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Chapter 1: 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.
Chapter 2: 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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Chapter 3: 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.
Chapter 4: 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. There is no pencil czar. There's no department of pencils in a marble building deciding how much graphite Sri Lanka needs to mine this year. Nobody on the planet wakes up at 3 o'clock in the morning in a cold sweat thinking, dear God, does Ohio have enough erasers? It just happens every day.
It's a miracle so ordinary we walk right past it on the way to complain about something. So here's how you explain capitalism and socialism. If no one is smart enough to plan a pencil, nobody, it doesn't take anybody, it just happens. Who exactly do we figure is smart enough to plan an entire economy? You know this person, right?
You meet the man who flunked the pencil, but I think he's probably pretty good at running healthcare or energy or lunch for 300 million people. No, no. There's this economist named Friedrich Hayek. He spent his life on this one idea. The knowledge that it takes to run an economy doesn't live in any one place. It's scattered across millions and billions of heads.
It's the welder who can feel a batch of steel running brittle. It's the grocer who notices that young families are starting to move in and they're starting to move in and they got all these kids, so I better stock up more diapers. It's the farmer that can read the sky. None of them could write down what they know. They couldn't fill it out in a form. They'd lose the form.
but they act on it every single day. And the price tag is how they talk to one another. Copper jumps, and a man in a workshop who has never spent one waking thought on the nation of Chile suddenly figures out We should use less copper. He didn't know why. I don't think he even wants to know why. I don't want to know why. But the number told him, hey, slow down on the copper.
Somebody else in the world is using a lot of it and they need it worse than you do right now. So slow down. That message races around the planet at the speed of light without one human being saying, put out the warning on copper. There's no forum.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Brad Meltzer share about Teddy Roosevelt?
There's no phone call. Nobody's scheduling a meeting about it. But then we introduce a central planner. Let's just say best heart in the world. It's Mother Teresa with a PhD and a spreadsheet and the most sincere Mother Teresa desire to help the poor. And she stands up and she says, we don't need all this messy haggling over prices. I'll decide. I'm going to set the prices. You love me.
I love you. You know my heart. We'll just plan it. How hard can it be? And the second Mother Teresa does that, she turns off the lights. She blinds herself to the one thing that is telling everyone what everybody else knew. She's not stupid. She's not greedy. She's been handed the job. No human, no computer can pull off because the information she needs is
doesn't exist in any form that they can hold. It's in the lives of the welders and the hands of the farmer's gut. And it dies the instant that you tell them to stop deciding for themselves and wait for the memo. Then the farmer's like, well, I got to tell you, my gut says this, but the memo says do this. And that's when the breadline happens. Breadlines are real.
And it happens the same way every single time. It's honestly, it's like a band that only knows one song. That's what socialism is. Because those countries, they were not stuffed with lazy people, evil people, stupid people. The people were the same. We're the same. We're proving it right now. We took one nation and we split it down the middle with a wall.
And we waited 40 years like the world's bleakest science fair. East German, West German. Same people, same Beethoven, same grandmother's recipe, same family. Sometimes they were on different sides of the wall. One side became one of the richest places on earth and the other side bugged its own citizens, ran out of coffee and built a wall. Same people, what happened?
And by the way, notice which direction people were climbing over that wall. In all of history, all the history of that wall, not one man ever risked the searchlights and the machine gun towers to sneak into East Germany for shopping or the good food. Pull up a satellite photo of Korea tonight. The South of Korea, South Korea, it is a blanket of light.
The North is a black hole with one lonely pinprick where the dictator keeps his lamp on. Same people, same mountains, same conditions, one border, one difference. So when somebody tells you socialism just hasn't been done right, ask them and ask them gently. How many times do we have to see the same movie again? end the same way before we stop being surprised at the ending.
How many times do you go to the movie and go, wait, so Jaws, the shark was going to eat the swimmers? I didn't see that one coming this time. We've seen it. It ends the same way every time. We own this story on every format. We know in the end the dog doesn't make it. So let me spend a second being the kind of man I always ask you to be and give you the strongest thing the other side says.
