Chapter 1: What historical context does Glenn provide about American society 100 years ago?
Lee Zeldin is joining us on today's show and talking about the rollback that he and Trump did on the EPA regulations. This is a game changer and this is not something that can be corrected the next time a president comes in. It's not executive order. This is happening because of the Supreme Court. Also Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 and a history of streetcars and cool cars all on today's podcast.
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Let me tell you a history story here. Lee Zeldin's coming up in just a minute. We're going to talk to him about deregulation. I may. Well, he's not in person, so I can't kiss him, but I might have kissed him on the mouth for what happened yesterday. I just I just love what happened.
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Chapter 2: How did the deregulation actions impact the EPA and American industry?
GM, Standard Oil, and Goodyear. They would buy the local streetcar company. They'd stop investing in the maintenance. Then things would start to break down. There'd be problems. And they would then say, we can't fix this system. It's just outdated. And they'd rip out the tracks. Meanwhile, as the train systems that they owned...
were having these problems, GM, Standard Oil, and Goodyear would come to the cities and say, you know what you need? You need buses. Buses are absolutely going to change the world. You have city bus lines. They're not going to break down like these old, outdated rail lines. You need buses. And so they replaced all the rail lines with buses. And some cities pushed back.
But then suddenly, you know, Who's to say that it was bribery? Who's to say it was lobbyists? I am. I am. I'm one to say that. All of a sudden, every city got rid of them. The permanence of the rail disappear. Rails, that signals stability. Buses can be rerouted tomorrow. What happened? Developers stopped building dense neighborhoods around the transit. So cities sprawled out everywhere.
And that's a problem, not a problem. Up to you. But the automobile became a necessity. It was no longer a choice. You live in any city. Live in Los Angeles. Used to have the leading streetcar system in America. Los Angeles. It was great. Try getting anywhere without a car in Los Angeles. You can't. You can't. You can take the bus. Good luck with that.
So this changed the design of American life entirely. This didn't just change the streetcar industry. This changed our architecture, our city designs, the way we live, the way we commute. This changed lives. And then they put a sticker on it that said, Americans just love their cars. So you know that I'm not just making this up. 1949, federal prosecutors brought an antitrust case, okay?
And the jury came back and found, yeah, the companies were conspiring against They were a monopoly on the buses and the supplies to the transit systems. They had lied. They had used lobbyists and all of this thing. And they came down hard on them. And the judge gave them the penalty. You know what the penalty was for GM, Standard Oil, and Goodyear Tire? $5,000. $5,000.
That's like a parking ticket. No one went to prison. The tracks kept disappearing. This wasn't about transportation. Streetcars created neighborhoods, downtowns built for people instead of parking lots, cities connected by shared movement. Everything the left says they want today was pushed by these giant corporations and pushed out.
And now they're using the same tactics to get those cities back. It's not going to end well. Because whenever you're doing things undercover, whenever you're trying to be sneaky, whenever you're not being upfront with the American people and you're letting the elites decide... You've got problems. It doesn't work out well.
So the distances grew, dependence on cars exploded, highways carved through urban neighborhoods. The American dream was relocated to the suburbs, which is fine. It's fine. But you didn't choose it. Three companies, through collusion, bribery, everything else, public-private partnerships with governments, they chose that. Because now you need a car to participate in society at all. Okay.
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Chapter 3: What parallels are drawn between the Cuban Missile Crisis and current geopolitical tensions?
And I want you to understand, this is not smoke-filled rooms plotting evil. This is more dangerous, I think. This was incentives and human frailty. The companies followed profit. That's what companies are supposed to do. Cities wanted short-term savings.
The company, the National City Lines, was creating a problem so then the people funding the National City Lines could come in and fix the problem and have the answer. Does any of this sound familiar? Consumers wanted freedom, but bribes were given and taken. Collusion between giant corporations happened. They had the money to lobby, to buy, and to bribe.
And the legal system, when it finally kicked in, it did virtually nothing. And let me ask you this, see if this sounds familiar. If you had bribed politicians, colluded, lied, misrepresented everything, And you destroyed an entire way of life. All for profit. Do you think you would have faced a $5,000 fine? Or do you think you would have gone to jail? Does any of this sound familiar?
