The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 9/1/26

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

Has opinion on AI data centers shifted despite the backlash to Trump’s recent post? Glenn brings in Jason, who shares what he’s been seeing, showing a shift toward building data centers. Why is the Senate not investing money into the critical midterm elections? Glenn explains how Senate leadership is taking Texas’ conservative history for granted and warns that a blue flip is not only possible but likely. Glenn speaks with Greater New York Chamber of Commerce President Mark Jaffe, alongside Key Food Supermarket owner Ruben Luna, regarding the lawsuit involving hundreds of grocery store owners against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) over his plans to open discount grocery stores.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A lot of people don't understand the power they have. And that's what I want to talk to you about. Your power with data centers. It's beyond your understanding. I've never seen anything like it, but you have to understand it. So before you say no or yes to data centers, make sure you hear this monologue. Also, Texas, I am very concerned. It's about to go blue.

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Make the switch today. You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck program. So on Sunday morning, on Fox, Jackie Heinrich was on, she had John Kennedy. And she was asking John Kennedy about Texas. Kennedy doesn't bubble wrap things, okay?

He said, we in the Senate just don't have the money budgeted for Texas, and we need some help from the president. Key word there. What is the key word? Help? President? No, it was budgeted. We don't have the money budgeted. Texas is 40 million people. It is the largest Republican state in the union.

And the committee whose entire job is holding the Republican Senate seats says the money is there, but it isn't budgeted. So what's in the budget? Okay. The Senate Leadership Fund announced a record $500 million for this cycle. So it is a record, but Texas isn't even on the list. Maga Inc. is sitting on north of $400 million. Not a dollar of that has hit Texas station. I don't know who's advising the president on this, but he's got to wake up. You've got to release money. Mr. President, release the MAGA money for Texas. Texas. Okay. They spent all kinds of money in the primaries. Republicans spent more than $120 million in Texas, and most of it aimed at the man who is now the nominee. So they spent all kinds of money going against him.

So the money exists. They found it in March. They found it in May. They found it to run against him. But now we just, where did we put our checkbook? We can't find it. Okay. Paxson had about $2 million in the bank at the end of June. Tel RICO has nearly 21. Last quarter, Tala Rico raised 31 million to Paxton's nine. Three straight public polls have shown the Democrat ahead. Emerson has it 47 to 46 in Texas. No Democrat. So you know, no Democrat has won a Senate race in Texas since 1988. and this one is running even while the party of Texas explains that Texas really isn't in the budget. Now, you can play this game and you can say, well, I don't believe the polls. And part of me says I don't believe the polls.

Part of me says too many Texans have taken Texas being read for granted for too long. And they haven't paid attention to what's actually happening in this state. You cannot allow Texas to turn blue. You can't. Okay, so now the part that turns from not budgeted, from a constraint, into a decision. In June, the Supreme Court struck down the cap on how much a national party can spend in coordination with its own candidate. The NRSC read that ruling and closed its independent expenditure unit. They shut it down.

It didn't need it anymore, okay? Coordinated buys get the candidates' ad rate three to 13 times cheaper than an outside group pays for the same 30 seconds. That committee now can put unlimited money behind its own nominee direct at the best rate in this market legally this afternoon. You're seeing ads for Tala RICO almost back to back here. here. When this happened with Beto and Ted Cruz, it was a Beto ad than a Cruz ad, then a Beto ad, then a Cruz ad. That's not happening because the Republicans are not spending the money here. And it's not that they're being prevented. They're unwilling to do it. Now, let me give them their argument because it's not a stupid one. The committee has a map. This is their argument.

Maine and North Carolina, they have to defend. Georgia and Michigan, they got to take. A dollar spent in Texas is a dollar not spend in Maine, and Texas has been safe since, you know, before half the staffers were born. So you don't buy flood insurance on a hill. But I don't think this is a hill. It's a very, very small hill right now.

It's no longer a map, a mountain. You know, the map only exists. if Texas holds. You lose Texas, and there's no combination of Maine and Michigan that gets you a majority. It stops being a map and becomes a whole. And then there's a real reason, which nobody will say into a microphone. They don't like him. And I think a lot of people don't like our governor in Texas.

Fine. What's the alternative? And I mean this sincerely. I'm not saying the guy running against our governor or against Paxton are Marxist, but their party is. And you see how those Democrats that are holding the line for free market or anything else that you actually believe in in Texas, you see how they're eaten. They're absolutely eaten by the Marxist.

