The Glenn Beck Program

How Bad Bunny's Halftime Show EXPOSES the NFL | Guest: Stephen Moore | 2/9/26

130 min
Feb 9, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Glenn Beck critiques the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny for its explicit lyrics and Spanish-language performance without translation, contrasting it with TPUSA's redemption narrative. He discusses Trump's strategic approach to dismantling the post-war global order, managing UN decline through leverage rather than collapse, and pivoting focus to Main Street economic relief through energy, healthcare, housing, and credit reforms.

Insights
  • The NFL's halftime show choice signals a deliberate cultural shift away from traditional American audiences, functioning as a 'hostile takeover' rather than inclusive entertainment that alienates core viewers
  • Trump's negotiation strategy involves controlled pressure and leverage rather than outright destruction—he stops paying to force institutional reform, then returns conditionally to demonstrate American indispensability
  • Bitcoin's structural vulnerability stems from leverage and margin dependencies across four interconnected groups (Strategy, ETFs, miners, stablecoins) that all require the same exit door simultaneously
  • Main Street economic relief requires addressing four core cost drivers—energy, healthcare, housing, and credit—where ordinary people have zero negotiating power against monopolistic systems
  • The 80,000 Bitcoin price level represents a contractual threshold where margin calls and loan reviews activate, potentially triggering forced selling loops independent of market sentiment
Trends
Institutional pressure on cryptocurrency leverage structures creating systemic risk below psychological price thresholdsPopulist political movements globally rejecting technocratic elites in favor of business-minded leaders (Argentina, Costa Rica, potential UK shift)Corporate consolidation in essential services (energy, healthcare, housing) creating consumer vulnerability and political opportunity for price regulationStrategic use of financial withdrawal as negotiation leverage to force institutional reform without outright collapseGenerational shift in consumer sentiment from social media connectivity toward valuing offline simplicity and family timeFederal Reserve independence under threat from executive pressure to prioritize growth over inflation controlWeaponization of document dumps and transparency initiatives to expose institutional incompetence and build political narrativesReal estate and corporate acquisition of single-family homes reducing owner-occupancy rates and pricing out working familiesCryptocurrency market maturation creating systemic risk through institutional leverage previously isolated to traditional financeDecline of traditional broadcast media authority as alternative platforms (YouTube, online) capture larger audiences for competing narratives
Topics
Super Bowl halftime show cultural messaging and audience alienationNFL brand positioning and demographic targeting strategyBad Bunny explicit lyrics controversy and FCC complianceTPUSA redemption narrative and cultural counter-programmingTrump UN strategy and post-war order dismantlingGlobal institutional reform through financial leverageBitcoin structural vulnerabilities and margin call mechanicsCryptocurrency ETF redemption pressure and forced sellingMining operations and electricity cost survival dynamicsStablecoin reserve adequacy and redemption riskMain Street economic relief through energy deregulationDrug pricing middleman elimination and cost reductionSingle-family home acquisition restrictions for corporationsCredit card interest rate regulation and usury capsFederal Reserve monetary policy and inflation targetingJeffrey Epstein death investigation document inconsistenciesChildhood nostalgia and digital technology social costs
Companies
Good Ranchers
Sponsor promoting American-raised beef with subscription model; Beck endorses as example of domestic production
American Financing
Mortgage and debt consolidation company offering refinancing to reduce monthly obligations and interest payments
Byrna
Less-lethal self-defense launcher manufacturer offering pepper spray and kinetic projectile alternative to firearms
Rough Greens
Dog nutrition supplement company offering free trial to improve pet health and digestion
Legacy Box
Digitization service converting old VHS tapes, film reels, and photos to digital formats for preservation
Ghost Bed
Mattress manufacturer offering cooling gel technology and 101-night sleep trial with free returns
Patriot Mobile
Conservative wireless carrier offering alternative to major carriers with values-aligned service
Jase Medical
Emergency medication supply provider offering pre-packaged antibiotics and critical medications for home stockpiling
Z Factor
Sleep supplement from Relief Factor makers designed to support natural sleep without grogginess
Relief Factor
Daily supplement designed to support body's natural inflammation response and reduce chronic pain
Simply Safe
Home security system with AI-powered outdoor cameras and live professional monitoring agents
Go Chirp
Back roller device with multiple wheel sizes designed to target spinal muscles and release tension
Rush Tax Resolution
Tax resolution firm offering free IRS transcript investigation and back tax settlement services
Rapid Radios
Compact rugged radio communication device designed for outdoor and work site use with long battery life
Strategy
Software company that pivoted to holding Bitcoin as primary business; uses margin to amplify holdings
NFL
National Football League criticized for halftime show content and perceived cultural messaging to audiences
Federal Reserve
Central banking authority managing monetary policy, interest rates, and inflation targeting under new leadership
WHO
World Health Organization that Trump administration withdrew from as part of global order restructuring
United Nations
International institution forced to cut budget and staff after US funding withdrawal; now receiving conditional support
People
Glenn Beck
Host analyzing Super Bowl cultural messaging, Trump strategy, Bitcoin risks, and Main Street economic pressures
Stephen Moore
Economist and Trump advisor discussing stock market gains, federal reserve leadership, and economic policy
Bad Bunny
Reggaeton artist performing Super Bowl halftime show with explicit Spanish-language lyrics and cultural messaging
Donald Trump
President implementing strategic institutional reform, energy deregulation, and Main Street economic relief policies
Kevin Warsh
Nominated Federal Reserve chairman; free market advocate expected to prioritize dollar stability and inflation control
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister scheduled to visit White House during Iran negotiations and military buildup period
Jeffrey Epstein
Deceased financier whose death investigation reveals document inconsistencies and unexplained evidence gaps
Roger Goodell
NFL Commissioner responsible for halftime show selection and messaging to diverse audience demographics
Kid Rock
Musician performing at TPUSA event with redemption narrative arc from vulgar opening to Christian message
Nigel Farage
British political figure Beck predicts will become next UK leader as part of global populist movement
Michael Dell
Tech executive contributing $6 billion to Trump savings accounts for low-income families
Jerome Powell
Outgoing Federal Reserve chairman managing massive balance sheet and federal reserve headquarters operations
George W. Bush
Former president who proposed Social Security privatization allowing individuals to invest 10% of payroll
Steve Forbes
Conservative economist and early supporter of individual Social Security investment accounts in 1990s
Quotes
"The NFL declared last night that America is over as you understand it, that the dominant culture is going to be Spanish speaking, and that might be true at some point. It's not today, but that may be true at some point. But that wasn't an easy transition. That was like a hostile takeover."
Glenn BeckEarly segment on Super Bowl halftime show
"If I were treated this way in somebody else's house, would I come back? The only logical answer to that for the NFL is, yeah, if all of my clients are drug addicts."
Glenn BeckNFL criticism segment
"This is not a rescue. This is a containment of the UN. And for the very first time in a generation, the world is being told by an American president, adapt, shrink or you're irrelevant."
Glenn BeckUN strategy analysis
"Growth does not cause inflation. Growth does not cause inflation."
Stephen MooreEconomic policy discussion
"We are one real event away from everything changing. We're one big event away from everything changing."
