The Glenn Beck Program - August 24, 2026


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00:00:00.000 this is a big week i'm back from two weeks of vacation i've got a lot on my mind that we have
00:00:09.020 to catch up on and donald trump is going to be a live guest uh this week today we had matt
00:00:14.760 cockins on from the seattle times who just uh quit his job because he couldn't stand the
00:00:20.140 censorship anymore also patrick bet david was on today i talked about burritos and politicians
00:00:25.980 because this whole thing about the price of burritos last week was driving me out of my mind.
00:00:31.100 And I wanted to say some things that I couldn't find anybody else saying.
00:00:35.500 There's common sense on both sides of this issue, and we need to be more common sense driven. 0.58
00:00:40.420 Also, economic D-Day for Iran.
00:00:42.720 What does that mean?
00:00:44.080 All of this and so much more on today's Best Of podcast.
00:00:55.980 Okay, so there was this debate that was going on last week about burritos, the price of burritos.
00:01:12.740 And I mean, I was checking in occasionally and just finding out what was going on.
00:01:18.860 And I heard about the burrito thing and I think, I can't believe we're arguing about burritos.
00:01:22.240 And we are actually choosing, we're in this position to where last week, everybody was like, oh, that's why I'm for Marco Rubio.
00:01:30.380 Well, that's why I'm for J.D. Vance.
00:01:33.540 Can you please, can we get a handle on our emotions?
00:01:39.160 Please.
00:01:40.800 This is the conversation that I think people should have had last week about the price of burritos in America.
00:01:47.820 And it says every time I drive through a go through a drive through a window, I have the same two thoughts in the same order every time.
00:01:58.520 First one, when did McDonald's for two people become 20 bucks?
00:02:02.820 When did that happen?
00:02:03.780 Twenty five dollars.
00:02:04.840 Wait, what?
00:02:06.660 The second one is harder.
00:02:09.040 How does the average person do this?
00:02:11.260 This is McDonald's for the love of meat.
00:02:13.320 It's practically it's I don't even know if there's any meat in their burgers anymore.
00:02:17.820 that costs you 20, 25 bucks for two people.
00:02:21.280 If you have kids, you're already working two jobs.
00:02:24.620 How do you afford it?
00:02:26.120 You're paying for gas and an electric bill that keeps going up.
00:02:29.120 God help you if you had to move into a new apartment
00:02:31.220 or buy a house after 2021, how do you do it?
00:02:37.080 Now, I want you to hold on to both of those
00:02:39.220 because the country just spent a week
00:02:41.660 fighting over the first one
00:02:43.200 and refusing to answer the second one.
00:02:47.820 College student at Turning Point told a staffer that a burrito shouldn't cost $20,
00:02:53.000 and that was the spark of this whole thing last week.
00:02:55.940 And the right set itself on fire.
00:02:58.760 One side said, learn to cook, get some roommates, eat ramen.
00:03:03.400 The market doesn't care what you think things should cost.
00:03:06.660 And then the other side said, you haven't talked to people under 25 in a decade.
00:03:13.200 Okay, all right.
00:03:16.120 Here are the facts.
00:03:17.820 And I'm going to give you the facts, even though they cut against some of the things that I agree with or, you know, people I agree with.
00:03:23.340 OK, the people saying a burrito doesn't cost $20 are right about the burrito, a loaded steak burrito.
00:03:33.340 I can't believe I'm coming back from a vacation and I'm doing this.
00:03:36.220 Runs nine to twelve dollars in most of the country, 17 in Manhattan, one of the most expensive places to live or eat in the world.
00:03:44.180 And that's if you put guacamole on it.
00:03:47.700 $20 is what it costs after DoorDash with the service fee and the delivery fee and the tip.
00:03:55.580 Now, are you getting your burritos at DoorDash?
00:03:57.480 Because that might be a problem.
00:04:01.240 Okay.
00:04:06.780 McDonald's has published its own numbers.
00:04:09.560 Not a critic's numbers, the company's numbers.
00:04:12.320 the president of mcdonald's usa put out an open letter with a fact sheet attached the average
00:04:18.760 big back meal nine dollars and 29 cents up from 27 uh or i'm sorry 729 in 2019 okay for seven dollars
00:04:29.120 to two to nine dollars but in that sheet was a sentence that mad and here's what that sentence
00:04:37.020 was the average price across the whole menu is up about 40 percent since 2019. Over that same
00:04:47.660 stretch, prices across the entire American economy rose 21 percent. So drive-thru went up roughly
00:04:55.720 twice as fast as everything else. So two Big Mac meals is $18.58. You weren't confused. You're
00:05:03.680 doing arithmetic that you have to do because you have to keep a budget. Okay, so that's truth
00:05:10.020 number one. Now, here's truth number two, and it's mine, and it costs something to admit this,
00:05:17.500 but it is true. I have spent this summer in a small farming town, and I keep walking past houses
00:05:26.540 that are the exact house that I grew up in. I was just in a house a couple weeks ago,
00:05:31.120 And I left and I said to my wife, that's the house.