He was impeached, Paxton was, impeached by a Republican House, acquitted by a Republican House, acquitted by a Republican Senate, the investigations, the marriage, all of it. That objection is not invented, you know, and pretending it would would insult the people who, you know, you're trying to get to vote, okay? All of that's true. But you already had that argument. You had it in March. You had it again in May.

You spent $120 million making that argument in the most expensive primary in the history. of this country and Republican voters in Texas answered you 64 to 36. This has already been tried. You've had the trial. You gave it to the jury. The jury came back. Stop rejecting the jury's verdict. That's what a primary is for.

You don't hold a second one with a general election as the ballot. 1844, Henry Clay, wanted to be president. He wanted to be president in his entire life. Finally, Henry Clay thinks this is the year. The question that year was Texas, whether the United States should annex it. Clay said no, and he put it in writing in April. Annexation would mean war with Mexico and a fight over slavery that the country could not survive. That was his opinion.

Then over the summer, he got nervous about the South and softened it. Not much, but enough. because of that there's a third man on the ballot. James Bernie running for the Liberty Party. He's an abolitionist. Slavery is not regrettable. It's a sin. End it now.

That was his way of thinking. So people looked at Henry Clay and saw a man who owned human beings and had gone wobbly on Texas and they said, not him. we're not going to put our name on that man. And they were right about him. Clay owned people. He did waffle. The objection was true. Election night came.

Down to New York, 36 electoral votes. Biggest prize on the board. James Polk carried New York by about 500 votes and became president of the United States. James Bernie got 15,812 votes in New York. A guy whose name you've known. never heard. Almost every one of those votes came out of the wig column. Half of them. Half. Half of them. And Henry Clay is president instead. It was the first time in American history that the third party decided a presidential election. And what those votes purchased was Texas, annexed within

month as a slave state. Then we went into the Mexican War. Then half the continent of, you know, of new ground to fight over in less than 20 years later. There was a fight at Antietam because we didn't make the choice to end it. And because it was a guy who was on the ballot that was waffling and he wasn't the perfect guy. The men who hated slavery more than anyone else alive in America elected the most pro-slavery president available to them. Because the alternative wasn't clean enough to be worth their name. And so they said, nope, I'm going to vote. cleanly, and they gave it to the most pro-slavery candidate.

They weren't outvoted. They withheld. 15,000 men in one state decided a compromised candidate was beneath them, and they bought Texas for the other side, and then they got the war. The seat matters more than the man sometimes. if it has already been out in the public tried by the public, tried in the courts or in the Senate and the House, then accept what people are saying. That doesn't mean you go against a guy who you think is wrong.

It doesn't mean you go for a Nazi. It means you go for a guy who's not the most charismatic. You're not electing a personality. You're electing. a 501 vote. The Senate does not run on individual senator convictions. It runs on which caucus holds the gavels, sets the calendar, confirms the judges. And the energy inside that caucus this year is not in Austin. It's in New York, where the mayor is opening city-owned grocery stores. It's in Milwaukee, in Detroit and Seattle, where the fastest growing wing of that party runs

openly on public ownership and calls it common sense. However decent the man from Round Rock is, his vote gets counted in that room. So this is not free market versus Marxism the way it looks on a ballot. It's whether the chamber that writes the tax code and confirms the courts is run by people who believe a price is information

or by people who believe price is a decision that ought to be made by somebody in an office with your name in the file. Prices are set by information. I'm giving you the information now. You're voting for the 51st seat. That's what's on the ballot in Texas on November 3rd. And one of the two parties has decided not to budget for it. you budget for what you intend to keep. The abolitionists of 1844, they didn't have a money problem.

They had exactly enough votes in exactly the right state. They wouldn't spend them on a man they found distasteful. And history sent them and you and everybody else, the largest bill in blood that this country has ever paid. So, Texas, you had your primary. Republicans, you had your primary. Did you listen to what the people say? You lost it.

64 to 36. Go win the election in front of you. Or explain to your grandchildren that you handed over Texas because, I don't know, I just didn't think he was electric. I didn't care for the man's manners. And the rest of us, don't wait on a committee that has already announced what it intends to do. Committees are downstream of us. They always were. Texas, remember that number, 15,812 that changed the course of America.

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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right. So the president posted yesterday morning that the only reason that any American community wouldn't want a data center is because it wants to end up backward and poor. Let data rain. Plenty other places want them. He said, kill the golden goose and you'll have only yourselves to blame. China can't believe it's luck. This is coming from a guy I think is very frustrated, very frustrated, because the press is not reporting on the things that he is doing and nobody is giving it perspective.

