was going in.

[Stu]

Right. And it's hard to slow down when you get going. Right.

[Jeffy]

It is.

[Stu]

So do you think this is the right thing for them to do? Should they.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I. I'm glad that they did, but I. I don't know. I don't know because I.

[Stu]

When I first heard the.

[Jeffy]

Because their first. Their first knee bend, I think, was where they should have stayed. Their first knee bend was, look, Herschel's not going anywhere. He's on all the signs. He's on. On the menus. He's still part of our. Part of our corporation. And it's just the. Out. You know, it's just a sign on the store that's changed. And, you know, they tried to back off. Revamping. We're revamping. Right. They tried to ease that pain of getting rid of the old logo, but I kind of feel like they should have stayed there. Now they've completely gone. I mean, they're completely bent. And, I mean, I feel like, where do you go from here?

[Stu]

It feels like they had to. But I will say oftentimes these rages that go on for a few weeks wind up fading and. And, you know, I mean, I can't tell you how many people told me they were, you know, never going to buy Bud Light again. Bud Light was able to kind of just, you know, go through that. And now their sales are.

[Jeffy]

Are back up from the low commercials during football season.

[Stu]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeffy]

It's all good.

[Stu]

I mean, I will say they they basically spent every dollar they had in marketing trying to address that issue. Right. Like, who's a figure that some people on the right, like, put them on whoever they can hire all of those people.

[Jeffy]

And they did.

[Stu]

And they did. And they pushed hard and they tried to fight it off. It's not always successful. A lot of times you wind up trying something like this and it really hurts. But you can also reverse when you realize you haven't made a mistake and you reverse. Coca Cola being probably the best example of this. You back off of New Coke, you go to Coke Classic, you say, we made a mistake, you move on. And now you're the biggest beverage company in the world and still are, by the way.

[Jeffy]

And I don't know, did they say. I mean, they said the new logo is going away and it's bringing back the old timer. I mean, did they say, hey, we made a mistake?

[Stu]

They said, we've listened to you is what they said. We've listened to you. We heard your outrage. We've listened to you.

[Jeffy]

That's not realizing their mistake. They don't.

[Stu]

Realistically. This is a straight out. There's no question, a fold to the pressure. If you were fired up about this, maybe. Look, I grew up in the Northeast. Cracker Barrel is not the institution it is to many down in the South.

[Jeffy]

And don't you try to ease your hate for Americans. Okay?

[Stu]

I'm just trying to explain that. Why I don't. I honestly didn't care that much when it happened. You know how much stuff there is going on, Jeff. Issues there are serious.

[Jeffy]

Those of us that drive across this great land of ours and needs some food once in a while, do stop off at Cracker World. I know those of you that, you know, fly over, you know, look down upon us.

[Stu]

Can we be clear? You're not an open road truck driver. You're a stupid radio host. You host a podcast called Chewing the Fat, and you commute 20 minutes home.

[Jeffy]

30.

[Stu]

30 minutes. And it's only 30 minutes because you stop at Cracker Barrel on the way home.

[Jeffy]

I wish there was one more accessible.

[Stu]

Yes. So, you know, again, I get it. You know, wasn't my central issue, but I get, you know, if it was a brand that I cared about, I probably would be annoyed. Right?

[Jeffy]

Sure.

[Stu]

I think the right thing to do in this moment is to reverse yourself. There's no reason this is not like a meaningful change or some of these companies made statements, you know, about who they were and they're. We. This is. This is, you know, these Are the people. We are. We care about LGBTQIA two plus issues. And that is our definition of our foundation. Like, it's harder to back off on this. This was a rebrand and it was a bad idea.

[Jeffy]

It was a bad idea.

[Stu]

And if you like their food, I.

[Jeffy]

Guess they went about it. They went about it, you know, terribly.

[Stu]

And what's your forgiveness level on the stuff like, when something like this happens, they reverse it. Are you right now, Hey, I like that they reversed it. I'm going back. Or are you more of the person who says, I'm pissed off for them ever doing that? I'm never going back.

[Jeffy]

Oh, I'm. I'm. I will be maybe the first cracker barrel I pass on the interstate. I'm not going to stop there. No, we're not going. But by the second one, I'm kind of hungry. That's a scope. Yeah.

[Stu]

Right.

[Jeffy]

Just pull it. Fine.

[Stu]

So pretty quickly you get over it.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, I'm over.

[Stu]

Okay. I think a lot of this has to do. This ties loosely, I think, to the flag burning situation with the President and his new executive order. It's a much more serious symbol than Herschel.

[Jeffy]

Sure.

[Stu]

It's the flag of the United States of America. However, though a symbol, it is a symbol. I think people think of the idea of a flag burning and say, wait a minute. I don't want that to happen. And that shouldn't be okay.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

We've talked about this issue before. We met with Orrin Hatch, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, years ago in the back room of an arena where Glenn was doing a show. And we were sitting there. I can't. There's four or five people there. And he was talking about his strategy going forward. I don't remember what year this was, but I guess it had to be in the Obama era, I wanna say. And Orrin Hatch's big idea was to get people to the polls to win elections. He was gonna put a constitutional amendment, a flag burning amendment on the ballot for people, and that would inspire them to come out. And Glenn and I are so like, really? That's the idea. That's the inspiring thing. Like something. I don't want anyone burning flags. And am I pissed off every time I see it?

[Jeffy]

Sure, absolutely.