00:05:34.400 I mean, the floor plan, everything.
00:05:36.180 That's the house I grew up in.
00:05:39.220 And all of these places in these small little towns,
00:05:42.240 they are the houses that my friends grew up in.
00:05:44.500 Same footprint, same little porch, same three little bedrooms, everything.
00:05:49.360 When somebody says my parents could afford a house and I can't,
00:05:54.380 here's the part nobody says out loud.
00:05:56.440 The house your parents bought is not the house you're looking at
00:05:59.520 by any stretch of the imagination.
00:06:01.960 In 1973, the median new home in America
00:06:04.800 was 1,525 square feet.
00:06:08.120 Fewer than half had air conditioning.
00:06:10.620 Four in 10 went up with one bathroom
00:06:14.060 or a bath and a half,
00:06:15.700 and that was for the full family.
00:06:18.160 More people also lived in it back in 1973
00:06:21.480 than they do now.
00:06:23.200 Three per household against about two and a half today. 0.72
00:06:26.360 today's median new home is around 2100 square feet that's after builders shrank them it's the
00:06:36.540 smallest new home since 19 or sorry since 2009 and it's still 40 percent bigger than it was in 1973
00:06:44.420 okay and nearly every one of them has central air so the houses that you're looking at are 40 percent
00:06:50.800 bigger than the ones that your parents moved into and they didn't have central air and yours does
00:06:56.740 Four in 10 have four bedrooms or more.
00:07:00.340 Three in 10 have three bathrooms or more.
00:07:03.940 Remember, bath or bath and a half.
00:07:07.540 Square footage per person in American homes roughly doubled in the last 50 years.
00:07:13.900 And that's before we count the things your parents never dreamt of.
00:07:17.300 The internet, the phone in your pocket that costs more per month than their first car payment.
00:07:22.220 The streaming, the surveys on subscriptions keep finding the same thing.
00:07:28.880 The average American household is spending north of $200 a month on your subscriptions.
00:07:34.640 You ask people to guess their own number and they say 86.
00:07:38.680 So two and a half times off of their own money on their own bank statement,
00:07:44.520 they have no idea what they're paying just for subscriptions.
00:07:47.580 Now, that's not a scold.
00:07:48.800 Honestly, it's a mirror.
00:07:49.700 I look at this mirror myself and I'm like, what are we, what?
00:07:53.860 So here's what I want you to know.
00:07:55.840 Both things are true, okay?
00:07:59.560 And here's where I lose the people who only wanted the first half.
00:08:03.560 Your pain is not imaginary, and it's not a spending problem that you can budget your
00:08:08.800 way out of.
00:08:09.660 The median existing home in this country now sells for five times the median household
00:08:15.320 income.
00:08:16.180 Three times was the old rule for affordable means.
00:08:19.700 Through the entire 1990s, that number ran about 3.2.
00:08:25.520 The typical first-time buyer in America is now 40 years old.
00:08:29.260 First-time buyers are 21% of all purchases.
00:08:32.220 That is the lowest on record.
00:08:35.160 Homeownership for households under 35 has fallen 37%.
00:08:39.440 Half of all renters in America, that's 22.6 million households,
00:08:44.940 spend more than 30% of their income just on housing.
00:08:49.080 That is also at a record, and it has broken that record three years running.
00:08:55.740 Residential electricity up roughly a third since 2020, and it's going higher because we're building data centers faster than we are building the grid to feed them.
00:09:04.600 And the transmission bill gets spread across everybody's meter, including yours, unless you put a stop to it in your own town and negotiate.
00:09:14.520 So, first part of this, the young guy is right.
00:09:18.460 but also the old man is right too.
00:09:22.160 But neither one of them will say the other's truth out loud.
00:09:27.300 Your house is bigger and better than your father's,
00:09:29.820 and it costs you twice as many years of your life to get it.
00:09:33.480 Got it.
00:09:35.120 In 1963, there was a woman at the Social Security Administration
00:09:39.580 named Molly Orkansky.
00:09:42.360 She spent years at the Agricultural Department.
00:09:46.180 She was a food economist, 0.99
00:09:47.360 And she was pricing out what it costs to feed a family, blah, blah, blah.
00:09:51.160 Washington asked her, figure out who in America was poor.
00:09:55.840 Nobody had a number.
00:09:56.680 There wasn't a number for poor in America.
00:09:58.960 So she had one solid thing.
00:10:01.180 She had the government's cheapest food plan, the emergency diet, priced out by family size. 0.86
00:10:07.680 The emergency diet.
00:10:09.920 She had one survey from 1955 that said American families spent about a third of their income on food.
00:10:18.340 So she took the cheapest grocery bill and multiplied it by three.
00:10:23.460 For a family of four in 1963, that came out to $3,100 a year.
00:10:28.520 Six years later, the federal government made that number official, based on 1955.
00:10:34.460 We still use it today.
00:10:36.740 Every year since, we adjust it for nothing but inflation.
00:10:41.460 So today, we spend 9.7% of income on food.