Glenn BeckBitcoin structural risk analysis
Full Transcript
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This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. Boy, oh boy, what a half time show it was. For TPSA, what a half time show it was for the NFL. And I got a lot to say about both of them. We're going to start there in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about American financing. A lot of people are working hard doing the right things, paying their bills. Still feels like their money just disappears every month. Just feel like that with you. High interest debt kind of has a way of quietly eating up your paycheck, even when you're staying current. You can feel like you're not getting anywhere. And that's no way to live your life. American financing can make a real difference. They work with homeowners to look at ways to consolidate high interest debt and one manageable mortgage payment. The goal is to lower your monthly obligations, reduce the total interest you're paying over time. So your money starts working more for you in your future instead of disappearing into finance charges. 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Well, yeah, I guess he's charted all the way up to number 85 on the Billboard charts. That's his highest position, number 85. You remember Casey Kassam, American Top 40? That's more than twice the distance from number one. This is America's top 85. Nobody knows what's number 85. That is not playing a role in the culture of America. And this is supposed to represent our culture. And for a long time, it has represented our culture as we just fall into just, a Babylon, I guess. So it has reflected our culture in all of the worst ways, but this one went the extra mile, I think. First of all, there was no English on American television at the biggest American sporting event for about 10 minutes. No English, not a word of English, except God bless America, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Panama. I mean, okay, that doesn't make it American that makes it about the Western hemisphere. But maybe that's what Roger Cadillus trying to say. We're not an American sport anymore. I mean, we know the NFL has already sold their soul to China. So NFL is trying to get people in Europe, but Europe culture, that culture is over. So maybe he's just saying, we're gonna just, we're gonna be the Western hemisphere sport. Good luck with soccer, but you know, go ahead, go ahead. So let me tell you what happened yesterday. Green day comes on and green day doesn't do what they always do. I mean, there's such rebels. I mean, unless they have a super bowl contract, then they're not so rebellious, I guess. Bad bunny then comes on during half time. And if you don't speak Spanish, which I don't, you had to go back and read the lyrics of what was being said. Now, because I don't speak Spanish, I just have to assume none of these lyrics were said on national television, because if I do speak Spanish, I would be writing the FCC if I had children in the room. But these are the lyrics that supposedly were said. And I can only read a few of them. Yes, so that your panties get wet, get horny and versatile, more slutty than Betty Boop. The one who got horny, mommy was you. Stay killing with you. P with D, P with A, P with D, D with A. Yes, push it in. I mean, okay, your T's are rubbing my ends. This year, I don't want sluts. I see you with a lot of jewels and they want to stay, push it in. I see there, you really active and they want to stay, push it in because you look hot, because you look hot, push it in completely. And then it goes to big A's and big T's and big P's and big C's. And okay, that's really, that here's one, here's number one that Robert, Roger Gidell is saying, that's the American culture. That's family entertainment because remember, the Super Bowl is the one time where we all gather as families. Older, younger, we all get together, we all have chips in dip and we all watch the game, we watch the commercials, but it's a family night. That's what the NFL thinks is appropriate. Least he wasn't wearing a dress. And I have to be completely fair here. It was good production value, it was really good. He completely transformed the look of everything, you know, I mean, it was good. It was good. But if those were the lyrics, no, I don't think that's appropriate. Then he went on to, you know, make a comment about how the Puerto Rican culture is being appropriated and during the hurricane, I guess America, wasn't there? I don't know. I mean, honestly, I don't care that much. But let me show you on the flip side, what TPUSA was saying. And everybody got offended at first because Kid Rock started is set with a song that came out in 1999. It's vulgar, it talks about top list answers, drinking, crooked cops, you know, bastards, all of this stuff. And everybody's kind of like, what is Kid Rock doing? Why? Why? Okay. But then if you follow the story arc, what happened? There's an acoustic set with two people playing a Christian hymn, which was meant to be, this according to John Rueut on X, meant to be a bridge, an emotional bridge, okay? Comes back to Kid Rock with his stage name, instead introduced back to the stage as Robert Richie, which is his real name, okay? Then he plays a revised version of Tilly a Cant, which now the revised version ends with lyrics about Jesus Christ. And it talks about his sacrifice on the Christ and encourages people to follow Christ, read their Bibles, blah, blah, blah. This was a redemption story. And nowhere was it, push it in, yeah, push it in. So what happened yesterday? Well, I mean, the Super Bowl is always the biggest of the year, probably have 100 million people watching globally. Probably had 50 million people, I would imagine, watching the half-time show, maybe as much as 100 million. But today, if you go and you look at the half-time show on YouTube, you'll see that it has 11 million views. Last night, TPUSA had about 6 million people watching it live. However, if you go to YouTube and you see the number of views today, 12 hours later, that number is now over 25 million. I want to give you some perspective. You want to talk about affecting the American culture, because you can derive TPUSA all you want. But let me just give you some perspective of what that actually means. Do you know how many people would watch any of these shows like American Idol? The average American Idol was getting about 6 million views. Remember the cultural impact that had? That was about 6 million views. They, on their biggest night of all time, they had 38 million views for the finale. Their end of the show would go about 30 million views. Notice what I said in the last 12 hours, TPUSA's half-time show is up almost to where their final episodes of American Idol were. That was at 30, highest being 38. They're at 25 this morning. By the way, Matt Locke, which is I guess one of the biggest shows on CBS, 9.6 million views. So online, they did almost as much as, well, definitely top five TV shows. And in the first 12 hours, did almost exactly what American Idol was doing when it was at its peak. That is affecting the culture. Now, let me tell you about the culture that the NFL is pushing, because they sent us a few messages, and I'll get to that in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor is the Berna Launcher. If somebody is physically attacks you out of the blue, right now, would you be ready? Most people don't spend their days thinking about personal safety. I mean, you don't like to. Life is supposed to feel pretty normal, but normal can shift quickly. And when it does, you don't really get a warning or the timeout to figure out your options. That's why a lot of people are choosing to carry a Berna Launcher. It's less lethal, self-defense. 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Let's just say you're invited to somebody's, invited to somebody's house, okay? And it's a really big night at their house. They do this party every single year and they've invited you to come for years and it's always been great. You know, you brought your friends and your family, your neighbors, and you bought whatever, you bought whatever, Tupperware he's selling literally and figuratively. And you've helped make the house the place that everybody wants to be. Because you've been going, you've been sharing it with your friends, right? And you don't agree on everything, but that's never been the point. The point is for one night, everybody's welcome, everybody just comes together. It has good time at this host's party, right? But this time, this time, when you get there, instead of hospitality, he starts lecturing you. As soon as you get in, he starts lecturing you. Instead of warmth, he mocks the things that you and your friends hold dear. He doesn't argue, he assumes. He signals that your values are outdated, embarrassing, maybe even dangerous. You've brought your kids, but this year he's bringing strippers. And he's been going that way for a while, but now it's just completely over the top. And you look around the room and some people are nodding, other people are quiet, but you and your friends now didn't expect to feel this in a place you've been welcome, you know? I mean, it's been going that way for a while, but now I mean, it's really kind of hostile. Then the host gathers everybody for the centerpiece of the night, moment he's been hyping all year, and he delivers it in a language that you don't speak at all. Now how out of place do you feel? There's no transition, there's no bridge, there's no translation, no acknowledgement that half the room doesn't speak that language. Now locked out of the conversation, and while you're trying to figure out is this guy, does he have different motives or is he just careless and thoughtless? He keeps going, unbothered by your confusion, unbothered by, you know, your silence or your discomfort. At that point, you're not asking political questions anymore. You're just asking a human one or you should be. Why did he invite me here? Is it just because I'll buy his Tupperware? Because he's insulting me and my family and my values. He's cutting me out of the biggest part of the night by doing it in a language I don't speak. Was this a shared night or was I just invited to have my money taken from me and then be corrected, not tolerated, not welcomed, but to pay the bill and then to make sure that I understand I don't really belong. Or was I invited to be mocked and humiliated by this elitist host who wants all of his cool friends to see him mock me like all bullies do? Is that why I'm here? I think that's the moment a lot of Americans experienced during the Super Bowl last night. And the NFL should hear something. You're not a preacher. Okay? You're not a church. You're not a preacher. We didn't come to you to hear lessons. You're not a teacher either. You're not a cultural reeducation program. You're the host of a stupid game where people make millions of dollars based on my attendance and my watching you. And the host as the host, your first duty is not to instruct the guests. It's to hold the room. It's to make space where wildly different people can sit at the same table without feeling targeted, diminished or deliberately excluded. And when you as the host repeatedly signal, signal contempt for me, my values, my friends' values, I'm not going to riot. I don't flip tables. I'll just stop coming. I'll just leave. I'll go find another room, which is what happened last night at halftime. Anything that can be replaced that you're doing will be replaced. And then you