[Stu]

I hate it. I mean, it's. And it shows how you're pathetic. If you do it.

[Jeffy]

I will say the way it was first presented as, you know, this, this flag burning executive order, I thought I never wanted to burn a flag more with them telling me I couldn't do it. But I said you don't presented the way it was presented. No, of course not. I don't want to ever burn a flag. It's the United States of America flag. What are we talking about?

[Stu]

Right. We love it. And it's a symbol of a great nation. But that is. It is a symbol of a great nation. I feel like being worried so much about that symbol is almost a sign of weakness.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

It feels like it's like, well, what is our country? Is it our culture? Is it our traditions? Is it our ideas? Is it our land? Oh, all the things that people say that it is. This is a symbol of that.

[Jeffy]

Yeah. And do I feel angry if I see someone burning it? Yes, absolutely. But it is just the symbol.

[Stu]

Yeah. Like if you're. That it feels like something, you know, a country does that is more insecure than we are, certainly is more insecure than the current president is on how great our country is. I mean, this is a person who knows how great the country is. And I think that's the motivation behind the, the flag burning amendment and the.

[Jeffy]

Way it was presented, which obviously is not what it is. You know, I'm like, well, I've never wanted to burn a flag more. Now they're telling me I can't do this. What are we. That's. That's ridiculous. I never wanted to do it before and now I do, and it's just. But then when you find out that. Well, that's really. Once again, what we talked about earlier. It's not really what it is.

[Stu]

Yeah, let's hear him talking about it first, and then we'll discuss what it actually says. Here's Donald Trump talking about the flag burning a message amendment. What the executive order does, sir, it charges your Department of Justice with investigating instances of flag burning. And then where there's evidence of criminal activity that where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment and instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in these instances of flag.

[Jeffy]

Burning and what the penalty is going to be. If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. No early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail. If you burn a flag, you get. And what it does is incite to riot. I hope they use that language, by the way. Did they incite to riot and you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. 10 years. You don't get one month. You get one year in jail. And it goes on your record. And you will see flag burning stopping immediately, just like When I signed the Statute and Monument Act, 10 years in jail. If you heard any of our beautiful monuments, everybody left town, they were gone. Never had a problem after that. It's pretty amazing we stopped it, but this is something that's, I don't know, in a certain way, it's equally as important.

[Stu]

Now, I think every single person in this audience probably agrees with the sentiment of this. Right. The idea that we don't want people burning flags is disrespectful to the country. It usually indicates someone who is either outwardly opposed to our nation or just really annoying and smelly. So there is, it's usually one of those two things. Now what he's saying there, a one year penalty for burning the flag is not only. Not something he can't do himself. You can't just institute a new criminal penalty through an executive order. That's not how the system works at all. In addition to that, the executive order doesn't even describe this penalty.

[Jeffy]

It says nothing about this presented.

[Stu]

Yeah, the way it's presented here is a very tough stand. Monuments, the same thing. We're gonna tell everybody. We want everyone to know, don't do it. The actual text of this, though, is consistent with the Constitution and is consistent with the Supreme Court ruling, where I see, you know, a lot of people on the right are now saying, oh, well, yeah, we should have. It should be illegal to burn a flag. You can have that argument. I think a lot of people would agree with you on it because. But, but you have to go. Orrin Hatch's approach, while I didn't necessarily love it as a tactic, was the right one. You have to have a constitutional amendment for that to go on. But at the end of the day, I think a lot of people just really don't like flag burnings. They want it to stop. What Trump is doing here is giving you a message of this is gonna be a massive penalty. What he says there, and it says in the executive order as well, is basically, if someone's burning a flag and that incites a criminal riot, they should be prosecuted for inciting the criminal riot. But that's already a crime.

[Jeffy]

And for the most part, you know, those, the insightful, the insight of riots that's already taken place, you know, I mean, the crowds are already gathered. When we see people burning our flag, burning the country's flag, the crowd's already there, they're already incited. So the flag burning is just, you know, they're asking on top, Right?

[Stu]

Yeah, it's part of it now. JD Vance addressed this cuz Antonin Scalia was one of these justices who was on the side of saying flag burning is. We might hate it, but it is protected speech. He said, one, Antony Scalia was a great Supreme Court justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. True. Two, the President's executive order is consistent with Texas v. Johnson. That's that case. And it's true. It not only is it consistent with it, it mentions it in the executive order, basically saying, we're not gonna violate this. And then three, he says Texas versus Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right. That's probably the actual debate people are having. I tend to think it's a symbol. And I'm with you in that you should be able to do it if you really want to. But I don't like it and I'm not gonna approve of it and I'm gonna criticize you for it. But it doesn't change my life if you burn a flag. I just think you're dumb. That's basically what happens. Unless the fire results in my house burning down, which is we hold it. That's a crime. That's a separate crime. So that's where we are with that. Again, the media going crazy over this, when in reality, when you read the text of the executive order, it doesn't do much of anything other than making a statement. And he's trying to discourage this behavior in the best way he can without crossing the line of what the Supreme Court said. All right, back with more in a second. I'll tell you about rough greens. Most dog owners think kibble food is enough for their pet. It fills the bowl, stops the begging, and it keeps the dog fed. But the truth is, kibble all by itself is just dead food. The high heat process strips out most of the nutrients and leaves behind a bunch of empty calories. And this is the equivalent of eating junk food for every single meal. Something Jeffy would not know anything about. That's where Ruff Greens comes in. It's a nutritional supplement packed with vitamins and minerals, probiotics, enzymes, and antioxidants that restore what your dog's body actually needs. You sprinkle it once a day, you'll notice a change pretty quickly. More energy, a healthier coat, better digestion, improved mobility. This isn't a gimmick. It's giving your dog the same level of care you give the rest of your family. And I know everybody wants to do that. Because if man's best friend is giving you loyalty and love and protection, every Single day. Least you could do is give him back the fuel to thrive. Get a free Jumpstart trial bag for your dog today. It's a $20 value but you get it for free. Just cover the shipping. Go to ruffgreens.com and use the promo code beck. It's ruffgreens.com promo code is beck. R u f f greens.com promo code beck.

