The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guests: Tim Stewart & Rep. Chip Roy | 5/6/26
06 May 2026
Chapter 1: What are the implications of rising gas prices on the American economy?
okay can i ask why are people having meetings talking about lizard people with apparently our pastors and our government officials i don't know if i even buy this this is such a crazy story but i'd like to cover it because i think it says something about Christians that I just don't think is true. I just don't think it's true. Also, we talked with Tim Stewart.
He's head of the Oil and Gas Association about what's really happening in Iran with their oil. What can we expect when this is all over? And You know, I had Chip Roy on today and we were talking about this U visa that I never even heard of. It's another way of fraud and abuse. So sick of all of this. And he's trying to stand up against it. But I kind of went into a rant on. Stop being abused.
Stop it. Stop being abused.
Chapter 2: How is the U.S. Oil & Gas Association addressing global oil challenges?
Americans are being abused. And we are being convinced that we're nobodies, that we're worthless. And we so misunderstand almost everything in our Constitution to our culture. And I take on the, you know, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Wake up, America. I think you're going to like that. It's on today's podcast. Here it is.
First, mothers can bring out some of the most beautiful things, beautiful moments you've ever seen. We've been there, family together, maybe dinner, just maybe a normal gathering, and somebody stands up and says, next year there's going to be a new mom in this family. What? Everything stops because everybody knows they're watching a life change in real time. Somebody's becoming a mom.
Here's the part we don't always see. Some women, Mother's Day isn't a celebration.
Chapter 3: What concerns are raised about the new AI kill switch legislation?
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Chapter 4: How does Rep. Chip Roy view the impact of the kill switch on driver rights?
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Chapter 5: What unusual stories are being discussed regarding pastors and aliens?
Oil and Gas Association. This is the nation's oldest oil and gas trade association, about 250 oil and gas companies and thousands of workers he represents. He's been working on energy policy for over 30 years. He's seen it all, and he is with us now. When I say you've seen it all, have you seen this, Tim, on what's happening in Iran?
You know, you sometimes think you've seen it all until you read the next tweet or the next Wall Street Journal report, right? But it is largely unprecedented. It's interesting because the war plans have been built into this for 40 years, the different scenarios. But I think all those scenarios have finally started to play out in different areas. We're in a really interesting time right now.
We really are.
When you say starting to play out in different areas, in a good way or a bad way?
This is really interesting because what we were talking about six weeks ago is very different than what we're talking about right now. And you led off with what's going to happen to the Iranians. The US Navy's had this straight scenario for 40 years.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the U visa in current immigration discussions?
The Iranians had their what do we do when we have to shut in our oil production scenario for 30 years as well. And when I try and explain this to people, I have to remind them, look, the Iranians are producing oil. They're consuming it internally in their own country, but they're also exporting.
And what we've seen over the last few days has been really interesting because the blockade has been very effective in crushing those exports and the ability for the shadow fleet to move out and to move back in. What you're seeing in Iran right now is they're trying to look at overland routes.
And so they're doing everything from heavily subsidizing gasoline use in Iran itself, where it's 12 cents a gallon, to having fleets of dusty pickup trucks. fleets of dusty pickup trucks with Home Depot buckets full of crude to get it over land. And finally, they're just burning it. They're just literally burning it off at the wellhead.
So I think that scenario that the president talked about two weeks ago of putting the pressure on the production facilities is really starting to play out right now. But we've got a long tail.
So can you tell, can you, can you tell me how that, what that means? I mean, you can't, I mean, if you're pumping that kind of, that amount of oil, you can't put it in the back of Toyota pickup trucks and Home Depot. You're right. How long before they have to say, we're going to have to shut some of these things down.
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Chapter 7: How does the podcast address the balance between security and privacy rights?
Yeah.
From what we gather, they are almost there. They literally are. And again, to remind people, oil comes out and it is stored in a long distribution channel. It's stored in tanks, it's stored in pipelines, it's stored in ships and trucks, and it's moved. You know, it's in a constant moving process.
And what has happened is the floating storage obviously has been shut off, which means that puts intense pressure on the tank storage or the pipeline storage. The Karg Island situation, which handles 90% of the exports, is under intense pressure. And so what you have to do is literally start turning the valve down on the wells. And that's what the Iranians actually did.
The problem is that those are very old legacy fields. And as you mentioned earlier, those fields have water issues. They have pressure issues. They have migration issues with them. And the Iranians know somehow what that scenario will play out.
Chapter 8: What insights are shared about the future of American rights and legislation?
But obviously, it's going to have a long term impact on their ability to ramp up to another 3 million barrels a day. We're kind of in that end game scenario right now, I think. And so this project freedom slash project pause I think the president might have them in a situation where they are finally at the table for the fourth or fifth time or sixth time.
But I think they really are starting to feel the heat right now.
So can you explain the president said these things literally will explode if you don't, you know, if you just keep them in, you keep it open or you you just shut it off or whatever. He said they'll explode. What is he talking about?
Well, I don't know if he's fully is. They're not going to explode. But there's pressure issues both at the wellhead and in the storage capacity. And so oil's got to go somewhere. When it comes out, it's got to go somewhere. And again, the Iranian storage is at maximum while they're trying to get their shadow fleets back in.
And the blockade shut those tankers that were already on the water from coming back in to reload. And then you've got those that are stuck behind the blockade. So I think when the president says they're going to explode, it's not a literal explosion. Implosion would probably be a better term of art, in my opinion.
Okay. Um, okay. So they're at 12 cents a gallon. Wow. Wouldn't that be nice? Um, uh, what do we have to do? You know, the thing that people don't understand is, you know, we're bringing up light, sweet crude and we can't refine light, sweet crude here because we're not building new refineries. Um, and so we still have to buy their oil, but we're kind of
kind of swapping it in a way we're selling our oil to someplace else. And, but it's still affecting people. Is there anything that can happen that we can do to not be looking at four or five, seven, $10 a gallon gasoline? If things don't turn around here,
Yeah, this is a situation where the US is insulated, but not isolated from the global markets. And the fact is that we are now the world's largest oil producer, but you're exactly right. Crude is a global commodity and it's swapped back and forth. Our refinery industry was based around imported crude, heavy sour crude from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia.
And I had to explain to people, look, my industry's it is segmented. You have the oil and gas production side, where we have sort of been generationally groundbreaking in our ability to produce new crude light sweet, like you say. The refining industry is way behind where we are at.
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