The Glenn Beck Program - February 09, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ 2⧸9⧸26


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

161.93987

Word Count

7,541

Sentence Count

692

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

When did we stop saying, "Let's be kids"? In the early 1980s, when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, it could be a two-mile walk to school, and it was still possible to walk 2 miles to school. Today, it can be 5 miles.


Transcript

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00:03:14.000 Last night after the Super Bowl, I started thinking about watching the Super Bowl with my dad and my family at the house and what it was like.
00:03:26.000 And how everything was just simpler back then.
00:03:29.000 I mean, I want to talk to you about culture and childhood.
00:03:33.000 Not childhood as an idea, but what it actually felt like.
00:03:41.000 And it doesn't matter what language you speak or, you know, where you're from, the culture we all should be striving for is the one that doesn't expose, you know, children to grinding and songs about push it in, push it in, push it in.
00:03:57.000 When, when did we stop saying this is not appropriate?
00:04:00.000 When did we stop saying, let kids be kids?
00:04:04.000 You know, in the 1980s, when I was growing up, seventies and eighties, you got up in the morning and you walked to school alone, maybe more with your sister or brother.
00:04:16.000 And it could be a mile.
00:04:17.000 I think, I think my walk was about two miles.
00:04:19.000 I don't know, maybe it was only a mile, but you didn't think twice about it.
00:04:22.000 This is the way it was.
00:04:23.000 When you got old enough, you took your bike, but you didn't need to take your lock for your bike.
00:04:28.000 You didn't need a lock.
00:04:29.000 You lean it against the rack or fence or, you know, a tree.
00:04:33.000 And it was still there when you came back because the culture was different in the summer.
00:04:39.000 You'd, you'd wake up early.
00:04:40.000 You'd pour yourself a bowl of cereal.
00:04:42.000 You'd dig around for the prize at the bottom of the box that mattered by the way, you got dressed fast.
00:04:48.000 Not because anybody told you to, but because the day was waiting.
00:04:51.000 You walked to your friend's house.
00:04:53.000 You didn't call first.
00:04:54.000 You just, you didn't, you know, you just knocked.
00:04:57.000 Hey, can you come out and play today?
00:04:59.000 I'm not even sure what we did all day.
00:05:01.000 I don't even remember what we did all day in the summer, every day.
00:05:05.000 I honestly don't know, but we were out every day.
00:05:08.000 Sometimes we walked around.
00:05:09.000 Sometimes we would play ball.
00:05:11.000 Sometimes frisbee, but nothing organized.
00:05:14.000 There were never any adults hovering.
00:05:16.000 There was no schedule.
00:05:17.000 Nobody was driving us.
00:05:23.000 I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
00:05:24.000 So it rained a lot there, but on rainy Saturdays, I remember if we were lucky, we'd turn on channel 13.
00:05:31.000 Not that there were actually 13 channels kids, but you know, there was four channel four channel five channel seven and 13.
00:05:40.000 Okay.
00:05:41.000 Channel 13 was the odd man out.
00:05:43.000 It wasn't one of the networks.
00:05:44.000 So it didn't have any new shows, but once in a while on a Saturday, they would run like a twilight zone marathon or a Godzilla marathon.
00:05:51.000 And all of my friends would come over and we'd all sit on the floor.
00:05:54.000 You know, it's raining outside and we'd eat snacks.
00:05:57.000 And honestly, the snacks that I think we probably bought ourselves.
00:06:00.000 I mean, we could get cookies, but you know, snacks, I mean, not that we were poor.
00:06:07.000 I don't think, but you know, our moms didn't buy chips and soda.
00:06:12.000 That was something special, like say for Superbowl days.
00:06:15.000 Okay.
00:06:16.000 Um, but today's by today's standards, I think maybe we were poor, but I didn't know it.
00:06:24.000 I don't, I mean, I don't know.
00:06:27.000 Everybody felt the same back then.
00:06:29.000 You know, I had friends whose dad, one, one friend, his dad was a lawyer, uh, later a judge.
00:06:36.000 He drove a Cadillac.
00:06:37.000 I had another friend whose dad was a doctor.
00:06:40.000 Their houses were bigger than ours, but not, not entirely.
00:06:43.000 It didn't have different lives.
00:06:45.000 You know, I guess the difference was they took vacations to exotic places like California where we didn't take vacations, you know, summer vacation with my family growing up, my grandparents farm where you worked, you know, but even there after you worked, I mean, we were allowed to play and you know, days we could play.
00:07:06.000 We would just leave the house and wouldn't come home until the streetlights were on.
00:07:10.000 That was the, that was the thing that was the agreement.
00:07:13.000 When the streetlights come on, be at home.
00:07:15.000 That was the rule.
00:07:19.000 And maybe it's because we didn't stress over so much.
00:07:21.000 I mean, kids talk about global warming today and the stress.
00:07:24.000 You don't know what the stress is like.
00:07:25.000 Global warming.
00:07:26.000 I don't even know if we can have families when we grow up.
00:07:29.000 What are you talking about?
00:07:32.000 I mean, I understand that feeling.
00:07:34.000 We, we had, um, nuclear war.
00:07:38.000 Okay.
00:07:39.000 Let me tell you about the global warming that we were worried about as kids, not a temperature rising a fraction of a degree over a century, but the temperature rising 10,000 degrees in 12 minutes.
00:07:52.000 Okay.
00:07:53.000 Terrified of nuclear war.
