When in Doubt, Blame Jeffy? Guess Who Really Broke the ‘Dillo Racing Trophy

Jeffy thought he had gotten away with his crime … until an attentive listener ratted him out.

On today’s show, Glenn invited Jeffy on to share a note from a listener: “Just an FYI: Jeffy broke the armadillo leg. He did it on Facebook Live last week. It’s not Glenn’s fault.”

Glenn, Stu, Pat, Doc, Brad and Jeffy have been competing in a virtual armadillo race that will determine who gets to pick their real armadillo first this weekend, and Jeffy has been way ahead. Mercury One is fundraising with the 2017 M1 Ball: American Cowboy, and the Dillo Derby will be held at the ball on Nov. 18.

When a leg came off the armadillo trophy, Glenn assumed he had broken it, but an audience member wrote it in to let him know that Jeffy was the culprit.

“We have listeners who like us,” Glenn said.

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GLENN: I hope to unveil it at the M1 Ball. And then that way, I will be able to take my competition out at the -- for the armadillo race, who I believe has to be cheating. Welcome to the program, Jeff Fisher.

JEFFY: Hello, Glenn. Hello, Stu.

STU: Hello, Jeffy.

GLENN: So we're doing an armadillo race, which, by the way, they are carriers of leprosy, I just want to throw that --

JEFFY: That's not going to scare me.

GLENN: No. So we're having an armadillo race. I've never been in an armadillo race. But you can bet on us, and all the proceeds go for charity. And for some reason, Jeffy is creaming all of us.

(chuckling)

And, I mean, I don't even know how. He doesn't even have a show. Nothing.

JEFFY: Oh.

STU: Now, Jeffy, of course, was -- was hosting The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson this morning. I happened to see that when I came in.

JEFFY: Yes, I was. Filled in for Doc last couple of days. And on the Blaze Radio Network. Other than that, I got nothing. I got chewing the fat on the Pat Gray Unleashed program.

STU: Yeah. Chewing the fat with Jeffy --

GLENN: Yeah, yeah. Well, nothing else.

JEFFY: Yeah, a podcast.

GLENN: Eh, what's that?

JEFFY: Other than that.

GLENN: Those podcasts, that's a fad.

JEFFY: No kidding.

GLENN: So, Jeffy, I wanted to bring you in.

JEFFY: Yeah.

GLENN: Because a listener --

JEFFY: Oh, boy.

GLENN: Yes. A listener wrote in.

Glenn and Stu, you should know, did I tell you that I felt really, really bad that I broke the boot off of the armadillo the other day?

JEFFY: What? Yeah.

GLENN: Yeah, I broke the boot off the armadillo. It was here, and I broke it on the air.

JEFFY: The trophy? That I'm going to win?

GLENN: And it really -- it really bothered me.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: It bothered me deeply.

STU: He was worked up about that. Because it was the big prize for the armadillo race.

JEFFY: For the actual race. The race of financial -- that's another race.

GLENN: This is a trophy.

JEFFY: I'm already winning against him.

STU: You are winning so far.

JEFFY: I've been practicing.

GLENN: Yeah. So, anyway, just an FYI, Jeffy broke the armadillo leg. He did it on Facebook Live last week. He just stuck it back on there. It's not Glenn's fault.

STU: Is this true?

JEFFY: Absolutely true.

(laughter)

A hundred percent.

STU: You let Glenn suffer on national radio and television.

JEFFY: Absolutely. I was going in the other room, going, Mercury One, do not come over to Glenn Beck. Don't tell him. Don't tell him. Don't tell him. I asked her later that day if she had come over and told you that it was already broken.

GLENN: No, we have listeners that like us.

STU: Not enough apparently. Because I'm second to last place. And Glenn is third to last place.

JEFFY: I mean, it broke. It broke.

STU: So how did you break it? Did you take a break out of it, or what happened?

JEFFY: Yes, it was lunchtime. That's what happened.

STU: I heard, if you fry them up --

JEFFY: It goes up --

GLENN: They're carriers of leprosy.

JEFFY: Not after you cook them.

No, the people are kind enough to have me in front --

STU: I mean, seriously, you are up by give or take 50 percent over Pat.

JEFFY: I know.

STU: Who is in second place. And you're crushing us. You're three times basically Glenn and I.

GLENN: Okay. Listen, people. Listen, people.

JEFFY: Oh, don't.

STU: Fix this, America. Fix this.

GLENN: This is wrong. Go to mercuryone.org and fix this.