turn down the next ant invitation. And once that happens, the host, you know, you can keep the house, but you lose the gathering, unless you're a drug dealer and you know that everyone that you've invited is addicted to your product and they'll never stop and kick the habit, or so you think. Personally, I think you're mistaken. You know, six million people last night peeled away from the network. What's that do to your ratings? Five million, six million, peeled away from the network, went online to watch something that doesn't hate them. That speaks volumes about your theory. Eventually, you're going to figure out you're incorrect and it's going to be devastating to you. So if you're asking what all of this means today, it's simple. The NFL declared last night that America is over as you understand it, that the dominant culture is going to be Spanish speaking, and that might be true at some point. It's not today, but that may be true at some point. But that wasn't an easy transition. That was like a hostile takeover. And the NFL was saying we as Americans, we as the NFL, the National Football League, have decided to declare you're outdated. This is the dominant culture. Get used to it. Wow. Oh, oh, oh, okay. And they did it with a guy who charted number 85. They might be a little early on this. But people did not feel included. If I, if I speak Spanish and those were the lyrics last night, I have to tell you, I am outraged. I'm outraged. Those couldn't have been the lyrics because the network didn't bleep any of the words. As you know, said there was a single bleep. Well, you couldn't have, so what did he change the words too? At best, if you were watching last night, you felt a little managed. You didn't feel celebrated. You felt a little spoken over. And the question that everybody at the NFL should ask, any host should ask before the house empties out is this. If I were treated this way in somebody else's house, would I come back? The only logical answer to that for the NFL is, yeah, if all of my clients are drug addicts. If they just, if I know, there'll be Jones and so bad, I can do, listen to this. The only reason why a host would do this to the people he's invited into his house is because they think you're a drug addict that is addicted to their product and they can do anything to you and you won't care. You'll never leave. That's not hospitality. That's a drug dealer mentality. His hospitality is about respect. And the Super Bowl of all nights should know the difference here. The left thinks they own the culture. They can, they preach to us at the Grammys. They preach to us last night at the Super Bowl. I've had enough. All right, let me tell you about rough greens. You can tell a lot about your dog what's going on just by watching the little things. You know, when they get up, how eager are they for a walk? Do they struggle to get up? How does their coat look in the sun? 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You got up in the morning and you walked to school alone, maybe, more with your sister or brother. And it could be a mile. I think my walk was about two miles. I don't know. Maybe it was only a mile. But you didn't think twice about it. This is the way it was. When you got old enough, you took your bike. But you didn't need to take your lock for your bike. You didn't need a lock. You leaned it against the rack or fence or, you know, a tree. And it was still there when he came back. Because the culture was different. In the summer, you'd wake up early. You'd pour yourself a bowl of cereal. You'd dig around for the price at the bottom of the box. That mattered, by the way. You got dressed fast. Not because anybody told you to, because the day was waiting. You walked to your friend's house. You didn't call first. You just, you know, you just knocked. Hey, can you come out and play today? I'm not even sure what we did all day. I don't even remember. What we did all day in the summer, every day. I honestly don't know, but we were out every day. Sometimes we walked around. Sometimes we would play balls. Sometimes frisbee. But nothing organized. There were never any adults hovering. There was no schedule. Nobody was driving us. I grew up at the Pacific Northwest. So it rained a lot there. But on rainy Saturdays, I remember if we were lucky, we'd turn on channel 13. Not that there were actually 13 channels, kids. But, you know, there was four, channel four, channel five, channel seven, and 13. Okay. Channel 13 was the odd man out. Wasn't one of the networks. 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. And all of my friends would come over and we'd all sit on the floor. You know, it's raining outside and we'd eat snacks. And honestly, the snacks that I think we probably bought ourselves. I mean, we get cookies, but you know, snacks. I mean, not that we were poor. I don't think. But, you know, our moms didn't buy chips in soda. That was something special, like safe for super bowl days. Okay. But today's by today's standards, I think maybe we were poor, but I didn't know it. I mean, I don't know. Everybody felt the same back then, you know? I had friends whose dad, one friend, his dad was a lawyer later a judge. He drove a Cadillac. I had another friend whose dad was a doctor. Their houses were bigger than ours, but not entirely. It didn't have different lives, 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, we would just leave the house and wouldn't come home until the street lights were on. That was the thing. That was the agreement. When the street lights come on, be at home. That was the rule. And maybe it's because we didn't stress over so much. I mean, kids talk about global warming today in the stress. You don't know what the stress is like global warming. I don't even know if we can have families when we grow up. What are you talking about? I mean, I understand that feeling. We had nuclear war. Okay. 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. Okay. Terrified of nuclear war. And we go to war, we go to school and we practiced drills. And, you know, we hear about it on the news. We lived in the quiet knowledge that the world could end before dinner time, before the street lights came on. But that just was, you know, and we weren't brought into it. Yes, our schools did drills. But the adults dealt with this. We weren't trained to march in the streets against nuclear war. It wasn't brought up to us as kids every day, because we would have freaked out. Kind of like our kids are freaking out 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. And I don't want to sound, you know, like an old guy, but I am an old guy. Things were simpler than we didn't have phones with us all the time. We didn't have social media all the time. I mean, it sounds boring when you say it out loud, but we were never bored. 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. Oh, your board here. Come on on. You're like, I'm a board. What do you have? And but they never suggested activities. They would just say, go outside. We didn't have organized sports. No one drove us everywhere. We made the games. We were the players. We were the refs. We were the crowd. We that was it. And I don't remember getting bored. I remember when we got cable TV and we thought, wow, we're going to have so many channels. Something will always be on now. Now. Now, then change. I had a phone mainly because of my sisters. 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. So they would stretch it all the way around the corner and sit in a closet and they would talk. I remember a friend of mine in high school got her own phone line in her own bedroom. Wow. What? But that was incredible. And I'd call her and we'd talk for hours. And sometimes we'd be on the phone, but we wouldn't be talking. Silence wasn't awkward. It was normal. And we didn't send pictures of ourselves. We didn't talk about sex the way kids talk about it now. We weren't distracted. There was silence wasn't because we were distracted. There was nothing demanding our attention every five seconds. Silence was part of being together. And then things started to speed up overnight, delivery, facts machines who needs paperwork overnight. I don't know, lawyers, maybe. But as these things happen every invention felt exciting like progress, like confidence in the future. When cell phones came along, man, it's going to save us time. Dad can do work in the car and perhaps leave the office earlier. Remember that lie we told ourselves? It wasn't that dad could work all the time, which is exactly what happened. Doctors had beepers. So if they were out at dinner or a movie or playing golf, the hospital could reach him and call him in for emergencies. Now everybody's got that beeper. 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. Or we could become more deeply involved and aware of what our family and extended family were doing. As social media brought our families closer together or broken our families up. And most of our time online is not with friends at all. That word doesn't even have meaning anymore, does it? Friends are followers now. When I was growing up, followers meant something entirely different. 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. Okay. What started out is 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. I'm not sure if things are getting better anymore because we don't seem to set any boundaries at all. Did anybody set a boundary last night watching this at the Super Bowl? All these modern conveniences they're not making life simpler. They're making it heavier. They're making it more complex harder to keep up harder to find real friendship. Real people and we fill every second of silence. We walk around with a phone that sounds like a casino in our hands. It's in our hands or in it's on our pocket every day and it sounds like a casino. It's got all the bells and whistles. All the endorphin rushes. You know, just and it's built. It's designed. They tell us this and we do nothing about it. It's designed to keep you pulling the arm of the new slot machine. 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. I mean, I guess. In my childhood, people live like the average person lives today would have been, would have seemed wealthy beyond imagination. And maybe that's because we just didn't buy things on credit at the time. You know, so now everybody's buying everything on credit because they want it now. And so we all just look wealthy except we're just deeper in debt. Simpler times do not mean better times. They just mean clearer times. 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. Because there were monsters under the bed when I was growing up. We outgrew the monsters under the bed. 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. And today the battle is not between good and evil. It's about what's real and what's not what's real and what's artificial. We're raising children in a world that no longer knows the difference between the two. Last night, that was a performance on stage and it was pushing our culture. I wouldn't even notice it. I guess that's everywhere now. That's just the way it is today. And so it becomes our reality. 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. Remember. Maybe the value of remembering isn't about going backward. 