The Glenn Beck Program - July 22, 2026


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00:00:00.000 All right, today's podcast. Great. And you don't want to miss the after show. If you are a
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00:00:18.060 how should we look at this. But in today's podcast, the best of, how can I say there's
00:00:23.380 hope in destruction? Oh man, we're at a turning point and I think it's a good turning point.
00:00:28.760 I'll explain why. The truth on the free market, life in the 1970s, and if the editors find time
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00:02:30.860 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program so i want to i want to give you uh
00:02:46.720 hope in destruction as i am watching what is going on and mom donnie what he is doing let's
00:02:57.160 play that clip that uh that jason just played a minute ago can we play that he was playing
00:03:02.000 a clip from mom donnie's speech for the um torch insiders uh and i want you to hear one part of
00:03:09.620 this speech from last night go ahead have the independent legal authority to enforce this 0.95
00:03:14.680 warrant. The federal government, however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC and execute
00:03:20.240 this warrant. And I want to be equally clear. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York
00:03:25.360 City, nor is any other war criminal at large. While we cannot end the genocide on our own,
00:03:30.980 we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon. And we can examine every tool
00:03:35.940 we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people. Stop. What has he just said?
00:03:42.080 he has said i call on the federal government to um arrest him uh because they have and he called
00:03:48.640 on the icc international criminal court okay the federal government just this week came out and
00:03:54.920 said we're out of the icc it is it is nothing but a sham of a court and we're not going to play this
00:04:01.540 game anymore so on the same week that uh trump and our state department says we have nothing to do
00:04:08.180 with the icc it is a sham of an organization he then says i'm calling on the federal government
00:04:14.400 most people that he's actually talking to have no idea what the icc is or that our government has
00:04:21.180 just said that we're out of the icc or why we said we're out okay they have no idea nor do they care
00:04:28.400 he knows he knows so he is setting up see the big bad boogeyman orange man bad is letting this
00:04:36.700 criminal this war criminal just walk the streets of new york then he goes on and he says but we
00:04:44.320 are not going to let our silence stop this we're not going to be silent so what is he saying he's
00:04:51.260 pouring gasoline all over the streets of new york and he's flicking matches and it will catch fire
00:04:58.900 in September and it will be his fault. And he's not doing it. I can guarantee you the people that
00:05:08.120 have supported him and put him into office already have had plans to have uprisings in the streets
00:05:14.900 this fall when Benjamin Netanyahu gets there. All right. So Glenn, where do you find hope in this?
00:05:21.200 you know i think my mantra is going to be on this show from here on out we've been here before
00:05:29.180 we've been here before because we have been now we've never seen all of these things at the same
00:05:36.080 time but it rhymes so closely we've been here before let me give you this example it's june
00:05:44.880 1969 it's the largest radical student organization in american history it's about the same size as
00:05:51.860 the dsa is now and they had their national convention in the chicago coliseum students
00:05:57.260 for a democratic society had somewhere near a hundred thousand members and chapters on hundreds
00:06:02.560 of campuses exactly like the dsa it had started seven years earlier at a uaw camp in port huron
00:06:12.520 Michigan. They had a manifesto written mostly by a young man named Tom Hayden. It was a document
00:06:18.240 that opened not with rage, but with unease. Students raised in modest comfort, looking at
00:06:26.320 the world their parents built and finding it hollow. That is exactly the same pattern. I'll
00:06:31.480 give you the stats later on in the program. That's exactly what is happening today. It was arrogant,
00:06:36.580 but it was also persuasive because there were enough people that felt that way okay and it
00:06:43.500 began to win the people now fast forward seven years later in that coliseum sds argued about
00:06:50.280 which faction was more revolutionary and bernardine doran led about a third of the delegates out the
00:06:57.560 door chanting the names of the north vietnamese dictator what is that that was the violent side
00:07:05.980 and all they were doing is basically in today like our communists in the dsa are doing they
00:07:13.600 are chanting the names of dictators like mal within a year the largest student movement in
00:07:20.860 american history essentially no longer existed that faction that walked out called themselves
00:07:27.380 the weathermen and they announced that they would bring the war home does that sound familiar
00:07:33.980 bring the intifada here same thing now they expected thousands and a few hundred showed up
00:07:44.880 i think this is where it's going to be different i think there will be thousands on the streets of
00:07:50.360 new york but they ran through the gold coast breaking windows they got beaten they were
00:07:55.920 arrested uh and the man who saw it most clearly was not a conservative it was fred hampton he
00:08:01.680 was 21 years old. He was the chairman of the Illinois Black Panthers, the most genuinely
00:08:07.620 radical man in the city. And he said, these guys are opportunistic. They're adventurous.
00:08:13.380 They're, in fact, the word he coined for them was, I think, custeristic. Basically marching
00:08:20.580 a handful of people into a massacre and calling it strategy. Five months after that, on a March
00:08:27.260 morning in 1970, a townhouse on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village blew apart and took the
00:08:34.740 blocks quiet with it. What was happening? Well, the weathermen had been assembling a nail bomb
00:08:43.380 and three of them died in this. Its target was a dance at Fort Dix, enlisted soldiers and their 0.57
00:08:50.600 dates. That was the destination, not a symbol, not a statue, not a building at midnight, a dance floor.