STU: Mercuryone.org/armadillo is how you can get there. You can see the race. You can donate.

JEFFY: And you can donate to me.

GLENN: All the money goes to charity. All the money goes to Mercury One.

STU: Right. So when you do that, when you donate something, you can select who it will benefit on the armadillo race.

GLENN: It cannot be Jeffy.

STU: Obviously, it should not be Jeffy.

GLENN: It could be anyone. Leprosy, I would be okay.

STU: Doc, Pat, Brad -- anybody. Just not Jeffy.

GLENN: Jeffy.

JEFFY: Really?

GLENN: Can't be done. Can't be done.

STU: I mean, a vote for Jeffy is a vote for leprosy.

GLENN: It really is. It really is. You hang around him too much, and your fingers start to fall off. Your arms fall off. So it's ugly. It's ugly.

So thank you, Jeffy, for making me feel --

JEFFY: Well, it was great to stop by and see you --

GLENN: Yeah, it was always good to see you. Yeah, oh, man. Oh, do I miss you every day? You bet. You bet.

STU: And thank you for breaking the trophy.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: That was incredibly nice and honest of you --

GLENN: No, I thought it was classy that you owned up to it too. And go, oh, crap, and stick the boot back on. No, that's a classy move.

JEFFY: Well, what else are you going to do?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. Admit it.

JEFFY: I did.

GLENN: Okay.

Thank you, Jeffy.

Trump's education secretary has BIG plans for the DoE

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Our education system is broken, and the Department of Education is a massive failure. But that all ends now.

It's no secret that America's school system is seriously lacking in many ways. President Trump pointed out that despite our massive spending per pupil, we are behind most of the developed world in most metrics. Our scores continue to plummet while our student debt and spending skyrocket—it's utterly unacceptable performance and America's students deserve better.

That's where Linda McMahon, Trump's pick for Secretary of Education comes in.

The former WWE CEO and leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration during Trump's first term, McMahon laid out her harsh criticisms of the DoE during a confirmation hearing on the 13th and revealed her promising plans to turn things around. McMahon described the public education system as "in decline" and promised that under her authority, the DoE would be reoriented towards student success.

Here are the top three changes to the Department of Education:

1. Dismantling the Department of Education

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From the beginning Trump's orders for McMahon were clear: oversee the end of the Department of Education.

During her Thursday hearing, McMahon clarified what dismantling the DoE would entail. As Democrats have repeatedly pointed out, Trump does not have the authority to destroy the DoE without Congressional consent, as an act of Congress created it. That is why Trump and McMahon's plan is to start by shutting down programs that can be stopped by executive action, then approach Congress with a plan to dismantle the Department for good. The executive orders have already begun to take effect, and once McMahon is confirmed she will author a plan for Congress to close the Department.

McMahon also promised that the end of the Department of Education does not mean an end to all the programs currently undertaken by the doomed department. Programs that are deemed beneficial will be transferred (along with their funding) to departments that are more suited to the task. The example given by McMahon was IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) funding, which instead of being cut would be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.

2. School Choice

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In a huge win for parents across the country, McMahon pledged her support for School Choice. School Choice is the idea of allowing parents to enroll their student in any school of their choice, including religious schools and private schools. It would also mean that part or all of the funding that would have gone to a relocated child would follow them and continue to pay for their education.

This gives parents the ability to remove their children from failing schools and seek a better education for them elsewhere. A growing body of evidence suggests that the way we run our schools isn't working, and it is time to try something new. School Choice opens up education to the free market and will allow for competition.

Our children deserve better than what we can currently offer them.

3. COVID and DEI

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Trump's government-wide crackdown on DEI will ironically serve to increase inclusion in many American schools.

McMahon said as much during her Senate hearing: “It was put in place ostensibly for more diversity, for equity and inclusion. And I think what we’re seeing is, it is having an opposite effect. We are getting back to more segregating of our schools instead of having more inclusion in our schools.” She also spoke in support of Title IX, and the push to remove biological males from women's and girl's sports. In the same vein, McMahon pledged to push back against the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, which many Universities have failed to adequately address.

On Friday, February 14th, President Trump signed an executive order barring any school or university with COVID-19 vaccine mandates from receiving federal money. This only applies to the COVID-19 vaccine, and other vaccine mandates are still standing.

POLL: What DARK government secrets will Trump uncover?

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Will the dark secrets of the Deep State finally see the light of day? Or will they slip back into darkness, as they have many times before?