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. Ordinary days with real friends. Just quiet pauses. Silence that didn't need to be filled. Meals that didn't need to be photographed first. It's tough because you can't pass these lessons on to the youth of today. Just like our parents couldn't pass this on to us because you don't listen. You won't appreciate. You know, parents used to say the same things to us about, you know, their childhood blah blah blah blah blah. So you can't pass those on the lessons, perhaps, of our childhood. And our kids childhood only come after you grow up. The kind of growing up that isn't dependent on age, but on perspective. 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Today I want to talk to you about the F-22s that did not show up for the Super Bowl yesterday. Apparently they were needed elsewhere. I wonder where those F-22s might be needed. Today is a big week on Iran. Also, I talked to you on Friday when we found out that there was this orange dot that was moving up the stairs. I don't know, maybe it's Orange Man bad. Did the Orange Man kill Jeffrey Epstein? There was this orange shirt of some sort going up the stairs right around the time that we think that Jeffrey Epstein may have been killed. And the FBI knew it, the investigators knew it, and they never told us anything. And you can see it on the video and we just find out about it. After we were told by everybody, there's nothing to see here. Well, what about that? You still don't have an explanation. Who the hell is that that went up? No idea. Okay, well then that's not nothing to see here. There's a big question there. We don't know who that is. Right? Then we found out on Friday that, oh, by the way, the news, yeah, the news we found in his room was not the news that actually he used to hang himself. Well, what happened to the news he used to hang himself? Anybody want to answer that question? Nope, apparently not. Wait until you hear the latest that came out over the weekend. Oh my god, this just gets worse and worse and worse. No way to move past it. Sorry, Pam. No way to move past this. We'll get into that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about this. Patriot mobile. You know, you know, people say, if you don't like where the country's headed, do something about it. Most of us hear that and think, you know, big things, elections and rallies and, you know, moving to another state. But what if some of the most powerful choices are the ones you're already making? You know, every month you send money to a wireless company and you don't even think about it. But that company most likely turns around and spends that money someplace else and for a lot of carriers, it goes to causes and political efforts that you absolutely despise and are fighting every day against. Why would you stay with those companies? Honestly, they know it's like the NFL. They know you're addicted. You just don't want to take the time to switch cell phone companies. So the loyalty is built in, whether you like it or not. And they know that. That's why they can value, they can devalue your principles and what you believe because they know you're never going to change. Break that. Hey, big mobile phone companies. Can you hear us now? I don't like it. It's why I switched to Patriot mobile.com slash back. Do it now. Patriot mobile.com slash back or call 972 Patriot use the promo code back free month of service. Patriot mobile.com slash back. Okay. Where do I begin? Let's start with Iran. Okay. Plains are moving now towards the Middle East. We found out that the F-22s that were supposed to be going in kind of an interesting detail. I mean, Donald Trump's not trying to keep this secret. He knew this wasn't going to happen. 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. They didn't do the flyover. Why? Where were the F-22s? Well, I can tell you I think I know where they're going. But let me tell you where the C-17s are. So the C-17s. These are major massive planes. Okay. 112 C-17s are on their way to the Middle East now. That's equivalent to desert storm. That is a lot of C-17s. A lot of C-17s. So what are we doing? Well, those C-17s deliver massive huge amounts of equipment and troops as well. I don't think that we are putting troops on the ground, but you know, we're putting something on the ground. Why are we putting all these over here? If I were a ran, I would be crapping my pants right now because we're in negotiations. The negotiation with a ran is happening now in Oman. I think it starts tomorrow, I think. There were some this weekend and it didn't sound like we got anywhere, but it go in tomorrow. And then Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to the White House. I think on Wednesday or Thursday. Well, gee, that's a perfect time to say we've either just bombed or we're about to at some point. And here, here's your last chance, but we'll see. I just don't know how we are going to. How do you negotiate with a country that just killed 35,000 of their own citizens, 35,000 of their own citizens that were marching in the streets? You know, and we said we're not going to tolerate this and I believe Donald Trump. We're not going to tolerate that. I don't know how we're not going to tolerate it. But, you know, we always say we're not going to tolerate things and then we then we do. So Donald Trump, the first thing he has to do is restore deterrence. Yeah, we tell you something. We mean it. We mean it. And he's done that. This is the longest I have seen him take on. Well, no, I guess, I guess Venice way, like this, you got to get out, you got to get out. We're building up. We're building up. We're building up. You got to get out. And then what happened? Well, he should have gotten out. I don't want war and I don't want any of, I don't want any of troops on the ground. I don't. 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. We just can't target the civilians. We have to target the mullets. And I think we're going to go in again, you know, on their nuclear. But I just, I don't think it's going to be like what we've seen before. You know, any regime that can kill in the dark and then get everybody arguing about the number is a regime that needs to be stopped. Needs to be stopped. So what is Donald Trump doing? Let me take you to a story unrelated to Iran, kind of. What is the UN known for? Besides corruption and everything else. What are they known for? Sternly worded letters. We're not going to tolerate this or we're going to write a sternly worded letter. Oh, so no action, no teeth, nothing. And they're taking the world in a completely different direction. So last week we heard that we were not paying our bill and no other country of the 180 countries, part of the UN. No other country was willing to step up and pay their bill. Okay, so it wasn't just the United States, although we owe three billion dollars. And if they don't get our three billion dollars, they shut down. And I thought, yes, yes. And then this weekend I read a story that we're now writing a check for three billion dollars to the UN to keep the doors open. And I'm like, wait a minute. What? Why? We just pulled out of the WHO. The UN was on the ropes. What did they do? They had to slash their budget or they would have gone out of business really fast. They had to crush all their budget. They had to cut a bunch of jobs. They had to reduce their peacekeeping missions like those are actual missions. And just as it looks like, wow, the curtain is coming down on the UN. America writes a check to save it. What are we possibly thinking? I'm going to give you an idea. Don't know if it's true. Trump is now in this position where he is either feared or respected in the world. It's better to be respected. But if they won't respect you, they should fear you. I told you last week here at home, he's softening the PR. He's he's not. I mean, look how he's handling Minnesota. He is not compromising his values, but he's changing his tactics to get the job done. Unlike those on the left, he's not a destroyer. He's a builder. And in this case, he's going to be the savior of the UN, which is weird. But let me look at long term thinking the way I think he's looking at this. You have to understand first, hey, he's a negotiator, right? B, he's a deal maker. C, he's a builder. He takes things that are wrecks and builds them into stunning new destinations. Okay. So he's building things. He's not just dismantling. He's building. A lot of things were like, why isn't he moving faster on this? I mean, as fast as he's going, we actually are going, why didn't you do it this faster? So why would Trump get this close to shutting the UN down only to pay when no one else will? Why rescue an institution that has spent decades bloated ideologically hostile to us? Here's the answer. I think, and it's not what you think. This is not a bailout. This is not a retreat. This, again, he's a negotiator. This is leverage. When you're destroying and building at the same time, you don't pull the plug when your hand is still on the switch. Because when institutions like the UN collapse outright overnight, they don't disappear. They metastasize into really nasty cancers. Because power doesn't vanish. It moves. And when it moves like this, it rarely moves in our direction. So a sudden UN implosion does not produce sovereignty and sanity. It produces chaos and power vacuums and regional strongmen and a global narrative here this that blames one country for the destruction of the UN. And that is the United States of America. Donald Trump understands something that Washington forgot a long time ago and those Democrats who are in bed with the far left may have never learned. You don't burn the building down if you're still trying to decide who controls the land underneath it. Don't burn the building down. Who owns the land? Where is everybody going? What's next? So instead of burning it down, he's doing something I think far more dangerous to the UN. He stopped playing unconditionally and look what happened for the first time in 80 years the UN has cut its own budget. We didn't have to pressure him. We just said we're not doing anything anymore with you. Thousands of jobs at headquarters gone, peacekeeping forces slashed by a quarter, redundancies exposed seven climate offices gone. None of this happened because the UN suddenly found religion. It happened because the check stopped coming. This is the way Trump plays. Now suddenly the money comes back. Well, kind of only partially, only conditionally, only with massive strings and reforms already locked in. That's not surrender. That's a demonstration. That's a redesign made possible because you told them no more and they knew this president means it. And so they began making the moves the US wanted because they had this is the art of the deal. Everyone assumes that Trump wants the UN gone. I believe he does. But his genius is always killing two or five or a thousand birds with one stone, right? So if he threw the rock saying we're done and we're out, they had no choice but to make critical changes. But if we really were out and it collapsed, what would the world say? The world would say it's America, it's Donald Trump. But what does the world say when he comes back in? Okay. He strips the UN and all those on the left of its favorite lie. That the reason the UN is failing is because of us instead he steps steps up to save the UN. Because the world didn't do it. So the question turns outward. Where are the other 180 countries? Why are we the only one? Because we're not going to do this. Why does the entire system collapse without American money? That doesn't make sense. It makes his point. And clearly makes his point. Why is global cooperation impossible unless the United States underwrites it? That's not going to last. This is not an argument for the UN. That's an argument against the UN. And every institution is watching the WHO, NATO, the alphabet soup of NGOs, forums, councils, you know, panels that grew fat on American compliance. They're all learning the same lesson. America will engage, but only if you change because we're not doing this anymore. This is not the end of global institutions. It's the end of the blank check. Trump is trying to destroy the post-war order, but he's not doing it overnight. He's dismantling the assumption underneath it that America is always the one has to pay. Always has to apologize. Never demands results. We're just the whipping boy of everybody else. And we're going to pay for it. 