Few hours later, the vice president stood on the tarmac and answered a different question than the one the president had answered. He said data centers are an important part of the AI economy. And then he said, you know, they have, they have to build the power plants along with them. And he put a number on it. About 99% of the backlash, he said, is coming for places where data center means a higher electric bill for the people who live there. If you build one, he said, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out. Now, both men are telling the truth, but they're answering different people. The president is answering Beijing, and he is right, and the stakes are not small.

If we lose this race, we don't get a rematch. over. And that is the truth. Now, the vice president is also speaking the truth. He's answering to a woman in Sterling Heights who just opened her utility bill in July and sat down at the kitchen table and did the math twice. And she's like, what is happening? I can't afford this. And he's right as well. Now here's the thing about telling that woman that she's a dummy. She isn't. She's early. And she's not alone. Last week, this story flipped. The Wall Street

Journal found the building trades entering this fight from the other side. So all of the labor unions that building, the steam fitters, local 602, the men who run all of the mechanical piping in Virginia, Maryland,

Washington, they sent a memo to their members drawing what they called a clear line. And they said, we will not support politicians who oppose the facilities. Their words, not mine, their words. This is an existential moment for local 602. Their business manager said the quiet part plainly. His members knock the doors. His members help pay for the campaigns, and both are now conditional. Kansas is even sharper, A rail workers board representing 6,000 people backed the Democrat for governor for generations.

On the 16th of August, they endorsed the Republican for the first time. The reason? The data centers. So this is not elites versus America. This is the pipe fitter with a mortgage against a retiree with an electric bill. Both of them are right. the only people who benefit from keeping them apart are the ones running the ads nine weeks before an election. Now, nobody in this fight is doing the one thing that Americans can do that would end it.

And that is, and hear me clearly, negotiating. The president needs to hear, you're the greatest negotiator of all time. You literally wrote the book on this. teach the American people how to negotiate. 1872, Los Angeles, dusty cow town. Nobody is there. There's 6,000 people in Los Angeles. There's no harbor there.

There's no river worth the name. And the Southern Pacific was building a railroad east towards Yuma. And Los Angeles knew the town that goes, that gets the railroad, the end of the railroad, that's the town that survives and grows. So they lobbied Washington so hard that Congress wrote it into the charter. The line had to run through Los Angeles. They had it in writing. And as if that wasn't enough, because the railroad came back and named a price anyway, 5% of the assessed value of everything in the county.

The land in town for the depot, the little rail line the town had built with its own money, down to the harbor. The only railroad they owned, they had to hand it over. Okay, well, if I were living in Los Angeles, I'd be like, no, I don't think so. I don't think so. But the argument would be, we need the railroad here. Just give it to them. No.

No, I don't care if the railroad, you do care if the railroad doesn't go there. This was exactly the same argument, okay? But they didn't say no. But they also didn't roll over. They put together a committee of the toughest men they had. They had a former governor. They had a merchant, a banker. And those men sat across the table from the most powerful corporation in all of California for the better part of a year.

And when they came back, the package had things in it. Los Angeles wanted and the railroad hadn't offered. They all of a sudden got a branch line south to Anaheim, an east line through the San Gabriel Valley, a depot built inside the city. the railroad. Then they did something that somehow or another we have forgotten to do. They put it on the ballot. It was November 5th, 1872. 1896 votes yes, 724 no. A county of maybe 15,000 people voted to hand over $600,000. Four years later, the line came through the mountains and connected, and everything you know about Southern California follows that vote. So they negotiated, they negotiated hard, they got a good deal.

Then they put it up for a vote for the people. And then the people had to be convinced yes or no. They could have voted no, but it was up to the people in the end. Los Angeles is not there because God put a harbor there. Los Angeles is there because a town of 6,000 people paid a fortune it didn't have for a seat at the table it had not been invited to. But look where you're sitting. You don't have to pay for it.

They're coming to you. They need your land. The railroad didn't need Los Angeles. Los Angeles needed the railroad. They need your land. They need your substation. They need your transmission corridor. They need three signatures from your county commission.

Los Angeles would have have given anything for that position. And we're just spending it all on the word no for free. Why would you say no? I mean, okay, no, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't mean it that way. I understand why you might say no, but why would you lead with no?

You have leverage Los Angeles never had. And you're handing all of that leverage back unused. You may still in the end say no, but at least use your leverage. Do you need a hospital in your county? Ask for it. You want all the county roads rebuilt? Not just the one truck route to the gate? Ask for it.

