Best of the Program | Guest: Brad Meltzer | 6/24/26
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Oh, there are so many good highlights from today's show. We can only get to some of them today. I want to start with something that, you know, I started with the fact that New York has just hired a bunch of socialists. They just voted socialist out. Good Democrats, they threw out, you know, and these were all, when I say good Democrats, what do I mean by that? I don't know. Don't define it. But people who were like, I led the rally to get Trump out of office.
How does the creation of the pencil illustrate capitalism?
I did all these things. But you're not socialist, are you? Now the socialists are coming in and they're eating their own. And the problem with this is, is no one is teaching in a understandable way what socialism is and what capitalism is. You can't defend it if you can't teach it. And so I modeled how you teach what socialism is and what capitalism is. And I start with the famous pencil story. Also, the World Cup. I am in love with all the people coming here because they have a skewed idea. They've been told by their media and their politicians, America bad. America, just a killing field. And then they come here and they're like, oh my gosh, no, this is much better than our country. And they're expressing it.
We're seeing it now because of social media. So I talk about that, the world they came to see, and now how politicians are twisting it because everybody's talking about the World Cup. So let's take a World Cup story and make it into immigration. It's what the Wall Street Journal did, and it's a lie, and I expose it today. Also, one of my favorite guests, Brad Meltzer, is with me. Um, he's got a new book out for kids, uh, perfect for the two 50. I am Teddy Roosevelt who, and we talk about this. Teddy Roosevelt is one of my favorite presidents and one of my least favorite presidents. Um, because I mean, I'm, it's weird. I, I cut him a break and I don't know if I should cut him a break, but I cut him a break on some really bad stuff.
Um, and at the same time, I love him on other things and despise him on the other half of his personality. You decide. All that and so much more on today's podcast.
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How does Glenn Beck explain the difference between socialism and capitalism?
Okay, I want to help out the homeschoolers. I want to help you out if you can't defend capitalism. You can't explain why it's better than socialism. Because I'm telling you, we are going to be a socialist nation if we don't stop this soon. And that is going to require us to be stronger people, better educated people. And there was something that I read when I was a kid, and I think it was iPencil. I can't remember exactly. And so I'm going to bastardize it horribly. But I'm holding a pencil, yellow, six sides, little pink eraser at the top. And we've used these our whole life. I mean, you don't know use them now, but we use them our whole life. Everybody had one, okay? Nobody on earth, even though you have these, nobody on earth knows how to make this thing.
Not me. Not even the man who runs the pencil factory. I mean, he knows what it takes, but he's not the guy doing all of it. Not the CEO, not his best engineer, not the genius three cubicles down who corrects everybody's grammar. Not that guy. It's a pencil. The cedar comes off a mountain in the Pacific Northwest. It's cut by a steel saw. That steel came from iron ore in Minnesota, smelted with coal hauled by the rails by people who are long dead.
What are the reactions of foreign visitors to America during the World Cup?
The graphite comes out of the ground in Sri Lanka, and it's mixed with clay from Mississippi. The little band up at the top, It used to be copper from Chile, zinc from Canada, the yellow paint, the rubber that never once met a rubber tree in its life. All of these things, thousands of people on five continents that don't speak the same language, who never met, who probably crossed the street to avoid each other, you know, if they did. all of them, somehow or another, without even knowing it, have conspired to put this perfect little writing machine in a child's hand for less than a quarter. These people couldn't agree on lunch, and they built the pencil. And here's the key. No one was in charge.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–0:29
2
How does the creation of the pencil illustrate capitalism?
0:29–2:30
3
How does Glenn Beck explain the difference between socialism and capitalism?
2:30–3:54
4
What are the reactions of foreign visitors to America during the World Cup?
3:54–7:19
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What insights does Brad Meltzer share about Teddy Roosevelt?
7:19–14:28
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How does Teddy Roosevelt's legacy impact American values today?
14:28–16:51
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What lessons can children learn from the life of Teddy Roosevelt?
16:51–17:59
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How does the discussion address the complexities of American history?
17:59–51:56
Speakers
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