Best of the Program | Guest: Bill Essayli | 6/8/26

The episode opens with Glenn Beck railing against what he calls a dishonest media, particularly after a tense interview with the president on Meet the Press. He argues the so-called 'meltdown' was not a breakdown but a man enduring years of hostile, biased treatment from an institution that has lost its credibility. Beck frames the president’s departure not as a tantrum, but as a principled exit from a system that demands conformity over truth. He then pivots to a deep dive into the U.S. economy, explaining that Friday’s trillion-dollar stock market plunge wasn’t caused by bad news—but by the truth: strong jobs data and rising inflation mean the Federal Reserve won’t cut interest rates, killing the AI stock rally built on the fantasy of cheap money. The real story, Beck argues, is that Wall Street’s speculative frenzy is collapsing under its own weight. He warns listeners that the pain is real—mortgages are rising, inflation is sticky, and small businesses are squeezed—but America’s strength has never come from financial markets. True security, he insists, is built in homes and communities, not in Washington or on Wall Street. The episode closes with a blistering critique of California’s election system, where Bill O'Saley, a federal prosecutor, reveals how lax voter registration, universal mail-in ballots, and legalized ballot harvesting have created a fraudster’s paradise, with no paper trail and no accountability.