[Jeffy]

You know the left's got a roadmap straight off a cliff. Lets take the right trail. Glenn beck returns shortly.

[Stu]

Triple 8, 727. Beck is the phone.

[Jeffy]

Have we even mentioned that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged? Have we mentioned it?

[Stu]

I mean I. We're not talking.

[Jeffy]

It's like the biggest story of the day.

[Stu]

There's no need for us to talk about it. But yes, it is a big. It is a big story. Congratulations by the way. Cracker. Congratulations there.

[Jeffy]

Thank you.

[Stu]

I don't think we need to go any more in depth than that. Hey, I know you're excited. A lot more to the story as a big swifty. I know you're very pumped up about.

[Jeffy]

This development stories do. I don't know why you don't like them but.

[Stu]

You'Re, you're. I don't know why you're so.

[Jeffy]

I'm not alone. I'm not alone. I didn't say broadcasters around America excited.

[Stu]

About my 12 year old daughter. Very excited. Very excited about it.

[Jeffy]

Then we should talk more about it. Then we should talk more about it.

[Stu]

We don't program this the show for 12 year old children.

[Jeffy]

Oh.

[Stu]

Now I know you have the mind of a 12 year old girl at times but. No, we're not, we don't.

[Jeffy]

Whatever. I'm just, just trying to get the information out to the audience, that's all.

[Stu]

Thank you. It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn by the way. Glenn, the face of the new Blaze media logo which looks a lot like the Cracker Barrel logo. Now Glenn, I have visions of Kentucky Fried Chicken as well as for sure, sure. But I guess it looks that bad. No, Glenn works as a logo. He works less as a man, but he works more as a logo. Back in a second.

[Jeffy]

This is Glenn Beck.

[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

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[Stu]

It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. Want to keep you up to date on a developing situation in Minneapolis that looks really terrible. We'll get to that here in just a second. First, tell you about Lear Capital. Every time you hear the word inflation, you feel it in grocery prices and gas and the value of your retirement accounts. It's like watching years of hard work dissolve right in front of you. Paper money loses value. And history has proven that over, over and over and over again. But gold and silver, they've never been worth the zero. That's why people turn to Lear capital. For over 25 years, they've helped Americans protect their wealth with physical precious metals. Not about chasing trends. It's about preserving what you've built. Whether it's rolling over a retirement account into a self directed IRA backed by gold or simply buying coins and bullion to keep at home, Lear Capital makes it simple. Your financial future deserves something stronger than hope. It deserves something tangible, something real, something that will hold value long after the markets swing back and forth. And that's why gold has always been the ultimate insurance policy. Please call Lear Capital today, 800-957-Gold to get your free $4,200 gold report. When you call 800-957-GOLD, ask about getting up to $15,000 in free gold or silver with a qualifying purchase. Just give him a call, 800-800-957, gold. 800, 957 gold. All right. Well, we come in here all the time. We complain about the media being wrong about stuff and we hate that. This is one of Those moments, we hope they are wrong. This is the opposite because we're getting reports now from Minneapolis of what appears to be a horrific shooting happening at a church, Annunciation Catholic Church in southeast Minneapolis.

[Jeffy]

School.

[Stu]

Yeah, it's tough, man.

[Jeffy]

I know, I know. So there's a school. Shoot, there was a school there as well.

[Stu]

Yes.

[Jeffy]

And they're talking about 20.

[Stu]

This is what, these are the details I'm getting to currently. Yes, I appreciate that. Yes, they, they're. It's a Catholic school. It is grades kindergarten through eight. It is a, I mean, I, to set the scene here, it seems to be really bad. They are saying, I mean, this is an initial figure. We have no idea if it's correct. Hopefully it's high. I fear it's not. There was a school, about 320 kids, and they were in an all school mass at the time of this shooting. There are reports of a man dressed in black with a rifle. And it does appear that the situation is under control. From the aspect of additional violence carrying forward, we don't think that there's a threat to the surrounding community anymore. I mean, that usually means the person with the gun has been killed or killed himself or has surrendered in some way. We don't know the details of it yet, but good God, this, this seems to be a really, really tragic situation. And you know, I, I, all we can do at this point is sit back and say, and pray for the victims, pray for the families that are involved. You know, the left will mock us for praying. Sure, they sure will. You know, I, I don't care about that at all. When people say my hopes and prayers are with you, and then the left mocks you and says, oh, all you have is hopes and prayers. Well, first of all, hopes is one thing. I can see hopes do very little for you in a situation like this. We can hope, we can try to be optimistic for the best possible outcome. That doesn't do all that much, though. Prayers are a different story. When the left mocks prayers, what they're mocking is the ultimate thing you can do in this moment. It's not a nothing. Sure, you can pass laws later on. I mean, we'll get into that. I'm sure that will be a debate coming in future days and no need to do it yet, but it is something that you can do. You can try to do all sorts of different things here on earth, but at the end of the day, the solutions to issues like this do not come from laws, they do not come from hopes. They can come from prayers. If you're a Christian, if you're faithful, your ultimate response in a situation like this is prayer. And certainly the people who sent their child, probably at great expense, to a Catholic school, those people certainly believed in it as well. And you might say, well oh gosh, if you're on the left, you might say, oh gosh, well it didn't do anything for their kids. Well, you know, you can be a horrible human being if that's what you desire to be. That option is presented to you in this country. You can sit here and take, you know, some grotesque joy out of this type of situation. But at the end of the day, the only thing that does solve this is people changing. And honestly, miracles, the only thing that can solve a situation like this in a free society is a miracle. And I really do hope that. Hope and pray that maybe the worst things that are being reported are not true. Jeffy, I know you've been looking at this as we've been talking here. What are the latest updates?