You need all your property taxes gone. You need a whole new school district. 20% off of the residential rate for your electricity bill. forever. A written guarantee that not one dollar of the transmission upgrade lands on a single rate payer inside the county line. You just ask for it. Don't let anybody tell you that's a fantasy because it's not. It's already happening. You know Lancaster, Pennsylvania negotiated over $20 million in commitments. Cedar Rapids wrote an agreement where the city, not the company, decides how the money gets spent. The company gets input, but no veto. El Paso traded a property tax abatement

for a road package and a requirement that the company publish every year exactly how much electricity and water it uses. Texas now makes the big loads pay for the transmission cost up front. New Jersey created a whole separate rate class for these facilities to pay for their own power. Forty-two utility tariffs have already been approved around the company to keep it off your bill. In January, Microsoft volunteered to cover all of its own electricity, cut its water use, and skip all of the tax breaks. Tax breaks, you shouldn't even be thinking about a tax break. For them?

Well, we're going to bring this big corporation in and we're going to give it tax break. No tax breaks for them. None. I want the tax revenue from them. and I want them to build a hospital, or I want them to make sure that whatever the electricity costs goes to, it's being cut by 20% by them. They're paying 20% of it. That's that is the thing that Americans really need, because they're both right. Both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance were right yesterday. Both of them were saying the one true thing. We must have these data centers.

or we lose. We lose to China. We have to have them. Now, you don't have to have them in your county, but is there anything in your county that you need? Ask them. Ask for the moon. What's the worst they can say?

No. Okay. Well, we were going to say no to you anyway, so it doesn't matter us. Look, I'm telling you, I never negotiate. And people don't understand this, but it has done a great service for me.

I do not negotiate. I hate negotiating. I take a completely different approach. I make promises. Promises I can keep. Negotiation gets too weird for me. I can say, I sit down and if I were a county, I'd be sitting down on the table and I'd talk to everybody in the county and say,

what do we need? What do we need? What are the dreams it would take to get this done? We need a hospital. We need some schools. And I want no property tax. from here until eternity, no property tax. Great, okay.

So then I sit in front of them and I say, look, I need no property tax. I need a hospital and I need the electricity cost or whatever it is. And I might add a few other things. And I can tell you if I don't hit three out of the five, the answer is no. And that's a promise. I'm not negotiating with you. I'm giving you five things. I need to hit three of those or we're not in.

And I mean it. I'm telling you, when you negotiate and you are making promises, it takes all of the pressure off. You're not like, you just have to make sure you're willing to walk away from the table. If you're willing to walk away the table and you know what the bottom line is, sit at the table. Sit at any table. You have no idea what's happening. I just know what my price is. You could hit that.

Okay. Let's do it. Now, I've been told by everybody, you're not going to do that. And that's fine if you don't want to. Go find another county. We don't need you that bad. We don't want you here. But I've talked to the people of the county, and this is what it would take.

And so that's it. Hit three out of the five. That's what we have to do. If we don't do this. See, the problem is we have so many people. We've spent years accusing the other side of ramming things through and telling people their concerns are imaginary. You don't get to be right about that and then post to anybody who ask a question,

you know, well, you just want to be poor. No, you don't. You can stop calling it an AI data center and start calling it a power plant with a customer attached, which is closer to true. And it won't survive one bad utility bill. The word follows the invoice. And one more thing. the small towns and the midside cities, the other side has gone all in because it pulls for nine weeks.

It's a good midterm play. Terrible, terrible, terrible decades follow that, but it's good for the midterms. Those big cities are shredding people and shredding revenue and hiding it. And they're about to shred the one industrial build of our lifetime because it's good for the midterms. Which means it's sitting there for you. There's going to be a town somewhere in Ohio or Michigan or Wyoming that comes out of this with a new hospital, a rebuilt water system, no property tax, per capita growth numbers that embarrass Chicago. And it won't be the town that shouted the loudest. It'll be the town that showed up with a lawyer, a list, and a number.

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that I think are extraordinarily talented and done something really extraordinary. The first one is Tyler Cardin, who has just released something he worked feverishly on for a long time, dusty bluffs. I have not seen it yet. It's available on Blaze TV, and you can watch it,

and it is from everything I hear. Again, I have not watched it. I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks trying to watch these things. But Dusty Bluffs is a comedy. And it is done by a couple of guys. I can't remember the movie that I saw that they did that was just really quirky and very funny. And so he got these two guys to do this series about saving a local newspaper.