00:07:55.000 And we go to war.
00:07:56.000 We'd go to school and we'd practice drills and you know, we'd hear about it on the news.
00:08:00.000 We lived in the quiet knowledge that the world could end before dinner time, before the streetlights came on, but that just was, you know, and we weren't brought into it.
00:08:10.000 Yes.
00:08:11.000 Our schools did drills, but the adults dealt with this.
00:08:14.000 We weren't trained to march in the streets against nuclear war.
00:08:18.000 It wasn't brought up to us as kids every day.
00:08:21.000 Cause we would have freaked out kind of like our kids are freaking out.
00:08:26.000 Now we concentrated on the little things like the sound of the screen door slamming shut as we were running off the porch to start the day.
00:08:35.000 And I don't want to sound, you know, like an old guy, but I am an old guy.
00:08:43.000 Things were simpler.
00:08:44.000 Then we didn't have phones with us all the time.
00:08:47.000 We didn't have social media all the time.
00:08:49.000 I mean, it sounds boring when you say it out loud, but we were never bored.
00:08:54.000 And I mean, partly because if you ever said I'm bored out loud, your parents or an adult would immediately find work for you to do.
00:09:02.000 Oh, you're bored here.
00:09:03.000 Come on.
00:09:04.000 You'd be like, I'm not bored.
00:09:05.000 What are you?
00:09:06.000 And, but they never suggested activities.
00:09:08.000 They would just say, go outside.
00:09:12.000 We didn't have organized sports.
00:09:14.000 No one drove us everywhere.
00:09:16.000 We made the games.
00:09:17.000 We were the players.
00:09:18.000 We were the refs.
00:09:19.000 We were the crowd.
00:09:20.000 We, that was it.
00:09:21.000 And I don't remember getting bored.
00:09:26.000 I remember when we got cable TV and we thought, wow, we're going to have so many channels.
00:09:30.000 Something will always be on now, now, now.
00:09:34.000 Didn't change.
00:09:36.000 I had a phone mainly because of my sisters.
00:09:39.000 We had one in our hallway that had a really, really long curly cord that was so stretched out because it wasn't far enough away from the family for my sisters.
00:09:48.000 So they would stretch it all the way around the corner and sit in a closet and they would talk.
00:09:54.000 I remember a friend of mine in high school got her own phone line in her own bedroom.
00:09:58.000 Wow.
00:10:00.000 What?
00:10:01.000 But that was incredible.
00:10:03.000 And I'd call her and we'd talk for hours.
00:10:06.000 And sometimes we'd be on the phone, but we wouldn't be talking.
00:10:09.000 Silence wasn't awkward.
00:10:11.000 It was normal.
00:10:14.000 And we didn't send pictures of ourselves.
00:10:16.000 We didn't talk about sex the way kids talk about it now.
00:10:22.000 We weren't distracted.
00:10:23.000 There was silence.
00:10:24.000 Wasn't because we were distracted.
00:10:26.000 There was nothing demanding our attention.
00:10:28.000 Every five seconds.
00:10:29.000 Silence was part of being together.
00:10:34.000 And then things started to speed up overnight delivery.
00:10:37.000 Fax machines.
00:10:38.000 Who needs paperwork overnight?
00:10:40.000 I don't know.
00:10:41.000 Lawyers, maybe.
00:10:44.000 But as these things happen, every invention felt exciting, like progress, like confidence in the future.
00:10:50.000 When cell phones came along, man, it's going to save us time.
00:10:54.000 Dad can do work in the car and perhaps leave the office earlier.
00:10:57.000 Remember that lie we told ourselves?
00:11:00.000 It wasn't that dad could work all the time, which is exactly what happened.
00:11:05.000 Doctors had beepers.
00:11:06.000 So if they were out at dinner or a movie or playing golf, the hospital could reach them and call them in for emergencies.
00:11:12.000 Now everybody's got that beeper.
00:11:15.000 When social media was introduced to us, it was promised that its main gift would, it would help us reconnect with our friends that we had lost touch with.
00:11:24.000 Or we could become more deeply involved and aware of what our family and extended family were doing.
00:11:31.000 Uh-huh.
00:11:32.000 Has social media brought our families closer together or broken our families up?
00:11:36.000 And most of our time online is not with friends at all.
00:11:41.000 That word doesn't even have meaning anymore, does it?
00:11:44.000 Friends are followers now.
00:11:46.000 When I was growing up, followers meant something entirely different.
00:11:49.000 It meant you followed a religious leader, as in I'm a follower of Christ, or you were a follower of people and it tended to mean that you were about to be in a cult.
00:12:01.000 Okay.
00:12:02.000 What started out as being a way to reconnect with our friends and family now has us texting friends who are sitting right next to us and scrolling while the family is together.
00:12:14.000 I'm not sure things are getting better anymore because we don't seem to set any boundaries at all.
00:12:28.000 Did anybody set a boundary last night watching this at the Super Bowl?
00:12:37.000 All these modern conveniences, they're not making life simpler.
00:12:40.000 They're making it heavier.
00:12:41.000 They're making it more complex, harder to keep up, harder to find real friendship, real people.
00:12:47.000 And we fill every second of silence.
00:12:51.000 We walk around with a phone that sounds like a casino in our hands.
00:12:55.000 It's in our hands or it's in our pocket every day.
00:12:57.000 And it sounds like a casino.
00:12:58.000 It's got all the bells and whistles, all the endorphin rushes, you know, just, and it's built.