00:10:45.780 Remember, that was 31% earlier.
00:10:48.360 9% now.
00:10:50.200 The yardstick we use to measure of who's making it in this country
00:10:54.700 is a 1955 grocery receipt times three.
00:11:00.100 But everything that actually breaks a family now,
00:11:02.940 the rent, the insurance, the childcare, the car payment, the deductible that was never in the
00:11:07.900 number. That was a placeholder. She said so herself. It was the best anyone could do with
00:11:15.540 what they had. And nobody went back and fixed it and said, wait a minute, we don't count it this
00:11:20.100 way anymore. So when the charts say Americans have never had it better and you're standing in
00:11:26.140 the grocery store doing your math in your head, some of that gap is not your imagination. It's
00:11:31.300 the ruler that is wrong. However, some of it is your imagination. And we can't dodge that if we
00:11:40.720 want to fix our country. Here's the part that we don't understand. We are now a nation of wants
00:11:47.300 and not a nation of needs. That's not an insult. That's just a description. And it is the natural
00:11:55.000 end of the most abundant 75 years any person ever to live in the history of the world has ever had.
00:12:04.000 The trouble isn't wanting things. The trouble is when you can no longer tell the difference
00:12:10.900 between want and need. I need a cell phone. I need an Apple cell phone. I need this subscription.
00:12:25.000 No. A man who can't tell a want from a need can be sold anything, including his own freedom, by anyone promising him that want, I'll give it to you for free.
00:12:40.360 And here's the whole thing that I thought of while I was on vacation. I'll just end this burrito thing because this was a nightmare. I'm like, what are we arguing over? Both sides are right on this. Can we not see that two truths can be held?
00:12:55.000 if we don't learn the difference soon on purpose,
00:13:01.900 while it's still voluntary,
00:13:04.240 we will become a nation of genuine needs.
00:13:08.480 And nobody likes that.
00:13:09.780 I mean, that's how it ends.
00:13:11.500 Not with a burrito.
00:13:14.740 So what do we actually do?
00:13:17.520 One, Republican Party, stop arguing with the arithmetic
00:13:21.180 and start changing the arithmetic.
00:13:23.200 Build, build houses, build power plants, transmission lines.
00:13:26.980 Go after the regulatory freight that adds tens of thousands of dollars to a house
00:13:33.540 before a single nail goes in.
00:13:36.820 Then what do you say?
00:13:37.860 I just saw the data yesterday.
00:13:39.700 $40 trillion in debt.
00:13:41.600 Get your own financial house in order
00:13:43.660 because the deficit is a tax that shows up in my grocery bill
00:13:47.740 and everybody else without ever getting a vote.
00:13:50.480 now let me poke a hole in my own argument here you can build every house in america and that
00:13:57.140 young family still doesn't feel it for 10 or 15 years construction takes time the relief is slow
00:14:03.080 and it arrives you know after the next three elections that's the trap it is exactly why
00:14:10.260 politicians are reaching for huey long and price controls and rebate checks because you'll feel
00:14:17.260 that one by christmas but they don't work long run they don't work they feel like something
00:14:24.500 and right now that feeling is is is beating the right right now which is why the perception has
00:14:33.260 to be answered alongside with the reality not spun but actually answered somebody has to be able to
00:14:38.940 stand in front of the kid who can't buy a house and the father who paid off a 1500 square foot one
00:14:45.000 and tell each of them the truth without either of them flinching.
00:14:49.360 Hey, the kid is right and so are you, dad.
00:14:52.980 And anyone who wants to actually be elected has to understand both truths.
00:14:57.300 You have to be able to talk to both of these men.
00:14:59.980 And you have to have a plan that changes the number and the feeling.
00:15:04.060 That's the job.
00:15:05.920 And here's the one thing that I will not do,
00:15:07.940 and I'd ask you not to do it either.
00:15:10.360 I'm not getting into the Rubio camp and I'm not getting into the Vance camp.
00:15:13.720 Not now, not over this.
00:15:15.640 Some of them are paid and they're just enjoying themselves, losing sleep on how to split us up.
00:15:21.520 Stop. Stop.
00:15:25.200 I'm not voting for faces.
00:15:26.920 I'm voting for plans and I haven't heard any plan yet.
00:15:31.620 The moment we become a people of personalities instead of actual plans and ideas, we've already surrendered.
00:15:38.640 Personalities don't lower your electric bill.