00:08:58.040 Two months after that, construction workers in lower Manhattan waded into a crowd of anti-war demonstrators with fists.
00:09:05.080 Three years after that, the union man who led those workers, Peter Brennan, was sworn in as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Labor.
00:09:13.440 Now, here's the arithmetic that nobody planned.
00:09:16.680 1964, Lyndon Johnson carried 44 states with 61% of the vote, one of the most complete liberal mandates ever handed to an American president.
00:09:26.160 Four years later, Nixon and George Wallace combined for 57%.
00:09:33.400 Eight years later, Nixon carried 49 states.
00:09:37.000 When the National Guard shot students at Kent State, the polling didn't break the way the campuses expected.
00:09:43.100 Most Americans blamed the students.
00:09:47.440 You see, the new left in 1962 had an argument.
00:09:50.680 By 1970, it had a bomb.
00:09:53.220 And a bomb is not stronger than an argument.
00:09:58.320 It's a confession that the argument has stopped working.
00:10:02.720 The moment you decide to make people comply,
00:10:06.100 rather than convince them,
00:10:08.180 you have quietly conceded that you cannot get their consent.
00:10:12.000 And in a country where consent is the whole operating system,
00:10:16.180 that concession is fatal.
00:10:23.220 They are now announcing themselves that they're communists.
00:10:27.740 And violence is growing.
00:10:30.200 You don't need to defeat a movement that has stopped trying to persuade.
00:10:34.720 You need only to stay standing while it persuades the country.
00:10:41.800 Your side's right.
00:10:44.340 That's the pattern to me that's worth watching.
00:10:47.320 And it repeats because it's structural.
00:10:49.700 It's not accidental.
00:10:51.040 This is the problem they do.
00:10:52.620 This is the way it ended with Woodrow Wilson.
00:10:55.800 There were bombings in the streets.
00:10:57.580 They started openly saying that they were communists,
00:10:59.880 and it was over.
00:11:01.260 They moved too fast, too quickly,
00:11:03.920 because it always gets to a certain point
00:11:06.100 where the radicals just can't hold back anymore.
00:11:08.360 They're like, we're so close, just take it.
00:11:10.800 That's what's happening.
00:11:14.020 A movement that trades in argument grows
00:11:17.620 because an argument can scale
00:11:20.880 and anyone can be convinced.
00:11:22.620 A movement that trades in coercion contracts because coercion requires purity.
00:11:30.180 Purity requires purges, and every purge is smaller than the one before it.
00:11:38.420 What happened in Chicago in 1969 is what that looks like on the last day.
00:11:46.200 100,000 people, and by nightfall, a room of a few hundred certain that everyone else is a traitor.
00:11:53.620 They are entering the traitor stage.
00:11:56.460 They've already said it. 0.99
00:11:57.760 They're already purging Democrats out because they're traitors. 0.69
00:12:02.900 The people who walked out of that Coliseum thought they were the vanguard.
00:12:07.560 They instead were the remnant.
00:12:09.560 so when you see a faction of the american left today convinced that the founding documents are
00:12:16.880 obstacles rather than inheritance convinced that the people who disagree are not wrong but
00:12:22.300 illegitimate the honest response should not be panic it should be recognition
00:12:29.580 because this is what a movement looks like when it's run out of persuasion and knows it
00:12:36.080 see this is why everybody says oh the constitution it's so slow everything is so slow yes this is
00:12:43.120 why the constitution is slow the constitution is impatient you're impatient i'm sorry the
00:12:49.840 constitution is everlasting patient because it's a machine that is built to outlast people
00:12:58.040 who are impatient with it okay it just says slow down slow down eventually they'll reveal
00:13:04.700 themselves. And then we'll all know. Madison didn't design it for agreeable seasons. He designed it
00:13:11.500 for a season exactly like this one, where the people start to say things that we hope and I
00:13:18.000 still believe is true. I said this to a family member last night who disagrees with me almost
00:13:23.380 everything. We're on opposite ends of the spectrum on this. And I said, look, it's about to be over
00:13:30.920 because Democrats are not communists
00:13:34.560 and they're not violent.
00:13:37.500 Americans are not communists
00:13:40.220 and they are not violent. 1.00
00:13:42.920 Radicals are.
00:13:44.380 Americans are not. 1.00
00:13:46.480 And she agreed with me. 1.00
00:13:50.440 Now, I don't know if she fully understands
00:13:52.880 what I was saying at that time,
00:13:55.120 but she will.
00:13:59.060 And it doesn't mean I'm right.
00:14:00.400 doesn't mean my side is right it means that we're not radicals when it comes to the constitution
00:14:08.960 we're not radicals we believe in that when somebody goes and says they're going to
00:14:15.360 get rid of the presidency and the uh the senate the most logical thing for a democrat to do
00:14:23.960 is to say well they're just fringe and they're crazy okay and i think that's what a lot of
00:14:28.900 Democrats have done. Now, some Democrats, when you have Bill Maher, and who was the other guy
00:14:33.100 that came out this weekend that was big, that says, this is crazy. This has got to stop. This
00:14:37.900 has got to stop. I'll vote for J.D. Vance if this doesn't stop. You know you have a problem.