[Jeffy]

Well, we can certainly hope and pray that what they're reporting is not true. 20 was the high count that I saw.

[Stu]

That's all I've seen so far.

[Jeffy]

Injured? Yes. The shooter, they claim is deceased. From a self inflicted inflicted gun wound. That's what they said. And they also said that they found firearms and explosives on the scene.

[Stu]

Dead.

[Jeffy]

God. So I mean, is. Could something, you know, obviously they have everything locked down and we hope that that is the end of all of this, that nothing else horrible happens. I mean, I would, I would pray that 20 is too high. I mean, I hope so. I hope any number is too high.

[Stu]

I'm nervous about it though. I mean the situation being lined up in the reports that we're seeing. I mean you think about a, it's a, you know, large school service. Yeah, but a school service. You know, my kids go to religious school.

[Jeffy]

I kids too.

[Stu]

They have chapel, they all go together. There's a lot of kids. What you do, Right. I mean, and to see a situation like this, this is why, I don't know if you've noticed this, Jeffy, but like churches now really often have people who, you know, security and armed officials there when they have large gatherings. That's a, it's a, it's a despicable sign of our society. But a lot of people, a lot of people have anger against God. A lot of people have anger against churches. A lot of people are psychos and want to do terrible things to children.

[Jeffy]

I mean, we've talked, I'm sure Glenn has talked about it, you know, for safety and security of churchgoers, as you said, with security outside. But they've also talked about trying to get churches not to live stream their service Sunday services. Go ahead and record it, post it later. Yeah. So it's not being live streamed.

[Stu]

You don't want to. Well, because this is one of the things that we've seen consistently through reporting on mass shootings over the years, which is a desire for notoriety.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

A desire to be the one who sets the record, to be the one who everyone remembers to be. And this is why I don't use the names of the shooters. We stopped doing this. I know the Blaze currently has that policy as well. We stopped before the Blaze even put it in. I know a bunch of other people have jumped on that bandwagon. Good. Because that is the one clear thing you can see in report after report and study after study on these things is that is a big part of the motivation. Right. The big part of the motivation is that notoriety is that fame is to be famous even among that community.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

Right. And the community are people who are thinking about doing these mass shootings or have done them. There's almost like a. A bizarre, like, you know, swifty type society that has developed online. Sure is. It's really sad that praises death.

[Jeffy]

Really sad. Oh, well, we've been. We've been a death cult on the left for a long time. There's no question about that.

[Stu]

We've seen it.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And that you can just. Just start with abortion and then work your way down the list. I mean, they. We've got them crying now that they, you know, they're for crime. Right. In the cities there. They want the crime in the cities without saying, well, we need crime. Crime is part of our life. That's what we're doing. But that's what they're actually saying when they're saying they're against making streets safer.

[Stu]

It's a fair point. You know, you think about the deaths of all the potential births that before, you know, of course, going after human beings before they're born. You have the situation that certainly developed en masse in Canada where now we're seeing one of the leading causes of death.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

Being euthanasia.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

Where they're encouraging people without life threatening conditions.

[Jeffy]

Take it on. Yeah, just go ahead. If. Did you. You. You want to. Okay. All right, good.

[Stu]

And I think honestly, there's a real consistency with the attitude of so many about what you might refer to as bad neighborhoods in cities. You Know, like there's that situation in la, the Skid, famously Skid Row. Right. Where it's basically like it's not walled off, but in a way it almost feels like a walled off area.

[Jeffy]

Make the left turn. Yeah. Then you're there.

[Stu]

Go there. Be homeless there. Have your life. Be terrible, do a bunch of drugs, but don't come near us.

[Jeffy]

There's no need for you to cross this street.

[Stu]

Don't cross. If you cross this street, we might start enforcing crimes. But you there, you have your little community of crime and suffering and despair. And we'll live over here. See that nice house on the hill? That's mine. And there is a version of that that goes on in every one of these big cities. Chicago, Certainly, certainly in D.C. where they will just allow a lot of this stuff to happen, as long as it happens in the right areas.

[Jeffy]

I mean, really, we're seeing it in every major city across America.

[Stu]

I think that's true.

[Jeffy]

I mean, it's overwhelming. Which leads us into President Trump saying, we need to clean it up.

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Jeffy]

And I just need to clean it up.

