RADIOFebruary 24, 2025

Countdown to Epstein Client List BEGINS as Kash Patel is Confirmed

The Trump administration is taking a chainsaw to the Deep State. DOGE is recommending cuts left and right, Trump’s cabinet is cleaning house, and newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel are gearing up to end corrupt partisan investigations and deliver the Jeffrey Epstein client list: “Patel is not going in to play nice. He’s the wrecking ball the FBI has been begging for.” Glenn reviews all the change that is coming. And he also addresses whether Trump supporters should be worried about inflation, like the media insists, or realize that “it is going to sting before it heals.”

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GLENN: Reuters is reporting that Trump's approval has slid from 44 to 47 because jobs and inflation are punching folks in the gut. Yes, unemployment is up to 4.2% and grocery bills are like a bad ex that won't go away and people are jittery a bit. It isn't a meltdown but it is Trump able to catch some flack on this. Some are saying it is the tariffs, others are saying it is Congress that is all talk and no action, the air in D.C. is thick with tension. Washington isn't nor should it ever be your sugar daddy. Trump is swinging at a system so fat the system can't even move to get out of the way.

We have trashed our economy for decades and then we added a wrecking ball to the rest of it for the last four years. As I have said for all during the election for sure, it is going to sting and hurt before it heals. Think 1970's gas lines only with worse coffee! Help your neighbor whenever you can. Look for people in need you can help. Stock your pantry. If we want the feds off our backs, we have to step up and not take shortcuts. Washington post is reporting musk and Trump with selling DOGE like it is the next moon shot aiming to call out waste and pass 20% of rebates our way. Agencies are sweating bullets. Details are sketchy but it is a gut punch to the beast in Washington. Is it bold? Yes. Is it what we asked for? Yes. This is the government getting a long overdue haircut and Musk is holding the clippers. Yesterday at CPAC it was a chain saw giving to him by the president of Argentina. They are not just trimming the fat but are promising a chunk of our own money back but here is the kicker. Do not cash that check and run. We drowning in $36 trillion in debt. Stick it in there instead.

I like Trump's latest idea. It helps everybody. Why get a trillion in cut, 20% goes back to you, 20% goes to the debt and 20% to reduce the deficit. Trump demanded what's ordinary for you and me but mythical as my little pony in Washington, D.C., he demanded a balanced budget. It will be up to us to support and demand lawmakers here to what all of us have asked for decades. Paying down the debt and cutting the deficit to zero. It is not real sexy but it is a grown up move. Less waste, more backbone, that's the win. In the time, Zelensky begging for an F BFF vibe with Trump's crew. His team met with Trump's Envoy and ghosted a presser. Washington told them to drop the dictator trash talk. It is a little chilly and not full on feud but the cracks are showing.

Trump is not here to play global babysitter. Those days are and should be over. Ukraine has its own mess. We don't need my copy mop it up. When will the media, Lindsay Graham's of the world, care about the 100 billion we shipped over there that went poof? Zelensky has said maybe half of the United States money didn't arrive. Where is it? Also, we now know that the United States arms we sent to Ukraine, some are vacationing on the Mexican border in the arm of the cartels. America's wallet isn't a bottomless pit. It is time to close it. "Washington Post" reporting America's corruption perception index craters from 69 to 65 which makes us 28th worldwide. America's correction perception index they say that's Thanks to juicy scandals like clarence Thomas and his secret billionaire get a ways. Is that the real deal?

Here is the true story and the truth "The Washington Post" will never cover. Transparency international issued this report. They are the score keeper. It is interesting because a quick search now you can find out they rake in 80 million euros from the United States state, EU and WUF cronies just last year. X is screaming deep state hit job. TI skips the Dobbs league. The Trump legal gauntlet in D.C. Georgia what happened there and in New York. It is only about the conservatives on the Court. Smells like the same rotting trash they began to shovel after Vance's speech in Europe. Transparency international is nothing more than deep state PR bank rolled by the same clowns. The state department along with all the other usual NGO that DOGE is finding is financed with taxpayer dollars. The government funded propaganda. Trump's Courts are slugging it out. But Transparency International is blind to the real dirt. The witch hunts and leaks galore. This is a power grab dressed up as a report card. Europe and the global media need to understand we are not stupid and not buying it.

The time of AI is giving us complete transparency. Kash Patel is confirmed and the GOP is pumping the fish for reform and democrats fight goons and Collins and Makowski bolted but he is locked in and promising to cutting the FBI and zero in on the crime they were committing. Eight top dogs are already out the door. He has a list and checked it twice. All the agents of January 6th. The real meltdown will happen when Kash comes in. If I were Adam Shift, I might begin to liquidate to stock and need fleet of attorneys to keep me out of jail. Patel is not going in to play nice. He is the wrecking ball the FBI has been begging for. The swamps built a fortress in that agency is he is kicking down the front gates. Eight are gone already and that's the warmup. This is not about loyalty. This is about placing justice where it belongs. Let them run. Their cheese hasn't just been moved. It is being taken away.