The Trump administration is gearing up to fulfill one of Trump's most anticipated campaign promises: to make the contents of the JFK files, along with other Deep State secrets, available to the public. Kash Patel, who has promised to publicize the highly anticipated files, is expected to be confirmed next week as Trump's director of the FBI. Moreover, the House Oversight Committee created a new task force headed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called "Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets," which is tasked with investigating and declassifying information on the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, UFOs, the Epstein list, COVID's origins, and 9/11. This all comes after the FBI found 2,400 "new" records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy following Trump's executive order to release the files.

Glenn discussed this topic with the cast of the Patrick Bet David podcast. Glenn expressed his confidence in Trump's radical transparency—on the condition that Kash Patel is confirmed. The cast was not as optimistic, expressing some doubt about whether Trump will actually unveil all that he has promised. But what do you think? What files are likely to see the light of day? And what files will continue to linger in the dark? Let us know in the poll below

Do you think the JFK, RFK, and MLK files will be unveiled?

Do you think the 9/11 files will be unveiled?

Do you think the COVID files will be unveiled?

Do you think the UFO files will be unveiled?

Do you think the Epstein list will be unveiled?

Transgender opera in Colombia? 10 SHOCKING ways USAID spent your tax dollars.

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The government has been doing what with our tax money!?

Under the determined eye of Elon Musk, DOGE has rooted out the corruption that permeates USAID, and it turns out that it's worse than we thought. Glenn recently read a list of atrocious causes that were funded by USAID, and the list was as long as it was shocking.

Since the January consumer index report was published today, one thing is clear: eggs are bearing the brunt of inflation. That's why we illustrated the extent of USAID's wasteful spending of YOUR taxpayer dollars by comparing it to the price of eggs. How many eggs could the American people have bought with their tax dollars that were given to a "transgender opera" in Colombia or indoctrinating Sri Lankans with woke gender ideology? The truth will shock you:

1. A “transgender opera” in Colombia

USAID spent $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia. That's over 135,000 eggs.

2. Sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala

$2 million was spent funding sex changes along with whatever "LGBT activism" means. That equates to over 5.7 million eggs!

3. Teaching Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary-gendered language

USAID forked over $7.9 million to combat the "gender binary" in Sri Lankan journalism. That could have bought nearly 23 million eggs.

4. Tourism in Egypt

$6 million (or just over 17 million eggs) was spent to fund tourism in Egypt. If only someone had thought to build some impressive landmarks...

5. A new "Sesame Street" show in Iraq

USAID spent $20 million to create a new Sesame Street show in Iraq. That's just short of 58 million eggs...

6. Helping the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society

$2.1 million was sent to the BBC (the British Broadcasting Corporation) to help them value the diversity of Libyan society (whatever that means). That could have bought over 6 million eggs.

7. Meals for a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda

$10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to an Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group. That comes up to be just shy of 29 million eggs.

8. Promoting inclusion in Vietnam 

A combined $19.3 million was sent to two separate inclusion groups in Vietnam inclusion groups in Vietnam (why where they separated? Not very inclusive of them). That's over 55 million eggs.

9. Promoting DEI in Serbia's workplaces

USAID sent $1.5 million (4.3 million eggs) to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”

10. Funding EcoHealth Alliance, tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology's "bat research"

EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs that funded the Wuhan lab's bat virus research, received $5 million from USAID, which is equivalent to 14.5 million eggs.

The bottom line...

So, how much damage was done?

In total, approximately $73.8 million was wasted on the items on this list. That comes out to be 213 million eggs. Keep in mind that these are just the items on this list, there are many, many more that DOGE has uncovered and will uncover in the coming days. Case in point: that's a lot of eggs.

POLL: Should Trump stop producing pennies?

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On Sunday, February 9th, President Trump ordered the U.S. Mint to halt the production of pennies. It costs the mint three cents to produce every penny, which Trump deemed wasteful. However, critics argue that axing the pennies will be compensated by ramping up nickel production, which costs 13 cents per coin.

In other news, President Trump promised on Truth Social that he would be reversing a Biden-era policy that mandated the use of paper straws throughout the federal government. From potentially slashing entire agencies to saying farewell to pennies and paper straws, Trump is hounding after wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars.

But what do you think? Was Trump right to put an end to pennies? And should plastic straws make a comeback? Let us know in the poll below:

Should Trump stop the production of pennies? 

Do you agree with Trump's reversal of the plastic straw ban?