00:14:47.060 You see, the founder's bet was that in an open contest, coercion eventually reveals itself and
00:14:53.960 loses. That bet has been called several times and it has not yet been beaten. So here's
00:15:01.880 my bet. From John Brown to the Weather Underground to today, Americans are not communists. Americans
00:15:11.620 are not violent. This movement is about to hang itself. They're almost done with persuasion.
00:15:21.520 They're showing every signs that they are walking into the same noose that they built for others.
00:15:29.000 They're walking into it themselves.
00:15:31.780 So have faith, have hope, just stay the course, know who you are, be peaceful.
00:15:37.920 Now is the time to be as peaceful and as loving and as empathetic as you can possibly be.
00:15:45.580 Sincerely be that way.
00:15:47.260 because there's going to be a lot of people
00:15:50.720 that have been on the other side
00:15:52.180 that don't know what to do
00:15:53.600 and they don't want to come your way.
00:15:55.280 They don't have to come our way.
00:15:56.900 They don't have,
00:15:57.580 you don't have to say Glenn Beck was right.
00:15:59.340 You don't have to say that.
00:16:00.540 I'm not asking you.
00:16:01.560 I don't need that.
00:16:03.180 The constitution and the republic doesn't need that.
00:16:06.200 What the republic needs is all of us to go,
00:16:09.380 you know what?
00:16:09.800 I'm done with the communist thing.
00:16:11.340 I'm done with the radical thing.
00:16:13.180 I'm done with the violence thing.
00:16:14.920 I don't want any part of that.
00:16:16.840 I just, I want our Constitution and our Senate and our House to be fixed, not destroyed.
00:16:23.620 I want our country to be fixed, not destroyed.
00:16:26.360 We have problems.
00:16:27.180 We all agree on the problems.
00:16:31.700 We can get there.
00:16:33.240 And we're about to hit that off ramp.
00:16:35.940 Pray that your neighbors take that off ramp.
00:16:38.860 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:16:41.680 so there is a new survey out of 7 000 estranged parents that found that one in three believe
00:16:49.320 their adult child's therapist recommended or influenced cutting family ties more than 25
00:16:57.480 percent of young adults in the u.s are or have been estranged from one or both parents because
00:17:03.160 our culture is obsessed with drama if something goes wrong in our lives our therapy culture looks
00:17:11.080 at it and looks for someone else to blame and your therapist will tell you it was because your
00:17:17.460 parents were actually narcissists and that's why you can't quit vaping but here's what stuck out
00:17:24.680 this i'm reading this article and here's what stuck out to me mental health experts expressing
00:17:28.060 concerns that young adults without ties to their familiar support are more susceptible to falling
00:17:33.240 into and staying in toxic relationships so children who cut themselves off from their parents are more
00:17:39.420 likely to end up in a toxic relationship. This is the story of the DSA. Hear me out. Nate Silver
00:17:46.780 found that the key demographic of the Democratic Socialists of America is those who are highly
00:17:53.640 educated and downwardly mobile. They have doctorates and they make less than their parents
00:17:59.520 and that feels unfair to them. So they look for someone to blame and just like blaming their
00:18:06.400 parents, they blame their ancestors. They blame our history for their trauma. So they go no contact
00:18:12.360 with America and they cut themselves off from who they really are. And the result, they enter a toxic
00:18:19.160 relationship with the DSA. So now this is my theory, but I think this is good news because
00:18:26.120 they say in the article, most people don't stay no contact forever. It's not sustainable and most
00:18:31.780 most people want a healthy life. So we have to help the DSA members come back to the American 1.00
00:18:37.600 family. So let me try to do that with just some facts that they could try to argue, but
00:18:43.200 good luck with that. And I want to build this case on the free market system carefully and
00:18:50.380 accurately. Let's go back to 1639. Shopkeeper named William Keene, he was dragged into court
00:18:59.060 for selling nails at too high of a price.
00:19:01.900 He goes to court, okay?
00:19:03.800 The general court fined him 200 pounds.
00:19:06.700 That's a lot of money back then.
00:19:07.960 The deputies wanted the full amount.
00:19:09.920 Magistrates cut it in half
00:19:11.180 because they said it was too harsh.
00:19:12.980 Then his church admonishes him from the pulpit
00:19:15.680 on a public fast day for selling nails
00:19:19.060 that were excessive rates to the dishonor of God's name.
00:19:24.320 Well, Keene spent the rest of his life in shame
00:19:28.940 and trying to clear his name.
00:19:33.040 Reverend John Cotton preached a sermon the next day
00:19:36.160 listing the false principles of trade.
00:19:38.760 And the first one on the list was this,
00:19:40.060 that a man might sell as dear as he can
00:19:44.340 and buy as cheap as he can. 1.00
00:19:48.600 All right, these were Puritans 1.00
00:19:50.020 and they were asking the right question. 0.99
00:19:53.020 Is trade just?
00:19:54.540 Is this trade just?