[Stu]

And I think that's why I think people will actually have. Have an appetite for it. They see the problem is there. The denials from the left and the media are not gonna work. You can't just like it didn't work on inflation during Biden. Right. You can't tell. You can't talk your way out of these problems. You can't talk your way out of inflation. People are buying things and the prices are going up. They're gonna notice it. You can't tell them Bidenomics is working and expect that to be effective. The same thing with crime. You can say Donald Trump's evil and he's orange and he's Hitler and he's all these bad things. But at the end of the day, what he's suggesting is we should stop crimes from occurring.

[Jeffy]

Yeah. Do you feel safer? The numbers say the crime is down. Do you feel safer?

[Stu]

No, of course I don't feel safer. Has anyone been to these cities?

[Jeffy]

I guess not.

[Stu]

I think they have, but they don't go to certain areas.

[Jeffy]

They choose to ignore it.

[Stu]

You can go down. There are areas. We were there for the inauguration in D.C. we were covering it. And now I will say D.C. during the inauguration. A different place. Right. There are 1 trillion police officers all.

[Jeffy]

Over the place, just like today.

[Stu]

Yeah. It's nowhere near. I mean, honestly, what they're doing today is nowhere near what they do for inauguration. For understanding, understandable reasons. And Going there, you still notice it. But in the areas where politicians walk from day to day on a day to day basis, where their aides are, where the nice hotels are, that's not where the monuments are. That's not really the issue. The issue are areas outside of that vicinity. Which one area in D.C. i think it was a 10 block area, was responsible for 14% of the murders in the entire city. 10 blocks. Now, you can stop the murders in that 10 block area by populating it with a lot of police officers, at least for a time. That doesn't mean that eventually the crime doesn't move. But what's happened, I think, in city after city, Jeffy, is we've just abandoned these areas. Democratic mayors have come in and said, if we can make it nice for the nice people over here, over here, if we give them roughly safe zones, again, a lot of times these are bad too.

[Jeffy]

We mentioned it earlier. We've become accustomed to it. It's like, yeah, that's just the way it is.

[Stu]

Yeah. You just kind of blow it off and you're like, oh, gosh.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

I mean, San Francisco is an example of it kind of permeating everywhere. I mean, you can go to really nice areas in San Francisco and there are still homeless people with needles in their arms, pooping on the sidewalk. Like that is, like, legitimate. I mean, we were there for the Super Bowl.

[Jeffy]

Yes. It had just started to become bad.

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Jeffy]

In several areas.

[Stu]

Gotten much worse.

[Jeffy]

We were. Yeah. I mean, when we walked around those neighborhoods, some of those neighborhoods were just starting to get. You're like letting these people put their tents up in front of the buildings, in front of the storefronts. Yep. And it's gonna get worse. Okay. I was incredible.

[Stu]

Incredible. And it was. I will say the. The worst smell I've ever smelled was on that trip. I don't know what it was. It was some combination of God only knows what. I don't even want to get into the description of it. It was terrible and it was common. It was a version of it on every street corner, and you can let your city completely go. Which was kind of what San Francisco tried for a while there.

[Jeffy]

Sure seemed like it. Yeah.

[Stu]

If you. You can do a version of this where. Where it's sort of cordoned off. And that's what's sad about these cities, these people. One of the things that I think is effective in what Trump is trying to do here is for the first time, there's a person who's standing up and saying they actually care about These people, right? The president is saying, I want to do something that is testing my presidency, that is testing the power structure around me, and I want to do that to stop the murders in your community, right? I mean, how many shows. Jeffy's the king of television. You watched every show. But like, you look at, you know, think of like the Wire, right? You have these awesome shows, which is a great show, but you have these areas of town that are just crime ridden and people just kind of stop and say, well, that's that area. That's where that will be.

[Jeffy]

And the police don't want to really go there because it, because of. They've already. They already know that's a bad area. Is. It's okay.

[Stu]

I think one of the plots of the. One of the seasons of the Wire, if I'm not mistaken, it's been a while since I watched it, was they actually do give him an area.

[Jeffy]

1. The one police chief or captain gave.

[Stu]

Them just gave him an area. And so the crime and the drug dealing could all happen it there and we won't do anything. It's not that overt, but it's happening all over the country and, you know, Trump is trying to step in. We'll have more updates on what's going on in Minneapolis as we go forward today. It is a developing situation and it is important to realize much of the information you will get in this time period will not be accurate. We can only hope that the corrections, when they do come, come in the favor of God only knows. 320 kids are in the school. They were in the middle of a mass. We don't know. We're getting reports of 20 that are at least injured. We will see how that develops going forward. All right, let me tell you about ifcj. For centuries, Christians and Jews have shared a story rooted in the same God, same starting scriptures and the same promises. But today, as we watch rising hatred against Jewish communities, that shared history is being tested. There are dangerous attempts from the inside to try to rip that Judeo Christian foundation apart, as well as all the old attacks from the outside. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is building a bridge in the most practical way possible through compassion and support and action. They provide food to Holocaust survivors who are struggling to make it through the winter. They deliver aid to families living under rocket fire in Israel, and they help bring Jews back to their biblical homeland. This isn't just a charity. It is a biblical call to stand with the people God first called his own. When you give to the fellowship, you're not only helping the needy. You're proving that faith still unites us. And you're saying loudly and clearly that the bond between Christians and Jews is not just history. It is a living promise that we honor today. To learn more about how you can help, visit ifcj.org it's ifcj.org 10seconds. Station ID.