00:15:41.080 ideas and principles and solutions do or nothing does hold the line on ideas hold the base together
00:15:48.680 hold your family together the the individual the free market the country hold those things together
00:15:53.640 because if we split into two camps over faces while the arithmetic stays broken who wins the
00:16:00.560 socialist and if you think a burrito is expensive now wait until you see what a socialist sandwich
00:16:06.860 costs. It's not going to be better. More in a minute. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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00:17:25.240 Okay, so I want to be very, very careful here because it is economic D-Day, and this is a very, very good thing. 1.00
00:17:36.420 We are looking at a situation with the Iranian economy. 1.00
00:17:42.340 It is on the very edge, the very edge. 0.99
00:17:47.200 but our enemies um know some things let me start here first first thing has to be said we won the
00:17:58.620 war okay by every standard air defenses are completely shredded the supreme leader was
00:18:05.880 killed in the opening hours um and hezbollah is a shadow of what it was two years ago the proxy
00:18:11.900 network has been thinned. By every single measure a general would put on a chart, Operation Epic
00:18:18.060 Fury did what it was sent to do. The economic damage is beyond understanding, and this is Iran's 0.97
00:18:25.920 economic D-Day. The president is doing the right thing. However, for all of the things that are 0.98
00:18:32.880 true, there is one thing that may or may not be true that is putting us in a position where we
00:18:40.580 may lose everything the win has just purchased. And it's not on a battlefield. It's on an inventory
00:18:47.880 sheet. I want you to listen to this. Before February, we had 2,330 Patriot interceptors.
00:18:56.840 The best public estimate now puts us somewhere between 759 and 827 missile interceptors.
00:19:05.360 okay that's a drop of at least 65 percent fad that long-range missile went from 452 to fewer
00:19:15.260 than 278 reuters is reporting now the long range range missiles are nearly spent and about half of
00:19:24.220 our tomahawks are gone last week the the strategic petroleum reserve fell below 300 million barrels
00:19:32.380 for the first time since January of 1983.
00:19:36.760 The president's answer on these things
00:19:39.260 has been that we have massive amounts of munitions
00:19:42.640 and the leakers are going to go to prison
00:19:44.580 for a very, very long time.
00:19:47.240 Okay, that's a flawed answer, okay?
00:19:52.600 Because if it's a leak, then is it true?
00:19:55.100 You're going to put somebody in prison.
00:19:57.040 If it's propaganda, that's a different story.
00:20:00.660 And I don't know what is true, okay?
00:20:06.440 But Tehran didn't need the leak. 0.92
00:20:11.440 Tehran has counted. 0.93
00:20:13.620 Every interceptor we fire, they watch go up.
00:20:17.880 And they have a better estimate of our magazine than most members of Congress do at this point.
00:20:22.260 So the denial doesn't fool the man across the table.
00:20:24.760 It only fools the people who write the checks. 0.96
00:20:27.160 And that is if it is true.
00:20:28.840 We don't know if it's true.
00:20:30.660 But our enemies think it is, which brings us to a scenario, and I think it's likely. It's not a dramatic one, but how this could end.
00:20:44.140 Iran, if the economic sanctions don't work, Iran doesn't counterattack. Iran doesn't surrender.
00:20:51.840 Iran just waits.
00:20:53.540 It slow walks the talks. 0.90
00:20:55.040 It keeps the straight half strangled, lets our gas prices do the work,
00:20:59.200 watches the American public where the support for this war sits at 33%
00:21:03.600 and is falling among the president's own supporters, okay?
00:21:08.480 I talked to some political officials over the last couple of weeks,
00:21:14.260 and no matter where they were in the world, they all said the same thing.
00:21:18.540 You're sending exactly the wrong messages, people.
00:21:21.360 Because I would ask people, what do the American people need to hear?
00:21:25.900 If you had access to the American people, what would you think they need to hear?
00:21:31.880 And the answer was universal.
00:21:33.820 In all cases, you're sending the wrong message.
00:21:37.760 You're sending the message to the world that you just aren't going to fight.
00:21:41.740 You're just not going to fight.
00:21:43.000 You won't do it.
00:21:44.820 And while that's true and understand the reasons for it, etc., etc.,
00:21:48.640 that can't be the message you send. 0.59
00:21:51.360 Iran doesn't have to win. It only has to be still and be standing when either our magazines 0.65
00:22:00.160 or our patients or our pump prices run out. That's all we have to do. That's all they have
00:22:10.200 to do. That's their strategy. And so far it is working. Now, these economic sanctions,
00:22:15.820 If somebody can supply guns to the people, 80% of the people in Iran hate this regime, but they don't have guns.
00:22:25.820 So people are not going to stand without guns.
00:22:28.340 They have to have munitions.
00:22:30.100 So is somebody getting them munitions?
00:22:32.740 I hope somebody is.
00:22:34.520 Somebody training them how to use them?
00:22:36.160 I hope somebody is.
00:22:38.700 But the things we're actually running out of are not missiles.
00:22:43.720 Now, this is the important part.
00:22:45.600 This is why he said, I don't know if any of this is true, okay?
00:22:49.040 What's running out on us is the ability to be believed.
00:22:55.480 Let me explain because the world's been here before.
00:22:58.660 The year is 168 BC, and there was a Syrian king.
00:23:06.040 I want to get this right here.
00:23:08.280 There was a Syrian king named Antiochus,
00:23:13.000 And he marched the army into Egypt and took it.
00:23:16.860 Not threatened it, took it.
00:23:19.800 He's camped out in the suburbs of Alexandria.