00:19:56.740 Is my neighbor better off?
00:19:58.940 They just reached for the wrong tool to answer it because a court can't know the price of a nail.
00:20:04.880 The price is not a moral statement.
00:20:08.340 It is a signal.
00:20:09.880 It's information about scarcity moving at the speed of light between millions of strangers who have never met.
00:20:16.760 But the Puritans were on to something that the modern free market crowd gets wrong in the other direction.
00:20:23.140 They think the price is that answer.
00:20:26.560 That is the answer to a moral question.
00:20:28.640 but it's not. The market is the greatest engine for lifting human beings out of misery that has
00:20:35.460 ever been discovered, and it's not even close. Now, it has no conscience of its own. It borrows
00:20:44.020 yours. So watch what happens when you put both halves together. In 1990, 2.3 billion people on
00:20:53.440 this planet lived in extreme poverty, 2.3 billion people. By 2025, that number had fallen to 831
00:21:03.720 million. By the way, the world population grew by more than two and a half billion.
00:21:12.040 So that works out to about 115,000 human beings leaving the worst poverty the earth has ever seen
00:21:21.080 every single day for 35 straight years but nobody's noticing it nobody's celebrating it 1.00
00:21:29.180 nobody organized it nobody voted for it and before anybody says well that's all china
00:21:34.720 no no it wasn't outside of china the extreme poverty rate went from 33 percent in 1990
00:21:41.880 to 12% in 2025.
00:21:44.860 It's the whole world.
00:21:47.140 How?
00:21:49.580 Food.
00:21:50.480 I mean, I could go into a long story
00:21:52.320 about how, you know,
00:21:53.640 Norman Borlaug spent decades
00:21:55.460 standing in the mud in Mexico,
00:21:57.120 you know, trying to figure out
00:21:58.980 how to breed shorter wheat.
00:22:02.100 Wheat that wouldn't fall over
00:22:03.660 in the weight of its own grain.
00:22:04.900 Mexico went from importing wheat
00:22:06.460 to exporting it.
00:22:07.360 India went from 12.3 million tons of wheat
00:22:11.580 in 1965 to 20.1.
00:22:14.400 In 1970, five years later,
00:22:17.520 Pakistan hit self-sufficiency in 1968. 1.00
00:22:24.720 This is the man who's credited
00:22:25.780 with saving up to a billion lives.
00:22:28.460 And did you know his name?
00:22:30.860 I mean, how many of us have even heard his name?
00:22:33.680 Power, electricity.
00:22:35.640 In the year 2000,
00:22:38.120 two in 10 people on earth had no electricity.
00:22:41.500 Today, that's fewer than one in 10.
00:22:45.180 The number living in dark has been cut by more than half since 2000.
00:22:51.980 Why?
00:22:52.960 Solar modules, you know, back then were more than $100 a watt in the 1970s.
00:22:59.740 They're now measured in cents.
00:23:02.160 Lithium-ion cell prices have fallen more than 99% since 1991.
00:23:07.320 okay all of these declines follow a curve all of them every time cumulative production doubles
00:23:15.420 the price drops about 20 percent got it scale matters with batteries same number doesn't matter
00:23:25.020 food everything no agency mandated that curve it's just what happens when millions of people
00:23:31.620 are free to try, fail, undercut each other, and quite honestly steal each other's ideas.
00:23:40.060 So why doesn't it feel like this for you? Why doesn't it feel like it's great?
00:23:46.440 Because in the part of the American economy that you actually touch, it's not a free market.
00:23:53.760 It's not. And I'm not going to be one that pretends otherwise to win an argument. This
00:23:59.100 is not the free market. Since 2000, prices for televisions fell about 97 percent. Toys, computer
00:24:07.720 software, cell service, everything down. Now, in the same time period, hospital services, college
00:24:15.840 tuition, college textbooks, child care, medical care went up faster than anything else in the
00:24:23.180 economy. And what does that tell you? The things that got radically cheaper are the things that
00:24:31.120 nobody in Washington was protecting. The things that eat your paycheck are the ones where the
00:24:37.300 government sits between you and the buyer and the seller, okay? Subsidizing demand, restricting
00:24:44.260 supply, or both. Well, Glenn, what about housing? Great. Listen to this. This stat will boggle your
00:24:52.220 mind. I sat with this stat yesterday and I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. How is it we don't
00:24:56.660 know this? Government regulation at all levels now accounts for $131,734 of the price of an average
00:25:08.340 new single family home. That's 26.4% of the price is from government regulation. And that number is
00:25:18.900 up more than 40% in the last five years. It's more than double than what it was in 2011.
00:25:28.700 First-time buyers made up 21% of the market last year. That's the lowest share since anyone started
00:25:35.020 counting in 1981. So what is the problem? Government regulation. You get rid of the
00:25:40.820 government regulation. Just go back to 2011. 2011. How much money are you saving?
00:25:52.180 You go back just five years and you're saving $131,000.
00:25:59.240 Then there's the permission slip problem. In the 1950s, about 5% of American workers needed
00:26:05.700 a government license to do their job, 5%.
00:26:08.300 Today, that's north of 20%,
00:26:10.040 and by some counts, closer to 25%.