00:13:05.000 It's designed.
00:13:06.000 They tell us this and we do nothing about it.
00:13:07.000 It's designed to keep you pulling the arm of the new slot machine.
00:13:12.000 And we're walking around with these phones and claiming that we're poor, but everybody seems to have a phone that's at least $500.
00:13:23.000 I mean, I guess, I mean, in my childhood, people that live like the average person lives today would have been, would have seen wealthy beyond imagination.
00:13:38.000 And maybe that's because we just didn't buy things on credit at the time, you know?
00:13:45.000 So now everybody's buying everything on credit because they want it now.
00:13:49.000 And so we all just look wealthy, except we're just deeper in debt.
00:13:57.000 Simpler times do not mean better times.
00:14:00.000 They just mean clearer times.
00:14:03.000 And the more I look at our society, I think maybe the real difference between my childhood and my children's childhood is just clarity.
00:14:21.000 Because there were monsters under the bed when I was growing up.
00:14:26.000 We outgrew the monsters under the bed.
00:14:29.000 But when we did outgrow those monsters that were hiding in our closets, we knew what monsters were real and what monsters were not real.
00:14:40.000 And today the battle is not between good and evil.
00:14:47.000 It's about what's real and what's not.
00:14:49.000 What's real and what's artificial.
00:14:52.000 We're raising children in a world that no longer knows the difference between the two.
00:14:57.000 Last night, that was a performance on stage and it was pushing our culture.
00:15:03.000 We didn't even notice it.
00:15:08.000 I guess that's everywhere now.
00:15:10.000 That's just the way it is today.
00:15:11.000 And so it becomes our reality.
00:15:16.000 Maybe, maybe the real value, because if you read scriptures, it's always saying, remember, remember, I think it's one of the most used words in scriptures.
00:15:28.000 Remember, maybe the value of remembering isn't about going backward.
00:15:37.000 It's just noticing the things that we once had to help us remember the things we may have lost along the way that were good.
00:15:49.000 Ordinary days with real friends.
00:15:52.000 Just quiet pauses.
00:15:54.000 Silence that didn't need to be filled.
00:15:58.000 Meals that didn't need to be photographed first.
00:16:05.000 It's tough because you can't pass these lessons on to the youth of today.
00:16:09.000 Just like our parents couldn't pass this on to us because you won't listen.
00:16:12.000 You won't appreciate.
00:16:13.000 You know, parents used to say the same things to us about, you know, their childhood, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:16:19.000 So you can't pass those on.
00:16:21.000 The lessons, perhaps, of our childhood and our kids' childhood only come after you grow up.
00:16:30.000 The kind of growing up that isn't dependent on age, but on perspective.
00:16:35.000 And when we begin to remember the kinds of things, the kinds of things you haven't thought about for years until one day they all come back.
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00:18:17.000 Let's start with a rant.
00:18:20.000 Okay.
00:18:21.000 Planes are moving now towards the Middle East.
00:18:24.000 We found out that the F-22s that were supposed to be going in kind of an interesting detail.
00:18:31.000 I mean, Donald Trump's not trying to keep this secret.
00:18:34.000 He knew this wasn't going to happen.
00:18:35.000 And they made the special patch with the F-22 shadow on it, knowing that part of the conversation would be, wow, the F-22s were supposed to be here, but they weren't here.
00:18:47.000 They didn't do the flyover.
00:18:48.000 Why?
00:18:49.000 Why are the F-22s?
00:18:50.000 Well, I can tell you, I think I know where they're going, but let me tell you where the C-17s are.
00:19:02.000 These are major, massive planes.
00:19:03.000 These are major, massive planes.
00:19:05.000 Okay.
00:19:06.000 112 C-17s are on their way to the Middle East now.
00:19:12.000 That's equivalent to Desert Storm.
00:19:16.000 That is a lot of C-17s, a lot of C-17s.
00:19:21.000 So what are we doing?
00:19:24.000 Well, those C-17s deliver massive, huge amounts of equipment and troops as well.
00:19:32.000 I don't think that we are putting troops on the ground, but we're putting something on the ground.
00:19:45.000 Why are we putting all these over here?
00:19:48.000 If I were Iran, I would be crapping my pants right now because we're in negotiations.
00:19:56.000 The negotiation with Iran is happening now in Oman.
00:20:02.000 I think it starts tomorrow, I think.
00:20:05.000 There were some this weekend and it didn't sound like we got anywhere, but they go in tomorrow.
00:20:10.000 And then Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to the White House, I think on Wednesday or Thursday.
00:20:15.000 Well, gee, that's a perfect time to say we've either just bombed or we're about to at some point.
00:20:22.000 And here's your last chance, but we'll see.
00:20:28.000 I just don't know how we are going to...
00:20:32.000 How do you negotiate with a country that just killed 35,000 of their own citizens?
00:20:37.000 35,000 of their own citizens that were marching in the streets.
00:20:42.000 And we said we're not going to tolerate this, and I believe Donald Trump, we're not going to tolerate that.
00:20:47.000 I don't know how we're not going to tolerate it, but we always say we're not going to tolerate things, and then we do.
00:20:56.000 So Donald Trump, first thing he has to do is restore deterrence.
00:21:00.000 Yeah, we tell you something, we mean it.
00:21:04.000 We mean it.
00:21:05.000 And he's done that.
00:21:06.000 This is the longest I have seen him take on, well, no, I guess Venezuela was like this.
00:21:11.000 You got to get out.