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, but I have a feeling this is much more effective. I think this president, well, I know this president for me at least has earned my trust. On these things, he's earned my trust. Like I'm not happy the way we're dealing with Iran because I would have they started killing people. I would have liked to see us go in and stop them, but I'm okay with the president doing because he's earned my trust on he knows what he's doing. And he's he plays cards differently than anybody else. But a weakened shrinking exposed institution forced to justify every dollar is far easier to replace than a martyr blamed on America. This is not a rescue. This is a containment of the UN. And for the very first time in a generation, the world is being told by an American president, adapt, shrink or you're irrelevant. And this time for the first time in my lifetime, America means what it says and says what it means. All right, back in just a second. Our sponsor of this F hour is Z factor. 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Visit relieffactor.com. Start the new year off with Z factor. 10 seconds. Station ID. I could be wrong on this, but I don't I don't think I am. The guy is so damn strategic. And you just we never expected that we should have we should have because I mean if you're at art of the deal this is the way the sky operates. He's so strategic and he can juggle 1000 things at once and he knows what's coming into his hand next. It's it's really remarkable. I don't he's not saving the UN. I think he is managing the decline exactly what the UN was trying to do the United States. Think of this. They were trying to manage our decline. He's now managing their decline. That's how much has changed. I think that is a I think this is remarkable. I think this guy is going to go go down assuming this stuff works. I think he's going to go down as one of the greatest presidents of of all time and I mean you if you listen to me in 2016 I can't believe I'm saying that. But it's true you got to look at what he's doing and you can't look at things piece by piece. For instance next hour I'm going to talk to you about the economy. And I want to talk to you about his savings accounts is Trump Rx etc etc what is he doing now. People are seeing these things as one offs and I took a different attitude towards them this weekend and said let me look at let me look at several of these pieces instead of just treating this as a one off. Let me take all of these pieces and put them together what picture does that now give us. Because that's you can look at the UN just as the UN and say oh we want out of the UN good we were almost there and now he's rescuing it why why the UN no no no look at the whole picture. What is he trying to do he's managing the decline of the global world order. He's doing it with the UN he's doing with the WIF he's doing it with NATO. And so far he's done it it has been disruptive but it's not imploding. He's managing this decline of all these world powers as he's building our world power up as he is putting together the entire western hemisphere and saying this this is our game plan guys this is what we're doing. I mean I've never seen anything like it never seen anything like it. All right we're going to take your phone calls and we have more I'm going to take you to the Epstein thing next. Holy cow. This thing is getting insane. Just when you think okay all right more comes out we do you hear what happened this weekend coming up. So when your body hurts you know it doesn't usually stop your life it just shrinks it you know you pass on the long walk you take the stairs a little slower you think twice about the project in the garage not because you're lazy but because your knees or your back or your shoulders have started voting no no. 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Imagine picking up the phone and Glenn Beck is on the other line. Some torch inciders are already getting phone calls from them join the inner circle and build this movement. And then back dot com slash torch. Hello my name is bad bunny glad you're here I decided to speak English today because what the hell the country is an English speaking country but that's just me. Let me talk to you about some people I don't think speaking listen that is a pan bandie and the people at the DOJ. Here's the late well let me start this case you missed the Epstein episode on Friday. The FBI in the document dump it came out now that the film that they showed us and remember Dan Bungino everybody else that I watched it I watched I watch I watch every second of it and there was nothing there was nothing. Just thought of something can somebody check Jason can you check today remember there was that edit that was at the top of an hour though wasn't it wasn't that right at the top of an hour it was like 58 or something they said they. Oh every sets video resets I think it's the top of our so it wouldn't work but just check it for the correlation of the time of the orange blob so we find out Friday that on the video there is an orange blob that. That is going up the stairs now you could call ghost busters and maybe it was a ghost but it appears to either be a prisoner or somebody dressed like a prisoner that is going up the stairs to Epstein's cell block okay there's no record of it they've all seen it CBS analyze the digital and said yep that's clearly in fact they had an analyst come in and say that is not just somebody. Not just somebody carrying towels it appears to be on a body because they can tell the way it's moving that it's moving in the way a body would move so you can only see like maybe the shirt on on the on the body the the side of the sleeve or something but it's moving up the stairs they saw this early on they asked nobody had an answer they blamed it first on one of the guards who was quote sleeping she said no I don't bring towels up I don't bring bed sheets up that. I'm not going to bring bed sheets up that would be a complete you know a complete deviation from what I do I don't do that that happens in the shift before so where what I bring the sheets of 10 30 at night okay then we find out on Friday not only is the orange blob thing we find out that they've never answered and they just don't know but nothing to see here then we find out that when they found him at 6 30 one of them the guy who said he was sleeping all night he took the body down from the news but he doesn't recall removing the news and his partner who was awake and apparently you know making all the document falsifying the documents and she got it like 3 o'clock in the morning she said there's 21 prisoners now on the cell block instead of 22 all that was just a mistake okay well there's another bad mistake he sleeping you're screwing up the logs we don't know who the little orange blob is and you say you're not going to be able to see the you are white awake where were you who was that how did you not see that how is this how is this jail still operating if all of these things are truly just mistakes anyway so she standing there watching him she said I don't remember a news they take the body the corner can't tell a time of death because the body was moved you can't tell about the time of death just by the temperature you'd at least be able to get a ballpark it happened 15 minutes ago it happened 6 hours ago you can at least do that no no idea what time you killed himself that doesn't make sense to me at all now I'm not obviously a medical examiner but I am a doctor so I would think that you could give some ballpark of an idea whether the body was moved you know from hanging to laying down on the floor or not but she said I don't remember seeing a news then when they take the body they come back they seal the room off they come back and then there's a news that's found on the floor of the cell except in the documents they've just released they verified that that is not the news that hung him I mean I think third graders could do a better job at saying no there is something here to ask questions about what if that wasn't the news where was the news that you apparently hung himself with where did that go who was in who brought a new news in why would you bring a new news in what the hell is that all about I mean is there any good explanation that you can think of a single innocent a single innocent explanation there's a news found but it's not the news that hung him and they can't find the news that hung him huh okay so now let me give you the latest mistake this one came out over the weekend the United States Attorney's Office Southern District of New York US Attorney Jeffrey S. Berman for immediate release Friday August 9th 2019 statement of Manhattan US Attorney on the death of defendant Jeffrey Epstein Manhattan US Attorney Jeffrey S. Berman said earlier this morning the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein who faced charges brought by this office of engaging in sex trafficking of minors has been found unresponsive in a cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter today's events are disturbing and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein's many victims their day in court to those brave young women who have already come forward and to the many others who have yet to do so let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing for you and our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment which includes a conspiracy count remains ongoing uh-huh we continue to urge anyone who feels that they may be a victim to call blah blah blah okay so what's wrong with that uh i said it right at the beginning Friday August 9th he died and the release that looks like this one is clearly marked on the day he died Saturday August 10th now this is being reported as not a mistake this is just part of the dump can you give me a time stamp on when this was done the answer is yes you can tell when a document was drafted why is there no time stamp if it's a mistake why not include a time stamp or was this a rough draft just in case something might happen you know you shouldn't put prisoners into a cell where you have to write their death story just in case what the hell is that all about Jason can you think of other than uh they just got it wrong and it was written actually that morning and then somebody went incorrect at the date and if that's true why would you include this why did this circulate why why why so yeah uh again total incompetence is almost to be expected here right because everything has just been screwed from the beginning so that would make sense but then some of the inconsistencies still kind of scream something else here like do you remember that that one of the one of the guards that wasn't asleep at the job actually miscounted and counted it down by one right you pointed out so okay so that almost putting into context of this you know DOJ release it almost sounds like they did know so