00:26:12.580 A barber in Iowa needs 2,100 hours of training.
00:26:19.740 2,100 hours of training to be a barber.
00:26:23.180 In New Hampshire, it's 800.
00:26:26.180 Now, is that because hair behaves differently in Iowa?
00:26:30.920 This gap is not safety.
00:26:33.380 That's the guy who already has a shop making sure that you don't open one across the street.
00:26:39.760 That's the machinery that drives prices up.
00:26:44.280 That's the machinery that keeps it all in place.
00:26:48.600 And that machinery has just had the best year it's ever had.
00:26:51.720 Federal lobbying spending broke $5 billion for the first time in 2025.
00:26:58.020 That's the largest single jump since quarterly disclosure began in 2008.
00:27:03.580 We now have 15,000 organizations reporting.
00:27:08.000 So when some 27-year-old tells me the game is rigged, you know what my answer is?
00:27:13.760 Yeah.
00:27:14.620 Do you have the stats on it?
00:27:15.580 Because I do.
00:27:17.280 The problem is you have the wrong defendant.
00:27:19.440 let me tell you something about the boston tea party you probably didn't know
00:27:27.800 it was not a protest against high prices okay parliament had just made tea cheaper
00:27:36.560 now there are other things going on but let me just talk to you about the price of tea
00:27:40.440 india east india company was was going under in 1773 bad debt corruption in its leadership
00:27:47.420 and about 17 million pounds of tea rotting in London warehouses.
00:27:52.200 So Parliament floated it alone.
00:27:54.720 They waived its duties and they handed it a monopoly on selling tea in America.
00:28:00.300 And Lord North assumed the colonists are not going to riot over a bargain.
00:28:03.420 They're going to get a great price.
00:28:05.480 Now, for different reasons, December 16th,
00:28:08.080 the men climbed onto three ships and threw 342 chests in the harbor.
00:28:13.160 And the company billed Boston 9,000 pounds for it.
00:28:17.420 but here's what you can get from this
00:28:21.700 that a lot of people with an economic degree
00:28:24.720 still doesn't, they don't get
00:28:26.620 a low price from a politically protected monopoly
00:28:30.300 is not a bargain, it's a bribe
00:28:33.320 the founding economic act of this country
00:28:37.180 was Americans refusing a corporate bailout
00:28:40.860 refusing cheap goods that came with it
00:28:43.720 because it was a corporate bailout
00:28:45.840 Now, that's not anti-capitalist.
00:28:47.540 That's the most pro-market thing anybody has ever done on this continent, quite frankly.
00:28:52.920 So here's what we should be suggesting to people who say, it's broken.
00:29:00.460 You're right.
00:29:01.680 You're right.
00:29:02.480 But let me give you some answers here.
00:29:04.320 None of them are socialist.
00:29:06.860 First, end the rescues.
00:29:08.760 You hate the bailouts.
00:29:09.940 I hate the bailouts.
00:29:11.340 No rescue.
00:29:11.900 If a firm is too big to fail, then it's too big to be private.
00:29:15.900 Let the company die.
00:29:17.980 Bankruptcy is not a market failure.
00:29:20.320 It's the market working.
00:29:23.560 Then delete every license.
00:29:26.820 Any license that protects an incumbent instead of a customer.
00:29:31.320 And recognize the license across state lines.
00:29:34.560 If your hands are steady enough to cut hair in Nevada, they're steady enough to cut hair in Iowa.
00:29:39.140 legalized building is the next thing you can't subsidize your way out of a shortage
00:29:46.380 every dollar of demand side helps get uh of demand demand side help gets absorbed by the price when
00:29:56.180 the supply is frozen by law next thing you want to fix colleges stop lending 18 year olds unlimited
00:30:04.080 money for a product whose price rises to match the loan. That's not giving them access. That's
00:30:13.040 a transfer from students to the institution. It's wrong. It's immoral. Next, prosecute fraud like
00:30:22.820 you actually mean it. Enforce contracts and jail liars. That's not a restraint on the free market.
00:30:30.160 it's the immune system. And if you don't have that, no market stays free.
00:30:38.000 And the rescues, the bailouts, delete the license that protects the incumbent.
00:30:44.620 Legalize building again. Stop lending people money for colleges that just keep raising the rate.
00:30:53.660 No, it won't work that way. Get the government out of it. Prosecute fraud.
00:30:58.720 then here's the half that no regulation can actually reach there is no regulation that
00:31:07.140 arrives at the moment a man decides what to charge his neighbor no agency in the room when you write
00:31:14.000 the invoice describe the product or answer honestly about what it cannot do robert keen's
00:31:21.800 court could fine him, but it could never make it fair. The Puritans learned after four years what
00:31:28.680 we keep forgetting. You can chain a merchant or you can raise a merchant. A free market run by
00:31:36.580 liars produces exactly what you expect, which is what we're all angry about. It's a rigged market
00:31:44.640 run by liars. And a rigged market run by saints just produces slower theft, but it's 0.75
00:31:51.780 still theft. You have to have both. You've been handed neither. And then told that the wreckage
00:31:58.660 proves that capitalism has failed. No, it hasn't. Most of what you want to fix, you're not going to
00:32:05.140 fix in Washington this year. But there are three things sitting in front of a 25-year-old right
00:32:09.940 now. One, build something that somebody actually wants that will make people's lives easier.