00:21:12.000 You got to get out.
00:21:13.000 We're building up.
00:21:14.000 We're building up.
00:21:15.000 We're building up.
00:21:16.000 You got to get out.
00:21:17.000 And then what happened?
00:21:18.000 Well, he should have gotten out.
00:21:20.000 I don't want war, and I don't want any of...
00:21:25.000 I don't want any of troops on the ground.
00:21:27.000 I don't.
00:21:28.000 But I also don't want to encourage people to protest, and then they do it because they think they're protected by us, and then they get slaughtered and we do nothing.
00:21:44.000 We just can't target the civilians.
00:21:45.000 We have to target the mullahs.
00:21:47.000 And I think we're going to go in again, you know, on their nuclear...
00:21:52.000 But I just, I don't think it's going to be like what we've seen before.
00:21:56.000 You know?
00:21:58.000 Any regime that can kill in the dark and then get everybody arguing about the number is a regime that needs to be stopped.
00:22:09.000 Needs to be stopped.
00:22:11.000 So what is Donald Trump doing?
00:22:13.000 Now, let me take you to a story unrelated to Iran, kind of.
00:22:21.000 What is the UN known for?
00:22:24.000 Besides corruption and everything else.
00:22:26.000 What are they known for?
00:22:28.000 Sternly worded letters?
00:22:30.000 We're not going to tolerate this or we're going to write a sternly worded letter.
00:22:35.000 Oh.
00:22:36.000 So no action, no teeth, nothing.
00:22:39.000 And they're taking the world in a completely different direction.
00:22:42.000 So last week we heard that we were not paying our bill.
00:22:47.000 And no other country of the 180 countries, part of the UN, no other country was willing to step up and pay their bill.
00:22:54.000 Okay.
00:22:55.000 So it wasn't just the United States, although we owe $3 billion.
00:22:58.000 And if they don't get our $3 billion, they shut down.
00:23:01.000 And I thought, yes, yes.
00:23:06.000 And then this weekend I read a story that we're now writing a check for $3 billion to the UN to keep the doors open.
00:23:16.000 And I'm like, wait a minute.
00:23:17.000 What?
00:23:18.000 Why?
00:23:19.000 We just pulled out of the WHO.
00:23:22.000 The UN was on the ropes.
00:23:24.000 What did they do?
00:23:26.000 They had to slash their budget or they would have gone out of business really fast.
00:23:30.000 Slash all their budget.
00:23:31.000 They had to cut a bunch of jobs.
00:23:32.000 They had to reduce their peacekeeping missions like those are actual missions.
00:23:37.000 And just as it looks like, wow, the curtain is coming down on the UN.
00:23:42.000 America writes a check to save it.
00:23:45.000 What are we possibly thinking?
00:23:53.000 I'm going to give you an idea.
00:23:55.000 Don't know if it's true.
00:23:58.000 Trump is now in this position where he is either feared or respected in the world.
00:24:03.000 It's better to be respected, but if they won't respect you, they should fear you.
00:24:08.000 Okay.
00:24:10.000 I told you last week here at home, he's softening the PR.
00:24:14.000 He's he's not.
00:24:17.000 I mean, look how he's handling Minnesota.
00:24:20.000 He is not compromising his values, but he's changing his tactics to get the job done.
00:24:27.000 Okay.
00:24:28.000 Unlike those on the left, he's not a destroyer.
00:24:31.000 He's a builder.
00:24:33.000 And in this case, he's going to be the savior of the UN, which is weird.
00:24:37.000 But let me look at long-term thinking the way I think he's looking at this.
00:24:42.000 You have to understand first a he's a negotiator, right?
00:24:46.000 B he's a deal maker.
00:24:48.000 C he's a builder.
00:24:51.000 He takes things that are wrecks and builds them into stunning new destinations.
00:24:56.000 Okay.
00:24:57.000 Okay.
00:24:58.000 So he's building things.
00:25:00.000 He's not just dismantling.
00:25:01.000 He's building.
00:25:02.000 A lot of things were like, why isn't he moving faster on this?
00:25:07.000 I mean, as fast as he's going, we actually are going, why didn't you do this faster?
00:25:12.000 So why would Trump get this close to shutting the UN down only to pay when no one else will?
00:25:20.000 Why rescue an institution that has spent decades bloated, ideologically hostile to us?
00:25:29.000 Here's the answer, I think, and it's not what you think.
00:25:32.000 This is not a bailout.
00:25:34.000 This is not a retreat.
00:25:36.000 This, again, he's a negotiator.
00:25:38.000 This is leverage.
00:25:40.000 When you're destroying and building at the same time, you don't pull the plug when your hand is still on the switch.
00:25:49.000 Because when institutions like the UN collapse outright overnight, they don't disappear.
00:25:57.000 They metastasize into a really nasty cancers because power doesn't vanish.
00:26:02.000 It moves.
00:26:03.000 And when it moves like this, it rarely moves in our direction.
00:26:08.000 So a sudden UN implosion does not produce sovereignty and sanity.
00:26:13.000 It produces chaos and power vacuums and regional strongmen and a global narrative, hear this, that blames one country for the destruction of the UN.
00:26:24.000 And that is the United States of America.
00:26:29.000 Donald Trump understands something that, you know, Washington forgot a long time ago.
00:26:35.000 And those Democrats who are in bed with the far left may have never learned.
00:26:39.000 You don't burn the building down if you're still trying to decide who controls the land underneath it.
00:26:46.000 Don't burn the building down.