you know if you take all of these together it makes it seem like they're scrambling for an answer that no one's going to want to hear and instead of just telling us that this is what happened we're just being lied to about it that's the appearance now could it be incompetent sure it could be incompetence because you know it's the government and they haven't gotten the thing about this right but let me give you a bad answer was still bad but not maybe as bad as you know Hillary Clinton crept in an orange jumpsuit which I hope she gets to wear someday she looks beautiful in orange but let me take a conspiracy out and add it with a less uh dangerous conspiracy still bad one they died he died the orange jumpsuit guy went up killed him got out nobody saw it nobody caught him they go they didn't fall asleep they go and they do their regular checks they do their regular checks they see he's dead they immediately alert the the FBI and the people in charge it goes all the way to the DOJ somebody is hearing about it got to write this might be in the middle of the night but got to write this because he died the night before the ninth okay and they what they decide to do is look this is going to be such a mess just give us until the morning so we can get our crap together and so they can cock this story that they just didn't go on their rounds they missed all their rounds look we're gonna give you we're gonna give you immunity so you're not gonna get in trouble for it but you were sleeping and then you just missed your rounds and you falsified the stuff don't worry we're not gonna charge you with anything just just go along with this I mean that doesn't seem feasible only because you just don't want to have that many people in on a secret you know you can't you secrets like that don't last but that's the best innocent explanation explanation besides this particular thing somebody just got the date wrong they circulated it and they're like you got to change the date and he changed the date but I'd like to see the time stamp on it but that doesn't excuse all of the other things like the orange jumpsuit going up can you think of anything Ricky can you think of anything that is innocent that is I mean just a typo but again what about the rest of it on the blob yeah on the orange blob it's a prisoner has special privileges like he's gonna come up and visit you maybe tonight uh yeah that kind of special privilege Jason yeah I've always thought that I mean there's very specific rule I mean so if this is not a conspiracy except for the hiding of everything if it's not that I've always I mean if you if you watch any like there are a lot of youtubers out there for ex-cons talking about the rules of prison and they would never have allowed someone like Epstein with everything he's accused of to get off scot free and just to continue living his life without suffering and that's just the rules of prison so the way the government has always talked about this like of course we didn't do this course we didn't do that whatever um I always thought that it would have been a I assumed it was going to be a prisoner that had done something was kind of allowed to do something wasn't going to be Hillary this makes the most sense yeah no this this makes the most sense and now because of everything else that happened with all the convenient things that happened with cameras being down or you know guards asleep miscounts all this stuff that they just don't want to show how ridiculously corrupt and incompetent the prison system really is and that that that to me is is what I think happened and now they just don't want to admit it the problem is you're making the conspiracy worse and worse and worse and worse as more disclosures come out somebody should go into those prison records and find out if somebody has been pardoned it had a really violent past had a really had the ability to do these kinds of things that was in that prison that suddenly found themselves pardoned or released because I haven't heard anybody look into that but I mean if it was a prisoner you're not going to keep that guy in prison because he'll tell everybody in prison he'll let everybody know yeah I killed him I killed him he'll start saying those things you either have to kill him or you have to reward him get him out of jail what's crazy let me tell you about our what go ahead what I was gonna say what's crazy is every time a new prisoner shows up to a prison they have to what's called show their paperwork which is show why they're there if there's anything involving children or rape or anything like that those people are marked he didn't have to show his paperwork because everyone already knew it since it was so public it's just yeah it just seems kind of obvious to me but you don't put him in that cell block and expect him not to have that happen to him no that's why you know what why do you put you know mr. sleepy time you know upgarden on the first day he's there really oh come eat come on for the love of Pete I mean you know under under the Biden administration I could have believed it but you know this wasn't under the Biden administration all right let me talk to you about to rush tax there are two kinds of people when it comes to tax problems the first kind you know opens every letter immediately and has a plan by dinner the second kind puts the envelope on the counter in hopes it's going to solve itself somehow or another because you don't want to look at it if that's you in alone tax issues are complicated intimidating easy to put off until the penalties and interest turn a manageable problem into a really big problem this is where rush tax steps in they work with people who owe back taxes or who dealing with IRS notices and you know don't know what to do next their team helps you 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looking through um uh the archives right tell me about archive dot pH yes so I wanted to take the original press release URL uh from that actually said august 10th versus august 9th yep is what got dumped yesterday I went to the original URL I put it in archive dot pH I asked it to find any changes to the URL or that page since 2019 and there was a change made yesterday according to this archive program on February 8th at 2026 at 707 that was yesterday yes I don't know I can't yet tell what change was made but it's weird that they would update the URL after so many years especially this last weekend um yesterday yesterday so this is what came out um from uh Mario naffel from ex we compared the text they're exactly the same except two things one the date is different the one that was released over the weekend says Friday august 9th Jeffrey Epstein wasn't dead and it says pronounced dead shortly thereafter in the final release it says of an apparent suicide this first one does not you 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All right let me tell you about Bitcoin and what the real problem is that nobody is talking to you about everybody is worried about what is going to happen to Bitcoin what's going to happen is it going to go back up it's going to bounce up I've heard people say that it could go to $40,000 before it starts to bounce up I don't know my wife will won't let me sell Bitcoin she's like we put you know the small amount of money into it when it was very very cheap and she's like just leave it alone we you know we lose it all we lose it all and I'm like yeah but it's a it's a lot now to lose and she's like if we lose it all we lose it all just leave it alone stop trying to guess what the market's going to do she's probably right she's always right but let's not let's not spread that word okay but I want you to look at the bigger picture here of what's really going on because we are one real event away a big event and this could be it may not be it but we're one big event away from everything changing okay so I'm gonna try to explain this in a way that everybody can understand without all of the you know Wall Street talk I want you to imagine a big big beautiful old theater okay holds 20,000 people everybody is calm everybody is seated music playing lights are up it's great but there's only one exit door now in the real world that would be illegal in the financial world one exit door is a really bad idea that's called diversification but you're sitting in this this theater and there's only one and nobody notices the door because everything is fine but if something goes wrong let's say Bitcoin you know for most of its life was a small little club lots of doors lots of flexibility people came in they came in and went prices moved no big deal but then the doors were closed because something changed Bitcoin grew up the money still arrived but Wall Street arrived as well corporations arrived pension funds arrived remember when we all thought that would be a good idea quietly and without most people noticing Bitcoin stopped being something just people owned and started being something that people borrowed against hmm that's when the theater filled up different people different reasons but they're all sitting in the same room they all share one exit door and that is turn your Bitcoin into dollars now let me tell you who's sitting in the front rows these are the people who really matter okay this is where all the stress is coming from right now there are four big groups and they look separate but they're not first there's a company called strategy years ago this was a software company and it was like an unremarkable software company but along the way they started you know hey maybe we just buy Bitcoin okay today it's something entirely different it doesn't make money anymore selling software it makes money by holding Bitcoin people bought the stock often at a premium okay because it was an easy way to own Bitcoin without holding Bitcoin themselves so you know you could buy Bitcoin or you could just buy this stock because this company all it did was hold the Bitcoin stock and as you bought stock sometimes let's say you know with a premium they would take that premium and they would take that money and they would then borrow more money and buy more stock buy it on the margins no wallets no keys you don't have to worry about anything it's just a stock ticker a lot of people got into that here's the danger the company's health now depends almost entirely on Bitcoin's price staying high enough so they don't get a margin call if Bitcoin falls far enough for long enough the premium disappears which it now has raising money it's really really harder which it is and the pressure quietly shifts from confidence to contracts because they made contracts with banks we will be good for this money that we borrowed to buy all this Bitcoin okay that makes strategy the most sensitive piece of this system well there's problem number one sitting out there now let me take it problem number Bitcoin ETFs this is you're not buying you're not buying Bitcoin you're buying paper Bitcoin and these were sold as simple safe and very boring don't worry don't worry this brings stability okay but here's how an ETF works when people want out Bitcoin has to be sold that selling doesn't care about what you believe about Bitcoin it doesn't care about long term conviction it only cares about matching buyers and sellers that day because the seller wants out when prices fall and people begin to redeem selling becomes automatic not emotional it's just mechanical that's number two third Bitcoin miners now this one simple these are people who go mine Bitcoin and how do they do it they use these computer systems and it's