00:32:16.120 Price it honestly and tell the truth about what it does.
00:32:20.560 Do whatever scale you have, okay?
00:32:24.980 That's how 115,000 people a day
00:32:27.080 walked out of extreme poverty.
00:32:28.680 Not by decree, but by an enormous number
00:32:30.820 of ordinary people making and selling honest things.
00:32:34.040 That engine works.
00:32:36.120 And it's the difference between famine and surplus,
00:32:38.760 darkness and light.
00:32:40.040 For 100 million people you've never met before.
00:32:43.820 and remember no government can give this system a conscience this system doesn't come with a
00:32:52.280 conscience it borrows yours so you first have to be secure in your own ethics we have to be a moral 0.91
00:33:05.220 and ethical society otherwise we're just going to keep producing this garbage the answer is not
00:33:11.740 socialism this system pulls people out of poverty like nobody else but the system has gotten into
00:33:19.440 bed with the federal government so the answer is not to make the federal government bigger
00:33:24.320 it's to make it an actual referee that punishes people when they do something wrong you don't
00:33:32.560 make the you punish the banks i'm sorry we're not going to bail you out you made bad bets we're not
00:33:37.200 going to bail you out. By bailing them out, you've only made them bigger. And now you're in bed with
00:33:44.480 them. Not you, the federal government. That's the problem. This is the best of the Glenn Beck
00:33:52.340 program. Right behind me here in the studio. We don't have, we have swamp coolers up here at the
00:34:00.400 ranch and you know it's it's you know gets up in the 90s and in late july and um and in august
00:34:07.440 we get into you know 90 100 degrees and it's really super hot without real air conditioning
00:34:14.620 so there's a door right behind me here and i'm putting a screen door in there and i asked for
00:34:19.680 a wood screen door because it's the sound of my childhood there was this there was a sound in the
00:34:25.580 70s that almost no one under 40 has ever heard and it's a screen door it's a it's the slam of
00:34:33.740 wood on wood and then nothing because you were gone you were running you just opened the screen
00:34:42.560 door and you would hear it as you were down the stairs already from the stoop you hear go
00:34:46.400 and slam closed nobody knew where you were going nobody expected to because that was the arrangement
00:34:53.680 In the 1970s, you left after breakfast on a Saturday, and you came home back at night when the streetlights came on.
00:35:02.920 You didn't have a phone. There was no tracker. There was no check-in.
00:35:06.060 Your mom's entire surveillance system was a set of lungs on her and a nickname that she only used when you were in trouble.
00:35:13.100 Mine was just my full name, my two middle names.
00:35:18.140 That's what brought you back home.
00:35:19.860 it was a childhood that you owned you negotiated your own disputes on a ball field with no empire 0.99
00:35:28.460 you lost and found your way back you were bored gloriously stupidly bored and boredom
00:35:36.080 was the mother of every invented game and every kid who ever built something in a garage 0.87
00:35:40.740 in the 1970s we had three channels in one country when something happened we all watched the same
00:35:48.020 man tell us about it at the same hour. And then the next day we'd go to work the next morning and
00:35:52.680 we'd talk about the same thing. Nobody had a feed. Nobody had a bubble. A hit song was a hit song for
00:35:59.720 everybody. Dinner was at a table. The phone was bolted to the kitchen wall. If you wanted privacy
00:36:09.360 while you were on the phone, you stretched the cord around the corner until it looked like a
00:36:12.800 slinky nobody photographed their food
00:36:17.020 photographing their food I still don't understand that
00:36:20.240 you barely photographed anything because you got 24 pictures on a roll
00:36:24.360 and you had to wait a week to see them and 11 of them
00:36:28.400 were of your mother's thumb which means
00:36:32.760 that most of the 70s really exist only in the heads of the people that were there
00:36:36.460 because mom always had her finger in front of the lens
00:36:39.860 there's a kind of freedom in the 1970s that we will never get back a single paycheck could buy
00:36:49.020 a house not necessarily a great house but it was a house your dad would work for one company and
00:36:54.960 expected to die with a pension from that company the bank was a building with a man in it who knew
00:36:59.840 your family's name those are real losses i don't romanticize those things i miss them
00:37:09.300 now let me tell you the part of the 1970s that if you romanticize the 70s you'll leave out
00:37:18.460 the air in america in our cities in 1972 was something you could taste i couldn't believe
00:37:27.300 this but it's absolutely true i was in pittsburgh i saw it it's crazy pittsburgh had days where you
00:37:34.700 could drive and you had to drive with your headlights on at noon because of the smog.
00:37:41.540 The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire. A river on fire. Not once, but at least 13 times.
00:37:53.200 Did you know that Lake Erie was declared dead? 42% of adults smoked and they smoked everywhere,
00:38:01.940 Everywhere. In the office, in the hospital, on an airplane, in a non-smoking section that was separated strangely from the smoking section by an imaginary line in the air.