00:26:51.000 Who owns the land?
00:26:52.000 Where is everybody going?
00:26:53.000 What's next?
00:26:55.000 So instead of burning it down, he's doing something I think far more dangerous to the UN.
00:27:02.000 He stopped playing unconditionally.
00:27:04.000 And look what happened.
00:27:06.000 For the first time in 80 years, the UN has cut its own budget.
00:27:12.000 We didn't have to pressure him.
00:27:13.000 We just said, we're not doing anything anymore with you.
00:27:16.000 Thousands of jobs at headquarters gone.
00:27:19.000 Peacekeeping forces slashed by a quarter.
00:27:22.000 Redundancies exposed.
00:27:24.000 Seven climate offices gone.
00:27:28.000 None of this happened because the UN suddenly found religion.
00:27:32.000 It happened because the check stopped coming.
00:27:37.000 This is the way Trump plays.
00:27:42.000 Now suddenly the money comes back.
00:27:44.000 Well, kind of.
00:27:46.000 Only partially.
00:27:47.000 Only conditionally.
00:27:49.000 Only with massive strings and reforms already locked in.
00:27:52.000 That's not surrender.
00:27:55.000 That's a demonstration.
00:27:57.000 That's a redesign made possible because you told them no more.
00:28:02.000 And they knew this president means it.
00:28:04.000 And so they began making the moves the US wanted because they had.
00:28:08.000 This is the art of the deal.
00:28:10.000 Everyone assumes that Trump wants the UN gone.
00:28:12.000 I believe he does, but his genius is always killing two or five or a thousand birds with one stone, right?
00:28:22.000 So if he threw the rock saying we're done and we're out.
00:28:26.000 They had no choice but to make critical changes.
00:28:29.000 But if we really were out and it collapsed, what would the world say?
00:28:34.000 The world would say it's America.
00:28:40.000 It's Donald Trump.
00:28:43.000 But what does the world say when he comes back in?
00:28:48.000 He strips the UN and all those on the left of its favorite lie.
00:28:53.000 That the reason the UN is failing is because of us.
00:28:55.000 Instead, he steps up to save the UN because the world didn't do it.
00:29:04.000 So the question turns outward.
00:29:06.000 Where are the other 180 countries?
00:29:09.000 Why are we the only one?
00:29:10.000 Because we're not going to do this.
00:29:13.000 Why does the entire system collapse without American money?
00:29:16.000 That doesn't make sense.
00:29:17.000 It makes his point and clearly makes his point.
00:29:21.000 Why is global cooperation impossible unless the United States underwrites it?
00:29:27.000 That's not going to last.
00:29:29.000 This is not an argument for the UN.
00:29:31.000 That's an argument against the UN.
00:29:34.000 And every institution is watching the WHO, NATO, the alphabet soup of NGOs, forums, councils, you know, panels that grew fat on American compliance.
00:29:48.000 They're all learning the same lesson.
00:29:50.000 America will engage, but only if you change, because we're not doing this anymore.
00:29:56.000 This is not the end of global institutions.
00:29:59.000 It's the end of the blank check.
00:30:03.000 Trump is trying to destroy the post-war order, but he's not doing it overnight.
00:30:08.000 He's dismantling the assumption underneath it that America is always the one that has to pay, always has to apologize, never demands results.
00:30:16.000 We're just the whipping boy of everybody else, and we're going to pay for it.
00:30:20.000 So if you were hoping for fireworks, if you wanted to watch the UN simply collapse on live television, which I'd pay money to see, it would have been satisfying.
00:30:33.000 But I have a feeling this is much more effective.
00:30:36.000 I think this president, well, I know this president, for me at least, has earned my trust.
00:30:40.000 On these things, he's earned my trust.
00:30:43.000 Like, I'm not happy the way we're dealing with Iran because they started killing people.
00:30:49.000 I would have liked to see us go in and stop them, but I'm okay with the president doing it because he's earned my trust on he knows what he's doing, and he plays cards differently than anybody else.
00:31:04.000 But a weakened, shrinking, exposed institution, forced to justify every dollar is far easier to replace than a martyr blamed on America.
00:31:15.000 This is not a rescue.
00:31:17.000 This is a containment of the UN.
00:31:19.000 And for the very first time in a generation, the world is being told by an American president, adapt, shrink, or you're irrelevant.
00:31:28.000 And this time, for the first time in my lifetime, America means what it says and says what it means.
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00:31:43.000 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:31:45.000 I want to play something that's played on Super Bowl.
00:31:47.000 It's a commercial for Trump accounts.
00:31:50.000 Listen to this.
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00:32:08.000 This year, every American child gets an investment account.
00:32:12.000 And millions will be pre-funded.
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00:32:15.000 We can all expand the American dream.
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00:32:20.000 So, the savings accounts.
00:32:26.000 We have one of my dear friends, Stephen Moore, with us now.
00:32:32.000 The economist extraordinaire.
00:32:34.000 Stephen, can I ask you, before we get into the Federal Reserve, what are your thoughts on the Trump savings account?
00:32:40.000 I love it.
00:32:41.000 I mean, look, it's amazing.
00:32:44.000 Glenn, you and I have known each other a long time.
00:32:46.000 I arrived in Washington in the early 80s, believe it or not, so over 40 years ago.
00:32:51.000 I've become a swamp creature.
00:32:53.000 But when I first came to Washington, do you know what the Dow Jones was?
00:32:57.000 Can I take a guess?