Because I can't just hand you an easy version of the argument. I'm not informing you. I would be flattering you. And I don't want to do that. I hate when I ask a question of ChatGPT or one of these AIs, and they're like, that is a very smart question. Shut up. Just give me the facts. Okay?
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Chapter 6: How does Teddy Roosevelt's legacy impact American values today?
The government is supposed to be the policeman. If a powerful man hates your idea, somebody else prints it. They might even just print it just to make a buck off the controversy. That grubby, profit-hungry marketplace is the very same thing that keeps the dissonant fed. The freedom of the spirit and freedom of the wallet were never two things. They were always one thing wearing two coats.
So let me quickly end where I started with the pencil. The reason why this little miracle works is The reason a quarter's worth of cedar and Chilean copper assembles itself in a child's hand with nobody in charge is that it trusts something that no planner ever can or will. It actually trusts you. It trusts the welder that they've never met, the farmer, the grocer, the grandmother.
It trusts that millions of free people, each one knowing one small true thing, will, between them, know more than any genius and any capital ever could. Socialism says that the people at the top are wise enough to run your life. Capitalism, at its best, says something much humbler and a whole lot more radical. Nobody's that wise.
Not the king, not a committee, not a computer, not the man with the spreadsheet and the very sincere face, not Mother Teresa, nobody. So we'll leave deciding the only people, leave it to the only people who actually know, which is all of us, one at a time.
And I'd rather live in a country that admits nobody knows how to make this pencil because that's the country that figured out how to make a billion of those pencils and then hand them to the poor. More in a minute. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program. keeping yourself and your family safe means being prepared for situations that can, you know, put you or them in danger.
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Chapter 7: What lessons can children learn from the life of Teddy Roosevelt?
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All right, there is something really glorious that is happening in America. And I can't believe it. It's happening with soccer in the World Cup. I mean, I am not interested at all in the World Cup. And finally, I am fascinated, suddenly fascinated by the World Cup.
Chapter 8: How does the discussion address the complexities of American history?
And I think why is because the world came and they didn't lecture us. They came to play. And somewhere between the kickoff and the final whistle, The people who came to watch, the visitors watching, are discovering something the people who sell them opinions never wanted them to see. They're seeing the actual, real America.
They arrive here, and they have expected to see the caricature, the cruel, broken-down, dangerous, you know, cops riding on the hood of a car shooting people. And instead, they find a barbecue or a stranger waving to them into a parking space, you know. 70,000 people in a stadium who really don't care what flag you arrived under. Just can you play or not?
For years, these people have been told America is the villain. You're not going to like Americans. America is a bad place. Instead, have you noticed how many of them are like, I would live here in a heartbeat? And all because of soccer. Soccer has everybody's attention. And because of that, politicians are reaching for soccer too. And I was really disgusted yesterday.
Before I get to that, let me just play a couple of things that I think are really cool, what people are actually saying about us. Let's play Cut 16, please.
Have you got a message for the Scottish fans that have kicked over the city in the last two days?
Yeah, absolutely. Stay here. Never leave. This is New Glasgow now. Don't leave.
I just want to say thank you to the fan base. You guys are absolutely electric. You brought an energy to Boston that we've been missing. So thank you very much. And it's now added Scotland to the list of places to visit because you guys are a great crew. Please don't leave. We're going to miss you guys when you're gone.
This was the best f***ing thing that happened to this city. These Scots, all these Scots here, man. I love these people. And Uncle Fern, I'm saying right now, a year from today, I'm going to Scotland and I'm going to do videos over there. And I'm going to have a hell of a time. I'm going to go for 10 f***ing days over there.
Those are Boston people who are like, I just love these people. And I feel the same way. I don't care. I don't care what country they're from. I don't care what they look like. I don't care what flag. I don't care what team they're rooting. None of it. None of it. They're coming over and they're discovering. I love America and we love them. It's great. It's great.
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