00:23:22.640 There is no force in that part of the world that can move him. 0.98
00:23:26.940 And down the road comes one old Roman. 1.00
00:23:29.980 No army, no fleet behind him, nobody in the harbor.
00:23:34.780 Just one man named Popelius, I think his name was, Popelius.
00:23:41.360 and he's carrying a wooden tablet.
00:23:45.000 Aniocos knows him.
00:23:46.620 They know each other.
00:23:47.440 They've been acquaintances for a long time.
00:23:49.500 And the king puts his hand out
00:23:50.940 to greet his friend Popelius.
00:23:53.400 And Popelius doesn't take his hand.
00:23:55.860 Instead, he hands him a tablet
00:23:57.700 and he says, read this first.
00:24:00.840 It's a letter from the Roman Senate.
00:24:03.340 Get out of Egypt. 0.93
00:24:06.420 Now, Aniocos does what any king does. 1.00
00:24:09.580 Well, I'll consult my advisors.
00:24:11.200 I'll give you an answer, but the old man takes a walking stick that he's carrying, and he draws a
00:24:17.140 circle in the dirt around the king of Syria. Now, remember, he's in Syria. He's got the army.
00:24:23.780 The other guy has nothing but a tablet and a stick, and he draws this stick,
00:24:29.120 draws a circle around the king, and he says, give me your answer before you step out of the circle.
00:24:34.020 Well, there's a pause, and the king Assyria, with his army, the king Assyria is now standing in a circle, drawn by a guy who's unarmed, says, you have to do what I'm telling you to do because Rome is coming for you.
00:24:52.300 Only then does Papelius shake his hand, okay?
00:24:55.600 Now, the king decides, okay, we're out.
00:25:01.460 Why?
00:25:01.820 Why did that work?
00:25:04.020 This is what we have to remember.
00:25:06.600 It worked because three weeks earlier, Rome had annihilated the army of Macedon.
00:25:15.400 Everyone in the Mediterranean had just heard about this.
00:25:19.760 That stick had no power.
00:25:22.220 The circle had no power.
00:25:25.300 The power was in the belief.
00:25:29.920 It was a fresh belief.
00:25:31.760 It was expensive, and it was purchased at a very high cost, that whatever Rome said it would do, Rome would and could do.
00:25:45.460 That's deterrence.
00:25:46.960 That's where we were a year ago.
00:25:49.980 That's where the United States has always been.
00:25:52.140 We've always been in this place, draw a circle around a person and say, yeah, we're going to annihilate you unless you agree right now.
00:25:58.560 Well, I'm going to go consult.
00:25:59.720 Don't consult. 1.00
00:26:00.760 I'm telling you, we're going to annihilate you. 1.00
00:26:02.860 This is the way it is. 0.99
00:26:04.860 That's the term.
00:26:05.740 It's not a warehouse of arms.
00:26:08.400 It's a belief.
00:26:11.160 And the entire reason it's cheap
00:26:13.640 is that if they believe you,
00:26:15.720 you never have to spend a thing.
00:26:18.480 Now, our stick has worked and is still working.
00:26:22.900 Our circle still holds.
00:26:25.280 But that warehouse and our own actions that we're saying,
00:26:30.020 Look, you don't have to be for a war.
00:26:31.560 You don't have to be for a war.
00:26:32.700 But you don't say it.
00:26:35.280 The world is listening to our social media.
00:26:39.260 And that belief is aging fast.
00:26:43.620 Everyone now has seen the ledger behind our missiles.
00:26:47.540 Everyone has seen our social media.
00:26:50.680 We are the old man in the sand, hoping nobody asks a second question.
00:26:56.140 so the president has to tell the truth about the magazine not to the press
00:27:03.360 to congress on the record with the numbers and he asked for multi-year appropriations
00:27:11.340 but industry is not going to build a plant in a one-year order okay nobody breaks ground
00:27:17.920 on a rocket motor line for a customer who might change his mind in november
00:27:22.120 two weeks ago the united states treasury
00:27:27.980 two weeks ago bought yen the first coordinated intervention with tokyo since 2011 and everybody
00:27:38.500 made it about the economy the president even said we did it as a gesture of support for japan in
00:27:45.000 the interest of global economic stability and all of that is true okay global economic stability
00:27:51.940 That's what we got.
00:27:54.160 A concept, an abstraction.
00:27:57.040 But let me tell you the thing that almost no one knows.
00:28:02.720 What was that really about?
00:28:04.760 Because now I know.
00:28:07.340 It involves the circle in the sand.
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00:30:42.440 There are very few business people that truly get it, in my opinion.