Because that's what has to change. And the only way to change that is to reduce the size of government. They were all selling the same thing. A promise that the future would be easier if we tore up the past. Is that not the promise of corporations and NGOs and lobbyists and big government advocates today? Forget the past. Tear the past. Take the statues down. And we'll have a brighter future.
Would it not have served our generation and our children's generation better had the system worked the way it was supposed to and let people actually decide? They may have chosen the same thing, but it would have been their choice, not a manipulation. The streetcar wasn't just transportation. It was a vision on how society could move together.
Did you even know about streetcar dominance in America? Did you even know we led the world in this? Did you know we were the envy of the world? Did you know how we went from the trolley and American elites choosing buses over trolleys? I didn't for the longest time. When I found out, I was outraged by it.
Once those rails were gone, this is the secret also that you have to pay attention to because it's repeating itself. What did they do? The national city lines. GM said, you know, it's going to be a lot better for the tires. You're going to save more money. Just rip those rails out. You couldn't go back. One day the trolley came down your street. The next day it was a giant bus.
And everybody adapted. And today, we don't even know what was lost. And I think that's the biggest trick of it all. When something slowly disappears, slow enough, people stop remembering it ever existed. That's what you're witnessing in real time now with healthcare and energy over the last 20 years. Healthcare, has it gotten better since Obamacare or worse?
Did Obamacare fix the problem or make it worse? Did it live up to its promise? No. Because that wasn't the real goal. Look at energy. During the Biden administration, what did the socialist, Marxist, and climate radical politicians, lobbyists, and NGOs put into the legislation that you couldn't even see until it was passed, the Green New Deal?
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Chapter 4: How did the streetcar systems influence urban development in America?
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This guy has just announced yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency is deregulating the largest, single largest deregulation action in U.S. history. It changes everything. Oh, yeah. I might have to play some sexy music behind it when he's talking, because this is conservative and constitutional porn that is about to happen. Lee Zeldin joins me in a second.
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Chapter 5: What role did major corporations play in the decline of streetcars?
This is about more consumer choice. This is about having more affordable vehicles. And by the way, when you make the trucks more affordable that deliver all of those consumer goods that you purchase in your daily lives, the cost of living across the board is able to go down $1.3 trillion.
Now too often when you start talking millions and billions and trillions, you know, a lot of people just kind of view it all as the same. These are, these are big numbers. $1.3 trillion is one massive number. When you're talking about $2,400 to purchase a new vehicle, $2,400 less, it's more mobility, more economic mobility. It's the ability to be able to get to work, to get to church.
It's the ability to have more money available for healthcare, for education, and the other costs of life. And I was just asked about fossil fuels. And the question was asked in a way as if we should be getting rid of it. And I mean, just look back at the last few weeks, the temperatures across this entire country. Thank God President Trump has been unleashing energy dominance.
Thank God we have baseload power, reliable coal and natural gas and and oil that's kept our country warm. The person that you're talking about, that low-income, that middle-income family, that person who's been struggling, imagine going through the last few weeks without heat. The president's policies, especially when you add them all up, and it's only been one year.
We still have three more years of this. There's a lot that's been fixed. There's a lot more to fix. And I'm just really honored to have a part of it.
Well, I tell you, Lee, you were on the show, I don't know, about a year ago, and you said you were going to do this, and you said that the president was on it, and the president had told me he was going to do this. And it is nice to see politicians and people in government actually do what they say they're going to do. Congratulations, and please congratulate the president on this as well.
Great, great news. Thanks, Glenn. Thank you. You're listening to The Best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts.
So, Jason, I want to check with you. I saw the poll go up. We just asked the Torch insiders to decide and rank what they wanted to talk about this hour, what they wanted me to start with. And it was Cuba, was it not?
Yeah. Well, it's gotten closer, but 55% of the audience want Cuba. The second closest one is SAVE Act at 42%. So most of them Cuba.
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