00:32:58.000 Oh.
00:32:59.000 1,000?
00:33:00.000 2,000?
00:33:01.000 Yeah.
00:33:02.000 2,000?
00:33:03.000 Yeah.
00:33:04.000 It was 1,000.
00:33:05.000 Now we're at 50,000.
00:33:06.000 So, this has been, you know, one of the most spectacular, probably the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world.
00:33:12.000 It started with Reagan.
00:33:14.000 You know, Reagan did the tax cuts and we sweated the inflation out of the economy that we'd had under Nixon and Ford and Carter.
00:33:21.000 And we did the tax rate reductions.
00:33:24.000 We limited the size and scope and regulation of government.
00:33:28.000 And it's been an amazing period.
00:33:30.000 You know, American, this is just red, white and blue stuff, Glenn.
00:33:33.000 But, you know, if you look at the worth, the value of all American corporations today, publicly traded companies, there were $70 trillion.
00:33:44.000 China's $20 trillion.
00:33:47.000 The EU's maybe $22 trillion.
00:33:50.000 Canada is like $4 trillion.
00:33:52.000 I mean, we're so blowing away the rest of the world.
00:33:55.000 And so, I'm really just, it's incredible that, and, you know, Trump said the other day, we could go to Dow 100,000 by the time he leaves office.
00:34:05.000 Now, you know, you know Donald Trump, he never exaggerates, right?
00:34:08.000 But even if he came close to that, it would be an amazing thing.
00:34:13.000 And so, that's the really, really good news.
00:34:17.000 And by the way, we have 140 million Americans that are in the stock market.
00:34:21.000 So, it's not just rich people benefit when the market goes up.
00:34:24.000 Your 401k plan, your IRA, all of those go up.
00:34:27.000 But, I like this idea of putting money into these accounts when a child is born.
00:34:36.000 And, you know, I think it's going to be...
00:34:38.000 Who pays for it?
00:34:39.000 I'm not sure how much the money will go into those accounts.
00:34:42.000 I like the fact that Michael Dell contributed $6 billion to low-income families.
00:34:47.000 I love that.
00:34:48.000 I love that.
00:34:49.000 It's one of the most impactful philanthropic contributions ever.
00:34:53.000 But my point is, great idea.
00:34:55.000 Yeah, let's let that...
00:34:56.000 So, by the way, the time someone is 20 years old, even if you just start with 1,000,
00:35:01.000 if you put $1,000 in each year, you're going to have a million dollars by the time you're 22, 25 years old.
00:35:07.000 So, I like that.
00:35:08.000 But my only frustration is that we should have...
00:35:13.000 George W. Bush, back in 2004, wanted to put money...
00:35:21.000 Allow every individual to take 10% of their paycheck, and instead of sending it into the black hole of Social Security, put it into an index fund.
00:35:30.000 And, oh, no, it's too risky.
00:35:32.000 And the Paul Krugmans and the Chuckie Schumers.
00:35:35.000 And, oh, no, that would be a terrible thing to do.
00:35:37.000 And what a disgrace that we didn't do that.
00:35:40.000 By the way, do you know who the original supporter of that idea was?
00:35:44.000 It was Steve Forbes, my good friend Steve Forbes.
00:35:46.000 He proposed that in the early 90s.
00:35:48.000 So, I'm just frustrated that we haven't democratized the stock market more than we have.
00:35:54.000 All right, let me switch gears.
00:35:57.000 You think that Kevin Warsh is the best man to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
00:36:02.000 I don't know anything about him.
00:36:04.000 The only person who would be better than him is me.
00:36:07.000 I would love for you to be the chairman.
00:36:13.000 I'd love for you to be the chairman.
00:36:15.000 If it can't be me, Kevin Warsh is fantastic.
00:36:18.000 Yes.
00:36:19.000 Okay.
00:36:20.000 Why?
00:36:21.000 Because he believes, look, first of all, let's keep this really simple.
00:36:26.000 Because sometimes when you talk about monetary policy, people's eyes glaze over and they run for the exit.
00:36:30.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:31.000 I can try to make this really simple.
00:36:32.000 Why do you have a currency?
00:36:33.000 Why do we have currencies?
00:36:35.000 So, you have something stable that you can count on to buy and sell.
00:36:41.000 Yes.
00:36:42.000 If it weren't for currencies, we'd probably all still be living in caves.
00:36:46.000 So, you can trade.
00:36:47.000 Right.
00:36:48.000 And the point of having a currency is it has to have two functions.
00:36:53.000 Number one, it has to be a store of value.
00:36:56.000 Right?
00:36:57.000 Because if it loses value, nobody's going to want to hold on to dollars.
00:37:00.000 If it just, you know, it's like, would you want to hold on to Venezuelan pesos?
00:37:04.000 Probably not.
00:37:05.000 Right.
00:37:06.000 Or Zimbabwe.
00:37:07.000 You know, I have a bill in my wallet, Glenn.
00:37:11.000 I think I've shown this to you.
00:37:12.000 It's a trillion Zimbabwe dollars.
00:37:15.000 It's probably worth about 36 cents.
00:37:18.000 I think I have a $2 trillion note.
00:37:23.000 Right.
00:37:24.000 So, it doesn't matter how many zeros you put on the bills.
00:37:26.000 Does it retain its value?
00:37:27.000 Right.
00:37:28.000 And is it a means of exchange?
00:37:29.000 Right.
00:37:30.000 And so, the only way that a currency can function is if it fulfills those two missions.