00:30:50.520 No people and are beyond, they're beyond their own little circle. And even fewer of them are
00:30:59.060 entertaining and know how to hold an audience. Patrick Bet-David is the founder of Valuetainment,
00:31:07.300 host of the PBD podcast. He is doing a weekend called The Vault. And when does that happen? I
00:31:18.240 think that happens in a couple of weeks from now, or if it's not, maybe it's this week. Well,
00:31:23.280 i'll get it all from him um but i'm i met patrick probably in the early 2000s um and he said look i'm
00:31:32.380 i'm gonna i'm gonna start this company a lot of people come up to me and say i'm gonna start this
00:31:36.440 company and i'm gonna do this and that and that and he struck he's he's a guy i remembered who
00:31:41.500 came up to me in a crowd um and because he was different he was super sharp um already wildly
00:31:50.480 successful and i believed him and when he did it i couldn't be more thrilled for his success
00:31:57.500 um his show runs at the same time my show does he ended it earlier so he could be on the program
00:32:02.560 uh welcome patrick bett david how are you it's great to be on with you glenn i tell everybody
00:32:08.380 i say you're the greatest teacher of all the people in the conservative space when you speak
00:32:13.020 I can be glued listening to you for hours.
00:32:15.600 Anytime you speak, you're wonderful.
00:32:18.120 Thank you.
00:32:19.320 So you have, let me just get this out
00:32:21.940 because I'm a big supporter of this.
00:32:24.020 And full disclosure, he's an advertiser on the program,
00:32:27.280 but that's not why he's on.
00:32:28.320 There's a lot of advertisers in the program
00:32:29.740 that I don't have on.
00:32:32.100 But he is doing something August 31st
00:32:34.880 through September 3rd, MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
00:32:37.540 That's next week.
00:32:38.880 So I have that.
00:32:39.860 Tell me about it.
00:32:40.500 What is the vault?
00:32:41.760 So the Vol Conference started seven years ago.
00:32:44.860 The first year we had 400 people, and then we went to 800, then 1,200, then 2,400, and then 40-something hundred.
00:32:51.260 And then this year we're expecting shy of 10,000 people at MGM Grand Arena.
00:32:55.180 We've had Tom Brady at the event before.
00:32:56.860 We've had Mike Tyson.
00:32:57.760 We've had The Rock a couple years ago, Martha Stewart, Tony Robbins.
00:33:01.120 This year we have Logan Paul.
00:33:02.480 We have Stephen Bartlett from Diary of a CEO.
00:33:05.200 We have Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, Dan Martell, and Stephen A. Smith.
00:33:09.060 And what we do here, which I think is very, very important, Glenn, is I loved what Charlie was doing with TPUSA, the great Charlie Kirk with TPUSA, the AmFest event, raising up young men coming up that want to become husbands, fathers, business owners.
00:33:23.140 But to us with The Vault, it is the only conference you attend where we talk about finance, raising money, expanding your business, marketing, creating a media platform, social media.
00:33:34.520 But we talk about raising kids and family.
00:33:36.680 We talk about politics.
00:33:37.760 We talk about faith.
00:33:39.060 and no one's walking on eggshells so people who show up there's going to be probably 3 000
00:33:43.780 husband and wives that show up they'll bring their kids you'll see a lot of people that are sitting
00:33:47.940 in the audience with husband and wife and a 16 year old 18 year old then their 20 year old son
00:33:52.180 and watching this event collectively together and we're talking about scaling growing your business
00:33:56.740 at a time like this i think this is probably the best time to be able to increase your market value
00:34:01.940 because there's so many strategies out there and unfortunately a lot of times we'll say things like
00:34:05.780 like, well, I'm too busy, I don't have time, I got things going on, I don't know if I can take
00:34:09.500 time away to go to an event like this. You're one relationship away, one strategy away from
00:34:14.400 changing your life. And every time we do these conferences, the vault, people keep coming back
00:34:19.200 because they're getting those experiences. You know, people are pitting capitalism and saying
00:34:27.660 that capitalism is heartless, it doesn't care about people, it's cold, it only benefits the
00:34:36.500 wealthy, et cetera. I look at, and I know you do too, Patrick, I look at capitalism in a completely
00:34:41.280 different way. Success does not come from people who say, I want to be rich. Success comes to
00:34:47.700 people who say, I think I have an idea, or I'm looking for an idea that will make people's lives
00:34:54.840 easier, better. My success comes from this weird ability of making sense of history or the news of
00:35:04.580 the day in a way that nobody else does because people are struggling. I don't understand that.
00:35:09.240 So I can boil it down with a chalkboard and make it understandable. That's where my success comes
00:35:14.620 from is finding a way to help people understand something. That's capitalism. When you are
00:35:21.300 benefiting others, you know, and, you know, becoming a millionaire is, is coming up with
00:35:26.940 something that people want or need, you know, once in their life, becoming a billionaire is
00:35:31.560 coming up with something that people want or need every day of their life. And that's, that's,
00:35:37.940 that's a great point. How is it that capitalism such, it gets such a bad rap?
00:35:42.740 Well, you know, it's, it's always easy to blame. It's always easy to say, it's not my fault. It's
00:35:48.920 always easy. I remember when I was on Jubilee and one of the fellows there told me he had applied
00:35:53.960 for 477 jobs and nobody got back to him. And I said, okay, perfect. Why don't we do this?