[Jeffy]

So they are giving a press, press conference coming up in a few minutes. So we'll learn more about the shooting in Minneapolis. Right now it's being reported that the shooter and two others have lost their lives.

[Stu]

That's what we know so far.

[Jeffy]

That's what we know so far. So well.

[Stu]

Just absolutely horrible.

[Jeffy]

Horrible.

[Stu]

It's hard, it's hard to even describe how ridiculous this stuff is. Like, you know, if you're going to wind up. Yep. If you're going to be one of these people that's going to go and kill yourself. There's so many people now want to draw attention to themselves and take out others in these moments. And you know, we saw this with the NFL situation from a few weeks ago where the shooter like he was like, oh, this is going to be, you know, death by police or whatever, went in and killed a bunch of people and then wound up dying. This seems like potentially a self inflicted gunshot wound here as well. There's no reason to take out it. Look, you shouldn't kill yourself. This is very basic and you should be reminded of it. You're definitely worth more. Even if you think you're a terrible person or you're having all sorts of problems, don't do that. But really don't do it in this way. Really don't do it. When you're gonna go take out a bunch of innocent children. You wonder in a situation like this. And oftentimes this is the case where people come back to maybe, you know, someone who went to school there or someone who had a beef with this particular church.

[Jeffy]

We'll see.

[Stu]

We will see. But you think the idea that maybe they knew that there was a service where everyone was gathered because this isn't obviously what they're doing all the time at the school. They're normally in individual classrooms. Seems like this was timed to hit the mass amount of people possible. We will see how that plays out. But look, whatever you think, you know, these people who do this over, whatever you think is important in your life, whatever you think is so important that you have to do something like this, I guarantee it's not. No kidding, it's just not. And gosh, to watch this stuff happen, especially when it comes to kids. Man, this is the worst. This is the worst stuff. This is the worst our society produces these days.

[Jeffy]

No parent wants that nightmare.

[Stu]

No, no. Awful. All right. Triple eight seven two seven Beck is the phone number. We'll have more coverage, of course. Course on theblaze.com and we'll get into more as we get updates here. Ongoing situation in Minneapolis with a mass shooting seemingly taking place at a church. More details coming up.

[Jeffy]

This is Glenn Beck.

[Stu]

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[Stu]

Welcome back. It's Jeffy and Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program. Federal sources are telling FOX News the shooter in Minneapolis is dead. Potentially 15 to 20 are injured. You had mentioned Jeffy, another report saying a couple had passed away.

[Jeffy]

Yes.

[Stu]

So we don't know what the number.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, the obviously everything changes, but the original number was 20 injured. Is that counting the two that they're saying is now deceased?

[Stu]

That's the important thing. And this is where we're going to draw the line on this. It's important for you to know that it's going on in support you to know what the reporting is saying. At some level, there's a chance we are going to have a press conference on this incident in the next 20 minutes or so. If that does occur, we'll bring it to you. But there is a limit as to what utility we can provide here because I think what we're going to find out is half the stuff that they're reporting right now is not accurate. It's just one of those situations where you just know we're going to wind up with a lot of. A lot. When we actually know the truth and what's gone on, we're going to have much different information.

[Jeffy]

Pray that the numbers do change to zero. Yeah, everyone's okay except for the shooter. Okay, good.

[Stu]

Best case scenario, it doesn't seem likely, but we're going to wind up finding out what this is. So what we'll do over the next 20 minutes for you is monitor the situation. If anything concrete breaks, we will bring it to you. If we get this press conference, we'll bring it to you. But for the time being, rather than sitting here and speculating for 20 minutes, let's go on to some of the other things that are happening. Because there are a lot of other things happening in the world. In fact, that's for sure a bunch of big developments in the legal world right now, including one with Amazon.

[Jeffy]

Jeffrey, no question, I've got lawsuits and a drug kingpin going down. But the Amazon class action lawsuit filed in federal court this past weekend over a bait and switch in which the company allegedly, allegedly, of course, misleads consumers into believing they've purchased content when they're only getting a license to watch it, which can be revoked at any time. They can change it. They can change. If you. What? If you buy a movie, Buy. This is what the class action is mad about, is that you should say buy because you're not buying it, because.

[Stu]

You'Re really not, are you?

[Jeffy]

No. The fact is, is that what's being bought isn't ownership of the title, but rather a limited time license for viewing access.

[Stu]

Limited time license for viewing access. Wow.

[Jeffy]

Yeah.

[Stu]

That's what you're buying.

[Jeffy]

Okay.

[Stu]

Phrase. That is.

[Jeffy]

So if the tech, you know, if they decide that they want to replace it with a different cut if they want, if they lose the rights for the film altogether, they could just take it away. Gone. Goodbye. If they, if you bought a movie from Amazon if you purchased a, I'm sorry, a limited time license for viewing access on a movie that you really enjoyed and they've lost their rights to air it. Pull it from there. From, from your, My movies section on Amazon Prime.

[Stu]

And I feel like that's happened to me. I feel like I've purchased movies in the past from Amazon and I go back to find them and they're not there.

[Jeffy]

It's gone.

[Stu]

Is this, could this be what happened?

[Jeffy]

Absolutely. I don't, I, and I don't know that they're. I, I don't know that. Could you be dreaming and not have actually ordered the movie? Absolutely. I need some evidence that's fair.

[Stu]

That's fair.