00:38:16.360 Your pediatrician might have lit up a cigarette while examining you.
00:38:21.800 you rode in the back of a station wagon facing backward no seat belt 70 miles an hour with a
00:38:30.140 bare steel dashboard and a steering column that your father the steering column was engineered
00:38:37.220 to run through your father's chest if you were hit head on it was a death trap 26 000 americans
00:38:44.900 died every year in alcohol-related crashes.
00:38:49.920 How's that possible?
00:38:50.760 Because drunk driving wasn't a crime.
00:38:52.920 It was a personality trait.
00:38:55.520 You'd hear people laugh about,
00:38:57.160 I gotta tell you, I don't even remember driving home.
00:38:59.940 What?
00:39:03.420 Did you know that airplanes got hijacked constantly?
00:39:07.700 Between 1961 and 1972,
00:39:10.540 There were more than 150 hijackings of an American aircraft.
00:39:15.980 There was a stretch where it happened on average once every other week.
00:39:21.620 Pilots actually carried a map of Cuba in the cockpit because they figured I might need this at some point.
00:39:28.400 There wasn't any screening.
00:39:30.720 You walked to the gate like you were walking to a bus station.
00:39:34.620 Universal passenger screening didn't begin in this country until January of 1973.
00:39:38.940 and I don't even know what that means
00:39:41.060 because I remember it between
00:39:42.540 73 and 2001
00:39:44.420 I don't remember being screened
00:39:46.780 what are you talking about
00:39:47.820 he just walked onto the plane
00:39:49.820 then there were the things that people did not
00:39:54.980 say
00:39:55.440 if a man beat his
00:39:58.920 wife that's a private matter
00:40:00.820 if a child was being hurt
00:40:04.700 keep your voice down
00:40:06.200 cancer was a word you said like this i think grandpa has cancer
00:40:13.020 a child with leukemia in 1974 had roughly even odds of seeing five more years today
00:40:22.480 seeing five more years that's 90 percent
00:40:25.240 roughly a million american children with disabilities were not in school i don't
00:40:31.520 mean struggling in school. They weren't in school. They were legally excluded because they had a
00:40:37.220 disability until Congress changed that law in 1975. There were no curb cuts. There were no ramps.
00:40:44.880 A man in a wheelchair, he just didn't go anywhere. And the country was fine with it. 1.00
00:40:52.440 Okay, so why am I telling you this?
00:40:53.800 start with a screen door 1.00
00:40:58.020 end with kids who are handicapped
00:41:01.900 or have special needs
00:41:03.620 they're just not in school
00:41:04.660 here's what I want you to get
00:41:08.280 in the early 1950s
00:41:11.460 there was a young geochemist
00:41:13.500 his name was Claire Patterson
00:41:15.580 and he set out to answer a question
00:41:18.500 that had nothing to do with anything in this monologue
00:41:20.880 he just wanted to know
00:41:22.660 how old the earth was he measured lead lead isotopes in meteorites and he got his answer
00:41:29.680 four and a half billion years number we still use four and a half billion years the problem was he
00:41:35.200 couldn't get clean readings because his samples were contaminated every single one of them no
00:41:39.820 matter what he did so he built the world's first ultra clean laboratory to find out why and it was
00:41:47.280 there that he found something. He found that contamination wasn't in his equipment. Contamination
00:41:53.800 on lead was everywhere in the world. Lead was in the dust. It was in the rain. It was in the snow
00:41:59.560 of Greenland. It was deep in the ocean. It was in the bones of every American, hundreds of times
00:42:05.800 more than any human being who had ever lived before the 20th century had ever had. And the
00:42:11.760 source was gasoline, lead in the gasoline. We had been pouring lead gasoline into our vehicle since
00:42:20.120 the 1920s, and that lead poison was everywhere. So he brought this up. Now, remember, he's just
00:42:27.140 studying rocks. But he brings this up, and he's like, hey, this is a problem. Well, the industry
00:42:31.300 comes for him, and they funded opposing science. I mean, you've heard this story. We've done this
00:42:37.020 story over and over again. They leaned on his university. They kept him off of the federal
00:42:41.880 advisory panels, the National Research Council that was convening a lead panel, and they left
00:42:50.180 off the one man on earth who understood it the best. Okay. Well, he spent 20 years being called
00:42:55.900 an alarmist by men in really nice suits. And then what happened? In 1973, they start phasing out
00:43:04.060 lead gasoline because they knew the truth and now we have non-leaded gasoline it's because that guy
00:43:11.080 the average blood lead levels in america fell by roughly 80 percent now there are economists who
00:43:20.280 will tell you that a meaningful chunk out of the crime wave that terrified this country and the
00:43:25.860 crash that followed it traces back to that one decision now at the same time a pediatrician in
00:43:33.520 rutherford county tennessee his name was robert sanders he got tired of watching babies come into
00:43:39.180 the emergency room after crashes remember we were sitting in the back seats facing the other
00:43:43.520 direction you know dad with the with the steering wheel it just shot through his chest and nobody
00:43:50.060 was wearing nobody had car seats they weren't required so he's seeing these babies go through
00:43:56.200 windshield and he's like this has got to stop and they laughed at him people said government has no
00:44:01.280 business in a man's automobiles well well he came back and back and back and back and finally
00:44:07.120 tennessee passed the first child restraint law in america in 1977 hey let's make sure our kids
00:44:12.320 don't fly through the windshield of the car and within eight years every state in the union had
00:44:17.040 one okay so why am i telling you all this stuff because that's the principle and it's the only
00:44:25.460 one that actually matters every day in our lives nothing on that list i gave you in the 70s fixed
00:44:31.260 itself. Not the river, not the air, not the lead, not the car seat, not the school door.