It will be interesting to see how these terrified rats begin to eat each other. Rioters said that DOJ is hitting pause on the foreign correct press act. Slicing overseas bribes from 2024. Trump's squad calls it an unshackling of business and fewer audits and lighter fines. Trump's side is saying they view the foreign corruption protection act as a job killer strangling United States firms while China cheats freely. Did China every pay a price for the bribery of our government officials all of the way up to and including our former press? X at Scott smells cronyism. Maybe it is growth. And not global cop duty but the optics are iffy. When the Fed's let up it is usually a breezer. This one still feels a little weird. Trump's all about fair fights and not buddy-buddy deals. But if this is a wink to his pals it is a misstep to the president and the first one. I am not sure. China is dirty. 14 billion in deals last year alone.

Justice doesn't bend for convenience. Keep it straight or we are no better off than we were and no better than the other side. Economic breaks are here and that's interesting according to the time. I will tell you about that in 60 seconds, February 28th is shaping up for a wallet boycott because Americans are fed up and targeting companies like Target for dumping DEI after Trump's nudge. Is that the way people feel? Or is this part of your tax dollars going to the Tide foundation. #BlackoutDEI is blowing up on X. I have no problem with companies choosing to go full DEI if that is what you want. It just means every day is voting day for America and we will vote with our cash. Pure American muscle. Don't like DEI? Great. Stop going to Costco which has doubled down on DEI. And any other county. Just like bud light losing over 40% market share and billions. If Americans are aware of who is sticking with the insanity and who is behind merit the daily election wouldn't bow close. Trump is pulling off the DEI duct tape and people are done. Walmart is not our morality cop. It is a freaking store. Keep your dollars where the voice is. That's power not preaching.

AI is fueling domestic crime search and fighting corruption from foreign policy and turbo charging United States crimes. Arrest are up 15%. Car tells are turning fake ID and scammers getting the crime. AI is a double barrel shotgun. Crooks will use it and blast away but it is being used by good guys also. Cartels moved $8 billion in fakes last year meanwhile AI is catching Congressmen with sticky fingers. It is a race of bad guys versus the truth. The stakes are only climb. Another defeat from Reuters. Trump's SEC pick is gutting ESG rules. They can dodge climate and social votes. Green investors are crying. Resolutions are down 40%. Exon that used to gravel at the knees of black rock are bailing on them as Trump's team is torching it and starting to do what's right for Exxon. X tags with WEF smackdown. ESG was Davos shoving its boot on company's throat. Companies are not here to bow to the globe score card. They are here to work. Let the market breathe. This is us taking the wheel back.

Europe's DEI reckoning civil unrest is brewing now. Reuters said the EU is shredding DEI. Protests are hitting the street of Berlin and Paris. 10,000 marches last week. An identity wipe out is what they are saying. Europe's awake says the culture versus elite decrees. Politicians are deaf to this risk and this risk is going to spread to a wildfire. The overlords have poked the bear too long. It isn't about hate or racism. What is happening in Europe and all over the world is about our homes. Folks want their streets safe. They love their own country but hate anyone else's country. They are tired of being told anywhere they live isn't unique or perhaps you should be ashamed of the West and install the Middle East cultural that is mostly known terror, death, and chaos. 70 Christians were beheaded as Muslim terrorists said they did in the 12th century. Convert or die. Islamic countries hundreds of years ago did give us algebra and the zero what but have you done for us lately other than return children hostages back home in coffins? Enough is enough. We all want common sense back. And not bureaucratic blueprint. Trump is proving you can push back and win. They are one spot from a reckoning. Ignore that role.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

Watch the FULL Interview HERE

Is Socialism replacing the American dream?

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

Glenn Beck Warns of 3 Economic Outcomes That Could Change EVERYTHING | Ep 467

Socialism is spreading fast among America’s youth, and the shocking election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor in New York City marks a major cultural and economic shift. Glenn exposes how runaway debt, record home prices, AI job disruption, and the collapsing stake in capitalism have led many Millennials and members of Gen Z to embrace socialism and communism. He reveals the three possible economic futures for 2026: two that are disastrous and one that could change everything if the Trump administration’s global financial overhaul succeeds. Plus, Justin Haskins, president of the Heartland Institute, joins to reveal some terrifying truths about why young Americans are embracing socialism from a poll he conducted with Rasmussen Reports.

The world is about to realize the DEADLY enemy we face

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.