Best of the Program | Guests: Donald & Amy Johnson | 9/29/26

Glenn Beck (0:04)

On the full show, we give you a lot of economic news, and some of it is really good. We give you a look at something that nobody is talking about, and that is the pain that the entire staff of The New York Times must have gone through to say, maybe what Trump is doing in Iran is working. Also, we talk about the steel mills that are being rebuilt. Too big to question. This is a really important story for AI and Donald Johnson, the guy that we told you a story about yesterday, the 81-year-old man.

We talked to him today, got the real story. He really could use your help. Make sure you listen to all of today's podcast.

Donald Johnson (0:52)

Thank you for listening to The Glenn Beck Radio Program.

Glenn Beck (1:02)

We will see you next time. Glad you're here. Sorry, I got to take a little Alivert, because my, my, I don't know what I'm allergic to. There's nothing growing, but I'm allergic to something. All right. Welcome to the program. I want to, I want to give you some more news that I think is good news, but it's a wait and see kind of thing. Look, I want to tell you, I'm going to tell you something I don't know why this show is successful. I'm not sure other people will tell you this. I'm not going to carry water for anybody. I'm not going to carry water for the administration or the Republicans or anything else. I'm going to tell you the truth, and I'm going to be hopeful. I like the president. I think he's doing a great job. And so when he's doing things that haven't turned the corner yet, I'm going to be hopeful, but I'm not going to tell you that, you know, I'm not going to tell you something I don't believe. And I also, I have so left the click and the audience building mania behind, I don't care. And I haven't cared in a very, very long time about, oh, I've got to be number one. We have to be first on this. I don't care. If I chase that, I will chase the wrong things. And this has been my philosophy for a long time. I will chase the wrong things. And we will become everything that I despise. My philosophy now is the country is just in so much trouble. And I personally am so sick and tired of hearing clickbait. I'm so tired of being tricked into a headline. I'm so tired of somebody saying, I know this is exactly what's happening. They don't have any idea what's happening. And so I am trying really hard not to be one of those guys because I think the most valuable thing that anyone can give to you is perspective, the facts, then perspective. And then on top of that say, but I don't know, I could be wrong. I'm not God. Okay, I'm not, I don't have a crystal ball. In this world, everything is changing so quickly. So I can tell you what I think this means today, and I'm going to be hopeful on what I think it means for tomorrow.

Let's stop with the game. Okay, so let me tell you about the steel mills that came out yesterday. I think this is a really good thing, but there's some caveats here. Yesterday in the Oval Office, the president announced that the White House is now calling what will be the largest steel plant in American history that's going to be built. $15 billion, Lee County, Iowa. That's in the bottom corner of the state, on the Mississippi, a couple of counties. And one county that has peaked at about 44,000 people in 1916 has been shrinking ever since. So this is a good thing for this corner of the state. The numbers, five to 6,000 construction jobs while it's being built. 1,750 permanent jobs when it's running, plus about 350 at the mine in Minnesota that feeds it. Now that's a lot of great news. Seven and a half million tons of steel a year at first, 10 million at full speed. The White House says that's roughly a tenth of everything America made last year out of one mine. Steel is coming back to America. Now the ore is gonna come out of the ground in Minnesota, and then it's gonna ride the rails south and become steel in Iowa, including steel, the administration says, will meet military standards. So we're now, see, Jason, remember we talked about this the other day? That I think the president sees something that nobody else is seeing and nobody's talking about it. Why would he say that? Including steel that meets military standards.