00:35:58.940 I'm offering you a job. I want you to come work for me in Florida. And 90 days later,
00:36:03.340 let's see how good of a worker you are. And it was like, well, what are the benefits? Well,
00:36:06.540 what's this? What's that? I said, you see, you just became selective. You said you haven't had
00:36:10.040 a job for months because no one's willing to give you a job. I'll give you a job. I'll give you a
00:36:13.820 good salary, come and test it out. So to me, the concept of capitalism is a beautiful thing because
00:36:19.460 you get to pick and choose how big you want your life to be. But the reality of it today, when we
00:36:24.020 see this messaging with socialism and how they're selling it to our youth, because the simple way
00:36:30.920 of describing this, either you can solve your problems with people or the government can solve
00:36:36.880 your problems. If you think the government can solve your problems, give us money and we'll give
00:36:42.500 you better service i've never in my life seen a government office offer better customer service
00:36:49.820 than a private enterprise if you work at the dmv nobody cares about the yelp reviews of dmv
00:36:56.240 if you work out outback or you know cheesecake factory or flemings or any institution one
00:37:02.600 negative review they're like oh my god let's get a hold of them let's see what we can do make it
00:37:05.880 better there is no accountability of treating people any better here so this concept of who
00:37:11.120 can solve the issues like when you think about what happened when spacex went public and they
00:37:14.780 said oh my god elon musk is officially a trillionaire but then the story nobody was talking
00:37:20.680 about is the fact that he had 330 employees that each made two to three hundred million dollars
00:37:27.240 and hundreds of employees that made tens and a bunch that became millionaires overnight he can't
00:37:32.740 build a company by itself there's two positions you're either the entrepreneur or you're the
00:37:37.620 intrapreneur the entrepreneur risks the money starts the business the intrapreneur works like
00:37:43.280 an entrepreneur within a company eventually gets equity and if the company does well you participate
00:37:48.340 in it because the entrepreneur needs you it's a beautiful system if done right it changes millions
00:37:53.680 of people's lives but the other thing people weren't talking about when he became you know
00:37:58.180 a trillionaire or whatever, was how our individual lives have changed because of him, how life
00:38:07.200 literally has changed because of his ideas and the things that only he could have pushed
00:38:12.780 forward.
00:38:13.420 Let me switch topics here.
00:38:16.060 Tell me about the, it's economic D-Day for Iran, and is this the way to solve this, Patrick?
00:38:25.440 Are we at the end of this, do you think? 0.87
00:38:28.180 Oh, I think they have one intention in place, Glenn, and that is extending it as much as they can.
00:38:34.880 They want to extend it until Trump is no longer in there.
00:38:37.800 That is their number one goal.
00:38:39.940 And they're going to say things like, well, the Gulf states are turning against U.S.
00:38:43.020 and they're wanting to defend us now.
00:38:45.000 And the U.S. is realizing the last thing they got is the economy in Iran is in shambles in a massive way.
00:38:52.140 I think the only two years where the economy in Iran had single-digit inflation was 2016, 2017.
00:38:57.880 and that was with Obama's deal that he was doing
00:39:00.300 where they hit single digits
00:39:01.720 where the $400 million of the pallet of money,
00:39:03.580 you know which one I'm talking about,
00:39:04.360 you know this better than I do.
00:39:05.500 Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:05.940 So they've been in double digits for a long time 0.54
00:39:08.160 and Iran's not been a good place.
00:39:09.340 So we will see what this next strategy is to take place
00:39:12.880 to see if they'll break or not.
00:39:15.080 But they keep going out there and saying,
00:39:16.460 look, while we're ahead,
00:39:18.280 I think this is a good time for America to come in
00:39:20.380 and, you know, Pezheshkin said this, 0.88
00:39:22.240 everybody in the world knows Iran won this war.
00:39:24.380 Everybody knows in the world.
00:39:25.340 So I don't know if that's going to—and then the other side you've got to think about as Republicans right now,
00:39:31.480 I think one of the main topics they're going to talk about in 2028 is this whole Israel, Iran, U.S. 0.93
00:39:36.040 I think that would be a topic, the non-interventionist versus the interventionist, which should be the case. 0.97
00:39:41.580 I think the moment—and, Glenn, this was my biggest question I asked, is it Victor Davis Hanson that I had just held on?
00:39:49.820 I asked him, I said, who do you think is the one that decided to take out the supreme leader?
00:39:55.340 You think that was Mossad in Israel, or you think that was the president in the U.S.?
00:39:59.220 And he was going back and forth.
00:40:00.540 Why is that so important, in my opinion?
00:40:03.640 I think if you take out the supreme leader, and Mochitaba Khamenei, who is the son, who is mother, father, wife, I think all of them are killed.
00:40:13.080 If you're making a decision like that, that is only a decision to make for regime change.
00:40:17.900 You're not doing it because you want to negotiate.
00:40:19.800 What memorandum of understanding?
00:40:21.760 You just killed our supreme leader, who was 86 years old.