And it's very, very funny. The other one is from my friend Jeremy Boring. who used to be a Daily Wire, and he just, and I think, Jason, do you know the Pendragon cycle? Is that on Prime or is that on Netflix? That's on Prime. It's on Prime. The Pendragon Cycle, I have talked, again, I haven't seen it. I'm going to watch it, but I haven't seen it.

I have been told by friends who have seen it that it is shocking that it was only on Daily Wire and it was, you know, and it was done. And it, you know, the reason why I say it was shocking is because it was so expensive. And you, and you have to spend money to get that kind of quality. And Jeremy has a really good eye. And he's a great storyteller. So both of those are out. One is on Blaze TV. That's Dusty Bluffs.

And the other is a Penn Dragon cycle. And if you're tired of all of these things, you know, if you're tired of culture being owned by the left, we have to support culture. We have to support the guys that are doing it. And Tyler did dusty bluffs and worked, I mean, I don't even know, year and a half on that. And it's really good, from what I hear, and Penn Dragon Cycle. And they don't mean to couch this. I just don't want to tell you something that I haven't seen.

But from every indication from people that I really respect, both of these are outstanding. And I have to tell you, when I started the Blaze 15 years ago, There was no way we could compete in movies. There's no way we compete in television. You know, I spent, I'll tell you, I spent in the first couple of years $20 million. I spent everything I had. Everything that I had earned my whole life and saved, I spent all of it, trying to prove to America that, yes, you can watch great television news and get great quality on the Internet.

And we could never make it profitable at that time, at least, because we were still dealing with buffering. But I'm telling you, some of the best news television ever, ever done was done on The Blaze. And that's because of Joel Cheatwood and some of the other people that work with me at the time. They put together an amazing, amazing network. We couldn't compete. That was the first time anything was competitive with regular television. Then our friends who are making great movies now, now we're making. great television, great episodic television. I mean, that was not possible. Angel Studios,

none of that was happening. And it only happens if you support it. So I always say this. Yes, I ask for your subscription for Torch. And I want you to be with me because I think we're doing some amazing things. But if that's not the thing that you think is doing the best, you think it happens to be Blaze, I no longer own Blaze. I have nothing to do with it. So I don't get any of the money from Blaze. I'm just telling you, subscribe to Blaze. Subscribe to Daily Wire. Whoever you think is doing something great, please support them.

I just was interviewed in a trade magazine and nobody asked me to explain it, thank God, because I don't know it myself fully yet. But everything's about to change again. You know, I said this about 20 years ago. We're going to come to a time when business and media and technology and everything is going to change so rapidly that you're going to have to change how you do your job about every five years. And we're approaching that. We're not there yet, but we're approaching that. Everything is going to be changing on you constantly.

The only thing constant in life will be changed. constant, massive change soon. And there's going to be a lot of people that don't make it. To make these shifts all the time over and over again is really hard, really hard. And you're going to be doing it in your own life and others. And if you find somebody in your own life, support them. If you find somebody that, you know, like one of us that is doing something that you believe in, support them because we need your support.

because we're reinventing an entire industry. And it's easier now than it was back then, but it is still extraordinarily difficult. Okay, Jason, let me bring you in about, you want to talk about reinventing an industry, what Mom Donnie is doing. And I just saw you were talking to the insiders, and I just saw a video of somebody talking to a communist

about Mom Doni. Can you take us through this? Yes, there's a lot going on in this video. When you watch this, if you're able to watch this and not just listen, watch also the interviewer. This is almost like a South Park skit, but this is one of the people that support Mom Dami and one of the people that supports what he's doing with grocery stores. And I want you to say, Glett, I'm really curious what you think about what he's actually saying here. It's interesting. Here it is. the grocery store capitalists which have quite quite a powerful lobby right one of the grocery store bosses

he said of i think of gristides right he said that he was going to pull out of new york city if zoran one right we would say sure pull out and we will take over your grocery stores right and we will use them for cheaper groceries and we will take over the entire food industry because uh that's that's something that can be done if the working class is organized So wait a minute. So when he says I'm going to leave, it doesn't mean he's going to leave all of the products on the shelf and just throw the keys on the ground and go,

somebody can take it. He's going to sell it to somebody. You don't just walk away from a major investment. And by the way, if you believe that is even a possibility, why would you even be talking about that? Because Mamdani has just said that capital flight doesn't exist. So why are you even talking about taking over somebody's grocery store? I mean, it just doesn't exist.