00:44:36.660 Every single item was one person's stubborn, unglamorous, decade-long fight. And usually
00:44:45.540 against people who told them, stop being so hysterical. So when somebody says this country
00:44:52.860 is finished, look at the decline we're in. Everything is worse than it used to be. No,
00:44:58.540 No, no, no, no, no, it's not.
00:44:59.860 And you have to be prepared to answer them.
00:45:02.040 No, it's not.
00:45:03.480 No, it's not.
00:45:03.820 There are things that I miss from the 90s.
00:45:05.940 There are things that I miss from the early 2000s.
00:45:10.820 But we've gotten better in a lot of things.
00:45:13.320 Since the 1970s, the air is cleaner.
00:45:15.340 The water is cleaner.
00:45:16.600 Cars don't kill us.
00:45:18.620 Planes aren't hijacked all the time.
00:45:20.820 Children don't go flying through the windshield.
00:45:24.760 The doors to our school are open to everyone.
00:45:27.960 A kid with a disability sits in a classroom instead of being hidden in a back bedroom.
00:45:37.560 We lost the screen door. 1.00
00:45:41.580 We lost having to invent games ourselves because we were bored.
00:45:48.380 We lost the bike with no destination and cards in the spokes.
00:45:53.700 We lost the one channel that we all watched and brought us together.
00:46:00.120 But we didn't get worse.
00:46:03.160 We got better at the things we decided to get better at.
00:46:07.540 And we only got worse at the things we stopped paying attention to or took for granted.
00:46:15.380 That's not fate. That's a to-do list.
00:46:18.000 the people who cleaned up the 70s
00:46:21.680 were not more talented than we are.
00:46:25.980 They were just unwilling to be told it couldn't be done.
00:46:38.940 As I was writing this yesterday,
00:46:40.500 the thing that kept coming to me
00:46:49.260 over and over was
00:46:50.300 you know
00:46:51.660 when we pay attention to something
00:46:54.920 we're remarkable people
00:46:56.440 we're remarkable people
00:46:57.960 culture is not fixed
00:47:04.560 by the government
00:47:05.880 it's fixed by people
00:47:09.720 individuals who want to do something about culture.
00:47:14.780 It's fixed by individuals who just say,
00:47:18.920 I don't want to live like this.
00:47:20.840 You know what?
00:47:21.400 I think television shows should be uplifting.
00:47:24.520 Whatever it is.
00:47:26.340 I think music shouldn't all be about 0.99
00:47:28.240 sticking something in somebody else's butt. 0.98
00:47:33.920 There's a market for it. 0.99
00:47:35.960 Believe it or not, there's a market for it.
00:47:37.780 and today we are more free to produce and release anything and yeah you could join the club and
00:47:48.500 you know write songs about putting things in people's butts I guess if that's what you want
00:47:51.900 to do or we can go the other direction and we can say you know there are certain things we got better
00:47:57.560 since the 1970s but there are certain things that I do miss I miss the family dinner how do I change
00:48:04.600 I don't have to write a song about it.
00:48:05.880 I don't have to make a TV show about it.
00:48:07.100 I just have to do it myself.
00:48:09.520 And our children will grow up doing that as tradition.
00:48:14.040 And they will want it.
00:48:15.940 And it will be so unusual.
00:48:18.120 You know, the way to really fix things is be a peculiar people.
00:48:24.300 An unusual and peculiar people.
00:48:27.320 That you are so different that you might be called weird.
00:48:30.820 You might be called, you know, homeschoolers.
00:48:32.180 they're called weird
00:48:33.620 until you're having to compete against a homeschooler 0.82
00:48:36.520 and then you're like oh crap they're not weird 0.60
00:48:38.520 they're just really buttoned up 0.69
00:48:40.400 they learned stuff I didn't learn
00:48:41.700 and then because those
00:48:44.400 homeschoolers at first were weird
00:48:46.200 and now people look at them and go geez I wish my kid
00:48:48.520 was like that
00:48:49.180 now more people are homeschooling
00:48:53.660 the way to fix things
00:48:56.580 is just be
00:48:58.040 a peculiar person
00:49:00.500 somebody that
00:49:01.680 navigates isn't preaching to everybody isn't carrying a sign but just enough peculiarity
00:49:07.340 where people go what is it about bill why is he like that have you noticed his family is different
00:49:12.760 and they will come to you that's how you change things how you change things culture is never
00:49:20.420 going to be changed by the federal government it's going to be changed by you we stop paying
00:49:26.300 attention to it. Let's pay attention
00:49:28.400 to it again.