gigantic and you know in China they're living by a dam because they live on electricity will every month the power company sends them a bill not in Bitcoin in dollars pay this well when the price is high miners can save when prices fall miners have choices shut the machines off and pay the bill or sell the Bitcoin again not panic it's a survival sell Bitcoin pay off the electricity and let's do the math okay this is why miners Bitcoin miners are often the first domino number three last one four stable coins the digital dollar of crypto these again are supposed to be very boring a dollar stays worth a dollar but some of them hold Bitcoin as part of their reserves that's fine unless Bitcoin starts to lose confidence and it starts to go down in value which means they've got to sell something to replace that value and raise more capital to make it stable if people start questioning the stability redemption's rise assets have to be sold again not fear mechanics so what do all these have in common because all four of these groups are different they look different they speak different languages they have different motives but what do they all have in common they all rely on exactly the same thing at the same moment the ability to turn Bitcoin into dollars without crashing the price they've got to get through that single exit door now let me give you history 1929 why did the market collapse markets didn't collapse because people were scared they collapse because loans were called in you bought this on the margins sell something and pay the bank okay in 20 in two I'm sorry in 1998 the same thing happened margins were called they needed to raise money in 2008 okay the same thing happened 98 brilliant hedge fund didn't fall because it was stupid failed because everybody needed cash at the same time same thing 2008 same pattern different decades here's what's already happened and this is really important this is what we've already seen ETF outflows during the client so it's money is leaving this mining company selling Bitcoin to pay the bills strategy stock falling faster than Bitcoin itself credit agencies openly warning about crypto link balance sheets that's not a collapse that's stress testing and so far the bridge is held but the weight is real which brings us to something everybody is mentioning and nobody really understands it the price of 80 thousand dollars the price of Bitcoin under 80 once it hits under 80 something changes not emotionally contractually below that level for least two of these institutions I just told you about if it falls below 80 79 thousand especially if it lasts weeks like 30 days some loans start to look unsafe margins get reviewed grace periods quietly end some board stop stop saying wait and start saying prepare okay now 30 days is not a magic number but it is long enough for the patients to turn into paperwork so people who are like okay all right we'll give you a few more days but now Bitcoin is under 80 it's at 69 thousand that's when people who have loaned all this money go what are you going to do paperwork has teeth markets don't break when prices fall they break when obligations activate when people who never wanted to sell are forced to consider it and when forced selling starts it pressures the price which activates more obligations which pressures the price again it's a loop it just keeps going it's not hysteria it's not conspiracy it's just physics back to the theater one person leaves no problem 10 leave fine a thousand stand up at once nobody gets out quickly the problem isn't the fire the problem is the door and this cuts both ways if Bitcoin rises and stays high the pressure completely disappears just as quietly as it was built no explosion no drama just relief okay this is not a prediction this is an explanation to you of what's happening people say what is happening is it different this time yeah it is and it's not about the price it's about what I believe really irresponsible people did in building the structure of all of this these are the kinds of things that happened in 1929 1987 2008 these are the kinds of things I'm not saying this is going to happen but it's at 69 thousand and 79 80 thousand that's the benchmark where some of these like strategy you what are you going to do what are you going to do you're going to be in a loop let's just hope it goes back up over 80 thousand quickly but it may not this may be a big deal this may be a little deal I just want you to understand what's actually happening all right first let me tell you about simply safe before we go on because I want to talk about Trump Rx and some other things that happen and show you what the president's doing for you I believe putting these pieces together makes sense if you're looking at several pieces what is he doing for me nobody thinks about their home being broken into until they hear a noise in the middle of the night the hard truth is break ins happen all the time most traditional security systems only react after somebody's already inside at that point the damage is done it's why I like you know what simply safe is doing with their active guard outdoor protection their AI powered cameras are backed by live professional monitoring 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don't have to own bitcoin to care about this this is just one of those things everybody should be aware we're very close to an edge it doesn't mean we're going to go over the edge it just means we're close to an edge and so you should be aware of where the edges are and what they look like so when other people are panicking you're not panicking because people feel trapped right now honestly you know people they are beginning to feel poor I mean trapped I think trapped is better you work you show up you do what you're supposed to do and then every month it gets tighter anyway right and it's not because you forgot how to budget but it's because the biggest cost of ordinary life energy housing healthcare credit electricity are all systems that you have no you have no negotiation power with you don't bargain with the power company you don't set the drug prices you don't decide the interest rates on your credit card you don't build hedge funds for a starter home okay what do you do you can't do all the things a big guys can do I want to explain this to you so you understand this is the problem that Donald Trump is betting on and betting against okay he has been working on this big global problem and now I think he's turning his sights to the the street problem because he couldn't fix main street without really busting up some of the bad stuff that was going on in Wall Street what he's trying to do it's not subtle and it's not polite you know he's leaning on the biggest players in the economy and saying you're not allowed to squeeze people forever you just can't do it so let me try to show you what he's doing to relieve the average person first energy and electricity when energy is expensive everything is expensive grocery shipping manufacturing heating your house keeping the lights on at work Trump's push is really simple produce more energy here faster and don't let mega users like data centers dump their cost on to regular families and the bet is that if supply goes up and the rules change your power bill will stop climbing every year like clockwork okay the second thing he introduced this last Friday health care health care and drug prices most people don't recognize this but there is a middle layer between the drug companies and the patients that make the money when the prices stay high Trump is not going he's going after the middle layer okay American should not pay more for medicine than people in other countries that only make sense if that pressure works it doesn't just save you money it lowers your stress fewer skip prescriptions fewer impossible choices to make if you need that the third pressure that we're all feeling is housing I bet you have felt this one already you go to buy a house you lose to somebody who's paying cash they don't even have a plan to live there Trump is trying to tilt the field back towards families by limiting how aggressively wall street can just come in and scoop up homes meant for people instead of corporations if that sticks it doesn't magically make houses cheap but it gives working buyers a chance you know to fight for that house again he's also with immigration he's also trying to get people out remove people so you don't have so many people competing for the same house or the same apartment and the fourth thing he's doing is credit the high interest rates don't hurt billionaires okay they heard people who carry balances because life happened Trump has openly floated floated a capping credit card interest this makes me nervous or at least putting banks on notice that the days of 25 30 35 percent annual rates are not politically safe anymore stop stop being a loan shark even the threat matters it signals that the rules might stop favoring the lender over the borrower now here's the part wall street understands very clearly when those big costs come down or even stop rising so fast small and mid-side mid-size businesses breathe again they hire they expand and they take chances that's where the that's where the disconnect is small businesses have not been able to breathe yet but that's why he's using this strategy to help main street companies more than massive corporations big firms thrive on financial tricks small ones thrive when customers have the money and the costs are predictable so they can come into your store and buy something this is the political gamble that he's working on if it works even a little people don't vote on speeches they vote based on whether their life feels less suffocating or not and here's the part that matters after the if the changes work and hold they don't expire with his term lower drug pricing structures don't vanish overnight power grid rules don't reset every four years housing supplies don't disappear because of poll closes this is about not a headline this is about changing the economy and who it answers to so you know whether it's populism or wall street manipulation ignore the labels the real question is do you feel 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pre-funded that's free money we can spend some american dream so the savings accounts uh we have um we have one of my dear friend steven's more uh on uh with us now uh the economist extraordinaire steven can i ask you before we get into the federal reserve what are your thoughts on uh the trump savings account i love it i mean look uh it's amazing uh glen you and i have known each other a long time i i arrived in washington in the early eighties believe it or not so over 40 years ago i've been in come a swamp creature but uh when i first came to washington do you know what the Dow Jones was i think a guess oh thousand two thousand yeah a thousand here's a thousand now we're fifty thousand so this has been you know one of the most spectacular probably the greatest wealth creation you're in the history of the world it started with ragan you know ragan did the tax cuts and we sweated the inflation out of the economy that we'd have under mix and import and Carter and uh we did the tax rate reductions we uh we limited the size and scope and regulation of government and it's been an amazing period you know american this is just red light and blue stuff glen but you know if you look at the worth uh the value of all american uh corporations today publicly traded companies there were seventy trillion dollars uh china's twenty trillion uh the