[Jeffy]

But that's absolutely could have happened. Yes. And like it's really. They have made the case before this California now this is nationwide now. In California they had a lawsuit that was where Amazon said people know. People know Stu. People know.

[Stu]

People know that they're not actually purchasing the thing they're purchasing.

[Jeffy]

They're not buying. They know that. And the court was like that's not what it says.

[Stu]

Well, it's not how it works either. Right. Like it doesn't work to say that. You don't. You have to say things that are true.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

Gosh, I'm going through a situation right now. This, I really want to rant on it right now. But oftentimes when you make purchases, the website indicates, insinuates, hints toward certain things happening, certain prices on items. And then when you go through a little bit of the process, all of a sudden the price is a lot higher.

[Jeffy]

Really?

[Stu]

Yeah. And I find that to be frustrating. Same thing when you buy a movie at Amazon and you have this, you've clicked a button that says buy. Especially when it's differentiated from rent. Right. Like there is a rental button. You rent it. This is more like for a certain.

[Jeffy]

Amount of time and then it goes away.

[Stu]

This is more like a long term rental.

[Jeffy]

Right. We, you hope maybe that maybe that's what you call it, a long term rental. I don't know. I mean California just did just passed a law that says that you're supposed the false advertising and consumer legal remedies laws and you know, that's what they want. They want. You're buying a limited license for these movies. So under the statute, sellers are supposed to obtain acknowledgment. So I don't know if Amazon is different in California. Prime is different in California than it is the rest of the rest of the country. But I Mean, it comes up on your screen to rent. You have it for so long or buy. And the lead. They definitely lead you to believe it's yours when it really isn't. You know, we all believe that it is, except it's not.

[Stu]

That's. I do. I do think that's how people go through that. And it is a. You know, there's some people out there who really are pushing for own your media. You know, if you want a movie and you want to make sure you have it forever and it's not going to be altered or edited for woke purposes. Glenn talks about this all the time when it comes to digital books, like, oh, hard copies, you know, because they will edit it.

[Jeffy]

They can change it. Yeah, they can change it. Right. Whenever they want. Because you've. You've actually. You didn't buy the book, Stu.

[Stu]

What did you do?

[Jeffy]

You. You went ahead and had a limited time license for viewing access.

[Stu]

Oh, well, that's everyone's dream. It's the American dream, Jeffy, to have a limited time access license for viewing. For viewing access of your home. Of home ownership. It's not home ownership. It's. It's. It's a limited time.

[Jeffy]

I mean, holy cow. I feel like. And. And they've. I feel like there were other companies, too, that we had dealings with that was. We were buying movies from, and then it went away, and they gave you so much time to say, we're going away, and if you want to keep the stuff you've already purchased, you got to move it over here. And if you don't move everything. Oh, well, no. Well, have a nice day.

[Stu]

Yep. See you later.

[Jeffy]

Take care. And so I. That's nice of them. At least they let me know, I suppose.

[Stu]

Let me know if that's enough for you. I feel like everybody's getting sued right now.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

I know OpenAI is dealing with a bunch of stuff there, Elon.

[Jeffy]

Yeah. Slamming. He's. He's suing Apple and OpenAI okay. For billions, actually alleging their partnership is preventing grokking from becoming a common verb. And the lawsuit alleges that the two monopolists teaming up last year to embed chat GPT into iPhones led them to corner the AI market and throttle Musk's companies. So illegal.

[Stu]

Have you ever heard anyone use the term grokking before?

[Jeffy]

That's because they won't allow me to see that, Stu.

[Stu]

Well, I mean, you could just use it. Those things are supposed to be organic, aren't they? You know, what's the movie you're trying to make fetch. This is, you know, I don't think grokking is a thing that's happening.

[Jeffy]

It's because they're getting like he's getting locked out. Is that what, that's what the deal is now?

[Stu]

I think there are some potentially, you know, I don't really care about a lot of the stuff. There's always these like anti competitive lawsuits.

[Jeffy]

Apple thwarted, you know, these super apps. They're already, you know, the Fortnite deal maker of Epic Games. I mean they sued them at one for being throttled on the, from the Apple store.

[Stu]

The game store. Epic Games did. Yeah.

[Jeffy]

And so I mean so they could sell it themselves and they were getting, they're charging more money on the Apple app and it cost them, you know, a lot of money.

[Stu]

I feel like you're, you're goading me to talk about my situation with this story selection today because you know, to.

[Jeffy]

Give you look, you've been, you purchase an item and you are, you are advertised one thing.

[Stu]

Yes. I've never size one thing.

[Jeffy]

And then you realize that the advertising was maybe a little misleading.

[Stu]

Right?

[Jeffy]

Well maybe you didn't read it properly.

[Stu]

I'll give you a little bit of detail on this. So I Tesla advertised a new leasing program. Now I am not an electric car guy. I don't like electric cars all that much and I think it would really annoy me to have an electric car. That's my perception of the situation.

[Jeffy]

Right.

[Stu]

However, however, there are some benefits to electric cars that I'm interested in. Let me lay them out for you.

[Jeffy]

Okay.

[Stu]

Number one. All right, let's say you have a son.

[Jeffy]

Yes.

[Stu]

Son plays on a baseball team. Son has friends, both of the ones that I always have to cart around. Both catchers.

[Jeffy]

Okay.

[Stu]

So they have big bags that don't really fit in my current car.

[Jeffy]

Oh.