But it certainly does exist, but not in the way you just thought. So what are you saying? Are you saying that you're just going to seize people's property? Yes. And take it over? Because that is what he's actually saying. He's not expecting him to hand the keys over. He's saying, we'll seize your grocery store and we'll run it.

If the people are organized, that's a pretty big if. I just want to say. That's what I took from this is him saying we're going to seize the means of production in any way we can. We're starting with the grocery industry. And I think it's way past time to start really understanding

what they're trying to do and stop assuming some of these people are idiots. We had an insider that said this is not about economics. This is plainly just about control, changing the system in control. And they know, I think it was one of Mom Dami staff members that was saying,

and we'll look into subsidized payments to some of these grocery stores, like one of the guys that you just interviewed, you know, if they start, if they can't compete and stay in business. So wait a minute, you're going to spend tens of millions of dollars and more to keep these mom-dami marts in business. Plus, you're going to spend millions of other dollars to keep, to help the other regular grocery stores stay afloat. They know they don't have this money.

Then what's it really all about? I go back to Cloward and Piven. They know this will crash the entire system. the question now is what are they planning to build on top of the ashes? Well, that is the biggest problem because have you noticed nobody in New York, in fact, his own people have said, we don't have a business plan. Nobody knows how to really put a business plan together for a grocery store. That's why they keep delaying this thing.

They've even admitted that, that we just don't have the people yet to put a business plan together. Usually Marxists don't care, okay, but he's got to do this hybrid thing. He's got to pretend, so he's got to come up with something. Usually, someone will just say, we're going to do a grocery store and you're going to keep the prices low. And you're going to make sure that those people are selling it to you at low prices. And if not, you punish those people. I mean, that's the way communism always happens. And eventually the whole system breaks down.

But he's got to play this role. That's the real thing. These people, have you ever read DOS Capital? Yeah. Does any of that make sense to you? No. Okay. I mean, I remember reading it.

I've read it a couple of times and I'm like, none of this makes any sense. It's all gobbledygook. It's all made up names. It's all made up words. It's all made up systems that have absolutely no chance of working. And I say that because it's all been tried. It doesn't work. And these guys, they can quote Das Capital all they want.

But it has show me where that's ever worked anywhere. And so they don't. They don't believe that it's ever failed. They believe that it was failed because some capitalists got in the way or whatever, which will lead you to death camps eventually. It just leads you into more and more brutal tactics because you're getting in the way and you're going to make it fail. No, it fails because it doesn't work. And so you get these dummies who have only studied Karl Marx.

They've never read, never read anything about. the free market. They've read, they've read articles about how bad it is. They've, they've read posts about all the evils of it. And yes, some of those evils do exist. That's why you should read Adam Smith. When, when you read Adam Smith, not the wealth of nations, but the book prior to that, then you understand, oh, that's how it works. That's how you prevent it from going bad. But they've never read any of that. And so they just continue to do the same. And listen how angry they are.

Do you want to do business with angry people? Because I don't. What good businessman is going to get into business with a bunch of 20-somethings that don't know their ass from their elbow, don't have any idea how grocery stores work. Are you going to spend any time with them? Of course not. Because you know your head will be on the chopping block when it fails

because they won't listen to you and then they'll blame you for it. why would you work with them? I'm not going to work with them. I can't get into business with a bunch of angry boys. And that's what they are. They're just angry boys. They're not even men. They're angry boys.

You know, I was on my first day. I'm 30 years old. I'm the first kid in my family to go to college. And I could only afford one semester because my wife and I got a divorce and, you know, that changed everything. And so I go and my first day. on campus. It's at Yale. You want to learn stuff? Don't go to Yale. But I go to Yale and I'm walking on the campus. I mean, like first five feet onto campus. And this college student hands me a newspaper. And I take it and I look at it as I'm walking. I look at it. And I realize this is a communist

newspaper. And I'm not diehard right guy at this point. I'm really, I lean, um, center, but center left, if anything. And I look at it and I'm like, it's a freaking communist paper. So I turn around and I go back to the guy and I hold the paper. I said, this is a communist paper? And he said, yes. I said, okay, are you married? No.

Do you own a house? No. Do you have a job? No. I handed them paper back. You know what? When you've done those things and you've raised a child, you go ahead. If you're still printing that paper, you bring it back to me.

You're not going to be printing the paper. You have no idea what you're even talking about. You're a kid and a dumb one at that. I wasn't real popular on campus.