00:37:38.000 And the dollar, one of the most important things for the United States in terms of our
00:37:43.000 monetary policies is to make sure, Glenn, that the dollar retains its World Reserve currency status.
00:37:51.000 So, in other words, all transactions that are international, they don't happen in pesos.
00:37:56.000 They don't happen in euros.
00:37:57.000 They don't happen in, you know, the yuan.
00:38:00.000 They happen in dollars.
00:38:01.000 And that's a huge advantage to America.
00:38:04.000 But that can only happen if the dollar remains stable in price.
00:38:09.000 And so, I think what you're going to get out of Kevin Warsh is somebody who understands that
00:38:16.000 that you will need to keep inflation under control and that growth does not cause inflation.
00:38:22.000 Growth does not cause inflation.
00:38:25.000 Okay.
00:38:26.000 So, help me out on this because Donald Trump wants the rates.
00:38:30.000 I know.
00:38:31.000 I know.
00:38:32.000 The rates being lower, typically, generally, people will say that's going to lead to inflation
00:38:37.000 because it's cheaper money.
00:38:38.000 Right.
00:38:39.000 Yeah.
00:38:40.000 So, why do we think that's not the case here?
00:38:45.000 So, I hope Donald Trump, by the way, I love Donald Trump because, you know, I've served
00:38:50.000 as an economic advisor.
00:38:52.000 I think he's done amazing things.
00:38:53.000 I don't entirely agree with him on this.
00:38:55.000 So, he, every time, you know, I see him, as long as I've known him, he's always wanted
00:38:58.000 lowered rates because he's a, you know, he's a real estate guy.
00:39:03.000 You know, real estate guys love low interest rates.
00:39:07.000 Sure.
00:39:08.000 The problem is, again, I'll try to make this really simple.
00:39:11.000 Do you remember back in 2024, right before the election, when Kamala Harris was running
00:39:17.000 against Donald Trump, what did, what did Jerome Powell did?
00:39:20.000 He lowered the interest rates.
00:39:22.000 Gee, funny how he did that just six weeks before the election.
00:39:24.000 I think he might have been trying to give a little boost to Kamala.
00:39:27.000 But the point is, it didn't work.
00:39:29.000 You know why?
00:39:30.000 What happened to mortgage rates after they cut the Fed funds rate?
00:39:35.000 They go up?
00:39:37.000 They went up.
00:39:38.000 No, they went up.
00:39:39.000 They went up?
00:39:40.000 Yeah.
00:39:41.000 Why did they go up?
00:39:42.000 They should go down.
00:39:43.000 Because, well, except that when the Fed funds rate is cut, that pushes more money into the
00:39:50.000 economy, right?
00:39:51.000 It's a short-term sort of stimulus because you get this more money in the economy.
00:39:56.000 But that tends to lead to what?
00:39:59.000 More inflation, right?
00:40:01.000 Because as Milton Friedman taught us, inflation is just too many dollars chasing too few goods.
00:40:05.000 So my point is, I'm not so sure that lowering rates, and I'm not against a rate cut, but it's
00:40:11.000 not like people think that the Fed chairman is like the Wizard of Oz behind a curtain.
00:40:17.000 I mean, you could just push a button or pull a lever and make the economy work.
00:40:20.000 I mean, that's not the way it happens.
00:40:23.000 And so I think what we want is stable prices.
00:40:27.000 We want to get that inflation rate down to 2%.
00:40:30.000 I think we're headed there.
00:40:32.000 So I'm fine with lowering the rates maybe once or twice, but don't do it too much, or else
00:40:37.000 you're going to get a recurrence of the high inflation that we had under Biden, which is
00:40:41.000 the last thing we want.
00:40:42.000 So what is Kevin Worsh going to do that besides, what other tool does he have?
00:40:47.000 Well, first of all, there's two things.
00:40:51.000 He can adjust the interest rates up and down, but he has to monitor.
00:40:56.000 He wants to keep the inflation in that right target.
00:40:59.000 The other thing is the Fed has a massive balance sheet of trillions and trillions of dollars.
00:41:06.000 And why?
00:41:07.000 Why?
00:41:08.000 Sell them.
00:41:09.000 We don't want the government owning assets.
00:41:12.000 So he can, and the other thing, you know, what he should do, Glenn, you know how many
00:41:16.000 people walk in, work in that Taj Mahal that, that, uh, Jerome Powell is building, uh, right
00:41:22.000 off of Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:41:24.000 It's like less than a thousand people.
00:41:26.000 Three thousand.
00:41:28.000 I say, I told Kevin Worsh and he said, let's just fire half of those people.
00:41:34.000 What do they do?
00:41:39.000 Is he one of us?
00:41:41.000 Yeah, he is.
00:41:42.000 He's a free market guy.
00:41:43.000 Total.
00:41:44.000 I think he's, he's going to be excellent.
00:41:46.000 I think he, he gets everything that we've been talking about.
00:41:49.000 Uh, if we get a, if we get a stable and strong, and that's the other thing, keep the dollar,
00:41:54.000 the world reserve currency.
00:41:56.000 We will, we will, uh, we will continue to be the global leader around the world.
00:42:00.000 I look, I'm super bullish right now.
00:42:02.000 I really am.
00:42:03.000 I think Trump is, I don't always agree with everything he does or says, but for the most part,
00:42:08.000 are this is a Trump boom right now.
00:42:10.000 We're in, it really is.