e-use maybe twenty two trillion candidates like four trillion i mean we're so blowing away the rest of the world uh and so i'm i'm really just it's incredible that and you know trump said the other day we could go to dow a hundred thousand by the time he leaves office now you know you know that'll trump you never exaggerate right but he didn't think close to that it would be an amazing thing and so uh the track so that's the really really good news and by the way we have a hundred and forty million americans that are in the stock market so it's not just rich people benefit when the market goes up to your four one k plan or i array all of those go up but uh i like this idea of of these putting money into these accounts at when a child is born and uh you know i think it's going to be paid for it's i'm not sure i'm not sure how much the money will go into those accounts uh i like the fact that michael del contributed six billion dollars to low income i love uh the families i love that it's one of the most impactful uh for all throughout the contributions ever but my point is great idea yeah let's let that so by the way the time of someone is twenty years old if even if you just start with thousand if you put a thousand dollars in each year you're going to have a million dollars by the time you're you're uh you know twenty two twenty five years old so i like that but the only my only frustration is that uh we should have you know George w bush back in uh two thousand four wanted to put money take law allow every individual to take uh ten percent of their paycheck and instead of sending in the black hole so security put it into an index fund and oh no it's too risky and the paul crew grams and the chucky shumers and oh no that would be a terrible thing to do and what did this what did this grace that we didn't do that by the way do you know who the original original a supporter of that idea was with steve Forbes my good friend steve Forbes he proposed that in the early nineties so my i'm just frustrated that we haven't democratized the stock market more than we have um all right let me switch gears um you think that Kevin Worsh is the best man to be the chairman of the federal reserve i don't know anything about him the only person who would be better than him is me i would love for you to be the chairman i love for you to be the chairman uh if it can't be me so worsh is fantastic yes okay why because he believes you look first well let's keep this really simple because sometimes when you talk about monetary policy people guys glaze over and they run for the exit yeah yeah i can't try to make this really simple why do you have a currency why do we have currencies so you have something stable that yes you can count on to buy and sell yes it's you know we if it weren't for you know currencies will probably all still be living in case so you can trade and you can and the point of having currencies it has to have two functions number one it has to be a store of value right because if it loses value nobody's going to want to hold on to dollars if it just you know it's like would you want to hold on to then his wayland pay so it's probably not or uh you know i have a i have a i have a bill in my a wallet uh glenn i think i've shown this to you it's it's a a trillion uh zimbabwe dollars it's probably worth about thirty six cents i think i have a two trillion dollar note right so it doesn't matter how many zeros you put on the bill does it retain its value and it's in a means of exchange and so the only way that can of a currency can function is if it fulfills those two uh missions and the dollar one of the most important things for the united states in terms of monetary policies to is to make sure glenn that the dollar retains its uh world reserve currency status so in other words all transactions that are international they don't happen in pesos they don't happen in your rose they don't happen in you know uh the one they happen in dollars and that's a huge advantage to america but that can only happen if the dollar remains stable in price and so i think what you're going to get out of uh out of uh kevin warge is somebody who understands that uh you will need to keep inflation under control and that growth does not cause inflation growth does not cause inflation okay so so help me out on this because donald trump wants the rates i know i know the rates being lower typically generally people say that's going to lead to inflation because it's cheaper money right yeah borrow money and etc etc so why why do do we think that's not the case here so uh i hope that i'm sorry i love that old club because you know i've served as an economic advisor i think he's on amazing things i don't entirely agree with them on this so he every time you know i see him as long as i've known him he's always wanted lower rates because he's he's he's uh he's a you know he's a um real estate guy you know real estate guys low low low low interest rates the problem is i again i'll try to make this really simple do you remember back in 2024 right before the election uh when common heroes was running in san al trump what did uh what did your own poll did he lowered the interest rates she's funny how we did that just six weeks before the election i think you might have been trying to give a little boost to come on but the point is it didn't work you know why what happened to mortgage rates after they cut the uh fund's rate they go up they went up no they went up so they went up yeah why did they go down because and well except that when the fed funds rate is cut that pushes more money to the economy right it's a short term sort of stimulus because you get this more money in the economy but that tends to lead to what more inflation right because it's not free mentaulis inflation has too many dollars chasing too few goods so my point is i'm not so sure that lowering rates and i'm not against a rate cut but it's not like people think that the fed chairman is like the wizard allows behind a curtain they could just push a button or pull a lever and make the economy work i mean that's that's not the way it happens and so i think what we want is stable prices we want to get that inflation rate down to two percent i think we're headed there uh so i'm fine with lowering the rates maybe once or twice but don't do it too much or else you're going to get a recurrence of the high inflation that we have under Biden which is the last thing so then what is so what is Kevin Worsh going to do that besides so he got a tool does he have well uh first of all he can um he that you know there's two things he can he can adjust the interest rates up and down but he has to monitor he wants to keep the inflation in that right target the other thing is you know that the fed has a massive balance sheet of trillions and trillions of dollars and why why sell them what we don't have the government owning assets so he can and the other thing you know what he should do when you know how many people walk and working at mottage mahal that that Jerome Powell is building right off of Pennsylvania Avenue it's like less than a thousand people three thousand i say i told Kevin Worsh and he said that let's just fire a half of those people what are they do is he one of us yeah yes he's a free market guy total i think he's he's going to be excellent i think he he gets everything that we've been talking about uh if we get a if we get a stable and strong down and that's everything keep the dollar the world reserve currency we will we will we will continue to be the global leader around the world i look i'm super bullish right now i really have i think trump is i don't always agree with everything he does or says but for the most part this is a trump boom right now we're in it really is and i don't understand why the public you know you look at the consumer sentiment and it's down and you know now half of people just hate trump no matter what he does right so you know he's got a cap at about 50 percent approval but i think you're going to start to see people really realize hey this is it this is about as good as it gets to the economy you know you got a booming stock market you got a inflation coming down you've got gas prices at two sixty nine a gallon i mean it's just a beautiful picture i think the problem is is that nobody feels they don't feel my job could go away tomorrow this could end tomorrow yeah you know we still have inflation it's you know it's close to zero as you're going to get it but we didn't go back so you know except in some things we went way back but you know so it's not back to the way it was in nineteen you know in 2019 which you wouldn't expect it to but so they're seeing that by the way you don't want that the worst you know what's even worse than high inflation it's deflation and we you know what we have deflation in the 1930s so we want that we just want to and we all make this mistake i mean trump made this mistake today i've made it uh you're really around a show this morning i said well we want falling prices now we don't want falling prices we want falling inflation that's different in other words we don't want things to depreciate value we just want to keep them steady and i think trump is on that course and and he you know he gets it and look he's a businessman you know that's what's so unique about trump is a politician he actually understands business how many of these doofuses in Congress do you think understand business none very few let me ask you this i've been yeah um let me ask you this i have been saying for a while that trump has been but been breaking up the international order in his first year that's what he was doing he was breaking all of that up and he's doing a brilliant job now he's he's softening and he's turning his attention to main street this year but he couldn't turn his attention to main street until he got the people out of the way who were trying to say main street doesn't matter and so he's turning it to main street now and doing things do you think that's accurate yeah and what's going on in the world right now is there is uh unis united states envy and so our economy is growing much faster than any other country we're growing faster than Canada we're growing Europe is flatline China is not doing very well Japan's been flat flatline and i gotta tell you everywhere around the world though because i do travel around and people when i talk to just average people on the street you know i got a canada i got a britain or i'll go to asia what do you think about down front they love trump you know why and they and i predicted that we are going to see a trumpian power to the people movement all around the world and we're seeing that already liquid's happened in argentina liquid's happened in Costa Rica liquid's happening almost all of central america they're moving towards away from these arrogant out of touch politicians that are self-serving and i think you're going to see in britain do you know nijel philage of you met nijel i do i do i think i think he's going to be the next leader of britain i really do uh and so what i'm saying is what's so exciting is we could see this kind of power of the people trumpian revolution all over because it's working in the united states and everybody's looking like remember that famous scene in the movie when harry met sally when margarine says all how would she know it yeah that's not please that's what the rest of your saying i was with her yeah yeah yeah all i would she's having uh steve it always great to talk to 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