00:40:24.060 so if you're doing something like that i wonder if behind closed doors they were expecting the
00:40:29.360 negotiation to be easier like venezuela and now they're starting to realize this is a little bit
00:40:33.660 more complicated but we'll see what's going to happen i trust they're going to make the right
00:40:37.300 decision so we'll see what happened next um you know i watched the debate you did with candace
00:40:42.920 owens and andrew wilson um and you're just i mean there's no you know no good deed goes unpunished
00:40:49.120 everybody was asking for a debate um and uh you know everybody walks away i think i i i saw some
00:40:57.300 things that i didn't know um but i got frustrated with it what what were your thoughts on that
00:41:02.540 debate what did you come away with thinking here's what i got away thinking so let's set
00:41:07.980 the business aside on how they both benefited you know financially let's set that aside because
00:41:12.160 it's really about charlie i think somebody else needed to be in that seat than andrew wilson to
00:41:18.840 have the debate um i think andrew wilson made the offer and they accepted it candace did and
00:41:25.060 she said yes it came in and believe it or not candace is like let's go through it and both of
00:41:30.660 them were open to the ideas the negotiation was tough going into it but i i think there needed
00:41:35.860 to be somebody else on that seat having that conversation either do it the right way or don't
00:41:40.500 um what did we learn you know we learned you know candace conceded on a couple things i think
00:41:46.600 Andrew you know seemed uh Candice was very poised Andrew was trying to get his messaging across on
00:41:53.680 the logic side I think logically some could say Andrew won 60-70 percent I think poised some would
00:42:00.080 say Candice won 60-70 percent but at the end of the day you know once the verdict comes out and
00:42:05.280 what's being said we will learn what happened there there's when the whole when their own
00:42:09.440 family of you know Tyler Robbins's family is coming out and saying that was the argument where
00:42:13.840 you know, Andrew kept saying, how often do you see mother and father not pleading? They're not
00:42:18.000 pleading because they're saying their son did it. So why do you think parents are not coming out?
00:42:21.260 That was a good moment for Andrew Wilson, but I would have liked to have seen somebody else sit
00:42:25.640 across from Candice instead of Andrew, but kudos to both of them for doing it. Look, you're either
00:42:30.360 an Andrew fan or you're a Candice fan or you're not. So it's not like, you know, if you're not
00:42:36.400 a fan of Candice, I don't think a lot changed. If you're not a fan of Andrew or even knew who he was,
00:42:39.920 The most important poll we ran was the following.
00:42:43.360 Team Candice, Andrew changed my mind.
00:42:46.160 Team Andrew, Candice changed my mind.
00:42:48.820 And the numbers were the same.
00:42:49.920 I think it was 7% for Andrew changed my mind,
00:42:53.780 and I think Candice was 6%.
00:42:55.000 So how much change happened there, we don't know.
00:42:58.300 Did it benefit Charlie Kirk in any possible way?
00:43:01.400 Some would say no, some would say yes.
00:43:03.780 But we'll see.
00:43:04.760 We'll see what happens.
00:43:05.380 I just want this thing to be done with so everybody knows
00:43:07.360 and we can move on and celebrate what an amazing Patriot.
00:43:09.920 Charlie Kirk was and how many young boys' lives he changed.
00:43:13.580 And I want to see that organization, that institution being able to continue doing that
00:43:17.300 because that's what matters the most.
00:43:18.960 We're right now in a very interesting place in America and young boys are confused.
00:43:22.980 They don't know who to look up to.
00:43:24.800 You know, we forget how powerful Charlie was until he's no longer there.
00:43:28.880 Who's replaced?
00:43:29.640 That's not an easy job to replace.
00:43:31.300 So that's my bigger concern to make sure that's there.
00:43:35.580 Mine as well.
00:43:36.420 And that's why I'm glad you're stepping into some of this space, at least.
00:43:41.360 August 31st through September 3rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
00:43:45.240 That's next week.
00:43:46.260 You want to put your life together.
00:43:49.640 You want to be an entrepreneur.
00:43:51.040 You want to know what the future holds and how to be able to be the commander of your own ship.
00:43:56.480 Go to vault.betdavidconsulting.com slash Glenn.
00:44:01.300 Vault.betdavidconsulting.com slash Glenn.
00:44:06.420 Patrick, you know, I don't know if you know this.
00:44:07.980 We're neighbors.
00:44:09.120 My house in Florida, I'm building studios.
00:44:11.160 It'll be done in, I think, November.
00:44:14.640 And I would love to have you come.
00:44:16.680 We're right down the street.
00:44:17.780 I'd love to have you come down and be in the studios and sit down for an hour or so and just chat.
00:44:21.860 Glenn, I would have you on on every single one of my podcasts if we could.
00:44:26.300 We kind of love and respect you a lot.
00:44:28.380 So anytime, I look forward to it.
00:44:30.540 And we'll have a good conversation together here soon.
00:44:33.100 Thanks.
00:44:33.420 Say hi to the gang.
00:44:34.040 You have great people around you.
00:44:37.300 Great people.
00:44:38.040 Thank you, Glenn.
00:44:38.800 Appreciate you.
00:44:39.600 You bet.
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