00:42:11.000 And the, I don't understand why the public, you know, you look at the consumer sentiment
00:42:15.000 and it's down and, you know, now half the people just hate Trump no matter what he does.
00:42:19.000 Right.
00:42:20.000 So they, you know, he's got a cap at about 50% approval.
00:42:23.000 But, uh, I think you're going to start to see people really realize, Hey, this is it.
00:42:27.000 This is about as good as it gets to the economy.
00:42:30.000 You know, you've got a booming stock market.
00:42:32.000 You got inflation coming down.
00:42:33.000 You've got gas prices at two 69 a gallon.
00:42:37.000 I mean, it's just a beautiful picture.
00:42:39.000 I think the problem is, is that nobody feels, they all feel my job could go away tomorrow.
00:42:45.000 This could end tomorrow.
00:42:46.000 Yeah.
00:42:47.000 You know, we still have inflation.
00:42:50.000 It's, you know, it's close to zero as you're going to get it.
00:42:53.000 Um, but we didn't go back.
00:42:55.000 So, you know, except in some things we went way back, but, um, you know, so it's not back
00:43:00.000 to the way it was in 19, you know, in, uh, 2019, which you wouldn't expect it to, but
00:43:05.000 so they're seeing that, um, you don't want that the worst, you know, what's even worse
00:43:10.000 than high inflation is deflation.
00:43:12.000 And we had, you know what we had deflation in the 1930s.
00:43:16.000 So we want that.
00:43:17.000 We just want to, and we all make this mistake.
00:43:19.000 I mean, Trump made this mistake today.
00:43:21.000 I've made it, uh, earlier on a show this morning.
00:43:24.000 I said, well, we want falling prices.
00:43:25.000 No, we don't want falling prices.
00:43:27.000 We want falling inflation.
00:43:29.000 That's different.
00:43:30.000 In other words, we don't want things to depreciate in value.
00:43:32.000 We just want to keep them steady.
00:43:34.000 And I think Trump is on that course and, and, uh, and he, you know, he gets it and look,
00:43:39.000 he's a businessman.
00:43:40.000 Yeah.
00:43:41.000 That's what's so unique about Trump as a politician.
00:43:44.000 He actually understands business.
00:43:46.000 How many of these doofuses in Congress do you think understand business?
00:43:50.000 None.
00:43:51.000 Very few.
00:43:52.000 Let me ask you this.
00:43:54.000 Yeah.
00:43:55.000 Um, let me ask you this.
00:43:56.000 I have been saying for a while that Trump has been, but been breaking up the international
00:44:01.000 order in his first year.
00:44:03.000 That's what he was doing.
00:44:04.000 He was breaking all of that up and he's doing a brilliant job.
00:44:07.000 Now he's softening and he's turning his attention to main street this year, but he couldn't
00:44:14.000 turn his attention to main street until he got the people out of the way who were trying
00:44:18.000 to say main street doesn't matter.
00:44:20.000 And so he's turning it to main street now and doing things.
00:44:24.000 Do you think that's accurate?
00:44:25.000 Yeah.
00:44:26.000 And what's going on in the world right now is there's a unit, United States envy.
00:44:31.000 And so, uh, our economy is growing much faster than any other country.
00:44:36.000 We're growing faster than Canada.
00:44:38.000 We're growing.
00:44:39.000 Europe is flatline.
00:44:40.000 China's not doing very well.
00:44:41.000 Japan's been flat, flatline.
00:44:43.000 And I gotta tell you everywhere on the world though, cause I do travel around and people,
00:44:48.000 when I talk to just average people on the street, you know, I go to Canada or I'll go
00:44:52.000 to Britain or I'll go to Asia.
00:44:54.000 I, what do you think about Donald Trump?
00:44:56.000 They love Trump.
00:44:57.000 You know why?
00:44:58.000 And they, and I predicted that we are going to see a Trumpian power to the people movement
00:45:04.000 all around the world.
00:45:05.000 And we're seeing that already.
00:45:06.000 Look what's happened in Argentina.
00:45:08.000 Look what's happened in Costa Rica.
00:45:10.000 Look what's happening in almost all of Central America.
00:45:13.000 They're moving towards, uh, away from these arrogant out of touch politicians that are
00:45:18.000 self-serving.
00:45:19.000 And I think you're going to see in Britain, do you know, Nigel Farage?
00:45:22.000 Have you met Nigel?
00:45:23.000 I do.
00:45:24.000 I do.
00:45:25.000 I think, I think he's going to be the next leader of Britain.
00:45:27.000 I really do.
00:45:28.000 Uh, and so what I'm saying is what's so exciting is we could see this kind of power
00:45:34.000 to the people, Trumpian revolution all over because it's working in the United States
00:45:39.000 and everybody's looking like, remember that famous scene in the movie when Harry met Sally,
00:45:42.000 when Meg Ryan says, I'll have what she's having.
00:45:46.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:45:47.000 That's what the rest of the world is saying.
00:45:49.000 Yeah.
00:45:50.000 I want what they're having.
00:45:51.000 Yeah.
00:45:52.000 I'll have what she's having.
00:45:53.000 Uh, Steven, always great to talk to you.
00:45:55.000 Thank you so much.
00:45:56.000 You too.
00:45:57.000 Okay, glad.
00:45:58.000 Have a great week.
00:45:59.000 Take care.
00:46:00.000 Steven Moore.
00:46:01.000 Uh, good friend of the program and a really smart economist.
00:46:04.000 Na, na, na, na.
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