[Stu]

So I was thinking about maybe they have a model Y which is like a suv. Much more storage than I have would.

[Jeffy]

Be perfect for something on the road.

[Stu]

Number two, he often plays tournaments that are at 8 o' clock in the morning an hour and a half away. And I am very interested in these self driving which many people are using for that.

[Jeffy]

Which many people are using in this very metroplex.

[Stu]

Yes. And I like the idea of I'm not going to be, you know, you got to pay attention to the road but it's nice to.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, they make you pay attention. It's very disappointing. When we get to the point when I can go to sleep, let me know.

[Stu]

I kind of like the assistance, though, on a long drive.

[Jeffy]

Absolutely.

[Stu]

And another step number three in this process of how I got here. I have to drive my daughter to gymnastics, 45 minutes away and always in constant traffic. That drive in my current car, which is a manual transmission, is hell. It is very difficult and it's annoying. And you forgot when automatics came out, why people liked them.

[Jeffy]

Because I drove a stick for a long time. I like driving sticks.

[Stu]

I love it, too, because it's driving, right? You're driving and I like driving.

[Jeffy]

Yeah, me too.

[Stu]

But driving in traffic, stop and go traffic for 45 minutes is not pleasant.

[Jeffy]

Three or four times a week. Fun.

[Stu]

It's not fun. And then finally, Jeffy, you may have heard of global warming. Global warming. I know. We're so concerned with it. You and I got the global warming stickers all over our cars. It is currently 174 degrees in Texas, for the sun moves closer to Texas.

[Jeffy]

This time of year.

[Stu]

Starting to fade a little bit. Just starting to fade into like 80s and 90s occasionally now. But it's, you know, the summers are really rough and the aforementioned Little League tournaments where your car's outside baking for eight straight hours, getting back in, very difficult. Now, again, as I mentioned, the car is a manual transmission, so there's no auto start on it.

[Jeffy]

But in the lease of the Tesla, there would be.

[Stu]

There would be. In fact, one of the things that's most attractive to me about potentially buying a Tesla or another electric vehicle would be the idea where you can just kind of turn on the. The climate control and leave it at like 70 degrees and then get right back in. It's nice and cool. So I love that.

[Jeffy]

Other things, too. And I don't know if you know this, it might not even said this in your papers, but you can have it. Just like, say you're done with the game, the game's over.

[Stu]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeffy]

And you're at the field, you go, oh, man, I'm not going to walk all this whole parking lot to carry this baseball stuff to the car, am I? Nope. And the car will come to you.

[Stu]

You can summon your automobile. Another interesting thing, almost certainly use. So all these are features that would make me be interested in a Tesla with trepidation because I don't think I love the idea. So what do I do? Right? I could buy a Tesla and try to figure it out. Or they just came out with this new lease program in Texas and California. Someone sent it to me. I'm like, this is actually really interesting because one of the lease terms is a year, 2 to 300 bucks a month for a year for a used.

[Jeffy]

Tesla, that's not too bad, but except whatever it costs for, to charge and everything, I'm told that that's not free. I would assume that the charging, it was free, but it's not.

[Stu]

It's not free, but it's supposed to be cheaper than gas. Who knows if that's actually accurate. But whatever. The point is, I like the idea. A couple hundred bucks, it's almost like a long term rental. I'll try it. Let's see if I actually like this though.

[Jeffy]

It is.

[Stu]

Well, let's just say after, after you put your money in and you send them your deposit. Let's just say the 2 to $300 cost seems to multiply by multiple times. It doesn't seem to be anywhere near 2 to $300.

[Jeffy]

Oh really?

[Stu]

And now they're like, well, we're, oh my God, I just want to cancel this thing now. And like, well, we're not, we can't send you back. It's a non refundable deposit. So that type of stuff drives you crazy. Like I'm trying to have an experience with this company and I think overall it's a good company. I like Elon Musk. No, I'm not complaining about it, but it's like, just be upfront with me, tell me what the hell I'm gonna be paying and then don't wait to reveal the actual payment till after I've given you money that you won't refund. That is an interesting approach. As you get customers long term, maybe you could scam them into one deal or a couple thousand dollars. Yeah, but like I, I'm not gonna want to go back to Tesla after that. If, if this holds up. I'm arguing with that.

[Jeffy]

Once they, once they give. Once you've already agreed to the limited time license for driving access from Tesla, you're good to go. All right, that's a good point.

[Stu]

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[Jeffy]

What you're hearing are your thoughts via the mind and mouth of Glenn Beck. More next.

[Stu]

Brooks Turner. He's a 35 year old dad and he held his preschooler daughter Ayla in his arms as he walked away from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting that is breaking today. He said he was told all students were in a church for an all school mass when the shooting started, but Ayla and the other pre K students were in a room below. Thankfully she survived. Ayla said she heard banging and hid in a play kitchen before she was evacuated. So thank God, at least there's one story there that's of hope but just paints a picture of how terrible a situation this is hiding in a play kitchen. I mean, good God almighty, please protect these families and these people that are there and going through this situation. It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be a tough rest of the day. Hopefully we have the best outcome possible. Jeffy, thanks for joining me today, man. We're gonna be actually doing a show next week together as well here on the radio program. Awesome. Hopefully Glenn is feeling better and will rejoin us on tomorrow's program. Of course. Don't forget, listen to Chewin the Fat as part of the Blaze network and Stude's America new episode coming up later today.

[Jeffy]

This is Glenn Beck.